Green Light with Chris Long - NFL WK1 Recap! NE vs Philly, SF vs Pittsburgh, LAC vs Miami, Joe Burrow's Tough Outing, Jordan Love Impresses, Mentions and America's Teams!

Episode Date: September 11, 2023

It's the NFL Week 1 Recap! Chris Long and Kyle Long recap each Sunday Wk1 NFL Game from the blowout between San Francisco and Pittsburgh and the hotly contested Philadelphia vs New England game held in Water World. The biggest storylines are discussed, game trends are debated and breaking NFL news is reviewed. After the game breakdowns, we get into our Mentions from the weekend - Best Plane Ride, Worst Plane Ride, Hollow Man - and Dr. Fax gives out his viral moment of the week! Enjoy the Ride! (1:38) - America's Teams with Chris Long, Kyle Long and Nate 'Dr. Fax' Collins (22:30) - Biggest Storylines from NFL WK1: NE vs Philly, SF vs Pittsburgh, Cincy vs Cleveland, LAC vs Miami, Tennessee vs NOLA and Dallas vs NYG (1:18:37) - Best of the Rest: Houston vs Baltimore, Green Bay vs Chicago, Tampa Bay vs Minnesota, Atlanta vs Carolina and Seattle vs LAR (1:43:40) - Dr. Fax's Viral Moment of the Week and Mentions This podcast is brought to you by Cash App. With multiple tools for saving, spending, and sending, Cash App is the easy way to stay in control of your money. Cash App is a financial platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App's bank partner(s). Make sure to check out Fax and the King every Wednesday on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FaxAndTheKing Have some interesting takes, some codebreaks or just want to talk to the Green Light Crew? We want to hear from you. Call into the Green Light Hotline and give us your hottest takes, your biggest gripes and general thoughts. Day and night, this hotline is open. Green Light Hotline: ‪[phone]‬ Send any Talent Search submissions to: [e-mail] Include any video of your talents, takes and bits as well as a little bit about yourself. Love hearing from the Green Light fans. Also, check out our paddling partners at Appomattox River Company to get your canoes, kayaks and paddleboards so you're set to hit the river this summer. https://paddleva.com/ Green Light Spotify Music: https://open.spotify.com/user/951jyryv2nu6l4iqz9p81him9?si=17c560d10ff04a9b   Spotify Layup Line: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1olmCMKGMEyWwOKaT1Aah3?si=675d445ddb824c42   Green Light Tube YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GreenLightTube1   Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And I will say this about the Browns, that offensive line. Kyle, there is a play. Wyatt Teller. 22 yards of pancake. Wyatt Teller? 22 yards. He's a bad boy. He had dude from Cincinnati riding public transportation for 66 feet and buried him.

I love that in the red zone. They were in the shot zone. He makes me want to play again. And the kid woke up in the red zone. Welcome to the Greenlight podcast. It is NFL reactions week one. We've got a great day in Studio J. Chris, Kyle, Dr. Fax,

they're going to run you through the marquee games, the biggest matchups, the biggest storylines. We've got a pancake that goes for about 20 yards. It gets Kyle juiced up. He says he almost wants to come back. We hit our best of the rest games. A few good storylines in there. The surprise Seattle Seahawks lost to the L.A. Rams.

What is Sean McVeigh doing? Dr. Fax drops an obvious viral moment of the week. You'll hear it when you get to it. And then we hit our mentions. End of the show mentions. We have a good time. A nice little two-hour show for you. you you all enjoy we will be back Wednesday catch you in the catcher NFL week one baby

let's go yeah dude football's back felt good felt good I walked outside during the 4 pms for a second it was beautiful outside and I think this is the day where like most people are indoors and have no idea what's going on outside I really could have used the break yesterday seven straight hours of football you got to be in shape for that you got to be in shape for that it's week one I'm going to say hello to Vegas because my locks for 3 and 0. And until the site crash, I was doing really well. I think I was doing so well yesterday, the site crash on me. I have no idea whether I'm up or down at the end of the Sunday.

It's a rigged game. Yeah, I don't know which way's up right now. It's a rigged game. I know. So I want to say hello to Vegas, a little wink and a nod to Vegas. And then layup line today above the clouds, gang star. Going to commercial in Pittsburgh, they played mass appeal. The guys in the Fox TV truck always hitting home runs, man.

They play a lot of Monaster's jacket. Is that Joel Santos? Yeah, I think it is. Yeah. Shout out to Joel. Yeah. So I wanted to give layup line to our guys, gang star, Primo, friend of the program. He is the man, dude.

Guys, little America's teams that kick this thing off. What do you say? This is my favorite fucking set. I know. Waiting all off season for this shit. I'm going to let you go. Okay. Number one, how can you not go without saying,

the Dallas fucking or the Dallas Cowboys. Sorry, we're not swearing. This is an early mistake week one. It happens. Dallas Cowboys. No, we can swear. Dallas Cowboys number one, guys. Don't make it complicated. Their quarterback was sedated last week for a 12 hour. 11 hours. Full body tattoo. There was a guy who had a spinal reconstruction in that game last night who was under for

for less time than Dak. You want to talk about commitment to the cause. Dak trying to do things, go places that no man has ever gone. And this defense is going places where no man has ever gone. Last night was just unbelievable. The cowboys are flying around. It kind of looked like the Texas Rangers, the way

they're just out there eliminating bad guys in Texas. Okay. Number two, America's team. The Texas Longhorns. You know what? You know what I'm saying? The Rangers, they travel everywhere. They are on horseback and they have six shooters.

We got a problem in New York. Repeating arms. The Texas Longhorns, number two, I will say that I put money on Alabama. Kate and I, my lovely wife, and I elected to put $200 on the Alabama Crimson Tide because for listeners of this show, Alabama was on my America's team last year. It's so funny to me, you waited so long to bet, and then you just picked the most public team in the biggest game of the weekend.

It was fun. No, it was fun. And I loved hearing you were into gambling. I loved it, and now that I know your wife's into gambling a little bit, actually my wife this weekend on Saturday night. They're competitive. in the room was like you're supposed to teach me about gambling five minutes later she walked out she couldn't figure out why the plus team is the team that is actually catching points makes sense

so there was a lot of issues with uh explaining gambling and my wife let me get to the texas longhorn here the number two america's team on my list and i am obsessed with their fucking quarterback when yours uh i was watching this guy throw coming out of high school you know you see these guys on instagram or whatever at passing camps and he's got that unique slot with his arm that you see with guys like Aaron Rogers, Patrick Mahomes, quick release, extremely athletic and strong arm. He threw some deep balls that were unbelievable. Texas Longhorns, going to be a lot of fun to watch. If Arch Manning is on the sideline, that means somebody really good is on the field.

Number three, the San Francisco 49ers. You're like Gary Payton when he got to the Lakers, like just a little too late to get to get on Bama. Like the wrong place, wrong time. It's okay. It sounded like the right thing to do. It's okay. You and Carl Malone.

It's okay. That's funny. That's good. That's like I left Kansas City right before they won the football. I didn't want to make that joke. It happens. It happens. It happened.

Number three, San Francisco 49ers. That's how a white man runs the football. Christian McCaffrey, dude. Nate, don't ever tell me the white guys are not as athletic of the black guys. Christian McCaffrey definitely hold it down. And if anyone ever makes the argument with you, if you throw that guy into the equation, There's not really much.

We had Hunter Ren for a couple years. Remember in Pop Warner, there was always that kid that was just football IQ better than everybody. A little bit more athletic. It still looks like Christian McCaffrey is that guy in the NFL. Number three, San Francisco 49ers, top to bottom, best roster in the NFL. Number four, Colorado. Not a lot of white guys on that defense. Dionne Sanders, except for one.

You're trying to think. Nick Bosa. Nick Bosa, yeah. You ever heard of him? He's pretty good at football. Yeah. When he was off. We need our one Caucasian.

When he was off the field, the Steelers gained yards. And when he was on the field, they didn't. He's in Palm Beach. That was the fucking formula. We had three buckets. Number four of the Colorado's, man. I just, the culture change immediately has been so much fun to watch. How quickly did Shadur Sanders get really into the Buffalo?

He got there like in July. And he's like, I don't like how Matt Ruhle and Nebraska were disrespecting the Buffalo. I don't play about the Buffalo. Did he make it? up some comments of that rule said i know i know i think rule said something on a podcast like rule legitimately said something about dion because you know all the grates they make up beef like mj used to make up beef i like shedur sanders i love him you know i like when he said i don't you know a lot of people looked at him saying uh i don't i don't look at the name on the jersey i just play as like

being this arrogant thing but i think it's it's it's humility it's what you want to hear from your quarterback like we're not going to be intimidated the whole thing and then the next week i was and I was like, oh, this era of college football is here. The player men and power era is here. I don't respect this program. And I got a problem with Matt Rule. It's like usually you'd have to check with your SID. Yes.

Before you got up there and said something like that. They have the, they have the juice. It's like WWF. It is. It's like the wrestling era. It's amazing. When Dion pulled up at the fucking stadium with him and Constance Schwartz, they pulled up in the golf cart, the golf cart,

a fleet of lifted golf cart. And he hopped out. It was like when Tiger arrived at Augusta for his final round of the Masters, only one going away. It was like a gladiatorial entrance. And close to Dion for at the end of the day, just getting two toes amputated.

He looks great moving around. Yeah, he does. He's moving along with eight digits down there on the dog. Yeah, he doesn't look like. He keeps an eight toes down. That shit is crazy, but like another, another notch under his goal belt. Somebody said 10 toes down. down around him in an interview and it was funny he was like wait whoa whoa but he's like the

christian mcalfrey of ranchers in like uh yellow the yellowstone bracket and that's the look because because he's he's going all into this john dutton thing the white the white hat yeah yeah yeah he's he's breaking the trend how many cowboy hats are being sold on campus uh everybody wants to be on the yeah that's him making a lot of money so my number five america's team the denver broncos they fucking started this season off with an onside kick. Okay. That's one way to get rid of, you know, Russell Wilson is tanked for Caleb Williams.

I am all in on rooting for the Denver Broncos, Reed. Okay. Frank Clark was jumping snaps, getting a couple. Let's just talk about the game right now, Reed. I mean, Reed is so funny. I call him sideshow Bob in the 4 p.m. Because we have seven TVs. We'll all be watching some other game every Sunday,

and all of a sudden you're here just this outburst from, you know, and he's watching the top of the tiny, little screen and it's the broncos and whoever's god's team it was yeah it was rough at at first i was very uh into russell's performance and then i looked back at week one last year so yesterday russell was 27 to 34 17 yards and two touchdowns we we scored 16 points we lost week one 2022 russell was 24 of 31 247 yards two touchdowns broncos scored 16 points and lost in overtime yeah the points are a problem. Shout out to Pat Sertan though. Oh, he shout out to Pat Sertan. He allowed two receptions for like 11 yards by DeVos as the baddest man in the land. This was the flyover game for me. I got to be

honest. I didn't see a lot of this. So I know leading up to the game last year, Devante Adams said he's not there yet when talking about Pat Sartan and Sartan was, you know, rightfully so pissed. And then obviously in the matchup, he goes out and shows out. Those are the matchups that I love. He's not coming. I live for the middle of the road teams with above elite matchups like those guys. No, I was just thinking of a, I'm not coming. I'm here, Joe. I'm going to come. Do not come. I'm here. Do not come. If you go early in Boulder and you're on that team, you got a line. Yeah. I'm not coming. I'm here, babe. I'm already here. I think we got to keep going. Here. I don't think we want to hang here,

Okay. All right. That was enough from the Broncos. Yeah, yeah. We're good. We're on to week two. Enough on the Colorado team. Is my America's team?

All right, Reid. I'll give you a tip of the cap because you can use one. I'll give JMU and America's team. Geez. Talk about a great damn game, though. You know, like, we went to that lightning delay for an hour and a half. And then you guys got to do something, which isn't really fair. And that's make adjustments.

I don't think that's fair at all. I think both teams should have been isolated like jury duty. and then just run back out and play. Like there should, you know, that's an unfair advantage. Too much time. Making adjustments. You're right. And the UVA fans totally should have been, should have come back to the stadium. But you got a good team. I like that running back. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Was it empty after the delay? Dude, UVA fans did not come back afterwards. I didn't say it. Come on, guys. I didn't say it. You know how I. Wahoo, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're back in the stadium. Yeah, exactly. Wahoo, wah, there's still time in the game.

What the fuck are you guys? guys doing. All right. I want to give this. I was going to give one to Texas. You gave it to Texas. They deserve it. Texas. If they're truly one of America's teams, it's going to be good for college football. And I love the fact, and I can't wait to have Stanford see this. You know, who's going to be a powerhouse in the next five years that we're not thinking about? Because a year or two ago, we wouldn't have thought Texas. And we had Sark on the show, really happy for him. Seems like a good guy to play for. And Texas after the game, SEC's not ready for. us guys guys mugging up to the camera yeah there's a lot of that going whoa whoa

whoa buddy yeah just calm down uh i'll give it to colorado as well uh and then the Tampa bay buccaneers yes because holy shit they're trying to win games yeah they're trying to win quarterback they could be a lot of fun i want to shout out baker mayfield uh because you know we we assume we know the script but the script could entail them winning seven games this year and not dragging Caleb Boe's at all. And then it's the Baker-Mayfield era. I don't think so necessarily. Guy's been on like four teams the last three years.

And he's one his opener. He's four-and-one. In three of those situations. Because everybody remembers the Rams situation last year. Cleveland. I remember them beating the Jets. We were out at dinner, me and the D-Line for the Eagles,

and I'll never forget his first start. The Tyrone Taylor game. Yeah, the first play, you know, the first cup or whatever it was. He played pretty well that night. like the guy that has the best outfit on day one of school every year. Yes, he's ready. Also, he started a foundation.

I want to shout Baker Mayfield's foundation out. I like Baker Mayfield. He seems like a dude. I'd want to have a beer. I'd want to have a beer with Baker Mayfield. Okay, yeah, definitely would be 20. Yeah, I want to give a shout out to the folks at YouTube TV, one of America's teams. Yes.

That was a great experience yesterday. Oh, the most of you. I feel like we're going to pretty soon be like, are you watching that game on TV? You know, like it's, I think we're almost there, dude. Yeah. You have a disc man. My phone gets hot. Because yesterday I missed my flight.

Yeah. And I had to drive from New York. My phone was hot. It was plugged into that little USB thing. The sun was shining on it. At first I thought there was like some kind of, you know, magnifying glass reaction from the windshield. Yeah.

It was my, it was just the phone. And they also have these Zen commercials, which at first I was like, get this bullshit out of here. I'm trying to, I'm trying to get some dopamine. Zen as in calmness. Zend. Not Zinn. I don't need an advertisement for that. But they just put up these little these little like nature escapes. And then, you know, everybody was sweating, you know, Cleveland, Cincinnati. And all of a sudden you're staring at a hummingbird for two minutes. It's just what

everybody needs, honestly. Because one thing I learned this weekend or it was reinforced to me is like, I hate football season for one reason. I got to interact with a bunch of football fans on Twitter. And they all know football better than us. And so, you know, people need to calm the fuck down. Everybody's so confrontational around this time of year. Like, we're all on talk, talk TV and we're competing. You know, like just relax. We're hanging out.

Talking football. And on Sunday, relax. Catch a nature scape and chill the fuck out. All right. And last one, you know, the, the World Cup, not the World Cup team, the Olympic team. Well, no, I want to give it to the World Cup team because they lost. And we wouldn't have the 2024 Olympic team, which is. going to include LeBron James.

Was that the Fiba? Is that Fiba? Yeah, Fiba, whatever it is. Fiba. I should know because Tommy Alter's bitch ass had to move the draft because of Fiba. Every year, it's something with Tommy. It's something with Tommy Alter. There's more on that fantasy football league coming later and mentions.

That's something spicy. So those were America's teams. Nate, what do you have for these guys? Who won? Who was the better, who is the better final America's team? Do you have any to add? If I was to add, I would say. my old team Jacksonville, Duvall, they pulled out a tight, close game.

What was 20 to 21 versus? No, 31, 31, 31, 31. Oh, 31, great teams cover. I almost made them the America's team for that. It was close, too. It was real close. Oh, it was close. It was real close.

You want to just hit that game right now? Yeah, absolutely. Here's what I'm going to say about Anthony Richardson. They got something there. Okay, if you're a Colts fan, you wake up this morning, you got to be pretty excited. And I was on record this fall. saying or this spring saying, hey, if you're going to pick a quarterback out of this draft, I'm going with the upside.

I'm going with Anthony Richardson. So I'd love to be right. And I do think, you know, they need to surround him with more talent. The guys they have their big targets, but they don't really have anybody dynamic. And obviously, Jonathan Taylor is sitting at home. And I'm kind of wondering if Jonathan Taylor sitting at home, he's like, bro, my whole career, it's been Carson Wentz, old Matt Ryan. Let me get it together.

Maybe I should, you know, like, I don't know. Let me, let me try this out. Like, let me try this out. And if it works, let it ride and see what it does. Yeah. And if it doesn't, I'll be back on my bullshit after this season. But I think seeing that first game and if you're a player and you're someone on that team. You want to be a part of that.

You know there's something going on there. We got like no, like you're going to slowly become the team again that no one wants to play. Like how they were with Andrew Luck. It's not a team that you maybe fear, but you're like, fuck. But I mean, I mean, as a defender when you've got to. a quarterback can get the quarterback run game like that it's a long get long day at the office there's something to think about every play yeah and my only thing would be listen he had to leave the game late with a with a knee bruise now he's like it's just a knee bruise i'm six foot six he went down

two hundred and six pounds okay but guys are out there trying to tattoo him yeah when he's in the open field he's going to get your hardest hit now i know he's a he's a brick of concrete but you got to be careful about how you you you run this guy you know what I mean and then on the other side of things Calvin Ridley member of Bed Bath and Bejohn he he went off I mean the connection between him and Trevor Lawrence is really good and and you know tank Bigsby made some mistakes but also helped us out on the back end of that cover I thought I thought that you know the run game was horrendous for for the Colts and another thing with Jonathan Taylor.

I think their EPA was minus 0.462, which is not good, Bob. ETN had a good day running downhill. Wasn't a lot to report other than I wanted to see what Anthony Richardson looked like. And I was excited. If you're a coachman, you're waking up this morning,

you're excited. He was competing. He was giving them a chance offensively. And even at the end of the game, when they're down, you know the game's over. And you're like, is you going to come out?

They're going to keep him in. Yeah. He's still running down there and throwing his hat into things. And I'm kind of wincing watching it. Like you were saying, Yeah. Get down.

Let me ask you this. You know, at this point in his career, I don't remember Justin Fields' first start, but, I mean, I got to feel like this guy's pretty exciting. With all the excitement that we've created with Justin Fields and we'll get to that game in a little bit, and maybe Bears fans that were chirping me about, hey, we need to hold on to that capital at the end of the year, right? I don't want to overreact. This is not overreaction Monday.

Oh, it is. But I do. For you, it might be. But with Anthony Richardson, I, I'm. I mean, if he can, he already looks like he picks things up in that offense as a passer that I didn't expect he would. And when I look back last week at rookie quarterbacks, their first year over the past, or their first game over the past couple of years, a lot of it really came down to, even if it was a good player that looked bad the first game, usually comes down to who the coordinator is. I mean, obviously, Zach Wilson looked like Zach Wilson when I went back and looked, but he was in a bad offense too. and you could see that.

Trevor Lawrence is out there throwing the ball 140 times in a month. That's Irvin Meyer. Shane Spikeman is a ball coach, man. And I think he's picked up some, you know, when they say, hey, this kid's going to start week one, everybody was like, all right, what gives? That's why. Yeah, he's 20. What are we doing?

He's going to be all right. Yeah, he is. He's going to be all right. Yeah, yeah. And the game is changing so much where a quarterback like that who can rely on his physical talents is going to be able to take over football games. Yep. And the Jags did win me some cash.

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Can't watch any football film or stream any music. So pretty bad day. We get it fixed. The internet is back. But that is losing control. It happens. Bottom line is I can't control the internet or the water. going out this summer it was actually the plumbing reed but what I can control is my money a great

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There's no cash up. There's no cash out. That's Zell. Okay, cash up's good, clean fun. Okay, what's the rain, Reed? It's high. The callback, though, I like, Reed, I, I like your call back to this summer when the plumbing went out at my place in Montana and I had to go take a dump down in the shop, which was.

I thought you were going to save the lake. No. Not an awkward dump. Maybe it would have been a good idea. But anyways, get down there. It's about 200 yards from the house. You know where it is. It's down a hill, the whole thing.

And I realize I don't have any toilet paper. Rolling green lawn. I had to do the Jalen Waddle up to the house. So thank you, Cashab for bringing up those two stories. Well, I did it. Guys, the marquee breakdowns of the week. These are the games that the fans will be happy. We will spend more time on these games.

Maybe if you're a Bengals fan. You're like, no, you can skip it. But I'm going to talk about the Bengals, and I'm going to talk about them in a couple of minutes. First, I'm going to talk about the Philadelphia Eagles and the Patriots. And I think this game is really interesting because we come into it and we're talking about the trends in gambling. I don't want to talk about gambling the whole show, but there are some things to glean here. There's a lot of metrics that show don't bet Super Bowl losers week one. Okay, and it was almost a trend that continued.

You know, that hangover of that long march and then coming up short and a lot to defend. I mean, you think about it like Bill Belichick has a month or more. He's got the whole offseason to game plan for Jalen Hertz. And I think, you know, I think they did a good job. I think they kept the points down, honestly. They took away the middle of the field. Dallas got it, really didn't get any action. The Eagles stayed with it, though.

And I would say this. the Patriots might be okay. I don't want to overreact here, but Mac Jones look more like Mac Jones. The one pick in the rain, balls a little high. I'm not excusing it. And I'm not holding him to the standard

that I would like a top five quarterback. But what you need up there is decent quarterback play. And I think he can give you that. I thought he was better than decent. Yeah. And I mean, if you can rely on Mac Jones and Bill O'Brien to come out with an offense

that looks like that every week, you're going to have a chance to win some games, particularly with that defense. Well, it's not the way you want to play. You know, you're down 16-0-0. You spot the Eagles, 16 points of team who could run for 250 yards any game. Look like an inside run period.

Yeah, it's raining out there, the whole thing. And Bill's in his element. Dude, he loves being wet. He had the towel around his neck. They kept showing him, like... He looked like he was just covered in ooze. It looked like, you know, when a dog is sitting in the lawn just staring out at something?

Like, every time they hand to him, he was just looking out into the distance, taking in the rain, like, through the lights. Yeah. He watched the rainfall. He loves it. He loves it, man. So he was in his element.

But the Philly D-Line took this game over. And there's some nice pieces on that New England defense. We'll talk about them. But the Philly D-Line, 29 plays in the fourth quarter. You want to talk about having to, you know, because I watched every play last night. 79 plays, I think the Pat's had on offense. And this is the type of game where it helps to have a platoon.

And especially the guys inside. The guys inside played their first. fucking asses off. We'll start with the young guys. I thought Milton, Milton Williams, who I really liked the kid from Louisiana Tech, had some great rushes. He had a great TFL where he popped outside to tackle and just nice the running back down. He got out on an edge and showed a little stuff in a pressure where he had to loop out and beat a tackle. The kid can play. Jalen Carter is going to be defensive rookie year. I said that before the season. Somebody told me that he was the best player on that defense in camp.

Can I give a call back to when Aaron Donald was a rookie? Yeah. Chris called me. I was in camp and he said, we got this kid named Aaron Donald. He goes, he's the best defensive lineman I've ever seen him. And I said,

I was in the O-Ly. What day is this? Like the third day of camp? It was like Wednesday. And I was in the O-Liardt. Matt Lawson and Bushrodd, they were like, oh shit. And then I was like, I guess it's true.

You know, we're going to watch. And then AD. So, DeR. Carter, here comes your next person. Jalen Carter, and it's like they didn't watch any of his preseason snaps. He's a really smart player. He sets up that inside move. I mean, he beat them over and over like a drum with that inside move.

You know, when a three tilts down on the guard and widens a little bit, the guard doesn't realize the track is taking that player to his inside shoulder. But if you play with that alignment, you get him to overset you, and he doesn't even know he's oversetting you because you're on a tilt. So you're saying guys are usually pointed straight up the field from their three-thac alignment. So when Jalen Carter tilts towards the guard. And they're all smart. Like, you know, smart three techs do that.

And as a guard, I'm thinking that's Jalen Carter. He's going to beat me speed to power on the outside. So you're going to want to take good set. Next thing you know, Jalen Carter is going inside. He's really good at that inside move, man, that hump by. And he's strong enough to hump people by. And the guy's rotating in the fourth quarter. I mean, Carter was dominant.

Jordan Davis shared a sack. Milton Williams, I mentioned him. And I want to give a big shout out to my boy, Fletcher Cox. When you're an older player in the league, and you've been the guy, okay, he was, he's still hell on wheels. But when he was, when I was there, I can vouch for this. Fuck, Kyle. It was like a force of nature.

And now you're a little bit older. They want you to play less plays. That can be tough. It can challenge your ego. They wanted to be a leader. They wanted to rotate in. There's probably some snaps that he wants to be on the field. I've been there.

But he's going to maximize his opportunity. But he's a lifetime eagle. He's got a great legacy. that he's leaving behind and finishing strong, however long that runway is, finishing strong, saying, fuck it.

I, as a competitor, might want to be out there all the time, but when I get my opportunities, I'm going to make the most of it. In that fourth quarter, at 2214, they have a chance to tie that game

with a two-point conversion. In one series, Fletch has a great rush inside. Then he's got a huge run stuff. I'm talking about pick the, I don't know if it was a tackle of the guard, I think it was a guard up off his feet, stuff's the run.

and then fourth and four with the game on the line, when you just made a play like that and your adrenaline is pumping, you feel like you're playing with house money to go win a rush and pressure Mack Jones and cause him to throw that ball away and think, hey, I might have just won this team the game. And truth be told, you learn by example in the NFL.

And when those young guys see Fletcher Cox doing the right things and then just taking his medicine when he doesn't get opportunities, but then at the end of the game, going to win those rushes and make those plays, fucking hats off. to that. And to drive that point home, you saw Josh Job on the sideline. He makes that play, he defends the ball, and then gets up and is about to flex and potentially get that 15.

Josh Job is over the, and is about to get that 15-dard penalty. Flex jumps in and he's like, stop. Don't do that. We don't do that. We don't do that. But that's the kind of that presence you need, man. And that's a really good, really good group. And the right tackle for the Patriots, eventually it became a problem. But for the most part, that's a well-coached group. And And they kept it together. And, you know, the second level, if I had any gripes with the Eagles, the linebackers, like Ellis is going to be a little bit of a guy that you're going to hear at the wrong times. And the Kobe Dean looked good from what I saw.

But, you know, Slay, huge pick six. I mean, like, you talk about keeping the points down. The unfortunate thing is back-to-back plays you had the pick six and the Zeke fumble. What an athletic play to bring that thing all the way back. Well, the most athletic play I saw him make on the, you know, he got stemmed. inside against Kendrick Bourne. And on the right sideline, Bourne had like 15 yards on him.

Ball goes in the air and Slay, like Willie Mays, just blind. He's just so good. I mean, he's just a really good player. Great dude, dude. Yeah, and Slay seems like a lot of fun. But, you know, the question I would have is, where is Dallas Goddard?

I know New England is equipped and partial to taking away the middle of the field. Jurgens looked really good. Okay, Jurgens looks like. Finishing guys. Yeah, he looks good, man. He looks out. athletic in there. And Kyle, you can speak to this.

He came walking like a cowboy back to the line of scrimmage a couple times. And I was like, that's when you know, motherfucker's doing it. He got that big shoulder. Got that walk. So let me ask you this. When you're playing guard, how does it help you to play between two Hall of Famers? How does it help me to play between two Hall of Famers? I know that all I have to worry about is doing my technique the right way.

And often you're in combination or conjunction with the guy next to you. And you can count on without even taking a, you know, without even blinking your eye, that right tackle's going to be in my hip or the left tackles could be in my hip where the center's going to be where he's supposed to be. That's how you finish guys. Good blocks are how you start them and finish them,

and when you have two guys on the same page, you're in a great spot. And when you've got three guys on the same page, because this guy's had a year to sit, he's learned from Kelsey, and now he's playing between two guys, as I said earlier, our Hall of Famers. And, you know, watching them,

not a lot of guys make them sweat. The blueprint hasn't changed for them. But I do want to say this, this Keon White Kid is fucking, I cannot wait to see him develop. And I could be just getting gassed up there. The numbers are going to be crazy. But I don't see a lot of people making Lane sweat. And just for a player too, you know, like, I think Lane was like, damn, this big son of bitch here. He, you know, tried an inside move.

Lane washed him by, but the pocket moves. You know, another one, I don't see a lot of guys getting power on him. He walked Jordan Mila back. So I just, I'm not saying he won a bunch of rushes, but I've been. kind of salivating over watching this kid, the big guy from Georgia Tech. He's like a throwback. And Barmore plays with great power. You don't see a lot of guys walking Landon Dickerson back. So New England, you've got an opportunity with a stout defense and an offense that, although they have no star power at wide receiver, you can work around these things and try to be competitive this year. Pat's fans, dude, I'm watching the end zone tape. You're busted. You know, you see the scoreboard before every play when you watch end zone tape.

and the last two, three series, motherfuckers are going to their cars. What happened? You got the ball at midfield with a chance to win this game at the end of the, at the end of the, I mean, if that kid gets his feet down, we were going to lose that game.

Traffic is bad. And you know what else? They came to watch Tom. I guess so. They came to watch Tom Brady run on the field one more time. Tommy! In Nortica jeans.

It looked great. He did. A special moment. It looked like a special movie. You were getting a little hype. I was hype, man. I love Tom Brady. He did the best pump?

He did the runout? You can't help but love Tom Brady. I mean, like, you know, some people... I think Mac Jones was a little bit like, hey, fuck off. No, yeah. Yeah, no, I don't know. Go out and ruin their day. Max, like, I'm going to slide tackle him.

No, there was one really funny one where Mac had the slide, and he, like, he, like, tiptoed for three feet and then just, like, sat down. Because I think he's learned. I think he's learned that, like... Somebody spoke to him. Eventually, John Randall's going to beat him up in an alley. You know, he's just going to, he's going to leave a restaurant. He's going to leave a restaurant.

He's going to leave, I don't know, what's that Italian restaurant down there in Patriot Place? He's going to leave that spot. And out there is going to be Bruce Smith and fucking Kevin Carter and all these. And dad for the brotherhood, bro. He's got it coming. So yeah, no more of that sliding bullshit. And they did blitz Jalen on third down. I mean, and early downs when they needed.

They were at midfield and they needed to stop in a one score game. And they blitzed him on first down and got a sack out of that. So Bill definitely heated him up at the right. times because I think this was a win for the Patriots defense. If you just said, hey, we're going to hold them offensively. I think it's a winning for the cold points or whatever it is and a short field on another field goal or whatever it was. We can win that game. So just build on that. And the offense can win them games too. I mean, they don't have to be sexy on the edges like you were alluding to. They don't have the guys. Hunter Henry, nice day. But that defense with that

game plan on offense and Mac cannot lose them football games, they're going to win a lot of football games. Yeah. Just can't shoot yourself on the foot. Can't do. Turnovers, fumbles, and Bill Belichick, he's a coach that, historically, they're going to get all that together within these first four weeks. Well, they always get better. Yeah. And if not, if people are going to eat fumble. If Zeeke keeps fumbling, like within its next four weeks, he'll be on the bench until the end of the year or I'll be out of there. No question.

So, like, they gave him a shot. He came back in and the weather, you can blame it on the weather. But I think, like you said, like I don't think people are panicking in. No New England fans are going to blame it on the weather. because as as i know you're true they that's they think it's an advantage you know when i went up there you know bill walks around he's got the gatorade bottle he's squirting water on the ball just like i'll grow our college coach and it was funny yesterday you're like coach grow did that too i'm like where he got it from fucking bill bellichick um shout out to algis and to talk about when when there's a problem they

fix it like i'm doing a low light tape me and beau it's pretty funny actually you should get in on this but for youtube we're doing uh a series now actually where we we we we we we we we we do low lights. You know, guys want to show their highlights all the time. We find the worst plays of our career. One of them for me is my first playoff game ever up in New England and these guys saw the play because we put it together. I'm playing in a three technique at 260, so I'm just tired of it. Yeah. And when I got out there head up on the tight end on a rundown in the second quarter, I was like, I'm going to make an athletic linebacker play. I'll show Bill. And I go to swim the tight end. And I really, I beat the tight end. But what I didn't realize was Dwayne Brown was coming out to put

little shoulder into me and both feet off the ground the back of the head back of the head hit the turf first and and and all i heard from the sound was get him the fuck out of there and uh and from that point on in the playoffs i was a third down guy but that's what they do they take care of his idea you know i said oh i didn't like the first idea which i could show the back-to-back stacks i gave up to julius peppers yeah my first day at tackle ever yeah there's also some funny plays where you fall down and shit, like that sort of thing. There's a lot of good, there's some meat on the bones. Two plays in a row, Chris.

But we're going to call our buddies from around the league. Supposed we got a couple superstars that Bo knows that want to do it with us. So keep an eye out for that, low lights. San Francisco, Pittsburgh, the other best team in the NFC. If we're not talking about, I don't mean this like the Cowboys, but this is my Super Bowl pick and watching this game out of the NFC. Watching this game, I kind of wanted to change it back to Niners over Jets, not the other way around.

because this defense has not lost a step. This defense looks almost better. Makes me wonder what Nick Wilson has been doing. I don't know, dude. He just looks great. Like guys have muscles on muscles. He hasn't even been in camp. For his conditioning to be so good,

for him to look the way he looked yesterday, I mean, it kind of reinforces the fact that, like, holdouts are actually good for your body. They're great. Like holdouts can extend your life. Hell of all right. Especially someone like that. where you have money you can take time to really get your body you're not you're not going through

whether it's two days or not still you're not going through two practices a day yeah in the heat yeah and going and also it's a lot it's probably a lot less mentally draining like yeah like hey i can let my agent you know what i'm getting up and i'm doing my shit every single day until my agent calls me and tells me it's time for me to go and you you know if you have a schedule like that and you're just focusing on your body that does a lot of you knowing that, hey, once the season start, I'm going to be out there and I'm going to get the rush. It's just not going to, it's the worst, the best you feel is the first day of OTAs or camp. And so like anything you put in the bank is great. Now, the Steelers defensively, they were getting gashed early.

The linebackers were in a blender, you know, like Patrick Peterson, who I would give a hollow man to, but he's a friend of the program. I'll just stick it in the marquee breakdown. And he knows. he's heard it already. And this is part of the tough thing about having a podcast because I could never do it. Like only the greatest players can, like, Jason Kelsey, good. You want to have a podcast great. You're going to grade out at 95 every week on pro football focus. You know, and your team's really good.

Yeah. For the most part, you're not going to get jammed up. Patrick Peterson on his podcast is like, I got some tips on Kenny Pickett or on Brock Purdy. And, you know, I'm going to have a pick. Tom Brady Light. And they get out there. first touchdown is iuk on a on a nice little route and patrick peterson who we talked about this on the pot i was like what kind of cleats you can wear up there because that fucking that fescue up there

that kentucky bluegrass fescue cross up at hinds field it's like a jungle out there and he slips uh they had a couple guys slipped down dionte johnson slipped and i think there was a pick after that so you know like just not a good day for the steelers from the beginning i thought the energy was bad you would have thought they were on the road you know it didn't feel like a home game for them. It seemed to me like this would be a game that they would be so up for. Well, that's almost like where you're so up, you're like quiet. That fool that fooled me, because like this was the one, uh, this was the mole for me on my Sunday slate. And I did, I bought to three and took the Steelers, but it was apparent early that, you know, any trends that,

that I went off was like the last three years, Mike Tomlin and the Steelers covered three times, including twice as dogs. They won outright. Uh, and then they covered against the Giants and they were like touchdown favorites three years ago so they always come out good as home dogs they always come out good at home they always come out good to open the season it just didn't show up um black air force and kenny picket was shaky keny yeah the white john which we found out on the pod that were actually some more spray painted kennie picket told us some more spray painted because they didn't have enough black air force imposter's maybe they were imposter yeah maybe the team as a whole yeah it's all the yeah it's

It's like the Black Air Force thing. The pain is wearing off right now. That's why Notre Dame paints their helmets every week. So Kenny Pickett, man, you know, like not his best, right? We don't need to spend all day on this game because if you're the Steelers, you're like, let's just flush this one and put it to bed. You think we got blown out. Let's watch Sunday night football.

But Kenny Pickett, you know, one time missed, I think it was Deonté Johnson in the end zone. And it's like the first quarter and Johnson's giving him palms up. He's like, no, throw it here. Like, we all know the ball is. You know what they want. You know. that's kind of like a code break in football where you're like you don't show up your teammates it happens i've been there like when we got gashed in new orleans and there was no edge i wasn't doing it to show

him up but i'm like what the fuck is the safety and somebody in the media was like so you put your hands up after the long run and i'm like i keep i try to keep my shit glue you know guilty is charged uh but it happens and it's not a good sign when that stuff's happening in the first week because like if i really i'm not i'm not trying to put thoughts in bionte johns's head but if i really respect that quarterback on a level where I'm like he's the guy. I'm not doing that week one the first quarter. I'm not saying Deontay Johnson deserves blame for the loss. I'm saying it's a symptom of how they came out the first week and just didn't seem together. An example of that was a callback to the Colorado game against Nebraska. Sanders and Hunter had a miscommunication outside the numbers. And it

wasn't a palms up from Hunter, but there was definitely verbal. And you could see it was a back and forth. there's a communication. Those are two guys that they understand that they were not on the same page. But they see each other as equals. And they see each other as equals. Yeah. And if you see more of that, that offense.

I don't want to make a mountain out of a mole hill here. But in particular, the Steelers skill players. Yeah. The Pittsburgh Steelers skill players who have a massive amount of talent, but if they can find out how to equal that balance out. George Pickens is, it got to get him the ball more.

I mean, like, just be verticals. You got to find ways to give him the ball. Just put the ball in his hands. Yeah. And because he's your best bet. Like he is. Like that offense is not like an explosive, exciting offense to watch. You got one guy who, I mean, he's so fucking competitive after every play he shoves the corner like it's fractured. He forgets that it's the game. I mean, like, uh, he's no linemen. Yes, he's, he's like, he's like an angry. He's, he,

George Pickens is, is if Ryan Jensen had just an incredible amount of athleticism or something like Yeah. The motherfucker just, he can't turn it off. He's going to get the last touch. I don't want to get the last push on me. Bo might hear this, this cause on it. He's got a little Ritchie incognito. I don't want to give Ryan Jensen too much credit because Bo might hear this pod, but I'll say Richie.

Because Jensen terrorized him in practice, but he's somebody. Because Ritchie's always pushing somebody after a play. I don't want to spend too much time in this game, but T.J. Watt looked great as well. Looks great. McKivitz, you know, it's, it's, ah, you know, he ate McGlenchie. Although, you know, so I think the big thing for me coming away from this game is you have Brock Purdy, who's the biggest question mark on a team that otherwise, you look at this roster, it's hard to find a team that's more talented. And you say, hey, quarterback in the second year, a whole offseason of people study and tape of him, maybe he comes back down to Earth. You know, it was like he played in that Seattle game, and he threw a couple balls that I was like, eh.

He's got the right players around him. you kept waiting but you kept waiting for the drop off where you're like okay the honeymoon phase is over and he gets the the surgery on his elbow which you never know what somebody's going to come out of that looking like and he looks fucking great Kyle I don't want to be hyperbolic but I do think in the next five years you're not going to have him in the top five echelon he's never going to be like Justin Herbert talented Patrick Mahomes some of these guys but he is in that next tier for me and it's impossible it's just like to we're going to talk about Tua. It's not just like Tua,

but Tua's got great pieces around him. I'm not going to hold that against them too much. Great pieces and a great piece setter with the coordinator. I mean, you look at the coordinator piece. Same thing in San Francisco to a lesson. I know better than a lot of people that an offense is only as good as the coordinator. It doesn't matter who the fuck you have out there. So I just think like, and this is what it is for Brock Party.

Usually you see a late round guy come in the game and he's going to be a get the ball out, you know, process, go through the offense, which is ironically, I think, like, what Jimmy was, and, you know, Jimmy had the, he was turnover prone on top of that, but Brock Purdy can, he's an artist, like, he's an artist back there. He can make plays off, off schedule, off script, off platform. I really like the kid. And I think he, you know, like, I think it's going to take a year or two, but that late round Mr. Relevant stank is going to leave. And we're going to look at him like a top 10 quarterback because I think after a couple years, his body of work is going to show that. It's easier to put pieces around him too when he's less than a million dollars of AAB.

Yeah. Well, it's also easy to cover your mistakes. Yeah. And speaking of mistakes, John Lynch had some question marks with the Trey Lance thing, but I think picking a quarterback like this at the end of the draft kind of more than makes up for the. Yeah, but it's like the Brady thing. It's like we're still doing specials about we found this guy. You found him in like the 10th round. And you know, like if you really thought he was Tom Brady, you'd have snagged him earlier. The Niners got lucky. They were good and lucky. You've got to be good and lucky to pick a guy in the late round.

One thing I feel like the Niners have at their advantage is they don't have that top five quarterback in name. So the media, the fans, there's not going to be that overreaction. Yeah, you're right about that. If it doesn't have a spectacular game one week, but the team carries them to a win, that's what they need. You're right about that. They don't want somebody to go out and lose them the game trying to prove themselves to be

the next Tom Brady. No, it does keep the temperature down. They're a West Coast team. you know, which can help. Christian McCaffrey. And, you know, yeah. And Brock Purdy's not one of those guys that's going to get first take airtime. So it does help that team.

So, yeah, big win for the Niners. Steelers, I don't want to overreact. I think they're probably going to be okay. And if you're the Steelers, get on the bus and look around the AFC North. Just have a look around. Cincinnati looked bad. And we'll get in them a second. The Ravens look clunky, right?

it's not like you can't finish in the top tour. The Ravens were playing left-handed. It's not a sure thing that you're going to be for, because all I'm saying. Just take your medicine and move on. Cincinnati, Cleveland, staying in the AFC North, I think looking at this game, you have to look at it in context.

I'm not saying that the Bengals don't have a lot to work on, but Joe said it. Like, I'm not going to panic. We started 0-2 last year, throw a bunch of picks or whatever it was. Don't they always lose week one? They always lose early. I didn't touch this game.

He's also one in five against Cleveland. So this is, in my opinion, the best Cleveland's going to look against a great team. And Deshawn Watson came on a little bit late, but he was up and down. He's got nine turnovers and six games against the Browns. Yeah, and Miles Garrett has 100 sacks. Every day. Every day. He's 75 on his career.

I mean, he just got here. He's so good. And you put Zedarius on the other side. Yeah. And here's the thing about Joe. He likes to work the middle of the field, right? Like, you know, like, and Jim took that away. Jim, Jim blitzed him, Schwartz, blitzed him.

They lined up five down, so they were nervous about getting into empty. They were cover one. They were cover one robber. They really, they really heated him up early in this game. Empty against five down. To set a tone that like, hey, this isn't going to be easy. All that time that you were hurt. Like, how much precy is.

do you get? We were playing golf when he got hurt before Howie's wedding. Oh, ruin my round. And like OTA's train camp. Yeah, so he hasn't had any time out there. And I think Jim's smart to be like, hey, I'm going to speed the game up on this kid. And you hear the, you hear the secondary get interviewed after the game and they're talking about how confident they play.

They said, we all want to make the pro ball. And they said, talk about Jim Schwartz. Delpit. And they just said, we love coach Schwartz. This defense is so much fun to play. Yeah. Because you're downhill. Yeah.

And you're making plays. No question. And this is the best, like, you know, not the best rush group, but this is as scary as it's going to get. You know, like it's, it's Miles Garrett watching his tape. We were talking about Miles Garrett. It's like I feel like I'm watching somebody that the coaches pulled up from the 90s who's been in the Hall of Fame 20 years.

Yeah. And they're like showing me Miles Garrett's tape. It's like when you play Madden Ultimate team and like Barry Sanders is on the other guy's team. He's the teaching tape guy, dude. It's, it's, and early in this game, they're heating them up on third down. They're going five down. And it's just chaos out there. Like bodies are everywhere.

There's no pocket. And they don't even have to be winning rushes. They just all play hard. Just muddy shit out. They muddy things up. And you could see Joe just like trying to navigate this pocket, but there's no pocket. And Miles Garrett, one of the first rushes, I mean, he gets under Orlando Franklin, Orlando Brown. He gets under Orlando Brown.

and just picks him up off his feet with a straight arm. I mean, that, that's burned into my memory. It's like, now, any human being that is gets under by Miles Garrett is going for a fucking ride. Yeah, but this is a big human being. Yeah. And then the next third down, they're walking him up in the A gap. And it's like, oh, my God, the center is like, no.

Please, guys. Please, no. And he's, and he's like a spinner. And he, bro, he gets the edge so fast. And then he replaces the center's hip so fast. It's like he can win anywhere. You can put him anywhere. This five down stuff gives him a lot of flexibility.

So schematically, the five down stuff. Let me just touch on this as an O lineman. Pre-snap, if we're an empty as an offense, which means we've got no backer protection or tight at. It's just us five-o linemen. Yeah. And they've got five D linemen, one of which is Miles Garrett. And he's moving around left and right on the line of scrimmage.

Somebody from either side of the line of scrimmage has to keep an eye on Miles Garrett to know that if he hits backside, so if I'm the left guard and Miles Garrett hits over the right guard, I have to slide down over the center to help. So not only am I looking at my matchup pre-snap, but with Miles Garrett floating and spinning like this pre-snap, you have to be aware of where he is so you can help your buddy. So you feel dizzy. It's a, it's dizzying. Yeah. It is dizzying. Yeah. And especially when it's like you got to fight Miles Garrett dizzy. Like the spinner I dealt with was Leonard Floyd. Yeah. And he's a good rusher. But if the spinner's Miles Garrett, it's like, it's the best feeling. It's like playing in college when you play with a guy like Chris Long.

Everyone on their offense. If Chris wants to move wherever he wants, everyone's focused on him. And when they'll play snap, nine times out of ten, you have, you probably have an old lineman when that guy is moving, has eyes on him when he probably doesn't. And you know, they always say on defense, the most important thing is your eyes. Yep. It gets ignored a lot. Like, what's, what are offensive linemen looking at pre-snap? because you've got a lot of noise, you have checks. I'm just trying not to make eye contact with you. Right, you're trying not to tell anything. You're trying not to look down because you might be teaming with the center or something.

Aaron Donald told me that. The first time I played against Aaron Donald, after the play, I was playing tackle. So he wasn't my direct matchup, but he ran a deuce block on power, which means I come down and boom, I hit him in the hip. And I looked down before the play and after, and we got him good. And after the play, he goes, hey big guy. I was like, what's up, Aaron?

like, you know, you look down to me every time you double team. I said, thank. What a kind soul. I don't care what they say about. I stared at the fucking ground. He did that because you're my brother. He did that because you're my brother. He's looking out.

That's my dude. I like to think, you know, we got after his ass. Yeah. You know, we. But here's the last thing I'll say about Joe Burrow. Every quarterback that got paid didn't play great yesterday. Yeah. So, you know, I'm not making an excuse for him, but it's a lot.

But let's not overreact. Again, it's week one. And I will say this about the Browns. That offensive line, Kyle, there is a play. Wyatt Teller. 22 yards of pancake. Wyatt Teller? 22 yards.

He's a bad boy. He had dude from Cincinnati riding public transportation for 66 feet and buried him. I love that in the red zone. They were in the shot zone. He makes me want to play again. And they could woke up in the red zone. It was like. Blindside.

And also, Injoku had a great block on this place. So like your tight ends are getting into it. The lineman, I, DeWan Jones came in and looked solid and passed. He's so fucking big. Guys, huge. You couldn't hide him. He was just reaching and blocking everybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You couldn't hide him. Conklin went out with an injury. I think that's going to be interesting. Like, I think somebody like DeWan Jones maybe a ceiling's higher than Conklin. I'm not saying, hey. This is a Wally Pip situation. I think they found a guy that they believe. because they drafted him and he looked okay yesterday and then and then on the other side i know

jedrick wills had an x-ray so just like at the tackle position i would just watch out um and then jok's guinea and attire coming to the game was maybe bevel conway that was sick that was awesome that was drip that was drip that was the drip king shout out to deshaun for making some plays with his legs as well and showing us what we've seen in the past i mean i remember talking about this on tops yesterday. We cannot forget the ceiling that Deshaun Watson has. I just thought with the I thought slippery ball slippery hands. That's his wheelhouse. I would have thought he would have played a little better. But the but Higgins in five no boy no. Okay, well we're here on the you know the JOK outfit on the other side of that thing is Higgins in number five. I worry about the guy this year in

number five. I just think sometimes a number is is a really powerful thing. Are you not a fan of single digit numbers? No, it's gotta be right. It's like we were talking about Josh Jacobs yesterday. It kind of feels like when you say this- He's got this giant eight on his, it's like you gotta look at how the number looks. I know you're not doing this,

but I feel like your body shaming a little bit. No, no, no, no. The single digit numbers. No. Cause it's just like, what is it? Teagans probably got a better body than me. Teagin's great body. What?

Do you think you could have pulled off a single-digit number? It depends on what number it is. I wore a single digit in high school. I mean, single digit, you only have zero. It depends on, let me do the breakdown for you. Let me do the breakdown for you. Okay, you don't want the number to be too skinny. Nine and six.

White man's burden out here on the love handles. One is out. Okay, so you don't want to have love handles with a single digit. One is out. One is out. Three is a maybe. Four is a maybe. Four is kind of dumb.

Five. No, it's just cave on Kivodeau. Six, nah. Seven, seven, maybe. I like six and nine. Eight, no. Here's what you like. Here's what you like.

here D-Limon. Wait, wait, so. No yes. What? Six and nine. Wait, wait, wait. So what single number is acceptable? I just walked you through them.

For a D-Ly-Lyman. No, I'm gonna get there. I'm going no yes, no yes. Six. You had no yeses yet. No, I do. I do. If you listen, I have a three or seven and a nine

are all yeses. I don't like three. Three is good. Stupid, just down. But you just have to be aware of your body. And also the, I just gave it to you. Nine is a yes. Is a yes?

Yes. Okay. Wait, you said, three, seven, and nine. Three seven and nine. Okay, three seven and nine are the only acceptable. For me, personally, but it's different for everybody. Okay. If you look like fucking Daniel Hunter, where whatever you want.

But I got to be cognizant of the, uh, these little, uh, I go back to my original statement. You know, we're eating Popeyes on the plane, all the DBs who just look great. You know, Chad, Ocho Cinco just eats McDonald's. All these little guys are like, oh, let's get the Popeyes for the plane. Well, my big ass, I start looking like I'm swollen out there on Sunday because of the fucking base. Yeah, dude. So anyways. Can't see how my helmet.

All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. Back on track. Back on track. What game should we do next? The class of the AFC, since we're talking about, you know, some of the best teams of the AFC, Miami and the Chargers, they're kind of in that same weight class. And this was a heavyweight bout, dude. And it looked totally different from both teams.

First off, I want to say this. Tua played his best game late in this game. All right, like early in this game, they were racking up yards like a motherfucker, but it'd be like a slant would go for 35. He made some nice throws. There were some opportunities that the charges had that they didn't take advantage of.

They did get a pick in the red zone. But late in the game, when Tua had to, I think this was, I think it was the last 17 minutes of the game. It was Tua time, bro. This guy, he starts throwing dark. I mean, they're down 31, 27. The throw he made DeBarius on 3rd and 15 was incredible. It was great.

He was rolling left, which is a nice thing about his game. And just to be able to get enough on that and put it in the right place, that was a huge conversion. You get a field goal out of that. And then late, you know, that ball where he climbed the pocket and hit Tyreeke Hill on the right sideline was a great ball. I mean, the fade in the end zone, those are three of the best. best throws I've seen him making crunch time. So whatever he did in the off season, and, you know, some people say this is who he was last year. He looked really good in the fourth quarter. I'm just calling how I see it. I feel like this team with him at quarterback can go a long way.

The question is going to be the defense, right? Because the run game was a problem. And the Chargers, if there's one positive, you're going to glean from this game, it's like, we ran the ball up there ass a little bit. Six yards apart. But I don't know if it's like a Kellyn Moore big Angio thing where it's like it just does it's not a good. combination. I was literally about to say. Because it was almost like you wanted Lombardi back for that game. Yeah. You take what they give you that sort of thing.

Well, Vick's whole thing is Ben, but don't break. Yep. And he's going to present you with what seems to be advantageous looks. And then he's going to try to take them away. You in large parts see the secondary playing with their chest towards the line of scrimmits. They're not going to have their back to the ball a lot. You saw that, you know, I draw back to the 2018 bears a lot.

But Kyle Fuller was a guy who would sit down at the sticks. and behind where the guys are going to be, and he can make breaks on the ball. So you're going to see an explosive offense that scores a ton with a defense that'll give the offense time to recover on the sideline, you know, bend, but don't break. And I think it'll be a complimentary football team. I love the Fangio signing. Well, they also, and this is the best thing Fangio did,

was he heated them up at the exact right times last night, whether it was first in 10 and, you know, at the end of the game, when the charges have a chance to go win this thing, after, you know, that last fade route, they heated them up on first down. It ends up being an intentional grounding, which is a drive killer. And then late in the game,

I think it was the game is on the line. They blitz again. And Phillips, Jalen Phillips, who I love this kid, dude. Good dude. We met him. Great guy. We met him at the waste management. He's just, he might be

before it's said and done the best player on that defense. He is very good. I mean, yeah. I don't know. If I'm starting a team, you know, you look at a corner like Xavier and Howard, you look hard, right? You look at Javon Holland. You might look at Christian Wilkins as a dark horse up front,

but the best, most dangerous guy on this front, including the guy they went and gave up a bunch of picks to go get last year, is Jalen Phillips. And with the game on the line, he's lined up, like, he's lined up in Temecula, dude. And another Dolphins callback. Temecula, wine country. Yeah. Well, it's also where you meet people to fight, meet me in Timacula.

Was that, was that the Lakers guy? Who was that? Yeah, it was one of those guys. Yeah. He drove four hours to work somebody to ask. There's a Kanye's song. So, yeah, yeah. Interlude.

Matt Barnes. Shout out to Matt Barnes. Yeah, we drove 40 hours. Okay. 30 hours. Chicago, St. Louis, St. Louis to Chicago. I couldn't figure it out. But so anyways, he's out there outside the, you parham or somebody is lined up and he's detached.

And Phillips has got to make that decision, which is tough for a rush. You're like, where do I go? Well, you got a pressure so you want to be outside of everything. He had another big pressure late in the game on third and five. The guys really just come on. I really like to do. And, okay, so Justin Herbert, I'm not going to overreact to this. I mean, like, these teams just played.

You still got a cannon. Less than a calendar year ago. and the series is tied. So, you know, this is going to be a nice rivalry, same draft class, the whole thing. You know who I'd probably lean, but Tua did a great job of silence and a lot of people yesterday coming in the season.

Are you silent in your? No. No. But no, here's what I'm doing, Nate. Here's what I'm doing. I'm being real, which is like the guy is a good quarterback. I've always said that. Great talent.

But I, like, down the stretch, would I rather trust him or Joe Burrow? Would I rather trust him? or, you know, insert AFC Patrick Mahomes. Last year, the problem I had was we were putting him in that echelon. Now, I think he's very good. But I want to see a whole season where he stays upright. And what's going to go a long way, I still don't think you can throw the deep ball,

if that's what you're referring to. But what I liked is Austin Jackson and the other tackle. I can't even remember anything. Kendall Lamb. But be honest, do you really need to know how to throw a deep ball that accurate when you have Tarik Hill? No, but that was my point in the first place. No, which is why we see, which is why we see them layering the defense a lot between the first and second levels, between the second and third levels. I'm not going to argue with you on the Monday show.

He's not, that's not why we're here. I'm with you. He's not often going to be asked to throw the ball over the safeties. What you see is the defense spreading out because of all the weapons on offense. He's lethal in the middle of the field. And he can take with the defense. He's lethal in the middle of the field. These are yak guys.

So again, the argument about Tula isn't really an argument. Is he a good player? Hell yeah. Is he a good quarterback? He's turned into a really good quarterback. He ain't Dan Marino, statistically speaking. Well, 1994, the last time they had, there was some statistic last night.

546 yards. Yeah, I was like, how'd they find this stat? The Dolphins went 10 and 6 that year. I think this team could be better. Okay. So this is a big win for them, man. I just love Mike McDaniel too. So anyways, I think you're going to look,

you're looking at two teams that could be there towards the end. And it's, I wish they could play twice. a year. I wish these two teams were in the same division because it was like a college game. Every other game was like unders, unders, ugly, ugly. And this game was like a big 12 game. And I can't wait for Jaylon Rehensie to get back to see how he adds into that defense. Yeah, you're going to have to wait a little bit, but that's going to help. I want to see Phillips doing more of the Judon stuff where they've got him rushing over the A gap to spinner stuff. We were just talking about with Miles. Like the more stuff you do with Jaila

Phillips. Yeah. The more eyes on him. Yeah. More opportunities for the other. Yeah, copycat Lee. You know, he's probably looking at it. Like, hey, coach, let me get one like this. I think Vic wants to trust him in the game and that he can ask him to do more. Tennessee, New Orleans. Now, you might ask, why is this here? Well, it's because I decided it's here because I love ugly football.

I love physical ugly football. I spent like an hour on this game. So fuck it. We're going to do it in the marquee games. You might say, hey, New Orleans didn't look that good. You might say, hey, I didn't think Tennessee was going to be that good. I didn't think so either. But Tennessee keeps impressing me at how high their floor is.

I thought this offensive line would be a big problem. And it was in some spots, but they find ways to hang in the ballgame. And the big story out of here is Ryan Tannehill played maybe his worst game as a pro. Especially in a spot where like all the pressures on you and Malik Willis just taking these leaps and bounds. And I really like Ryan Tannehill. But three picks, he almost threw a couple more. It was a problem. I mean, like he had a couple misses.

I think at one point you had the reverse pass that should have gone to Conquo, and he overthrew that pass. That would have tied the game. You had the back in motion late in the game with a chance to win the game coming across his face and then leaking out, and he misses him. So like two of the biggest opportunities he didn't cash in on. He also nearly threw a bunch of picks. He threw a couple picks where he just seemed to hit his back foot. force the ball DeAndre Hopkins.

He got DeAndre Hopkins lit up a couple times in this game. Out on the sideline, he getting outside the pocket and getting rid of it to DeAndre. But just forced the ball into double coverage. I like seeing Hopkins. I like seeing Hopkins. And a conquer is right there on the deep cross. So like just take the profit. But I don't know if it's

a guy who's playing, he's pressing because, you know, and people say like competition. I'm all for that. But I always say with quarterbacks, like, you know, if you're sure that Males's got enough to to come in this year and win you some games great. But competition can actually hurt a quarterback too.

And there's some hairy hardos, I'm sure one's sitting in the chair over there, but he's like, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. You compete to win. Look what it, look what Dak Prescott did when Trey Lance got there. He was like, oh, no. Like you can say in a perfect world,

but you're going to lose games as a coach because Ryan Tannhill looked like he was pressing out there. I don't know how long he's going to last with my, I don't want to overreact, but that was a bad game. And in the context of like the wave rabble is, what we've seen in the past, the noise there,

I just wonder how long he's going to last. I also wonder how long Dillard's going to last there. Dillard was, and they gave him a lot of money, he's got to play better. I mean, grander spin, hit him a couple times.

And his anchor wasn't great. Like he's in Tanna Hills face a lot. I actually thought Chris Hubbard did a really nice job. So at right tackle, Chris Hubbard, he's a guy, he's been on a few teams, play him on grids, he's been on the Browns, the Steelers, a couple teams, and I played against him. He's serviceable, man, like he's a spot starter, right, or he's a guy that does a swing kind of guy, and he did a nice job. What they decided they'd do was they'd help him a little bit because he had Cam Jordan,

but he was fine when he was one-on-one. And then they trusted Andre Dillard to win his matchups, and he didn't. So I think that's going to be a work in progress. Traylon Burks, where is he? So I, you know, the Titans offense, you know their formula. They got to be smashed mouth. The run from, we had another step farm from Derek Henry who saw it, the May stiff arm. I didn't see it.

I felt it. I heard it. Yeah, yeah. I experienced it. And Hubbard had a great finishing block on that play. the Saints, man, their D-line is kind of average. I don't mean this like, like, Aryan Foster meant it. We'll get to that in a little bit.

I just mean, like, I don't know, I don't mean average. I just mean that I don't know that they're dynamic. Like, and switching the scheme to a three, four on a lot of base downs, I don't know if they have what it takes it knows to hold up in there. Now, it's a big test. That's a big on. I mean, it wasn't Ben Jones out there at center, right? Right.

You know, like, but, but it's a big test. And while they passed it, some guys were like holding on for dear life in there. I just feel like their body types are kind of tweeners, and they're trying to run this new scheme. It's going to take some time. I just don't think they have a lot of winning rushers. You know, like, so I came into the season thinking tough home field advantage, good style of defense. They were good in the back end, watching Hopkins and Marshall Ladimore. It's like every ball has to be, it's tightly contested, although Hopkins turned him around on a,

I forget what you were calling that route. The spin route. The spin route. Yeah. Every is a zig route. It's like thing of leg and out, but you're going to get an inside stem. It's kind of like a,

it's a half circle. Turn their back to the quarterback and then you go out. Somebody playing Madden right now is like, you idiots, you don't know what it is. I'm like, motherfucker. I've never seen one in my life. First off, I'm running that way. I'm running that way.

And I ain't running no fucking route. I'm not hey, bro. I'm not smoking anybody in that. I gave up years ago. I'll crush you. But the bottom line is that defense, is going to have to generate some pressure. Yes.

And they actually did a good job on third down of these pick stunts. They got guys floating in these off ball picks. That's how they got to get home. That's how they got to get home. 20 is going to be, you know, cleaning the center's clock. They better be damn good at it. And I think they're going to be okay at it. I do.

So I'm not so worried about the defense because they're good in the back end. They got good veteran players. They're okay up front. DeMario Davis. Fucking Derek Henry scanning across the formation yesterday. And you don't see the guy get knocked on his ass a lot. And it was like, damn, I just ran into an F-650. Amory Davis is a block of concrete, bro.

I just, I have a highlight reel on my phone of him just knocking people over yesterday. But offensively, Derek Carr, I think a lot's going to be made out of this game, the point total. I actually think he's going to be okay there. I think as the game went on, he settled in. He missed a couple throws. He wants back. Obviously, the pick, he didn't even see the backer. I don't even know if that's something you got to work on.

I just think, like, you didn't see the motherfucker. He was hiding. Penning is going to be a problem for him. Arden Key. He had an art. This was the Arden Key game. And I want to shout him out because when he left Jacksonville, he was like, I feel like I was important to the city. I helped like, you know, you heard that whole soundbite.

People were making fun of him. Well, motherfucker can play a little ball, okay? And, you know, he's come on as his career is going on. I love that he's found a niche for himself. he beat penning like a drum on a couple chop clubs. He had eight total pressures as this. Our guy, Autry. I love Autry.

I fucking love Autry, dude. I love this D-Line. Jeffrey Simmons is like a villain in a cartoon. Like, he's just, he-man out there. And then, and then Derek Carr was a little skittish. I think he knew the left side of that line, a little shaky. He threw that bad pick. I talked about that.

But the two throws he had to make. were to Shaheed late. He pumps Murphy Bunning, hits him for a touchdown, beautiful. And then the big deep ball on, I can't remember who was over there. He might have been Fulton late in the game on the left sideline.

So, I mean, he did what he had to do, and I think this offense is going to get better as the year goes on. Hopkins had gone 23 for 250 against the Saints over his career. I think they kept him bottled up enough to come out winners. But they win this game easily.

if two things happen. Tanna Hill plays well, and this was the biggest one. One of the Arden Key sacks, and this is, it reminds me of Saints and Rams in 2019. I think it was the other way. The Saints actually got fucked.

They forced to fumble, and we're going to run it back, and the play gets blown dead. So in the NFL today, what officials are coached to do, it's your one fucking job is when there's a possible strip sack. I don't care if it's.

close or you think so in real time. You do not blow the whistle. You swallow the whistle and let the play play out. And a lot of times it looks like this awkward. Hey, you know, are the guys running. They're celebrating, but we don't know. You let that run because if you don't, like they didn't in this game. That's a live ball.

You know, and there was another situation with the Buckner strip sack where they actually did it the right way where they let the thing run and actually tank Bigsby picks the ball up in Zaire Franklin knocks it out of his hand. and they go and score a touchdown. It's a heads-up play, but they didn't even have a chance to be heads-up here, and that swung the game 10 points. Okay, because they blew the play dead.

Tennessee is like, what the fuck? So maybe some good karma for the Saints. I'll never harp on the Saints getting good calls their way because of the whole Rams thing. And because of, you know, that play, which is actually the inverse in 2019. So that was a big swing for them. I like the Saints.

I really like their offense. I think that Carr and Alave will be a lot of fun to watch this year. And obviously when you get Kamara back in the lineup, it's going to be a completely different thing. I knew going into this game, the onus would be on the offensive line without Kamara, without that safety net. It's like watching my homes without Kelsey. Yeah. Like, where are we going to fucking throw the ball when Johnny isn't open? Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? And here's the last game, Cowboys Giants. And here's what I'll say about the Cowboys Giants game. Yeah. There was also a podcast. And it was called Chris Collinsworth and Mike Torrico for two hours talking about whatever the fuck they wanted to talk about. I'm not even going to talk about the here. I'll give you 10 seconds.

on the game. The Giants weren't ready. They weren't ready and they're and they're not as good as people think this year. We said that I'm not taking shots to the Giants, but it's just on paper. There's still holes in that roster where like that's what you got to compete with. It looked like the little giants against the Cowboys. It looked like Spike was out there. Yes. Michael Parsons was Spike's dad. Mike McCarthy was Spike's dad. He's just doing a full off size and the back of a few hog truck. And he got to call the plays. Dad, I'm really excited. You get to call to place, right? And so was Mike McCarthy. But, you know, two turnovers right off the bat. You just can't win that way. The Giants, we talk about teams that can't play from behind. They can't

play from behind. That's not what they're designed to do. And there's not many teams that are designed to go out and have two possessions like that and then be still in the ball game emotionally. They had a great fucking drive, the first drive, and it ends in a field goal block for a touchdown, dude. I had the under, the fucking, the under, the under hit because they couldn't score. The Cowboys failed to cover the over. It was all on the Cowboys. So I'm not going to break that game down too much. It's just like Brian Daible.

The coaches need to watch the game upstairs and hit people individually on what went wrong. And they need to spend time in the meeting room. But I love what Davel said out of the game. It's like coaches often take that opportunity to grandstand and make it about them and say like, my guys didn't show up or there was effort problems, that sort of thing. No, it wasn't.

Your team wasn't good enough. You guys didn't execute, and that's what he said after the game. So we're going to flush that and move on. And I think he also knows we have a ways to go until we can hang with the heavy weights to the NFC. When they keep playing the class of the NFC, they get blown out. You know, blown out by the Eagles last year, blown out by the Cowboys, blown out by the Cowboys. So they got a ways to go, but I'm not going to overreact to 40-0. This game should have been 27-13.

You think, Micah got better? Yes. Oh, yeah. How great is it just watching him running around in there? He's incredible. I was, it was interesting talking Elaine about him, you know, because I like to ask about. And, you know, usually you mention a rusher and his face is like, he's okay. It's boring.

Yeah. But like, Mike is like, I'm sweating a little bit. It's like, you know, hearing, hearing what he does well and just how quickly he dictates the action at the top of the rush. Like, it's on you like that, you know. and he's also a quick processor as a football player. So he's not only setting the tempo of the rush immediately, but he's got the counter off of whatever it is when he gets there. And so you're scrambling to get there,

and by the time you get there, he's there and he's got a plan. Fair assessment, or is this crazy? I said this earlier to Kyle. He's the black Clay Matthews, the way that they're going to start using him. That was my reaction. What? Like, yeah, they used to float Clay around.

And when they used to do with Clay, they used to play. In Micah Parsons is a different. Different. Having to know where Micah Parsons is on the field at all times. The same way. It's akin to having to know where Clay Matthews is at all times on the field. And somebody's name that rhymes with Orrence Baylor. Yeah.

That's where you got to go. I'm not saying he's LT. But what I am saying is like, if. if if if if if if uh what's his name uh bill parcels is down there and he's coaching and he like is in the building i'm pretty sure he's drawn that comparison yeah because like al grow used to always he was always looking for the next lt you know because he used to coach lt he used to be like a mob brooks a mile brooks and and and moad brooks had some lt in him especially in college but this micha parsons man i but here's what really happened in the game this is what i learned um by the way

deuce falling almost drowned out there was raiding so hard in the fourth corner they had to throw him a floaty honestly douce oh my god he looked like a kayaker pinned under a rock and watched the video they changed personnel's when they got to send a boat out there yeah so anyway uh this is what i learned that got a leg tattoo 11 hours the whole thing and um you know also tony pollard at four years old played with the seven-year-olds. And Chris Collins was like, you know, his dad took him out there with the seven-year-olds, and they were just, they did this drill where he had to just tackle people over and over again.

I was like, this sounds like child abuse. And he turned it into like a happy ending. He was like, yeah, well, he went home, took the year off and came back. And next thing you know, he's Tony Pollard. Played scout team of the four-year-old is crazy. They got a whole series out of that, though. They got a whole series out of that, though. He was playing against seven-year-olds.

He got a whole series out of this thing. There was a play where somebody on the Giants made a play and it was negated by a penalty and the guy in the Giants was celebrating so hardcore. Mike Tarrico immediately was like, and that doesn't count. No reason to celebrate that. And Chris Collinsworth.

I laughed and then I walked to go play video games. It would be great if you had like a radio in your, because this would help. Because some of these blowouts and games where you're like, I know they're just waiting to circle somebody in the wrong game. If you had the game, feed and your radio that you can turn on and off just to make sure you're not getting dog you know

if they could rig that bad boy uh i could hear tariko surgo he's a little long in the tooth out here he's getting moved off the ball um all right so we've got an ad read and then we'll get to the best of the rest i hate buying tickets i've been playing my whole life never had to buy tickets the ticket part is stressful but buying tickets to your favorite events shouldn't be stressful game time is the fast and easy way to buy tickets for all the sports, music, comedy, and theater events near you, Kyle. I know you like theater. Carnegie Hall, baby. We can go watch some violinists. I want to watch cats. With killer deals on last minute tickets and the best price guarantee, you can stop stressing over tickets and start getting hype for the fun you'll have. And with the game time app, it's easy to find and buy tickets

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Last minute tickets lowest price guaranteed. Ryan Clark does a monologue on inside the NFL. Everybody's freaking out. How about that fucking ad, That was clean. Ryan, okay, Ryan Clark. Yeah. Can we do Ryan Clark for a minute?

Yeah. So Ryan Clark and Tua, obviously, they were exchanging, they were spadding. Pleasant trees, but they talked on the phone. And I'm there. I'm going to get there. So obviously Tua had his performance yesterday. Ryan Clark was on Twitter, just talking about, he's like, you know, I knew you were, I knew you were doing all this, you know, you were in the weight room, but I didn't know you

were throwing the ball around like this. I wanted to reply, you were really laying it on thick. Yeah, that's good. That's good. I didn't. Because you guys are teammates. Then you would have been on the phone with you guys are teammates. Yeah, we are teammates.

No, Rye took that in stride. Tua wants to get scrappy. Well, Tua was like, you know, Ryan was like, you ever see Ryan Clark play?

Right, yeah. I was like, hey, Ryan, what would happen if the dolphins played the Steelers with the old rules? Your Steelers against today's dolphin.

Maybe out a couple of receivers. All right. But Ryan Clark, talking about Tua look thick or whatever. And then, and then Tua's like, oh, you think I look thick?

Don't make me get all the Samoans. That's what he said in the press conference, dude. And when I hear, don't make me get all the Samoans, man. I'm good. They're the strongest people on earth. For sure. Honestly, though, nicest people on Earth. I would assume if there's a bunch of like, you know, Polynesian.

Dude, my favorite teammates. The best food? We used to do Kaaba. They got Kaiva. Mike Huma now Anui. But I'm not going to lie. Hello. Imagine all of them rolling up on you and doing that Haka shit before getting

your ass. Because that shit gets you ready to go. And I don't want to say, I don't want to say, speaking of, yeah, speaking of Leading the charge of Polynesians, because Polynesian covers Samoa and American Samoa. So Polynesian football players are the coolest motherfuckers. Yes. Always. Coolest motherfucker.

You always have a teammate in one probably somewhere and they're always cool. The coolest. But also the guys that you're like, hey, I don't want to make a lot. Yeah. Because, you know, he's not going to get mad a lot. but when he does when I played against him I tried to be so nice to him.

Tua's like, I was miced up in my Lions game against Holode and it's some of my favorite footage because we're just chatting it up. So anyways, we just kissed to his ass because we don't want the Samoans

come down here with that big defenseman for the Bruins that's still waiting to kick our ass. What's his name? Chara? Charra. We'd wear him to fuck out. And Tua is officially.

Me and my guy, Milan Luchich. No, you get whoever his, buddy is. Yeah. Okay. And two was officially tough now because he got that full tribal tattoo.

And didn't go under. It didn't go under. Didn't go on. He probably got this one. No, that's what I'm saying. They do it like that. That's the only way that they do it. Yeah.

Back, try that. Yeah. Whittle a tattoo on your leg. Okay. All right. The best of the rest. The Ravens, man. I'll be quick about this.

I mean, the Ravens were a little clunky. They were a little sloppy. I mean, but, you know, it's a new offense. I'm not going to freak out. I'm not going to overreact. I also think coming to the game, I said this, the secondary for the Texans, pretty good group. So, you know, like, you want to come out of this game and see, I think if you win this game and you find out out Zay Flowers is a duge, you're going to be happy.

And that's what happened. You know, Zayflowers, ton of motion pre-snap. He's great in space. He's going to be a man separator in short-yardage situations, the whole thing. When you need, when you absolutely have to have it, he's a guy. And then on the other side of things, Odell didn't hear a lot from him. And I'm not putting that on him, but what I am saying is like Stingley, maybe did a good job. I got to look back at the coverage in that game.

So I think, you know, with the offense, the big concern for me is J.K. Dobbins hurt already. Jellies. That's just brutal. That's tough, man. So absolutely, absolutely crushing for them. And the offensive line didn't look great. So, you know, Lamar, it's a whole new offense. They're spreading the ball out.

The whole thing. He was under center a lot. I mean, relative to what I expected, I thought, you know, when you got QB run at your disposal, it kind of takes it away under center. I feel otherwise. I feel otherwise, honestly. I feel otherwise, honestly. Oh, you do?

Well, I feel like it's a different look at the ability for the quarterback to get outside. You can influence with the eyes and the ball fake. Sure. But you're still going to major in the zone re-RPO stuff. But one thing that the second level has to do from a respect standpoint is respect the A and B gaps when you're under center. It's a quicker hitting play. the landmarks are tighter for the guards and stuff.

But when you got Lamar Jackson, you can run for the edge. You can run these backdoor stuff with the tight ends going out the back side. Yeah, no, I'm fine with them sprinkling it. I just thought I'd see him in shotgun a lot more. I mean, it's just an observation. I don't know if it's going to be a good or a bad thing. But I thought the reviews were probably mixed on the first outing for this offense. And a lot of people are like, is this what we signed up for?

Because it looks like just a different form of. Yeah, monkey. Yeah, and like, you know, Lamar didn't play in the preseason, so that's his first live action, similar to Bengals coming out slow, Burrow didn't play preseason, and the Eagles coming out a little bit slow offensively. And hey, guys. And he's first action. Mark Andrews didn't play.

Right. So like, let's not forget about that whole thing. I think the, you know, other than the Dobbins injury, I thought this was a win for them. You know, just get out there. You didn't have to throw the ball to Odell. You couldn't, whatever it was. Zay Flowers looks really good.

And then, you know, on the other side of things, the Texans defense was encouraging. It's encouraging. Granard is a good rusher. Will Anderson had a sack. Ornery. He got pulled a little bit, ended up with a sack and Ann won.

They just... Six pressures. Yeah, they're good, dude. Like, that's a lot of fucking pressures. It's a lot of pressure. It's a lot of pressure. If Will Anderson's my matchup, and I'm driving home from the game,

and I read six pressures. I had a fucking rough day. Yeah, how many pressures is the, what's the Mendoza line for? One, two. Yeah. Yeah. Easy.

One. Yeah. It depends on the guy. Man. Yeah. You got Miles Garrett. You play Miles Garrett. No, I'm talking about, it depends on the O lineman.

Oh, okay. It never depends on who I'm playing. Oh, man. Every game I want to pitch a shutout. You know what I mean? Okay. Not often it happens. There's no wiggle room when you play against.

Quarterback could get flush from the other side. There may be a great rusher on the other side. Okay. That's another thing. My guy falls into a pressure. Is it? Not every pressure is necessarily a win. You know, some pressure.

Or you get a screen release. I was watching Cody Whitehaer release on Kenny Clark yesterday in the Bears Packers game. It was a halfback slow screen, and he didn't hold on to Kenny Clark long enough before his release. Kenny Clark gets a pressure. Hey. I fucking hate that. You know what I'm doing? You're poking the bear.

Yeah, talk about them. Yeah, we're going to talk about the bear. Right now. Right now. Well, first and foremost, what the fuck. I'm so excited to watch the bear. So excited for this game of the week. Bears Packers, they got a brand new playing surface

to Soldier Field you've got all these offseason moves you go get DJ Moore which is a true number one for Justin Fiskew dropped huh? New Fescue I'm not sure the type I'm not sure the GINA type yet but there's new flora

but this is the deal DJ Moore three targets, two targets Nolan something like that you get this guy the ball as many times as you fucking can and like Brandon Marshall who was there before him You throw him the ball at three yards, and he's going to get 11 yards. He's going to make one guy miss.

You saw him get the ball on the edge, made a guy miss, and it's an easy first down. Why aren't we seeing more of this? Why aren't we forcing the ball to DJ more in an evidences situation? More, more. The running back that I really liked yesterday, what was his name? Rochon Johnson. Rochon Johnson from the Texas. Part of the reason why they were like, oh, David Montgomery.

They gave this motherfucker the ball. That is how you play at Soldier Field. When you get the football, when you get an opportunity to prove yourself, He's the second back behind Herbert. He may be the first back moving forward. I love that game plan. The defensive secondary is supposed to be their strong suit. I saw guys that weren't genuinely excited about making tackles on Aaron Jones.

Aaron Jones played a hell of a game. Fould his hammy. Jordan loves scoring a Tud. I'm reluctant to say this. But when he throws the football, he looks like Aaron Rogers. Bro. He leaves his feet. He does the jump flick throw.

And it's like, no! Think about it. Think about how much you learn, like, your kids, when they start just watching you. And no penetration on the D or O line, too. I'm sorry. Yeah. Well, on the other side of things, like Packers' defense, we just did a cut up on Rishon Gary last week talking about how good this defense could be.

Watch a band next. They could be underrated good. I got to go back and watch fan out. Huh? Alexander's a dog. Yeah. Yeah. And fucking Walker ends up in the end zone with a pick.

And he got flat. by that rookie. All right. Darn out right is. Yeah, Darn out right. Yo, right tackle.

The hit, he might be able to play goal line defense, bro. They might, like, I'm telling you, Kyle, you got to watch this hit.

I saw it. Oh my God. I saw it. The strike in that. Quay Walker got up and they walked him into the, and then he pushed the trainer. Look,

he actually didn't even get up. They just put the blue tent on top of it. If you watched that over, his team, like, the team knew he got blasted, Q just scored a touchdown. His teammates, like good teammates.

They picked him up and stood him up before he probably was ready to because he got hit hard. Yeah, they gave him the weekend. Justin Fields is not throwing the ball enough. They do not have, so there's run plays and offenses that are called call it run it, where it's like we're not going to make a check. Whatever the fuck they line up in, we're going to run this plate because this is what we've trained to do.

They need to have an offense that's trained to throw the football and allow Justin Fields to use that freakish athletic ability. and you heard Greg Olson talking about it. He's like, why are all these runs design runs? Why don't you let him throw and gash the defense on a reaction? I don't know, Kyle. He could be so dangerous. I don't know, Kyle.

37 balls thrown. I'm not going to go. I'm not going to jump. Yeah. Three balls over 10 yards. It's like the St. Ann's Bellfield offense. Kyle, average depth of target for the Bears, three point six yards. I mean.

Oh. That's a lot. have more average depth than 3.6. Not yards, but yeah, I got you. You know, divided by three, divided by 12. It's a serious math. That's the math, right, Matt? Yeah.

That's good, Kyle. Yeah, no, I'm not going to jump off the bandwagon yet. Caleb Williams! Yeah, geez, Kyle. For the record, Dion Sanders. Not jumping off the bandwagon yet. It's only week one. But you're, yeah, Caleb and Dion.

Prime time. Are you want to do Shador? That's fine, too. Fuck it. Yeah. Kyle, I've been his coached since Little League. I don't give a fuck, Dian. We need help.

Well, anyways, I'm sorry about that, man. But I think the Packers are better than people think. I mean, we talked about it last week or two weeks ago trying to pick that division. It's like, take your pick. It could be Chicago. It could be the Packers or two. And then at four, it looks like the Vikings. I mean, I don't know.

It's just week one. But we've been saying this. And yeah, I should have made the Minnesota Vikings and America's team because they're the gift that keeps on giving. You better win total. You're always going to be on the right side of it, especially if you lean under. Two games, really. I'll just hit them real quick right now. Buck's getting a win and the Cardinals being competitive.

You know, good for Jonathan Gannon. This guy, I think people were kind of doing this. He's got a punchable face thing. You know, like the hand up. No, I mean, that's, that's, I kind of get the idea that people. we're going to make him that guy. And I'm not saying they're not going to make him that guy, but they didn't like the verticals thing.

They didn't like the, did you drive here? Did you guys drive here, by the way? Coach, I didn't drive here. I slept here. Strange. That's what I would have said. Coach, my internet doesn't work at home. I got to watch film.

I slept in the fucking team meeting room. All right? I am a killer. I want killers. Lawrence Taylor also slept. How are you going to say you want killers, but you're openly maybe tanking? So,

the word on the street is. is no tank that's what it says the word because we're on the street is no tank capital they were storming the capital area yesterday a little bit it's easy to get help from the command maricopa county came to DC and and they and they got after them and listen they were close I'm not gonna act like I said there was first round pick do they have next year as well who's first round thing they got Houston's first round pick they've got Kyler Murray coming back healthy at some point I felt bad for Josh Dobbs at times hey man I feel bad for all those guys

guys okay because it's nothing fun about being on teams like that it was about half my career i don't know i don't know you know they do the little player portrait when they're talking about the rosters at the beginning of the game they do the player portrait like josh dives and they show a cartoon picture of him yeah he's got the uh they got him with the the wave cap on which is you they're that's sick i was always like do you get to pick you get to call fox and be like yo i want an eye patch yeah i just want to look like a pirate you have an eye injury no uh but no good for them good for them I'll get into that game. If there's anything to report,

I'll report it on Wednesday of the show. I'm sorry, commanders fans. You don't want to hear about the game. You watched it. You got a dog. You know what happened. And then the other end of things, bucks and cards,

the bucks actually winning a game. I thought they were in the sweepstakes. They're not in the sweepstakes. It doesn't appear. But here's the story from this game. Jefferson goes off in the first half. In the second half, he doesn't get a lot of targets.

And then at the end of the game, he's sitting there and he looks like he lost Super Bowl. And I really respect this kid. He really pours his. is hard in this thing. You can tell he seems like a great dude. They're asking about the contract. He's like, in essence, I'm just going to play. I can't worry about it. Now I'm going to play. And this is a unique. Also, Brian Burns had this approach. But Brian Burns, of course, is actually like he just got done with a holdout. It's a unique approach to trying to get a new deal. Go out there

and ball out. Brian Burns did. Okay. But like Justin Jefferson was incredible in the first half. You didn't get the ball in the second half. Kurt threw that red zone pick. And Justin Jefferson Terry tated this poor song bitch that he was so fucking hard. It was like, what did I do? Jesus. The way Jefferson reverberated on the ground after he hit him, like if you pull it up,

like he'd just see him like, he wasn't concussed. He was just like, vibrating. I'm mad, dude. I'm mad. So, you know, the Vikings can't, in the past, this has happened to them. You know, if they end up in a tight situation

with with with with with Justin Jefferson it's going to be the dumbest thing in the world because this kid's so special and the wider seniors in the past they've had they've traded them all away Randy Moss Harvin and they've gone on to have great they traded somebody else away they got rid of cordarral he was good in Minnesota they got rid they got rid of oh digs yeah come on I mean every guy that they have that's like a legit number one it just ends poorly there you think after the first half the the higher ups called down was like hey slow down on getting his stats up until we get him signed let's yeah he's good he's good i don't know i think the point's been made you never know they're at the negotiating table like but in the second half of

that you really don't know bro they got commercials for a scripted league now and every time out i'm like hold on a second and and then also before we get to the how the hell did this happen section of this breakdown uh Carolina and Atlanta Bijon Robinson his first touchdown okay like he catches the ball in the flat he's got a guy who's got an inside out angle on him makes him miss just puts him in the dirt and then you're looking at a vice tackle perfect vice tackle at the five yard line splits that motherfucker Sankwan splits that motherfucker dude it's like Sankwan he runs a little different his just like he's got more of an upright jump cut everywhere it's like he gets the top speed so fast and he's you can tell he's a really tough tackle the second level like his

his ability to turn on a dime from top speed without lowering his pad level he's just he's graceful i don't know who he runs like yet but it's fucking fun to watch and tyler alger who who's out there he's putting a hole in that that's a dense motherfucker there at down at the goal line it's like his feet just keep moving said it before the season they might have the best back room in the league before the end of the season and and and and they're it looks it now With an offense that complements having a great running back room. They'll get Cardo. What's up with Cordero Patterson right now?

He's got something he wasn't able to finish. But I mean, when he's back, even more dangerous. Artie party, that guy's offense is so much fucking fun to watch. And Kyle Pitts making a huge play. Kyle Pitts, great catch. What a catch. So the Falcons have a lot to be excited about. I think Ritter looks a little bit shaky.

And that's the whole thing is like we were talking about with Kevin Clark. this is our dark horse team and everything, but how long before we see Heineke? I'm not saying it's like imminent. Oh, boy. But he's going to be breathing down his neck. I'm not trying to create a controversy. I know.

But if we watch Desmond Ritter, I might prefer Heineke. You know, I don't know, but it is week one. And Brian Burns, who I mentioned, had a really unique approach to getting the new deal. He bawled the fuck out. Hayden Hurst, funniest thing of the game and probably going to be a hollow man,

but we'll see is he throws Bryce Young's first touchdown into the stands. Just recklessly. And my favorite thing about Hayden Hurst, I can tell I'd like this guy. His tweet after the game was like, hey, guys, I gave him the ball back. I need everybody to turn it down about 30%. Shut the fuck up. And I love that statement. And they're like, okay, I'll only blame you 70% for what happened.

But that was almost a disaster. 35%. If that was New Orleans, if you played for New Orleans, you threw the ball into the stands in Atlanta, you're not getting that fucking ball back. I don't know. They hate you. So you're lucky that the ball got back. But Bryce Young just stared down two throws to Jesse Bates.

It looked like the same play. Yeah. I mean, it looked like the same play. That dig right over the world. How small did Bryce Young look to you guys out there? That's why he plays indoors on some Sundays. Because if he was in New York, he would have been him and Deuce Vaughn would have got swept away. You know, you got to check the weather with Bryce Young and deuce Vaughn.

Low visibility, though. Yeah, I can't. Put a bar on his helmet. Yeah. You know how this. this weekend uh uh it was actually Thursday night the uh Brian Brandt scored a touchdown with his mouth yeah sticking out of his helmet you need no socks put a little bobber up there a little buoy little buoy there's this fun uh flash flood warning right stay inside get to the top floor buddy uh anyways

i i think that's all the games oh the last one how the fuck did Seattle lose this is one one of the loan blemishes on my sheet. Oh my God. The money line parlay. Is it fair to say I don't know? Oh my God. Gino with Aaron. I did see that.

Yeah. Oh my God. Holy shit. It's like when you like Aaron jumped out of a closet. Yeah. When you open the door and there's like a. Oh, oh, Aaron Donald's there. It's like when you really scare someone.

Uh huh. Yeah. But, but I just thought, you know, the secondary struggled. I want to apologize to Matt Stafford for week one. I don't want to overreact, but I'll give him a, you know, an apology. I thought he was, he was going to need life alert soon. He's falling apart.

The whole thing, his body, and maybe he does week four. And I thought this team was going to come out and roll over. Sean McVeigh, like five and one against the spread and his open, his first games in the NFL season. The guy was not, I mean, he was coaching his ass off out there. They picked on this backup corner. They moved the football. They barely, and we were joking about, hey, maybe Jamal and Witherspoon, And they're looking at this thing and they're like, oh, Cooper comes down.

Maybe we'll rest them if they're like 70%. Puka Nakua and Tutu Atwell, coolest names. Tutu wide open. And then also Puka Nakua, though, he could be legit. This is a new guy that got him in the fifth round from BYU. Polynesian? Yeah. Yeah.

And we love him. Yeah, I love the guy automatically off rip. This might be the new greatest show on turf, these two. I mean, this guy, if you read his scouting report, it's a bunch of coded words about like being a high effort guy. all this stuff. But he really, he really can, he's a good matchup against man. You can tell he's, he's got that like shifty kind of slot built. He's really tough. He tries hard. He stretched out on the pass that he couldn't catch and like made it hit his fingertips. Oh, he hit the ground hard, dude. Just as a football player, just the way he stretched out for it when you watch so

many wide receivers or guys that don't put the max effort into trying to catch a ball, whether it's catchable or not. I know for me, seeing that shows that, like, he really loves what he's doing. And that guy loves football. That's a guy that week to week,

God willing, any injury, he's a guy that's going to be given his best effort every time he steps on the field. So I don't know why the Seahawks sucks so bad. I mean, they need to stop talking so much shit before the game.

He Carroll is playing scout quarterback. They asked D.K. Metcalfe about the Rams defense. He said, I haven't even heard of them. I can't name any of those motherfuckers. Well, it's called a sneak attack. I'm like, it's called a death charge.

Yeah. But neither has Matthew Stafford. So really, how can that be bulletin board material? Matthew Stafford doesn't know their names either. I have an ad read for Little Caesars. Make Little Caesars the official pizza sponsor of the NFL part of your game day. Order online during our pizza pizza pizza pregame one hour before NFL games and get ready for some football fun. Choose your favorite Little Caesar's pizza or pick the toppings you crave.

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You want to join me for admin? No, you can't because you're playing a golf tournament this week. You motherfucker you. He's going to skip softball for a golf tournament. What a shame. And, you know, I got a quarterback that he might want to interview. He's going to interview him. And then Wednesday, we're not going to be able to talk about it.

I'll be here. I'll be here. I'm going to have to be like, Megan. What did you think about the interview? Macon's going to go like the middle part. Great fucking joke. The middle part. Okay.

All right. So we have... That was good, by the way. Really well done. Week one, we did a good job recapping a lot of games so far. I love the fact that you think the game is over. We have done a good job so far. The game is not over. We haven't fought. We got mentions. We haven't fought. No, no, that's right. That's good. It's like half-time orange slice. Fax, give us your viral moment of the week here. My viral moment for week one is going to go to Freddie Falcon, who did his best job. Jackson DeVille impression with a high flying entrance

from the top of Mercedes Ben Stadium into what 50 yard line to start the game? But he has an amazing. Oh, he's the mascot for, damn, dude, look at this video. What I think is a GoPro video, which is pretty awesome. So I have to give it to him. He's inverted.

But we can't go without saying, And mascots are stepping their shit up because of Jackson DeVille. Yeah. Jackson DeVille. He's been bungee jumping and skyline, what, skylining or whatever it is into zip lining into the stadium from the rafters for years since I've been playing. Lady Gaga did it first, bro. But still, bro, not with a mascot outfit on, not a full suit.

You see Lady Gaga's fits, bro? But I say shout out to Freddie Falcon. That guy's awesome. And I wonder for mascots, like, is this upping like their salaries or is this something like? I've always said this. Mascots and maybe mascots in the AFC and NFC South because I feel like that's the craziest two divisions. They need to get paid more, especially mascots in Florida because they have these shoddy regulation and shit. You know, like it's like working at a carnival where they're not checking all the nuts and bolts on the sudden scott masters on the ground.

Tragedy. I worry about that with Jackson DeVille. I think he should have a big insurance. policy or a bigger salary and the same thing for this bird i agree but hey kudos to them i think it's dope for them and getting their social media platforms up i wonder how that feels too like being a star because you're wearing a mask kind of like marshmallow you know yeah like no one really knows it's got to be awesome like and then you just whisper to a chick at the bar like i'm the falcons i'm freddie the falcon yeah that's me check out my plumage uh all right we got we got to we got i know what that is

I'm reading the National Geographic Birds of North America. Let's go. Regular ornithologists. Yeah. So we've got mentions here. Does somebody have a best flight, Kyle? Yeah, best flight. Of course I had a fucking best flight.

Hit me with it. The best flight is Tampa Bay going home after beating the Vikings. You got a new quarterback. You got a new quarterback who is using every bit of fiber on those shoulder pads and helmet. The dude's lowering his shoulder to finish play. getting a gutsy win, best flight, Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Yeah, I would have given it to maybe the Dolphins, but you know going west to east after 4 p.m.,

you're not getting back to real late. You're on the tarmac. Hey, leaving L.A., too. You got to go straight to Tutsis or wherever you enjoy your after-hours entertainment. And then, uh, hey, make goes, ooh. And then, uh, what's Tutsis? It's a strip club. I thought it was chocolate.

It's like multiple levels. It could be still. It's like, it's like the size of a toys or us. It's like F-A-O No, no More like a build-a-bear For a strip club, Kyle

Think of that Yeah, it's a builder Anyways, I know what Tutsies is Okay, all right, good Good, good Good Kyle So best flight I'll probably go Yeah, I'll agree with you

Tampa, let's give it to Tampa this week, shall we? It's good when you don't feel like You're supposed to be good And then you get home pretty early at the 1 p.m. It's not the longest flight in the world It's probably a long flight, but you got home. I'll go worse flight.

is it Jacksonville State Reed? Is that who it was? Yeah. Jacksonville State, Kyle, flew to the wrong airport. They were supposed to play Coastal and they flew to Charleston. And that reminds me of a certain sound bike from our friend Josh McCown. You want to play that sound right? So I was flying to St. Louis to actually meet up with Craig to do a point in pancakes there and to share my story. And we landed. And when we landed, you know, the boom comes up. on and the lady comes on and she says, welcome to Detroit. And everybody, you know, immediately their heads pop up and everybody's going, what? You know, and, you know, everybody kind of laughed.

She says, excuse me, St. Louis, you know. And so we all kind of had a laugh, but what it revealed to me was that that's what porn is a lot like. You go somewhere that you weren't expected to go. We landed in Detroit. We were supposed to land in St. Louis. He said, welcome to Detroit. And now I just looked at my browser history, like, how did I get here? Yeah.

You know, how did I get here? How did I end up on this? Jacksonville State felt the same way. One time I was in a wedding in Texas, and I flew to the wrong, large city in Texas. No way. I flew to Dallas, and I called my boy, and I was like, yo, I'm in Dallas. Where are you at? And he's like, the wedding's in Houston.

No fucking way. Yeah. Texas is a big state, too. Huge. Huge. How'd you get across? Horseback? You hit your ride with Texas Rangers.

You ran a car. I drove to Houston. Yeah, that's good. Okay. Fly on the wall. If you watch college football this weekend, you should have watched App State, North Carolina. Every year that's a really good game.

It's like a Highlander battle. Like they just are, and it's always like 40 to 34, which I think it might have been this year. But Mack Brown, after the game, doing an ACC network hit in the middle of the prayer circle for App State, bro. Like they picked the worst spot. I just wanna know those guys trying to say

there are Heavenly Fathers and they're like, Mac, like, you, Come on, bro. Your balls are on my shoulder, man. Move over. Like, I'm on a knee here, and you're in the middle of our prayer circle. Wait.

Mac, is this the same, this is not the same week? Mac was last week was the one to grab by the face of the neck. Yeah, he's having some, he's having some older guy moments. Older white guys, once they get to a certain age, once they get that white hair to a certain age,

some of them get to the point where nothing really matters. Have you seen Charleston white? Did you see him grab that? The coach's face last week? No question. Like you get to a point. I brought it up. Do you remember that?

Maybe. Maybe. The old white guy stuff. You're on to something. You're on to something, though. They do. Mac Brown is having those moments. A lot of societal pressure.

He's like, hey, can we do an AC network hit? Yeah, I want to do it right over here in the prayer circle. I mean, he was on the outskirts of the prayer circle. All right. So, flying the wall, Mac Brown. I want to know what the fuck was going on. there. A hollow man. You know, everybody wants to give it to Tony, right?

I've never seen such an ugly performance in prime time to start a season. I mean, I feel bad for the guy. I actually feel bad for the guy. It's really hard as an athlete. Deleted his Twitter. For something like that. Dude, young joker? That's awful. He deleted his Twitter, but he kept his IG opened in last night when the Giants were down

26-0-0. He tweeted out the Giants. He said, don't be quiet now. Or Instagram to the Giants, don't be quiet now. Oh, that's funny. Which actually get another fly on the wall what the fuck was going on with the giant social media team they went out to dinner during they tweeted they tweeted pre game game day and then after the words they were like here's the press conference they also lost the internet yeah they lost the internet too that must have been it but the real hollow man is probably the two lane quarterback that evidently got drunk and got hurt

and i heard about it and i put a bunch of money on two on uh old miss and it turns out we had ourselves a ball game there my son's sitting there he's like why are we rooting for old miss i'm like i don't know son find out like you're going to public school next year if uh if if if if two lane pulls us out so root away you like your friend harrison not gonna see him anymore you're gonna have to get a job remember i told you i worked masonry in high school try at elementary school you could have some non fraternity brother names as your friend yeah yeah yeah yeah we're not hanging out kip and harrison yeah um this is john so anyways uh it could be the the two lane qb who almost ruined my saturday it was kind of a josh allen situation

where I thought Josh Allen was hurt. I put a mountain of money on the Bikins and then he plays. But actually this kid was hurt, but the backup was I. The field looked great. Oh, it's a bubble con way, Kyle.

There's just, the field is the line here. So Mel Tucker is probably going to be my hollow man. Okay. They have a sexual harassment expert in to talk to the team like, hey, you shouldn't. Survivor.

You shouldn't sexually harass people. And he's like, you know what? I think I'll get her number and sexually harass her. We got to wait for all the details on this. Of course. Wait, how old is Mel Tucker? How old is Mel Tucker?

50 something? Yeah. Interesting. Mel was our coach. So here we go. What was our coach? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Older guys.

No, I'm all for waiting for the details, but this amounts to buying, walking up to a cop and be like, let me get a brick of cocaine. It's like being in dare. It's like being in dare. Like, in middle school and saying, you got a joint? I'm trying to explain.

But like you're saying, but was it entrapment, though? All right. Shut the fuck up. I'm just saying it just remember what you asked me about, Tula? Have you stopped talking yet? Have you stopped talking yet? Like you said, I just want to hear more information because it doesn't make sense to me. I don't know how one-sidedly you can know someone's pleasuring, pleasuring themselves on the phone.

Like, I'm jacking off on this call. But that's what I'm saying, dude. Is that what you would do? Is that like realistically? Oh, I'm not coming. I'm here. Are you there? I'm gonna come.

We coming. There's actually my linebackers coaches in the room. It's a bad deal, mate. I don't care what details you. I don't care what details you're waiting on. This is, he's the holo-man. But the fact that, the fact that they did. What?

Because we were talking, he was talking about like if you're buying, if you're buying, drugs from an undercover cop. No, no. Entrapment is when the cop comes up to you. Exactly. It's offering drugs. But what he did is he walked up to, to, he was in Washington Heights. He's like, let me get a brick. And that's what we think. And he walked up to the cop on a horse. Okay. You know, we, I think we covered that good. Okay, STL Memorial. I'm going to give it to the St. Louis, the L.A. Rams. I mean, because they, nobody was watching, but except for the people that were all like, I bet Seattle Money Line. Wait a second. And Nakua and Tutu Atwell.

I've got Jonathan Grinard and Will Anderson, the Houston Texans, young rushers, getting after it. Getting after it. Do you like Mel Tucker for Hollow Man, or do you think somebody was worse? I think he's like, actually, I want to talk about a guy who had a much worse one.

Here's my hollow man. Tony had three jobs. Here's my Hollow Man on a serious note, Chase Claypool for the Chicago Bears. Doesn't want to be there. Seems like you watch it on film. They're throwing smokescreen out to the right side. He's supposed to be the lead block.

there's a difference between getting beat by a defender and being non-present in a play. And when you're non-president in a play, you don't belong on the-calfield. Kyle, I sent that guy dip. You don't belong on the field. I feel like, you know, now he needs more dip. He's sending more dip.

All right. And then lastly, Bebel Conway, a couple scenes. I mean, whether it was a two-lane field, whether it was like the Nebraska wideout and scored what feels like their only touchdown against Colorado and, like, ran up that Black Hill. you know that black concrete hill yeah i'm 38 i would have i would have taken three gather steps and made sure the surface was all right this guy's just running up this hill in cleats he's

standing there in front of all these fucking uh colorado fan just a sea of buffalo's and it's just so college football you turn the tv there's some beautiful scene on it's like john snow about all the bastard yeah there's there's there's two lanes field there's like i can't decide so i'm not going to give it to a college team i'm going to give it to san francisco pittsburg even though you had packers bears By the way, lightning struck the NC State Jumbotron. I found this out. When lightning hits your car or your Jumbotron, fries the electronics. It's actually, you're not probably going to be okay.

I was driving through a lightning storm the other night. And I asked somebody online like people online, have you been hit by lightning in your car? And how did that go? Most people were like, would not recommend. But the whole thing is when your car gets hit by lightning, it turns off. The lights, everything. It breaks, I didn't know that. It fries.

I'm going to stop driving. lightning storms. You're not supposed to. I went to a Luke Combs concert in Charlotte, North Carolina the night that there was a big lightning storm last month. And Laney Wilson opened up for him, who I love. Lany Wilson's great, great artist. And she went out, it was supposed to be, you know, a plugged concert with big speakers and electric guitars. She played unplugged because their van got struck by lightning. Ah, so all their electrical got fried. So it was the same thing with the NC State scoreboard, which is a good thing because they get their asses kicked by Notre Dame. acoustic.

Bevel Conway. Bevel Conway, I've got two. First, the pregame sights, scenes, and sounds as Soldier Field before week one, Bears Packers, they have a new surface. That soldier, it looks awesome. Newfescue. And the other one is the first responder hats on Dave Boa McCarthy. I thought it's a real cool touch.

That's good. That's good. I got a first response. This is my asshole of the week. It goes to my friend Aryan Foster. Or I thought we were friends. No, we're friends. Everything's good.

But here's a clip from macro dosing. I'm in the league that's run by my friend Tommy, Tommy Alter, was the one who put this podcast together to begin. That's facts. He introduced me to Aaron. Shout to Tommy to Godfather. Shout Tommy. How he invited me to the league?

That's brazy. That actually, that is brazy. That's crap. What the fuck? That's fucked. I would argue that I've had the best fantasy stats in your league. Chris Long. If it counted defensive stats,

Long might have you beat. He would not have me beat. On longevity? You think who is a better A 50 point game, B? Like, what is you talking about? But who is a better player? No disrespect to Chris, but me. Okay, I imagine he's really not even like, for how long? Yeah, that's true. For a couple years, Arian.

Would you, would you rather have, would you rather have a all pro player for three or four years or a very average? Oh, hold on. Who? Oh, hold on. Oh, was Chris, was Chris, long? No, let me stop. I see how I'll be pinning up against me.

That's why I don't, this is, you know what? I think he would tell you that he was like a very solid player in the NFL. And I would agree with him. How many Walter Payton Man of the Year awards did you get, Aaron? I will never win that award. Night. Hold on. Chris no one was nice.

Oh, he was nice. He was nice. But I think there's levels. I do think there's low. I think I was a high caliber player. There's nothing wrong with that. You know what I'm saying?

No wrong with that. I prepared a statement in response to this clip. So you seen the clip or like, who will hit you up first? where they were like, you got to see this. I checked my mention. Okay. And it was one of those.

Chris, you're going to respond, which is I hate those. Because I'm like, this is going to be good, whatever it is. Of course, did you see this?

I watched it once and I was, I'll get there. This is a statement. At 7.41 p.m. Friday night as I smoked pot in my parked car before dinner at the dairy market, this video came to my attention. I slowly climbed out of my body bag and collected my thoughts.

The conversation snuck under the, the radar, thankfully, due to macrodosing's tight-knit but small online community. But you can imagine if it happened on a show with a bigger reach, like Bussing with the boys or the Mark Titus show, for instance. What the fuck, man? I thought about calling his music average, even though I did kind of enjoy it. He then might argue that music is subjective, unlike football, a game evaluated in objectivity thanks to numbers. Arian Foster is easily the better player, cross-positional comparison. They can be difficult due to a number of factors, but this was kind of an easy one.

Guy was a stud. A four-time thousand-yard rusher. He led the league in 2010 rushing for over 1,600 yards or 4,800 feet, almost a mile of Russian, Kyle. That's a lot of rushing. I can run a mile nine minutes. I can run in seven. Pretty average.

Seems average to me. He was first in the league one year. He was fifth in the league one year. He was sixth in the league another year. He was six in the league another year. And I respect Arian. I've enjoyed our interactions. He's been on the show.

He's a friend of the program. I also have great respect for average football players in the NFL. I know how hard it is. The NFL is poorly written. But just as his production makes him elite mind exempts me from the designation of average. At 10.56 p.m. upon returning home, Aaron was contacted via text message. From 1056 to 11.02 p.m.

I wondered if he changed phone numbers, which would be awkward as fuck. because the whole fucking text was just stats some guy in texist yeah uh and at 1102 arian responded we had a great conversation including a resolution as suspected he was under the influence of some sort of drugs and was gassed up as he called it and we easily resolved the issue i went as far as saying i would make an appearance on macro dosing to have some fun with it uh but i don't go on average podcasts um now arian and i are good i want everybody know that that we're still boys. PFT you're a fucking asshole.

This is the most asshole thing you've ever done to me trying to turn two guys against each other. And Arian and I are great, well our friendship might never be the same, but we're cool. So I just wanna give asshole the week to Arian Foster, who's smoking crack out there, okay? He must be smoking crack.

And I had to tell him that. I had to text him on the side and we're good now. But I was like, Jesus Christ, man. I'm just minding my fucking business, throwing the A word around. bro. There's certain things that we have to avoid, and it doesn't take a lot of effort to do so in the media. I'm serious. I'm guilty of this as well when I'm talking about either guys that I've played with that I know that I know well or I know them as players and you can get out ahead of

your skis sometimes. And it's always hard to backtrack out of the woods when you're ahead of your school. It's, it's, you know what it is? Just be safe. Stay on the fucking. It's a good lesson for me because I've thrown words around about guys where I don't know their career. Obviously, like, to me, listen, there's a lot between elite, which was what Aaron Foster was, and average. There are like tons of adjectives you could use good, very good, great, whatever. Probably wasn't great for very long at all, but I had a couple great years. But like, put me in the G word range.

You have to be careful about the buzzword you use with certain things. It's funny, like unrelated, unrelated. Like I get mad at Matt when, at, you know, at, you know, he says a player sucks and because no player sucks exactly and i and i and i'm just like yo like as a player bro like no one sucks if they're if they're in the league if they're at the show at the dance they don't suck they might not be as good as everyone on the team but they don't suck i appreciate you big big uh what's his name and uh big tea big tea we both got orange hats he he was like big he uh foster was like oh i was elite all this stuff you know i was a better player and big t goes

but for longer yeah love it man all right um that's it prediction score prediction for monday anybody i am going to say 31 to 28 jets i'm going to 27 24 jet i'm going to I'm gonna go motherfucking 28 to 30 4 I don't even know how we would get that's backwards

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