The Herd with Colin Cowherd - 3 & Out - Reaction to Mac Jones & 49ers UPSET WIN vs. Matt Stafford & Rams on TNF

Episode Date: October 3, 2025

Former NFL scout John Middlekauff is reacting LIVE immediately following the Week 5 Thursday Night Football matchup between NFC West rivals San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams. John reacts to the injuries reported around 49ers QB Brock Purdy. John then explains why he thinks that Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens may be bracing for a bad season. John then debates whether or not Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill is a Hall of Famer. John also reacts to the top plays of the night, breaking news throughout the NFL, and much more! John wraps ups reacting to Cleveland Browns QB Shedeur Sanders newest controversy and explains why he thinks this is a massive Week 5 for the Buffalo Bills. 03:18 - 49ers-Rams 28:03 - 49ers injuries 37:20 - Baltimore Ravens 41:23 - Tyreek Hill 44:10 - Shedeur Sanders 47:44 - Buffalo Bills 49:42 - Worst Teams: Titans, Jets, Panthers Follow John on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube for the latest.  All lines provided by Hard Rock Bet Check out Gametime - the fastest growing ticketing app in the US, and the official ticketing app of 3 & Out and GoLow -  for tickets to all of your favorite NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA teams. Concert and comedy show tickets, too. Go to Gametime now to create an account, download the app and use code JOHN for $20 off your first purchase. #VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What is going on my people? Let me get my bearings here on the road. I can't believe what I just witnessed. the 49ers, led by Michael McCorkel Jones. And I don't even know who else, because half the 49ers are injured. And if you play for Kyle, you literally might die on the field. But the 49ers go to SoFi, many like to say Levi's South and get a win against Sean McVeigh and the Rams, 26 to 23.

I don't even know where to start. That was incredible. I got notes for days. I got a bunch of stuff I want to hit on, some other stuff around the NFL. I thought about just miming this podcast, but then it'd be pretty tough to listen if words weren't coming out of my mouth. So we will talk.

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I'm sure many people are guilty of this that are 49er fans, that are just football fans that have made fun of Mack Jones over the years. That is one of the grittiest, toughest, most badass performances I can ever remember. I told my guy behind the scene Shane, who's a Giants fan. One of the most legendary performances I've ever seen is Eli Manning. He's a big Giants fan. When he came into Candlestick in the NFC championship game, Harbaugh's first year, and the 49ers hit him over and over and over again.

Say what you want about Eli. That is one of the more, like, I know he went on to win the Super Bowl, but that performance in the rain was like, you respect that guy until the moment he dies. And Mack Jones, to me, has already had a legendary. And let me repeat, legendary run as a backup quarterback for the 49ers. he has three freaking wins and it's October 2nd. The 49ers are 4 and 1,

and three of their victories have come with Mack Jones playing quarterback. I said this earlier this year when a bunch of backups played. I think Mack had won a game and other backups had won. If your backup wins one game filling in for the starter, you could make the argument that he urged his salary, whether he's making $3 million, $5 million, $7 million, whatever. If he wins multiple games, he's underpaid.

If he's doing what Mack Jones is doing, Mac Jones is tonight, and listen, the Rams defensive backfield is horrendous. I mean, it's, their corners, their team's good. Like, their team's really good. I know Kiran Williams fumbles a ball a little bit. Two receivers are studs,

quarterbacks a stud, the defensive line are complete studs, their coaching staffs big time, but their DBs suck. And, I mean, Demarchs Robinson and Kendrick Bourne are looking like Jerry Rice and Terrell Owens out there. their DBs blow.

And Mack Jones annihilated them all night long. But here's the thing. Mac Jones had a knee that I was going to fall up. There was one point in time the night. I'm not kidding. Whoever you were sitting with watching this game, whether you're a nine or guy or not, and you're just enjoying some football,

you looked at your wife, your buddy, wherever you were, and said, is Mac Jones going to die? That might sound hyperbolic. Those words came out of multiple people's mouths where I was sitting. And I guarantee where you were sitting, you're like, this guy might not make it through the night. By the end of the game, he's limping off.

It looks like he's got like a torn ACL maybe, and he's throwing up all over himself. Like, this is insane. But Mack Jones, because Kyle Shanahan, listen, what the 49ers got going on injury-wise is unlike anything we've ever seen. I mean, they lost multiple guys on their defensive line a quarter into the game. There was a point in time where if you thought Mack Jones was going to be injured, and Adrian Martinez were going to come in. They've lost four or five guys in the first half in this game. How is this possible?

But it's just you play for Kyle Shanahan. And it also hit me tonight. I've been critical over the years of, I didn't mind like I guess Boses, but Iukes last year was pretty embarrassing. I'm pro. If you play for the 49ers, any sort of hold out, hold in.

I will never have an issue with you again. Because if you play for Kyle Shanahan, your career, any game can end. And your likelihood for injury playing for that man and this franchise right now is infinitely higher than other places, not even debatable. No one would debate me. Because it's a fact. It's just objective.

Like you play for the 49ers, your likelihood of getting injured for whatever reason. I don't know if it's the doctors, the trainers, the strength staff. And listen, some people get mad at me, maybe within the halls of the 49ers. I've been told, I guess the people push back. It's like, here's what I know. No, all these people are going to get fired at the end of the year. Because when players suck, they get in trouble, right? Or they get cut, right?

Or traded or just relieved of their duties. When you lose, coaches get fired. Yet like this situation behind, the Niners have guys dropping like flies more than anything I've ever seen. And for Mack Jones to win this game with the mass unit of, Christian McCaffrey had 22 carries for 57 yards. I'm no math major. That's not great.

It's not his fault. He has nowhere to go. Kyle Shanahan, who I respect, he is a fantastic offensive mind, knows how to coach up offense, get guys open, coach the quarterback, really good. He fundamentally believes that offensive linemen aren't that important. He said it. This is not me, this is not conjecture, this is not a guess.

They have gone on record. His offensive line coach has gone on record. They will draft skill guys over offensive linemen. Well, trust me, it shows. Because all these guys are heard anyway. So you draft it at you. could draft to Ricky Pearson, they're nowhere to be found. So you're rolling with Kendrick Bourne that you just found out the scrapheave on waivers,

and DeMarcus Robinson, who's coming back from suspension, and Jake Tonges, who, I got to be honest, I followed the 49ers pretty freaking closely. I basically knew nothing about until he caught that game when he touched down in Seattle. And you got Mack Jones getting peppered. And listen, the Rams defensive line, Jared verse, stud. I mean, one note I had, that guy might be underrated. I mean, they were points tonight. They had them playing stand-up linebacker over the center.

They had them lining up on some like short-yardage goal line stuff, more inside. That guy is, he's got Cleo Mac 2.0 back in like 2015, 16 written all over him. That guy is a certified badass. Fisk is good. Young is good. I mean, they have a ton of dudes up front. And they were working. And I repeat working.

Colton McKivitz, who the 49ers just gave an extension to. who I kind of understood it because like, well, look at the rest of the offensive lineman, mainly pretty bad in this league. You're not going to upgrade over that. That guy was getting his lunch, I mean, just taking tonight. I mean, they were destroying him. And Mack Jones was bearing the brunt of this just getting hit over and over and over. And just multiple drives.

When it was 20 to 20, he let him right down the field. They started at the two-yard line. I was like, I don't know, this is not going to go well. and he had multiple big passes. Obviously, a decent amount of his, he was 33 of 49 for 340 yards. He had a bunch of checkdowns, but he had some outrouts,

some like crossers over the middle standing in there till the last second getting hit. I have the utmost respect. I will never, ever again make fun of this guy. Because what I witnessed tonight, I've watched a lot of football. I'm 40 years old.

I've been watching football that comes to memory, for 30 plus years. And that was a legendary performance. When you factor in, listen, pretty embarrassing that Mac Jones is out there, you could argue, because Brock Purdy, who clearly they rushed back on the field, which to me kind of crazy given they just gave him $200 million and he's got turf toe. And then he plays in the game where he was objectively awful.

And it's pretty clear his toe was fucked up in the game. He heard it even more. knows. Like, is he going to go on injured reserve Monday and be gone for four games and is season kind of lost? I mean, just a complete disaster. You could make the argument that it's like organizational mismanagement to put a quarterback that you just gave all this money. But because they've loved Mack Jones as he came out in the draft, they had him who was already injured. He, he, the only reason someone asked me tonight like, why did Brock play last week and not Mac Jones? Because Brock was like 65% and from what I heard, Mac Jones was like,

55%. So somehow the 49ers have multiple quarterbacks who clearly, like, Mac Jones, we can make fun of him. The way he's playing right now, he's starting caliber, who are both injured. And Mac Jones, I mean, literally, I'm recording this. It's 9 o'clock at night. He's probably like 7%. Wherever he's sitting in the locker room, Mac Jones is 7%. Purdy's like probably like 2% given that he probably can't walk. I mean, he couldn't even make the trip on his toe. Their quarterback situation, I just don't quite understand what Kyle's doing, but I do think this gets back to when you do not, like they got lucky Trent Williams wanted to come here, right? And he came and their quarterbacks just get fucking peppered. And if Mack Jones wasn't the tough as SOB on that field tonight,

the $40 Writers wouldn't pulled one of the crazier upsets I've ever seen. I mean, they came out the game. The game you could argue was one in the first half because that's when Mac Jones was probably like 80% and he was just lights out through multiple touchdowns. I think he had like 140 yards on two drives. By the end of the half, the 49ers had run 40 plays and the Rams had run 23. And even Kyle said it at halftime, our best defense was just keeping them off the field and just having these long sustained drives running clock and it was 177 at half. So you just kind of had some breathing room. But you knew it's like, well, it's like Devante Adams, Pooka, these guys are going to score it, and they came storming back. And the end of that game, I mean, once it's 23 to 20, and they're driving, and I respect McVeigh.

It's like, yeah, you could have, you know, I guess that's overtime. Now I'm all thrown off. Let me, let me run this back. 2320. I guess they kick the field goal. So they were going to score, okay. We got a lot going on. I got to take a deep breath right now.

I'm fired up. I'm excited. When they were driving that it felt like the Niners only had one timeout in the fourth quarter somehow. I mean, of course, he had blown multiple timeouts in the second half that you could argue. It's like, bro, you can take a five-yard penalty in the third quarter instead of blowing a timeout because you might need that thing. And the Rams were kind of methodically at the end of the game and it looked like they were going to score and there wasn't going to be enough time. And the Niners were going to be down four points because it was going to be 27 to 23. so they were going to be forced to drive the field with probably, I don't know, 30, 40 seconds left on the clock.

And Alfred Collins, the guy that they just drafted in the second round from the University of Texas, made, I mean, a play that I would say indirectly won them the game. Because if Williams is just tackled on the one-yard line, they run out more clock, maybe the 49ers burn a timeout, maybe they just kind of keep bleeding it and score with not that much timeout, even though the 40s is. 39ers, then run three plays, burn about 15 seconds max off the clock. And I think you could argue, and my initial reaction was like, Kyle, you don't need to be a puss.

Just you run a really high percentage passplay. Maybe like a screen to Christian McCaffrey, maybe just a quick slant. But I also, when your offensive line is getting beaten like a drum, the opportunity, which has already happened to the 49ers this year to get a holding in the end zone, all of a sudden it's a safety, it's 22, 23, and you're punting it off to them. We had disaster written all over it.

So it is understandable why Kyle got so conservative in that moment. It's understandable. It would have liked to be a little more aggressive. But again, when you got McKibbitts out there, understandable, and then they held them to a field goal. And they won in overtime. But I think the other thing that I wrote down is one thing tonight that was very evident.

And the Rams have been good at this because their field goal kicker runs this like Tim Wakefield knuckleball. Well, the 49ers who, you know, Fred, Tails never fails. Tails never fails. He calls heads, flip tails, Stafford picks to play defense, which is the right call. Because of the 49ers won, they're picking to play defense too. Well, the kicker fucked up. and I do believe that this kickoff rule is paying dividends. It's made everything way more interesting

because he's been getting greedy and it's working. I mean, early in the game, he's kicking these knuckle balls to Sky Moore. It's like bouncing off his knees, bouncing in the air. I'm like, this thing, I've watched the 49ers special teams since Kyle's been here. This thing has disaster written all over it. And then it's almost like a golf shot.

It's like he chunked it, mishit it. Somehow it doesn't even hit the 20 yard line. Boom, whistle blows. You get the ball at the 40 yard line. And then it's like, use check first down, McCaffrey first down, Tanges first down. You're already at like the 30 yard line. I mean, that key, that like change in the rule has had dramatic impact on the sport.

And you saw it tonight. And the 49ers, boom, go right down and get into field goal range. But when Matt Stafford, then they get the ball. and Matt Stafford hits that big ball to Tutu Atwell, when they came back from, I think, starting overtime and the camera goes to their sideline, Matt Stafford is on a knee, the receivers are all huddled around him,

and Tutu Atwell is sitting on the bench, and Stafford's like Bill Walsh on his hand, drawn up a play. I think he had drawn up because they knew whatever, whatever formation they were in, the safety was ending up in one-on-one coverage with Tutu Atwell, is probably the fastest guy on the field

tonight for either team. And he knew if we can get one-on-one coverage, just run like a deep post, just go deep. And he will not be able to run with you. And I think Matt Stafford got a little pressure and had to do that 360. But, I mean, the 49ers just forcing a little pressure might have saved the game.

Because if he hits him in stride, there's no way he catches him. 2-2-at-well walks in the end zone, kind of like last week, has a walk-off touchdown. So just that play, while it was a huge chunk play, It was like 50 plus yards. And I give Stafford credit for going like McVeigh-Shannahan on his knee.

The just the subtle pressure, the 49ers, I mean, they lost multiple defensive linemen, multiple defensive linemen. And they're already missing Bosa. So by the end of the game, their rotation instead of like going, you know, eight, nine deep is probably cut to seven dudes. And these aren't exactly. Two of them are rookies. So that play, that play was huge. and then obviously, like, I commend McVeigh going for the win.

I think we all kind of felt like, are we going to get another tie? Who knows if he kicks a field goal? You know, Mack Jones, is he lead them in the field goal range? You can barely walk. He can barely breathe. But I got no problem him going for it. I think if you're a Rams fan, it's like you got Devante Adams, you got Puka. They are, I would say, the two best.

I mean, Puka is the best. possession wide receivers, right? A quick out, a quick slant. I mean, one of Puka's touchdowns was just your classic kind of like bunch formation. He basically just slanted to the ground and Stafford throws it to him. Why wouldn't you run something like that? You could do it on both sides with Devante and Puka. Those guys, God put those guys on earth for like a fourth and one, something quick that they are going to catch.

And Stafford can throw them a 99 mile an hour fastball. The 49ers got lucky. It's like the best player they got on the field is Fred Warner. The two guys they drafted, you know, weigh a combined, I don't know, 630 pounds in Collins and Williams from Georgia. So to go with just some of their other defensive line bodies and D-winners just going. It was pretty clear too once they called time out that it was like they were going to do something bunched up and try to be aggressive. And, you know, I give them credit for going back to Kirwin Williams, who had fumbled earlier. But I think the 49ers got to be very happy because, listen, as someone who was rooting for the 49ers tonight, I was glad they just didn't spread the thing out.

I was like there's no way they're stopping that. It feels like the 49ers have one, you know, dependable corner in Lenore. But even if you have a good, high-end dependable corner, that guy still can lose in a one-on matchup to a guy like Puka or Devante. And Upton Stout weighs, you know, 140 pounds soaking wet. and Renardo Green is a second-year player that's, you know, it's not like he's Richard Truman out there. So your huge advantage was right there. And they kind of, they played into the one place where the 49ers at least could hang.

Because as the game went, the 49ers aren't going to get as much pass rush. They're just not going to be able to cover those guys. I mean, Stafford threw for 389 yards. I mean, I think in the first half, I didn't write down his stats, but I don't think he had more than like 100 yards. I mean, he had to, if I had to guess between overtime and the second half, threw for close to 300 yards. I mean, the second half, he was slicing and dicing them because if you can't get to him,

that was the difference. Like, Mack Jones, he had to check the ball down because he was fucking getting annihilated. You know, Stafford just had some time, had some time. It's like, whoo throwing some deep cross or throwing some deep out. I honestly cannot believe the 49ers won this game. I honestly can't. It's one of those that they're four and one. now they get this long break.

It's crazy how many games Kyle has won against McVeigh. I mean, some of them aren't as crazy. You know, when they got Debo Samuel and George Kittle, who have both had huge games against them. McCaffrey and his prime a couple years ago. I mean, I got a lot of respect for McCaffrey, too. He clearly isn't the same player that he was a couple years ago. But he had eight catches for 82 yards.

He had 22 carries for 57 yards. So he just accounted for, you know, 30 touches. I mean, I think at halftime, he had 18. So with Kittle know where to be found, you just kind of got to rely on him. And it just kind of slows down the game a little bit because the 49ers, I mean,

they still don't have that many explosive plays. I mean, their most explosive run is 8 yards. Kendrick Bourne hit a couple big ones. I mean, Kendrick Bourne, 10 catches for 142 yards. And I think he had a drop. He definitely, yeah, I guess he had one target that he didn't catch. so that was the drop. I mean, he was remarkable.

He really was. If you told me coming into the game that Matthew Stafford would go 30 of 47 for almost 400 yards and throw three touchdowns, I would say, I bet the Rams win this game by 10 points. And this gets back to, you could argue the game was won when the 49ers just threw 14 points on the board within, I don't know, the first 20 minutes of the game. I mean, that first drive they had to open up the game was an absolute clinic by Kyle. Like, we can be critical of Kyle where I don't know what you're doing, but guys on your team are dropping like flies. But at the same time, like, you did a pretty good job tonight.

I mean, I think the Rams defense is pretty good. I think they're well-coached defense. They're clearly one of the more physical units in the league. And, you know, total offense, we're talking, let's see. total yards, 407 yards. If you would have told me that the Rams had, obviously there was overtime too,

but 456 yards, I mean, the reason that I think most people would have been like, you know, I know this eight and a half points, huge point spread, Mack Jones, who are these guys? How are the 49ers going to score 15 points? And they had 17 at half.

So, I mean, really, even when you factor in overtime too, they scored nine points, the rest of the game. They had a field goal in the third quarter. They had a field goal in the fourth quarter, and they had a field goal in overtime. The other thing is, and this is why people in 49er land,

were so critical of Jake Moody that... Look at the Chiefs. Right? Look at the Chiefs. Last year they went 15 and 2. And you could argue the last game doesn't even count. They went 15 and 1. Every single game.

Every... You could not turn on a Chiefs game, whether they were playing the Raiders, whether they were playing the Bill. whether they were playing the Ravens or whether they were playing the fucking Jags. Every game looked the same. And having a field goal kicker

that you can depend on is massive. Because you are going to need, obviously, the extra point now is much more difficult. It's just the margin for errors higher because it's a longer field goal than it was years ago when it was basically a 10-yard chip shot. But to me, these field goals, like Jake Moody, if Jake Moody's is still on their team,

which they cut them weeks ago, but like it was difficult for, them to cut him. And even Kyle said, part of the reason it was hard because I envision him going somewhere else and having success because that's what happens to a lot of kickers. Well, yeah, if he goes somewhere and has success, you tip your hat. You say good job. But right now, you're not having any success for me and you're going to cost me games. And the kicker changed tonight saved him. Because Eddie Pinero, I mean, hit a 59-yard field goal. I mean, that's when, honestly I didn't know Eddie

I don't know that much about Eddie I mean I'm not breaking down kickers but when they rolled them out I'm like this I get it we get to use these kicking balls throughout the week clearly guys have more pop but when I think Eddie Piniero I don't know I wasn't thinking like Sebastian Janikowski or Justin Tucker

and he fucking drilled that thing drilled it so you could argue Mac Jones and Eddie Pineiro made the game that's what if you're the Rams That's going to be hard to sleep tonight You just got beat by Mack Jones

Who could barely walk and was puking throughout the game Eddie Piniero And a bunch of guys that casual Football fans couldn't point out of the lineup I mean there are a lot of guys on that field That you're like, who's this guy? Who's playing defense in line for the 49ers? You got Fred Warner trying his damn

Just running around out there I mean I don't know how many tackles he had and I probably, my guess would be a lot. Fred Warner, yeah, at 12. I mean, Segal, the rookie safety at 13, which is not ideal when your safety leads the team in tackles. Landman, that guy was making plays. That game was phenomenal.

My take the night was just like, this is one of my favorite games. Like, you're talking to a biased individual. I'm an NFC West guy, AFC West guy. Like, these are the teams that I like watching the most. unless it's like Brady Manning, you know, Rogers, but like this is my bread and bunner. So I'd be dialed into this game, regardless what time of day, Sunday, Monday, Thursday, I don't care.

But how thrilling that was. I mean, one thing is that stadium pops on television. I don't know, the lighting, the at night in there, it works. It's worked for years. I mean, going back to that Charger Raider game a long time ago at SoFi. Remember week 17. Any night game there, Chargers or the Rams just pops.

And this was thrilling. I mean, you're on the edge of your seat, and this was classic NFL. You're like, this game shouldn't be good. I mean, I think it closed an eight and a half point spread, which with how many injuries the 49ers had, you went, you know, how are they not going to get killed? But then you're watching pregame warmups,

and Kyle's just kind of like running around the field with a smile on his face. And I'm getting a lot of text from 49ers. when I say people, like fans, they're like, kind of seems awfully happy to be coaching Mack Jones here. And it worked.

That was, I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like that. I was seriously. I mean, the back of quarterback, the gritty, just gutting it, the toughness to win a game that felt like they were not going to win multiple times

against a team that, like, if these were stocks and you go, okay, for the next 10 weeks, are you bet, on the team with a healthy Matt Stafford, a healthy Devante Adams, a healthy Puka Nakuwa, a healthy Jaredverse, or whatever that is, the 49ers are rolling out, right? I mean, it's like, it's like, well, Brandon Ayuk, John Lynch said the other day, like, he's nowhere close to coming

back. Like, Kittle, I hope, I mean, I don't know, you get hamstring injuries, you get injured it again. Brock Purdy, we ever going to see him again? Mac Jones, is he even going to be healthy enough to play next week at Tampa? Like, that'd be like a realistic question. Is he going to be healthy enough to play next week of Tampa? And honestly, the thrillingness of this game, and I mentioned it a little bit earlier, does overshadow. If the 49ers were in New York, if they were in Philadelphia, I think there'd be a lot more vitriol and just venom coming from the media at the 49ers for the Purdy situation. Now, part of it, it was a short week, so it's not like Kyle. They did just,

Zoom media calls. Everything happened pretty fast. But I do think next week, there are a lot of questions that need to be answered about how did you put a compromise player back? And I don't blame the player. You know, Brock Purdy Chip on his shoulder guy, he would always want to play, which I think we all respect. But like there are things that are out of the, we've talked about this forever with

concussions, right? It's like players will go back if you let them. But when you give a guy multiple hundreds of. millions of dollars. You call him the franchise quarterback and he fucks up his toe and there's a chance and this gets back to the Bosa situation that it's like what are we doing? Are we making sound decisions as a coaching staff with our doctors, with our trainers of all the teams in the league it feels like there's no synergy, right? Like of course Brock Purdy's going to want to get back on the field. You know why? Because he's a fucking

competitor. You know why? Because he's seen multiple other guys in his career be ahead of them lose their spot because they got injured and never see it again. He literally took their spot. He's no dummy. You know the guy he once replaced, Trey Lance? That guy was almost not the pick because Mack Jones, who's now literally on the team, is the backup quarterback. So if you're Brock Purdy, yeah, it's awesome getting these enormous direct-to-pocket. But like the one thing I think we'd all agree, like, Brock Purdy ain't playing for the money. So he's seeing that this guy, Mack Jones, who Kyle Shanahan once had a football crush on and was talked out of taking, is now his backup came in and is winning games, you don't think Brock's going

to want to go, yeah, I'll just fucking tough it out. I'm getting back on the field. And that's where you go, Brock, the money is your security that you're not going anywhere here, but we're not letting you back on the field. because this injury, I'm no doctor here, but we've been all around long enough to know this turf toe. It went viral a couple weeks ago with Jason Kelsey describing it. I've had multiple people.

I'm sure many people listening or watching this, know people that have had it just as like a casual athlete. And they're like, it's insane. So to put this guy back and then a day later, it's like, yeah, he's out. And now a rap sheet comes out before the Thursday night game. Be like, hey, who knows? Might be week to week. So is he going to have to go on injured reserve?

Like, I'm sorry, like, that's ridiculous. What the fuck are we doing? Like, that cannot happen. I'm not comparing as a player to Josh Allen, to Patrick Mahomes, but, like, those teams treat those guys with the utmost care when it comes to their body. Like, hey, Lamar, injury, out. You know why? You are our franchise.

Now, I understand it's a little different with Purdy. Like, he's not at their level as a player, but just in terms of the way he was just compensated, you would think it was just operate a little bit differently. And the win and being four and O, it's going to overshadow that a little bit. But it's going to be a major, major question. Because I think there's a decent chance by the time we get the next week, is Mack Jones going to be able to practice on Wednesday?

And you could be like, well, John, Mac Jones couldn't have gone last week against Jacksonville. And that was probably true. What I was told is like, Purdy was just better. than Mac Jones in terms of their health status. So it was like, neither was great. They just went with the more healthy guy. How about this? Scrap them both, go with Adrian Martinez,

and just punt the fucking game against the Jags. Because this game against the Rams way more important. Way more important. And then you lose the game against the Jags anyway. And you lose this player for even longer. So I just think that I've never witnessed anything like this.

Just the consistency of the injuries. I mean, every game. three or four guys. Every game. Like fucking clockwork. And then the purty thing's kind of icing on the cake. It feels like something's not adding up. It's an embarrassing look. There's no way around it.

Because like he's too important. Other guys, okay, rushing back, whatever. It's like we're not that invested. But there are a couple guys on this team like, you know, Bosa, Fred Warner, Trent Williams, the quarterback, that like you probably take a different tactic. And they can back it up and I'm sure Kyle gets asked about it after the game, but it's an embarrassing look. It really is. And I just think, you know, you're four and one. It's awesome,

but it's like this feels like it's being kept together by duct tape, right? I mean, incredible effort by players, coaches that are actually on the field, but man. And that even things worse with the Rams. Like, that's who you just lost to. What a game. Wow. Did I have anything else I wanted to hit on? The kickoff rule. Versus a badass. How can the Niners have this many injuries?

Hold out. I said I respect any holdout now for Kyle Shanhan because you literally might die on the field. Respect for Rams, D.Bs. I know Cowards talked about this. There usually aren't just like available defensive backs. If you need a defensive back or you need an offensive lineman,

They just don't come around the trade deadline. They're not, it's like, oh, there's just, hey, man, you could trade a second for like Lane Johnson. Like, those don't exist. No good offensive linemen is on the trade block during the season. I would say the same thing for the defensive backs. It's like the Rams, their defensive backs are not that good. Which, listen, you can't have a perfect team. They've invested heavily in their offensive line.

They've, or, I mean, their offensive skill guys. Their offensive lines okay when healthy. they've invested heavily in their defensive line. It's like, well, you just got to get lucky on some dbs. There's corners kind of suck. But what are you going to do? Like there's no Jalen Ramsey available. And whoever is going to be available is going to come with a major red flag.

There's the reason he's available. I mean, look last year, it's like, oh, the Adam Peters traded for Marcus Latimore. How's that one working out? The guy looks terrible. So I just think that it kind of is what it is. And I've said this forever. like most teams are going to have some flaw. And I hear this a lot too.

And the Eagles complain about this. Like, oh, our second corner sucks. Welcome to the NFL. Most teams don't have, you know, Mitchell and like Dorel Revis on the other side. That's not usually the way it works. Be lucky that you actually have, you know, six good starters out of the 11. And then you try to patchwork it around it. You try to rotate guys in.

You try to coach them up, scheme and, you know, get every advantage you can. But you're going to have situations where, You know, good offense. And let's face it, even if you have a good defense of backs, like good offense typically beats good defense. It's kind of like basketball, right? It's like, yeah, you can have the greatest defender in the world. Like Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant's fadeaway is usually going to, you know,

win more often than not throughout the course of the game. So I just think, I still think the Rams are going to be okay. Man, what a win. The Rams get the Ravens, then they get the Jags, the Saints. They'll be okay. The 49ers, this is where the Rams are. schedule, you know, at 4 and 1, now you can either, you can go to Tampa. And it's like, you can lose that game.

You're 4 and 2. I mean, that's probably one of the harder games on the schedule. Then you get the Falcons at home Sunday night football the following week. That won't be easy, but you're facing a, you know, rookie quarterback. I mean, technically he's not a rookie, but he has, what, he started three games last year. he started by then 6-7 games. So it's a guy with, you know, about 10 starts to his career under his belt. Then you get the Texans who have no offense.

You got to go to Houston. The Giants. Then you play the Rams again at home. You got the Panthers on there. You get the Browns, the Titans. This is what we're talking about. It's like you've got to get healthy, which I think is an impossibility. Like how do you get healthy when it feels like everyone is just can't stay on the field?

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I do think the Ravens are just going to have a year from hell. You know, Lamar Jackson's injured now. Cooper Rush is actually a respectable backup. He's no Mac Jones, but he's not terrible. This has like six wins written all over it. And I think the big picture question is that, because they were losing games with Lamar Jackson, right? They were losing games with Marlon Humphrey.

They were losing games with Roquan Smith. I'm taking all those guys away. What do you think is going to happen? They're not just all of a sudden going to win. They are in major trouble. You could look up and they could be two and eight. And it's just like that happens sometimes. You have all these injuries.

There's no overcoming it. There were some people and I defended them before. It's like, did we miss our window? Is John Harbaugh the right guy for the job? I do think you could make the argument. You missed your window. And that was two years ago. When you had the loaded coaching staff and the loaded team,

it was right there for you. You got the AFC championship game at home and you laid an egg. There's no. way around it. Last year, you had the, I don't know if you were to beat the Chiefs, but you definitely had the better team than the bills, and you lost that game. Now, it's the playoffs, like, Belichick lost to Rex Ryan. The playoffs are hard, right?

Sean McVeigh's lost some, you know, killer playoff games. It happens. This is not easy. But you got to go, was that our best opportunity? Now, you're not typically going to be a team, like, pick an eighth in the draft, like potentially this year, but I think you've got to answer big, picture as we transition away from some of these guys on the roster, like Derek Henry, Marlon Humphrey, some of these guys in like three years are just not going to be on the team. Lamar is, do you want John to be the coach?

Like, I'm not sitting here, like I've always said with Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh has won a lot more playoff games recently than Mike Tomlin, though I think Steeler fan will be like, well, yeah, he's fucking Lamar Jackson. You put Lamar Jackson on the Steelers, it would just flip-flop. And you'd be like, yeah, it was true. John Harbaugh was on the hot seat the year they drafted Lamar Jackson. Jackson picked whatever, 32. People forget.

They took Hayden Hurst ahead of them. But saved his career. Came in midway through the season for Joe Flacco, and they made the playoffs. But when you lose, and things were already a little weird, and couldn't get over the hump, you know, with this guy,

I just, I don't think they will fire him because I also think, like, if you're going to fire, that's the thing. If you're going to fire Mike Tomlin, if you're going to fire a John Harbaugh, you've got to tell me who you're placing him with. Because you don't just fire a guy like that to just go on a search. You'd be crazy. You'd have to have a specific guy.

It's why last year I said, listen, I would move on from Mike Tomlin because Ben Johnson was available and Ben Johnson of all these opportunities. He's going to turn out of the Pittsburgh Steelers, no chance. Or even a Mike Vrable, who is like Mike Tomlin, like if you were going to do that, you had a specific guy, but they chose not to do that. But now you look around like, who's the Ben Johnson of this class? Maybe Joe Brady, but that's pretty risky. I would say Ben Johnson's stock felt like, who knows, maybe as this year goes, maybe Joe Brady, they win the Super Bowl. It can get a lot higher. But I think that makes it kind of difficult, is you got to have a replacement, right? Who am I pulling the trigger here? Going to make a change. And again,

I'm not acting like these guys suck. Mike Tomlin, John Harbaugh, these guys were ever, Andy Reid got fired. He got a job immediately. These guys would get hired immediately. I just think these conversations do gain a little more steam when shit gets weird. So what makes pro sports kind of interesting? It's like you have these years from hell. People start asking questions. Start look at the team. Like, God, some of these guys are not going to be around.

Who knows? Metabuque. A neck injury. It's one thing. It's like, hey, you know, he broke his foot. He's just going to be probably out for three months, probably out for the year, right? Like a neck injury? Sometimes stuff like that.

It's like, we look back three years. Like, I was neck was never right. It's scary. Right? It's like the stuff with the back, right? I mean, there are injuries. You see Tyreek Hill's injury that, and really quick on Tyreek Hill. I was actually in the car the other day in the afternoon. And if you go to Fox Sports, I'm a serious XM guy. And I was listening. Nick, first things first was on. And Nick Wright and Broussard were talking about Tyreek and his credentials for the Hall of Fame. and I guess Colin had said that he didn't think he was a Hall of Famer. I think, and this is where, like, you look at the total, like, he's not going to have Jerry Rice's longevity. But that's not going to be the case here. Tim Brown played for like three decades.

His career, decent chances is over now. I will say this. Tyree Kill is a no doubt about it, Hall of Famer in my mind. He is easily one of the best players I've ever seen at the position. and in his peak, he was an elite of the elite. It's my issue going into the Hall of Fame, I always say. Like, you could say his career wasn't that long. I thought, you could argue that Tyreek had the biggest play in Andy Reed's career.

The Chiefs were going to lose that Super Bowl. People forget, because it's a long time removed and they've been to a bunch since. Third and 15, I think they called it Wasp. Kind of big play. Change the game. So, and I mean, there's no disputing his ability in the biggest games. His career, obviously, with Mahomes, whatever, it was four years. And listen, the dolphins are a joke.

Well, they got Tyrake Hill in his prime and he fucking dominated with Tua. So to me, I wouldn't even hesitate when it comes to Hall of Fame. The other thing is, we have examples. It's like the law, you know, with precedent. It's like we have precedent set before of guys. guy like Terrell Davis. So your career, it's not like, hey, it's impossible to make the Hall of Fame unless you have minimum like a 10 year career.

Like that's that's at the window. Right. Kurt Warner's had like peak years of like a total of what, like five? He had a longer career, but like he had the four, three or four, you know, peak years in St. Louis and then a couple more in Arizona. But like Tyreek, once he was good, he was nonstop good until basically now. And I think, and again, they showed that on the, on Monday night. football, I just saw the end

result when his leg was pointing the right the wrong way, and I never looked again. But by all accounts, obviously the kneecap, the ACLs, the ligaments for a guy that's predicated on speed, he never say never with modern medicine, but it doesn't look great. But even if he never plays another snap

in a regular season game, if I was a voter, I wouldn't hesitate to go first ballot Hall of Fame or Tyree Kill. Hey, it's us to Jonas Brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news? Huge news. We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast?

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I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band. Before Jonas Brothers. This is how you. You guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast,

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And I know firsthand because I competed there myself. I'm Renee Stubbs, and on the Renee Stubbs' tennis podcast, I'm breaking down everything happening. at Roland Garris, every match, every upset, and what it really takes to win on Clay. Jen she won. I mean, she went down in three to Rabakina, but I'm delighted. She's an outsider to win the French for me. And she likes Clay.

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The first time I watched it a couple days ago, I had to rewind because I thought like my AirPods weren't connected to the Bluetooth. Honestly, for like a minute. I was like, what is, what's he saying? And then I realized it. And then this morning I saw Schefter say that he's reacting to Adam Schefter. Overall, and this all gets backed. When you sign up for the Browns, like the circus continues.

And obviously, to me, I would not have recommended to him to do this. I think this is a pretty easy one. I can't wait to do whatever they need me to do. I'm a fifth round, third string quarterback. Right? I'm backing up a guy. And I'm going to keep saying this. I am not a Dylan Gabriel as a prospect.

I would not have drafted him. If you would have said, Middilkoff, was he on your draft board? You could have said, no, I would not have drafted him. One through seven. Undrafted free agent, sure, would not have used a draft pick on Dylan Gabriel. But listen, there's different strokes for different folks.

There is no disputing his resume in college. And, like, we'll see how it goes in the NFL. I would doubt it goes well, why? Because the Browns suck. But he was given the opportunity. Ozzie Newsom called them. Howie Roseman called them. even the Eagles

who this AJ Brown thing AJ's like worth a hundred million dollars all pro Super Bowl champ even when he does something dumb he'll come back the next day even if he's lying which I kind of think he is

he's pretty good at like yeah I didn't mean it I should talk to you guys I'm better than that I do think he's lying but I respect it like there's a way to be a pro and he knows right and I just think there is a level when you get in that building and you're around

Jordan Milata, Sequin Barclay. You're just around these guys. Brana Graham, those guys are still around the building. It's just Vic Fangio. You know, Seriani now has a Super Bowl championship. It's like John Harbaugh, Lamar Jackson, you had the opportunity to go there. Instead, you chose the clown show.

And that's the Browns. And then you become part of it and it becomes a circus and the whole thing's just kind of embarrassing. So it's like I go back to this all could have been somewhat avoidable, though he's not, like there's no guarantee he beats out Cooper Rush. Probably doesn't. So he's probably a third, he's not, even in this game,

if he had got drafted by the Ravens, I would say he's probably the backup to Cooper Rush in this game. Like he's a third stringer in all these places. He's not beating out Tanner McKee. But I think I saw Orlovsky say this. You go to the right places. That's who teaches you how to win. how to be a pro, how to operate, you know, and you chose to go to the Browns.

Somehow is run by these two Ivy League guys and it's just, I mean, it's like the same shit every year. And now you kind of fall into that and you do the mimes and it just becomes like the biggest story in football. And this is also where you've got to be very careful about becoming just like this negative aura around you. you. And that was a situation that if anyone, you know, worth their salt, would have been like, bro, this is a terrible idea. Do not do this. It ain't worth it. But in Cleveland, everything is worth it. You do whatever you want. And last but not least, I do think there's a massive, massive week for the bills. Because you look around the NFL, I'm running for the bills to win the Super Bowl this year. I think it would be incredible. I mean, I really do. I want. I want.

the Buffalo bills to be the Super Bowl champs. I think it would be great for the fan base. I think it would be an awesome NFL story. And when you look around the landscape, look at whoever in the AFC is going to play. A lot of question marks, right? Lions, I mean, they might get their stuff together, but they still have

an offensive coordinator that's calling place for really the first time. We'll see how it continues over the years and a first time defensive coordinator. Obviously, they got really good players. Eagles, loaded roster, not quite as good as last year, but still really damn good, and it's going to be a major factor. And they got an elite defensive coordinator, an excellent offensive skill guys.

I know they're playing like shit on offense for the most part, but at any moment, you know, AJ Brown can break a 50-yard play. Sequan can take one in the house. But the AFC, it's like the Chargers injuries, they're in shambles. You know, the Chiefs are going to be tough, but they've already got two losses.

The Ravens are out of this. Like, are you losing sleep to a whole? 42-year-old Aaron Rogers. So it's like this type game, you're playing the Patriots, who's got a little momentum because they just got to play the Port-a-Pottie Panthers. And like, this is a game.

If you're the real deal, like, you squash them. Like, you win this thing like 35 to 15. Like, you crush them. I kind of like the bills to do that. The only thing that gives me a little hesitancy is just, you know, their defense. You watch them last week. Listen, I think the Saints actually offensively are not bad.

But I think this is a big week for the bills. I think this is all opening up for them right now. And that's where the chiefs are like, don't forget about us. And last but not least, last year, I think I would do this on Mondays. I would do the worst teams in the league, like the penthouse and the outhouse. And the Panthers had a stretch where they were so bad. They looked like one of the worst teams we'd ever seen. You know, early on in Bryce Young and then when Andy Dalton got there,

He did win, I think, his first game, but then it kind of progressively got worse, and it was like, this is unwatchable. I called them the Port-a-Pottie Panthers. And at the Ryder Cup, because I kind of compared him to, you know when you're at an event and you go to a porta-potty that is just the most disgusting port-a-potty you ever win in? I do believe at the Ryder Cup, probably at like three in the afternoon. So think about this, they tee off at 7 in the morning. So that porta-pottie, it was Friday. even if it got cleaned out the night before had gotten

you know eight plus hours worth of work and it was easily and you had to factor in it's 90 degrees it's humid you know where the seat

is basically all full it's just like it's got shit it's got toilet paper it's got you know urine people probably pouring drinks in there I mean it's just full to the brim and that heat and humidity

that smell it's the worst port of potty The actual porta potty was nice But in terms of the smell I think it's the worst one I've ever been to I walked out And Terrence who's a sales guy for us I said I think if you paid my My wife might turn down walking in there for a million dollars

It was that bad And there were a couple like women I saw before I got in there That it like turned around and went to another one And I do think the Titans Are approaching that level of stink like it's it's really bad uh cam ward called the team ass which i saw brian callahan kind of come back and say he's gonna learn that it's like he's gonna learn what this is ass like this this team is

this team's awful bro i'm rooting for you brian dela salgrad UCLA guy i want to like you but your team is ass so i i think cam ward has nothing to apologize he wasn't even taking shot at anyone he was just saying we basically we suck. He's factual. And they're really bad. The Jets are really horrendous. And Carolina, who did have the one moment against Atlanta, that game last week against the Patriots,

whenever I'd look over, it was like 353, 453, it's like, geez, this is stinky porta-potty level bad. I would not include the Saints in there. And I know the Saints have not won a game. I know they are 0-and-4. I think the Saints offense is pretty good. I like the receivers. Kamar is a stud.

To me, he's got, you know, trade deadline written all over him. Yeah, Rattler's not terrible. I just think defensively they stink. And special teams have got some issues. But like offensively, if you're a Saints fan,

you go Kellynne Moore, dialing us in some plays, they got some explosive. I would not put them, like they're a porta potty, but like you know when you walk in the port of potty's just been clean, it's like, actually it's not that bad.

Especially if you go in early in the morning somewhere. like you know when you work like if you work construction and you get to the side of like six in the morning it's chilly outside and you walk in it doesn't even smell you're like god it's like fresh air in here it's clean it's been clean the night before i would say that that's their level of portopati uh the the the titans are the rider cup portopati which again is the most disgusting smell and just that that humidity of all the fecal matter and the urine that is just sitting in the air, but you have no choice. Like, you've been holding the piss for like three holes.

I got to go bad. You can't really go in the trees because there's cops around. You never know. New York City may get trouble. You're like, not worth it. So you just hold it. You wait in line and then you just open that door. And there's no turning around.

You just got to let it rip. And that's the Titans. The volume. Hey, guys, it's us. The Jonas Brothers. I'm Joe. I'm Kevin. And I'm Nick.

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