New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce - Chiefs Close Call, Jason's Philly Return and How to Sound Like a Smart Football Fan | Ep 101

Episode Date: September 18, 2024

92%ers, we are back with another episode of New Heights brought to you by Buffalo Wild Wings! In this episode, we’ve got an update on what to expect from New Heights’ “Bonus Content,” more details on Travis’ Hamster ball, and a brief look at the history of United Airlines—not kidding.Travis breaks down the Chiefs' close call against the Bengals including his thoughts on the offensive struggles, big guy touchdowns, the certainty of Chris Jones, and the “controversial” call that helped end the game. Jason also gives us all the details on his Monday Night Football homecoming in Philly. We have a detailed look at his new dance moves, his thoughts on velour tracksuits, what it was like to join Troy and Joe in the booth, and his thoughts on the last-minute loss to the Falcons. Finally, we recap everything else from Week 2 in the NFL and answer some “No Dumb Questions” about how to be a better fan. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting http://wondery.com/NewHeightsOffer now....Follow New Heights on Social Media for all the best moments from the show: http://hoo.be/newheightshowSupport the Show:  BUFFALO WILD WINGS: Watch football this season at Buffalo Wild Wings. B-Dubs was built for football.NFL SUNDAY TICKET: This NFL season, you can watch every game, every Sunday when you bundle NFL Sunday Ticket and YouTube TV. Sign up today at http://youtube.com/NHAG1: Try AG1 and get a FREE bottle of Vitamin D3K2 AND 5 free AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase at http://drinkAG1.com/newheights. That’s a $48 value for FREE if you go to http://drinkAG1.com/newheights. Check it out!SEATGEEK: Use code KELCE15 for 15% off your SeatGeek order. http://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/KELCE15. $25 max discountUnited: Download the United app or head to http://united.com to book your next tripSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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92 percenters a Wondry show produced by wave sports and entertainment. And brought to you by Buffalo Wild Wings. Let's go sports bar. Gotta love BW3 baby. We are your hosts. I'm Travis Cousy. My big brother, Jason Kelsey out of the University of Cincinnati and rightful owners of the victory belt Shout out to the bear cats getting it done

over there in Miami I forget what that actual name City or some somebody that yeah, there's Oxford right Oxford there you go getting it done after a tough loss to Narduzzi and the gang In Pittsburgh, but yeah, we're rolling baby baby. Subscribe on YouTube, Wondry Plus, or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow the show on all social media, AtDewHighShow with 1S. Jason, why don't you tell the people

what we got coming up? Trav, we got another incredible episode. We're gonna get to the Chief's thrilling ender versus the Bangles. I love the energy. As well as the big Jason Kelce Monday night extravaganza where all the Atlanta fans are probably really tired of seeing me and I fully get it. I'm sorry. You had to I'm sorry.

You had to sit through that Falcons. Oh, no, they want to see more of you. We're also going to break down the biggest stories from across the league, including a brand new meaning of the term chunk place. That's right. Can't wait to get into that. Ooh. But first, as always, we're going to get to the other new. And the new news.

News coming in. Hi. New news. Hey, here's some new news. New news is brought to you by United Airlines, where good leads the way. We got airlines. We're airborne now. Crazy. I'm going to take a United Airlines, where good leads the way. Man, we got airlines out on this one? We're airborne now?

Crazy. We're gonna take a United Airlines flight this weekend. Are you? Are you guys United out in KC? Yeah, those actually are. The slogan for the team last year was United. Nice, I love that. Hasn't it had nothing to do with the airlines.

That's a good, that is a good, I've never thought about that. United Airlines using that as like, yeah. It had nothing to do with the airlines. I think it just had to do with United. Is that how United Airlines became United? Did they unite?

They were once, they were once a un-United airline and then they gathered all the airlines together and then they became United. What's the history of United Airlines? That's a great question, Jason. I don't know if we got a really good show. United Airlines. I don't know if we got enough time to Google these things. Does United Airlines have a Wikipedia? Yeah, it does. Everything has a Wikipedia. This is crazy. United traces its roots to Varney Airlines, VAL. That's a big name upgrade to United.

I'm not getting on Varney Airlines. Whoever's decision that was to go from that name to United, they should've got paid. It wasn't their founders, probably. Walter Varney is the one that founded Varney Airlines in 1926 in Boise, Idaho. Ooh, the Idaho Gang, okay. Continental Airlines is the successor to Speed Lines, which Varney

had founded in 1930. This Varney guy, he's a transportation mogul. He's got a lot of this stuff going on. And whose name changed to Varney Speed Lines. So he just started changing everything into his name, okay, in 1934. Then VAL flew the first privately contracted airmail flight to the US on April 6, 1926. Man, how about that? Okay. Absolutely nothing interesting at all. Let's get to some bonus content. Oh, here we go. Here we go. Here we go. This is it. This is it. This is it. Okay. In 1927, William Boeing founded Boeing Air Transport, I think we've heard of that one, to operate airmail routes under contract with the United States Post Office Department. In 1929, Boeing merged his company with Pratt & Whitney to

form the United Aircraft and Transportation Corporation, UATC obviously, which then set about buying in the space of just 28 months, Pacific Air Transport, Stout Air Services, Barney and National Air Transport, as well as numerous equipment manufacturers at the same time. Jason, the energy was so good. On March 28, 1931, all of these airlines united to form United Airlines Incorporated. It's what we came up with before. So it makes sense.

All right. I guess we can do the show now. Bonus content update on bonus content next week. We'll be dropping our first piece of content exclusively for our Wondery Plus subscribers. I wonder what it is, they haven't even told us yet. Last week when you guys asked what you wanted for bonus content,

and here's a few of your suggestions from Emma, fell in love. Is that like a lyric or something? Do we know? All right. Anyways, I'm sure many Swifties and tons of dads, daughters would love some new Hyde show bonus content teaching football concepts in an ELI five format. What the hell is ELI five? What is ELI five? Explain it like I'm five. Oh, okay. All right. I mean, that's probably one of the better ideas that the 92 percenters came up with. How would you explain football to a five-year-old? How do I do it?

How do I? I mean, we're not very good at dumbing down football. I've realized this. I talk about it with Wyatt, but it's like real dumb. Wyatt is five or will be in three days. A couple months here. Yeah. She's coming up. Oh, not even one month. So there's uncle Trapp. She doesn't really know football. I don't even explain football to Wyatt. Yeah. I got to figure that out. Nice. Wyatt, when you try and-

Ellie, how do you, what do you think about football? Tell me how, what the rules of football are. What the, you're- Don't put your head through the railing. You got stuck last time, remember? Don't do that. Okay. Kai, does Wyatt know the rules of football? Where would you start if you were explaining football to a five-year-old? Explain how scoring works? Yeah. You got to start with the downs and scoring probably.

Okay. We're going to move on. We're going to move on. This is going nowhere. Anyways, I'd love to be able to understand the NFL portions of podcasts But a lot of this is hard to grasp as someone with no background The only problem with this is I feel like to explain football. It's easier done with visual Am I Brandon this bonus content is audio only audio only correct? Yeah, so I just don't know that it's gonna be great if it it's audio only. I think it's going to be a little harder. Yeah. Yeah.

But I think that I think it's a good idea and we can figure a way to do it audio. I think I think that makes sense. Like I said, I think this is the best option. Let's go to some other options. Okay, sorry. Yeah, we have more options. I'm sorry. Yeah, we do have a show to do.

Okay. Bonus content idea. Keep it simple. Give us the deleted footage. Yeah, we do have a show to do. Okay. Bonus content idea. Keep it simple. Give us the deleted footage. No, that will never happen because then we won't have a show at all. There's a reason it's deleted. Me and Jason will have nothing else to do on our Tuesday afternoons or Mondays. Yeah, we all will. Yeah. I'll be driving Wyatt to school every day. You'll be able Wyatt to school every day. You'll be able to tell Wyatt exactly what football is after that.

All right. So that's not happening. Sorry. No, that's definitely not happening. And then big blue world underscore fishing. Jason, doing food reviews on things he'd never tried before sounds like good bonus content. Well, I mean, that kind of leads us to this. How about it? That's actually perfect timing. Shout out to Kai for perfect timing. Well done. Well done, Kai. So last week, you guys mentioned something about pumpkin spice lattes and Travis and I told you that we've never tried them. So I figured I'd try one now on the show. I hope it's scorching hot and it just fucking burns your tongue. So this is something that's nice about lattes, which I never have. I always drink black coffee. Uh, the milk,

it's never scorching hot because you have the milk in there. So it's always drinkable. Watch. Now I'm kind of nervous. Burn them. Not gonna lie. It's pretty good. Give us your review. Tell us as if it's pretty good. Nice. Give us your review. Tell us as if it was bonus content. It doesn't taste like coffee. Okay, so not coffee.

If you don't like the taste of coffee, I highly recommend this. I think that's all lattes. Yeah. I mean, it tastes like a, it almost tastes like somebody melted. What are those old school, you remember those old candies that you had in like grandma's house? The butterscotch cooked like little candies? Marshall S. Nooble Oh baby, the gold wrappers, yeah. Chris McPherson It kind of tastes like if you melted that down into like a liquid form

and then added some spiciness to it. That's kind of what it tastes like. Marshall S. Nooble I'm not gonna lie, I'd probably be into that. I used to fucking pocket every single, I'd take a handful of those candies. It was those ones and then the little strawberry ones that actually, where the wrapper made it look like it was a strawberry. Gosh, what is it about?

Why do we try, why are we reinventing candy when those have been around forever? Those strawberries, that's a strawberry. Dude, one of my favorites were the, the lightsesavers, the cream savers, the life. You know what I'm talking about? Where it was the orange and like, I think there was like strawberry creamsicles or cream savers, lifesavers. Dude, they were so fucking good. I used to fucking house those things. Pumpkin spice latte, tremendous. If you don't like coffee, highly recommend it.

Nice. It's a really good way to have coffee without having to taste it. I got a feeling anything that has too much creamer in it, I just, I'm not, I don't love it. I just only drink black coffee. I don't add anything to it and now, like. I just love the beans at this point.

I love the earthiness. Yeah, I don't know what it is. I think it's just like, you know, when you're so addicted to a substance like caffeine, that the faster your brain recognizes that what you're drinking is just straight caffeine, the more you're just immediately... I mean, I don't know that it matters what coffee tastes like. I think my brain would just absolutely love it. It would trick my mouth into loving it. Does that make sense? Yeah. I mean, you play just absolutely love it. It would trick my mouth into loving it. Does that make sense? Yeah. I mean, you play tricks on your mind all the time.

All right. Well, yeah. So maybe that's some bonus content. We can do some food reviews. We're still figuring this thing out. They only want Jason reviews. They don't want anybody else's. Well, do you not want to do food? You're not a big experimenter with food. Dude, yeah. And you know how to get the best out of like the reviews. I just, me, I'm just like, I like it. Your reviews are great. You just don't want to eat it. I don't like it.

We got to get you reviewing some goat. I'm not eating a goat. Come on now. I'm not eating a goat. Have I told that story on the podcast? I don't know. About, what was it? Three years ago, I'm in Los Angeles and I'm visiting my brother and my brother makes a

reservation at this restaurant called Lady and the Goat. Marshall S. Llaras I heard great reviews from it. Dr. Justin Marchegiani I decided, I'm like, yeah, I'll go down there and my brother proceeds to not eat anything and complain about there's so much goat on the table. Marshall S. Llaras I didn't think it was like Chick-fil-A where all they have is fucking chicken. Dr. Justin Marchegiani They had other stuff than goat. I didn't think it was like Chick-fil-A where all they have is fucking chicken. It was a five star restaurant and every single piece of protein. The food was fantastic. Highly recommend it.

Yeah, it was highly recommended to us. If you're goat forward or just a, you know, have a pal that is a something that resembles an advanced palette, you would really appreciate it. Advanced palate. But Travis proceeded to just not eat anything and eat In-N-Out immediately after going to this five star. I think it was more so the fact that I knew that In-N-Out was right down the street and I was just like, why am I even eating this when In-N-Out's right there?

That double double is about to fucking kill any of this fucking goat. I already know it's about to be so fucking good. I do like some of the fine dining, but like, there's just some things that you're not going to top. Once you get your mindset on it, it's just like, hey, you want to go to this fancy new brunch spot or do you want to have a sausage egg and cheese McMuffin? I know exactly what I want. And it's the one that I don't even have to get out of the car to get. It's so true. Oh, my girl Janet working the freaking drive through.

How you doing, Jason? Fantastic. I'm about to shove the most unhealthy thing down my gullet and it's going to be delicious. That does it. We're still figuring out exactly what we're doing. If you listen to us early, if you want to listen to us early or without any interruptions and get this bonus content, we're still giving you three months free of Wondry Plus. This is only available for a limited time, so get going, 92%ers. Visit Wondry.com slash new heights offer to redeem. That's right. And that was that was new news. A lot of new news, a lot of stuff happening.

And shout out to Pumpkin Spice Lattes. New news brought to you by United Airlines. Formerly formerly Varney Airlines, Varney Airlines. Just learned that. Shout out to Varney. Shout out to Walter. Where good leads the way. Let's move along to week two games. Shout out some fan mentions. The Chief Social Team shared a clip

where they asked the team what was the most random thing that you've purchased since being in the NFL and a lot of you demanded some more explanation. I like watching these clips for the first time live and just getting a really authentic reaction. It's the best. Oh, I saw this clip. There's a lot of random stuff. A lot.

Juicer. Juicer? I got a GameCube too. Is that right? I got real ones, bangies, and plants. Plants. Yep. Plants? What a human-sized hamster ball. I don't know why. I don't know why.

I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why.

I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. I don't know why. What a human sized hamster ball. I don't know why. Do you have it? I don't think you ever shipped it because it couldn't get shipped. Damn it dude. Somebody has tried to ship. That thing was heavy.

It was like hundreds of pounds. It was like a fucking car. Yeah. I was like, why the fuck is this thing so heavy? Can we find the whereabouts of this hamster hamster ball? We have to dude. I'm not gonna lie. Maybe that's a piece of bonus content. Yeah, fine Maybe not the best for audio all the dumb shit. I've bought in my life. I don't know where it is I thought I had it shipped to you But if you don't have it somebody's fucking having some fun with a human sized hamster ball. There were some bowling pins too.

There were, it was a human sized hamster ball and bowling pins. We need to get this hamster ball because why, why it's at an age where we could just shove her in that and just push her out all day. Oh yeah. That sounds like a great time. Yeah. And it's like a safety box. That's why ham I can go in there

Yeah, keep some away from all the cats if you guys don't know we're talking about we're talking about those inflatable giant balls Yeah, and you kind of can go in there and run around and move I mean, it's exactly what Travis is saying and that is by far the most random shit that I've ever bought You bought a lot of random stuff dude. It's up there. But that's probably the most fun random stuff. What's some other random stuff? Ah, man. You're a big art collector. Yeah, I do have a bunch.

I got a bunch of trinkets. I just have shit. Yeah. I have so much shit. Loads and loads of shit. I'm trying to think of like, what else? Like those red moon boots that were, that I, that- Those were free.

Those I didn't buy. You didn't buy those? Yeah, somebody sent those. That's all I can think of. That's all I can think of when I spread the question there too. I mean, that's the epitome of random thing. Should I take Zorb to some tailgates? There's got to be something we can do with the hamster ball at tailgate or something like that.

Dude, we got to find this thing or buy another one. I mean, at this point, probably just buy another one, right? Dude, I gotta we gotta find this thing or buy another one. I mean at this point probably just buy another one right? Dude, whatever we don't buy it the way I bought it because that thing is way too fucking heavy. Is that a business expense? Can we deduct that? Can we get like waiver wonder to pay for it so that we don't have to buy it because it's technically a prop? Green jacket, gold jacket, who gives a shit? Just fucking buy that thing dude. Look at who gives a shit. Just fucking buy that thing, dude. This is what it is.

That's neither here nor there, dude. That was so good. God damn it. What we need to do is get that thing in the Lumbaby Games. That's what we need to do. That thing floats, right? Oh, yeah. So we could do something out in the water with something like that, right?

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Doesn't matter if you've used SeatGeek before, code Kelsey15 gets you 15% off. But there are terms and they do apply. All right, let's talk about some football. That's right. Bold topics to wrap up week two in the NFL starting with Chiefs 26 bangles 25. That's right She's found a way to get it done. Trey. Have you got any initial thoughts you want to talk about from the game? You guys found a way to get it done. Yeah close matchup, right? Yeah I mean initial thoughts are we got to play better as an offense

I think the defense is playing their asses off, getting turnovers, finding a way to make opposing quarterbacks, you know. Uncomfortable? Yeah, comfortable. And they're really making it hard for them to throw the ball downfield with the type of pressures that we're getting and how good our coverage is right now. And I just think we have to match that accountability on the offensive side to really become another Super Bowl caliber team. I put that on me, you know, I think it starts with the leaders. I think it starts with, you know, making sure you're going with the right mentality. I didn't play my best. It, it spreads if you don't fix it. So I got to get that thing fixed, man.

Marshall Sipriano What's going on in your head as the game is unfolding? And, you know, Pat tried to go to you twice early on with some incompletions on the interception, and then you only have one catch. Like, what's going on in your head as this game is unfolding? Well, there's a lot of things that have to go right for anybody to get the ball, you know, outside of our running back, where you're literally just handing it to them. If you if you want to catch the football one, it has to be the right play. Two, it has to be the right coverage.

And three, it has to be, you know, everybody doing their job up front and on the back end in terms of running their routes to for everything to kind of match up and and be in sync. And, you know, it's just for whatever reason these past two games, it hasn't gone that way for me. And that's football, man. I'm not about to sit here and get frustrated about it. I used to get really, really pissed off and almost lose my cool a lot of the time from

not having that success, knowing I demand that out of myself. I just like to play the game to such a high level of accountability that it's tough for me to deal with being mediocre or having stats that represent that. I stopped caring about stats about four or five years ago and I just went out there and started to just play free and wanted to play for my guys. Sure enough, I think that's a better mentality. You think about it more play by play and what your job is on that specific play. And I think moving forward is just, you know, how can I be better in those moments? You know, what's the issue? Am I not getting out of my route fast enough?

Am I not, you know, whatever the situation may be, it's all play specific anyways. But you know, you're always looking at the film, looking at the scheme and trying to perfect it more and more each week. And you you know, typically you see those these kind of games earlier on and then you just keep trying to get better and better and more accountable for the guys around you, man. Well, that's awesome. And I think that's a testament to where you're at in your career and why the Chiefs just feel like one of the most unselfish teams in the entire league. But yeah, probably the most amazing staff in the game. With the Chiefs win, the NFL is now

teams are now one in 151 since 1991 when the team doesn't get 300 yards on offense, allows 21 plus points on defense, commits three plus turnovers and convert 15% or less on third downs. It's insane. Yeah. It's pretty remarkable you guys won this game. And like you said, the defense, especially bone up and red zone situations and spags is the, I mean, he was so good last year and it's gotten off to another great start

for those guys. Yeah. Why do the Chiefs, besides the refs being on the Chief side, why do the Chiefs always find a way to close these close games out? You know, I think always is a stretch. We had a close game last year. Yeah, exactly. And you guys almost pulled that one out, freaking almost catch late down the middle. Might have ended that one differently, but then it was good. Yeah, and I think that when you have a veteran quarterback like Pat Mahomes and you know, he's just, he could, he always gives you a chance to win it. So you always have confidence and you always have, you know, that in the back of your mind that, you know, you can find a way to win this football game. I

think that helps. I think Coach Reed being in the league so long and his leadership, his swagger, how he leads the team on the sideline, you always feel like you're in it. You always know you've got a chance and he's going to put you in a really good position at the end of the game. I feel like we just have a team that plays really well together when the when it when the moments bigger, you know, guys don't really, you know, get anxious or they don't let the moment get too big. They keep their composure and they get more confident as the as the game goes on and it gets more intense. I just I felt that on the sideline. And sure enough, it was a weird ending, man.

It was a weird ending. There were flags on both teams late. Obviously, the Bengals getting the last of that with the pass interference at the end, but we have to try to beat teams earlier than that last drive. And I think that's the biggest thing. And shout out to the Bengals, their defense, the players over there are just, you know, they're comfortable playing us and they feel like they have a good idea of what we're doing. That's a huge challenge for us the next time we play them, man. Absolutely. And it's a matchup that I was looking forward to because all of these contests between you guys and the Bengals have been so close.

With the Chiefs win, they've evened the record against Borough and the Bengals at three and three. Five of the last six since the KC games have been decided by a field goal. That's how close these games have been. First half offense, Chiefs had a 16 play, eight minute, 30 yard drive that ended in a field goal. That's how close these games have been. First half offense, Chiefs had a 16 play, eight minute, 30 yard drive that ended in a field goal. I mean. Staggering, man. It sucks. Putting all that work in and credit to the Bengals for bowing up at the end of it. But when you go all that way and it just doesn't happen, it's frustrating. Very, very

frustrating. Very, very frustrating. Yeah. They also had two turnovers in the first half. But the play cheese fan loved to see was obviously the pack connection to Rashid Rice on a 44 yard touchdown. That time, there was a hell of a ball to 10. It was very impressive. And we got the clip right here for you. Check it out. Protection's good.

Let it go, Creed. Gosh, perfect ball. I mean, did he not think he was going to run past him? Was he not ready for that move? I guess not. All right. After a small drought, the long touchdown pass is back in KC. Mahomes has already thrown as many deep touchdown passes of 20 plus air yards this season to as the previous two seasons combined

Wow, that's an insane step very interesting between 2018 and 2022 Nobody was bigger on the deep ball Tyreek Hill might have had something to do with that. Just probably It's weird everybody that Tyreek plays's now the best at it. Is it Miami? That's weird. Everybody that Tyreek plays for is the best quarterback. Mahal to 44 deep touchdowns, second most in that span. Was this the emphasis to bring them back to the offense? I really don't. I mean, I think I'm going to answer this for you.

The way teams have been playing Kansas City and really the way teams have been playing the NFL, if you look at quarterbacks across the league, all of the big plays for the last two seasons have been way down. Ever since the air raid attack that Casey was implementing with Tyreek and that other offense is starting to do these big shot plays, and defenses have adjusted by playing these softer coverages, a lot more too high looks, and making you take the underneath stuff and really dink and dunk down the field. That's probably a bigger reason why these numbers have dropped off besides losing Tyra Kale, which is also a big part of it. I just feel like there was a transition period where, you know, obviously you had, you always had big name cornerbacks since like Dion Sanders and you know, Rivas and all and those like special guys that would

get the opportunities to try and lock up a wide receiver one guy. There were only really like a handful of guys like that when I got in the league. Now I feel like corners are getting a lot better. Corners are starting to understand, you know, what kind of routes, how the how guys are released and I just feel like the defenses are evolving a lot better. Corners are starting to understand what kind of routes, how guys are released, and I just feel like the defenses are evolving a lot. And on top of what you're saying, everybody's just keeping that umbrella over the back end of the defense

and limiting those big plays downfield. As well as the second level guys. If those guys are backing up, the second level guys are getting a little bit more depth and running backs and the underneath routes, you know, everybody, the defense is like, talk to like rally to those tackles instead of giving up the huge plays, man. Absolutely. And it's something that's the kryptonite to that, which is why we're seeing it a lot in the NFL right now is running the ball. You guys that we've mentioned that eight

minute 30 second field goal drive. First half, you guys were running the ball all over him, it felt like. You were really moving the ball in the ground well. And maybe that's why it opened up that big play for Rashid. Maybe they're like, hey, we got to try and stop this. Let's go to a single high look finally. Bengals took a 16-0 lead, or 16-10 lead into the half. And then coming out second half, we get right to it with a thick six. Oh yeah, Wanyay. I'm a big fan of the thick six. Even though Trav was wide open too, it's okay.

We're happy for the big fella to get the touchdown. Always happy when a big fella gets in. He hit it too, you see his dance? Yes. Oh yeah. He had a great celebration, man. I don't know what he calls that, but he was getting it. Marshall Newhouse on X. I was like, that's more than three pumps. That's a penalty.

That's a penalty, the old key and peel? Yeah. On second and goal on the one yard line, Pat connects with O-lineman Wanya Morris for the touchdown and the Chiefs take a 17-16 lead. Leo Chanel lined up next to Mahomes in the backfield. Love that. This guy does everything. It's just a football guy, man. Whatever you need, he gets it done. Look at that stance. He's like ready for... It's like a four-point stance, yeah. Looks like he's playing goal line defense right there.

He's just about to bear crawl into somebody. Walk us through an O-line eligible tackle play. Well, you don't always have them in the game plan. You know, it's kind of, it's one of those things where it's a playoff of all the running and all the big boy stuff that you do. Cause you bring in an extra lineman to run the football. I mean, you don't bring a man to throw him a touchdown.

Well, that's what you want him to think. There you go. There you go. Yeah. So, and one is athletic enough and smooth enough with the hands and Sure enough. He he even said to me right before the play He said man, I was getting excited because I realized nobody was covering me

Yeah, I was just like the fact that you actually know when you're covered and when you're not covered as a tackle That's pretty good stuff Would you bring when you bring a linebacker in and a extra offensive lineman, I'm pretty sure it's a big time indicator for the defense. So you're running the football. So it's a hell of a play call hell of a call to draw up or play call to draw up at the at the right time. You got to be a little sneaky at the tackle. You can't just run straight out. They know. Oh, no, he ran straight out. Oh, he did.

Yeah, nevermind. Yeah. He said speed kills Jason. He didn't bluff blocking at all. All eyes were in the backfield. They thought we were running out the whole time. Well, you mentioned the celebration. Let's check out Morris here. Looking good. Looking good. Big fella. Looking good. Looking good. The next chief drive ended in, I mean, has to be the most impressive interception I've ever seen in my life. Dude.

I don't know if I've seen one. I definitely haven't seen one in game like this before in my life. That's one of those when somebody like hits hits like a home run in baseball or they hit one all the way to the warning track and somebody just goes up and robs them. And then the batter then tips his cap to the guys. Like, dude, I'm not gonna lie, that shit was sweet. Impressive. That's a hell of a fucking play, man.

Yeah, I don't know that anybody could have, I think everybody was just like, wow, you know what? Well done, well done. Respect, respect. One of the reasons it's so eye catching is that most of the time on this sideline with your left shoulder being the outside shoulder, a one-handed grab would be like grabbing it

with your left hand. You know what I mean? The spin right makes it just insane. Yeah. Insane. Phenomenal pick right here from KM Taylor Britt. Then the fourth quarter defense comes up big. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Joe Burrow sacked by Mike Dana.

Shout out, just got, I think he just got- Mike Dana. Yes, sir. Dana, sorry. Did he, he got a contract extension this year, right? Yes, he did. Yes, he did. We talked about him being an important piece, similar to what you're talking about with

Leo Chanel, able to do a lot. Mike Dana does a lot on that defense, moves a lot all over the place. Forces a big fumble. And it was recovered by safety Chomari Connor in return for a touchdown. That's always nice. 2-7 baby. Right. Dude, it is, especially at that point in the game, huge for the defense. I mean, you always set those expectations before the season on how many special teams scores you need,

how many defensive touchdowns you need. And right now our defense is playing so goddamn good. For them to put up six points like that in such a tight game, in such a crucial game, especially with us not playing the way that we think we should on the offense, or living up to our potential as an offense right now, I think obviously we're leaning on that side of that ball right now.

Pretty heavy. That was a huge play, huge turning moment in the game and no shocker. The guy who kind of initiated this whole fiasco start and was Chris Jones. He's been really good. Surprise, surprise through the first two weeks applying a lot of pressure. He split two on that one. Check him out. Look at him in the backfield. Is this just expected from Chris at this point?

Yeah. You know what I mean? Like even in the first week, I mean, he was like taking his, they had some new guys playing for Baltimore. He was just kind of moving around on whoever wants it can get it. It's a frustrating day. No, no, you're supposed to be the three technique. Not you're supposed to be over here.

You're supposed to be over there. You're supposed to be over there. You do it all, man. Per next gen stats, Trent McDuffie aligned across Jamar Chase on 17 of 38 routes, 45% of the time, including four routes and press coverage. McDuffie allowed one reception for four yards on two targets as the nearest defender against Chase. Way to go Trent. Solid game.

Trent's playing great football. Our entire defense is really playing great football, man. Hats off to them keeping us above floating. Man, we just gotta start playing up to our potential on offense because we got the guys, we got the ammo. We just gotta get it done, man. Well, it's always fun when you win games and you're not playing your best. Yeah, that's when everyone says it's a good one to learn from. Yeah, exactly. Yep, it's a good one to learn from. That sets exactly. Yep, it's a good one to learn from.

That sets us up for the game winning drive. That's right. Chiefs get the ball back with two minutes and 35 seconds. You guys are in fourth in six situations with 53 seconds left on the clock. Pat competes a deep pass to Rashid Rice, but it comes back. Trey Hendrickson was wreaking havoc all game long. Yeah, man, he was fired up. At the end of the day man you can't put

it in the ref's hands that late in the game and that's for both of us both both sides of the ball you know yeah obviously you want to play physical you want to make sure you make that play but that if you're going to put it in the ref's hands it's i mean that you're playing with fire it is what it is you're just playing with fire man that's why as offense, we got to make sure that we don't put ourselves in a position to where we have to have to score at the end of the game. Obviously, we still feel comfortable and confident that we can get it done. But if we can win the game before that, I mean, let's, let's keep it out of the ref's hands. Let's keep it out of, you know,

the hands of just fate or things just not going our way. I think it's, uh, that's the mentality you got to have. And did we get lucky? Yeah, we got fortunate that they threw the flag on that fourth and 16. And I would love to make sure that we don't get ourselves in a situation like that again. Soterios Johnson Yeah, especially two minutes. Whenever you're in a two-minute drill, penalties, sacks, like these things are just like crucial that you don't do. Easier said than done when you're trying to block Trey Hendrickson.

But yeah, that one almost killed you guys and you guys get bailed out at fourth and 16 with 48 seconds left. Pat targets Rashi Rice again, but this time somebody arrives a little early. I don't even know how this is controversial. I really don't even know how this is controversial. I really don't. Like I get that people are frustrated with the officials and the chiefs, I guess. But I mean, you can't run through a receiver's back and make a play on the ball. I really don't. It's just like on the play before that you can't put your hands in someone's face while they're rushing. You can't do it.

It's the same thing. It's hands to the face and then there's a pass interference and it is what it is. But yeah, I can see how everybody's upset because it's... Nobody likes a fourth down conversion that essentially is given to the chiefs. But the reality is, like, what do you want the official to do? What do you want them to do? You want them to not call pass interference? Don't run through the guys back. I don't know what... Like I said, as chief says... When it's close, I get not calling it.

This wasn't even close. Like, I don't really know what we're talking about. Yeah. I agree the game should be called tighter down the stretch and we should avoid like questionable calls. But when it's to the point that the guy can't even make a play on the ball and touch it, like what are we talking about? You said it man. I'm not going to argue for this point.

I'm just going to go ahead and say that I think we need to fucking keep ourselves out of that situation. So we don't have to rely on the on the on the officials to make that fucking call. But sure enough, they made the call. Harrison Bucker comes to save the day yet again. Harry for the win. Absolutely nails a 51-yard field goal.

All of us had a lot of confidence in him, but there's always just that lingering feeling. You know, you're just sitting there like, come on, Harry, come on. You got to do it again for us, big guy, please. And sure enough, he came a big up big for us again, man. Absolutely. Chief started out to know some disappointing news following the game, or maybe this was out right before but

Hollywood Brown was put on IR. It was before the game. It was right around game time. So Hollywood Brown was put on IR before the game. And unfortunately, Isaiah Pacheco is now injured and is going to miss about six to eight with was it Tibia or or Fibula? Fibula, one of those two? I think it's the, yeah, it's Fibula. It's one of those.

Yeah. That was an aggressive hit. Even when it happened, I was like, oh my gosh, you could see that he just had a guy in his legs and he just kind of got folded over top of it. But hopefully, Pop comes back. That sucks, man. Isaiah was, he's been playing unbelievable football, man. High energy, just a guy you love blocking for for you love playing the game for love playing the game with man

it's just you know an all-time teammate of mine man, I love pop and It just it sucks that you know How well he's playing and how comfortable and how fast he's moving right now with the ball in his hands That he has a setback like this, but I expect him to be back better than ever in 68 weeks man. On the next week you guys have the Falcons in Atlanta. Trav, the last time you played the Falcons the Chiefs won both games. Actually you've played them twice in your career only. Wow. 2016 and 2020. Chiefs won both games. The last time you played the Falcons in Atlanta,

it was at the Georgia Dome in December 2016. Eight receptions for 140 yards. That's a good day, Trae. There we go. Oh damn. It's been that long since I played in Atlanta. I guess I had a few preseason games there, but I haven't played a regular season game in Atlanta yet. Yeah, that's crazy that. Man, yeah. I remember that one. I think that was the first my clause, my cause, my cleats game, actually. Oh, wow. How about that? That's how long ago that thing was. Yeah. All right. Well, good luck in Atlanta. The Eric Barry and that pick six down in the ATL.

Atlanta loves me right now. Hey, instead of the game, Patrick Mahomes has two thousand four hundred twenty four completionsions and 98 career starts and surpassed Matthew Stafford for the most completions by a player in his first 100 career starts in NFL history. It's a good company. Yeah, definitely good company. We also got to talk about your historic streak, Trav.

I know the game didn't go the way you wanted to as far as a receptions. And unfortunately, it ends the longest NFL streak in history with a player receiving at least three catches. That's right. Sunday marked the first game since September of 2018, where Travis Kelsey did not get at least three catches. It snaps a streak of 114 games, the longest streak by any player in NFL history. Not only is that the longest streak, the next closest is our guy Antonio Brown with 81. Mahomes is quote, we play two opponents. We play a lot and they have a plan on how they're going to account and defend Travis. But as the season goes, he's going to get his catches and he's going to get his yards. So yeah.

And I could have played better, man. It is what it is. All right. Could have played better I could have played better, man. It is what it is. All right. Could have played better, could have ran better routes, could have got out of my brakes a little bit faster. Uh, no one Hendricks was on one and it's just, you know, you, you see things, you know, Monday morning quarterback, you see things better after the game and realize how you can play better and be better for your teammates. And sure enough, uh, I've always had that accountability. I've always been my worst critic, then I'm going to remain my my worst critic. I think that I can improve a lot for my guys

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Chargers Steelers. I'll be watching that one. Harbaugh's got the Chargers rolling right now, their first 2-0 start in a long time. I'm going Eagles Saints, Texans, Vikings. Yep. Chargers Steelers. Yeah. I'll probably go Broncos Bucks.

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I'm sleeping, Jason. I'm a big napper and I just like to sleep. So I'm going to go ahead and just bundle up on one of those things. Shut it on down. I like watching movies. I do. All right. Now, 92 percenters, make sure you go ahead and download the United app or head to united.com to book your next trip. Once again, go to united.com or download the United app to book your next trip. All right now, let's move on to some Monday night football at the link. Where do you get everything, Jason Kelsey? Dude, there's a lot of Jason Kelsey. Dude,

and the people loved it. They actually, they wanted more of Jason Kelsey because they wanted to not only see you hype up those birds before the game, but they wanted to see you answer all the questions that they had. Atlanta had to deal with me for four hours before things got rough for the Eagles and they were like, Oh no, come back in the booth. Jason, where are you at now? Jason, answer us what happened. And rightfully so. Listen, it was I want to apologize to Falcons fans watching because I understand that you just had to watch just a Philadelphia celebration in a parade of a former

player coming back home. We all deserve to see that. That was what people wanted to see. ESPN did a great job. Yeah, I'm just going to say I want to apologize, but I'm not going to because it was fucking awesome. I'm just going to let you know it was a lot of fun. That's the first one.

The first time. How crazy is the first time I'm back in the building. I'm commenting on a game. Shout out to Roger Goodell for scheduling that one or whoever I mean, how crazy is the first time I'm back in the building, I'm commenting on a game. Shout out to Roger Goodell for scheduling that one or whoever was in charge at NFL headquarters for making that happen. Even if we're going to get to it, but before the game, being out in the parking lot, the countdown, being up in the booth with Joe and Troy.

I mean, it was really, really awesome for me. So selfishly, I am like just beyond happy that that was kind of how I get to remember my first time being in the link, not as a player. It was so cool, man. At the same time, I fully understand why a bunch of Atlanta people hate my guts right now. So I apologize.

Well, let's get to it, baby. Jason's Monday night homecoming. That's right. We went to back to Philly headed back to the link for the first time since he was playing there, um, for a little Eagles, Atlanta, Monday night football action, and, uh, just like any homecoming, it was about the pregame. And boy, oh boy, did you not disappoint. And by the way, the Philly did not you not disappoint and by the way that Philly did

not disappoint because you weren't the only one there. It was an entire showing of how faithful those birds are and how excited they are about this football team and how good this football team could be and you made it to the Eagles tailgate. That's right. They sure to hand out some garage beers. I remember what section what I think there's like C2 or something like that. I can't remember where this was in the parking lot. I'm surprised you remember any of this, Jason. I thought you were going to black out. I've seen those dance moves before that we're about to get to and typically those are. I know you don't believe me. No way. I was not drinking until after the game. No way those knees don't work like that.

I promise you, I don't know how I did that because I've never done that sober. You don't have rhythm until you have Beers hey, I'm like hell by the by the way you were talking in the third quarter in the booth That you had been in an up-and-down roller coaster Drunk since about noon zero zero Dude, I could tell you how hard it was to throw garage beers I threw probably a hundred beers I'm not exaggerating from a pickup truck you know hard that was it's a feat I don't think you've ever accomplished before

I'm a professional Travis I don't mess around I respect it now this tailgate was awesome a bunch of these guys had been to the golf outing right so you know Dallas sucks maniac Malloy shoulder pad Sean and my guy Dumphy all these had been to the golf outing, right? So, you know, Dallas Sucks, Maniac, Maloy, Shoulderpad, Sean, and my guy Dumpy, all these guys had been around. And I wanted to, my man, I've seen these guys at all these events throughout the years. They've cheered me on. I want to be out there with these guys. I don't know how we got to like throwing garage beers. I think I was like, I got up on the top of the truck where they were smoking an alligator, which is pretty gnarly.

I don't know if you've ever seen a smoked alligator covered in bacon. Where the fuck did Philadelphians get an alligator? I don't know. I don't know that, I think that they just kind of do it. Oh yeah. I remember having an alligator one time, and it was when we-

Fried alligator when we were down in Florida. Florida, yeah, we went to like that county fair down in Florida and they had gator nuggets. Yes. And they were delicious. They were fucking phenomenal. Yes. And that was the first time I was like, damn, I didn't know people were out here eating gator like this. That's what we're doing down here. We're just catching gators like we're catching fish, just going out there

and fucking reeling them under the boat and putting them on a fucking putting them over a fire. That's right. Very interesting. Well, they've smoked it all day. It was delicious. They covered, they like stuffed it with like cheese and whatnot, covered it with bacon.

Oh my God. I was getting different pieces. I was getting the tenderloins. I ate a piece of the cheek right off of the freaking face of it. It kind of tastes, it just tastes like lobster almost. It's like, it was delicious. It was very good

Fuck it's kind of like a lobstery Chicken, I don't want to hear that you're ruining my day by telling me this shit. It was good. Just letting you know I'm in on fried just about fried anything fried gator is probably as far as i'll go on the gator train All right, but either way sounds uh sounds very eventful because you don't always have Gator at tailgates up in the Northeast. It's not a regional delicacy, but either way, it certainly was an event. They also had cheese steaks. They had a bunch of food at this tailgate. It was incredible. The fans were into it. Everybody's getting ready for Monday night football. And we just so happened to have

like a thousand garage beers. So I just started putting them in koozies and chucking them like grenades. Yeah. Because koozies are like, it's like bubble wrap. It's safe. I was basically, yeah, exactly. I was basically playing jackpot with an entire parking lot of Eagles fans. Throwing full beers, throwing full beers, might as well be assault. I mean, none of them, I was making eye contact.

I almost took out a Jeep window, but I was making eye contact. I almost took out a Jeep window, but I was making eye contact, crushed a moon roof. It might be cracked, but it was electric. Dude, throwing beers further than like 20 yards, 15 yards is dude, that thing you, that's dangerous. No, it's got the koozie on it. It's wrapped in koozie. Yeah, there you go. Nice little, yeah. It reminded me of the, honestly, it reminded me of the parade. Every time the parade comes around, yeah, you're on the floating bus. People are throwing you beers. And that shit gets dangerous.

So I felt like it had been reversed. Now it's time to throw the beers the other way. You're about to catch this wrath. Dude, when I was making eye contact, there were some, not gonna lie, there were some talented people in that parking lot catching beers. I don't know if they can catch footballs, but if some of these guys can catch football as good as they catch beers, they might want to try out for the Eagles.

You're a fucking idiot. We also got a look at some new moves. Jason's showing off some moves. One move that is actually new to me. I've only seen you hit one of these two moves before. I told this to Kylie. I said, that's a new move. That is 100% a new move.

I haven't seen that one yet. Kylie said it's the same as the stop She said it's just a different variation of your stop Yeah, which means it's a new move this this stop though the running the running man. It wasn't my best running man I've been better at running Those knees are getting off. That's what I'm saying. These knees and this kind of bounce doesn't work unless you have like 10 beers, dude. Those knees are shattering if you're fucking doing it with no fucking fuel in you.

What happened is we were supposed to be on that stage to start countdown and I walked over there way too early. I had to kill 30 minutes before the show started. And I'm just up there with these DJs just standing there. I'm like, I got to do something. I can't just stand here like a jamo. I got to bring the energy. Oh, you brought it.

I don't even know what I'm doing. It's it's cold. Do you know? Do you know like you have the greatest running man of all time, dude. Do you know how devastating it is to? Oh my God. Do you know how so fucking good? Do you know how devastating it is so fucking good, dude.

Do you know how devastating it is? I keep watching it and I keep crying laughing, man. I was so proud, I was so proud. Everyone thinks I'm the dancer. Dude, you are the fucking most electric dancer I've ever met in my life. You can put a smile on anybody's face by dancing, dude. It is so good.

And when you get in that mode where you go full send, oh my gosh. Whoa. Thank you for that. Thank you for that. I'll have that forever. I'll have that in my back pocket on a fucking cloudy day. Yeah, we'll have happiness. That's devastating. It is to open X and just see a bunch of people quoting tweets of you dancing and putting clown emojis above you. The running man, the running man looks like you're like, you know, when they put shoes

on a dog for the first time, they're just like fucking trying to figure out how to step in those things. Yeah. But they're like getting like their knees. Oh dude is so fucking good man. Just countless people quoting a picture of you dancing and saying this is a full grown adult male with kids and he's doing this in public like you know what I mean you got a good point it's ridiculous I don't know that I got a rebuttal for that stop showing this are we gonna be good. Are we gonna be able to have the sound? It looks so much worse without the sound. It's gonna look terrible.

It doesn't make any sense. The sound doesn't, I mean, it doesn't make it that much better. It's still ridiculous, but. God damn it. That's so good. Well, it was so good. Even Pat Mahomes had to get a little comment in there on X saying, with a lot of the crying emojis,

go crazy then, J. Kels, and that is what you did, man. You snapped, you went crazy on them, and gave the people what they wanted. Pat's seen these dance moves up close and personal. This is why ESPN hired you, Jason. This is why.PN hired you, Jason. This is why you're doing you're doing them. Are you an expert at football? Yes.

Of I mean, kind of, I guess. These moves cannot be re reenacted by anybody else. Nobody else can do these fucking moves. I promise you, Jason is the only one. And you look good doing it because of the jumpsuit Big Dom gave you. Hooked you up with the South Philly tuxedo, green velour tracksuit. Did you feel as Italian as you looked? Dude, I feel like, you know, when you dress up in a uniform, you feel like more official.

I felt like more official. That's exactly why I dress up. That's why I dress up. That's the feeling I get when I dress up in a uniform, you feel like more official. I felt like more official. It's exactly why I dress up. That's why I dress up. That's the feeling I get when I dress up. No, but when you dress up as like in like a uniform, like if you dress up as like a police officer, you kind of feel like you're... Yeah, but a good two piece. A good two piece. That'll make you feel like you're in costume. Yeah. When I was dressed as a South Philadelphian in this velour jumpsuit, which by the way, velour, not very breathable, dancing around like that. Full sweating. My man Marcus Spears had me

covered with the towel on the set. He was like, hey, take this. You're going to want to be able to sell a big sweater. Yeah, he knows. He knows what it's about. But yeah Dom hooking it up We had to sew on these Italian flags as it was really an Eagles track suit But you can't have they didn't want me to have like an Eagles thing on which I get and I don't want to show any Bias we didn't do that a lot. We Are way too much. The chance you can do the chance all day. Yeah. You can actively be cheering. You can.

You can actively be the Eagles in the booth. Oh, he's in. Yes. He got in right. I'm like, oh yeah. I'm not supposed to say that. So good. I think the Italian flags really set it to another level. Had us some nice chains on. It was a fun look. You look great. Shout out to Big Dom for getting you some swag. And a lot more.

Shout out to Big Dom for everything. Then we got to see why Jason is making Monday night countdown the greatest show on TV. And dude, it was fun seeing you in your element, but even last week, man, it's cool to see that you are now one of the guys that is driving the love of sports. Yeah.

You know, I think it was so cool to hear that you were getting offered by everybody and you were kind of torn between a couple different networks, but when you chose ESPN, I'm like, in my head, I'm like, man, he's gonna be like a Chris Berman, he's gonna be like a SVP is gonna be like a rich eyes and growing up and fueling that love for the sport of football. And I just you know, I was so fucking

proud of seeing you doing it last week in San Fran and even this being in your moment with Fletcher Cox and Nick Foles doing the Eagles champ before the game to even being in the booth with Aikman and Joe Buck, two legendary guys in the booth and obviously a Hall of Famer and Aikman. It's so cool seeing you in this moment and seeing you in this next phase of life in football. And man, I just couldn't be more proud of you, brother. The shit's fun. It's fun to watch. Absolutely, man.

I think, I, man, I appreciate it. I really do. I think first week, definitely nervous. This week, there was so much going on. I was nervous a little bit. It's interesting being up there. You're trying to say the right thing and get things, you know, formulate responses in real time. It's difficult. there's a whole new respect

that I have for anybody that does this like it's it's difficult the pre-show is difficult the booth I mean Joe and Troy going up there with those guys was trying to fit in and I really I was like man I I don't want to you don't want to overstep yeah I can don't overstep but also there's a chemistry between calling a game with the play by play and the color guy and they have it down pat better than anybody. And tell me if I'm being an idiot. Yeah. I don't, you know, it's like, it was very, very, very, coach me up, yes, me up, dude.

I'm here to get coached. I don't want to, I can definitely respect that. I feel like that's, I took that mentality, uh, this off season and a lot of different, uh, I don't know, uh, acting roles and yeah, acting, all that shit. Everything that I did in the off season, I lot of different, I don't know, active roles. Yeah. Acting all that shit. Everything that I did in the off season, I was like, yeah, just let me not fuck this up. Yeah. Coach me up. Tell me how to go about this. And you know, I think that's the right mentality. But at the same time, man, trust your gut, man. You're fun as hell to listen to. And as much as the Falcons fans probably didn't want to see you chanting Eagles and doing all that, you can't

tell me they weren't enjoying that shit, man, because you do it in the right way. I think they get it. They get that I was an Eagles fan. I mean, it's a fortune for them on a national broadcast that they but it was one time, right? We're going to get back to, you know, I'm trying and I really wanted to offer unbiased opinions for the Falcons. What the played a fantastic game and we'll get to that shortly. But this was really cool to be back in Philadelphia.

It was awesome and this is probably the one chance I got to kind of solidify my retirement as a player and to be up on stage with Fletcher Cox, the guy that retired the same year as me, Nick Foles, I mean, the guy that I won a Super Bowl with, Super Bowl MVP, and then all the fans. It was a really, really fun moment. So I can't thank ESPN enough for, I don't know, man, just like letting this all happen. I don't know. It was like... No, I hear you. Yeah, I hear you. It seems a little much, but they definitely, they looked out for you. And I think it was a great look for ESPN.

And it made everybody really excited to watch Monday Night Football, not only yesterday or last week, but in the future, man. You guys are doing a great job and don't want to not give credit where it's due. SVP, Ryan Clark, and Spiers, I mean, those guys are the fucking best, man. I love seeing all you guys throughout the game and throughout the the evening talk about ball and you guys always have great takes on it, man. So shout out to the Monday night crew. We also had a speaking of Eagles fans that you were just thinking that were there. Big Rod Dunphy, the Eagles super fan on stage and Jason, Jason forced him to do a chess ball. You forced him.

I heard you on the mic. You forced him, you said no, we're doing this. Do this. We talked about it beforehand. We were both excited about it. And I was just calling, like, come on, we're doing this. We're getting it done. He dumped me. He said, get it out of the way.

Get it out of the way. You move, you move. You ready? Let's do this. Oh, nice three point stance by the big guy. Up top and ah. Man. In quotes from Big Dumfy,

fucked my whole knee up, but it was so worth it. Yeah, it's not funny. The funny thing was he texted me after I was asking about him and because I didn't know that happened until afterwards I see on Twitter. He has also tweeted that he waited until after the game to get it checked out. You stayed the whole game. I can't leave. This is this is first Monday night football opener. I can't miss

this one. The guy's fucking electric said it was so worth it. And yeah, I mean it was an electric chest bump. It's a big dude, big dude chest bump. Right chest bump the fucking Philly super fan with the fucking Phillies fanatic snout over his back. Are you kidding me? That thing was awesome. That was I mean, I hate that he got hurt on it. But he's a fucking legend though. Well, moving on to the to another part of the pregame show was your interview with Jalen Hertz. Yeah baby. You guys just it was awesome to see the interview

because you guys just have so much respect for each other you guys could tell that you everyone could tell how close you guys were when you played and you're just so appreciative of each other's you know work ethic and leadership and I don't know, it's just really cool, man. I don't know. I mean, he was more loose than I was. I'm in the interview and he's calming me down, which is just like, you know, I don't know. I think, like you said, there's so much familiarity there. I think he knows that I'm the one who's doing something. He's done a thousand interviews. Yeah. There ain't nothing new for him.

I'm doing the, I'm now I'm on the opposite side asking these questions and he kept the light for me. So it was awesome. It was really cool to chop it up with him. It's a different world. It was interesting. It was weird being in that bubble and sitting across from a teammate. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. It'll get more normal, but I thought it was great. The tone that he had freaking made and it was just like when we played. I don't know, man.

He's just got a way about him. He really does. Well, let's get into the game a little bit then. The Eagles, 21 Falcons, 22 on Monday night football, not the way the Eagles planned it and it came down to a play call here. You know, a play called there a big play made here or there. And it's just, you know, it just didn't go their way down the stretch, man. Falcons come back and steal the win on a Kirk Cousins two minute drill,

ending with a TD pass to Drake London. And obviously that the Jalen hurts interception there after that, with just seconds left. The initial thoughts on the game, brother? Listen, it was a great game. It was it was. It was. Yeah, I think it was. both offenses kind of struggled early on and started to catch their stride right towards the end of the first half. And then in the second half, it felt like

both offenses were functioning really well. The offensive lines of both sides really controlled the line of scrimmage. I felt like, I think in particular, I got to give Atlantis, like you watched that first game that Atlanta played against Pittsburgh and TJ Watt and Cam Hayward were given that offense a lot of issues. Everybody's talking about Kirk Cousins and he's not the same quarterback. He can't move anymore. There was a lot of narratives out there after week one. Yeah.

Well, prove that wrong. And they got him up under center, did him, got him into doing a lot of things that he's probably more familiar with throughout his career. But really the big thing was, bro, they were running, they were running the ball and they were giving him a lot of time back there. And I think that that offensive line, that was a big bounce back game for Atlanta. In particular, they're running outside zone. I mean, that was a clinic tape of outside zone. Yeah. Cutting on the backside. It was a battle of two really good fucking running backs.

Yeah. Really good offensive lines. They get after it, man. I keep looking at the Eagles offensive line and I'm like, dude, since you left, they have become the biggest offensive line in the world. Well, I think they were already enormous. But yeah, adding McKay-Beckton.

Holy shit. It's a big wall. Every single one of them. Yeah, it's unbelievable Yeah, Eagles were without their star wide receiver AJ Brown with a hamstring unfortunately but Jalen Hurts played pretty well up until that last drive man Jalen went 23 of 30 for a 183 yards and one touchdown 85 yards on the on the ground with a touchdown say Kwan and his Philly debut although he had that drop there at the end, 116 total yards, which is exactly what you expect out of him. The guy can beat you every single way. I don't see him dropping that ball ever again in that situation. He's such

a good player, man. It kind of rips your heart out when something like that happens. He's such a big piece for the offense. That was an underrated thing that really didn't get discussed at the end of last year. Obviously, we struggled with the Blitz and that was the main narrative the last two games of the season. But another big piece is AJ Brown's hurt. And I just think he's an equalizer, man. He's one of those guys, Alshon Jeffery used to say it, even when I'm covered, I'm not, where at any time he's there and you can throw that ball up to him and he can make a play on it. Even when I'm covered, I'm not where like, at any time, there's he's there and you can throw

that ball up to him and he can make a play on it. And, you know, it opened it up a little bit for Smitty, which I don't know that I've had a teammate that I respect more in my career in Philadelphia. I mean, there's guys I respect as much but Slim is just, he's just such an awesome dude. So happy that he got a little bit more. Seeing him eat last night. Yeah. Yeah. He was killing it. Yeah. Jalen, I thought was a lot more composed. You know, I thought he played great. And even the rushing yards, like the scrambles, it felt like he was trusting the pocket more, staying in there. And then he would push up when it wasn't there. And it just felt like, you know, he

he was doing a lot better throughout the game. I know everybody wants to talk about the last interception at the end of the game. You're pushing to make a play. He's getting hit while he's throwing it. I thought that he was really good in his decisions he made and his comfort and poise in the pocket in week two. I thought it was impressive. I'm right there with you, man. I just watched the game today knowing that we played the Falcons this week. Watched the start to finish. I thought he played fucking awesome. Thought he made some unbelievable throws, especially over the middle and tight windows.

His touchdown to skinny Batman. He put one ball to a Calcutta early where like it really was kind of guarded. He just threw it in the right spot to where Calcutta could go make a play on it. Oh yeah. You're spot on man. I just think that the Eagles don't need, Eagles fan base, you guys don't need to get too worried man. Everybody knows that it probably should have went in their way, but hats off to the Falcons.

Yeah. I mean, the big thing everybody's talking about is the end, right? Yeah, of course. And that's what Falcons fans sure wanted me up there in the booth probably when things weren't going as well. But yeah, four minute drill, it feels like teams, and I don't know where you guys stand on this, but like it used to be just conventional, like run out as much time as possible. You don't really try and throw it in certain situations, especially once the other teams out of timeouts. And the big question that everybody's talking

about is that third down and three, you know, they elect to go with a roll pass where the running back is into the flat right now. And I get, unless that I understand you run it, you're going to guarantee you're going to take off 40 seconds. Yes, I get it. And that's big in that situation. And I think that that's, it's hard to argue against. But I also think that roll pass is kind of a conservative because if it's not there, Jaylen is going down and you're going to get the top or he's going to run and you're going to get the, that's only going to be thrown if it's wide open, which it was like, it was the perfect play call and the percentage chance that a wide open pass to Saquon Barclay is getting dropped like that. I just think that's gotta be pretty low. Very low. Like if you told

me before the play, we can eat, we can either run it and we don't know how many yards we're going to get, or we can have Saquon wide open in the flat to catch a ball and win the game. I'm probably taking that throw if he's wide open in the flat. Yeah. Because you don't get the ball back. At the same time, you guys got one of the best offensive lines in the league. Yeah. And Tony, and I will say, Tony Dunge, you brought up a great point with this.

With us, it's not even third and three, it's third and two. Because you know if you get two yards, you know you're sneaking it on that fourth down. You're not even giving them a chance. I don't know, man. It sucks. I think, but we've been seeing more and more of these decisions to throw it in these four minute situations because more and more offenses are getting aggressive. They don't want to give the ball back. We actually did it last week, the week right before this against Green Bay. We elected to run through a slant route like like and I think even I forget who was announcing that game, but they were like, are they going to pass this?

Like it was obvious like, hey, we're running this ball out. And they completed it and ended up being a huge completion because you picked up the first down end of fumbling it on the one yard line and tush push territory. And But I think, you know, it feels like more teams are passing in these situations now than they ever have. But I don't know, a lot of this comes down to like game theory and analytics and I don't know half of this stuff. I know the safe call is to run it and to keep that clock moving. The guys that do know this shit

are the guys calling the plays. And it was wide open and you know, I hate to say this for Saquon because I love the guy and everything. But it just is what it is. He's gotta come up with it and I think he knows that. And here's the worst part about it. And at the end of the day,

at the end of the day, you win and you put the game in your defense's hands and the defense has to make a stop. It is what it is. You can't throw it all on Saquon. You can't throw it all on the play call and things like that. Like you guys had another chance and Kirk Cousins just you know, he showed everybody why the Atlanta paid him 180 million dollars.

Listen, hats off to Atlanta. They played a fantastic game. I'm not trying to like like they earned that win. No, like two ways about it. To march down the field there at the end with Kirk, to take all the criticism that Kirk and that team faced going into that game coming off of the Steelers loss. That was a big statement game. Offensive line, huge bounce back game for those guys. They played fantastic up front for the Falcons. I'm with you, man. I don't think I've seen, I mean,

I might have mentioned this already. I don't think I've seen cut blocking like that at this day. Like you don't see people on the backside cut anymore. Chris Lindstrom was a cutting machine and that ball kept winding back when it wasn't hitting front side. I mean, it was an impressive performance by the Falcons offensive line.

It was an impressive bounce back game for Kirk. The coaching staff adjusted wonderfully. They got him under center, got him into things that he's done well his whole career. Listen, I'm obviously an Eagles homer, but I'll give the Falcons credit all day. They played their ass off. And to come into Philly after a game like that. That's a tough matchup. They answered the bell for sure. Well, with 140 left, Kirk Cousin drives 70 yards gets the go-ahead touchdown to a great route ran by by London and with 34 seconds left, the Eagles did have a final drive and

I'm not going to lie, man, with a couple timeouts in your back pocket enough time to get a field goal. 100%. I was kind of waiting to see if they were gonna pull this off. Yeah. Not kind of, I was. I fully expected Jalen. I had a little juice that Jalen was gonna find a way man and I'm sure he wishes he had that one back looking back on it on film but at the same, you know, throwing it up the skinny Batman's always a pretty good chance. Did he get hit as he was? I mean, I know he's getting hit pretty much while he was throwing

it. Did that affect the ball? I don't know. I have no idea. Either way, either way. It looked like a real time. Final drive ends in an interception debates. And yeah, any final thoughts, brother? No, like I said, I kind of closed it out. I thought Atlanta played a really, really good game up front. I thought the birds played well on offense. I thought the birds played well, yeah. Yeah. I mean, both teams did a good job in the red zone of keeping guys out for the most part,

but then the offense has got going there towards the end of the game and Atlanta just executed a little bit better. We talk about this. These mistakes, this is the margin of victory in the NFL. The Chiefs operate so well in these end of game situations at being disciplined and not beating themselves. When it's this close, the teams that do that better ultimately end up winning more games in this league. It's just frustrating

because it was right there. But outstanding game by Atlanta was right there for them too. And they were the ones that capitalized. So shout out to Kirk, shout out to that whole offense, shout out to Raheem Morris. They got it done. And I know it ended up like it did. But at the same time, I'm putting the ball in Jalen Hertz and in Saquon Barkley's hands at the end of the game to win it, even after that kind of game. Those guys have the ability to finish it off and get the wins. And I don't think that trust is going to waiver either way.

I think you guys got everything you need to be a great team over there, man. Right. All right, birds have the Saints down in New Orleans next week. How do the Eagles bounce back after that game? Listen, I don't know that there's a hotter team in the NFL right now than New Orleans.

You see what they did to Dallas this last week and Panthers. Well, the Panthers one was like, it's the Panthers, but I'm just being honest. Like I was I was I think everybody after the Panthers win. They blew him out, which is impressive. Anytime you blow out an NFL team, that's impressive. It doesn't matter who it is. Yeah, so it's an impressive win. They blew him out, which is impressive. Anytime you blow out an NFL team, that's impressive. It doesn't matter who it is. So it was an impressive win, but Derek Carr, when he's on, he's a very good quarterback when he's on. Oh, I know. But this week in Dallas, Joe, good Dallas has been in Dallas.

I don't think they lost a home game outside of the playoff game last year. Like the Cowboys in Dallas have been very formidable and they went in there and just put a whooping on them. I don't know there's a hotter team right now than New Orleans in the country. This is a huge test and a huge game for the Eagles to try and bounce back from. They look, I mean, they're offense right now. I'm a big fan. They're doing the same thing with this, like they got to figure out how to stop outside zone because that's all freaking the Saints ran again. I mean, not all, but Dallas got a heavy dosing of outside zone with Kamara boot shots down the field. Like you better be ready.

It's coming. So they're going to have to stress. East and West. If I know Vic, he's going to be, there's going to be some accountability being held. That's for dang sure. And they got the guys. They just got to execute. Come on now. Let's move on. We're going to get to the biggest storylines from across the league outside of those two

games in week two right now. Big on close games. 11 games are decided by one score, including five that featured the game-winning score in the final minute of regulation or an OT. One of those close games was record-breaking in a bunsway. Unfortunate for the Giants, I suppose. The Giants lost to the Commanders 21-18 and became the first team in NFL history to score three-plus touchdowns, allowed no touchdowns, and lose in regulation.

Damn. The Commanders only had field goals and got 21 points. Oh, they probably had a defensive touchdown. I think there were a few different other ways they scored. Yeah, had to be, right? They didn't kick seven field goals, right? Anybody? Waiting on Brandon?

You are the slowest Googler. Man, it's not a quick hand. It's not a quick hand. I could have already found this out on my ESPN app. Have you ever seen seven field goals in a game? I've seen like maybe five tops. That's a, that's a lot of field goals. It's a fuck ton of field goals.

I feel like we've had something close, but I don't know about seven. They got to find a way to get in the end zone. They're kicking seven. Yeah. Shit. I feel you on that. Or not. Apparently you win the game still. There you go. There are also a few blowouts this week. Derek Carr and the Saints. We already talked about it. Blew out the Cowboys 44 19 Saints. I mean, then the Cowboys are great against Cleveland in week one.

So, you know, it's are the Saints are the mighty, mighty Saints, you know, the I mean, yeah, the mighty, mighty saints? You know, I mean, yeah, the saints, baby. Alvin Kamara. Do you know who Alvin... They told me right before I went on air, it's not Kamara, it's Kamara. Is that right? Alvin Kamara. I thought it was Kamara for my whole freaking life. Alvin Kamara scored four touchdowns in the winter.

AK. Won the Himmio there on the Monday Night Football broadcast. The same sort of the smoothest athletes I've ever fucking I love watching him run. I really do. It is so annoying as it has been playing big games against that guy. It is so cool, man.

And I think the shoes, like the cleats he wears, like exacerbates it. You know what I mean? Something about wearing like a light colored shoe or a colored shoe, when you're running, it just like looks different. Looks like NBA Jam when you had turbo on. you're running, it just like looks. Looks like NBA Jam when you had turbo on. That's exactly what it reminds me of.

Oh my gosh. You just hit the nail on the head. He's on fire. He's got the turbo. Unlimited turbo, yeah. Unlimited turbo G-code. Yeah. Saints scored 47 points in week one.

And I had 44 points in week two. They now have 91 points this season. The most by a team in its first two games in 15 years. So they're doing something right down there. I really dig what, is it Clint Kubiak, the OC for, it's Gary Kubiak's son. Yeah. Dude, he's doing something right down there. And Derek Carr has been, he showed- He's playing lights out. He has showed this, whole career, this upside. It's just been like

inconsistent a little bit. When he was in Oakland or I guess, Vegas now, but man. His first two games have been pretty dang good across the board for those guys. Oh, yeah. They're looking they're looking good. Gotta love that. No, right. You gotta love that. No, we play them in like three weeks. Do you? Is that Monday? Is that the Monday night game? That's the Monday night game.

Monday Night Football. Yes, it is. I'll see you there. Cardinals took down the Rams 41 10. I got to say, Kyler Murray, I have not been this, especially with the injuries of the Rams have right now. I mean, the Rams are not that they got a lot going on in their own organization right now in terms of like, players injured and they've lost like maybe three or four offensive linemen,

Pukas out. Like they're struggling right now. They're limping around a little bit, but that doesn't change the fact that Kyler Murray, it's been up and down for his career to start. Dude, I don't know that I've like he was throwing some balls and making some plays that were just out of this world. He was incredible. He's always been an electric player to watch, too. But I mean, he's always in. He's a game accuracy.

He was putting some of these balls on. Are you kidding me? Fucking rifle. Yeah, it was very impressive. I'd be a little guy, but don't don't think he can't fucking sling that ball around man You know, there's always been questions about his committedness towards football to be honest with I think committedness nice I mean we're being honest. I mean they used to like The reports coming out that he wasn't watching tape because they were tracking his iPad usage or some crap

all I know is that I heard I've heard through the great mind that he's like recommit himself in a different way this year. And if that's the case and he can continue to do what he did yesterday, I mean, or this week, the Cardinals are. Are very, very good. Damn straight. They are. Yeah.

Cardinals wide receiver, Marvin Harrison Jr. became the first rookie, uh rookie with at least four catches, two touchdowns in the first quarter of a game since his dad Marvin Harrison Senior in 1996, which I don't even know if his name is Marvin Harrison Senior. I think I just know. I think he's just Marvin Harrison. There you go. Which is it's a stat that means absolutely nothing other than he broke stat that his dad had. How does that work?

If maybe if you're Marvin Harrison, do you automatically become Marvin Harrison senior when you have a son that becomes Marvin Harrison Jr.? No, our grandfather's name was Don Blaylock. Our uncle's name was Don Blaylock. Yeah, that's a good point. I don't think Uncle Don's a junior. No, he's not. All right. Well, this isn't really helping us analyze week two, so let's move on. That's

a big bounce back game for Marvin Harrison Jr. though. He should have a struggle in week one. Big game this week. We also got a couple upsets. Baker Mayfield and the Bucks take down the Lions. A lot of people didn't see that one coming, but Bakerers playing lights out baby. He's rolling and he's got the Bucks rolling their 2-0 start this season. The Lions didn't look terrible, but didn't look great. I think the Bucks just got after him a little bit. SVP brought it up on the countdown show, but Todd Bowles, man, he's a great equalizer. He's just such a great coordinator.

God damn it. That guy's good, man. He can scheme up a run game and as great as the Lions are and as good as their offensive line is, and I'm sure that there's plenty of points that they probably had opportunities in this game. Detroit, if you're shutting down their run game, it can make it difficult. Todd is just an incredible coordinator. He really is. And this was an outstanding win for these guys on the road in Detroit, right? Yeah. I mean, come on. Shout out to bowls. Gotta love playing them in a few weeks too. Sam Darnold led the Vikings to a 23 to 17 win over the 49ers. How about that? Probably the one game this weekend that I definitely didn't see coming.

I thought Sam Darnold has always been a really good quarterback. I think he kind of had some blows over there in Carolina his rookie year or his first couple years in the league. But I always thought he was a gamer and he had the arm talent and he was smart enough and he had like the swagger and the ability to be a great quarterback and sure enough, he's showing it swagger and the ability to be a great quarterback. And sure enough, he's showing it this year with the Vikings, man. Yeah, absolutely.

Big time win. There's not a lot of good quarterbacks that play well in the Panthers organization right now, so I don't know that we can hold that against him. But Andy Daldin is next. Oh, there we go. The ginger. The play of the game though, as you watch this clip right here on Justin Jefferson's 97- 97 yard touchdown the ref is flying

Absolutely flying trying to stay out of the fucking way Yeah, not the not the 97 yard reception Let's check out this guy. Look at him Oh god, this is when he when he cut it back the ref knew he was he was in trouble Oh nice hip nice way to open up the hips. Good swivel. Full speed. That's pretty good. You can tell. That's a former athlete right there.

Yeah. He might not be- Former? No, that's still an athlete. That's a current athlete. Yeah. Check him out. Look at the arms. Look at him. Get it going. Just great form.

Stay out of the way. He had his core. You can tell he's got a good core. Yeah. You know when you see somebody and it's just very stable right here? It looks like they're floating almost. It's just arms and legs. That core is staying rigid. He had good rigidity.

Shout out to the ref. You don't always see them showcasing their athleticism like that. What else we got? Oh, and the ref's name was Tyree Walden, former Division II running back at Adams State. Adams State. There you go. Second year as an NFL official. There you go.

Well, he's showing real good promise. Yeah. All right. Taking officiating to new heights. Shout out to him. The biggest surprise in week two. Where are we going with? I'm going to say the Donald.

I do. I think it's the Vikings over the 49ers, right? It's got to be. It has to be. Shout out to everybody else. I mean, the Saints blowout was a big one, too. Cardinals. That's not that surprising. Raiders beating the Ravens.

Another big one. That was surprising. Max Crosby, man. Fuck. That guy's getting better. Just when you think he's fucking one of the he's topped out. Just when you think he's talking, you know, he's looking at dude. Aidan Hutchinson is wreaking havoc right now. Really happy. I don't have to play against that guy anymore. Yeah, ditto.

Petty game ball in more news around the league Steelers QB Justin Fields introduced the world to the petty game ball during the postseason. I'm sorry during the postgame press conference, Fields was quoted. I think we all know Russ kind of got done dirty last year. It was awesome getting that win for him. He got a petty game ball, so it was great getting a dub for Russ. There you go. I didn't know they never heard of that term, but I love it.

I'm not going to lie. I think a game ball is a game ball, whether it's petty or not. Sometimes you just get motivated to win a game for a guy playing his ex team. There you go. Coach Tomlin declined to share more when asked about petty game balls. I can't give you all the ingredients to the hot dog. You might not like it. So now I'm even more interested. Like what the hell are we talking about? I thought

it was just a game ball. There's more to it than just even the petty game ball. What all are you putting on the hot dog, Coach? You're a relish guy. There's not a lot of ingredients in a hot dog. Yeah, hot dogs are pretty- Actually, you ever seen how hot dogs are made? There's a lot of stuff that goes into it.

But once the hot dog is solidified- God, I don't want to talk about this. It's like ketchup and mustard and relish. I mean, there's only so many sandwich options. Nice. Let's move on to the. Yeah, keep going. Puke balls.

We went from petty game balls to puke balls. Packer center Josh Myers redefines the chunk play. Jesus. Prior to the snap on third and 10, we can you can see here's a clip if you want to watch it of Packer center Josh Myers projectile vomiting on the football before he snaps it. No false start. I for the life of me, I have no idea why you would not move your head just to the left. Just like I tried to. He tried to go a little bit left. He did. How funny is it?

It timed up just as right as he was. He was in his cadence. Yeah, that's fucked up, man. God damn it. I mean, what are we eating before the game, bud? What are we doing? What are we? We got to fucking figure out a different pregame meal or something, man.

Taking too much pre workout. Shout out to Malik Willis for catching that. Like, he knew exactly what was happening. He just caught a football covered. Like, what did he eat before the game? Do you think there's like corn on the ball? Or like, do you think there's like chucks?

That is just so gross. Yeah, I can't get into it. I fucking hate throw up. It's so nasty. After the game, Coach LaFleur asked, I asked Malik, I can't get into it. I fucking hate throw up. It's so nasty. After the game, Coach LaFleur asked, I asked Malik why he didn't throw the ball. I'm third down and he told me Josh threw up on the ball. He's like, that's the first time I've ever heard of that.

Yeah, me too, coach. Me too. The official came up to me and said, we saw your center throwing up on the ball. Do you want us to take him out next time? And I said, absolutely, please do that because you're talking about a critical situation. I've seen a lot of throwing up on the football field before, never on the actual fucking football.

This is a first and hopefully a last. Yeah. Jason, were you able to snap a vomit ball without issues? I have never snapped a vomit ball and don't ever plan on doing so. So yeah, I got nothing for you. Can't offer a perspective on that. Moving on to some no dumb questions. Wrap up the show this week with no dumb questions because there's no such thing as dumb questions,

92%ers, just dumb people. No dumb questions is brought to you by our friends at NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. My favorite way to watch the NFL on Sundays, NFL Sunday ticket bundled with YouTube TV gives you the most live NFL content all in one place. Terms and embargoes apply. Going on to from X, it looks like Amelie,

Amelie, I have no knowledge about football, but what would be a good sentence to drop during a game? like, I'm Ali, Amelie, I have no knowledge about football, but what would be a good sentence to drop during a game? So my family thinks I know what I'm talking about. I kind of like this. Somebody who doesn't know football. What could they be watching and say something and people kind of know? He kind of knows what he's talking about.

Good catch. When you see them past that yellow line, yell, oh, yeah, first down. Yeah. If the team with the ball starts getting towards the end zone they're trying to get to, when they're inside the 20, say, oh, they're in the red zone. Red zone's a big word.

Big. Red zone offense is a big deal. Big deal. Oh, when you see them fake it to the running back first and then throw it downfield, that's called a play action. Play action? See, you're doing better at this than I am. If you see a running back or somebody with the ball hit somebody with their offhand,

that's called a stiff arm. Oh yeah. It's like, oh, nice stiff arm. That's a good one too. When it looks like a defensive player is moving really fast and playing like really physical, just say, man, that defense is playing fast and physical. It's pretty simple. You just make up whatever and it'll shake. If they try to run a quarterback sneak, make sure you tell everybody that's a 92% chance that that's going to be successful.

Yeah. It works 92% of the time. Use your awareness around you and feel how the room is. If there's a penalty and you hear a lot of people saying, oh, just yell at the refs. Context clues. Yeah. Yell at the refs. Just be like, that was a shitty call. You know? If the quarterback gets touched at all, make sure you, like, just be like, that's quarterback, that's a... Roughen the passer. Roughen the passer, why the fuck can I, I'm an idiot. Say it's... Yeah, the quarterback gets touched, just, you know,

that's roughen the passer. Yeah. What's a good one, what's a good one? Touchdowns, or when the offensive team gets in the end zone. Gotta take the points. Gotta take the points there, nice. How do you explain that? Analytics say go for it.

Analytics say go for it is a great one. Anytime it's fourth down, just say analytics say go for it. Ha ha ha! Especially like fourth and shorter, like fourth and two, three, fourth and one. Analytics are telling you to go for it here. I think that's enough. We hit it though. You use that stuff and just, like I said, use your context clues. People are getting excited, say something exciting. Yeah, there you go. People are getting pissed off around you, say something that

really fucking pisses you off. And typically you can yell at the rest and it Works shut up to all the rest Moving on to Gillian from X as well Jason What was your favorite book you read in college as an English major Travis? What's your one random law or idea you remember from criminal justice? Why does Gillian think I was an Englishman? Did I ever say I was an English major? I have no idea. I have no idea.

I didn't know. I was a marketing major. Yeah. And I definitely didn't get a degree for criminal justice. My favorite book I read in college as a marketing major was probably Outliers. I really did like that book. Travis has referenced that book a lot from Malcolm Gladwell. Just a fan of Malcolm. I really don't remember much of the book. Yeah, he's a beast. He's fun. He's fun. He makes it informative.

Yeah. I thought that was a really, really good, not only pertinent class for marketing, pertinent book for marketing, but it was a good read. So yeah. And that's probably the only book that college made me read that I really actually enjoyed, if I'm being honest. Law or idea. I think one of the ideas was called the broken glass theory. If it's kept, if it's kept nice, they're going to want to keep it nice.

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