NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - Eagles-Texans Recap + Week 9 Odds & Ends (Friday Fun Show)

Episode Date: November 4, 2022

A virtual room filled with some heroes - Dan Hanzus, Marc Sessler, Gregg Rosenthal and Rachel Bonnetta share their final thoughts before the weekend's NFL action. First, they recap the Eagles beating the Texans on Thursday Night Football and improving to 8-0 on the season (3:00). Gregg takes over "It's About Me" and gives everyone his Cadence Rankings (23:00) followed by his injury minute with an update on Michael Thomas (28:00). Finally, the heroes look back at last week's predictions and make their Week 9 predictions (32:45).  The Friday Fun Show airs live on YouTube at 10am PT/1pm ET/6pm BST every Friday. Note: timecodes approximate.NFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Hey, everybody. Daniel Jeremiah here. And I'm Bucky Brooks. On Move the 6th, we take you inside the game from breaking down college prospects and NFL rookies to evaluating team building philosophies, coaching trends, and how front offices construct winning rosters. We study the tape, talk to decision makers, and give you a perspective you won't find anywhere else.

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I had to get rid of the bangs. I ditch them. I miss them. I know I probably people don't care, but I feel like I needed to update everyone. I ditch the bangs. That's a critical update. It's also why you should be watching us on YouTube.

That way you can leave a comment and you can see Rachel, moving to the B. You can see my forehead. As the show starts. You know, like the cliche, like, oh, yeah, he got sent to prison, but it was a country club prison where they played tennis. Mark now has the expert, sure microphone in his jail cell. So it suggests that he's in a country club prison of sorts,

which is not a terrible way to write out your sentence. No, I think actually, like, prison would suit me because it's like, what do you do? You probably lift weights and read books all day long, and, like, eat simple foods. I could get down with that situation. I sometimes think about this. Like, when Orange is the New Black was, like, a very popular show,

I thought, could I do this? And, like, I think I would just have to throw myself into, like, a new skill or, like, just becoming incredibly smart. I think I could do it. I'm with you. It's not for every personality type. I don't see Dan as a happy prisoner, but others, perhaps, roll right into it.

Congratulations. You would be a happy prisoner. No, I like freedom. That's where I'm at. But I understand the general take there that it would narrow distractions as it were and force you to focus on things. Otherwise, you know, your mind would be too cluttered. I think you, I think you might, I wouldn't, depending on what prison you went to, you might have other distractions. Right.

Mark would absolutely be the guy who like commits a crime a week before he set to get out because he wants to stay. He's just at home there. He's not really taken to the food. You don't understand. man the outside that's the real prison man um all right coming up on today's show yes this is the primer for week nine kind of um we will have a fearless prediction to come for uh sunday and monday we will also um have a standalone monologue presented by none other than greg rosenthal who has a lot He has a lot to live up to after his instantly iconic pickleball takedown of last month.

So that's coming up. But before we get to any of those things, let's take care of the business of the first game of week nine, Thursday night football. Got her. Double tight end to the near side. Hertz gives it off. No, he hasn't. He fakes. He throws touchdown.

Delos got her. Sure. it's fine enough highlight I mean not a suits the game I feel like grand slam Merrill Reese with a call WIP it wasn't a thing of beauty but the Eagles didn't need to

author a thing of beauty on Thursday night taking care of the Texans 2917 in Houston Jalen Hertz two more touchdowns including that electrifying score to Dallas Goddard Eagles roll up 143 on the ground. They dig out of a very early deficit.

And generally, Mark Sessler take care of business. There are going to be games like this where you don't play your best. But when you're this good, you can still win and cover, as Al Michaels will tell you. Yeah, I thought if anything, it was, it was exactly that. Like, they kind of showed like, we don't need to play our A plus game. And we can maybe win a game without employing. all our stars to high heavens. Like A.J. Brown had the touchdown catch and another big catch, but Devonta Smith was

almost invisible in this. And they opened the game with that 18 play. I love this opening drive. It's an 18 play 91-yard March that went eight plus minutes. And like Jack Stoll had the biggest gain on the thing. It's like they can use all these different people. And I think that like it's another reminder for me that Nick Siriani continues to fly under the radar as this coach that we kept talking about. It was like a reverse fortunes. like what happened to the Eagles offense a couple years ago? Oh, well, Frank Reich left and they were never the same. Well, now what happened to the Colts offense?

Well, Nick Siriani left and went to Philadelphia, and they've never been the same. So I just look at what the Eagles were able to do week to week. And it's their defense too. I mean, they're just, they're fine. They find different ways to win. I don't see a weakness on the team. I, uh, I, like, I'm not remotely concerned about what was going on here. They moved the ball that there was only three drives for each team in the first half,

essentially. this was a cessler fever dream the game ended at 805 pacific that's two hours and 50 minutes for this game i mean this was like long drives and everyone was done so you could just switch to the world series i feel bad because like jalen hurts and cal and jason kelsey apparently had a really great moment on the amazon set after it was amazing yeah where they're singing the fight song it's like nobody watched that live i guess that's the purpose of social media you can see it later because by then it was like eighth inning and philly's fans are biting their nails I just feel like, at this point, if I was an Eagles fan, also shout-ups to my favorite one,

if I was an Eagles fan, I just want the Eagles to lose one. Like, I feel like that there's so much pressure that is mounting to continue to be absolutely perfect. And I feel like going into this game on my podcast, we broke down the rest of their season. And I was like, winnable, winnable, winable, winable. And then last night, I was just like, oh, they look like a little human in some aspects. I feel like they just, they should have just taken this L, gotten that off their back, gone on. This should not be the right one to take them.

I don't want to lose it on national TV. We all know that the Eagles are better than the Texans. It's fine. There was no panic button. We're like, oh, okay, they just needed to get that L out. And then they can go on and they can go and win the Super Bowl. It's kind of an absurd take, Rach, but I also know what you're saying that maybe it will serve as some type of leveling or balancing, if you will.

I don't know. I think that they're a team that, like we talked about leading into this game, it's going to be a while before it even feels like they're being challenged. And Connie has talked about this. It's obviously a big Eagles fan that there's some concern that they'll get lulled into a false sense of security. And then when a big matchup happens, they kind of get caught flat-footed. I wouldn't worry about it as long as Jalen Hertz keeps playing at this level.

And all the pieces of this team are humming and they stay relatively healthy. They're going to be fine. I was actually kind of proud of the Texans a little. little bit. I hope the archer. Brandon Cooks was watching this game and thinking to himself, I know they've done me dirty and they should have traded me, but look at these guys fighting out here, you know, getting out to the early lead, keeping things somewhat close so that everyone wasn't flipping over to the other Philadelphia sports team playing in the World Series. And Damien Pierce, you know, he's a great player. He had 139 yards in this game. So if you want to look at like maybe

the Eagles run defense, they struggle, especially after. contact. I saw one stat that they do not measure up well in terms of against physical runners. Maybe that's something for Gravedigger to think about come Super Bowl Sunday Titans Eagles. I don't know. I think they missed Jordan Davis, too. I mean, like that Jordan Davis would fill that spot against the run and they were vulnerable last night. That's why I think it's when you play certain other teams, that's one thing to check out. Well, they have one of the worst run defenses in the league by almost any metric other than raw yards because they're always ahead. On paper, like their EPA allowed per rush is

terrible. You kind of saw it last night. That's how you beat them. But they've played with a lead so much that and when they've trailed, they've like caught up so quickly like against the Jaguars that it's never really hurt them. But that could be a little weakness like late. There were little moments there. Davis Mills played pretty well in this game. But it was like until the interceptions at the end. But he made a lot of nice throws. Like I was like this is the best game from a 2021 like draft pick at quarterback other than Fields in the last month for a while. And then he, through those interceptions. But this was an ultimate prime vision game.

My son's very into the prime vision that shows the next gen stats and like the player's name bubble from the coaches film view. And so that's what we watch at the house. And when you watch the Eagles, every receiver is wide open. Like Jalen Hertz in that 18 play drive, like missed two wide open throws by like 10 yards. And it didn't matter. Like Tom Brady must be home watching prime vision and being like, give me one play where that many receivers are wide open.

Like everyone's wide open on everything. But we were watching because the game felt of little consequence ultimately to me the entire time. We were watching some of the dude perfect telecast on Amazon with the boys. And they particularly enjoyed the part of the game where, no, just kidding. The only thing they cared about was they did a whole segment where they put a cookie on their like orbital bone and then try to like work it down into their mouth. That was that was what my kids took out of Amazon's open a telecast.

Isn't Dax supposed to be doing one of the dude perfect ones? He did. He did it last night. Him and C.D. Lamb. Am I a bad dad? How were they? Like, I tried to keep, I just didn't, I wanted to make sure Walker did not know about that because I just felt him like going into a wormhole of dude perfect for three years. I mean, Greg, you're very controlling it sounds about what content your child is absorbing.

He's like eight years old and he's dealing with next gen stats. I mean, that's the one that becomes boring. He's the controlling one. I try to get it back on the podcast. They're pretty wholesome dudes. It's not like they're not perfect, but they're wholesome. Should they change their names to wholesome dudes? Holesome dudes.

Can I, can I, this is not a physical takedown of the man because I don't believe in that necessarily, but I just want to ask the question about Davis Mills. Does he have a big neck or a small head? Or is it the situation where he has a big neck and a small head? My guess is it's a big neck normal head. long neck normal head it's not just a long neck it's a it's a girthy neck yeah it's pretty thick i hate i just said that i mean he's out there like with philip dorset as his starting receiver and chris more and tyrant johnson i give him some credit just for just for making it uh

it's not a making it quick i'm just saying like glennon's situation it's not a glennon it's not a glen It's not a glenman. No, he looks like his face almost doesn't fit onto his neck. Right. It's almost like there's a, like an in motion live Photoshop going on a little bit with him. If I were him, I'd just be always wearing slimming turtlenecks. Is that an option during an NFL game? Sure, why not?

You could. Why not? Keep you warm? Hold on. I have a question for you guys. Greg, you mentioned that Jalen Hertz and Jason Kelsey like led this whole fly. Eagles Fly song after the game. The fans are obviously so stoked that they're still undefeited eight, no.

But would you be that stoked if you almost lost to the Texans? Like, I'd be like, cool, that was terrifying. Did they almost lose, though? They didn't know. I'm just, sorry, didn't lose. It was a very close game for a lot of the game, is what I meant to say. You know what I mean? I'm like in a game that they probably should have absolutely been smashing them the whole

time. You got to enjoy the moment right now. I think that's where I'm at as a sports. fan you got to enjoy it while last you know you because it might not last rachel you mentioned that the loss might be coming like like that they get they might only have one more night left of philadelphia being on top of the sports world here if they lose the world series so it's like enjoy it while you can't walker walker enjoy these next gen stats while they last he you know the real the real story mark is i tried to change it to like the normal one and he insists on that he

loves the numbers and the uh the time to throw stuff it's like daddy daddy can i watch the alternate telecast that's geared towards young boys no son look at the data let it wash over you i mean he's just not aware of dude perfect so he wouldn't know he does he does you know openly despise the manning cast and uh well well oh all right let's pause right here and take a break we'll be right back hey this matt jones now i'm drew franklin and this is nfl cover zero we're just here to try to give you an NFL perspective a little bit different. Did you see the Colts Pretzel? That was my other big takeaway from that game.

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Daniel Jeremiah here. And I'm Bucky Brooks. On Move the Sticks, we take you inside the game from scouting reports and player development to team building philosophies, coaching trends, and how front offices construct winning rosters. Every week, we study the tape, talk to decision makers, and share the insights you won't find anywhere else. It's the kind of conversation that connects the dots, from college football prospects to the NFL stars of tomorrow. We break down the draft, analyze matchups, and evaluate how teams put it all together on game day. Plus, we dig in the coaching strategies, roster construction, and the trends that shape the league year after year.

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Where am I at, literally? Before we get, are you right, Justin? Yeah, yeah. Before we get to some listener feedback on the live stream, which everybody that's on right now, thank you so much. Justin is in a, yes, Justin is in a. Justin is drunk in a hotel room right now, somewhere in the middle of America. And I have a take I want to share with you guys.

And let me know if I'm off base on this. And Justin, I know I want to preface this by saying this is not an attack on the people connected to the event that you're attending this weekend directly because I don't know them. And you said they don't listen to the show anyway, so we're clear. Correct. Justin Graver is right now in a hotel room in Kansas where he's. He is preparing to serve as the best man in a wedding ceremony, which is very nice and very cool. Again, we've had the conversation about Justin being a best man and we got into the debate about how long the speech should be. But it also is kind of a, it's pretty cool and it shows Graver is a man of integrity that he's the best man in two weddings in the span of a few months.

Now, that's not my point. My point is, I was made aware yesterday by our producer that the couple involved here, the main couple, actually did get married in Hawaii earlier this year in a quote-unquote impromptu fashion where they were on vacation and they decided to have a quick ceremony and they said, we're married now. Here's my issue. Gravedigger is the best man, okay? Why isn't the best man?

Don't hit me with this. It was impromptu. You put Justin on a plane to Hawaii, not a plane to Kansas in November for a pro ceremony. I have an issue with this entire setup. That's what I said it. Thank you. It's fair.

It's very fair. Hey, you know, young love, how do you stop it from carrying out its course? What a quote. Are you okay, Justin? Justin, have you written your best man's speech? Is that all done? I wrote my speech on the plane. I think it's a little shorter than last time because last time I rehearsed it and it was four minutes in rehearsal.

And then it was actually seven minutes in life. So this time, my rehearsal is two and a half minutes. Right. Of course, three to five minutes is where you want to be. at what hour this morning, and I'd like a specific time, did you start drinking whiskey straight from a bottle? I have not drank anything today, except for coffee, because I'm a professional, and this is work. Wow. Can I tell you guys, can I tell you guys a quick horror story from a wedding that I went to, like the worst speech I've ever heard in my life?

Yes, please. Okay. My cousin was getting married to this woman, let's call her, Cindy. My uncle, unrelated, unprompted, stood up and was like, I want to give a speech. And this uncle's a little chatty. So we were all like, oh, this is going to be good. So he gets up there. We have this family cottage that we would all go to every summer.

And in the cottage, there was a sauna in the boathouse. I know that sounds boozy. It was literally made of tinfoil. Don't think it's bougie at all. And there was a window looking into the sauna. Okay. So apparently, Cindy had her bachelorette party at the cottage, all the girls. all the girls they're in the sauna

my uncle is telling this story about how he didn't know he went downstairs he saw them all in the sauna and he said and Cindy they were spectacular meaning he was insinuating her

blue balloons out in the wind oh my God the girl girls were in the bathroom crying all night. I was just on the dance floor with my cranberry mod. I'm coming like, my family's crazy. Don't do that, Craver. Don't do that.

Okay. No, I'll give a speech when the time is right. I don't think anyone should ever speak at a wedding if they haven't been asked to speak at a wedding. But I don't know. Sometimes you get a wild card and they can be a lot of fun. Wait, so if it's not a wedding, though, it is confusing that you're the best. I was at a similar setup where it was like a party. where they got married, but only with like six people there, their parents. And then they had a party.

And the party was, you know, in Malibu, so that's nice. But it wasn't in Hawaii, which is where their actual wedding was. And he did ask me to speak, but I was not a best, like there was no best man. There was a couple people speak. Because at that point, it's not a wedding. Right. I don't feel like you're getting the same. It's a party.

So I am still going to stand up there during a ceremony, hand the rings over. Oh, okay. He didn't do a ceremony. They did. Like, they did a ceremony in Hawaii and then they're doing it again. I actually have a joke about it in my speech that my cousin cares. I'm sure it's a killer's joke. You want to talk?

You're working out a runner? Yeah, here. How's this for a joke? He cares about her so much. He's marrying her twice. Oh, boy. But don't say it that way. Right.

Okay. So it's about the delivery. Gravesiger. Like, do these people have a lot of associates slash friends? I mean, I trust that you've become a best man twice because you are that kind of, the content is inside of you. But like, what kind of, like, balloon of friends do they have? It's all about the content. Why did you say balloon, Mark?

What are you thinking about? I don't know. Uncle, Mark. Yeah, no, they have lots of friends. Actually, that might be why I was chosen because it's like, for this wedding, I'm his cousin. So it's like, it's an easy excuse for what, yeah. Oh, no one's going to get upset with that picture. cousin.

All right. We got to keep moving here. Do we have anything from the, the viewers on the live stream that's worth a damn? Is Mark still in prison, the bakerification? We cover the top of the show.

It's a country club where he's able to import an $800 mic. So obviously a strong Wi-Fi as well. So that's good. What else we got? Did everyone see Howie yelling at the Eagles fans? I did see that. Life Noggin.

It was, Mark, you sent it to us, right? Yeah. All right. You want to share this one? Well, I mean, there was signage. Someone had a sign about, like, we forgive you for all the bad draft picks or something.

And he walked up and basically said, excuse me, you forgive me for bringing you like your first effing Super Bowl. And, you know, how he wrote, he's not a large man, but he was sort of, he just grew in size as he said it to this like outcast fan. And then just marched off. And it was like, you know what? You also brought them Robert Quinn, C.J. Gardner Johnson this season, who's like five interceptions. I think he's doing a pretty good job. It's absolutely a ridiculous sign. He also ended it with an FU directly to the fan.

And he was smiling, joking about it, but also very clear that it kind of got under his skin. And he kind of really gave it to the dude. That's, you know, I don't know, Philly fans are on my radar a little bit in general lately. Amazing that your team would be 8 and 0. And yes, he is the GM responsible for your first Super Bowl title a few years ago. And you would make a sign for,

for giving him for the couple of years where you were merely just a competitive team on the rise before you were undefeated for, come on, clean it up. Crenge, big time. This one is for Dan, although you might just want to direct them to the power rankings podcast if you don't feel like. Sure. Why are the four and four Bengals without Jamar Chase ranked higher than the six and two giants? They are the power rankings, not the power standings.

The Bengals drop five spots. I'm not a huge believer in the Giants as a superpower. And I need to see Cincinnati again without Jamar Chase before I dip them into the middle of the league. Simple as that. We just miss somebody calling Marcus Zaddy. You don't want to give Marcus flowers and call that moment out? Zaddy? I mean, we know that he's a Zaddy.

Is that a jail term? Dan has very specific Zaddy guidelines. And I don't think that I fall into Dan's specific Zaddy guidelines. He thinks Mike McCarthy is a daddy. So I don't know if you want to be under his guidelines. You can be under mine. I think you're looking very zaddy today. I don't understand why anybody would have any...

Anybody would judge anyone else's like zaddy rules or judgments. I mean, just let everyone have their own zadis. But wait, but Dan, I'm agreeing that you... You can have your own guidelines. I'm not... I'm suggesting that I don't think when you look at me when we're in the office, I don't think that what comes out of your head is that's a zaddy over there sitting next to me in the cubicle farm.

Are you sure? I don't know. I suspect that. I don't know. You're right. I don't know. Blake Wingo, which NFC preseason favorite team is most likely to miss the playoffs? Rams.

Yeah. My lock's got to be right this week, but I'm going Rams after they lose the bucks because they're not going to be saved by the NFC South. Also, did you see Sean McVey was just like, I'm out once these main guys are out? Like, I don't want to coach this name. And what a weird thing to say. I mean, I don't think he said it out loud. but yeah there was sources for alber brier there's some there's some weird energy Yeah, you know, finally a chance to express my opinions about football into a microphone this week.

Don't act like you don't love this. I'm going to talk about my cadence rankings because I brought up what a surprisingly good cadence Sam Ellinger had on Thursday show. And the world just went crazy. My Twitter field, I'm sure Reddit was on fire. People just wanted to know, like, what are your cadence rankings for 2020? too just like how how the quarterback sounds right before the snap as he's making the little call first first what you don't want with cadence you don't want screechy um like Brady and garapolo it's almost like they learned it from each other they're they're both kind of screechy you don't like

that you don't want it to be like too quick like Zach Wilson sounds like kind of like a yapping dog and then you also don't want it to be pleading like some of the cadence is almost they're almost in like the form of a question uh at the end where it gets you know You don't want that. You want it to be authoritative and strong. And that's why Derek Carr is my number five guy. I always find him very authoritative. Like, I'm the boss.

You're going to do what I'm going to say. A good, like, timber in his voice. I'm going to put Joe Flacco at number four because he did start this year. One of the all-time greats, maybe not at his peak form, but like that base just like echoes throughout the stadium. I think one of the great cadences of all time. Thrody. And Lamar Jackson learned from him.

And so I'm going to put Lamar at number three. Three, because what Lamar has, and maybe he got this from black, he doesn't sound like he actually talked. He growls. It doesn't sound like a normal voice, but it's deep. It's like a growl, and you enjoy hearing it. Number two on the list, another longtime favorite, Jacoby Brissette, another great bass in his voice. You can hear it throughout the stadium. He was having fun the other night, too, against the Bengals, too.

Like, he's not afraid to get wacky and do some comedy. He was like, 55, I'm going to get you. Like, that was great. it was just like a really he's like the guy with the cane from boys to men right he's wonderful and basically maybe he should be number one but i'm going to give aaron rogers his flowers i just think erin rogers you remember it it's full-throated it's iconic like the actual calls that he makes are iconic and you can hear it at the top of the stadium and the fact that he's also an all-time great quarterback doesn't help but i think he's an all-time great cadence guy at the line of scrimmage so

Aaron Rogers, still number one on my list. Wow. Well done. I really enjoyed that. Thank you. Great cadence while he's yelling at his teammates as well. It's not about the personality. It's just a vocal performance.

Which hero would have the best cadence? I don't want to pat myself on the back, but I inherited my dad's like father voice and I got a real growl, especially if you get me fired up. So I feel like I would really be able to. get over a huddle. I would love to hear everyone's though. That would be cool. I would I would vote for Dan, I think. I mean, I've gotten comments. I'd love to hear Rachel. I think Colleen. I think I'd be supportive and quirky. I think I'd keep it light.

Let me let me try. People would enjoy being. I've been doing this for like 20 years, like playing with my friends or sons. I'll leave my, blue 42. Set. Set. Watch the mic. Watch the mic. Omaha, Omaha, say, hike. I like that. Okay. I like that. You just set a wider stever up the middle on a run. That's one of the things I'm impressed with like with Jacoby Brissette.

I was like, doesn't your voice get tired at some point? I would be last on my cadence rankings. That's one of the reasons I hate listening to our podcast or watching any television shows. It would be that high pitch screechy voice, though. But you know what? I'm sorry if I missed it. But did you mention Mahomes? Because Mahomes doesn't have your traditional QB speaking voice.

And he signs sounds just fine at Arrowhead with 70,000 going on us. He does a good job changing it. He didn't crack my top five. Shout out to the guy on Twitter who's the cadence guy. I mean, on YouTube. There's a guy who just puts up people's cadences for a minute. And it really helped me do my homework for this year. What's Russ is like?

I feel like his would be weird. He would get weird with it. Inspirational. He's pretty good. He has a nice deep voice. He's good. All right. By the way, a man named Roland thought I sounded hot there. I mean, it is what it is. Hey, Freddy. How do you have been called on here? Rather, it be connected to Baba Balloons, but it is what it is. All right. Boo balloons. What are they? Boob balloons. I can honestly say I've never heard that one before. All right. Let's get to. the Greg Rosenthal week nine injury minute presented by AccraShore pimple cream for teens that does not work.

Corey Davis, bad news for your Jets is out again. I guess good news for your Jets if you're into other people getting hurt. Jordan Poyer is going to be out for the bills. But Matt Milano, my guy, practice this week. Looks like he will play. Jarvis Landry's been back at practice this week, a little more on the Saints in a second. Alan Lazard and Christian Watson on track to return for the Packers. Ryan Tanahill missed practice completely on Thursday after Gravedigger swung and miss on

Tana Hill status last week. Could he put it again? It might happen. We'll see. Jonathan Taylor missed all three practices this week. He's officially out making your locks look even better for the Patriots. Jahan Dotson's out this week. Again, looks like Cam Acres is going to be back.

The Bengals lost another cornerback. Mike Hilton is out this week in addition to Awuzier and Apple. That's bad news. Chase Young is still out, but he's getting closer. Cam Bray and Antoine Winner. Field are out for the Bucks. AJ Terrell, their best cornerback on the Falcons out again. Chuba Hubbard out for the Panthers.

And Damien Harris looks like he's going to be out again for the Patriots. And then finally, we got some longer term injury news. And I'll throw this to you guys. Rashad Bateman and Michael Thomas are both out for the season. And this happened right after our Thursday podcast. What a disaster for both of these teams starting, I guess, with Thomas is just, like heartbreaking. The Michael Thomas thing was weird. He got off to a great start this season, looked like Michael Thomas after missing basically two years with an ankle injury. And then it's a

very kind of nebulous foot injury designation, never goes on IR. And then after missing, what, six games or so, seven games announces that it's a toe injury that needs surgery and he's done for the year. So a real bummer. Greg, I'm interested in your thoughts on this just because you would said, do you think the Saints kind of did them dirty? I was curious how you thought they did them dirty? It's nebulous. I just wouldn't be surprised if more comes out here. You remember when Michael Thomas was upset with the Saints about the last set of surgeries?

There's just talk in New Orleans that did they diagnose this correctly from the get-go? He wasn't placed on injured reserve. Very recently, Dennis Allen said he expected him back maybe that week. Then he goes out to practice, reporters saw it, he had his helmet on, and then they declared that he was out. Even though they saw him at practice, it wasn't always announced as a toe injury before it was said as an ankle. My heart breaks for him because his career's been in trouble. But it just feels like there's a little more to the story that it wouldn't surprise me if some of our insiders end up diving into. And it sucks because you kind of think this is probably it for him in New Orleans, too.

it's probably the end of his contract. Bummer. And Rashad Bateman one. That's a tough one for the Ravens and puts them in a very difficult position now. Mark Andrews better be healthy. Anyway, he's got a knee and shoulder issue. Lamar can do a lot, but he can't do it all.

So tough situation there. You'd like to think the Ravens would have wished they would have known this a week ago when they could have gone. They kind of did, right? They knew he had banged up that foot again. Out for the season. I don't know. I'm not sure if that was so clear because it was a surprise to us, but they could have gone and swung a deal for someone because I think they already were so limited through the air and to take him out. I mean, he had a couple big plays early in the season. It's just like there aren't that many options for Lamar Jackson through the sky.

what happens in prison mark when someone suffers an injury like a liz frank type injury that's scorpion harlot is there do people feel for them do they get a little little distance or do they become weak and susceptible to being picked on in the hard scrabble ways it's a trenchant it's a trenchant question by you dan and i i would say that um in the in the prison that i'm at uh everyone sort of just, they gather around that person, you know, emotionally, spiritually. It's a very, it's a supportive environment. It's a supportive community, a brotherhood. You guys lift each other up. I think this is a secret little thing. I think you do get hurt and then you go to go into a private little hospital wing of the jail and then you just get, you know, feet up, baby. You're hanging.

Maybe there's even a TV in there. I think that's actually the play. It's like the Greenwich, Connecticut reform dormitory. All right, let's get to our fearless predictions before we say goodbye. But before we do that, let's cycle back to our predictions from last week, starting with Grape Digger jump in here, starting with Mark Sessler. Mark had some predictions last week that were pretty crazy as usual. I think his First one was that there would be three 40 burgers dropped. There was one 40 burger, so pretty close, but not three.

Falcons scored 37 points, Eagle scored 35 points. So a couple teams close, but you had the Cowboys at 49. And then Mark had any official feints. I'm not aware of any official fainting, although Jerome Boger did call the Seahawks, the Mariners. So maybe that was like a fainting spell that I think we don't give credit to Mark for either of those two. Greg said that Mack Jones would be judged by a panel of Friday Fun Show host to have played pretty well in a win over the Jets. And Greg himself said on Thursday and Tuesday and other times this week that if that pick six had stood,

we would be talking very differently about Mac Jones. So I would say he probably did not play pretty well, Greg. I don't think we even need the panel of judges. That's an 0 for five. But the Patriots did win. Yeah. Playbond had that the Giants. score under 21 points versus the Seahawks.

The Giants did score under 21 points. Seahawks won. So a little bit of a shallow hanger, but that's correct. And finally, the old Zusser would like to channel my distressed spirit animal, Alec Baldwin, from the 1993 medical thriller Malice, before we get to my prediction from last week. you ask me if I have a god complex let me tell you something i am god to a tungaviloa prediction 300 yards passing love three touchdowns win wow got them all checkmark check mark check mark check mark

i think i'll encourage picking against the team of around the NFL last ranked defense detroit Lions. And Emmanuel Acho, the guy that went off about Tua being better than Herbert, the prediction was it's going to give more fuel to his fire and the people of his ilk, which certainly has. Now, before we go, make our predictions. Rachel, get us going. I think that Aaron Rogers is going to walk out with some sage. He's going to light it in the middle of the field. He's going to think that that's going to cleanse him of all the demons that this team is going through. It doesn't work. The lion beat the bad guys. And Aaron Rush just throws a fit, throws a dang fit at the end of the game. And I am going to be,

can't wait. So the prediction is Aaron Rogers goes, you know, off has a temper tantrum after a loss or during a loss to the lines. I love it. That's a good one. Marky Mark. All right. I collected a series of visions during the evening. into morning hours and number one the titans the titans will beat the chiefs by 10 plus points lock it up on that one two dan will turn full villain on zach wilson by sunday at sundown full villain uh three greg will eat cottage cheese at some point during the weekend that is what i'm calling my sports lock of the weekend and four um benetta will hike runyon canyon alone on Saturday morning and encounter Diego Luna, the title character from Disney Plus's critically acclaimed

Andor series. It's a timely meeting because Diego's puppy, October Sparkles, has a fever. The small dog is panting and feeling lost to the animal world. Bonetta will save the dog and the day by providing smart water to October Sparkles. Diego Luna will then return the favor by casting Bonetta in season two of Andor as a character named French E9, a fierce, freewheeling no-code bounty hunter on a mission to eradicate a young princess lea from existence so greg i don't think she's going to be appearing on game day view any anytime soon that was so insane that rachel's screen just went to black she's that she's like i'm done with i'm done with NFL content now that this is rachel exploded with the rest of her home

the smart way to go out i mean she's getting that uh apple tv money or wherever that is um i don't know i don't know why i didn't have barco last Rachel just texted me her computer died. I think Mark killed her computer. What's your prediction? Greg. I mean, Mark needs to go last on all these. I haven't got a cheese in a while.

I do like cottage cheese, Mark. It hasn't crossed my path. I would say maybe in years or months. It's a horrible food product. Rachel, you're back. You have not left the company already to go work for Andor or what's going on? I actually wanted to get a head start. I wanted to go to Runyon.

ASAP so I could go and save this little dog and be cast in this Disney Plus show. I love that. Also, I'm going to be in Germany, so there's no way that that can happen. Sorry, I'm calling. Ooh, yeah, Rachel. We already got to give him an X, but that's not really the point. Um, go ahead, Greg. Okay. My prediction is the Falcons will rush for at least 217 yards this weekend, including a great performance by Tyler Algier. But Mark will still not have a response from the committee to determine if that's his guy. So Mark's actually not allowed to enjoy that

Tyler Alger outing. Utterly absurd. A clown show. I hate the processing of it all. Because you want it to be something that you just spur the moment and enjoy that moment, but it's just not there yet. Yet.

Finally, football outsiders had this tweet this morning. The Los Angeles Chargers ranked 16th in total. offensive and defensive DVOA. And that makes them essentially the Dalton scale of teams in the NFL. They are just the prime meridian. And like I said on Thursday,

without knowing this data from football outsiders, they make much more sense as a team that's 500 than one that's two games above. They will lose this weekend and match up with the football outsiders data. Sorry, Rach, I know they're a quote unquote team, but they're going down this weekend. they are exceedingly mediocre. Whoa. Dan hit her with the quote unquote team.

It's not even taking it seriously. I took it seriously. I just, there's some regrets. There are some regrets. All right. Thank you, everybody, for watching along on the stream. Thank you to Rachel Benetta for joining us and good luck in Germany. Have a great time.

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