Green Light with Chris Long - NFL Week 11 Recap! Jonathan Taylor, Colt McCoy Ruining Bets & Jordan Davis. Applebees Cheetos Wings Taste Test.

Episode Date: November 22, 2021

(2:42) - Hello, Layup Line and CFB Mentions: Jordan Davis, UCLA vs USC and Oregon. (17:20) - Ringing the Bell for Two NFL Teams and Colt McCoy Ruining Chris' Bets. (26:05) - AFC Frontrunners: Indianapolis Colts at Buffalo Bills and Best Plane Ride, Dallas Cowboys at Kansas City Chiefs and Night Cap, Baltimore Ravens at Chicago Bears and STL Memorial. (45:06) - Washington Football Team at Carolina Panthers, Cam Newton vs Taylor Heinicke, Fly on the Wall and Viewing Party. (53:43) - Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings, Minnesota Life Alert and Kirk vs Aaron. (1:01:18) - New Orleans Saints at Philadelphia Eagles, Jalen Hurts Can't Be Stopped, Darius Slay's Touchdown and Eagles Playoff Chances. (1:06:17) - Crappy Games: Houston Texans at Tennessee Titans, Miami Dolphins at New York Jets and San Francisco 49ers at Jacksonville Jaguars. (1:18:25) - Chris and Nate Taste Test Applebees' Cheetos Boneless Wings. 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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This guy looks bigger than he is. The Jordan Davis is his name. he was like he's in the He's in the highsman race like he Earlier in the year I was like Okay I got all these quarterbacks Running backs okay Giant guy down at Georgia

Like doesn't even have a big stat line Just just big That's the picture that's going viral Right? Yes there's a there's a guy who's six foot three Three hundred fifteen pounds And as the picture pans out There's Jordan Davis

And he looks like Andre the giant Next to another cast member and Princess Bride. Like, he's the biggest Russian doll. You know how there's Russian dolls? He's the biggest one. How many turkeys have you killed this year alone? Me personally?

Yeah. Do you pull the trigger? No, we shocked them. One by one. For real, voltage. How many volts? I forget. Maybe 1,600.

Enough to feed the family, huh? It's a lot. But believe it or not. not some of them are very resilient okay that's all we need to hear i don't need thanksgiving ruin uh my son is like lukewarm on the idea of like there's a movie they were watching a cartoon this weekend chicken run no it's a movie about turkeys and like uh they go to rescue all these turkeys that are going down this conveyor belt and they're going to be on the table on thanksgiving there's a movie that teaches kids about how turkeys are like off and there's like protagonist and all this shit dude

So the last thing Waylon needs to hear about Uncle Nate is that he kills turkeys every year. You to Easton, Pennsylvania. Why Easton? Easton, because this week is Thanksgiving week, and Easton is home of one of the longest running high school rivalries in football played on Thanksgiving between the Eastern Red Rovers and the Phillipsburg statliners. The Phillipsburg statliners is in New Jersey, separated by a river, hence where the forks of the Delaware trophy

that they're playing for, that's where it came from. Easton is going for the record this year with six wins in a row and it will be the longest that either school has ever gotten. Who paid you to say hello to Easton, Pennsylvania? Is there some rich person listening to our podcast?

Just a fan. My guy Casey off of Twitter. How much did you get on Venmo, dude? No, no. Shout out. Yo, why do you think that everyone is paying me? It's actually a real. really beautiful area. I drive through there when I go up to New York all the time and it's like,

yeah, it's really cool. Also, also, listen, listen, get into the hello here. Also, the game has to be played at a local college because of how many people come to the game. And the game starts at 1030 a.m. Yeah. All the local bars open at 7.30 to 8 in that area. And ESPN showed, they aired it one time in 88 in 88 yeah breaking news new head coach for easton high school Nate Collins oh yeah for sure it's something like that no I think it's as simple as guys like yo shout out east in doctor fax they get this cool high school game here it's been going a while and then Nate's like uh what's it to you and the guys like you got a venmo slips some 75 bucks and here we are talking about a fucking rivalry in Easton for some reason.

They got a liberal arts college stadium some years. So it's not... I mean, no effect. It's probably, they probably kick my high school team's ass, it sounds like, but... And it's not for a memo. It's for potential Pokemon cards, but we'll talk about. I told you.

I told you, man. Easton, Pennsylvania. There had to be some great reason. So shout out to the Red Rovers. Get that sixth win in a row this week. Happy Thanksgiving, guys. Playing for Pokemon. You ever heard the, read the book,

Playing for Pizza by John Grisham? No. Playing for Pokemon by Dr. Fax. Anything else going on in your life? Huh? Are you good? Having a good week? I'm having a great week.

Yeah, I bet you are. Playing some trips. Oh, that's good. Layup line. Crossroads, Bone Thugs and Harmony. Cowboy Reed got me some flaming hot Cheetos, Applebee's chicken tenders, and I will see those things at the crossroads,

if you know what I mean. We're going to taste those at the end of the show tonight. I feel like the minute they go in your stomach, it looks like a comet going through space. Do we have, like working its way down your large intestine? Do we have tums here? No, I don't need tums.

I got a seal trap. It looks like he sounds like they're going to get some. Waffles like a little while ago. I'll be back there soon. Well, Flamey heart chitos sound like they'll give you heartburn, bro. You're right. They probably will.

They probably will. There are some Tums downstairs if you need them. I probably might bring some home. Yeah. Adventure. This is the second appearance for the crossroads by Bunk and Harmony on our green light layup line. Dude,

Crossroads making a second appearance, the first two-time layup line a peerer. Congratulations, the bone thugs in harmony. You can come on the podcast whenever you want. You guys can come on the podcast whenever you want. Come to Charlottesville. Everybody will sit down and we'll have a big celebration.

That'll be lit. That'll be lit. That'll be super lit. What's going to be lit of these Cheetos later, these chicken tender Cheetos from Applebee's later. Not even getting paid. Some of you people at corporate have no idea how lucky you are. We're just giving you free.

advertisement or not. We'll see how they are. We'll see how they are. Don't believe him. Don't believe him. Yeah, right. You're not getting paid. I'm not getting paid.

Oh, yeah. I'm sure you're not. Oh, I see what you're doing. I'm sure you're not from Applebee. Two-time Super Bowl winner. Yeah, right. You're not getting paid? No, I'm not.

The ad read wouldn't go like, hey, I plan to shit these chicken tenders out later. Like, that's basically what I just said a few minutes ago. Okay. You think they're paying me to say that? Hey, man. They should. Do you still get that Apple? Bees money? Didn't you have an Applebee's commercial? I did have an Applebee's commercial at one point. Look at that. You're not fooling anybody. You are not fooling anybody. And now you're using my likeness to try this and support it without me knowing. Man, look at you, bro. I respected. Well, look at you. No, I was with Applebee's a long time ago. It was before they went Flaming Hot Cheetos. This is a new era in Applebee's. It was even before the $1.00.

Long Island, I'm making, wow, yeah, this is like, I'm like Cam Newton maybe making a return to Applebee's

to the Carolina Panthers to the Applebee's franchise. I've been away too long. It's been a couple years since I made, I did an Applebee's ad. Maybe I'll be doing a Flaming Hot Cheetos ad.

Yeah, I'll never be like Jared Casey. Shout out the kid who landed that awesome NIL commercial with Applebee's. Me and him in an ad together. Yeah. He's lit.

He's lit. He was a great actor, too. My favorite part of the commercial was when he was rubbing his hands before he got his meal. All right. He was like, now you're reviewing the commercial. All right. You're taking it too far. He's getting fucking paid.

I'm excited. This is my guy, dude. Come on. I thought he was like Leo in there in the Applebee's, bro. Never have I ever talked this much about Applebee's. Okay. We'll talk about it more later. Let's talk football.

I got a couple awards to give out. Just off the top, college football. Number one, the OA Award. this fucking guy down at Georgia. Okay, I knew he was big, but you know how some people look bigger than they are? Yeah. This guy looks bigger than he is.

The Jordan Davis is his name. He was like, he's in the Heisman race. Like, early in the year, I was like, okay, I got all these quarterbacks, running backs, okay. Giant guy down at Georgia, like doesn't even have a big stat line. Just big. That's the picture that's going viral, right?

Yes, there's a, there's a guy who's, 6 foot 3 315 pounds which is bigger than like 95% of offensive linemen in the 80s okay this guy like that's a huge person brother if that guy walked in the building

right now I'd be like holy shit the only reason that that height and weight ever got like normal to us is we're around a lot of big people yeah I try to tell people all the time they don't realize that for me my position our position I was always one of the smallest guy

in the room. Yeah. So, like, all the time, like for height and, like, weight stature.

And what's your height and weight? I was 6-2-2-90, 2-95. So you could be the guy in the middle of the picture, and as the picture pans out, there's Jordan Davis,

and he looks like Andre the giant next to another cast member and Princess Bride. Like, he's like, he's like, he's the biggest Russian doll. You know how there's Russian dolls?

He's the big. biggest one. This guy is the size of a doorway. And I saw him run this weekend, like up close on a field level video that went viral. He was tracking down. He had great angle, too. He didn't need it. Probably runs

a 4-5. I mean, this guy was outstriading his torso. I've never seen anything like it. He's the biggest Russian doll, dude. 6-3-40, my ass, dude. Every away game, he definitely gets his own room. no way he no chance he has a roommate. Can you imagine him being on like a twin? No chance, dude,

with the roommate. No chance. Also might snore. Okay. Cliff Ryan, shout out to my roommate. Cliff Ryan from the NFL, Michigan State Spartan dog, one of my best buddies I ever played with. We were roommates and great friends, maybe not great roommates. He snored so loud. I used to hit him with a pillow hard. I'm going to take a pillowcase and fill it full of bars of soap and beat the shit out of you. Motherfucker wouldn't even

wake up. Just hit him. It's 2 a.m. playing the Jets tomorrow. Fucking Brett Farv's going to go for 500 yards. Not even Green Bay Brett Farv. New York Brett Farv. I'm getting four hours sleep. I slept in the bathtub one night.

Oh my goodness. Yeah, dude. This guy, they say 6-6-3-4. I say no chance. No chance. The NBA, they undersized the guys. You know how they say, like, because guys want to get paid. They want to be skill guys. Somebody would be like 7-2.

They're like, I'm 6-9. So what's going on here? And I have no idea why. The guy is huge. Did someone alter that picture? Is that just a straight picture? It's a real picture, dude. And then there's some fucking average-sized guy in a polo,

presumably one of his coaches, or somebody. And that guy looks like the smallest rush. If he gets drafted by the bill's last thing I'm going to say, he can make so much money off the field throwing people through tables. Can you imagine? He would make more money. If I'm his agent, I'm getting him to Buffalo. He would make more money off the field than you know how people are like, well, that guy's playing in that state, but he's going to make a lot of money off the field. Like Hollywood, the Buffalo is Jordan Davis's Hollywood. He could throw millionaires through a table daily. Vince McMahon probably already has them penciled in.

Like, hey, let's see what the NFL is going to offer him. We have way more to offer you. Listen, I'm a mere mortal, man. Okay, I've played a long time in this game. But some of these young motherfuckers, dude, I just don't get it. This guy's incredible. So the OA Award goes to Jordan Davis. We hope you'll be our friend and protect us.

Hey, a worst plane ride also from the Pack 12. I mean, Jeff Schwartz, my guy, dude. Hey, Jeff, dude. You know, like, I know Virginia got, I mean, we covered. Okay, we did that. We did that much. But we just lost a game that was so frustrating. Pitt's a really good football team.

Pitt is like a pro-ready football team. I always say this. Like, every guy that plays in the league that went to Pitt exceeds the expectation. I mean, they are just hardworking, smart, good teammates, and they're physical. And they beat us. But here was the thing. We're actually good enough to beat them now.

Virginia's good enough to beat Pitt, and we beat ourselves. I like what you're doing here. What? I like how you're softening it up. Go ahead and shit on Jeff's team. I like how you soften that out. I'm just saying, like, I was in a bad mood coming off our game, but at least I had a lot of money in my pocket because, you know, Virginia. easily covered that 14 point line or whatever was.

So I'm like, I should probably walk away. And Kenny Rogers should have been stuck in my fucking head when I texted Jeff and was like, what do you think? What do you think about Oregon tonight? What do you think he thinks about Oregon? He never doesn't like Oregon, okay? He was all over it. He hit me with stats against the spread.

He was giving me ATSs, the whole thing. And I was like, you know what? Podcast does say you're smarter than me. and I fucking believe it. So I bet Oregon three different ways. And those guys, there were a lot of kids around the country, young men watching that game like, hey, wouldn't it be nice if Utah could kick their ass

and we could have a chance at the playoff? And that's what happened. So Kyle Whittingham, square job motherfucker, him and Christobal, I would pay to see those guys fight. There's a lot of testosterone in that game. That was the NO explode bowl right there, dude. Those two motherfuckers, the squares jaws in college football, just clenched 24-7 and Kyle Whittingham won.

And it sucks because I bet Oregon. So, yeah, tough plane ride home. That place rocks. Salt Lake City after dark, Stanford Steve said it. That place gets crazy. Utah. Utah. and a Bevel Conway, USC, UCLA.

It's shocking, but it's the right thing. And by the way, the Jacksonville San Francisco game today, thanks to San Francisco, was in the running until I forgot that the most gorgeous game in college football happened this Saturday. Hey, I want to ring the bell for two teams, so to speak. I want to start like when a team, when I'm just out on them, just don't bother tweeting me and being like,

why aren't you talking about my team as much anymore? Well, it's because they probably can't win the Super Bowl. And it's getting late in the season. And like football teams, like your football team, I'm tired. And so I can't talk for 20 minutes about every team. So once this fucking hunger game whistle blows, how does it go? The Hunger Game. What does the Hunger Game?

Canon sound like? You know the Hunger Games? You know the Hunger Games? When they blow that fucking cannon? Isn't that what they do when they die? Yeah. Or is it the whistle? One of the other. You know what? Play either one for the Raiders

and the Seahawks. I'll get to the Seahawks in a second, but the Raiders are done. And when you ask me, and yeah, three weeks ago, I said, hey, I don't want to bury him. That was three weeks ago, man. You know how this works? Your team plays bad for about a month and I'm out on them. Like, that's how the NFL works.

It's late in the year, man. Like, I don't want to talk about all these teams all the time. Like, if your team doesn't have a chance to win a Super Bowl, like after week 11, I'm fatigued, just like your team, dude. Some of these teams I want to put them away. Sorry, Taylor. Taylor? No, talking about the Jags every week is a must.

Okay, they're fun. But, like, some of these teams that are supposed to be good and they're not, it stops being fun talking about them. The Raiders, yeah, a couple weeks ago, I said, yeah, like, I'm not going to count you out because your alarm clock didn't go off. You went to New York, lost the Giants. Red Zone, third down, whatever it was. I am probably thinking it's a high time to give up on the Raiders.

And Sam Hubbard blew the Hunger Games whistle, WDE, Big Bopper. He blew the Hunger Games whistle on those Raiders, and they're done. So, by the way, Burrow has not been the same since I called him Tom Brady. in Las Vegas. I remember doing it. I feel bad about it. I stand by it. He still does remind me of Brady,

but he has not been the same. He'll get it together. Joe Mixing, great, great day today. But the team that I absolutely want to shit on right now is the Seattle Seahawks. I hate that team.

Am I lying? No, you have hated this team since 2019, saying no less than 50 times, I'm never going to bet them again. Yes. So I have a problem. You have a problem and you have a memory.

I have a memory issue. Reeds back there, you have a memory problem. And he just ducks from behind the machines. Like something happened. Like you got sucked into a vortex. He was like, fuck, man. That wasn't a CTE joke. But it reeks up here.

I know what kind of joke it is. And yeah, I did forget that, I did forget that I wasn't supposed to bet the Seahawks. When I got on the app at like 1, 2 a.m. Monday morning, like looking at the next slate, I'm like, oh, circling that game. This is perfect. Everybody's going to be on the Cardinals.

They don't know that Kyler Murray's hurt. Turns out Kyle Murray didn't play. So the whole world knew. And the public was all over the Seahawks. And basically, Oregon, Washington teams, They fucked me this weekend. The Pack Northwest fucked me. I bet them 100 ways to beat the Cardinals,

and I should have known better. My very own friend, Zach Ertz, just murdered me. On third down, in the red zone, he spiked like 15 balls into the first row in Seattle. 16th play of the drive, shovel pass, Ertz, touchdown. Because, you know, the sweet holders are right there on the field. They're so close. All the little tech guys.

His first touchdown, he got real close to those guys. He spiked it and ran right up to him. Oh, he told him something. Yeah. You give him a piece of his mind. Zach, you give him a piece of your fucking mind. I like his swag. I was at home like, show some class, Zach.

Nah, that's swag. I like that. No, I know, but, you know, he was, he was, I thought he liked my kids and, you know, a little less money in the college fund. And so, you know, the Seahawks, I will never bet them again. I promise you that

Okay, Reid Right here What do I have to swear on? No, we just need a A canon slash whistle sound Once we do the whistle Yeah, when the whistle sound goes off

I'm done with you And this is, we're getting high time on talking about What the hell are we doing here in Seattle, man? Like Russ, it's all but In my mind A done deal that he'll be somewhere else next year. Okay, and it might be

New Orleans Well, I was thinking it could be Philly, but New Orleans. New Orleans, huh? I think that's... We're in like a triangle right now. We're talking Philly, New Orleans, and Seattle, and in those three teams somewhere, there will be Jalen Hertz,

and there will be Russell Wilson. And I don't know who the third quarterback is, but... That's interesting. Yeah, I think, yeah, there's a triangle there. It's called the Sean Peyton Triangle. So, yeah, I don't know what the hell is going to happen in Seattle. I feel like this era is coming to an end. And I'm not being overreactive.

If you ask Seattle fans, they've been feeling like this era has been coming to an end for some time. I don't know, the Colt McCoy show. Golly, dude, who was this guy? Colt showing up, man. Is that Aaron Rogers, dude? I thought I saw Aaron Rogers out there in Seattle today.

And that makes no sense. And just like we're talking about, he knows what he's doing. Yep. He is auditioning for everyone. All the time, dude. He is a backup quarterback with a all pro quarterback in front of him.

Yeah. Like, so at the end of the day, this is the best, worst case scenario for a team to see a guy play like this, but now the price goes up. It's good for everyone. Yeah. Could be bad for Colt in the long run

if he wants to get out of there, but if he likes his situation, he's doing what he's supposed to right now. Here's who Colt McCoy is auditioning for, this fucking team right here, because he probably wants to play out the rest of his days in sunny Arizona, playing golf all week and playing in the new air raid offense, bro, in the desert where free agents want to go

and where you got a coach that looks like a sports agent and has a cool house. And it's a chill place to end your career. And he's had a great career. Who are we kidding? With the quarterback like Kyler, these two to three game, hey, he might need some rest.

He might be banged up. is something that is always going to happen. Listen, I'm almost feeling like if you play in this offense, you automatically get faster because Colt McCoy looked fast as fuck today. He was like moving really well. And he was like,

you remember that Bow Nick's scramble play? He had one of those on third down in the second half. I mean, this guy was like, it felt personal the way he was beating the team I gambled on. Like it felt personal. It felt like he knew and cared. And I'm not betting on the Seahawks anymore, so I'm just going to put it. If you're in Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, New Jersey, Tennessee, or Virginia,

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1-8009-9-7-89. The AFC, man, that's the lead here, is that it's muddy. The three best teams in the AFC, if you look at the records, had interesting days at the best, and at the worst, lost and got their asses kicked. I mean, Buffalo, they got boat race.

Tennessee lost in the rain to Houston. Okay, everything went wrong. Baltimore, heroics late, but needed like everything to beat the Bears in a thriller. That really shouldn't have been that competitive, but they're going to need that game. Baltimore kind of proved how valuable Lamar is. I mean, they just look, they look ugly. Last week was, you thought last week was ugly? How about this week?

You know, like, I think this was the best thing for Lamar's MVP chances was like, hey, last week, we looked bad, we looked hapless. You want to see hapless? I'll give you hapless. You always say it. And most valuable player, it shows when that player isn't on the field. Yep.

And how the team looks, how everything is running. they got the win, but everyone can see that, hey, this isn't the same team. Everything's kind of out of whack. And when you clearly have everything running through a certain player, things like this get hard when you have to put a backup in. So for the Ravens, everybody's probably on edge, assuming we might not have Lamar. That's almost a distraction. You'd almost rather know like earlier.

But of course, Lamar wants to go. but you'd rather know like on a Thursday I feel like as a football team and probably for Huntley too who's a Utah Ute by the way and that throw at the end of the game was probably the play of the day the play of the day he had Robert Quinn

all over him Robert Quinn by the way St. Louis Memorial Award recipient this week ball in obscurity I'm sorry there were so many one o'clock games this was the game not a lot of people were watching three and a half sacks he still got it dude

he still got it shout out to the queen Yeah, Quinty. But anyways, they blew up this Huntley kid, and Sammy Watkins on a busted coverage is basically how they won that football game. Sammy Watkins is a guy who needed to have a big game. If you remember how he played last week, there were a few really rough moments. And so good for him, redeeming himself coming back. Pressure's coming. Graham was providing it. The Pan. Huntley. But Baltimore, we get the 538 at our disposal here. As you know, I mean, like, it's an exclusive technology that only Greenlight Pot has. What's the 538 machine say about their playoff chances, Matt? 538 gives the Ravens an 82% chance. They're going to the playoffs, 82%.

Now, if they lose their week 12 game with the Browns there, go down to 64%. So the Browns have seemingly kind of falling off a cliff, but again, I don't think the Ravens are that good. So that's a huge game for them coming up, week 12, a big swing. I'm doing my Karnacki thing here with our, very special technology that only we have. And yeah, look at week 12, bro.

It's going to be crazy. Ken City, Dallas, though. Look at this formation. Kelsey in the middle of it. Fix the handoff. We talked about how Tennessee didn't step up. Okay? Buffalo didn't step up.

This was going to be a week where you were like, hey, the best team in the AFC right now, Ken City might have a chance to prove that they belong in the conversation. after everything they've been through, everything that you saw in the early games, I wonder what Patrick Mahomes was thinking as he's watching some of these teams in the 1 o'clock hour. And I know he's not watching,

but you know they have it on the TV in the training room sometimes, and you can kind of follow the score loosely, kind of know what's going on. You got to be thinking, all eyes are going to be on us in a 4 p.m. slot where, you know, America is sitting down and they choose between CINSI and Vegas,

Okay, no thanks. Much I love the Bengals right now. And Seattle playing the Colt McCoy led Cardinals. They're watching that star. They're watching the star. It's the first take bowl. And everyone knows that when you're playing against the Cowboys, at the end of the day, you're going to have eyes on that game.

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's funny that the team that needed to prove something today to prove that they were consistent was the Chiefs. And the team that was consistent and like to me didn't have as much to prove was Dallas. I still think Dallas is very good here, but Kansas City came to play and Kansas City is telling the world that we can still win this thing. And I don't know what it's going to take. I don't know if it's going to take heroics. I don't know if it's going to take this defense standing up

like they did today. I don't know what it's going to take, but they're scaring people. So you said coming to this game, the way Dallas was going to win this football game was taking advantage of turnovers. They had created turnovers. Kansas City has a proclivity returning the fucking rock over. So you were like, yeah, Dallas is going to get some takeaways and that's how they probably win this game. Well, they got them around halftime when they were sputtering and neither really ended in anything substantial. I mean, one of them, sack fumbled before the half, they throw a pick in the end zone. I mean, Dax being aggressive, God bless him, but, you know, don't take advantage. of that one out of the half. They get the ball again, I think in Chief's territory, and they kick a

field goal. So that's the only, in that 15-minute span or so, they got three points out of three possessions at midfield and two of those were set up by turnover. So that's the thing they were supposed to take advantage of to win on the road and they didn't. Listen, the offense, Zeke was dinged, Cooper was out, Lamb left at halftime. We said Tyron Smith was out. Talk about trying to protect you got chris jones you got you know frank clark who's playing better you need everybody um they didn't have everybody and by the way thrown number one made me realize the reason i hate single digit numbers is because of my association with preseason for many years yeah dude yeah number one it was uh this this wide receiver for the the cowboys for many years preseason the the single digits was

when you ran out of numbers yeah and so that's what i think i'm watching the fourth quarter of a preseason game and no disrespect to the dudes who are grinding it out, but like it just reminds me August. But the Chief's defense is suddenly playing pretty well. Four games now under 20 points for them. They're trending in the right way. Chiefs jumped them, right? They scored like 17 points right off the bat or 16 points right off the bat. Mahomes is locked in. That's great. We'll talk about that. But it's no good if you can't play defense and take advantage of that crowd and take advantage of the energy. And they were hitting and they were going top down on this underneath stuff,

and they were honestly doing a pretty good job on Zique, and they were daring the Cowboys to beat them in the passing game. Like, they were fucking around in single high. They were up on the line of scrimmage. They were aggressive, and Spags has been known in Kansas City to coach this team better in the second half of the season, and you'd rather do that in the other way around,

and so they're trending in the right direction. Chris Jones, three sacks on the year, before this game three and a half sometimes when you're slumping relatively speaking you need like a big game they come in bunches that's what everybody used to tell you on the sideline when when you were like fucking mad waiting to get some numbers hey they're coming they come in bunches yeah and they came today for him dude they did and so three and a half sacks what did he have a pass breakup a force fumble recovery yep seven pressures yep this guy was a machine honestly third sack he barely he gave Zach Martin his chest and just ran him over, bro.

Like, he didn't run him over, but, like, put Zach in such a bad spot. This is a Hall of Famer that you just, like, stand straight up off the line. Like, ah, I'm just going to give you my chest and then Yankee down and swim you. Hey, honestly, this team is only going as far as that defense. And I think they're great on offense, but Patrick Mahomes turns the ball over too much. And with that being said, if the defense isn't always. clicking on all cylinders, like they looked like they were today, it's going to be very hard for them to win close and tough games, knowing that we have a quarterback that fumbles, if it's

warranted, like, whatever it is, it just happens too much. So, no, you're right. I mean, like, honestly, that's going to be the catalyst, just like it was the last time they won a championship. If you can get that out of them, they're going to be scary. I mean, they are. But if they're going to be average, like, you never know. Go either way. The other team that looks really good in the AFC right now, if you did a flavor of the week, maybe you should be doing a flavor of like the last couple months because quietly, Indianapolis has been just kicking the dog shit out of people. Second goal of the three.

Wence, Taylor, Doyle with a block and that opens the door and a touchdown in the game opening drive by the Colts. Three-yard touchdown run by Jonathan Taylor. And the Colts score on their opening drive for the fourth. consecutive game you know like a big pro style football team just beating people up i love the new flavor the nflin i love all the sideline stuff i love all the motion i love like and i yeah indy does some of that but i just the way the team looks kind of like a big ass running back a punishing o line and a guy that kind of looks like one of those 90s guys it's fun to watch and they kick buffalo's asses today. And I got to ask, did the bills just lose the AFC East? They didn't lose it

mathematically. But damn, and I've been on this Bill's bandwagon and now I'm finally starting to look for a safe patch of grass to jump off. But like, you pick the hell of a week to get your ass kick like this because the Patriots sure do seem like they're figuring their shit out as you're unraveling. This might have been an identity game for both teams. And it's not a good identity for the bills and it's a great identity for the Colts because the Colts are playing hard nose like end of the year football cold weather gritty weather we run the ball we don't care like we pass the ball and do all that but when when it's getting time for season and snowstorms and rain and weather hey we we have a running back that we'll run the ball down your throw all day long and

that is hard for defenses to overcome when at the end of the season It's a great, great identity for them to start showing and showcasing, and guys better get ready. Yeah, they're, I picked them to win the division and I didn't say shit about it until now. Oh, why do you say anything? I mean, no. No, I mean, like we said it on the pod, but then I shut up about it for a little bit. I mean, here's the thing. These two teams ships passing the night, right?

We came up on that, but the bills and the Titans both lost today puts the Patriots in second in the the AFC. So this is important for a whole lot of reasons. A very interesting game for a whole lot of reasons. You get Titans Pats next week. You get Pats at Bills the week after. So it sure does look like you had your chance here, Bills, to take control of the AFC East. Something that's been, there hadn't been daylight in two decades. Dude, kids have gone to college since like babies went to college and the AFC East didn't change. I mean, it did with the, the jets for a little bit, but you had a window here, and it doesn't feel like you're taking advantage

of the window. Now you got this quarterback who's shown flashes of being the second coming. He's also shown flashes of being, like long flashes of being this guy we saw today. But there are 500 team when he turns the ball over, 17 and 17. So when he turns the ball over once,

who needs a run game? Analytics or something, I don't know. We'll figure that run game out later. This thing was over before the half, We talk about the middle eight, middle eight, middle eight, 14-7, right? You need the ball back. Colts jumped this team.

I was watching the game without sound and kind of zoning out. The team in white was the home team. It felt like they jumped this team. They kicked their ass. And it made the bills flat and they were on their heels early. But they had a chance, 14-7 to get the ball back. What did the Colts do? They ate eight minutes, 32 seconds off the clock.

And it could have been avoided, man, early in that drive you get a three and out and there's an addison penalty falls into carson's legs flag they get new life hinds fumbles you can't fall on it so you had your chance and you let the colts extend their lead 177 and they had the ball almost nine minutes then the fumble that really ended the game this is going to be my my hollow man the mackenzie fumble did you see the mackenzie fumble yeah so this guy i mean god bless him he's trying to make something happen he's trying to cut it was raining hard he cuts he falls and the ground causes the fumble and i know dude because this is the the the fumble that sets up 24-7 i know that's the

play tomorrow in the meeting room that everybody just kind of like when it's coming up you know that play when for the three plays before everybody kind of like straightens up in their chair and gets ready to not move like in a scene at the movies they might not even show it no they're going to show it they might show that shit they they may not They might just be like, hey, we all know what happened here. You're right. Sometimes they do that, though. They do do that.

Which is love when they do that. Because it was, I mean, you know, it's weather, but you got to hold on to the road. You got to hold on the football. You have to hold on. On one hand, on one hand, I'm a human being and I have feelings, and I'm definitely the hollow man today. But on the other hand, like, hold on the football man. And so that was tough. I mean, I know he knows he made a mistake, but that that's where the game is.

Whatever coaches running that meeting, just hope he wakes up on the right side of the bed. Yeah, that's all. That's all it's going to be predicated on. And then they doink a 56 yarder before the half. So like think of all the points that swung because of those few things. And, you know, the Colts are scary, man. If they learn to finish, you know, they're going to be pretty good. There are two games back in the division.

Chris Berman could talk me into the fucking Colts. You know, like Chris Berman when he uses that talk me into a football team tone, give you that NFL countdown pep talk, like back in the day, when a team would get good late in the fall. kind of lean in. He could do that with the Colts for me. Might be able to do that with the Eagles. Talk about that in a little bit.

But yeah, they won six of eight, dude. Six of eight. The two games they lost, Ravens and the Titans. They blew leads, dude. So if they finish, they're gonna be pretty good. And they've got the defense coming along

that they can finish with quitty pay. Quitty pay. Yeah. And this is what, two games in a row with a sack? Yeah. So he was like, he started slow.

But you don't realize when you're a good football team, it takes the pressure off that young Russia that's trying to learn. I've been there where you're trying to learn and you're trying to make a big jump. He's got a defense around him that's going to help him. Yeah, nothing like confidence. But getting on the board, again, they come in bunches. So the defense played well.

They harassed Josh Allen. They had 16 pressures, I think. Three hits a sack. But the real knockout punch for them is Jonathan Taylor. And the bill is second league and stopping the running. Jonathan Taylor. He had five touchdowns today, 32 carries for 185 yards plus four rushing touchdowns. This season in 11, in 11, 22 rushing yards with 13 touchdowns. And then he has 32 receiving yards with four touchdowns. Set a franchise record today with those five

touchdowns for the Colts. That's crazy, dude. Five touchdowns in the NFL. Like if a friend of mine in high school scored five touchdowns. We'd still talk about it at the bar. For sure. He did that in the NFL today. He's a real weapon for them because here's the crazy thing. He's only carried the ball 20 times twice this year. The last two weeks, it was like Frank Reich, classic dad, you know, just like, can't take

the training wheels off. Like I said, hopefully they don't change anything, but look, they found your identity. We're going to ease into this thing. You're going to do this the right way. And now, you know, like, you got this portion in the garage, man. This guy, you're going to be able to pound people late, and he's fresh because of it. And so, you know, if the goal was to surge late as this team figured it out, they're doing that, and Jonathan Taylor's fresh.

He had five touchdowns today. The bill's leading rush road at five carries. So right now, is he the best running back in the league? Nick Chubb. Okay. Yeah, Nick Chubb. Men lie, women, lie, number don't. First running.

back to a stack this year. Numbers sometimes do lie. Hey. I just want to make that. Hey. Incredible. I mean, the numbers are hard to argue with, but they're just numbers.

You know what I'm saying? I got you. No, but you're right. This guy is putting himself in the conversation where I had to sit for five seconds and think about it. Yeah. Because this kid's pretty fucking good

and he's not even being used like they're going to use them in December. It's going to be a tough team to beat. I mean, they're built like a, like a team I watched growing up. How many people have? had him in fantasy at the start of the year. A lot.

You think so? Yeah, I think a lot. He had to compete, I believe, with Marlon Mac at the beginning of the year. That feels like a million years ago. Reed, is that wrong? No, you're right. Martin Mac asked for a trade earlier this year and last year was Mac. I see why.

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your shit doesn't think like I think cam just sauntered into that building this week and he should have he should enjoyed that walk uh and he should enjoyed walking to the end zone a couple times last week but they're coming back home it's packed in that stadium it's a beautiful day for football down there the fact that these teams didn't score more points and these perfect conditions says something, but it was like one of these things. You're fresh off the bus, you haven't really practiced football.

You score touchdown like two, three days, and you score a couple touchdowns. You help in the red zone, which is one place that Cam really helps the red zone. They were 22nd in the red zone when they made this move for Cam. Not very good. They also turned the ball over a lot.

Cam has not really turned the ball over. So even after today, there's an improvement there. And just by doing those two things, I think, when they make that move, they're thinking, hey, this is an improvement. And they're right. And David Tepper can feel good about it. And when he watches that touchdown,

that second touchdown that QB keep in the high red and Cam, all he's got to do is you get a kickout block from the tight end. And I just have to beat the safety to the pylon. Like safety's not really interested in tackling me. That's a nice little wrinkle to have in your offense. And they zoom up to Tepper and Tepper's clapping. And it's like, what took you so long, man?

This is like a really low investment opportunity for your team to win some games and be competitive in them down the stretch. We're here now. They got a big hole to dig out of, especially after losing this game. But the first drive showed to me that an interesting irony is that like Cam spent so many years in this uniform as the guy that had to do everything and had to overcome for deficiencies when the O line wasn't invested in when the wide receivers weren't invested in it was just like cam when you have Cam Newton you don't have to spend as much on other stuff you just you can

kind of you can kind of disregard the other corners of your roster you can kind of you can kind of fuck it up and you're still going to be competitive because he adds multiple dimensions to your offense well now like this first drive right out of the gate shows that this situation is kind of flip that guy is now Christian McCaffrey so no matter how long this experiment goes if this is just like doing the relationship metaphor you know you have a great couple dinners and you realize why you didn't like each other or why it just wasn't working the last time right after the season like they might have a really nice night at a nice hotel and it was really great but maybe there's a reason they're not supposed to be together right now I'm getting too con cowardy however long this experiment lasts this

this second act, it doesn't have to be about Cam. It has to be about like the defense they have on the field that didn't play well enough today. And that running back that makes everybody look better. Like the first play of the game, CMC for eight, the second play of the game, Cam's first completion, a checkdown to CMC that he breaks a perfectly like easy, predictable vice tackle and makes a profit, bro. And then the dive pitch is even a little bit off because they're getting their time in together and CMC catches

on his back hip and runs for however many yards. I mean like where Cam really helps, and by the way the irony of Cam being back is his first sneak at home, fourth and one, he gets stuffed or third and one or whatever it was. But that same drive shows why he's going to be so valuable

for you. Talked about the Red Zone. Basically a triple option. Read Matt Bowen's tweet is interesting. I mean like you've got a couple layers to this first touchdown to DJ Moore. I mean, just him taking three steps and it was a nice call and a way to use your dude, he pulls that second level of defense up

and allows DJ more to sneak him behind. Like, that's where he can help you. Look out for the jump pass and coming in the following weeks. Yeah, dude, it's coming, dude. It's coming. Carolina was really actually lucky to be in this game because Washington fumbled in the red zone. They could have scored a touchdown there.

They got sacked out of field goal range once. They left some points on the field, but the biggest sequence, middle eight, It was fourth and inches before the half, and Washington takes a penalty. It goes to fourth and five. They go for it anyways. They hit Carter on a crossing route. They just dropped them.

Carolina dropped them. And at that point, I think it's 14-7, and it starts a swing that makes it 21-14 going the other way, you know, dealing with either end of that halftime break. But Hanicki made all the throws, man. He made them all. He made all these tight window throws that throw to Sims out of the half. The Gibson stuff was great, but this was all about the conversions. I mean, it was about his connection to McLaurin.

McLaurin is a strong football player, dude. That ball he came down within the end zone. He is so strong. He plays big. Him and Heineke, and Heineke's a gamer, and I think sometimes you might take this the wrong way and say, like, take me to mean you don't have franchise quarterback skills. Or, you know, like, I don't look at quarterbacks and look for any specific, you know, attribute. It's not an attribute position.

It's been proven that they come in all different sizes. I mean, the one thing for me is I'm probably not going to draft a kid who can't move. For the very reason that I'm watching Taylor Heineke and a guy who's learning on the fly and getting opportunities in this league has gotten himself out a lot of trouble with his legs. And he did that today. Him and McLaurin connected early. You know, he had conversions with his legs on like third and medium, third and short. But he was great against the Blitz, too.

I mean, right? Yeah, he was great against the blitz. Five for six with two touchdowns. And then on the season, he's overall been great against the blitz with six touchdowns, no interception. Yeah, and that's why I say he's just a gamer, like big situations, big downs. He converts. I mean, I don't know what to say. The guy, I'm not trying to disrespect him.

I don't know if he's like the quarterback of the future. But somebody asked me in the other room today, like, who would you rather have this year right now? like Heinecke or Cam Newton, and I thought for like an unnecessarily long amount of time. And I'm not, I don't know if I'm ready to share my answer. Well, I don't like, because today one quarterback played better than the other. And, and that's not to say that Cam won't be much better by the end of the year. But like, this is game one, okay, for Cam. I know that like this is nine straight games.

He's lost in a Panthers uniform. He'll win one here soon. It's just they got to hurry up and win them because the back half of the season is tough for them. I'm going to say this, even though you cannot take a sack at the end of the game as a quarterback, you cannot do that. I'm going to chew him a little bit of bail, and I'm going to cape for him and say that how many two-minute drills has he done? That's a big, that's a great point. And people, they might not be thinking about that, but for a quarterback to be in sync with your O-line and running a hurry-up offense, he's probably ran a two-minute drill at tops, four to five times this week. if they threw it into the practice that many times for him,

but he's just been watching video, watching tape, and to be able to be on the field and simulate it with the guys you have, making sure guys are set before you're hiking the ball and all the things you have to do in that hurry up two-minute drill type of offense, he hasn't had any type of work with that yet. Again, this game is all about, like the first thing I want to talk about is Cam and all that and everybody wants to hear about Cam

with good reason, but, Hineke and the Washington football team, they played the better game. And Taylor was pretty damn good today. So if Cam's ceiling is that throw to McCaffrey to tie it at 21, they can be pretty competitive. But the defense has to be really good. And they weren't good enough. I mean, they gave up 150 yards rushing basically today. And really the thing you're afraid of is the end of the game, thing you just talked about. Two minute drill. With it without taking that sack, I mean, it was really tough their last two drives to move the football when you knew they had to throw the ball. And Bravo to Washington's defense after losing your star key like

Russia last week and coming back and playing the way you guys did. And then to end the game on a sack, there's nothing better in the D-Ly room. When I get through a couple NFC big picture like playoff games, then there's some really good shitty games. We'll send you on your way. But Minnesota Green Bay. Greg Joseph to win it. The winner. Is that this your life alert? That's your life alert, Gabe? That is my life alert siren, because if you are a Minnesota fan, listen to this.

A lot of heart attacks in Minnesota this season. Week one, lost to a walk-off field goal in OT. Week two, lost to a miss field goal. Week five, went on a walk-off field goal. Week six, went on a walk-off touchdown in overtime. Yeah. Week 8, lost on a touchdown with 51 seconds to go in the game. Week 9, lost to a walk-off field goal in overtime, and week 11 went on a walk-off field goal. Yeah, no, I mean, like, the game, I even feel bad for Vikings fans.

And listen, I'm rooting like hell against you. I hope you have terrible Sundays the rest of the year because of the business interest in it. But you guys have been through it, and Mike Zimmer blows these games sometimes. I mean, like, you know, you don't put it all in the coach. I mean, there's players on the field that have to make the plays, obviously. But they've been known to kind of let game slip. They gave up two 13-point leads today. And Kirk Cousins, like, turns into like the Eli Manning to Aaron Rogers, Tom Brady.

He really does. I mean, you just know, I saw him strolling into the stadium day. He was shit-eating grin on the pre-game. Did you see the same interview? Literally that phrase was about to come out of my mouth. Yeah. Shit-eating. Like I feel like when he beat someone like Air Rogers,

that like he's at the local restaurant with that shit Ian Grin. Like, yeah, I did that. But he knew it coming to the stadium day. They stopped him. He had his suit on and stuff. And they asked him, he was just smiling the whole time. Because he knew, I'm bigging up Kirk Cousins here. But Dalvin Cook, and by the way, you can Google what's going on with him right now.

I mean, you be the judge. He's on the football field plan. If more comes out on that, we'll be able to talk about it more. but like it doesn't look great. But the football player since 2017 has changed the equation when it comes to the Packers and the Vikings. Having that dude,

all that he does out of the backfield, that does a lot for the passing game as well. Everybody knows play action and Kirk Cousins go together. And they absolutely got after the Packers today. Justin Jefferson had 100 in the first quarter. We should be talking about this guy as an elite receiver.

He shares like a rare air. I mean, I don't know where you'd rank him, but the guy's dangerous. He's dangerous. And it's a weird pairing him and Kirk, but it really works. It really does. And today you had to be perfect to beat him. You had to be perfect. When he threw you a ball, you had to catch it.

You had to make the most of it. The first pick they got, the kid from the Packers, I feel bad for him. If you play D-Line long enough, you've done this. But he ends up face-to-face with Kirk Cousins. and it's a textbook, you know, 15-yard penalty negates the pick you get. So that's your one chance. And then the second time, you drop a pick. Savage drops a pick at the end of the game.

And that's on the drive that wins the football game for the Vikings. So they weren't perfect. They had opportunities. They didn't make the most of them. And part of why I bet the Vikings was the Rogers' toe. I mean, like I was hearing he was going to be slowed down. This guy looked like a robot again. He was rolling left.

Piss missile to back up tight end because don't forget they're down Tunyon. And he looked like Aaron Rogers. The last three minutes of the game was bonkers. I mean like crazy. One of those games you'll remember and the throat of feeling that helped seal the game was up there with that. I promise you. It was up there for me with the holy shit he caught that.

And he's still running with the football with the Minnesota mirror. I mean, that ball whizzed by my man, Russell Douglas's ear. And he, like, I don't blame him. It's just how did he fit it in there? And how did Dealin end up with his footing? And he was able to pick up another five, seven yards, and end up in damn near field goal range. So it was crazy.

It was a crazy fireworks finish. Five passing touchdowns on third down. I mean, this was a game. You were just standing up a lot. You like that. You like that. my question is for the Packers and when is Bakhtiari going to be back he's a good question it's been 10 months since his ACL and unfortunately today Adrian Peterson would have been back twice yeah I know but unfortunately

today his backup Elton Jenkins went down I know with the ACL ACL so like if he's not ready yeah what kind of pressure does that do to the to the organization to him as a player yeah like you you know how feel already as a player when you're not when you want to get back and you might even know am I in your head and heart I'm not a hundred percent but I can play I want to play and it might not be the best decision yeah well I mean he's gonna be

he's gonna be in a rush to come back and that's just the way it is and I mean like David Bakhtiari's a tough SOB and a great player and a great leader and I think that he really wants to get back there and block for his buddy so when you watch tape of 73 73 the last time I saw him play

I think was week three against Nick Bosa rather sorry and Nick Bosa wore him out and so not that Nick Bosa isn't wearing everybody out right about now but like you need to your point a healthy David Bokhtierry back but he's got to be healthy

because what you don't want to do is have him come back too soon and be all out of whack hurt himself worse I don't know like you know be not because when you come back from an ACL your whole chain is working trying to overcome compensate. You don't want a guy rushing back, hurting his back, hurting his hamstring. You need him down the stretch. So the low-hanging fruit right now is going to be, we need him back next week.

But they'll figure out a way to work around a fish on the old line. You know how we were talking about all those kickers being called, thinking about how many tackles are in that facility right now, being tried out. Oh, man, you're right. You're right. There's a lot of big six-six, three-15-pound guys. Flying into Green Bay. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Hey, y'all, we want you guys to interact with us more on social media here. Let me not sound like a fucking cop talking about this. We want you to talk to us.

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So we are once again asking you for random free shit in my Bernie Sanders meme voice. Send packages to 2150, Wise Street, number 5267. That's Charlottesville, Virginia, 22905. Thank you in advance for all the wonderful things you'll send us. Philly, New Orleans. Hertz keeps, Hurts cuts, Hertz has the first down, and Jalen Hurts, might have just put it away for the Eagles. Touchdown, his third of the day. By the way, the playoff bot, what's the playoff bot saying?

All right, the playoff bot gives the Eagles 38% chance to make the playoffs. So you're saying there's a chance. Yeah, I mean, when you look at the NFC, there's only five teams with a running record. Oh, gosh, I can, like Philly, if the Eagles make the playoffs, it's going to be pandemon. Chris Berman can absolutely lean in and convince me that the Eagles are going to the playoffs. Absolutely. I mean, looking at these next five games, Giants, Jets, Washington, Giant, Washington. If I was a betting man, it looks like they should make the playoffs if they play like they did today.

If they approach this thing seriously here, they could just take a yellow cab to all those destinations. They don't even have to get on a fucking airplane the next five, six weeks. They can go five and oh. And they can be staring down a wild card spot, dude. This could be crazy. And Nick Siriani deserves some credit here because they possessed the ball for 37 minutes today. They've taken this run game thing to heart. They started a whole 50, 50, 50 movement.

It's catching on like wildfire. Everybody's trying to do it. They had that before the half today. They had it damn near before the half. So this guy, they were throwing flowers at him. I mean, they were on his head. It was just remember, just Halloween, a lot of people were Nick Siriani,

and it wasn't to be kind. You know what I mean? Some people were going a little over the, and we were saying, be patient with this guy. People gave him shit about the press conference. Oh, he couldn't. This guy has done something I haven't seen a lot of very experienced coaches do. He's tried to adapt.

And he's tried to self-scout and change in his very first year. and they're running the football more. They're making things a little bit easier for Jalen Hertz. He's playing really well. He threw some great balls today. You know, after the Denver game, you're kind of like, ah, I want to be careful not to be bandwagony. But if he plays like this,

he's going to make this decision hard on Howie Roseman. If he plays like he's played the last two weeks every week, there is no decision. Okay, credit where credits do, he's playing really well. And the bottom line is, if he's not throwing the ball well one week, He can do shit like he did with the football late in the fourth quarter. Drop like three dudes, reverse field, head to the opposite pylon.

He's so dangerous. And with this run game, they got going, 175 yards rushing in four straight games, three out of four of them were wins. All three went for 200 yards. All three of the wins. Sanders today, 94 yards. Hertz, 69 yards. Howard, 63 yards. Boston Scott threw in 48 feet.

Okay, they're just, you know, just getting rushing yards out of guys. left and right. Don't forget my man, Boston Scott, but like they're blocking well up front. There was a highlight reel I saw last week of Lane Johnson in Denver on conversions, you know, signaling the chains, getting all hype,

blocking people throwing them out of the club. You got Jordan Milaida throwing dudes out of the club today. Lane Johnson with the quote of the week says it was what? Read like MMA? He said it was like FNUFC 286 out there. Like fucking you. Son, I'll tell you, it was like, I mean, I could hear Lane saying that, but it was.

I mean, Jason Kelsey's running an angry like four or five today. Like around the corner, just decleting people going and getting more. He's 34 years old, whatever he is. The joints hurt, I'm sure. But they're playing hungry. Hungry dogs run faster. All those guys are getting, the Eagles are doing something interesting. They're getting better as the year goes on.

And I don't know what to make of it. And up front, they're doing their damn job. So, yeah, I don't know. Jalen looks awesome. Eagles playoff chances, 38, playoff type games coming up. And this Eagles Giants series, all the crazy shit that happens. That's where we got the Daniel Jones sniper thing. That was what birthed that.

Like some of the craziest fun games I've seen over the last couple years have been Eagles, Giants. Don't shoot the messenger. It's a big game. It's a big game, dude. It's a big game. Slay with a pick six, too, by the way, today. He's been awesome. And I want to, Troutman redeemed himself.

Last week, he had a big penalty, the tight end for New Orleans. At the very least, he got the heat off him because he had a beautiful back shoulder catch. Simeon with a great throw. It was one of his, like, best throws of the day. But he just doesn't have enough to win with this roster right now. And the Saints are cratering a little bit. Lane Johnson was great in pass pro, too. Really good in pass pro.

Okay, there was a couple crappy games I want to talk about before we take this thing home, but there's one game that's my, I love this kind of crappy game, the Houston and Tennessee game. You know you love the game when it killed all your parlays. I even hopped on the live line. I bet, you know, Tennessee live money line. I think I got it at like four to one. And I was like, let's just have some fucking fun, you know, sometimes. I think, I think, I think, It was a lot like when somebody, when they put a bag of meth in your hand, if you're a meth guy, you're like,

let's just have some fucking fun. What? What? That was how I felt betting Tennessee in the rain down like four scores. Okay, I was like, you know what? This looks like a perfect time to hop on this train. Please no one out there, if you ever meet us, ever greet us with a bag of meth.

Don't do that. We don't want any. We don't want any. Okay. Titans, they've used 82 players in 10 games. 82 players. That's ridiculous, dude. Mike Vrable should be up for Coach of the Year.

No question. The way they've won football games, a bunch of different pieces missing. They've had to mix and match. At least sometimes when you get hurt, like the best thing is, to just have the same guys hurt, to have the same pieces missing.

They've been all over the map. Also, I think that this stadium, Nissan, the Nissan Stadium, I don't know what we want to call this award and you guys can write us about this but drunkest stadium that had to be the drunkest stadium this Sunday you had to be popped to be in that stadium

out there. It was raining like this was last Boy Scout type rain dude. This was it was a monsoon. David Cully was sitting there in his hoodie Mike Vrabel was just was soaked. He looked like a wet dog. Mike Vrabble

that basically counts as a shower for Mike Vrable I think. I think Mike Vrable just went in the locker room dry it off and put his street clothes on i played in the game like that actually against cam new in in carolina's where tackling cam newton in the fucking where where the where our kicker had to get a piggyback on an old lineman's back because the stadium was flooding to walk into the locker what that's how bad it was raining tell the kicker to walk through the fucking puddle dude what was the kicker's name was that gold no this is i think i was on jacksonville this is when i was playing for Jacksonville.

Scooby. Scooby. Scoby couldn't walk the rain. Would he jump on like Andrew? Because you don't want to, like you can't get your cleats soaked as a kicker. You got to think about that. Fair point.

But yeah, no, like where I opted in, where I grabbed that bag of ice was after the Titans who had, Titans who had 426 yards of offense, Texas had 190 and won the game. Tanna Hill threw that pick to, to Camu, my dude,

Camu got hawked by the way. Don't think I didn't see that. I just didn't want to air you out on Twitter like Tori Smith did. I was trying to be quiet about it. And Tori was like, you're just going to let Camus slide like that? I'm like, dude, everybody saw he got caught. I want to talk about Ryan Tannahill's try to tackle.

Ryan Tannhill, I've never seen anybody want to prevent a pick six more than Ryan Tannahill wanted to prevent that pick six, man. I mean, he laid out like he was. Clint Eastwood. in the line of fire. Is that the movie? Is that the movie where he has to take a bullet for Whitney Houston? Or am I mixing two movies up?

You're definitely mixing two movies up. But in the line of fire, yeah, he takes a bullet for the president. Whoever the president was. To a bullet for Wendy Houston. You're mixing it up with the bodyguard. The bodyguard, right. Yeah. He was like both of those things.

He was trying to get, he was trying to get Kamu down so bad, man. I know that somewhere Teddy Bridgewater on his by was just sitting there. I don't know if he was in the Delta lounge at like the Atlanta airport. You know, he was probably somewhere totally inopportune. Probably in Miami. Like he was just sitting there watching and everybody saw Ryan Tanna Hill lay out for to make a tackle like that. How many text messages you probably, you think he got like, hey.

None because I don't think people are going to bust his balls. I think what happened last week was so uncomfortable that people don't bust your balls about it. No, I don't think. You think people are busting his balls in locker? I think his friends is like, yo, you're just not going to try to make that tackle? Well, not after today.

They're definitely because they saw Ryan Tannahill tried to take a bullet for Winnie Houston. So, yeah, that's a bad look. So that's my, maybe my viewing party, one of those things. David Tepper gets the viewing party watching Cam Newton give him instant offense. And maybe I'm the fly on the wall here. I wanted to see what he was thinking, watching Tannhill.

I love Teddy Bridgewater. It's just got to have fun with it. Guys, got to have fun with it. They muff the kick, you know, the whole thing. They're down 19-0-0 when I tapped in. And the second half was beautiful, dude. I said this. If anybody listens to the podcast,

because we've had all types of people I didn't expect to listen to the podcast, if any of y'all, like, take photographs for the NFL or pictures for some media outlet and you were on, like, field level of that, that beautiful, rainy, sloppy, shitty game. Can you send me like a picture of FERC-sur sliding in the rain on that fumble recovery for a touchdown? It was a thing of beauty. I love those games, man.

The most dysfunctional games are my favorite games. And I was just happy to be along for the ride. It was worth the price of admission. Detroit, Pittsburgh last week and this one this week, things of beauty. And Detroit Cleveland, don't get me started. That was ugly. Covering Campbell. he had Boyle to work with

let me tell you about Boyle the quarterback for the for the Lions today who was trying to beat the Cleveland Browns who were a Super Bowl favorite for some people Super Bowl favorite fuck they've had injuries

but damn dude this team is cratered and I really like the coach but this this Boyle guy he was at Yukon for three years he played 19 games at Yukon one touchdown 13 interception was 1,200 yards passing. Transferred to Eastern Kentucky.

11 tuds, 13 INTs, 2100 yards. His NFL experience is wrestling, Aaron Rogers, taking some knees, and they trotted out here to try to beat the Browns. So I got to hand it to Dan Campbell. I know I sound like I'm caping for him, but I'm not.

This was just ugly. There was nothing you could do about it. QBR battle here. QBR was 6-7. Bakers was 8-6. I don't even know how QBR works but I know that's not good isn't it out of like 150 or like something like that it's not out of 10 okay so not good Jets in Miami I mean we've talked about so many great games today and we haven't even

mentioned the Florida teams we'll close it out with the Florida teams here Jets in Miami we had Flacco throw the ball 40 times basically in an NFL football game with like five days notice that just slipped under the radar. Elijah Moore played really well. Zavian Howard complimented him. I don't know what else you want me to say about this game. I caught the onside kick. The onside kick was abhorrent.

The onside kick, I heard a clown noise. Like the Higbee drop last week. I heard a clown. I heard like an old, like an old fashioned cartoon, like something silly just happened, soundboard thing. That's what I heard when I saw that Jets onside kick. the thing went like the hands team guy was like holy shit

I'm giving my game check back this week this is easy Jacksonville San Francisco this is I'll say this I don't know if San Francisco is going to be a like a playoff relevant team but this is impressive for them 13 minute drive to start the game had an 18 play drive last week 20 plays on this drive they short week long flight Jacksonville's been playing better all that stuff San Francisco just kicked their ass

seven and a half minutes left in the second quarter Jacksonville had four plays on offense so hey more Devo please for San Francisco he's so awesome he's like their Cordero Patterson and I read this today or somebody alerted me to this in the third quarter that the the Jaguars chief of staff whatever that means left for Texas.

He went back to Texas. He had come from Texas, and he's going back to Texas, which is a canary in the coal mine, if you ask me. My man is running back into a burning building. Texas is... Now, last time I called it a program of burning building,

it was Philly when Carson was throwing a bunch of picks. It's just an expression for shit has hit the fan. It's hit the fan in Austin, but somehow this guy's running back there in the middle of a football game. I don't know if I should read too much into that but man I just want to say I noticed that I saw that

and big congratulations Nick Bosa he has kicked ass this year I think this year he's been a better rusher in some ways than his rookie year and everybody was paying so much damn attention to him then you need to pay attention to them now okay they're just not very good so you don't see them on TV but

he's been just throwing people around like he's an action hero How would you feel if you're a defensive player alongside Nick Bosa for San Francisco and watch your offense do a 13-minute drive to start the game? You go through warm-ups and then you don't play until almost the second quarter. I'm thinking I'd be pretty tight. I think I would be pretty tight. I'd be happy. In St. Louis, you never had to worry about getting cold defensively.

There were two words I heard a lot. It was called Sudden Change. Sudden change means, hurry up. The offense just fumbled the ball. or the offense threw the ball away or, you know, we went for it on fourth down again and we were just, yeah. I mean, you got to hurry up, you run on the field,

you grab your helmet. That's the opposite of what they're dealing with in San Francisco right now. And guys, it can be hard on old players. Like if I'm old, I don't, I kind of maybe don't want to go play for a Kyle Shanahan team because I'm going to have to sit there for a while

and my hamstring might explode. All right, real quick, I want to give out a non-football game ball. Penn guy, Ivy League guy. Hooper. Jelani Williams. Okay, this guy suffered three consecutive ACL tears and dealt with the cancel season over the past five years.

I mean, that's ridiculous, dude. And the fifth year senior finally played in his first collegiate home game. I heard that. A few nights ago. I just wanted to give a dude a hug, man. Like, that's just so fucking awesome. Listen to this. Yeah.

1,795 days in the making. Wow. That is. incredible that's incredible that's a long time that's uh that's longer than this podcast speaking of long time uh fax hit me up the other day said he's going to the card store to buy some Pokemon so I thought I'd meet him up there and see what was up ended up buying a pack of baseball cards from 1975 oh yeah uh as a joke I pass fax the gum and he choose it he chewed the gum from the 1975 baseball card.

What did that taste like? Did you ingest it? Yeah. You swallowed the gum? It's going to be in there seven years now. It kind of, it felt like a piece of chalk. A piece of chalk. And it dissolved really quickly.

Speaking of that, will you grab that Cheetos real quick? And I want to take a quick taste of these cold apple bees, Cheetos flavored. This is the crossover, huh? Do you want me to warm it up? No, I'll eat one cold. Okay, so the other day, I was watching TV, and that's my first mistake, because I saw an Applebee's commercial. The Sublimanus got you? I really smell these things.

I smell these things. Applebee's, they put Cheetos flavors, and I think these are the flaming hot due to the color of these bad boys. The radiation. Yeah, the radiation coming off. First off, they look like fried shrimp. Is this supposed to be chicken? But it's supposed to be chicken, yep. Well, I'm not getting an NIL deal like that lovable-looking linemen out in the Midwest

that when he was in an Applebee's commercial. But Flaming Hot Cheetos, oh my God. Oh, this is fire. This is real good. Look, it's our different, like, I know like two different flavors. His look, his looks like a little darker. Yeah, dude, these are the flaming and hot. This is good.

He's a really good. Are these free range? Definitely free range. No, seriously, these are really good, dude. You should have some of these. They got a little Cheetos aftertaste. It kind of tastes like when you lick your finger to get the Cheetos dust off.

I'm taking some of these home guys because I want to heat these up. Because they're good cold. So one flavor is Cheetos flaming hot. Yeah, those are the flaming hot. Yep. And then the other is... Just the regular.

The Cheetos wing sauce. These are good. Great marketing. With that, we'll close the show, but thank you for the Applebee's. Reed, this is quite the treat. And very good, actually. I think I just ingested 5,000 milligrams of sodium, so I'm paying for it. But I should come out good on the other side, huh?

See you at the crossroads, crossroads. Well, anyways, Nate, that about does it. So I told you that was an elite slate before it started and did not disappoint. I'm going to go get some sleep. Hey, happy Thanksgiving, man. Oh, yeah, happy Thanksgiving, dude. I won't see you until after Thanksgiving. Hey, I'm thankful for you, dude.

Bro, I'm thankful for you. And I'm thankful for this opportunity that you have given me. And thankful for all the producers and the green light crew. Well, listen, man. And especially, especially all the fans. Just know we had to be in making of two shows until we have to say that. So just for the record, since you motherfuckers thought I won't go, thank you. That was heartfelt, though.

Reed was back there like, you're welcome. The host hasn't said it. We got two shows, Reed. Dang. We got two shows. I am thankful for you. And this is indeed a great opportunity to smoke weed with me and watch football and then talk about it after. What an opportunity.

I get to be myself, man, and I love that. You are the best. What an opportunity. That's how we like it. All right, man. We'll have a great Thanksgiving and hopefully turkeys that you killed this year don't haunt you the rest of your life. No.

Martha Stewart got one this year. What are your turkeys? We're going up. Kelly Bronze. Okay. Let's go. There you go. Get the plug.

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