Green Light with Chris Long - Stanford Steve! CFB WK3, NFL Locks & Favorite WK2 Matchups. Congratulations Roger Federer.

Episode Date: September 16, 2022

(2:43) - Thursday Night Time Machine. (5:08) - Chris' Chiefs vs Chargers Fridge Talk Recap. (9:37) - Red Light / Green Light: Roger Federer, Height Extensions, Renaming Landmarks, Pumpkins & More Green vs Yellow Gatorade. (24:57) - NFL Week 1 Film Review: Giants vs Titans, Saints vs Falcons & Commanders vs Jaguars. (52:47) - Stanford Steve on CFB Week 3 Preview: Best Bets, BYU vs Oregon & Coughlin & Timmy Chang Award Watch Lists. (1:21:10) - Chris, Macon & Stanford Steve's Three NFL Locks & Most Intriguing 1v1 Matchups in the NFL WK3. 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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We're talking college football week three. We preview some games. We throw out some bets and we add a couple names to the Cochlin and Timmy Chang Award watch lists. We'll run through our betting locks for NFL week two. And something a little fun for y'all. The best NFL matchups we're looking forward to this weekend. We're talking two guys lining up across from each other.

They're going to battle the whole game. You'll hear what matchups Chris Macon and Steve are all zeroing in on on Sunday. This is where you'll hear some tidbits and insights you can relate to your friends. Chris and Macon also do a little red light green light, run through a couple film reviews, run through a couple film reviews from week one, and Macon's wonderful ode to Roger Federer. And Chris submitted a little recap video from Chargers Chiefs, you'll hear that. Chris wanted to give you a little recap of the game, what he was feeling. So he recorded it from his fridge, like any good content creator does.

It's Fridge Talk's first appearance on the Greenlight podcast. We've seen it on Chris's Twitter feed. Now it's the audio version. Happy Friday. Have a structured settlement and I need cash now. Called J.G. Wentworth. Not an ad. These people sent me a hat.

The J.G. Wentworth racing team. It's autographed by, you know, the guys on the J.G. Wentworth racing team. Because my kids love the jingle. The good people of J.G. Wentworth found that out and sent me some gear. They sent like some fucking like J.G. Wentworth sunscreen. Can't get that in a store. But I'm wearing the hat because I'm on fire, mate. And you know what that means.

You're about to be not on fire. Yeah, probably. And it probably starts with Thursday Night Time Machine. You want to go first? I do LA Chargers 30, Kansas City Chiefs, 27. God damn it, we're going to tie, dude. Are you serious? I'm 2724 Chargers.

So what should the tie break be? Yeah, what should the tie break? I guess it's total. Yeah, it is total. Yeah. So I got to root for the under tonight. Yeah. That's a lot of fun.

Wow. We both picked Chargers by three. We were both wrong last week. We might go a whole season without being right. Honestly, I was going to pick the Chiefs, but I was so worried that, that, you know, like, that you would pick the Chargers. And I just, like, I'm okay with this. I think that's what the kids call living rent-free, dog. Yeah, you're, well, I've been in the Waffle House for quite a while now.

And by the way, we have to figure out when I'm going to go and you. Now, Buckers out, that was going to be my rebuttal, was going to be like, if you picked the cheeses, like, well, Keenan Allen's out, and the whole thing will Buckers out. Good luck kicking a football night. No disrespect. I'm fine with Keenan Allen being out.

Other guys can step up. Mike Williams, Josh Palmer. DeAndre Carter. They're going to be fine. DeAndre Carter. They're going to be fine. Eccler's healthy. So my total is 51 and yours is,

I didn't catch the score. It was at the- 57. 57. Oh? I think the number is what? I feel okay about that. The number's four.

Yeah, the chiefs are favored by four, and the overrunner is actually 54 right between your guys pick. So I actually love where I'm sitting right now because I feel like this could be a little bit of a slug fest. Yeah, I mean, defensively. Had I known we were picking totals, might have gone a little differently, but I think the chiefs are going to be. I think the line's going to be sitting pretty for a long time.

Then the Chargers, Justin, Herbert leads a game-winning drive to win the ball game by a field goal. Totally unplan for his job. talk, came downstairs looking for something, forgot what I was looking for. And there was the fridge. Look at us. So here we are. Chargers money line betters.

Tough night. Tough night. Really tough night. I was ready to, like, I was digging up old tweets, like where I was arguing with people about, you know, the Chargers playing the Chiefs tough. And like, they were Chiefs fans and they were like, yeah, yeah, yeah. charge don't play is tough they never beat us and i was like i was like months back that's april but um fuck dude gerald everett get hydrated my man take it for me hydrated king i heard dan oloski break that thing down

i don't know what to make of that i'll just say it no idea i'm not a receiver i'm not a quarterback um look like the ball was off i just want to say this about justin herbert my God, dude, when you have that much physical ability and you also go out and gut through something like that, it just, it shows you the sky's the limit for him. I mean, he is just, he's tough, he's got it. It's quiet, but he's got it. And that's going to go a long way in that locker room. The chargers are the fucking chargers. I mean, my hand was on the sea. My pen was like on the sea when it was time to put them, you know, or an AFC team in the Super Bowl preseason.

And thank God I took the pen off the charges and put it on the bills. I'm not giving up on the charges, but I ain't betting on the charges anymore. I'll tell you that much. Fucking 9 and 1, my last 10 and Brandon Staley's crew. Fuck, man. And that, oh, the, you know, the streaming.

I was 30 seconds behind the Greenlight Pod account. and I'm looking at my phone and Ralph, shout it to Ralph, this motherfucker tweet something about the pick six and I hadn't seen it yet. And I'm staring at the phone just like the guy in the meme. Check the tweet out. It was disgusting.

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Your new segment. Red light green light. Yeah, dude. Yeah, that's a good segment. It's got legs. Red light. Fathering children. Yeah.

Maybe a yellow light, because maybe you're cut out for it. I'm not. My lovely wife took a video of taking our daughter to essentially daycare for the first time today. and I wanted to vomit out of like love and terror and childhood's hard. You know, kids are tough. Oh, you think she's going to get like bullied? Well, you know, obviously she's not because she's a sweet little angel.

Would you call Brad if she got bullied? No, see, that's the thing. I would like, I would fight. I would fight another little two-year-old, you know? Yeah, you would beat up a kid. And likely when. I honestly have ended up in situations that I'm in no way implying what you. you just did, but like, where I'm like, that kid's out of line. Like you start when you're a dad

and like you'll start anticipating the kid starts being mean to your kid from like 30 yards out at a practice and you're like, I got to find that kid's dad. Bro, look at that kid. I mean, she's wearing overalls. She's got a backpack on. She's cute kid. I mean. You kid. You want to tell her by her name? Not yet. Okay. Not yet. I love that kid man. So maybe green light on that kid. Hey, I'll give you a red light. Guys doing leg lengthening surgeries. Did you see that shit? Yeah, you read that GQ article. I didn't read the article. I'm being typical guy online and I just read the headline. Is it true? Yeah, guys are lengthening their legs. Yeah, dudes are spending like 75 grand to get three to six inches taller by breaking their femur having a titanium screw

driven in that they then extend by a millimeter per day and then your bones heal around that. All right, there's got to be, you can't be coordinated when you get out of that thing. You're just walking around like a guy on stilts. Major deja vu. Did we or did we not talk about this last year? Maybe we talked about it last year, but there was an article this morning. We did, but there was more, like at that time it wasn't known exactly what was happening. It was kind of mysterious, and now there was a investigative report by GQ that kind of went into it.

So red light that, dude. If you could be any height in the world and not as a football player, just as a human being, what is the ideal height you're choosing? Maybe 6.5. That's a good answer. 6.5 is the best height you can be. Yeah, you get to be 6.6. You get, you know, it's like, it's a little too much. I agree with you.

Yeah. What about like 6.6.4? That'd be nice. I could use another 5 eighths of an inch. 6.3 also good. And I'm not just saying that because this is, this is in our, you know, general atmosphere. No, 6.5 is perfect for me. But these guys, like, we're getting to the point in society where you can have pretty much

whatever you want, right? You can get a fake ass. I think some people, can you lengthen your penis? Yeah, extends. No, no, no, not with extends. I'm talking about can they, can me? Oh, I don't know a thing about extends. You seem to be well-versed on the topic.

Tell us what extends. You can get a boner right now, dude. No problem. You can get a Swedish-made penis and lager. Extends is just boners? Extends is pills, but I don't think it works. Yeah. You don't think?

He's just going to accuse everybody in here. Well, I mean, all y'all seem to know so much about. about the subject. I think most people know what extends is. But I thought it was lengthening. And then now y'all are telling me it's about, it's about strengthening. No offense,

maybe you're being an idiot because if you just listen to the ad beyond like the name of the product, like I think it's just about boners, yeah? We're on boners already. Red light, boners. I'll give you a green light. I can get off on you. Oh, come on, dude.

All right, I'll give you a green light. green grapes. Before the show, I showed you a picture of green grapes. Tennessee football posted a video of their players arguing there a year late about the color of lemon lime gatorade. Oh, right. Yeah. The thumbnail that you put over a video was a green grape next to a green gatorade. They're the same color.

So you answered the question correctly. It was a trap. It was a trap. I sniffed out the trap. Oh, yeah, sure. From Jump Street. Oh, I said right after, I think you're probably trying to trap. Can you pull that up?

Lemon lime Gatorade is yellow. It's green. It was green last year. Green grapes are green. Tennessee football. Thank you for coming to the rescue. I didn't even think about that. They're the same fucking color.

Green grape. That was all the evidence I needed. And then I'll give you another green light, the pumpkin guy. We got in contact with the pumpkin guy. Big news here at Greenlight. His name's Luke. Yeah, Luke, the pumpkin guy from Scotland, farm here in Virginia. If I ever meet a Luke, I say loo. Oh, no, no, I'm talking about the pumpkin

guy in Missouri. Oh, okay. You never reached out to that guy? No, I thought you meant the grower guy. We already know we're getting the 1,200 pound pumpkin. We wanted to have the pumpkin guy that floated the river to give us tips on floating the river. I should have said that twice. Yep. That's my new thing with Matt last week. I was like, do I, do I not communicate well? And Matt was like, well, sometimes you say things once and expect people to follow through. Okay. All right. So we have a listening problem.

All right. So the pumpkin guy in Missouri, I want to have him on the show, the guy who floated the Missouri River and set the record, 38 miles down the Missouri River, in a, how heavy was that pumpkin? That one was like about 650 pounds. So we found a pumpkin guy in Virginia that's going to give us a 1,200 pounder, which I don't know if that's going to float and that's one of the reasons I want to call our buddy in Missouri. So next week we got to find the guy who floated the river. Next week we got to find the guy who floated the river. I understand though. Okay. Good. Hey Greenlight occasionally renaming things. I know it's a sensitive subject. What like what? Well in Oregon's umquan national forest. Yeah. Swastika mountain is in the process of

being renamed after bearing the moniker for over a century. Well, well now the symbol is ancient. Yeah, it's ancient. Now, maybe middle of the last century, you think, Swastika Mountain. They're a little late on it. A little late. Now, where is it again? It's in Oregon. Oh, yeah, there's a bunch of those guys up there.

And board members are going to vote on the name change. Mount Halo, which is badass. Yeah. In December. So we're going to wait until December to vote on this name change. You think it was just an oversight? Nobody looked at a map for 100 years. After a 60-day comment period.

gathering input from tribal authorities in the state. From there, the request will be submitted to the U.S. board on geographic names for final approval. I'm behind this. Green light. No swastika mountain. Green light, Mount Halo. Red light, Roger Federer. Sorry about that, bro.

And sorry you had to learn it in the group text this morning. I was actually going to take a big moment of silence because I figured you probably hadn't heard and like probably beat you to the punch and get you real mad because it's your favorite tennis. player. He's a classy guy. Favorite athlete of all time. Yeah. No, no non-intended. Really classy of him. And well, I thought this was really classy of Nadal. Dear Roger, my friend and rival, I wish this day would never come. It's a sad day for me personally and for sports around the world. It's been a pleasure, but also an honor and privilege to share these years with you. With Nadal, I think this is really, this is like really classy of Federer. He's always a classy guy, right?

Yes. To concede even further the French Open because Nadal's 6 and O against him in the French Open. So like this is really nice to just get out of the way. So you're going to be a dickhead. No, I'm not being a dickhead. I'm not being a dickhead. I mean, that's, that's Rafa's favorite surface. I mean, Raff is 20, it's 24 and 16 overall against Fed.

That's the better argument. What is the surface at the French Open? Clay. Clay. Oh, so Federer sucks on clay. Sucked darn clay. his least favorite surface yeah i think you might say what's his favorite surface uh probably the grass yeah yeah um are you done well and it all's closest competition has gone and i think that's the lead

i don't care about the statistics despite the ones i'm about to read off uh for me for roger it's um his grace his humility his beautiful game his complete game his cerebral game. You know, he wasn't a big dominant server. He wasn't a grinding counterpuncher like Rafa. He did it all and he did it all exceptionally well. Tennis will not be the same without him. My man, I didn't write down his name. Dan Devine, I think, is that his name? Dan Devine had a good tweet. Congrats to Roger Federer on his retirement. He taught me it was okay to not be weird and to instead be impossibly graceful and impeccably classy as I am, which is halfway and somewhat.

That guy said that? Yeah. You made it about him? No, it's like a funny tweet. Oh, okay. But also really smart. Okay. Because, and a lot of people in this room will remember, I brought black socks and black

shoes to the tennis courts at our local preparatory high school. Yeah. You know, just white people as far as the eye can see. Yeah. on tennis courts. Yeah. And we're wearing... Was that a no-no?

We're wearing calf-length black socks, black shoes like wear the fat five because we were badass. That's a no-no in tennis, though? At the time when you rolled out the black socks in high school? Well, I'm trying to be, you know, sweet. Our coach hated it. This is a coach who made me shave my facial hair. I still can't grow facial hair, but he was like, uh, you're going to have to shave

before you come to practice tomorrow. I like that you. Well, here's the thing. That is... Oh, wait. like the weird one or the facial hair yeah see but that's not true to me okay we graduated about when roger was was was starting his reign and then i was like oh damn i i wish i you know i'm the i'm the tennis whites guy i'm the i would like to be the really um classy humble right right you know because

i was a star yeah i didn't i did barely lost it all unironic dan divine right now and making the whole roger federer retirement about you 103 titles including 20 great Grand Slam's 310 weeks at number one. Now, for comparison's sake, they're 52 weeks in a year. Yeah. This guy spends, this guy spends 310 weeks at number one. And here's, I'll alley this hookup for you. Zero match retirements.

And as you won't remember, and now I'll remind you, I think it was my life. My career, I believe, ended as I collapsed onto a course. suffering from heat stroke. I used to call you like Shadow in high school because you couldn't get outside your dad's shadow. And you would call me heat stroke because I collapsed on the tennis court nearly died. That's good.

Roger didn't retire from one match ever. And he would lose on occasion. I don't even know what that means. Like when you get hurt? Yeah, I'm done. Well, Nadal usually just finished him before he could get tired. Yeah.

Well, what once? Djokovic, I'd rather you make the Raff argument who is respectable than Novak who is not. There will never be a classier gentleman in sport than Roger Federer. Happy trails to Roger Federer. You think this is it because Serena Williams says she's coming back now? Yes, I do think this is it.

He's too classy to do that. Yeah. Roger's not a me, me, me, me, look at me. I'm talking in the third person. That might not be the last hot take from making this podcast. stick around for his Nathaniel Hackett take. Thaniel, it's just than. Whatever the fuck it is.

Just put the ball in Russell's hands. Potential red light. What do you guys think? NFL for. Oh, a till day over the end. Latino Heritage Month has the till day on the inn. The NFL putting too much dip on the chip. Yeah.

You know, trying to, you know, I say red light. For sure. Reminds us of the scene from the office where they just put the NIA on the lemonade. There you go. There you go. And it reminds me of Jerry Judy appropriating Jewish culture, which you are pro on. I'm pro Jerry Judy.

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but I was also... What I did this week is I watched all the shitty teams. Whoa. None taken. No, the ones that people perceived to be shitty. We don't know yet. We don't know who's too. Formerly shitty. Okay, the Giants, they kind of got away with one. Well, for sure.

They definitely got away with one. You had the Daniel Jones pick in the end zone was terrible. After being gifted a muff punt. On the muff punt. It was like the Phillips kid, muffs the punt, Daniel Jones, just like where are you throwing that ball? Daniel Jones was having an okay game. If he doesn't kill on read options this year, I mean, he's going to get fucking killed

on those read options. But you had the pick, you had the Saquan fumble, which, you had the, you had the Saquan fumble, which. which trickled out of bounds, thank goodness. You also had that last drive at the end of the game that made this game so electric to go back and watch. I love watching this game. I learned a lot about these two teams,

at least early in the season. And by the way, spoiler alert, I'm gonna give out the Panthers later. So prepare yourself because the reason the Panthers last week looked so poor offensively was well, Baker Mayfield's unpredictable, but also, especially in the first half, and Matt Ruhl's talking about,

we were X amount of yards for playing in the second half, where you had a huge shot to Robbie Anderson or busted coverage basically. But in the first half, they were speeding the play clock up because of the rusher lined up at right end in Miles Garrett and Clowny at left end and the young tackle in Aquano. Like, they couldn't get it going.

I saw some good things from the Giants defense, but they don't have anybody that scares you right up front. I mean, they need those two edge, rushers to come back. Oh, on the other side. Yeah. Not having Tibado and Ojo Lari. Ojo Lari is a big deal. Tibodeo, to me, it's an unknown. You know, I'm not real bullish on Tibodeo, but it's an unknown to me. That last drive was fucking electric. I mean, five minutes left, you get the Barclay fumble

on the long run. You get the Tony play, which was maybe the biggest play of the game for them undercover because they needed points on that last drive, right, to even tie the game or go up. and it's second, it's first down in the red zone, in the high red, I believe it was, and Dave will reaches in his bag of tricks, and he's going to do a wide receiver throwback type thing with Cadarious Tony, who does not get targeted enough. But first down, they're trying some crazy shit with Cadarious Tony. It's supposed to be an eight-yard loss.

That would have killed the drive. It should be second in 18 where he's supposed to get tackled. Instead he turns it into a positive. That's a big play. And then you get the third down there. with a read option comes up just short so you go fourth in one and the balls on Daniel Jones to just take off. I mean, that was a great moment for him.

It really was. It was basically like a naked and just beat Tennessee to the sideline and they pick up the first down. Or take off the right word. It's more like just get... Like a Cessna. Yeah. Like a Cessna getting off the ground.

Just will yourself to the sideline. Honestly, though, he's, I mean, he's an athletic cat. And I don't hate Dave'll saying like, fuck it, if he gets hurt, he gets hurt. Like, we're going to run quarterback. Reed, we're going to run a little quarterback power early in the game. Like, tuck it and run.

If he gets hurt. If he gets hurt, it makes things simple. Yeah, yeah. T.T. But that last drive had a little bit of everything. And I just want to say this about that two-point conversion. 75 got away with one there. Oh, yeah.

That play should have been coming back. He was Autry. He held Autry. I mean, the entire line, Andrew Thomas looked good. Evan Neal looked good. Evan Neal looked better, dude. Evan Neal looked, oh, you think it looked better than Thomas, period. Not better than Thomas, I'm saying better than what I had.

Listen, and we made, I was careful when I talked about Evan Neal being top heavy and looking like he needed some work in preseason not to bury the kid, he could fix it. and it looks like he's already fixed some of his bad habits. Now, having said that, I mean, every rusher is different from a style perspective. But he looked pretty good. I mean, he got beat a couple times. He got beat inside once. He got beat on the edge once.

But he improved. So it was a good day for Evan Neal and a great day for Andrew Thomas. I mean, that guy is, that guy is Exhibit A on why you're patient with draft picks. Yeah. Evan Neal certainly looked well, well ahead of where Andrew Thomas was his first year. Yep. The guards got abused. They got abused.

Jeffrey Simmons is an absolute dog. And Mark Sanchez said it. I love this quote. He was like, he's a grizzly bear, you know, uh, in Tennessee Titans uniform because he's just so fucking like, he's like a bull in a china shop and his feet are always running.

You know, that strip sack was like part brute strength, part technique on the swipe. Um, go back and look at the shepherd touchdown. When I say he body slam number 75, into Daniel Jones's feet. It was like a,

I know it was a touchdown, but it was an impressive feat. This guy is fun to watch. That drive really showed me a lot about the resolve of that team. I think they got things to work on. Defensively, I want to give a shout out to Jihad Ward.

He said a lot of great edges in the run game. He's a guy who's been a journeyman, who's bounced around a little bit, he's been Baltimore. Warrior. He's a Philly kid. And so I want to shout him out. He came to work.

You know, 53 can rush a little bit. Your coverage is a whole other story. Dory Jackson had a tough day. Number 48, day Crowder. Might want to keep him off the field and passing situations. He's got, I mean, like, Georgia Bulldog. Hillier did,

Hilliard did work in the past game, dude. They were dropping Hilliard, left and right. They dropped him in quarters for a touchdown. I think that was 48. They dropped him, you know, for his last touchdowns. He had multiple touchdowns the past game. The coverage was really bad. You know, even the last drive, 59 gets a hold on third and four and then 30 gets beat

and then a hold to set up that field goal that they missed. And I want to say this about Ryan Tannahill. Ryan Tannahill was under a lot of scrutiny this year and will continue to be under a lot of scrutiny. But he did everything in his power to win that game. He made a lot of good throws and at the end of the football game he drove them right down the field to to set up a manageable field goal try. I mean, they win that game if the kicker does his job. So, you know, I think that's tough for Ryan Tanyhill. I hope that's noted as you look back at their record, you know, that, you know, early in the season, if they drop one or two, well, they should have been one and O. And it wasn't really his fault. That team runs through Derek Henry, though. They rest

him. They go three and out. But a ton of penalties, including that. last possession, you get a P10 penalty, false start on the last drive, P10 being the first play of a possession, and that leads to a misfield goal that maybe you want to be five yards closer on. It's a little thing, but a ton of penalties by Tennessee, they look sloppy. So for that reason, I know Carolina is not like a bastion of like, I don't know. Winning football? And perfection and, you know, not playing ugly football.

but that was a lot that Tennessee gift wrapped to them. You know, they tried to give it away, and they did. And, you know, some of these calls, the third and one, they go big brain on their own 33 with seven minutes ago. They can put this game away. They go tight end, end around. You have Derek Henry in the fucking backfield, and you run an end around with a tight end that I had to look and see who he was.

Well, speaking of who he was, respectfully, Kyle Phillips fifth round pick in 2022 out of UCLA received about all of Ryan Tanna Hills targets were number 18 511

cat nine targets six for 66 for Kyle Phillips Kid had a good day and and bunch of receivers you haven't heard of on this team right till this you know like they're just like a found it's not AJ Brown and Julio Jones

it's not that anymore it's a far cry and not to punish the Giants for having big plays but a big chunker and a 68 yarder, Sequin, and then the 65-yard touchdown to Sterling Shepard. So I don't, the Giants by no means went out and just handled Tennessee. They got lucky. And I don't know what the advanced line was before week one for week two.

But the Giants being favored by two and a half. I don't know. It might even be flip-flopped. It might have been Carolina two and a half before the results of week one. It might have been. And I think people are going to be high on the Giants. And they should, like the Giants are going to be better than we thought. Like you can see that.

Sequin's healthy. Brian Daibel infusion, like they play differently. We were talking about this like on Monday. I think it was with Kyle, which seems like a week ago. Yeah. But like, you know, Kyle was like it's,

it's, it's an infusion of confidence. It's kind of like, you know, you're walking, you're in the mall with your fucking issued gear on if you're one of these rookies and you wouldn't wear your issued gear a year ago.

Yep. You know, it's like Man Tai-Teyo in that documentary. It was like, people were like, that's Man Tai-Tayo. And then it's like, That's my anti-tail.

It's the reverse for the Giants. Now people are like, the Giants, the G-Men. So enjoy this way you can. I think next week, this weekend, week two, Carolina gets the win. I also really enjoyed seeing Brian Daibble having fun after the game. And that shows you how far we've come because when Josh McDaniels did it in Denver,

it was like, look at this asshole. You know, like we've gotten way more fun as a football society. We really have. we really, really have. And the words he used were appropriate. One game's not going to make or break you. One game's not making or breaking you. Dable's a great dude.

He's a great coach. I know he's going to be a net positive for them. And for Daniel Jones. Now we'll see if Daniel Jones can eliminate those mistakes, like the one he made in the red zone there, throwing that pick in the end zone. And another thing like kickers and fucking Mike Vrable. Did anybody hear that?

Yeah, I just heard that. Okay, not me, not Kingston, not Reed. That leaves one person. Randy Bullock, is that who you're... Randy Bullock did not part. Randy Bullock ruined Mike Brable's day, because all that shit you did, all you had to do was make a kick.

And I was just thinking about that Denver game a couple years ago. My old team at Gaskowski, wasn't it? Yeah, that was Gostowski with the Titans in 2020. Monday night football. He missed three mid-range kicks and an extra point. They still won, though. It was a bummer. Brable's got to be having flashbacks.

So that was, listen, you got better. I'm not saying, you know, but. It's just, it's fun, man. So getting all the texts from your Giants buddies. Yeah, dude. Like, it's been years. You got a lot of Giants buddies? Yeah, a few.

Yeah. We used to do like pregame texts. The Brian Nelson text you? That practice stopped. Yeah. And now it's a post-game text. Everybody's happy. It's awesome.

This is good, man. I'm excited for you. This is going to be a tough team to deal with if Seekwan's healthy. He looked great running on the side. Oh, he was a job. Jump cutting in the back field. Oh, man. I mean, the cut on the two-point conversion alone, man.

Yeah. So I'm excited for that kid. I'm excited for Brian Daibel. And for you, man. I want you to enjoy Sunday. I mean, like, you know, it's got to be tough. Yeah. Well, actually, I'd.

Low key, also are watching some of the games. That will help. Yeah, that'll be good. That'll be good. High key. Yep. I also got to look at Falcon Saints a little closer look at that game.

This was like a game that I'm not going to lie. Did not pay attention to Sunday other than looking at the score. and at the end of the game, I remember that I had both teams in win totals. Like I have the Saints over and the Falcons Underst. This is one of those double whammy games. And thank God I wasn't thinking about it.

But, you know, the Saints found themselves in a world to hurt early. And I kind of wonder, and it makes what Daniel Jones looked like in the first half even more, you know, good newsy for Giants fans because he wasn't atrocious. Most of these new quarterback coach pairings are not going well in the first half of week one. You know, Trevor Lawrence was off in the first half.

They were lucky to be in that game late. You know, Marriota looked good. Jamis didn't look great. The Saints' offense didn't look great in the first half. I just want to fast forward to the end of this football game. Like Atlanta is a fucking factory of sadness, man. I mean, it really is. It just keeps happening to him in different ways.

at least it's a fun city like Cleveland when it was like a factory of sadness for a while and it still is the whole massage thing but like no one thinks of Cleveland as a you know a lively good time Atlanta is fun people are fun it's a party scene you know I was in that Super Bowl all the fucking rappers in the crowd it's great but Buckhead in that shout out yeah inevitably these people are all going to get let down And I think, you know, when you're up 2610 or whatever it was, late in that football game, you think you're going to win that football game. And we knew not to touch that game with the 10-foot pole

because it's hate week. But I did not think Atlanta would jump up. So I just want to say that off the top. As Atlanta is, their offense looked kind of decent. Marcus Marriota looked kind of decent. Cordero Patterson carried the ball 22 times. His usage is up after that great year he had last year. Atlanta. It did look like it was going to be Damian Williams at first. Then he got hurt.

So yeah. But then court herald goes out and does 22 for 120. 22 for 120 bro. You might want to stick with that. Yeah. That's a good football team you just played. Yep. I mean one of the cuts he he made a cut that was incredible and then he runs over a honey badger late in that football game and I'm like golly he should have been a running back his whole career. I mean I know it's so so unorthodox but the kid really I mean he's not a kid anymore. The dude really is going to get a lot of touches out of the backfield. He was in the pistol a lot. They'll, you know, the pistol being shotgun with the back right behind him.

And when he's there, he's getting the ball. They're fun, man. And Drake London, I get it. You've got some big, big targets to throw to you. You got Kyle Pitts, who's basically like a big receiver. You got Drake London. They're going to be fun to watch. Not for me because I, you know, I get the under on four and a half games or whatever it is.

Lameda Zakias in the slot. Zekees in the slot. And Marriota, man, I'm rooting for him. He threw some nice balls, but you had a million fucking chances to put this game away. You know, I asked Reid what the win probability was early on their last drive. And it was in the mid-80s, man. I'm surprised it wasn't higher. Because in the last drive, you know, you're up.

This is the Saints have just missed their two-point conversion to tie it at 26. Okay. And not to mention, Marietta could have put this game away with a throw in the end zone to make it a three-scored game. They were two for four in the red zone. He wants that one back, right? the throw he wants back. Could have put him up three scores, 30 to 10 or whatever it is. And they turn around and get the ball back, a minute 40 left in that football game.

The possession started at 3.38. Well, they start, yeah, they start their drive at 3.38. And you think we're up too. We're going to ice this thing, right? Our offense has been moving the ball. They've had trouble stopping Patterson. They actually get a first down. So you're like, okay.

Then third and six, it's the most. most god-awful call in the world. If they convert on third and six, they get two or three men out in the route and Marriota just throws it as far as he can. It's a terrible call. And you're like, man, this is real falconsy, but the saints bail them out with a hold. So now they get another fresh set downs. And it's third and one, as you mentioned, with not a lot of time left. And they fumble the snap, dude. So they have a million chances to put this game away, whether it's the Throw in the end zone with its last possession, and they can't fucking do it.

I mean, even Marcus May stripping the ball in the red zone. I mean, Marriota has a first down earlier, a couple possessions ago, up two scores or whatever it was, with a chance to blow this thing open. And Marcus May, who came over from the Jets, famously the guy that didn't like losing that football game, right? Kind of made up for a bad hold. had early on a deep shot and forced a fumble that was the turning point of this game because

if he goes and scores there's 15 chances that Atlanta had to put this thing away when Atlanta fumbles that snap at third and one they didn't have fourth in one at the Saints 42 minute 40 yeah I think that's a worst call Arthur Smith punning it away than than than Daniel's call to kick the field goal we'll talk about that in a second but I'm kind of I'm with you on at least the fourth and one I would have gone dude yeah I would have gone Yeah, I mean, when you're a bad team, quote unquote, you steal games when you can. And you don't put, because James had heated up in the second half. And I want to say this, like Carmichael, they're kind of getting their feet wet in the first half.

I thought this was really big. In the second half, they started off, they started breaking chunk plays off. And James made a couple of nice throws. A lot of his throws were like, you know, spots and zones that he was exploiting for 20-yard chunks. But there was a throw in third and three against AJ Terrell. It was like kind of a rub route where they really, you know, really needed it and he put great touch on the ball. Mike Thomas looked great.

Mike Thomas looked great on a back shoulder down there in the end zone. Like that connection looks good. So James, although he almost hurt you a couple times in that game, kind of as it went on, they got their rhythm. And one of the biggest deals to me was going to Alave on a two point conversion when you had to have it.

You still needed another score after that, but to go to a rookie in that situation was huge for me. And Jarvis Landry coming up with a big catch at the end of that football game. It was even improbable for them after they got the ball back. They get the ball back on the 20 with no timeouts, and they overcome a second in 20. That shouldn't happen.

Statistically, when you get the ball back with no timeouts on the 20, and then you have a penalty, and it's second in 20, you're not supposed to win that game. Down a touchdown, down a field goal, whatever it is, and they overcome it, because Jarvis Landry and James hook up on a... a big shot down the sideline. The Hayward got turned around there.

And that's all she wrote. So Falcons may be better than you think. The Saints, they're going to need some time to get in a rhythm offensively. But I just, fuck, man. It feels like the Falcons are cursed. Fascinating week two matchup, Saints' Bucks. Saints Bucks is going to be a great matchup. I'm also giving out the Saints in a little bit.

See what Steve has to say about that. Spoilers. Yeah, I'm just trying to be a great matchup. to beat you the punch because i think we're gonna have the same game no we're not yeah okay good and then uh mike thomas can't card mike is he held hostage right now he seems so fucking happy in the post game i thought he was drugged welcome back he's like i love being here this is the best you know it's just sean payton well yeah yeah uh sean payton injuries suspensions yeah it was just a bad scene for a little It's all behind him now.

And he looks happy and James looks happy. So how old do you think Michael Thomas is? 27. 29. Damn, he's getting up there. That's fair. Lost a couple years. It just goes to show you how quick football years.

It just goes to show you how quick somebody's career goes by. You know what I mean? Like you need every year. If you take a couple years off with like injuries, like you'll be 30 before you know it. So, um. Jackson and Jigba is probably a decade younger than Michael Thomas. Probably. You watch the Commanders Jacksonville game?

Fuck yeah, I did. Fuck yeah, I watched the commies and the Jags. I watched the Giants till 1.30 a night last night. I'm still so tired from Vegas. It's like I'm delirious. And Meg was like, hope you got some good sleep last night. No, I was standing up watching the Giants. You don't have to say it like that.

At 1.30 in the morning, I'm watching the Giants. Anyways. I thought Trevor Lawrence looked pretty bad. I was wondering why he continually gets a passed from the media, whereas everybody's critical of Trey Lance, even though Lawrence had more college experience and was a starter all last year? Well, I think two reasons. Number one, there's a sense that in San Francisco you gave up a lot to get Trey Lance, and you had an answer. You've just been in the Super Bowl. You've been in the NFC championship. And then the market. Yeah. Like, you know,

the market is a big thing. You know, Jacksonville is not a big market. Probably a blessing for him. if he was up in New York right now. He'd be getting skewered because that first half. And then the third thing that's obvious is Urban Meyer. It's almost like you can't count Urban Meyer against him. I almost would count Urban Meyer. I know some people are going to say I'm caping for a young quarterback. I don't really do that.

It's just fucking Urban Myers. I mean, by all accounts, is one of the most dysfunctional years of football in the past 25 years in our league. Like the things I'm hearing behind the scenes are even worse than what you know. And so like the first half, alone man there was so many opportunities for Trevor Lawrence to to take control of this football game me he overthrows ETN the first drive pretty bad and then all in one drive down 143 he misses Marvin Jones he's behind ETN he misses

Jones on third down in the end zone and then you get the go for it on fourth down you get the circus noise ETN dropping the ball he's just his placements off I want to shout out Doug Peterson because guys are open guys are guys are open and they have some good football players down there they play fast there's some good players on that team it looks like they made some decent moves in the draft i mean they the the young kid setting the fuck out of some edges playing like real pro football based defensive end kind of stuff but trevor lawrence has to clean it up you know he's going to be what's going to keep them from from making a run at the afc south if he plays like that they'll have a desperate indie team this weekend too

And to be fair, Carson Wentz was high early, dude, you know, and he almost threw a pick on the goal line and way short of McKissick early in the first half. I mean, like, I'm just charting these throws and I'm making notes every time these guys' placements are off when they have a big opportunity to do something with the ball. What I do when I watch quarterbacks is I just chart when their placements off. Like, how many times is their placement off in a given game? And both these quarterbacks don't put the ball in the money. and both these quarterbacks have like sneaky decent teams but if you can't if your placement's going to be off all year you're going to be losing a turnover battle

you're going to be missing big opportunities like Trevor Lawrence said early the you know the Jacksonville Jaguars should have won that game they should took control of it early so yeah to answer your question I think there's some good reasons it's not fair but that's just the way it is 32 incompletions between those two in that game give me your hackett take before Steve gets on My hackett take is that it was absolutely the right call.

Like I almost tweeted it out in the moment, but my Twitter following is more of like an alt-left kind of, you know, we just want to see what kind of food you're cooking sort of deal. So I don't know if they wanted the hot football tape. They like the toast tweets. Yeah. English muffins more so even than the toast is what I'm hearing is what they're wanting. But look, it everyone's acting like fourth and freaking.

and five is a gimmie and it's not. You're in Seattle. The environment was electric and not in a good way for the road team and you're having trouble scoring points and picking up yardage and your kicker is going to tell you and he's going to be as honest as he can from what distance he feels comfortable. He's kicking pregame. He's kicking a half time. He knows what side of the field.

He's going toward and he said the 46. I'm good from 64. So trust your kicker. leave your kicker. And the whole letting the clock run down, I know everybody's saying, why has you calling them a timeout? I mean, that was, if you make the decision, that's a smart way to go. You're, you're jukeing out Pete Carroll and the Seattle side line because they would call a timeout at a minute, whatever it was to try to get the ball back in case the field goal went in. So I understand that there have only been, what, two kicks as long as that in NFL history and the percentages were

not terribly high, but stealing one on the road under those sorts of. circumstances with with Russ being back in Seattle. I kind of like giving the kicker a shot there. And he, it was long enough. It was just off. And, and fourth and five doesn't seem like the, um,

the easy conversion that, you might get booed like Russ. Oh, oh, we pay him so much money. I, okay. It's not even the money for me.

It was more just like, one, the probability of actually converting was higher. Like, you can't even argue that it wasn't. Well, look, historical data is going to support your argument, no doubt about it.

I feel like you trot McManus out there 10 times. He makes that kick four times. More like McBoy's. That's 40% of the time. He's got a leg like a little boy. Advanced analytics. So I like the call, even though my man, Thaniel now says he doesn't like the call.

I'm the only one on Daniel Island. Yeah, even Nathaniel Hackett's like, he's walked it back. If Nathaniel Hackett's listening to this podcast right now, he's just like, When when when when when Russ was dawdling at the line of scrimmage, I knew what was going on. Oh, Peyton. I loved it. I loved it.

I loved it. Yeah. I liked what was. I liked it. By the way, I didn't watch the Manning cast. I didn't either. I wasn't tempted to. Because it's hard.

You know, I want to, who is it, Joel. McKale on there. I don't need to watch a comedian. Is that what he does? He's a comedian, right? He's a comedian. Yeah, I don't need to hear a comedian distracting me from. I just, Joe and Joe and Troy.

I wanted to see their Monday and football debut. They were excellent. That was nice. You got a hello before we're getting to Steve? Asateague Island, Virginia. Okay, good.

Hello! I got some houses there. Yeah, houses and the islands in Maryland a little bit too. So why they, you know. There are many famous people. I got on Wikipedia.

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it looks like it's long hair. Oh, boy. Oh, wow. Doesn't like that. Is it the squirrel? What's going on? I'm a Willie Nelson. Oh, it's Willie Nelson?

Yeah, it is a little bit. Mullity. Nice. That's cool. Steve, what's up, man? Willie was in Connecticut this week. Willie was in Seville recently. We had to catch him.

Well, those of us who appreciate culture. Did Reed get overserved in Vegas? No, reading a dad, dad got over-served in Vegas. Okay. Me. All right. Reed Reed was a champ in Vegas, dude. He went to bed when it was appropriate to go to bed.

I did. I skipped Saturday night with Channing Frye went right to bed. And then I woke up with a 9 in the morning with a text at 5.30 from Chris saying, hey, I'm still out. Oh, you were just. Well, because when. Peacocking? Yeah, because when me and Reed.

No, he was getting in line to bet the games on Sunday. No, so me and Reed. So me and Reid parted ways. We went out to dinner shout to Ian and Seth and all the Winbeck gang and went to Delilah's and had a nice meal. And then we were kind of hanging out at the bar there. And Channing came through with his crew. And we were like, you know, hey, they were like, we're going to marshmallow. I was like, well, when you're in, I'm not going to see marshmallow back home, you know?

And Reid did a semi-Irish goodbye. And so I just wanted to be like, Reed, you see, I still got it, bro. I still got it. because a lot of people think you get a little older, a little longer in a tooth, you can't hang. Steve, man, speaking of Vegas, we got some winners to give out today, but first, I want to do the watch list.

I want to do the Cockland Award and the Chang Award. And I want you to tell us if anybody knew has entered the picture. Yes. It's getting close to a Michael Mayor status. Ohio State, tight end, Cates Sover, is an absolute battering ram. I absolutely love the kid watching the first two games, going back on tape, stay up until late, watching him against Arkansas State, just ragged down on people, played his butt off against Notre Dame.

He was a former linebacker, big old elbow brace. His jersey's untucked, like second play of the game, but some guy's grabbing his jersey because he's pissed that he's blocking after the whistle. He has the goods in Ohio State's offense will be fine as long as eight is on the field. he's got neck beard from where I sit yeah he's he's got a lot I wouldn't mess with him I'll just say that damn he can beat up by a college kid here yeah he's a big kid

64 255 man's field Ohio he's a big kid yes it's an Ohio boy man what number did you wear Steve high school four college 82 I love that four you're ahead of your time yeah you were now guys are just any

any old single digit number will do like it's just fucking slap it on except three three I don't like three or nine oh I like nine I don't know about nine I don't know about nine I don't know about nine I don't know about nine I like both of those I don't know about nine I like both those look at uh and zero zero terrible yeah zero

I'm kind of in on zero you're in on zero and I've come around on four really like four it depends on which what your body type is in what position you play yeah you know it's it there's no absolute no number I mean I fuck dude i really stepped in it shitting on lukekely's number um 59 59 it's an ugly number and i was like you know it is it's an ugly number and i was like ah who the fuck is you know you're doing the whole countdown to to kick off and i'm like 59 who wore that you forget it's such a hideous number guys like london fletcher set joiner uh lukelly it really speaks to how great they are to make that number look good all right so the cockland uh you know award is given to

the uh do we know what that award is Yeah, the Cockland Award goes to the best college football player who has no chance to win the Heisman trophy. It's always a tight end. Yeah, it's not a tight end award. It's not the Ted Hendricks Award. And yet, uh, is that the Ted Hendricks? No, that's the defense event. Um, that's the you won the Ted Hendricks award.

I did. Tight end. Did you get a trophy? Yeah, it's huge, dude. It's like as big as Ted Hendricks. John Mackey. John Mackey. John Mackey Award.

Slide over Fred Bolitnikov. John Mackey's in town. All right? All right. So Brock Bowers, of course, won the original Calclin Award. And fucking Notre Dame after they get beat by Marshall. Mayor didn't win it.

That's right. You know, like, you know, we can't really shout out any Notre Dame players this week. Yeah, sorry, Steve. No. Okay. How about the Chang Award, which was,

it's given to the guy that's balling out. It kind of sounds like the same award. No, no, I'll go a little smaller tier. So this is like even more obscure. Non-power-5. Non-power-five. That's good, okay. All right.

Except you, this is a nice way for you to. No offense, wazoo. Yeah, this is your, a nice way for you to just like subtly back out of the incarnate word guy, uh, take. You see what he wanted? He went to Madison and they won. They're two and oh. Okay.

Has he been great? Okay. Has he been great? He's been good. He's been good. What quarterbacks are good when they go to Madison? His team won the game. Totally with you, Steve.

Two and O. Cameron Ward will be fine. I'm standing down. I'm standing at 2 and O. Which my team was... Yeah. No, I mean, after you said that, I had a bunch of people tweeting me. They were like, wait until you see this fucking can play.

No, he's legit, man. Timmy Chang Award, Devon Fox. Temple. He blocked three punts last week. You got to be kidding me. Block three puns. Maybe keep an eye on him after the same. second one. Like, what are they doing in protection, Steve? Oh, you got to go back and watch Bad

Beach part one from this week because they were right. The pun blocks caused it. Lafayette had two guys to the left of the center. Guess where he came from? The left of the center? Yes. College punting is so stupid. Like, look at the pros. Look how they do it. That, like, they do it that way. Why do we have to reinvent the wheel and do all this exotic punting shit? I don't know when that started, what year that was, but it kind of drives me crazy and nobody pays attention to it. What's the reason? I'm with you.

I don't know. Overtinking it. Field position maybe. You know, to, I think a lot, I'll tell you right. The rugby thing, I think guys got crazy influenced by the ability for the returner not to get his hands on the ball. Right. where they could, you know, run and kick it to the side.

So they would get a roll and there would be no return. And taking a look at picking up the first down, too, if you, if it was sailing. Yeah, yeah. Well, get that out of our game. It's so funny. Coaches are always like, well, whatever the best does, that's what we do. And then, like, you look up one fucking level of competition. And you're like, no, I think we'll just spread out and look like wrong drugs.

Were you ever on punt or kickoff in college? So I was on kick off. No, I was on field goal. Um, yeah, I was definitely on all that stuff. I was on that stuff in the pros. Spaggs like was like, yeah, you got to be on all special teams. Yeah. And then I just was terrible at it.

Now, I wasn't even throwing the game, but they thought I was throwing the game. They were like, this fucking asshole doesn't want to be on special teams. We get it. Um, but in college, I got a punt or a kick blocked against Duke on me. I was the wing guy. I was the guy that steps down inside and puts his arm there and puts his arm there. It's the worst job in football. It's awful.

It's all, yeah, dude, labrums. Dukes. Duke guy just curdled me and blocked the kick. We almost lost to Duke because of me. Bengals and LSU.

I'm sure you saw that game. Steve, do you remember Amad Brooks Parade All-American linebacker playing the league? Absolutely. He was, Al Groh made him

our kick returner. Against Temple. Yeah. My very first game was watching yeah, Amad Brooks return kicks. Probably had 260 pounds.

Two-60. Legitimately. Wow. We used to call him fuck it. Because he just would, He would just go off and not come back.

It just came out of my mouth. One time he was like, I got to take his shit. And then he went inside and then he didn't come back for a week. Fuck it. But then he turned into like the consummate pro. I mean, in San Francisco, Amad Brooks was like one of the tone setters on that, on that defense. Didn't get enough love.

Shout to Amad Brooks. Okay, fuck it. All right. So first thing, is this a code break, Steve, that Texas, puts the bands up in the upper deck. Alabama's million dollar band. Did you hear about this? Yeah, they didn't make the trip

because they gave them a bunch of nosebleed tickets up there? Is that a code break in college football? No, I don't think so. Yeah? I don't think. I mean, you know, I mean, the NFL, where are to visiting players' comp tickets? Right.

All the way up. But, you know, in college, yeah, I always see the band like down by the field. A lot of bands don't travel. Okay. I mean, yeah, it's a home field advantage. Okay, okay. What I don't know is if within your allotment,

can you stick anybody in your allotment like the marching band? Or is there some sort of, do some schools and stadiums have their own rules about? I'm not really sure, but I would love to see Nick Savin sticking like all his best players, like Will Anderson's families in the noseblee because the million dollar band is down on the field. Hey, by the way, did you get? What I thought was a good point was, The Alabama should not have said the band wasn't coming, and then there would just been an open space in the upper deck.

Oh, my God. That would have been beautiful. That would have been beautiful. O'DU is complaining because they can't bring some dog. Did you know what this? People are tweeting me about this. There's some support dog. There's a support dog.

It's a good-looking dog. They're the monarchs. They should be bringing King Charles. Maybe they bring-Ca-Ca-Cav-Ca-Ci-Charlaneal, I think is what you're after. Did you see him having trouble with his fucking pen this week? Yeah, I did see that. Yeah. What a relatable royal.

Yeah, okay. Like King Charles. The pen's made of like elephant tusks. Imperialist bastards. All right. So Nebraska, you didn't want to bury Scott Frost. You didn't want to be disrespectful by, you know, speculating who might be the successor. Now who's replacing Scott Frost?

That is done. And were you surprised? I was because I thought the buyout might. changed things. And, you know, well, it doubled, well, you know, it went down half or more on October 1st. So yeah, I was at the timing, but then you think about this week and Fox's show is going there at Big Noon and the whole conversation would be, you know, how long is you going to be the head coach? Now there's, that's gone. So you get your team amped up. I still think they have an effort in them. To me, I know everybody's going to talk about Nebraska in this game. To me, this is about Oklahoma. Oklahoma came in.

Venables talked about before the year, game one. They had 50 guys that never put on Oklahoma uniform before. And now you've got two weeks later, you're going on the road to play your first true road games with all these new guys, new staff, new head coach. So that to me, if you're a top 10 team going on the road in this environment, I want to see you win by double digits. When this line was posted before the season. They do those game of the year lines. It was Oklahoma minus three, and now it's obviously 11. The fun belt went up there and just pissed on their sofa.

So what do you think Oklahoma is going to do? And there must be a line on or some sort of metric on, hey, how do interim head coaches do? There's got to be a bump. There's got to be a bump for an interim head coach bump because everybody feels good. And it's like a new beginning. And that coach is really fucking jazzed up. he's not just actually going through the motions. And people feel that.

But then the second week, they actually have to, like, adjust and do things. Maybe they should hire halfway serious. Totally serious. Clay Hilton. Guy's a good football coach. He showed it last week, I thought. Probably 1 and 0 in Memorial Stadium.

Any other names you like? I just think it's funny. You guys are younger than me. I don't even know if it was around when you guys, if you can remember, but the old big eight, you know, that's when Nebraska and Oklahoma started. And the idea, if I put you in a time machine from 1993 and moved you to here in 2022, and I told you that, and you asked me who the next Nebraska head coach was, and I told you two of the top candidates were from Kansas and Kansas State, like you would,

your mind would blow. So that's what's amazing to me, just remembering what those teams were in Nebraska's heyday. And to see how it's turned, I would go after climbing at Kansas State. I think he's a machine at North Dakota State. He's got Kansas State on the cusp of a really big season here. I think he knows about building a program from within in not the most or the greatest recruiting areas and going out and getting players and just be a tireless worker. Climing would be at the top of my list for Nebraska.

Okay. I got one. What do you got? Don't look at my, don't look at my machine. Hey, Steve, could I interest you in a coach who has a winning percentage? Okay, 135 and 81. I'm not going to pull out my phone to the percentage. He's 135 and 81 overall, and he really wants to coach college football.

Would that be interesting to you? He's young. When's the last time he coached in college? Let's say like a year ago. I know who it is. Bronco Mendenhall. His name is Bronco. Mendenhall. I'm dead serious. I think he'd be great there. I think he's a good coach.

Has his name been brought up in that, in that cycle? I've heard his name for sure. Wow. But I'll tell you right now, if Mickey Joseph turns this thing around, I mean, look at the Big Ten West right now. Wisconsin lost to Washington. I know they're out of conference games, but Wisconsin lost to Washington State. Iowa looks like trash. You know. Hot garbage. Northwestern just lost to Duke. What's the fallout when it comes to Texas A&M? I mean, losing to App State down there, they did their whole weird rally thing the night before.

That's the cringiest shit ever when they do that. And I guess they do it every week. Midnight Yale practice. Yeah, midnight yel practice. Right, dude. Yeah, that's right up your rally, Chris. I think this is an enormous spot for A&M. Because when you look at Texas A&M, look at their schedule.

After this game Saturday night, they don't play a home game until October 29th. That might be good or might not because those road trips, I believe they play Arkansas and Dallas. There's a trip to Alabama in there. There's a trip to either Arkansas or no, to Mississippi State. Like it's a really tough stretch until they come home

and play Ole Miss on October 29. So I think this game is enormous. I think we've got to see a little more creativity from Jimbo Fisher on the offensive side. I would have to think Max Johnson is going to get snaps in this game to try and change up things. I mean, you got all these five-star receivers. You've got to get the ball to them. And I just think, you know, you look at last week, they had nine possessions in the game.

Nine possessions, they had eight first downs. Something has to change there. I don't think there's another play caller on the staff that's done it before. So I think Jimbo is going to keep calling the plays. but I just am interested to see the different difference in approach and the difference in the game plan this week as Miami comes in. So do you like, do you like the Aggies there? What is that line?

Three and a half? Five and a half? Yeah, I would think so. Miami just said they're going to be out with their best receiver, Restrepo. So I mean, in any case, like this is not do or die, but like it's close to a must-win situation here. I would expect it to a big time effort out of Texas A&M. How about this is a line that I texted you about last night, the BYU, Oregon line.

And Felica, I hear, likes Oregon, per my co-host here, Macon. He read your column. I read your column. He said it was great. Oh, okay. Thank you. Hey, what is payback? It's a bad word.

It begins with it be. And you can't write that in your column. He won't say it. Yeah. no i don't want to say okay but uh b y u could be kids listen yeah i fucking hope not some guy

some guy some guy hit me at one time i was like dude you fucking you know my kids were in the car i'm like you're a bad dad like as scott vampout once said to me i wish your daughter had a better dad yeah that's good

uh as scott van pelt once said to me week one he said bet the dogs There were all types of numbers on betting the dogs last week. And how did that play out? Shout out to Scott. Okay, BYU, Oregon. Okay, like Oregon favored at home. I was like, is this home field of in?

Is that serious up there? You mentioned the receivers being outmake. What gives? Is this stinky? Yeah, a little bit because I don't think Oregon's offense is fixed because they scored 70 against Eastern Washington. I still go back to the inconsistencies of Bow Nix at quarterback and what they looked like against Georgia.

BYU is not Georgia, but they just looked like they didn't have any kind of balance in their offense. And on the other side, BYU's top two receivers out, they get the win against Baylor, who's a good physical team. But BYU had 83 yards rushing on 33 carries. That's like a two and a half yard average. they're not going on the road to Oregon if they do that. They've got to find some kind of a more balance.

And when I look at BYU's defense, they got some good dudes up front. They're not crazy athletic, but they're going to play for 60 minutes. I think if BYU were to win this game, there is a path to the playoff for them. Because they get Arkansas coming in their building. They get Notre Dame in Vegas. They still have a Power 5 game against Stanford. That's a win. So I would think that resume is better than Cincinnati's last year.

So there is a road if they win this game, but it's going to be tougher. I would like Oregon a lot more if it was a night game, but it's going to be early. Yeah. I like the under in the game. I like under 50. I think both defenses dictate the game. By the way, without, you know, because by the time people are going to hear this, what do you like on the total tonight, our tonight listeners last night with the charges in chief?

You think it goes over or under? Because this is a really pivotal answer. Yeah, this is a good thing you guys do and wait for the outcome of the game and then post by video about how the bills aren't going to be good. That was nice to create. Don't point at me, you cock suckers.

You know, fuck me, dude. That one. So I guess I'm part of the time. Did we post that after the game? It was right around it. Come on. All right, let me be real. It was posted before the game.

Number two. Okay. Nobody pointed me like I fucking, I put that social out, okay? I don't give a fuck, but you were dead wrong, dude. The point, when I point, that was a joke. Well, you never can tell. All this joke. All right.

What do you got? What does Winbet have for the numbers? 54. 54. I'll go under. I think that's probably right. Fuck, we're going to have a good night, maybe. All right.

All right. Georgia, South Carolina. What's the line there who are you like? It's around 24. I believe over under 54. So another one. I would give South Carolina a shot to cover if it was at night, but it's a noon game.

But here's another thing, just like Oklahoma, Georgia, now they're number one, gave it to Oregon, beat the crap out of whoever last week. Now we get to see this group go on the road in a physical environment. Stetson has been unbelievable. They haven't really had to run the ball. ball. In South Carolina's defense against the run has not been good. So I have to lean Georgia in this game. It's a ton of points in a division game. I don't love it at all. But in, you know,

my office pools and stuff like that, I'll be circling Georgia. How about Bo Allen has a mention he made up called Beefcake of the Week that he gives out to a guy every week. His first one was Javan Kinlaw because he looked great without his shirt on. Nice. And you, and you're just obsessed with Stets and Bennett. I'm not obsessed with Stetson Bennett. He's just sneaky hot. Georgia, Georgia 11 and 18 against the spread under Kirby, when favored by 20 or more,

South Carolina, four and one against the spread in last five games against AP top five. Put that in your column. Sneaky. Now, I want Shane Beamer to lose every game by 24 and a half. When we get hit in the head by a Mayo Igloo cooler, like he did after that bowl game. A couple things just about watching them offensively

with Rattler at quarterback now at Arkansas, and even against Georgia State, who I think is an underrated team with a bunch of athletes, all their passing game is really long. Like it takes a while to progress. Georgia only has one sack so far this year. I'm going to guess that total is a lot higher after this week. I think Georgia gets after South Carolina. South Carolina also has two of their top defensive guys out that got ACLs last week.

So it's up against them for South Carolina. But there is capability on that offense for the Gamecocks. A couple more here, Auburn, Penn State. What's the line there, guys? Field goal. Okay. Yeah. Road team favorite.

That's right. Wow. Yeah. I don't think it's going to be pretty. I know it's a low number. I again would look at the under. Auburn's going to play two quarterbacks. Neither of them are accurate.

And on top of that, I love Penn State secondary. Porter Jr., I think, is a stud king at safety. Those guys are real players. And they held up against Purdue who just throws the ball every single time. So I think Penn State has a real advantage there, but Auburn can run the ball. The problem is, is how stacked is that box going to be? I think Tank Bigby is the top five running back in the game. We don't talk about running backs anymore, but that dude's electric. And Hunter, the backup is really good, too. To me, it's about Auburn. The crowd, I think it's the most underrated place to

play in the country. I think Cher is awesome. It's an awesome atmosphere. And Penn State hates whenever anybody says another place is a great home field. God, but the whiteout. So I lean Auburn in this game. I like the under. I think that crowd and that atmosphere takes over. Clifford's got some big play guys, but I think Auburn has to do it's on defense to slow them down.

All right, so two teams, you know, that I want to talk. Well, first, NC State, because they got Texas Tech this week. I'm interested in them. I mean, like, I feel like this is one of those things where you had your chance to impress everybody at ECU and take care of business the first game of the season. And now that taste is kind of in my mouth when I'm thinking about the wolf pack. So who are they and how does this weekend go? Well, Larry's been under par.

I would think from his expectations coming in, you know, at the draft, Doran says that he's the best college football quarterback. And as it played like it in the first two games, I love their defense. I don't think they win that game without their defense against East Carolina. They got NFL guys on that defense. They have guys that missed all last year that were all ACC guys in 20 and 19. So I'm fired up for NC State to see them in this atmosphere because I looked at their schedule.

They play Wake Forest late. And Texas Tech is going to do something that now I don't think a lot of teams are going to do to NC State. Just spread them out and try and get them as thin as possible and maybe attack it sideways with, you know, with flare screens and in jail. breaks and stuff like that. So the discipline of NC State's defense at home I think shows up and I would expect Larry to play his best game so far. So I know

it sounds dangerous leaning on NC State with expectations because it hasn't lived up to it. I still think this team has a really bad taste in their mouth after that bowl game getting canceled with a chance to be the second team in school history to win 10 games. So I got high hopes. If they win this

and look good, that's a monster matchup in two weeks as they go to Clemson. Oh boy. And who would you like today? Nancy State. Against Clemson. Yes. Yep. I hope so. I hope you're, I fucking hope you're right. State 5 and 1 against the spread as a double-digit favorite since the start of 2020. Bitting them out, bro.

Stats. Like a fax machine. Yep. Shout out Dr. Fax. Call me Dr. Fax. Yeah. USC. Are they for real? Yes. They kind of look for real. I was like, damn, are they kind of real now? I said, I said last, I loved S.C. last week against Stanford just because of the speed factor. Stanford has zero team speed on offense or defense. And the thing with SC is when you, like that old line,

they played two guys at left tackle, but that old line is so in sync with everything. And you just don't, you haven't seen that in college football the first two weeks. You know, with all the zone schemes and how guys are on the same page and staying on the right track and in all that zone. stuff. And when you get to Caleb, like, he's hit every big, long throw. And if he's going to do that, it's scary. Now, I will say they, Felica said they're 52 to nothing in turnovers. Like points off turnovers, it's 52 to nothing. So that's not going to be sustainable, I would think. But if your offense is going to be that good and not turn it over, the defense is going to be better than advertised. And when you look at Fresno, So I think they're better than Stanford.

They got way more speed. The quarterback is awesome. He had a great quote earlier this week. He rooted for SC when his, Jay Caner's his name. He's from Danville, California. And he said, little Jay Caner was too small and didn't have enough stars next to his name to get an offer from SC.

But this week I get to go play in the Coliseum. So I'm fired up for Fresno. I think they keep it closer to the number. I do. Fresno is like perpetually scrappy. I just feel that way. in the Micron PC bowl Circa, whatever the fuck here that was.

All right, this is the last time I'll do it. They've covered five straight games as a double-digit underdog Fresno. There we go. That's valuable information. It's covered each of its last seven games against AP ranked opponents. Well, I guess we're on the Bulldogs.

I'm on the Bulldogs, dude. Let's do it. I'm on the Bulldogs. USC 5 and 12 against non-conference opponents over the last six seasons. That's 1030 Fox, so you're going to bed at 3 a.m. If you see that into that one. Oh, God.

Yeah, no, I got the kids this weekend So I'm probably not going to be watching that game Okay And now we move to pro football This is this is a joy What were our picks last week? We're just, we don't need to do records We're just doing a win total

Like sort of a ladder And Steve's on top with two Chris and I are at one Right Okay All right, I like this I like this Yeah, we're game back

There's time We're game back Okay There's time Let's go with our locks, man. I've got five that I like. Five? Yeah.

If we're doing five, let me just fucking... No, we don't need to do five, but I got five that I like, and I'm probably going to choose only one winner of the... Steve, kick us off. Are we going one, one, and one, or all three right in a row? We're doing one, one, because I need some... Let's do a carousel. Yeah, it's a carousel.

It's like a circled jerk of predictions. All right. I'm taking the jets plus... Six and a half. I love that. I love it too. I love it too. If they don't cover,

I'm sending my receipt ticket to Sala. I fucking love that. Yeah, because, yeah, you want Sala to like you. You don't want them to like just kick down your door

and beat your ass. Okay. I'll go with the one I like the least. Ravens are going to roll, right? Nah. Ravens dinged up again. Joanne James,

Peters, Fuller, Travis Jones, J.K., who knows? Is Mike McDaniel a genius. I think this is when Miami fans become their most insufferable. Dolphins potentially go to two and oh, but at the very least they cover the three and a half. I got Miami on the road.

Please no. Fucking two and on. They'll be out of control. Lamar against his future team. Hey, they got bills, bingles, Vikings three of the next four. Miami does. So they might want to get this one. They might want to win this game. Dude, that's going to get ugly. I mean, not necessarily, but it's going to be murderers row for them. I just, I like that hook. I like that hook, Steve. Three and a half. I like it too. So I've already said this, you know, I've already said pretty much all these, but I like San Francisco.

As soon as, you know, Monday night happened, I was like, man, I'm betting whoever the Seahawks play next week because all of NFL Twitter was like, oh, Seahawks are pretty good. It's a lot of points, Chris. We don't know. And that's part of why I'm betting the Niners, man. You got to put your nuts in the table here. Okay. So I like the Niners.

I think a lot of bets are going to be on the, actually, Matt, you could let us know, but where the money is this week. take a gander as we finish these locks and let us know. Well, that line moved from 10 down to 9, so I guess people bet Seahawks at 10. Yeah. So I'm on the deniners, and you're up, Steve. I'm going to take the Lions. That's been a long, long time since I've been favored.

On my list. I do like the capability of the offense as long as Wentz throws it to his own guys. But I like what I saw from Detroit. I thought it was a tough matchup and they battled. And we know what Dan Campbell's about. I think the line's winning cover. Final score from Green Bay, Packers 31 Bear 6. Yeah, dude, they're going to cover.

We're all in agreement this week. We should all just bet together. You know, there are reasons not to like the Packers, but there are a whole lot more reasons not to like the Bears. I just think they blow them out in a relaxed game. That's kind of what they do. You know what I mean? This is, yeah, I'm in agreement.

They have to. They can't. I got Carolina, and I told Make earlier, it's because the Giants are going to be a little bit overvalued. They damn near gave that game away. Tennessee really gave the game away. Tennessee just tricked it off, a ton of penalties. And then on top of that, Carolina looked like dog shit the first half offensively, but everything they were doing was predicated on getting the ball out because they're afraid of Miles Scared.

And Jadavia and Clowney, and there's nobody to fear yet in New York. Okay. Okay. I'm going to go. There's two more I like. I'm going to go with the dog instead. Give me the Falcons plus 10. Great fucking play. I liked what I saw. I believe in Arthur Smith as a coach, an offensive scheme. I thought they did some good things.

Obviously, they made, you know, New Orleans work for that win. They should have won the game. but as this thing gets going and Mario to get out of trouble with his feet, they got some nice pieces. Drake London looked good. Obviously, pitch is going to get more and more touches. I think Mario is capable enough to cover 10 on the road against the Rams.

Rams still feel like they have a bunch of things to work out. I don't know if it's guys, guys not playing in the preseason, but I expect the Rams to win, but I think the Falcons can cover 10. Stafford isn't healthy. this isn't going to get better. Okay, I'm just telling you.

And the Falcons, as you said it, we talked about earlier in the show, the Falcons had every opportunity to win that game and did not get pits the ball effectively. Yeah. And there's two catches on like seven targets or whatever it was. So, yeah, there's a lot to like

about the Falcons relative to expectation. Is Bryce Perkins the two in L.A.? Wolford's probably still there too. Wolford had a fun little moment, right? playoff, Wolford. Yeah, that was a few years ago. Yeah.

Yeah. A little Hanak-y-esque. Your stupid website, Steve, has Bryce as the third quarterback, Walford as the two. Yeah. I have, it's ESPN, by the way, dot com for those listening at home.

Though I have the lines as well, Detroit Lions, minus two and a half, I'll, I'll have some fun here. Yeah. Go with a couple of my backups. Yeah. Arizona Cardinals.

plus five and a half. I like that as well. Low key, are those the same two teams, Cardinals and Raiders? And I'm getting five and a half? All right, I'll take it. I also love, but I'm

far too scared to do it. The Tennessee Titans plus 10 in Buffalo on one of the two Monday night games. Oh, interesting. Titans are still solid. They're still solid. They're scrappy, dude.

They just can't make It can't make a million mistakes. So the one seed from last year getting 10 in week two. That's why. But things changed towards the end of the year. I am H.O. And as Steve will tell you, the bill suck. Yeah, that's true.

My fault, though, guys. Sorry. I hear relapse in the background, too. Yeah. Chris did it. All right. So, New Orleans. I'm sorry about that, but I'm going to take New Orleans.

So I got New Orleans. Tampa and New Orleans's tail oldest time. Last year I lost a fucking mid-sized sedan on this very matchup. And things have not gotten better in Tampa. I think New Orleans is a little bit more under control this week. Although I do worry about the run game, man. That's the one thing. Tampa's running the fuck out of the ball.

And the edge depth in New Orleans didn't look so hot against the Falcons. So. Nine different picks. That's fun. Are the lines down to one and a half? Is that what I'm reading? Is that, uh, well, tell the people what that means, Steve. I just saw two and a half.

I mean, I literally know what it means, but what does it tell you? It tells me people are better than the commanders, which is dumb. It's just dumb. Carson got away with a few last week and the lines are good football team. It's actually down to one. One. As we speak, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Does it tell you that like DeAndre Swift's had an eventful week off the field or do people know things?

He didn't practice today, so that might be... Yeah. I thought maybe we were... I don't think it matters. I don't think it matters. Are we live and people could watch and they're betting as we get fixed? No, but they know...

Oh, okay. You missed your chance if it's... Yeah, the line's gonna be favored tomorrow morning. All right, so what matchup do you like this week? And then we got Steve on the road. This is a new thing we're gonna do. It's gonna be looking ahead to the weekend. It's an individual matchup or a positional matchup

that we're excited about. I knew you would, Steve. I got you, bro. First, people. Before I give mine, did you, what do you think of that, um, try on Sriinka? I like him. He's active. He's, he was everywhere the other night.

Yeah. Everywhere. Um, okay. My matchup. My matchup this week, Monday night, Lane Johnson, Denial Hunter. I cannot wait for this. DeNiel, this game is outside. It's on regularly grass.

make sure you wear your long cleats you're up Brandon McManus in the uprights at mile high I got them going three for three from distance another another three extra points

is the Broncos roll and we're going to put this whole 64 yarder and Thaniel's decision to rest you know he took by unintentionally my lane and it's going to be a fucking Monday night's going to be big on big dude there's going to be some big on big Steve the purple people eaters against the birds and the strengths of that team but I'll give you a couple more uh lael Collins um the the the bangles

you know they had an atrocious time protecting what's their playing going to be against micha parsons micha parsons is the only reason that I'm not hammering the bangles uh and then also you know you got frank rike and and dug you know a little handshake a little reunion there There's a lot of fun matchups this weekend This is two I wanted to throw out Since my thunder got just taken But you guys, this is a fun This is a fun little segment

We should keep this one going Fire, yeah Okay, cool Steve, go pick your Your lovely children up And we'll see you next week Love you, Steve We love you guys Love you, bro, love you