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Episode 8: Week One Is Complete! First Impressions: Effective or Did It Fail?! · Ruffling the Feathers: An NFL Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of the Ruffling
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  Speaker 1: the Feathers podcast. In today's episode, we have gotten through
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  Speaker 1: the first week of the NFL season, and we are
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  Speaker 1: talking about first impressions. It is a move that is
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed to attack on the first turn of a battle.
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  Speaker 1: But wait, this is the NFL we're talking about here.
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  Speaker 1: Did these first impressions prove effective, or did you face
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  Speaker 1: a forager rep and that move fails? My name is
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  Speaker 1: Talon Master J, and I am joined once again by
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  Speaker 1: my co-hosts, Brandon and Supernova. Gentlemen, we have made it
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  Speaker 1: through the first week of the season. It is beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: is it not?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's fantastic. Also, that reverse is going to go
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  Speaker 2: over so many people's heads.
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  Speaker 1: It might go over a couple of people's heads, but
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  Speaker 1: I think we'll be fine. But Nova, what's going on
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  Speaker 1: with you today, man?
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  Speaker 3: Well, nothing much in particular. You know, I got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of high school coverage still going through, you know,
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  Speaker 3: getting set again for another new week. We're slowly approaching
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  Speaker 3: league play where I'm at. And also the NFL season
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  Speaker 3: started off fantastic for me. And you're all going to
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  Speaker 3: find out why in this episode. But otherwise, I have
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  Speaker 3: some shout outs to make, of course, because, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we have some playful banters as well. Back of Riverside TV.
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  Speaker 3: I got a shout out again. to my man, Jeff Gorham,
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  Speaker 3: because he's the one who's being really playful with me.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know whether or not to be serious about
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  Speaker 3: yourself or whether you want to hear my takes about
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  Speaker 3: the Valley Conference, but it's always nice being with you, Jeff.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, shout-outs to your co-host there.
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  Speaker 1: But honestly, guys, I got a little bit of beef
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  Speaker 1: that I want to talk about today. I got a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of beef with something. You ever have beef before?
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  Speaker 3: What kind?
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  Speaker 2: It's usually cooked pretty well done.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I got beef because, once again, we had
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  Speaker 1: a spectrum problem. It hasn't happened since, like, the second episode,
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  Speaker 1: but I got some beef with spectrum again because I
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  Speaker 1: noticed this here at the house that, you know, naturally
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  Speaker 1: you get it. I was still, still with the fam
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  Speaker 1: and everything, you know, make sure the family's okay. The
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  Speaker 1: parents are getting older. So you got to keep with
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  Speaker 1: the parents. You don't know how much longer you're going
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  Speaker 1: to have them and whatever. But I noticed on their computer,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Hey, you know, the spectrum bill is
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  Speaker 1: saying this, right. And you know, we, we brushed it
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  Speaker 1: off or whatever, because my dad still believes in writing
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  Speaker 1: paper checks. Brandon, I think I speak for both of
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  Speaker 1: those when I say paper checks are still being written. Oh, God.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even tell you the last time I picked
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  Speaker 2: up a checkbook.
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  Speaker 1: Well, fast forward to yesterday. And apparently my mom was
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  Speaker 1: watching the local morning news and whatever. And then the
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  Speaker 1: channel comes up and says, channel unavailable. You need to
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  Speaker 1: contact Spectrum. And they, naturally, they call Spectrum. And Spectrum says, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you didn't pay your bill. And come to find out
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  Speaker 1: that Spectrum credited the bill that my parents paid for
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  Speaker 1: the Spectrum bill to my dead grandmother's house that we're
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  Speaker 1: still trying to sell.
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  Speaker 2: How do you even do that?
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  Speaker 1: People are idiots in the world. And I thought most
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  Speaker 1: of them just lived in Arizona.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on. We can't really be saying that about them
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  Speaker 3: after what happened. We can't really be saying that. We're
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  Speaker 3: not there yet.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, we're not there yet. But then fast forward
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  Speaker 1: to today as we're talking and getting ready for the
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  Speaker 1: show and we're starting to get ready for the recording
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  Speaker 1: and my internet's completely down. Every piece of internet is
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  Speaker 1: down because apparently they still hadn't credited the account. They
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  Speaker 1: still didn't change their mistake. So they had to call
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  Speaker 1: Spectrum again. And they had to rectify the mistake. And
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  Speaker 1: by 2.30, miraculously, the mistake was fixed. But again, Spectrum,
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  Speaker 1: get your shit together. Get your act together. It's already
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  Speaker 1: bad enough that my grandmother's house, we can't even connect
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  Speaker 1: the main phone line for some stupid reason, which we
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  Speaker 1: can't figure out. But yeah, Spectrum is great.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't it? Oh, that's great. Yeah. My spectrum has been
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  Speaker 2: acting up for pretty much the last four or five
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  Speaker 2: days now. So it'd be kind of great if he could,
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  Speaker 2: you know, stop that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It'd be great if they, if they knew what, what
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  Speaker 1: they were doing. But of course, again, like, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: People are idiots out there when it comes to the
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  Speaker 1: jobs and whatnot and making sure stuff is correct. But
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  Speaker 1: that's why the three of us are here. That's why
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  Speaker 1: we are the good people. We're the honest people out there.
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  Speaker 1: And we need to talk about some football, guys. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you think? I think it's time. I think that was
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  Speaker 1: a good opening segue on how Spectrum is bad.
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  Speaker 4: But now we talk about the good, which was football.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but unfortunately, we may not start out with the
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  Speaker 3: good because, well, we had to kick off week one
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  Speaker 3: with the obvious thing, which is the kickoff game. New
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  Speaker 3: England Patriots, Seattle Seahawks. And we all know Brandon has
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  Speaker 3: a lot to talk about it since he does root
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  Speaker 3: for the Patriots. So take it away.
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  Speaker 2: Bye.
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  Speaker 1: But before he does, Nova, I just got to ask
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  Speaker 1: you guys, what day did that game get played on again?
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  Speaker 3: It is Wednesday, my dudes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 4: I got to.
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  Speaker 1: Nova, Nova, Nova, Nova, Nova, Nova. What day is Animal Kickoff, Nova?
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  Speaker 1: What day is Animal Kickoff? What's another day?
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  Speaker 3: It is Wednesday, my dudes. Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 1: What's another name for Wednesday?
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  Speaker 2: Hump Day.
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  Speaker 3: I thought you were doing the meme, man.
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  Speaker 1: No, I was doing the hump day thing.
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  Speaker 2: Hump day?
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  Speaker 1: Because of the cam. Look, I mean, Brandon.
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  Speaker 3: No, I get what you're saying. I thought you were
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  Speaker 3: going to go along with the it is Wednesday meme.
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  Speaker 1: No, no. But Brandon, before you start your stuff, I
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  Speaker 1: just want to ask you. Because, again, that was such
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  Speaker 1: a great commercial when we were growing up. The hump
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  Speaker 1: day commercial.
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  Speaker 3: It is good.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, the original was good. This one was
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  Speaker 1: kind of good because they incorporated football as well in it.
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  Speaker 1: And just added Mike Tomlin. And Cam was like, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: And he's like, don't.
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  Speaker 4: Or, nope.
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  Speaker 1: Like, Mike Tomlin was having none of it. But now
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  Speaker 1: you can stoop.
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  Speaker 2: Where the fuck do I start, first of all? So,
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  Speaker 2: Patriots started out great, in my opinion. We played a
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  Speaker 2: decent amount of smash-mouth football in the first half. Defense
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  Speaker 2: held up very strongly, even though, for whatever reason, we
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  Speaker 2: literally played nickel defense the entire first half. Which I
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  Speaker 2: understand why, because Seattle likes going in their jumbo packages
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  Speaker 2: with double, triple tight ends, you know, pushing the ball
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  Speaker 2: through or whatnot. And we matched up very well with
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  Speaker 2: them whenever they went with these jumbo sets. All right, cool.
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  Speaker 2: No big deal. Going to halftime up 10-0.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I literally, for those listening, I literally messaged in our
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  Speaker 2: Discord chat. and said, hey, guys, I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: die now. I'm going to wake up in the morning
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  Speaker 2: to find out that we have found some way to
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  Speaker 2: lose this game. Wake up the next morning, we've lost
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  Speaker 2: 13 to 10. Oh, man. How did I call it?
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  Speaker 2: How did I manage to call it? Turn around, look,
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  Speaker 2: pull out the box score. And in the time that
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  Speaker 2: I went to bed, Drake made through three interceptions.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, what the heck happened? How did we adjust?
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  Speaker 2: And how did they adjust? And we did not. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, cool. So this literally looks like
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  Speaker 2: Drake May in the Super Bowl all over again. Drew
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  Speaker 2: Locke had a game? I mean, granted, it was only
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  Speaker 2: 16 completions for 187 and one TD. Man, still outperformed
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  Speaker 2: Drake May. And I'm over here going, why are we
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  Speaker 2: getting outplayed by a backup quarterback after Sam Darnold went
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  Speaker 2: down in the opening draft? Like, how do we lose
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  Speaker 2: to Drew Locke?
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  Speaker 3: Because he locked in.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I can't make a comment for your team,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll discuss that later on.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to make a joke. I wanted to make
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  Speaker 3: a joke, man.
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  Speaker 2: So not only did we lose the season opener to
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  Speaker 2: the defending Super Bowl champions in a rematch of last
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  Speaker 2: year's Super Bowl, we also lost A.J. Brown for at
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  Speaker 2: least four weeks. It'll probably be closer to six weeks,
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  Speaker 2: but hopefully that means we have time for everyone else
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  Speaker 2: to get the rest of their shit together. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that way we try to make something else happen with this.
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  Speaker 2: I did anticipate us losing this game. I did anticipate
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  Speaker 2: the score being somewhere along this way. I did call
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  Speaker 2: it being at least a field goal game. I was
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  Speaker 2: hoping that we would still win, but damn it, I
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  Speaker 2: hate being right sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the fun thing, because you just said it,
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  Speaker 1: that you did predict Seattle to win. Because remember, as
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  Speaker 1: we did last week, we did do Pickhams and everything.
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  Speaker 1: We were all perfect on that game. We picked Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: We picked Seattle to cover. And we all picked the under.
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  Speaker 1: So we went perfect in that game.
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  Speaker 2: You know who didn't go perfect? Drake May with three interceptions.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say, those interceptions were not
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  Speaker 3: even good either. It was a lot of overfroze, underfroze,
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  Speaker 3: and then whatever the hell just happened that game.
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  Speaker 1: Now, at bare minimum, though, and I think the three
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  Speaker 1: of us... us can also agree with one of those interceptions,
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  Speaker 1: the second one most notably, it wouldn't have happened if
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  Speaker 1: Romeo Dobbs catches that ball because he did not have
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  Speaker 1: a defender around him. He was the only Pelican in
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  Speaker 1: the Puget Sound. That's how wide open he was.
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  Speaker 2: Let me get very close to my microphone when I
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  Speaker 2: say this. That man fucking robbed us of money.
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  Speaker 3: And that right there is the tears of Green Bay.
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  Speaker 2: That man literally said, here's this giant cupcake helmet. Watch
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  Speaker 2: me still not be able to catch anything. I thought,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god. I thought some of the other receivers
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  Speaker 2: in this league had butterfingers. That man over here tried
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  Speaker 2: to make a block tackle after an interception and decided
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  Speaker 2: that he wanted to try to whiff the air instead.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, we paid this man money, like WR2 money,
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  Speaker 2: for him to look like this? Is he concussed already
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  Speaker 2: and we just not realize it? Like, what happened? Either
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  Speaker 2: that or this man is Jameis Winston before the eye surgery.
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  Speaker 2: Because this man was seeing doubles or something. He just
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  Speaker 2: happened to call the wrong one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the season, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: So, Brandon, I think we need to ask, though. First
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  Speaker 1: impression on New England. Was it effective or did it fail?
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  Speaker 2: Have a seat, Romeo. Okay. I wish I could say
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  Speaker 2: it was effective, but no, Patriots flopped the first game.
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  Speaker 2: I hate it for them. I miss you, Tom Brady.
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  Speaker 2: Please come back, baby XOXO. Here's hoping we'd turn it
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  Speaker 2: around week two against Pittsburgh, but we're probably not going to. Okay, anyway.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to get hit with the Steeler BS and
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  Speaker 1: then be like, oh, yeah, this is happening.
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  Speaker 3: It's the Steelers do this every time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to turn around and go into this next
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  Speaker 2: week's episode like, all right, so Patriots are 0-2. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: How do we feel? And then everyone clamors at you saying, Drake,
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  Speaker 3: the schedule may.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God. Drake needs to get a better grip on
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  Speaker 2: his balls, man.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, going on the Seattle side, yes, you did mention it.
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  Speaker 3: Sam Darnold, hip injury in the first play, first drive
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  Speaker 3: with the Seahawks offense. And yeah, unfortunately, he's going to
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  Speaker 3: be out next week as well. Drew Locke, he's going
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  Speaker 3: to have to lock in as he did in this
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  Speaker 3: week one game against the Patriots. He had that one touchdown,
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  Speaker 3: which is a simple catch and run by Jackson Smith
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  Speaker 3: and Jigba. And that really was the momentum slinger.
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  Speaker 1: It definitely was the momentum swinger. Now I do also
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  Speaker 1: want to say, um, I had Sam Darnold in fantasy
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  Speaker 1: this week. So when I saw that he was out,
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: like I had just went to walk the dogs and
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  Speaker 1: cause you know, I'm thinking to myself, okay, let me
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  Speaker 1: get the dogs out quickly right before the game starts.
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  Speaker 1: By the time I'm back inside, Sam Darnold is out
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  Speaker 1: and drew lock is in like, I was like, what happened? And, um,
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  Speaker 1: Then I'm like, oh, shit, I started him in fantasy. Well,
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  Speaker 1: can't get much worse. But at least I had Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Smith and Jigba in one of my leagues.
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  Speaker 2: I will say that on that note, while we're still
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  Speaker 2: talking about the Patriots, you know, JSN did do his
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  Speaker 2: thing as reigning OPOY. For sure. You know, eight catches,
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  Speaker 2: 122 yards TD on 11 targets. Good for him. Man's
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  Speaker 2: a great receiver. Gonzo did his job against JSN. Whenever
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  Speaker 2: it was just JSN versus Gonzo, Christian Gonzalez held him
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  Speaker 2: to four catches for 27 yards. Man did his job,
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  Speaker 2: I will say. However, it should have been like that
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  Speaker 2: all night long. Why we allowed soft zone coverages versus
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  Speaker 2: one of the best receivers in the league is beyond me.
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  Speaker 2: Epic failure, ineffective New England.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: What more else is there to say? I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: guys are playing Pittsburgh in week two. I think Brandon
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  Speaker 1: has already given us a spoiler as to what side
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  Speaker 1: he'll be picking, but that'll come in a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: All I can say is, I mean, Wednesday football, I
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  Speaker 1: think we might be getting that from now on for
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  Speaker 1: an NFL kickoff, unless we don't want Wednesday football for
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  Speaker 1: an NFL kickoff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know what's more to think about that. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: went through the injury reports. Obviously, we saw AJ Brown
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  Speaker 3: get hurt, as well as Sam Darnold. Both of them
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  Speaker 3: are going to be out at least long-term. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know how long Darnold will be out exactly. They didn't
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  Speaker 3: put him on IR, so there's that. But he will
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  Speaker 3: be missing next week.
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  Speaker 1: He will be missing next week.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 1: Let's move on, guys, to the next game because we'll
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  Speaker 1: get to the Sunday slate in a quick second because
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: we were actually talking about, do we want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about just our three teams first or do we want
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  Speaker 1: to go in order of the games?
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  Speaker 2: Let's just go ahead and knock our three out, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm fine with talking about the Rams and
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  Speaker 1: the Niners first because that one's going to be quick.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, no, I was going to say because this is
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  Speaker 3: almost a shocker from down under. No reference to the
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  Speaker 3: substation because Brandon's obsessed with it.
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  Speaker 2: Look, man, I'm just saying. If I remember correctly, all
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  Speaker 2: three of us were wrong about this game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we were. Because here's the thing. The substation didn't
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: affect the 49ers. It affected the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing that we got right, Nova predicted the
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  Speaker 1: game to finish under. Yeah. And he was right. It
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  Speaker 1: finished under. Because it was down under, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: Boo.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Boo.
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  Speaker 1: Let me join with that.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, this was a total shocker.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean... What more is there to say?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, by the way, the game was Niners 27
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  Speaker 3: ramps seven.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I mean, look, Brock Purdy looked impressive.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: The Niners run game looked really good. I think Brock Purdy,
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  Speaker 1: I think he was sacked.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe what one.
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  Speaker 2: Time or no Brock Purdy was not sacked at all.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, then. Yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Then.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's actually, there were no sacks.
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  Speaker 1: Uh throughout the entire game yep um wow.
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  Speaker 5: That's something yeah um what what i can also say
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  Speaker 5: i mean look mike evans he looked good and what
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  Speaker 5: was i think what was most shocking to me though
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  Speaker 5: was mike evans play i think the majority of that
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  Speaker 5: game if not the entire game in the slot You
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  Speaker 5: want to talk about a fricking mismatch, a six foot
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  Speaker 5: five wide receiver, and he's playing in the slot.
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  Speaker 4: There ain't no corner that can cover him.
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  Speaker 3: I was also going to mention, cause the Rams made
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  Speaker 3: huge splashes on defense. You know, they went ahead and
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  Speaker 3: got Trent McDuffie. They went ahead and traded for miles. Garrett,
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Donald, unfortunately didn't make the trip to Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Trans translation for that one. Nova.
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  Speaker 4: They're playing at home next week. He wasn't going to Australia.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: He's going to have the biggest freaking opening since Taylor
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Swift and Travis Kelsey get him married when he runs
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  Speaker 1: out of that tunnel next Monday night against the Giants.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not because he's on IR.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Aaron Don actually on IR.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's on Miles Garrett.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I'm talking about Aaron Donald.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he needs to be on IR too.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Okay, thanks for cutting into the segment because apparently Miles
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Garrett had a knee injury during this game. So already
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: a big move for the Rams not sitting well as
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: they're losing a big time defensive end in week one.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: But also, to Brandon's enjoyment, the substation claimed another niner.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, the substation did indeed. Deshawn Shribling. Unfortunately, I think
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: he's a rookie. Yeah, I believe you're right. He is
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: a rookie. He just went on a route, and next
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: thing you know, he is just in so much pain,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: it's not even fun.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Huh. Got to finish powering up Christian McCaffrey, I guess.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and actually, I need to bring this up as well,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: because Matthew Stafford did not have a good game either.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: So we're already talking about the two MVP candidates from
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: last year having goose eggs on their opening week.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Matt Stafford, 15 for 25, 155 in a pick.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: It's not the best thing in the world for him.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, both picks in that game were like, what the
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: hell kind of picks? Were you guys throwing? And then
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: also with the Rams, I don't know if you guys
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: saw it, but that fourth and goal QB sneak by
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Stafford that the Niners stuffed, I'm not. so convinced that
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the Niners stuffed him. I think he might have broke
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: the plane.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: That's neither here nor there, unfortunately. But yeah, the Rams
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: got to figure it out because as you're going to
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: see later on this episode, they might have a tough
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: contest coming up on the Monday Night Football stage at
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: SoFi Stadium.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they might have a tough one on that one. Meanwhile,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: for the 49ers, let's.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: See.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Who do they play next? Oh, that.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that one because that one will be
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. But what I will also say,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: and you guys can also chime in, feel free to.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: The game in Australia... I thought it was a success.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I thought the crowd was excellent. That stadium looked great.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: The grass looked great. It was 57 degrees at kickoff,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: which was great.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's beautiful.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: What else can I say?
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: The Niners embraced the culture because they were in the
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: country a lot longer than the Rams. That was great.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: And yes, I blame you on the Rams. Why would
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: you take a one day trip to Australia and then
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: just flop? I don't think that's good at all.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Apparently something about they rented the A380, which I guess
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: is like the most expensive charter flight in the world.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: And allegedly the plane flies at such low altitude that
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: they were basically on Pacific time the entire flight. because
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: of how low altitude it was. And apparently they've been
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: sending staffers there the last two years because they've been
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: monitoring the body and whatnot. Like, look, I think I
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: speak for all of us when I say this. The Rams,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: your first impression is a fail.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: And it's only getting worse again with that Myles Garrett injury.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We'll see how the Rams fare in.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: in week two.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: But Brandon, I think I speak, was I correct in
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: speaking for you, man? Fail for the Rams?
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And as you're over here saying that, I'm over here,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: you know, and we'll touch on this later. I'm picking
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: up the Niners defense in fantasy right now. I'm putting
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: in a waiver claim for it.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Of course he is. Of course he is.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: All right. Let's move over to the Sunday slate where
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: we could talk about our team's first end of I
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: think we can continue on to the negative bandwagon, unfortunately,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: because talent has a lot to say about Falcons and Steelers. Oh, corn.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, but by the way, ladies and gentlemen, before we
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: got into this, we were talking about which way we
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: were going to lead with this game. Cause Nova's Ravens
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: also played in the one o'clock slate on Sunday. And
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: we actually did rock paper scissors to see who gets
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: to talk about their team first. And unfortunately, I lost.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: So it's fitting that I get to talk about my
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: team first.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, it was probably going to be the better
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: synergistic anyway, just to get the negativity out. Oh yeah.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Plenty, plenty of negativity to talk
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: about here. Most notably, I was right about, Because as
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I said last week, as I said for months on end,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the Falcons cannot beat the Pittsburgh Steelers. I didn't care
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: if it was Michael Penix under center.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: I didn't care if DJ.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Shockley came off of the fucking pregame show. The Falcons
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: were not winning that game.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: It helped nothing.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Even better to bolster my claim that on Thursday, Tua
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Tagovailoa has an oblique strain. So we already declared Michael
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Penix Jr.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Out for Sunday's game.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: My translation of that was Penix just didn't want to
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: play against TJ Watt on his first game back. I
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: don't blame him for that. Some Falcons fans may say
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: that's a total bitch move, but I digress. But yeah,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: when Cooper Rush was starting, it just exacerbated that we
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: were not going to win that game. Outside of Bajon
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Robinson breaking the all-time single-game rushing yards record, which I
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: think is just a little over 300 yards, if I
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: remember correctly, is the single-game record. And Bajon nearly did
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: it all himself. He had 173 yards of the Falcons.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: 238 total yards.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: And my fantasy team thanks him.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Of course your fantasy team does. I'm not surprised at that.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: I want to interject here by saying Cooper Rush in
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: 2026 is hilarious considering he did terrible under Ravens last year.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Cooper Rush is hilarious, period.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: He's hilarious, all right. Because, look.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: The first interception, and again, we'll talk about it during
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the next time we get Brandon's villain arc here on
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the program. But the first interception he threw when he
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: overshot Jahan Dotson He did one of the stupidest things
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: that I'm pretty sure they teach you in grade school
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: football what not to do. When you're thrust out of
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: the pocket, when the play is broken down, you don't
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: force it over the middle where there's a safety. You
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: throw the ball away, you live to see another down.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: And Cooper Rush didn't do that. It was picked off.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: And like five plays later, Aaron Rodgers finds Pat Fryer
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: moved with a incredible throw through the Falcons defense on
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: a third down, mind you. So yeah, you know, it's
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: not like anything has changed with the Falcons and their
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: third down defense. However, That defense is still freaking impressive.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Whatever shit Jeff Ulbrich and Nate Ali have done with
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the defense, and that's missing Jalen Walker. That's missing James
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Pierce Jr. That lost Caden Ellis in free agency. That
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: drafted Avion Terrell that has... All kinds of players out there.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: You started Divine Diablo with the green dot, which he
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: did a good job and nearly had a pick, too.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: That was a beautiful layer throw by Aaron Rodgers right
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: over Divine Diablo. Because, again, Diablo was in a great position.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: It was just right over his fingertips. And then Sedarius Smith.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: The guy is retired. The guy loses his parents. comes
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: back to play football. He goes to the Falcons who,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: which are his hometown team. And he sacks Aaron Rogers
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: twice in that game. And we could have had a
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: third sack, but the yellow hanky decided to rear its
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: ugly head because AJ Terrell got a holding penalty and
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: AJ Terrell got a defensive pass interference penalty. Although in
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: that case, I respect AJ Terrell for what he did.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: He would rather take the penalty yards than give up
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: a touchdown. And Atlanta held Pittsburgh to a field goal
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: on that drive. So all in all, net positive there.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: He might have gotten away with one on DK Metcalf
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: in the third quarter. when he kind of hit DK's
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: right arm early. And I think the refs just thought
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: of it as a bang-bang play or whatever. And technically
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: it was a bang-bang play because AJ bang-banged his shoulder
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: on the ground with that. But outside of that, I mean,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and then special teams, man. Look, the punter that we had,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: this Bailey kid or whatever, The kid had some fucking
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: great punts.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: And Pittsburgh was struggling to.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Move the ball outside of, like, that one touchdown drive
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: or when they would get to the field goals or whatever.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: And that's what DK Metcalf and they just got Rico
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Dowdle to pair with Jalen Warren. You have Aaron Rodgers
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: paired up with Mike McCarthy again.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: And.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: And even on kick return, Zachariah branches, a 66 yard
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: kick return. And it's negated by a holding penalty. That
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: was so fucking soft of a hole. I haven't like
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I've ever seen on these newer, uh, kick returns and whatever.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: Uh, so that sucked.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Uh, Brian Robinson had a sort of a negative, uh,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: kick return because it was like he didn't know if
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: he stopped or if he caught it and the momentum
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: pushed him back into the end zone.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: It was like one of those close ones.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: But Brian Robinson, very good and complimentary for Bajon Robinson.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I think he averaged 3.8 yards a carry, which for
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: a complimentary back, that's really good. And then again, let's
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: talk about Bajon Robinson. It is a fail that Drake
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: London and Kyle Pitts couldn't do anything.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: But that's also a damnation.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: On Cooper Rush because Kyle Pitts beat Jalen Ramsey and
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: would have hit his head on the freaking goal post
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: if Cooper Rush would have just put that ball in
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: front of him. But crying out loud, Jiminy Christmas Monkey Crackers.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: With that horrible throw.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: And then Kyle Pitts wasn't targeted for the rest of
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: If this man's not screaming for Jack Strand, I don't
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: know what he's doing.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I want Pennix! But apparently, who the fuck knows who
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: our quarterback is going to be this week? Because they
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: listed the depth chart, and Tua's the starter, Cooper's the backup,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Jack Strand is quarterback three, and Pennix is QB four.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: So who the frick knows what's going to happen?
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: You also want to talk about the TJ Watt pick?
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: A little bit because, again, it's T.J. Watt that was
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: kind of to be expected. And even Tommy Reese in
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the press box. You literally saw him. They actually went
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: to Tommy Reese and he's.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Like, oh, my God.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: And it wasn't like the sad, dejected one. This one
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: was like a mixture of sly, impressive, because, again, it's T.J.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: freaking Watt. Mixed with the, I can't fucking believe he
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: threw that ball.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: I also remember Mike Tomlin said this on the Sunday
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Night Football broadcast that this is why TJ Watt's so
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: good at defending the screen.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he timed Cooper Rush's... Snap count perfectly. Again,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: that's why he's such a good defensive end. And I
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: know I spoke about special teams. Nick Folk, he missed
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: three kicks all of last year. He misses two in
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: this game from 54. Now look, the 54-yard one, I
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: can throw that one. away because Chris Boswell missed from 56.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: So look, I can give folk a little bit of
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: slack and then shout outs to my friend, Daniel flick
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: of the Atlanta journal constitution. Apparently it's really difficult to
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: kick in Pittsburgh stadium for field goals because something about
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the wind with the Ohio river. I don't know much
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: about that. Daniel can tell us more about that at
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: a later time, if, and when he decides he wants to, but, Uh, yeah,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: he missed from 54. He missed from 45. Uh, he
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: made one, I think from 51, if I remember correctly,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: or from 50 exactly, if I remember correctly. And then, uh,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: hold on. I got it right here. He, um, yeah,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: you know, 51 yard field goal and then a 43
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: yard field goal. So, He was one for two from 40-plus,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: and he was one of two from 50-plus. So all
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: in all, not horrible. But when you factor in that...
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Atlanta could have potentially won that game if not for
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the missed field goals, if not for the nine penalties
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: for 96 yards because Chris Lindstrom and Matthew Bergeron decide
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: to hold all the time. And surprisingly, Jawan Taylor did
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: not get a holding penalty, I don't think, which is
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: kind of surprising to say the least. I know DK
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Metcalf got two offensive pass interferences, but I mean, it's
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: DK Metcalf. He's shoving a guy. You really think you're
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: not going to get him when you get a full-arm shove? Like,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: miss me, DK. Miss me on that one. And then injury-wise,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: apparently Chris Lindstrom is in concussion protocol, so that's a
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: good thing. And Deshaun Hand, a defensive lineman for Atlanta,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: he tore his quad.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: That's rough.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so now he's out for the year.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: So in a span of a month, the Falcons have
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: lost three of their defensive line rotation. They might have
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: lost Chris Lindstrom for this week against Carolina, which already
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: a tough matchup in and of itself. We don't know
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: who the fricking quarterback is going to be.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: We don't, we never want to see Cooper rush start
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: ever again. Let's be real.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I would rather see Brandon suck up his Carolina pride
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: and put on the Falcon red and quarterback before I
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: want Cooper rush back in the game.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie, I didn't know where you
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: were going with that statement, and I was about to
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: be very concerned.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: But no, I mean, look... I'm saying it right now
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: on both sides. That was a fail on both Pittsburgh
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: and Atlanta. It was a fail on Atlanta because, again,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: you can't really do much with a third string quarterback,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: but you were limiting yourself no matter what. And it's
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: a fail on Pittsburgh because you are touting this offense.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: You are touting the final season of Aaron Rodgers. And
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: your offense could only muster up the same amount of
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: points that Atlanta's offense could muster up. That's a fail.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was saying last week about Mike McCarthy.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: He was great when Aaron Rodgers was in his prime,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: and Aaron Rodgers had a better arm. He had better weapons.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: But I told you that both of them have definitely
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: regressed a lot in the coming years. So I'm very
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: glad to see that that still held true.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, it really just feels like
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: nothing's changed at Pittsburgh, where it's like they play down
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: to the competition yet again. And then somehow find a
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: way to pull through in the end again. It's like
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: the script hasn't changed.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: But that was the negative. Let's turn to the positive.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: And well, Nova, how about them Ravens, huh?
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And their new uniforms, by the way, they did
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: a lot more better than the Falcons could ask for.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: I want to throw it at it before I say
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: anything more.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Of course he did, Brandon. Of course he did.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Look, I mean, I'm just saying the man's team put
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: up more points than both of ours did combined, so.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, I was concerned at the very beginning because
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: on the opening drive for the Colts, you know, it
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: was like a decent driver, Daniel Jones, and then John
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: and Taylor got that touchdown. I was like, uh-oh, this
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: better not be what Brandon's saying about not putting stock
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: in the preseason because it's an opening drive touchdown for
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Jesse Minter. It's not a good thing. How about Declan Doyle,
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson, and his offense? Clearly on the first drive.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: It was smooth sailing for Lamar Jackson as well as
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: for Zay Flowers, who apparently over the internet was being
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: doubted through the extension he got. Oh, he's not receiver
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: one money. You best damn believe he was receiver one money.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: He had multiple deep passes caught, especially in that game.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: That first touchdown drive, immensely perfect. That ended with a
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson five-yard touchdown. Then Derrick Henry got a four-yard
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: touchdown as soon as he escaped a big third and 17.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: as well during that drive. There was a Roquan Smith interception,
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: which I greatly appreciated because Roquan actually had a down
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: year last year. And then there was a 54-yard touchdown
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: pass from Lamar to Zay. And then it just kept
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: on pouring in. Eric Henry had another touchdown. He had
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: three of them today on that day. And then, I
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: don't know the best part, freaking Tyler Loop made both
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: his kicks, including a 57-yarder, which is just a career long.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: And you want to know how good of a game
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Tyler Loup had, Nova?
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: I can say it because I had a fantasy game
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: against him, unfortunately.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Oh no, he was so good, the Ravens cut Jake Moody.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, it took me today to
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: cut Jake Moody for the practice squad. Yeah, he was
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: that good. But the defense, apart from the first drive,
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: was immensely perfect, you know. Jesse Minter definitely made his
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: presence known with his defense. Roquan Smith, he is so back.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Not only that interception, but he had 11 tackles as well.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: I can also have it on the box score right now.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: 506 total yards of offense for the Ravens on the
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: first game with Declan Doyle as the OC. 304 on
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: the air and 202 on the ground. And a 124
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: quarterback rating for Lamar Jackson as well. So for everybody
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: saying Lamar Jackson's not the better quarterback, I hope you
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: all take notice because he might be back.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: Hmm, Brandon, what do you got to say about that?
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: I say my fantasy team also thanks Derrick Henry in
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: addition to B. John Robinson.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, my fantasy team thanks Derrick Henry too.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: 224 carries, 144 in three scores. Yes, please, King. Thank you.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Keep going. Do it again next week.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: It's also Moose in the third place all time in
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: rushing touchdowns.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: But to touch back on what Nova was saying, wow,
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: English is really fucking hard there in that moment. 17
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: completions by Lamar Jackson. Completions for 324 yards. Now, just
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: for the record, that's just barely over 19 yards per completion.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: That's slicing and dicing a secondary.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I mean, who's the receiver numbers? Obviously,
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Zay Flowers, five receptions, 150 yards, including that 54-yard touchdown.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Chris Moore, who was picked up for the practice squad
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: just this week, had only one catch. as a 53-yarder.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Mark Andrews, four receptions, 49 yards.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: I also just want to point out that since the
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Colts' defense has picked up Sauce Gardner, I want to
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: say the statistic is that they are one win and
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: eight losses since picking up Sauce.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder who their one win was against.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: It was against Atlanta in Europe.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Yay!
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: And how does that make you feel?
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: It doesn't.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Now, what are feelings?
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there are actually some relevant things on the injury report.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, other than the fact that Kobe Lane had
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: his first career touchdown taken back by a penalty, which
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: I'm a little mad about. Both Zay Flowers and Jacoby
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Lane are out with injuries. Zay Flowers is day-to-day with
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: a hamstring sprain and a broken wrist was reported for
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: Jacoby Lane, which puts him out for at least four weeks,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: which I'm a little upset by because now it's essentially
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: Zay Flowers and Rashad Bateman, maybe. Otherwise, the receiver room
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: is kind of in a weird spot. You know, we
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: have LeJonte Wester. Unfortunately, Tez Walker is still in IR.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: And then Mark Andrews, Matthew Hibner, Dermot Smythe. That's tight ends.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's the worst thing, but I'm already
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: hearing words that the Ravens are already looking at the
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: receiver position for free agency.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, but overall, I'm assuming that Baltimore was effective, right?
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: You're not defective, okay? Let's get that straight. I heard defective.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're, they're effective for sure.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, again, as we said, I mean, Lamar Jackson
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: also alluded to this. You guys are not ready for
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: this new offense under Declan Doyle. He warned you.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Look, man, I'm just saying, I'm just saying Tyree kills
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: a free agent.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: He wouldn't be the worst option. I mean, I'm not
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: sure how good two speedsters in the receiver room is.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Cause Zay Flowers is essentially a speedster, but if he's
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: not able to go, in Week 2 against the Saints,
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: then yeah, he might not be the worst pickup.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: DeAndre Hopkins is about you bringing back the Baltimore.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: But he's the receiver's host at Georgia Tech!
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're going to talk about this team in
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: a little bit, but apparently Drew Brees was all set
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: to be the Broncos quarterback for that AFC championship game
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: back in January against Brandon's Patriots. But apparently his arm
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: is so fucked up that he can't even throw a
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: ball 15 yards.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Says a lot about, you know, post-retirement stuff. But yeah. Also,
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: I think we both missed this. It went over, and
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: that's kind of like... Yeah, that game went over on
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: the over-under spread. And I gotta say, 100% success. I
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: hope this continues because I really want people to recognize
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: how good the Ravens is instead of just, you know,
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: trash-talking them everywhere on the internet. It's all I've been seeing,
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: and I'm glad we all shut them up.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it was effective. All right, so they
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: are effective. Indianapolis, we'll chalk it up to an early fail.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a week one thing. It's like you got
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: handed a tough opponent week one. So it's like, I mean, again,
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: Daniel Jones and Jonathan Taylor didn't look that bad. But
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: the problem was like the defense picked up after they
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: gave up the opening drive touchdown.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Moving on.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about this game because it hits close to home,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: not just for Nova, but it hits close to home
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: for Brandon as well. The Buffalo Bills and the Houston Texans. Boy,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: was that a game?
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, wait, wait.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Are you talking about this button? That button?
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: So much for the scariest defense in the NFL being
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: the Houston Texans.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they gave me negative points in fantasy.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: They also gave me minus four in fantasy. All my
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: same team at B-Shot, Eric Henry are on, mind you. Wow.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: But, you know, my quick summary is that Josh Allen
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: had to be the carry job again. And I don't
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: understand why does Bill seems like that?
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: Look, I'll say this.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: The DJ Moore sign-in was great for Buffalo, so that's good.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Outside of that, CJ Stroud, if you're trying to be
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: a $ 60 million a year quarterback, you don't take back-to-back sacks,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: including a lost fumble inside the opposing 15 with the
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: game on the line.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's definitely in your.
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: Resume.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: It was not very cash money on C.J. Stroud.
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, he did do all right on the offense,
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: apart from that final drive. Let's be honest.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, again, this is the most points given
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: up by a D'Amico Ryan's defense since his rookie year
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: as a head coach. So when you think about it,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: it's kind of impressive that that it took that kind
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: of a gargantuan effort.
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: By the Bills to do it.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: And also, I know I brought it up with Kyle
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Pitts not having a single catch in my game. Guys,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: I benched Dalton Kincaid for Kyle Pitts.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: Thank God I didn't.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: Even though we did talk about this, so we kind
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: of know where this conversation is already going. So it's
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: going to kind of beg the public, the publicized question
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: side of it. My brother in Christ, Cooper Rush started
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: for you. What are you thinking?
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: I thought, again, I thought, again, I brought, I brought.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: I, I, I, uh, Talon on EXE has stopped working. Guys,
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Talon on EXE has stopped working. I, I, I don't have,
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: I don't have words.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Except, I brought it on myself. I brought it on myself.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I was smoking the hopium, as my parents would sometimes say,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: or just any other people that I was. I was
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: smoking the hopium that Kyle Pitts would do something, anything.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: And again, I deserve to.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: Lose my fantasy week.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Because of that and I did thanks to Kenneth Walker
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: which we'll get to him in a little bit.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: But yeah continuing on yeah I don't really understand what
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: happened to the Texans defense I said in the preseason
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: episodes that it was going to be the backers to
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: be worried about because the way the Texans defense was
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: playing in the preseason we really should have taken account
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: for the starters.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah we definitely should have right Brandon I mean I
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: kind of loved True. Yeah, Nova, now that I think
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: about it, he did try to warn us about CJ
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Stratton and everything.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: I was more so referring to the Texans' defense because
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: I thought this game was going to be under the
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: point spread, but it ended up going way over. And yeah,
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: Josh Allen, again, I'm not denying he's good. I'm just
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: sick and tired of the media saying, oh, he's the
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: best quarterback to ever exist. No one can contest with him.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: Dude.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson has not lost to the Texans whenever he started.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: Calm down. Oh, man. Oh, man.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Brandon, what are we going to do about this Lamar
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Jackson-Josh Allen debate?
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Fuck Josh Allen.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: That's the realest thing you can say as a rival. Oh, man.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: Where are we going next?
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: Let's see. We were in Houston.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: Actually, no, let's get this one out of the way.
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: Let's get Browns Jackalars out of the way.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, me. Yes, sir.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Ooh, me, ooh, me. Okay, so first of all, my
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: not-so-hot take at the end of last week was that
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence was going to have a 5TD game versus
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: this shit Browns team, okay? I just want you to
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: know I was so close. I was a dropped touchdown
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: catch away from hitting it right on the money because
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence went 18 for 23, 245 yards and four
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: passing touchdowns. I just thought he would five, five offensive touchdowns.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: I was so fucking close.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Fuck y'all.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: But no, Trevor Lawrence looked amazing. You know who didn't
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: look amazing? Fucking Deshaun Watson. Dude, you had... So look,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: I'm at work earlier today, right? I'm kind of surfing Twitter,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: kind of looking around, seeing all these clips for the day,
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: trying to think of some ideas for the night. And
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: I come across several Twitter posts of fans who were
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: at the Jacksonville game. Oh, no. And you have the
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: Jags fans booing Deshaun Watson. Saying they want the backup
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: quarterback instead of Deshaun Watson.
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: So is Shador Sanders in this case.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: They're saying we want Sanders. We want Shador. And even
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: what few Browns fans there were in a crowd joined them.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: And cheering for we want Sanders. How bad of a
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: player and a person do you have to be to
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: where you don't even, to where both sides of the,
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: both sides of the ball are cheering for the backup
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: quarterback to take the field.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: I want your opinions on this one, Talon, because I
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: got mine.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: Because, on, on, because before, while y'all, while y'all stewing
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: that for a little bit, because Deshaun Watson, I'm pretty
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: sure he hit the dirt with the ball and his
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: body more.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: Than he actually had a decent game. Wasn't that like
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: a ball he threw to the ground?
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: He threw the ball into the ground. He threw a
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: horrible pass where he was throwing it to Jerry Judy.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: And shout-outs to this guy because I loved him in Atlanta.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: And I even got to interview him with my old
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: podcast host a long time ago. But that interception by
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Foye Sade Aluakun, man, that just felt right because I
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: fucking loved Foye.
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: In Atlanta.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: So it was nice on that. But yeah, I mean,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Todd Munkin, what are you doing, man? You're already naming
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson the week two star. I mean, look, we
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: predicted this, the three of us and probably every person
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: on planet Earth. is predicting this. The Browns were not
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: leaving the state of Florida for the first two weeks
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: of the regular season. I mean, if they're smart, they
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: wouldn't go back to Cleveland. They would stay in Florida,
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: practice in Orlando, and then take the I-4 train to
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: fucking Tampa to play the Bucs and then fly back
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: home to Cleveland if they were smart. But such is
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: the life of being a smart NFL fan and not
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: a luscious NFL owner.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: Fun fact, and it's not going to be so fun
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: once you hear the context behind it. Apparently in week one,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson threw week one's longest completed pass of the
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: NFL slate of 62.6 yards, which was a 46-yard TD
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: pass to rookie Denzel Boston. That came with a minute
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: 40-some-odd seconds left in the game in which Jacksonville already
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: had its second and third strings out.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: That's great. That's great.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: It took this man second and third string defenses to
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: put seven on the board. When they already had three.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: When they only had three. So this could have been
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: a 34-3 game. But garbage time points are garbage time.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: We all knew Jacksonville was winning that game. And I
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: think we alluded to this before. This is going to
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: be a long year for Cleveland. And I don't want
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: to be the person to say this, but I think
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: Todd Punkin's seat might already be on fire.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: It's getting there. But I know we also predicted it too, guys, that,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: like I said, The Browns are in Florida for Jacksonville.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: They're on the road next week in Tampa. I feel
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: like Todd Munkin is starting Deshaun on the road. So
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: that way they can get a full house when he
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: announces Shador starting the home opener. Because I'm also looking
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: in the Jaguars-Browns game. According to this, and I don't
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: know how legitimate this is because, again, I'm not in Jacksonville.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Apparently that game only had 41,000 people in that stadium.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: But then again, I also got to remember the Jaguars
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: are still in the process of moving into their new stadium,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: which will be completed in 2028 because next year they're
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: playing in Orlando.
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say, weren't they renovating Everbank Stadium?
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just thought of that because now I just
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: remember that. So now it makes a little bit.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I just looked it up and apparently the temporary
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: capacity of Everbank is 42 and a half.
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't know we sold it out. That's pretty good.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: Okay. So it was still a star. So.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: Where's the next one we could take?
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: We could probably take care of Jets Titans pretty easily, right?
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: Yes. Because that one will be. That one's going to
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: be so quick. Brandon, take us home.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: Why is he laughing already?
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: Take us home.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: Because in the process of this, ever since I got
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: off of work, for reference, I literally got home 20
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: minutes before we started recording. And in the process, I
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: have a tendency to catch up on some of your
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: missed posts, missed social medias, missed sports things, what have you.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: Because I work in an environment where I cannot have
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: my cell phone on my person, much less while I work.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: And literally just a few minutes ago i'm over here
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: looking at this and i'm over here the jets are
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: some fucking demons man because i'm over here looking at
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: a play i'm gonna send this to you i'm gonna
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: send this in our discord too uh because i literally
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: just saw this that's why i started laughing um there
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: was an off there's this is oh five personnel okay
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: The Jets have five tight ends lined up in offense
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: against the Titans heading in the fucking red zone.
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: They are labeled off. Andrew Bag, Jelani Woods, Jeremy Rucker,
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: Mason Taylor, and you've got Kenyon Sudeikis in the backfield.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: This man is running 0-5 personnel, five tight end wide
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: in the red zone. This man is a demon.
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: Wait, Aaron Glenn did that? This man is a demon.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: I'd like to point out, we were all thinking the
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: Titans would win that game because we were thinking the
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: Jets were going to be terrible. Good God. Is Cam
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: Ward really that bad?
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: It could also be that Robert Sala is just not
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: that good of a head coach.
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, Brandon says that he doesn't trust Sala.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: I don't. I really don't.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: Ugh.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I think that's the first time I've
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: ever seen 05 personnel.
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: That better not just be an Aaron Glenn.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: Thing.
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: Anyway, the final score was just 23, Titans 10. It
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: didn't look pretty for the Titans at all. It probably
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: does self-explain a lot of things for the Titans regime,
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: but Not a good start for the Robert Sala 2.0 era,
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: especially against the team that fired him. Yeah.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: So we got that game out of the way. Let's
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: go and talk about, because funnily enough, we actually left
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: all of my division still on the board for the
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: last three games of the 1-5 win streak. Which one
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: do we want to talk about? Do you want to
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: talk about Tampa?
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: Bucks-Bengals. Let's go Bucks-Bengals. That's like the one without the
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: most drama, per se.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay versus Cincinnati with the Bengals defense forcing four
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: turnovers of the Bucks.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: That surprised me almost instantly because that's something you never
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: see out of a Bengals defense at all.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield had butterfingers, man.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was not... And remember, we said it, Brandon.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: You and I both said it. We said Baker Mayfield
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: is not a $ 50 million a year quarterback.
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: He's not. He's worth some amount of money, but he's
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: definitely not worth 50 mil.
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: No, he's not.
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: If he's worth 50 mil, then I'm the next governor
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: of California.
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: Hey, don't you bring up that topic. Don't you dare
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: do that. Yeah, I mean.
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: Potato, potato on that one.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: But no, I mean, it was very impressive by Cincinnati's defense.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, the one Baker Mayfield fumble. And look, that one,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: the fumble at the goal line or whatever, that one
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: is equal parts. Okay, great play by Cincinnati's defense. Equal parts. Okay, Baker,
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: we understand you're trying to put the Superman cape on.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: But sometimes you gotta know when to just give yourself
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: up before the goal line.
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: I'm at a loss for words because it's like it
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: got close towards the end as well, but it's just
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: like we really became the comeback attempt later in the
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: game when we were just that behind I mean Joe
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: Burrow didn't have a good game either he had an
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: alright performance he had a touchdown he had a big
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: six mind you and the Bengals still.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: Won by Josiah Trotter, no less, the Bucs rookie, who
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: apparently became the first player with a sack and a
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: pick six in his NFL debut.
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: So, all right.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, Josiah Trotter, you were effective in your first
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: impression of NFL playing. As for the rest of your team,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: I was not impressed by them. It really wasn't all
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: that great for Tampa. I mean, Because, you know, Cincinnati
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: just kept piling it on and piling it on. They
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: kept capitalizing on Tampa's mistakes, as good teams often do.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: Sorry, Nova. I had to throw it out there.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: I still don't believe Zach Taylor's a good coach, but
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: he's definitely the way everybody is. He can't save his job.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Um... But, yeah, I mean.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: Also, can I just say, Reuben Bain, no sacks. Like,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: is that a testament to how overhyped Reuben Bain is?
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: Or is that how good the right tackle was for Cincinnati?
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Brandon, you've been awfully conspicuous over there.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: I think, like, are you.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: Trying to stew over the Reuben Bain slander?
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: No, no, not particularly. I'm just kind of. I hyped
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: up Baker Mayfield a lot, and even though he had
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: a reasonable passing game, you know, if he doesn't fumble
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: three times, I think, you know, I think Tampa Bay
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: wins it. But three fumbles is crazy.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: And three fumbles is crazy.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: But.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: And look, I'll say this right now.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: If anybody listens to it, your survivor pools next week,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: if you're still alive next week is when you take Tampa.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: Cause if Tampa doesn't beat the Cleveland Browns, then take
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: the biggest fricking pitch fork. You got in your garage
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: and stick it in a pirate flag. Cause that's how
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: cooked the bucks will be.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah. Okay, next up we have, this is the
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: game that shocked me the most, despite the result being
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: obviously correct for us. Lions Saints went to overtime.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, where do I start with this one?
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: Where, oh where, oh where, oh where?
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: You just started with the controversial backwards pass that got
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: called off.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: I was going to say Jameer Gibbs is RB1, and
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: I told you.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: Nova, to answer your question, nope, that was legal. There
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: was no controversy there.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: Yes, there is. It was the most thought-provoking thing about
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: that game besides the overtime.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: I think it was legal.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: I think it was good on the referees.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 4: Good call.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: Tell us you're not a Falcons fan. I'm not saying
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: you're not a Falcons fan.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: But in all seriousness, yeah, I.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: I got as confused as everybody else with the way
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: they were explaining it. I was like, wait, what?
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: Wait, wait a minute.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: So now the second a quarterback even so much as
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: picks his arm up, that's the throwing motion. Really?
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: I don't know about that one, Chief.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: Really? Really? Yeah, I don't know about that one either.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: However, I also want to add that for some, I mean,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: the Lions were up, I think, like, 24-7, if I remember,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: and then the secondary gets just chopped up, like, throughout
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: the entirety of the end of the game.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they, it's like classic Big lead defense in a
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. You just start playing like really soft zone coverage.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: Don't really get into man all that much. And depending
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: on if the team has a decent quarterback, and I'm
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: still not sold on.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: Tyler Shuck, but I will say.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: The man.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: Put up 410 in the air. What do you mean?
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: I know, man.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: The man is the NFL passing leader in the week
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: one with 410 yards. Granny had two pigs.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: But 400?
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 4: Again, you didn't let me finish.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to jump. See, Brandon jumped you there.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: My bad.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: Again, I'm still not sold on him yet, but in
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: the context of today's episode, the first impression was effective.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: He led his team against a really good Lions team.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: forced overtime against a really good Lions team. He made
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: some great passes. We talked about it, that Juwan Johnson
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: is a good tight end. When we had the debate about,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: name me a receiver on the Saints roster outside of
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: Chris Olavi, because I forgot about Jordan Tyson being hurt.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: I'm completely honest. I forgot about that.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, I mean.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: Outside of New Orleans defense still being Swiss cheese because,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's the freaking Lions and the Lions, again,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: Jameer Gibbs, Jared Goff, Amon Raw having that crazy catch
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: where he just bounced off of the Saints defender and
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: was right in the end zone was great. I will
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: say this, though. I liked the decision by Kellen Moore
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: in overtime, and I'm not saying it because the Saints lost.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: I'm saying it was smart to go for two there.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: You had the momentum. You had the opportunity to pull
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: a rabbit out of your hat. And they tried taking it,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: and it just didn't work. It happens.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you definitely go for two there.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: I think that's also a testament to how terrible these
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: new overtime rules are, to be honest, because you had
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: to go for two in order to win games, because
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure a lot of teams do not play
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: for the tie. And I'm going to be perfectly honest.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: I'm beginning to hate the new overtime rules. Which, by
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: the way, thank you, Buffalo, for that. I hate it.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: Fuck Buffalo.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: Fuck Buffalo.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: How many times do you have to loosen the cheese
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: to just make up the rules?
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you could kind of also thank Shannon
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Sharp for what he was saying, like him and Stephen
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: A and all of the talking heads, which again, when
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: we get to the Chiefs game, I'll be bringing up
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: a certain Chieftain to just really have fun with Brandon
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: on that game.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: Sadly, I'll take off my headband and walk away.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: All right let's go to our final game when we
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: get the cover and actually this is what shocks me
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: the most in terms of like the context of the
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: score because Chicago Carolina um who had the Bears going
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: over by themselves.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: Who had the Bears going over period.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: Uh Danny Parkins did because He said during his Parkinson's picks,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: by the way, I know we were going to talk
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: about Nick Wright in a little bit. Nick Wright went
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: 0 for 3 on Nick's picks. Danny Parkinson's went 3
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: and 0 on Parkinson's picks.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: Look, I'm just saying this reinforces the statement that I've
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: had that Nick Wright is a piece of human trash.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: He's a fucking moron.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: I don't care.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: What's the off chance that he listens to this podcast?
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: What's he going to do, write me a scolding letter?
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: The man's trash. Why does he have a show? Anyway, continue.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: But yeah, Danny Parkins said it when he picked his games.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: He said that the Bears will score 30. The Bears
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: will score 35. They may even score 40. And Kevin
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: Wilds actually said, come on, Danny, really?
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: 40?
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: But I mean, Ben Johnson said that he wants the
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: Bears to have the highest scoring offense in NFL history,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: which would break the 2013 Denver Broncos is record.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: Um, it's a tall claim.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: It's, it's a tall claim, but with that kind of
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: offensive firepower, you kind of have to believe that they
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: may be able to do it, but I should also
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: point this out. Every one of those highest scoring offenses
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: in NFL history.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: Um, Brandon, uh, You can answer this question.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: I don't want to.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: What happened when the Patriots had the highest scoring offense
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: in NFL history?
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: Some miracle rabbit out of a hatch helmet catch.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: No, I have a better question for you, Talon. What
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: about the 2013-14 Broncos squad?
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: They got absolutely eviscerated by the Legion of Boom. What
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: about the Atlanta Falcons in 2016? Yeah, what about the Falcons?
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: What about those Falcons, Talon? What about those Falcons? What
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: was that halftime score?
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: Well, it sure as hell wasn't 28-3. It was 21-3,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: It was 21-3. you fucking morons on talking head shows.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: No, yeah, it was 28-3 because I distinctly remember flipping
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: my coffee table and letting Freeman score a touchdown right
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: into the third quarter. I was like, my coffee table
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: was on its side. I'm not going to lie. I
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: was really upset about that.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Guys.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: What do we have to say about the Panthers? It's
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: a Bryce Young ball doubt despite the 59.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: And also, before we get into that, I should also mention,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: it shows how much of a Pats fan Brandon is, Nova.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: He couldn't even correctly identify the Falcons running back that
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: caught that touchdown. It was Tevin Coleman.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't care. They both are the same fucking player. Anyway.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, but now, Brandon, you are the Alabama fan here.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: You are the tide. You are the rolling of the tide.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: I'm also the Carolina resident.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 4: You're also the Carolina resident. Let's hear you talk about.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: Bryce.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 4: I'm too short to play quarterback young.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, I stand by what I said. He's definitely
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: too short to play quarterback. No, I know I remember
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: saying that if Bryce Young could continue, to demonstrate the
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: improvements that he had towards the back half of last
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: league year, that he would continue to improve and he
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: would be great. But 23 for 37, 361 passing yards,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: three TDs and a pick. I mean, even though he
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: had a pick, that's still a very impressive performance. At
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: the same time, I did also was like, hey, Panthers
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: training camp, Him and Jalen Coker has already started to
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: develop a really good relationship. Eight receptions, 138 receiving yards,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: two TDs on nine targets. That sounds like a pretty
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: good relationship to me.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: It just sucks that they had to go against the
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: high flying Chicago Bears offense. That performance wins Panthers games,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: except against the Chicago Bears, apparently.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: Well, see, here's the thing is I was I was
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: working my LGS during the Panthers game and we had
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: it on the TV. Because majority of my local game
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: store are Carolina fans. So I was like, yeah, sure,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: we'll watch it. We get to watch some football while
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: I sit here and do absolutely nothing. So I'm absolutely
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: okay with this. And honestly, it was a close game.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: It really was. And for about 70, 75% of the game,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: it was fairly neck and neck. It was definitely shoot
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: out here, shoot out here, shoot out there. It was fine.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: And then the Panthers defense just gave up. They just
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: quit playing. And next thing you know, you've got DeAndre
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: Swift with 18 carries for 124 and three scores. Kyle,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: whatever the heck his last name is, because I'm not
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: going to embarrass myself.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: 10 carries, 100 yards in the TD. And then Caleb
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: Williams over here with 269 through the air. And then
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: he has two rushing touchdowns of his own. So I'm
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: sitting here like, what happened, Carolina? What happened?
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: Defense.exe has stopped working. That's what happened.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: The EXE definitely turned into more of a JPEG, honestly,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: because they were just like still frame. It was a
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: very good game to begin with. It had every definition
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: of what somebody would classify as a shootout. I was like, damn,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: this Carolina team actually looks kind of impressive until they
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: did it.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: And yeah, that concludes the early slate of the games.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and take a look at the next game.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: Well, hold on. Talon, what did you think about it
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: since they're one of your rivals?
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: Um.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's Carolina. It's Bryce Young.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: He's probably going to have a field day next week
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: because he loves playing Atlanta.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: Um....
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: I really wonder how Atlanta's defense is going to hold
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: up against Ted McMillan and Jalen Coker with the way
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: those two were playing.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to leave that there. So let's move
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: over to the afternoon slate. And let's just take care
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: of the first thing that probably is going to be
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: the most forgettable thing in the schedule, or depending on
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 3: how you view at it. Dolphins Raiders at Allegiant Stadium
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: in Las Vegas, Nevada. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. Sure.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, wait.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: Am I supposed to say something about this game now?
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: Yes!
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: You volunteered. You got things to say about Kirk Cousins?
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, you mean old Kirko Chains out there in Vegas?
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, well, he hit 301 touchdowns for his career.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: So.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: So there's that.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, he passes John Elway on that list, by
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 3: the way.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: Passes John Elway on that list. And two of his
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: passes went to Ashton Gentry. So I think all of the, uh,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: brouhaha about Gentry being picked first overall can be quelled
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: for at least one week, even though it's one of
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: the stupidest first overall picks I think I've ever seen. Um,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: I think the most impressive thing about this is that
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: Brock Bowers wasn't in this game.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: So yeah, you gotta love how we have our recordings.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 3: And then the days after we're recording injury updates just
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: happened first to a talk of my law. Now Brock Bowers.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: Um, and then, I mean, it's the dolphins. They got
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: a roster. That's so more abundant. The university of Miami
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: would have given the Raiders a better challenge for If
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: you ask me, they're the team in the Southeast portion
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: of Florida. That should be the NFL team right now
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: with the way the dolphins are, uh, the way the dog.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 4: They're, they're not good.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I saw this stat that
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: was so asininely crazy.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 4: It's not even funny.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: Apparently the dolphins are, have more money being paid to
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: players that are not on their roster right now, then
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: they actually are paying their current roster.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: That goes to show you how much of a disaster
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: of a general manager, 10 year, Chris Freer had in
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 3: the dolphins and how this new dolphin scene is just
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: trying to do everything they can to just weather the
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 3: storm and clear fruit at.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: Um, Brandon, anything to say about the Dolphins that.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: We don't want to read? Um, the Dolphins suck. Um, Ashton,
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: GT is good. Kirk Cousins is incredibly mid.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: Um, he made history though.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. If I play as long as Kirk Cousins did,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: I might fucking do something with it too. Um, that's
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: like saying LeBron James is now the longest playing player
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: in NBA history because the man just won't fucking retire. Um,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: It's a hot take. How about two of them might
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: have actually been the person holding this Miami team together
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: because they looked awful.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's the worst take I've heard.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: No, it's not the worst thing.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: At least they put up points with two. I give
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: them that much.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: Actually, you know what? I'm subjective to this, Brandon. Since
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: you hate LeBron so much, let's bring up the Philadelphia
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: Eagles against the Washington Commanders for you to start with.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: Let's do that.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: Why have you got to do that to me?
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: You fed it to me on a silver platter.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's incredibly valid. That's incredibly valid. Also, shout
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: out Jalen Hurts for fantasy. I mean, it's crazy because
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts, Bijan, Derek Henry, all the same roster. Gotta
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: love it. Jalen Hurts looked kind of rough against the
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: commander's defense. I mean, stat line doesn't really show that
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: much looking at it on paper. 14 for 25, two
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: or three and three scores. It was a good game.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: It really was. You know, they scored five touchdowns, you know,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: offensive touchdowns.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: No, six.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: Am I counting right? I don't know. No, they scored
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: six total offensive touchdowns between the two teams. I guess
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: not to offend Jaden Daniels.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: But Saquon, I mean, the game was, the game started
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: out kind of, you know, very defensive, grindy. Washington took
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: an early 3-0 lead, and then Philadelphia was kind of like, hey,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: here we are. Congratulations. Jaden Daniels tries to recover. I
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: don't know. It was just a very, very NFC-type game.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 3: I also got to bring this up as well, because
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: during one of Jaden Daniels' touchdown passes, you know about
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: Stephon Dix siding with the Commanders. He He got the
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 3: touchdown and then gets immediately flagged for Esports like Honda
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 3: just seconds later.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds about right, man. Also, it was targeted
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: nine times and only caught four of them. So, yeah,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: go fuck yourself, Stefano.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: That's why I think we lost to Commandos this game. Also,
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: the freaking pitch inside for the two-point conversions. that they
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 3: had to delay because of stefan diggs messed them up
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: and that's oh yeah shocker yeah shocker yeah i'm for
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 3: i'm for really blaming stefan diggs.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: For the loss oh yeah no i was very glad
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: that we got rid of stefan diggs because that man's
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: just a fucking diva He thinks he's WR1 because of
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: how well he did in Buffalo when he was realistically
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: their only decent target. But, no, he's WR3. No, sorry, WR2. 5
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: at the best, probably.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: All right, so we have talent yet to say anything
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 3: about this, so go at it.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: Well, Jaden Daniels wasn't horrible.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 4: In this game. He wasn't bad.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: But he wasn't good.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: No, he wasn't good. Dallas Goddard had a hell of
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: a catch on, I think that was a fourth down,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: wasn't it? Or was it a third down where it
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: was like Washington sent the house and Hurts threw to
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: Goddard and it was like he, he did. Now he
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: did one of the slowest spin moves I've ever seen,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: but he still somehow managed to get like a 36
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: yard touchdown from it. So I'm, I mean, look, it
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: was the commanders. We're not really expecting much.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: Out of them this season, but I, I expect a
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: little bit out of them. I mean, just cause they
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: have gotten better over the years. But to kind of clarify,
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: I did pull the play up that you were talking about.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: It was third and six at the Washington 43. And
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: it was a 43 yard good air touchdown.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: Wait, did I mishear that? Did you say Dallas Goddard?
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: That is not how I did not. Oh, my God. Oh,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 3: my God. Financiation stuff.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: Periodic. I'm going to do that just to bother you
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: now until you watch an episode of Spongebob.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: Yes, hopefully band geeks, right, Brandon? Hopefully band geeks.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: Get some culture in your soul.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, I am successful. But no, yeah, it was 36
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: at the Washington 43, and it was a shotgun snap
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: for a touchdown. Yeah.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: Look, I'll say this, though. That two-point conversion was probably
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: one of the stupidest two-point conversions I've ever seen.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: It wasn't good.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 3: And again, I reiterate this. I blame Stefan Diggs for
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 3: that one.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: I can blame Stefan Diggs for a lot.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: You want to go next, Alan?
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 4: Let's move on and talk about Oh, my God.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: I can't believe we have to talk about this game.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: How did the freaking Chargers lose to the Cardinals?
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: Give me this one. Oh, my God. I can never
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 3: be as much disappointed as I am with a local product.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: That is the Los Angeles Chargers. We all thought they
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 3: were going to win by a lot. Well, well, wait
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: a minute.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: As you guys remember, I said when we did the
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: picks that any time a spread is reaching two scores
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: or double digits, I hate those kind of spreads because
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: it screams trap. And I was right on that part.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you how much of a trap that
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: was because, holy God.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't care that I picked Cleveland to cover
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: eight and a half against Jacksonville, though.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we let you escape with that one.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 3: Okay, but like continuing on, how do you let the
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 3: Cardinals do that? I mean, the defense, I think this
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 3: is really just a testament to how bad the defense
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 3: is for the Chargers without Jesse Minter. Is this just
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 3: like a depiction of how not improved his offensive line
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 3: is for the Chargers or how Justin Herbert has suddenly
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 3: become one of the more sack heavy quarterbacks in league history?
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 3: Or is this just like the Cardinals saying, okay, we're
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 3: going to try to shut everyone up about us.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: Also, yes. Also, To touch on your note, I actually
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: saved a tweet just for that particular stat you just
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: put out there, Nova. Justin Herbert has been sacked 241
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: times in 99 career games for the Chargers.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 3: Which is more than Andrew Luck. I know that tweet.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: And yeah, as a reference point, Andrew Luck was sacked
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: 185 times in 94 games for the Colts. So five
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: fewer games. 241 times versus 185. That's a lot of injury.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 3: You hearing this, Talon?
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: I'm hearing it.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 3: And not only that, not only all of that, the
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 3: receiver group, where did his offense go? We were all
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 3: thinking Mike McDaniel was going to fix the offense for
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 3: the Chargers, and they only got two touchdowns, and Clyde
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 3: McConkie got hurt.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're trying to fix the receiver room because
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: earlier today the Chargers signed Valdez-Gantling. Ah!
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 3: Does that mean Lann McConkie is going to be out
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 3: next week?
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: It's not a good sign for him, though.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 3: Oh my god. But yeah, congrats to the Cardinals for
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 3: winning the rare game that you wanted to shut everyone up.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: Congrats on the Super Bowl.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 3: Because Trayvon Bryan and Jeremiah Love both impressed super well.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, can... Congrats to the Cardinals on a game that
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: I don't... I just don't have any more words about
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: that game.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 3: Actually, I do have words because isn't the Chargers schedule
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 3: brutal now?
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 4: Something like that.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 3: Because they have an eight-week stretch where it's all playoff
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 3: caliber opponents.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: Raiders, Bills, Seahawks, Broncos, Chiefs, Rams, Texans, Ravens. Jesus! Jesus Christ.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got a really rough stretch coming up. Except for,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: you know, Cleveland, I think I heard.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 3: Mike McDaniel, you've got to spin the ship quickly. You failed. Yeah.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: But let's talk about the last game of the 4
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: o'clock window, and well.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 4: If I, I'll use the line, guys.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: If I had a nickel for every time the Green
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: Bay Packers blew a double-digit lead to their opponent in
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: their division.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: And the game was in their opponent or their division
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: opponent's home stadium.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 2: You'd have three.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: I'd have three nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: weird that it's happened thrice.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I can let you take it. I had enough ranting.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: What the fuck happened, Green Bay? Like, did Matt LaFleur...
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: And you know what? I'm going to do the... I
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: know he hates doing it. I know he hates it
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: when Stephen A does it, but I'm going to do it.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: Matt LaFleur. Matt LaFleur. Yeah. You ain't got no LaFleur.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: Your brother has it out there in Arizona, but you
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: are LaFleur.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 4: You're Matt LaFleur.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 3: Is the dude trying to get fired?
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: Yes. I.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know because it's like, and I'm going to
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: throw this out because I know we brought them up
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: a little earlier in the show. Matt LaFleur was on
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: that 2016 Falcons coaching staff.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 3: It's amazing how every coach on that staff.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: Especially when they have a good team. They play great
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: for three quarters. And then the fourth quarter shows up.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: How do you... How do you lead by 12? Your
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: player gets a quote unquote, a little dirty with the
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: hit on Kyler Murray that knocks Kyler Murray loopy and
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: out of the game.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 3: How do you let Carson Wentz do all that?
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: Again, you were up by 12 and you lost by 17. How?
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: I'm just, I'm just saying personal experience here. Don't sleep
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: on Carson Wentz.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, I know we shouldn't, but here's your problem. He's
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 3: regressed since the Philadelphia fans ran him out of town
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 3: and the same thing happened when he got ran out
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: of Indianapolis.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: 12 for 19, 133 and three touchdowns. Kind of says
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: that he's probably not regressed as much as we think
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: he has.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 3: As out there, he sacrificed his body to the Chargers
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 3: last year.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: I also got sacked three times for 19 yards in
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: the same game too. And, that means, you know.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: Also, fun fact.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: Fun fact, the Vikings apparently had the highest defensive blitz
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: percentage this week because out of 67 plays they ran
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: on defense, they blitzed on 55 of them.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 3: That's the Brian Flores experience for you, Brandon.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: Correct, it is. That's 82.1% for you math junkies out there.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 3: Okay, and I want to go back to what I
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 3: was alluding to in the earlier episodes. I firmly believe
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 3: the Packers will finish last in the NFC North, and
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 3: this just solidifies why I think that's going to happen. Uh-huh.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 3: You don't sound convinced. I mean.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: I think it'll be a lot more tougher of a division,
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: but with no Micah Parsons on that defense, it's amazing
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: at how bad Micah Parsons less defenses are.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm trying to tell you guys. Yeah.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 2: I'd stand by what I said.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 3: Okay, buddy. Well, go watch the previous episodes. If you
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 3: wish to find out what Brandon said about Micah Parsons.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think all that remains now is the
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: Sunday night football game between the Dallas Cowboys and the
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: New York football giants. And before we say anything about
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: this game, because we have our thoughts about this game,
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say, God damn, is Carrie
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: Underwood still fucking great for the Sunday Night Football anthem?
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 4: My God, was that awesome.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 3: I think we can bring Brandon to take this.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: I don't like country music, so I can't. I have
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: a very biased opinion on that one. I have seen
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: her live before, though, so that's accidental, I guess. I
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: don't know. She was good. She was good when I
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: saw that. I'm just not a fan of country music.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 3: Nor am I. Nor am I.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: First of all.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 3: No, I wanted to do a little thing here because Pep,
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 3: I'm not buying into country music.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah. Choosing Texas is a good song. You
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 3: are not going to get me into country music, Pep.
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 3: Just know that.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: So first of all, before we continue, I kind of
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: lost track of time because we kind of glanced over. Well,
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: not really glanced over. The Arizona Cardinals game. I was
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: told by one of my buddies one of my Pokemon
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: VG buddies his name is Tim that I owed him
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: a public apology for shitting all over him about the
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinals because I did tell him that I thought
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: they would get shit on and this man messages me
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: on the 13th at 8.37pm and goes Arizona Cardinals.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 3: That's all.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: I said, you know what?
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 2: He goes, I was not expecting to win this. He goes,
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: I was hoping we would just be competitive and try
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: our best. He goes, but we actually look pretty good today.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: He's like, I expect the formal apology in your podcast
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 2: to be personally. So, Tammy, I am sorry.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: The sign of a good man is one who admits
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: his flaws.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: Speaking of admitting a flaw, the New York Giants, I
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 2: had a take in, what was it, week two?
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 3: Week three? Yeah, I think it was.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: Somewhere around week two. I had a take that the
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: Giants would go 0-17. Because I had very little faith
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 2: in a team that had been injury riddled as they
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: were towards the end of last season. And also the
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: fact of the syndrome that a lot of teams team
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: seem to catch whenever they have a new head coach
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 2: rotate into their system, regardless of how experienced or tenure
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 2: that coach may be, there's always a down season for
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: the most part. And that's what I fully anticipated here
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: was more so on the injury side than anything. And
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: also because of how poorly I had seen John Harbaugh
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: coach for Baltimore, um, in the last few seasons before
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 2: he left. Um, Yeah, so to my former roommate, Tyler,
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: I also owe him an apology because he was like, damn, man,
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: you really had that little faith in us? I was like,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: I did. I honestly did. As I sit here and
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: watch Jackson Dart decimate that Dallas secondary 23 for 29,
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: 230 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions. Also with
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: 11 carries for 54 yards himself. That game was just
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: some good old downright smash-mouth football by the New York Giants.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: As I sat there and watched that game, and I
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: watched that clock hit zero, and they snapped that ball
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: multiple times. They milked the hell out of that ball.
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: That defense, though, also made Dak Prescott look like a bitch.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 3: And I want to remind you that Jackson Dart is
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 3: now 2-0 against Dak Prescott.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: Also, and I'm over here because, again, while we're over
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: here going in between games, I'm over here looking through
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 2: stats on social media and stuff like that. 20 free
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: for 39, 79.3% completion, 230 passing, 59 rushing, three scores,
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: no picks, 134.2 passer rating in the new John Harbaugh era. Also,
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 2: giant rookie guard in his NFL debut, 36 pass-blocking snaps.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: Zero pressures allowed. Zero QB hits. First rookie since 2018
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: to record more than 35 pass blocking snaps in week
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 2: one without even allowing a pressure.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 3: That is insane. And a great pick for the Giants
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 3: in the draft.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: That is a great. Also, apparently that game. was also
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: the most watched week one Sunday night football game since 2015.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: Because the Giants-Cowboys game brought in 25.7 million viewers.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 3: All for that to see America's team lose again.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 2: I love it. And guess why?
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 3: Because it's like Matt Everfloos never left.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: It's like he never left. Because if you guys remember
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: the Patriots-Rams Super Bowl, the only touchdown of that Super
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 2: Bowl that had came from the Patriots' Sonny Michel, it
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 2: was a string of plays that was the literal same
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 2: play in no huddle snaps that the Rams just could
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: not stop that eventually ended up with us going into
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: the red zone off of a post route from Gronk, right?
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 2: That's very similar to what Jackson, Dart, and the Giants
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: did to Dallas on the drive. It's just cool. Same play,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: same play, same play, same play. And Dallas just could
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 2: not do anything to stop it. I don't know what
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: happened to that Dallas defense, but they looked like crap.
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're going to let Jackson dart, who, to
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: be fair, I did think was a good QB coming
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: out of the draft. But that man has just continued
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: to impress. Like, I think, as of now, this is
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: an initial first impression that I think is incredibly effective.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: This Giants team looks really good. They just need to
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 2: get rid of, and I'll die on this hill too,
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: because I mentioned this one as well. They need to
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 2: get rid of Tyrone Tracy. That man cannot hang on
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: to the fucking football to save his life. Also, and
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: this one might ruffle Noah's feathers a little bit. From
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: my old roommate, Tyler, and I quote in a Facebook message,
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 2: I don't understand how Isaiah Likely was never the starter
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: over Mark Andrews because Isaiah Likely is the far better
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: tight end in the NFL league.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 3: See, this is the role of my fetter system. And
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 3: I was actually upset by this because, you know, the
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 3: regime at Baltimore when Harbaugh was the coach, he always
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 3: had Mark Andrews above Isaiah Likely, which honestly annoyed me
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 3: when Mark Andrews choked that playoff game against Buffalo. But
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 3: it just upsets me.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 2: Because I'm sitting over here going like Isaiah likely had
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 2: a hell of a game to eight receptions, 78 yards,
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: two scores, didn't drop a single pass. He called everything
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: that was thrown his way.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 3: And all I got to do left is wait for
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 3: the moment. John Harbaugh chokes again, because that's all I
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 3: can think of right now.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they keep if they keep this
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: up and they keep playing this type of smash mouth football,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: you know, and just kind of, you know, nose to
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 2: the grindstone. this might actually be a really good Giants
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: team because the time of possession, 36 minutes and 40
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: seconds for the Giants versus 23 minutes for the Dallas Cowboys.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: They played that clock management very well.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, they definitely played that clock management well. And again,
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: you guys were talking about it with the Giants offense
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: and the Dallas defense being like in mid-season form. It
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: says a lot about a team when you run the
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: exact same play four straight times and they... still can't
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: stop you.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 3: Again, I said it before and I'll say it again.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 3: It's like Matt Everfloof never left.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you want to know the best part
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: about that game? What is it? Well, maybe a little
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: bit him, but no, my parents are Cowboys. My parents
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: are Cowboys fans.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, that's like you should have taken a chick
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: in the parking lot.
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so my.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: Mom said she turned the game off when Dak Prescott
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: threw that interception, which, in all fairness, that interception at
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: the end of the first half, what are you doing, man?
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: You were already out of the pocket because the play
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: broke down. Don't throw the Herculean ball off your back.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: But that is a secondary, for lack of a better
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: reference or comparison, that's like a hanging curveball in baseball.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, Brandon, you played youth ball growing up, right?
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: I speak for both of us. And I mean, Nova,
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: did you ever play youth ball?
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: Okay. Then I speak for Brandon and I, when I
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: say this, I, I speak for Brandon. When I, when
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: I say this, Brandon, how many times did you have
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: a kid that you were playing against? And he just
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: threw that, that low or that high hanging curve ball.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: And your eyes just widened. Cause you're like, fuck. Yes, man.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: You're just like, this is a wet dream, and you
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: just smack the shit out of that thing.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That is basically what that pass by Dak Prescott was,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: because it was just bad.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 4: It was just bad.
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: And then stupid-ass Javante Williams, man. You're down 14, and
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: you score a touchdown, and And you taught the Giants player.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: So you make it harder for Brandon Aubrey, who, what
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: happened with him, man? I mean, like Brandon Aubrey was
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: essentially the next Justin Tucker for the most, for like
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years where it was like, and again,
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: I know, I know it's bad to say his name,
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: you know, a little bit of, a little bit negative
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: for Nova, but I mean, Nova can attest to it.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: Anytime he saw number nine go out on that field,
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: he was like, well, here's three points.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 3: No, that was not true towards the later end of
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 3: that period. I'll be real.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 4: I said for the most part.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 3: Okay. But yeah, I'm a little disappointed in Brandon Aubrey.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 3: I had him in fantasy and he barely did anything.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 4: And I had Harrison Mevis. He barely did anything either.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 2: Well, that's because the Dallas offense barely did anything because
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 2: Aubrey only had three attempts at an extra point and
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 2: he went two for three. So I'm just like, eh,
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: he didn't even attempt a field goal because they couldn't
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 2: because that Giants defense bottled them.
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's an estimate of how good John
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 3: Harbaugh can lead a defense. Again, I'm merely just waiting
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 3: for the moment he chokes again. That way we finally
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 3: bring up the John Harbaugh camp close games excuse.
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, man, I'm honestly low-key hoping this kind of continues
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 2: because the Giants really did look impressive. I hate the
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 2: Giants and what they did to us in two Super Bowls,
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 2: but they really looked impressive. And honestly, I think they've
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: had it a long time coming because Eli Manning was
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 2: a dogshit quarterback.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, but I will also throw this out here, though,
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: before we get to our last game of week one.
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: This was a weird stat that I saw because we
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: just talked about.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 4: Baseball, Brandon.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: Apparently, this year is the first time the Giants and
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: the Jets both won in week one since 2009. Do
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: you remember what happened in 2009, Brandon?
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 2: I graduated high school.
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 4: I was in eighth grade.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: But 2009 was the last time the New York Yankees
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: won the World Series. Boo. So, some New York fans
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: are out there going, it's the Yankees year because history
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: is repeating itself again.
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 4: Pump the brakes.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: Because.
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 4: Right now, and again.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: We can talk about the last game in a second,
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: but small tangent, it feels like it's Tampa Bay's to
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: lose right now because they are fucking hot. I disagree.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 3: I think the Saints can win the South.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the Rays, not the Bucs.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, I got lost in the South. That's cool.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we talk about baseball, brother.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 3: I got lost in the South. I guess, to be fair,
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 3: the Tampa Bay Rays are pretty good.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, they have one of the best records in
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 2: MLB right now, if not the best record.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: And Junior Caminero just hit another walk-off home run as
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: of the time of our recording.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, cool.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 3: Can anybody beat the Dodgers? Your answer is probably going
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 3: to be no.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. Dodgers are absolutely vulnerable. No, they're not.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 3: They're going to win the World Series again. They're going
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 3: to have to repeat. Brother.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 2: My brother in Christ. No.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, they will.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: We're going to have to do a wellness check, Brandon,
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: on Nova if the Dodgers don't win the World Series.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 3: Look, as soon as I want to care about baseball,
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 3: I can finally care about it again because Artie Moreno
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 3: finally sold the Angels. I've only been able to care
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 3: about the Dodgers because they're everywhere in my newsfeed until
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 3: Artie Moreno selling the team thing.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 2: Brother, y'all can't even beat the Braves. What are you doing?
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 2: How am I winning the World Series?
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 3: They've done this before, especially last year.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 2: Jesus.
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: All right. But let's get into the last game of
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: week number one. And did any of us say that
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos were going to look as abysmal as
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: they did in this game?
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 3: No, no, I did not. And I didn't even watch
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 3: it because I was stuck in college.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I watched that game, and I was like, what
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: the fuck, Denver?
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 2: I just have one statement to make before y'all take
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 2: this away with the game breakdown, okay? I just have
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: one statement to make. Well, two, technically, but mainly just one.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 2: Fuck you, Kenneth Walker. The man had more rushing yards
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 2: than the entire Broncos offense. Maybe give or take a
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 2: few yards, but you know, anyway, carry on.
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, look, look, I, I already said my fantasy
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: thoughts on that one because I started Kyle Pitts over
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: Dalton Kincaid and Kenneth Walker single-handedly helped my brother barely
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: beat me. Literally the final score of my brothers in
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: my game. I will say it right now. I had 129.46 points.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker got into a buck 31.
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 4: That is.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 3: Actually insane.
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 2: That's tough.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 4: So fuck me with that.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 3: Also, the whole offense thing. Remember when Davis Webb was
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 3: being hyped up as the next offensive guru for the
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 3: NFL and that just happened?
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, I remember that.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Sean Payton might need to take back clay calling duties.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: Sean Payton. There were times I was watching the game
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: and it looked like he was doing on the sideline.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: Cause he was just like, I want to be calling
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: these plays so bad right now. And he didn't.
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 3: And welcome back. Mo picks.
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, apparently, allegedly, and I say this allegedly
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 2: because this is an alleged statement. Let me repeat this. Allegedly,
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: Jalen Waddle was so upset by the lack of targets
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 2: and Bo Nix's poor performance that he, at some point
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 2: in time in the huddle, apparently called Bo Nix Tua.
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh! Oh my god, no way.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 3: If that's true, that's hilarious. Again, allegedly. If that's true,
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 3: that's hilarious.
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: That is great.
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 2: Love it.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 3: Welcome back, Mopix.
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 2: And y'all thought, and people thought this man would deserve
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 2: to be in the Super Bowl over us? Go fuck yourself.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 2: You would have gotten smashed by the Seahawks too, it's fine.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 3: Nah, they probably would have pulled out the four-quarter comeback
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 3: deal again.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Nova's probably right there. But, yeah, I mean,
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: I did not anticipate this game going the way that
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: it did.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: And... No, not at all.
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 3: No, none of us did.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 2: Let's be real.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 3: None of us did. It's not just you.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: None of us did. But also, apparently Patrick Mahomes as
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: the first touchdown was plus 2000. And he was the
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: first touchdown.
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 2: Mid, am I right? Yeah, absolutely. I'll die on that hill.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Wait a minute. I need to do my Nick
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: Wright impersonation for Brandon. Because, you know, where's my banner here?
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 2: Looking for the eject button on this podcast right now
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 2: from a talent seat.
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to be playing Among Us.
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 2: He is the imposter. I didn't think Patrick Mahomes even
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 2: looked that good. I mean, to be fair, the Broncos,
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 2: the Broncos defense looked like shit, but at the same time,
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: none of us expected the Broncos defense to look as
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 2: bad as they did.
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, look, I think, I think it's
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: safe to say that we would have been like, we
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: would have been fine. The chiefs have won the game,
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: but it was like, you know, 24 to 20 or
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: something like that.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 4: Not 31 to 10.
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 2: Right. Because, like, all right, so, like, look at it
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 2: this way, right? In terms of, like, an offensive performance,
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 2: the Broncos could not stop the run game. They couldn't.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker, 8, showed why he was the Super Bowl MVP, right?
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes had 184 passing yards. He took two sacks
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 2: for 12 yards. That gave him 172 total offensive passing yards, right?
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 2: Can we agree on that number?
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker had 173 rushing yards. mathematically, he had one
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 2: more rushing yard than Mahomes had a passing yard.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say, Patrick Mahomes didn't have
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 3: a good passing game, but the Chiefs still won. They
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 3: fixed their running back issues.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the Denver defense showed that they
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 2: forgot how to play football.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, the other thing, though, is that the Denver defense, like.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 3: Didn't he miss 28 tackles?
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: Something like that.
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 4: And that's what I was going to get at Nova.
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: This kind of tackling infuriates me. I get that we
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: all play Madden. I get that.
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 3: I don't play Madden. Okay.
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: Oh my. Oh my goodness.
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 2: To add on to that, apparently Bo Nix can't hold
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 2: on to the fucking football because he fumbled three times
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: But getting back to it, yeah, look, I understand that
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: we play Madden.
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 4: We love the hit stick.
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: We love forcing a fumble against a computer and then
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: get pissed off when we can't do it against our
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: friends all the time.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 2: I'm scared for the INTs. I don't know what y'all
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 2: are playing.
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 3: That's why I'm not playing, so you can't tell me.
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 4: But my God, man.
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: These guys were bouncing off of Chiefs players and not
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: wrapping them up like they were a fucking pinball machine. Like,
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: what the hell? Why are you just putting the shoulder,
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: wrap somebody, and put them in the ground?
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 2: 248 yards allowed from missed tackles alone. Highest single game
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 2: total recorded in next-gen stats era.
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, man.
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 3: Man, I mean, that was a pick we didn't think
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 3: would be terribly wrong, and we have one last thing
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 3: to do. I guess, like, now that we've gone through
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 3: all the games, how did we do in our predictions? Oh, yes.
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 4: On the predictions.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 2: Rub it in.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, here's the thing.
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: I kept putting the numbers in, and then I was saying, oh, yeah,
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: Brandon won the week. And then I was like, oh, wait, no.
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: Nova won the week.
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, wait, no.
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: Nova and Brandon won the week. And then I realized
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: I can't do fucking math.
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 2: Join the club, buddy. Join the club. But.
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: I will do this. Unfortunately, wait, do we have one?
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, we do.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: The winner of week one picks with a nine and
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: seven record is Nova.
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Chicago.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: And then right behind him is me and Brandon.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 4: We both went 500 this week.
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 3: Again, thank you, Chicago, for the historical Master Classicist Carolina.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, Chicago, for that one.
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and preview week two.
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: Let's do that. We will start with the Thursday night game.
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: Detroit Lions at the Buffalo Bills.
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 3: Hmm. At New Highmark Stadium.
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: And according to the weather report, 73 degrees with thunderstorms.
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, we have a rain delay.
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 2: Detroit. Detroit.
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: Brandon's not even giving it a second thought. He is
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: going with the Lions.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 2: Nah, Detroit's playing with a chip on their shoulder. They're saying,
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 2: what the fuck did we do against New Orleans, Detroit?
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 4: Nova, what do you got?
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 3: See, here's my thought process. You know, both Detroit and
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 3: Buffalo played horribly close games. I mean, I think it's
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 3: more telling of Detroit playing close to the Saints because, like,
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know if I should be high on the
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 3: Saints or low on the Lions. And with the Bills,
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 3: it's still just Josh Allen, the team. So it's just like,
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 3: what happens more? Josh Allen torching the Lions secondary or
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 3: Detroit getting their act together against a really suspect Bills defense?
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 3: That's where I'm stuck. But if I had to take
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 3: a guess, I... As much as I hate this, I
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 3: think Buffalo wins.
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: Honestly, with this game, I mean, I think just because
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: it's the new stadium christening and usually a new stadium,
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: teams usually do well in because it's the first time
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: and they're having all of this hype and glamour. Add
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: in the fact that it's a Thursday night football and... Yeah,
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: I'm going Buffalo. I'm going Buffalo this game.
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 3: And here's the thing. I'm not picking Detroit not because
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 3: I don't think they're bad. I just don't trust the
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 3: secondary because, like, you know, as much as Talon wants
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 3: to keep trash-talking the Saints, I don't think the Saints
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 3: should have played that close to the Lions. And I
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 3: have a really strong feeling Josh Allen's going to go
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 3: God mode again.
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to go that far, but I do
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: think this game will be....
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 4: I think it'll be closer than people give it credit for.
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it will be. It will be. It'll never
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 3: shoot out.
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, odds makers have it at 54 and a
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: half for the total.
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 3: I think it's going over. All right.
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: Well, let's move on to the Sunday games because unfortunately
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: we don't have a Wednesday, Thursday, then Sunday, Monday. We
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: have Thursday, Sunday, Monday, and the first game is Atlanta
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: and Carolina.
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 2: Carolina by a mile. Wow.
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 3: Where is this at? Is this at Bank of America?
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 3: This is at Atlanta.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 3: As much as I want to give Atlanta credit, the
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 3: fact that their quarterback battle is not great, I have
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 3: to give it to Carolina.
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: Can I ask you guys an honest question before I
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: make my pick?
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 2: If Cooper Rush is still your quarterback, it's Carolina by
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 2: three scores. If it's Jack Stroud, I say maybe two scores.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 3: Jack Stroud, get it right.
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 2: I'm doing this intentionally to piss off Nova.
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 3: Differentiation.
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: No, but the question that I had for you guys was,
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: do I have the right to change my pick depending
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: on who the actual starter is?
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 3: I guess in your context, sure.
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 2: I'll give you that flexibility. I'll give you that flexibility
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 2: because y'all shit so up in the air right now.
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'll say this. If it's Cooper Rush Carolina, if
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 4: it's any other quarterback Atlanta.
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 2: That's generous.
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 3: I do want to believe in Jack Strand, but if
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 3: it's not him, I don't see it.
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, people forget Michael Penix has played the Carolina
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: Panthers three times in his career, and two of those
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: games were in Atlanta. The first time, he lost in
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: overtime and never got to touch the ball. That was
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: the 44-38 shootout game. The second game was in Carolina.
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: We don't talk about that game.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, we do.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: We do.
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 3: No, we don't.
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 2: No, we don't.
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: But the third game was Atlanta was up 21 to
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: nothing when Elijah Wilkinson cost Michael Penix his season. And
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: then Atlanta lost.
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 3: And then Atlanta lost.
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 2: Also, how about Atlanta's currently favored to win this game
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 2: at 55%?
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 3: That's the ultimate disrespect.
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 4: But yeah, Carolina's the favorite.
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 3: No, Brandon said that Atlanta's the favorite. What do you mean?
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 2: No, Atlanta's the favorite. According to ESPN's site, Atlanta is
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 2: the favorite.
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 3: See, to me, that's the ultimate disrespect. Because didn't you see? Wait,
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 3: what game did you see?
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. What game did they watch and
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 2: what game did they watch for Carolina? Matchup predictor has 55.2% Atlanta.
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: Okay, but the DraftKings odds opened Atlanta minus one and
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: a half. It's now Carolina minus two and a half. Yeah.
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 2: So we got some 50-50s going on here.
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 3: I think, look, Carolina's defense is as bad as it is.
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 3: A good quarterback can expose them, but I don't think
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 3: that's happening, personally speaking.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I reserve the right to change my pick
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: depending on who the starter is. But for the sake
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: of this, I will pick Atlanta. But if it's Cooper
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: Rush starting, it's Carolina.
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 3: Okay, I got Jason next one. Let's do Vikings Bears.
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: Chicago.
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 2: It's not even close.
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no. Chicago is going to molly whop Minnesota.
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 2: No, I think it might be close. And it's at
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 2: Soldier Field.
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 3: I'll give you that one. I'm picking Chicago as well,
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 3: but I think it'll be a close game. If Carson
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 3: gets the ball out of the way, he did against
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 3: the Green Bay Panthers.
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 4: Look, I'll say it'll be closer than the Panthers game.
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, for sure.
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: But yeah, no. I mean, it really just comes down
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: to your definition of close.
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 3: I think it comes down to a one-score game. I
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 3: think it might be a four-point game.
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: That wouldn't shock me if it came down to something
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: like that. Let's move on to the next prediction. Philadelphia
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: and Tennessee.
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 2: Philly.
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 3: It'd be really funny if the Titans somehow win against Philadelphia,
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 3: but it's going.
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 2: To be Philadelphia. I would shit a brick if the
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 2: Titans won this game.
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 3: Because remember, apparently anything can happen now with the Cardinals winning.
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 2: Fucking apparently.
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but again, Philadelphia would.
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: would have to lay a fricking goose egg to lose
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: that game.
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 3: Uh, speaking of goose eggs, uh, let's see a Packers jets.
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 3: And apparently the jets are one to know to the Packers. Uh,
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 3: Owen one.
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: Why do I, why do I feel like, why do
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: I feel crazy enough to actually smoke that hopium and
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: pick the jets?
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 3: Cause you're behind to me.
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, is that really the whole reason, Brandon, or
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: am I just that stupid?
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 2: I low-key want to see Green Bay go 0-2, but
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be Green Bay winning it.
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 2: This screams trap game. This does scream trap game a lot.
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it does. Because the Packers plays terribly in East Rutherford,
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 3: New Jersey for some reason, but I think the Jets
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 3: are going to be bad enough that the Packers get
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 3: away with the last second win.
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: I could see that.
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 4: Let's go to Pittsburgh, New England. How about that game?
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, this will be fun.
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, y'all have at it. Y'all have at it. I'll
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 2: save mine. I'll save mine.
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 3: Because the last time they played each other, the Pittsburgh
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 3: Steelers beat the Patriots in Foxborough.
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 3: Hmm. Hmm. It's like taking into account the Steeler BS
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 3: as well as how bad Jake May played against the Seahawks.
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 3: Is the Steelers' defense at the same level or worse?
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 3: And that's a question to you, Brandon.
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 2: Worse. The Steelers' defense is definitely worse than the Seattle's
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 2: defense is.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: For sure.
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 3: Call me crazy. I think this goes overtime and the
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 3: Patriots win.
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 2: I could see that. I could definitely see that. Also,
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 2: I think this is kind of generous looking at the
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 2: matchup predictor on ESPN. New England favored at 66.1%. Holy shit!
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 2: And this is without A.J. Brown.
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: That is without A.J. Brown.
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 2: I think that's generous. I think.
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 2: I do think on paper we're favored. Um... I don't
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 2: think it's 66% favored. I think it's closer to like
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 2: a 55-45.
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because remember, steal or BS can just happen anywhere.
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently.
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 3: You'll be consumed by it.
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 2: I can definitely see what Nova said over time into
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 2: a field goal game, probably. I can see that for sure.
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 2: At the same time, I can also see Ramondre Stevenson
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 2: just running it down their throat.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm going to do with this prediction. I'm
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: going to say it's the Ramondre Stevenson game. Because, again,
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: your number one receiver for this game is most likely
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 1: going to be Romeo Dobbs. And we already know how
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: you felt about the muffin. Wait, it's not going to
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: be Matt Collins?
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 2: No, it's definitely going to be Matt Collins. No, Romeo
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 2: Dobbs can go eat a cupcake and sit down.
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 3: Okay. What do we got with Browns Buccaneers?
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 2: Is this even a question? Do we even need to
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 2: talk about this?
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: The real question you need to ask is, like I said,
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: how big a fork do you want to stick in
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: Tampa if they lose to this Cleveland Browns team?
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 2: Their head coach is fired if they lose to this
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 2: Cleveland Browns team.
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 3: Let me remind you, the Browns had a big early
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 3: upset against the Packers early last year.
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 2: That was last year. This is this year. Yeah.
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 3: But it's not happening this year. This week, I'll be real.
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 3: I think Tampa wins. I think it's going to be
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 3: by at least two scores.
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 2: Matchup predictor, 79.3% Tampa Bay.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, boy.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 4: I'm surprised it's not 85-15.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 2: God. I think Deshaun Watson comes out of this with
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 2: three picks.
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 3: Do you think Todd Munkin pulls the Shador trigger?
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 2: I do, 100%.
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 4: If he wants to keep his job.
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 2: I think if he doesn't pull the Shador Sanders trigger
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 2: after like a second, Deshaun Watson INT, then he loses
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 2: his job.
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm kind of in the same boat with Brandon there, but.
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 4: Let's move on to Cincinnati, Houston.
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 2: That's not what I meant.
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, that's exactly what he meant, because this is
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 3: the game the Texans defense will bounce back and give
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 3: Joe Burrow a living hell.
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 4: So, Nova, you've got Houston?
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, I do. I hate the Bengals.
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: Well, then you're going to hate me this week because
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: I'm riding Joe Burrow.
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 2: I'm also riding Cincinnati as well.
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 3: You guys don't think D'Amico Reyes bounces his defense back
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 3: after that Buffalo disaster? How could you?
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that the defense doesn't bounce back. I'm
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: just saying the.
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 2: Texans don't win.
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 3: I'm saying C.J.
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 2: Stroud's a shit quarterback.
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay. Different discussion.
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying the defense won't bounce back.
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 1: I'm saying it's going to be like 21-17 Cincinnati over Houston.
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be a close game.
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 3: Okay. Saints-Ravens next. I had the Ravens. And, you know,
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 3: despite the Saints playing a really good game against Detroit,
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 3: I'm willing to believe that's a one-off. And I think
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 3: the Ravens win by two scores. I think it might
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 3: be like someone run the Lions at 31-20.
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: I just feel bad for my friend TJ, who is
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: the guy that I cast VGC events for in Florida.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: Because this is the second regional in the last, what,
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: two or three years that it's been in Baltimore. The
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: same weekend as a Ravens game.
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 3: The home opener, mind you.
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 4: And the home opener, mind you.
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 2: Which this is the only reason I'm not going to Baltimore,
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 2: mind you.
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 4: You're right in New Orleans.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 3: That's not what he said. He didn't go to Baltimore regionals.
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 2: No, that's the reason I didn't go to Baltimore regionals.
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 2: It's because it's the home opener. Oh.
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 3: Get your back straight, Talon. How could you?
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, look, I considered going to Baltimore regionals. Then
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: I actually was smart and looked at my money and decided,
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: you know, a new car is better than going to
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: a regional at this point.
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 3: Factuals. That's fair. And what's your pick, Talon?
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm taking Baltimore. Like, is that a question? I'm
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: taking Baltimore.
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 2: I think it's Baltimore, but I think it's Baltimore, but
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 2: I think it's Baltimore by three scores. Wow.
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 3: I'm willing to get the benefit of the doubt to
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 3: the States, but I don't know.
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 2: I'm not. I'm not. I think I think Detroit had
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 2: a bad game. I think Chuck had a good game.
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 2: I think he over I think he dramatically overperformed. I
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 2: think it's Baltimore by three scores, and I think they
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 2: take that three score lead early.
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to go that far on that game.
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: But I could see Baltimore winning by like two scores.
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: I maybe nine points at the most.
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I already said my thing was like 31-20. I
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 3: think it's going to be deceptively close until the end.
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 3: But now we move on to the first time ever
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 3: in the 2027 season, the 1.05 slot in Pacific Time,
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 3: the 4 o'clock and 5 p.m. slot for the rest
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 3: of you in the East Coast. Raiders Chargers is where
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 3: we'll start.
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 1: Wait a second. Wait a second. Brandon, did he just
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: say a 5 o'clock window? When has there been a
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: 5 o'clock window?
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 3: No, I meant the 4.05 in the minutes, not the hour.
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, then I... Did I hear it wrong then, Brandon?
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 2: You did. Okay.
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 4: Okay, then I'm just stupid.
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 3: And this thing got interesting because the Chargers disappointed so
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 3: badly and the Raiders, albeit also Dolphins, impressed. So, that
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 3: being said, I don't know who I pick here. I
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 3: really want to say to... You know what? Screw it.
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 3: I'm doing it. I'm going to pick the Raiders.
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: And Brandon.
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 2: Chargers.
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: Ooh, picking the Chargers.
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 3: What about you, Talon? You're the one that hasn't responded yet.
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: I haven't yet because I was saving it for... We're
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: riding the Kirko train. Let's go.
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 3: 68.9% favored matchup prediction in favor of the Chargers.
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, again, as long as they have that offensive line,
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: I don't have confidence.
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 2: I don't either, but I don't know. I really just
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 2: want Kirk Cousins to scream, you like that again.
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 3: That's why I'm picking the Raiders.
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: Well, let's go. Let's stay on the West Coast for
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: the 4 o'clock window.
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 3: Dak Morris Broncos is the next one up. The 105 hour.
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 2: I have my thoughts.
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 3: Then share them.
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 2: If Denver plays as shitty as they did against Kansas City,
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 2: this is going to be Jack's by at least two scores.
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 3: Wasn't that the result last year as well?
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 2: I think, I believe so. Don't quote me on that
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 2: without looking it up.
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 3: I remember I saw this. I remember that Jack Morris
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 3: won it by at least two scores against Denver in
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 3: Denver last year.
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 4: And that's why I'm picking Jacksonville.
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 1: Look, Denver's got to show me something after playing as
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: abysmal as they did last night. So I'm just not
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 1: seeing it. I don't think they're going to.
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 2: The last time that they played Jacksonville at Denver was
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 2: December 21st, 2025. Jacksonville won 3420.
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 3: I got Jacksonville as well. And I also think it
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 3: will be by two scores. I'm not going to think
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 3: it's more than two. I just think it's going to
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 3: be two.
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 4: And Brandon, is it a clean suite?
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 2: I think it's, I think it, I think Denver kind
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 2: of gets his shit together a little bit, but I
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 2: still think, I still think Jacksonville wins by at least
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 2: one score.
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: Okay. So now we talk about Miami and San Francisco.
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 3: We moved to the four 25 window. Cause now we
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 3: have that separation again, which, uh, why do we have this?
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 2: We have three games in that time slot, mind you.
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think this is the Niners as well.
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, that was probably the easiest one of the
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: 425 window.
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 4: The other two might be a little bit more dicey.
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 3: Especially because they're rivalry games.
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, which one do we want to talk
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: about first? Seattle, Arizona, or Washington, Dallas?
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 3: Washington, Dallas, personally, but I don't know about you guys.
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 3: Where do you want to go?
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 4: Brandon, let's talk about the Cowgirls.
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: Have at it.
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 2: Hold on a second. I'm going to backpedal back to
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 2: this Miami game. You remember what we said about the
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 2: line and having a double-digit line?
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 2: Same friends.
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 3: 13.5.
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's not like McGlee-Quillis will pop off against
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 3: Fred Warner in that defense, right?
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 2: I hope not.
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, and it opened at 10 and a half.
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 2: It opens at 10 and a half and the Niners
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 2: matchup predictor is 91.5%.
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 4: I'm still picking the 49ers.
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 2: I'm still picking the Niners as well, but holy crap,
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen a prediction that's lopsided in a minute.
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 3: No.
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: But yeah, let's move on to Seattle and Arizona. We'll
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 1: save the Cowgirls for last because.
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 3: This game got all of a sudden interesting because of
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 3: the Cardinals' win over the Chargers.
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: Let me just... I'll make my prediction simple. Is JSN
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: on one of the teams?
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 4: JSN is going to win that game.
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 3: So you're not taking the odds that the Cardinals' win
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 3: was a fluke? Oh, it was an absolute fluke.
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 2: Seattle opens up minus 10, spreads three and a half.
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 3: That sounds wrong. I think it's Seattle nonetheless, but I
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 3: think it will be deceptively close.
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 2: Matchup predictor favors Arizona. What?
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 3: They don't believe in Drew Locke?
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 2: I don't believe in Drew Locke. Fuck you. I really
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 2: would love to see Arizona win this game. As like
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 2: an ultimate apology to my Carolina captain, Timmy. I would
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 2: really like to see him have extra ha-ha, fuck you,
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 2: told you so, against me for having the Cardinals beat
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks, but the Patriots cannot beat the Seahawks twice
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 2: in a row. I would like to see Trey McBride
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 2: do his thing. I may or may not be biased
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 2: about that. Yeah, I'm picking Arizona. I may or may
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 2: not be biased about that for fantasy purposes, but I think.
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, I've got JSN and Jeremiah Love in this game, so.
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 4: I.
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 1: Mean, I'm kind of with you on that, but I
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: have one.
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 4: On each side, so it's like.
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 1: But that's Seattle, Arizona. Let's talk about the cowgirls, Brandon.
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 1: How much do you want to talk about how much
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 1: you love them cowgirls?
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 2: I don't. I really don't. God, I hate them as
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 2: much as I hate any Philadelphia franchise. That says a lot.
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 2: For those who may have missed it, I'm a Boston
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 2: fan through and through. Red Sox, Bruins, Pats, Celtics, you
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 2: name it. I'm in it. I would really, really like
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 2: to see Jayden Daniels have a bounce-back game because of
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 2: how well they hung with Philly. I would like to
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 2: hope that they clean it up a little bit, they
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 2: tighten up the game plan some, and they just kind
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 2: of go crazy. I think it's going to be a
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 2: one-score game, but I would love to see Washington win it,
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 2: even though everything statistically favors Dallas.
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 3: No, that's not right. Nothing should favor Dallas. You see
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 3: that defense?
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 2: I agree. I agree. Nothing should favor Dallas because fuck Dallas. However, numerically,
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 2: it favors Dallas, but I would really like to hope
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 2: Washington wins this.
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 3: I do too, but I'm picking the Cowboys, not because
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 3: I don't think that they'll fix their defense. I think
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 3: they're just going to slam points onto the Commanders. I
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 3: think they win this in a shootout.
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 2: Uh....
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of leaning Dallas myself, but I'll say this.
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, the over under is 51 and a half,
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 1: but the spread right now is Dallas minus four and
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 1: a half. I'm going to throw my own spread out
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 1: there over under hearing on the broadcast 15 times because
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 1: it's in Dallas. How many times over under 15 that
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 1: we get to hear Dax cadence.
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 1: Here we go which has to be one of the
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 1: most annoying fucking cadence as i've ever heard i hate
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 1: it so much i hate.
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 3: It uh sunday night football now it's.
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 4: Cold wait wait wait brandon who did you pick.
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 3: He picked the what commanders commanders okay So we go
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 3: to Sunday Night Football now, and now we all have
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 3: to talk about the Chiefs now that they're rubbing it
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 3: in on us now.
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just picking KC because I don't trust
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: Indianapolis as far as Daniel Jones can throw it.
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 3: That's a tough one.
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 2: I fucking hate Patrick Mahomes he's so mid fuck you
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes I'm taking the Colts.
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: I mean the real question is how many times are
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 1: they going to show Taylor Swift on the Sunday night broadcast.
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 2: Bro, she was screaming at the camera to get the
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 2: camera off of her after Kelsey's touchdown. Or after one
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 2: of Kelsey's catches, or whatever he had the other night.
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 3: You know how ESPN plays politics, Elizabeth. They're not going
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 3: to stop.
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 2: She was screaming. You could read her lips very clearly.
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 2: It was very clear.
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 3: I have the Chiefs. Don't ask me why.
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to ask why we're just going to
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 1: move on to the last game of the week, the
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: giants and the Rams on Monday night football.
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 2: Giants, giants, giants, giants play as bad. If the Rams
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 2: play as bad as they did against the Niners, it's
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 2: going to be New York driving it down their throats.
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 3: I think the Rams bounce back. I actually think they win.
• 2:19:06
  Speaker 4: I got the Rams as well.
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 2: I would love to see the giant twin. I'll play
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 2: the underdog of us week. It's fine.
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 3: It's fine.
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 2: Look, I also have Devante Adams on one of my
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 2: fantasy teams as well. So I would love to see
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 2: him go off because he pretty much shit the bed
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 2: as well, because Matt Stafford also shut the bed. I, I,
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 2: I would love to see if New York to keep
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 2: up what they did against Dallas. They just played a
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 2: very complete game.
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 3: What?
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 4: Nova, did you find something?
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 3: It's not NFL news. Don't worry.
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you after.
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 1: Before we get out of here, guys, with our Ruffling
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: the Feathers segment, I just want to have a little
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 1: fun with you guys myself because Brandon has– talked about
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 1: his disdain for Nick Wright, and he's really talked about
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: his disdain for Colin Coward.
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 4: Two things about Coward.
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 1: Apparently, he now has merchandise, including a T-shirt that says,
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: that's a you problem, which, in all fairness, I mean, look,
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 1: irrespective of Coward, that's a great shirt, right, Brandon?
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 3: You know the worst part i know about the merch
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 3: because i keep watching his youtube shorts uh and he.
• 2:20:33
  Speaker 1: Also apparently has a t-shirt that says where colin was
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: right yeah he.
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 3: Does this segment and all of his shows he's like
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 3: where i'm right where he makes these like predictions where
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 3: he's like where he's right where he's wrong yeah.
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: Because he claims he actually will take his wrong predictions
• 2:20:49
  Speaker 1: on the chin and whatnot which he does credit to
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: him he's willing to come out and say you know
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 1: hey i was wrong um but apparently his herd hierarchy
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: for week two came out and here's his teams brandon
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 1: you ready for it.
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 3: Oh i'm ready for this it's not just him it's
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 3: me too.
• 2:21:09
  Speaker 1: But i'm waiting to see if brandon's ready for it
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 1: since he since we know how much he.
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 2: Likes no yeah no i'm here very begrudgingly listening to
• 2:21:17
  Speaker 2: this but i'm here.
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, so for Colin Coward's herd hierarchy, number 10, the Eagles.
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 1: Number nine, the Bengals.
• 2:21:27
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 2: Keep going.
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 4: Number eight, the Giants.
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: What? Number seven, the Chiefs. Number six, the 49ers. Number five,
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Number four, the Bears. Number three, the Ravens.
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: Number two, the Seahawks. And number one, the Buffalo Bills.
• 2:21:59
  Speaker 3: I'm opposed to like two of those.
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 2: That's actually kind of reasonable, honestly.
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 3: It is reasonable to hear the Bengals and the Giants
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 3: in the top 10.
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 2: I disagree. I think that is reasonable.
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 3: No, it is not.
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 2: The Bengals will drop out of the top 10 next week.
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 2: It's fine.
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 3: They better.
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm willing to say the top five is correct. Like,
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 1: if you want to interchange some of those ones, I mean, hey,
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 1: who am I to argue with it? But for the
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 1: most part, I think it was pretty good for the
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 1: top five. The bottom five is as interchangeable as you
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 1: could possibly get.
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I have problems with Buffalo at one,
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 3: but sure.
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you're a Ravens fan. But again, like
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 1: I said, the top five, you can make an argument
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 1: for everything. I mean, I was surprised he doesn't have
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: Chicago at number one because they put up 59 points.
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say, why wouldn't he put
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 3: Chicago at one? He's the one praising Caleb Williams for everything.
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 4: It is what it is.
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, people want to listen to Cowherd's opinions. I mean,
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say he's right. I'm not going
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 1: to say he's wrong. But, I mean, hey, those were
• 2:23:33
  Speaker 1: 10 of the best performances.
• 2:23:35
  Speaker 4: In week one. I'll say that.
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 3: I can agree.
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 2: Alrighty.
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 1: And with that, We have.
• 2:23:46
  Speaker 3: One last thing to do, hopefully, which is our usual
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 3: Robin Lee and the Feathers segment.
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 2: Before that, let me interject something that I just read. Apparently,
• 2:23:57
  Speaker 2: as of 40 minutes ago, the favorites, because apparently the
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 2: Steelers are putting Joey Porter up for trade. Or they're
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 2: at least listening to offers.
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. I posted about that earlier in the backstage room, too.
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 2: The Giants have been getting the Harbaugh and everybody has
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 2: been given the clear, the green light to pursue this
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 2: man for anything that they deem worth it. And that
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 2: money is not an issue.
• 2:24:25
  Speaker 3: Wasn't there a rumor with the Lions with Joey Porter Jr.
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 1: As well?
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 4: Something like that.
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 2: I could see Joey Porter on this Giants defense being
• 2:24:36
  Speaker 2: actually pretty OK. But anyway, ruffling the feathers.
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's talk about it. Brandon, you lead us
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 1: off for this week.
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 2: Hmm. I've really thought much about a hot take for
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 2: this week, honestly, because, like, anything that I would have
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 2: deemed to have been a hot take this week kind
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 2: of got turned up on its head with all of
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 2: these teams that we thought were going to lose wound
• 2:25:09
  Speaker 2: up winning pretty convincingly. Like, I don't understand... NFL world,
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 2: I guess, now anymore, apparently. Because who honestly expected Arizona
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 2: to beat the Chargers? Right? Yeah.
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, I.
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 1: Think my hot take is that It was no fluke.
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say... Wow, I can't believe I'm actually
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 1: about to say this.
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 4: I'm going to say it was no fluke.
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 1: The Cincinnati Bengals are going to have the largest margin
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: of victory this week.
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 2: See, I was thinking kind of something similar. I was thinking,
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 2: I was actually thinking something very similar as well. And
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 2: mine was going to be, and I'm going to, I'm
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 2: going to kind of, I'm going to kind of ride
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 2: the train here a little bit. I've been riding it
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 2: for most of the episode. I'm going to do it again.
• 2:26:18
  Speaker 2: I think the Giants are right up there with them.
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 3: Here's mine. I think Kirk Cousins throws three touchdowns against
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 3: the Chargers.
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 2: I think that's doable.
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually don't think the Chargers defense is good.
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 3: I low-key think the Raiders score 30 on him.
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: That would be something.
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 3: And remember, there's Raiders fans in SoCal. They're going to
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 3: flood SoFi.
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 2: Open the black void. Open the black hole. Let it consume.
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 2: Come to the dark side.
• 2:26:59
  Speaker 3: No, that's Seattle.
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 2: Man's never seen Star Wars.
• 2:27:04
  Speaker 3: No, I have.
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know, man. You've never seen SpongeBob. I don't
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 2: trust you.
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 3: No, the dark side is called the Seattle Seahawks defense
• 2:27:17
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's not wrong. The Seahawks defense is called
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 1: the dark side.
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 3: That's the episode, ladies and gentlemen.
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, that is going to conclude episode number eight of
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 1: the Ruffling the Feathers podcast. if you guys have enjoyed
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 1: everything that has been said on this episode please consider
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: uh leaving a like and giving us a five-star review
• 2:27:48
  Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts from because It's a lot
• 2:27:53
  Speaker 1: of fun just talking football, just talking about these games
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 1: because now we have real games to talk about.
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 4: We don't have to worry about.
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 1: Just randomly finding a rabbit out of the hat or,
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 1: in this case, hoping that Derrick Henry and Darnell Washington
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 1: don't just take their fucking right arms and stiff arm
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 1: you into the ground.
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 4: And Derrick Henry didn't even do that this week.
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 3: No, Darnell Washington did.
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 1: Yes, to Xavier Watt.
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 2: Fuck you, Romeo Dobbs.
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say Brandon is looking forward
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 1: to his receiving core for week two.
• 2:28:38
  Speaker 2: God almighty.
• 2:28:41
  Speaker 1: But that's going to end it there, ladies and gentlemen.
• 2:28:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your support for Brandon and
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 1: for Supernova. I am Talent Master Jay, and we will
• 2:28:53
  Speaker 1: see you guys next week for week two of the NFL.
• 2:28:59
  Speaker 1: But until then, make sure them feathers stay ruffled because
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 1: we'll be coming at you with them.