New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce - Chiefs Season Toe-pener, Jason’s NSFW TV Debut and Football at the US Open | Ep 100

Episode Date: September 11, 2024

92%ers, we are back with the 100th episode of New Heights brought to you by Buffalo Wild Wings! In this episode, we kick off the first week of football by visiting with an old friend, revealing who is going to be in this year’s Philly Christmas Album, and explain why you probably saw Jason shirtless washing a truck. Travis also breaks down everything from the Chiefs toenail biter of a win against the Ravens. We get his thoughts on the new offensive weapons, the defenses ability to slow down Lamar Jackson, and why Isaiah Likely might need some French tip cleats. Jason also shares his thoughts on the birds big win over the Packers down in Brazil, his thoughts on the new look tush push, and the debut of Saquon Barkley in an Eagles uniform. We also look at all the major headlines from Week 1 in the NFL including the QB struggles all around the league, Caleb Williams first win, and a few major week 1 upsets. Finally, we get Outta the House with Jason’s busting out of his shirt on Monday Night Countdown and Travis using the US Open as the perfect place to watch football. 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 youtube.com/NH GENERAL MILLS: To grab one of the first boxes of Kelce Mix, head over to www.cerealtrainingcamp.com/newheights and enter code: 92PERCENT for a chance to enter and win. SEATGEEK: Use code KELCE15 for 15% off your SeatGeek order. https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/KELCE15. $25 max discountMTV VMAS: Don’t miss MUSIC’S MOST ICONIC NIGHT! The MTV Video Music Awards are Live! Wednesday September 11th at 8/7 Central, on MTV. For more information, please visit https://www.mtv.com/vmaACCELERATOR: You can get a free Accelerator right now at https://BarcodeBucks.com/Accelerator. Just buy your favorite flavor, upload your receipt and you can get reimbursed for up to $2.49 per can!See 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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Let's get it going. If you can't tell, I don't give a fuck because I got zero care. This is the least stressed I've ever been after week one. This is amazing. That's actually really good. What's that? You're worried about winning next week. I just get to talk shit on people for a living now. So good.

Welcome back to new heights. Ladies and gentlemen, 92%ers, a Wondry show produced by wave sports and entertainment and brought to you by Buffalo Wild Wings. Let's go sports bar. Yes, that's right. Ladies and gentlemen, we're back to our favorite spot to go grab wings for any game time. We are your host. I'm Travis. Kelly's is my big brother, Jason Kelsey out of Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Subscribe on YouTube, Wondry Plus, or wherever you

get your podcast and follow the show on all social media at new heights show with one S as the 92 percenters. No. Jason, tell the people what we got coming up. We got another great episode. 92 percenters. In fact, this is officially our 100th episode. That's right. Whoa. It's our 100. Did you ever think we'd make 100 of these when we started?

Jason, I thought we were going to get canceled after like the first week. Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to lie. That's probably the correct if I was a betting man, I would put those odds down rather than get into 100. Yeah. Doesn't feel like we've done 100. No, it doesn't. This has been fun. Yeah. It's been fun. Let's do it. What's up with the Laker shirt? Oh, the back to back. Just saying. Oh, is that why? Yeah. But you should have like a bulls jersey because they were the ones that did three feet. Yeah, they did the three feet. That's why I got the three feet twice.

That's why I got the 13th zone. He won it. got the 13 zone. He won it. Okay. Just a Hoopers fit. Makes sense All right, you wanted to refer. He actually won his last game. I know what's going on. I know last day You were 14. I know exactly why you're back into the Hoopers fit because everybody saw what you were wearing at the US Open and That you went complete opposite Hoopers fit. Yeah, I went country club. It was tennis. What do you want me to do? It was tennis. Yeah, you went country club. So you got to re correct your brand image. You got to go back to your roots. My brand. You know me. I'm a chameleon, man. I just float. I float and I just blend. I just blend in the trees. Well, before we won't get into that now, I'm sure that's somewhere in here. We're going to celebrate the 100th episode of New Heights by finally talking about NFL games. That's right

We're gonna cover all the week one action including the Chiefs week one one and oh start to start the season the Eagles went in Sao Paulo and we're also gonna get out of the house to talk about I count down in the Bay Area and Travis is low-key Sunday out there at the US super low-key Super low-key didn't do much and Travis is low key Sunday out there at the US super low key, super low key. Didn't do much. Another reminder for all our 90 percenters, if you want to listen to us early without any interruptions and get bonus content, we're giving you three months free of Wondery Plus. What do you guys want to get from us from bonus content?

I guess we're open to suggestions. Yeah, we're definitely open to suggestions. Wondery was like, hey, if Wondery Plus gets bonus content, we're we're open to suggestions. Yeah, we're definitely open to suggestions. Wanderers like, hey, if one of us gets bonus content, we're like, we don't really have bonus content. We can just put it all out there. So whatever bonus content you think would be interesting to you guys that we can charge you more money for, I guess, let me know. And we'll put it in this one.

Three is one of those situations. Yeah, that's funny as hell. But yeah, 24 hour live stream of a day in life of Jets Jake, maybe I'm not gonna lie. I would watch that. I'll pay the one to replace just to see what that looks like. Yeah, I am very curious. What do you think?

Jets Jake is doing right now. Not gonna lie. I think it's a lot of very uninteresting things. That was fucked up. 24 hours of Jake is probably similar to like Adam Schefter. He's just on social media all day waiting to see what gets put out into the internet sphere. He's just collecting data. That's how you know he cares. Can we bring Jake on? Let's have Jake comment. Jake, what do you think? What do you get? What do you got going?

I'm here. I'm here. That's Jay. How we doing? Dude, you look how are you doing? How are you? I mean, yesterday was rough. How does it feel to have all of your dreams just crushed right at the start of the season?

Brandon sent me a clip of Robert Salas saying like, losing with Aaron Rodgers being healthy is better than winning without him, which I guess is true, but man, that sucks. Oh my God, he said that? He was like, being one and 0 last year is worse than being 0 and 1 this year, which I guess is true, but man, that sucked.

I mean, I think everybody knows what he's saying. Yeah, I get it. Yeah. But in terms of Yeah, no one wants a 24 hour live stream of my life to chance her bag, baby. That's funny. So no one wants to see a 24 hour live stream of my life. That would be incredibly boring. And a lot of just me looking at my phone on the couch. But we'll do it. If wondering if wondering plus wants it, I'm game. What else do you do besides look at your phone?

What are my hobbies? I don't know. Yeah, what are your hobbies? I walk my dogs a lot. We go on hikes. Nice, you're a big walker. Nice, what kind of dog are you? Ooh, you're a hiker.

I got a beagle and like a Vichla mix. He's like kind of a beagle. Vichla mix? They're great. They're good dogs. They need some exercise, man. He's like kind of a beagle. Vichla mix? Yeah, they're great. They're good dogs. They need some exercise, man. Do you take them out a lot? Yeah, I do.

All right. I walk every morning. My wife does a lot of the walking too. She takes them down to the beach. You just fucking said you do. You don't do shit. I don't do a lot of shit, dude. I do.

I go on a lot of hikes. I'm not going to lie. My wife walks in a lot. I don't do a lot of hikes, I'm not gonna lie, my wife walks in a lot of hikes. I don't do a lot of shit, I watch football. I watch football and hang out. Sounds like you're very dedicated to the show and that's why we love you, Jake. Yeah.

What are the names of your dogs? Carl and Lloyd. That's like, you just got roommates. What are their last names? Is it Lloyd and Christmas? No, they're Chatskys now. Carl Mathers? Yeah, they're Chatskys now.

We're the Chatsky family now. I made that legal. I'm're Chatski's now. We're the Chatski family now. I made that legal. I'm a big fan of human names for dogs, so well done. All right, that was riveting. Thank you for coming on, Jake. Thank you. All right, thanks guys. Best of luck next week.

Good luck to the Jets, baby. And I guess that is true. We'll get to the Jets later, but I guess that is, I mean, you got the guys in the building that can win you some ball games. I get it. I think I understand. Yeah, let's talk to that later. This is only available for a limited time,

ladies and gentlemen. So get going. Visit Wondry.com slash New Heights offer to redeem this offer. But first up as always, 92%ers. That's right, it's time for new news. New news coming in hot. New news is presented by the MTV Video Music Awards. for New News. New News coming in hot.

New News is presented by the MTV Video Music Awards. Hey! That's right. Don't miss music's most iconic night live tonight, Wednesday, September 11th at 8, 7 Central on MTV. Hopefully Taylor can walk away with a few. She's nominated for about 10 of those things tonight. Oh, she hopefully she can walk away with some some. She's nominated for about 10 of those things tonight. Oh, she, hopefully she can walk away with some,

some Moon Men. Those are always one of the cooler trophies. Yeah. Is that what the trophy is? Yeah, the space guys. Let me get, let me get some eyes on this. It's a Moon Men. I wanna see what this thing looks like.

Oh, you've seen it before. MTV, music. I think I know exactly what it is. Yeah, it's the big silver Moon Guy with the American flag, I think. Yes. We landed on the moon. What's the MTV flag?

But that's a really cool award. Let's go, Tay. Come on, Tay. Stay on top. Here we go. Wishing everybody the best, though. Unless you're up against Tay, then I hope you lose. First items first, Jordan Malata, Lane Johnson,

and myself, that's right, we're doing a new Christmas album and it's coming out November 29th. The third album is called A Philly Special Christmas Party and it features 13 songs, including three originals. I thought it was only two originals. There's a third one that's an original. There you go. Oh, yeah. There's the three originals. There are special guest appearances from Boys De Men, Devin Gillifan, Travis. I don't know if you've heard of Travis Kelsey, but he is also on the album. I made it again.

Actually, I mean, I guess we just it's Travis, myself, and boys demand. I'm like an R&B Christmas. I don't really know how this happened. I can't wait to unleash this. This is this is one of my favorite. This is one of my favorite little creative like side jobs I've ever done. So one of the members of the Philly specials and dear friend Zach wrote this song. And when he first showed it to me, I was

like, this is not a Christmas song. But the more I listen to it, I'm like, man, that's about as Christmas might be the coolest Christmas song I've ever heard. This is got some flavor to it. And boys and Boys of Men really put some sauce on it. As more and more people have gotten in, Boys of Men threw their flair on it, which is, I mean... Unbelievable. I don't know that we ever thought in a million years. Well, I can definitely say I never thought

in a million years I'd be collabing on a song with Boys of Men, but... I have zero musical talent. There's no way I ever thought I'd be in any of this shit, especially with Boys of Men. Pretty remarkable. Knowing that we grew up on Boys of Men being, you know, one of the main focuses on Christmas albums. Like they've got a million just bangers of Christmas songs. So it's definitely an honor to be on there with them. But excited to hear the rest of the album. You got a bunch of fun names on there. All, I guess, will be surprised when the album comes out on November 29th. Philly Special Christmas Party will be sold as a limited edition white vinyl and to pre-order that, you can do that on November 1st. I don't know how fast these things will sell,

but if you want to ins ensure it, I would suggest the pre-order kind of vibe. Proceeds from the album will be donated to local charities as we've done in the previous two years. Nice. What would be another holiday album that would be good? Do you think? Man, the only one I could think of is like a Fourth July.

Patriotic album? I wasn't going there, but that would be just a lot of fun. I was thinking Halloween. I don't know what it is. There's like Halloween is creeping up there with some music. You don't like Monster Mash? For some reason, we were just listening to Monster Mash with Wyatt today. I don't even know what you're talking about.

The Monster Mash. It was the Monster Mash. The Monster Mash. No? Marshall. Never heard of it. Marshall. All right. All right. Well, screw me. All right. What's another very musical oriented holiday? I do, I mean, Fourth of July is a good one. It is a very good one. Marshall. It's probably the only one I can think of. Well, make sure you check out on November 1st to get that pre-order and check out the album on November 29th.

Heck yeah. Moving on to some other new news. If you're wondering what Jason has been up to during his new retirement phase, he's filming his own garage beer commercials. That's right. That's right. That's right. And they're getting better and better with every idea this brilliant man comes up with.

The most recent one though was him and Bo Allen washing some cars. Just making sure the car stays clean and enjoying a nice garage while they're doing it. Who came up with this idea? I don't know. I've always loved beer commercials and I've always loved like the old school, like whether it's Budweiser ads or the, you know, the most interesting man in the world. Like I feel like beer commercials are always just iconically put in your brain. Yep. So when we cordially commercials with the love train.

Yep. Yep. Yep. The when we partnered with garage, I was like right away, I'm like, man, we got to like, we got to try and do some fun ads. Yeah, I hear you, man. And I think I got more time on my hands. So I'm trying to think of like, what are some ways that we can do some fun stuff? And creatively, it's just it's fun to think about different ideas. I'm a big idea guy, not a big execution guy.

Luckily, we got a bunch of people that work with garage beer that know how to execute ideas. Yep. I'm a big idea guy. Yeah, you bring it to the table. So, yeah, this was our first one. We thought this one sounded the most fun. We knew that it would generate a lot of buzz.

Behind. Yeah, this is just the first of many of, well, I guess we've been doing it, but this is the first one that I've had kind of come up with. Nice. So we'll see how they go from here. Did you always have Bo Allen in mind when you were thinking about washing cars with short shorts on? I knew I wanted some big hefties.

I thought about, you know, Landon Dickerson, Lane Johnson, Jordan Malata. Those guys are a little busy. They're a little busy right now. Oh, I knew was going to be in town. I also don't know with current players what the rules are with alcohol. Like it's it's I know that there's like rules against alcohol endorsements and stuff like that. So it's a fine line. But anyways, Bo was going to be in town. I was like, Bo would be

perfect. Kylie did not help film it. She was coaching her field hockey team and actually being a productive human. Well, I went out during 12 pounders. You guys were getting the watch to Cybertruck. Yeah. Which, by the way, is a little nervous because there's a lot of stuff out there that the Cybertruck short circuits going through car washes. I don't know if you saw that. I don't read up on the Cybertruck news. Why is that? I think it's just like they didn't seal something properly or something like that but there was like it did rain once and the

Car door like kept opening when I parked it until I like dried and then it would close again Thank you. You know, they had to get these things out there. They had to rush them out So they had to rush them out. They took them like three extra like summers to rush them out. They took them like three extra like summers to figure it out. When you're making it out of, you know, listen, those things are sweet. They send a space. Those things are sweet. I want the little like, I want the little four wheeler. Oh, the quad ATV said was going to be with it. Quad. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe that comes out eventually. That thing looks sweet. That thing looks dangerous. The quad they TV said was gonna be with it quad. Yeah. Yeah, maybe that comes out eventually if they look sweet

I think looks dangerous. I cannot wait Make sure you guys check out the garage beer ads that uh that have came out and the ones that are yet to come because Jason is so creative. Oh, he's got a bunch of ideas We got more for you and that does it for a little new news presented by the MTV Video Music Awards. Make sure you watch the VMAs live tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on MTV. Moving on to some fan mentions of the week before we get into our bold topics from week one in the NFL. Let's shout out some fan mentions. Love it. We got quite a few mentions from the 92 percenters about the llama costume contest

from last week's episode. Really botched this one. And we really missed this one. I swear this was actually one of the books that I wanted to get my nieces, Jason. Don't worry. And you already had them. You already had this thing stocked up. This is from... Every family has this book and they should. Yeah. Since since the 90s. At Red Crested Hannah at J.C. Kelsey. Do you really not remember this book? The Llama is the very hungry caterpillar and we completely missed it. Yeah, I don't know how we did miss it because it's very obvious. Now looking at it, Eric Carle, man, what a great book.

He's got a few classics. You know what I like about these ones too? Dude, they are quick. It's like quicker in and out. The Eric Carle little kids books are kind of like the TikTok of kids books. You're in and out of there. Boom. Oh, the caterpillar ate on the on Monday. He ate cake on Tuesday to salami on Thursday, and then it's bing bang boom. He ate a leaf and he got healthy again. We're out of here. Good night, kids. Yeah, it's not the Dr. Seuss book where you're just trying to figure out every word by yourself. You're just like, dude, it is. I love the Dr. Seuss books too, but it is a Strublis, a Dubilis, Mordecai, Alvin, Alan O'Shea.

Mordecai, I think that's how it goesis, Adubilis, Erubilis and Kubilis. Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea. Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea. I think that's how it goes. Yeah, exactly. Anyways, well done. Thank you for pointing it out. We definitely missed that one. So appreciate the 92%ers keeping us in line there.

Do you think we should have like a corrections segment of the show? Oh, yeah. I mean, not really. That's, I mean, you want to talk about a bonus episode? Oh, that could be a bonus. That could be a bonus episode of just corrections and just shit that like, yeah, you have to pay because it's censored. Everything's Have you seen Nessie yet? Have you seen our puppy? I've been watching that baby wolf, that coyote walking around behind you for the past like

five minutes. Come on. Come on. Come on, N Come on. Oh, say hi to everybody. Oh, that is a good looking pup right there. Say hi to everybody girl. That's a good looking pup. Oh, yes. Yes, girly. How you doing? Seems like absolute sweetheart. She have as much fire as Winnie. She's coming off real sweet right now. She is a terror. I love that. Like can get up in the sink already pulling dishes out with her teeth. She's the most food aggressive dog we've ever had in our life.

Not nice for anybody in the kitchen, but nice. I'm gonna have to put it back outside. She is going through like, like bags right now. She just all she does, she tears open bags of old food. It's ridiculous. Yeah. And that's why you get the farmer's dog that has a Ziploc bag. It stays in the fridge. She can't open the fridge yet. Good point. She can't open doors though. I found that out. Any door that has like that little, the little hinge one like this hits it. And she gets up and she hits it, pulls it open. I'm like, what the fuck is this dog?

Hey, don't you go in that toilet bowl. The famous Kelsey way of fathering. Hey. All right, well, where were we? Don't make me get up. Oh, but anyways. The last thing you wanna make me do is get up. Corrections.

Get up. Hey, it's about enough. If dad did get up, we were going to get a spanking just for making him get up. That was like such a Jedi mind trick. You do not make a 90s dad get up off of his ass. That is the golden rule. Because once he gets up and you start hearing those footsteps, he'll do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, Oh, fuck. Oh, it's a stampede. His legs are clearly still asleep. He can't feel the ground. So he's just stomping through the floorboards. It's been seated

so long in front of a lawn order television set. So good. All right. Yeah. Who knows? Maybe that's the bonus content everybody's looking for is Is the corrections of the of the new heights episodes? It's time to talk about our next sponsor Buffalo Wild Wings Jason now that you've been officially retired and you're able to watch a lot more football games this season Where are you watching these games? Great question, Trav? I think we both know the answer to that one. Should we say it at the same time? Yeah. Three, two, one. B-Dubs! That's right. I haven't needed a place to watch football in a long time because I've been on the field, but now

I do. And you know, I'll be right back at Buffalo Wild Wings. That's right. B-Dubs is the best place to watch football with all of the games on TV and the sports bar, tons of different kinds of beer and tons of different kind of wings. I don't know if there's any combinations, wings, beer, sports. I mean, what else would you rather have? All right now, 92%ers, make sure you follow Jason's lead here and get to your favorite Buffalo Wild Wings location to watch football this year. That's right. Watch football this season of Buffalo Wild Wings, B-Dubz was built for football.

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Chiefs 27 Ravens 20. There was a 20 minute weather delay because of thunderstorms. How annoying is it when the game gets delayed? I really don't care. I'm at such a piece at that point in the game or that point in like getting ready. It doesn't mess up like warmups or anything? Like you get warmed up and then you get cold?

Jason, you know we don't stretch. I'm not a big warmup guy. I'll stretch a little bit. I'll stretch right before I go out there, but I'm not doing a whole dynamic warmup and calisthenics and like karaoke and shit. I'm gonna do a couple squats. I'm gonna do it during.

Maybe do something to get the glutes engaged and then I'm going to do a couple squats. I'm going to do something to get the glutes engaged and then I'm ready. Glutes, fire the glutes, get the posterior fired. If the hips are working, everything else falls in line. I'm with you. I've been working all week on it. Although I will say recently I've had a bad back, so I had to, I've had to do some more core activation. Just as part of getting older. Corn hammies, corn hammies. Dude, I do this one thing. I do one hammies. Corn hammies gets all that lower back. I do one thing. That's all I do and then I go to lift. I take this dowel. I put it in between my legs. So I pull with this hip flexor and push with like this hand strap.

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. That'll center your hips real good. I go here. Boom. Boom. Then I do a groin deal. I do a glute deal. Ready to start to lift. Nice. Do you ever get a real big pop when you do the groin deal? I do. Yeah. Oh man. That's big pop when you do the grind? I do. Yeah. Oh, man. That's how you know you needed that exercise. For sure. Yep. Then you go and squat one time and your sacrum just goes right back. All right. So you said that it wasn't annoying with the weather delay.

No, we don't get too, we don't get those very often. You know, I think we've had a lightning delay maybe like a handful of times in my career. Marshall Svisak Was it a good thunderstorm? Chris McPherson I didn't hear anything. There were a bunch of cool pictures from like the people that were in the stadium. Sometimes just like the stadium being lit up and it being like a cloudy thunderstorm sky. It's just, I don't know, it's a cool like look to it. It didn't bother anybody, especially on our end. We were all just fired up and just kind of at the edge of our seats ready to play this game. Love it. Love it. Yeah.

Before we get into the game, let's start talking about what everybody else talked about after the game, which is the league's new emphasis on offensive line procedural penalties. Who doesn't love a good offensive line procedural penalty to determine outcomes of games. Illegal formation, Palooza. The Ravens got off to a hot start with Derrick Henry scoring a touchdown, but the biggest talking point was the three flags flown for illegal formation on the opening drive. It was flags galore. We've been a part of this. We actually had a few of ourselves. You guys had this? A few on ourselves.

You guys had this? I mean, we had it last year. We were one of the teams. They were, they were really, nobody has had a problem with the last year. Right. Yes, they did. And I, I mean, that was, yeah, it honestly reminded me exactly of the game last year when he had like three penalties in a row. And I was like, I don't even know how that's possible, but it's it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate. The biggest thing is that the refs are making it a point to keep the offensive line not only on the line of scrimmage, but legal. Like it is what it is. Like you have to check with them to make sure you're legal, just like the wide receivers and tight ends or whoever's on the line of scrimmage in terms of the skill set. So I will say, this is one of the reasons I'm not a fan of points of emphasis by officials.

I really think that they go out of their way to look for it. So anything that's close ends up getting called, which I get that we're trying to eliminate this and that we want you to make these calls because the reality is tackles have been getting away with being deeper and deeper and deeper. And I don't think people really fully understand how much that is to the offensive lineman's advantage. It is so much of being good at pass rushing as a defensive end is getting to the tackles. Hipline, the faster you can break the tackles hips and make him turn, the more effective you're going to be as a rusher because he can't stay in his set. He can't stay square.

All of being a tackle for the most part is keeping the rusher in front of you. And that comes down to pre-snap, getting as much depth as possible. And then two, jumping the snap count and kicking off. And this is what everybody is raving about because really the best tackles in the league jump the snap count and they also grab depth. And it is hard to get a pass rush as a defensive end. So I think that they should be calling this more. I just don't like points of emphasis in general.

And I hate when it happens so much. It just feels like it's stalling out the game. And I know that Ravens fans feel like it's one sided. I'm going to be honest, I looked at the clips. I didn't see Joanne Taylor lined up off the ball. Like, the reality is his head looked like it was breaking the plane of the center's belt buckle. Ronnie, I think it doesn't help him even in this picture that we got right here. I really think because if you

look at his feet, it's even with the left guard. It's more his posture. He's so upright in his stance that his helmet looks like it's further back. I don't know if he can, but a lot of guys will lean forward because they know that the official is looking at the helmet to break the plane. They don't look at your feet. It's all about whether the helmet is set properly on the line of scrimmage.

Part of me feels bad for Ronnie because, dude, Ronnie Stanley, what year is Ronnie Stanley going into? Like 10 maybe? Like he's been in the league for a while and he's probably been setting up this exact same way his entire career and then all of a sudden he starts a game and he's getting a bunch of flags thrown on him for something he's done his entire career. And it's got to be infuriating. If I get flagged one time, I'm moving up. That's all you're getting. So this is, that's my one thing. Like the first time I will over emphasize

they're trying to make it a point of emphasis. I will make it a point of emphasis that I am now on the ball every time. I'm not going to give you another one of these bullshit penalties to call. I'm going to make sure I'm up there and it is what it is like, but to his defense, it makes it way harder to block being up there. But I mean, that's what if that's the way they're going to call the game, you have to play the game that the officials call it. That's the reality of it. That's not that's a big part of the

game that you're playing. We'll see how they adjust this week in practice and in next week's game. I think that it just opened up more criticism of the chiefs getting favorable calls from the officials. Do you have anything to say to that? I mean, you want a Super Bowl on it. Yeah, I mean, keep them coming refs. That's why we fuck with you guys right now, man. You guys are making sure that I don't, I don't, I just don't get it. I think, I think if you look at the actual penalties that are being called,

we have literally been, what is it? The point of emphasis. Yeah, well, the reason they're calling this is because of Juwant Tau this year and guys that were doing this a lot last year. This is the reality of it. Like, Juwan was like he got called for it a lot last year. I think Lane got dialed for one of these in the game. Yeah, it was funny because you actually said this to JJ watt you said Lane Johnson has never been called or has never been off sides or or off the

ball ever in his life. Yeah. JJ watt replied with I beg to differ. I also saw commented. I do think it's hard for officials on the sideline to gauge when a guy jumps a snap count versus when it's a false start. When it's like a hairline difference, I think it's hard to see whether it was before the snap or on the snap.

When it's really timed up well, I think they generally tend to let it go, whether it's the offensive lineman or defensive lineman. I don't know if you saw the game this week that TJ played, but TJ timed a snap count up perfectly and they called him for offsides. So I was like, well, that didn't age well. But I guess they don't give the defensive guys much leeway. No. I'm just not a fan of the slow motion takes at false starts and like jumping the snap count because it doesn't feel right. Like when you watch it in real time, when the ball

is moving, like even the one on Joann, which I thought, like Collinsworth called it out as it should have been a false start in the TV copy that I was watching. And when I was watching it, I thought for sure false start. And I still think it was a false start. But when you watch the timing of the ball and his jumping, even in slow motion, like the only thing he does is he leans slightly, but when he actually kicks, it's on it's exactly when the ball moves. It just looks more because he's moving before everybody else. I just, I got to get off Twitter is what I got to do. I think everybody, everybody begs to differ. Everybody begs to differ. Everyone does. Everyone

loves you on X. Oh, okay. Yeah. I mean, it's fun to be on there. And I think it really started, honestly, it obviously started, like questioning officials started once challenging became a thing. And like, it's like, okay, now it's like, oh, officials have this expectation to get calls right 100% of the time. Then it got taken to another level with like the legalization of gambling. Yeah. It is like toxic to the point of people like the Ravens had plenty of opportunities to win the game. And the reality is the penalty differential of yardage was like 10 yards over the whole game.

Like you guys had 47 yards of penalties. They had like 60 something. Yeah, you had a holding penalty. It was six penalties, you guys seven for the Ravens. Officials did not make the difference in that game. The Ravens had multiple chances at the end of it to win the game. Likely if you would have been up inch more in bounds. Like, I just don't understand.

You got to size down and shoot in cleats. You got to go a size down just for those situations. Yeah, I'm kidding. Isaiah is such a good player, man. I thought Pat may brought up Pat brought up a good point. Where's some white cleats might be a little bit harder to tell if it's out of bounds. I think HD the cameras are so clear nowadays. What if you like had somebody like paint your cleats so it like specifically

look like grass? You know what I mean? Everybody does. He's painting. It was just, you would just get, it'd be like a French tip. It would just get French tip nails. You just get the tip of your toes. The tip, bro, that might be genius. The French tips, that's what the French does. We just started. Nike comes out with their new very productive receiver.

Oh, she's the French tip. Kind of like that. Nice. All right. Let's transition to the fun part of the game is when football was actually being played and not stopped. So when the refs finally let the teams play football, Pat finished the game with 291 yards and a touchdown. Pat Mahone. He made some history on Thursday night. That is because with his 23 yard completion to the big yeti, in the second quarter, Pat officially passed Len Dawson to become the Chiefs franchise passing leader. Lenny. RIP to the legend Len Dawson, baby.

Len Dawson was one of the most iconic photographs of all time. The Chiefs uniform. I guess, was he in uniform when he did that? Oh yeah, he was. He was at halftime. That's right. Mahomes entered the game with 28,424 career regular season passing yards and needed 84 to pass Dawson. God damn. Pat is the only

active quarterback to hold his team's all-time passing yards record. How about that? This is the clip. Here's the play. It's crazy because I think it's only like eight years or something like that. Yeah, I mean, the league's changed a lot though, right? Like it's it's a passing league now. Len was like passing it like what, like 15 times a game back then. Look at that scramble drill. Big Yeti comes off of it. Oh, when you're watching this thing on on actual film, like on the iPad

from the behind view, the the was it the end zone? Not the all 22, the end zone view. Yeah. When you're watching this thing from the end zone view man it is so cool watching Pat throw this thing right on the friggin money to me man he's just had it's you get him he did he really shows his athleticism when he's throwing it on the run yeah did you give him the ball no I actually I think I threw the ball and almost got yeah I was like oh I didn't mean to do that. It felt like a chippy game. Was it chippy? It felt like a lot of like trash talking.

The AFC rematch, AFC championship rematch. Hell yeah. It was chippy out there. All right. Other standouts on offense, Rashid Rice led all receivers with seven receptions for 103 yards. Isaiah Pacheco had 78 total yards and a rushing touchdown. What a beast. Dude, that route he ran on Roekwon. I don't know if that's like, it was almost like a fake like little out and then came back in. Yeah, he can do whatever he wants on that play.

I know that play very well. So that's a true option route. True option route. Gave him the business, realized he was cover four and that the Mike Backers in quite a true option route. True option route. Um, gave him the business realized he was cover for and that the Mike backers on, uh, in quite a bind. Yeah. So what is a lot of space in the middle of the field? What made him fake out and come back in?

Cause it looked like Roquon was inside of them. It's based on leverage. He would just go out. Yeah. But you know, that's the option of it, right? You can, uh, you can kind of feel it. You know, he's going to overplay it. You can feel him being aggressive. And if you give that move, you know where can you can kind of feel it. You know, he's going to overplay it. You can feel him being

aggressive. And if you give that move, you know where you know where he's vulnerable and you know how much space you realize the route concepts and how the defense has to relate to it. I'm just happy that Rashid is seeing the field like he's seeing right now. He is really playing faster with his mind this year so he can really catch the ball, get vertical split guys. He owned the middle of the field the entire day. And man, I couldn't be happier for that guy to have a 100 yard game.

And hopefully we can keep this thing rolling and keep using them as he takes over the middle of the field and sure enough all over the field. Well, the storyline everybody continually is talking about right now and that is potentially because the Bills gave him to you guys is Xavier worthy. The rookie had a big night finishing with two touchdowns. The first one being a 21 yard run that I mean, I can't wait to show this clip. I know we don't want to talk about your block hand, but I love when somebody picks up to little around plague.

It's a staple, man. It's a staple. It's a staple when you got a really really fast guy That's just good with the ball in his hands. You need it takes a special player to hit this with the right speed We've had huge games with gains with McCall Hardman on this play Tyreek Hill when he was here A lot of guys get this thing in space and they just know how to fearlessly A lot of guys get this thing in space and they just know how to fearlessly attack the lanes that the O line and the tight ends and the white outs that are on that side of the field are blocking for him. And sure enough, all you all you really got to do is get a good get a guy that's good with the ball in his hands rolling on this one. And sure enough, you get the big fatties out there just like like Donkey Kong wheelbarrows. You know, remember that game? Just the Donkey Kong wheelbarrows, dude,

just fucking rolling downhill on secondary guys. I mean, dude, they're all out in front. I mean, this wall of red, there's like no way, I remember watching this live and I'm like, dude, holy cow, this is going for six. Immediately I saw your block. And that's one of the great things about this play or like a toss play that hit so fast, you know,

if your guy falls, you can keep going. Like, it's like, you know, right away. What is this? Vanoy? We don't need. Yeah, he actually I mean, to his credit, he almost got up and got the fucking tackle. Kyle almost got up and made the tackle. But typically on this play, once you fall down, you can kind of be like, all right, I'm going to go. I'm going gonna go climb now Yeah, he popped up pretty quick and I mean you really didn't need to climb because there's a entire convoy of a life

I didn't have anyone else to block everybody was already. It's always fun. Just being a part of that convoy My man Creed was hauling ass on their play Creed got him one nice little pancake on on a Thursday evening. That was a that was a fun play to see him get the ball for the first time in the NFL. Take it to the house like that on an electric play like a reverse or an end around happy as hell for him and another guy another guy that's seeing the seeing the field making big plays with the balls thrown his way. He's not like, he's not playing tents.

He's not tight. He's ready for the moment. Yeah. You know, that's always one of the questions when you see a young guy come into the league. Like is he going to let the moment get too big? And sure enough, he's just, he's cool as the other side of the pill. Yeah. Love that.

Yeah. Coach Reed was asked about Xavier after the game and he simply said he can run. That's one thing he can do. Yeah, that's that's on everyone's scouting report is that he can run. And sure enough, you guys will see he can run some routes as well. And also made sure to get worthy the game, the ball right after he scored. Oh, yeah. Pat's a good guy, man. He gets it. He gets it. We're going to mount that one.

That one's going in the man cave. First one to roll. I want that one. Jason, do you have your first touchdown? I never scored a touchdown, Travis. Thank you for asking. Okay. I did have a play that was a, we did have a quarterback sneak play in at the end of the year, but we were so bad that we didn't get to the trick ones. So never got to do it. I knew there was one in there. There was one in there where we were going to do like a t push push with me taking the

handoff, but we didn't have time for shenanigans. We were trying to get the entire offense fixed. So yeah, I hear you. I get it. And I'm kind of, I kind of like it. I don't know. It's fun to score touchdowns, but that wasn't my job. My job was to facilitate. I'm a facilitator. I'm Dennis Rodman. You know what I mean? That's not a facilitator. Dennis Rodman, facilitate, set guys up. I'm Dennis Rodman. You know what I mean? That's not a facilitator. Dennis Rodman. Facilitate, set guys up. I'm setting screens, rebounding, and dishing it back out to the skill guys. That's what I'm doing. Okay. All right. Sorry. That's what I mean. You're facilitating an environment that's conducive for the skill players to make plays. That's what I'm doing. Then yes, you are a facilitator. And Spags, we trust, baby. Spags, it was gonna be, I was interested to see

how the D got off to a start this year. Last year they were so good. It felt like Spags was ahead of the league. And to be honest, they did not disappoint against a really talented Baltimore offense right from the get-go. And it started off with, I mean, Chris Jones, they could not block him in the first half. He was just like edging good guards left and right. Jones for

you. Yeah, I mean, he's pretty good. He also had a strip sack on Lamar in the second quarter. Here's that clip. Lamar has got to be the hardest quarterback in the NFL to prepare for. He is not only is their run game so damn good, but not but then you have to, you know, account for him in the run game. Not only you got to account for Derrick Henry coming downhill with Ricard blocking for him, it's like you got to account for everybody in the backfield there. And then on top of that, he can throw it. He's a passer now. He is 100% a passer. I know he had the one in the end of the game where he he sailed it over. He missed that one, but I mean, he was all point for the most of the game.

And it just so happened to be in a big moment, but he's making that throw nine times out of 10. He followed that one up with the the likely catch, right? Yeah, 100%. So he was on the money there. It just like... He dialed it in. Yeah. Anyways. And when you're preparing for a guy like that either you have a guy with similar Like talents which is like getting the Walmart version of them

And you know there's nobody in the league that you could ever put back there on your from your team That is going to simulate how good Lamar is so you just put a like a wide receiver whenever you're doing the read option stuff you put him at quarterback and try and like Insinuate the speed that he has. But then on top of that, it's like, you got to now figure out how you're going to stop him with his arm. Right. Isaiah likely had an amazing game, happy as hell for him. You know, tight end you guy.

And it's just so hard to that Baltimore offense, man, once they get get rolling which I'm sure they will this these next couple weeks man That team is gonna be really really good going into the playoffs. Well back to a in spags We trust a lot of defensive players played. Well, we already talked about Stone Cold Jones Justin Reed led the team with eight solo tackles and my man Leo Chanel He's just a dog Just a football guy, man. He's a guy that the stats don't even tell the full extent and what he does for you guys, right?

Big contain guy keeps everything in front, make sure that the cutbacks are there so that other guys can get tackles, plays his gap, knocks bats balls down, is athletic enough to kind of spy the spy the quarterback and make it make it tough on him if he steps up in the pocket. He wears a lot of hats. I hated blocking him and he knows this I hated blocking him and really even going against him on defense because he's he's really good in terms of reroutes and things like that. But Leo made me better in training camp and he's really making us a better defense. He uses his hands extremely well when defending blocks. Like pressing and pushing guys back into the hole.

I mean, Ronnie Stanley is a huge man. Outweighs him by probably over a hundred pounds. And I saw him on, and he caught Ronnie coming off of a double team a little bit high. But either way, it's hard to press a tackle that is that big back into a hole. He makes you stay fundamentally sound. You have to play low when you're around him or you're going to get bookended, man. But on top of that, he's also athletic. He can run around blocks.

He can play three technique. He does so much. And for a guy like Spags that likes to do all this exotic stuff, you got to have pieces like Leo Chanel that can do it out of personnel that might seem like it's a lighter personnel or in base and all of a sudden, he's a personnel that can also run. You know what I'm saying? But either way, just a very I thought he was all over the place in the game. And even though he only had seven tackles, which I mean, it's still a lot of tackles. He had

two pass breakups, it felt like he was all over and disrupting a lot of what the Ravens are throwing at you guys. This dude, he is what I like, his arms are like he was all over and disrupting a lot of what the Ravens are throwing at you guys this dude He is what I like his arms are like he has massive arms and like they're kind of lanky Yeah, and it's like I feel like he has like the same body type as as John Cena John Cena Like that's John Cena in a football uniform To the point where when he first got here like as a rookie, I would see him on film and I'd just be like, John Cena, John Cena!

And I just would imagine his intro music in the back of my head like, da da da da, da da da da. Every time he makes a play, I'm like, Arrowhead's gotta get on that, they just gotta play that shit every single time he gets a tackle. Yeah, you can see him just doing thousands

of Make-A-Wish Foundation events. What the? He is a good dude, man. I don't know where that gets him. He's the best. All right. Second. Shout out to John Cena.

Shout out to Leo Chanel, man. Great game, brother. We talked about Isaiah likely having a great game. Everybody saw the last play there where the toe was, I mean, it's out of bounds. I know it's close. It is close, man. Funny takes about, you know, the toe, I guess, didn't hit first, like the foot hits, but then the toes out. And I don't think people fully understand that it doesn't matter just for, I guess, education.

If your heel touches the ground and then it rolls to your toe and your toe is out, that's considered out of bounds, even though the heel touches first. Do you know that? Cause you look like you don't. If you're out of bounds, you're out of bounds. I don't know what you're talking about. It's you get both feet in bounds.

You're going out of bounds. You know how like when you naturally stop, sometimes your heel will hit first and then your toe. You need to have two heels in if that's the case. No, no, no. It doesn't. If you're in the act of like your heel to toe, if that if your heel hits first and the toe hits out of bounds, you're out of bounds. Technically, if my second heel hits before that toe hits, I'm in bounds.

I'm telling you, that's not true. We went over this as a team. I promise you there's not true. We went over this as a team. I promise you, there's a clip from I'll get it for you. But if you are in the act of finishing that second step, I'm just letting you know, just letting you know, there's no way I how much you want to bet on it. I don't I'm not a betting man. All right. Well, what do you think she kissed me on the roulette table

right now? We'll get somebody in to clarify that. But I'm, I mean, I'm 1000% positive. Cause I remember going over it. There was a tight end that caught a back of the end zone pass similar to this and his heel hit, and then his toe hit out of bounds. And they said, because you're still finishing the act of that second step that is this, that you're out. Just letting you know.

There's no way. Okay. I don't know what you want me to tell you. His heel, his, his first heel hit and his second heel hit, and then his toes hit? His first step, his whole foot's on the ground. And then while he's in the act of stopping, he goes heel toe on that foot. And they called it out of bounds because the toe lands out of bounds on that second step. Because the heel toe action is a full portion of that second step. I'm just letting you know. That's fucking bogus. If that's a real rule, they're calling it. That's what they said. Just letting you know. That's why you got to drag.

Don't put your whole foot on the ground. You drag the toe. So, you know, maybe, maybe we just saved the big Yeti from making a similar mistake. You already know. I've been working on those. I was working on today, the toe tappers. It really makes no sense that like that would be out of bounds. But if you drag your toe, it's a it's a that's what I'm saying. It doesn't make any sense. I agree. I'm just letting you know the way they call it. There's a lot of things that don't make sense. Maybe that's just the way you guys are teaching it. I'm pretty sure it's what the officials said exactly. Like it's not the way we're teaching it.

It's what the officials told. Did you it's not the way we're teaching it. It's what the officials told. Did you catch up with likely after the game at all? I did man. I did. I told him congrats on the hell of a game. Yeah, I'm sure he'll learn from it. I'm sure the Ravens will become a better team, man. That's a very well coached team. They got a lot of great players. And we we snuck out of there without having to go into OT or having to possibly get a two-point conversion for the win. Yeah, what are what are the takeaways from the game that you got? Trav? Yeah, the biggest thing for me is that, you know, they had the possession a lot, you know, the the possession

differential, they had the ball a lot. And that's one thing the teams are going to try and do throughout the years keep have moms off the field or at least limit his, his ability to put the ball in the end zone. And touchdowns are so much more crucial when when you have teams trying to do that to you defensively. And so touchdowns more than field goals, even though we love Harry knocking through every single one that he gets, we need to find a way to get in the red zone and not hurt ourselves

in the red zone like my sorry ass did after Chris Jones's big strip sack. So it's just executing at a much higher level knowing that we had a good game, but we can do better. You guys got the Bengals next week. They're coming off of a, I mean, pretty shocking loss to the New England Patriots by all accounts. I mean, it's any given Sunday in this world, like anybody can win and They'll be fired up and the Patriots played really well, man. Well, the Patriots played pretty well. The Bengals had a few like mishaps that really cost them big. And the other thing is the Patriots last year.

Yeah, big injuries. Bro, their defense was one of the top ranked defenses in the NFL. They're still good on D. They're trying to figure things out offensively, but it does not shock me at all that Gerard Mayo in company is still playing good defense. They figured it out, dude. Hand that fucking ball off. How about that? Hand the ball off. I'll tell you what man, if you can run the ball like that in the NFL every week, you are going to be just fine offensively, especially with a great defense like that.

But I think moving on to the Bengals, the Bengals are going to be ready for us. We're going to be dialed up and have a great game plan. I've already peeked at it with coaches today, and it's just it's going to be exciting to, you know, go up against one of the best teams in the league. You know, I think they have a great defense. Their defensive coordinator always plays extremely tough. They're very well coached. They got players all over the place and great players all over the place. And sure enough, it's one of the the I would call rivals now that we've actually won a few.

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, this has been a rivalry for the past what four or five years? Well, we finally won like a game and has to be a game to get a rival. You got this bad blood between you two teams for four or five years now. I hear you bad. And you know, I don't even try and do it. But it just happens just in you know, well, no, I just think she does a good job of using these like very common phrases that people would use regardless. But anyways, I never heard of bad blood tissue. You gotta be bro. Don't. Anyways. Yeah, Joe, but

there's been some turmoil in the Bengals. Historically, the last two or three years have gotten off the slow starts it feels like. I mean, I know last year they definitely did. It felt like the year before was similar. And obviously they got the whole Jamar Chase thing going on. So they've had some turmoil, but I bet they're going to be far improved from their week one performance, especially with a friend of the show and just absolute dog, Joe Burrow leading them.

Andy gets to be playing in Burrowhead, which we know is his preferred stadium of choice in the NFL. So it'll be a fun matchup to watch. LeBron's stat of the game, Xavier Worthy became the fourth wide receiver with a rushing touchdown of 20 plus yards and a receiving touchdown of 30 plus yards in a game in the last 20 seasons. Not a bad debut. How about that? I'm just glad our team understands LeBron's stats now. This is such a LeBron stat. But the irony of like four of the five guys on this list being Andy Reid products is pretty cool.

Yeah, but all of those are Andy Reid coach teams. And really they're all like the same, the very similar, very similar positions. Like skill set at least. Really fast. Yeah. But guys with, really fast guys with, and that are good with the ball in their hand. Yeah. I mean- You know, that's a very, it's hard to get, but I mean, when you get them, obviously Andy Reid knows how to use them. Apparently Andy Reid knows how to spot them. I don't know if, apparently other teams can't spot it, but old big Reds got the eye.

Yep. Xavier Worthy last Thursday night, Tyreek Hill in 2020 versus Miami. And then Deshaun Jackson twice in 09 and 010. The the oddball out here is obviously not necessarily oddball out. another great fucking player. Odell Beckham Jr. 2020 when he was playing for Cleveland. Still believe in Browns. Wow. But not coached by Andy Reid. Last thing, Jason, you didn't make it to the game, unfortunately, not sure what the fuck you were doing, but didn't make it to the game.

But Chiefs fans still had a message for you. They wanted me to pass along with this sign they made for you. Yeah. Travis, remind Jason cats are not poisonous. And guys, I'm pretty sure Jason doesn't need a reminder of that. He is still going to tell his daughters whatever he wants to tell them because that's a very Ed Kelsey, Jason Kelsey thing to do is to just lie to your kids.

Yeah. And I think it was pointed out to me, and I think this person with the sign is absolutely correct. Cats are not poisonous. Cats are venomous. Poison is when you eat something and you become sick. But venom, you can definitely... Listen, I'm just... Nobody wants to talk about it. Cats aren't poisonous, they're venomous. Everyone knows that. They're not poisonous, they are venomous. I am fighting an uphill battle. The kids believe, Kylie, that they're not venomous. I'm really trying to sell it, but I think it's going to take me seeing a cat with them in real time and just going full throttle into it and just acting like I'm seeing a great white shark, just just like running in like jumping over a couch and getting to high ground. Like I'm going to have to do something that's really going to have them

be like, Oh my gosh, was that being serious this whole time? Because right now they don't believe me. Kylie has done a sufficient job of fooling them into believing that cats aren't venomous. So I'm going to have to do a better job. Anyway, sorry for missing the game. I thought I was going to be in Brazil with the Eagles. And that was one of the things that last second I was like, I don't really feel like getting on a 10 hour flight. I'm going to stay right here. I get it.

I don't know. I wasn't nervous for the Monday night stuff. Actually, that's a lie. I was nervous. I feel like I wanted to like actually not have a lot of distractions for the first week of Monday night countdown so that I could try and do just focus on that. You know what I mean? Jason, you are a retired football player.

It's true. You need to just fucking do whatever the fuck you want to do. You've been so busy this point of the year. You should just fucking do whatever you want to do. Well, I'm busy. But I mean, first of all, I'm a dad, so I can't do whatever the fuck I want to do. I would love to just- Yeah, but that's the part of doing whatever you want to do. You choose to be a good dad.

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Go Taylor. Moving on to a little Eagles in Brazil. Eagles 34, Packers 29 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Before we get into the game itself, this was the first Eagles game you haven't played in, Jason, in a very long time, or really ever, or at least haven't suited up and been with the team. What was it like for you? I mean, it was weird. It was weird watching the game. I mean, the last time I watched the game was when I was out

of the lineup in 2014 with a sports hernia injury. So it felt weird watching and not really being able, especially not even being on the side of the end. There's nothing you can do. And you're watching the game and you want to know why certain things are happening or what happened here. What are we getting to? And you just feel more like,

you know, you just are you're just taking the game in, right? You're just like watching and you're like, Oh, did you go and like watching like someone's garage? Or like, did you watch it at home with Kylie? Did you meet up with a few like Philly ambassadors that you played with in years past? Or like, what would you do for the game? Like, what is one retired football player do on Sunday? I thought it'd be fun to watch Friday, It would be fun to watch my first game of retirement with a guy that I had been with my entire career with Eagles who still works there, but now he doesn't travel with the team. So I was with Joe Appella, trainer Joe. So I was down there watching it in his den basement area. So we were watching the game together and it was it was kind of cool watching it with

them and catching the birds game in the den with old Joe. That's right. Hopefully Joe's doing great man. Missed that guy. That's fun though, man. That's fun. And you were tweeting you were tweeting you were you were the official Eagles Twitter

follow follower that day. I was tweeting to avoid the distraction of not being able to do anything. Probably over-tweeting to be honest with you, but. You just gotta have, you gotta text somebody like one of the managers for the Eagles that on game day just call you from the landline on the sidelines so you can just call in on that.

Yeah. I see what that would be. Probably highly illegal, but would be hilarious if you did. Well, I don't even know that it's you. I remember there was a story of, oh my gosh, Joe Montana. Yes. Calling his wife in the middle of a game.

That's ballroom. I'm pretty sure it's a landline for sure. Yeah. You just got to press press one like the old, what is it? School phones. When theline for sure. Yeah. You just got to press press one like the old what is it? School phones. Oh yeah. Yeah. You just get out. Okay. Now you're outside. Yeah. It was weird watching. It was weird watching for multiple reasons. It was weird watching just being a former player and a lot of teammates and coaches that you were just with a year ago or doing it. And it was also weird because it was, I mean, it was in Brazil. It was in a place that normally doesn't have a football game. There was, so it was just, it felt very foreign. It

felt like a very foreign event. The halftime show, I think it was during halftime. It was very voluptuous in some of the dancing. Voluptuous. Nice. I kind of enjoyed it, if I'm not going to lie. I missed it, but. It was provocative is what it was. Anyway. It gets the people going. It got something going. But my initial thoughts were obviously really happy that the Eagles came away with the victory, especially, you know, they had to start with the turnover, two turnovers really, the very

first two drives and the defense, I the defense did a phenomenal job of holding them to six points in both of those situations. And once they kind of got out of their own way, they started moving the ball. And the Packers, obviously, are one of the favorites to win the NFC. Hopefully, as Jordan Love gets back, they are going to continue to continue to play well. So I think it's a big win. It's a big win on the road. A lot of new pieces from the coaching staff and from players. I think overall, obviously very sloppy game by both teams and tremendously good that they came away 1-0 in it. And I think for the most part, a lot of the things that went wrong are like extremely

correctable. That's football for you. Sloppy start, maybe the field conditions in the play again. You guys making that fucking excuse again or what? Well, I mean. You guys won the game this time. We did. So nobody.

First of all, I have never complained about a sloppy field. But I think the game is. Maybe. Did I complain about it? I don't think I did. The Eagles definitely did. Or at least the Eagles fans did. You can go ahead and dig up a clip. You learn from it. That's what you can hope for as a team is that you learn from it. Listen, if you can find the clip of me complaining about the field in the Super Bowl,

go ahead and show it to me. I don't remember that. I do think that playing on these soccer fields, it's just not the best. You know what I think it is? I don't think it's the grass. I think it's the sod. I think it's the what they're using underneath the grass. It's not it's not rooted in there and it's not like tough. For sure. I mean, it's like very the cleats go in it, but it's very easy to to take the grass out of it. And they kind of like almost like cut the grass with your cleats.

And I just I don't know. I was running a lot out in Europe trying to get ready for the training camp and everything and use some of the soccer fields out there and it was very similar. Yeah. I was actually kind of looking around like I am fucking this field up right now. I hope they don't get pissed off, but it is, it's either you got to go turf or you got to make it strong enough for 300 pounders to be able to move or like big strong running backs and linebackers to be able to put their foot in the

ground without slipping. Because whether we're joking or not and saying that it's like an excuse, it's not a very like, it's not preventing any injuries by having it like this. It's only making it a higher risk. Yeah. And that's what you don't want. Yeah, exactly. And I think that the root structure definitely appears different with these soccer fields. They're made for tiny European people. They're not made for large American men. The field conditions at Twitter going LeBron James said it best man this field sucks LeBron James anybody that knows grass

it's LeBron James doesn't make sense for the NFL to keep sending teams overseas if the conditions are going to suck? Yeah, of course it does because the NFL is about making money and the only way they're going to expand is by going global. So they're going to keep doing this regardless of what the field conditions do, but I do hope in future years, maybe they can try to mitigate this. I will say I don't like turf.

I'm not a fan of the turf fields. Maybe this is the one instance where it makes sense to actually have the teams play on turf. Yeah, I think it's a more secure safe to play on turf than it is to play on some of these soccer fields the way it's been going. Yeah, I know the word big anti turf fields, but the reality is that the soccer if the

grass field is not set up properly, it's just a shitty game and it's unfortunate to watch. Well, this one wasn't. I don't I don't know if it's as much of a shitty game. It definitely makes it harder and you know, the injury rate probably goes up a lot but neither team had that many injuries. They do say when your foot slips out, it's less likely you're going to get injured. But I just don't think it's it just turns into a sloppy game. It also neutralizes a lot of times a D line. Both offensive lines played well. There wasn't a lot of pressure on the quarterbacks. And I think a lot

of that comes down to, I think it's harder to rush on a slick field, especially if you're a guy that likes to bend the edge and dip and get low. Not as much torque. Yeah. It's hard to do that when you can't get full. You want anchor in the ground as well. Kind of like Hassan Reddick in the street. All right. Overall, AJ Brown was quoted. I don't know if Sao Paulo knows when to cheer, but it was great. Brown said it was loud the entire time. They kind of got a bad rap. We got a whole bunch of don't do's, but it's been a great time ever since we got here. Yeah, there was a lot of scare tactics propaganda saying that Brazil was not the place to go.

And I think a lot of players were told not to leave the hotel. Don't go on your phone outside. What's ironic in this whole situation. I'm pretty sure go on your phone outside. I think that they were trying to this one. I think I think they're trying to genuinely keep guys safe because if you don't know where you're going in Brazil, as someone who's been to Brazil, if you know where you're going and you're in the areas that are good, it's a very safe space.

It's an awesome country. If you go to the wrong area, there's just like, there's some spots you don't want to hit. But that's the same way. Listen, the reality, the murder rates higher in Philadelphia than it is in Brazil, in Sao Paulo. That's interesting. Stay out of North Philly. If you go to Rittenhouse Square, you're probably going to be all right. Yeah, but don't you feel kind of like... I do like, you know me. I like to just peek around.

I tend to like the people in North Philly more. You know me. I like to just peek around. I tend to like the people in North Field more. You know what I mean? Yeah. They get it. They get it. You can see somebody acting out of line.

There's more depth to them. Walking around Rittenhouse Square and everybody's got a fucking quarter zip. Yeah, those are the kind of people I respect. Yeah, second turnover, I don't really know what happened on that snap. I haven't talked to Cam or Jalen yet. There was clearly a miscommunication. Jalen wasn't ready for the snap to happen. Heard that one. Yeah. I think they were on silent cadence at that time. I know they were at silent cadence after that, which means that it's the guard is going to tap the center and the center is

then going to snap the ball. So I don't know what happened to be honest with you. I don't know if Jalen said something or if he or if Cam thought he said something or if Makai he thought that was one of the things in the game where I'm like, you know, I want to know. And I just don't. I just know that there was some type of miscommunication that happened. And it resulted in a fumble. And unfortunately, they got the ball inside the 10 yard line in our own territory. So do I remember my first start? Yes, I do remember my first start. This is against the St. Louis Rams.

That's right, I was in the league long enough to play St. Louis and my friend Chris Long was on the opposing sideline. And. He came in the laryngitis. Laryngitis. That was the big guy that I was kind of. Ohio State, yeah. Blocking a lot of. And uh... And then Laronitis. Laronitis, that was the big guy that I was kind of... Ohio State, yeah.

...blocking a lot of. I think we had a bunch of plays designed to try and get me up on, onto the middle linebacker. I don't know if Lashawn scored on it, but I almost got edged on a screen in the red zone that Howard Mudd used to like to run, which I think is actually a really good screen. Howie. I remember most of it. I remember it being very loud. And I was surprised because there was almost nobody in the stands

and then I found out that domes are just like always loud because they either pump noise or The few fans that are there it echoes and reverberates within the stadium Reverberates man. You are fucking on it vocabulary words today You're killing it, dude. The return of the tush push. The birds ran the most exciting play in football without Jason Kelsey, which makes it not quite the most exciting play in football. For the first time though, Jason,

it didn't quite have the success rate of 92%. And it's because you're not there, Jason. We know it's either that or the field conditions. Those that remember my last game know that we did not pick one up against Vita Vea and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So I don't know that I am the determining factor in the success of this. I think that first of all, it's a really hard play to run when a lot of guys are running it for the first time. Once you've run it a

couple times, you know how to run quarterback sneak, you get into a rhythm and you understand how it's going to happen. And I think they had a new piece at center with Cam, even though he played guard, it's different when you're snapping the ball and doing it. And then McKay backed in, obviously, being new at right guard. So they picked one up and it felt very synonymous with the season before. And really since Jeff Stoutland has been there, we've been running quarterback sneak, they picked one up and it felt very synonymous with the season before and really since Jeff Stoutland has been there, we've been running quarterback sneak, they got stalled on one and then the other one that didn't work was a fumbled snap. And that's another one. You could only rep that snap in the way it feels live.

And the reality is you're so far leaning forward and trying to get leverage. It's a very awkward snap to get to the quarterback if you're doing it right. And I got to think, you know, especially with the slick field, that there were factors there that led to even that fumbled one. But I think that the reality is the more reps these guys get at it, the more it's going to get back to that 90 plus percent success rate. This has done nothing to discourage me. When I was live tweeting, I called for the quarterback sneak and the fourth and one

instead of kicking a field goal and they fumbled it and I did the Homer Simpson like, oh, wasn't me. Yeah, because that didn't age well, but I do think they're going to get back on track. because that didn't age well, but I do think they're going to get back on track. It's just a play that I think the more you run and when you really execute on it properly, I do not think that it's something that's not going to work at a high success rate. Nice. Well, hopefully the Eagles can get that rate back up to 92% or else our 92% are just percenters. How about that? Do we change them?

I mean, it's always been less than 92% for the rest of the league. No, Jason, you're the reason it's 92%. Do we, what would be another? You're here now, so it's still the 92%. Yeah, all right, fine. Saquon's Eagles debut in the offense. Let's talk a little bit of the biggest story of the game,

and that's Saquon Barkley, the new Eagles running back and former new heights Guest that's right. Ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, baby and former new york football giant saquon finished with three touchdowns 132 total yards in his first philly game Which is pretty damn good and he tied torrell owens for the most tds in eagles debut with three Yeah, no, it was an impressive game. And I think we saw how dynamic he is.

Not only is he great as a running back, but his first touchdown. I mean, that catch down the in the left part of the end zone there. He makes those things look routine, man. That's rare to see in a running back. And having a piece like this, a guy that's that explosive as a running back, he can run people over, he can make you miss, and then he can also go out wide and run routes or he can run play action and then catch a ball like that. I mean, just a tremendously talented player and I think we all got to see firsthand

how he's going to look in the, well, I guess it wasn't midnight green for this game, it was black and white, but outstanding first game from Saquon did not disappoint one bit. Not one bit. Jalen finished with 311 total yards, two touchdowns on Friday night. And it looks like we don't have to worry about Jalen versus the Blitz because he seemed to be pretty on point with his answers for the Blitz at least this game. He was fantastic in this one. And I think there's a lot of people like, you know, why didn't they blitz more?

And I expected more pressure to be honest with you with the way we ended last season. But I think this D coordinator comes from more of like the San Francisco tree. And when we played San Francisco, there's another style that I guess what people have done to try and stop jailing and it's really played these zones, keep everything in front of them, and then their eyes stay in the quarterback to try and prevent them from scrambling. And it felt like they elected to go more with that strategy. It'll be interesting when we play some of these coordinators that like to dial up Blitz more. It's clear that he is assessing it now. right? He's playing faster. Well, he's playing faster.

He's playing faster because he's looking at that. And he can make decisions based off of it. And we saw he has an answer he wants to go to. He saw firsthand what AJ Brown can be a very good answer. Oh, yeah. When teams are playing. Yeah. Obviously, they've spent a whole off season on it.

They have more answers just in general, I'm sure, because they've been working on it. And Kellen Moore is going gonna offer his new wrinkles being the new OC. And yeah, I thought it was an outstanding first game in that category, no question about it. Well, we're not gonna pass up Jordan Love's injury. It's very unfortunate, but he's out three to six weeks with the MCL sprain. One of the up-and-coming, we're now here, quarterbacks, top quarterbacks in the league. Jordan Love, obviously ending last year with an unbelievable season

and played really well. And he is fun to watch when he's healthy, man. So hopefully he can get healthy fast. I don't think it was a dirty hit. I think Jalen's trying to get him down and and Jordan's just kind of got caught in a bad position, trying to get rid of the ball and not take a sack. But yeah, it's a it's kind of like he it looked way worse on film, especially when you slow it down. So hopefully this MCL sprain really isn't anything too serious so we can have one of the best players in the league back out on the field, man.

No doubt. Yeah, couldn't agree more. Jaylen is just trying to do anything he can to get the guy down and unfortunately, he got caught in a position and ended up getting the MCL sprain. I think some of it also let me, Jaylen had at least one personal foul, Carter that is, earlier in the game. Like there was a lot of like pushing and shoving I think, but regardless, that play in particular like did not look like he was intentionally doing anything. So, in my opinion. Not at all. LeBron's stat of the game. The Philadelphia Eagles are the only NFL team in history to win a game in the Southern hemisphere.

How about that? How about that? How about that? Nick Sirianni now 4-0 in his season openers and none of them have been at home. How about that? That's ironic. Holy cow. That's crazy. That's a couple of the broad stats of the game. Final thoughts though.

Philly's coming back next week against the Falcons who had a tough go against the Steelers the other night. Yeah. Monday Night Football. Are you ready for some football? Always. Yeah, I think this is going gonna be a fun one. Obviously, this is my first time being back at the link as a non-player. So I get to take in that part of the

atmosphere. Hell yeah. And I'm looking forward to being back in my home stadium. It's gonna be awesome. Falcons, you know, I know they didn't look good against the Steelers, but do not be fooled. The Steelers, dude, the Steelers have been a... Well, they're defense looking. Tomlin, I know a lot of people are getting on them for whatever. You can't get on their defense, especially when T.J. Watts healthy. That defense is routinely one of the best in the league. And T.J. was on one in that game.

So he was all over the place. The reality is we don't I don't think that that's a fair evaluation of who the Falcons are as a team. I think that's a tough match up for any offense going up against the Steelers. And they still, they didn't, you know, the Steelers offense, a little bit more question marks around that, but it'll be interesting to see how this game goes. I do think I'm probably biased. You know, I think the Eagles should take care of business at home.

You know, I wouldn't look at the Falcons as though last week proves that it's going to be any type of like easy game. Kirk Cousins is a good quarterback. Don't make any mistakes about it. They're going to be coming in trying to get retribution for that first loss of the season. Well, I can't wait to watch Shanafell count down and see you in your element back there in the old link. The birds versus the dirty birds. We'll see what happens Monday night. All right. Let's move on to talk about some of the other things that happened across the league in week one. It was not a great Sunday for offenses, a lot of great defensive play. Once again, that's where the last season ended. And this one start and both the Steelers and

Bears won without scoring an offensive touchdown. Dude, that's that Bears game, I looked at the stats and was like, how in the, like, screw it, I'll go swear to God, how in the fuck did these guys win this game? Block punt? It didn't make any sense. They had nothing going offensively. If both teams have nothing going offensively, if you get a special teams and a defensive touchdown, 14 points is going to win you the fucking game. Yeah. And that's how. We obviously, everybody's talking about the will levis Interception at the end of game where he it's this pose kind of sums it up while the place still going on

You know, he kind of knows it is it is all Fuck how did that happen? Yeah, not good Titans head coach new head coach Brian Callahan was quoted saying if we just punt it on first and 10 every time We might have won the game That's a great freaking quote. God damn. That's good. Shout out to Brian Callahan Hopefully he gets things turned around over there in Tennessee In Nashville Broncos got two safeties in the first half against the Seahawks You don't always see one safety but let alone two first time. This has actually happened in the first half against the Seahawks. You don't always see one safety, but let alone two.

First time this has actually happened in the NFL since 2017, Miami versus Denver. I think it happened against Denver though, yeah. It was a tough week for rookie quarterbacks. Bears rookie Caleb Williams. 14 for 29, not even 100 yards. Yeah, it's a rough start, but at the same time, it's the NFL, bub. Broncos, QB, Bo Nicks had a few more completions and a few more yards,

but racked up a couple of interceptions and ended up with a worse QB rating in 47.5. As the Broncos lost, at least the Bears rookie got his first win. And then the commander's quarterback, Jaden Daniels, had a good rushing day despite the loss. Yeah, 17 for 24 with 184 yards. He probably played the best out of all three. I thought he did. And the other thing I liked about Jaden Daniels stats were I forget what his time to throw was, but it was one of the lowest in the league. And I am always a fan of a quarterback that gets the ball out of his hands. That's why I love that. That ball was catch gone. Tom Brady was really good at that too.

And sometimes you just got to get it to your get it to your playmakers quick man. When the quarterbacks know to get that ball out, it opens up everything because then you can hold on to it at times. It discourages the rush so much. So yeah, hopefully they can keep that going with Jaden. Obviously, commanders looking to have a huge turnaround. That organization in general has been through a lot. So I know they got it handed to them by Tampa Bay and my man Baker Mayfield, but I thought it was a pretty promising day for the young gun in his first start.

Yeah. Well, it was also just a tough week for QBs in general. No doubt. You don't really see too for QBs in general. No doubt. You don't really see too many QBs going over 300 yards. 18 starting QBs threw for 200 yards or fewer this week. It ties the most in a week one since 2008. But there was one guy that kind of got after it there and it was Dak Prescott who threw for 179 yards, but still maybe had the best day? I think he did and that 179 is like probably not a fair number because they got ahead so

early that it starts changing up what you're doing offensively. Like they were beating the crap out of the Browns and I think that they, you know, you start running the ball more, you stop, you know what I mean? It was Dak in his limited- That day up on the lake. Yeah, early he looked every bit of it. And I mean, can you talk about a better day? Just sign a multi hundred million dollar contract and then go out there and win your first. That's a day. That is a fun experience. Well done, Dak.

I've been able to kind of hang around Dak here and there. And he was at tight end you this year, speaking his mind to all the tight ends there and giving them an idea of what the tight end position looks like through the eyes of a quarterback and that the highest paid quarterback in the league. So guys were getting nuggets of gold from him. And I just, I'm so appreciative of his time and him being able to do that. But at the same time, he is such a good guy, man, just such a good dude and couldn't be happier for him, especially with all the speculation through last year and the injury and having to kind of go out and prove himself knowing he's he's

kind of proved himself already, but did it again last year. And sure enough, not as the highest paid player in the league. I'm gonna say this, and I think it's probably gonna upset some Eagles fans. I like where Dak Prescott is at right now. You can see it in his interviews, how much more comfortable he is being a leader in the NFL. Oh yeah. I think early on in his career and anybody's like this, you're going to get more generic answers. You're not going to get a lot of depth. You're not going to get really insight into who he is. And I think that's a big turning moment for a lot of players when like I'm just gonna say whatever the fuck I want

Because this is where I'm at and I'm confident and who I am and what I can do in the last two years you've seen I Just feel like he's more confident it appears On the field off the field. It just I really I'm digging his entire vibe right now I really figured it out man. He's figured it out. So he knows it. And, and on top of that, I was actually I was talking to Chris Jones in the locker room. Yeah, today about it. And he was mentioning to me, he's like, man, a lot of guys don't know that Prescott one of the hardest working guys out there. Yeah, I was like, what? I love this. How do you know this? Chris? How do you know this? I guess he's

what? I love is that how do you know this? Chris? How do you know this? I guess he's he is the latest man, the lady. Next call. It's so good. It still holds up to all the watch. I might just do that right after this. Just watching you telling you that so good. Just hearing his voice while he talks on the radio. It's so good. All right. Let's get back on track. Where we are. Phil. Yeah. Did you got a Chris was talking about that being one of the hardest workers?

Yeah, that's all he said. The passing game might have been in a slump, but it was a record week in rushing. The entire league averaged 121 yards rushing and yeah that's the highest a week once since 2008 is running the rock officially back is this now of running league I think we back to a running league the league always goes like this it's always going in cycles I mean it's it's never gonna go back to what it was in terms of like as much running as it was. And does that negate Patty Mahomes franchise record that

you just tried to fucking say it's a different league? It's a different day and age. No, what I'm saying is it's never going to go back. I just literally said it's never going to go back to what it was. But the reason you're seeing more yardage, the reason you're seeing more yardage right now is because defenses are doing everything they can the last few years to play these bend don't break zone defenses, take away the big play. And when you're playing that style, it opens up some stuff underneath and especially the

running game. So you're going to continue to see teams running it a little bit more to take advantage of that. But the reality is, it's a throwing league, it's going to continue to be a throwing league. That number more reflects, I think, what defenses now are trying to do, which is like, like the biggest thing on defense for years and real concept was said before your game, which was funny, was stop the run, right? How are we going to stop the offense? You stop the run. And I still think that's true for like Shani Anne style offenses. Try make a team one dimensional. Yeah. Yes, make a team one dimensional.

But it is far more gone into this category of stop explosive plays. And I think that the team still want to obviously stop the run. But in order to stop explosive plays, you got to play more conducive coverages and back end principles that reduce explosive plays from happening, which opens up the run game a little bit more, although teams are doing some creative things to try and still stop the run with lighter boxes and things of that nature.

Anyways, is that a sufficient answer? I think that kind of, do you have anything else? I think it's, yeah, I think it's very efficient. And yeah. A couple other teams surprised the football world. The Saints looked great in their 47-10 blowout, went over the Panthers. I'm not going to lie. I saw that one coming. The Panthers aren't a good football team. And Derek Carr, he just goes on. Dude, he goes off on sometimes.

And it's not surprising. Derek Carr, I've seen Derek Carr go off a bunch of times when he was with the Raiders. And yeah, he's got everybody healthy in New Orleans right now. So, when everybody's healthy, you got all your weapons, man. Derek's going to dice you up if you give him the opportunity. Like I said, when we were talking about the games we were going to watch at one o'clock, this was not one that was... I really thought the Saints were going to win this one in pretty one-sided fashion. Anyways, the Patriots also beat the Bengals. We already talked about this one, 16-10.

Don't sleep on the Patriots' defense. It was great last year. I know they had some injuries and it changed some things, and their offense was so bad that the defense wore down towards the end of the year. They still got a great defense led now by Gerard Mayo. The Bengals pretty routinely get off to slow starts. With all the Jamar chase things, with Joe Burrow coming back from an injury, not surprising they weren't clicking on all cylinders. Listen, even though I just said that, I still think it's an upset that the Patriots beat the Bengals.

I mean, an upset is an upset. If Vegas has them, both is the favorite. If you're giving the other team points and you lose, that's an upset, brother. If you're giving the other team points and you lose, that's an upset, brother. Yeah, Bills took on my former defensive coordinator, Jonathan Gannon in the Arizona Cardinals and got out to a slow start. Cardinals were winning pretty much the whole first half. And then Allen had a great two minute drive there at the end of the first half. And he must have went in and got some milk because he lit it up in the second half. He went off in typical Josh Allen fashion.

Milk? Huh? Milk. I think he's a big milk drinker, isn't he? I mean, who isn't? Is that his like Michael Jordan special stuff in Space Jam? I think so. He just goes to the lot.

He just goes in a half time, gets his fucking vitamin D. Will Levis, he's on this mayonnaise kick. He needs to get on the milk kick, clearly. Who is mayonnaise? Oh my gosh, when he was coming out, the draft thing, that's hilarious. He's still doing the commercials for the mayonnaise bits. Oh, shit, I didn't know that.

I love it's mayonnaise. I know Trav doesn't fucks with the mayonnaise. I fucks with the mayonnaise. 92 percenters! Football season is officially here, so make sure you're tuning in into all the action with NFL Sunday ticket on YouTube TV. That's right NFL Sunday ticket is the only way to make sure

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Saints Cowboys. Definitely watching that. Yeah, that'll be a fun one to watch. Bucks Lions. I think that one's gonna be a fun one to watch. I think that's the one. That's the fourth one for me. Yeah, I'm going 49ers Vikings, Giants Commanders, Saints Cowboys, Bucks Lions. Really want to watch how the Lions do against the Bucks D-line and Todd Bowles, that'll be a fun matchup to watch. Indivision game with Giants commanders. Saints played well last week, how do they play against the Cowboys?

Dude, the Saints defenses, their head coach, Dennis Allen, he does some really good things. So it'll be interesting to see how the Cowboys play. The Saints as well as if Derek Carr can light it up again. And 49ers Vikings. That'll be fun to watch as well. Back to YouTube TV. The best part is that you don't even have to listen to Jason. How about that?

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Jason, we'll start with you. Jason's first Monday night countdown on ESPN. You went up to the Bay Area for your first Monday night countdown appearance and forgot to pack a shirt for Jason. Luckily enough, there was a Lululemon around and he got to explain himself within the first 30 seconds of his ESPN debut in quotes from SVP. Jason is wearing a shirt he got

at the mall because he left his travel bag in the truck, just like Jason just said. And Jason replied... What did I say? I said something about tits. It fits my belly now. I've lost a little bit of weight, but my tits are still struggling, which is a great quote. And me and Taylor were watching that absolutely dying laughing at it. It was the perfect thing to open everybody up to what they were going to experience for the next 18 weeks. First of all, do we think this is the first time tits has been said on ESPN? I don't know. I got asked on Twitter and

even when I said it, I get like, tits is a funny word, because I think it's allowable. Like they're not it's not against the rules of saying a broadcast. But it's definitely something that you wouldn't typically say on a broadcast. You know what I mean? Like, it's it's like one of those words that doesn't belong on a broadcast. And it's like, I've tried to think like, what are other words that it would work like, grumble? Like if you said grle, they technically wouldn't believe it, but it's a weird word to just pull out of your ass. Uh, it is this.

This was the most perfect word that you could have used for that situation. Um, and that, those buttons were holding on by the thread where it was. They were, it looked like a stretchy shirt, but it looked like you might need to go. It was stretching. Well, the problem is my belly was swimming. So going to a 3X would have been hard. Wouldn't have looked right. I don't know. I replied on X. I'm surprised he even bought a new one. Typically, you just go shirtless if you forget your shirt. I mean, Pat McAfee has done a couple of these things shirtless. I think, feels like anything goes now in the world of broadcasting.

Chad Moses Yeah, tits out. Chad Moses Suns out, tits out. Chad Moses Let's get into the actual show a little bit. Did you feel prepared for your first broadcast? Chad Moses It's like anything you do your first time. I did not feel prepared. I felt very nervous. I didn't know what to expect. And then you realize that you were prepared that ESPN did a great job of setting everything up and that you're on set, thankfully for me with three other guys that have done it a bunch. And you guys mesh so well, man.

Ryan, Ryan was saving me like there was was one time I was struggling for the word to say and he was like exotic. I was like, it's exotic. Like there's, I think it was, I was nervous. There's no two ways about it. I think whenever you're doing something for the first time and you don't know what to expect, I think that's natural. It was a lot of fun. And I think that me being up there with guys that had done it before and are so good at it, you feel more comfortable the moment you start doing it with them. Well, dude, you guys all look like you guys have been doing it for a long time together because it was very entertaining. I hadn't watched a Monday night countdown from start

to finish like that in a long time. And you guys look like you hadn't missed a step coming into the season. And it was just a lot of fun. Everybody had great points. missed a step coming into the season. And it was just a lot of fun. Everybody had great points. Spears came in with the glasses that you're still wearing today. You loved them so much. Shout out to Swagu. Shout out to Swagu, man.

Such a good fellow tight end. We're just everywhere. What can't we do? Swagu played D-line. Yeah, he did. But he also played tight end in LSU. Oh, I'm going to have to bring that up. I did not know that tight end and LSU. Oh, I'm gonna have to bring that up. I did not know that.

Don't forget it, baby. Oh, I can't wait to bring this up with swag. And SVP is just the absolute best man. It was it was entertaining, though. I was having too much fun watching you guys crack jokes and and really talk good ball. Really talk good ball about both both teams. Yeah, it was it was a lot of fun. It was it was fun to actually get one under my belt. Now, I kind of know what

to expect going into this next week. Well, I guess it'll be different because this one's at the link, baby, and it's going to be wild environment. It's awesome to be in the stadium. It really is. You see, got to see Trent Williams, got to see John Lynch. You see all these guys, you know, Debo, all these players that you played a bunch against. all these players that, you know, you played a bunch against. It's fun to actually be in the stadium itself with the fans. And one guy I got to see was my man, Jerry Rice. Jerry Rice, baby. I don't know that there was anybody in the stadium more fired up for 49ers football than Jerry Rice.

I think he, we dapped up maybe 15 times. He is 49ers football than Jerry Rice. I think he we dapped up maybe 15 times is he is 49ers football. He and his hands are still big as shit and hard because I was tired of dapping them up by the end of this interaction like he was fired up for the game. He's truly the Goatman he he's beloved by the Niners Organization by their fan base. He thrives in it. He knows that he's one of the greatest to ever do it. And that was a big, big part in San Fran where he did it, man. And it's always good running into him. Even out in Tahoe, I got to say

what's up to him for like two seconds. And it was, it's like, I'm a little kid in the candy store getting to say what's up to Jerry Rice, man. Well, hopefully the 49ers fans treated you well. I don't always get that response for some reason. Jason, you also somehow managed to meet an Eagle fan at the Niners-Jets game. I did. There was one 62 jersey in the crowd,

had to make sure I got up and signed that one. 49ers fans for the most part were very nice and respectful. I know there's been a lot of bad blood between the Eagles and 49ers. I've never said a bad word about the 49ers because I respect them as a team. I know that there's been a lot of trash talk involved. I stay out of all that nonsense. To me, they've been a really, really good team. It was fun to actually be in San Fran for their season opener. Got a couple of boze and I actually like it. I don't know

what it is. When a team, it's just you. It's like, yeah, you're booing me because I'm great. Nobody booze. Exactly. It's respect. So keep them coming if you want. Let's get the year out of the house because I think that's what 92% of the people listening to this podcast are waiting to hear. Trav, you went out of the house during your mini buy and went to the New York, uh, us open final. How about that? I did.

I did. Is this your first time going to the us open? Yeah, it was my first time. It was my second time going to a tennis match, uh, or at least a professional tennis match as big as this one. Uh, I was, I went to one in Indio, California, um, out there in Palm Springs, uh, to support my guy Jack Sock now retired and playing a pickleball. Guy's pretty saucy

on the pickleball court as well as you would assume a tennis player would be but yeah, this was nothing like that. This was a completely different world. I looked to my left and my right and every single time I did it, I saw a familiar face. There were so many fucking people there to see the action, and especially the final game, knowing that an American was in the US Open. Yeah, baby.

Taylor Fritz, unfortunately, couldn't come away with the win, but it was still fun to see two of the top dogs in the game go at it for a couple hours. What is a live tennis match like? Like, I've never been to that level. It's very quiet. It's very quiet. And you know us when it's very quiet, we want to say something and we want to do something. And I'm not a quiet person. I've never been a

quiet person. I've always like been the kid in like the back of the class. Like when it gets quiet, like say something smart or say something funny, or at least try and get a rise out of people. So the entire time I wanted to heckle the Italian center, the number one player in the world. Yeah. And really try and get in his head to help my guy Fritzie out and really give him

a home court advantage here in America. But I played it cool, I played it respectful, knowing that that's kind of frowned upon. And I'm sure if I started heckling them like, like the guy did in in Happy Gilmore screaming jackass at happy if it would have gotten to that point, I would probably got asked to leave really quick. Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, they don't they don't mess around with that in the gentleman sports. Yeah.

The gentleman sports. Oh, yeah, I dressed the part I acted the part I just I was very quiet. Except for during intermissions when they were playing music. That was about the only time I was really showing my personality. Another reason you might have been quiet. I saw multiple people on Twitter, Swifties and Sports Center as well, catching the fact that you are actually watching football. Well, Jason, when you get something like YouTube TV on Sunday, Sunday ticket on YouTube TV, you can

watch any game that you want. You can actually watch up to four games at once. Were you? Can you do multi view on your phone? Were you doing? Are you kidding me? Yes. That's amazing. I love this. It's perfect. I love it. It's fucking the first Sunday of the NFL season. You think I was gonna miss a one o'clock like start it like the match started, I think at two o'clock. So these games were like right in like the second quarter right at halftime going into the second half. It was prime time for for any NFL fan.

And I've always been a fan first man. Can you I mean, this is the perfect combination. You have a quiet stadium. You got a quiet stadium in the US open. The volume was down. I wasn't listening to the volume. Just watching two of the best tennis players. Yep. Okay. There's an ace. Nobody's making noise and I can still hear the announcer down here.

Oh, I was watching that Miami's Dolphins game just waiting for Tyreek Hill to go for 300 yards and five touchdowns knowing what happened earlier in the day. And sure enough, finally, in the fourth quarter, I believe, or the third quarter when I think Jacksonville had just fumbled the ball, and literally the next play, they go up top to Tyreek Hill and he has this fun touchdown celebration where, yeah, you can lock me up all you want, baby. Well, either way, I had a blast watching you guys

at the US Open on Twitter. Had the old country club look going with the cardigan and button up and then the hat to match. I was Gucci head to toe and suspenders. Yeah. And then I had the Magoo mustache. The bucket hat with the mustache is very Magoo-ish. And I was a huge Mr. Magoo fan growing up, man. Magoo didn't have the bucket. He had like the bowler hat, didn't he? Yeah. But it was like this like, yeah, it's very, it makes me feel like Magoo. Yeah. Well, shout out to Mr. Magoo.

And shout out to YouTube TV for keeping the US open. Exactly. Yeah. My God, Taylor. All right. Now, before we get a bone out of here, no dumb questions. That's right. Because there's no dumb questions. There's just dumb ass people like me and Jason answering really smart, intelligent questions that you need to have a very clear mind to answer. No dumb questions brought to you by our friends at NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. Woo!

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You guys know what embargoes mean. We went over that last week. Our first no dumb question from Emelda on X. Can you explain the new kickoff and why they decided to change it? Also, if you guys think it will benefit the game in any way, 92 percenters and Swifty shout out to the Swifties. Thank you. No dumb questions.

How about that? Um, we've, we've kind of already answered how it's different. There's a landing zone. The players on both sides are starting five yards away from the landing zone. The kick has to go from the landing zone. The kick has to go in the landing zone. We're not going to go back into all these different rules right now, to be honest with you.

I mean, I wasn't in on it. Now I'm in on it. I've been in on it. We've talked about it before. Why is it going to benefit the game? Because the game is more fun when special teams make impacts on the game. It's more fun when it's a part of it. It's going to turn into an electric play.

We already saw our first touchdown on it this past week with the Arizona Cardinals. And the reason they changed it is because they're trying to find a safe way for the kickoff to still happen. The bottom line is kickoffs weren't being returned at a high rate because of some of the rules implemented and touchback rules designed to reduce the amount of returns and make the game safer. Overwhelmingly fans prefer that the kickoff actually happens and that there are kickoff returns at a decent rate. And so far it seems like it's accomplishing it. Overall, it's been a 9.5% increase on kickoff returns since last season. The returns also have averaged 27.2 yards. That's up from last year's 23 yards. So overall, it feels like this is

going to get back to making an impact in games, which I am all in favor of and especially guys that played in the league when special teams players are impacting the game. It's exciting. Those are guys that are doing everything. They're playing scout team. They're doing all the dirty things. They're a lot of them are making league minimum, which is still good money, but they're not making the big contracts a lot of them. So it's it's just more fun watching guys that put all of this

time and effort in go out there and and ball out on game day. You love watching it when guys do that and have a moment. So anyways, I concur exactly what you just said. And I'm only laughing because the fact that you're still taking serious takes on things with those fucking glasses is absolutely hilarious. These are my rose shades, baby. Oh yeah. All right. Next note of question from Michelle Morgan. Do either of you guys like pumpkin spice lattes or pumpkin flavored anything,

especially those little pumpkin cakes and cookies and grocery stores? Laugh out loud. Michelle from Akron, Rowdy, Rowdy, North South Seven County, Ohio. Okay. Don't know. Never had one. Travis, what do you think about pumpkin spice lattes? Don't know. Never had one. So I really only do pumpkin seeds in in my oatmeal.

You do pumpkin seeds. my oatmeal in the mornings. Pumpkin seeds are pretty good. I'll agree with that. Yeah. What about, are you a big pumpkin pie guy? I'm not a pie guy. Not a pie guy at all. I feel like pumpkin pie is a little bit different. It's got a different texture than normal pie. Pie is pie. Pie is pie. Not a pie guy. I got to get you down the shore, have a little Stephen Cookies blueberry

pie. I'm not a big pie guy either, but that blueberry pie and Stephen Cookies, it's pretty good. I don't mind pumpkin pie in the right environment. It's a little cold outside. I see some leaves changing. For some reason, I get the itch to have some. But in general, I think pumpkin's an overrated flavor. it's similar to a lot of these advertising trends that people will do to try and get you to commerce their businesses or making up national holidays. It means a damn thing just to get you to buy whatever product that holiday is selling. So in general, I do not fall victim to the pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin cakes. About the only thing I fall victim to is buying some of those cute little pumpkins to put on my Fort Porch. And I do look forward to making some jack-o-lanterns this year with the girls. That'll

be a fun project. Make sure you share. Can't wait to see that as well. I'm right there with you. I'm not a big pumpkin anything other than pumpkin seeds in my granola. I will do Reese's pumpkin. They're beneficial. The Reese's Halloween edition that are shaped like little pumpkins. I haven't had those on forever. I've fallen victim to those ones. But really, I'm just looking for an excuse to buy Reese's at that point. I'm in on seasonal stuff, though. I am like how you were

saying, What seasonal stuff are you in on? Um, like I like a like, like a hot dog. Why? harvest? Yeah, I'm like a fall harvest, like cup of cup of Joe. What's a fall harvest cup of Joe? There's no what I just feel like I see a few of them, maybe just- You just told me you like pumpkin spice lattes is what you just told me. You're describing a pumpkin spice latte.

It's not pumpkin though. It's just like a cinnamon spice. Pumpkin spice lattes have cinnamon and pumpkin. Yeah, but not pumpkin. What I'm talking about isn't pumpkin. So you're talking about more of like, it's later fall around the holidays of like, post Thanksgiving maybe, like what they put on the rim almost for Christmas sale. I'll do that. I fall victim to some Christmas sale. Christmas sale. Gosh. Great Lakes gets me on that.

I am in on coffee being seasonal. I think sometimes it just matches the air. It just connects perfectly. Should I try my first pumpkin spice latte? Yeah. Give us a good Jason Kelsey review. Shoot on down to Starbucks. Yeah, and get your first pumpkin spice latte. Let us know what you think.

All right. Love it. Well, shout out to Michelle Morgan. All right. That does it for No Dumb Questions brought to you by our friends at NFL Sunday Ticket on YouTube TV. Don't forget to sign up today at youtube.com slash NH. All right. And that wraps up this show. This 100th episode is in the book. Thank you so much. 92% is for helping us get here. Make sure you're subscribed on YouTube to the New Heights channel and follow on New Heights on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcast reminder you can listen to new episodes of New Heights early and ad free right now by

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it's not jazz. I don't know what that is, but jazz would be like... This guy's ridiculous. I just got the glasses. I used to fucking play jazz. I'm trying to think of... Nice. You're way better at it. Doom, doom. Tss, tss, tss, tss, tss. Ba, da, da. Ba, da, da, da. Ba, da, da. Nice. You're way better at it.

Do, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. That's exactly what I just did. Do, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. You literally just did what I did, but put a doom, tss, tss, tss, tss, tss. Yours could have been with a different rhythm section. That completely changed it up. Do, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

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