Green Light with Chris Long - NFL WK2 Recap. Comeback SZN & Familiarity with Jimmy G. Nicole Auerbach on CFB WK3.

Episode Date: September 19, 2022

(2:16) - Housekeeping: Layup Line, Weekend Review and America’s Favorite Teams. (23:19) - NFL Comebacks: Dolphins vs Ravens, Cardinals vs Raiders, Jets vs Browns and Bengals vs Cowboys. (59:14) - Buccaneers vs Saints, Mike Evans Fights for Tom Brady’s Honor, Giants vs Panthers and Gano’s Revenge. (1:12:30) - Jaguars vs Colts, Patriots vs Steelers, Broncos vs Texans and Jimmy G the Savior. (1:38:30) - Miller Lite Mentions: Best & Worst Plane Ride, Hollow Man and More. (1:53:42) - Nicole Auerbach’s College Football Week 3 Recap: Georgia’s Powerful Offense, Notre Dame’s Uncertainty and Are Kentucky and Michigan Proven Teams? Green Light Spotify Music: https://open.spotify.com/user/951jyryv2nu6l4iqz9p81him9?si=17c560d10ff04a9b Spotify Layup Line: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1olmCMKGMEyWwOKaT1Aah3?si=675d445ddb824c42 Green Light Tube YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GreenLightTube1 Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. https://www.greenlightpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Tennessee, y'all, 2. 1-800-9-9-7-89. Welcome to the Greenlight podcast. Oh, boy. We're rocking and rolling into week two. We had a comeback filled Sunday. God's team won. And the bets are hitting.

We've got Chris Kylan Macon to recap all of Sunday's action, talk about the impacts of certain games, review some player matchups. And Chris Kyle and Macon are going to reveal who they think are America's favorite teams. We also have the athletics, Nicole Auerbach, in front of the podcast. She is going to talk college football. She's to recap week three, go through her top 10,

and talk about the impact to some of Saturday's games. Y'all enjoy. Welcome to the pod, guys. We've got a full slate of games to talk about. I love week two even more than I love week one. We're in a groove now. Like this is, I feel so energized. No Vegas for me and Reed.

We got a good night's sleep, full of energy. I'm joined by Making Gunner and Kyle Long, these two studs to my right. I want a shout out. Hello! Yeah. Anywhere? Lott in Oklahoma. Why?

Home of Chip Banks. Okay. Is that the guy that? We'll get to it. Yeah, we'll get to it. Steve Gleason. I want to shout out Steve Gleason, who's another stud, a friend of ours. He had to go to the hospital this weekend, and he was just discharged.

So shout out to Steve. Hope you're at home with your beautiful family. And, you know, that's why the Saints lost yesterday. Steve couldn't watch the game, you know? They'll get that handled. Layup line today is going to be Del Macquarie. Now, if you know Del McCoy, we've shouted out, Del Macquarie on this pod before.

He's a legend in Appalachia, Appalachia. Appalachian. How do you like, how do you, does anybody say Appalachian? The Appalachian region. Yeah. People who read it for the first time say Appalachian. Yeah. He's a legend in that region.

He's from Deep Gap, North Carolina, which by my calculations must be 15, 20 minutes east of Boone, North Carolina, the number one place that I wish I was as I sat there with the kids Saturday night, Meg left town for the weekend. And if she didn't, I would have drove to Boone. I had it map quested and everything. Yeah, I still use the verb map quested. Luke Combs was there. I saw him there. I know you were excited. And I saw on social, he was like, hey man, just a great Saturday. He was like in a hotel room and he turned and then it was Boone, North Carolina and all of its beauty behind him. With all the people, like game day, it was great. It's gorgeous.

Like this was a huge win for Boone. Like huge win for App State, right? You know, game day because there's no good games. It was a terrible slate. So Boone inherits a game day. And they make the most of it with a fucking Hail Mary, my favorite thing in the world, short of the goal line.

A great way to beat Troy. And they're officially in my book, America's team. So I was sitting there Saturday. When it hit me, this is the closest in the 2020 football season. we've had to an America's team. So I started jotting down my top five America's teams in America and we'll do this every Monday. I like it.

Yeah, dude, I feel like it's got legs. That's good stuff. Hey, get it while we can, you know, this whole America thing. But yeah, like number one, I'm going to upstate. They are America's team. Number two, we got the Detroit Lions at two. They've been knocking at the doorstep. A manufacturing city that the backbone of America, Dan Campbell,

an American football coach. Jared Goff is an American quarterback. He's an American quarterback. There's a lot of Americans on the team. You know, and we love second chances in America. They just needed Vegas to believe in them. Yes, dude. Well, honestly, here's the fucked up part.

They were favored for a while for the first time in eons, and then by game time it moved to a pickup. No. Yeah, so even America's not behind America's team, and we love an underdog story, dude. So I'm going Lions number two. And number three, the Buffalo Bills, you know, the bills feel like, you know, they're red, white, and blue. We love, show me somebody who doesn't like the Bills that doesn't live in Boston.

And I'll show you a foreigner because they are, they're a fixture in America's teams, America's team rankings. Dildos. Dildos. Buffalo Bills and Dildos. Bildos. Like America and Apple Pie. Chicken wings. Chicken wings.

tables. You know, what's more American than hurting yourself doing stupid shit at a football game? Yeah. After overeating. Yeah, dude. They're going to be a fixture here. What it would take for them not to be America's team? I don't know.

Number four. Number four, I'm going to go, dolphins. The dolphins are becoming America's team. Expect us. We expect us to and on down there in Miami. You're making a run at being an America's team. So I'm going number four.

And then number five is a personal pick. Syracuse, the Orangeman. They're America's team because they're funding my kids' college fund right now. The big parlay, they helped me win early in the year. Well, it is early in the year against Louisville. And then this week had the over in that Q's Purdue game. I mean, I thought it was like an easy call. Yeah, the total was 60. It was 9-6 at the half, Kyle. And, you know, I know you're getting in this gambling thing, but that's pretty much your dead to rights. When you do the math there, 42 points in the fourth quarter, Dino Bavers looks like he didn't even mean to do it on the side. But I love the carrier dome. It's a tough place to play.

It's not called something else, by the way. What is it? I don't know. They put AC in it and it's got a new sponsor. Yeah. I want to give you a shout out, though. Before we start. the bulk of the pot. Just shout out to Chris and shout out to Winbet. I've never done any sports gambling. I still haven't submitted any bets. What would be like? Placed. I haven't placed any bets.

Yeah, submit. But I've browsed a few options. As I did last night, I was browsing, and I didn't like the numbers. I ran them last night. They weren't good. But thank you, Chris, for helping me set it up. I now have Winbet on my phone. It's super easy.

Yeah. A lot of people in this studio would imagine that if I was tasked with setting up a wind bet account, it probably wouldn't. happen. It was fun because I'm not real good with the technology, but now you can piss your money away. Exactly. And that's the point. We're just looking for new ways to become broke. Well, somebody made a good point yesterday. I think it was Kingston. He was like, can it be a write-off in this studio? Like, if we lose money, because we do work for the win. We talk about gambling. So are gambling losses a write-off? You might want to get, you might want to holler at Ken about that.

There's Twitch streamers that gamble huge millions of dollars every night, and they lose it. they win it, but a lot of it's right-offs, the money that they get from viewership and subscription covers the cost of their losses and then they can throw that money back in. I might want to get somebody in here who can answer that question. We need a CPA because I think when you lose a bunch of money on gambling, it does affect your taxes. We need a green light CPA. Yeah.

You know any? I know a ton of CPAs. Yeah. Cycling through those guys. Get one in here. What does that stand for? Certified something accountant. It's either public?

Public accountant. Damn, that was a tough one. Okay, so that's my top five. I'm not a fan of Q's this week because they're playing our Wahoos. They are. Let me hit you with some America's teams. Okay, here's my unofficial rankings as of today. Army, Navy,

Navy, Air Force, and Coastal Carolina. Slurping the troops here. Don't forget Texas A&M. Coastal Carolina just protecting that North Carolina coast for. for centuries now. I'll also shout out Georgia Tech because here in this country, you know, even if we don't have the proficiency,

the faculty to do what is needed, we still think we can doggone it. And the yellow jackets have been outscored 183 to 10 in their last four games versus FBS opponents. Granted those opponents have been ranked number eight, number one, number four, number 20. Shout out David Hale for that tweet. Plus 17 looked pretty good against all.

Nah, not so good. 183 to 10, the rambling wreck have been outscored. We got to give it, we got to do give it your best tier when it comes to these American America's teams because Hawaii's on the watch list. Right, watch list, the University of Virginia, which ended a

monarchy. You might remember 1776. There was a war and we beat England. And then Thomas Jefferson wrote the Independence Declaration and we became the country. Which applied to most people for Thomas Jefferson. And then, and then Virginia this past weekend beats the old Dominion University Monarchy 16 to 14 and the queen's on the way to wherever she's going right now in the car heaven it is her funeral

like as we see I was looking for NFL news and I was like well the queen's in a in a really expensive hearse right in the Chargers didn't feel like the Chargers won the game with that back door dude the Chargers yeah like I had Chargers money line and you know a lot of people are doing victory laps on like the chiefs and Kyle might and I think the chiefs are going to be fine but Justin Herbert doesn't throw that pick it's it's over and I text a lot of ifs there

I texted you there's just one big if Gerald Everett fucking hydrated before the game maybe throwing a liquid IV do you think they should have pulled him out? Yeah yes yes but if you don't pull them out can I present to you my argument for don't pull them out if you don't pull them out just don't throw

it to them if you don't throw it to them but if you don't pull them out give us four seconds of fury, dude. Somebody needs to say slow down, Staley. Like, we're getting down there. We had an explosive. Let's line up. Get your big guy under center or get him in the gun, whatever you want to do to get

Justin Herbert as an added player in the offense. But you can't chuck it out to a guy who is literally, like, pull me out of the game, please. And they always say coaches are always like, hey, if you're tired, and they don't even mean this as like an ultimatum. They're like, if you're tired, just tell us, we'll pull you out. How many guys are on staff and how many guys are in a, you know, are in a Chargers polo at that game.

They should have eyes on him. And how many means of communication do they have with Staley? They broke their promise. That's crazy to me. But what's crazier to me is Gerald Everett can't give me three, four seconds of just like effort. But Justin Herbert throwing that ball sidearm doesn't help either. I'm just saying the Chargers, the biggest worry I have about them now is Justin Herbert's ribs. And you know how ribs can feel.

One thing I loved about that game was Zion Johnson and Chris Jones battling. There's a young star brewing in Los Angeles, and I love this dude. I had to practice against Chris Jones last year. Unique combination of 6-6-290 pounds, runs a 4-7, legit, and the fastest part of the 40 yards is the first 10-yard burst, 5-yard burst. He presents a lot of issues for O-Lignment. Zion Johnson competed in the first half. Chris got the better of him in the second.

I played in the game like that with a guy named Adama. do early in my career and it was a shaping game in my career as a player. I can't wait for the second time they play. Oh yeah. It's going to be, uh, it's going to happen again and maybe we'll break that down with Boe for Wednesday's show. But yeah, like that feels like a year ago of that game. Chargers look sweet, constantly disappoint America's team. Yeah. And I'm not yet, right? Yeah. Like all the bells and whistles. Look at our aircraft carriers. Look at all this stuff. Yep. I got a couple of people. Look at our tall buildings. But inside these walls. Yeah. It's a little bit messy.

Give us the America's team. So obviously the first one's Alabama. People in this country, for whatever reason, need somebody that's like, that's my dad. And Nick Saban feels like a lot of people's dad. Everybody's the head. Particularly south of the Mason-Dixon. And then you think about the Cowboys, and it's the same kind of effect there with Jerry. Oh, I have them in the Communism tier.

But, you know, people love the Cowboys. I don't get it. That's an America's team. They're going to put them too. So Broncos. They're really called American's team. Well, Alabama's better. than the Cowboys. Yes, you're right, they are.

They may not generate the same revenue. Alabama might be better than the Colts. Yeah, absolutely. You're about to name all Stanford's team's favorite team. Broncos, you know, case in point, Cowboy Reed is sitting behind the camera here, shaking, nodding his head. The Broncos, we all loved watching the Broncos. This one's for John. That's an

America's team type moment. Notre Dame, they suck and everybody loves them. You're going straight, John. You're taking this very seriously. And they have the most, they have the most, like, one of the most players in the NFL, on NFL rosters and they just suck and they have like one of the best O-line

coaches in football, Harry Heastan, they blow guys off the ball and on film. Love that guy's name, Harry Heaston. And on film you're like, these guys should win by 40 and then they're in a nail-biter against Cal and they lose to, you know, Alcorn State or whatever the hell it is.

So those are my America's team. Barry those green jerseys. He's an unironic exercise. And that's my favorite thing because I was going to talk about Texas A&M next. And I don't know what tier they're going in, but they're in like a tier of America's team is like, do not bet this team.

Because I can't even enjoy betting Texas A&M. I was at the kitchen table Saturday night, and I was like, yeah, Texas A&M is going to cover. Like, this is not going to be a problem. But I can't fucking mash Texas A&M in the WinBet app because of the midnight yell. So I'm going to go red light on the midnight yell. And I'm not the only one.

I think most people, it's like they just discovered it this year. I mostly didn't pay attention to it. I remember last year Mark Titus went down there and stood there for the midnight yell. Somebody said he looked like a preppy extra on Yellowstone. Shout out to our guy, Mark Titus. But it's just gotten more cringy. I thought for sure the guy that led the midnight yell down there at Kyle Field was going to get like demoted or something the next week.

I was like, okay, clearly this guy had an off night. Like we're going to the bullpen. We're going to get another guy with a military cut and some overalls. But nah, he was back again. Texas A&M. It was bad. A&M Money Line over here. Let me just say that I think that is a classic and gorgeous college football uniform. Oh, yeah. No stripes. They've gotten rid of the bevels on the logo on the helmet stickers.

They've gotten rid of the awful Mansell shoulder stripe things. A&M, you look good even if midnight yells not so good. And you just reminded me of something. I was sent a clip of Titus. to throw one more America's team in. It's whoever lands four-star guard recruit, Jizzle James. Jizzle James? Jizzle James.

Jizzle James is son of Edgeron, and I believe he's Edron Jr. In a set of like an E.J. or a junior. Hence the jizzle. He's jizzle. He's jizzle James. And Titus and Tate did a segment on Jizzle. That's amazing.

Yeah. Yeah. It was like William Bradford, sun jizzle. It's unbelievable. Everything goes back to the Mayflower. That's Rosillo. Who's in the lead to land jizzle?

Like Sinci, Georgia, LSU, something like that. Got it. No, I mean, like, this is a bad look for Texas A&M. Bad look for Robert O'Keen, man. He's a proud Aggie, and I'm just imagining Robert O'Kee

in a midnight yell. Like, I can't. I choose not to. Michael Bennett went to Texas A&M. You would never see Mass. You would never see Matthew McConaughey at a midnight yell going like you bend in his knee like that. No, dude. Do you think Michael Bennett on his visit went to the midnight yell and was like, I'm sold?

I cannot. The anti-y-yell. Yeah, he is like so anti-midnight yell. It's incredible. Those coaches have to know not to take recruits to midnight yell. Yeah, I don't know. But if Jimbo has to go to that thing at like 1130. Oh, he does?

I think I saw him like at the thing. Did the coaches show up to the midnight yell? We took, Virginia took a basketball recruit to the Foxfield races. one year. That guy did not attend UVA. Yeah, Foxfield's not bad though. If you're drunk, if you're with your coaches. If you're Devante Graham and deciding between Kansas

and Virginia. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're going to Kansas. Yep, yep. So yeah, I thought they'd replace that guy. Midnight Yale is pretty cringy. And we found out today, it's not Texas A&M, Texas agriculture, and I always thought like military because they're kind of doing a pseudo military thing.

I thought I had a military school. Everybody knows it's agricultural and mechanical. Well, first you said mining. I might have said mining. Minecraft. I said mining. That's pretty good. What do y'all do down there?

I mean, it is just, 25,000 people at midnight is insane. It's just what you're doing with them. You have the resources. Let's clean it up a bit. And then UVA ODU, we settled the dog thing. That made national news. I had people fucking tweeting about me like I was supposed to pull some strings

and get their service dog on the sideline. Yeah. Initially there was a mix-up. We thought it was a mascot, right? Or you know, you can't have two mascots? Can you break this down for me? Can you break it down, make? I managed not to read any of the articles that went national this week because, you know,

you don't really want to be on the wrong side of puppies. Yeah. Like allowing a puppy to watch a football game. But, yeah, spoiler, the puppy made it to the field. I offered to have the puppy come to my house. Relax. They put a, they put ski goggles on that dog. I don't think he likes that.

Did anybody ask that? Yeah. Did anybody ask the dogs? By the way. For the rest of his life. Dogs with ski goggles. With sunglasses and shit. Dogs with ski goggles in particular.

Like dogs that are working on a mountain or something. Like, you know, like a Malinois or something that's in a rescue mission. I think that looks cool. The dog's name's Hudson. Hudson should be like your four-year-old white kid. Yeah.

Hudson's not a dog. I'm going to zag here and say, I'm really pissed that we cave to big puppy. Because there's like, you know, like that would have been pretty hardcore or if we were just like, nope, you can't bring your service dog. Here's what I was worried about.

What? That the dog was going to be like in the parking lot, which is right next to the tunnel. Yeah. And then O'DU wins. And then the dog runs on the field. And then they run the dog out and like chits, pisses. It would have been a bad scene.

Fortunately, we allow the dog and then win the game at the end. Yeah. And I hope the dog saw that last drive, you know, service dog and all. I had a good seat. And then we had a, I made the play sheet again. What do you call those things?

The play cards, the play posters? Plackards. Placards. I think you can go play card or placard. Rod Kerker made another one. I guess Virginia has a play in their playbook. They also have a big cat one. So they have me, big cat, and I'm wondering what the fuck the play is.

Well, you see it's visible from the stands. So it might literally be just blocking the booth's vision down to the sideline. Yeah, this is two weeks in a row. I just want to know. Is it a play? Is it a personnel thing? Is it what would it be? If I was a play, if I was a play, what would I be?

If you were a play, I'd have my rush ends in. I'd have all my speed guys in. Okay, offense. What offensive player? Then we're spreading them out. We're going to go downtown Julie Brown. But if I got the big cat on the sign, I'm going to be like, heavy, 23. And then all the big suckers come running in, and you got to get gritty when the big cat sign comes out.

You would be a duo. Yeah, power with no pullers. You would be power with no pullers. If I see you on a fucking, you better. want to be like Zach Martin. Big personnel in there. And then Macon, I was thinking you'd be like an RPO or something. Oh, thanks.

Very popular online. Like, you know, like very popular online. Bubble screen. Very smart. Like very, very, like progressive football. Thank you. Yeah. So you're like caveman football.

You're progressive football. Both work. And I'm probably like a fumbled snap or something. No, no, no. You're like all go routes. All go routes. Just fucking just throw it up there. Yeah.

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and pick up the ultimate daily nutritional insurance. So let's get into these fucking games, dude. Let's get into the slate because we had a bunch of good ones, not as many as last week, but I mean a pretty good slate. We had three big comebacks, and that's how we wanted to start the show. I think there's no bigger comeback than the dolphins comeback. I mean, there's a ton of stuff you can look at yesterday

to tell you how rare a comeback like that is. So on one hand, if you're a dolphins fan, you're super psyched because you have that, firepower. If you're a Ravens fan, you're probably nervous about the secondary. We can talk about that in a second. You're excited about, you know, Tua obviously played really well yesterday. But not something you want to get, yeah, well, I'm not going to be the one to say it. I thought it was uneven. Fourth quarter was electric. Fourth quarter was great. As a plus three and a half better of the Miami Dolphins, that he misses a lot of throws. He misses some throws. And I'm going to lead with the

positive here because obviously I'm in the crosshairs for saying he doesn't throw the And I'm into and on. So you're in to an on, even though you kind of joined the club in the first half. We were texting and you were like, I don't know, man. But like he was, if you do the CP, what it was CPE completion percentage over expectation

or whatever. You drop the O in the acronym, I guess. He was minus 14 in the first half. So, you know, two picks in the first half. They weren't great. You don't want to get used to having to do this, but it is really nice to know you can do this. And for Baltimore,

lot of times teams give up a ton of yards when teams are in perpetual two-minute. Baltimore's defense, the secondary, I mean, they just got Peters back. Humphrey wasn't practicing all week. He had to mix it up, move into the slot a little bit because they lose Kyle Fuller. You know, you've got the young guys struggling at corner, and Kyle Hamilton had a really rough game. So that secondary is tough, and when you pair that with the fact they don't have guys that just win one-on-ones with regularity. I mean, O.A's an exciting guy. They've got a couple players up front, but they haven't been the type of team in the past since, you know, Sugs in them that just has a bunch of guys that wins one-on-ones. And when you're in two-minute mode

on defense, if your backends and experience are young and you can't win rushes when you have to and you have to manufacture pressure, it's going to be a long day. And Baltimore had opportunities. When you start on the, you know, at home and you get that kickoff return for touchdown and, you know, Dolphins spot them seven on the road because of special teams, you're supposed to supposed to win that game. The running back production was terrible. Short, short yardage heard them a lot. Like, they had to get fucking fancy and short yardage. They fumble early in the game, up seven, nothing. They get a chance to go up 14 nothing at home. Like, who knows how different that game is. And then late, you know, you have a third and short. This is the one with nine minutes to go,

I think it was, when they have a chance to bust this game open and go up 21. Third and short, the fucking DVs are playing 10 yards off. Check a bubble screen or something. something. Instead, you end up in fourth and short because your running backs aren't real good. You haven't been able to be great in short yardage. And in fourth and short, you don't get it. So not to mention the fourth downs, but the next possession, you're three and out, and then it's a deep ball immediately. And what happened before the deep ball for the touchdown? You drop a pick. So you have so many opportunities right down to the last drive where with four minutes to go in plus territory, the old Ravens team would ice this game. So they need J.K. Dobbins back.

bad and the Edmonds run on the final drive was the backbreaker because as soon as you know you give up that long run to Edmonds you just had a feeling the way the game was going that to pull this thing out and he was fucking good yesterday I'm like I'm not jumping on some to a top 10 quarterback bandwagon you know my take I asked Reed what would you say my take spin that he's not a great deep ball thrower and he's a middle of the pack quarterback yesterday he proved me wrong on the second one I need to see more when it comes to the deep ball. I mean, you drop a coverage on the left sideline, and I might have been able to make that throw after a softball game.

But the deep ball to Tyreek, even if he had to slow up, I'll give it to you. That's 60 yards. So whether it's Mike McDaniel or it's Tua getting torque back or whatever it is, he looks good, and the throws you have to make are the ones he made in the red zone. Third and 13 to Gaseki. You know, he had another third down where he basically spun out. out. I mean, this, you know, the meme if, you know, the internet joke that if Patrick Mahomes makes this play, it's a big deal. You know, he rolled out, broke and, and hit a touchdown to,

to, how the fuck do you say this guy's name? Cray, Cray Craft. Cray Craft. Cray Craft. Cray Craft. Cray Craft. Coo Cah Cuff Craf. I love saying that. Coo Cah, so, Tua. So, Tua, Tua was good in the red zone. You know, a ton of yak. Both guys were over 70 yards yak wattle and tyreek um we said it be a yackery and the most impressive thing make and we talked about this is see an ingle block on that reception out of the end zone taking a dude for a ride 20 yards converting to uh to being blockers at the second level the screen on the first wattle touchdown 14 gets a block left tackle right the the left guard left tackle are out there creating a seam for this guy McDaniel's a good football coach man so i'm buying and we've been

buying the dolphins as a playoff team they're a playoff team yeah i'm definitely buying the dolphins and the thing that stood out to me yesterday big time was their ability to take punches lamar jackson the price of the brick went up yesterday for lamar jackson the dude is a fucking monster yeah i mean like uh former teammate of mine tweeted yesterday his name is lamar jackson you know he's he he's hemothy him him him he me neutron yeah him but back to serious football talk here you talk about the turning point being the third and two and then the fourth and one Turnover on Downs, nothing is more demoralizing for an offense than having to walk your fucking sorry ass back off the field. Knowing you have the MVP a quarterback and knowing you didn't do enough to get a first down when you need it and to put the team away,

you cannot leave Miami's Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle and Mike McDaniel and Tua's little yak throat. You can't leave them an opportunity to have those at the end. And then Tyreek at the end, just running by people, I have so many questions about sense of urgency on the back end all that kind of stuff and maybe it's because they were lulled to sleep on the underneath throws that turned into yak you said 82 yak for jalen 72 yak for tyreek 190 and 170 respectively for those two those are huge numbers and not all of them came over the top so i can see where you would fall asleep on the back end but my god you got to be awake and that's all he's got to do if he can just he was efficient throwing the deep ball yesterday he was

efficient and they weren't even great deep ball throws but he was like daniel boon and the why i'm you have a security system here me out how Hear me out. Do you have a security system in your house? They weren't tremendous deep throws, but they were good enough to find Daniel Boone out there in the wild frontier all by himself, which is Tyreek Hill. You are really into the Revolutionary War era references. That Lewis and Clark book has you fucking in a pretzel. Stephen Ambrose.

I went for a float on Friday. I went for a kayaking trip, and Kyle responded, Lewis and Clark did like, that was impressive. Lewis and Clark, they average 15 miles a day. So Kyle's really, he's an avid reader. You did 20 miles on the river. 18 that's fucking crazy too much that's too much okay anybody out there is thinking about this too much but i want to say this man like when you're at home and a team's mountain a comeback like that um it can be really awkward in that stadium like you know how it is like at a college game you know

you've been you've watched virginia get up a bunch of rickens and second half and just the the atmosphere if you don't believe in momentum like and i said this yesterday some people that don't believe in momentum right momentum's just confidence which absolutely exists and once two has started playing with it And that's why Waddle talks him up. That's why Tyreek talks him up. And I love that, dude. He is one of the most accurate quarterbacks in the league when he's running that offense.

A couple of those balls early, the picks were not great, but I'm happy for two. I really am. I know it's been sort of a bit, but he seems like a great kid. Seems like a chill motherfucker. Seems like a guy I'd love to play for it. And he's lefty. And he looks great.

That's the big thing. Knock knock. Who's there? Waddle. Waddle who? Waddle I do without you. 19 targets. because that's what it was.

It was sending one dude on a go and somebody else underneath, and that's how they were getting the back end's eyes elsewhere. A million go routes. Knock, knock. Supposedly, Waddle had more yards on go routes than he did all last year. Geseki, who? Gaseki, I guess I can win with this team. Oh, God, that's awful.

Hey, low key, Justin Tucker does hit a field goal to put the Ravens up 3835 with two minutes to go. So I think that was one of the most impressive parts. They then go six place, 68 yards, two minutes to win the football game. It was a great drive. Tua had a great day. They ran these fucking DBs. These DBs were like Forrest Gump running across the country last night or yesterday.

I mean, they ran for over. These guys, these are some next-gen stats I get. 6,000 plus yards of running on the back end. Do the math there. That's miles. That's like five miles or something. Dolphins. Three miles.

It's three plus miles. It's almost four miles. Dude, these guys are out there doing a 10K. Dolphins home for the Buffalo Bills, week three. Yeah, so this is the big, and what are we going to guess that the line's going to be there? Probably bills by, you know, four or six. I think it depends what happens Monday night, but yeah,

five and a half. Six and a half. Yeah. And that's the real test because, you know, Miami has joined the pack, man. Miami's in the pack. But are they the chiefs, the chargers? Are they the bills?

Like, are they an AFC elite? I need to see more. And I think that's fair. The real question that was answered for them with the addition of Tyreek Hill and the maturation of Tua is, fourth quarter, we've all been on teams with quarterbacks where we say this lead is too much. There's not enough time. We don't have the firepower.

These fucking guys are running out to the huddle. During the TV timeout before the drive and they're like, let's go down and score quick. We're in this game. And I've been in a huddle like that before with a really successful offense and there's no feeling like it where it's like I don't care what they line up in, who they blitz, what they bring. We've got guys for this. And for the Ravens not being able to move the ball or possess the football in the second half just compounds that whole thing. Sick Ghezy, Mike McDaniel can now say, remember when we were down 3514 in the fourth quarter? Oh, for sure. He's going to be talking about that.

For years. For years. And another thing is Gaseki, the price went up on Gaseki because the Packers, I still think they go get him. I mean, that's just me. Like, I'm not the GM. I'm not Brian G. But I just, like, you need one more guy. They barely threw the ball to him week one. He actually played a pretty decent part in that win. My guy big Bob Tunyon is just getting healthy. I understand, but he, like, you need another receiver. You need another receiver. And I don't think of Gasecki as a tight end. That's fair. Add a guy like Gaseki, you can move him around. I'm not going to beat that take to

death, but just in case they make the move, you heard it here. Decent gritty. Kyle, you mentioned the fourth quarter, two in the fourth was 13 of 17, 199, four touchdowns, a 154.2 passer rate. If you were to switch the names toa and put Patrick Mahomes in there, people wouldn't be surprised by those numbers. Right, exactly. Because some of the throws he made in traffic. What are the Chiefs, the Chief's biggest wins in the last four or five years since Pat came in in the league have been come from behind games, you know, 15 plus, 13 plus points and they're just boom, boom, boom, boom, four touchdowns in the fourth. There you go. Since 2011, teams were 0 and 711 when trailing by 21 plus in the fourth quarter.

So here's the thing. We've got a victory lap if you're a Miami fan, but we've also got to like, let's not do this a lot. Because if we find ourselves in this situation again, statistically it's not going to happen. Right. The safes will be there. Like let's play a complete game in phase, make the throws the first half. Hey, big day for two. Hey, two and on.

I'm not going to submit, but you guys won that one. Congrats. Congratulations. You'll be two in two weeks. You're a playoff team. You're going to have to deal with you all into January. Okay, the other comeback was Vegas and the cards. And, man, 20-0-0 at one point.

I think as a rusher watching Kyler Murray, it's one of those things that I'm maybe a little early superlative here would be viewing party, being a Raiders defensive lineman, and watching tape this morning. and being sore as hell from chasing this guy and hearing your D-line coach say, upfield shoulder. There is no upfield shoulder, dude.

You rushes upfield shoulder. So what do you mean by upfield shoulder? Upfield shoulder is what they tell an edge guy. You know, your aiming point should be the upfield shoulder of the quarterback. So like for me, if a quarterback dropped to nine is the left end, my job is to be at nine yards, you know, his upfield back shoulder.

So if it's Kyler Murray, you want to be on his right shoulder. If it's Kyle Murray, I'm not sprinting directly at him. I'm basically playing zone defense as I rush him because he's going to bail out the back of the pocket. He had the ball 20-something seconds on that two-point conversion. I mean, like, let's see, how many yards did he run? He ran 84 yards. What do you want these defensive linemen to do?

And you rush three slow guys. Don't rush three slow guys in the red zone against Kyler Murray. I know three-man rush in the red zone is a big thing. Like, don't do that. So big win for them I mean they were on death store I don't know what would have happened If they lost this game in a blowout

But you know him going back to AJ Green After those two drops in the back of the end zone Was big time And I got a feel for for Max Crosby Because he had him dead to rights Late in that game And that would have been curtains Ends up with a holding call on the back end

The Raiders do that extends that drive And you know what happens next So the hold I think came after the Crosby miss sack, which is, which is, he knows he wants that back,

but Kyler Murray tackling him as a motherfucker. So, the Raiders were 39 and no all time when leading by 20 plus points at halftime prior to Sunday. The 20 to nothing lead was also the largest blown lead

in franchise history. Howie Long out there ain't given up no $20,000 leaves. I don't know howie Long wouldn't want to catch Kyler Murray. Howie Long lamented catching John Elway. He really did. He talked about that.

He's always like, man, Chris. That guy could fucking run like a deer. I know some people remember the 90s. Not even deceptive. No, just like you should have seen him in the 80s. Well, like imagine rushing Kyle of Murray, like upfield shoulder, that cat. So the biggest shame for me is...

And engaged and interested Kyle Murray. Yes. And the worst part was like Fortnite dropped yesterday, I guess. I know. The new Call of Duty beta, Modern Warfare 2.0. And if you're out there listening, Modern Warfare 2.0, I would love to play it. I'm on PC. I know I gotta wait till November. Oh, the beta stage.

It's a beta stage. I am also a content creator, so let us know. You're also a beta. I am a beta. With that America's name. Can I segue beta? Can I segue beta here into what I have to say about the beginning of the games? Can't wait.

Do you do a beta segue? We all know how the beginning of the game is indicative of a coach's game plan and a player's ability to take it to the field. Cardinals first, four possessions, three puns and a pick. Raiders come out. out four scoring possessions, boom, boom, boom. I love boom, boom, boom. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That is the difference between two coaches. I'm not buying Cliff Kingsbury, but what the final score shows me is that the right players are on the field for the Cardinals. Yeah. And whoever's,

whoever's writing up the first 15, whoever's making a plan, whoever has to make adjustments, it's falling on the shoulders of Kyler Murray, and he's running around for 30 seconds before he has to make a throw. That's right. And I mean, it's really tough to defend. And, like, what do you say to guys when you get to the sideline. I mean, like, I said it at the end of the game because they win despite themselves. We were doing the live stream

and they're going in, they're driving to score and it reads like, what do you think happens? I go, they're going to score and they're going to miss the two-point conversion

because they're going to do something dumb. And as soon as they scored, they fucking had a delay of game. And I'm like, there it is. That's Cardinals football for you. But no, Cardinals football is finding. We won it at the eight.

Yeah, we won it at the eight. dude like Kyler wants more space so you end up in overtime Doron Harmon made a great play on fourth down I was so hype for him is one of those things where that fell through the cracks that Doron was in he wasn't even supposed to be playing he was in he's in Vegas he's a former teammate of mine in New England a great guy he makes that play I'm learning to Ron's on the Raiders I'm thinking he makes the play of the game

I'm excited but they get the ball back and Hunter Renfro fumbles twice in a row and you know you just you hurt for that guy because he's always He's dependable. And, you know, that's just one of those sequences he's going to want back. Isaiah Simmons made a big play punch and up on Clemson Crime. Clemson on Clemson Crime. And then the, is it the Edwards kid? Picks the ball up and damn near does a Leon let.

Yo, dog, I never saw the true down the goal line angle of that. I don't know if they had it. I think you always have it now. It looked like they didn't have it. Well, maybe they're hiding it because he didn't get in. I don't know how long y'all kept it on. for the live stream because Cliff like was like kind of uh scared to keep celebrating with everybody I was trying to get everybody into the locker room while they they looked at that thing

for about five minutes that's some scary shit that is the scariest shit I mean wow dude wow have we heard enough there's a horror stories here and then it was and then it was call on the field stands I mean the the official probably couldn't catch up with them no I don't think anybody saw it and I think it was very close so the Raiders are in trouble, man. The Raiders are in trouble. And the hardest part about this is you made a change, you know? And in the preseason, we heard all about this, like,

clean football and all this stuff, no penalties. They got to fix it, man. They got to fix it. They don't have a lot of time in that division. That's about as bad a division to be O&2 in, and they got to do it. I reckon everybody's favorite game, the most likely O&2 team to make the playoffs. You'd probably say Bengals over Raiders, you'd think?

think Raiders are in a bad spot? I do think they're in a bad spot. I'm not going to panic about the Bengals. We can talk about that in a second, but who else is O-N-2? It's not a great list. Carolina is O-N-2. The Colts are win-less.

I've seen, I haven't seen enough, but, I mean, are they better than the Jags? Right. I mean, are they going to win that division. Jags are going to Super Bowl. Jags are fucking awesome, okay? I'm a Jags fan. You know what?

Take Syracuse off my America's team list and put the Jacksonville Jaguar. Nothing is more American than having a pool that's littered with pathogens in your stadium. Yeah. And people are swimming in it. Do you know about this?

You don't know about the pool in Jacksonville, Cal? I'm aware of the... Okay, good. That's an American good time there. It's great. So, like, I'm going to put the Jacksonville Jaguards. It's like the hot tub at the Arizona Diamondbacks

Field, you know, used to try to hit it into... There was a hot tub at the Arizona Diamondbacks. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. In center field, there's either the Diamondbacks or one of those teams. People pissing in that thing. Dude, they're out there in jeans, like in the hot tub. There's a guy with boots on.

So red light, like, no, green light pools and hot tubs it. I mean, why not? Let the people at their own risk. Water's good. I'll go Cleveland and the Jets this last comeback. Let's talk about that real quick. I mean, there was a clock management issue. Chubb goes down instead of scoring to go up 30 to 17.

They miss extra point. If he just goes down, they can run out the clock. Who would have thought the Browns would suffer an unhappy ending because Chubb wouldn't go down? An unhappy ending because Chub wouldn't go down. That's good. Yeah. That's good.

Did you see the tailgate yesterday? These people are leaning all the way into it. Like they're fucking in OJ mode right now. The glove don't fit. You must have quit. They got guys with big fake boners under towels. That was unbelievable. They've got the big dick, the guy with the big dick that went viral over the pan.

Happy endings are not illegal. You know the guy with the big... Did you see this? Like literally, depending on the state you're in, it, it's quite illegal. But, you know, like... There's kids posing by like a dummy with a bone. If I look back at my childhood photos and I was at a tailgate like that with my parents, I would kill my parents.

I'd be like the Menendez brothers. And we'd go to a basketball game that night. Yeah, for sure. I think it was RG3. He gave a big Pinox. energy in the Washington, Michigan State broadcast. Quarterback's names Pinox. That's amazing.

Bro, the week before he said there's an orgy in the end. Big sex. Who would have thought RGG3? Mark Sanchez yesterday said, or Saturday, he said, that receiver cleared out of there faster than he clears his search history. There's an offensive line, I think. He said, where to go, Mark. He said, major search history.

Yeah. Yeah, Mark. I mean, like, adults too. That was great. Adults too here. I was like more adults. So Cleveland, Chubb just has to go down. You talk about that.

We have every week in the NFL, we have meetings where we talk about EOH, EOG, end of half, end of games, clock management situations. And the better of the team you are, the more attention to detail they pay to it. And I remember the first time I really got a feel for it was when Matt Nagy came from Kansas City to the Bears. And then when I went to Andy Reid last year, it was like even more so prevalent. in that situation a first down wins the game that's that's how you say it first down wins the game guys first down get down yeah and we didn't see that and it cost them the game second layup line get down gnaz get down yeah yeah second let send that one to nick chub because great song they need every win they can get in this stretch they were lucky to get one last week they have an easy first six games

everybody talked about how like this is the easiest first six game stretch this is why you don't take anything for granted. Joe Flacco last week who almost got benched for a guy named Mike White in New York. They were chanting for Mike White goes on the road and beats the Browns. So nothing is for certain with the Browns. And whenever Deshawn Watson gets back, they're going to have their work cut out for him. Home Steelers on Thursday, they're not Falcons. I could have been four and no with Chacobo. Right. But I don't know now that I look at the Falcons and the Steelers are not in this I agree. Either.

So, you know, 2,229 wins in this very situation in a row in the NFL. You like the win percentage things? 0.3 win percentage, 30 to 17 with 155 left. This is my favorite type of game. We had an on-side kick, improbable comeback. Onside kick to the left. Especially when it happens to the opposite of put a Brown's massage,

massage tier for America's teams. No, it's way down there. What do you mean? The Browns. We hate the Browns because it's Sean Watson. Right. Bad. Bad.

Massage. I thought massages were like. No, massage down at the body. S tier. Creep. Creep. Creepy. There you go.

Creepy is the tier. We're going to put Urban Meyer and the Browns in creepy tier. There's a lot of this. Yeah. Yeah. That fucking elf at midfield with it. Everything about this. They have become the biggest creep show organization, the tailgates, the elf logo,

with his weird, take my strong hand energy. Like that guy. You like him. What's his name? Brownie. Brownie. He used to do chores. That was the, you were here on that pod right now.

Oh, sir. So you want to know what happened back in the day in Northern England. Oh. Is that it? You lay an angle file and shit. Northern England, they used to go to bed and they said this Brownie guy would come out and do chores for him, this little elf. So like in the morning you wake up and your shit would be all in order.

You have your blacksmith tools just laid out there on the table. That's all. Awesome. Is that true? That's true. And you had to leave a fresh cream out for the brownie to thank him. And if you didn't leave fresh cream out, he would curse you. So your house would be cursed. You wouldn't get any chores done ever. Like a Santa cookie situation. What did he do with the cream? What kind of cream? What kind of cream? Like, is he consuming the cream or is he using the cream for other?

consuming the cream. I think that's what he runs on cream. Okay. So, so yeah, the fucking browns, man. Man, I hope. They forgot the cream. They forgot the cream. That's it. And Joe Flacco is the, yeah. Joseph Vincent Flacco.

He said it was really weird because how quiet it got here. That's something I've never heard before. It was so loud and all of a sudden there was silence. That's beautiful. It's the best sound in football. That's a guy who's been everywhere in the football world and he hasn't seen that yet. That's the best sound in football winning on the road. And Garrett Wilson, because it's louder than winning at home for the Jets.

So Garrett Wilson. And also, congratulations all the New York teams. They all won for the first time in like eons, including the Mets, the Yankees, the, this is a good weekend for America. All rise. So yeah, and Garrett Wilson playing big and like seemingly, you know, maybe he pans out, maybe he doesn't. But this is a good start. And Joe Douglas, I feel for him because Mackay Beckton got hurt. Your quarterback got hurt.

You need the defensive end and the wide receiver to have a good year. Sincere Dallas, okay? There wasn't a comeback here, unfortunately. I've lost in a game I think it was last year was that last year with the Vikings and Cooper Rush you know I lost money on that game

so I wasn't going to bet the fucking Bengals here I have to. There was a lot of points you bet the Bengals yeah and you told me not to beforehand and I did well I'll just say this Cooper Rush can keep them in ball games I know I said I think the Cowboys will be out of it

I don't believe in the Cowboys okay I'm not changing my tune this game says as much about the Bengals this does about the Cowboys, but Cooper Rush showed the trust that they have in him. He made two big throws that bookended the game, both of this guy, Noah Brown. The first one on fourth and two. From their own 44. Their own 44. They're going to roll out there like they got, you know, they got some Mike McCarthy turned into an internet coach. Two minutes into the game at zero zero,

drive number one. Good for Cooper Rush. Fuck it. We're going. And it wasn't a checkdown. Dude, I think he's like a top half quarterback right now. Top half. Betting against Cooper Rush was terrifying. Yeah, dude, I'm not doing it. He's in control. He's in control. I picked the Cowboys yesterday. You picked the Cowboys yesterday.

I went perfect yesterday, actually. My pick segment was CBS. Did you really? Is this the most proud pick you have? No, I owe it to my history of playing and blocking for backup quarterbacks. Yeah. And I know the attention to detail that goes into the building during a week where you have your star player like a Dak Prescott get injured and you know that everybody's got

to be on their peas and cues. You're down a left tackle, a generational left. tackle. There's things that need to be done differently this week in practice. And even Zeke Elliott said, this guy knows his shit. When Cooper comes in, when Coop comes in, he knows his shit. That's like verbatim what he said. Like he comes in, we're not worried about it. Pick them because of that. You come out yesterday and you're like, wow, Cincinnati does have some real issues. And wow, Cooper Rush can win for the Cowboys. Yeah, since he has real issues, I'm not going to panic on them. I mean, like, listen, in preseason, and I got the Ravens to win the North.

I have the Bengals going to the playoffs. This is a regression to the mean partially because they were a 10-17 last year. They had these problems last year and it didn't stop them from going to the Super Bowl but they seemed to be getting worse up front. I think a lot of it is, you know, new offensive line across the board, right?

You go on the road, big tests. You played a really multiple defense the first week who had like T.J. Watt for most of the game. High Smith, all those guys. They got after you. a totally different challenge this week you had a bunch of guys that can just go and one of them is like a fucking alien and Dallas uh and Dallas got after him but burrow the appendectomy uh you know all these guys trying to trying to work with one less preseason game than you're used to

I mean three preseason games these days in the NFL I think it's going to take time unfortunately and it's not a cushion that they they uh that they want to give in the a FC but they're going to have to. The offensive line played bad. Leo Collins, like, I like the signing, but you got to help him more, you know, and he's got to play better. Not just the sack that he gave up to

Micah Parsons, which was, listen, and you know this is an offensive tackle, he's turned. I watched it 15 times in here last night. I go, oh my God, Lail Collins has turned to the sideline at three and a half yards. He's turned to the end zone. On his third, so by his third kick, Lail's

already opened up, and that's just by nature the fact that he's going against a Ferrari on the edge. He's happened to see whiz by him and practice a bunch. No, the different, yeah, you're absolutely right. I didn't even think about that. Think about one-on-one pass for us, the guys that you're like, I hope I don't play him one day. You're so right.

You're so right. He's like, he's like, fuck, he's coming to town. I said I was Joe Burroughs bodyguard. It's not going well. On that sack, he's turned to the end zone for people that, like, if you can get an offensive tackle turned, the whole game changes for you as a rusher. And usually offensive tackles turn because of speed. Like, okay, so imagine if I'm trying to guard Chris at the top of the key in basketball.

Oh, you would get this word. So Chris is, if Chris is right-handed, he wants to go to my left. He wants to take it with his right hand. Now imagine if I position my body this way on Chris. Chris is right here. Now he knows he can go. He can go this way really easily. He's turning his shoulders.

That's what opening the door for a tackle does. And that's tough to see. And it's even tougher against Michael Parsons who can threaten with speed. And he can put his foot in the ground as we. as we've seen time and time again and get back underneath. So he wins underneath because he's turned sideways, running full speed to the end zone, and so is Michael Parsons.

So imagine being in a race to the end zone with Michael Parsons, and all Michael Parsons has to do is stop. And he does at five yards, and then beats him again on the recovery. So, you know, you had that, you had a false start on, you know, on third and eight that Lail Collins was guilty of that turns in third and 13.

And this was indicative of, you know, the Bengals' attitude yesterday. They had to in the second half, just hoped to get to third and manageable. They were trying to work the run game, but on third down, the same problems that happened in the first half happened in the second half.

I mean, on third and 13, last year's Joe Burrow is going to be, you know, taking shots. He's going to be trying to, they had to check down, dude. In the first half, they turned Parsons loose on third and four. Like, what are you doing?

They give up a blindside sack. You know, you really struggled with penalties. You know, sample got whipped. You had false starts. you had the other alignment. We're not even talking about the other guys, but it's just, they also had chances to win. At the end of the first half,

it was a 10-point swing if Hilton picks that ball off and goes for six. It would have been a tremendous play, but these are the plays you got to make. And then late, you know, we dropped two more picks, Hubbard and Hilton, and the defense played well in the second half. Reeder. Hubbard played great. Like, Hubbard really looks good. I like Reader a lot.

You know, those two ends played well. So the defense, man, although they missed some chances, it's not on them. What it is on is the offense and they got to hurry up and get it together. And I'm not going to put it all in the O line because Joe Burrow doesn't look great. Joe Burrow does not look like Joe Burrow right now.

And he would tell you that. You lost weight. He literally looks smaller at the moment. Kyle, leading the witness here. But I give you four other dudes on the offensive line you've played with for five years who are B-level players. I assume you're taking that over a pro bowl offensive line that you've been with for two weeks.

Yeah, for example, when I went to the Senior Bowl after playing at Oregon, I had played one full year with one group of guys, and then you go to the Senior Bowl, and albeit they may be all-stars in their own right in their division. When you come together, it's five guys who have never played together before. How quick can it come together? It's going to take four to five weeks of live speed because you can't simulate game speed, right, Chris? I mean, we can practice until the cows come home, but you're never really going to pin your ears back,

and I'm never going to try to finish. a guy, that stuff happens in these games, especially when you're playing against superstars like Micah Parsons. But the stuff I have issue with, it's not an effort thing with the Bengals. It's not a, you know, and these guys are professionals. They're going to work hard. But when I go look at the tape from week one, and I'm going to take a deeper look at this tape from a protection standpoint, I see technical issues. Like Jonah Williams took a great set against Highsmith in week one. Great set. The one thing he didn't do is stab his left hand. I love Jonah Williams game. I think He's a great athlete.

He finishes elite rushers. That got Highsmith to chop, stack, sack. Next thing you know, it's a reoccurring theme. They try to pull the left guard to trap TJ Watt last week. He doesn't get there because there's trash on the deuce block. The puller never gets there. It's compounding. These are the things that you see in filming, and the O-Line coach says,

guys, we're one block away. We're one guy away. We have a touchdown here if we have a half a second. That happens so much in meeting rooms. Like, hey, guys, we just didn't take advantage of this one day. closer than we think. I know those routes are out there. Boyden Higgins didn't get a lot of touches early. They came on late. And for one drive, Joe Burrow looked like Joe Burrow. And the reason I love Joe Burrow, there's no quarterback I'd rather have when the chips are down. And the chips are down

for them because Joe Burrow has a short memory. He does not care. There was one drive in the late in the game when they tied it up that he looked like Joe Burrow. You know, like it's in there, dude. It's not like one of these things where somebody lost his fastball. Maybe the offensive line needs to do the thing where they gather in a room and say a fact about each other. You know, like, do that. It always works in the business world. They need to go to a panic room.

Yeah, just like do it. No, like one of those, yeah, like the, the, the, is Mikea Parsons. They need to go to an escape room. They need to do like a corporate day where together. Yeah, these corporations do all these team building exercises. Do that. Paint some pottery. Yeah, paint some fucking pottery.

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So Tampa Bay, New Orleans Okay, I gave out New Orleans and then Kamara was inactive so I did not bet New Orleans I bet the under We were at 44 We were, I took a nap During this game

I felt so good about it This is just when these two teams get together I mean it is physical It's a slug fest Oh yeah You know three bits Literally It's awesome

There's slugs The game was too boring to talk about. Here's the bottom line. The bucks are going to have to win with run game and defense this year. You know, we talked about the thin line between being weaponless and having all these exciting new big names from

1996 on their team. You know, like, it's already rearing its head. James has two broken backs. Bro, that's insane that he played like that. According to Jay Glazer. Jay Glazer. But it can't get any worse. I wish Jay Glazer would have tweeted

he doesn't have a third back. Chris Long got hit by a car this week, but he's suiting up anyways. Kyle fell out of the plane on the way to the game. He will play. He will play. Because that's got to once you do that, it's like a, hey, fuck it, whatever happens. I love this guy. I remember when I had a high ankle

when I was shooting it up and playing through it, like couldn't walk during the week, play on Sunday. I, you know, like, I didn't want people to know, but I was like, give me one of those Jay Glazer tweets, man. Just let me have a handicap placard on the field. I was like Spags, can you put something out in the papers? Like, he's still dealing with his ankle injury? Because I don't

look great right now. He's like, no, we don't want anybody to know. In today's game, when you're hurt, everybody knows, dude. And nobody cares. And nobody cares.

Except for if you're going to hit James Winston. Dad used to tell me, nobody cares. Yeah, well, that was traumatic hearing that a lot. I'm okay. I'm healthy. I'm happy.

But James Winston's back, you know, through three picks in the fourth, I guess. And the big story is the fight, and what the fallout from that is. I mean, if you'll remember a few years back, Mike Evans got into it with Latimore, I think it was. And he was hit with a one game suspension.

I mean, he gathered his steps and just lit him up. Same knee, same shoulder. I just want to know, like, the Bruce Ariens element of this, you know, the Marshawn Latimer. What did he say to Brady? Because he had to say something incredibly foul. Brady turned. Brady inciting. I love this.

You know, all these. these people bitching about Brady didn't get this. He didn't get that. Like, okay. Look at Mike Evans. He said, that's Tom Brady. What the fuck am I supposed to do?

Like Chris Long out there running in from the sideline. Kyle Long, well, coming off the side of him. Look at Kyle Long hitting William Hayes. I thought the announcers could have been a little bit more emphatic about the call. I feel like if I'm doing a game,

if I'm in the booth and there's a fight on a field. You got to be like Jim Ross, the hat goes backwards. It's like, by God, here we go. That's Mike Evans music. Yeah.

I think, I think I know what Latimore says here. Are you ready? So Brady's complaining to the official. I think that's a fuck out of here. Isn't that clearly a fuck out of here? It could be or it could be something personal about your family. You are no longer with your wife.

Well, that's the type of thing I'm wondering if he said because... I think it's a fuck out of here. You think Mike Evans did all that over a fuck out of here? Yes. Well, he did. I don't think Mike Evans knows what's going on. Mike Evans doesn't care what happened. See, here's what I want to know.

Fournet push. I want to know. And this is, we'll just give it right now, the viewing party or the fly on the wall. I want to know what was said here. I want to know what was said from Bruce Ariens. He was like, kill him. You know, like Mike, I want to know what like, what Marshawn Lattimore said. And we talked about this last night on the live stream, me and Nate, like, there were times in my career where I laid in bed and anticipated conflict with somebody I didn't like on the other team.

And I made like social contracts with myself like, if he does this, you have to do this or you're a sucker or like you have to answer the bell. Like you have to do some extra shit if he does this. So sometimes guys are laying in bed deciding that like if he does this one fucking thing, I mean, it doesn't help that Lattimore had him like pretty locked up. I mean, I think Homeboy only had like a couple catches for 14 yards or something when he was on Lattimore. So there's a lot of frustration. There's a history and now we'll see what the suspension says. I appreciate how much these guys truly just fucking hate each other.

Is there anybody? You asked the question before the pod. I'm like, dude, is there anybody out there that hates each other like these two jokers? And I'm sure there's guys in division that play O-Line or D-Line that just can't stand each other, but they don't have enough oxygen to come fucking running from 40 yards. Latimore, Evans, every time it's pay-per-view. Like, I'd rather watch this than Jake Paul fights. Well, Mike Evans just blacked out there.

I love it. That's when you're like, I'm going to get ejected now. Does the building get any residual juice from that? Like, hey, our guy, all right, let's go. It's us against the world. Or is it like, there's no juice. Everybody tries to move on. When something like that happens in a game, it's handled in, like, quiet conversations

and small populations of people. but then when you get back in the team setting it's like you know what happened happened we've got to keep our cool we love seeing you guys look out for your teammates but be smart also think it's like how they how they fuck with tom brady even though he took that break even though everybody's like oh he's got wednesdays off like this whole thing like i worried about the break from a standpoint of execution but not like his standing in the locker room like when you're the goat people want to go to bat for you i want to go to costa rica that's tom brady what you want me to do that's what i said when you were when you were beating up William Hayes. I said that's William Hayes what he want me to do. Yeah.

I ran off the sideline. You know like that's your guy dude. That's your guy. So like, you know, this is a good sign for Tom Brady and not one that surprises me that guys really fuck with him hard, but it doesn't it doesn't hurt that they hate each other. When fucking Tom Brady chucked that Microsoft surface, boy, I was like angry Tom. Here he comes. The surface. I thought I thought the surface was like the surface in the NFL were having a falling out. because the surface is always breaking and Microsoft doesn't want people like breaking the surface, people frustrated with the surface.

The announcer was like, he's got that childproof thing on it. And I was just like, I just pictured a toddler chucking a surface. It feels so satisfying when you're really mad to throw something, especially in electronic. Like, I've thrown my phone before because there's danger. For much less than what Tom Brady threw that surface about. So the best of the rest, man,

do you want to start with the Giants? Sure. Let me get the notes out. I don't go out of order here, but the Giants, man. The buzz is going to be serious in New York right now. All right. Still no Tibbs, no OJolari. All right.

Yep, yep, yep, yep. Panthers fumble the opening kickoff. That wasn't so hot. Hey, let's just run the highlights. Cowboy, I love it. This is two weeks ago. Please mute it and run it. I love this shit.

That's the best. Giants just get a field goal three nothing. Panthers fumble again. There's a fourth and one. And Davel's going for these as if he has Josh Allen at quarterback is Daniel Jones, and it's a little slower. It's a little more rickety, but he picks it up on a play action rollout on fourth and one.

These receivers you haven't heard of, Sills, Hudson, Richie James, you might have heard of, but Richie James is basically wide receiver one out there. Did they get the ball of Tony? Yeah,

Tony and Wondale coming. Just get the second half of the season. Okay, second half group. Another field goal, six nothing. Robbie Anderson looks so much younger wearing three. I know you don't like the change to three specifically,

but when he was wearing... It's a zoomer number. Yeah. Three's a good number. He looks like he's a rookie out there. Three's a good number. Three's a good number. But the panther shoulder numbers are still comically small.

Yeah. I mean, the smallest numbers you've ever seen in your entire life. So small, I didn't even notice them. Yeah. I don't know there were numbers on their shoulders. Okay. So actually, here's a nice exercise. This will be my Frank Gore Award.

a winner because I bet neither of you guys can pronounce that last name. Jimenez. Jimenez. Damn. What a curve ball, dude. This guy is pressuring the quarterback. Baker was running for his life the entire game. Dog, their defense statistically is better than like the best in the league, like better

than the bucks on third down. I love Leonard Williams. And they're doing it without their Ojolari and Tibido, whatever you believe is going to happen when they get back. You're not, you're not. I'm not fine. No, I don't think Tibado is going to be that good. I'm not buying Kavon Tibido as performing relative to his draft position.

Right. Right away. I don't know. I don't know. There was a period there. I don't know. But we don't know. And I hope he proves me wrong.

Now get ready for him to have one sack one week and people are going to be doing a victory lap. And that'll be okay. Okay. Carolina goes up 13, 6. Then they go up 16, 13 later. Christian McCaffrey breaks off a 49-yarder. But these giants, Kyle said it last week. With Dable being in the building, there's just a little bit of belief there.

And they think they can win these games, and that goes a long way. Carolina goes up 13-6. Giants are resilient. Kyle said it last week. Dable in the building got some belief you think you can beat teams. That's great. They end up going up 1613 on a 56-yarder from Graham Ganoa with 334 to go, playing his old team, the Carolina Panthers.

Knock, knock. Yeah? Yeah, who's there? Cano. Cano who? You know those two teams that you just beat, aren't that good? You know that, right? Let me think on that.

I think Tennessee is better than what they showed week on. They're going to play the bill's tough. We talked about this. And I think Carolina's capable. But the one thing was Tennessee, they were just so sloppy. You know, listen, I'm rooting for Daniel Jones. I'm rooting for Sequin, who didn't need to do that much yesterday to win that game. It wasn't like he had the day he had week one.

That's nice to know about your team. On the third and sixth needed to ice it, it was another, Daniel Jones play action rollout. He put a WDE in Quicksand. You don't do that. If you're a WDE, man, you just start running to the sideline. Yeah. You just got to go. Take the angle.

But they're using his athleticism. I saw they were running QB power and keeps the week one. Dude, playbook has not changed since when Dave will had Josh Allen. It's beautiful. So you mentioned Graham Ganoe 4 for 4, 13 of the 19 points scored by the Giants. He is an MVP candidate this week. Game ball. Game ball candidate.

one thing I will say about the Giants and I'm glad you guys are talking about Daebel I'm glad you're talking about Josh Allen when you're talking about Daniel Jones and the Giants because I want to talk about Mike Kafka who was the quarterbacks coach in Kansas City he's now the OC for the New York Giants I think what you've seen the last few weeks

is an incorporation of an infusion of the bills and the Chiefs. There's a lot of overlap there offensively with the dynamic playmaking abilities of all three of these quarterbacks now Daniel Jones he falls in the playmaking dynamic category after yesterday. Yeah.

But Kafka is infusing that confidence in the same way that Daibol has with the entire team. Kafka, Daniel Jones, spending a lot of time together. And I love to see this. And I haven't heard a lot of people say, hey, you know, there's some Kansas City infusion here. But we see it. The shovel pass to Saquant on the two point. That's Travis Kelsey in the Kansas City offense.

So I'm looking forward to see him more put your guy in comfortable position offense from the giant. We got yelled out about giving up a shovel pass to Travis Kelsey in the red zone. I mean, everybody knows. coming as a Casey staple. So yeah, I mean, good win for you guys. Thank you, congratulations. 2 and 0. You going to the playoffs?

Well, I mean. Hadn't gotten that far. Last time you started 2 and 0, you went to playoffs. Cooper Rush next week. Oh, that's going to be a showdown, dude. At home. That's going to be a showdown. Cuts clothing has perfected the art and science of men's shirts.

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obviously Pittman was out which is a big deal but you shouldn't be a receiver like one receiver shouldn't mean a shut out for you and you know you got rid of Carson Wentz a lot of because of the way the season ended in Jacksonville

right and he actually outplayed Matt Ryan can we play a little game yeah respectfully would you rather have a quarterback for this Colts team which appears to be quite capable in a playoff team would you rather have Matt Ryan or Carson wins

Okay, we'll come back to that one. Would you rather have? Davis Mills or Matt Ryan? Davis Mills. Davis Mills. Okay. Davis Mills. There was one play.

I mean, Matt threw a ball into traffic, like the first drive, you know, like the threat of pressure. I mean, you know, our young guy coming around on a loop and, you know, he just burns the ball into traffic, so you start the game with the pick. And then like late in the half,

you know, they're down 14-0. you know they get a drop they have an opportunity to get back in the game and then the last possession this is like where i'm like how matt probably doesn't feel great is like they get first and 15 and they end up in third and long i think it was and matt ryan falls down on a sack like like just falls onto the ground i just don't think they're going to be great under pressure this year i mean like when there's an older quarterback we always say this um and he could be dealing with something acute right now coming out of camp. We don't know that.

But we always say we don't know where the ledge is with older quarterbacks. Like, right? The ledge can be really steep and you might not see it coming. So every offseason with a 30 plus year old quarterback, especially like somebody his age, it's a big question mark. Like, who are you going to get? And for the Falcons, they're probably looking up there like,

well, this validates us letting him walk. And for the Colts, you're kind of like, damn, are we, we're three veteran quarterbacks in a row. This was our window. the wheel. This is our window. We've spun the wheel through our window. We automatically thought it wasn't upgrade. I don't know yet. Maybe it wasn't. I don't know yet. I automatically was guilty of thinking it wasn't upgrade. Trevor Lawrence or Matt Ryan? Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence yesterday was really good, dude. I just want to say this. I wrote these down. It was like, I love Trevor.

The first third and eight, he was on the money and it just didn't stop. I mean, Zay Jones, you know, like fourth and three. Doug Peterson, I love Doug down there. Dude, like this is just imagine coaching in Philly and then coaching in Jacksonville. Like the difference in the day-to-day grind. Two journalists in the locker room versus 30. Like just, I mean, he's going to be sheffing it up quietly down there all year. And they look like a team. If this is the Colts, they can challenge for the division.

Like Trevor Lawrence, if he throws the ball the way he threw yesterday, if Christian Kirk plays the way he's played through two games, which we said like, listen, he probably overpaid for him and he fucked up the market for GMs. But this guy's been automatic, and he's been, like yesterday, they got him, the first third and three, he's out of the backfield. They run him on basically a reverse late in the game. Like they're using him in a bunch of different ways.

Trevor looked really good rolling to his left, made a couple really good throws where he had to kind of pivot and roll to his left and flip his hips and throw the ball down the field. But the best pass he threw all day, ironically, was to Jamal Agnew, who dropped. it in the end zone. I mean, beautiful touch. And my poor wife

who accidentally drafted Jamal Agnew in the first round of fantasy draft. I blame the ESPN website. I missed out on some points there. But Trevor Lawrence was good yesterday. He was really good. And put the game away late with Kirk on that

kind of end around deal. 34 year old Ryan Tannahill or 37 year old Matt Ryan? Ryan Tannahill. So you're now saying you would take every quarterback in that division. over Matt Ryan. What we're seeing right now, this is who Matt Ryan is,

and maybe it's a product of the offense. Based on the inability to throw the ball 10 or more yards with efficiency, I'm taking anybody else because they can run better than him. I don't want to overreact, and maybe that's what we're doing. And we'll complete the game with Carson Wince

or Matt Ryan. I can't do it. I can't do it, dude. And like, we picked, it was kind of one of those things, man, we picked the Colts. I don't know where they were on the confidence.

Shout out to the, line too the Jags O line. But it just goes to show you in a division like that, it's always fucking crazy. And with a veteran quarterback, you just never know. They have to host the Chiefs this week, too. Like, they're just playing good football. The first week, they were dropping the football.

Lawrence is missing some throws, but the guys are open. They're blocking things up. Like, they're exciting. That's why they're one of America's teams. Lowest pressure percentage of Trevor Lawrence's career. If he continues to feel comfortable, he can continue to ball in obscurity. Brandon Sheriff.

I'm excited. Last week we were saying, he's kind of gotten a pass a little bit. Kingston asked me the question like, does he get a pass? I'm like, well, naturally, first off, he had the fucking, he had the devil incarnate

as his coach last year. You know, like instead of like post-game analysis, you're getting a finger in somebody's blood. And seemingly handled it the right way off the field too, right? Like Trevor did. I feel like he was never in the news for the wrong stuff. No, and he's in a small market. So he's not going to get heat.

That's just the way these things go. So Rams, I took the Falcons. I felt like this was a lock. They're actually pretty competent team offensively. They just can't seem to get the ball to Kyle Pitts. Jalen Ramsey is him again. He wasn't him.

Now he's Himmathy again. Closes the game out on a pick. He made some really good plays yesterday. Did you think it was a lock at 28 to 3 or 31 to 10? No. I thought it was a lock before the game. But as you know, teams come back. We just talked about it for a while.

And the Rams, you know, got a punt. made some mistakes and let them back in the game. Alan Robinson, I felt so bad. He had a touchdown and they called it back. You know, like, how hard is that? After last week, you're like, fuck, I found the end zone. Now we're going to line up again. I'm glad that his button on Matt Stafford's controller to throw to Alan Robinson

is not broken anymore because, I mean, the guy creates separation. He can elevate. He has great hands. He's physical in the run. He's a guy you want on the field all the time as an offense. And if they can incorporate him, it'll get Cooper even more open. Well, Cooper didn't have a catch for a little bit in that game yesterday. You know, get Kyle Pitts the ball.

He's on my fantasy team. What the, Drake London's getting the ball. He looks really good. He's got tremendous body control. I don't want to say too much about the game. Other than, like, oddly pleasing to the eye. Like, I don't like those uniforms, but when you put them together, they weren't bad.

It looked goofy to me. Yeah. And the 28 to 3 thing. 28 to 3. Oh. So there's what, there's two games we didn't hit, and they're two of the most boring games of the Sunday. Your guy, Mitchell Tribesky,

I don't want to pile on, but not a great game. And New England comes away with the win. Here's the bottom line in that game. Aguilar going up top to get that catch before the half. At that point, they're still in that game. That was a big play to give that one up. Then late in the game, you drop a pick. The very next play, the Steelers muff a punt.

So they drop a pick in a one score ball game, I think it was. And then the very next play, they muff a punt. And the poor Polish kid. Oshowski. who was supposed to be a legend in Pittsburgh. He was supposed to be a Polish legend in Pittsburgh. And they just keep the camera on him. He's leaving the field.

He's just shaking his head. Gunner? Gunner's in Pittsburgh now? Yeah. O'Shefsky. O'Shefsky. He's a gunner, but he's returning punts. That's, that's counterintuitive. That's what's wrong.

That's what's wrong. You need to put him at Gunner. So, I mean, we're only talking about these two teams. No disrespect because they are Pittsburgh in New England. Well, it's very cool that these two franchises are now playing in games that we don't want to talk about. I want to talk about Mitch for a second. Talk about Mitch. Okay.

that was a second. I'm happy that Mitch is starting. I'm happy that he won the competition. And now what I need to see from Mitch is the ability to be confident in himself and make the throws that he can see. If he sees a throw, make it. Picks happen, but touchdowns happen more often than not when you're confident and you're prepared, which I know he is. He works hard. He's got some protection now. That defense is awesome. I love that defense. I've been on a team with Mitch where the defense plays complimentary football. He doesn't have to be a Superman, but if he can threaten the edges of defenses, that'll get guys open down the field. The problem is you've got this hometown hero kid who had a really nice preseason,

and if you're Mike Tomlin and the chance for Pickett came in the third quarter, you know, we said early in the season, all Tribisky has to do is avoid the stinker games. And this game was a stinker. And so like now you're going to have the heat on you, and it just so happens that the kids from right down the road, and he had a really nice preseason. But if you're Mike Tomlin and you think that kid's the answer, When do you bring him in? The problem with Pickett is that in the preseason,

he was also Dinkin and Duncan short passes. Yesterday, Mitch was only thrown short. He had five of his 12 passes, 74 yards in a pick when he was 10-plus air yards downfield. He checked the ball down a lot. He went through the entirety of his progression a lot. I saw him standing tall in the pocket like he's coached to do. What I didn't see was that killer instinct from Mitch

where he just fires his gun. gun and finds guys down the field. He's got dudes to throw the ball too. I really like Paginza a lot. The chemistry's there. He got Picking's the ball late, but it was too little too late. And I feel like once he got the ball rolling and felt confident towards the end, there wasn't enough time. And Kyle, you mentioned the defense. We saw how big an impact T.J. Wack can have. Last week, they had seven sacks. This week, Mack Jones has only hit three times, had two pressures on 35 dropbacks. And Bill takes pride in scheming up the Steelers, dude. like there's if there's any team that bill's like these fucking guys like it's the steelers so you know like

that was a meaningful week for the the pads and and just like perfect bill bellichick was so happy driving back to his house in the cape last night uh thinking about that six and a half minute drive that they didn't give the ball back on what does he listen to on the way home does you listen to music audio books about like silence got it definitely maybe stephen ambrose maybe the mayor Weather Lewis biography. So I'll let you We got the Broncos. That's the last of the slate. I mean, and then we'll talk about J.D.G.

But, big win. Let's ride. And making great prediction in our 1V1 matchups, you said Brandon McManus and the uprights. You're a big kicker guy. You're like a kicker specialist. I didn't watch one fucking second of this game. You guys have to help me. Well, there was a point when

Russell Wilson tripped late in the game. He got booed by the way yesterday. He like tripped. Two for two. And, uh, and, uh, And I was like, I was thinking the thing, it's going to be Broncos country. Let's hide if they start. I was ready to print the T-shirts. But alas, the Broncos come in. You had two or three, two or three Broncos country on the live streams.

Huh? You had two or three of those on the last one. Country, let's hide. Yeah. Broncos country, let's hide. So Russ got booed. Hackett is big struggle bus. Daniel.

13 felonies for 100 yards. used a timeout because the fucking punt return didn't have a returner. And then it's like the one thing you remember. Like what are we out here for? We're out here for fun. It's like high school football. It's not like the, yeah, it's not like a guard. Where's Timmy?

Yeah, dude. I mean, they had to use a, they had to use the last time on a delay a game. Like, it was just. And that wasn't the most egregious. What was the most egregious? Talked us about the field goal, setting up that field goal. Well, the fans, I think, were the most egregious. They had to start counting down the play clock because we kept, like, delay of game.

And so the fans, we channed down 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 to make sure we wouldn't. It's like an NBA shock. And we still screwed up. At an away game. Yeah, it's bad, dude. That's my viewing party. I wish I had been here with Cowboy Reed during the live stream to watch Daniel just completely get owned by that clock.

Watch the live streams. Yeah, sure. Winbet, Middle Light, Greenlight, pie. Do it, do it, do it. Make was really into it. It was good, right? It was really good. What was your favorite part?

Very entertaining. Probably the middle? In the middle. Yeah. Yeah. We're in the meat of it. It was pretty good. So you're also two times inside the five-yard line,

and you've got to settle for field goals. So I know we're going to have a big shotgun at the goal line discussion. You hog mollies don't like that. It's not a very big discussion. Is it not? Hold on. Because hold on a minute. Hold on.

I agree. Hey, hold on. Hey, hold on. Steve Palazzo from Pro Football Focus. They're never wrong. Touch 10 percent is on run plays from the one-yard line since 2017. Yeah, shuffle your notes here. because shotgun 63%

no shotgun 55% From where? Where is that from? From the one yard line. From the one yard line. Well, all right. So you people, you guys are more spread out, yeah? If you're in shotgun?

Ours are not really. Not necessarily. Depends on where you are on the field. Okay, how about the one yard line? When you're on the one or the two yard line, you're taught to have tighter splits. So nobody can shoot the gaps and you can be hip to hip.

But if he's under center, you guys are touching each other's hips. If it's under center, were shoe to shoe or Stripe to Stripe as Lou Holtz likes to say. Now understand. Sign up, strike to stripe and block his ass.

Why did Lou Holtz catch astray like out of the blue here? Because that's how he does it. And for you people, I'm now pointing at Chris, the defensive lineman, it's at the one. Would you rather see a quarterback line up under center or in shotgun?

I think if he's in shotgun or not. I feel like I'd rather see somebody under center. You would rather, yeah, because you're running your base stuff. You're just like, you know, the things that can happen are less. And I know that, like, it's frustrating. And I think probably the play calls are the issue. I mean, people are running shotgun inside the five-quarterback dive. They're giving their dual threat quarterback an opportunity to add an extra blocker

into the play by him keeping the ball. Yeah. So that's their thought. It's basic math. But good football teams win and can rush the ball when the entire stadium and everybody on the defense knows that they're going to run the ball. and the best way to do that is line up under center in the dot with David Montgomery who had like 4,000 yards last night, eight yards of pop.

Looks great. Give him the ball, let him will his way into the end zone. And then you're back in this football game. I mean, Packers, my-stown look great. I get it, but I'm an O-Lignment, so I don't get it. Low-key bears looked highly competent last night, I thought. Just telling you, man. They got after Aaron Rogers.

Robert Quinn still got it. You see 12 on the ground a lot. Robert Quinn, my goodness. goodness, he's tough to block and the motherfucker is off sides every play. You guys leave all the time, dude. We're not a snitching podcast. Back up. We're not like Texas A&M snitching on people.

Did you see Texas A&M snitching on people for smoking marijuana in the bathroom? That's true. To be fair, the women's bathroom. Well, so what if a woman is a little stressed out? Well, if somebody's pregnant. Well, we don't know that. Somebody could have been pregnant in the bathroom. Sure.

That's reckless. Hey, Elton Jenkins was back. Elton Jenkins back, right tackle this week. Runyon was back after a concussion, and I really like Runyon's game a lot. I think he did a really good job. Played his dad. That's fucking crazy. It's so funny. Played his dad in the first game of my career.

And I have so much CTE that I hear their name Runyon and I'm like, did I play with this guy or do my dad play with him? You know what I'm saying? It's confusing. It's tough. It's tough. That's the face I make. That's my CTE face. Yeah.

Shout out Ryan Poles. Bears GM, he's shown on the camera in the suite, and then you see yourself on TV, and a lot of guys screw this up, I give him a B-B-plus, because he saw himself and looked right down at the field, and he only had one more eye dart up to the TV to see if he was still on.

That's acceptable. Yeah, it's acceptable. It's when you're looking every two seconds, am I still on, am I still on? And then somebody's tapping you on the shoulder, and you're looking back and like, I know, I know, I am. I know I'm on TV.

He handled it pretty well. Ryan Poles, all business, by the way. got to know him a little bit last year. It's funny that he became the GM of the Bears. I had no idea. You never know, Chris, who's on the GM track, right? Yeah, no. Shout out to Ian Yates Cunningham.

Yeah, I YC out there in Chicago. I'm going to be bothering him every five minutes. So I'm in there after I broke my leg and rehabbing every morning, and there's this giant in there. And I'm like, why the fuck doesn't he have pads? Like, he needs to play. Ryan Poles is all of 6,500 pounds. And he played with the Olin Crutes Chicago Bears offensive line,

I believe, check that out. Looks to be the case. And he was in there every day lifting weights, you know, when the guys would go out to practice, he would just lift weights. And then one day I read Bears Hire Ryan Poles of the Kansas City scouting organization. I said, this motherfucker was here the whole time. I just acted like you weren't going to be a GM. You're going to be a GM, bro.

Next year. Some guys you hear about it. You know what I'm saying? You're like, oh, I hope you stay here, man. We're lucky to have you. He snuck up on me. I'm happy because he's an alignment. I'm happy because I think he's.

does have a plan to protect Justin Fields. I'm on the fence after last night about Justin Fields. He's not throwing the ball. Let's not, period. He's not throwing the ball as well as I'd like. He's not throwing it. I have a lot of money on Justin Fields, theoretically speaking, hypothetically speaking. It's hard to get your reps under duress.

It's like doing math problems, like, as they're napalming. I couldn't have been happier seeing him dive into the end zone to take the lead over the Packers last night. That was so awesome. and that might be a Bevel Conway. That was beautiful. He didn't hit the pylon. The pylon was kicked into him,

and he was ripped down short of it. But he was only 7 of 11. He threw the ball 11 times in an entire football game. And listen, maybe that's protecting him right now, you know. Okay, well, it's year two and a top 15 pick. It's year two. He's a top 15 pick, but the team is objectively terrible. It's terribly set up around him.

Okay. Talk to Mike Morris. Defense is good at multiple. Mike Martz. He hates Justin Fields. He says they misquoted him. You guys could all be buddies. They misquote him.

I think Justin Fields gives you a chance to win every week. Yeah. But I think if you don't let Justin Fields do the things that are his strengths, then you won't have a chance to win with it. So this doesn't seem to be a Justin Fields problem yet. I'm just saying, I'm not going to hit the panic. I had an issue with the fourth and goal call too. So maybe it's a Getsy thing.

Maybe it's an Iberfluss thing. Maybe they just don't want the guy to die on the field this year. Yeah. Because I've seen it happen. I play with Sam Bradford, dude. Rashon Gary, Preston Smith, Kenny Clark. Awesome. I love Sean Gary.

I'm still, explosive. I might be more. Also why you don't write off picks. Yeah. I might be more panicky about the Packers this week than last week. Aaron Jones was spectacular, but Rogers doesn't, obviously, you're not going to be as comfortable without a guy like Devante Adams there. He just, I don't know.

Bacteari will change things. But Sammy Watkins, Randall Cobb, the Dobbs train wasn't really moving yet. Sammy Walkins had a huge play at the end of that game. Sammy Walken, yeah. The nail in the coffin, really. Nail in the minus 10 coffin is what that was. Okay. So Jimmy G. being back, man, Trey Lance is getting hurt.

It's the weirdest situation because the one big question mark for the Niners this year was the quarterback. And like, they're in this funky situation where the windows wide open, but they've got a kid that they maybe thinks the guy. They burn the ships for him. Then Jimmy G, not so fast. We sign him back. People don't like the signing.

Yesterday's evidence of why the signing was, you know, like great insurance. I mean, not just the fact that Trey Lance is developing and your windows open. So you're not going to have the patience you would if you're the bears, right? Because the bears have no other choice. And the bears are like, we got to get Justin Fields up to speed. Like the Niners, their windows open. So it's good to have a guy like Jimmy G. If he's struggling, Trey's out for the season.

Really tough week for him. Like, I felt bad for him with the strip club thing. like cell phone cameras, man, you know. And then on top of that, he comes out and gets hurt. And they were actually, they were going to cover. I mean, like, from a gambler's perspective, I told you this was the gambler special. But Jimmy G comes in the game,

and I can't help but notice walking around the sideline that I don't think anybody dislikes Trey Lance, but they knew they had it, they had their work cut out for him. And with Jimmy, they love Jimmy, dude. He's just like, they just love the guy. and he can run the offense. Sure, he's going to scare the shit out of you sometimes, but I feel way better about my Niners to the Super Bowl pick

at 3 p.m. yesterday than I did at 1 p.m. or 7 p.m. or whatever it was. It was in the late slate or the early slate. Late slate. Collinsworth made a good point. You know, maybe you sign Jimmy for the other team that has an injured quarterback and you make a deal and get something back.

And it turns out to be your own team, where you need the insurance. Yeah, man, those guys rallied around him. He completed a bunch of balls in a row to start, eight, nine. They look good. They look better. I'm with you. Yeah, they're a good football team.

Like, they're a known commodity now. They went from an unknown commodity that's very, you know, like, talented to, like, this is a known commodity, and you guys are going to have to buckle up when you, and George Kittle's not even back yet. And they should be careful with him because it is a groin. and groins, as you saw yesterday, with Humphrey or whoever, you know, whoever has a groin. Like I had a groin a lot of times in my career. I have a groin right now.

You got two groin. Drive blocking in particular is tough on a groin. Everything like George Kittle in line blocking, which we know he loves, which they know that Shanahan loves to utilize him. That's going to be tough for him to do. But this is a big, big deal. You know, like it sucks that Trey Lance has hurt, but this team probably feels more confident today than it did yesterday and that's just I'm not going to sugarcoat it and tray lance

jimmy g's been there you know he's torn his ACL he's rehab like he's going to be there for him um so in in the long in the long term like jimmy g might make more money because of this tray lance might have more time like maybe this year was going to just be bad for him um and the niners might be better off so funky thing but you could definitely pick it up seeing him kind of walking around the sideline like i know body language on the sideline and guys were like it's good to have you back like It sucks what happened to Trey because everybody likes the kid by all accounts. But yeah.

And don't overlook how the locker room will receive him. Exactly. And you're not wrong mentioning more money for Jimmy G. His incentives are all probably now going to kick in because he had all kind of game incentives. $250,000 per game where he takes 25% of snaps, $100,000 per win, 500 game with 50% snaps in a playoff game and a couple more playoff game incentives. So he's going to make like $4 million in the $250 a game, 25% of the snaps, right? Wow, look at that, Chris.

$16 times $250. He's going to get $4 million and then add the $500,000. So this $4.5 million plus wins. I mean, he's going to win 10, 12 games. He's going to make like almost $6 million, like off of this injury. And not to mention, he's going to be up, right? Like, he's not the quarterback of the future here, or maybe he is. But he's going to, like, he wasn't going to get a chance to,

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Why don't you all go first? I'll go first. The New York football jets. Yeah, short flight too. And they all probably got to FaceTime with Gary Vee once they boarded. I don't know who that is. Gary Vaynerchuk, shout out to VaynerSports. He's going to one day own the Jets.

Biggest, like, real jet fan there is. And if you follow him, he's like one of those grinder. Like, you should be putting out content every day. Bigger than the fireman? Like, he's the best. He's the real deal. Better than the Fireman? Not, I don't even know him.

Ed. His name's Ed. His name's Ed. Don't even know him. Yeah. Well, I don't know Gary. Best flight New York Jets home after a big win. Oh, yeah.

Robert Sal is in there just, he's making notes. He's got a list going. chalky but I'll go dolphins. They were down by a million. Tyreeks got to be a good time on that plane. He's got a little Willie Mays Hayes to him. Shoot, Mike McDaniel has a little Lou Brown to him,

for that matter. Yeah. Tyree talks about that way. Yeah. I don't know. No, I mean, different vibe. Different Lou Brown. Yeah, but same,

younger Lou Brown. Same vibe energy. Not the same vibe. Same energy, same speed. And winners. Yeah. Melvin Ingram's very cool on that plane. I bet he's cool.

He's the coolest playing, buddy. I bet you that's a fun flight. I want to say that the Cardinals, because there's nothing better in pro football than relief, especially when you know tax man's coming eventually for your team. You're like, I don't think we got it. But like in week two. Get some wins.

We get some wins. It's a big way. Shout out to my man Steve Kime. We just got a new tattoo. It's got a bunch of wolves on it. It's badass. Cool. He's one of my favorite GMs, man.

He was all jacked up after the game. We love Steve Kime. The Cardinals flight is short. You're in Old Town, Scottsdale. pretty early. So that's a, that's a big one for me. You can make it to stake 44. Stake 44 or 48. Check me on that. But it's a great steakhouse. Yeah. The best steakhouse. Worst plane ride. Oh, worst plane ride. Bangle's man. First off, you're a Bangle guy, huh? I like the Bengals. I'm a Bingle guy. You're a Bangle guy. Yeah, you're a Bangle guy. You walk like an

Egyptian. Yeah. The Bengals. No, but the Bungles, man, they're the Bungals. They're morphin back in the bungles. They're also falling out of the Americas. They were in the America's team. They were one of the best America's teams in America like a couple weeks ago. But now they're chopped liver and the commie cowboys, the communists, they fucking, they took it to them. And now you've got to leave that stadium, which takes three hours in and of itself. Like there's a huge underbelly to that stadium with the big, you don't see the light of day for five minutes driving your bus around in the basement of that motherfucker. It's just, and then the airports, I think is kind of far. And Dallas.

is like no matter where you're flying to Dallas from, it's further than you think. So yeah, I mean, maybe they probably had a headwind. When you fly out of New York in quotation marks, is that Teterboro? Do you go to Teterboro after East? LaGuardia. Really? Brand new. You think you're landing in the ocean.

You're like, we're going to die. It's fabulous. It's the same flight I take in flight simulator. So I'm like, hey, this guy knows what he's doing. It looks pretty smooth. Yeah, it looks smooth. Nice angle of attack. Yeah.

I saw this in Sully. You want to avoid the other thing. We're doing this thing. Yeah. Good. I'll go Carolina Panthers leaving East Rutherford, the Meadowlands, MetLife Stadium. They're 0 and 2 after the Jacoby Brissette Browns and Danny Dimes. That's a bad scene.

They have the worst Monday Scaries. Monday Scaries might be an award, but like the Monday Scaries, for me, it's like, it's no place higher than Carolina. That rule might be Dead Man Walking. I mean, the vibes in that building are not good. not good Matt Rule alive or dead What

Alive? No dead He's dead to me He is alive He's alive He's alive He's alive Dead to me Okay

My worst flight Will I'm gonna curtail off Last week's worst Bus ride Which was the Bears To Lambo Field

And they fly back After that lost Aaron Rogers Who still has his name On the deed For the team Yeah That sucks

Yeah yeah They were talking That shit His name is on the deed Big time They were talking that shit. Yeah. No, I know.

That's a bad playing ride. I mean, Beville Conway, I mean, can anybody beat the Chiefs and the Chargers? I feel like we're trying too hard if we. Trying too hard, but as a homer, the Bears Packers rivalry. I mean, getting to come home last night, obviously I worked pregame on Sundays, but I get to come home and make it home for the Sunday night game. I got all my popcorn ready to watch. You know, Justin Field drives down the field to take the lead.

That's my Bevel Conway. Diving, you know, his knee was down. but diving. Yeah, only way it could have been better would be if you wear those throwback Bears uniforms with the Michigan Wolverine type things.

Delaware. Break the tie. I'm going to go with Kyle. Oh, really? At night, under the lights. Oh, I think you guys are smoking toads right now. Look,

I got a problem. Licking them. You're licking toads. I got a bit of a problem with red just generally. Yeah. So, Chiefs and Arrowhead is great,

but it's too much ketchup and mustard. I want to give a shout out to Air Force in Wyoming. I sent you that text. Yeah, yeah. Two of the best helmets. I see whites for Air Horse and then Wyoming always brings it. Yeah, so Wyoming always brings it.

They got the W there. I got the Wyoming yellow on right now. You do. That's a good color. Hollow man, I'm going Hunter Renfro, man. That really sucks, but he almost transferred it to our guy who picked up the fumble who we mentioned earlier and damn near Leon led it. So Hollow man, I'm going.

Yeah, I'm going that, yeah. I'll go Ron Rivera. He went for two after scoring to make it 2921. He was trying to make it 29, 23. For some guys, analytics don't look good on you. I know Riverboat Ron is Riverboat

for a reason, but kicked the extra point, extend the game. Because then Joey Sly hokey misses an extra point and the game is there for. He's a hokey. He was a hokey. Once a hokey, only a hokey while you're there because you don't want to claim it afterwards. And he misses that, therefore

an effect, ending that Fun Little Lions commies game. Marcus Peters. is my hollow man. Yeah. You're playing against Tyreek Hill. Line up at the goal line.

Right. We're Kyle Hamilton, maybe. Yeah, yeah. That whole secondary could win, yeah. Well, unfortunately for Marcus, the angle told me to say Marcus.

Yeah, well, Kyle Hamilton was so far outside the picture that people were like, oh, there is no safety. He must not be safety help. He was also 77 degrees at, uh,

70, 74, 70-something degrees at Lambo. Iberfluse was in a short-sleeved shirt. Yeah, yeah, global warming. Yeah. That's a callback to Beville Conway from a few moments ago. Yeah. But it did rain.

It was pissing a little bit there late, which makes it even more. I don't have a viewing party. My fly-on-the-wall is Bruce Ariens and Mike Evans. I want to know what the hell was said. I mean, where do we start there? You want to go fly on the wall or viewing party? Y'all got one? Doing party, I want to be with Cowboy Reed for everything.

You'll hack a game. flying the wall. I want to do any conversation. I want to do like Control F, that's Control F, that's Control Find, yeah. I want to control F any conversation involving the word DAC in or around Arlington, Texas among persons

with a net worth over $100 million. Because that will include Jerry Jones. Is he like, uh, oh yeah, yeah. We don't need Dak Prescott to win football games. Cooper Rush is out here. I don't know what, I don't know what Jerry's thinking right now. Is Dak? So,

um, Dack is, all right, you guys tell me, you're on the sideline. You don't want to get Wally pipped. Cowboys look great to start. And then is DAC a little fired up that they don't put up 45, that they win it, they have to win it in the end on a long field goal? Yeah, probably. I mean, as long as you win and you don't look like an idiot,

like here's the deal. They played the Bucks last week. That's a different challenge. Not that SINC is anything to sneeze at defensively, but, you know, I think if you're DAC, you feel safe. But the injuries are mounting. and Jerry wants to win a Super Bowl while he's still around. That was macab.

I don't want to think about Jerry Jones. Alive or dead? Jerry Jones is alive. Yeah. Very much alive. Alive. Okay. Maybe more alive than I have ever been.

Yeah. Oh, God, that guy's living. L-I-V-I-A. I got to do a fly on the wall. I would love to be in the DMs of Lattimore and Mike Evans, or like, maybe they're going to tweet at each other. There's going to be some shit that comes out this week. I just can't wait to see it.

And I want to have front row. Mike Evans doesn't seem a guy who handles his problems on Twitter. No, no, but when he's a couple thousand miles away, and he can't chuck midgets around, he can't chuck small D.Bs around. LPs. LPs, you're going to get our sponsorships pulled. Well, we're not live.

LPs drink Miller Lite. They do. Very responsibly. They drink extra responsibly. So, so, uh, I'll give you another hollow man, Doc Rivers. Oh, yeah, yeah. Say no more.

Say no more. Can you give me the content of which he was liking? Because I didn't get to, I searched. Nothing wrong with this. Say more, it sounds like. Nothing wrong with this, but he was, he was on the Chicks with Dix train. Okay.

Well, I feel like, whatever floats your boat. Why not? Whatever floats your boat. L-I-V-I-N. What? He was hacked, bro. Somebody was, so maybe my flying the wall would be more like,

who hacked him? St. Louis Memorial Award, can I give that out? Sure. To the entire Detroit Lions team? Because I don't, like, I want to give it to Jared Gough. Jared Gough, you know, since December, go look at his numbers. He's one of the best quarterbacks in the league. You know, a game like yesterday, if we're going to be making determinations on guys this early in the season, you know, he's 20 for 34, 24, 256, four touchdowns.

He looks very capable of leading this team to the playoffs. Wow. I mean, they're a good football team. They're a good football team. Like yesterday was a big day for them. They beat a team they should have beat. You know, like that's good. Like last year when they won, everybody was like,

look at the lions. They might be good in a year. In just a year, you're like, oh, the lions might be good right now. It's such a perfect example of what a culture does. Well, it's culture. It's players. It's Amon-Ross, St. Brown. It's, you know, like having...

We have a son got on your team. It's Aidan Hutchison. I want to shout him out of you had a hat trick yesterday, which is anybody trying to. to win an award needs a multiple-sac game. And as Reid pointed out, the other guys that have multi-sac games, your guy. Chip Banks.

Chip Banks from wherever he's from. Walton, Oklahoma, and Julius Peppers, who clearly Aiden Hutchinson is now gonna be Julius Peppers, like they won the rookie of the year. Here's the thing I'll say about Aidan Hutchison. These are hustle sacks and he's rushing inside. So like let's not get carried away and say he's better in the kid in Jacksonville or that he's better than,

This is just a great start for him. It's a great start. You need this start. If you want to win defensive rookie of the year, I want to see him do it over and over again. Frank Gore, mine goes to O'Sheaine Zeminz because y'all can't say his name still

and he's balling out for the two and no New York Giants. He's an O'DU Monarch, by the way. He had to be big sad about the service dog. Mine goes out to the Jack. My Miller Light, St. Louis Memorial Frank Gore Award. Yeah, it's a mouthful. Yeah, we're going to work on it. goes to the Jaguars Front 7 containing Jonathan Taylor to five carries, four yards in the first half.

Incredible and terrible for my fantasy team. Yeah. Like awful. But you have a Monra. Yeah, I have a Monra. Game ball. I'm giving it to Tua, man. Great day for the dolphins and for Tua.

I mean, fuck yeah. Happy to hand this one out. I've got two game balls to give out. Especially because I didn't bet the rain. One of them is in a loss and one of them is not in this. sport of football. David Montgomery last night, 15 rushes, 122 yards, 8 plus a carry, gives the bears a chance to win. Unfortunately for him, it's not going to be in a win last night. And Max Homa, friend of the program, good buddy, PGA tour player. He won the Fortnite championship. I know that's not how he

said he really. It's the Fortinet championship. Second year in a row that he won. So Max Homa is somebody I've played with. He's awesome. Yeah, he's a good guy, right? Great guy. He loves to chipped in on 18 and unfortunately Danny Willet three potted but it's not Willett willet I think it's Willett willet I think it's Willett willet willet he's from the UK he's from across the pond somewhere I think it's Danny Willett David Wibbley David Wibbley all right so we've got I drink my first beer at a going away party for a guy named David Wibbley from South Africa South Africa yeah he loved the spring box we would we would call the golfer Reteef Gousin he would say it's Rittiff Hwassen.

Yeah, it was badass. I love that. So I'll see you're 15 for 122 and raise you 15 for 132. Two touchdowns. My game ball goes to Aaron Jones last night with an honorable mention to Michael Parsons. Because when you got the Sinci money line and there's only one guy you're worried about on that other side. And he wrecks the thing. And he wrecked it.

And I just want to shout out myself here. Maybe a viewing party for the people at the wind. They're probably going to be calling me with like a first. broad alert or like your password doesn't work anymore because yesterday 1 p.m.'s Detroit, Detroit Pittsburgh teaser, Ravens over 23, New Orleans Tampa Under, missed on Carolina had Atlanta, had San Francisco, and then the Packers. I got to do the math here, but that looks like 7 and 1. Nicole Auerbach is joining us. We're going to do college football every week. Me and Macon have talked to her before. We love Nicole. She's great. She's awesome. She's at the athletic.

She's at Sirius. What is the satellite radio? Yeah, I don't, you know, I'm terrestrial. Are you? Yeah, I'm more terrestrial. Yeah, she's on Sirius. She's on Serious. She's crushing it and she knows college football. So we're gonna have her every Monday to close the show to catch up on some of the big topics in college football. So this is exciting news.

We have Nicole Arback with us. She'll be with us every Monday, we hope. And you can catch her at The Athletic, but also Sirius XM, ESPNU channel Wednesday through Friday. She's busy. She knows college ball as good as anybody. And we're excited to have her on. Nicole, how are you? I am great and very excited to hang out and talk college football season.

Yeah, it's like a blind. Like I was just saying, college football is like a little bit like of a blind spot. I have to hang out with my family one day of the week during the football season. And Saturday it is. So, you know, like I'm with the kids when most of these games are going on. And I have like a lot of blind spots in college football. I like getting downloaded on what the hell happened as we go into the next week. So I guess my first question would be everybody's talking.

about Georgia, to me as like a casual in college football, relatively speaking, I see Georgia play and I say, here we go again, it's Georgia and like everybody else. I mean, Bama looks a little bit down. Would that be accurate? And what change for this offense? Because people are like, oh, it's just different. So tell me why it's different. Yeah. So I do think right now it's probably them and everybody else because everybody else seems flawed or we don't really know. Like Alabama was not the better team when they played Texas, should not have won that game. It took Bryce Young Heroics to win it.

And Bryce Young is going to win them a lot of games. So they've got some issues, though. They don't have that like NFL first round receiver that we're just so used to seeing. And that's clearly made a huge difference. It made a difference in the title game last year too. With Georgia, though, I think they've been much more. and aesthetically pleasing to watch. And that is a departure for their offense.

I mean, when Kirby Smart first got to Georgia, he was totally comfortable winning a game by just running it, running it between the tackles. Like, and then great defense. Like, he would have been fine winning those, like, nine, three games, right? Right. But it has shifted. Todd Munking got there in 2020.

And, like, you've started to see different things open up. I mean, like, Georgia piled on points on teams. last year, but everyone was basically saying still that like Sets and Bennett was a game manager wasn't quite like people didn't fully buy in. But I think if you just watch how they've played the last couple of weeks, they're clearly trying to make a point that they can score basically at will. They've scored so many touchdowns when they've had these possessions. And like based on now what we're seeing out of Oregon, I think it's only boosting how we feel about Georgia's offense because of how many scoring drives they had against the ducks.

early but like i think a good example would be like brock bowers is a focal point everyone's like oh georgie uses their tight ends but like the way that they used brock bowers against south carolina was really fun they had him take an end around on a reverse and score that way like they're you know so like they're doing stuff where it's clear that like it's fun for the players to be part of and there's again it's not all like trick plays but it's just fun routes to run and Stetson Bennett's throwing to a bunch of different guys. It's not just one or two. It's not like they're just handing the ball up. But they're just, it's just, it's more interesting and much more explosive than I think people give them credit for because of how they were for so long

when Kirby Smart first got there and with his defensive background. Is Stetson Bennett a top three Heisman candidate or like where does he sit for you right now? Yeah, I think he's going to be. We just started our straw poll over at the athletic, and this is going to be the week where there's probably like 30 names because we haven't started doing it. So no one's coalesce. But yeah, I mean, I put him in mind. I think absolutely his numbers are going to be there this season. And if we think that their head and shoulders above everybody else, then he's for sure going to be in New York. Can anybody compete with this team outside of your usual?

Does anybody give them a matchup problem anywhere on the field that you got to be concerned about? is there one game you circle that people aren't circling? I mean, I don't think so. They just totally demolished a conference opponent that went to a bowl game last week. Like, I get that there's a huge gap with them and where South Carolina is right now, but it's hard to imagine it. And even, again, with Alabama, the version of Alabama we saw against Texas, it's hard to envision, you know, them really pushing Georgia.

But that's how we felt about it last year. and then they beat them in the SEC champion. So I don't know. It feels like we are poised for, this is all you really need to know about college football so far. It feels like it is a chaos season that is upon us. So I guess you can never say never, but it also feels like this might be the only sure team

that I feel that way about for the regular season. Okay, Kentucky's on the schedule, right? I mean, like Kentucky, you had them in your top 10. I love seeing Kentucky playing well, Kentucky being relevant in college football. It's just fun. And I wonder if it's sustainable for them because it feels like they're in a kind of like a tweener spot in the SEC.

It doesn't feel like they're a blue blood SEC kind of team. And this is a new thing. So can they hang around here? I think so. I mean, this was their highest ranking in the preseason in a very long time, if not ever. expectations have been really high. The way that they beat Florida, the way that they have been able to beat Florida,

shows that it is sustainable. I mean, like, what Mark Stoops is doing, I first off, don't think every coach would be able to do it, but it's something that is carrying over year in and year out. Like the defense, the physicality of the defense, like how annoying they are to play is, is there year to year. Will Levis has been great.

He was the Penn State transfer. You know, he's really opened up. his coffee. Yes, and he's the one who ate the banana with the peel. He's got some weird. He's out there. These are concerns for me at the next level, but go on. Yeah, I would love to, I would love to, uh, here when we get to like anonymous draft season, anonymous scout draft season, if someone takes on his, his food. Um, but yeah, like, I do think that this is, like a lot of people like to say that Mark Stoops has the best job in college football because the expectations are low slash realistic.

Yeah. And I think that allows you to build. It allows you to get to this point. And then it does feel like it is sustainable. I don't know what that next level would be. I mean, like, Kentucky's not going to be winning the SEC. Can they contend in the East sometimes? Like, that feels doable.

Right. But this is the first season that we're really like seeing them facing this type of expectation. And it'll be interesting to see, like, obviously they're going to factor into how the East is won. But can they contend? I don't know. I mean, it's just going to be interesting. Tennessee is also like kind of emerging in an interesting place at Josh Hyple. So I think we'll learn a lot about Kentucky this season and what is sustainable.

But the defense, the fact that they're sending guys to the NFL, there's a lot that I think just continues to carry over in what Marksup is building. Yeah. You mentioned Tennessee. I feel like Tennessee is close to being, you know, how everybody does the, are they back thing? Like Tennessee feels more back than almost anybody. like I thought Texas was back and then like Texas didn't look as good this weekend so that's exciting I I've never been to Knoxville I've never caught a game there I really want to go see a game there this year but green light crew we might go to App State this weekend because one of

our producers is a jam you got and I really want to go to Boone I heard yeah Saturday night it had to be insane so two places on my list Boone and Knoxville um how about uh is there a top 10 team that's less tested than Michigan. Like they haven't played anybody and they scored 50 plus points in all their games. Poor Hawaii had to fly all the way to Ann Arbor to get that ass kicking. Like what's going on with Michigan?

And what do we need to know about them? So absolutely correct. The non-conference has been very, very light. It has been so light to the point that it's been hard to watch past the first quarter in some of these games. Because they've jumped in these teams early and they've taken care of business.

And so, like, again, as much as the opponent has been bad, I mean, I do think they've done exactly what you should be doing to a bad opponent. I think because the schedule was set up the way that it was, it allowed Jim Harbaugh to do what he did with the quarterback situation. And I, because I think if you play like Iowa right out of the gate and not October 1st, I don't think you can, I think you would just stay with Kate McNamara. He won you all these big games last year. I so I think that that's the silver lining that Michigan fans have to take in the schedule and also just building confidence, all those things. But like J.J. McCarthy has not really been challenged. He has been basically perfect since taking over this job. I think everyone has seen why he got the job. We watched it all play out and we saw like he was clearly better. The ceiling is higher. But the question is like so they'll be going up against Maryland. And then it's again, I think it's Iowa. I think that's the.

game that we're going to learn something about Michigan. Michigan has been like so many other big 10 teams. It's been a house of horrors and Kinnick. It's a really hard place to play. I was got two phases that are really, really good, one that is not. And defense is one of them. And so like that will be a good test. Maryland, I think this game could turn into a shootout. It'll still be more challenging than what they've been doing. But I think we're going to still take another two weeks until we actually learn about Michigan. But I mean, I think they're better than I thought they were going to be based on everyone who left to go to the NFL. Yeah, you had them in, I guess your top five.

Is that correct? It was Michigan in top five? Yes, but here's the thing. Chris, like you have to have rankings below one. And it's very, very hard. It is hard. Yeah. It's like we know who's number one, but I don't know much else.

And like, especially because, you know, your schedule is just that this schedule is so different than some other team in the top 10. It's impossible to tell. And this is why I think it's so interesting because, because you're not going to know for a couple weeks. And even after an Iowa game, you might say, I don't know enough. You know, we don't know how bad Iowa can be. Maybe we're just scratching the surface. Listen, some of us stayed up until, like, three in the morning

or whenever that game ended on Saturday night. The idea of Iowa after dark before dawn was too compelling. That is a lot. That is a lot. I think that actually hurt your REM sleep. Like, if you had an aura ring or a whoop on, it probably. He was like, man, you slept fucked up. Did you watch Iowa last night?

I can, I have an R-ring, and I can tell you, it went straight into deep sleep. Oh, I did. Okay. So it actually, it's like melatonin. Okay. Just run back some Iowa tape. All right. And then lastly, I mean, with Notre Dame, is this something that you saw coming?

I don't know if there was a game that felt, you know, other than Virginia beating O'DU after the game, you know, interviewing Tony Elliott. It doesn't feel like a win. You know, Marcus Freeman after that game, it's supposed to be. to be this first win as a Notre Dame coach. It's at home. Like it's momentous and he just, it was hard to muster any enthusiasm after that Cal game. Did you see it coming?

Yeah. Well, and also like the way that the Hail Mary was at the end, like it just almost didn't, it got nicer than it really even should have after all of that. But yeah, I mean, I don't think I saw this coming. I think that this was a hire that was very much lauded because of,

how Brian Kelly left and he was so beloved. The players obviously wanted him to get the job. Everyone who has ever worked with Marcus Freeman impressed by him. But like there were some semi-red flags. I mean, like I had talked to other coaches who had them on the schedule and had looked at them entering the year and they were concerned about the offensive line. Like they were like they have size, but can they move? What are they going to look like, you know, quarterback? Like how, what is the ceiling?

at that position. And it turns out, like, it was limited, even when Tyler Bufner was healthy. Like, it was still that ceiling and the cap on what that position was able to do. Um, and what the offense was because when Tyler Bufner was healthy, it was basically just him scrambling. And they have a great tight end. They have probably maybe the best tight end in the country, but like their offense of just trying to grow it to your tight end is not going to win you a lot of the game. So like, I think we, we knew they were young. We knew that they were going to have some issues at some spots, but I think no one would have predicted if it start out this poorly. And I think also some of the ways that the games went where they played

well in the first half and things fell apart in the bowl game or like even against Ohio State, they had the lead at the half and just like some of the ways that the game unfolded, like you definitely feel like this is a brand new head coach. But it's definitely been dicier than people think. I don't think there's real, like I think everyone's still bought it and everyone still thinks he's the right coach, but you definitely don't have whatever that honeymoon is or, you know, the slack that people typically give a first year head coach.

You just, you don't have that. It's people are nervous and tense in that fan base. And even pointing out like what Brian Kelly's early losses, some of the ones, but it's like he inherited the Notre Dame program in a different place than Marcus Freeman did off a team that like almost made the playoff last year. Like this should not be happening.

And so I just think that, fan base, that place south end is just in a very like uncomfortable position because everyone is trying to will things to get better and we'll see with Drew Prine but I think again the limiting factor being your quarterback is not a great place to be. Yeah, tough and I got a buddy on that staff James Leronitis. I hope I hope things turn around for them. Everybody wants Marcus Freeman to do well is one of those hires but yeah they got they got to prove it out. Nicole appreciate the time. We'll catch you next week and hopefully this

weekend Slate will be a little bit better. Yeah, it was just me, but I wasn't that jazzed about it. And we got to play Syracuse at Virginia. Are we going to beat Syracuse? Okay. Cirqueaths is way better. Okay.

I know. I know. I've been winning money on them inexplicably. I had the over this weekend, the 42.4th quarter. I know I'm kind of scared. So Nicole, catch you next week.

Thanks so much for coming on. All right. And this is red. if anyone was watching the video. Look at Red. He is made in a fair. Look at Red. Who's Red's favorite college football team?

Well, I think he's, you know, because I went to Michigan, I think he is a Wolverine. But he is also named after Red Hourback. So I feel like he has to have certain allegiances in Boston and then like GW, which obviously doesn't have football, but he can root for them for basketball. Oh, yeah, one of those Ivy League schools or something maybe as a side team. So go Red. All right, Nicole. See you.

All right, thanks.