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NFL Week 2 Recap 2026 | Biggest Upsets, OT Drama & Takeaways · Banter with the Boys

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Get laced up. Let's go. It's time for Banter
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with the boys. Yo, what is going on? Welcome
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back to Banter with the boys. Oh, you just got
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way you want to go. Horns up. That makes sense.
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Right on. Did I say that this is Gridiron Updates?
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Well, you just did. Oh, there it is. That's what
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you're listening to right now, currently. I am
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your host, Smelty, which I also always forget
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to do that. I never introduce myself. Hi, Smelty.
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To my Larry. Oh, what's up? To my Larry's co
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-host, Jake. That's right. The Ravens fan. That's
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right. Flock Nation. Flock. Flock, yeah. And
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next to me on the other side is Roberto. Our
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other co -host who's been here now three seasons.
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This is three. Three. We haven't even mentioned
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that yet. Either way, it's been a fun ride. There
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it is. And then Kev behind the cameras, of course,
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getting everything done for us as always. So,
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yeah, without further ado, we might as well head
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right into it, into our game one recap where
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the Lions traveled to the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo.
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Buck -Buckalo? They circled the wagons. Yeah,
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they did. The Bills? They did. Right on. Yeah,
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getting the dub 41 -31. Up 21 -0 early. And that
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always feels tough to come back from, you know.
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Yeah, the score looks closer, but I feel like
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this game was never close. Agreed. And the Lions
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got off schedule so early in that game, you know.
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And Jameer Gibbs at least rushing the ball. Didn't
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quite have it going on. But, of course, he was
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active in the pass game like he always is. Sorry,
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I'm just going with it here. No, not at all.
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Explain the game. In coach's eyes. Now, would
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you guys, you know what? And we had a really
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great practice today, so I feel really good.
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Oh, that's great. Right, right. But, you know,
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if you were down 21 -0, Jake, do you immediately
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get off schedule? I mean, that was, what, mid
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-second quarter or something? Were they down
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21 -0? Like, are you hitting the panic button?
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No, I'm not going to try to hit the panic button
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right then, especially when you know that you're
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as explosive of an offense as you are like the
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Lions that can, in theory, score points in buckets,
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and all you need is a stop or maybe two stops,
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and then you're right back in it. So, no, you
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don't want to get off schedule at that point.
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If it was 28 -0, is that when you start hucking
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the ball? Yeah, you're probably at that point.
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Huck them, chuck them. Right on. Well, they made
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it 21 -7. They started feeling a little bit of
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something for them. And then they gave it up
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right away again in 27 -7, you know, in 27 -10
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half. I mean, that's tough. Yeah, I mean, I viewed
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this game. They got behind quick and early. But
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the Lions, their offense is kind of up and chuck
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it anyways. It's not like they're not really
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changing what they do. probably past 10 15 a
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little bit more i think but there was a point
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when i was 31 21 i think i text the group i'm
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like well if they get a stop here it was 30 if
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you know finishing score was 31 up uh 44 -31
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was my prediction. But they didn't get that stop.
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Buffalo went down and scored, and then that was
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kind of the end of it. I don't think they did
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much after that. I think I just kind of checked
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out. Buffalo offense did a really good job of
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responding with a touchdown every time the Lions
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scored just to keep that cushion. They got it
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down to 10, and that was the closest they got.
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Amon Ra had a great game. He sure did. I think
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just... the way that the game played out. Helps.
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As a fantasy, sometimes you want to draft that
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like New Orleans like this year with Chris Alavi,
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you're like, oh, they're probably going to be
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down a bunch and they're going to be chucking
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the ball everywhere. So that's interesting you
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bring that up. in our preview show. So don't
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forget to, uh, watch that for our, what would
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that be? Week three preview. Um, we actually,
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we actually talked about the giants and I want
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to bring up Malik neighbors in the fantasy aspect.
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Now that some things have changed for them and
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your thoughts on that. But anyway, not going
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down that road yet. Um, let's see, who do the,
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who do the lions got next week? They got the
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Jets, who just took the Packers to OT this week.
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They were up on the Packers. Packers had a comeback
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on that game. Right. How do you feel about the
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Lions' chances in that game? It's a home game
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for the Lions, at least. I like that. I like
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it a lot, actually. I like it. Four of the Lions,
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you like it? Six and a half, Vegas likes it.
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They get to be home. They were playing in...
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I mean, it's a new Highmark Stadium, so first
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home game, that place was absolutely loud and
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electric. And they got down 21 real quick. I
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mean, they played a pretty clean game. No turnovers,
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right? No turnovers for either team. We've seen
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that a lot this year already. There's a lot of
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games that have no turnovers. I actually love
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that, but not for defense. I mean, other than
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Caleb Williams. Don't worry, we'll talk plenty
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about Caleb. Well, that was early. That doesn't
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count. Before we move on from these boys, because
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we're not talking about the Bills in the week
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three preview and picks, the Bills play the Chargers.
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It looks like another home game for them. Dang,
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what the heck? Bills have three home games in
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a row. Home against, obviously, the Lions and
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then Chargers Patriots. Interesting. Bills are
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going to be 3 -0. Yeah, Bills are going to be
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3 -0. Chargers, they have a gauntlet for like
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six games after. We can talk about that later.
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Herbert came out and said straight up he's not
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worried about it. Everybody's freaking out. He's
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like, he didn't pull the relax, but, you know,
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he's like, ah, he's not worried about it. The
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problem is their schedule doesn't relax. Yeah,
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right, right. All right, let's just move on here
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to the second game. Okay, I'll have to update
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picks next week because. Your boy didn't do that
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this week. Dom went undefeated. Due to circumstances.
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Dom is undefeated. So if you listened to last
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week, Dom. I went 1 -3. I'll just be. I think
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I went 2 -2. I think I went 2 -2 or 1 -3. I only
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got Bills right. Wasn't great. Wasn't great.
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But freaking Dom is 8 -0. What's the story on
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Dom's picks? Yeah. He said text it to me. Well,
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we need a live chat. Remember we talked about
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doing that? Oh, yeah. We were going to do that
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so you can talk to me because that worked well.
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Yeah, should I pull up the old book face? Yeah.
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Okay. Which we're on. Good thing we're live right
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now. Yeah, go follow our Facebook, by the way.
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Wow, we are off base here right now. No, it's
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good. Where are we at next game? Smelty's just
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pulling up Facebook here. Okay, Bengals at Texans.
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There we go. Is our next game that we covered.
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Bengals getting the win, 20 -6. Did you guys
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see CJ Stroud's passing attempts? 55? I'm not
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feeling good for the Texans right now. At least
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that offense. We were screaming all last year,
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you need a run game, you need a run game. And
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they went out and got Montgomery. And he got
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Woody Marks. Right. And Woody's not bad. And
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they still couldn't run the ball. And there were
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times during that game where it felt like it
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wasn't a Texans home game. Like, you could hear
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Bengals fans. Like, any time T. Higgins got a
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catch, it was like, T. And you're just like,
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no. And the Bengals are playing well right now.
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And Dexter Lawrence in the middle has changed
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that defense. Literally. All their defensive
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signings have been huge, actually. It's a whole
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different Bengals right now. If they stay healthy
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in that offense. I watched them 22 on. Well,
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I watched them. You watched a lot of 22 this
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week. We'll talk about that later. I watched
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the Bucks and Bengals week one. So I got to see
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just how Burrow gets rid of the ball so quick.
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He's so efficient. But, yeah. Nico Collins, he's.
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Their offense is completely different. We saw
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it last year, how they struggled. And their defense
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had to carry them most of last year. And the
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Bengals have enough weapons to really counter
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against that. Because, like I said, Burrow gets
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rid of the ball so fast, those ends and stuff
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don't have a chance to put him a lot of pressure.
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I mean, they still got after Burrow. He even
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put his rib back into place. Yeah, but I mean,
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ultimately, it really wasn't enough. I had one
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other thought about this. The old bangles? Well,
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I mean, there was the T. Higgins first touch,
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or not T. Higgins, Jamar Chase's first touchdown
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catch. Oh, my gosh. Amazing. That was elite,
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elite. And then anybody that did have the opportunity
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to watch the televised broadcast. I love listening
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to Kevin Harlan do play -by -play. I do, too.
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I mean, like, living in Minnesota, obviously
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we have a different affinity for it because he
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used to do play -by -play for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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I don't care. Yeah. But, yeah, just, like, something
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about when Kevin Harlan's doing play -by -play.
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Okay. But because we don't cover the Sunday night
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game, right? No. Like freaking Collinsworth.
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He had this way. There is a play where sauce
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Gardner tried to one hand this thing. And of
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course, he's glazing my homes at the same time.
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But but they're watching the replay slow and
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you can just see sauce almost grab it. And Collinsworth
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is just like. Sauce! I'm just like, dude, what?
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God, he's so cringy, dude. Oh, my gosh. And now
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he makes jokes about the memes on air all the
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time. He's like, oh, you can use that one for
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your memes. He didn't say that after sauce. I
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mean, quickly, my main problem was he'll glaze
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one guy, one play, and then two plays later,
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he'd be like, yeah, he's been struggling most
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of the year. Just completely opposite of his
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take. I mean, to be fair. If we watch back. all
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of our episodes from last year. I wonder how
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many contradictions we had. At least they're
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a week apart. They're not a minute apart. That's
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fair. Anyway, we don't cover the Texans, so they're
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0 -2 right now. 0 -2 at home. Also, by the way,
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both games. Now they go on the road to play the
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Colts. Not feeling great about that for them
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right now, to be honest with you. No, not at
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all. Nico's probably not playing. I got them
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in fantasy, so I've been staring at it. And the
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Colts just went toe -to -toe with the Kansas
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City Chiefs. Yeah, literally. Yeah, that was
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a great game. So, okay, I don't want to talk
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about it. We'll talk about it before this episode
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ends. Remind me, the Colts game. I want to ask
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you guys a question. Okay. Bengals travel to
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the Steelers next week, just real quick. That's
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winnable for them at this point. The Steelers'
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offense looks abysmal. Aaron Rodgers looks old
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currently. Very. All right, third game. Third
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game. Who was it? Ooh. Ouch. Ouch. Before we
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get Jake's opinion, Roberto, Saints beating the
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Ravens 24 -17. That's something I think any of
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us saw in the pod other than Dom. Other than
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Dom. You heard me, Dom. He was very confident
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in the Saints, and they showed why. It was, I
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mean, I all 22'd this one just because I didn't
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get to see it live, so I had to watch it. And
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it was a really interesting game. I mean, kind
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of a tale of two halves, really. Baltimore started
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off decent, and then the second half, it was
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really interesting, the long play drives. That
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game had two ridiculous ones. The Ravens had
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one that was like 14 plays for 37 yards in a
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two to seven minutes, like 43 seconds, like a
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whole half of a quarter. So that was kind of
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the difference of the game. In the first half,
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there was a scenario like that on a drive, too,
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I think the Ravens had. And New Orleans just
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hung around, hung around. A lot of A played real
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nice. And Baltimore, I mean, they got some back
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-end issues, I would definitely say, after watching
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that. Linebackers, Smith gets caught a little
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bit. He's more of that run stopper. I mean, they
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were working. And who's the other linebacker
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there at Baltimore that kind of runs their nickel?
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It might be, well, it should be Buchanan, but
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he was out this past week. Second half, Henry,
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there was a third and one. I was like, why are
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you not giving King here? And then they put it
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in. That changed the game, really, in there.
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And New Orleans, congratulations. I mean, they're
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QB in New Orleans. Tyler, how do you say it?
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Shook. Shook. Is it shook or is it shuck? I think
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it's shook. Shook. Well, he shook the flock,
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and they all left the barn. We'll call him Tyler.
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There you go. I know, but for the algorithm,
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we got to get the laugh. Tyler Shook. Tyler Shook.
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There we go. We got them both. Should be straight.
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Jake, give us your feelings here. What about
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your feelings? I want to hear yours. Oh, you
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want to hear mine? Yeah, you're more important
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on this game. I got feelings for the next game.
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Okay. All right. That's fair. For everyone that's
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been listening over the past year and a half
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now, you know that. It's Derrick Henry. We want
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to make sure that Derrick Henry gets touches
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20 plus 16 carries and three receptions. That's
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not 20 plus the third and one play Rob that you
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mentioned. It's like in my mind, I'm like, that's
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a Derrick Henry. That's a Derrick Henry down.
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In distance? Did they throw deep, too? Yes, they
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did. And listening to post -game, they said that
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they liked the look that they got, and so they
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went for it. And I'm like, okay, fine, whatever.
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It's a third and one and it's like Derek. It
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would be like, hey, Eagles, you have a third
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and one. Are you going to tush push this or are
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you going to like, or well, maybe that's a terrible
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example because they'll tush push it on fourth
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and one. But anyway, the Eagles would take their
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shot. Anyway, I digress. But it's a down in distance
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for Derek Henry. And so I didn't like that. The
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last play, well, the last play of the game. And
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you're on your own 37. I just, yeah, sorry. The
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Lamar Jackson's interception is like only blemish.
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Was that deep pass? When I watched that. At the
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end of the game. Yeah, at the end of the game.
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I'm just like, did Bateman run the wrong route?
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Or did Lamar read it wrong and throw the ball
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to the wrong spot? And what I was interpreting
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from all of the interviews is that Bateman ran
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the correct route, but Lamar was trying to make
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something happen. Yeah. I thought he overthrew
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him after watching it. And I got a little frustrated
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with that. I'm like, come on, Lamar. You have
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to be better than that. The amount of yards that
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the secondary Ravens secondary gave up worries
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me, especially with how the Bengals are looking
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offensively. So thinking future like Jamar Chase
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and T Higgins already have historically given
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the Ravens fits. Start them in fantasy this week.
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So so I've got the I've got those worries. And
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again, Ravens blew another fourth quarter lead.
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uh, at home. So that story continues that we
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have. I heard some people online talking about
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the same old hardball. Those things, those things
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haven't, those things haven't gone away. Uh,
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and I know a lot of people have had conversations
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about the, uh, that fourth and goal play where,
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uh, towards the end of the game where Chuck gets
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in to put them up 24, 17, whether or not he did
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or didn't get in. To me, replay shows, I don't
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think that he got in. But also, Roquan Smith
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had an egregious face mask on that we got away
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with. That's true. Look at the integrity of a
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fan. I love it. For the rest of you on the internet,
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follow Jake. Literally. But it's just like, okay,
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cool, we got away with one. And we had time still
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left on the clock, and we were driving. So it
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wasn't like, oh, my gosh. lost with like two
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seconds left on this one play. We had plenty
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of time to drive and score, and I still felt
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good about it. But penalties, poor special teams
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play at the end of the first half. We just scored,
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and then we gave up the long kickoff return that
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put them in field goal range, and they got three
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before the end of the half. So three phases of
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football, need more Derrick Henry, play smarter,
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less penalties. It's just I'm expecting a turnaround
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next week. Okay. All right. Against the Bengals.
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Don't worry. We'll talk about them. We'll talk
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about them in the preview and picks episode.
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Do not forget to watch that or listen to it wherever
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you listen to the banter. But what was I about
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to say about this? Oh, what impressed me, at
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least for the Saints, was that final drive of
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being able to take the clock from 8 .14 down
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to a minute 20. I mean, a minute 20 should still
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be enough time for Lamar Jackson and company.
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Don't get me wrong. But that was still impressive
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to see from a young quarterback be able to manage
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that situation. He doesn't look young. He looks
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confident. He's going through all the multiple
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reads. I want to get a Saints fan on here. If
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you're a fan of the Saints, the Titans, the Giants,
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or something, or the Commanders. Sorry, I didn't
18:51
mean to laugh. Local here to Banter with the
18:53
Boys. Hit us up and message us on Bookface so
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we can get you on the show. I'd like to hear
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from some of you guys, actually. Sorry, a little
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tangent. Yeah. Who's the Saints got next week?
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Because we'll talk about the old Ravens. The
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Saints go home. Again, tough place to play. First
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home game of the season for the Saints. That
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place is going to be rocking after beating the
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Ravens, too, and they got the Raiders at home.
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The streaking Raiders right now with a hot Kirk
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Cousins. That's actually a great game. Yeah,
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that's a sneaky great game. 325 CBS. Don't miss
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it. All right. Final game to recap should be
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Skull. No. All right. We're good. All right.
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We're good. Because it was only 9 -3. 9 -3 in
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the torrential downpour the entire game, though.
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Vikes get the dub and move to 2 -0. Nobody saw
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it coming. Somebody said the weather was going
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to be impactful. I mean, I had the weather report
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like a week out. That's right. I said, rain's
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coming down. Carson Wentz does just enough to
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get the Vikings by the Bears. Kyler Murray to
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start week three. We'll talk about that in the
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preview show as well. Was it Carson Wentz doing
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enough or was it Aaron Jones? Aaron Jones carried
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him on his back. Yeah, Aaron Jones carried literally
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and figuratively. Hey, he had over 20 carries.
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Yeah. Interesting. He clips to over 100 yards.
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Buckle five. Yeah. That's right. Obviously, the
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big thing. Coming from this game, though, is,
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well, okay. So, actually, let's talk about that
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was supposed to be tackle out of bounds. The
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lead hit out of bounds. Yeah, I mean, that's
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pretty bad. We agreed before the show, unless
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you were going to say something differently.
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I mean, no, we all agreed. How did they miss
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that? But, yeah. Yeah, so that one was bad. How
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do you feel about the final play of the game?
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Did you feel Dallas Turner's? Sack was a little
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too high, a little too close to the head, and
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now old Tyson is, how do you say his last name?
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Bajent. Bajent. Tyson Bajent. There you go, AI.
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For the reals. He is concussed. He's concussed.
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He's in concussion protocol. Actually, I think
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he got concussed on the play before. Okay, okay.
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He was rolling outside, and he threw it somewhere
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in the corner towards the pylon, and it was Van
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Ginkle that got him. I saw a couple of Bear fans
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pointing out that play. You know, like everyone
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on the Internet. You know my view. If you're
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wearing a football jersey, it's a football game.
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I don't like any of those penalties. Just thank
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God Case Keenum didn't have to come in for the
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final play and do some... do us bad unless it's
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like I mean like oh my god I mean if they're
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just coming in full spear like obviously that's
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a penalty like you could tell I think there's
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a difference between trying to hurt somebody
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versus yeah just trying to get them to the ground
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you know like it's a big play the Dallas Turner
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was in back there all you know like I don't see
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that as a aggressive like I'm trying to hurt
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you play you know it's like hey I'm trying to
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get you to the ground and win the game you know
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but taking shots up high yeah that's you know
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that's where i think it can be or you know down
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low on purpose you know like oh i'm just gonna
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take out his knees you know some of those, you
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know, I think those are, you know, intent, you
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know, and I feel like we talked about that with
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penalties last week that I think the intent,
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I think that is part of the, what if a flag gets
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thrown? Yeah. The one thing I will say about
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the bears, at least offensively as a team, they
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still are up over a hundred yards. Yeah. Caleb
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was contributing, you know, 40 of those yards,
22:29
but even just the two running backs for nearly
22:31
a hundred yards. So I still feel that's a positive.
22:34
If you can take a positive away from it, they're
22:37
still able to run the ball. against the brian
22:39
flores defense not in the first half no but they
22:42
were but they were chipping away and we saw one
22:45
drive in the third quarter that kind of changed
22:47
the numbers but i mean overall if i'm the running
22:50
backs coach i'm not like yeah we we got them
22:53
no well no but if you could take anything away
22:56
we didn't kill we i don't play for the leggings
22:59
i hate that i know um but The Vikings didn't
23:03
kill the Bears, you know what I mean? No, for
23:04
sure we didn't. But they almost gave it away.
23:07
Yeah, because, I mean, DeAndre Swift had that
23:10
great punch out, that fumble at the goal line.
23:14
Great man by Redman. Yeah. Pro bowler. We're
23:17
calling it. Perfect punch. Perfect punch. I mean,
23:20
that was really good. But it was also. With the
23:24
game as close as it was, up until Caleb Williams
23:27
got hurt, to me it felt like the Bears weren't
23:29
out of it. It was just like, it's going to be
23:31
like, all Caleb needs is one big play, and then...
23:35
And he was about to make it, possibly. I was
23:38
nervous. I'm not going to lie. I was getting
23:39
nervous. As soon as he went down, I actually...
23:42
I actually, like, felt bad for him immediately.
23:44
I was like, no, man. And just for Bears fans,
23:48
I don't know. I want Caleb Williams in the game.
23:50
It's a fair shake, man. I know people are like,
23:52
man, he was crying leaving the field and crap
23:55
and blah, blah, blah. But if you look, Caleb
23:57
Williams has played a lot of football and rarely
23:59
misses for, like, a big injury. So I'm just trying
24:02
to think of, like, the mentality maybe that he
24:04
was in. You know, maybe he did think the season
24:07
was over for him, you know, if he's never. strained
24:09
a hammy to that level but then walking out of
24:11
the stadium is a bad look after getting carted
24:13
off i understand but i've obviously i've not
24:17
played football like in school or anything any
24:22
way shape or form like that so i don't i can't
24:24
speak to like what he's feeling or how he was
24:28
feeling in the moment and i'm sure it was warranted
24:31
but i also can't help but think it's just like
24:34
it We saw it. We see so many soft tissue injuries
24:39
now where somebody comes up lame real quick and
24:42
you're just, like, fearing the worst. Yeah, yeah.
24:43
And, yeah, I'm thankful for the Bears. That it's
24:48
only a hammy. That it's only a hammy. I do, too,
24:50
for the league. It's just more exciting. But
24:52
it's just, but also, to some extent, I'm, like,
24:55
you overreacting here a little bit because you
24:58
should know the difference. maybe you should
25:01
know the difference between pulling your hamstring
25:03
versus your Achilles going pop. Yeah. Right.
25:05
You would think, but if you've never done it.
25:07
But again, you would think that if your Achilles
25:09
pops, oh, you know. You know. Yeah. And that's
25:12
what I think we all feared was that it was possibly
25:15
an Achilles or something. Then when it came out,
25:17
it was a hamstring. They didn't say what. So
25:19
it was like, so did he tear it or something insane?
25:21
Yeah. So he's still going to miss some time,
25:23
but. Obviously, they need that guy back. He kind
25:26
of is the Chicago Bears, to be honest. That's
25:30
definitely. But after just watching the film,
25:32
he does a lot of the things against the Vikings
25:38
this week. He just doesn't take wins. It's got
25:42
to be 10, 15, 20 yards. He just constantly wants
25:45
that. And there's so many times that the little
25:48
checkdowns and stuff. The big play. He's always
25:50
looking for the big play. Overall, I'm very impressed
25:53
with Brian Flores on just his scheming, just
25:56
watching it. There were so many times where he
25:59
would set it up where it was a one -on -one.
26:03
versus one of our Deans, like the last play of
26:06
Dallas Turner. He was up against Loveland on
26:09
that play. He was really good at isolating scenarios
26:12
where it was our Dean versus running back or
26:15
tight end. And we got a ton of pressure even
26:17
when we went four. Because what was our blip
26:19
percentage? It was drastically down from last
26:21
week. It was not 80%. Yeah, it was like 30. I
26:23
think it was close to 50. It was 50, but like
26:26
just watching it on tape, it didn't seem like,
26:28
oh, they're coming, they're coming, they're coming.
26:30
Yeah, he gave them a lot of... looks but like
26:33
constantly dropped it yeah it was a ton of drop
26:35
in so i and And that Williams has got to take
26:38
some three yarders, you know, and then let his
26:40
guy make a play like that was what I dress. I'm
26:43
like, oh, he would like trust your teammate a
26:46
little bit. That's where you get Loveland on
26:48
a little chip. And then he flares and take that
26:51
four or five yarder and lived, lived in the play
26:53
another day. They got, they had a ton of penalties.
26:56
So that's a really self -inflicted Caleb on the
27:00
interception. I mean, he was trying to make a
27:02
play because they weren't doing anything in that
27:05
first half. Vikings just survived. Jones played
27:09
nice. Wentz missed a couple throws, too. It was
27:16
a good scrappy W. We'll take it without our starter
27:19
in right now. Especially because it's the road
27:22
one against the Bears, too. We're happy with
27:26
that. Stacking Ws in the beginning of the season.
27:29
Bears, that's the beginning of a Bears three
27:31
-game homestand. They play the Eagles next week.
27:36
How are you feeling? Case Keenum led Bears against
27:38
the Eagles. Case Keenum revenge game. That's
27:41
what I mean. Who knows? You know what I mean?
27:43
I don't know. I think I don't feel good for the
27:48
Bears. No. That Eagles defense is playing really
27:52
well. Saquon. And, well, I don't think they necessarily
27:58
need him. I agree with you. They've got tanks
28:03
still. Yeah, and Jalen Hurts is slinging the
28:06
ball around really great still, too. He's playing
28:10
really well right now, actually. Their offense
28:13
isn't very flashy right now, and I talked about
28:17
that kind of in the preseason conversation where
28:20
it's like Eagles fans want to see a flashy Eagles
28:22
offense, and it's not flashy right now. They
28:25
played down to the Titans. Right on. turnover
28:31
right away and then they scored off it and just
28:33
kind of changed the whole vibe kept them in the
28:35
game right away you know uh all right so before
28:39
we're going to talk about the vikes way more
28:41
we always do every week turns out um but before
28:43
we close this episode out i had a bunch of crap
28:46
i wanted to mention i'm going to mention none
28:47
of it colts um yeah that's the one i wanted to
28:50
bring up so laquan treadwell's catch so i'm kind
28:55
of glad that they kept that As a catch and down?
28:58
Yes. Because the same thing. No, not long, maybe.
29:03
But the script. No, but because the week prior
29:08
we saw an Aaron Jones run for like 35 or 40 yards.
29:12
But he stumbled through the line. And as he's
29:15
stumbling on his own, he got touched in the shoulder
29:18
by a finger. It was a finger. And because his
29:22
knee hit the ground right there, that finger,
29:24
he's down by contact. So I was at least glad
29:28
that they counted that as a catch, and I wanted
29:31
the Chiefs to lose. But I was at least glad that
29:32
they counted that as a catch. Keep it the same.
29:37
The one semblance of consistency in the officiating
29:40
so far over the two weeks. Take the W's where
29:45
you can. As a defensive mind, does suck because
29:49
there's another perfect peanut punch right after
29:51
that. Perfect. And if you're Treadwell, just
29:54
stay down, man. But instead of getting back up
29:57
trying to fight for one extra yard, it's not
29:59
worth it. Okay, okay, I got to mention one other
30:02
thing. Okay, Eagles win in Nashville for the
30:04
first time in 35 years, and the turf was 157
30:07
degrees. So players are again bringing up, oh,
30:10
just another example as to why they need to be
30:12
on grass rather than turf. It's like this turf
30:15
controversy will never go away, but cleats were
30:18
melting. They were literally using the players'
30:21
drinking water to, like, wet down the cleats.
30:24
And they were steaming. It was just insane. It
30:26
was just insane. Yeah. Anyway, I could keep going,
30:30
but I'm not. So we should probably end the show.
30:32
Kev had a little tidbit here that I wanted to
30:35
mention. So we mentioned Dom went four and four
30:38
in week one. So Kev, being the smart guy that
30:42
he is, decided to copy Dom's week two picks and
30:46
bet 15 bucks on prize picks teams and ended up
30:51
winning 476. Yes, sir. He sent Dom some cash
30:59
as well. Right on. Give him a finder's fee. Yeah,
31:02
right. Finder's fee, 100%. So there you go, Dom.
31:05
You keep picking, I guess. You and Kev got a
31:07
thing going on. But maybe, Dom, you got to get
31:11
your percentage up with the winnings. Anyway,
31:13
but no, that was hilarious. So don't worry. We'll
31:15
mention that in the preview and picks episode
31:17
in case nobody listens to this one. Especially
31:20
towards the end. Yeah. Right, right, right, right.
31:24
When the Vikings come on, click. Yeah. Which
31:26
I understand. I get it. But all right. Well,
31:29
thanks for being here, Roberto. Yeah, buddy.
31:31
It's time for more football. Football. Football.
31:34
Football. All right. Week three. Jake, flock
31:36
yeah? Flock yeah. Hopefully this week. Yeah.
31:39
Next week. Feeling good. No, this week. This
31:41
current episode. Yeah. Week three. No flock.
31:44
But yeah, week three. What do you mean no? Good
31:45
flock. Bad flock. Week two, bad flock. Yeah,
31:48
bad flock. Week three, good flock. Good flock.
31:49
Yeah. Yeah. A lot of flocking. Kev, Europe. Yeah.
31:55
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