Hey everybody, welcome to the Shenanigan Shuffle, the podcast where chaos meets comedy and everything
in between.
I'm AJ, I'm here with Dennis, Jackson and Josiah and we're very excited to bring you
our very first episode.
Sure are.
Welcome.
We have a very awesome episode coming up for you guys today where you're going to do a
quick icebreaker question.
We're going to do a top five draft of serials following that and then we're going to get
to our main discussion, which is the NFL.
So without any further ado, let's dive in to a quick icebreaker question, which I have
written down right here.
If you could only play one or if you could play any sport that you have not yet played
in your life, what would it be?
Any sport I have not yet played?
Like if we're talking realistic, like high school, I'd say like probably baseball, but
like,
No, not realistic.
Whatever sport you want to play.
I actually want to play lacrosse.
No.
You want to play lacrosse?
Lacrosse would be a cool sport to play.
It's random or rugby, lacrosse or rugby.
Josiah is going lacrosse or rugby.
I'm going to have to go with rugby.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm going tennis or golf.
Oh, that's a good one.
Tennis, golf, Jackson.
See, I go golf, but it's not like I've never like done golf.
I haven't done organized golf.
My sport, I want to do something fun.
I want to do like canoeing.
You know, I very like running.
It's not called canoeing.
It's rowing.
You want to do rowing?
Yeah, rowing.
You think rowing would be fun?
You got a group of like 17, 10 people, whatever it is, and you're like, what do you think
they do to pass time?
Train.
You train?
You think rowing is fun?
No, no, no, like when you're in the boat, like do they sing songs?
No, they row.
They're counting, they're rowing.
Yeah, and you got a dude who's got like, he's got a front with a whistle.
He's got a speaker like this, like wrapped around his head.
Oh, I think that's it.
Yeah, so he's like calling out.
You got to give a leader on your boat.
AJ, what about you?
Oh yeah, I got to answer.
I want to play hockey.
I love hockey.
Hockey?
Oh, that would be cool.
I would never.
Hockey would be cool.
I can't skate to save my life, but I absolutely love.
I can't skate.
I love watching hockey.
I enjoy hockey.
I can't do hockey.
I would, if I could play, be on a hockey team with you guys, I'd play hockey.
That would be fun.
Yeah, I do.
I would be a hockey awesome.
I'm definitely, I definitely want to try and get better at skating because my uncle always
plays every year in this old man hockey league.
You're enjoying it?
Yeah, I do.
I want to join the old man hockey league.
You don't need to skate much for that.
That's honestly true.
I want to play forward though, so I guess we'll see how that goes.
My uncle plays it.
It looks like a lot of fun, but it's kind of slower going because there are a bunch
of 40 year old dudes kind of skating around.
I mean, they're all pretty old out there playing hockey.
So are we moving on here?
Yeah, let's get rolling.
Let's move on.
All right, so we're going to do a top five draft of cereals.
I don't know how you want this to work.
Are we going to go round five, everyone goes?
We're going to do five rounds.
We're not going to do snake, just one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.
Should I put our names in a little?
So if someone takes a cereal, can we not take that cereal?
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
So if someone, it's one and done.
Okay.
So, okay.
Yeah, yeah, that works.
All right.
Well, do I get the number one draft pick?
Because I am a Bears fan.
Sorry, I mean, I think that number one draft.
Yeah, let's go based on NFL.
No, you're just going to random.
I'm putting our names right now.
I like the random name picker.
Okay.
All right.
Okay, so we're putting our names right now in and let's spin to see.
So the first pick in the draft is going to be, it's going to be Jackson.
There we go.
It knows.
It just knows.
It knows his unfortunate year.
Okay.
Well, the second pick.
I'd say progressive year.
Making progression.
Second pick is going to be Josiah.
So Jackson, Josiah, and our third pick is going to be AJ, which means I'm stuck with
the last pick.
All right.
Well, so no snake then.
No.
Do you want to change it to snake?
No, no.
You got a lot of pick here.
I'm good.
All right.
I'm a good drafter.
Okay.
Not a good fantasy football league manager.
Yeah, not good league manager, but.
Another story.
We'll get to that at some point, I'm sure.
All right.
Well, if I'm going first, I'm going to have to start with the obvious best cereal, which
is cocoa rice.
No.
Oh, come on.
Cocoa rice.
Yeah.
I like cocoa rice.
I think that should be a given.
That's.
I'm going to be honest.
What is cocoa rice?
It's like rice krispies with chocolate.
Yeah.
Oh, the regular ones are better.
Like, you know, the rice krisp crackles.
Well, the regular ones aren't flavored.
Hey, we'll get into that.
Okay.
Yeah.
Cocoa rice.
What?
I turned your mind down.
Well, my.
Write down your picks.
Number one is.
Drum roll, please.
Captain Crunch.
That's a good pick.
I have to pick.
Not a fan, though.
I gotta go with that.
I want to try it.
I've never had it before.
You've never had Captain Crunch?
Are you serious?
AJ, we're bringing Captain Crunch for you next episode.
All right.
Next episode, we'll bring Captain Crunch.
We'll send a picture.
We'll put it on the Instagram.
Yeah, okay.
AJ trying Captain Crunch.
AJ eating Captain Crunch.
I've made jokes about Captain Crunch before.
You've never had Captain Crunch before?
I want to try.
It looks pretty good.
He often fantasizes about.
Joke, joke.
Captain Crunch with or without berries?
With berries.
You have to have with berries.
With berries.
Okay, so are we, is Captain Crunch still an option or no?
Well, you can, okay, so I did Captain Crunch.
Like, just the original.
With berries.
So you can't do berries.
So it's a mix.
No berries.
No berries off of it.
It's done.
Like, just no all berries.
Well, yours, it's just all of Captain Crunch.
That's your story.
Okay, okay.
All right.
Oh, it wasn't my turn.
Yeah, it's your turn.
Okay.
I'm gonna go with.
I'm gonna go with Fruit Loops.
Ooh.
That's a good one.
That's what I was debating on.
I grew up eating Fruit Loops.
That's it, because I never grew up with, like, when I got sugar cereals, I was on my birthday.
Fruit Loops are low-key underrated.
I've had them, but I think the off-brand Fruit Loops have ruined it for me, because, like,
it feels like every.
Yeah, Fruit Brown.
Yeah, what the heck.
Like.
Yeah, man.
The original, like, Fruit Loops are so underrated.
So we got Cocoa Rice.
I agree with that.
Captain Crunch, Fruit Loops.
I'm gonna take what should have been the obvious number one pick, Honey Nut Cheerios.
Okay, what?
That's not better than Fruit Loops.
No.
Honey Nut Cheerios were like the cereal that was always left in your cup.
Exactly.
That's the cereal that's always, like, gone in a day.
I could eat a box of that right now.
Okay, next video.
The video we're in now.
AJ eating a bowl of Captain Crunch versus Dennis eating a box of Honey Nut Cheerios.
Wait, what?
Yeah.
We're gonna add that to it?
Yeah, I can finish that.
Honey Nut, that's the best cereal out there.
If you don't have them with milk, they get, like, dropped.
Yeah, I can't do it like that.
No, they don't.
They don't.
They're like candy.
Well, I can do straight up Honey Nut Cheerios.
The thing is, like, Fruit Loops are just better.
They're just way better taste.
Fruit Loops.
I agree.
But I like Honey Nut Cheerios a lot.
Where's the?
Like, that's the original cereal, and that, I think, is one of the...
It's up there.
It's a landmark for cereals.
It's up there.
Okay, so if someone wanted to make it, they'll pick Cheerios, though.
I'd say yeah, because those are, like, two very, like, big different Cheerios.
Get more way different.
Honey Nuts are good, but...
Jackson, you're up.
I'm sorry, what's the second round of the cereal draft?
Jackson Martin selects Fruity Pebbles.
I've never had Fruity Pebbles.
That's a good pick.
It's basically just Fruit Loops.
But better in my opinion.
It's like cocoa rice, but fruity.
The only time that I've ever had Fruity Pebbles was on a chocolate donut.
Now see, that was actually a crazy donut place.
Dude, that's so good.
But it was good.
All right.
I know this is not related, but I did go to this churro place that gives you ice cream
with two Cheerios, and they put Fruity Pebbles in there.
That's so good.
That was, like, one of the most amazing desserts I've ever had.
Yeah, Fruity Pebbles.
Yeah, those are good.
Nice pick, man.
All right.
All right, my turn again.
All right.
We're going to go with Frosted Flakes.
That's a good pick.
My Frosted Flakes.
Is that the one with the tiger?
Yeah.
Tony the Tiger.
That's a good pick.
That is a good pick.
I don't want to steal my pick.
I'm scared here.
I don't know.
I don't think I'm going to steal your pick because I'm going with Cookie Crisp.
What?
Oh, what?
Oh, are you talking about those little cookies?
Yeah.
Those things are not good.
I like Cookie Crisp.
It's not even a cereal either.
No.
Like, you can't just like...
No.
I don't know.
Cereal is really good for a snack.
Well, I picked it.
It's like teetering on cereal.
Like, they're not even good with milk.
No.
Like...
I think they're good either way.
Well, I can't drink milk, so I do like chocolate almond milk with them, so.
It's the most dairy-free thing I've ever heard.
Anyway, I can't drink milk.
Okay, I got...
I'm debating here, but I'm surprised this hasn't been picked yet.
I'm surprised we got...
What did you pick, Jackson?
Cocoa Rice and Fruity Pebbles.
I'm surprised we got Cocoa Rice and Fruity Pebbles.
That's like under Captain Crunch.
Yeah, because...
It needs to be more marshmallow consistency.
Yeah, right.
Because, okay, the thing with Captain Crunch, it's like everyone loves the fruit, but the
little yellow things taste just as good.
Yeah, they're not bad.
And Lucky Charms, when you're not eating a marshmallow, you're eating a bowl of depression.
Yeah.
It's terrible.
Yo, I agree.
I definitely think if you're eating Lucky Charms and you're not eating a marshmallow, it's
like eating normal Cheerios.
Do you know what's amazing?
You can order just the marshmallows.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Sounds pretty marshmallow-y.
Yeah, that does sound pretty marshmallow-y.
Okay, we're through two rounds.
We've got...
Here, I'm gonna go over it quick.
Jackson, your first pick was Cocoa Rice.
Josiah chose Captain Crunch.
AJ went with...
Cookie Crisp.
I got Honey Nut Cheerios.
Second round, Jackson went...
Wait, Fruit Loop was my first round.
Fruity Pebbles second round.
Josiah, what was your second pick?
My second pick was Frosted Flakes.
Frosted Flakes.
My second pick was Cookie Crisp.
And then Lucky Charms, which should have been the first round.
So this is the last round now?
Yeah, this is the last round.
So with my last pick...
See, this threw me off a little bit because some of my picks were taken.
But I think I'm gonna have to go with Cinnamon Crunch.
Oh!
Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
That's what I was probably gonna pick, so...
That's a good one.
That's what I wanted to pick here.
I honestly forgot about Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
All right.
I don't know if you guys have heard of this.
Ready?
I don't know.
But it's called S'mores.
Oh, yeah!
Oh, it's so good.
Yeah, I've had S'mores.
I love S'mores.
I love S'mores cereal.
I mean, it's solid.
You know, it seems like a good one, but it also seems like one of those cereals that's
gonna be struggling with a consistency issue again.
Yeah.
Yeah, honestly, that sounds good.
There's typically a lot of marshmallows in it, though, so that's a positive.
And the marshmallows are pretty good.
So I like my pick.
Okay.
All right.
With my third and...
This is the final pick?
Yep.
All right.
With my third and final pick, I'm gonna go with Reese's Puffs.
It's a good one.
I'm gonna go with underneath S'mores for me.
I almost went with that for my second pick, but I do like Cookie Crisp a little bit more.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
What?
If you mix them together?
No.
You ever try that?
Peanut butter Cookie Crisp?
No, don't do that.
That's pretty good.
Okay, with the final pick of the draft, little cousin to my first pick, we're going plain
old Cheerios.
Okay.
You got big Cheerios.
No, because, think it, Cheerios are just, they're really good on their own.
You like bring them in a baggie to school.
That's a nice snack.
Were you one of those kids that brought them in baggies to school?
They're such a great snack, but also, you can just take them and anything, strawberries,
it's a great baggie.
I mean, yeah, but like-
I never mix them.
Did you have any fun as a kid?
I'm serious.
Come on.
Cheerios are good.
Wow.
Yeah, I agree with the other two, man.
I think Cheerios are kind of bland.
I don't think Cheerios deserve to make it on this list.
I mean, I did almost put Raisin Bran on mine, but-
That's not bad.
Coming from the kind of good Cheerios on here.
I can't believe Apple Jacks didn't-
I was going to say Apple Jacks.
That was my next one if we did another round.
Never had Apple Jacks.
I don't think we've ever had an Apple Jacks.
I was going to say Apple Jacks.
Never had Apple Jacks.
I've never had an Apple Jacks.
They're actually pretty good.
I was actually, and then I remembered S'mores, and I was like, oh, I got to do S'mores over
Apple Jacks.
Apple Jacks was on my list, so.
Well speaking of cereal, how about we hop into the NFL?
Smooth transition.
That was it.
That was the best segue I think I've ever heard.
Oh man, that was so good.
Wow.
Way to go, buddy.
All right.
The NFL.
Yeah, let's hop into the NFL.
I'm going to give us a brief overview of what I believe is happening this current season.
We got players debating about turf and turf injuries.
That's a big one.
I mean, and when you look at everyone's schedules this year so far at the start, they're pretty
main.
Everyone's got just barely over 500 or just below 500.
Oh yeah.
Schedule.
Them Eagles.
Except for the Eagles.
There's a couple teams.
You got Eagles, Chiefs, and that's about it.
But the Chiefs regularly.
And the Jags.
The Jags.
Oh, the Jags.
They are.
They got a shot at the number one seed in the FC.
So now the Panthers fired their head coach today.
Yeah, dude.
One in 10 to start the season.
So I guess where do the Panthers go from here?
And what do we think of their season so far?
I mean, it's been quite a flop.
So here's right.
So the Panthers, they can't really go.
There's really no point for them to tank because they don't even have their picks.
Exactly.
And they're kind of just in a pickle.
The Panthers, they traded away their best player, best playmaker, and DJ Moore.
But they got Bryce Young.
Has he done anything?
No.
I mean, no.
He can't really.
He's got no one to work with either.
Who's their number one already?
Can anyone tell me?
No.
Who's their running back?
They got.
The Fanders.
Isn't it Miles Sanders?
And then Chuba Hubbard.
Not Chuba Hubbard.
Chuba?
Miles Sanders.
That's like getting the scraps from the Eagles last year.
So they really don't have anyone.
Their defense, they still got the Brian Burns, right?
So they're like, OK, but they just can't.
They have nowhere to go.
I think they should sell, focus on just like the future, like futureize in three, four
years from now.
I think they need some Coach Prime swag out there.
Coach Prime?
They should sell for DL.
Coach Prime.
We're not talking about College Football or anything.
We're talking about the NFL.
I'm saying they should sell for DL.
Coach Prime lost his last eight of his nine games.
You really want that?
All right.
Bring out that swag.
So with a coach being fired.
Who's next?
I guess who's on the hot seat and I guess who's your next?
So my hot seat is Ron Rivera, possibly.
These commanders, right?
Yeah.
Brandon Stahle.
Stahle.
The Chargers.
They've been, because the thing is like the Chargers, like they have potential.
They really do have potential.
But they just can't win.
It's all in the coaching.
Yeah.
And then honestly, I mean, am I shocked the Titans are having a bad year?
Not really.
Could Mike Vable be on the hot seat?
Possibly.
And then Brian Dable.
He's with the Giants?
The thing is they had such like a surprising year last year and they didn't really, they
didn't lose much, did they?
No.
Let me come back this year.
I mean, they lost, Daniel Jones is out.
First game of the season just completely just set the tone for their whole team.
But the thing is, and I mean, Daniel Jones isn't even that good.
And it's like for him being out, it's not like-
And they find him a crazy ton of money.
And then that backup quarterback, I mean, he's won all of his games so far ever since
he started.
So I mean, I guess he might not be on the hot seat anymore.
I guess my big guy that I think is going to be fired next is Brandon Staley.
I think he's probably my getting fired next list.
He's just been very unproductive for the Chargers and the Chargers have a good roster.
I mean, granted, their wire receivers have been hurt and Justin Herbert hasn't gotten
much help.
But yet again, I mean, there's still a lot of talent there and they've done nothing.
I got kind of an unpopular opinion.
I think Bill Belichick is getting close to the hot seat here.
No, here's what I'm saying though.
Bill Belichick, they're going to let him know like a year in advance and he's going to retire
every before.
You cannot fire a coach that went on to win like six-
But that's also a franchise that's so used to winning that much.
Yeah, so what's going to happen is Belichick's going to get a hint and he's going to announce
his retirement before any rumors about him.
And then the owner also stated he's not going to get rid of Belichick or anything.
So personally, I do think Belichick is staying.
If we're talking unpopular opinions, it might be pretty early for this, but Sean McDermott
of the Bills.
Really?
I mean, that's true.
The Bills lost?
You know what?
Six and five?
That's actually not a-
No, they're five and six.
Five and six.
They lost to the Eagles.
Yeah.
No, they're five and seven.
Yeah.
They lost to the Eagles.
No.
Five and six.
They're five and six.
They lost to Denver and then they lost to the Eagles.
They lost to Denver and the Eagles.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, you're right.
Five and six.
No, they're six and six.
Oh, six and six.
Yeah, yeah.
So six and six.
But the thing is they're in like a fairly, I mean, not easy division.
They've got the Deltons, but then they have the Jets and the Patriots.
Those are two terrible teams at this point in the NFL.
But they're not like, they're fighting for a wild card spot right now.
They should be at the top of their conference.
They should be.
They should be up there.
That's where they were last year.
But the thing is, you can't really, he's made the playoffs, what, five of his six years
of coaching.
So you got to give him another year at least, I'd say.
But they also haven't done anything in the playoffs.
That's true too.
They got the AFC, or AFC Championship.
They got the AFC Championship one year.
First the Chiefs that game.
Like they were literally one game away.
That was a crazy game.
That was.
So, I mean, yeah.
All right.
And Matt Eberfliss.
Don't forget about him.
I think he's going to be on for the next season.
How many years has he been there?
Two?
One.
No, wait, no, it's the second season.
Sorry.
I think the Bears will keep him for another year.
Because here's the thing, right?
I don't know.
You got a team who's had a top five pick consistently.
You don't expect your coach to just...
Plus, I think they're going to give him one more year.
Because you guys have that Panthers draft pick.
They're projected with the number one and number three pick this year.
So if he doesn't do anything with those two picks next year, yeah, he's going to be...
To be honest, the Bears are not the best drafters, so it might be in their best interest to trade
away those picks.
Oh, I don't know about that.
Moving on.
Now that we were talking about the Panthers season earlier, we're going to be moving on
to the debate of who's better, I guess.
CJ Stroud or Bryce Young?
CJ Stroud.
I think it's pretty obvious.
CJ Stroud.
I mean, yeah, I think it's pretty obvious here.
CJ Stroud is statistically just better.
I mean, granted, he doesn't have much help.
CJ Stroud doesn't have much help on the Panthers overall.
The thing is, CJ Stroud has had...
Because when was Tank Dell drafted?
He was drafting the third or fourth round or something.
He stepped up and he'd be...
I mean, he's their number one Ryder receiver.
I guess Robert Woods, you can make an argument.
He stepped up.
He's been a playmaker that they need.
So CJ Stroud has the help he needs.
He's working well with the situation that he's been put in.
Bryce Young is not working well with the situation.
To be fair, it's not the best situation he could be put in, but CJ Stroud so far is the
better NFL player.
And even like, Bryce Young's in the MVP conversation right now.
Not even like...
Bryce Young is?
No, I'm not.
My bad, my bad.
CJ Stroud is.
He'll win rookie of the year.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, probably.
But I mean, even watching him during the Jaguars game the other day, I mean, he was just mobile,
could run up down the field.
I mean, he could throw the ball easily on the run.
He was cooking out there.
Yeah, he had that broke up.
I didn't realize he had a cannon too.
I think he had a 58-yard completion get called back, but he threw the ball 58 yards.
I was shocked.
I saw that.
That was a great cannon.
He's second in the NFL for passing yards.
Yeah.
He's second in the NFL for passing yards.
He's got a decent completion percentage.
He's only got five interceptions, which for a rookie, for any NFL QB, like Josh Allen's
at 13 interceptions, Tua's at 10, Patrick Mahomes at 9.
He's at five interceptions this year.
So that's...
That's pretty good.
He hasn't been out.
He's been healthy.
He's playing good.
And his line is playing decently good for him.
He's been...
But they have a good line.
I mean, over their last few years, they've picked up some offense alignment in first
round and stuff.
So I mean, I guess they've been...
They've been slowly, quietly building a team.
Yeah.
And I didn't kind of realize that until they got CJ Strahd this year.
Give it like a couple more years, they're going to be one of the like Jaguars who suddenly
come top of the league.
Oh yeah.
All right.
So another debate, I guess.
Me and Dennis as Packer fans.
So who do you think is better?
Jayden Reed or Jackson Smith Najigba?
Now looking at the stats here...
Well, Jackson Smith Najigba was drafted in the first round, right?
Yeah.
Here's the thing though.
He was late for a shot, but the thing is people wanted...
People are mad at the Packers that they didn't draft him with the 13th overall pick.
Jackson Smith Najigba, he was supposed to be like high first overall pick.
He ended up falling into late first and Jayden Reed was a third round like 90 something.
Yeah, but the thing is like, you look at the Seahawks too.
I mean, who has a better future in my opinion?
I think Jackson Smith Najigba.
I think Jaylen Reed is just having a good year because...
Because the Packers are so desperate for a wider receiver.
Exactly.
And Christian Watson's like hurt half the year and all of a sudden he'll boom like he did
against the Lions.
But at the same time as well, like, I mean what Jayden Reed has done is crazy too.
So...
Yeah, and I mean, Jackson Smith Najigba, I mean who's the Seahawks quarterback?
Gino Smith.
I think, yeah, you have all your quarterbacks.
But is Gino better than Jordan Love?
I don't think Gino is.
He might be slightly better.
I think Jordan is better.
I think Gino's got way more experience.
He had a great year last year, like if we were taking last year Gino Smith, this year
Jordan Love, Gino Smith is far better.
But again, you've got to also look at Jackson Smith.
He is the third option.
The third, yeah.
He's got like a DK and Tyler Lockett.
Yeah.
And he's still got 406 yards, two touchdowns as a third, like a third string option with
Jayden Reed.
He's, I mean, essentially there's times games where he's our first option, second option.
He's got 500 yards, five touchdowns.
Yeah, I think what is interesting too is Jackson Smith and the Jigba has two more receptions
than Jayden Smith.
And Jayden Smith has almost 100 more yards than Jackson Smith and the Jigba.
Yeah, I would say Jayden Reed.
I would say Jayden Reed's more of a deep thought.
I'd say Jayden Reed for this year is better.
So far this year Jayden Reed has played better.
But Jackson Smith and the Jigba has a better future.
And then you also got to think, put Jackson Smith on the Packers, right?
Like if he was on the Packers, would he be having the same season?
I mean, yeah.
You can't really say.
But or not.
You got to look at the situations they're put in.
He'd probably be doing better.
And Jayden Reed probably wouldn't even be, we wouldn't even be talking about right now.
Yeah.
So then our next topic is, I guess the division we're going to be talking about this week
is the NFC East.
I mean, for me, it's just Eagles, Cowboys, and then that's it on that division.
I mean, the Eagles only loss came from Zach Wilson himself.
Somehow lost that game.
So that's a weird statistic.
Yeah, that was weird.
And then Cowboys are going to be.
I think the Cowboys can be contenders.
Cowboys?
I think the Cowboys.
Cowboys are going to choke in the playoffs.
It depends on what Cowboys you run into.
If they're going to show up, they're going to play really well.
Dax had some good games this year.
But that's always how the story goes.
Dax hot, Nicole cold, and their team.
It depends who they play in the playoffs.
Like if they get matched up against.
That's true.
Like that matters a lot.
Because right now the Cowboys are slated to have the fifth spot.
It was surprisingly behind the Falcons who are not even above 500 because the NFC South
is a terrible division.
Falcons right now are going to be the fourth seed, which is crazy to think about.
But besides that, it depends who they get put up against.
But I think the Cowboys are going to.
They're going to make the playoffs and then they're going to choke in the playoffs.
Yeah.
Probably, probably that right.
Yeah.
That makes sense to me.
All right.
So I think that's a.
Now on to AJ's favorite topic that he can talk about all over the day.
I'm excited for this.
Is the Broncos.
Denver Broncos.
I guess I kind of was.
I didn't think the Broncos would have a good season.
It's a big turn.
They were.
I was expecting it.
Let's give AJ.
I think that after Miami, Justin Simmons said it specifically after the 50 point loss to
Miami, there's a lot of self-reflection.
There's a lot of, you know, something had to change.
I really think they pulled through and started with a nice one against the Packers, followed
by a shocker to the entire league, beating the Chiefs.
That was pretty.
It was pretty good.
I mean, then we, then we beat, I mean, then the Bills and the Vikings, now the Browns,
we absolutely dominated the Browns yesterday.
I mean, they haven't beat.
I don't know if I'd say down, but like it was a domination.
It was, it was a good football game.
I don't know.
I mean, you guys didn't kind of pull away there towards like, I guess you could call
it a domination, but it was like 10 minutes into the fourth is where you guys started
to pull away.
Yeah.
Cause the Browns shot themselves in the foot.
We did, we did run into a couple of defensive troubles in the second quarter and third quarter,
but for the most part it was.
Here's my opinion.
The Broncos have a really easy schedule and they're benefiting from that this year.
Now see, I kind of-
Raiders are not above 500, are they?
No.
The commanders are not above 500.
The Dolphins are, lost them mid time.
The Bears are not above 500.
Barely sweeted out a win against them.
They lost to the Jets who's, I don't know.
Zach Wilson could just randomly clutch up.
Yeah, the Jets just clutch up randomly.
Lost to the Chiefs who are a good team.
Barely beat the Packers who are not even a 500 team.
Beat the Chiefs the week after and then barely beat the Bills who again are barely even a
500 team.
And then beat the Browns barely who aren't a 500 team.
Barely?
It was-
29 to 12?
It was, oh I thought this said 22.
29 to 12.
Okay, not barely, but beat the Browns.
They face three teams that have above 500 records right now.
Yeah, I think that, I think that's a valid point, but all that matters is, to me right
now, is getting to the playoffs.
I don't have Super Bowl hopes.
I just haven't seen a Broncos playoff game since 2015, so I just want to see the Broncos
play the playoffs wherever we go.
I'm looking forward to our future.
Yeah, that's where I'm at.
What about the Vikings?
Josh Dobbs?
What do you think about them?
It's, he had a week or two it's going to be one of those pictures.
Who was that player?
Mike White for the Jets last year?
Had an amazing game, had another amazing game, was nobody.
This happened to the Vikings before and they brought Case Keenum in.
Also to the Patriots too with Zappie.
And Case Keenum and the Vikings a couple years ago, same thing.
Who's like third in the Packers history for most passing yards in the game?
A backup, Matt Flynn.
Players can have good games, he's going to have a couple good weeks, I don't think he's
going to do anything.
The thing is though, I've always liked Joshua Dobbs as a quarterback though, because he's
never been bad as a backup.
When he was with the Titans he was good, when he was with the Cardinals he wasn't awful.
The key word there is backup, he's a backup quarterback in the NFL.
I think he could keep his starting spot.
Because there's no one else to replace him.
Jordan Love is starting spot.
You think they have anything about Jordan Love?
But he's not.
He's been sitting on the bench longer than touchdown.
Yeah and he has the same amount of passing yards and passing touchdowns as Patrick Mahomes
this year.
Oh boy, I didn't know about that.
It's true.
It's true but stats, you can't look at it.
Yes, look how much rushing yards does Patrick Mahomes have compared to Jordan Love?
Not a lot.
I don't know but also look at the help that Patrick Mahomes has.
Patrick Mahomes has a great line, Creed Humphrey, he's got the whatever other dude.
He's got the man Travis Kelsey.
What do you mean?
We have a good line on paper, a bunch of them are injured.
We have Josh Myers, terrible player, he's decent, he's alright, I just don't like him.
I don't like him.
We've got Zach Tom, he's going to be a generational talent.
I'm telling you that now.
I don't like Bakhtiari.
Bakhtiari needs to go.
No, he needs to go but Elton Jenkins, he's played good.
He just injured.
I met that guy.
I met Elton Jenkins.
That's good for you.
Thank you and Elton.
Okay, so Packers, Vikings said that.
Vikings, we can all agree, they might make a playoff spot but Joshua Dobbs is not the
quarterback of the future by any means and they need to find a QB soon because Kurt Cousins'
time is also probably coming down.
I don't think he's going to come back from an injury.
No, Josh Dobbs is going to be the quarterback for the rest of the season.
He's not older than Aaron Rodgers.
No, yeah, Kurt Cousins is out for the season.
But he's also not Aaron Rodgers.
Yeah, he's not Aaron Rodgers.
You can't always come back from an injury like that.
Okay, let's finish this NFL conversation up.
Talking NFC North, Lions, surprising.
We're just going to go to the Bears.
Jackson, I want to hear your thoughts as a Bears fan on the Bears season.
Okay, Bears season, a little bit of figuring things out.
We've got like this is our first season with DJ Moore.
Like figuring out.
He's playing great.
He's played a really good season despite the quarterback struggle.
My biggest problem is our line.
Our line is atrocious.
All line and D line.
Our D line is also not bad.
So we got D line, the Montez sweat brought a lot to the team.
All line sucks.
Our linebacker situation is great.
We got Tremaine Edmonds, TJ Edwards.
TJ Edwards just came off Super Bowl.
TJ Edwards badger right there.
Yeah, there you go.
And Jack Sanborn.
Is he starting though?
No.
Well, yeah, he actually did start last game in place of Tremaine Edmonds.
I said he was starting the.
Great.
You got players, but you are three and eight or whatever.
I would say, OK, a line makes a team.
OK, I agree with that.
I agree.
Just general football.
But something about the Bears is that they don't have a good old line.
And I think our play calling sucks.
And so I'm not going to lie.
So you blame it on the coach?
I blame our coaches.
Yeah.
And head coach.
Matt Everfliss.
I don't think he's a good coach.
Do you still have our old coordinator or something?
Defensive coordinator, the Packers old guy.
Our defensive coordinator like.
I think he quit.
Oh, oh yeah.
He had to leave because of like family.
But all I'm saying is the Bears have a lot of potential if they can like get a couple
key pieces.
They've lost games closely like like the Broncos game.
That was a close game.
Like we have finished games.
We've gone into halftime winning, come out losing the game.
Just kind of like, you know, kind of clean things up.
But OK, and then final question is Justin Fields, the quarterback of the future for
the Chicago Bears.
See part of me wants to say trade Justin Fields now, get Caleb Williams with our first round
draft pick and trade the third round pick.
Third overall?
Third overall.
For what?
Like a player or just later picks?
Maybe some old linemen.
That could be useful.
That could be very useful.
Makes sense.
Yeah, I just you could draft an offensive lineman third round though.
I mean, I mean, that's kind of what the Packers do.
Yeah.
Can't remember the last time we did the high pick on the Packers are also really good at
finding great players later on.
They're also really bad drafting sometimes, too.
That happens.
I think not every pick is going to be a great pick.
I think Caleb Williams got potential, but I also think Justin Fields.
Here's the thing.
People say he needs time to prove himself.
I think he's had a good amount of time there.
I do think not having a good old line is like a big factor into some of his failures, but
he's also had some good successes that we can look at, too.
Yeah, that's that's definitely true.
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Yeah, one one question, just quick question as we are this far in the season, who do you
think is going to win the Super Bowl?
One word.
Eagles.
Jeff.
Dolphins.
I really like the Dolphins.
Hey, we said one word, Jackson.
We said one word.
Jackson, we said one word.
I'm going to go Chiefs.
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