The Herd with Colin Cowherd - What's Wright - NFL Week 1 Reaction: Bears CHOKE vs. Vikings, Ravens-Bills, Packers NFC FAVORITES? | Nick Wright

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

Nick Wright breaks down week 1 of the NFL season, starting with Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears a double digit fourth-quarter lead against JJ McCarthy and the Minnesota Vikings. Next, Nick reacts to Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs loss to Justin Herbert's Los Angeles Chargers. Are there real reasons for concern in KC? Then, Nick recaps the game of the year contender between Josh Allen's Buffalo Bills and Lamar Jackson's Baltimore Ravens, and what it means for both teams going forward. After, Nick discusses the dominant debuts of Aaron Rodgers with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Micah Parsons with the Green Bay Packers, and Emeka Egbuka with Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Later, Nick and Damonza answer your questions. #VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome in. What's right with Nick Wright episode 363. This episode, as always, brought to you by our great friends at Boost Mobile. Tomonze. What a weekend. How about that? Teaser crushes. Your teaser won with ease, buddy.

No sweat. While the Bills was a little bit of a sweat, ended up not being a sweat. It's weird that. have a team plus nine in a teaser that you're like they're going to cost you the teaser and then they win the game outright but that happened. Cleveland no sweat. Dallas no sweat. You were on the right side of it. I almost talked you out of it because I thought that game was going to be closer than people thought. Take the Philly side and because you don't think Dallas can win. Dallas of course, you know, didn't win but could have hung in there. Right. Teas are great.

it's not quite as good of a win, but avoiding a loss is almost as good of a win. I dodged the dance through the raindrops on the producer's stupid offer this week. I told you, listen, Trevor's going to throw him one. He's just going to throw him one. I had no doubt that the Jags were going to win that game, but Trevor's going to give him one. And so we avoided that. And despite starting the slate, Friday night with a loser, KC minus 3 for me, and then Miami plus one just gets absolutely annihilated.

And on that note, I still will, to finish the thought, still winning weekend. Cleveland plus 5, could have won outright, should have won outright, we'll get to them. Raiders plus 2 and a half did win outright. Buffalo plus 1. Again, folks, this is the key to actually getting the right side of the line. Not even the right side of the game. The book's got annihilated for Bill's Ravens.

Here's why. It starts to Monzae, bills minus a point in a half. So many people bet it. Hold on. Do I have this right? Oh, yeah. So, yes. So many people bet Baltimore plus one and a half

that it flips all the way to bills to Baltimore and let me start over because it's going to be confusing for the audience it opens buffalo minus one and a half at home all the action comes in on Baltimore getting a point in a half enough so the line flips all the way to Baltimore minus a point and a half enough action comes in on Buffalo plus one and a half that it's settles at Buffalo plus one. And then Buffalo wins by one. And so because of that, all the early Ravens betters getting the Ravens plus a point and a half one and all the late bills betters getting the bills plus a point and a half or plus one, one. That's a disaster.

That's the worst case scenario for the books. And by the way, our show brought to you by our great friends at Hard Rock Bet. That is, you really, really want to avoid that exact scenario. But it also, if you liked Buffalo in this game and you bet them early, you lost. If you had Buffalo minus a point in a half, you lost. So all of that is noteworthy. Here's the other thing that's noteworthy. I have a lot invested in the cults being bad.

I was flirting with them being, you know, having the number one pick. certainly than missing the playoffs. And, you know, I have a lot of preseason investment in that, which means I now have DeMonsei a de facto investment in, the Dolphins better be absolutely horrific. Like, that game needs to have been about how bad Miami is. Because if Miami's just average, then the Colts are good, and I'm in trouble. I'm already starting behind the 8.

back. Yeah. And so, yeah, Daniel Jones played the game of his life. So, all right. So all of that coming up in the show, here's how I want to do these Tuesday shows. I would like, in theory, for us to spend at least 20 seconds on every single game. Like that every game of the weekend will be addressed. Now, maybe come week 10 or 11, if there's a game between two truly, out of any irrelevant teams will break that rule. But early in the season, there was only one game that I looked at and I was like, even 20 seconds is it too much on this game? Do you know what game that was?

Do you have a guess? We're both teams. I'm like, do we need to talk about it? Cardinal Saints. You nailed it. You nailed it. But we'll hit everything. This week, I feel like Arizona.

Oh, thank you for saying that. Yeah. So all of my survivor picks this week were either Cardinals or Jags. Most Jags are team one for the show was Jags. It is so maddening that Brian Callahan is the worst coach I've ever seen in the last decade in the NFL. Because 40% of the million dollar pool would have been knocked out with the Broncos losing. you had 75% of the pool had either Philly, which could have lost, Denver, which should have lost, or Cincinnati, which was dying to lose. Instead, every favorite one except for the Chiefs, every big favorite one, three points or more, except for the Chiefs.

All right, straight to voicemail brought you by Boost Mobile. Syracuse beat Yukon in overtime, and then head coach made him. to wind sprints okay bill bellichick is imploding is too strong but it's not far from what he's doing when he talks about i'm not welcome there why would they be welcome here because you're trying to get your guys into the nfl bro um and de monse a question are you reclaiming daniel jones or you want need to see more reclaiming daniel jones oh yeah like like you said we got to see what the are actually going to be about in what Miami is. But, uh, okay.

I'll be watching them. I'll be watching them 100%. I'll be honest with you. I don't know that I'll be watching him, at least not early on. I don't know that they're going to make the, they didn't make the, uh, the, the, I had six games on in front of me in the one o'clock window this weekend, Colts Dolphins wasn't one of them. Uh, I did.

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And, you know, subscribe on YouTube as well. All that stuff is super helpful. All right, Monday night football de Monzae, and we might have a problem. Yeah, so the Bears came out looking pretty good. Caleb had that nice drive in the beginning of the game. Seemed like they were controlling it. Even JJ McCarthy threw a pig six, but they still turned it around at one. So obviously, Caleb Williams lost last night. What was your biggest takeaway from this? game all right I'm officially a little concerned about Caleb I was not at any point last year but the sequence of the last 96 hours where I listen I I'm a subscriber I was already a subscriber to Tyler Dunn's substack it's like 50

bucks for the whole year support real journalism he he is the guy if people are like I oh let me it's go long TD let me see if you go to go longtd.com if that takes you there I actually don't know the answer that no so hold on let me see what the actual was so oh no it does oh maybe yeah go longtd dot com but it's on sub stack he is the guy who broke the story a year ago de monse that Sean McDermott tried to rally the troops by being like the 9-11 hijackers He has real sources. He is a real journalist. He's totally independent.

So I was already a subscriber of his. He has released a three-part book on Caleb's first year with the Bears. It ain't great. And it is, to me, highly concerning. It also discusses. The person who comes out looking the worst is, Ryan Poles, the GM. Caleb doesn't look great, though, in it either.

And it talks about a shaky work ethic, not necessarily galvanizing leadership, and then a shocking statement from some of his sources that there is a belief within the front office that was kept from the coaching staff that Caleb might, have the learning disability dyslexia which there is obviously no shame in that at all however one of the ways dyslexia can manifest itself obviously is you transpose words or letters and that one of the reasons they postulate he might have trouble translating the play call from his headset

to his wristband getting it in getting plays in on time is a confusion about what he's reading and that is not something that is you know you can't overcome but it is something that has to be accounted for and the reporting is that the front office kept it from his coaches last year now obviously ben johnson one would think has all this information and If you watched last night, you saw most notably that play on the sideline when Caleb spun out of trouble, went to the sideline and then ripped an absolute laser to, I don't know if was DJ Moore or Rome, I'm not sure. Why the talent de Manzae is undeniable and hypnotizing. it just is like and you saw that obviously throughout his remarkable collegiate career but his right now deficit on the pre-snap parts of being an NFL quarterback to me are going

to slow his development and you saw that left and right last night that getting plays in was still a problem motioning guys when there's a few seconds on the shot on the shot clock on the game clock or play clock was still a problem like some things that he really needs to be at this point in my opinion better at those things have become one game in have not improved and you don't think his decision making at all

improved a little bit from last year so I do think his decision making improved I'm talking about the pre-snap operation I'm talking about getting the team out of the huddle conveying the play call in time doing the things necessary to prevent these five

yard pre-snap penalties that was brutal the whole night just was and while his decision-making i thought was better and he was quicker getting the ball out his accuracy was shaky yeah he's putting a lot on he missed putting a lot on them putting a lot on the lot on the ball and also just missing there were a couple spots he missed guys wide open and so if i am being fair, which I have to be. I still believe in Caleb Williams. I am less certain that superstardom is in his future. And I think that is for me as a guy who said he would come into the league as a top

10 quarterback, a tough pill to swallow. Trust me. But you don't think it might be a little early with it being game one? Like if they were to go and put it on the Lions, would that change stuff immediately? Maybe I'm going to look back on this and say I was,

you know, 10 hours after the game and it was reactionary. But I am, I understand most of the audience has not read the Tyler Dunn story. And again, his substack is go longtd.com. I highly encourage people. It's worth the six bucks a month. There's less than that, four bucks a month.

It's worth it just to read this story, to be totally honest with you. That story shook my faith in a real way. and then this game you of court listen he started 10 of 10 it started great it ended so poorly and listen

he's not the only culprit in this which brings us to ben johnson where there were i didn't like ben johnson's decision early to not kick

the field goal. I just think you don't have the Lions team from last year. You're also playing a team that is going to be hard to accumulate points on as evidenced by the fact your offense, you know, struggled to score points throughout the night. I know they finished with 24. One touchdown came with two minutes left and another one was a pick six. But JJ at that, you know what I mean? that there was reason to believe JJ would struggle early and he did but the bigger problem is and evidently

Peyton Manning peeped this on the Manning cast because of course he did. I was surprised Joe and Troy didn't but this is going to this is a coaching note that is simply listen nobody's in the Brian Callahan

category more on him later but this was a mistake by Ben. So here situation. He understood we've got to score before the two-minute warning. Caleb almost ran it in before the two-minute warning at 204 or 205. They end up ruling him out of bounds at the six-inch line. They then do a quick pass score. They score it 202. They have one timeout. With the two-minute warning and one time out, if you force a three-in-out, you're going to get the ball back without a minute left, down three points, and be alive.

Without the two minute warning and one time out, you're going to get the ball back with about 20 seconds left and be dead. It's that simple. The two minute warning must be retained, in part because I think Ben challenged a play because he didn't understand the rule. Now, that's a tricky rule because, so let me back up to it. The rule is, if someone is knee is on the ground and you touch them, they're down immediately. What Ben saw or his guy in the booth saw is, oh, we didn't touch the player who was down.

We punched the ball. And we punched the ball so cleanly, it did not, we never touched the player until the ball was loose. so is that a fumble and so he challenged it and the answer is no it's not even just touching the ball when a player is down on the ground he's down so that's like a nuance of the rule head coach needs to know that so like that was so that's why they only had one time out instead of two but now we get to 202 left and Cairo Santos who missed a field goal earlier and is not known

for the strongest of legs de Manzay Ben Johnson tells him kick it out of the back of the end zone to retain the two minute warning Kevin O'Connell tells his guy if you can return it, return it don't worry about the yardage just return it to burn these two seconds.

Sidebar, no one's ever done this, but I would encourage it. The actual sharpest play there for that returner, if he only has to burn two seconds, is to catch it and run sideways staying in the end zone to burn as much time as possible and then just step out the back of the end zone for a touchback. or kneel it for a touchback. Then you still get the 35-yard line. You don't risk a fumble.

You burn more time because the guys have to get to you. But again, that is Ph.D-level coaching of which, you know, not everyone is here yet. That's fine. Kevin O'Connell did a great job with it. But here is the nuanced part that matters in particular with the new touchback rules to Monsei. the new touchback rule is if you kneel it in the end zone if you kick it into the end zone and they kneel it

they get it on the 35 they did not change the fact that if you kick it out of bounds you get it at the 40 so if the single most important thing to your team is that they not be able

to return this kick and you don't have a cannon-legged kicker who can kick it out the back of the end zone on command, then you don't ask him to kick it out the back of the end zone, which he might not be able to do. You ask him, fire that thing 45-degree angle right out of bounds, which everyone can do. You give up five yards, who cares, you guarantee, so instead of the 35, it's the 40,

That doesn't matter. What matters is now that next play happens at 202. There's nothing they can do about it. That was a mistake by Ben Johnson. I saw it in real time. Peyton Manning on the Manning cast evidently saw it in real time. And I thought that that was a mistake. So listen, I thought, I don't think that was like an awful first game by Ben Johnson,

but the bad challenge and trusting that Cairo Santos can just boom it out the back of the end zone were very costly mistakes. So what are you giving him as a grade in his first game? Blew a big lead. Offense didn't really get going after the opening script. Those mistakes, C plus. C plus. C plus, giving him a C plus. All right, let's spend a second on JJ.

Yeah, I was about to say, so after seeing that performance by JJ, what do you expect from him moving forward? Well, listen, I think that the comeback and his role in it and the competence he's going to get from it, you know, if they didn't get that comeback at the end and it was just he threw a pick six and they lose, I think the next few weeks could be real rough. instead a guy whose rep coming in was just a winner makes big plays galvanizing force just adds to it in his first ever NFL game pretty good like that part is really good so I didn't think he was that impressive I didn't think he was that good but he had the moments which I think are you know super relevant and super you know useful and so I want to give him credit for that am I

am I sold entirely that like you know he's gonna be a franchise quarterback no of course not yet after one game but for what his rep was de Manzee that was an awesome start that was fit his description in this game yes for sure Um, well, you're giving, let's, oh, go ahead. Oh, okay. Will, will Caleb be getting similar treatment to the prince? You know how, uh, Trevor had bad coaching and then he had his coach. And that was officially his first year.

Well, let's listen. I mean, if Trevor does what the prince did, which is have an awesome second year, make the playoffs win a playoff game, then yeah, we can just say, or if Caleb does, sorry, if Caleb does what Trevor did, we can just say, yeah, it was, it was all on. I think a lot of it was on Bears dysfunction, Iber Fluse again. I'm not saying like I'm out on Kalin. I am saying that the stuff, some of the stuff that I wanted him to be just a little tighter on, I didn't see. And that's just, that just is what it is. All right, if you guys didn't see it before, we are extremely excited to announce our new

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a little worried, you can't. So I'm not worried about the AFC web. I thought the Chargers played great. I think the short version of it is. I thought the Chiefs played really poorly. I think the Xavier Worthy injury was not having a player for a month that you know you're not going to have is one thing. Losing a player three plays into a game when you've built your game plan for that game around that player's skill set is a different. thing. So I, you know what I mean? I also think there was a true emotional. You've got to be kidding me. Here we go again. You know, last year, lose Hollywood Brown before the season starts.

Rishi Rice gets hurt in week four. You're going through it. Now three plays into the year, Xavier worthy, friendly fire, you know, his shoulder pops out. So I think all that, you know, played a part in how the chiefs looked. My concern for the chiefs are like because rishie'll be back and worthy i believe escaped major injury i think worthy could be back in two weeks he's not going to have surgery he's going to wear a harness now he's 160 pounds it could happen again yes and if it happens again he has to have surgery and so that's the you know that's the issue this is you know my take on skinny football players is sadly you know, there's a reason I have it.

The part of the Chiefs, there are two pieces of the Chiefs game from Friday night that for them to win the Super Bowl have to improve. Okay? One is the running game can't be that bad. Just can't be.

Pacheco's got to be better at seeing where the blocks are and hitting the hole. And I like Isaiah, he's got to be. better. So that's one piece of it. The other piece of it is that the pass rush paired with the secondary got carved up in a way I have not seen the chief's secondary carved up in years, truly. That has to instantly get better if they're going to win a championship, okay, or compete for championship. Those are fair and legitimate week one concerns. What I am truly beside myself about is the commentary after that game about Patrick. And this is where I will die on this goddamn

hill. And I apologize if it sounds like I'm in reruns here. but i have to just very quickly give folks the sequence of the last 26 months in the NFL or so and how many people just have the total inability to remember their own opinions okay going into the 22 season there was legitimate chatter about, will the Chiefs take a massive step back without Tyree Kill? What will Patrick look like without Tyree Kill? How will Patrick and the Chiefs respond to not having that weapon and losing the AFC Championship game the way they did?

He responded by winning League MVP, setting the still standing record for most total yards in a season, and then in the postseason, beating the team that beat him the previous year on a bum ankle, and then playing a perfect Super Bowl to the tune of 38 points. And then in February of 2023, folks said, I can't, I can't doubt Patrick. Two-time MVP, two-time Super Bowl MVP. Okay?

That's February of 2020. It is now you then go to January of 2024 again not ages ago and the general consensus is This is the worst chiefs team of the Mahomes era They are super vulnerable they no one can catch the ball and then and their underdogs in three consecutive playoff games people look at the bills they have to go to Buffalo the bills have the better team and Patrick out plays Josh and wins they have to go to Baltimore Baltimore as the far better team and Patrick out plays Lamar and wins and then in over to in the

Super Bowl executes another 10-point comeback plays another perfect fourth quarter in overtime wins the Super Bowl and in February February February of 2024, everyone agrees, all right, I'm really never doubting Patrick again. I promise. And then last year happens.

And the Chiefs win games, but look funny doing it. And then there is real doubt once again. And then the AFC championship game rolls around. and a Chief's team that hasn't been able to score more than 30 points all year, puts 32 on Buffalo, and Patrick outplays Josh to get to his third straight Super Bowl. And in February of this year, two games ago, the universally held consensus is the following. Patrick Mahomes is one game away from arguably, from having a real argument.

He's the greatest player of all time because of the three beat. The chiefs are worse than Philadelphia at running back, offensive line, wide receiver, defensive line, defense as a whole. But I'm picking the chiefs because you can't bet against Patrick. They're the favorites because of that. they're the media pick because of that that's two games ago he walks into that game with everyone saying all right we can net like he's he's he's elev he's in a different class than Josh who's beaten four times now Lamar at another tough

playoff moment all of it two games ago they think it crushed in the Super Bowl have a rough week one now all those same fucking people are like all right you know let's be serious josh and lamar they've elevated past him just remember your own god damn takes people it was february of 2025 that you after they won again to get to their third straight super bowl for a team that everyone acknowledges he's the only player in the league that could have won 17 games with that team had that team in the Super Bowl everyone said he's in a different class of player and we are so fickle and so what have you done for me lately that two games later one of which by the way de monse he was the best player for the chiefs

He played awesome Friday night. People are like, I'm not sure. What's wrong with Mahomes? It's going to drive me insane. Two games ago, you thought he was a game away from being the goat. Now, you have him as the fifth best quarterback in football presently. And I come across as an apologist because I'm the only person that remembers these things, evidently. all of you in the media that picked the chiefs in the Super Bowl did it because of him.

You thought the Eagles were better everywhere else. And now that same guy, you're like, I don't know. It's embarrassing. It's a sad state of affairs that three games ago folks said, I mean, Josh Patrick, how can you even make an argument? And now, again, think about that. late January of 2025. We are in 2025. Everyone set their swords down and said, okay, listen, Patrick's the best player in the world.

And then because he played poorly in his fifth Super Bowl, third consecutive, and Josh was playing golf, folks are like, oh, I don't know. And then one week one game and now it's the general consensus. It's a, it's a crazy, crazy turn of events. You think because it was like a shootout with Baltimore and Buffalo, everybody was like, ooh, uh, yeah. Listen, Josh was unbelievable in that game. Lamar was unbelievable in that game.

I'm not doubting that. I just want, I just want people, again, I am not. Well, what I don't want is this. I'm not trying to live off 2018 and be like, well, Patrick has a Super Bowl from five years ago and Josh and Lamar don't. I'm trying to live off this calendar year a few games ago. It's so dumb. It's so, so, so dumb. And today, spoiler alert on TV on Mahomes Mountain, I'm still going to have Mahomes at the top, and people are going to call it outrageous.

People are going to say it's outrageous. Colin is saying Josh is the most talented player he's ever seen. Simmons is saying Josh's best quarterback in the league. Again, what were you guys saying two games ago? Ask it. Go look. Check the archives. Is talented the same thing as well?

winningest. No, because I do feel like Josh Allen has more of the athletic gifts, I should say. Patrick Malmes is obviously gifted. But then why doesn't it? So then, but then, but that's to me, I mean, we can, we can walk down that path. But then that's almost an insult to Josh. Because Josh, at a few of these games, has had the better roster. In all of the games, he's had the better defense.

in one of the games he was at home. So if he's the better physical talent, it's a fair fight teammate-wise. Why can he not win? It's just, like, I don't know. I think that's, that's, I wouldn't, if I were a Josh Allen fan, I wouldn't want that to be the argument.

My guy's actually the most talented, but just can't win. Like, I, that, that's, I'd rather it be, my guy. an all time all time talent your guy just is superhuman but i don't i don't know all right by the way i am so excited i'm going to kansas city on friday or i'm going thursday we're doing the show from kansas city on friday and i think i might stay in town to watch chief's eagles and as you guys know i don't I'm not a I'm not a press pass guy now would I be a you know the you know Kelsey or Mahomes sweet guy if I were invited sure maybe but assuming that invite you know those those those sweet seats at this point I think because of some of the people sitting there you um I think you might have to pass an FBI background check that I don't know if I would pass so I'm probably just gonna have to if I stay for the game buy my own tickets and you know where I would get tickets to the chief's Eagles rematch?

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our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey. With all the snacks and drinks. Sidebars. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer? Oh, they had a bogo. Well, then you got it. Do you want a white color or something here? Just take it.

Oh, what are y'all doing? Microphones? Are you making a rap album? Oh, I would. Come on. Could you imagine? I would buy it. Cuts through the defense like a hot knife through sponge cake.

That sounds delicious. Oh, you're lucky. I'm not a drug addict. You're lucky I'm not an alcoholic. You are. I'm lucky I'm not a killer. I love this team, and I'm really trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on. Oh.

Listen to soccer moms on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, DeMons A, let's get to the game of the weekend, Bill's Ravens. Yes, that game didn't disappoint. Obviously, Buffalo came back against my Ravens. That 15-point lead erased. Harbaugh is now blown 17 double-digit second half leads. A bigger story here is that the bills win or is it the Ravens loss? What do you think the bigger story is?

The bigger story here is, oh my gosh, the Ravens got to stop shooting themselves in the foot. The penalties and just... The penalties are just so frustrating. The penalties and just how we move when we need something, the bills have the momentum and they're coming back and we're running into rounds with Zayflowers. Just rather get a first down. on it. Um, well, I'm glad you, did you bring up that end around with Zay Flowers? The, because I, from what I said on the show yesterday, or did that bother you organically?

No. No. Yeah. That that play de Monzae is like lost in the conversation surrounding the game. That was insane. Like, you, you need one first down to win the game. Derrick Henry is killing. I understand Henry got stuffed on first down. You cannot use one of your downs on Zay Flowers. You just can't. It's got to be Lamar, ball in his hands, you know, if see someone open, throws it or run, or Derek Henry. So that I agree with entirely. And I also agree with you, the bigger story is the Ravens loss.

Because the bills, listen, Josh Allen is an unbelievable player. And since he stopped turning the ball over, he's stopped. being a roller coaster and I stopped calling him one. Like, I've been fair about Josh. Josh always had this amazing talent. He was a little too high variance of a player early. He removed some of that variance and now he's just a killer. So the bills coming back is not that shocking.

The Bill's defense looking as bad as it did for the vast majority of that game is actually a little concerning. Like, weirdly, if I were a Bill's fan, De Manzai, I would be over the moment. moon thrilled about the win and you have the tiebreaker and you have the easier schedule. You've never had the one seed since you've been, since you've had Josh Allen. You now have a real shot at it this year. Like all of that is super positive. But deep down, I'd be like, yikes, that defense.

Like that's a bit of a concern. But the story is Baltimore once again inventing a way to lose because this is what they do. And I know Harbaugh, Harbaugh. Harbaugh tried to make the point essentially that Harbaugh tried to make the point that yeah, we've blown a lot of big leads, but we have a lot of big leads. Like how fair, you know what I mean?

Like we're in this position more than most. Mike Sando has these figures. I think it's good. since the start of the 2022 season, there are seven teams, De Manze, who have had multiple score fourth quarter leads at least 20 times. Okay?

So seven teams have had multiple score, fourth quarter leads at least 20 times. And Harbaugh is right that the Ravens have the most of them. The Bengals and the Bills have 21. The Lions have 22, the Chiefs have 24, the Niners have 25, the Eagles have 28, and the Ravens have 31. So that is a lot. Here's the problem, though. Record in those games from best to worst.

The Chiefs are 24 and up. And honestly, I just said a whole Mahomes thing. I don't need to do it again. that's the least surprising stat in the world because while it's been a while since the chiefs have been able to generate some big lead, the idea,

I can't even conceptualize what it would look like for the chiefs to blow a big lead. No, for you know what I mean, for the chiefs to be up 13 in the fourth and lose. Like with Patrick, it just doesn't happen. Like they're not going to make those mistakes.

And he obviously deserves credit for that too. But the chiefs are 24 and a, The next best is the Eagles, 27 and 1. Then the Lions, 21 and 1. The Bengals, 20 and 1. The Niners, 23 and 2. And the second worst is the Bills at 19 and 2. And then the Ravens at 25 and 6.

So yes, the Ravens, have had more slightly more opportunities but the chiefs have never lost in the last three years in that spot the eagles lions and bangles have lost once the niners and bills have lost twice and the ravens have lost six times that's not nothing it's just not nothing and i don't i don't know that the harball lamar combo is going to get over the hump man i just don't. And it's, Lamar's obviously, you know, just getting better as a player, getting better in the playoffs. Like, I also thought, Demonse, how did you feel when you saw Harbaal was punting on fourth and two and a half? Um, I mean, it's easy to say looking back at the game, like,

definitely got to go for that. But also, we weren't stopping them. So it probably does make more sense to go for it in that situation because the bills have just been doing everything they want it. So it's not fourth and five. Well, and here's the other piece. We got Lamar and Derek Henry. And I know Lamar said he was cramping, but what you can do there is because the bills

used a timeout. They use a timeout. You get two minutes there to kind of recover. You then trot your offense out. Try to draw them off sides, 40 seconds to recover. If you don't call timeout. another two minutes to recover, and then you got to go for it. Because if you don't get it, you might get the ball back.

You know what I mean? If you don't get it and they score, you get the ball back. And if you do get it, the game's over. And here's my only criticism of Lamar from that game, my only criticism. when he threw the pass on third and nine where he did three yards short of the six over the middle i assumed i think it was actually the hopkins i think that it was the hopkins he walked over and talked to yeah it was yeah i assumed he threw it there because he like i'm obviously knew they were going for it correct but he was comfortable throwing it

short of the sticks because it's four down territory you know what i mean like that's what i assumed was the case if you're not if you don't know you're going for it you can't in my you can't throw short of the sticks there like you've got to try to go get the first down i also have a question for you to lansay and if the answer is had nothing to do with the game that's fine you sent out a tweet an hour into the game that said that had a superhero a bowl of ramen maybe

and then a trophy before you tell me what that is I have a question is that a bowl of ramen in the in the picture yeah it's a bowl it's a bowl of ramen yeah

water yeah Like, was it Are you going to tell us what that was? It had nothing to do with the game. I was about to eat. I knew it. I was going to guess that. Okay, pops, pops, stop, stop.

I mean, let me come out and be fair. Yes. Everything to do with the game. I was tweeting Super Bowl champs. I thought the Braven's going to win the game. That's why I left it cryptic. But, yeah. Super Bowl champs.

Yeah, it's a Supergirl. It's a bowl. Oh, I have a trophy. it totally wrong. What did you think it was? I thought. I had it totally wrong and I thought our producers were gonna laugh.

What people don't know about you is while you're not what I would call a chef, you do consider yourself a bit of like an elite ramen food. Yes, savant. Like adding eggs and different ramen and I honestly

thought you were watching the game and made yourself like a great ramen meal watching it and we're like calling yourself like the king of making ramen noodles. I swear to God, that's what I thought. I'm the champ. Another ball down. Now a super bowl champ. That's pretty good. All right. That's pretty good. Um, okay. All right. Do you have a, you have a Derek Henry tweet for me or not tweet, but question. Oh, yeah. Um, yeah. Oh, yeah. So aside from the Fumble. Henry looked good as ever, obviously. He had 169 yards and two touchdowns.

Do you think that it's safe to say that the cliff isn't coming this year? She said he was getting old. Sure doesn't seem like Cliffs coming. Holy moly, that guy is unbelievable. And that's scary for my futures. He's just an unbelievable player. Yeah. All right.

And I have no problem with Lamar shoving the fan. Me neither. The fan shoved him first. I have no problem at him. And not only him. They didn't talk about on the broadcast. Bill's fans. Stop throwing shit on the field.

They were the originators of throwing sex toys on sporting event fields before it caught fire in the WMBA. And when Lamar, when Derek Henry was running for his touchdown, they threw a water bottle on the field. They famously threw snowballs at the chiefs, like icy snow. stop throwing stuff on the field. Like, I have to listen every year to how Buffalo's got the greatest fans in the world because it's cold there and they shovel the stadium for them. Like, stop throwing stuff on the field. All right, let's talk about the other biggest game of the weekend before we do quick hitters on the rest.

So Green Bay backed up their preseason hype by dominating the Lions. Thanks to Michael Parsons on defense, Jordan Love on that offense. Michael Parsons was limited, though. So on the other hand, you had to, some doubts about Detroit in the beginning of the season or preseason, should I say. That seemed to come to life. It seemed to be justified. Yeah.

So to me, listen, Micah was unbelievable. Mike had the one sack, but he, his pressure caused another sack. Another one of his pressures caused the interception. This whole narrative, well, Mike is a great pass rusher, but he just kills you against the run. The lions ran for the second and for the fewest yards they've run for in almost two, full calendar years. Micah Parsons is an all-time great player. And, well, maybe Kenny Clark for Micah.

And I think Kenny Clark's an excellent player. And the point that I've been making when people were like, well, you know, Dan Campbell tried to tell the media, like, we were actually happy Kenny Clark got out of there. We were more worried about him. Kenny Clark is such a good player. And he is. I know Kenny Clark.

I like Kenny Clark. Kenny Clark is such a good player that if you attach two first round picks to him, you can trade him for a player as good as Micah Parsons. That's how good Kenny Clark is. Kenny Clark plus two first round picks can get you a Hall of Famer like Micah Parsons. So this idea that Micah wasn't going to have an impact was so stupid. And the Packers, if Jordan Love can just take care of the ball,

are going to be really dangerous. The story there, though, is the Lions. Because not a promising first game without Ben Johnson, without Aaron Glenn, with the new interior of the offensive line. And DeMonse, the five teams that everyone thought were going to be great, in no order, Eagles, Lions, Ravens, Bills, Chiefs,

every year, one of those teams that everyone thinks is going to be great falls off. has a year from hell. Last year it was the Niners, the year before it was the Bengals, like the, there's always a team. Now, some people listening right now, be like, it's going to be your chiefs.

Maybe, we'll see. I trust reading the Holmes. We'll see. None of the five, oddly de Monzae, I think, loved their games this weekend. The Eagles certainly didn't love how they played. The Ravens loved how they played for 55 minutes, then hated it.

The bills feel the best, but don't love how their defense played. The Chiefs hate how they played, and the Lions really hate how they played. But of those five, I think the Lions are in the most jeopardy. I think that, and I think Goff, you get him off his spot, man. He can struggle, and they got him off his spot consistently. I didn't know. Go ahead. I was supposed to say the Lions win total dropped to eight and a half.

They enter the season at 10 and a half. Do you think that's a slight overreaction? I think, well, I think depending on the book, some books had them in during the season at nine and a half, and then they lose this game. Like, yeah, I mean, the Lions right now are probably a coin flip to make the playoffs in Vegas. Like that's, I don't think that's an overreaction.

In week one? Green Bay was favored because the game was in Green Bay. um but still i just but they were favored by like one you know what i mean so that game was considered a coin flip so i don't think it's just the loss i think it's how they looked all right ever sign up for a phone plan thinking wow amazing price then a few months later surprise your bills higher with boost mobile you pay 25 dollars a month forever that's unlimited talk text and data starting at just 25 dollars a month no price hikes no contract forever. Plus, Boost Mobile is now a legit nationwide 5G network. They've invested billions building

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Hey, cream. Cream a chicken suit. This is Help from a Hypocrite, the worst advice from the dumbest people you know. Listen to Help from Hypocrat as part of the Mike Cultura podcast network available on the IHartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Will Ferrell's Big Money Players and IHeart Podcasts presents soccer moms. So I'm Leanne. Yeah. This is my best friend Janet.

Hey. And we have been joined at the hips since high school. Absolutely. Now a redacted amount of years later. We're still joined at the hip. Just a little bit bigger hips. Wider. This is a podcast.

We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey. With all the snacks and drinks. Sidebar. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer? Oh, they had a bogo. Well, then you got it. Do you want a white collar something here? Just hit it.

Oh, what are y'all doing? Microphones? Are you making a rap album? Oh, I would. Come on. I would buy it. Cuts through the defense like a hot knife through sponge cake. That sounds delicious.

Oh, you're lucky. I'm not a drug addict. You're lucky I'm not an alcoholic. You are. I'm not a killer. I love this team, and I'm really trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Listen to Soccer Moms on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, DeManzai, let's see, 30 seconds-ish guaranteed on each game. And then we'll, you know, because we have gone long, but I said I wanted to hit something on every game. So let's hit them all. Go ahead. So you want to start from the top? We got Aaron Rogers.

Aaron Rogers rolled Steelers offense looked great. How real is this? I, listen, I know Steelers fans. want to believe the defense letting Justin Fields look like a superstar and allowing 30 points 30 that was a fluke the offense looking amazing that was not a fluke i think they were both a little fluky and i think that the defense will be better the offense will be a little worse uh i i also thought errands comments after the game was like yeah i was happy to beat everyone in that organization all that organization did for two years was give you every single thing you wanted they hired

your buddy, they traded for your friends, they did every single thing they could do to accommodate you, and you feel scorned because you got fired. Like, give me a break. And this whole thing of, you had me fly out here to be fired. If he had fired you over the phone, you would have been just as pissed. So no, I am not yet buying stock in the Steelers. I did think Justin Fields played well. Next.

Your guy Bakeshow led a game-winning drive, Atlanta. young who, your young way who missed a field goal to win the game. Yeah. Or to tie the game. I'm sorry. Yeah. How do you feel about that? I didn't think Baker played great, but he did play clutch.

But the story of that game was a mecca Buka. Their first round pick who was caught the game winner and was awesome. Like, they did something I think interesting, which is they're like, we're not drafting for need. We're drafting best player. And they thought a mecca Buka was awesome. It didn't matter that they have Godwin at some point coming back. And Mike Evans, they drafted him anyway, and he made an instant impact.

And I love, right now, I love Tampa getting that win without Tristan Wirfs against the only team in their division that could have any chance of competing with them and getting it on the road. That is such a huge win. So shout out to Baker next. Who looked better to you, Bo Nix or the number one pick in Cam Ward? Listen, Cam Cam just has to stop throwing everything 150 miles and out. Darts. I mean, he's throwing it, he's throwing it over the middle in front of guys as hard as he can.

So he's got to calm down on that. Bo Nix looks horrific. And he made one good play at the end of the half. But the story of that game is Bill Callahan, or Brian Callahan, pardon me, who it's six, three. There are 40 seconds left in the first half. You have the lead. You're on your own five-yard line and Denver, and this is the key, only has two timeouts. So if you run the ball three times, or even take knees, you guarantee that you go into halftime with the lead. Guarantee it. Instead, he has Bo Nix drop back into the end. I'm sorry, Cam Ward dropped back into the end zone.

almost gets safetyed, throwing completions, and Denver gets a touchdown before the half. Now, somehow they had a great kick return, so they got a field goal anyway. So it's 10-9 before the half, and Denver feels great instead of being 6-3 with Bo Nix being a mess. Listen, I told you guys that I thought Denver might have a good record early on. They could have lost that game. but the Denver's offense is not what people have promised you what would be. Their defense is. And Sean Pate late in the game going for a style point touchdown that could have cost him the game.

Like it's just I do not believe in the Broncos. I feel better about my Broncos fading even after the week one win. Next. Oh, they seem to like the Broncos. Oh, your Jags won. Are you more in on Trevor or are you more out on Bryce? Trevor was fine. Bryce was Bryce might have been the worst

quarterback in the league this weekend. You see the little clips of him circle around the media. Like he's like watching the Jumbotron. They said he was looking at the mini game in the middle of the game. I did see. I did, Wilds mentioned that to me.

It was a really, really, really rough game for Bryce. Yeah. And he's the number one overall pick in year three. Like, come on. Got to be better. Jags could be good. I told you guys. Division.

Jags could be good. Oh, yeah, that's one of your bets. Next. The Raiders look good. Patriots look awful. What is the bigger story here? Listen, I mean, Genti wasn't the reason. Gentile 19 carries 38 yards.

Gino stood in that pocket and just delivered downfield, threw for 360, got, you know, threw a pick, got lit up, just delivered downfield. The Patriots not being able to move the ball on that Raiders defense is a five-alarm fire concern. And Drake May is officially on Midwatch.

Like Drake May, like not Pumpkin Watch because that's not the point where he is in his career. He is on he might just not be that good. And that was a very dispiriting performance from the Patriots. Very dispiriting for them. The Raiders, I told you guys, the Raiders could be good, though. Next. Cincinnati got bailed out. by Cleveland's crummy kicking.

Is Cincinnati slow starts or is they coming to an end? No. I mean, I thought they were worse this year than when they lost New England last year. If you're the Bengals, you have to feel like you're happy you won, but the Browns moved the ball. The only reason the Browns didn't score more was two passes, Flacco threw off guys' hands that got picked. The Bengals had seven yards, yards, DeMonsei, in the second half.

They had a seven-yard second half. like and it seems impossible that's why he's talking about because they won this is Joe Burrow was in the exact opposite narrative category of Mahomes where like no matter what happens with Mahomes we were going to find a way to pick at it Burroughs in the opposite last year it for Burrow it was well they don't win but he's been amazing so what are you going to say and then this week he was awful but they won and they're like well he didn't play well but they won so what are you going to say like i don't know we got to pick one like he the and so no i Cincinnati Cincinnati had the worst win of the weekend okay um so dable is

committed to russ for week two how do you think he should play this if he plans on keeping his job i actually think he should go to jamis i think they don't want to go to dart yet i think dart they want to give him like four or five six weeks before they go to him. But Russ is clearly done. Yeah. So why not go to James? Let, you know, give James a few games. James might have a big game. He'll obviously at

some point play himself out of it. And then you can go to Dart. Because they don't want to play Dart yet. I understand that. The Giants think they're going to playoff push this year? Just saying like, why not? Oh, okay. Like Jackson Dart. No, I just think they think maybe Dart's not, I think they want Dart to have another month

of like practices, meetings, you know what I mean, all that stuff, which I understand. But so, but if Russ can't do it, Malik Neighbors is freaking out because of it, then that's what you have James for next. Rams beat the Texans. What was your biggest takeaway there? The Texans' offense looked a lot like the Texans offense last year,

which was not good. Dorman. I'd be a little, I'd be a little, Texan's defense, unbelievable, but I'd be a little worried about CJ and that Texans' offense. That's my biggest takeaway. and that's a game that was there for the taking for them and they couldn't take it. Is Danny Dimes the next Gino-Smith, Sam Dornow, quarterback revival story?

Here's Miami just terrible. I think Miami's just terrible. I am going to, listen, Daniel Jones was unbelievable in that game. I have to give him credit, but I don't think anything close to that's sustainable. We'll see. Yeah, go ahead. And then Tua came out and said, like, oh, like, we're still upset with Tyree Kill.

Who needs to be begging Terry Kill to stay on that team? I mean, Miami's got a lot of problems. And Mike McDaniel, I would be checking the policy, you know, the terms of my home or apartment lease to see, like, what the penalties for breaking it early is. Because I don't know how much more time in Miami he's going to have next.

The 49ers are dealing with a handful of big injuries, including Purdy. How should how worried should San Francisco go fans be that they're looking at another season from hell. They should be worried and they also might need a new medical or training staff or whatever. You can't be the most injured team every single year in the league and it's coincidence. Like I don't know what I don't understand anything about sports medicine, but you can't just always have guys pulling groins and calves and hamstrings and just keep the same trainers.

That's first of all. Second of all, Purdy, I will begrudgingly give him credit for the final drive. Six for six in the touchdown, even though that touchdown pass, should have been picked immediately like it was it was a terrible decision Tariq Wulin had it and didn't get it and that would have been his third pick and they lost Purdy was not very good in that game now we find out he was dealing with an injury or a couple injuries but now nothing Demonsay I am all of a sudden about to be a huge Niner fan oddly because somehow Jimmy Garoppolo leaving the Niners and instantly being terrible for some people didn't win me the Jimmy Garoppolo

argument that I was like, hey, he's a product of the Shanahan system. But do you know who their backup quarterback in San Francisco is? It's Mac Jones. Oh. If Mac Jones starts and looks great, then everyone has to concede. I've been right all along. If Mac Jones comes in and he's awesome or even just fine, then that's got to be my final piece of evidence.

Also, Sam Darnold fumbled what could have been a game. winning touchdown pass off his offense of lineman's ass just dropped back the ball like nobody hit him he was he just ran his hand it was terrible they could have won um next uh saints cardinals or yeah let i did watch some because i had the cardinals in survivor um i wouldn't feel great if i were the cardinals i would feel really bad if i'm the saints flatly um all right and by the way quick nick's tennis corner carlos alcarez told you guys listen i'm not saying he and center aren't a good rivalry this moment what i am saying is he is a different tier and caliber of player alcares could end his career in the top top top tier discussion and center to me

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