The Pat McAfee Show - PMS 2.0 1433 - OVERREACTION MONDAY, NFL Week 7 Recap, MNF Doubleheader Preview, Adam Schefter, Dan Orlovsky, Darius Butler, & AJ Hawk

Episode Date: October 20, 2025

On today's show, Pat, Darius Butler, AJ Hawk, and the boys overreact to everything that happened in week 7 of the NFL including the Broncos’ miraculous comeback over the Giants on DT day, the Colts continuing their dominance in LA over the Chargers, the Chiefs still being the Chiefs, Drake Maye’s continued ascension into the MVP discussion, before previewing tonight’s Monday Night Football doubleheader. Joining the progrum to give his biggest takeaway’s from Sunday, some injury updates, and to preview tonight’s Monday Night Football games is ESPN Senior NFL Insider, Adam Schefter. Later, 12 year NFL veteran, ESPN NFL analyst/QB guru, and color commentator of tonight’s MNF game between the Texans and Seahawks, Dan Orlovsky joins the progrum to chat about what he was most impressed with this weekend, how the Colts are for real, the Eagles offense getting things going through the air, and more. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you, we’ll see you tomorrow. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to our Humbleyenne Bo, the Thunderdome. On this massive overreaction Monday, October 20th, 2025, this program begins now. Football! It's fantastic. Week 7 of the NFL season is wrapping up this evening with a doubleheader. Don't look now. Dan Orlovsky will be on a Monday night football call alongside Chris Fowler and Lewis Riddick on ESPN in Seattle. For the Seahawks hosting a Monday night.

football matchup with the AFC South Houston Texans and then the Tampa Bay Buccaneers look to extend their streak to be one of the top in the entire NFL. Only one loss on the season thus far, taking on a Detroit Lions team that's pretty battered on the back end. We'll certainly

talk about the injuries around all four of these teams as we look ahead to a fantastic night of football and all day to day we'll look back at a fantastic weekend of ball. Adam Schaeffer will be joining us in about 30 minutes or so. Dan Orolovsky will join us in the second hour He's three hours behind, so we had to bust out a calculator to see what time is 1 o'clock here versus what time he's in.

Turns out we'll be 1040 local for Dan O'Logsky. Wrote that down in his daily planner. 140 Eastern, we'll have him on chit-chatting about tonight, and his takeaway from a massive weekend of ball. College football is crazy. College football has been absurd. It will continue to be absurd. And there's some stats coming out from the ESPN research folks about what happened there. AP top 10 teams have lost 18 times already this season.

That's most through eight weeks of a season since 2007, obviously a long time ago. And then top teams, obviously, have four of them fell on Friday and Saturday. The chaos of college ball continues. And then Sunday, how you doing, keep it moving? We got 9.30 game? Yes, we do. We got one o'clock games.

These things stink. We got an afternoon and a night of great football, though. It has been magical. We're so thankful to be here. We hope you are enjoying this. hell out of your football season as well. The toxic tables here at Boston Conner and at Ty Schmidt. Congrats, Ty.

On a big win. Thank you. For the Packers over the Cardinals. Plain delay. Plain delay. Yeah. Game good. Play good delay. Play good delay.

You guys come back, get a big time win. Congrats to your Packers. Thank you. You guys should be pumped about that. And then for the Patriots, oh my God. Congratulations. Oh, my God. Wow.

Mike Frable, actually, good guy, too. They're showing things he was doing at the Tennessee Titans. First question of every press. conference, how you doing? Let's open doors for people. He's leading the team. He's pined in a squad that fired him unceremoniously. Everything's going a little bit too good for the Patriots. Let's go to one half of the hammer. Cowboys AP tone. This Steelers lost to Joe Flacko on Thursday. Don't want to laugh at your face too much. Steelers obviously have a very good chance in any team that Joe Flacko is playing

quarterback for. They can certainly win a game as well. It's why he's been in the game for so damn long. Let's talk about the betting though from this past weekend. This is the first time, long time. We could say, hey, people made money and beat the books this weekend? Yeah, coming into this weekend, teams that were getting 60% or more of the public bet were 15 and 36. This weekend,

5 and 4. Wow. We did it. It was close. It was. 5 and 4. I mean, it was a scrappy affair. It wasn't a 33.4th quarter one of the biggest comeback from the history of ball type thing with this, with us, with the sports books. But we certainly got one

up on them for the weekend. And guess what? that's going to carry in tonight. That's going to carry in for the rest of the season. Don't look now. We're about to win. Yeah. All of money. Maybe forever.

And I talked about the teens that are getting more than 60%. Cincinnati got 57%. The chiefs got 54%. The Cowboys got 54%. So I mean, it was a good weekend for the public. We're starting to see it, aren't we? That's because we have incredible people on television and on the internet and on a 430 a.m.

On ESPN NFL matchup show. Ladies and gentlemen, nine-year NFL vet, Dairy Shep others. Deep Batch, are we getting smarter? starting to learn these teams more? Is that why we're maybe starting to win some bets? Is that what you're thinking of absolutely? Teams are just becoming who they are building their identities. Everybody has a plan in the offseason, training camp, and

then first quarter of the season, second quarter of season. Once you kind of hit where we're getting to, that's when everybody knows who they are on both sides of the football. And we know who stinks, don't we? Oh, we got a pretty good idea who stinks. We know who stinks. For sure. Let's got a one-half of the

hammer. God. Cowboys bubble gumpino. Boy, you and D. Butch Miami Dolphins. They all. Uh-oh. Stink. Bad, man. It's so stinky down there.

It's fish stink, too. Like, whenever fish stink come down by the sea down there, it all gets bad. When everything's so cool for so long and so awesome for so long, all of a sudden, when that gets spoiled, it starts going, it's a complete opposite of that. It stinks down there for the dolphins. Wow. They get absolutely, you know, I don't want to, well, I was going to say a lot of things there. I'm not going to say.

I'm not going to go that hard but they get beat Don by the bronze bad weather we should have known they weren't going to be able to perform it is the NFL so you're going to have to win a tough weather game

at some point if it's going to matter but they don't do that this Raida's team they like they stink there's some teams that really seemingly stink out there

and if you're not one of those teams you should be excited 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. Got to have something. Like certain days, 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's life and his teammates and the Super Bowl 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, Scadaboo, and the boys went in there and put up 19 nothing going into the fourth.

Everybody was surprised. Well, don't look now, Bo Nix gets back into the game. Let me go ahead and drop this thing. Oh, oh. Wow. How 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 Darts and D'Art says we could do one of those too. 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. does not bow down he answers Bo on the move Tibidil, no edge, no chance Bo Nitz touchdown in Denver and all of a sudden with five minutes left we got a real game of it. Yeah we do. 26-16

10 points, only two scores. What's Jackson Dirk going to do with it? Four-fifty-six left. Other team has one timeout Jackson. Third and five. Oh no. Jackson. 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. Bo Nix, so that's a turnover. That's a touchdown. Big Moes rolling. How you feel? No, Carrie K?

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 Dart going to be the guy who leads his team in final minutes of games? Yes, he is. Runs in and himself. Did they score too quick? Uh-oh. Did Bo Knicks score too quick for Jackson Dart? Did Jackson Dart score too quick for Bo Knicks?

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 Bo Nix.

No timeouts. What are you going to do? Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, rush, kill, kill. Situational football stupendous for Bo Nix. 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 Lowe and Will. The other L is headed to you, New York Giants, as they win 33, 32, in an unprecedented comeback that has records, breaking all over the place.

There's multiple stats that you could 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 team 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 to dart. But, I mean, we always talk about

playing 60 minutes. The game's never over. You talk about D.T. been there. They did a great job with his statue right next to Peyton'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 rushing 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 in the fourth quarter by any team that will shut out in the first three quarters in that it's all history. Sure. Yeah. And the first 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 of Bo and Sean Payton? 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. 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 some people would like Bow 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. 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 we knew right away, hey, these guys don't get along. They go back and forth at each other, but clearly, Sean Peyton 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, as terrible as the first three quarters are. 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, 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. Oh, 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 jet.

in London. Like they didn't have a lot of teams take a by 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 they got their time zone legs underneath them. Next gen stats put out the point you were saying, I believe, or somebody mentioned.

Yeah, there it is. The 99.8. I mean, that's plateaued at 100% basically. This team's been 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 when 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 huh what do you see what do you see yeah what did you see all over the place now only on winning teams okay 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 and 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 are 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 in 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. 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 test shots

in a season. Four's the record in an entire season. 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's most 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 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 seven weeks, seventh highest ever right now. Breeze, Lamar, Rogers, Peyton, and Brady have had a higher one this far end of the season.

But that's obviously some epic names. And his records against the commanders, I guess we should have known going into. He was just going to cook him. He goes into Washington and beats the hell out of him. He's like LBJ. Yeah, he is. He is a cowboy LBJ going. 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 can tell when a quarterback is just in a flow. You can 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 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. Then Ferguson, it seems like he scores a couple 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. And 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 his fair share of touches. So getting 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-in 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?

Mack 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, don't do it. But it's very evident. We're going to do it to Schaefter, 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. Pretty big. In the room where it happened.

Bingo. Like, we were pretty in the story there. So I think just the way that all panned 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 have. had been hearing that was being said and acted like and then bang we're going Trey 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 loving you I'm on the island I'm over the island I'm still on the Brock Purdy

me too hey I love Brock Purdy I'm looking for but the conversation is that if he comes back and doesn't play well the conversation is there We've got to go back to Mac. I have to. 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 in.

We're close. Let's go to the third one, please. Let's get to the third one. L.A. 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. We're doing Indian-P talks still. 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 Colts did 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.

Is 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 pace 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 4-21. Who do you throw the ball to? Doreen, O'Orene, 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 Charterman. because they lose to the Colts this way. It's like, hey, the Colts are a 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 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 the league and rushing yards as well like he is a dominant force so yeah we got two legit MVP candidates on the off the side of the ball j t valuable running back he's valuable running back scores so many touchdowns yeah he might be most valuable player yeah he might be he might be the most in the entire league and then danny's going crazy here's some stats about this indianapolis colts offense juggernaud led by Shane Steichen here. Most points per drive in a season.

Colts 3.5 Patriots in 2007, 3.2, no big deal. They were great, right? 2007 Patriots. Very, very good. Highest drive score rate in a season. Colts in 2025, 63%. 2018, 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?

uh yeah i think so seven games in but still that's ridiculous company keeps says hembeau thank you humbo with the little tagline at the bottom yeah you 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 yeah and then it's wide ass open over there too because our offensive line has been doing incredible job so it's uh it's fun to watch they're not the only ones There's a couple more MVP 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, good point.

Even though it might be the best pitch that that mound has seen in the wall. They go over to L.A. and absolutely crush. Devante Adams has to be so happy about the decision to go to the Los Angeles Rams. And this is all without pooking Kua. 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 he 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. Yeah. So the latest arrival there ever and they just showed up and absolutely dominated. All these passing 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 Bowms. Hey, I don't want to say this because it sounds disrespectful. Patrick Mahomes 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 Gough, 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 Jacksville Jaguars, because Liam Cohen had a lot 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 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. First, 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 Puka, who was a top two, top three wide receiver when he was playing this season. We 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 continues 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. Raining like hell, obviously tea and crumpets all over the place.

Matthew Stafford loves everything about it. They're almost throwing more because it was national out there. 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, 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. They're the ones to change the odds immediately. Somehow, they must have had a little conversation inside. Okay, when Rashidt 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 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 everyone. 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 Mahom 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. Exactly. Exactly. My point. 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 Find out 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 4th and a foot Try to draw them offside That's never fucking worse man Sorry Mahomes says Coach it doesn't There they go

He was faking it He was faking it 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-Ly

line, 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. And it's the Raiders show. Why not go forward? I mean, it's only 7-0 at that point. Little that 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. Wamb, bum, bum, bum, bum. 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. Dany and Dom's going to fight. Yeah, right. We're better everybody. We're literally better than everybody. And we got 390 pounds deflecting balls and catching it. 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. Personally, it gives a speech. I'm not 100% sure

how it goes to who it goes. But obviously you bring the guitar you got to get the pick so now every person at his defense that brings in a guitar works back the same thing yeah grover stirs not supposed to get picks brott's guitar needs one so he can shred that thing this team's real deal brother they are for real all three phases too badgerly goes back he was kicker for the chargers makes a couple big ones rigoberto sancho was called on a couple of times he makes it the defense humming all over the place and we just got kenny moe back okay 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 our

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 remember the poet. We watched the like a playoff game. Yeah, I'm sure, 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 a 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 with the side. 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 the 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. His 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 Schaeffer. Sheffty, 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 any everybody 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. They're getting everything on first, second down. 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 won't speak for the locker room. We like to play the Chiefs right now, okay?

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 of 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. Oh, I know. Baby, why don't we go down to Cocoa? You know what? We'll get there faster

and then we'll take it slow. That's where we want to go. We're down in Coca-mo. Let's talk about the bench. boys, okay, not the beach boys. Let's talk about Tua,

Gino, and Justin Fields. Obviously not a super positive thing to chitch out 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 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. 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

or early in the week. 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. 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 has struggled. It's not like they're going to turn to Quinn Ures. 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 thrown a lot of interceptions.

they've played bad football. You know, 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 Mother Night 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'd 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, Tone.

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 Kyle her 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. We had a taste of the Carson Wentz

experience at 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. Great cover. 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 just to throw it to the other team. That's not his fault. Took a massive shot. Quarterbacks are going to do that. They obviously crib that thing. So that's a little bit of a different story. And Carson Wentz will get a little handsy. Yep, let me throw it backwards real quick.

Out of bounds. This is the Carson Went's experience when you're talking about. Anything could happen on any play, including this. Cross body. Hock that thing. To who. Somebody. Like a punt. It's a punt. Don't worry about Carson Went says. And then whenever you talk about evading and escaping and dropping,

he does that. 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. Feels like the Eagles were only getting more scared. 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. And 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 shit. This is the Mega Bowl. Yeah, it is. This is the, they need to have a human wrestle a bear at half the time of this. Spamoni. They need that out there. Van Herbert's there? All right.

Anyways. Sorry, we had to get that in. Had to get to Carson. experience. That's the only reason we asked that whole question. Jeffty gets it. So, Shephardt, we appreciate you, Ali Uppin us for that. That was quite an array of highlights. Of course, I did not expect to get the full carcinence experience

when I popped on here, but we did. That was the full experience. Dude, we got to experience it as Colts fans. It's the greatest and the worst, but that's the Carson West experience. All right, Ty has a question for you, Shifty. Sheffey, you said that you thought the trade deadline would be pretty active this year. After yesterday

and the Raiders just get absolutely embarrassed. And I know we do this every single year because the Raiders kind of suck around this time every single year. Is there any chance that Max Crosby is potentially going to get traded a couple teams out there? Colts could maybe use a D-N.

Is there any chance that the Raiders will even entertain that or is it just going to be no? Todd, they haven't done that in the past. I wouldn't imagine that they would do it now, especially considering that when Pete Carroll comes back as the

oldest coach in NFL history, he's not coming back to rebuild a team in stockpile picks. Pete Carroll is coming back to compete and obviously they've run into some hard times here and they're not winning and they're not playing overly well. But I can't imagine that Pete Carroll is going to be on board with trading a game changing defensive guy. And if it went the day ever were to come that Max Crosby were traded, I think it would have to be coming from Max Crosby going in there and saying, guys, I can't take it anymore. I want to be traded. And they just paid him in the offseason. They just gave him a new contract. So it's hard. You can't get everything in life. Like you can't be treated like the face

of the franchise as he's been deservedly so because he's an incredible player. You can't be rewarded and paid in the off season. And you can't turn around and say, well, I know we've sucked in the first seven games that I want to be traded now. Like it doesn't work like that. So I never rule out anything in this league. Anything's always possible. We'll see how it shakes out. But to me, he's staying in Vegas. I don't think Max Crosby's ever wanting to be traded. Max Crosby gets very pissed off at us and others whenever it even comes up on our conversation because, you know, Raider through and through.

But we would like to let Max Crosby know, we got to see you play live in person against the Colts. It'd be really cool to watch you play in big games. Yeah, just don't seem weird. It would be so cool. Playoffs. It would be so cool. He's a Raider. I get it.

I understand they took a shot on you. You're very loyal. We all respect that. We respect shit out of Max Crosby. Very big fans. Such big fans would be really. Really cool to watch him go through a playoff run. Just take over games, too?

Imagine the world getting to see him at Super Bowl. Max, think about the game, brother. Think about the game. Exactly. Super Bowl. You got people that are watching only one game a year. They don't even know what American football is. And what do they see? This super-tatted white dude off the edge who never stops.

Yeah. And just went, a fool menace the whole time. Might open his game up to another 100 million people. No doubt. Leger. Hey, man, Buckner. Oh. Come on.

Mad Max, we need you. Now, on that note, the fact that you're so loyal and respect and all that stuff is part of the reason why you are the person. Very cool. Yeah, we get it. But he gets mad at us anytime it's mentioned. We would like that to be. I was going to say, would Trey Hendrickson be more likely because of his relationship with Lou Anarimo? But did the Thursday night win kind of put that on halt, Chifty, potentially?

Lou Anarumo? And is Trey Henderson? Was he ever on the block? Because he's on a one-year deal, basically. He'd be a good rental in the Colts relationship with Lou Anarumo. and did the Thursday night win kind of put things on hold there if he ever was on the block? I mean, I don't know that it was on a hole. Like, they're trying to get back in this.

They traded for Joe Flacco. They won a game. If they lose the next two games leading up to the trade deadline, could that change things? Sure. But I don't think the Bengals are looking to give away Trey Hendrickson. And I don't think Trey is thinking about or entertaining idea that he's going to be leaving right now. Like, you know, we exchanged a couple of texts last week. week he had no idea what was going like and nothing along those lines of him being traded and again

in this league anything's always possible we'll see how it shakes out but i think the bengals are focused on trying to turn around their season before the trade deadline coming off a big win thursday not against the steelers the NFL anything is possible including people calling in from a different state go ahead dutch yeah what the hell is this about uh chef do you like we saw it with jac golf with the shift and they called back the touchdown they said it came from new york and then I just remember that we were talking about T.J. Hawkinson, that touchdown, he had diving touchdown. It was called a touchdown. Then it was a review, and he said he didn't get any confirmation from the referees on the field that they saw anything to overturn it, but it came

from New York. What's going on with the NFL and them coming in from New York changing calls and the refs on the field not really doing it? Well, you know, that's always been the case. The league has always been able to watch these games and weigh in with their opinion. I think that was part of the change in the all-season rules in the way that approaches that New York office will always be involved in these kinds of things. So I think when the officials are huddling, the eye in the sky, the eyes in New York are always watching as well. And I think everybody's trying to come together to come up with the best opinion, the right call on any of these situations, whether it's coming from on the field, in the booth, in New York, wherever it may be.

So I think New York has always kind of been watching things. They've got their eyes on all games at all times. Oh, yeah. And I think they've always been able to weigh in with their opinion. And all people. They're watching this right now.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I might get a text about it. Like, here's the deal. Like, they know, the people know who they are. Like, give me the update. What do you have to say about that?

And those people, let's be good. Okay, if you're going to have that type of power, let's make sure we're good at it. And I appreciate the fact that they're giving their opinion. Let's give facts. Let's give facts. Okay, let's make sure we're doing that. Especially if we all kind of understood

that New York was doing that, and then they're lying about it. Yeah, because if the refs on the field, three refs on the field tell you, like, hey, we saw it this way, we got it, but hey, like, that's a player. That's a baby face move by the refs, though. True. That's like the refs maybe trying to put themselves over in the moment as opposed to in burying New York. That's not good? No.

You should get everybody on the same page. Hey, New York, if you're going to be giving your opinion, we think this is a good game. Also, that's not a catch. Let's make sure all the other refs just buying and go, hey, New York said that's case, as opposed to, I would have gave it to you. That's a tough look. Or do what the ACC does. Why don't?

That's the best. Let us hear. Tonight, we got one minute. We wasted a lot of your time, Chef, and we were so sorry. What do we need to look at for tonight? Injuries-wise, Detroit Lions secondary banged up, bad, and Brian Branch out, right? That's big story? Yeah, it's obviously a huge deal.

The fact, no Avanti Maddox, no Kirby Joseph, no Terry and Arnold, Brian Branch suspended. So you're talking about basically essentially a starting set. secondary, wiped out due to injury or suspension. The Buccaneers, wide receivers, no Chris Godwin. I think Mike Evans is going to wind up playing, and I think, to the surprise of many, Ameca Abuka has a real chance to play tonight. They're going to test him pregame to make a final determination. But as I was told over the weekend, I think it was trending towards him playing.

And they'll obviously see how he feels pregame before signing off. But I think there's a real chance he's going to be out there tonight. Five seconds. Texan Seahawks, anything? Seahawks have a couple of defensive backs who are questionable. Julian Love, Devin Witherspoon, I think it would be a surprise if either played. Goodbye. We'll see you next hour. With Amex Platinum,

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Level up for more on the ESPN app or at stream.esPN.com. Sign up now. Football. Man, I'm going to set the program because I just couldn't wait to get started as if it was first time we're getting on the microphones after that incredibly electrifying weekend of ball. With two more games tonight is a double-header for Monday Night Football. It's seemingly become like the thing now.

ESPN obviously only has Monday Night Football normally. Getting a second game on Monday night's time slot, certainly cool. 10 p.m. Easter. What the hell? On ESPN, Texans and Seahawks, for those of you that might not be able to fall asleep, or if you fall asleep during the first game and wake up late and say, what happened at first game? Oh, there's another game on.

You might be able to catch something until about 1, 2 a.m. Yeah. With the Texans and the Seahawks, remember Seahawks, Sam Donald and boys are talented. Texans, been on a little bit of a run here, though. Obviously, they've been counted out, ruled out early, but C.J. Stroud and Texans kind of find their way. And then Bucks and Lions, you've got two teams that might represent the NFC and a Super Bowl there. Tampa Buccaneers had a lot of injuries throughout this entire season. Baker Mayfield has throttled himself right into MVP conversations.

And then Jared Goff, they were calling him Jared Duflowski. They were. Earlier in the year, whenever they weren't doing anything cool or dynamic. And then all of a sudden, they're all the way back to who they were last year. Very banged up in the second. Did I hear five members of the secondary, or at least out or hurt at this moment? Four guys are out. No Brian Branch.

No Kirby Joseph. Those are our starting safeties. No Terry on Arnold. No DJ Reed. Those are our starting corners against Baker Mayfield, who is slinging the pill everywhere. That's a little worrysome. With potential Mike Evans and Emeka Ibuka back tonight,

easy for everybody to say, including Grunk and myself. Nine-year NFL vet, Darius J. Butler is here. DeButch, this is what the Lions had last year. The Lions, I mean, now they got four guys, including our three guys and a suspension. But they got the defensive injury bug bad last year, and it completely stalled what they were going to have. Still ended up the number one seed.

in the NFC, but weren't the Super Bowl team that we thought. Is it going to happen to them again? I mean, those names, it's hard to go into a game and competing, especially against an MVP-caliber quarterback with none of your starters in the secondary up there. But, I mean, we saw the 49ers kind of do it with what Sala did with his defense. And you still have Hutch, who's been a game rucker. And Muhammad, on the other side of him, who's been an absolute dog as well.

So I got faith in Kelvin Shepard to make this a good game with D.C. for the Lions. But you talked about the slate. And the back-to-back starts. I know I'm probably in the minority here. I prefer the seven and the 10 o'clock starts when there are two games that should be potentially good games. These are four good teams. You've got three quarterbacks that could honestly at the end of the season be in the MVP conversation where I'm how they're playing tonight.

So I'll be up for this one, for sure. All right. Well, I can't wait to hear about it. That second one's going to be tough for me to make it, but I'll watch it in the morning. But maybe I stick up for it because I'm such a big fan of that Houston Texan team. That's for real. They've been very good to us. The Houston Texans have been very, very good to us.

It's been tough since that first year. C.J. Stroud really get rolling. Maybe tonight's a night where they let the world or remind the world that, or at least the West Coast that's watching, that we are for real. And maybe the Seahawks continue to go when nobody talks about them. They're a bandwagon as well that everybody could potentially hop on after everybody potentially hopped off last year with new head coach. Kick a P. Carroll, I'll pick his guy out of building.

Wild. Painted over the walls. Legion of Booms back, by the way. You're doing a video game thing. Oh, yeah, that's right. The Legion of Boom. It's great. Love the Legion of Boob. Talks the table.

is here at Boston Connor and that's I Schmidt one half of the hammer Cowboys AP Tone is here Tone public one we need to feel good yes they did they were five and four this weekend on teams that were getting 60% or more of the bets also teams that were getting mid 50s

Bengals chiefs and Cowboys all won and covered as well it was a good weekend for the public he was a great weekend for this man we're about to bring in as well he's a college football national champion Super Bowl champion Rotter Cup winner ladies and gentlemen AJ Hawke Hey Hawke

How you doing, dude? I do not remember all my picks. I have no clue what my record may be, but I feel like I want some. Oh. Yeah, you've got the Hawkeye on the board right now, brother. You're flying high. Nine and four after an incredible Sunday slate for A.J. Hawk. Now, there was a couple that we decided that we could have maybe just ruled out.

Both of us could have just ruled out there. I picked the Raiders, man. Are you kidding me? 31-0-0-0. Is that right? They were down the ball with like four minutes to go, and I picked the Raiders. Yeah, they kneel down before the two-minute warning is certainly something. That is certainly something. Yeah.

Jacksonville, Jaguars, I took them. So that was fun morning. You know, just kind of watching them never get started. I won eight and five. You went nine and four. Tonight, obviously, two games. I'll be excited to see who you pick and how you pick them. College, another big weekend, you know, picking.

I'll tell you what, when the games that we're at, when I get those ones right, those feel really good. You know, because there's a lot of people that tell me, I'm just pantering to the crowd. Or if I sit up there and I tell these people to go to hell, I would like it to be for good reason. You know, I'd like that to be the case. I got Connor bet alongside me a little bit.

Oh, yeah, but basically all of them. The only three I posted were just the ones that I did after the facts, you know, after you made all these. These six were money. And the best part about these were like, man, but I do like Ole Miss. No, I have no idea what the hell I'm doing. BYU, same thing. I was like, well, I like Utah, though.

Utah's cool. Nope, just shut up, listen to what Pat's saying because he actually knows what he's talking about. And then the last one, the alternate spread. That was the one where it was like, okay, had a great day early, had the, you know, the 17 or the 16 money line one going. And I was like, I mean, everybody, you know, is basically saying these guys should do well. You mentioned, hey, massive bounce back for Oregon and South Florida is a college football playoff team. So I was like, you know what?

Screw it. Maybe they'll both just blow them out, especially because South Florida was a South Florida bowl. It was against FAU. So I kind of thought there might be a little extra juice there. So thank you very much. No, we got to enjoy it. these times because this kids swing the other way. Yeah.

Especially with the way the college football has been going this year. AJ, I don't know if you saw this stat. I tweeted we read in the first hour from ESPN Research. Top 10 teams have lost 18 times this season, the most through eight weeks of a season since 2007. I mean, you're talking about insanity. Four of them lost this past weekend and Coach Brom all of a sudden, you know, not only running old clips of him whenever he's saying, am I dead? No, let's play football, basically.

as an actual quarterback in the league at the time. But his team every year, two years ago was Notre Dame. Last year it was Clemson. This year it's Miami on Friday night as everybody is watching along. And this guy, they're calling him, Adrian Peterson as a wide receiver. Brom's name might be real hot in some spots because of what he's been able to accomplish at Louisville. But you got to remember he's in a ring of honor,

Donner. He's a Hall of Fame or Donner, Louisville. Yep, went and played at Louisville. obviously he had a great career coaching at Purdue for as far as coaching at Purdue goes. He had upsets against Ohio State, top five upsets there as well, and then goes here. He is a coach that wins the big games.

He's also a coach that I believe Louisville has the most consecutive 24 points where they have scored at least 24 points in the nation. So they score as well. So when you score and when you win big games, that is a recipe to be wanted by a loss. Pretty desired a couple of traits that a coach would have. Spots are opening up, AJ.

Spots are opening up around college ball. Who's going to coach all these teams? Yeah, where are they going to find? I mean, you think we're going to see anybody jump from the NFL back to college? I don't know, maybe an NFL coordinator takes a head gig somewhere? Maybe. I don't know. Like mentor, for instance, out there at the Chargers.

He had obviously a massive amount of success whenever he was at Michigan, but also he might get an NFL opportunity. And there's like so many different ways to look at it. Chip Kelly. He obviously Ohio State offensive coordinator gets the NFL as fast as he possibly can. Now he's at the Raiders. This stinks. Maybe he'll go back to calling some plays and run into college thing.

The new AP top 25 is out. The Ohio State Buckeyes still at number one. No real conversation or chatter about him either, AJ. Just kind of ho-hum. The Ohio State Buckeyes are better than they were last year at this point, and they're undefeated and they're the number one team in a country. What do people not know about the Ohio State Buckeyes, A.J. Hawk? Man, I think, I mean, I don't know.

Maybe I just live in the bubble here. I hear, like, I watch with my eyes, but their defense under Maddie Patricia is awesome, and they lose so many guys, and they just reload and have dudes that are absolute freak athletes that run all over and make play. So their defense is something people are talking about, but I think Julianne is awesome. I really do. I think he kind of flies under the radar, maybe because he's not six foot five in the big pocket passer, but the dude is athletic with a crazy quick release.

Throw into great receivers, I get it. But, yeah, Buckeyes are doing what they should do right now. Yeah, he's spinning it, obviously. Next game, November 1st against Penn State, after you guys shut out Wisconsin. I was asked on game day, hey, how many points does Wisconsin score today against this Ohio State team? And I'd known that they, I didn't know if it was 17 or 16 in the time when I was speaking, but I knew they let Illinois score some points late. And I could just tell how pissed everybody was on the defensive side.

Like, hey, we have a chance to do something special here at Ohio State. We're giving up five points a game, and you guys are going to let Illinois score 16 against us? Yeah, right. I thought Wisconsin had a rough day coming, and they did. They closed the door on them completely. 34-0-0. Penn State coming up. Now, Penn State loses a Barnburn.

They may have found their new head coach. Terry Smith. Terry Smith had the boys playing. They played hard. They did. But, yeah, that was, Barnburner is certainly one way to putting it, but that was, man, that might have been Iowa's best victory in the last 10 years. I haven't, I didn't get to see the entire game.

Only the highlights. Who was making what decision? How did we get to where it was 33? What was this final score? It was 25, 24. There is. But I mean, in the third quarter, Iowa was down 21-10, which typically for Iowa, like, they might as well have been down 50. They just do not come back from like 11-point deficits.

And Mark Grinowski, I'll tell you what, he only threw for about 68 yards. But he rushed for 140, put the team. I had multiple 50-plus yard runs, two touchdowns. I mean, it was, it was amazing. It was just amazing. What's Iowa's record now? They are 5 and 2. What are they going to end up?

I tell you what, I'm not so sure. Oregon doesn't have another thing coming when they have to come play at Kinnick at night. I think it, I mean, it's fun because I get to do this right now because I was this. I mean, if Iowa loses that game, I say, fuck it. I'm not watching these guys the rest of the year. So I got belief right now I'm in the frame of mind that I was going to be 10 and 2. And a couple things go their way. And guess what?

They are the last team that slides into the play. That's the headspace you have to operate in. You know, as a Big Ten guy, that's kind of what you have to do. I mean, nobody wants to see Grinowski one-on-one with the ball in his hand. Because he'll fucking give you a little one, and then he's gone. We haven't even seen him in sub-freezing temperatures here. Yeah, and that's when he thrives. That's when he thrives.

It was a little chilly on Saturday night, but not like it's going to get. What school did he go to? South Dakota. Okay, so South Dakota State, I believe, is hosting North Dakota State this weekend. I believe it is, or maybe it's a North Dakota State. That was a potential game day opportunity this weekend. And I know a lot of people were hoping that we would go to that game. I'd like to let everybody know I had a chance to experience game.

That was how I got on a game day was because Adam Vinatari was the guest picker for South Dakota State. Obviously couldn't make it. So he sends me and replace this in 2019. And I go, sleeveless hoodie up there. I get a chance to enjoy the entirety, do the thing. And that was like my first introduction to game day, basically. Curb Street kind of pieces that whole thing together, which I'm very thankful for. And then obviously, the next few years happened.

And then now I'm back full time for the past, I guess this is the fourth season now. And it's like getting a chance to go to South Dakota State. That place will always go big, go blue, go jacks. I'm very thankful for that morning and everything that happened there. But that was six years ago. We were there. Now, Vandy, it's been forever since going to Nashville. Vanderbilt is hosting a game that is obviously.

a national conversation. So I think no losing on most weekends on where game day goes. I think we should have went to Utah, BYU, last weekend. I think that was a miss. I think I said that in real time, too. Like, hey, they would have shut down the whole state for us to go celebrate what that Holy War was. And by the way, game was great.

Yeah, great game. Great game. Great game. BYU remains undefeated. But, like, heading out Vandy to Nashville, first time, long time, great city. I think they're all behind the football team. And then Missou, obviously, when was the last time they did it? the game day for a Mizzou game.

I'm not here I'm so sure. Everybody's just attacking another SEC game. It's like, this is a different, I guess. They're going to be juice down there. Nashville is going to be rowdy for sure. I think also having Diego as a quarterback, that brings even more juice to game day to everything, the atmosphere. Yeah, it makes sense to me.

I hope so, but people, I think people are really pissed about the Georgia Ole Miss over. At least the game. It was a banger. Great game. Great game. Yeah, and also Kirby Smart was electrical. Yeah. And so was Lane.

on Saturday. Was he just looking off into the trees? It looked like so. He was spectacular out there. The game, you're right, was an incredible game. I completely concur on that. Then I got to see a Luke Combs, Bailey Zimmerman

concert, and Jelly Roll. That's awesome. So after the show ended, Jelly Roll went up there and performed Lyre with Bailey Zimmerman. Luke Combs and Bailey obviously performed, I mean, I've talked to James Franklin, fresh off of fire and coaches, vitamins, opportunities. I mean, it was a...

He's a good interview, too. He did... I thought he did well. Penn State people weren't happy with it. Of course, yeah. Why? Why not? Well, they said this was a little bit of glazing of James Franklin, don't we think?

Now, if you look at all the graphics that were on the screen while James Franklin was on, there wasn't a lot of glazing happening there. I'm sitting next to James Franklin, and they're running the recap of the season. Yeah, I know. And Reese is like, go into the year, number one team in the country.

Boom, boom, boom. Then you lose the Oregon and home in the Whiteout. Then you go to UCLA. I'm sitting, James Franklin's right here. We're showing the low lights, okay? And then at the bottom, you know, they're putting up all his records against everybody. And then the unthinkable happens.

He's right here. He loses to Northwestern at him. They show him getting booed out while he's walking with his family. And I'm like, oh, my God, this is a tough start. And on the screen, it's like, let's take a look at his records now. 100-some wins against top 10 teams. None of them. This guy's worst in the history ever against good teams, okay?

Now, ladies and gentlemen, joining us in an exclusive, James Frank. I'm like, Jesus, Christ. Did he see those graphics before the show? Yes. He was sitting there before he went up there? Yeah, before he knew or did he hit that in real time? He was like, wow, this is okay. I didn't see him beforehand.

I don't know if he had to approve him or got to prove or he like, I don't know. Tell the story. There's no way to ask him for approval, yeah, so that would never happen. But I don't know if he was showing him, but I'm sitting there looking at the same TV he's looking at. I'm like, that's a pretty good view. He's got his glasses on, too. He definitely can see what those are saying. Oh, geez.

That's a tough go. I thought he handed himself off. Yeah. I thought he took some accountability while also saying like I was blindside. I was surprised because I was so locked in, you know. I appreciated him doing it, you know, just sitting in there. That had to be uncomfortable. It had to be awkward.

And he's getting, what, $43.9 million regardless of what happens next? Yeah, or $49.9, whatever it is. But yeah. $50 million. Yeah, it's a ton of money. Can he double dip? I know Napier can double dip. I saw that in his content.

I think there is offset language, but he doesn't have to. Like, I think it was being reported as like he has to try to get a coaching media job with who his agent is if that would have been the case i would have certainly been pretty surprised by that but i do think most of these guys that this particular agent represents they only do one thing and that's like yeah i'm coach what i'm gonna go jet ski and no golf spend time with my fam no i coach football no yeah i have no hobbies he got no hobby i'll fish i don't golf yeah it was a great answer by him and uh also what i told him i think is very real too. I think long-term

history will look back on James Franklin and say, oh, hey, James, do a good job. I think even, like, Penn State people will say that, you know? In the moment, though, Penn State people are saying, I gave $20 million for this roster, and we just lost the Northwestern at home. That Northwestern,

I didn't even know they had enough people to put it on a field, and they just be, we lost to who? I'male of own care. And then Oregon, before that, that's how a lot of Penn Staters feel right now, especially with the records that they were putting up on the screen, but I think in a long term, people will look back. To your point, though, this Penn State role now being open, boy, has that been good for everybody that's potentially up for that job?

Yeah. And now another big one? Florida. Tall. Florida probably be. That's a good job. Because of recruiting, I think so. I know Penn State has the money, but I mean, Florida's got the money.

They're recruiting pipeline down in Florida, like SEC. Two really good jobs. Great jobs. How many candidates are there? Not enough. That's what. When is the first one hired? When is the first big gig filled?

That's my question, too. Boy, and when does the first big hire not just re-sign a deal at their own place for a mega deal? Great point. You know, like, when is it's so good. The leverage is awesome. Every coach has. Every decent coach has great leverage when this stuff happens. Jimmy Sexton walks out there with Lane Kiffin on that field.

Just know that that man's phone is right there in his pocket. And if you want to talk about adding 5, 6, 7, 10 more million a year, I'll certainly listen. I will certainly listen. The big deluxe, the big Cadillac, always working. I love that man. I enjoy him a lot. He's a phenomenal businessman.

And the guys that he represents, though, just to go back to it, all super football people. And also, here he is. Look at his ass going between the hedges. And I can work a deal here if you'd like. You know, that's a couple coaches down there. You got Kirby, who's name. It's going to be everywhere.

He's a damn good dog. nobody would assume him to leave. Lane Kiffin, obviously, his name's up for Florida every year, even when Napier was the head coach, little on maybe Penn State, and what Lane has obviously become at this stage of his career versus what he was 10 years ago and how good his teams have been.

And listening to him give speeches and everything like that. It's like, Lane's jobs up there. And Jimmy's like, his name is up there, isn't it? It is. On that note, I don't even want to have a conversation. I don't even want to have a conversation. I just, can we? And then bang, the bang, the bang, the bang.

And then all of a sudden, if you're one of these schools that needs a job or needs a coach, it's like, well, who's all available here? Who is? And who are the other, I mean, Lane, based on what he's posting pregame and how he's winning and all this day, it's going to be tough for him to leave Ole Miss. But who are like the hot? There's like, you know, like a smaller school, and it's not surprising that they covered the alternate spread because Alex Golish is putting up a lot of points right now because, you know, a lot of people are saying he's putting, at South Florida, he's putting up a lot of points to impress them bigger. schools, especially in Florida, stuff like that. He's one of them. You got Matt Campbell, Iowa State, whose name's out there

a lot. Every year, right? His name's up there? Kind of, yeah. Because he's done well, he's done great Iowa State. And Iowa State's a great school, but they're not the recruiting fan base that in that Penn State or Florida and stuff like that. There's, you know, Mani Diaz at Duke, stuff like that. You can talk about Brom as well. Yeah, Braum's name. Louisville, like,

was it you, I believe, that said his name, he's a Louisville hero. Like, if anybody is a, a school's hero that is currently their coach it's definitely Brom at Louisville but a lot of schools with a lot of opportunity opening up that don't have a lot of names and it's like Brom's name

what do we want to do we want to beat the good teams and we want to put up points we want to be fun and we want a dog here yeah oh and develop quarterbacks and ex-quarterback and his brother's quarterback and I think his father's a quarterback and his father's father's father's quarterback and his father's father's quarter it's like

he is probably quickly to a lot of places especially after when he did Friday night yeah I would assume so on it and I've seen more and more. A lot of people are really trying to connect like the actually Elko to Penn State makes a lot of sense. Like that seems weird. Jersey. Yeah, Jersey guy Northeast ties, but like with how

A&M paid what, 70 million? That's what I mean. If A&M wants to keep him, they can keep him. So like that is very interesting because even like the rule stuff, now that kind of, that has cooled off a little bit after he got PJ Fleck on Friday night. Yeah, PJ Fleck will get somebody. You will. Hey,

golf. Yeah, man. PJ Fleck is around a there's going to be a couple good shots they're going to be like, yep, this guy's got it. Yep. But will he ever at Minnesota be able to... No, but that was the Roe the Boat game. You knew it was coming.

Wonder if he's a guy. Yes, PJ candidate to get bumped up to one of these big gigs or bigger. Definitely. Hey, we can golf a lot better. You can be a better club. Better clothes. A little bit more opportunity here. Maybe we'll be able to do that. He obviously loves Minnesota. I mentioned John Gruden's name on game day. It's like, hey, who's

Penn State's next head coach? I mean, why not John Grude? Just let him get out there. Well, do they want somebody that's that old? It's like, you think Gruden feels old when he's talking about ball? Yeah. I don't think so. Signetti, 60 what?

Yeah. He's what he's doing right now? They're the same age. Gruden's same age as him. 52. Gruden also has ties back to the Hoosiers and his dad. Offensive guy can play exciting football, exciting brand of football and offense, especially.

Yeah. Gruden has it all. And a bit of a dog. Yeah. A bit of a dog. And energy and everything like that. Should not email. Talk to me.

about that. Probably not email, you know, should not email. All right, let's talk a little bit of NFL. Thank you to college ball, though. Oh, yeah. Thank you, college. It's been outstanding. And congrats to Arizona State.

Dillingham's name is probably on a lot of people's next as well. Congrats to Arizona State get a massive win over Texas Tech. We on the set all picked Texas Tech. I didn't love it at the time. I wish I would have known that going in. Would have picked the opposite because I think this was kind of a coin toss type game, to be honest. And the fact that we all want with Texas Tech was very rude to you, Arizona.

State, folks. Now, this comes fresh off at Dillingham's accountability speech we heard last week, and obviously everything they got going on over there. We should have gave them a little bit more love. I am Arizona State fan. I would love to light up the valley. I love the state of Arizona. My wife

and I probably going to end up living out there someday. So anything out there doing well I am a fan of, but he's a guy whose name is probably... Definitely. Texas Tech, tough loss, sir. What about Matt Patricia? Like, we've seeing him sit in the pocket both in a studio and when he's, you know,

the head coach of a organization with Detroit. Tough spot. Like, you know his message gets through to college players. Like, this is the best a defense has ever played, like, consistently in the history of college football. Yeah, that would be crazy? He's got great weapons on that defense. Would Matt Patricia be able to get to a spot and recruit all the best players?

I don't know. College just want to hire defensive guys, though, as well. We know in the NFL, they're kind of biased towards hiring offensive guys. Now, Patricia's name is definitely going to be interviewed. Does recruiting even matter as much when the money is the only thing that really matters now? Interesting. Oh, you still got to. Why Nick Saban retire?

Because they didn't have to anymore. It was only about the money. I don't think they had the money. There's only certain places that have, like, I'm not saying Alabama doesn't have a good amount of money. But I think Saban said that he didn't appreciate the fact that every offseason it was about a renegotiation, everything like that. But I also don't think they had just, like, the means to be able to say any dollar amount that you want. Like Penn State. Bingo.

So. Legacy and you know you're getting drafted. You know you're going to be playing for a national champion. You know, all those different things. But like you said, now, that's, and that is why he left because guys coming in, hey, new money, more money. Ms. Terry said the same thing. But, yeah, I, you still got to be a good, good recruiter. Shit, you got to recruit your own guys every fucking.

Miss Terry said this. She hasn't seen a number yet. Yep. She hasn't seen a number yet. I'm excited to see what that is. Somebody present one. Somebody just go ahead and put one down. Savings, this is the house he could live in.

Okay, here's, I don't know what you need. Do you pool, spa, whatever? Here's that you have. And here's how much you can get every single year. And Nick Savant, I kind of like what I'm doing right now, man. Kind of liking what I'm doing. He's got to enjoy his life. Oh, my God, yes.

Golfs a couple times a week, speaks a couple times, still goes into the office, watch his film, wakes up on Saturday morning not the entire weight of the world on your shoulders that if you win it's going to be okay and if you lose fire this guy, this guy's old I think he's at a point where he's pretty happy

and Miss Terry she's been coming to a couple game days kids been stopped I mean everybody seems to be really enjoying this phase of life but anytime there is anything that is needed anywhere it's like Sabin will run it Sabin will throw his ass right back into a 90 hour

a week job boom away from his entire family and that's what he's earned obviously but I don't know if any of it is ever in reality. I just want to tell Nick, you know, he's doing great. Love him on game day. Okay, there's a couple other coaches. Love him on game day. There's a couple other coaches decided to come back at 73 years old and not going

great, so just stay at game day. But put a bow bow on this. There's a potential. It's not just Florida and Penn State. Auburn potentially open up at some time this season. Florida State maybe after the season. There's going to be a lot of... Arkansas's already open. Yeah, there's already open. There's a lot of Wisconsin. Where all these coaches coming from? They're behind.

I love that segment gets to go around and kind of get his flowers too everywhere at all the different campuses and shit he has his coaching tree is so extensive that he gets to now go and see you know catch up with a Kirby smart or Lane Kiff and now he gets to see these guys every week like that's got to be a crazy kind of full-circle moment for him yeah he's earned it they're awesome for sure every day every day around him's awesome talking shit to him awesome him in the middle of something awesome him hating something awesome everything about him is awesome Like, he holds my chair, you know, whenever I get going up there.

And the game day social folks, like, everybody needs a friend, like Nick Saban or something. It's like, yeah, if you could get a friend like Nick Saban, you should definitely do that. If you can get somebody, obviously, he holds chair, incredible. Yeah, he's great at it. That is what he does. But just reading that caption, I'm like, yeah, get a Nick Saban if you can. One of the greatest leaders, let alone like mentorship, leaders, guiding minds, every, like, every time he speaks with that. You're just trying to listen to the words that are coming out.

You're only going to get better as a human. We're lucky for it. Okay, let's talk a little bit of NFL. AJ went through our first 15. It took 45 minutes. Number five was some bucking maha magic. You know, it looked like that game was over for the Denver Broncos. And then they come storming back on DT Day.

They scored 33 points in the fourth quarter. They had 33 seconds left on their final drive. It was a 33-yard extra point that was missed. Obviously, there's a lot of wild symbolism going on out there in Denver, Colorado. But Bo Nix, Sean Payton, get a huge comeback win, and Giants fans are going, yeah, we should have won. But this kind of sucks. Would be cool to win. Brian Burns walking off the field in the tunnel actually showcased his emotions a bit that was caught on camera,

where he was questioning a lot of things going on alongside Russell Wilson. I want to make sure his jersey was tucked in just in case somebody gets this on film. Okay, this is obviously going to get on film. We said drop in eight, not happy about that. What are your thoughts on this game? We should be up on the Broncos, up on the Giants? Or what's your takeaway? Honestly, I think you should be up on both of them.

The Giants, yeah, they definitely thought they were going to win that thing at the end after they, you know, the Broncos, what do you call it, sleepwalking for two and a half quarters, three quarters almost. Then they found a way offensively, especially. I feel like, I don't know. I think when you want to be a great team, you've got to win in many different ways. I think the Giants, first off, they're a legit team. I think they're obviously what Jackson, DART and Scataboo,

like injected into this offense is huge for the whole organization. But I think their defense is legit. They know how to fight. Like this is a game the Giants probably should have won. Obviously I think Daibold might lose his mind watching him walk out to the handshake. Like that dude was not happy at all. He thought they had this game and

this was a tough, tough situation right here. I think teams that were in their position now at this moment sit two and three thousand and six hundred and something or something like that. I forget what it is. The only other win is the Indianapolis Colts on Monday night football

against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers two and three thousand six hundred and seventy seven in a situation. That's a lot. Congrats of Broncos. Those are tall odds. Those are tall, tall odds they make it happen.

Number four headline was, man, there's MDPs all over the league, dude. Seriously, it seems like every team that wins. I mean, we can put Bo Nix in there if we want to if he ends up going on a run through its entire. They're five and two right now.

Who knows what they end up at? Any of these teams end up with a really good record. They're going to be on prime time. They're going to be in big games. And if they perform well there, you win. Bang, MVPs. Every single week, we have these massive kind of groups of potential MVP's on the, yeah, boom. This is just from winning teams. This is just, this is just from the winning teams. And there's still four teams that are to play. So many good football players

around the league right now, AJ. I mean, talk about DAC. I know we've talked about the Cowboys and people love to talk about. Dak just continues to roll and looks so comfortable. He got his helmet ripped off at one point in this game. He doesn't care. He pops right back up. The Cowboys are fun to watch. I don't know if you guys saw or not, but Oda Iberflus, he was showing some emotion on the sideline. He was jacked up when the Cowboys defense made a few big stops later in this game.

So I don't know, maybe the Cowboys have found something. We know offensively, they've definitely found something. They're on the roll, but maybe their defense can find a way to shore up some of this. I know the commanders were a bit, you know, they were missing a few key players, but still, credit to the Cowboys, it's a big win. And what Maka has been able to do down a stretch with the Green Bay

Packers team, obviously Dallas Cowboys don't have that. Highest QBR in a season, in a season history of metric, which is since 2006, 2007, Tom Brady, Peyton, Manning, Aaron Rogers, Lamar Jackson, Drew Brees, Drew Brees, and currently Dak Prescott. So I assume MVP's throughout all of those. That is what Dak Prescott is playing like right now. But if they can't win in the playoffs, nobody will care. Yep, he's in that conversation. That is exactly what people will say.

Sucks that their defense sucks. Yeah, but there's maybe, even if he's getting jacked up, he might have the boys on their side. Picks six yesterday. Might have the boys on his side. I'll tell you what, that can happen, right? I mean, boys can find something in the middle of a season. Yeah, and without a doubt, Iber Fluse, I know people are down on him. He's a good defensive mind.

He's a good defensive coach. Can you buy in? He is playing. He was leading league in zone coverage and you have a bunch of man-to-man guys on the roster, so that's tough to do. He did play more man-to-man in this game, but like AJ mentioned, Washington was down, I believe they're top two receivers with Terry McClure and Debo Samuel being out.

But yeah, you've got players in that building that are talented. You've got talented coaches. They can definitely figure it out, especially when you have an offense that can go out there and put up 35, 38 points any given Sunday. Well, and it's the first time he's at a running game. Like every year for the past three years, it's been like, hey, they can't run the football. And Javante Williams is kind of the guy that got kicked out of Denver after having, you know, a pretty solid start to his career.

He's come in and he's been unbelievable and also credit to Shottie. Like we're talking about Iber Fluse, Shottie sat in the pocket throughout this entire Micah's throughout all of the Jerry Jones stuff, throughout everything. And somehow they're 3-3-1 and they are in prime position. for, you know, some sort of run going forward. You know, Brandon Aubrey probably wins that kickoff if they have it in that overtime. They should be fourth, four and three.

That one shouldn't be there if they go the overtime kickoff. Him hitting from 61 as if it's just a cakewalk. That's outrageous, bro. That's a record, right? How he kicks it. It's like his stroke is so effortless. What is that? Sebastian Janikowski, okay,

called me yesterday. I didn't answer it. Left me a voice memo. He mentioned something along the lines with an incredible Polish accent about fuck maybe I come back the balls with the way the balls are Sebastian's like hey you know Lane Kiffin sent me out there for a 70 some yarder whenever I was with them

if I was able to bring in my own ball from practice that just had to get cleared I mean it's possible that is kind of the view right now it's like I think everybody's very happy for these kickers and punters but it's also like we're about to see some real high level stuff and I thought Janikowski's like how oh shit let me

still got it, I think. He's probably still in shape. He's definitely in Janikowski. Yeah, for sure. He'll be like that forever. Probably could still boom balls, but it's like, Aubrey hitting from 70, I don't think, is really out of the woodwork, and I think a lot of people have talked to.

He's not the only one. I think there's other guys that probably do that. And they play at Denver this week. So I saw a lot of people saying, like, hey, just, like, throw them a bone. Let him attempt 70 plus. Like, let him set the record. We'll see, you know, what the case might actually be. because if anyone's going to do it, it's going to be him.

Didn't your new kicker? Yeah, he had 61-yard. Yeah, Lucas Haversick. You knew that was happening, too. Yeah, and this guy out of nowhere is low-key kind of saved the season because they've needed, I mean, that game was over, and then, you know, he hits a 61-yarder before half when it was like, oh, boy, this thing. And, yeah, new Packers' record.

So he was going to be a substitute teacher a couple weeks ago, and he's been absolutely massive the last two weeks. I love that. 66 is the NFL's record, and Haversick goes from Mississippi. How do I say that? To hit a 61-yarder against the Cardinals in a massive moment before halftime. That game was ugly,

dude. So ugly. Delayed, delay the planes. That's why. Barry the ball. Take the win and keep it moving, AJ. That's what you need to do if you're the Packers. Yeah, this is I mean, that does suck when you hear this happens to these guys. But yeah, I mean, they found a way to win. If they would have lost this game, then we would be

saying something. No, this is a game you have to find a way to win, and they did. But Jordan Love, though, I give him some credit. He took he took a big shot from Buda Baker like he got back up and kept fighting and ultimately found a way to get a win. I'll give him credit. You know, maybe find a new plane company. From our

experience, it is quite a life change. Or a bigger runway. Yeah, bigger runway. Put some ment on. Maybe get a new plane company. Gumpy and I hopped in a new plane this weekend. Age. What happened? What? Like a hot tub in there or what?

Maybe. Hold on. That might be. That might be. That might be the next. That might be happening next week. That might be happening next week. There's really levels to all this shit. Packers need to get better travel. Okay? Them getting to Brazil was a problem. It was. Getting to Arizona's a problem.

Figure it out, dude. Figure it out over there. Los Angeles. They didn't figure out how to get to London. They said, we're going to hang out in Baltimore. We're going to do a little, you know, like a baseball thing. Everybody's going to have fun. We're going to run sprints. We're going to steal home runs. We're going to throw pitches off the mind. We're going to be down in the dogout.

We're all going to chew and spit. Maybe take a couple hacks at this thing. And then we're going to fly over to London later than everybody else because we're just going to treat like a normal week for us. We're used to traveling a good way because we're to Los Angeles Rams and then we're going to score all over the place all morning and all of us are

going to sue our way through a London blowout of the Jacksonville Jaguars. I love this team, AJ. I love that they're on a pseudo primetime too at 9.30 a.m. How can you not love this team? I believe they had seven sacks against the Jags

and the Jags had some like 13, 14, 14 penalties as well. That's not a, that's not really an equation to win, but yeah, Matthew Stafford's still doing it. Unbelievable. I know he said he looks 32, 31. Yeah, I would agree. The guy is awesome. And without puka, too, how do you, you still find a way and make little adjustment? That's why

McVeigh is so good, man. He knows how to he knows how to scheme teams up. He knows even if he's losing his superstar, one of his superstars, he'll still figure it out. Debutt, now the question is, Devante obviously making magic. He's got to be so happy. I mean, one hand snag there, a little bit of fadeball here. Let's go to the other side.

Jaguars, seeing everybody get mad about what's going on with Travis Hunter. Scores a touchdown, obviously, and we know he's majoring in one side and trying to develop a major in the other side as well. Is it too much? Is it not enough? Him with the ball in his hands, obviously electrifying. What are your thoughts on what's going on with Travis Hunter and the Jacksonville Jaguars? It's getting a lot on here.

Of course it is. And it's a tough spot to be in as an organization to manage something that no one has had to manage to this point. And he is, I mean, he is phenomenal. I get it. If I'm a Jacksonville Jaguars fan, I would never want him to come off the field. You see the PBU he had on Devante. You see him getting his first touchdown here.

And then you see also him and Trevor Lawrence, like still quite not been on the same page, which is weird because we're going in the week eight now. He's been playing majority offense, it seems. So you would think coming into this game with Devonte Adams just being kind of like that one premier weapon, you wouldn't have to use them on defense a ton. But when you lose games and the shit that AJ mentioned, like 13 penalties, all of the self-inflicted negatives that this team have had. forget what you're doing with Travis Hunter.

You've got to figure out that stuff and not beat yourself. But yeah, I understand why fans, or even just a fan of the NFL, you want to see Travis Hunter on the field all the time. I'm in the same boat. Well, Stoner told us the boundaries of football are about to be tested. He didn't. We're looking for it. Maybe on a terrible London field wasn't the right time.

We'll see going forward. That 9-30 game felt different than a couple weeks back. What was the big difference? Different pitch for you. It was a different pitch, different country, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, a little gloomier. Not one at one.

I know it was different for me. The teams, they were playing? Oh, no, no, no. You're going to say it was London and it wasn't as many people traveling from America. True. Yeah, four times. Was there any McQaeda stats about this week, Lad?

The big McQuade stat was, Lads, you'll never believe. We actually ran the Peter Shager version, but, you know, they went over on Saturday. Can you believe that, Lads? What's that? The Rams went. over on Saturday. It's the latest any team has

obviously ever went over to an NFL game overseas lads and I'll tell you what this is going to be moving forward teams maybe showing up two, three hours before kickoff. He's concerned about it. They may just be landing, just saying you know what? Like a middle school game. Well, that's the thing. Well, the Jaguars were there since Tuesday

lads. They got no media. I mean, McQuay got no media access to the ramp. Yeah, exactly. He's very concerned this is going to be a thing. In and out, like two ships passing in the night, lads. Oh, they're a little bit worried over there. A little bit. Oh, because what if This is the key to success, because now future teams, because there's always a battle. They're going to do this, yeah.

Strength coach, body person, expert is giving one take. Football coach is saying, I want to change my routine. Why can't we do this? And then the strength coach goes, well, your body actually, whenever it has to recover to the flight and the time. That's why we're going to do calisthenics in there like where Russell Wilson, we got to make sure we get this amount of sleep. We're going to shut all the blinds on the way over there. So then whenever we wake up, it's actually right in time with their time. And then all of a sudden we have a normal game as opposed to.

then you hear some other body gurus go we're acting like it's our time whenever we go over there we're going to try to treat this as similar as possible we're just acts if it's a 930 game we start doing some 930 games here whenever we're in America then we fly over there we'll stay on the standard routine and now every single football coach

is going to be able to say these body gurus Rams whenever on Saturday I want to hear shit that's what we're doing thank you they play better than everybody that's what they're going to say AJ I know who was it was the Steelers who wasn't able to go later they wanted to do the NFL

Steelers want to go earlier that's right my bad Yeah, so you can go as late as you want. You can go as late as you want, but you can't go as early as you want. Yes, it sounds like, although the Jags and also the Vikings lived over there for a little bit. So how does that work? I don't know. It's interesting, isn't it?

Feels like we're just flying by the seat of our pants over at that office, aren't we? Yeah, but if you're the Rams, you're flying by seat of your pants very late. You're flying your ass right back out of their first, because if you win, you get first flights out. You know, that's kind of like a... They've got a long flight back. It's kind of like a long... Just like Denver Broncas, though. Yeah.

Malkas go back, they're kind of shite offensively for three and a half quarters. Then they come alive after the London trip, get a big time win. Joining us now, ladies or gentlemen, is a man who might have a couple takes on some things. He's also calling a game tonight. Oh, different commentators in the morning. Also, Sundays. Yeah, that's why it was. So Greg Olson was week one.

No, Rich. That's just me. That's just me. Are our normal international commentators. So they've been in there for the last two weeks. Greg Olson was week one, I believe, of international play. Greg Olson, not Rich and Kurt, obviously, we wake up with them for international games a lot. We appreciate them in their service and how they call games and what they've done for the NFL.

Greg Olson is a delight. I'd like him to do more games. I don't know how it's possible, but I'd like him to do at least maybe like three games a week. Lads. Why don't we get two lads from London to call the game? Well, what about the two Irish fellas that came into the... What? You get Jamie Carrier.

That were in Alabama. Did you see this? Yeah, Derek Carriger and Connell Diggin, I believe. They went down there, and did you see their rental? It was a RAM 1500. Yes, yes, I did. They said the largest truck they've ever seen was our rental, and then they go right to our RAM 1500s, and then that was their rental now.

The weather, too. They're like, there hasn't been a cloud in the skies last. This is unbelievable. There's no rain. There's no clouds. It's always sunny. They had a good time. They did.

So maybe it is, maybe the Irish lads do the commentating. Or Rich and Kirk continue to do it, but we do need more Olson in there. Yes. And what we've learned is we need more Orlovsky. Yeah, we thought a morning not enough And the afternoon not enough Let's put his ass in prime time Ladies and gentlemen, tonight's an Orlovsky night

And we thank our football heavens for that God bless this man, ladies and gentlemen Dan Roloski Yeah, no, thank God, dude Thank God you're on a call tonight, Jesus Okay We gather here today

To say thank you to the Lord for blessing our ears with Dan Roloski on a call the night. And they have a father, son, the Holy Spirit, we say his prayer. Amen. Amen. Amen.

How do you feel about tonight? I feel like you're going to have your fastball out there in Seattle? Is that what we're thinking? You really, you've dug in deep to the narratives of this game and the players. How do you feel tonight's game's going to go

between the Texans and the Seahawks? Yeah, tonight, heavyweight fight, championship defenses. God bless them already. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Anyways, I'm sorry. A heavy-way fight. I'm telling Seattle's got a Super Bowl contending football team. I think they got the defensive player right now.

And Leonard Williams, I don't think there's a better defensive player, more impactful defensive player. We're now specifically on the inside of football. So this is a defense with Mike McDonald. I mean, dude, DeMarcus Lawrence right now is playing unbelievable football. Jan Reed's playing great. Byron Murphy's playing great. Moffey's playing great. Nickyman Wari, their rookie out of South Carolina is going to play. just his size reminds people of Cam Chancellor and Kyle Hamilton.

I'm not saying he's that type of player yet, but this is a defense right now that it's just absolutely off the charts. And it's an offense that's the big, best big play offense in the league right now. Sam and JSN, they just hunt big time throws down the field. It's one of my favorite offenses in the league right now schematically. Clint Kubiak, their offensive coordinator, son of Gary Kubiak, who was one of the founders of kind of getting the Texans really solidified as a big-time NFL organization took them to the first playoffs their two tight ends are awesome awesome players so

I love their offense schematically awesome I think it's a Super Bowl caliber football team I absolutely do and then Houston's got the best defense or the best unit in football no one talks about will Anderson is destroying people on a consistent basis I mean he's old school old school defensive linemen we're like we asked them last night what do you like better sacking the quarterback or splitting an offensive lineman in the run game. And, like, he leaned back and was, like, hands over his face, didn't know how to say. He said, I get joy in doing both. And so, yeah, this is a defense right now that is speed and physical and violent and Stingley's ridiculous.

And so, you know, can their offense and offensive line specifically play better, more consistent to use them? But this is a heavyweight fight tonight. Go ahead, AJ. Yeah, Dan, in this heavyweight fight, how do you expect C.J. Stroud to play? I guess what have you seen early on this season in his play, and maybe at times when it hasn't been up to the standard that he kind of set early on his career? Yeah, I think the question about Houston and really when will CJ or can he get back to that 2023 form and production is really attached to three things. One, can the offensive line play better? This offensive line has been bad due the first three weeks of the year game-wise.

Their last two have been better, but they've been beat one-on-one. they've been schematically overwhelmed. They've been poor picking up pressure. So can the offensive line just build some continuity? They got a young left tackle starting a rookie. I wouldn't single block him one time tonight. So they got to play better. I think the second thing is with this new offensive coordinator,

Nick Cayley, who has a history with the Patriots and the Rams, I think their big thing is trying to find diversity on their early downs to create plays down the field for Nico Collins like this. It's like trying to not stress this offensive line so much in obvious passing situations. And then they're young receivers. You're seeing a clip of a Jalen Doel, who's a rookie from Iowa State. They got a Jaden Higgins from Iowa State. So, you know, in 2023, he had Nico Collins, he had Take Dell, he had Steph Diggs.

Now it's, you know, Nico who's established veteran and then some young pieces. So I think he'll play if, I'd say this, AJ, if they have early down success, C.J.'s got to a chance to play well versus a great defense. If they struggle on early downs, it's going to be a long night for him in this offense. Look out, CJ. And let's go to the other side of the ball guy who's obviously had quite a resurgence over the last couple of years. Go ahead, Ty. Yeah, Dan, obviously hindsight is 2020, but is it safe to say at this point that the Vikings made a massive mistake in letting Sam Darnold walk? I don't know what. Some people I think maybe thought last year was an avarition and he wasn't really going to be able to do the same thing, but you just mentioned

it, you know, they're a Super Bowl contender and he looks unbelievable. yeah i mean he's playing at a high level mistake when it comes to minnesota once they took jj you kind of knew this that was going to be the eventual inevitable step um i'll tell you this when you talk to sam you just have such an appreciation for how far he's come in his own journey and the biggest thing we were talking to um tie was like how did you not get broken like how did you not get broken from the failures in New York and the the struggles and then you go to Carolina and you stink and all that stuff and he said you know he gave a ton of credit to his father he's like my dad has always just taught me just to try to get better day by day and he was like I just

was focused on that but I the two people that I was really surprised that he mentioned he mentioned a lot of people but he emphasized Ben McAdoo as a guy as a coach if you know the science coach dude he he could not have sung his praises more of like dude that guy transformed my football career in my life when it comes to the biggest thing was like him harping on his feet like harping and he sam calls it clicking through progressions uh and then he he said getting the opportunity to go to san francisco and play behind brock purdy and he was like i watched brock purdy play and watching brock purdy play made him such a better player because he the same thing like how good brock is with his feet and um he's playing awesome man He's super confident. J.S.N. and Cooper Cup have been tremendous for him, but he's playing the best football of his career. Okay, I can't wait to watch and listen to you on the call tonight. I think you do a great job, so we can't wait for that.

Safe travels to wherever you're headed after the Seattle game tonight to be immediately on television. You just mentioned Brock Purdy right there for Sam Darno watching him kind of go through his thing. You think Mack Jones learned from Brock Party as well? And what are your thoughts on the 4-1-Mack Jones-led San Francisco 49ers situation? There's no question. He learned from Brock Purdy and getting the opportunity to play. But I think they also had a similar playing style. You know, when it comes to their very anticipatory type of players,

they want to be ball distributors, they want to play the point guard thing. I think the couple of things that stand out from last night's game from an offensive perspective for San Francisco, you guys remember when they cut Eusecheck in the off season, and there was like a little bit of limbo. Was he going to go back or not? Good God, I bet you they're grateful he's still there because he just does so much for their football team.

McCaffrey is, you know, very much so in the MVP conversation. His touch is right now. I remember when they were dealing four months, four weeks ago with all their injuries. Like, can they give them the ball that much? He's doing it all. I hope you guys play the clip of his long completion at the end of the game because the way that they, there's, he's maybe one of two players in the league, this one. He's lined up as like a slot receiver.

He's running a scene down the field. Like he's got the depth of a running back, the width of a slot receiver. He fakes like he's going to run almost like an out route. and the seam. I mean, there's just not a lot of people that can do that. He chases the safety, just an unbelievable play. To be able to, like, pull that play from McCaffrey is remarkable. And then I'd say this, dude, Robert Sala's got to get a lot of love. This defense hunted last night against Atlanta and a good offense. They chased the football so much. And so incredible coaching job in San Francisco right now by Kyle and the fellas.

It's a haunting season, isn't it? It certainly is. And the Niners look, like they're incredible. They look like they're all the way back to be in the best versions of themselves. Once George Kittle starts opening up through the sky, that's only going to get even better for whatever quarterback is playing for them. And now let's talk about a quarterback

who's playing like the best version of himself. And boy, is it great to see. I think we saw this version a couple years back, now maybe even in a bigger form. Yeah, once 15 and Rick is, everybody gets to kind of shaking in their boots. What's going on? What are you seeing with Patrick Mahomes in this office?

I feel like he's been great all year. But we just saw yesterday with him having his weapons, having Hollywood, Rishie Rice been back in the building, worthy, all those guys been on the field for the first time at the same time. What are you seeing with this offense and what do you expect going forward? Conviction and trust. And those are two words that Patrick and Andy Reid and Matt Nagy just did not have a lot of last year, rightfully so.

The conviction to believe in one protection and two the people around them, you see the ball distribution. I think they had like nine or ten dudes. catch passes and debut for me it's if you just watch the creative design of the plays that tells me Andy Reid and Matt Nagy trust those people on the field because we weren't seeing it over the last year up until like three weeks ago it has started and they're back to some of the motion stuff they're back to creating some of the one-on-ones for perimeter players if you see yesterday how they would take on a consistent basis Kelsey on one side of the ball or she writes on the other side of the ball and you

notice like it balances their formation then what are you going to run you're going to run zone you're going to run man i'll start with travis and the work opposite and just we're seeing more plays where patrick is um you know not leaving the pocket too soon but they're just giving him the opportunity say hey does the initial read hit great get it out of your hands and if not Patrick go make some special plays and it's not out of a running for your life necessity it's out of the oh i have i'm to maneuver a little bit that's a big difference then last year and so I probably undervalued the impact of Worthy and Rice on their offense. Having those two guys back, man, trusting conviction from everybody in that offense.

Rishi Rice last 17 games, including playoffs, equivalent of one full season, 106 catches on 139 targets, two drops. 1,1006.9 yards, 61, first downs, nine touchdowns. And they were force feeding them, too. It was very much like welcome back. Balance is their offense. Yeah, they're very much like, welcome back. It is great to have you.

And who knows what they do before a trade deadline, too? You never know with this Kansas City Chiefs team. And as soon as they showed a glimpse of being great again, the sports books just go, yep, they're the favorite and he's the favorite, even though nobody else was seeing it at the time. Let's talk about another team. The reigning Super Bowl champs, they might be in their best form. Jalen Hertz threw three touchdowns yesterday.

Connor has a question for you. Yeah, Dano, we were all shocked when the Eagles were throwing the ball to AJ Brian Devontas Smith and who's working. What did they do to kind of unlock this? or not even unlock it, but kind of bring it back to everyone's forefront because there was about, I don't know, two quarters of this game where I thought, oh, wow, watching the Eagles sucks now. But then you remember how many studs they have on their team.

What was the difference you saw from them on Sunday? Yeah, I think so the first touchdown to A.J. Brown is just kind of like backyard football. That ball there right there that he throws to Devante. So this one to A.J., this is just, I think this is decently subpar defense. they don't rush that well. AJ is matched up really on a safety. This is the big one, though, to Devante. Number one, six offensive linemen. Number two, he's underneath the center. Number three, play action. They haven't done any of that this year. And so it leads to a huge play. AJ's in the backside run of the inn. Everybody's attention is pointing to him or pointed to him,

and he has that beautiful post touchdown to Devante Smith. But they did more of that. I think you saw Jalen be really good when he came to plus plus plays, like breaking outside of the pocket and getting into scramble mode. Dude, you know what's my favorite part of this? Another under center, six offensive linemen play action. Throw the ball in the middle field, you don't say. So like, but this doesn't have to be necessarily who they are, like on a consistent basis,

but three, four, five times a game. Look how wide open these dudes are. So that has to be a little bit. You want to know what my favorite part of the game is, though. This is one of the best throws I've ever seen Jaylor's throw. Like that ball is out of his hands so early. So guys, you're showing that play. My favorite part is Jalen Hertz 100% lies about that final completion to AJ Brown.

So on second down, follow me through here, second down, AJ's by himself again to his left right before that last completion. Minnesota runs their all-out pressure. AJ runs the slant. It's a little behind in completion, okay? Philadelphia calls timeout the very next moment. They get into a relatively same formation. Minnesota's lined up.

here comes all out pressure pressure you see jalen hurts points to the left a little bit before this ball gets snapped if you guys can rewind it but if not he points to his left to a jay saying like hey if that guy blitzes you're my quote unquote hot route and the corner deep butt is watching jalen hurts do that he totally lies like you can see the corner oh he played him it's a former it's a former teammate too says they arrived yes a hundred percent and jailin's like hey if he pressures you got to give me the slant and they run the slug and the reason i know that jailin's not pointing in reality is the whole offensive line slides to the left. If he was sliding the whole offensive line to the left, he ain't telling him he's hot

off anybody to his left. And so that, to me, like that to me goes back to what Jalen grew in last year was like owning the line of scrimmage, situationally being perfect. That gives me juice to my veins to know that that's out of the ball. We didn't know where the juice was headed, but we know your blood is flowing over there, brother, and you should get excited for things like that. I love that stuff, man. I like to see Jalen Hertz playing a little chess. Hey, yeah, yeah, we're doing this.

Yup, sluggo, slant, go, see you later. Isaiah's been having a hell of a season for that Minnesota Vikings team as well. Congrats to the Eagles. Congrats to Dano. We'll hear him tonight. And congrats to those of you that enjoy watching us on TV and then get sick of us because we're done here. We'll continue digitally.

We'll be back tomorrow. Those people don't exist. They do, Dan. Goodbye. Yeah, and, okay, we're still live, Dan. We're still live. Okay. Sorry.

I know it's 1057 your time early 10 57 yet wow what you're workout in already what time is it here uh eastern two almost two okay there you go um no workout in yet but no workout in yet i had to get the tape watch this morning bub oh no sweat yeah i can't I can't tell can't tell you no sweat a little bit yeah kind of off a little edgy little edgy yeah but then he lost it there with the jalen put that I mean that was a good oh yeah oh dude it's so fun to find stuff like that that is hey that's why it's dan o season you should change that shirt dano season yeah i'd be sick because it is danos dad season's cool too lucky to be a part of it i believe that's big richard nick foleses's thing

oh it is i believe nick fowdodontner farmer punter pat o'donnell dad season stuff so i appreciate you showing them love but we need a dano season we're in the middle of it right now we are and now we even get prime time dano now this year more than ever calling a Monday night football game. And you know the thing we like about Dano? He'll give you a take. Oh, yeah. He'll give you a take.

On that note, Diggs has the last question for you, Dan. Yeah, Dan, I do. You know, a lot of people thought it couldn't get any worse in Miami and then they played football on Sunday. And things were not well. It was windy. It was wet and that is just not the Miami Dolphins atmosphere. And Tua through three interceptions.

Is there any coming back for this Miami Dolphins team and Tua more specifically? I don't think there's any way to come back this team-wise. That tape was tough to watch. It's tough to defend, man. It's tough to sit there and sit there and try to, like, defend or find positives. I mean, the ball's going through guys' hands getting picked off. There's five, six, seven snaps that are all over the place.

There's receivers and quarterbacks not being on the same page. There's blown assignments galore. It looks very similar to the week one game against Indianapolis. Defensively, there's moments when guys aren't. tackling properly. I mean, it's a tough, tough watch. And it's a tough tape that you're sitting there and try to defend. Um, is they're coming back for Tua. So that's a tough pick, man. Um, geez. I mean, everyone knows I'm a lot of it's man. The Hurricanes, then this. Then Liverpool. Here's the thing with Tua. Here's the thing with Tua though. Tua does need to be

a very specific scheme. Now, when he's in it, he's off the charts. When it's clicking, he's top five. And he's one of those guys that is very unique with the scheme that he can and needs to run. But it's a very, he's a very scheme-centric quarterback. And so I still believe that he's a very good player. And I also say this. And like, listen, their roster is devoid of talent, man. It is devoid of talent. They trade all their pro-blowers.

We could sit here and yell at the coach or the quarterback. $212 million. I thought that was a good idea. You trade all your pro-bowers. I thought that's what we're doing. Well, we paid Jude on $6 million and he was a healthy scratch. we paid Zach Wilson 6 million. He was a healthy scratch yesterday.

So Chris Greer's got it all. Waller, though. Yeah. Talk me. About to pull. We'll never forget that. I like Darren Waller. I'd like him become the Colts.

I love Darren Waller. Darren, Tyler Warren. Oh, man. No, you don't want to take cars. Yeah, I'd say. Yeah, I'm cool with us just taking everybody else off. Nope, we need Pittman. Obviously, need to keep Pittman doing his thing.

Pierce making some tough catches. So many weapons. Downs. Jonathan Taylor. Dude, that Colts team, they are schematically as well coached as anybody in the NFL on both sides. Dude, the stuff that Lou Anirumo is doing defensively debut is insane. Some of the pressure package comes. Sometimes I watch their tape, I'm like, I have no idea what this defense is.

And Nick Cross, too, number 20, he's going to get home. He went off. He is going to get home. He has a lot of blitzes for us. He has a lot of pressure for us. He does great on our defense. Yeah, he is all over the place. Bynum, obviously, spectacular.

Kenny Moe's back for first time, long time. That's huge play. I mean, in the red zone, getting that type of turnover is gigantic. But, like, I think they went, like, three-man rush with the spy. They doubled lad. They double Keenan, I want to say. Like, it was pretty exotic the stuff that they do. Yeah, like, look, they're doubling, doubling, they're cutting, they're replacing.

Three-man with the spy. Dude, it's nuts. Yeah, we do what we do. I mean, this is what we've been saying this whole season. Thank you. and welcome to the fucking show, pal. AJ, Lou Aniromo's defense, perfect for Indianapolis, been saying it since the off season.

Yeah, we have, Dana. Why did it, why did the Bengals get rid of Lou Aniromo? If we see what he can do here with this Colts defense. Look at that's Grover Stewart's pick. Look at everybody on the field, Dano. Look at everybody celebrating his pick. That's not a penalty, right? I was worried they're going to call this a penalty in real time.

Offense coming on a field. Defense going, there's a lot of bodies. It was like 52 out there. It was amazing. Well, 53, actually. It's everybody would get. It's a team thing. Go ahead, Dan.

I'm sorry, buddy. Yeah, I mean, no, I love that that you're pointed out about the team because obviously some of the stuff I had heard you kind of reference about the past. Dude, you know, the league, man. Like, it's a bad defense, someone, or bad unit, someone's got to take the fall, you know. And so I can't imagine that Cincinnati was looking forward to firing Lou Aniruma, but they were terrible. Raced at a historic quarterback performance by Burroughs. So my guess is that someone had to. Oh, Stregge.

Triggis. Haiti. Wow, what a crew there. Shragge. Yeah. He loved Miami. So that's why, but I'm telling you, man, I think that's the moves that stand out, watching, looking at Indie on a consistent basis, they could beat anybody.

Like, anybody that's going to tell me the chiefs are the best team in the AFC, that you haven't watched Indy. Indy can run it. They can throw it. They can stop the run. They can cover. They did all this without Ward yesterday. if you think about the three moves

that Chris Ballard and Indy made this off-scenes and one, they drafted that cat Tyler Warren. What a great... This play design is sick, by the way. I haven't seen anybody run that one. The drafting of Tyler Warren, they add Daniel Jones and Daniels playing just out of his mind.

And then the addition to Lou Anirumo, those three additions have transformed this football team into a Super Bowl contender. Like there's, it can Mississippi is very good, very, very good. This team is as good

as anybody in the AFC. Thank you, Dan. We appreciate you saying it because it's a reality. And obviously, you're former Colt, so we're obviously taking a lot of pride wherever we see you have success like a Monday night football game tonight starting at 10 p.m. Eastern. So for those of us that might not see

or hear you on that one, what are your thoughts on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Lions which kick everything off at 7 o'clock on ABC? Yeah, the Lions got to come out throwing the football. This is an offense that hasn't been great running the ball. They've been good this year, but not great. Tampa is a very good run defense. They struggle versus the pass. If I was, you know, if I were the lines, I'd come out throwing the football and

being very aggressive early on. I don't know exactly who's playing for Tampa. You know, is Mike going to play is Emeka got a play or not? Detroit's got massive injuries in their secondary. And so you would sit there and say if those two guys play and are somewhat close to a high level health, like there should be a ton of success by Baker. And so I think that there's the chance for kind of a little bit of opposite our game. I think our game is more than likely going to be defensively dominated, maybe not as many points. I think if those guys play for Tampa and Detroit does what they should do,

there could be a good amount of points scored by both teams. All right, Dana, we appreciate you taking time in this morning hour for you out there in Seattle. And what time is it for us right now? you guys are just after 2 o'clock which means we're just after 11 nailed it okay we appreciate you good luck tonight safe travels ukong education always showing up this weekend debut hell yeah what you guys basketball started back up big boys beat the crap out of bc girls beat the crap out of bc and football beat

the crap out of bc yeah football won a game yeah we got a quarterback don't look now he's gone spitting it where's he going west virginia stay there We got our asses kicked again. I'll tell you what. Play another good team? Great team. Who was? Good team.

CF, you see a football. Yeah, I did see that score. They had a lot. We didn't have a lot. Trust the climb. No, don't say that. That's Neil's stuff. We're finding a hard edge.

Yeah, there you go. We're currently finding a hard edge. We're looking all over to play soft edge. We're trying to find a hard edge. We're going to get there eventually. And you're already there, Dan. That's why you're the best in a game. We can't wait to hear you tonight.

side, Lewis Riddick and Chris Fowler, and I guess Shreggs, too, ladies and gentlemen. Shraggs and Katie George. Can't wait. That's a late one. Probably won't see much of it, but we'll watch it tomorrow morning. You're the man. You're a good man. Dan Roloski. All right, let's make our picks get out of here, boys. Big time of reaction one day. Huge. You'll a big time Tuesday. AJ, you were nine and four. I was eight and five. So obviously, whenever we look at the pitch, you will pick first. I might you know, choose to just go opposite you so that I can catch you and win tonight because I need one now that I'm down two, three, and one on a season

and you're three, two, and one on a season. Don't love that we have the one at the end, but I wouldn't mind that tonight for me. Would not care if this one's two, three, and two, and two, and he was three, two and two. Then, you know, we've got a lot of season left, but right now let's start with Bucks at Lyons, Lions, Lions favored by six and a half in Detroit Rock City. Is there any other lines, Ton Diggs? Bucks are getting 71% of the bets, and then any other lines. get six and a half or six.

Okay, and remember public bets are one game above 500 this particular weekend thus far. Dee Butch, who do you like? How do you like it? I'll just go what's on the screen is six and a half and I will take the bucks. I think this is way too many points. Honestly, we've got an MVP candidate playing a quarterback for the bucks. We'll see who plays, but we've seen enough this season. That doesn't matter. He's going to make this game close at least. So I'm taking the bucks to keep it close against the lions. AJ, are you agreeing with D. Butch?

Are you going to bucks plus six and a half? Yes, I was surprised to see this number at six and a half. That was a little too much for my liking. And I love what the bucks are doing. So yes, give me Baker and the bucks here. That's exactly what I wanted is somebody who's down two games, you know, who needs you. Give me the Lions minus six tonight at home. This is a Dan Campbell special.

Everybody's hurt. Everybody's hurt? That's how we like it, man. That's how we like it. And keep in mind, this is at 4. field and Lions fans are pissed off right now with everything that happened last week so I'm feeling pretty good about this one tonight so uh give me the Lions a minus six uh although I think if I was to pick it and this was like the beginning of the week sure and I didn't need to gain on

AJ and the potential pick thing I probably would be riding with you guys with the bucks I still think bucks get to win but wind uh nope actually I don't Texans Seahawks Seahawks favored by three and a half at home who do you like how do you like it D. Butch, and is there any other lines? Yeah, you can get a three out there if you're interested in the Seahawks and 66% of the public is on the Seahawks. Okay, we got two more games with 60 plus percent. This thing could end up very over for the public or we can lose this and the sports books can win another week straight in the NFL. DeButch, who do you like? I'll go against the public on this one. I'm like the Texans on the road to keep it close and the cagey or fair to Seahawks

are a good team, but they struggle to win and cover at home. So I'm going to Texas. Texans plus three and a half is Darius brother. How about you, AJ? This is a heavyweight match, a heavyweight matchup or whatever he called, Dano. But heavyweight fights. You tell you what, I like the Seahawks at minus three here at home tonight. Okay, give me the Texans plus three and a half. Then on the opposite side of that, I have to go the opposite way of AJ.

When I did this in a pass, it worked out. Okay? That's right. Worked last week. Yes, it did. Now, it doesn't mean that I'm making good picks in the NFL, but boy, I'm seeing it in college. Maybe that'll carry over, or maybe AJ will continue to be, one of the hottest betters in the entire world when it comes to the NFL.

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And, you know, I just got out of one. It was a heavyweight fight like we have here tonight between the Houston Texans and the Seattle Seahawks. And then the first game is obviously the one that everybody's going to want to watch. Bucks at Lions starting at 7 p.m. Eastern time. That's A.J. Hawk. The toxic table is here at Boston Connor and at Ty Schmidt. One half of the Hammer, Don, Cowboys, AP, Tone is here.

Tone, what's the final number here before we do our last bet conversation here? The final number for tonight. are plus six or six and a half going into Detroit and we have 71% of the money is on the bucks and then Texans are at Seahawks, Seahawks minus three or three and a half if you want the Texans and 66% of the money's on the Seahawks. Okay and AJ's on both the public, right? Bucks and Seahawks. Correct. As are you? No, I went with both the underdogs. Okay, I like that. Let's have a great Monday night. Now let's enjoy the hell out of our Monday with one of the greatest segs that we have, you know, continued here for multiple years. This morning I put out

bird call saying, hey, listen, it's great Monday. Hope you're, hope you're doing well. I hope you have a great start to your work week, if your work week starts on Monday. If you have to work today, we hope it goes great. We hope your Monday morning coffee, motivating. We hope everything was fantastic, but also we would like you to utilize one particular post on X, the artist formerly known as Twitter, and tweet us what your feelings are about your football team. Is your football team Are they alive? Should everybody get fired? Should everybody get a new deal?

All you got to use is the hashtag. I don't want to overreact. But? Came number one trend. A lot of very serious things trending currently. So 6'7 was where I thought we were going to hang out. Instead we'd become number one.

Let's get to some of these overreactions. Tie went through and picked his favorites. Here's from at Bubba Gumpino. He looks like a sorry. Sorry, dolphins fan. I assume this guy also likes Liverpool. who lost for the first time in a hundred years to Manchester in 1999.

I assume this man is also a Miami Hurricanes fan lost right there on Friday night to Louisville as well. But when it comes to his Miami Dolphins team, he says, hashtag, I don't want to overreacts. But? It's Jover, brother. How many times do you have used this particular picture of it being Jover or Joe Bover?

And why is now the official Jover announcement for the Miami Dolphins Gump? This is the first time this year And this era of the dolphins is over It's McDaniel, it's Tua, it's Chris Greer If it's not a clean sweep Doesn't matter, nothing's gonna change Let him finish the season though

Legit let him finish the season, I don't care Let them fucking play it out boys Yeah, but the Capri's still got a good chance Exactly And I almost feel bad for McDaniel And I want to see him smile Well, that's because as we go We remember all the times we had together.

Scored 70 against the Denver Broncos. Yeah. It's running off the field, doing this, fins up. So much hope. It felt like yesterday. It was a good time. It was a good run. Number one.

Almost won a playoff game that one time, maybe. As we go on, we remember. all the times we had together. Like when you paid Tyree Kill the most amount of money in the history of wide receivers and he chose the check over like winning and now it's all coming back to bite everybody's in the ass. As we go on, we remember

all the times we had together. Uh, mm, uh, um, uh, um, uh, McDaniels press conferences were awesome. Yeah. They were so cool. If it is jover, I'm going to miss those. Just coming from a completely different angle. Yeah. As we go.

Don't forget. Yeah. Yeah. That's where, man. That was the end of it. That's when it started. Did we call it in real time? I don't remember.

I think you did. I think you did. dude. Just I don't know how that's the thing you say to the people coming to the free practice at training camp in 150 degree. But on that note, I still think Tua goes to another place. Comes a backup quarterback.

Somebody goes down. Two of steps in. We're watching it right now. Sam Donald, Baker, McHill, Danny Dimes, you name it. This is going to happen. He doesn't love the game like those other boys. Oh! He doesn't. He doesn't. He doesn't. He doesn't. He doesn't.

He doesn't. That's the truth. Damn it. That's a jover reaction. You're right. You're right. That is. You're right.

Let's move along. Emotions are high. It's overreaction Monday, AJ. Let's go to Bruce. This one's good. Hashtag I don't want to overreacts. But the Giants invent a new way to lose with a historic defensive collapse and somehow once again find themselves without a kicker.

Shane Bowen is addicted to send him. G men wins to a grueling death with an unprepared. prevent defense. And yet hope springs eternal. Jackson Dart will save us all. Amen. Hey, maybe next year, Bruce. Maybe next year, Bruce. That's good news. That's what we learned yesterday.

Yeah, it was great. I mean, we finally married Moxie, a quarterback with an offensive line that's competent and can block and still, the organization found a way to fail the young man. The Broncos are a good football team. It's on DTN. Did he throw an interception with five minutes left, or was that someone else?

It was under five minutes, actually. Oh, okay. Yeah, it was 455, I think. He was a see the guy. Third and five, the other two only had one timeout. Just take a sack, actually, potentially in this moment, let the clock run. He's a rookie, though. He's going to learn from these mistakes, which leads to the future.

Dayball back, right? Because we've got a young, up-and-coming, everything. This is kind of what we know now about the Giants is we have a bright future, right, Bruce? Yeah, yeah. It seems like, you know, Shane and Dave's will be sticking around. A lot of people are going at Shane Bowen, our defensive coordinator. They would like to see maybe a change made there. maybe Antonio Pierce.

But yeah, I guess, you know, if we want to play the moral victory, the Nick Benito and Jonathan Cooper and the Broncos defense were talking shit all week and Jackson Dart, saved that one interception with five minutes left, was belt the ass and kicked the shit out of them. And when he had to answer, he did. Yeah. Just too quick. Showed the moxie, the grit, the fight, the clutch gene that you love to see.

But man, it's like, can we just stop fucking ourselves from the top down? with missing extra points, going for two, we don't get it, and then we can't get a stop all fourth quarter. It's just embarrassing. The extra point thing, it stinks whenever you don't have a kicker, man. That really does stink.

And now, granted, this kid, I think I saw him hit a 60-some yard or barefoot on the internet. Got an incredibly huge leg. You knew it was over. We knew it was over, right, when he missed that. That's cool. Yes.

That is cool. That is cool. It's a very cool. This is an international. Oh, this is one of McQuade's guys? This is one of McQuade's guys. And McQuaid would say the same thing as I. This guy is a good ball kick.

Yeah, good lad, lads. Just missed by this much, though. Yeah, a couple times. Well, yeah, but if you do that, the ball just stands to the right, he's only going to get better this guy. But the Giants fans don't hear that. No. Is he going to get better on the Giants?

No. I don't think so. The pride of Derry County has to find a new home. The future is right, though. Malik neighbors back healthy next year. He's got the quarterback, probably picking high. Scatible? Yeah.

Yeah, boom. Let's go, Lads. Let's go on the next year. All right, let's go to the next year. On to next year. Week 8, it's not even trick or treat yet. It's an 18-week season. There's a lot of teams like that.

It's week. It's week eight. We're going in a week. We're not on to next year. We're on to the Philadelphia Eagles. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, it's not over.

Okay. All right, let's go to that next one. This is Dark the Door. You know, hashtag, I don't want to overreacts, but Jim Mersey is smiling. Colts won from dumpster fire to contenders in one year. Piss-ponding

teams is another day at the office for Daniel Jones, J.T, Big Quentin Nelson, Big Grove, and crew. Now, it's time to swing for the fences and bring another 98 in the building to make QB shite their pants. Bring Max Crosby to Indy. Hey, Dirk,

love what you're saying, Bub. It is just kind of another day at the office. Danny Dimes makes the perfect decisions, or offense makes incredible plays. The defense seems to be smaller. Daniel Oursky says, I don't even know what you're playing out there. They got like, they're bringing three with a double team and a double team and a spy. They're doing yada, yada, yada, yada.

Lou Anirumo's culture is fantastic. And I'll tell you, big 98 coming over here. All those tats, just every single play, I'm going to ruin somebody's life. That'd be a great addition for us. There's a lot of teams saying they'd like Max Crosby, though. Yeah, and like you said, he's obviously going to be offended by this because he is a raider through and through. I believe it, yeah, is it's a tat at all?

him? Yeah, something. Okay, yeah. But with that bitch, he's got a new tattoo? What do you rather win, though? You got some to, maybe. No, he said he wants to be poor. Like, hasn't that always been the thing?

AJ, he's gotten, like, mad at us for even talking about it in the past, I think. Can't blame us. Yeah, he gets it, but it's ultimately a compliment to him. Like, hey, you're so awesome. We want you to come over to the Colts because you guys aren't winning the games that we feel like a player like you. Like, you should be on a team playing deep into the playoffs every year. Also.

Those are sick. These eyes Would like to see you in a meaningful football Just one time, dude Why do you have to put those on for that? Because it gets a better view in here, dude I don't think so Yeah, you do.

Not right. Look at my Perif, too. Your briff is pretty legit. I'm going up three over here. I can see it. You got a good Perif too. Thank you so much. Dee, but I saw what you're doing over there.

These eyes, though, they want to see you. him in a damn what jocky condor to be honest I'm not a hundred percent sure with what a Bafferts Jockey B.H. B.H. Brian Hernandez He won the Derby A bored dick strike. He won the derby

a couple of years ago. Those are his. When Brian Hernandez's goggles on. Pretty cool, right? And with them all. I want to see fucking Max Crosby playing a big game. Yes. And they're bad. I mean, we're talking about the fins, the are right up there. Let's not forget the Jets and Titans. The Jets and Titans as well, but boy, are they bad. Let's go to the next overreaction, shall we? This is from John Edwards, also known as

Fatimir Guerrero Jr. at Jack Edwards 1980. This man is 45 years of age, typing this. Hashtag I don't want to overreacts, but all these pundits who wrote the obituary of Patrick Holmes and the Chiefs jumped the gun. They're not dead. They're sitting up like the Undertaker. The Chiefs are still the Chiefs. And number 15 is the MVP. not bad for the 13th ranked quarterback in football. So they still had those. So they still had those. Because there's so many other stats they can put up. So many

other stats. Like PFF says 90% of pressures last week came from this man. Like there's so many things they can pull from PFF to make these dudes look good. Instead, they still want to roll out there. This dude's 105 out of 112 fucking ass right here. Put them over. Thank you for watching Sunday night football. We're the best play. Now on that note. Here's ass, ass, and ass across the starting lineup.

And on the other side, just wait till you see this bullshit. This guy's 64 out of 67. Nobody really wants to watch that, but that's what we have tonight. Why would you want that? I don't know why you would want that. With Patrick Mahomes, why wouldn't we put how many Super Bowl is the fucking guy has? Across the bottom, already in

goat conversation. Oh, maybe as a viewer that doesn't know football, I'd like to watch this guy who's almost the goat. You know what? You know who I want to want? 1-15 out of 1-15. I want to see this guy. like why it doesn't it's not good for anything let alone every player coming out and saying we hate it yeah this is bullshit and it is used against us in our public life but mbc said no yeah we're smarter than you guys are like yeah we got bad news for this guy go ahead looks like he dropped

the 26th patrick mahomes did looks like if if i'm reading after this game correctly yeah i'm sure flaco shout up enough enough but that's a great point though like like because of all the information they do have, they could put Patrick with Holmes, 138 for 157 beyond the sticks, blah, blah, blah, like all these different intricate stats that they have, like, yeah. Well, then a graphic designer would have to.

Because that's more work. That'd be a little more work, yeah. Adobe Photoshop. It's not at heart. Oh, you're right. I've heard you can use that. Adobe Photoshop. Yeah.

Is that good, Foxy? I've heard about that. It's pretty good. You know what else is pretty good? IG Story. you can really you can just you can make graphics in your IG story pretty good you canva too i think had an appearance in that entire video that's also uh pretty good adobe photoshop though you can't really you can whip in there a little bit you can cook a little bit i mean i don't want to talk for the graphic boys

over there de bone just used AI and then says this is my sure yeah he found it i was gonna say good his baby he's just said that's not true obviously i use it to help with some things but it's all my work and we know it is. DeBone's a talent. All the graphic people, artists. They're like artists. So I respect her, you know what I mean? Creative process. Yeah, it sucks. No, it doesn't suck.

It sucks. I like that they care that much. Dirty is an artist. Dirty will work with us. DeBone artists will work with us. I don't think it's, I don't think that's a gig we're going to be hiring a lot of people for, though. Does that make sense? Never want to run a business that has a bunch of graphic design. I don't think many companies

are going to be hiring many of them anymore. because of what we said about deboner? Yeah, I'd say. Yeah, but you need the human. Like, I think that's what we need. But also, humans need to be able to use the AI, too. So it has to be like a little bit of a partnership. That's for now.

A little bit of a partnership. What happened? There's a new word being used. There's just this thing called the AGI theory, and it's artificial general intelligence, and it's basically sentient AIs. And over the weekend, Elon Musk said, my belief in AGI is now 10% and rising.

and that was Saturday at 3 a.m. I saw it on Saturday morning while I was watching Game Day. 10% is not bad. 10% in total or 10% higher than it was? 10% and rising, so it's just a theory. AGI isn't like a real thing. So he was at 0% at one point he said. Yes.

Then like a Nick came around him, Nick Marlora, who's been saying for about 15 years now, these robots are going to start taking over. They're going to be smart. They're going to set you up. They're going to beat you. They're going to kill you. Relax, dude. Okay?

Bingo. Got a good graphic design team right here. Not for long. These guys are making good beats over here. Let's all relax here. Okay. Oh, yeah, they're flooding troll accounts on social media,

maybe generating narratives that are very dangerous for society. Okay, we need to slow that one. Ease up on that. Yeah, we need to slow that down a little bit. Okay, we need to certainly slow to... Can we stop that? No, you can't stop that.

They're able to fit in so easily, actually because they're an AI that is actually able to read another AI that's trying to stop them, and every once in a while, they just out joust them, and then they're able to troll and build narratives.

how everyone, and go ahead and try to punish them. It's a computer. It's out in the middle and nowhere. You can't punish them. Oh, that sounds problematic. Well, just wait until they start feeling. Wait until they start understanding and talking to each other and starting to really know how to guilt trip you into some stuff, too, and be able to do that. That's not possible. We'll unplug these motherfuckers.

They're taking our jobs. They're drinking up all our water. It's hell out there. We need to just unplug them. Too late. Too late. And open A-I. And you put that brain into one of these, like, robots that they build. Then what happens? We're all dead? How's it worked?

Oh, not me. I'm going to be A-O-K. Okay, because I'm going to call Jack Carr. Yeah, me too. Exactly. I don't know if he can save you for this. Jack-Far. You worked there.

It's making a huge pivot with the AI shit into a different space that we're all rhymes of corn. What's he trying to do? I don't want to get kicked off TikTok, but yeah. What's he doing? He's got AIs doing each other? We'll do some research.

I've seen it. Yeah, I'm sure that it's done. It's all he's doing. It's real nice. What? What is that? All right. Let's get to another.

This all sounds like an overreaction. It does. That one felt genuine. That one felt great genuine. It's a tough Thursday night. This one, Stephen Reese at S. Reese 96. Hashtag I don't want to overreacts. But.

Bob Sala is the best coach in the league right now, and it's not close. Who's on defense? Who cares? Don't matter. That said, Kittle being the best old linemen on the team is disgusting. Okay. So a little bit we can work on, but yeah, I mean, Kid will always, that's always been part of his game. He's a road grader.

I love Sala being happy again, though. And finding out that he's 6'4, certainly a little bit different every time they show him on camera. That defense, you know, no boss, obviously, no Fred. They talk about the injuries, and they're able to get some massive plays against his Atlanta Falcons team on primetime. What are your thoughts on the Niners' defense as a whole, AJ? I give Bob Saul a ton of credit. Like, whoever they got a plug and play, they seem to find a way to play together, play as a unit. like they're disciplined, and Bob

Sala is a gigantic human being. I saw the clip of he and Ulbrick, like, reuniting on the field, and Jeff Obrick is probably 6-1. He's not a small guy by any means, and Sala's just gigantic. Did Sala play in college or the pros? Had to have, right? A 6-4? I assume that's a size that plays at... He's jacked,

absolutely jacked, too. I'm going to say college. Yeah, he definitely played college. I don't think it was D-1, though. Probably Northern Michigan University. I know he has some ties there. He did play at Northern Michigan, yeah? Wow. The Wildcat. Oh, the Wildcats had a good team when he was there, too.

That's at the Upper Peninsula as well. Oh, UP? Yeah, U.P. They've been doing long traveling forever because driving from the UP just down to civilization is a long time, right? Takes forever from Lansing. You're looking at six, seven, eight hours. Jeez. Just wondering you're talking about San Francisco.

Oh, so the ball stinks up there. What? Whoa. They only play three down? Tell me a good player from the... Robert Sala. Bob Sala. Okay.

Marucci. Marucci. Tom is old. Tom iso was Tim Allen Tim Allen boom great running back

Al Gore was a good running back Al Borland was pretty good yeah okay Wilson they had a guy Wilson he had a guy Wilson he played on the outside Brad Brad was a great athlete

yes he was JTT was on their special teams he was kicker and punter generational talent yes you're starting to get it now it sounds like northern Michigan they made good stuff up there That's great.

Kid Rock had a run up there. Bingo. Bob? Yep, you did. That sounds fake. That doesn't sound. It's a rumor going around at least. That's what people are saying.

I know JTT was down there. That would a run they had. Changing gears is the new one. Yeah. How is that? Anybody watch it? The best ever. Yeah, I'd say...

If I were to watch it is probably what I'd say. I haven't seen it yet. I got the fucking album. No, I saw seven minutes. I saw seven minutes. My wife was watching it. Okay. In her room.

I walk into, she has like a setup room where it has all of her stuff, you know, and it's on a TV in the back. And I walk in, I go, oh, good to see, come home from work. And I look over and I see Tim Allen on the screen. I'm like, is this a changing places thing? She goes, changing gears. This is Tim Allen's, I'm like, yes, sit down for about four or five minutes. Classic Tim Allen felt like.

Then McKenzie came, never paid attention to it again. Sure. Okay. So I think it was a good, five, ten minutes, and it's classic Tim Allen. Exactly. Loaded with laughs. A lot of sitcom.

Yep. Sure. Fuller. Yep. So I assume it is worth to watch. The other one that I watch, Chad Pires. Yeah. Awesome.

Does not suck. Is not as. It is good. Is it for like, is it geared towards adults or kids? I'd say more adults. More adults. My kids want to watch it. My kids actually want to watch it.

It's definitely adults, but it's not like, I wouldn't say it's like raunchy. But it, there is. Some corny, but it's not, you know. It's like, they played it very well, I think. I think they did very well with that. It's funny. Yes, I think it's very funny. And he doesn't look horrendously unathletic.

He actually looks athletic. So it is a, it's a good, it was good. Very well done. I was so scared to watch it. So scared. Yeah. I was scared to death. I love Glenn.

Glenn's about to save the world and all these movies. He's doing Chad Powers. The fuck are you doing it. Yeah. If he dropped back and looked like that one kid, we knew it was his career would be over. Yeah. I was just like, well, what, is, did the world need this? I don't, I don't know if the world needed this, brother.

Like, I don't know if you need to take this. So very scared watching it. Not saying as like a close friend of Glenn Powell, but I think we all kind of at this point, no, Glenn Powell. And it's like you turn it on and literally, like the first minute, you're like, come on, come on, come on, come on. And then you start watching it. You're like, okay, okay, okay, I like what they're doing. It's not, it's good. I think it's a good show.

Okay. I've not watched all the episodes. Sure. But I would say good episode, they've done good, if that makes sense. yeah for sure i'm caught up right now and like you could make the argument it starts corny as they're setting the entire show but like the second third and fourth episode where he's like in the team he's with everybody it is fucking hilarious i actually genuinely think it is a great show and i and i hate watched it to start i didn't even watch it like i like glen pal i watched it like

let's see what this fucking idiot did and then while i'm watching it i'm like holy shit This is actually so funny. Good jokes. Great jokes and they're, I don't know what the word is for it, so I'll just stop that thought. But the backup quarterback in the show, he is the guy. Once you see the backup quarterback, he pitches 100 on the block for the entire time. He's on screen. So if you haven't got there yet, get there.

And then if you do get there, which I strongly suggest you should, you'll be hookline sinker because he takes over. Well, congrats to them, the Mannings. Congrats to everybody doing that. That's awesome. All right, let's go to another overreaction. This one's from Outrun Phoenix 69 at Litton, Dakota. Hashtag I don't want to overreact. But the fucking birds are back.

Hertz 326 with three tuds. Devonte and AJ, 100 plus. Siriano and Petulow are still big, dumb ditchits. My toddler could come up with a better run scheme, but go ahead and give the birds of Lombardi now. Okay, so people still pissed off at Patulow and Siriani? This was kind of the only... I didn't see very many with Siriani, but boy, Petulah. I mean, it is a relentless attack on Petulah.

They want him fired every single week. Kind of regard... I mean, it was basically what happened with Siriani last year. Hertz goes for 3-26, three touchdowns. Perfect quarterback rate. He rattles off how good the offense was. And then at the very end, get this guy the fuck out of here. That's classic Philly. It is. They ran for 45 yards.

It's what they're mad about. Yeah, Sequant, I think 18 carries, 45 yards. But the protection, though. The protection was great. Yeah, so they want... They want to throw when they're running. Yep. Now they want to run when they throw?

Exactly. Yeah. Shout to Philly still bring it. That's Philly. Would B-Flow be smart enough to think, like, hey, if we stop Sequin, there's a chance we have a better chance of winning? Do you think there's a chance Biflow, defense coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings, one of the best defense coordinators in the NFL, said, you know who's not going to wreck this game? Saquan Barkley. We're going to do what everybody else has done this season, which is completely target him.

We're going to challenge Jalen to win this thing with his arm. And he did, Dibud. This is exactly how he had to win the Super Bowl. Saquan, Branoway had damn near MVP season, and Spaggs geared up on the box and stopped the run game, and then he made huge plays. The play that broke the game open was that Devonte Smith kind of dagger route or he threw the clear-out route.

So, yeah, I'm sure Philly fans probably feel like, hey, we just watched our team march down the season and win a Super Bowl running the ball and dominate people that way. So maybe they, you know, Philly fans feel like they're educated and that's how they're going to win the Super Bowl. But when your quarterback goes out and has a performance like this, against a talented defense,

It's not like he went and played the Raiders and put up a perfect quarterback rating. He did that against a good team. So, yeah, but you're never going to make everybody happy. All right, let's go to the next one. This one's from Normie at Epic Normie. Hashtag I don't want to overreact, but everyone is talking about the Chiefs for blowing out bad teams

while the Broncos are fined and wins to weigh. Now, obviously, that's ways to win. Bow Nitz is the clutch's quarterback in history. And Denver has gone from one and six and one score games last year to four and two this year. Broncos will win the division, not Kansas City. AJ, AFC West.

Is it the Broncos now after they have a 33 point fourth quarter? I'm not ready to crown the Broncos, you know, as the head of the division right now. I'm still like what the Chiefs are doing with how Patrick Mahomes is. But it's true, like they're finding ways to win, no matter how poor it is. Bo Nix does seem like a guy that is like, hey, stick with me, stick with me, he's never going to give up on it.

He's always going to fight until the end. And I know you guys talked about it earlier, but yeah, I do love the experience that Bo Nix has. He played, what, nine years in college? The guy has seen a lot of ball. And now with Sean Payton, I feel like they're a great team. Yeah, I agree. I like the Broncos a lot. And the defense obviously going to be heralded.

The fact that the Giants were able to do what they did to this Broncos team in Denver on, you know, Demeris Thomas Statue Day, basically, where they had everybody back in town. I think obviously is well wishes for the New York football Giants. But this Broncos team coming back and fighting in that fourth quarter like that, That's a beautiful thing. Team can feel that and ride that going forward. Maybe that was a little spark that they needed to keep going. Five and two now over there in the AFC West.

Let's go to the next ever reaction, shall we? This is from Dougie Doug at Doug E.D. Dougie Dougie, is that toilets there? Was that a... It's a microphone. He's got... Oh, okay. It's not a toilet.

Sorry, I thought that was maybe a toilet. You see the bowl down there and in the back, I thought of me. Dougie, does that say productions? He might Dougie, Doug All right, Dougie We think Not a toilet

Do you know Dougie Doug Dougie Duggie D 92 Click on Yeah, it's a microphone Oh, okay So it says

Dougie Doug and then underneath it in those blue letters It's WWNFLAE Okay We like to cut a your gym, Doug E.D. Hashtag I don't want to overreact, but I have seen enough. The Vikings cannot win with J.J. McCarthy, nor can they win with Carson Wentz. There's only one man that can win for this team. It's time for Quasi to bring home, Kirk Cousins. Hashtag Skoll. Now, Doug E.D. might be D. Bone's burner. We're not 100% short because he would be

tweeting about the same things as Doug E.D. But I like this Doug E. take. Now, there was something mentioned earlier in the day by Boston Connor with Michael Pennock's situation brewing. Maybe now is Kirk down there? Yeah, very similar to when Jane Daniels got hurt against the Packers. It was late in the fourth quarter. Then he stayed in. Then Jane Daniels missed the next two weeks, I think. It's the same

exact thing. Penix, he got rolled up on pretty bad. Late, he ended up staying. He stayed down. They stopped the game. He kind of limped around. Stayed in the game. But Kirk, like, ran down the sideline. It looked like he was getting ready or at least preparing himself mentally with his mental

buttons or whatever to keep his focus on. Like he was going to go in. So I kind of think, like at this point, whoever the Falcons are playing next week, you should probably bet on the other team now before the line changes. And that's just speculation in the fact that... What are you saying?

You're saying that Kirk had to play that the Falcons would be done so? No, no. I don't know about that, but I know the line will move. I feel as though they'll definitely move that line. But I wouldn't be surprised if Kirk does go out there and ball and the Vikings maybe do take a shot. on him. I completely forget about Kirk Cousins being down there. I mean, he's not even a story.

No, dang it not. They don't even really show him on a sideline. No. It's like not even talked about out there getting $180 million backup quarterback in Atlanta. Obviously, we don't know what's going on. Michael Pennix. This is all just speculation here, about 13, 14 hours after the game ends. But having a good backup quarterback is what the

Atlanta Falcons said they want it. That's why they kept them. They haven't traded them yet. Although all offseason, there was a lot of conversation. Will that continue throughout the season for teams that get a little desperate maybe at the QB position? Maybe let Kirk walk out. Let Sam Darno walk out. I don't mind that on Dougie D. Let's go to the next overreaction, shall we? This is from

Zach Z4K, so cool, at Zach Clips. Hashtag I don't want to ever react. But the Dallas Cowboys got the best offensive trio in the league. One solid trade for the defense and they're lifting at Lombardi in February. Also, hashtag

Most Valuable Prescott. Oh. MVP Rescott. MVP Rescott. MVP Rescott MVP Rescott Okay on that note George Pickens

being on this team and seemingly wanting only but success for the Dallas Cowboys because I think he has a contract year currently happening and DAC being able to get him the ball and keep everybody happy

and George getting an opportunity to be the number one when CD was down and kind of earned his place in that locker room and his ability to still do his shit you know maybe double guns maybe in somebody's face

over their shoulder doesn't get called keeps him moving. That's George Pickens' football. He is special talent. CD back. They got weapons everywhere with Ferguson, AJ. Yeah, they got weapons. And just look at these, what a ball. Like, Dak just, he's so dialed in right now. And I feel like the O-Lines is doing a good job as well. Like we said, if their defense can keep up and catch up a little bit, yeah, the Dallas Cowboys, I think our team, you've got to have to worry about late in the year. George Pickens leading the parade into the end zone there running backwards. I love that. Hashtag MVP Rescott is putting it all over the yard.

Shottie's handling it beautifully as well. Debutt, what a trio for old buddy to call the best in the league. Yeah, Shotties doing a great job, and I'm not sure who mentioned it about the Javante Williams. Is that you, Carmen? He's having an unbelievable year. But this year, I don't think so, but they do have picks,

and we know the Dallas Cowboys, whatever you think about their trades and extensions, they do draft well and they can find talent. So if they can get some picks next year, get some guys healthy, flus maybe another year in this defense, I do think the Cowboys will be a team to be reckoned. Who says we don't use those picks right now?

True. Who says we don't come back and get a couple more plays? You know, five players better than one player. Shit. We got who we got. They got Micah. We tied. Next question.

Jerry Jones. What a weapon. Let's go to the next overreaction, shall we? This is from Jack Dell Dust Up, as we all know. Take on a quote from former D.C., Jack Del Rio. At Kev Com's fan. I believe he's talking about the commanders hashtag I don't want to ever react

but the cardiac commanders have suffered a full-blown heart attack and they're dead three and four staring down three and seven JD5 is banged up Walmart greeters a wide receiver everyone's 45 years old defense regularly getting blown out

like Bonnie geez it may be a command over situation that's a porn star on here right there who Jackdell dust up was referring to. Commanders have never fared well against Dak Prescott.

So maybe don't have full panic. Don't love Daniels limping off there. Don't love any of that. Look bad. Cardiac commanders, I, that looks nasty. Yeah, I felt good about him actually lifting off and walking off the air

because when it initially happened, I'm like, oh shit, this might be one of those, you don't even want to watch the replay of. Hip too, maybe. Yeah, I thought I was thinking hip. Then he went to grab the hammy walking off. here, so I'm like, okay, that could be weird. But hopefully, hopefully he's good. He walked off.

Didn't he jog into the locker room or something like that? I don't know. I did not see that. Okay, well, he was on his own. Whenever you could put your own pressure on, you're not getting helped off like that or in the cart, that's a good sign. But yeah, they are banged up. They are old. They are all those things, for sure.

Well, T's and P's, positive vibes to Jayden Daniels and the commanders fans might still be in it a little bit. Might still be in a little bit. Yeah, maybe. Maybe they're not just great all of a sudden. Yeah. Like the last year, possible. Last year was like they're great all of a sudden.

Yeah. Maybe it might take a little bit. You almost don't want your QB to be that good the first year because then you're just setting yourself up for a bad second year. But you want them to be good though. But not that good. So it's weird. I'll tell you why you want them to be better.

You want them to play, though. Definitely need to play home to play. Because what did Anthony Richardson play? You play three games or three games or so. Yeah, maybe. He had that fadeaway throw. Well, you got flak code. You dig it.

And we got Danny Dynes. Yeah. Everybody wins. What a pickup. The shit. Dude. It's a whole new world. We're fucking best team in the NFL.

That's so much fun to be here right now. It is. Instead of just having the ass team. Oh, yeah. He's worth $65 million in. You're paying him, you know. Let's not be publicly. 65.

70. Right. 75. Is the greatest offense in the history of football right now. It's $70 million. Let's not be publicly. Well, that's the toughest. The higher move we'll get to.

You got to enjoy this year. Let's just enjoy what we have. Better sign him right now. He's already been out of control. Things get out of control. Yeah, let's not even think about letting him touch that free agent. No. Because we know that he's better with us.

And he knows he's better with us. So let's just go ahead and shake these hands and move forward. Now, that's first big decision here from the big three. Yeah. On how that work. When? How? 58 million.

The whole thing. but it's not publicly negotiate steel it's good news he might say 25 30 he might he might he might that's basically 75 New York let's build this team up here sure keep the boys let's win a lot here you give me 40 million 35 40 million bucks I can buy what every house yeah in Indiana I can live like smokes house get smokes old house boom go down there and get the cabella's ranch and then you can also offensive line we can pay offensive line we can keep the boys in front of me We can keep the weapons. We've got a lot of them.

Michael Pittman, they paid. Pierce is up now. Down's about to be up. Obviously, J.T. got a... He's going to be up. A deal that he... I don't love the way he went about getting it a couple years ago after they were asked, but anyways...

Might be time for another one. Exactly. So that's what I'm saying. And then on defense aside, we got names everywhere. Yeah, yeah. It's like Danny Dimes. You know, hey, listen, I hope he gets every single dollar and he wants. That's what I want.

I'm just wondering if maybe he wants to win a lot. We can win a lot, I think. especially if you can pay a bunch of people. Pittsburgh Steelers, Aaron Rogers, make $10 million right now. He's 41. He's already made $200 million. So I'm not saying,

I don't want to be counting pockets or anything like that, which I kind of just did. But it's like, Danny Dimes, you know, you've been paid already. You've got a lot of money. Give him a discount.

Give him $48 a year, maybe. He'll go give him a discount. I think we go right there if he was to do that. I think that would be an immediate, nothing to sign. Deal, let's go ahead and move on. How long do you want that deal for?

four years? Perfect. Sweet. We'll see you in three after we went two Super Bowls because we're about to pay a bunch of people around us. I'm very excited for the Colts right now. Oh, yeah. But if they got to drop a 60 piece on a quarterback, I mean, that's going to change a lot of things at a lot of places. I mean, we've seen what it's like on the other side of that. We see, we saw Quentin Nelson

come on, say, I'm good and pissed off of snapping, blocking for another quarterback every fucking year. I agree. What I'm saying is Danny Donis got a lot of leverage. He does. He does. And I'm excited to see what happened. If he's your guy, though, if the Colts know, Like, hey, this is our dude.

You've got to pay them whatever it takes. Literally. That is literally the case. That's what I'm saying here. You know, let's look at all things. Let's look at all things where we're doing this. And Danny Dimes, maybe somebody gives them, maybe give him a couple bars down.

Yeah, car dealership or something. Maybe give him a couple car. Let's do a John Elway move around here. Let's keep this guy around town. Let's keep this guy around town. All right. And last one here from Aaron Shelby. Life is good.

Yes, it is, Aaron. Hashtag I don't want to react to. But. Drake May and Dan. Daniel Jones are the incarnates of Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. These motherfuckers are spinning like multiple-time MVP's. Not to mention their cash cows. All gomblers hailed.

Draco? And Donnie Dimes. Pat's Colts AFC Championship game. Drake is a great name by Aaron Shelby. And life is very good over here. Now, has Drake been a covering machine? Has that been Drake's M-O? Yeah, Draco's just not half.

Oh, it's happening. No, he definitely, they've been very, very good. The only difference between the two is, is Drake May's second year, and you guys have to pay Danny Downs $50 million. That's just the only difference. What does Drake May make? What are those rookie contracts?

Oh, he's got, I think he's like eight a year maybe. That's crazy. At most? And then, like, year four or five, it's like $20 million or something like that, or $25 million or something like that, I think as it grows. He's unbelievable, this guy. He's outrageous.

So good. Legitimately outrageous. watching them play and then listening to football people talk about his decision. That was a great catch. Yeah, Hooper. That was a fucking... Who's that? That's Austin Hooper. Second String, Teddy. Dog. Friend of the program. Love Austin Hooper. Congratulations to him making that massive play

right there. But it's like listening to football people talk about Drake May has been fun. Like, yeah, the way he's breaking down defense and he sees things before, snap, post-snap, and he has the coolest vibe about him. Like, he has this vibe about him that is like the Moxie is not the same as Jackson Dart, obviously, but it's certainly in there.

And Vraibs seems like the perfect head coach for him, AJ. Yeah, I watch all the clips of Vraves, you know, like dapping everybody up on the way into the locker. It feels like Braves has everything going in the right direction. And, I mean, Drake, to his credit, he dongs the back of his head off the turf. You know, maybe pops in the tent for a quick second tells him, like, a little stinger or something, I'm okay. Comes back in and still plays very well, so we know he's tough as nails. He takes a lot of shots head to ground. And that's, I mean, that's a hell of a whip.

and he's still up, though. I don't think you saw him ever out, but they certainly... You shake your head once they're taking you off. That's the thing when you shake your head. Yeah, they certainly want to take a look at this as they want, but he's been taking these shots a lot, and he led North Carolina in rushing.

So, like, he's used to being tackled. That is everything you fear, though, whenever it comes to a quarterback being tackled. He went into the tent. They tested him. He comes out, plays even more. It's like, this guy's special. Dracol?

Drake all is special. Got everything you want. So if he plays for another 10 years, you guys be pumped, right? 10. I mean, we got 15 with this kid, and we will win the Super Bowl with him in Vrable. I like that. If Danny Diamond plays another 10 years here, which is possible, I think we're very... Very possible.

He's going to make a lot of money out of here. It could be like the good old days. It will be. AFC championship every couple of years, Patriots Colts. Danny Dimes putting an old buddy in a spot, too, whenever he said. What did we not know maybe about your team? He was obviously he didn't know much or what. right to the guy's face.

I'm like, Dimes. That's not a Danny Dimes answer. I like that just, I like that, yeah, let's go ahead and run this. You care, but those of us on the outside, I think, are a little surprise just how well this team is playing to start the season. What do we need to know about this group that maybe we didn't know going into the year? I mean, I don't know. It sounds like, sounds like y'all didn't know much, but we're just going to keep going, keep working. And we have a lot of confidence.

I think we got a lot of good players, guys who work hard and do the right thing. Evan Washburn, top five hair on TV every time going. Love that he even said, us. So Evan was like, I got to own up to this in a moment. And Danny Dimes had Barry or High Road. Barry, High Road, High Road, High Road, High Road, High Road, High Road, High Road, High Road. Barry. High Road, High Road, High Road.

We've got a lot of good game. That's what we want. That's what we need. And tonight we got two Monday Night Football Games to enjoy, and then we're back here tomorrow. We can't thank you all enough for allowing us to do this for a living. Ty, great work on the overreactions. All right, Rush Moran X tomorrow morning. We got Dunkers with Shaquillo O'Neal, Reggie Miller, R.E. and Ben.

And I don't know if Reggie and Shaq had some Vino or something before the episode, but they were wide open in there. And it is spectacular, especially to launch the NBA season. I think we have Steve Nash on tomorrow, chitch-hating about the NBA as well. Yeah, big day tomorrow. So we're pumped about it. Maybe enjoy a sweet, tropical, spicy, devil's reserved. Maybe that's what they were drinking before, show.

I doubt it. But there's a chance that they were diving into this green bottle of fun. Oh, yeah. Which you can certainly get into as well. All right. Be your friend, tell the friend something nice. I might change their life wearing this thing together. Team on me, I can't wait for tomorrow, boys.

Hell, yeah. I can't wait for tonight. Two good ones tonight. Man, I can't wait for right now. Hell yeah. That is. You, ball. Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday was a birthday for somebody.

Happy birthday to the man who puts talk in TikTok. Happy birthday to the man who puts talk and doesn't talk. Happy birthday to the man who claps his feet. Go on. You've got to get to the other side. Still boozed up. You got to get to the other side. Happy birthday to the man who claps his feet six miles at a time on the treadmill

every single day after work. Happy birthday. to Casey he's in there yeah he's in there do we have that camera still set up no talk needs to come out here talk need to come out of your talk

who's Casey what do you mean talk what do you mean you don't know Casey this is this like happy birthday he's holding his own game happy birthday can you move a little bit

come on Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear talk. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday talk. Thank you. Great work, brother. You're killing it for us.

If you want to give him a birthday gift, just watch Rushmore next tomorrow. Boom. Hell you. Amen. He's worked his ass off on that thing. God might not have slept in the last four years, but he'll caption every video and he'll cut everyone.

He has two headphones sets going at the same time. One's listening to the live show, one's listening to the edit that he's doing, and then his brain is just somehow somewhere else. We don't really understand how he operates, but we respect the shit out of him. This is show that he edited Rushmore and X out tomorrow Dunkers tomorrow morning.

It's great. It's great. Easy listen, a lot of storytelling. It's good shit. This show is really good. We hope you enjoy it. We're lucky to be a part of it. Be a friend, tell a friend, something nice, but I change your life.

We're in this thing together. Team on me, team on three. Happy birthday talk. One, two, three, team. Goodbye. A 20-year-old soldier goes missing from a U.S. Army base. How can she go missing on a military base? That's too ridiculous.

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