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Is this the same old Cowboys? NFL Week 15 reaction & analysis plus more! · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome, welcome, Welcome back to another episode
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of the so called Sports Analyst, Episode number twenty six. Josh, how
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you doing feeling a lot better this week? Didn't get really mad at the
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chief this week? I mean a little bit, but they won, so
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I can't be too mad, So this podcast will be a little bit better
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for me. And yeah, well, I guess we just switched sides here,
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but we did. I forgot. Yeah. But before we go it
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send it to anybody who likes sports. And per usual, we're going to
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start off with the week fifteen games, and we'll start off with the Monday
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night football game in which the Seattle Seahawks make a late comeback and they beat
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the Philadelphia Eagles, who are now in a three game winch or loose losing
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streak and they lose twenty to seventeen. Josh, what was your biggest takeaway
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from this game? This like Eagles offense outside of I guess them running the
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football. The passing game just seemed very nonchalant, non existent. But then
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like Jalen Hurris would get these escaped the pocket runs. He's always gonna get
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the the brotherly shove touchdowns. But all on all this Eagles teams didn't look
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that great in this game. If it wasn't for like I feel like the
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Seahawks missing a couple of opportunities earlier in the game and then like taking a
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little bit to establish the run game, his game should have been a little
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bit more out of hand in it than the close score shows. And then
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we couldn't really get props to Drew Locke for really stepping up in this game.
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This is two weeks where he has been like a starting quarter been the
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starting quarterback for the Seahawks, and he showed up and really good and really
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good faith and really showed what he can do as a backup in this league.
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Have won verst of the Seahawks for they didn't come away with the win,
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but he still played good in now versus the Eagles where they did win,
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and he put a timely throw to where dk Metcalf went up and made
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a play and then have found Jackson Smith and Jigba in the back of the
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end zone for for a basically walk off touchdown. If it's really gonna look
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at it that way. Yeah, No, the Philadelphia Eagles, they definitely
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shouldn't have should have won this game, And of course Shalen hurts. He
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continues his this wasn't a terrible game right here, but as far as his
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turnovers now, it's seventeen total turnovers on the on the season, leads the
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league in turnovers. I think Ty with samhow Josh Allen, Jada Pinkett Smith
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aka Josh Dobbs. But yeah, no way, Seattle, they should have
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won this game and it keeps their playoff hopes alive. It was just a
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last second thing. I think Philly they're still better, but again they're just
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they're just continuing to spiral downward. And I think the biggest problem is I
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can't think of their offensive coordinator, but it's a big difference between him and
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Shane Stikeen. We see what Shane and he's doing an Andy We're gonna get
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to that a little bit later, but there's just a big difference, and
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it seems like they're not trying to scheme them open. They're just trying to
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say we're better than you. We're gonna play one on ones the entire game,
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and that's not gonna work. There's film on this Philadelphia Eagles offense after
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a year's worth because you really didn't change it up. So yeah, and
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especially this defense. The defense they did a little bit better, but when
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it came down to it, they folded. So it's kind of been similar
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to what has been happening to the Philadelphia Eagles. And I just want to
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appreciate it because after the Cowboys lost it, it was kind of a bad
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weekend. But thank you Philadelphia Eagles for keeping the division alive and potentially we're
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not gonna get into it, but playoff playoff hopes live. But Josh,
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I have a question for you. So the Eagles, they have the Giants
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next, the Cardinals, and then the Giants again the last week of the
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season. Do you think they will slip up one of these three games?
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No, I think this is a good spot for them to end the season.
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I think they'll more than likely go three and oh those next couple of
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games. But this is a very important game where they could have just took
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the division by the Horns and kind of just took the division away, like
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separated by by a game and a half on the Cowboys. But with this,
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with this loss, a slip up it's still a possibility because they are
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going to face a division opponent within with the New York Giants two times this
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year, and we never know what's gonna happen with the Italian Stallion on the
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other side. So you know, if they do slip up the Cowboys,
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I'm not I haven't. I'm not too sure who they who they're playing,
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but but if the Cowboys went out, then they probably wouldn't division. It's
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just gonna be a really close. It's probably gonna come down to Week eighteen
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if we're being if we're being completely honest, yeah, no, it definitely
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will. But yeah, this this Eagles team, they're definitely not the same.
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They're just a knockoff from last year. And do you think Seattle because
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they got the Titans next, the Steelers and Cardinals, so none of these
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teams are about five hundred. Do you think that they have a realistic shot
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to win out? Because if they went out, I believe they'll just need
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help from the Vikings or the Vikings losing one of the games or the Rams
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and they could go in. Do you think that they could be a viable
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threat in the playoffs? Probably at this moment in time, I might like
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them a little bit better than the Vikings because just the Vikings quarterback situation is
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a little bit rough, But right now, the Seahawk quarterback situation is a
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little bit rough, so they're kind of stuck in the same boat a little
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bit. I don't see the Rams really slipping up very much to end this
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season. They're pretty much on a roll with that offense. So I think
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it's gona come down between those two teams, the Seahawks and the Vikings for
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that final wild card spot, and it's going to be erased. So we'll
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just if they can continue playing like this where they dictate the run game where
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Kenneth Walker shows up like how he did, and then DK Metcalf after me
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calling him out has started to really come into his own the last couple of
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weeks, so so if he can continue his play, it's gonna be really
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big for this football team. And we're really starting to see the integration of
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Jackson Smith and jig But into this offense and see entire locket kind of working
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his way out. Yeah, well please, I'm gonna list all my fantasy
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football players and can you please call him out for next week so they could
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go off for me, please from my fantasy players, j Robinson. But
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we'll get to that later. Yeah, no, we will, but we're
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gonna move on to the Sunday night football game, and which till was the
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Baltimore Ravens versus the Jacksonville Jaguars. And what's the Ravens? They won twenty
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three to seven, and Lamar just did Lamar things? Josh, what did
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you take away from this game? The Jacksonville Jaguars had plenty a plethora of
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possibilities to put points up in this game. Let me just go over this
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with y'all real quick, people, as I was rewatching this game where I
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could write down on my notes and put down Okay, okay, this is
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not disregarding any score that the Baltimore Ravens had. So if Baltimore Ravens are
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still gonna score twenty three points in these scenarios, okay, mcmanagements is two
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field goals that puts them at six to three to start the game, six
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to three and then te Low fumbles in the red zone which would have put
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them at nine and Night believe nine to three to start the game. And
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then I think the Baltimore Evens come back with Isaiah likely touchdown catch. I
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think this was the first touchdown, so this pushed the game ten to nine.
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But at the end of the game, the Jaguars what I think to
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be possibly the worst game, the worst clock situation end of half football that
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I've seen. They hit a really deep ball to j Jones along the sideline.
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He made a big play. They ran up where they should have clocked
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the ball, spiked it and pulled the field goal unit out to maybe go
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up six, go to six ten, and go into the half with the
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score. But no, they leave points on the board and it and so
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they throw out routes to Parker Washington. Parker Washington gets tackled and he's going
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backwards, so the clock keeps running, clock runs out. You go in
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the half, no points. So at this moment in time they were three
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ten. In reality they should have been twelve ten. They should have been
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winning going into the half off too missfilgals, a fumble in the red zone
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and a Parker Washington out route. That kind of sealed it for them in
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the first half. Then we get into them, they score a touchdown.
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Cool, so if they did that, it would have been nineteen to ten,
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and who knows, maybe they go for the two point conversion, might
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have been twenty to ten. That might have changed the football game because this
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is when the when the Ravens started to score. Then they go touchdown out
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the break. Then the Ravens score a touchdown rushing. I believe with Justice
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Hill. I think I think it was Justice Hill. Let me see Augus
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Edwards. It was Edwards rush of the touchdown. So the game, the
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game is seventeen to three or seven or seventeen to seven at this point in
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time. In reality, it should have been twenty seventeen or nineteen to seventeen.
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And then we come in to come back around. The Ravens score field
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goal, they go up. Then after that t Law fumbles they lose the
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ball filled red zone. At the end of the game. The Jaguars miss
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plenty of opportunities in this game. The game should have been at least twenty
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two twenty three or even twenty three twenty three gone overtime. But if the
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Jags are up twenty two, twenty two to ten, nineteen ten. That's
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a whole different ballgame. The Ravens trying to play from behind, but its
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stead you missed opportunities by missing field goals, by by forcing something that shouldn't
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be there instead of taking your points, fumbling turnovers, late game situations.
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The Jaguars really sold this one in my opinion. It was supposed to be
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a closer game. It wasn't a very great game from the Ravens offensively,
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outside of Lamar Jackson getting a few big runs in Isaiah likely really having a
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big day. So it was a game where we felt like the Jaguars should
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have been winning, or a game where the raven should have been up by
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two possessions. Yeah, no, it it definitely was. But I feel
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like this where he could tell the difference between a veteran team and a championship
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team compared to a team who's on the rise. When you have a younger
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team, they tend to make more mistakes and and it's more up and down.
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And that's what the Jaguars showed compared to the Ravens. It wasn't nothing
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flashy, but it will slow and steady got the job done, and they
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were able to run the football point Blake period forty two carries two hundred and
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fifty one yards, six yards to carry. That's just ridiculous, ridiculous,
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and Lamar Jackson I know it if you just look at the box score and
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like, oh, okay, well he had he had an alright game fourteen
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for twenty four hundred and seventy one yards, touchdown, a pick twelve carries
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ninety seven yards. But how he was able to extend plays and especially the
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one that was the game changing play was where he broke out a couple of
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sacks, rolled to the right, then threw it all the way to the
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left side. Tie isaya likely in which they scored with Gus Edwards, like
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you mentioned right there, the game will still up in hand right there,
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and a field goal that changes everything. And like you said, the Jaguars,
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just if they scored points, if they even kick a field goal at
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half, it's potentially it's potentially ten to three. You have a different outlook
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on the game. You're like, all right, well we struggled, maybe
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we get something going, but this is why they've lost three straight. It's
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the Bengals the Browns and now the Ravens, and I don't think it gets
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well, it kind of softens up. You have the Buccaneers who are kind
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of sneaky and panthers and tight ends, but the way that they have played
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it hasn't been very impressive and they just need to get back to the basics.
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Run the ball. With Travis etn ten carries, that is not going
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to cut it at all. Just run the ball, please. This is
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when y'all are your y'all's best. Trevor Lawrence, there has been he has
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flashes, but then he has regressions. So just run the football and just
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you better not find a way to get out of these playoffs because this AFC
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race it's looking very tough right now. So you go from being potentially first
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in the AFC a couple of weeks ago to now potentially being out of the
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playoffs. So yeah, and I'm just ready for that Ravens Niners game on
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Christmas because that's gonna be some big implications. Go ahead, Josh. Well.
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Well, Now, in the AFC South, the Jacksonville Jaguars, Indianapolis
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Coats, and Houston Texans are all sitting at eight and six with c.
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J. Stroud coming back to play for the Houston Texas probably next week.
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So the Colts are hot right now. They might be without Michael Pittman Junior,
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which we'll get to in a little bit maybe talk about the hit.
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But but outside of that, they really screwed themselves in these last three games
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where they had the sole possession of the division. Now the two teams below
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them have caught up. It's a three way tie at eight and six.
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Anything, anything can happen in these last what is it, three weeks of
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the season. Yeah, three weeks, Yeah, yeah, I know it's
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it's definitely gonna be It's definitely gonna be interesting how this lays out because they're
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going in the wrong direction. But all right, we're gonna get into this
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next game. We're gonna just skip the Cowboys and Bills. Well O way,
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no, I wish. But the Dallas Cowboys they go into Buffalo and
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they get Molly wopp thirty one to ten. Josh, go ahead, what
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do you got to say? What did you take away from this one?
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The Buffalo Bills ran the ball straight through the Dallas Cowboys, Like if there
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was a wall, they ran through it. They that's all they did in
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this game. Josh Allen only threw the ball fifteen times, so the conditions
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weren't very good in this game. But Josh Allen only throwing the ball fifteen
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times in an NFL football game is insane. That's something unheard of in the
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Josh Allen in Josh Allen's career. They ran the ball forty nine times for
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two hundred sixty six yards and five yards per carry, I think, along
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with four touchdowns three touchdowns. James Cook looked like prime. I don't know,
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he looked like prime. Oh, I don't know. Like he was
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balling this game twenty twenty five, seventy nine a touchdown and receiving two for
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forty two in a touchdown. He did it all for this team. He
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he broke off some big runs. He was considered this had to be probably
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his best game of his career by far, no question. And it happened
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versus the Dallas Cowboys. As far as the Dallas Cowboys side, I think
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they kind of just went back to a lot of the things that that kind
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of had seems second guessing them a little bit, And it's understandable. They
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were at a really all time high maybe they just got a little bit ahead
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of themselves going into this game versus the Bills, who are hot at the
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very at this moment, they're they're working their way into the playoffs right now.
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They're not there yet, but they're gonna. We'll see if they get
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there. Yeah. Yeah, Dak Prescott threw some balls where it was like,
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come on, man, like you're really gonna throw that. Like he
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threw into triple coverage. He was trying to hit people, he was from
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people. Sure, it just didn't look like a regular Dak Prescott game we've
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become accustomed to over the last two three months. It just in the run
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game. It's hard to keep up with a team that's running the ball when
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you can't run the ball. So it's like you gotta gotta take it how
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it is. And and I don't know, just props the Bills for not
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not sticking, not from first sticking to their game plan. They went and
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they went in with one obviously, and they they wrote it the whole game.
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Yeah. So I texted you this on Sunday after the game, but
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I was saying, ever since Wednesday or Thursday, I had a bad feeling
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that the Cowboys were going to lose this game. Just like like you mentioned
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after after the Eagles game, after an all time high, you win this
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great game where prime time flex your muscles. Great, I'm gonna I'm gonna
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get into the offense first. This offense, it was I feel like it
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was bound to happen. There's no way that you could have told me that
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we would would have won out the rest of the season, not getting blown
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or not getting blown out. Duh. Obviously that's not what you want.
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But it happened already, so there's nothing you could change. But like you
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said, Dak Prescott, he was just off and he was even reading the
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defense wrong. He was just second guessing him. And I don't know exactly
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what it was. But offense, that isn't the main problem there, because
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they've showed moments like this against Arizona and San Francisco and they have stepped up.
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But my biggest concern is the defense here. This is other than the
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Philadelphia Eagles game against a big time opponent. They haven't stepped up in the
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big time situations. They haven't and that could be a mixture of the personnel.
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That could be a mixture. Okay, I know Nobody mentions this,
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but Dan Quinn. He always gets all the love when defense is going great,
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but whenever there's adjustments that needs to be made, he gets no blame
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at all, and it's just simply just on Mike McCarthy. And I feel
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like that's very unfair right there, because there was no adjustments during this game.
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They went into halftime and you kept still kept the same people on the
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field, Like why are we keeping safeties on the field when we could put
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linebackers on the field. Like the biggest thing with the Cowboys Cowboys defense is
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they're very dependent on the offense, if that makes sense. If the offense
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is putting up points, you're able to have your pass rushers out there,
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You're able to have your nickel or your dine package out there, and you're
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able to just go get the quarterback. So it's like I, like I
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mentioned, I still feel the same way. I still feel as if we
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could be any other team in the NFC other than the San Francisco forty nine
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ers because they can repeat what the Buffalo Bills did to us. So yeah,
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I think that we'll respond against Miami. I'm not trying to get into
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any predictions here, but after this embarrassing loss right here, it kind of
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helps that Philadelphia loss, but there's just no excuses on how the Cowboys Cowboys
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played. They just came out flat, just embarrassing. And there's yeah,
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there's I'm not really like you. How you weren't mad about the last game?
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Who did y'all play last week? No? I was mad about the
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Bills. I wasn't mad about the Packers. No, no, no,
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it was it wasn't the Bills. Who'd y'all lose to last week? Oh
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yeah? The Packers? Packers? Yeah, yeah, Yeah, I wasn't
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mad at the Bills. I was mad at the Bills. I wasn't mad
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at the Packers game. Yeah. Yeah, So like this game, I'm
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not mad at And hopefully it could kind of be some positive positive because they
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needed a wake up call. They were riding too high, in my opinion,
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so hopefully they could just turn this back around. And yeah, there's
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there's not There's not much I could say. It's kind of the repeat of
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what I usually see of the Cowboys in December and January, So yeah,
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nothing else I could take. But yeah, just just relax Cowboys fans.
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If anybody's any Cowboys fans are listening. Just relax, But is there anything
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else else you want to take away from this game? Right here? I
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had something in my mind and it just like slipped once we started talking about
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the Packers and Likes game, and it just it just came. So I'm
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trying to remember hold on like I had it, and then you brought it
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up and I was like, oh yeah, oh my bad. Oh.
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No. One thing I want to say is that the Buffalo Bills. I'm
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gonna say this up front. I think the Buffalo Bills them winning this game
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and proving it because even though the Cowboys came out flat, this is still
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a damn good team. They're the scariest team in the AFC right now because
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they're starting to click on all cylinders. Ravens as much I you know,
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I'm a believer in the Ravens, but I just feel like the way they're
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clicking on all cylinders and they turned. They were gonna get into the Cam
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Newton comments later, but Josh Allen kind of became a game manager to these
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past few games right here, and they're starting to win these ballgames here,
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Let's just be real. So they're starting to play well Ravens go ahead.
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Well, with the Josh Allen thing, they're trying to limit his mistakes quite
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a bit. I do think in the Chiefs game he got a little bit
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lucky with some turnovers. There were somewhere they went through a couple of the
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defenders' hands because he was trying to force some balls in that game. Like
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I remember there was one where Legious Need literally had it slip through his hands
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like twice, but on one of them it slipped through his hands and then
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I believe it was Justin who was right behind him and it hit one of
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his hands and it fell to the ground. Like he escaped with at least
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three interceptions in that game and only ended up with one. But in this
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game, they really took the game manager like to him and they're like,
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the weather's bad, does not force, it's just ground and pound. And
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they found a formula on the beat the Cowboys in this game. I'm pretty
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sure the Cowboys will adjust. But oh, I remember what I was gonna
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say now now that I'm talking about it. Okay, So I think Leyton
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vander Esk in these type of situations is kind of missed because he is like
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that, like I'm not saying he's one of the like the great run stopping
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linebackers in the NFL. But he runs. He runs side to side,
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east to west. He he makes sure he's in the right spots at the
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right times. And I think this is where missing someone like him with his
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like awareness when it comes to the run game hurts the Cowboys a little bit
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because you brought in what's his face from text for what's his face? The
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linebacker from Texas overshown and oh yeah, oh he's hurt. Yeah Overshown.
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He gets hurt where you had this guy who could really match like the speed
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of Michael Parsons, but in the in the back three, yeah, the
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linebackers and then Lane vendor Esk goes down. So your two guys that you
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expected to just help stop the run, help stop, help stop things across
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the middle are both gone. So you're really dealing with some backup linebackers right
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here, and that that sometimes can be had by really good teams. And
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the Bills right now are looking like a good team. Yeah. So before
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we take off from this, so I saw a bunch of people or Cowboys
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fans on Twitter saying, oh, we need to put Micah Parsons as linebacker.
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I don't I don't buy that his position, Yes, not his position,
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as much as he came into the draft as a linebacker. He he
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would be a good linebacker in the NFL. But he is a generational talent
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as a defensive end and you just have to keep them there. And that's
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a and that's another reason, like you were saying with Laydon vander esh because
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he is a solid passa coverage guy. So he's just solid all the way
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around. Now you have to have a Marquis Bell, Janya Thomas, jay
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Ron Kurz, who are originally safety players who are having to play as that
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second linebacker. And there's only so much you could depend on Damon Clark and
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Rashad Evans. So yeah, that's gonna be a weakness where other teams are
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gonna try to exploit because you got the Dolphins and you got the lines up
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next who are gonna want to run the football. So we're gonna see how
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they respond. And this is what I love about this. So in previous
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years the Cowboys, it would be, oh, well, we don't know
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what we're getting going into the postseason. This is late in the year so
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we're gonna know exactly where this team stands as soon as they get in the
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postseason. We're gonna know, Okay, well this this could be a team
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that win wins a playoff game or two, maybe super Bowl, or you
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could be like, oh, well it's the same old Cowboys. So I'm
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kind of glad it does. That doesn't get my hopes up too high.
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But anything else you gonna take away from this one, Josh, No,
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we pretty much said it all all right, we're gonna get into the next
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game, and which it was the Washington Commanders versus the Los Angeles Rams,
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and which the Commanders try to make a late comeback but it didn't happen,
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and Sam Howe got benched and the Rams they won twenty eight to twenty.
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Josh, what did you take away from this game? I took away that
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they're they're expecting Sam Howe to do it all and they they benched him.
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But your best running back is hurt and you completely go away from the run
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even though he's hurt. With Brian Robinson, no, like Antonio Gibson's been
23:37
a good running back in the NFL before. Chris Rodriguez is an okay,
23:41
backup like hand him. The football running backs are feeling is a filling position.
23:45
You put it in the guy and he's supposed to have a big date.
23:48
You just don't go away. You don't give Chris Rodriguez ten carries for
23:52
thirty five yards and he's like, oh nah, he's not gonna get it
23:53
on. Let's keep just keep throwing it. So that that sucks a seam.
23:57
Hell see Sam Howe get he went leven for twenty six one h two,
24:02
one touchdown. It wasn't completely bad, but he was missing some balls.
24:04
But it's hard when you're when you have the whole offense put on your
24:08
shoulders and you really first year as a starter. So I think it will
24:12
get better for him as it keeps going forward. I think they just needed
24:15
to. I think the Jacobe Brissett just kind of went in to reset the
24:18
team a little bit. And Scary Terry had a pretty big day. It's
24:22
probably his biggest day he's had in almost his career in three years. Three
24:26
years, you haven't seen Scary Terry, you know, Josh, that's his
24:29
first one hundred yard game in the past two seasons. Yeah, Like there
24:33
was something where he didn't have over seventy five yards and like something straight games
24:37
like was like, yeah, twelve straight games or something. Yeah, scary
24:41
Terry. If there's anyone that needs to complain and we're complaining to get to
24:45
a contender, I think that's the guy. So yeah, he has six
24:48
for one, forty one and one touchdown. But the story when you play
24:52
the Rams is this offense is gonna hit you in many different ways and it's
24:56
showing ever since Kyvien Williams has come back and I harped on this even when
25:00
he was playing. He is the offense now. He is what you what
25:06
you go through, and they showed it. He had twenty one set twenty
25:10
one. He had twenty seven carries and five receptions. That is thirty two
25:15
touches. On the game, you give the running back thirty two touches.
25:18
He is your offense. He is the main focal point. And he had
25:21
one hundred and fifty two rushing yards a touchdown, and then he had five
25:26
for three, which is not crazy, but when you were able to dunk
25:30
it off to kind of get out of get out of bast situations, it
25:33
helps having a reliable running back right there. But then on the other side,
25:37
Cooper Cup is starting to find his own he's starting to get healthy again
25:41
and he's starting to get cooking. And it helps having Pukinnakua on their side,
25:44
who takes attention also because he's somehow always opened Puka Nakula. And when
25:48
you have two of the same receiver, it's good to have like a alpha
25:52
and an omega, because Cooper Cup is the Alpha and Pukinaku is the omega.
25:56
There's the first read, and there's the second read, and Cooper Cup
26:00
at eight for win eleven and a touchdown in Pukinakoa five for fifty. It's
26:03
not a great day from Pooka, but he's had many great days this year.
26:07
And this offense is clicking right now. Yeah, No, this offense
26:11
definitely is clicking. And like you mentioned with Kyen Williams, it's all about
26:15
the run game here and with Sean McVay, even all the Sean McVay tree
26:19
all around. Their biggest establishment for their offenses running the football and then getting
26:25
from there. But the Rams they take it on a whole different level because
26:29
you have Matt Stafford there, you have Cooper Cup, like you said,
26:30
and all the other wide receivers who are solid there, and they're going to
26:34
be a scary team. They've been playing as one of the if not the
26:38
best offensese past few weeks, and we saw what the Baltimore Ravens. They've
26:44
done the many many teams. And after they lost to the Ravens, which
26:47
they could have won if there wasn't a few plays or stuff like that,
26:52
they could be sitting right here at eight and six. So yeah, this
26:56
team is a force to be reckoned with. And there's veterans on here,
27:00
a championship caliber coach. There's nothing I could really take away from the Commanders
27:03
because it's kind of what you expect. I didn't expect to see Sam Howe
27:07
get benched, but again he's a rookie. Just just basically clean it off,
27:11
just say scratch it up. We'll go on to the next game here
27:15
because I'm gonna need you, Sam Howe. I'm gonna need you in these
27:18
next few games. Please give me at least a solid twenty points the next
27:22
two games. Having Fantasy football, but yeah, no, this offense,
27:29
this offense, it's clicking, And there's really nothing I could take away from
27:33
this. You covered all points here, but is there anything else you want
27:37
to take away from this one. I just I just think this is probably
27:41
the most balanced we've ever seen Sean McVay offense, and it's looking really good
27:47
because when you have thirty seven carries and Matthew Stafford only throws the ball thirty
27:51
three times, this is something I harp on. If you run the ball
27:53
and you run it effectively, it's really hard to stop a football team through
27:56
the air because you have to worry about the ground game and they can take
28:00
you over the top. And it's exactly what happened in this game. Exactly.
28:03
Do you think this is the best running back they've had since Todd Gurley?
28:07
I think it is easily. Yeah, yep. They have a Sony
28:18
Michelle who is it, cam Acres Darryl Yeah, Sez, I forgot about
28:25
c J. Anderson. He look, he had a couple of good games
28:26
though, but it's only I forget because he went for over two hundred freaking
28:32
yards against the Cowboys. Yeah he did, or now that I remember that.
28:36
And then there was another running back that they had that was Camp That
28:40
was all right, Oh no, we already mentioned cam Akers, right,
28:42
So Sony Michelle cam Akers, c J. Anderson Darryl Henderson, Right,
28:48
Darryl Henderson. Yeah, I said, Darryl Henderson, Help, there's they
28:52
had someone. Yeah. Always we always quiz each other over the most random
28:57
stuff, freaking rams bats out of all things. Yeah, but Kyrin Williams,
29:03
I think he might be. He might be, you know, he
29:06
he He wasn't expected to do this coming out of the draft. They said
29:08
he was kind of small, not very fast. But hey, sometimes that
29:12
stuff doesn't matter. It's all about when you get on that football field with
29:15
the Pats. Who's a baller exactly? But we can get into this next
29:21
team right here who is balling in which it's the San Francisco forty nine ers
29:26
who went to Arizona and they stomped the Cardinals even though they put up points,
29:30
they beat them forty five to twenty nine. Josh, what did you
29:33
take away from this one? Right here? The forty nine ers just took
29:41
care of business. In my opinion, this game, there's not really much
29:44
to really much to get into. I mean, it's hard for Kyler Murray
29:48
to do a lot of things when his offensive line is a bunch of makeshift
29:52
guys, so he can't really get the ball and his best weapon was Trey
29:55
McBride, who is a great tight who I think he's gonna be great tights
29:57
in the NFL. Yeah, But when Elijah Higgins is your number one and
30:02
Greg George is your number two, I mean, I don't know if you're
30:06
gonna get a lot done versus the forty nine ers team. So let's just
30:10
chuck that up. For the Cardinals, they're playing for Marvin Harrison's junior Romo
30:14
dunns keon Coleman brock Bowers. They're playing for one of those guys right now.
30:18
But the San Francisco forty nine Ers, brock Purty has four touchdowns.
30:22
Christian McCaffrey continues to do Christian McCaffrey things eight for one, eighteen one to
30:26
fifteen, one touchdown on the game on the ground and then five seventy two
30:30
and two touchdowns are the air. He as much as people, Okay,
30:34
I'm gonna get into it, I'm gonna get into it right now. As
30:37
much as people want to say brock Purty is the MVP. How when Christian
30:41
McCaffrey has three, has two of his passing touchdowns and run on the ground,
30:45
Christian McCaffrey is the San Francsco forty nine ers offense. Without Christian McCaffrey,
30:48
this offense isn't the same. That's why they traded for Christian McCaffrey,
30:52
because they edit that one piece. They didn't trade for a quarterback. They
30:55
traded for Christian McCaffrey, and he is the MVP of this team. He
31:00
deserves to be a bo Rock Party in NFL MVP voting, which I think,
31:07
honestly, this year is probably the one year where a quarterback does not
31:11
deserve to win MVP, as much as I want to say it's Tyreek Hill,
31:14
Christian McCaffrey's award, in my opinion, and I think they need to
31:18
really sit down after this year as the NFL and really talk about what are
31:23
we going to diagnose MVP and if we should start just a best quarterback award
31:27
because christ McCaffrey right now is MVP of the San Francisco forty nine ers.
31:33
So I'm actually going to go the opposite way on this one. Rock Purty,
31:40
he's a franchise quarterback. I'm ready to say it. Rock Party is
31:42
a franchise quarterback. It took me a while. It took damn near a
31:48
whole season and a half for me to say it. But after what he
31:52
does time in and time again, he just proves. He just proves that
31:56
he is more than capable enough. Not gonna say top ten, but he
32:01
is a solid to good franchise quarterback. Does he deserve MVP? Okay,
32:09
I guess we're gonna kind of get into a different conversation. Does he deserve
32:13
it or should he win it? There's a difference between there. Should he
32:17
win it probably not. It should probably be Christian McCaffrey or Tyrek Kill.
32:22
Does he deserve it? Yes, he does best record in the NFL,
32:28
pinning the Ravens game, and then has the best stats passing touchdowns on the
32:34
best team in the league. So yeah, like you said, as far
32:37
as the quarterback award MVP, there's a whole debate there, but as of
32:43
right now, in my book, he is a clear cut MVP. I
32:45
don't feel like, well, we'll see next week when the Ravens and Niners
32:49
they do play each other. I know I mentioned that we'll get to it
32:52
a little bit later. But if he wins, If he wins that one,
32:55
it's locked up. There's nobody else that's gonna win it, and this
33:00
Niners team, they're just so damn dominant. Like you mentioned with Christian mccaffreck,
33:05
that can't be mentioned enough. This dude, he's just he's just a
33:07
one man wrecking crew. And then with a Yuk and Deebo there, it's
33:10
just it just adds a whole different element just to physicality. I just feel
33:15
like nobody is close to them right now, but Kyler Murray. I feel
33:20
like after these games, how we kind of said, Kyler Murray has to
33:23
prove himself throughout these next few weeks, and I feel like he has twenty
33:28
nine points against the San Francisco forty nine ers is damn tough, especially when
33:31
you throw a pick six or you have a couple interceptions and you still put
33:36
up twenty nine points. So yeah, just get that dude some weapons and
33:39
just have a good draft and maybe you could be a year or two away
33:43
from playoff contention there. But yeah, no, I just have to disagree
33:49
with you on that. I just feel like it's it's time. It's time
33:52
to Christian McCaffrey is three hundred rushing yards ahead of the next running back.
33:58
He has five hundred receiving you and I think he has like seventeen total eighteen
34:04
total touchdowns by himself. Christian McCaffrey used to clear cut MVP over Rock Party
34:09
in my opinion, but it's not gonna happen that way. Yeah, Rock
34:14
Party will win it a way it's going right now. It's I just don't
34:19
I just will never be like, yeah, that's the MVP. It's kind
34:22
of like one of those Steve Nash over Kobe MVPs. It's like one of
34:28
those right now. It's not really who should win it, it's who they're
34:31
gonna give it to. Yeah, Okay. I have a question though,
34:36
because it's Ravens and Niners. I keep bringing that up. If the Ravens
34:38
they find a way to win on Lamar has a good game, does Lamar
34:42
become the front runner for MVP because he's second right now as far as in
34:45
betting Eddie nods, I think he will become the front runner for MVP.
34:52
But then I think there's also a couple other guys who may work their way
34:58
back into it if they have some really big games, and it could be
35:01
a Josh Allen that works his way. I think he's third right now in
35:05
MVP voting at this very moment. No, it's it's Dak third, and
35:08
then it goes, it goes Mahomes and Josh Allen. They're tied for like
35:12
fourth, fist. See if any of the three of those guys have big
35:15
games to end the season, I mean, they might switch the whole narrative
35:20
on it. So I think this this is a year where there's no clear
35:23
cut MVP right now, and we probably won't know until Week eighteen. So
35:28
unless Lamar Jackson goes or Brock Purty goes Scorch Earth next week, which I
35:31
think it's more likely for brock Party, which is why I had Hit to
35:36
go Scorch Earth. Just with who he has around him, It's just that's
35:42
it's gonna be hard to say who really is the MVP for me right now,
35:46
But I don't think he. I think CHRISI McCaffrey's a broad brock Party
35:50
in my opinion. Yeah, well, all right, since you're since we're
35:53
talking about some of the best quarterbacks in the league, we're gonna go and
35:57
go on to this next game, and which was a Kansas City Chiefs versus
36:01
the New England Patriots, and which Jack McKinnon threw a touch now I'm just
36:06
kidding in which the Patrick Mahomes he had a good day, but the Chiefs
36:12
end up going in twenty seven to seventeen against the Patriots. Josh, how'd
36:17
you feel about this Chiefs game? Right here? Okay, I'll start with
36:21
the defense real quick. Okay, So well, I don't think I could
36:23
start with the defense with it's gonna it's gonna lead into offense eventually. Okay.
36:28
So with the defense, I think that they were trying to force Nick
36:31
Bolton on us a little too much to start the game, and we saw
36:35
the Patriots kind of start doing a lot of quick passes, like over the
36:37
middle of the field on linebackers. So what I'm trying to say is,
36:42
don't take Drew Trankle off the field. Do not take Drew Trankle off the
36:45
field at all. He I love Nick Bolton to death. He's been and
36:50
I always thought Nick Bolton was the best linebacker, just on some biased stuff
36:55
I did. But Drew Trankle was the best linebacker on this Kansasy Chiefs football
36:59
team. He is he plays great pass coverage, he reads the defense is
37:04
a little bit better, and he's Nick Boles is a little bit better of
37:07
a run stopper than Drew tranku Will. But Drew Trankwill is able to take
37:12
away the middle of the field, and that's something that we're lacking a little
37:14
bit when he's not on the field because Sir Willie gaves super athletic and Nick
37:17
Bolan's just Nick Bolton. But when Drew trankles on the field, he can
37:22
he can get up in front of a tight end, he can guard a
37:23
running back. So just leave him on the field and we're gonna keep cooking.
37:28
But the seventeen score should not be seventeen points because the offense, Sure
37:32
they look great in this game. The offense, I thought at points for
37:37
moving the ball up and down the field against a good Patriots defense. Sure
37:39
their record doesn't show it, but the Patriots defense is a good defense.
37:43
That's something you're always gonna get with Bill Belichick. We've ran the offense through
37:46
Rashid Rice, which I love to see, something we've been calling for all
37:50
season. Get that man the football. Nine for ninety one and a touchdown.
37:53
He's starting to emerge as offensive Rookie of the Year candidate. He's a
37:59
candidate because we all know who's gonna win Offensive Rick of the Year, but
38:00
he's emerging as probably one of the candidates right now. Clydiae Edwardsilaire stepped up
38:07
very well in the place for Isaiah Pacheco thirteen for thirty seven, four for
38:12
sixty fourth to the air and a touchdown. But we still have the same
38:15
problems. I'm sure we won this game. The offense was clicking a bit
38:19
more, but we saw a couple of drops in this game. We saw
38:22
a couple of bad routes. We saw some fumbles which which I in my
38:25
opinion, I think they put sky Moore and I are because of that.
38:28
It's sort of like benching him without saying outright, we're benching you. Because
38:32
he's been playing terrible and he had a fumble which on a play he got
38:37
lucky that Rashid rash was getting held up the whole way and there was a
38:39
PI so he got saved right there. Darius Tony catches the ball in the
38:45
middle of the field and it goes and it goes straight through his hands.
38:50
He bobbles it interception and then the Patriots co and have it started like the
38:54
thirty two yard line and score a touchdown. So we still need to clean
38:58
up some problems here. Patrick Mahomes looked like he was able to do a
39:01
little bit more. Patrick Mahomes stuff in his game like run around, throw
39:05
the ball that we can see over the defender into Clydewards a layer. He
39:08
got the ball to. Rachi Rice looked little bit more comfortable. They're working
39:12
him down the field little bit more. So that's good to see that the
39:14
Chiefs are kind of figuring things out a little bit, but they're still going
39:16
to clean up some things with that wide receiver group. Yeah. No,
39:21
I feel like it was just a better version and a better version of what
39:23
we've seen the Chiefs be all this year, in which in which that's what
39:30
it needs to be. I think I said this. I don't know if
39:32
feels against after the Packers or Buffalo lost, but the Chiefs they just need
39:37
to just score over twenty points in the defense. They'll just take care of
39:40
the rest here. I know they gave up seventeen to the Patriots, but
39:45
they had a mini buy. It was a Thursday night football. You have
39:47
some momentum, so they're gonna come out. They're gonna come out clicking on
39:52
all cylinders, in which it's at home, and this is a good Patriots
39:54
defense, like you mentioned, But the biggest thing was Patrick Mahomes. Every
40:00
was able to play Patrick Mahomes football. He was able to just play play
40:04
when he plays backyard football. I don't know any other way to say it.
40:08
He's the most comfortable in this Chiefs offense starts to score points, and
40:13
whenever Pacheco he gets back here, we'll really see when the run game is
40:16
clicking and you have Rashid Rice involved in this offense, how much this or
40:22
how good this offense can be. I feel like, like I said,
40:27
with the Buffalo Bills, I feel like they're the most dangerous team in the
40:29
AFC right now. But this AFC is so wide open. If the Chiefs
40:32
these last three games in which they have the Bengals next, I believe,
40:37
right, the Bengals, Raiders, We have the Raiders, then we have
40:44
the Bengals, then Chargers, So Raiders, Bengals, Chargers. So yeah,
40:46
these next three games, this is the time to get your offense going,
40:51
get your momentum going. So they're in the middle of that and hopefully
40:54
they could keep it up because it's always fun to see the Chiefs go far
40:59
into the playoffs and Patriots. I kind of I feel like I kind of
41:01
say this every week, congratulations on drafting Caleb Williams. So yeah, but
41:07
okay. Also, also, since we're speaking about the Patriots, the only
41:10
other thing we could talk about, So there's talks about Bill Belichick potentially leaving
41:15
the Patriots. So where do you think Bill Belichick it would be the best
41:21
option for him to go. And who do you think is the candidate to
41:23
replace Bill Belichick? Oh Man, someplace with the established defense. So let's
41:32
think of that. I'm pretty sure. I don't think it matters to him
41:37
who the quarterback is. I think if he has a defense, Bill Belichick
41:39
always has a chance. Yeah. Well, I think honestly, any any
41:45
coach that's going to be a candidate year is going to look for that that
41:49
Chargers job. That Chargers job is going to be the first job that they
41:52
apply for that they try getting. So I think honestly that might be the
41:57
move. If you give Bill Belichick justin Herbert and then a Khalil Mack and
42:02
Joey Bosa and Derwin James and and all those guys that they have on that
42:07
defense, He's going to turn it into something I guarantee you Bill Belichick will.
42:12
But I think that's just the easy answer is to say the Chargers every
42:15
single time for every coaching candidate. I'm just trying to think of a team
42:19
where I can dig deep into it. Because the Cardinals Jonathan Gannon just got
42:22
there, Shane Styken just got to the Colt So it's like there's Atlanta,
42:28
there's Atta. Atlanta has a good defense and they have weapons. Yeah,
42:35
but I think very b enemy is going to become the Commander's head coach if
42:37
they get rid of MH potentially if he doesn't, if he doesn't go far
42:45
in the playoffs. How they've talked about it, But okay, send you
42:47
since you mentioned the Chargers Panthers, I think they have too much problems for
42:55
him to join. Yeah, I think he would want to go somewhere where
42:59
he could win. But I feel like the Chargers job is the most overrated
43:02
job in the NFL right now. I think that's Ben Johnson's job. Really
43:07
you think so? Yeah, Oh, I could see that. That's that's
43:12
really nice right there, But that would be a really run heavy offense.
43:17
Yes, but I think the grid of Austin Eckler, he established, he
43:22
brings in some running backs, he'll still have the receivers. So and they
43:27
hell Justin Herbert. Give Justin Herbert to Ben Johnson. I guarantee you they
43:30
do a lot more than Kellen Moore with Justin Herbert because Ben Johnson can do
43:34
a lot with it. We see it with the Lions almost except for like
43:37
a couple of weeks this year and last year and this year, we've seen
43:40
this Lions offense click on all cylinders. So I guarantee you put him any
43:45
with any weapons, with at least some weapons, and he's the head coach.
43:49
I think there's gonna get some stuff done. Mm hm. So who
43:52
do you think is the best best to replace Bill Belichick and the Patriots job
43:57
or Bill Belichick's job. Because you have a top three draft pick, you
44:02
have a solid defense, would it be more often to say dan Quinn?
44:09
I was I was thinking that too, dan Quinn. That's kind of but
44:14
I said this in the barbershop earlier. Someone was asking me dan Quinn might
44:17
become a head coach somewhere. I feel like, if, if, oh
44:22
my god, if dan Quinn really wanted to become a head coach, I
44:25
think he would have left two years ago if he would have left last year.
44:28
I think there are some coaches are just that are better coordinators than head
44:31
coaches. Let's take Steve Spagnola for example. On the Chief he's a great
44:37
defensive coordinator. We see it this year. We've seen him establish themselves getting
44:40
when they go into the playoffs. But when he was a head coach,
44:43
he was a terrible head coach, Like it was like, yeah, no,
44:46
I don't know. And then we've seen Dan Quinn was it Dan Was
44:50
it Dan Quinn? Or that lost twenty eight three leagues? Yeah, so
44:54
we've seen him make mistakes as a head coach. He's gotten far, but
44:59
that team was that Falcons team was a team, Yeah they were. So
45:05
I don't know, but right now I think that might be the best bet
45:07
to take over the job. But honestly, we could probably see an old
45:12
Patriots guy just jump back in there, like an old Bill Belichick guy.
45:15
You think Steve Belichick would take over his son. Oh he's not a bad
45:22
he's a good defensive coordinator. Yeah. So, but I was gonna say
45:27
dark horse Mike Rabel. Yeah I could say that Mike Rabel the Patriots,
45:31
but the Tiants won't fire Mike Vrabel. Yeah, he's too he's too important
45:37
to their future. That's this, that's hard. Who takes over that Patriots
45:39
job is going to be a hard decision, Matt. What makes it interesting
45:45
is that you're going to get a quarterback this year, so you could get
45:49
an offensive coordinator who could say, okay, well I could work with Kingsbury.
45:55
Uh you think he gets another shot Patriots guy? Yeah, well everyone
46:01
everyone was trying to get him to be offensive coordinator. But he's just like,
46:06
no, I'm gonna take this year off. I'm gonna take this year
46:07
off, like because okay, we're gonna go totally off topic if I can
46:12
start righting about my text. Okay, he was not the problem in Arizona
46:16
in my opinion, How are you gonna say he's the problem when you when
46:22
the gem puts together that dog crap offensive line, he has freaking Kyler Murray
46:28
miss half a season, and then you freaking and then you're running back your
46:31
best running back is I get James Connor is good, but James Connor's banged
46:36
up all the time. He really didn't get a fair share. And then
46:39
de Hop was suspended last year and then he so he had to work with
46:44
Rondell Moore, Marquis Brown, and Markui's Brown got hurt after the first four
46:46
games of this season, and then so he who did he have to work
46:51
with? Like you know, he he made it to the playoffs with the
46:53
Cardinals like two times, I believe, and then last year it just fell
46:59
apart on that off and that defense was terrible, like it was Zach.
47:01
Outside of Zach Allen, JJ Watt and Buddha Buddha Baker, everyone else was
47:07
just trying to figure out who they were, you know. So I don't
47:10
think he was the problem. I think he deserves not another head coaching job,
47:14
but at least offensive coordinator. Yeah, I could definitely see that.
47:17
But all right, before we get more even off topic, we're gonna just
47:21
go ahead and move on to this next game, in which it was the
47:23
Cleveland Browns versus the Chicago Bears, in which THO was a last second Heil
47:30
Mary attempt in which Darnell Mooney he dropped it. I don't know how that
47:32
happened, but oh man, it was crazy. But the Browns they won
47:38
twenty to seventeen. And now with the first or the number one spot as
47:44
far as in the wild card and they're nine to five. Josh, what
47:47
did you take away from this one? The Browns escaped this one. They
47:51
were down seventeen to seven going into the fourth and in the like still like
47:57
with four minutes left, like five minutes left in the fourth quarter something I
48:00
believe. Yeah, yeah, they they go seventeen to ten field goal.
48:05
Then he the ball that Joe Flacco threw the Cooper Cup across the field in
48:08
between two people was a good throw. He hit amark A Cooper on stride
48:14
a Cooper with Brown run for the touchdown seventeen seventeen. Then they end the
48:19
game with the field goal. But Joe Flacco, I think I think he's
48:23
the answer for the Browns. It's it's I do the one win. An
48:29
interception at the beginning of the game, which I think turned into a pick
48:30
six was really not on him, was not on him. I think I
48:34
forget the receiver. That was it Cedric Tillman or was it David Njoku who
48:37
like went through his hands. I think it was Timan and that's when Tams
48:43
Yeah, yeah, it went through his hands and then picked six. That
48:45
wasn't really much on him. Then there is that one play where he threw
48:49
to David David Njoku for the end zone and then it's just like the cornerback
48:52
just came out of nowhere and kind of sniped it from him. It was
48:55
so he really won real interception in my opinion from Joe, But he's he's
49:01
allowing them to push the ball down the field, something that Shaun Watson wasn't
49:05
allowing them to do because he's washed. And then and then PJ. Walker
49:10
and Dorian and Thompson Robinson just aren't going to push the ball down the field.
49:13
That's not how they play football. They're run first quarterbacks really, they're
49:16
more of like the quick game RPOs with Joe Flacco. They're able to use
49:21
their weapons, their ability, and we're seeing Cedric Tillman kind of get worked
49:23
into this offense quite a bit, which I've been waiting for it because he
49:25
was a good receiver in college. He was better in my opinion than his
49:30
teammate Jalen Hyatt. Jalen Hyatts is just a one dimensional deep NBS row receiver.
49:35
Sadric Tillman can do it all, and I think that's gonna be big
49:37
for them going down the streets that they can establish Amar Cooper, David Joku,
49:40
and Cedric Tillman with a little bit of Elijah Moore sprinkled in there,
49:44
and that's gonna be good for this Cleveland Browns offense because their run game is
49:45
always gonna be good. Not in this game. They weren't that great in
49:49
this game. They have one point six carry, but usually they're clicking,
49:52
so that's they're They're good on both sides of the football, man, and
49:54
it's really good to see that they could make it. They could make a
49:59
real shot and spoil some fun for some people. Yeah, no, they
50:02
definitely can. And yeah, Joe Flacco, it's had a different element.
50:07
I'm not gonna go as far as saying he's the answer to this Cleveland brows
50:12
for this year. Yeah, at least for this year. Yeah, I
50:15
could see that. But I just feel like, yes, it is good
50:20
right now, but I feel like the biggest downside is going to be the
50:22
upside of Joe Flacco, which is he is very reckless. Whenever those plays
50:28
happen, it's great, it's amazing. They wouldn't have came back in this
50:31
game. If Deshaun Watson dtr or the other quarterback. I can't think of
50:37
who it was they were in the PJ. Walker. Yeah, he is
50:43
the reason why you could win games or lose games, and just these past
50:46
few games, he's been the reason why you've won these games. I still
50:50
feel like they need to start running the ball a little bit better, especially
50:53
since it's playoff time and you have a really good game coming up next week
50:57
against the Texans and them which could be wild card implications and potentially clinching the
51:02
playoff spot. But yeah, they're just able to spread the ball galore.
51:08
And if if only they had Nick chubbed, this would be a different element
51:14
this Brown's defense. I think they had like eleven pass deflection or no,
51:17
yeah, eleven pass deflections, eight tackles for loss. So this Brown's defense
51:22
got back to normal. But as far as from the bar side, I
51:24
really thought that they were going to make a run because they have a lighter
51:28
end of these last three games, they just couldn't get it done. And
51:31
just some I don't know, just watching this game, as much as you
51:37
look at the box score and you see justin fields, as far as what
51:39
he put up, I don't feel like he is the main problem. Right
51:43
here. I just don't. It's just there's so much stuff around him he's
51:46
having to overcome, and I feel like he's gonna get traded away this offseason.
51:52
He's gonna go Atlanta. It's been the hot hot top att Yeah.
51:57
Yeah, No, it looks like that's gonna happen. And they're gonna drave
52:00
Kleb, Drake May who whoever. The offense is gonna be so dirty,
52:06
Bro, I don't know like they're gonna be so good if they gave him.
52:08
I'm sorry, I just totally interrupted you, but I just like on
52:12
him with Bijon and then well it depends if you have Arthur Smith there.
52:16
Yeah, sure, never mind, I'm not gonna get it myself. Well,
52:19
since we brought it up, we're gonna go ahead and move on to
52:22
this next game, and which it was the Falcons and Panthers, and which
52:25
maybe Justin Fields goes their next year. The Panthers, they had a game
52:29
winning field goal, which they won nine to seven. Josh, I'll let
52:31
you break down this game. Go ahead. I'll let you right down.
52:37
Yeah, yeah, go ahead, because I know you had a lot to
52:39
talk about from this one, all right, Bro, I lost a Fantasy
52:43
Championship because of the oh I lost a Fantasy playoff game because of this game.
52:46
So Bijeon had seven of the twenty six running back carries. He had
52:52
one catch in the game. He played fifty nine of the snaps, lowest
52:58
percentage for a healthy Jean Robinson game. Bijon, Drake Lennon, and Kyle
53:04
Pitch touched the ball thirteen times combined. Tyler Alzier touched the ball fifteen times,
53:10
and they lost the Carolina Panthers nine to seven. That's all I gotta
53:15
say. That's all I gotta say. Give Bejon the damn ball. Arthur
53:19
Smith, bro, what are we doing like after we saw them going a
53:23
little bit of a run these last couple of weeks, these with the with
53:29
Bijon, they're really gonna sit here and just like know what, We're just
53:34
gonna take it away. We're not doing that no more. And that I
53:37
don't know, man, I just I don't think. I don't see Arthur
53:40
Smith there as the coach as the coach next year. In my opinion,
53:44
I think in his press conference he looked a little bit yeah, like on
53:50
confident, because you usually see much of the games like yeah, we kind
53:52
of Oh he's a decoy, you know, like it. But in this
53:55
game he was like apologizing, like, Bro, you know you messed up.
54:00
You're just trying to do the most. You're doing the most with without
54:04
using anything, like you're doing the most but doing the least, Like I
54:09
don't know. Yeah, they lost the Carolina Panthers nine to seven, playoff
54:14
hopes slipping away shattered. Yeah, yeah no. But before we before we
54:20
started recording, one of the first things Josh Tolby was, I gotta talk
54:23
about the I gotta talk about Arthur Smith here. So I let him break
54:29
down that one. Uh, there's nothing else I could take away from that.
54:31
I feel like there's nothing else. We preached this every single every single
54:37
week, Arthur Smith, please get your star players a ball, but which
54:40
he doesn't. All right, let's move into this next game, in which
54:45
it was the veto the man, the myth, the legend. He finally
54:47
falls short and once they lost to the Saints twenty four to six. And
54:52
did you want me to break this one down? Josh, Yeah, you
54:55
can break this one down. It's too heavy on my heart right now.
55:00
Yeah. No, I know you have some feelings towards the Vito. But
55:04
finally the Vito it falls down from earth, the hype train, it finally
55:07
ended. They just weren't able to get anything going. The Saints defense,
55:12
their veteran defense. There's some film on the Vito, so it just finally
55:16
got solved. The Saints. They took care of business here. They beat
55:22
a bad team in which they normally do their back to five hundred Derek Carr,
55:27
he looked. I guess you could say he had a great game,
55:30
because this has been if if I'm not wrong, this has been his best
55:32
game all season. Twenty three for twenty eight, eighteen yards, three touchdowns.
55:37
Still I feel like you need to run the ball more with Alvin Kamara.
55:40
But you still do control your own destiny. You face the Rams next
55:45
week in a tough game, potentially getting a wild card spot right there.
55:50
Then you finish off with the Division, the Buccaneers and Falcons, So yeah,
55:53
you control your own destiny here. Maybe you can end up ten and
55:57
seven, maybe you get up nine to nine or nine to eight, eight
56:00
and nine, But yeah, let's see what this team really is because they
56:05
always do this. They flip flop every single week. But there's nothing else
56:08
I could take away from this one, Giants, they move back up into
56:10
a top five draft pick, please get an offensive lineman or potentially Marvin Harrison.
56:16
To get off topic, I don't know if you saw this, Josh,
56:20
but the league neighbors from LSU, the wide receiver, he's been moving
56:23
up as far as top five draft picks. I don't know if you've seen
56:28
that right there. He's been moving above like o'dun Zeleman, Yeah, above
56:34
Romo Duns. I think what Romo Duns is that he's he he's great at
56:39
everything, but a master of none. You know what I'm saying, Like,
56:43
Yeah, that's gonna hurt him a little bit. I don't know how
56:46
that hurts him. I think they're gonna make like a mistake like with like
56:49
a people at Justin Jefferson fall or like like type of something like that.
56:52
Quinn John gets drafted ahead of Yah Jordan Maddison. Yeah, see like stuff
56:59
like that, like they're gonna look at I think Romo Dunch is better,
57:02
but my league Neighbors is great, and I think you can't go wrong with
57:06
either. But I don't know, I don't, I don't. I think
57:07
it's Marvin Harrison Junior Romo Duns. Then you can start arguing keyon Coleman molite
57:14
neighbors around there, and then we can bring in and make a buka.
57:21
But you know, like we can start. Yeah, so I think that's
57:24
where my league neighbors should be. And for me, he's fourth. He's
57:28
my fourth receiver in my big board, which I can't wait for us to
57:30
get into more in the offseason a little bit. But but yeah, I
57:37
don't know. Romo Duns to me is if there was no Marvin Harrison Junior,
57:39
Romo Dune be that top three pick. Yeah. He just does everything
57:45
good back shoulder catches, getting open, releasing, middle of the field,
57:50
corner. He's a great route runner. I don't know, he's just good
57:52
all around. Like any football team that gets Romo Duns. Yeah, they
57:58
they won. They're winning. So Chiefs trade two draft If you can't trade
58:02
everything for Marvin Harrison Junior, trade half of it, Trade of half of
58:07
what you're gonna give for Marvin Harrison Junior for Romo Duns, please and thank
58:12
you. Yeah no, but all right, let's get onto this next game,
58:16
in which he always continues to prove us wrong weekend and week out.
58:22
The Bake show continues, Baker the Heisman and which he's wrong. Hey I
58:29
picked Hey, I picked the Buccaneers last week too. Hey yeah yeah,
58:31
Hey, but what's the Buccaneers? They won thirty four to twenty. Josh,
58:37
what did you take away from this one? Right here? I'm not
58:39
surprised Baker, Baker. This is probably the best game Baker Mayfield has had
58:49
in almost two years, three years. I don't even think he had a
58:52
game like this with the Browns. I remember so. But I think he's
58:58
finally starting to get opportunity, like this is his first real opportunity, I
59:02
believe, besides his rookie year in the NFL, because once Stefanski got there,
59:08
he started being cranky and got Baker Mayfield out there because he wanted good
59:14
old sexual toucher over there, massage guy on his team. And then Baker
59:19
Mayfield, he sent him out there. The Panthers didn't give a real shot
59:22
when they have no one to work with, and they're like, no,
59:23
you're the problem, so let's give you the Rams. And he played good
59:27
with the Rams, and now with the Buccaneers, he's starting to establish himself
59:30
once again. I don't think he's this great QB one that's gonna be your
59:37
franchise guy. But he he can win you football games. He's yeah,
59:40
I think he's he's that mid level. He's a mid level QB one in
59:45
my opinion, and I think he's showing what the Buccaneers, especially in this
59:49
game three eighty one for four touchdowns, but not only that, he went
59:52
twenty two for twenty eight. He did. This is the accuracy people praised
59:54
Baker Mayfield for in college and coming out of the draft, and we're starting
59:59
to see a little bit more the more he gets comfortable, because there's no
1:00:00
there's no more confident guy than Baker Mayfield in the NFL. Once he's really
1:00:05
going because he has all the confidence in the world. And instead of Mike
1:00:08
Evans being the main show in this game, he really got Chris Godwin involved
1:00:13
big time. Ten for one fifty five and that's gonna help the football team.
1:00:15
Getting both your work courses, both your receivers on the outside, one
1:00:17
inside, one outside. Who cares if they're both involved. This is good
1:00:22
thing for the Buccaneers with Rashaud White controlling the ground game and doing his work
1:00:25
receiving. So this Buccaneers team, I believe they're gonna make a run.
1:00:30
I think they're gonna steal I think they're the favorite in the NFC South and
1:00:31
they're gonna seal it up here to end the season. That's my prediction.
1:00:36
Yeah, no, I could agree with that, and they have the best
1:00:38
quarterback in the division right now. I feel like this is clear cutting obvious.
1:00:42
And Baker Mayfield had a perfect passer rating. I don't know if anybody
1:00:46
knows that, but that is a very hard thing to do and very rare
1:00:50
for somebody to throw over or throw twenty eight passes to have a perfect passer
1:00:53
rating. But since you got into the Buccaneers side, I'll get into the
1:00:57
Packers' side. They had a even though the score says thirty four to twenty,
1:01:02
this game really slipped away from them very late because it was twenty seven
1:01:07
to twenty, in which I believe that was a fumble by Jordan Love.
1:01:12
It was a sack. Even if you punt the ball away, that's something
1:01:14
different, but short field possession and then Buccaneers take advantage of that. But
1:01:19
it felt like they were in control for majority of the game and they just
1:01:22
let this one go. And this pretty much seals up their playoff chances right
1:01:27
here, because I feel like they won't. They're obviously not going to catch
1:01:30
Detroit. But now Jordan Love, especially with him being a rookie quarterback,
1:01:37
the confidence goes up and down, up and down, and you could tell
1:01:39
it's kind of starting to go down. Not that he had a bad game,
1:01:43
but you have the Panthers next in which we don't know what will happen
1:01:46
in that one. Then you have the two division games to cap it off,
1:01:51
so maybe they could win the next two, but this one it was
1:01:53
a very bad loss. These these past two games they should have won,
1:01:58
in which Stay could go from six to eight and six. So yeah,
1:02:02
should have took care of business here. You had all the chances in the
1:02:06
world and opportunities. You still have a solid team around. I wish that
1:02:09
they would have got Aaron Jones more involved because you are trying to make a
1:02:15
playoff push, but that didn't happen. But yeah, I still like what
1:02:19
I see from Jordan Love throughout this year. He looks like a better quarterback.
1:02:22
But just you're gonna just have to scrap it up, scrap it up
1:02:25
and wait till next year, unless some crazy turn of events happened these pass
1:02:30
through all these last three weeks. But is there anything else you want to
1:02:34
take away from this one? Josh Yeah. With Jordan Love, I kind
1:02:37
of feel like they were moving the ball quite well in this game until that
1:02:43
fourth quarter. In the fourth quarter, they kind of just like, I
1:02:45
don't know, I'm not going to necessarily say they got they got like they
1:02:51
they they stalled out. It was more the Buccaneers like playing great defense to
1:02:55
stop whatever was happening with the buck with the Packers, because there were still
1:03:00
points where they made that big play in the third quarter to Jayden Reid and
1:03:04
I was like, oh, there they could. They can still make a
1:03:07
run to win this game. But then the fourth quarter it just never it
1:03:09
never panned out and fell apart. That's okay, They're they're they're gonna learn.
1:03:15
They're a young football team. They're gonna learn how to play with each
1:03:16
other. Still next year, I think it will be a lot better for
1:03:19
the Green Bay Packers. But what people don't realize, you know, how,
1:03:23
there was that role that they would have got the Jets first round pick
1:03:27
if if Aaron Rodgers played like the season they don't now, they don't have
1:03:34
that first round pick. It's a it's a second, right, yeah,
1:03:37
yeah, yeah, I turned into a second instead of a first. So
1:03:39
that first round pick would have turned into a good offensive lineman, good defense,
1:03:45
or a good a good weapon, a good receiver. Yeah yeah,
1:03:50
So that sucks. But they still have theirs, I believe, their first
1:03:53
round pick. So let's see what they can turn that into. I don't
1:03:57
believe. I don't think. I think this was their shot to stay in
1:03:59
the playoff race. I just don't see them working their way back into it.
1:04:03
Yeah, no, I agree, But all right, we'll get into
1:04:06
this next game, in which it was the Houston Texans versus the Tennessee tight
1:04:12
Ends, in which the Texans they were without c. J. Stroud,
1:04:15
in which they had Case Keam starting, and they still found a way to
1:04:17
win an overtime in which they won nineteen to sixteen. Josh, what was
1:04:23
your biggest takeaway from this one? They ran the ball. They ran the
1:04:29
ball twenty six for one to twenty one. From Devin Singletary. It kind
1:04:33
of sucks seeing Damian Pierce I think getting just worked out completely, especially in
1:04:38
his second year where he had a good, promising first year. But get
1:04:42
it, how you can. It's the NFL. This stuff happens all the
1:04:45
time. But Devin Singletary really really established him. So. But kase Keingdom
1:04:48
played good in this game. I don't think he There was a couple of
1:04:51
times where I kind of thought, ooh, I don't know about that throw.
1:04:55
But he played good all in all. He got no he got his
1:04:58
weapons involved, No Brown Dalton. So Devin Singletary even had four catches.
1:05:00
That's not something we're accustomed to getting the running back involved in the passing game,
1:05:05
but he did that. Robert Woods had three catches. But both,
1:05:10
honestly, both defenses in this game played very good. They both Let me
1:05:14
see what the combined sacks were in this game, because watching this I feel
1:05:16
like everyone was on the ground. Well, the Texans had seven sacks,
1:05:19
the Titans had four sacks, So that's eleven sacks in total, and then
1:05:26
quarterback hits the the Texans had eleven and the Texans had twelve tackles for losses.
1:05:32
Texans had twelve ten tackles for lost Yeah, they were all up in
1:05:39
that backfield. They were, they were both it was it was a tough
1:05:43
game. Will Levis was getting destroyed back there. I don't know, like
1:05:46
if you watch that game, like I felt for the kid and he got
1:05:49
hurt at the end of this game, and he was playing good football.
1:05:51
I thought Will Levis was playing some pretty good football in this game. I
1:05:55
think honestly they found I'm not gonna say their franchise, but they found a
1:06:00
guy and Will I believe because he's not afraid, like he does not play
1:06:04
for him at all. It's gonna come back to buy him in big games.
1:06:09
But right now there he's getting his he he's really getting, like some
1:06:15
guys the ball and places where they shouldn't be getting the ball, and it's
1:06:18
good to see him do that. But this Texans team, they stay in
1:06:23
the playoff with case Keenum and they're they're tied in for the for the for
1:06:28
that division lead right now, and anything can happen with c J. Stroud
1:06:30
coming back. Yeah, this was a big game that the Texans needed.
1:06:34
And I just I feel like this locks up Coach of the Year for Demico
1:06:39
Ryans because this just shows him winning a game without c. J. Stroud
1:06:42
division game on the road and you find a way to win. No,
1:06:45
no disrespect to case Keenum, but you won and if you wanted to keep
1:06:48
your playoffs, hope Hope's alive, you had to win this game. And
1:06:53
now CJ. Stroud getting the week off, just getting healthier, that's definitely
1:06:58
gonna be big right there. But the Titans, it's really hard to judge
1:07:04
or kind of go against what you said about Will Levis because there's no weapons,
1:07:10
no offensive line lineman other than Peter Skronski, who is a rookie who
1:07:15
he's looked solid at times. You're gonna have a top ten pick. You
1:07:18
need to get Joe alt or Forshanu, one of those tackles, or even
1:07:23
a weapon somebody else. It's time to let go of Derek Henry taj Spears.
1:07:27
He has showed some flashes, So yeah, but I feel like there's
1:07:32
nothing talked about from the Texans. You took away pretty much everything. But
1:07:38
I feel like with the defensive head coach, it kind of stops the growth
1:07:44
or the potential of a quarterback. So as much as Mike Rabel he is
1:07:48
a good coach, he is one of the better coaches in the league.
1:07:51
Do you think that the Titans they should consider firing him for an offensive coach
1:07:57
to enhance the development of will Levis No, because we need there needs to
1:08:02
be guys like Mike Rabel, who's straightforward, who will tell you how it
1:08:06
is. I think sometimes it hurts quarterbacks, but I think a guy like
1:08:10
will Levis can take that heat, like if his personality is made for a
1:08:13
coach like Mike Rabel, Like Mike Rabel is that that stern, like no
1:08:18
bullshit football, and Will Levis is that. Nah. Man, I'm wild.
1:08:23
So they need they're they're like, they're like, they're like each other.
1:08:27
Yeah, they're perfect for each other. They're like when opposite's a track.
1:08:30
So I think it's gonna be. I wasn't a believer in will Levis,
1:08:34
but I'm a believer now. I will sit here and say I was
1:08:38
wrong because coming out, I was like, nah, he never threw over
1:08:41
two hundred and fifty yards in the sec, he let them in turnovers,
1:08:44
all this blah blah blah blah. I said it all and I just didn't
1:08:46
see it. But I see it now. He is the truth. In
1:08:49
my opinion, I think he's gonna be good in this league. I'm not
1:08:53
saying he's gonna be great, but he's gonna be good. And as far
1:08:58
as the Titans. Man, I just know as far as the Texans with
1:09:02
the coach of the year herr saying Demiko Ryans, I think it's a race
1:09:06
with his division for coach of the year Shane Steike or Demiico Ryans. Because
1:09:13
you're saying, I hear you with the case Keenum he won without c.
1:09:16
J. Stroud, but Shane and back up Zach Moss. So even have
1:09:24
Zach Moss nod? Yeah, bro he and then Michael Pittman goes out early
1:09:30
in this game. So it's really like it's it's a race between those two
1:09:35
in my opinion for coach of the year. Yeah. I didn't even think
1:09:39
about that right there. But all right, let's go ahead and get into
1:09:41
this next game right here, in which I'll let you break this one down
1:09:45
right here. I feel like this one was kind of obvious. The Dolphins,
1:09:48
they beat the Jets thirty to zero, took care of business to shut
1:09:53
out at home, and now would say improved a six and one at home.
1:09:58
Josh, what did you take away from this game? No, tyree,
1:10:01
no problem. It's just gonna happen this way. With the Dolphins,
1:10:05
there are two bunch of a high powered offense all around to not have great
1:10:11
games. But I think this Jets defense has given up a little bit.
1:10:15
Uh, they're just like, what's the point of playing hard? So you
1:10:17
know they're the Dolphins come away with his game. Jalen Wattle steps since that
1:10:23
number one role plays amazing eight for a touchdown. That's really all I can
1:10:28
take away from this game. They win thirty to zero, and then Zach
1:10:33
Wilson gets biniched again. So let's just keep it up. Shout out also
1:10:39
to Jaylen Waddle. I'm gonna need you to step it up these next few
1:10:42
weeks. You won me another Fantasy Football one. So yeah, just keep
1:10:46
that up. I appreciate. Quick question. Do you think this hurts Tyreek
1:10:50
Hill? This hurts Tyrek? This does probably hurt Tyreek Hill that they win
1:10:54
without him, that they win this much without him for MVP. Yeah,
1:10:58
I think it really does affect him because the or the whole argument was if
1:11:03
Tyrek Hill doesn't play well, the Dolphins offense doesn't function well. So you
1:11:09
saw how they were or Tyreek Hill or when Tyreek Hill played with them or
1:11:14
played with geez. I can't talk right now with the Jets or against the
1:11:16
Jets, they kind of struggled, and then without without Tyreek Hill, they
1:11:21
look even better. So yeah, I feel like this pretty much puts his
1:11:26
MVP candidacy to rest unless he finds a way these last three games to go
1:11:30
bonkers and gets over two thousand yards. I'm not gonna say he can't do
1:11:33
it, but that seems like an impossible task. Yeah, get like four
1:11:39
hundred yards or something like that, four hundred and sixty yards or something.
1:11:43
No, he still needs I think because he was at five seventeen before the
1:11:47
Tennessee won. He got eighty six, right, something like that, So
1:11:53
I have for like sixty yeah, four to sixty something something like that.
1:12:00
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I know. Let's go ahead and move
1:12:02
on to this next game, in which it was Josh is one of his
1:12:09
favorite NFC teams, in which the Denver Broncos got whooped against the Detroit Lions
1:12:15
and they won forty two to seventeen. Josh, what did you take away
1:12:18
from your dark horse Super Bowl team? You really think my guys are gonna
1:12:24
let me down, letting the Broncos get close to the Chiefs. You really
1:12:27
think they were gonna let them do that? No, they were like,
1:12:29
Josh, we got you. So now the Chiefs have a two game division
1:12:31
lead thanks to the Detroit Lions. Thank you very much, boys. No,
1:12:35
this let's okay. They beat the Broncos, but this Broncos team is
1:12:41
not the first the Broncos team for at the beginning. This is they've been
1:12:44
playing great defense, they've been playing good, conservative football, but they ran
1:12:48
into a buzz saw of the Detroit Lions offense that we expect them to be.
1:12:54
That we expected them to be over the last couple weeks and they just
1:12:56
kind of fell off a little bit. But this looked like the Lions were
1:12:59
all the way back in this game because they look like they figured some things
1:13:02
out. Jared Goff went scorched Earth, going for five touchdowns to seventy eight.
1:13:08
Jamior Gibbs and David Montgomery go scorch Earth, also combining for one and
1:13:13
eighty five yards on the ground, with Jamior Gibbs getting a touchdown, but
1:13:16
then through the air, Almonroe does al Monroe things, seven for one to
1:13:20
twelve in a touchdowns. Sam Laporta catches three touchdowns bro three touchdowns in this
1:13:25
game. That's if he's not the if it was between him working kid,
1:13:30
but Laporta put that to rest. He I think it was put to rest
1:13:34
earlier. But if there was any debate now there's none, no more because
1:13:45
but then Sam Sam Laporta is a is a top five tighten in the NFL
1:13:48
right now. In my opinion, he's a top five tighten in the NFL
1:13:53
and he's a rookie. That's that's crazy to say. And then they got
1:13:58
James Williams involved a little bit more for forty seven. He's still the NBS
1:14:01
guy to me. But Jamior Gibbs also has a touchdown on the ground receiving.
1:14:05
This offense was fully clicking. This is what I expect from this offense.
1:14:09
His defense played a little bit better, but it's easier to play.
1:14:11
It's easy to play when this Broncos team just can't keep up with a team
1:14:14
that scores in spurts like this, because the with how the Broncos win games
1:14:18
is slow football. When you play a team that can play fast football,
1:14:21
when they score in two minutes and less, then you run into a bus
1:14:27
saw. So you know what, Honestly, the Lions are two minutes and
1:14:33
they're like the seven seconds or less Phoenix Suns. Basketball team, Like this
1:14:39
is like that comparison right there. I really like the comparison. This is
1:14:42
what the Lions are. That's weird that I've referenced that Phoenix Suns team twice
1:14:45
in this podcast. I hate that, but they it happened there. So
1:14:50
instead of being seven seconds or less, they're two minutes or less because that's
1:14:54
how fast the Detroit Lions scored. Hey, two minutes is a long time.
1:14:59
Not for the NFL. Oh all right, all right, let's get
1:15:04
back into serious stuff right here. But like I said last week, with
1:15:09
the Detroit Lions as far as ranked when I ranked them number five, the
1:15:15
biggest thing for them is running the football and keeping their defense off the field,
1:15:20
and it makes them look like a better football team. And that's exactly
1:15:24
what they did. Twenty eight carries, one hundred and eighty five yards,
1:15:27
six point six yards per carry. This is the best dynamic duo in the
1:15:31
league with David Montgomery and Jamier Gibbs. It makes Jared Goff look so much
1:15:38
better. Like you mentioned all these weapons and then this offensive line, it
1:15:44
looked like they finally started to put it back together. I know you mentioned
1:15:47
the Phoenix Suns, but to me, they look like the Dallas Cowboys a
1:15:53
couple of years ago as far as they have flashes of being one of the
1:15:57
best teams in the league, but they're it's not consistent enough, or they're
1:16:00
just too young and not ready yet to make that deep playoff run. I
1:16:05
just feel like that's exactly where they are right now. So when they're at
1:16:10
home, they're great. When they're at the when they're on the road,
1:16:13
they could struggle a little bit. But again, they have a chance to
1:16:17
wrap up the division here if they beat the Minnesota Vikings, in which it
1:16:20
should be a tough game. But from the Broncos side, I know,
1:16:25
I like, I know, I like the Broncos country, but yeah,
1:16:29
I know, uh, they depended too much on turnovers these past few weeks,
1:16:33
and obviously the scales are starting to balance here and now it's not starting
1:16:38
to fall away. But another thing that I wanted to take away from this
1:16:42
one. I don't know if you saw it, Josh, but I think
1:16:45
I don't know if it was the second or third quarter, but the Broncos
1:16:48
are trying to go in for a touchdown, but that was offsides by the
1:16:51
center and then next thing, you know, Sean Payton. He just starts
1:16:55
yelling at Russell Wilson all on the sideline, and I was like, what
1:16:58
the hell, what is he to do right there? That's on the damn
1:17:01
lineman. So so do you think that this just proves that Sean Payton he's
1:17:09
done with Russell Wilson. Oh yeah, he's completely done. But regarding the
1:17:13
off side, you know there was five or six off offensive off sides called
1:17:17
this week alone. You know that was the that was the most that they've
1:17:23
had this century. Hey, I'll tell you what. Kadarius Tony, he's
1:17:26
a he's a trend setter. No, the Chiefs are trend setters, Bro,
1:17:30
the Chiefs, Bro. No one called that stupid Juwan Taylor freaking freaking
1:17:36
false false start. He's not false starting, He's just taking off like as
1:17:41
soon as the ball and we see tackle do it. Yeah, we see
1:17:45
every tackle do it in the NFL. If you watch every tackle the NFL,
1:17:48
they all do it. Bro. But since Juwan Taylor got made like
1:17:53
a puppet, like a like a poster chiut of it, they started calling
1:17:56
it all season long. And now since Kadarius Tony is offside down, they
1:18:00
call five off side the next week call him on. Man, give me
1:18:02
a break, bro, Like you're just trying to like justify why y'all call
1:18:06
these pies on us. Hey, they say we get help, and they
1:18:12
say we get help, and they say we get help. You want me
1:18:15
to bring up the Super Bowl, the whole controversial, James, all the
1:18:18
pictures. I have all the pictures on my phone to prove that it was
1:18:20
a hold. So I do this every week in the barbershop. I don't
1:18:24
want to hear about it. I have all the pictures. I have receipts.
1:18:28
He was holding that boy, Juju's jersey. It was stretched apart from
1:18:30
his body. Stop it. I will show you right now on this,
1:18:34
on this, okay, let let's see. I wish the listeners could freaking
1:18:39
freaking see this. Bro. Oh my gosh, I'm interested in this now.
1:18:44
I gotta go all the way back to freaking February. Oh yeah,
1:18:47
because Cowboys fans wouldn't know what it's like to play in February, So I
1:18:50
have to hold back in my came hey, hey, hey, hey,
1:18:55
hey, there was no shot though there was no reason to put a shot.
1:18:59
You know what, I'm about to leave this damn putt. This is
1:19:02
one of this is one angle. Fuck. We can't he really couldn't put
1:19:06
a picture. There's one picture. There's one picture. The other one that's
1:19:14
before five yards right there, because he's running a zig route right there.
1:19:17
Let me find another one. Okay, yeah, okay, man, I
1:19:23
really wish that there was video on this. That's that's not whole. That's
1:19:28
not He's not even passing hold. He's holding line of scrimmage. He's holding
1:19:32
his jersey. You can't do that, you so so all of a sudden
1:19:36
offensive holding isn't a thing because they hold their jersey. What do you mean
1:19:41
you're before the line of scrimmage. It's it's after five yards. That's that's
1:19:45
what they usually call like a legal contact or holding or something like held him.
1:19:49
He pulled his jersey. He even grabbed his winger on the way over
1:19:53
there. Bro, what do you mean? Dog? No, I don't
1:19:57
want to hear about it. I don't want to hear about all these crying
1:19:59
babies. They were up, they were up, they were up. They
1:20:00
had the game all right. Well, man, I really wish you guys
1:20:05
could see the pictures of this. But we're gonna move into the next game
1:20:11
in which it was the Pittsburgh Steelers versus the Indianapolis Colts, in which I
1:20:16
believe the Steelers they got out to early start, if I'm not mistaken,
1:20:20
they went up thirteen to zero. After that they lost thirty to thirteen.
1:20:26
Josh, what did you take away from this game? Occurs from laughing.
1:20:30
Steelers are not gonna make the playoffs, so let's get that out of it.
1:20:33
They're done. This offense is terrible. Outside of that start that they
1:20:40
had, which is really up to which was really a block punt where they
1:20:44
got it in and they scored, and then one drive they had a pretty
1:20:47
good drive. But outside of that, no, it was just all terrible
1:20:53
play calling, terrible where your offense can push the ball down the field.
1:20:57
Mason Rudolph has got named the starter for next week down her third string quarterback,
1:21:00
So I don't know, this is I don't you know. Who's someone
1:21:04
we might not see next year is Mike Tomlin. That's that's crazy. That's
1:21:09
he It might be a nostalgia thing why they keep him, But honestly,
1:21:15
there has to be a point in time where you're like, we're not getting
1:21:17
any better, so it's just we're just stuck in the same gray area as
1:21:25
a Steelers organization. But as far as the Colts garnerment, shoe does pretty
1:21:29
good three touchdowns passing. But Tray Simon stepped up. He stepped up big,
1:21:32
and Tyler Goodson, these two backup running backs stepped up. Good for
1:21:35
Zach Moss who had four carries, Tray Sermon had seventeen for eighty eight and
1:21:40
Tyler Goodson eleven for sixty nine. That's good efficiency. They boilt one average
1:21:44
five point two yards per carrying, the other average six point three. If
1:21:47
that's not controlling the ground game, then I don't know what is, because
1:21:49
that's they're basically in two carries getting a first down every single time by themselves.
1:21:57
And then the offense the receiving was was okay, it wasn't the greatest
1:22:02
outside of Michael Pittman, who are who had four for seventy eight going to
1:22:06
the second quarter, then got absolutely hammered Demarroy got his head taken off.
1:22:14
Yeah, so we're not gonna see that guy for the rest of the season.
1:22:15
Who hit him? I forgot who exactly who it was, but yeah,
1:22:20
oh yeah, former Cowboys criminal over there all. So so yeah,
1:22:28
We're not going to see Michael Pittman Junior for the rest of the season.
1:22:31
Oh no, we'll see him probably in two weeks. I mean, Demontekzy,
1:22:34
we're not gonna see him for the rest of the season. But that
1:22:35
was a nasty hit. Man. You just can't You just don't want to
1:22:39
see that. You don't want to see that in the NFL. I'm sure
1:22:41
all these old heads like, oh, it's football, big boy, tough
1:22:44
shit, God, take a hit to the math. No, bro,
1:22:47
like that is terrible. Just let the guy fall, let him fall,
1:22:50
tap him he's down. Yeah. No, Instead, you hit a mid
1:22:54
flight trying to die for a football while you're not. You weren't. He
1:22:58
wasn't even he wasn't even lunging down while he was diving football. He like
1:23:02
made the decision, not like I'm gonna hit this guy and then he yeah,
1:23:06
waiting killed him. Bro. Yeah, so that note we can't see
1:23:12
that. Yeah no, But I don't know if you saw Tom Brady,
1:23:15
he was he was trying to defend Casey. He was like, oh no,
1:23:17
that's on the quarterback right there. As far as bad placement, but
1:23:23
there was like five yards of separation between Kzy and Pittman before Casey decided to
1:23:27
go after him. Yeah, no, he He's always been the type.
1:23:30
I remember. I remember this exactly. It was the Cowboys versus the Panthers,
1:23:34
and I don't know who it was across the field. He was running
1:23:38
a seam route but like the ball was like completely overthrown. But Caz like
1:23:43
he just made a decision. He's like, nah, fuck this dude,
1:23:45
I'm laying his ass out. And that's exactly unless Michael Pittman Junior said something
1:23:50
very hurtful to him earlier in the game, then I don't know. Well,
1:23:56
I don't know. But as far as with this game right here,
1:23:59
yeah, I know Cole State, they keep finding a way to win.
1:24:01
And it just makes me imagine how good this team would be with Anthony Richardson,
1:24:05
even with him being a rookie. He has so much more upside than
1:24:10
Gardner Minshew and Gardner Minshew is playing damn good football right now. But I
1:24:15
don't agree with you as far as on the Mike Tomlin thing. You've never
1:24:19
or you've never had under five hundred season, and even if this is the
1:24:24
first time you do, let's just say they lose out the rest of the
1:24:27
games Mike Tomlin. The worst he would finish is seven to ten out of
1:24:30
his fifteen years of coaching. If they fire him for that, I just
1:24:34
feel like that's ridiculous. Marvin Lewis. But Marvin Lewis never won anything.
1:24:42
Marvin Lewis never won playoff games. So this dude, he's established. He's
1:24:47
established. You need another quarterback that's exactly what you need offense, offensive skill
1:24:54
position, that's not the problem. And you need an offensive coordinator who's actually
1:24:58
good. I didn't expect the firemat Canada in the middle of the season in
1:25:01
which they did. But obviously this other guy can't think of his name,
1:25:05
but he's not the answer either. So yeah, they just need to draft
1:25:11
another quarterback, get another coordinator, and just running back next year, because,
1:25:15
like you mentioned with the Jets, as far as the Jets defense kind
1:25:18
of gave up, it kind of seems like the Steelers defense is given up
1:25:21
because there's only so much sake a hold up for so long. But is
1:25:26
there anything else you want to take away from this one? Mm? No,
1:25:32
just no, that's about it. I was gonna say something like about
1:25:36
cowboys culture, but I was gonna do it all stop it, stop it,
1:25:41
stop it. That's that's the past right there. We're not gonna talk
1:25:45
about the past, but we're not gonna about Greg Hardy. That's that's what
1:25:50
I was thinking of right away too. I was thinking of Greg Hardy is
1:25:57
cowboys culture? No, that's old cowboys culture right there. We got Garrett,
1:26:03
you know, Jason Garrett was the nicest person like of all time,
1:26:08
and he just had all these all these criminals on his freaking team bro like
1:26:14
Terrence Williams, Robin Cologne and and and then Julius Randall stilling stealing underwear.
1:26:19
And then we got freaking Greg Hardy tying his his wife up and the beating
1:26:27
her, and we got we got well even I think we had fucking Rolando
1:26:31
McClain smoking weed. Yeah. Lyle Collins he did some ship where he got
1:26:40
undrafted. I don't remember something like that, so El Collins, I don't
1:26:45
know. So the whole story why he went went undrafted. He was supposed
1:26:49
to be like a top three pick. Yeah, he found he was found
1:26:56
not guilty, which thank no, we're we're we're not going to get into
1:27:02
that, but yeah, no, I guess so. But Mike McCarthy changed
1:27:09
the culture now. It's just we can't win road games. That's our culture
1:27:13
now. But let's go ahead and get into this next game, in which
1:27:17
it was the Minnesota Vikings versus the Cincinnati Bengals, in which it went into
1:27:23
overtime after the Bengals they were down seventeen to seven to start the fourth quarter,
1:27:28
in which they won twenty seven to twenty four. Josh, what did
1:27:30
you take away from this one? Two big red zone turnovers by Nick Mullins
1:27:35
hurt this Vikings team tremendously because if you don't turn that ball over in the
1:27:40
red zone throwing two interceptions, you get six points on the board at least
1:27:45
with those field goals, and you win this football game. It's thirty one,
1:27:48
probably thirty one twenty four because the Bengals are trying to throw the ball
1:27:51
down the field instead of going for the field goal. So it's like,
1:27:55
I don't know that that hurt this team extremely And every time he get it,
1:27:59
I was like, this team's not playing bad, they're playing good.
1:28:00
This is a good football game, Like this game was a really good football
1:28:03
game, and that those decisions just hurt this team. I think he just
1:28:06
got a little too excited sometimes because he didn't play bad either. He went
1:28:10
to six for thirty three twenty six for thirty three, so two of his
1:28:15
seven incompletions were interceptions that it sucks to see. But Drake Browning continues to
1:28:20
light light the world on fire right now. I think, honestly, there's
1:28:25
gonna be a real team out here that gives him a shot of being their
1:28:28
starting quarterback. I do believe it, especially how he's playing right now.
1:28:31
He has the resume. He was a great collee, he was a good
1:28:33
college football player. He was a great high school player, probably one of
1:28:36
the greatest high school players of all time. I think it's a debate between
1:28:40
him or Kyler Murray in my opinion, who's the great Who's the greater high
1:28:43
school football player? So it's just I think he's gonna get an opportunity because
1:28:48
he's shown the last couple you're trying to think of high school fotball players right
1:28:51
now. Yeah, but no, like he he's really showing that he's in
1:29:00
this league. I don't know. There could be arguments with the weapons,
1:29:01
Jamar Chase T. Higgins, all these ohs, and so it's it's gonna
1:29:08
be really cool to see what he can do these next couple of games,
1:29:10
if he if they get into the playoffs, if they can complete the run.
1:29:14
But Joe Maxon didn't have that great of a game. He did alright,
1:29:17
ten for forty seven, one touchdown. Jamar Chase leaves his game with
1:29:20
injury, which is something to monitor. That's gonna be really big, because
1:29:26
yeah, I don't think he's gonna play the rest of this season. I
1:29:28
think that's another guy that's gone and that's gonna suck because t Higgins can be
1:29:31
a number one, but Jamar Chase is just in another tier. He's in
1:29:35
another tier above t Higgins, and it's gonna be It's gonna be a lot.
1:29:41
A lot of attention is taken away when you lose a guy like that,
1:29:44
so you're able to focus on more players and that's gonna help a defense
1:29:47
out. So that's something to monitor with this Bengals. But there, they
1:29:50
won and they're they're in the hunt. They're in the race right now and
1:29:54
the Vikings drop a game and it's gonna be tough for them. I think
1:29:58
they they're still in there, but it's gonna be tough for them, I
1:30:00
think moving forward. Yeah, No, It definitely is. And it was
1:30:05
Clarence said before the Vikings if they went out, they win the division.
1:30:09
But obviously that's over now, and now that you have Seattle winning in which
1:30:15
they didn't play, but then you had the Rams too, Like you've got
1:30:18
the Lions twice. Yeah, they have the Lions twice, but you see
1:30:21
how good the Lions they are at home, So I feel like that could
1:30:26
be split at best. Maybe Lions they win both games, depending on if
1:30:30
they have a chance for that second seed right there, which is looking more
1:30:32
and more likely. But yeah, no, this Vikings team, they're done.
1:30:38
I just feel like there's nothing else they could do to get back into
1:30:44
it if they lose this next game, I just feel like they're completely out.
1:30:46
But the Bengals, let's be real here, there's no drop off as
1:30:53
of this season. There's no drop off between Jake Browning and Joe Burrow.
1:30:57
There's not Jake Browning. He is playing and as if he is Joe Burrow
1:31:01
right now, like he's making the same kind of throws extending the place,
1:31:06
and that that rolled out to the right in over time. To Tyler Boyd,
1:31:11
that looked like a franchise quarterback type of throw right there. So yeah,
1:31:16
I feel like they could be really scary and uh, this is a
1:31:21
third year in a row. Potentially these Bengals, they could be given the
1:31:25
Chiefs a scare. Well, well, we'll see in two weeks. We'll
1:31:30
see in two weeks. I'm just saying that, I'm already saying this.
1:31:32
I'm picking the Bengals in that one. I'm already saying I'm I'm saying this.
1:31:39
Since you want to bring up cowboy criminals, but yeah, I know
1:31:43
Jamar Chase him being out in separate, I guess this is the pile where
1:31:51
we're gonna just break up criminals. But no, as far as that separated
1:31:55
shoulder, that that's what they said. It's not official yet from from what
1:32:00
I've seen, but I feel like t Higgins he can step up for them.
1:32:05
And who you have next? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, insane catch
1:32:12
and then reached the crazy catch like like he caught it like it was cool.
1:32:17
But then the falling out of bounce and then reaching like twisting that body
1:32:23
crazy, Yeah to get the touchdown. That was a cool ass play.
1:32:26
I'm not gonna lie. I'm sorry for interrupting you, but I just had
1:32:28
to bring that up after you brought up after you said to Higgins name.
1:32:30
Yeah, I know that that was one of the best as far as after
1:32:34
the catch plays ever because that was like thirty seconds left so and they had
1:32:40
I don't think they had any timeout. So that was literally a do or
1:32:43
die situation right there. So yeah, he literally single handedly kept their playoff
1:32:48
hopes alive. But uh, there's nothing else I could really take away from
1:32:53
this one. Did you want to take away anything else? No, we
1:32:56
pretty much covered all bases. Oh, ty Chandler, big I get here
1:33:00
losing in he's I guess he's on the losing end. But he stepped up
1:33:01
in a big way for Alexander Madison. I think, honestly, there might
1:33:05
be a debate who's the better running back. But he had twenty three for
1:33:10
one thirty two in a touchdown that that's good to see from ty Chandler.
1:33:13
He got a couple of work on the receiving end. I saw in the
1:33:15
game. Yeah, I hit for twenty five. When I was watching,
1:33:18
I saw him get a couple of catches but were rushing the ball. He
1:33:23
looked very good. I was trying to pick up in a fantasy league but
1:33:26
someone already had him, so and that was the league where I didn't start
1:33:30
ch or Jerry Muckinnon. Damn m m mmmm. But all right, let's
1:33:35
get into his last game, in which it was it was the craziest game
1:33:42
or the game that I didn't expect. And what's the charges without justin Herbert
1:33:45
first game without him, they lost to the Raiders sixty three to twenty one,
1:33:51
in which the Raiders were up forty two to zero at half. Josh,
1:33:56
what was your biggest takeaway from this one? Game? Was so bad?
1:34:00
Brandon Staley got fired the next day. That's what I took away from
1:34:04
this game. He is not there no more. You know what's crazy?
1:34:09
Easton Stick did not even have a bad game. No he didn't. Yeah,
1:34:13
he didn't even have a bad game. Bro. I don't know how
1:34:15
this game got so out of hand. He only threw one intercepsion and it
1:34:17
was that pick six play right there, that pick six. Yeah, he
1:34:23
like jumped falling backwards one handed, it turned landing on his feet, turned
1:34:27
around and run in the end zone Like that was a good athletic play.
1:34:30
It was just a Raiders his Raiders offense just taking over Man eight and O'Connell
1:34:35
did not look like the regular aid and O'Connell like a O'Connell's not a bad
1:34:41
quarterback in my opinion, but he was. He went. He threw four
1:34:45
touchdowns on this Vonte Adams eight for one oh one, one touchdown. He
1:34:48
even got the rookie Tray Tucker involved. He got two touchdowns. Zeramer White
1:34:55
was a surprise seventeen for sixty nine in a touchdown. A lot of people
1:34:58
expected to be more of a split between here and hear him and a mir
1:35:01
Abdullah, but they're just like, nah, it's the mirror here, you
1:35:03
go run this game. Yeah. So it was a good game for the
1:35:09
Raiders pretty much all around. There's nothing you can really say bad about them.
1:35:13
Their defense played good for the most part, their offense played amazing hopefully
1:35:19
Josh Jacob what don't even matter I got. I got a lot of lost
1:35:21
in the playoffs. I guess it don't even matter if Josh Jacobs comes back.
1:35:25
So yeah, yeah, that's just that just ruined this game for me.
1:35:29
Honestly, I don't talk about it no one. So so I write
1:35:33
down notes. Well, I was showing you my notes for every single game,
1:35:38
and the only thing I wrote down for this game, Josh, I
1:35:40
just put Holy Ship, like the Yeah, nothing I could take away from
1:35:44
this one. Like, so what did I write? I wrote Domination?
1:35:49
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we just only Domination. Like yeah,
1:35:56
no, this game it got it had quick. And I remember I
1:35:59
was working and then you called me right after the game in and you're like,
1:36:01
bro, are you watching this game? And I told during the pick
1:36:04
six, oh yeah, during the pick six yeah yeah yeah, and You're
1:36:09
like, are you watching this game? I'm like, I barely started watching
1:36:12
this game right now, and I was like, what the hell? Playing
1:36:14
two K? I was playing Madden? Want to watching this game? I
1:36:17
was like, I was like, I like looking, I was like,
1:36:19
damn, this score keeps going up. You thought it was the Madden score
1:36:24
for a second, the way they were rolling up these damn points. But
1:36:27
yeah, no, honestly, this means nothing to both teams right here.
1:36:30
Brandon Staley got fired, but it's not like it was playoff implications or anything.
1:36:35
Chargers job is going to be attractive, even the GM job. Actually,
1:36:41
now that you say Belichick, because he is a GM for the Patriots,
1:36:45
maybe he becomes GM and head coach for the Chargers, he gets that
1:36:48
full control. So yeah, no, I could see that happening, happening
1:36:53
the Bill Belichick going to going to the Chargers. But is there anything else
1:36:59
you want to take away? But before we move on to all right,
1:37:01
no, there's there's nothing more to talk about in this game besides the Raiders
1:37:04
dominating. Yeah, no, there there wasn't. But did you want to
1:37:09
interest or did you want to talk about the playoff picture or bring it up?
1:37:13
You want me to get it? We can do a quick little say
1:37:17
who's in right now? All right, all right, I'll do the Okay,
1:37:21
So the AFC, the Ravens clinched their spot this week, so they're
1:37:28
they're oh, I think they clinched it last week, but they're officially in
1:37:30
the playoffs week this week. So they're eleven and three first first place,
1:37:34
Dolphins remain in second, ten and four, Chiefs remaining third, nine and
1:37:39
five. The Jaguars remain in fourth, but by by slim margins. They're
1:37:45
eight and six. Then we got the Browns sitting at nine and five.
1:37:47
The only reason their fifth is because the Ravens are bawling as well. Then
1:37:53
six, the Bengals rise four spots to come into six and they are eight
1:37:59
and six at that sixth spot right now, that was a lot of six
1:38:01
is in one sentence. But their sixth place and then seventh is the Indianapolis
1:38:06
Colt sitting pretty right there like they have been for the last couple of weeks.
1:38:11
So the Colts are seventh and then on the bubble right now, Texans
1:38:14
Bills are both eight and six looking on the on the outside looking in right
1:38:18
now. Yeah, no, it's it's definitely gonna be interesting. And again,
1:38:25
I know the Bills, it's tough setting for them, but I think
1:38:28
the best shot for them is gonna be winning the division here. I think
1:38:31
they need Miami to lose against Dallas. Then after that, uh, you're
1:38:36
gonna have a head to head matchup and Dolphins. They could go from and
1:38:42
in second place to out because the Texans there right there, say say,
1:38:46
if the Texans they beat the Browns this week, they're both gonna be nine
1:38:50
and six, and then Dolphins lose ten and five, Bills win nine and
1:38:55
six. So yeah, no, this is gonna be interesting right here.
1:38:59
Even the Jacksonville won like eight and six, right there, Colts aden six,
1:39:03
Texans eight and six, and as much as much as you hate both
1:39:09
of these teams right there, the Steelers and Broncos, they're still seven and
1:39:12
seven here, like they still have a shot looking in. But the Bills
1:39:16
are too hot for me, in my opinion, for them to kind of
1:39:19
get that spot up. So I think it's gonna be the Bills, honestly,
1:39:23
to fight with the Colts for that last spot, even a couple of
1:39:26
teams above them. Yeah, yeah, I no, I could see that.
1:39:30
But all right, I'll go ahead and introduce the NFC right here.
1:39:35
So the first team to clint the playoffs is the San Francisco or in the
1:39:40
NFC to clinch the playoffs is the San Francisco forty nine ers, in which
1:39:44
they have a bye week right now. They're eleven and three. And then
1:39:46
we have the number two seed, thank you Philadelphia Eagles for losing again,
1:39:50
which the Dallas Cowboys are ten and four. And then we have the three
1:39:56
seed. The Detroit Lions are ten and four, haven't clinched the playoff spot
1:39:59
yet. If they win next week they will. The fourth seed is the
1:40:02
NFC South South winner. As of right now, it's the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
1:40:06
which there are seven and seven. Then the five seeds the Philadelphia Eagles,
1:40:11
they clinched the playoff spot. They are ten and four. Vikings and
1:40:15
Rams follow up with seven and seven. But then you have the teams in
1:40:18
the hunt, which is eight and nine or eight and nine seeds in which
1:40:23
it is Seattle and the Saints. And then you have the Falcons and Packers
1:40:27
looking on the outside kind of on the outskirts of the hunt, in which
1:40:30
they are both six and eight. So I know this week there's big playoff
1:40:40
implications between I think it's a Thursday night football game. It's the Saints and
1:40:43
Rams. So do you think this matchup right here is really going to determine
1:40:49
that last spot. Yeah, I think I think it is, and I
1:40:53
think the Rams are going to steal it up. I think the rams Are
1:40:56
offense is two dynamic right now. It's gonna be really close, uh down
1:41:02
the stretch, just because the Vikings and the Buccaneers, they just so many
1:41:05
people have the same record, Like it's gonna be like a lot of flip
1:41:09
flopping. And we just saw the Packers drop four spots in the Rams move
1:41:15
one, yeah, into that into that spot. So it's it's it's wild
1:41:18
to see, and it's gonna be a fun little race at the end.
1:41:20
I feel like it's it's a lot closer this year than it has been in
1:41:25
a lot a lot of in the lot and than it has in the past.
1:41:29
Yeah, yeah, no, it definitely is, And I feel like
1:41:31
that's better because it just makes everything so much interesting and even like not necessarily
1:41:36
the boring games, but the games that nobody really wants to watch, they
1:41:41
end up watching it because it has playoff implications. But one thing that I
1:41:45
want to go into so as if so the Cowboys. They do have the
1:41:48
two seed as of right now, but if the Eagles and Cowboys both went
1:41:51
out, the Eagles they would get the two seed do to strength the victory.
1:41:57
But if they lose to the Giants or the Cardinals and Cowboys went out,
1:42:00
obviously the Cowboys would get it. And the Niners if they win next
1:42:04
week, they clinch up the one seed, or if the Ravens they win
1:42:09
it next week, they clinch up the one seed. So this next Monday
1:42:13
night football game, it's really going to be important. It has a bunch
1:42:15
of stakes as far as who's the best team in the league, MVP topics,
1:42:20
and who gets that first round by right there. So there's plenty of
1:42:25
playoff implications from different conferences. But all right, is there anything else you
1:42:33
want to say about that before we move on to the next topic. No,
1:42:36
it's just more covering. Who's all in right now? All right?
1:42:41
Did you want to do predictions first or you want to do the next one?
1:42:43
Next topic? Let's do predictions first. All right. Well, I'm
1:42:49
just letting you know, Josh, I'm on the come up right now.
1:42:53
I've won three of the last four, so I won this week, so
1:42:57
it now moves to five and four. I'm telling you my predictions are stepping
1:43:01
up. We're getting it together. We're on a roll, kind of like
1:43:05
the Musclow Bills. We're getting hot at the right time. Right now,
1:43:09
we're getting hot at the right time. The Buffalo Bills who went to four
1:43:12
straight champion Super Bowls and lost. Hey, hey, hey, this isn't
1:43:15
no nineties Buffalo Bills. This is the current Buffalo Bills right now. But
1:43:21
all right, we're gonna go ahead and start it off with the Thursday night
1:43:26
football game, in which it is the New Orleans Saints at the Los Angeles
1:43:31
Rams. Who do you have in this one? The Rams. Yeah no,
1:43:36
give me the Rams in this one. The next we have the Saturday
1:43:40
Games, in which it's Cincinnati at Pittsburgh. Give me Cincinnati. Yeah,
1:43:48
give me Cincinnati in this one. Next one we have the Buffalo Bills at
1:43:51
the Los Angeles Chargers. The Bills. Give me the Bills in this one
1:43:57
too. Then we have the Christmas Games, which is the Sunday Games.
1:44:01
Colts at Falcons, Colts, Give me the Colts in this one too.
1:44:10
They don't have Seattle at Tennessee. Seattle, Seattle. Give me Seattle on
1:44:15
this one too. Detroit at Minnesota, Detroit, give me Detroit in this
1:44:23
one. The next one we have Washington at Jets. Oh, I do
1:44:31
want this one. Give me the Jets in this one. I feel like
1:44:35
this is a game they just have to win. Next one, green Bay
1:44:40
at Carolina. Carolina is escaped with one, but I'm gonna go green Bay.
1:44:47
Yeah no, give me green Bay in this one. This this one,
1:44:49
which is the start of the three o'clock games, it's Cleveland at Houston
1:44:55
and which c J. Stroud he should be back. Give me Cleveland.
1:45:01
I'm so tempted right now. I feel like just because it's in Houston.
1:45:05
I'm gonna take I'm gonna take Houston right here. But next one, we
1:45:10
have Jacksonville at Tampa, the Big Show. Give me Tampa in this one
1:45:15
too. Arizona at Chicago, give me Arizona. Oh, this one.
1:45:25
This one's like a nasty game, but I feel like it's gonna be high
1:45:28
scoring. I don't know what Arizona. Give me Arizona in this one.
1:45:36
I feel like Kyler and Trey mcbrizzy. They're on a roll right now.
1:45:41
Next one, Dallas at Miami. Give me Dallas. Give me. Give
1:45:46
me the Boys too. We're gonna bounce back. Then we have New England
1:45:50
at Denver. This is Sunday night game or Saturday. Yeah, Sunday night
1:45:56
game. Yeah, give me New England. Oh, give me Denver right
1:46:02
here. This is this is the type of game Denver wins. Then we
1:46:05
have the Christmas Day Games, in which it's the best quarterback in the world,
1:46:12
Aidan O'Connell versus the Kansas City Chiefs in Kansas City, give me the
1:46:16
greatest quarterback of all time, the Kansas City Chiefs. Now, give me
1:46:21
the Chiefs right here too. Next one, we have the Italian Stallion versus
1:46:28
Philadelphia in Philly, give me the Italian Stallion dog. Oh do you really
1:46:38
think that the Giants are gonna win this one? No, but I'm gonna
1:46:41
do it. Man. I feel like Philly they're just on such a bad
1:46:48
role right now, but they have they have to win one. Just give
1:46:53
me a Philly in this one, I think, because they're not gonna lose
1:46:56
four in a row then lose two in a row. You know, they
1:47:01
showed him and Patrick Mahomes the stats. They I forgot which show it was,
1:47:06
but the games that Tommy DeVito started they're almost identical. So hey,
1:47:12
yeah, I'm just first, the best and the second best quarterback in the
1:47:15
NFL. But yeah, no, the Monday night football game in which this
1:47:23
game big implications, like we've been mentioning this whole episode. Baltimore at San
1:47:27
Francisco, San Feran. Give me Sanferran. Yeah no, give me san
1:47:32
Fran in this one. And this is a bold prediction right here. I
1:47:35
feel like San Fran they win by seventeen plus points. Yeah, they're gonna
1:47:40
dominate them in my opinion. Yeah no, they definitely will. But all
1:47:45
right, since we did predictions and since we're gonna go to five and five,
1:47:47
we're gonna make We're gonna we're gonna tie this thing back up. With
1:47:53
two weeks left to go on the season. We're gonna get into this next
1:47:57
topic in which is that time of the year where we we've done predictions as
1:48:01
far as MVP coaches year or whatever. But we're gonna do first team All
1:48:05
pros. As far as the offensive side. We will do defense another week
1:48:11
potentially next week, but we're gonna start off with offense. And Josh,
1:48:15
did you want to go first and list your first team All Pro? Do
1:48:19
you want to go by position back and forth? Yeah, let's go by
1:48:23
position back and forth. I'll let you start off all right with my quarterback
1:48:27
because I will not put brock Perty there. I will do Lamar Jackson.
1:48:31
He's throwing for three five yards, seventeen touchdowns and seven interceptions, but on
1:48:36
the ground he has rushed for seven hundred and forty one yards and five touchdowns
1:48:42
while being on the first place team in the AFC. He gets it done
1:48:45
in all ways. He is their offense with that without him, they would
1:48:49
not be where they're at, especially without Mark Andrews the last couple of games.
1:48:54
So I think he's really sitting up there establishing himself. It hasn't been
1:48:57
the prettiest, but he's getting the job done. He is the Ravens.
1:49:02
So for my first team All Pro quarterback, you couldn't do it, but
1:49:06
I'm gonna have to do it. Rock Purdy, he is first Team All
1:49:11
Quarterback. As much as it sucks to say, second in the league in
1:49:13
passing yards three thousand and seven or ninety five passing yards, twenty nine touchdowns
1:49:16
league the league, leagues, the league in touchdowns, first in QB are
1:49:21
He's just done whatever he's had to do this year, from mister Relevant to
1:49:26
first team All Pro. He just deserves, though deserves to be first team
1:49:30
All Pro and MVP as of right now. Then we're gonna do running back,
1:49:35
Josh, who's your running back or first team All running This should be
1:49:41
consensus for everybody in the world. It is Christian McCaffrey. He has rush
1:49:45
for twelve one hundred and ninety two yards thirteen touchdowns while catching fifty seven balls,
1:49:50
five hundred and nine receiving yards and seven touchdowns. He is three hundred
1:49:56
rushing yards above the next guy. That is insane. He is the clear
1:50:00
cut best running back in the NFL. And yeah, there's no other statement
1:50:04
I need to make why Christian McCaffrey would be the running back. Yeah,
1:50:10
no, he's up for basically MVP conversation. So why is this any real
1:50:15
debate as far as first team All Pro running back? So yeah, let's
1:50:18
just go into wide receivers. So for this one, it's two wide receivers.
1:50:23
Josh, who do you have? Here's just two wide receivers. Well,
1:50:26
number one should be consensus all the way around. Also it is Tyreek
1:50:30
Hill. Nope, Nope, nope, nope. He has ninety seven receiving
1:50:35
yards one forty two yards and twelve touchdowns, which both lead the NFL in
1:50:42
yards and touchdowns for receivers. Yeah, there's not much we can say on
1:50:47
the tear that has been on outside of a couple outside of this last game
1:50:53
where he missed. It's kind of derailing his two thousand yard his two thousand
1:50:56
yard pace. It's probably not gonna happen. But he was on a on
1:51:00
a career high tear, whatever you want to call it. He was doing
1:51:04
it. He was leading this Dolphins team. He still is the MVP of
1:51:08
the Dolphins, And yeah, he's the clear cut wide receiver one for me.
1:51:12
Yeah, no, he clear he is the clear cut wide receiver number
1:51:15
one, and he needs four hundred and sixty eight yards to get to the
1:51:19
two thousand, so that is one hundred and fifty six yards a game for
1:51:25
these next three. Maybe he explodes these next two, but still still a
1:51:30
good chance knowing Tyreek Hill him being that dominant. But yeah, no clear
1:51:32
cut number one. So who's your number two wide receiver. It's gonna be
1:51:39
Sadarius Lamb. He has one hundred and three received receptions, thirteen hundred and
1:51:44
six yards, eight touchdowns, and he has two rushing touchdowns well along with
1:51:48
eighty seven rushing yards. I know that's not much, but two touchdowns is
1:51:53
a lot. Is the game of inches. So he has total ten touchdowns
1:51:57
on the season. He's been nothing short of great over this last two months.
1:52:00
He's had a couple of games where he's come back down to earth,
1:52:02
especially in this last one, but that was just playing a good Buffalo's team
1:52:06
at their high So yeah, it's a clear cut for me, he's the
1:52:11
number two. It shouldn't be really much of a debate. I mean,
1:52:14
there you could argue Aj Brown, you could argue Keenan Allen, but for
1:52:17
me, it's it's ce D Lamb. Yeah. No, I'm gonna agree
1:52:23
with you right here, and especially maybeing a Cowboys fan, Sedarian Lamb,
1:52:27
he does deserve to be the second wide receiver on first team All Pro.
1:52:30
And it's crazy because he got off to a bad six game start and he's
1:52:34
still up there with everybody as far as numbers, So that's how much he's
1:52:38
been on a tear late. And so next it would be the flex position
1:52:44
because they have a flex so that could be running back, tight end,
1:52:47
or a wide receiver of your choice. So who is your flex? Okay?
1:52:51
So I have four options, I'm gonna arrow it down to one for
1:52:56
my options. There Raheem Moster, A J. Brown, Keenan Allen,
1:52:59
and Kyroen Williams. In my opinion, who deserves a flex option. It's
1:53:03
Kyon Williams. I'm gonna put him as my flex. I know he's missed
1:53:06
time this season, he only has played ten games, but what he has
1:53:11
done in ten games is what is more than what people have done. For
1:53:15
in fourteen games, he has nine hundred and fifty three rushing yards eight total
1:53:18
touchdowns rushing and then thirty receptions for one hundred and ninety two yards and three
1:53:23
touchdowns that he's been nothing but a work coorse for the Rams. He is
1:53:27
the rams main focal point of their offense. It's crazy to say with a
1:53:30
team with Cooper Cup He's done all of that in ten games. I know
1:53:34
Raheem Moster has twenty total touchdowns on the season, nine hundred and sixty six
1:53:41
yards. But outside of the touchdowns, Kyle Williams is with him every step
1:53:45
of the way and he's missed games. That's why Kyle Williams is the flex
1:53:47
position for me. I would be mad if someone argues the other three that
1:53:51
I mentioned, but for me, it's kyon Williams. So I know you
1:53:55
said those other three, but the one that I am going to argue is
1:53:59
I'm on russ Ain't Brown. That's beautiful to hear. Yeah, this dude,
1:54:02
he's just he's just gotten better year by year. He's six in the
1:54:06
league and catches ninety four receptions one thousand, one seventy five yards, seven
1:54:12
touchdowns, averages twelve point five yards per catch, which is ridiculous. Clearly
1:54:17
is a number one receiver on one of the best teams in the NFC.
1:54:21
So he's just that dude, and he's just he's just a target monster and
1:54:28
if he does great, then most likely the Detroit Lions are going to have
1:54:30
success. So that's why he is my flex. Next, we have tight
1:54:34
end. Who is your first team All Pro tight end? I know he's
1:54:41
losing a step, it's not the same that he's that he's been producing,
1:54:45
but I'm still gonna have to go with Travis Kelsey. He's getting double team,
1:54:48
triple team, bracket coveraged everything, and he's still leaving the NFL for
1:54:53
tight ends and receiving yards with nine hundred and twenty four. He has five
1:54:56
only five touchdowns, but he still has eighty five receptions. This isn't a
1:55:00
typical Travis Kelce blowing the other tight ends away year that we're accustomed to.
1:55:04
But the man's thirty four years old and he's still doing this while getting double
1:55:08
team and triple team. Like I said earlier, I don't think there's much
1:55:10
of a debate. He is the defense's main focal point on the Chiefs.
1:55:15
And yeah, I understand that there's other guys like Hawkinson and Sam Laporta,
1:55:20
and even there was one more that I was looking at, But it was
1:55:25
really between those three for me. But Travis kelce is the main guy and
1:55:31
he's still doing what he's doing. So you put Travis kelcey up there,
1:55:35
I'm gonna have to go with Hockinson Hockinson. Even though Kelsey he has been
1:55:42
doubled in triple team, Hockinson he's been with inconsistent quarterback play and he's still
1:55:46
putting up good stats. Ninety one reception, nine under two yards, five
1:55:50
touchdowns. This dude, he's just he's just mister consistent. Outside of Kelsey.
1:55:58
You know you're gonna get your five catches, fifty yards a touchdown every
1:56:01
other game. So this dude, he's just nice. And it was a
1:56:05
it was just a great acquisition. But for my second team right here,
1:56:10
I feel like I had to do it. I had to put Sam Laporte
1:56:14
here. He had nine. He's leading the tight ends as far as touchdowns
1:56:16
with nine. He's even up there as far as with the receivers. He
1:56:19
may not have the receiving yards or receptions, but hey, he he should
1:56:25
deserve to get his flowers. But all right, who do you have?
1:56:29
So I'll just let you list your offensive alignment right here, because I know
1:56:32
you go into depth for your offense alignment. Yeah, okay, I paid
1:56:35
a subscription Football Focus for all Boys. All better, I'll better buckle up
1:56:41
Buddy's. And actually it was a good investment because I was like on that
1:56:44
thing for like a whole hour just looking up stuff. But from Buffalo.
1:56:50
I hate to put a Buffalo guy in there, but it's gonna be Deon
1:56:55
Dawkins. Deon Dawkins is the tenth highest Pro Football Focus rated offensive tackle and
1:57:01
he's only allowed one sack on the season, seven quarterback hits, twenty two
1:57:06
hurries, and thirty pressures, which is all great numbers compared to the field.
1:57:10
He's tenth rated. And if you can keep your quarterback from getting sacked
1:57:14
and getting behind the sticks, then that's what you want. That's what you
1:57:17
want from your left tackle. And he's done great and that's why I have
1:57:20
him as my left tackle. I left guard. I have another guy that
1:57:25
I hate, Quinn Minors, Denver Broncos guy. He's only allowed He's allowed
1:57:30
zero sacks on the season. He is the third highest Pro Football Focused of
1:57:34
all offensive linemen. Of all offensive lineman, he's the third highest rated guy
1:57:39
he's allowed nineteen pressures and he's only allowed nineteen pressures, so he's if you're
1:57:45
not getting your quarterback touch, there's nothing. He's not getting beat very much
1:57:48
either when it comes to the run game. And that's why he is my
1:57:53
right guard. I said left guard earlier, but he's my right guard at
1:57:56
center. It's always gonna be between two guys, Jason kelce and Creed Humphrey.
1:58:01
Frank rag Now I was looking at he's up there. He plays good
1:58:04
Detroit Lions center. He was also in consideration for me. Let's not get
1:58:09
that twisted, but I'm gonna go with Jason Kelcey in this one. Jason
1:58:12
Kelsey has allowed one sack, eight pressures, six hurries, and he has
1:58:16
the fifth highest Pro Football Focused grade. Sir, Jason Kelsey is great offensive
1:58:21
line. But what he does outside of just being a great center, is
1:58:27
when he's running in front of that that running back, when he's pulling blockers
1:58:30
away from when he's the when he's helping call the plays at the line of
1:58:34
scrimmage. There's probably only one person in comparison, and that's Creed Humphrey.
1:58:39
But Jason Kelsey does that at such a high level, which is why he's
1:58:42
a future Hall of Famer. And he's still doing this at his age,
1:58:45
which is why Jason Kelsey is the number one center for me in the on
1:58:48
the All Pro team. At left guard, I have Tyler Smith, which
1:58:54
is which Alfonso is gonna love, I'm sure. So he only has only
1:58:59
allowed his numbers actually stick out to me quite a bit compared to the other
1:59:02
guys that I have on this list, besides Pine Soul, who will get
1:59:05
to in a minute, but Tyler Smith has only allowed one stack on the
1:59:09
season. Sixteen pressures and thirteen hurries. He has the fifth highest pffth grade
1:59:14
of all offensive line, of all guards on PFF in the NFL. So
1:59:20
that's just great numbers to see from your from your left guard, especially in
1:59:24
his second year. I wasn't very big on Tyler Smith coming out of the
1:59:27
coming out of the draft, but he has really proved me wrong also,
1:59:30
and he's bawling, he's doing his thing. He's leading the way, especially
1:59:35
on especially when Tyron Smith's getting up there in age, he's he's helping him
1:59:40
out. And it's really good because he's adding Tyron Smith a couple more extra
1:59:44
games because he's really injury prone, and that's good to have that that little,
1:59:47
that little that will help on on next to on your right shoulder.
1:59:50
Right there. As far as bright tackle, who I think is probably the
1:59:55
best lineman of anybody all season, and that's gonna be Pinae Soul from the
1:59:59
Detroit Lions. He is the highest graded offensive lineman in pro football. No
2:00:06
matter what position you play, he is the highest grader. He has only
2:00:10
allowed one sacks, four quarterback hits, ten hurries, and fifteen pressures.
2:00:14
There's no better right tackle in the NFL, in my opinion than Pinasal,
2:00:17
and he's proving it. You're in, you're out. He's just getting better
2:00:20
each and every single year, and that's why he is my first team All
2:00:23
Pro right tackle. Yeah no, that's definitely a good list right there.
2:00:29
And I'll go ahead and start from right to left. So the right tackle,
2:00:32
I'm gonna have to agree with you. At their Pinasal him coming out
2:00:36
of Oregon, I feel like it was Sedvenstone. He was the next Tyrant
2:00:41
Smith and it was crazy. He was actually a left tackle and moved to
2:00:45
right tackle last year. So it just shows how dominant this dude is and
2:00:49
he's going to be dominant for these next ten to fifteen years. Then right
2:00:54
guard, I'm gonna just have to go with mister consistent right here really has
2:00:58
any flags. You don't even recognize he's in the game. It's mister Zach
2:01:01
Martin. That's where I'm gonna have to disagree. He's just mister consistent and
2:01:09
that dude. I know he got hurt, get healthy, but it's just
2:01:14
locking Stone. He's a Hall of Famer. He's just a bound Hall of
2:01:16
Famer, and he's gonna go to Campton Center. I have, I have
2:01:21
Jason. I kind of decided right then and there. It was between Creed
2:01:26
Humphrey and Jason Kelsey. They're both great centers. It's consensus one and two.
2:01:31
Yeah, No, it's just it's consensus, and I feel like there's
2:01:34
just a big gap between them two and everybody else. But I really can't
2:01:39
be mad if you put anybody. But again, I guess I am going
2:01:44
kind of bias here because you do see Jason Kelsey up there, and he's
2:01:46
been All Pro multiple times, so he just he's just that dude. And
2:01:51
even though I think he's thirty four to thirty five years old, he's still
2:01:55
one of the best linemen in the league. Then left guard again, I'm
2:01:59
gonna have to agree with you Tyler Smith. It's his second year, but
2:02:01
he's looking like a ten year vet. He's bullying dudes and especially in the
2:02:06
run game. Also, I wanted to say for second team All Pro in
2:02:11
my opinion, I have Joe Tuning, Joe Tuney. You never realize that
2:02:14
he is there. It was him or Joe Tuney for me too. Yeah,
2:02:17
No, he's he's just very consistent. But yeah, I know Tyler
2:02:20
Smith how he's been just just dominating people left and right. He just has
2:02:26
to get that recognition. Then left tackle, as much as Dean Dion Dawkins,
2:02:31
he is having a good year. I feel like this is between the
2:02:35
two old heads right here, the left tackles that have been in the league
2:02:39
for these past ten or twelve years, and that's Trent Williams and Tyler Smith
2:02:43
and not Tyler Smith Tyron Smith. Those two you just you just realize how
2:02:47
dominant they are. But I'm gonna have to put Trent Williams there. You're
2:02:51
seeing the Cowboys win games without Tyron Smith and Trent Williams when he is out,
2:02:56
even though you have all those weapons around there. If Trent Williams isn't
2:03:00
your blind side blocker, a bunch of things are gonna go wrong. So
2:03:03
I'm gonna have to go with Trim Williams right here. So the only thing
2:03:09
I could really disagree with you about is, as much as it hurts me
2:03:14
to say it is brock Purty. So uh, brock Purdy he just had.
2:03:20
I'm just not there yet. I'm not. I believe in the kid.
2:03:24
I think he's a good quarterback. I think he's he's making their offense
2:03:28
move, but it's not I just know like what he has around him is
2:03:32
a really big piece to what he does. And it's easy. I'm not
2:03:36
gonna say it's easy, but it's better when you You're better when you have
2:03:42
brand A, when you have Deebo Samuel, when you have Christian McCaffrey,
2:03:45
when you have George Kittle, when you have Trim Williams. He has these
2:03:48
guys around him. And then and then we've seen him without Devo and without
2:03:55
Trim Williams. He didn't look too hot in those three games. Yeah,
2:03:57
at least at least Lamar Jackson the consistent guy game in and game out.
2:04:01
I'm sure he has up and downs, but those three games when Rock Party
2:04:06
could have got the job done, he just didn't. The offense didn't failed
2:04:10
to score over twenty points in any of those games, and he was He
2:04:13
failed to get anything moving outside of Christian McCaffrey and Christi McAffrey was banged up
2:04:16
in those games too. Yeah, so it fell on your quarterback shoulders and
2:04:19
he was unable to get the job done. With Lamar Jackson, everything's on
2:04:23
his shoulders at all times. So that's a difference between him and in my
2:04:30
opinion, difference between him, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson,
2:04:33
Dak Prescott. If it comes down to it and your quarterback has to be
2:04:39
the guy that leads you to a win, I take those guys above Brock
2:04:43
Purty every single time. Okay, So I have a question for you.
2:04:46
If Rock Purty he goes out against Baltimore and dominates, does he become that
2:04:51
first team All Pro? Does he become that MVP? But does he dominate
2:04:57
like he did this week when Christian McCaffrey still has three touchdowns on his own?
2:05:00
You know what I'm saying. Okay, So let me. I'm not
2:05:03
gonna try to predict anybody else's stat line. I'm gonna just try to give
2:05:06
you his stat line. So, say he goes for two seventy five and
2:05:12
he has three touchdowns, no picks. Uh, what do you say?
2:05:16
Does he move up? No? I don't know. It's just too much
2:05:24
around him for me. Like I've seen him without these guys, like it
2:05:28
was just still wouldn't make my argument different, you know what I'm saying.
2:05:31
Yeah, like, give me a game without brand again, or give me
2:05:35
a game without and he goes crazy. But we've seen him without these guys
2:05:39
and he kind of was not a sholl of himself, but he wasn't the
2:05:43
same guy. Yeah, that's true. I get that. But if you
2:05:47
want to list your first team all program, so we could kind of get
2:05:50
a clear reminder of who it was before we get into this next topic.
2:05:55
This next topic is gonna be crazy quarterback. I have Lamar Jackson running back,
2:06:00
CMC wide receiver Tyreek other wide receiver, CD, tight end, Travis
2:06:05
kelce flex Kyron Williams, left tackle, Dion Dawkins, left guard Tyler Smith,
2:06:12
center Jason Kelcey, right guard Quinn Myers. Right tackle Pina sal So
2:06:18
for my first team All Pro quarterback Brock purty Ill, running back Christian McCaffrey.
2:06:26
My two wide receivers, Tyreek Hill, Cede Lamb, my flex i'm
2:06:29
on Ross Saint Brown, tight end TJ. Hockinson, left tackle Trent Williams,
2:06:33
left guard Tyler Smith, center Jason Kelcey, right guard Zach Martin,
2:06:39
right tackle Pinae Seul Dang. I just barely wait, we have one two.
2:06:44
Yeah, I know everybody's from the NFC. As far as for the
2:06:46
offensive lineman, I just barely notice that right now, at least for mine.
2:06:51
But all right, well, let's let's go ahead and do our soul
2:06:56
called MVPs before we get into this next topic. Right here, I feel
2:07:00
like we're gonna be talking about this for a little bit. But like we
2:07:02
always do every single week, we do our so called MVPs of the week.
2:07:08
Josh, who is your MVP of the week? Baker Mayfield. Baker
2:07:13
Mayfield had three eighty one four touchdowns, Buddy, you know, so that's
2:07:16
gonna be my guy. Baker Mayfield, the Heisman winner. Put the flag
2:07:21
in the middle of your in the middle of the field. Get it done.
2:07:25
That that's Baker Mayfield. I'm high on. I believe in Baker,
2:07:29
and he just showed why this week. So I actually put Baker Mayfield the
2:07:33
Heisman two as my number one. But also he had a perfect cute or
2:07:39
a perfect passer rate in eight Yeah. Yeah, dude was a dog.
2:07:45
And so since you picked the guy that I was gonna pick, I'm gonna
2:07:47
have. As much as it hurts me to pick this guy, I'm gonna
2:07:51
have to put James Cook. He was cooking this Cowboys defense up, piece
2:07:55
by piece by piece. Twenty five carries, one hundred and seventy nine yards,
2:07:59
one touchdown, ven point two yards per carry, two cats, two
2:08:03
cats for forty two yards, and a receiving touchdown. He single handedly beat
2:08:07
the Cowboys by himself and the most he the most touches he's gotten in the
2:08:11
game ever besides high school. So yeah, I know this dude. He
2:08:16
definitely stepped up in a big time game. All right, since we did
2:08:20
our so called MVPs of the week, let me introduce the topic really quick
2:08:26
before we get into it. So Rashad Mendenhall, running back for the Pittsburgh
2:08:33
Steelers, played about ten to fifteen years ago. It was kind of out
2:08:37
of nowhere where he brought this up, but I'm gonna read the tweet that
2:08:43
he said. He said, I'm sick of average white or an I quote,
2:08:48
I'm sick of average white guys commenting on football. Y'all not even good
2:08:52
at football. Can we please replace the Pro Bowl with an all black versus
2:08:56
all white bull so these cats can stop trying to teach me who was good
2:09:01
at football. I'm better than your got on end quote. So we kind
2:09:07
of had a little bit of fun here as far as building an all white
2:09:11
versus all black team. But I know Joshi did plenty of research right here,
2:09:16
So Josh, go ahead. I criteria all the havsi's out there,
2:09:24
all the white skins like mahomes. You're not allowed in this. You're you're
2:09:28
not allowed to pick sides here. So I searched up every Okay, the
2:09:35
whites are pretty explainable, like if they're if they're white or not. But
2:09:41
on the other side, the blacks, there's no white skins. It's all
2:09:43
peer peer black parents. That's it. Like, there's no there's no white
2:09:48
parent black parents, there's no Mexican parent black parents. There's no none of
2:09:52
that. It's two black parents, two white parents, and your full your
2:09:56
full white, full black. So it feels like this Fiel pretty racist that
2:10:01
we're doing this. But Rashadman the Hall, Rashad Mian and Hall to decide
2:10:03
to bring back segregation. So let's let's go into this. So do you
2:10:09
want to start what team? Do you want to start with the whites?
2:10:15
I feel like the whites. That's that's more interesting. That's gonna be more
2:10:20
right there. Okay, we'll go. So the quarterback options we have,
2:10:24
Josh, Okay, these are we're doing today's people, today's, today's players,
2:10:28
today today. If we're doing all time, this would have been a
2:10:30
different whole conversation. But we're doing today's to keep it, keep it okay.
2:10:35
So quarterbacks Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Aaron Rodgers. I think it's
2:10:39
gonna be okay. So I narrowed it down. We're gonna need some grit.
2:10:45
I'm sure he may fuck up, he may fuck up a little bit,
2:10:48
but we're gonna need some big boy grit. We're gonna go with the
2:10:50
cornbread fellow himself out of Wyoming, Josh Allen. So that that's gonna be
2:10:56
our quarterback right there. I don't know who. If you disagree with my
2:11:00
decision, give me Joey b in that one. Give me a little bit
2:11:05
more of a safer pick game manager. I get it, But I just
2:11:09
know that we're gonna need some grit. We're gonna need some Yeah. Running
2:11:13
back. There's only one running back all time that you pick if you're building
2:11:16
a white football team, and that Danny Woodhead. Okay, I'm just kidding.
2:11:24
Christian McCaffrey. Christian McCaffrey, there's no question the best running back in
2:11:28
the NFL. You don't build a white football team without Christian McCaffrey. Every
2:11:31
time I think of Christian McCaffrey, I think of longest yard with That's how
2:11:37
white football. Yeah, all right, this is where it gets interesting,
2:11:41
right here, go ahead receiver. Much like Christian McCaffrey. There is only
2:11:45
one white guy you pick every single time you make a wide receiver, and
2:11:48
it's gonna be Cooper Cup. Cooper Cup is gonna be our number one wide
2:11:52
receiver. Depending on how we play our offense, it could be thirteen personnel
2:11:58
twelve personne, which is probably we're gonna run most of the time with multiple
2:12:01
tighten sets. But when there's that rarity, that rarity, when we do
2:12:05
have multiple receivers on the field, it's gonna be Adam Thielen. Adam is
2:12:11
gonna be the other the other wide receiver that we have. If there there's
2:12:13
no other guy we're gonna put out there. We're not putting Hunter Infro,
2:12:16
We're not putting Justin Watson, not putting Braxton Barrios, We're not putting Scotty
2:12:22
Scotty Miller out there. No, We're just gonna go with Cooper Cup and
2:12:24
Adam feeling dogs. We're just gonna put them out there. Okay, But
2:12:28
this is where this is where the whites make their money. This this,
2:12:33
this, this is where they they they take over a game where they dictate
2:12:37
what happens the tight end position. There this we're gonna run thirteen personnel,
2:12:46
three tight en sets most of the time. We're might we might even stretch
2:12:50
them out to receivers, put them in a slot. We have Travis Kelcey,
2:12:54
Mark Andrews, J. Hawkinson, George Kittle, and Sam Laporta.
2:12:58
We're gonna run. We're they're gonna rotate in and out. Yeah, Yeah,
2:13:01
they're gonna rotate in and out. It don't matter. Like, as
2:13:05
soon as you get hit in the math by t J. Hawkinson, you're
2:13:07
gonna get You're gonna get fucking Mark Andrews to the face. That's what you're
2:13:11
gonna get. Right after that, you're like, it don't matter the ones
2:13:16
and Andrews as wide receivers. Right there, I was thinking, just I
2:13:20
was thinking, put it t J. Or Kiddle our receiver because they're a
2:13:22
little faster. And then having Hawkinson and Andrew and we're having Kelsey and Andrews
2:13:26
work the middle of the field. You're telling me these dB they're gonna match
2:13:31
up against these guys. No, they're gonna pound them. They're gonna and
2:13:35
they're gonna they're gonna wreck some havoc full back when we run the eye formation,
2:13:39
when we do a bunch backfield, when we have a guy a leading
2:13:43
blocker, when we want to be a little bit more dynamic, we're gonna
2:13:45
lean towards Kyle Chuschek in this in this on this team is who we're gonna
2:13:50
Who's this This is who the Whites are gonna lean towards. Kyle Chuseek.
2:13:52
If you want a little bit more dynamic. But if you want that ground
2:13:56
and pound, they're gonna have Patrick Ricard blocking the way. Okay, So
2:14:01
I don't know how you feel about the list so far. What do you
2:14:03
think? No? I like it. I feel like that's pretty much perfect
2:14:07
right there. And the head coach that would be perfect for this offense is
2:14:11
Kyle Shanahan. If you think so, Kyle Shanahan, that would be perfect
2:14:16
for this offense right there? Or who do you think for but any Reid
2:14:20
runs the most twelve personnel in the NFL. That's true, but it's a
2:14:26
it's a running football team. You don't think that's why. That's why we
2:14:30
have Kyle Shanahan's the O c mm hmm okay, okay, okay, okay,
2:14:33
defensive coordinator. I see the Once we get to this defense, it's
2:14:39
gonna be some problems. Okay, Okay, So yeah, going to only
2:14:43
Bill. We gotta get the we gotta get the offensive line. Oh okay,
2:14:46
this is where the Fellers. This is where the corn bread Fellers dominate.
2:14:52
This is it? Okay? Left tackle Ryan Ramchick easy, left guard,
2:14:58
Joe Toney easy, the center Kelsey or Humphrey Kelsey or Creed Humphrey.
2:15:05
You can make your decision who you want to put out there. I'm putting
2:15:07
my guy out there. Creed Humphrey. I don't know if you're putting Kelsey
2:15:09
out there, which I wouldn't be mad at right because he's younger. I
2:15:13
feel you, I feel you. Right guard is Chris Lin Storm. There's
2:15:18
it has to be Chris Lin Storm out of the Atlanta Falcons. Him or
2:15:22
Quinn Myers, in my opinion, has to be the right guard. Zach
2:15:24
Martin, Quentin Nelson. I was thinking, by age, we've got to
2:15:28
stay healthy here man. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I don't
2:15:31
know why anything Zach Martin. But no, we're putting Zach Martin there.
2:15:33
We're putting Zach Martin there. I don't know why I even think of him.
2:15:35
I think I was just too excited to make the list. I just
2:15:37
started naming, like all the all the people. So right guard is Chris
2:15:41
Lin Storm. Well, we'll put Zach Martin right guard. Right tackles,
2:15:45
Garrett Bowles. There's not much right tackles that are white in the NFL.
2:15:48
I don't know why, but there unless unless they can get honorary Pine soul
2:15:54
In there. But nah, we can't do that. Okay, they're not
2:16:00
very much. Okay, we're getting into the defense. Now. This is
2:16:01
the this is the fun part of the of the the trick. We're talking
2:16:05
about thirteen personnel, twelve personnel. All that they there didn't dominate with their
2:16:11
tight ends. They're gonna slow the ball game down a lot, run smash
2:16:16
mouth football with Sam c But the defense, the defensive line is gonna be
2:16:20
Okay, interior is probably gonna be a little weak, gonna be a little
2:16:24
weak a little week. They're gonna have t J. Watt and Nick Bosa
2:16:28
on the outside outside on the line, no question to ask. And the
2:16:33
inside we're gonna put Joey Bosa and Max Crosby. See, we're not as
2:16:37
big on the interior as as the black side on the white side. So
2:16:41
they're they're they're gonna struggle. Yeah, they're gonna struggle here. Okay.
2:16:46
The linebackerss gotta be gotta be the godfather himself, Matt Malana, the Italian.
2:16:58
The other Italian in the NFL is Matto, so he's gonna be our
2:17:01
middle linebacker. Linebacker number two is gonna be Drew Trank, will I know
2:17:05
a lot of people don't know Drew Trank will but he's the best. He's
2:17:09
a he's a dog and the best coverage linebacker probably an NFL this year outside
2:17:13
of Fred Warner. So they're smart, they're gonna, yeah, they're they're
2:17:18
they're scheming. They're scheming up in their brains right now. If we want
2:17:22
to run, if we want to run three, if we want to run
2:17:24
three linebackers, we can put Alex Singleton or Alex Anzeloni right there. I'm
2:17:30
not mad at either choice. If I'm gonna lead to Singleton in this a
2:17:33
little bit more, he is a nice linebacker. Yeah, okay, so
2:17:37
safety, Harry, this this is where we're making some changes, Okay to
2:17:41
physicians right here, safety back of the field, no matter what, Okay,
2:17:46
Okay, I did deep I did. I did deep dive into Jordan
2:17:50
Ployer. I could not figure out if he was white full on or if
2:17:56
he was black or white. That was the one guy I couldn't figure out.
2:17:58
So I looked up Jordan Ployer's parents and no pictures popped up of any
2:18:03
parents. They was just holding him with his kid, And I'm not with
2:18:05
that. I want to see his parents so if you okay something Jordan,
2:18:09
Jordan is a Caucasian descent, okay, and are his mother and father.
2:18:15
So that changes everything for this defense. Honestly, this changes everything for this
2:18:18
defense. Okay, So we're have Jordan Ployer. Okay, We're gonna have
2:18:24
Harrison Smith at safety. So but here's my here's my here's what I'm gonna
2:18:28
put in. This is gonna be the free roam meet safety. He's gonna
2:18:35
come in and he's I hate Taysom Hill, but this is this is what
2:18:39
this is what he was made for. This is what he was making a
2:18:41
great special teams player. He's gonna he's gonna play his hard out. He's
2:18:46
gonna he's fast, he's gonna he's gonna make some things happen. So he's
2:18:48
gonna be our free roaming safety coming off the edge, blitzeing, maybe pick
2:18:52
up the tight end on the other side, maybe pick up a receiver,
2:18:54
double team somebody. He's gonna be that guy. So I'm gonna read Blankenship
2:18:58
to cornerback, okay, because there's no white quarterbacks in the NFL anymore,
2:19:03
not a single one. So so there's gonna be read playing and ship out
2:19:07
there, and then we're gonna put Jordan Poyer on the other side. But
2:19:11
they're not gonna play man and man. We're not doing that zone. We're
2:19:13
gonna play zone. Drop everyone back and let the front four get to way
2:19:18
to go. That's what we're gonna do. Yeah, pretty gud. We
2:19:20
don't get burnt or we. I don't know why I'm saying we. I'm
2:19:22
gonna put it together a Mexican team and see who I can come with.
2:19:26
Mark Sanchez is gonna lead us the way he's gonna lead us. Yeah,
2:19:31
oh yeah, Antonio Rometo. So we're gonna We're gonna that's that's our defense
2:19:35
for for for for the white team right there. It's not very good Bill
2:19:41
Belichick. He's gonna make some shit happen. Okay, he's gonna make it
2:19:45
happens. Okay, So we're gonna. I still don't think this team is
2:19:48
gonna win, but they have a shot with that offense. In my opinion,
2:19:54
we're gonna get to the all black team. Now, I did I
2:19:56
did research, guys, I did research. Sure you don't have he really
2:20:01
had his research here. There was a picture of a player like he did
2:20:07
full on research. I respect the hustle right here. Okay, So the
2:20:13
All Black Team quarterback, Lamar Jackson. It's gotta be Lamar Jackson. You
2:20:18
could put g Gino, but it's Lamar. Is Jalen Hurts half No,
2:20:28
but I like Lamar more than Jalen Hurt. I trust him more. I
2:20:31
trust him more. Running back. We could pick their playthrough us. I'm
2:20:37
just gonna pick the best one. Uh that's annually. The best person is
2:20:41
gonna be Derrick Henry. Someone put Derrick running back. Okay, Wide receivers.
2:20:46
This is where they're gonna win. This is where they beat. I
2:20:50
get, we got cup. I get we I get. I get they
2:20:52
got Cup. I get they got dealing. But they got Tyreek Hill,
2:20:56
J. Jedes and A. J. Brown see Lamb. You can put
2:20:58
anybody in there, honestly, but that's those. Those are the three I'm
2:21:03
gonna roll with. I'll put you can swap Brown for Cde Lamb if if
2:21:07
we can do that, you want to do that? No, give me
2:21:11
keep CD lambing there, No, no, no, keep CD. Okay,
2:21:13
keep CD tight ends, tight ends. They got Najoku and Kyle Pitts.
2:21:18
So that's that's what I'm gonna put right there. We can put Joe
2:21:22
Everett, Joel Everett, maybe jo Smith. Yeah. No, Left tackles
2:21:31
Trent Williams. I thought he was more light skinned. No, he has
2:21:33
two black parents. So Williams makes his way in there. Did my research.
2:21:39
Left guardist Tyler Smith sinner is Lloyd's cushion berry from the Denver Broncos is
2:21:45
actually a good pick. Yeah, yeah, he's a good pick. Right
2:21:48
there. Right guard Tray Smith, gonna get the job done. Let me
2:21:52
tell you that's the that's the chief legend right there. He might be the
2:21:54
reason they win, honestly. Right tackle, right tackle Tyron Smith. Give
2:22:00
it to those give I know he's consensus left usually, but there wasn't very
2:22:07
much right tackles also, which is where it's like that that I trust more
2:22:13
than Tyron Smith. So I'm putting him on the right side for the for
2:22:15
this team. But this is where they win. This is the defense is
2:22:18
where they win in my opinion. Yep. So left in Miles Garrett,
2:22:26
Yeah, no questions, no question, right in, right in for me,
2:22:30
Michael Parsons, no question, no question, right there. Defensive tackle
2:22:35
Chris Jones, Aaron don no questions, no questions, right the wait wait,
2:22:41
I'm going to mention the head coach or oc Oh, okay, head
2:22:46
coach we can go with. They still don't got no black head coaches anymore?
2:22:50
Bro Oh okay, yeah, but one Mike Tomliny, Mike Tomlin,
2:22:58
bro Todd Bowles. No, I'm going Mike Tomlin. I'm going Mike Tomlin
2:23:03
head coach. Yeah. Oh see, definitely Eric b Enemy d C.
2:23:09
I'm gonna go with Brian Flores. Mm hmm. Yeah, that's a nice
2:23:15
one right there. Yeah, I'm gonna go Brian Flores right there. That
2:23:18
that's that. These are two elite coaches scheming up against each other right here.
2:23:22
Two of the coaching groups. The the whites are gonna have to do
2:23:26
a lot more scheming than the blacks. Let's just get the defensive defensively,
2:23:31
Yeah, so okay, so we're gonna go to the linebackers. This is
2:23:35
where we had a lot of problems because there's a lot of haves, these
2:23:39
a lot of halfs the's on the on the linebacker groups. So we're gonna
2:23:43
go with middle linebacker, no questions. I think Rokwan Smith Smith is gonna
2:23:48
be the middle linebacker for this team. Outside linebackers. I'm gonna go with
2:23:52
the Mario Davis and Lavonte David. They're both old, but they're both they're
2:23:56
both consistent, they're both run stoppers. They know how to get the job.
2:24:01
Oh true, but he just got binched, so I'm not sure.
2:24:07
So I put Tomorrow Davison Lavonte David right there. Consistency is key right here.
2:24:11
This is where they really win. This is where they really win these
2:24:15
d beasts. If the tight ends ain't doing nothing and Cooper, well,
2:24:18
honestly, this is a good matchup. These are good matchups because the Wise
2:24:22
do have a good offense. So let's go with Derwin James at safety.
2:24:26
Derwin James safety because there's a lot of haves the's at safeties. There's a
2:24:33
lot of haves the's at safety. So I'm gonna go with Kevin Byard.
2:24:35
Yeah, Minka, Jamal Adams, all Tyron Matthew haves the's dang. So
2:24:43
I went with Kevin Byrd. Okay, I like the cornerback Sauce Garner.
2:24:50
That's and pastor. We could have went with Trayvon Diggs. We could have
2:24:54
went with Jalen Ramsey, he's a little old. We could have went with
2:24:58
Deron Bland, could have with Lagerious Need. We could have went with a
2:25:01
couple of guys here, but I'm gonna go with the assistant Garner. Yeah,
2:25:05
Tavaria's word dog chiefs legend, I could have went with, but I'm
2:25:09
going with Sauce Garner and Patrick Rteam straps. I don't know y'all can live
2:25:15
up to who's gonna win? I don't know. I think I think just
2:25:18
because the defense on the other side of a little week is pretty weak for
2:25:20
the Whites, I'm gonna give it to the I'm gonna give it to the
2:25:22
team Blacks here, but the but the offense for the Whites could really dictate
2:25:28
a game for this team that maybe people might eke out a win. Okay,
2:25:31
So I feel like this team Blacks superior talented team the team White.
2:25:37
They have to have a specific game plan and they have to follow it the
2:25:41
whole way through time. Possession is key here. They need to run on
2:25:45
the football how much? Okay? So what's it said? Who said this?
2:25:50
What's his name? I keep forgetting his name? Linebacker Taylor Lawan oh
2:25:52
Will Compton, Will Compton, Yeah, Will Compton said they get two weeks
2:25:56
to prepare, where he thinks the Whites will get an advantage if they get
2:26:00
two weeks to prepare, like some Batman stuff. So I don't know,
2:26:05
but no, i'd say, Okay, I feel like team Whites they would
2:26:13
try to slow this game down, so Team Blacks would maybe get like four
2:26:16
or five possessions here. So it's a lot of short yarded stuff. Yeah,
2:26:22
it's gonna be a bunch of short yarded stuff and stuff where it's like
2:26:28
ooh stuff where it's just real simple eight eight nine minute drives. So I
2:26:33
feel like this game, I still I still think Team Black Blacks win,
2:26:37
but I think it's like a This feels like a twenty one to seventeen type
2:26:39
of ball game, twenty one to twenty type ball game. H I just
2:26:43
think that the combination of all those tight ends rotating in and out is going
2:26:46
to be pretty hard to keep up with. Because if you're tighted fresh and
2:26:50
they're these guys are elite route runners and separation and big bodies. I think,
2:26:54
bro, this blocking is gonna be insane. It will be for the
2:27:00
Christian McCaffrey. It will be which is which is scary. But they have
2:27:05
a certain way to win. But at the end of the day, that
2:27:09
defense I feel real confidence. Sauce Gardner and Pat certain trying to lock up,
2:27:15
trying to lock up. Well, you put one of them there and
2:27:18
then you put the other one on the tight end, do you The thing
2:27:22
is Derwin James gets cooked by Travis Kelce yearly, Oh no, no,
2:27:26
no, no, Derwin James is not going on Travis Kelce. No buyer
2:27:30
is getting cooked by Kelsey, by all those guys. So all this the
2:27:33
staties are getting cooked by the Titans. I'm gonna put that out there.
2:27:37
Derwin James is their best hope. But the dbs, I feel like they're
2:27:41
too small. Yeah, I can I can see that. So so who
2:27:46
do you have winning then? Who do you have winning blacks? Like like
2:27:50
twenty one, like twenty eight, like twenty eight seventeen, twenty eight seventeen,
2:27:58
something like that. That's a score I have right there. It's just
2:28:01
this defense is too strong like all around. Yeah, the front seven,
2:28:05
the front seven is just so much better than the front seven for the question,
2:28:11
because they actually have an interior, like a real interior defense. Yeah,
2:28:18
Chris Jones Area, Chris Jones and Aaron Donald Oh my gosh. Together.
2:28:22
I even mentioned Miah Parsons or Miles Garrett, who could wreck a game
2:28:26
by themselves. Yeah, exactly. But now you put the two best defensive
2:28:30
tackles in the NFL over the last I don't know, six years. Yeah,
2:28:37
together, who create for other people on a consistentus basis? They make
2:28:41
careers for Leonard Floyd and Dante Fowler Junior and d Ford you know, like
2:28:46
bro, like, come on, so what's up with Chiefs players being off
2:28:50
sides? First d Ford in the AFC Championship and then Dard bro Yeah,
2:28:56
so I like this right here, Josh, you you went into detail.
2:29:01
That's that's kudos. That's kudos to you man. Yeah, I know that's
2:29:05
a lot. I was gonna. I was low key going to make a
2:29:07
Samoan team, like a no Simoan Islander team. Mm hmm for this,
2:29:13
But off the top of my head, Tua poka uh Vita Vey has gotta
2:29:22
be on there. Okay, what if you what if you mix what if
2:29:26
you mix light Skin and Islander like you do a team, that team would
2:29:30
be too unstoppable, it'd be over. So you'd have my auto account Islander.
2:29:35
He's Australian that's an island. Yes, that's that's islander. So mahomes
2:29:41
pooka. Well, if it's light skin, you didn't mention Justin Jefferson,
2:29:46
Right, Yeah, he's he's on the all the all the All Black team.
2:29:52
Who I can't think of one. I can't think of one, h
2:29:56
pookah. Yeah, no, I'm stumping his mom's Polynesian. Really, Oh
2:30:07
shoot, I didn't know that. Oh well, damn well? All right,
2:30:13
Oh yeah, I'm on wrang that. Okay, that's a nice one.
2:30:16
You could even have two as your backup there running back. Mm hmmm,
2:30:24
I don't know about well, light skin running back Kyen Williams, Okay,
2:30:30
you you'd be cooking there. Mike McDaniel, he's your head coach.
2:30:33
He's a light skin. I don't know if anybody knew that, but but
2:30:35
he is. So we I feel like that's something we need to discuss off
2:30:41
there is the main guy on the defense though, Yeah, no, he
2:30:46
definitely isn't. Jamal Adams. He would be there, Stefan Gilmour, he
2:30:56
would be there. I'm telling you, we're gonna when we have to discuss
2:31:01
that off air. But the last one we're gonna get into is the Cam
2:31:05
Newton comments in which I don't know if anybody caught what Cam Newton said,
2:31:11
but Cam Newton, long story short, he basically said, there's only a
2:31:16
few game change of quarterbacks such as Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson,
2:31:22
Josh Allen, and then every and then there's game manager and game managers
2:31:26
in the league, which is Brock Purty to A, Tuga bay Loa,
2:31:31
Jared Goff, and Dak Prescott. What was your opinions on this this comment,
2:31:37
Josh, Okay, did you listen to his nine minute? I listened
2:31:43
to his nine minute? Yeah, okay, so I agree. I agree
2:31:48
with what he said. He says, no one goes into the draft looking
2:31:50
for Brock Purty, Dak Prescott, and Jared Goff. And that's true.
2:31:56
No one does that anymore. No one Jared Goff a statue quarterback. No
2:31:58
one looks for statute quarterbacks anymore. Jared Goff. I love Jared Goff.
2:32:03
I like Jared Goff a lot, but he's not a game changer, like
2:32:07
he can keep the game going, like he can keep it in check.
2:32:11
Brought pretty same way exactly why I won't put him in my all protein he
2:32:15
is a game manager, not a game changer. Jimmy Garoppo took the team
2:32:18
to Serrol. Jimmy Garoppolo has a winning record with the San Francisco forty nine
2:32:22
ers. Dak Prescott is a little different. Deak Prescott at one point for
2:32:26
me was now he's uh. This year, he was a game he's a
2:32:30
game changer, but in the last couple of years he was a game manager,
2:32:33
in my opinion, a pretty bad one, but he was a game
2:32:35
manager. But to start his career he was a game changer. He's up
2:32:39
and down, so I feel like he should be eliminated from this whole conversation.
2:32:43
But I do agree with what he says, like there's certain game changers,
2:32:48
game changers and game managers. Patrick Mahomes. People look for Patrick Mahomes.
2:32:52
That's There's the reason why Kayleb Williams is considered a number one overall draft
2:32:58
pick. Now you go back to kill if you do Kile Williams five years
2:33:01
ago, He's a third round projected, just like Patrick Mahomes was well.
2:33:07
And then we got people like Drake May who get compared to Josh Allen,
2:33:11
who can compare to Justin Herbert we get Jaden Daniels compared to Lamar Jackson,
2:33:16
all these guys that they're looking for. We don't get people compared to brock
2:33:18
Purty if they do their going seventh round, sixth round, much like brock
2:33:22
Purty was because he doesn't have the intangibles, the talent, the raw talent
2:33:28
that you look for when you're trying to build, when you're trying to find
2:33:31
a franchise guy. In my opinion, Okay, so here's here's what I
2:33:37
have to say. As far as comparison, as far as Jared goff Tua
2:33:43
and Rock Party, yes I agree with that, but comparisons to different people.
2:33:50
C J. Stroud literally just last year his best comparison was Dak Prescott.
2:33:56
So let's not get it twisted here. I feel like there's there's always
2:34:01
a bunch of hate on Dak Prescott as far as oh, I think that
2:34:07
Stroud hate was too much coming out of like you know what I'm saying,
2:34:11
like like Q tests and everything like that, Like he showed in college he
2:34:15
was a dog. Yeah, No, I felt like that was too much.
2:34:16
But there's literally quarterbacks who have the same mold a six' three,
2:34:24
not incredibly mobile, like a like a Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen, but
2:34:28
mobile enough to extend plays, who are compared to Dak Prescott. Jalen Hurts
2:34:35
was compared to Dak Prescott. C. J. Stroud was compared to Dak
2:34:37
Prescott. This is just very recently that I could go based off of.
2:34:41
And in that nine minute video, he talks about Tom Brady, Peyton,
2:34:46
Manny Peyton, Manning, Drew Brees, they're all game managers. Here's what
2:34:52
I have to say about that. I feel like, didn't he say the
2:34:56
greatest players are game managers? Yeah? He said the greatest player are Okay,
2:35:01
I'd have to say. I'd have to say this, Tom Brady,
2:35:05
Peyton, Manning, Drew Brees, They're they're not game managers. I feel
2:35:09
like they're game changers in their own way. I feel like them being able
2:35:13
to manipulate the defense. I feel like I feel like he considers game changers
2:35:18
as far as extending. Like what it sounded like, I know he said
2:35:24
a different thing, but what it sounds like from him saying game changer from
2:35:26
Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes is them being able
2:35:31
to extend extend plays. And also he brought up another analogy as far as
2:35:37
a game changer is a truck and a game manager is a trailer. I
2:35:43
feel like that's kind of a backcamp compliment right there, because Tom Brady,
2:35:48
Dak Prescott, Drew Brees, Peyton, Manning, all those guys have at
2:35:52
different moments. I feel like it depends what you're needed on. You could
2:35:56
be a game changer. Josh Allen this last game, he was a game
2:36:00
changer. He was a game manager. Joe Burrow in some games that he
2:36:05
plays, he is a game manager. Patrick Mahomes more often than not he's
2:36:09
a game changer, but there's some games where they just run the football and
2:36:16
he's just a game manager. I feel like game manager is just a certain
2:36:22
game or certain week or stretch where you just need to do that. I
2:36:26
don't feel like just because I feel like you get discredited because your team is
2:36:31
better in which the quarterbacks, they don't build the teams. That's not their
2:36:37
responsibility right there. It's not Tom Brady, Drew, Brees, Peyton Manning,
2:36:43
Dak Prescott's fault that or Brock Purdy that they have this great GM,
2:36:48
great roster around them where they don't have to do much. Look what Tua
2:36:52
did this week without Tyreek Hill, without tront Armstead or a bunch of players
2:36:56
on defense against a good Jets defense, he put up thirty points. And
2:37:01
I know they were able to run the football well. But if Tua wasn't
2:37:05
a game changer, then you could have just stacked the box and he wouldn't
2:37:09
have been able to do nothing. Well, that's where I pretty much stand
2:37:13
on that. Do you have anything to disagree about that? I just I
2:37:20
do have an opinion towards certain quarterbacks with certain weapons. Like I've always met
2:37:24
the argument when people will say, oh, my homes is his weapons made
2:37:28
blah blah blah blah, and I would always ask him, well, outside
2:37:30
of Travis Kelsey and Tyre kill and they made another receiver and they usually couldn't.
2:37:35
You know what I'm saying. So it's like it's just I think I
2:37:37
get what you're saying to an extent. I do think certain players, like
2:37:43
let's are like super great at not they're never gonna be like let's say Ryan
2:37:48
Tannehill for example, like those years when the Titans were good when he was
2:37:54
like, okay, I think he was a game manager, you know what
2:37:58
I'm saying, Like he wasn't very much like a game changer, Like he
2:38:01
wasn't gonna it was Derrick Henry being the game changer for that football team.
2:38:05
So that's an example of a game changer, I believe. I think Rock
2:38:09
Perty is one of those. I do. I think he's a game manager.
2:38:13
I don't think he's much of a game changer. But Dak Prescott,
2:38:18
I do think is a game changer. Like there's just like Jared Goff,
2:38:22
Uh, Jared Goff is a game manager, like a really high level game
2:38:26
manager. In my opinion, I don't think he changes much because that they
2:38:28
run the ball so much and then they pass the ball like to these wet
2:38:33
two amorro who's just always open, like no matter who's guarding him, is
2:38:37
gonna find a way to get open. So I think, in my opinion
2:38:41
that that's what it is. But then there's like the Mahomes and the Allen's,
2:38:45
like the well Josh Allen's game change is good or bad, like it
2:38:48
just depends on you know what I'm saying. But Mahomes is like game changer
2:38:52
and game manager, but that's because he's the best. He can do both
2:38:54
at a very high level no matter what it is, like if they need
2:38:58
him to go. That's why when every time people say, oh, they're
2:39:01
they're dick riding mahomes blah blah blah like blah blah blah, it's because he's
2:39:05
done in his whole career where he's led a fourth quarter comeback. He has
2:39:07
the most fourth quarter come He has the most down ten down ten comebacks in
2:39:13
NFL, like one of the top in NFL history, already a winning record
2:39:18
down ten. So like he's a game changer and a game manager. It
2:39:20
just depends who you are. I think there's certain like I think Dak Prescott's
2:39:24
both in my opinion. I think at one point he kind of fell off
2:39:28
or people lost respect for him after his injury, where like he had a
2:39:31
game back confidence I believe, and then had to prove that he could do
2:39:35
it without an Ezekiel Elliott who was the game changer. You know what I'm
2:39:39
saying, mm hm. I feel like you can grow into the game changer
2:39:45
role like you can't for sure, like you can, and I feel like
2:39:48
Tom Brady grew into it. Yeah, exactly the first three Super Bowls.
2:39:52
I do believe that Tom Brady was a game manager, but afterwards he became
2:39:58
that game changer. And also another thing, as far as people discrediting Cam,
2:40:03
that's a whole different topic, right, Yeah, what's her name?
2:40:05
That's I don't even know this, Who cares who her name is? Like
2:40:09
you know, like, yeah, yeah, coming after Cam, like you're
2:40:11
sitting on the couch, blah blah, like where you're doing, You're sitting
2:40:15
at home. Also Cam Newton and oh yeah, yeah heis winner NFL MVP,
2:40:22
throwing a Tedgan Junior, old Greg Golsen and Fat Benjamin over there.
2:40:26
Well having a terrible offensive line, Like come on, bro, Like Cam
2:40:31
Newton was doing the best he could with what he had. Yeah, no,
2:40:35
there's no reason to discredit Cam. You may disagree with his takes,
2:40:39
but there's no reason to discredit what he did. This dude went fifteen and
2:40:43
one with that team and one was great. I'm not gonna take that away
2:40:48
their defense. But he still had to put up points. Yeah you still
2:40:52
have Yeah, no question, but yeah, no, I agree with you.
2:40:58
I feel like the biggest thing is that is that I feel like people
2:41:03
they put they've always put Dak in the game manager role since his rookie year,
2:41:07
and they've always thought, oh, okay, well, Dak Prescott,
2:41:11
he is a game manager. It's like no ever since, I believe ever
2:41:15
since, ever since twenty twenty one when he messed up his ankle, he's
2:41:22
been a game changer since because now it's a Dak Prescott reliant offense. Rock
2:41:28
Purty, yes, I could argue with you, Jared Goff, Yes,
2:41:31
I understand game manager, Tua game manager. I understand that Rock Purdy.
2:41:37
He's kind of on the iffy to me. I feel like he's kind of
2:41:39
in a Dak Prescott situation his rookie year. His rookie years had a great
2:41:45
team around him, obviously more talent or that's what I think than what the
2:41:48
Cowboys had. Yeah, the defense wasn't as good, but the offense was.
2:41:56
The offensive line was like in saying that Dak Prescott had when he first
2:42:01
and Zeke Zeke, in my opinion, is the best running back with my
2:42:05
own eyes people that I've seen on television live. I'm not saying Barry Sanders
2:42:11
or all this that I've seen the best running back of that I've ever seen.
2:42:18
Oh, but what about Christian McCaffrey. When he went out of there
2:42:22
too, almost two thousand yards almost a thousand I know, no, he
2:42:26
had a thousand and thousand. Yeah, But watching Prime Zeke was just different.
2:42:31
I don't know, like you just knew Zeke. I know, you
2:42:35
know the same thing with I feel the same way with Christian mccafrey. But
2:42:37
watching Zeke was like, this guy's didn't take every anything to the house at
2:42:43
any given moment, like, no matter what, it just when he started
2:42:46
getting when he started getting injured, it was just like it just kind of
2:42:50
fell off for him quite a bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
2:42:54
true. But like I was saying, so Rock Perty, he is eventually
2:42:58
gonna get paid, so we will, like there's no way that San Francisco
2:43:01
lets him go, especially how he's been playing, especially if he one's MVP.
2:43:05
So I think whenever brock Purty gets paid, that's when whenever we're really
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going to see. Is brock Purdy that that franchise, that game changing type
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quarterback? And I believe he does have the potential to do that. I
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feel like, just because you're stuck in that role doesn't mean you have to
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be in that role forever. But all right, is there anything else you
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want to take away before we end this episode. I feel like this was
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a good one. No, that's about it. I just like talking about
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the all whites versus all blacks. Yeah, no, that that was a
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good one right there. But all right, we're gonna go ahead and close
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