The Bill Simmons Podcast - A Classic Josh-Vs.-Lamar Battle, the Week 1 Panic Meter, Guess the Lines and Parent Corner With Cousin Sal

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

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It is 842 Pacific time. I'm just traumatized by that game, Cousin' South. I had Ravens minus one and a half. I had in the ringer 107, had it in real life. I marked it up to win. Bill's fans leaving the stadium. Ravens, I think, had at least 10, 20-plus yard plays, and yet again, they proved why they are the hardened rockets.

It all looks great, lots of stats, lots of points, and yet you can't trust them in moments like this. I'm sure it'll be fine. We'll forget this game 15 weeks from now, but better win for the bills or worse loss for the Ravens. I think it's a worst loss for the Ravens. I feel like for the first two and a half hours, maybe I'm wrong

they seem focused on all right we're not fucking around we're going to get the one seed and we know what to do with it this year right and we're light years ahead that's a more depressing thing I watched these two teams I'm like holy shit these teams are so much better

than the team I root for but it's true no but honestly why are we betting these guys I might not bet the Sunday night game anyway just because I'm on with you afterwards and this should be a pleasant thing but to bet Baltimore Buffalo I think it's like why are we doing this to our

ourselves. We just, it's going to be a classic. It's going to be one tiptoe in bounds or not. We're just, it's like going to a Michelin Star restaurant and like, and like doing, loading up on gummies ahead of time. Like, no, let's enjoy the great meals. Yeah, but they roped up this in this one because this game was done. The Ravens were scoring every time they had the ball. The fans were leaving for a reason. I was, I called House halfway through the fourth quarter to talk about our ringer 107. I'm like, well, two and two. I'm really mad at the Falcons, we should be three and one. I just didn't see a scenario where if the Ravens had the ball of the lead, they weren't

going to be able to put the way the game. The bills have that weird awkward drive, midway through the fourth quarter near the end of it. Ravens get it back, fumble. Now all of a sudden it's like, oh, what happened? And then the Ravens had just an awful three and out in the last two and a half minutes of the game where it's like, just use Lamar, use Derek Henry, just use your assets. They haven't stopped it all day.

And I thought they played scared and conservatively. But I just, this Lamar versus Josh, I was thinking about it during the game. This is the best possible football game we can have in 2025 with these two guys. There is no better matchup. There are no two players I'd rather see play each other. And it's weird to shove Mahomes to the side when he's won three Super Bowls and he's allegedly the face of the league. but I just think this is the marquee matchup from an entertainment standpoint.

Am I correct? You're correct. The Chiefs are not the team that scores 40. Not that, you know, some people don't like the 40, 40 games, but I loved it. I enjoyed it. We saw the two best players going at it at the highest level, but Mahomes and the Chiefs aren't there anymore.

I don't think they have been in like four years where they could score in the 40s consistently. But it was such a great one. And I just feel like we're idiots for having so much riding on it. Like there should be something, no, but something. All right, if we're going to bet it and we have all these beds. That's like not betting Connello Crawford next week. Like you have to bet it.

It's the two best quarterbacks. But can we hook up some device that buzzes our neck hard if we can cash in at 15 to one on live odds on the freaking bills? Exactly the other way. Yeah, we should have to be able to do that. But a great game. It's unfortunate with Henry because he dominated and then that's the big fumble. And that's what everyone's going to talk about.

But yeah, you don't want to give any either of the. these quarterbacks the ball last. That punt, did you have a problem with that punt on fourth and three? Like, I thought it was weird. I mean, what are they going to do? They're going to go for that? Then you don't get it. And you're basically handing them the game.

But maybe you get it back is the thing. Like, you've seen them score. There's 80 points. Like, it's rained the last three weeks. Bring a freaking umbrella. Like, you know they're going to score again if you, if you don't wind that clock out. I don't know. Yeah, I guess.

So the Bill's defense, I just thought got crushed all night. It was embarrassing. Like, they were just giving up big plays all over the place. And it almost seemed like the Ravens couldn't decide which big play to go for. I thought Alan was spectacular. I thought the Ravens defense was better than the Bill's defense in this game. And Alan just made a couple awesome throws. And when they had the All-22 behind him camera for some of the throws,

this is why a month ago when I was like, I know he doesn't have the resume yet, But I just, I find it hard to believe there's a better quarterback than Josh right now. And he kind of needed this one. I think, you know, because if the Ravens come back and they flip what happened last year in the playoff game, the Bill's defense has all these questions. And it's like, ah, same old, same old with the bills. They're going to go 12 and 5 or 13 and 4 in a crappy division. And I'm still not going to trust their infrastructure and their coaching and all these other things.

But now they can always say, no, no, it's different this year. Remember when we came back? And then if you're the Ravens, it's like, we did this last year. And then we won, like, 10 and 11 in a row. Like, nobody loses dumber games in the fourth quarter than the Ravens. And I guess I got to take some accountability because on our Ringer 107 chat, I was doing all the records and I had House and I had two and two. And all of a sudden, the Bill scored again.

And it was a one score game. And people like, you do you jinxed. I'm like, no, you're fine. The Ravens stopped the Ravens all game. I'll take some accountability. It was a rookie mistake for me in my mid-50s. I think all. I think, I think actually Collinsworth was blaming you after the game.

Bill, just shut your mouth and watch these two. Come on, who needs to hear from you right now? I just want to, I just want to spoon with these two quarterbacks at halftime. Is that against the rules? I was thinking the Collinsworth tackle scale. Lamar's a 10 and Josh is like a nine and a half. And I think my home's is probably a nine. Because Lamar had that crazy scramble when he almost got,

I feel like he does this once a game on national TV. I almost get sacked twice. I do the whirly burled. All of a sudden I'm running. And I think they said in next-gen stats, he traveled 76 yards. But as he was doing it, if you rewind it, you can hear Collins were like, ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, he's just like, Ed McMahon. He wasn't even tackled yet.

He was just running. He was running. And then Henry ran. Oh, but those, both of those guys, they were just, especially when you're watching all the games all day. And they're just so clearly above all these other guys we watched all day, you know. Definitely, definitely some of those quarterbacks at 1 p.m. on the East Coast. Yeah, but, and so many times you thought the bills were done, right?

Between the two guys just running faster and anybody, Lamar and Henry. And then DeAndre is making these one-handed catches. And it's like, well, that's unfair. That's going to, he's 32, 33. He's going to bring that in. Like, that's, who the hell is even going to come close to stopping this team? But that's, they have some grit, man, the bills. To be able to come back from that when everybody in the world thought they were done.

To be able to come back from their fans, walking out. They ended up with almost 500 yards of offense, 497 and 389 passing. Meanwhile, the Baltimore had 194 passing, 238 rushing. And I swear they had 10, 20 plus plays.

The Buffalo 29 first downs, do you see if you had to bet right now, I could give you an over under of one and you can bet the push of these two teams in the AFC title game, would you go zero, one, or two? What the hell am I answering here?

Oh, how many of the teams? Oh, I say. Ravens Bills. Sorry to be making confusing. I'll give you zero one or two. Yeah, I'll go to. So you're going to both are in. Yeah, I mean, all right.

I think the chiefs now fall back a little bit. I'm going to say one. I think one of them makes it, one of them doesn't. Yeah. But then who jumps in? So then the chiefs would have to upset. It really would be an upset at this. point i think that these guys are playing like this baron chargers maybe the chargers after what we saw

in brazil and oh god you know what's interesting i i looked at the mvp 20 minutes ago it was lamar three to one allen plus 500 now it's allan plus 380 lamar plus 550 oh this is on fando this is on fandle and henry 125 to 1 he was 65 to 1 20 minutes ago just that fumble killed them yeah that was it was uh daniel jones on there or no no no but can he win comeback player? I don't know. Baker 33 to 1. Jordan loved down 12 to 1.

Remember we were talking about that when that was 25 to 1? I had another unbelievable one. So in fantasy, in the league that we care about, the knockout league, we have a lot of drama that we got to talk about a little bit later. I had James Cook going against the Bill's defense, and I'm down like 20 plus points to our friend, the MOOC. And the fantasy say, we use has me as a 1% chance of winning for two hours. Meanwhile, James Cook has a touchdown.

He has 18 points. The Bill's defense has nothing. And I'm six-back with that last TD drive. And they still have me at 1%. I'm like, update the site, you motherfuckers. And then Cook gets stuff that like the half-inch line. And that's been the story of me in fantasy football for 18 years. Not to mention gambling losing this game. So sorry. I don't think the guru watches the games. It's like, hey, the defense is playing with seven players. Cook should not be a 1% underdog. The guru is definitely AI. So the other thing we had were the unders today were 11 and 1 before this game.

And the two games that went over went spectacularly over, this game and the bizarre Jet Stewards game. And then everything else went under. And I have no explanation for that. Yeah, but we always know this. This is what you and I need to be smarter. It's like the offensive lines are the latest to gel, right? Why aren't we betting unders?

Like just, all right, if we lose, whatever. Then we can move on to a different narrative. But yeah, I was so mad. I did tell you that Steelers Jets. I didn't think they'd be, I didn't think Rogers was throw for four touchdowns, but I thought that was a four box game. Ended up being a great one. Yeah, you did call that one. I got to hand it to you. So the bills, that was their first win by 15 plus in the fourth quarter in the regular season since 1967 before either of us were alive. Rememberable game. I picked the bills to win the, to win the Super Bowl to beat the Green Bay Packers. Did you have them in the Super Bowl or I haven't beating the Buccaneers, so I'll stick with it.

I'll stick with it. So weirdly, it was a loss for us with the Ravens today, but a win for us long term. And I think the bills, I'd be shocked if they didn't sign Gibreel Peppers, who the Patriots inexplicably waived last week and then probably need it today. But I just think they're going to keep throwing bodies at that safety issue and try to figure it out. Listen, we've been, we're excited and rightfully so about this game. But the Ravens beat them in the regular season, right? and then the bills beat them in the playoffs.

So you can only put too much weight on September 7th. Usually when a fan shoves the player on another team and then the star player on that team shoves the fan back and we have like a stands altercation. The karma of that usually sinks the fan base. It's the opposite. It seemed like it ignited the bills. Yeah.

Lamar shoved one of our guys. We don't know some drunk idiot probably. I don't know if he was drunk or just crazy leaning over. Way to get involved with the NFL. He's going to get, like, 14 signed balls now because of it. Yeah, you think he'll be victimized somehow? Oh, sure, yeah. Who did, where did, where did you have in the Phillies lady?

Would you have in that whole thing? She's great. She's great. You like that? Too harsh? Yeah, you know, I don't know. I go too far. We have like three aunts who would do that.

Yeah, I know, I know. But it's like, we're going to find out where she lives. We're going to, she's never going to work another day again. It's like, all right. She was in the moment she got caught up and thought the ball was her. So probably shouldn't have left her seat. But, you know, people do dumb things. Philly's fan, too.

Yeah, Philly's fan. Any other Ravens' bills takes? Not really. I just, I mean, again, I was just. You seem to strut. I lost a lot of money. You lose money. I was on the 107.

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Week one, panic rankings. I'm just going to throw some things out. You tell me what the number is from a zero to 10. We got to start with the dolphins. They got absolutely demolished. I think the half time, the yardage was like Indy had 270 or something like that, and Miami had like 44. Two, it looked atrocious.

Daniel Jones, his career was rejuvenated to the point that there's now comeback of the year action on him. Indy statistically had the best offense, I think, of week one, heading into this game and then the Bill's Ravens demolished them. But you and I, neither of us like Miami, heading into the season. And I think the over under landed at seven and a half. I bet it multiple times. I have them alt under five and a half.

I just thought they're going to suck. And guess what? They suck. I don't know if it's going to last, but they suck for that. I think you nailed it. I would be careful because they have your team next week, so maybe don't say too much. But seven to have the panic meter, we're picking a number or go zero to ten on Miami. What would you do for Miami?

I think seven a half is a good number for that, too. But, yeah, I would say eight because their defense is way worse than I thought, too. I mean, too, we could throw the picks and we could point and laugh at that stuff. that's going to happen, I guess. But the Colts, this is a weird stat. The Colts had seven drives the whole game and scored on every one of them. And that's never happened or that hasn't happened like 70 years. Like, how do you have seven drives?

You have three drives, one half? One of the halves, you had three drives. Like, they had a couple long ones. They had, there was interceptions where they got the ball in Miami territory. And then, I don't know, a lot of clock killing. 3921 time of possession. So, I mean, that's pretty dominant. But good job.

I mean, that guy, if they don't fire him, what is, is it Halloween? Do we have a name for that? Like, can you get to Halloween? I was going to, I was going to ask you this. We lost the Clapper. Sadly, we didn't really lose him because he's on NBC and we have to watch him on television. We had to watch him fill during a rain delay. We lost coach middle seat.

We need a new kind of coach whipping boy with a nickname. And obviously it should be Mike McDaniel. Possible nicknames for him. Mike McWirdo. Coach one day closer to death, because that was a quote from his. Mike McDon't, I don't know. What do we want to call him?

Maybe we let the listeners come up with it or people on the YouTube chat. We got to, it's got to be on the par of the Clapper and Coach Middle Seed. I don't know. I don't mind Coach One Day Closer to Death. That's pretty good. That's pretty good.

I'd like to hit the nerd angle a little if someone's thinking about it. I can't. What's the coach McDungeon's, and dragons? I don't know. I don't know what his thing would be, but he's more annoying. You know, if you're a tough guy. Coach McDungeons? Oh, that's good. Coach McDungeons. I don't know. At the clapper, that shout out to Lombardi. I don't know if we're overstop popping the clacker. I do, I don't mind coach one day closer to death because he's also. Oh, that's right.

He's down. Now I know what you're saying. He's closer to first coach fired. Yeah. He had that quote. Yeah. Yeah. When he was like kind of shaking. off a bad practice and said, we're all one day close their death. Coach McDeff, that might be it. The other achievement they did, so I had them in the multi-view, knocked them out, like halfway through the second quarter. I don't ever remember a week one, you need to go. Here's the door. Here are the keys to your car. The Valley's pulling car up. Please leave. Just knocked out. Never to be seen again because we had eight games in the early games. Had to get them out. next week we have nine

one day Fandall is going to have odds on like how long it takes for you to knock a certain game out of your four bucks Oh yeah, that would be great like over under Pittsburgh Jets I thought would have been over under 50 minutes just like a slug best 6 to 3 in the fourth quarter And it actually was entertaining as you said

Week one panic ranking So I'm going to go I'm going higher than you I'm going nine and a half from Miami Because defensive backs terrible Offensive line didn't look good Two, I don't know. And then the coaching thing and just the general malaise.

But they do, they are getting the Pats who seemed like a mess against the Raiders. My son, look, there was a shot of Tyreek Hill, like just convulsing on the sideline. He's like, oh, he's crashing out. That's a big thing with the kids crashing out. I was like, what, is that bad? Like tweaking? Yeah, is like the medical thing? Should he really be?

It's like, no, no, he'll be all right. He's just crashing out. Like, oh, he'll have like a little tantrum. That's good. So he'll demand the trade in three weeks. So, oh, crashing out. Yeah, crashing out. Okay.

week one panic rankings Kansas City's AFC West dominance so they're in last place for the first time since like 1998 it's interesting Vegas looked good

we're going to talk about that game later Vegas's offense looked good and I was pretty impressed by them in general the Bowers to get hurt the chargers were awesome on Friday in Brazil excellent and then Denver turned the ball over

four times at home and somehow still one by eight. Casey's AFC West Run, do you still think they win the division? And is that a panic yet? I'm going to stay with it. I'm going to say a five panic, but that could jump to a seven if they lose to the Eagles. I know it's not a division game. But yeah, they could be in a little bit of trouble. I mean, where are these?

It's a giant loss. They're not moving the ball. Like I said, you're not going to count on Kelsey for, you know, three touchdowns every two weeks or anything. Well, Kelsey, with the friendly fire, just annihilating Worthy. It wasn't a great way to start the game. Yeah. Also wasn't great in our Deotene League for our publicist, Louis K.

Yeah, yeah. Who I think's getting bounced, who got one play out of Xavier Worthy, and that was it for him. Yeah, that's bad news. I'm in another league with someone at Worthy and A.J. Brown, so it was like a zero's a one across the one across the board. Yeah, Chiefs are plus 170. What were they the, what was like a pick-um, right? These odds, yeah, they were like minus 110.

So they're plus 170 on Fandau. Chargers are plus 190. Broncos are plus 260. So they were around 300 to 330 all year, and now that's plus 260. And then the Raiders are 9 to 1. That Chiefs plus 170, that has to be the highest it's been since they've had Mohamed's. There can't be any other situation where they haven't been minus 110 or higher. That year they went on the road.

They still won the division, right? Yeah, they always went the division. Yeah, yeah. Plus 170 is giant. Well, I'll tell you, would you want to talk about that game now really quick? Sure, I know. Friday, Brazil?

First, I'm never betting on the Brazil game again. So good luck to the rest of the Brazil games. I just think we're two in a row. Just put that game over there. It's just basically on crack. Herbert was incredible. That was the best game I've ever seen him play. And I know I've been in the camp of,

all right, can he at least earn it before we call him a top seven Q? and the nerds love him and it's been this whole thing. And the nerds have always been about the potential of him and the efficiency versus the actual results and stuff like getting his ass kicked in the playoffs last year. He fucking crushed the Chiefs in that game. That was one thing. The Chief's defense, I thought, looked really wobbly.

And then same stuff with Chief's offense where the explosive plays seemed just really hard for them. Now, where they went out early. But they remind me of the Pats after the over. 2007, kind of between the two eras before they got it going again. When they're in that kind of weird, trying to figure out who they were and the infrastructure was there and they still had the QB, but it was obviously a transition from one era to another. And I just wonder what the ceiling for them is.

I didn't think they were impressive at all. No, they weren't. So the ceiling is, are they 11 and 0 and 1 score games, you know, going forward? Because that's what they were last year, right? No and 1, right? Oh and 1. but when like what do we you know what do we expect like is this going to be a team that hangs on and makes you pay in the end i mean it didn't look like they looked like they were dominated like

you said like herbert like we've seen well how many quarterbacks have we seen in our life like 73,000 i don't know yeah but when he's hopping around in the pocket yeah and he has time i get like dan merino vibes i'm like he's going to complete this pass i don't know where it's going and now i feel like he's comfortable like he had eight different pass catchers on uh friday whatever day it was. And Quentin Johnston looks like a serious player now. So it's kind of like a different offense. He was killing them on third and longs,

which are usually where the chiefs would dial up some spagnolo, something. It wasn't working in that game. And the other thing, we talked about this when we did the preseason thing about Slater going out and how they were equipped to replace that better than in the league because they could move Joe Alt over,

which still made them weaker. But they did have Joe Alt, who was like the six pick in the draft two years ago. And by all accounts, I mean, he was awesome in the game, but then the advanced metrics of, like, he was 0 for 44 and when you tried to pressure him, like, he just completely dominated whoever he was going against. Right.

There's a little nobody believes in us, too, that I considered, I shorted them. I went against them for the playoffs. But everybody had either Denver or Casey in that division. Everybody had them going backwards, the Slater injury. But I thought they had a little oomph to them in that game. Well, first of all, I think we overvalue or overrate or don't know how to analyze. offensive line injuries. Like that Vera Tucker guy goes out for the Jets

and he's obviously their best linemen and they're still scoring points. Somehow it didn't matter. For the right tackle and the Falcons, they're still moving the butt. Right. So just maybe ignore it. I know it could be a disaster of two or three of these guys go out.

But I don't know if nobody believes in us, but it might just be nobody roots for us. Like nobody roots for us like they do in Brazil. Yeah. So now it's because I feel like people love the Chargers. They want the Chargers to win.

They want the Bengals to win. These are teams that disappoint over and over and over from one reason or another. What do you got for the Ravens on the Panic scale? I mean, they've been here. They've literally been here before. No, that's a good team. That's a great team. I don't, I mean, what are they going to, they're not going to win the division, you know,

like? So Cincinnati you thought was better than that? Pittsburgh, fine. With about eight minutes left in that game, the lead of this podcast would have been, holy shit, Baltimore's head and show. there's above every team in the league. Right. And this is what they did multiple times last year where they would play these.

That's why the Hardin Rockets analogy is so perfect for them. Hit a million threes and then the game gets tight and all of a sudden those threes, it gets a little tighter. I'm not worried about them. I'm a two. It's a dumb loss and nobody will remember it happened eight weeks from now. It's way more important for Buffalo. The Bryce Young bandwagon, he was bad.

Yeah. He was bad. And that was a weird game because there was like a very strange lightning delay. It was like three to three for a while. Then it was 10.3. There was a lightning delay. Travis E.T.N. ran for 71 yards, took him down inside like the 20. All of a sudden it was 17 to 3.

And Bryce Young, two picks, a fumble. He had a pick six that got saved by a Jacksonville penalty and called back. On the other side of the field. And then he follows it up with a touchdown. So his stats would have looked a lot worse than that. And then the other one he had, which really should be, there should be a way to keep track of this. Fourth and goal throws it out of the end zone.

That should almost be a turnover. If you're not, instead of throwing it out of the end zone, just lob it into a group of people and hope it gets batted around or something. Like, you know, it's not going to work throwing it in the end zone. So I just thought he was awful. And I didn't really understand the Bryce Young. I mean, it was nice that he wasn't a bust.

last year because he played better. But it wasn't like, uh-oh, here comes Bryce in. He was okay, second half last year, compared to what we thought he was going to be, but he was bad today. I think he took him to overtime, like, three times or something. It's a little overblown how great he was towards the end of the year.

But it's a bad sign that they got Andy Dalton a driver, the team, which means they're looking to put him in any time soon. They got him a Waymo. Yeah. 24-hour Waymo. Secret Service protection for the quarterback, but just when it comes to driving.

The Bracey on bandwagon, I'm going to put out a solid seven. Yeah, that's good. Okay. I'll go seven. How about the Detroit Lions offense without Ben Johnson? What do you got for that? No, I'm going four here.

I don't know why. I mean, isn't that to be expected that they're out of sorts a little in the offense without a great coordinator? And they'll, the athletes are good enough that they'll eventually catch up. You forget, like these guys, The dumb thing is a lot of these guys didn't play in preseason, right?

Yeah. So if you lose a coordinator and you don't play in preseason, that first game is going to suck. I mean, you had the Packers, right? I did. I thought the lion's offensive line was pretty sketchy in that game. And that game was not as close as the final score. The game felt like it was over for an hour and a half.

And at one point, it was like 23 to 3, 263, something like that. I'm more worried about the Detroit offense than you. I think that Ben Johnson's, and that just they were kind of just had an overqualified coaching staff and now they have a normal coaching staff on top of not having as good on my offensive line which was one of the reasons to go under with them

so I'm probably like a six with that I think Gibbs had 10 receptions for 31 yards or something like they we saw like five stats that never existed before and that's one that's one man they were trying so hard to get him going next one for the pain of grankings bonex fantasy owners

yeah he was he wasn't a top five fantasy QB but he was like kind of right there like oh if I can get Bo Nix I'm good yeah he was awful in that Tennessee game like really bad and the Broncos in general the offense was alarmingly bad

but I thought he was like bad that this was the Bo Nix we were worried about and he was coming out of college so I'm gonna be I'm at least a five for my Super Bowl fringe contender Broncos hopes that I had and then win the division all that stuff I'll put it at a five also.

He was not good today at all. Probably could have like four interceptions. He calls his own number a lot. He runs his way out of like bad situations. So that's good. And he threw a dime. The touchdown pass was very solid. But yeah, for the first half, it looked like he was the rookie.

And, you know, Cam Ward was the second year quarterback. Kind of like Caleb Williams versus Will Levis game won last year. But it picked up. That game had, and we all sniffed it out. we knew with Survivor, we knew with teases and parlias. That game had all the makings. And Denver did everything they good to try, but the Titans

offensively just, they had no chance to get that Broncos defense. They couldn't move the ball. I think that was the NFL Eliminator Gods putting their hand on our shoulders, be like, hey, guys, it's not going to be easy this year. Yeah. Don't you, don't think you're going to go checkoffs. We had that. We had Arizona against New Orleans, New Orleans driving at the end,

and then we had that ridiculous Cleveland Cincinnati game. Next for the panic rankings, the look on another person's face as you tell them, I think I'm going to bet the Falcons at home. What are your thoughts? Because for me, it needs to be intervention, like TV intervention style, like the first of a one-hour show in the 90s where somebody knocks on the character's door and it's like, hey, can you come over to Bobby's house? And then all his friends are there and they intervene.

I'm just never doing it again. I can't do it again. I can't. I'm writing down all the things you're never doing again. That one I'm never doing again. And then I had a drive that was an hour long to try to go ahead in the fourth quarter that where they were inside the 10 and somehow had two consecutive four down. There were challenges.

It ended up being 10 plays inside like the five. And then they got it and then they lost anyway. Yeah, I feel like we get it with panic already. Every play is going to be him diving for the pylon. and it's going to be close or his knee is down or his elbows down before he reached over the goal line. But I thought we agreed not to bet this one. I thought we said we like Tampa Bay.

Tampa Bay is banged up. We're going to sit out because Atlanta's going to probably win this game. And then we could pound Tampa Bay for the division. That's not how it worked out. But there's still minus 170. I wouldn't mind that. And you could blame yourself too. You did the Falcons three exclamation, exclamation points on our text when Pennick scored there, I think.

I did. I forgot Baker Mayfield. Yeah. Well, Dubundo said in our text thread that for some reason, Koo has been involved in an intimate moment of 42 straight Falcons games. I don't know how that's possible. One PM game, yeah, yeah. It's funny how I did not think he was going to make that kick.

Boswell in the Pittsburgh Jets game where it's like, Boswell from 6th, it's like, ah, this would be good from 90. And Koo is a good kicker, but for some reason, and there was a little bit of a stink. He'd already missed a PAT earlier in the game. And Tampa missed a PAT, right? The Flockland missed. Yeah, the special teams is awful today.

I know it takes a minute for the offensive lines to gel, but the special teams, other than the Steelers, somehow Boswell getting out there. All of a sudden, I don't know, was he a top three kicker you would trust for that? I couldn't believe how confidently he went out there and knocked it through. Last one for the panic rankings,

Houston's offense, which looked awful against the Rams. Now, they're missing a couple of receivers, but. Yeah. I thought their offensive line was alarming. And the Rams, they have a good defense. It's not that good. And Houston just couldn't do anything.

They took out Collins. And this was the big fear with Houston going into it. All of us were trying to figure out a different AFC South team to pick. None of us could talk ourselves into Jacksonville, Indianapolis, or Tennessee. Everyone begrudgingly took the text in, well, they have C.J. Stride. They have some good receivers. is, ah, their defense is good.

I thought the offense, the fact that they were relying on Nick Chubb like that, too, is just kind of, I kept hearing rumors of this the last couple weeks, but man, nine points for them, and I'm concerned. Yeah, I'll give it a six.

I'll give it a six. Only because you don't need to score a lot to win that division, probably. But, yeah, Chuck, I mean, what happened? Our friend Hens drafted, like, he drafted marks. I was like, what? Who is that? He's like, it's still like the fourth string running.

back to Texas. I was like, is that? A.R.X or CK. What is, how is that? But yeah, they,

yeah, you said two receivers were gone and Collins did nothing. So weird, weird game. Do we have a nobody believes in us team in your opinion yet in 2025? Because I think the nominees are Las Vegas and Indianapolis,

unless there's another team I can't think of. I think those would be the two. I guess. Yeah. Oh, man. You really, we really want to do this with Indianapolis. I'm just trying to think of a team that won today

that it is actually conceivable they'd make the playoffs, but it seems ridiculous. Yeah. I think those would be the two. I think the Raiders were the only underdog who won outright today, right? Well, I guess the bills technically.

But yeah, so that would make sense. I'll throw the Jaguars in there. I know you don't like them, but I believe in them. I think they win that division. We can talk about that game in a second. Did week one... change your mind on anything from how you felt before the season.

Is there one thing where you're like, oh, I would mulligan the shit out of that? I was trying to think about that. Like, what would I take back? So I'm most happy about my Bucks to win the division, making it to the Super Bowl pick. I'm most bummed about shorting the Rams. But like you said, who knows with that game? Maybe the Rams defense isn't that good. And the Texans just didn't bring it for week one.

But those are the two right now. mine is i already talked about it with you a week ago about uh being bullish on the paths and gradually coming off it over the last two three weeks as a couple injuries and uh just some of the feedback coming out of camp and the coaching stuff and it just seemed like they were kind of preparing people like yo we've had a lot of turnover like this is we don't have high expectations um i think that one and then i kind of wish i'd gone harder on detroit or k c just like not picking one of them to miss the playoffs. Because I do think it's

really possible that one of those two teams is a year from hell candidate. But I could just see one of those two teams missing it. I don't think, I don't know if they will. Yeah. But especially the Lions, like I could see a scenario where they don't make it. And we talked about it. We circled that. I have the boss to do it.

Yeah. Well, I mean, don't, you know, I think you had the right idea right away. Your initial, like maybe the Patriots have the year from hell. Well, they're the second or third worst team in the league. I'll give you a Dolphins Giants. You could be third. Now, we're better than the Browns and the Saints.

The funny thing is that they didn't even play well when they were in that game the whole game. The defense was pretty good. They had pressure the whole game. I don't know. They gave 362 yards to Gino. I don't know. But Gino made some good plays.

But your offense isn't good or not. It's not. You battle back with Kishon. What's his name? I don't know. It's going to be tough. Campbell at left tackle was playing hurt, and they just were working him like a speedback.

The offensive line was not great. they couldn't run the ball. I thought Vegas played pretty well, though. One other thing, this isn't a change your mind, but it felt like kick returns, and people were predicting that this could be the case, but I thought kick returns were way more noticeable this year with changing field position.

I thought it had an impact on the Tennessee Denver game. There's a couple games that all of a sudden people are on the 45 or the 50, whereas like for years and years, we were just having touchbacks and people, starting drives on the 22, the 24. Now, a sudden, it felt like we were in the 30 to 45, right? Did you notice that? Yeah, I did.

I think, yeah, special teams just in general, like we were talking about even punt returns, the bills fumbled a punt return and the more kick returns. I'm still not sure of the rule exactly where you're short of the zone of intention or whatever the hell it's called. But, yeah, that was such bad clock management. How can you kick it through the end zone in Denver? Like, how does it go to the 10 anyway? I know.

That screwed them up. The only thing, and I picked Green Bay to make the Super Bowl, this was before the Parsons trade. But I do wonder, this isn't a thing I would change necessarily, but they did have a look to them today, like a kind of a juggernautty kind of look. And we've seen some teams flash this in week one and they go away. But I was looking at their schedule. Commanders on Thursday at the Browns, at the Cowboys, by week, home Bengals. at Cardinals, at Steelers on a Sunday night, home Panthers, home Eagles, at Giants, home Vikings,

at Lions on Thanksgiving. It's not that hard of a schedule. Well, if they're in every game you met at Pittsburgh will be close, but yeah, their favor in all those. Yeah, like if you said, all right, at gunpoint, pick a team that's going to start out 10 and 0. Right. I think I would pick them.

I don't think probably nobody's going to start 10 and 0, but I think that's probably the team that has, the best just they can do they didn't really have weaknesses from we saw it they can run the ball they can throw the ball they can rush the pass or they can cover they can basically do everything and they're a monster home team yep so it looks like they hit on the rookies too golden golden solid they do have fandle does have first team uh well or last team to lose so they don't have it up right now i do like that parsons played like 29 snaps and he's getting almost all the credit so seems like they had him out of those 29 and they had like he had like four or five genuinely

impactful moments on there. So the AFCs could have been owned for or not. The chiefs are in last place. Only one NFC team scored 25 points today. Oh. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Everyone was 24 and under except for the Packers.

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And ask your family eye care professional for SLOR Stellas lenses at your child's next visit. So quickly, zipping through the games, Packers beat the Lions. That one never felt close. We need to talk about that. We do need to talk about 49ers Seahawks. It had all the makings of a classic Niners dominate, somehow blow the game, have some stupid special team stuff.

They missed a field goal. They had a blocked field goal. I was like, oh, this is the classic really stupid Niners' Week 1 loss. And McDaniels, I'm sorry, McDonald's. McDonald's, yeah. Fourth down and won. We now have 15 years of nerds explaining to us why you have to go for this and go for the kill and the game.

Don't let the Niners get the ball back. Just go for the first down. You win the game if you get it. And he kicks the field goal. And the Niners come right back down and score. And Seattle ends up losing the game. Especially in week one, I'm going for this. This is like, you're sending a message to your team.

Like, it's a different season. We're fucking ramming it down their throat. Fuck them. Fuck the Niners. We're fucking doing this. And instead like, well, we cook the field goal. Hopefully our defense could hold. I just hated it.

Did Olson do that game? Olson did that game, right? I mean, he brought up, I'm pretty sure Greg Olson did that. He had a good point. Yeah, of course, because they had three timeouts left. There was three and a half minutes left for San Francisco. So I don't know. If you kick a field goal, I feel like it's a push at that point, right?

You got to run clock. You got to make the. them eat some of their timeouts, you know, fourth and one, you can make that. If you don't make fourth and one, you use your timeouts well and you'll get the ball back. But I think you got to knock them out right there for sure. Hated it. And then the play, so they get this long first down on there, they're trying to pull off a game winning drive in JSN, who was awesome, who was their only receiver.

No other receiver had more than 15 yards. Right. He makes this play, sets them up. It's getting close to the two-minute warning. and they kind of did like a spasm, and it's like, but they hand the ball off, nothing. And then all of a sudden, in the second down pass play, where Darnold, they're like, on the 11,

Darnold, you know, in the middle of chaos. Like, I'd just get in the ball out as fast as possible with Sam Darnold in that situation. Because you know the Niners are bringing, I didn't like the play. I didn't like how they handled that last stretch. I mean, they were three for 10 on third down. They had 230 yards total,

and they only had 22 minutes of possession. So maybe he just didn't believe in the offense for a reason, but I just didn't like the coaching by them. I thought they should have won the game. I don't think he's going to win 13 games with them like he did last year. It was 13. He went with the Vikings, right? But yeah, that was unfortunate because it was his own guy who knocked his hand

and the ball loose. Right. Yeah, but you just, that's why you can't think things for granted. Like just, you know, mash it down their throats. San Francisco was ready to be had, I thought. Kid Ellen Jennings got hurt. Trent Williams was hurt, came back, seems like he's still hurt.

Moody is 12 for 23 with field goals since week 10 last year. Wow. Steelers' jets. Steelers win don't cover, which I think Kausen and I predicted. So Steelers two and a half, they somehow win don't cover. The Steelers spent, the Cousin' South Special did cover. Beautiful. You did it again.

Almost 7-1, Steelers to lose the first half and win the game. And they were down by what? Like one point and a half or something? Just think about this. If you just before the year bet $100,000 every week on this. And it hits five times. I know. It's like one of the great bets.

And it hits five times every year. Yeah, it's free for two months right now, right? If I won those at 7-1, I had a little, not enough on it. But he was very good. He was good. He was moving around, Rogers. You know, I bet his completions and yards over today. So I didn't think he'd have the four touchdowns, but this could be a nice offense for him.

I've spent the whole summer saying I thought he was washed. I thought he looked really good. Now, it might be one of those things where it's the old, older athletes. who looks good in September and as the year goes along the weather gets colder but he looked like a fit he seemed very

very engaged he talked some shit after about the Jets four touchdowns I thought he looked good and I thought Fields was about as good as he can play

right he made plays I thought some of his passes were pretty accurate he ran the ball a little bit he wasn't didn't seem like a liability and the Jets ran all over Pittsburgh's defense and somehow lost.

Like, you'd think the Jets getting 32 points. That should be, that game should be over. Right? I thought their defense could be better than that. And listen, they made a 60-yard field goal. Otherwise, it's all, Rogers can't win a big game. You know, that would be the narrative.

So, that could go either way. But, yeah, I mean, that was the best, both of those quarterbacks you could be expected to see them play. And what about that press? I don't understand that Jackal comment in the press conference. Like, it feels good to beat everyone in the Jets organization. like you're counting your boy Nate Hackett or shoving Salah or going to Egypt?

Like they did everything you wanted them to do. What do you want? Well, they gave him everything. So I'm not sure who in the organization he's talking about. I mean, Sal, we're not players. We can't possibly understand. That's true. Yeah, we're just non-players.

You're going to apologize for that. We're not smart enough to understand how he's thinking because we've never played. Buck's Falcons, we talked about that, did want to mention Igbuka. was as advertised. I think, did you get him in our fantasy league?

That's my guy. That's my offensive work in the year. I tried to get him in everything. I bet on him. I only got him in one or two leagues. He makes the big play at the end, but he was heard from all game and just like that. He's so good in the fourth quarter, Baker.

He really is, if you look at his numbers, it's mysterious how he saves it all up. He passes the final test where when you're going against him, you're nervous. And like that, it's like, oh, shit, I have the lead. Right. But I feel like Baker. is going to ram it right in my keister.

And it's exactly what he did. The Rams Texans, 14-9, I had the under in this game. It was the only end I bet. 11 Houston penalties, two turnovers, and nothing from Nico Collins, two-for-nine on first down in the rough offensive line.

So all-around, not awesome. Bengals, Browns? So we all had the Bengals as like, this is the offense you want in fantasy. They had 11 first downs at 141-todd-yards, and the Brown should have won the game. Like, I know nobody watched this game except for the true diehards

or if you saw a couple of plays on Red Zone, but this was done. The Browns kicker, Andre Schitt. Is that how you pronounce it? That's it. Hold on. S, Z, M. Y, M. Y, M.A.T.

Shit. I think is how it's pronounced. Andre shit. Yeah. Schmidt. Shishmit. It doesn't matter. Missed a P.

And then a 36-yarder with 225 left. That was just a stomach punch. I hated it. I had the Browns all over the place. I mean, it's fine, but I was like, this is a real thing, this is a real thing. He's one in ten, and it's for weeks one through three, the last

three, four years, whatever it is. But I feel like the Browns, this is what we should be used to it, and I feel like they took them aside, and they said, like, listen, kid, you come to this organization, you're going to suck. It's as simple as that. There's going to be guys like Miles Garrett and Joe Flack are going to play their asses off, but for the most part,

we're incorrigible losers. So the talks about the Haslims and Deshawn, but we want to spread the wealth a little. It's your turn. So go miss an extra point and a 12-yard fucking field goal. We'll take care of the rest. Yeah. You're sure to us.

I love the Browns, did not want to put them in Ringer 107, because I just wasn't putting a terrible team in first week, Ringer 107. In retrospect, I should have. Brockos Titans we talked about. The only thing we didn't talk about, the Titans might be okay. I'm not ruling them out as like a 9-and-8 team. I know the offense did nothing today. They had seven first downs, 133 yards.

But I like their defense, and I thought the quarterback, made a couple really nice throws. He was under duress, to say the least. And Denver's defense, especially at home, might just be awesome, especially in the altitude. So I'm not, I would just be careful going against them and parlays and teasers for the next couple weeks, don't you think? The Titans defense was good.

There was a pass, how are we saying that this year? Pass rush. It was a pass rush. We're saying pass rush. Yeah. As shaky as Nix was, sometimes he was just kind of under attack and it was weird. I like Cam Ward. I don't know what's going on with these receivers.

They appear to have never played with him before Because he has a weird delivery, right? So it comes out kind of sidearm And it like takes everybody by surprise There's a little mustard on it so it's hot But Ridley like dropped a bunch of pat like And then you know Yeah, you don't know if he's gambling

You don't know, you don't know But he points to himself He's like that was on me So then you don't you can't talk about the other stuff But it really doesn't seem like anybody's ever seen a pass From Cam Ward before And even his father, that was a great moment And his father got up.

Did you see when Ridley dropped the ball? His father, like, got up and, like, had to walk around. Oh, Jesus. Yeah. So he could be good. He could be good. I thought Ward looked all right. They had a, power and had a really bad fumble at one point.

Yeah. But that game was, it was 2012, but that was either team could have won that game. And if I'm the Broncos, I thought there was also a very, very, very, very, very weird Sean Peyton coaching moment in the final three minutes. Fourth and eight and 36, they go for it. it. They run like a fucking, it was like a techno bowl player. We just chuck it down and hope somebody catches it.

And all of a sudden the Titans had the ball with like, I don't know, a minute and a half flat. It was just very, very out. That's a field goal attempt. Everyone attempts 53. Or just punning out of bad. Put them inside the 10. Like, don't do what they did. Washington beat the Giants. And the only thing we didn't talk about with this is, it was an awful

game. And I thought Washington looked bad. Russ was empty calories. And it feels like dart. Dayball wouldn't commit to him for next week. I think they might just go with Dart sooner than later. What does Dayball carry? He's going to get fired. He's not going to throw Wilson out there for a month. I like that. He says, I want to

make this clear. This loss is not on Russell Wilson. Okay. Will you commit to him being the starter next week? Oh, no, no. No, no way. What am I an idiot? Come on. Does he see him under pressure? He can't move. I want to make this clear. It's pretty clear. I'm looking at the box score. But now they had no pass rush

or their defense sucked, too, the Giants. Is it bad again? Raiders, Pats. I don't feel great about the Pats. I don't want to talk about it. Card Saints. The World's almost tied this. This was 20 to 6,

and then all of a sudden it was 2013, then all of a sudden spent the Rattlers driving, then all of a sudden somebody almost gets the T.O. Diving up in the air with the two guys hated them on the goal line touchdown, but they dropped it. This was not a good game for your car. are going to win the NFC West.

Not that the Seahawks were much better. Oh, how dare you? They're going to beat the Panthers next week. They're going to be 2 and 0. They were so unimpressive. Plans to see them in the Super Bowl. Really unimpressive. The Saints are, you know,

one of the things we learned today is I'm not sure there's a terrible team, at least not yet. Really? So if I told you someone's going to win three games or fewer, before the season, I would have said definitely. Yeah. I don't know. Miami was the worst team today

and I don't think they're going to go 3 and 14 but all these themes like the Saints the Saints can block right they had a couple playmaker plays I don't know they're not awful the quarterback's awful

but yeah they weren't terrible we have to see I mean the Patriots the Patriots might get their act together maybe I've been too harsh I didn't appreciate that I'm laughing like my team's good. I don't know.

So why does Henderson get five carries? Like, John, they got 19. Like, put them in big boy pads. Last thing of the games today, Hunter on Jacksonville,

39 snaps. What do you think the breakdown was for offense, defense? Oh, I didn't even see this one. 45 snaps total. Wait, 45 total? 45 total.

39 on one end, six on the other. Oh, defense. played 39 on offense, six on defense. He did? Well, how did I miss that? Yeah, I missed it too. I saw it on the internet.

Wow. So this big trade, they give up all the stuff, and this is like, this guy's going to be a two-way revelation, and they're only playing them on one side. I know, granted, it's week one. I just thought it was notable.

Yeah, that's why people were saying for offensive rookie of the year. I was like, hey, he might just not get, the coordinator decides you're not in, then it's out of your hands. If you're playing him at receiver, Guess what? He's not going to be better than Egg Buka.

Right. That's true, too. The thing that would have made him special was trying to play both sides anyway. All right, you ready? A little guess the Lions action? I guess so. I'm glad we didn't talk about my team.

It's good. We can not talk about your team when we do the matchup. Too many days. Two many days gone. All right. I talked about it on Fridays bring her gambling. You're right.

You're right. I'm fine. We too. You beat me in Guest the Lions last week. Yeah. Thursday night. Packers, Washington. This is a very good game.

It's in Green Bay. I thought Washington that was a crappy game, but it was kind of a violent game. And I don't know what that's going to mean for four days later. They ran all over them. They did run all over the Giants. Let me make this clear. That loss is not on Russell Wilson. Did I make that clear?

Yeah, you did. Okay. I have the Packers favored by three points against Washington. You got it. It's three and a half. I said four and a half. Where do you think that ends on Thursday night? I think four.

I don't know. The betting public should just continue to like Marine Bay, right? This feels like a pretty juicy live bet opportunity where the Packers are up 10 to 14 all game. and then Jaden Daniels looming late when he starts running around and doing the things he does. This is a must-watch game. I'm very excited for it.

Yeah, that's a good one. Sunday's marquee game is the Chiefs against the Eagles. It's in Kansas City. And, you know, last year we had the Tick-Tac zone. Right. This year, you talked about how there was this run of minus two and a halfs, and you're like, we need a name for that. And I didn't think of the name until like three hours.

after the podcast, and I was so mad that I didn't think of it in the moment. I feel like 10 years ago I would have had it right away. It's got to be something with Charlie Sheen, right? Yeah, the Sheen's own. Yeah, what was his character on Two and Half Men? I don't know. Is that a trick question? You're going to make fun of me if I know it?

Yeah. Well, it's, we haven't been funny if you're like, his name was Bob. The other guy's name was John. Ah, sissy. Oh, his name was Charlie. Oh, it was Charlie. Yeah, yeah. Charlie and Allen.

And then, oh, Angus T. Jones is Jake Harper was the half man. Okay. So maybe it's the Angus T. Jones zone or do we go to the Charlie zone? Well, Charlie's zone, the Sheen zone is good. I mean, he's about to be big again, right? He has a documentary coming out. The Cryer zone, someone recommended, John Cryer. I'll do whichever.

Oh, other people had the two and a half men thing? Yeah, yeah, somebody else. I guess it's not hard to. come up with um what do you want to do charlie zone or is it sheen zone it would be fun to give angus t jones some look but i do like the the sheen zone tick-tack zone and the sheen zone um i i uh turned down charlie sheen coming on the pod was you did yeah what could happen oh he should go to your house yeah he should definitely go to your house doesn't seem like a great guy uh one slip up come on Last 18 years.

Yeah, that's right. Sunday Marquis, Chiefs Eagles. I'm putting this in the Tic Tac Zone. That's all the reason I brought up. I have Chiefs minus one and a half. Oh, the Ticktac. Okay. We all get it.

Tick-Tac over Sheen. We want a Tick-Tac. We all get it. It is one and a half. Yep. I both get it. Oh, wait. Who do you have favorite?

Chiefs. Oh, no. You don't get it. Philly's favorite. Philly's favorite in Kansas City? Yeah. What? Yes, sir.

Let me check. Let me double check. Philly's favorite in Kansas City. Yeah, people have had enough for Kansas City shit. Wow. So this is really it. The chiefs have lost home favorite pencil men. Mahomes has lost his place on top of the hierarchy because it feels like Alan and

Lamar both like kind of supplanted it. And he can point to the three rings, but they were two plus years ago now. Has this happened before? Someone's going to correct us in a minute. You know, aside from like a week 18 game where they're home and not playing guys, have they been to another dog in years? I'm really surprised by this. I thought for sure.

Now, is worthy out? Is worthy playing? What's the deal? I don't know. He has like a dislocated show. I feel like he could do the, you know, the Mel Gibson thing, lethal weapons or just slams it into the, no, not that thing. Yeah, when he doesn't show them.

Come leaving moonshadows? Yeah. watchable is I only have two Lions Bears in Detroit yeah now we have no idea with this Bears team like what's going to happen tomorrow night but I have the Lions by two and a half in the bench on the bench game

what do you got? I got it I said five it's four and a half now that's too high well this is a short week and they're not gonna that shouldn't be 0 and 2 should they short week on a Detroit that's too high doming it up that's going down I like it

Bill's Jets Good Lord I have no idea what to do with this one In the old days This would have been Mark it down It's in Buffalo

Minus 8 Is it in New York? Jets or Buffalo? That's screwed that up Yeah I mean Jersey technically But it's all right It's in New York

Hmm That doesn't really change My pick that much I'm going Bills by 5 I went 7 and a half It's 6 and a half So

I can get that one one. It's kind of a must win, right? Teaser game. Must win for who? The team that's going to be good eventually, the bills. Well, they're one and O. Why is it a must win? Oh, I'm sorry. Jesus Christ.

I'm thinking in my head that they lost the game. Oh, man. Are you sure? Roddy. I just look, they actually did so. It still wasn't a win. That's ridiculous. They won that game. All right. This could be a big Justin

Fields game. That would be funny. Yeah. Fairly watchable. I got six. We'll start with Bengals home for the Jaguars. I'm still, I know the Jaguars won convincingly today, but I don't know. It wasn't like they were unbelievable.

They did a couple good things. Carolina was really bad. And I don't know if we know what we have with the Jaguars hit. I have the Bengals favored by three. All right, you got that. I said four and a half. It's three and a half. I mean, I just, it looks like Fandall skittish, well, they should be about the Bengals laying a big number.

They should have lost the day. It was the rare. It was the same game as last year when they played the Pats, except this time they actually won it. But it was just as bad. They had seven yards in the second half. Yeah, seven yards. They were awful. Gross.

Cowboys home for the Giants. Speaking of gross, yeah. As a non-player, did you? blame CD Lamb for the loss. Let me make something clear. CD Lamb is not to be blamed for this loss. Okay. On the other hand, if he caught every ball that touched his hands,

he would add 265 yards. But I want to make it clear. So you're saying that as a non-player? Yes, as a non-player. Yeah. You think we could sign one-day contract so that we could, you know, say, well, I played. Had a cup of coffee with the Rams.

It was our value. Yeah. I wonder if a team with. Well, the Patriots sign you to a one-day contract, and you can just say you're a player. It's like an honorary doctorate. Probably not after my thoughts on the dynasty. I had the Cowboys over the Giants. I have minus three and a half, and I think I hit it exactly.

It's four and a half. I said seven, and this is super depressing. I mean, the fact that this is not a Thursday night game, it's not a Thanksgiving game. It's just a 1 p.m. kickoff, and the Giants were as miserable as a R. R&WR, and it's only four and a half. Good God. Can you walk me through your feelings as you watch the Carl Pickens mixtape of George Pickens?

Who is Carl Pickens? Is that my first grew up? It's a Tennessee receiver back. I did the Carl Pickens from 30 years ago. Yeah, yeah. Can you walk me through the George Pickens not finishing blocks or finishing routes mixtape that went around Friday? I'm not going to walk you through that.

What do I? No, not your monkey. I hated it. You know, I wasn't, I shouldn't have been mad, but I, you know, they, they really didn't screw up much other than the fumble. That's what gets me mad. Like Sanders had a 50-yard run, but he also fumbled. They didn't do stupid things, you know?

Coaching wasn't terrible. I don't know. I think, like, as long as every team's best defensive player spits on DAC, like one or two players plays in, I think we got a shot. Giants didn't have their left tackle today. I guess they're saving him for the Thursday game because they probably thought they had a better chance to win the Thursday game. And with the left tackle, I don't know, kind of like the Giants.

Rams Titans in Tennessee. Let's see. Rams outdoor. I feel like we bet on this game and lost on the Rams 12 times since 1998. I have the Rams favored by two and a half. I put it right in the Sheen zone. It's actually, you should have put it in the Vegas zone. I said four.

It's four and a half. Oh, that's too high. It's too high. I think it's high too. Tennessee is a whiff frisky. I'd be careful in them. They play so many games just in history, right, where they're in it for 58 minutes and then why?

Oh, they lost by 11? How'd that happen? This is the castaway bowl. What do you mean? Who is it? Oh, right, right, right. Yeah. Chuck Nolan goes to Helen Hunt's house.

Yeah. And they're making small talk. And he's like, let me get one thing straight. Yeah. Tennessee has a football team. And she's like, we're so close. We were one yard away. Did you be honest with me right now?

You wept when they were making out in the driveway in the torrential downpour? No, I'm on record. I'd just think about the husband that whole time. Yeah, right. He just silently sobbing upstairs in Fort Raid. As the love of his life. Kept all your clippings. Let's go through these for four hours.

Yeah, there's an intervention with the clippings in the dining room. Yeah. It's like, all right. The guy survived. Put the fucking things in the attic. What are we doing? Steward Seahawks. Wow.

In Pittsburgh. This could be yet another Cousin's House special and yet another Stewards win, but don't cover the minus three. I have Steelers minus three. I hit it exactly. It's two and a half. Oh, you sheened me.

Let me see what's going on here. Five to three. You got catch up a little. Jesus Christ. I don't know how you got good at Guestalien. I know, ramping cheating. Ravens home for the Browns. And this number has to start with a nine.

And I don't know whether it was going to be nine or nine and a half, but it's early in the season, so I'm just going to say nine. I said nine and a half. Swear to God, it's 11 and a half. Oh. This is everybody's eliminator. Well, they won or lost today, the Ravens. Will you fact check that for me?

They lost. What? Their own one. They won't have 40, 25 with five minutes left. It's 40, 25, and they lost somehow. Come on. You can lose that game. 11 and a half.

That's too high. I think that that's too high or might not? Yeah, I guess so. Flack on against his old team. I don't know. We'll be putting the Ravens in a three team T's with two of their teams. No doubt about it. They're going to, let me tell you this.

They're going to have more than seven yards in the second half of the Ravens. Broncos Colts, it's in Indianapolis. Has all the makings of the Colts are two and no. Nobody saw this coming. It's got to be one of those teams too. Those teams, yeah. I'll tell you this. It's going to be a little bit of a different situation for them

with the defense they're going against in this game versus the defense they win against. I agree. Today, I think the Broncos will be favored at Broncos by one and a half. That's what I had. We should have gone Sheen's own. Two and a half. Sheened it.

Fine. Sheen it up. and out of space. We got the poop Fecta with three games. Dolphins Pats. Had to put in the poop Fecta.

Really? Both of them stunk today. Yeah. Wow. The Drake May thing bummed me out. It's a tough one

because we had Jason Tatum, Drake May, and Roman Anthony were the trifecta for us. And Tatum got hurt. Roman Anthony

beat was Ted Williams for two months. I'm watching, I watch more Red Sox this year than I have since the 2018 season and then he hurts his oblique and it's like time perfectly that

he's probably not even going to be able to be back unless they make like the second round of the playoffs. Yeah. So that sucked. And then Drake May, who we had all these hopes for. Wait, is he done? Drake May. His stats were okay today, but I did not think he was that good today. Yeah, he wasn't that good. I thought he was sailing balls.

He seems skittish in the drives and the first drive, the first half, first drive of the second half. It just wasn't a great Drake May game. He wasn't running the ball. he just didn't seem like young Josh Allen. I didn't like it. Wow. I need more for my guy.

I don't think he was ever young Josh Allen. This is what happens. That's what we wanted him to be. Wouldn't be young Josh Allen. All right. Well, Josh Allen was losing 40, 25 with five minutes left. So I think you could do that. He's going to be married to an Academy Award nominee.

Speaking of nominees, our guy, our cause. Game show, Emmy. Second one, Ben Stein's money and then this one. Right. First one, he tried to. to give to Susan Lucci years ago because she had that long run of not winning. So yeah, good job by

you, Jimmy. Did he cry during the speech or no? No, I don't think. I don't think so. Is Regis Phil been alive? Still or no? He's dead, right? Rejus and Alex Rebecca took him out to dinner afterwards, yeah. I have the dolphins favored by three over the Patriots. Yeah, you're losing this week. I said one, it's one and a half.

Really? Come on. Anybody see my team today? Put up 13 points against the fucking Raiders. They have two guys on defense. The Dolphins were way worse than anybody. Tyreeks still crashing out five hours after the game. If the dolphins can't win this game, they're going to go 2 and 15. This is a, is this, do we cross off?

First of all, do we have any cross-offs? And is this a cross-off? We don't yet. Because you can't cross off the Saints. You can't cross off the Browns. Okay. Because nine and eight might actually make the seven C of the FACC. I don't think we have any cross-off.

Cardinals, Panthers, it's in Arizona. And this is another one where the Cardinals are going to get a nice big, fat, favorite line that they probably don't deserve. But I have Cardinals by seven. Yeah, I didn't think it was that high. I'm glad they're in regard like that. It's six and a half. I said four. Oh, so I get that one.

You get it. The Panthers look bad. They give up over 200 yards rush. So they learned nothing from last year when I think teams ran for, what, 3,000 yards on them. Yeah. And then Bryce Young was terrible. The only thing is McMillan looked okay as like a big, like you could see the potential with it. Right.

Other than that, not a lot going on there. Yeah, Travis at the end was all of a sudden Walter Payton. Yeah. I don't know what they did there. Sunday night biking Spalcons. It's in Minnesota. It's the. Did you forget one?

Do we do San Francisco, New Orleans? No, I did forget one. You're correct. Poop fact, the last one, Niners Saints in New Orleans. I put it in the Vegas zone. I don't feel great about it. Nineers, five and a half. I said six and a half.

It's seven. Some of these garbage teams, you've got to give a big number here. I see too many teasers. I got to stop looking at this. I see too many teasers I like. Sunday night, Minnesota home for the Falcons. I put this, I sheen this one, Vikings minus two and a half.

Yeah, I did two. They made it four and a half. Can we see this kid take a snap first before we make anything four and a half? No, the land is not great, but come on. Monday night, two games. Two Monday nighters this week. I thought they were going to be done with this.

Is it next year that they're done with this? I like it. You do? I'll say another thing. I could have used a Europe game today at six in the morning. waking up. Could have started the year. Oh, in the morning.

Oh, interesting. Yeah, I could have started the year with Jacksonville, Carolina, and like, fucking Zimbabwe. Wow. Well, we have nine Sunday morning games this week. Yeah. So they could mix it up. Yeah. They could send the Patriots Miami to Zimbabwe.

That'd be nice. Monday night, Houston, home for the bucks. I tick-tacked it. Houston minus one and a half. You should have sheened it. It's two and a half. We have our own dumb language. But you get it.

You get it because I had one. Okay. Let's see if you could do anything. It's seven to... No, it's over. Oh, it's over. 10-7, me. Jesus.

What were Baker's MVP odds? I'm going to look this up right now. They were similar to... 33 to 1. We liked love, and they were similar, right? 33 to 1 is too high for him. Because that's a team... Yeah.

In the NFC South, they could... could just go 6 and 0. He could end up like 13 and 4 somehow. Yeah, you got to do that. And be in the mix. 33 to 1 is too high. But you have Jordan Love, don't you? At 30 or 20?

What do you have? 25 to 1. He's 12 now. He's already cut in half. Josh Allen's going to win the MVP. He's the best part in the week. And if he's not the best player of the league, Lamar Jackson is the best part of the league.

Those two guys are the best two guys in the league. Whether you'd want Mahomes in a playoff game with their life depending on it, fine. But day-to-day, week-to-week for four months, those are the two best guys. It's really hard to argue if Joe Burroughs is not going to show up and put up fewer than 10 yards. Did he play today? Not the second half, no. Last one, Chargers, Raiders.

It's in Vegas. And I predicted the overreaction chargers favored by one and a half in Vegas line. No, I got this exact. It's three. Chargers by three. You're obviously cheating this year. Yeah, I'm cheating. You weren't this good for 20 years.

Now your lights out. Well, I'm John Elway. Who's done that? I don't know. Somebody good. Let's go to this game. Let's do Guest Alliance from Vegas. Let's see the Chargers and Raiders.

That sounds terrible. Oh, that's Monday night anyway, yeah. Grocery shopping. Cha-ching. Ordering food? Cha-ching. Filling up on gas? Cha-ching.

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I have a good one, but I feel like I'm in the, I'm in the Ben zone. I know there's the Sheen zone and the Tick-Tack zone, but I'm in the where my high school kid, I can't risk him here and he'll just fucking flip out on me. Damn it. I have three of those a week. I know, I know. I'll tell you separately. But I do have one that I held on to from spring break.

Actually, this is back. I shouldn't do this as the intro, presented by Uber Eats, where we give our fifth best story about our kids. because we can't say the first score. I probably have four Uber-related parent corners that are not flattering for the sponsor, so I wouldn't stick away from that. But I'll tell you this one. This happened a few months ago.

So we were coming back from Cabo. It was February. It was a couple weeks after the Super Bowl. And I'm sitting in the airport in Mexico with the family, and the family's to the right of me, and I'm in a seat. And I'm looking down on my phone, and I hear someone being ushered over in my area

by private security. and she sounds important and she smells good and she sits right next to me and so I can't look up now right and also I'm jaded anyway so I don't want to I'd rather keep looking at my work for a late-night talk show yeah yeah and also I'm looking at my phone tallying my losses for whatever shitty golf matchups I had it's Sunday afternoon so I had to do that so finally after 10 minutes I get up to use the bathroom or el banio as it's called in Mexico and I leave my charger in the seat, right in the waiting air, right where I was. And then, because I'm coming right back, whatever.

I'm just going to, I don't want to give up the seat. And I come back, and the whole family is looking at me and laughing, because moments before, the important woman, approached my wife and handed her my charger and referring to me, said, I think your father forgot his charger. She thought I was Melissa's father. This woman, Jessica Alba. She thought I was 75. years of the kids are dying laughing that the kids called me grandpa for like a couple of months and

i i didn't acknowledge it so it went away that's what you should do by the way if you just don't acknowledge anything right and maybe it'll go away so thanks for nothing jessica alba you're not my dark angel but uh there you go your father left his charger here oh my god alba that's unbelievable that's a killer that's a freaking killer i got to get plastic surgery or something have to do something. I mean, they're laughing at me. I'm like, why are you laughing? She thinks that you married your father, basically. That's not a compliment to you. I've noticed that when I'm with my daughter, because my daughter's pretty and she could pass for her. You could think she's 20, but you also might think she's 25. Yeah. And I could see people when they see us together

now for like power walking and we're at dinner. I'm out here. Sure. Yeah. Like 60% of the people think I'm the dad and then 40% think I'm some creep. It's like a 21-year-old trophy girlfriend. You can just see, like, certain people just kind of like, what the fuck, dude? Right. That girl's 21. How are you dating her? It's like, no, no, we're related.

Yeah. She's actually the subject of my parent corner this week. So she's around the same size as my daughter, height-wise. She's like, my wife. She's like two inches taller than my wife, so they can wear a lot of the same clothes. And my son's maybe an inch and a half shorter than I am. but can wear all my t-shirts. And they've been stealing clothes from us for, I don't know,

ever since they hit a certain height. And it's gotten the point, it's beyond the, it's like 50 to 60% of the fights in our house is somebody stole a favorite t-shirt. My daughter stole this sweater for my wife. My wife is helping her move in in Boston and found like nine things of hers that she's been looking for for like a year.

And it's all we fight about. And my daughter does this really interesting, Jedi Mind Trek with this where she steals the thing. And then if she has it long enough, it became hers. Right. It's like squatting. Yeah. It's like she's been here a year, so it's now her property. So when I was there when we were moving her in for soccer in mid-August, she was out. She's like, oh, it's going to be, it's going to be Colton. I'm going to wear my, my Jimmy Kimmel sweatshirt. I'm like, what Jimmy Kimmel sweatshirt? Somehow she had the sweatshirt that Jimmy gave all of us that first year for Christmas.

Right. It had the logo in the back. It was blue. It looks like it's like from a million years ago. And I always loved it. And I just thought it was gone. I left it somewhere. And it turns out she's had it for three years.

And I got mad about the sweatshirt. And she's like, but it's my sweatshirt. And I was like, it's definitely not your sweatshirt. It was first year of the show. That's my sweatshirt. You took it. And she's like, I know, but I'm your daughter. So now it's mine.

Like, why can't I have it? And I just think, like, when is this end for us when our kids? Because we, you know, we're the parents. We're supposed to give them stuff. And we're supposed to put them above ourselves, which is what you do when you're a parent. Right. But does it extend the clothes? Because I have no white t-shirts left.

Like, I have to just go out because Ben's taken every white t-shirt I've ever had and just takes it. So if I want to have like, oh, I'll wear this blue shirt. I'm going to work lunch. I'll put a white t-shirt under, and I have zero white t-shirts left, even though I used to have 17. What are our rights here as parents? Because I don't really know. I think, all right.

By the way, that's sweatshirt now that he's an Emmy winner is worth something. But I feel bad for you because the argument is stupid because she probably is like, you didn't miss it. You never asked for it in the last three years. And you're like, yeah, because I didn't know it was gone, you know, whatever. Right. But I thought it was in there. I think this is why guys our age dressed like idiots, because we have to,

buy clothes that we know our kids won't steal. So we have the cargo shorts with 40 pockets on each side. And then we end up looking like buffoons going out to pick them up. And it is their fault. I don't know what we can do. I really don't want aside from that. I have this one light blue t-shirt that I love. And Ben just keeps taking it from me. And we fight about it like once a month. And he's like, well, it looks good when I wear it though. And just, I don't know. They just don't care. They just see us as ATM machines and things that they can just steal stuff from with no repercussions because there's going to be a moment much later in life when they're the last people that we can count on to take care of us. Right. Well, I'm already a grandfather,

apparent, according to the Alba, yeah. I forgot about that. Your grandpa, Sal, your uncle Sal at a d'abundo because you had a housear's two uncles on Wednesday at Rigger Gambling. He loves it. It's ridiculous. All right. I think that's it, unless you have anything else. I think that's it. That's all I have. Uber eats. I think they win or lose money on you. Oh, I got to do today's parent corner presented by Uber Eats. Get almost anything for game day like your favorite game day foods, drinks, and snacks on Uber Eats, the official on-demand delivery partner of the NFL order now. I actually used it today.

Got some sandwiches from Giatta. They have Giazza in your eyes. No, no, no. They do have Ralph's, and I got a bunch of Coke Zeros and watermelon. Great. From Uber Eats. Before we go. About the draft, did you want to talk about that?

Yeah, let's do that before we go. So we have our vote-out draft on Tuesday. And our friend Brad, who we've talked about a million times on this pod, who every year that he's alive is a miracle for all of us. It's just, it's year by year. And he's like LeBron. It's year by year. He might come back and be an all program.

We don't know. He's been voted out three times before Tuesday's draft. And our friend Tony voted him out. And I thought Brad was going to toss an entire thing of ribs on me, which you somehow got a picture of the one moment when I was like, oh my God, those ribs are going to go on my lap. He didn't do that, but he's very mad. And where do we stand out with Brad and Tony?

So Tony has a consolation gift because he knows Brad loves ribs. He kicked him out. He did a funny bit about it with the, he had AI kicked Brad out, which is actually a voice of a friend of ours. But a lot of inside jokes, so I won't get into it. But he did use a voice of a friend of ours that Brad recognized. recognize the boys. So now he's mad at two people. Very mad at her. It's going to hate her. She's on the enemy list. But then Tony leaves the room and brings out a gigantic plate of like,

it was like a framed poster size pan of ribs. And then Brad is now angry at Tony. And he opens the tinfoil any other time he'd be delighted and like pours nerds on him. I think that's the best result you could have asked for being in the being right there. And the same zone. Worst result were the ribs ending up on my head or my lap best result was him pouring an entire bag of nerds yeah and then he ended up taking some of the ribs but then mike august our auctioneer who ate anything and it just became a matter of time when mike was going to have the ribs and scrape the nerds off the ribs or then just eat the ribs with the nerds on them which he did he did and i'm not going to lie to you i did as well i had one it's not that bad it's good i mean you put like honey on ribs and like you know

like sweet sauces, nerd ribs are the thing of the 20, 2030s. Well, I felt bad for Brad. Yeah. The draft's always more fun when he's, when I somehow was sitting next to him. So maybe I was the one that made out the best. So then Brad leaves, you call him, you get him an Uber. Oh, yeah. He gets in the Uber.

He doesn't, all of a sudden you get an email during our draft. We're drafting. Brad emails you that he left his phone in the Uber. So now you have to stop the draft. You have to call the Uber. Brad's already murdered your Uber stars. Oh, yeah. I went down three-tenths of a rating easily.

You do the lost item thing for the Brad. So the phone, it's an extra $20. You'd put that in. And then what happens after that? Yeah, this skid cost me $50 because it's $30 to Uber him home. I had to get him out of there. He's tossing and turning, like you said, screaming in the Uber because he got kicked out. So that becomes the driver's problem.

So my rating goes down. He gets home. He sends this email. It says urgent. I left it in the car. So now I'm talking to this Uber driver. He's like, all right, it's an extra $20. I'm like, go ahead, ding me for it.

We've got to get this draft going. 50 bucks. And then like another 10 minutes later, I hear from Brad. Abort, abort, it's fine. I had the phone all along. So this whole skit cost me 50 bucks kicking Brad out. Thanks for the laughs, Tony. Yeah, there you go, Tom.

And now Brad, it's been five days and he's still like genuinely mad. Yeah. He's reported to other people. I think he's spared me of it because he's already cost me 50 bucks and some hardship. But, yeah, he's plotting his revenge. So that's going to be fun.

What does Brad's revenge look like? And does this become like a Hulu true crime documentary? Like, nobody's going to die, right? I don't think so. Poor nerds down Tony and Joel's throat in the middle of the night when they don't know it. I don't know. No, nobody's going to die.

Brought to you by Uber Eats. Uber. Yeah, we worked Uber back into the thing. Well, I missed Brad at the draft. It was good to see him. All right. So plugs for you. You're on the ringer gambling show, which we're doing live on YouTube, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. I thought we had a spectacular first week. Lots of fun, man. Yeah. I was power walking around on Wednesday listening to you and House and the Bundo. Oh, you like that one especially, yeah, right? Yeah, I was walking around. I was like, this is great. This could go on for four hours. You're done good. I'm with.

on Tuesdays. He had the bundo in house on Wednesday and the bundo in Hafeits on Friday. The bundo's going to hate me by probably playoffs. But all the shows are a lot of fun, informative and live, like you said,

noon, Eastern, Monday through Friday. You fill the slot there, right there. And then your Friday, Ringer 107. Yeah. And then the Sunday Ringer pregame, which I watched the entire one today,

which was excellent. What was your pick? Your pick one, didn't it? Denver money line I had a plus three and a half Oh that did win Yeah yeah Yeah that won

Fair thanks Scraped it out All right Try to try to protect your clothes From your kids I'll do the same And I'll see you in a week Good job by you

Good job by you buddy Thanks to everybody for staying on the live podcast Thanks to Gahon Eduardo as well Don't forget Prestige TV podcast Task Great show Sal you got to watch Task We broke it down the first episode We meet Joanna and Mahoney

and then new rewatchable is coming tomorrow. We did Legend of Billy Jean with Helen Slater and Christian Slater. Oh, you probably don't have a ton of thoughts about that one, do you? Maybe? No, I don't have anything. Fair is fair, sort of?

I really don't. I might go watch Helen Hunt. I might watch that scene over and over again. I do like that scene in the kitchen. You should watch the last five minutes of the Ravens' Bills game because I didn't catch the result? The Bills won. Yeah, I think you blacked out.

I don't believe you. You're a good friend, but I don't believe you with this kind of stuff. It's 4025. Thanks, everybody. Sit down. Bye, Sal. See you, bud. g-help.com. Call 188-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org slash chat in Connecticut or visit

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