NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - 2026 NFL Week 2 Recap

Episode Date: September 21, 2026

Gregg Rosenthal, Jourdan Rodrigue and Nick Shook recap all of the Week 2 action from around the NFL. The show starts off with a look at the Saints beating the Ravens and is followed by games between the Raiders and Chargers, Browns and Buccaneers, Vikings and Bears, Commanders and Cowboys, Bengals and Texans, Jaguars and Broncos, Eagles and Titans, Packers and Jets, Steelers and Patriots, Seahawks and Cardinals, Dolphins and 49ers, Panthers and Falcons, and Colts and Chiefs.NFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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maybe we just don't know anything. Maybe I'm upset. We're all upset. No, I love this Sunday. I'm Greg Rosenthal. I'm here in the Chris Wesleying podcast studio with Nick Shook and Jordan Roderig. And yes, that is the theme at the top of our show.

Some big time surprises, including your brownies, Shucky. You tried to go against them again, and they proved you wrong. Yeah, but you know what? You want to talk about upsets? I don't think anybody had a weather delay being involved two hours.

Well, they maybe should have because there is a annual lightning delay in Tampa. It's usually week three. It's never with two minutes left in the game. It's not where we're going to start this show. We're going to start in the division where, yes, the Saints were one of the biggest underdogs of the day, go into Baltimore and Declan Doyle,

but they left there with a victory. Balls at the 37, second and 10. 20 seconds. Snap. Jackson. Lofton one. And that is going to be picked off. Julian Blackman.

Julian Blackman slides down at the 10-yard line to finish it off. Julian Blackman. The Saints get the turnover when they need it the most. 13 seconds to play. Heading for the exits of the Baltimore. Get excited, Mike Haas, on WWL. Saints go into Baltimore, come from behind win. 24 to 17.

On a day where, yes, they gave up one of the highest success rates ever to a losing team. They only gave up 17 points. Nick Shook, you had close eyes on this one. There's something about this Brandon Staley Saints defense that they're greater than the sum of their parts. How did they get it done today? There's something about this entire Saints team that they play their best football in the final two quarters and they managed to stay just close enough. although Detroit being down 21, nothing isn't really that close. Just close enough to mount a comeback.

And this time they finished the job because it didn't look good early. They're down 14 to 3. There's all types of success in the ground for Derek Henry. He's running right through the defense. It seems like the Ravens are on their way to a double-digit victory. But then things start to slow down for Baltimore's offense. And then they start to apply pressure and they stop the run. And Derek Henry disappears from the picture right when Tyler Shuck comes through and says,

I'm going to lead us on a comeback that's actually going to stick this time. There is something about Tyler Shuck, and it's dangerous with small sample size. Mm-hmm. You know, I know the analytics maybe would push back. Like, is there such a thing as Clutch? He has played his best when it's mattered the most in his young career, including in this situation, including some of the dimes that he's thrown to Chris Olavi, one of the best connections right now in the entire NFL. At the 21, Shuck takes it out on the shotgun, stands, fires it to the end zone, caught by Chris Olave,

And that is a touchdown, New Orleans. Chris Olame, wide open in the end zone from 21 yards out. It's one of those throws that you appreciate it more from the camera over his head because he has been good at anticipating finding holes in the zone. Olave with eight catches, 86 yards and a touchdown. Juan Johnson has another good game. It just, like, I'm now going to stop being surprised that they're competitive with really good teams. Do you know, though, quarterbacks talk about this a lot.

It's not something that's really quantifiable, the so-called clutch gene, or do you have it or do you not? It's this thing that they know when they have it. And oftentimes you can see it start to emerge from a player with how they do things like performance after critical error, like the way that they, we know Tyler Shuck sometimes, to his detriment, likes to stand in the pocket and take a sack, right? But sometimes those types of things building up, you can start to see the quarterbacks like real personality emerge out of adversity. and whether it's performance after curled at pace or whether it's something like this coming from behind, it just sort of starts to become a little bit of an identifying trait

for Tyler Shuck. Yeah, and I think a big part of what he's finding success with is the connection with Chris Olavet, which really started at the end of last season. I think about that game they played against the Titans where he just throws one up to Olavet for a touchdown, I believe in the fourth quarter of that game. Now we're seeing this on a consistent basis

from one week to the next. And it started early for him in this game. Alave finishes the eight catches for 86 yards and that touchdown. The beauty of that touchdown is how he kind of man manipulates the defense. You see Roquan kind of drifting out to the left a little bit, and then he throws it right over his head for a touchdown in a wide open window at the third level of the defense. That's him being comfortable, understanding where he needs to go and trusting his top target in Olave. And then it spreads from there. It's not just Olave. It's Juwan Johnson, who keeps making plays in the fourth quarter of these games.

Devon Velae, a little bit of, you know, Oscar Delp. I mean, Bryce Lance. We got all these different players involved here. I don't even need to see Noah. I mean, they each had one catch for like eight yards. but Velae has stepped up without Jordan Tyson there, and he's been a factor. What I wanted to ask you about, Shook, was the decision by the Saints to go for it on fourth and goal. They're on the goal line. The go-ahead touchdown, and, you know, the call gets screwed up because you're not sure if they actually made it or not.

But basically, it's a tie game under a couple minutes to go. And Kellyn Moore, for the second time in two weeks, decides we're going to go for it. This is the type of team we're going to be. He ends up getting that touchdown. What do you think about the coaching, the aggression there by the Saints? I like the aggression a lot

because I think he sensed in that moment that they needed a touchdown to win this game. Because before that game ending interception, the Ravens were driving again. That's respect for Lamar Jackson and what the Ravens can do. And it's also understanding that I need to send a message to my team that we're not going to go out passively. We're not going to make a college football reference.

Play not to lose like Ryan Day did against Texas. No, we're going to go for it. even if it gets your quarterback bent backward very awkwardly. I thought he actually broke the plane on third down and was further away from it on fourth down there when they actually got the touchdown. Doesn't matter. It all works out for them and it tells me again

that Tyler Shuck is tough as nails. So the running game has been a disaster for them. Camara comes back for this game. He catches five balls for seven yards, but they couldn't get anything done on the ground. Chase Young has been fantastic for back-to-back weeks. He's just like a beast right now. But like what do you think about, though?

the Ravens like giving up, like just last week, I'm saying, oh, isn't it nice that the Ravens can just normally hold a three score lead? And this game was not that. It was 14 to 9 early in the third quarter. Like, it was close throughout. But this is a like a missed opportunity. What is it about this Ravens team right now that they couldn't hold on? That's the thing. The missed opportunities actually started in the first half when Tyler Loop hits like a knuckler on a field goal and ends up missing it. So that's three points taken off the board. And then if you look at their possession times in the second half after their field goal drive, minute 41, minute 36, minute 15, that last one being the interception to end the game. They just didn't have the ball. There was a

sequence late in the third quarter where the Ravens get after the Saints and they force them into some crazy downs and distances where it's like fourth and 26 in their punting. And then the Saints go do the exact same thing to the Ravens. They lost all of their offensive momentum, their rhythm, and their identity. And I think it started with going away from Derek Henry and they're going to regret that. You know what kind of interesting too is you see some of these key moments. And I like to always after a game finishes, I like to look at next-gen stats, the win probability card. The Saints one versus the Ravens here today is, is like very, very neutral and then all of a sudden starts really spiking up in the Saints favor, and

especially after a fourth and one at the Baltimore 44, when the Saints are in no huddle and Tyler Shuck goes up the middle and gains the yard to the Baltimore 43. And it's little things like that that aren't necessarily the ones that we remember, but it's the ball control that Baltimore was really effective at and is really effective at and is really effective at when they play it. This was a little bit of that for the saints. So the saints pull off a big upset. You know, I like themes for these shows. One other theme, unfortunately, on Sunday was young quarterbacks getting hurt.

That's a bummer of a way to start the show. So we're not going to start with the quarterbacks getting hurt, but we'll get to that soon enough. Another big upset, at least on paper, was the Raiders going across the street. not really in a way game for them, but it was the first time that they won with Raiders fans in the crowd against the Chargers. So it hasn't helped them in the past.

We're definitely in the crowd. Let's go. Raiders Chargers. 3 and 5 on the Chargers 11 for Kirk Cousins and the pistol. Two tight ends stacked right with Best to the right side of them. Now Mayor Motions.

It is a play fake with a blitz. Off his back foot to the endzo. Touchstone. He's a good. Coe! He doubled his career total all in the second half. $259 to go in the game. The Raiders up two scores and a chance to win here in SoFi for the first time since 2020.

That's the type of energy I'm looking for. Jason Horowitz, Kirk Morrison. Would have led the show with that if I had heard it right off the bat. That's incredible. And I think it's a broadcast crew. and a fan base right now that is feeling giddy because they just won these two games in a very raider way. And to beat the Chargers by a couple of scores,

we'll get to what a disaster it is for them, with guys that are castoffs. Kirk Cousins is a castoffs. Durek Young is a former Seahawk that Clint Kubiak brought here. He scores a touchdown in this game. He's a cast off. Cody White is a castoff from Seattle. And Kirk Cousins, I think, was exemplary in this game for completing passes, and that was not one of them, where the time that he threw it, like, the NGS completion expected percentage was very low.

And yet he actually hung in there and he so doesn't want to take a hit right now at this point of his career. But in this game, I did feel like he was willing to hold the ball and take a couple hits. And he had some courageous throws. It felt like a miracle that they were leading in this game at one point, but they were the better team in. the fourth quarter. I think we thought that, I mean, we all, we thought a lot of things, right, before week one, and then week one happens. Then we think a lot of other things and now week two and dangerous times for the chargers, which we'll get to. But I think we thought that this would not be a division that the Raiders would have any success in at all this season. But it's stuff like

this. It's Kirk Cousins being willing to change up the way that he's most comfortable with playing a little bit. I saw it. When I see him in the pistol, I get a little bit worried still because I just remember what it was with Atlanta and how he was forced into the pistol because of his lack of movement skills and all of that. But they're using it, uh, you know, with more discretion in Las Vegas so far. And I like it. I like how he's distributing the ball to his playmakers, even without Brock Bowers again for a second consecutive week. And Greg, the longer developing, like, you had a comment when we were sitting in there watching the game today where you're like, man, it might take a while to get there, but the ball is getting there. The comment was you could

have recorded his touchdown pass, which was for 40 yards to Troy Tucker with a sundial. I mean, that thing took forever. And that was a busted coverage at a time in the game where Derwin James was out of the game, although I think it was more hurtful for them on that particular play that Elijah Molden, who's normally their starter was out. And Genesis Smith, a rookie was in there. That was a busted coverage. The game winning touchdown was a busted coverage. They definitely got help. But there also were great throws by Kirk Cousins, like I mentioned, on the move. Let's listen to one of my favorite completions of the entire day. It's a no look by Kirk Cousins.

Second and 10. Bash motions left. In slot right. Cousins to snap. He's looking over the middle. Late pressure. Taking a deep shot for Tucker. Holes it in at the Chargers 45.

He went right down the seam. Time out, Clint Kubiak with 22 seconds. Tucker basket catch right down the middle of the field for 43 yards. They looked like a better coach team. Now, you're not going to count on Kirk Cousins as the hits coming in, like turning his head away and chucking it as far as he can to get a late first half field goal to happen too often. But to me, that was very typical because the Chargers blew their drive

just before that. The Raiders have the ball deep in their own end, and they stay aggressive. Like, that's a time where I almost thought they would just run and go into halftime. And they get three points. And, like, they looked in year one, like a better coached operation. than the Chargers do right now in year three under Jim Harbaugh and the first year under Mike McDaniel. I think there's something fun about a new coach with a team that buys in and the fact that they started with two wins this year.

Because you don't really know that you could make a mistake or that things could go wrong because they haven't really gone wrong. You're ignorant to the idea of the fact that you could all this could go terribly and you could lose this football game because they've had success in the first two games. So that's how you get Kirk Cousin still trusting what he has left in his arm to chuck it downfield and complete a big pass. And then you end up winning another game this time against the Chargers team that most of us had as the expected winners in this game. And it's just so fun because like you said, they won this in such a Rader way. Well, what is the Rader way? I don't know. We're figuring that out in real time.

It's 2 and O. Improbable. You're right. Improbable weirdness. Herbert was a problem late in this game. Like early, like he has an interception on a great throw that David Njoku just volleyballs up like he was setting it. Unfortunately, Injoko left with what looked like a serious injury later in the game, a knee injury. Charlie Kohler also left this game.

So they're going to be short at tight end potentially, depending on how serious that Kohler injury is. Herbert, I think, wasn't that bad for most of the game, but you get to the fourth quarter and it was a nightmare. He holds the ball too long near the goal line and fumbles. They're very lucky to recover it. He fumbles another play where he's holding the ball and rolling out. Then his last two drives of the game, they're probably got to lose. lose at this point anyways, but he throws an interception and then he takes a safety where Joe Alt takes the fourth of his penalties on the day. Max Crosby owned Joe Alt in this game. So

there's so many things going wrong for the Chargers, but it's just, it's just discombobulated. There was a third and one play while they're still in this game, down three points, and Herbert sends Trey Harris in motion too late. The operation's bad. They snap it, and it hits Trey Harris. like as he's going across and they have to punt and the Raiders end up going to score kind of the go-ahead touch or the game ceiling touchdown after that. So much of what we saw from them in camp looked so clean and then also maximizing

the strengths of this roster, which were perceived to be the tight ends, for example, and Ladd-McConkie. And all of those guys now, Ladd-McConkie has entered the game banged up after a hip shot last week. You know, obviously Charlie Kohler and then David Nizoku got banged

up as well and then the tackles. And what we did see in camp, though, Greg, was a couple of times at that practice we were at. We did see center to quarterback timing issues. This is a timing predicated offense. I think we did warn at the beginning of all of this with Mike McDaniel is that some of the timing plays, the motions, it takes a minute for those things to set up. But when you're in a hole like this early on in the season, including a game to an

an AFC West rival that you didn't expect to be such a rival early on, that's a problem. That's the weird thing about this team right now. And I'm not discounting the injuries that they have suffered. But that's been the story with them over the last two years. Well, the offensive line's gotten hurt. Herbert's had no time to throw. He's done whatever he could. Yes, they lost their center before the start of the season, which matters a lot.

But most of this group is largely intact. And yet they continue to play very sloppy football. And the defense. And the defense has just been mediocre to disappointing in the last two weeks. I think the first team ever, you know, they lose 26 to 14 in the first two games of the season. I think one other team ever has ever lost twice, 26 to 14 the same year. Stupid stat. We talked to all offseason about how they had the easiest first two weeks of any team.

And their own? Home for Arizona and the Raiders. They not only lose both games, but they lose both games by two scores. I thought last week they looked clearly like the inferior team. I didn't have that feeling in this game. It felt more like the Raiders made a handful of great plays, but then the Chargers totally crumbled. late. The first catch that Cody White had was one of the craziest catches of the entire season for a touchdown. But the fact that they crumbled so bad and now the tough part of their schedule starts at Buffalo at Seattle, Denver at Kansas City, then a buy, then the Rams, Texans at Baltimore, all in a row. The heat is on Jim Harbaugh in a really serious way. We will see how that goes. The same could be true.

for the head coach right now in Tampa Bay. Let's go there. Here we go. Fourth down, 22 ticks to go. Baker's got the ball. Baker to throw. Baker going. End zone.

Incomplete! Incomplete in the end zone. They wanted a Buka and the Browns take over on downs. They're up 23 to 19, and they can take a knee and get out of Tampa with a victory over the fucking ears. Nick Shook's not going to be happy. At least Andrew Siciliano. Thank you.

Yes, that's our friend on WKRK. And our friend is going to be hosting a Thursday night recap this week, actually. Andrew Siciliano and Nick Shook teaming up for that one. Before that could happen, though, we have more Andrew highlights because, yeah, the Browns went in there. And the lightning delay is what everyone's going to remember from this game. They had a four-point lead, two minutes left to go, and they have a two-hour delay. They hold on with it still raining. after the break, a comeback victory.

You more impressed by them making Baker Mayfield look bad in this revenge game or by the offense getting it together in the second half. You know, from a macro perspective, I know we're only two weeks into the season, I don't know what to think about this Buccaneers offense because I don't know if it shines a positive light on the Bengals and what they did against him considering what they did against Houston, which we'll talk about later, or if it shines a positive light on the Brown's defense or if they just are discombobulated offensively. What I know is that he looks very uncomfortable, and the Browns capitalized on that. So what am I more impressed by?

The fact that they were able to hang on against their former quarterback who was this close to throwing a game-winning touchdown and came up short. And I also have, I'm probably most impressed by the fact that the Browns were able to outscore them 17 to 3 in the second half to finish the game and win this game on the road when they were so bad last week. Did not have eyes on Deshaun Watson going 17 for 21 for 18-83 yards and two touchdowns with 18 yards rushing in the same. second half. Can you, and I look, I see that the average depth of target for the game is under four. So, hell, let's. Grain of salt. Great as a hell, let's listen to one of those short passes that turned into a long game because it does highlight some of the exciting young talent, Denzel Boston and Cleveland. Deshawn changed in the play. Shotgun. McGlachlan to his left has the snap. Deshawn loads, fires caught Boston on the run. Denzo Boston breaks a tackle 30.

He's at the 20 foot races before byline. Touchdown. Browns. Denzel Boston. There you go. Bam, 55 yards. And look, Todd Bowles is going to be dying at that tackling on that play. But Watson had a nice throw that Denzel Boston couldn't, you know, bring in for a touchdown at a different point in the game.

He stuck with him. Like, what was it that got this offense going? It was this. It was short completion after short completion. It was getting the ball out quickly on time first read. Trusting your young guys. trusting Casey Concepcion, trusting Denzel Boston, even Isaiah Bond for one, catch down the sideline.

It's, you know, Watson was fine at best, but what he did do was settle into this offense and stop sitting back and dropping deep and looking and looking for the perfect throw. He just took the first thing that was there. Tampa kind of soft defensively in coverage, especially as they were hanging under that lead and then trying to just kind of pick up the pieces

in the fourth quarter. And then the weirdest part about it all was we know he's not a super mobile quarterback anymore, but there were a few instances in which it was third and short, which they managed to do a lot, get to third and short where Watson converts with his legs. They were using him as a runner more in the preseason, which made me think they were confident in it.

Yeah, and to that point, it kind of reminds me of those like, yak bro's days, not as productive, obviously, but I'm seeing like double digit yards after the catch for multiple receivers and tight ends and quenchon Judkins as well, using him in the passing game as we know they like to do. Like, this is just, this is a formula for them. Get into manageable down distances, dink and dunk, and let the playmakers do the job and hide the quarterback.

But the crazy thing is they were the worst running attack in the entire NFL today, which happens against Todd Bulls sometimes, like 17% success rate, 44 yards rushing on 23 carries. So they basically had to get it done with just Watson, with, you know, throwing the ball. And that's not a route that you would expect to work so well. Yeah. But when your defense is playing this well, it can.

Baker Mayfield had a 16% success rate throwing the ball in the first half of this game. And yet, at the end of the game, like... Baker, ball! Cape Seventh. I'm rolling, baby. Like, are we going to have to have a conversation about the contract they gave him? It looks so bad right now.

I mean, I thought it looked bad that the second they made it, but he's a streaky quarterback. This is different than streaky, though. This is somebody who is completely uncomfortable in the office. Yeah, this is not. Dropping to survey and looking and looking skittish and getting ready to try to bail out of the pocket before he even needs to.

It wasn't often that he was going to his first reader, finding guys that were even open, that were schemed open by pattern combinations. No, it was just him. missing guys trying to take off, trying to make the hero play, instead of making the simple play for most of this game. And I do give him a little bit of credit, though, because if it wasn't pouring rain after that delay,

I think he hits Ted Hurst for a touchdown that win that game. Well, that's the thing. Ted Hurst had a chance to bring in, on a nice ball from Baker in that final sequence. And then Baker misses a pretty open throw. So the Browns get some good fortune there. And yet, you got to give Todd Monk in credit for scheming him up. Todd Munkin after the game,

excited to honk a little bit at Al the Doubters. I thought our guys did a great job of hanging together. We had a couple scuffles Wednesday, which is good. That's awesome because guys didn't like it. Right? They're a little pissed off, right? You ought to be a little pissed off. Played awful. That wasn't the standard.

Browns are going to Browns. F*** that. Yeah. So the guys took that to heart. I love him. We need mock it on the show. He's even doing the thing where you start whispering every now and then as you talk and then you like build it back up.

That's a very Greg Rosenthal podcasting moment right there. Thank you to the Browns for bringing some joy, some surprise. And yeah, a one-and-one record in the Buccaneers now at 0 and 2. So those are three monster upsets, at least by week two standard to start today. I also thought it would be fun. Let's get the Raiders and the Braiders and the Brayers. Browns and the Saints like in a in the first block of the show. Maybe that'll become a trend. Maybe not. Nope. And it also would have been a bummer to start with an injury. And if you just started

listening now, good to see you. You never know. It would have been a bummer to start the show. Even though I know that like football head Supreme Jordan Roderig loved the Vikings Bears game. Oh, it was sloppy and grim. Ultimately the Caleb Williams. Williams injuries, the biggest thing coming out of this game. But a big win for Minnesota on the road. Second to go, Vikings lead nine three. Final play of the game. Bajun takes the snap. Vikings rush five.

Turner, he pushed Loveland into Bajun, and now you can go home. The Minnesota Vikings have won seven in a row at Soldier Field. The final score, 9-3. Chicago, meet Dallas. Great call there by K-F-A-N's own. Paul Allen for the first time. This season, a fitting end to a defensive battle. And weather mattered in a handful of these games.

Definitely the Bucks game. Definitely the Bears game. I would throw the Patriots game in there as well because just rain across the country. They were great in the red zone. There's one man, Jordan, with over 10 quarterback hits on this season. And that man is Dallas Turner of the Vikings. Oh, man. Dallas Turner.

I mean, he started to break out last year. He has been a good player. but this season so far has just been absolutely electric. Obviously, the biggest story of this game is Caleb Williams hurts his hamstring. In the fourth quarter, a non-contact injury. He pulls up when he's looking to run in a touchdown. He had Colston Loveland ahead of him. It's kind of motioning for him to block downfield for him.

And then right after that, the game tying field goal was blocked. And so it just goes bad to worse. The second biggest story of this game and the absolute, like, key to this game for either side, for any phase of either of these teams was the Minnesota Vikings defense. This was an absolute masterclass for Brian Flores. There is no other way to describe it. He held week one's highest scoring offense to just three points.

So ridiculous. In week two, this defense, like I said, was the best group on the field in any phase for either of these teams. They held up the entire Vikings operation on the other side. They hid all of course. Wences disaster and near disastrous plays in the first half, Brian Flores blitz is Caleb Williams on 75% of his dropbacks per next-gen

stats. And he's six of 10 for 46 yards in interception and a sack on those plays. And that's not even getting me started on the penalties, guys. And the blitz rate increased from there. So I don't know what it was for Bayesian, but it gets up close to 80%. No one is running defense like Brian Flores is right out. No one has ever run defense like Brian Flores has run it 80% through two weeks in terms of the blitz rate.

And yeah, it's not a surprise, but the 56 point drop from one week to the next is the fourth largest in NFL history. The most since 1973, I think there was a Rochester team that was higher. And you mentioned how the defense was good throughout. Look, the injury will get to kind of the impact of that in a second. But in the first half, there was a goal line stand. I know Paul Allen's going to deliver on this one. DeAndre Swift getting stuffed at the one. Caleb to DeAndre smashed to the point of attack.

He dropped it. And Isaiah Rogers recovered it. The Minnesota Vikings turn over the Chicago Bears at the one-yard line. Yeah, that is. So in the third quarter, the Bears opened the second half because in a way that indicated that Ben Johnson was really freaking and pissed off. And he should have been. They ended the first half with a penalty. Another penalty. Caleb was hit on second of 25, has to throw it away. Intentional grounding. Two minute warning

hits. Third and 23, false start. Another penalty. Third and 28th, Dallas Turner again and Jalen Redmond on the pressure. It's an incomplete pass and they're out of field goal range. They go into the locker room. Ben Johnson is completely irritated. You can tell. So he comes out and they start trying to get DeAndre Swift and Kyle Monongai going and a lot of that zone running, that they're super productive. in this is just the Bears day, though. They get to the goal line, and it's Jalen Redmond, again, the interior defensive lineman who punches out that ball. And Isaiah Rogers, who had another interception late in the game,

like, they just were, they just kept hitting them in the worst moments. And that series that I mentioned ahead of the first half, the end of the first half, was so indicative of how much the Vikings defense was messing up the, messing up the timing for this entire offense. not only were they hassling Caleb Williams with all the different pressure looks that they were bringing pre-snap and at snap. The timing was so messed up.

They kept rotating their offensive linemen. Their offensive line, by the way, who gave up 17 pressures throughout the game. And also of the eight penalties, Chicago committed four were on Garrett Bradbury alone. He's been a problem. It was a disaster all around. The only thing they could do at times was run the ball.

And they just could not sustain even that. And that Isaiah Roger, play. They set up the final play. They end up calling back the interception late. I thought he made it. Byron Murphy did have an interception in this game too. Look, Caleb Williams and the Bears have a little bit of a Brian Flores problem. This is three times they faced them where the passing game just hasn't worked. But you could just say the NFL has a Brian Flores problem. This division has a Brian Flores problem. And talk about managing a schedule. I love a good schedule management. you get your quarterback injured in week one.

You're losing, you have two division games back to back, and you come back on the Packers like they did, and then you win on the road in the division. You're 2-0 in the division with Carson Wentz, taking almost all the snaps. And Kyler Murray is expected to be back next week, according to Kevin O'Connell said he should be out of the concussion protocol. And the running game was better for Minnesota,

but I don't think there's a quarterback controversy or anything. No, God, no. Oh, my God, no. Not at all. Oh, never let us see that again. Two working eyes. I think you understand who you're going to have to go to a quarterback. It's what's so interesting about this and the way you just described this too is like this is a team that basically dug out of what was going to be a loss last week on the backs of their defense.

This is a team that completely shuts down the high scoring bears on the back of their defense and timely turnovers. And it's a team that could very much be looking at four and O going into week five against the Saints. But I think that when you look at. look at this when we go back afterward. This is one of those games at lower levels of football where a coach would go into the locker room after the game. And because I've watched this happen. This has happened to me before.

They go in, they just start going, spent all week reading your press clippings. You thought you were all high and mighty. You thought you were untouchable. No. This is one that's a good reminder to the Bears that they have to pay attention to detail. I mean, the press coupings are created from him

saying they want to have the greatest offensive attack. It's a humbling game for everyone. It happens. I mean, who's to say? Is he a Dan Campbell merchant? like, you know, things like narratives change from Thursday to Sunday. Do what I did there. Stir the drink a little bit.

I mean, I'm joking. The dumbest point, though, is ever going to be made on the show. But that's just the most key thing possible. Yeah, the rain and all of that. But it just was so sloppy entirely for this entire offensive operation that to me, losing the game to an elite defensive mind like Brian Flores, an elite strategic mind like Brian Flores, that's going to sting less, in my opinion,

then what Ben Johnson is going to watch from down to down from this entire operation. You can live with yourself and your team if you give up plays, if you're outscored, if you're in the rain, if something crazy happens to your quarterback, unfortunately. But at the same time, if you're committing this number of penalties, if you look this sloppy in sequences that you worked on all off season, such as the late first half, like that is what he's going to be sick about. And look, Caleb Williams heard his amstring on a play that they could have possibly scored a touchdown out.

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Prescott back second and seven. Throw it in the end zone. Lamb, flagged down. Touchmade. Touchdown. It's two for Lamb. Four for Prescott. And Dak Prescott will have thrown more touchdown passes than any Cowboys quarterback in a career

ever. Pretty cool moment there for Dak Prescott. passing Tony Romo on the all-time Cowboys touchdown list. That's Brad Sham of KRLD. Now, this is the Cowboys offense we wanted to see. Unfortunately, it's the Commander's defense we expected to see as well. The Cowboys win 37 to 20 on a day where C.D. Lamb goes off, 153 yards and two touchdowns. And yeah, that catch was set up by the Piss Missile.

Dak Prescott having a great day three touchdowns two and 20 yards 24 of 29 on a second and long here Rifles 1 CD Lamb He's got it Beauty of a throw from Dak Prescott on target Absolute piss missile up the sideman

Samer's still stinking in cover two I apologize to Tom Brady for stepping on him there but man can't take for granted you know Tom's performance or just Like, these throws and catches are so pretty, Jordan. Yeah, when Dak, Prescott, and C.D. Lamb want to completely take over a game and start hitting that connection. It's pretty close to unstoppable because actually the commander's defense played a creditable game for a lot of this game. Durante Jones of either phase, and certainly more than the Cowboys defense, impress me today.

Durante Jones, the new defensive coordinator for the commanders. Dak Prescott finished 26 of 31 for 279, four touchdowns, and obviously, as the sham god said, holds the franchise record for touchdown passes with 249. And the Cowboys really needed a pallet cleanser game like this. And it came really through the passing game. A couple of their best runs got called back via penalty as well. But this was an astounding surge from the Cowboys after going up early, letting the commanders kind of hang around a little bit too long.

And then finally putting the nail in the coffin, and courtesy of those two plays on the same drive. So when Dak Prescott was blitzed, 11 of 14, not for many yards, but just like, he knows what to do. You're in good hands when you have Dak Prescott a quarterback. When he was pressured, 9 of 13 for 101 yards, the running game, as you mentioned, kind of didn't get going. But what did you kind of see?

Was there anything that surprised you out of the passing game and kind of how they handled it? No, this was what we hoped and thought it would look like. A lot of people got a lot of different looks. there were really defined layers built in. There was motion. There were, they were trying to stretch the field wide as well as vertically. They were getting the ball to the tight ends.

They were playing different personnel. Like, you know, Jake Ferguson had a touchdown as well. This to me was what it looked like and what it was supposed to look like the entire season. Unfortunately, for the Cowboys, it also comes with the expectation that they have to score a lot because this defense was astounding and not in a good way. Again, and I want to say, too, to not bury the lead, because I want to tell you to, talk about what this defense did before Jaden Daniels got hurt and after Jaden Daniels got hurt. We should not bury the lead here that Jaden Daniels suffered what Dan Quinn confirmed is a dislocated elbow. So obviously his recovery timeline is still unknown as we're taping this,

but it was a gnarly play. He was moving the ball really, really well before the play, especially using his legs a lot. Stefan Diggs was sort of having his way with the Cowboys defense as well. And then once he comes out, Marcus Mariotta comes in, quality backup. but just not the same. The Cowboys Front starts getting after Marcus Marriota a little bit more. Still some huge issues in the Cowboys secondary. But it was a clear difference in how this game was going to go. It reminds me of that Caleb Williams injury because not only did you lose your franchise quarterback from the game,

it was such a consequential play in the game. It was the last play of the first half. They go for it with no time remaining essentially on a third down and goal from the one and it's a totally discombobulated play. He ran the ball and I know he was moving it, but he led the NFL in Scramble Rate as a rookie. He led it in his second year. And I'm sure he's close to leading it or leading it right now. Like he got most of his yards on the ground, 69. Unfortunately, that elbow is an injury we have history with. He missed three games with it last year. And who knows if it's the same severity or not, but when he came back, he only lasted one

more game and I think one full game and then he hurt it again and was out for the rest of the season. So unfortunately, like injuries have become a huge part of the Jane Daniels story. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the second time he's gotten hurt in Dallas as well. And it's just unfortunate. Like you think about it. What did the football gods have against the commanders in their quarterback situation? Because it wasn't just like a rolled ankle or anything. He gets stepped on by his center as he's trying to basically bootleg out, stumbles, lands on that elbow and it's and the the slow mo of it was gruesome. I mean, it was disgusting. And yet we, the commanders find themselves in the same spot again with Marcus Marietto.

One of the better backups in the NFL leading the offense, but it just lowers the ceiling on this team overall. Well, and then in the third quarter and like I said, to that point, I was pretty impressed with how Durante Jones, the defense just kept showing up, kept making plays. No, it wasn't super effective when they were pressuring Dak Prescott, but they had bottled up the run pretty well. And like I mentioned, had a couple called back with. penalties. And the passing, you know, I just really felt like that flipped so much. And the Dallas defense finally gets its big moment when J. Shambaram forces a fumble. D. Winters recovers it. It's really an effort play that we hadn't seen a lot of to start the season from the Cowboys with everyone

swarming to try to get that ball and then sets the Cowboys up in the red zone. Dak Prescott hits the touchdown. It's sort of game over at that point. And for me, it really was the only moment that I could extrapolate where I was not genuinely concerned still about some of the communication issues that I'm seeing from the Cowboys. And it was exactly what you would like to see in a sort of an alternate universe here with these Dallas Cowboys, which is the defense forcing turnovers and setting things up for an offense that will score touchdowns in an opportunity like that. So the Cowboys get to one in one needed that.

Commanders at O and 2 and staring at some Mario at a time, who like Nick said, is a good backup, but he's not Jane Daniels. And nice to see Jashon Barham, who got a lot of attention last week for being at the center, a lot of their bad plays, for walking away from Christian Parker when he's trying to tell him something out of frustration. And these are the growing pains when you're playing young players. They got plenty of them. They get the win here. So I thought we would probably be leading this week with either Bengals Texans or Broncos Jaguars. These were the games between the teams that we expected.

Okay, they're going to be in the playoff mix. you know, they weren't as close necessarily in the Houston, Texan state case, but I did find this game fascinating. Shotgun snap, Burroughs from the pocket, fires deep downfield, Jamar Chase trying to make the catch near the

pylon. He's got it. Touchdown. Bengals. He was defended by first team all-pro Derek Stingley. They collided near the pylon. Stingley went down, and Chase miraculously made the

catch and got both feet down. An absolutely sick catch by Jamar Chase. That was Dan Horde on WCKY. The Bengals control the Texans 20 to 6. And that play was such a good reminder of just great offense beats great defense. The Bengals had to work so hard for their yards and their scores today. And they were just better. Like that throw is absolutely perfect.

Thrown with such anticipation, that adjustment on the ball is ridiculous by Jamar Chase. In fact, both of Jamar Chase's touchdowns. To me, we're just great offense beating great defense. Shotgun snap, Burrow under pressure, begins scrambling right, gets away from a sack, points toward the end zone, throws. Jamar Chase makes the catch. Touchdown! Bengals, two touchdown catches.

For Jamar Chase and the Bengals are on the verge of going up by 14. Oh, Reed Blankenship at the center of things once again. Over pursuit. Yeah, although you kind of just give credit there because ultimately, like, he... Still an amazing point. That's Chase finding the soft spot in the zone. Right, exactly. It's really Aziz Al-Sahir's spot in the zone and Chase sees what's happening, undercuts it.

There's quick pressure on Joe Burrow, which there was for a lot of this day, and he gets out of the way. and makes a throw on the move. I was so impressed, Shook with Burrow in this game because he got absolutely leveled. Supposedly came in with a back injury. You would never have known it because he took some clean shots

on that back, on his shoulder. They got after him, especially Will Anderson. And Burrow just kept getting up and making enough big plays to chase and to T. Higgins. Higgins ends up with five catches, 95 yards. It's just like,

our players are better than your players. and our defense is going to make enough plays to win. Yeah, it's only a week to win, but I think it matters so much from an emotional standpoint because, like, for most of this game, success rate, 27.6%. It's not like you're moving the ball up and down the field at will. You know you're playing against an elite defense,

and you know you're on the road, and it's a great test of how you can withstand these challenges, and what it ends up being is a game of big plays, games in which you make the key plays in the big moments that produce points, and then you're able to win a game by 14 points against a team that shouldn't even allow that many points based on their defense. And couple that with a defense that holds the Texans to six points,

despite giving up 374 yards as a total offense. Bend, but don't break Bengals, baby. Right. I'm glad you brought up that success rate because it really explains sort of what I saw with my eyes, which was just like they just hit big plays every once in a while when they needed to. But overall, like the running game wasn't good for the Bengals. It was just better than the Texans.

And the passing game wasn't consistent for, the Bengals, but when they had high leverage snaps, they came through with plays like that. And Burrow ends up five for nine with a touchdown against pressure. It's crazy looking at six points and looking at CJ Strouds, you know, 55 passing attempts, 353 passing yards, obviously no touchdowns, no interceptions. And then you look at the running game and it's like David Montgomery, six carries for 10 yards total. A week after the run game, it wasn't getting a lot of yards. yards per carry, but it was at least falling forward, like it was actually creating a little.

It was a disaster. And that's my question is what was not working about it? And why could they not capitalize on on these yards? I mean, they were moving the ball all game. So it wasn't just the garbage time thing. And Stroud did get some, some yards late in the game. But they had almost 200 yards of offense in the first half. They were out getting the Bengals even in the first app. Couldn't score. I mean, it's the running game. Their offensive line. back to where we were. Woody Marks eight rushes for eight yards

too. They have a key, like third and one where they're absolutely stopped. They have a fourth and one. They have a second and one where they don't even get that one yard. Like that was a huge transition in that game. Keelan Rutledge, I would say, and then Evan Brown especially, were getting

destroyed. Like, what was wrong was they were playing Dexter Lawrence. Yeah, there it is. Yeah. There it is. So you're saying... It took me a while to get there. So you're saying that you're going to give the Bengals defense some credit.

They were incredible. Jonathan Allen and Dexter Lawrence were two of the five players with at least four pressure. So now there's 55 attempts, but it was the first half too. Jonathan Allen had six pressures in the first half alone. So he and Dexter Lawrence were killing the interior of the line. So it was center, Evan Brown, and then Rutledge got some two. They had a ton of penalties. I mean, the offensive line was so bad.

And was the problem? I know we're going to sound like C.J. Stroud defenders. Like, for the most part, I thought he played quite well in this game. Like, there were three or four drops. Jared Wayne was way too big of a part of what was going on. Nico Collins, of course, didn't play. And they're throwing the ball to Jared Wayne in key spots. I think seven targets.

He only had 33 yards in a lot of the high leverage moments. Like, he's just not winning those battles. But I think it started up front. Yeah, and correct me if I'm wrong, but Ed Ingram came into this game, was not able to play, was not healthy through the week. But also to that point, I don't know that he would have fared that much better. I had, I had real concerns about the right side of that offensive line last week as well. It's a real credit to the Bengals and what they knew they would

be able to do immediately against vulnerable positioned groups like this interior and like this offensive line is overall when they made that Dexter Lawrence trade. They called their shot with the high pick that they sent for it. And he showed up. Right. Last week he was impactful without being in the box score. This week, he was incredibly all pro level, Dexter Lawrence, impactful, and was in the box score. It's so hard to have one, eight carries for

one yard. One yard per carry. Yeah, Wyatt Teller was the replacement at Guard who did not fare well. My heart is breaking. The Texans are Super Bowl pick, Greg. I'm not, I'm not that worried. O and two, we're going to be fine. Not yours. My Super Bowl pick won today. Well, they're going to make

Which was who? Cincinnati Bengals are going to lose the Rams. Okay, good job by there. Look, this was a hard to start to the season for the Bengals on paper.

Zach Taylor is fired up about it after going to a no, tough win on the road. Talking last night, that's the team I knew was going to get off the bus. That's the team that's going to get off the bus,

send a message, okay, to the conference, to the league, okay, that we're here to stay, man. We've got a complete team right now, and that's what we got today. I do like him.

already thinking like we're sending messages to the entire day. We're thinking that much about in week two, we are a complete team. Joey B is happy. Joey B is so happy. You know who else is happy? The Broncos fans, at least after halftime on Sunday in a game that they felt like they absolutely needed to win. They did it.

Nix is under center. Brings Atkins in motion. They run the Power OG right side. Coleman. Doesn't go the line. Touchdown Denver. He got behind Nate Atkins and Matt Garbott, Bound Trill Davis. And then patiently waited for a crease, and it was a huge crease.

Going into halftime, starting to wonder about this Broncos team. The offense. You're trailing. I think they had, what, three points in the first half? It's 10-3 at halftime Jacksonville. And then the Broncos rip off a pretty dominant second half. They win at 17 to 3. it's one of many

Bo Nix's double-digit comeback since he has entered the league. You saw some deep shots. You saw the defense clamped down on a good Jaguar's offense. To me, like, that is a mature playoff type of performance, even in week two, to make sure you're

managing the schedule and not go O-N-2. This is a big managing the schedule episode. Bo Nix ties Lamar Jackson for second-most-such wins since the league in 2024. for. And it's a great win for them. It's a successful win for them. It's a triumph, your home opener. You come away victorious, especially after what happened in week one. But it's so funny how in the first couple weeks of the season, how these games can be so different from half to half as these

teams figure out what works, what doesn't they feel out their opponent. Because early in this game, it was all Jaguars. It was all Trevor Lawrence. He was so good. He's making throws that are out of this world. He's fitting them into tight windows. Everything looks good. They just can't quite capitalize. on these offensive drives. And they end up letting the Broncos hang around. And it all changes in the second half. They're so close to putting it away. They're running speed option with Trevor Lawrence.

And then he finds Breton Strange. And Alex Singleton gets penalized for, you know, roughing, you know, unnecessary contact, right? First and goal at the Denver three. Jacksonville ends up getting stopped. Then Riley Moss gets a pick. And all of a sudden, the whole game just shifts in the Broncos' favor. Riley Moss picks off Trevor Lawrence.

they go down and score a touchdown. Then they miss a field goal the Jaguars do on their ensuing drive. The Broncos capitalize again, and that's how you win by seven points. Sort of an inverted Tyler Shuck situation. Kind of, yes. The issue, though, is with the Broncos, and this is not to knock Bo Nix, but it was so up and down, it's so frustrating, it's so inconsistent. And then they find this rhythm.

That's Bo Nix. And they take off. He is incredibly streaky and incredibly effective, and their offense is effective when it is. and when it's not, like, it's not doing anything. And that speaks to that stat of the comebacks. I had a feeling, though, when multiple insiders decided to do the same point, which was watch out for the kicking record this week.

Cam Little, he's going back to Denver. Like, he could hit 73 yards. And I was just like, you're tempting fate here. I don't know why multiple insiders are sending this out. And then Cam Little misses a big one. And then the Broncos hit theirs. Mature. much like for a team that like

is just looking for something. J.K. Dobbins got hurt in this game trying to figure out a running game. Just something they can build off. And I know you were impressed with Jalen Waddle as well in this game. Yeah, he went crazy. Finally, he had a nice little breakout performance, which was great because finally it's week too.

I mean, let's, yeah, but he was absent. This whole offense was absent last week. He was, is it only week two? I know,

I know. He was the only bright spot in this offense in the first half. He goes crazy from the start. He gets a 49-yarder, but it gets them down to the, the Jacksonville won and then they can't capitalized. They end up settling for three there. Like that just kind of typified the way this

offense wasn't how they struggled in the first half and luckily he was one of the most persistent contributors in this game overall and kind of kept them afloat until they were able to find a rhythm in the second half. I mean, Knicks was an incredible pass down the sideline miss. Why did you throw

a fade to the back corner of the ends and they get intercepted on third and goal? Things like that. But for six quarters, the Broncos have not been great for two quarters. They were very And they did it in their style, defense first. What did Jonah Coleman look like? I was really happy to see he got a little carry the rock a little bit. It was a fun little fourth quarter for him.

You know, breaks through the line, gets touchdown. Kind of defined that second half for them on the ground as they were able to squeeze the life out of the Jaguars. I think their last possession was incredibly long. Let's see here. Well, no, 441 to end the game. But it felt like the fourth quarter they had the ball majority of it. I think it was like 10 or 11 minutes of the 15 minutes. And that's what the Jaguars want to do to you with their run game.

Exactly. And, you know, I think we all thought that, you know, it's not like they were terrible in the run game. You know, Bachel Tutin 5 yards per carry, 65 yards in a touchdown. But I think we expected the Broncos after how bad they looked against the chiefs in the run game. And yes, it's a different run scheme and coming off of that type of a game. Of course, you're going to make corrections if you're Vanj Joseph. But I just thought that some of the, maybe the angles that they took were harbingers of something worse to come. But it's the Broncos defense.

So you can trust them five times out of ten, eight times out of ten. Yeah, most of the time. And I like how you described it as a mature win because the Jags are so close to putting this game away. On that driver, they get held and don't end up converting that into a touchdown. And it felt like they were going to score a touchdown. This game was basically going to be over. The Broncos immediately realized this is our opportunity.

And once that interception happened, they were all systems full speed ahead. And they were the Broncos of old just like that. Yeah, look. Of old. The Broncos. I have six months ago. The Broncos had, you know, three straight puns. in the first quarter, but like so many of these games in 2026, because of the kickoff rule

and because of the effectiveness of passing, short passing attacks, like, there's so few possessions in this game. So you mentioned that interception by Lawrence. Like, that's one of just, you know, four possessions in the second half. They only get the ball two more times. One of those is the miss field goal. And like, yeah, they're often sputtered down the stretch. But the biggest thing is just the Broncos played keepaway, three straight drives scoring, and they get the win. So both these teams at one and one. Jaguars with a fun one next week against the Patriots

and the Broncos thrilled to get out of here with the victory. Let's go to Tennessee where Robert Sala was trying to get off the Schneid. Could he get his first victory as Titans head coach? Perks

Lines them up again. He's back. He's looking. He steps up. He is firing. Complete. Devonte Smith, inside the fire! Comes down with the ball. There is hope. They are down.

First and goal at the three. 14 seconds left. Hurts his back. Here comes the rush. He fires. Touchdown! Darius Cooper! That's Merrill Reese at the top of his register.

A two-play sequence, so pretty. That first throw by Jalen Hurd. Tingles. And the catch by Devante Smith, we had to show them both. The Eagles go down the field, needing a touchdown to win with under two minutes to go. The exact sequence you dream about as a kid. And Jalen Hertz and Devante Smith and Darius Cooper help deliver.

How did Jalen Hertz get it done? It was, first of all, his 15th career game winning drive. And it was not just him and Devante Smith. and those two should get so much credit. DeVante Smith had a couple incredible catches this game and none more clutch than that one right there. But it's also Jalen Hurts hitting Dantavian Wicks for a 20-yard gain on a third down and six as they're driving.

Then that throw, and obviously even prettier catch, that was another third and six. And then he hits Darius Cooper for his first career touchdown, a play later. And all of it was sort of set up in a way by a first down sack by Jalen Carter on Cam Ward in the previous possession by the Titans, a goal to go situation, which ultimately holds them, knocks them out of field goal range eventually,

and ultimately holds them to a field goal there, setting up Jalen Hertz and the Eagles offense to get to go down and score a touchdown to win the game. It was complimentary football in the best way on behalf of the Eagles who got a little nervous by the Titans, Because of a couple of really good drives that Cam Ward put together, especially a drive in the third quarter, that he put together a couple of nice throws and scored.

And they hung around and hung in it. And then finally, you know, the Eagles just had to put their foot down. It was such an interesting study, I think, the highs and lows of the Jalen Hertz game. Yeah. Because, like, if you just checked in on this game here and there, you would see him throwing an interception and almost gets taken back for a touchdown.

You would see like, oh, no. But then you also see the beautiful touchdown pass to Devante Smith. You see the one that we just ran there that sets up the game winner. And it's, I guess this is just what you take with this offense as it currently stands. This is a new system under Sean Manning. It's only week two. You've got to kind of figure it out as you go. And you're happy to leave Nashville with a victory on a day that was so hot.

And the field was so hot that guys' cleats were melting. Yeah, it was interesting. I kept actually having to remind myself that Jalen Hertz had thrown the interception. Yeah. Because the rest of it was really smooth. Everything around them was a little bit chaotic. You know, they changed around their offensive line. Kim Juergens got moved to left guard.

Drew Kendall moved to center. Sequin Barclay got a stinger early in the game, ended up coming back in the second half with this giant like spaceship looking neck roll on. And it ended up with nine yards rushing. Right. And struggled. The entire interior offensive line struggled.

And Jeffrey Simmons was dynamic and effective during this game. At certain times, the, the Titans were blending some of this outside in, like delayed outside in pressure and, and stunting guys. and all of the stuff that was really bothering the Eagles' offensive line and their offense in general at certain points. The two interceptions, Amari Hooker makes a great read off of a blitz that's happening in front of him, jumps a pass where he knows Jalen Hertz is going to put the ball because that's the way that he's seeing the field in that moment.

And then Marcus Harris gets his first career interception on a deep shot that he's, that Hertz is letting go as he's getting hit by Jeffrey Simmons. So there were some points in this game where the Titans had chances to hang around and come back in it, and they did. And Cam Ward, like I mentioned, the game tying touchdown drive is a couple really nice throws that he made to Calvin Ridley and then a gunner helm catch for a catch and run

that gets them into scoring position. And then Cam Ward runs in the touchdown himself. It was cool to see that growth from him. And yes, it's a loss for the Titans. But the way that they were able to hang with this team, and yes, Philly was kind of start, stop, start stop, in certain points. But a team being able to hang around

and look like, are we love this word for the Titans, creditable through so much. much of this game, I thought, was really important. I think it's important to be having a lead in the fourth quarter of a home game like that, especially how you were just ineffective against the Jets last week. It's small steps. I'm not a moral victory fan, but it's small steps for it. Yeah, no, it's very encouraging to have a chance to win a game against a team like the Eagles.

You just have to do a week after week because a lot of times we've just seen the moral victory is followed by like a crushing loss. Yeah, like another bad performance. So if they can stack weeks, that's great. They only had 14 first downs on offense. But yeah, give, give Hertz credit. I watched that last drive. And he went six for eight for 61 yards on the last drive.

It looked like a totally different game than everything else. It was so wild to me. I just kept having to remind myself, oh, yeah, I'm watching the same game right now. The six for eight, the two incompletions where he avoided a sack, which was one of the best plays of his drive with a throwaway, and Wicks dropped a pass. So, like, that was an absolutely perfect way to end it.

Hasn't been perfect overall. Dallas Goddard got hurt in this game. They were out of tight ends, basically. I mean, I know Johnny Munn is there. It is. Like Zach Ertz is probably going to get called up from ESPN to the Eagles because they lost Calcutera. They haven't had their rookie stowers and then Goddard got hurt in this game. So on one hand, a moral victory for Cam Ward and the Titans.

On the other hand, the second straight week in opposing fan base has kind of come and take over your stadiums. Not fun. The Jets fans would never allow that to happen, at least not early in the season. They were in for a fun one in overtime until it wasn't. Jagger drawn. 26-yard, field goal to champ. Orzick on the snap, wheeling down on one knee. Off the left hash mark.

Snap, placement. Trey smacks it to the upper. Yes. It is good. It is good. And a dagger delivered. by the rookie, Drey smack.

The Packers win it. 20 to 17. Great job by Wayne Larravee on WRNW. Great job by Eric Roberts, who slides in the dagger being unsheathed. I don't think I've ever heard that one before as they get it out to get that game-winning field goal. The Packers survive the Jets 20 to 17

in a game where they had a 162-16-year-old. yards of offense. That's metric system offense in the first like 60 minutes of this game. They had to go to regulation and they still didn't top 200 yards of offense. Their defense and their special teams kept setting up Jordan Love and this offense, which still has problems. But you'd rather have problems, Jordan, with a win. But man, they have problems on the offensive line because of injuries going into next week already. tons of, tons of injuries. I'll get to in a minute. You know, Zach Bacoguile was carted off in the, in the first few minutes of the game.

And Jaden Reed also was Jaden Reed is going to be staying overnight, according to Matt LaFleurr in the New York City area to just get further testing, but does have movement in his extremities. But it was a catastrophic start to this game. I wrote down in my notes near the end of this as overtime began, which of these coaches is going to get saved for their own, from their own decision making or, which of these, like, results is going to sort of smooth over the fact that something completely unacceptable had happened previously.

And in the case of Aaron Glenn, the clock management near the end of regulation for Malaflo, for his defense setting up the offense multiple times late in the game, including by, including my plays that we had been waiting to see this Packers defense actually prove that it could do this. And twice in the fourth quarter. And then ultimately, you know, they're the ones that win in overtime. So maybe they don't think, we don't think about it as much, but they certainly will and they should. Yeah, they got the ball at the Jets 19 yard line needing a field goal to tie, a touchdown to win after a long return, after their defense, you know, got the ball back for them. And instead they go three and out, kick the field goal. Then they get the ball at the 50 with a minute and 15 left after Aaron Glenn, you know, message. messes with the clock management at the end of that.

He had previously gone for a fourth down. Heck, let's hear that fourth down. Aaron Glenn decides to go for it around midfield with 115 to go. Fourth down, a yard to go, a little bit less than a yard, to the midfield marker for the jets. Out of the shotgun. Here's a snap to give to Braylon Allen in the right side of the line. Stacked up, driven down.

He's short. He's short. Lucas Van Hess. Lucas Van, Oh, it was huge. Jeremy Ruckert's got to block him. He's got to cut him off on the inside. You cannot allow interior penetration on the most important play of the game,

but it was so indicative of what went wrong for the Jets. And if you watched the first clip when we played at the start of this portion of the recap, you saw Aaron Glenn kind of just staring off into the abyss, understanding that he was about to lose a game that they probably should have won. And it was because of minor mistakes like that, just in key spots, whether it was the fact that, like you said, clock management issues, they had, I think, four or seven drives in the second half, between the second half and overtime, one lasted four more minutes, four minutes or longer. Everything else was short. They

couldn't put away this game and it's because of small issues like that. It's, it's a really a big bummer from the Jets perspective because they played well enough defensively on a very sloppy day, on a very rainy day in New York to win this game. Jordan Love was not good against this defense. obviously the conditions weren't the best. This is a sloppy game in terms of penalties on both sides, but it's that play right there. Moments like that just show as much as you like the Jets and you believe in the Jets,

they still got to overcome being the Jets. But the 3rd and 2 should have set up something different to me. They ran the same play twice in a row. The 3rd and 2 run stuff. The Packers hold up, first of all, which is so important because we have been questioning since training camp what this defensive line is going to look like. And so they hold up on the run stuff there.

Then it's 4th and 1. They decide, Frank Wright, decides to call a shotgun run on fourth and one right after they had the defensive line had gotten plenty of push on the third and two and and that's to say too I liked some of the stuff that frank Reich was doing there was a Gino Smith drive that ended in a Garrett Wilson touchdown where I really liked the what they were presenting they were moving the Packers defense from side to side they were taking the teeth out of some of the design pressure that Jonathan Gannon was trying to bring and then in very quick succession they were

firing down the middle of the field and on these inbreakers and ultimately getting Garrett was, I thought, okay, the Jets have something here. Yeah. And then it just all corresponds, or it all coalesces into this like, just cacophony of errors in the last part. Yes. Like, what is happening? A team that doesn't know how to win.

They don't know how to close. Well, it was a very like, you had me in the first half. Yeah, yeah. Not going to lie. That the Jets had us thinking anything possible could happen. And Gino ends up with 247 yards passing in this game. Their passing was probably the most consistent element of the game. The Packers couldn't run.

The Jets couldn't run. The Packers go one for nine on third down. But that clock management you were talking about at the end of the game was inexcusable, mostly because Aaron Glenn didn't even know what he did. He's out to lunch. And they have no one also talking to him about this. What happened was the Packers ran the ball with about a minute left in the game.

And Aaron Glenn has all his timeout. And all he has to do is call a timeout, and they can get the ball back. And he doesn't use his timeouts. And they ask him whether he considered using his timeouts, like give his offense a chance. He was just like trying to get to overtime. In theory, maybe he could have been worried

that they were going to go for it on fourth and five, but they weren't going to go for it on fourth and five. And instead, he gets sort of Jedi mind-tricked into doing absolutely nothing. and actually lets the Packers have an attempt at a Hail Mary. The whole thing was like, I was watching it thinking, even Matt Lafleur would have known what to do there. I think 31 coaches out of 32 would have handled that differently. Yeah, Matt LaFleur did the whole take the delay a game,

take the second runoff thing. But the funniest part, and I think this is just so fitting for this game is that Hail Mary attempt, ball goes like five yards. Well, I think you got sacked, right? You got hit while throwing. Right, he got hit while throwing. So the Jets look like a solid enough team. You mentioned the injuries on the Packers,

not only did Baco Buele, who's their best offensive lineman, go out, but Aaron Banks left with a toe injury. At one point when they had another injury, they were talking about possibly bringing in Tucker Kraft to play on the offensive line. So the Packers get the win. They are not out of the woods yet. Both these teams one and one. Let's stay in the AFC East after the break with the team that might pay close attention

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struggled to score on offense. It didn't matter because their defense outscored the Steelers offense. The Patriots win 20 to 3. That was Elijah Ponder with a scoop and a score off a force fumble on Aaron Rogers. I watched this game and you guys will have to tell me what you think when you watch it on game pass. Was this good defense or just bad offense? I'm leading more towards bad offense. Yep. But it was pretty good defense too. I was going to say, Can it be both? Yeah, it can absolutely be a little bit of both. I think the Patriots had a good plan.

They played more man coverage than I would guess any team has played in a game this season. Christian Gonzalez just locking down D.K. Meckhav. D.K. McGave has been one of the worst, like, least valuable players in the NFL this year through two weeks. It's very early. But he's had two total nightmare games back to back. And Gonzalez shut him down. But you're without Carlton Davis and you can play Manifax. and you can play man coverage because no one else really threatens you

and allowed them to mix up a lot up front. And the offensive line for the Steelers is absolutely awful. Our producer Quab wants us to just kill the Steelers, and I can't kill him anymore than the Patriots. We're killing that offensive line. Let's actually hear another fumble that Aaron Rogers had on this day. Mike Rock under Chen, Rogers' weight, splits coming. He handles it.

He's hit. Alice. It's going to be picked up and then drop by the Patriots. That was still not going to... Look at it. Further into Pittsburgh territory. And the Steelers eventually recover back at their 40s. Fall on the ball.

You get three opportunities to get this. That was part of the most underrated brother group in the league. It's not the Watts. It's the Ellis's. That was Christian Ellis's. That set up a fourth and forty-th, Shuck. Oh, is that all?

I believe, I have it written down somewhere where that's the longest down in distance in many, many years in the fourth and 43. I mean, that's what happens when the ball passes around and it needs a Benny Hill theme. I was expecting to see an example of Aaron Rogers age on that one. Instead, it wasn't even that. He just got absolutely sandwiched. He was tough in this game. He didn't, I don't think he played well. but I thought he's moved well and he's been willing to throw the ball

in the middle of the field and deep down the field in both these games. It was just completely ineffective. Like this time it was like, okay, good ideas. And you were bad at it. And no one was open. What else? Nine targets for DK Metcalfe, four receptions. Last week, 10 targets, four receptions.

Conspiracy bros, another bad week together. He, right now, can't catch the ball. Like, there was. were a couple drops in this game. There were a couple plays where Rogers just gave him a chance to make a tough catch. And he didn't. Gonzalez, like I said, also just had great coverage on him. But it's not like Gonzalez was every single snap, although he was traveling.

He just is in his head. And this is a Steelers team that now has, what, one touchdown offensively in two weeks. If you go back to last season, they have one touchdown in their last three games. But that's not the same coordinator. That's not fair. Hat tip to Brooke Pryor of ESPN, my friend, who shouted out one touchdown in the last 25 quarters of regulation play at some point in the fourth quarter. Here was the stat. It wasn't that fourth in 43 was the longest fourth down in distance, which maybe it was, maybe it wasn't.

I don't know. That was the longest sack. It was a negative 36 on a sack since at least 1977. Maybe because they didn't keep track before that. That was the longest sack because that's recorded as a sack in recorded NFL. history. So we were here for history, even if we weren't here for a lot of good offense in this game. What did the Patriots do right on office? Because I know we can only get you like to hold yourself back from talking about the Patriots side of things. And you're not very eager to

talk about them. So yeah, I'm no, I definitely have have clocked that you are not, uh, volunteering a lot of. No, they ran the ball really well. America. We're back. No, they're definitely not. They ran the ball really well against a good, Steelers front over 50% success rate. Having Trayvion Henderson in the game made a huge difference just because they needs explosive plays. And he had an explosive long touchdown run in this game. But they were pretty consistent.

Remandre Stevenson fumbled the ball. I believe that was on a catch as Remandre does. But he was effective when he ran the ball. But offensively, like they didn't protect well. They were just really reliant on a few explosives. They only had 13 points on offense. And Drake May was holding the ball. too long. It wasn't as bad as Seattle, I would say. He only made one bad decision, but he paid for it with an interception. If not for that, you end up with almost 10 yards per attempt, but his play, I think, was worse than the numbers show. I am concerned. It's seeing that interception that he threw. I understand what he's going for, but the ball is short, and I'm just starting to wonder, based on maybe some protection issues, a lack of comfort in an offense that he should know well.

is there an issue with Drake May and decision making right now? Yeah. I mean, that was a bad decision. They are too reliant like they were last year on explosives. Like they had a 29-yarder to Henry, a 30-yarder to Raritan, and a 63-yard play to Dobbs where May's best plays right now are just kind of breaking contain and not being in structure. And then they're also just dealing with injuries.

Michael Wenu, they're potentially their best offensive lineman, broke his ankle. so he's presumably out for the season. Jemont Jones, their best pass rusher, left with the shoulder injury, did not come back. They were not with Carlton Davis. They lost two safeties in this game, Del Pettus and Craig Woodson, the injury, and then Raritan,

who had that nice catch, left pretty quickly with a thigh injury and was ruled out. So they lost about six or seven starters in this game. Most of them on defense. So if you wanted to feel even worse about the Steelers' offense, there you go, Mike McCarthy. But the reality of it is the detail's not there, and that's on coaching.

It starts with me. I'm calling the offense. I have to get the detail better. So if you need someone, fire away because I felt it on Wednesday and Thursday. I'm a veteran coach. I know better. And I didn't do, I didn't do a good job. He felt it on Wednesday and Thursday.

Yeah, that's telling to me. That means to me that he was not thinking that they were practicing at the level that was going to make them, you know, show up. Not a good sign. You got to adjust. And Aaron Rogers said after the game, We need to tell Mike the plays that will have a better chance at succeeding. Because they did ask him about that quote specifically. Like we need to help him out if we think plays aren't going to be working that much better.

And another part of the press conference included Mike McCarthy going full third person and go, offense needs to be better. Mike McCarthy needs to be better. You know who doesn't need to be better? Drew, mother, beep, and lock. Empty backfield, lock from the shotgun, four-man rush. Looks, throws to the back of the end zone. It's caught!

Touchdown! Seahawks! Guess who? I'll give you a hint. It starts with J.S.N. From 12 yards and an absolute laser to Jax in the back of the end zone. And the Seahawks extend their lead 23 to 7, and Jacks has been in. on all of them.

Nobody is doing it like Jackson Smith and Jigba early in this season. 155 yards and three touchdowns in a game where it's not like they had a ton of passing yards. It's once again the JSN show. This time the Cardinals did not put up much of a fight totally dominated in yardage on the scoreboard and by a man who was making Jordan Rodriguez giggle for much of the day, drew lock. Yeah, because he gave no Fs, man. He just, he threw the rock. He threw the pill. It was so fun to watch. He was 19 of 26 for 235 yards and three touchdowns. This absolute ass kicking brought to you by Jackson Smith and Jigba. Seattle's 10 straight win against the Arizona

Cardinals, the longest active streak in the NFL, a little insult to injury there. Seattle's defense also bottled up Jacoby Brissette, who did seem to be dealing with some sort of a, a, a, a leg issue, but kept playing throughout the course of the game and neutralized all of the skill guys that were so much fun to watch in the week one win over the Chargers. You know, this was all Seahawks after outside of the opening trade trading of touchdowns between the two teams. This was absolutely Seahawks dominant. They won in every phase, particularly set up by the defense, but Drew Locke showed up. And that was really fun to watch and play. One thing I thought about the Seahawks and Patriots was it was a nice advantage to have that

Wednesday game and you have a serious extra rest going into this. You didn't have to travel or anything. So that put the Cardinals and the Steelers in a tough spot. And it looked like it. I mean, 381 yards to 151. This was not one where the scoreboard lied. And, you know, like, what did you see out of the Seahawks secondary where Michael Wilson has seven targets, 18 yards? Marvin Harrison, Jr. has one target. So he has one catch now through two weeks. What did you see out of this defense? It was really interesting. First of all, they did take the ball away. Julian Love, had an interception again. But they also, they were just covering really well.

They were switching assignments very, very clearly. They basically neutralized Michael Wilson, Marvin Harrison, Marvin Harrison, Jr. They neutralized Kendrick Bourne, who was a big factor last week. And with Trey McBride, anytime Jacoby Brissette would try to feed the ball to Trey McBride, there were, you know, at least three other Seahawks in the area, the way that they could absolutely break off of their guy that they were responsible for and swarm to wherever Trey McBride was on the field. He had their only touchdown

of the game. And it was the only time they could isolate him away from multiple players, at least in his area who could get there quickly. And that was because he was off to the, to the left of the stack and the only other person who, the only other item that's defending him is a sideline at that point. So for me, that was a really effective game. It's the Seattle like prototypical thing that we love to see from Seattle, which is they just absorb all energy and matter, right? And then by the end of the game, and they're just, it's Boa Constrictor.

Like, that's how he talked about it on Hard Knocks. And so many of their games last season were like that. Where the first half, it's just, it's one thing. And then the second half, it's just, it's a bully. And look, Emmanuel Wilson's going to be a hot fantasy football pickup this week. 21 carries 92 yards. Judarian Price leaves with a chest injury. He has not been able to stay healthy so far as a pro.

So that's one small negative so far. A note on your boa constrictor description. Final drive for the Seahawks in this game, 10 minutes and 14 seconds, ends in a touchdown. That is absolutely outrageous. Yeah. And one note on Judarian Price, by the way, they did say it was a chest injury and that he had testing and all of that, except he was caught by the sideline camera talking to his

running, talking to his running back's coach about pointing to his shoulder and saying the word shoulder. So I'm kind of like, okay, we'll see as the week progresses, like what the nature of this actually is. But yes, to your point, Emmanuel Wilson, I thought played really, really well. this was a sneaky big special teams game too we talk a lot about Mike McDonald really caring about every phase of football and really honing in on those types of advantages there were there were big Arizona

penalties in that phase and then there was also a forced fumble that was recovered for a big Seattle game that set up another touchdown they they lost the fumble but then they they flew to the ball and recovered it and then returned it to set up a touchdown in the third quarter so between drew lock not looking like you know you're you're average number two quarterback and this passing game being carried by JSN and the defense doing its thing as usual, this was all around a win for Seattle in every phase. Next two games, Washington and the Chargers. I think newsflash, the Seahawks are good and I think

they're going to be four or no. Well, let's let's not count the Chargers especially is just like an automatic win right now, especially not if Drew Locke is still starting. But what this does is, you know, any up in the air status that Sam Darnold has that, like, you can push them back a week. And yet, the Seahawks were really confident going into this week. They let it be known through the insiders that, like, they were expecting a big performance out of Drew Locke and they got it. And it almost doesn't matter who's that quarterback. When the other team has 2.7 yards per pass, they don't, they throw, like, they drop back

to pass 30 times and they don't get over 81 yards. Like, you're going to win. And it's great that Drew Locke. It could not have looked different. Jacoby Brissette could not have looked different week one to week two in terms of how difficult everything felt and seemed. Then the other side, you know, when you see a quarterback come out with a wristband like Drew Locke did, you're like, eh, this guy, I don't know, especially a backup quarterback. But Drew Locke and his flapping around wristband were just absolutely lasering it all over the field. He had a couple of really, really difficult throws that he had a little juice with too.

like he kind of like side-armed one of those touchdowns. Like he played really genuinely well. I love it. I love the lacassants that's happening right now. And unfortunately, yeah, a come down to earth game for this Cardinals team that falls to one-on-one Seahawks at 2-0, put a little pressure on the Rams who will play on Monday night because they know after watching what happened in Santa Clara that they've got two wagons right now in the NFC West.

First got out in 12 from the 12. The throw, there is Kittle all alone. And he catches it in the end zone. A big spike for George. Touchdown 49ers. Welcome back home, George Kittle. This drive belonged to him. We love George Kettle.

And this time it's not Kettle in the middle. It's Kittle out in the flat. And it is an absolute scheme buster. And they busted. The first 49ers teams in 35 years to score touchdowns on their first five drives of the game. By the time they scored those five drives, the game was almost over. 35 to 13. The 49ers walk over Miami. Brock Purdy with only two incompletions on the day. Shook, what stood out to you the most from this beatdown? Oh, I mean,

there's so much. First off, I really wish. I aspire to live life with as much joy as George Kittle exhibited on that touchdown reception. you a smelling salt and you can learn. Oh, okay. That's the secret. All right. I'm jacked up. I'm ready to do the show.

Brock Purdy's dealing. He is absolutely dealing right now. He is so comfortable. He is completely in rhythm in this offense. I don't know what happened from last year to this. Not that he wasn't a great quarterback last year because he was solid. He missed a lot of last year due to injury. He is on a different level right now.

And no matter what is presented to him by the two defenses he's faced so far, he just shreds them. There was a couple of plays in this game. There was one where he's rolling out to his left. And he pump fakes. Defender bites the pump. He extends a little bit more, throws an absolute dime between two defenders to Mike Evans, who nearly scores on that play. The offense was rolling the entire time.

They scored five touchdowns in their first five possessions, like you said. And, you know, again, I know it's coming against the dolphins, but it's just a team taking care of business and looking really good, you know, while doing it. I'm disappointed that we have a couple teams and things can change. We'll change. But we're going to hit the Falcons next. And we've got the dolphins now that, like, this early in the season feel, like just cakewalks. I know they're playing San Francisco

who just looked great against the Rams as well. But I expected the defense to probably be the tougher side for Miami. And through two weeks, they were pretty embarrassing last week. They were lucky not to give up a 40 burger against the Raiders, I thought, a week ago. And right now, they're just looking

for a solution. But I would push back on that just a little bit, because first of all, it's a lot of young players who are needing to get these types of reps and valuable reps. And second of all, to me, there are some big time slips and some gaffs, but it's you kind of,

Jeff Hathley knows, and they said it right at the beginning of the season that those are going to happen. 49ers are going to put you in hell, especially your young linebackers, especially how efficient and productive they're able to be. For me, it's like,

I'm not looking for the dolphins to be tough to get, you know, tough to eliminate right now. I'm looking for them to get tougher to play. I just want them to be watchable. On the other side of it, I don't think, and we're going to get to it. I don't think the Falcons are as salvageable, truly.

Yeah, yeah, we are going to get to that. I thought that one instance, and I believe the Senate in an incompletion, Malik Willis is scrambling to the right. And it looks like he's going to get the edge and be able to pick up maybe a first down on the ground. And then there's Fred Warner, step for step for him laterally. And that just kind of illustrated the difference in talent

between these two teams and what they're dealing with. What it is is, is it's a low ceiling operation right now offensively. 19 of the first 24 plays were in 49er territory. They got three points out of it. They just, they had an opportunity to score a touchdown. They ended up settling for a field goal later in the game. It's just a low ceiling. Got to be basically perfect to really maximize your opportunities.

And this team right now is just not going to be there. And it's a work in progress. A rebuild looks like this. You just want incremental steps. Again, not a fan of moral victories, but for this team, you just got to be more and more competitive as the weeks go on. Yeah, the five possessions in the first half between the two teams

was like one of the five lowest possession games. of the last 25 years. This keeps happening. And it was because the Dolphins offense played well. You know, a long field goal drive. They just can't finish drive. A 17 play drive, a 12 play drive. But it's just a tough way to win.

Obviously, if you don't finish drives, but then in the second half, like if your defense is giving up a touchdown, five straight drives, that's not going to happen. At least George Kittle, I thought on that 40-yard catch that he had, showed a little more juice than he had week one. He ends up leading them with 80 yards. They continue to have major injury problems in terms of their past catchers. DeMarcus Robinson has a high ankle sprain after this game.

Mike Evans left this game with a hip injury. Kyle Shanahan says it's not that serious. The running game, if you were trying to pick Nits, like, did you have any problems with how the 49ers defense played? And the running game didn't really get it much going today with McCaffrey or Kailen Black. Yeah. And because Brock Purdy plays so well, it didn't really matter. It kind of covered that up.

But there was a lack of consistent. on the ground from them. And I do think it was more a product of circumstance in the way the game was flowing than anything. I still trust this running game to find some effectiveness because I like their top two running backs. But it's not always a good sign when Brock Purdy is leading you in rushing with three attempts.

The dolphins numbers look a little better because there's a 71, 77 yard play by an R. Miller. Can you, without looking, name who R. Miller is on the Miami Dolphins of 2026? Either one of you. Ryan? Ryan Miller. I'm not familiar with his work. Good job.

What a yards per catch average he has on this young season. 49ers get the win. A new pen. I feel bad for picking on the dolphins, especially because in the first half, they were very watchable. You can't ask for more than a half of watchability out of them this year. A little engine that could.

The Falcons definitely didn't give us that on Sunday. Let's go to Atlanta. Trips left. London lined up in the spot. closest to the line. Stramm, the shotgun snap. First NFL pass is Tim. Fixed off again.

Devin Lloyd. For side 10. He's got the five. Bullying toward the go line. Touchdown, Carolina. Pick six. Devin Lloyd. Devin Lloyd, with that pick six,

authored one of the best linebacker games I've ever seen. Read the line. It is absolutely outrageous. That pick six was the least impressive play he had because he just kind of a good spot, you know, made a guy miss. Two more passes defense in this game, including a beautiful interception and another diving play into an alley where it creates an interception for his teammate, also had a sack, nine tackles, two tackles for loss.

Devin Lloyd was absolutely everywhere in a 34 to 3 win. He played so well that he took me off Bryce Young even leading this game, Jordan. You know I wanted to lead with Price Young having a monster game. But Devin Lloyd was too damn good and they only gave up three points. That's exactly what they invested in. When they went out in free agency and they spent a lot of money on Devin Lloyd and on Jalen Phillips, it was specifically so that they could make these high leverage plays happen in moments where you can't really trust this defense down over down all the time,

especially not in the run game. They were fine today. But they really went out and they wanted to. players who could make these types of high leverage plays, get the ball back, in this case, score, but get the ball back into Bryce Young's hands where Bryce Young can cook, which he did for the second consecutive game. Yeah, that's a bigger takeaway here. Look, the Falcons are a mess on offense throwing the ball. Cooper Rush, turned the ball over three times. We had a Jack Strand sighting in week two. And that was this first throw, the pick six. No, that was next point. And

It didn't go well. It was total garbage time. Here's a problem with people always complaining about garbage time. A lot of time teams stink in garbage time. Today I saw multiple teams like C.J. Stroud, like they didn't get anything done in garbage time. There's no rule that says you have to. Jack Strand, yeah, drop back to pass. I think 16 times took a sack.

Didn't top 60 yards passing in those garbage time. But that's too much on Jack Strand. Bryce Young was great in this game. I actually think the Falcons defense made things difficult. them. The final score to me lies a little bit in terms of like the total yardage was close in this game. A lot of the plays that they made were hard earned, really good plays. They sent a lot of different pressures at him. They did get him under pressure. But for the second straight weeks, he's just really fun to watch and he's a big playmaker. 28 yards to Teteroa McMillan,

25 yards to Jalen Coker, who also had an awesome punt return. He's a playmaker. 55 to Ligette. And there were just a lot of, like, beautiful throws to Bryce Young. Heck, let's watch one of them, his second touchdown to Darren Wall. McMillan, Coker, and Leggett, and the trips look to the left. Waller wide right. Shotgun snap. Brooks in the block. Quick throw.

Near Pylon, it is. Coul for a touchdown by Darren Waller. Big people win. Big people win. That's a big man. And what is Bryce? too, he gives him a chance in these long forms. I know I'm aging myself, but the Go GoGadgett arms when I was a kid.

I mean, you can't, that's just, that's a mismatch. Is that? Is that? Oh, I don't know. I could hear the, I could hear his accent going. I think that was Jake Deloam, former Panthers quarterback. Man, Greg, you saw, you guys both saw in real time how happy that play made me. I have been honking for a year and a half for.

the Panthers to get more tight ends activated into the passing game. Last season, I saw those guys running wide open all the damn time. And this time, they're actually scheming Darren Waller up early. Again, similar to what we just talked about with that Trey McBride touchdown, the only other person that's able to defend or entity that's able to defend a tight end against, you know, when they're out wide in space like that is the sideline. And so the defender better be in the perfect position and often with a large-framed player, you simply cannot be. So for me, watching Darren Waller, two touchdowns today,

watching Bryce Young find his playmakers, that was, that was exceptional. Yeah, he did a really good job of as the game went on, figuring out where the blitzes were coming from, recognizing it before it happened, either changing the protection or seeing it and then just throwing behind it over and over again. We're so early in the game, it was bothering Bryce. And the thing I just love with him right now is he's always been aggressive. I think he's more aggressive, more effective with his aggression. Like he wants to push the ball down the field. He wants to throw the ball into tight windows,

and he's got a better group around him to do so. Chuba Hubbard has become RB1. If there was any doubt, back-to-back games, he's looked really good. You're right. The run defense is a question. Even in this game, they gave up a lot of yards on the ground,

and they're not really running the ball well, but if you can pass the ball, and then in this game, If you can stuff underwhelming quarterbacks into a locker, you'll win a bunch of games. So back on track, one-on-one for the Panthers. Yeah, the thing with Bryce Young that I need to have uncovered by, you know, an intrepid reporter, maybe like yourself, Jordan,

is what happened this off-season mentally for him? Because he is a different guy when it can. He's playing like there's no tomorrow. He's taking risks that he would not take in years past, and he's doing it with more conviction. And it's more enjoyable. and it's producing a higher success rate this year than ever in his career. And I know it's only two weeks.

You saw it coming though. I mean, he's been a streaky quarterback. Last year, his best games down the stretch were like this. The problem is he would just mix in stinkers about every three weeks to kind of throw you off the scent. But man, he finished last season strong. And the Falcons, O and 2 have finished this, you know, beginning sequence, just as poor as possible. Maybe Michael Pennix comes back next week and makes their promise. prime time game look a little better.

You asked before the show started, Jordan, on a social media post, what was my favorite moment of the day? And my favorite moment was actually when I went to check the flex scheduling rules. Because the Falcons are scheduled to be in prime time for the next three weeks. What were you thinking, schedule makers? I totally get Monday night football. Week 4, Roger Goodell wanted that game, Falcons Saints. It's a rematch on the anniversary of Katrina.

That should have been the Falcons only primetime game all year. I'll accept that. Next week against the Packers, I'm sorry to Siciliano and shook. I hope PennX plays that. But my happiest moment was finding the rules. They can flex out of a week five game. And I expect that game will be flexed out by the time this podcast finishes. NBC is we'll get off Atlanta in week five.

and they'll break the record for the earliest flex of all time. So I'm glad they moved that week up a little earlier. We're getting out of that third straight falcons. I will defend the schedule makers a little bit though because nobody could see. Okay, maybe some of us could see this quarterback situation, you know, disintegrating as it had. They look like a bottom five team all off season. We could have seen it coming. You know what we couldn't see coming?

Jordan Roderig's A plus plus performance on this podcast. We're going to say goodbye to her now. she's going to dance off into the Los Angeles night, and Chucky and I will finish up with Sunday night football. A 40-yard attempt to win it from the near hash in overtime. Go signal. Kick is up. The kick by Buckler, and the kick is good.

Good! And for the second streak here, the Chiefs have beaten the Colson overtime on a Harrison-Butker field goal. Final score. on the last play of the extra period in week two. Chiefs, Kansas City, 33, the Colts 30. The Chiefs are 2 and O.

Oh, Mitch Holtes on KFNZ. What is old as new again. The Chiefs are scoring 33 points in primetime, and there's weird calls, and the Colts are getting their heartbroken. 33 to 30 is the final after these two teams trade scores back and forth all night. One of the best games of the young season.

Definitely the best prime time game of the very young season. And the Chiefs, we have so much we can get into, but I want to get into the strategy behind everything that happened in overtime. Ken Walker, who's on pace for a huge workload this season, Shook, carries the ball for the key kind of touches to set up that field goal. But before that, you know, they'd gone back and forth trading field goals. The Colts had a decision. Down three, about three minutes to go.

It's fourth and eight. They choose to go for the field goal at that point, essentially playing for the tie, maybe hoping to get the ball back again. And then they watch Patrick Mahomes do what Patrick Mahomes does. Did you agree with the decision? Oh, you know, I think it really comes down to the quote we like to lean on from Mike Tomlin, which is we do. not live in our fears.

And I felt like the Colts kind of lived in their fears a little bit. I thought for a moment that they were going to have the guts to go for it. Stuyken calls a play. They come out of the huddle. And what it ends up being is a Kodak moment where we get a picture of the defense. And he backs off. And he says, no, you know what? Don't like the look.

Don't want to lose this way. I'm going to tie it and hope for the best. But the thing is, this is a game in which you gave up 30 points prior to that point. No offense to a comment. or lack thereof that you have in your defense, Luanarumo's group, you have an opportunity right there to go for the win. Go get the win. And there was a sequence there, as you mentioned,

where they take a look, the Kodak picture. Very well said. And basically, I think Collinsworth was right by saying, if they were going to blitz, they would have gone for it. And when they're backing up in zone, they don't want to go for it. Daniel Jones was great all night against Blitz, almost nine yards per attempt. and I think the Colts just don't trust the receivers on some level because it's fair.

It's basically Josh Downs. It's Tyler Warren, who's a good player, but maybe not like a man-to-man one-on-one winner right now. And then it's Laquan Treadwell as your wide receiver too because Alec Pierce went down with a very serious-looking injury tonight. We'll hope for the best for him, but it's called a heel injury at that point. And Keenan Allen, I don't know, we might be seeing the end of Keenan Allen. here in his career.

And I kind of get the lack of confidence. You just hate that it happened. And it happened after one of the strangest plays I've ever seen. We thought the game ended with the Chiefs recovering a Laquan Treadwell fumble on what was a long catch in overtime. For a second, it looked like a game-winning Laquan Treadwell touchdown. He's behind Ligerious Need, but he bobbles it, has to slow down. He falls down and then he fumbles it.

They rule the game's over. But upon review, they give the ball back to the Colts. Just like part of a weird game, it was at one moment, the best moment of Laquan Treadwell's career, then the worst, and then just kind of like, oh, it was okay. You know, we have to take a moment to give Noel Williams credit for the punchout that didn't end up actually being a forced fumble. And yes, a very strange ruling in which he's ruled down by contact because of the back of, I believe, Sneed's hand barely grazes his hip as he gains control of the football.

See, that's my problem with the way they went about over time. Not to drill too deep down on this, but you just basically ripped off one of the best plays of your season so far. A bit of a miracle in some respects because it's Laquan Treadwell downfield making that catch and hanging on when he bobbles it. And then you win the review that saves you from losing in that sort of heartbreaking scenario. So put your foot on the gas. The next two plays, they run the ball conservatively against heavy boxes.

It's third and 13. I don't like that approach. I don't either. but Jonathan Taylor was the best player on the Colts tonight. You know, he ends up with 132 yards from scrimmits. You are certainly not expecting to lose three yards and two runs at that point. I don't think they were necessarily being conservative. If anything, you kind of run there because you think you're in four-down territory.

You don't have to get it all at once. And they just didn't execute well. So give credit to the Chief's defense in that scenario. If they'd given up a touchdown there, we would have said they were tired. Instead, they're the ones that boat. up and stopped Jonathan Taylor, who looked really good for most of the night. Kenneth Walker, I mentioned, goes for 117 yards on the ground. Another 61 on six catches through the air doing the quick math.

That's 178 yards. He is on pace for 476 touches. That is almost double any amount of touches he's ever had. Any concern there? Or are you just happy about the fact that we're living in a world where the chiefs are now going over 500 yards, 29 first downs? Mahomes goes for 382 yards and some beautiful throws. Honestly, I'm annoyed at myself.

We waited this long. We're about to get out of here before pointing out the number one takeaway of this game is Patrick Mahomes looks back. Oh, he's so bad. Back back. Back. Back. Like back in a way that he wasn't last year when he was healthy.

Yeah. There was a scramble, I think was it an overtime in which he took off. I think it was the only time he really scrambled for anything of significance. But it showed even from last week to this week where I feel like he's already gotten more comfortable and faster. back to who he was prior to the ACL injury. And if that is an element that's part of his game, and you add in Kenneth Walker and the fact that you're force,

not force feeding, but you're leaning on him significantly and he's gaining, you know, quality yards per carry, you can do anything offensively. You can really do pretty much anything offensively and they can beat you in any way and they're the toughest offense or one of the toughest offenses to play against for defense again in the NFL, which it felt like that was missing over the last few years.

And so I hate to say it, And not to quote Scott Zolak, but the Chiefs just may be back. I think so. Travis Kelsey looks a little faster this year. Again, it's early. He goes over 100 yards. Tyco on Thornton goes four for 86, but he had the two biggest catches of the game. I mean, he had a gorgeous catch on a 45-yard throw from Mahomes at the end of, was it

the second quarter or that was in the third quarter when Thornton made that catch. And that was the moment where I knew Mahomes was like really back. But Kelsey also dropped a pass. On a great throw by Mahomes, there was another piss missile over the middle to Rishi Rice that he caught going low. Like, there were a lot of really nice throws. But for everyone that complains about, like, how that game ended or the Colts didn't show a lot of gumption, the Colts blitzed on 3rd and 12 in the first drive of overtime, and the Chiefs Pass Protection, held up, protected Mahomes really well.

He goes deep down the field to Tyquan Thornton, who makes a leaping catch on a number. another good throw by Mahomes. Like they made the plays when it mattered. That was a third and 12. And they've got Khalil Benson at left tackle. Josh Simmons is nowhere to be seen. And Kalil Benson, who's undrafted rookie, is playing really well. You know, they made the plays.

And it's a heartbreaking loss for the Colts who have now lost nine straight. Which is insane. The stat that they showed of Sauce Gardner hasn't won a game on American soil because of injury. And then they won one in Germany last year. And then they kept losing. for 664 days. He's going to have to wait seven more when he plays the O.

and two Texans. Someone's going to be a miserable 0 and 3. Who thought that we would get to week 3 and both the Colts and the Texans would be 0 and 2? I mean, the Colts... That's more believable.

The Colts you could have seen with the schedule that they had Baltimore, Kansas City, is a tough way to start. They played much better. I thought Daniel Jones, he looks like he knows this offense well, but like I said,

Alec Pierce left this game with an injury, Charvervious Ward, also did. And Pierce's injury could be really serious. And they just don't have enough juice at wide receiver without them. This show had enough juice. We are excited about everything coming up this week. Starting with Monday night football. Our recap, joined us live on YouTube. That will be me, Jordan Rodriguez, and a special guest, Mr. Match Quarters himself. Rams Giants, going to be fun. We'll see you then. Guaranteed human.