NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - 2019 Week 2 Recap

Episode Date: September 16, 2019

A room filled with heroes - Dan Hanzus, Marc Sessler, Chris Wesseling and Gregg Rosenthal recap each and every game of week 2 in the NFL starting with a big kicker moment in Chicago (2:36) and ending with the Sunday night nail biter between the Falcons and Eagles. (1:23:22) Game on!Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comNFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What is up, boys? Hey, day. Hey, week two flagship program recapping every game on Sunday. And another wild week two. They always are wild, Mark, because all the expectations of the preseason in the summer give way to the awakenings of week one. And then things start to get changed into another direction after the second week of football. And today was one of those... Thank you.

One of those special Sundays where they give you 10 early games. So, you know, if you're at a sports bar, you can just choose to do what you want and eat food all day long and enjoy yourself. If you're us, it's like 15 aircrafts coming at you at the same time and you just come out with as much information as possible. And, you know, the show may suffer for it. A little ridiculous to have 10 early games. I don't know what the strategy is there from a network angle either. I'd like to spread them out a little. Greg, you're very plugged in

with the shadowy league figures. They're always hobnobbing. Potentially one of them. Potentially one of them in the future. Why is it that they can't give us more balance on a Sunday? I would say randomness would be a factor where the home games are.

And then you want to load out, you want to have the most amount of people watching the national game. So that was Saints Rams. So sometimes they like to load it up so everyone has to watch. I took a quick look because it does affect some of the stuff on Sunday.

It looks like it's happening one more time, but then you get all the buy weeks, and that starts to chip some of these clown teams off the schedule for a week or two. All right, so, what happened in week two? We're going to get to it. Two huge quarterback injuries, and we'll get to that early in the show. But why don't we start, Wes,

how are you? A little quiet and early going. My brain's a little scrambled today, but take us through it. What's up? Well, it's just a lot to keep track of. I didn't get to do as much prep work between the end. Because of this schedule. Yeah. Between the end of the late games.

You know, the Bears Broncos games? Wes is like, he had like 77 snaps in week one. It was a pretty, you know, relaxing off season. And you're feeling that sometimes. The soreness going into week two. Week two is the real tough. There is like a flock of American bricklayers who are like, okay, boys, what's you doing?

What are you doing on Sundays that's so tough? All right. So we have quarterback injuries to get to. But let's start with the wildest ending to a week two game. And it happened, oh yeah, up in mile high. You go to Empower Field. West, and crazy things go down. He's made it from 40 and 52, this one from 53 right hash.

Scales on the ball, oh, down to the hole from the right hash, angle to the left, good placement. Boot by Eddie Pignaro, kick to the uprights, and the kick is good for the win. Pinheiro, with the De Niro kit to send Denver down as time expires. Bear 16, Denver 14, they escape with the victory on the road. Fade 2 black Beautiful I thought He said De Niro

Like money I thought he said I thought it was like a Panera No I think he had that in the holster Waiting for something to happen Still doesn't really rhyme Yeah Jeff Johnny Janiak

With the Culper Bears Radio Network Eddie Pinniero Eddie Pinnero Eddie money Baby hold on to me Less than peace Stroked at 51 yard field goals Time expired

Lifting the Bears to a 1614 win It's one of the strangest Most Unusual Endings to a football game that you will ever see. Wes, so much happened here. So much to unpack in the last few minutes of this game, but the Bears stole one at Empowerfield.

It did feel like they stole it. I think that's how Broncos fans will feel. For 59 minutes, it felt like nothing but holding penalties happened in this game. Flacco hits Cortland Sutton to convert a pair of fourth-down penalties with a game on the line, or fourth-down situations with the game on the line. It then hits Manny Sanders with a great catch in the back of the end zone.

Sanders had an excellent game today. And then the craziness starts with the two-point conversions that Fongio shows some onions decides to go for the win, not the tie. Let me go through this, Wes. Let me set it up. So they score the touchdown, like Wes said to Sanders. They're down one point. They decide to go for two.

Flacco in the offense gets called for delay of game, backing it up five yards. So... This is a brutal thing. Terrible. Veteran quarterback for that to happen. Might have been on the coaching staff for giving a late call. Who knows? Fangio says, ah, F it. Let's send the kicking team out for the extra point.

Let's try to get to overtime. Brandon McManus pushes it wide right. Game over. And a win for the Broncos. But former Jetbuster screen off sides. Another thing that cannot happen in that spot. So it moves back closer to the goal line. And Fangio hangs the onions and says,

well, send Flacco and company back out. there. And this time, the play goes through. He connects with Manny Sanders again for the two-point conversion to put them ahead. Just a wild sequence. A wild sequence. And then the ball goes back to the Bears who have not trusted their quarterback at any point in this game. The Bears did not trust Mr. Trubisky at one point. They score their only touchdown of the year by running the ball nine straight times and not passing at all on the drive. So that's how much they trusted their quarterback. Trabisky gets the benefit of a very shaky roughing the passer penalty on Bradley Chubb that not only gives the

Bears 15 yards, but stops the clock. More than shaky. That was a disgrace that call. Yes. I think that was a lot worse than the Clay Matthews call, which got a lot of attention because the Matthews call, it could be argued, was the letter of the law. This one I failed to understand. Gravity took hold. He went down on the quarterback because he was tackling the quarterback and it was completely legal when he made contact. That should be reviewable. Get one piece a week. And it will be no solace to Broncos fan that judgment calls like past interference is a reviewable,

but a game deciding call like this is not reviewable, even though it's a judgment call. How about a little consistency and philosophy here in NFL? And then it gets to the point where they're in desperation. That at least gives them a chance to get near midfield. And then with their backs against the wall, Trubisky finally makes a play. He steps up in the pocket. Fourth and 15, and the Broncos leave Alan Robinson. wide open in the middle of field.

Now, the play broke down a little bit, so that's why he got wide open, but you still can't allow that. And then they got the benefit of the doubt again from the clockkeeper that they decided there was one second left on the clock, and you could say there was zero seconds. I thought that was clear. Everyone got all up in arms about, okay, did they get the timeout? You can say before the play, the coach could say, the second he hits the ground, we're calling a timeout.

Is that a rule or is that an unwritten rule? That is how the NFL works in terms of timeouts. You say, you know, they don't really sweat the time in terms of, as long as they're prepared. You don't need to get the attention of an official. No. If you're down, you can call the time. So I wasn't worried about that because it seemed clear. Even then it's borderline.

It was borderline. There was one second, though. It looked like there was one second. I was more hung up like Mark was with the idea of don't you need to get someone's attention and get the timeout called. But I guess if you set it up. I'm fine with it if that's how they want to operate with it. My one thing, because a win like this, Bears fans, through a hellish week after week one. And I get that. And you can feel good tonight about

getting out of Denver, one of the toughest places to play with this. And if I'm Vic Fangio, I don't have a problem with going forward on two, because I don't think that offense is getting back into scoring position in overtime necessarily. But Bears, and nice play by Mitch Trubisky, but I do not come out of this game with anything but hyper-concern about the long path of this offense season-wide. How do you win seven games with this offense? Four point four yards. per attempt. 120 yards. It was pretty interesting that the Bronco,

I mean, Joe Flacco threw an awful what appeared to be game-ending interception in the red zone just before that happened. Their last three drives, they're driving up and down the field on the Broncos. They kick a field goal. They throw an interception on the goal line, and then they score a touchdown with the two-point conversion on that bear's defense. It reminded me a little bit of that Eagles game in the playoffs where the offense was bad for so long that the defense eventually caved in.

It's going to be a long and wild and fun night at the kicker club. Because Eddie Pinheiro is the biggest superstar in the game this summer in the kicker club after going through the gauntlet of Bears' training camp and offseason activities where Chicago and Matt Nagy brought in nine different kickers and essentially played mental war games on everyone in that competition as they try to work their way away from the double doink and Cody Parkie. Eddie Pinero drills a game winner. I'm sure being 5,000 feet above sea level help. But hey, that was an onions kick. Let's hear from Eddie after the game because he deserves it.

Yeah, that was, like I said, I couldn't have done it without my team. Thank God that it was to this point. And for everybody listening, man, if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you better start because he's real. I promise you that. He's a Bears bet. That's now confirmed. He said he was emotional because of everything he went through in terms of the Augusta

silence, everything like that. Wes, update us with your state of the Broncos because sitting next to you when they called that holding penalty, a rather off-sides penalty on the Bears that gave the Broncos another chance. It was the most emotional I had seen you watching a football game in a while. A lot of ups and downs for the once team of Westiel. Well, that had a lot more to do with the situation that you just don't see like a last minute like this, with the two-point conversions and the onions and the going for it and the penalties.

The Broncos had 27 first downs in this game, which is the same number as the Patriots and 49ers and the 40 burgers. They moved the ball up and down the field all game. You asked where the big plays were. They all got brought back on Garrett Bulls holding penalties or Ronald Leary holding penalties. They moved the ball. They had big plays. The big plays just didn't count because of holding.

We've seen at this point 10 or 11 teams that Wes has, you know, cozyed up to over the course of seasons. The Joe Flacco led Broncos do not, at this point, to me, look like one of those teams. I will wait and see what you're not letting you off the roller coaster either, Wes. That's fair. I've got to spend time in the penalty box, but I will say that the biggest... You're strapped in, baby. The biggest issue at the Broncos is. Donko's offense so far this year is they've not been able to do anything in the condensed area of the red zone, except on that go-ahead touchdown and two-point conversion.

Right, you get 27 first downs. That's nice. You scored 14 points. Good luck with that. Again, watch the game. You're going to see a lot of Garrett Bulls holding penalties undoing the good of Philip Lindsay, Royce Freeman, and Joe Flack. Right. And he remains their left tackle.

They said after the game, they're not even considering benching Garrett Bulls. And I imagine, John Elway, whether there's unwritten rules or written rules about the timeout. is given a call to the New York office just to share his feeling on it because that is a tough way to lose a game. My goodness. All right, let's move on now to a rematch of the NFC championship game. Again, they empty out and leave golf alone in the shotgun. He's going to take this snap with less than eight seconds on the play clock. Here it comes.

Rush from the Saints. He throws left side Cooper Cup the catch, 45 and 50, stiff arm in the Saints territory. He breaks a tackle. Get to block at the 30. Cooper Cup 20. We've back to head. Cooper Cup Touchdown away! Cooper Cup was actually ruled down

at the one footline, but who cares? Jared Goff scored on the next play anyway, and J.B. Long of the Rams Radio Network with the call there. Good man. 27 to 9 win for the Rams over the Saints at the Coliseum. It was supposed to be a revenge game for the Saints after last January's NFC Championship game

officiating debacle. but instead the Saints are holding their breath after Drew Brees. And this is the biggest storyline coming out of this game. Suffered a potentially serious thumb injury in the first half. Breeze, the last thing we've heard as we go up to tape here around 9 o'clock Eastern time that he's going to undergo testing here in Los Angeles to determine the severity of the injury. Mark, it didn't pass the sniff test when you're watching it on the same. sidelines right off the bat he enters it his hand collides with Aaron Donald on a pass rush

and he's immediately out of the game his hands taped up but he's just standing there watching there's there's no attempt to try to warm up and then at one point uh Fox cameras catch breeze go to try to even just pick up the ball and immediately tosses it away because obviously he gets a surge of pain very bad situation for the same that helps wait that that's when it helps to have Troy Aikman watching what's happening because he's been through these things before he went through some ups and downs with durability and right away he said no breeze is absolutely not coming back in this game and it's probably more serious than anyone would let on at this point because there were no even there were no doctors even examining but just sort of sitting there

with a dejected look on his face and suddenly you're getting a very big helping of teddy bridgewater too much teddy bridgewater in this game and we'll see if bridgewater ends up being their starter going forward in the weeks ahead and we'll find out again probably this time tomorrow we'll have a much better idea of where Breeze is. But so far what we've seen, Greg, from Bridgewater, has been underwhelming in terms of his Saints career. Week 17, which I get it's a throwaway game when he played that game, did not play well, and was not able to rally the troops on the road against the Rams here.

Yeah, who would like to see him, you know, in a start, in a game they're prepping him as the starter, you know, with starters around him. He didn't have that in week 17. Obviously, it came in here. And the Saints' offense wasn't exactly, it was a, They're very early in the game, but this started out as a defensive struggle. I think these two teams are both maybe not totally up to speed on what they want to do offensively. I know the Saints look pretty good in week one, at least in the second half of that Texans game,

but both seem like they're getting their feet under them in terms of having the offenses they used to have. I just wonder if you have the next Steve Young, which Sean Payton has called Taysam Hill, why is he not getting the call over Teddy Bridgewater, who had a 10.8 QBR in this game, and like we said, was terrible last year in the season finale. I would imagine it's because how they've divvied up any snaps behind Breeze from August through now. But I'm with you that Taysam Hill is this electrifying, new age type player who does so many things, throws the ball beautifully. I don't know how, depending on Breeze is out for a while.

How long of a leash do we need with Bridgewater playing if it's this way? There is the possibility that Sean Payton knows. He might say he's Steve Young or whatever, but he knows maybe Tayson Hill's, a player better in spurts than as they're down-to-down quarterback. And that will probably, we'll learn that for sure, depending on how long. Right. If he really believes that, he'll play him. And if he's just talking trash, then he won't.

Because Taysam Hill's three years older than Teddy Bridgewater. I mean, he's not exactly like a rising young prospect. Right. And the saints who are very close to being 0 and 2 this year, if not for a bailout by Will Lutz there on Monday Night Football, what really jumps out to me from this game is if this Breeze injury is serious, the NFC South becomes a lot more interesting.

It was kind of a runaway division, it seemed like, for the Saints. If Breeze misses a lot of time and they do not get good quarterback play, that opens the door up for everybody in that division, and that will be interesting to watch. Nobody's played well in this division so far.

No. No. And Jared Goff. Except Todd Bowles. Todd Bowles is just flying around the field. He's killing it. He's back. the redemption season. But on the ram side of the ball, Jared Gough better than he was in week one, but still not great, but an improvement.

So no need to panic with Gough. And Gurley, it's coming further into focus now. He had his first touchdown of the year in this game, averaged almost four yards of carry on 16 carries. But they ran the ball 30 times as a team, and Gurley had just about half those carries. They are going to, it seems like, it's going to back up what people suspected that it's a little bit of a running back by committee in

LA, at least early in the season. Maybe it's something that shifts as time goes up. I'm fine with that. And Greg, you mentioned the Rams kind of figuring out what they are about at this point, which is absolutely fine. And what I love about them in early trait is they played a resilient second half against the Panthers last

week and went away winning that game without too many questions. And yes, the Saints in this game, that fumble should have been a touchdown for that defense that got whistled dead mid-run to the end zone is disgraceful. And everyone calling that game and the official on hand said that should never happen. The rule is you should let it roll and then decide later that it's not a fumble.

Why don't we get that so often? It's ridiculous that it happened to the Saints in this, what essentially was a second helping of last year's disgraceful, disgracefully called NFC title game. That said, I don't think in the end it would have stopped the Rams from doing what they did in this game. I really love the way they play down the stretch two weeks in a row. It's a sign of a great team when you win games that you don't play that well. Okay, people saying they haven't played that well this year. Well, they won on the road against the Panthers. They end up winning this game by 18.

Goff ends up throwing 10 yards per attempt. The Saints defense gives up, what, three straight touchdowns in the second half and three possessions? You take that. What more do you want? And the girly thing, it's a fantasy problem. And I get that's why it's in our Twitter feed. But if you're the rant, it's like, who care? Who cares?

He's getting 63% of the snaps. He's the starter. It's a fantasy problem. It's not really a ramp. Goff through a few beautiful passes in this game, too. Yeah, his long, he had a 50-yard hookup with Brandon Cooks. That throw, go watch that. You didn't see it.

And the other big takeaway, positive-wise, Cooper Cup looks like Cooper Cup from before the ACL tear last year. You mentioned how the NFC South is up for grabs. We'll see if the NFC West is up for grabs, but right now they have three-two-no teams. You don't see that too often. I mean, there's three teams out there feeling pretty good about themselves. You'll all go 14-0.

So let's all start 14-0, I predict. You should. No issues there. If you're a game official that's blowing a play dead, still, after this happens 14 times every year, and everyone else agrees that makes no sense to blow it dead, there's got to be some type of penalty. I would put the man on it.

We've got to call the league on us and help him with this. You go to the nearest American shoreline. You put him on a vessel, and the vessel just goes deep out into sea, and we never hear from that human ever. again, that would solve, you'd eliminate people doing this. They do get graded, right? So they get a scolding. It's got to be a deeper punishment.

They're out. They're gone. And maybe you get picked up by a vessel that happens to be in the neighborhood. Maybe you land on an island and survive. Not our problem. I started to feel bad for the officials lately. It's like we have, we're trying to solve problems here. I'm just saying, these players go out.

They have a terrible game. You know, it happens. Well, it's not a refs league, Greg. Sorry. All right. More injury issues at the quarterback position. Let's head to Pittsburgh. Penny is wide to the right.

Let's keep an eye on Will Disley, the tight end. Russell takes the snap. Looks far side. He's going to throw down field. He's got Medcaf. He's got it. Touchdown. Seahawks.

D.K. Medcaf, one-on-one down the far sidelines. Good luck. Perfect pass by Russell. A 28-yard strike. That's number 201 touchdowns for Russell. What a Hall of Fame career. having 2719, the Seahawks leading. Steve Rable, the Seahawks Radio Network with the call.

Yes, Russell Wilson, Dangerous. Through for three touchdowns, including that gorgeous 28-yarder to D.K. Meckham. That kid can play. The Seahawks hold off the Pittsburgh Steelers, 28 to 26 at Heinz Field. The Steelers, and we'll get to the Seahawks in a moment. But the Steelers are 0 and 2, and Greg, that's just the start of it. Yeah, Ben Rothesberger. left this game with an elbow injury just before halftime.

In the final drive that he had moving down the field, he was shaking his elbow quite a bit. Sometimes right until he was in a shotgun formation, sometimes until the minute. You were giving him some heat. Well, he was sitting there flapping his arm until the second the ball came. And then he actually, you moved him down the field. I believe they scored on that drive.

But he obviously was in serious pain. It was his left elbow, didn't come back out. They're going to have tests. And James Connor left in the second half. and Mason Rudolph came in, played pretty well for the most part. But obviously, starting the season 0 and 2 and Rathusberger being injured is a disaster. And there has to be a part of Mike Tomlin and everyone associated with the Steelers that is even more worried because they realize Ben Rathusberger and James Conner's injuries.

James Connor also left in the second half were not the reasons they lost this game. I mean, we do that segment in the offseason. You know, what you simpletons probably don't realize. Like what you Simpletons don't realize is the Seahawks were, you know, doubling them up in total yardage in the first half. We're not saying the audience of the Simpsons. Yeah, no, just anyone. Well, I don't know who else were pointing. Any hot takesman tomorrow who kind of put this on the injuries,

Mason Rudolph moved the ball better than Ben Rathesberger. It was their defense that collapsed in the second half. That's, yeah. And James Conner, before he goes out, averages three yards of carry. He did not have a big week one ever either. And, Wes, I mean, I'm, if I'm a Steelers fan, I'm concerned. do I have the horses here? Do I not actually have the horses here to get this thing going,

particularly on offense, or is this just one of those things where a team looks terrible in early September, and by mid-November, they're 8 and 5 and no one's talking about it? I agree. The offense is more of a concern. You know, Collinsworth pointed out last week, they are doing some different things on defense.

They are playing much more man-to-man. They are younger. They have a lot of young guys in that secondary, and it's going to take some time for them to get used to that playing style. But on offense, you know, they should be hitting, I'm not saying on all cylinders, but you've got to be playing a lot better than they've done these first two weeks. I feel like one guy they were counting on was, and this was a suspicious guy to be counting on to some degree, was Dante Moncrief, and he's had two really ugly games in a row,

and he's cost them. He's cost them a lot, and that was someone, you know, you lose Antonio Brown, and obviously, Juju Smith-Schuster is extremely talented, but he's in a different spot playing, you know, your lead receiver week after week, and it's not really worked out. He's been held under 100 yards, two games in a row. Based on the box score,

Moncrief wasn't a big part of the game plan. He was targeted once. Well, the ball of those shot off his hands. So Mason Rudum's first third and long. It was a second pass of the game. It was a great third and long throw to the outside. Went right through Moncrief's hands off his helmet up into the air for an interception.

What else can you do? And then Dante Moncrief did not play for the rest of the game, which was a smart. move. And all this talk about the Seahawks does, I mean about the Steelers takes away attention from what was a really great mature game from Russell Wilson. I think this showed some progress, if you're a Seahawks fan of Brian Schottenheimer and Russell Wilson adapting to what was happening. In the first quarter of the game, they're doing their normal dropbacks. The Steelers are absolutely destroying them up front. The Seahawks offensive line is a big concern for me right now. They're not

past protecting well. But they adjust to the short passing game. game, Russell Wilson ends up getting, what did he have, 300 yards, three touchdowns in this game without having to look spectacular, without running, without running around. It was just very composed, dicing up the Steelers zone. They kind of went back to his own defense this week, and he was picking apart Terrell Edmonds and some of the young players in the Steelers secondary. And Pete Carroll also showed a little new leaf too for a 68-year-old, celebrated his birthday for this game. I think he's either the fifth or the sixth or the sixth. oldest coach in NFL history, he called passes on first and second down when they had to go

kill the clock to end the game after the Steelers had cut it to two. They did it by throwing. And they went for a fourth and one with two minutes left that would have set the Steelers up to maybe go for the winning field goal. They end up going for it on fourth down. So Pete Carroll, still learning new things. I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks. Also has to have the greatest the past interference challenge in NFL history. It's only been two weeks. But one play that the announcer, I forget who it was now, did not think there was any chance that he was going to get it overturned.

And I didn't think there was a great chance either. It didn't. And it totally changed the game. The Seahawks kept the ball and ended up scoring. I mean, that is one of those things where he's going to get the credit. There's probably someone high up in a booth saying, get on that now, birthday boy. Hey, if I'm 68 years old, just come congratulate me for living. Oh, he's youth.

I just want to, that's my goal for 68. Forget winning a football game. Well, what about Greg, you getting off Seahawks Corner in early September? And, you know, I'm loving it over there. I mean, they're so accommodating. It's really a nice. It's been great. This is what every Seahx game in the last decade's been like.

It's very close. It's crazy. It's fun. They'll probably go 10 and 6 and losing the wild card round. Dan and joined D.K. Metcalfe making game-changing plays every week. What about Will Disseley? Not little at all, actually. Will Disley.

You've got to get behind the Will Disley Express. Who's not? All right, let's move on. Five and a half to go. Can the Packers defense hold? First down, Minnesota, Green Bay 8-yard line. Fake to Cook, Cousins, bootlegs, right, chased by Dean Lowry. Lofts it right corner of the end zone.

Leaping in a step. Kevin King. King's got it. Green Bay football. A spectacular leap and grab, and now the officials are talking it over. It is Green Bay ball. Yes. Kevin King.

High in the air, using every inch of a six-three to gather it into the point of the end zone. Wayne Laramie of the Packers Radio Network with the call. How are you doing, Kirk Cousins? Kevin King intercepted Couss late in the fourth quarter in the back of the end zone. The biggest play in Green Bay's 21-16 win over the Vikings at Lambeau Field. Mike Patton's defense bailed out the Packers for a second straight week after Aaron Rogers and company went ice cold following a red hot start. This is a really strange game, boys.

And when you watch this on Game Pass, you will agree. Because the game begins with after the, as we all know, the Packers struggled mightily in week one against the Bears on Thursday night on offense. And in this game, they come out on fire three straight bang, bang, bang, touchdown drives. They're up 21 nothing one minute into the second quarter. quarter and you think what you have is going to be a total wipeout from that point on the game entirely shifted and the vikings take control on both sides of the ball really um the

packers i have about 150 total yards for the rest of the game period uh don't score another point and the viking start you know chipping away chipping away uh but they continually continuously minnesota shot themselves in the foot in this game um they could not get over the hump and the interception was a perfect encapsulation of the struggles by the Vikings to get over the hump. It was a first and goal from the eight yard line midway through the fourth quarter and cousins who really did not have a good game and is not having a great start to second season in Minnesota forces the ball into double coverage bordering on triple coverage on first and goal from the eight for the interception. It turned out to be their last real chance to do anything.

And, you know, I think Cousins was brought, Mark, to Minnesota to be a steadying presence at quarterback, not necessarily be a superstar that lifts the team to greater heights, but be a guy that in games like this and division showdowns on the road where you need a big play, he's a guy I can give it to you. In this game, he wasn't up to the challenge. And the criticism is going to get louder and louder the more games that pile up like this. He's got to endure. I mean, I don't think that he should have been brought to Minnesota to be a superstar.

but at the time he was paid like one. And they, at this point, it feels like, you know, you can look at this game and say, Stefan Diggs, that pass interference that Nellified that touchdown was another. I don't want to do this with every game, but it seems like the reps are constantly trying to outdo it. There were three offensive pass interference calls that went against the Vikings. They were all suspect.

None worse than the call marks referring to. The Kirk Cousins should have had a touchdown past the Diggs. Nothing called on the field. as they're bringing out the extra point team, they get buzzed down from upstairs and they call an OPI, they call, I think, Dalvin Cook for a screen on a very tick-y-tack call

that was not made on the field, taking the points off the board. And I'll tell you, when you watch this, you'll see. So they lose by five points, okay? That play is your patented Mike Lombardi four-point play because they fail to get in the end zone, kick the field goal. That costs them four points.

Now there's a one-point difference. The next time the Vikings, get in the end zone and score. Stefan Diggs has a long touchdown catch. Diggs is so angry still that he had the other touchdown taken away that in a rage he takes off his helmet and mean mugs the crowd at Lambo, clearly because he was still fired up that he got screwed before. They flag him for that unsportsmanlike.

And because there's a new NFL rule, one that I called would cost somebody a game back in like June or something. They 15-yard unsportsman-like conduct for taking off your helmet, not enforced on the kickoff, on the extra point so it backs it up to a 48 yard extra point attempt you know what happens next it's blocked that's the fifth point directed connected directly to that first play they lose by five and this was such a viking loss and uh you know i was bemoaning my existence and moping about the jets uh late last week but vikings vans they know the feeling too because this is a uniquely type

vikings loss that when the season ends and wherever they stand up whether they fall short of the playoffs or don't have a home game or they just missed the Packers in the division, you're kicking yourself because they should have won a game. They were down 21-0 and they just killed themselves. When these calls come down to the sideline, I think it's time that we have the technology to trace where they've come from because this probably sounds like it came from like Mike Holmgren's living room. I mean, who's actually dialing up anyone to say, take a look at that digs catch?

It came from somewhere nefarious. I promise you. I'm just saying someone with Packers ties said, I'm going to get on Greenberg. Bay side here and cause some issues. And let's not lose track of the good news around the Packers. They're 2 and 0 under Matt LaFlor. The bad news is they could not have looked worse now for seven out of eight quarters of their season on offense.

And you're going to be stunned by how much they struggled to just move the ball and Petten's defense bailing him out over and over again down the stretch of this game. They have a lot of work to do. And we got our first Rogers barking at Matt LaFleur incident on the sideline, which was downplayed, of course, as you'd expect by Rogers after. word. But keep an eye on this because they are still ironing out some kinks here. Yeah, ESPN's Rob Domovsky, great beat reporter, said if you had under six quarters into the season when Rogers would come off the field yelling in the direction of Matt the flower, my name

for him, then you're a winner. Yeah, but survive in advance. September football, these teams aren't, no teams are going to resemble what they look like now in December. And they have these two division wins in their pocket. One in Chicago, one against Minnesota. and they're winning different types of ways. And if you're a Vikings fan, it does feel like a Vikings type of loss. It feels like a Kirk Cousins type of loss because he defies, he's got great stats. But he sort of is, I mean Akim's made this point, our friend who we had on the show cut.

He has all these great stats, but all the things that, you know, Sabre metrics and people that are into numbers like don't necessarily believe in clutch or big moments or anything like that. Like Kirk Cousins does struggle in big moments. he does struggle when it matters. He struggles when he's near the goal line. PFF had a stat inside the 10-yard line and in in 2007. He's 27th out of 27 in pass-a-rating with 44% of his passes averaging 1.6 yards per attempt.

So he's struggled. He gets near the goal line and he struggles. That's a problem. It's the inverse of that when they go back to the draft of Tom Brady. It's like, hey, all his measurable is not great, but one thing they couldn't measure was the old ticker inside. Same thing with cousins. They can't measure what's in the heart.

And in that case, that makes up why the guy's not that good and why his teams are never that good. They're playing around him. He never gets it done in a big spot, ever. All right. And by the way, Dalvin Cook, the one really good news, a bit of good news for the Seahawks. Welcome to the Superstar Club.

This guy balls out and he will continue to do so. Let's move up. Now it's fourth down in two, 15 seconds left to go. Here we go. Mariotta backs to throw, throws left side, and it's incomplete. It's incomplete on a slant pattern to A.J. Brown, Quincy Wilson on coverage for the Colts, and the Colts are going to win it.

The Colts will win in week two with 11 seconds left to go. That was fourth down. The Titans turning over. They're out of timeouts. They trail 19 to 17, and the Colts are going to win it. Oh, Matt Taylor, the Colts Radio Network. Yes, the Colts broke up a Mariotta pass intended for AJ Brown, fourth and two, 11 seconds of play.

Clinching Indies 1917 win in Nashville. It was that kind of day for the Titans. Toon's offense, which struggled to move the ball against the good Colts defense that brought a lot of heat on Marriota. Jake Brisket put the Colts ahead with five minutes to play in the fourth quarter. And at the end of the day, Wes, what you really need to do in that spot, and we all got excited about what we saw from the Titans in Cleveland last week. But what you need to do at home, if you're Marcus Mariotta and it's time to take the next step or you're going to be sent out of town, you need to get something. done there and that last possession down 1917 he barely it was able to move the ball it was check down pass uh 15 yard scramble check down pass spike on a third and two setting up a fourth

and two uh that then leads the incompletion marriota after the game said that's on me i should not have clocked the ball there and it ultimately cost him so mariotta falls short again and this is just a 1917 titans lost at home to the colts that's That's that nine and seven titoons at you right again. So beyond that one drive that mattered at the end of the game, why did they only score 17 points? Because they had no offensive aerial attack. Derek Henry moved the ball just fine.

He's, I think, a very good running back. They have that element of it. But there are a couple things that really jump out to you. Delaney Walker, after having a great week one, he didn't have a big impact in this game. And then remember Adam Humphreys? Remember that? Yeah, I was going to say two catch.

Which is negative one yard? Remember what a big deal that was? That he was going to be a missing piece in this offense. Thus far in the season, I think he has three catches for four yards in two games. It's odd to me that Marcus Marietta has always thrown better between the numbers, but has he ever had a slot receiver? But he does now. And he's not even.

Right. But now he's invisible the slot receiver. Right. So Marietta average what, five and a half yards per attempt. You have a chance to set up the game-winning field goal drive with a reasonably short field. You don't do it. You spike it on third and two. I mean, that's, I don't know if that, if he's trying to cover for the coaches, probably

not, but that's just a, I hate, when teams spike way too much in two-minute situations, and on a third down with the game on the line is unbelievably brutal. And after the game, Mariotta's talking about how he can't keep taking sacks and can't keep getting hit. And this is kind of like we talked about with Winston the other night, you know, making the same mistakes five years in. These are Marietta's same mistakes five years in, which is taking those sacks and taking those hits. Titans writers talked about Marietta being sort of spooked down the stretch of this game. And to Greg's point, getting hit week after week. He got hit a bunch last week.

It's lost in the final score of week one, but he took some punishment. It happens again. And the big plays seem to have dried up in this game. They had a bunch last year. There was three, there was only one play in this entire game that was over, or two plays over. over 20 yards by the two teams combined. Right. Because, yeah, on the other side of it, Jake Brisket averages just over five yards an attempt. He does throw three touchdown passes, including the big hookup with Hilton to put them ahead. So the Colts, they get back to one and one, but that won't be, the win is only going to be a subplot early in the week.

And this is another story that's going to kind of adapt as we get away from the studio this evening. but Adam Vittieri, in a 1917 win, missed two extra points. And this comes on the heels of last week where he missed, what was it, two field goals in an extra point? Yes. Right. And after the game, so they basically got beat because of Vintieri last week on some level. And then it almost cost them big here.

After the game, there was a tweet sent out by, let me make sure. It was Stephen Holder. Stephen Holder. I think we, yeah, here it is. Holder wrote, just grabbed out of Venetieri, as he headed to the bus, he said, you'll hear from me tomorrow. I told him, we don't see him tomorrow.

And he said, yeah, you will. Which, of course, makes you think that maybe it's all over now for Venetieri, whether he's going to retire or the cults are going to make a move and it's going to be some type of joint decision. We'll find out. But that's what it seemed like after the game. Aminous. Jim Mersey, the owner talked about it, too, that they all have to talk about it.

Frank Reich really defended his, you know, Vinatari. Yeah. But he was hurt in camp, too, was missing in camp, and they can't allow it to, you know, maybe cost them games. It's a huge win in this division. It's a big game in this division. It might not feel like a seismic game in the NFL, but for the Colts to end up splitting, you know,

starting on the road against the Chargers and the Titans, they'll take that and to get a road win in the division is pretty big. Such a – and Titans are going to think I'm piling on or doing jumping jacks in celebration, which would be weird to do in celebration. But just such a bad loss. It's like you come out of that week one against Cleveland on fire, big on yourself.

Delaney Walker is talking about how nobody believes in us. You guys always talk us down. Then you come home against an Andrew Luckless Colts, and I know we like the Colts as a still solid team, but you've got to show up and you've got to win that game and get to 2 and O. How are you supposed to be taken seriously as an AFC contender when this is how you come home? This has been something you've been railing against for years,

and the Titans have yet to prove you wrong. One bright spot after several years of chemotherapy, David Quessonbury, the lineman scores his first career touchdown in this game. Yes, good for him. But, Dan, one quick... For which team? For the Titans.

One quick per... Not for the... It wouldn't be so celebratory had he scored for the other team. But... I just didn't know which team he was on. I knew it used to be with a Texan. A Titans, man.

I mean, professionally, Dan, I mean, being a great memorable... Having a memorable beat is about being industrious and doing your part of the job, but also hitting it at the right time, and you hit this kicker's thing at the absolute sweet spot in history because it would have been largely

a dead storyline week after week. Every game we're talking about has kicker nonsense happening. I know. Good timing. I know. Well, I wish it wasn't such a big deal because it does...

No, you're very happy that it is. It's working out for you very well. You actually nailed it. Let's move on. Two-point play. Jacksonville going for the lead right here from the two-yard line. Minchew and the gun, three receivers,

left. Handoff Fournett, running left. And he stopped. Justin Reed got in there. The D. Stiffins on the two-point conversion try. The Texans have a lead 1312 with 30 seconds left. Mark Van Damir, Texans Radio Network with the call. With the Jaguars looking to steal the game with the two-point conversion, Justin Reed, stuffed Leonard Fournett on the goal line, clinching a win for the Texans. The stop came after Jacksonville rookie Gardner Minchew led a long drive that included an 18-yard run on 4th and 10 and capped it with a 4-yard touchdown

past the DJ Shark. But Doug Marone opted to take it out of Minchew's hands. Furnett couldn't get it done. Mark, Maron's call showed onions for days, but shouldn't it the Jags have just kicked that PAT? Well, I don't know because this is football.

If they got that thing, we would have said, you know what, you had a rookie quarterback and you end the game right there, you get it done, and you're out of there with a big win against the Texans who had a down day offensively. So I'm not going to kill him for that. I kind of like seeing that kind of thing. That said, I mean, just judging by the reaction of fans,

people were super down on Maroon. I don't know a huge problem with the way that their offense was functioning slash not functioning. Why? Because you think they wouldn't have had a great chance to score again, that their best chance was from the two? Because you're putting it in the hands of it. Yes, I kind of do. Yes, I kind of do. I mean, because it was, you know, you needed that last surge from Minchu and the Jaguars to even get into that situation. Their offense was largely lost. They didn't have a lot of continuity from March to March. Minchu and I know he was, you know, and I love the guy, the idea of him, and he was generating massive Twitter heat. He has, he suffered some growing pains here because he took four sacks. And if you go back and watch, some of them are just, he's, holding the ball too long. I still think he throws the ball well, and he showed

scrambling ability that got them out of a couple jams here, and he did just enough. I think another story in this game was that Jaguars' defense showed up. DeAndre Hopkins held to 40 yards, and you know in this case that they basically have Jalen Ramsey tracking him snap to snap, and that was a great matchup. It was just a weird matchup, because by the end, Carlos Hyde, with 20 touches for 90 yards, had way more than double. and carries and way more than double yardage than any other skill position player on the Texans and more than anyone in the entire game. The game channeled through Carlos Hyde, and Duke Johnson was essentially lost.

DeShon Watson took four sacks of his own, and at one point he was hobbling around, and it's just another reminder that, like, Laramie Tunsell left the game for a couple minutes, too. I just cannot imagine how Watson gets through this entire season. and this game was not a great performance by the Texans offensively. I don't know. This was two strange games in the AFC South. This was part two. I mean, neither team topped 300 yards.

So that all four AFC South teams, none of them top 300 yards, which is pretty rare for a team not to get that high in today's NFL. I don't mind them doing it because Leonard Fournette, on that run, you saw the power, first of all. I mean, he should have been taken down at the three and he almost got over the goal line. Some Jaguars fans think he did. I just reached the ball out.

At some point, I don't mind the team saying, like, this is who we are. If we can't gain two yards here after we spread you out and you're worried about our passing game and get those two yards, maybe we're just not going to be good. And maybe they won't. I don't think they were about to go march down the field for a touchdown in overtime. I also think Leonard Fournette is never going to be with the Jaguars. Thought he was going to be when they drafted him with a top five pick.

He spent the offseason losing 15 pounds working out in Wyoming. I mean, and I still don't see the big playability from him. So you're saying if they could do it over, you'd take Patrick Mahomes, not Leonard. Let me go out on that. I mean, they have Bordell. They have Bordles. They have Bordle's. Who needs a quarterback?

They have Gardner Mietchew. Well, I know you're down on him, Dan, but he honestly, I don't know. It's like, oh, a rookie sixth-round pick has growing pains? I mean, he had more yards and completion. Deshawn Watson. He's also throwing the ball. better than some quarterbacks that no one's going to yank out of the starting

spot. He's throwing the ball well. He was not the reason they lost. He certainly didn't drag them to a win either. It's too bad because if they had if they had picked the perfect play call. I mean, you tweeted that you're all out. Based on a photo that's like a year old or something. I'm just not like Will Brinson

misled the public with an old photo. No, you can listen, you got to... You know what? Ultimately, I'm just not going to be on the train. And I might really miss out on this Because if this guy goes off And leads the Jags to an amazing run to the playoffs I'm going to have egg all over my face No, my concern would be that if you're not

Really going out on limit Yeah, if you're not on the train though He is going to be ultimately Saboteur Destroyed on the show With a bunch of secret bits that no one's expecting So it's just this is all This is again completely completely concocted

A manufacturer joke No it's completely concocted ahead of time by you because you were probably upset you didn't lead the Minchu thing so you're jumping out you're jumping out on the anti-Minchu thing so if someone doing the best he can as a backup quarterback

who's looked pretty good fails you get to exude some sort of joy in it's all coming out now that's an enjoyable life have a fun time with that Dan I would like a list of the strangest you guys have battled about on this one over the years

I'm dead on this has to be right near the top and if they had just call the perfect play on that two-point conversion and Minchu threw it going into Thursday night football. We'd be flying it at the phone network. What a cad. He can still, he can still. Oh, look at his facial hair. What a cad. Oh, please. A cad. A cad. That's not a compliment. All right. Are we ready to move on? Yes. I refuse to fight with you about Gardner Minchew, Mark. I'm not going to do it. I'm not engaging. Well, you already have engaged because you I'm just not involved. You get your little sneaky tweets out there and then it's everyone else's job to not

respond to it. It's like, we all see you. I don't know what you're talking about. You want one more thing in this game? How about this? Put the cameras on the goal line. You're worried about officials? Like that. There's no, they didn't have the two camera because this is the, you know, the CBS's 17th broadcast, you know, it's the Q team covering this game and you don't have two cameras on the goal line with a sensor in the ball. We could know, maybe the Jaguars won this game. Maybe they'll determine it in

like 2034 when they install this technology. Well, a bunch of players looked at one angle and thought they did on the Jaguar sidelint. Let's move on. Chiefs with field position. I'm not for the kid. Six-round pick. Amy and Williams to the left of Mahomes. Takes the snap right at his belt, turns the right hip. Now he's going to gun it long. He wants DeMarcus Robinson coming back to the ball.

He's got it in the end zone. Touchdown. Kansas City. DeMarcus Robinson. It's his turn to have the game of his life. And the Chiefs have four consecutive touchdowns. And Mahomes is in a human settling torch. All right. Mitch Holtes, you can hear it his voice.

It is fun being the play-by-play man of the Kansas City Chiefs right now. The Raiders shut the Chiefs out for three quarters on Sunday. It's the one quarter where the Chiefs did score that cost Oakland. Patrick Mahomes threw four touchdown passes in the second quarter. The final one to DeMarcus Robinson, ultimately a 28 to 10 win at the Black Hole. Greg, good job, good effort by the Raiders. But once the Chief's got in gear, this thing turned into exactly what we thought it would be. Right, you might have a plan for 15 minutes.

You might get up in the Chief's grill and take them one-on-one because they don't have Tyreek Hill and think that you can cover a man and maybe dare Patrick Mahomes to go over the top for you and you're flying around and the black hole was as loud as I've heard it in a long, long time. And then adjustments come. And then Patrick Mahomes incinerates you like old Mitch Holstis said. I mean, it was as if the Raiders and even the Chiefs were kind of left in a puddle of awe for the rest of the game. There wasn't even any scoring in the second half because it was. everyone had just decided, you know what, that's good for today, Patrick Mahomes. You're so amazing. We don't need to see anything more than 278 yards in a quarter where they called some

of his plays back. I mean, a classic Mahomes kind of sequences, he throws one of the best throws I've ever seen across his body on a third and long. It was unbelievable. They call it back because of penalty. So what do they do? They just throw a 49-yard touchdown the next play on third and 22. It's the big plays for this offense.

They're there week after week, after week, and it translated through an entire offseason. Nothing changed. Mahomes looks better to me than he did before. This game weirdly reminded me of Super Bowl 22, which is a million years ago, but that was the game where an inferior Broncos team got up 10-0, and you thought, why are they hanging around? And then the Redskins with Doug Williams exploded for 35 second quarter points, game over, but no one really scored the rest of the game.

It took that effect, but by halftime, this was the team that was John Gruden's, and a lot of other coaches, major bugbear last year, and they destroyed Oakland twice, and it took the same form. And it took everything that happened in that nice little week one storyline that we all enjoyed on national TV and put a buzzsaw right through it in five minutes because it's hard to keep that going if you're the Raiders. You don't have the talent. It's true, but I still think the Raiders could have something here. the Chiefs are going to trash teams. Look what they did to the Jaguars defense who played pretty well.

Okay, let's take out Tyreek Hill. Hey, DeMarcus Robinson, six for 172 and 44 yards. Nicole Hardman, a 42-yard touchdown, and another 72-yarder that was called back by a shaky penalty. Mahomes would have gone over 500 in this game if it wasn't for that play being called back. I just think the Chiefs and Mahomes at 24 years old is doing things we haven't seen in NFL history.

just facts. Well, that's fine. Give the Raiders defense a pass. They're playing against the Chiefs, but why are you giving the Raiders offense a pass? I think that was the most concerning thing in the game that after that quick start, they shot themselves in the foot. They moved the ball. They would pass midfield. They had a couple tough breaks. Maybe a miscommunication on the goal line was one interception, a tipped. That was a bad interception. A pick play where a car through, you know, to an offensive player who kind of got, you steamrolled was another interception. I think this offense is going to not have enough margin for error

because they're station to station, not enough big plays. And if you fall down, they might not be a team that can catch up. Short week also. It was a tough week to assignment for Oakland. I'd be interested to see where they come down next week. The one thing I've noticed is different in Mahomes. He moves in the pocket to create more time now better than he did a year ago. He did that last week too.

It wasn't perfect, but he did that last week. Like where he's now backing up, and Andy Reid's even calling it into some of the play calls, where in one play, like they have him sprinting out to the left to then turn it around. And he's just buying time so that he can set up back there and then he's torching him. It's pretty good. Let's move out. Empty back field. Lamar Jackson and the shotgun.

Cardinals rush five. Jackson throws deep, far sideline, 20-yard line. It is caught by Hollywood Brown. And he's taken down in the Grummace Red Zone. first down Ravens. An absolute strike. He put it in the only place where he could catch the ball. And a key moment.

What a play by these two young guys. Jerry Sandusky and Jared Johnson on the call for WBAL. Lamar Jackson's picture perfect strike to Marquis, Hollywood Brown. On 3rd and 11, the clincher for the Ravens, who got another great performance by their second year quarterback, 2317 win over the Cardinals. Everyone's expecting to see electricity from Kyler Murray in the season's opening weeks. But instead, Greg, the football world is fixed on Lamar Jackson.

How good was he on Sunday? I mean, another two touchdowns, 120 yards rushing. Mark Andrews goes crazy for 112. I mean, they're an offensive team right now. I think some of the Ravens beatwriters, after watching this game, thought, you know, this is different than a year ago when they really relied on the defense to carry them and the running game, which wasn't quite there today other than. in Lamar. Say 120 yards on the ground? Yeah, 120 for Lamar.

And this year it's been more Lamar's carrying them. I know it's just two games, but this wasn't, you know, this was a game where the Cardinals moved the ball. I thought that, I think that they are perfectly built roster-wise to do what they are doing early on. And that is the six time in Lamar Jackson's career where he alone is outrushed the opposing team. And there's six in those games. And I know that's not what they want to do every week, but it was a huge difference maker today. But what they have now, they're one of these teams with two playmaking tight ends. And they also, which they lacked last year in which they've lacked essentially outside of Steve Smith,

their wide receiver group has been a issue for ages forever. And Marquis Brown, eight catches, 86 yards, another 41-yarder. We saw the big play on the highlight. This is contagious. I mean, this team can beat you in a lot of different ways. And then you throw in their defense that essentially really kept the Cardinals totally, at bay outside of a bunch of field goal drives. I want to bash the Ravens a little bit for not drafting

Derwin James for deciding to trade down and draft an old tight end like Hayden Hurst in the first round. But then they made up for it by drafting Mark Andrews who looks like a pro bowler in his second season. The guy gets 100 yards every week. I think this is a moral victory too for the Cardinals. They're at 0-1-1. I mean, they're already a million times better offensively than they were a year

ago. I mean, they kick three field goals inside the five-yard line. which is the first time that's happened since 1975. So it was a little cautious there by Cliff Kingsbury, but the game ended up being close. Kyler Murray's making Larry Fitzgerald go over 100 yards every week. Kyler Murray's thrown for 350 in his second game in Baltimore. I mean, this is pretty good. Not bad.

I can't get over this. I mean, Lamar Jackson, he throws for 272 yards, two touchdowns, doesn't throw an interception, runs for 120. MVP watch. On 16 carries. His long is like, oh. Kidding, it's two weeks. There must have been a 60-yard run or something to spike that total.

His long was 19. So he finished for 120 on 16 carries, and it was just all him, look, I guess, 10, 15-yard runs over and over again, which has to kill a defense. Well, but I also think he's the kind of guy. And we saw when he takes off with the ball, there's four or five defenders looking at him wondering, what on earth do I do?

Because his next second and third and fourth step are totally confusing. He's not bashing into the line for three yards. he's swinging out of tackle and completely causing chaos. All right, let's move up. Moster now is the lone back, second down, four 49ers, and the Bengal 39ers, a straight drop. Here's a blitz by BW. Moster.

They get it out to Mostert. First on 49ers, 30, breaks a tackle. He's gone. Touchdown. San Francisco. They like these 38 or 39-yarders. Once old slick Moster gets the ball in his hand, forget about it. That is no nickname now?

Slick, because he is slick, and there is just no messing around. Greg Papa and Tim Ryan of the 49ers Radio Network. San Francisco. I mean, you know these guys are sitting on Saturday in their one-bedroom apartments practicing these little catchphrases and calls over and over. Did Papa make the move from the Raiders to the 49ers? That snuck under my radar. How about that?

You don't think they pay them better to be in a bigger residence? I just imagine, like, someone looking over like the San Francisco Bay in one, those whitewashed apartments where he's just doing it into his hand over and over the little microphone call. Yay! Please. Jimmy Garoppolo tied his career with three touchdown fasts. Matt Breed and ran for a buck 21. 49ers pile up 572 yards of total offense.

4117 shalacking of the host bangles. The Niners opened their season with back-to-back road wins. How about that? Two and O for the first time since 2012. You may remember we were there. Most of us, they went to the Super Bowl that. season. Greg, the Bengals were frisky in week one and week two. They were outclassed by the Niners. Well, this was a great example of not overreacting to week one, which we all did,

getting excited about the Bengals and being down, I'm not saying we all did. I mean, I never get excited about the Bengals. It's our job to overreact to some degree. And even like being worried about Seattle. And then, you know, being as worried as we were about the 49ers who put together the best game that we've seen under Kyle Shane. I mean, this is the dream. 572 yards, 12 yards per attempt, 259 on the ground, and as good a, I guess as well-schemed the game as there possibly could be, because there's just receivers flying open for Jimmy Garapolo all throughout the game. The running game was terrific.

Moster had more snaps than Matt Breda, but Matt Breda went 12 for 12-1-21 on the ground. So everyone was getting theirs, and Jimmy G threw for 297 and three touchdowns without even really having a break a sweat. Made a few nice throws, too, but a lot of guys were just streaking through that Bengals secondary. Both those guys breed it

and Mostert can play. I'm not convinced that Taven Coleman, he might be the third best runner on this team when he's healthy. I mean, Jeff Wilson scored two touchdowns in this game. Maybe he's the fourth best.

Who knows? Two and O. Two games, both on the East Coast. They win by a combined 38 points. And we'll find out. The schedule ahead is not out of control,

but it's interesting because you're going to be, you come home for two games. One against the Steelers who are going to be desperate. Might be starting Mason Rudolph. And Mason Rudolph could be playing. And then you got the Browns. We'll see what happens on Monday against the Jets. But that will be an interesting matchup.

But this is a best case scenario for San Francisco. When you think back to how bad things looked when Garapolo was getting his first preseason reps and he played so terribly in that game and there was just this general concern that this was not going to come together, Well, he wasn't very good in week one, Wes, but this game, it looks like it was a huge step forward. You've got to be feeling pretty good if you're the Niners right now.

Well, there is a big black cloud hanging over this. It might not be the best case scenario because arguably the best player on their team, or at least on their offense, is the left tackle Joe Staley. What happened to Joe? Broken Fibula looks like he's out two months, and they have very little depth behind him. It'll be interested to see if they move Mike McGlinchie. the right tackle over to left tackle, but then are you hurting two positions with one moot? That's where stacking that win in Tampa where they didn't play well and it was a pretty

ugly game that was up for grabs in the last five minutes is so big. Like when you have injuries like that, that's a difference sometimes between a good season of bad. The Bengals lose the game where they play well on the road last week. The 49ers managed to win an ugly, now they're two and out. If you're the Bengals though, 25 yards rushing in this game and they were the team that I thought changed a lot of minds last. week, and maybe not permanently, Wes, your mind was not changed.

The three of us, I think, maybe fell into the spell to some degree, because they looked different to me on offense. I thought that they looked like a new, like a totally, they had a completely different revised plan on offense, and today is killing you. And the Niners had another big turn of Raquin Alexander coming back from his ejection a week ago. That changed the game. And, yeah, as good as the vibes were last week with Cincinnati, as low as they are now,

well, they're 0.2. Got to win a football game next week. Let's move on. 10 now. And the National Football League, you got to win football games. Or you don't. Stafford's got it. Looks, looks, loads, throws, deep middle.

And he's caught. Touchdown, Detroit, Lyons. Oh, Kenny Gallaudet. That's outstanding. That is outstanding. Oh, 31 yards in the Lions have the lead for the first time today. That was a great job. McKinney Gawley, shielding the defensive back,

keeping them on the backside, coming up with a hands catch. Touchdown. You don't think they're saying that in their little apartment rooms? Huge estates. We know J.B. Long's house. It's looking pretty good. Dan Miller and Lomas Brown with a call for the Lions Radio Network. Jonti.

Matthew Stafford threw that go ahead. 31-yard touchdown past the Kenny Gallaudet midway through the fourth quarter. The difference in a 1310 win over the Chargers at Ford Field. Galdi put the lines ahead with one after ahead. And Darius Slay made it stand up with his intercourse. interception with one minute to play. Wes, this doesn't sound like it was the most beautiful display of football, but the Lions will enter week three without a loss.

They've got a tie, too, but they haven't lost. That was a grown man catch by Kenny Gulliday with one of the best cornerbacks in the league hanging on his back, Casey Hayward. That was a big play, and the Chargers can blame themselves. They had a three-drive sequence, first drive, two touchdowns called back on penalty, and then a fumble at the one-yard line. The next two drives miss field goals on each of them. and it's hard to blame them for going with

is it Thai long their kicker yeah who was special teams player of the week tie short sounds like in week one this is a guy who nailed 88% of his kicks as an all-star kicker in the CFL they had reason to believe he could kick in addition to punt he misses two with the game on the line and to me this is the NFL son this is the NFL and anybody

who tells you that some soccer player can come in and just take over kicking duties like it's big deal. It's ridiculous analysis and it's incredibly disrespectful to NFL kickers. Didn't see that kind of. It's awful analysis against a pass rush with angles to beat, with pressure on you. It's way different than kicking a 55-yard field goal in practice. Give me a break. Give NFL kickers a little bit of respect. Well, even the great one, didn't Matt Prater miss two kicks in this game too? It's hard to kick in the NFL. So even the best of them are missing him back and forth. This, unfortunately, Chargers fans who love Philip Rivers and know that

they're lucky, but probably have a little part of them that is like, remembers these types of plays, the interception by Rivers, Wes, at the end of the game. Like, is, I mean, that's just a play you don't expect a veteran quarterback to make. Well, he was picking on Darius Slay all day, and then Slay came up big with the game on the line there. It does feel like if you're a Chargers fan, you keep waking up into the same awful reality of, Oh, half our team is injured. And, oh, our kicker suddenly is hurt. And there's a backup kicker flubbing kicks,

and we're losing to the Lions by three points in a terrible looking dome. I'll have to go back and pay a little bit closer attention. But to me, we asked the question, how many players can you take away from the Chargers and have them be less talented than the Lions? They were in control of this game for most of the game, and they really had no business losing. But maybe taking the kicker away is making you just a little bit less talented

than the lion. And I don't know if it's coaching, and I'm sure Stafford got rid of the ball quickly, but the entire Chargers team had one quarterback hit and no sacks, and even that hit was from a cornerback. So they shut down Joey Bosa and Melvin Ingram. Wes, what happened to our T.J. Hawkinson Hype Express, one catch for seven yards on three targets? Well, the Lions' offense didn't do too much outside of Carri-on-Johnson for a while. It was basically Carri-on-Johnson and Kenny Gallaudet. Again, I'll have to take a closer look. This was sort of my second game with the Cowboys. So I'll want to take a closer look on Hawkinson,

but the Lions didn't really do much until that Candy Gallaudet touchdown. And we know Wes was bathing in that Cowboys action. We were watching that all downstairs. Like the dolphins are tanking to try to like avoid being the type of team the Lions are. The Lions are just squarely, it feels like right and headed for the middle of the NFL. It's not bad, you know, you're going to have some fun weeks. Another way to look at it, undefeated. That's true.

Let's move on. And as the past realigned, they have Brown and, Gordon to the left. They spread it against the dolphins with an empty set from the gun. Brady takes the snap and retreats. He looks left. He fires the back shorter. Brown. Touchdown Patriots inside the near left pylon. Welcome to New England, kid. What a throw by the quarterback to the back shoulder. Antonio Brown draws bump and run from the slide. Brady signals to the head. He checks the playoff and throws a dagger to that orange pylon. That's how you run the back shoulder fade, folks.

It's called elite talent right there. Good for you. Charming. Bob Sochi and Scott Zolak with the call for the Patriots Radio Network. Antonio Brown caught a touchdown pass in his Patriots debut, and the Patriots ran back two interceptions for touchdowns. Bill Belchick kept coming after his former pupil, Brian Flores. To the end, 43 Zip clown suit competition at the stadium formerly known as Joe Robbie.

The Patriots have outscored opponents 763 in the first two weeks, and the Dolphins have been outscored 102 to 10. Mark, there was only one NFL team on the field in this game. Yes or no? Yes. For the second week in a row, that's true of Miami. Thank you. Get a little cough out there because this game annoyed me a little.

I mean, the Patriots made it very clear for all the people wondering what would happen with Antonio Brown out of the gate that they were going to lean on him right away. He got the first three catches, and his fourth was for that score. And when I watched the Dolphins, you know, it was 13 nothing and a half time, and you almost got the sense that the Patriots were really not going all out in this situation. Miami cannot on either side of the ball push anyone around at all. It's, I get it what you're trying to do.

You're trying to position yourself to get a generational quarterback that you can build an entire team around. there's a lot of steps to that. Number one is getting there in real time, which is going to be a very long process for everyone involved on this team. And I like the creative approach in terms of NFL team building, but you've got to nail that draft pick.

Who even knows of that quarterback exists right now? And I just wonder who comes out on the other side of this still attached and willing to sign up for a year two because it's already, for Brian Flores, has to feel like they've been through 18 weeks. This is impossible to watch impossible on the eyes, and if you're Ryan Fitzpatrick, who was held to about 17 yards passing

on an offense that had about 38 yards total at halftime, and it's going to be like this week after week. Ryan Fitzpatrick struggles through two and a half quarters. They bring in Josh Rosen to mop up, if that's what you want to call it, a game that is utterly lost. And it's, it's, this is looking like the worst team in NFL history. And I don't care about anyone that's gone Owen 16. You look at that brown. team that did that. They were much more competitive in games. Well, how many teams in NFL history have ever tried to tank their season, their entire season? Well, no, that's on one hand. I would imagine. That's on one hand.

This is new. When the process is ongoing, Minka Fitzpatrick played in this game. He is not expected to play next week because the reports in Miami are that a trade is close enough where the dolphins believe they're going to get a first rounder back and they're probably going to move on from him. Kenyon Drake might be another guy that gets moved. I think the defense, I think, was competitive, kept the Patriots from scoring a ton of points until late in the third. The offense had two first downs late in the third quarter. The problem is, you know, Daniel Jeremiah said this is, you know, he watched the tape from last week. He thinks it might be the worst offensive line in history.

Now, maybe it's not the worst team in history, but the offensive line is giving Ryan Fitzpatrick and when Josh Rosen's out there absolutely no chance and is going to give their offense no chance to move. They've been pushed around to an embarrassing level in two weeks, but I would also look at their defense and say, maybe they, maybe they were competitive for a stretch today. They were also playing last week. They were, I mean, as you did. They were also playing the Patriots and a defense that is loaded for bear right now. I know, but it's 43-0. It's like they, like, they played two great teams over week one and two, and so maybe every week, it won't all look like this, but it's hard to get wiped out more than they have in two weeks. No, does.

And also, you know, these are human beings. Like, you, players are not going to be all in or even vaguely in, and you're going to start to play it for yourself. You've lost huge chunks of the locker room already. These are savvy dudes. They're not thinking, oh, we're going to turn this thing around when the team is week after week trading away your talent. Patriots did have some bad news in this game.

They lose their left tackle, Isaiah win. He was replaced by Corey Cunningham, who was... Foot injury, right? Yeah, foot injury, who was, you know, traded for as kind of a replacement-level player. They started Marshall Newhouse, who signed on the team on Wednesday. And I believe PFF had them graded as the lowest ranked player in the entire NFL this week. So that was their thinnest position in the end. If you're looking for a reason for hope here, Dan,

I think that was their thinnest position on the roster by a good deal going into the year. And they've lost both their starters in the first two weeks. Well, I don't root for injuries, Greg. But, yes, I would like someone to challenge the Patriots and the AFC. Right now, it is not looking good. but I don't take a lot of these dolphins games. As much as it was fun watching what Lamar Jackson did last week. Who is this opponent?

I would say you could take this, though. And tell me when you check this game out, if you disagree. Brady and Antonio Brown, as much as annoying as that play call was from the homerisms there, like they already are in sync. And that is an extreme, to the point where Josh Gordon was unnecessary in the first half, they're in sync and he's going to be a massive fact. And he only played 25 snaps, which is really, really interested, like less than Ryan iso, you know, about a third as much as Julian Edelman,

but they threw the ball to him. I do wonder if there's a chance is the only game Antonio Brown plays for the Patriots. The NFL is meeting with his sexual assault accuser on Monday. I think it's very strange that he played in this game with that looming over them, that there's a chance that the NFL could potentially put him on the commissioner's exemplist. I would assume it's possible based on how that meeting goes and the findings that they have. to win and it just why like why was that necessary until this process made reports that they would not have signed him had they known this was coming so then you

so this is here and now you play him right to me we don't need to hear those reports that's the thing it's if if well i need to hear them right i'm saying if you're going to put that report out there like show us with like don't play them their actions do not match anything else put an adult in the room next time somebody has to make a decision on this guy Please. And the one note I mentioned how Belichick kept them going after Brian Flores. According to Mnich Metic, Greg, I know this has got you up in arms, your hand motions. He threw 28 times.

They had two pick sixes. Bill Belichick called a zero blitz on the final play of a 43-0 win. A zero blitz, if you don't know, is when you send the house at the passer. He did that 43-0. Well, Rosen couldn't handle it. It was 7 for 18. I mean, he clearly- Do you think Belichick agrees with-

Stop defending this. That was a joke. That was a joke. Let's move on. Zero blitz. Second and five to the bills with the giant six. I almost admire. Again, three wide outs left side.

The snap, Josh Allen looks for blocks. Going to try to run it in himself. He headed to the corner of the end. He is in. Touchdown Buffalo. Josh Allen, his second touchdown run of the year. This one goes six yards around the right side, and it looked an awful lot like the one last week.

Untouched there. The bills pull. Two guys out in front gets a great. great cut block on linebacker, Ryan Connolly, to set up the scoring touchdown. John Murphy and Eric Wood with a call for the Bills Radio Network. Josh Allen ran for one touchdown through for another. The Bills cruised to a 2814 win over the Giants at MetLife Stadium. It completes a Meadowlands sweep by the Bills to start the season.

The Bills defense forced two turnovers. Trent Murphy and Jordan Poyer both had picks. Allowed only three of the Giants 11 drives to span longer than 6. place. That's Dominance. Mark, the Bill's in control of this one. What an impressive opening two-game stretch for the Bills, who obviously, as you said, were on the road, and you guys got tired of me mentioning this to you downstairs, but Sean McDermott, I thought, had an ingenious plan, and it's a little OCD, and it's a little superstitious, it's a little bit over-organized, mixed all into one, but they stayed at the same hotel. They put the players in the same exact rooms

as last week. The coach wore the same clothing day after day, and they went out and they drummed a second New York team. And the bills, to me, are a playoff team if they keep getting the coaching that they're getting from McDermott and from Leslie Frazier as the defensive coordinator, and surprisingly to me, Brian Dayball as well, I think he's done a really, really good job. Josh Allen has impressed me two weeks in a row by overcoming mistakes. The four turnovers last week could have buried some quarterbacks we've seen who

struggle with confidence in this early season. He bounced back from that. Took a couple bad sacks early on in this game, didn't phase them. They've got just enough on the ground with Frank Gore and Devin Singletary. I like Singletary a lot. He got banged up in this game. They're getting just enough from Cole Beasley and the rest through the air. And their defense, Ed Oliver, when you nail these first round picks like they have, Ed Oliver looks like a star already. He helped generate on a batted pass, a big turnover in this one. and the Giants are an absolute wandering lost ship, and I don't even know where to go. Is it their defense that could not be more confused and leave Bill's players more wide open

and has an absolute talent train or an offense and a coaching staff, especially if you're Pat Shermer, I don't know who is not allowing you to start your other quarterback at this point just to see what would happen, because if you continue on this path with Eli Manning, you are not going to be a head coach. You need a spark. You need someone to come in. We've been saying it. the entire world's been saying in everyone but the Giants organization,

it's not just that Eli Manning is better than we think and we're just piling on him. He was the problem today, along with an offense that after their first drive with Sequan Barkley, has no ability to surprise anyone. If you're going to get scored on on that first drive, two weeks in row that happens, then you just drop a bomb on him and the Giants have no answer. Jack Rabbit Jenkins, after the game threw his pass rush under the bus, saying that he can't cover for 10 seconds on every play. And then Pat Schumer said, look, we're not going to take a look at the quarterback situation.

Eli is not the problem. Well, it shocks me that an NFL coach would come out of this game saying that. They have a lot of problems. They're talent poor and they have an old quarterback that they have to make a switch on. Bill's right now are QB killers. I mean, not that they gave Sam Darno, but they made him look. Well, you can't. Maybe it did.

They gave him the worst performance. I think to Marius Thomas might have given him mono. They gave him the worst performance a quarterback had last week, really, and it sounds like similar to Eli Manning. Nine passes defense. That secondary is a veteran secondary, and they fly to the ball. This is a tough, likable, well-coached team. And maybe the Jets and Giants both end up drafting in the top five,

so these two wins won't seem as impressive late in the season. But going on the road, the first two weeks of the season, that's pretty good. And everyone says the Patriots have this cake schedule early in the year, and it gets harder. But they have the bills in a couple weeks. That could be a matchup of two, three and O teams in Buffalo because Buffalo has the Trevor Simeon show in weekend. And people forget that Buffalo gave New England fits on Monday Night Football last season.

And so the bills finally, they have their home opener. That's right, their home opener next week against the Bengals. The Bengals. Bye-bye, Cincy. And then you've got New England at home the next week at 1 p.m. Eastern. Don't stumble against Cincinnati, though. Because if you stumble against Cincinnati and then get killed in New England, all of a sudden you're two and two and all this juice is gone.

Take care of business next year. This doesn't feel to me like the Bill's teams of old that have done that systematically year after year. They feel a little bit different. I hope you're right. All right. Let's move on. Hope I'm right. Press that under center, second down six.

With a play fake to Elliot, he's got a lot of time deep for the middle. He's got a man to the middle. It's cut. And it's even for the touchdown to Gavin Smith. How about that? Gavin Smith, you're all the way. back and it's just play action in the backfield they've got no safety in the middle of the field devon smith just runs away from josh norman here great route great throw great throw great pass

protection great call by telling more uh brad sham the sham god and babe lophenberg with a call of k r ld stay hot d prescott the cowboy's quarterback carved up the redskins defense with his arms and legs 26 of 30 for two sixty nine three touchdowns and sixty nine yards rushing in a 31-21-Caboys win. Wes, will Zeke Elliott eventually take full control of this offense once he rounds it to shape? Or are we all of a sudden in the middle of a sneaky MVP candidate DAC-type DACAsons? I absolutely think DAC can be an MVP candidate this year.

Considering the strength of that roster and what Kellyn Moore's done with the offense and then add on top of it, Dak Prescott's improvement, starting with the second half of last year, he entered this game with the most passing. yards in the NFL over the previous nine games going back to last season. He has been playing well for a long time now and in this game you saw another playmaker emerge, a guy I've been talking about, Devin

Smith, led the team in receiving in this game, burned Josh Norman which seems like not that great of a feat. I think we could do that now. Josh Norman's getting burned a lot on deep balls. Michael Gallup burned him on another deep ball and Dak missed through it, turned him around on the play. After

last week, Dak had a perfect passer rating. Slug is starting this one. and the interception off Randall Cobb's hands was his fault. It was a bad throw. But then he completed 18 straight passes at one point in this game. He is getting hot with Kellogg Moore calling the plays, and I don't think it's a coincidence. You do have to point out the caveat that the Giants' defense is terrible.

The Redskins secondary was injured coming up into this game and suffered another cornerback injury during the game. So I think you have to say, let's hold off and see if this truly is one of the most dynamic offenses in the NFL. So far this year, they have been. Prescott led Dallas on consecutive touchdown drives of 97, 83, and 75 yards. Well, and they're different. You know, Dan has been on Seahawks Corner.

There's no one been on Devin Smith Corner like Chris Wessling. And to me, that is emblematic of the fact that this team's a little deeper, that they have guys like Devin Smith and Gout on a day where, you know, Cooper gets 44 yards and Randall Cobb gets 24 yards. They're still putting up 474, doing what a really good team should do. do, which is control a game on the road against an inferior opponent in the division and just walking into two and O. I think you can't lose against the Redskins and the Giants right now if you're the Eagles

or Cowboys. You just need to rack up four wins against those two teams. And on the one series where they sat Zeke for the entire series, Pollard came in. They marched right down the field. Pollard scored and lost a touchdown on a penalty. But they ended up with a field goal on that, and it didn't feel like, I mean, Zick played well. He played much better than he did last week. He went on over 100 yards because he had a 27-yarder to salt the lead late in the game.

But this was not something where Zeke carried the team, no matter who they're putting back there, they're moving the ball. My biggest concern for the Cowboys, and this is a little more long range after what could be, who knows, a Super Bowl season for them, is that Kellyn Moore, with the way that coaches are being promoted at such rapid pace, could be a head coach by mid-January. And if Dallas doesn't have the site. of nature to make him their head coach.

I think he's going to be somewhere else. And then you're stuck with a one-and-done scenario. There is no way Jerry Jones is letting this guy out of the building. He'll make him the head coach. You're giving me flashbacks because they did not let Jason Garrett go to Baltimore when he was the hot rising guy and Garrett decided to stay as the highest paid assistant in NFL history by far to stay for another year and then eventually got the job. I'm with you.

You can't like, well, it's early. Well, if Jason Garrett wins the Super Bowl, I think everything's going to I don't know if it's going to be okay. Then you make the move. It's like going to Switzerland, except a better off. It's not insane. I think I could see that. You would fire Jason Garrett if they won the Super Bowl? If it is largely identified that it was Kellynne Moore's, you know, they've had Jason Garrett forever. If it was Kellynne Moore's influence, they flipped the switch, yeah. They might have the top two candidates. Why is that crazy? Why is that crazy? No, I agree. If the Cowboys win the Super Bowl,

you would fire Jason Garrett to make sure Kellan Moore didn't get out the door. If the Cowboys win a Super Bowl, it's because Kellan Moore, more as the guy pulling the trick. Dan, it's not insane. Well, it's not insane. They've also got a head coaching candidate on the other side of the ball, Chris Rashar. Jerry Jones is also the guy who insanely fired Jimmy Johnson. He can do insane things and he's done them before and he'll do him again.

The only insane thing is we're having the conversation after week two, but I like it. We're ahead of the game on this one. And if the cowboys are a soap opera, if the Cowboys are entertainment, what a better cliffhanger than after being so unbelievably loyal to Jason Garrett for a decade. It's jumping off this bus, too. You fire him right when he wins the Super Bowl. No one's going to see that heel turn coming. People are going to be coming back for a season.

I mean, we're not rooting for people getting fired. Let Jay Gruden go. There you go. All right. By the way. Much more saying to keep Jay Gruden. Devin Smith tore his ACL twice as a second round pick of the Jets. This one's not one of those ones.

They blew it again, the Jets. I'm happy for this guy. Like he was basically, he was a great college player, amazing athleticism, and it looked like his body just was never going to cooperate. He gets the chance with the Cowboys and making the most of it. Anybody could have had him. This was his first catches since 2016. All right.

Three on the play clock, two, one, snap to Ryan. Here comes Philly. Quick throw. This is Julio Jones, 45, 40, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5. Touchdown, Atlanta. Holy goodness, smokes. What a great call by either Matt Ryan, or dirt cutter or both.

They showed sellout blitz. They've been showing zero coverage and coming with everybody that wasn't covering somebody. All Atlanta needed was one block. They got the block on the perimeter and who shows the world-class speed to put it in the end zone. When the Atlanta Falcons needed a big play,

they went to the big man. Julio Jones, who takes the screen pass perfectly executed and goes 54 yards to the end zone, putting the Falcons ahead, and they stayed ahead. It got a little dicey there at the end with Carson Wentz, making a charge deep into Falcons territory, but they get the stop on fourth down and secure a much-needed 24-20 win over the Eagles. The Falcons improved to one-in-one.

The Eagles dropped to one-in-one. Greg, this is a really quality Sunday night football game, especially the second half, where things got really dicey. Hagelar is not going to sleep tonight. That drop down the sideline would have put the Eagles back ahead, and then we see what happens with the Falcons. But that's not how it all played out, and the Falcons get the W. Well, you like to see the team that looked like the better team for most of the night get the win.

The Falcons moved the ball better for most of the night. They were certainly the healthier team. The Eagles seem to have the worst injury luck in the league. But you talked about it earlier. We're at the NFC South, how wide open it is. And this was a reminder how quickly week one can. evaporate because the Falcons are feeling great right now on a night where Matt Ryan through three interceptions through some of the passes that everyone like you,

the doubters, Dan Handis, you were getting on him in here. I didn't doubt him. I challenged him. I think he heard you. You motivated him. You called him a bum. I said, do something right here in a big spot, Matt Ryan. I'm sick of you, not coming up big.

And what do you do? He came up big. He went to the play and changed the call at the line of scrimmage, seeing that Jim Swartz once again playing without a safety, bring in the house, which he brought the house all second half, and Matt Ryan made him pay on that. And Jake Matthews with a pancake block. It was just a perfectly executed play by a Falcons offense

that has been maligned in the post-Shanahan years. But for one night and one play call, everything was right. And they really should have lost. I mean, if you think about the Aguilar, who knows, maybe Matt Ryan would have gone back down the field, too. The fact that the Eagles were in this game, despite Carson Wentz had about 89 yards at some point in the fourth quarter with two interceptions. He had been hit all night. They lose Al-Shan Jeffrey.

They lose Deshaun. How many injuries? Jackson. And yet, the Eagles were still right in that game to have Aguilar drop it and miss the chance to win there. In so many ways, other than the Ryan picks, this is the kind of defense and the kind of game that Dan Quinn wants. I think if the Falcons find a way to not win this game. Okay. I forgot about that.

Carrie. Now, is that still the song? All I'd say is that her, like, can we confirm? No, what she's crooning now, the newer version is even lesser than that version was. It's in Wisconsin litigation. Well, she's heading in the wrong direction,

so I've got nothing to worry about. I mean, if you're the Falcons, Dan Quinn is faced with questions all week about his job security and the direction of a team that, you know, everyone was all in on Dan Quinn, and if they start O and two, they look farther removed from that Super Bowl year than ever imaginable. I'm still concerned, though, about an offense where Matt Ryan has thrown five picks in two games. He had what, West? Seven all year, you mentioned?

Seven all year last year. Your leading rusher is Edo Smith with 32 yards. Devante Freeman, who's back from injury, is rushing for two yards per carry. I don't know. It's nice to escape with a win here but the defante freeman comeback season is not off to a great start you know smith you mentioned he goes four for 32 the long was 28 yards so he had most of those other three on one play uh so yeah i don't think the falcons are a finished uh product on offense hopefully they'll continue to evolve calvin ridley and julio jones again look like one of the best one two punches in the league i just want to get back to the eagles for a second here wence this is one of my favorite and i need to rewatch this game, but especially the second half

was one of my favorite Carson Wentz games I've ever seen because he did nothing and the Eagles had tons of issues in the first half with the injuries, including Wence who went into the pop-up tent for a while after taking that vicious shot to his chops. And he was,

he just had, you know, great will and spirited in the second half of this game. And if Algohar doesn't drop that pass, I mean, this is a total different conversation we're having. You can't get too excited about the falcons defense on that last stand because they got bailed out on a terrible drop and then on fourth down, Wentz in the face of incredible pressure and a crush another

crushing hit hangs in tight and delivers another big reception. Algar caught this one and then they got out of it from there. But I think the Falcons have a lot of issues still and they're going to feel good about themselves right now as they should. But I think this team has a lot of work to do. Wentz is still the guy that, you know, there were two or three plays tonight where we were like he is dead meat. And then he's escaping, rolling, you know, pulling away from a defender. You think he's pulled down a second time. Unfurals a throw, the one where the knee is nearly touching the ground. And it's a completion. He's magical to watch when he's on. Grady Jarrett with a big game. We talked before the season started how the season could come down

to attack McKinley and Vic Beasley. Beasley, not necessarily a good game. He was the guy that Carson once was carrying on his back on one play as he threw falling to his knee. But Vic Beasley did kind of run into a key sack late in the game, and McKinley had eight hurries and two QB hit. So he was very active for the Falcons. I'm not worried about the style point. Give me a break. They're playing the Eagles, one of the Super Bowl type of favorite teams.

It's week two. You just try to get out of there with the win, and you're happy. Give you a break. And you're happy. Get no break from me. There's no style points. You just put this one in the bank, and you hope you keep getting better. They were flat and ugly in week one,

and this was not a very pretty game either, but they did come out of the right end. Well, there's no NFC South team that any of us could feel good about right now. No. They should feel the best tonight. Well, they're not the team that's had both. No Alshan Jeffrey in this game.

The bowls of sons. That feels so four days old at this point. Deshaun Jackson leaves with an injury and Went still almost brought this team back, but he doesn't. They have to be worried, though, about the injuries. They feels like they have some of the worst injury look in the entire NFL.

And sometimes that's what it comes down. Like sometimes you're, I mean, seasons come down to luck, probably more than anything, that they make the tackle on Zacherts when he's coming back to the ball. So he's half a yard short on fourth down. And maybe that's the difference between winning or losing. You stack up like three of those versus getting unlucky three times. You're 11 and 5 versus 5 and 11. And most importantly,

There are reports that this affected Rick Holliday's fantasy team, if I'm not mistaken, which certainly directly affects our show and the result of our show ultimately in how we're treated. Why? Why does that have anything to do with anything? Well, because you know, you're a bit of a wild. See, that's what I'm talking about right there. That's why. We don't get that if your fantasy team is flying to the skies.

I'm abused by it. Is it true, Erica, that the Julio Jones touchdown cost of your fantasy match? It did. It did. Well, they also had the Patriots defense on their team. But I was still, okay, okay. Pay it for it. These are the Eagles injuries before we sign off.

Corey Clement's shoulder, Tim Jernigan, foot, DeShon Jackson groin, Dallas Goddard, Calf, Alshon Jeffrey, CAF, Carson Wentz, check for concussion. Nelson Algar, check for concussion. Jason Kelsey was injured, I mean. Jason Peters at the end. Dan Hans is check for concussion, please. All right, it's time to go. You'll be checked for a concussion when the Jets take out the Browns on Monday night. See, this is how you really feel.

Fanhansa signing off. More Quiet Storm, the mailman, the old boss, and Ricky Alley by the glass. JETS! You know, I'm going to be. I'm a lot of You know

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