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strange. Yeah, I call it Clint Eats Wood. The

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Sports Bastards. The only sports show with gusto.

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That's right. I said gusto. Just like Schlitz

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beer. Google it. Hey, here we are with Sports

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Bastards after week one of the NFL wrapped up

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last night. Yes. With Chicago looking like they

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were dominating, but then Minnesota came back

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and... Yeah, what was it, 11 -point deficit?

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The rookie brought them back. Yeah, yeah. So

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the Sunday night game and the Monday night game

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were pretty much thrillers. Yeah, yeah. Pretty

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damn good, actually. Yeah, overall, I think from

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a viewership standpoint, the NFL's got to be

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pretty pleased with the way the games went. Oh,

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I would think so. Yeah, there's so many close,

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tight games. McCarthy, the quarterback for the

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Vikings, started off real shaky, but I saw a

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guy that got calmer. and actually started doing

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things better. Yeah, and I was seeing him out

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there being a quarterback. Exactly. Leading the

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team, telling people what to do, taking charge.

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Even though he's a rookie and the guy next to

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him is a seven -year veteran, you're his boss

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because you're the quarterback. I like to look

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on the seven -year veteran's face. Yeah. He was

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believing it. He wasn't like, here's this fucking

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guy. Exactly. Exactly. Oh, thank you. It makes

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a big difference. Oh, this is awesome service.

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City Market Coffee Roasters are the best. They

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are. And you are the best. Thank you so much.

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Thank you. What's your name? Tara. Tara? Tara.

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Oh, okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. So everyone

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come down and ask for her. Yeah. Yep. So, sports

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bastards. I was listening to some of our old

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podcasts, and I realized that at some point we

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stopped introducing ourselves, but I guess they

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knew who the hell we are. We did, didn't we?

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Okay. All right. Well, I'm Mark. And I'm Topher.

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All right. And if you're wondering if it's the

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same idiot, Mark, that does the show with Rob,

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yes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, not like you couldn't

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tell that. Yeah. Oh, you know, I've got a funny

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story about that, just right before we get into

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it. You know how we did our last podcast from

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the... oh oh yeah yeah thank you that looks amazing

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yeah here have one thank you very much thank

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you so much yeah we got some food delivered here

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is there cheese in it um i don't think so that's

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why i got it oh there might oh yeah there is

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i'm sorry that's okay i had a whole bunch of

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eggs before i got here no but you know how last

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week we did our show from the uh the rock island

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bridge It turns out I think that was a special

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preview event. Because when I got home, I saw

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an email in my inbox. What they really wanted

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was you and Rob. And then you show up with me.

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Because they had a whole event planned and they

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had stuff that was going to happen. But when

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they saw it was you and me instead of Rob, they

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canceled it all. It was just like, screw these

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guys. Well, everybody likes Rob and they hate

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us. So what the fuck? We don't care. So, you

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know, sorry, Rob. It was supposed to be your

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moment, but they didn't realize it was the sports

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bastards, and they got me instead. Yep. Oh, well.

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But we'll still go back. Well, um, okay. Sorry

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about eating on the show, but, um... Gotta do

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what you gotta do. Yep. Feed the machine. Let's

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go into the chief's loss. Oh, gosh. Well, they

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had... opportunities to win the game late in

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the game. True. Yeah, they were never out of

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it. Yeah. Which is kind of usual for the Chiefs.

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Yeah. You could kind of see Spagnuolo's defense

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starting to catch a little bit at the end there.

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Yeah, yeah. You know, he doesn't know what he

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has. He's got a bunch of people on there that

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never really played that much. Yeah, and working

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together. Yes, is the thing. That's a big thing.

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No Deion Bush. No Justin Reed. Both of those

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hurt us crazy. Yeah. So, my thought is this.

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You might see them lose to the Eagles. Yeah.

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The Eagles, they're going pretty good. They're

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on all cylinders. Yeah, yeah. But they play everybody

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in the division twice except for the Chargers,

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and they can handle business there too. Yeah.

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So, an 0 -2. that play the Giants next. Yeah,

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yeah. So, and I'm not saying they're not going

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to win, but I'm thinking they're still taking

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baking steps trying to become the team that they

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want to be. Yeah, yeah. And I think where the

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Eagles are ahead of them there right now, that

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they are the team they want to be right now.

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That's kind of the overall theme I got from this

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opening weekend is there are some teams that

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aren't ready yet and some that are. And on those

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teams, there are some players that aren't ready

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yet. Yeah. The Eagles look ready. The Cowboys

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look pretty ready. Yeah. The Chiefs did not look

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ready. No. And a number of the receivers just

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didn't look ready. No. They say Xavier Worthy

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is not a serious injury. Yeah. I don't know.

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My mom dislocated her shoulder just falling down

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in a parking lot. Uh -huh. And she couldn't use

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that shoulder normally for probably eight weeks.

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So I would be really surprised if Xavier Worthy

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is able to make a significant contribution this

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season. No, I read. Shoulder brace. Yeah. They

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said that he could wear a shoulder brace catch.

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And I guess that's her plan of action. But raising

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your arm over your head after you've had a dislocated

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shoulder, I just don't see how that's realistic.

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Unless you inject, like, you know, human sacrifice

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stem cells into your shoulder, summon the serpent,

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dance around the fire a couple times. I guess

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you can heal up like some of these people do.

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I'm going to recommend that. I'm going to recommend

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that. Yeah. I've had dislocated shoulder three

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times. Oh, gosh, those suck. Yeah, it did. Along

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with what they call a hill sack lesion. Dude.

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Yeah, it's a crack. And on those, the MRI will

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tell everything. Yeah. Okay. On those, you don't

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generally operate. You are very, very careful

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for a long, long, long time. And I was very careful,

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but I still dislocate my shoulder way too often.

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From what I've heard, shoulder surgery should

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always be considered last resort. You try everything

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before you go to surgery. And you can even see

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that in the NFL, a lot of players. When you see

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shoulder surgery, it's like, yeah, they're done.

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They're done. They'll never be who they were

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or whatever. It widely depends on the player,

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too. All right. Well, what are your thoughts

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on the Chiefs game? The communication between

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Mahomes and the receivers isn't there where it

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needs to be. The line was still having lots of

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trouble. Josh Simmons is fine. But then we started

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having trouble elsewhere. Yeah, Taylor. Jawan

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Taylor, again. Yeah, uh -huh. Stupid penalties.

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And then not capitalizing. You know, you'll get,

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like, a great run back, and then you can't do

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anything with it. Or, you know, you throw the

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ball 20 yards, 30 yards down the field, and then

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you stall out. Yeah. Just that kind of. That's

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inexcusable. Yeah, that's. I got to believe that

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they spend a lot of time working on. keeping

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drives going, sustaining the drive, and then

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it just crumbles. Oh, I know. They just don't

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seem ready. I know that it's week one, and a

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lot of players haven't played in the third quarter

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and fourth quarter yet. Well, Hollywood seemed

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to start getting in rhythm towards the end of

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the game. He did. He almost got 100 yards. Yeah.

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Juju looked great. He did. Okay. Thornton didn't

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seem to do a whole lot. No, he did okay, though,

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I mean, on his debut. Yeah. He did okay. He had

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a couple of catches. But I see him getting better.

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And I hope Jalen Royals comes back soon. Yeah,

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he's got knee, I think. It's knee, I believe,

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yeah. And I think that when you see these guys

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come in, you're not going to see them gel. I

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don't think you're going to see them really until

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down the stretch. The thing is, they've got to

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keep their head above water. Yeah. For a while

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now. and also especially for Rice to come back.

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Yeah, yeah. Once Rice comes back, if he's good

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and completely healthy, you're going to see a

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completely different offensive team. True, true.

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In the meantime, though, I would really like

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to see them get a consistent running game going

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because that's going to help in so many ways.

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That's the problem, and I don't get it. Yeah.

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Okay, I was talking yesterday or the day before

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about this to my boss, the big boss, and this

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is true. Okay. You start off brutalizing the

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defenses with a bigger guy. Yeah. So you go out

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there with Hunt. I don't care if he gets one

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yard of carry. You pound, pound, pound. You wear

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them down. You put Pacheco in there. He's a little

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bit faster, but still has some power. And then

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in the fourth quarter, you put in Mitchell to

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fucking smoke him. I'm not seeing that continuity

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at all. It's like they're not even trying. Yeah,

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it's just kind of like, well, we're just going

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to act like we're going to give this to you,

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but we don't expect you to do anything. And I'm

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tired of hearing the excuse of, well, it's a

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pass -oriented offense. Okay, pass -oriented,

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not pass -exclusive. Yeah, exactly. And, you

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know, I know that they consider a pass under,

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like, seven yards or something to run. Well,

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that's not true. No. The physicality isn't there.

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As you said, it's the offensive line wearing

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out the defensive line and some of the linebackers.

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It's just the relentless pounding. By the fourth

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quarter, you see that 220 -pound running back

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coming at you. You just don't want to hit him.

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No. You're going to make yourself hit him, but

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you really don't want to. Yeah. Well, I've always

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been a fan of the running game. Me too. So I

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would say establishing that run is always a good

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idea, especially now, like right now. It also

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gives Mahomes the option of running by us running.

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Yes. Yeah. You have the blockers in place. If

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he's open on the right side, he's got a first

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down almost every time. The only reason I can

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think where they wouldn't be doing this is imagine

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they're running down and the defense is piled

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up in the middle to stop the run. And then you

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audible to a pass, but now you've got that rush

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right up the middle. And maybe they don't think

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their interior line can handle it right now.

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That could be. An idea. Show him my tear or whatever.

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Yeah, right left guard, I think. Yeah, yeah.

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What are you thinking about him? Are you thinking

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that he's going to? He's doing a lot better,

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yeah. I think this is definitely a better spot

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for him to tackle. Yes. And I can see him improving.

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Mm -hmm. So. I think that that's what this season

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is in a large part. Yeah, they still plan on

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winning the Super Bowl, but they just like getting

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people accustomed to their roles and comfortable

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in them. And that would be actually a good thing

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internally is to say, let's quit concentrating

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on winning the Super Bowl every year to the exclusion

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of building for the future. Because what good

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is it to win it right now if the next year we

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go 0 -17 and everyone hates us? Which brings

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me to Travis Kelsey. All right. First thing.

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Yeah. He admitted he was distracted last season.

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Yes. I hate that. Oh, yeah. Okay. I'm glad he

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admitted it, but I hate that he was. Well, all

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last season it was all fucking pretty. Yeah.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm fine. No

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distraction here, ready to play, and we didn't

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see him. And so many people are just fine with

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him lying. That's what they expect, and they're

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okay with it. I'm not. I'm not okay with him

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lying about whether he was distracted and what's

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going on. I'm the same way. I think that he helped

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cost us a championship. Yeah. Yeah. Just everywhere.

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All last season where he didn't quite show up,

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put pressure and strain on everybody else. And

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that all added up by the end of the season. A

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little bit better blocking in that Super Bowl

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went a long way too. I think subconsciously by

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the Super Bowl, a number of the players on the

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Chiefs were kind of tired of carrying Kelsey's

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ass while he got all the limelight and all the

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attention. Whether they were thinking that out

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loud in their head, I think that was part of

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it. It was like, screw him. Look what he isn't

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doing for us. And okay, so I get to this. And

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write in, 2douches at mail .com if you don't

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like this. I'll read it. I don't care. Hate mail

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goes to the front. Kelsey should have stepped

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down last year. I think so. At least put himself

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second string. Yeah. Yeah. That would have been

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unheard of, wouldn't it? Yeah. For an NFL team.

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It's like, no, no, you can't decide that. No.

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Wow. The thing is, is if you are distracted,

00:14:49.940 --> 00:14:53.059
you're not there to win a championship. You're

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acting like you are. And it's carrying over to

00:14:57.240 --> 00:14:59.950
everyone around you. as well. They're getting

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distracted because you're distracted. They're

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thinking about how you're distracted. You know,

00:15:05.330 --> 00:15:11.289
it's friends. Like I was talking to my boss,

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my boss said this, it's a really good point,

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he said, you think Mahomes can tell him that

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maybe he needs to step down? I said, no. No.

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It's got to be Reid. Yeah. Or Veach. Yeah. Or

00:15:22.289 --> 00:15:25.230
both. If Mahomes is too close to him, he'll never

00:15:25.230 --> 00:15:29.509
do that. Yeah. That would wreck the relationship

00:15:29.509 --> 00:15:33.570
they have, so that would kind of be an all -or

00:15:33.570 --> 00:15:35.929
-nothing situation where Mahomes would have to

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be ready to say goodbye to their relationship.

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I mean, but it's not going to happen. No. I mean,

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number one, Mahomes isn't going to do that. Number

00:15:45.690 --> 00:15:52.049
two, the Chiefs aren't. No. No. Well, I got some

00:15:52.049 --> 00:15:53.570
bullet points if you want to go into that. Love

00:15:53.570 --> 00:15:57.269
the bullet points. Okay. All right. Excuse me.

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This year, the year coming up, the following

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year, will the NFL finally take off overseas?

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You know, I think so. All the signs are pointing

00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:11.059
that way. It's in the new Madden NFL game. They're

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starting to emphasize international stadiums.

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I think you can play some of your games overseas

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now as a part of a regular season in the video

00:16:20.700 --> 00:16:25.379
game. It's being normalized. I kind of don't

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like that term. They're getting us used to the

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idea in a lot of different ways. I think it's

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going to happen a lot sooner than we think. I

00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:43.620
agree. It seemed like it used to be that we would

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kind of be kept aware of things that were developing

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and as they go, but anymore things that just

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kind of get sprung on us. It's like, oh! Here's

00:16:51.419 --> 00:16:53.799
what this is now. Now it's brand new and you've

00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:56.440
got to deal with it. It's like everybody's going

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to have to buy converter boxes again if you watch

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over the air channels. I know, isn't that messed

00:17:01.100 --> 00:17:05.039
up? Yep, they're changing it again. I guess somebody

00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:07.440
wanted to sell digital converter boxes and they

00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:10.220
say, hey, make a law so I can sell a shit ton

00:17:10.220 --> 00:17:11.579
of these things. Yeah, that's all that goes on.

00:17:12.980 --> 00:17:17.960
It's like they wanted to sell the channels when

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they went digital. Yep. They did. Look at all

00:17:22.059 --> 00:17:24.440
that bandwidth we could be making money off of.

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We did. And we got to jump through hoops just

00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:32.420
to get free TV. Yeah. Oh, well. Yep. All right,

00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:38.359
next one. Will it be as big overseas as it is

00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:43.500
in America? Yeah, in a different way, but yeah,

00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:48.460
I think it will. Pretty much everywhere around

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the world, people know how to be fans and how

00:17:51.500 --> 00:17:55.920
to climb on board and have a good time. So it'll

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look a little different from the way Americans

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do it, but it'll be the same type of devotion

00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:06.380
and fandom. Yeah, I think it will be. I think

00:18:06.380 --> 00:18:12.960
you're right. Yeah. Should the NFL try expansion

00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:17.470
in Canada? Wow. You know, I really don't think

00:18:17.470 --> 00:18:22.069
so because that would really put them in an adversarial

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position with the CFL. Yeah. And there's so many

00:18:25.190 --> 00:18:27.769
better ways that the NFL and the CFL can get

00:18:27.769 --> 00:18:32.549
along and feed each other players. I agree. That

00:18:32.549 --> 00:18:35.410
any kind of direct competition, I think, is a

00:18:35.410 --> 00:18:39.109
bad idea. So I would like to see them leaving

00:18:39.109 --> 00:18:44.170
the CFL alone and Canada alone. Yeah. We're not

00:18:44.170 --> 00:18:46.289
going to have a Friday night game for a while.

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Remember how the Chiefs and the Chargers played

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Friday night? Because Labor Day came so soon,

00:18:51.309 --> 00:18:53.630
there weren't high school football games that

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night. Yeah, so they're like, it'd be a good

00:18:54.690 --> 00:18:56.769
time to have a stand -alone, and let's have the

00:18:56.769 --> 00:18:59.569
runners -up, the Chiefs, play a division rival

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who's on the upswing. Yep. But it was at the

00:19:02.750 --> 00:19:08.569
broadcast, it's like the Football Broadcast Act

00:19:08.569 --> 00:19:11.269
or something. It was 1961, anyways, when they

00:19:11.269 --> 00:19:14.049
passed this act. They're not going to broadcast

00:19:14.049 --> 00:19:16.730
professional football games on Friday nights

00:19:16.730 --> 00:19:19.849
to maintain the sanctity of high school football.

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And then the NFL also leaves Saturday alone until

00:19:24.589 --> 00:19:26.390
college football is over, and then they start

00:19:26.390 --> 00:19:28.150
putting Saturday games on. Yeah, as soon as it's

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over and decided and they're waiting for the

00:19:29.890 --> 00:19:31.529
bowl games, you're going to see Saturday games

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all over. So that was an unusual Friday game.

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They're doing pretty good, aren't they? That

00:19:39.230 --> 00:19:44.920
was maybe one. Yum. Yeah, because I expected

00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:47.819
to eat half of that sandwich, not the whole thing,

00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:51.039
so please. I didn't realize there was cheese

00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:55.460
on it. I'm sorry. I tried to. Weird things happen

00:19:55.460 --> 00:20:00.460
to me when I eat dairy. Next time I'll have to

00:20:00.460 --> 00:20:04.200
read the menu a little bit better. What about

00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:07.619
expansion into Mexico? Yeah. I like that. I think

00:20:07.619 --> 00:20:11.279
that would be a great idea. They've had some

00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:14.500
games in Mexico City. Enormous stadium there,

00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:17.480
just enormous. And there are a number of other

00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:19.559
places around the country where they could probably

00:20:19.559 --> 00:20:23.920
support a team. And it's got the benefit of not

00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:27.579
being such a dramatic time zone change if you

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just go north and south. I would say Mexico is

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a pretty good expansion place. I would agree.

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And I think the NFL is also going to try to make

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their expansion into places where people who

00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:50.400
live in that country are likely to wind up on

00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:53.740
the team. You know, if it's a country where,

00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:56.380
like, not just single male, but like in the South

00:20:56.380 --> 00:20:58.160
American country where everybody's a pig meat,

00:20:58.339 --> 00:21:01.079
they're never going to be on an NFL team, so

00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:02.480
they're not going to get a team. They're not

00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:04.099
worried about it. That's the kind of thing I'm

00:21:04.099 --> 00:21:10.910
talking about. I agree. I think Mexico, there

00:21:10.910 --> 00:21:13.529
are such rabid fans down there of sea soccer

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that once it catches on, you're going to have,

00:21:16.690 --> 00:21:18.769
I don't know, they might even be more rabid than

00:21:18.769 --> 00:21:21.789
we are here in America. I think that's the best

00:21:21.789 --> 00:21:24.930
thing that the NFL can do is expand into Mexico

00:21:24.930 --> 00:21:28.430
immediately. I think the physicality of it really

00:21:28.430 --> 00:21:32.950
appeals to certain cultures. It definitely appeals

00:21:32.950 --> 00:21:36.569
to American culture. We like to see the NASCAR

00:21:36.569 --> 00:21:40.410
cars. bumping into each other. We like hockey

00:21:40.410 --> 00:21:43.390
fights. We like the physical part of the sport.

00:21:43.390 --> 00:21:45.529
Hockey fights are the best. So there are a lot

00:21:45.529 --> 00:21:47.930
of other cultures that, you know, they're really

00:21:47.930 --> 00:21:50.829
okay with that level of physicality of the sport.

00:21:52.009 --> 00:21:54.609
I think Mexico is a good choice. I think so,

00:21:54.650 --> 00:21:57.369
too. I think they'll just love it. Well, I mean,

00:21:57.369 --> 00:22:00.150
they already do, but I think if you give them,

00:22:00.230 --> 00:22:04.420
like, the Mexico Marauders or something. Yeah,

00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:08.240
don't have some ridiculous stereotypical lingering

00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:11.640
name like the, oh my god, the Mexican Bandidos.

00:22:11.740 --> 00:22:14.559
The Bandidos. Oh my god, they would probably

00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:16.900
shoot you if you suggested that. That would be

00:22:16.900 --> 00:22:19.859
so awful. But don't put it up to a fan vote or

00:22:19.859 --> 00:22:21.660
it'll wind up being something like that. Yes,

00:22:21.660 --> 00:22:25.980
no, it would. What was that? There was some car

00:22:25.980 --> 00:22:28.779
ferry over in England, I think, and they let

00:22:28.779 --> 00:22:31.319
the public decide whether to be named. The number

00:22:31.319 --> 00:22:36.160
one choice was Bodie McBoatface. And that's what

00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:39.900
they named it. So you don't let the public decide.

00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:43.539
I'll hire a private cat and we're in. I'm not

00:22:43.539 --> 00:22:48.140
riding on Bodie McBoatface. It's like, what was

00:22:48.140 --> 00:22:50.440
it, Men in Black when Tommy Lee Jones said, a

00:22:50.440 --> 00:22:53.039
person is very smart. You can reason with a person.

00:22:53.299 --> 00:22:57.319
People together are stupid. Oh, God. Oh, yeah.

00:22:58.640 --> 00:23:03.900
Yeah. Yeah. And not just a little. Yeah. No,

00:23:03.900 --> 00:23:07.259
the masses are asses. That's a good way to put

00:23:07.259 --> 00:23:10.759
it, too. Yep. I didn't write that one. I'm just

00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:15.720
carrying it on. Yep. All right. Okay, I saved

00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:18.940
this because I want to talk about the Buffalo

00:23:18.940 --> 00:23:26.579
-Valtimore game. Okay. What was big surprises

00:23:26.579 --> 00:23:29.460
from last week's games? And we can go into all

00:23:29.460 --> 00:23:31.279
the other ones that surprised you, but I want

00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:38.500
to end with the Buffalo game. Individual games,

00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:46.000
I was pretty surprised that Indianapolis, would

00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:49.160
they just clobber Miami? Yeah. That was kind

00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:53.640
of a surprise. That was. I was surprised at how

00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:56.380
many close games they were, even badly played

00:23:56.380 --> 00:23:58.900
games. Badly played games seemed to be close,

00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:04.039
yeah. C .D. Lamb having bricks for hands, that

00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:05.839
was a big surprise. Yeah, that was a big surprise.

00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:09.240
How about Green Bay beating the shit out of Detroit?

00:24:09.579 --> 00:24:13.940
Yeah, yeah. I thought that was going to be a

00:24:13.940 --> 00:24:16.819
close competitive game. Remember, we both thought

00:24:16.819 --> 00:24:20.799
that Detroit were on the decline. Yeah. Jared

00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:23.339
Goff is getting older, and he wasn't a guy anymore.

00:24:23.700 --> 00:24:27.140
They desperately, they are desperately needing

00:24:27.140 --> 00:24:31.240
that guy. Yeah, they traded, they lost Ben Johnson

00:24:31.240 --> 00:24:36.480
to be head coach of Chicago. Yeah, yep. Which

00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:38.619
looked like he was no good last night until,

00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:45.799
I don't know, the last three minutes. Yeah. Okay,

00:24:46.099 --> 00:24:49.799
I want to go into... I think we pretty much rattled

00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:54.839
off the biggest surprises right there. One other

00:24:54.839 --> 00:24:59.559
surprise. The new virtual first down measurement,

00:24:59.819 --> 00:25:03.079
I was surprised it worked so well. I know. I

00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:06.259
love that. It's immediate. It's just kind of

00:25:06.259 --> 00:25:09.019
like, yeah, they got it, okay, put it down. That's

00:25:09.019 --> 00:25:10.839
what's nice. You don't have to wait for them

00:25:10.839 --> 00:25:13.740
to stand around and talk and gesture. It's like,

00:25:13.859 --> 00:25:16.109
here it is, that's it. I'm telling you, they

00:25:16.109 --> 00:25:19.049
lost so many viewers during that time. People

00:25:19.049 --> 00:25:22.250
are like, I can never watch a full fucking play

00:25:22.250 --> 00:25:25.930
because something happened. If it's not your

00:25:25.930 --> 00:25:28.069
team, you're leaving. You're like, yeah, I ain't

00:25:28.069 --> 00:25:30.390
taking this. I got other stuff I got to do. Did

00:25:30.390 --> 00:25:32.609
they change the rule on the number of challenges

00:25:32.609 --> 00:25:36.170
you can have in a game? Because in the Denver

00:25:36.170 --> 00:25:38.509
game, I remember them saying that's the fourth

00:25:38.509 --> 00:25:41.589
challenge that Sean Payton has thrown. Now, it

00:25:41.589 --> 00:25:43.569
used to be you would get a third if you won your

00:25:43.569 --> 00:25:45.289
first two. If you won your first two. But I guess

00:25:45.289 --> 00:25:47.450
now you get a fourth if you win your first three.

00:25:48.630 --> 00:25:53.890
I'll have to look that up, but okay. Or maybe

00:25:53.890 --> 00:25:57.049
it's two challenges per half. I don't know. I'll

00:25:57.049 --> 00:25:59.609
have to look up. I didn't see that in any of

00:25:59.609 --> 00:26:02.029
the rules changes that I looked up before the

00:26:02.029 --> 00:26:04.470
beginning of the season. But unless the guy misspoke,

00:26:04.589 --> 00:26:08.599
he said fourth challenge flag. And he had to

00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:10.500
have won the previous three, I guess. He would

00:26:10.500 --> 00:26:12.160
have had to, I guess, because I thought you lose

00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:15.940
one and that's it, game over. Yeah. Oh, well,

00:26:16.019 --> 00:26:21.740
okay. The big surprise for me was I cannot believe,

00:26:21.980 --> 00:26:24.279
okay, well, number one, Buffalo fans, they can

00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:26.519
talk about the Bills Mafia all they want. No.

00:26:26.980 --> 00:26:29.099
No, no, no, no. They're not even close to Chiefs.

00:26:29.779 --> 00:26:33.140
They fucking left. Yeah. Half of that stadium

00:26:33.140 --> 00:26:36.809
almost left. That's crazy. Opening weekend and

00:26:36.809 --> 00:26:38.730
they're walking out on their own team. Close

00:26:38.730 --> 00:26:42.849
game. Crazy. I mean, 25 points to Josh Allen

00:26:42.849 --> 00:26:46.890
is not that much. If you had like a, I don't

00:26:46.890 --> 00:26:49.049
know, a fucking Matt Blunden in there or something,

00:26:49.150 --> 00:26:51.369
or I don't know, you know, a Matt Castle or some

00:26:51.369 --> 00:26:54.609
shit, yeah, you'd probably leave. But we're talking

00:26:54.609 --> 00:26:56.950
about... Someone that's probably going to be

00:26:56.950 --> 00:27:00.069
a Hall of Famer. I would imagine so. He would

00:27:00.069 --> 00:27:02.190
have to screw up pretty bad not to be. Yeah,

00:27:02.190 --> 00:27:04.390
he would. And, you know, if there's like an ice

00:27:04.390 --> 00:27:07.410
storm coming, I get it, leave early. But seriously,

00:27:07.670 --> 00:27:09.809
to walk out on your team like that. No, they

00:27:09.809 --> 00:27:11.529
were being little bitches is what they were doing.

00:27:11.569 --> 00:27:12.849
They were being little bitches. They were like,

00:27:12.910 --> 00:27:15.049
hey, you guys aren't winning, so fuck you, I'm

00:27:15.049 --> 00:27:16.829
leaving. They were not supporting their team

00:27:16.829 --> 00:27:19.210
like they're supposed to. Maybe reconsider if

00:27:19.210 --> 00:27:21.069
you really want to be a season ticket holder

00:27:21.069 --> 00:27:23.690
if that's what you're going to do. Exactly. I'm

00:27:23.690 --> 00:27:28.069
telling you, those people should pull their fucking

00:27:28.069 --> 00:27:30.470
tickets. They should say, no, you're not a real

00:27:30.470 --> 00:27:33.130
fan. We don't need you guys here. That's probably

00:27:33.130 --> 00:27:35.509
going to come eventually is when you buy a season

00:27:35.509 --> 00:27:37.890
ticket. You guarantee to fill that seat until

00:27:37.890 --> 00:27:42.710
the game's over. And since they have face recognition

00:27:42.710 --> 00:27:46.670
in all NFL stadiums, they can look and see who's

00:27:46.670 --> 00:27:49.730
sitting in your seat, if anybody. And they can

00:27:49.730 --> 00:27:52.509
single anybody out and say, you are out of your

00:27:52.509 --> 00:27:54.750
seat 78 % of the time. That makes the stands

00:27:54.750 --> 00:27:57.609
look too empty. So we're not renewing your season

00:27:57.609 --> 00:27:59.789
ticket next year. We're going to sell it to somebody

00:27:59.789 --> 00:28:01.450
who guarantees to be in their seat a lot more.

00:28:02.309 --> 00:28:05.490
It's coming. It'll be here. The thing I want

00:28:05.490 --> 00:28:06.950
to point out is this right here, a couple of

00:28:06.950 --> 00:28:10.150
things. Okay, Buffalo. No, I'm sure that's coming.

00:28:10.509 --> 00:28:13.950
Okay, Buffalo was excited about their win. They

00:28:13.950 --> 00:28:18.599
gave up 170 yards to Travis Henry. Yeah. They

00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:26.819
gave up 70 yards to Lamar Jackson. Well into

00:28:26.819 --> 00:28:31.119
the twos. And they gave up 40 points. And they're

00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:35.880
ecstatic about that showing. They should be grateful

00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:40.160
they got away with a win. But really, really

00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:42.259
worried about their offense, their defense. Their

00:28:42.259 --> 00:28:46.809
defense, yeah. And Bill's Mafia, shut your fucking

00:28:46.809 --> 00:28:51.630
mouth. Shut your fucking mouth. You guys should

00:28:51.630 --> 00:28:55.289
be ashamed. Zay Flowers torched him pretty good.

00:28:55.390 --> 00:29:00.569
Oh, he hit. That was fun to watch. That was fun

00:29:00.569 --> 00:29:03.589
to watch because he was everywhere. I mean, you

00:29:03.589 --> 00:29:05.529
just see that hand. He's like, oh, he got another

00:29:05.529 --> 00:29:10.470
one. See a hand again. Oh, got another one. I've

00:29:10.470 --> 00:29:13.509
been a fan of his ever since his foot went over

00:29:13.509 --> 00:29:18.390
the line last year. When he didn't wear white

00:29:18.390 --> 00:29:20.630
shoes. When he didn't wear white shoes. And he

00:29:20.630 --> 00:29:26.890
still doesn't. No. Oh, well. All right. My next

00:29:26.890 --> 00:29:33.809
one. I mean, both teams are on notice after those

00:29:33.809 --> 00:29:38.500
dismal. Yeah. Performances. Yeah. When I watch

00:29:38.500 --> 00:29:41.759
them, I'm like, you know, go Chiefs. You know,

00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:46.240
if these two are your main competition, I'm okay

00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:50.259
with that. Although early in the game, I did

00:29:50.259 --> 00:29:53.359
catch myself thinking, the way I saw the Chiefs

00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:56.180
perform, they would be outscored so badly by

00:29:56.180 --> 00:30:00.299
either one of these teams. You see, I could think

00:30:00.299 --> 00:30:02.160
like that too, but then I think of their defense

00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:05.359
and how bad it was. And I think the Chiefs would

00:30:05.359 --> 00:30:08.960
keep up with them just fine. Yeah, yeah. I guess

00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:12.000
I was just feeling gloomy. Well, it was easy

00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:17.039
to do after that. I mean, they were like Keystone

00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:22.339
Cops. Yeah, there was not just, I mean, it wasn't

00:30:22.339 --> 00:30:25.819
bad play calls. It was bad execution of the play

00:30:25.819 --> 00:30:31.019
they called. Yeah. A little more than you would

00:30:31.019 --> 00:30:33.839
normally expect in a week one game. That's kind

00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:38.359
of my point. Here's what I say about this. I'd

00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:40.640
better see massive improvement on that second

00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:43.740
game. Heck yeah. Even if we don't win against

00:30:43.740 --> 00:30:45.859
the Eagles, I want to see a much better play.

00:30:46.099 --> 00:30:51.660
Yeah, and if not, then I don't know. Yeah. An

00:30:51.660 --> 00:30:55.440
0 -2 start isn't necessarily anything. Not for

00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:59.319
these guys. Yeah, but 0 -2 playing badly. That's

00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:01.759
another thing. Yeah. Your pedigree is only going

00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:06.279
to take you so far. Yeah. So, okay. We're in

00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:09.039
agreement on all that. All right, next one. Should

00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:12.920
Gardner Minshew be arrested for assault when

00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:14.960
the camera catches him in those horrible booty

00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:18.539
shorts? Yes. I agree. That's a crime against

00:31:18.539 --> 00:31:22.339
everyone's retinas. It is. It is. Especially

00:31:22.339 --> 00:31:24.579
with the porn stash he's got. Oh, gosh, yeah.

00:31:24.619 --> 00:31:29.140
That just enhances it on creepy and weird. I

00:31:29.140 --> 00:31:32.220
never want to see Gardner Minshew eating a pickle.

00:31:32.359 --> 00:31:37.160
That would just be disgusting. With fig leaves

00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:48.119
all around him. I can see him right now. Oh my

00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:54.079
gosh. Pickle disappeared. It's back out again.

00:31:55.470 --> 00:31:58.390
It's a happy pickle. Look at that pickle. It's

00:31:58.390 --> 00:32:03.769
quite a wreck. Oh my God. All right. Okay. And

00:32:03.769 --> 00:32:08.869
moving on. Thank you. Yes. What is the face of

00:32:08.869 --> 00:32:11.869
football food -wise? What would you say is a

00:32:11.869 --> 00:32:15.670
go -to? Is it nachos? Is it wings? Is it good

00:32:15.670 --> 00:32:18.400
old cheeseburgers? You know, I'm a little out

00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:20.259
of touch. I haven't been to a game in so long.

00:32:20.339 --> 00:32:22.680
I would think it would be nachos, especially

00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:25.359
this early in the season. Okay, at the game,

00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:28.640
nachos. Yeah, at the game, yeah. Tailgating,

00:32:28.740 --> 00:32:32.819
brisket, and wings. Yeah, I would say that's

00:32:32.819 --> 00:32:35.519
pretty much. I mean, it used to just be wings,

00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:38.940
but now you see everybody in their huge portable

00:32:38.940 --> 00:32:42.380
pits doing briskets. Yeah, the game is really.

00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:46.000
It was really elevated. It used to be burgers

00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:48.740
and hot dogs were fine. And if you had beans,

00:32:48.740 --> 00:32:51.640
you're like, pretty cool. And then brats were

00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:55.220
the big thing. And then chickens. But yeah, now

00:32:55.220 --> 00:32:57.700
the more complex and difficult things to cook

00:32:57.700 --> 00:33:02.559
is pretty common. Because it's a way to flex

00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:05.240
to everyone around you. Like what I can do. Yeah,

00:33:05.259 --> 00:33:08.079
you've got your own slicer and generator. You're

00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:12.019
over there slicing up the brisket. And that is

00:33:12.019 --> 00:33:15.079
another reason that I'm pretty positive the Chiefs

00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:19.160
are going to move to Kansas, their new stadium,

00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:22.920
is because that's the only way that you can break

00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:25.799
the tailgating tradition and make people start

00:33:25.799 --> 00:33:29.119
paying for it. Yes. Because that is the future

00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:31.500
of tailgating at all these places. They're tired

00:33:31.500 --> 00:33:34.299
of the liability insurance, people suing because

00:33:34.299 --> 00:33:37.039
they got hurt or a car got dinged. So they're

00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:38.599
going to do what Cleveland's doing, is have a

00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:41.200
tailgating area, and you pay a season pass to

00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:43.900
have access to it, and it is tightly controlled.

00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:47.779
That's what tailgating is going to be, and it's

00:33:47.779 --> 00:33:49.460
going to be take it or leave it. It's already

00:33:49.460 --> 00:33:52.660
started with your article about Cleveland Browns.

00:33:52.660 --> 00:33:55.759
Yeah. It's already started. If they tried to

00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:57.619
enforce it right now at Arrowhead, everyone would

00:33:57.619 --> 00:33:58.960
just laugh at them and do what they're doing

00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:01.500
anyway. But if it's a brand -new stadium in a

00:34:01.500 --> 00:34:04.599
new location, they can make it work. and they

00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:07.500
can rake in tons of money in addition to not

00:34:07.500 --> 00:34:10.880
having to pay so much liability claims. I agree.

00:34:11.099 --> 00:34:14.679
Yeah. Good point. What is the toughest division

00:34:14.679 --> 00:34:21.320
in the NFL? Ooh. I'm going to say the West. I'm

00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:23.440
going to say AFC West right now, yeah, because

00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:26.519
they showed that the head coaches in the AFC

00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:29.800
West have ten Super Bowl wins between them. Yeah.

00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:32.800
That's pretty good. Of course, six of them are

00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:37.440
Andes. Yeah. Well, I mean, not wins, but appearances

00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:41.119
at least. Appearances, yeah. But I'm trying to

00:34:41.119 --> 00:34:44.519
think. Well, we went from a division of slouches,

00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:47.099
except for the Chiefs, to the premier division.

00:34:47.380 --> 00:34:50.139
And the reason is because of the Chiefs. Yeah.

00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:52.780
They're getting tired of losing to them. So,

00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.900
number one, they hire a coach who's either been

00:34:55.900 --> 00:34:58.539
to the Super Bowl and won it or been to the Super

00:34:58.539 --> 00:35:00.480
Bowl and could have won it. Yeah. And that's

00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:02.199
where you get Jim Harbaugh, who's been to the

00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:05.570
Super Bowl and lost to his brother. But, I mean,

00:35:05.630 --> 00:35:08.010
it wasn't a blowout by any means. He was okay,

00:35:08.090 --> 00:35:10.610
but he had a couple of fair quarterbacks, not

00:35:10.610 --> 00:35:14.289
the best. So Jim Harbaugh is definitely in his

00:35:14.289 --> 00:35:18.010
national championships in college. He's no slouch.

00:35:18.409 --> 00:35:21.590
Yeah, it's a whole championship -winning tradition

00:35:21.590 --> 00:35:27.570
from beginning to pro. That's the AFC's steeped

00:35:27.570 --> 00:35:30.869
in that. Pete Carroll is a head coach, two Super

00:35:30.869 --> 00:35:35.340
Bowls, one win. Yeah. And then after that, you

00:35:35.340 --> 00:35:38.079
have Sean Payton, who has a couple of Super Bowls

00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:44.199
and one win. So yeah, I mean, they had to beef

00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:46.579
up their teams and who they have running them

00:35:46.579 --> 00:35:48.900
because of the Chiefs. And that's why it's the

00:35:48.900 --> 00:35:51.420
toughest division in football. Yeah, I'd say

00:35:51.420 --> 00:35:54.079
right now it is. Yeah. There's other ones that

00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:56.619
could challenge, and I'm sure that someone will.

00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:00.260
It'll be close, if not, might take it over. But

00:36:00.260 --> 00:36:03.329
we'll see what happens with that. A couple NFC

00:36:03.329 --> 00:36:05.550
ones look like they're going to shape up to be

00:36:05.550 --> 00:36:09.050
a pretty good fight. Yeah, yeah. I would imagine

00:36:09.050 --> 00:36:13.730
the NFC East would be my pick. Disregard the

00:36:13.730 --> 00:36:15.849
Giants, but I think the Eagles, Cowboys, and

00:36:15.849 --> 00:36:18.190
Commanders could all really slug it out to the

00:36:18.190 --> 00:36:20.030
end. That's the East that I'm talking about.

00:36:20.070 --> 00:36:23.349
That's the division I think that, I mean, you

00:36:23.349 --> 00:36:25.230
could make a case, and it could be the toughest

00:36:25.230 --> 00:36:30.239
division right now. If the Cowboys keep playing

00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:31.960
like they are, then we might have to give it

00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:33.199
to them. But right now, I'm going to go ahead

00:36:33.199 --> 00:36:35.739
and go with the West. Yeah, yeah. Unless one

00:36:35.739 --> 00:36:38.059
of the teams in the AFC West starts to fade and

00:36:38.059 --> 00:36:41.260
has no realistic chance, then we might reevaluate.

00:36:41.400 --> 00:36:43.099
Yeah, but right now we expect all of them to

00:36:43.099 --> 00:36:46.199
be 500 or above. Yeah. Which is quite a feat.

00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:50.400
Yeah, that doesn't happen too often. Yeah. I

00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:51.900
think this year and the year we're going to see

00:36:51.900 --> 00:36:54.940
it happen, you're going to see like a 10 -16.

00:36:55.840 --> 00:36:59.119
Not even close. Wow, that'd be interesting. But

00:36:59.119 --> 00:37:01.940
now that I said that, you watch. Everyone's going

00:37:01.940 --> 00:37:05.619
to be mediocre. The algorithm at NFL headquarters

00:37:05.619 --> 00:37:08.400
is spinning into action and saying, hey, we can't

00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:12.780
make this guy right. Nope, nope, nope. All right.

00:37:13.380 --> 00:37:15.820
If the NFL came out with Chiefs beer, would you

00:37:15.820 --> 00:37:19.679
buy some? Yeah. I would, too. I wouldn't drink

00:37:19.679 --> 00:37:22.659
it. I'd keep it. I wonder if it would be a red

00:37:22.659 --> 00:37:25.730
beer. I would hope so. Like an amber or red beer.

00:37:25.809 --> 00:37:29.570
An amber or red, yeah. You could call it Chief's

00:37:29.570 --> 00:37:32.409
Blood. Have a six -pack where three are red and

00:37:32.409 --> 00:37:35.550
three are gold. Oh, there we go. That would be

00:37:35.550 --> 00:37:37.429
perfect. They could call it the red and gold

00:37:37.429 --> 00:37:42.869
bar. Yeah. I like that idea. I do, too. Hey,

00:37:42.949 --> 00:37:45.409
free idea. Take it, run with it. Yeah, there

00:37:45.409 --> 00:37:49.210
you go. And finally, if the NFL were a car, what

00:37:49.210 --> 00:37:53.590
type of car would it be? Ooh. I'm going to say

00:37:53.590 --> 00:37:57.889
a Tesla because as shiny as it looks, when you

00:37:57.889 --> 00:38:00.949
get up close, sometimes it's like it loses its

00:38:00.949 --> 00:38:05.130
luster. Yeah, yeah. I would say along those same

00:38:05.130 --> 00:38:08.969
lines like a Range Rover because it can plow

00:38:08.969 --> 00:38:13.909
you over and wreck your whole day, but it also

00:38:13.909 --> 00:38:17.409
breaks pretty easily. That's actually probably

00:38:17.409 --> 00:38:19.949
a better one. Okay, we'll go with that. Okay.

00:38:20.010 --> 00:38:24.960
All right. I've got some game analysis. You got

00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:27.820
something you want me to go into that? I've got

00:38:27.820 --> 00:38:31.079
stuff left over from last week mostly. All right,

00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:40.599
cool. I had the SAC leaders. Okay. Since 2000.

00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:47.139
They didn't start. Officially counting sacks

00:38:47.139 --> 00:38:50.039
until 1982. I know, isn't that weird? Yeah, they

00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:52.059
would talk about them endlessly, but it wasn't

00:38:52.059 --> 00:38:55.719
the staff that was kept. That still freaks me

00:38:55.719 --> 00:39:02.980
out. But they did go back to like 1961. Oh, and

00:39:02.980 --> 00:39:06.639
re -looked at them? Yeah. But I wrote down the

00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:09.579
ones from 2000 on, and then I'll mention some

00:39:09.579 --> 00:39:11.559
of the highlights from the earlier ones. Okay.

00:39:11.800 --> 00:39:14.619
So in the year 2000, the sack leader was Leroy

00:39:14.619 --> 00:39:18.610
Glover. New Orleans Saints. Okay. Played 17 games

00:39:18.610 --> 00:39:23.650
and 16 sacks. Okay. The very next year, 2001,

00:39:23.909 --> 00:39:28.130
Michael Strahan. Oh, I'm sorry. I got it backwards.

00:39:28.269 --> 00:39:32.050
17 sacks and 16 games. Oh, okay. Back then they

00:39:32.050 --> 00:39:33.969
were only playing 16. Oh, yeah. Okay, Michael

00:39:33.969 --> 00:39:38.880
Strahan, 22 and a half sacks in 16 games. In

00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:42.500
2002, Jason Taylor. Remember him? Yeah. Big tall

00:39:42.500 --> 00:39:46.079
guy. Yeah, I do. 18 .5 sacks in 18 games for

00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:51.079
the Dolphins. 2003, Strahan again, 18 .5 in 16.

00:39:51.619 --> 00:39:56.699
Maybe Giants, I forgot. 2004, Dwight Freeney

00:39:56.699 --> 00:39:59.639
from the Colts. I remember him. 16 sacks in 16

00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:05.239
games. He was a terror. Yes, he was. 2005. Oakland

00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:08.940
Raiders, Derek Burgess. He was 16 and 16. Derek

00:40:08.940 --> 00:40:11.260
Burgess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember him a little

00:40:11.260 --> 00:40:12.679
bit. I kind of vaguely remember him. I remember

00:40:12.679 --> 00:40:15.300
him a little bit. Yeah. It's nice to see Oakland

00:40:15.300 --> 00:40:18.840
Raiders. Yeah, it is. Yep. They're still Oakland

00:40:18.840 --> 00:40:23.460
to me. Yeah. And I still hate them. 2006, Sean

00:40:23.460 --> 00:40:26.579
Merriman from the San Diego Chargers. Oh, jeez.

00:40:26.639 --> 00:40:30.739
I remember him, too. 17 sacks in 12 games. That's

00:40:30.739 --> 00:40:32.079
pretty good production. Wow, that's real good

00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:35.679
production. Yeah. I was reminded yesterday that

00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:38.760
when the AFL started, the Chargers were in Los

00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:42.300
Angeles. That is where they started. And then

00:40:42.300 --> 00:40:44.300
they moved to San Diego. Yeah, they put them

00:40:44.300 --> 00:40:47.260
in Los Angeles to compete with the NFL team that

00:40:47.260 --> 00:40:49.159
was there. I think it was the Rams at the time.

00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:51.539
Oh, I think I remember that. Yeah, you know what?

00:40:51.579 --> 00:40:54.059
Okay, so then they're back home now. Yeah, that's

00:40:54.059 --> 00:40:57.119
why the Dallas Texans, which later became the

00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:00.440
Chiefs, were put in Dallas was because the NFL

00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:04.389
was going to put a team there. delaying it, and

00:41:04.389 --> 00:41:06.309
as soon as the AFL said, we'll put one there,

00:41:06.429 --> 00:41:08.449
then the NFL said, okay, we are too, and they're

00:41:08.449 --> 00:41:11.250
the Cowboys. Yeah. And they did the same thing

00:41:11.250 --> 00:41:13.329
in Minnesota. The AFL was going to put a team

00:41:13.329 --> 00:41:15.590
in Minnesota, so the NFL stepped in and gave

00:41:15.590 --> 00:41:18.789
them the Vikings to shut us out. Yeah. It was

00:41:18.789 --> 00:41:21.650
a real war back then. Yeah, it was a war back

00:41:21.650 --> 00:41:26.610
then. It was amazing. Let's see, 2007, Jared

00:41:26.610 --> 00:41:29.489
Allen for the Kansas City Chiefs, 15 and a half

00:41:29.489 --> 00:41:32.610
sacks in 14 games. Wow. I didn't remember that

00:41:32.610 --> 00:41:34.969
he was sack leader that year. I didn't either

00:41:34.969 --> 00:41:37.590
in 14 games, 15 and a half. That's pretty good.

00:41:38.369 --> 00:41:41.690
2008, Demarcus Ware for the Cowboys, 20 sacks

00:41:41.690 --> 00:41:44.670
in 16 games. I didn't know Ware got that many.

00:41:45.050 --> 00:41:49.570
2009, Elvis Dumerville. Remember Elvis? Oh, yeah,

00:41:49.690 --> 00:41:53.070
yeah, I sure do. Denver Broncos, 17 sacks in

00:41:53.070 --> 00:41:59.030
16 games. Yeah, he was a beast. 2010, Demarcus

00:41:59.030 --> 00:42:03.449
Ware again for the Cowboys, 15 .5 in 16. 2011,

00:42:03.989 --> 00:42:07.329
here's Jared Allen again with 22 in 16 games,

00:42:07.389 --> 00:42:10.630
but this time it's for the Vikings. He was no

00:42:10.630 --> 00:42:12.889
longer a team. Oh, that's right. They traded

00:42:12.889 --> 00:42:17.730
him, yep. 2012, J .J. Watt, 20 .5 for the Houston

00:42:17.730 --> 00:42:22.630
Texans. 2013, Robert Mathis for the Colts with

00:42:22.630 --> 00:42:26.630
19 .5. Okay. Colts had some pretty decent defenses

00:42:26.630 --> 00:42:28.409
there for a while. They really did, and they

00:42:28.409 --> 00:42:30.289
may have another really good defense on their

00:42:30.289 --> 00:42:34.250
hands too. We shall see, yes. 2014, Justin Houston,

00:42:34.510 --> 00:42:38.110
22 sacks for the Chiefs. I remember that year.

00:42:38.550 --> 00:42:40.949
We didn't do anything else well, but he sacks

00:42:40.949 --> 00:42:45.590
people. 2015, J .J. Watt again with 17 .5 for

00:42:45.590 --> 00:42:50.530
the Texans. 2016, Vic Beasley with 15 .5 for

00:42:50.530 --> 00:42:55.349
the Falcons. Wow. Okay. 2017, Chandler Jones

00:42:55.349 --> 00:42:59.630
with 17 sacks for the Cardinals. Okay. I remember

00:42:59.630 --> 00:43:04.090
the Chandler part. Yeah. Yep. 2018, Aaron Donald

00:43:04.090 --> 00:43:09.090
for the Rams with 20 .5. 2019, Shaquille Barrett

00:43:09.090 --> 00:43:15.079
for the Buccaneers with 19 .5. Okay. 2020, TJ

00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:18.539
Watt with 15 for the Steelers in 15 games. And

00:43:18.539 --> 00:43:22.280
then next year, also TJ Watt with 22 .5 in 15

00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:29.900
games. Wow. 2022 was Nick Bosa, 18 .5 in 16 games

00:43:29.900 --> 00:43:34.820
for the Niners. 2023, TJ Watt for the third time,

00:43:34.980 --> 00:43:37.880
19 sacks in 17 games for the Steelers. I didn't

00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:41.420
realize TJ was so dominant. Yeah, a lot of sacks,

00:43:41.519 --> 00:43:45.590
a lot of sacks. In 2024, Trey Hendrickson, 17

00:43:45.590 --> 00:43:49.409
.5 for the Bengals. That's why he wanted the

00:43:49.409 --> 00:43:52.670
big contract. He said, I'm sack leader now. I

00:43:52.670 --> 00:43:56.110
want the money. Hey, I'm happy. Somebody sawing

00:43:56.110 --> 00:43:59.789
my leg off. Sorry about that. Hang on. Did you

00:43:59.789 --> 00:44:02.130
just saw someone else's leg off? No, thank you.

00:44:02.889 --> 00:44:08.699
But looking back over the older stats. 1978,

00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:12.280
Al Baker of the Lions had 23 sacks in the season.

00:44:13.820 --> 00:44:17.099
Wow. That's pretty good. Yeah, it is. Didn't

00:44:17.099 --> 00:44:20.059
Strahan have the record? Michael Strahan? Yeah,

00:44:20.260 --> 00:44:22.719
22 and a half, I think. That's what I was thinking.

00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:29.940
Then Derek Thomas in 1990 had 20 in 15 games,

00:44:29.980 --> 00:44:33.179
and he was the sack leader that year. Wow. And

00:44:33.179 --> 00:44:37.139
in 1993, Neal Smith... was the stack leader with

00:44:37.139 --> 00:44:40.320
15 and 16 kids. Isn't that something, those two?

00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:43.820
They're all, I mean, I love the way they operated.

00:44:43.960 --> 00:44:46.320
One or the other is going to get you. Yeah, pretty

00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:53.340
much. I'm hoping Carl Altus and Jones can play

00:44:53.340 --> 00:44:56.679
more on the same, to where they can do something

00:44:56.679 --> 00:44:59.039
like that. Yeah, coordinated attack. Coordinated

00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:02.320
attack. Yeah. But the coordinated attacks...

00:45:03.079 --> 00:45:05.179
aren't really done by the linebackers so much

00:45:05.179 --> 00:45:07.420
anymore like they used to be. The game has changed

00:45:07.420 --> 00:45:10.519
so much where it's not really – it doesn't happen

00:45:10.519 --> 00:45:12.260
like that, but I'm sure they can do things a

00:45:12.260 --> 00:45:13.699
little bit differently. But anyhow, go ahead.

00:45:14.340 --> 00:45:16.239
Well, that was it for the sack leaders, but I

00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:18.579
do have a list of forgotten quarterbacks of the

00:45:18.579 --> 00:45:22.099
2000s. All right, let's hear it. All right. Chad

00:45:22.099 --> 00:45:24.460
Pennington. Remember him for the Jets? Oh, yeah.

00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:27.019
Yeah. He couldn't stay healthy. That was pretty

00:45:27.019 --> 00:45:29.659
much his thing. And he did play well when he

00:45:29.659 --> 00:45:32.989
was in there. Yeah. Yeah. Here's another good

00:45:32.989 --> 00:45:36.010
one. Seneca Wallace for the Seahawks. Remember

00:45:36.010 --> 00:45:39.170
him? I remember that guy. He wound up pretty

00:45:39.170 --> 00:45:41.570
much being a perennial backup QB because he could

00:45:41.570 --> 00:45:44.389
scramble. I sat on a plane with him one time.

00:45:44.570 --> 00:45:46.989
Oh, nice. He was nice as pie. Really, really

00:45:46.989 --> 00:45:51.869
nice. Let's see. Remember Jesse Palmer for the

00:45:51.869 --> 00:45:57.630
Giants? Yes. 0 -3 in three starts. That's his

00:45:57.630 --> 00:46:03.489
career. Wow. Damn. Achilles Smith for the Bengals.

00:46:03.610 --> 00:46:06.570
Oh, yeah. Yeah, he couldn't stay healthy. No?

00:46:06.690 --> 00:46:09.110
Yeah, I remember he got a knee blown out in his

00:46:09.110 --> 00:46:13.210
first year. That was terrible. Here's another

00:46:13.210 --> 00:46:16.110
good name for the pass. Jay Fiedler from the

00:46:16.110 --> 00:46:20.610
Dolphins. Oh, yeah. He averaged 12 starts per

00:46:20.610 --> 00:46:26.750
year in five years. Wow. 12 starts in five years.

00:46:26.769 --> 00:46:29.550
That's a lot. Yeah. Not so good. Jay Fiedler.

00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:33.320
Sean King of the Bucks. Remember him? He went

00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:36.199
to the NFC Championship game as a rookie and

00:46:36.199 --> 00:46:40.219
then never climbed that hill again. Sean King.

00:46:41.559 --> 00:46:43.980
I don't even know if I remember him. I kind of

00:46:43.980 --> 00:46:47.340
remember him. I remember him being a little bigger

00:46:47.340 --> 00:46:50.900
and taller than a lot of quarterbacks. Okay.

00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:55.920
Oh, well. All right. All right. Gus Farratt.

00:46:56.260 --> 00:46:58.760
Oh, yeah. Remember Gus Farratt? Yeah. Vikings,

00:46:58.900 --> 00:47:02.840
Commanders, and Dolphins. He averaged nine starts

00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:05.880
per year during his career. That's more than

00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:09.099
I thought of. Yeah. But he was never the full

00:47:09.099 --> 00:47:12.400
season starter. Wow. And he just became a perennial

00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:16.039
backup. Okay. Which, you know, if it's the choice

00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:18.099
between being a perennial backup and not having

00:47:18.099 --> 00:47:21.219
a career in the league, a lot of guys would be

00:47:21.219 --> 00:47:23.440
okay with being a backup. You're right. Yep.

00:47:24.710 --> 00:47:30.989
A .J. Feely. Oh, yeah. He played for the Eagles.

00:47:31.210 --> 00:47:35.429
In his 12 -year career, he only started 18 games.

00:47:36.329 --> 00:47:39.489
Wow. For a name that was so prolific, I mean,

00:47:39.489 --> 00:47:41.429
I believe it, but it seems like he would have

00:47:41.429 --> 00:47:44.670
started more than that. Yeah. Okay. That's like

00:47:44.670 --> 00:47:49.630
starting three games every two years. Damn. You

00:47:49.630 --> 00:47:51.750
know what? I'm sure his check didn't bounce.

00:47:51.969 --> 00:47:56.719
Yeah. Charlie Batch played for the Steelers and

00:47:56.719 --> 00:48:01.699
the Lions. He averaged seven games and five starts

00:48:01.699 --> 00:48:06.539
per year in his 12 -year season. Charlie Batch

00:48:06.539 --> 00:48:08.199
was actually really good for a while. I remember

00:48:08.199 --> 00:48:10.039
he had a story like his brother was murdered

00:48:10.039 --> 00:48:12.280
or something. Yeah, he had a good origin story

00:48:12.280 --> 00:48:16.460
for sure. He never threw for more than 13 touchdowns

00:48:16.460 --> 00:48:19.039
in a season. I can believe that. Yeah, he wasn't

00:48:19.039 --> 00:48:20.960
really that kind of quarterback anyway. Did he

00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:23.519
have Sanders also, though? Did he have Barry

00:48:23.519 --> 00:48:28.239
Sanders still? I think so. He just gave the ball

00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:30.960
to him and said, hey, see this ball? Put it over

00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:33.659
there. Okay. Here's another good name for the

00:48:33.659 --> 00:48:37.320
pass. Joey Harrington. Oh, my gosh. Joey Herringbone.

00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:41.239
Played for the Lions and the Dolphins. Over the

00:48:41.239 --> 00:48:45.349
course of a month. Over the course of his career,

00:48:46.150 --> 00:48:49.090
he has more interceptions than touchdowns. I

00:48:49.090 --> 00:48:52.269
can believe that. More losses than wins. I can

00:48:52.269 --> 00:48:56.349
believe that. And in 2003, he led the league

00:48:56.349 --> 00:49:00.590
with 22 interceptions. I can believe that. Joey

00:49:00.590 --> 00:49:03.510
was great in college, couldn't make the transition.

00:49:03.750 --> 00:49:08.969
And that happened. Yeah, a lot. Here's another

00:49:08.969 --> 00:49:12.170
fun name, Chris Winkie. Winky. Remember Winky?

00:49:12.250 --> 00:49:15.909
Yeah, I remember Winky. He was a 49er. Went 1

00:49:15.909 --> 00:49:19.869
-14 his rookie season. Oh, yeah. And then in

00:49:19.869 --> 00:49:23.050
the next five, in the next six years, he only

00:49:23.050 --> 00:49:26.610
had five more starts. Yeah. And he went 1 -4

00:49:26.610 --> 00:49:34.119
in those. So his overall career was 2 -18. No

00:49:34.119 --> 00:49:36.519
wonder you didn't even see him as a backup. No.

00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:40.440
No, he took his money and went to insurance school.

00:49:40.619 --> 00:49:43.039
Yeah. He's selling insurance right now. Yeah,

00:49:43.059 --> 00:49:45.820
the vague impression I remember from his career

00:49:45.820 --> 00:49:48.400
was you put any pressure on him and he just starts

00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:50.539
doing stupid things. Yeah, that's all you do.

00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:54.800
You spit in his face. Yeah. All right, J .P.

00:49:54.860 --> 00:49:57.969
Lossman for the Bills. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's

00:49:57.969 --> 00:50:01.190
kind of vague. He went 10 and 23 in his first

00:50:01.190 --> 00:50:04.690
five seasons. Okay. Then he threw 19 touchdowns

00:50:04.690 --> 00:50:07.670
and 3 ,000 yards his next and final year starting.

00:50:09.010 --> 00:50:12.329
That's respectable. Yeah. He started that year,

00:50:12.429 --> 00:50:14.369
but that was the last year he started. All of

00:50:14.369 --> 00:50:16.530
a sudden he was done. They must have gotten somebody

00:50:16.530 --> 00:50:21.469
else. I guess so. Yeah. All right. Another Bills

00:50:21.469 --> 00:50:25.250
quarterback, Trent Edwards. I remember him. Started

00:50:25.250 --> 00:50:28.730
15 games in his first two seasons, never went

00:50:28.730 --> 00:50:31.650
to the playoffs, no more than 11. Playoffs, playoffs.

00:50:32.349 --> 00:50:34.690
Never more than 11 touchdowns in the season.

00:50:35.650 --> 00:50:38.769
That's pretty pedestrian. That is very. That's

00:50:38.769 --> 00:50:41.110
not really pedestrian, that's an old person in

00:50:41.110 --> 00:50:44.329
a walker. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's someone

00:50:44.329 --> 00:50:49.400
in the last stages of ALS. Yeah. Sage Rosenfels

00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:53.800
for the Texans. He was another that was really

00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:56.159
tall but didn't help him much. He was a mess,

00:50:56.199 --> 00:50:58.900
though. Started 12 games in his whole career,

00:50:58.980 --> 00:51:04.380
went 6 -6. Him being 500, I find quite surprising.

00:51:04.539 --> 00:51:07.480
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, he didn't have a whole

00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:11.000
lot to offer, honestly. He really didn't. Former

00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:14.460
Browns quarterback, Charlie Fry. Oh, yeah, wow.

00:51:14.539 --> 00:51:17.789
Fry with an E on the end. Yep. In five years,

00:51:17.949 --> 00:51:22.449
he played in 26 total games, started 23 of those,

00:51:22.650 --> 00:51:27.469
and in 2006 threw 10 touchdowns to 17 interceptions.

00:51:28.210 --> 00:51:30.389
So they didn't use him much, and when they did,

00:51:30.389 --> 00:51:32.409
he didn't do well. So his brother Glenn had a

00:51:32.409 --> 00:51:34.929
better career. Definitely. Yeah, Glenn Frey.

00:51:35.050 --> 00:51:36.789
He should have picked up guitar like his brother.

00:51:36.789 --> 00:51:42.650
Yeah, he should have, yes. Bruce Gradkowski for

00:51:42.650 --> 00:51:47.719
the Bucs. Yes, yeah, yeah. Gradkowski. With a

00:51:47.719 --> 00:51:49.920
name like that, you would think a Steelers linebacker,

00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:54.400
don't you? Yeah, or Gronkowski or something like

00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:59.360
that. The Steelers have a player named Squaronic

00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:02.619
or something like that. Wow, try to say that

00:52:02.619 --> 00:52:06.699
when you're drunk. That should be their sobriety

00:52:06.699 --> 00:52:09.440
test. It's like, hey, start saying the names

00:52:09.440 --> 00:52:13.259
of all the players on the Steelers roster. Here

00:52:13.259 --> 00:52:16.099
we go. Babble snatch. Babble snatch. Get ready

00:52:16.099 --> 00:52:19.019
to say that. Babble snatch. I'm going to turn

00:52:19.019 --> 00:52:21.780
our game down a little bit. I'm overloading.

00:52:21.780 --> 00:52:23.599
As soon as you say babble snatch, that's it.

00:52:23.639 --> 00:52:29.000
You hear a cuffs. Okay. Brad Kowski. He went

00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:35.500
3 -8 in 2006. Never started more than four games

00:52:35.500 --> 00:52:39.260
per year after that. Okay. I can believe that.

00:52:39.400 --> 00:52:42.150
Finished as a backup in Cincinnati. I can believe

00:52:42.150 --> 00:52:45.289
that. Yeah. And then last but not least, Chad

00:52:45.289 --> 00:52:49.210
Hutchinson. Oh, yeah. Of the Cowboys slash Bears.

00:52:49.530 --> 00:52:52.789
Uh -huh. Went 2 -7 as a starter in Dallas, then

00:52:52.789 --> 00:52:56.289
1 -4 as a starter in Chicago, and then that was

00:52:56.289 --> 00:52:59.269
it. His proud family that settled Hutchinson,

00:52:59.389 --> 00:53:02.750
Kansas. Yeah. Yeah. I really thought Chad Hutchinson

00:53:02.750 --> 00:53:04.710
was around longer than that. I thought he was,

00:53:04.789 --> 00:53:08.110
too. His name's easier to remember. That's 1

00:53:08.110 --> 00:53:13.670
-7 Hutchinson. I've got a couple of games I'd

00:53:13.670 --> 00:53:16.550
like to go over, if that's okay? Sure. All right.

00:53:18.969 --> 00:53:21.090
The Bills beat the Ravens. We talked a little

00:53:21.090 --> 00:53:24.349
bit about this. 41 -40. Both teams should be

00:53:24.349 --> 00:53:28.119
worried. Derrick Henry, 169 yards on the ground.

00:53:28.300 --> 00:53:32.940
Yeah. Lamar Jackson, 70 yards on the ground.

00:53:33.079 --> 00:53:35.679
Well over 200 yards running. And that's how Lamar

00:53:35.679 --> 00:53:37.739
Jackson says he doesn't want to be a scrambler

00:53:37.739 --> 00:53:39.860
anymore. He wants to be a pocket passer. And

00:53:39.860 --> 00:53:42.159
they still left him 70 yards worth. Oh, I know.

00:53:42.199 --> 00:53:44.880
Yeah. He said he didn't want to do it. And I

00:53:44.880 --> 00:53:47.000
agree with him. If you want to stay healthy,

00:53:47.039 --> 00:53:48.780
you probably do have to make that transition.

00:53:49.019 --> 00:53:52.480
But listen to this. Ravens average rushing was

00:53:52.480 --> 00:53:57.719
8 .2 yards per attempt. Damn. 8 .2 yards. That's

00:53:57.719 --> 00:54:01.860
almost a first down. Yes. Wow. And Buffalo was

00:54:01.860 --> 00:54:05.860
happy about that win. I'm more happy about the

00:54:05.860 --> 00:54:07.840
Chiefs' loss than they should be about their

00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:13.099
win. Yeah, it's a weird situation in Buffalo

00:54:13.099 --> 00:54:15.909
that you had a lot of fans leaving. Yet at the

00:54:15.909 --> 00:54:17.789
same time, the team was real happy about what

00:54:17.789 --> 00:54:20.170
happened. I know. Yeah, how could you? A quarter

00:54:20.170 --> 00:54:23.789
of the stadium, if not more, leaves. People were

00:54:23.789 --> 00:54:28.050
booing. People were mad. And it was a horrible,

00:54:28.250 --> 00:54:31.530
really kind of a horrible atmosphere. And then

00:54:31.530 --> 00:54:33.849
also when they won, it seems like everything's

00:54:33.849 --> 00:54:36.750
okay, even though all these stats I just mentioned

00:54:36.750 --> 00:54:39.650
went on. It's like being a dumbass and setting

00:54:39.650 --> 00:54:41.769
your house on fire, but then you're high -fiving

00:54:41.769 --> 00:54:46.199
yourself because you saved your TV remote. Yes.

00:54:46.199 --> 00:54:49.500
I did it. I did it. I did it. I'm so happy with

00:54:49.500 --> 00:54:53.780
me. All right. The next one I'd like to go into,

00:54:53.900 --> 00:54:55.739
I mean, I think that's pretty self -explanatory.

00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:59.179
Yeah. Bills and Ravens are both suspect right

00:54:59.179 --> 00:55:01.619
now. Yeah, they definitely are. Yeah. And if

00:55:01.619 --> 00:55:03.539
you have a defense like that, you're not going

00:55:03.539 --> 00:55:06.599
to sniff any type of a championship game. No.

00:55:06.860 --> 00:55:10.019
No, no, no. I would say out of the ones that

00:55:10.019 --> 00:55:13.869
have been there a lot lately, This next one I'm

00:55:13.869 --> 00:55:16.809
going to go to, I thought Cincinnati might be

00:55:16.809 --> 00:55:19.550
the team that's kind of lurking. Yeah, yeah.

00:55:19.630 --> 00:55:22.929
Oh, go ahead. I was going to say, I had high

00:55:22.929 --> 00:55:25.269
hopes for Cincinnati to get playing well this

00:55:25.269 --> 00:55:30.269
year. They barely beat the Browns. Barely. Listen

00:55:30.269 --> 00:55:33.510
to this. Joe Burrow only had 95 yards in the

00:55:33.510 --> 00:55:39.260
air. That's nuts. Joe Flacco had 278 yards passing.

00:55:39.519 --> 00:55:41.739
And if Cleveland hadn't missed all those kicks,

00:55:42.000 --> 00:55:44.219
that would have been a totally different story,

00:55:44.239 --> 00:55:47.300
wouldn't it? It would have won, yes. The Bengals

00:55:47.300 --> 00:55:54.559
had 141 total yards to the Browns' 327 yards.

00:55:54.699 --> 00:55:57.940
Opening game against a division rival. Yeah,

00:55:58.059 --> 00:56:00.579
that's another team that just looked like they

00:56:00.579 --> 00:56:03.679
weren't ready yet. Like the Chiefs weren't ready.

00:56:05.329 --> 00:56:08.230
The Bengals, I think, are going to tighten it

00:56:08.230 --> 00:56:11.289
up and play better. The first two, the Bills

00:56:11.289 --> 00:56:12.949
and the Ravens, they're going to have to get

00:56:12.949 --> 00:56:14.789
a hell of a lot better on defense before they

00:56:14.789 --> 00:56:16.849
have anyone convinced. Yeah, they're kind of

00:56:16.849 --> 00:56:18.849
lucky they played each other that night because

00:56:18.849 --> 00:56:21.409
anybody else in it could have been a massive

00:56:21.409 --> 00:56:25.230
blowout. I mean, if it wasn't so, like, 8 .2

00:56:25.230 --> 00:56:27.949
yards rushing, I would say, all right, it's just

00:56:27.949 --> 00:56:29.969
two really good teams that hate each other playing

00:56:29.969 --> 00:56:32.650
each other. But there's stuff that can't be overlooked.

00:56:32.849 --> 00:56:37.289
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Flaws in defenses. Yes.

00:56:37.730 --> 00:56:42.210
Definite flaws. Yep. Yeah. All right. How about

00:56:42.210 --> 00:56:46.409
the Steelers 34 and the Jets 32? Rogers had a

00:56:46.409 --> 00:56:49.429
solid game. He had 218 yards passing with four

00:56:49.429 --> 00:56:53.650
touchdowns. Jets may not be the worst team in

00:56:53.650 --> 00:56:56.489
the AFC East. That's probably going to go to

00:56:56.489 --> 00:57:00.130
the Dolphins. Yeah, from the first weekend, that

00:57:00.130 --> 00:57:02.650
looks like the Dolphins are struggling. I thought

00:57:02.650 --> 00:57:04.630
the Jets played pretty well. I thought Justin

00:57:04.630 --> 00:57:06.949
Fields looks like he fits in really well there.

00:57:07.150 --> 00:57:09.650
He is really kind of looking like he's settling

00:57:09.650 --> 00:57:11.900
in that. And that's what they needed. They needed

00:57:11.900 --> 00:57:14.019
someone that could guide him on the running aspect

00:57:14.019 --> 00:57:16.860
of it as opposed to the throwing. It's a very

00:57:16.860 --> 00:57:18.760
delicate balance, and if you don't do it right,

00:57:18.800 --> 00:57:21.699
you're not going to win. It seems like he's settling

00:57:21.699 --> 00:57:25.480
in and starting to learn some of that. So the

00:57:25.480 --> 00:57:30.300
Steelers look to be doing okay, 34 points. They

00:57:30.300 --> 00:57:32.480
look way better than the Browns and the Bengals

00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:35.119
did. Yeah, they did. The Steelers could be. They

00:57:35.119 --> 00:57:39.199
went to the playoffs last year. So they could

00:57:39.199 --> 00:57:43.119
again. It wouldn't surprise me with Aaron Rodgers

00:57:43.119 --> 00:57:45.619
behind the realm. I mean, if he's having any

00:57:45.619 --> 00:57:47.219
type of a season at all, you're going to have

00:57:47.219 --> 00:57:50.699
to watch out for him. Yeah, definitely. The Colts

00:57:50.699 --> 00:57:54.260
beat down the Dolphins 33 -8. I don't think the

00:57:54.260 --> 00:57:57.199
Colts are quite that good, but they're definitely

00:57:57.199 --> 00:57:59.539
a decent team. And the Dolphins just look awful.

00:57:59.719 --> 00:58:02.920
Well, the Hill chants are happening. They're

00:58:02.920 --> 00:58:05.280
saying, oh, he's coming back to Kansas City.

00:58:06.539 --> 00:58:09.800
Like we're talking about in the car. If there's

00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:12.619
anything left in the tank, the Chiefs are going

00:58:12.619 --> 00:58:16.079
to buy it and try to get it. If not, well, I

00:58:16.079 --> 00:58:17.900
don't know. You know what? They know stuff we

00:58:17.900 --> 00:58:22.039
don't. And they've had opportunities to wheel

00:58:22.039 --> 00:58:26.320
and deal for them last year. By the way it looked

00:58:26.320 --> 00:58:29.059
and sounded, they did. So why didn't they get

00:58:29.059 --> 00:58:31.539
him? Why didn't anyone else? One of our opponents.

00:58:32.239 --> 00:58:34.780
Why did Buffalo not call it up and go, hey, we

00:58:34.780 --> 00:58:37.179
want Hill. How much is it going to take? Yeah,

00:58:37.219 --> 00:58:39.000
the Chiefs were pretty thin at wide receiver

00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:41.800
last season too, and they still didn't want Hill

00:58:41.800 --> 00:58:44.380
back. It's the kind of thing that if you're a

00:58:44.380 --> 00:58:47.099
team that needs to impress your fans and generate.

00:58:48.039 --> 00:58:50.300
season ticket sales, then signing Hill is kind

00:58:50.300 --> 00:58:53.099
of a good idea. For the Chiefs, they better be

00:58:53.099 --> 00:58:55.460
darn sure he's going to be a great contribution

00:58:55.460 --> 00:58:59.000
before they use a whole roster spot on him. That's

00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:01.460
why I'm not sure if he's going to actually...

00:59:01.460 --> 00:59:06.340
Alright, and then finally, the last one I got

00:59:06.340 --> 00:59:10.079
is Detroit destroying the Packers 27 -13. Wouldn't

00:59:10.079 --> 00:59:13.239
that be the other way around? Oh no, I mean Packers

00:59:13.239 --> 00:59:16.800
destroying them. Sorry. Thank you. The Packers

00:59:16.800 --> 00:59:19.099
destroyed Detroit. I was getting ready to talk

00:59:19.099 --> 00:59:21.039
bad about Detroit. I didn't realize what I said.

00:59:21.199 --> 00:59:25.400
Thank you. Detroit's lack of execution and Packers'

00:59:25.460 --> 00:59:27.500
efficiency made all the difference in the whole

00:59:27.500 --> 00:59:30.420
world. The Packers looked like they were there

00:59:30.420 --> 00:59:34.559
and done it before, and Detroit lost. Yeah, it

00:59:34.559 --> 00:59:40.380
was really disheartening to see how far the Lions

00:59:40.380 --> 00:59:44.800
have regressed. Yeah. Just in an offseason. Dan

00:59:44.800 --> 00:59:48.699
Campbell looked embarrassed and should have been

00:59:48.699 --> 00:59:52.139
embarrassed. Yeah, yeah. That abysmal performance.

00:59:53.800 --> 00:59:56.320
They got a lot of things they got to figure out.

00:59:57.380 --> 01:00:00.960
Yeah, it's interesting. I wonder how long it's

01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:03.380
going to be before the NFL has some sort of standard

01:00:03.380 --> 01:00:05.860
of performance. It's like you can't just go out

01:00:05.860 --> 01:00:07.920
there and suck week after week because no one's

01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:10.800
going to watch. I know. You've got to get better,

01:00:10.860 --> 01:00:12.360
damn it. That's how come they've got the flex

01:00:12.360 --> 01:00:14.260
games and all that. They have all these things.

01:00:14.360 --> 01:00:17.099
Yeah, that's true. That's the first step. Well,

01:00:17.179 --> 01:00:19.460
we're going to give you your own slot. They don't

01:00:19.460 --> 01:00:24.960
even kind of suck. Yeah. All right, that's all

01:00:24.960 --> 01:00:26.619
I had on that. I just wanted to go over those

01:00:26.619 --> 01:00:28.420
games and kind of get your thoughts on them.

01:00:28.420 --> 01:00:31.179
I think we're pretty much thinking the same thing.

01:00:31.380 --> 01:00:36.440
Yeah. You got something? Who is, let's see, it's...

01:00:36.809 --> 01:00:39.530
One of the Watt brothers, is it JJ or TJ that's

01:00:39.530 --> 01:00:45.869
in the booth now? I think it might be TJ. Yeah,

01:00:45.889 --> 01:00:49.809
whichever one's not playing anymore. JJ's not

01:00:49.809 --> 01:00:53.829
playing anymore. Okay. So I watched the game

01:00:53.829 --> 01:00:57.090
where he was doing the announcing, and wow, he's

01:00:57.090 --> 01:01:00.710
not very good yet. And he kind of reminds me

01:01:00.710 --> 01:01:02.909
of how great he was when he started, that he

01:01:02.909 --> 01:01:05.489
would go on and on about something that... Okay,

01:01:05.489 --> 01:01:08.329
we get it, we get it, we got it 30 seconds ago.

01:01:08.409 --> 01:01:11.570
Can you shut up now? He was doing that kind of

01:01:11.570 --> 01:01:13.849
thing. And then he was getting indignant, and

01:01:13.849 --> 01:01:17.210
he was yelling, and there were a lot of times.

01:01:17.429 --> 01:01:19.389
Remember, Tom Brady used to name drop everybody.

01:01:20.230 --> 01:01:24.090
This guy was trying to use as many insider slang

01:01:24.090 --> 01:01:28.239
terms as he could. try to impress you with, like,

01:01:28.300 --> 01:01:29.980
yeah, I was in the league for so long, and I

01:01:29.980 --> 01:01:32.039
know all these secret insider words. A lot of

01:01:32.039 --> 01:01:34.480
them go through that, too. Yeah. Like, where

01:01:34.480 --> 01:01:37.219
they think they've got to name drop, they've

01:01:37.219 --> 01:01:40.500
got to use technical terms, inside terms. Yeah.

01:01:40.579 --> 01:01:43.579
And it's like, we all know you play. Yes, yes.

01:01:43.599 --> 01:01:46.139
Just give us something that we can use. And he

01:01:46.139 --> 01:01:48.400
was losing his composure a number of times, too,

01:01:48.460 --> 01:01:52.300
so he'll get better, but as is the case with

01:01:52.300 --> 01:01:55.000
a lot of former players, it was a pretty rough

01:01:55.000 --> 01:01:57.699
start. Well, like Collinsworth, you know, if

01:01:57.699 --> 01:01:59.320
he has nothing else to do, he's going to go,

01:01:59.360 --> 01:02:01.860
now you see the nickel slot there. Now watch

01:02:01.860 --> 01:02:03.760
the way he slides over here. Now what you're

01:02:03.760 --> 01:02:05.260
going to see is you're going to see him blocking

01:02:05.260 --> 01:02:08.820
for this guy right here. Yep. That's what Watt

01:02:08.820 --> 01:02:10.739
needs to do. He needs to start going into some

01:02:10.739 --> 01:02:12.860
of these defensive packages and go, as you can

01:02:12.860 --> 01:02:16.480
see right here, we have a spy. This guy's going

01:02:16.480 --> 01:02:19.159
to spy on the quarterback, and if he gets a run,

01:02:19.260 --> 01:02:22.219
he's going to come in on him. This guy is trying

01:02:22.219 --> 01:02:24.940
to line up with him and cut him off. You know,

01:02:24.940 --> 01:02:26.900
there's so many things that they can say technically

01:02:26.900 --> 01:02:29.619
that you and I would be like, oh, wow, cool,

01:02:29.780 --> 01:02:32.059
that's why. Good to know that, yeah. And when

01:02:32.059 --> 01:02:34.980
he tried to do that, most of what he did was

01:02:34.980 --> 01:02:37.539
criticize. Tell them what they were doing wrong.

01:02:37.539 --> 01:02:40.599
That's not good. No, no. And that's not the NFL

01:02:40.599 --> 01:02:43.219
image either. Everything needs to be positive,

01:02:43.420 --> 01:02:47.679
good, fun. I'll bet you they already have words

01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:49.980
for you. Yeah, yeah, quit criticizing unless

01:02:49.980 --> 01:02:52.380
it's something super obvious and everyone expects

01:02:52.380 --> 01:02:55.300
the criticism. Yeah, like someone, I don't know.

01:02:55.860 --> 01:02:59.219
Spitting on someone's jersey? Yeah, that. Or

01:02:59.219 --> 01:03:03.199
open -hand smacking, if that's okay. Well, I've

01:03:03.199 --> 01:03:05.760
got a theory on the open -hand smacking. The

01:03:05.760 --> 01:03:09.579
Chiefs aren't getting any favors anymore. Yeah,

01:03:09.619 --> 01:03:11.119
I think you're right. They don't want them there.

01:03:11.739 --> 01:03:14.039
So you can smack them in the head, especially

01:03:14.039 --> 01:03:17.480
Travis Kelsey, no big deal. But you can't spit

01:03:17.480 --> 01:03:20.699
on them. Sure. But now they've set the precedent

01:03:20.699 --> 01:03:23.519
for this year that an open -handed smack across

01:03:23.519 --> 01:03:28.559
the face is not an ejection. And on the other

01:03:28.559 --> 01:03:31.380
side of the coin, that player is going to get

01:03:31.380 --> 01:03:35.219
fined and disciplined by the league and probably

01:03:35.219 --> 01:03:37.980
his team. But just because he wasn't ejected

01:03:37.980 --> 01:03:40.360
doesn't mean he's off scot -free. No, no, no,

01:03:40.360 --> 01:03:42.380
they can still fight him. And they probably will

01:03:42.380 --> 01:03:45.039
because a lot of people pointed it out in the

01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:48.599
media especially. Hey, you got a guy that spit

01:03:48.599 --> 01:03:51.239
on somebody. Yeah, spitting is a horrible, degrading

01:03:51.239 --> 01:03:55.179
act. But so is hitting someone in the face. Yeah,

01:03:55.199 --> 01:03:58.179
absolutely. Anything that brings that kind of

01:03:58.179 --> 01:04:00.599
negative image to the NFL is going to get addressed.

01:04:01.039 --> 01:04:04.360
Neither one of those have any place in the NFL.

01:04:04.559 --> 01:04:07.059
No. Neither one of them. Remember Bill Romanowski

01:04:07.059 --> 01:04:09.159
used to spit on everybody? Oh, yeah, what a piece

01:04:09.159 --> 01:04:11.260
of crap. Garbage. Yeah, they call him the mouth

01:04:11.260 --> 01:04:15.800
that poured. Yeah. And he was doing it at the

01:04:15.800 --> 01:04:18.400
bottom of all these dog piles. Oh, so he's like

01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:20.920
a big and ball biter. Yes, he is. Yeah, yeah.

01:04:20.980 --> 01:04:23.840
But eventually he got really cocky and he started

01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:26.039
just openly spitting on people after the play

01:04:26.039 --> 01:04:30.199
was over. Wasn't this, this was I think in the

01:04:30.199 --> 01:04:33.320
80s? Yeah, it was. Yeah, and so the AIDS scare

01:04:33.320 --> 01:04:36.239
came into it. It's like, AIDS can be transmitted

01:04:36.239 --> 01:04:39.380
through saliva. Yeah, it became a big thing.

01:04:40.599 --> 01:04:42.440
That's back when they could look at you and give

01:04:42.440 --> 01:04:44.480
it to you. Yeah. Everybody's like running scared.

01:04:44.760 --> 01:04:46.860
Or if you looked at a rainbow, suddenly your

01:04:46.860 --> 01:04:49.199
ass was three inches across. Yes, that's right.

01:04:49.840 --> 01:04:55.940
And you're bending over. Damn it, how do we get

01:04:55.940 --> 01:04:59.250
distracted like this? I don't know. We're talking

01:04:59.250 --> 01:05:02.050
about Romanowski spinning in open -handed slaps

01:05:02.050 --> 01:05:05.789
and stuff. Yeah. What I would have done was I

01:05:05.789 --> 01:05:09.250
would have got the equalizer, and that's a cup

01:05:09.250 --> 01:05:12.630
of piss, and throw it right in his face. Yeah.

01:05:12.769 --> 01:05:15.670
And said, look, I know I'm getting kicked out.

01:05:16.610 --> 01:05:21.269
I don't care. Yeah. He deserved it. I remember

01:05:21.269 --> 01:05:23.789
last year I was advocating for players to just

01:05:23.789 --> 01:05:26.980
start throwing punches. constantly and saying,

01:05:27.039 --> 01:05:28.699
hey, I'm trying to punch the ball out. It's not

01:05:28.699 --> 01:05:30.820
my fault it landed on his kidneys or in his eye

01:05:30.820 --> 01:05:33.860
or between his legs. We saw some of that on the

01:05:33.860 --> 01:05:36.900
games where actually someone got punched trying

01:05:36.900 --> 01:05:38.840
to get the ball out. I remember last year seeing

01:05:38.840 --> 01:05:41.739
someone get punched right in the ribs. He missed

01:05:41.739 --> 01:05:43.340
the ball and punched him right in the ribs and

01:05:43.340 --> 01:05:46.739
the refs were like, eh, oh well. They didn't

01:05:46.739 --> 01:05:48.539
do anything about it last year. So this year

01:05:48.539 --> 01:05:51.079
what I would like to see is at the end of every

01:05:51.079 --> 01:05:55.360
single play. have like five or six players go

01:05:55.360 --> 01:05:58.880
to the refs and lobby for a flag. Yeah. Because

01:05:58.880 --> 01:06:01.420
if you let them do it after pass plays, hey,

01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:03.699
you can go up there any time and say there was

01:06:03.699 --> 01:06:05.900
holding, the offensive line was holding, because

01:06:05.900 --> 01:06:07.780
it pretty much is on everybody. Yeah, pretty

01:06:07.780 --> 01:06:09.739
much, yeah. So if you're going to let them lobby

01:06:09.739 --> 01:06:12.300
for a flag, I want to see the players lobby after

01:06:12.300 --> 01:06:16.340
every single play and cause a disruption. And

01:06:16.340 --> 01:06:18.019
then they'll say, all right, you guys got to

01:06:18.019 --> 01:06:19.940
quit this. You got to knock it off and let us

01:06:19.940 --> 01:06:22.150
do our jobs. If you're going to let them keep

01:06:22.150 --> 01:06:24.190
making the, hey, man, throw the flag motion,

01:06:24.369 --> 01:06:28.230
then do it constantly every single time. But

01:06:28.230 --> 01:06:30.849
the thing is, if just one team did it, the officials

01:06:30.849 --> 01:06:33.210
would punish them by start making calls against

01:06:33.210 --> 01:06:35.409
them. It would have to be both teams doing it

01:06:35.409 --> 01:06:37.130
constantly, and they're not going to work together

01:06:37.130 --> 01:06:40.070
like that. No. But it would be fun. It would

01:06:40.070 --> 01:06:45.949
be. We want to go into some of the games coming

01:06:45.949 --> 01:06:48.590
up and kind of analyze them. Okay, let me look

01:06:48.590 --> 01:06:51.179
here because I... Printed it off, but like always,

01:06:51.320 --> 01:06:53.340
I don't know what the fuck I did with it. Let

01:06:53.340 --> 01:06:58.420
me go through this again. Of course I didn't.

01:06:58.860 --> 01:07:01.699
Anyhow. Alright, I'm just going to have to go

01:07:01.699 --> 01:07:04.860
to the good old internets. Okay, Thursday night

01:07:04.860 --> 01:07:11.599
is a good one. Commanders at the Packers. Too

01:07:11.599 --> 01:07:14.960
early for a snow game. That would be great, wouldn't

01:07:14.960 --> 01:07:18.800
it? I'm going to go with... I'm going to go with

01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:21.739
the Packers. I think so, too. Yeah, they've shown

01:07:21.739 --> 01:07:24.019
they can do it, and they've got the skill and

01:07:24.019 --> 01:07:27.139
the talent. Commanders, really, I don't know

01:07:27.139 --> 01:07:27.920
what it's going to take. I'm going to take a

01:07:27.920 --> 01:07:30.420
step back this year. Yeah, I'm not sure what

01:07:30.420 --> 01:07:32.400
it's going to take for the Commanders to establish

01:07:32.400 --> 01:07:36.039
themselves as a threat because I still see them

01:07:36.039 --> 01:07:39.980
as a growing team that can go either way. Part

01:07:39.980 --> 01:07:41.679
of that's probably because I'm used to the Daniel

01:07:41.679 --> 01:07:46.380
Snyder era when all the players wanted to run.

01:07:46.860 --> 01:07:50.059
Jaden Daniels has a lot of components there,

01:07:50.139 --> 01:07:54.420
and he's shown flashes of brilliance. This coaching

01:07:54.420 --> 01:07:58.079
administration that's there right now is going

01:07:58.079 --> 01:08:00.579
to have to put the people around him to win.

01:08:00.860 --> 01:08:04.679
Yeah, start looking for somebody to work specifically

01:08:04.679 --> 01:08:08.139
with him. Give him whatever title you need, quarterback

01:08:08.139 --> 01:08:10.519
quality control or whatever. Yeah, whatever.

01:08:11.079 --> 01:08:14.820
But, yeah, get somebody in there who can figure

01:08:14.820 --> 01:08:18.609
out the turn. Jaden Daniels, as he is now, into

01:08:18.609 --> 01:08:20.970
the kind of quarterback who's going to lead the

01:08:20.970 --> 01:08:23.449
franchise. Well, it looks like John Gruden is

01:08:23.449 --> 01:08:25.949
going to be headed back to the NFL anyhow, so

01:08:25.949 --> 01:08:28.989
why not have him be the quarterback guy? And

01:08:28.989 --> 01:08:31.289
that would be kind of funny to watch John Gruden

01:08:31.289 --> 01:08:33.909
rub everybody's nose in it. Oh, yeah. He ran

01:08:33.909 --> 01:08:35.930
my ass out, and here I am again. Here I am right

01:08:35.930 --> 01:08:38.750
now. That would be kind of funny. It would be,

01:08:38.770 --> 01:08:41.600
because, yeah, they... In my opinion, it looked

01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:44.420
to me like they singled him out and made an example

01:08:44.420 --> 01:08:46.439
out of him when there's other people, a lot of

01:08:46.439 --> 01:08:50.840
other people. Yeah, I think he was the sacrificial

01:08:50.840 --> 01:08:54.180
lamb to scare everybody else to getting in line.

01:08:55.779 --> 01:09:00.479
Yeah, he was a hand swat. No, no, no. There's

01:09:00.479 --> 01:09:02.800
two types. You're familiar with the term escape

01:09:02.800 --> 01:09:07.000
goat, which is short for escape goat. And then

01:09:07.000 --> 01:09:10.250
there's also the Judas goat. Now the scapegoat

01:09:10.250 --> 01:09:15.750
is there to die while you run away from the predator.

01:09:16.710 --> 01:09:19.449
So you make your escape at the sacrifice of this

01:09:19.449 --> 01:09:22.470
goat. The Judas goat is there to bring the predator

01:09:22.470 --> 01:09:27.409
in so you can kill it. So he's Judas to the predator.

01:09:27.670 --> 01:09:33.369
Okay, got it. And that's what I think John Gruden

01:09:33.369 --> 01:09:36.550
thought he was being. He's like, you used me

01:09:36.550 --> 01:09:39.409
as the Judas goat. to bring somebody else to

01:09:39.409 --> 01:09:42.270
heel and punish them. Yeah. And I don't like

01:09:42.270 --> 01:09:44.390
being the Judas Goat. So I'm going to come back

01:09:44.390 --> 01:09:46.489
in the NFL and rub your noses in it. I think

01:09:46.489 --> 01:09:48.409
that would be awesome. Yeah, I think so too.

01:09:52.130 --> 01:09:57.289
I'm for that. All right. Giants and Cowboys.

01:09:58.149 --> 01:10:02.310
Who? I like the Cowboys if they're playing like

01:10:02.310 --> 01:10:06.119
they played. Thursday night, I think that they're

01:10:06.119 --> 01:10:08.560
going to beat the Giants handily at home. Yeah.

01:10:10.410 --> 01:10:13.689
sauce enough in the Cowboys against the Eagles

01:10:13.689 --> 01:10:15.470
to know that they're a good team and they're

01:10:15.470 --> 01:10:17.409
improving and they got their crap together, at

01:10:17.409 --> 01:10:20.670
least for now. I know the meme is that they always

01:10:20.670 --> 01:10:22.590
fade at the end of the season, but yeah, CeeDee

01:10:22.590 --> 01:10:25.550
Lamb is having trouble. I don't look for that

01:10:25.550 --> 01:10:27.949
to continue. No, he won't. I think he's going

01:10:27.949 --> 01:10:30.050
to have some stick -em -on -his -fingers on this

01:10:30.050 --> 01:10:31.689
game and we're going to get some stuff done.

01:10:32.029 --> 01:10:34.829
But another division game right off the bat against

01:10:34.829 --> 01:10:37.430
the Giants team that really hasn't been a serious

01:10:37.430 --> 01:10:40.060
threat for a long time. No, I know. Dallas is

01:10:40.060 --> 01:10:42.380
going to get healthy on them. I think so, too.

01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:44.699
And by the way, I like the schedule where they

01:10:44.699 --> 01:10:47.060
play a lot of division games right off the bat.

01:10:47.060 --> 01:10:49.760
I do, too. And that makes teams have to be ready

01:10:49.760 --> 01:10:52.340
right off the bat because these games mean twice

01:10:52.340 --> 01:10:54.979
as much as any other game. Yeah. Yeah, if you

01:10:54.979 --> 01:10:56.779
get all of your games done. Well, they don't

01:10:56.779 --> 01:10:59.180
do that with the Chiefs, and that's because they

01:10:59.180 --> 01:11:01.600
really look for a dogfight in the division. Yeah.

01:11:01.880 --> 01:11:03.720
Three out of our last four games are division

01:11:03.720 --> 01:11:06.239
games. Yes. And they're usually stand -alones.

01:11:06.479 --> 01:11:09.920
Yeah, they've learned who wants to watch what,

01:11:09.939 --> 01:11:12.300
and they make sure it's on TV. Denver and Kansas

01:11:12.300 --> 01:11:14.680
City at 7 o 'clock, don't fuck with it. Yeah,

01:11:14.680 --> 01:11:17.739
absolutely. Unless someone has it wrapped up

01:11:17.739 --> 01:11:20.359
before then. Right, yeah. Yeah, then they'll

01:11:20.359 --> 01:11:23.220
put something else. All right, we both agree,

01:11:23.260 --> 01:11:27.340
Cowboys? Yeah, I would say so. Okay. Seahawks

01:11:27.340 --> 01:11:30.920
and Steelers. Man, got to give it to the Steelers.

01:11:30.920 --> 01:11:33.609
Yeah. The way Aaron Rodgers is playing and the

01:11:33.609 --> 01:11:35.890
control he's got on that team. To be honest,

01:11:35.989 --> 01:11:37.949
I would love to see the Steelers take that division.

01:11:38.210 --> 01:11:39.869
Wouldn't that be awesome? That would be funny

01:11:39.869 --> 01:11:43.289
as hell. You talk about some people scratching

01:11:43.289 --> 01:11:45.569
their heads and going, what the fuck happened?

01:11:45.609 --> 01:11:49.630
What just happened? Yeah, no more kicking those

01:11:49.630 --> 01:11:53.989
guys around. Yeah. Well, at least time being.

01:11:54.149 --> 01:11:57.409
Yeah. This year, maybe next year. I don't know.

01:11:57.489 --> 01:11:59.789
We'll see. Man, how much longer is Mike Tomlin

01:11:59.789 --> 01:12:02.880
going to hang out? Yeah, how much longer is Aaron

01:12:02.880 --> 01:12:06.319
Rodgers going to hang out? He's what, 42? Yeah.

01:12:06.960 --> 01:12:11.720
Mike Tomlin's what, 865? Yeah, yeah. He's been

01:12:11.720 --> 01:12:15.979
there forever. Yeah, all in a Steeler. Yeah,

01:12:16.119 --> 01:12:19.340
yeah. He's the only one longer than Andy Reid

01:12:19.340 --> 01:12:24.520
at his current team. Yeah. And then Mike Tomlin

01:12:24.520 --> 01:12:27.500
was never a head coach anywhere else. Yeah, he's

01:12:27.500 --> 01:12:31.029
built, I mean, got to be Hall of Famer. I would

01:12:31.029 --> 01:12:32.750
think so. Yeah, with all the rings they have.

01:12:32.970 --> 01:12:37.850
When he took over for Bill – Cowher. Cowher,

01:12:37.930 --> 01:12:40.770
yeah. When he took over for Cowher, he actually

01:12:40.770 --> 01:12:43.789
made the team better. He did. He got more out

01:12:43.789 --> 01:12:46.869
of them than was something else. And, I mean,

01:12:46.970 --> 01:12:49.609
Bill Cowher is a great coach, especially a great

01:12:49.609 --> 01:12:51.609
defensive coach. Yeah. We had him here under

01:12:51.609 --> 01:12:53.689
Schottenheimer several years. He was fantastic.

01:12:54.770 --> 01:12:58.170
So, yeah, Tomlin is definitely a Hall of Famer.

01:12:58.270 --> 01:13:01.760
Yeah. How about the Rams and Titans? That right

01:13:01.760 --> 01:13:06.640
there I think is going to be a sloppy fist fight.

01:13:06.840 --> 01:13:10.159
Yeah, yeah. The Titans are showing flashes. They

01:13:10.159 --> 01:13:13.119
have some ability here and there. They haven't

01:13:13.119 --> 01:13:16.819
put it together yet, joined the club. Yeah. But

01:13:16.819 --> 01:13:20.180
I think the Rams have a little bit of an edge

01:13:20.180 --> 01:13:23.079
here, but definitely winnable by the Titans.

01:13:24.420 --> 01:13:26.840
I like your idea of a sloppy fist fight, but

01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:29.199
I'll go with the Rams, I guess. I'm going to

01:13:29.199 --> 01:13:31.319
go with the Rams, too, but just barely. And the

01:13:31.319 --> 01:13:34.279
Rams are a very pedestrian team. They are now,

01:13:34.300 --> 01:13:36.380
yeah. They're nothing really that fancy about

01:13:36.380 --> 01:13:38.039
them. They're just going to fist fight you. They

01:13:38.039 --> 01:13:40.720
need an identity, don't they? They do. And I

01:13:40.720 --> 01:13:42.760
think their identity is going to come from the

01:13:42.760 --> 01:13:46.020
defense, not the offense. That's not a bad idea,

01:13:46.279 --> 01:13:50.680
yeah. So we'll see what happens. How about the

01:13:50.680 --> 01:13:55.119
Bills at the Jets? Normally, I would be, oh,

01:13:55.220 --> 01:13:58.100
the Bills are going to murder them. Not so much

01:13:58.100 --> 01:14:01.039
anymore. I don't know. The Jets showed some offensive

01:14:01.039 --> 01:14:05.399
firepower. Fields can run. What a coincidence.

01:14:05.520 --> 01:14:10.479
So can Lamar Jackson. Reese Hall is doing well.

01:14:10.939 --> 01:14:12.720
Yeah, I'm going to give it to the Bills, but

01:14:12.720 --> 01:14:15.880
barely. I think I might go with Jets in this

01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:18.920
one. You know what? Just because I want Buffalo

01:14:18.920 --> 01:14:22.050
to wake up. I don't want Buffalo to be kind of

01:14:22.050 --> 01:14:24.010
stumbling and sleepwalking through the season.

01:14:24.029 --> 01:14:26.109
I want Buffalo to be Buffalo. I'm going to go

01:14:26.109 --> 01:14:31.590
36 -32, the Bills. And they're going to win it

01:14:31.590 --> 01:14:33.590
last minute. Josh Allen's going to find somebody

01:14:33.590 --> 01:14:35.630
in his own – Again, defensive problems, yeah.

01:14:35.789 --> 01:14:38.829
Yes. And you're going Jets? I think I'll go with

01:14:38.829 --> 01:14:41.130
the Jets by less than a score. By less than a

01:14:41.130 --> 01:14:43.710
score? Yeah, one or two points. I think both

01:14:43.710 --> 01:14:47.189
those are very easily obtainable bets. Okay,

01:14:47.569 --> 01:14:52.029
how about the Patriots and the Dolphins? Patriots

01:14:52.029 --> 01:14:56.729
played well. Dolphins did not. The Patriots are

01:14:56.729 --> 01:14:59.029
going to kick them all around, up and down. It's

01:14:59.029 --> 01:15:00.810
going to be funny. Tyreek Hill's going to fucking

01:15:00.810 --> 01:15:06.109
blow up. He's probably going to punch McDaniels.

01:15:06.649 --> 01:15:10.250
Break his glasses. Break his glasses. He's going

01:15:10.250 --> 01:15:12.550
to make him dance. Yeah. Dancer, I'm going to

01:15:12.550 --> 01:15:14.630
punch you. You're going to be on the sideline

01:15:14.630 --> 01:15:18.989
dancing. I want you to tap dance. Do it. Okay.

01:15:20.069 --> 01:15:22.489
You know, I've always had a soft spot in my heart

01:15:22.489 --> 01:15:25.149
for the Dolphins because my uncle used to live

01:15:25.149 --> 01:15:26.890
in Fort Lauderdale, and he was a big Dolphin

01:15:26.890 --> 01:15:30.409
fan. So I can't hate on the Dolphins. I'd like

01:15:30.409 --> 01:15:33.819
to see them return to prominence. Not anytime

01:15:33.819 --> 01:15:36.520
soon. Pretty much in the history of the Dolphins

01:15:36.520 --> 01:15:38.939
franchise, they won a crap ton of games, but

01:15:38.939 --> 01:15:41.260
they've never been a dominant team for any stretch

01:15:41.260 --> 01:15:44.000
of time. Not even Dan Marino. No, no. He got

01:15:44.000 --> 01:15:47.380
to the Super Bowl in his rookie season. Yeah.

01:15:47.500 --> 01:15:51.380
Never spelled it again. Nope, never. Yeah, and

01:15:51.380 --> 01:15:53.439
that's too bad, too. I mean, he had a lot of

01:15:53.439 --> 01:15:57.380
teams where they went to the playoffs, but they

01:15:57.380 --> 01:16:02.020
exited him. Yeah, yeah. Okay, well how about

01:16:02.020 --> 01:16:06.859
the Jaguars at the Bengals? This suddenly looks

01:16:06.859 --> 01:16:10.899
interesting, doesn't it? It does. The Bengals,

01:16:10.920 --> 01:16:13.579
if they don't get their offense in line, the

01:16:13.579 --> 01:16:16.479
Jaguars could take this. I wonder how much damage

01:16:16.479 --> 01:16:20.159
was done with Trey Hendrickson's hold in. I wonder

01:16:20.159 --> 01:16:22.000
how much damage he did to the team mentally.

01:16:22.020 --> 01:16:24.060
Well, you've got to figure there's going to be

01:16:24.060 --> 01:16:27.859
some people disgruntled going, you know? This

01:16:27.859 --> 01:16:30.800
guy, who the fuck do you think he is? We hold

01:16:30.800 --> 01:16:34.000
the team hostage. We can't afford anybody as

01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:36.760
it is, and you're doing that shit? I'd be kind

01:16:36.760 --> 01:16:39.600
of not happy with the guy at all. I think it's

01:16:39.600 --> 01:16:41.960
going to take a very pissed off Cincinnati team

01:16:41.960 --> 01:16:44.899
to show well against Jaguars, even though the

01:16:44.899 --> 01:16:47.520
Jaguars, I think they're improving. They're working

01:16:47.520 --> 01:16:50.479
on their team. They're getting better. Trevor

01:16:50.479 --> 01:16:53.600
Lawrence is looking okay. He's looking like Trevor

01:16:53.600 --> 01:16:56.800
Lawrence. which is to say he looks just like

01:16:56.800 --> 01:17:01.460
he did in college. Yeah. He looks like a guy

01:17:01.460 --> 01:17:03.260
that would rather be smoking weed on the beach

01:17:03.260 --> 01:17:07.159
side. Yeah. Yeah, I think Cincinnati is going

01:17:07.159 --> 01:17:09.000
to struggle against the Jags, and they're going

01:17:09.000 --> 01:17:11.720
to have to get very, very angry to win that game.

01:17:11.840 --> 01:17:16.300
So I'm going to go Jags by five. Okay. How about

01:17:16.300 --> 01:17:23.939
the Niners at the Saints? I don't think either

01:17:23.939 --> 01:17:27.840
team really has any kind of compelling reason

01:17:27.840 --> 01:17:29.159
they would win. I'm going to go with the Niners

01:17:29.159 --> 01:17:33.939
just because of pedigree. That's it. No other

01:17:33.939 --> 01:17:36.520
real reason. The Saints did pretty well last

01:17:36.520 --> 01:17:41.180
year. All things considered, they did very well

01:17:41.180 --> 01:17:43.239
last year. They didn't really have a quarterback,

01:17:43.460 --> 01:17:46.500
and they bounced around. I guess I'm still accustomed

01:17:46.500 --> 01:17:49.819
to the Saints being kind of irrelevant, but it

01:17:49.819 --> 01:17:51.880
doesn't really seem like the Saints are going

01:17:51.880 --> 01:17:55.039
to win. Nah. Against the Niners. Nah, I don't

01:17:55.039 --> 01:17:57.420
think so. McCaffrey's still out. He probably

01:17:57.420 --> 01:18:01.600
will be. Yeah, well, if he's out, yeah. How about

01:18:01.600 --> 01:18:04.439
the Browns versus the Ravens? That's a game that

01:18:04.439 --> 01:18:10.939
suddenly became an eye -opener. Yeah. I can see

01:18:10.939 --> 01:18:15.399
the Ravens definitely winning. But Browns aren't

01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:20.699
going to be any kind of pushover or easy W. Not

01:18:20.699 --> 01:18:29.220
at all. I'm going to say the Ravens by two points,

01:18:29.260 --> 01:18:32.039
and it's going to be another one in the 30s.

01:18:32.039 --> 01:18:35.260
It's going to be a higher -scored game. That

01:18:35.260 --> 01:18:39.300
game has a special meaning because the Ravens

01:18:39.300 --> 01:18:41.600
used to be the Cleveland Browns before they were

01:18:41.600 --> 01:18:45.939
moved to Baltimore. So the Browns fans hate the

01:18:45.939 --> 01:18:48.000
Ravens because they're the traitors that left.

01:18:48.439 --> 01:18:50.800
Even though it wasn't them, it was Art Modell.

01:18:51.000 --> 01:18:54.119
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, full turnover of everybody

01:18:54.119 --> 01:18:57.119
since then. But there's extra special reason

01:18:57.119 --> 01:18:59.939
for the hometown to really want to beat the Ravens.

01:18:59.939 --> 01:19:01.960
Yeah, and it's always like that. They're like,

01:19:01.960 --> 01:19:04.859
they can't wait. So they would love to ruin the

01:19:04.859 --> 01:19:07.539
Ravens' season. And they might pull this off,

01:19:07.640 --> 01:19:09.439
but I'm going to go with the Ravens just by two

01:19:09.439 --> 01:19:12.319
points. Just because, again, of pedigree, that's

01:19:12.319 --> 01:19:14.159
it. Yeah, they're the better team right now.

01:19:14.319 --> 01:19:20.000
Yeah. How about Lions, Bears and Lions? I think

01:19:20.000 --> 01:19:21.920
the Bears might take them. Yeah, I think the

01:19:21.920 --> 01:19:24.279
Bears are going to get healthy in this game.

01:19:24.340 --> 01:19:26.000
They're going to have a win, and the Lions are

01:19:26.000 --> 01:19:28.720
just going to start the downhill slide. Floundering.

01:19:28.739 --> 01:19:31.100
Yeah, they're going to reveal themselves as the

01:19:31.100 --> 01:19:34.920
flash in the pan, unfortunately. And it's not

01:19:34.920 --> 01:19:36.720
for lack of talent, necessarily. It's because

01:19:36.720 --> 01:19:39.439
this is just not being used correctly. I think

01:19:39.439 --> 01:19:43.380
Dan Campbell's workout is welcome. Yeah, he had,

01:19:43.439 --> 01:19:45.590
like, the one thing. and that didn't work, and

01:19:45.590 --> 01:19:47.250
now he's got nothing else. So now he's like searching.

01:19:47.390 --> 01:19:49.210
Yeah, doesn't seem to have anything else in his

01:19:49.210 --> 01:19:51.289
bag of tricks. When that didn't work, he didn't

01:19:51.289 --> 01:19:53.310
have another backup answer. He just kind of like,

01:19:53.310 --> 01:19:57.390
well, okay. Yeah, yeah, and you're in a playoff

01:19:57.390 --> 01:19:59.750
game. Playoff. And you go to your head coach

01:19:59.750 --> 01:20:02.010
and say, you know, we're struggling. What are

01:20:02.010 --> 01:20:03.689
we going to do? And he's like, I don't know.

01:20:04.010 --> 01:20:06.229
Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what it looks like

01:20:06.229 --> 01:20:08.010
to me. It's kind of like a shorter shot. That

01:20:08.010 --> 01:20:10.609
hurts the team. All the players are going to

01:20:10.609 --> 01:20:12.960
go, yeah, we can't win with this guy. Yeah, they

01:20:12.960 --> 01:20:18.239
don't have that guy, Detroit Jared Goff, to run

01:20:18.239 --> 01:20:21.020
around going, guys, come on, come on, we can

01:20:21.020 --> 01:20:24.060
do this. They don't have that guy. I think John

01:20:24.060 --> 01:20:26.000
Gruden would fit in there, wouldn't he? He would.

01:20:26.180 --> 01:20:29.279
I think John Gruden would be a good addition

01:20:29.279 --> 01:20:32.979
to Motown. Yeah, hell yeah. Yeah. He loves the

01:20:32.979 --> 01:20:36.659
music there. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if he does

01:20:36.659 --> 01:20:39.819
or not. I don't know if he's a rock and roller.

01:20:40.000 --> 01:20:42.720
I don't know. I think he's a rocker. I don't

01:20:42.720 --> 01:20:45.159
think he's a soul guy. Yeah, probably not. I

01:20:45.159 --> 01:20:48.199
think he sings along to ACDC songs. Yeah, his

01:20:48.199 --> 01:20:51.279
idea of soul is the Blues Brothers singing Soul

01:20:51.279 --> 01:20:54.539
Man. Yeah. I see his car right now. That counts,

01:20:54.600 --> 01:21:02.899
right? He's in his car. TNT. I'm dynamite. TNT.

01:21:04.079 --> 01:21:09.659
He loves to do the low voice on that. TNT. All

01:21:09.659 --> 01:21:13.359
right, next one up. This suddenly became very

01:21:13.359 --> 01:21:16.659
interesting because of the first two games, or

01:21:16.659 --> 01:21:19.699
the first one game. Yep. Okay, the Broncos versus

01:21:19.699 --> 01:21:26.619
the Colts. Yeah. Where is the game? It's at Indianapolis.

01:21:27.100 --> 01:21:31.270
Oh, okay. Well. I think I'm going to go with

01:21:31.270 --> 01:21:33.489
Denver. They're playing well. They're doing well.

01:21:33.609 --> 01:21:36.569
Bo Nix is definitely becoming the guy they need

01:21:36.569 --> 01:21:38.710
him to be. I think they're going to trip up the

01:21:38.710 --> 01:21:45.630
Broncos. Yeah, I'm not sold on the Colts quarterback

01:21:45.630 --> 01:21:48.569
situation being all that settled. As long as

01:21:48.569 --> 01:21:50.970
Richardson's there, it's going to be a problem.

01:21:51.250 --> 01:21:54.770
Yeah. I just have a sneaking suspicion that the

01:21:54.770 --> 01:21:56.449
Colts are going to be much better than people

01:21:56.449 --> 01:22:00.039
think. That would certainly be a surprise to

01:22:00.039 --> 01:22:02.319
me. I'm still stuck thinking they're mediocre

01:22:02.319 --> 01:22:04.199
as well. It'll be a surprise, but we'll see.

01:22:04.420 --> 01:22:06.300
I mean, no, no, no, this is on nothing. This

01:22:06.300 --> 01:22:08.800
is a gut feeling. That's the most fun way to

01:22:08.800 --> 01:22:11.420
do it, isn't it? It is. And not because I want

01:22:11.420 --> 01:22:14.119
the Broncos to lose, which I do. I just think

01:22:14.119 --> 01:22:16.359
it's early in the season. I just think the Colts

01:22:16.359 --> 01:22:18.720
are going to, like, kick a couple people's asses.

01:22:18.779 --> 01:22:21.159
Yeah, yeah. Or trip them up. I think this would

01:22:21.159 --> 01:22:24.319
be a trip up. Oh, yeah. How about the Panthers

01:22:24.319 --> 01:22:29.579
versus the Cardinals? That's actually a pretty

01:22:29.579 --> 01:22:31.859
good matchup because anybody could win that.

01:22:33.020 --> 01:22:35.760
I'm going to go with the Panthers. I think that

01:22:35.760 --> 01:22:38.239
Bryce Young is learning at a rapid rate. I think

01:22:38.239 --> 01:22:40.539
he's going to get well even better on the Cardinals.

01:22:40.619 --> 01:22:42.840
Even though they lost that first game, I think

01:22:42.840 --> 01:22:44.699
he's going to be thirsty to win that second one.

01:22:44.979 --> 01:22:47.840
Yeah, and I still view the Cardinals as an uneven,

01:22:48.000 --> 01:22:51.960
inconsistent team. Kyler Murray. You never know

01:22:51.960 --> 01:22:53.640
which Kyler Murray is going to show up, do you?

01:22:53.739 --> 01:22:57.319
You don't have any idea. How about the Eagles?

01:22:57.739 --> 01:23:01.619
versus the Chiefs. Yeah, tough, tough, tough,

01:23:01.640 --> 01:23:04.380
tough. One arrow head drive. Yeah, but we have

01:23:04.380 --> 01:23:06.819
seen that the Chiefs are fully capable of losing

01:23:06.819 --> 01:23:09.119
a home opener in a very embarrassing fashion.

01:23:09.819 --> 01:23:11.520
Unfortunately, I think I'm going to have to go

01:23:11.520 --> 01:23:13.359
with the Eagles in this one. Me too. Because

01:23:13.359 --> 01:23:16.100
the Chiefs just aren't ready yet. Okay, let's

01:23:16.100 --> 01:23:19.260
say that each of them have eight cylinders. Eight

01:23:19.260 --> 01:23:22.159
cylinders. The Eagles are firing off the six

01:23:22.159 --> 01:23:24.399
of them. The Chiefs are firing off the three

01:23:24.399 --> 01:23:28.119
of them. Yeah. So I think the Eagles, right now

01:23:28.119 --> 01:23:31.220
the Eagles are the better team. Excuse me. Yeah,

01:23:31.300 --> 01:23:34.960
I think they really are. It's hard to say. It's

01:23:34.960 --> 01:23:37.220
hard to swallow. But, yeah, I think they're going

01:23:37.220 --> 01:23:39.779
to come in and beat the Chiefs the second time.

01:23:40.159 --> 01:23:43.899
I think so, too. How about the Falcons versus

01:23:43.899 --> 01:23:47.859
the Vikings? I'm going to go with the Vikings

01:23:47.859 --> 01:23:51.600
because I think McCarthy has got what it takes.

01:23:51.699 --> 01:23:55.060
I agree. And the rest of the team wasn't that

01:23:55.060 --> 01:23:58.020
far removed from where they wanted to be. Well,

01:23:58.020 --> 01:24:00.100
the thing that I liked is once McCarthy started

01:24:00.100 --> 01:24:02.939
getting his head out together, I'm not going

01:24:02.939 --> 01:24:06.180
to say out of his ass, he's new. Once he started

01:24:06.180 --> 01:24:08.319
getting his head together, the team responded.

01:24:08.500 --> 01:24:10.500
They did. I like that. They were ready for him.

01:24:10.600 --> 01:24:13.760
Yeah, they're kind of like, we like this guy.

01:24:13.899 --> 01:24:17.659
We're going to fight for him. This one's intriguing.

01:24:18.859 --> 01:24:22.930
The Buccaneers versus the Texans in Texas. Yeah,

01:24:22.930 --> 01:24:30.510
yeah. I think that Mayfield is going to have

01:24:30.510 --> 01:24:32.449
a phenomenal year, and I think he's going to

01:24:32.449 --> 01:24:34.409
fucking do some wonders down there. I think he's

01:24:34.409 --> 01:24:40.689
going to get 36, 37 points. Wow. Yeah. I think

01:24:40.689 --> 01:24:47.069
Texans right in the 20s. Yeah, again, the Texans

01:24:47.069 --> 01:24:50.439
strike me as being. Not as inconsistent, but

01:24:50.439 --> 01:24:54.079
still inconsistent. Yeah, I just think that Mayfield

01:24:54.079 --> 01:24:56.899
is primed to have a great season, and I think

01:24:56.899 --> 01:25:01.279
that that team's improved. For the first time

01:25:01.279 --> 01:25:05.680
in his career, Baker Mayfield looks happy and

01:25:05.680 --> 01:25:08.899
at home. He never really felt that way in Cleveland.

01:25:09.060 --> 01:25:11.159
He never really seemed that way in Tampa until

01:25:11.159 --> 01:25:13.739
recently. He feels like he's really home. The

01:25:13.739 --> 01:25:16.300
year he went to the divisional playoffs, And

01:25:16.300 --> 01:25:19.460
almost beat the Chiefs. Yeah. He looked fantastic

01:25:19.460 --> 01:25:22.600
in that. Yeah. But then the next year, he had

01:25:22.600 --> 01:25:25.840
that shoulder injury, and everyone was mad at

01:25:25.840 --> 01:25:27.939
him because he wasn't performing. The guy could

01:25:27.939 --> 01:25:30.579
hardly fucking walk. Yeah, it's so weird that

01:25:30.579 --> 01:25:32.840
they were so quick to give up on him knowing

01:25:32.840 --> 01:25:37.319
he was injured, and they were so married to Deshaun

01:25:37.319 --> 01:25:40.859
Watson, even knowing what a human being he is.

01:25:41.399 --> 01:25:44.909
And with his injuries, it's... They gave up on

01:25:44.909 --> 01:25:47.689
the wrong guy. I agree. Definitely gave up on

01:25:47.689 --> 01:25:50.289
the wrong guy. Yeah, they let him go and hired

01:25:50.289 --> 01:25:52.989
Deshaun. That was probably one of the stupidest

01:25:52.989 --> 01:25:57.289
moves ever made in all of football, ever. It's

01:25:57.289 --> 01:26:02.369
got to rank up there. Yeah. Well, we got anything

01:26:02.369 --> 01:26:06.109
else, or are we going to go to the creeps? I

01:26:06.109 --> 01:26:09.229
had some more stuff about teams and who's going

01:26:09.229 --> 01:26:11.109
to be the key players. I can go through it a

01:26:11.109 --> 01:26:15.079
little more quickly than I did last time. Are

01:26:15.079 --> 01:26:18.600
you going back from before? Yeah, I had a misstep

01:26:18.600 --> 01:26:21.640
there, so a little bit of time has disappeared

01:26:21.640 --> 01:26:23.659
from the continuum. Well, what happened is Miss

01:26:23.659 --> 01:26:27.520
Golfenstein came over and kicked me. And she

01:26:27.520 --> 01:26:29.420
started waving that weird thing over your head.

01:26:29.460 --> 01:26:31.500
Yeah, I don't know what was that. I don't know,

01:26:31.520 --> 01:26:33.739
it smelled funky. It looked like one of those

01:26:33.739 --> 01:26:38.210
old cans of Comet. Remember Comet? Yeah, with

01:26:38.210 --> 01:26:40.310
a little shaker top. Yeah, yeah. It looked like

01:26:40.310 --> 01:26:43.350
one of those, like from the 60s. Oh, God. Go

01:26:43.350 --> 01:26:45.850
tell me what was in there. I don't know. I mean,

01:26:45.890 --> 01:26:48.029
was she doing another spell? I mean, she already

01:26:48.029 --> 01:26:50.630
made Rob a capuchin monkey. Yeah. I don't know

01:26:50.630 --> 01:26:52.949
what else she's going to do. What would she turn

01:26:52.949 --> 01:26:57.189
you into? Maybe a fruit bat. There we go. That'd

01:26:57.189 --> 01:26:59.270
be great. A fruit bat, yeah. Nothing too big.

01:26:59.569 --> 01:27:04.350
Oh, I'd go and take aim on everybody. So, all

01:27:04.350 --> 01:27:08.560
right. All right, we have... Excuse me. Expected

01:27:08.560 --> 01:27:12.600
key players. We left off last time with the Jets

01:27:12.600 --> 01:27:14.779
running back Breeze Hall. Looks like he's doing

01:27:14.779 --> 01:27:18.439
pretty well. For the Baltimore Ravens, linebacker

01:27:18.439 --> 01:27:22.640
Trent Simpson, who's supposed to expect to have

01:27:22.640 --> 01:27:25.680
a breakout season. Okay. For the Bengals, their

01:27:25.680 --> 01:27:28.479
corner, Cam Taylor Britt. Uh -huh. And I think

01:27:28.479 --> 01:27:31.399
they need some success at corner, definitely.

01:27:32.720 --> 01:27:37.350
Yeah, definitely. Cleveland Browns edge rusher

01:27:37.350 --> 01:27:40.430
Alex Wright is who they're looking to step up

01:27:40.430 --> 01:27:45.250
and have a big season. It would be funny if he

01:27:45.250 --> 01:27:51.130
and Miles Garrett could team up and be like Neil

01:27:51.130 --> 01:27:53.329
Smith and Derek Thomas. That's who I was trying

01:27:53.329 --> 01:27:58.149
to come up with. That would be great. I'd be

01:27:58.149 --> 01:27:59.750
all about that. I think that would be excellent.

01:28:00.189 --> 01:28:02.289
That would really help them in the division too.

01:28:03.059 --> 01:28:06.000
Also, for Pittsburgh Steelers, offensive tackle

01:28:06.000 --> 01:28:08.340
Broderick Jones. I think that's working out really

01:28:08.340 --> 01:28:11.340
well so far because Aaron Rodgers is having plenty

01:28:11.340 --> 01:28:16.819
of time to throw. For the AFC South, Houston

01:28:16.819 --> 01:28:20.510
Texans running back Nick Chubb. Okay. I can see

01:28:20.510 --> 01:28:22.090
him definitely having a breakout here. Well,

01:28:22.170 --> 01:28:24.449
they kind of need to to make C .J. Stroud have

01:28:24.449 --> 01:28:26.250
a little bit more comfort in what he's doing.

01:28:26.449 --> 01:28:29.090
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I don't know who the receivers

01:28:29.090 --> 01:28:31.369
are, though Diggs isn't there anymore. I don't

01:28:31.369 --> 01:28:35.189
know. Yeah. Well, anyhow. We'll see what happens.

01:28:35.369 --> 01:28:39.710
Yeah. Excuse me. Indianapolis Colts center Tanner

01:28:39.710 --> 01:28:45.909
Bartolini. Okay. New center, but he can solidify

01:28:45.909 --> 01:28:48.319
that line. So far, their first game, they did

01:28:48.319 --> 01:28:54.659
pretty dang well. Yeah. Stepping on, okay, Jacksonville

01:28:54.659 --> 01:28:58.659
Jaguars. Offensive tackle, Anton Harrison. It's

01:28:58.659 --> 01:29:00.399
interesting, they're picking a lot of linemen

01:29:00.399 --> 01:29:03.260
to step up and have big seasons. That is interesting.

01:29:03.619 --> 01:29:06.840
Yeah. Now, they list him as O -tackle, but they're

01:29:06.840 --> 01:29:11.460
not saying whether he's left or right. So, somebody

01:29:11.460 --> 01:29:14.920
who's more familiar with Jags. Okay. Tennessee

01:29:14.920 --> 01:29:18.300
Titans. They're expecting Legereus Sneed to step

01:29:18.300 --> 01:29:21.439
up and be the big person on the team this year.

01:29:21.659 --> 01:29:23.960
Well, that was the thing is they said that injury

01:29:23.960 --> 01:29:27.319
really affected him. Apparently so. He looked

01:29:27.319 --> 01:29:29.920
okay. He looked okay. But he wasn't really dominating.

01:29:30.539 --> 01:29:34.140
Not like he was over here. Yeah. He was really

01:29:34.140 --> 01:29:37.479
taking a big step. And I can't figure out whether

01:29:37.479 --> 01:29:41.720
it's his injury or if it's a coaching. Yeah,

01:29:41.739 --> 01:29:44.859
it's a new system. You can't do what he did here.

01:29:45.710 --> 01:29:48.430
different system yeah well also he don't he doesn't

01:29:48.430 --> 01:29:51.050
have as many players yeah over there to do what

01:29:51.050 --> 01:29:53.029
he did over here he doesn't have the guys on

01:29:53.029 --> 01:29:56.649
the other side you know whether it be Reid or

01:29:56.649 --> 01:30:00.029
whoever whoever was covering the other side he

01:30:00.029 --> 01:30:04.130
didn't have them you know McDuffie uh so he's

01:30:04.130 --> 01:30:06.210
kind of a little bit more on his own out there

01:30:06.210 --> 01:30:08.369
which means that they're free to double team

01:30:08.369 --> 01:30:14.000
him more or whatever you know yeah yeah But he's

01:30:14.000 --> 01:30:15.680
pretty much who I watch when I'm watching the

01:30:15.680 --> 01:30:17.520
Titans. Yeah, me too. I really don't have him.

01:30:17.520 --> 01:30:19.880
He's still number 38. Oh, and Cam Ward. I watch

01:30:19.880 --> 01:30:26.500
Cam Ward too. Because so far it didn't look to

01:30:26.500 --> 01:30:29.779
me like he had much. Yeah. But we'll see. But

01:30:29.779 --> 01:30:33.760
for a rookie, it's all right. And, I mean, you

01:30:33.760 --> 01:30:39.409
know, their defense, anyhow, go ahead. All right,

01:30:39.449 --> 01:30:41.850
switching over to the NFC for the Cardinals,

01:30:41.930 --> 01:30:44.609
edge rusher Josh Sweat. That's who they picked

01:30:44.609 --> 01:30:47.710
up from the Eagles. Yes. So stepping into the

01:30:47.710 --> 01:30:51.130
team and being their breakout player means they

01:30:51.130 --> 01:30:54.189
didn't have a whole lot better than him to start.

01:30:54.470 --> 01:30:57.710
No, and Sweat is fine. He's good, but I don't

01:30:57.710 --> 01:30:59.470
see him making that big of a difference on that

01:30:59.470 --> 01:31:02.829
roster. Yeah, yeah. He's going to help, sure,

01:31:03.010 --> 01:31:05.649
but. Yeah, so it might be the kind of thing that

01:31:05.649 --> 01:31:08.479
they had to pick somebody. I think so. It's not

01:31:08.479 --> 01:31:10.579
like he's going to be competing for league MVP.

01:31:10.659 --> 01:31:12.260
He's just going to be the best player. He's going

01:31:12.260 --> 01:31:16.420
to be, yeah. And they could get him. Yeah. For

01:31:16.420 --> 01:31:19.819
the Rams, they're picking wide receiver Devontae

01:31:19.819 --> 01:31:24.939
Adams. Wow, still? Okay. And, you know, if he

01:31:24.939 --> 01:31:26.539
could be their breakout player, that's going

01:31:26.539 --> 01:31:28.680
to go a long way in helping the Rams put together

01:31:28.680 --> 01:31:32.640
some wins. As we were talking earlier, they're

01:31:32.640 --> 01:31:36.399
looking kind of mediocre. I mean, not like they're...

01:31:36.729 --> 01:31:38.949
bad mediocre, but there's nothing interesting

01:31:38.949 --> 01:31:42.789
or exciting about him. Kind of vanilla. No fun

01:31:42.789 --> 01:31:46.270
identity. Stafford, he can still throw, but he's

01:31:46.270 --> 01:31:48.430
not quite that gunslinger that he used to be

01:31:48.430 --> 01:31:51.350
either. True. But if you have someone like Devontae

01:31:51.350 --> 01:31:53.390
Adams, you use him for the big plays anyhow,

01:31:53.630 --> 01:31:56.630
so we'll see what happens. They've got to develop

01:31:56.630 --> 01:32:00.930
that chemistry first. For the Niners, they settled

01:32:00.930 --> 01:32:05.659
on wide receiver Ricky Pearsall. which is kind

01:32:05.659 --> 01:32:08.079
of bittersweet because pretty much they picked

01:32:08.079 --> 01:32:09.819
him because all the other receivers got injured.

01:32:10.000 --> 01:32:13.199
Yes. So he's the guy that they're kind of leaning

01:32:13.199 --> 01:32:15.399
on. He wasn't going to be the starter. No, he

01:32:15.399 --> 01:32:17.779
was not, but they had no choice right now. He

01:32:17.779 --> 01:32:21.840
is now. And then isn't Kittle out too now? I

01:32:21.840 --> 01:32:24.079
think Kittle's out for a couple of games at least.

01:32:24.420 --> 01:32:26.619
I don't know if I heard that one. They even got

01:32:26.619 --> 01:32:29.039
their wide receiver, I thought. Anyhow, go ahead.

01:32:29.119 --> 01:32:32.239
I'm not for sure on that one. For the Seahawks,

01:32:32.279 --> 01:32:35.800
running back Kenneth Walker III. I remember him

01:32:35.800 --> 01:32:39.239
in the preseason having some great success plowing

01:32:39.239 --> 01:32:43.439
through and running well. It's interesting. Seahawks,

01:32:43.439 --> 01:32:45.220
you don't really think of them as a run -heavy

01:32:45.220 --> 01:32:47.800
team, but they've had some awesome running backs

01:32:47.800 --> 01:32:49.319
in the past. Remember Curtis Martin? Marshawn

01:32:49.319 --> 01:32:51.380
Lynch. Marshawn Lynch, Curtis Martin. Curtis

01:32:51.380 --> 01:32:54.159
Martin. Then there's another one in between them.

01:32:54.420 --> 01:32:57.510
Yeah. Oh, well, anyhow, there's another really

01:32:57.510 --> 01:32:59.369
good running back in there, too. Can't think

01:32:59.369 --> 01:33:03.670
of his name right now. Okay, NFC East, Dallas

01:33:03.670 --> 01:33:06.130
Cowboys. They need their breakout player to be

01:33:06.130 --> 01:33:09.310
wide receiver George Pickens. They picked him

01:33:09.310 --> 01:33:13.250
up from Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh. Somewhere in

01:33:13.250 --> 01:33:16.529
the AFC. Especially if C .D. Lamb is going to

01:33:16.529 --> 01:33:19.649
have trouble catching the ball. But either way,

01:33:19.689 --> 01:33:21.350
they're going to need Pickens to be the guy who

01:33:21.350 --> 01:33:27.970
takes the heat off of C .D. Lamb. I'm pretty

01:33:27.970 --> 01:33:33.689
sure it was the Steelers had Pickens and Pickett

01:33:33.689 --> 01:33:36.810
last year. I think you're right. Yeah, Pickens

01:33:36.810 --> 01:33:38.489
and Pickett. Yeah, Pickett was a quarterback,

01:33:38.649 --> 01:33:42.210
and Pickett was the receiver. Okay, for the Giants,

01:33:42.210 --> 01:33:48.470
cornerback Paulson Adebo? Yeah, Adebo. Babelsnatch?

01:33:48.829 --> 01:33:50.829
Babelsnatch. All right, so they're picking a

01:33:50.829 --> 01:33:54.050
corner. Okay. Giants could definitely use...

01:33:54.479 --> 01:33:57.640
A breakout play in the pass defense. That would

01:33:57.640 --> 01:33:59.880
definitely help them. Yeah, that would help them

01:33:59.880 --> 01:34:02.460
definitely. They definitely struggled last season.

01:34:03.539 --> 01:34:09.579
For the Eagles, D -tackle Moro Ojomo. Now, I

01:34:09.579 --> 01:34:13.100
don't remember hearing his name called in the

01:34:13.100 --> 01:34:16.140
game against the Cowboys. No, I don't remember

01:34:16.140 --> 01:34:18.770
hearing his name at all in there. Yeah. And this

01:34:18.770 --> 01:34:21.270
is a guy that they think they could coach up

01:34:21.270 --> 01:34:25.289
to. And what is he now? He's a D -tackle. A D

01:34:25.289 --> 01:34:27.069
-tackle. Because, you know, they lost Josh Sweat

01:34:27.069 --> 01:34:30.689
and Brandon Graham. Yeah. I don't know. I mean,

01:34:30.789 --> 01:34:33.109
I didn't hear his name at all or recall seeing

01:34:33.109 --> 01:34:35.409
him, but, I mean, I don't know. Yeah. Supposedly

01:34:35.409 --> 01:34:38.909
last season was his best season. Okay. But he's

01:34:38.909 --> 01:34:42.649
decent at the pass rush. I guess he's been overshadowed

01:34:42.649 --> 01:34:44.510
up to this point, so it's like we need you to

01:34:44.510 --> 01:34:47.149
step up and be the guy. Now that Sweat and what's

01:34:47.149 --> 01:34:49.310
-his -name's left two other teams. Randy Graham,

01:34:49.489 --> 01:34:51.949
yeah. Yeah, Randy Graham. But so far in the first

01:34:51.949 --> 01:34:55.010
game, I don't remember hearing his name. I don't

01:34:55.010 --> 01:34:58.109
remember hearing or seeing him at all, really.

01:34:58.510 --> 01:35:03.430
So, first name. Yeah. For the Commanders, wide

01:35:03.430 --> 01:35:07.710
receiver Debo Samuel. Is there... Breakout player

01:35:07.710 --> 01:35:11.489
that they think is good. Commanders. Oh, yeah,

01:35:11.569 --> 01:35:15.609
that's right. Samuel went there. Yeah. He's got

01:35:15.609 --> 01:35:17.810
to develop. If he can develop a pretty good rapport

01:35:17.810 --> 01:35:20.010
with Jaden Daniels, they may have something.

01:35:20.329 --> 01:35:23.510
Yeah. I imagine him being the consistent deep

01:35:23.510 --> 01:35:28.750
target for Jaden Daniels to throw to to try to

01:35:28.750 --> 01:35:30.930
slow down the pass rush or the blitzing. Yeah,

01:35:30.989 --> 01:35:33.649
I would love to see. Yeah. Well, I mean, I think

01:35:33.649 --> 01:35:37.199
that's very possible. We'll see. For the Bears,

01:35:37.399 --> 01:35:40.539
O -tackle Braxton Jones, another offensive lineman,

01:35:40.619 --> 01:35:43.619
to protect Caleb Williams, keep him upright so

01:35:43.619 --> 01:35:46.640
he has time to throw. He did okay last night.

01:35:46.800 --> 01:35:50.359
Yeah, yeah, he did. He did okay. I've definitely

01:35:50.359 --> 01:35:52.640
seen a lot worse performances. He looks like

01:35:52.640 --> 01:35:57.840
he's progressing. Yeah, definitely so. For the

01:35:57.840 --> 01:36:01.399
Lions, cornerback Terian Arnold. Their pass defense

01:36:01.399 --> 01:36:04.300
wasn't good enough last year. So they're looking

01:36:04.300 --> 01:36:07.340
for this guy to step up and kind of set the tone.

01:36:07.560 --> 01:36:09.159
They're going to kind of need it from what I

01:36:09.159 --> 01:36:12.460
saw. Yeah. Supposedly he's got the skill and

01:36:12.460 --> 01:36:15.779
the tools to do it if he's got the heart to step

01:36:15.779 --> 01:36:20.359
up and kind of shoulder that burden. Yeah. For

01:36:20.359 --> 01:36:24.039
the Packers, edge rush Rashawn Gary. Definitely

01:36:24.039 --> 01:36:28.399
a pass rush is going to help the Packers be a

01:36:28.399 --> 01:36:31.039
dominant in their division because they're rushing.

01:36:33.000 --> 01:36:36.520
Caleb Williams in Chicago twice a year. And then

01:36:36.520 --> 01:36:40.239
what's -his -name in Detroit twice a year. Yeah.

01:36:40.380 --> 01:36:44.100
And the new guy in Minnesota, McCarthy, twice

01:36:44.100 --> 01:36:48.100
a year. Having a really dominant pass rush is

01:36:48.100 --> 01:36:50.220
definitely going to help them. Yeah, and especially

01:36:50.220 --> 01:36:53.600
with someone like Jared Goff, who can't handle

01:36:53.600 --> 01:36:56.960
the rush. He does stupid things. And that's kind

01:36:56.960 --> 01:36:58.720
of the running theme. Caleb Williams you can

01:36:58.720 --> 01:37:01.949
rattle with a rush. McCarthy's. You would expect

01:37:01.949 --> 01:37:03.829
to be able to rattle over the rush being a rookie,

01:37:03.930 --> 01:37:06.229
but maybe not. He kind of surprised me last night.

01:37:06.289 --> 01:37:10.710
He went from very shaky to getting it done. Yeah.

01:37:11.350 --> 01:37:16.529
But on the other hand, this was written before

01:37:16.529 --> 01:37:19.170
they traded for Micah Parsons. Oh, yeah, that's

01:37:19.170 --> 01:37:21.789
okay. So Micah Parsons might be substitute for

01:37:21.789 --> 01:37:25.750
Rashawn Gary. Okay. Minnesota Vikings safety

01:37:25.750 --> 01:37:28.770
Theo Jackson is who they're expecting to be the

01:37:28.770 --> 01:37:31.270
breakout player. I would revise that and say

01:37:31.270 --> 01:37:34.310
McCarthy. I think you're right. Yeah. I would

01:37:34.310 --> 01:37:37.909
too. It's tough to go all in on somebody after

01:37:37.909 --> 01:37:40.529
one game, but he looked good. He looked really

01:37:40.529 --> 01:37:43.949
good. Yeah. And this was after a pick six, wasn't

01:37:43.949 --> 01:37:47.569
it? Yeah. Yeah, he came back and, you know, instead

01:37:47.569 --> 01:37:49.289
of falling apart, he's like, I'm not going to

01:37:49.289 --> 01:37:51.869
let that happen again. Yeah. And that's the way

01:37:51.869 --> 01:37:55.470
you want them. Yeah. For the Falcons, it's their

01:37:55.470 --> 01:37:58.149
D tackle. This is a real babble snatch name.

01:37:58.649 --> 01:38:03.850
Ruque or Horhoro. Babel snatch. Yes. Yeah. So

01:38:03.850 --> 01:38:06.890
a D tackle. All right. I think babel snatch is

01:38:06.890 --> 01:38:10.069
going to do well. Yeah. Yeah. But good for the

01:38:10.069 --> 01:38:13.430
pass rush, good for the run stopping. They want

01:38:13.430 --> 01:38:15.470
him to be their breakout player this year. They

01:38:15.470 --> 01:38:19.310
need him to be, so okay. Carolina Panthers, edge

01:38:19.310 --> 01:38:23.489
rusher DJ Wanham. I remember him last year. A

01:38:23.489 --> 01:38:24.850
little bit, yeah. I remember hearing that name

01:38:24.850 --> 01:38:27.659
a bit, so. They're expecting him to build on

01:38:27.659 --> 01:38:30.619
last year and do better this time. Okay. New

01:38:30.619 --> 01:38:33.420
Orleans Saints guard Trevor Penning. Interesting

01:38:33.420 --> 01:38:37.720
they singled out a guard. An interior lineman

01:38:37.720 --> 01:38:40.699
generally means... Why a guard? That generally

01:38:40.699 --> 01:38:42.579
means you want to run up the middle and you're

01:38:42.579 --> 01:38:45.560
trying to slow the pass rush up the middle. Yeah,

01:38:45.659 --> 01:38:49.479
I don't know how... Okay. Or if you're going

01:38:49.479 --> 01:38:51.600
to pull the guard and run to the outside, you

01:38:51.600 --> 01:38:54.600
can have a fast, agile pulling guard get his

01:38:54.600 --> 01:38:56.960
ass out there and block. That's the guy they

01:38:56.960 --> 01:38:59.060
think has the most potential. I don't know. Wow,

01:38:59.180 --> 01:39:04.579
that is weird. Well, their choices. Yeah. And

01:39:04.579 --> 01:39:06.800
then last but not least, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

01:39:06.800 --> 01:39:13.319
linebacker Servosia Dennis. Babelsnatch Dennis.

01:39:14.180 --> 01:39:18.659
Babelsnatch Dennis. Okay. They didn't pick Mayfield.

01:39:18.899 --> 01:39:22.779
No, and I'll tell you why. It's because he had

01:39:22.779 --> 01:39:25.550
a solid season last year. That's true. He doesn't

01:39:25.550 --> 01:39:28.130
really need to be a breakout. He already has

01:39:28.130 --> 01:39:30.930
broken out. He's in the top 15 quarterbacks,

01:39:30.949 --> 01:39:33.149
and I think they're pretty happy with that. Yeah.

01:39:33.350 --> 01:39:36.890
He may even be in the top 10. I would definitely

01:39:36.890 --> 01:39:40.350
expect lots of good things from Baker Mayfield

01:39:40.350 --> 01:39:44.550
this year. I do too. It seems pretty clear that

01:39:44.550 --> 01:39:46.710
each season he's there, he's getting more comfortable,

01:39:46.810 --> 01:39:50.470
more happy, more confident. Things are working.

01:39:50.710 --> 01:39:53.029
And even when they didn't have such a great season

01:39:53.029 --> 01:39:57.149
last year. No, he's still a, yeah. It's like

01:39:57.149 --> 01:40:00.430
Cincinnati's been playing up and down, but Joe

01:40:00.430 --> 01:40:02.850
Burrow's been consistently good. I think Baker

01:40:02.850 --> 01:40:04.710
Mayfield's kind of the same way. I think so,

01:40:04.810 --> 01:40:06.789
too. He's settled in. He's like, yeah, we'll

01:40:06.789 --> 01:40:10.050
ride it up and we'll ride it down, but we'll

01:40:10.050 --> 01:40:11.710
get it going. Yeah, I'm going to go in and I'm

01:40:11.710 --> 01:40:13.750
going to play my best game and see how it goes.

01:40:13.789 --> 01:40:18.170
Yeah. Yeah, I like the new, mature Baker Mayfield

01:40:18.170 --> 01:40:21.590
in zone. Compare that to one of the other Florida

01:40:21.590 --> 01:40:24.050
teams in Miami and their quarterback situation.

01:40:24.609 --> 01:40:29.109
Oh, yeah. I have every sympathy for Tua from

01:40:29.109 --> 01:40:32.130
all the damage that's been done to his brain

01:40:32.130 --> 01:40:35.989
and how tough he is and hanging in there. And

01:40:35.989 --> 01:40:38.189
he's got the biggest heart in the world because

01:40:38.189 --> 01:40:40.409
he still wants to do it. He still wants to try.

01:40:40.770 --> 01:40:43.909
Yeah. But I just don't know. It's just not happening.

01:40:44.189 --> 01:40:49.680
I'm telling you, yeah. Yeah. I agree, but the

01:40:49.680 --> 01:40:51.560
problem is they don't have an answer down there.

01:40:51.680 --> 01:40:54.119
Yeah, part of the problem is the fans want them,

01:40:54.180 --> 01:40:56.020
or enough of them still want them, and the other

01:40:56.020 --> 01:40:57.859
problem is, yeah, who else are you going to bring

01:40:57.859 --> 01:41:01.560
in? They've got nobody. Yeah. They didn't draft

01:41:01.560 --> 01:41:04.859
for anybody, which surprised me. Yeah, normally

01:41:04.859 --> 01:41:07.920
you have at least somebody who's young and decent

01:41:07.920 --> 01:41:09.699
enough. There's nothing else to run your practice

01:41:09.699 --> 01:41:12.460
squad. And I've got an idea for them, too. Oh,

01:41:12.460 --> 01:41:16.500
yeah? Reunite them, the Alabama alumni, two starters.

01:41:17.079 --> 01:41:22.479
and trade Tua to Philadelphia. And then when

01:41:22.479 --> 01:41:25.020
Jalen Hurt gets hurt, he can go in there. It

01:41:25.020 --> 01:41:26.640
would be obviously what happened in Alabama.

01:41:27.000 --> 01:41:29.600
Yeah. Where Tua got hurt and Hurt comes in there.

01:41:29.760 --> 01:41:32.600
That would be poetic. Yeah, yeah, it would. Like,

01:41:32.619 --> 01:41:36.340
I got this, Jalen. Go sit down. Go sit down.

01:41:37.520 --> 01:41:40.619
Who would be a good quarterback to step in at

01:41:40.619 --> 01:41:43.720
the Dolphins? Somebody who's either not playing

01:41:43.720 --> 01:41:46.300
or is a backup somewhere. They trade for Minshew.

01:41:48.720 --> 01:41:52.840
Yeah, that could work. Hey, Tyree Kill for Gardner

01:41:52.840 --> 01:41:55.000
Minshew? Yeah. Think it'll happen? I'll do that.

01:41:55.359 --> 01:41:58.979
No. No, I don't think it will either. No. Now

01:41:58.979 --> 01:42:00.319
they're going to prove us wrong because they're

01:42:00.319 --> 01:42:01.739
listening and they're going to say, ah, we're

01:42:01.739 --> 01:42:03.060
going to kill those dudes. We're not going to

01:42:03.060 --> 01:42:05.079
do it even though we were going to do it today,

01:42:05.239 --> 01:42:07.420
but now, no. We'll show those sporting bastards.

01:42:07.779 --> 01:42:12.640
Yes. All right. You got anything else? I think

01:42:12.640 --> 01:42:14.840
we're good. We're up to about an hour and 45.

01:42:15.340 --> 01:42:18.279
That's not bad. That's respectable. I certainly

01:42:18.279 --> 01:42:21.300
respect it. I do too. Anyhow, thank you all for

01:42:21.300 --> 01:42:23.840
listening. We really appreciate it. I hope you

01:42:23.840 --> 01:42:25.260
have a great day and go fuck yourself.