From the deep inside the bowels of the city market in Kansas City, Missouri downtown property
to the banks of the beautiful crystal blue waters of the Missouri River
it is the original two, Topher and Mark, given the 2024 football predictions for the season.
You thought they were done, didn't you?
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Harambe loved talking sports. Harambe doesn't talk sports anymore.
Why not? Because Harambe's dead.
Harambe died because some idiot could not watch their children properly while they were on the phone.
They shot him. Senselessly murdered. Harambe does not talk sports anymore.
Sorry Harambe.
Uh huh. This is pretty disappointing for Tom Brady's performance.
It's like, he was no better than this?
Well, I'm under the impression that maybe he's not going to be that good.
I'm kind of feeling that too because this is the best they could get out of him.
After a year and a half of working with him and going, say this, don't say that.
Yeah.
You know, they don't show him enough on TV because he's a pretty boy to get him through this.
Yeah.
Mainly it's audio. So that's not going to work.
He's got a boring voice.
Yes he does.
There's nothing fun or distinctive or unique about his voice. It's just boring.
You know who I think is going to have a great broadcast career is Patrick Mahomes.
Oh yeah. As long as he doesn't talk too fast.
Yeah, that's the only thing he does talk fast.
That's the only thing he does talk fast.
Which is weird because he's from Texas.
Yeah. They talk slow.
They talk slow. Yeah. Patrick has a lot to say.
Yeah.
But yeah, Brady was the perfect example of he'd still be talking about a play halfway through the very next play.
And the play-by-play guy can't do, can't say what he needs to because Brady won't shut up.
Oh, I know.
There's like a full 30 seconds between plays and Brady's still going and still going and still going.
And then he'll land in the middle of a sentence.
Or he'll end with, well, yeah.
That's a great example.
Finish your thought, man.
But he would trail off.
He'd ramble until he trailed off.
I think they were looking at him and that's why he did that.
Yeah, they were probably telling him, man, this is going nowhere.
Shut up already.
He reminds me of, I know you've heard talk show hosts do this, especially radio.
Someone that likes to hear their own voice.
Yeah.
That's what it reminds me of.
Yeah, and given his ego, he probably feels like anybody's lucky to have him in the broadcast booth.
Exactly, yeah.
And he's the most important person there.
He thought he could just throw his cleats on there and everything would be great.
And you know, that served him great as a starting quarterback in the NFL.
Have that huge ego.
You need it.
But not, yeah.
But yeah, come back to earth now.
You're not doing that anymore.
And there's a whole lot of people out there who really don't worship you the way you think.
No, you are yesterday's news.
There's new heroes.
And I admire Tom Brady.
He was so good to my homes.
He was so complimentary and said, you know what?
And he's telling the truth.
He said, it's his league now.
And he's right.
It is.
Yeah.
And he saw something special in him.
That game that we lost because of D.
Ford and his fucking foot over the line and that dumbass who we traded in San Francisco
and then beat them in the Super Bowl, which was great.
That was fun.
Yes, it was.
Ford's famous one.
Tom Brady actually went in our locker room to tell my homes that.
He said, you know, you're onto something special.
Keep doing it.
Yeah.
And that isn't a guy that is just about himself.
That's somebody that generally cares about people, which impressed me.
I mean, he bothered to do that.
Yeah.
That's quite, you know, you just lost to this guy and he's going in the enemy locker room to talk to him,
to talk to a certain guy about how good he did.
And now Tom needs to translate that into his on-air career where he's not just talking to the people he's met in the pre-production meetings
and the ones around the guys in the booth.
He's talking to millions of people listening and watching on TV, and he needs to treat us better than he is.
Yeah. And another thing is this right here.
We don't want him to fail.
Topher and I want him in the booth.
Sure.
I think he would.
He's got a ton of smart things to say, insights.
The only thing I can hope is Madden had a pretty rough start.
Yeah, he did. That's true.
So maybe Brady's going to get better.
Yeah.
Another thing I noticed about him is he was using the players' first names only,
probably as a means to reinforce like, hey, I'm their equal, I'm their contemporary, and I used to play last season.
That's what I thought too.
Yeah. My wife works for a surgeon. He's pretty well known in the Casey area and nationally.
She's worked for over 20 years. She still calls him doctor.
Yes.
But people will come in who know him sort of and just start calling him by his first name to my wife to try to impress my wife.
They know him. Well, I call him by his first name because that's what Brady was doing.
That's true.
He was intentionally using just the first names because it's a longstanding.
What do they call it? Peacocking?
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, yeah.
Look how important I am.
Yeah, yeah. Trying to like insert your swagger or something, you know, something like that, like a psychological thing.
Yeah. It's a longstanding NFL tradition during play by play.
You call the players by their first and last names or just their last names.
And I got a perfect example. Only a certain amount of people are going to get this. Mike Murphy.
The radio guy?
Yes. He used to do that all the time. He'd know someone a little bit through his show or something.
And then whenever someone mentioned their name, oh, yeah, and he'd say their first name.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Yeah, he used to do that all the time. And it was annoying to me because I could smell it a mile away.
But yeah, he did that all game long. It was Dak this and Zeke that and Deshaun this.
And it's like they have last names. You're not close personal buds with all these people. I don't buy it.
No, no, I agree.
Yeah. He went on and on and on about how hard everything in the NFL.
Well, it's really hard to get 20 yards on a single play in the NFL.
That annoyed me more than anything.
It's really hard to gain 100 yards rushing in the NFL just on and on.
I wanted to throttle and go, we know this, Tom. We know this.
Yeah.
If it was easy, everybody would be doing it.
That's part of him treating us better is not thinking we're idiots who brand new to football.
Bingo. Yeah. We don't need to be hand fed this stuff.
He went on and on too long about the bad parts of Cleveland.
He was talking them down, talking them down.
I honestly think they're going to send a letter to the NFL.
I would think so. Yeah. And here's how the broadcast team handled it.
He went on and on during the first half saying at least four times,
well, the Cleveland Browns, man, you can't go forward by going backwards.
And everyone was already sick to death of that.
So what they do at halftime, they had the sideline reporter say,
oh, yeah, and I talked to the Cleveland Browns head coach at halftime
and he agreed with our Tom Brady.
You really can't go forward by going backwards.
And then the play by play guy repeated it.
And they were like, it was just all kissing Brady's ass. Yes.
They took something stupid that he kept saying over and over
and then tried to legitimize it by pretending the Cleveland head coach agreed with him.
Yeah. It was really, really a bad look. Yes.
That was desperation on Fox Sports part to try to save it.
Yeah. And they didn't really have an answer to quell it either so much.
I think next this next game, they will have an answer to quell it if it starts doing that
or maybe a sign that no one can see. Yeah.
I'm sure he had a talking after that.
And I'll bet you like, hey, if someone puts up three fingers, it means get off it.
Yeah. Something like that. Let's hope so.
I don't know. Maybe not.
He was pretty disorganized in his thoughts, I thought. He was.
He would start a sentence and then turn in one direction
and he'd turn in another direction and then he'd just trail off.
With his personality and his winning percentage and determination in championship rings,
you'd think he would be more focused. Yeah.
So. These are all things he can get better at.
Yeah, yeah. I think it's not a loss.
But I also wonder about five years from now,
if they're even going to even remember that he was a broadcaster.
Yeah, yeah. And then the cherry on top was when they put together this ridiculous promo
with Tom Brady and some little kid who's looking up at him all starstruck and worshiping him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it was just a big Tom Brady promo to puff up Brady's attractiveness to the audience.
It was pretty blatant, pretty obvious. It was like, seriously, this looked like desperation on Fox's part.
They went way too far. They should have just sent out engraved invitations to everybody saying,
Tom Brady's wonderful. He's so wonderful. Everybody watch, please, because Tom Brady is God.
I mean, that would have been more subtle than what Fox did. Yes.
Because it was, you know, they didn't have to try so hard, is I guess what I'm trying to say.
Fox was trying way too hard and they didn't need to. They just made it embarrassing for me.
And they had no backup plan. No.
You tell me with a year and a half, a year and a half to prep for this, that they didn't see this coming.
Yeah. And the play by play guy, instead of trying to manage it or steer the conversation away from it,
he was in ass kissing mode. Oh, wow. You're so smart. Yeah, that's absolutely right.
Oh, wow, John. Smart words from such an off season quarterback is just it was relentless.
I had no respect for that at all. It was I bet you Tom didn't have any respect for that.
I would hope Tom was embarrassed listening to all these people just falling all over themselves to kiss his ass.
Yeah. I mean, if they really wanted to get better, they would have not have let him done that.
They would have been like, you know, but they just they were starstruck to it. Sounds like it sounds like.
Yeah. So I think I think he can do better. I think I think there's all sorts of room for improvement.
I think he can bring a ton to this game. I'm going to earmark on my phone six months from now.
Yeah. And we're going to revisit this conversation. Yeah.
Yeah. They're not going to can the midseason unless he says something, you know, some racial slur.
Yeah. That would get him. That would get him out. And then he could probably get out about half of them.
Yeah. OK. You don't know anything about Tyree Killings.
Then it sounds no. No. I as I said, I had the sound down and I saw his face on the screen a lot,
but I was working on something else. I had the sound off.
I need to put the closed captioning on. Yeah. Yeah.
OK. Well, here here is the deal. He was stopped on the end.
This is all I know right now. There's more to this story that I don't know.
And I think there's more to this story that nobody knows except certain people. Tyree.
People there. Yeah. So he was detained.
He was stopped on his way to the game. He refused to put his window down, like they said, and he refused to get out of the car.
His excuse later was and actually it's kind of valid. He said, Look, people are going to see me.
They're going to start snapping pictures. They're going to stop. He said, No, I didn't want to do that.
It's been such a distraction because all I needed to do was go to the game.
And he was saying, Hey, do what you got to do. Do what you got to do.
But he also was defiant and he would not roll his window down when they asked him to.
But the part to me that was excessive, but I don't know what all that happened is, is if it if what happened.
What happened, what I think happened, it was excessive and not necessary.
OK, one of the officers is on administrative leave right now, but they grabbed him out of the car and threw him to the ground.
And they cuffed him. Yeah, this I don't know if that was necessary.
They knew he is a football player. I have trouble believing that Tyree kill did anything to deserve that.
I don't think he did either, but I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt. OK, because I don't know for sure.
Now, the propaganda would have you believe that when a cop pulls you over, you have to do everything, everything they tell you.
That's bullshit. We all know that absolute bullshit.
You do have to roll your down your window a little bit so you can communicate. And he did do that. Yeah.
An inch is plenty of room to hand through your driver's license, your registration, whatever, whatever.
And that is all the cops are legally allowed to require of you.
Here's what I want to know is what was he stopped for and what was he detained for? Yeah, I haven't heard that yet.
No, if there's something illegal, then maybe they're kind of warranted and bring out a little further. Yeah.
If it was a gun, maybe or something. But no, I know this is this is starting to smell like driving while black.
Sure does, don't it? Yeah. And here's another wild card, too.
A couple of players stopped because they saw him and they went in there and tried to help and deflate the situation.
One of them hate that. No, no, no. One of them put him in cuffs, one of them in cuffs and the other guy they ordered out.
Yeah. And I forgot the name of the people. But that's how how far this went.
If those players had also pulled out their phones and started videoing it, the cops would have done everything possible to get those phones away from them and arrest them again.
Because, again, perfectly legal to video the cops doing all this, but they won't really will try to keep you from doing it.
Yes. As far as dragging Tyreek out of the car, they have to show cause reasonable.
And also Tyreek said my knees. Yeah. I've had surgeries. And he's right.
It sounds like the cops dragged him out of the car because they were pissed that he refused to roll his window down.
And that right there is revenge. And then they let him go. Then them letting him go was the most telling sign.
Yeah. They knew they had nothing on him. Yeah. I mean, you wouldn't let him go with the he had a gun.
You wouldn't let him go with. I don't know. If he had like a broken taillight or swerved over the line to make themselves look better.
The cops would have written a ticket for something if they had anything.
He was probably speeding. And then the fact that he wasn't really compliant with him pissed him off. And they went to extreme measures, which I agree with you, man.
They need to get to the bottom of this and they need to do the proper thing. And this is what these officers did.
Then they need to say you don't need to be in this profession. No, they don't. So and even if it was speeding, unless they had a speed gun on them, it's not provable.
Exactly. So they probably guessed he was speeding, saw a black man in an ICE car and decided we're going to pull this guy over.
And then they weren't going to let him go out. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no. Just because he's a football player, he's going to stand here and he's going to do what we say.
And then when they didn't do what he said, they freaked out, flipped out, did stupid shit. Yep. That's what this is sounding like.
I think Tyreek is completely in the right. I do too. And I think these cops overreacted and then tried to muscle through because they couldn't back down.
And now they're just screwed. Yes. I'm sure their union will try to do everything to protect the cops. But yeah, this is sounding really bad.
Yeah. So yeah, I mean, yeah, we're both on the same page with that. Yeah. We're just going to leave that right there.
And this is one of the ones that we're going to revisit next week and the week after as more details come out.
If if the listeners are interested, there are plenty of YouTube videos showing people going out and doing completely legal things that the cops don't like.
And then filming the cops reactions and all the bluff, all the lies, all the threats that the cops will use to try to get you to quit your completely legal activity just because they don't like it.
Yes. And let me take this a step further. We need law enforcement. Yeah, we need them. We need good, honest law enforcement that knows the laws.
Exactly. We need the right ones. We don't need ones like this. If you've got if you've got 50 good cops.
Well, let's see if you've got one bad cop and you've got 50 good ones who are letting him get away with it.
You've got 51 bad cops. Yes. That's the way it works. Yep. And that's the truth of it. It is. So yeah, support law enforcement as long as they deserve it.
Yes. And these two cops that stopped Tyree Kills sounds like they don't deserve anybody's support. No, they don't. No, they don't. They're bullies. Yep. Bullies with badges and guns. Yep. I agree.
I don't tolerate bullies. No, neither. Well, we'll go back to that later. Yeah, this will be an interesting one. It is. It's very interesting. Yeah.
What should the chief's game plan be versus a Bengals? Run, run, run, run, run, run, run the ball.
Pacheco should get 25 carries at least. How about steel? Steel, probably 10. And Clyde Edwards, a layer. He's out. Oh, he's gone. Oh, he's not gone. Yeah.
He runs the guy. Yeah. Generic Prince is gone. Yeah. Personal issues or something. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know why they hold on to him. I really don't. I don't.
Well, it wasn't me the one that Mahomes lobbied for. Yes. Yeah. Maybe that's the sticking point. But he's got something going on with PTSD.
And he kept trying to mention it and stuff, but the media really wasn't giving him much traction on it. So I don't know what happened.
But yeah, Edwards, Lair is striking me as the kind of guy who had one or two good seasons, but he's kind of used up because other things are becoming way more important in his life. Yeah. You know, if that's the situation, fine.
You don't owe anything to the NFL. D. Dardief, D. R. T. went to Canada to battle COVID because he is a doctor. Yeah. Yeah.
And Lair has or wait a minute. Hlar. Hlar, the way Joe Buck says. Yeah. Which is not hilarious. Yes.
Lair. If he's got more important issues, he's got enough money. He needs to just step down and go do it. Even if you don't have enough money, step down and go do it. Exactly.
If you feel that adamant about it, do it. Do what you think is right. But until then, I really don't want to hear about it that much. You really need to make better things and just go, yeah, PTSD is horrible.
How about sharing your story? How about getting people in that situation some help? Yeah.
And you know, for for Edwards, a layer, the thing one of the things that's going to help him the most is helping other people in his situation. Yes. Because that you learn how to treat yourself by treating others well. Yes.
And I'll take you can take it from me. You know, when you're battling with self-esteem and self-worth, being good to someone else is about the most wonderful thing you can ever do. Exactly.
Is it feels great. And then you realize, you know what? Maybe I'm worth something, too. Yeah. And a layer is not the type of guy that he does not look like a party or I don't think he is. No, never struck me as a pretty good solid person.
Yeah. So he probably has money and is going to retain it. Yeah. By not being a dumbass. And so I think he's at a perfect point in his life to where he can just say, you know, I'm going to go pursue this.
You know how they say if you don't have your health, you don't have anything. True. Same as with mental health. Oh, it's it may be even more. Yeah.
Because imagine having a healthy body, but your mind is all screwed up. I can't enjoy life. I know people that can't get out of their own way with mental illness. Yeah.
And they know they have it, but there's nothing they can do. On the other hand, a person with a terminal illness and a great attitude is going to enjoy every moment they have left. Exactly.
Mental health has to come first. I mean, like if someone's dying of cancer, why not go skydive? Yeah. The worst that could happen is, is you end a little bit quicker.
That's the only way I would go skydiving. I know I'm about to die. I go fight a bear. Oh, that'd be too painful. Yeah.
Wait a minute. Yeah, no, I'm not going to go fight a bear. You're right. I had an interesting take on that whole rather be in the woods with a bear thing, but we don't have to get into it, Ryan, if you don't want to.
No, go ahead. Oh, well, you remember when there were those memes that were circulating for a while because one, get this, one woman said publicly that she would feel safer alone in the woods with a bear than any man.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. I was just one person who said that, but it suddenly blew up. It blew up into memes everywhere and tons, tons of women were bandwagoning it. Oh, yeah, me too.
Me too. So, you know, I remember I posted a meme from the bear's perspective saying, I don't want either one of you in my woods.
I actually remember that. I love that. I'm like, I agree with that. Just because the woman wants the bear doesn't mean the bear wants the bear.
It's like, no, you're one of them. Get away from me. You're destroying my land. But now let's take a look at it again. Isn't that bigotry and prejudice against all men?
It is. Now imagine if someone had said, I'd rather be in the woods alone with a bear than with a black person. Oh, imagine that. Yes. So that wouldn't have been tolerated.
But men, you can be as bigoted and prejudiced about it as long as you're being funny. You're right. So everyone missed the point that this woman was being a horrible, horrible bigot and judging every man by the worst man she'd ever encountered.
Yeah. But she got a pass on that. That's right. Or will. Can't do anything about it. That's the world we live in.
No, because the way things are right now and how they have a protection against people, certain people to where you can say more than another person can because of the actions of people before them.
Yeah. So it's the way it is. You'll never catch me saying anything like that. No, no. I try to think about these things before I say them. Me too.
If you ever hear yourself about to say those people or you people or yeah, that's pretty telling. Nothing good comes after that. Yeah. It's like being out at three in the morning. Nothing good is going to happen.
Margie Schottenheimer's quote. So if you start out by saying, well, those people or will you people or no, you need to stop right now. Well, number one, there should be no separation between anybody. Yeah. We're all human beings. Yeah. And we should all be judged and looked at equally. Yeah. And that's all there is to it. Yeah.
Anything less than that is a failure. Well, this sounds like broken record, but there's more money to be made by highlighting the differences and trying to suck up to someone saying, oh, you're in this group. You're better. You can make a ton of money that way.
You can't make a dime saying, oh, we're all equal. We're all equally worthy. We're all the same. You can't make money doing that. Wasn't FUBU owned by a white guy for us by us? Yeah. Well, oh, well, yeah. Okay. And the guy is making all those athletic shoes for all these all these black athletes. Yeah.
And they assumed the yes, they were white supremacist Nazis, but they were more than willing to sell shoes to black people because they wanted their money. Love them then. Yeah. Yeah. But other than that, they think they're inferior. They they liked white people.
But green money was okay. Yes. All right. So the Chiefs game plan against the Bengals. Absolutely. Run, run, run. Yeah. And then you run until they start catching on to it. Then you keep running and then you throw a couple of bombs. Play action. Play action. Play action is, you know, there's so many teams that do play action, but it doesn't work because nobody believes you're going to run the ball on third and seven. Oh, yeah. I mean, if Hollywood grounded back or not, I mean, I hope he is back.
But think of every one of these guys. Kelsey is still very effective. Yeah. Juju can get it done as he proved. Yeah. Worthy is showing a lot of talent in a little amount of time, a lot of speed. Can't wait to get him back. Oh, I know. And then Rice is already looking like a all pro. So he's got the benefit of already working with Mahomes for a year. Yeah.
You have all that speed and a certain amount of defenders. They have to have to go after those guys. If you're going after those guys, how much can you do against the one when you already been proven you've been run on? Yeah. Look, this game is going to be tough just because it's the Bengals against the Chiefs because the Bengals view us. Is there a Super Bowl? Yeah. So that's the way it's going to be. So it's not going to be that easy. At first, a lot of stuff is going to be a little bit of a struggle.
A lot of stuff is going to fail. But, you know, I think that's it right there. You have to run as much as possible and you have to play action and pitch and improvise. Yeah. And I trust Mahomes to be on top of it to where he can start guessing the tendencies of the Bengals. It's like we've run four times in a row. They got to figure we're going to pass now. So let's run a draw.
Yeah. And sometimes you still pass if you fake good enough. Yeah. I mean, I go back to the last play of the Super Bowl in overtime. They sold that so well that Hardman was wide open in that zone. That's an unforgivable sin. Yeah. But when I watched it, I see how come they bit. It was so believable. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They were all game long. You're setting them up to believe this is what we're going to do in these situations because that toying total sense. And then you do something totally different and they have no clue. Yeah. The
psychology behind it is this. Oh, Andy Reed and company think that we're worn out. So they're going to run up the middle. Andy Reed's like, they're going to think that we think they're worn out. We're going to throw to the side. So sometimes it's like that.
It is. It is. Aaron Rodgers performance. Do we have to go into that? I mean, he sucked. He looked old. He looked lethargic. He looked like to me, he looked like a pissed off asshole sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. And a guy who's lost his team. Nobody has trust or belief or faith in. I, I consider Aaron Rodgers to be pretty much done until he proves on the field otherwise. You know, if I see him starting to have some good games and the
team rallying around him, they still have a chance. If he continues this way. No. And Aaron Rodgers to me has never been a guy that could take the team on his shoulders. He doesn't want to apparently. No, he's the lone wolf kind of guy. Yep. So that's what he's going to get. Lone wolf still win in the NFL. So and I had down here, but we already went into it. The Chiefs were obviously the superior team. And should we, we should we be worried?
That they didn't close the door because this is reminiscent of last year.
I'm not worried. No, me neither. I would have been happier if they had, you know, built a strong lead and then maintained it. But it's also good to see him battle. Were you ever worried? Were you ever worried the game was in jeopardy? I wasn't. Not really. No, not even on the final drive. No, I just, I believe in the team that much. I do too. I would have thought if it went, they were going for the win, which I commend John Harbaugh. That's what you do. Yeah. It's like, look, we're not going to beat these guys.
And overtime on the road. Yeah. If you're home, you go for the tie and overtime. If you're on the road, you go for the win. Yeah. You get one shot. You give it everything you got. You got Lamar Jackson and you have Henry, Derek Henry. Yeah, was having a good game. Yeah. You have likely who's the big guy. Yeah. Yeah. You have all of these people that can be at the line. So I don't blame him for going for it, even though it is the template, even if it wasn't, I think he should have went for it. Because the Chiefs are the team you want to go into overtime with. No.
So you just like, here it is, win or lose. It's the first game. We have time to make it up. This is what we do. It's ironic that the overtime rules were changed to negate Mahomes, but they actually favor us now because it used to be the first team score.
But now they were upset that the Chiefs were winning right off the bat every time. So they said, okay, now each team gets a chance to hold the ball. Okay. That means Mahomes gets a chance to have the ball too.
Yes. And that's what's killing everybody in overtime is they struggle, they struggle, they score something. The Chiefs like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Okay. We scored two.
Just like the Super Bowl. Nothing, nothing, nothing. And then all of a sudden here is what I'm sure happens. You can see it on the opposing team's face. Okay, they just got three. Okay, they just got 10. Now it's 17 to 10. They're one score behind. Oh, shit. Now. Now we're tied.
Yeah, it's a whole new game. Okay, let's do something really big. They get a score, but still in the back of their head. They're like, this guy's going to come back. The Chiefs are like the approaching storm that you just can't outrun.
Yeah, it's like you, you don't beat it. So you try to quell it the best you can and hope for a lucky break. Yeah. Yeah. I eat the championship game that they lost to the Bengals. Yeah. Hope for a lucky break. And that was some luck, but also a very stupid decision.
Yeah. He shouldn't have thrown into the coverage that tight at all. He should just took it and said, you know what, my defense is going to stop. But he does what he does. Yeah. He's not afraid to take the game on the back and win it or lose it. And I commend it for that.
It's like Barry Sanders. You knew that, you know, two or three times you hand the ball, he's going to lose yards. He's going to lose a lot. But the third or fourth time, he's going to break it. He's going to get like 80 yards. And that makes it worth it. So with my homes, you're not going to get perfection and the right thing every single time. But you know, he's going to keep working. He's going to eventually do whatever it takes as long as you're one at a time.
Yeah. Barry in the flat, you couldn't stop him. Oh, yeah. He had like thighs the size of, I mean, he had so much power in his lower body. And his ankles went in directions that normal human ankles don't. No, I know. They would freeze frame like, Derek Thomas was another one. They'd freeze frame them and say, look at this ankle. Yeah. You or me, we'd be added to the hospital. That's true.
This is normal and okay for him because he's his body can handle it. And actually amazing in a slightly different way. My homes is like that, too. Yeah. He's got these joints that just seem to go in different positions and not bother him. I think the difference is for you or me, the joints would be strained beyond their limits and they would just go. Yeah. But for these athletes, they've strengthened the muscles that hold everything together. You know, so he strengthens the muscles that throw the football.
The muscles that throw the football down the field, but he also strengthens the muscles that hold his shoulder together. If he gets hit on it. Yes. So when he gets hit, the joint starts to move out of place. Things stretch and flex and the muscles pull everything back into place and you'll be sore. You get some inflammation, but nothing's broken.
Nothing's torn. And you used to see those photos of Derek Thomas in an ice tone. Yeah. Well, that's why. Yeah. Yeah. And that's like probably pretty true for most players. Yeah. All right. Well, should we go into our predictions? Let's do it. I'm going to write them down this time. Okay. Oh, yeah. Please do.
The Thursday prime video game is the Bills against the Dolphins already. Already. I got to give the NFL a golf clap. Especially get people to put aside Thursday evenings for football. Yeah. Because this is going to be a good one. I did. I have other things to do Thursday night, but no, that game is earmarked as a must watch. Yeah.
That's I don't have. I don't have prime video anymore. I'm going to try to figure something else out. You come over and watch in our house. Well, that's true. Prime video. Yeah. I.
You pick the Dolphins this year to win the division. Do you pick them to win this game? It's at Miami. Yeah, I think I'm going to have to pick them in this game.
I'm going to go 27 24 close game. No one's going to put anyone away early. I think it's going to be a real physical game, too. I think so, too. Yeah, I see the Dolphins being able to handle the bills who are now starting to ask questions about themselves, especially on the road.
There's no like there's no weather advantage. There's no geographic advantage. You know, sometimes late in the season playing an outdoor game can give you a boost. Yeah, I just don't see much of a way that the bills can win this.
Everything.
Tells me to go for the Dolphins. Yeah.
I'm going to go for the bills. And here's why. Big Brother has always slapped down Little Brother. Oh, yeah, that's true. It's in their psyche. It's in their DNA. I think it's going to happen one more time.
But Miami might win the division very easily and have a better record. But I think on a situation like this, the bills are going to figure out a way to get it done just because they're not going to let Little Brother get him. Yeah, that's that's going to be a big part of it.
And also, I think there's going to be a key mistake by Tyreek or somebody. Yeah, someone's going to drop the ball. The bills are going to take advantage of it. People are going to go, oh, shit.
Yes, but the later in the game that happens, the more it's going to affect them too. I like this already is starting off good because, you know, last week, we are pretty much, you know,
pretty much on board with every game. Yeah. So there's some ones on here that's going to make us go, you know, so this is good. Okay. 12 p.m. Sunday, September 15th.
The 0-1 Raiders against the 0-1 Ravens.
I think the Ravens should have is that is in Baltimore. Yeah, I'm thinking the Ravens are going to have no problem. Okay.
I was looking for the Raiders to show me a lot more opening week. Yes. Yeah. Especially since I picked them to finish second in our division and be a wild card.
But yeah, I'm not thinking so much anymore. It's starting to look like they still have some good pieces, but they're not using them well. They're not putting together a good game plan.
The opening game of the season, you can still lose. But if you play well and have a good game plan, you have something to go on. Yeah.
And right now they're just like they're flatlining already. It's like the Raven Raiders either didn't make a game plan or made the absolute wrong one.
Yeah, both of them are bad news for the Raiders fans. Yes. So yeah, I'm I'm I'm kicking Ravens to 31 17.
I think the Ravens are going to get on the board a lot and often to make up for last week and try to put the Raiders away early.
And and then I look it'll probably be a game that's over by the third quarter pretty much decided.
So I didn't give a score on the Bills Dolphins. Oh, yeah. No. OK, I'm going to say 27 23 Bills.
All right. Another close game. Yes. I think most of the games this week are going to be close.
Yeah, I picked a lot of widespread games last last weekend. I'm going to come back to Earth a little bit.
Me too. I'm picking the Ravens, but I think it's going to be closer than that. And the reason is I think the Ravens are going to be flat after losing and losing the way they did.
I think that they're going to do a little questioning. I think instead of thinking, well, we played them really well.
I think they're thinking like we should have won this because they keep kicking our ass and we're tired of it.
And they came to our place last year on the championship game, kicked our ass. Then they came back over here and kicked our ass two times.
I think they're going to be sent sent home scratching their head wondering what the formula is.
And I don't know if they're really going to be worried about the Raiders that much when they probably should, because any team can beat anything.
Yeah, you definitely need to worry about any team coming into your into your.
I got one name Buster Douglas.
Yes. So Mike Tyson said recently, you know, thank God Buster Douglas came in and knocked me out and woke me up.
Yes, I know. Knocked him out, woke him up at the same time.
The Raiders did that to the Chiefs last year on Christmas Day. Yep.
They came in and bitch slapped us and we went home soaking our soaking our jaw and got better.
We did. We we fixed some things after that loss.
But yeah, in order for them to beat us up so bad, that was a reflection.
Yeah. I was getting all the teams written down.
No, I knew that. So it's going to be much easier jotting them down.
Yeah. Yeah. OK, the next one, we have the one and no Chargers against the 0-1 Panthers.
Wow. I don't I got to got to pick the Chargers.
These are two teams that aren't very good, but Chargers are definitely much better than the Panthers at this point.
I don't see any evidence that the Panthers organization is even really trying all that hard.
No, that's the thing is, is they didn't really seem in the offseason to do very much, which was very surprising.
And you know, that used to be able to fly in the NFL. There were whole decades.
The teams would just be OK and sell some season tickets.
But the shared revenue changed all that. Yeah.
And the more that they get into it, they realize, you know, if Caroline is a bad team, they're not selling merchandise,
they're not selling out their home game, and the rest of us aren't getting our cut of that. Yeah.
So damn it. Get better and be a bigger earner. I mean, it's the same way organized crime works.
If you're not earning enough to send your kickoff, your payoffs up the chain of command, they don't want to know you.
Yeah, they're like, no, you're worthless to us.
Yeah. I think the modern NFL is not going to put up with a perpetual loser that becomes a franchise everyone just dismisses.
Yeah. Because that's way too much money you're missing out on.
Bryce Young, they swung and missed on him. Yeah.
And it seems like since they swung and missed on him that they don't care.
They're like, OK, well, we're not going to be good this year because we swung and missed on our number one.
And again, that's that's that's old school thinking of 20 years ago.
It's like, well, might as well take the season and get him next year. Yeah. Fans don't forgive.
Andy Dalton is his backup. I predict Andy Dalton getting the job about halfway through.
Yeah, I would say that. And he's going to win you some games and he's going to do OK.
But he's a bridge player.
I think they just want to win like four or five games and look like they're better on paper.
True. If they can show some improvement over last season and some consistency, then that's where the veteran Andy Dalton comes in.
And just by smarts and a decent arm, he could probably will you three or four games.
Yeah. And that combined with maybe a game or two that Bryce Young somehow.
Yeah, there's some games that are just going to follow your way. Yeah.
So I'm thinking they're looking five or six wins and then going, well, look, we're getting better.
Yeah, that should probably be enough to keep everyone happy until next season.
But I don't know. It may go the other way. Yeah.
So you got a score in mind? I've got 2410 chargers over the Panthers.
OK, I have 3314. I can see that. Chargers.
Yeah, I almost went for a higher score on the Chargers.
Well, the Hurberts could be taken out if they keep kicking their ass.
Yeah. And I think it could easily went up to 38.
And I think that he's going to be taken out in the fourth quarter. It's going to be 33 to 14 is what I'm saying.
And the Chargers and the Panthers last touchdown might come from Andy Dalton.
Yes, could be.
They might they might pull. They might change quarterbacks in the fourth quarter and say, let's just get some points on the board.
Damn it. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
I could see that happening very well, too. So that's where the 14 comes in.
Yeah. You and I have seen a bunch of games like this.
Yeah. Yeah. And betters have, too. And they hate it. Yes. Yeah.
Who's next? All right. Saints versus Cowboys.
Man, this is going to be a decent game. I think so, too. It's in Dallas.
Yeah. Both teams won their first game.
The Saints blew out. Who did they blow out?
It was on the tip of my brain just a moment ago. Yeah, me too.
I've been having these damn brain burns here lately and it's bothering. Was it the Falcons?
Yes. Yeah. Thank you.
Man, Dallas looks like a complete team. They do.
They're playing at home after a win. They're happy. They're excited.
It's going to take a lot for New Orleans to come in and knock them off. And I don't think they're going to do it.
I agree. I'm going to go 24-27 Dallas.
Dallas. Okay. I'm going to go Dallas and I'm going to say 20-17.
I think it's going to be more of a defensive struggle. Yeah.
But that's just by sheer, I just feel it. Nothing else. Nothing to back it up.
Well, first game scorers, first week scorers, there were a lot of low scoring games.
There were. I think this is the week where the NFL comes back to pack and they start playing like they're normally going to play.
And the defenses start settling down and figuring out who's number one, who's number two. Is the safety better in this position?
Is the cornerback better?
Yeah, I think all the veteran players probably had a little weirdness last season or like last week because it was like, here we are playing game and I don't hurt. What's up with this?
Exactly. Yeah. This week they're going to hurt and they're like, oh yeah, I know this. This is familiar. I know what's going on.
It's just, I mean, it doesn't feel good to hurt, but it's familiar.
Yeah. I say like a lot of the first games are an anomaly and not really actually what is going to take place in the actual.
So I'm thinking this is a coming back to pack game. So we'll see. Yeah. We both have a pretty close score.
We do. Yep. The next one, one and oh, Buccaneers against one and oh, Lions. This is going to be a good game right here.
Yeah. Yeah. I hope that's carried in our area.
Oh, no, no, no, no. Why would they do that? Yeah.
You know, the national game is probably going to be Dallas. Yeah. They're going to force everybody to watch Dallas. Yeah, they always do.
Yeah, I'm I'm going to have to go with Detroit over Tampa Bay.
No, the close score. I'm going to go.
30 to 24.
That's pretty good. Six point difference. Yeah.
I'm going with the Bucs.
It's tough. Yeah. Both teams are going to be able to score. They're one of my surprise teams.
Yeah. I remember that. Oh, go ahead. What? I was going to say both teams are going to be able to score and both teams are going to have decent defenses to keep it from getting out of hand.
Yeah. But yeah, both teams are going to score some.
Not only do I think they're the surprise team, but I think that Detroit gave Green Bay every opportunity to win that game.
And I didn't like that. Yeah, that's that's worrying.
They're at Lions, though. Yeah, maybe.
You know what? No, no, no. I'm going to go with I'm going to go home with upsets. I'm going to stick with it.
Detroit will probably win this game, but I'm going to say the Bucs just for pounding my chest. Yeah.
Right. So so I'm going to go in and go with the Bucs.
And I'm going to say it's going to be 21 to 14.
Still fairly close. Yeah. One score game. Yeah.
The next one is the 011 Colts against the 011 Packers.
Now, Jordan Love is out. Yeah.
You know, last week, I think this was a tough call, but I don't see any reason to go against the Colts. I don't either.
They play. Richardson is looking like a really good running and throwing quarterback.
Key is looking really well. And you're going to be on your backup quarterback.
So go ahead. Yeah. I mean, all those things.
Indy played better as a team last week than Green Bay played as a team. I agree.
Lambeau Field home advantage isn't going to mean much this week.
I see it. 27, 10 Colts. OK.
And as a little side note, I'm going to predict that there are going to be a lot of penalties in this game.
I agree with that 100 percent. I'm going to put down many flags.
So you don't believe in Malik Willis? Who? Yes.
That would be the Green Bay starting quarterback. Yeah.
I'm with you. I'm with you 100 percent. It's going to be a sloppy game.
It's going to be an ugly game, but somebody's got to win. Yeah.
And I think Richardson is going to do something to win the game. Yeah.
Yeah. And it might be very well. It might be footwork.
And think of the career boost for him to be the storied franchise like Green Bay in Lambeau.
That's going to do wonders for his confidence. So he's got everything to gain.
And the Packers really don't have much to gain.
I really think, like I said before, and this had nothing to do with love going out.
I think they're coming back to Pack this year. Yeah. No pun intended.
I think that they're easier to figure out than a lot of teams. Yeah.
So I gave them a remarkable try, but they couldn't capitalize on anything, which bothers me.
And that's one of the reasons I'm thinking like this, too.
Detroit gave them every opportunity to win. They couldn't do it.
And they couldn't do it. Yeah.
Some of that is on their defense, but not all of it.
They had people open. They had different things that could have worked.
They could have shifted things around. Matt LeFleur.
I think that he's a good coach, but I don't think if he's an upper echelon coach.
Yeah. With amazing talent, he could probably be pretty effective with it.
Yeah. He would be a George Seifert like we talked about earlier.
Well, actually now last podcast. Yeah. Yeah.
But yeah, you got to be able to win with questionable talent in order to prove your chops as a coach.
Yeah. It was just like Marty Schottenheimer.
They asked him about his most successful season, and I thought he's going to say 14 and two Chargers.
Yeah. Or 13 and three Chiefs with the famous defense and the Dan Salimuas on the front.
You know, he said the eight and eight Redskins. Yeah.
He said the reason he had no talent and he coached him up to win eight games.
Yeah. So that tells you something about how they think.
And the importance of a good coach and a coach that knows how to treat the team.
Yes, absolutely. Yeah.
All right. We agree on that one. Okay. Marking the ones where we disagree.
Score on this. I had 27-10.
Okay, I'm going to say 23 to 10. Okay. All right.
And this is still 12 o'clock games. Yeah.
Or one o'clock if you're Eastern time and who the fuck knows in California.
You guys figure that out. Yeah. Not like you're going to be watching it.
California time. That's right.
They're all whacked out on the gondola. They don't give a shit. Yeah. Yep.
All right.
The Brownies versus the Jaggies at Jaggies Stadium, whatever the fuck that's called.
Who knows? Perpendicular Stadium. The Fish Pond or something. Yeah.
Well, it's either Jaguars, so I guess it'd be the Litterbox.
The Litterbox. Yeah. They're at the Litterbox.
Man, this is difficult. I can see Cleveland coming in on a hangover and stinking up the place again.
I could see Jacksonville having a wobbly performance and Cleveland coming in pissed off
and just mopping the place with them. So I guess they got to pick one.
I'm going to go with gut. This is a gut feeling. Go ahead.
This is a gut feeling one because I really don't have a read on either one. Yeah.
I had high hopes for Cleveland this year, so I'm going to pick Cleveland 24-14.
Okay. I think Cleveland is going to right the wrongs, and I think they're going to come back,
and I think they're going to be decent, but I don't think Deshaun Watson is going to take them very far.
He might take them to a wild card, but then lose quickly. I mean...
Yeah. I don't expect Deshaun to have much of a game this weekend.
They'll still win in my prediction, but I don't think Deshaun is going to be much of a stats kind of quarterback
from this point unless they change things.
No, I think that that is gone. How old is he now? He was in the same class as Mahomes.
Yeah. And let's see.
He was picked right before him a couple of spots before Mahomes.
So Mahomes is...
Is he 28?
Yeah. They're both pushing 30, but not there yet.
Okay. So if Deshaun doesn't show anything this year, I can proclaim him done.
Yeah. Backup.
He's a backup.
Yeah. If you want the baggage that comes with him, he could be your backup.
Someone will. Someone will.
Yeah.
Okay. So did I take a score yet or not?
No. I had him Brown's 24-14.
I'm going to go with that too. I think that sounds about right.
Yeah. I don't have a whole lot of high scoring games this week.
You know what?
I got burned last week.
Yeah. I honestly think that everything's coming back down level now and the teams are going to be where they're at.
I mean, it's more of a defensive. I mean, look at last year and look at the Super Bowl last year.
It was a defensive paradise.
I think this coming week, one reason or another, they're not going to call so many of the offensive line of being back too far.
Either the people will figure it out or the referees will figure it.
We've made our point. It's just slowing the game down too much.
That's a great...
Yeah. So either way, they're not going to call as many.
It's going to be both. It's going to be both.
They're going to watch what they're doing and it's going to be complied by.
We got to let a certain amount of this go away because we lost so many viewerships because we kept going...
Yes. Yeah. You're pissing the fans off by throwing all these flags.
What do they call that? PPMs, like personal people meters or something that they send to people.
Something like that. Yeah.
Every time you change a channel, it shows.
So every time State Farm came on, they changed the channel to the other game.
Yeah.
They're going to be like, okay, this isn't working monetarily.
Yeah.
So we're going to go the other way now.
But if you're using any kind of converter box, a dish box or a drag TV box or whatever, the box is doing that for them.
So they don't have to send out a separate device.
Yeah, that's true.
Your box is telling them what channel you're tuned to at what time.
Do they even do PPMs for TV anymore? I don't think they do.
No. The only people that would really work for is people who do over the air.
And there's not enough of them to be a viable market.
Yeah. They're an older demographic and no one cares.
Nobody wants to market to them.
You're not giving them their first mortgage.
You're not selling them auto insurance.
The only thing you can do is sign them up for Medicare or reverse mortgage.
And those people don't pay much for their commercial.
And that's the Carolina games.
Yeah. So there's no way those companies could afford NFL commercials.
No, you're right.
They're like a public service announcement, which once again, I go back to the Carolina games.
Yes.
All right. This next one's interesting.
The 1-0 49ers against the 1-0 Vikings.
That's an interesting matchup.
That is.
First glance isn't really accurate.
First glance is like, oh, first go over Minnesota.
No problem.
But no, Minnesota is going to be a lot tougher on them.
And it's on the road.
And they're playing at the dome. Isn't it a dome?
Yeah, yeah, they've got the dome.
The domes are hard to play in no matter what.
That game I mentioned with Rick Goldman being the worst play-by-play guy,
that was the year that the Vikings had to play outside because their dome collapsed.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it collapsed.
Yep, that's right. I forgot about that.
Yeah. So when you see the Vikings playing a home game outside, you're confused.
I think the 49ers are going to pull off a victory.
Another close game.
They're right here.
I've got some high-scoring wide margin games.
But this one's going to be another 30 to 27.
Okay.
I'm kind of discounting the defenses on both teams.
I think this is a week for those teams.
Their offenses are going to get on track and they're going to score.
I'm just going to say one name and you're going to know who I'm going to go for.
Sam Darnold.
Yeah.
That is who you're looking at as the starting quarterback in the dome.
But I think that it's still going to be a decent game up to a point.
But I think you're going to see San Francisco pulling away from them in big fashion.
I'm going to say 34 to 10.
Oh, nice.
I think it's going to be 10 to 10 for a long time.
Then late in the third quarter, I think they're going to wear the Vikings down.
I think Sam Darnold cannot go up against a defense that good.
It won't be effective at all.
Especially battling from behind down multiple scorers.
All you can do is throw.
Yes.
And that's not their...
The Niners defense is going to take care of that.
They're going to eat them up.
Yeah.
Combination of rushes and blitzes and then sitting back and picking you off.
Yeah.
Fumbles, pick-offs, all that.
That's why they're going to pull away late in the third quarter.
Because that's when desperation starts to set in.
Darnold's going, you know what?
This isn't working.
The coaches are probably like, this isn't working.
Go at it.
Let's see what you can do.
Yeah.
I can definitely see it going that way.
Yeah.
So we'll see.
It doesn't mean it will.
We'll see.
All right.
We agree on that one.
All right.
The next one, the Seahawks against the Patri-Rots.
I love saying that.
Patri-Rots.
I like that.
The Patri-Rots.
Yeah.
My brother who lives in the Seattle area calls them the Seahawks.
The Seahawks?
Yes.
Well, they got to be pretty disappointing.
I mean, because they let Pete Carroll go.
They pretty much shoved him out the door.
Russell Wilson was ruined.
They're probably better.
Yeah.
Neither team is like on fire.
I don't think either team is going to have massive success this season.
But I think Seattle currently has more explosiveness and more ability to score.
New England, despite what I thought, is turning out to be a fairly well put together team.
They're not great at any one thing, but they can kind of do everything.
So I'm going to pick Seattle 27-10 because both teams, like you said, both teams are going to be mediocre for a while,
but Seattle is going to get some big plays and run the score up by 17 points.
And I don't think that New England is going to be able to mount much of a comeback.
I'm kind of, what's the score?
27-10.
I'm kind of in flux on this one.
I know.
Because I see the Patriots having a lot of steam after beating the Bengals.
True, true.
And were they, they were at their own stadium.
They were at Gillette Stadium or were they at Cincinnati?
I don't remember.
I don't either.
They were.
They were in Cincinnati.
Okay, I'm going to go with the Seahawks, but I think the Patriots are going to fist fight them every better way.
Yeah.
I'm going to go with a 27-20.
I'm going to say 22.
I don't know how they got there.
I don't know.
There might be a safety in there.
There's a safety in there somewhere.
And it's going to be the one point safety, the one that never happens.
Happened one time in NFL over.
There was somebody making the comment, there's one team that winds up always having weird final scores
and the joke is that they're going to win five to four.
So three safeties and a field goal.
What a boring game that would be.
Except when you get the safety.
That's like one second of excitement, then you go back to reality.
Yeah, I'm predicting a one point safety.
The second one ever.
In the Canadian Football League, they used to have a play called the Rouge,
which is at any point a player can drop kick the ball through the ball posts for a single point.
Oh, I love that.
Of course, you give up possession, you have to kick off.
We'd have a hell of a time with Butker.
Yeah, put Butker in as a halfback.
Run or just kick the damn thing.
Whatever you want to do, you're tough enough, you can run.
Yeah, so okay, what did I say, 27-22 or something like that.
It's going to be a fist fight and they're going to win by five, the Seahawks.
But it's going to be very questionable all the way into the fourth quarter.
I can see that.
Next one on the docket, the Jets against the Titans.
Both teams look like shit.
Yeah, I think though if you like offense, you're going to have fun watching Tennessee.
I think Tennessee is going to destroy the Jets.
Okay.
Simply because the Jets are so inept, they're going to put themselves in a one-dimensional situation
and then the Titans are like, we know what you're going to do, we're going to handle that.
Yeah, because it is at Nissan Stadium.
Yeah, I see the Jets coming in and just struggling right off the bat.
And the Titans are angry right now.
Very angry.
I think Will Levis is a decent quarterback.
He's kind of like a Tannehill.
They got like another Tannehill with him, I think, without the proven success, of course.
So, go ahead.
I'm going to guess the Titans over the Jets 31 to 6.
Wow.
I'm not even going to give the Jets a touchdown.
They're going to get two field goals.
Okay.
I think, you know, I wanted to get some more high-scoring games in here,
and I think this is one that can work out that way.
That the Tennessee can just explode, and they're not going to be like this all season,
but they're going to have one really great game where they beat the heck out of the Jets,
and then they're going to go back to mediocrity.
Okay.
I think pretty much the same thing.
This feels like a set-up.
I guess what I'm saying is this feels like a set-up game.
It does.
I think the Jets are in just like disarray.
I think even Robert Szilag could not straighten this out.
And they had a year.
They had a whole year.
Well, he kept fighting with Wilson, the backup quarterback, they said.
They said they constantly had each other.
And I guess, I don't know if it's true or not.
I read this on the Internet.
But I guess, like, Roger's always had some sort of a comment towards him,
and he's just being a real dick, it sounds like.
And Zach Wilson was like, you know what?
I should be the starting quarterback.
Fuck this guy.
Yeah.
And I think Wilson had the idea that if the team is going to put up with this
and let him do this to me, I don't really want to be here anymore.
Exactly.
That's why he left town.
And they traded him because, they didn't trade him because of that.
They traded him because of Roger's.
Yeah, I'm sure Roger said, get him out of here.
I don't like to look at his face.
Do you remember Wilson started showing promising signs?
Yes, he did.
Yeah, I mean, especially against the Chiefs.
He really had a great game.
Yeah.
I think that Zach Wilson there may be quite a bit of an upside if he's tutored right.
So, yeah, I'm with you.
I think that like the Jets are flatlining,
and there's going to be no bones about it.
You're going to see this and go, I hope they win one game.
Even last year when they signed Rogers, I thought, what a mistake,
because you don't have the team to back him up
and put Rogers in a position to keep winning.
This year they still don't.
And they're bringing his tired old wounded ass back.
I think it's done here.
And Rogers has had a whole year to really make the team hate him.
Yeah, you're right.
It sounds like one of those situations where financially they're kind of stuck
or they don't know how to get out of it without looking bad.
I agree.
So they're going to keep writing Rogers to their doom.
Okay.
So that's one of my big scoring games, a 25-point difference.
Okay, I'm going to say the Titans are going to win 28-10.
The score is going to be a lot closer than what the game really looked like.
Yeah.
So yeah, you and I forgot again, I forgot a flash drive.
I owe you a bunch of them.
I can never remember to bring one of those with me.
I'm sure I've still got some at home, but I've got great big ones.
So it's like a 64 gig.
Okay.
I'll bring you some.
I'm going to buy a pack of them and just like put it in my car that way next time I go here.
Yeah, I didn't get some decent cheap ones up at Micro Center work pretty well.
Oh yeah, those do work pretty well.
They're pretty cheap too.
They're tiny, so you know, they're probably losing them.
Yeah.
They're pretty small.
The next one, the New York football Giants against the Washington Commanders.
The Washington don't call us the R word anymore.
And not the R word you're thinking about.
The other.
Hi, we're the other R word.
Yeah.
Remember when they told us that lie that, oh, we were named after the Red Skin Peanut Company.
Oh yeah.
Remember that lie?
Yeah, I forgot all about that.
And not one person said, oh, okay.
Yeah.
I mean, there are peanuts that have red skins around the peanut itself, but yeah, that's
not where you name them.
People like to look at each other and say, bullshit.
Unless there's a giant ass peanut on the side of your helmet, then no.
No, that was a fish story all the way.
I caught him.
It was this big.
I fought him for seven hours.
Isn't it embarrassing when people don't even put the effort into the lie?
Yes.
It's like, if you're going to lie to me, lie to me well.
But just this really bad lie that I can see right through, you just don't respect me,
do you?
Yeah, it's adding to you.
Okay.
We had a little technical error there.
I would like to say, I do believe that the rivalry came from this.
Their boneheaded mayor in Cincinnati.
Yes.
You know, burrowhead and all this shit that he said.
He gave us all the ammunition we would ever need to hate the Bengals.
Or not really hate, but to get up for the Bengals game.
He made it personal.
Yeah.
And he disrespected arrowhead.
So they've had that type of luck ever since.
So yeah, the guy was an idiot.
At least he did admit he should have kept his mouth shut.
Yeah, yeah.
And I don't know how much was lost, but the Chiefs have, as far as out of the division,
we have a good rivalry with Miami, but Cincinnati's kind of not on that level.
Although they really want to be.
I think it's more one-sided.
They want to be in our head.
Yeah.
That's it.
It's really kind of one-sided at this point.
Cincinnati is more afraid of us than we are of them.
Yes.
Yeah.
And they made it into this big thing, so.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
What now?
I'm getting disorganized here because I'm obsessing about the computer crash.
Okay.
Yeah, Cincinnati is going to play well.
I hope Burrow is in and plays well just to give it all the credibility it deserves.
Yeah.
And it would be nice to see a close game with lots of exciting plays.
I really feel like the Chiefs are going to pull away.
I kind of feel like that too.
Yeah.
I do too.
It's not really what the Chiefs do on a regular basis.
We kind of tend to play down to the level of our opponents and then, you know,
keep them in the game and then whip them late.
Like I said last year, you're looking at a team that can morph into the team
they're playing.
Yeah.
Which is scary.
And then they can change into whatever they need to be for that moment or that drive.
It's like this.
Yeah.
The end of the game, they put their capes on.
Yeah.
But until then, they're Clark Kent.
That's a good way to put it.
Yeah.
They're bumbling, they got their glasses on.
Yeah.
And then all of a sudden, they go into the phone booth in the last two minutes.
Yeah.
So.
I think Cincinnati is going to be able to score.
I do too.
I'm going to give them 24 points.
And that's part of what's going to keep the game close throughout the game.
But in the fourth quarter, the Chiefs are going to pull ahead.
And I think the Chiefs are going to score 40.
So this is going to be probably one of the highest scoring games of the day.
64 points.
But I really see the Chiefs being able to put up big numbers on the Bengals.
Okay.
They're going to run and run and run and just destroy them and then throw one right over
their heads.
You know, and I think that another thing is, is I think that the Chiefs feel like they
owe them one anyhow.
I can see that.
Yeah.
I mean, there's been a lot of smack talk.
Jamar Chase constantly bagging on us.
At least they don't have Eli Apple anymore.
Yeah, that's right.
They're giving them the Chiefs lots of locker room material.
Yeah.
And also another factor that people are going to pooh-pooh it away.
Actually, the billet-on-board material, not locker room material.
Yeah.
Well, it probably is in the locker room, too.
Yeah, that's true.
Okay.
I think because of little Skippy and, who was it, Boomer, Sison, and people like that,
this is not going to be set anywhere.
But Mahomes is going to show them definitively who the better quarterback is, and there's
not going to be any bones about it.
You're right.
I remember even as late as last year, the Cincinnati former players were still trying
to jump on the Jewellboro bandwagon and promote him ahead of Mahomes.
Yeah.
You got to figure they do some of that to maintain the credibility of the hometown folks,
and they can still work in Cincinnati.
Yeah.
But at a certain point, they're going to look like an idiot.
The one game they can hang their chest on, and that's a championship game, not the game
before that they lost over in Cincinnati, that's not such a bad, horrible thing.
You're probably supposed to lose over there.
Yeah.
Okay, so, well, the team that they had then.
The only one is, Burrow didn't win it for them.
Mahomes gave it to them.
Yeah.
They didn't give the defense the credit they needed.
They're like, oh, Burrow did it.
No, he did not.
He was with Mahomes.
He couldn't score.
There's a difference between Burrow putting up the points that eventually make you win
and Joe Burrow driving the team to come from behind and get a game-winning score and touchdown.
Yes.
He doesn't have as many of those as people think he does.
I agree.
He's got some.
No, no doubt.
But people tend to think when they see that the Bengals won 30 to 20, they're like, oh,
Joe Burrow did a great job, or if he's even close with 30 to 27.
Oh, that Joe Burrow, maybe when it counted, he was throwing in completions and duds, and
they just managed to hang on.
Yeah.
I think that's more often the case with Burrow than it is with Mahomes.
I think you're right.
Yeah.
Yep, 100%.
So, I'm looking for lots of scoring, but Cincinnati is going to fade, and then they're going
to whine.
Yeah.
I would say 32-13, and the reason it's going to be a little bit closer than that is I think
it's going to be a dogfight until about late in the third quarter.
Then I think once Mahomes figures it out, the formula, I think it's done.
Yeah.
It'll also help if a tactic that a lot of coaches will use, if you're ahead by two scores,
start eating the clock.
Well, that's part of it, too, because Andy Reid does a lot of that now.
He didn't necessarily do that so much before, but he does now.
He's like, you know, I've got the guys.
I've got the personnel.
If we need another score, they can do it.
But until then, it's what you call prevent.
Yeah.
I would even go for it early in the game, anytime, first quarter, second quarter.
As long as you're up by two scores, start going into the slowdown offense and snap the
ball when you've got five seconds left on the play clock.
I think that's a frame of this game.
That's a picture frame of this game right there.
When the Eagles and the Chiefs played in the Super Bowl, the Eagles started doing that
right from the beginning.
They ran that play clock all the way down to eat as much time away because their idea was,
Mahomes is on the bench.
Let's keep them there for as long as we can.
And I want to see Andy Reid doing that, as when the Chiefs are up two scores, just eat
as much time off the clock as possible.
100%.
And then if you're not down two scores, go back into a regular offense.
If you're down, go into the hurry and try to wear out the other team's defense.
But be able to adapt like that throughout the game, that will be a big part of success,
I think.
Okay.
It's something I don't see teams doing.
They're up big early.
They're still hurrying up, running the clock, and stopping the clock.
You're going to be so mad when, come fourth quarter, you could have had seven or eight
minutes run off the clock by now.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a sign of a really good coach and a fair coach right there.
The next one is the 720 game, the NBC Sunday night game.
It is the Bears against the Texans in Texas, in Houston.
Yeah, that can't be the afternoon game because it's a night game.
So the afternoon NFC game is probably going to be Rams and Cardinals.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yay.
I'll turn the TV off and go do something else.
Me too.
Oh no, I'll be at work, so I'll be laughing.
Yeah, there we go.
So Chicago at Houston, yeah, I still got to give the edge to Houston.
Yeah.
I think they're better, at this point, I think they're a better organized and better run
team than Chicago by a little bit, and they've got their quarterback situation ironed out.
Bears aren't quite there yet and are susceptible to making the mistakes that that entails.
Yeah.
Houston's, they've pretty much always had a good defense.
Yeah.
I can't remember a bad defensive team for the Texans.
Well, I do one time.
Yeah.
There's the playoffs.
Oh, well, yeah.
But I mean like season long, they haven't sucked at defense.
I was being a smart ass.
Yeah.
So excuse me.
Sure.
I'm going to go 20, 27-17 Houston.
I'm going to say 32 to 20 Houston.
I think that CJ Stroud's going to have a stout game.
Yep.
But another spectacular.
And I think that Caleb Williams is going to have a good game too, but not proven anything
yet.
Yeah.
I think it's going to be more of a run game than a pass game, and the jury's still going
to be out on him.
I could see if Caleb Williams passes for over 100 yards this week, the interceptions are
going to go up too.
I agree.
If he winds up passing for 300 yards, he's going to have probably three picks in there.
I could see that.
I think a fumble and a pick, a fumble and a couple of picks probably.
At this point, I don't think he's capable of racking up those many yards without taking
some chances and throwing some bad balls.
Oh, no, no.
Okay.
You're talking about, yes, I agree with that 100%.
If he starts airing it, you're going to see a lot of mistakes.
Yeah.
So per 100 yards he passes for, throw in a pick.
That sounds about right.
I can see that happening to him, because it's early in his career, and he's still getting
used to how fast everything is, how smart all the players are, how well prepared everyone
is.
So this one could get away from him.
It's not always going to be that way.
Okay.
You got a score?
27-17.
Okay.
Did we do scores already?
No, no, no, we didn't, did we?
No.
Okay.
I'm going to go Texans 32.
I think you said 32-17.
32-17, yeah.
That's right.
Okay.
You didn't do your numbers, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
I did mine.
It's 27-17.
Okay.
One more game to go.
Alrighty.
Falcons at Eagles.
This is a Monday night game.
Go ahead.
I got to say I don't got a lot of interest in this game.
Me neither.
Because of the teams, and it really doesn't mean anything to Chiefs fan at this point.
I could easily see Philadelphia winning this game and not really having to be in doubt
all that much.
I could too.
Atlanta's got to figure some things out.
Kirk Cousins has to, I guess, Kirk Cousins needs to be the kind of guy who plays within
himself and quit believing he can do more than he can really do.
He's a glorified Alex Smith.
Yeah.
Actually, I think Alex Smith deserves a little bit more credit than that.
Yeah.
Alex Smith knew what he could and couldn't do, and I think Kirk Cousins still hopes that
he can do things he really can't do, and he'll kill drives by making the poor choice.
Yeah.
Also, I don't think that he's ever quite been 100% into the game.
I think that there's always been that his home life is, I mean, of course your home
life is more important, but I think he's always been like, if I don't win, it's not the end
of the world.
Where Mahomes is, and people like that, Tom Brady or whoever else you could point to,
maybe Lamar Jackson or something like that, or Josh Allen, it's like a no, no, no.
Winning is the most important thing.
Yeah.
You don't want your quarterback to be one of those just happy to be here kind of guys.
No, no, no.
So I can see Philly easily handling Atlanta in a pretty dull game.
24-17, not a whole lot is going.
I'm going to make it lower than that.
I'm going to go 21 to 10.
I'm going to go 24-17 because I agreed with that as soon as you said it.
So, all right.
Atlanta is still going to be, Atlanta is not going to get their team figured out until
week four.
I agree.
Yeah.
Yep.
All right.
Well, there we go.
Kill.
Yep.
All right.
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Everybody, have a good night for day whatever.
Anybody wonder what these two dullards look like?
Yeah, me neither.
Did you really sit there and listen to all that garbage that was being, do you actually
believe one inch of it?
I didn't think so.
Hang on.
Game over.