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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Game Preview Guy here with your Week
- 0:03Speaker 1: 3 Breakdowns. Got some teams having to go at it
- 0:06Speaker 1: with backup quarterbacks and the return of a starter making
- 0:09Speaker 1: his 2026 debut on Thursday Night Football. Atlanta Falcons head
- 0:14Speaker 1: to Green Bay on a short week, still in search
- 0:16Speaker 1: of their first win, hoping a new quarterback might do
- 0:19Speaker 1: the trick. Otherwise, the Dirty Bird's nickname is going to
- 0:22Speaker 1: get swapped out with the Boo Birds. Packers coming off
- 0:28Speaker 1: their first win, kind of a nail-biter, but better than
- 0:31Speaker 1: hitting Week 3 with a donut in the win column. Hey,
- 0:41Speaker 1: OT win over the Jets, and the Cheeseheads can still
- 0:44Speaker 1: talk smack in this case. It wasn't supposed to be
- 0:47Speaker 1: that hard, but nobody will care how you came up
- 0:49Speaker 1: with your Week 2 win after 18 weeks if you're
- 0:52Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And Titletown won't care if their defense
- 0:55Speaker 1: keeps playing the way it did a week ago.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Smith, he escapes, and now it's taken down.
- 1:01Speaker 1: After looking shaky versus Minnesota Week 1, second half especially,
- 1:05Speaker 1: Packers defense looking to carry over their Week 2 play
- 1:08Speaker 1: to this TNF game. held the Jets to 17 points,
- 1:12Speaker 1: fewer than 300 yards, and to a meager 4 yards
- 1:15Speaker 1: per play. LVN just wants to keep LIVI in. Lucas
- 1:20Speaker 1: Van Ness, 3 tackles for loss, 4 quarterback hits, 10 tackles.
- 1:24Speaker 1: One and a half of Green Bay's four sacks.
- 1:27Speaker 3: Lucas Van Ness, he's the one that's going to come
- 1:29Speaker 3: up and under. Once he does that, it flushes Geno
- 1:32Speaker 3: Smith out of the pocket right into the rest of
- 1:34Speaker 3: the defense.
- 1:35Speaker 1: Edgerin Cooper with a sack, too. He's got one in
- 1:37Speaker 1: each game so far. They'll be chasing Michael Penix Jr.
- 1:41Speaker 1: around this week, and boy, does Rise Up need him.
- 1:44Speaker 1: Falcons Week 2 quarterbacks took three sacks.
- 1:46Speaker 4: Lloyd with that big-time stop. Again, the Bluebirds are out.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Right tackle Juwan Taylor's pressure rate allowed on the high
- 1:53Speaker 1: side for the second week in a row, and he'll
- 1:54Speaker 1: be protecting the blind side. Cooper Rush, two INTs, no
- 1:58Speaker 1: touchdowns last week after an ineffective opener. Jack Strand relieved
- 2:03Speaker 1: him last week and got picked off, too. A 28 rating,
- 2:06Speaker 1: a pick six.
- 2:08Speaker 2: It's Lloyd again. Touchdown.
- 2:11Speaker 1: Offense posted 13 Week 1 points, followed it with three,
- 2:15Speaker 1: so when you account for the pick six, they were
- 2:17Speaker 1: minus four points for the day. Rare when you would
- 2:20Speaker 1: have done better punting all day on first down. And
- 2:23Speaker 1: still afraid to knock on Scott Hansen's door, as they
- 2:25Speaker 1: haven't made it past the 20-yard line once in two games?
- 2:29Speaker 1: Fans weren't pretending to be ghosts for Halloween or anything
- 2:32Speaker 1: last week. The boos raining down were directed at Kevin
- 2:36Speaker 1: Stefanski and the team.
- 2:37Speaker 5: Intercepted by Lloyd.
- 2:39Speaker 4: He never saw him, and it's the second time he
- 2:41Speaker 4: did that.
- 2:42Speaker 6: Devin Lloyd finally caught from behind inside the 20.
- 2:46Speaker 1: It was remarkable that Drake London ended last week with
- 2:49Speaker 1: 51 yards, really.
- 2:51Speaker 6: Again, a play fake to Robinson, and they find London,
- 2:53Speaker 6: Drake London, who has a chance to become one of
- 2:56Speaker 6: the great receivers in the NFL once his career's done.
- 2:59Speaker 1: No other Falcons pass catchers with even 21 receiving yards.
- 3:03Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts, 15. Jahan Dotson, 11. Bijan Robinson, just nine.
- 3:09Speaker 1: London Pennix, Robinson and company up against a Packers secondary
- 3:12Speaker 1: that did give up over 240 passing yards to Geno Smith.
- 3:16Speaker 1: Cornerback Keyshawn Nixon gave up a team high 85 yards.
- 3:20Speaker 1: They gave up 57 yards in a TD to Garrett Wilson. corner,
- 3:24Speaker 1: Brandon Cisse gave up a touchdown for the second week
- 3:26Speaker 1: in a row.
- 3:27Speaker 3: I told you how freakishly athletic Garrett Wilson is. You
- 3:30Speaker 3: put it anywhere in his vicinity, he's going to catch
- 3:33Speaker 3: it as he just did for a nice touchdown for
- 3:36Speaker 3: the Jets.
- 3:36Speaker 1: Packers come off another strong showing versus the run though.
- 3:40Speaker 1: They held Brees Hall to 1.8 a carry on his
- 3:43Speaker 1: 16 tries after holding both Minnesota backs to fewer than
- 3:46Speaker 1: four yards per carry week one.
- 3:48Speaker 7: On second down, Hall looks to spin, but Evan Williams
- 3:52Speaker 7: right there.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Now they test themselves against Bijan, who at least ran
- 3:56Speaker 1: for 72 yards on 4-5 per carry versus Carolina.
- 4:00Speaker 2: They do a nice job of blocking up front. Bijan
- 4:02Speaker 2: runs through one tackle, lowers his shoulders to finish the run.
- 4:05Speaker 1: And the other B-Rob, Brian, with 51 yards, 4-6 per run.
- 4:09Speaker 6: Strand dumps it off to Brian Robinson.
- 4:13Speaker 4: That's tough running right there by Brian Robinson.
- 4:15Speaker 1: Packers offense. Well, it's not rolling in hot. Jordan Love
- 4:19Speaker 1: did throw for a couple of touchdowns versus the Jets.
- 4:22Speaker 1: No INTs. Came through late in the game when they
- 4:25Speaker 1: really needed him.
- 4:26Speaker 2: Love to the end zone. Touchdown Christian Watson. What a drive.
- 4:31Speaker 2: What a response.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Only 145 yards, though. Just five yards per attempt. Green
- 4:37Speaker 1: Bay's offense only 20 points, and it took OT to
- 4:39Speaker 1: get even that many. Less than 200 yards of total offense.
- 4:43Speaker 1: One for nine on third down. and not even four
- 4:46Speaker 1: yards per play, like Lucy, they have some splainin.
- 4:50Speaker 2: To do. 14-7, start from the 14-yard line. Come on,
- 4:54Speaker 2: watch the football!
- 4:56Speaker 7: Giving Jonathan Dolma another chance to yell fumble.
- 5:00Speaker 2: It is chance football.
- 5:02Speaker 1: Packers fans not thrilled with Matt LaFleur right now. Can
- 5:05Speaker 1: he get his team going versus the Falcons? It's a
- 5:08Speaker 1: group that was paddling upstream a lot due to its
- 5:11Speaker 1: own offense. Gave up 27 points at the end of
- 5:13Speaker 1: the game.
- 5:13Speaker 6: Young, the pass is wide open and complete to Hubbard.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Love gets a secondary that allowed 287 yards to Bryce Young.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Three touchdowns, no picks, a 115-plus rating. They gave up
- 5:25Speaker 1: over 100 yards to Tedaroa McMillan. Corner Mike Hughes allowed
- 5:29Speaker 1: 67 yards, according to NextGenStats. Corner CJ Henderson gave up
- 5:33Speaker 1: a touchdown. Safety Xavier Watts, a TD, and 67 yards.
- 5:38Speaker 4: Plenty of options, and there's TMAC again.
- 5:41Speaker 1: They didn't play Pittsburgh's offense, or Aaron Rodgers' bad week
- 5:45Speaker 1: one at least. Their DBs dealing with Matthew Golden this week,
- 5:49Speaker 1: off to a good start so far, led the team
- 5:51Speaker 1: with 58 yards week two.
- 5:52Speaker 3: The awareness of Jordan Love, he then just lobs it
- 5:56Speaker 3: out there to Matthew Golden, like literally lobs it out there.
- 5:59Speaker 1: Christian Watson, only other Packer to hit 40 yards last week,
- 6:03Speaker 1: scored for the second week in a row 41 yards.
- 6:06Speaker 3: Christian Watson right here. And he's going to run this
- 6:09Speaker 3: slant inside. Half of that field to run that route.
- 6:13Speaker 3: Jordan Love puts it right on the money for Christian Watson.
- 6:15Speaker 1: Tight end Tucker Kraft, only 15 yards. Falcons pass rush,
- 6:19Speaker 1: got to Young twice, and without blitzing him much, pressured
- 6:23Speaker 1: him a very healthy 51% of the time.
- 6:26Speaker 6: Samson, Evacom, along with Dexter, Jervon Dexter, collaborating.
- 6:32Speaker 1: Love took four sacks week one, three sacks on 29
- 6:36Speaker 1: pass attempts versus the Jets. Right guard Jacob Monk gave
- 6:39Speaker 1: up a 12% pressure rate. That's high for a guard.
- 6:42Speaker 1: Left tackle Jordan Morgan, the only lineman blamed for a sack,
- 6:46Speaker 1: according to NGS.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Love looking. Wrapped up. Lost the football. It's still loose.
- 6:54Speaker 7: Looks like the Packers have recovered at the bottom of
- 6:57Speaker 7: the pile.
- 6:58Speaker 1: Along the ground, only 63 rush yards for Green Bay
- 7:00Speaker 1: a week ago, 3-5 a carry. Caleb Johnson at least
- 7:04Speaker 1: finished at 4 per.
- 7:05Speaker 7: It's Johnson up the middle, and Caleb Johnson picks up
- 7:09Speaker 7: the first.
- 7:10Speaker 2: Down for the Packers.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Falcons only gave up 68 rush yards to Carolina, allowed
- 7:16Speaker 1: Chuba Hubbard to hit a 4-4 a carry on 12 tries.
- 7:20Speaker 1: Steelers at home this week, hoping some home cooking gets
- 7:23Speaker 1: them back in the win column, hoping their offense can
- 7:26Speaker 1: somehow wake up. Fans starting to wave their terrible towels
- 7:30Speaker 1: at Mike McCarthy.
- 7:32Speaker 8: Manhandle Anderson, get his hand on the ball, and then.
- 7:35Speaker 2: Elijah Ponder scoop and score. Cook can't tackle him all
- 7:38Speaker 2: the way to the end zone.
- 7:39Speaker 1: Getting their O going against the Cincinnati Bengals, though, won't
- 7:43Speaker 1: be easy. Wait, is that a typo? No, no, that's
- 7:46Speaker 1: what I'm supposed to read? Okay then, Hootay turning over
- 7:49Speaker 1: a new leaf in 2026.
- 7:51Speaker 8: Burrow deep for Chase, and he caught it!
- 7:57Speaker 2: Touchdown! I thought he was falling.
- 8:00Speaker 1: Meet the Orange Curtain? Okay, maybe that's a bit much,
- 8:03Speaker 1: but they're not playing like the Bungles anymore. Cincinnati's D-Boys
- 8:07Speaker 1: have some flex to them heading into Week 3 after
- 8:10Speaker 1: a four-takeaway Week 1 and only giving up 20 points.
- 8:14Speaker 1: They hold a Texans offense that went for 31 week
- 8:16Speaker 1: one points to three. Less than five yards per play.
- 8:20Speaker 1: Five for 17 on third down. Stopped all four of
- 8:23Speaker 1: their red zone chances.
- 8:25Speaker 2: Beautiful sack made.
- 8:27Speaker 8: Cedric Johnson to clinch the win for Cincinnati.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers looking at a Bengals secondary that gave up
- 8:34Speaker 1: over 350 yards to C.J. Stroud, but he threw 55 times.
- 8:39Speaker 1: They held him to a nice 6.5 yards per attempt.
- 8:42Speaker 1: didn't give up any touchdowns, held them to a mid-70s rating.
- 8:47Speaker 8: Third and 17 to the end zone, and incomplete for Hutchinson.
- 8:52Speaker 1: And they could keep it going if Pittsburgh's offense doesn't
- 8:54Speaker 1: step up. Two for 12 on third down, only one
- 8:58Speaker 1: red zone trip, a piddly 3.5 yards per play. To
- 9:01Speaker 1: put that in perspective, Cleveland finished last in yards per
- 9:05Speaker 1: play in 2025 with 4.3. 13 week one points, then
- 9:07Speaker 1: only three versus New England. and lost a fumble that
- 9:13Speaker 1: was returned for a touchdown, so they were minus four
- 9:16Speaker 1: points when they were out there.
- 9:18Speaker 9: Rogers only 4.8 yards per attempt last week, only 187 yards,
- 9:21Speaker 9: no touchdowns, got picked off.
- 9:33Speaker 1: Though it bounced off his receiver, so he's not getting
- 9:36Speaker 1: much help. He needs DK Metcalf to stop dropping passes.
- 9:47Speaker 1: Been a problem both games. He needs Michael Pittman back
- 9:50Speaker 1: from injury. He needs better pass pro. Took four sacks
- 9:54Speaker 1: to the pats. Right guard Spencer Anderson gave up one
- 9:57Speaker 1: with a fat 15% pressure rate, according to NextGenStats.com. It
- 10:01Speaker 1: was amazing. He got up after that one blindside sack
- 10:04Speaker 1: he took.
- 10:04Speaker 7: Christian Ellis is going to creep off the edge and
- 10:07Speaker 7: be completely unblocked on the blindside.
- 10:09Speaker 8: And my goodness, what a hit to the back of
- 10:13Speaker 8: Aaron Rodgers.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Now he gets a Bengals front that barrels in off
- 10:16Speaker 1: back-to-back four sack showings. Shamar Stewart with one. Jonathan Allen
- 10:21Speaker 1: with one. He has one in each game. And Cedric Johnson,
- 10:25Speaker 1: two last week. And how about a meager 12% blitz rate?
- 10:29Speaker 1: A pressure rate over 40, though.
- 10:31Speaker 8: Down he goes! Sacked on the play. Big time play.
- 10:36Speaker 8: Pulled in.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Cincinnati's DBs held all of Houston's wideouts under 40 yards.
- 10:41Speaker 1: It didn't have to deal with Nico Collins. And they
- 10:43Speaker 1: did give up 140 yards to Dalton Schultz. Most of
- 10:47Speaker 1: those yards allowed by their linebackers. Barrett Carter gave up 102.
- 10:50Speaker 1: Demetrius Knight, 91. Not one Steeler enters off a 40-plus
- 10:56Speaker 1: yard receiving game. Jeremy Bernard, 35. Pat Friermuth, 32. Roman Wilson, 28. DK,
- 11:04Speaker 1: nine targets, 27 yards. And their run game also stumbles in.
- 11:10Speaker 1: Jalen Warren, only 43 yards and fewer than four yards
- 11:13Speaker 1: per carry. Rico Dowdle, only 22 yards, 3-1 a try.
- 11:20Speaker 10: That's Dowdle for about three.
- 11:23Speaker 1: Bengals defense not the only one that comes in with
- 11:26Speaker 1: swagger despite losing. Steelers defense did their part holding New
- 11:29Speaker 1: England's offense to 13 points. They more or less won
- 11:33Speaker 1: them their week one game. Four for 12 on third
- 11:35Speaker 1: down a week ago only let New England inside the
- 11:38Speaker 1: 20 once.
- 11:39Speaker 9: Against Pittsburgh as May looks and takes his loss as
- 11:44Speaker 9: Highsmith was right there.
- 11:45Speaker 10: He falls at his feet.
- 11:46Speaker 1: Joe Burrow looking at a secondary that has yet to
- 11:49Speaker 1: be dinged this year. While locking up Cooper Rush might
- 11:52Speaker 1: not look very impressive, they didn't give up any touchdowns
- 11:55Speaker 1: to Drake May in their most recent contest. Picked him
- 11:58Speaker 1: off for a mid-70s rate.
- 11:59Speaker 10: Look in the throw.
- 12:01Speaker 2: May. Oh, no. Picked off right into the arms of
- 12:05Speaker 2: Patrick Queen.
- 12:07Speaker 1: Now, May and Rush have both looked rough two weeks
- 12:09Speaker 1: in a row. Burrow comes in off a solid week, too.
- 12:12Speaker 1: Still hasn't put up a big yardage game, but he
- 12:15Speaker 1: was clean versus a tough Houston secondary. Two touchdowns, no
- 12:18Speaker 1: picks last week, a 100-plus rate.
- 12:21Speaker 8: Third and five to the sideline, and Higgins with a
- 12:25Speaker 8: great spitting catch.
- 12:27Speaker 1: Bengals offense scratched out 20 points versus Houston, only one
- 12:31Speaker 1: red zone trip, only five for 15 on third down,
- 12:34Speaker 1: and only 4.5 yards per play, so they're hoping for
- 12:38Speaker 1: a spark. Kind of fits their early season production from
- 12:41Speaker 1: the last few years.
- 12:42Speaker 8: Throw, Higgins broken up beautifully on the play by Stingley.
- 12:46Speaker 1: The battle in the trenches. Alex Highsmith, one of their
- 12:49Speaker 1: three sacks. May only threw 22 times.
- 12:52Speaker 11: T.J.
- 12:52Speaker 1: Watt picked up one and a half, had two week one.
- 12:55Speaker 9: As May is sacked back at the 14.
- 12:59Speaker 10: And T.J.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Got to him first.
- 13:02Speaker 1: Watt now takes on the Cincinnati O-line that saw Burrow
- 13:05Speaker 1: get gobbled up five times on 31 pass attempts. Highsmith
- 13:09Speaker 1: will do battle with left tackle Orlando Brown. He gave
- 13:12Speaker 1: up two, according to NGS. Both guards gave up one each.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Four of their five big uglies gave up pressure rates
- 13:19Speaker 1: over 11%. That's kind of ugly.
- 13:21Speaker 12: Junior just plants Burrow into the ground. Watch 97. It's
- 13:26Speaker 12: a shot to that left shoulder.
- 13:28Speaker 1: Steelers' backside, of course, will be preoccupied with T. Higgins
- 13:32Speaker 1: and Jamar Chase. They gave up 96 yards to Romeo Dobbs.
- 13:36Speaker 1: Safety Rayshawn Jenkins gave up a team-high 63 yards. Tee
- 13:40Speaker 1: and Jamar, the only two guys with more than 17
- 13:42Speaker 1: yards versus Houston. Higgins led the team with 95.
- 13:46Speaker 8: Look at him dodge and wiggle and take it to
- 13:49Speaker 8: the 31.
- 13:50Speaker 1: Jamar followed a week one dud with two scores, 75 yards.
- 13:54Speaker 1: That one catch was phenomenal.
- 13:57Speaker 2: Oh, let's see.
- 13:57Speaker 12: He gets the possession and yeah, both feet are down.
- 14:00Speaker 2: Oh, the contortion. The body control!
- 14:05Speaker 1: And finally, on handoffs, Chase Brown, rolling in off a
- 14:08Speaker 1: nice 80-yard game, at least found his way to four
- 14:11Speaker 1: yards per carry.
- 14:12Speaker 12: 30% of the time last week, he was lined up
- 14:15Speaker 12: underneath center.
- 14:15Speaker 2: That's nearly double.
- 14:17Speaker 1: He draws a Pittsburgh front that gave up a touchdown,
- 14:19Speaker 1: 76 yards on 4-8, a run to Travion Henderson, 7-2
- 14:23Speaker 1: a carry to Ramondre Stevenson.
- 14:25Speaker 2: The A-gap, he's going to take this.
- 14:27Speaker 5: Watch the block here.
- 14:29Speaker 2: Just huge, huge hole.
- 14:33Speaker 1: Chargers head east week three, still in search of their
- 14:36Speaker 1: first win of 2026. The alarms are officially blaring, especially
- 14:41Speaker 1: when you factor who they play this week.
- 14:43Speaker 13: And all hand in the face, tackling them there in
- 14:45Speaker 13: the end zone. And when you get a holding in
- 14:48Speaker 13: the end zone in the NFL, that is an automatic safety.
- 14:51Speaker 1: They are in Buffalo paying a visit to the Bills'
- 14:54Speaker 1: new Highmark Stadium. Team got high marks there last week,
- 14:58Speaker 1: that's for sure. Set a pretty high bar to live
- 15:00Speaker 1: up to.
- 15:01Speaker 2: Deep drop. Pump fake. Going deep. Wide open. Touchdown, Joshua Palmer.
- 15:09Speaker 1: What a way to break in their new digs, and
- 15:11Speaker 1: Stephon wasn't there. Be wary, Bolts. Josh Allen averaging five
- 15:16Speaker 1: TDs a game in that stadium and has started off
- 15:19Speaker 1: 2026 on fire. Three more passing TDs, 248 yards, has
- 15:24Speaker 1: a 120-plus rate in each game this year. Five TDs,
- 15:28Speaker 1: no interceptions in 2026.
- 15:30Speaker 2: Allen fires, and that is held on for touchdown. Kincaid,
- 15:36Speaker 2: another one.
- 15:38Speaker 1: And forget the tush push. You need a toe or
- 15:41Speaker 1: a yard? Josh will get you a yard with green
- 15:43Speaker 1: nail polish on it. Believe me, there are ways, dude.
- 15:46Speaker 1: He can get you a yard by 3 o'clock this afternoon.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Scored twice with his legs, that's back-to-back two rushing TD
- 15:52Speaker 1: outings for Allen.
- 15:54Speaker 14: Rolling.
- 15:55Speaker 2: He'll run it in. Touchdown.
- 15:59Speaker 1: It wasn't just one-yard sneaks, either. though he looks unstoppable
- 16:03Speaker 1: if that's all they need. Clocked out with 69 rush
- 16:06Speaker 1: yards last week, too. Chargers defense also facing a hot
- 16:09Speaker 1: chef in the kitchen. After a ho-hum week one, James
- 16:13Speaker 1: Cook barrels in off a 135-yard, 6.4-per-carry one-score game.
- 16:20Speaker 15: Watch the block right here by 86. Kincaid on Harper
- 16:23Speaker 15: takes him out. Now it's one-on-one.
- 16:25Speaker 10: That jump cut is lethal.
- 16:28Speaker 2: With James Cook.
- 16:30Speaker 16: L.A.
- 16:30Speaker 1: 's defense trying to slow down a Buffalo offense that's
- 16:33Speaker 1: put up 36-plus points in each game, 41 last week,
- 16:37Speaker 1: converting 9-12 on third down. Perfect 5-for-5 in the red zone.
- 16:42Speaker 16: Second and a goal off the fake. Allen rolling, Allen throwing,
- 16:46Speaker 16: Allen connecting for the touchdown.
- 16:48Speaker 1: Allen and company staring down an L.A. defense that allowed
- 16:51Speaker 1: 24 points to the Raiders in their most recent loss,
- 16:54Speaker 1: had to deal with their own offense giving the ball
- 16:57Speaker 1: away three times, too, four if you count the safety.
- 17:00Speaker 1: But that's 24-plus points allowed back-to-back weeks to offenses nowhere
- 17:04Speaker 1: near as dangerous as Buffalo's.
- 17:06Speaker 11: Caught by Cody White!
- 17:09Speaker 2: What a catch!
- 17:12Speaker 1: And if they can't keep Kirk Cousins from throwing three
- 17:15Speaker 1: TDs over 250 yards on 8.7 per attempt for a
- 17:19Speaker 1: 113 rate, then how would they think they can stop
- 17:22Speaker 1: Allen right now?
- 17:23Speaker 2: He's going to take a shot. Tucker down there. Touchdown!
- 17:28Speaker 1: Chargers corner Cam Hart, who had a rough week one,
- 17:31Speaker 1: had a rough week two. Gave up a TD in
- 17:34Speaker 1: 71 yards. Trey Tucker going for 119 yards in a TD.
- 17:38Speaker 1: against their secondary. Unclear if Allen will have DJ Moore
- 17:42Speaker 1: this week, left their win over Detroit with a shoulder injury.
- 17:45Speaker 1: He'll for sure have Khalil Shakir, 38 yards versus Detroit,
- 17:49Speaker 1: 50 week one. Joshua Palmer rolls in off back-to-back scoring games,
- 17:54Speaker 1: 43 yards week two.
- 17:56Speaker 15: Nobody's back on the back end to help out. You
- 17:58Speaker 15: can see Maddox there has his arms up, kind of looking.
- 18:00Speaker 1: Keon Coleman did a nice job filling the void left
- 18:03Speaker 1: by Moore, finishing with 63 yards.
- 18:06Speaker 16: Caught Keon Coleman. To the 13-yard line. That is 14
- 18:11Speaker 16: first downs.
- 18:13Speaker 1: And L.A. has to be able to defend the tight
- 18:15Speaker 1: end position. Dawson Knox scored, as did Dalton Kincaid. Seven catches,
- 18:20Speaker 1: 95 yards. 95-plus yards in both games so far.
- 18:24Speaker 16: Team leader for Allen, who has one already tonight. Pass
- 18:28Speaker 16: is caught at the 50-yard line. And to the 41,
- 18:31Speaker 16: Dalton Kincaid.
- 18:32Speaker 1: Allen took two sacks in their most recent win. Right
- 18:35Speaker 1: tackle Spencer Brown getting beat on one.
- 18:37Speaker 17: But.
- 18:38Speaker 1: Allen was blitzed 55% of the time and only faced
- 18:42Speaker 1: a pressure rate of 34%, only lost five yards on
- 18:45Speaker 1: the two sacks, 31 pass attempts. They can live with
- 18:49Speaker 1: all that again if need be.
- 18:51Speaker 16: Allen scrambles. He can run, of course. One of the
- 18:54Speaker 16: best maybe ever on the ground with his legs. First down.
- 18:59Speaker 2: L.A.
- 18:59Speaker 1: 's pass rush only got to Cousins twice on 29
- 19:02Speaker 1: pass attempts. Khalil Mack with a sack. And they did
- 19:05Speaker 1: pressure Cousins over 40% of the time, at least.
- 19:08Speaker 2: Cousins in trouble, and Cousins is sacked.
- 19:12Speaker 11: It was Khalil Mack getting back there.
- 19:14Speaker 2: For the sack. The former Raider.
- 19:17Speaker 1: As for dealing with Cook, Chargers at least come off
- 19:20Speaker 1: a good game against the run. held Ashton Gentry to
- 19:23Speaker 1: 48 yards on 2-3 a carry.
- 19:25Speaker 2: Try on the left side, Gentry tripped up. Dante Jackson
- 19:28Speaker 2: came up.
- 19:29Speaker 1: Bill's defense does hit week three a little wobbly. They
- 19:32Speaker 1: played well early last week, ended the game stopping Detroit
- 19:36Speaker 1: on seven of their 11 third down tries, and some
- 19:38Speaker 1: of those early stops allowed Allen and company to build
- 19:41Speaker 1: a big cushion. Bradley Chubb comes in off a one
- 19:44Speaker 1: and a half bag night. Gregory Rousseau, with two of
- 19:47Speaker 1: their four sacks, he has two in each game thus far.
- 19:50Speaker 2: Down he goes at the 30. Greg Russo, two strip sacks.
- 19:56Speaker 1: Still, Buffalo allowed Detroit to convert three of four red
- 19:59Speaker 1: zone chances and has given up 31 points back-to-back weeks.
- 20:03Speaker 15: Your warrior is still fighting and competing, and that's why
- 20:07Speaker 15: he turned around at 22 to let him know.
- 20:09Speaker 1: Secondary still looking for a way to slow down the quarterback.
- 20:12Speaker 1: Herbert looking at a group that gave up over 300
- 20:14Speaker 1: yards and four TDs to Jared Goff, a 130-plus rate.
- 20:18Speaker 1: a week after giving up over 270 yards and two
- 20:22Speaker 1: TDs to C.J.
- 20:23Speaker 2: Stroud.
- 20:23Speaker 1: It's been a shaky start for their DB room. Corner D.
- 20:27Speaker 1: Alford gave up 85 yards and a touchdown to the Lions.
- 20:30Speaker 1: Team allowed Amonra St. Brown to score twice, along with
- 20:33Speaker 1: over 140 yards.
- 20:34Speaker 15: They're just kind of like setting up the defensive back.
- 20:38Speaker 15: And by the time he lands, he works inside of Benford.
- 20:41Speaker 5: Look at that ball.
- 20:42Speaker 1: Again, their play never really put them in danger last week,
- 20:45Speaker 1: but they would still like to clean up their play
- 20:47Speaker 1: versus the pass this week. Hampton does get a defense
- 20:50Speaker 1: that's been tough to run on so far. Held Jameer
- 20:53Speaker 1: Gibbs to 3-3 a carry, just 52 yards. Played the
- 20:57Speaker 1: run well the week before, too.
- 20:59Speaker 16: What a workload he had the other day. And he's
- 21:03Speaker 16: wrestled back at the line of scrimmage.
- 21:05Speaker 1: They might unless Justin Herbert wakes up. His 2026 has
- 21:09Speaker 1: not gotten off to a great start. Fewer than 200
- 21:11Speaker 1: yards versus Vegas. TD against two INTs. A sub-60 rate.
- 21:16Speaker 1: Picks in both games. Sub-90 rates in both.
- 21:19Speaker 11: Left throws and it is juggled and intercepted.
- 21:25Speaker 2: Picked off by Hezekiah Messes.
- 21:28Speaker 1: Offense Buffalo is facing hasn't scored 15 points yet, 14
- 21:33Speaker 1: both weeks. Mike McDaniel starting to take some heat from
- 21:36Speaker 1: bolt-up fans, 5 for 14 on third down last week.
- 21:40Speaker 11: Coming, Herbert, pump fakes in trouble, now gets rid of it,
- 21:42Speaker 11: and it's incomplete.
- 21:45Speaker 1: Herbert's line also needs to play better. He took three
- 21:48Speaker 1: sacks week two, faced pressure 54% of the time, and
- 21:53Speaker 1: the Raiders weren't blitz-happy yesterday. Every guy but their center
- 21:56Speaker 1: gave up a pressure rate of 12% or higher.
- 21:59Speaker 5: Feel how important this fourth quarter is.
- 22:01Speaker 4: Herbert.
- 22:04Speaker 2: Lost the football!
- 22:06Speaker 1: Trey Tucker caught one pass for 53 yards. Ladd McConkie
- 22:10Speaker 1: finished with 35. Aranda Gadsden, 18. Quentin Johnston, 7. Omerian Hampton,
- 22:17Speaker 1: the only Chargers O guy with a little something positive
- 22:20Speaker 1: to build off of. He lost a fumble, but he
- 22:23Speaker 1: did go for 94 rush yards on 4-1 to carry.
- 22:26Speaker 2: Hampton is going to pad his stats.
- 22:30Speaker 1: Who wants to get to 2-1? Jacksonville Jaguars at home
- 22:33Speaker 1: this week having to bounce back from their first loss
- 22:37Speaker 1: that saw their offense come to a slowdown worse than
- 22:39Speaker 1: Peter Gibbons' computer on a Friday afternoon.
- 22:43Speaker 5: Fires short of the goal line, and it's incomplete.
- 22:47Speaker 1: Hey, Peter, what's happening? Well, the New England Patriots are
- 22:51Speaker 1: what's happening. They're in town. Their O has been glitching
- 22:54Speaker 1: a lot too so far, but man, that defense is
- 22:57Speaker 1: taking care of business.
- 22:59Speaker 9: And here he is, trying to fight for time. Balls
- 23:01Speaker 9: on the ground, and it's scooped up! Scooped up and
- 23:05Speaker 9: run into the end zone!
- 23:06Speaker 1: Both these Ds are playing well in 2026, really, but
- 23:10Speaker 1: New England's won them their Week 2 contest, so that's
- 23:13Speaker 1: where we start. They held Seattle to 13 points in
- 23:16Speaker 1: their opener, upped the ante by keeping Pittsburgh to just
- 23:19Speaker 1: 3 points a week ago. Minuscule 3.5 yards per play
- 23:24Speaker 1: stopped them 10 times on 12 third-down tries.
- 23:28Speaker 4: Blitz.
- 23:29Speaker 9: Their secondary held Aaron Rodgers to 187 yards on 4.8
- 23:32Speaker 9: yards per attempt, picked him off, zero TDs obviously.
- 23:33Speaker 2: Can they play Trevor Lawrence as tough?
- 23:34Speaker 1: Just depends on which key law they get. The week
- 23:36Speaker 1: one version was unstoppable. Week two, different story, as he
- 23:59Speaker 1: only threw for 189 yards, no TDs, one INT for
- 24:03Speaker 1: a low 60s rate.
- 24:04Speaker 18: Slings it, intercepted, Riley Moss steps in front of Washington.
- 24:10Speaker 1: So, same deal with their offense, 34 points week one,
- 24:13Speaker 1: 13 versus Denver, fewer than five yards per play.
- 24:17Speaker 4: Snap, third and eight.
- 24:19Speaker 5: Lawrence fires downfield, incomplete.
- 24:22Speaker 1: They're hoping it was a Denver defense on the road
- 24:25Speaker 1: kind of thing, and their line can give Trev more
- 24:28Speaker 1: time this week, pressured on 45% of his throws while
- 24:31Speaker 1: facing a low blitz rate. Left tackle Anton Harrison gave
- 24:35Speaker 1: up a sack and a 19% pressure rate, according to NextGenStats.
- 24:39Speaker 2: Against Q Robinson. Oh, the running back tripped him.
- 24:43Speaker 1: Now they do battle with a pats front that blew
- 24:46Speaker 1: up Rodgers four times and man did they blow him
- 24:49Speaker 1: up on that one sack. Christian Ellis has no mercy
- 24:53Speaker 1: for the elderly, I guess.
- 24:54Speaker 2: My goodness, what a hit to the back of Aaron Rodgers.
- 24:59Speaker 1: New England's secondary comes off a game that saw them
- 25:01Speaker 1: fold every Pittsburgh pass catcher to fewer than 40 yards.
- 25:05Speaker 1: Only two Jags had more than 40 Week 2. Jacoby Myers, 28.
- 25:09Speaker 1: Tight end Brenton Strange, 14. Parker Washington has started 2026
- 25:14Speaker 1: off well. 98 yards versus Denver after starting off with 83.
- 25:19Speaker 18: In the pocket, laser beam downfield, caught by Washington, extending
- 25:24Speaker 18: to the one.
- 25:25Speaker 1: And Brian Thomas checked out with 40.
- 25:27Speaker 9: Beats the right guard, just slides away, and still delivers
- 25:31Speaker 9: the football.
- 25:31Speaker 1: But Thomas has got to get some sticky to his hands, man.
- 25:35Speaker 1: Bashaw Tootin has a little mojo to his walk ahead
- 25:38Speaker 1: of this game, 65 yards and a TD versus Denver,
- 25:41Speaker 1: hit at five a pop.
- 25:42Speaker 5: Eighth play of the drive, snap it.
- 25:45Speaker 2: Tutin turns the corner for the touchdown.
- 25:48Speaker 1: Facing a Patriots defense that held both Jalen Warren and
- 25:52Speaker 1: Rico Dowdle under four yards per carry, so tough sledding
- 25:55Speaker 1: there based on last week.
- 25:57Speaker 10: That's Dowdle for about three. Yeah, it hampered him.
- 26:03Speaker 1: Now, if they could get that offense of theirs going,
- 26:06Speaker 1: 10 points week one, only 20 week two, so I
- 26:09Speaker 1: guess they're headed in the right direction. Drake May did
- 26:12Speaker 1: average nine yards per attempt, completed three passes of 29-plus
- 26:17Speaker 1: yards last week.
- 26:18Speaker 2: All right, in the.
- 26:18Speaker 9: Meantime, Raritan, who was the touchdown maker for the Patriots
- 26:22Speaker 9: last week.
- 26:23Speaker 1: But May without a TD, another pick that was very undue.
- 26:27Speaker 1: Only 208 yards for a sub-80 rate, so back-to-back dud-like
- 26:31Speaker 1: games to start.
- 26:33Speaker 2: Oh, no.
- 26:33Speaker 9: Picked off right into the arms of Patrick Queen. He
- 26:38Speaker 9: underthrew his receiver.
- 26:39Speaker 1: He draws a Jags defense that hits Week 3 off
- 26:42Speaker 1: a mixed showing. On one hand, they held Denver to
- 26:45Speaker 1: 20 points after holding Cleveland to 10 Week 1. They
- 26:48Speaker 1: held Bo Nix to 1 TD while picking him off,
- 26:51Speaker 1: held Denver to 4 for 11 on 3rd down, 2
- 26:54Speaker 1: for 5 in the red zone.
- 26:55Speaker 5: Dials it up, and it's intercepted!
- 27:00Speaker 18: Jordan Lewis in the back of the end zone!
- 27:02Speaker 1: They need to be able to close games out, though,
- 27:05Speaker 1: which they did not do versus Nixon Company. Secondary gave
- 27:08Speaker 1: up 288 yards to Bowe, over 9 yards per attempt,
- 27:12Speaker 1: after letting Deshaun Watson hit it 9 per clip, gave
- 27:15Speaker 1: up a number of 20-plus yard passes. A 49-yarder to
- 27:19Speaker 1: Jalen Waddell let him go for 138 total. Corner Monteric
- 27:23Speaker 1: Brown allowed a team height 80 yards, according to NGS.
- 27:27Speaker 1: corner Jordan Lewis with 58 yards allowed and a touchdown.
- 27:31Speaker 2: Wide open, touchdown caught by Adkins.
- 27:36Speaker 1: Only two Pats enter off 40-plus yard games. Mack Hollins
- 27:40Speaker 1: only 18, DeMario Douglas 9, Hunter Henry with 40.
- 27:44Speaker 9: New England as May goes down the field. He's got
- 27:47Speaker 9: a wide open target.
- 27:48Speaker 2: It's Henry!
- 27:49Speaker 1: And Romeo Dobbs rebounded from a bad week one, 96
- 27:53Speaker 1: yards last week.
- 27:54Speaker 2: Wide open! It is Dobbs! And Dobbs makes the big play!
- 28:00Speaker 1: Drake dropped three times on 22 pass attempts. Right tackle
- 28:04Speaker 1: Morgan Moses gave up one and a half to T.J.
- 28:06Speaker 1: Watt and couldn't slow him down, allowing an 18% pressure rate.
- 28:11Speaker 2: For May, May is sacked, wrapped up, and T.J. Watt.
- 28:17Speaker 1: Josh Hines-Allen, Trayvon Walker held at bay last week. Jacksonville
- 28:22Speaker 1: didn't sack Knicks on 31 pass attempts. They blitzed 45%
- 28:26Speaker 1: of the time and only produced a 19% pressure rate.
- 28:29Speaker 2: That's rough.
- 28:30Speaker 1: They at least held Denver's rush attack under four a
- 28:33Speaker 1: carry while facing 28 attempts.
- 28:36Speaker 2: Stayed upright.
- 28:38Speaker 18: Third effort is not enough.
- 28:40Speaker 1: Now they squabble up with Ramondre Stevenson and Travion Henderson.
- 28:44Speaker 1: Henderson broke loose for a TD, 76 yards, 4-8 a carry,
- 28:48Speaker 1: and his first go of it in 2026.
- 28:49Speaker 19: And he is gone!
- 28:55Speaker 1: Stevenson, with 43 yards on 7-2 a run, did lose
- 28:58Speaker 1: a fumble. As a wise woman once said, it's so
- 29:03Speaker 1: cold in the D, and it's not even October yet.
- 29:06Speaker 1: Detroit at home this week. Is this a must-win game
- 29:10Speaker 1: for them? It's a must-play some semblance of defense at
- 29:13Speaker 1: the very least.
- 29:15Speaker 2: Humpfake going deep wide open. Touchdown, Joshua Palmer.
- 29:21Speaker 1: They welcome in the Jets this week, having to try
- 29:24Speaker 1: and rebound from a loss that no team in history
- 29:27Speaker 1: has ever had to try and rebound from.
- 29:30Speaker 7: Packers in overtime.
- 29:33Speaker 2: The rookies smack.
- 29:34Speaker 1: You hold your opponent under 200 yards of offense, they
- 29:37Speaker 1: give you 100 plus yards in penalties. and you win
- 29:40Speaker 1: the turnover battle. That is supposed to be the lock
- 29:43Speaker 1: of locks in the NFL because every team that had
- 29:46Speaker 1: done that since 1941 had won until last week. Thanks
- 29:51Speaker 1: to the Jets, the record of teams in that situation
- 29:54Speaker 1: now 1-44. Lions facing their old DC this week. Some
- 30:05Speaker 1: gangrene faithful are like, can you take him back? He
- 30:07Speaker 1: made some questionable calls that contributed to their late collapse
- 30:11Speaker 1: versus Green Bay. Jets also have to be more disciplined
- 30:14Speaker 1: after getting flagged 13 times. for 156 yards still the
- 30:20Speaker 1: Lions offense facing a Jets defense that has started the
- 30:24Speaker 1: year well held Tennessee to 10 points and then Green
- 30:27Speaker 1: Bay to 20 with OT needed for that last three
- 30:31Speaker 1: they held Jordan Love to five yards per attempt held
- 30:34Speaker 1: the Packers offense to four yards per play one for
- 30:37Speaker 1: nine on third down that's supposed to be enough to
- 30:40Speaker 1: win you a game in.
- 30:41Speaker 7: Yard line lost the football Given Jonathan Vilma and other chances.
- 30:47Speaker 2: To yell fumble.
- 30:48Speaker 1: Jared Goff hoping for a quicker start this week. He
- 30:51Speaker 1: piled up serious numbers in their loss to Buffalo. Over
- 30:55Speaker 1: 300 yards passing, four TDs, no picks for a 130
- 30:58Speaker 1: plus rate. has six TDs and zero interceptions in his
- 31:03Speaker 1: first two games.
- 31:04Speaker 2: Fires into the end zone. Hold in. There he is again. Gibbs.
- 31:09Speaker 1: Detroit has put up 31 points in both their games.
- 31:12Speaker 1: They're seven for nine in the red zone in 2026. Scoring,
- 31:16Speaker 1: in and of itself, not the problem.
- 31:18Speaker 16: Down, Goff stepping up. He's already thrown for 300 yards.
- 31:22Speaker 16: And add a few more.
- 31:23Speaker 2: St. Brown into the end zone.
- 31:25Speaker 1: Their offensive production last week largely came when they were
- 31:28Speaker 1: chasing points, though. To avoid that again, they need to
- 31:31Speaker 1: convert more third downs, especially early in the game. They
- 31:35Speaker 1: went four for 11 overall. O-line play partially to blame.
- 31:39Speaker 1: Goff took four sacks. They were missing Christian Mahogany and
- 31:43Speaker 1: Blake Miller. Right tackle Larry Borum gave up seven pressures,
- 31:46Speaker 1: a hefty 15% pressure rate, and one and a half sacks.
- 31:50Speaker 1: Left tackle Panay Sewell, right guard Tate Ratledge were tagged
- 31:54Speaker 1: with one and a half each as well by NextGenStats.
- 31:57Speaker 15: Rousseau ends up getting home. The entire pocket just collapsed
- 32:01Speaker 15: on Jared Goff.
- 32:02Speaker 1: You're like, that's four and a half. Yeah, it's one
- 32:04Speaker 1: of those different combinations of guys gave up halves across
- 32:08Speaker 1: the four they took. The Jets front, Goff and his
- 32:10Speaker 1: boys take on in this one, come off a three-bag
- 32:13Speaker 1: shopping trip. How about David Bailey looking to start his
- 32:16Speaker 1: NFL career with a sack and three straight? He's picked
- 32:19Speaker 1: up one in his first two.
- 32:21Speaker 2: Yard line, pump fake, and then low pass.
- 32:26Speaker 1: O-line also made it hard for Jameer Gibbs to get
- 32:29Speaker 1: it going. He's looking to bounce back as a runner
- 32:32Speaker 1: this week after being held to 52 yards on 3-3
- 32:35Speaker 1: a carry. New York would be happy if they played
- 32:43Speaker 1: him that tough. They didn't have any issues with Green
- 32:46Speaker 1: Bay's rush attack, holding it to 3.5 yards per carry,
- 32:48Speaker 1: just 63 yards. Jets DBs gave up 58 yards to
- 32:59Speaker 1: Matthew Golden, 41 yards and a TD to Christian Watson.
- 33:03Speaker 1: Corner Brandon Stevens allowed a team-high 52 yards, according to NextGenStats.
- 33:08Speaker 1: How will he fare when guarding Detroit's WR1, or wide
- 33:12Speaker 1: receiver one if you're not into the whole brevity thing?
- 33:14Speaker 1: Amon Ross St. Brown hits week three off back-to-back two
- 33:18Speaker 1: TD games. He blew up for 142 yards and nine
- 33:22Speaker 1: catches last week, too.
- 33:23Speaker 16: Under pressure throws, that's his second catch. Of course, the
- 33:26Speaker 16: minute you bring it up, he grabs another one, and
- 33:28Speaker 16: that's the first down at the 40.
- 33:29Speaker 1: Jamison Williams, 33 yards on four targets, fewer than 50
- 33:33Speaker 1: yards in his first two games. Isaac Tesla, 30 yards
- 33:38Speaker 1: after being shut out week one. Tight end Sam Laporta,
- 33:41Speaker 1: still key to Goff's game, six catches versus the Bills,
- 33:44Speaker 1: had five week one, found the zone a week ago.
- 33:48Speaker 2: Play fake, little toss, wide open, touchdown. Sam Laporta.
- 33:54Speaker 1: Gibbs, the pass catcher, scored 61 yards, has caught five
- 33:58Speaker 1: to six passes in each of their first two games.
- 34:00Speaker 15: And he throws in rhythm. And that time, really that
- 34:03Speaker 15: entire drive, you could see.
- 34:04Speaker 1: Lots of members of One Pride not happy with D.C.
- 34:07Speaker 1: Kelvin Shepard right now. Lions looked like they wanted to
- 34:10Speaker 1: make sure Buffalo's housewarming party went as smoothly as possible.
- 34:14Speaker 1: They hit this game as dazed and confused. As Slater
- 34:17Speaker 1: on a Friday night, 41 points allowed, let Buffalo convert
- 34:22Speaker 1: 9 of 12 third-down tries, didn't stop them once inside
- 34:25Speaker 1: the 20.
- 34:26Speaker 16: Their secondary followed up a game that saw them give
- 34:29Speaker 16: up over 400 yards to Tyler Shuck by allowing 248
- 34:30Speaker 16: yards and three TDs with no interceptions to Josh Allen,
- 34:32Speaker 16: a 120-plus.
- 34:32Speaker 1: Rate, Safety Thomas Harper gave up a touchdown in 48
- 34:48Speaker 1: yards week two. But when Geno looks for Waldo, he'll
- 34:51Speaker 1: find corner DJ Reed is wearing the funny hat and glasses.
- 34:55Speaker 1: Gave up a perfect 158.3 rating to Buffalo, allowing a
- 34:59Speaker 1: team high 63 yards and a TD. A week after,
- 35:03Speaker 1: allowing 134 yards to the Saints.
- 35:06Speaker 2: Going deep wide open. Touchdown, Joshua Palmer.
- 35:12Speaker 1: Now, here comes Geno. Smith would like to show he
- 35:15Speaker 1: can come up in the clutch, but he still hits
- 35:17Speaker 1: week three off a solid performance, 247 yards, a TD
- 35:19Speaker 1: with no picks, 27 of 41 for a 90-rate game.
- 35:20Speaker 1: Smith throws, end zone, touchdown!
- 35:31Speaker 2: Garrett Wilson.
- 35:32Speaker 1: Geno's top week two target, Adonai Mitchell. Six catches, 63 yards,
- 35:37Speaker 1: 60 plus yards in each game so far.
- 35:40Speaker 3: I think Keyshawn Mason is a really good corner, but
- 35:42Speaker 3: they are going after him.
- 35:44Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson scored with 57 yards. He's picked up at
- 35:47Speaker 1: least 55 yards in each contest.
- 35:49Speaker 2: Third and 11. Smith throws and sliding and making the catch.
- 35:55Speaker 1: Tight end Kenyon Sadiq with 38 yards. Brees Hall, 63
- 36:00Speaker 1: receiving yards.
- 36:00Speaker 7: But KDOT will tell you, 17 points, it's not enough,
- 36:05Speaker 7: and neither is four yards per play.
- 36:07Speaker 2: If they don't want fans turning the TV.
- 36:10Speaker 1: Off, They should find a way to get their foot
- 36:21Speaker 1: on the gas and be more productive all game long,
- 36:24Speaker 1: not just for a drive or two. Somebody's got to
- 36:27Speaker 1: do it.
- 36:27Speaker 2: Direct run downhill, and look at that.
- 36:30Speaker 3: There is no penetration, no push, excuse me, from the
- 36:34Speaker 3: offensive line.
- 36:35Speaker 1: Better pass protection would help, too. Smith took four sacks
- 36:38Speaker 1: week two. Only two blamed on linemen, but he faced
- 36:42Speaker 1: a 49% pressure rate, and all five of their big
- 36:45Speaker 1: uglies gave up pressure rates of 10% or more. Both
- 36:49Speaker 1: tackles allowed eight pressures each. Every time they cut away
- 36:59Speaker 1: to Aiden Hutchinson, you couldn't help but feel bad for
- 37:01Speaker 1: the guy. He's doing what he can, dropped Allen once,
- 37:05Speaker 1: Detroit only two sacks.
- 37:06Speaker 2: The Lions blitzed 55% of the time. They only generated
- 37:08Speaker 2: pressure 34% of the time.
- 37:18Speaker 1: And most of the time when they did, Allen simply
- 37:21Speaker 1: escaped with his legs. They gave up 69 rush yards
- 37:24Speaker 1: to him along with two TDs and also gave up
- 37:27Speaker 1: 135 yards on 6-4 per run to James Cook, who
- 37:32Speaker 1: also scored on them. So there isn't one facet of
- 37:35Speaker 1: their defense that's not needing a tune-up ahead of Week 3.
- 37:38Speaker 16: And around the corner, and there goes Cook. And Cook
- 37:42Speaker 16: will be taken out of bounds.
- 37:44Speaker 1: Lions also need to cut down on the penalties got
- 37:47Speaker 1: flagged 10 times in their week two loss. But let's
- 37:50Speaker 1: be honest, some of them were the phantom variety that
- 37:53Speaker 1: one holding call really hurt, too.
- 37:56Speaker 15: You know, the crowd noise, respecting the potential pass rush
- 37:59Speaker 15: and the quickness off the edge by Hoyt.
- 38:01Speaker 1: Hall, as a runner, not as effective as he was
- 38:04Speaker 1: as a pass catcher, held the 29 yards on 1.8
- 38:07Speaker 1: to carry. Jets rush attack in need of a spark, too.
- 38:12Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans hit the road week three, hoping maybe they
- 38:15Speaker 1: can come up with their first win of 2026 after
- 38:18Speaker 1: coming up oh so close to a huge upset last week.
- 38:22Speaker 20: Blitz is coming for Philadelphia, and Ward just slings it
- 38:25Speaker 20: to nobody in particular.
- 38:27Speaker 2: It was deflected, and the game is over.
- 38:30Speaker 1: They are in New York facing the Giants, who left
- 38:33Speaker 1: Hollywood with that oh-not-again feeling.
- 38:35Speaker 2: Another look at the hit.
- 38:38Speaker 1: And it looks like that is that, at least for
- 38:42Speaker 1: a while. What a major bummer. So it's the famous
- 38:45Speaker 1: Jameis show going forward. Maybe a full week of practice
- 38:48Speaker 1: will help. Winston wasn't able to spark anything up last
- 38:51Speaker 1: week off the bench. 111 yards passing, only 4.1 yards
- 38:56Speaker 1: per attempt through a goal line interception, sub 40 rate.
- 39:00Speaker 1: G-Men's offense only put up two field goals, three for
- 39:03Speaker 1: 14 on third down, a brutal 3.3 yards per play.
- 39:08Speaker 1: Titans defense that comes to town isn't showing up rattled
- 39:16Speaker 1: despite coming up short versus Philadelphia. The last drive hurt
- 39:20Speaker 1: led to the 24 points allowed, but they set the
- 39:22Speaker 1: offense up for one TD. Imani Hooker's INT returns 92 yards.
- 39:28Speaker 1: They held Philadelphia at a yards per play, picked off
- 39:31Speaker 1: Jalen Hurt's twice.
- 39:33Speaker 20: Without blitzing much, Tennessee.
- 39:36Speaker 14: Sacked Hurt's three times and pressured him.
- 39:44Speaker 1: A nice 40% of his throws, Jacob Martin, John Franklin Myers,
- 39:49Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons, all signed on the dotted line.
- 39:52Speaker 18: Get yourself into a decent third down situation.
- 39:55Speaker 20: Well, that's the time to ratchet up the pass rush,
- 39:58Speaker 20: and Jacob Martin.
- 39:59Speaker 1: They go after a Giants O-line that gave up two
- 40:02Speaker 1: sacks and a fat 58% pressure rate. NextGenStats tagged Jermaine
- 40:07Speaker 1: Illuminor with both sacks allowed and a hefty 17% pressure
- 40:10Speaker 1: rate allowed. Blue fans, that's what NGS had. Don't kill
- 40:14Speaker 1: the messenger.
- 40:15Speaker 19: Winston steps through, but caught from behind and brought down.
- 40:20Speaker 1: I found out this past offseason, Giants faithful are very
- 40:23Speaker 1: protective of J.E. Real ones know what I mean. Only
- 40:26Speaker 1: one New York pass catcher comes off a 35-plus yard game.
- 40:30Speaker 1: Tight end Isaiah Likely, 33. Malachi Fields, 30. Malik Nabors
- 40:35Speaker 1: just won. He got hurt in the middle of the game.
- 40:37Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney led the team with 48.
- 40:39Speaker 2: Winston protected. Floats it. He's got his guy. That's Mooney.
- 40:44Speaker 19: Darnell Mooney is out of bounds near the 30.
- 40:47Speaker 1: Tennessee's secondary they battle with gave up 74 yards to
- 40:51Speaker 1: Dontavian Wicks, 117 in a TD to Devontae Smith. Four
- 40:55Speaker 1: different defenders gave up 40 to 50 yards each. But
- 40:58Speaker 1: the Titans didn't allow any Philadelphia runners to leave with
- 41:01Speaker 1: 35 yards. Held Saquon to nine yards on four attempts.
- 41:05Speaker 1: He did get hurt. but they stuffed him when he
- 41:07Speaker 1: was out there.
- 41:07Speaker 2: It is Saquon Barkley.
- 41:09Speaker 20: This was a problem last week, getting hit behind the
- 41:12Speaker 20: line of scrimmage by Washington.
- 41:13Speaker 1: This week, it's Cam Scadaboo, hoping for a better week three,
- 41:17Speaker 1: just 36 yards on three of carry versus the Rams.
- 41:20Speaker 19: Toss to Cam, kind of a tight formation and a
- 41:23Speaker 19: short toss, and Scadaboo got maybe half a yard.
- 41:26Speaker 1: Titans offense still looking to crack 21 points. Week one, 10, 20.
- 41:31Speaker 1: Week two, so trending in the right direction, I guess.
- 41:34Speaker 1: Cam Ward punched in two short runs versus Philly.
- 41:37Speaker 20: He threw for 9.2 yards per attempt, a rate over
- 41:40Speaker 20: 90 but no TDs, but several big chunk plays.
- 41:42Speaker 2: Certainly looked better compared to Week 1.
- 41:43Speaker 1: Giants D, Ward takes on, gave up 28 points to L.A.,
- 41:45Speaker 1: tough with their offense working against them. but didn't stop
- 42:04Speaker 1: any of the Rams' three red zone trips, gave up
- 42:07Speaker 1: eight yards per play, gave up four touchdowns to Matthew
- 42:10Speaker 1: Stafford on a hefty 10.5 yards per attempt, allowed a
- 42:14Speaker 1: 130-plus rate to him. Ward took two sacks, 20 pass attempts.
- 42:24Speaker 1: Left tackle J.C. Latham gave up one, according to NGS.
- 42:27Speaker 1: Fernando Carmona gave up one along with a 16% pressure rate.
- 42:31Speaker 1: That's high for a guard.
- 42:33Speaker 5: But so costly, especially since you just had all that momentum.
- 42:36Speaker 2: You're inside the 10-yard line. You're now sitting there going.
- 42:39Speaker 1: New York's pass rush only got to Stafford once on
- 42:42Speaker 1: 31 pass attempts and barely pressured him. Made it tough
- 42:45Speaker 1: on their secondary as they gave up two TDs and
- 42:48Speaker 1: 195 yards to Devontae Adams. Safety Tyler Newbin tagged with
- 42:53Speaker 1: a whopping 143 yards. gave up seven catches on 10
- 42:57Speaker 1: targets faced. Alec Ayomaner, the only Titan with more than
- 43:01Speaker 1: 40 yards, hauled in a 41-yarder as part of a
- 43:04Speaker 1: 69-yard game.
- 43:05Speaker 20: Who hurdles a defender over the top!
- 43:09Speaker 1: And as for the ground game, Tajay Spears went for
- 43:13Speaker 1: 41 yards on 5'9, a carry week two. Tony Pollard,
- 43:16Speaker 1: 64 yards, 4'6, a run.
- 43:18Speaker 20: Multiple blockers and a big run near midfield. They move
- 43:22Speaker 20: it into Philadelphia territory.
- 43:24Speaker 1: They get a wobbly Giants rush defense too. They gave
- 43:27Speaker 1: up 163 rush yards. 85 allowed to Kyron Williams.
- 43:31Speaker 10: 7-1 per.
- 43:32Speaker 1: 79 yards to Blake Corum at a 6-6 clip.
- 43:35Speaker 19: Corum go over the right side and there's no containment.
- 43:38Speaker 2: Corum with a big run.
- 43:41Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals head to the Bay this week looking to
- 43:44Speaker 1: recapture that week one buzz they were feeling.
- 43:47Speaker 21: Extra pressure. Brissette is floating one. Did Julian Love come
- 43:51Speaker 21: up with the pick? The official says yes.
- 43:54Speaker 1: Won't be easy to feel groovy again facing the 2-0
- 43:58Speaker 1: 49ers who just showed they are not prone to looking
- 44:00Speaker 1: past their opponent.
- 44:02Speaker 21: Good play fake. Purdy chugging for the goal line. Purdy
- 44:05Speaker 21: in for the touchdown.
- 44:07Speaker 1: Brock Purdy is feeling it to start 2026. BCB ball
- 44:11Speaker 1: in full effect right now. Ran for 30 yards week
- 44:14Speaker 1: two with that TD. plus through two piled up 287
- 44:18Speaker 1: yards a redonkulous 13 yards per attempt a 149 rate
- 44:24Speaker 1: just short of perfect.
- 44:25Speaker 21: Play action use check down the sideline touchdown san.
- 44:30Speaker 1: Francisco arizona in turn dealing with a niners offense that
- 44:34Speaker 1: put up 27 plus points in each game 35 last
- 44:38Speaker 1: week five for seven moving the sticks A perfect 5-for-5
- 44:42Speaker 1: inside the 20.
- 44:43Speaker 2: McCaffrey, second and goal, in for the touchdown.
- 44:46Speaker 1: Cardinals defense, meantime, just gave up 31. Purdy looking at
- 44:51Speaker 1: a secondary that gave up three TDs to Drew Locke.
- 44:54Speaker 1: 235 yards on nine per attempt, a rate allowed close
- 44:58Speaker 1: to 140, so they have a lot of cleanup work
- 45:01Speaker 1: to do week over week.
- 45:02Speaker 22: Towards the sideline, it's a Jigma. Jackson, Smith, and Jigma.
- 45:06Speaker 1: Their secondary gave up 155 yards and all three TDs
- 45:10Speaker 1: to Jackson Smith and Jigba. Next-gen stats tagged safety Buda
- 45:14Speaker 1: Baker with two of the touchdowns and a hefty 105 yards.
- 45:18Speaker 13: Jigba on Buda Baker, stabs him to the outside, cuts
- 45:21Speaker 13: back inside.
- 45:23Speaker 1: Cardinals lost two corners to injury, too, so it could
- 45:26Speaker 1: get worse. Arizona's pass rush only got to lock once
- 45:29Speaker 1: on 26 pass attempts, didn't even pressure lock 30% of
- 45:33Speaker 1: the time, and now they have to try and get
- 45:35Speaker 1: to Purdy who wasn't sacked once on 22 throws, he
- 45:38Speaker 1: was blitzed 40% of the time too and only faced
- 45:41Speaker 1: pressure 24% of the time. Made it easy to complete
- 45:45Speaker 1: long passes, like the 40-yarder he hooked up with George
- 45:48Speaker 1: Kittle on. He scored and went for 80 yards.
- 45:51Speaker 22: With time, to the end zone, it's Kittle!
- 45:54Speaker 2: His first touchdown since the return!
- 45:58Speaker 1: Six different San Fran guys had 25-plus yards Week 2.
- 46:02Speaker 1: Kyle Juszczyk scored with 27. Debo had 31. Demarcus Robinson, 31.
- 46:08Speaker 1: Though he got hurt, he's going to miss a few weeks.
- 46:10Speaker 1: Mike Evans also left the game hurt after going for
- 46:13Speaker 1: 54 yards. Hip injury, but they think he'll be okay
- 46:16Speaker 1: this week.
- 46:17Speaker 14: Resets, finds Evans, loping down the sidelines, and Evans out
- 46:21Speaker 14: of bounds with the one.
- 46:23Speaker 1: And Christian McCaffrey hauled in 43 receiving yards.
- 46:26Speaker 14: Middle, it's McCaffrey inside the 10, rolling his way to
- 46:30Speaker 14: the 1.
- 46:31Speaker 1: CMC comes in off a rough game down low, though,
- 46:33Speaker 1: 23 yards on 10 attempts. He at least made two
- 46:36Speaker 1: trips to Bob Ross land.
- 46:38Speaker 21: McCaffrey leaping in for the touchdown.
- 46:41Speaker 1: Kalen Black only 25 yards, so that's the area they
- 46:45Speaker 1: hope to shine up a little this week. Arizona's entire
- 46:48Speaker 1: offense needs Mr. Miyagi to get Daniel LaRusso to wax
- 46:52Speaker 1: it up. Only seven points versus Seattle, three for 12
- 46:55Speaker 1: on third down, and these numbers are brutal. 151 total
- 47:00Speaker 1: yards of offense on a minuscule 3.2 yards per play.
- 47:04Speaker 21: We'll throw into the dirt. Harrison was in the area,
- 47:07Speaker 21: but he just didn't want to be back there when
- 47:09Speaker 21: the Seahawks closed in on him.
- 47:11Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett enters as dazed and confused as it gets.
- 47:15Speaker 1: 95 yards on 3.4 per attempt. Almost would have been
- 47:19Speaker 1: better not to drop back at that rate. He got
- 47:21Speaker 1: picked off.
- 47:22Speaker 2: You cool, man?
- 47:26Speaker 1: Uh, no, not after that kind of game. He took
- 47:29Speaker 1: two sacks on 28 pass attempts, which isn't so bad,
- 47:32Speaker 1: but he got pressured over 40% of the time, even
- 47:35Speaker 1: though he only got blitzed on 19% of his throws.
- 47:38Speaker 1: NextGenStats tagged left tackle Parris Johnson with one sack allowed
- 47:43Speaker 1: and a whopping 19% pressure rate.
- 47:45Speaker 2: Brissette, and he'll go down.
- 47:47Speaker 1: Brissette handled the pressure he faced about as well as
- 47:50Speaker 1: Phil Dunphy does, and now here comes a 49ers pass
- 47:53Speaker 1: rush that buried Malik Willis four times on just 23
- 47:56Speaker 1: pass attempts. Jacoby will need to be ready for heat.
- 47:59Speaker 1: as San Francisco sent 5-plus 46% of the time.
- 48:03Speaker 21: Willis on the run, and Willis runs out of bounds
- 48:06Speaker 21: and takes a loss at the 10.
- 48:07Speaker 10: Fred Warner there to shove him out.
- 48:09Speaker 1: Success is 1% inspiration, 98% perspiration, and 2% attention to detail.
- 48:15Speaker 1: Secondary Brissette gets this week did give up a 77-yard
- 48:18Speaker 1: TD to Willis, which allowed him to get out of
- 48:21Speaker 1: Dodge with a 100-plus rate. Cornerback Upton Stout on the
- 48:25Speaker 1: hook for that bomb, according to NGS.
- 48:27Speaker 23: Actually, Upton Stout's down inside a little bit more, and
- 48:30Speaker 23: he's looking into the backfield.
- 48:32Speaker 2: He has no help over the top.
- 48:33Speaker 1: But that was the only real slip-up they suffered. They
- 48:36Speaker 1: still held Willis to less than 200 yards, held Miami
- 48:39Speaker 1: to 13 points, so haven't given up 14 in a
- 48:42Speaker 1: game so far.
- 48:43Speaker 21: In some trouble, able to break free and throw over
- 48:46Speaker 21: the middle incomplete.
- 48:47Speaker 1: Arizona's Trey McBride has a shot to start the year
- 48:50Speaker 1: with a touchdown and three straight. He accounted for their
- 48:52Speaker 1: lone week two touchdown, 41 yards on eight catches.
- 48:56Speaker 9: Well, when you've got 85, you've got a chance to
- 48:58Speaker 9: do something special.
- 48:59Speaker 1: But not much action from anybody else. Michael Wilson saw
- 49:03Speaker 1: seven targets, only 18 yards. Marvin Harrison, only one target.
- 49:07Speaker 1: Zero yards. Kendrick Bourne, 11 yards. And Jeremiah Love also
- 49:12Speaker 1: hits this contest cold. 29 yards, nine carries for 3-2
- 49:16Speaker 1: a run.
- 49:16Speaker 2: And Love will lose a yard.
- 49:18Speaker 1: Tries to get it going against DeSantis. Fran front that
- 49:20Speaker 1: held Devon Achan to less than 4 yards per carry.
- 49:23Speaker 1: So another tough test lies ahead.
- 49:26Speaker 2: Achan again.
- 49:27Speaker 21: And Achan this time runs right into the arms of
- 49:30Speaker 21: Grayson Holton.
- 49:33Speaker 1: Lamar, Derek, Dak, CD, they've all been practicing the Samba
- 49:37Speaker 1: this week. Maybe the Pacino, because when they celebrate a
- 49:40Speaker 1: TD in Rio, they best do it right. The flock, though,
- 49:44Speaker 1: not doing much celebrating last week, just a lot of fuming.
- 49:48Speaker 24: It comes down to this. Shuck, again on the keeper.
- 49:51Speaker 24: Did he get the push? Touchdown!
- 49:55Speaker 2: Boy, and this, if he got in, this is just
- 49:58Speaker 2: by a whisker.
- 49:59Speaker 14: I don't think he got the ball across.
- 50:01Speaker 2: After review, the ruling of the field stands as called.
- 50:05Speaker 1: Hey, man, if penalties and face masks can't be reviewed,
- 50:08Speaker 1: somebody explain how that was a TD. I will wait.
- 50:12Speaker 1: Cowboys head to South America vibing, though. The stripes not
- 50:15Speaker 1: only favored them, their offense snapped, too. They seemed ready
- 50:19Speaker 1: to party.
- 50:19Speaker 2: Here's Prescott. Going deep for CeeDee Lamb.
- 50:22Speaker 25: Up.
- 50:23Speaker 5: Lamb.
- 50:24Speaker 2: Got him. Touchdown, Dallas.
- 50:27Speaker 26: Prescott now has the most touchdown passes in Dallas Cowboys history.
- 50:31Speaker 1: Prescott may not be a week one aficionado. But after
- 50:34Speaker 1: he's warmed up, look out, dropped 279 yards and four
- 50:38Speaker 1: TDs with no picks week two, hits Brazil off a gem.
- 50:42Speaker 26: Prescott back, it's caught, touchdown Cowboys, Jake Ferguson.
- 50:47Speaker 1: So does CeeDee Lamb, 153 yards and two TDs, scored
- 50:51Speaker 1: week one too so he's looking for a three-game scoring
- 50:54Speaker 1: streak to start his 2026.
- 50:56Speaker 2: Fake throw cd lamb touchdown.
- 51:00Speaker 1: Dallas cowboys offense rumbles in off a 37-point outing got
- 51:05Speaker 1: some slushies while moving the sticks seven of 11 times
- 51:08Speaker 1: converted three of four red zone trips.
- 51:10Speaker 26: Throw in it is caught for a first down out
- 51:12Speaker 26: there to ferguson who had the touchdown earlier.
- 51:15Speaker 1: Baltimore's defense nice week one take away seven from their
- 51:19Speaker 1: total last week, and they'd have fared even better, held
- 51:22Speaker 1: New Orleans to 4.7 yards per play.
- 51:24Speaker 23: Chandler Rivers, no hesitation, beats the block, shoots his gun,
- 51:29Speaker 23: perfect form tackle, and a huge play.
- 51:32Speaker 1: Technically, 23 and 24 points allowed in their first two games, though,
- 51:36Speaker 1: and the secondary DAC faces gave up a 100-plus rate
- 51:39Speaker 1: to Tyler Shuck, over 250 yards, a touchdown, no picks,
- 51:43Speaker 1: Safety Jalen Hawkins gave up a team-high 90 yards according
- 51:46Speaker 1: to NextGenStats. Safety Malachi Starks allowed a touchdown.
- 51:50Speaker 2: He bites on the corner route.
- 51:52Speaker 23: That's Starks, and Shuck fires it, a dart to Olave
- 51:56Speaker 23: for the touchdown.
- 51:57Speaker 1: They gave up 86 yards and a TD to Chris Olave,
- 52:00Speaker 1: 64 yards to Devon Bailey, and 66 yards to tight
- 52:04Speaker 1: end Jawan Johnson. Dallas' tight end Jake Ferguson scored twice
- 52:08Speaker 1: versus the Commanders, 43 yards.
- 52:11Speaker 2: It is caught! Touchdown! Jake Ferguson, number two!
- 52:16Speaker 1: George Pickens chipped in 40 yards.
- 52:18Speaker 2: Who's open?
- 52:20Speaker 26: Pickens gets smacked! And there's a penalty, but he held
- 52:23Speaker 26: on to the football.
- 52:24Speaker 1: Dak was sacked twice by Washington, threw 31 times, so
- 52:28Speaker 1: not a bad ratio, but he was pressured over 40%
- 52:30Speaker 1: of the time. Cooper Beebe gave up a sack and
- 52:33Speaker 1: an 11% pressure rate, which is high for a center.
- 52:36Speaker 1: That could be something Nnamdi Madubike takes advantage of if
- 52:40Speaker 1: he returns from injury. Either way, though, Baltimore's pass rush
- 52:44Speaker 1: comes off a three-sack outing. Trey Hendrickson, Mike Green. Tavius
- 52:48Speaker 1: Robinson doing the damage, Robinson with sacks in his first
- 52:51Speaker 1: two games.
- 52:52Speaker 24: And Baltimore tightened up the screws on the run defense,
- 52:54Speaker 24: holding New Orleans to 65 rush yards on just 2-4
- 52:56Speaker 24: a carry. Javonte Williams comes in cold, held to 30
- 52:58Speaker 24: yards and 2-5 a run versus Washington.
- 53:16Speaker 1: Under 3-5 a carry in each game so far.
- 53:19Speaker 2: Hit right away is Williams, who breaks free, but swarmed.
- 53:23Speaker 1: Stopping the run, though, is a bigger deal if you're Dallas' defense.
- 53:26Speaker 1: They have the King and Lamar to deal with. Cowboys
- 53:29Speaker 1: gave up a lot of yards to Jackson Dart week one,
- 53:32Speaker 1: then gave up 69 rush yards to Jaden Daniels last week,
- 53:35Speaker 1: and he didn't finish the game.
- 53:37Speaker 2: Daniels gonna run. Why not? It's work today. Big hole,
- 53:40Speaker 2: Jaden Daniels!
- 53:41Speaker 1: Lamar only ran four times versus New Orleans, 8-5 a carry,
- 53:45Speaker 1: ran more week one, And so did Derrick. Henry still
- 53:49Speaker 1: scored again, 68 yards on 4-3 a run versus the Saints.
- 53:52Speaker 24: Henry looking for a crease. Henry in for the Baltimore touchdown.
- 53:58Speaker 1: But 16 attempts, they always seem to have these games
- 54:02Speaker 1: where they don't feed them enough. But you'd think they'd
- 54:04Speaker 1: load him up versus Dallas, even though they won the game.
- 54:07Speaker 1: 182 rush yards allowed overall at a 5-7 clip.
- 54:12Speaker 26: Big hole for Rashad White, who bursts his way inside
- 54:16Speaker 26: the 15.
- 54:17Speaker 1: Jackson had to play without Zay Flowers. Hopefully he's back
- 54:20Speaker 1: this week. You know that dude has serious dance moves prepped.
- 54:23Speaker 1: Rashad Bateman led the way in his wake, 88 yards
- 54:26Speaker 1: into TD.
- 54:27Speaker 24: Dead pass, pinpoint, it's Bateman for the touchdown.
- 54:32Speaker 1: Mark Andrews, 49 yards week two.
- 54:34Speaker 24: Jackson over the middle, delivers a strike, and this should
- 54:37Speaker 24: be a Baltimore first down.
- 54:38Speaker 1: Devontae Walker with a 47-yarder.
- 54:41Speaker 24: This is where he was so deadly last week, takes
- 54:43Speaker 24: a shot, there's a flag thrown, and it is caught.
- 54:47Speaker 2: Devontae Walker.
- 54:49Speaker 1: Jackson with one TD, 235 yards last week.
- 54:53Speaker 24: Second at 10, Jackson throws a dart.
- 54:55Speaker 1: Wasn't able to produce on the final drive though. Last
- 54:59Speaker 1: pass intercepted, so Ravens offense clocked out with just 17 points.
- 55:04Speaker 24: Picked off, and the Saints turn out the lights on
- 55:07Speaker 24: the Ravens.
- 55:08Speaker 1: Dallas' defense with a better week two. In their case,
- 55:11Speaker 1: the instant replay gods did save them seven points. so
- 55:15Speaker 1: they held Washington to 20.
- 55:16Speaker 26: So they ruled incomplete. The call on the field was
- 55:19Speaker 26: a touchdown. It was reversed, and that looked like the
- 55:22Speaker 26: right call.
- 55:22Speaker 1: The secondary Lamar Battles gave up two touchdowns, one each
- 55:26Speaker 1: to Daniels and Marcus Mariota, allowed a 99-plus rate to each.
- 55:30Speaker 1: Both TDs allowed to Stephon Diggs, and they didn't sack
- 55:34Speaker 1: either quarterback once.
- 55:35Speaker 2: Throwing, end zone corner, Diggs. He's got it!
- 55:40Speaker 1: But if you want glass half full numbers, only 207
- 55:42Speaker 1: yards allowed, and they held Washington's passing attack to 5-9
- 55:47Speaker 1: per attempt. A zero sack bunch week two versus an
- 55:50Speaker 1: O-line that gave up three, and the Ravens left tackle.
- 55:53Speaker 1: Ronnie Stanley left hurt. Before he left, he gave up
- 55:56Speaker 1: five pressures and a 17.9 pressure rate. His backup gave
- 56:01Speaker 1: up an 18% pressure rate. Center Javon Gwynn gave up
- 56:05Speaker 1: one and a half sacks, according to NGS.
- 56:07Speaker 24: Shot out of a cannon, and by the time Jackson
- 56:10Speaker 24: saw him, it was too late.
- 56:13Speaker 1: Hey, look at this, a couple of 1-1 teams getting
- 56:16Speaker 1: down in this one, both rolling off wins. Carolina on
- 56:19Speaker 1: the road in Cleveland, feeling pretty good about that QB
- 56:22Speaker 1: of theirs.
- 56:23Speaker 5: Carolina with a bounce back.
- 56:25Speaker 1: They will be met by a pretty raucous dog pound
- 56:27Speaker 1: that gets to cheer on its team for the first
- 56:30Speaker 1: time this year, and maybe cheer on their signal caller,
- 56:33Speaker 1: which they aren't really used to doing, right?
- 56:36Speaker 2: And Deshaun Watson and the Browns, 1-1.
- 56:39Speaker 1: Hey man, Deshaun Watson faced off with the guy many
- 56:41Speaker 1: Browns fans viewed, as the guy that got away and
- 56:45Speaker 1: went 24 of 30 for 238 yards, two TDs, and
- 56:49Speaker 1: no picks. It's as good as he's looked in years
- 56:51Speaker 1: for a full game. So what if he's finally refinding
- 56:55Speaker 1: the form that led to that big trade?
- 56:57Speaker 22: Touchdown, 17 yards from Deshaun Watson.
- 57:03Speaker 1: To keep it going, he has to dice up a
- 57:05Speaker 1: Panthers defense and secondary that you can best describe as
- 57:09Speaker 1: As the mayor of Halloweentown over two weeks, all nervous
- 57:13Speaker 1: and twitchy versus Caleb Williams and the Bears giving up
- 57:15Speaker 1: 59 points. But then, all smiles last week versus Atlanta,
- 57:20Speaker 1: holding them to three points. Coming up with three INTs,
- 57:24Speaker 1: one pick six, so that's basically like holding them to
- 57:27Speaker 1: minus four points.
- 57:29Speaker 6: From looking like a train wreck to just 4.3 yards
- 57:31Speaker 6: per play, four for 13 on third down, zero red
- 57:33Speaker 6: zone trips allowed.
- 57:42Speaker 4: That's a really solid defensive play.
- 57:44Speaker 2: Really good play.
- 57:45Speaker 1: Yes, they were dealing with Cooper Rush and Jack Strand
- 57:48Speaker 1: and an offense that hasn't crossed the 20 once this year.
- 57:52Speaker 1: By comparison, Cleveland's 23 points last week makes them look
- 57:56Speaker 1: like a juggernaut, but they still have a lot of
- 57:58Speaker 1: work to do. Fewer than five yards per play is rough,
- 58:02Speaker 1: and their run game has been almost non-existent in each
- 58:05Speaker 1: game so far. Quinshawn Judkins went from 2.8 a carry
- 58:09Speaker 1: week one to 1.8 per last week.
- 58:12Speaker 2: They go to Judkins, he tries to make one man miss,
- 58:15Speaker 2: and he cannot.
- 58:18Speaker 1: Maybe he gets it fired up versus Carolina's defense. They
- 58:21Speaker 1: did give up 157 rush yards to Atlanta. Sure, 72
- 58:25Speaker 1: on 4-5 a pop to Bijon is expected, but they
- 58:28Speaker 1: also gave up 51 yards to Brian Robinson on 4-6
- 58:32Speaker 1: a carry, and they got gashed by Chicago's running backs
- 58:35Speaker 1: in the opener. Panthers pass rush hits week three off
- 58:40Speaker 1: a three sack game. Jalen Phillips with his second in
- 58:43Speaker 1: as many games. Devin Lloyd coming in en fuego as
- 58:47Speaker 1: he not only had that pick six, he had three
- 58:49Speaker 1: passes defensed, two TFLs and a sack.
- 58:53Speaker 13: Devin Lloyd has put a dinosaur sized footprint on this first.
- 58:57Speaker 4: Half for Carolina.
- 58:58Speaker 1: Carolina turned up the blitz knob, sending five plus 53%
- 59:01Speaker 1: of the time last week. Watson was blitzed 50% of
- 59:05Speaker 1: the time, but he was okay with it, obviously, taking
- 59:08Speaker 1: two sacks on 30 passes. attempts in that scenario is
- 59:11Speaker 1: a win. Right tackle Titus Howard, though, gave up one
- 59:15Speaker 1: and a pretty high pressure rate, according to NextGenStats. He's
- 59:18Speaker 1: given up one in both games, surrendering a high pressure
- 59:20Speaker 1: rate in both.
- 59:22Speaker 25: Gotta be more stout right there if you're Titus Howard.
- 59:24Speaker 1: Panthers DBs allowed 55 yards to Drake London last week,
- 59:28Speaker 1: locked everybody else up. Seven different guys caught Watson passes
- 59:32Speaker 1: week two, only two finished with more than 30 yards.
- 59:35Speaker 1: Carolina corners, this Denzel Boston kid is for real. Scored again,
- 59:40Speaker 1: TD in each of their games.
- 59:42Speaker 2: Boston makes a bad miss on the spin move. He
- 59:44Speaker 2: can go.
- 59:45Speaker 1: Rookie with a career-high 95 yards versus the Bucs. Casey Concepcion,
- 59:50Speaker 1: 28 yards. Tight end Harold Fannin five catches, 54 yards.
- 59:55Speaker 21: Watson to his left. He's got Fannin at the 41-yard line.
- 59:59Speaker 1: Brown's defense enters with some confidence. They looked a lot
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: better week over week. After getting lit up by Trevor
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: Lawrence in the Jags offense, they held Baker Mayfield and
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: company in check. Held Mayfield to 182 yards, only 5.4
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: yards per attempt. A low 70s rate while picking him off.
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: Stepped up with the game on the line.
- 1:00:19Speaker 2: Fourth down and a go to the end zone.
- 1:00:22Speaker 25: Incomplete.
- 1:00:23Speaker 2: And that should do it for the Browns.
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: Held Tampa Bay to 19 points. One for four in
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: the red zone. Only five yards per play.
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: Throw to the end zone. Almost intercepted.
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: So they're hoping to carry over some of that mojo
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: into this week. It's not going to be easy facing
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: Bryce Young though. How's that sound keep pounding? Over 350 yards,
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: three TDs week one. Then he piles up 287 yards
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: and three more TDs week two. 115-plus rate. He's topped
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: 110 in each game. He's very much looking like H-I-M.
- 1:00:58Speaker 5: What a catch and a phenomenal throw.
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: In turn, Brown's D stacked against a Carolina O-face that's
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: gone for 27-plus points back-to-back games, 27 versus Atlanta.
- 1:01:09Speaker 5: Touchdown, Carolina!
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: Young took two sacks on 36 pass attempts versus Atlanta.
- 1:01:16Speaker 1: That's a ratio they can live with. He did, however,
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: face pressure 51% of the time, only blitzed 28% of
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: the time. NGS tagged left guard Damian Lewis with a
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: sack allowed, right tackle Monroe Freeling with one. He's allowed
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: one in each game.
- 1:01:32Speaker 2: They got home that time.
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: Pass rush Bryce tries to elude this week comes off
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: a three-sack outing. Browns only blitzing Mayfield 30% of his
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: passes still generated pressure over 40% of the time. Mason
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: Graham with his second sack in two games.
- 1:01:47Speaker 2: Mason Graham continues to evolve. He is a heck of
- 1:01:50Speaker 2: a talent.
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: Cleveland DBs gave up a 49-yard reception to Tez Johnson.
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: Cornerback Tyson Campbell pegged for allowing a team-high 70 yards.
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: But their secondary held Emeka Ibuka to 16 yards. Top
- 1:02:02Speaker 1: guy they wrangle with this week. Tedaroa McMillan comes off
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: his first 100-yard game of the year after starting the
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: year off with 75.
- 1:02:10Speaker 24: Jalen Coker had a monster week one, then hauled in
- 1:02:12Speaker 24: eight balls for 66 yards.
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: Xavier Leguette chipped in with 64 a week ago.
- 1:02:27Speaker 5: Throws deep downfield for Liguette.
- 1:02:29Speaker 2: Makes the catch!
- 1:02:31Speaker 9: Maybe the biggest catch of his career, Xavier Liguette.
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: And tied in Darren Waller two touchdowns a week ago.
- 1:02:41Speaker 4: Bryce is really feeling it now.
- 1:02:43Speaker 2: There's another strike. Touchdown, Waller.
- 1:02:47Speaker 1: Chuba Hubbard heads into week three off two solid outings,
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: 53 yards, 4-4 per carry versus Atlanta.
- 1:02:53Speaker 4: Hubbard sets sail for another first down.
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: He takes on a Cleveland defense that gave up 89
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: yards on over five a carry to Bucky Irving.
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: Irving's got daylights.
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: So Brown's hoping to clean some things up down low.
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: Speaking of cleaning things up, Carolina, nine flags last week.
- 1:03:10Speaker 6: Well, even when you have a blowout victory, coaches love
- 1:03:13Speaker 6: to say, we got some things we need to clean up.
- 1:03:15Speaker 4: I think we know what Canales has to clean up.
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: Neither of these squads wants to start off 0-3, but
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: one will. Indianapolis Colts still hoping to figure out a
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: way to keep teams off the scoreboard so often and
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: how to snap the nine-game losing streak they're on.
- 1:03:31Speaker 27: Houston, meantime, hits Week 3 hoping to find a way
- 1:03:33Speaker 27: to blend their Week 1-0 with their Week 2-D.
- 1:03:45Speaker 1: They'd come up with that mixture and they'd be cooking
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: with some serious gas.
- 1:03:49Speaker 8: Third and 11, they need the 34. Here comes Anderson,
- 1:03:53Speaker 8: he's got Burrow, held, spun, set!
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: Texans defense, feeling like itself again ahead of week three,
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: had trouble with Buffalo's offense but not Cincinnati's. Held them
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: to 20 points, just 4.5 yards per play, 5 for
- 1:04:07Speaker 1: 15 on third down, basically played to their expected levels
- 1:04:11Speaker 1: for the most part. what they expect again this.
- 1:04:13Speaker 4: Week, too.
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: The big battle on this side of the ball, their
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: front versus Indy's O-line, and specifically Will Anderson and Daniil
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: Hunter versus Indy's tackles. Anderson and Hunter with a sack
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: each of Joe Burrow, Houston rolls in off a five-bag game.
- 1:04:37Speaker 8: Colt's O-line, though, comes off a strong showing, too. Didn't
- 1:04:38Speaker 8: allow Daniel Jones to get dropped once on 31 pass attempts.
- 1:04:41Speaker 2: He was blitzed 39% of his.
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: Throws, faced pressure less than 30% of the time.
- 1:04:55Speaker 27: Great to put a spotlight on Nelson. Six-time All-Pro. Man,
- 1:04:59Speaker 27: as he delivered.
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: It was an ice cube kind of day for that
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: group because they also helped pave the way for Jonathan
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: Taylor to rip off some big runs. He scored twice,
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: 92 yards.
- 1:05:10Speaker 2: Second and three. Taylor.
- 1:05:12Speaker 5: Left.
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: End zone. Touchdown, Indianapolis.
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: Okay, he did grind a little. Only 3A to carry.
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: But still, no need for any AKs. Taylor now faces
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: a Texans front that held Chase Brown to four a run.
- 1:05:25Speaker 1: held Cincinnati to 85 rush yards, 3-7 per.
- 1:05:28Speaker 8: Brown, no place to go. Big time hits. All over
- 1:05:32Speaker 8: the joint.
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: Again, they were better on that front week over week.
- 1:05:35Speaker 1: Against the pass, not a lot of yards allowed to
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: Joe Shiesty. held him under 7 yards per attempt, but
- 1:05:41Speaker 1: not able to pick him off, a rating allowed over 100.
- 1:05:47Speaker 1: Gave up two TDs to Jamar Chase, cornered Derek Stingley
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: allowed 78 yards in one of the touchdowns, but it
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: took a Matrix-like catch to pull it off, it was crazy.
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: Now on to Indiana Jones, he threw a pick for
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: the second game in a row, but he rallied and
- 1:06:02Speaker 1: isn't coming off a terrible game. didn't have Alec Pierce
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: for part of it. He left hurt, but Jones with
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: some big throws he's building off of.
- 1:06:12Speaker 27: Jones retreats, got downs downfield. And the Colts get a
- 1:06:15Speaker 27: first down.
- 1:06:16Speaker 1: Taylor picked up 40 receiving yards in the passing game
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: last week as well. Tyler Warren had the TD, just
- 1:06:22Speaker 1: 21 yards. Keenan Allen only five yards. Laquan Treadwell with
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: the big 48-yarder in OT, 61 yards overall.
- 1:06:31Speaker 27: He's thrown for Treadwell, who's got it at the 20,
- 1:06:34Speaker 27: spins at the 16.
- 1:06:35Speaker 1: And Josh Downs led the team in targets, receptions, and yards,
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: 72-yard night.
- 1:06:41Speaker 2: He now becomes that guy for this offense.
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: Texans offense also missing a key wideout. Their top guy,
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: Nico Collins, missed last week altogether, so track his status
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: this week, too. C.J. Stroud piled up plenty of yards
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: without him, 353 of them, has started off 2026 with
- 1:07:00Speaker 1: back-to-back 270-plus yard games.
- 1:07:03Speaker 8: First and 10, going deep, and he's caught his receiver!
- 1:07:07Speaker 2: What a throw to Noel!
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: Now, he threw 55 times, ended the game with a
- 1:07:12Speaker 1: sub-80 rate, averaged less than 7 yards per attempt and
- 1:07:15Speaker 1: no touchdowns, offense needing a big Sean bounce back after
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: going 0-4 in the red zone, 5-17 on 3rd down,
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: 0-4 on fourth downs and fewer than five yards per play.
- 1:07:27Speaker 2: And they stop him! What a play!
- 1:07:29Speaker 8: Blew it up and Montgomery could not carve the necessary yards.
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: If you're a real one, you know how to bounce back.
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: And if Indy doesn't find a way to play better defense,
- 1:07:38Speaker 1: Stroud and company could do it. Colts defense gave up
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: 41 points to the Ravens, then 33 to Kansas City,
- 1:07:45Speaker 1: allowed over 500 yards of offense last week.
- 1:07:48Speaker 2: Mahomes, touchdown pass, number two on the night.
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: Stroud, looking at a secondary that made Patrick Mahomes look
- 1:07:54Speaker 1: like Patrick Mahomes again, gave up 382 yards to him.
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: On over eight yards per attempt, three touchdowns, didn't pick
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: him off, a 114 rate allowed, so back-to-back games giving
- 1:08:06Speaker 1: up 320-plus yards.
- 1:08:07Speaker 4: Thornton!
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: Colts secondary, cornerback Justin Wally gave up two TDs and
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: a team-high 105 yards, according to NGS. Both their inside
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: linebackers gave up 50-plus yards each, too. 101 yards and
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: a touchdown allowed to Travis Kelsey, and it was a
- 1:08:27Speaker 1: tight end who ate the most for Houston versus Cincinnati.
- 1:08:31Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz piling up 140 yards.
- 1:08:34Speaker 2: What a catch by Schultz!
- 1:08:36Speaker 12: Right up the seam, Schultz gets a hand up there
- 1:08:38Speaker 12: and he's able to bring it in.
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: Rest of Stroud's production spread out. Xavier Hutchinson, 37 yards.
- 1:08:45Speaker 1: Keyshawn Booty, 37. Foster Moreau, 34 yards. Jared Wayne, 33.
- 1:08:51Speaker 1: Stroud was sacked four times on his 55 pass attempts.
- 1:08:54Speaker 1: All four came in the fourth quarter. Left guard Keelan
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: Rutledge allowed one with a 16% press rate allowed. Right
- 1:09:01Speaker 1: tackle Trent Brown gave up one with a hefty 20%
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: pressure rate given up. And left tackle Ariante Ursary gave
- 1:09:08Speaker 1: up two sacks. Stroud didn't face many blitzes either, still
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: faced pressure over 40% of his throws. Colts didn't blitz
- 1:09:17Speaker 1: Mahomes much, didn't pressure him much, only two sacks on
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: 47 pass attempts, and they didn't play the run well either,
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: gave up 117 yards on 4-9 to carry to Kenneth Walker.
- 1:09:28Speaker 27: Bouncing it to the outside with Mahomes out in front
- 1:09:32Speaker 27: looking for somebody to block.
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: Something's got to give then, because Houston's rush attack only
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: produced 60 yards. Woody Marks and David Montgomery each finishing
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: with less than two yards a try.
- 1:09:42Speaker 8: And Marks almost had his helmet taken off by Miles Murphy.
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins at home for the first time this year,
- 1:09:50Speaker 1: still trying to win a game for the first time
- 1:09:52Speaker 1: this year, too. Yeah, you're a great player, man.
- 1:09:55Speaker 2: I grew up a big Minnesota fan. Oh, yeah, that's right.
- 1:09:57Speaker 7: That's right.
- 1:09:58Speaker 2: Yeah, you're a great player. You have a great career
- 1:09:59Speaker 2: at Tech, man. You're going to be a good player
- 1:10:00Speaker 2: in the league.
- 1:10:01Speaker 1: That won't be easy, though, as they take on the
- 1:10:03Speaker 1: 2-0 Chiefs who could be more dangerous than ever if
- 1:10:07Speaker 1: their Week 2 offense is going to be a thing
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: going forward.
- 1:10:10Speaker 27: Final play of Sunday, number two of the season, Butker
- 1:10:13Speaker 27: from 40 for the win!
- 1:10:16Speaker 2: Kansas City, 2-0!
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: Used to be that no one would give Patrick Mahomes
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: the ball back in overtime. Then a couple of down
- 1:10:24Speaker 1: years came along, an injury, so maybe he just isn't
- 1:10:27Speaker 1: the same. Well, he's strutting in off a 382-yard, 3-TD outing,
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: No interceptions, 1-14 rate game. Cue the little girl in
- 1:10:37Speaker 1: Poltergeist 2. He's back.
- 1:10:40Speaker 2: From the 13, Mahomes fires right. Kelsey! Touchdown!
- 1:10:46Speaker 1: But he's never been paired with a back like this.
- 1:10:49Speaker 1: Miami's defense has to be able to stop Kenneth Walker too,
- 1:10:53Speaker 1: and apparently he's still going. followed up his monster KC
- 1:10:57Speaker 1: debut with a 117-yard 4-9 per carry encore.
- 1:11:01Speaker 23: Even the Kansas City Chiefs talked about how much better
- 1:11:05Speaker 23: their defense got because of all the bounce-outs and bounce-arounds
- 1:11:09Speaker 23: that they had to deal with with Walker.
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: In turn, Finn's defense stacked against a KCO that's put
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: up 30-plus points back-to-back games to start the year, 33
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: versus Indianapolis, piling up over 500 yards.
- 1:11:24Speaker 2: Kelsey on the move.
- 1:11:26Speaker 16: Mahomes.
- 1:11:26Speaker 2: Touchdown pass.
- 1:11:28Speaker 27: Number two on the night to number one Xavier Worthy.
- 1:11:31Speaker 1: Okay, the Dolphins did at least play CMC well down low.
- 1:11:35Speaker 1: They got that going for them at least. Held McCaffrey
- 1:11:38Speaker 1: to 23 yards on 2.3 per carry last week.
- 1:11:42Speaker 21: Purdy turns McCaffrey to the goal line.
- 1:11:45Speaker 2: Stopped short.
- 1:11:46Speaker 1: But everything else stacks up as a mismatch. Gave up
- 1:11:50Speaker 1: 287 yards to Brock Purdy on a whopping 13 yards
- 1:11:54Speaker 1: per attempt. No interceptions, two TDs allowed for a fatty
- 1:11:59Speaker 1: 149 rate allowed. He threw 22 passes, completed 20 of them.
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: Here's Purdy.
- 1:12:07Speaker 2: With time, to the end zone, it's Kittle! All the
- 1:12:11Speaker 2: way back.
- 1:12:12Speaker 1: Pass rush going to show up. Zero sacks on Purdy's passes.
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: Gave up 35 points when the day was over. Let
- 1:12:19Speaker 1: the Niners convert five of seven third down tries and
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: all five of their red zone trips.
- 1:12:25Speaker 2: On third and three. Play action. Use check. Down the sideline.
- 1:12:29Speaker 2: Touchdown San Francisco.
- 1:12:32Speaker 1: 80 yards and a TD allowed to George Kittle. And
- 1:12:36Speaker 1: now they get Travis. Kelsey scored with over 100 yards,
- 1:12:40Speaker 1: showing the world the bling he ponied up for in
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: the process.
- 1:12:43Speaker 27: You think he's making payments on that? Lots of guys
- 1:12:46Speaker 27: come in with full bellies.
- 1:12:48Speaker 2: Xavier Worthy scored. Jalen Royals did, too. Walker caught six passes, too,
- 1:12:52Speaker 2: for 61 yards.
- 1:13:05Speaker 12: Turns.
- 1:13:05Speaker 2: Going to pivot. Walker. Open field. Inside the 40. Walker
- 1:13:10Speaker 2: to the 30. To the 25-yard line.
- 1:13:13Speaker 1: Rashe Rice got it going for the tune of 83 yards.
- 1:13:17Speaker 2: Pressure. Thrown in the middle. And complete to Rashe Rice.
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: And Tyquan Thornton with 86 yards. Huge clutch catch.
- 1:13:26Speaker 2: Kelsey into block.
- 1:13:27Speaker 27: Now releases Mahomes downfield towards Thornton.
- 1:13:30Speaker 2: Did he hold on? Yes, he did.
- 1:13:33Speaker 1: Now, Chiefs defense has some cleanup work to do. Colts
- 1:13:36Speaker 1: hung 30 points on him. They didn't sack Daniel Jones
- 1:13:40Speaker 1: once on 31 pass attempts, blitzed him 40% of the time,
- 1:13:44Speaker 1: yet only pressured him 27% of his throws.
- 1:13:47Speaker 27: Josh Downs inside the 35-yard line, and the Colts get
- 1:13:50Speaker 27: a first down.
- 1:13:51Speaker 1: Now, to a Miami offense that only mustered 13 points.
- 1:13:55Speaker 1: That DJ producer guy would rather not have his name
- 1:13:58Speaker 1: associated to that. That's 13-point efforts in both their games
- 1:14:01Speaker 1: so far.
- 1:14:02Speaker 21: Pressure up the middle as they tried to set up
- 1:14:04Speaker 21: the screen to A-Chan and nothing doing.
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: Malik Willis, connected on a 77-yard bomb at least, walked
- 1:14:10Speaker 1: out with a nice 103 rating.
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: Deep shot down the sideline. It's Ryan Miller.
- 1:14:15Speaker 14: He'll take it all the way for a Miami touchdown.
- 1:14:19Speaker 1: 77 yards on that play, 120 the rest of the game, though,
- 1:14:24Speaker 1: and he got planted four times on 23 pass attempts.
- 1:14:27Speaker 1: Their guards blamed for two, according to NGS. Right tackle
- 1:14:31Speaker 1: Austin Jackson gave up a 25 percent pressure rate. That's
- 1:14:35Speaker 1: crazy high.
- 1:14:35Speaker 10: I mean, that's your biggest threat is 97.
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: Malik Washington with 43 yards. Ryan Miller, the recipient of
- 1:14:42Speaker 1: that 77 yarder. Caleb Douglas, just 19 yards. Chiefs DBs
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: gave up 61 yards to Laquan Treadwell with help from
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: a very particular ref sitting in a booth. I don't know, man.
- 1:14:55Speaker 1: Also gave up 72 yards to Josh Downs. Corner LeJarius
- 1:14:59Speaker 1: Sneed tagged with 121 yards and a TD allowed by NGS.
- 1:15:04Speaker 1: Along the ground, Devon Achan still trying to find room
- 1:15:07Speaker 1: to do his thing. He did at least go for
- 1:15:10Speaker 1: 74 yards.
- 1:15:10Speaker 2: Nice jump cut.
- 1:15:11Speaker 21: Here's a talent that they have weaving around, breaking tackles.
- 1:15:15Speaker 21: Devon Achan with a good run.
- 1:15:18Speaker 1: But just 3-7 to carry hasn't cracked four yet in
- 1:15:21Speaker 1: his two games. Chiefs D he'll try to against gave
- 1:15:25Speaker 1: up 92 yards and two touchdowns to Jonathan Taylor, but
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: played him tougher as the game went along, held him
- 1:15:31Speaker 1: under four yards per carry when it was all over.
- 1:15:33Speaker 2: It's a run. Taylor tries to bounce it. Can't get
- 1:15:36Speaker 2: away from Nick Bolton.
- 1:15:39Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers at home this week. Forget firing the cannons.
- 1:15:43Speaker 1: Time to hit the panic button before things get out
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: of hand.
- 1:15:46Speaker 2: 22 seconds left to play on fourth down. They go
- 1:15:48Speaker 2: to the end zone. Incomplete. And that should do it
- 1:15:52Speaker 2: for the Browns.
- 1:15:54Speaker 1: They're hoping to get their first win against a Minnesota
- 1:15:57Speaker 1: Vikings squad that started 2-0, equipped with a defense that
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: would blitz Baker's wife at the grocery store.
- 1:16:04Speaker 22: And Williams will get away momentarily, but that's all.
- 1:16:08Speaker 2: He ultimately gets finished off.
- 1:16:10Speaker 1: Bucks having to try and get right versus a Minnesota
- 1:16:13Speaker 1: defense that just smothered an offense that went for 59
- 1:16:17Speaker 1: points the week before, holding them to three.
- 1:16:20Speaker 2: Was it wet?
- 1:16:21Speaker 4: Sure.
- 1:16:21Speaker 1: Football gets played in the rain, last I checked. Held
- 1:16:24Speaker 1: the mighty Chicago offense to 5-for-15 on third down, 0-for-3
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: in the red zone, a lowly 4.2 yards per play.
- 1:16:32Speaker 22: Instead, they're all the way back at the 42, and
- 1:16:34Speaker 22: Williams tackled from behind as he throws it. Eric Wilson
- 1:16:38Speaker 22: getting home.
- 1:16:39Speaker 1: Mayfield staring at a DB group that held Caleb Williams
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: to 138 yards, no TDs allowed, picked him off for
- 1:16:47Speaker 1: a mid-50s rate.
- 1:16:48Speaker 22: Williams steps up, Williams lets it rip, and gets picked
- 1:16:53Speaker 22: off by Byron Murphy.
- 1:16:54Speaker 1: Baker, meantime, unable to crack 190 yards versus Cleveland, who
- 1:16:59Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence glided through, held to 5.4 per attempt, got
- 1:17:04Speaker 1: picked off for a low 70s rating.
- 1:17:06Speaker 2: Mayfield looking to throw again, throws to his left.
- 1:17:08Speaker 22: And it's intercepted at the 48-yard line. Red, the eyes
- 1:17:13Speaker 22: and the body of Mayfield beautifully.
- 1:17:15Speaker 1: Buck's offense only accounted for 20 week one points, then
- 1:17:19Speaker 1: only scratched out 19 last week, one for four in
- 1:17:23Speaker 1: the red zone.
- 1:17:23Speaker 21: Mayfield drops back to pass. Mayfield toward the goal line.
- 1:17:27Speaker 2: Incompletes. It was short.
- 1:17:29Speaker 1: And here's the big one. Baker took three sacks on
- 1:17:32Speaker 1: 34 pass attempts. Guard Ben Bredesen gave up another sack.
- 1:17:36Speaker 1: That's two and two games for him. Mayfield faced a 42%
- 1:17:40Speaker 1: pressure rate.
- 1:17:41Speaker 22: Trouble's coming, and Mayfield is going down.
- 1:17:45Speaker 1: He only faced a 30% blitz rate versus Cleveland, and here,
- 1:17:49Speaker 1: at least so far, is the critical stat if you're
- 1:17:52Speaker 1: a Bucs fan. He's 11 for 12 versus the Blitz
- 1:17:55Speaker 1: so far, a 125 rating, his one TD last week
- 1:17:59Speaker 1: against the Blitz.
- 1:18:00Speaker 17: And Baker Mayfield again, I mean, he's... Houdini at times
- 1:18:09Speaker 17: with the way that he's able to make plays.
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: This week, it's not so much when will he get blitzed,
- 1:18:14Speaker 1: but when won't he? Brian Flores would send five plus
- 1:18:18Speaker 1: after your grandma. He doesn't care. 78% week one, 79%
- 1:18:21Speaker 1: week two. It's an absurd rate to send extra heat.
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: It led to four sacks of Caleb and a pressure
- 1:18:30Speaker 1: rate close to 50. It means Minnesota's DBs have to
- 1:18:39Speaker 1: handle their business. They did last week. Most yards they
- 1:18:43Speaker 1: gave up was to running back DeAndre Swift. No bears
- 1:18:46Speaker 1: wideout or tight end with 45 yards. Now they do
- 1:18:50Speaker 1: business with Emeka Ibuka, who wobbles in off a 16-yard game.
- 1:18:54Speaker 1: As you saw, he at least scored. Tight end Cade
- 1:18:57Speaker 1: Otten had 38 yards versus Cleveland. Chris Godwin with 46. Well,
- 1:19:01Speaker 1: we knew it was only going to be a matter
- 1:19:03Speaker 1: of time before.
- 1:19:05Speaker 25: Chris Godwin got involved into this passing game. And that time,
- 1:19:08Speaker 25: Chris Godwin just wins with speed.
- 1:19:10Speaker 1: And Tez Johnson hauled in a 49-yard pass to lead
- 1:19:14Speaker 1: the way.
- 1:19:14Speaker 2: Mayfield slipped. He still makes the throw to Johnson. He
- 1:19:17Speaker 2: got it this time.
- 1:19:19Speaker 1: Vikings D mixed bag versus the run week two. Did
- 1:19:22Speaker 1: give up 47 yards on 4-7 to carry to Kyle Menungai,
- 1:19:26Speaker 1: but held DeAndre Swift to 2-8 per carry and knocked
- 1:19:29Speaker 1: the ball out of his hands at the goal line.
- 1:19:38Speaker 1: Now they get Bucky Irving, who ripped off a 38-yarder
- 1:19:41Speaker 1: versus Cleveland, went for 89 yards on 5-2 a pop
- 1:19:45Speaker 1: as a result. You're not going to win too many
- 1:19:52Speaker 1: games 9-3, of course. Vikings offense not able to carry
- 1:19:56Speaker 1: over the momentum of their second half versus Green Bay.
- 1:19:59Speaker 1: Carson Wentz only threw for 143 yards versus the Bears.
- 1:20:03Speaker 1: Offense fewer than five yards per play. Only three for
- 1:20:06Speaker 1: 13 on third down. Only one red zone trip and
- 1:20:09Speaker 1: clearly didn't finish that one off. They hope and expect
- 1:20:15Speaker 1: to have Kyler Murray back for this game. He'll see
- 1:20:18Speaker 1: what he can do for a full game versus a
- 1:20:20Speaker 1: Tampa defense that gave up 23 points to Cleveland. That's
- 1:20:24Speaker 1: kind of meh. They stopped him on two of their
- 1:20:26Speaker 1: three red zone trips, held him to five for 13
- 1:20:29Speaker 1: on third down. Murray not looking at a rattled defense,
- 1:20:32Speaker 1: per se.
- 1:20:33Speaker 2: Watson dancing in the pocket. He's ripped down.
- 1:20:36Speaker 22: Sacked at the 21-yard line.
- 1:20:38Speaker 1: But the secondary he gets, hoping to play the pass better,
- 1:20:41Speaker 1: gave up 238 yards to Deshaun Watson on 26 of
- 1:20:45Speaker 1: 30 passing.
- 1:20:47Speaker 10: Two TDs allowed, rate.
- 1:20:48Speaker 1: Allowed over 120. did not come up big when the
- 1:20:51Speaker 1: game was on the line. Murray also has to be
- 1:20:59Speaker 1: ready for the blitz. Buccaneers sent five plus 50% of
- 1:21:03Speaker 1: the time, but only came up with two sacks on
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: Watson's 30 pass attempts and only pressured him 36% of
- 1:21:08Speaker 1: the time. didn't really tilt things their way. Wentz got
- 1:21:13Speaker 1: blitzed 50% of the time too, took three sacks. Right
- 1:21:16Speaker 1: guard Will Fries gave up a sack and a high
- 1:21:18Speaker 1: pressure rate according to NextGenStats. Right tackle Brian O'Neal also
- 1:21:23Speaker 1: gave up a sack. Wentz only threw 20 times.
- 1:21:25Speaker 22: There's a flag down, and Wentz is down as Odenbo
- 1:21:29Speaker 22: gets him.
- 1:21:30Speaker 1: Tampa's secondary gave up 95 yards and a TD to
- 1:21:33Speaker 1: Denzel Boston. Now in comes Justin Jefferson, who finished with
- 1:21:37Speaker 1: 55 yards versus the Bears.
- 1:21:39Speaker 22: Justin Jefferson makes the adjustment and the catch.
- 1:21:43Speaker 1: He was the only Viking with more than 30 yards,
- 1:21:45Speaker 1: TJ Hawkinson, 29, Jordan Addison, 21. Aaron Jones is the
- 1:21:50Speaker 1: Vike with the most momentum, ran for 105 yards on
- 1:21:54Speaker 1: 4-6 per.
- 1:21:55Speaker 19: And just great vision here by Aaron Jones.
- 1:21:58Speaker 1: We'll see if Jordan Mason is healthy enough to go
- 1:22:00Speaker 1: this week. Tampa did not have trouble with Cleveland's backs,
- 1:22:03Speaker 1: held Quinshawn Judkins to 1-8 a carry.
- 1:22:06Speaker 25: They're playing to the strength of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- 1:22:08Speaker 25: right there.
- 1:22:10Speaker 1: Houdat's turn to hit the strip, and be wary, Vegas.
- 1:22:13Speaker 1: These dudes are the kind that don't bluff. They keep
- 1:22:16Speaker 1: going all in with their chips when it matters most.
- 1:22:19Speaker 24: Tyler Shuck brought the Saints back. 71,000 erupts in displeasure.
- 1:22:25Speaker 1: Look, I get the Baltimore point of view, but I
- 1:22:27Speaker 1: get the NOLA side, too. Saints would have deserved four
- 1:22:30Speaker 1: more chances if the first mistake isn't made. So on
- 1:22:33Speaker 1: they march to take on, get this, the 2-0 Raiders,
- 1:22:38Speaker 1: whose fan base is on tilt right now, a shot
- 1:22:41Speaker 1: at a 3-0 start, which they haven't pulled since Chucky's
- 1:22:44Speaker 1: second tour.
- 1:22:45Speaker 11: And the party is on in SoFi for the Raider fans.
- 1:22:49Speaker 1: Maybe beating Miami was kind of expected, but taking out
- 1:22:52Speaker 1: the Chargers by 12 has everybody's attention, and they did
- 1:22:56Speaker 1: it without Brock Bowers, and he's back this week. Even
- 1:22:59Speaker 1: without him, Kirko Chains grooves in off a 250-plus yard,
- 1:23:04Speaker 1: 3 TD game over 8.5 yards per attempt, a 110-plus rate.
- 1:23:09Speaker 1: He's put up back-to-back 3 TD games to start.
- 1:23:12Speaker 2: Cousins to the end zone, wide open, touchdown!
- 1:23:16Speaker 1: Raiders' offense was abysmal in 2025. So starting off 2026
- 1:23:20Speaker 1: with 27 points and then 24 is huge.
- 1:23:25Speaker 2: Wow.
- 1:23:25Speaker 11: Kirk Cousins got hit hard, but a 42 yard pickup.
- 1:23:30Speaker 1: Four for 14 on third down. So they have some
- 1:23:33Speaker 1: work to do still. Chargers D is supposed to be tough.
- 1:23:36Speaker 1: Saints defense represents another good test then. because they just
- 1:23:40Speaker 1: got done holding the Lamar King Ravens offense to 17 points,
- 1:23:45Speaker 1: only let them cross the 20 twice. Cousins mixing it
- 1:23:53Speaker 1: up with a secondary that stopped Jackson when it mattered most,
- 1:23:56Speaker 1: gave up a TD in 235 yards, but came up
- 1:23:59Speaker 1: with a big pick when the game was on the line.
- 1:24:02Speaker 24: Jackson's pass picked off and the Saints turn out the
- 1:24:06Speaker 24: lights on the Ravens.
- 1:24:08Speaker 1: They didn't have to deal with Zay Flowers, gave up
- 1:24:10Speaker 1: 88 yards in the TD to Rashad Bateman. Cornerback Kool-Aid
- 1:24:14Speaker 1: McKinstry gave up the touchdown in 58 of those yards
- 1:24:17Speaker 1: according to NextGenStats. Vegas only had one pass catcher finish
- 1:24:20Speaker 1: with more than 30 yards versus L.A., Trey Tucker, who
- 1:24:23Speaker 1: went for 119 and a TD.
- 1:24:25Speaker 2: He's going to take a shot. Touchdown! Cousins to Tucker!
- 1:24:30Speaker 1: But how about tight end Cody White, scored twice, just
- 1:24:34Speaker 1: 24 yards.
- 1:24:35Speaker 11: Cousins throwing end zone, and it is caught by Cody White!
- 1:24:41Speaker 1: Cousins took a couple of sacks on 29 pass attempts.
- 1:24:44Speaker 1: They can live with that ratio. Right tackle DJ Glaze
- 1:24:47Speaker 1: tagged with one and a half sacks allowed a week ago.
- 1:24:49Speaker 13: Saints pass rush bagged up Lamar three times, blitzed him
- 1:24:51Speaker 13: over 40% of the time, pressured him over 40% of
- 1:24:52Speaker 13: his throws.
- 1:24:53Speaker 2: Chase Young, one and a half sacks.
- 1:25:04Speaker 1: He is now living up to his draft pick. He
- 1:25:06Speaker 1: is a beast.
- 1:25:08Speaker 24: Play action from Jackson. Here they come. Chase Young buries him.
- 1:25:12Speaker 1: Along the ground, they gave up a TD to Derrick Henry.
- 1:25:15Speaker 1: 68 yards on 4-3 a run. 34 yards to Jackson
- 1:25:19Speaker 1: on four runs. If you had told them ahead of
- 1:25:21Speaker 1: the game they could hold those two to 102 yards,
- 1:25:24Speaker 1: I think they would have happily accepted it.
- 1:25:26Speaker 24: Funky little formation here on second down. New Orleans front
- 1:25:29Speaker 24: not fooled.
- 1:25:30Speaker 1: Ashton Gentee up next comes in off a dud, held
- 1:25:34Speaker 1: to 48 yards on just 2.3 per carry.
- 1:25:36Speaker 5: Right in the middle of.
- 1:25:37Speaker 13: Your screen, kind of swims somebody and gets Gentee back
- 1:25:40Speaker 13: behind the line of scrimmage there.
- 1:25:42Speaker 1: As excited as the black hole is about their offense,
- 1:25:45Speaker 1: they're equally jacked over their defensive play, created a safety,
- 1:25:49Speaker 1: held L.A. to 14 points, 5 for 14 on 3rd down.
- 1:25:53Speaker 1: have held both their opponents under 15 points. Again, huge
- 1:25:57Speaker 1: improvement year over year.
- 1:25:59Speaker 2: There is a flag down in the end zone.
- 1:26:01Speaker 11: Max Crosby is saying he was held, and this should
- 1:26:03Speaker 11: be a safety.
- 1:26:04Speaker 1: The secondary, Tyler Shuck, takes on, picked off Justin Herbert twice.
- 1:26:09Speaker 1: Hezekiah masses with both. held him under 200 yards.
- 1:26:13Speaker 2: Herbert with time, fires, picked off! Masses, does it again!
- 1:26:18Speaker 1: Shuck's confidence is getting stronger by the week though, 250
- 1:26:21Speaker 1: plus yards for the second week in a row. TD,
- 1:26:24Speaker 1: no picks last week, drove them down to win it,
- 1:26:27Speaker 1: making several clutch throws.
- 1:26:29Speaker 2: On a second and four. There it is. Shucks pass.
- 1:26:31Speaker 1: Olave.
- 1:26:32Speaker 2: And here comes New Orleans.
- 1:26:34Speaker 1: Saints offense has put up 24-plus in each game. 24
- 1:26:38Speaker 1: versus Baltimore. Eight for 15 on third down. No turnovers.
- 1:26:42Speaker 24: Shuck on third and six. Ravens bring five completion. First down.
- 1:26:47Speaker 1: Now, 4.7 yards per play. That needs freshening up. Their
- 1:26:50Speaker 1: rush attack, pretty bad versus Baltimore. As Travis Achan only
- 1:26:54Speaker 1: ran eight times for 25 yards, Alvin Kamara made his
- 1:26:58Speaker 1: 2026 debut, didn't matter. Team finished with just 65 yards
- 1:27:02Speaker 1: on the ground.
- 1:27:03Speaker 2: There's a fumble.
- 1:27:04Speaker 24: Achan just falls on the football. They're going to lose
- 1:27:06Speaker 24: heavy yardage.
- 1:27:07Speaker 1: Their line also let Shuck get planted three times. NGS
- 1:27:11Speaker 1: blamed right tackle Talisi Fuaga for two. and they lost
- 1:27:15Speaker 1: their starting left tackle, Kelvin Banks, to an injury.
- 1:27:18Speaker 24: A couple of fakes, pocket muddies, Chuck Secht coming with
- 1:27:22Speaker 24: some serious heat.
- 1:27:23Speaker 1: Here comes Mad Max and company, though Crosby didn't get
- 1:27:26Speaker 1: the quarterback last week. Malcolm Kuntz did, though, one and
- 1:27:29Speaker 1: a half times. Vegas nabbed Herbert three times, and how
- 1:27:32Speaker 1: about a 54.8 pressure rate while only blitzing 32% of
- 1:27:37Speaker 1: the time?
- 1:27:38Speaker 11: Herbert is brought down, and Herbert.
- 1:27:41Speaker 2: Ran out of time.
- 1:27:43Speaker 1: When the ball is in the air, Shuck loves him
- 1:27:45Speaker 1: some Olave. Chris, with 86 yards and a TD, went
- 1:27:49Speaker 1: for 182 week one. Their chemistry looking Jesse Pinkman, Walter White-esque.
- 1:27:55Speaker 2: Shuck on a third and five. It's caught. Boy, just
- 1:27:58Speaker 2: when they needed a big play, it's Olave.
- 1:28:00Speaker 1: Not that kind of chemistry, obviously. Don't need to call
- 1:28:03Speaker 1: the cops on them. Shuck to Juwan Johnson also keeps clicking.
- 1:28:06Speaker 1: He connected with him for 66 yards.
- 1:28:09Speaker 24: Johnson on the underneath. Johnson, he's got a first down!
- 1:28:13Speaker 1: And Devon Vele, 64 yards. All three of those pass
- 1:28:16Speaker 1: catchers with good starts to their seasons.
- 1:28:19Speaker 24: Boy, every time they needed a big play last week,
- 1:28:22Speaker 24: it seemed like it was Vele.
- 1:28:23Speaker 1: Raiders defenders gave up a 53-yard pass to Trey Harris,
- 1:28:27Speaker 1: held all their other guys under 40 yards. Against the run...
- 1:28:31Speaker 1: 4.1 a carry to a Marion Hampton that touched down
- 1:28:34Speaker 1: 94 yards, but also stole the ball from him once, too.
- 1:28:38Speaker 11: Hampton up the middle, he lost the football! Right to
- 1:28:41Speaker 11: Jeremy Chin!
- 1:28:44Speaker 1: Washington at home week three, feeling the same way Tom
- 1:28:47Speaker 1: Brady did calling their game, which is to say they
- 1:28:50Speaker 1: felt like Ralphie in Christmas Story.
- 1:28:53Speaker 2: Oh, fudge.
- 1:28:55Speaker 26: Daniels falls in trouble, just kind of throws it out there,
- 1:28:58Speaker 26: and it's incomplete!
- 1:29:00Speaker 4: Oh, s * * *.
- 1:29:01Speaker 1: Tom spent all Sunday night with Lifebuoy soap in his mouth,
- 1:29:05Speaker 1: don't worry. Commanders going forth without JD5 again, and having
- 1:29:09Speaker 1: to do so against the reigning champs, who despite a
- 1:29:12Speaker 1: couple of personnel changes... sure look exactly like they did
- 1:29:15Speaker 1: when they won it all.
- 1:29:16Speaker 21: Stifling D, two guys to tote the rock, loads of JSN.
- 1:29:27Speaker 1: Wasn't that the formula in 2025? Sure, maybe Sam Darnold
- 1:29:31Speaker 1: comes back, but if he doesn't, does it matter? The
- 1:29:33Speaker 1: way Drew Locke is playing, every QB who's washed out
- 1:29:37Speaker 1: elsewhere is going to beg to sign in Seattle. 139
- 1:29:39Speaker 1: rate versus Arizona, 235 yards on nine per attempt, three TDs,
- 1:29:41Speaker 1: no picks. Sam's like, hey, butt feels fine, man. Let
- 1:29:49Speaker 1: me get back out there before this gets out of hand.
- 1:29:52Speaker 5: Is Drew Locke playing with confidence right now?
- 1:29:54Speaker 13: Does Drew Locke look like a starting quarterback right now?
- 1:29:57Speaker 2: Darn right he does.
- 1:29:59Speaker 1: Locke is no dummy. All three of his TD passes
- 1:30:01Speaker 1: went to Jackson, Smith, and Jigba. Only Seahawk with more
- 1:30:05Speaker 1: than 40 yards for the second week in a row,
- 1:30:07Speaker 1: 155 yards last week. So, C-Note plus change second week
- 1:30:12Speaker 1: in a row.
- 1:30:13Speaker 22: Jackson, Smith, and Jigma will take it down the sideline,
- 1:30:17Speaker 22: and that is a Seahawk touchdown.
- 1:30:19Speaker 1: Rashid Shaheed, 35 yards. Cooper Cupp, 20. A.J. Barner, 8.
- 1:30:24Speaker 1: Didn't matter. Didn't need him. as Seattle hung 31 points
- 1:30:28Speaker 1: on the Cardinals. Nice bump after they only managed 13
- 1:30:31Speaker 1: week one.
- 1:30:32Speaker 2: Well, the end zone lock.
- 1:30:33Speaker 22: It's another touchdown. He's got three today.
- 1:30:36Speaker 1: Now they try and keep it humming versus a Washington
- 1:30:39Speaker 1: defense that gave up 37 points to Dallas last week.
- 1:30:42Speaker 1: Let them convert seven of 11 third downs and three
- 1:30:45Speaker 1: of four red zone trips.
- 1:30:47Speaker 2: Throw, CeeDee Lamb, touchdown Dallas.
- 1:30:51Speaker 1: JSN eyeing a secondary that gave up 153 yards and
- 1:30:55Speaker 1: two TDs to CeeDee Lamb, Washington's DBs trying to rebound
- 1:31:00Speaker 1: after giving up 279 yards and four touchdowns to Dak
- 1:31:03Speaker 1: Prescott on 26 of 31 passing. A 143 rate allowed,
- 1:31:09Speaker 1: safety Jeremy Reeves tagged with a touchdown allowed by NextGenStats
- 1:31:13Speaker 1: corner Mike Sanristill giving up two. Lock threw 26 times,
- 1:31:24Speaker 1: only took one sack, faced pressure less than 30% of
- 1:31:27Speaker 1: the time, didn't face a lot of blitzing. Washington, on
- 1:31:30Speaker 1: the other hand, sent five plus over 40% of the time,
- 1:31:34Speaker 1: pressured Dak over 40%, got to him twice, Caleb on
- 1:31:38Speaker 1: chase on, and Javon Kinlaw the sack man.
- 1:31:40Speaker 26: Play action pass, pressure though on Prescott. He is sacked!
- 1:31:44Speaker 26: Javon Kinlaw.
- 1:31:46Speaker 1: Commander's front does at least hit week three off a
- 1:31:48Speaker 1: good showing versus the run, held Javonte Williams to 2-5
- 1:31:52Speaker 1: a carry, only 30 yards.
- 1:31:54Speaker 2: Here's the run, but hit right away as Williams breaks free,
- 1:31:57Speaker 2: but swarmed.
- 1:31:58Speaker 1: They get Emmanuel Wilson and hopefully Jadarian Price next. He
- 1:32:02Speaker 1: suffered an injury. Before that, he chipped in 52 rush yards.
- 1:32:06Speaker 22: Pitch to Price, and he's got room. And a hard hit,
- 1:32:10Speaker 22: but he keeps going. Price lowering that shoulder.
- 1:32:12Speaker 4: That's the boom.
- 1:32:13Speaker 1: Wilson went for 92 yards on 4-4 a pop, his
- 1:32:16Speaker 1: best game as a Hawk so far.
- 1:32:18Speaker 21: It's Emmanuel Wilson bouncing outside. He'll get a first down.
- 1:32:22Speaker 21: He'll get more than that.
- 1:32:23Speaker 1: Now to the dark side. Hasn't let much light in
- 1:32:26Speaker 1: two games to start the year. Held New England to
- 1:32:29Speaker 1: 10 points, then followed it by keeping Arizona to 7.
- 1:32:32Speaker 1: Three for 12 on third down, and check this out.
- 1:32:36Speaker 1: 151 total yards, 3.2 yards per play. Those are absurd figures.
- 1:32:42Speaker 21: Third down, Brissette knocked away at almost intercepted.
- 1:32:47Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota gets a secondary that got Nickham and Worry back,
- 1:32:51Speaker 1: staring at a Hawks DB group that followed their 3-INT
- 1:32:54Speaker 1: game versus Drake May by holding Jacoby Brissette to 95
- 1:32:58Speaker 1: yards on 3-4 per attempt. Picked him off. Are they
- 1:33:02Speaker 1: even darker than last year?
- 1:33:03Speaker 21: For pressure, percentage floating one. And nobody there except a
- 1:33:07Speaker 21: Seahawk defender.
- 1:33:08Speaker 1: The Mariota Daniels commander's offense only came up with 20
- 1:33:12Speaker 1: points versus Dallas. Haven't hit 24 yet this season.
- 1:33:15Speaker 2: Mariota now back to pass. Oh, look out. Barham with
- 1:33:18Speaker 2: a big hit. Ball is loose.
- 1:33:20Speaker 1: Apparently Madagascar Marty is a Cowboys fan. Or maybe Zebras
- 1:33:24Speaker 1: can't see TV screens the same way dogs can't? I
- 1:33:27Speaker 1: don't know how else to explain it though.
- 1:33:29Speaker 12: But on we go.
- 1:33:30Speaker 21: Mariota did play well off the bench, throwing for a
- 1:33:32Speaker 21: touchdown without being picked off.
- 1:33:34Speaker 2: 11 for 16 for a plus 100 rate.
- 1:33:50Speaker 1: He wasn't sacked, and neither was Daniels. On 35 pass attempts, too,
- 1:33:55Speaker 1: would be a feat to pull that off versus Seattle's front.
- 1:33:57Speaker 1: They don't blitz much, still pressured Brissett over 40% of
- 1:34:01Speaker 1: his throws. Jaron Reed, Leonard Williams made it home to
- 1:34:04Speaker 1: see mom last week. Big Cat hoping to visit three
- 1:34:07Speaker 1: straight weeks after starting his year with a sack in
- 1:34:10Speaker 1: each game.
- 1:34:10Speaker 21: The Seattle defense on third down. Brissette, and he'll go down.
- 1:34:15Speaker 1: Hawks secondary gave up a TD and 41 yards to
- 1:34:18Speaker 1: Trey McBride. Nobody else hit 20 yards against them. Now
- 1:34:22Speaker 1: they get in the rectangle with Antonio Williams, 24 yards
- 1:34:25Speaker 1: versus Dallas. Stephon Diggs, 47 yards, both the touchdowns. he's
- 1:34:30Speaker 1: scored in both their games.
- 1:34:32Speaker 26: They will throw it here, and they'll throw it on
- 1:34:34Speaker 26: in for the touchdown, Stephon Diggs.
- 1:34:36Speaker 1: And Terry McLaurin, who led them with 50 yards, could
- 1:34:39Speaker 1: have had more save an off-target throw.
- 1:34:42Speaker 2: That's McLaurin who breaks the tackle. Terry McLaurin with a
- 1:34:45Speaker 2: great move.
- 1:34:46Speaker 1: Rashad White, with 40 receiving yards, ran for 43-2 on
- 1:34:51Speaker 1: a nice 6-1 run.
- 1:34:52Speaker 26: White again, get a big hole for Rashad White, who
- 1:34:56Speaker 26: burst his way inside the 15.
- 1:34:58Speaker 1: Jacory Kroski-Merritt chipped in 43 yards last week, held to
- 1:35:02Speaker 1: 3-6 a carry though. Okay, now this matchup feels more
- 1:35:06Speaker 1: like we expected. Seems the right fit for the Sunday
- 1:35:09Speaker 1: night football game.
- 1:35:10Speaker 16: L.A.
- 1:35:10Speaker 1: Rams coming off their first win, armed with 99 on
- 1:35:14Speaker 1: defense and an offense that's more in sync.
- 1:35:17Speaker 2: Backpedaling, what a catch! Touchdown, Devontae Adams!
- 1:35:21Speaker 1: Taking on a Denver Broncos squad that's also coming off
- 1:35:25Speaker 1: a dub and whose defense is back to looking like
- 1:35:27Speaker 1: the brick wall we were expecting them to look like.
- 1:35:31Speaker 18: Launches, incomplete, and Denver's defense has held.
- 1:35:36Speaker 1: Orange's defense back to crushing week two, an early statement
- 1:35:40Speaker 1: that they are indeed that D, if you will, against
- 1:35:43Speaker 1: a Jags team that had cruised to bushels of points
- 1:35:45Speaker 1: the week before, holding Jacksonville to 13 points, held them
- 1:35:49Speaker 1: to fewer than five yards per play, and just five
- 1:35:52Speaker 1: for 12 on third down.
- 1:35:53Speaker 5: Lawrence is going to keep it himself. Lawrence trying to
- 1:35:56Speaker 5: get to the outside, and.
- 1:35:57Speaker 2: He's cut down.
- 1:35:58Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, drawing a secondary that just faced Trevor Lawrence,
- 1:36:02Speaker 1: who had thrown four Week 1 touchdowns, held him without
- 1:36:06Speaker 1: any while picking him off, kept him to fewer than
- 1:36:08Speaker 1: 200 yards.
- 1:36:10Speaker 18: Lawrence slings it, intercepted! Riley Moss steps in front of Washington.
- 1:36:15Speaker 1: Now they square off with Stafford, who hits Week 3
- 1:36:18Speaker 1: feeling spry. Didn't have Pukanakua? No problem. 327 yards, four TDs.
- 1:36:22Speaker 1: 10 and a half yards per attempt a 130 plus rate.
- 1:36:28Speaker 19: Good protection Stafford end zone Kyron Williams touchdown and they're
- 1:36:33Speaker 19: starting to look like the Rams again.
- 1:36:35Speaker 1: In turn LA's offense rumbles east off a 28 point
- 1:36:38Speaker 1: night a gaudy eight yards per play perfect three for
- 1:36:42Speaker 1: three in the red zone point being we have a
- 1:36:44Speaker 1: hot d getting in the ring with.
- 1:36:46Speaker 19: A hot o doing a great job and Matthew Stafford
- 1:36:49Speaker 19: just puts that in a perfect spot.
- 1:36:52Speaker 1: Stafford threw 31 times, only sacked once. He faced pressure 15%
- 1:36:57Speaker 1: of his attempts. That's about as low as it gets.
- 1:37:00Speaker 19: Good pass protection and the coverage broke down. That is
- 1:37:03Speaker 19: good for 64 yards.
- 1:37:05Speaker 1: Denver's pass rush, of course, key to their good defensive
- 1:37:08Speaker 1: showing typically. They put Lawrence down twice on 29 pass attempts,
- 1:37:12Speaker 1: but just as importantly, pressured him 45% of the time.
- 1:37:16Speaker 1: and weren't blitz crazy like they can be sometimes.
- 1:37:19Speaker 5: Lawrence, pocket, collapsing, and he's brought down.
- 1:37:24Speaker 1: Broncos gave up 98 yards to Parker Washington, the only
- 1:37:28Speaker 1: Jag to give them any kind of trouble. If Nakua plays,
- 1:37:31Speaker 1: they face double trouble, because Devontae Adams reminded everybody he's
- 1:37:35Speaker 1: just as much a one... as he's always been if
- 1:37:38Speaker 1: he gets all the looks. Two touchdowns, 195 yards on
- 1:37:43Speaker 1: eight catches. They always cut away to Taylor for Travis.
- 1:37:46Speaker 1: I think Tay's Taco Bell worker should get equal face
- 1:37:49Speaker 1: time after he scores.
- 1:37:50Speaker 2: Adams. He's got it! Touchdown Rams!
- 1:37:55Speaker 1: Only other Ram with more than 20 yards week two,
- 1:37:58Speaker 1: tight end Terrence Ferguson, who also scored, finished with 54
- 1:38:02Speaker 1: yards too.
- 1:38:03Speaker 2: Stafford finds his man, touchdown Ferguson.
- 1:38:07Speaker 1: And then there's their rush attack. That duo of theirs
- 1:38:10Speaker 1: also enters this one feeling themselves. Each guy with 12 runs,
- 1:38:14Speaker 1: Kyron Williams hit at 7-1 a carry, 85 yards.
- 1:38:18Speaker 19: And this Rams offense can gobble up yards in bunches.
- 1:38:23Speaker 1: Blake Corum went for 79 yards on 6'6 per.
- 1:38:27Speaker 2: Get the blitz, and they hand to Corum. First down Rams.
- 1:38:31Speaker 1: Those two get a front. They gave up a touchdown
- 1:38:33Speaker 1: in 65 yards to Bashawl Tootin. Five a carry. So
- 1:38:37Speaker 1: it's the one semi-blind spot that defense is looking to
- 1:38:40Speaker 1: shore up this week.
- 1:38:41Speaker 5: Toss to Tootin. Tootin slicing to the outside. He's got
- 1:38:45Speaker 5: a first down.
- 1:38:46Speaker 1: Denver's defense not the only one that struts in either.
- 1:38:49Speaker 2: Of course, L.A.
- 1:38:50Speaker 1: 's ended up facing a backup quarterback most of last week,
- 1:38:52Speaker 1: but they took care of the business at hand with
- 1:38:55Speaker 1: Aaron Donald back on the field, held New York to
- 1:38:58Speaker 1: two field goals, three for 14 on third down, a
- 1:39:01Speaker 1: paltry 3.3 yards per play, and 0 for 2 in
- 1:39:05Speaker 1: the red zone.
- 1:39:06Speaker 2: Chris Shula's going to be a little bit more aggressive
- 1:39:08Speaker 2: this year. You see the press on the outside.
- 1:39:10Speaker 1: Didn't allow Jameis to be famous in the aftermath, picked
- 1:39:13Speaker 1: Winston off, just 4.1 yards per attempt, a sub-40 rate,
- 1:39:17Speaker 1: just 111 yards.
- 1:39:19Speaker 19: Winston is going to be picked easily, intercepted by McDuffie.
- 1:39:24Speaker 1: Now they get Bo Nix. He comes off a much
- 1:39:27Speaker 1: better showing compared to week one, did leave with an
- 1:39:30Speaker 1: INT again, but 288 yards, lots of chunk passes, 9.3
- 1:39:35Speaker 1: yards per attempt.
- 1:39:36Speaker 18: Nix on the move, wide open, touchdown, the Broncos with
- 1:39:41Speaker 18: a big answer.
- 1:39:42Speaker 1: Offense overall, though, still needs work. Left lots of points
- 1:39:46Speaker 1: on the board, going 2-for-5 in the red zone, only
- 1:39:49Speaker 1: 4-for-11 on third down, they haven't put up 21 points
- 1:39:52Speaker 1: in a game yet.
- 1:39:53Speaker 5: Dials it up, and it's intercepted! The Broncos turn it over!
- 1:39:58Speaker 1: Wasn't an O-line issue when it came to the passing game.
- 1:40:01Speaker 1: Nix wasn't sacked once on 31 pass attempts, and also
- 1:40:04Speaker 1: faced pressure less than 20% of the time, and he
- 1:40:07Speaker 1: was blitzed 45% of his throws.
- 1:40:10Speaker 5: Fake the handoff, Nix through the air. extending for it, incomplete.
- 1:40:15Speaker 1: LA's pass rush may have only come up with two
- 1:40:17Speaker 1: sacks on 32 Giants pass attempts, but they applied pressure
- 1:40:21Speaker 1: at a fat 58% of the time, Byron Young picking
- 1:40:25Speaker 1: up his first bag of 2026.
- 1:40:27Speaker 19: Winston steps through, but caught from behind and brought down.
- 1:40:31Speaker 19: And that's Byron Young, who has been all over Winston.
- 1:40:35Speaker 1: Rams DBs gave up 48 yards to Darnell Mooney, held
- 1:40:38Speaker 1: everybody else to fewer than 35 yards, only gave up
- 1:40:41Speaker 1: one yard to Malik Neighbors. Only one Bronco with more
- 1:40:44Speaker 1: than 32 yards last week. Evan Ingram, 17. Cortland Sutton, 25.
- 1:40:50Speaker 1: Troy Franklin, 27. Nate Adkins caught the touchdown, 32 yards.
- 1:40:55Speaker 1: Jalen Waddell, the big week two earner, didn't get to
- 1:40:58Speaker 1: Waddell but 138 yards to make his mark as a Bronco.
- 1:41:02Speaker 5: Deep shot.
- 1:41:03Speaker 2: Jalen Waddell's got it. Down to the one.
- 1:41:07Speaker 1: Denver's rush attack. Still looking to find some traction. Jonah
- 1:41:10Speaker 1: Coleman scored.
- 1:41:11Speaker 4: Hand it to him.
- 1:41:12Speaker 2: Coleman takes it in for the touchdown. The rookie.
- 1:41:16Speaker 1: But only 3-9 a carry on 10 attempts.
- 1:41:19Speaker 2: J.K.
- 1:41:19Speaker 1: Dobbins 36 yards on 3-6 a try. They were without R.J.
- 1:41:23Speaker 2: Harvey.
- 1:41:24Speaker 1: Rams held Cam Scadaboo to three a carry in their win,
- 1:41:27Speaker 1: the Giants to just 52 yards on 2.5 per attempt.
- 1:41:31Speaker 2: Now on second down, Scadaboo gets one.
- 1:41:36Speaker 1: No team's fan base had a bigger case of the
- 1:41:38Speaker 1: moon days than Chicago's last week. Did get to exhale
- 1:41:42Speaker 1: a little in the aftermath, but bears having to try
- 1:41:45Speaker 1: and rebound from the highest of highs to the lowest
- 1:41:48Speaker 1: of lows in seven days.
- 1:41:50Speaker 22: Here we go, last breath for Chicago, and Dallas Turner
- 1:41:54Speaker 22: finishes the job.
- 1:41:56Speaker 1: They are at home again, taking on Philadelphia. The Eagles,
- 1:41:59Speaker 1: able to pull out their late game, come back to
- 1:42:02Speaker 1: stay perfect at 2-0.
- 1:42:04Speaker 20: And Ward just slings it to nobody in particular. It
- 1:42:07Speaker 20: was deflected, and the game is over.
- 1:42:10Speaker 1: Philly just barely avoiding a major upset, so on they
- 1:42:13Speaker 1: march looking for a 3-0 start to 2026. Jalen Hurts
- 1:42:16Speaker 1: hits week three off a 2-I-N-T game, but when he
- 1:42:19Speaker 1: had to turn it on, he did. Threw his second
- 1:42:22Speaker 1: touchdown of the game late, went for over 260 yards.
- 1:42:26Speaker 20: Roll into the right, floats it back of the end zone.
- 1:42:29Speaker 2: It is caught!
- 1:42:31Speaker 1: Philadelphia's offense good for 24 points in each game so far,
- 1:42:35Speaker 1: right at that respectable line. Three for four in the
- 1:42:38Speaker 1: red zone, converted 11 of 18 third down tries last week,
- 1:42:42Speaker 1: have converted more than half those across two games.
- 1:42:45Speaker 2: Hurts floats one. Oh, pass to Sticks and a perfect pass.
- 1:42:49Speaker 11: You know, this is where this Philadelphia offense can go
- 1:42:51Speaker 11: to another level.
- 1:42:52Speaker 1: They would like to see more pop from their offense
- 1:42:55Speaker 1: this week, though. Only 4.7 yards per play versus Tennessee.
- 1:42:59Speaker 1: Chicago seemingly needs their defense to show up again like
- 1:43:03Speaker 1: it did last week. Held Minnesota to 4-8 per play.
- 1:43:06Speaker 1: No touchdowns, just nine points. Three for 13 on third down.
- 1:43:11Speaker 1: Only let Minnesota inside the 20 once. It was a.
- 1:43:13Speaker 22: Marked improvement over their week one play versus Carolina.
- 1:43:17Speaker 2: Did the rain help?
- 1:43:24Speaker 1: Facing a backup quarterback in Carson Wentz, whatever. They held
- 1:43:27Speaker 1: him to 143 yards, a sub-80 rating.
- 1:43:30Speaker 22: 21, Wentz quickly juggled it incomplete.
- 1:43:34Speaker 1: Their defensive play and play versus the pass was enough
- 1:43:37Speaker 1: to win most games, so if they can stay that
- 1:43:39Speaker 1: tough versus Hurts, it would give them a chance. The
- 1:43:42Speaker 1: pass-rush battle will be key to that. They dropped Wentz
- 1:43:45Speaker 1: three times, Dayo Odingbo and Austin Booker with a bag each.
- 1:43:49Speaker 2: They sent an.
- 1:43:50Speaker 22: Extra man 50% of the time versus Wentz, only pressured.
- 1:43:53Speaker 2: Him on 29% of his throws.
- 1:44:00Speaker 1: Hertz didn't face many Titans blitzes, however, faced a hefty 40%
- 1:44:05Speaker 1: pressure rate, taking three sacks for the second game in
- 1:44:08Speaker 1: a row. Four of Philadelphia's five linemen gave up five
- 1:44:12Speaker 1: or six pressures each last week. Cam Juergens, the only
- 1:44:16Speaker 1: lineman blamed for a sack allowed, he got moved to guard,
- 1:44:19Speaker 1: gave up a hefty 14% pressure rate. This is an
- 1:44:23Speaker 1: area many Bird Gang faithful are worried about.
- 1:44:25Speaker 20: That's the time to ratchet up the pass rush, and
- 1:44:28Speaker 20: Jacob Martin comes up with a sack.
- 1:44:31Speaker 1: Chicago's corners kept Justin Jefferson to 55 yards, didn't allow
- 1:44:35Speaker 1: any other Viking to hit 30 yards, but corner Jalen Johnson,
- 1:44:39Speaker 1: who spent a lot of time with Jettas, gave up
- 1:44:41Speaker 1: a team-high 41 yards and a 100-plus rating, and he
- 1:44:45Speaker 1: gave up 127 yards the week before. Now he gets
- 1:44:49Speaker 1: Devontae Smith, went from 53 yards week one... to 117
- 1:44:53Speaker 1: week two with a score, led the team in targets
- 1:44:56Speaker 1: for the second week in a row.
- 1:44:58Speaker 2: Hurts floats it.
- 1:44:59Speaker 20: End zone, finds Devontae Smith for the touchdown.
- 1:45:02Speaker 2: There's the home run.
- 1:45:03Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard had the big game in the opener, then
- 1:45:06Speaker 1: only four yards a week ago, hurt his knee in
- 1:45:08Speaker 1: the second quarter and didn't come back. Makai Lemon, 14 yards.
- 1:45:12Speaker 1: Dontavian Wicks seems to be earning Hurts' trust. Five catches,
- 1:45:16Speaker 1: six targets versus the Titans. 74 yards, so back-to-back 70-plus
- 1:45:21Speaker 1: yard games.
- 1:45:22Speaker 20: Pump, throw, open man, first down. New reliable, Dontavian Wicks.
- 1:45:26Speaker 1: What should Philadelphia expect from their ground game? Ran 32 times,
- 1:45:31Speaker 1: only 89 yards, just 2.8 a carry. Saquon Barkley left
- 1:45:35Speaker 1: week two hurt. Hainback ended the day with nine yards,
- 1:45:38Speaker 1: only four attempts. Was set to get an MRI in
- 1:45:41Speaker 1: the aftermath.
- 1:45:42Speaker 20: Barkley being shaken up, got tumbled upon by a lot
- 1:45:45Speaker 20: of weight.
- 1:45:45Speaker 1: If he's fully healthy and gets his normal workload, he
- 1:45:48Speaker 1: could be lined up for a big night versus Chicago's defense.
- 1:45:51Speaker 1: They gave up 4-9 a carry to Chuba Hubbard week one,
- 1:45:54Speaker 1: then gave up 105 yards to Aaron Jones on 4-6
- 1:45:58Speaker 1: a carry despite the conditions.
- 1:46:00Speaker 22: Second and seven, Jones again, a lot of room, and
- 1:46:03Speaker 22: Aaron Jones crosses the 20.
- 1:46:05Speaker 1: The pressure, of course, is on for Chicago's D because
- 1:46:08Speaker 1: nobody can be sure what they're going to get from
- 1:46:10Speaker 1: their offense.
- 1:46:11Speaker 2: And he's in pain. Oh, no. The stadium is silent.
- 1:46:17Speaker 1: It was like every Bears fan took the biggest kick
- 1:46:20Speaker 1: to the you-know-whats that you can take. Luckily, it wasn't
- 1:46:23Speaker 1: an Achilles injury, pulled hammy. So now they have to
- 1:46:26Speaker 1: march on with Tyson Bajent, they hope, completed a few
- 1:46:30Speaker 1: passes to give the team a chance at the end
- 1:46:32Speaker 1: of last week at least.
- 1:46:33Speaker 22: Middle, there's Burden with a juggling catch.
- 1:46:36Speaker 2: So there it is.
- 1:46:37Speaker 1: But he's in concussion protocol. If he doesn't clear, they
- 1:46:41Speaker 1: turn to Case Keenum. The last time he started a game, 2023.
- 1:46:46Speaker 1: Chicago's offense, though, not able to produce in the wet
- 1:46:49Speaker 1: conditions against Minnesota's blitz-happy defense, even when Caleb was playing, too.
- 1:46:54Speaker 1: Three points after that 59-week-one explosion, 4.2 yards per play,
- 1:46:59Speaker 1: 5-for-15 on third down, and 0-3 in the red zone.
- 1:47:03Speaker 2: He's got it.
- 1:47:04Speaker 22: DeAndre Swift lost the ball, and Minnesota's got it.
- 1:47:08Speaker 1: Now they take on an Eagles defense that held their
- 1:47:10Speaker 1: opponents to 22 and then 20 points, been good enough
- 1:47:14Speaker 1: to get the job done.
- 1:47:16Speaker 2: Fake it. Fake it again.
- 1:47:17Speaker 20: Ward slings it. It's dropped in the end zone.
- 1:47:20Speaker 1: Bajent draws a secondary that held Cam Ward without a touchdown.
- 1:47:24Speaker 1: They haven't allowed either quarterback they've faced to hit 109
- 1:47:28Speaker 1: passing yards in a game.
- 1:47:29Speaker 20: On third down, it is Ward with a rifle shot
- 1:47:32Speaker 20: for Carnell Tate.
- 1:47:33Speaker 2: Incomplete, and he got drilled.
- 1:47:35Speaker 1: Giving up 9.2 yards per attempt to Ward isn't great, though.
- 1:47:39Speaker 1: But last week, it was their linebackers who got tagged
- 1:47:41Speaker 1: with most of the yards they allowed, not the secondary.
- 1:47:44Speaker 1: Bears pass catchers, tight end Colston Loveland, three yards over
- 1:47:49Speaker 1: two games so far, baffling. Luther Burden went for 32
- 1:47:53Speaker 1: yards last week, but he had seven targets. Kalief Raymond,
- 1:47:56Speaker 1: 40 yards, back-to-back weeks with 40-plus.
- 1:47:59Speaker 2: Keeps it alive, lets it go. Kalief Raymond, first down.
- 1:48:04Speaker 1: Rome Odunze, 43 yards, also has topped 40 in both games.
- 1:48:08Speaker 2: Steps up, lets it go, there's Odunze! He's got it!
- 1:48:13Speaker 1: De'Andre Swift led the team in receiving yards with 54.
- 1:48:16Speaker 22: Screen for Swift and he's got some room. He's got
- 1:48:18Speaker 22: blockers in front. DeAndre Swift.
- 1:48:20Speaker 1: He was not as efficient on the ground, though. Chipped
- 1:48:24Speaker 1: in 45 yards, but only 2-8 a run, and lost
- 1:48:27Speaker 1: that ball at the goal line, which really hurt. Kyle Menungai,
- 1:48:31Speaker 1: 47 yards on 4-7 a carry. He started his year
- 1:48:34Speaker 1: off well.
- 1:48:35Speaker 2: Pass rush sitch. Caleb and Bajent took four sacks combined
- 1:48:38Speaker 2: versus Minnesota, 35 pass attempts. Faced a ridiculous 79% blitz.
- 1:48:39Speaker 1: Rate, faced pressure 48% of the time. No Bears linemen
- 1:48:59Speaker 1: blamed for any of their sacks, though right tackle Darnell
- 1:49:02Speaker 1: Wright gave up a 16% pressure rate and seven pressures.
- 1:49:06Speaker 1: Philadelphia got to Ward twice, only blitzed 25% of the time, though,
- 1:49:10Speaker 1: so Bajent is facing a different kind of attack. Jalen
- 1:49:13Speaker 1: Carter and Nolan Smith with their week two sacks.
- 1:49:16Speaker 20: Keeps it, and the Eagles were not fooled. That's Jalen Carter.
- 1:49:21Speaker 1: Bears need to clean up the penalties so many in
- 1:49:24Speaker 1: the first half last week.