Latest / 3 Guys, 6 Balls NFL Podcast / EP 29: Ranking 3-0 Teams, Which Rookies From The First 2 Rounds Have Been Disappointments? & Revealing Top Five Potential New Favorite Teams

Transcript

EP 29: Ranking 3-0 Teams, Which Rookies From The First 2 Rounds Have Been Disappointments? & Revealing Top Five Potential New Favorite Teams · 3 Guys, 6 Balls NFL Podcast

0:00
3 lifelong friends, 6 trusty balls and endless NFL ticks
0:05
welcome to three guys 6 balls NFL podcast welcome to episode
0:08
29 of three guys 6 balls NFL podcast Before we get officially
0:12
started today I just want to give a shout out to everyone
0:15
who's followed us on our social media platforms.
0:18
We are officially over 1000 followers on TikTok and
0:21
Instagram, and so I just wanted to say thank you to everybody
0:23
who has followed us and who engages with our daily content.
0:27
We appreciate you guys and we hope that you continue to
0:30
support us. Also, we have started to do some
0:32
TikTok lives and we would love for you guys to come on there
0:36
and ask us some questions, whether it's about your team or
0:39
fantasy football, whatever it is, we will answer those.
0:42
We don't really have a set time at set day and time for those,
0:45
but whenever you guys see us on TikTok live, please jump on and
0:49
ask us some questions. We would really love to engage
0:52
with you guys while we're live as well.
0:54
So we appreciate everyone who's called us and who engages with
0:57
our content. Please continue to do so.
0:59
To get us officially started, Will has a recap of Week 3 of
1:04
the NFL season. And so Will I will hand the time
1:06
over to you all. Right, Week 3 we had 16 games.
1:10
This is the well last week to start the season for a second
1:13
last week to start the season, we have all 16.
1:15
We're all 16 and week 4 and now again until like week 16 or 17,
1:21
something like that. So so Thursday, the Bills are
1:23
good, the Dolphins are bad, but maybe not as bad as we thought.
1:26
Bengals, Vikings, maybe JJ McCarthy was the problem and I
1:29
was right the whole time. You look at the Bengals side,
1:32
backup quarterbacks clearly matter.
1:34
Look at this game, we had two backups.
1:36
Carson Wentz showed out and we have back-to-back AFC S
1:40
matchups. Jaguars, Texans AFC S is bad
1:43
even when they play themselves. This is the Jaguar extension was
1:46
the first of two milk and toe scans of the week.
1:49
Nobody cared about that one but a Colts Texan.
1:52
So ASU self is bad except for the Colts.
1:55
Daniel Jones seems to get the Saquon treatment.
1:58
Leave the Giants is equal to being good at football.
2:00
Raiders Commanders Super Mario can still sling the ball.
2:03
Again, This is why backups matter.
2:05
And maybe as a show, we were a bit too mean.
2:09
Adibos Annual. All right, special teams matters
2:12
again. The Raiders will be fine, but
2:14
they do need a new offensive line.
2:16
Eagles, Rams, Eagles stand defeated but barely.
2:19
Rams were a good team to have other weapons.
2:20
They just need to block a field goal.
2:22
Well, excuse me, they need to learn how to block for a field
2:25
goal, not block field goal that they probably have film on now.
2:28
Falcons probably been over had to start the season and Phoenix
2:32
probably this isn't that good. Welcome back Kirk Cousins to the
2:34
league. Glad you're starting again.
2:36
Had the Panthers fancy to feel good for a week, but please do
2:38
not get used to it. Steelers, Patriots Aaron Rodgers
2:43
still doing Aaron Rodgers things just enough to to win but not
2:46
too much extra because again, he is 900 years old.
2:49
We have Browns, Packers, the Browns continuously showing us
2:53
why defense may not sell tickets but is always more important.
2:56
Block field goals leading to a game where Wayne field goal.
3:00
The Rams probably should have taken notes.
3:02
Then we've got Buccaneers, Jets, Baker's a dog.
3:05
The Jets team was better with Tyrod Taylor than they were with
3:08
Justin Fields. Cannot say I'm surprised.
3:10
Matter of fact, I started Garrett Wilson this week when I
3:12
had not started him in the past. Again, third time backup
3:15
quarterbacks matter and make a question that name this time.
3:20
It's going to be an absolute All Star in this league.
3:22
Broncos, Chargers, we keep waiting for the charge to fall
3:24
out, but maybe not this year. But again, it's only Week 3.
3:27
So, you know, crumble later and maybe we overestimated the
3:30
charter at the Broncos to start the season.
3:32
We underestimated the Chargers and overestimated the Broncos.
3:35
The Saints. Nothing to say here except the
3:38
Saints were so bad they had to actually go get Tyler Shuck.
3:41
Morons. And later Seahawks had a big
3:43
win. Defence dominated.
3:45
Defence and special teams dominated that one.
3:47
Cowboys seem to be almost as bad as the Saints now.
3:50
We were there any injuries? Yeah, he's got injuries.
3:52
Congrats to the Bears for the first time in Kayla Williams
3:55
career at the Bears. It was his first time not being
3:58
sacked so that's that's a moral victory.
4:00
Good job offensive line. Carlos Niners hits milk toast.
4:04
Game of the week. Nobody really cared about this
4:06
game and nothing happened except for a questionable holding
4:09
penalty in the end zone. CMC is still good so long as
4:12
he's healthy. Chief Giants Russell Wilson
4:14
decided he was done playing football and made sure to hand
4:17
the reins off this game. Jackson Dodd, welcome to the
4:19
league. I don't understand why inside
4:21
the five yard line Russell wasn't throwing the ball 35
4:24
yards but here we are. That's nothing new.
4:27
At least this time it was to nobody instead of a different
4:29
team and Ravens. Ravens, Lions, Monday Night
4:33
Football. The Ravens may be the best one
4:35
and two team we've ever seen. Derrick Henry has an absolute
4:38
case of the yips and he's scared to hold on the football now.
4:40
Lamar Jackson got sacked 7 times in that game and is still in a
4:43
shot To win at the end you just have to play defense for four
4:46
full quarters. That's 23.
4:51
All right. That was pretty good.
4:53
I liked it. It's pretty good.
4:54
Thank you. Will you?
4:56
Will you think you can do one of those for us every week?
4:58
Every week. All 612, all games, every week.
5:04
Cool. I like it.
5:05
That was that was pretty good. All right, so just to give you
5:08
guys a little rundown of the schedule.
5:10
So what we have on the schedule for today is we are going to
5:13
rank the remaining 3 and O teams to get started here.
5:17
Then after that, we're going to talk about which of the skill
5:21
position rookies from the first two rounds has been the most
5:24
disappointing through the 1st 3 weeks.
5:26
And then we are going to give you guys a little bit of an
5:29
update on where we stand with our potential new favorite NFL
5:33
teams. So to get us started, we're
5:36
going to rank the three and O teams one through 6.
5:38
There are 6, three and O teams remaining.
5:40
You've got the Eagles, Bills, Chargers, Buccaneers, Colts and
5:45
49ers. And so, Avery, why don't you get
5:48
us started by ranking these teams one through 6 and just
5:51
give us a little breakdown as to why you ranked them in that
5:54
order. All right, I'll start with the
5:57
top Buffalo Bills. I just, I don't see them.
6:01
I mean, at least from the first three games, they just seem like
6:04
the most dominant force out there as far as power rankings.
6:07
Like I put them one for sure. Josh Allen's looking like a
6:10
monster for number 2. I put the Colts.
6:14
Just cuz I. Just cuz I don't think, but just
6:18
cuz I don't believe that they're going to keep this up.
6:20
They have they have showed out so far.
6:24
I don't know what it is and that team is just clicking.
6:26
So until someone can put a stop to it, I got to put them at two.
6:30
I will put the chargers at three.
6:33
I think they look good too, which is surprising because I've
6:36
had Justin Herbert as my fantasy quarterback 2 separate times and
6:40
every time it is a disappointment.
6:43
I actually haven't even checked how his fantasy stats Yeah,
6:46
every single one of those two times I haven't even checked his
6:51
fantasy stats. So maybe it's just as
6:54
underwhelming. But they have looked good and
6:56
they have won some big games already.
6:58
Yeah, the next team would be the Philadelphia Eagles.
7:02
That Tosh push is ridiculous and but.
7:06
I am. Still on the side.
7:08
I am on the side and this might be addressed later.
7:12
I'm on the side of figure it out for the defenses part of me it
7:17
just look, it looks hard to officiate.
7:18
It's it's tough. I I feel like I see a a false
7:21
start on that play like half the time.
7:24
There is. It happened.
7:25
It happened again against the Rams.
7:27
Yeah. And then also I, I just feel
7:29
like the only way to really stop it is to target like you got to
7:34
like just just. Torpedo your way.
7:36
In there, that's basically what they're already doing.
7:39
All of them are leading head first into the defensive line.
7:42
So wait, wait. OK, tell me what you guys think
7:45
about this. This, this just came to mind.
7:48
And I feel like there's one player that that I can think of
7:50
from NFL history that could stop this play and it is Troy
7:53
Palamalu. That dude was the best I have
7:58
ever seen at just timing the snap.
8:01
Just somehow just he just knew when the ball was going to be
8:03
snapped. He just jumps over the line and
8:06
just wrecked people. I would like to come for the
8:07
second player here, Warren Sapp, because you could not physically
8:13
move him. That dude was so big and so
8:16
strong. You just you couldn't move him
8:19
anyway. Yeah.
8:20
I'd like to nominate a third player.
8:22
I'd like to nominate a third player.
8:24
Lawrence Taylor, if he was in the game before that, the
8:26
quarterback wouldn't be in the game.
8:27
So you can just put him in earlier, avoid the whole
8:31
situation. So I got the Eagles.
8:36
They have been squeaking out games because of the tosh push.
8:40
You can call that calculated, kind of like Virginia
8:42
basketball, basketball reference.
8:43
They played slow and methodical. Their points never went above
8:46
50, but they won. And so it's one of those things
8:49
where every game is close, but not really because they're just
8:51
playing at an incredibly slow pace.
8:53
But these guys, that's kind of how I feel, at least for the
8:56
first three seasons. Next I got the Tampa Bay
8:58
Buccaneers. I wanted to put them a little
9:00
higher, but it part of their success looks a little bit like
9:06
Scrappy Luck. And I say that respectfully,
9:09
like they they haven't looked like necessarily dominant.
9:12
They look like a bunch of really talented players that are trying
9:15
really hard. And then I got to San Francisco
9:17
49ers at the bottom of all the teams that I would want my
9:21
favorite team to play. That would be the one of the
9:24
three and those. Yeah, I just also, I don't like
9:27
them. So you know, maybe bias, but the
9:31
both can be true at the same time.
9:33
That's funny you say that because that's actually my first
9:35
note here for ranking the 49ers at six.
9:39
It is because I don't like them, Yeah.
9:43
By the way, we're all choosing the 49ers as our favorite team
9:47
after spoiler. All right, so since Will's
9:52
already spoken way too much this episode, I'm going to go ahead
9:54
and give my, I'm going to go ahead and give my, my rankings
9:59
of the three and O teams here. So to start off #1 I have the
10:02
Philadelphia Eagles. And it's not necessarily because
10:04
I think that they are the most talented.
10:06
It's because I think that they are this year's regular season
10:09
Chiefs and they're just going to scrape by magically every single
10:12
game like the Chiefs did last year.
10:14
Somehow they have already escaped all three games.
10:17
Just because the universe said that they're going to win the
10:19
games, it's not because they should have won the games.
10:22
It's because the universe decided that they are going to
10:25
win those games. And so they are this year's
10:27
regular season Kansas City Chiefs.
10:29
And for some, I, I don't know how long it's going to go on
10:32
for, but so far through three weeks, that's what's happening.
10:35
They shouldn't have won. They probably honestly should.
10:38
At least two of those games. They should have lost.
10:40
For sure they should have lost. If CD Lamb doesn't drop those
10:43
balls, Dallas Cowboys probably win and just the fact that they
10:47
were able to block 2 field goals is just absolutely wild and it
10:51
should not have happened so. Saquon Saquon saying everyone in
10:57
the world knows what we're doing and it doesn't effing matter.
11:01
Like, yeah. That was cold because I see that
11:04
again going into this, that Tosh push.
11:07
You need to find a way to defend that go sink down to a lower
11:10
level to get the Eagles to try to ban whatever you're doing to
11:15
stop that. Like that's, that's what I want
11:17
to see. It might, it might not happen,
11:20
but I'd love to see it. Yeah, So anyways, that's why I
11:24
have the Eagles at #1 at #2 I have the Buffalo Bills and the
11:29
Bills. I don't necessarily think that
11:30
the Bills are I, I don't want to say that they are the most
11:34
talented all around team because I feel like there are some flaws
11:39
on this team that other teams can take advantage of.
11:42
You look at like the Baltimore Ravens when they played in week
11:44
one, they put up 40 points. But the reason I have them at 2
11:47
is because you have probably the best quarterback in the NFL
11:50
right now. And when the best quarterback
11:53
has been called upon to be the best quarterback, he has been
11:56
the best quarterback and he has won you those games.
11:59
Like against the Ravens. He is the reason that they won
12:02
that game against the Dolphins. He is the reason that they were
12:05
able to stay in that game and pull away at the end of that
12:08
game because the Dolphins gave them a run for their money for
12:11
most of that game. It was not an easy game for the
12:13
Bills. Now against The Jets, they did
12:15
not need Josh Allen to to be the best quarterback in the NFL.
12:19
So his stats don't look great, but that's because they did not
12:22
need him to be in the the other two games.
12:24
They needed him to be the best quarterback in the NFL and
12:27
that's exactly what he did. And when you have the best
12:29
quarterback in the NFL, it makes up for all the other
12:32
deficiencies that you have on your team.
12:35
The number three team I have the Chargers and the main reason why
12:40
is because they are a top five defensive team in terms of
12:43
points allowed, which makes sense because they were the
12:46
number one team in points allowed last year.
12:48
So they are continuing their good defensive trend here.
12:51
I really like what they're doing on offense with their receivers
12:54
with Quentin Johnson, Keenan Allen and Ladd Mcconkey.
12:57
Those three guys, it to me, it truly seems like they do not
13:01
care who gets the ball as long as they are scoring and they're
13:05
winning games. It does not feel like that they
13:07
truly care if it's them getting the ball or if it's one of their
13:11
other guys getting the ball. As long as they are doing well
13:14
and they're winning those games, I don't foresee any drama or any
13:19
diva action going on there between those three guys.
13:22
I just think that they are a solid group of wide receivers
13:24
and Justin Herbert is looking really good so far.
13:27
The one thing with this team that I think could potentially
13:30
hold them back is just the running game because they are
13:34
24th and rushing yards per game right now and they're averaging
13:36
3.5 yards a carry. But outside of that, everything
13:39
else that I've seen from the Chargers is looking really good
13:43
#4 I have the Tampa Bay Buccaneers also like Avery, I
13:47
did want to put them higher, but I did my rankings based off of
13:50
how these teams are right now. And so the the reason that I put
13:55
the Bucks at four and not higher is because the Bucks have a ton
13:59
of injuries on their team right now.
14:00
They just lost Mike Evans for three to four weeks.
14:03
They are going to get Chris Godwin back.
14:04
I don't know if it's going to be this week, but soon he is coming
14:07
back. So that should help.
14:08
But you just lost Mike Evans for three to four weeks.
14:11
Also, their offensive line is just being shuffled around in
14:15
every possible way that it can go right now.
14:18
They started the season without Tristan Wharfs, so they move
14:21
their starting center to left tackle.
14:22
So that leaves their backup center and then their backup
14:25
left tackle, who was their center.
14:27
And so they also lost their starting right guard.
14:30
They lost their starting right tackle.
14:31
Their right guard is out for the year.
14:33
Their starting right tackle is on IR, so he's out for a few
14:35
weeks, but that means that they have been playing with a backup
14:38
left tackle, a backup center, a backup right guard and a backup
14:41
right tackle for not for not for all the games, but for some of
14:44
the games. And so they they are going to
14:47
get Tristan worse back here hopefully this week against the
14:49
eagles. So that allows them to have
14:51
their starting left tackle and their starting center back.
14:54
But still you have your starting right guard and right tackle out
14:57
and they lost one of their defensive lineman for the season
15:00
as well. So there's a ton of injuries
15:02
there, but the fact that they have been able to win these
15:05
games and come back at the end tells you that this team is
15:09
never going to quit. They're always going to be in
15:11
the game no matter what. And so I really, really like
15:15
what I've seen from the book so far just from a, a standpoint of
15:18
just, they are, they're never going to back down and they're
15:21
never going to stop trying to win the game.
15:23
The number 5 team I have, the Indianapolis Colts, they're
15:27
putting up 34.3 points per game on average right now.
15:31
They've only allowed two sacks. So Daniel Jones has only been
15:34
sacked twice, which is crazy because you can see what he can
15:38
do when he's not being sacked a billion times like he was when
15:41
he was on the Giants. They lead the league in turnover
15:43
differential with +5 right now and they are one of three teams
15:48
who does not have a single turnover yet.
15:50
The other two teams are the Bills and the Buccaneers.
15:53
The reason I put them at 5 though is just because the
15:56
quarterbacks for the other four teams that I put ahead of them
16:00
are just better quarterbacks than Daniel Jones.
16:03
And then number six, I have the 49ers.
16:05
As I mentioned before, out of the remaining undefeated teams,
16:09
this is the only team that has a negative turnover differential.
16:13
They have a -1 turnover differential.
16:16
They have the lowest points per game, which is 19.7, which is
16:19
23rd in the league right now. The next lowest team of the
16:24
undefeated teams is the Chargers, who are at 23.3 points
16:28
per game, which is 15th in the league.
16:30
They also are 27th in rushing yards per game, which is one of
16:33
seven teams that is averaging below 90 rushing yards a game
16:37
right now. And they just lost Nick Bosa for
16:40
the year. So as good as their defense
16:41
looks right now, statistically it's not going to be that good
16:44
moving forward because Nick Bosa is no longer there, right?
16:47
Will your turn. Take us home.
16:50
I lost Internet about half or through what you said, so I have
16:54
no idea what half your list was. He agreed with everything I
16:57
said. You're a pause there for a
16:59
second. So yeah, just just to recap,
17:02
just to recap. So I have the Eagles one those
17:04
two charges at 3, Buccaneers at 4, Colts at 5 and the 49ers at
17:08
six. Cool, cool.
17:11
We have a kind of similar list of books to you because there's
17:13
only 6 people and so there's only so many options.
17:15
I've got the Bills at one for all the reasons we've been said.
17:18
Kind of like Aver said, the Bills even though they gave up
17:20
forty points to the Ravens, the Ravens, as I mentioned earlier,
17:24
are the best 21 and two team I've ever seen in my life.
17:26
The Bills are good and keep being good.
17:29
They are, especially with the Chiefs struggling early.
17:31
They're on the fast track to the number one seed in the AFC.
17:34
I'm sure the charters it too. Kind of like what Aver said,
17:37
they have won tough games and and they've played tough
17:40
opponents. Never just played nobody.
17:42
I've got the Bucks at 3 actually, for a lot of the
17:46
reasons why you have them original is actually why I have
17:48
them higher. They're missing a bunch of
17:50
people and they're still managing to win games.
17:53
They're still putting together a full team game and they're still
17:57
able to pull out a win #4 wait, can.
18:00
I just say something about real quick.
18:02
Yes. So the, the only reason why I
18:05
put them lower is because they're playing the Eagles this
18:07
week. And I feel like with all the,
18:09
the replacements that they have on the offensive line, that
18:11
could get them into trouble against a team like the Eagles.
18:15
And so that's the, that's pretty much the reason why.
18:17
Like, I love that they're, they've been over, they've been
18:20
able to overcome all of that stuff.
18:22
But I feel like against a team like the Eagles, that could get
18:25
them into trouble because you look at the teams that they've
18:27
played so far, they're all teams with losing records.
18:30
And so the Eagles are on a different level.
18:32
So I feel like that could get them into a little bit of
18:35
trouble in that game, if that makes sense.
18:38
I agree. All right, I see what you mean,
18:40
but we'll see here #4 XD Of the Colts because, and these are all
18:45
undefeated teams, but the Colts have won and looked good doing
18:49
it. They sure have.
18:51
Let's just I had the Colts schedule pulled up here a second
18:53
ago. They've beat maybe the Dolphins
18:57
Week 1, which Dolphins? Maybe they're always bad.
19:01
Then they beat Denver and then they just Molly walked the
19:04
Titans. The Titans are nothing to write
19:06
home about yet, but they they've won convincingly and
19:11
conventionally by one point against the Broncos.
19:13
But still not one person preseason.
19:16
Not one person or that is a football fan who wouldn't have
19:20
picked 2 Colts to beat the Broncos in Week 2.
19:23
No one. Like if you say, oh, I would
19:25
have this because either you're a Colts Homer or you're a
19:27
Broncos hater who's. A troll.
19:30
Or an absolute troll, right? Those are the only people, and
19:33
yet here they are at that's really known.
19:36
Like I mentioned Saquon, it didn't happen to Saquon left.
19:39
The Giants ran for 2000 yards. Now Daniel Jones leaves the
19:43
Giants and he apparently knows how to play football now.
19:46
And so I, I fight with the Colts are doing #5 I have the Eagles
19:49
because they have again won all their games since these were all
19:51
in defeated teams. But the Eagles have looked ugly
19:54
doing it if it weren't for Jalen Cart.
19:56
So let's back all the way to Week 1.
19:58
Jalen Carter doesn't get ejected from that first game before the
20:02
before the 1st actual snap, the Eagles beat Dallas by a million.
20:06
Dallas is offensive line can't do anything, but yet when one of
20:09
the best interior defensive lineman in the league, in
20:11
lineman in the league is out, your offensive line up a lot
20:14
better. And then Jaylen Carter last two
20:16
games is one of the main reasons they've been able to win.
20:20
He's able to get in there and create pressure.
20:22
He was doing to Matt Stafford the entire game.
20:25
He's quarterbacks off kilter and all of a sudden they're not near
20:28
as good. Now, fortunately for the Rams,
20:30
Matt Stafford, an absolute professional Super Bowl champion
20:33
and he knows how to handle that. But Jaylen Carter is a big
20:36
difference maker, but he is a key factor as to why they are
20:39
undefeated. That offense, the Eagles offense
20:42
has been very lackluster and very unimpressive and it is all
20:47
defense there and it's mostly defensive line allowing the
20:50
secondary to do something. And lastly I have the 49ers
20:54
because the 49ers have played no one and barely won.
20:58
The best team they've played so far is the Cardinals and they
21:01
beat them by one point and the most boring game.
21:04
Now they did beat the Seahawks by 4, but that was when you
21:08
still had Brock Purdy and nobody knew what the Seahawks were
21:10
going to do. Then you beat the Saints by 5.
21:13
So it's one score game against the Saints, which is
21:15
embarrassing by itself. And you beat the Cardinals by 1.
21:19
So where what are we? What are we doing here?
21:23
Matt Jones, he is not. I mean, he couldn't start in New
21:26
England and now he's here in San Francisco.
21:28
We couldn't start there either. But like I said three times,
21:30
ready backup quarterbacks matter.
21:32
So that Matt Jones is still doing this thing.
21:35
He can still play football. But you don't have George
21:37
Kittle. You don't have half your team
21:39
anymore. Well, we are all just waiting
21:41
for Christian McCaffrey to hurt again since you're having to rag
21:44
his back so much. And that defense is not the same
21:47
defense it's been in recent years.
21:48
So for an hour. So he, like Avery said.
21:51
They are the team that I would want my favorite team to go up
21:53
against if they had to go up against an undefeated team.
21:58
For sure. So before we move on to the next
22:01
segment here, I just thought of a question and this is about the
22:04
Colts. So we all know that Anthony
22:07
Richardson and Daniel Jones were competing for the starting
22:10
quarterback position, right? And then Daniel Jones eventually
22:14
ended up taking that job. The fact that Anthony Richardson
22:17
was even in consideration for the starting role, does that
22:21
mean that he was at one point playing well in training camp?
22:26
Because the way that we're seeing Daniel Jones playing
22:29
right now, he's playing very well.
22:30
And I feel like if he played like that in training camp,
22:33
there would have been no question that it was Daniel
22:35
Jones. I have I have a thought on it.
22:38
I think that is. Anthony Richardson not hurt
22:42
currently. I mean, he's all, isn't he?
22:44
Isn't he always hurt? OK, anyway, sorry but you go.
22:47
I I just felt like they probably got Jones on a discount because
22:52
he came out of New York and no one had seen what he can really
22:55
do. He played at Duke before that
22:57
barf. So when they get him and then
23:00
Anthony Richardson's in contention, I mean, you have to
23:03
go back to when, you know, 3 weeks ago, our view on Daniel
23:07
Jones. I just feel like, I guess 4
23:10
weeks ago, but I think if anything, it's, it's less so
23:14
him, Anthony Richardson not looking as good as it is now.
23:20
Looking back at Anthony Richardson like, oh geez, like
23:23
we had the tools here this whole time.
23:26
We just needed a, a better quarterback.
23:28
I think if anything, it's an indictment on Richardson, just
23:32
like, oh, so we just needed a new quarterback here.
23:35
Unless, unless there's something that happened where they just
23:37
switched out the line, all the pieces, couches and everything,
23:41
and just turn the ship around. It's just a bad look.
23:44
Like, I don't know if he's going to really get much of a shot
23:46
anywhere else. Anthony Richardson dislocated,
23:50
fractured, hurts brain, who knows but his throwing his right
23:54
pinky, his throwing hand pinky in pre season so doesn't really
23:59
matter, doesn't really affect anything now that we're in
24:01
September. I wonder if they had if the if
24:06
in the offseason they already knew Daniel Jones was going to
24:09
be the starter but to get maximum effort out of their
24:13
players. They were publicly saying it's a
24:15
quarterback battle. That way they both would try.
24:18
Not that they weren't going to try hard, but that they both
24:20
will put in maximum effort all offseason to make the whole
24:23
entire team better. Because I can imagine at year 15
24:28
or whatever, Matt Stafford's in his offseason maybe is a bit
24:32
lighter than say an Anthony Richardson, Daniel Jones type
24:35
who's trying to still keep their job.
24:37
We all know Matt Stafford's going to be the quarterback at
24:39
the Rams or say Aaron Rodgers at the Steelers.
24:42
When he finally signed on. He didn't sign on until, I mean,
24:46
it was late in the offseason when he signed on.
24:48
And so these guys who have been around for a long time don't
24:52
possibly I'm not seeing enough professionals with it, but
24:55
they're they're offseason efforts probably are not as high
25:00
as some of these younger guys who still need to be proven as
25:06
to where they're at. And also Andy Richardson, this
25:08
is his second year, if I'm not mistaken, right?
25:11
Or is this third? This is his third year.
25:13
I believe third. So the one that you don't want
25:15
to do with these young quarterbacks is destroy their
25:18
confidence. And he was their starter for the
25:20
last two years. And so you pick up this guy and
25:23
free agency, who then you couldn't even make it at the
25:27
giants. The last thing I do to your
25:29
starting quarterback is go, all right, well, we're going to go
25:32
with this guy that we got was it for a for a bucket of wraps.
25:36
And so I, I think they're all trying to play into it is it's
25:39
all the the politicking that goes on for your players
25:43
standpoint of of Oh no, we're all good.
25:46
So. Yeah, I agree.
25:49
I, I just had had this thought like I, I think that they really
25:52
did try to make Anthony Richardson the starter.
25:55
Like they gave him all the opportunities to do so because
25:58
it, when you pick somebody number four of all, you want
26:01
them to be your starter, right? It just it just came to mind
26:04
like what if Anthony Jones or what if Anthony Jones?
26:08
What am I talking about? What if Yeah.
26:11
That's right. What if, What if Anthony
26:13
Richardson was actually playing really well, but then he just
26:16
got hurt? And that's the reason why Daniel
26:19
Jones became the starter. Like was, was Anthony Richardson
26:23
actually playing really well and that's why it was an actual
26:26
quarterback competition? Or did they just want to give
26:29
Anthony Richardson the opportunity because they picked
26:31
him at #4 overall. So yeah, we'll move on to our
26:34
next segment here. So we're going to talk about
26:36
which rookie drafted in the 2025 draft.
26:40
What has been the most disappointing?
26:42
So this is going to be just rookies that were drafted in the
26:45
first and second round and just skill position players.
26:48
So will you can get us started on this one.
26:52
So which rookie that was drafted in the first two rounds has been
26:56
the most disappointing in the first three weeks of the season?
26:59
I'm going to go with the guy. We've barely seen it all.
27:02
He's only thrown two whole passes and that is Tyler Shuck
27:06
talked about him a couple times today.
27:08
He picked 40 overall, right? Yeah, Round 2 early in round two
27:13
picked up a 40. You've heard us say it on the
27:15
show so many times, you're probably tired of it.
27:18
This guy couldn't even start at Oregon, had to transfer around
27:20
with the Texas Tech, went to Louisville, finally had half a
27:23
good season, gets in the NFL and a second round pick.
27:27
And and let me let me switch gears here.
27:29
Let me talk about Spencer Rattler, the current starter at
27:33
New Orleans at this for the Saints.
27:36
He's O and 9 as a starter dating back to last season.
27:41
O and 9:00. Last year he started six games,
27:44
went O and six in those games. He has a 57% complete percentage
27:49
last year through for just over 1000 yards or just over 1300
27:53
yards, 4 touchdowns, 5 interceptions and six games.
27:57
So this is very, I mean bad. I don't even know what else to
28:03
call it. It's bad.
28:04
And then to start this season, he goes O for three.
28:08
He's still in the same touchdowns this year.
28:11
In the six games last year, he's thrown for four touchdowns and
28:14
only one interception. So it is it is getting better.
28:17
He's at a 67% of places, which is again better.
28:20
We are improving from year to year, but not in the win column.
28:23
But yet you are a high draft pick and yet you can't start
28:26
over This guy who it's not like he's been around for a long
28:29
time. He's only this is this is
28:31
Rattler's second year in the league.
28:33
So we're not, we're not. He's not some some perpetual
28:37
starter fifth round pick, which again, not that fifth round
28:40
picks can't be good. But when Tyler Shark did come
28:43
in, he had two opportunities to throw a pass.
28:45
Didn't completely serve him. Didn't look good to me either.
28:48
He is as under per whelming and underperforming as we expected.
28:53
I expected. I truly I think most of us
28:55
expect him to start to start starting a year like him over
28:59
Spencer rather in week one. That didn't happen and maybe
29:03
it's for his benefit to sit him for a while before he comes in,
29:06
but I think it's it is at this point a bit of a waste of a pick
29:10
at pick 3 when you don't have a pick 10s, you excuse me, pick
29:15
40, take three, take pick 40 to to pick a guy when you don't
29:22
have a clear starter to pick a guy and then sit him when your
29:26
starter can't win games either. Now Jackson Dollar was picked to
29:30
pick #10 correct? No, he was selected in the 20s.
29:34
OK either way, first round pick before Chuck Giants picked him
29:39
early in the first round, but they have a clear starter and so
29:42
they didn't need to start him. But they're drafting for the
29:45
future, which is not what the Saints were doing.
29:47
They didn't take the guy in the first round for for their
29:49
starting quarterback. They waited in the second round
29:52
that got their guy and he is just disappointing.
29:55
I don't think we're going to see anything exciting other than his
29:59
whole career. Not just a murder guy early, but
30:01
I don't think we'll ever see anything exciting.
30:03
Tyler Schuck. I I agree.
30:09
All right, Avery, your turn. Which rookie drafted in the
30:12
first two rounds has been the most disappointing in the first
30:15
three weeks. I've been looking through these
30:18
and like I've, I guess we've kind of discussed this briefly,
30:23
but I was kind of looking at expectation versus production,
30:27
just so you know. So if a guy's not playing, it's
30:29
like I obviously don't expect him to play.
30:32
However, I kind of have two names on here for kind of
30:35
different reasons. The 1st is Cam Ward.
30:39
I just feel like look, you are the 1st overall pick.
30:43
You haven't done Orley haven't been throwing pics everywhere
30:46
and I think he's thrown a pic. But at the same time, it's like,
30:50
OK, I mean, first overall quarterback, you're starting on
30:54
this team, you're starting O and three everyone else.
30:57
I mean, unless you're looking at quarterbacks, which I would even
31:00
say, I mean, even with shock, it's like, I mean, you weren't
31:03
even handed the keys. You know, it's like if you were
31:05
handed the keys and and you mess up, that's one thing and that's
31:08
what's happening with with Cam Ward.
31:10
And so I was like, look, your own 3.
31:11
Granted, you didn't inherit the best thing.
31:13
So I'm not going to, you know, this is kind of a multi year
31:16
build right now. But besides that, I want to
31:21
throw out a little shade onto the LA Rams.
31:25
They did not have a. Terrence Ferguson.
31:28
Terrence Ferguson, Their. First, he's one of the guys I
31:30
listed too. He is a fourth string tight end.
31:37
Warren came in starting. I feel like most tight ends, if
31:40
you get drafted that high top 2 rounds, you're starting because
31:43
your team needs a tight end and it's easy enough.
31:45
You're a big guy, you know how to catch.
31:47
We're not expecting you to do anything crazy.
31:49
You just need to go out there and produce.
31:51
And I was looking and like where are his stats?
31:53
And I'm like, oh is he a backup? Like he hasn't played at all.
31:57
And look, he's fourth string. How many teams have 4 tight ends
32:01
on their roster? Nuts, nuts.
32:03
So I see that less about him. I'm like, dude, you, you are
32:06
buried. Like I don't even know if other
32:09
teams are going to know you're still there.
32:11
They're going to be like, Oh yeah, who do the Rams have at
32:13
tight end? This guy, this guy, this guy.
32:15
I'm not going to look any further because why would I look
32:17
at a fourth string tight end? I'm like, this was the best you
32:20
could do for your first pick. Bury a man on the bench at a
32:25
arguably inconsequential position like this isn't a left
32:29
tackle, this isn't a quarterback, this isn't your
32:31
running back, this isn't a a a defensive end.
32:34
This is this is a tight end. Anyway, I I feel bad for the man
32:38
who played in Oregon did great and we will never see how he
32:41
does. Yeah, I I thought that was
32:46
interesting too, because I was trying to find his stats and and
32:49
now he doesn't have one single catch, he doesn't have one
32:52
single target. He wasn't even active for the
32:54
week 3 game. So you've got Sean McVay out
32:59
here saying like, and I looked this up to see like kind of what
33:02
was going on. And Sean McVay is like, you
33:04
know, it's just like a, you know, situational thing and he's
33:08
going to be a great player for the Rams And you know, it, It's
33:10
just he kind of has to say that stuff.
33:12
But like there's got to be a a bigger reason as to why he's not
33:16
playing right. Otherwise you, you don't draft a
33:18
guy in the second round and then just not playing.
33:22
Like there's got to be something going on, like he's either just
33:25
bad or there's, I don't know, But you don't draft a guy in the
33:29
second round with your first pick of the draft and then just
33:33
not play him. Fourth string, first pick.
33:38
That should never happen anywhere.
33:40
Show me any other position where that sounds better.
33:43
We drafted 1/4 a fourth string. I mean, that's basically chador
33:47
or like, why on earth would you draft?
33:50
And if you've got this many quarterbacks and this is a tight
33:51
end, dude, you could put a line minute tight end, you could put
33:54
a receiver at tight end. Anyway, all right, cool.
34:00
Well for my biggest disappointment from the first
34:04
two rounds of the 2025 NFL Draft, I have Colston Loveland
34:09
who was drafted at 10th overall by the Chicago Bears.
34:12
And the reason why I picked him is not even necessarily because
34:15
of his play. I mean it does kind of have to
34:17
do with that. But the reason is, is because
34:19
you have Tyler Warren who is taking 4 picks later, who it
34:23
started off his NFL career looking really, really good.
34:27
And here you have Colston Loveland who was drafted before
34:29
Tyler Warren when everybody already questioned when the
34:32
Bears drafted Loveland. Like what are you guys doing?
34:36
Tyler Warren's on the board, Why are you guys taking Colston
34:39
Loveland? And so throughout their entire
34:42
careers, Colston Loveland will be compared to Tyler Warren and
34:46
Tyler Warren will be compared to Colston Loveland.
34:49
And so far through three weeks, Tyler Warren looks like an all
34:52
pro, potentially tight end and Colson Loveland looks like a
34:58
backup tight end, which is exactly what he is right now.
35:00
And when you take a tight end or any player at 10 overall, you
35:04
don't want them to be your backup.
35:07
You want them to be the guy who is going to go out every single
35:10
week and produce for your team every single week.
35:13
In the first game, he played 57% of the snaps and it has declined
35:16
every single week since then, while you have Coco Met, who has
35:20
played at least 90% of the snaps every single week for the Bears.
35:24
And so right now, picking close and Loveland at 10th overall
35:28
does not look like a good move for the Bears at all.
35:30
And I know it's only Week 3, so maybe I'm overreacting.
35:34
Maybe, you know, maybe with time, Colston Loveland will get
35:36
better and maybe he'll get to that point.
35:38
But just the way things sit right now, everybody knows that
35:42
Tyler Warren was the better pick between the two guys.
35:45
And that's how it will be like. They will be compared to each
35:48
other throughout their entire careers.
35:52
Or Colston. And with that, if you were going
35:55
to start him, look at who came after him.
35:59
You've got Michael Williams, Tyler Booker and Kenneth Grant,
36:03
edge rusher, guard and defensive tackle.
36:05
It's not like every team couldn't use more of those.
36:09
Not every team needs more tight ends.
36:12
Hi. I just feel like that Usha Mark
36:15
Stewart was still available, that there were just, there were
36:20
just definite starters still on the board and and maybe their
36:24
guy got picked. Maybe they wanted Kelvin Banks
36:27
that the Saints ended up with. Maybe I wanted Tet and just
36:29
didn't know what to do and say, well, I guess we'll just pick
36:32
this guy. He's tall.
36:33
But yeah, I. Really hope that's not the case.
36:37
It's the Bears, truly. Who knows?
36:41
All right, well, yeah, there's been a few disappointing rookies
36:44
that have been drafted in the first two rounds.
36:46
There's a few other guys I had on my list.
36:47
But just for the sake of time here, I want to make sure that
36:50
we get in our top five potential new teams for you guys so you
36:55
guys can guess who you guys think we are going to pick as
36:58
our new favorite team. So we're going to, what we're
37:01
going to do is we're going to list our top five potential new
37:06
favorite teams. And I think we all, we all rank
37:10
them in alphabetical order. Is that correct?
37:13
Yes. OK.
37:15
Do you guys need to wait just alphabetical?
37:17
Alphabetical by by second name, not not.
37:21
Just few alphabetical as long as it's alphabetical.
37:26
OK. So yeah, what we're going to do
37:27
is we're going to rank them one through 5, but it's
37:29
alphabetical. So you guys don't know what the
37:32
actual order is. And we're going to give you guys
37:35
a, a reason or two for every team as to why they're in our
37:38
top five. So you guys can guess on social
37:41
media which team you guys think we are going to pick.
37:45
So I I think I'm pretty close to picking my new team.
37:49
I think Will's pretty close. I don't know how close Avery is,
37:52
but we all have at least a top five.
37:54
So Avery, why don't you get us started?
37:57
Let us know what. I got to go last.
37:59
I got to go last. I've been doing first this time.
38:02
Well, you never go. OK, start us off.
38:05
OK, I will go first. So by the way.
38:07
By the way, none of us know what team there is.
38:12
I have a feeling I know Jules. I don't know.
38:16
I know. OK, go ahead.
38:19
Yeah, hold on. Before you start again, that is
38:22
a good point to perhaps we've talked with some core, but this
38:24
is not an an open three-way discussion between the three of
38:28
us. We're we're making this decision
38:30
on our own and at the end of the day, the three of us are going
38:33
to be surprised with who the other people pick.
38:35
So. So this is not the SO.
38:38
We only discussed this with each other on here, we're not on the
38:42
phone after the stream or anything like this, is it?
38:46
I find out what you guys are looking at and who your top
38:49
teams are all like live. Yeah, this is real.
38:54
This is real life stuff. All right, Joe, this is.
38:57
Important. All right, All right, so for my
38:59
top five potential new teams in alphabetical order, I have the
39:04
Buffalo Bills and this is really the only team that I feel like I
39:09
could be considered a bandwagon fan with out of the five.
39:12
And so like that's that's really like the only one that I feel
39:16
like could potentially be a bandwagon fan.
39:17
But the reason I have them as one of my potential new favorite
39:21
teams is because since the new ownership took over in 2014, I
39:26
shouldn't say new ownership, But since ownership took over in
39:29
2014, they've done a really nice job of building this team into
39:33
what it is now. And that is really important to
39:35
me as as a fan of an NFL team, because I'm coming from the
39:39
Dallas Cowboys, where Jerry Jones does not care one bit
39:42
about building the team. He cares about making money and
39:46
that's all he cares about. And so to me, when I see the
39:49
Buffalo Bills and what they have done, what current ownership has
39:52
done since 2014 to build this team into what it is now, that
39:56
goes a long way with me because that's, that's what I want in a
40:00
team. I want a team that is actually
40:02
actively trying to win and actively trying to win a Super
40:05
Bowl. So that's why I have the Buffalo
40:07
Bills #2 I have the Denver Broncos.
40:10
Now, the reason for the Broncos is because throughout my my NFL
40:15
fandom, I feel like several times I have seen several
40:19
different. Broncos defenses, be very good
40:23
defenses. Now, it doesn't look like
40:24
they're super great so far this year, but just remember that
40:27
they started off at 1:00 and 2:00 last year as well.
40:31
And so there's still a lot of time left in the season for them
40:33
to get back to being that dominant defense.
40:35
But one thing that I like in a team is trying to actively build
40:40
a really good defense because again, the Dallas Cowboys, my
40:44
former team, have truly never had a dominant defense since I
40:49
have been a fan of them. And so that is a factor that I
40:52
am considering because I want to have a team where I trust the
40:56
defense instead of going, oh, well, you know, we're, we're
40:59
playing the the Buffalo Bills. They're going to score 50 points
41:02
on us. Like there's not even a chance
41:04
that we can win this game. So that's why I have the Broncos
41:08
#3 I have the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
41:11
And the reason for this is because ownership of this
41:14
organization has shown that they believe in their players and
41:18
they believe in the guys that they bring in.
41:20
It seems to me that the players that play for the Buccaneers
41:24
actually want to play for the Buccaneers and they enjoy
41:28
playing for the Buccaneers. That is something that that the,
41:33
the I've never felt that way about the Dallas Cowboys.
41:37
I truly believe that none of the players who play for the Dallas
41:41
Cowboys actually want to play there.
41:43
I just believe that they only play there because Jerry Jones
41:47
pays them money to play there. I don't feel like CD Lamb wants
41:51
to play there. I don't feel like Dak Prescott
41:53
really wants to play there. I don't feel like any of the
41:55
Dallas Cowboys actually want to play for Jerry Jones and the
41:58
Dallas Cowboys. But with the Buccaneers, I look
42:01
at them and I see players like Baker Mayfield and Mike Evans
42:05
and Emeka Ibuka, even though he's only a rookie, I see these
42:08
guys look like they actually like this organization and they
42:12
actually want to play for this organization.
42:14
And so that's why I have the Buccaneers as one of my
42:16
potential new teams #4 I have the Atlanta Falcons.
42:21
The the Falcons are a aside from what we saw against the
42:25
Panthers. I believe that they are an up
42:28
and coming team. Now clearly there's still a lot
42:31
of work that they have to do, but I believe that they are an
42:33
up and coming team. I like some of the young pieces
42:36
that they have on this team. And that was one of the factors
42:38
that I looked at too, because I don't want to be considered a
42:41
bandwagon fan and I don't feel like if I join the Falcons that
42:44
I would be considered that at all.
42:46
And so just a bonus here, I think that's, you know, the an
42:50
important factor for me too is their colors and their main
42:53
color is red. My son's favorite color is red.
42:56
And he also picked their logo as one of the logos that he liked.
42:59
And so that's why I have the Atlanta Falcons and my finalists
43:03
solid. Taste.
43:04
It's a great logo. Your son knows what's up.
43:08
All right. And then that number 5.
43:10
Wait, especially when you compare it to their 90s logo.
43:13
Have you seen that abomination that?
43:18
Is. That dude, that is something
43:21
that I would send in to like a client just to rage bait them.
43:26
It's just this chalk drawing of a.
43:28
Bird. Dude, they put that on
43:32
everything. Oh my gosh, I I would love, I
43:36
would love to know when they announced the new logo how many
43:38
people were like the original is classic.
43:42
You just got the best logo coming from the worst.
43:45
Let's shut your mouth anyway. All right, so #5 I have the Los
43:51
Angeles Rams and I like the way that the organization is being
43:56
run. Similar to some of these other
43:57
teams that I've already mentioned.
43:58
I like the way that the organization is being run.
44:01
I feel like the Rams have actively made moves to try and
44:04
compete and win the Super Bowl, and that's really a big factor
44:08
for me in trying to pick a a new team to root for.
44:12
Another bonus reason for them is they are the closest team to me
44:15
besides the Raiders. The Raiders are actually closer
44:17
than the Rams are to me. But as Avery mentioned last
44:20
week, how can we trust Mark Davis to build a good team when
44:24
he can't even have a good haircut, right?
44:26
And so the Raiders are out and the Rams are, I'm considering
44:30
them the closest team to me because of the Raiders are just
44:32
out for me. So those are my top five in
44:34
alphabetical order, the Bills, Broncos, Buccaneers, Falcons and
44:38
Rams. Dice.
44:41
All right, Will, OK, what you got for us.
44:45
Well, if you don't know by now, then you've never seen it as a
44:50
single episode. Joe Labour and I have known each
44:52
other for 25 years. Right?
44:56
That Master Check out seven we're coming to now. 2nd grade.
45:00
So 25 years. So there's going to be some
45:03
overlap here because we have similar interests but odd enough
45:06
for different reasons. So this decision is going to
45:11
affect me and my wife and my emotional status and my children
45:16
because this is my children are going to be raised watching and
45:19
liking and when they go to school just like I was.
45:23
I was the the regular Cowboys fan around school and everyone
45:27
hates the Cowboys, OK. And so this matters to me.
45:30
This is something that I care about.
45:32
So over Labor Day, my wife had a yard sale and we went through
45:35
all 32 teams and we ranked mascot ferocity.
45:39
We ranked color scheme. We ranked logo appeal, We ranked
45:42
fanbase. Sorry, Eagles, you got last on
45:45
1st snowballs and Santa Claus. All right, we went to our beer
45:47
cans and hospital kids. That's all that matters.
45:50
You have a jail in your in your stadium.
45:53
You're the worst. So we ranked all this stuff.
45:56
We've kind of narrowed it down to a top five.
45:58
Again, this is alphabetical order.
46:00
We are starting with the Buffalo Bills now.
46:04
Not a very ferocious mascot, but the team is good and that
46:08
matters. I like that they're in the
46:10
middle of their run and I think they're at the end of their run.
46:12
They're easy to be a fan of. They're very likeable and their
46:16
fans are absolutely insane. And I like that.
46:18
I like, I like a good insane fan.
46:21
I would feel like a bit of a poser calling myself a part of
46:24
Bill's Mafia, at least for the first couple years, but
46:27
eventually I feel like I can fit in there.
46:29
Number two, I've got the Broncos because they're a semi local
46:33
team. Another factor that played in
46:35
here is, is the stadium reasonably visible?
46:40
Can I go to a game if I so choose?
46:43
Both the Bills and the Broncos are getting new stadiums right
46:47
now. The Bills starting a new stadium
46:49
next year. That is a big high mark for me
46:51
personally because that means ownership cares and you're using
46:55
tax dollars. So might as well, right?
46:57
If we're going to spend them, we might as well use them.
47:01
And so and so the Bills are, Bills are in a new stadium next
47:04
year. Broncos are in a new stadium a
47:05
couple years. I don't know when they're going
47:06
to be done, but the Broncos from from Oregon to Denver, that is
47:11
not that far. Very attainable, very easy to go
47:14
to a game overall next does not fit in here.
47:18
This is not a destination city. But again, it falls back with
47:21
the Bills. I have the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
47:23
They're a very likable team. One of my most exciting moments
47:29
as a fan pretty much ever was the very end of last season when
47:34
the Buccaneers were doing everything they could to force
47:36
feed Mike Evans the football to get into his 1000 yard season to
47:39
keep that record going. That was so exciting as a foot
47:44
stand of football to watch. I don't know if I've ever felt
47:48
an emotional high with the Cowboys.
47:51
I have felt that low when Tony Romo fumble the ball against the
47:54
Seahawks when they should have made that field goal.
47:57
I guess I'm not over it yet, but still.
48:00
When when Dez caught it. When Dez caught it yet lot of
48:03
lows, but that's part of being a fan of a team.
48:06
But but the Buccaneers are easily likable team again.
48:09
I feel like they're in in the middle of it.
48:12
They're going to have some pieces changing out.
48:13
We don't know how long Mike Evans has left us with his new
48:16
injury, but he's in nearing the end of his career.
48:18
But they've already got new pieces coming in.
48:20
And that pirate ship in their stadium is so cool.
48:23
And my son likes pirates. OK, That's just, they're easily,
48:27
they're easily viewable by children.
48:29
And my kids currently, I hate football.
48:32
My son and daughter hate football so much because Dad
48:37
gets the TV, not them. That's the problem with it.
48:40
So I get things that are visible on the screen that they can like
48:45
to watch in a big old pirate ship in a stadium.
48:47
That's something that we can look at #3 here.
48:51
Oh, number four here. So I've got Bill's Broccoli's
48:52
books #4 here. I've got the Chargers.
48:55
I have liked the Chargers for a long time.
48:57
They've pretty much been my AFC team.
48:59
If I'm going to root for AFC team, it's probably going to be
49:01
the Chargers because A, they're local and B, I've I've liked
49:06
their players for a long time now.
49:08
Justin Herbert, I watched them play in high school.
49:11
Chances are very high. I watched them play in OR.
49:14
She was very high. I watched them play in high
49:15
school. Excuse me, going to high school
49:17
here in Oregon and then went to college at Oregon.
49:20
Just I mean, 15-10 miles away from him to high school, I've
49:25
seen him play pretty much his entire career.
49:28
And so it's easy. I'm already a fan of the guy and
49:30
so it would be an easy jump to be a fan of the team.
49:33
Also, LA is a destination city. If you were to LA for a game,
49:37
you can also do other things while you're there.
49:39
And to finish out the list, I have the ramps.
49:42
Again, LA destination city and I just got a new stadium, although
49:46
it's not technically a Dome, it's actually a canopy.
49:49
So if they do have lighting in the area, they do have to stop
49:51
the game, which I think is wild. And so I've got the the Rams.
49:56
They're they're easily likeable. I like Sean McVay a lot.
49:59
He's really good at what he does.
50:01
And I I like the the the concept of jumping in at the end of
50:07
their run where they're going to have to rebuild that team here
50:10
pretty soon. And because Matt Staffs at the
50:12
end of his career, Devante as at the end of his career, they just
50:16
got rid of Cooper, cut their staple guy because he's near the
50:19
end of his career. And so so you're going to have
50:22
to start new with a new team here, same team, but new players
50:27
real soon. It feels like a good time to get
50:29
in with a team like. That so?
50:33
Well, we have four of the the same.
50:36
I noticed that, as a matter of fact, the Falcons, the Falcons
50:40
were in my top five. I was surprised you didn't
50:41
mention them. The Falcons were in my top five
50:44
for a long time because honestly, one of the reasons is
50:46
they have the single best logo in the league.
50:50
We've already talked about this when when I went about my life
50:52
ever going through it. She didn't realize that it was a
50:56
Falcon and an anthem, the whole thing in the claws and they like
50:59
she didn't realize all of the intricacies with that logo and
51:03
that boosted them way up. I like the team a lot.
51:06
I personally don't like Michael Pennix because he went to
51:10
Washington and I'm an organ fan and that has a lasting effect
51:16
that should point of the way it is.
51:17
And so that kind of dropped him out.
51:19
It had nothing to do with their 30 to 0 loss to the Panthers.
51:23
My team losing team record actually did not have anything
51:27
to do at current team record had nothing to do with being a fan
51:31
of them or not. Now granted, 1 2/3 of these
51:36
teams are three and out. That's not that's not why I'm a
51:41
fan of that team or what would be a fan of that team.
51:43
So I I can play up with bad years just as well I I can be
51:47
happy with good years. I would hope so because you're
51:50
coming from the Cowboys, so there's been a lot of bad years.
51:51
Well, I've been mediocre years. All right, Avery, you're up.
51:56
Give us your top five potential new favorite teams.
52:00
Sorry boys, I'm leaking out of my face everywhere, OK?
52:05
I got the Broncos at #1 because they start with AB and then I do
52:13
not have the Bills. I do not have the Bills.
52:16
I like the Broncos. I like no Knicks.
52:18
I like Sean Payton. They are relatively they're I
52:23
consider them a West Coast team. I feel like anyone West of the
52:26
Rockies is a West Coast team just because there's like
52:30
nothing West of the Rockies. There's just a few, you know,
52:33
the same in college too. So I, I mean, anybody in the NFC
52:37
or AFC West I consider a a West Coast team.
52:41
Also, I I like their colors to a degree.
52:46
Yeah, the Bucks. I have it too.
52:49
I've liked what they've been doing with their uniforms and
52:53
logo lately. I remember their stuff being an
52:56
eyesore a while ago. I just thought it was like a
52:59
little convoluted, a little weird, but I like it.
53:01
And also kind of what Joel said, the way the team's going, just
53:05
seeing their energy and their drive, it's very contagious.
53:09
Just looks like it looks like it would be a lot of fun to play on
53:12
that team. If I was a player number three,
53:16
I got the Chargers. I I like their colors a lot.
53:23
The fact that, like Will said, destination, they got a, what's
53:27
his name? Hampton.
53:29
They got a Oh my gosh, I'm forgetting everyone's name,
53:32
Oregon quarterback Justin OR. Whatever.
53:35
Jeez, yeah. And then #4 got the Falcons
53:41
Atlanta team. I was named after an Atlanta
53:44
Braves baseball player. So like maybe there's a
53:47
connection there, Probably not. I know my dad is watching this
53:52
because he watches every episode and he'll be like, you didn't
53:54
mention why you were named that like that.
53:57
Don't care enough. Not before the game.
53:59
He never brought me to a game. I had to go with someone else.
54:02
So if you name me after a player and you never take me to a game,
54:08
you've you forfeited and 5th, they got the Titans, the
54:14
Tennessee Titans, because they are an hour away from me and
54:19
they're getting a new stadium and I will not be seen as a
54:21
bandwagon and I can go to games, but I I can go to games.
54:28
But like watching a lot of wins. I don't know.
54:31
So unless I have some sort of Lincoln, you know, decade long,
54:36
you know, anticipatory, you know, and then all of a sudden
54:39
the Titans are Titans out there. I don't know, That might be
54:42
rough going, but those are my five teams.
54:44
Broncos, Bucks, Chargers, Falcons, Titans.
54:48
All right, cool. So the the I guess the last
54:52
question here before we end is how do you guys want to do this
54:54
when we have decided like do you guys want to like when one of us
54:57
like fully knows you want us to reveal it or do you want to like
55:00
all wait like wait till we all three know and then reveal it?
55:04
What do you guys think we should do there?
55:08
Oh. I was like, let's just, let's
55:12
just say like the reason I the reason I think like if one of us
55:14
knows, we could like present a case to the other two to like,
55:19
yeah, I know we're not trying to decide on the same team, but
55:22
like, you know what I'm trying to say, like we could be the
55:25
case to. Here's here's my push back and
55:29
it's for different reasons. I would like to be on the same
55:34
team as as one of you 2 or both of you.
55:36
That is not a priority. It's not a must, but it's
55:40
definitely a factor, just like all of the different variables
55:43
from these teams. So if one of you does have
55:46
something already sort of mildly for sure picked out, Joel, I
55:52
might like to hear your, your taste for it because I think I
55:56
might be. I think I started probably the
55:58
closest to knowing who and now I'm probably the furthest.
56:02
And I think part of that is just like it could go any direction.
56:06
It's not like there's one room that I have to go this way.
56:09
If I don't, I'll always feel like I'm long and for this team,
56:11
like I really don't have any predetermined affinity for any
56:15
team. So I mean, even with like with
56:18
the Titans being close by, I'm like, I don't know how often I'm
56:20
actually going to go to a game. You know, I can go to any SEC
56:23
game and I don't, you know, So there's a lot of stuff in there,
56:26
but that who you guys choose affects me.
56:31
I don't need to be on the same team, but that is one thing that
56:34
and I I wouldn't want us all three to be on the same team.
56:37
I just feel like they would change the past.
56:39
Well, well, here's the here's. The thing maybe?
56:41
Here's the thing, here's the thing with that, because I have
56:43
thought about that, But you know, Will and I have been
56:47
Cowboys fans this whole time and I feel like we have done a very
56:50
good job of not making it a Cowboys podcast.
56:54
And I know you're not a fan of the Cowboys, Avery, but Will and
56:57
I have been lifelong Cowboys fans.
57:00
And I don't think we have ever said one good thing about
57:03
Dallas. And I don't feel like we talked
57:05
about them that often to where we could even be considered
57:08
somewhat even close to a Cowboys podcast.
57:11
So, well, I feel like, yeah, I feel like if we do, you're on
57:15
the tail. End of your fandom here so it's
57:17
not like. Yeah, but we don't even know.
57:19
Anything good? I'm like, you guys weren't fans.
57:21
We didn't know when the shows we didn't know.
57:23
That's true. That's true.
57:24
That's true. Look, if if we never started
57:27
this podcast, we probably would still be Dallas Cowboys fans.
57:31
Upset and angry ones, but. Self loathing, Yeah, and now
57:37
you're a little bit more free to like.
57:38
Just like every Guy Works fan. Yeah.
57:42
So if we do end up on the same team, I feel like we would do a
57:45
very good job of not making it a podcast about.
57:48
That team, yes, we wouldn't. That's a good point.
57:54
OK, so we'll we'll end with this.
57:57
So much to Avery's belief. He is actually correct that I do
58:02
actually know who my new favorite team is.
58:05
I was just saying my top five just for the purpose of saying
58:09
my top five spoiler. Coming from someone who doesn't
58:13
know the answer, it starts with AB go.
58:17
On. Starts with AB.
58:19
It starts with. AI am I am not going to reveal
58:22
my new favorite team today. You just edged us all the way to
58:27
it. You guys are all the way
58:29
excited. Guys worked up for your answer
58:32
and you left us hanging. But that This is why I asked one
58:36
of the previous questions is because it's because I OK, So
58:40
what I'll do is I will reveal who my new favorite team is next
58:45
week on next week's episode. And I will put together a list
58:49
of all the reasons as to why they are my new favorite team.
58:53
And I will present that to you guys on next week's episode.
58:56
And then you guys can take that into consideration for your
58:59
potential new favorite team. And if you choose to to go with
59:03
them, that's great. If you choose not to, also
59:05
great. But yeah, I already know who my
59:09
new favorite team is and I actually have ordered a hat for
59:14
that new team. And so I am fully committed to
59:18
this team and I will tell you guys next week.
59:21
And let me tell you, I've known, as mentioned, I've known Joe for
59:24
25 years. He's not going to spend money on
59:27
anything unless he's actually committed to it.
59:31
He he will not spend money on things unless he's real about
59:35
it. So.
59:35
That's how you know this whole thing is real.
59:37
The fact that he ordered that, yeah, that's real.
59:41
I've been looking for things to do with my old cowboy stuff and
59:45
like like Christmas is coming up and I have a bunch of
59:48
decorations that happen to be semi related to the Cowboys.
59:51
Like we're going to have to buy a bunch of new shit.
59:54
Like sorry, pardon me, I I almost made it the whole time to
59:58
buy a bunch of new stuff. Now I have to mark it as
1:00:01
explicit. Will, thanks a lot.
1:00:05
My bad. I do every time anyway, just to
1:00:09
be safe. Yeah, I, I know.
1:00:11
I'm excited though. All right, and.
1:00:15
Cool. Last thing here.
1:00:17
Surprisingly overwhelming support from my family who are
1:00:20
lifelong Cowboys fans. I was talking about it with my
1:00:24
older brother, two brothers, an oldest brother and an older
1:00:27
brother. And my older brother is a
1:00:29
delusional Cowboys fan and he does listen to this podcast and
1:00:32
so he will hear that he two years will talk to your I don't
1:00:36
know the year at Dallas about four wins.
1:00:38
I was saying this is going to be a bad team.
1:00:39
He said, oh, this is a 12 win team all right about you're way
1:00:42
wrong. Anyway, he was saying he was
1:00:45
asking me last night about things and teams and this that
1:00:48
and the other. And I told him the same 5 and
1:00:50
say, that's a really solid list. I'm excited to hear who you
1:00:53
pick. That way we can start talking
1:00:55
crap to each other. I'm like, all right, OK, I this
1:00:58
is good. This is good news.
1:00:59
So, so yeah, I'm into it. I'm loving it.
1:01:03
Not the whole thing, just copyright.
1:01:09
All right, so on next week's episode, you guys will hear who
1:01:13
my new favorite team is. I will reveal that I don't know
1:01:16
if we're going to do it at the beginning or at the end, but it
1:01:19
will be sometime during next week's episode.
1:01:21
Assuming that my hat is here, it's supposed to arrive on
1:01:24
Friday and so we'll we'll see are.
1:01:26
You going to get a college decision hat where you put the
1:01:28
one on, you throw it off, you put the actual one on the the
1:01:31
new one on. Fair enough.
1:01:33
And so to be a fan. Of this team.
1:01:37
Also on Next. Week's episode, it is going to
1:01:40
be after week 4. So it's not technically the
1:01:43
quarter mark of the season, but because there's 18 weeks, but
1:01:46
basically the quarter mark of the season.
1:01:48
And so we are going to discuss who our top three MVP candidates
1:01:52
would be at the quarter mark of the season.
1:01:55
So stay tuned for that. And as always, don't forget to
1:01:58
keep your balls played with. We'll see you next time.
1:02:01
Bye now, y'all. Also, Mark Davis and Sarah Kyle
1:02:04
still sucks.