The Fumblerooski Podcast - Say Cheese! -Ep 382 The Fumblerooski Podcast

Episode Date: September 12, 2025

On today's episode, postgame reactions to the Packers getting a dominating win against the Commanders on TNF. Are the Packers a Top 5 team? How will tonight affect the Commanders? Week 2 Game Picks: Can the Eagles offense stay hot? Will JJ McCarthy have a better start against the Falcons? Are the Chargers prime for another big week against a division opponent? Chris Costich and CJ Medeiros talk all this and more!

On today's episode of the Fulmore Ruski podcast, the Packers get the job done against the Washington commanders. Jordan Love having a field day. Tucker Kraft's looking like Rob Grunkowski. Packers, top five team in the league, probably best team in league. It's up for debate. Media might be right about that. After that, we got our game picks. Ruski Game of the Week.

Eagles and Chiefs rematch of the Super Bowl should be. good one. And after that, picks for the rest of the entirety of the NFL week two. This is the Falm-Bruski podcast. It may not have always showed it in the staff sheet, but you can see him making throws when he needs to make the throws, back-to-back games where he has three touchdowns. Someone's got to get that six or seven spot. He's an elite wide receiver as a rookie. Truly a lose-lose scenario for both sides. Welcome to the Fulmuriski podcast by Power 88, Dean Radio. in Secret Weapon Consulting.

I'm Chris Gostitch. He's C.J. Medeiros. Got a good one lined up for you as just get right into it. Packers, getting the job done against the commanders. We're recording this tonight right after the game is over. We're going to be posting. This is basically the new format that we're going to be doing, ladies and gentlemen, is going to be recording now from now on at night

right after the Monday night game, the Thursday night game. So you get our live reaction of that. And then we're going to post everything in the mornings now. So it's going to be, what, like 8 a.m.? Yeah, thereabouts, 8, 9. Theoretically, it should be better for engagement. Yeah, that's the whole point. It gives some of the listen to while you're driving to work or mostly back.

Yeah, we want to be able to give you guys more of a chance to do that instead of yeah that's basically it anyways to the game now uh jor and love is it toy tautathon because he was looking fantastic 292 yards two touchdown so let's touch on the packers before we get to the commanders josh jacobs 23 carries 84 yards in a touchdown tucker craft six catches under 24 yards and a touchdown it just felt like the packer or the Packers, the commanders, kind of just forgot about Tucker Kraft and that he can be a solid weapon in this Packers' offense. Now, granted, kind of ended up being a tough loss for the Packers because Jayden Reed went down with a potential collarbone injury. So see what happens with that.

But Packers looked unstoppable tonight. They really shut down Jaden Daniels and that commander's offense. I mean, I was seeing power rankings of the Packers being a top five team in the league, and I said, I don't know, but they're showing to be a potential top three team in the league right now, the way they're playing. The way they dismantled Detroit last week, the way they dismantled the commanders this or tonight. They're looking great. C.J., what do you think?

The Green Bay Packers have definitely, I would say, emerged as one, of the better top three if not maybe the best team in the league it's only week two granted but like you mentioned hey maybe toyotathon came early holy crap you got jordan love just slinging the rock he's in 1931 292 passing yards two touchdowns Tucker craft having a day he you know we have the bulk of all the catches but what i like about that is it's not just the Tucker Kraft thing. It's that love spread the ball around. Sure, Kraft had the lion's share the highlights, but Don Tavia and Wicks had four catches for 44 yards. Malik Heat had a catch for 37 yards, this insane sideline grab where he got both his feet down, doing a little toe drag

swag. That was a sick catch. Back up tight end, Luke Musgrave with two catches for 32 yards. Romeo no, dubs, dubs, whatever, got three catches, 28 yards of a touchdown, and backup running back, Chris Brooks also had three catches for 27 yards. So I've said before the Green Bay Packers have a bit of a crowded wide receiver room, or just crowded past catching core, and literally this is why. Because that's one of my big takeaways, is that there's so many ways that Green Bay can attack you. they have and heck that's without matthew golden who didn't even record a catch if you can believe it you compile that with josh jacobs like you said 23 carries and oh man this is a scary unit

but for me that's good but we got to talk about the defense oh my god there's just really underrated guy on their defense linebacker edgar edgar and cooper who just absolutely flies around the field, seven tackles and three assistant tackles, you know, paired with Quay Walker back there. We already know about the other guys, Xavier McKinney, Lucas Van Ness, Roshan Gary, the recently added superstar, Micah Parsons, Kishon Nixon in the backfield as well, Evan Williams, Javon Bullard. These guys, a lot of them aren't even household names, but,

They're sneaky good. I mean, heck, when you think about some great corners, you probably don't think of Kishon Nixon. But let me tell you, he's as legit. Yeah, it's another people, too, like Kobe Wooden or Kobe Wooden as well, right? Or Devante Wyatt, also extremely underrated. So, yeah, that's the thing. Even on defense, the Green Bay Packers just had so many ways they can attack you.

That's probably my biggest takeaway. Yeah, and, I mean, Micah Parsons had a couple QB hits as well. He was getting into the back. Like, this defense has shown that it was already a good defense, but this, when they acquired Michael Parsons, it elevated it to a different level. That's for sure. Mike Parsons didn't stuff the stat sheet, of course. He had half a sack, but he had three QB hits.

As mentioned, getting into the backfield. making Jaden Daniels feel it. And he did feel he ended up getting his ankle rolled in. I guess we'll go to the commanders on that note. Tough day for them. But it seems like they ran into what could be a top 10 defense in the league. But Jaden Daniels did not look good. The times that he did have some good throws,

his receivers weren't really helping him out. But get hit a lot. that's not good just a tough day all around for the commies and their defense didn't look good either yeah one of the big problems for the commanders is that they run what we what i personally call a bang bang offense where it's just these quick plays short run outside quick little hit route plays they're designed to just knife through the gut of the defense to keep you off balance, keep you guessing. But what the Packers did is that they made Washington one-dimensional.

The only three players carry the ball for them, Austin Echler, Jane Daniels, and Jacori Kroski Merritt, or Bill, as he likes to be known, or J.C.M. Either or, they all, creepily, had 17 yards, like a piece on the ground. That's a little weird, but hey, what are you going to do? and between Echler, Daniels, and J.C.M., literally none of them could really get much of anything going. And when the Packers completely shut down that Washington run game, you force Jaden Daniels to beat you with his arm. That's something he can do.

And he's a very good passer. but many offenses do not thrive when they're forced to be one-dimensional. And when they knew or when Green Bay knew that they had washed it right where they wanted to, wherever they wanted them, were just be pass, pass, pass, pass. And for the record, Daniels had 42 pass attempts. He went 24 or 42. But that allowed people like Rashon Gary and Michael Parsons to just tee off on Daniels again and again and again.

And the biggest factor here is rookie right tackle out of Oregon, Josh Connerley. I'm not going to lie to you, Chris. I was huge on Connerley coming out of the draft, but Michael Parsons had the rookie in hell. Parsons bullied him the entire game. And it wasn't just him. Rishon Gary or hell, even Lucas Van Ness. literally could get they all could get anything they wanted on him they would target him they make him the focal point it got to a point where and this is something al michael said on the

broadcast it got to a point where whenever especially parsons would be lined up on josh connerly's side they would literally have the running back be it eckler or be it jacm uh chipping him him. They would literally have to help him by sending the running back out on a chip play to try to slow it down. And I still think Connerly's going to be fine. But Josh Connerly, consider this, you're welcome to the NFL game. Yeah, to kind of cap it off to further show how good this Packers defense has been the first two weeks. They've held both their games. They've held their opponents to under 250 yards of total, just total yards. Wow.

That's pretty good. That's pretty good. It's insane. Yeah, that's shunned down an offense right there. That is for certain. Not to mention, they outgained Washington 404 total yards to 230. They averaged 6.4 yards of play to Washington's three and a half. there was at one point the Packers like the average per play was like 12.5 to 3.3.

Exactly. That's like a person down a play. So Washington, I'm not going to call it a sophomore slum because, you know, it's only week two. And they didn't even lose week one. So yeah. You know, they'll bounce back. What do they have next week? They got the Raiders next week. So Raiders aren't a pushover either, but.

It could be a good week to, you know, get it, kind of get yourself back into the swing of things with a win. Or at least you would assume that they would beat the Raiders, but I don't know. Like we said, they're not going to be pushovers, that's for sure. All right. Let's get right into our Rewski game of the week, but we're going to take a quick break first. We'll get into that after this. It may not have always showed it in the staff sheet, but you can see him making throws when he needs to make the throws, back-to-back games where he has three touchdowns. Someone's got to get that six or seven spot.

He's an elite wide receiver as a rookie. Truly a lose-lose scenario for both sides. Welcome back to the Fulmuriski podcast by Power 18 Radio and Secret Weapon Consulting. He's CGM, Chris. One thing that I don't think we touched on in that last segment was Austin Echler. uh, Achilles injury. Oh,

yeah. Yeah. And you knew it was going to be bad because it was a non-contact injury. And whatever you go down on non-contact injury, that almost certainly means something ruptured, something tore. Hopefully it's just a sprain and it'll only be out like a game or two.

But, oh, Achilles' tears are the worst for athletes, and I hope he's fine. Yeah. that's that's tough all right on that note let's get into the rusky game of the week let's let's get a little bit more positive now rematch of the Super Bowl where the Eagles demolished the Chiefs Eagles coming off of a pretty competitive win against the Dallas Cowboys their defense didn't really look all that hot the Chiefs

coming in with with an offense that didn't look all that hot either but they showed up in the fourth quarter. So you never know. This could be another case where the chiefs have themselves another slow start and build it up back in the fourth quarter again like they did against the Chargers. The Eagles offense firing on all cylinders once again. But I kind of mentioned this earlier this week. Chiefs were looking old on Friday, especially the defense.

so how is this age and this age and youth going to counteract each other this time I don't know the last time that they had a game in Kansas City against each other Eagles came out with a win so there is that it's a home field advantage for Kansas City doesn't does feels like it doesn't necessarily apply here because the eagles have done it before yeah phillies won their last two over kansas city like you said they went into kansas city and beat them and then they put the absolute hurt on them in the super bowl so what i want to draw attention to something you said about you know the age debate you know youth versus experience

we already saw that happened once but and like i said i know last week was just week one and i know you don't overreact but for once kansas city you know week one against the chargers looked old and for reference even though the chargers are good right we can all agree on that it was one of those scenarios where kansas city always just had their number no matter what the chargers did kansas city has always been one step ahead. And then it just didn't. Kansas City looked old. They looked slow. They looked, I mean, they were calling the right plays of the right times. They just couldn't execute. And when you let Justin Herber beat you on the ground, Jalen Hertz is going to feast. But don't get me wrong, I definitely think that the game being an Arrowhead will make it very, very competitive.

Especially since they knew how to stop Seypawn Barkley in the Super Bowl. Then again, it didn't really matter. But, you know, and Seacquan did kind of have a bit of a slow start. But there is one more thing. Did you hear about A.J. Brown? What's going on? He's not doing it on the sideline anymore. He's not bringing any more books to games.

Really? Yeah, this was a report, an actual real report. God, I love sports journalism. What the hell? Yeah. He's like, oh, I won't be doing it. that anymore i'm giving you guys ammunition or we got breaking news uh in terms of jaden reed um suffered a fractured collarbone officially oh oh that i was over at my buddy's house or when we were watching the game and

i was like damn like could be out for damn near the rest of the season and i was wrong the max on that is probably going to be about like eight weeks maybe i would think yeah i would think so he's going to be out for like two months for some reason i was thinking like the toting roma like the times tony roma would land that way and break his collarbone over almost every single time and it'd be like oh yeah he's basically just done for the year but yeah that's that's that's a tough loss but that's why you got a stacked wide receiver room in green bay at that point is yeah yeah literally have three He's starting caliber receivers. And obviously it's going to suck without Jaden Reed because, you know, he's a very good player.

But you got, like I said, you got three other starting caliber receivers. So literally just next man up. And when Reed does get back, it's just going to be a little extra to help you get over the hump. Yeah. All right. Back to Eagles, Chiefs. Where were we at with this game? I already forget.

We were just talking. I mentioned how A.J. Brown is not bringing books. Yes. Okay. He said, and I quote, there's no more book. I'm not bringing any books on the sideline. I'm not giving any free publicity anymore.

Words of a man who's truly locked in. Let's be honest. All right. All right. Fair enough. So, yeah, now that the first week jitters are largely out of the way,

I definitely think it's going to be a tight game. Yeah, I'd say so as well. Especially since you know Kansas City's going to want revenge, too. Oh, yeah. They're going to be coming out flying, I think. What's your pick for this game? When I think about it, I got to go Philly. And I don't want to overreact to week one,

But sure, Kansas City has the age and the experience, but I've never seen them look old. Kelsey, once again, is proving that he's more of a volume target guy than an actual consistent make the most out of every play threat. The offensive line still looks bad. I mean, hell, look at Pacheco hasn't been able to do anything behind that line. and to the to the uh chagrin of every chiefs fan in the united states and around the world joan taylor is still there and sure you still have creed humphrey smith but they are feeling the loss of joe tuny that left side of the line is a huge problem and without xavier worthy you know of guys like hollywood brown and like i guess juju picking up the slack

So I think it's going to be close, but I'm expecting Philly to win. Kind of maybe in a repeat a week one where it's a competitive game throughout, but Philly's just going to be one step ahead, kind of like the Chargers were. I like it. Also, the Eagles defense is much, much better than the Chargers. I'm also going to go Philly here. It's going to be a tough game, but it's, I'm just thinking about the way that the Eagles started that first half. against Dallas last week, and I'm just thinking, well, you got to hope, if you're Philly,

you've got to hope that that second half of that Dallas game doesn't creep over into this game, but I don't think it will. I think they're going to start out hot the way they did last Thursday, and they're going to come out with a victory. They're going to use that hot start to catapult themselves into a big lead, Kansas City is probably going to make it close like they usually do. But Philly's going to come out on top. I feel like it's going to be kind of similar to the Chargers game.

But more so, the Eagles, like, kind of slowly letting the Chiefs back into the game. Not much like how the Chargers Chiefs game actually was, I guess, if that makes sense. Yeah. I agree. Like Mahomes in the second half of that game was starting to pick it up, and you kind of had the feeling of like, oh, geez, he's going to do it again. And then he just didn't. And if you're not going to do against the Treasers defense, you're not going to do it

against Phillies. Yeah, exactly. And before we move on, I just want to say one thing. In the interest of transparency, our co-host Justin Tucker also picked the Philadelphia Eagles to win, but Adam, who cannot be here, he's not producing a night. you know he's got to sleep he's got work at six chose Kansas City so we're not quite a united front

on that one yeah good point be interested to see how the week two pick um results end up coming out but we'll know soon enough we're going to take a quick break when we come back we're going to get into the rest of the week two slate starting with the one o'clock games

this is the fumble rusky podcast It may not have always showed it in the staff sheet, but you can see him making throws when he needs to make the throws. Back-to-back games where he has three touchdowns. Someone's got to get that six or seven spot. He's an elite wide receiver as a rookie. Truly a lose-lose scenario for both sides. Welcome back to the Fulmariski podcast by Parity 18 Radio and Secret Weapon Consulting. C.J. Medeiros, Chris Kostitch.

Let's get into the game picks for, week to starting with the one o'clock games you're going to start out with Cincinnati and Jacksonville since he's got it at three and a half and since he's the favorite here now I don't know like I'm not saying since he shouldn't be the favorite they should but the way they play the Browns, the way that they've played at the start of the season in general, like they barely squeaked out of that game against Cleveland alive. Jacksonville had a pretty dominating win against Carolina.

They're coming in hot. I'm still in Jacksonville here. It's going to be tight. It's going to be tight. but I feel like we're going to see more of an emergence from Trevor Lawrence in this one. Maybe some Travis Hunter love. Maybe some more love for Brian Thomas, too. Sorry.

Yeah, it could very well be. As for me, I think I'm going with the Bengals here. Yeah, I know week one and week two, Bengals are concerning. And A, you would have every right to be concerned, let's be honest. But at the same time, I feel like winning in week one did a lot to kind of remedy that, quote, unquote, curse. And say what you all about the Browns, their defense has really slept on. You know, guys like Denzel Ward, J.O.K., Mason Graham, Martin Emerson, Grant Delpit. it, so let's not pretend there are a bunch of slackers and scrubs.

The Jags be up on the Panthers, and I understand why you'd like to pick them, but in CINC, I think it's time for Burrow chasing Higgins to feast because that Jaguar's defense is not very good. I got the Bengals. And for reference, Adam and Tuck also had the Bengals. I got a feeling T.L. And Travis and Brian Thomas are going to feast on this Bengals defense, too. I feel like this is a high-scoring game because outside of Trey Hendrickson, the Bengals

defense, just I don't think exists. Let's play a new game I just created called What's That Line? Guess the over-under for this game. Oh, Christ Almighty, you know I'm not one of those Vegas. I know, let's know. All right, fine. I'm just going to wait for it to come by on the screen. Oh, come on.

Don't be like that. Screw it. Oh, well, since you minus 3. and a half that's that's not what i was going for but right idea 48 and a half is the over under oh and the game yeah uh ooh you know i might be careful taking the over here yeah facts i'm sorry i thought i'm stupid no it's okay it's okay you're not a betting guy i understand and also it's late come on i haven't placed a bed in a long time actually i just don't not since my junior year of

uh college you know i got one thing i chose the giants to upset the ravens i got that didn't let tuck here the end of it and that's as far as i shall go yeah yeah that's all right all right let's move on to the next game uh Dallas and the new york giants that's pretty easy yeah i'm gonna go Dallas I'm also going Dallas I'm kind of going to go with the same like obviously it's like the giant their defense is good, but I got a feeling that Dallas is going to get on that same start that they had against Philly on Thursday night, kind of using the same logic for the Eagles against the Chiefs in a way.

But, like, when you look at the Giants offense, though, like Russ is, like, Russ is a half a deep ball, but he just can't push the ball down the field anymore. Yeah, the moon ball is kind of lost with fluster, and as a result, all they're doing is stacking the box and making Russ beat them with his arm i mean tyrone tracy and cam scatabood and go anywhere now i'll speak in camp scatabood i meant to ask you about this but did you see the video of him uh like he's in pass pro and uh he went head first into his past pro block mm-hmm oh my god absolutely a rosa state legend man yeah that's on the arizona state uh more brer breaking news on

the commander's front uh the belief is a according to in rap report belief is a torn Achilles for us and the killer sources of course got to wait for the MRI but there is not a lot of hope going into it oh damn well

hey uh do you say I hope he gets better soon he's still he's still got some stuff left in the tank yeah Just get well soon, man. Hell, yeah. Before we move on in the next game,

I do want to point out, since we're both picking Dallas, Adam and Tuck both pick Dallas as well. Yes. And this is all just, like, lining up to be Jackson Dart as the starter as well. I think, Brian. Probably, like, week five.

Well, it depends on how long James goes out, because technically he's third behind old famous James. No, Jackson Dart's QB, too. Holy crap. Yeah, he's Scooby, too. I would prefer James just for the memes, but I don't know. Yeah, but no, Jackson Dart is Scooby, too. So he's, yeah, week five could be pretty eminent on that.

It kind of depends on what kind of leash Russ has at this rate. Moving on to the next game, Chicago and Detroit. Chicago, I mean. All right. The line is six and a half. Corn C.SPN match a predictor. It's a 61.4% chance that the lions are going to win. I feel like there's a little credit.

Good Lord. I know. I feel you got to get. All right off the bat, bears are covering. No, the bears are definitely going to cover, but will they win? That's the question of the day. Yeah, that's the real question here. And I just, I got a weird.

feeling that this is going to be a bit of a big bounce back game for the Lions. Like the real question is how is Ben Johnson going to handle coming back to Detroit? That's the biggest question in all this. And I'm going to go maybe he does well, maybe he handles it well, maybe he coaches a good game. But in recent history, the Lions have done very well in these. types of games and i think lions are going to come away with the win they know yeah i definitely think it's going to be close but i do have the lions ultimately pulling out the victory here yeah i guess just going to depend on how much they miss ben johnson and aaron glen but you need

to bounce back yeah and like those aren't pushovers but in detroit you should come away with the victory and i'll keep going with how Adam and Tuck selected. Tuck selected the Lions as well as we did, or just like we did, but Adam picked Chicago. I just don't know where this whole Caleb Williams thing is going right now. Like I thought we were going to get a better showing last week on, or on Monday. But I feel like it just gave us more questions than answers about them.

And we're still just unsure of what we're looking at here. yeah he's definitely got potential but now that he actually has what should be emphasis on what should be a real head coach so if you've heard this one before kids the jury's still out yeah yeah uh next game on the list the rams and the titans uh titans are given a little bit of leeway they're five and a half point underdogs against the rams uh for this one um but cam ward And basically, to sum up last week, Cam Ward was basically on his ass for almost every single play. And that's not an understatement. He basically was.

Yeah, they were hitting him after almost every throw. And even when he was able to stay upright, his receivers couldn't catch a cold. Yeah. And seeing the way that the Rams decimated the Texans O line, I can only imagine what's going to happen this week. So just for that alone, just for that alone, I'm going to go. I'm going to go with the Rams. Not only do I think the Rams are going to win. I don't even think the Titans cover.

Yeah. Yeah, I want to be surprised if this is a two-score game. And for the record, Adam and Tuck also picked the Rams. Yes. Patriots and the Dolphins. I mean, part of me wanted to go dolphins originally, you know. because it's in Miami and the Patriots just can't beat the Dolphins

to save their life right now. Oh, excuse me. And like, even in the Brady, like, never mind the Patriots of today, like not being able to beat Miami, but like even in the Brady area, they had fits in Miami. Like, there was games

where they should have been wamping on the Dolphins. Of course, an example being the Miami miracle. And Miami just gets wins at home. So that was my theory, of course. But then I think of how this Dolphins team has evolved into where it is now and where the Patriots are going. if I because the dolphins are at an all-time low on vibes

I think the Patriots their vibes obviously not great because they started all-on-one but the vibes are definitely a lot higher than what Miami's yet right now and so Miami has a flip switch or something I don't see this season going much better for Miami

and so give me the Patriots getting the job done and flipping the narrative well Miami has been New England's one constant boogeyman that's really how it's been Miami lives in New England's head rent free they have to New England has to break the curse they cannot win in Miami they I just don't know what it is and a lot of but to be fair a lot of teams struggle in Miami too because it's hot the way the stadium's built they have the sun beating down the opposing players If you actually look at how their stadiums constructed, it's ingenious, but it's evil.

They also are one of the few teams that refuse to give their opponents fans intense. There's literally a 20-degree difference on the Miami sideline versus their opponents. Miami also is one of the few teams that wear white at home because darker colors absorb more sunlight. I feel like more teams wear white at home than you realize. Maybe like Dallas, but Well, obviously Dallas, but Dallus, excluding and who? And who, Chris?

The Rams do it sometimes, the bills do it. Sometimes, but it's not their main, but regardless. But still, but my point is that's why. And Miami, the reason they do that is because they've never been able to beat teams head to head. Same thing with Mike McDaniel. Granted, this has been long before the Mike McDaniel era, but it's a symptom of a larger problem. Miami is a team that relies.

on tricks rather than plays. And for some reason, New England keeps falling for it. And yeah, I'm going to admit it, I have the dolphins here. And don't get me wrong, when, because I'm pretty confident in this, when New England loses, you know, all the talking heads are going to go nuts and whatever and, you know, like worst case scenario is happening. But I definitely think New England's going to keep it close. It's going to be a classic Patriots moral victory where it's like, oh, you showed you

can hang through adversity. It's like, yeah, well, I don't want to hang. I want to win. And for some reason, Tua just turns into prime Steve Young against New England. Like, don't get me wrong. I don't think he's that good. I do not think Mike McDaniel's that good. But for some reason, they just can beat New England.

And I don't know why. Like, if you're in New England, you have to break the curse. But I just, I don't see it happening. Yeah. And also Adam and Tuck picked New England. Also, a friend of the show, Robert Shelley, had a few choice words for me when I picked Miami, but come on the show and debate me then, man. Facts. Facts. It's been a while since Robert's been on. Yeah, true. He's busy, so, well, I leave me.

Yeah, I mean, we're all busy. Let's move on to the next game. San Francisco and New Orleans. This is... It's going to be a game. It's the Injury Bowl, essentially. yeah like saints could like sneaky get a win year type of thing like that's how is like the nineers are back into being in i r land with george kittle being put on i r um brock pretty out for a couple weeks they're going to go with mac jones this week yeah you know i'm just going to say it real talk like let's get real for a second my fellow americans when are the niners going to

their strength and conditioning coach because, you know, every so often a team gets bitten by the injury bug, but first-hand, Fran, it's every year they just can't stay healthy. Like, something's got to change, right? Am I nuts here? No, I don't think you're nuts at all. I mean, because this is about to be the second year in a row where injuries derail a season where you should be making a playoff run. Yeah, and probably like for the fourth or fifth time since 2019.

Yeah, pretty much. So, when he was after they lost it in the Super Bowl, 21. What happened to 21? 21, they lost the Rams and the NFC championship. 22.

22, they lost in the NFC championship because of Brock Purdy tearing is a, Tommy John. And then lost in the Super Bowl the Chiefs again. Then last year had the injury bug again and now this year yeah now this year but yeah the regardless i personally am going san fran because i know the name mac jones does inspire much confidence but on one hand i don't care

that's in new orleans mac jones fits that niner scheme like a glove you know between him Brock Purdy, Jimmy G. They thrive when a mid to above average quarterback can take the reins and game manage. That's what they do. And also, I just have no faith in the Saints regardless. Yeah. Normally I would pick against the Saints here, but I want to go with them. I think this is going to be my upset of the week this week.

Now, you know, they got 315 yards total against the Cardinals. Now, granted, they also had 13 fucking penalties. But you cut those penalties down, you're going to be competing. They only lost by seven against Arizona while out gaining them. True. I'm not even going to, obviously, the Saints are going to amount to nothing this year. But we see weird games like this all time. I'm stamping this as my upset pick.

the week i hear you and uh for what it's worth adam sides with you on the saints uh tuck sides with me for the uh 49 or so it's a 50 50 split yeah you know this game's going to be interesting when the over under totals at 40 and a half that might be a little generous it's going to be like 13 to 5 Yeah Battle of New York Battle of New York Buffalo and the Jets

Buffalo Buffalo Now I am worried Now I am curious to see What kind of Jets team we're going to get Are we going to get the Jets team where we were expecting Or are we going to get the Jets team that Put up 32 on Pittsburgh

And the way that The way the Bill's defense played against Baltimore It's I feel like anything The Jets also have a big run-first defense, but we knew that there was a whole thing about how first, second, third options run. But we saw how, well,

Justin Fields can play well, if the chips are down, and it's up to him to win you the game, you're not going to win. Oh, no. So I'm going Buffalo, much like you. Yeah. Tuck also goes Buffalo. Adams going with the Jets.

I don't blame. them. I feel like this could... I understand, but... This could be a, is very easily could be a, like, sneaky upset game too, you know? It's the division rivals. Jets played really well last week. Maybe that

it carries over. It's early season shit, you know? Yeah. I'll get your licks in well you can before horrible, horrible reality sets in. Exactly. But I don't see a reason why Josh Allen can't be

become Jesus again, like you did last week. Pittsburgh, Seattle. This is the second game in a row where Pittsburgh is in a game, and the over-under total is below 40 points. It's at 39 and a half, which is kind of a little surprising, but, like... I mean, I get it, but at the same time, I'm not sure I agree. Like Pittsburgh just put up 34 points.

Yeah, the Seahawks offense was slow last week. Like, still a Seattle offense that should be able to put up points. Yeah, I mean, I'd think so. You would think so, right? Yes. I would. I said so. Yeah.

Yeah, got to give them credit here. Jesus. Who do you got for? this game uh truth be told i'm going with seattle yeah i'm going with seattle too i know it's in pittsburgh but i think this seattle offense is waiting to explode and it's just just waiting to take that extra step and i think they'll be able to do that against the pittsburgh defense yeah Pittsburgh defense is struggling to say the least, and I think they can go into Pittsburgh and handle their business, you know, and show D.K. McCaff why you don't demand a trade.

And even though we both are choosing Seattle, Adam and Tuck both went Pittsburgh, and for Tuck, he begrudgingly went Pittsburgh. Yeah. Said to himself. That's pretty funny. I'd be interested to see I could see this game

be another high scoring game if Aaron Rogers can get going again though that's for sure It's also not the Jets so Yeah next game on the list

Last game on the 1 o'clock slate the Browns and the Ravens Do you want to guess what the spread on this one is? Let me guess Ravens

like what? minus eight and a half. 11.5. Jesus Christ. Oh, Lord, that is bad. The money line for the Browns is plus 500. Do they even cover, Chris? Do they even cover?

I don't know. It's... I mean, it's an original game, so do with that what you would. I feel like the Ravens struggle against the Browns a lot. They do. But, but, remember, However, even if the Browns cover, I don't think they're going to win. I'm going Baltimore, and it is not a hard choice.

No. Good teams win, great teams cover. So the Browns are going to cover, but yeah, give me the Ravens here. Because not to say, like, maybe Derek Henry does go for a hundred, but, like, you know, it's kind of what you were alluding to with the Bengals pick, right? like this this cleveland team is good or the defense is good yeah so it just dealt with a ton of injuries last year like a lot of other teams did yeah but regardless we're both going with the ravens i imagine yeah yeah yeah right and uh our resident ravens fan tuck is also choosing the ravens as is adam so we have another queen suite yeah all right we're

going to take a quick break. And when we come back, we're going to do the late afternoon slate and Sunday night and Monday night football. Two Monday night football games this week. Hell yeah. It may not have always showed it in the staff sheet, but you can see him making throws when he needs to make the throws. Back-to-back games where he has three touchdowns. Someone's got to get that six or seven spot. He's an elite wide receiver as a rookie. Truly a lose-lose scenario for both sides. Welcome back to the Fulmaruski podcast by PowerD 18 Radio and Secret Weapon Consulting. E. CJ, I'm Chris.

Let's get into the 4 o'clock slate. First game, Arizona and Carolina. Carolina disappoints me, man. I was really open for them to have a good game against Jacksonville. I really was. because I really wanted to see Bryce Young continue on this path back up the ladder, but it just wasn't a good game, man. I don't think that video of him watching the video board promotion going on was a fantastic look either.

No, no, it was not. No. Definitely could have gone without getting caught doing that. I think that's pretty safe to say. Yeah, yeah, I agree. I'm going to go Cardinals on this one. Yeah, I feel like if we're going to go based on, like, how this Cardinals team has been, they're going to be up, they're going to be down.

They got to win this past week against the Saints team. They, like, theoretically should have probably blown out of the water. But as mentioned, they got outgained by, like, 40-ish. 50-ish yards, and they also committed nine penalties. And thankfully, the Saints committed 13 penalties in that game. So they kind of got lucky. Now, using that logic, you could say that the Cardinals are built for a bigger game today, or today, this weekend. I definitely think so.

Not to mention, I know I play the home field advantage cartel off, But come on. It's actually in Arizona. Yeah. So I got to go with the Cardinals on here. Yeah. Pretty easy. That was actually the, oh, I forgot about a four o'clock game.

I was about to say, oh, that was the only other four o'clock game I had to worry about. We're not on the biweeks yet. Denver and Indianapolis. thing the Denver game is weird the Denver game was weird I didn't like how that went I didn't did you see how the end of the game went

like the last Denver no I didn't explain no it's like fourth down a field goal like ends the game essentially uh it's fourth down and Sean Payne holds back his kicker And it's like, no, no, we're going for it. And it was like, I forget what the down and distance was, but like, play clock's running down.

Bo Nix is like calling the play in the huddle. And the players are like, what the fuck are we doing? And it wasn't like one of those like, we're going to get up to the line and try to draw them off sides things either. It was like they ran a full play and like Bo Nix like took a shot too, like took a shot to the, basically took a shot to the end zone. and the whole thing was just a shit show. That's all I can really say was like they snapped the ball. It was like the linemen barely knew what to do. Like it just seemed very clunky and like not the way you want to see a fourth down play.

And I think in general, Denver is just leaving that game with a bad taste in their mouth. And I feel like that might carry over into this week against the Colts. and a part of me I'm getting this take from one of my buddies but I agree with this take is the Colts we got a feeling that the Colts might have what the Saints had last year

a hot start I feel like they're going to have a hot start they're going to end up winning against the Denver Broncos give me the Colts for this one I really like the way the Colts defense played this past weekend Again, if Daniel Jones has another consistent safe day, I don't see a reason why the Colts can't get a win. But, of course, this is also a very tough Denver team.

So I can also see this being kind of low scoring. Yeah. Sorry, that was pretty long-winded. I didn't really give you a chance to respond to the actual, like, end of the game thing I was telling you about. but no no you're right you're right uh what your thoughts oh uh well that you mention it um i got to go with indy i do i have to uh i kept saying this during the off season about how i was concerned about bow nicks and in some circles the term schedule merchant was thrown around because i don't think he's beating a team above 500.

And granted, Indy's not a world beater by any stretch. We're going into Indy. You know, you got a deal with Jonathan Taylor and Michael Pittman. And so long as Daniel Jones doesn't screw up, you know, that could be a recipe for disaster for the Colts. I think it's going to be a low-scoring slug fest. But that Colts defense is also nothing to sneeze at. I'm going Indy, much like you.

But for the record, Adam and Tucker are going Denver. Yeah, I mean, this is a pretty close line for this week. Denver's favored it by one and a half points this week. Money line, though, for it is even. So it's pretty, Vegas has it pretty tight as well. All right. Sunday night football. Now we're out of the four o'clock slate.

Sunday night football, Falcons and Vikings in Minnesota. part of me originally was thinking Vikings on this and I feel like all the arrows are pointing towards the Vikings here especially a lot of momentum off of that comeback victory against Chicago I feel like JJ is more prime to have a better a better primetime game this week than last week because he's got the home field now behind them but I don't know a part of me

part of me also thinks that some of that play from this past Monday night is going to creep into this Sunday night again I feel like Michael Pennix is prime to get his bounce back against the Vikings the way he was supposed to last week or last season that was that was the first like real test michael pennix had and he played solid and he's had he's had some good spurts as well no he has but uh i kind of like this as it being a rematch of the national championship you know pennix's washington huskies versus j j mccarthy's

michigan wolverines oh yeah but i'm going with the vikings here because of that brian flores defense. Penix, if you thought the Tampa Bay defense was difficult, and you probably shouldn't. Minnesota is a completely different animal. And for McCarthy, all you have to do is just be a game manager. You know, you've got the talent you can use as a crutch. Just sit back, let your defense do the work and, you know, deliver the ball to Jefferson, pound the rock with Aaron Jones, get Hawkinson involved. And you should be set. Key word, of course, is should.

But yeah, I like the Vikings on Sunday night. And for what it's worth, Adam and Tuck also have the Vikings. Chris, you might be low-mo upon on this. I am, I am. I misspoke. It was Kirk Cousins that played against Minnesota. That was the beginning of the end of Kirk Cousins.

So, but. Yeah. I just got a feeling that Pettix is prime for something here. And, hey, who knows about Kyle Pitts, too? Kyle Pitts, if he can keep it up from week one, he could be a serious weapon that everyone has hoped for him to be. But I got this being, I know that Minnesota is the favorite, but I see this being some wacky weird two, week two shit going on here.

And, you know, I can sense it. Oh, my God. No, he's at, no, no, you don't understand. Kyle Pitts is actually going to be good this year. Trust me. Trust me. Trust me. Pick him up off the waiver wire right now if you haven't already.

You should, oh, you should have to pick him off the waiver wire. He should have gone first overall. True. That is true. You should conjure up a trade right now where you trade. Jamar Chase for Kyle Pitts. Do it. Do it.

Do it. All right. Monday night football, Buccaneers and Texans is the 7 o'clock game. There's two Monday night football games. God bless America. Buccaneers at Texans is the 7 o'clock game. All right.

Real quick. I love that there's two Monday night football games. I hate the times that they're at. I like the time for the Bucks Texans at 7 o'clock. I think that's perfect. The second game needs to be like starting at half time of the first game. So this like the second game needs to be starting at like the normal Monday Night Football time or something like that. I don't like this.

I don't like this at all. It's going to be fun when we record in the middle of the Chargers' Raiders game, but I guess. but I don't know. I'm just not a fan of it. What do you think, C.J.? Why do we have two Monday night games? I don't like it. You don't like the two Monday night games in general?

I do not. Why? You don't know why, Chris. There's no reason. I'm old and in the way. That's literally why I like. You just hate change. You just hate change.

No, I hate change. You know what? I do. I'm not a big change. You know what I remember? I remember we were a proper country when you could get NFL's Sunday ticket on cable TV, all the games,

and we live like kings. Yeah. What happened? It's a good start to our bucks, Texans preview. But I know, but I don't like change. And I'm not changing my mind. I'm going with Tampa. I'm going with Tampa as well.

I just say one thing, though. If Houston loses another ugly game like that, should we have an uncomfortable conversation maybe about C.J. Stroud or D'Amico Ryan's? I hope that. Well, is it a... I haven't been able to figure out the offense. He hasn't recapture that magic of his rookie year. Well, is this a C.J. Stroud, D'Amico Ryan's problem,

or is this going to be a front office problem? because front office didn't bring Larmy Tonsel back. Front office hasn't really given C.J. Stroud a good O line. Yeah, they actually made it worse when they trained. Yeah, exactly. Like, they made it worse.

Like, you replaced Stefan Diggs with Christian Kirk, which, I mean, if we want to put them on the same level, sure. But I don't know. It's a weird situation right now at the, and I don't really know how I kind of figured you know what like they got more film on CJ Stroud they figured him out last year and now we'll see if CJ Stroud's going to be able to make that next it's hard to say it's hard to be like he's going to be taking that next step when he's on his ass every other play it's yeah that's that's kind of how I

chalk it up to be at this point and plus this is this is is only game two now or it's about to be game two of his third season so i feel like throughout the season or at least by the end of the season we'll have i'd say we could have a majority of questions asked of what we're of what to expect to c j stroud maybe yeah yeah um i'm also going to go bucks though uh just to get that out of the way but houston is favored in this game like two and a half uh is there something about tampa that i don't know about like serious question like no i i don't know i just is this just they're giving them home field advantage i mean i that's what it would have to be because

unless they think that texas defense is that good to shut down evans and jigba and irving and ott you mean and get to the wayfield that's a tough ass And I know the Tampa Bay defense isn't that great, but since the start of last season, the Texan's offense has been stuck in quicksand. Yeah. What are we doing here, guys? Yeah. I'm going bucks.

You're going bucks. Adam and Tucker are going bucks. I'm looking through the injury report for Tampa right now to see if I'm missing something, but it's Son Redick limited participant in Thursday with a foot injury. Tristan Wirth's knee limited practice Thursday. Luke Gottke didn't participate Thursday's practice due to a foot injury

I mean I guess if that's your only concern I mean yeah it's going to be a concern when you're if you end up losing your two tackles that's that's going to be cause for concern I will say that then I may end up bleeding the Texans

but even then I feel like that Baker Mayfield is really good at getting that ball out of his hands. If you want to go quick game with Mike Evans and Egbuka, then by all means. But I guess it's going to come down to what you have on your bookends for that night. Also, good news for the Texans is that Godwin has been upgraded from Out slash IR to Doubtful. so we're a couple one week closer to Chris Godwin making his Tampa debut or Tampa debut his season debut second Monday night game the 10 o'clock game Chargers and Raiders

charge both teams coming off of very good victories I feel like the Raiders probably could have done more against the Patriots last week just in terms of like the yards that they were able to gain. But all in all, I'm going charge on this one. I feel like when you have a huge victory like you do in last Friday, it definitely, the type of win they have last Friday carries a lot of momentum with it. I think that they'll be able to do that this week against the Raiders. It doesn't matter if it's a AFC West opponent.

Yeah, you're in Vegas. But I think that you'll definitely see lose my train of thought right now. But I think the Chargers is just going to get another big victory here because of the momentum. The momentum carried from last week. Geez, I kind of get that out for the life of me. CJ, wants your pick. I'm going to have to go with the Chargers. Now, the Raiders do have that big playability, but the Chargers offense is much,

and I do mean much different than New England's. So I definitely think the Chargers are better equipped to take advantage of that, because the Patriots are a team where on paper they're not terrible, but it's going to take some time for them to gel. Yeah. The Chargers, you don't have that luxury if you're, the Raiders and I don't care that it's going to be in Vegas I still have the chargers I think it's going to be close you know division games usually are but

still give me the chargers yeah um yeah I feel like that's gonna be pretty standard the other two also pick chargers as well for this one all right now is our week two game picks um and yeah so hopefully you guys enjoy the new well not new format but the new scheduling and that's all the scheduled content that we have for you on this Friday the 12th CJ you got anything on your mind uh no honestly well thank you for tuning into another Friday picks episode of the Fulburwski podcast a new episode coming out on Tuesday at 8 a.m remember that Tuesday at a.m. Be sure to

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