The Ryen Russillo Show - A Huge NFL Week 1 Deep Dive w/ Nate Tice! Plus the Texas Comeback Over Ohio State

Episode Date: September 14, 2026

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that's early season NFL. I'm sure you could apply that to multiple weeks, but I think they're bad is noticeable when you're like, okay, there's just not in sync right now. But the biggest game that we were all really excited about was a rematch between Buffalo and Houston, where the last time Josh Allen played at Houston, he was sacked eight times.

That part of it was masterful. We can get to personnel and all that kind of decisions there, But kind of the headline for me, Nate, on this one is that I think both teams should kind of feel good, considering the standard that both of these teams are out in the AFC. And look, Houston doesn't want to lose that game. But I think both these teams should feel really good about themselves. I think so, too. And even if you look at how the Texas defense performed, which is kind of, you know, I consider them going into the season. They were my preseason top defense, which is, you know, arbitrary rankings for the summer.

But they were, and they held a Bill's run game that's. really good over the last couple of years to a low success rate 30 percent and if you saw that you'd be like well then texas dominated right and then there's this you know dragon playing quarterback named josh allen who who was just launching stuff and i really i'm right there with you where i agree that i think both teams feel good we can get texas offense in a sec but was really encouraging to me at least from the bill's offense was okay we're going against the texans will anderson deneal hunter they got waves of pass rushers they got so much speed was the scheme was really good as far as just the changing the launch point, changing the protections.

They had a lot of multiple protections, not just the same play action protection over and over. They were moving Josh Allen left, moving him right, half rolls, full rolls, front side rolls, straight dropbacks. And that is how that's thoughtful game playing. That's not just, yeah, there's moments where it's like, hey, Josh Allen goes, go make us right, the rushing touchdown, the two minute drill. He kind of created his own luck. He had the Dalton Kincaid and the DJ Moore when they squeezed in.

But, you know, with aggression, you get rewarded. Like fortune favors the bold, especially at quarterback. And so I'm right there with you. This was the fifth highest passing success rate allowed by a Texan's defense under D'emico Ryan's, which is ridiculous. In the first half, it was 77%. Anything above, like, 48% is good. So 77% against a defense that I think everybody in the world has, at the very least,

as a top three defense. So I think the bills are extremely happy with how their offense performed, especially with a run game not getting going. The defense doesn't have horses, but they did enough, I thought, the bill's defense. But that's what I expected before the season. It was exactly kind of what I expected. I want to see how Jim Leonard works with this group as the season goes along. And then, you know, we can talk about the Texas offense too and what they did as well.

But when Josh Allen's throwing the ball over the middle, he's not really taking any negative plays or the offense not taking a negative place. and he's averaging over 13 yards per dropback, that's a pretty good day at the office. And that's not saying that the Texans play poor at all. No, I'm glad you brought up what this meant for D'Amico's Ryan's defense, because I was looking at the numbers today. Like, this is as out of character as it could possibly get,

but it's also because of Alan, because the craziest thing, and it happened on the last touchdown drive. It's like perfect, like that drive is a perfect, I should say, representation of what it is with Alan. Because I feel like whenever I watch a Bill's game, Like every set of downs is bad play, meh play. Oh my God. I can't believe he did that play.

And then it's like, okay, first down, let's do this all over again. So it's not that the play to play consistency is there. They only ran 50 plays because they were hitting on so many of these bigger plays. Now, speaking of bigger, we love 13 personnel on this podcast, and we make that as a joke because it felt like once the Rams were in 13 personnel, then every smart person was like, oh, 13 personnel. And people couldn't stop talking about 13 personnel. However, it is relevant to what happened here.

If you look at the 12 personnel, it's 52% of the snaps. If it's 13% 13 personnel, it's 36% of the snaps. That's more than double, I think, any 13 personnel grouping for Allen in a game. Keep big people on the field. It frees up Kincaid. Big people on the field means that Kincaid and the tightens can work against somebody else. Maybe it means, you know, DJ Moore ends up going on. off. So somebody that understands this certainly better than I do. Do you look at this as a Houston

specific game plan? Because it definitely worked by quieting down the edge guys and having these big players in there, but keeping bigger players out there on defense. Like, is this something you think the bills wanted to do all season or they wanted to do against Houston? It's a little bit of what to do against Houston because then you get Jaywin Petrie off the field, who's a dynamic player. Awesome. But the overall thing, though, is that they have the ability to pivot. It's just like basketball playoffs. Like, hey, we have a matchup. This ninth guy on our bench is actually really relevant in this game. This extra big that we have is relevant in this game because of the matchup. We need rebounding. We need size, yada, yada. That's really what it is, is that those games that

they need to lean into it like they did here, that they can do, and it's valid. And the thing about the 13 personnel, it's not just a magic wand. Like even the under center, right now I'm already getting annoyed about because it's not a magic wand. You look at the commanders and the freaking eagles. They're a horrible passing the pull out under center yesterday. But it's not just a magic wand. You need the actual horses to do it. Like Jackson Haas, who's their second year player, he was a day three pick last year. They need a guy that can hold up in line. But you also need a tight end that can attack vertically. The Rams can do it because they have Terrence Ferguson who can attack vertically. Yes, he wasn't like getting a lot of yards and

everything, but you need to threaten to create space in the whole offense. You need shooters. Like, that's what a receiving tight end is. That's what Kincaid is. So they would get to 13 personnel, and it's the variety of looks that you can get out of it. You can make 13 look like 12. You can make 13 look like 11. But again, you just need to have those horses.

You can have 13 look like 21. Like the bears will do that a lot, where it's like, oh, they're making it look like an eye formation look. But I think that's what's nice is they actually have those guys. And Kincaid can be a matchup issue. if you're going against a team that has those guys that you can pick apart. And that's really what the Texans defense, yeah, those were what they identify with, they can get after.

They have a couple weaker guys in coverage up the spine at linebacker and safety. And if you just get him outside, Kincaid has enough speed to attack vertically. And you felt that. And yeah, even the final touchdown to Josh Palmer, which wasn't 13, it was 11. I think, I've been trying to figure out what the deep safety was doing on that play. Camel Bullock was like cheated over all the way past the hash. and it was a man coverage play where it's bizarre because Laster the corner was like playing inside leverage. It was man, I can get into that too while he was doing it.

But he gets beat inside. But what was weird to me was, was it because Kincaid was just owning them? And so the safety was expecting to catch Kincaid. But again, that creates gravity. If you have a tight end that can actually stretch the seam and do that, they have to honor them. So really, that's what it is. You have to be valid to honor. If you have a bunch of non-blocking tight ends, all right, we'll just match you with nickel.

We'll just match you a dime and just play. All right, cool. All right, you want to run the ball? You're not going to be able to block the edge. But these guys can all block the edge or attack vertically. So, again, it's the ability to pivot and do that. Kincaid, who I loved coming out, all right? And this is, we saw some stuff as rookie year.

He's dealt with injuries. What's that? He's a Vegas guy. He's, well, he went to San Diego or he went to different schools, but he was, or Utah at the end, but he's from Vegas right down the road for me. Look, those of us that watched him at Utah, you were like, I think this guy has a chance to be nasty. And granted, the injury stuff has played a big part of this,

but he played in 73% of the snaps in this game. He was at 37% of the snaps per games in 24, 39% last year, 130 yards receiving the most by Bill's tight end since 1967. And when I think about the bigger personnel, keeping bigger people on the field, the thing is, he would get stingly one-on-one and win. He would get Lasser one-on-one. So even if you were like, well,

we don't want to just have some linebacker trying to run with this guy, because that's going to be a disaster. We're talking about terrific players in the secondary where there's just not much you can do. It's like the old gronk thing. I'm not calling him a gronk, but you would have these matchup ideas with gronk and he'd be like, okay, all of this just doesn't work.

Like none of it really works because he's that kind of freak. I don't know if Kincaid's going to be that. But if this is more like the guy we saw his rookie year, I think it changes a lot for who Buffalo can be. Yeah. And this huge, oh, I'm sorry, his weakness, he's not a great blocker, but Joe Brady, I'll give him credit.

He knows that. So he's not going, hey, block Daniel Hunter, head up, you know, hold on. Like, that's why the Colson loved ones of the world are like the real Tucker crafts of the world are like the real dudes. Like, so they run RPO's. So, all right, if he's on the field, we'll just run an RPO. He doesn't have to block. So he just runs a flat route. He just runs a slant.

It's when he's attached in line or he's on the backside of a run. And the bills have showed way to kind of mitigate that as well. So, again, it takes some thoughtfulness where guys, maybe have a weakness like that, but it was encouraging that Brady is not just going to go, like, we're challenging you this year to block. He's like, all right, you're not good at it. All right, we can wave this way and you can do other things. Houston's offense, I actually felt good about it. I think the crossers, a lot of stuff was kind of if we wanted to turn this at all negatively about the bills, you go, I don't know how many of those

guys back there can cover. It reminded me a little bit of Igmodoson, his junior at Ohio State, where he just felt like he was getting a flag one and a half. I think he ended up, depending on the count, it's like 14 penalties for him his junior year. He cleaned it up his senior year. Because I remember people talking about him in his junior year, I'm like, this guy's, this is not it. And then he was terrific, okay?

And then I don't even know how many snaps he played. They're talking about platooning the other corner on the side for Buffalo. And it was just kind of reminding me of like when it gets bad for him, it's just like I'm going to start grabbing everybody all over the place. They can't call them all. but it felt like on some of the crosser stuff that they were doing maybe later in the game too it's like they once these guys turn on any of these routes like this is going to be open in the middle of field for stroud and you know it's another reason why granted they needed to touch on the end to pull this whole thing out i still felt good about the old line i felt good about you know a rushing standard there or it was at least something you had to respect throughout the entire game and i know they're still down one receiver on top of everything else but maybe it's just the floor was so low for stroud it was like hey he was all right and this is good. And with this defense, if that's the kind of Stroud game that you're going to get,

they're still going to win a ton of games this year. Yes, I agree. Bills are a good team. Those are your two big teams going out. No, this was very encouraging for me. And even more encouraging upon review, it was a lot of good, like a lot of good. Stroud threw some darts yesterday, like some real deal high-end throws. So like the double move to Nico Collins on the second drive, that was, that's a hard throw

because you got to get it up and down. and that's what Stroud can do when he's feeling it. And he scrambled a few times, which is always something he kind of have to pull out of him because he wants to win from the pocket. He was stepping up. He had developed a bad habit of moving backwards. Some quarterbacks can get away with that,

which are in love. Stroud, though, has shown that step up, step up, step up. Underlying numbers were strong. I thought the run game was really encouraging. I thought the variety that they had in the run game, success rate wise, they were both high, 48% and everything. Overall, 48% rushing, 48% passing.

That's a good day at the office. It was just sandwiched by two strip sacks. One was just Trent Brown lost, and the first one was, you know, Strau just kind of got stripped. And that's one thing. He's not the strongest, biggest dude back there, and that can happen. But I really was, I'm right there with you. I was encouraged by how this played out.

This is why I'm high on Houston. It doesn't have to be a top five elite offense. But if it can play like this against a Bill's defense, That's not great. But again, that's how this team, this is the formula of this team. Running the ball, seeing that is more encouraging than anything Stroud does. I know what Stroud's high at end play is. It's just a variety in the run game, the soundness in the run game.

Really only Trent Ingram. I thought had a rougher game, maybe in Paspero, Trent Ingram, Ed Ingram, at right guard was maybe the weak point, which I've always, I knew. You know, that's not a new surprise. But the run game was so encouraging. And they had 10 explosive plays. that that's that's good and Nico Collins of course is the focal point but everyone kind of contributed you saw some Merlin Klein in there that rookie tied out on Michigan um kayshaun booty had the one catch

which was nice and they got sought off but you know it's encouraging that the other guys got involved in big moments too it wasn't just Nico but Nico of course is going to be the focal point he's a Nico's a top five receiver it's just that he's got to stay healthy so that's if you have an ace like that and the other guys are again valid enough that if a team wants to run zone, which is what the bills did, by the way. I thought Leonard might lean into more man coverage, but I think he knows what he's got. So it was a lot of quarters, a lot of quarters. And all right, if we're going to play quarters, we need other guys to kind of step up underneath or over the middle.

So that's probably why you saw some of those throws work end up working over the middle. If you notice there was a lot of outside to Nico or kind of the other guys over the middle, makes sense because that's how usually attack quarters. You take a one-on-one or if you don't like the one-on-one or the cloud over the top, okay, then I work the other side. So again, long story short, encouraging and kind of what I expected. I thought this game would be a bar and burner, and it absolutely was. Green Bay, another blown lead.

Here's a number for you from Mike Sando. Since week one of the 25 season, Green Bay is 7 and 5 with nine or more point leads in the second half. Okay, so here's a scenario again. With a lead of nine or more points in the second half, Green Bay, since the start of last season is seven and five. That's a 58% winning percentage. The rest of the NFL is winning 90% of those games. I was going to say. Yeah. This is that's and you know, the last time we saw you guys, it was a massive collapse to one Caleb Williams in the fourth quarter in the playoffs. So I think an easy thing to do is to look at the fourth down decision. It's fourth and six. They line up for the

field goal. They're just outside of the red zone. I think it was like 23 yard line or something like that. They lineup, they get the field goal, but it's still only going to put them up 25-17 after finally Minnesota getting a touchdown, right? So they go to fourth and one, they run the QB sneak. They get stopped. I don't know how much you've seen it. I think smarter people realize, like, the move is the QB sneak with Jordan Love in that spot on fourth and one. You're at the 17. Look for the touchdown. Put this thing away. The problem is, is that is like this defining moment of the timeline of the game where then Minnesota scores three touchdowns in two and a half minutes. One is a nice drive off of that failed fourth down attempt. And then there's the

fumble. Then there's interception where Green Bay's giving it to them with, I think, 15 yards of total offense on those last 14 points. So there is a trend here with Green Bay not being able to hang on to any of these leads. This felt like just chaos. I don't, but I can't blame the fourth down decision of taking the three points off the board and then going four on fourth and one as opposed the field goal in fourth and six. It's, it's a new age. You know, that's the old adage. You know, you'd never take points off the board, but it's a new age.

And also, even if it's not love saying, by the way, I hate to take points off the board. Seuss thing because everybody wants to comment on ourselves. Here's my guy. I have so many Parcellsisms that I don't like. But go ahead. It won't get to all up today. The problem was everybody tried to copy him for like 20 years. And it's like, you're not built parcels.

Like, you know, stop, like, stop trying to act like him. Like, sorry. It's, you know, like the guy. that's like actually the most Parcellsian is like Sean Peyton, which is no one would consider he's like a real Parcells guy. I mean, he is, but it's kind of that. But I digress. You know, the other thing, too, is the Packers will use Tucker Kraft as a QB sneak guy. So I was actually surprised that they didn't kind of pull that trigger maybe because of his injury. I'm working back from that. I'm not sure. I was not disappointed in the decision. Go for it.

Be aggressive. Be be aggressive. Like you got to trust your defense against a backup quarterback named Carson Wentz. Like, if you don't trust them here, when are you going to trust them? I think the issue with the Packers, and I did not, I've been high on the Packers the last two years, but not this year because I, again, I use this term a lot. Don't have the horses. They have issues at O-Line. They have issues at corner, and they can't rush the passer.

I think you need a couple of those things to be a real valid team and put games away. And it showed up in this game. Like, they had the Vikings stifled throughout, but unless they were blitzing and Jonathan Gannon blitzed more than he had. I think it was the second highest blitz rate for him as a play caller. It's like they can't generate a pass rush and if they don't you got Justin Jefferson Duncan on guys.

So I really do think that I'm fine with the Packers being aggressive and just trying to get like, hey, let's get out of this game and just like, you know, put it away. So I'm not mad at that at all. I'm more mad at, I wouldn't say mad, but the Packers' the line fell apart because it's a bunch of backups.

They're rotating guys. Like, Packers are like a high school team sometimes. They'll rotate tackles and rotate guards even when they are healthy. They've done that for a few years. The Packers do their own thing with everything. We don't play rookies. It's like, this must be nice not having an owner. But they really just kind of like, seriously, they can just get away.

They've no, media never asked some hard questions. It's kind of nice there. It's not bad living. But really, the old line, you could see the trickle down effect in the second half. Like so, of course, Brian Flores blitzes. We've seen all the blitz stats. One of the highest blitz rates in the last seven years, yada, yada, yada, the first half, second half, though.

First half, Jordan Love, 8 for 16, 189 yards, two touchdowns against the blitz. That's great. Gash or be gash, go for it.

That's how you want to attack the blitz. Second half, you took four sacks and had a pick against the blitz. And you could see on those, that last driver, it all fell apart. The right guard,

right tackle, and the tight end are getting off the ball late. They're on the road. It's backups. They're on a silent count. There's no communication happening. And because it's on a silent count,

those guys have to look in and their heads are already spinning because they're going against Flores. So they're looking in and then they're late with their eyes. And so the Vikings are just teeing off on that. That's why the first half felt like that was because there's no crowd noise. You know, and U.S. Bank gets loud. So the second half, that crowd's going nuts and they have to look inside. They have to look inside. And then it's like, all right, all right, right, I'm right here. I'm right here. Okay, okay, I'm like, oh, shoot, the ball snapped. And then there's

Dallas Turner already up the field. It was just a, it was a trickled out effect. Like, Jordan loves should have a purple heart. Like, yeah, you don't seem down on Jordan Love at all in this one. And it's like, all right, when he gets manhandled, it's super embarrassing. And then it's like, do I not have the ball anymore? Like that play was one of those plays. You're like, what the hell's going on here? And he's just getting bullied. But you're physically going to get bullied no matter what, unless you're like Josh

Allen or Cam Newton in that spot anyway. So that leads to the one-yard touchdown. When he throws the pick, my favorite thing on the James Pier pick is that Harrison Smith is so mad that he drops it. He stays on the ground and he's so mad. Friend of the show, Harrison Smith, who I think I'm supposed to reach out to his brother to finally, that's on me to Harrison Smith's brother, by the way. way we were supposed to have him on the pod. I don't know what happened. I'm pretty sure it was my

fault. But he's so mad. And it's like, well, actually, no, this is going to work out here. Because there was a play, I forget if it was a second or third and 20 where Jordan moves up in the pocket and changes his throwing platform and just absolutely delivers. And I watched it and I rewound it. I went, this is why he got paid. This is why, because I think it's very easy because of how embarrassing this collapses and this pattern of yesterday. Last time they played the Bears, they were up 21, three at half, they were up 216 at the end of the third quarter. They were up week 16 against Chicago, 13-3, late in that third quarter as well. And there's these NFC North games where you're going, why is this now happening? Like, I thought that was

kind of this outlier, weird thing, where we're barely over 500 on these games where you have these huge leads in the second half. And now we're not winning any of these anymore. And you feel like if you're doing hey jordan love dot dot dot on monday that that's completely missing the story of yesterday's game he watch the he plays against brian flora is how you're supposed to play like you're supposed to stand in there and deliver and try shit and he's doing that left nor he threw from every possible platform like you straight up right you know 10 degrees 20 degrees like he just he threw from every possible platform one foot no feet it was it was it was it's It's exactly how you're supposed to play.

They had no run game. It's, you know, it's Chris Brooks, who's a protection back and special teamer. And then Morshan Lloyd, who's had like 150 carries since high school or including high school. And who's kind of like a bouncy guy, more zone guy. And then the old lines, a bunch of backups and hurt players as well. Zach Tom, he changed his name, but he's Zach Tom to me is probably one of their better offense alignment. He's banged up, you know, and he got the fumble or whatever. And he like, he like caught it.

And then he got sawed off. he's probably like, I'm, I didn't want that. You know, that's the line against the ball and he gets hit as he's already heard. He's probably like that sucked. Jordan Love got pressured half his dropbacks, 50% not blitz, pressured, where he got pressured, 50% of his dropbacks, anything above, you know, 25%, 28%'s crazy. And he's double that. And he usually doesn't take sacks.

That's the thing about Jordan Luff. He creates big plays and he doesn't take sacks. That is a formula. He's a locked in. To me, it's like. 8 is the floor. If we're looking at top time rankings, that's where I have Jordan Love. It's only going

higher, but it's just one of those things where it's like, it's a tough matchup and they just don't have a lot of dudes right now. The other headline from this from Kyler Murray, who I say he doesn't get dinged, he gets injured. Like there are plays and even on that play, like starts

the game, disaster, interception. You know, like this isn't fun. It felt a lot like Texas, Ohio State in a way. and then he gets crunched on this play where he had no chance of getting the first down, I didn't think. No. And it was a very high, because you actually didn't know what was wrong. Until it went a little bit longer, you're like, okay, it's probably a head injury here.

But even the announcer, I think, on the broadcast, it said, oh, he's holding that left leg. I mean, he's holding that left leg. And this is not to be critical of him, but it's just the reality that he pays a way bigger price on these, NFL hits than I think anyone else playing the position. And it's unfortunate. We'll see what happens once he gets cleared, but I don't know if this opens up the door for JJ to get reps in here again, unless you thought you liked what you saw from Wentz.

You got the three touchdowns, but I wouldn't say it was like a pretty game from Carson and relief. Oh, no. Even the touchdown to Jefferson was hilarious because it was a free play. And so they just ran all goes. And Wentz has it. So usually you're just looking and then launch it. Okay, I got free play.

he gets it. And then I'm just saying this is how Wence's head was spinning. He looks and he's like, he looks to his right. And he's like, oh, shoot, that's Jordan Addison. Oh, where's Justin at?

Okay, and he goes all the way back to his left. He wasn't looking off of safety. He was trying to find number 18, which I thought was here. Yeah, Wence was, I'm not the biggest Wence fan. He takes too many hits. It's like his,

his play style is not. The best hit he took was the roughing the passer, which was bullshit. Because, I mean, look, there was the took a charge. There was three penalties on that drive, two of them, I thought, were totally justified, but that third down on the roughing the passer was brutal. So, you know, that's another part of it. It's not really a score thing because the thing gets so out of hand.

But we'll see what happens there with Minnesota of the quarterback position. The pick was interesting, too, with Kyler, was that that was a great example. They were in five-man protection and empty protection. And the right guard, Will Frye, it's called squeeze. So he has to work inside, and then the right tackle has to keep squeezing. So it was a great example of like five-man protection sometimes. If you blitz it, which Jonathan Gannon did, that the free runner, you're going to allow a free runner against a blitz when you have five-man protection, but it's physics. You want the longest path to the quarterback.

So you don't want the A gap to be the guy clean. You want the furthest guy. So it should have been the right outside guy. So that's why Kyra was like, oh, oh, shit. And then should not do what he did. You know, like again, Jordan Love doing that's different than Kyle. doing that. Jordan Love has one of the best arms in the NFL. Kyle has a good arm. That's the difference between the lead arm and good. And I really do think that that was one of those where it was

like a trickle down and stuff. And he's not the guy to kind of like stop that trickle down, if that makes sense. Like if other guys make mistakes, he, that's where he wavers. Jordan Love, other guys make mistakes. There's times that he can overcome that. That's the difference of those tiers of quarterbacks. There's something for everyone when it comes to Reese's. Now, we all understand the standard, right? peanut butter cups. One for me, one for you, likely two for me, none for you. Or maybe you just don't get buried and there's always going to be two for you and you don't even really have to have that discussion. What I would tell you though is there's this thing that'll happen with the miniatures

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Go get Reeses wherever you shop. Okay, Baltimore. I'm going to include this one in here because there was a lot of anticipation, anticipation with Minter as the head coach. Now, we had some under-center numbers for you here. Early Downs, week one, the highest under-center rate that we had was still another game to go here since 2017. Lamar under-center, just over 50%, the highest of his career. 5 and 6 yards of offense. Lamar, what I actually loved about this domination was that he didn't feel like, I don't want to see him not be this running threat that freaks everybody out. It's just the way this game goes.

that eventually those numbers continue to go down. His are going down. Last year was disappointing. You could say the injuries, which is always a little bit of a part of it, like the guys that are injured that are playing. But it wasn't really, it was an absurd offensive output here,

but it wasn't necessarily because Lamar was back to peak Lamar running. I mean, it's seven for 40, but that's take out, what, 19 yards on that one run, and it's six runs for like 21 yards. So this was a contained Lamar where they still were this, dynamic. And as you said, the under-center thing doesn't fix everything for everyone. It just happens to be one of those things that everybody was talking about. And it certainly played out

week one. Yeah. And it was very encouraging. I thought, I mentioned him before, but Dwayne Ledford, their offensive line coach, I'm a big fan of. What he did in Atlanta was really cool. Like, he had really interesting designs and that carried over. And also, the Mars, like the variables or like, the formula of Lamar running is changing, where it was, he used to get about seven or eight design runs a game. And now it's just one or two that you sprinkle in in high leverage situations. And high leverage, meaning late downs, third and short, short yardage, or in the low red zone, like his rushing touchdown. You don't want to build the whole plan out of Lamar on design runs anymore. You just want to sprinkle them in. That's exactly where the whole league is going.

But it was like that that touchdown, that rushing touchdown, uh, Derek Henry's first. touchdown, that's, it's the good stuff. Like, that's why I'm very encouraged by what I saw. Like, they almost average eight yards of play, 7.9 yards per play. Lamar averaged 12.2 net yards per attempt. So net yards include sack yardage there. And they actually pulled the Urban Meyer. They had 200 yards rushing, 200 yards passing. Like Urban Meyer said when he came to the Jaguars, that he wanted to average that. And everybody in the NFL was like, 200 rushing. Like, have you, have you watched an NFL game? Like, 100 is great. is a great day at the office.

So they actually pulled the urban. But no, he only got stacked twice, but he didn't get hit other than that. He had the long scramble on third down, but that's a perfect time to scramble's third and extra long, because that's usually actually the best play. But that design run was cool. It's what they call Zone Reed Arc,

where you're reading the defense. They really attacked Arden Key for the Colts. The first play, they attacked him on the bootleg. They ran it to his side. He crashed on the running back. Lamar Scott Free. He goes as a flower. hours. And then on that play, the zone read arc is one of those where if you run a zone read

you're in defensive end. Everybody knows that. Read the defensive end. He crashes on a running back, quarterback keeps it. Defense has got smart. They run this thing called scrape exchange, which is where defense and crashes and that the linebacker scrapes over the top. They exchange duties to then take their quarterback that has been going on for years now, especially in college. But the arc, and this is the tight end usage in this run game is really, really cool. The arc block is then the guy in the backfield then leads for the quarterback if he keeps it for that scrape guy. They didn't need it on that play. But that was really cool to me to kind of like see this unbalanced formation, tackle over zone read arc.

And they're like sprinkling that in other tight end usage stuff on the run game with Derek Henry where, you know, the tight ends screaming into motion. And it's almost like a it's like a motion lead block. They kind of are creating a crease. Like they're creating like a natural cut for Derek Henry. And you had 260 pounds. When he gets a crease like that, it's just game over. And you saw that a couple of times. I don't know exactly what to call it.

Duane Ledford did that in Atlanta a lot with Bejohn Robinson. And now you see Derek Henry reaping the benefits from that. So just really creative stuff. And then on top of that, Declan Doyle, I thought, had some really nice past game designs. You got Zay Flowers running choice routes. You got some nice kind of third down stuff as well that I thought Lamar looked really comfortable with. But I was, that was really, really encouraging, I thought, to see that from the Ravens and how cohesive everybody looked. There's something else that I kind of love about week one.

It's like the best players are so fresh. Like Derek Henry, week one. Yeah. It's like, oh, wow, this is what it would look like if guys weren't banged up the entire time. Even Fred Warner, week one. Although Fred kind of looks like that in the entire time. Nick Bosa in that game against the Rams. You're like, oh, that's right.

This is what it's supposed to look like when he's healthy. It's just a little bit of reminder how taxing this game is to see how insane some of the best players are. because they're the healthiest that they're going to be now for the rest of the year. Were you worried about what the Colts looked like at all as far as talk about healthy? Because I'm a little scary, Daniel Jones can't plant and throw out. There's a couple throws. Those balls were submarining on them a little bit. So speaking of health, the Colts were a little worried.

Tower Warren looked a little banged up. The run game looked good. But yeah, I was a little worried about how Daniel Jones looked. That leg looks a little limpy right now. Yeah, I think the sauce gardener acquisition will be questions. although, you know, because you're just like, oh, yeah, this guy's like being talked about. Like he was at least, even if it wasn't real, sauce was talked about as like, okay, if it's not Certan, then it's, then maybe it's this.

Yeah, and then next group. Yeah, and then some people that I think I trusted a little bit were like, he's not that. And again, my whole Certan thing is that I'm never going to compare anyone to him until further notice. No, he's the dude. You're right. Okay, we've covered that. Yeah. All before.

And then you're kind of like, oh, that's right. And it was funny. like I saw a play. It wasn't that great. I was like, yeah, we're not that far removed from him. But on the Daniel Jones part of it, usually, and that's what I always think is so interesting about the Trevor Lawrence conversation is, and they let it up. So I'll let you cook on that one a little bit. But is Trevor really going to be somebody who it took like five years in, and it's that second half of the season, and that's now who he's going to be. And certainly that's what it looked like at week one. I think the opponent has something to do with that. But maybe this is. Maybe it is,

Like, that's a really long time to feel like you're getting it right. And maybe it was just Liam Cohn coming in and it all works out and that's fine. But Daniel Jones gave us multiple years of evidence that he wasn't really the guy. He lights it up at a historic level. Like, look at some of those performances at the beginning of last year. Where then it's like, oh, you know, this is why he went so high, right? We just start, we get different results. And then we start recreating all of these versions.

It's like, dude, he sucked with the Giants. Okay. He wasn't good. You can sit there and talk about the franchise and their history and how long they've been losing in New York with both teams here. But I thought that was more of an outlier. And then the wheels kind of fell off. He had the huge turnover games. Granted, the Pittsburgh game was a disaster.

I think was there an Atlanta game right after that where he's like fumbling the ball like crazy. And so I don't know that it was necessarily that bad. But there was a moment there in those first two months of 25 where it was almost like, yeah, no one should have ever thought that Daniel Jones couldn't have done this. And I'm like, really? Like, this is kind of surprising. And maybe it's strictly him rushing back this soon from it. But I feel like I'm being a little too harsh of a guy coming back from a very significant injury here. But it's like it's probably going to look more like average would be,

would almost feel like the reward with Jones moving forward if he's the guy the rest of the year. And then, you know, who knows what were the decisions that they'd make. Yeah, playable. It was playable. I know. Yeah. not exciting for anybody. No. It's those first, that first half of the season last year, I'm like, I don't think this is really true either. No, they were, I mean, they were averaging over 30-something

points of game. I was like, oh, I was eating crow. Like 80 QBR games? Yeah. Shane Seichen has the good. It's like, Shane Steichen's a great play caller and a play designer. So like he does deserve some credit. Thirl line's pretty good too. Tony Sprionla Jr. is pretty dang good as a coach. You know, and Jonathan Taylor is Jonathan Taylor. Like he's a dude. But I'm with you that more evidence has pointed to him as average at best, limited in kind of how he progresses as well. I always thought Daniel Jones is best when he gets to point shoot.

You know, as soon as he has to come off that first read, he's you don't want that. He's not one of those guys. But the thing was, he's such a good athlete. And they did a good job last year of kind of limiting his touches. The design runs kind of a similar conversation with Lamar.

But then you watch him yesterday. He can't outrun Tavius Robinson to the edge. And that's worrisome that if my point shoot, all right, if I can't get to number one, I have to now create. And then now he can't create. So that means every design has to be dead on, like dead on. Like he cannot be wrong and the design can't be wrong. And then there's times where the design's right. There's a play in the second half where it was a third down and they ran a slot fade.

It was a man-beater overall, but a slot fade to Josh Downs, who's a good player. So and Josh Downs wins on a slot fade. You want to take that one-on-one blitz, boom, let's go. The pass rush gets there. So Jones has to step up. He can't step up again to throw it. Like his leg only allowed one movement, if that makes sense. Like so, because it's right leg.

So he can't plan. That is scary to me because that means everybody else has to be on their peas and cues, but you don't pay a quarterback if everybody else has to be on their peas and cues. You know what I mean? You pay the quarterback to wash away and be mouthwashed for everybody else's woes. Yeah, the math of the Colts this year is off. for me. Like they, they're a weird, weird kind of zombie team right now, at least until halfway through the air, and maybe the Achilles feels better. But it's a little worrisome for me right now. And the

defense isn't like all that either. Worrysome. Detroit pulls it out. They hang on. And I couldn't believe like, whoa, are you really going to run Jemir Gibbs this many times? And he, when he was drafted, I was kind of like, I don't know that it's worth it, the old running back thing. I still would say that I'm in that camp of like, I like to Jeremiah love pick, but generally I don't necessarily want to do this. And Gibbs is just that scary. As soon as he touches the ball, but I'm like, this isn't. I know Montgomery's gone, but this doesn't seem all that interesting. And then you've got Tyler Shuck on the other side.

You're like, oh, man, this guy's going to suck today. Wow. And that was brutal because it was bad. It was as disappointing it is to not get the two-point conversion. Love them going for it. You could argue that New Orleans maybe is trying to do like a long-term thing of like, hey, this could really give us a spark this season if we get this two-point conversion. Like people are going to be doubting us, all this stuff.

I think the positives of this is, one, obviously, the Detroit hangs on, that Gibbs looks that scary. There's a lot of stuff in Detroit's offense I didn't necessarily loving this outside of that in the passing game. But at least there was a bounce back for Chuck where even in the third quarter, you're turnover, turnover, and you're like, I guess this guy. Not that I was going to say, hey, everybody was wrong that was overrating this guy, but I think the comeback proves why everybody always talks about him.

So there's some silver lining in there for the Saints on what's a disappointing comeback. Yeah, because he was the thing about shock, actually, it's kind of somewhere with golf a little bit, is how he deals with pressure. You know, not not mental pressure and all that, but more just literal pressure, how he deals muddy pockets and everything. And he was bad through two and a half quarters when there was no pressure. And that's where I was getting really worried because I was like, all right, are you just not hitting throws? because, again, if you're not going to be an ultimate creator type, then you have to just be, you have to be money. You can't make mistakes. You have to be accurate.

And he wasn't playing like that. It got encouraging as the game went along. Yeah, not having Jordan Tyson their top pick, you know, that that was that the math of their personnel is not working. I do like Bryce Lance, though. Trey Lance is a little brother. I do like him. And Olavis a stud as well. And Joanne Johnson and Hitt and Shuck have really nice chemistry.

It was just one of those. I was a little discouraged by how. it went having said that nine explosive passes by the end of the game and I thought this last quarter and a half in even into overtime they had some real nice moments where he stood and delivered at the line's defense I don't think it's going to be very good in coverage so that was also discouraging too because it was like all right if you can't shred these dbs right now they're all banged up for rakia assin starting for them they're running man coverage you can't beat them with in a lobby's a stud that's that was kind of worrisome for me I thought the old line gave up a lot of pressures

as well. Like so again, that that kind of is a little worrisome just overall with the Saints. Having said all that, much better, felt a lot better, felt more explosive because I was encouraged

what happened last year. He shut kind of beat up on some bad defenses last year during his run. So I kind of have been kind of like middle with him. It's like, yeah, he might be a starter.

He's older than Trevor Lawrence. And, you know, that kind of, if you're older and Trevor Lawrence and we're cut talking about like, oh, you need still more development.

that's, I don't know, to me, it's like I would allow something a little bit more exciting, but at least you can get, I think this can be like a starter-ish guy for this year and we can assess and at least everybody else we can assess and see how they play as well, because they've got a pretty young team in a young offense. Trevor Lawrence, let's bring it back to that because we were touching on it there a little bit. You seem very bullish. We've talked about the Jags offensive line concerns, and maybe there's some guys coming back,

one in particular that maybe shores that group up a little bit more. but I would say based on every unit ranking stuff that I've looked at, the Jags are not near anyone's like perfect example of an offensive line. They light it up yesterday. And Trevor Lawrence is in his sixth year. So this is not normally how it goes. When you're number one overall, when you have the urban disaster, when you turn it over, you clean house,

and then you're thinking, okay, now we're just going to cater everything to him, which could then also be a Cam Ward conversation. We're like, is everything being catered to Cam Ward? or you sound like you want to just jump at that right there. I got to watch that game back before I like throw out a hot take. You know, I'm not very high. I'm Brian Dable overall. So I, you know, I, but I want to, I want to rewatch that game before I go on to your show and throw out some big takes on that one.

Because I think some of the Tennessee personnel decision stuff is like, well, we have to do this because it's like, well, are you just spending to show that you're spending for them? Are you spending on the right people here? Wendell Robinson making almost 20 million a year. That would be one of the examples I would come up with. But the Trevor story, this timeline, one, it's not usually allowed. But is this the rare case where he actually is going to be everything we thought of him? Look, I liked him just like everybody else did, watching him run around at Clemson. Like, how could this not work out?

I thought the second year part of it was like the really alarming season where I'm like, Is he seeing ghosts out there? Like, what is he looking at? Red zone throws that, you know, normally it's pretty easy to kind of avoid some of the red zone mistakes because you know it has to be so quick that you get rid of the ball. Not to say, like, like Red Zone to me is the, no, that's exactly what was the issue. Is he had some of the stupidest turnovers you ever see in the Red Zone. I couldn't believe.

What were you looking at? Yeah. Because there's so many quarterbacks. And once you get into the red zone, you're just like, okay, this is the difference between you and like the top guys, right? But then I think the benefit of being down there is that. you know you have so little time and the routes once they're over, it's just over and it's all clogged up. Yep.

Like you can then just get rid of it or in his case scramble or you can take the checkdown if that's in the play. But with him it was like he didn't want to give up on the end zone shots. And you're like, this is, this is, who does this? Like, this is getting way worse. And again, here we are year six. They light it up. So I feel like I already know your answer on this one. But is this the rare case of like he will be the thing.

we all thought of. It just took longer than usually anyone ever to get the opportunity. Yeah, I do think that's it. He got the actual timeline to actually get to that and now has surroundings. And Liam Cohen's got the goods. Him and his coaching staff are very, very thoughtful with their game plans. They do some really good stuff. And now these guys in their second year in the system, you can kind of see them. They like set the record last year. I don't know if I already told you this, but like for illegal shifts last year and illegal formations because none of the guys

could get lined up. Great. makes some shirts for that. And then the second half of the year, hang the banner. And then the second half of the year, then it kind of really got cleaned up. Like Jacoby Myers was really calmed everybody down. But I've always kind of comparison to like a souped up Matt Ryan. Like that's kind of always been my comparison for Trevor, like just a kind of a juiced up, more twitchy Matt Ryan. Where is he elite guy?

Like what I consider the true tier one guys, I don't think there's three right now, which is Josh Alan Lamar and Patrick Mahomes to me. And then there's a kind of a glut of tough. tier two guys. I consider him a tier two guy. I have him kind of more in that like eight, nine, 10 range. I really do. You have Lamar over Burrow? Yeah. Yeah, I have Lamar over Burrow. Burrell's got, we can get some more explosives before I'm going to prop him up as an elite guy. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, I know. Cloud coverage. Yeah. I mean, it was more of the same yesterday. I understand. I understand. Yeah. It's like, I appreciate Joe Burrow. I love to use him as teach tape for a lot of

quarterbacks, but like the dudes to me have that little something more, that little more creation. Again, you know, whatever you want to call out the dragons of the world. Like they do stuff that you can't coach as far as just like, it's not within the scheme of the play, you know, that creation ability, but I digress. But Trevor yesterday, that was the second best game of his career in terms of success rate as far as a regular season. They were absolutely cooking. I mentioned again, if you're near 50% success rate, you're cooking on passing. He was successful. 68%. Yes, Brown's caveat, I have to say that, but he was so decisive. He wasn't taking bad plays. I thought, I even tweeted this out, if anyone's curious, but like you see it's one hitch

ball out, one hitch ball out. That's decisive. And it's not one hitchball out five-yard throw. It's one hitch ball out 20 yards down the field. And that's where there's that Matt Ryan, where he really likes to work that intermediate area. And that's where I think that's where he makes is living, throwing over the middle, which is always encouraging because, again, you have confidence, what you're seeing and you have anticipation. So I'm very high on what this offense can be, and especially how their rookie left guard look. I know this is very specific, but Emmanuel Pregnon, he's the rookie from Oregon, and he is a mauler. And him and Anton Harrison onto the left side, that's like a plus left side. And that is like, okay, now if we got a couple good starters,

who's the weak link now? Probably the right tackle. But that's the thing is if it's just one week link as opposed to two week links or three week links, feel a little bit better about what the run game looks like and the pass protection looks like. And they have a sneaky signing on this offense. Chris Rodriguez, who's a hammerhead.

And that's really helping this offense stay on track in the run game. It's not as boom bust as it was last year, which again lifts the floor up. And I think Trevor is that guy that kind of achieve a high ceiling like they had yesterday. All right, let's try to get to as much of this as we can with some quick hitters here to close it out. I don't know how many losses are going to have to happen before we surpass the charges lost to Arizona being the worst loss. Like, it's the worst loss of week one.

Can it keep that belt for multiple weeks? Now, as we told you on this podcast, I loved Arizona over three and a half. Yes. It does not mean. Look, there's too many talented guys I thought for three and a half. And I know the schedule was considered top 10 most difficult. But as Nico Harrison once said, I hope people can see the vision now when they won the lottery. I think mine has more to do with like, look, did you see all the dudes out there that are running around?

And a lot of it is kind of rounding up the new guys on defense. A bit like with a couple pieces on the offensive line for Houston, the expectation is like, all right, well, if these younger guys are just a little bit better, it wasn't necessarily about that. I mean, Herbert was a disaster. I know Ladd gets hurt and then the offensive stuff on EPA falls off a cliff once Ladd is out. Lambert Smith was also out in this one, another receiver for them. But some of this is just, I may not be able to talk about Herbert for a month. We declared like Herbert guys, stop it, leave him alone. The fourth down, not even getting the ball out and taking a sack is the worst thing you can do as a quarterback.

Throw a fucking pop up into the red zone and see what happens. And he's been around too long to do it. I understand people's mistakes. then it was almost the frustration double, double coverage pick. That felt like I'm just mad. So I'm going to let it fly, even though it makes no sense whatsoever. I call this a team. Yeah, performative.

I love that. Let's keep using that this season. But once you have the tackles back, you're like, hey, the guys are back there. Like, this is not what this is supposed to look like with Mike McDaniel. I think it will take. Now, Arizona may in fact be better than certainly Vegas thought they were, but it still is just such a nasty loss. for you're like, oh, all the Herbert haters, a great afternoon for you.

Yeah. I congratulate you, you know, afternoon. I got, I know people going like, so the final sack was one of those things where this is the limitation to me of being a Shanahan offense, which is what Mike McDaniel runs, is they put, and this is for better for worse, and this is what Kyle Shanahan and Matt Ryan had to go through in 2015, 2016. This is what Aaron Rogers and Matt LaFleur had to go to in his couple years in Green Bay or last years in Green Bay is that that offense, because it has so much motion, has so much stuff, is they don't put the changes of protections on the quarterback, even if it's a vet. They put it on the center.

The Chargers are starting a day two rookie at center in his first game. And that blows my mind that Justin Herbert, who has so many starts, doesn't have that right to change the protection. there. So what they do and why I squint at this because the Shanahan offense has a lot of cool stuff and good stuff that a lot of people should take and they do is why I have consternation about this is, you know, my dad growing up, what he does and what like Sean Payton offenses do and others is that the quarterback has the Trump card. They can change that. They can change the protection. If they see it, if you see Dak Prescott, he does it all the time. Josh Allen has the right to change protections. Mahomes actually has earned that right to change protections. And the fact that Herbert hasn't had that license is weird to me. And on that play, though, Nick Rawls, the defense coordinator for the Cardinals is funky. He does some really good rule-breaking blitzes, sometimes to his detriment, but some real good stuff. They broke the protection there.

And what the Shanahan offense do is, like, we have a built-in hot. So we're going to beat the blitz with the throw. And that works all fine and good. But number one, I think it's Mack Wilson for the Cardinals, sprints to where the hot is. So then Herbert trying to do the right thing. Herbert's kind of a robot. like good and bad.

I call him the Terminator because you can't kill him. And he's just kind of like he does the right thing constantly and just like like everything is just like, I am throwing this dig, hell or high water. Like, you know, he is the Terminator. But he's going, okay, I'm throwing to the hot. Oh, it's not there. Eat the sack.

And it's like, no, just throw it. Do something. Like you know, like you said. So it's one of those things. That's where you see the limitations of this offense. And again, canary in the coal mine, whatever you want to say, that's worrisome that they said, no, we're going to stick with offense that our rookie day two center is going to have that license and not the quarterback that we

pay hundreds of million dollars to and has all these starts which also kind of gets into coaching a little bit too which we can extrapolate from there but i having said all that not as worried upon a review i i knew we were going to talk about this so i made sure to watch this game back not as worried about the offense as i thought it would be there was a lot of good moments a run game was boom busting or marian hampton had some tough-ass runs that quarterback that touchdown run was awesome the passing game they just have it's like I don't know they're like their guys are kind of getting stuck and they also just kind of like it just looked a little sloppy at times actually though having said all that what worried me was the defense I I didn't think the defense looked good at all and yeah we can say the cardinals and Jacoby Brissette and the Cardinals have some real dudes on offense I just thought the defense wasn't threatening they weren't getting pressures they're blitzing like crazy at Chris O'Leary's going to be a blitz guy but then they weren't doing damage with the blitzes so if you're blitzing and not doing damage, that's the worst thing possible. Because now you're just creating weaknesses for yourself.

They're dropping Tuli Tula-Polito and coverage too much, and he's their best pass rusher. So I, that actually, upon review, had me more worry than anything. So I guess protection rules and then defensive play, that for the charges, a team I actually was fairly high on, and I still think this offense can get there. That was more scary than anything to me. All right. You got one for us?

Oh, yeah. I mean, I got a few. Actually, which one do you want to go to? I could go into, all right. So one thing to me is, again, watching that commander, can I get into the Commander's Eagles right now? Yeah, I want to, because my headline would be, based on my expectations, both good and bad.

I felt like I learned nothing except Sunny Stiles may be illegal by week six. And yeah, I think he's like locked up defense or rookie the year. Like, I'm just like, oh, that's the guy. That's the dude right there. Like, that's like. He just jumps out all day long. Yes. And you're like, this guy's going to be filthy.

Six, four, can run like that and blows up Seekwon Barkley on a blitz and then plays the run like that, plays coverage like that. Yeah, they don't build him like that. And that's why he's the top 10 pick. No, that I'm, that was kind of what I expected. And I don't mean, and anyone that heard me last week when I was with you and we were talking about some of these teams, I was low on a commander's offense. I'm kind of iffy on what the Eagles offense is going to be. the Eagles might have some old line issues. What was the pressure rate?

Because I think at one point, like Jaden was like 56% of his dropbacks, he was pressured, which was so nice to see on two of those throws. It was the third down. And it was like, hey, you know, when he had time, this is why we like this guy so much.

Like, look how nice this looks. And then you realize this hasn't been clean all game long. But to your point, like, think the best stat I think for Hertz, they were at 10 and 14 on third downs, considering all the chaos that he was dealing with. Because that was a bad old line. game from the Eagles. Yeah, Landon Dickerson looks done. I appreciate the player. He was a hell of a

player. He just looked so banged up that he can't move. And he was like a true weakness for them, run game and past game. But I, yeah, Gene, I was sorry, I'll keep with the Eagles first. But yeah, no, I thought the undercenter stuff is just exactly how I played out. Like combined, these guys went three of eight, went throwing from under center. Hertz went one of four, and the one was the bomb to Wix early that he admitted he hadn't thrown that route the entire time they practiced it. So he was just launching that thing and it worked out great. And then Jane Daniels wasn't pushing the ball at all. That's always been my thing with Jayden. He likes to attack to the outside. He can throw over the middle fairly well, but he just kind of doesn't prefer that is that

when he gets pressured, his eyes come down because he's such a good scrambler. When when I say eyes come down, he's not scrambling to launch and create an explosive. It's a lot underneath, underneath. And he went, what do you go? One of six yesterday on throws of 15 or more air yards. The only completion was that one to Antonio Williams on the over who had a really nice game. Antonio Williams looks like a keeper. But I thought both of these teams looked pretty rough on offense. And like the Eagles, the run game is just 78 of Saquan Barclay's 83 yards came after contact.

And the commanders improved their defense, but not like that. Like where it's like this is going to be like a top 10 defense. they're just not going to be awful. They had three holding penalties. Their offense line, they gave up three sacks, and they don't do enough down to down to mitigate all that. Hertz was explosive and had some of those, but 25% of Hertz's dropbacks resulted in a sack or scramble,

and then 14% were an explosive pass. That means two out of five dropbacks means are sack, scramble, or explosive play. That's a tough way to live if your run game is going to be that poor. And this has now been a multi-year issue. Sequin's success rate in 2024 is 44% Last year is 35%. Yesterday it was 28%. That, again, I look at kind of math of an offense.

Can you attack, can you get on base, success rate, and then can create those explosives. They got explosives passing still, but the run game is falling off and it's like it hasn't changed, and it doesn't look like it changed at all. I thought they were pretty sloppy up front, which is a little worrisome to me. Do you want to know what Kirk Cousins was yesterday

air yard throws 10 or more yards? What? 10 of 7 with two picks. Yeah. It felt like that. Those are some lollipops. Three touchdowns though, all under 10 yard air throw. Ash and Gentile looks like, what's that?

Ash and Gentile looked amazing. He did. He did because I was monitoring that with our older guys, Rogers. 0.6 on 20 or more air yards. He had two completions, 15 or more. Everything else was underneath that. He's the king of the performative deep ball. He throws some FU D balls, not in like FU defense more.

FU, I'm going to throw this. Whatever. Oh, it didn't work. Whatever. That's on you guys. That's kind of Aaron Rogers. We can keep track of I'm mad interceptions. He also had something with a guy in a route where I still don't know.

I don't know. It was a tight end. He was mad. And I couldn't tell. I would usually think Romo was the king of it. Oh, yeah. No one was better with the hand signal of like that's. And that's an end after something went bad.

Take a moment here to talk about Raising Cains and their founder, Todd Graves, who, as you know, I've met almost 20 years ago down at LSU. Like, why is this guy paying it for my dinner? Well, apparently he can afford it. No. He really is a study in the hard work. I think he worked on an oil rig or something ridiculous when he first got started. Not that far from where I live right now.

I was like, you did that. So the foundation was laid. Put in the work, put in the hours, and the reward is yours. Cains is also this year sponsoring PGA Tour golfer Sam Burns, LSU alum, Louisiana native and good friend of Raising Cain's owner and founder Todd Graves. You may have seen the Cain's logo on his collar during tournaments this season. Ahead of the BMW Championship, Sam and Raising Cain's hosted kids from First T and Boys and Girls Club of St. Louis from meet and greet and golf lessons by Sam himself at a driving range in St. Louis.

And of course, Cain's Chicken Fingers and Cain sauce. The first time I remember getting him, I'm like, look, I do love a chicken finger. I mean, who doesn't? Who among us parents out there would like, hey, you're done with that? She's three. Let her eat her chicken finger. But it's staring at you and you kind of want it. So I think we're all familiar with chicken fingers and what they bring to the table. But the first time I had a cane's chicken figure, I was like, okay, now I get it.

I get why everybody says, hey, you want to get canes? You want me to bring you canes. Should I bring back canes tonight? We should get canes before the game. It makes sense once you have it. Raising Kane's chicken fingers. One love. All right, I've got one for you.

I think Harbaugh took the Giants job, not just because he wanted to coach again. and because it's New York. I think he likes this roster. I was really impressed with a bunch of parts of the Giants win last night. Look, it's super easy to just go. Jackson Dart just had the best game of his career last night. He's still going to take the hits. You could tell Collinsworth the way he was talking about him, and this is what I love. You've done it long enough. He was basically telling you the tape from last year was kind of a mess, which I had always thought it was a mess. He was new. It was exciting. You were going to round up. Everything is a former first round because you have all of this hope. I loved him in college, but I also knew there was a bill that came with it.

It was like this excise tax. It's like just so you know, a lot of it's going to be a lot of fun, but like this is going to be the part that's really alarming. The Caleb Downs hit, which was great on the broadcast. He just did not recognize the math of that being like if he's coming up here, especially the way Caleb Downs is going to be used, you're going to have to account for him. He doesn't, he gets clobbered. The great thing is that Jackson is so thick that like another lesser man maybe knocked out of the game. I thought the sideline hit. was, I thought it was bullshit to throw a flag on that. He is still running. Okay, they're talking about it on the broadcast series way out of bounds. He was not way out of bounds. We are, we're to the point now

where like, we're putting these defensive players in an impossible situation. It's like, if he's still live, I've got to, I've got to finish this play and close him out. The problem is these guys are so massive. They end up 10 feet deep. It's on the team sideline. There's, if you went through the science of how many times the flag is thrown for the late hit out of bounds on that team sideline, the opponents, it's going to be like 70 times more likely that you're going to get the flag. But I think, you know, whether it's an old line that I don't really know enough about yet, Ricard, who makes me think, why isn't everybody trying to get a 275 pound fullback who's just basically an extra lineman, even if he ends up telegraphing where the play is going?

Neighbors being back was awesome, likely being the number one tight end was terrific. I think there's more to this roster and clearly of Harbaugh we're going to take this job. I wondered at first, I'm like, is Jackson the guy to do this when you could probably pick your spot on the next few? But maybe, maybe I'm overreacting to the week on win, but maybe there's something more to be said about this roster that he built. And I haven't even talked about the front, although I'd like to say that I wish the front was a little nastier. Because I think the name recognition, at least for me, is a college fan. I'm like, yeah, but collectively it doesn't feel as nasty. it's supposed to be with all these resources that are up there.

Yeah, Abdul Carter is the real deal, but it's, I agree. And the thing was their defense just, their defense just played more sound, which I guess maybe some more of the hardball to it or Wilson or DeNar Wilson, their defense coordinator. But I do think that like they actually tackled that was their issue last year is they're horrible tackling and there's so much better. But this, the strength of this team is going to be running the ball. And that's not just Camp Scadaboo. I do think the offense aligns real good. like I think Francis Malanoa I think Cici I think he goes by Cissy

is yeah he's moving guys that was their first round pick or one of their first round picks Germain and Luminor was the right tackle had like a career year last year and Andrew Thomas like win healthy is like on the podium for best tackles right game yeah sure so but what's other thing it's not just the old line it's just they're what I call their auxiliary blockers

like Ricard like you mentioned they have multiple blocking tight ends like Theo Johnson Chris Mannhirts are both good blockers. And then they got Malachi Fields, the rookie from Notre Dame, who's him and scribbling, the guy that 49ers drafted were probably the two best blocking receivers, because I care about this shit. But he really was. And he, my next gen stat buddy, Kegan Abdu, sent me this, that Malachi Fields had the most crack blocks of any receiver in week one. Again, niche stats. That's like screen setting. But it came up.

But him getting three on that motion, you know, where actually it was the route, because it looks like he's coming down to crack again and then him getting free. I thought they did a great job of pointing that out. Yeah. It was it was that's again, this run game is going to be the real deal, whether it's Scadaboo or whoever. Greg Roman actually like he has his warts maybe in passing game designs, but he's real good in the run game and he will be he will be good in the run game throughout this year. And I just thought dart who I warmed on him as as watching him as a rookie. He still has a long ways to go, I think, to be a real quarterback. But I thought the thing about him was he wasn't trying too many of those hero plays like he had last year. I thought the ball was coming out quick.

I mean, he pepper four flat routes in a row because the Cowboys apparently can't cover a flat route. Even Brian Schottnerner joked about it. But it was, you know, when you get multiple touchdowns on flat routes, that's usually easy day at the office. But I thought that was encouraging that DART seemed very streamlined. Maybe that's the best way I can put it. Like I thought his thinking was very streamlined. You don't want dart hitching a bunch of times. If he does, you're dead because then bad things might happen. He might take hits. But I was encouraged,

really encouraged by the O line, the blocking. And this is their formula and have enough on defense. I don't think the defense can be outstanding, but they got some juice up front. But I actually thought the Cowboys blocked them up pretty well. It's just yeah, their defense couldn't get off the field. I don't know if you saw it, but

they went nine of ten until that final knee on third down. The Giants did. There's not. There's no way you would ever think the Giants, even if you go, hey, the Dallas defense isn't going to be that much better, but you let the Giants go nine for 10 on third down. Like that's, so there's that last touchdown drive where there's the neighbor's throw, which I do think is a good throw for somebody like Darrow, who you're going, okay, what is this going to look like? Is he going to have the finesse part of this game? Yeah. And to me, that was a finesse throw, because he had to get it

up and over the defensive back, get it to neighbors for the safety's coming back. It wasn't like one of those crazy there was a one-foot window throw in there. It's still open. And that maybe is the more damning thing, as Collinsworth is also saying, like, okay, so all right, that throws that one, but what are we doing with likely over here? Why are there two? How is there, is there miscommunication, or are you just allowing these guys? It felt like there were four throws there where it didn't really make any sense what Dallas was doing. And I'm willing to just believe it's mistakes because it's week one and it's a new defensive coordinator. But that was a really disappointing series that essentially puts the game away for Dallas. Yeah, they had some weird,

weird, just communication stuff with their, like, their flat defender, I guess is the best way to put it. And again, the Fangio defense, which is what they're running, is going to take time because they just have rules against formation. So motion, if you have guys that aren't used to it, they can bust. But it was kind of like, when you get repeat mistakes, that's a little discouraging where it's like, fix it. Somebody told him to fix it. Like somebody yell out there like, you got the flat, something of that sort. No, the likely touch down was just. Why is likely, like, why is somebody going, well, I'll let him go? Yeah, I know.

I'm actually pulling it up right now. So they're in quarters. They kind of, they have two guys on that right side that basically hit each other too. The corner has the, the corner has to fall back. He has the drawn bland has to, has to fall back. So that's on bland. To me, it's on bland. And those kind of looks.

And again, I'm assuming here, they make what's called an undercall. So when that outside receiver goes under five yards and in, he falls off. It's the take away what they exactly ran, which is called a smash concept or China, whatever you want to call it, corner hitch or corner to call it China. China. Yeah, corner hitch. But those kind of concepts that, yeah, you should see Payton Manning's signal for that. But no, but the under route is going, you know, under the, I think Durand Blaine has to fall off there. That's at least my assessment on it. Okay. All right. Let's do a couple more on anything else we haven't hit. Okay, I'm trying to see.

Oh, yeah, we already got to my Jags gushing. I already love that. I want to talk about the bears dropping freaking almost a 60 burgers. You want to? Oh, I had it. It was my last thing that I was going to do. I'd rather talk about that than anything else. So, you know, I mean, I could go maybe into, you know, chill out Baker Mayfield.

Just, you know, relax. Give us a good minute on chill out Baker Mayfield. Yeah. I take that. Yeah. He's learned nothing. But that's that's Baker Mayfield. Like he's going to play how he plays.

I thought what was again discouraging was maybe that the final the final fumble because he had multiple. But the final one was where he Triss and Worf's was blocking for so long that he thought the ball was out already. So he what's the guy out kind of leak inside at the very end. And Baker who started all these games is still double clutching, triple clutching. And again, I was on the show last week saying, hey, I'm still actually fairly high in the box. again upon review i was like okay there's some stuff here it was that i thought those times it's like hey we got to get the ball out you shouldn't be taking these hits anymore like he but the thing was that's what led him to success in the first stretch of last year where you're scrambling at the highest

rate possible and i think now he has to trust what he's got like they weren't they had a bad game script because of those turnovers but the run game's there bucky irving looked good in the run game the old wine is still good and the bengals defense has improved i will i will give him some credit but when he's pressured, he's taking hits. He's taking sacks. This is the guy that win hurt. He'll let you know. And then also it really drops his play.

And so don't take the hits. But again, I'm not his coach, but it's really for me discouraging. And on top of it, that was the highest amount of throws that he's ever had behind the line of scrimmage in his entire career. 43% of his throws were behind the line of scrimmage. So if you're turning the ball over and throwing that short,

your teammates have to do something. Like, but they, you know, but we're paying you, Baker Mayfield to do something. And so, again, he's got to chill out. I think he was just so amped up to make all these big plays after getting paid.

But that's Baker. It's kind of the give and taking Baker. I will say, last thought. Bengals, Amarius Mims, right tackle, absolute stud. Absolute phenom at right tackle, Amarius Mims. So I gave him a shout out as well. It was noticeable that Cincinnati's defense felt like they are going to be serious where it's like, okay, you guys are going to have some nice wins on here.

I know that sounds very vanilla or whatever, but I mean, the defense has been such a problem for so long that I was like, okay, it looks like there's some guys here. All right, I will 43% behind the line of scrimmage. That's not my favorite stat of the weekend. Let's close with the bears. So we know it's 59 points, 552 yards. My favorite part 10 to 14 on third down, even with me being a Caleb guy, there's two Loveland throws in there where I'm like, oh, you know, like, because I always worry about like the accuracy stuff with him because they're kind of these alarming accuracy numbers. But here's the positive, right? You're going to go, why are you doing Rissarillo. It's about to get real positive. He's clearly even more comfortable

week one, right, with Ben Johnson and what the rules are. He will give you the shot so the explosives are there. I feel like he's escaping with still staying in the play. Yep. As opposed to escaping like all young guys do and some older guys that never figure it out, but escaping with no plan. What I love about him, and I'm not putting them in this first tier of all the different things that we're doing, but if you're talking about problem solvers on dropbacks facing chaos, he is, if this is what it's going to be like, he's going to be in that elite group of three or four quarterback. And I'm not, it's not saying he's Allen or he's Mahomes, but specific to the solving of the chaotic dropback with the arsenal that he has right now, that's my favorite part

to him. And we saw a lot of that yesterday, even though it was total domination, there was still a lot of like, all right, I've got to kind of figure this one out here, as opposed to just clean pockets all night long, because I don't think that's going to happen. If you, the two minute drive is everything you want, uh, K of Williams. Third and 11, breaks contain. Third and extra longs are quarterbacks go do something. Either be a hero with a throw or maybe create with your legs. Like, if you have a dude that can do this, that's, that's such a asset, such a weapon. But he has the third and 11 throw, breaks contain to his left. There are certain guys that cannot throw while moving the left.

Jay one hurts, Baker, like they, they're just too stiff getting around. He can throw to his left. Not only do that, whips a freaking 100 mile hour fastball while moving to his left as he's like legs in the air. Next play, or at least a couple later in the drive, throws an in breaker to Luther Byrd, within structure. And then on the final play, just put it. home scrambles and creates a touchdown with his legs again. That's the that's

Kail Williams. That's what the elite guys do. Not saying he's elite yet because I agree. He's also because he's a line drive thrower. Line drive throwers miss hard. They so they miss. That's the Loveland in the end zone throw. Yes. Yes. Well, that one got down. It was in front of him a little bit, but it was like, hey, if I have a defensive back on me and I'm Loveland, like let me win the ball against this guy. Yeah. Give me a chance and on that one that wasn't there and those like if he ever cleans that up forget it that's the thing is like we're still scratching the surface and ben johnson who's a real tough critic of kaleb and everybody who's like gushing about them which is like all right like again some guys

gushing about the guys like harbaugh i'm like all right ben jonson gushing about his guys i'm like okay i'm going to listen to this you know it's it's a scale hey harbaugh said okay herbert's going to be the greatest of all time when he got the san francisco gig he said alick smith was right up there with Brady's and Manning and Breeze and it was like he's he's then you benched him for Kaepernick and JJ McCarthy is the greatest Michigan quarterback ever like that was another one of his lines too about his quarterbacks and I as I appreciate coaches trying to pump their guys up I do but again like how Ben Johnson goes about it I like I take I take his with a lot less salt I agree I think there's a different level of sincerity yeah the and then Caleb too on top of it is like he's just so

fast. And I've tweeted this. I think next gen stats has tweeted this now as well is since last year, he has seven runs or scrambles where he broke 20 miles an hour or more. All other quarterbacks combined have five. And he has seven. That is absurd. That's an excellent athlete right there. And on top of it, he's got one of the strongest arms in the league. And now the game's slowing down for him mentally. Again, if you see him working over the middle, I agree with you that his scrambles are a little bit more with uh scrambles are explainable you know or the creations are explainable guys that scramble just a scramble that's where it gets a little worrisome archmanning had his scrambles in the beginning or scrambles of a guy who doesn't know what's going on

which is almost every one of these dudes no matter how high you're drafted in the beginning yes like jane daniels is a perfect example of it like hey i really like it i like the stuff that's good but if you think this guy's going to survive on these one read and tuck it and run things like he's not going to, and this is why he's already been her. And I still thought, like, despite some of these great Jane Daniels plays, he needs to look at, like, almost the Caleb tape from year one to the end of year two. You know, who knows what the rest of it's going to look like here early week three. But, like, if this is what it is, right?

Because I'm still, like, he's so wild that he's so gifted and he's all of these different things. That should be the template for the other quarterbacks that can't seem to ever figure. Because it makes, I talk about this all the time. It makes sense why Bryce Underwood would be like, I want to just tuck it and run. I was like, yeah, because it's worked for your entire life and your specimen. But eventually you're going to meet in opposition where it just, it doesn't work anymore. And the whole point is figuring out the rest of it. And it's crazy to think there's even top 10 guys that are drafted that haven't figured out any of that stuff.

And it looks like Caleb have. Never ever do. And that's, I mean, the old line improved. But the thing was, too, is that he's like Lamar, he's got kind of that Gretzky thing where he doesn't get hit if that makes sense like really full on full contact hit

Jane and Lamar are like their own group for me because I was thinking about that yesterday like I still think Lamar if we're going contemporaries here at the peak Lamar it was this thing where it's like you're never going to get that clean hit on him you're never going to and I hope that's what it is for Caleb you're saying it's close to it I guess I just

would always like think Lamar is kind of his own thing but again that's why I own to give him to Gretzky, doesn't take the hits. You know, the slippery kind of like just knows how to like skit through, like just doesn't take those hits. But last year, Caleb was only hit on like knockdown as a stat I have. So that's hits and sacks combined.

Only on 7% of his dropbacks, which is the, which was the lowest rate in the week. So he took the fewest hits on dropbacks. Like he avoided those. That's an awesome number. Yeah. Yeah. Because there's still a decent pressure number on him, isn't there? Or is the pressure number the absurd one from his rookie?

year. The server one was a like a year. Yeah. And then, but last year was more just kind of like middling. Good, good. It was like, or I would say the I would say 20s, low 20s. Yeah. Yeah. Which is usually got to have a league average and everything. But, you know, I got to just because this is what I, I do is I got to give a shout out to also to what I like about with the bears is all their star players or potential star players. Roman Dunezay, Luther Burden, Colson Loveland. I'll even throw, I'm not even say star here, but even role players, I clear. I'm not even role players, I clear. I clear. I'm, I'm not even role players, I clear. I clear. I Raymond, they're all dogs on a run game. They will block their asses off. And that's what Ben Johnson's all, like actually legitimately carries this out. No block, no rock. Some guys, some guys actually just say that. And then they're like, well, we need some points now. All right. All right. Go out there, OBJ. Let's go. Go. Go. Go run a slant. These guys, like, and their eyes are really good. So that means they're well coached. They, the, the long run with Kyle Munungai, Luther Burden sifts out and sorts out the block. That's why this bear's team is scary, is that the stars are willing to buy into that

dirty work stuff, and now they see the rewards of that. And then on top of it, they have a quarterback that even if there's going to be maybe some down-to-down frustrations, but I'm high on Caleb, so don't get me wrong, I think he's going to be a dude. It's the ceiling, he's one of the ultimate ceiling raisers. So if the floor is high and he can lift the ceiling, that's an offense. that's elite. That's like truly high, high end stuff. So I'm, yeah, very encouraged of what they did. I can get into the run game stuff. I already did that. So they, they do some

cool stuff. Scheme stuff as well. If we're giving shoutouts, then let me just hit up D-Tackle for the Bills, Dionne Walker's second year out of Kentucky. Yeah. Because he, six, seven, three, 330. And I was reading his scattering reports this morning. I'm like, what happened here? And it was like, he didn't test as well. It's like, oh, his broad jump wasn't as good at six, seven, three-thirty as you guys wanted me. I'm sure. look, the people that do it for a living, there's plenty on tape for him to last as late as he did. He was in that, you know, I always call it the Edger and Cooper Award where it's like, who the fuck is that guy award?

Yeah. And Coop did have some nice plays yesterday, too, that one series in particular, just an absolute game record. I think, uh, maybe we'll just call it the Edron Cooper Award and would do it every single week on that one because, uh, I, Dion Walker had himself a game, even if it wasn't like the bills just shut down the Texans offense there. I, I think his, uh, he got stereotyped. And then the scouts kind of like, oh, because he's a big, he looks gigantic. He looks like a Haynesworth or whatever, John Henderson.

But then he plays kind of finessey, like he's a gap shooter as opposed to like a plugger. So I think some guys were like, oh, this is a big host nose tackle. And then they went watching and they're like, oh, you're like a like finessey gap shooter type. Like, you know, quick hands and wins around, which is like freak, freak stuff. So I do think that's actually what dinged him a little bit, like to me. Because I had some freak stuff yesterday. Yes. This is the best defense for him.

Jim Lander, because he slants his guy so much. So this is a great defense for him. So I think this is just the beginning of him. He was like one of my breakout players before the season. But this is a great defense. Look at the reason why we had you on Mondays. You already on lock here. You're like, yeah, I actually had him back in July when we're doing pregame.

You're the man. That is a Monday with Nate Tice. We'll do some college ball later on. I'm going to do 10 minutes on Texas, Ohio State. so we don't have to do any more on that. But it was just such an exciting week one, and we just wanted to get going and rolling. Your pick for tonight's a right tackle.

Watch, watch Siani. He's stud. Yeah, that's my guy. That's my guy. Who's your pick for tonight? I'm going to go Broncos. And then it's just Josh Simmons is not playing. You got a backup undrafted left tackle with that changed my pick.

Yeah, I know that sounds. Yeah, that's scary because why I got even a little. little bullish on the Chiefs this year was the whole line. So left tackle, undrafted free agent starting, yeah, I'm going to get a little bit lower on that. I do think the Chief's defense is going to surprise some people this year, though. I think that's going to be a fun defense. We'll talk to you next week. Awesome. Thanks. You know what something pops up last minute and you need an outfit that just works? That's when I go straight to Revolve Man. It feels curated, not chaotic. You're not drowning in 10,000 results or 50 pages of product. It's edited in a way that makes sense. Everything is styled so you can see how it

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You've heard that speech before. I covered it. But, you know, considering what happened last year and, you know, Texas having this loss at Ohio State, a game that very easily could have gone either way, depending on the bounce of a ball here or there, it just kind of delayed the whole idea of like what Texas is supposed to be. You know, they bring an arch, Sarks there, top recruiting classes. There's well funded as any program. They move over to the SEC. Granted, we know this has been going on for a while. They've made some playoff runs. There's, there's a lot here that we're kind of waiting on with Texas and where Ohio State has generally been not only the standard of the Big Ten, but, you know, the standard for all of college football here with a recent national championship. And when I was watching some of the pregame stuff, you know, Arch was great in it. You know, Arch, I think I've talked to some people that had recruited him, didn't get him, but they loved him. They loved how grounded he was and that he had every, like, right as a young person to maybe see himself a different way.

And in a way, he kind of uses what everybody expects of him to kind of, like, disarm them and very humble in a way that, you know, can feel like bullshit with so many of these other players. But there's just a lot of people that really liked him, but we're all kind of like waiting and is like, it's way too much hype at the beginning of the season. You're like, how come this guy's in the Heisman list? Why is he projected to go number one overall?

And that was something that happened with a mock draft even last year. So waiting on this thing to happen when you're watching the pregame stuff and whether it's the facilities at Texas and you're seeing all the sayings, which is not specific to Texas, right? All of these programs kind of talk about, hey, here there's a standard. And we have a way. And you're like, look, this is probably more me than anybody else.

And just because I've been to a bunch of these places, it's like, oh, you made some fucking t-shirts and you put some sayings around the facility. Like now everything's different, whatever. And I know that everybody kind of has to do this stuff. And I'd even allow that, hey, if you have this kind of positive reinforcement, if you have win the day in the corner when Chip Kelly is up there in Eugene, you know, you're likely going to win the day. They also were awesome, too.

So I don't know if it was the sayings plastered all over the day. the stadium. But when it doesn't happen and you're getting these like full access moments, you're like, all right, but like when are you going to win one of these games? All right? Can you actually win a national championship? And I know the stakes keep getting raised. It's not like they're in a bad program, but you're like, we're all kind of waiting on you, Texas. We're waiting on this moment. And then Saturday night happens. And this is why I love football. Like I love so many different sports and for very specific reasons. I talk about basketball. the reason I maybe love that one the most is that the best player can just decide at any given

moment. Like, I have to do something and take over, even though it doesn't seem like any of this is going to be easy. And like if the best players get to do that and just impose their will on everyone else, that's really kind of like what we're talking about here. But with football, it is very different in the sense that you can be getting your ass kick for almost three hours and you've got to come off to the sideline, completely frustrated, whether it's another three and out or you just gave up a touchdown or as a turnover. And you have to come back. and you have to stay in the fight. And that is not for everybody.

I mean, imagine if you were an outfielder in baseball and for an hour, let's say three innings, no one hits a ball at you. No one notices anything you're doing, right? But during those three innings of that one hour, say, gameplay, you were also getting pushed 50 times and no one cares and there's no reward and it's not going your way. Like that would be brutal when going back to the dugout being like, all right, that's sucked. And that's kind of what football is. You go out there.

Most people aren't paying attention. that's happening other than the football, and you're just getting your ass handed to you over and over and over again, and you're incredibly disappointed. I mean, even think about the start of this game. The place is on fire. Austin is ready to absolutely erupt to get revenge, to talk about this SEC Big Ten thing, which has gone the Big Ten's way here. To talk about Sark, this coach that so many people are like, yeah, you know, he's pretty good with the offense, but I don't really know if he's that guy. Meanwhile, we did the same thing to Kirby Smart. He was dumb until he wasn't. We said the same thing about Cristobal until he got to a national championship game. Ohio State fans wanted Ryan Day

fired the year he won a national championship. So we do this a lot with coaches where we're just kind of like collectively, I don't know about that guy. And then it happens and you go, all right, fine. Great. I don't know Christobal lost in the national championship game. So you come out, Bivo's there. You fire the cannon celebrities all over the place. And you first play fumble. And you're like, all right, this sucks. Hold them to a field goal. Next possession pick. you're down 10-0. Like you don't even know if you're at Ohio State's level. This test, like are we national title contenders?

Can we get revenge on Ohio State? We don't even know if we're the same as them or better because we're giving this thing away. If you're Texas and then you're coming back to the sidelines, it just continues to get worse. The first half, here are the possessions for Texas. Fumble, interception, punt, field goal. They tried to go forward and fourth down with the Wingo end around. I actually like to play a call. Ohio State stayed in their lane.

they had it covered up. Next thing, you know, Ohio State's taking over at midfield on the turnover on downs. They hit Jeremiah Smith for a touchdown. So even when it was 13-3 and you're going for that fourth down being like, hey, if it's 13-6, as bad as this first half has been, it's 13-6. Football's weird. It can look like there's a canyon between the two teams based on what you've seen play out. And you're looking at the score going, look at the NFL games that we have every single

weekend. You're like, how the fuck is this a game? And that's what Sark and that offense is thinking. They're like, we just get this fourth down, kick a field goal, man, 13-6. That doesn't seem like a correct reflection of how this game has played out. And then it doesn't happen because they score a touchdown with 10 seconds left on that last play. And now you're down 23 and they're getting the ball back. You know, like, this sucks.

And Texas still doesn't score in the third quarter. In the third quarter, I think we're talking seven plays, two punts. Like, this isn't going to happen. and Arch, I mean, it's not all on Arch. They didn't look like they could run the football, didn't look like they could defend Jeremiah Smith, saying is terrific. All these defensive guys,

15 different players drafted into the NFL, the last two years just from Ohio State's defense, and you're like, I guess they're still good? Like anybody having questions to be like, are they actually still going to be special on defense? Yeah, I guess they are. I guess it's not going to be an issue. Bo Jackson's going off,

and he's going like just right through the throats of this defensive line and lineback. group that we all like from Texas. And in the third quarter, it's still a mess. Some of the arch throws, these predetermined bubble screens that are just infecting college football, they're so predetermined. Even the quarterbacks that are supposed to be first round draft picks, I imagine when they call it, it's also like, no matter what, throw it out to them.

Like, what if we see a bulldozer coming to kill the receiver? Nope, still throw it to them. And that kept happening. You're like, these are buddy pets. He's going to get one of these guys killed. There was one throw where he actually like clutched. And like it wasn't like a pump fake. He just was late with getting it out.

And I'm like, oh, my God. And so that, all of that's happening. And then Texas gets a little momentum at that end of the third quarter. And then they score immediately because of how the clock worked fourth quarter. So it's like nice to say they had the three touchdowns. But some of that work was done in the third quarter. Texas is able to start running the football. And I don't know if it was the heat.

I don't know what it was, but it was like, hey, all right, we got the quick one there. Like, now you're going to have to keep playing defense. You can get on day's case, I guess, if you want to, of like playing not to lose. But, you know, they missed that field goal. This is entirely different conversation. Granted, that field goal would have put them up two scores. Texas scored that last touchdown 351. They may have managed the clock.

Obviously, they would have managed it a lot different if they were down two scores, but that's still asking a lot to get two scores. Like you've got to get another one. You're going to get a fourth score and even get the ball back with all of this. But the point of like the sayings and all this kind of stuff is that this win should mean everything for Texas.

Like all that stuff, it should mean something. The standard, the fight, do we have it in us? That's why I think those guys were out of their minds after the game. And I don't know what happened with the Sark interview. Apparently there was a problem at halftime. He walked away from Holly Roe. Arch wanted to get back with the rest of those guys.

I was being sent videos from dudes that were at the game, him going off. This wasn't just a win against Big Bad Ohio State. This wasn't just revenge. It wasn't just about the SEC and the Big Ten. It's about Texas and all of us that have been waiting on this moment to happen. And it's still

like, who knows? Because I'm sitting there going, when's the last time you picked a national championship game where both teams lost in week two of the college football season? And that's what it felt like for a long stretch Saturday after Oregon had lost to Oklahoma State because I had Texas over Oregon and I'm like, that doesn't happen a lot.

good shit wrong, but whoa. And look, as we know with the playoffs, all these teams after a loss would still be in it. Oregon's still in it. Ohio State's still in it. But the meaning of all of this. And I don't know that the SEC Big Ten thing matters. You know, Michigan, get Oklahoma earlier.

Hey, thanks, Mississippi State, if you're in the SEC offices on some of it. The results haven't been there. The depth is there. The results have not been there in the national championship games. Obviously, we know what's happened in the last three years. But for Texas, just for Texas, that program in Austin, on a night like that to stay in the fight. That should mean something the rest of the season

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So Rudy and Kyle are with us. How was week one for you guys? It was good. It was hectic. Yeah, I mean, you know, Kyle and I were talking before, it was like a nice brisk sort of fall feeling for the first time really here in the Northeast. And then you get a little bit too excited and you throw a sweatshirt on. You go outside on Saturday and you're like, wait a second.

It's actually still 85 degrees outside and sweat my balls off. But today's holding up. I'm feeling autumnal a.F. I mean, it really does, it smells different today. I'm not a fan catch on, but it should. Print the shirts. A tum the lay up. There you go.

So trying to get the rights from Albany. Yeah. On the COVID T-Chi. They could use a little cash flow up there. I think they wouldn't mind a little royalty thing. Not getting back to us. Yeah. It does seem like a few of those would sell,

but then I feel like it would be really big on not overstocking that on him. Yeah. You get a lot of whole inventory. It could be totally co-opted. It's just like every city has it in their gift shop, you know? Like now it's just we didn't get, we missed out on all that money because they just probably copy and paste it everywhere. Yeah, maybe the plan is just to have a bunch of super niche t-shirts and only make like

five of them. And that's our plan. So there's just super scarce. So if you see a guy. Then we'll get a bad. And then next thing you know, roll it's just turning to watches. They'll turn to watches. Like Detroit.

versus everybody and then it gets then was nantucket versus everybody and you know that's how we've gone too far yeah got a little feedback um counting down sucks confirmation bias hey fellows want to preface this by saying i love all of you guys but and the pod but uh come on counting down and set sucks i'm pretty serious lifter and i've tried on multiple occasions but counting up and just going to failure is way simpler when i count down i either grossly overestimate how much I have in the tank and don't make it or completely under smite and finish knowing I could have gone harder. Everyone I've asked about this grease and says that it sucks.

Hmm. That hurts. Have you thought about going one, two, three, four, five, five, four, three, two, one. You thought about that? Or have you been, no. What if you go zero, negative one, negative two, start dropping lower? The Kelvin method? Yeah.

Sub-zero. I'm convinced that the emails you receive praising it is just confirmation bias from the small population who it works for than they write in to tell you. I love that you think that that's what it could be. Now, you might be right, and it didn't work for you, and that's fine. But how is it confirmation bias from us and not from you? Sorry, but I can't continue to listen to this bad advice. Need to hit your egos a little bit. Love the pod, go lines.

Yeah, look, I don't know if it's, I would imagine if you're like really good and you're a serious lifter and you kind of know the range that you're in all the time. Maybe it doesn't work for you. My trainer tried it after I talked to him about it and then he came up and was like it actually worked on a couple things. It's crazy. So, you know, look, I don't think there's a lawsuit that needs to happen here. But if it doesn't work for you, it doesn't work for you. That's fine. But I think the issue that I have to have is that you're accusing us of confirmation bias from emailers emailing in saying that it's working for them and that I've suggested it's worked for me for years.

And you're in the clear, though. Does that make any sense? I'm embarrassed to say I'm not 100% clear on what confirmation bias is. I always feel stupid when I do this with like gaslighting or something, but I feel like this one you can explain in one sentence to me and we'll just move on. Is that just you're hearing what you want to hear? Here's a perfect example like in the draft where if there's a player that I like, say Scoot Henderson. And then he has the good game. I'll be like, see, I told you.

There you go. Perfect. Right. You know, if you like a player, you watch them through the lens of liking them. If you don't like a player, it also applies the same way. Like if there's a player who I already know I don't really like and then I go back and do the draft tape, I may watch them through the lens of everything that I'm seeing. I'm trying to steer towards a confirmation of what I originally thought.

Great explanation. Love that. I was kind of like 90% there, but, you know, it's one of those words you don't want to use wrong. I think you had it. Yeah. What about Occam's Razor? Windhorst's favorite. Is that the one way?

Go ahead. You explain it to everyone who doesn't know. Kyle knows. We'll do this for Sir Rudy. I think it's, isn't that the simplest solution is usually the right one? There you go. Okay. Yeah.

I didn't know it right away. It's not about that. law, everything that can go wrong will go wrong. That one I know. A little more popular. Yeah, that was, I was always on my toes with Will Kane. Because Will Kane would throw like a theory at you every now and then he'd be like, yeah.

I remember one time straight up, he's like, do you know what this means? And he saw my delay and I went, yeah. And he knew I didn't know. And that's a great co-host. Did he have mercy? Yeah, because he was like, yeah, exactly. You know to explain it to the audience. Because I just was like, I don't, this is tough.

I choked. It's tough. Yeah. All right. Um, some emails. My husband says I pull three feet instead of three sheets. When I saw that, I immediately thought, oh, hey, your husband's right. You're wrong. You sleep in the same bed. You pull the sheets off of him. I don't know when the women got together to have a meeting about this, about just, we're going to start with the sheets and then we'll have the right to vote. But I'll be, well, look how late. the women's suffrage movement was.

Like it's, there's some reminders, like that shouldn't have taken that long. That's a little ridiculous. I believe. So much work to do. I believe a woman was elected to Congress before women could vote, which is one of the most weird outliers of all time.

That's an interesting fact. I think we got a good IT on that. I wouldn't be shocked because anytime I'm reading about something and then it just, it kind of comes back. And you're like, God, tough run there. Tough run for the ladies. All right.

So female list. official stats 5-4 basketball comp lamello ball I'm definitely flash over fundamentals I have a sweatshirt with his face on it and honestly I really only watch for the halftime shows you've lost some equity with us here on that one 1917 by the way uh first woman elected to Congress so dead right there Steve there you go right I bet you there was old timers being like and that's why the Titanic went down you're like all right dad uh Okay, foil. All right.

Now I need you to help me dribble past a ridiculous argument. My husband started. He's basically become the official role referee. He recently called, so this has nothing to do with betting. He recently called me out and said I use, quote, three feet, three feet of toilet paper instead of three sheets, end quote, when I'm taking care of business. But here's the absolute kicker. Switching to this organic bamboo toilet paper was all caps bold, his idea, instead of, with normal Charmin double ply. If you've ever used the bamboo paper, you know it's thin.

Trying to use just three sheets is a high-stakes gamble. I use exactly enough to my liking because I want total protection. I like a secure comfortable barrier and anything less is just a hazard. Plus happy wife, happy life. Am I right? The best part of all this, he pretty much only handles his major business on his company's clock anyway, so he barely touches our rolls at home. He needs to put away the yardstick and just let me roll in peace. Am I being totally unreasonable? I like a thinner sheet too, and I like to double triple up. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know.

I just, I don't want to get too graphic, but I'm just saying I like it. I like the thinner. I like the thinner sheet. I think the number one thing is birthday present, Christmas present, the day seat. Here you go. Now I don't want to hear it because you complain so much. And I know dudes are a little bit hesitant. You know what I mean?

He might sit on that thing for a year before he turns it on. But the way he does, it's an absolute life changer. You have one right now? Yes. you still have to wipe your own butt afterwards right and then just well yeah if you want to be crass about it yes you do yeah geez guy but but it's i mean it's more of a drying it's like a it's like a one-two pass sort of deal if you get one i'm a nice one with the air dryer in it dude i'm a bidet noob admittedly but like how is there not also just like splashage everywhere like how is

they're not just how is it not just soaked to really clean in there yeah come on yeah it is you're saying it is i'm on her side i'm totally on her side he's not there's well yeah there it's a really personal choice i think and i don't think we should be policing you know if you ate half of the leftovers yeah we could talk about it but if we're talking we're talking to sheet numbers no and then you know this is like a roommate that never comes home going like are you really going to put that table there and you're like well you're not here yeah i would just, I would just hear it and be like, yeah, that's what I do. I don't think I'd defend myself.

Be like, that's what I do. Yeah, I've definitely been known to use too much TPA, so I can't, I can't even talk. As long as you're flushing the right amount, and there's no, you know, you're not going to call anybody. It's fine. Yeah. Good plumbing. Put some water on that thing. Although I will say my, we, you know, our daughter is in the process of being potty trained.

And so she just likes to pull and pull and pull and just have a huge old bundle in there. And. Well, that's fun. She'll be like, right, but it's like, we're talking number one here too, by the way. And she's like, well, dad, I peed a lot. And I was like, logically that does make sense. But actually, like having to explain that to her is just like, you know, it's a little bit mind-numbing. But, you know, she just grabs like half the roll, dabs it, puts it in there.

I'm like, great. Now I get the plunger out. Here we go. My niece thinks it's funny to send me pictures while she's going through it. That's awesome. Wait, post? Like, post. No, not, not that bad.

But I just told my sister, I was like, yep, she's still cute, but let's go back to the outside stuff and picking flowers and eating a cake or something. She's proud of herself, dude. She just wants to tell you, you know? Yeah, she's getting there. So we're all rooting for her. I would say like bigger picture, though, in relationships. And look, I'm not the easiest. first couple weeks because it's usually, you know, so you're like, oh, great, you're putting my fancy steak dines in the dishwasher.

Why are you putting the small spoons here? And I'm not acting like it's OCD. I think some people would just be like when you're by yourself all the time and like your stuff is where it is. And then if you're hanging out with somebody at a long time and it's significant enough that they're like feeling comfortable to do things, like that person just kind of wants to be in it. And if you're uptight about this stuff, I would, I'll know immediately like, hey, just fucking who cares which order the silverware is in? Like who can, now the steak knives, fancy steak knives and a dishwasher can be kind of a bummer. I was going to say, I'm a little bit of a dishwasher czar. Yeah, have you never had any steak knives, huh? It's known in the family. So if you have the plastic cups behind the glass ones, you're like, no, no, no. It's more about like just maximizing space, you know.

and then, you know, I A poorly loaded dishwasher will drive you up a while though. Yeah, and I also think she would mind saying, me telling this, but like my mother-in-law loves to put like just full plates of food in the dishwasher. I'm like, you just can't do that. You can't do that. Nice little aroma. There's like chunks of meat on the plate.

Like, what are we doing? Not going down the drain. Yeah. But I would say all of that stuff, all those like little things, like, oh, that's how you do the pillows or that's how you, I think the men should just, who cares? All of us should just not care. Like, let's get together and make a pact and not care.

You kind of need another guy to say that to the guy, though. You know what I mean? You can't report. The guy's doing it right now. I know. I'm saying he needs someone to step in and say it to him because like the person he's upset with, like there's a veil there that can't be broken. If his dude was like, dude, you're being fucking crazy right now.

Why don't you relax? Right. That's like, there's nothing you can say to that. You're like, right, I shouldn't be so off time. about this. I remember the first time I ever worked in a restaurant, I put a kitchen knife in the sink. And another chef came by and was like, I'll, you know, getting chefs handle stuff with, I would say very little decorum. I will fucking kill you if you ever do this again. And I went, okay, well, this seems like stakes are high on this. And it makes a lot of sense. If you can't

see a kitchen knife in murky water, yeah. In murky water. And you're sticking your hands in and grabbing a cutting board out to clean it or whatever, you're taking stuff out of the load of the dishwasher, we could have a really, really big problem. So it stayed with me. It stayed with me for a long time. And then I had it happen with somebody I was with. And I'm like, and it was the worst. I was like, so what are we doing? We're putting kitchen knives in the bottom of the sink. It was like, don't say that. I'm taking it easy on you. That guy threatened to kill me. I'm just giving you the love. And I could see she was kind of like, what? Horrified. But there's, I'll take any.

time I've ever done the kind of, okay, this is a disruption to you being by yourself all the time and then having somebody else here that's going to start moving stuff around because they don't know the program. None of us, if I went to Surrudi's house and was like tasked with doing something like that, I'm not going to do it the way he's always done it. Here's the point is none of it matters. None of it matters. And whenever I've caught myself, I'll just go, what are you doing? Who cares? It doesn't matter. And so when it comes to this, I hate when like little things like this, can plant the seed or these become really an extension of some other issue that two people are having with each other. You know, and then you're freaking out. You're like, you know, and the little

spoon should be closest to the outside because we're using them more often. The volume is so much higher. The usage rate, the big, who uses the big spoons? You know, and it's like, what are you doing? When's the last time you had soup, huh? Exactly. Yeah. Oh, Mrs. Burr, Mrs. Bone broth is here. We're all to start having bone broth all the time. Because you read about it. You heard it on a podcast. This is hit a little too close to home for me. I might need some self-reflection here.

I'm just proud of when I've caught myself going, this doesn't matter. Don't say anything. Do not care about it. Right. Like, don't care about it. All right. Maybe we help Surity a little. So she should just tell them to relax.

That's what we're saying. That's what we're saying. I think she should just keep going. I think so to fly. Or she just replace the bamboo. Be like, you're not even using it. Mr. All-Natural. Yeah.

Really, at the day, if she's, if you're not clogging the toilet, you're doing, you're doing fine. I think that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the, well, it can get a little annoying. You can get, you know. Yeah, if you're if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're, you know, calling for help in there. Yeah, I guess. Imagine Howard Hughes. He'd go through like eight rolls. You know what's, you know what sucks though is he's probably doing it as a passive aggressive

joke that's like over and over again like the three feet not three sheets like that he probably thinks that's clever as a saying for it yeah that's got a lot of time it's funny and clever that's a bummer let me try to get two more in here um little handicap talk all right this will be for sir rudy six foot 205 55 years old rowing machine Pilates lots of stretching there you go big guy doing it right i'm going to the gym today it's all stretching i'm not allowed to touch a weight also curls for the girls but can get, but can't get biceps big. Player comp Zendon Hamilton. I just warms my heart here in his name. Played hard, got some rebounds, but always maintained enthusiasm and a smile during play. Zenon was a hell of a player. Here's my dilemma. I had a rough work life. Okay, first in

retail, mostly unloading trucks and then as a UPS driver making over 200 stops a day. Finally, after 15 years, I had to come off the road due to injuries. I've had over 20. 20 surgeries through the years from a neck fusion to hip tears down to getting screws put into my foot. But the biggest problem is my knees. I've had so many knee issues that I had both replaced four times. Are you fucking? That sounds like a lot. That's both.

That's eight knee replacements. Oh, wait, wait, two on each knee. All right. That's still an insane number. All before I was 50, I can walk great on flat surfaces, but being on my feet for long periods, climbing stairs, the bane of my existence caused me problems. Running and squatting are impossible. My vertical is less than an inch. Because of this, I've had a handicap. Okay, so I thought this was on golf. This is far more serious. A handicap placard for years. I can't tell you how many

times I get dirty looks or people mumbling under their breath when I get out of my car. And yes, sometimes I board the plane early because it makes my life a little bit easier. While back, you guys said you hate when you see what that happened, especially when the person doesn't look handicapped. So what should I do? Should I stop boarding early? Maybe limp a little bit more emphatically. Should I give up my handicapped placard until I'm older and looked apart? I know it's stupid and I shouldn't care what people think, but it sucks having people think you are gaming the system. Finally, great friggin show. By the way, my wife, my wife runs a timing company that times running races. So if you ever want to know someone's 5K marathon, etc., times any good, we can tell you.

All right, we'll keep that. All right. So this is far more serious. I'll tell you right now. I get it because you're not that old and you're walking. You're going to get it. the dirty looks. I might even give you a dirty look at some point. But what I know you are not is somebody who struggles with portion control because we had a portion control queen the other day taking up a spot. And you were like, you're fine. You just, you know, I'll leave it. I'll leave it at that. So, man, I mean, it would suck to have to get a T-shirt that just said I've had four knee replacements. I know. Should there just be like levels, you know, but maybe they should you color code them just based on like severity just so you know, you know, like I know.

So the Karens are aware. Right. Like I'm a low. I'm a grade one like it's not I have some trouble with my knees, whatever. You just know it's like a low level situation. So that okay. And then there's like, okay, yeah, this guy's full on quadriplegic like he has whatever highest level is. Like that just feels like it should be done. I want to say. I feel for this guy. I feel bad for him. Right. Like none of us are saying he shouldn't have it. Right. But initially I was like to go totally flipped me. Like you totally flipped me. I don't remember saying that. It sounds like something I would say, I'm sorry.

I remember, and I just remembered like, shocker, like growing up with guys that like, when they first started to drive and it's like, I just grabbed my grandmother's placard and like, yeah, we're good right here. We're good right there. Like, it's like, a lot of times it wasn't them. It was like someone in their family that they like borrowed this

from or something, you know? You know, grandfather's dead. We still got the thing. As long as they don't notice the, you know, the expiration date on it. or this one's good for a while. Like I just, I've seen so much abuse of it. I think I'm still going to think that way,

even though I feel bad when I think that way about you. But I don't think you should have to worry about it. I don't think, I think you earned that placard. Yeah, but it's still not going to make you feel good. He's still going to like, he's still going to get looks.

I know. It feels like he's doing the right thing. You do get a parking spot. I think that might just be charged in the game. I'm saying, do you buy, do you buy a cane? Like,

you just like, and you only use it in public places. You know? I don't think he should have to do that. Do you buy a cane is the best advice question in a long time? You know, just so, just so like you do kind of need it. Like you said, you're one inch vertical, like your knees hurt, like walking around. Like maybe it's not the way.

And it's not like, I don't think that that's fully stolen valor. And it also lets people know in public that, okay, yeah, like here's this. And then you feel better about yourself. Like I know you shouldn't have to do that, but I think it will make you feel better. Were you a member of a union or something? You'd get a sticker and be like, that guy probably did some work. You know what I mean? that's probably just a long life of working hard, you know?

Yeah, or maybe you buy that, you know, buy the U.S. Open hat that I have that looks like the stolen Bauer hat. You just wear something like that around so people get kind of confused and think that you might have served. That's crazy. I actually thought, you know, I was thinking when he was in the beginning of the email, I was like, man, you know, I did miss those early morning truck unloads at Models. But by the end of the email, I was like, nope, never mind.

I don't know. Sometimes I think like, I think the solo guys have it harder. this guy proved it wrong I think but like sometimes I'm like you know we're just like delivering packages like I'll just listen to podcasts all day like I know it's a little taxing on your body I like driving personally I don't really mind it I always have a debate with my wife yeah but some people who are a hundred pounds of cat litter delivered and the old lady's like just bring it inside inside please yeah then I'm like two hours in I'm like okay this is probably not the fun job I thought it might be but I also like to be by myself so it's like hey I was just in the car all day by yourself you know it could be kind of not that that's the thing like I was saying like Models there was like three guys with for their different departments, like getting shit off and figuring out where it goes. Like, that guy is solo. And whatever is in his truck is in his truck. And he's just got to get it done. And some people are ordering, you know, pollen spring water bottles, you know, with

five gallons. Like, people order insane shit now to their house because they actually don't want to go to the store and bring it in. And maybe UPS isn't where it comes. But, I mean, those Amazon guys are bringing all sorts of shit. I mean, silly things. Like, you should just go get this yourself. And there's too many Amazon stories, but there's like move the drill situations when

somebody falls down at a factory in your life, wait a second, we're supposed to keep working today, what's going on here? So, I don't know. I'm probably disproving my own. It's not a dream job, but just I thought about it. All right, we'll see. It's nice to think about stuff. Maybe you get an application into this guy. Things get real south quick. I just see too many people where you go. I've always, as you said, Kyle, like, I'm shocked when there's somebody that I would know that would be like, oh, I've got a placard. I'm like, you're just okay with, and they, their processes, is once I obtain this, someone in the family or anyone has it. It's just for all of us.

It's for all of us. Like, what's wrong with you? And I'm like, oh, so I'm wrong. I don't understand it. And you've had real stuff. And so I think it's a bit like when you're in the midst of a dilemma, knowing that you're actually right during the dilemma. And for this, this isn't probably an everyday thing for you.

Like, just be at peace on the idea that I know I'm right. and I'm deserving of this and anybody that wants to look at me. I mean, you don't want to start going down at strangers. I've had four. You got something to say. Stop look. Yeah, right. Because if the guy's big, you're probably not going to be able to run away from them.

All right. Let's see. That's so long. God, that's so long. A good one, yeah. We need a quick one. That's a book. 510, 185.

solid dad bod, never lifted to get bigger, just stay in shape. It started to get after a little bit more this year and get the bench up to 205 for the first time. My neighbor broke my lawnmower, and my question is, how awkward do I make it? We moved in her house five years ago, two daughters, both five. A couple across the street has a girl the same age. Girls have become friends and play together often. That part's going to make this breakup tough. My wife has become friends with the mother, let's call her Carmen, and they get together often for social events. Carmen's husband, let's call him Taylor's a little different for me. And we've always been friendly, but I'm good with the wave in the 30-second meaningless conversation from across the street for us.

A few weeks ago, Carmen asked my wife if they could borrow our push mower because theirs was broken. I came, I come home for lunch and see Taylor mowing their yard with our mower, no big deal. When I go to leave my house, our mower is in the driveway. And when I start to push it in the garage, I notice something's wrong with it. It's hard to push. And when I look more, the part that raises and lowers the blade is, he said he could use a fugging here, cracked in half. I looked at the yard and half of it is skull. It's beyond obvious that it broke while Taylor was using it.

My wife asked Carmen about it and her husband said nothing happened and it wasn't broke when he returned. I get stuck with a $180 repair bill plus $40 to pay the kid down the street to mow our yard while it's in the shop. I now refuse to interact with Taylor. Recently our families were all out at the same place together. I kept my distance from the group. I told my wife I'm done with Taylor unless he admits to it makes it right. She said that makes it awkward for her because of her friendship with Carmen, but she knows I'm right. It looks like this guy's going to be in my life for a while.

So where do I go from here? If the table's returned, I would have owned up to it immediately offered to pay for repairs for context. Both families have nice houses. Good job. So $180 isn't going to cause this financial trouble. The mower is only two years old and a quality brand. He has a feedback thing in there. We're just going to keep it moving.

I think the great thing about this is you already didn't like him. And it was pretty clear you weren't going to become friends. and now the girls can keep playing, the wives can do whatever, but you have an awesome out. Like this, you think it's bad because he's going to be in your life for a while, but now you have a reason to never hang out with somebody you didn't want to hang out with in the first place. So it cost you $220 total. Yeah, the little Bronx tail thing right there. There you go. There you go.

Yeah, it's a bummer. Exactly. I think it's a bummer when you find out, especially when you're like a dad in a neighborhood with other families. Like some people just aren't built like that. They're not built up. they're not built to own up to something that's even like so small. You know what I mean? They're just not.

And you think most people are. And then you come across the guy's like, he's really not going to admit. This is insane. This is insane. And I can tell him my reasonings. Real quick, do you think more people are like this guy or more people are like?

Oh, man. What do you think that is? It's like the, I think sometimes you don't know until they're faced with like something out of the ordinary. Like they're good. Like they have just enough spine for their day to day. And if anything weird happens, though, he's a fucking wildcard.

Like, you know what I mean? No, but I'm talking like if we went, I don't know. I don't know. Let's just keep it to Americans. So what are we looking at? Like 160, 170 men. Okay. Take out the kids.

So you think it's 50-50? Do you think it's actually like 90-10? It's not 90-10. That would own up to it. That are just willing to do the right thing. Yeah, this is like the shopping cart theory. It's probably 70-30. Are you a person who returns to shop?

shopping car or your person who just leaves it in a parking spot to piss somebody else off later. And I think most people think that they would be the person who returns the parking, the shopping car. I certainly am. I am too. I'm madman. I don't want to be on that show. I like to believe in the better good.

I think it's the majority of people. I'd say 70, 30. But the 30 are real good at camouflage against the 70, you know, until like something happens. And then you have to see that they're the part of the 30. I hope so, buddy. I hope so. All right. Thanks, Tom, Kevin, Kyle, and Surrity. All of our episodes available on Netflix, subscribe to the show, Ryan McSillo's show, Arstool Sports. Chew.