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NFL Week 7 reactions/ Top 5 NFC & AFC teams plus Week 7 MVP ladder · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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  Three two one. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back to another episode
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  of the so called Sports Analyst. This is episode number seventeen. Josh,
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  how you doing today? I'm doing good man. Can't wait to get into
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  what we saw this week. Yes, sir, Yes, sir, it
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  was a great week. But before we get started, you guys could follow
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  Podcast, and Amazon Music. But we had a great weekend of sports and
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  we're gonna go ahead and get straight into it. This Monday night football game,
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  it was the San Francisco forty nine Ers who were upset by the Minnesota
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  Vikings twenty two to seventeen. Josh, what is your opinion on this game?
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  Right here? The forty nine Ers drop another game and get upset the
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  Vikings up to play today. Kirk Cousins balled out thirty five for forty five
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  three seventy eight, two touchdowns in an interception, but that wasn't the main
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  story. The main story to me was the rookie Jordan Addison coming into his
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  own today being the number one receiver seven for one, twenty three and two.
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  Tutters Dog. Yeah no, Jordan Addison, he he's saved me in
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  a couple of fantasy leagues. But my biggest takeaway from this game was Rock
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  Purty. When Brock Purdy he does not have the super team the Avengers around
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  him, he looks human. What did you think about Brock Purdy's performance today?
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  I think it was a little on and off. It wasn't a normal
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  rock party game that we usually see. He went twenty one for thirty two
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  seventy two, a touchdown and two interceptions. I mean he was he wasn't
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  a bad at throwing the ball today. Twenty one for thirty isn't something to
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  like laugh at or anything. But the two interceptions is what really hurt this
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  team, especially the one at the end where you need a where you're taking
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  a shot when you should be like kind of trying to score more efficiently.
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  But all in all, games like this happened. He didn't have deepos Stanol,
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  but he had pretty much every other weapon out there. It was just
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  an off day for the forty nine ers in general. Yeah, no,
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  it it definitely was an off day. And one thing that I don't know
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  if it's just me, but I don't think the defense has been playing.
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  I know they only gave up twenty two points or two field goals in the
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  second half, which is pretty good, but I feel like their defense hasn't
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  been playing as dominant as they were the first five games. Do you think
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  this is a sign of things to come or do you think it's just like
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  two outlier games where they've just been injured. I think last week versus the
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  Browns might have been an outlier game just due to like the defensive battle that
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  was happening on both sides. It was a very low scoring game. We
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  only saw one touchdown from each side, something like that, or I think
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  the Browns might have scored too. But this week the Vikings, the Vikings
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  are a really good offense. I've been saying that even without Justin Jefferson,
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  they still are a pretty good offense. The Vikings offense isn't the problem for
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  their team. It's usually their defense. We saw that with them spreading the
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  ball between Addison Powell and kJ Osborne and Kirk Cousins has done this, just
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  did what he did all year, which is distribute the football. He once
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  again went above forty passing attempts for the game, it was just an offense.
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  It was just a Vikings team playing better than the Niners today. Yeah,
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  and the Vikings they went from being dead after being ozero and three and
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  now they're three and four, and now they have the Packers, the Falcons,
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  the Saints, Broncos and Bears and Raiders coming up, which it looks
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  like they could go from being oh in three to possibly be in nine to
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  four. So you think the Vikings they can end up making the playoffs right
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  here after this big game. I think they can. They're just gonna have
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  to go in a little run because they still have the lines on the division,
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  so they're gonna have to get that wildcard of wildcard spots and that's gonna
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  be a race between a couple teams. But the Vikings, just like last
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  year, there's a lot of one score games that they're in. So most
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  of the time this year they've been in it. It's not in turnovers.
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  I felt them. They're just limited turnovers and they're gonna win football games.
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  And they get Justin Jefferson back in three to five weeks. Yeah, No,
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  it's gonna be if if they can do what they did tonight. It
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  could be looking pretty scary. But all right, let's go in and get
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  into this Sunday night football game, which was one of the most anticipated games
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  of this week. It was a Philadelphia Eagles versus the Miami Dolphins, in
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  which the Eagles pulled away late winn thirty one to seventeen. What what did
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  you take away from this game right here, Josh, I think we saw
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  the Dolphins defense get exposed. I've been trying to tell people that this Dolphins
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  defense is going to be the detriment of this football team, and it showed.
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  It showed last night on Sunday when they played the Eagles. Jalen Hurst
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  had one of his better games of the year. They ran the ball with
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  DeAndre swept pretty efficiently, and they got aj Brown and Dallas got her involved
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  pretty heavily in the passing game, and the Dolphins had no answers for it.
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  On defense. They started the game pretty even, but then when he
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  got to the second half, the Eagles just became too much. With AJ
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  Brown going ten for one to thirty seven a touchdown. Jalen Hurts twenty three
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  for thirty one to seventy nine two touchdowns, one interception, but he still
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  had twenty one yards rushing. And you know, the Brotherly show is going
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  to get you in the end zone. Everyone's a game, probably every I
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  was gonna say every once in a while, but it's maybe one or two
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  times a game. It's gonna get him in the end zone. And I
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  And as for the Dolphins, Jason Garrett said something that surprised me before the
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  game, and I even texted you about it. How they've only their opponents
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  combined for five and twenty four and so they faced a really good team today
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  and last night, and it showed. Yeah, and the biggest thing.
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  And like you said last week, I'll give props to you. When we
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  were doing our predictions, you said the Eagles physicality was gonna mess up the
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  Dolphins rhythm. And that's exactly what you could see. And even though after
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  that that pick six that Jalen Hurts through, even though it was seventeen seventeen,
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  I still had no doubt in my mind really that the Eagles were gonna
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  win this ball game. It was just a matter of was this gonna be
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  pushed late into the fourth quarter or were they gonna or were they gonna blow
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  away this game in which they ended up blowing away this game right here.
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  And so this Eagles football team, as far as defensively, they've been playing
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  pretty good. It's just a problem for me as far as winner. When
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  are the turnovers gonna end up catching up to Jalen Hurts because that pick six
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  put the Dolphins back into the game. Not saying that we're gonna win,
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  but they put it, put it back into the game. And then the
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  fumble early on if the Dolphins cash in. Do you think that the Jalen
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  Hurts turnovers, which he leads the league in turnovers with Desmond Ritter, do
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  you think it's gonna eventually cost them down the road or do you think it's
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  just just a bad year for Jalen Hurts. I don't think it will cost
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  them too much. But it's not like a Josh Allen thing where how we
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  see Josh Allen turn over the ball and it cost his team. It's because
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  I think the Eagles have more weapons than the Bills have weapons, if that
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  makes sense. Because the Eagles still have Davontae Spent, they still have a
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  j Brown, they still have now they have Deandres with Miles Sanders was a
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  good back this year. But Deandres Love is looking like what people thought he
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  was going to be coming out of coming out of Georgia, and Dallas Goddard
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  is coming into his own the last three weeks, so I think. And
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  the defense is getting better, especially with the acquisition of Kevin Bayer today,
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  even though I've been giving him a lot of crap this year. It's not
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  entirely his fault yep. But and then Darius Slay's finally healthy, James Bradbury
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  finally came back healthy. All they need is a Vonte Maddocks to come back,
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  and defense is going to be at full strength. And their D line
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  is their D line. Everyone knows what it brings. So I don't I'm
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  not gonna say it necessarily will catch up to them because they have the tools
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  to be able to fix the problem. Mm hmm. Yeah. And so
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  I think that this was not necessarily a must win game for the Eagles,
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  because, yeah, it was an important game because Commanders, they always give
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  the Eagles a tough fight. Then you have the Cowboys, the Chiefs,
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  the Bills, the Niners, and then you have the Cowboys again and the
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  Seahawks. So you need to get your wins where they're gonna be tough wins.
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  So just props to the Eagles for taking care of business. I want
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  to say about the Dolphins real quick. You know how I said the physicality.
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  Is it the first game that the Dolphins played where they punched them in
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  the mouth every single play. This run game that the Dolphins had let the
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  NFL, it was leading the NFL in rushing yards. But that's because there
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  was a lot of It was a lot of outside zone runs. There was
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  a lot of stretches, a lot of pitches. But the Eagles defensive line
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  got to the backfield fast and hit Raheem Moster before he could even get past
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  the line of scrimmage most of the time. And it just it really made
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  this offense turn towards the passing game a lot, and it led to pigs
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  and it led to pass breakups. It was just a tough game for the
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  Dolphins. Yeah. No, And and they're gonna be playing more physical teams
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  down the road. So we're gonna see if this is just a rock in
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  the road and they end up bouncing back from it. But all right,
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  we're gonna get into this next game. The three o'clock games. We're gonna
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  go ahead and talk about your team, Josh, the Kansas City Chiefs.
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  They won in which their offense looked back finally and they won thirty one to
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  seventeen. I know you you're gonna have a bunch of takeaways from this game,
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  because I know you're the Chiefs fan here. But what is the biggest
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  thing that you took away from this game? The biggest takeaway I have is
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  sure we can see the offense, but once again, they defense comes to
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  my mind. The defense is something that Patrick Mahomes has been kind of struggling
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  to have his whole career, and now he finally has it. And the
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  Chiefs are averaging a total of are only allowing fourteen points per game to opponents,
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  and they only allowed seventeen in this game. And outside of two really
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  big plays, the Chiefs really held the Chargers and checked the entire game,
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  especially with the return of Charles E. Menuhu and Drew Tranquil playing his older
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  team. These are two signings that Chie's had in this game. Charles Menuhu
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  first game back from suspension, two tackles, one stack, one tackle for
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  loss, one pass deflected, which led to an interception in the red zone
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  by la Jerious Need and two quarterback hits while Drew Tranquil came in for an
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  injured Nick Bolton and took over the play calling. Had two solo tackles,
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  one important sack at the end of the game when Justin Herbert was trying to
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  make something happen for his team, one pass breakup when it was a vertical
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  steam to the tight end it got over him. He put his hand up,
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  broke up the pass, kind of in at the drive right then,
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  and one quarterback hit. And that's what that's my biggest takeaway is the defense
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  continues to ball for this Kansas City Chiefs team. Yeah, And like I
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  said last week, I said, I want the It's not necessarily that I
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  don't believe in the Chiefs. I just want them to continue doing this against
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  good offenses, and they're continuing to do that. You could arguably say just
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  talent alone, this is at worst the top ten offense from the Chargers,
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  and with the play caller they got in Kellen Moore, who's been leading the
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  top scoring offense for the Cowboys for the past three years. So this isn't
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  just an easy offense. Even though Mike Williams is out, you still have
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  Austin Eckler, Keenan Allen, and Gerald Everett. What were you going to
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  say? Oh, I was gonna say, you can see Kellen Moore in
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  this offense, hope quite a bit with the big plays that they tried getting
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  and the fast tempo. Yeah, yeah, no, I definitely got used
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  to that. But all right with that offense right there. Do you think
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  that this is signs to come for the Kansas City offense or do you think
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  this was just a blip in the road. I think it's uh. I
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  think it's for signs of what's to come. We expect Patrick Mahomes to figure
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  it out. We expect Andy Reid to figure out and that they did it
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  in this game. The Chargers have a pretty good have a good defense.
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  I'm not gonna say they have a great defense or like, because they do
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  give up points. But in this game, Patrick Mahomes looked like vintage Patrick
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  Mahomes thirty two of forty two four and twenty four yards, four touchdowns of
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  wondering the stepsons and he had some some some some yards with his legs four
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  for twenty nine and they were on big third down conversions in this game,
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  Travis Kelsey looked like Travis Kelsey always does, twelve for one, seventy nine
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  and a touchdown. It kind of hurt me a little bit seeing him catch
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  that big old, big old pass where he was about to go to the
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  end zone. Two two years ago, he would have housed that, he
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  would have hurdled, He would have hurdled him, he would have made a
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  move. But you could just kind of see him like, oh, I'm
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  going, I'm going, I'm going, just like they got me up the
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  floor. They got me at the floor. And then and then we see
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  it NBS game every seven games, and today and it was the day for
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  NBS to go crazy three for eighty four in a touchdown. And then but
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  Rashid Rice continues to establish him stuff in this offense sixty five percent snapshare of
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  the highest that he's had this year, five for sixty and a touchdown.
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  But not only is the like catches where he's he's just catching deep passes,
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  he's making it happen for himself. As soon as he catches the ball,
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  he's gone like he's running through people. He's trying to make something happen with
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  his legs. And that's what I like to see from something. It's a
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  bright spot, and that we've seen it's a bright spot so far this year
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  in Rashid Rice. Yeah, yeah, and Rashid Rice, like what it's
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  like the things that we're talking about last week. It's starting to pop back
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  up or pop into fruition. But if Rashid Rice he could continue to do
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  this, just be just the number two receiver because obviously Kelsey is the number
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  one. If he could do this, it opens up in Yes, it
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  opens up skymore Kadarius Tony, and then you're gonna still get Nicole Hardman back
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  in the mix. So this is looking like the old Chiefs offense with a
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  brand new defense that's making this team a little scary, not a little scary,
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  very scary. But we're gonna get into rankings a little bit later.
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  I don't want to. Yeah, I'll argue later. Yeah, all right,
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  let's go ahead and get into this other three o'clock game. It was
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  the Denver Broncos versus the Green Bay Packers, in which the Broncos they ended
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  up winning nineteen to seventeen. I know this was an ugly game, right,
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  here. But what was your takeaways from this game? Josh? But
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  let's get started. The Broncos did not impress me too much in this game.
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  They've just been doing what they've been doing all year, you know.
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  But the but the Green Bay Packers with Jordan Love. Jordan Love started this
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  season the first two games looking like, oh, like he's the next coming
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  of a Packers great quarterback. You know, you go from far Star,
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  you go to Brett far If, you go to Aaron Rodgers, and Jordan
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  Love was the next guy those first two games when he was bawling and no
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  one can say he wasn't balling. And then then you fast forward the next
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  four games and it flips the script he started. He started the first two
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  games six touchdowns, zero picks, last four games, four touchdowns, seven
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  interceptions. I just want to know what's going on. In the preseason,
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  he was making all the right choices, hitting everybody where they needed to be.
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  First two games, doing the same thing. These last couple of games.
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  He's forcing a lot of footballs. He's throwing balls late, he's he's
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  making he's making interceptions happen that shouldn't be happening. If he hits those targets
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  earlier in the route, then these interceptions are eliminated. But he just keeps
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  hurting the team so far in these last couple of games. Yeah, and
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  at the end of the day, I think even though he's in his fifth
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  year if I'm right, fourth or fifth year if I'm right, this is
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  still his rookie year. And those first two games, I think we overreacted,
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  like you were saying, just as far as oh, the next great
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  quarterback, but it takes a little bit to get film on him. The
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  defenses they realize his weakness and so now he's playing like a rookie. This
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  is his rookie season, and he's gonna He has the talent. The talent
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  is there, there's nothing that's really missing. I just think he just needs
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  to figure it out. And at the end of the day, no matter
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  how long you sit and you're in the NFL, you have to play football
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  games. You have to get that experience. And Man for the Packers,
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  they look like from those first two games possibly winning the division again and holding
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  realm over the NFC North to possibly be and last in the division after the
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  Bears are winning. So do you think this is signs to come for the
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  Packers. I don't see the Packers probably improving. I think they win a
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  I think they win at least seven games maybe. But Christian Watson looks like
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  he's not gonna be here for the next couple of weeks. Again, Like
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  he got rolled up pretty bad on one play where they was an incomplete pass
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  and they rolled up on his knee. And he's had a history of knee
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  problems in his college to NFL career, so that's just something to monitor.
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  So they're gonna be without their number one receiver again, Let's see who can
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  step up. They look pretty good when Romeo Dobbs and Jaden Reed were in
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  the mix, so let's see if they can bounce back. And plus Aaron
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  Jones was getting eased into this offense. AJ Dillon led the way this week,
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  but that's not going to be the case going forward. So let's just
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  see what the Packers are made of as the season progresses. Yeah, well,
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  we'll see. There's definitely more time to come. Jordan Love, he
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  could he could degres or degress or improve. But as far as from the
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  Broncos perspective right here, like you mentioned a little bit earlier, as far
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  as it's just the same thing that you're seeing with the Broncos. Do you
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  think that this is I know, Russell Wilson, he just signed that big
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  contra right there, but I believe after this year you can cut him and
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  then you could which would create sixty million dollars in dead cap, and you
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  can make it thirty million dollars for each year the following two years. Do
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  you think that Russell Wilson's going to be gone after this year? I don't
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  see him in Sean Payton's clicking still. He's just too tough to tell with
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  that big contract if he's still going to be here. I do see him
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  being here, probably for another year, just to write it out. But
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  what we were expecting is like a high powered offense, especially last year,
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  but even this year, even more with Sean Payton. He just hasn't happened.
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  Man. Russell Wilson won ninety four for a touchdown. That's just not
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  going to get it done in the NFL. He should know this. He's
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  a Super Bowl champion, He's been a part of great teams. And then
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  he's not like they don't have weapons like Davonte Williams, a little mcgaughlin and
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  Sama J. P Rounn. That's a pretty good backfield. Sure it's a
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  committee, but it's a good backfield. And then Cam Sutton and Jerry Judy
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  are those scrubs. Cam's done, I think is the number one in my
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  opinion there, Jerry jd just hasn't really put it together. And Steve Smith's
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  words, I guess, but I think I think they made Yeah, just
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  the jag, but I think they're just probably putting them out there for Trade
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  Bay right now. And the Broncos are just gonna squeak bodies next couple of
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  weeks. But they have the Chiefs next week, so it's just gonna be
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  another rough one. Yeah. I was about to say, if any team
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  Patrick mahomes in the AFC West, it's definitely the Broncos. Yeah. Yeah,
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  But all right, let's get into this other three o'clock game. It
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  was the Seattle Seahawks versus the Arizona Cardinals, in which the Seattle Seahawks won
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  twenty to ten, in which the Seahawks defense proved to be dominant in this
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  game. What was your biggest takeaway from this game? The Cardinals continue to
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  play people hard, They continue to stay in the games, I the defense
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  played really well today, but I just want to harp on Kenneth Walker for
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  a little bit. Man. Kenneth Walker has been bawling this year. He's
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  looked like the number one back without questioning this offense, even with the acquisition
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  of Zach Starbagnet in the draft. So that's just my biggest takeaway yesterday.
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  He didn't even get into the end zone like he had for the last For
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  the last five games before this, he got into the end zone every game.
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  This one he didn't, but he still had twenty six carries for one
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  oh five. That's that's a good day. They really stole down the game
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  with him, and I think I see them continuing to do that. But
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  one other thing I want to talk about is these Brookie wide receivers for the
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  Seattle Seahawks. With DK Metcalf throwing down and Tyler Lockett just being just having
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  an okay day, JSN really stepped up. Jackson's been in Jiggbo for those
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  that don't know, four for sixty three in a touchdown, but with one
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  guy that really impressed me, Jake Bobo to the other rookie catch four catches
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  sixty one yards and that amazing touchdown. Man, he looked like prime Dez
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  Bryant with that catch. I don't know, but he did. I said,
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  with that cat looked like at the whole game, but with that cat,
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  they looked crazy. That that catch was insane. Man, I didn't
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  think he got it in, but the replay showed they didn't. Just just
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  a good game from those two, Yeah, no, it definitely was.
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  And one thing, I know you talked about the offense, but I'm gonna
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  talk about this defense here. This defense is I'm not gonna okay, I'm
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  not trying to overreact here, but ever since that Monday night football game against
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  the Giants. Yes, I know it was the Giants offensive line, but
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  this defense has been dominant. Even against the Cincinnati Bengals before their bye week.
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  They look dominant in this game right here. They had four sacks and
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  six tackle for losses, eight pass deflections and eight QB hits. This is
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  something where and they have they have a bunch of young players on the team
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  right here, they are going to be a force to be reckon with,
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  and they could. I wouldn't be surprised if they're playing at the way they're
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  at the way they're playing right now. They can end up finishing as a
• 22:04
  top three defense. And you have the secondary there. You have uh Devon
• 22:10
  Witherspoon, who's potentially defensive rookie of the Year. Then you have Tariq Woollen,
• 22:15
  who's just a ballhawking cornerback, Quandre Diggs. You have Jamal Adams back.
• 22:21
  You have Bobby Wagner, Julian Bryan, Yeah, Kobe Bryant. You
• 22:25
  just have a bunch of people on the on this defense right here where it
• 22:30
  looks like I'm okay, I'm not trying to overreact right here where it looks
• 22:33
  like shades of Legion of Boom right here, and just the physicality that they're
• 22:37
  bringing back. They may not have like the star name as far as other
• 22:44
  than Bobby Wagner, but he's a little bit older. They might may not
• 22:47
  have the star names, but they're starting to put it together and it may
• 22:52
  be scary for every other NFC team. And after San Francisco looked, I
• 22:56
  think Seattle they have a real shot for this division. What do you think?
• 23:00
  I completely agree with you. The Seahawks have been consistently in my top
• 23:04
  six, your top five in my power rankings since the Week one just put
• 23:07
  what I've seen. Even though their defense the first couple of weeks wasn't balling,
• 23:11
  they've been bald. Yeah, but I think Devin Witherspoon coming back has
• 23:15
  added another lockdown receiver. I'm not saying Freak Willing is completely locked down.
• 23:19
  He takes a lot of chances, but he but he has the speed to
• 23:22
  do it. But Devon Witherspoon can do everything. He can blit. He
• 23:26
  can guard the linebacker. He can I mean he can the linebacker, he
• 23:29
  can guard the tight end, he can guard the outside receiver. He can
• 23:30
  guard in the slot. We saw Oh my gosh, bro I just muted
• 23:34
  this my bad, Okay. He can guard the slot and then he can
• 23:40
  guard outside, guard inside, And we saw him work with Rondell Moore.
• 23:42
  Rondel Moore is a pretty one of the best lot receivers in the NFL.
• 23:45
  He's pretty shifty, he's fast. We saw him blow him up twice yesterday,
• 23:49
  blow him up, like absolutely obliterate him. Yeah. So with that
• 23:53
  acquisition coming in, that's what you expect from your number five overall pick.
• 23:56
  But as for everyone else, Jamal Adams is is getting healthier. He's finally
• 24:00
  gonna make his way back. Kandrey Diggs is a savvy veteran, and we
• 24:04
  got Chrake Wolland on the other side. It's shades of the Legion of Boom
• 24:07
  there. I think this may be outside of As for corner wise, I'm
• 24:12
  not saying those Safeties together and Legion of Boom were just like on another level
• 24:17
  man, But yeah, yeah, yeah, but we might have the reincarnation
• 24:19
  of Brandon Brown and Richard Sherman without the penalties and a little bit more athleticisms.
• 24:26
  Yeah, they're the modern day version of what or shades of Legion of
• 24:33
  Boom. Yeah. No, we're not trying to overreact here. But as
• 24:36
  far as from the cardinal's perspective, so those big news that came out in
• 24:38
  the middle of the week. As far as Kyler Murray, he's aiming to
• 24:41
  be back by week nine, week ten, which as soon which is in
• 24:45
  the next two three weeks right here. Do you think that they should play
• 24:49
  Kyler Murray and potentially use him as trade bait because I know there's been rumors
• 24:55
  as far as for trading him, or should they sit him out for the
• 24:57
  rest of the season and let them get healthy. What do you think that's
• 25:03
  a risky thing to do because the trade deadline is in two weeks, so
• 25:07
  they're not gonna able to move him in because he's injured. But if you
• 25:08
  bring him back and he gets injured again, there goes all your trade bait
• 25:11
  and you're sitting with another with a contract on the table. I say you
• 25:14
  sit him for the rest of the season, let him get healthy, maybe
• 25:17
  shop him around if nothing, if you don't get a really great offer that
• 25:19
  you like, then he'll have him healthy for the next season. Yeah.
• 25:23
  But as far as obviously I'm not talking about as far as trading him right
• 25:27
  now, but as far as him playing out the rest of this season and
• 25:30
  potentially trading him, just basically trying to up his value, if that makes
• 25:36
  sense. Because they have a tough schedule. They got the Ravens, Browns,
• 25:40
  Falcons, Texans, Rams, Steelers, Niners, Bears, Eagles,
• 25:44
  Seahawks, so they don't have a tough or easy schedule. I think that
• 25:48
  they'll probably win like three or four games at most, but just try to
• 25:52
  make Kyler Murray look better and just up his stock if that makes sense,
• 25:56
  I know, but I just think it's risky. Man, if he gets
• 26:00
  hurt again, there's no trade value there, Like, he's just gonna be
• 26:04
  another guy sitting at the end of your bench that you that you product,
• 26:08
  that you went out there knowing that the season's basically over and he's your star
• 26:12
  quarterback. Impossibly the biggest trade value of the offseason when it comes around and
• 26:18
  he's hurt again. It just wouldn't help this team out, I think in
• 26:19
  the long run if something like that happens. Yeah, no, I get
• 26:25
  that right there. But all right, let's go ahead and get into the
• 26:26
  last three o'clock game of the day. It was the Pittsburgh Steelers versus the
• 26:33
  Los Angeles Rams, in which the Steelers go to four and two and they
• 26:37
  win twenty four to seventeen after coming back in the fourth quarter scoring fourteen unanswered
• 26:44
  points. What is your biggest takeaway from this game right here? I think
• 26:48
  we're seeing the Steelers offense open up a little bit more, especially since Deontay
• 26:52
  Johnson has come back. We're seeing can you pick it, he looked a
• 26:56
  little bit more comfortable yesterday. He seventeen for twenty five in two thirty and
• 27:02
  we saw George Pickens get involved with big plays, and we saw Deontay Johnson
• 27:06
  get involved with big plays. So that's that's good signs to come. It's
• 27:11
  good signs for things to come. Especially with the defenses you have to play
• 27:15
  on that division, you're gonna need big plays to score. You have the
• 27:17
  Ravens, you have the Bengals, and you have the Browns, which all
• 27:19
  are very good against the past. So you're gonna need You're gonna need big
• 27:22
  players from your receivers and from your quarterback. And as for the running backs
• 27:26
  with the Steelers, we're still steing a committee between Jalen Warren and Nausey kind
• 27:30
  of the the yin and the yang, the power and the speed. So
• 27:33
  that's I think that's that's a good that they're working both in to get both
• 27:37
  their abilities in the right moments. That's that's my biggest takeaway. The offense
• 27:41
  opening up for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah, and this looks like classic Pittsburgh
• 27:47
  Steelers football. And as far as with Mike Tomlin, especially him coming off
• 27:52
  of bye, it's just he has his team so well coached and prepared and
• 27:56
  just how they are. They play great defense, and they score when they
• 28:00
  need to score. Like you were saying, their offense, they were three
• 28:03
  for three in the red zone, so they cashed in when they needed to.
• 28:07
  And like you said, Canny Pickett, he looked comfortable. And it
• 28:11
  just puts pressure off of George Pickens. When Deontay Johnson is there, he
• 28:15
  doesn't have to face the number one cornerback. So just just as Steelers team
• 28:21
  they continue to be every single year, year in and year out, just
• 28:25
  be that tough, hard nosed team that gets stuff done. And as far
• 28:30
  as from the Rams side, they look very good early in this game.
• 28:36
  I believe they went up fourteen to ten, I believe if I'm not mistaken,
• 28:41
  and it looked like they were having some things clicking. And now you're
• 28:47
  gonna face a somewhat tougher part of your schedule. You got the Cowboys and
• 28:51
  the Seahawks soon, then the Browns, Ravens Commanders, and then you have
• 28:56
  the Niners a little bit later. So do you think that there's still a
• 29:00
  viable contender to make the playoffs? We're talking about the Rams, right,
• 29:10
  Yes, we're talking about the Rams. Yeah, because they're both in the
• 29:12
  same boat, I feel like. So that's why I was kind of like
• 29:17
  with the Rams, it's well only because the Stillers division is so stacked,
• 29:21
  so it's gonna get a little close towards the end. But with the Rams,
• 29:26
  they can't be losing games like this. They can't be losing close games.
• 29:30
  It's just they have the Seahawks and the Niners in their division, so
• 29:34
  it's a it's gonna be tough road going forward. They still got to play
• 29:38
  them, and then the running game, I want to see a little bit
• 29:42
  more. We had Kyrie Williams playing really good. They played kind of a
• 29:45
  committee with Royce Freeman and Darryl Henderson Junior. So I just want to see
• 29:51
  if one of them can take a step forward. And we need bigger production
• 29:52
  from Cooper Cup. Every we're gonna have it. This is an outlier game
• 29:56
  for him, but every other game where he dropped two passes at the beginn
• 30:00
  the game, which is uncommon for Cooper Cup. So it's it's like when
• 30:03
  you see him get involved a little bit more and they'll they'll win games.
• 30:07
  But I'm not ready to put them anymore into like that that like, oh,
• 30:12
  they're probably going to be fighting. I want to see them win games
• 30:15
  because they're now with the losing record. Yeah, but all right, let's
• 30:21
  go ahead and get into these twelve o'clock games. The first game we're going
• 30:25
  to get into is that Atlanta Falcons versus the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and which the
• 30:30
  Falcons won off a game winning field goal fifty one yard or sixteen to thirteen,
• 30:37
  in which the Falcons now lead the NFC South. What is your biggest
• 30:41
  takeaways from this game? The Falcons also lead the NFL and wasted first round
• 30:47
  picks. Now I'm just kidding. It's the d John Robinson. It's kind
• 30:53
  of messed up that they did this to me. You know, I have
• 30:56
  them in two fantasy leagues and I still won both of them. But it
• 31:00
  would have helped to be able to submend my other guys who had twenty seven
• 31:03
  on my bench, you know. But but with Jon, it would have
• 31:07
  took a little less to look at. Would have took a little bit a
• 31:11
  stress off of me. But as for Jon, they announced that he had
• 31:15
  migraines going into the game, so but they could have Yeah, I have
• 31:18
  time, they announced it, but they could have did that at the beginning
• 31:21
  of the game because a lot of us were really confused about what was going
• 31:23
  on. That he did not get a single snap in the first quarter.
• 31:27
  People thought he was getting punished or something. But like Bjon's like one the
• 31:30
  most stand up guys you could possibly like watch or listen to, so it
• 31:34
  kind of confused me. But the they really opened up the passing games the
• 31:41
  past couple of weeks, which is surprising to say. For the Atlanta Falcons.
• 31:45
  Desmond Ritter is looking okay. I'm not saying he's looking good or great.
• 31:48
  Nineteen for twenty five, two fifty six rushers for thirty eight yards in
• 31:52
  a touchdown, but he also had three fumbles. His turnover rate is insane.
• 31:57
  I don't know how you can turn the ball as much as he does.
• 32:00
  But if they clean that up, they're going to have a pretty solid
• 32:04
  team going forward. They already do have a solid team, but it's going
• 32:07
  to be even better if he can clean up the turnovers. Yeah, it's
• 32:10
  not necessarily for the Falcons as far as them moving the ball down the field.
• 32:15
  I don't know what it is with Desmond Ritter. I don't know if
• 32:19
  he just likes turning the ball over. Yeah, it's just nonchalant. So
• 32:24
  the first one, I think he was trying to hand off the ball to
• 32:28
  Alsier and he just fumbled the snap. He just fumbled the snap and then
• 32:31
  the Bucks they get it. And then the other one he was running to
• 32:37
  the end zone. It was a bootleg and then he slows down and then
• 32:39
  the defender punches it out. I think it was Antoine Winfield. And not
• 32:44
  even to mention, didn't he have an interception? Oh no, he didn't
• 32:47
  have an interception. No, no, I'm not sorry. I'm o'b used
• 32:52
  to him having an interception all the time. Yeah, yeah, no.
• 32:57
  And another thing that I want to talk about, underdog, they had a
• 33:00
  half a yard special going on for Bijon Robinson. All I'm just saying is
• 33:05
  maybe they knew the script before something he had Yeah three yards Hey yeah,
• 33:10
  yeah, that's true. But that was with twenty four seconds left, I
• 33:15
  believe, right, something like they ran straight into be Vedo with the Migraine.
• 33:19
  So did it makes sense? Yeah? Yeah, no, I have
• 33:22
  no clue. But they have the talent on the team. They have the
• 33:25
  defense, they have the weapons, they have the offensive line. They just
• 33:30
  don't have the quarterback and the head coach in my opinion. But as far
• 33:35
  as from the Buccaneers, you're three and three and it looks like Baker Mayfield.
• 33:38
  He's kind of falling back down to Earth twenty seven for forty two two
• 33:42
  seventy five yards a touchdown to pick forty five point three QBR. Do you
• 33:47
  think that the Bucks they are still playoff contenders? I know they're five hundred
• 33:52
  right now, but what do you think I think, in my opinion,
• 33:58
  they have a chance they have outside Their division isn't looking too separated right now.
• 34:04
  Saints, Falcons, Panthers come on like they're all right there that they
• 34:07
  all basically have losing records except for the Falcons, so they're all still They're
• 34:13
  still in contention as they were last year where they were one of the one
• 34:15
  seven and six is still make the playoffs. So it's just going to be
• 34:19
  a really close division, a really close division. They still have a chance.
• 34:23
  But as for like the problems, I don't think it's Baker's fault.
• 34:28
  I think we call the games in the trenches. They are not winning the
• 34:32
  run game, they are not establishing a run game. I think this is
• 34:36
  something they're missing without Leonard Fournette. At the beginning of the season, I
• 34:38
  thought Rastad White was the answer because last year he looked really good as the
• 34:42
  backup role this year without Leonard Fournette and Ristard White kind of taking a step.
• 34:46
  He already had efficiency problems running the ball, but it's showing in these
• 34:52
  games. Thirteen for thirty four with your starting running back isn't going to get
• 34:54
  the job done. Sure, he's really great in the passing game, but
• 34:58
  you need to establish a run. If teams can drop safeties back, if
• 35:02
  they can do this and take away the pass, then there's going to be
• 35:06
  a tough for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers going forward. Baker Mayfield through forty two
• 35:08
  passes in this game. That should not be happening. They should be able
• 35:12
  to limit that and bring the running game for it. This this offensive line
• 35:15
  isn't looking like how they were looking when the when they won the Super Bowl,
• 35:19
  and even which was Tristan Wirch one of the best tackles in the NFL.
• 35:22
  It just they need to establish a run game and this will be a
• 35:25
  good football team. Yeah, and they have the talent all around. They
• 35:30
  have Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, vide Veo Levante, David Devin White.
• 35:35
  But there's still plenty of time for them to pick it up. They still
• 35:37
  have plenty of football left. But all right, they're still in the mix.
• 35:40
  Let's go it. Yeah, they're still in the mix. But all
• 35:44
  right, let's go ahead and get into another twelve o'clock game. And what
• 35:47
  two was the Chicago Bears who upset? Well, it was supposed to be,
• 35:54
  well, this was an upset, but then it turned into a blowout
• 35:57
  in which nobody expected. And the Bears one thirty to twelve, and Tyson
• 36:01
  bagging I believe I said his name right, they end up winning in dominant
• 36:07
  fashion. What is your biggest takeaway from this game? I think the Bears
• 36:13
  are going to go on to run and make the playoffs with taste engaging at
• 36:15
  the helm. No, I'm just kidding. They probably just won't drave kill
• 36:20
  Williams anymore because they found him already in the in there from Sheppard University Division
• 36:24
  two level. But in all seriousness, it was a good showing for him.
• 36:29
  I was watching the rewatching the game, and he had a lot of
• 36:34
  dink and dunks, a lot of outside throws that were very high what's the
• 36:37
  word I'm looking for, high percentage? Yeah, high percentage throws. He
• 36:42
  was making a lot of high percentage throws that wouldn't get him in trouble,
• 36:45
  which is a pretty good game plan for them going forward. And I think
• 36:47
  people the Bears did it and the Panthers have done it. They have slept
• 36:52
  on Beyonce Foreman as a running back. He continues every time he gets a
• 36:57
  starting job to show that he should be a started in the NFL for some
• 37:00
  reason. Sixteen for eighty nine, two touchdowns, three catches for thirty one
• 37:06
  yards and a touchdown. Three touchdowns in total for the day. That's gonna
• 37:08
  help your Division two backup rookie quarterback look really good and give take a lot
• 37:15
  of weight off his shoulders. And I think that's what really happened. The
• 37:19
  Raiders didn't show up on offense. They switched between Brian Hoyer and Adie O'Connell
• 37:22
  during the game. They continue to not be able to establish an efficient running
• 37:25
  game, and it's just gonna it's just a tough game for the Raiders and
• 37:30
  a really great game for the Bears. Yeah, and the only game that
• 37:35
  the Raiders were expected to win this year, they ended up. They all
• 37:39
  just remembered, Bro, they just they just messed up. My eliminator challenge,
• 37:44
  dog I picked him to win this game. Bro Oh, I was
• 37:47
  I was moving to the Raiders. To the Raiders. You should have never
• 37:53
  bet against Tyson back back, and you should have known better. I think
• 37:58
  I would have. I think I should have knew correct that this was gonna
• 38:00
  happen. No, God, yeah, I know, same old Raiders.
• 38:04
  But where do you think that the Raiders they go from here? I know
• 38:09
  it's three and four, they're barely below five hundred, and the Chargers they
• 38:15
  drop to two. I believe two and five. No, two and four,
• 38:20
  the Broncos dropped to two and five. But you have the Chiefs at
• 38:22
  six and one, in which I think they're gonna run away with this division
• 38:25
  and the end up clinching this division by a week ten or week eleven.
• 38:31
  So what do you think should they start trading away some of their players?
• 38:34
  I know they said they're not going to trade away DeVante Adams, but Josh
• 38:37
  Jacob, he's on his last year of his deal and potentially you could trade
• 38:40
  him to a team that's trying to win the Super Bowl. Or Hunter Renfer
• 38:45
  I've heard talks about him. Do you think they should just try to trade
• 38:49
  away some of their pieces and just try to rebuild. No, I don't
• 38:53
  think they should. I think ahead coaching is the problem and offensive line game
• 38:58
  is one in the trenches once again, Jimmy G. They look like they
• 39:01
  really need Jimmy G in this game. Jimmy G gets a lot of hate.
• 39:05
  Not a very like deep shot quarterback, but he is one of the
• 39:08
  best game managers in the NFL. He knows how to get the tight end
• 39:13
  involved, he knows how to get the running back involved. As just something
• 39:15
  we didn't see. Josh Jacobs leading up to this game was second in receiving
• 39:21
  in receptions this game, he only had one. That's that's that's not gonna
• 39:24
  get it done. Brian Horror or Adan O'Connell need to find their star running
• 39:29
  back and so I think we need to take a step back on the train.
• 39:32
  I think Josh mcdanield's is mate. This is last year, two years
• 39:36
  in a row. Yeah, nothing to show for it. Uh. And
• 39:39
  especially you have people coming forward like Ben Johnston who are gonna get a lot
• 39:44
  of looks, who can put together this offense with this weapons into a high
• 39:46
  powered offense, turn them into a high, high powered offense, and they
• 39:52
  could probably go out and find another quarterback or roll with Jimmy g So that's
• 39:57
  what that's how I'm seeing it right now. They still have DeVante Adams,
• 39:59
  they said they're not gonna trade him. Jakobe Myers they sign up for two
• 40:02
  years, and they have Michael Mayer who's coming, who's a rookie that I
• 40:07
  think may be really good down the line. Yeah, and it's not necessarily
• 40:14
  kind of like with with the Falcons, it's not the talent that's the problem.
• 40:19
  It's just something inside. And yes, I do believe as far as
• 40:22
  with Josh McDaniels it is his last time around because you saw how it went
• 40:28
  in Denver. I think he's just more of a coordinator than a head coach,
• 40:31
  and he tries to establish the Belichick way, but only Bill Belichick can
• 40:37
  do that right there. Yeah, we've seen that a bunch of times from
• 40:39
  people that from the Bill Belichick tree, and they just don't work out as
• 40:43
  head coaches. They end up going back to Bill Belichick and being OC's or
• 40:45
  DC's. Yep. But all right, we're gonna go ahead and get into
• 40:53
  which was supposed to be one of the best twelve o'clock games by far,
• 41:00
  was Josh's Super Bowl or dark Horse super Bowl team versus my Super Bowl dark
• 41:06
  horse team, and we saw what happened the Ravens. They gave them the
• 41:09
  business. It was thirty eight to six, in which Lamar Action Jackson MVP
• 41:16
  form came back to life. What was your biggest takeaway from this game?
• 41:22
  Right here? Okay, I hate to bring this up, Alfonso. They
• 41:25
  reminded me of the Cowboys and Niners game. We had a lot of hype
• 41:30
  going into it. I don't want I didn't want to bring it up,
• 41:32
  but I'm gonna bring it up. Both games have had a lot of high
• 41:36
  goings. It was gonna be high scoring, what's gonna be defensive battle,
• 41:38
  was going to be offensively tested both ways. But we just saw one team
• 41:43
  out classic other team on this day. On total plays, Lions had seventy
• 41:50
  two, Ravens had fifty five. If you saw that, which team would
• 41:52
  you think would have won the game? Alfonso? Oh, well easily the
• 41:57
  Lions. Well that didn't happen. So total yards Lions three thirty seven,
• 42:01
  Ravens five to oh three. Passing yards Lions two fifty three, Ravens three
• 42:06
  fifty seven, rushing yards Lions eighty four. Ravens won forty six, and
• 42:10
  we saw Lamar Jackson dominate this this Lions defense, who has been very good
• 42:15
  up to this point, and he just had another. He just had a
• 42:19
  day. What I like what I'm what I like what I'm seeing from Lamar
• 42:22
  Jackson this year. They with a new offensive coordinator, they've really eliminated a
• 42:27
  lot of the design runs, a lot of the power runs, which has
• 42:29
  helped Lamar Jackson with his state injury free and has helped him also turn into
• 42:36
  the pocket passes that he wants to prove that he is and that he is
• 42:40
  and it allows him to make decisions on his own with his feat he went
• 42:44
  twenty one for twenty seven, three fifty see three fifty seven, three touchdowns,
• 42:47
  nine rushes for thirty six yards and a touchdown. That's just efficient all
• 42:52
  the way around, no turnovers at all. Probably I think that's probably the
• 42:55
  first game this year that Lamar Jackson hasn't had a turnover or like the second
• 42:59
  game, and that's a recipe for w's all the way around, and his
• 43:05
  weapons finally showed up today. We saw j Flowers do what he's been doing
• 43:07
  all season, efficient four for seventy five. Mark Andrews get on the board
• 43:12
  on National tight Ends Day for two touchdowns and OBJ finally show a little bit
• 43:16
  signs of life five for forty nine on the day. Yeah, and man,
• 43:22
  but first before I go ahead and get into what I was gonna say,
• 43:27
  just because I said your dark horse super Bowl team didn't play so well,
• 43:30
  doesn't mean you have to call him my cowboys, right, Just just
• 43:34
  gouda slacker. Just I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Just the game that reminded
• 43:37
  me of this game. But the main thing that I want to take away
• 43:42
  from this, so I know before you end up getting on this podcast right
• 43:47
  here. So I made QB rankings, in which we should do pretty pretty
• 43:52
  soon, kind of a something we could hit towards. But I said Lamar
• 43:58
  Jackson was a top three quarterback in the league in the offseason after he was
• 44:04
  hurt, and I got a bunch of slack from it, and people were
• 44:07
  saying, oh, Lamar Jackson, he's not that kind of passer. This
• 44:10
  is a new offense, it's gonna be difficult for him. But Lamar Jackson
• 44:15
  proved that he is one of the best. If it wasn't for Patrick Mahomes
• 44:21
  in the NFL, he would be the runaway, best quarterback in the NFL.
• 44:25
  And what makes this offense so dynamic is Lamar Jackson just being able to
• 44:30
  extend plays. I think it was like six or seven times were the Lions
• 44:36
  they had Lamar Jackson in the backfield and Lamar he was just able to escape,
• 44:40
  make plays, stay poised in the pocket, or stay behind the line
• 44:44
  of scrimmage and just find somebody downfield. And like I was saying last week,
• 44:49
  as far as how they were struggling against the Titans in the red zone,
• 44:53
  look what they did this week against I think even a better defense.
• 44:58
  They went five for six and they were cashing in. This offense is only
• 45:02
  going to get better. And I feel like they're going to be in the
• 45:06
  market for a running back, so let alone when they actually get an actual
• 45:08
  running back to establish the run game in which they had one hundred and forty
• 45:13
  six yards, so obviously they were able to establish it well enough, but
• 45:17
  it's going to be very scary for the Baltimore Ravens or whoever they have to
• 45:22
  face. And I think, well, all right, let's not get it.
• 45:27
  I'm kind of hinting at what we're going to get into a little bit
• 45:29
  later. But all right. As far as from the Lions perspective, obviously,
• 45:36
  this game it just got out of hand very early. It was twenty
• 45:38
  eight to zero at halftime. Does this concern you about the Detroit Lions or
• 45:44
  do you think it was just a bad game in general that you just scratch
• 45:51
  It doesn't concern me too much. It's sure, it concerns me to the
• 45:53
  point like, oh, you needed if you want to compete for the number
• 45:57
  one seed in the NFC, you need to win these games. But for
• 46:00
  the most part, every great team that we've seen in history has had this
• 46:04
  game where they just don't show up and they don't play. And again that
• 46:07
  they lost. For the Seahawks, they were in a shootout, I'll give
• 46:10
  them that. But this game you need if you want to compete with the
• 46:13
  best, if you want to be considered the best, you got to compete
• 46:15
  with the best. In that whole first half, bro, I swear it
• 46:19
  was like three and out, three and out, three and out, three
• 46:21
  and out, three and out, three out, first down and then out
• 46:22
  again. You know they didn't have that many drives, of course, but
• 46:25
  that's what it seemed like. And the if you look at the statistical numbers
• 46:30
  is gonna look good on paper, but it was a lot of garbage time.
• 46:32
  A Moneroale Saint Brown still does what a Monroe Saint Brown does, just
• 46:35
  didn't get into the end zone. Sam Laporta has looked like how he's looked
• 46:37
  all year. I kind of liked what I saw from Jimmior Gibbs, but
• 46:42
  they just had no answers for this Ravens defense. The Ravens defense continues to
• 46:45
  ball out. I still think they're one of the best in the NFL top
• 46:47
  three in my opinion. With Worlkwan Smith there there, they've jumped themselves up
• 46:53
  to one or two ever since he's been in on the Ravens, and they
• 46:58
  had a couple of big good days, especially from Arthur Mullett who had eight
• 47:01
  total tackles, seven solo, one sacked, one tackle for loss, one
• 47:05
  QB hit, Kyle be and Noy fifteen total tackles, two stacks and two
• 47:07
  tackles for loss. That's insane. Fifteen tackles is insane. But as for
• 47:13
  the Lions with their offense, you know how I said, we were talking
• 47:15
  about how Jamison Williams while we're really going to see what he is I still
• 47:21
  think, in my opinion, he's in the NBS category. He's a lot
• 47:24
  of deep plays. He dropped two touchdowns that would that would have been touchdowns.
• 47:30
  He dropped two deep Yeah, and we see him work over the middle
• 47:34
  of the field. He's not He has a very limited route tree. It's
• 47:37
  just a bunch of verticals, a lot of post routes. There's really no
• 47:40
  slants, no in and outs, no and the ones that where he did
• 47:44
  and comes where he digs and comes back. He drops the ball in those
• 47:47
  set it's like he gets nervous. I think we're starting to see what kind
• 47:51
  of a receiver he is. I think, sure, it's really early in
• 47:53
  his career, but from what we've seen in the film, is just a
• 47:57
  straight line runner, throw a deep and I just think that's why this is
• 48:02
  where they're gonna have to find something else. And that's where you get it
• 48:06
  with Josh Reynolds and trying to get him more involved again next week. MH
• 48:10
  and yeah. No. I understand if you're a Lions fan, you're probably
• 48:15
  like, well, okay, well we're not going to compete with the Niners,
• 48:17
  the Eagles, the Cowboys, et cetera. Et cetera. I don't
• 48:21
  think it's something that they should overreact to something like that. I just think,
• 48:25
  yeah, it happens, and I don't think that the Lions there this
• 48:29
  bad. If they play the Ravens again next week, they won't lose thirty
• 48:31
  eight to six. I'm not saying that they'll win the ballgame, but I
• 48:36
  will say that it's a much closer. I just think that Baltimore, they're
• 48:39
  at home, they just got the home cooking. They jumped on them very
• 48:44
  early, and when it was fourteen to zero, knowing the Ravens and what
• 48:47
  they do all the time, as far as just being able to chew the
• 48:52
  clock and play great defense, you really had no chance. I feel like
• 48:55
  the Ravens there were just a buzzsaw. If you throw any team out there
• 48:59
  against a I'm pretty sure the same result would have happened. But like you
• 49:04
  were saying, as far as with the Ravens defense, so the Lions offensive
• 49:07
  line, at worst, they're a top five offensive line. I think they're
• 49:10
  a top three in the league. They made the Lions offensive line look very
• 49:16
  pedestrian and which no team, even towards the end of last year, no
• 49:22
  team was able to do that, So I think that the Ravens. I
• 49:27
  don't know why people even before as far as analysts are saying, the only
• 49:30
  concern is the Ravens defense. If people actually paid attention to the Ravens defense,
• 49:36
  they would realize that last year they were statistically the best defense in the
• 49:42
  league. And now you have your starting quarterback Lamar Jackson back, in which
• 49:46
  he could they could easily explode for thirty plus points. So yeah, look
• 49:51
  out for the Ravens. Oh. I just remembered how you said earlier,
• 49:53
  how people were hating on your take about Lamar Jackson being a top quarterback in
• 49:58
  the NFL when he won MVP, he led the NFL in passing touchdowns just
• 50:04
  exactly who who knows? But all right, yeah, let's go ahead and
• 50:07
  get into this. This next game, which was the New York Giants versus
• 50:14
  the Washington Commanders, in which I give you props for predicting this game,
• 50:19
  Josh, because I definitely didn't see the Giants winning this game, even though
• 50:22
  it was an ugly game, they end up winning. But what is your
• 50:24
  biggest takeaway from this game? I have two takeaways from both teams. Ever
• 50:31
  since Saquon Barkley has come back. This New York Giants team has looked,
• 50:37
  looked like, looked inspired. They look like they have their number one player
• 50:42
  back and he went twenty one for seventy seven thirty four forty and a touchdown.
• 50:45
  He really brings everything you need for this team, receiving, rushing,
• 50:51
  blocking the attention away from your other players. And we saw that Darren Waller
• 50:55
  had a big bay seven for ninety eight and a touchdown. And Tyron Taylor
• 50:58
  continues to be the game man, your best backup quarterback in the NFL since
• 51:01
  he's been in the NFL, and it just it just helped all in all
• 51:07
  with the Giants on Sunday. As for the Commanders, let me give you
• 51:12
  this stat with fourteen plus rushes from Brian Robinson, the Washington Commanders are three
• 51:20
  and zero. With ten or less, they are zero to four. So
• 51:24
  get your number one running back the football and let him get to work,
• 51:29
  bro because ever since they decided to write him out of the game, they
• 51:32
  have lost every single game. And that's just a recipe for el's, el's,
• 51:37
  el's and el's. You can't put the pressure on your basically rookie quarterback
• 51:43
  Sam Howell. He sure he was rookie last year, but he only played
• 51:45
  one or two games. This year is his real rookie year. You can't
• 51:49
  have him throwing the ball forty two times and your number one running back rushing
• 51:52
  the ball eight times. Does that make sense to anybody that even plays Madden.
• 51:55
  It doesn't. So you know you gotta, he gotta. You got
• 52:00
  to get the ball to Brian Robinson to win the game, and it definitely
• 52:06
  helped you. They have ten penalties seventy five yards, and their offensive line
• 52:12
  is terrible. Through seven games of football, they've given up at least forty
• 52:20
  six. The record is were seventy five sacks. I don't remember which one
• 52:24
  it is exactly. They're on pace to go way past that. So,
• 52:30
  like you were saying, they need to run the football with Brian Robinson,
• 52:35
  that's they crazy at them three in and being owned for with with ten or
• 52:39
  less carries. But samhow he impressive or he's looked impressive in some games he's
• 52:49
  spurs. In the Philadelphia game, he looks somewhat impressive. It feels like
• 52:52
  he's up and down, up and down, up and down. Do you
• 52:57
  think that the Redskins, I know they're three and four, so they're not
• 53:00
  necessarily going to have a tough draft pick, and I expect them more games.
• 53:05
  Do you think that they should go in the draft and draft like a
• 53:09
  mid tier quarterback? Not necessarily that the quarterback is not going to be good
• 53:14
  whoever they draft, but they're not going to get the cream and the crop.
• 53:16
  They're not going to get a Michael Pennix a Caleb Williams. So do
• 53:20
  you think they should potentially draft a quarterback in this offseason? No, I
• 53:24
  don't think so. I think they have that be a chair quarterback with Sam
• 53:28
  Howell. I think he has a lot of talent. He has the arm
• 53:30
  talent for sure, Like you see some of the throws he makes and some
• 53:34
  of the deep passes he makes, they're insane, like he puts them into
• 53:37
  double cover, strip coverage, right on the money. I think he has
• 53:39
  a lot of potential. Let him right out this year. I think we'll
• 53:42
  see a lot of improvement in him next year. What I want to see
• 53:45
  though, is his receivers catch the football they win this game or go to
• 53:51
  overtime. If Johan Dawson catches that ball where somehow rolls out of the pocket,
• 53:55
  flips his hips gets his body stir and hits him in the hand at
• 54:00
  the one yard line and he drops it, they lose the game. If
• 54:02
  he makes that catch, they either tie the game, or they go into
• 54:06
  or they go for two win the game. I think there's a lot of
• 54:08
  things that this team needs to make up. And as for the offensive line,
• 54:10
  it isn't great. But I also think Sam Howell is holding the ball
• 54:14
  a little bit longer than he needs to. So let's hand off the football,
• 54:16
  Let's get Stam Howe moving around in the pocket, get him into his
• 54:22
  reads earlier. And the receivers need to make the plays because they have the
• 54:25
  talent on offense, they just need to put it together. Yeah, they
• 54:30
  definitely do. But the reason why I was saying as far as Sam hal
• 54:34
  Howe potentially being a backup or wherever possibly going somewhere, is because I feel
• 54:42
  like this is the last year Ron Rivera. They've given him chance after chance,
• 54:45
  have your chance. I feel like they've given him too many chances,
• 54:49
  if that makes sense. So you're going to have a new head coach come
• 54:52
  in and you know how it usually is. Well, Yeah, even if
• 54:57
  you have the enemy there, you don't think that Eric the enemy is gonna
• 55:00
  with the opportunity. He hasn't had a head coaching opportunity. You don't think
• 55:05
  that he's gonna be like, all right, well, I could potentially get
• 55:07
  a younger quarterback and I could get maybe an extra two to three years to
• 55:12
  buy time instead of with Sam Hoween saying all right, we'll fix him in
• 55:15
  a year and potentially you get fired. But as far as from I want
• 55:20
  to talk about the Giants a little bit. As far as with Tyrod Taylor,
• 55:23
  these two games that he's played, he's looked pretty good. In this
• 55:27
  game he was eighteen for twenty nine two and seventy nine yards, two touchdowns,
• 55:31
  one hundred and sixteen rating. Do you think I know Daniel Jones,
• 55:36
  he went on the short term ir so for four to six games somewhere around
• 55:39
  there. Do you think if the Giants, so they play the Jets this
• 55:44
  week, then the Raiders, Cowboys and Commanders. So I could see them.
• 55:47
  This sounds crazy, but I could see them beating the Jets, Raiders
• 55:52
  and Commanders. I could see them going three and four. Do you think
• 55:54
  that if they can do that, do you stick with Tyrod Taylor or do
• 55:58
  you go back with Daniel Jones own. I'm not too sure. I think,
• 56:07
  uh, we'll just have to wait and see with that. But I
• 56:09
  I do like what I'm seeing from Tyrod Taylor. I what I what I've
• 56:15
  seen from him while watching the film rewatching the games, is that they're taking
• 56:20
  a lot of his deeper reads away. It's one or two reads. It's
• 56:24
  get the ball to Saquon on the outside. It's a hit Darren Waller over
• 56:30
  this with the vertical scene, it's hit Darren Waller on the outside, let
• 56:32
  Wondol Robbinson make a play. They're taking a lot of the lot of the
• 56:38
  the advanced metrics of passing from Tyrod Taylor. There's a lot of rollouts using
• 56:43
  his legs. It's a lot of moving in the pocket from him. Uh.
• 56:46
  It's I like. I like what I'm seeing and how they're using him.
• 56:50
  I think Brian Daboll is a really good coach. This should not the
• 56:52
  losses should not fall on him. I think I think he makes a lot
• 56:54
  of good decisions. Yeah, and what he's doing with Tyrod Taylor right now
• 56:58
  is what he was doing with Daniel Jones last year, and that's taking the
• 57:00
  hard decisions away and making the game a little bit easier for his quarterback.
• 57:06
  M hm, well all right, let's go ahead and get into this next
• 57:08
  game in which man, I don't know. I feel bad for you,
• 57:14
  Josh, because every time you say, well, okay, you said this
• 57:16
  two weeks ago, Mac Jones is a good quarterback, then he plays bad,
• 57:21
  and then last week you say, well, Mac Jones, he's not
• 57:23
  a good quarterback, and then he ends up having the best game I think
• 57:28
  in his career, in which they upset the Patriot or the Bills twenty nine
• 57:32
  to twenty five in a late game drive in which they scored with about fourteen
• 57:38
  seconds left. What is your biggest takeaway from this game? Right here?
• 57:43
  Mac Jones loves to prove me wrong. That's that's my biggest takeaway. So
• 57:47
  he's our biggest listener. He listens to a pod. He even DM me
• 57:52
  after you know, I heard what you said. Time to do the opposite.
• 57:55
  But shout out to Jones, yup, yup. So he had a
• 58:00
  good He outplayed Josh Allen in this game twenty five for thirty two seventy two,
• 58:07
  two touchdowns in three forty eleven. As far as the other side,
• 58:10
  Josh Allen continues to struggle, but let's talk about the past for a second.
• 58:15
  The Pets, no, I don't know, man this team they have
• 58:21
  potential, but their their stars are injured. As for the offense, they
• 58:24
  signed Juju Smith Schuster, they have Kendrick Bourne. The Mario Douglas is a
• 58:30
  good rookie. He's playing really good for a rookie. I'm not I'm not
• 58:32
  saying like he's like Jordan Asen's they Flowers Josh downs in that area right now
• 58:37
  or Pokinakua, but he's like on the outside cust A, both good rookies
• 58:40
  that they've at the showing signs. Kendrick Bourne continues to play good, but
• 58:45
  the running game is not great, but it's getting established between Stevenson and Zeke.
• 58:51
  Nine for thirty four from Stevenson, eleven for thirty one and a touchdown
• 58:54
  from Zeke. That's gonna help out Mac Jones. Plus Stevenston's getting back into
• 58:59
  his form from last year where he was a good receiving back six for fifty
• 59:01
  one. He had a good week last week also, so that's something to
• 59:06
  look out for. But I don't see the Pats winning too many games outside
• 59:09
  of this one. After the Bills. Josh Allen twenty seven for forty one.
• 59:15
  That does not that's not good. You need you need to be more
• 59:19
  efficient than that. Two sixty five, two touchdowns, seven for seventeen on
• 59:22
  the ground in a touchdown. It's just hard to It's hard to say what
• 59:29
  the Bills are at the moment. Man. They've had tough losses, they've
• 59:30
  had good wins. It just I just don't know what to make up the
• 59:34
  Bills at this moment. Yeah. Uh, the Bills. I feel like
• 59:39
  they're the toughest team to judge. And if you just look at the stats,
• 59:44
  you look at Josh allen stats, Like you said, they look good
• 59:46
  on paper, but if you actually watch that game, it other than those
• 59:51
  last two drives where they score touchdowns, Josh Allen, he did not play
• 59:54
  well throughout the entire game. And what I think changed the entire game was
• 1:00:00
  Josh Allen's very first pass of the game, which was an interception by Jabrill
• 1:00:04
  Peppers. Interception. Yeah, well all right, if Josh Allen does not
• 1:00:12
  throw that interception, then this I believe that the Bills. They win this
• 1:00:16
  game convincingly, even though they were down three to zero, Even if they
• 1:00:21
  punt it just changes the whole psyche for the New England Patriots because they went
• 1:00:25
  on to go up ten zero in that then it's a whole different ballgame.
• 1:00:30
  And yeah, like you were saying, the Patriots, they have potential,
• 1:00:32
  but there's no way that the Bill should be losing this game. And again
• 1:00:37
  the Bills, they cannot establish the run game to save their life. Twenty
• 1:00:42
  four rushing attempts, eighty one rushing yards. That's three point four yards per
• 1:00:46
  attempt. And in order for them to make a deep playoff run, or
• 1:00:51
  any team to make a deep playoff run, you need to be able to
• 1:00:53
  run the ball. And I feel like ever since Josh Allen he's gotten that
• 1:00:59
  shootout out with Patrick Mahomes, he feels like he has to, Oh,
• 1:01:04
  if I'm not scoring, scoring every single drive, then we're gonna lose this
• 1:01:07
  game. No, just make smart decisions, check down the football, take
• 1:01:13
  a sack if you got to take a sack, or throw the ball away
• 1:01:15
  if you have to throw the ball away, that's simple. But what were
• 1:01:20
  you going to say, Oh, I want to figureback when you're Josh Allen
• 1:01:23
  real quick? How you're saying like ever since that game, he's looked like
• 1:01:30
  he's had a score and make big plays. That's just Josh Allen, man.
• 1:01:34
  Like, this is why I cannot rank him. I barely put him
• 1:01:37
  in my top five or he's just right outside my top five because without a
• 1:01:43
  run game, which they don't have and they haven't never had, Josh Allen
• 1:01:47
  continues to try making these big plays without even looking for the underneath stuff.
• 1:01:52
  Sure, he hit James Cook for three of them, and he took them
• 1:01:54
  for big yardage, but any other game outside of this, this is why
• 1:01:58
  he usually leads to league in turnovers, is because he likes to make big
• 1:02:02
  plays happen and it hurts his team, especially in big moments. So I
• 1:02:08
  don't know what to make of Josh Allen besides that he's a really good big
• 1:02:13
  play quarterback, kind of like Justin Herbert. They're both in kind of the
• 1:02:15
  same boat, but they just can't seem to put the whole picture together without
• 1:02:20
  messing it up for the rest. Yeah, and I think the biggest thing
• 1:02:24
  to take away from this is Josh Allen has been the reason they lost to
• 1:02:30
  both Mac Jones and Zach Wilson in the same season. And I know that
• 1:02:36
  they've played good in those two games that they respectively played. But Josh Allen,
• 1:02:40
  if he's supposed to be this top five quarterback or top three quarterback compared
• 1:02:45
  to everybody else, I think we have him ranked pretty accurate. But if
• 1:02:51
  he's at top three quarterback, that MVP candidate the team, or the quarterback
• 1:02:54
  that's supposed to lead the Bills to the super Bowl, he should not be
• 1:02:58
  getting outplayed by those quarterbacks, no matter what. I don't I don't care
• 1:03:02
  what it is. But all right, let's go ahead and get into the
• 1:03:07
  last twelve o'clock game, in which this was a shootout right here, in
• 1:03:10
  which nobody expected. And I really liked this game. And I know you
• 1:03:15
  were mad on Twitter. I saw your I saw your Twitter saying get the
• 1:03:19
  get the Browns and Colts cults off my game because the Chiefs were playing.
• 1:03:22
  But yeah, the Browns. They ended up winning thirty nine thirty eight.
• 1:03:25
  What is your biggest takeaway from this game, Gardner minshew dog, you know,
• 1:03:32
  yeah, that's my biggest takeaway. But they still lost the game.
• 1:03:37
  Oh, this was a weird game. I expected the Browns to win this
• 1:03:40
  convincingly. But Deshaun Watson continues to look like the worst contract signing of in
• 1:03:45
  history and can't stay healthy. So he went down after five passes he threw
• 1:03:52
  basically I think he threw one pick and they had he threw two picks but
• 1:03:55
  one of them got called back or something like that with Deshaun Watson. So
• 1:04:01
  and comes the PJ. Walkers show again. The offense did not look efficient.
• 1:04:05
  Fourth for fifty nine with Elijah Moore, PJ Walker fifteen, thirty two,
• 1:04:12
  Woods, seventy eight in an interception. Jerome Ford looked good eleven for
• 1:04:15
  seventy four in a touchdown Cream Hunts and for thirty one two touchdowns, but
• 1:04:19
  their defense continues to hold them into these games. The defense played good for
• 1:04:25
  the Brown is not going to look like that on paper. But when the
• 1:04:28
  when their offense can't get nothing moving, they have to they have to kind
• 1:04:31
  of they kind of get scored on and looked pretty made get looking pretty bad.
• 1:04:38
  Something I'm trying to say, but I just can't put the words two
• 1:04:40
  together. Gardner Minsho played good fifteen for twenty three three oh five two touchdowns,
• 1:04:45
  three rushers for twenty nine yards and two touchdowns. So JT. Constant
• 1:04:51
  is looking like he's working his way back into this offense. Zach Moss continues
• 1:04:55
  look like how he's looked for the for the majority of the season. And
• 1:04:58
  Josh downs how I said earlier, putting in the stuff in that little tier
• 1:05:01
  of good of great rookie wide receivers from this year five for one and a
• 1:05:06
  touchdown. But what I really want to talk about is Miles Garrett. Miles
• 1:05:12
  Garrett continues to look like defensive Player of the year. Nine total tackles,
• 1:05:17
  seven solo, two sacks, one tackle for loss, one pass deflected,
• 1:05:21
  two QB hits, one forced fumble, and a block field goal. What
• 1:05:26
  more do you want from your star players? Miles Garrett. Yeah, that's
• 1:05:30
  like, that's like, bump them all the way up to ninety nine everything
• 1:05:33
  and give him the next factor. This is exactly what Miles Garrett is in
• 1:05:36
  real life. Yeah no, you you uh discussed every topic topic, but
• 1:05:43
  yeah no, Miles Garrett, he's he's what's making this Browns, this whole
• 1:05:47
  Browns team run. But as far as from the court, yeah, he
• 1:05:51
  is the Browns. But as far as this quarterback situation, it was literally
• 1:05:56
  the very first uh snap that Deshaun or very first pass that Deshaun Watson throw.
• 1:06:00
  He threw an interception. What what do you do right here? Because
• 1:06:05
  Deshaun Watson, yes, he did get a concussion, but he also did
• 1:06:10
  get cleared in the first half. But they decided to stick with PJ.
• 1:06:14
  Walker and they're winning these games with PJ Walker. What what do you do
• 1:06:18
  do you? I know that you're tied to Deshaun Watson as far as financially,
• 1:06:24
  but PJ Walker he's getting it done even though he didn't have the best
• 1:06:28
  stats to best stats to back him up. They're winning these games. So
• 1:06:31
  what do you think they should do? Stick with PJ Walker or do you
• 1:06:34
  think they should go back to Deshaun Watson. They have to go back to
• 1:06:39
  Deshaun Watson. They paid too much money. They're gonna look like they messed
• 1:06:42
  up, so they can't look like they messed up, so they have to
• 1:06:45
  play them. That's what they're gonna do. It's just it's just really I'm
• 1:06:48
  not gonna say it's sad to see because he did it to himself in reality,
• 1:06:53
  but with the textans before he got beat, before he lost the lead
• 1:06:59
  of twenty four to zero to the Chiefs, slight flicks, Yeah, he
• 1:07:01
  was looking like top top three quarterback in the NFL. Uh. And then
• 1:07:08
  now he just looks like an ordinary a jack. It's Stevens and Steven Steve
• 1:07:12
  Smith. Again, he looks like a jack, just another guy. So
• 1:07:16
  he's just not showing any signs of life right now. I need to see
• 1:07:19
  more from this John Watson. I need to see the contract come through and
• 1:07:25
  why he was given that contract, because you can't keep rolling the PJ.
• 1:07:30
  Walker and you have Deshaun Watson with this contract. So if they're gonna have
• 1:07:34
  to roll with it, they're gonna to see what happens. It's just it's
• 1:07:40
  just hard to say right now. I feel like some contracts are have been
• 1:07:43
  given out this year and we're gonna get into another game later where we're gonna
• 1:07:45
  talk about another contract, and that I might talk about another contract. So
• 1:07:50
  this John Watson need to see some live buddy. If not, then we
• 1:07:56
  may not see you in a year or two on any team. Yeah,
• 1:08:00
  that's true. And as far as with last year, I guess you could
• 1:08:04
  say Deshaun Watson he had a little bit of an excuse. You could say,
• 1:08:08
  oh, well, he had a year and a half off, so
• 1:08:11
  he's just getting the rust off and it's not like Kevin Stefanski. He has
• 1:08:15
  a bad offense. He makes PJ. Walker. I'm not saying PJ.
• 1:08:18
  Walker is bad, but he makes him look better or puts them in right
• 1:08:21
  situations. So I don't think that he's putting Deshaun Watson in bad situations.
• 1:08:27
  And he has a good run game. He has dron Ford. I know
• 1:08:30
  he got hurt, but he was still in the game. When Deshaun Watson
• 1:08:32
  was in the game. You have Kareem even Pierre Strong, he looked good.
• 1:08:36
  So you have all the pieces around you, Elijah Moore, David and
• 1:08:40
  Djoku, not even Peoples, Jones, Amari Cooper. So you have all
• 1:08:44
  the pieces around you. There should be no excuse, if anything, you
• 1:08:47
  could go back to being I know that Deshaun Watson, he was electric in
• 1:08:54
  Houston, but just be just a mobile game manager. Just make the right
• 1:09:00
  reids, hand off the football, don't do a roster and if you yeah,
• 1:09:04
  just be a better version of Tyrod Taylor. Really that that could work
• 1:09:09
  right there, That could win you plenty of games. Well, all right,
• 1:09:15
  we're gonna go ahead and get into the last Week seven game, which
• 1:09:18
  was actually the first one the Thursday night football game in which the Jaguars they
• 1:09:23
  won thirty one to twenty four. What is your biggest takeaways from this game?
• 1:09:29
  Josh, Derek Carr is wasting the Saints season away. That's my biggest
• 1:09:34
  takeaway. And Dennis Allen is an incompetent head coach, So man Darren Derek
• 1:09:45
  Carr thirty three for fifty five. That's twenty two incomplete passes, three oh
• 1:09:50
  one, one touchdown, one interception. I'm not a Saints fan, but
• 1:09:55
  it hurt me to watch this game because Ak dog Ak's eight. Alvin Kamara
• 1:10:01
  no need to explain more. He had another great day. But as for
• 1:10:03
  Derek Carr, dude, you have Chrystal Lave, you have Michael Thomas finally
• 1:10:09
  healthy. You have Taystom Hill, who I hate as a player. I
• 1:10:13
  don't know why I do. But he was bawling, and you continue to
• 1:10:17
  throw into double she Shaheed good receiver, But if you're throwing into double coverage
• 1:10:24
  jump balls with Rashid Shaheed, what are you doing? Like this is not
• 1:10:29
  gonna happen. You're throwing He was, and then he yells at Chrystal Lave
• 1:10:31
  on another play where he threw it seven yards out of bounds and gets onto
• 1:10:34
  Chris ol Love for not being in the right spot. Bro, there was
• 1:10:38
  no spot for him to be in. They like, So, I don't
• 1:10:42
  know Derek Carr was supposed to be the answer for the Saints and lead them
• 1:10:45
  to being a good team, because he's wasting this defense away and he's wasting
• 1:10:49
  this offense away, and I just I just need to see more from Derek
• 1:10:54
  Carr. If not, you have a guy that has thrown for five thousand
• 1:10:58
  yards and thirty touchdowns. He might have threw thirty interceptions, but he's sitting
• 1:11:00
  with you on your bench right now. Interception part. Yeah, Yeah,
• 1:11:04
  he's sitting on your bench right now, and I bet you he could unlock
• 1:11:06
  this offense. And he has a better arm more than Derek Carr can.
• 1:11:12
  Yeah. The reason why is he's from Florida State. But all right,
• 1:11:15
  let's let's go to Yeah, like you were saying, as far as with
• 1:11:18
  Derek Carr even I'm not even going to talk about that foss Morow touchdown that
• 1:11:25
  he was supposedly supposed to catch. But either way, you were supposed to
• 1:11:29
  win this game. You were at home, you you were able to run
• 1:11:32
  the ball for over one hundred and ten yards. But this game solely goes
• 1:11:38
  on Derek Carr right here, and he had a thirty seven point five QBR
• 1:11:43
  And just like you were saying, I like you were saying, I'm just
• 1:11:47
  agreeing with everything you said, just some of the throws that he was making,
• 1:11:50
  and as far as just I'm not necessarily saying like it's okay for like
• 1:11:56
  a receiver, a tight end or defensive player to be upset on the field
• 1:12:00
  or be yelling at a coordinator, but for him to be it looked like
• 1:12:03
  he was throwing tantrums on the sideline and even on the Yeah, it's it's
• 1:12:12
  something that the quarterback should not do. And well some people will say,
• 1:12:16
  oh, well Tom Brady did it, that's Tom Brady's Derek Carr. Yeah,
• 1:12:21
  Derek Carr shouldn't even be mentioned in the same sentence as Tom Brady.
• 1:12:26
  And they have more than a capable enough defense like you were saying, they
• 1:12:30
  have, they have a solid offensive line, they have the weapons, and
• 1:12:33
  yeah, no, I agree with you. As far as Jamis Winston,
• 1:12:36
  he may be turning the ball over way more, but guess what, you'll
• 1:12:41
  have more games where you could potentially score up to forty points a game.
• 1:12:45
  Play yeah, big playability. And that's the thing that they're missing right there.
• 1:12:51
  And if Derek Carr, he's gonna be checking the ball down to Alvin
• 1:12:57
  Kamara at least not throw turnovers. That's the biggest thing right there. If
• 1:13:00
  you're gonna be playing conservative football, just don't turn the ball over. Just
• 1:13:04
  know what you are, know that you're not a top ten quarterback. Just
• 1:13:10
  check the ball down, make smart decisions and high completion percentage throws. But
• 1:13:15
  as far as from the Jaguars, Trevor Lawrence after he was hurt, he
• 1:13:20
  had the knee spraying, the calf injury. It looked like it kind of
• 1:13:26
  affected him. He was twenty for twenty nine, had a touchdown, which
• 1:13:30
  was mostly because of Christian Kirk. Right there, he didn't look too impressive
• 1:13:35
  to me. What did you think about Trevor Lawrence's performance in this game?
• 1:13:42
  The exact same as you. He didn't look too impressive to me. He
• 1:13:46
  just hasn't looked really impressive all season. To me, I'm not going a
• 1:13:50
  lot of you. You have the weapons. Cavin Ridley isn't kind, He's
• 1:13:56
  kind of being a boomer Bus player this year. But Christian Kirk is being
• 1:13:59
  overlyied. They give him the contract last year. He's been balling ball last
• 1:14:02
  year's balling this year. But te law just seems to me like he's not
• 1:14:09
  using his big arm to what it should be. He's using his legs eight
• 1:14:14
  for fifty nine. That's good for your quarterback. That you'll you should win
• 1:14:16
  games when your quarterback does that. But the two hundred and four only two
• 1:14:20
  hundred and four passing yards and one touchdown. You're not The Jags we'll talk
• 1:14:25
  about it later. Are in one of my top teams in AFC because they
• 1:14:29
  are winning. But Teelaw needs to step up a little bit. He needs
• 1:14:32
  to step up just a little bit. Yeah, from what we saw to
• 1:14:35
  what we saw last year. Maybe he's I don't know, maybe it's just
• 1:14:38
  a little fatigue from last year. But you're Trevor Lawrence. You're one of
• 1:14:42
  the best prospects in the history of football. You should be able to put
• 1:14:45
  together bigger games than this. So far this season, let me read this
• 1:14:49
  off to you. Two seventy nine two o seven, one game over three
• 1:14:53
  hundred which was three fifteen versus the Buffalo Bills, one eighty one versus Indianapolis
• 1:14:57
  and two four versus New Orleans. I need from you, man, I
• 1:15:00
  need more. I need more, I need more. If you want if
• 1:15:02
  the Jags want to be taken seriously in the AFC, yep, we pretty
• 1:15:09
  much agreed on this entire game right here. All right, Uh, A
• 1:15:14
  little disappointing game, Yeah, no, it was. Even though it was
• 1:15:16
  a high scoring game, it was kind of an ugly game to just watch.
• 1:15:20
  Honestly, I was, I was trying. Yeah that's true. Yeah,
• 1:15:28
  good day eat n He just he just keeps balling. I'm still kind
• 1:15:32
  of mad that I didn't get him in any fantasy football league this Bigsby.
• 1:15:39
  Yeah, no, me too. That's the biggest mistake. But all right,
• 1:15:43
  before we get a little bit sidetracked, like you're mentioning as far as
• 1:15:45
  with some of the top teams, so a little bit earlier, actually uh
• 1:15:53
  earlier on in the stay, we're we're basically arguing with each other before the
• 1:15:58
  podcast even started as far as the top teams, and so we decided,
• 1:16:03
  oh well, all right, let's add the top five teams from each conference.
• 1:16:08
  And all right, Josh, I'll let you go ahead and go first
• 1:16:10
  with the AFC. Who do you have AFC. You know, of course,
• 1:16:15
  the number one team in the whole NFL, the Kansas City Chiefs number
• 1:16:19
  one, sitting pretty six and one. I got the Ravens number two at
• 1:16:24
  five and two. Offense is clicking, defense is clicking. I got ah
• 1:16:30
  see after last night's game, I'll still have them number three. But this
• 1:16:36
  defense is a problem. The physicality isn't there. I got the Dolphins at
• 1:16:40
  number three. I got the Jacksonville Jaguars at number four. They are winning
• 1:16:45
  football games. Their defense is playing really good this year. The offense needs
• 1:16:48
  to make up for that. The offense needs to catch up. But as
• 1:16:53
  my fifth spot, now, this is where it got tough for me.
• 1:16:57
  I have the brown Yeah, I had the Steelers. We could throw another
• 1:17:00
  team in there, maybe the Bills, but the Bills are not looking like
• 1:17:03
  the Bills. So I put the Browns as my number five for this week.
• 1:17:08
  So far in the league, so far in the yeah, so far
• 1:17:11
  in the AFC, they are number five for me. Their defense is riding
• 1:17:14
  high. Miles Gerett is bawling. They have the weapons. Quarterback is the
• 1:17:17
  only issue. That's the only issue in AFC for me, and so I
• 1:17:21
  want to hear your top five and then we can argue. After all.
• 1:17:25
  Right, Well, for my top five, I already know you're gonna have
• 1:17:29
  a little bit of an argument with this. So for my number one team,
• 1:17:33
  I have the Baltimore Ravens, who had the most impressive win of the
• 1:17:38
  weekend, and then I have number two, the Kansas City Chiefs. Number
• 1:17:43
  three, we have the exact same or three and four actually out of the
• 1:17:46
  Miami Dolphins and the Jaguars. Then the fifth one right here, I call
• 1:17:51
  it what you want. I know you're gonna not like this one. I'm
• 1:17:54
  kind of projecting a little bit. They're on a bye week this week.
• 1:17:58
  I have the Cincinnati Bengals, and that's going to be the one that you
• 1:18:00
  disagree with the most. So so or actually, no, I know you're
• 1:18:06
  gonna disagree with the Chiefs, So go ahead and say what you have to
• 1:18:10
  say. Okay, So the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens. I'm
• 1:18:14
  not mad at you at all for picking the Ravens above them, but I
• 1:18:16
  do have an issue with it. The Chiefs defense only allowing fourteen points per
• 1:18:21
  game. That's to begin with. I've stated that the last two weeks.
• 1:18:27
  Their defense, yeah, is probably the best, not staying above the Browns,
• 1:18:31
  but top two, top three along with the Ravens in the AFC.
• 1:18:34
  But what separates them for me in the AFC will always be Patrick Mahomes and
• 1:18:42
  Travis Kelcey and Andy Reid. Those will always separate for me against any other
• 1:18:47
  team in the AFC, especially if the teams are winning. So far,
• 1:18:50
  the Chiefs have the biggest win streak in the NFL. Their first loss was
• 1:18:55
  only because Kadarius Tony, like I said in our first podcast together, to
• 1:19:00
  get wrapped at that game for them. And we've just been waiting for the
• 1:19:03
  receivers to click ever since that day, and they finally did. We saw
• 1:19:06
  Mahomes have a big day for twenty four, four touchdowns, one interception.
• 1:19:11
  Pacheco continues to establish the run game. He had an off game this game,
• 1:19:14
  but he still got on the board with a touchdown in the receiving game.
• 1:19:17
  So there's a lot to harp on with the Chiefs right now. And
• 1:19:23
  that's for the Ravens. I'm not mad at you for picking them number one.
• 1:19:25
  I'm just a little disappointed, that's all. So Lamar Jackson is bawling.
• 1:19:30
  Lamar Jackson is showing why he's a good quarterback in the NFL. Mark
• 1:19:32
  Andrews is showing why he's the second best tight end in the NFL. Because
• 1:19:36
  they are a poor man's Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey. Let's not get it
• 1:19:40
  twisted. So the defense, I love the defense. Rokwan Smith, Patrick
• 1:19:45
  Queen, they are what I think maybe arguably the best defensive linebacker duo in
• 1:19:53
  the NFL. So yeah, that's that's why I think the Chiefs are number
• 1:19:56
  one above the Ravens. Yeah, and it's kind of hard to disagree.
• 1:20:00
  I feel like you're kind of just just trying to nitpick because both of these
• 1:20:04
  teams, Yeah, they're very good playing like yeah, some of the best
• 1:20:09
  teams in football. But I think the biggest thing for me because both of
• 1:20:13
  these offenses they were on display last week, But I just think that the
• 1:20:15
  Ravens and the AFC theyre top two defense and they're not two. I just
• 1:20:20
  think that that their defense is so so nasty and just trading for Rokwan Smith
• 1:20:28
  and giving them a contract was the best best thing they could have done because
• 1:20:32
  it's just changed the whole outcome as far as for how their defense was,
• 1:20:38
  and it's bringing back shades of as far as ray Lewis, Terrell Suggs,
• 1:20:43
  Ed Reid, as far as how nasty this defense is, and they're very
• 1:20:46
  aggressive and physical and they have no true flaws and not necessarily like we talked
• 1:20:53
  about it last week. As far as the Chiefs, they have the players
• 1:20:56
  there, and these players are still trying to become stars, you know what
• 1:21:00
  I mean. So, but as far as with the Ravens, they do
• 1:21:03
  have those stars there that you do recognize. You have Marlon Humphrey, you
• 1:21:06
  have Roquwan Smith. You have those people there that you know they are established
• 1:21:12
  and they're gonna be there in the long run. And as far as I
• 1:21:15
  obviously coaching advantage, i'd give that, but as far as well, Okay,
• 1:21:20
  I'm I'm not trying to give away what we have to get into a
• 1:21:25
  little bit later. But yeah, no, let's just say it's it's tough.
• 1:21:30
  You could have it either way. So I'm not mad with you at
• 1:21:33
  all. As far as with the Dolphins and Jaguars, we both have them
• 1:21:36
  on the same so there's nothing really to yeah or disagree with. Right.
• 1:21:41
  I think what I said is probably what we both think, you know,
• 1:21:44
  but what they're what they're lacking. It's just I thought it was gonna be
• 1:21:48
  a little bit more stacked. I don't want to interrupt you, but I
• 1:21:50
  thought I just thought it was gonna be a little bit more of a challenge.
• 1:21:54
  Yeah, no, I agree with you, but it looks like it's
• 1:21:57
  the Ravens and Chiefs. That looks like the AFC Championship game clearly in my
• 1:22:01
  opinion. But as far as for the number five spot, you had the
• 1:22:05
  Browns, I had the Bengals. The only reason why I have the Bengals
• 1:22:11
  ahead. Like I said, I'm kind of a little bit projecting. And
• 1:22:14
  as far as with the Browns, my only disagreement, it's not necessarily the
• 1:22:16
  defense, it's just that quarterback. The quarterback. Yeah, the Cincinnati Bengals
• 1:22:25
  have Joe Burrow. Yes, he may not be having the best season,
• 1:22:28
  but it's still Joe Burrow and I still have faith in him compared to either
• 1:22:32
  Deshaun Watson or PJ. Walker agreed. Yeah, so well, Yeah,
• 1:22:41
  as for the Chiefs, I'm just saying George carlaptis fit in the NFL with
• 1:22:46
  thirty three pressures. Charles Minni who came back in fashion. Just leave it
• 1:22:49
  at that. But after the Bengals, I'm not mad at you for saying
• 1:22:54
  I think it's a little projecting because I still want to see them get into
• 1:22:56
  the above five hundred. But as for them, they still have Joe Burrow,
• 1:23:01
  they still have Jamar Chase, they still have t Higgins, they still
• 1:23:03
  have color Boyd and Joe Mixon has always been all reliable in the backfield.
• 1:23:08
  It's just a matter if that offensive line can protect Joe Burrow and if that
• 1:23:11
  defense continue to show what they've been showing along with as far as their past
• 1:23:16
  defense, they have trouble pressuring the quarterback a little bit, but their past
• 1:23:19
  defense is really good. And I just want to see them get into above
• 1:23:24
  five hundred before I can move them into my top five again. The Bills
• 1:23:27
  almost made it for me. But the Bills, their defense is good.
• 1:23:30
  Josh Allen continues to be the problem. So it's just like, right then
• 1:23:32
  and there, man, when you were talking about the Bengals, I kind
• 1:23:36
  of hear a little bit of like stuttering in your voice. I could tell
• 1:23:39
  you're kind of a little bit scared. Yeah, no, I understand that,
• 1:23:46
  But all right, let's go ahead and get into the NFC. So
• 1:23:50
  go ahead and start it off. Who's your top five? Two? Ohay,
• 1:23:55
  I know you're ready to argue with this one right here. I got
• 1:23:58
  the number one the Eagles six and one, tied for first and all of
• 1:24:02
  the NFL with the Kansas City Chiefs. They they've had a good bounce back
• 1:24:06
  game for to the Miami Dolphins. High powered offense held it to seventeen points.
• 1:24:11
  Number two even though ah Man, even though they lost today, well
• 1:24:17
  all all three of these teams have taken pretty big l's that we're talking about
• 1:24:21
  right here. So I still got the forty nine Ers as the number two
• 1:24:26
  team in the NFC. They have beaten the Cowboys pretty decisively. They have
• 1:24:31
  lost. They lost to a really good defense with the Cleveland Browns, and
• 1:24:33
  they lost to a high powered offense without just I get they don't have justice
• 1:24:36
  everything, but they're still a really good offense with a veteran quarterback and Kirk
• 1:24:40
  Cousins, yeah, and a good head coach with Kevin O'Connell. So I
• 1:24:45
  still have the Niners again. They have two. They lost two times,
• 1:24:48
  but they're pretty too good to I think good teams. Number two. Lions
• 1:24:54
  are still number three for me. Their offense, I know, I know,
• 1:24:59
  I know I was. It's not any and I'm not I did.
• 1:25:02
  But the the Detroit Lions are still number three. They still have Al Monroe,
• 1:25:06
  Saint Brown, who is bawling, who I think is in the top
• 1:25:10
  five right now for receivers, Wait till they get David Montgomery back. I
• 1:25:15
  get Jimior Gibbs had a good date, but David Montgomery is still their grounding
• 1:25:16
  pounds, slow down the pace, running back, smash mouth football. Their
• 1:25:23
  offensive line will get it going, Jared Goff will get it going. That
• 1:25:26
  defense will have a good bounce back. So I think the Lions, they
• 1:25:29
  and how I said earlier their losses, we're we're too. Who you think
• 1:25:33
  is the best team in the AFC. The Baltimore Ravens YEA and the Seahawks,
• 1:25:39
  who I will talk about in a minute. The Seahawks they got into
• 1:25:43
  shoot out with They score thirty eight points in that game, went to overtime.
• 1:25:45
  Really good game. So their two losses haven't been back and they did
• 1:25:49
  beat my Kanas City Chiefs. So the Dallas Cowboys for me are number four.
• 1:25:56
  Cowboys have lost to the Cardinals. I get Chie's even lost to the
• 1:25:59
  Coat last year. They're gonna have tough losses, but that's still a big
• 1:26:01
  loss and they could hurt them in the long run when it comes to seeding.
• 1:26:06
  Because the Eagles still are six to one and they're five or four and
• 1:26:11
  two. That may hurt them when seeding comes around. So that's why I
• 1:26:15
  have them number four. Still, I'm not staying there bad football. They
• 1:26:17
  can't be bad. Their fourth in the NFC in my rankings, and they
• 1:26:23
  lost prey decisively to a team above them, the forty nine ers. I
• 1:26:26
  want to see them have another The point differential from the Cowboys compared to other
• 1:26:30
  teams is really big, but I just want to see this offense unlock a
• 1:26:33
  little bit more. Tony Pollard's had a really big catch in that last game,
• 1:26:39
  but outside of that, it didn't look too efficient. And with Steedee
• 1:26:42
  Lamb, I want to see more games in a row where they get him
• 1:26:45
  involved. And I want to see this defense continue their dominance. Other than
• 1:26:49
  that, that's why I have the number four. And as for number five,
• 1:26:56
  I have the Seattle Seahawks. Seahawks, as you said earlier, their
• 1:26:59
  defense is looking really good. And on the other side, without DK,
• 1:27:03
  they still had their two rookie step up and entire Lockett still be consistent four
• 1:27:11
  for thirty eight. So that's something to be proud about for the Seattle Seahawks
• 1:27:15
  that they have guys to turn back to even in DK's absence. And in
• 1:27:20
  the backfield, Kennis Walker, as I harped on earlier, is looking like
• 1:27:26
  a top five running back this year, and so that's why I have them
• 1:27:29
  number five. I want to give an honorable mention though, Alena Falcons.
• 1:27:32
  Mm hmm, yeah, I know if their quarterback wasn't Yeah, that's the
• 1:27:36
  only that's the onliest year I have with them. Yeah. The Browns,
• 1:27:43
  yeah, all right, you ready, I'm ready, all right, So
• 1:27:47
  no, all right, I'm going to have the Philadelphia Eagles number one.
• 1:27:50
  It was an impressive win against the Miami Dolphins, and man, after this
• 1:27:57
  game against the Niners, so I'm gonna be honest. So obviously we write
• 1:28:02
  our notes before the podcast because it's just the last game that we need to
• 1:28:06
  watch, and so I had the Niners at number two. But after this
• 1:28:12
  game, man, I call me cowboy bias or not, I don't care.
• 1:28:15
  I have in the Dallas Cowboys number two. Did you see what we
• 1:28:18
  did to the Bile We beat them sixteen, sixty eight to zero. You
• 1:28:23
  see that sixty eight zero? Yeah? Yeah, No, But this offense
• 1:28:28
  is only going to get better, kind of like what I said a little
• 1:28:30
  bit with the Ravens as far as their red zone, as far as with
• 1:28:33
  the whole red zone efficiency, that's gonna be something that's gonna get solved.
• 1:28:38
  And I'm not necessarily worried about the seeding because now I know that the Niners,
• 1:28:44
  they beat the Cowboys heads ahead, but I think that Seattle's gonna knock
• 1:28:48
  a few games or maybe or one, maybe even both off the Niners and
• 1:28:54
  the Eagles. We're gonna play them twice, So I'm not necessarily worried about
• 1:28:57
  them. That's something that you could handle. You could take care of business
• 1:29:00
  there. So yeah, No, I have the Eagles one, the Cowboys
• 1:29:03
  two, and then I have the San Francisco forty nine Ers three. And
• 1:29:09
  the reason that I dropped the Niners three is because Brock Purdy is starting to
• 1:29:14
  look human. And what's even more scary is he's starting to turn over the
• 1:29:18
  ball. And one thing that happened last year that usually doesn't happen with the
• 1:29:24
  San Francisco forty nine ers, is they stayed healthy throughout the majority of the
• 1:29:28
  season. The San Francisco forty nine ers usually do not stay healthy. You
• 1:29:31
  look at the past three four years. Last year was an outlier year.
• 1:29:36
  And now Trent Williams is hurt. Deebo Samuel he has a hairline fracture in
• 1:29:41
  his shoulder, I believe right. I haven't looked too much into Diego Samuel's
• 1:29:45
  injury, but I think that is correct. Yeah, and then Seemac he
• 1:29:49
  looked obviously se Mac was Semac, but he has that oblique injury. So
• 1:29:55
  you're pretty banged up. And one thing that I saw in this in this
• 1:29:59
  game is that is that there was a bunch of pressure on brock Purty today
• 1:30:03
  and so this offensive line is starting to look not as dominant as they used
• 1:30:09
  to. And you can't say necessarily Trent Williams, he definitely does cover a
• 1:30:13
  lot of problems, but he doesn't solve the right guard and right tackle and
• 1:30:17
  center because that's where they were mostly getting blown up by. But yeah,
• 1:30:23
  no, it's that's the reason why I have the San Francisco forty nine ers
• 1:30:26
  number three and losing back to back games because I expected the Niners, especially
• 1:30:31
  after a loss, a loss that they shouldn't that shouldn't have happened. They
• 1:30:35
  go out next week and they start out flat against the Vikings. But all
• 1:30:41
  right, Number four, I have the Detroit Lions. And the reason why
• 1:30:45
  I have the Lions. I could see you having the Lions over the Cowboys,
• 1:30:49
  but it's just I think that it's always been those top three teams,
• 1:30:54
  the Eagles, Niners, Cowboys, however you however you mix it, it's
• 1:30:57
  just those three teams cream of the I just feel like they have the experience
• 1:31:02
  in Yes, Jared Golf, he's been to the Super Bowl, but as
• 1:31:04
  far as everybody else around that team, they really haven't been in that situation.
• 1:31:11
  And last week or against the Ravens, it was the first time when
• 1:31:15
  they were putting a high stake situation and they kind of crumbled. I'm not
• 1:31:19
  necessarily saying that they're not gonna make the playoffs or anything. I expect them
• 1:31:24
  to win the win the division and have ten plus wins, but yeah,
• 1:31:29
  I know the Lions. They kind of crumbled, and we'll be able to
• 1:31:33
  see the Cowboys and the Lions play up against each other late in December when
• 1:31:36
  football matters, so we'll be able to tell. And as far as with
• 1:31:41
  the Seahawks, we both agreed. As far as with that, their defense
• 1:31:44
  looks nasty. They're starting to run the ball well. Gino's doing Geno things.
• 1:31:47
  But all right, what's your bottle? Go ahead? Go ahead?
• 1:31:54
  Is I think you're a little too biased right now with the Cowboys at number
• 1:31:58
  two. How I said earlier in my ranking, the Cowboys have two tough
• 1:32:03
  losses that are going to go against them down the line. This is why
• 1:32:08
  I don't have them higher my rankings. And the offense hasn't looked too efficient,
• 1:32:11
  even in that last game versus the Chargers. They I need to see
• 1:32:16
  more from that offense. The defense, I've seen it all. I've seen
• 1:32:18
  enough. Even without Trayvon Diggs. They are top top five, top three
• 1:32:24
  defense. However anyone wants to put it, I won't disagree with you,
• 1:32:28
  but I just want to see more. I just want to see Tony Pollard.
• 1:32:30
  He does not look like the same running back that he did last year.
• 1:32:33
  Last year, I get he was in a smaller role, but he
• 1:32:35
  averaged almost nine yards per catch, and he was averaging like six yards per
• 1:32:42
  carry seven yards per carry this year, that that's going to drop because more
• 1:32:45
  efficiency. But he hasn't really had the same work He's had almost a similar
• 1:32:48
  workload as he had last year, and the efficiency has dropped quite a bit.
• 1:32:51
  I don't know if it's the the procedure that he had on his ankle.
• 1:32:57
  Was it the tightrope procedure or something like that where it kind of got
• 1:33:00
  them healthy really quick. And the bursch doesn't look like it there because I
• 1:33:03
  think on that catch where he had a sixty yard pass reception something like forty
• 1:33:08
  yard fifty yards, Yeah, I think he houses that last year. This
• 1:33:12
  year, it just didn't look like he had the same burst coming off that
• 1:33:14
  catch. And as for why I have the Lions above, I think the
• 1:33:17
  Lions losses don't hurt them as much as the Cowboys because one was in the
• 1:33:23
  AFC, so while the Cowboys have two losses in the NFC. And plus,
• 1:33:28
  I think this offense will get back on track. This is a high
• 1:33:30
  powered offense. The defense will get back on track for the Lions. This
• 1:33:32
  is why I have them above the Cowboys. That's my argument right now.
• 1:33:38
  Yeah, and so I'm not necessarily necessarily saying, oh, you're completely wrong,
• 1:33:44
  and I don't care. Call me Cowboys bias if you want. But
• 1:33:46
  this offensive line as far as so the biggest thing as far as for the
• 1:33:53
  Cowboys is as far as their offensive line being dominant. Obviously, you need
• 1:33:57
  your offensive line to score point stuff. But this offensive line hasn't lived up
• 1:34:02
  to par as of yet. And they're still trying to mesh together because this
• 1:34:09
  is the first time having Tyron Smith, Tyler Smith, Tyler beyond his Zach
• 1:34:13
  Martin and then having Terrence still all together for the first time since twenty twenty
• 1:34:18
  one. So they're still trying to mesh together. They're still getting better.
• 1:34:21
  And as far as what Tony Pollard, yes he did get caught, I
• 1:34:25
  don't necessarily think that it's gonna be a long term thing. I think that
• 1:34:30
  it's just him slowly getting healthier because you just have to just start trusting yourself
• 1:34:34
  a little bit more. And I think that what we saw last week is
• 1:34:40
  kind of gonna unlock something I said from the very beginning. I don't think
• 1:34:44
  this offense is gonna be something that is gonna be scoring thirty points. But
• 1:34:47
  I think they're gonna be playing with their defense. Mike McCarthy, he said
• 1:34:51
  he wants to run the ball more, play a little bit conservative, and
• 1:34:56
  that's exactly what they're doing, I feel like last week again and so Chargers
• 1:35:00
  kind of summed that up to a te You just play smart football. And
• 1:35:04
  one thing that I saw that could unlock this offense even more is, especially
• 1:35:10
  in his rookie year, Dak Prescott running around, extending, making plays and
• 1:35:14
  using his legs. I feel like it took him a while to trust his
• 1:35:17
  legs. So he's finally trusting his legs again and that opens up a whole
• 1:35:24
  dynamic for the offense. And these past two years, in the playoff games
• 1:35:30
  or even against the Niners, he wasn't running as much. He was just
• 1:35:33
  more trying to be a pocket quarterback. But I think Mike McCarthy and Brian
• 1:35:38
  Schottenheimer, who's the offensive coordinator, basically the realizing, Okay, well,
• 1:35:45
  Dak Prescott, he is better on the move or on the run and extending
• 1:35:48
  place that's his that's his fourteer right there. That's what worked for him his
• 1:35:54
  first few years in the league. That's what worked for him at Mississippi State.
• 1:35:58
  And like I said. As far as with the Lions, yeah,
• 1:36:02
  no, they have a dynamic offense and their defense does look good. But
• 1:36:08
  I just don't think that they could just take the jump from from one to
• 1:36:14
  ten, you know what I mean. Unlike I know the Cowboys, they've
• 1:36:17
  had divisional losses, but they've been there consistently, and so if they get
• 1:36:23
  over the hump, it would kind of be like, oh, okay,
• 1:36:24
  well that's not a surprise, you know what I mean. So it would
• 1:36:29
  be something where whereas if the the Cowboys, it's like, Okay, well
• 1:36:38
  they made that hump or made that jump, So so yeah, that would
• 1:36:45
  be something that they could do. Josh, I, Oh, I kind
• 1:36:53
  of just disconnected a little. Oh no, okay, okay a second,
• 1:36:57
  put it on you first. Okay, Okay, you're good. But I
• 1:37:00
  kinda I agree in that disagree the Lions from jumping from one to ten.
• 1:37:08
  I don't think that's the case because last year they didn't finish the season winning
• 1:37:12
  eight games in a row. So it's not like they're coming from like being
• 1:37:15
  like a mediocre team to being a suddenly a great team or a good team
• 1:37:24
  because they end at the season how they're starting this year they just played the
• 1:37:29
  Steahawks, who were who are fifth in the NFC of my rankings and your
• 1:37:34
  rankings, and then gone to shootout and then they lost to the Ravens,
• 1:37:40
  who was number one in your rankings and number two of my rankings. Yeah,
• 1:37:44
  so that's why I had them about the Cowboys. Their matchups are,
• 1:37:46
  They've just matched up better with their teams that they have played, and they
• 1:37:49
  have really executed until this week. And as for the offensive lines, the
• 1:37:54
  Lions have been pretty dominant offensively with their offensive line. So I don't think
• 1:38:01
  this is a game too much harp on for them. I think it is.
• 1:38:04
  It's pretty important, but I think it's equivalent to the Cowboys and Niners
• 1:38:11
  game. Yeah, I could. I could see that one hundred percent.
• 1:38:15
  And I was just talking about as far as that playoff experience. That's what
• 1:38:20
  I mean as far as because there there still is a big difference between a
• 1:38:27
  high stakes regular season game and a high stakes playoff game. Mm hm.
• 1:38:31
  So you've seen even though the Cowboys they've lost, they lost in the division
• 1:38:35
  round last year, they still showed up in a high stakes playoff game versus
• 1:38:40
  the Bucks. So there is I'm not saying there's not the potential in the
• 1:38:44
  Lions. You've seen that already with the Cowboys. We have yet to see
• 1:38:48
  that with the Lions. It's not necessarily as far as the talent. There's
• 1:38:54
  just as far as it sucks to say, but it's just as far as
• 1:38:58
  seeing it in the postseason. I feel like that's just the biggest thing for
• 1:39:01
  me, rather than you've seen it from the Niners, Eagles, and even
• 1:39:05
  the Seahawks. They've been in the playoffs even last year, even though they
• 1:39:10
  lost, it was still a good game for the most part against the Niners.
• 1:39:15
  But yeah, go ahead, Oh no, I was just agreeing with
• 1:39:19
  you. Oh okay, Well, all right, now that we got done
• 1:39:25
  with our top team, top five teams in the conference, we're gonna go
• 1:39:30
  ahead and talk about just an updated MVP ladder. We're gonna give away our
• 1:39:36
  top three. And Josh, did you want to go ahead and start it
• 1:39:42
  off or did you want me to start it off? Here? You guys
• 1:39:44
  started off this time? All right? Well, so who I have Number
• 1:39:48
  one? I feel like this shouldn't be a surprise. The way I've been
• 1:39:51
  talking about this quarterback, I think that it's Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson.
• 1:39:57
  What he's been doing this season is just amazing, and he's only improved as
• 1:40:02
  a passer. So this year one six hundred and ten passing yards, eight
• 1:40:08
  touchdowns, three interceptions, but three hundred and sixty sixty three rushing yards,
• 1:40:13
  five touchdowns, seventy one percent completion percentage one on one point nine passer rating.
• 1:40:18
  And it's just from the MVP season he had. He's only improving,
• 1:40:25
  and obviously you need the records to go along with it, and now that
• 1:40:29
  you have the signature win against the Lions, I think that it's just his
• 1:40:34
  to lose right now. Number two, I have Patrick Mahomes who statistically he
• 1:40:42
  he's blowing everybody away. He already has two thousand and seventeen passing yards,
• 1:40:46
  fifteen touchdowns, six interceptions, two hundred fourteen rushing yards, which Josh pointed
• 1:40:51
  out to me the second most by a quarterback right now, sixty nine point
• 1:40:56
  five completion percentage one point. Yeah, yeah, I know it's it's crazy,
• 1:41:01
  but yeah, I know Patrick Mahomes doing Patrick Mahomes things. The only
• 1:41:05
  thing is just it's not that Patrick Mahomes he's having a bad year or anything.
• 1:41:13
  Like I mentioned to you in Texas earlier. I just think it's not
• 1:41:17
  necessarily he's not an MVP worthy. It's just I feel like there's gonna be
• 1:41:24
  some voter fatigue. And I know Aaron Rodgers he won it back to back
• 1:41:28
  years, but that second year he had a ridiculous stat line. He had
• 1:41:32
  almost fifty touchdowns and only two three interceptions, so that's something that doesn't happen.
• 1:41:38
  And also in that year you had Tom Brady who was runner up,
• 1:41:43
  and yes he might have had over five thousand passing yards in that year,
• 1:41:45
  but other than that, the other stats say all favorite Rogers and then three,
• 1:41:51
  which I kind of have as a little bit of a surprise. Here
• 1:41:56
  I have Miles Garrett who's been having an outstanding year, and like I said
• 1:42:00
  earlier, he is he does make the drives or he does make the brown
• 1:42:06
  Jeez, I'm mixing up my words. He's the force. He's a force
• 1:42:11
  for the Browns. He has sixteen solo tackles, seven and a half sacks,
• 1:42:15
  three forced fumbles, six tackle for losses, sixteen QB hits, one
• 1:42:19
  pass deflection. So just what he's doing is ridiculous and on one of the
• 1:42:24
  best defenses in the league. It's it's just amazing to me, and he's
• 1:42:29
  just should deserve his flowers and he's running away with Defensive Player of the Year.
• 1:42:33
  But now that I gave mine, what do you have, Josh?
• 1:42:35
  Who's your top three? Okay, so number one for MVP the best player
• 1:42:45
  Tever Grace the football field, Patrick Mahomes twenty seventeen passing yards, like you
• 1:42:50
  said, fifteen touchdowns to six interceptions, and two hundred fourteen rushing yards.
• 1:42:56
  Why I want to separate Mahomes from the rest. And I'm not mad at
• 1:42:59
  you for picking Lamar, which I think it may go to him because of
• 1:43:01
  voter fatigue, but in reality, we all know it's always gonna be Mahomes
• 1:43:05
  if we really sit back. It's kind of like a Lebron James effect.
• 1:43:08
  It's like the Tom Brady effect. Even if you can even say maybe now
• 1:43:14
  those we're just stick with those two. We'll stick with those two, the
• 1:43:15
  Messi and Ronaldo effect. They always win the awards, you know, so
• 1:43:18
  it's like we're always gonna get there's a consistent top player in their leagues.
• 1:43:25
  So I'm gonna give the MVP to who the real MVP is for as of
• 1:43:28
  right, now Patrick Mahomes, he's second NFL in passing yards only, second
• 1:43:30
  to Tua first and passing touchdowns was fifteen and how you said earlier, second
• 1:43:35
  in the NFL in two hundred and fourteen rushing yards. That's above Josh Allen.
• 1:43:40
  That's above justin fields. That's a we can stop there those two top
• 1:43:44
  two, top three rushing quarterbacks in the NFL. That's above them two hundred
• 1:43:48
  and fourteen, and we're it's not just like he's making those happen when the
• 1:43:53
  play when they need it the most. You can go watch them back every
• 1:43:56
  game he's running on third and fifteen, third and eight thirty nine, fourth
• 1:44:00
  and ten. He's making these runs to put his team in positions to win
• 1:44:03
  games, to keep the drives moving forward. He's not just like running just
• 1:44:08
  the run. He's running when he needs to when the play breaks down.
• 1:44:12
  And how we've given him a lot, a lot these receivers, a lot
• 1:44:14
  of crap this year. He's doing this with these receivers. He's able to
• 1:44:17
  put up these numbers. He's able to keep his team winning games even with
• 1:44:20
  Skytt wore and not be able to get up in MBS only having one good
• 1:44:24
  game this year, could Darius Tony being turning into a gadget player and with
• 1:44:28
  received Rice still learning this offense, Sir, he has Travis Kelcey, but
• 1:44:33
  Travis kelce needs Mahomes and Mahomes needs Travis Kelcey. Those are just one in
• 1:44:38
  one that's always gonna happen. It's kind of like how Lamar Jackson needs Mark
• 1:44:41
  Andrews, you know. So that's what the Mahomes thing is. With the
• 1:44:45
  receiver still learning, he's doing this. Number two, I have Lamar Jackson.
• 1:44:48
  Lamar Jackson's sixteen ten, eight touchdowns, three interceptions and how you said,
• 1:44:55
  three hundred fifty three rushing yards which is number one and five touchdowns with
• 1:44:59
  his second to the brotherly show of himself Jalen Hurts. You know, he's
• 1:45:02
  always going to lead the league in rushing touchdowns when they do that. So
• 1:45:05
  Lamar Jackson number two, Lamar Jackson is leading this team. He had a
• 1:45:10
  really good game versus the Detroit Lions, a really great football team. Like
• 1:45:13
  you said, the signature win that you need to be established yourself as an
• 1:45:16
  MVP. So that's why I have him. Second. Number three was tough
• 1:45:20
  for me because I had to move Jered Goff from who I had as MVP
• 1:45:25
  before this week, So he's moved down the four for me as of right
• 1:45:29
  now. So number three, like you're surprising one, mine's going to be
• 1:45:32
  Tyreek Hill. Tyreek kilf p three receptions, nine hundred and two yards,
• 1:45:36
  and seven touchdowns. But I want to give you this. In games where
• 1:45:41
  he has less than one hundred receivic yards, we saw versus the Eagles and
• 1:45:44
  versus the Buffalo Bills, they both turned into losses. So when he's not
• 1:45:48
  getting the ball, well, he got the ball in versus the Eagles,
• 1:45:53
  but when he's not getting above one hundred yards and taking all the attention away,
• 1:45:58
  these are turning into for his team and the team in the games that
• 1:46:01
  he went they win won sixty three, one eighty one, one fifty seven.
• 1:46:05
  He's doing all of this within the span of five football games. Nine
• 1:46:10
  hundred two receiving yards, seven touchdowns. Tyrek Hill is number three for me
• 1:46:13
  in the MVP race. My bad, I kind of uh disconnected right there,
• 1:46:26
  but all right, so yeah, what Tyreek Hill he's doing, it's
• 1:46:30
  just it's Calvin Johnson numbers right there. It's it's ridiculous. He's it's the
• 1:46:36
  all time number three. Yeah, he's still on pace for twenty three hundred
• 1:46:40
  yards, right, Yeah, it's insane, it's insane what he's doing right
• 1:46:45
  now. Like that, you can do this much in five games, nine
• 1:46:47
  hundred and two yards in five games. Just think of that. Just think
• 1:46:51
  of that. Yeah, and even in nowadays NFL, even when it's a
• 1:46:59
  pass happy league, you still shouldn't be doing that. And I had Tyreek
• 1:47:04
  number four, but so man, I just I just had to show or
• 1:47:10
  give props to Miles Garrett and what he's doing right now. But there's really
• 1:47:15
  much to disagree or not much to disagree with. Because Patrick Mahomes, yeah
• 1:47:20
  he should be the MVP, because if Tom Brady he didn't get the MVP
• 1:47:27
  for ten straight years, and Patrick Mahomes it's probably not gonna happen to him
• 1:47:30
  either. But all right, let's go ahead and get into the weekend games.
• 1:47:38
  As far as the prediction, so you go to and er as far
• 1:47:42
  as you go up on the scoreboard. So actually we tied as far as
• 1:47:46
  for games we had to go to, we had to go to as far
• 1:47:51
  as the points system, and so he ended up winning that right there.
• 1:47:57
  So hopefully I could bounce back right here and and just get a w and
• 1:48:01
  hopefully tied up within these next two weeks. But all right, we have
• 1:48:05
  the Thursday night game. It's the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Buffalo Thursday night.
• 1:48:11
  Who do you have in this one? Tampa Buccaneers at Buffalo? You said,
• 1:48:16
  yeah, yeah, I don't want to see the Buccaneers is another game.
• 1:48:23
  But you know what, give me the upset, give me the Tampa
• 1:48:26
  Bay Buccaneers. I will take the Tampa Bay Buccaneers winning this football game.
• 1:48:30
  I think that they have the answer. They should have the answers. They
• 1:48:34
  established this run game. They will win this football game. Give me the
• 1:48:39
  Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Well wow, well, all right, I feel like
• 1:48:45
  I'll take the easy win right here. I feel like they should bounce back.
• 1:48:48
  I just want to, yep, just just make a little bit different,
• 1:48:54
  make it an easy win for me on this week. But all right,
• 1:48:58
  the twelve o'clock games, we have the Rams at the Cowboys after a
• 1:49:01
  bye week for Dallas. Who do you have the Dallas Cowboys? Uh?
• 1:49:06
  I think they will have trouble guarding Puka and Cooper Cup, which most teams
• 1:49:13
  have had this year. But they still win in pretty big fashion, I
• 1:49:16
  think. Yeah, No, I agree with you right there. I feel
• 1:49:21
  like it's going to be close throughout the first half. The Cowboys should pull
• 1:49:25
  away. But all right, we have the Patriots at Dolphins. After the
• 1:49:29
  Patriots get their their best win of the season. I know it's only their
• 1:49:32
  second one, but the best win of their season. Who do you have
• 1:49:36
  if they had Christian Gonzalez and Matthew Judon, I would take the Patriots because
• 1:49:41
  last game they played against each other it was a really close game. So
• 1:49:46
  I'm gonna lean towards the Dolphins this time without Christian Goanzalez and Matthew Judon.
• 1:49:51
  So give me the Dolphins in this one. Man, I'm really tempted to
• 1:49:57
  take the Patriots right here, but I have to take the Dolphins right here.
• 1:50:02
  Yeah no, I feel like Patriots, like you're like you were saying
• 1:50:05
  earlier, they have a bunch of potential. But no, Dolphins should win
• 1:50:09
  this one after a loss in Miami too. But next game you have the
• 1:50:14
  battle of the New York teams. You have the Jets off of bye week
• 1:50:16
  versus the Giants. Who do you have, Jess the man? You know
• 1:50:25
  what? Give me the New York Jets. They have the better defense Preese
• 1:50:30
  Hall versus Seaquon Barkley. I can't wait to see it. But give me
• 1:50:34
  the New York Jets in this one. I thought you're gonna say Giants for
• 1:50:39
  a second. I thought you're wanted to. I wanted to. But the
• 1:50:43
  Jets defense is just too much. You know what, Give me the New
• 1:50:46
  York team. Oh man, now you're oh yeah, wait New York.
• 1:50:53
  Yeah no, give me the Jets in this one right here. They should
• 1:50:56
  be able to play great defense and run the ball. But next game,
• 1:50:59
  right here, this game, it's seems pretty interesting. It's the Jaguars at
• 1:51:03
  the Pittsburgh Steelers. Mm, Jacksonville Jaguars. Give me the Jaguars, really
• 1:51:12
  close game. I just think this defense is really good. Plus I expect
• 1:51:16
  Trevor Lawrence. I hope Trevor Lawrence gets back on track. Mm hmm.
• 1:51:21
  Well all right, I guess I'm you're betting against Mike Tomlin again. And
• 1:51:27
  I have to take Mike Tomlin easily. Right here. Give me Mike Tomlin
• 1:51:30
  at home. He's uh, they're starting to do what they have to do.
• 1:51:34
  Offense is starting to click. So yeah, So all right. Next
• 1:51:38
  game, we have the Falcons at Titans. Who do you have in this
• 1:51:42
  one? Atlanta Falcons? Bejon comes back and dominates? I agree with there.
• 1:51:49
  I hope he does. I have him in fantasy, so have not.
• 1:51:55
  I don't know. If this is a family show, would all be
• 1:51:57
  pissed? All right? Next we have the Oh wait, I didn't even
• 1:52:03
  pick my team. Give me the Falcons too. Yeah no, give me
• 1:52:05
  the yeah no. Uh. Next game, we have the Texans at the
• 1:52:13
  Carolina Panthers. After the Texans are off of a bye Who do you have
• 1:52:17
  the Battle of the Rookies? Give me C. J. Stroud and the
• 1:52:20
  Texans. Yeah no, give me the Texans too. Uh. I think
• 1:52:26
  that the Panthers they stay winless. Yeah, but all right. Next game,
• 1:52:30
  we have the Minnesota Vikings at the Green Bay Packers. Who do you
• 1:52:34
  have in this one? Uh? If you asked me four weeks ago?
• 1:52:39
  Withst of the Packers, But Kirk Cousins is riding high right now and Jordan
• 1:52:42
  Adison's just broke out. Give me, and they might be without Christian Watson
• 1:52:45
  on the other side, So give me the Minnesota Vikings. Mm hm,
• 1:52:48
  yeah no, give me the Vikings too. It looks like they're starting to
• 1:52:53
  pick pick back up where they left off last year. All right, next
• 1:52:57
  game, it's New Orleans Saints versus. This is a sneaky game right here.
• 1:53:00
  Both teams are ar and four, need to win. Derek Carr put
• 1:53:05
  it together, Man, give me the stains after after going off on Derek
• 1:53:12
  Carr. You're trusting in Derek Carr to win. I'm trusting Alvin Kamara,
• 1:53:15
  crysal Lave Tomorrow, Davis Cameron, Jordan, Tyron, Matthew and Marshall Adamore
• 1:53:23
  good, good enough? Yeah, give me the Colts in this one.
• 1:53:28
  Give me the Colts in this one. Right here. I think Minshew magic
• 1:53:30
  had happened this week. If he was able to do that against the Browns,
• 1:53:34
  he should be able to do the same thing against the Saints. All
• 1:53:38
  Right, last twelve o'clock game, it's the Eagles at the Commanders. Who
• 1:53:44
  do you have in this one? Philadelphia Eagles? Yeah? No, give
• 1:53:48
  me Eagles too. This should he's no explaining he's gonna get Yeah, Sam
• 1:53:54
  how should get sacked like twenty times in this game? But this is a
• 1:53:58
  sneaky game. Division and I don't I don't care if it's divisional game.
• 1:54:03
  I think that the Eagles. Yeah, no, how many times samhow has
• 1:54:09
  been sacked, I think that's gonna. I think I wouldn't be surprised if
• 1:54:14
  ten sacks is on the table right now for the Eagles against the Commands.
• 1:54:16
  I'm not even gonna. I'm not even damn, I said. And I
• 1:54:19
  was like, oh, Dame, ten, I don't know about that.
• 1:54:24
  We should do it over under with each other. We could. We can
• 1:54:29
  start doing that next week for games like yeah, but all right, the
• 1:54:33
  three o'clock game. Oh, there's only one three o'clock game or a three
• 1:54:39
  h five game. This, Yeah, there's only one three three h five
• 1:54:43
  game. It's the Cleveland Browns at the Seattle Seahawks. This is the tough
• 1:54:47
  one right here. Who do you have? Seattle Seahawks? Right, Kenneth
• 1:54:55
  Walker, that didlong with us? Eat, give me the Seattle Seahawks.
• 1:55:00
  Yeah, no, I guess if I'm Witherspoon, he's he's playing running back,
• 1:55:03
  so let him eat. I'm I'm on that train to give me the
• 1:55:06
  Seahawks winning. That's the only three game that's weird. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:55:14
  that's only three or five games. I was looking at it. I thought
• 1:55:16
  I read it wrong. I guess not. There's no bye weeks this week,
• 1:55:18
  either, so no, it's week there should be some by weeks.
• 1:55:24
  I swore I saw something where there wasn't any bye weeks. That's weird.
• 1:55:27
  I don't know that is weird. But all right, then we have the
• 1:55:30
  start of the three twenty five games. It's the Ravens at the Cardinals.
• 1:55:34
  Who do you have in this one? Ravens at the Cardinals. I just
• 1:55:39
  can't the Ravens. Yeah, no, give me the Ravens too. Oh
• 1:55:44
  all right, This next one, it's a little bit sneaky right here.
• 1:55:47
  It's the Chiefs at the Broncos. Oh, I just give yeah, no,
• 1:55:55
  give you the Chiefs. And this one to Patrick Mahomes he owns the
• 1:55:59
  Broncos. Playing some explanation, but no, I'm kidding. This is a
• 1:56:02
  sneaky game right here. The Cincinnati Bengals off of a bye in San Francisco,
• 1:56:12
  San Francisco forty nine ers. Because I will never root for the Bengals
• 1:56:16
  when they play a good team. There's your Bengals hate coming out, all
• 1:56:24
  right. I guess you could say I'm doing a little bit of the opposite
• 1:56:27
  here too, because it's just hard for me to see the Niners lose three
• 1:56:30
  games? Oh did they lose three in a row? There's like there's something.
• 1:56:35
  Yeah, And all right, I guess we're gonna be talking about it
• 1:56:40
  next week because the Cincinnati Bengals they are going to be winning this game off
• 1:56:44
  of a bye, and Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase will be clicking. All
• 1:56:48
  right. I know. Look, watch that's gonna end up costing me in
• 1:56:51
  the damn pickums. Yeah, losing, I feel it. No, it's
• 1:56:57
  it's time to bounce back. But all right, night football game. This
• 1:57:00
  is the ugly game. It's the Chicago Bears at the Los Angeles Chargers.
• 1:57:05
  What do you mean, bro, Tyson badging about outplayed Justin Herbert? Bro
• 1:57:11
  No, I'm just kidding the Chargers. Give me the Chargers. I don't
• 1:57:15
  see them yet losing this game. Yeah, no, give me the Charges
• 1:57:18
  in this one, even if Justin Fields he does come back. All right,
• 1:57:23
  then Monday night football we have the Raiders at the Lions. Who do
• 1:57:29
  you have in this one? Wait? The Sunday night football game is the
• 1:57:31
  Bears and the Chargers. Yes, that's what I'm saying. This is can
• 1:57:35
  we get like what it was called when they do the Yeah, yeah,
• 1:57:41
  let's flex a game in there or something angles and Niners they should Yeah yeah,
• 1:57:46
  let's flex that. Man. But as for the Raiders, and who
• 1:57:49
  are they playing? The Lions in d Detroit. Lions get the dub and
• 1:57:57
  go six and two. Yeah, no, Lions, they should win this
• 1:58:01
  game, there's no, yeah no, after that terrible loss, they're gonna.
• 1:58:06
  Hey, but the Raiders best up my eliminator challenge last week. So
• 1:58:10
  I don't even want to hear. Oh, I don't want. I don't
• 1:58:13
  know. They could be they could do the opposite this ye week and like
• 1:58:15
  me be mad at them. This is why. Yeah, that's true.
• 1:58:18
  You always you always have the teams do the opposite. So yeah, no,
• 1:58:23
  give give me the Lions in that one. Yeah. But all right,
• 1:58:27
  but all right, now that we got done talking about NFL football,
• 1:58:31
  we're gonna talk a little bit about college football and the games that we wanted
• 1:58:35
  to see last week. So first we're gonna start with Ohio State versus Penn
• 1:58:43
  State, in which Ohio State won twenty to twelve. Josh, did you
• 1:58:48
  see any big takeaways from this game? It was a really close game.
• 1:58:55
  Pretty much all the way up to the end where Marvin Harrison Junior had a
• 1:58:58
  really good block set for him. He just ran around the outside safety and
• 1:59:02
  scored a touchdown. So it was it was a really close game pretty much
• 1:59:06
  the entire way. But my biggest takeaway I just really wanted Steve Marvin Harrison
• 1:59:11
  Junior in action. Heleve in for one sixty two one touchdowns, showing why
• 1:59:15
  people are saying that his stealing is Calvin Johnson and his Flores T. Higgins.
• 1:59:20
  This is why he's coun Maybe if there wasn't a need for if there
• 1:59:24
  wasn't a KILEB Williams, that we might be looking at the number one pick
• 1:59:26
  in the NFL draft. Yeah. No, he's just something ridiculous. And
• 1:59:32
  as far as what the Ohio State uh, their defense is starting to become
• 1:59:38
  a championship caliber defense. And imagine if this team had C. J.
• 1:59:42
  Stroud and he stayed another year, this team would easily be winning the national
• 1:59:46
  championship. Yeah. Now he's just about the year Yeah, which is crazy.
• 1:59:53
  And what was even more impressive is that is that the Penn State rushing
• 1:59:58
  rushing attack, they had twenty six rushing attempts only forty nine yards. That's
• 2:00:02
  one point nine yards per carry, and there were zero for fifteen on third
• 2:00:09
  down, zero for fifteen. They got the last one, so they were
• 2:00:12
  one for sixteen, which was basically garbage time right there. That's ridiculous.
• 2:00:17
  That never happens in college football NFL football either. That's it. It's just
• 2:00:23
  ridiculous of what they've done. And not to mention they didn't have Denzel Burke,
• 2:00:28
  their number one dB, they didn't have Travon Henderson, or they didn't
• 2:00:31
  have their number two receiver in which you talked last week America. Yeah,
• 2:00:38
  yeah, it was like a game time decision. I was a little disappointed,
• 2:00:44
  but Marvin Harrison Junior it looked a little quiet for some reason. But
• 2:00:47
  you just can't stop that man. M Yeah, No, he's like you
• 2:00:53
  said, he what, he'd be the first number one overall pick since Keishawn
• 2:00:57
  Johnson, Right, Yeah, it wasn't for Caleb Williams. Yeah, yeah,
• 2:01:00
  that's what I think. But all right, we're gonna go ahead and
• 2:01:04
  get into this next game. It was the Florida State Seminals, of course,
• 2:01:11
  winning against Duke thirty eight to twenty. Did you have any takeaways from
• 2:01:15
  this game? Josh Keon Coleman didn't like have as much of an impact as
• 2:01:20
  he did as he had the last couple of weeks. But Jordan Travis.
• 2:01:25
  I really wasn't like a really big Jordan Travis guy. But this week he
• 2:01:29
  like he's played really good. Twenty seven for thirty six to sixty eight two
• 2:01:32
  touchdowns and on with his legs ten for sixty two in another touchdown. If
• 2:01:38
  your quarterback is efficient like that on passing, with passing and running, you
• 2:01:43
  should be able to win football games. Mhm. Yeah no, And that
• 2:01:46
  was just the biggest thing as far as for them. This is crazy.
• 2:01:51
  Yeah, no, it is. And before I get into as far as
• 2:01:56
  Florida State, shout out to Jaquez More. He's a straight up dog and
• 2:02:00
  he he should be somebody that should be looked out for as far as for
• 2:02:05
  the draft because he is a junior this year. I don't know if he's
• 2:02:09
  gonna declare, but just shout out to him real quick. But yeah,
• 2:02:13
  no, this game, it was close at first, and it kind of
• 2:02:15
  had me a little bit worried. After I was making those bold statements about
• 2:02:19
  Florida State winning by twenty plus points. Obviously they didn't but we still got
• 2:02:25
  the job done. But I think that I'm I'm not gonna lie to you,
• 2:02:30
  Josh. I'm I'm a little bit more objective. With Florida State.
• 2:02:32
  I feel like we're gonna end up making the playoffs and I don't think I
• 2:02:38
  feel like we could end up getting blown out by Georgia or something like that.
• 2:02:43
  So yeah, but if we make them go ahead, I just think
• 2:02:46
  especially with these other top teams losing, Yeah, like, yeah, you'll
• 2:02:51
  have a good chance of making it. Yeah. No, I'm not saying
• 2:02:56
  as far as us not making it. It's just as far as when we
• 2:02:59
  get there, it's gonna be kind an uphill battle. Yeah, it's gonna
• 2:03:02
  be uphill battle. But yeah, no shout out to the Florida State seminals.
• 2:03:05
  Uh, we're not gonna talk about this, but we're gonna win next
• 2:03:10
  week against Wake fourst. But the game that we are gonna talk about is
• 2:03:15
  we both agreed on this game that we wanted to talk about. It was
• 2:03:18
  it's Oregon versus Utah, number eight Oregon versus number thirteen Utah both coming off
• 2:03:25
  of wins. What are you looking for in this game? Right here?
• 2:03:30
  Josh, I just want to see if this Utah defense can slow down this
• 2:03:35
  Oregon offense. Oregon has a really good offense. They they if it wasn't
• 2:03:42
  up to some pretty bad decisions in that Washington game, we may be looking
• 2:03:45
  at Oregon as a top four team instead of number eight. You know.
• 2:03:50
  So Bo Nicks has played really good this year, Bucky Irving, and I
• 2:03:54
  want to see Troy Franklin from this Oregon side kind of work his way up
• 2:03:59
  toward that top five consideration for wide receivers in the country, top top ten
• 2:04:02
  maybe for sure, for sure top ten, but top five. I want
• 2:04:05
  to see them. It's a little with a big game here. I want
• 2:04:08
  to see this Utah defense limit this Oregon offense. Yeah, and this game
• 2:04:14
  is gonna have big PAC twelve Championship appearance stakes because one of these teams are
• 2:04:19
  gonna end up having two losses, so obviously they're not gonna make it,
• 2:04:23
  and even their playoff potential right there. As far as that making it,
• 2:04:28
  it's gonna be whoever wins this game. They're pretty much gonna face Washington.
• 2:04:31
  So I know we don't usually do predictions for college football, but who do
• 2:04:36
  you have winning this one? Oregon, They're favored by seven. By the
• 2:04:40
  way, it is in Oregon. Mm hmm, I got the I got
• 2:04:43
  orgon on this one. Hey, this could be our tiebreaker. Yeah,
• 2:04:46
  oh no, you're you're probably gonna pick Oregon. Huh. Well, you
• 2:04:49
  know what, just just to make it different, I'll pick Utah. They
• 2:04:54
  beat USC last week. I think Utah they're gonna end up making the pack
• 2:04:59
  t Championship again. Hm. But all right, Uh, now that we
• 2:05:03
  talked about college football, we're going to get into some MLB just real quick,
• 2:05:09
  a quick recap before we cap off this. So we're gonna say that
• 2:05:15
  for a little bit later. That game that I know you don't want to
• 2:05:18
  talk about right now. So it it was Game six Arizona Diamondbacks versus the
• 2:05:25
  Philadelphia Phillies, and the Diamondbacks they they tied this series up and now it's
• 2:05:30
  going to be a game seven Tuesday or today whenever you guys are listening to
• 2:05:34
  this, in which they won five to one. Did you have any big
• 2:05:39
  takeaways from this game? Right now? I just want to say, because
• 2:05:43
  it's been a while since we're talking about the games, you know, so
• 2:05:45
  I just want to stay and after those first two games, I thought the
• 2:05:49
  the Phillies were gonna run away with this, with this, with how they
• 2:05:54
  were batting with it when it went from from Trey Turner, Bryce Harper,
• 2:05:58
  Kylee Schobert, Nick cost A, Rio Muto, like they were all ball
• 2:06:02
  and hitting them out of the park, getting on base all that. Then
• 2:06:06
  suddenly it just started like and once they got to Arizona, it started wearing
• 2:06:12
  off, and that Arizona team started bouncing back, bouncing back, and now
• 2:06:15
  they're they've been really resilient today. They looked, they looked really good.
• 2:06:19
  And now it's a game seven, important winner. Winner goes to the World
• 2:06:24
  Series and they'll see who steps up. Yeah, and like you were saying
• 2:06:29
  as far as when they went to Arizona and those two, those two or
• 2:06:33
  Game three where they had that ninth inning to win the game, and then
• 2:06:38
  same thing in the in game four, And maybe it's just the Phillies,
• 2:06:44
  like how we're talking about before the Phillies, how they were had these had
• 2:06:48
  these amazing batting averages from three or four different players. Maybe they're just coming
• 2:06:53
  back down to earth because it's natural. Yeah, no, you not supposed
• 2:07:00
  to be doing that. And the Diamondbacks say whether the storm, and I'll
• 2:07:02
  tell you what. Now, all the pressure is on Philly right here,
• 2:07:09
  and so actually it just got released. As far as the well, it's
• 2:07:14
  not for sure as far as the pictures, so it's gonna be Ranger Suarez
• 2:07:18
  the Philadelphia Phillies picture versus Brandon fat I believe I said his name right.
• 2:07:27
  Did you want to make predictions for as far as who wins this one right
• 2:07:30
  here? To face a team, I don't want to go against the Phillies,
• 2:07:34
  man, but I'll take the Phillies in this one. Phillies, all
• 2:07:42
  right, Well, yeah, since what the Phillies they did to the Braves,
• 2:07:46
  I guess it is kind of out of spite right here. Give me
• 2:07:49
  the Diamondbacks, say the underdog right here? So yeah, no, hopefully
• 2:07:54
  the Diamondbacks they win this one. Well, I'm all right. I just
• 2:07:57
  thought the Phillies were going to run away with it after those two games,
• 2:08:01
  and then just the Diamondbacks had an answer. Yeah, I know it.
• 2:08:05
  They've been responding no matter what they I don't know, They've just they just
• 2:08:11
  looked like one of the most complete teams in baseball just as soon as postseason
• 2:08:15
  started. It's weird baseball it's just weird. You can't predict it. But
• 2:08:18
  all right, I know you've been dreading to talk about this right here,
• 2:08:22
  so so before I believe the last time we talked, game one hadn't started
• 2:08:31
  yet. Correct, No, the Rangers were up to oh oh yeah,
• 2:08:35
  the Rangers they were up to zero. And then the Ashtros they won three
• 2:08:41
  games in a row in Dallas, and then the last two games the Rangers
• 2:08:48
  they won. So how do you feel about this? You're feeling good.
• 2:08:52
  I just think both these teams are the dumbest teams have ever seen. They
• 2:08:56
  just don't know how to win at home, Like do they not like believe
• 2:08:58
  in home? Till that Venice. Everything happens on the road, you know,
• 2:09:01
  I guess if you're in Texas, it's always a home game. So
• 2:09:05
  but in those three games last time we left, we saw Jordans, we
• 2:09:11
  saw Montgomery, and then we saw Euo Allde ball out limit this ring,
• 2:09:16
  this this high powered Astros offense. But then we saw the next three games
• 2:09:22
  Jose al two and Jordan Alvarez really come to life. They Jordan looked like
• 2:09:31
  a man on a mission. They call him baby Poppy for a reason.
• 2:09:35
  He just hits, deers, gets on base, brings in runs al two
• 2:09:39
  by really look like probably the best home run hitter in postseason history. Like
• 2:09:45
  a where he's at number two right now, he's he's looked. He looked
• 2:09:48
  like it. In those three games. He hit two home runs. In
• 2:09:50
  one game, he hit a walk up basically a walk off home run.
• 2:09:52
  In another game, they still went to the bottom in that inning, but
• 2:09:56
  that was he brought his team up to five to two or five to three,
• 2:10:00
  right and it was when it was five to two, yeah, yeah,
• 2:10:03
  so he brought him. He brought him up with that clutch home run
• 2:10:07
  to end to steal the game basically. But then we just saw this team
• 2:10:11
  come back to earth again. They had those three strong games and then the
• 2:10:16
  Rangers started once they got back to the top of their pitching lineup, this
• 2:10:20
  is when they started making noise, when they started moving again, and it
• 2:10:22
  just it just and then what's the name my cousin, you know, Otto
• 2:10:28
  last Garcia, you know, just came to live, just just decided to
• 2:10:35
  get in a fight and just turn into like probably the greatest baseball player in
• 2:10:39
  the history of baseball. Just went absolutely nukings to the to the the back
• 2:10:46
  of the stadium. This last game, he had two home runs, four,
• 2:10:50
  he had four hits, five at bats, Like, he had an
• 2:10:54
  eight hundred average in Game seven. That is insane, ridiculous. It's insane
• 2:10:58
  that you even get on the plate five times to begin with, and you
• 2:11:01
  had an eight hundred average. So and then the game before that grand slam,
• 2:11:07
  he had a grand slam. What more do you want to say?
• 2:11:07
  Like he brought in five total, four total points in that one at bat.
• 2:11:13
  So it's like he and then the game before that he had another home
• 2:11:16
  run. He had like he had a home run in basically every game.
• 2:11:18
  And he's just in the MVP of this series. I believe he had seven
• 2:11:22
  home runs. Yeah, he did that. He's my MVP of this series.
• 2:11:26
  He really took the the Rangers on his shoulders and was like, just
• 2:11:31
  get on top and I'll just take you off to the promised Land. Yeah,
• 2:11:35
  paused, Yeah no, But uh, yesterday when I was watching the
• 2:11:41
  game, Uh so, Adolos Garcia, he was struggling before then before he
• 2:11:46
  hit that grand slam, he was zero for four and then I was wondering
• 2:11:52
  if that was going to put him back on track. Well, boy,
• 2:11:54
  it definitely did put him back on track, Yeah, a little too much,
• 2:11:58
  like yeah, I know, and yeah no, he literally hit the
• 2:12:01
  track, so he was literally back on track. But yeah, no,
• 2:12:09
  this Rangers offense, like I've been saying, if it wasn't for the Braves
• 2:12:13
  having such a dominant offense, they would be going down as far as in
• 2:12:16
  these past ten years, as far as one of the best offenses in the
• 2:12:20
  league, and you cannot stop them. And I feel like, whoever makes
• 2:12:24
  it out of the National League, I feel like it's the Rangers World Series
• 2:12:31
  to lose because they have home field advantage. And so by the next time
• 2:12:35
  we talk, I don't know when. I know the World Series starts Friday,
• 2:12:41
  so we're not gonna miss many games. So if you have the Phillies
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  versus Rangers, and I go ahead and make predictions, and I'll make my
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  predictions for the Diamondbacks and Rangers. I'm gonna sound like they're Rangers eater,
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  but and I'm from Texas, so but I have Phillies and six if that,
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  if it's the other way around, I have Rangers in six. Yeah,
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  well, well fair enough. Uh so I have the Diamondbacks advance into
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  the World series. So I think, like I said, it's the Rangers
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  to lose, and I think the Rangers. If so, if they don't
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  play the Phillies, I think that it's gonna it's gonna be definitely easier for
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  them. So I say that the Rangers they win this series easily in five
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  games against the Diamondbacks. They're just the best team in baseball. And that's
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  gonna conclude this episode right here. Josh, do you have any how many
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  how many games would you say if they played the Phillies. If they played
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  the Phillies, Oh, I'd say that go all seven. I'd say that
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  go all seven, just like they do make it, you know, oh
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  yeah, yeh yeah, yeah yeah. So we could end up going back
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  to this and seeing who's more accurate. Ya know, I get you,
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  I get you. I know you want to see me on my great take
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  great takes. Oh yeah yeah, I know. It just hasn't been so
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  good or good catch up within these two weeks, ye catching up. Don't
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  worry, trust trust trust I'm s But all right, any last words before
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  we go, Josh just can't wait for the Chiefs to go seven and one.
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  Take rise above in mister Alfonso's rankings this week. Can't wait for the
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  NBA season to start. We have something in the store for y'all right before
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  it starts, So just just stay tuned and uh, great y'all. I
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  hope you'll have a great week and stay safe, yes sir, well all
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  right, Uh, this is gonna go ahead and conclude episode number seventeen once
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