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- 0:32Speaker 2: Let's get to it. You know the FNA show. I'm
- 0:34Speaker 2: double A right now. Let's get to first off. So
- 0:41Speaker 2: I wanted to try something here. I haven't done this
- 0:44Speaker 2: after an NFL Sunday before. I usually do it to
- 0:47Speaker 2: preview this week's list of games. But this time, we're
- 0:51Speaker 2: going to rank the matchups today. Who had the best games?
- 0:54Speaker 2: Who actually showed up? Who looked good? Who looked bad?
- 0:58Speaker 2: There were 12 games in the NFL, and I'm going
- 1:01Speaker 2: through them. From worst to first. And this is going
- 1:05Speaker 2: to be a running thread throughout this show because I
- 1:07Speaker 2: can't get to all of them in just one segment here.
- 1:10Speaker 2: But I will start with this. Lorena, you want to
- 1:13Speaker 2: do the honors? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Worst game of
- 1:22Speaker 2: the day. Titans at Colts was a game only a
- 1:27Speaker 2: mother could love. Cam Ward said last year, we ass.
- 1:31Speaker 2: I think he meant he ass. So what does that
- 1:34Speaker 2: say about the Indianapolis Colts who just lost to them?
- 1:38Speaker 2: They are a level of ass that we saw in
- 1:40Speaker 2: the back that ass up video. No, that's not the video.
- 1:47Speaker 2: Whatever BBL butt injections women get nowadays, the Colts have tried.
- 1:52Speaker 2: That's how bad they are. That's how ass they are.
- 1:55Speaker 2: You know, You just lost to a formerly winless Titans
- 1:59Speaker 2: team with a quarterback that barely passed for 100 yards
- 2:02Speaker 2: in Cam Ward. He passed for 102. Daniel Jones passed
- 2:05Speaker 2: for 269, and the Titans still won, even with the
- 2:09Speaker 2: Colts outrushing them 165 to 84. They passed for two
- 2:12Speaker 2: and a half times more yards. They ran it for
- 2:15Speaker 2: twice as many yards as the Titans, and the Colts
- 2:18Speaker 2: still lost the game. How? Well, you guessed it. Three
- 2:21Speaker 2: turnovers and a blocked punt, which was probably the most
- 2:24Speaker 2: exciting play of the game, hence why it's being ranked
- 2:26Speaker 2: 12th on my list of today's NFL slate. And the
- 2:32Speaker 2: Titans didn't just get their first win of the season,
- 2:35Speaker 2: didn't just get Robert Saleh's first win there, but this
- 2:38Speaker 2: was their 500th victory in franchise history going back to
- 2:42Speaker 2: the Houston Oilers days with Warren Moon and Earl Campbell.
- 2:47Speaker 2: And those beautiful uniforms they tried to replicate this year,
- 2:50Speaker 2: but something looks funky. That T, the font for the T,
- 2:54Speaker 2: it looks like a thumbtack. You could say it looks tacky.
- 2:59Speaker 2: So even when they do finally win a game, the Titans,
- 3:02Speaker 2: they still can't look pretty doing it. But the Titans,
- 3:06Speaker 2: they'll take them. However, they can get them right now.
- 3:09Speaker 2: I saw someone tweet out the Colts should probably be
- 3:11Speaker 2: in the fire sale mode at this point. They said,
- 3:14Speaker 2: all these players on the roster would attract serious interest
- 3:17Speaker 2: from contenders. Jonathan Taylor? Quentin Nelson, DeForest Buckner, Sauce Gardner,
- 3:22Speaker 2: Javarius Ward, Grover Stewart. You know, I noticed Daniel Jones
- 3:26Speaker 2: was not on that list. I was a Vanilla Vic
- 3:30Speaker 2: believer before he tore his Achilles last year. The offense
- 3:34Speaker 2: was humming. The Colts went from Peyton Manning, though, now,
- 3:37Speaker 2: to Andrew Luck, to Daniel Jones, who the Giants gave away. Now,
- 3:45Speaker 2: regular star back over there. All right. 11th worst or
- 3:50Speaker 2: best game, depending on how you look at it. Look,
- 3:52Speaker 2: it's the NFL. There's no real losers here. All these
- 3:55Speaker 2: games had something entertaining. Even this one did in my
- 3:59Speaker 2: watchability power rankings here. The Bears were up 31 to
- 4:03Speaker 2: seven in Atlanta over the Falcons after a field goal
- 4:06Speaker 2: to start the fourth quarter. And somehow that ended up
- 4:09Speaker 2: being a one score game at the end. The Bears
- 4:12Speaker 2: still won, which is why it was the 11th best
- 4:15Speaker 2: game on my list otherwise if the falcons pulled off
- 4:17Speaker 2: that comeback like that would have been the reverse 28-3
- 4:21Speaker 2: super bowl moment for them you remember that against the
- 4:23Speaker 2: patriots yeah i think you do this time they actually
- 4:26Speaker 2: uh came back in a game but uh no they
- 4:29Speaker 2: still they still lost it you lose michael pennix he
- 4:33Speaker 2: was pressured on a career high 46 percent of his
- 4:36Speaker 2: dropbacks on sunday and was blitzed at the second highest
- 4:41Speaker 2: rate of his career and it showed you could tell
- 4:44Speaker 2: At least when he wasn't in his second home in
- 4:47Speaker 2: the blue tent. They called me Mr.
- 4:49Speaker 4: Glantz.
- 4:49Speaker 2: He actually went to the blue tent after his first
- 4:51Speaker 2: drive of the game. Feel better after this loss? If
- 4:56Speaker 2: you're wondering what happened to Jell-O Jigglers after they got
- 4:59Speaker 2: canceled along with Bill Cosby, they actually injected them into
- 5:01Speaker 2: Michael Penix's knees. But things actually got shaky for the
- 5:05Speaker 2: Bears late after Ben Johnson put in all the backups,
- 5:08Speaker 2: which was a curious choice. Caleb Williams, though, was back.
- 5:12Speaker 2: And he did damage 30 to 36, 305 yards, one touchdown.
- 5:17Speaker 2: Maybe now he won't get testy. Caleb Williams with reporters
- 5:21Speaker 2: about what grade of hamstring he has. I'd give him
- 5:24Speaker 2: a passing grade, though. for this performance. Honestly, it was
- 5:27Speaker 2: impressive that Bears offense might be back on track. Probably
- 5:30Speaker 2: not enough to set the all-time scoring record this season
- 5:34Speaker 2: like Ben Johnson was hoping for. Maybe he'll just have
- 5:36Speaker 2: to settle for them winning the Super Bowl instead since,
- 5:39Speaker 2: you know, I'm not predicting that, but it seriously seemed
- 5:41Speaker 2: like in the preseason he was more interested in scoring
- 5:44Speaker 2: than winning with that goal he set for the year.
- 5:48Speaker 2: I had a goal for my Panthers this week. Yes,
- 5:52Speaker 2: I'm a Carolina Panthers fan. Mourn me. As they end
- 5:55Speaker 2: up 10th out of the most watchable games in my
- 5:59Speaker 2: week six power rankings, my goal was for them to
- 6:02Speaker 2: actually not lose on the road to an inferior opponent
- 6:06Speaker 2: this time. And make no mistake, the Eagles are most
- 6:09Speaker 2: definitely inferior without Jalen Hurts right now. More on his
- 6:13Speaker 2: injury later and some whack criticism. Certain broadcasters have thrown
- 6:16Speaker 2: his way. Have they apologized yet? But my Panthers eventually
- 6:19Speaker 2: pulled through in unimpressive fashion, winning 25-14 in Philly, man.
- 6:25Speaker 2: Game wasn't close enough for Nick Sirianu to give it
- 6:28Speaker 2: away this time. Sirianu, he just suffered his first four-game
- 6:32Speaker 2: losing streak as a coach. Here's the Eagles' last four
- 6:36Speaker 2: games now. Lost by 11, at home to Carolina. Lost
- 6:40Speaker 2: on a walk-off 57-yard field goal to the Jags when
- 6:43Speaker 2: they just, you know, needed to run out the eight seconds.
- 6:47Speaker 2: Lost with a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter to
- 6:49Speaker 2: the Rams, who are now 2-4. And before that, lost
- 6:53Speaker 2: by 20 to Case Keenum, his old ass. Came in
- 6:56Speaker 2: on retirement or something. Was he teaching? I don't know.
- 7:00Speaker 2: I'm just going to say this right now. The golden
- 7:02Speaker 2: era of Eagles football might be over. They won a
- 7:06Speaker 2: couple of Super Bowls. They went to another one over
- 7:08Speaker 2: the last eight seasons. But Big D, Nick Foles, ain't
- 7:11Speaker 2: walking through that door to save them this year. And
- 7:13Speaker 2: now Jalen Hurts is out indefinitely. Nick Sirianni, he looks
- 7:18Speaker 2: like a coach still learning on the job somehow. They
- 7:21Speaker 2: are two and four. And their offense barely scratched 200
- 7:24Speaker 2: yards total against a Panthers defense that I can tell
- 7:27Speaker 2: you is not exactly the 96 Panthers with Kevin Green
- 7:31Speaker 2: and Lamar Latham or the 2003 defense with Julius Peppers
- 7:34Speaker 2: running things. These, yeah, these Eagles are bad. They're so bad,
- 7:39Speaker 2: they actually got pantsed on the field. I don't know
- 7:41Speaker 2: if you saw that screenshot of their tight end, Dallas Goedert.
- 7:47Speaker 2: He was going around a defender who ended up pulling
- 7:51Speaker 2: down his pants on a route, and it revealed his
- 7:56Speaker 2: tight end, you could say. Fly Eagles fly is definitely
- 7:59Speaker 2: not happening this season. Their defense is solid, but the offense,
- 8:04Speaker 2: they weren't even that good with Saquon and Jalen Hurts.
- 8:08Speaker 2: They look horrendous now. I'm not sure Nick Sirianni survives
- 8:13Speaker 2: the season. I mean, sure, he has the built-in injury excuse,
- 8:17Speaker 2: but they've shuffled in different offensive coordinators. It just doesn't matter.
- 8:22Speaker 2: They can't consistently move the football down the field, and
- 8:25Speaker 2: the tush-push gimmick isn't as effective as it used to be. Eagles'
- 8:30Speaker 2: only chance of turning the season around is probably because
- 8:32Speaker 2: the NFC least is back in effect. Their next three
- 8:35Speaker 2: games for the Eagles, Cowboys, Commanders, and Giants. All divisional opponents,
- 8:42Speaker 2: all pretty bad teams. The path to the playoffs is
- 8:46Speaker 2: just winning the division because there will not be a
- 8:48Speaker 2: wild card coming out of the NFC East this season.
- 8:53Speaker 2: That's not going to happen. Speaking of, you may have
- 8:56Speaker 2: seen this one later tonight, Sunday Night Football. The ninth
- 9:02Speaker 2: ranked game of the day was between the Cowboys and Packers.
- 9:05Speaker 2: I don't know why I have it this high, actually.
- 9:08Speaker 2: But for some reason, that's what they put on Sunday
- 9:10Speaker 2: Night Football. Did they think Micah Parsons would be back
- 9:14Speaker 2: playing by now? And that would be a fun narrative
- 9:17Speaker 2: to sell the game? Because he's not, and neither team
- 9:20Speaker 2: is that good. They're not a threat to win anything.
- 9:24Speaker 2: These are bad football teams that are just being highlighted
- 9:28Speaker 2: for brand recognition. And I'm kind of tired of the
- 9:31Speaker 2: bias towards these two organizations when they've combined for, let
- 9:34Speaker 2: me check, one total Super Bowl win in the last year.
- 9:39Speaker 2: 30 years that one ring was from Aaron Rodgers against
- 9:44Speaker 2: the Steelers back in 2010 2011 somewhere in there so
- 9:48Speaker 2: I repeat the Packers and Cowboys they've gotten to one
- 9:52Speaker 2: Super Bowl in the last 30 years and the Cowboys
- 9:55Speaker 2: since then haven't made it back to an NFC championship
- 9:58Speaker 2: game you do we have to watch this slop on
- 10:01Speaker 2: Sunday night football in prime time? There's only one prime
- 10:06Speaker 2: time I want to see. Why don't you have a
- 10:07Speaker 2: seat right over here for me? I still haven't seen
- 10:09Speaker 2: the movie. I'm jealous of those who have. Mixed reviews.
- 10:13Speaker 2: But just flex out of the game. Stop catering to
- 10:16Speaker 2: traditional powers of 30 years ago. Just because they have
- 10:20Speaker 2: big fan bases, like who cares? Better games between teams
- 10:23Speaker 2: that actually can play is better for the long-term health
- 10:27Speaker 2: of the league. Stop pandering to fan bases whose only
- 10:30Speaker 2: fans that actually watched the team win a Super Bowl
- 10:32Speaker 2: live also were around when the Titanic went down. Feels
- 10:37Speaker 2: like it's been 84 years since the Cowboys actually won
- 10:39Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. And you can see why tonight. With
- 10:43Speaker 2: some of those mistakes out there they were making, they
- 10:45Speaker 2: are heavily flawed. An incomplete team with an offense that
- 10:48Speaker 2: was supposed to be, what were they calling it? The
- 10:51Speaker 2: Gotti offense? Kind of cringe at this point. The greatest
- 10:58Speaker 2: offense of all time or something like that. They had
- 11:03Speaker 2: seven points, the Cowboys, before garbage time. You're garbage. And
- 11:09Speaker 2: the Packers defense hasn't exactly been that good till tonight.
- 11:14Speaker 2: Both these defenses are objectively bad. One tried to trade
- 11:19Speaker 2: for the other's defensive superstar with Micah Parsons, who promptly
- 11:22Speaker 2: got hurt. The other thought they could build a little
- 11:25Speaker 2: engine that could defense with the money they saved by
- 11:28Speaker 2: not paying said superstar. And yet they're both garbage. Stop
- 11:35Speaker 2: the big brand bias NFL and flex out of these
- 11:39Speaker 2: matchups where nothing is at stake because both of these
- 11:43Speaker 2: teams could easily miss the playoffs. And even if they
- 11:45Speaker 2: do make it, they aren't going to go anywhere. The
- 11:49Speaker 2: amount of times I had to see people tonight use
- 11:52Speaker 2: chat GBT or whatever to superimpose Sinbad, the comedian from
- 11:56Speaker 2: the 90s, over the face of Dak Prescott. That might
- 12:00Speaker 2: have been the only good thing that came out of
- 12:02Speaker 2: this game. And first kid and house guests were pretty
- 12:07Speaker 2: funny back in the day. To be fair to Sinbad,
- 12:09Speaker 2: he might play better than Dak Prescott did tonight. And
- 12:15Speaker 2: that fan employee last week on Thursday Night Football who
- 12:19Speaker 2: called their loss to the Bucs embarrassing? I think that
- 12:23Speaker 2: guy's wrong. Honestly. It's not embarrassing. That's incorrect. That's incorrect.
- 12:29Speaker 2: It's just who the Cowboys are. If it was out
- 12:31Speaker 2: of the ordinary, it would be embarrassing, but they just
- 12:34Speaker 2: aren't that good of a football team. Brian Schottenheimer, likely
- 12:37Speaker 2: on the hot seat, probably won't survive the season. They're
- 12:41Speaker 2: lucky their next three games, Philly, Arizona, Indianapolis, they could
- 12:47Speaker 2: maybe pull out of this tailspin. Ballou and Kidd aren't
- 12:50Speaker 2: going to save them, though, from the cartoon. I don't
- 12:52Speaker 2: know if Jerry Jones is either. I don't understand how
- 12:56Speaker 2: their offense could be this... flaccid over the last couple
- 13:01Speaker 2: of weeks I would say just anemic just what happened
- 13:07Speaker 2: the Cowboys were scoring 30 a game with ease and
- 13:10Speaker 2: then Tampa Bay rocked their confidence or something and now
- 13:14Speaker 2: they lose tonight to a Green Bay team that didn't
- 13:16Speaker 2: look good to start the year at all that still
- 13:19Speaker 2: has issues defensively and they can't move the ball down
- 13:21Speaker 2: the field George Pickens is still there I think didn't
- 13:25Speaker 2: they franchise tag him CD did he play I think
- 13:30Speaker 2: Dak Prescott technically played. He's embarrassing. He didn't play well.
- 13:35Speaker 2: When guys like Skip Bayless and Dak Prescott homers won't
- 13:38Speaker 2: defend him anymore, like that's how bad it's gotten. I
- 13:43Speaker 2: don't know what you're going to do. You paid him
- 13:44Speaker 2: all that money. I think he's staying. You lost Micah Parsons,
- 13:50Speaker 2: who's not playing anyways. Your offense has been heavily invested in.
- 13:54Speaker 2: They're not putting up points to help carry the defense,
- 13:57Speaker 2: which actually probably carried the offense tonight, if anything. Will
- 14:00Speaker 2: they give up 23 points total? And the offense couldn't
- 14:03Speaker 2: get 24 to win the game? They had seven points
- 14:08Speaker 2: before garbage time, Dallas. It's brutal right now. Not that
- 14:13Speaker 2: anyone feels bad for the Cowboys. America's team to hate.
- 14:18Speaker 2: I feel the conflict within you.
- 14:19Speaker 3: Let go of your hate.
- 14:20Speaker 2: That's what they have become at this point. Drama, a
- 14:24Speaker 2: soap opera, uncompetitive. You know, we got Vinny Bonsignor coming
- 14:28Speaker 2: up next. And damn it, I think I'm going to
- 14:30Speaker 2: say this. I think the Raiders are in a better
- 14:33Speaker 2: place in a more competent franchise at this very moment
- 14:37Speaker 2: than the Dallas Cowboys. Maybe. Is that a hot take?
- 14:43Speaker 2: I think it's true. Look at their coach. Clint Kubiak's
- 14:47Speaker 2: doing good things there. They're getting a lot out of
- 14:50Speaker 2: Kirk or Kirk Cousins. Cowboys, they got Dak Prescott, weapons
- 14:55Speaker 2: all around them. Seven points before garbage time.
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- 15:37Speaker 2: I gotta get back to the nfl i gotta get
- 15:39Speaker 2: back to my rankings here I've gone through the first four.
- 15:44Speaker 2: The eighth best game of the day, though, should probably
- 15:48Speaker 2: be ranked higher, but because of the teams involved and
- 15:52Speaker 2: the location where it was played, you'll understand this. I
- 15:55Speaker 2: got the Jaguars losing to the Texans on a last-second
- 15:59Speaker 2: field goal in London here. Why are you hating on
- 16:02Speaker 2: this game, Adam? Because in order to wake up in
- 16:06Speaker 2: time to watch it on the West Coast, would have
- 16:09Speaker 2: had to get like three hours of sleep. No, whatever.
- 16:12Speaker 2: Had nothing left for this show tonight. You see, this
- 16:16Speaker 2: is what you do to me, Roger Goodell, with all
- 16:17Speaker 2: these international games, since you've already fracked the resources, I
- 16:23Speaker 2: guess you could say, from the NFL fan bases here
- 16:28Speaker 2: in America. You've drank in all the milkshakes here. You
- 16:33Speaker 2: got to go somewhere else. I drink your milkshake. Time
- 16:38Speaker 2: to find new fan oil, basically, is what's happening with
- 16:43Speaker 2: all the international games. Leading us to some wonky start
- 16:48Speaker 2: times for games, especially if you're on the best coast
- 16:51Speaker 2: on the West Coast. Now, I'm sorry, I thought football
- 16:55Speaker 2: was America's pastime. At least it is now. And it's
- 17:00Speaker 2: long past time that we stop making the Jaguars become
- 17:03Speaker 2: the first NFL team basically located in London. since they're
- 17:10Speaker 2: actually decent now. Give them a little bit more respect, maybe.
- 17:14Speaker 2: That was okay when the Jaguars were bad, but this
- 17:16Speaker 2: team is actually pretty good. And it was a pretty
- 17:20Speaker 2: damn good game against the Texans, I got to say.
- 17:21Speaker 2: From the highlights I saw later on after it was over,
- 17:25Speaker 2: I don't watch EuroLeague football either. I'm not waking up
- 17:29Speaker 2: for soccer. I'm not going to one of these bars
- 17:31Speaker 2: in L.A. for bangers and mash in the morning. None
- 17:34Speaker 2: of that's working for me. All right? Stop with their
- 17:38Speaker 2: early football games. Cam Little, you didn't have the walk-off
- 17:42Speaker 2: this time for the Jacksonville Jaguars. You guys got walked off.
- 17:46Speaker 2: Nick Sirianni wasn't there to save you, Jaguars. Nope, it
- 17:50Speaker 2: was the Texans. Amy Fairburn kicking the game-winning field goal.
- 17:55Speaker 2: And it kind of spoiled an unreal performance by Travis Hunter,
- 18:00Speaker 2: who caught a pass from each quarterback in the end zone,
- 18:04Speaker 2: and that game goes to waste. Incredible. Two-way play from
- 18:10Speaker 2: one of the best young players in the league. Wish
- 18:12Speaker 2: I could have seen it. Thanks, Roger Goodell. Evening, Commissioner.
- 18:18Speaker 2: Seventh best game of the day as there were 12.
- 18:21Speaker 2: Giants and Saints. You may think this is too high.
- 18:25Speaker 2: As high as some of those passes Jameis Winston was
- 18:27Speaker 2: throwing over wide receivers' heads. But you know what? Jameis
- 18:31Speaker 2: is entertaining at least because you don't know what you're
- 18:34Speaker 2: going to get. Last week, he threw for three touchdowns.
- 18:37Speaker 2: This week, a couple of picks. Gets benched. At one point,
- 18:41Speaker 2: Chris Hansen on... No, no, no. I'm sorry. Not Chris Hansen, Adam.
- 18:46Speaker 3: He's nude and thinking bad thoughts.
- 18:49Speaker 2: Scott Hansen on NFL Red Zone. He accidentally called Jameis Jameson.
- 18:57Speaker 2: Maybe he was thinking about how drunk some of Jamison's
- 19:00Speaker 2: throws were. J.J. McCarthy comes in to replace him, and
- 19:04Speaker 2: then he throws a pick right away. And I'm thinking J.J.
- 19:07Speaker 2: in the name must stand for a double Jamison or something.
- 19:09Speaker 2: But in that fourth quarter, J.J. McCarthy, new New York Giant.
- 19:17Speaker 2: He had some magic in him. In just the fourth
- 19:19Speaker 2: quarter alone, he became the leading passer with 243 yards passing.
- 19:25Speaker 2: And guess what else happened? The leading rusher for the
- 19:29Speaker 2: Giants with 26 yards. All done in the fourth quarter.
- 19:35Speaker 2: But they came up short against the Saints still. So,
- 19:38Speaker 2: 26 rushing yards, huh? By J.J. McCarthy. That led the team. Interesting.
- 19:43Speaker 2: How could that be when they have Cam Scadaboo? Well,
- 19:47Speaker 2: Cam Scadaboo was basically a healthy scratch for the game.
- 19:50Speaker 2: John Harbaugh, according to Cam, was still punishing him for
- 19:55Speaker 2: the fumble he had last week in the overtime cluster
- 19:59Speaker 2: F with the commanders that led to a tie game.
- 20:02Speaker 2: Harbaugh not messing around. Apparently he will sacrifice having a
- 20:06Speaker 2: better chance to win a game to show everyone that
- 20:09Speaker 2: he's boss he will discipline and bench anyone at any
- 20:13Speaker 2: time what an egomaniac you can say he's just establishing
- 20:18Speaker 2: culture John Harbaugh but the Giants have a real shot
- 20:21Speaker 2: of winning the NFC East if you haven't gathered and
- 20:25Speaker 2: he just didn't play one of his best players at
- 20:29Speaker 2: home because of a fumble the week before Like, talk
- 20:32Speaker 2: about cutting off your nose to spite your face. That
- 20:34Speaker 2: was a winnable game at home against a very beatable
- 20:38Speaker 2: New Orleans Saints team. And then get this. Postgame, John
- 20:42Speaker 2: Harbaugh said he didn't bench Cam Scadaboo. Harbaugh said, quote,
- 20:49Speaker 2: it wasn't by design that he didn't carry the football.
- 20:52Speaker 3: That's a bunch of crap.
- 20:53Speaker 2: He said when he was on the field, they just
- 20:56Speaker 2: happened to not call any run plays. They can't get
- 21:00Speaker 2: their story straight. What's going on? He says he's just
- 21:04Speaker 2: trying to figure out who the best running back is
- 21:07Speaker 2: on the team. That's his logic.
- 21:08Speaker 4: What?
- 21:10Speaker 2: Well, J.J. McCarthy apparently is, since he rushed for 26 yards.
- 21:16Speaker 2: Maybe you should have stuck with Skadaboo or just admitted
- 21:18Speaker 2: you benched him, which is what Skadaboo told the media.
- 21:22Speaker 2: How is Cam Skadaboo not running back one? Why are
- 21:27Speaker 2: you not running him? Are you trying to lose games,
- 21:30Speaker 2: John Harbaugh? If I'm a Giants fan, I'm curious. If
- 21:33Speaker 2: I gambled on the Giants, I'm curious. What John Harbaugh
- 21:37Speaker 2: did is indefensible. He gave them a much worse chance
- 21:40Speaker 2: to win. Mind you, they were up 10-0. Maybe if
- 21:43Speaker 2: they could have been able to run the ball, Jameis
- 21:46Speaker 2: isn't forcing things, throwing picks, and you're not letting the
- 21:50Speaker 2: Saints rip off 34 straight points. Speaking of dumb coaching moves...
- 21:56Speaker 2: Let's get to another CEO head coach in the form
- 22:00Speaker 2: of Mike McCarthy. Here's your sixth best game of the day.
- 22:03Speaker 2: It was played between the Steelers and Bucks in Tampa Bay.
- 22:07Speaker 2: I guess McCarthy is looking like the genius here in
- 22:10Speaker 2: this coaching matchup since his team was down 16-3 heading
- 22:14Speaker 2: into the fourth quarter just to see the Bucks force
- 22:16Speaker 2: themselves to walk the plank and blow it by eventually
- 22:20Speaker 2: losing in overtime 26-19. Yeah, they got outscored 23-3 in
- 22:27Speaker 2: the final 25 minutes of the game. Todd Bowles is
- 22:31Speaker 2: on the hot seat.
- 22:32Speaker 3: Why don't you have the seat right over here for me?
- 22:33Speaker 2: He may get fired before I get off the air. Justin,
- 22:36Speaker 2: you may have to check on this on Twitter. I
- 22:38Speaker 2: haven't been paying attention. Anybody getting fired here? Mike McDaniel?
- 22:42Speaker 2: Todd Bowles? The Bucs are 1-5. Yes, they lost Baker Mayfield.
- 22:48Speaker 2: But it's not like he was playing well anyways. Jalen
- 22:51Speaker 2: Daniels has actually been better outside of losing You know,
- 22:55Speaker 2: two score leads at home, but he's a rookie. Who cares?
- 22:58Speaker 2: The justification for this game being the sixth best game
- 23:02Speaker 2: of the week, six power rankings, though, is, well, you
- 23:05Speaker 2: had a comeback. You had an overtime game. And Mike
- 23:10Speaker 2: McCarthy spent his halftime in the blue tent. Let me
- 23:16Speaker 2: say that again. Mike McCarthy spending his halftime in the
- 23:21Speaker 2: blue tent is how that went. I've never seen a
- 23:24Speaker 2: coach go into the blue tent. But if any coach
- 23:28Speaker 2: needed to get checked for a concussion or something with
- 23:30Speaker 2: some of his decisions he's made over the years, it's
- 23:32Speaker 2: probably Mike McCarthy. Apparently he got stepped on and twisted
- 23:37Speaker 2: his ankle, but he's okay. I'm glad for that. I
- 23:40Speaker 2: just couldn't believe what I was watching. They needed to
- 23:43Speaker 2: go from like a two-person blue tent to an eight-person
- 23:46Speaker 2: tent with him in there. They need some military barracks
- 23:48Speaker 2: in there. He's a big boy. But they won the game.
- 23:53Speaker 2: props to them we'll get to your top five the
- 23:58Speaker 2: best of the best games coming up be.
- 24:01Speaker 3: Sure to catch live editions of the ben maller show
- 24:03Speaker 3: weekdays at 2 a.m eastern 11 p.m pacific.
- 24:06Speaker 2: Let's get to your top five here's your fifth best
- 24:09Speaker 2: game of the day i got the jets and patriots
- 24:12Speaker 2: game not because it was such a barn burner i
- 24:16Speaker 2: mean patriots they were up 17 to 3 early although
- 24:20Speaker 2: it was a one-score game throughout most of the second half,
- 24:23Speaker 2: and the Patriots are starting to look more like last
- 24:25Speaker 2: year's team, I would say. You know, a team that
- 24:27Speaker 2: beats up and stat pads against the bad teams on
- 24:29Speaker 2: their schedule. Drake May, though, the schedule, they call him
- 24:34Speaker 2: Drake the Schedule May, he's been playing better as of
- 24:38Speaker 2: late again. In fact, his last three games, Drake May,
- 24:42Speaker 2: 10 touchdowns, one interception, 900 yards, they're 3-0, good for him.
- 24:50Speaker 2: That one good win they had, though, over those three games,
- 24:55Speaker 2: I guess the Bills, who I'll get to in a
- 24:57Speaker 2: bit as well. But the reason that this game is
- 24:59Speaker 2: top five on my best games of the day list
- 25:03Speaker 2: is because of gambling implications. I don't know if you
- 25:07Speaker 2: guys are into that sort of thing. Was the fix in.
- 25:10Speaker 2: But Scott Van Pelt may have had this on one
- 25:13Speaker 2: of his bad beats. The Jets are down 10 with
- 25:17Speaker 2: 36 seconds left. And they decide in their infinite wisdom,
- 25:23Speaker 2: instead of going to punch it in for a touchdown
- 25:27Speaker 2: and then the onside kick, they just go for the
- 25:29Speaker 2: field goal right then. Well, they were getting seven and
- 25:33Speaker 2: a half points. They end up losing by seven as
- 25:36Speaker 2: they make that pointless field goal, at least for win-loss purposes.
- 25:41Speaker 2: But for gamblers who took the Patriots to cover that
- 25:44Speaker 2: seven and a half, oh, they got crushed. They got destroyed.
- 25:50Speaker 2: This is the chowder heads that must have been betting
- 25:54Speaker 2: on the Patriots. They ain't eating that fresh clam chowder anymore.
- 25:57Speaker 2: They're back to the canned beans in Beantown. Now, I
- 26:00Speaker 2: don't think there was anything nefarious going on on the
- 26:04Speaker 2: Jets part. I don't think they did that on purpose.
- 26:08Speaker 2: Like they were betting on themselves and they knew what
- 26:10Speaker 2: the odds were.
- 26:11Speaker 4: Never tell me the odds.
- 26:13Speaker 2: I'm not saying Aaron Glenn had money on the game.
- 26:16Speaker 2: It was the right move to kick that field goal
- 26:18Speaker 2: and try and extend the game with an onside kick.
- 26:21Speaker 2: But God, that must have hurt some gamblers laying the
- 26:24Speaker 2: seven and a half points just for them to get
- 26:26Speaker 2: that meaningless field goal. I love games like this because
- 26:30Speaker 2: it's a warning shot. Like the 1-800 gambling number is
- 26:34Speaker 2: one thing. Actually watching some of these teams blow games
- 26:39Speaker 2: at lines and spreads is Just reminds you of how
- 26:43Speaker 2: unpredictable sports are. And yes, sports, they'll try to kill you.
- 26:48Speaker 2: These games will kill you emotionally or financially. If you
- 26:55Speaker 2: go down that route. The number four. Four. The fourth
- 27:01Speaker 2: best game of the day in the NFL. You may
- 27:03Speaker 2: think I'm a fool for this. But I'm a sucker
- 27:06Speaker 2: for watching the car wrecks happen. on the side of
- 27:10Speaker 2: the road, you know? And the Chargers are like if
- 27:15Speaker 2: that Tesla doing the kickflip ended up landing on his
- 27:17Speaker 2: windshield instead, killing everyone in a fiery blaze. Glad that
- 27:21Speaker 2: didn't happen. But that crazy flying Tesla, it is completely impractical.
- 27:27Speaker 2: And also impractical is having any hope in the Chargers.
- 27:31Speaker 2: LA Charger fans know this. San Diego Charger fans definitely
- 27:34Speaker 2: know this. In a season where they had Super Bowl
- 27:36Speaker 2: expectations internally, The Chargers are 0-6. They thought they had
- 27:42Speaker 2: a Super Bowl-level roster, the right OC to unlock Justin Herbert,
- 27:48Speaker 2: and absolutely none of it has come to fruition. It's
- 27:51Speaker 2: hell on earth for Chargers fans. It always has been.
- 27:55Speaker 2: It always will be. But this is like peak Chargers season.
- 28:00Speaker 2: If it wasn't for bad luck, they'd have no luck
- 28:02Speaker 2: at all. I don't know how anyone survives this with
- 28:05Speaker 2: a bye week coming up and then the Rams... are
- 28:08Speaker 2: definitely going to be upset after what happened to them
- 28:10Speaker 2: today does mike mcdaniel get fired is it he and
- 28:16Speaker 2: harbaugh both getting fired at the same time we haven't
- 28:21Speaker 2: even gotten to halloween yet uh the chargers had a
- 28:24Speaker 2: fumble today where they literally ran into themselves to cause
- 28:30Speaker 2: said fumble It was not a butt fumble like Mark Sanchez,
- 28:33Speaker 2: who I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention anymore,
- 28:35Speaker 2: but the Chargers had two skilled position players look not
- 28:38Speaker 2: so skilled as they ran into each other, causing a fumble.
- 28:42Speaker 2: Justin Herbert does not deserve this. You can say that
- 28:46Speaker 2: I'm just in love with him more than Madison Beer.
- 28:49Speaker 2: He has me in a trance because he's like the
- 28:50Speaker 2: fourth member of Hanson with his looks, but I do
- 28:53Speaker 2: see a warrior out there. He's given everything he has.
- 28:57Speaker 2: The problem is what he has is a team... and
- 29:01Speaker 2: a coordinator that are miserable around him. I don't know
- 29:06Speaker 2: what the hell they're going to do next. Justin Herbert,
- 29:09Speaker 2: I don't think he's the problem. I really don't. It
- 29:11Speaker 2: wasn't your fault. But if you keep him in there
- 29:14Speaker 2: behind this offensive line, he might become the problem because
- 29:17Speaker 2: he will start seeing ghosts and not just because it's
- 29:19Speaker 2: October and Halloween's coming. He is basically a soldier coming
- 29:25Speaker 2: back from NAMM At this point with the level of
- 29:29Speaker 2: PTSD that he will go through from this season with
- 29:33Speaker 2: the amount of hits that he has taken. Have you
- 29:35Speaker 2: ever heard of Vietnam? Do you know this? This was
- 29:39Speaker 2: making the rounds earlier today. The last time the Chargers
- 29:43Speaker 2: started 0-6 in a season was the year 2000. Do
- 29:49Speaker 2: you want to guess who their starting quarterback was then?
- 29:52Speaker 2: Pop quiz, hot shot. Jim Harbaugh. I asked. How are
- 30:00Speaker 2: these things happening? Why do Chargers fans get the Lord's
- 30:05Speaker 2: toughest battles? Why do they get put through this? Why
- 30:08Speaker 2: are they all Job? I feel for them. Clippers fans understand.
- 30:14Speaker 2: It's hard out there. So does this fan base. The
- 30:17Speaker 2: third best game of the day. Hey, Raiders fans. You
- 30:22Speaker 2: know what? You performed pretty well against a Super Bowl
- 30:25Speaker 2: caliber opponent. At least when it comes to the Bills
- 30:29Speaker 2: on offense. That defense is not Super Bowl level. But
- 30:31Speaker 2: the Raiders hung tough. And they had it tied at
- 30:35Speaker 2: the eight-minute mark. That's a positive for a Raiders rebuild.
- 30:39Speaker 2: We talked about it earlier with Vinny Bonsignor. But they're
- 30:42Speaker 2: starting to look competent again. Where it's not just that
- 30:45Speaker 2: they are missing talent and coaching. Now they're just missing talent.
- 30:50Speaker 2: I think Clint Kubiak, he might be the right guy. Also,
- 30:54Speaker 2: there's evidence that he's the right guy because look how
- 30:56Speaker 2: much the Seahawks offense is struggling without him. That Trey
- 31:01Speaker 2: Tucker touchdown from Kirk Cousins, that was impressive as hell
- 31:05Speaker 2: at the end of that game. They brought it back
- 31:06Speaker 2: to a one-score game. Too little, too late, but they
- 31:09Speaker 2: were in this one unlike what happened the week before
- 31:12Speaker 2: against the Patriots. The Raiders, that was a one-off. They
- 31:15Speaker 2: are a functioning organization again and look to be a
- 31:19Speaker 2: threat in coming years depending on You know, how good
- 31:23Speaker 2: Fernando Mendoza ends up being. But with Kubiak in his ear,
- 31:27Speaker 2: I'd honestly be hopeful. Raiders fans should feel pretty good
- 31:31Speaker 2: about the state of things at the moment.
- 31:33Speaker 3: The Raiders suck.
- 31:34Speaker 2: No. It's okay to have pride in your Raiders again.
- 31:38Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Oakland. Las Vegas. Raider Nation is everywhere. Ubiquitous.
- 31:45Speaker 2: I am actually paying attention to them. I said it earlier.
- 31:50Speaker 2: I actually think They might be more competent of a
- 31:53Speaker 2: football team at this point than the Dallas Cowboys. A
- 31:56Speaker 2: better organization than them. I mean, it's been a while
- 31:59Speaker 2: for both teams winning at the highest level. But who's
- 32:03Speaker 2: in a better position moving forward? Which team do you
- 32:07Speaker 2: believe in more? Who at least has a head coach
- 32:12Speaker 2: that knows how to call plays and get the most
- 32:15Speaker 2: out of his roster? All you can do is optimize
- 32:17Speaker 2: what you have to work with out there. Clint Kubiak
- 32:20Speaker 2: is doing that. Brian Schottenheimer, not so much. They're underperforming.
- 32:26Speaker 2: The Raiders are overperforming, you could say. Second best game
- 32:31Speaker 2: of the day. Friday night, Kevin and I, we both
- 32:37Speaker 2: took the Rams, minus 12 or 12 and a half,
- 32:40Speaker 2: whatever the hell it was, in our two-on-two-off segment on
- 32:43Speaker 2: FNA on Fox Sports Radio. You get to pick two favorites,
- 32:47Speaker 2: you get to pick two underdogs. We both thought, Sean
- 32:51Speaker 2: McVay would be out for blood after that tough loss
- 32:56Speaker 2: on Monday night to the Bills. And instead, the Cardinals
- 32:59Speaker 2: made him taste his own blood. The Super Team Rams
- 33:04Speaker 2: are 2-4. They got smoked in Australia by the Niners.
- 33:09Speaker 2: They blew a 16-0 lead to the Broncos. They had
- 33:13Speaker 2: a special team's malfunction against the Bills. They scored only
- 33:16Speaker 2: 16 points today against the Cardinals. The game was even
- 33:21Speaker 2: lining up for a Hollywood ending for the ramps after,
- 33:25Speaker 2: you know, they cut their kicker after the bills game,
- 33:30Speaker 2: their new kicker who looked to be 140 pounds soaking wet,
- 33:34Speaker 2: got hurt, making a tackle early in the game. Their
- 33:37Speaker 2: punter then has to turn in to their third kicker
- 33:40Speaker 2: in a week. He hits the all important extra point
- 33:44Speaker 2: to give them the lead at 16 to 15 with
- 33:47Speaker 2: a minute left. And yet the Cardinals still won the
- 33:50Speaker 2: game by kicking a field goal. Their sixth of the day,
- 33:54Speaker 2: by the way, a kicker named Chad of all things
- 33:59Speaker 2: won the game for the Arizona Cardinals in LA over
- 34:04Speaker 2: the super team ramps. Greg Olson on the call during
- 34:08Speaker 2: it was like, apparently fuel goals, uh, They don't hurt you.
- 34:11Speaker 2: They don't beat you. That's the old adage. You need touchdowns.
- 34:14Speaker 2: You don't need field goals. Well, the Cardinals kicked six
- 34:16Speaker 2: of them, and they won. They went into SoFi twice
- 34:21Speaker 2: and won this year. The Cardinals are 2-0 at SoFi.
- 34:25Speaker 2: The Rams and Chargers are a combined 1-5. And Sean McVay,
- 34:32Speaker 2: he just lost to his former offensive coordinator, Michael Fleur. Postgame,
- 34:37Speaker 2: McVay said, quote, We won't win a game unless we
- 34:40Speaker 2: learn not to beat ourselves. Hey, you got to give
- 34:44Speaker 2: that Chad kicker credit, Sean. You did not beat yourself.
- 34:48Speaker 2: Chad beat you. That happened. That's not going to happen.
- 34:52Speaker 2: It happened. I would have bet someone else's life, at least,
- 34:56Speaker 2: that the Rams would win this game. This is completely
- 35:00Speaker 2: inexcusable to lose to a one-win, now two-win Cardinals team
- 35:06Speaker 2: after the way they lost on Monday night to Buffalo.
- 35:08Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 35:09Speaker 2: Sean McVay also said, it was a good, humbling day
- 35:12Speaker 2: for us post-game. And this is the challenge of sports.
- 35:17Speaker 2: Those are the things you say after a loss to
- 35:19Speaker 2: the Cardinals. They make you reflect on what the hell
- 35:24Speaker 2: you're doing as a team. A Cardinals loss will make
- 35:28Speaker 2: you reflect on what the hell you're doing in your life.
- 35:31Speaker 2: That's how demoralizing a loss to the Arizona Cardinals is.
- 35:34Speaker 2: When a kicker named Chad beats you, It will put
- 35:37Speaker 2: you in like existential crisis mode. You will be bewildered,
- 35:42Speaker 2: dazed and confused, dumbfounded. You're just staring into the abyss
- 35:47Speaker 2: as a franchise when something like that happens to you.
- 35:51Speaker 2: And somebody reminded everyone on social media of what I
- 35:58Speaker 2: couldn't tell you who this guy was. Mack Wilson, Sr.,
- 36:02Speaker 2: Of the Cardinals. Had to say this summer. When everybody
- 36:05Speaker 2: was talking big about the Rams. And how great they're
- 36:08Speaker 2: going to be. Cardinal. Mack Wilson Sr.
- 36:12Speaker 3: Said.
- 36:12Speaker 2: At the end of the day. They got a deal
- 36:17Speaker 2: with us. I guess he wasn't wrong. My attempt to
- 36:22Speaker 2: be humorous. He was right. We all laughed at it
- 36:25Speaker 2: at the time. At the end of the day. The
- 36:28Speaker 2: super team Rams got a deal with us. And they
- 36:31Speaker 2: couldn't deal. All right. The number one game of the day.
- 36:36Speaker 2: I got to give it to the Cleveland Browns. This
- 36:40Speaker 2: is like, they don't win anything. I want them to
- 36:44Speaker 2: win something here. And they won today. And they won
- 36:48Speaker 2: in my week six power rankings as well. You got
- 36:52Speaker 2: another Deshaun Watson game winning drive. I mean, this was
- 36:55Speaker 2: a battle for first place in the AFC North and
- 36:58Speaker 2: the Browns were somehow involved in that battle. The Browns,
- 37:02Speaker 2: they don't win much, and yet they're 4-2. And Deshaun Watson,
- 37:07Speaker 2: he might be on the low end of things, but
- 37:09Speaker 2: I think his name might get brought up in MVP conversations.
- 37:13Speaker 2: He won't win. But if they make the playoffs, and
- 37:17Speaker 2: he keeps being the reason why on offense, I guess
- 37:22Speaker 2: he should be in the MVP conversation. Browns fans, they're
- 37:25Speaker 2: not booing him anymore. He doesn't have to buy a
- 37:28Speaker 2: drink or a meal in Cleveland. Fans will welcome him
- 37:31Speaker 2: into any establishment right now. Maybe not massage parlors. They'll
- 37:36Speaker 2: still kick him out. But this is quite the turnaround
- 37:39Speaker 2: in redemption story. Deshaun Watson has twice the amount of
- 37:44Speaker 2: game-winning drives as the next best quarterback this season. He's
- 37:48Speaker 2: got four. Everybody else has got two. Excuse me. Somehow
- 37:53Speaker 2: Bo Nix has three. So not twice as all of them.
- 37:56Speaker 2: But Josh Allen has two game-winning drives. Jared Goff has two.
- 38:00Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes has two. Deshaun Watson has four. Now, you've
- 38:03Speaker 2: got to be down in games often to have a
- 38:07Speaker 2: game-winning drive, and that plays into this. And they were
- 38:09Speaker 2: down 10-0 in that game to the Ravens. The team
- 38:14Speaker 2: that replaced the Browns, mind you. I know it's the
- 38:19Speaker 2: defense keeping them in games for Deshaun Watson to have
- 38:22Speaker 2: a chance to make a few plays late to win them,
- 38:25Speaker 2: but he's doing it. And I didn't think he could anymore.
- 38:28Speaker 2: We all thought he was on borrowed time this year
- 38:31Speaker 2: and Shadur Sanders would replace him eventually. Instead, we're watching
- 38:35Speaker 2: Shadur Sanders cheering him on and congratulating him on leading
- 38:40Speaker 2: them to another game-winning drive. Deshaun Watson, he's living a
- 38:45Speaker 2: charmed life right now. He even survived a sack by
- 38:49Speaker 2: old Cleus Campbell, who's 400 pounds. A pound for every
- 38:53Speaker 2: year he's been in the league. That's what it feels like.
- 38:56Speaker 2: He's 40. He's a man. He's 40. Congratulations, Browns. You
- 39:02Speaker 2: win my coveted week six NFL rankings.