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it is the original two, Topher and Mark, given the 2024 football predictions for the season.
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Alright, the Sports Bastards. We've got a lot of stuff to talk about. A lot of stuff has happened.
They're giving us a lot of good material, aren't they? The NFL and all the players and everything.
It's like they're giving us a gift.
They are. And also congratulations to our Kansas City Royals for winning against the Big Band Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
That was so cool.
They actually look like they may have a shot. They come back to Coffman Stadium Wednesday.
And this town is going to be crazy.
You expect a lot of sick calls on Wednesday.
Yes, and Thursday.
And Thursday.
Here's the deal. People that don't remember don't know. Kansas City is a baseball town too.
Yeah, yeah. It's been kind of on simmer for a while, but this town is massive on baseball.
The economics of baseball has quailed it quite a bit.
Quite a bit, yeah.
And I don't see it ever changing. So I guess every ninth year I'm going to vote for them. I'm going to be excited.
And then when they've got to let everybody go because they can't afford them, then I guess I'll just go back to football and whatever else.
Yeah, yeah.
MMA or something.
Okay, well, number one, you want to start in on the Chiefs because there's a lot of stuff to talk about.
Yeah, that's what we know the most about. So let's jump on that.
Okay, the Chiefs had a dominating win. It should have been more, but we'll get to that here in a little bit.
All right. What was the score? 26 to 13?
Yeah, we doubled what they had, 26 to 13.
It should have been more like 37 to 13.
Yes, I think so.
Like the tip pass, but Juju made up for it.
He did.
Yes, he did.
Man, he had a hell of a game. 130 yards on seven catches.
130 yards on seven catches. And so did Cream Hunt.
So this goes to my first question. Cream Hunt keeps producing.
Should he be the starter when Pacheco comes back? Because right now he's doing better and he's wearing that defensive line down significantly.
He's bigger and heavier by a decent percentage than Pacheco. But wow, that's a tough one.
Because, man, you've got to figure out how to use both of them, but which one do you give the starting job to?
Who's going to be the third down back? I don't think Cream Hunt excels at that.
Let's see if P Ryan can do it on third down.
That would be great. So who's a better blocker?
I think Steel.
Yeah, so Steel would kind of be, I don't know, Steel's having problems holding onto the ball.
Yes, he is.
So maybe he needs to go think about it in the practice squad for a little bit.
Yeah, spend some time out there on the field as a blocker.
Yeah.
And then work on your ball retention skills.
Yeah, yes.
But between Pacheco and Hunt, who's the better blocker? I remember Hunt being an excellent blocker.
I was getting ready to say that. I saw some of the blocks he did. They even mentioned him.
I mean, you had Apeman and Buck actually talking about it, about his blocking abilities and how good he was doing.
I mean, right now, look, I know Hunt is older and probably has maybe realistically four years left in his career.
Yeah.
Okay, but he was used sparingly too, so maybe a little bit more.
Yeah.
But they do slow down like everybody does over time. I think right now you would have to give Hunt the nod.
If he keeps playing like this, how can you take a person on the roll out of there?
I mean, the team.
Yeah, man, that's tough. He really is.
You can see the team believing in the guy right before his eyes.
Yeah.
They're like, boy, man, this guy is everything that we thought he was going to be at the first.
Yeah.
He's coming back with a vengeance. He seems to have his head on straight. He wants to redemption. He wants that ring.
He does.
That he missed. You know, this is such a storyline that I don't think it could be ignored.
Yeah.
This is something that doesn't usually happen. This is how the ordinary, and we'll see if he can keep it up.
I mean, anything could happen. This could just be the first two games, any indication.
Yeah.
This is something that I was just thinking, haven't seen in more than a decade, is running back controversy.
Yes, it's usually quarterback controversy.
Yeah.
It's not usually.
Or maybe wide receiver.
Yeah, but not.
It used to be common, like in the 80s. It's like, oh, he's going to be the running back. That's really important.
And anymore it's like, eh, whoever.
Yeah. And also none of them is trade bait.
No.
Number one, Hunt wouldn't command anything.
No.
Number two, Pacheco probably wouldn't get that much either on the market.
No.
I mean, unless you trade him to your direct opponent, but you're not going to do that.
No.
I saw an interesting stat, though, on Benning. You know, Tyreek Hill is not happy down there in Miami, and he did request somewhat of a trade.
Ah.
Kind of tongue in cheek, but I think he really liked it.
Oh, okay. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. So I think he's starting to get disgruntled because he knows they're not going to be competitive.
And two of them may not come back at all.
Yeah.
Tom Brady didn't come out of retirement for him.
Yeah.
So you know who the odds-on favorite to get him back is?
The Chiefs.
That seems weird.
I don't know. I mean, okay, supposedly I have no, no proof of this at all. I haven't even looked it up.
But supposedly Miami's going to have to eat all the money.
Oh, wow.
And when he'll go somewhere else, you're virtually getting him for nothing.
Interesting. Well, that could make him very attractive, then.
Yeah. And Miami and Kansas City have a very good rapport about trading with each other.
That's true.
I don't know if there's something in this, or if this is a bunch of people thinking Schuster and Hunt, they couldn't get it done and worthy.
Yeah.
I don't know if that's wishful thinking, but would it change a betting line?
It might. Yeah. You never know what's going to make someone or a whole group of someone decide to change the way they bet.
Yeah. I could see the betting line doing this on purpose just to get everyone interested in the bet.
Yeah.
I'm saying I don't think they'll get him. I don't think they want him.
The way he talked about Mahomes and the Chiefs, I think, even though – let me start over because I need to organize my thought.
That power washer is kind of getting to me.
I know. Me too.
Let's hope he's done soon. To some degree, it's like, okay, we're a business. Let's use Tyreek because he's a talent we can use to get where we want to go.
But at the same time, the Chiefs have some pride, and they remember when people motherfucked them the way he did to use your term.
Yeah.
I think the Chiefs are like, no, this guy talked crap about us.
I think that too.
It would be insulting to the fans to some degree to have him come back when he's talked so crappy about us.
Yeah. The thing that got me was the hugs that he got from everybody. They still obviously love the guy somehow, which surprises me.
But I think as an organization, they have to go, no, no, uh-uh.
Yeah.
We can do it without him, and I believe they can, and I think it's the next man up.
I think if you introduce a situation like that, it might hurt the chemistry of the team.
True, true.
Because even though Kelsey is more about him than Mahomes was, Mahomes was nice and cordial and looked like he liked the guy but didn't hate him.
Now, Kelsey seemed like he loved the guy, if I remember correctly.
So I think that there's probably a lot of people on the team who are like sick of him thinking, no, no, screw this guy.
Yeah.
No more ranks for you. Get out of here.
Let me go get the coffee.
But Topher took the initiative of learning Japanese, so he's going to speak to you in Japanese while I get the coffee.
Alrighty.
Okay. Okay, maybe not.
In 2014, the United States government has issued more than 200 patents for technologies involving weather modification and geoengineering.
I had no idea. These are actual real legitimate patents all about modifying weather.
Crazy.
Well, like we're talking about, they already, the city of Kansas City says you cannot keep your rainwater.
Yeah, somehow the rainwater that falls on our property now was regulated by the city.
Yeah.
Huh?
Well, I see this weather stuff going on like that.
And you know, I think the chemtrail people are really off their nut, but I do see there is definitely a value to being able to control someone else's weather.
Topher, I'll put it like this. I thought that, I believe anything now because this, the pedophile ring that we kept hearing about when we were younger.
It's real.
It's huge.
Yeah, allegedly. Yeah.
And you know, I think that's the goal of this massive disinformation campaign that is the internet is to get us to where we don't know what to believe, so we just don't believe anything anymore.
Yeah. So, no, to me, I'm the opposite. When that came to fruition on a couple of different levels.
Yeah.
I'm like, my God, that was real. What else is real?
Here's something interesting I learned the other day.
For many years, people wondered why the hell did Kennedy decide out of the blue that we needed to send a man to the moon and back again by the end of the 60s?
Always took it as a prop to get in office.
But I don't know.
Well, I learned the other day what the reality was. In the late 50s, the Russians had put up satellites, they'd orbited a dog, they'd orbited a person.
Sputnik.
Sputnik, and then they sent that dog Lyka up, and then they sent Yuri Gagarin up.
Uh-huh.
So, the Russians were way ahead of the US in the space race, and it was going to be hard as hell to catch up. So, the United States decided to change the game.
They said, let's start over on a project that both we and the Russians are at ground zero on. We have nothing done.
So, we can't catch up to them on satellites, so let's invent a new space race, one where we both have to start from scratch, and the US has more money and could outspend them.
And that's where the theory about it being fake comes from, actually.
Yeah, it does, because there was so much national prestige wrapped in this, they couldn't let it fail no matter what.
Exactly. And it's not beyond the realm of pop. Sorry, go ahead.
But that was basically it, is the only way we're going to beat the Russians is to change the game we're playing. So, now let's say, oh, let's put a man on the moon and bring him back.
The Russians will never figure that one out. That was all it was. That was all it ever was.
No, I knew that. It was the Cold War. It was a product of the Cold War. Absolutely, yeah.
And it was like a one-upper and trying to be the big bad one on the block. And actually, when it comes down to General Patton, I believe, was right.
He said, you might as well go in and take over the rest of the world because Russia's going to be a problem. Germany's going to be a problem again.
He didn't know about the Chinese and the North Koreans. No, no.
He was absolutely correct. He said these people, yeah, he didn't know about those yet. Yeah.
So, anyhow, I mean, like I said, you know, the statement from the NFL, this Super Bowl is going to be preempted by World War III for a couple hours.
But don't fear, we'll have it on sometime that night. Yeah. Yeah. And we won't miss the halftime show. No, no, no, no.
The desk toll has reached 13.8 million, but still, Beyoncé is going to sing.
Yeah, they ruled two people out on the halftime show, and that is Justin Bieber and P. Diddy.
Oh my God. Those two have been ruled out for the halftime show.
Let's hope. Yep, we're learning the P stands for pedophile all this time.
They're talking about Hillary Clinton doing hand puppets. So that might be critical.
Oh, my God. One puppet goes, What do you mean you're going to testify against me?
Oh, shit. What happened? A plane crash? Oh, too bad. Allegedly, allegedly.
That poor man committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head with a rifle twice. And wrapped himself up in a blanket.
In a blanket and then found himself in a park. But that was clearly suicide. Clearly.
That's the first thing I would have thought if I walked up on it. Yep, this guy just exited out.
That's something that the Chiefs wide receivers coach is now starting to tell his players in practice.
When you're doing a flyer route, a go route, run like Hillary knows you're going to testify against her.
I still love that. That's what they told Razavia Worthy before he ran that 42140. Hey, Hillary's heard. She thinks you're going to testify.
Oh, shit. Man, set a new speed record. It was awesome.
OK, I guess we should probably get back to football, right? Oh, we were talking about football. OK.
Well, you know what? We'll go into some other stuff after because, as you all know, we cover other things, too.
Yeah. And after this, after the NFL wraps up, we'll come up with something else, too.
Yeah, I've been trying to come up with a name like the Music Creeps. I like that one.
If we do music, I think the Music Creeps is fine. Yeah. So, OK.
So Cream Hunt, I mean, we're kind of I'm kind of leaning towards me. He needs to stay a starter. You.
Let me. I tried to inhale my coffee instead of drinking. There we go.
Man, personally, I think it would be really tough to binge Pacheco after all he's done. I know.
But I guess I would be OK either way. But it was up to me. I think I'd start Pacheco.
But make sure they each got about equal reps, equal plays. OK. OK.
Well, I'm going by what Hunt has done and I'm assuming he's going to get even better during the year.
Oh, I imagine so. Yeah. I mean, if he produces 100 yards or right around every game. Oh, gosh.
How can you deny that? Oh, that's. Yeah. I mean, there's something to be said for the hot hand.
I mean, I'm going back to Schottenheimer, true. True. And going to Gerback after Ganon got him there.
Yeah, that didn't work out so well. It did not.
And then you decide to put Ganon in the last two minutes when it was too late.
Yeah. So we could blame Ganon for not winning the game. Yeah.
They should have let Gerback go, but by that time, nobody wanted him. Yeah.
So any how it might have been a little early onset dementia for Marty at that point.
That's what people say. And I kind of I kind of agree with that. It started out as a tasteless joke,
but it's really started to gain some traction because it's a real possibility that some of those
just unbelievable, mind blowing decisions he came up with. Yeah.
Is because of his early onset dementia. Yeah. And that would indicate why he changed courses so quick.
Yeah. And Tim Grunhardt was center or was he right guard? He was center. He's center.
That's right. Or was it John Altman center? Yeah. Anyhow, he's one of them.
He on his radio show, he said that there was a playoff game or something where they had all week long,
all week long, they'd worked on this one game plan, you know, heavily focused on, you know, I think the past.
And then last second, right before the game, Schott and Iher comes in in a wide eyed panic.
And you said literally the coach was panicking, which was weird to see.
And he scraps the whole game plan and puts in one that was run based and insisted that that was what they had to do.
And he tries to get this thing installed in like about eight hours last minute.
And then they go out on Sunday and stink it up and lose. Can you imagine how deflating that would be?
Yeah. You're raw on this game plan. We're going to get it. We're going to win. We're going to do it.
And then all of a sudden, I forget everything. And the players Grunhardt himself said the original game plan would have worked.
We knew it was going to work. We were excited about that game plan because we knew it was going to work.
And then Schott and Kimer comes in in this crazy panic and just destroys it all.
And they blow the game. Yeah, I think it was a home game, too. Yeah, it was.
And that's probably one of the biggest reasons he never went anywhere in the playoffs.
Schott and Heimer is great a coach as he was. Compare him to Reed. It's not even close. No, no.
We may have the best coach ever by the time it's all said and done. I've been hearing. I've been hearing that.
He's like the Tom Brady of head coaches. Yeah. He went to the Super Bowl with Philadelphia, came just shy of winning it.
I mean, they almost did. Yeah. He did it with virtually no real quarterback.
I mean, you know, he had McNair or no McNabb. McNabb. Yeah. He had McNabb and then Michael Vick.
The dog killer. The dog killer. Yeah. I'll never like him. I'm sorry. I'm an animal lover. I'll never like him.
You cannot say anything to me that would make him me like it. Yeah. But do I think he can't make a living? No, I do not think that.
No, I. Yeah. He still has the same basic worth that every human being has.
We all have value because we exist as a human being and we all have basic human rights, etc.
My baseline is always everyone retains their rights as a human being. He has the right to make a living.
And if the NFL team is going to hire him for a coach or they're going to hire him as a commentator, OK, he needs to live. Yeah.
But as far as me liking him, no, no, I'll never like him. So anyhow. OK. All right.
The plan seems to be working now. And remember when I went back to how they are a run? Yeah.
The first offense that's run to set up a long pass. It's yeah, I love that. It's working.
That's the Raiders offense of the 60s when they had LaMonica, the mad bomber.
They'd wear you out with the run up the middle around the edge.
And then when you just started packing up the box to try to stop the run, you throw it right over your head and score an 80 yard touchdown.
Yeah. Look at Juju when he's out in the flat. Nobody near him. Oh, my. He was so open. That was amazing.
How does someone get that wide open? Blown coverage, maybe it can be blown coverage every time.
Number one is trickery. Yeah. I think the Chiefs have schemed something that takes advantage of a hole in their coverage rather than just a mistake.
The one fourth down where they all stood up and went to the right. Then the play went to the right.
That's brilliant. It was like we're not falling for this. They're going that way. And then he goes to the right.
They fucked with the other team's minds so much that it's unreal. You can see the chess game and Andy Reed is clearly five jumps ahead.
Yeah. Yeah. The only drawback, sometimes he gets a little carried away with the gadget and tricks and he uses them too much.
But right now he's using them the right amount. It's working out really well.
Mahomes looked like he was going to do a gadget play, but decided not to. He's going to save it for later when he did the spin around. Yeah.
He was going to do something. I think so. Yeah. And then he's like, no, that's playoff stuff. Yeah.
So I'm looking for the backward pass, even though they poo poo did us nothing. Yeah.
So, OK, the defense was spot on with key stops and turnovers.
Schuster and Hunt producing these two trashy players.
So I'm not going to 250 yards between them. Yeah. Geez.
So, OK, I mean, look at all that. OK, so on the Browns, they had Nick Chubb.
So they really couldn't put Hunt as the lead man. Yeah.
I don't know if that had a lot to do with the psyche over there or if there's a fact of how he unceremoniously got booted for lying.
But something happened to him. But now this redemption is bringing him up higher.
So the question I have with this is. Mac Jones and who was the other one?
Zappi? Yes, Zappi. That's an awesome name. Who's now on the Chiefs practice squad or was.
I don't know if he still is. OK, so Zappi and Mac Jones, was it simply a combination of injuries and those two quarterbacks being horrible?
And then Schuster still had it with the generational player.
Is that what went on or is it the coaching style that brings the best out of them?
Or is it a combination of everything? Yeah, probably a good combination.
That's what I think, too. The culture of Kansas City as a sports community is a lot lower pressure.
The press here is not going to be going through your garbage looking to see if your wife is cheating on you the way they will in Philly.
Exactly. Yes. And the organization. And if you think Topher is joking, he's not. I'm not.
Go ahead. The Chiefs do score pretty low every year on the annual players poll, but the team camaraderie is always something that ranks really high.
And they love the coaching staff. Yes. Another thing to think about, Kareem Hunt left Kansas City because he was caught on video hitting a woman.
Then he winds up in Cleveland where Deshaun Watson is. Oh, we'll get into him a little bit later.
Yeah, he is who he is. And Kareem Hunt turned his life around. Yes. Kareem Hunt is not that person anymore.
And maybe he didn't want to be on a team playing next to Deshaun Watson thinking that's who I used to be. This guy is going to hell.
You can clearly see it. Yeah. It's clearly. It's clearly people do not like the guy.
And I think it was a big motivation for Hunt to get out of there because like if you just recently got sober, you don't want to hang around with your stoner friends.
That's true. Hunt is changing his life, changing his attitude towards other people, women specifically.
So being around Deshaun Watson and his unrepentant, unapologetic toxicity is really bad for Hunt.
Yeah. And here's one more thing about the Hunt incident too, from what I understand. And I think that this is a true story.
A lot of people said this. And at first I was like, what? Now I get it.
That woman was underage and causing havoc, throwing around words she shouldn't and being just a complete fucked up idiot.
She should have never been there in the first place. And someone found out allegedly that she was underage.
And Hunt made the mistake and doing it himself. Yes. And before I was like, what?
And then I'm like, you know what? If that really went down like it is, they're right.
He should have had one of his guys go, hey, look, I can't do it because I'm on a team. But go out there and whatever it takes, get her out of here.
She's going to get us in trouble. And that still would have probably come back on him because he paid somebody to go manhandle this woman.
It's much harder. But it would have been way less than him actually going out there and doing it himself.
And he should have never lied to the chiefs. He should have said, yeah, I really did a boneheaded move.
It's the cover up that always kills you. Yep. Ask Nixon. Yes.
OK, so let's see. We agree it's a bit. I agree with that, too. It's a little bit of everything.
And if you had to put a percentage, I don't think it really matters, but a percentage to me would be like 50 and then 25, 25.
Yeah, I'd say 50 percent is coming back to Kansas City to the coach, the team, the locker room, the familiarity.
It's got to feel way better than going to like India or Pittsburgh or Arizona where he doesn't know anybody or anything. Exactly. Yeah.
OK. And then finally, our offensive miscues again. Oh, God. Again, screwing us in the red zone.
Jelon Taylor. Yes. So this goes right into my question. Jelon Taylor, big problem, but he's so good for the running game.
What do you do about that? Do you just eat the penalties?
That seems to be the philosophy now because you've got to figure Andy. You could see Andy last night was pissed about it. Yeah, he has to be.
If there was a viable alternative for number 74 right now, I would hope he'd be in there. Yes.
So apparently there is no viable alternative. Apparently, Taylor gives the best chance of keeping Mahomes on his feet.
I think you're right. And you're just going to have to accept the penalties.
They're hoping that he gets better in time, but I don't have any belief that that's going to happen, any preponderance of evidence at all.
He looks to me about the same. I mean, you get great plays and then you get ones where he does a boneheaded flinch or something.
I think it is what it is. And despite the trade deadline coming up, you really can't work a right tackle in the middle of the season.
It is what it is. Yeah, you're not. You've got to wait till next year. Yeah, that's it. Now, they won last year with him. Yeah.
So, yeah, we'll see if they can overcome him this year. Yeah. I mean, it's not like Orlando Brown, I believe. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's not like he's tearing it up in Cincinnati. No. So I don't know if we even would have had the same thing there. Yeah.
You know, he wanted to go play in Cincinnati because his dad played there. Oh, OK. Yeah. Yeah. So they both get to lose there.
Good for them. Good for him. Great move, Orlando. Great move.
How many Super Bowls has the Cincinnati Bengals won in the history of their franchise? Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah.
Oh, man, in the 70s, I was I was a big Cincinnati fan because I liked that show WKRP in Cincinnati. Oh, I did. I love that show, too.
Yeah. So I became a Bengals fan on the on the back of that show.
And I've been a Bengals fan up until the point where they're a threat to the Chiefs. And then now they suck. Yeah.
So now I'm not real happy with the Bengals. But when they go back to not being a threat to the Chiefs, I'll like them again.
Joe Burrow cannot catch a break. Cannot catch a break.
Because he even dyed his hair to try to change things. I think it's gotten worse. Yeah.
So maybe he needs to redo the hair. But I think he is. He is trying. He is trying. He's playing so well. Yeah.
It's not doing anything. The rest of the team is fall free. Yeah.
Their running game is useless, basically. And we would like to also say that Mixon isn't exactly tearing it up.
No, not in Houston. No. So I think they saw it coming and didn't want to resign him like you do on running backs that you've had for a while.
Yeah. You don't always want to resign them because, you know, they have a very short lifespan.
That's something I've always heard about running backs more than quarterbacks is they get to a certain point physically and they just kind of fall off the cliff.
It's like, you know, they're good. They're great. They're awesome. Oh, now they're struggling. They're just not going to get better.
But wasn't it Barry Sanders who said this when they said, why are you retiring in your prime?
He said because I want to be able to carry my grandchildren when I'm 60. Yeah. Yeah. That right there.
I'll have to watch that documentary about Barry Sanders. Supposedly it tells more information about why he left.
Because he left right after his reputation as a very virtuous and upstanding Christian young man got torn apart when he discovered he had a child at a wedlock.
And that really crushed his the image he was he was portraying of himself as the fine young Christian athlete.
And that's never really come up as a big reason. But I think that kind of soured him on Detroit as a city.
Yes, they weren't they weren't willing to just let that slide, let it go.
It's really that's nobody's business. No, it is. And also that shouldn't be the Christian attitude either because of this.
OK, he can be a fine upstanding Christian and make a mistake. That's why we're all here.
Yeah, yeah, because we made mistakes. And if you're going to call the creation and birth of a child to be a miracle from God, then why are you going to condemn the woman who's carrying the child?
It just doesn't seem to make any sense. Barry Sanders made a mistake. That's between him and him.
If he made a mistake, because like I'm with you. It's like, is it really a mistake?
I mean, he was obviously going to take care of the child. Yeah. He obviously loves the child. So who cares?
And then fast forward a few years to Derek Thomas, who had what six children by five different women.
Well, the last estimate was six and nobody cared. Nobody gave a damn.
Which is the way it should be. He could throw a quarterback down.
Yes. Oh, speaking of that. OK, an unsung hero, Carlothus.
That guy was in there. He is always around his back. And what's his name? Derek Carr knew it. He could hear him. And then Chris Jones is in his front.
Oh, man. Yeah. My wife was saying, where's Chris Jones? Where's he been? And then we watched and he's like that three guys hanging off of him trying to stop.
And he's still getting in. He's still getting in. That guy is a beast. Oh, my God. I love that guy. He might be one of my favorite players.
He is. You know, something I would suggest if he doesn't do it already is like eat a raw onion right before game time.
So your breath is just hideous. And then you get up in the rush across the line and that guard has to guard you.
You're breathing that onion stink in his face. He's going to lose his grip and you're going to get past him.
It's going to go, what the hell did you eat? But that's something that's safe to eat, actually healthy to eat.
It won't hurt anybody. But man, does your breath stink. Oh, yeah.
Onion breath is horrible. It is. So, yeah, I mean, Chris Jones is so intricate part of that defense, people don't even realize it.
He may not get one sack, but he might have won the game for us. Yeah. You see? Any sack he doesn't get is he's creating an opportunity for somebody else.
Yeah. And the same with Carl Oftis, too. True, true. They both that Carl Oftis isn't as good as Jones, of course.
But that guy is kind of an unsung hero, too. Yeah. That guy, I saw him getting in there.
And the thing is, is he does a spin move that I used to see Neil Smith do that I love. Oh, wow. I remember Neil Smith spin move.
Yeah. You spun around the guy. You didn't fight him. You didn't hit him head on. You spun around. He kind of rolled around.
Yeah. I see him do that a couple of times. And I just love that. It's like, I'm going to trick you. I'm not going to out brawn you.
Yeah. Finesse rather than power. Yes. Yeah. You need both on your lines, definitely.
Those two in tandem are fantastic. And then everybody, Omenahew is back. Oh, I didn't notice that. Yeah, he's back.
I don't think he played very much, but he is officially back. OK. Yeah. He's a tackle or an end? An end. End, that's right. Yeah.
All right. So you want to go to the games now? Let's do it. We did so well. Oh, God.
All right. Week five is the results. And Detroit, the Chargers, Philadelphia and Tennessee were on bye weeks.
We couldn't mess those up. No, at least we got those right. Yeah.
Just like for this coming game, we have Casey, the Rams, Miami and Minnesota on bye weeks. So we're going to protect 0-0-4.
0-0 on those. So we'll have a great show.
All right. Game number one, the Thursday night game, Tampa Bay at Atlanta. The result was 36 to 30, Tampa Atlanta.
That game was one of those games that was a mistake ridden game. Yeah. A nut tucker. No one particularly played horrible.
It just came down to a couple of crucial plays, which I thought it was going to. Yeah. So anyhow, go ahead with it.
You got it right. You predicted 24-21. I got it wrong. I predicted 24-23. OK.
So we both thought it was going to be really close. And actually, I can't remember. Was it really was a close all game long?
It went in overtime. Yeah. OK. Yeah. It was pretty. At first, it looked like Tampa was going to run away with it.
But then they came back with a couple of key plays and you could tell that Atlanta wasn't going away because it started playing a little bit better.
Yeah. So in that Minnesota sends Mr. Mediocre, Kirk Cousins, to Atlanta and suddenly is on fire. And then Minnesota is 5-0.
And then Minnesota picks up Sam Darnold and suddenly he's an awesome fit and they're the only other undefeated team. I know. It's crazy.
And what's funny is all these power rankings are putting them ahead of us. Well, they say they need to rethink that after last night's game.
But anyhow, we beat Minnesota in Super Bowl Four. Oh, did you see they featured that at the very first? I missed that part. Yeah, they featured that. Cool.
Anyhow, go ahead. Anything else you want to take away from that game? No, not really. Mayfield played well like I thought he would.
And Cousins played well like I thought he would. And really, it came down to a couple of mistakes. Either team could have won this easily.
Yeah. I don't think either team has anything to really worry about or any major concerns from this game. It's just one of those games where somebody had to lose.
Yeah. And unfortunately for Tampa Bay, it's that. So Tampa Bay is going to have to be on their best behavior and get things to go in here pretty soon.
Yeah. Because they look good, but they can't string it together for some reason.
I think we're far enough in the season that I'm going to start writing down the records of these teams when we do the predictions. That's a good idea.
Yeah. We're far enough in that it makes a difference now. All right. Next game up was the 8.30 a.m. game from London.
Yeah. Which we have another one next week. This was the New York Jets at the Minnesota Vikings. Final score, Vikings 23, Jets 17.
To me, the big story is Aaron Rodgers looked horrible and injured. Oh my gosh. Two touchdowns, three picks.
And you can see I saw some of the highlights. He looked utterly frustrated.
And also, did you see when he went down and he couldn't get back up for a couple of minutes? He obviously still has issues with that ACL, I believe.
I think so, too. It sure looked like he was kind of in that area.
And you know, he he the Jets lost their brutal tough game last week. Yeah.
They lost one point to Denver and now they fly over to London and they lose another brutal tough game.
If they're not on the path to Robert Salah might be the first casualty. I don't know. Yeah, because Peterson won.
Yeah. Yeah. You know who the Jets play next week? Buffalo. Ooh.
Buffalo is going to be out for blood. Yes. They just lost two in a row, so they're going to be pissed. Yeah. Division game.
It's funny. Their defense like it is, they're still not winning games, which baffles me. Yeah. But anyhow. We'll get to Buffalo.
But yeah, they're a puzzler. Yeah. So Jets are looking like they have no flash, no no quick score sustained.
Like they can't they can't rack up 30, 40 points apparently. Oh, yeah. Well, now everyone sees it. Rogers is obviously not 100 percent.
So they're going to key off on it. This is going to be an interesting look now to see how teams defense against them.
Yeah. They got the template in the last couple of games of how to really play them.
Only now they can kind of fine tune it. They're like, look, Rogers is not moving around very good.
He's having trouble throwing the passes. You get in his face, he throws interceptions. Yeah.
And every time he gets hit, not just sacked, but hit, it's going to get in his head a little bit more.
He's going to get a little more more sore. And yeah, I think they're just going to be teeing off and just looking to hit him and knock him down.
I would imagine opposing defenses would would give up a few completions just for the opportunity to knock him on his ass.
Yeah. And I also think that they would even give up a 15 yarder. Yeah.
And I think it's come to that that people are just like, just let's just go ahead.
You got him on the ropes. Yeah. And you're going to have every team trying to do the knockout blow.
That was I remember the Raiders philosophy in the in the 60s, 70s was they would target one of your better players.
Yeah. And they would commit a personal foul penalty to hit that player over and over and over.
And they would they would eat that penalty. That's why they're the most penalized team for the longest time.
They were intentionally committing penalties to hurt that player and get that player out of the game.
Yes. And they did that to the chief so many times they'd knock out like two or three players that just couldn't finish the game.
And then they just run right over us. I think Rogers is going to be in the crosshairs for every team.
They're like, let's just keep hitting this guy. And the very least, he's going to lose his nerve and maybe he's going to go sit his ass down.
Yeah. And another thing is, is doing that to him is also going to piss him off to where he reacts.
Probably. Yeah. He'll start making mistakes. Yeah. Like he did in this game. Three interceptions.
Yeah. I think the writing's on the wall. Officially a disaster.
Did they spend a crap ton of money on him or did he just? Yeah. No, they spent. He was a crap.
Oh, that's right. He was he was commanding a lot of money at the time.
Well, that was one of the reasons Green Bay was like, you know, he's a Malkin 10 and he wants a lot of money.
Yeah. Yeah. Take him. Yeah. So I mean, what did they get a third round pick for him?
I think, yeah, that sounds about right. Yeah. I mean, they didn't get very much for him.
So that would indicate large contract, questionable behavior.
Yeah. So, I mean, I don't know what else to say about that.
I mean, the writing's on the wall and yeah, he's been living on his.
Roger's been working, living on his reputation for a while now. And he got a pass all last season.
And he's getting somewhat of a pass, I think, so far this season for right now. He's not 100 percent.
But if the Jets have a mediocre season and don't make the playoffs, then Rogers wasn't worth it.
I've got an interesting thing here. And if anyone really wants to know the tale of the tale.
Look at the last five years he had with Green Bay. Oh, none of them were exceptional.
They were more pedestrian than they were exceptional. Yeah. He wasn't that great.
I mean, he was a great quarterback, but he wasn't as great as you thought he was.
Yeah, he was getting it done in certain situations where he needed to get them, you know, advanced and better record and into the playoffs, et cetera.
But still, there just wasn't that trust factor like you do with like Mahomes or. No, no, no, no. No, I know Mahomes.
Mahomes style quarterback. Mahomes, you may have a heart. You may have a couple of coronaries during the game.
Yeah. But you're usually going to win. Yeah. So.
And also another thing is his selflessness. I love. He'll give up. He'll give up a interception.
But he knows he's going to throw the win and touch him. He knows that's going to happen.
So he's like, all right, I'm just going to keep winging it because I'm that good. He knows it.
I'm sure that when you do tip that ball into Saunders hands in the end zone that Mahomes didn't say one bad word.
No, no, no, no. He said, hey, man, here's what's going to happen.
We're going to have you in the flat next time next time around and you're going to win this game for us.
You're going to ice it. They're going to think we're not going to throw to you because we don't trust you.
Exactly. We're going to throw to you because you're going to help us win this. I've got no problems with Schuster at all.
No, no. And also we let him go. We let him go.
He didn't leave. He didn't give us a double barrel and go, I want this much money. We let him go.
That's right. He had a one year contract. He played out the contract and said, I want to see what else is out there.
Yeah. And he did. And he came back. Yeah. Yeah. Because he knew he couldn't get that money from us.
So yeah, anyhow, that's another good sign for the Chiefs.
Players are deciding it's better to play for the Chiefs than to get paid more elsewhere.
That's what happened with Brady. Yeah. Yeah.
People finally give in after they quit hating. Players are like, you know what?
The only way I'm going to do this is to join them, not find them. Yeah.
So anyhow, we can go to the next game. All right.
The first of the noon games on Sunday was Carolina at Chicago.
Caleb Williams came alive. This game is 36-10 Chicago.
I picked Chicago. You picked Carolina by one point, 21-20.
Yeah. Boy, I was wrong. It was not even close.
Caleb Williams. Good. Good for him. Yeah.
He does look like he's improving week to week. He is.
And also their protection has been much better lately. That'll help.
Yeah, it helps a lot. The running game isn't bad. They have some components there. Yeah.
But there's still the Bears. So I'm going to wait and see. Yeah.
I think the Goat went to Soldier Field from Wrigley. Yeah.
Yeah, when they won the World Series, the Goat said, well, I got to go terrorize someone else.
Dalton's looking better as the quarterback of Carolina.
But still, if they can only put up 10 points, then your offense as a whole has trouble. Yeah.
So I don't know. You know, Dalton's OK for now, but you still got to make a quarterback decision at some point, Carolina.
OK, I'm going to tell you my opinion on this. I want to hear yours. Sure. OK.
You might as well put Young in there. You might as well put him in there. Yeah.
Because if Andy Dalton is going to be off and on like this, you don't need that anyhow. Yeah.
Get him in there and try to teach him how to win a little bit.
Try to have your offensive coordinator work with him and give him that winning attitude like we can win a few games.
Look, I mean, look what Dalton did. You know, he kind of brought us to life for a couple.
So look, you saw him play. Yeah.
And I would say maybe in two or three games, you go to Young and go, it's your turn.
You go in there and you show us what you can do. Yeah.
And if he can do it at all, he's going to do it then. That's it.
I think the only reason that you wouldn't do that is if you don't think your offensive line can protect him.
You don't want to put him in there and just get him creamed play after play. Yeah.
If you're keeping him out because your line isn't good enough and he's not skilled enough to make up for it, that's different.
That could be. That could be what you're doing.
So that would be the only reason I would keep Bryce Young out for the rest of the season.
Yeah. I think, I mean, why would you play Dalton?
I mean, look, the Red Rockets fine, but there's a reason he's a backup.
Yeah. You're not going anywhere with him. No. He's like a mint shoot.
He'll look great one game and then nothing the next flat line.
So it really seems like if you're going to miss the playoffs, playoffs, if you're going to miss the playoffs, playoffs,
if you're going to miss them, why bother playing your better player to try to win games if you're just going to not make it anyway?
So put in Bryce Young, put in the younger guys, see what they can do, see what kind of team you're going to have for next year.
Rather than limp to a nine and eight season with Andy Dalton or a seven and ten season and who, you know, it doesn't matter.
Yeah. And I was thinking about this too, we were talking about this last podcast was,
is that the guy you want to learn the ropes from or not?
Hmm. He's good enough for now. I mean, if he's got the mental makeup to be a mentor,
he could be an OK one because he's been on a lot of good teams and he's seen a lot of game situations, etc.
Yeah. I think that that's where he's most valuable is like, OK, well, this is going on.
So now we're going to have to change strategies and defenses.
He needs to teach young how to read defenses better because that's going to get him a lot.
He needs to know if the blitz is possible coming, you know, a disguise blitz, a shift. Yeah.
When they put more men in coverage, he knows he needs to know all this stuff.
He needs to know what these different formations are because I don't believe he knows.
Sometimes it helps to learn from a superstar, but sometimes it helps to learn from a Jag.
You know, J.A.G. Just a guy. And Andy Dalton is just another guy.
And Jason through the wars and young could look at him and say, hey, he's kind of like me.
I got a little more basic talent, so I'm going to learn from him.
Jason Garrett was a really good quarterback coach.
You'll find yourself. Brian Leftwich was a good quarterback coach. Yeah.
Neither one of them are that great at quarterbacks. No. But they're great at teaching.
Wasn't wasn't Jason Garrett a replacement player that he was? Yeah. Was it for Romo?
I think so. Yeah, I think Romo was hurt.
He was injured and I think that he didn't come back or something.
So they're like, well, we don't have anybody else.
So they just ran him out there for a few years while they tried to get their identity back. Yeah.
So, yeah, not too many of those replacement players caught on in the league.
No. And then now he's actually in the booth and doing a pretty good job. Yeah.
Yeah. So the original Red Rocket, Jason Garrett. Yeah.
All right. Next up, we got Cleveland at Washington.
Yeah. Score was thirty four thirteen. My prediction was thirty two seventeen.
Yours was thirty five seventeen. So we were really close. Yeah.
OK. Houston's resilience.
No, this is Cleveland, Washington. I said Houston. Sorry.
Well, you're thinking Watson. He was from Houston originally. Yeah. OK. Go ahead.
OK. I could not have fucked that up anymore.
Like I go back to me reading the wrong team statistics. Yes.
If if they're hearing it on the podcast, that means we don't care enough to go edit that part out.
Yes. You're going to hear this. It's free. You get what you pay for. Yep.
So let's see. Jalen.
Oh, gosh, I'm blanking on the commander's quarterback. Jalen Williams.
Daniels. Daniels. That's it. Williams is in Chicago. Yeah.
He's definitely looking like the real thing. Getting better every year.
I mean, every week, the team's responding better. They're racking up points, obviously.
Well, the team believes in him. Yeah, they do.
The defense has gotten better. They're on the field less.
And I think the the grim, stinky fog of Dan Snyder is finally lifting off of the Washington franchise.
I agree. And they're not embarrassed to be the Washington football team anymore
because they're hideous owners now no longer the owner of the team.
Yeah. So that has got to be a boost right there. Oh, no kidding.
I mean, the atmosphere around that organization had to just go up 20 notches.
Oh, I'm sure there was like a weight lifted off of him. Yeah.
Anyway, less said about Dan Snyder, the better.
On the flip side, Deshaun Watson looks like dead man walking, doesn't he?
OK, number one, he's probably worried about this new lawsuit.
That actually got settled. I saw that this morning. Yeah.
It was settled out of court and it's all kind of gone away.
But the fallout from that is there are confidentiality agreements in place now.
So the NFL can't use this as anything to discipline.
So Sean Watson skates on that. Yeah.
But he's still basically a cancer on the team. Yeah, they don't believe in him.
But they still are going to have to pay him ninety five million dollars of guaranteed money.
I always thought they should have kept Mayfield. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. They went out and bought some of the team's problems. Yeah.
Houston was so glad to get rid of him. Oh, gosh. All of his problems were in Houston.
It seems like he's cleaned up his act enough because there aren't any new accusations from Cleveland.
He kind of has to, doesn't he? I would think. Yeah.
But you can tell nobody on the team likes or respects him.
Kareem Hunt probably didn't want to be there anymore because he's such a toxic jerk.
He's unrepentant, unapologetic. Uh-huh. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, I can't imagine he has many friends there.
I would say you're absolutely 100 percent right on that.
OK, as good as Washington has gotten, is how bad the Browns have gotten.
Yeah. They were a good team last year. They were a decent team. They got in the playoffs.
Yeah. They had Joe Flacco, too. Yeah.
Deshaun Watson, when he came back on the team, I believe was a black cloud. Yeah.
And I think they're like all smiling and whizzing and thinking, maybe we'll get Joe Flacco back and play all year.
Well, they didn't. They didn't even look his way. No.
So Cleveland gets what they get with, like always, a boneheaded, stupid move. Yeah.
That just paralyzes them from winning. Yeah.
Jalen Daniels, amazing. He keeps breaking records. Yes.
And I mean, I don't see what's going to slow this guy down.
I hope nothing does. He's so much fun to watch. Yeah.
It's really the talent coming into the NFL nowadays is so much superior to what was coming into the league 25 years ago.
Oh, yeah. Look at CJ Stroud last year. He's starting to find more stride now. He's starting to get a little bit more.
They figured him out. And I think now Texas, Texans are coming up with some stuff to kind of block or alleviate that.
So they're starting to feature CJ Stroud a little bit better. But the main thing is his
understandability of how to win a game. Yeah. His gut that won't let him quit. His attitude, his mindset is all there.
It seems like he's having a great time and finding joy in the game is a big part of longevity.
Yeah. You can tell he's a kid into the candy store. Yeah. Just like Jalen Daniels.
They are having a time in their life. And so just like Mahomes, look at Mahomes, man. He's always all smiles. Yeah.
He knows what he has. He knows what he has. He has his dream job and he's the best at it.
And these two guys, you know, Watson, not Watson, Daniels, Daniels is realizing that he took this team in despair and is lifting them up.
And he's like, wow, I'm soaring so high and I got the team. So, you know, it's a team sport.
Don't get me wrong, but he knows his value. Yeah. You can tell. Yeah. And he's acting accordingly.
Yeah, he's accepting that with grace. You know, he's not pretending he's the only thing keeping the team afloat.
Yeah. He's just riding the wave with everyone else and really embracing his part in it. Good for him. Good for him.
Yeah. So then Cleveland, like I said, as good as Washington has become, is as bad as Cleveland has become.
They're going to have to draft a quarterback again. They have all this money on the books that they need to get rid of.
So they're probably screwed for a couple of years. Yeah. But I think they would be beneficial to take Watson out.
They're not winning anyhow. Yeah. And put in someone that could maybe do it.
The upside is much higher because Watson has been going lower each year. And I mean, he's just he's a cancer.
It looks like I think from the fan base fan base's point of view, every bad thing that happens on the field is going to be Watson's fault.
Yes. They're going to need there's your scapegoat. Everyone's going to say it's because of Deshaun Watson.
And how can you say they're wrong? Really? I know personally, I am not going to root for any team Deshaun Watson is on.
No, I mean, ever again, I'm not going to ever root for any team that Jerry Jones owns. No, I'm never going to root for any team
that Bill Belichick coaches or is part of the organization, because those people, I think, are awful enough human beings.
They need to get the hell out of the league. Well, let's if you're if you're thinking I'm just a cowboy hater,
it's because Jerry Jones was part of the racist riot riot trying to keep black kids out of those Little Rock high schools.
And he was there and he was part of that racist riot. And he's been denying it ever since. I put it like this.
If Dan Snyder had to leave, Jerry Jones, Jerry Jones. Yeah. He's such a racist pig. Yeah.
But he brings so much money to the league that everyone's looking the other way. Yeah. Allegedly.
Yes. They OK. The problem is, is NFL is willing to cover his stuff up, but they were not willing to cover up Dan Snyder.
Yeah. They covered up Bob Kraft's. Yeah. Addiction to prostitutes. Yeah. I mean, that's they swept all that under the rug.
Yeah. And I mean, that's human trafficking. It is one of the biggest problems we have here in America,
but it keeps just not getting that. No one seems to care. Yeah. Yeah.
There's people that care, but most of them are not into politics. Yeah.
But yeah, it really comes down to what do you bring to the league and that's how much we'll put up with from you.
Yeah. Well, I mean, the way the world works, I guess. Yeah. We might as well move on.
All right. So Cleveland, Washington was done. Next up, Indiana, Indianapolis at Jacksonville.
Well, Jacksonville won their first game. They won 37-34. We both missed it. I was 27-10. You were 27-24.
So you had the point spread right. I just had the wrong team. Wrong team.
So, okay. Jacksonville is not a good team. No. But they can have a good day. Yeah.
Yeah. They're not an awful team. They're just not a very good team. They have the talent. They're just not playing well.
Now, the rest of the season, the rest of the season, they could pick it up from here or they could go back to where they were.
Yeah. Doug Peterson, I think if they don't make the playoffs, he's gone. But if they start playing better, he will be in there.
Yeah. The only reason Peterson got a shot was he won a Super Bowl. Yeah, I can see that.
And to your other point is if he keeps winning games, they're not going to fire him after a win.
No. No. So if they go, I don't know, 70% the rest of the games, he'll be in there. He'll make it to the end of the season.
Yeah, he'll make it to the end of the season. But I think that the writing is on the ball.
I think that it's just this playoffs getting kicked, booted, and then the big failure last year.
I was surprised it didn't get let go last year because all of a sudden the big just bam, just all of a sudden nothing.
They worked their way out of the playoffs. Yeah. Jacksonville just really seemed to go from being a strong,
vibrant team that was something you got to watch and then just fell right into mediocrity. Yeah.
I don't know what changed. I think a couple of games, maybe one against Buffalo, maybe.
I think if I remember correctly, they were just dismantled. Yeah, they had some really, really difficult losses.
That's true. They probably lost faith in the system that they've been taught.
Here's this is our offense. This is our defense. This is our identity.
And then they saw it got destroyed. They're like, what the hell are we? Yeah, I think it got in their psyche.
They're like, man, they just fucking they roasted us. They destroyed us. I could see that.
What do you do? That's definitely a very human reaction. Yeah.
So how much do you think the retro uniforms had to do with the Jaguars winning?
Because they were wearing the same uniforms they wore when they first came into the league.
Oh, yeah, that's right. You know what? I think they keep wearing them to see where it goes.
I would say stick with those uniforms. They got nothing to lose.
Whatever you had for breakfast that morning, you have that every game morning.
Have pancakes or whatever you have. Yeah. But then Indy battled pretty well.
They're missing their quarterback. Yeah. They're a tough team.
I think if Richardson was in it, if Richardson was still in there, they probably would have beat Jacksonville.
Yeah, I think so, too. Yeah. But I remember seeing some of the highlights.
There were some long, long plays that the Jacksonville got that really helped push them ahead.
Those long strikes early in the game could really help you late in the game.
Yeah. Richardson, to me, is a good quarterback, but not a great one.
Yeah. A poor man's Kirk Cousins, maybe. I could see that. Yeah.
He has some running ability. But the thing is, I don't think that Indy knows how to develop them correctly.
No. They have had no luck since luck.
And one jump backwards a little bit. One more point about Cleveland is I agree they should draft a quarterback,
but they should wait until there's a really awesome one available. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If it's not this year, then get a bridge player. Yes.
And if it's not next year, keep your bridge player.
But when there's a franchise guy available, do what you have to do to get him.
You go get a mint shoe. Wait for him.
Go get a mint shoe or something like that and say, OK, stay there, play. You're getting paid.
We're going to find the next guy. It's not this one. We got our eye on this guy, the next, you know.
Yeah. And let the quarterback know it's like, hey, you know, you're our guy for now,
but we are looking for a replacement. So do what you got to do.
And chances are a mint shoe knows that. Yeah. So, yeah.
A mint shoe got benched. I mean, Geico even came out with a commercial to back up quarterback.
And mint shoe comes out and drives the trailer behind the car. Yep.
So that tells you his career.
Is this the same Geico that has just announced they will no longer insure Cybertrux?
Yes. Oh, yeah.
And I think some other insurance companies are about to pull that trigger, too. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah.
So, yeah, Indy, you know, they they're still they could be anybody week to week. Yeah.
You know, we'll see if they go on a run of anything, wins or losses to help define them.
But right now, they're just kind of like, what are they going to be this week?
It depends on the rest of the teams, but I don't think there's going to be any room.
They could back their way into a playoff spot and promptly lose.
But the deal is this right here, I don't think there's going to be any space this year
because look at all the teams that are probably going to get spots.
Yeah, I see what you're saying.
This this seems like a year where a mediocre record is not going to get you a wild card.
So I think a wild card could be 11 and five. Yeah. Easily six or 11 and six. Yeah. Thank you.
Yeah. Since there's that extra game that really widens the yeah.
The gap between making it and not making it.
So I think 11 wins is definitely going to be a wild card this year. I think so.
And they may have a 10 winner in there somewhere,
but I think that Indy would probably maybe be a nine winner at best. Yeah.
And they go back their way into a playoff spot.
But this year, there are just so many teams that are so much better and ahead of them.
Let's see who the contenders are right now. It would be Kansas City, of course.
It would be Buffalo. Yeah. It would be the Ravens.
The Texans. Yeah. Let's see now. Who else?
Who's Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Yeah. Pittsburgh is like, at least from my perspective,
Pittsburgh is like the guy hiding in the bushes who's going to jump out and kill you.
Yeah. Well, he's Pittsburgh isn't really showing that there's this awesome juggernaut,
but they're kind of turning into one. T.J. Watt is being a monster.
Oh, yeah. No, they're they're doing well. They're doing well.
Mike Tomlin always finds a way to win. Yeah.
So, yeah, it could be Pittsburgh, but I think there's just too many teams slightly or way better than them.
So, yeah. Anyhow. And we didn't do our, you know, project predicted or rule change
segment where rules we'd like to see implemented in the NFL.
But one I would like to see is coming up on the bullet points. Yeah. OK.
If you win your division with a losing record, you still win your division, but you don't make the playoffs.
Yeah, I agree with that. I would like to see them give that spot to the next wild card.
Nobody with a losing record should get the playoffs. I've got a little example.
This would be the Giants that beat the Patriots with Steve Spagnolo's defense in Super Bowl, whatever.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they were like what? I think they're one game under 500.
And they won the division because the rest division just sucked. Yeah.
And the betting line on that, if they would bet for for the Giants, they would have been they would have probably had a castle.
Yeah. Anyhow, go ahead.
And I've got one of those scenarios I want to come up with in the bullet point. OK, excellent. Yeah.
Yeah, go ahead. Our next game is Buffalo at Houston.
The result was 23-20 Houston in overtime.
I had predicted 31-27. You predicted 34-32.
So close close games. Yeah. It just wasn't as high scoring.
We didn't we didn't realize that the offenses were going to struggle so much in this game. Well, it was mistakes.
Yeah. I mean, they're kind of doing like the Chiefs, you know, you're down in the red zone and you fumble.
Yeah. They got a fumble as in Cincinnati got a fumble late in the game and they missed the field goal.
Yeah. And it was a bad snap. It wasn't necessarily the kickers fault. Right. It's the holder.
Yeah. So then they had a chance to win it in overtime. They got the ball back again and made another mistake.
So this whole game just depending on Baltimore making one less mistake.
We're talking Buffalo Houston still. Why am I fucking up so bad?
I got those confused all the time, too. It's because they played each other last week. OK, I got to wake up better.
I apologize for this. Anyhow, go ahead. So what I was noticing with Buffalo is a lot of drop passes.
Yes. Is that because of Josh Allen's throwing too hard?
There's something different about the way he's throwing. Yeah. He was nine of 30 for like 134 yards,
which is probably the worst game he's ever played in his career. Yeah.
But yeah, the balls weren't really getting precisely there the way I'm used to with Allen.
They were close and they were definitely catchable, but the receivers were dropping a lot more than I've ever seen.
Buffalo's receivers dropped. Yeah. Do you think these are a lot of new receivers?
Do you think and then people just getting more reps because Diggs isn't there? Yeah.
Do you think the timing isn't there? That looked like it. Yeah. Timing timing was definitely an issue.
Yeah, I think that's part of it. I also think that Josh Allen doesn't quite have that touch yet.
No. Yeah, there was one one pass. Definitely. I remember that he launched it and it should have been a touch pass.
And it was just out way out. The guy couldn't couldn't get it. Yeah.
I think, yeah, the Texans have that want to and they wanted to so bad that I think that they are probably could be our biggest threat.
Yeah. CJ Stroud looked pretty disheartened when he threw a pick that that really let Buffalo back in. Yeah.
But he didn't let it stop him. He went out. Now, he played well. I think CJ Stroud played really well. He did.
Neither team's running game did all that well. Houston, especially, had a shit running game. Yeah.
And I think that might factor into both of their success in the postseason. Yeah.
Because when you get through the postseason, it's the best of the best and they're going to neutralize that even more. Yeah.
They make you one dimensional and most teams are toast. Yeah, true.
You know, you got to be able to lean on that other side of the offense until you can get back what the other teams taken from you.
Yeah. You don't just give up. But Houston, I was impressed and encouraged. I think they're going to continue winning games.
Buffalo, my overall impression is they're struggling the way Jacksonville is struggling, the way the Chargers are struggling.
That's pretty good, especially the Chargers, where you have the quarterback, but you really don't have that much else. Yeah.
And even their defense didn't look nearly as sharp. Well, part of it is, you know, Texas, Texas offense is really good. Yeah.
But also, Vaughn Miller is kind of looking like a 35, 36 year old. Yeah.
Maybe those performance enhancing drugs that he got suspended for is all that was keeping him a valuable player.
So now that he's off those, we see that he's just not all that. Yes.
And we're not even going to go into the tiny penis because steroids make your balls shrink. Yep.
Allegedly, I like the big, big, big leaks. All right. I guess we could move on.
Game next. The last of the noon games. Baltimore at Cincinnati. Yeah. Skip just warned, didn't I?
I watched the end of that game. That was exciting. I was watching the score as it went along, watching the other game.
But final score was Baltimore 41, Cincinnati 38. Was that did that go over time? It didn't go over time.
That went over time. OK. Yeah, that went over time. OK.
I had predicted Baltimore 2713. You predicted Cincinnati 2120. You won. And I'm very happy you won.
Yeah, I was really hoping Baltimore would hit Cincinnati because we've already beat Baltimore. We've got the tiebreaker.
We beat Cincinnati, too. Yeah. We got the tiebreaker on each one of them. So now we're five and oh.
So Cincinnati is five games behind us because we have the tiebreaker. Nice.
And the Ravens are three games behind us because we have the tiebreaker. Yeah.
Cincinnati, as we were talking earlier, Joe Burrow is doing everything he can to win. It's just not working anymore.
They really miss Joe Mixon. Yeah, the fumble didn't help, but man, that wasn't necessarily his fault. Yeah.
I mean, he was just getting creamed. Yeah. And and the Miss Field goal they showed on the replay that the holder
bobbled the ball. And then when he got it set up and ready to kick, his right hand was in the in front of the ball.
So when the kicker kicked it, it immediately bounced off his right hand and went off to the left.
And it wasn't even close. No, it never had a chance. Yeah.
So just a little miscues like that really doomed Cincinnati.
And when it comes down to little things like that, the cost of the game, that's extra frustrating because it's like,
damn, we should have put it away where that didn't matter. Yeah.
It's really got a sting for Cincy and Cincy Fan right now to suffer through that.
If I was Baltimore, I wouldn't feel too good about this one either. No, no, no, no, no.
They did everything they could to lose. They played well at times. Yeah.
They also made a lot of silly mistakes. There's still something missing, something missing there.
And I don't know if it's doubt or if it's just like they're not really that much of a team effort.
I don't know. But someone commented near the end of the game, Derek Henry broke off that 51 yard run to put him down in
field goal range. That was his longest play of the game.
Up to that point, he'd only rushed for a longest of seven yards at a stretch.
And so the running game, he wasn't able to break out and break out any long gains until the very end of the game.
Yeah. So that'd be where I'd look, not maybe necessarily first, but definitely I would look from Baltimore.
I'd look at how did Cincinnati shut down the running game and what can we do to not let that happen again?
Well, Kansas City neutralized the running game too, only they didn't give up the big play at the end.
So you can kind of look at the games kind of pretty close to the same. Yeah.
Not as high scoring, of course, but.
OK, Cincinnati has got to, they've got to go home and think about it.
They need to sit this one out like they did last year. Yeah.
And they need to go to the draft and address some key issues that they have.
I don't think they're going to make a trade because I don't think that at one and four, why would you make a trade?
Do you think you're suddenly going to come alive with a couple of people? Probably not.
And they would have to win almost every single game on here on out to win the division.
Yeah. Let alone make a wild card. Yeah.
And I don't even know if they're going to make the wild card. Yeah.
I mean, after this. Because you've got Baltimore and Pittsburgh in the same division. Yeah.
And I think those two are going to be in the playoffs. Playoffs?
I just can't stop saying that. Playoffs?
It's always going to be fun. Oh, yeah. Jim Mora. He was an animated one, wasn't he?
Yes. So, yeah, Cincinnati's got some got some issues to work on.
And it's going to be. Do they have the the humility to look at themselves and say, yeah, we're not doing it right?
We were doing it right for a while, but we've lost something.
We've got to go fix it or are they just going to double down and say, no, we got it.
We got the plan. We just need to get better.
If I was Zach Taylor, I would be very concerned about my job. Yeah.
And when you have Joe Burrow and then an all star cast like Henderson and that, you should be playing better.
Yeah. Why are you not playing better?
I know they lost mixing, but mixing isn't exactly burning it up down in Texas. No, not really.
It could be some of the offensive line in the scheme. Yeah. But I don't think it's all of it.
I think that they didn't they were very wisely didn't sign him to a huge contract. Yeah.
Because they probably saw him slowing down a little bit. And this is a result of what you see of him down there.
Yeah. But at the same token, while he's in there, it takes heat off the quarterback. Yeah.
Because he's done there. He's done it before. It's kind of like Kelsey. You know, quick garden Kelsey. No.
He hadn't had a great season, but the last couple of games, he's done pretty good. But he roasted.
I know. I can smell that roasting coffee. City market coffee. We love this place. I love that smell.
I was thinking there are two types of head coaches that get fired during the season.
One is when a team just sucks right out loud and you have no clue. Yeah.
And the other is the team is a good team and should be doing well, but collapses like Cincinnati's collapsing.
The Giants are collapsing. These are teams that were supposed to be good and the head coaches and getting it done.
But like the head coach in Carolina probably doesn't have to worry about his job because it's not his fault.
Not really. They have a shit team and they know it and they need to get better players.
So he's probably going to keep his job even though the team looks awful. Yeah, he'll probably keep his job.
And also they'll probably get rid of him when they get the people. Yeah.
Because I mean, he obviously isn't the guy because he's just not getting it done now. He won't get it done later.
But replacing him isn't a priority. They'll wait till they have a better team and contract a better guy. Yeah.
So the teams like if the Chiefs had a super massive collapse and stunk up the rest of the season, Andy Reid probably think about retiring.
It's just, you know, if you fail when you've been given the keys to the castle, then you don't need to stay.
But if you fail when you know the team's awful, they're going to give you a pass. Yeah.
I can see coaches like Cincinnati's coach being on the hot seat because he should be performing way better.
The only thing that might save him, but I don't even think now and this is if they keep tanking, is this right here.
If Burrow goes down again with an injury, a season end injury. Oh, yeah, that could be the excuse for the season.
Yeah, but he's still looking at these games that they collapsed. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Burrow has been in for five games and lost four of them. Yeah.
You can't get away from that. He's done better than that on their backup.
I forgot. He actually did a pretty decent job. Man, I can't remember who sent him that.
He's back up on his last year. Doesn't matter. Yeah.
So I think Zach Taylor has got a lot a lot on his plate and he can turn it around,
but he's going to have to instill that confidence back in the team. It's going to be hard to do.
Yeah, there's maybe there's some holdover damage to the times they came into Kansas City or we came there and they bragged so hard and crushed on. Yeah.
You know, that has to be all adding up and everybody's psyche is like, are we really any good? Can we ever beat the Chiefs?
Our wins were like this. They were soul crushing. Yes.
Because they thought they had it, thought they had it, thought they had it, thought they had it. Oh, no, we don't. Yeah.
They were a dryjack and they. Yeah, the Burrowhead comment looked pretty bad when you don't win.
Ever since then. Yeah, that that if he's still the mayor, they need to oust him because of that. Yeah.
OK, well, Cincinnati was flying high and loving life. And I would like to bring up one more thing.
When they had their chance in the Super Bowl, what did they do? They went down their leg. They did.
They just collapsed. Yes, they're not even a Super Bowl contender, really, by the way they played.
That was one of the few recent Super Bowls that was really not really in doubt by the time they got the fourth quarter.
The NFL has been doing a really good job of making sure these Super Bowls are very competitive and you don't know how it's going to wind up.
Yeah, because in the in the 80s and a lot of the 90s, the Super Bowl was generally always a blowout.
Yeah. And the Conference Championship games were better games. Yeah.
The NFL has whatever they've done, whatever magic they worked or massaging they've done. Yeah, it's been.
We've got a lot better Super Bowls. And for Cincinnati to go in and just collapse was pretty embarrassing.
Yeah, yeah. So I think that combined with the Chiefs just got tired of them being around.
You just started swatting them down. Yeah. I think that all of that is soul crushing,
especially like the championship game a couple of years ago when Buckeye probably could have made that kick.
But after the 15 yard penalty for hitting the home's out of bounds, he did make that kick easily.
But that may not necessarily been I forgot who did the the latest salt on my home's.
I can't remember his name. But anyhow, that right there caused a lot of division.
There's a couple of players screaming at him from the locker room telling you not to fucking come in there.
Yeah. Would that have happened with my home's? No. No.
He would have said, hey, man, look, just forget about it. We'll come back next year.
Thanks. Fine. You're doing a great job. I love you, man. Yeah. Different attitude.
Nobody. None of our team would have done that. Chris Jones would have been screaming at the locker room.
I'm going to get you piece of shit or nothing. Yeah. He would have supported his teammate 100 percent.
Yeah, because they know that's the coach's job to address that other thing.
Now you're getting what I'm saying. Yeah. I think Zach Taylor is on the hot seat for various reasons, and that's one of them.
You know, it really I think it really helps the team if you can sponsor if you can foster an attitude that all the teammates are not competing against each other for stats, contracts, anything.
It's like look at all your teammates like Union brothers because you are. Yeah.
And look at the players on other teams as Union brothers because they are. You can turn to baseball for that.
Baseball, they have a big Union rep there. I mean, it doesn't matter how bad a player does, none of them motherfuckers.
Yeah, I never ratted out a Union brother or sister during my career. I just wouldn't. No.
Because, you know, they wore blue just like me and they weren't management. So I'm not ratting. I mean, if somebody had killed somebody, I would have ratted them out for that.
Well, yeah, but you know, this is for job related stuff or, you know, they called in sick and I knew they weren't six. I'm not ratting them out.
No, no, no, you don't do that. No. Anyhow. Hey, I just got my 25 year Union. Hey, awesome.
I missed a few years because I dropped out of the Union when I tried to go into management.
So then I got dropped out of management. I rejoined the Union. So they started counting from there.
So it's 25 years in a row, but I've gotten actually more years in the Union. I'm finally getting my pension. Nice.
And I didn't know I could get it at 55. So I missed some of it. And anyhow, there's a new law that they have to inform you that there's a pension for you to get.
And they had to send me a letter. I know it pissed them off.
Damn it. We got this guy's money. Now we have to tell them about it. Tell them. Yeah.
I thought I thought I was just going to have to wait till a month before I died to get it. Yeah. Anyhow.
All right. Next game, the first of the three o'clock games. Las Vegas at Denver. We both sucked on this one.
We could skip that. Yeah. Well, Denver won 34 to 18. Bo Nicks had an awesome day.
And that last eight points that the Raiders scored was garbage. Garbage. They shouldn't even score that.
Yeah. I had predicted 28 14 Vegas and you had predicted 24 20 Vegas. So I'm it's official.
I've given up on the on the Vegas Raiders doing anything this year. I'm done. I'm probably not going to pick them the rest of the way.
I'm not patting my back on here, but I think no, I picked the Chargers not Denver. It may be the surprise. Forget it. Yeah.
That's right. I thought Bo Nicks would have a good year, but not a great year. Yeah.
And I think I said with Bo Nicks that coaching is going to be vital to have them have a good year.
Yeah, you're right. And I think Sean Payton is getting it done. Yeah, he is. Bo Nicks is starting to get more of the offense available to him.
So it looks like they're trusting him more just like Caleb Williams and in Chicago.
They're opening up the playbook more, which means they believe he's getting it.
I think if they come around 500 because you can't do 500 now. No.
If they're somewhere hovering about one of above or one below. Yeah. I think Sean Payton's fine. Yeah.
And he's getting the most out of them and they're happy. He has a plan.
So yeah, yeah, it would take a lot for Sean Payton to lose his job this year. Yeah.
And also you play my home's two times a year. Yeah. You know, that's that's got to buy you a little grace.
You go ahead and scratch those two out. All right. We're not counting them.
Everything else we're counting. Anyhow, Antonio Pierce is starting to regret his business decisions comment.
Yes. Yes, I did. Yeah, because he basically accused the players the previous game of checking out and not risking themselves because the game was a loss.
I did like him. Yeah. And it looked like the players is like, yeah, you want to see us phoning it in.
We didn't see this week. I like it. I like him as a person.
He's a solid person. Every all the management on the chiefs love him because Andy Reid worked with him somewhere and they think he's a great guy.
But now I think that he's not the guy to lead the Raiders to anything. Yeah. He's showing that he's not ready to be head coach yet.
Yeah, he might be in a few years, but right now, just that comment alone right there tells you that you would never hear Andy Reid doing that.
You never heard Bill Belichick doing that. Bill Parcells, any of the great coaches would never hear.
Yeah, he basically told every player you're playing for your job every week. Yes. That sucks.
I'm having to go into work and say, all right, if you don't do great, we're firing you at the end of the day. Yeah.
Unless you do something great. I mean, you'd hate that job. Yeah. You'd be like, I don't even want to go in there. I don't want to look at it. Yeah. Yeah, I agree.
Yeah, that was really unwise. And I could see Antonio Pierce definitely being on the hot seat because they got almost nothing invested in him.
I'll go a step further. I think he's gone after the end of the year. And I think half the team's gone after the end of the year.
Yeah, I think there's Max Crosby seems to still be a Pierce supporter and really be in. Yeah, well, you're right.
They were going to attain some, but I think a lot of the offensive players is like, man, I'm never getting to the Hall of Fam and stay here.
He would be, Max Crosby would be the one that you keep. Yeah. Unless you think you're so far away and you just want draft picks. Yeah.
I used to think, man, if only the Chiefs could get Max Crosby, but we really don't have room for him now. No.
Which is great. The defense has an offensive philosophy. You have your core. Yeah. Then the rest are ancillary. Yeah.
Even Snead. If they could have kept him, don't get me wrong, if they could have kept him, they would have. But they didn't. But they're doing just fine.
They are. The pieces that Spagnolo does are genius. So anyhow, I don't know what else we know with that.
Yeah, there's not a lot more to talk about with Vegas or Denver because Denver is building on the way up. Vegas is crumbling on the way down. Yeah.
That's it. Yeah. All right. Next game was Arizona at San Francisco. Oh, hi. I heard this one on the radio. Yeah, I missed this one, but it sounded like it was awesome.
Oh, it was soul crushing. Arizona pulled it out 24-23. Because Purdy threw an interception.
But I mean, he was flat on his back when he threw the ball. It was a bad decision to throw it. Yeah. But they were just nailing it.
Like I always heard, you can't throw the ball on your back. Arizona found their pass rush. They did. And they did it masterfully against Purdy.
They didn't do it all the time, but when they needed to, they did. Also, a lot of San Francisco's key components are out.
McCaffrey's out. Kittle is dinged. Yeah. I haven't heard Devo Samuel's name much at all. Is he catching on? I think he's out.
No, no, no, no, I don't know. Hang on a minute. Are you going to look? Yeah, I'm going to look up Devo Samuel. But in the meantime. You don't hear his name.
Devo Samuel stats. But in the meantime, we had, I had San Francisco winning in a runaway 30-10, which is, you know, awful.
And you had San Francisco winning 32-28. Boy, we both sh- You at least had the close game. Yeah. But okay.
Devo Samuel in the game against Arizona, one catch for 11 yards. Oh boy. So he's really declined that much.
September 29th versus New England, three catches for 58 yards. September 15th, the week before, eight for 110.
September 9th, five for 54. So on the season, he's 17 catches for 233 yards, which is an average of 13.7, zero touchdowns.
Not good. No. Okay, there's school of thought, but I can throw, I can throw shade on it really quick.
Does McCaffrey have to be in there for Devo to be effective? Sounds like it. I'm going to say yes.
But what happened before McCaffrey? He was effective then. Yeah, they must have changed things around.
You know, it's like, oh, we got McCaffrey now so we can forget that. Yeah. Now McCaffrey fills that role.
Then he's out. They're like, oh, now we got to go back to that. But I don't remember how to do it. Yeah.
Yeah. Or it's just like he's so used to be in the system, like you said. Yeah. He doesn't know what to do without McCaffrey in there.
Yeah. Devo, what year is he in anyhow? He could be declining a little also. He's been there a little while.
Let's see. His career started in 2019. So this is his fifth year. No, six year. This is his sixth year.
I guess he could be, but probably not. He should be ascending, but he's not. His best year was 2021. We had 1400 yards.
Yeah. He had, okay, 2019, 802, 2020, 391, 2021, 1405. The next year, 2022, 632, 2023, 892.
So we had one big year where he got 1400 yards, 77 catches, six touchdowns, but that was four years ago.
He's kind of a juju shoester. Yeah. And also some of that you can't blame on him. The quarterbacks that ran through there.
True. And he's been hurt some of those years too. Yeah, he's been hurt too. And he may be hurt right now.
It's weird. They used to have to tell us when the players were injured and you would think with sports betting that they would have to tell us because that makes a difference, but they hide it so much.
I'll tell you why I think they hide it. The sports bet people know. We don't. Yeah. They're telling the bookies. Yeah.
They're telling their official gambling partners. But they're not telling us. They're nudging them going, hey, did you know? Oh, no, I didn't. All right. Thank you.
That's what they're doing. Yeah. Like the players who were going to be out that week, they tell us, well, doubtful, questionable, but the sports bookies, they're telling him, yeah, he ain't playing.
And part of it is the strategy. You want the team prepared as if he's there, not if he's not there. Yeah. So.
Arizona, man, showing some life. San Francisco showing that they're human.
What's his name still there? The guy that coached Mahomes and then Murray.
They hired him. For Arizona? Yeah. The head coach, they hired him from Texas Tech. Is he still there or they get somebody else? Kingsbury. Kingsbury. Yeah.
I don't know.
OK, you going to check? Why not? Yeah, because maybe some of this is Kingsbury's gone. I don't know. Cliff Kingsbury.
All right.
He is currently the offensive coordinator for the commanders. OK, so they got a new coach. Yeah. New philosophy.
Yeah, I think that's a lot of it. Isn't it awesome? We don't prepare all that well, but we don't care.
I'm still talking about other games. You are truly getting what you pay for, folks. Yes.
Fellow bastards. You know, people probably listen to me and go, what the fuck? They expect it from me because I get high every time before we do this.
Me, I don't have an excuse. None at all. I'm normally like this. There you go. All right. Moving along. My ADD is not doing me favors today. You don't have to spell it. It's OK.
All right. That's a great answer. Use that at some point.
All right. New York Giants at Seattle Seahawks. We both got this wrong. Yeah. Giants won 29-20. I had 31-17. You had 33-12.
The Giants are Jekyll and Hyde. You're going to see this all year. They'll have the good game, the bad game. Daniel Jones is that.
What was the problem with Seattle, though? Seattle? I don't know. I think Geno Smith got a little bit big for his britches.
He did some boasting and had his chest out. And ever since then, he's kind of lost a couple, did OK on a couple. He doesn't seem to be the same quarterback.
Yeah. When you boast and brag, you're risking your self-confidence. You really are. And also, you're pissing off the other players.
And your own players, if you don't follow through. It's like, man, why couldn't you just keep your mouth shut? Why did you have to say that?
You ever notice the great players never do that? Yeah. Yeah. It's just like I love the fact that all these power rankings are putting Minnesota ahead of us.
That's great. You know that's in the locker room. Yeah, that's motivation for KC. Mahomes loves playing on the road because he gets way more fired up.
I know. He's like, man, we're going to go in here and wipe them out. Yeah. Case in point last year. Oh, it's not going through Arrowhead. They're not going to do it. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Hold our beer. Yeah. Hold our beer. Hold my barbecue. Hold my barbecue.
So, well, yeah, there's not a whole lot to say. I don't think the Giants or the Seahawks are going to make a whole lot of noise going forward.
They can probably wreck some other people's seasons, but. Seven and ten. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe. Somewhere around there.
I still think San Francisco is going to get it together and take the division. Oh, I do too. I do too.
I think Seattle will probably finish ahead of the Rams because they're kind of crumbling.
Hey, you got anything you want to say? Yeah. Sorry. I didn't want to add to it. On your space. I didn't want to intrude. No problem.
Today's the last day to register to vote. Oh, OK. I'm registered.
You know what? I don't think I'm registered in Jackson County, actually, because when I have my property in Cleveland. Oh, yeah.
You guys know that you can register in multiple states as long as you have a second address or third or fourth. Oh, I didn't know that.
OK. How do I register? You just can't vote for more than one president.
Or for the president in more than one state. Yeah. Oh, OK. But you can vote on the state elections in multiple states.
Wow. If you're a resident of multiple states. Well, you've got a stake in that state. You own property. You live there.
Oh, yeah, yeah. I can get it. That's the website. So I can do it right here on this website?
No, you scan it to see what your status is. Oh, OK. And if because you've never registered here? No, not in... Oh, well, that's easy.
OK. Yeah, yeah. So you don't have to check it. I bet you're saying you did, but for some reason it didn't go through. No, different county, I guess.
Oh, yeah. You could always go back to that county and vote. We fed exit. There's Missouri votes.
We're a contractor that was hired out by both parties in Congress, both Republican and Democrat alike.
And to avoid argumentation, we never tell them what we like. Yeah, they've got to be neutral.
Because it becomes a political affiliation argument. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And anymore, if you say anything of what you like, half the people...
Exactly. Yeah. And you guys are smart guys, I can tell. You guys do like radio or something? It's podcasting. It's podcasting.
You got anything you want to talk about? You guys are true Americans, man. OK, so since I'm registered in Cass County and not Jackson County,
can I vote in Cass County or do I have to vote in Jackson County? No, it doesn't matter as long as it's Missouri. OK, then.
Then all right. You just have to take your right on. So Cass County? Yeah, Cass County. Right on. I'll go there. It's easier anyhow.
Yeah. You know, the one in Cleveland, it took me two minutes to vote. Unless you wanted to change the address where you get your mail here in Jackson instead of in Cass.
But it's whatever your preference. Yeah. So you could change it, but you don't have to. You can just do an address change and that's it.
Yeah, I'll keep it like it is. I don't care. All right. Thank you very much.
You don't take the risk of not receiving it before the campaign. OK, is there anything you want to say you want to add or?
We're talking sports right now. Footlock. Yeah, we're talking NFL. Go Chiefs. Yes. How about that game last night?
You know, the Royals too. Yeah, that was so nice. Did you hear the pop when they announced they won? Yes.
Joe Buck and Troy Aikman didn't get it at first. They're just kind of going, boy, the crowd's going crazy.
Then you heard Joe Buck go, yeah, the Royals just beat the Yankees in Yankee Stadium.
And they didn't realize why everyone was going nuts.
Last night's broadcast was the first time I've ever seen Joe Buck smile when he was talking about Kansas City.
No, I think usually he hates us. He's from St. Louis. Yeah. And I think it had a lot to do with it.
But he has changed. I like him now. Yeah, he's gotten better.
Plus, there's so many people out there worse than him. Also, he is funny as hell.
I heard him on Stern and I also heard him. That's the only reason I ever listen to Stern is like if they like a Joe Bucks on or something.
Other than that, I don't. But he was funny as hell. And his book, Lucky Bastard, is a fantastic book.
So anyhow, yeah, anyhow. Definitely encouragement to the young people because we need to reach them the most.
Yeah, there's a lot of young people that aren't registered. No, I know.
And a lot of young people gave up before they even tried. Yeah, they don't think they could change the system.
My name is David Richardson. It's an honor. Thank you. So I'm sorry. I'm Topher. We're honored. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Yeah, you guys both. That honors me. Yeah. Thank you very much.
I hope you hope you get a lot of people signed up. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So everybody listening, you just got the rules.
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That's great. I can vote. I didn't know that. Yeah. And you know how they say, you know, well, if you vote for a third party or if you vote for right in, you just wasted your vote.
You can say that any vote cast for the losing side was a wasted vote. Yeah. So really, it's just it's a stupid perspective.
Don't pay any attention to that. It was whoever you want. Vote exactly how you want. Don't listen to anyone.
That was manufactured by the big two. It was. Yeah. And also, I own property in Cass County until two years ago.
Yeah. So I knew I didn't have a problem voting there because I was still, you know, actually owned property there.
Yeah. I didn't know that I could actually sell it and still vote. So that's great. Yeah. Yeah. As long as you just vote once.
Remember, there are people. I guess I'll vote once this time.
There were people in there in the 2000 election. There are people who lived in New York, wintered in Florida and were voting for Al Gore in both states.
Yeah, I remember that. Yeah. And then the Democrats like, oh, well, let's not pay attention to those.
Let's talk about what the Republicans did wrong. It's like, no, let's talk about everybody doing stuff wrong.
I mean, dead people vote in Chicago all the time. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Remember on that mob tour, they stopped by that set.
They showed us that big cemetery and said a lot of those people still vote Democratic in Kansas City.
But you know why they call Chicago the Windy City, right? Why politicians? Oh, that's right. Yeah. It has nothing to do with weather.
It is actually kind of windy there because of the high rises and the lake, et cetera. But yeah, yours windy because the politicians are so windbags.
I agree. Anyhow, I guess we go on with sports. All right. The last of the three o'clock game.
No, wait a second. We forgot one of the noon games because I forgot to write it down. Miami at New England.
Remember that one? I forgot to write it down last week. So it's out of order.
Miami won 15 to 10. We both pick New England. I don't know why. I don't know why either. What were we thinking?
I was thinking the weakness of Miami's quarterback. Yeah. But New England's not that.
Hey, you want to talk? We're talking football right now. You got to choose. Thank you guys. All right. Go Chiefs. Yeah. And Royals.
And Royals. Absolutely. But yeah, that says something that New England can't even beat Miami at this point.
Yes. But it doesn't say anything for Miami. 15 to 10. Was that like five field goals or do they actually get a touchdown in there somewhere?
I don't know. I admit I paid no attention to this game. No, it really doesn't matter for Kansas City State.
No. Tyreek Hill, when is his contract up? End of the year. This is his last year. He's going to have horrible stats and it's not really his fault.
That's true. Maybe that's one of the reasons the betting line is so high for him to come back to Kansas City.
Yeah. Yeah, that's a good point because he wants the stats even if he just comes back for the rest of the season. Yeah, his stats would improve.
And then goes on again from here. Yeah. So that would lead him to take less money. Yeah.
That would lead him for a lot of things to Kansas City. But that also would lead him to Buffalo and maybe Baltimore and Cincinnati as well.
Yeah. We'll see. Yeah, he would definitely have his pick of teams to go to that would need him whether or not they'd be interested at all.
But there are definitely a lot of teams that could use him. Who's in their division? They're not going to trade him.
No, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and who's the third team? Cleveland. Cleveland. Yeah. So he's not going to go to any of those guys.
So he's not going to go to Baltimore. He could go to Buffalo, but would Buffalo want him at this point? I don't know.
I don't think Buffalo. Well, I don't know. Would he fit Buffalo's offense? I don't think so. Not right now. Yeah.
But I mean, he would definitely fit the Chiefs offense. Yeah. The big bomb down the field. Yeah.
Wow. This is going to get interesting. But then again, Miami's just might just say, fuck every one of you. We got him in at the end of the year. We're going to keep him.
Yeah. He's still selling tickets with stadium. Yeah. And also, I don't think you're necessarily a fan of him the way he's done things.
Why wouldn't they just be like, no, you're going to sit there? Yeah. Especially he's being very boisterous about being trading. Yeah. Yeah. I'd be like, no, we're going to keep you.
Yeah. Devontae Adams, now he's going to get traded. Yes. Raiders don't want him in the building anymore. No. They'll trade him to Buffalo just to fuck us. Yeah. Yeah. They're not trading them to us.
Yep. So let's see. OK. Green Bay at the Rams. It was Green Bay 24-19. I picked the Rams 24-13. You picked the Rams 20-20-20-10.
The Rams are imploding. Yeah. Sean McBey, I forgot. Sean McBey is a dark horse now as a fireman. Yeah. Yeah. I can definitely see that.
There's a tank coming in again. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Where there are crowd control tanks. Yes. Yeah. The crowd have developed around us like they always do. Yeah.
This one's got the tear gas detachments you can see. But not because they love us. They're trying to get rid of us. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So thank you.
Yeah. Green Bay's not much of a team. Jordan Love is... I think they're finding out Jordan Love really isn't the answer. No.
It was one of the games yesterday where the quarterback was in the end zone and basically threw almost off his back, was intercepted at the 10 and run back in for a touchdown.
I think that was the Green Bay Rams game or it could have been the Chicago game. I think that was a Green Bay Rams game. Yeah. I think so.
But you know, this is another one of those games where someone had to win. Yeah.
So I remember with the quarterback that threw that awful pick six was on the winning team eventually. That eventually won the game.
I can't remember which game that was. I think that was... You know what? If we're wrong, we're wrong. Yeah. But somebody did that.
But anyway, Jordan Love's just not really seeming like all that. He's serviceable. He's OK. He still makes a lot of mistakes. Yeah.
But it was enough to beat the Rams who are just doing terrible. They're lifeless. Yeah. They're nowhere in their division.
What happened to Stafford? Yeah. Yeah. Did they change something? Did he lose an ability? It's like he's not the same guy he was last year.
They might have won a Super Bowl with Stafford, right? Yeah. OK. They might have won that. But all of a sudden Jared Goff looks like a better quarterback.
How did that happen? I know. Yeah. I think it's coaching part of it. Yeah.
The Rams definitely have trouble in their organization. They're going to figure out. But there's something going on.
I just never get the impression that the Rams organization or their fan base really cares all that much. I just never get that impression.
How can you get behind it when it's everybody else? So if Kansas City there, it is 70 percent red. If Baltimore is there, it's 70 percent black or purple or whatever their color is.
Yeah. It really seems that way. But blue is all blue. Yeah. Everyone's rooting for whoever they want and whoever they grew up with before they moved to L.A.
They get tickets. They get tickets cheap. And they're already going to go on vacation anyhow. Yeah. And the ex-pats who live there, you know. Yeah, that's true.
So who knows what Rams are going to get done this year? Probably nothing. And McVeigh is probably on the hot seat. Yeah. Sunday Night Football was Dallas at Pittsburgh.
Dallas won this 20 to 17 last second kind of thing. Someone had to win. Yeah. We both picked Pittsburgh. I was 24-13. You were 27-24.
Yeah. I mean, I thought Pittsburgh was going to do it. I suppose Dallas has a better roster. Yeah. More seasoned. They've been together longer.
They play them better, not necessarily. But they have a better roster. And I think a little bit of talent that they have went out. And that's just it.
Justin Fields is still developmental. So you have one that's not polished yet. And you have one that has had some success. Yeah. So that's it.
I think that's pretty much the game right there. Yeah. I can definitely see that being a little bit of been there, done that. Yeah.
And credit to Dallas for squeaking out that win on the road against Pittsburgh, who was turning out to be a pretty strong team. Yes.
So, yeah. So my estimation of Dallas has gone up a little bit since they've been winning. I think they're a playoff team, but anything else, no.
Yeah. The commanders, I think, will win the division. Yeah. But the Giants and the Eagles, I don't think they're going anywhere.
No. Dallas is firmly the second. They're a wild card. And depending on who they play, they may not get through that.
And since Philly was on to bye week, they had their most successful week so far this season. They had no screw ups.
Nikki Sirianni, you fella, you. Oh, gosh. We already covered the Chiefs game. Yeah. So that was the last one on my list.
OK. I've got some bullet points here. I love me some bullet points. I'm going to go into the first one that we already kind of scraped on.
We're talking about new rules. Yeah. I'm proposing a new rule and I want to look at the feathers. I know we just got attacked by a bunch of feathers.
What the hell? I think an owl just nailed one of these pigeons. I think so too. What if the NFL teams all had to wear the same jerseys exactly?
Only difference would be the name on the back. How would you like that? Wow. I would like to see that for one year and that's it.
Yeah, that would be an interesting one year. You would get so many picks. That would be confusing.
You see people dyeing their hair and changing their hairstyle. Yep. Yep. Man, that would make that tough.
I think it would be fun to see. It would be. Wow. My answer is I'd like to see it for one year and then it can go away.
A rule I'd like to see is change the two minute warning to the two minute timeout. Yeah.
Because it's no longer a warning. I mean it was initially put in when timekeeping in the stadiums was pretty iffy.
There was like a big large analog clock at one end of the stadium and everyone looked at that. It was hard to tell sometimes.
So the referee, when there was officially two minutes left, would go tell both sidelines, alright there is two minutes left in the half, two minutes left in the game so everyone will readjust your watches or whatever.
Not necessary anymore. Anymore is just an excuse for a timeout. It's like the commercial break before the most exciting part of your TV show.
Yeah, everything runs itself. So just keep it like that. Go ahead and keep it as an extra timeout. Just call it the two minute timeout because it's not a warning anymore.
I've heard commentators actually say that. Time for the two minute timeout. It's no big deal.
Yeah, yeah. It's time to just go ahead and admit what it is instead of pretending that it really is an informational thing.
Yeah, yeah. That's it. I've got another bullet point. So would you like to see it for a year or not at all?
I'd like to see that for a year. Yeah. Yeah, I think that would be fun.
The team would have to memorize where their players are going to be instead of going by color.
I know. And remember we're not supposed to judge based on color. So uniform color counts too.
Yes. All right. My first one, and this one is a good one. I love this because I definitely have an opinion on this.
Should the league boot Deshaun Watson? Wow. Yeah, I think they should.
I'm not going to get into whether or not they have the authority to do so or not, but yeah, they should. Deshaun needs to be out of the NFL.
I think they have the authority, but not on these grounds because he's subtle. Right. Yeah. If it was a clear cut guilty, of course.
Does anybody really think that Deshaun Watson has stopped his bad behavior? No. Or do we just not know about what's yet to come?
He's figuring out who will do what, I think. Yeah. I think there are more allegations that are going to come.
Whether we'll hear about him or not, I don't know. But Deshaun Watson is costing a lot of people a lot of money.
So he's bad for business. Well, not to mention his ex-contract is not going to be an ex-contract. Who's going to want him?
Yeah. You know, when Michael Vick had all of his dog fighting and dog murdering troubles, at least he was a really good player and exciting and people wanted to watch it.
So there was a lot of people saying, can we find a way to bring Michael Vick back?
No one's going to say that at Deshaun Watson because he's not that good that we're willing to overlook what he's done. I agree.
And what he still doesn't apologize for. Yeah. Yeah. He's basically telling you straight out he's only sorry that he got caught. Yes.
So yeah, you don't need him in the league. No, I would agree, too. Yeah.
Next bullet point. So we both agree that they could boot him out and be all right with me, but they're probably not going to.
No, they'll let Cleveland settle it. Yeah. Yeah.
Unless, unless there's a definite someone that does not want to get bought and they press charges and they don't let it go. Yeah.
So that's pretty much it. That's not going to happen because whatever happened, happened. And yeah, it may suck and they may not like it. But I mean, they get a few million and live comfortably.
I know I probably do it myself. Yeah. You got to think about the moral satisfaction of pressing a court case and seeing him like get a fine or jail time or probation or something versus, hey, I don't have to work for the rest of my life.
Yeah, you might as well just go that and go, you know what, I'm going to have the I got plenty of money for therapy.
It's an individual choice. And you know, I'm not going to fault anybody of how they choose. No, no, me either. It's going to be a personal thing.
But yeah. Okay. The next one is a hard question because I don't believe there is really one this year. Who was the most improved quarterback this year?
Wow. Think of all the quarterbacks and there's really one head and tail stood out like, man, I'm making the progression. No, man, I can't think of.
That's a good point. Wow. That is good. You know, you can't count Rogers because he didn't play last year. You can't count the rookies because this is their first year. Yeah, you go Jaden Daniels if you did. Yeah.
But he's a rookie, so he doesn't have a first season and you know, it could even be on a new team. But you know, Russell Wilson isn't playing for crap. Oh, maybe Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins. Yeah.
He's definitely playing better than last year. I mean, he did. It wasn't bad last year, but he's definitely taking a step forward. Yeah, I think Kirk Cousins probably is the most improved right now. Yeah.
I think Kareem Hunt's in the running for comeback player of the year. Oh, yeah. If you're talking running backs, Kareem Hunt has got it so far. I mean, by a mile. Yeah.
It's interesting. We live in a world where he was a throwaway and now he's better than his predecessor. Same with Juju. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Juju.
Pissford gave up on him. Oh, I know. They gave up on him and then he went to Kansas City. He had a great season. Then he went on to the Patriots, had a horrible season and injuries. Yeah.
I was like, come back to where you had the success. It looks like it's working. Yeah. So if you can get on that quarterback that can read you and configure it out and have you open that, that open, you stay.
Having a quarterback that knows what you're going to do and where you're going. Yeah, that's a big part of it. It shows you how good Mahomes is. Yeah. He already, he's like, oh, I know, I know. Great memory.
There was a pass last night that Xavier Worthy, I'm sorry, ex Xavier Worthy, he pronounces it ex Xavier. Oh, that's right, he does. Yeah.
Xavier Worthy was coming across the middle and it looked like Mahomes was expecting him to stop. So he threw it to a point and Worthy had already run past it and did catch it. Oh, I know what player you're looking at. Yeah.
That was just simply, I think Xavier was supposed to stop and turn around and he didn't. The first thing I thought was, did Mahomes forget how fast Xavier is and didn't compensate for his speed. I never thought about that.
Yeah, I'm wondering if their timing isn't quite there because he's still getting used to how fast Worthy is. I think you're probably closer because the ones they connected on were brilliant.
Yeah, and running it, he came in a dead run if he was supposed to stop and catch the ball. Something that cut and dry, he would have been like, oh yeah, yeah. Yeah.
And also he was open. Yeah, wide open. Yeah. So I'm thinking that Mahomes just forgot how fast Worthy was. I think you're right, it's like, oh shit, man, that guy was already steps ahead of me. Yeah.
So they do have that timing down to a degree but not all the way. When they perfect that, watch out. And the farther away Worthy is, the more you've got to compensate for that speed.
Mahomes' deadly accuracy when he's not having someone in his face and Worthy's speed is a deadly combination. So you can have your Buffaloes and Baltimore's come at you with that defense and yeah, they're going to score some points.
But when you've got a guy like that, you always have the 13-second possibility. Yes, you do. I mean, because come on, man, if we didn't have Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelsey, we would not have come back and won that game.
But I mean, each one of them did their part to preserve the game. And everybody did their part to get them to that position. Yes. So yeah, Kurt Covey, Cousins is the...
I'd say yeah, he's the most improved quarterback. Definitely.
This next one I like too, and I think it's a relatively easy one though. Is NFL draft the best system for young, talented players or do they need some sort of a minor league system?
I think they need a minor league. Me too. I think the college football system is starting to grow into its own thing and is tired of being the feeder league for the NFL.
Yeah, if you look at it, it's really not. That game between Alabama and Georgia sure got as many ratings as any NFL game that had the top bill.
Vanderbilt knocking off number one Alabama. Yeah, when Alabama knocked off Georgia, but Georgia came back. That game was just insane.
I fell asleep for 10 minutes and all of a sudden, Georgia's three points behind. I'm like, what the hell happened?
And I really enjoy college football being different from the NFL. Oh, Missouri getting their ass handed to them by A&M.
Yeah, that was hard to watch. Oh, that was hard to watch. From the first snap, it was hard to watch. Yeah.
It was like, who are these? They're wearing Missouri uniforms, but who are these people? Who are these guys?
I don't know, man. Did they have the fire alarm pulled in their hotel at 3 in the morning or something? I don't know. I mean, they were not ready.
Drink was better. Go back to the drawing board on some stuff. Yeah. So anyhow. Yeah, I think the UFL could definitely be the minor league, the developmental league for the NFL.
And also think about how well that would be better than any minor league baseball because you would see these guys progressing and you could have this during the summer.
Them playing during the summer and we could keep track of ours like the let's say we got the Wichita Argonauts or something. Yeah.
And they are a minor league team and you got this new defensive back on there that's just tearing it up.
All the Kansas City is going to be watching. I go, hey, hey, come here. Do you see this new guy? Jones. Yeah, you see him. Look at him, man.
Oh, yeah. Wow. He looks like he's ready. I think that would be fantastic. And I think it would be.
I just while you're talking, I just came up with another idea that you do it, then expand the UFL. Yeah. More teams.
And then you can have two drafts every year. The first draft would be the UFL teams drafting college players.
That's nice. And then the second draft would be the NFL teams drafting from the UFL any player that's been there longer than one year.
OK, you would have to have the UFL being a part of the NFL because the players would be like, I'm not going there. I'm going to go the team.
Yeah, you'd have to set it up as you know, if you're in the UFL, you could get drafted to an NFL team. If you don't want to go, then you have to get out.
Yeah, yeah, they would have to do it like that. But that's the way baseball's minor league is.
You know, if you don't like the team that drafted you, you just can't play Major League Baseball. That's right. At least for a year.
Yeah, it would have to be something like that. Yeah. And teams could say, you know, OK, we've got this core, you know, seven players on offense and five on defense that we're not letting get drafted.
But you can draft the rest, kind of like an expansion draft. That's right. I like that. Two and two drafts every year.
Why wouldn't you do that? Think about that. Look at how big the NFL draft has become.
Yeah. And you know, nobody wants to give up the college draft. So you can still have that. And then the NFL draft is a separate thing.
The college draft was exciting in April. It's like, oh, man, I'm going to go see. And then when we got worthy and we traded up with Buffalo like we did in the Homes, it was like, wow, can't believe they pulled it off.
Yeah. You could have year round football go to a 19 week schedule. Yeah. With 18 games. Like the Super Bowl is over.
You know, like a month later, the U.F.L. starts plays for three months.
And then you in that you have the college draft and then you have at the end of the U.F.L. season, the NFL teams draft and they show up training camp.
I think that's a great idea. And also the football season starts almost at the end of the NBA championship.
Yeah. But man, that is perfect. You're always having football. And if you're worried about the fall classic, they don't really they don't really bother each other.
No, there's there's some overlap between the hardcore football and baseball, but not that much.
Yeah. You're talking about one. Well, actually three, three games a week. And usually they schedule them off during those three days.
Right. They try to not especially the World Series. They try not to schedule those games during football.
Yeah, it's not going to affect them at all, I don't believe. So you might as well.
And a lot of people will just set up to two screens and watch both games at the same time.
Oh, yeah. I was going to do that last night, but I knew I wouldn't watch either one of them because I keep bouncing.
So I had the Royals DVR and I had my phone to alert me.
Anything happening? And then I had the TV on the Chiefs. And I'm really worried because in the bottom of the ninth, I knew they're going to bottom of the ninth.
And also my phone went, I'm like, oh, shit. But it's only one run and there's two outs. I'm like, OK, OK, OK.
Yeah, but you know, I was fearing the great collapse like they've been known to do.
Yeah. So anyhow, this one I love. Yeah. But I think we both have the same answer.
The best bet for the next dynasty in developmental stage.
We've been talking about first impulse, I say, is Washington. Yes. The commanders are that second place would go to Houston.
Wow. Yeah. OK. Yeah. Those are Houston.
Houston is I mean, if you compare the Texans now to the Texans five years ago, totally different team.
This team has attitude and ability. Yeah, they have grit. They have guts.
I mean, they are a team that that is built to win in the playoffs. Yeah.
And these guys over there, the commanders are just getting back right behind Jaden Daniels and they are playing as such.
Yeah. I mean, it is the perfect scenario for the commanders.
It is. And things are just seeming to come together timing wise really well for the commanders.
Yeah. Their GM seems to have really kind of really kind of shifted gears on that whole franchise.
OK. So that's good. I like that. Yeah. Both are on board. You came up with a good one. I came up with a good one.
Yeah. I don't think there's really anyone else out there that you can say that on.
No, I don't see anyone else, you know, blooming into a sudden contender. No, I mean, that's been down for a while.
Detroit already has. Yeah, Detroit has already bloomed. They're a contender, so we can't put them in there.
The next one, we already discussed it a lot, so we can go over it really quick.
Bengals went it for Zach Taylor on the hot seat. Yeah. Yeah.
And I'd say that the Bengals season is very much in jeopardy.
I mean, I was thinking, man, they don't have home field advantage. They'll never get it to.
I don't know if they're going to make the playoffs. Yeah. Playoffs.
We ought to do that every time. We should. I guarantee you, people right now are going, motherfucker, it's free.
Yes. Back to some point, we're going to have to start paying these people to listen.
That guy didn't like us. I tried to wave at him. He snarled even more.
This is Mrs. Golfenstein's nephew.
You make fun of my can't.
Okay. The next one, since we both agree on this, we both talked about it.
Oh, we already did that one, the jerseys being the same. Yeah.
I put that one to the first because we're talking about that.
What are your favorite rivalries out of Kansas City? And you came up with this the other day.
Yeah. Excluding Chiefs versus Raiders, Chiefs versus Broncos, Chiefs versus Chargers.
Yeah. So we can do other division rivalries, but. Yeah. But not Kansas City.
Yeah. Some of my favorites, Pittsburgh and Cleveland, they always seem to want to kill each other.
Yes. There's a true hatred there. Yes. Kansas City, Houston, I think that's turning into an awesome rivalry.
It really is.
And then Packers Bears is always fun.
What ones did you come up with? I don't mean to monopolize it.
No, no, no. What you said is perfect, but I thought you were going to touch on it, but you didn't.
These just developed, the Bengals and Ravens. Yes. Yeah. Yes.
And it's not like they're in the same division or nothing. What it is is this right here.
No, they are in the same division. Oh, they are in the same division, aren't they? Yeah.
Because the Ravens used to be the Browns. Yeah, that's right. OK. Yeah.
I mean, I think Bengals, Ravens is definitely a good one. Yeah.
Going on the last few games I've had, that right there is developed into a rivalry of epic.
And then what I meant to say was he was not in the same division, but I also like is the Bills Texans.
Yes. Have developed into a hell of a rivalry. That has, definitely.
And I'll go a step further, even though we're not talking about we exclude them. Kansas City against anybody.
Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Everybody wants to knock us off their throne. Yeah.
Everyone puts their best effort except New Orleans. Oh, yeah.
It used to be that the 49ers Rams was a good rivalry. Yeah.
But now it's, I think 49ers Seahawks is a much better rivalry. I was getting ready to say that, yeah.
I think that that deserves to be mentioned too. Yeah.
Because the 49ers Seahawks, there's a different hatred there.
And the weather is about the same in both spots. Yeah.
And it's just there's we don't, we don't acknowledge as much because they're over on the West Coast and we barely see them. Yeah.
But they have great rivalry. Yeah, they do.
OK. This next one I love, and this is the final bullet point.
If your life depended on winning one game, who would you pick for the tight end? Gronk or Kelsey? Kelsey.
Kelsey. Yep. Yeah.
Kelsey is much better in big time situations, although Gronk was good too. He was. Kelsey's smarter.
Yeah, Kelsey's smarter and he brings Taylor Swift with him.
I had one bullet point that you mentioned. Oh, yeah.
Do you think the NFL has caught up with all these high powered, fast offenses? Yes.
You think defense? Yeah, I do too. I think the defense has figured it out.
Not just my homes. I think league wide, they've kind of figured it out.
Well, you think the Chiefs quietly went to a run offense and then it's going to go, yeah, we're right.
Oh, wait. No, we're not. Yeah, we are. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, we are.
I mean, it confuses shit out everybody. Yeah.
I'm trying to think what is the NFL going to do to adjust to bring back the high powered offenses?
Because they like the teams that score. Yeah, that's true.
It will adjust again. Yeah.
I mean, you're going to have everybody's analyzing tape, just like C.J. Stroud had a tough time getting going.
That's because everybody had a year on him. Yeah.
Everybody in the offseason was studying this guy. They go, OK, we got this game coming up against him.
Now, this is what's been working. This is what they've done wrong. They broke down the tape. Yeah.
And they start doing what was shutting him down.
Then C.J. and Texans go back and they go, all right, they figured this out and this out.
So now what are we going to do to counter that? It's a never ending chess game. Yeah.
So they're going to get back to it. And you saw glimpses of it last night.
You saw glimpses of it in my homes. They actually lost a receiver and became better.
That's true. That's weird. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? And he is a great receiver.
He was probably going to lead the league the way he was. Well, maybe not.
There's some really. He was going to be among the leaders. He was definitely getting a thousand yards.
Yeah. He could have got 1400 yards easily. Yeah, I agree.
So some of the things the NFL has done in the past is making it really dangerous to even touch the quarterback.
Yeah. And you know what? I used to be like really disappointed about that, but I agree with it now.
I don't want to see Mintch you against Henney. Yeah. Yeah, I agree with it. You got to protect the guy.
Yeah. And also there's been some late vicious hits on the homes and Allen got a few of them.
I mean, if you're a prolific quarterback and known as one of the best and one that will defeat you, they purposely come at you.
Yeah. So you do have to protect them too. So it's a little bit of both. Yeah.
You don't want to see Henney against Mintch you and you don't want to.
You also don't want your quarterback hurt because they are the star of the show.
And I don't think they're going to go to the flag football style that has been talked about, have the quarterback have like a flag.
They can't do that. They can't. No, I don't think people would buy that.
I think a better choice and probably more likely would be limiting the number of rushers that do against consent.
It's like you can rush your four down linemen and one linebacker. So total of five.
But you can't rush any more than that as a quarterback. That would be great.
And I could see them putting that in. So every time the quarterback will have more time to throw.
Yeah. I got another one for you too. OK. Since you said flag football.
Five out of seven football players probably drink natural light and fart a lot. Right. Yeah.
You think they want to see a flag on the quarterback? I'm saying a resounding hell no. Yeah.
Now here's an interesting idea to enhance the safety of the game. The offensive players. Hey, how you doing?
Hey, you got anything you want to say? We're talking NFL. Who won yesterday last night? Oh, Chiefs did.
Yeah, they won well too. 26-13.
I don't know much about the pro ball. Did they play the Eagles or the Chiefs?
Did they play them this year or not? I don't think we play that division this year.
Yeah, we don't. We played it last year. That's right. I come from near Philadelphia.
So I voted for the Chiefs. Sometimes for the Baltimore Orioles. Yeah.
The Ravens. Oh, the Ravens are the football. Orioles are the baseball. Yeah. Thank you.
All these bird names. Yeah.
Speaking of a city that should hate us. Philadelphia? No, Baltimore. Baltimore. Oh, yeah.
But I've got a little interesting thing there that I would like to point out.
Philadelphia beat Kansas City in the 1980 World Series. Yeah.
The Chiefs avenged them. Yeah. Much later, but they avenged them.
So you fast forward. San Francisco Giants?
The Giants beat the Royals in the World Series. And then the Chiefs avenged them.
And there's another one I was going to go to in the opposite. I can't think of what it was now.
I lost it, but I think about it. So who did the Royals beat in the 2016 World Series?
San Francisco again? No, no, no. It was the Mets. That's right. It was the Mets. Yeah.
Yeah. So that was New York team. So we've got to wait for a New York team to crush our hopes.
Well, they did in the 70s, but it was the Yankees. Yeah, that's true.
Yeah. So I can't remember the other one, but I had the weird facts. I like the Lincoln-Kennedy connection. Yeah.
Yeah. Something like that. But anyhow, you know what? It doesn't matter. Yeah.
So should we close this one out and then go on to our picks? Sure. Just one more potential.
Now, this is a silly rule change that will never happen. The offense gets to keep doing whatever they're doing,
wearing the pads, the helmets, all that stuff. Defensive players are sent out there in the t-shirt and shorts and shoes.
None of those defensive players are ever going to use their body as a weapon again. You know, you're right.
They're going to learn how to tackle and not just hit. And you want players to stop getting injured, take all the pads off the defenders.
Oh, shit. They will never do that. That'll be it.
But you'll see them shying away from the hit. Yeah.
They'll be like, oh, no, that hurt like hell last time. Yeah.
Funny thing is, man, the homes hurts people. They don't seem to hurt him. Yeah, really. The hell.
But you know, that's the reason the players get hit, get hurt so bad is because the people hitting them have all those pads and don't feel it.
Yeah. And also they are trying like hell to hurt the opposition. Yeah.
So anyhow, yeah, I like that idea, too. And also like the idea of gassers, the losing team has to run the football field.
Oh, yes. The side to side two times, as many as the other team wishes.
Or at least as many times as points they lost by. Oh, OK. That's it.
If you lose by 20, you got to run 20 gassers. Yeah, unless it's the Raiders. They need the Chiefs.
And an ass paddle. I was getting ready to say it. Great minds think alike.
Yes, they do. And how about a nut tug while we're there? Oh, yeah.
An ass paddle and a nut tug. And someone has to wear a dress. Yeah.
We'll make Mark Davis. Mark Davis.
All right. And with that note, we are signing out because I'm going to pee like crazy. Bye. Bye.