The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1433 - FIRST 15: NFL Week 7 Recap

Episode Date: October 20, 2025

Pat, Darius Butler, and the boys break down the biggest storylines of week 7 of the NFL season in the FIRST 15. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This Raida's team, they like, they stay. Stink! There's some teams that really seemingly stink out there. And if you're not one of those teams, you should be excited. Yeah. And if you're not one of those teams, there's a good chance you're going to be featured in the first 15. Can we please put the clock on? This is driven by Ram, obviously, and they're back in the truck series next year.

Yeah, that's right. It'll go there. and they'll certainly win that. Listen, we put 15 minutes on the clock here, but it doesn't mean we're going to take 15 minutes. This is for us to realize how long into the program we are, and also a goal. Now, we are normally hovering around 32 minutes per episode.

Sure. Okay, so we are more than 100% off, but we are going to try to shoot for the first 15 minutes, but everybody knows the first 15 is in reference to the first 15 place. Exactly. First 15 place. Yes. Okay, we put the minutes on her just to kind of, you know, maybe.

We are who we are. You got to have something. All right. Like certain teams, we like to run that clock all the way down. We am what we am. And Indianapolis Colts before half were doing what they were doing with the clock. And J.J. Walt, with his glasses on, wasn't happy about it. We'll talk to him about that on Wednesday.

First 15 on, here's the top five headlines coming out of Week 7 Sunday in our eyes. How about some bucking mile high magic? We alluded to it just moments ago. 33.4th quarter for Bo Nix, Sean Payton, on D.T. Day, as they were honoring Demarius Thomas' life and his teammates in a Super Bowl. Bull champions were in town and there was a statue unveiled and everything was magical out there. You would think that the Denver Broncos would have been riding that high.

You know, those types of football gods games don't come around that much. This one felt like one from all parties. So when Jackson Dart Scataboo and the boys went in there and put up 19 nothing going into the fourth, everybody was surprised. Well, don't look now, Bowknicks gets back into the game. Let me go ahead and drop this thing. Oh, wow. How are you doing?

Keep it moving. Football gods, maybe on their side. Yeah. Get a deflection, get a Tud, all momentum's on their side. Football, God's blessing them. Nope, Jackson D'Art says we could do one of those two. Boopty, boopty to Johnson. Johnson scores.

Now, that obviously is going to make it 26. Hey, we're right back where we thought we were a couple of seconds ago. Bo does not bow down. He answers. Bo on the move. Tibido, no edge, no chance. Bo Nix touchdown in Denver. And all of a sudden, with five minutes left, we got a real game over.

Yeah, we do. 26, 16, 10 points, only two scores. What's Jackson Dirk going to do with it? 4.56 left. Other team has one time out, Jackson. Third and five. Oh, no. Jackson.

Oh, no, Jackson. Jackson. Rookie mistake from the rookie quarterback of the New York Giants. Will Bo Nix take advantage of it? Why, certainly, once again, on a rollout, drop off to Harvey. Touchdown. Bow Nicks, so that's a turnover. That's a touchdown.

Big Moe's rolling. How you feel? No, Carrie Kay? Not great. 26, 23. Did they leave too much time for Bo Nix to come back? Yes, and then some. Give me that touchdown.

151 left in the game. We take a four-point lead. 30-26. Jackson DART was given no opportunity to come back. Is Jackson Dard could be the guy who leads his team in final minutes of games? Yes, he is. Runs in it himself. Did they score too quick?

Uh-oh. Did Bo Nix score too quick? too quick for Jackson Dart. Did Jackson Dart score too quick for Bo Nix? Well, let's just go through the procedural extra point here to make sure everything's really copacetic. Miss. Oh, no.

What? Miss. No. 33 yard extra point. How old was D.T. when he passed away? 33 years old. How much time is about to be on this clock right here? Oh, my God.

33 seconds. Bo Nix has 33 seconds. Down to finds Mims over the middle. Shot Bow. Knicks. No timeouts. What are you going to do? Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, rush, kill, kill. Situational football, stupendous for Bo Knicks. Offsides. Can't get back in time because you're injured. Let's go ahead and tack on five more yards. Then are we done? Are we settled here for a field goal? Will Lutz? No, let's find Cortland Sutton. The man who carried on DT's tradition of bringing

donuts in for the wide receivers gets a massive catch to put them even more into field goal range Down to Bo Nix kill at three seconds. Will Lutz walks on the field. And Will, there's only one L in Will. The other L is headed to you, New York Giants, as they win 3332 in an unprecedented comeback that has records breaking all over the place. There's multiple stats that you can pull from.

There's one that was like 1,601 or something like that. Times with 18-point lead with six minutes left has a team one. Then there was another stat that came. It was like, yeah, 3,67 losses for any teams that have been trailing by 18 plus in the final six minutes of the fourth quarter since the 1970 merger. There's only been one other team that's done it. And obviously, that was the Coltserv of the Buccaneers. If you remember, on Monday night football, the stadium actually emptied out. That game was over.

Peyton Manning goes crazy. The boys go bananas. And then I think Mike Vanderjack banks in a kick, and they end up winning that game on prime time. And this Denver Broncos team did just that. Now, obviously, we're pumped for the New York Giants having a guy, Jackson Dart, be able to lead a team into Denver on that day with all the emotion and all the energy and have massive success. Has that pick late?

Obviously, can't have it. Everybody's going to talk about that. Kickers got to make both extra points that he missed, let alone the one in the final minute to potentially put the other team in a bad spot. But other than that, what did we learn about this Broncos team? And what did you learn about the Giants in this entire process, debuts? A lot of what you said, the Giants, I still think all arrows are pointing up.

You know, you still have, I think, the quarterback of the future, maybe Dave will have saved his job going too dark. But, I mean, we always talk about playing 60 minutes. The game's never over. You talk about D.T. being there. They did a great job with his statue right next to Payton's, and then the Super Bowl 50 team been there to honor him. So, yeah, they weren't losing, celebrating DT.

So shout out to him. We had a lot of battles against him. But, yeah, Bo Nicks, the boys, 33 points in a quarter. First quarterback ever to have two rush. and two passing touchdowns in the same quarter. Just unbelievable grit. We talk about grit all the time. You just fight until the absolute end, and that's what the Broncos did.

It's always a fine line between winning a loser in the National Football League. This is something we never seen before. We saw the win probability. We always see that chart. I think this one got up to like 99.8, which is insane. So to get it all the way down there, get it done, man. The Giants fought, and obviously people appointed the kicker, but everybody can point it themselves in that locker room

and look at different moments in time where they made a mistake and put their hand up and say, I could have done better. But this is football, man. You stick beside your guys. You keep fighting an unbelievable win for the Broncos. Obviously, that 33 points is the most points in a fourth quarter by any team. They'll shut out in the first three quarters in NFL history.

Sure. Yeah. The NFL's history says if you stink through three quarters, you're not just going to have an offensive explosion in the fourth quarter. Unless you're Bo Nix and Sean Payton. Interesting relationship. Because I feel like we're up on them. At the beginning, we didn't really know. Then we're up on them.

Then they're kind of not being talked about. Now they have a massive fourth quarter. What do you think the story is a bow and Sean Peyton? when Sean Payton drafted Bo loved him. He came on our program, actually. We had to draft spectaculars before we were with ESPN. I think that might have been our first year on ESPN. Yeah, whatever the case.

He said, I love this guy, everything about him. It felt like a match made in heaven, then they had to go through their own learning. This year, that win, that moment, is this what's going to propel them to being great the rest of the season time? I mean, I would assume a game like that kind of has you believe in like, hey, no matter what happens, we can win. But I think because he started so much in college and because he is a little bit older, maybe, you know, some people would like Bo Nick. They view him more as more of a veteran guy, like, hey, we should let this guy throw

a little bit more as opposed to kind of really managing him. But, I mean, you talk about like a personality match. Like, he does kind of remind me of Drew Breeze a little bit, and we obviously know the relationship those two had. So I like that Bo Nix, because that was kind of the big thing with Russ, is, you know, like we knew right

away, hey, these guys don't get along. They go back and forth at each other, but clearly Sean Payton trusts Bo Nix when it matters the most. And yeah, if you're a Broncos fan, I think you're thinking, hey, this might be the team this year. And also, you just don't care. You won the game, you know, like, as terrible as the first three quarters are. Like, you shouldn't, if you're a Broncos fan, be like, well, it was the Giants.

The Giants are good, too. Now I have a feeling. Defense. Yeah, defensively, they're great. Like, they were awesome. And then even on offense, the Broncos, off, or defense, rather, is one of the best defenses in the NFL, and they still were able to put up 32 points. Now, they had, you know, I don't know, the ghost of someone in New York because the fact that

they had a deflection off the hands into one of their players' hands after... I was just building up the dram. Yeah, yeah. And then another story not talking about with the Broncos. Yeah, they played last weekend against the Jets in London. Like, they didn't have a lot of teams take a bye week after that. They fly all the way back.

And this isn't flying back to the East Coast. They're flying back all the way the Mountain Time Zone. So, yeah, they were battling it there, started a little slow. But then obviously, you know, they got their time zone legs underneath. Next gen stats put out the point you were saying, I believe, or somebody mentioned. Yeah, there it is. 99.8. I mean, that's plateaued at 100% basically. This team's been an asshole game. No way they have any chances.

Not that they have a sense of feel whenever they're doing these stats. And instead, the Broncos come back and get a huge one. Congrats to the bucking Broncos. Five and two. Talking about where can you go. Well, that AFC West is all of a sudden a little bit better than it was. And that might be another headline at another moment. Let's go to the fourth headline.

What do you see? What do you see? What do you see? A couple of MVP candidates? Yeah. What did you see? Oh, yeah. All over the place.

Now, only on winning teams. Here's the ones that we put up. But it feels like there's a lot of different names each weekend that could win this MVP. Feels more wide open than it has been in years past. And maybe that's because the teams are at the top of the NFL right now, weren't supposed to be at the top of the NFL. So all of a sudden, guys that maybe you didn't know we're going to be incredible or incredible and also on good teams, so we're learning a lot about them.

Insert, North Carolina quarterback for the New England Patriots. This guy, Drake May, is unbelievable right now. Yeah, he's the best. the business and there's a lot of stats right now that are you know he's the first ever to do this first ever to do that those are cool uh when you had tom brady as your quarterback for this franchise for 20 years and then this guy's breaking tom brady's records i think that's the coolest thing he already tied 2007 long hair model tom brady for most games in team history with at least 200 yards 135 pass rating and two passing touchdowns in a season uh four's the record in an entire season

and he's done it four times in seven games. He's also basically the greatest dual threat quarterback in the history of the NFL. Now, we'll just say in this span of six games, but stats are telling us, and people love these stats, but they're telling us, it's absurd. Lamar is most of the time MVP, but six games into this season, they're saying things are a little bit different from Drake than everybody else. Well, and that's the thing. It's not just six, it's just in a six game span.

So in this six game span, this is something Lamar Jackson's never done, 150 plus pass attempts, 75% completion percentage, 125 pass rating, and 150 plus rushing yards. So no matter what, I get it, there are other fantastic quarterbacks. He makes no mistakes. He's taking what the, you know, defense gives you, which I feel like is a big problem, at least last year, that was a big talking point. Hey, everyone's running cover two.

Everyone's covered too. You know, you can't attack any more downfield. You can't do those type of things. and instead of trying to attack and making mistakes, he's just giving them what the defense is kind of given, and then now he's 5 and 2, and we're talking about him as an MVP. It's unbelievable.

It's crazy what the Patriots have been able to do. Vrabe's going to feel so good after that win. Let's talk about Dak Prescott now for the Dallas Cowboys. QBR 81.4 through 7 weeks, 7th highest ever right now. Breeze, Lamar, Rogers, Peyton, and Brady have had a higher one this far into the season, but that's obviously some epic names. And his records against the commanders, I mean, I guess we should have known going into. he was just going to cook him.

He goes into Washington, his cowboy and beats the hell out of him. Okay? He's like LBJ. Yeah, he is. Cowboy LBJ going into Washington doing his thing. If Washington, D.C., he's taking on a cowboy, and Dak Prescott's there, he's going to beat their ass. I mean, he's undefeated. His QBR is something through the roof.

The amount of touchdowns he has this. Amount of interceptions, none, 22 touchdowns, zero interceptions against commanders. Just 7-0, I think, is his record. And he continued his dominance. This guy's special debuts. Yeah, he's unbelievable. The stats are one. thing, but just watching them play. We all watch enough football, been around football long enough,

where you could tell when the quarterback is just in a flow. You could just tell when they have complete control of what's going on. And he did a lot of this without 88 on the field. Turpin was banged up as well, but without the one of the top three highest paid wide receivers on the field with C.D. Lamb, he had been missing in action. George Pickens had kind of taken that mantle become a wide receiver one. So now with C.D. Lamb back in the fall and Picking is still doing what he's been doing, building that report. He's built with number four back there is unbelievable. Ferguson, it seems like he scores a couple of touchdowns every week. So he, I think, coming into this game, he led this team in Target share.

So if their defense can give them any help down the stretch, like this Dallas Cowboys team is going to be one to fear down the stretch, I think. A guy that's on pace to have over 1,000, both rushing and receiving, and thank God he's back if you're the San Francisco 49ers, Christian McCaffrey. We saw this in prime time. This dude had 129 rush yards, 72 receiving yards, which is 62% of his team's total yards from scrimmage last night.

That's highest percentage by any player of the season, obviously. And this is what we saw from the Niners whenever they were on their run with Christian McCaffrey. Get George Kittle back last night. Now, through the air, George Kittle might not have done much. But there's a bunch of stats coming out that George Kittle blocking for CMC and their run game in total is up to the right whenever he's on the field versus off the field. CMC back to his MVP form, D. Butch, there's a chance he wins another one.

Absolutely. He's back to form. It was crazy because we had huge question marks about him health-wise coming into the year. But from week one, they've been giving him, you know, his fair share of touches. So getting it on the ground, getting in the air. He talked about George Kittle. He's kind of like the gronk now. Like he's the best blocking tight end when it comes to it. And then he can also be a threat in the past game as well.

Wasn't last night. Said he kind of used this game to get back in shape. But I think the 49ers in CMC, he'll carry him a long way. That defense now kind of patching them up a little bit. But this offense has been cooking. What's McCorkel Jones's record out there? Matt Jones, I believe, is 4 and 1 right now. He's only lost coming to Tampa in Tampa.

Hey. I know. I know. We don't need to do it right now. No, no. But it's very evident. We're going to do it to Shepter, though. Yeah, right.

In about five minutes, we are going to do that to Shepter. Just because since day one, I think we all, on this particular program, are like, just, I think it's because how close we were to the Mac Jones number three overall story. Okay. We are very close to that entire thing, like, pretty big. In the room where it happened. Bingo. We were pretty in the story there. So I think just the way that all panes.

out and then how his career goes and then him ending up back there with the same exact people in charge same exact coach with everything we had been hearing that was being said and acted like and then bang we're going tray lance out of nowhere it's like you always have that what if in there always cooking what if what if what if and now shanahan and lynch are getting an opportunity to kind of live there what if and they're having a lot of success 200 million dollars to another quarterback I get it and we love bro I'm still love it I'm on the island with I'm over the island I'm still on the Brock Purdy. Me too. Hey, I love Brock Purdy. I'm looking for it. But the conversation is if he comes back and doesn't play well, the conversation is there. Okay, we got to go back to Mac.

And Kyle Shanahan is a guy that will pick Mr. Irrelevant over a number three overall pick. I mean, it's literally already done. Yeah, proofs to the put. Now, Mr. Irrelevant was very, very, very good football player. Yeah. Still is very, very good football player. But boy, first love, Matt Jones. First round talent. Starts doing all this. Damn, we're nowhere here. We're close. Let's go to the third one, please. Let's get to the third one.

LA lights up. Oh, I'm sorry. We got another, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, geez. Yeah, I cannot get past this. Yeah, you could. Oh, here we go. I see them every week, okay?

I see them with my actual eyes, whenever we're down there on the field and these boys are getting after it. Then we're obviously watching them on TV as they're playing against the minions. And I would like to say the grew post that the Indianapolis did. It was brilliant.

I think that was very good. social media. They should be incredibly proud of that particular play, especially after a big time win. Chargers are known for having great uniforms. I think these uniforms should get thrown out. Yeah, I agree. Forever. I mean, it's hurt us. Colts fans, we're forced to watch you guys wear this shit, okay?

I love the Chargers. I love the Chargers' creativity. I like the Chargers mindset. I like everything about them, actually, except for these jerseys. This was disgusting to wear it against us. We had to look at this. Colts fans had to watch us. We had to watch these yellow things. Now, on that note,

it was a pretty good vibes while we were watching. Sure, sure. This Indianapolis Colts team? Easy vibes. Everybody's eating. Everybody's eating. Danny Dimes could be in the MVP conversation. Jonathan Taylor's going to score three touchdowns a game.

He's on pace to maybe have 4,000 touchdowns. They're talking about everything he's on face for. The amount of tuds he has combined like four other running backs that are all big-name running backs, and his dance is sick. So I'm talking about when you talk about a branding, when you talk about performance-wise, the Colts are it. The only thing that's bad is people aren't going to want to show these highlights, because these damn Chargers uniforms are all over them.

Now, I still believe in the Chargers. I still like Justin Herbert. He went for 421. Who do you throw the ball to? Doreen, O'Reine, Gadsden. The Gadsden. The second. Yeah, so we believe.

Miami Dolphin Legend. We believe in Justin Herbert and the Chargers. We are still fans of that. But this Colts team is kind of doing with like Vandy was doing to people last year. So, like, nobody really thinks the Colts are really fucking. good. So whenever the Colts beat your team, the fans have full panic, full meltdown or whatever. You know, like, I think a lot of people out on the Chargers because they lose to the Colts this way. It's like, hey, the Colts are very, we're a wagon. Two MVP candidates leading

it on the offensive side. And that man, JT, and the quarterback Danny Dimes, it must be a great time to be alive to be these boys. And all they keep saying is all the right things, Dee. But we haven't done anything still early in the season. We've got to keep going forward. They're a mature bunch that hasn't really been on a stage that much. I love that. And the fact that everybody, you know, a bunch of the pundits and talking heads still aren't really giving them that credit. It's still going to be, I think probably the chiefs is going to be the conversation now with how they're playing, but they're rolling. And you kind of, as a coach, that's easy to motivate the squad. You know, you don't have to deal with as much rat poison. But these boys keep playing

like this. This train, people are going to keep jumping on this train. Danny Dimes, we talked about it. He's just finding guys. The offensive line, it always starts in the trenches. They've been protecting them. He's been dissecting defenses. And then Jonathan Taylor, we know all of the great running backs that have come through this organization. he has a chance to be the very best one when it's all said, done. Already up to 12 touchdown. You mentioned earlier. Third game already this season with three

touchdowns leading the league and rushing in the league and rushing yards as well. Like he is a dominant force. So yeah, we got two legit MVP candidates on the office side of the ball. JT. Valuable running back. He's a valuable running back. Scores so many touchdowns. Yeah, might be most valuable player.

Yeah, he might be. He might be the most valuable player. The most in the entire league and then Danny Dimes going crazy. Here's some stats. about this Indianapolis Colts offense juggernaut, led by Shane Stuyken here. Most points per drive in a season. Colts, 3.5 Patriots in 2007, 3.2, no big deal. They were great, right? Yeah, very, very good. Highest drive score rate in a season.

Colts in 2025, 63%. Two thousand 18, chiefs, you ever heard of them? 53%. Jesus. Fewest punts per drive in a season, Colts, 19% of the time we're punting with Rigoberto Sanchez, who's a great punter, by the way, just would like that to be known, and an incredible holder, which was on display this weekend with people not being great at holding. 2018 Rams, 24% were they good?

Yeah, I think so. Seven games in, but still that's ridiculous company. Keep says, Hembo, thank you, Humbow. With the little tagline at the bottom. Yeah, remember, we didn't punt for like three weeks or whatever. It's like, Dimes knows exactly what to do in every single play. It knows exactly, like, even where to run. And then if it doesn't work out, Jonathan Taylor's vision is, he'll cut that shit.

I mean, he's going obtuse angle back. And then it's wide-ass open over there, too, because our offensive line has been doing incredible jobs. It's fun to watch. They're not the only ones. There's a couple more MVPs that we saw from winning teams this weekend. How about over there in London Town? There, Maddie Stafford.

Now, this guy's special, special. And obviously, DeVonte Adams goes bananas and Matthew Stafford's still doing that Matthew Stafford shit. Now, he needs not to wear cleats over there on the Baltimore Orioles pitching match. Yeah. Even though it might be the best pitch that that mound is seen in a wall.

They go over to L.A. And absolutely crushed. Devante Adams has to be so happy about the decision to go to the Los Angeles. Angeles Rams. And this is all without Pooka Nakua. So obviously we all miss Puka. We're all pulling for Puka. And this Los Angeles Rams team with Sean McVeigh at the helm is incredibly disgusting all the time. And Stafford looks like he's 32 years old, Dibut. I mean, it looks like he's 31 right now with all the throws and everything he's doing.

I know you said, don't do it. The cleats on the mound and all that. But whatever you did this week, do it whenever. Like the teams, I'm sure we talk about it's a copycat league. When do they go over to London? Saturday. So the latest arrival there ever, and they just showed up and absolutely dominated. All these passes touchdowns in the red area, I'm sure a bunch of people that had, Kyra Williams possibly on a touchdown ticket, we're pissed off. But great job by him, five touchdowns, then Devonte Adams, three touchdowns. Unbelievable performance out there in London time.

And the last winning QB that we're thinking maybe MVP conversation is the guy, Patrick Bomes. Hey, I don't want to say this because it sounds disrespectful. Patrick Bahams is the greatest at football again. And the only reason why I'm saying that is because he's playing like he was playing a couple years ago. So their offense kind of transitioned into a different offense, whether it was the personnel that they had. Remember, there was a time where they didn't have anybody to catch the ball. So they had to go on the run game. They had to do defense.

They had to be very conservative. There was a time where he was wide open, throwing it all over the place, running all over the place. And they've had success both ways. It feels like we're back to Showtime, Patch Mahom. It feels like it's time. He'll put the team on his back if he has to, but we're throwing a ball over the place. We're no looking.

We're doing absurd shit on a regular basis, and it'll be a headline here in about a second. Everybody knows what's going on with the Chiefs right now. As soon as anybody starts seeing some of these highlights, where she Rice is back, how you doing, keep him moving. Let's go ahead and force feed him a couple touchdowns, make sure he feels welcome. We got worthy as well.

Oh, yeah. And we got Travis. Oh, yeah. And we got, and we got, and we got, oh, yeah. And we got Patrick Mahones from a couple years ago when he was putting a team on his damn back. as opposed to the conservative offense, Patrick Mahomes, that he had to be. Once again, I don't want to say that he was doing anything by choice, had to do it to win it.

This is exciting. This is electrifying. And this is why as soon as the sports book saw a glimpse of it, there was like one game three weeks ago where Patrick Mahomes started moving. They're like, yep, he's the favorite. Let's go ahead and put him right back up there with what they're going to do. That AFC West is tough. There's the odds. Obviously, we didn't put Baker on today's list of MVP that we saw over the weekend because he plays tonight.

So let's go ahead and get excited about that. Same with Jared Goff, so we apologize for not doing that. And, yeah, I think there's a lot of great football right now with no stand-alones for who the MVP is. Now, let's go to the third headline, shall we? L.A. lights up London, to your point, Darius, this is another international game, another weekend, a 9.30 Sunday Eastern Time game to wake up to, have a little coffee, hang out with baby girl, watch her eat some eggs. And then, oh, yeah, we got football playing. That's amazing news. Who did I pick whenever we were doing the picks? oh, the Jacksonville Jaguars, because

Liam Cohen had a lot of time in L.A., he'll know what they're doing. Yeah. That's good. And his Jaguars team's good team. They're good. In L.A., they're not going over until Saturday? They think this is a joke. Stupid. Which you didn't remember what we didn't think about. And I think I mentioned it on Friday, but it didn't hit me until late.

Them choosing to fly over on Saturday, stay on the East Coast, Baltimore, then fly over there. They have those long-ass flights on a regular basis. Anytime they go to fly to the East Coast from L.A., it's four, five, six hours. So if they're in Baltimore, and that's a five, six-hour flight to London. For them, it's just like, we just got to get used to playing in the morning.

Other than that, it is status quo. And they just beat the hell out of the Jacksonville Jaguars. I mean, they look fresher than any team I've seen go play international. They look better than everybody. And they might have had to figure it out. And this team's for real, yet again, Darius. It's for real. Now, you know, offensively, they're always going to be for real with Sean McVeigh

and Matt Stafford calling the shots. But defensively, with Chris Shula and some people were calling for him and some other places to take the reins. But that defense is absolutely dominant. It starts with the front. It's in the blood. It's in the blood. Fisk.

Turner, just a bunch of dogs up front. Chris Shula has the boys rolling, hunting. They lead the league and dying personnel, so they're going to get stops. But offensively, they're going to four points week in and week out. You talked about it. This was without Pooka, who was a top two, top three wide receiver when he was playing this season. We were expecting to pick up right where he left off when he gets back in here. But, yeah, Matt Stafford, slinging the ball all across the York.

This guy, he's going to be a dog as this season to continue. used to go. We saw him in college Ferguson, the second round pick. But yeah, this team is special to watch. And what are they now? Five and two on top of the NFC West? Yeah. So I can't wait to continue to watch these boys roll. Rain in like hell. Obviously, tea and crumpets all over the place, Matt and Stafford loves everything about it. They're almost throwing more because it was nasty. Yeah, that's what I was going to say, is to do it in the inclement weather because it was pouring. And, you know, I think a lot of people, maybe not so much with Stafford because he's played for so long, but they just assume with the Rams, it's like, oh, that's

a dome team. Like, you know, and then when they have to travel, potentially for the playoffs, like, they're going to be in trouble because they're so used to that. And obviously, we saw last year in the playoffs, that wasn't necessarily the case, but for them to be able to go in these conditions and just beat the shit out of the Jaguars. I mean, that speaks volume. They pommeled these Jaguars. Are we worried about the Jags?

No. A little bit after that one. A little bit. London's a home game for them. No, but it was rainy. Let's go to the number two headline. The Chiefs isn't still. the chiefs, they're better.

Oh, no. I don't want to be the bearer of bad news. I think we're all seeing it, okay? Sportsbook saw it before any of us. Yes, they're the ones to change the odds immediately. Somehow, they must have had a little conversation inside. Okay, when Rashid Rice obviously comes back, they're going to have another weapon, okay? And with Worthy being faster than everybody on the field, they're going to have their,

this year's version of their Tyree kill. Travis Kelsey is going to somehow drink from the fountain of youth. Kareem Hunt's going to do the same damn thing. They're going to start having more weapons than everybody else. And then, oh, yeah, Patrick Mahomes is going to make a decision that he's just not going to lose anymore. That's what Patrick Mahomes says he's going to do. He'll run through you, he'll run around you. And then the defensive side of the ball, hold the phone.

They have a shutout. Are they good, too, Dee Butch? Well, look, you got to factor in the opponent here. Whoa, Kenny Pickett played. That man's a Super Bowl champion. Exactly, you do. So they ran 30 plays on offense. I don't know what that should be a record, at least in the last 15.

Yeah, that's unbelievable. Well, yeah, you know Spaggs and that defense is going to figure it out and start humming and start playing well. But Patrick Mahomes is the first game, I believe, with Worthy, Hollywood, Brown, and Rishie Rice on the field at the same time. And you mentioned Travis Kelsey finding that fountain youth. Yeah, definitely. He's going to be open.

That intermediate part of the field has to be open. Because as defenses and DBs, we got to get the hell back with all these guys running four twos all around the field. So Andy Reid, you know, they're going to figure it out. Spaggs is going to figure it out. And the two on the special teams in that third phase, he's going to figure it out as well. So, yeah, it's not a great moment for any teams in the AFC, any teams in the NFL, really, when this team in Red is humming.

We saw Travis Kelsey on the Ares tour come out on stage, shave his lady. Yeah, sure. Okay? Do that. Oh, yeah. The whole thing. We saw him Happy Gilmore, nail it. Yeah.

Absolutely nail it. Obviously, we've seen Patrick Mahomes do some commercials. We've seen him out there kind of doing his thing. You saw him do a little Thespian for the fake? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ah, like run it. going for it on their own 40 on fourth and a foot try to draw him offside sorry my home says coach it doesn't there they go he was faking it

he got you he was faking it you holy hell that's genius i love everything about it a couple of the linebackers look like they weren't falling for it but just all you need is one D-Lyman just be like, oh, yeah, we aren't falling for it, brother. Whoa, shit, we're out of nowhere. Love the fake spike anytime anybody does it. And I guess we're going to, you know, anytime Patty Showtime at home starts putting it on a Broadway act in the middle of a show, I'm going to buy it because I think he sold it pretty good. I mean, he fooled, what, Tony Romo played with 15 years in Lee?

He fooled the hell out of Tony. Now, I'm sure a lot of people probably hated that from Tony, but I love that. I think it made it better. Look, think about Tony. You feel like he's excited watching the game. So I can appreciate that from him. And we know we've seen Patrick Monument. You never know what to expect with this bunch.

Whether it's spinning around in a huddle in the red area or something, I always got something up their sleeves. So this was, and it's the Raiders show. Why not go for it? I mean, it's only 7-0 at that point. Little they know that that would be the Raiders final score. And Pete Carroll, I don't know if he's loving necessarily coming back into coaching to be the Raiders.

And what's that conversation later? We'll certainly ask Schaefter here in a matter of moments. And number one headline. I'll let you guys read it home with your eyes first. Cold school and Super Bowl. I mean, it's so cool. Oh, they're finally going to play somebody that's good. We'll beat the Broncos, okay, just so we all kind of make this argument kind of disappear quickly.

Chargers aren't going to let him just do that bullshit. Dang, Dom's going to find. Yeah, right. We're better everybody. We're literally better than everybody. And we got 390 pounds deflecting balls and catching him. This guy cooks wings in his sink. And he's doing this to your favorite quarterback.

Give me that. Bats it up in. the sky, pushes a guy off him, let me find that thing, fingers and wrist tape, then our entire team joins them. Everybody that is in L.A. from Indianapolis hits the field and celebrates with

him. But whenever things like that are happening, you know, good juju's on our side. And then you think about the story, Grover Stewart was actually one of brought the guitar. So they've been bringing a guitar for Jim Ursey. It's one of his guitars. For the boss, bring it in. I don't know if it's a player of the week, person that gives a speech. I'm not 100% sure

how it goes to who it goes. But obviously you bring the guitar, you've got to get the pick. So now every person at his defense that brings in a guitar, works back the same thing. Grover Stewart's not supposed to get picks. Brought's guitar needs one so he can shred that thing. This team's a real deal, brother. They are for real.

All three phases, too. Badgley goes back. He was kicker for the Chargers, makes a couple big ones. Riga Berto Sanchez was called on a couple of times. He makes it. The defense humming all over the place, and we just got Kenny Moe back.

So the fact that he's getting his feet back under him for the run. The Colts might be starting out too hot, but also we might be nowhere near peak yet either. I mean, there's so many different things and angles to kind of discuss about it. How do you feel about the team? And what do you think about our upside still? I feel like we're still only learning more about ourselves. Yeah,

I expect at this point for us to be kind of figuring out and finding ourselves, hopefully being like around 500, maybe in the battle for the AFC South. So to be sitting here going into what week, eight, week nine now and you're the top of the league. Like, we're the class of the division when you look at

obviously the AFC South and the whole conference at the AFC. And you talk about it. When you watch this team play. It's not like gimmicky shit or they got an offense that, hey, defense haven't quite figured it out yet or defense. Like, you're just seeing sound fundamental football in all three phases, regardless of the injuries. We've been pretty healthy in offense, but a ton of injuries on defense. Danny Dimes, like, it's unbelievable. They were hot in this quarterback in New York for those years. Like, I feel terrible for all these quarterbacks that and we'll never see. Some of us knew. I mean, I didn't know. Most of us didn't know. We

We remember the poet. We watched the playoff game. Yeah, I'm sure you were in the minority with those of course. You were very optimistic about Dave Groves. Yeah, but let's talk about now. Man, he's spending it. Shane Stike and unbelievable, it's the big win for him too against one of his former teams. You talked about Big Grove.

And just that what you saw with the sideline, like I talked about it weeks ago with the, I think it was the Eagles at the time. But like, when you see those type of vibes, like that's the type of shit that just comes through the screen, we, we, you can tell what's going on in the building Monday through Saturday when you see shit like this I don't think I've ever seen this many people run off the sideline on the NFL the NFL game. This game's nowhere in there

over. This is middle of the second quarter. It's not like fourth quarter game ceiling interception. So the vibes are remarkably right now with the Colts. Long season ahead, but from everything that I'm seeing and that we're seeing, it looks like they're going to only continue to get better. Last step before we bring in a man to correct us or give us more depth on

every conversation we've had. Daniel Jones is responding to pressure better than any QB we've ever tracked, says Hembo. He's 91.8 QBR when pressure would be the highest in a season in the history of the metric. The previous record was Josh Allen's 83.5 in 2024 last year. That was an MVP season.

For context, the league average versus pressure is 27.8. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now is a guy who I think to just say hand the MVP trophy to Danny Dimes now, senior NFL insider for ESPN, Michigan man, Adam Schaeffey. Shepty,

come on, guys. First 15, 39 minutes in at this point, we appreciate you joining us. Anything that you saw us talk about that we missed there or needs to be mentioned? Jonathan Taylor's had a pretty good hand in succeeding where Danny Dimes has. Danny Dimes, you know what's amazing is the cults run through a lot of pressure, a lot of heat, and they haven't added that much. They added a quarterback, and they added a tight end, right? That's basically what they did.

Tyler Warren, Daniel Jones, and those two guys have turned that team into a dominant outfit. And a lot of people said they hadn't beaten anybody early on. okay fine they went into la and yes that charger team was beat up but they beat up that team you don't see an offense run-up points the way that the culture is doing and what's amazing to me also is they're very rarely in third down like they're getting everything on first second down um they've been incredible to watch and they are right now as good as about any team in football outside with all due respect maybe the kansas city chiefs okay well obviously kansas city chiefs we just did an entire thing about what Patrick Mahomes looks like right now

and how they're potentially only getting better. I think we as the Indianapolis Colts, I'm not going to say we, I'll say as the fan of the Indianapolis Colts, I want to speak for the locker room. We like to play the Chiefs right now. I think in a few weeks, I think in a few weeks this Chief's team might continue to do it to think, but so are we. So are we. I think we would not be scared

to the smoke. And then Tampa Bay, obviously, is thinking the same thing down there in Tampa. We'll watch them tonight. Obviously, you'll give us some more intel on the two games this evening. Let's go to Bermuda. Bahama Come on pretty mama Baby why don't we go down

Cocoa You know what We'll tip there fast And then we'll take it slow That's where we want to go We're down in Coca-a-mo Let's talk about the benched boys Okay

not the Beach Boys. Let's talk about Tua, Gino, and Justin Fields. Obviously not a super positive thing to chitchat about, but the benched boys is how we'll refer to them. What should we be expecting for their stories going forward? And is just because the team look like trash on this particular day? Let's go ahead and scrap off and move forward. I mean, I can't believe all the things that are going on in the league in that giant Broncos game, but you go to the bench boys.

But okay, like, you want to go there. You miss the first 30 minutes, Chuck. You missed the first 30 minutes. We already hit that. Yeah, we already hit that. But you have the updates that we don't have. Tua and the Miami Dolphins. Obviously, interesting situation.

Gino and the Raiders, Pete Carroll and the Raiders. And then Justin Fields, Aaron Glenn came out and said every situation is still going to be moderated. We're early in the week. It feels like those are pretty big stories with three big names there.

Yeah, listen, Aaron Glenn is leaning on the advice of other people. As he mentioned during the press conference, wants to talk to some other coaches around the league. I would imagine that means he'll be talking to Bill Parcells this week. Maybe Sean Payton gets some input on what he should and shouldn't be doing a quarterback. I think when you're talking like that, I think it's hard to go back to the initial guy,

so it wouldn't surprise me if they go to Rod Taylor here, but that'll be a decision that Aaron Glenn has to make here. Tua Tuna Viloa has struggled. It's not like they're going to turn to Quinn yours. I don't think this early in the year. They're going to keep riding Tua right now. He'll be the guy. He's throwing a lot of interceptions.

they've played bad football. I know a lot of people thought that by this time the Dolphins would have wholesale changes today. It's not happening. They've been wanting to hold off on this for as long as they possibly can. I think we all recognize what's ahead in Miami that there could be significant changes that come.

They don't seem to be coming anytime soon. But obviously, when you play the way they have and lose the way that they are, I won Dolphins fan text me yesterday that this is one of the lowest points in franchise history. there's going to be changes. And we know that there'll be changes. We just don't know how soon they'll come,

but I'm not expecting any changes this week. The Raiders are on a by week. They're going to sit down and evaluate everything. Their backup quarterbacks, Kenny Pickett, I guess they could try that for a spark. You know, the problem yesterday, they ran 30 plays, 30 total place all game.

If you look at it, I think that was like the lowest number of play. I have it in my phone. It's like the lowest number. Yeah, there it is. Okay. lowest amount of plays since at least 2002. I have some, yeah, I mean, just, you're not

going to win that way. And it was a bad performance. They have not played well offensively. They should get Brock Bowers back after the buy. That'll help. They never, Jacoby Myers. Like, who's Gino throwing the football to yesterday? It's a tough thing. Yeah, it's a tough thing. Injury is also a tough thing in the NFL storyline. We know you don't

love that that is a part of your gig, but it's real especially at the quarterback position. Now, you have Jacoby playing for Kyler. You have Carson playing for JJ. Then we got a couple more seemingly yesterday. Go ahead, Debuts. Yeah, Carolina got another win yesterday, but Bryce Young went down late in that game, and then also Jaden Daniels went down in his game as well. Any updates there for those two quarterbacks? Bryce Young won't play this week. He'll be out. He's dealing with a sprint ankle.

And as for Jaden Daniels, well, Bryce, here's the play. He hobbled to the locker room after he went down here. Gingley didn't come back in the game. Andy Dalton came on, and Andy Dalton will wind up starting for Bryce Young this week. Jaden Daniels also went to the blue medical tent, hobbled. People weren't exactly sure what it initially was. It turned to be his hamstring. Look, we've seen what this is before, whereas Lamar Jackson had a hamstring injury. Now, who knows if they're the same grade.

We don't know what grade Lamar's was, but he missed two weeks. They have the buy, and the Ravens feel like they'll get him back. Jaden Daniels hobbles off the field doesn't come back in the game. I think it would be safe to say right now that it would be a surprise if he's playing a week from today against the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday football. And the commanders are about to embark upon really like the teeth of their schedule. They play the Chiefs, the Seahawks, the Lions. I think that it's fair to think that Jaden Daniels is going to miss some of those games at the very least, at the very least with a hamstring injury like that. here's a guy that makes his living with his legs, with his arm.

And again, I think it would be a surprise if he's back next week. That sucks for all of us. Mark Smarriota, though, has already gotten some time, obviously. We'll see how that goes for Monday night football. Two guys that I mentioned there early, and we got a chance to experience the Carson Wentz experience yesterday. And also, you know, what's going on out there in Phoenix? Go ahead, Tom.

Yeah, we did get to experience that. And JJ was limited in practice this week, so it wasn't a surprise that Carson was starting this week. but what about going forward? Is J.J. McCarthy the starter when Carson Wentz? Or sorry, is J.J. McCarthy a starter when he is healthy. And then Pat talked about out in Phoenix. Is Kyler the starter when he comes back as well?

My understanding is with Carson Wentz and JJ, the Vikings play a short week this week. They had the Chargers Thursday night. I would expect that we get Carson Wentz on Thursdays tonight. And I was told there's a chance that J.J. McCarthy will be ready for the week after at Detroit. at Detroit. So again, I think if Carson Wentz comes back and plays well, they win the game Thursday night. Maybe that buys JJ another week.

If not, if not, then I think JJ could be back as soon as that week at Detroit. Now, Kyle Murray, they're on a buy this week. My understanding all along has been that he will be back for Monday night football, two weeks from tonight at Dallas. Kyle is from that area. He's not going to miss a game in Jerry's World against the Cowboys. so you could expect to see Kyler back two weeks from tonight. Okay, so Kyler's back in Jerry World,

I think he has a pretty good record through high school and everything like that. And then Jacoby Percent will continue to spin it for them. And then Carson Wentz on Thursday night against the Chargers. Is that what you said? That's what I would think. That would be my expectation right now. That's been the problem with these 9.30 a.m. Sunday games. We had a taste of Carson Wentz football at 9.30 a.m.

We had a taste of the Carson Wentz experience at 9. 9.30 a.m. and we thought to ourselves, this is the greatest way to start a day. Did you see him yesterday? We are in full Carson Wendt's experience time right now with the Minnesota Vikings. Kevin O'Connell could say what he wants. But when a guy can do that, huh? Jumped on dime Jordan Addison in the corner. You're allowed to do whatever you want. He'll do this every once in a while. That's an easy while, I'll miss it. Okay, just because it's better for you. And then, oh, shit, it's going to get snapped over in my head. Obviously not his fault, but he'll make the play. He's going to get on that play. He's been in that position before.

And every once in a while, he's going to take a huge shot and just throw it to the other. team that's not his fault no massive shot quarterbacks you're going to do that they obviously crib that thing so that's a little bit of a different story in cars and once we'll get a little hands it yep let me throw it backwards real quick out of bounds this this is the cars and once experience we're talking about yeah anything could happen on any play including this go cross body hawk that thing to somebody like a punt it's a punt don't worry about a Carson one says and then whenever you talk about evading and escaping and dropping oh he does that on

the other side of it. That is the Carson wins experience. And as the game got later, Carson only got better. It feels like the Eagles were only getting more scared. A little underhanded stuff. How you doing? T.J. Hawkinson, why don't you get it out there? And then every once you want, there'll be a little bit of chaos. Let me throw it right into the ground here. Who's around me? Nobody, that's obviously

an intentional grounding. Yeah, that'll be a sack there. So there's just a never-ending of who-wah. He's like the Michigan Wolverine football team, but on every single play. It literally could be the greatest play or it could be the worst play at any given moment. And that's Carson Went's experience

that's coming on Thursday night. Consider me in. Amazon needs to be thanking their lucky stars that Carson wins is playing on prime time. Yes. Yeah. We got Hardball talking. Jim Hardbaugh stories and features happening.

And then we got Carson Wentz playing ball. Holy, this is the Mega Bowl. Yeah, it is. They need to have a human wrestle a bear at half time of this. Spamoni. They need that out there. Ben Herbert's there?

All right. Anyways. Sorry, we had to get to. get that in had to get the Carson Wentz experience that's the only reason we asked that whole question Jeffy gets it so Jeffer we appreciate you all you open us for that we that was quite an array of highlights of course I did not

expect to get the full Carson Went's experience when I popped on here but we did that was the full experience it as Colts fans it's the greatest and the worst but that's the Carson Wins exactly as part of the beauty