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laced up. Let's go. It's time for Bender with
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the boys. Welcome back to Banter with the Boys,
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Gridiron Updates. We got week three on deck,
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but we will, of course, be recapping week two's
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games in this episode. Yes, we will be. Rob,
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your shirt can't be more true. I know. I swear.
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Optimistic since 1961. That's pretty much where
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we're at right now. Sums it up, sums it up. Rob,
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happy to have you back, of course, as always.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. Dom making another
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appearance. This week, happy to have you back
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as well. Good to be back as usual. Mr. Consistency,
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I like it. Two weeks in a row. Consistency with
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it. Yeah, got to be happy to be back with the
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boys. Of course, of course. We're happy to have
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you back. Kev behind the camera getting everything
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done for us as always. And let's just hop right
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in. Might as well not waste any time. Let's get
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to football. Game one for us last week was the
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Commanders traveling to Green Bay. Dom and I
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picked the commanders. Rob picked the Packers.
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Don't need to spend time on that part. But, I
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mean, Rob, I mean, you got the pick right. Packers
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were cruising. Yeah, they looked real good. How
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many snaps did Micah Parsons end up getting?
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I think he got over 25. That's what I said. He
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plays 25 and then a win. I mean, he looked like
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he had played 10 and they still would have won
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that game. Yeah, Packers looked good. I mean,
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love had all day. Jacobs did enough. Defense
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looked really good. Daniels didn't look great
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at all. No running game. I mean, I think it's
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really going to affect that RPO scenario. And
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you just lost Austin Eckler, too, I'm pretty
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sure. For the season. Exactly. So, I mean, I
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think that's the battle. I think they had him
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going 9 -8 this year. Time for Debo to be only
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a running back. Yeah, maybe at this point. No,
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he's made of glass. It would not work. But, no,
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lack of running game for sure was evident. Jaden
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Daniels can't do it all and put the team on his
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back like that. No, 100%. I mean, he can, but
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he can't. No, especially against that defense.
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I mean, Micah Parsons was literally coming in
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hot every time. I felt like the Packers defense
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had Jaden Daniels' number. Unfortunately, I mean,
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I wanted my man to come through for us, but you
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can't win them all. And their pass defense wasn't
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even that bad, and that's what I was super concerned
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about coming into this season. other than like...
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What's the safety? McKinney, is it? Other than
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kind of him, I was a little concerned about their
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pass defense. Not Nixon. Nixon, he had a seatbelt
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on Terry McLaurin most of the night. I mean,
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it was a Tucker Kraft mac and cheese situation
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all day. Oh, man, you had that ready to go. That
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was nice. We'll call him Kraft mac and cheese
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as much as he was eating today. I mean, he was
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the leading receiver. Not the microwave style
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either. No, that's the straight made. Wisconsin.
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We're baking that stuff. We're baking it. I tell
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you what. So, I mean, it was a heck of a game.
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I mean, the score doesn't really show how much
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the Packers were really dominating. I mean, they
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got that one touchdown at the end, and then they
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just couldn't get a stop on a third down to try
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to make a comeback. But besides that, it was
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a Packers domination. It's starting to concern
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me a little bit. Oh, I'm definitely getting a
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little nervous. I'm definitely getting a little
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nervous. They're starting to get Matthew Golden
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some touches, too. They need to get him. If they
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feed him more, it's going to be crazy. I mean,
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that speed is just beyond something that I haven't
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seen in a while for the Packers. I mean, I think
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really what it is in almost every team in the
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NFL is about staying healthy for 17 games. Oh,
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yeah, for sure. As a Vikings fan, we're going
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through that. hard right now and i don't think
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the packers are other than micah getting his
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shots in his back i think in general that they're
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very healthy they're very healthy in that aspect
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so staying alive yep so packers they leading
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the division right now two and oh um i don't
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know exactly who they coming up next they play
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rams didn't say no wait Browns. They got the
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Browns this week. The 0 -2 Browns in Cleveland.
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Playing Sleepy Joe. I mean, I don't know. I don't
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know. I'm sure the Packers will come out of that
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three. I mean, yeah. I don't really see it. That
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sucks. Yeah. But, I mean, that first two games,
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I kind of predicted they'd lose one of them.
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Right. Go one -on -one. Beat two playoff teams.
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Yeah. Commanders got the Raiders this week. Should
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be a good bounce back as long as a Jaden is a
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healthy Yeah, just a battle between Gino and
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Jaden right there like you said as long as he's
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healthy he is technically technically Yeah that
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he got a little injured in the game yeah, yeah,
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yeah, he didn't look that What was his knee right?
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Yeah RPO situation so but yeah Packers. You were
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right, Rob, unfortunately. I didn't want to be
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right. I don't want to be wrong. I want Packer
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fans on Twitter and Facebook just eating my lunch.
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I'd rather have that. They ate quite a bit this
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weekend. With that, let's move on to the Eagles
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at the Chiefs. All three of us picked the Eagles
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to win this game, and we were correct. Eagles
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going to 2 -0 with the 20 -17 win over the Chiefs.
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At Arrowhead. Super Bowl champs are 2 -0 to start
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the season. I know. And they don't call themselves
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the Super Bowl champs. They said they're done
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worrying about it. I'm sure. I believe it. That's
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a low key for me. That's the Jalen Hurts style.
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I mean, that's just how he rolls. It seems like
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nobody ever talks about Jalen Hurts when you're
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talking about quarterbacks in the NFL. He's a
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very underrated. Lamar Jackson. What's his name?
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Buffalo. Jake Allen. No. Josh Allen. Why do I
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call Jake? That's a goaltender, right? He's just
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not as flashy. His personality is pretty quiet.
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You don't hear about him in the news. He plays
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blue collar. He does. He plays blue collar. I
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can appreciate that. Football almost, you know,
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like make no mistakes, you know. I mean, with
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Nick Sirianni, definitely like to probably play
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that kind of football. He's a pretty much ground
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-to -pound kind of guy. I mean. The only thing
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that I really want to talk about when it comes
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to the Eagles right now is that tush push. There's
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a couple of times that I saw offensive linemen
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move in their head before that ball was even
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snapped. And then even people are calling out
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the refs. Like, we're literally seeing this happen.
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I'm not saying that it's going to change that
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game, but at the same time, I feel like when
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it comes to that tush push right now that the
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Eagles are really getting, like, the favoritism
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when it comes to those calls. So you don't want
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the tush push to be banned by any means, but
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you're like, hey, that's a false. Start by definition.
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100%. Yeah, yeah. I'd tighten that. I think that
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I would totally agree with you. I mean, this
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game was really competitive, actually. A lot
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closer than we were talking about. I mean, Chiefs
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were in it. It was, what, 13 -10. Chiefs are
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driving in the red zone. Travis Kelsey, you know,
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was supposed to shake it off, but he dropped
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it off to the Eagles. Oh, nice. And that changed
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the complete game. They went down and scored
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the next possession, put them up by 10. To be
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fair, the only thing I'm going to give Kelsey
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right now is it seems like... He's at least starting
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off better than he did last season. It felt like
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he was really slow last season. I don't even
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think he played the full season. Wasn't he injured
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a couple of weeks ago? He was injured for a couple
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of weeks. He almost had 100 catches. It was just
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a slow start to the season for him. It's nice
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to see him in action already going on this year
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for me. But they don't have a choice. It's either
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him or Thorne. Thorne's been playing. 6 -5 -5
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on their targets. Noah Gray, the tight end, got
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five targets. So, I mean, that's pretty much
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over two -thirds of Mahomes' targets right there.
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So the one thing that's really killing the Chiefs
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right now is the run game. They're leading rusher
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in the season is Patrick Mahomes, guys. It is.
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I don't even consider Patrick Mahomes a Russian
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quarterback, so that's a problem. It's not Lamar
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Jackson. Yeah, what's up with Pacheco? Literally,
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Pacheco, Kareem, those are Jay Williams numbers.
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And Jay Woods gets it done. If you've been listening
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to us this year, you know that joke. So, yeah.
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Did you end up being able to watch this game?
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Jay Williams had 97 yards this week. I watched
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a good majority of this game. What's that? Jay
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Williams is having a nice little year so far.
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No. Don't even talk to me about Jay Williams.
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You can't even say that. You can't say anything?
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No. Good or bad, I don't even care. Anyway, where
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were we? What were we talking about? The Eagles
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Chiefs. Sorry you triggered me. I know. Sorry.
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So toxic. Yeah, facts. Facts. All right, who
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do the Eagles got next week? Do they go 3 -0?
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What do we got? What do we got? Ooh. They got
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the 2 -0 Rams. I think that's one of our games
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this week, is it not? Nope, it didn't make it.
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Wow. Didn't make the cut. Didn't make it. I picked.
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You just didn't want to pick the Eagles three
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weeks in a row. I think that's honestly what
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it might have been. I mean, we got to do that
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after, you know. But the Eagles -Rams, that's
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going to be a great game. Rams, if you followed
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us since last season, were a team that we didn't
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really, couldn't really ever get a beat on, but
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you could never really count them out of a game,
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and they're already kind of on that trajectory
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again. Literally. Two and only in the division.
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So that should be a battle. In Philly, though,
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always a tough place to play. Scary place to
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play. Yeah, yeah. Dangerous place. Dangerous.
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All right, all right. Game three. I'm going to
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wear my green Vikings jersey there. Oh, my God.
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That's like the only place I would never wear
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a Vikings jersey. No, I would never wear an opposite.
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Facts. Let's see. Call it how it is. Game three
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of week two. Jaguars traveling to the Cincinnati
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Bengals. I mean, biggest storyline here. Okay,
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first off, I'll take my flowers. pick jaguars
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we actually had to check that out before the
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pod went to the replay went to the booth was
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thinking that maybe i might have fudged the letters
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here on our on our predictions and turns out
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i did not uh so i picked the jags uh rob and
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don picked the bangles went where uh lost the
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time out but let's be real biggest storyline
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of this game losing joe burrow for three months
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Pretty much three months. Yeah, that's tough.
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Christmas time, pretty much. So we're getting
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there. Hurts my fantasy football team. I bet
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it hurts a lot. It hurts my fantasy. You know
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who I was? They were saying if you had Joe Burrow,
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you should be picking up Daniel Jones right now.
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If Daniel Jones was available. He's not available.
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That's on another topic, though. We'll talk about
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it in the news. Fantasy Minute. I'll give you
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a little Rob Fantasy Minute. We don't have a
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ton of news, per se. Anyway, all right, getting
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off topic. Where are we? Jaguars. Jaguars. Yes.
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Bangles. Definitely losing Joe Burrow in that
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game was a tough one because, I mean, Jake Brown
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definitely came in and did his thing. But, I
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mean, threw three interceptions. But he also
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threw two touchdowns. Hey, they scored more in
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the second half than they did in the first half.
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Yeah. So, I mean, you can't say that he didn't
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come and do his job, but at the same time, he
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almost threw the game away for them in a couple
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of situations. At the same time, Trevor Lawrence,
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this is a game right now. That game right there
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kind of showed me where Trevor Lawrence is at
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as a quarterback because those are games. You're
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getting paid those big contracts. You've got
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to come through for the Jags, you know. And it
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felt like he was starting to figure it out. Like,
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early on, he had a great TD pass to Damani. Deami
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Brown, a great touch on that throw, you know
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what I mean? And then just as the game went on,
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it's like you can't play four quarters of that
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level of football. So I just don't know what
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it is. Is it time for the Jaguars to give up
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on them after this season? I mean, that's been
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a rumor for three years now. It's because it's
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that early pick that's got the whole, you know,
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you just get that stigma or whatever you want
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to call it about you that you just get. A longer
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leash. Oh, yeah. But, I mean, eventually that
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leash has got to run out. Oh, yeah. I mean, he
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can only get sunshine for so long when he's not
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even playing like the true sunshine that he is.
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I mean, they're one and one. Say they finish.
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Let's go finish the eight, nine, and they come
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up with that decision to move on from true. So,
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who are you going to really get at that 16? 18
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without going deep into the draft right now well
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they would have to move up and that's just it
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i think we talked about that with some other
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quarterback last week it was just like if you
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moved on from them who who would that be then
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at that point if there's nobody better than well
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is it yeah right it is what it is but it's just
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like we just the clock is out we gotta see it
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That was an opportunity to win a game with a
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quarterback that I feel is inferior to yourself,
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and you didn't do it. You didn't get it done.
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So just for me. Do you see the Travis Hunter
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PI? Yeah. Do you think it was PI? I mean, I didn't
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see him turn his head around. And it was a little
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handsy. A little handsy. I would say handsy,
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but more just in the NFL, you've got to turn
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your head around. In the college, you don't really
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got to turn your head around. It just makes it
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an easier call to make. Because that was kind
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of a big turning point at the end of that game.
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That was fourth quarter with a buck 49 left and
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27 -24. Right there, I think it was third down,
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too, so that would have given them a chance and
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opportunity. But at the same time, the fourth
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and five in their own territory, are you going
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for that at the end of the game? Me, personally,
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I think I'm going to hit the three and tie it
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up. Tie it. Yeah. No, I mean, no, they would
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have went up six. Okay. Yep. So they would have
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went up six at that point. And then at that point,
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you're like, we're playing Jake Browning. Do
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you think he can run down the field? Make him
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do it. Make him do it. Besides just giving him
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a field and be like, I only got to get three.
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Yeah. I just think at that point as a coach,
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I know he's a new coach, first year coach, first
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year head coach coming in. I, at that point,
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I just feel like you gotta, gotta just put the
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points on the board. Cause then at that new aggressive
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NFL, I feel like from Campbell to, I mean, probably
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McVay started, I think it'll be a little more
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aggressive on the fourth downs and everyone's
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kind of copied that sense. Yeah. A hundred percent,
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you know, like Ben Johnson, he's, you know, that'd
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be interesting stat to check to see how many.
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fourth down attempts have been made and then
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like since 2015 yeah exactly versus the 10 years
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prior to that so 100 Well, I got a win here on
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this, and we all got a win? No, he didn't. No,
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I didn't. We're back to the replay. And we'll
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talk about the Bengals. We'll talk about the
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Bengals here in a minute because they play the
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Vikes and whatever. Actually, in an episode later
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to come, so make sure you check out the preview
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episode that is still coming up. But the Jaguars
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go to the Texans. I wholeheartedly think that's
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going to end up being a loss. I'm sorry. The
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Texans go to the Jaguars to play. I think the
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Texans will be able to bounce back this week
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personally, but we don't have that on our docket.
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So, let's keep moving. Yes, sir. Let's keep it
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rocking. Bucks at Texans. What a game. No doubt.
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What a game. Coming down to the wire, literally.
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Baker Mayfield doing Baker Mayfield things. What
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a dog he is. He was hurt for a second on his
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ankle and then got up right away. He's like,
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I'm ready to go. You want to talk? I am completely
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healthy. I saw the same thing. I'm like, did
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he just grab his ankle? I'm like, wait. He looks
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like he's talking trash just fine. Talk about
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running game like we mentioned. Irving and Rashawn
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White just having a day together. White looked
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really good. White looked great. Irving felt
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slippery as heck like the guy we'll talk about
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in the next game that I really don't even want
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to talk about, to be honest with you. But this
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was a playoff bout right here. It was. This felt
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like a playoff bout. I mean, the Texans were
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absolutely in this game. Nico Collins making
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that crazy touchdown or that crazy catch in the
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end zone. All in all, it may have been a fun
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game to watch for sure. And then, of course,
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coming down to the wire. But who did we pick?
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Who did we pick for this one? I'm pretty sure
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we all went Bucs. I picked Tampa. Rob went Texans.
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Oh, I did go Texans. And they should have won
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that game. Oh, so you went 3 -2 also. Yeah, I
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did go 3. I should have went 4 -1 on that one.
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Well, 3 -2 situation. They had an opportunity.
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They had plenty of opportunities. C .J. Stroud
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didn't. I mean, you can tell the missing mix
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-in is really struggling. I mean, Chubbs. Spelling
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in okay. But he doesn't catch the ball like Nixon
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does out of the backfield for that little dump.
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And they're also missing the wide receiver, too.
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Yeah, 100%. Not having that. Tank Dell or Diggs
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or somebody. It's just like Collins, Schultz.
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Yeah, Collins. It's Collins or Collins. And CJ
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made a call for a really bad decision. This should
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have been a pick on that one. Should have went
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for. Threw it right to the linebacker. Should
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have went for six. I mean, it looked like he
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was making some rookie decisions a few times
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in that game, which I haven't seen out of him.
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before so that was really interesting yeah i
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think i think that's the drive i'm thinking of
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is that the one right after the blocked punt
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yeah there was like a little screen pass or something
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right yeah so it just they they had a chance
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late in the game they blocked a punt got a short
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field yeah and they had to settle for a field
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goal that that was their missed opportunity right
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there you know what i mean uh so they clean they
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clean those little things up What was it? Was
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it Adam Thielen, actually, that came out and
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said this week something about, you know, I've
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been on a team that's been 5 -0 and we missed
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the playoffs, and I've been on a team that started,
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like, 1 -4 and we went to the divisional round.
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So, like, you know, there's opportunities around.
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So I don't think this is end -all, be -all by
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any means for the Houston Texans. No, like they
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say. It's just a little painful right now. No,
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like they tell everybody, September is not when
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you lose it. I mean, it's not when you win your
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conference, but you can definitely lose it. Yeah.
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And they played the Rams and the Bucs. Yeah.
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They played two playoff teams, you know. So.
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And they're competitive on both of them. Oh,
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yeah. They were within a score. So that defense,
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you think about they have 9 and 19. So they're,
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what, averaging 27 divided by 2, 13 and a half.
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Yeah, they're playing very defense. And Bucs
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are going to go play a home game against the
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Jets, who are currently down their starting quarterback
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as well. Yeah, Justin from concussion. How long
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is he out? He's going to be at least one week.
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I mean, he got a concussion. He's definitely
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out. A lot of concussions across the league this
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week. Of course, we know it. A lot of concussions
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across the league in general this week. A lot
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of tired players. So there was one more quick
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thing for me that I did notice. Make it quick,
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then. I know. I know. Kev's holding up his fingers.
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You know what I mean? Gotta move on. Littering
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in. But Nick Chubb, okay, this is some Javante
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Williams stuff. 3 .6 average yards, whatever.
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But his explosion, just a little bit on that
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touchdown run, just seeing him be able to explode
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through the line the way he did and hit it. The
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way he did, I was like, okay, maybe that can
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gain some traction going forward. So I'm curious
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to see if we can see a little bit more from Nick
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Chubb. I definitely would like to see it. I mean,
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he just had a bad spell with injuries in his
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career, unfortunately. I mean, I feel like he's
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probably just blessed to be on the field. No,
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I agree. But at the same time, I know what you
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mean, Smeltsy. He's definitely got to just get
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a couple more carries in there, some more explosive
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runs. That's what I mean, that touchdown run.
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Oh, when I saw him hit the hole. It felt vintage
20:26
Nick Chubb, and I was like, whoa. We need to
20:29
see that more often. And that comes down to just
20:32
the offensive line. They said they restructured
20:34
the offensive line, but I still don't. They're
20:36
still struggling. The Texans? Yeah. For sure.
20:39
I mean, they lost tons. Yeah. I mean, they got
20:41
rid of them. They didn't want them. Yeah, true.
20:43
They didn't want them. But, I mean, I think I'm
20:47
going to go with my take still. Abuka. I mean,
20:50
he dropped a big third down, but it was a tough
20:52
catch. But he still had a touchdown. That dude's.
20:55
He's something special. He's going to be fun
20:56
to watch. Oh, definitely. So, I mean, I could
20:58
see him. I got him on my fancy. Yeah, me too.
21:00
I can see them. What great football minds we're
21:03
here on. Gridiron updates. But, yeah, Abuka's
21:08
really nice. He's a great second receiver to
21:12
have besides Michael Evans, you know. And then
21:15
Godwin's coming on the way back. Like less than
21:18
a month or hopefully less than a month, Godwin
21:20
come back. But, yeah, I mean, Tampa Bay's got
21:23
all the pieces right now. Truly, defense is looking
21:26
great. And Bucky Irvin is. crazy, man. He's,
21:31
like you said, slippery. He hits those cuts and
21:33
he's just gone. And he's hard to tackle. He doesn't
21:36
even look that big from the TV, but man. Sometimes
21:39
you don't gotta be. You keep moving them feet.
21:42
100%. We're trying to tackle a brick wall. We
21:46
gotta move on to this last game that we really
21:49
don't want to move on to. That's okay. We can
21:51
make it quick. It's like a funeral moment. Falcons
21:54
getting the win. 22 -6. Minnesota's home opener.
22:00
Unbelievable. It's not like Michael Penix played
22:02
amazing, but you know who did was B. John Robinson.
22:06
I mean, Tyler Algier, too, 218 yards. Yeah. Total.
22:11
They kept it right. You know, like I said last
22:14
pod, if you're over 200 yards, you usually win
22:17
the game. And they stayed to it. I mean, that
22:20
was truly the biggest thing I just saw. Missed
22:22
tackles on B. John Robinson. Everywhere. Literally.
22:25
From everybody. Everybody. It wasn't one person.
22:29
No, it was everywhere from everyone. It was a
22:31
team effort in this one. But, like, yeah, if
22:33
you want a definition, if someone says, oh, he
22:36
always makes the first guy miss, just go watch
22:38
that game. For four quarters. There was one specific
22:43
where as soon as he took the handoff, he was
22:45
like, nope, I'm cutting that back the other direction.
22:47
It wasn't a design count or anything. It was
22:49
literally, I'm putting my foot in the ground.
22:51
I'm deciding to go this way. Literally. And it
22:54
was just, I couldn't, I just can't imagine how
22:56
much force, like that, you know, that's why we
22:58
see ligaments being torn and stuff. Like, you
23:01
know, I'm not wishing anything on Bijan. I hope
23:03
he has a great season. But like, just watching
23:05
him and how much force these guys put into that,
23:07
it's just insane. The human body. Sorry, just
23:10
to go out on a little tangent. No, you're totally,
23:11
you're 100 % right. That dude is just. I mean,
23:14
he's the best running back in the NFL for me.
23:16
Better than Saquon Barkley. Better than Saquon.
23:18
Better than King Henry. He does catch the ball
23:21
well. I mean, overall, he's the best running
23:23
back in the NFL. What I saw. Jameer Gibbs, you
23:25
like him better than Jameer Gibbs? Yeah, for
23:26
sure. 100%. He's stronger. He can run through.
23:29
Oh, for sure he's stronger. He can run between
23:31
the tackles. Gibbs is not a. Hey, I'm just throwing
23:34
names to see if they stick, man. No, I hear you.
23:36
I mean, Gibbs is top five. Oh, yeah. I'm not
23:39
saying he's a horrible football player, but just
23:42
his ability to catch the ball on the backfield
23:46
added with this. He has game -breaking speed,
23:48
and a lot of those guys don't. Game -breaking
23:53
speed, and he's also not afraid to run you out.
23:55
No, he's not afraid of no contact. And he's thick.
23:58
He's thick. He's a big boy. Like Kevin style.
24:01
He's thick. But, I mean, when it came down to
24:04
just, like, the run stop, there was none. As
24:07
much as the announcers would love to be like,
24:09
Brian Flores' run defense is tough to get through.
24:13
This past weekend, it was looking too easy to
24:16
get through. But I will give B -Flow the benefit
24:18
of the doubt. Between the 20s, they struggled,
24:20
but they got to the red zone. They locked them
24:21
down. They kept them to four field goals in three
24:25
quarters. They banged a lot, but they didn't
24:28
break. The score could have been way worse. Atlanta
24:31
shot themselves in the foot a couple times on
24:34
a handful of those drives that helped us out
24:37
a bit. And then we did the same thing on the
24:40
other way. Like I said last week, I knew these
24:45
growing pains were going to come with J .J. McCarthy.
24:47
I knew it was going to happen, and I was ready
24:49
for it. But at the same time, we cannot be going
24:53
through our progressions that slow. Six sacks.
24:55
You know. Don't get me wrong. We're missing Christian
24:58
Derrissaw big time. Yeah, 100%. We're missing
25:00
71, really. 71, yeah. Like I said, school was
25:04
getting schooled again. For sure. The guy took
25:06
him to the classroom, and he didn't have no answers
25:08
to the test. I think he's expelled from school
25:10
at this point. And he got so much praise, came
25:13
into the Vikings. When we signed him, everybody
25:15
was like, oh, yeah, he's a great swing guy. I
25:18
was ready for him, and he was getting swung open
25:20
like a door. Where's Blake Randall? He can come
25:24
play some left tackle until CD's ready. Yeah.
25:27
Elf in the room. J .J. McCarthy, though, you
25:29
know, like you were saying, decision making has
25:31
got to be the quicker progressions. Do we put
25:33
a little? I need to see the all 22 to really
25:36
see what he's looking at. You know, is he is
25:39
KOC running a bunch of short routes for him?
25:41
But if anybody in the league needed to lose.
25:44
In their life, it needs to be that guy. It needs
25:46
to be J .J. McCarthy. He needs to lose for a
25:49
minute. You know what I mean? I'm not saying
25:52
he's not humble by any means. He definitely seems
25:54
like a great person, great kid. But his record,
25:57
yeah, he's not lost. He's lost three games in
25:58
his freaking life. You know what I mean? Then
26:01
it's over. Let's celebrate the Super Bowl. Is
26:03
that what you're saying? I mean, we're always
26:05
going to the Super Bowl. I like it. I like it.
26:07
Let's just see what he does after this. You know
26:09
what I mean? Now, of course, he's down. We'll
26:11
talk about it. He's injured. He's out for a couple
26:14
weeks. And now we got to, you know, who had Jake
26:16
Browning versus Carson Wentz in week three on
26:18
their bingo card. What the heck? But whatever.
26:22
That's what it is. Yeah, I mean, the only winners
26:25
out of this game is the defense, really. Yeah,
26:27
100%. Atlanta special teams all played us for
26:30
sure. Oh, man. Price was getting dabbled up.
26:33
I mean, I'll call that a win keeping any team.
26:36
For sure. It was a pre -loss. It was a pre -loss
26:41
besides that. Oh, man. I don't even know if it
26:44
was competitive. It was somewhat competitive
26:46
at all. It was competitive until late in the
26:47
fourth quarter. It was. It was. 100%. Like on
26:49
that nailer long bomb, we catch that. We're winning
26:52
the game 13 -7. But at the same time, guys, why
26:53
are we doing that? Why are we going to long bomb
26:55
on third and one? I like the call. We should
26:57
have done that on second. I mean, but it's –
27:00
I know. I originally was the same thing. as you.
27:03
I was like, why are we doing that right now?
27:06
Well, of course they're expecting us to try to
27:08
slam that crap up the middle or a little quick.
27:10
And we struggled on short downs. Our offensive
27:14
line was getting open up left and right. That's
27:17
not a lie. We punted at least two or three dimes
27:19
on third and three or less that we couldn't get.
27:22
But right when we tried to do our own tush push,
27:24
which was bobbled. Fumbled, bobbled by J .J.
27:29
Was not executed. No. Like everybody would say,
27:32
I listened to all the interviews this past week,
27:34
and the biggest word came out of that room was
27:37
execution. That was not done correctly this week.
27:40
You could tell. J .J. McCarthy and Justin Jefferson
27:43
literally put a hand up talking about we didn't
27:46
have the best execution coming this week. But
27:49
it's okay to do it early. But we can't make this.
27:53
I'd rather do it now than December. I just don't
27:55
want to make it a common occurrence. But we got
27:57
Carson Wentz coming in. He's a veteran. Six times
28:01
he's played on six different teams he started
28:03
for. First time in NFL history. He led the Eagles
28:06
to a very fine season. Before Big Nick came in
28:09
and finished it off for him. But besides that.
28:12
Big old Nick. Just filling all the holes. But
28:18
you know, so is that what you're saying? Carson
28:20
Wentz comes in. He's going to take us to the
28:23
ball. Not even. And then we keep him forever.
28:26
Oh, my God. Rob. There's my bold take of the
28:30
week right there. I'll ride with you, Rob. As
28:34
long as we want to see a ride, I don't care.
28:37
That's true. Before I die, man, I'm trying to
28:39
do it before I die. For sure. That's what we
28:42
believe in here in Minnesota, before we die.
28:46
Before you guys die, let's wrap up this episode.
28:48
It has gone on long enough. Rob, thanks for being
28:52
here. You're welcome. Buddy. Buddy. Boy, right
28:56
down by the beach. Big boy. Anyway, I need a
28:59
backy out of me. Thanks, Dom. Dom, thanks for
29:01
being here this week as well. It's always a blessing.
29:03
I'm always having fun with y 'all. Of course.
29:05
And Kev getting everything done behind the cameras.
29:08
Don't forget to check out our next episode. It'll
29:10
be real quick. Just a little injury news update
29:12
heading into week three. Maybe just a little
29:16
squeak bit, a little squeaker of fantasy talk.
29:20
Fantasy minute with Dom and Rob. Just a little
29:22
bit. Just a little bit. And then, of course,
29:26
don't forget our week three preview and picks
29:29
coming up yet in this set of episodes that will
29:33
all release at the same time. I'm rambling. Don't
29:36
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29:44
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