The Fumblerooski Podcast - Stampede -Ep 384 The Fumblerooski Podcast

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

On today's episode, Bills improve to 3-0, Josh Allen is still that guy. How much longer will Mike McDaniel last? Rooski Game of the Week premieres the Lions taking on the Ravens. Can the Lions get the road primetime win? Upsets in week 3? Chris Costich and CJ Medeiros talk all this and more!

On this Tuesday episode of Fumble Ruski podcast, the Bills improved a 3-0. Get a 31-21 win over the Dolphins. They are now 0-and-3. It's not looking too good in Miami right now. Mike McDaniel's head might be on the chopping block a little sooner than we could probably think. After that Ruski game of the week, Monday night football, Havens and Lions. That's going to be a damn good game.

After that, just game picks for the 1 p.m., the 4 p.m. and the Chiefs and Giants Sunday Night Football game. This is a phone burruski 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 Funbar Whiskey podcast by Power 818 Radio in Secret Wepping Consulting. I'm Chris Costich. With me is the armchair GM, C.J. Medeiros. C.J. How are you doing on this fine night? Well, I got to watch football. So can I really complain? Even though I just had like an hour drive home from work. But hey,

The Fubble Ruski podcast is inevitable. Or I should say, how's your morning, I should say? Soon. It will be soon. Well, the new day is a blank slate, so that's nice. Yeah, facts. There we go. A little day off.

I like it. I like it. All right. This was a pretty good game that we had here. Bill's getting the win against the Dolphins, 31 to 21. Bill's Josh Allen What more can you really say

Bills are Super Bowl contenders Josh Allen is that guy Gee I mean there's a chance that he's probably going to win MVP again James Cook had a solid day Over 100 yards on the ground 6 for 11 on third down Only had three penalties

This is a great win for this team. Now, I do think that this should have been a blowout. So I have to give Miami credit for actually not falling asleep in this game and, like, actually getting off the bus and whatnot. So credit to them because this was a one-score game, and the dolphins did have the ball with, what was it, like, less than four minutes left, driving down the field, and then Tua throws a bad pass.

bad pick and that's that was the game at that point and that was the game to it didn't play terribly um up until like the fourth quarter i'd say he had some pretty terrible throws in the fourth including one like bad overthrow to tyreek he probably under threw him by like 10 to 15 yards or at least that ball should have been 10 to 15 yards further so he could have hit Tyreek in stride. That was a bad ball. But Tyreek also should have caught it. It hit him in the hands.

He should have caught it. That was in the third quarter, though. But point still stands. That's a bad overthrow's in the fourth. But Dolphins had a chance to potentially tie it. And their quarterback who, I mean, kind of making some questionable comments, like in regards to throwing long balls to Tyree Kill.

And lo and behold, it just so happens in this game. So vibes are still maybe not as low. I mean, you were competitive in this game. That's for sure. But you're 0-13. So what does that really say? CJ, your thoughts? I feel like maybe the vibes aren't as low for the fans.

That's my stance. Yeah. Because if you're a fan, the vibes are a little bit better. Oh, but if you're a player, nah, they are shot right to hell where they belong. That's more what I'm saying. I'm just saying, like, if you're a player or coach or just anyone on the team in general, like you're 0.3. Yeah, you are 0 and 3. But here's the thing.

the best way to win the game is to win the game. I borrowed that quote from Mike McDaniel, which is an actual legitimate thing he said. And my fellow Americans, I'm not making that up. That's like close to something he actually said. He channeled his inner Bougar McFarland for that one. I tell you what. But God, just this is something I noticed with Tua,

and this happened last week when they played another division rival, the Patriots, in Miami. They were close to a victory, you know, like the dolphins had finally woken up. They really started heating up. It was a shootout, you know, it's only like a field goal separates you guys. And Tua does the one thing you absolutely, positively cannot do. And he threw a just awful pass directly to Patriots lineback. or safety hybrid, Marta Mapu.

Now, flash forward to this game against the Buffalo Bills. Same thing. Well, not quite. You're down by seven. Touchdown next to the point can tie it. If you're ballsy and you go for two, you can take the lead. Right? You know, and the dolphins are heating up.

They've been playing the bills tight. And what happens? Two of throws a really, advised pass that goes right directly to Bill's linebacker Terrell Bernard. This is now the second week in a row where Tua's monkey shines and Tom oolery have directly cost Miami the game. And that's just the truth. All right.

Like I'm not interested, frankly, in hearing any potential debates where it's like, oh, well, it's actually the defense. oh, it's actually it's anyone but Tua's fault. No. My answer to that is just no. You know what I mean, Chris? Yeah, no, I don't know what you mean. To the deep ball, like what happened to it?

I mean, I know his arm was never great, but all the Miami's fans were saying, oh, no, his deep ball is actually really good. Like, no, it isn't. Like, whenever he puts anything past 50 yards, like, it just dies. I wonder if the years have to come back. There's one play that also happened against New England, too, where he had a default Tyreek Hill, where Hill had to stop and come back, and it happened again against the bills as well.

Not to cut you off, but I wonder if the timing just isn't there anymore. Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to lie to you. That could very well be the case as Tyree Hill is like a known, I'm just going to say, that guy's a problem. don't mean it like you would say endearingly to a really good player like oh you got to watch out for him he's a problem no no he's a problem like an actual real problem you know all he does is post cryptic nonsense on social media and like oh does he want out will he finally request a trade and those suckers in the media keep gobbling it up it's like oh it's going to happen this time but

unless your name's Michael Parsons, nothing ever happens. So as far as the Dolphins go, like this essentially seals McDaniel and their GM, Chris Greer's fate in my eyes. And I would even go a step further, like, O.C. is getting canned. Defensive coordinator. Oh, definitely getting canned. And if I'm Miami, truth be told, I'm, maybe I'm evaluating Tua as well.

Yeah, because he, I know he had like that one season where he served up some grossly inflated numbers and everyone said he was good. Well, I got news for you. He's just not. Like, whatever you wanted him to be, he's just not. And if you keep, and if you are a person who would try to unironically convince me that Tua Tuaa Taga Vailoa is still a franchise quarterback, I will, I can defeat your point with one question. The Miami Dolphins are paying him over $50 million a year. Yes or no, is he worth that money? No.

You cannot look me in the eyes with a straight face and say, yes. Yeah, because he's just not. And then there's Mike McDaniel. You see, the Dolphins fans have finally turned on them, and I say took you long enough. They found out what anyone with a shred of common sense knew from the beginning that having a quippy dweeb who wants to be buddy buddy with your players isn't conducive to winning football games. And there are reports about all the discipline problems they have. If you have players late to meetings, you have players cutting practice. But when they're winning, it's like, oh, it's fine.

But then when he tries to take a firmer hand when they're losing, the players immediately push back. And frankly, I can't say I'm surprised. Mike McDaniel literally let this happen. This is, no ifs ands or buts, this is his fault. The state of the locker room is his fault. He's not an alpha. all he does is chirp it fans wear stupid shirts like oh remember i wish it were colder that aged like milk all he does is run his mouth and showcases social media savvy you know what he hasn't

showcased an ability to beat teams about 500 an ability he has not showcased an ability to win a playoff game and he cannot winning games below 40 degrees he is an abject failure in the Dolphins fans are finally figuring it out what the rest of us already knew. Yeah, his seat is the hottest, that is for certain. And even the clock management in that Pat's game last week as well was horrendous. They ended up getting a delay game or something and then had like, or they had a fall start and then a delay game. And so they ended up getting backed up 10 yards and then led to the interception or

led to the sack from Millen Williams to end the game. And Tua and McDaniels were both like, yeah, the communication was just terrible during that. And it's like, and that's been like a staple of McDaniel's coaching career is that is bad communication at this point. Like that's long and short of it. And then, of course, you know, you got JPA posting about how the Lock, room culture guy here because of McDaniels and how

they basically are just like letting him do whatever the fuck they want. No punishment for missing meetings or being late. Like stuff like that. And this is the same report that came out from like towards the end of last season two. And it's like, how do you continue to let this on? Like you aren't winning games. Like how do you how do you just allow that to happen i don't understand it like i i wish i knew chris i wish i had an answer

i do yeah he's just if i could sum him up in a word unsurious yeah i mean that's what he is Above all else, he is just an unserious coach. Yeah, for sure. All right. We're going to move on. Take a quick break when we come back and get into our Fummelruski game of the week. Detroit and Baltimore. 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 Fulm-Bruski podcast by Party 18 Radio and Secret Weapon Consulting. He's C.J. I'm Chris. Bruske game of the week.

Monday night football, the Ravens and the Lions. That's going to be a great game. I'll tell you what. Detroit just coming off of putting up 52 on Chicago. Baltimore just coming off and putting up 41 against Cleveland. And to be honest, like, what have the defense is really done? A heaping help in a nothing.

That's the nicest way I can put it. This. Now this. could be a game of the year. I'm going Baltimore. Going Baltimore. And really it's, look at Lamar Jackson's record in primetime games and against the NFC.

It is a 24 and 4 record against the NFC. In primetime games, 19 and 5. Best in NFL history for QBs with 15 plus. starts give me Baltimore and honestly sorry no keep going I know that Baltimore just lost a pride time game to Buffalo we I do have to address that but I'll still take the winning percentage over anything this is a tough game. It is.

I mean, that's really the only way to describe it. I know the Detroit Lions just dropped 52 and the Ravens just dropped 41. And anybody

who says that, you know, it would obviously try to make that case for either side, right? Counterpoint. That was against the bears and the browns. And if I had to choose one side, I would tilt towards the Baltimore Ravens. Because one, Lamar, the only teams in the NFC he loses to are teams in the NFC East. Last time I checked, Detroit ain't there.

You know, they lost the Giants and the Eagles. That was weird. I put a bet on it once as an upset and won, fun fact. but I don't know, man. I don't know how much I trust that Detroit defense. And I know the offense put up 52, but once again, that's on Chicago. That's not impressive. And it's in Baltimore.

Yeah, you get ahead to give me the Ravens on this one. And the Ravens are probably going to be wearing, they're all black. And they're like, I'm not even going to look up the record for when they're wearing the all-blacks, but, like, I'm just going to assume they're undefeated. That's probably a tough question, to be honest, but. Oh, I know good and damn well tuck knows. Oh, 100%. Dan Campbell, you know, his prime time record is also pretty damn good.

10 and 2 in prime time since becoming coach of the Detroit Lions. He was 5 in 0 last year. Really? Yeah. Honestly, it sounds about right. Yeah. So I've definitely got to keep that in mind. Baltimore is favored by four and a half, though.

Of course, as mentioned, all black, unies, and it's prime time. That's all. Okay. Do the Lions cover, though, Mr. Chris? He who loves odds and so on. I'm going to, I'm thinking Baltimore is going to. cover i think detroit's going to have like a scary like maybe like a sneaky backdoor cover scare type of thing you know all right i understand yeah yeah yeah yeah well the overrunner for this game

is 53 and a half as well it is high it is high um you know you know it's not as high, the over-under for the Green Bay and Cleveland game. Moving on to that, to our 1 p.m. Slate, starting with Green Bay and Cleveland. Green Bay's favored by seven and a half. I got to give it to Green Bay, right? They are too hot. White hot.

Only seven and a half? Yeah, but no pun intended to their all-white unis from last week, but they are way hot. Give me green bay. Green Bay. Do I really need to explain it? I don't think Cleveland really holds a candle to them. Yeah. Indianapolis and Tennessee

Colts are four and a half-point favorites. Kim Ward is playing, like, he is playing solid. He's doing what he can. There's not much you can judge on him. His O line sucks. It's terrible. You know,

they gave the Broncos a game. they lost by 14 to the to the Rams you know obviously they're not going to be great this year but I could see I I could very well see them put up a damn good fight against the Colts but Colts are also pretty hot but if I'm going to suspect anything tie-ins are definitely or if I'm going to suspect anything about the Colts and the take of they could be the 2,024 Saints, they're going to lose this game. Hmm.

But I'm still going to take the Colts, though. Still going to take the Colts. I think it's going to be close. Because Daniel Jones has been playing some damn good ball. Yes, but when is it going to end? It is a matter of when, not if. Exactly. And I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

And maybe this is a wild comparison, let me know. But do you remember when Ryan Fitzpatrick was on the Buccaneers and he bawled out? Yes. And then overnight, like just like that, he reverted back to, well, Ryan Fitzpatrick. I'm waiting for that with Daniel Jones. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Yeah. And regardless, I'm still going with the cold.

because it's talked about him, the roster's better than the Titans. And that's no shade to Cam Ward. He's doing everything he can. It's just the Titans just do not have a good offensive line or a good head coach or good pass catchers. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, he's got tired Warren. Tyler Warren's a frickin dog. Oh, wait, I'm thinking of it from Colts. I don't know. I'm sorry. I thought you're Tom. No, no, no, I know. Tom Ward is a dog.

I mean, he's not on the Titans, but he is a dog. Yeah, no, I don't know why, but my mind was thinking of Daniel Jones. I don't know why. I'm sorry. No, no, no, it's cool, it's cool. But, no, I got to go indie here. Just get Cam Ward a better team, that's all, and a better coach. It's probably because I was staring at the Colts, like, team page, but looking at their schedule.

If it doesn't happen this week, I could see it happen next week against the Rams. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Next game on the list. Minnesota and Cincinnati, week three, and we got Jake Browning and Carson Wentz. Hell yeah. This is why I love football, bullshit like this.

But at week three, Jake Browning and Carson West. it's week three it's too early for an injury bowl but here we are the injuries persist have you heard the theory that it's uh that j jay mccarthy's uh what was it again at knee spring something like that no that was jing daniels i don't know mccurkey's i could have sworn it was also a sprained either way either way well we'll call it's uh there's a theory going around that it's a ghost injuries because the vikings o line has been so dog shit you know I don't know I personally lean towards no that's not going to happen that's not the thing but yeah I don't understand why the Vikings offensive line is as bad as it is like on paper and I keep saying this and I know I'm a broken record but it's true why is their line that bad on paper and through what they've invested it should should not be yeah i guess i just don't understand uh i'm i'm personally gonna have to go

with the bengals on this one yeah one i trust browning a tad more than i trust wence because wence any MVP scraps he may have had from 2017 have completely disappeared and uh well neither them's played behind an offensive line but the viking defense, that's definitely going to be something. But the Bengals defense has been playing bad either. I genuinely think it's a coin flip between the Vikings or the Bengals. So actually, I tell myself out of it. I'm going to have to go with the Vikings because while Carson Wentz is not the Carson

Wentz of old, he's very. steady you know he's not going to rock the boat uh jake browning has massive boomer bust potential he's going to be slinging the rock and he's going to turn the ball over especially against that defense so i'm going vikings i thought about bengals i almost locked it in but i'm going with the vikings yeah this is really just kind of depend on if how well bangles deep holds up at this point or in this case whichever of the two backups can is able to not shit their pants right so I'm going to go Vikings as well I'll take Brian Flores defense over the Bengals defense on this one Pat's Pittsburgh Pat's and the Steelers

The Pat Steelers' rivalry has really lost its luster. It really has. The thing that I hate is that Pittsburgh is favored by one and a half. That's what I hate. I get it. It's at Gillette, but like, Pat's have sucked at Gillette ever since Brady left. I'm still riding in Pat's. Yeah.

Gonzo's coming back. I mean, yeah. Maybe we don't know. There's a good chance. He's practicing again. But I'm right. He was limited, which is actually huge. Yeah.

I'm writing with the goddamn Patriots. So the thing is, Corrine. Give me, Drake, Mae. Give me, C.J., give me Drake May. I would talk to. Just give me. I will take, dude, the way he played last week.

Yeah. The way this Steelers defense is, ass. No, no, I hear you. I do. If Donzo plays, if Christian Gonzalez plays, this past defense is going to be elevated that much more. The thing that concerns me, though, is D.K. Metcalf bullies New England every time they play. And they usually have some good coverages designed for them. Like, they're calling the right plays.

He just still does it anyway. Metcalf always gives them fits, whether it's Gilmore, Gonzalez, like whoever, he just eats every time he faces them. I don't know what it is. And I've even heard out to say, oh, it was the right coverage, but it's D.K., what are you going to do? And the Patriots' offensive line is in a very precarious spot. And don't care of all, the Miami pass rush is actually nothing to sneeze at between Jalen Phillips, Chopp Robinson, Matt Judon, Bradley Chubb. and three of their four off or no no no four of their five offensive linemen I believe had a pass blocking grade above 80 and that's good but I do not want rookie Will Campbell or Morgan Moses battling an ankle injury

and had to be in a walking boot last game but he's limited in practice so that's hopeful to go up against T.J. Watt. I don't want that. Conversely, the Pittsburgh offense offensive line is garbage. They have no running game to speak of. And the Patriots, I didn't know this, but I had to look it up. They leave the NFL and Sacks with nine.

They can get in the backfield. Yeah, if they can get to the backfield, then Rogers, Rogers was never a mobile quarterback, but he could go east to west. He could get out of the pocket. I don't know. I would consider mobile. I would consider immobile.

east to west not north and south he could he could escape the pocket roll to one side and throw it but he's not do that anymore he looks like a statue yeah we have no wide receiver two outside of mecalf i think it's going to be a defensive game but i know pittsburgh should win but if christian gonzalez plays for the Patriots, and I think he will, then it's going to go to New England. Because New England, I think they give up the most passing yards in the league. They got sliced and diced by the dolphins and by the Raiders. But here's the thing.

The teams aren't picking on Carlton Davis, who's very good in his own right. They're playing the game of, all right, Carlton Davis is on that side of the field. Let's throw where he's not. All right. Well, now Gonzalez is. back. And last season when New England was giving up yards to the air, the game plan was

throw where Gonzalez isn't. Well, now you have Gonzalez and Davis. Now it's the plan. You can't throw where the other's not because the other's there. So I think I've got to go at New England on this. Especially if that running game is back,

then oh boy. I would love to just see some more Trebion Henderson in general. Yeah. that would just be so nice yeah all right philly and los angeles the rams taking on the super bowl champs the eagles a little little rematch a little rematch of the wild card i like me a good rematch i love me a good rematch and i think this rams defense shown up quite a little bit more than what people expected.

Like, there's not, like, Jared Verse is probably the only, like, real name that pops out at you on this defense. No, man, Byron Young and Braden. Oh, yeah, and Byron. My bad. And Braden Fiske. Come on. That front set is terrifying. The back four, on the other hand, eh. Either way, this defense is very good.

It's an underrated defense. but I don't know the Rams offense yeah they put up 31 against Tennessee but I wasn't a fan of how they played against the Houston Texans and they had a good defense Philly's got a good defense too how is the Rams going to be able to handle Saquan Barkley this time We saw how it happened last year. It was not pretty. Third times a charm? I don't think so.

Give me Philly. Oh, I got to go Philly here because, well, I said the Rams front seven is scary. So is the Philly O line. And with as weird of a secondaries the Rams have, there's no reason to not get A.J. brown some targets and i think philly's good old i think phil this is a game where ironically philly can win through the air and that defense uh yeah that's basically just going to make the rams day just tough you know yeah uh even though you got devante adams and he got puka

this eagle's defense doesn't play it just doesn't uh held the cald boys and the chiefs to under 25 points so i'm going philly yeah um i don't know if you saw this there was a report that came out that said the league has basically informed the referees to start calling the tosh push a little bit tighter so no more center hanging his head over the ball no more guards being off sides like oh yeah no no no but i get that too but i just funny how this happens after they play Kansas City. Yeah, no, for sure. And it's not even that.

It's that when you see the plays that the Chiefs fans are showing, see the center's hovering over the ball. It's like, okay, you are also lined up off sides, Chiefs. Oh, yeah, no, they definitely work. You know what the thing is when they talk about what happened at the goal line. Cool, do you know what? Do you want to know what would happen if they call that tight? Offsetting penalties.

Shut up. I am so tired of just the whining and say, oh, it's cheating. It's like, it's a rugby scrum. It's not a real football play. I would say, do you have any arguments that's not a weak appeal to emotion? Disgusting. Yeah. Eagles are favored by three and a half.

Tampa Bay and the Jets. Tampa Bay is favored by six and a half. We were discussing earlier that Mika Igbuka is potentially injured, but I don't think that'll really matter in this game. No disrespect to Tarad Taylor, but, I mean, if Justin Fields is the starter, then, like, what are we going to get? Like, Justin Fields had one of the worst QBRs in NFL history last year. Was it like one or something like that? Actually, that's a great question. Let me check real quick.

Because I do remember hearing it, and I was just for, like, no way it was that. Like Tyrod Taylor was the leading passer. 1.0. There's three for 11, 27 yards. A whopping one. Yeah. Good God. Yeah, 54 yards passing.

Tarad Taylor also went 7 for 11, a touchdown pass, 56 yards. Maybe we see something. Maybe we do. But I'm going with the Bucks. It's, Bucks are hot right now. Yeah, Backe is playing at an MVP level right now. He is, and they could theoretically win the North. It could be between them and the Packers.

So, yeah, give me the Bulls. bucks yeah all right um i should have two pages open for this because i just keep going back and back and back you know it happens it happens uh washington and vegas commies are three and a half point favorites question is is jaden daniel's gonna play pretty sure he most likely is but If not, you got Marcus Marriota. Hmm. I like Marriota in this case. He's solid there.

Yeah. But how are the Raiders going to respond after losing to the Chargers? Yeah, and have a Gino for three picks. Yeah. How are they going to respond from that? That's my question here. My other question is, Washington is going to be good enough to, I mean, They should be, right?

Washington's defense should be able to handle Zach Ertz, Terry McLaurin, maybe Jane and Dales, maybe not Jane and Daniels. Or, what am I saying? Or Washington should be able to handle Gino Smith, Ascenti, Brock Bowers. They should be able to handle them. They should. Yeah. and honestly even without daniels i still like the commanders in this one yeah i do i'm i'm going

with commanders personally i don't think this is one that really needs a lot of explaining even especially if they have daniels then it's then it's pretty much over yeah readers need to play ashen gentie more they need to yeah that's something that i've noticed though the season quickside tangent. Have you noticed that the rookie running backs are getting, like, no touches, like, at all? Hampton, Henderson, Genty, like, they're getting nothing. Ollie Gordon was getting nothing up until today. Yeah. He got, he had, he scored the first touchdown of the game. True. So, I don't know. Maybe it's just a base. Maybe redshirting players is more popular than we dared admit.

but who knows maybe maybe that's gonna end up being the new wave oh god no no no chris you of all people know how i feel about redshirt and rookies it's a dangerous cowardly mindset and the only position you can even dream of getting away with that is qb yeah oh no for sure i'm all four for quarterback that you know that yeah but who's next anyway uh Atlanta and Carolina Atlanta I want Carolina is you know but Carolina has shown nothing I know I'm my way don't get me people Carolina fans the whole oh but they almost came back and beat the Cardinals news flash that says more about the Cardinals than it does about you I want Carolina I want Carolina to win okay

But will they? Or no, they won't. I want them to, I just want them to be good. Like, I feel like that they can, but they're just not there talent-wise, which sucks. Especially because Bryce Young feels like he's there. It feels like he's there, but you just can't make that next step. And maybe that's just how we're going to end up remembering him. like he had a bit of a renaissance but ended up still not doing a whole lot after

yeah i suppose yeah sorry i didn't mean to get so gloomy on bryce young's career all a sudden but no no i i i understand what you're saying i do it's uh i just it's looking bad If he doesn't pan out at the NFL level, we might actually have to need to have a talk about him, excuse me, being one of the top three biggest busts of all time, considering what the Panthers had to move to get him. Yeah, no, for sure. But, yeah, Atlanta favored by five and a half. Jaguars and Texans, Jaguars are one and a half point favorites at home against the Texas.

C.J. We talk about the dolphins having all-time low vibes, right? You know? Pives are terrible. Jaguars, dude. I, is Brian Thomas going to act like a pussy again? Like, yeah. And you saw Trevor Lawrence actively wave off William Cohen. Like, oh, yeah, sure, nothing to see there. Yeah. Nothing's looking good, and he brought up the stat as well that, like, that Trevor Lawrence's QBR's lowest 20 targets, Hunter, and, and Brian Thomas. Like, that is bad. That is bad. Like, is, like, is that Liam Cohen not scheming correctly? Like, I just wonder what that could be.

I guess. I don't know. I don't know. But Texans have been right there, right in the running the last two games. I think they're finally going to get the job done and get the win against the Jaguars this week. Yeah.

Oh, the Jags. Just, you know, that's all I got. It's just, oh, my God, the Jacksonville Jaguars. man what a what an absolute team however i like them with the upset in jacksonville i do because the vibes in houston aren't that much better cj stroud still isn't able to capture that magic of his rookie year i mean the defense is good but the offense is stuck in quicksand and even on paper they're not that bad and who knew all it took was losing joe mixon for their running game to go nowhere outside of one freak run by old injury pro Nick Chubb.

So when I look at the Jaguars, at least the Jaguars have an explosive offense. And even if the Texans pass rush is good, Lawrence has a lot of people that he targets, like five other people not named Travis Hunter and Brian Thomas Jr., where he does have a pass rating over 100. That's what we got to focus on. like five guys or perhaps six that he can target where his past reigns above a hundred that's actually not something to sneeze at so that's one of my big upsets of the week give me jacksonville fair enough fair enough i can see it happening i i could see that this is a toss of my opinion

yeah all right we're going to take a quick break when we come back and get into the late afternoon, Slate, and Sunday night football. This is the Fulburyski podcast. It may not have always showed it in the stat 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. He's C.J. Medeiros. I'm Chris Gostitch. Before we get into the late afternoon games, C.J. Do you notice Josh Allen's visor? No, I did not. Oh. Explain.

He was wearing a visor today. So? I don't know. It was, I noticed it. I was like, oh, that's different because he doesn't normally wear a visor, so. I don't know, man. I don't know. I just noticed stupid things like that. It happens.

Yeah. All right. 430 games or. 4 o'clock games. Chargers and Broncos. Chargers are 2.5 point favorites against the Broncos. There's nothing about this team that has looked good, in my opinion. Bow Nix, maybe having a slight sophomore slump. I don't know.

Wait. Let me check this last game. Let me just look at the stats real quick. Yeah. 22 for 30, three times. Touchdowns, one interception, 206 passing yards. J.K. Dobbins playing solid. Troy Franklin, eight catches, and a touchdown.

But they gave up 473 yards to the Colts. The Daniel Jones led Colts, I might add. The Colts had 11 penalties in one. Yeah. You know, I think Denver's going to start out on three. I'm going with the Chargers. Because the Chargers are a weird team, but you get the sense they're finding their rhythm. They beat Kansas City.

They held off a sneaky tough game, you know, or they held off the Raiders in a sneaky tough game when I say that's because of the division. Now you're going to be hosting the Broncos outside a mile high with Bo Nix. So you say maybe going through a little bit of sophomore slump. Then again, I said that maybe he's a schedule merchant because I don't even think he'd beat a team above 500 last year. and now well if he's a schedule merchant then he's a bad schedule merchant because he played terribly no last year but no i'm saying like i'm if we're going to carry it over like he played terribly against the titans yeah yeah well i'm that's why i'm going with the uh you know that that's why i got to go with the chargers then because nicks look i was ever a huge fan of

Sean Payton, but Knicks better shake the rust off fast because Rookie of the year runner up, Bo Nix, and 2025 Bo Nix are very different people. Yeah. I agree.

I'm going to go with the Chargers as well. They've been literally, I don't know what happened, but Jim Harbaugh just got comfortable throwing the ball again. Like, Justin Marbert is slinging it. And maybe, like I said, maybe it was just the appearance of Keenan Allen that is all they needed again so that it's kind of opened up the past game a little bit more.

Or it's Quentin Johnston, figuring it out. Don't understand it. But yeah, give me the chargers. Seattle and New Orleans. Seattle is seven and a half point favorites. See you know, I think I'm going to hit the upset of the week button right now. Explain. I think I'm about to do it.

I think I'm about to do it. Explain, please. Come on. I don't know. It's just a feeling. The Saints have been in every single game they've played in. Which isn't saying a lot because we're two games since the season. Yeah.

But, you know, they were in it last week against the Cardinals. They were in a week one. Only, or pardon, they were in a week one against the Cardinals. They were in it last week against the Niners. Granted, Mac Jones led Niners. But this is a team that's fighting for Kellanmore. Yeah, they're not doing a lot on offense, but they're kind of limiting points. Like, sub-25 against the Cardinals and the Niners,

sub-25 on a team is pretty solid. Now, that's the other issue, is the offense going to get going? Seattle will maybe do for one of those, oh, you know, I'm just going to start playing terribly games. just going to let the remember the Giants from last season remember that game Seahawks were hot to start the year

then the Giants showed up and all of a sudden the Seahawks lost three in a row I'm hitting that button CJ the Saints are covering and they're getting the win hell yeah no I'm going with Seattle

because you mentioned oh well they beat these other teams but I urge you to consider this They beat the Arizona Cardinals, which, as a team, where they didn't beat the Cardinals, sorry. They lost the Cardinals, which is a team where you're over $100 million quarterback and should be Star Wide Receiver, have zero chemistry, and you lost to Mack Jones in the Big 25. nothing about this screams anything to me. I feel like they're, they're like that little yippy dog

that's just gonna snap at your ankles, but you don't stomp on it because, you know, you feel bad, kind of. Yeah. I don't have K for stomping on dogs, though. I just want to point that out. It's just, it's one of those teens. It's like, all right, just come on.

I know they're a fight, they're the feisty underdogs, but you could only keep punching up for so long. and I think they're really not going to have any answer for Seattle because they were a little about Darnold, but having to deal with Kenneth Walker and Zach Charbonnet and Jackson Smith and Jigba and Cooper Cup. That's just going to be tough for really anyone. And Spencer Rattler went up against a really bad Cardinals defense and a completely depleted Niners

defense. Now he's got to go up against Seattle, which in name value is one of the better defensive backfields. Preloaded. I don't know. I just see what happened with last year in Seahawks losing games that they shouldn't have been losing. And I see the same thing happening for this week. Yeah. That's my upset of the week. All right. Uh, Chicago. go in Dallas. Now, talk about a toss-up. This is a tough. So I think every single sports book in the land besides ESPN

has this like even or at least every pick I'm I've gone through. Dallas is one and a half point favorite score into ESPN. Over under's 50 and a half. Bears defense and the Dallas, like this

is another game where like the offense, it could be a massive offensive exhibition where both offenses it's basically just going to be who can obviously every game comes down to who scores the most points but who can score the most points in a faster fashion in this case I guess but I'm going to go with Dallas I really do not see this Bears team getting themselves to one and two at this point like yeah like they were able to they're able to still put up what 28 points against or not 20 points what am I talking about

they're able to still put up 21 against Detroit but they also gave up 52 against Detroit yeah and they and remember the stat that I told you about 700 yards or six over 600 yards and 70 points in five quarters of football mm-hmm mm-hmm The way this Dallas, the way this Dallas offense is running right now. Probably not going to be to the extent of what Detroit did, but it could be lethal. Yeah, I don't like the Bears in this at all. I just don't. I don't know what it is.

Maybe Ben Johnson is more adjusting to do. Maybe Caleb Williams is more adjusting to do. But it's getting so annoying how the Bears are always, and I said this last week, how they're always hyped as off-season champs, how they always make the big flashy moves, and they construct on paper these really good rosters with really good trades and really good drafts, and it just doesn't work.

And theoretically, this should be a close match, given that Dallas, you know, has an absolute meep as a head coach and Brian Schottenheimer, and, you know, they still can't get after the course, But do I think Chicago can take advantage of that? No, no, I don't. Give me Dallas. San Francisco and Arizona.

I straight up just think Jonathan Gannon is going to get out coached in this game. Just give me the diners. I don't like it. You don't have to think about it. I think it's going to be an ugly game. But even though he chokes on leads like it's second nature, I trust Kyle Shanhan more than I trust Jonathan Gannon, who has proven to be, to put it nicely very underwhelming.

Yeah, and I've just been aiding the comments from Kyler Murray about, like, oh, like, why aren't you targeting, why aren't you targeting Marvin Harrison Jr. And he's just like, well, like, you know, obviously has to understand that there's days where he's going to get 10 targets and he's going to get three targets. Sure, when he's got, like, Pastor Tan or like Christian Gonzalez on him. but, like, you got to try to get him the freaking football, dude. Yeah, I mean, you have to. That's why you spent the fourth overall pick on.

I touched on this earlier, but the fact that there is no chemistry at all, because the thing is, Murray has talent, and Harrison definitely is talent. But my problem is they have no chemistry, like, at all. I don't know if they don't get a lot. I don't know if it's two personalities clashing, but they're just never on the same page. And I don't know. If chemistry doesn't happen by year two,

I think it's safe to say that it probably never will. Yeah. Sunday night football, Chiefs and the Giants. Chiefs have not been looking great. Giants, I mean, the offense somehow looked alive last week against Dallas's defense, but I mean, it was also Dallas's defense. So

what are you going to do about that? Chief's defense still hasn't like the Chief's defense hasn't been terrible. It hasn't been bad. But you know, this Chief's offense really is not that good. It really isn't. Like,

they're relying on on freaking Tyquan Thorin out there right now as they're to be at number two. It's not looking good. Travis Gelsie is getting more targets, a little bit more, nothing crazy, but. CJ, I might do it again. I might do it again.

Do it? I might hit that upset button again. I think I got two upsets of the week in me. If not, give me the Giants at plus six and a half. Give me them to cover at least. I got a feeling that the Giants are going to win on Sunday night football. Remember the last time? Remember Tommy DeVito?

Remember what happened there? Yeah. Remember the last time the Chiefs were in MetLife? Yeah, he'll have them down to the wire. Took them to the limit. I think we're going to see a little bit of MetLife Magic Giants get the job done. They get the upset. But somehow, some way, they're going to get the upset.

Maybe Russell Wilson keeps the deep ball going. Who knows? I have to go to Kansas City because I don't trust the Giants defense. I think dables on the hot seat, and I know that the chiefs now have a warranted chip on their shoulder. So, yeah. that's easy. I have to go with, I got to go, Kansas City.

But the thing is, the Giants are such a weird team that they, I feel like it's going to be close. I think Kansas City wins, but I think they win ugly. Yeah. Either way, it's going to be, I feel like this is going to be a close game.

I don't see Kansas City pulling out and winning by double digits by any means. All right. that was our week to pick them hell yeah uh cj it's it on your mind before we end the show no not really uh this is just a weird weird week this has been a weird season i know i sound like adam when i say that but that's all like just weird season man oh yeah i like it though script rairs have been cooking with this one well adam says it's a weird season every season to be honest like sorry that's that's just football every season as is unique in its own way

such as jake browning and carson wince in week three yeah yeah yeah i see it uh Jake Browning and Carson Wentz And it's only week three Yeah, that'll do it for us tonight Thank you for tuning into Another Tuesday episode of the Fulbruski podcast New episode coming out Friday at 8 Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel

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