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EP 27: NFL Week 1 Thoughts & Over/Under Reactions · 3 Guys, 6 Balls NFL Podcast

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3 lifelong friends, 6 trusty balls and endless NFL ticks.
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Welcome to three guys 6 balls NFL podcast.
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Welcome to episode 27 of Three guys 6 balls NFL podcast.
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Week one of the NFL season is officially in the books and so
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we're going to give some of our thoughts on the the NFL season
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to start off here. So we're going to give some
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thoughts from Week 1. We're going to do some over or
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under reactions from Week 1 and then later on in the show we're
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going to talk a little bit about some of the teams that we have
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eliminated as our potential new favorite teams.
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And Avery also has a game for us today.
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So got kind of a packed schedule.
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So to start off, Avery, just give us one thought from week
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one of the NFL. It could be something good,
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something bad. Oh.
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Wait. You go, you go, you go.
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Just be. Pardon.
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No, no, no, no, no. Why don't you get it out of the?
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Way. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. Listen, listen, listen.
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Linda, it. Had to do with what Joel said,
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but I'll save it for my thoughts.
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So, Avery, please. OK.
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Begrudgingly, yes. I thought the Packers look a lot
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better than I thought they'd be. And I don't know if it's
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necessarily Michael Parsons or just just that team just feeling
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confident they're looking great. I don't think that that is the
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best that the Lions could do, but I really like that showing
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and I think the Packers have a lot to look forward to, which
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pains me a little because I'm not a big fan of the Packers.
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Same. All right, will give us one
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thought from week one of the NFL.
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It is possible looking at the looking at the schedules that
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the Bills go 16 and O and that the Ravens 17 O he's me and the
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Ravens go 16 and one. That was two of the absolute and
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I will come back to this game later on.
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But that was some of the best football that I've seen in a
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long time. And my other half thought I was
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going to say earlier is it was so nice to watch football this
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entire weekend and not get mad at any point.
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Never once did I be like, oh, my team.
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Yes. Oh, come on, you guys.
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This an unaffiliated NFL fan. Avery, you have been vibing your
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whole life on this. Now, granted, UNC football maybe
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tearing her down some. Were you at Oregon for football?
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And so like, like unaffiliated NFL fan.
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That might just be where I end up here.
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I might just be an unaffiliated NFL fan.
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I would realize Avery's had it right.
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This whole time we've been trying to get him to pick a
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team. Why?
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I was working online and you can just buy NFL shield Rocco stuff.
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Just a hat that has the NFL shield on it.
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NFL across it. I considered it strongly anyway.
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Yeah, I agree, it was very nice to just not care about the
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result of any game. It's like watching The Hunger
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Games. Like I just hope the capital is
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doing well. I hope that you know, all the
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contestants are trying hard, but I'm really rooting for the
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capital. Yeah, but hey, you know what?
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It's entertainment and it's it was entertaining, very
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entertaining this week. Yeah, it was very entertaining.
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That Bills game was nuts. That was crazy.
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Nuts. I, I, I'm at Sunday Night
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Football, right? Like that was that was the night
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time game. It was 15 points with four
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minutes left in the fourth quarter.
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That was 9 something PM here on the West Coast, which means it's
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11:00 PM on a work night on the East Coast.
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There's no way. I mean, are people left the
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stadium earlier It was in Buffalo.
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People left the stadium early. Alright, well, I guess we lost
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this one And then and then you come back in the fashion they
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did. Just absolutely insane.
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Must watch. It's very similar, is very
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similar to the Vikings Bears. Just like strong fourth quarter
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Bills had a 22 point, fourth quarter Vikings had a 21 point.
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Jeez. Well, Speaking of Speaking of
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the Vikings Bears, my thought from week one that I took away
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is Kevin O'Connell is a fantastic head coach, absolutely
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fantastic head coach. You have a your, you have your,
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I guess you could say rookie quarterback in JJ McCarthy, who
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everybody has been wondering how this guy's going to play.
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Everybody's been criticizing this guy because he's a hand off
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specialist Will and. I'll admit it, I'm not.
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I'm not ready to to move off of that from him anyway.
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Anyways, you, you got this guy who comes into his first NFL
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career game and everybody has been criticizing him before he's
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even played a game. He plays the whole first half
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and just struggles. And then in the second-half, in
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the third quarter, he comes in and he throws a pick six for his
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first NFL touchdown. Everybody's like I told you, JJ
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McCarthy sucks. He's terrible.
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And then something flipped the switch for JJ McCarthy.
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I don't know what Kevin O'Connell said to JJ McCarthy or
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what he did with JJ McCarthy to flip that switch, but it was 17
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to 6 and JJ McCarthy throws 2 touchdown passes and gets a
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rushing touchdown and completely turns that game around for the
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Vikings. And I just think that Kevin
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O'Connell is an absolutely fantastic coach, one, because he
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was able to turn that around for not only his team, but with JJ
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McCarthy. And the, the second reason why
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I, I think he's a fantastic coach is because of what
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happened at the end of that game.
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So when the Bears cut the lead to three, so they made it 2724,
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there was 2 minutes and two seconds left on the clock.
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The Bears decide to kick the ball in bounds and the Vikings
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receive it. Now, Kevin O'Connell had told
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his player who was receiving the ball, Look at me when you
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receive the ball and I'll tell you what to do.
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So the guy looks over to the sideline and Kevin O'Connell,
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you can see him saying come out, bring the ball out.
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So the guy runs out and then with one minute and 55 seconds
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left, the Vikings have the ball. And guess what?
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The Bears don't have the two-minute warning to use to
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stop the clock because he's a fantastic head coach and he knew
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exactly the strategy to use, just prevent the Bears from
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having that extra time out. I just think the display of
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coaching by Kevin O'Connell in that game was just absolutely
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fantastic. And so maybe it's recency, but I
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just think that's what I took away from Week 1 is, is Kevin
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O'connell's just absolutely fantastic.
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And to add on to that, I mean, that was Ben John.
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That was supposed to be our time to see what Ben Johnson is made
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out of. You know, he's I don't want to
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say it's the same situation. It's not.
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It's kind of similar where it's like you got both of these teams
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that people are thinking like are going to take steps forward.
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I mean, obviously the Vikings did well last season, but no one
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thinks they're going to be taking a step back just because
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they lost Sam Darnold. So I think the Bears with Ben
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Johnson and just the whole new look there.
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It was one of those things where I was excited to see how it went
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because I see Ben Johnson and Kevin O'Connell kind of in the
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same bracket as of coaches where they're both young, bringing a
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new energy. And you can kind of tell these
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guys are going to be around the league for the next 1020 years.
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Like I don't see either of these guys just falling out.
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That being said, I definitely think if it was a tale of two
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halves for Kevin O'Connell, if you look at that first half, you
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like, dude, this guy is getting torched.
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I don't know what he's doing. I don't know what the plan is.
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But that second-half is really, I mean, you look at the full
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game, it's like, hey, do you come out with a win or not?
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And they did, and they looked really good towards the end, so.
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And that's what makes a great coach.
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When things aren't going your way, can you turn it around,
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especially with your quarterback who's never played a game in the
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NFL? This is his first game and he
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struggled the entire first half and into the third quarter and
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he turned it around somehow. All right, so let's get move on
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to our week one over or under reactions.
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So got a few questions I'm going to ask you guys and you guys
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tell me if this is an overreaction or an under
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reaction. So the first one here is
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overreaction or under reaction. Bills wide receiver Keon Coleman
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will finish in the top ten in receiving yards.
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This season overreaction. I think why do you say that an
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accurate reaction, Beaver, you first.
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Because no one would have said that before this week's game.
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I mean, unless you're a Bills fan maybe, and this might be
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another over under reaction later on, but do you do any of
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you guys think Daniel Jones will be a top five quarterback in
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production this year? I mean, no, they routed the
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Dolphins. I just think that there's a lot
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of things in this and for the most part it's one week.
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But no, I think even if he does catch fire, I think other
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defenses are going to kind of put a stop to that.
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But I don't, I'm not saying he's going to be bad.
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I just don't think he's going to be.
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Tough to him. I semi disagree with that
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comparison, Avery, because we're talking about Daniel Jones on
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the Colts, who they were supposed to be bad bad and we're
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then we're talking about the dolphins team, which was damn
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near historically bad week one. They weren't even the worst
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technically weren't even the worst team of the week, but they
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looked very, very bad. And so we're talking about a guy
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who is not a bad football player and comparing him to a team that
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played incredibly bad versus one of the only real options on a
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team that has arguably the best quarterback in the NFL.
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And so when you have the best quarterback, you're going to
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have, you're going to have the top 10 receiver in the NFL.
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It just is, it's going to happen.
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At least it should happen. And so I I remember in our
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fantasy draft when we were sitting here talking about it
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and Keon Coleman was still on the board and said, hey, we need
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to get that guy because Buffalo has no one else.
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They don't like, they don't have anybody else.
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Matt Hollis isn't there anymore. The Dalton Kincaid is not
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reliable. They don't have good, good,
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reliable people. And and the way Josh Allen was
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just slinging in the football in every scenario and he was just
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catching it, it seriously. And this, this is an
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overreaction here. They reminded me of of back in
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the day, Peyton, Marvin Harrison.
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Or is it just throwing the football and he'll get it.
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He'll just he'll just get it wherever he's at.
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He'll just make the play. But he just continuously did the
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right thing, was in the right spot, which is what you want
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more than anything. So Avery, I have a follow up
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question to that. So if I would have told you that
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last year, Lad Mcconkey would have finished in the top ten in
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receiving yards, would you have said yes?
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Probably not. Last year at the start of the
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season. He finished #10 he finished at
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#10 he was a top 10 receiver in receiving yards last year.
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So not that that that this it's a different player, a different
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player, but just, you know, just saying, nobody would have
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thought that Lad Mcconkey would have finished top ten in
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receiving yards. Oh, I'm not saying it's not
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possible. I mean, there's probably a lot
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of guys that make the top ten that I wouldn't have thought.
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I just don't think that this week is any indication of it.
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OK, so I think I think this is an under reaction personally
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because you look at a sat line, he had eight catches for 112
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yards and a touchdown on 11 targets.
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Guess how many times he was targeted with double digit
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targets last year? One time and it was in the one
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time and it was in the very last game of the regular season and
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Josh Allen did not play in that game.
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So that was the only time last year where he was targeted with
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double digit targets. So in his rookie season, he was
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never targeted more than seven times in any other game.
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Aside from that one game where Josh Allen did not play.
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The most catches he had in any game last year was 5, and he did
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that one time. He never had five catches again.
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It was only that one time. He averaged 19.2 yards a catch
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last year, which is pretty Dang good.
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But this time so far, he's averaging 14 yards a catch.
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Now that may look worse, but to me that tells me that he is a
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more well-rounded receiver now versus last year instead of just
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being a 1 trick pony where he can occasionally make a a large
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play. He had one 100 yard receiving
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game last year and he already has one this year.
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I think he's going to finish as a top 10 receiver in receiving
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yards this year because I think Josh Allen trusts him and I
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think that he has become a more well-rounded receiver than he
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was last year going into his second year.
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And this is this is no real indication on the entire season,
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but Buffalo as a team, sorry, Buffalo threw the ball 60% of
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the time. Now, granted, they were playing
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from behind a lot in that game. And 60% is an incredibly high
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mark. And so if you had a team who's
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got a player like Josh Allen and you plan passing 60% of the
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time, I mean, your receivers are just going to be good.
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It was just going to have all the yards, but again, it's Week
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1 and they they were behind for most of the games until the very
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end. So that's it's.
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Different, right? But we've also talked about this
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before is in the AFC championship game, who did Josh
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Allen have to rely on? He didn't have anybody right
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now, if Keon Coleman can, at least he doesn't have to have 8
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catches for 112 yards every game.
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But if he can just be a consistent receiver that Josh
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Allen trusts, that's going to make all the difference for the
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Bills, not only in the regular season, but when they get into
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the playoffs as well. All right, so second one here,
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overreaction or underreaction? The Green Bay Packers are the
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best team in the NFC. Overreaction.
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And give your reasoning while I kill time.
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So I mean, the Super Bowl champions won their first game,
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right? Right.
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So the Super Bowl champion Eagles won their first game.
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And yeah, it didn't look the prettiest, but they had a huge
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weather delay and that killed all the vibes.
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Nothing happened on Thursday before before that, right?
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So like, they didn't? Even have their best defensive
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player because. They yeah, their best defensive
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player was an absolute idiot, spit on her human, which is just
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never OK. And he was.
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Either best defensive player. Yeah, yeah.
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He got he got fined 57,000 or 52,000 something like that some.
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For the spit. Yeah, for frustrating on him.
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No, no game suspensions or anything like that besides the
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one he had objected for before the game even started.
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Absolutely ridiculous. So I I think that you have to
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beat the best to be the to be the best.
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And I'm not calling the Chargers the best.
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I'm sure we'll get to that too. But but I, I think that you, I
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still have to give to the Eagles.
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I, I think that they, they did just enough to win and didn't,
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didn't do more. That's why I kind of stopped
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there. I would say that's an
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overreaction. I would say that kind of going
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with what Will said, not necessarily need to beat the
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best, but I think that the teams that are ahead in my mind are
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the Eagles, the Vikings and the Lions.
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And I feel like if you can beat those guys, everything else is
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just window dressing. Oregon spanked the ever living
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shit out of Oklahoma State. No one's out here saying like,
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they can beat Georgia, they can beat, you know, it's like, hey,
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well, we all know in college at least that like there's some
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chasm of a difference when you're playing one team over
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another. And I think this is one of those
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where it's like, yeah, you guys did you did look really good.
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But when it comes down to it, like, let's see where you're
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actually at. Because right now we're talking
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and that's I understand the nature of this game is over
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reaction under reaction. But I want to see how they do
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long term, like over this season.
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I want to see how they do over the first eight games before I
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would put them there just because I think those other
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teams, even if they have a slightly slow start, even like
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the Lions, like I don't think the Lions are going to lose too
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many games. But yeah, I don't think, I don't
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know if they're there yet. I mean, they could be.
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We just haven't seen it because they haven't played enough
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games. Right, and that's, that's kind
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of where I'm at. So like right now, I think it's
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an overreaction. I think they have the potential
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to be, but right now I think it's an overreaction.
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And I just, I, I love their defense aside from Mike Parsons.
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Screw Michael Parsons. He sucks.
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He's not even good anyway. But I, so I really like what
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their defense is doing. And I, I just, I'm a little bit
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worried about their offense, like not not worried about their
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offense, but I just think that their offense needs to show more
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because as great as their defense was, they held the lines
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to 13 points. The offense scored 27 points,
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which I'm not saying 27 points is bad, but you know, you look
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at the Bills and Ravens and I know they're not in the NFC, but
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they're, they're out there scoring 40 points a game.
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You scored 10 points in the second-half.
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So like and you didn't you did not score off the turnover.
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So I just think that the Packers offense is still not elite.
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I think their defense can be elite.
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I don't know if their offense is elite.
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I think their offense is good. I don't think it's elite though.
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And so that's why I don't think that the Packers are the best
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team in the NFCI do think they're a very good team and I
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think they have the potential, but I don't think that they're
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the best team right now. All right, so moving on to the
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third one here. So I'm going to go with what
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will actually mentioned with the Chargers.
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So, overreaction or under reaction, The Los Angeles
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Chargers are an elite team. I'm going to go with under
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reaction. Oh, I and it's not because they
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beat the Chiefs, it is because of that, but it's specifically
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because the the dragon, the chargers offensive line gave
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Justin Herbert a day and a half to throw the football.
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Joe Alt made that defensive line from the Chiefs was a quite
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small children. He put his hand on Chris Jones
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and Chris Jones basically just stop moving just like no, you're
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going to stay here and my dad back there.
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He's going to do what he wants and given we saw it in Oregon,
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we've we've seen flashes of it through his career.
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If you give Herbert enough time, he's going to make the play
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happen. They don't have Brandon Staley
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common plays anymore. So they've got an actual head
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coach doing the right thing now. They've got they've got a lot of
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the pieces there. They I think Khalil Mack still
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on that defense, right? He's still he resigning in Los
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Angeles. I like this Chargers team a lot
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and we've said multiple times and multiple different avenues,
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the Chiefs have kind of stayed stagnant.
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They've kind of stayed, yeah, we are this good and we're going to
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keep being this good. But yet everybody else keeps
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creeping up and up and up and up and the competition is just
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better now so that they are still the Chiefs are still the
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Chiefs and they're still going to be there at the end of the
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year. I'm not going to sit here and
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take they're not going to make the playoffs.
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That's why I'm not Avery last week, but but I think that's
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this first week. I think it was real eye opening
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for both chiefs and chargers players like like, oh, we
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actually got a guy, we got a dude.
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We had a team. We can do the thing we're in
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Brazil and we just did this thing to that team.
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Yeah, let's do it. So I I think I think the
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Chargers now Chargers are going to charge her.
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So who knows what's next? But like I said earlier, you're
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going to beat the best to be the best and it.
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I it was a beat down. Say what you want about that
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game, they whooped the Chiefs. Before I get into this I just
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want to acknowledge no one else can see this, only us I believe.
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But whatever this picture is behind our screens.
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Dude they did me so dirty. I just want to like point.
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Out. I was wondering when you were
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going to do? This I'm like looking at it and
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and it's hard to see because our screens are covering it.
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So while Will was giving that take, which I do agree with, I'm
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like trying to find a way to look at it and if you like pull
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the screen down a little bit and just like drop it for it shows
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for a split second, I'm like, yo, let's redo that one.
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There you go, the. Reaction on the background.
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That's exactly why I put it out there, dude.
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I'm like, that's three years older.
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That's exactly why I put it on there.
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That's so rough. All right, all right.
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Anyway, no one will ever see that.
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So if you hear me talking about it, just know that it's already
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been changed by the time you listen to this.
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I I I also think it's an under reaction.
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I think the chargers are looking really good.
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I mean, to be honest, I think the only reason I would ever say
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it's an overreaction is just because of how much they've kind
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of let me down over the past few seasons while thinking that
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they're better than they've been playing.
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So I've always felt that the Chargers are a little bit better
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of a team than their record reflects.
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And I think now it's maybe it's been one game, but maybe it
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starts to show now. I think Jim Harbaugh is a great
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coach. I think he plays to win, which
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is why he leaves programs with so many issues because boys
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there to win, man rules are just something that get in the way.
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I think Herbert's great. I think most of that team is
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really good, so I think they could be very elite team this
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year. Cool.
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I actually put that is it is an overreaction and not to say that
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they don't have the potential. It's kind of the same thing with
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the Packers for me. But you you do look at Justin
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Herbert's stats. He completed 73.5% of his
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passes. He threw for 318 yards and he
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had three touchdowns. 4 players had at least 50 receiving yards.
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And so if you look at that and the win, then yes.
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But they did not create any turnovers on defense.
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And you know, it's the Chiefs, but the Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes
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throws a lot more interceptions than people like to believe he
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does. They did not create any
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turnovers on defense. And their run game averaged 3.6
22:59
yards per carry. To be truly elite, I feel like
23:02
you have to be a little bit better than that as as a running
23:06
team, especially because that's what Harbaugh wants to do is he
23:10
wants to run the ball. And I know they didn't do that
23:12
in this game, and they didn't necessarily need to do that in
23:15
this game. But I think in order to be a
23:18
truly elite team, that's what they need to do.
23:21
And they need to create turnovers on the defensive side.
23:24
Even though the defense did a very good job of containing
23:27
Mahomes and that offense, I think they kind of let the
23:31
Chiefs back in it a little bit. And so I would say they're not
23:35
quite there, but they can be, right?
23:39
And then I've got one more for you guys here.
23:41
So, overreaction or underreaction?
23:44
The Dolphins are the worst team in the NFL.
23:50
Overreaction. Why do you say that?
23:53
For the same reason, I don't think Daniel Jones is the best
23:55
quarterback in the league right now.
23:57
I think that was a really bad week.
23:58
I think if anything, maybe for this week they were the worst
24:03
team. But I think if we're talking
24:04
about like who I think will end up with the worst record, not
24:09
them like to reserve that spot usually for the Panthers.
24:15
But yeah, you see the Panthers, maybe even the Patriots, I
24:21
always think they're going to do a lot better, maybe.
24:25
So the Dolphins, I don't know. The Dolphins scored a touchdown
24:29
this week. Not every team did that.
24:34
They also scored the second least amount of points in the
24:37
league. Sure.
24:39
So then I feel like we kind of have to give worst team in the
24:42
league to the Giants. He only scored six points.
24:44
He didn't have a touchdown. I mean the Giants statistically
24:49
are yards per game 23rd, rush yards per game they're 23rd and
24:56
past yards per game. Completion percentage was 31st
24:59
in the league. Your QB got sacked 5.3% or 5.1%
25:04
of the time, 17th in the league. I mean offensively and
25:08
defensively these Giants were bad.
25:11
No turnovers either way. Time of possession, you were
25:15
15th in the league. I right in the middle.
25:17
I mean, these Giants were really bad.
25:19
The Dolphins were not. Well, actually looking at the
25:25
numbers, the Giants that have the the Dolphins had less yards,
25:31
more pants, less yards. Statistically, the the Giants
25:35
were actually better than the than the Dolphins actually.
25:40
Now I'm learning this. OK, well, I understand.
25:44
I, I didn't know what I was going to get into this.
25:46
What I understand is the Dolphins pass the football 74%
25:53
of the time. That's an incredibly high number
25:58
for a quarterback. That was very bad.
26:01
He threw 31 passes in that game which had 4.7 pass yards or
26:08
attempts. That's really bad and he just
26:11
kept doing. Now granted they couldn't run
26:15
the ball either, but they had 6.5 yards per rush, so it's
26:20
better than your passing yards and that's really sad.
26:24
I don't know, I just they only ran the ball 12 times in the
26:26
entire game. They passed 31 times.
26:29
They were playing from behind and I get that, but when you're
26:32
when, when Tula looks as bad as he does, man, I'm having to eat
26:37
some words there. He looked real bad.
26:42
Yeah, Dolphins are the worst team right now, but it's just a
26:44
fool right now. It's not a forever.
26:48
See, I think it's an under reaction because there's there's
26:52
just no way that a team that has that much talent can be that
26:57
bad. Like you've got to a who you
27:01
know some people I already think he's a bad quarterback, but he's
27:04
not the worst quarterback in the league.
27:05
He looked like it though. He threw 2 interceptions and he
27:08
lost a fumble, so he had three turnovers.
27:11
He got benched for Zach Wilson in this game.
27:13
That's how bad he was. Then you've got Tyree Kill,
27:16
you've got Jalen Waddle, you've got Devon HN, you've got Ollie
27:20
Gordon, who I know he's a rookie and he hasn't played much, but I
27:23
think he's a promising young running back.
27:25
You there's no way you can have that much talent and be that
27:28
bad. So I think that if this
27:32
continues, even just a couple more weeks, the Dolphins are
27:35
going to have a fire sale. I think they're going to have a
27:38
fire sale. Everybody's going to be
27:40
available and their team's just going to be bad because not only
27:45
are you already bad with all the talent that you have, you're
27:49
going to be bad once you trade all that talent away.
27:52
So I think it's an under reaction because I can see this
27:54
continuing and when it continues, people are going to
27:57
want out, they're going to request a trade and they're
27:59
going to be gone from that team and then the team's not going to
28:02
have anybody who can potentially turn things around.
28:05
I think the most damning thing to the whole team is the whole
28:09
Dolphins organization is that everybody said, well, Mike
28:13
McDaniel and when two way is healthy, this team will go me
28:17
and who? I said that I thought so my
28:19
work, the team is good When two way is healthy.
28:22
Well, by all accounts, 2 is healthy.
28:24
That whole team is healthy and that's the whole team.
28:26
But most of that team is healthy and and Mike McDaniel is this is
28:30
not his first year in an offense.
28:31
Everyone's supposed to know the system and they looked abysmal.
28:35
I mean they made the quotes are like All Stars and that says
28:38
something. Daniel Jones walked away working
28:43
like an MVP candidate. Yeah, it was.
28:48
It was just bad. All right, so we probably have
28:54
time for one more. I don't have any more but you
28:56
either of you guys have one that you want to do?
28:59
I don't want to figure it doesn't.
29:01
Yeah, mine was kind of taken. Well, we talked about it, so you
29:04
can go ahead. Overreaction or under reaction?
29:07
The new kickoff system is only going it if shoot me a new
29:12
kickoff system is going to improve the NFL right, like
29:17
right, they're doing this whole thing for player safety like
29:20
it's it's supposed to be all this seem to be great.
29:22
So overreaction reaction is new. Put the shoot me not playoff
29:25
kickoff as a player multiplies the new kickoff saying is it
29:29
good for the NFL Like this is a good thing.
29:33
Did you see any kickoffs? You know what I'm talking about.
29:37
Yeah, I, I, I guess I, I, I'm. Maybe it's closer, maybe you
29:39
just asked me to pose a question.
29:42
Do you like the new kickoff system in that DFLS deal with?
29:46
As opposed to like what they used to do or?
29:49
Yeah, yeah, yeah. As opposed to what they used to
29:50
do, this whole new thing where you start the the opponents
29:54
start way up and you can't run until the ball is touched if you
29:59
touch. Back what was the thing we did
30:02
last year? This is not the same, isn't it?
30:04
They've repenal, they've penalized it even more.
30:06
If you kick it into the end zone, they a touchback is only a
30:09
35 yard line now. If you kick it too short, they
30:12
start in a 40 yard line now. So you have to kick it into
30:15
returners hands. It's this whole big thing.
30:19
Yeah, I like it. No, I I was struggling to
30:22
remember. Also just college football is
30:24
getting in my way. I like it.
30:27
Especially if it incentivizes the kicking team.
30:30
Not like, like it incentivizes them to kick it to the player,
30:35
but also incentivizes that team to try to run it out.
30:38
I think the more that you can pit the two teams against each
30:42
other to not just make it, yeah, just Kick It Out of the end
30:45
zone. We don't want to risk it Now
30:47
it's like, well, we don't want to give him extra field
30:49
position. Let's give it to him.
30:51
But we also need to stop them because they will break past.
30:54
I kind of like it in the sense that the line moving forward
30:59
almost seems more linear where before it was a lot more
31:02
stretched out. So I feel like now you only have
31:05
to like make like 2 guys miss and then you're like off to the
31:09
house. I don't know what the average
31:11
is. Very exciting.
31:12
I heard the average starting field position was this weekend,
31:15
but it's way up there. There was a lot of drives
31:18
starting like a 50 yard line. Yeah, I saw a lot of drives
31:22
start a lot further than we're used to.
31:24
And I kind of like it because, you know, I'm just used to
31:29
seeing a a kickoff and somebody just kneed in the end zone and
31:32
then we just go to another commercial break.
31:34
It's like, OK, well, what was even the point of watching that?
31:36
Like there wasn't even a point in watching it.
31:38
It was basically the same thing as a commercial.
31:41
Yeah, so I just remember hating that, hating to watch it.
31:45
Yeah. You come back from commercial,
31:46
you do the kickoff and then you just go to another commercial.
31:49
Yep. Yeah, but that's when you're
31:51
pretty much pointless. After a touchdown, that 2
31:54
minutes with the PAT, the commercial, the kickoff, the
31:57
commercial, that's when you're supposed to be taking a mad dump
32:01
and refilling your nachos. Now that kickoff is an exciting
32:05
an exciting play, and so you have to watch it.
32:09
You lost dump time is what you did, and that's not good.
32:12
Now you got to hold it until after the maximum.
32:18
Time dump just got even bigger. I actually am anti this change.
32:22
I I don't like this. I don't like the whole new
32:25
kickoff thing they have going is this.
32:29
About Is this about your bowel movements?
32:31
Is this where you're? This is about the defenses in
32:36
the NFL. Actually, the NFL, and
32:39
rightfully so, is giving more favors to offenses, right,
32:44
because people like us are watching football to watch a 40
32:48
to 41 Sunday Night Football game.
32:50
Nobody wants to see a three to six Alabama LSU game in the NFL.
32:56
That's just not what they want to see.
32:58
And so they want to see these high scoring.
33:00
Let's start the ball on the 40 yard line and go in and just,
33:05
and so, so we get more offense than the other.
33:08
I think they're doing defense is an incredible disservice, which
33:12
I think is also why you're seeing these defensive player
33:15
contracts go up and up and up. Because if you're really good at
33:18
it, then you are worth even more because they've only got to
33:21
cover 60 yards and not covering 80 yards anymore.
33:25
So I I don't like it because it it's just handing more free
33:29
yards to the offenses. Yeah, I can say from that aspect
33:34
because it it does like if you're just going to move the
33:36
ball even further forward than it was before, if you, if you
33:41
kick it, do a touchback or whatever, like, yeah, I, I, I, I
33:46
get it. I get it from that aspect.
33:48
I. On the flip side, though, I've
33:51
I've always felt like special teams was kind of a joke just
33:55
because it's basically just the transitional offense or defense
33:59
into the other team getting in there.
34:00
Like you're basically just in there to not make a mistake.
34:05
Like unless you're the returner, like any other job in special
34:08
teams is just look, we're already mentally counting these
34:12
points or making or like have already like decided it's going
34:16
to be punted and we're going to pin him there.
34:17
Don't mess it up like that's basically what it is.
34:20
And I feel like this, although I do agree with Will, I like to
34:24
see a team have to March down the field rather than one, maybe
34:28
two first downs were already already in field goal range.
34:32
But I would say that I would like it.
34:36
Well, my reservations would leave if I saw the special teams
34:41
around the league like really taking advantage of the
34:45
situation. Meaning I want to almost see at
34:48
the end of the year some rule changes being proposed, either
34:53
to do something to stop some team from exploiting this new
34:58
whatever kickoff situation or to try to revert it back because
35:01
some teams can't keep up. Like I want to see teams that
35:04
are like, oh dude, it's like 20% chance they're going to take
35:08
this to the house. Like you have to stop them.
35:10
They've figured something out here.
35:11
They know now with the new dynamic of like, rather than
35:14
having to come in and just clashing, it starts here.
35:17
They figured something out. I just want to see some
35:19
innovation there. 'Cause if they.
35:21
Can figure something out like the special tosh push, the
35:25
special teams tosh push equivalent like.
35:28
I'd love to see something like that.
35:29
Something that like forces the league to have to like they at
35:33
least reckon with some of their rules they have.
35:38
I in in a red. This was Oregon 2A high school
35:43
football. So we're playing nine on nine.
35:45
It's not even 11 on 11 football. So I'm sorry.
35:49
I was out at a reference game and we asked them, Hey, how's
35:52
your kicker? What is your what is your plan
35:54
on kickoff? And this the coach for this one
35:57
school, the visiting school said, oh, we're going to once I
35:59
kick it every time because this is 9 man football and if you
36:03
kick it deep, it's just going to run back because it's a normal
36:05
size field with four less players, 2 on each side.
36:10
And so and so we asked the other team, the home teams in which
36:13
are playing over and kick it deep every time that team did,
36:16
the home team had two kickoffs, ran all the way back for
36:19
touchdowns that game. And is that?
36:22
The team that said they wanted to onside kick it.
36:23
No, that's the team that said they were going to kick it deep
36:26
and the team said they were on sided.
36:28
They actually got two of those kickoffs back.
36:31
They they recovered the onside kick.
36:33
And if you're going to give up, if you don't have a good kicker,
36:36
especially in high school football, you're kicking the
36:38
ball to like what, 25, maybe 20 yard line and that's not very
36:45
good. I don't know how to say it.
36:47
And so, so they're going to get to the 40 anyway.
36:49
And so if you onside kick it 1015 yards, they're at the 45,
36:53
you're losing 5 yards and you have an option to get it.
36:56
And so, so there's a real strategy.
36:58
And what I'm saying is, is that in the NFL with this new kick
37:03
off system that they're doing there, there absolutely will be
37:07
an innovation of, of OK, so we can't, we can't onset, we can't
37:12
surprise on tight ticket. That really bothers me.
37:15
That bothers me personally. We can't surprise on tight
37:18
ticket anymore that. Is dumb, yeah.
37:20
But and we can't move until he touches the football.
37:25
So what if we just drill a ball right at the back of winning
37:29
their front lineman and hope for the best.
37:31
And if it bounces and goes to the end zone, it's a touchback
37:35
on the 20 yard line. So let's just start kicking line
37:37
drives at their frontline with the guys and hope for the best.
37:41
OK? I don't think the rule says it
37:42
has to touch that returner's hands at the whole gamesmanship.
37:46
It's it's going on right now. They're going to figure out how
37:49
to outsmart the damn system because it's a stupid system.
37:54
Yeah, we. Always.
37:55
Do we always find a way around? No.
37:59
It's hard, but. I was just going to say real
38:03
quick, there's this Malcolm Gladwell book called Outliers.
38:06
Basically this team, this coach, coach a little like a girl's
38:11
basketball, like maybe like 10 years old, these like Palo Alto
38:15
girls, he's like their parents are like coders and stuff like
38:19
they're small, they're not great.
38:21
And what he did was he said we're not better, we're not
38:24
faster, we're not stronger, we're not more skilled.
38:27
We're just going to run. And so they ran the full court
38:30
press the entire game and the the opposing coach hated it.
38:35
So you can't keep doing that. And I'm listening to this.
38:38
I'm like, dude, this is genius. Now, The thing is in
38:40
professionals, whether it's NBA or whatever, it's not realistic
38:44
that you get these. You don't have them for that
38:46
long to get them crazy conditioned to like do some
38:48
crazy stuff like that. But I do wonder with some of
38:51
this, like are there things whether it's in the kickoff or
38:55
whatever, where it's a matter of like effort or like I don't want
38:59
to say risk kind of like going for it on 4th, 4th down every
39:02
time. Obviously there's usually a time
39:04
and a place for that. But I do wonder how much of
39:07
that, kind of like with basketball, it's like, hey, if
39:09
we just ran full court press all the time, like we could probably
39:14
win some games even if we're not as good.
39:16
I wonder if there's some stuff in football like that, or at
39:18
least what they could do with the kickoff system.
39:20
Because I feel like there's going to be some teams that just
39:22
try to do some dirty little tricks that stay within the
39:24
rules, but the opposing coach will hate because it didn't go
39:28
his way. And then their owner will ask to
39:30
change the rule. And then we'll get some other
39:32
convoluted deformed kickoff thing until we're back to just
39:37
like, just let him get CTE, man. Just let him hit each other.
39:42
I mean, you see it, you see it regularly, right, Because
39:44
because you get to go back to the Colin Kaepernick days where
39:47
you didn't have regularly running quarterbacks to the NFL.
39:51
There were some here and there. Michael Vick was well before
39:54
that, but they didn't have this full RPO designed offensive
39:59
system with that. And so as as the athletic
40:03
ability of your players will change, the way of the game
40:07
changes. We had less.
40:10
Running run play percentage in the NFL, it was less this year
40:15
than week one of the last two years.
40:18
So, so we ran the ball less this year than the last two years,
40:21
week 1, which means we're moving more to a throwing lead again.
40:25
I I think the trend is that we're going to be throwing the
40:27
ball a lot more. You sound a lot that it just
40:30
felt like the ball was being thrown a lot this week, unless
40:34
you're the Ravens and threw the ball 19 times, it didn't matter.
40:37
They didn't need to throw the ball.
40:38
But everybody else, their percentages were incredibly high
40:40
for throwing the football. And so, so I think the game is
40:44
very cyclical where it's OK. Well, well, we, we have we're
40:48
paying our quarterbacks all this money.
40:50
Let's have them throw the football and let's, let's get
40:53
bigger plays through the air. And so I, I think that you're
40:55
right is that they're just coming up with more innovative
40:57
ways to continue to push the game in every possible way.
41:01
Whether we have to change rules for it or not, who knows, But
41:05
but you're getting these guys who can run quarterbacks, who
41:08
can run the football very well. Like how Lamar Jackson, Jayden
41:11
Daniels at Justin Herbert, Josh Allen, he runs very well.
41:16
But then when they stand up and throw it, they're throwing the
41:18
ball 100 slipping yards. And it's like, how are you this
41:21
good at this much stuff? Yeah.
41:28
All right. Well, we should probably move on
41:29
to our next segment. Yeah, sorry, run out of time.
41:32
So you're, you're good. So last week we announced that
41:36
we are all looking for new NFL teams.
41:40
And so this week we decided that we're going to go through some
41:43
of the teams that we have eliminated as our new potential
41:47
favorite team. So I don't know.
41:52
Just killed us a fly. Avery freaking got him dude.
41:55
He's juicy. Avery's like over here with the
42:02
bat on the court. Yeah, that's a.
42:08
Real. Well, he landed, he landed on
42:10
the cable and I'm like, he's going to fly away any second.
42:13
I'm like just commit, commit. And I got him.
42:15
So very happy. Very feels like a press
42:18
conference, like I'm, I think I'll be able to get him.
42:21
I got him. Right by my performance anyways.
42:24
Anyways, Avery, why don't you get us started by telling us who
42:27
some of the teams are that you have eliminated as your
42:30
particular favorite NFL team and the reasons as to why you
42:33
eliminated those teams. All right, well I started
42:37
categorizing all the teams into about 5 different bins or recall
42:42
whatever. Bottom tier, lower tier, mid
42:44
tier, upper tier, and then top tier, which is arbitrary and has
42:48
no structure whatsoever. They were just kind of divisions
42:51
as far as what I liked from the different teams.
42:55
But there are some. There's a lot of teams that I'm
42:57
considering, but there's several that I am in no way considering.
43:04
These are those teams. First of all, we have the Browns
43:08
just can't just can never see myself in.
43:12
They look real good this week though.
43:14
It has very little to do with how they performed today.
43:18
There's a lot of reasons I just can't.
43:21
And no, Cleveland, there are four other teams on this bottom
43:25
to your list. Second one is the Chiefs also
43:29
just can't do it. Although I will say that joining
43:32
the Chiefs now, unless you're just somebody who just watches
43:36
and knows who Taylor Swift is, if you're an NFL fan, like a
43:39
real NFL fan and you join the Chiefs now, I would not consider
43:43
that bandwagoning. I think that they are over the
43:48
hill as far as success in like this regime this current 10 year
43:53
goes. So I feel like at this point if
43:55
you hop in like you would be lucky to see one, maybe two more
43:59
Super Bowls. I think that time would have
44:01
been four years ago to hop in. Unless.
44:05
Three, if I may add there, unless you start claiming, yeah,
44:08
we won seventh straight or wins the seventh straight AFC
44:11
Championship Games and we won out in the Super Bowls.
44:13
Like Pound, you just got here, don't even act.
44:17
Go to goodwill and you're by a 2017 chief Super Bowl shirts
44:21
like all right, we're just mate now.
44:23
They were. I don't think that was a super
44:24
play red, but like still, come on.
44:27
Yep #3 we got the Washington Redskins.
44:33
Not going to be their fan. Not many people are.
44:36
They got a few new teams that have come in since then, and
44:40
they all are very derivative of the Redskins.
44:43
They have the same colors, They're in the same town, they
44:46
usually carry over the same players, coaches and owners.
44:50
So I'm not sure exactly what it is.
44:53
I don't know when we will see the Redskins back in action, but
44:56
I will not be their fan and I do not recognize the other teams
45:00
that have come in its stead since #4 the Burrs can't do it.
45:08
One, I dislike their colors entirely.
45:12
I think that dark Navy with this orange that does not go well
45:16
together is horrible. I think the font is gross.
45:19
I think the sea is overdone. Just be the bears.
45:23
Don't be the seas where the seas cause Chicago.
45:26
Try tone. You know they've not been good
45:29
since the 80s. I think that they are a parody
45:32
of themselves and should be embarrassed #5 the Niners never
45:39
like the Niners. I think their fans are the
45:41
worst. I know many Niners fans.
45:43
I think despite their fandom, they are decent people.
45:47
I think they're just misguided and I think that the fandom
45:50
makes them annoying and less than bearable to be around.
45:54
I don't want to be a part of that.
45:56
I don't want to have anything to do with that.
45:59
Shredding, you see. It's only with just a team, but
46:03
now it's getting personal evil. And individuals.
46:07
But that's it. That's five.
46:08
And at this point, if I added anyone else, I would just go for
46:11
the throat. So the Cleveland Chiefs,
46:14
Redskins, Niners, Bears, no go. That wasn't even those weren't
46:18
even like questions for me. So if you just wanted to know
46:21
where I stood before that, that is it.
46:24
OK. All right.
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Well, your turn. Give us the teams that you've
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eliminated as your potential favorite team and the reasons as
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to why. Would you like me to go with
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five as well because I actually have more than 5 eliminated
46:37
already. How many do you have?
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123456789101112. Go with 5I.
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Also, I also have 12. I also have 12.
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OK, I will. I will stick with five here.
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We can eliminate more as more episodes go on.
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So I let's start with the NFC West.
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Let me just be be be playing about this.
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The only team remaining in the NFC West is the Rams because the
47:04
only team worth watching. I live in the Pacific Northwest.
47:08
Seahawks and Niners fans, much like Avery just said, absolutely
47:12
unbearable they are. I have never once met a level
47:16
headed Seahawks fan I truly never want it is always we're
47:21
the best we're this we're that now.
47:24
That's not true. There is one Seahawks man who I
47:27
would say keeps a pretty double headed shout out Joey Case.
47:31
But besides that guy, Seahawks fans are the most some of the
47:37
most annoying to deal with people I've ever dealt with.
47:41
And then you get the Niners. Put them in the same boat above
47:44
the sea house for how terrible and annoying their fans are.
47:48
And then we got the Cardinals here.
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I I just don't like the decision.
47:53
Yeah, the decisions the organization is making.
47:56
That's not what that one says. I have nothing really against
47:59
the Cardinals fans. The flies moving, dude.
48:05
I have nothing against Cardinals, like Cardinals fans
48:08
specifically, but I just don't like the way this team is
48:12
moving. They feel very Cowboys asked to
48:14
me where a couple decent decisions, a couple.
48:19
I put a cap over it so it couldn't escape.
48:22
I'll deal with it after. Go ahead, Sorry.
48:25
They they, they have a good team perpetually, but they're just
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like a couple good decisions away from from being great and
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they just continue to not make those decisions.
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And if I wanted that, I would just stick with the Cowboys and
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see. So there's three.
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Let's go, man. I'm going to go with The Jets.
48:47
All right? The Jets are on this list is
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never going to be a fan of them one year in New York, right?
48:53
I'm not flying to New York for anything especially, well, New
48:56
Jersey. You know what?
48:58
Full. Even worse.
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Let's start over here. Let's go back to The Jets.
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We're sticking with The Jets, but you call yourselves the New
49:07
York Jets and then you're in New Jersey.
49:10
OK. I don't think I need to say
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anything more than that. I'm not going to that side of
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this country to watch a bad football team be bad.
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Your best quarterback in recent history is Mark Sanchez, and
49:23
that's just not good. So there's that.
49:27
Yeah. I, I, Yeah.
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So there's four. And I think just for sake of
49:35
consistency here, I'm going to go with the brands, right?
49:38
Browns are definitely off my list.
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There's no way. What can Brown do for me?
49:43
Not be my favorite team. You've done mascot.
49:47
To be fair, neither The Jets nor the Giants play New York.
49:50
They should both be the New Jersey.
49:52
They should both be New Jersey Giants.
49:53
Yes, yes, in New Jersey football team.
49:56
The difference is is that the Giants have Jackson darts, so.
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Yeah, but the Giants logo on their helmet is lowercase
50:03
letters, and that bothers me more than it should.
50:08
Trigger warning for will. That gives me as they say.
50:11
All caps. That gives me, as they say, the
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ick, but the Browns. I mean, I don't feel like any as
50:18
much explanation really needed there.
50:20
The Browns be the Browns, right? I I like doing Gabriel.
50:23
I like individual pieces. Miles Garrett love what he's
50:26
doing ripping helmets off Mason Rudolph.
50:29
Sit down for a while. I I love what individual pieces
50:34
of the Browns, but to call myself a Brian's fan, there's
50:38
just no way I could do that to my children.
50:41
That's kind of where I'm at there.
50:45
All right, cool. So I also have 12 teams
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eliminated, but just for the sake of time, I will give five.
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I'm going to try to give four of them that are not teams that you
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guys mentioned. One of them I will mention
50:57
though is the 49ers because I cannot stand 49ers fans just.
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Absolutely. We should all choose.
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The Niners. No, but I, I used to work.
51:10
I used to work with a guy who swore that Brock Purdy is the
51:15
best quarterback that has ever stepped foot on this planet.
51:18
He's better than Tom Brady. He's a Hall of Famer.
51:20
He's better than Joe Montana. He's better than Steve Young.
51:23
He is the best quarterback that there has ever been in the NFL.
51:26
And there's no question about it.
51:28
I just hate that 49ers fans put all their players into the Hall
51:32
of Fame when they're not even that good like Debo Samuel.
51:36
Debo, I mean, sure, he had a good week one game with the with
51:39
the commanders. Is he going to be in the Hall of
51:42
Fame? Not even close.
51:43
Not even close. But 49ers fans will tell you
51:45
that Debo Samuel is a first ballot Hall of Fame player.
51:49
Same with Brock Pretty And I just I cannot stand how they do
51:53
that with all their players. I can't stand it.
51:55
And that's why I am eliminating the 49ers, the four other teams.
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So we've got the Jaguars. I don't think I even need to
52:03
explain why they're the Jaguars. They're just bad.
52:07
They're always bad and they're the Jaguars.
52:12
They ain't never not going to be bad.
52:14
Exactly the Eagles. As a former Cowboys fan, I hate
52:20
the Eagles. I cannot stand the Eagles.
52:22
I will never enjoy watching the Eagles.
52:24
I will always hate the Eagles. And I also think that Nick
52:27
Sirianni is the most punchable face in the NFL.
52:31
Every time I see his face, I want to punch him in the face.
52:35
I cannot stand looking at that guy just the way that he acts,
52:38
the way that he looks. I just want to punch him in the
52:40
face every single time I see him.
52:43
So that's why I'm eliminating the Eagles.
52:45
The Packers are another team as a former Cowboys fan that I just
52:49
cannot stand because they have beaten the Cowboys many many
52:53
times in the playoffs and just have given me so much grief as a
52:57
former Cowboys fan that I just will never like the Packers and
53:01
also they are the reason that I am now a former Cowboys fan.
53:05
So the Packers are eliminated. The Saints are my fifth one and
53:11
the reason why it's the Saints. I love their colors.
53:14
I love their colors and their uniforms I think look really
53:16
cool. I will never.
53:18
What about this uniforms they just had?
53:20
They're weak one uniforms. What did you think of those?
53:25
I like the regular uniforms. Yeah, these uniforms they wore,
53:27
we've won. So they were.
53:29
So which ones? The ones they wore yesterday or
53:32
Monday or Sunday? The Saints.
53:35
The Saints. Oh yeah, the helmet I thought
53:37
was kind of nice. The jersey I'm like this is this
53:42
gross banana ass flavor like this was that was weird.
53:46
It wasn't even like a yellow. It's like.
53:48
Let's. It's gold, but let's like, tone
53:50
it down. Let's make it like creamy
53:53
darkened banana, like banana bread banana.
53:56
Like the the the the sweet one that's already a little bruised.
54:01
Anyway. Continue, please.
54:05
All right. So, yeah, the Saints.
54:09
I will never be a fan of a team that thinks it's a good idea to
54:12
draft Tyler Shuck. That's all I got to say.
54:18
Yeah. So yeah, the Jags, Eagles,
54:24
Packers, Saints and 49ers are five of my 12 eliminated teams
54:29
that will definitely not be my new favorite team.
54:34
All right, so we don't have that much time left.
54:37
Avery, you told me that your game is going to take about 10
54:40
minutes. Let's just do it.
54:42
Let's. Not talk about it.
54:43
Let's just do it. All right, We're ready.
54:45
Let's do it. Since the year 2000, which
54:54
running backs have scored the most receiving touchdowns?
55:01
Derren's rolls. Derren's rolls is #1.
55:05
Oh nice. Go top, we can go top five.
55:09
Since 2000. Lashawn McCoy.
55:12
Since since the year 2000, Lashawn McCoy is not Oh yeah.
55:21
Let's see, is Todd Gurley on there?
55:24
Todd Gurley is was did not play long enough.
55:29
I know, but he was really good. He was really good, yeah.
55:33
Adrian Peterson. Adrian Peterson is not on there
55:38
for the top five. There are two active.
55:44
His brother came back. He's looking for him.
55:51
I saw. I thought I was like, oh, he
55:52
started playing and I'm like, no, he's still under the cap.
55:54
OK. Yeah, two of these players.
55:57
Austin Eckler is not one of them.
55:59
Two of them are active. The other two are retired.
56:05
Can I ask are the 2 that are active are they starters?
56:10
Yes. OK, I'm a Derrick Henry, but he
56:14
doesn't receive that much. Nope.
56:17
No, if we were talking about all around touchdowns, it would be
56:22
Derrick Henry, but yeah. Yep.
56:28
And then also on top of this, there's a bonus question.
56:32
Which running back since the year 2000 has the most receiving
56:35
yards? Is it not there, He might ask?
56:41
No. Well, actually, it surprises me.
56:43
Oh. No, sorry, no, it is.
56:46
So go for the second most. Oh, we'll be in second place
56:50
here. My bad.
56:52
Yeah, I'm trying to think. I'm trying to think of these
56:54
active players. Active starters with a bunch of
56:58
receiving touchdowns. Yep, and.
57:01
McCaffrey. Is #2.
57:04
Yep, good job he's. Out the other one.
57:09
One of these thing you should definitely get the other one.
57:12
Honestly, there's two of these you should definitely get in.
57:14
The third one, not sure. Is one of them.
57:19
This may be totally off. Is one of them Adrian James?
57:23
No. OK, I just took a wild guess
57:27
there. I like that.
57:28
I like that. Stephen Jackson Stephen Jackson
57:34
is not on there. Oh.
57:36
I would say for most of this, think back to a little while
57:42
ago, like maybe around the time we started really paying
57:45
attention to football. It's not Jerome.
57:48
Bettis that Damian Tomlinson? Well.
57:50
Damian Tomlinson is number 8, but he is he does have the
57:56
second most receiving yards, so there's the answer to that
57:59
question. Frank Gore.
58:03
Frank Gore is not on there. Oh, OK.
58:06
I didn't. I didn't think so.
58:07
I was just taking another wild guess.
58:11
Active Aaron Jones. Nope.
58:16
And this is a hard question. I will give you number 6789 and
58:24
10 though. Number six, and this is more for
58:29
the sake of, I would love for you guys to just keep guessing
58:31
these, but this is a kind of tougher one.
58:33
Number six it's Marshall Faulk with 18 #7 tied with six is
58:39
Reggie Bush 18, then it's Ladainian Tomlinson, then Tiki
58:45
Barber 12 and Le'veon Bell at 8:00.
58:52
So we have Darren's pearls at 1, McCaffrey at 2, and we're
58:55
needing 3-4 and five I. Mean it's one Alvin Kamara, 04.
59:01
Yeah, OK. There it is.
59:05
And these last two number five, you should know.
59:09
It's a name you IA 100% know. You guys know very well and then
59:13
the other one, I didn't know this guy very well.
59:16
He was also a little before my time.
59:18
It's not Zeke, isn't it? No, I had actually never heard
59:21
of this man before. So one guy we should get, one
59:29
guy we shouldn't, right? Yeah, well, maybe, you know, I
59:33
mean, I'm sure I'll say the name and you'll be like, Oh yeah, I
59:35
know that is. I just didn't think he was a
59:37
like super well known player. Oh, this is Adam Sports just
59:45
dropped Matt Gay. I think we need to cut this
59:50
short. Way up Tang this is a This is a
59:56
hard question. Can you give us?
59:59
I will. Give you.
1:00:01
I will give you. The two teams that they are
1:00:04
known for playing on. Same guy or?
1:00:08
The two different guys, I'll just give the two teams Patriots
1:00:12
and Bears. Matt Forte.
1:00:14
Matt Forte. Yeah, Matt.
1:00:15
Forte is number 5 #3 and he played his entire career on the
1:00:22
Patriots. Was it white Last name?
1:00:25
White. James White.
1:00:27
James White. Thank you.
1:00:30
Man. Super Bowl like here.
1:00:31
I never. I had never.
1:00:32
Heard of him before catches in the Super Bowl.
1:00:35
Yeah, I mean, I, I'm sure I've seen him.
1:00:36
He just, that was never a name that I and he didn't.
1:00:39
I mean he just recently stopped I think 21.
1:00:42
Yeah, I could not, I I could not have come up with his first
1:00:45
name, but I could picture him. Yeah.
1:00:50
Anyway, that was that was, that was a tough one.
1:00:52
That was a tough game. That was good.
1:00:53
I liked That was a good one. All right, that is the game.
1:00:59
Well, anyways, that's that's going to wrap it up for today's
1:01:03
episode, so next week. We'll.
1:01:06
Probably do it since we didn't really talk about it today.
1:01:08
We'll probably do a little bit of like some fantasy football
1:01:11
talk just to maybe go over some like start and sit the type of
1:01:14
guys. I don't know exactly what we're
1:01:16
going to do next week, but we'll we'll see what happens in Week
1:01:19
2. So yeah, stay tuned for next
1:01:22
week and what we have in store. And as always, don't forget to
1:01:25
keep your balls played with. We'll see you next time.