The Fumblerooski Podcast - Get Mauled -Ep 219 The Fumblerooski Podcast

Episode Date: November 15, 2023

Are the Bills done? Are the Jaguars in trouble? Who wins the insanely competitive AFC North? Adam Wright and Chris Costich discuss these topics and more!

Good evening. You're listening to the Fumble Ruski podcast by Power 88 Dean Radio and Secret Weapon Consulting. I'm Chris Kostic. Alongside me, Adam Wright. Got a long laundry list for you today as a lot of things happened in week 10. We got the 49ers coming out, beating, absolutely handling the Jaguars 34-3. The AFC North is looking absolutely insane right now. Browns with the comeback win over the Ravens. Texans beating the Bengals in an upset victory. And the Steelers edging out the Packers.

Every single team in the AFC North could potentially win the division or even make the playoffs Broncos upsetting the Bills on a last second field goal last night on Monday Night Football and of course week 10 trivia our week 10 top three bottom three and Fumble Rooski fan box that's all coming up here on the fumble ruski podcast here's edelman broken up and the pass is no sign yet edelman comes down with a. They're saying it's a catch. It's a pass.

To Diggs. Sideline. Touchdown. Unbelievable. Slings it way down the field to Watkins. Sammy Watkins for the touchdown! This is the Fumble Rooski Podcast by Powered 18 Radio and Secret Weapon Consulting. We'll start with the 49ers handling the Jaguars 34-3. A great get-right game for the 49ers

coming off of a three-game losing streak going into the bye week. They used the bye week to get themselves healthy. They got Debo back, and the offense got back to where they started. And Trent Williams was back too, right? Yeah. Yeah, and Trent Williams was back.

The offense is back to what they're doing. The only real bad thing was that CMC's touchdown streak ended, but that's pretty much a glimpse in the past, essentially, for how well this 49ers, the one negative, and it's not even that bad of a negative considering how amazing that streak was. Yeah, and it means Jack. I mean, like, you know, let's go win a Super Bowl here.

Who cares about the streak? Exactly. So, Adam, what's the bigger story here? Are the Jags in trouble, or is this just the 49ers just showed up to play and the Jaguars, this is just an off day for them? I think this is just an off day for the Jaguars. I really do. And this is just a bad day to have an off day because you were you happen to be facing an absolute train in the 49ers who just got healthy and we can see that when they are healthy when

everything is perfect around brock purdy brock purdy turns into the player who we met when we, when he first entered the league and won 10 straight games. That being said, my takeaway is that Purdy needs everything to be perfect in order to, in order to be really good. And, you know, they will, they lost three in a row. He looked like a completely different guy. Then they gain everybody back. You get Trent Williams back, the best left tackle of our generation, and you also get Debo Samuel back and everything's back to normal. I'm a little troubled by that. Now that the curtain has been pulled back, I can't unsee what Brock Purdy just was. Maybe there'll be another stretch of time where they face the injury bug again and he plays better,

and then I'll say, okay, maybe it was just a coincidence. But I can't help but unsee what just happened. I don't know. I'm still going to give Brock Purdy that leeway because he was on concussion protocol, and that game against the browns he got them to within field goal range he still put him in a in a place to win the vikings game they were still driving down the field and that last drive but you know it those last two games prior to the

bye week he his head was all over the place probably in my opinion so i think that those three games should just be kind of skirted aside just for now um but if he does we should watch for if this 49ers team continues to have injuries then we'll definitely keep an eye on how purdy does after that but i'm just gonna act like those three games, well, those three games obviously exist, but I'm not going to think about those three games as much because of the points that I just made there with the injuries and whatnot,

Brock Purdy not being in the right headspace. I think this is just more of, I'm just more disappointed in the Jaguars not making this more of a competitive game at all. Yeah, you got the juggernaut and the 49ers. They got everyone back, and the offense went back to how they looked in week one. But, I don't know, it's, you would have expected the Jaguars to at least put up more of a fight with all the weapons they have, and they didn't.

Yeah, I mean, here's my problem. You have one of the better young quarterbacks in the game, and you're misusing him. He has one of the best passer ratings, throwing the deep ball of any quarterback in the league, and yet you're still playing as if he can't throw the football at all. You're playing like you have Mac Jones at the helm. That's not the case. He averages 6.4 yards per attempt so far this season. That is terrible. Especially when you have Calvin Ridley, Christian Kirk, Evan Engram.

You should be slinging it all over the field. Instead, you're scoring three points against the 49ers, a ferocious defense, but you should still be able to at least put up a, put up a fight. I'm not going to let the Jaguars off the hook just yet. They had a bad game, but it's still, this is, this is still something to look at and say, what the hell was that? And it's not even like, this has been a one week occurrence. This has kind of been going on for pretty much the entirety of this season. Calvin Ridley had a really good first couple of weeks or the first two weeks of the season. And he did pretty solid, especially week one. I think he was on my fantasy team at that point.

He had like 17 points for me in fantasy. I was like, all right, cool. And then I traded him away and he started to suck. And I was like, damn, that was actually an amazing trade that I made. But this has kind of been an all season thing where you got guys like Calvin Ridley that aren't being used right to go with your point that they're under utilizing or under using the talent that they have on the field. Yeah. Like the,

the way they have played, it's been way, way too conservative. And the, and what I bring, what I boil this down to is their offensive, their offensive play calling. So Press Taylor, he was just named their offensive coordinator this season.

He was kind of running it part-time alongside Doug Peterson, but you could tell that season who was calling what on a particular play. When Doug Peterson was calling the plays, things were running much smoother. When it was press Taylor wasn't going so well now they gave him the full-time job it's not working out I'm sorry you gotta you gotta fire the offensive coordinator I could potentially be a thing right there I mean I won't completely rule that out just yet. Maybe that is the thing that Jaguars need to do is coaching change. Who knows?

We'll take a quick break. When we come back, we'll talk about the craziness of the AFC North coming up on the F is no sign yet. Edelman comes down with a football and they're saying it's a catch. It's caught! It's a side-line touchdown! Unbelievable! This is what takes the touchdown. Unbelievable. Swings it way down the field to Watkins.

Sammy Watkins for the touchdown. You are listening to the Fumble Whiskey Podcast by Powered 18 Radio and Secret Weapon Consulting. We move on. Crazy times in the Northside. The Browns coming back to beat the Ravens 33-31, down 14-4. The Texans getting the upset on the Bengals 30 to 27 and the Steelers just barely beating the Packers two interceptions in the last two or on the last two defensive drives of the game wow so I'm a little out of breath I ran upstairs to let my dog back inside during the break.

But where to start, really? Where to start? Because, I mean, we could probably start with the Ravens absolutely collapsing in the fourth quarter. Or we could talk about the Texans showing up and C.J. Stroud with an absolute master class against the Bengals. And the Bengals defense just looking just horrid against the Texans, allowing over nearly 500 yards of total yards. I think it was over 500 yards of total yards or total offense. offense well and the way we could start off is talking about both of these games at once because they were happening at the exact same time right yeah literally all three of them were happening

at the same time that's right that's right and when you look at when you look at the totality of this entire division i mean everything has just been ironed out in the last three-hour span, right? So the Texans lost. Excuse me, the Bengals lost. Looked like their division hopes were down the drain, but not so fast. The Ravens blow a 31-17 lead, 14 points. That's two possessions in the fourth quarter to the Browns here. And all of a sudden, the Ravens have been yanked out of the air

and back down to earth. So now you look at this entire division, it's all decided by one game right now. That's only because the Ravens haven't had their bye week yet. Everyone else in this division has. And on top of that, the cherry on top. The Ravens and Bengals are facing

off Thursday night football in an absolute showdown. That's going to be fun. Oh yeah, and especially looking at the playoffs in general the bangles are the lone team out right now they if the playoffs were to end today the bangles would are currently the eighth seed texans are the seven the rest of the afc north is in the playoffs at the moment because you got the ravens in the two seed Steelers five Brown six and the

Bengals are on the outside looking in. So talk about playoff implications this early on in the season already or in the middle of the season. Not that this is early on in the season, but geez, this is this is pretty big to her down the line. Well, yeah, I mean, it has some big for down the line. Well, yeah. I mean, it has some major playoff actions here. Because if the Bengals win, then they're in prime position to take the division here.

If the Bengals lose, they may be out of the playoff picture. And I think they currently are. But they would be very much on the outside looking in. They already are on the outside looking in. That's a thing. But even more so than before, right? Yeah. Because if you fall to 5-5, you have to leapfrog three teams for the division,

let alone the other competitors around the Ac for the last wild card spots i mean you you could almost kiss your kiss their playoff hopes come goodbye at that point because yeah i mean they need to win this game really badly and the other thing too is that the bangles are currently in a horrible spot right now because these playoff standings are also based on conference record. You look at the Bengals conference record, they're one in four against AFC teams this year. They get into a tiebreaker situation with say it's the Texans and the Bengals battling for the seven seed.

All of a sudden the Texans are probably going to have the upper hand, or at least right now they have the upper hand that The Texans and the Bengals have the same record, and the only reason why the Texans are above the Bengals, A, obviously because of the win this past week, but also because of the conference record. The Texans are 3-2 in the conference right now. You look at the other AFC North teams, Ravens are 4-3. Steelers are 4-2. Browns are 4-2.

So that could be a huge deciding factor for the Bengals. They need to start winning some AFC conference games down the road. And it starts on Thursday night. Yeah. Well, it really is. So outside of outside of uh outside of this one game it is a lot easier for both the ravens and bengals for the rest of their schedule um but it's going it's going to be something to look at but this is going to be an absolute showdown and arguably um the most anticipated thursday night football matchup

in recent memory i can't remember a time i was actually excited for thursday night football usually it's that's where all the crap games go just to hold us over for the main course which is sunday where we get football all day here this is this is the main event screw everything else that's happening the rest of the rest of sunday this is the main this is the main event. Screw everything else that's happening the rest of Sunday. This is the game that we want to see. It's crazy how last week the NFL tested our fanhood with all the crappy primetime games. And this week, it seems like the schedule for this week

is a very, very nice schedule. Cause obviously you got the Thursday night game between the Bengals and the Ravens. And then Monday night football, you got Eagles and the chiefs and the week grand Vikings, Broncos Broncos. That could actually end up being a pretty good game, but they're both fighting for their playoff lives just in opposite ends of the league.

Yeah. On the other hand, though, Steelers could put them... They are currently in second in the division. And they could... Ever since Matt Canada got down to the sideline and out of the press box, the Steelers' offenses looked somewhat better. Looks like that they kind of have gone the offense going a little bit. I'd still like to see them get George Pickens the ball more, but they're starting to finally get Najee going, getting Deontay Johnson going.

Jalen Warren's obviously having a pretty solid season. So the offense is starting to look a little bit better. I'd still like to see a little bit more, but, you know, Matt can't ever run in the offense. You don't really know how much more you can get out of them. Yeah, I mean, it's just that the wins that they have, going back to the past month, so it was against the Packers. They're having issues themselves.

The Titans don't really have to get too much into that. The Rams, that was their other win before that. So against the Ravens, that was legit, but you could also make a case the Ravens were not really healthy during that stage of the year. The Raiders, with Josh McDaniels, not this other newly rejuvenated Raiders team, the Raiders of yester-month, we'll call it, where you had Dingleberry over there, Josh McDaniels.

Yeah. Other than that, I mean, I guess with the Browns, they beat the Browns, but that was one of Deshaun's first games back. He was still shaking off the rust. In general, though, the Steelers, they got two big games coming up. Browns-Bengals coming up. taking off the rust. I don't like in general though, the Steelers, they got two big games coming up.

Browns bangles coming up. Two huge divisional games where they can get them. They can keep themselves in that two spot and get, keep themselves in a spot to maybe take the division, depending on how the Ravens do. They could get back into it or stay in it. They could also fall out of it in that same stretch of time. And listen, I still just giving it the eye test.

It doesn't look great. It feels like their defense is kind of carrying them. Kenny Pickett didn't throw any touchdowns against this Packers team. And their lead receiver, George Pickens, only had 45 yards. So something still feels off about this team. The game before that, Kenny Pickett, 160 yards, a touchdown. Lead receiver was Deontay Johnson with 90 yards. I mean, this is just not the type of offense that I want to look at and say

this team could win the division especially when you have the Ravens who have been killing everybody the Bengals who look more like themselves since Burroughs Calf has gotten better and even the Browns they I mean you have Deshaun Watson. We know what he's capable of. He has a Mari Cooper to throw to their offensive line is really in shambles. It's being held, held together by duct tape right now, but that's a team I could see beating the Steelers. So it's just a really tough division and the offense doesn't, it just looks sluggish still. They need, they need better leadership there.

I don't care. I don't care where matt canada is standing in the stadium fire his ass yeah fire matt canada but as long as you got mike tomlin as your head coach they got a chance sure sure they have a great defense i mean don't get me wrong there but i think that's really what's whole what's keeping them in the hunt here that's that's the way i see it. I don't like the steal. They've just been nothing special on offense.

And I can't help but think about where they once were earlier in the 2010s when you had Ben Roethlisberger airing it out to the likes of Antonio Brown and the old Juju Smith-Schuster and also Martavius Bryant. Right? That's what I think about. It feels like a shell of that. I think Kenny Pickett can become that, but not with Matt Canada as their offensive coordinator.

No. Can definitely agree with that. I guess last thing, what would you say your predictions are for the final standings down the road here? You can't put me on the spot like this. Yeah, I'll put you on the spot. I had the Bengals taking this division,

and I didn't even think twice about it. I'm going to hold on to my Bengals prediction, but the Ravens are making me nervous because that injury bug has not hit them this year. And giving it the eye test, the Ravens have been pretty good. But I'm going to keep the Bengals. The Bengals have shown that they could win in big moments. They didn't win this game, but I think they should have. They really should have won that game.

I don't want to hear anyone say that the Bengals have good coaching. Never. They win in spite of Zach Taylor. No, Zach Taylor's an overrated coach. He's not a good coach. He's not. I have seen plenty of games that they have won that he tried to cough up multiple times. And I'm pretty sure every single time he did it when they were in the red

zone, like this past Sunday, you get inside the 10 yard line. You have the chance to score a touchdown and also run the clock out and you throw it three times and give them back to them with a minute change. What the hell is that? Yeah. They only had the ball with two and a half minutes left. So you could only, you were only able to eat up barely a minute on that drive. You got inside the 10 and you threw it three times and kicked a field goal,

allowed them to kick a field goal. The other team to march down the field, kick a field goal at the end of regulation and win the game. That's what cost them the game. I digress though. But I still have the Bengals in spite of their horrible coaching. If the Ravens can stay healthy and not get the injury bug bitten on them again, I'm going to go with the Ravens can stay healthy and not get the injury bug bitten on them again, I'm going to go with the Ravens in the division. The Bengals are still beat up.

Lord knows when T. Higgins is back, they're missing Sam Hubbard. I'm going to go Bengals a very, very close. It's going to be like a game between the Ravens and the Bengals. Then I'm going to go Browns and Steelers, but they're all going to be, they're all going to be hanging in there with each other though. That's the thing. Yeah.

Moving on. Broncos upsetting the bills on a last second field goal. Where do we even start on this one, huh? I mean, Bills are so overrated. So overrated. Josh Allen. I don't even know where to start with Josh Allen. Actually, I'll start with this.

The Bills can't win in big moments. They can't win in big moments. Every time that they've had to come up big, especially the offense, every time they've had to come up big, I can only think of one time that the Bills offense showed up in the last few minutes of the fourth quarter,

and it was that stupid AFC divisional game against the Chiefs that Mahomes got down the field in 13 seconds. The Bills cannot win. They just can't win in the last five minutes of the game. I don't know what it is. You even saw it against the Patriots. Patriots drove down on the field on them earlier this year and scored with under 10 seconds

left. You look at some of the other games too, the Jaguars. The Jaguars game in London, they couldn't come back and win that one. There's other times too. I just can't think of it off the top of my head. And this is a perfect prime example. You had the Broncos, no timeouts left, and they're running a Chinese fire drill to get onto the field and kick a last second

field goal to win and they miss it and damar freaking hamlin is the 12th man on the field yeah yeah we don't have to get too much on who was on the field but regardless i guess we can't get past that no you will not get past that damar ham Hamlin sucks, and I'm glad that he's back to playing football, but he actually sucks as a football player. I'm glad he's alive. I'm glad the kid's okay, but he needs to get better as a football player. He's not a good football player. All of his highlights are him taking cheap shots on receivers.

Yeah. But I digress after that 45 long second rant about tamar hamlin um uh i think the bills are done i mean as far as their playoff they're as far as their super bowl hopes are and we do have a host here robert shelly who had the bills winning the entire freaking thing um well you can see like their defense is in shambles right now their defense has completely fallen apart and on top of that their quarterback just can't stop turning the ball over and they still don't have a very good running game. It's not that.

I guess James Cook has been solid this year. Barely. But he's not the type of running back who you lean on for their entire running game. They just don't have enough there. So looking at that whole thing, I just don't think they have the horses to do it. And he's still, like, Josh Allen's still like Josh Allen,

still having a good statistical year, but he looks kind of broken. Like there's just something about him that just feels off. He doesn't have that swagger. He usually carries with him and that whole, you know, that he doesn't have that confidence. He doesn't have that chemistry with Stefan digiggs that he usually has. It feels like

they're on two different pages right now. No, the problem is that Stefan Diggs should be getting 15 targets a game and he doesn't. And on top of that, they don't target Gabe Davis and Gabe Davis is the most inconsistent wide receiver two I've ever seen in my life. You're supposed to be a top two receiver for a Super Bowl contender, and you don't show up in big moments at all. Yeah, I'm not getting too much on Gabe Davis because he's a wide receiver two. You can't expect too much out of him. But for Stephon Diggs, him and Josh Allen need to get back on the same page.

This is your wide receiver one here. And it, it just doesn't feel like they're in the same stratosphere right now. And that's, that's pretty important. I mean, how many yards did, how many yards did Stefan Diggs get?

I'm pretty sure he got like what? 30 something. I'm going to check something stupid like that. Gabe Davis was the, had two catches, 56 yards, digs, three catches, 34 yards. He had five targets, five targets. So one could say that, uh, Patrick Sertan is a really good corner. Yeah. Another could say, this is the modern day NFL. If you take one of the best receivers in the game and pair him up against one of the best corners in the game, usually the receiver wins, and you're just trying to do damage control.

But the fact that he got shut down, that's pretty bad. Five targets, three receptions, 34 yards. And the actual stats with satan covering one target one reception didn't get targeted at all when sir tan was covering him yeah and if you don't so if you don't mind i i would like to levitate towards the Denver sideline as well. That's actually what I was about to go for because despite us crapping on the Bills, also want to give the flowers to the Broncos. Russ had a really good game. Two touchdowns, I think around 200 yards throwing.

Hold on. Just under 200. Yeah, 24 for 29, 193 yards, yards and two touchdowns and the run game was really good too javante williams 21 carries 79 yards yeah 322 yards in total on the ground he looks like he's getting better his his acl tear is getting better but it was 3.8 yards a carry um but russell did this with being sacked four times yeah this is pretty good this is no i the broncos have always had good talent on offense you know obviously russ wasn't a great quarterback last year courtland's son is a dog. Jerry Judy, he's not really been great.

But on the defensive side, despite them having Vance Joseph as their D coordinator, they started out the season horribly, obviously. They still let up 70 points to the Dolphins. No one will ever let them forget that. But they're starting to show up right now. They were forcing turnovers last night, left and right, two fumble recoveries, and on top of that, two interceptions off of Josh Allen.

And the Broncos' defense has forced nine turnovers now in the last however many quarters. Let me check that real quick. You can go on to your point while i'm looking for the stat yeah well the the uh the broncos have won three straight and their last two have been against the chiefs and the bills and also four of their last six games so ever since they started oh and three to the season they've been they've been on they've kind of been on fire so So, uh, the rest of their schedule is pretty soft. You've got the Vikings who have been on a hot streak themselves,

but I find that still unpredictable. You've got the Browns. Okay. I can see him beating the Browns, the Texans, the young teams are always unpredictable. Um, the chargers, that's a game I could see them winning. The Lions, forget it. Lions are taking that, but still, then you have the Patriots. They'll win that game against the Patriots. You have the Chargers again, and then the Raiders for the second time. That's a pretty winnable schedule. If you have a winning, so you're four and five right now let's say so out of the next one two three four five six seven eight out of the last out of the next eight games let's say you go four and four probably not good enough if you go that's eight nine right there yeah that's eight and nine i mean. Yeah, that's eight and nine.

I mean, maybe you sneak in with that. Probably not. Let's say you go five and three. So that's nine and eight. That's nine and eight. I could see them doing that. They've won three in a row and four of their last six. So this is a team that can actually beat anybody um on this schedule here outside of the lions again the lions are red hot but they forced nine turnovers in the last two

games now and that's with mahomes and look at it this the rest of their schedule is pretty beatable so to suggest that they'll they can finish nine and eight ten and seven um probably not 11 and six but you could they could finish with a winning record and a winning record in the afc means they will be in the hunt for a playoff spot which means we'll be looking at this broncos team very differently this off this offseason it won't be a fire sale where we're like just fire everybody draft a new quarterback trade jerry judy and Cortland Sutton. Maybe we look at this and we say, well, let's just build around this. Maybe fire Vance Joseph. Add to that defense.

Suddenly we might have something in the next couple of years. No, definitely. And I want to say that they could definitely make a run here. I think the schedule definitely suggests that they definitely can. This Sunday night matchup against Minnesota isn't going to be as much of a cakewalk now because Josh Dobbs has shown up. Cleveland's not going to be a cakewalk. Houston's not going to be a cakewalk.

Maybe they squeak one out against the Chargers. They got the Chargers twice, actually. They might not win against Detroit. They're not winning against Detroit. They're going to get killed against Detroit. But they're definitely going to beat New England. They're definitely going to beat the – I wouldn't say definitely. I'd say they could beat the Raiders.

They lost 17-16, first game of the year, but that was the first week of the season. This Broncos team is a much different team. We're talking about all of this being an outside shot. Just the fact that all of these teams are beatable now to the Broncos, the fact that we're looking at these games a lot differently. Yeah. And the Chargers are a team, they are so choky i just don't trust

them no i gave him a i mean we were giving our game picks this past week i gave him a shot against the against the chargers or was a couple weeks ago i don't know when they face the chargers or they haven't played the chargers yet they have not played the Chargers yet. They have not played the Chargers yet. Whoever faced the Chargers, who I picked, I said the Chargers are a little bit of a choky team. Actually, it was the Lions. The Lions. Yes. I just don't trust them.

No. This Broncos team's on the up and up right now. I don't know. I think most of these games are beatable outside of against the Lions. Yeah. They could beat any one of these teams. I'm just know. I think most of these games are beatable outside of against the lions. Yeah. They can beat any one of these teams. I'm just saying a hundred percent.

They could easily. I mean, if they get hot, then they could go seven and one for all we know, but we'll leave it at that. We'll take a quick break. When we come back, we'll have the week 10 trivia.

It's a fun one. I think Adam will like it a lot. And off in the pass is no sign yet. Edelman comes down with a football. They're saying it's a catch. It's in. Oh! Takes! Sideline!

Touchdown! Unbelievable! Swings it way down the field to Watkins! Sammy Watkins for the touchdown. You are listening to the Fumble Rooski Podcast by Power 88, Dean Radio and Secret Weapon Consulting. Chris Kostic, Adam Wright. It's time for trivia.

Top five longest regular season winning streaks in NFL history. Regular season, not all time. Yes. Give me the New England Patriots in the early 2000s. Which one? 2023 to 2020. Jeez. 2000. Jeez. we're getting old 2003 to 2004 they are on there they are tied

for third with another really good team so i'll i'll give you this so there's one two three four there's really six teams in the top five two teams are tied for fifth but one of these teams is from like a hundred years ago so i'm not expecting you to guess that god is it even a team that's around now yes uh give me the green bay packers no you're very close though okay the minnesota vikings no i don't think like i don't even think the vikings were around back then but uh you say the bears yes yeah you want to you want to take a crack at which years no but i'll try it uh it was in the 30s i'm gonna no no no this is over 100 years ago no almost 100 years so yeah i'll say the 30s. No, no, no, no. This is over 100 years ago. Almost 100 years. So, yeah, I'll say the 30s.

And it was with Otto Graham, right? I'm not sure. I don't even know. I can't even think of when Otto Graham played right now. But it was the Chicago Bears from 1933 to 1944. 1933 to 1934, 17 game win streak. They ended with a four game win streak and the 33 season. And they went 13 and oh,

and the 34 season. Jesus. Okay. Um, and you said, which one to the Patriots. So, and you said,

Oh three to Oh four. And that is also correct. So I'm going to go with New England Patriots from 2000. This is going to be tough. Okay. New England Patriots from 2018 to 2019. No. Oh, geez. Remember, this is regular season right so I'm trying to think of 2018 to 2019 isn't the worst guess in the world but they they also lost um

they also lost to a few too many games at the end of the 2018 season if I remember correctly. Yeah. Well, I was thinking about like the end of 2018 into 2019. Yeah, that's... They won like... They racked off like, what, three, four straight after losing in a heartbreaker to the Dolphins, which they shouldn't have lost. Yeah. It was a lot of...

But go back... So think of the early Pats dynasty though for this early pats there's another one no from no think of that same time frame that 0304 but before the 2010s wait a second 2007 to 2008 i'll give you that one. Fuck. I didn't miss. So it's 06 through 08. They won three games at the end of 06. Obviously, they went 16-0 in 07. And then they won their first two in 08 with Matt Castle.

I would never have guessed that one. And I feel like I wouldn't have guessed because we think about the 16-0 season. Oh, yeah. And that's what we think about. But that was, so that streak was actually longer than the 0-3-0-4 streak. So the Pats won 18 in a row in regular season time so they they did break the record obviously because they won a super bowl in between that and some playoff games but obviously this

regular season not including playoffs um so you got two so you got both new england teams yep and then you got one New England teams. Yep. And then you got one more team that's also in that time frame that we were just talking about. So another. And two teams that are in the early 2010s. Okay. Two teams in the early 2010s. Give me the Green Bay Packers in the early 2010s.

No. All right. The Pittsburgh Steelers. No. The New Orleans Saints. No. This is bringing the worst out of me. Oh, man.

Okay. Okay. worst out of me oh man okay okay uh indianapolis colts in the 2000s you're right give me the years which years jesus give me the years give me Give me 2005 to 2006. A couple years off. A couple years off. All right. 2006 to 2007. A couple years off still.

You're going backwards. Okay. 2004 to 2005. Wait. Never mind. You're on the right track. Never mind. For some reason, I thought you said 08 to 07. Okay. 2006 to7. Okay.

2006 to 2007. No. 2007 to 2008. No. Stolen the right track. 2000. Is this like a three? This can't be a three-year stretch.

It's not a three-year stretch. It's not a three-year stretch. Okay. Okay. Okay. 2003 to 2004. You're going backwards again. 2004 to 2005. Dude.

All right. 2008 to 2009 is what we're looking for for the Colts. Oh, yeah. They won 23 straight regular season games. They won nine straight in the back end of 08. They started three and four, and they racked off nine straight, finished at 12 and four.

And then the 09 season was when the Colts and the Saints were the two remaining undefeated teams. The Colts ended up being 14 and 0 and then they benched their starters for the last two games and so realistically if they didn't they probably could have gone 16 and 0 and the streak would have been 25 maybe more they could have even they could have even uh completed the perfect season as well and that's i believe that's two that's two years removed from the new england patriots right so that was just a year

though this was just a time frame of teams with their quarterbacks just going on an absolute tear so drew breeze peyton manning a couple of times aaron Rodgers a few years after that. Yeah. What the hell was in the water? What were they serving their quarterbacks? I don't even know. But think of Peyton Manning. So the Colts were number one. I'll list off the teams real quick.

Colts were number one. Patriots were number two. Patriots are the 03-04 Patriots who tied for third with another team. Obviously, we took away the Bears, and they're tied for fifth with another modern-day team. Okay. So is this another – it's not another Colts team, is it?

No, but you're on the right track. Okay. I already said the Panthers and Saints. Did you say the Panthers? I did not, but now I'm saying it. Which years? Jeez. So 14 to 15.

Because I know they had a really good stretch at the end of 14 to sneak into the playoffs, and then they racked off like 14 straight. 15 or yeah, 14 straight. So Panthers are tied for the Patriots with 18. So that 2014 season where they ended seven, eight and one. So they start,

there are three and eight and one racked off four in a row, got themselves that wild card spot and went to Seattle. Yeah. I think that was that year and then you're right so they started out the season 14 and 0 in the 2015 cam newman mvp season so one more to go one more geez oh this is painful ah okay who who had a really think of a 2011 2012 patriots no think of a very very historic season that happened in the last 10 years in the last 10 years historic season geez just doesn't ring a bell a very historic quarterback season 2013 2013, Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos. And I'll give it also 2012.

2012 to 2013. Right on the dot. 17 straight wins for them, tied with the 33-34 Chicago Bears. So 2012, they started 2-3. They racked off 11 in a row. 2013, they started out 6-0. So, yeah, Colts number one with 23, 08-09 Colts. 06-08 New England Patriots with 21.

The 03, 04 Pats tied with the 14, 15 Panthers with 18 at number three. And the 33, 34 Bears in the 2012, 2013 Broncos tied for fifth at 17. Yeah, when I saw all these ties, I was like, well, at least we don't really need to do 33-34 Bears, but it's funny that we even have a team from that long ago that's still up here on this list. Yeah, you woke up in the morning you thought how can i give adam a headache today yeah right actually i had this list ready to go yesterday oh so you were thinking ahead of time let's ruin this kid's day yeah exactly migraine going into his Holy cross broadcasting.

Oh, you're doing a Holy product, Holy cross broadcast today. I'll be, I'll be working behind the scenes, but so at least I can drink some water while I'm sitting there. But you know, you on with Lucas tonight, I believe so.

I'll, I'll have to see what position I'm on. I'm probably, I'm pretty sure I'm on a camera, but yeah, we'll move on to our week to week 10, I'll have to see what position I'm on. I'm pretty sure I'm on a camera, but, you know. We'll move on to our Week 10 Top 3, Bottom 3. Starting out with the Top 3. Texans, Lions, Browns.

Honorable mention, the 49ers and the Bears. I'll get to the Bears in a second. You're probably wondering why the Bears are even on here. I'll get to that in a second. Texans. Start second. Texans. Start with the Texans. CJ Stroud masterclass. I actually predicted right on Friday that he would throw his second interception this weekend, and he did.

But obviously that didn't matter. And, you know, a great game nonetheless. All around. I mean, Devin Singletary over 150 yards on the ground what in general just a huge win over a really hot bangles team um lions good win off the buy it also shows the lions could get into shootouts and come out on top and shootouts browns great comeback win over a hot divisional rival. That's easy enough.

Okay. Get to the 49ers now for the honorable mentions. 49ers, a good get-right win off the bye, and they snap their three-game losing streak. The offense is looking great again. Brock Perry and the rest of the crew is back to their normal selves. The Bears, you're probably wondering why I even have the bears on here this is why i know you know i know they got themselves closer to the first overall pick that's why duh i like this listen i i really i love the fact that you

have the bears on here as an honorable mention, not because they played well at all, because quite frankly, they sucked. But the fact that they're able to win and get themselves into a position to get the number one overall pick while having another top five pick in the same time, it's just insane to think about. And on top of that, too, you've got the Cardinals that are all healthy again. So they're gonna get themselves out of they're gonna play themselves out of the top five probably their number one overall i mean their number one overall pick uh that they got over this past draft is the gift

that just keeps on giving oh my god literally like you got you have dj more out of it you have two first round picks that could turn into Drake May and Marvin Harrison Jr. You just signed Montez Sweat to an extension as well. Oh, man. Look, we thought the Bears couldn't mess it up before. If they mess it up now, then they really are a poverty franchise. But then again, they got their stadium broken into

and lost $100,000 worth of equipment stolen. So who the hell knows what's going on? Wait, what? Yeah, you didn't know that? I guess I didn't hear about this. Maybe I did. I just didn't really think about it. 100K of equipment was stolen from them.

That's crazy. Because somebody just forgot to lock up the stadium. Or they just don't have secure enough uh security measures but what kind of equipment are we talking about here just like pads and stuff like football equipment or just like stadium equipment whatever amount that adds up to 100k that's how that's which is either way it's it's just really bad if it's 100 K worth of football pads, then I don't know who wants a hundred thousand dollars worth of football pads, but all the power to you. If you, if you feel the need to go in and get a hundred thousand dollars worth of football pads, then you deserve

that. You deserve that, man. Um, either way, I digress. Uh, the rest of this list, I do like it. I like it. And the Browns keep themselves in the playoff hunt. They've kind of been the butt of all jokes this season, but we think of them as a sucky team, but they're 6-3. Yeah. They keep winning games, and a lot of them have been with P.J. Walker, the former Canadian Football League MVP, as their quarterback.

I mean, they're just a well-oiled machine right now. Yeah, and Deshaun Watson also had a pretty solid fourth quarter as well. I mean, he led them in a comeback. Jerome Ford has been a great backup in place for Nick Chubb. Kareem Hunt started to get going a little bit. He had 32 yards and a touchdown, but Jerome Ford over 100 yards on the ground. 178 total for the Browns on the day. Amari Cooper almost had 100 yards receiving.

They got David Njoku going in the pass game. Elijah Moore starting to get more involved in the pass game as well. Browns could even sneak into that two spot where the Bengals could be. Yeah, not too bad. Move on to the bottom three. We'll start with the Patriots. Well, I'll list them off real quick. Patriots, Bills, Jaguars, honorable mention, the Saints, and the Ravens.

The Patriots. They suck. They just suck. I think we might have even just saw Mac Jones for the final, not for the final time, but this past week could potentially be the last time we see Mac Jones play for the Patriots for a full season. And on top of that, too, this isn't just Mac Jones. Bill Belichick, what are you doing? What are you doing? You put Mac Jones only had five incomplete passes.

Granted, yeah, he missed some open receivers down the field, but the O-line was not giving him any time. Mac Jones was still 15 for 20. Yeah, he had one bad interception at the end there. But you throw in... Oh, my God. You throw in Bailey Zappi with the...

Needing a touchdown, you have to drive the whole goddamn field in under two minutes and no timeouts. are we doing the kid is cold what do you think's gonna happen a fake spike to and throw an interception and triple coverage i didn't think that was gonna happen but i definitely for damn sure knew that bailey zappy wasn't gonna drive down the field for a touchdown. Oh my Lord. Oh, I just realized I didn't update the, uh,

I didn't update the banner here, but cause I originally had the Ravens and the Panthers originally for, um, in here, but let me change that real quick. So the Bills, we were just saying, you know, they're overrated. Josh Allen sucks. Too many men on the field to end the game is ridiculous.

And that's a game they should have won. But seeing how they are now, they just suck. They just absolutely suck. Jeez, I forgot to hit save on this. Jaguars just got absolutely ran through by the 49ers. In a game that they should have made competitive, and it wasn't even close to being competitive. We'll go to the honorable mention.

The Saints, they are just going downhill right now. First, you have Michael Thomas getting arrested because he can't keep his cool for a truck that's not even on his property. And then you have David Carr that gets hurt. Jameis Winston doing james winston things um yeah the saints are just not in a good place and the saints were probably going to be battling for a final playoff spot too and they could still but they could still but probably not anymore they lost to the vikings that didn't look good but no. Josh Dobbs and the Vikings. I get we love Josh Dobbs right now,

but he'll eventually come down to earth. The Ravens, though, blew a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter to your divisional rival. That's all I have to say. Yeah, and I'm glad they're an honorable mention because they are both really competitive teams. So if you lose this game, losses happen. There's a reason why only one team has ever gone 16-0,

and only two teams have ever finished an undefeated season, and one of them was 14-0. You're going to lose a game at some point. And they're 7-3. That's a good start to the year. Uh, as for the Jaguars being on this list, I mean, they got destroyed again, like a team that lost to another good team, but you didn't put up a fight, which is, which is, it puts a bad taste in my mouth. It does. It doesn't look good. Um, I'm not, I'm not worried about the jaguars just yet but a loss like that does not look good they're still six and three so give them some time but doesn't look good no it definitely doesn't it really doesn't um another team that i was thinking

about throwing on here uh was the titans because they only put up they got manhandled by tampa bay but the titans are just the team that you're not really expecting much out of them anyways so i'm not even gonna bother talking about them um so next we got fumble ruski fan box we'll just get it we'll just do it now. Cause we're kind of short on time. Uh, Fumble Rooski fan box. We post question filter on our Instagram every Monday,

and you can respond with hot takes questions and more, and we will discuss it and give you a shout out on our podcast. Respond to next week's fan box question to be featured on our show. Question of the week. Who is your dark horse Super Bowl contender? Yep. Adam. This one was by Patrick Williver.

He said, ain't no dark horse. We still them boys can take a solid guess at who that is. Well, you don't have to guess because them boys means the Cowboys. Yeah. No, no. They're still a very competitive team. solid guess at who that is well you don't have to guess because dem boys means the cowboys yeah uh no no they're they're still a very competitive team i really like cd lamb uh we'll i don't know if dak prescott can win a super bowl i just don't know uh because this coaching is still horrendous um yeah i don't we can we don't need to know going into that one ian mulhern said the browns this was an interesting one there because the the like the brown like we don't think of them as a super

bowl contender and i also don't want to think of them as a super bowl team because who wants to think of deshaun watson as the super bowl hero no one nobody exactly but the way that he's playing right now they easily the way this team is playing right now in a in a division where they are battle tested now and have also beaten other teams the 49ers namely uh this is a team that can hang in big games and can get it done while behind too yeah um mint man ha ha i don't i don't have his actual name in front of me says steelers another afc north team and a team that is six and three so record wise we would think yeah and their div if you look at their defense, it is pretty good. Their offense has the personnel, but it's not run very well. And as long as it's not run well, I don't see them as a Super Bowl team. Nate Sloat said Texans. And when was the last time, I'm pretty sure the last guy to win rookie of the year, like offensive rookie of the year, and league MVP was Jim Brown.

Yeah. So CJ Stroud, to do it, is not out of the realm of possibility. He's actually having an incredible year. So I can see it. He's currently number two in passing yards, and I think he has the fewest interceptions right now am i wrong i believe so he has three right now yeah and he is up there and touchdown passes too actually he has two but i forgot he has two all right um grayson mortimer

said bengals looking like their selves again, despite the loss this weekend. Yeah. I don't fall, fall victim to recency bias. I don't forget the fact that the Bengals have still looked like themselves and I do believe they should have won this game. Um, so yeah, I'll still take the Bengals. Yeah.

Just, I'm just waiting for the Bengals to get healthy again, get T Higgins and Hubbard back. They'll be fine. Here's this one. He could be a vikings fan i don't know but he said vikings if dobbs continues producing once jefferson comes back if they do it would be such a cinderella story but it's not gonna happen no it won't yeah is that is that all we got? That's all of them.

Yeah. All right. Uh, any final thoughts before we sign off? No, I got nothing. That's pretty much it. Can't wait for this Thursday night football game.

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