The Fumblerooski Podcast - 'Tis The Season -Ep 40 the Fumblerooski Podcast

Episode Date: September 8, 2021

Regular season football has officially begun and we give predictions for our favorite teams, the conference championship matchups, and Super Bowl Matchups as well as give our very first Fumblerooski Fan Box Segment!

Good evening. You are listening to the Fumble Rooski podcast by Power 88 Dean Radio. I'm your host, Adam Wright, along with co-host Justin Tucker. And we are proud to announce that football is, regular season football is starting this week. So you guys will be viewing this episode on Wednesday. Meaning, by the time you view this episode, football will be 24 hours away. Yes, sir. Regular season football. We will be getting Dallas Cowboys versus the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on opening day for the

regular season starting on Thursday. So this is going to be a very fun episode. We're going to ask some very laid-back, fun questions for you guys. Nothing too much, especially since not too much has happened this week. There hasn't been much preseason action. It's just a lot of stuff. We're really just starting off the regular season this week. So to start off, Justin, so going through a regular season of football,

what is your ideal Sunday afternoon look like? Take? Like what, take me through your day for on, uh, on Sundays during the football season. Well, Saturdays I wake up, do my stretches after, you know, a big Dean Bulldogs win. Let's go Bulldogs. Uh, then eat breakfast, start preparing for the game, get the. Get the Ravens jersey on. Dust it off because it's finally game day. Head over to your dorm. 12.30. And then we watch the game together.

It may not be the Ravens game, but I know there's a game on. Both of you, to assume, I'm inviting you to my dorm. Ha ha ha. Sarah will invite me over. A Ravens fan to my dorm. Yeah. I'll just tell her not to let you in my presence. Well.

That's okay. I can't remember the last time you had a unanimous MVP on your team. Oh, well, he's former MVP. It's that sounds like a pretty. Yeah, and you're also on the football team. So you have you have a lot of stuff going on with that certainly and i'm sure you'll have some games on sundays correct no they're mostly saturdays and maybe one friday

we don't have a sunday game sunday for conditioning oh there you go. So you'll probably have some time to watch your Ravens. Hopefully I get to see them prime time when we face off against the Chiefs. Oh wait, but we only face the Raiders on Monday night, so I'm good. I'm straight. There you go. So for my ideal Sunday is I typically get up – so I try to add some structure to the morning despite the fact that there's football in the afternoon that I'm probably going to watch all afternoon. Yep. as a lifeguard at my local YMCA. And we usually go to about 12 or 1, so it goes right up to when game time starts for the first set of 1 o'clock games. And I'll head home, or in this case, my dorm,

now that we're back on campus, by the way. And I turn on the Patriots. I watched the game. I'll have my dog right beside me sometimes. I think this semester we might have a lot of our... I'll just hang out with a lot of my friends. We'll get some wings going.

Get some drinks. Assuming we are all of age. Which we are, by the way. I'm 21. And yeah, then I just watch all day long. Watch the Patriots lose? Watch my favorite team win.

Watch the Patriots win. You mean lose to the Dolphins? You said? They're gonna beat the Dolphins. You would hope. They will. Anyways, and then along comes

the 8 o'clock games where there's that jingle for Sunday night football that literally just tells you, oh boy, we have school tomorrow. Yes, we do. Which is such a bittersweet feeling, isn't it?

Isn't that such a bittersweet feel? You don't think so? Because you're watching football. You're watching football. You're enjoying a nice night of watching football, but just at the back of your head, you're just thinking, oh, school tomorrow. We got to get up. Yeah. You know, it's like good and bad.

So you don't like it at all. Yeah, I'd rather sleep on Mondays, which I can't do, which is unfortunate. Well, yeah. Yeah, but you still get to watch football. Wouldn't it be worse to not have football and then thinking about how you have school tomorrow? Either. Listen, it's not a happy thought. I'm happy football's back.

But I'm not going to be like, oh, my God. I'm so happy that I have to go to school tomorrow. I'm not, can't do it. Yeah. Well, anyways, at halftime of some of the one o'clock games or the four o'clock games, I will usually I'll end up taking my dog for a walk. I have a lab retriever mix and what I'll do is I'll take him for a walk in the woods for a little bit. Sometimes I'll, it's a nice way to get off my mind the fact that I'm getting killed in fantasy football. It's a nice feeling, I'll tell you that much. When you're losing by a ton, you just want to put the phone down and then just do something else. And then just sit back and say, wait, all right, you can't really control any of this.

And, God, fantasy football can be very – for all you fantasy football people out there, you guys understand the feeling when you're losing, but there's nothing you can really do about it. But anyways, up next, we are going to move on and we're going to predict what our favorite teams will do this season. Justin being the Ravens fan, me being a Patriots fan, we're going to talk about our teams and how they were going to do. Coming up next, don't go anywhere. You're listening to talk about our teams and how they were going to do. Coming up next, don't go anywhere. You're listening to the Fumble Rooski podcast.

You are listening to the Fumble Rooski podcast. I am Adam Wright along with Justin Tucker. We're talking some football right before the season starts, and we're going to go on to our favorite teams, which is for Justin the Ravens,

and for me, the Patriots. Justin, tell me a little bit about how you believe your team is going to do this season. Well, I believe that we'll do extremely well. Of course, we'll have our losses, of course. I believe one of them is going to be Kansas City, which I hope we win. But again, I could see us losing that game. That's going to be a tough one. We may is going to be a tough one.

Pittsburgh always plays us tough. And so I could see us being going 13 and four being reasonable. And I believe we will be either the number one or the number two seed in the AFC. I don't care who the number one or the number two is, but one of them will be Baltimore. We will make it past the wildcard round

because we'll have a bye. We'll make it past the divisional round. We'll make it to the AFC championship game. We will win that against whoever, whether it's the Bills or the Chiefs, and we'll make it to the AFC championship game. We will win that against whoever, whether it's the Bills or the Chiefs, and we'll make it to the Super Bowl. And what will they do from there? I don't know. Based upon injuries, I'm not happy about our depth at linebacker, and I'm not extremely happy about what we have at running back.

I'm fine with Gus Edwards. I believe he'll have 1,000 yards this season. It's just our RB2 and RB3 is something to be desired for because we just lost Justice Hill and J.K. Dobbins. So yeah, I need our RB3 to be eight and like a solid one for me to be like, all right, that's fine. I think we'll do good on the ground. Not as great as we have been the last two seasons. I see us doing like 2,000 yards this season on the ground, but not 3,000. And so overall, I believe we'll make it to the Super Bowl. It's just do we have enough depth and enough talent health-wise to keep us there. But I believe we'll make it to the Super Bowl.

And if Lamar makes it to the Super Bowl, I want him to win one. Not even just for me being a Ravens fan. Just for Lamar. Just a little observation here. Judging by how you're not talking about how the Ravens are going to do in the Super Bowl,

it doesn't look like you have a lot of confidence that they'll win it. It's a Super Bowl. I don't pick the winner until I know who's in the Super Bowl. I would want my team to win the Super Bowl. It's just with the injuries that are happening right now and then our history with injuries in the regular season, I believe health might be a concern. If it wasn't for that, yeah, I'd pick my Ravens to win the Super Bowl.

Okay. Okay. I mean, from what it sounds like, it sounds like you're hoping for a lucky break for the Ravens, for them to actually be able to win the Super Bowl if they get there. I think everybody needs a lucky break to win the Super Bowl. I know, but more so for the Ravens. No, I feel the same way about everybody else. Everybody needs a lucky break to win a Super Bowl. I know, I know.

Some teams need more luck than others. I get it. Some teams just need a lot of help. Anyways, my New England Patriots. Hey, we got lucky for Mac Jones to fall to us. Oh, now it's lucky that Mac Jones fell to y'all. Like y'all weren't taking the run of the litter. I don't – well, I think Kyle Trask is the run to the litter

when it comes to all the top running quarterback prospects. He wasn't graded as a first-round QB. It was – no, Mack Jones was the last quarterback taken. We weren't even thinking about Kyle Trask during the draft. Throughout the season, he was looked at as a first-round pick. And it wasn't until later on that season when he started to fall off and he began to fall from the rest of the pack. But this has been a quarterback draft considering there were five quarterbacks

taken in the first 15 picks in the first 15 picks so this is a pretty good quarterback draft there was trevor lawrence at one wilson at two lance at three um fields at 11 and then jones at 15 now Now, did I prefer Fields for the Patriots? Absolutely. And they should have traded up. They wouldn't have had to trade up, trade too many assets to get him, and it would have been worth it. But they didn't, and this is who we have.

And he's impressed so far. I like Mac Jones. I wanted Cam Newton to start for most of the season or for at least the beginning part of the season before he takes over. And I thought Cam Newton with the revamped roster that we have now with the defense being completely retooled, the offense has new weapons, the offensive line is much improved. This is a good roster where Cam Newton can at least hold down the fort

for the first four or five games. They go 3-2, 2-3. Mac Jones takes over, and he leads them to the playoffs. Stop it. You believe in Cam Newton to take this team to the playoffs. You believed in Cam. Then why was he cut? Because Mac Jones just played better than him. That's all.

Yeah. Yeah. And if Cam Newton's not going to be your starter, where else is he going to be? I mean, I want him in Denver now that he's available. Give me your predictions. You and I both know they're not making it far in the playoffs, even if they make it to the playoffs. The Patriots? Yes.

So, I think the Patriots will be a 10-11 win team. Correct. And they're going to – and they'll make the playoffs. They probably won't make it far. If they make the divisional round, I think I'll be happy at that point. And I think that – I think Mac Jones will show some flashes. And I think there's going to be some turbulence because it's only his first year, but he's shown promise throughout the preseason and through training camp. He beat out Cam. And according to reports, Rob Ninkovich was saying that Mac Jones was actually teaching

Cam Newton the playbook at times. So I'm actually pretty excited about Mac Jones. I didn't, I knew they addressed a need. I didn't love Mac Jones coming out of the draft, but I think he has some promise. His play style, if he has the brains, if he can read a defense, he can succeed in this league. He's not going to be Tom Brady, but he could be a very good quarterback in this league. He's not going to be Tom Brady, but he could be a very good quarterback in this league. And the Patriots, I think, will be a borderline playoff team this year. In your dreams, but one can only hope. You don't think they're going to be a playoff team? They could be an 8-9 win team. They would have to beat the Dolphins twice, which I don't think they can do. They're not beating the Bills. They can beat them at least once, I bet.

They can upset them. I'm not saying that it's going to happen, but it's possible. With the roster the way it was, they actually came close in one of the games. They were within three points. They very nearly won if

Cam Newton hadn't fumbled the ball. However, I think this team is kind of scary. I do. Okay. Just watch. My New England Patriots with Mac Jones will be a good team. All right.

Anyways, we're going to move on. Next, we are going to give some predictions about what we believe the conference championship matchups will be for this season. This will be our final predictions for this upcoming season. These will be our preseason predictions, and coming in a little bit, you will get our Super Bowl predictions for this season. Don't go anywhere. You're listening to the Fumble Rooski Podcast. Welcome back. We are giving our conference championship predictions for this upcoming season, for the postseason. Now, it's not coming until January,

but it's never too early to make our preseason predictions. And, Justin, do you want to lead off with who you have to make the conference championship for the NFC and AFC? Well, for the NFC, I think it might be a rematch between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Green Bay Packers. I don't really think there's anybody challenging them in the NFC for those top two spots right now. And it seems like they have a firm grip on the one in two seeds and if

you have to go to go to Green Bay and if you have to go to Tampa Bay it's gonna be a tough road ahead of you so that's why I think if they get the first two seats it's gonna be them in the conference championship and for the AFC it's Baltimore versus whoever I don't care who it is. It could be Kansas City. It could be Buffalo. They going down. Okay.

So what I have is in the NFC, it's going to be the Tampa Bay Buccaneers again. Against, and this is a bit of a dark horse, bold prediction, against the LA Rams. I have the LA Rams. They have talent across the board, and they upgraded at quarterback this offseason. I think the LA Rams are going to be this year's Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Whereas they get a new quarterback, they're a talented team, things are rocky down the stretch at times during the regular season, then they figure things out and they make a postseason run. Now on the AFC side, I actually don't have Kansas City making the AFC championship game. And it's going to be Cleveland Browns versus the Buffalo Bills.

I think the Cleveland Browns are that one team that I have undersold this offseason a lot, but that defense is much improved. They are focused on defense and running the ball. They have a quarterback who, if he doesn't make mistakes, he will help them win games as long as he just doesn't turn the ball over. And that's something that we need. You also have Odell Beckham Jr. and Jarvis Landry to throw to. So this is a team that can limit their mistakes and play defense. That's a scary team in the playoffs. A team like Kansas City or Baltimore would overlook,

they'd go into the game and the Browns upset them. So they, I see the Browns becoming a Cinderella story for this season. And they become, they represent in the conference championship. This man just said Cleveland.

Cleveland. Over Kansas City and the Baltimore Raiders. Nah, nah, nah. He didn't just say that. Yeah. No. I'm telling you, no. Let's just get that out the way. No. I'm telling you, no.

Let's just get that out the way. Kansas City will lose to Buffalo. And then Baltimore will lose to Cleveland. I'm telling you. I hear what you're telling me. I just don't believe it. I'm having a hard time with this one. You are ridiculous if you think that.

Really? Yeah. I'm telling you, it's more on the bold side, but I just don't see Kansas City doing it again. You said Cleveland, though. Forget Kansas City. That's one thing. You said Cleveland. Yeah. First off, you said they run the ball and play defense. The Ravens do it better. We've proven that

twice last year. And you still go with Cleveland. Yes, but the Ravens rely on that they rely on running the ball I just said that they have Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham Jr. that they can throw to and a quarterback who can who who is capable of throwing the ball and doesn't rely on that it's not just a one-dimensional defense they they play defense and run the ball but they also are able to they also are able to throw when they need to throw and make the throws when they need to, meaning that that's going to be a sneaky good pass offense that teams are going to overlook. And if they are able to shut down that run offense,

then they can just go to the passing game and they won't have too much of an issue with that. Man, just move on to the next segment, man. I'm not going to keep arguing with this. Ravens versus anybody, including those sorry-ass Browns. I swear to you, if Cam texts me about the damn Browns, yo, I'm going to be mad. This is your fault. This is your fault.

I blame you for this. Cam, if you're listening, I hope you're proud. I can't believe you. I mean, and if they end up being – those are two bold predictions, having the Rams and the Cleveland Browns in it, but I bet it – If the Ravens didn't have Lamar Jackson, it could still happen, but unfortunately. All right.

Well, we're going to move on to the next segment. We're going to pick the Super Bowl matchup and the Super Bowl winner. And then after that, we are going to give you our first Fumbaruski fan box segment. We will want to hear from you in that segment, and we'll share all of your responses and give you shout-outs. That's all next. Don't go anywhere. This is the FumbleRooski podcast.

All right, here we go. We have our Super Bowl predictions. This is what we have all been waiting for, our final preseason predictions for this upcoming season for the Super Bowl. Justin, give me your pick. Super Bowl predictions? I got Ravens and Packers. So Packers beat the Buccaneers. Yeah, I think this is

Rodgers' final year in Green Bay. I think it's time for them to take that final step forward, to make it to the Super Bowl before he leaves. And I believe they can and should have gotten it done against the Buccaneers. They just didn't. And I believe this year, if they meet up in the NFC Championship game, they can get the job done. All right. Now I have, so what I have is, so the Cleveland Browns Cinderella story will end

right at the Conference championship, abruptly. And the Bills will advance to the Super Bowl. And on the other side, the Tampa Bay Bucs will beat the Los Angeles Rams. Tom Brady, in his second year in that Buccaneers offense, that'll be an impenetrable offense. And the defense is going to be just as good as it was last year, especially considering they didn't lose anybody. And they got a linebacker in the first round this year. So this team, the second year is going to be even better.

Like I said in the last segment, the Rams are this year's version of the Buccaneers. However, it's going to be their first year in it, and they're going to face some turbulence, and this year's Buccaneers is going to be better than last year's Buccaneers. So it's going to be Buccaneers-Bills, Buccaneers take it, and Tom Brady continues to win games and have the Buffalo Bills number, even after he left the AL East. Sorry, the AFC East.

I'm sorry. I just don't see it. I don't think he's getting ring number eight on this time. I think he wins back-to-back. Yeah, I'm sorry. But can't let that happen. He had that whole season with a torn MCL. Now it's repaired.

He do. that whole season with a torn mcl now it's repaired he do and according to reports he's looked he's worked looked perfectly fine so it's not like that mcl has been a problem and his age has still has not has not yet shown barring any injury i mean if he tears his acl then that's that i mean i don't have any like i said before i don't have trust in Kyle Trask. I think he's the worst quarterback out of the bunch coming out of this year. But Tom Brady is the key to that whole team. If that domino falls, the whole team goes down. And they become the same old suckaneers again. Just saying. All right. They just want to win it over Baltimore. Game old suckaneers again.

Just saying. They just want to win it over Baltimore. That's for damn sure. Brady, sorry. I respect you. Don't love you. I hate you. Respect you.

But pack it up. You ain't winning over on us. Okay. All right. Well, do you have any other thoughts before we move on to what the fans have had to say? Nah, these are pretty good predictions. Nothing wrong with them. All right. Oh, so they're pretty good predictions. So you're completely fine with, you're perfectly fine with the Cleveland Browns making the conference championship. No, I said they're fine.

I said they're good. They're not great. Good teams can make it. Cleveland, over the rating. Okay. All right. Yeah, that's right. All right, we're going to move on to our fan box,

and we're going to get some of you guys' takes. We asked you, what is your best hot take for this season? We'll get right to that next on the Fumble Rooski podcast. All right, here we go. This is our very first FumbleRooski fan box section. So for this segment, for those of you who are just tuning in, how this works is on every Monday I post a question box asking any question, or you could say anything. And we repost it on the story, and we mention it right here on the segment. So you will get a shout-out on Instagram,

and we will discuss your take. So make sure on every Monday you go in there and you give us a response, and we will give you a shout-out. All right, now, to start off, we have Patrick Willever, 22, and this man said, Bengals offense will be top eight. So, Justin, what do you think about that? Whatever drugs you're on, get off. They won't be top eight especially with that old line joey burrow is a that old line is a liability they'll get them killed before they

become top eight so as long as that offense if that offensive line can prove that it's improved from last year then this is this is actually a very real possibility, especially with the receivers that they have, Tyler Boyd, Jamar Chase, Tee Higgins. Jamar Chase hasn't been looking good. I need more. He's been dropping passes, hasn't been catching them. I need more.

He's having the yips right now, and he's a rookie. He can't have that. He has time. He has time. And they still have Tyler Boyd and Tee Higgins on a second year with Joe Burrow. And Jamar Chase with Joe Burrow. They already have a rapport. They sat in college.

I'm not too worried about that. It's just some – there's a little bit of turbulence early on in his career. I believe he'll figure it out. Also, don't forget about Joe Mixon, who has had a little bit of some turbulences himself early on in his career, but he's still a very solid running back for them. This is a possibility. I like it. Good job. Patrick Willever, 22. Everybody go follow him on Instagram. That's his name. It's just one word, Patrick Willever, 22. All right, moving on. We have NickyD1124, actually one of our personal friends who I'm actually living with on campus. He gave a couple of responses.

First one is Bucs will have a Super Bowl hangover and be out in the second round. I could see that happening, but the odds are against them in that. It also depends on what your definition of second round is, NickyD. 1-1-2-4. Is it, like, are they going to get a... If it's the second round for them, then could that be – if they have the one seed and they get a playoff buy, second round could be the NFC Championship. The second round is the divisional round. I think he means that. You think he means the divisional round?

Yep. So it's possible. It's possible. I wouldn't put it past them. I think it depends on how the team runs. I just don't see it because I think this is year two in the system, and Tom Brady just keeps that team in line, and everybody is bought in. They're even more engaged than they were last year. They are no longer the Tampa Bay Succoneers that we have grown to know and maybe love. Anyways, his second take is Trevor Lawrence will get hurt. So for this one, it's impossible to predict injuries. It's impossible.

But if you take into account the team that he's on, which is the Jacksonville Jaguars, that offensive line isn't perfect. It's not great. So you could see something like what happened with Joey Burrow, where he has ACL and MCL. But it's impossible to... I mean, we don't want to root for anything like this. This is more of a prediction, but it's certainly possible. What do you think? Any injury can happen. It's just you need to be more specific about it because if he gets injured, is it like a bumper bruise or like a legitimate injury that makes him out so

injury is too broad of a term he must have meant like a significant like that takes him out of it because i mean everybody gets hurt during the season in some capacity and if so i hope not i'm to lose. Tom Brady got hurt in 2020. But he never missed a practice. Okay. We didn't have to make this about Tom Brady. Anyways, NickyD1124, everybody go follow him. Why does that keep happening?

Have you silenced your computer? Yes. It's not a notification. I don't know why it keeps happening. I don't know. But anyways. Nikki D1124. Everybody go follow him.

He gave us two hot takes. Shout out to him. He's a G. And I'll probably see him in a few minutes because he lives in my dorm. I think he's like 20 feet away from me outside of my room right now actually. But anyways, Grayson Mortimer, somebody who I actually know from high school. He went to Nipmuck High School with me. It's another high school that's really close to me

um in my area he said the browns will upset upset kansas city in the playoffs so he must be referring to the last year's playoffs when the brown when the browns came this close to beating them in the divisional round. Now, like I said, I think the Browns are going to make it to the conference championship. But I don't think it's going to be the Browns who beat Kansas City. I think it's going to be the Bills. That's the team that has a chance to do it. And I just think when you lose the Super Bowl, something bad happens to you.

It almost always happens. And I don't think Kansas City is going to be an exception here. But Browns upsetting Kansas City, what do you think? It could happen. I don't expect it to, but it could happen. I mean, it's the playoffs. Anything could happen. They have the run game and the defense and

the ability to make it happen, but will they against that Kansas City team? We'll see. It's possible. It's certainly possible. It would have to be something that happens kind of like what happened during last season where, where, uh, Patrick Mahomes got hurt. Like it would take something to happen, which is kind of what I'm kind of what I'm banking on, what I'm predicting here, that something bad will, something

happens to Kansas city or it's maybe a maybe a mental thing or something but it's possible anyways everybody follow Grayson Mortimer Grayson M o RT I am e er everybody go follow him on Instagram he was nice enough to give us a response. Anyways, some weirdo named Sarah Finnemore said Mac Jones is going to suck. It's a pretty stupid take. In your opinion. It could happen. It could happen. We don't know what he is right now.

You would hope he's not a bust but at the same time only time will tell yeah i mean i'm just i'm just busting your chops that's my girlfriend but um mac jones is gonna suck um mac jones i mean it's hard to believe it's hard to say that he's actually going to suck like actually like be terrible because he's he's from what he has shown already during the preseason i know you don't want to overreact to preseason but preseason he is doing this without even the regulars he's not even getting the first... He's doing this with the backups. Cam Newton's the one who's had the luxury of being able to work with the Kendrick Borns and the

Nelson Aguilores of the world. I mean, Mac Jones has gotten a few reps with him, but Cam Newton's gotten most of the reps with the first team. And think about it. The offensive line and the running backs, everything.

So I think, I mean, time will tell with this one, but we'll have to see. But anyways, everybody go follow Sarah Finnemore. It's Sarah Finnemore, two E's at the end and up next we have so this is TT underscore three three six underscore two three we have Trey Lance wins offensive rookie of the year so I responded to this one as well when I shared the response. But basically, if he can start, if this guy can start early on in the year, find a way to get in the starting lineup, and kind of be ahead of schedule when it comes to his development,

then this could actually really happen. He has the roster around him. There's Brandon Ayuk, Debo Samuel at wide receiver. There's George Kittle. And it seems like every running back that's plugged in there does well. The offensive line is good enough. They have one of the best left tackles in the game. The defense is good.

I like it. I think this is a possibility. Yeah. It's a strong possibility. And he's a bit of a – this guy's a bit of a project, I believe. Yes. So it could take a couple of years before he reaches his full potential. But if he goes ahead of schedule, then look out for Trey Lance this year.

Yeah, I might look at him in fantasy and see if he'll actually start this year. Yeah, it's possible. Anyways, that is everything. Justin, do you have any other takes before we end the show here nah not really I'm all good here alright

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