Welcome to the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast.
I am your host, Justin Jackson.
In this week's episode, we'll be discussing the NFL week 9.
We'll be talking about NFL week 10.
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Welcome into the show on a Thursday afternoon.
Welcome into today's show, guys.
Excited to be with you.
Incredibly excited to be with you at this time.
I didn't know if I was going to even record a show this week, but I know how much you
guys enjoy the content.
You guys enjoy my opinions.
As I can tell from the ratings, I've been going up steadily over the past few shows.
As you guys are really getting into it, I appreciate the social media interaction as
well.
We can get those numbers up on Instagram and Twitter and TikTok.
Facebook is doing absolutely great right now.
So shout out to you guys that are on that, supporting that.
I'm excited you guys are into the podcast.
The numbers are ticking up for the pod as well.
As I said, personal news for me last week.
I didn't know if I was going to record this week or last week.
But in the process of moving, if you guys know moving is a pain in the butt.
It's exciting when you move, especially when you change cities back in the Badminton
Beach area.
But it is a pain in the butt in order to move cities whenever you have to do that.
I'm coming from Lafayette, San Juan in the Badminton area for those of you who don't
know the Louisiana landscape.
From my Southeast Asian, European, Florida, wherever listeners you guys are.
That's about an hour, hour and 15 minutes.
Actually where I am, probably about an hour and a half difference.
It's around the drive.
I was 80, some about 90 miles difference to where I am.
So moving is a pain.
It's like I did in the middle of a week.
So me and a close friend of mine, one of my dad and wife guided taking care of, deal with
the past couple of days really.
But we're going to keep doing that process.
Like they knew I was going to quit, but I was able to get in some time to knock out
this show.
Like I don't even have one of my podcast equipment with me.
I basically have a laptop.
I don't even have my mics or anything.
Like I said, it's still transitioning between places.
Love the new place.
But anyway, let's get into the show.
Why you guys are here.
And I appreciate all you guys for taking some time on your Thursday afternoon.
Maybe you catch it Friday morning when you're working your transit.
But why are you guys are here?
Let's jump right into NFL week nine.
Interesting battle.
The NFL is of course in the middle of the international series.
So the Chiefs were against the Dolphins over in Germany, I believe.
And so they played, it was a dominating first half for the Chiefs and then the dominating
second half for the Dolphins.
Like it was the definition of the Taylor two half.
If you're a Chiefs fan, the first half could basically probably not have gone better than
you could have done.
Tyrick Hill was under control for the most part.
Two attack of our love was rattled.
Your offense back to my homes had two touchdowns.
Your defense forced Tyrick Hill from the running back right for the half to score a touchdown
and make it 21-0.
You're going into the half feeling like a very Chiefs kind of game.
A whole lot of Chiefdom running around in Germany.
And so that's how you were kind of feeling if you are a Chiefs fan.
And then that second half the Dolphins obviously made some adjustments, came out a little bit
different.
But it showed the limitations of the offense in Miami.
And not necessarily the limitations of the offense and as limitations for the offense
itself, but it does show the limits of tour and it shows the limitations of the offense
via personnel.
So there's a throw that keeps being shown a lot of the highlights shows.
The guy was open, I think it was fourth down maybe.
Dolphins are down 21-14.
Tua, I don't even know, I can't even give him the bailout of a miscommunicated route.
Like sometimes you can see a quarterback throws a comeback route when the receiver runs a
go ball.
Or a quarterback throws a go ball, the receiver runs out.
The receiver ran a go on a vertical route.
Tua threw a lie pass all of about 10 yards short, maybe 15 yards short, maybe 15-20 yards
short.
Even if the route was a comeback or a breaking route, even a stop route, there's no reason
for a lie pass.
So it looks like he was trying to fire that ball down the field and it absolutely died.
But that was embarrassing and it showed the limitations of that offense.
You force it to be a pass for his offense and you tell Tua instead of throwing 18 passes
a half, maybe 15 passes a half, best case scenario, 13 passes a half, you throw 20.
22 times, his army wears out, he throws pop flies like he's in batting practice for the
Boston Red Sox.
Like that pass was horrible.
It wasn't even close.
My Tyree Hill was able to get some yards out of the game.
But that pass to me quantified the issues in Miami.
You have a Tua problem.
Your quarterback is clearly not the guy, which I never thought Tua was the guy.
I felt that way about him.
I felt that way about his Alabama compadres with Jalen Kurtz and Mack Jones.
I'm one and a half out of three.
Mack is portable and Jalen Kurtz is good.
So Tua is my half.
He's a halfback.
And so when you have issues the way he's having Tua, he's an accurate passer.
I give him that.
Inside of 20 yards, rocket man.
Ball comes out of the fire, accurate all over the place.
That was an absolute duck.
And it was a couple of throws in that second half.
You know you got to throw it, they were questionable marked throws.
So that's something to keep your eye on if you're a Miami Dolphins fan.
Is can Tua talk about a little fix that because that's an awful situation.
Up next, I believe the Baltimore Ravens have the best team in football.
If they don't, it's damn close.
It's really close.
Between Baltimore and I mean KC, you all got to have some respect there.
Bengals of course.
But Niners, Jags have a case.
But the Ravens are doing right now what was not thought to be done this century.
Especially at the very beginning of it, their first place in defense.
And when their first place in points and yards the last time was the 0-1 Ravens, they won
the Super Bowl.
And they have a much better offense than the 0-1 Ravens had.
Lamar Jackson didn't even recount for a touchdown last game and he scored 37.
Tyler Huntley, yes Snoop Huntley had more touchdowns than Lamar Jackson last game.
And they went 37-3.
They have played the number two very highly ranked offense in Seattle and Detroit and
they combined for six for nine points.
Detroit had six, Seattle went for nine.
Couple on with the fact that Lamar Jackson absolutely balling, he's dealing with the
place.
They're rushing for two points or plus.
I mean this is a team that it's pick your poison because they're both killing you.
It's not even like pick your poison of you're going to beat us on the run, you're going
to beat us on the pass.
Or you're going to blitz me to death or you're going to drop eight and kill me in the ground.
It's you don't want to get suffocated or you want to get bombed away on.
And they're having at the same time.
Two hundred and fifty plus rushing yards in the NFL is an insane number.
That's a ridiculous number.
That's a number that if I didn't see it myself I wouldn't believe it.
That's a wild number and they are just absolutely disrespectful people.
I have my doubts about Todd Merchant as a hire for the Baltimore Ravens because I was
like my college sister, he had the best athletes, he had a 25 year old quarterback, he had the
best tight end.
The talent gap from a Georgia to Missouri or Georgia to a Vanderbilt, he's bigger than
that, it's three times the talent gap.
Even the best team to the worst team in the NFL is.
So how he better make up for it.
And he's absolutely doing an amazing job.
They are absolutely balling right now.
And like I said, you're doing it basically with our Lamar Jackson having to do anything.
He's just kind of there managing the ship, he's playing great football, but he's not
asking for a goodbye after 350 total yards, four total touchdowns to win a game in the
shootout.
He's just managing the team, hitting accurate throws when he's got to hit them, hitting
beautiful passes when he's got to hit them, checking in the right protections, checking
into the right runs.
And they are absolutely balling people on their way to high level success.
I mean I think the Ravens are the best team in the league, but if you want to have a case
or a debate with somebody else, ball me.
Come on, try to prove it.
But I've got the Ravens right now as the best team in the league.
I see what they're doing on defense.
I see what they're doing on the defensive end.
But also that offense is just teeming with potential, especially with Lamar not even
begun to tap into what he could be.
And he's already, they're already scoring 37 points with Snoop Huntsley getting the last
touchdown pass.
A game that was shockingly good was Texans and Bucks.
I figured the score would be close.
I just figured it'd be a bad football game.
Like, it's one of them games where it's like, all right, you see flashes, over C.J.
Stockman, that's a great pass.
Baker throws a good pass.
You kind of see these flashes, LaVarte, David Davis, and Devon Wright make a great backfield
attack to hawk somebody down.
Tank Dale makes a crazy catch.
But then it went in 14-17 to leave a lot to be desired for a football game.
Boy, was I wrong.
Oh, I could not have been more wrong.
That was high level competition, especially in the fourth quarter, especially late in
that fourth quarter.
Baker goes down, leads a touchdown drive, goes up with some, what, 50-some odd seconds left.
C.J. Stroud has had this mind-boggling game, but often not in the loss.
The stories and the podcast topics and articles basically write themselves.
Baker leads a space drive.
C.J. Stroud never gets a real opportunity at it, has this great game, waits until they
want to get a game, et cetera.
The story begins to write itself.
And then C.J. Stroud healed a Geno Smith, but I ain't right back.
And basically it was like, hold right in your leases, I've got a story to finish.
And drives all the way down the field, including hitting a game-winning touchdown.
He finishes with 470 yards, a NFL rookie record, and five touchdown passes.
No interception.
C.J. Stroud absolutely arrived against a really stout Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense.
He showed up and showed out.
I mean, I had him as the best quarterback in the draft.
I would have never in a million years predicted a 470 and five stat line from anybody.
Nonetheless, a rookie, what he did out in the last drive, slicing and dicing, it just
proved what you were looking at was validated.
It proved that it was okay to think as highly of him as you were thinking, because he's
all over the field with slicing and dicing.
Anybody that comes anywhere near trying to deflect, trying to defend his pass, he's
just going right by him.
So C.J. Stroud, man, what an amazing game.
All kudos to him.
I can't even sit on my car horse and be like, I've seen this coming.
Couldn't have possibly seen this.
Not this.
Not 470 and five.
Maybe 325 to three.
325 and four.
But 470 and five touchdown passes.
It's the greatest rookie game ever.
All things considered, it was an absolute show.
They needed every one of those yards.
They needed every one of those touchdowns to survive the 10-bay Buccaneers in what turned
out to be an absolutely great game.
Shout out Antonio Pierce.
I was interim higher.
I was a little skeptical of him because I remember what happened in Arizona State where
he left.
He had a job in the league.
I think he worked for the Giants, actually.
He had a job in the league.
He left it to go be a linebackers coach at Arizona State under Herm Edwards, who promised
to run an NFL team.
But there's rules that NFL teams can do.
College people can't.
So they got into a lot of rule trouble.
Antonio Pierce gets out of there.
He ends up landing with the Raiders, the airline backer coach.
Throughout the past few weeks, he had a lot of public swell to be the interim guy.
Ultimately, he does.
Will McDaniel snaps at Pierce.
Pierce makes jokes about the Patriots.
McDaniel snaps and says, don't you ever talk about the Patriots like that?
Which was raise a lot of eyebrows.
Why are you defending your former team in this way?
McDaniel is ultimately moved out.
Antonio Pierce is moved in.
I had my doubts.
I remember Jeff Saturday.
I remember it.
It was yesterday.
I remember Jeff Saturday.
Antonio Pierce came out of it more.
He showcased a great ability to lead.
He showcased a great ability to win.
He pushed the right buttons when he had to.
His football team destroyed the Giants despite the concussion from Daniel Jones.
They were absolutely destroyed from the Giants.
It was brutal what the Raiders were able to do.
Antonio Pierce clearly has the support of his players.
Be very interesting to see if he ends up with the job.
The Bengals keep taking down the Bills.
The Bills have a Cripple Knight.
It's Joe Burrow and the Bengals.
They keep beating them.
I don't know how they play them in the playoffs.
In the regular season.
In the preseason.
On Mars.
On Jupiter.
Inside a guy's eye.
It doesn't matter because the Cincinnati Bengals have figured out something to consistently
beat the Buffalo Bills.
It's actually pretty insane that they keep almost inventing ways to beat the Bills.
Which can be looked at multiple ways.
It can be a great thing for the Bills.
You know the Bengals have to put in something every time they play.
You put in something brand new.
That is a compliment.
If you are a real Bills you can also feel good.
They're not only from their creativity.
They're not just saying they come out of a basin beat you.
That's a compliment to you.
With the Bills however you gotta learn how to finish games.
You have to.
It's one of the powers.
One of Mahomes' superpowers.
He will always give himself a chance at the end because he believes in his talent.
He knows his talent.
He's going to actually utilize that talent.
It's huge that the Bills figure out how to close the games.
You're in the same conference as Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow, and Apache Mahomes just to name
one few.
Inability to close games will have you out in the playoffs sooner rather than later.
If I was them I would figure out how to.
If I was the Bills I would figure out how to close games against good teams sooner rather
than later.
On a completely total side note.
Not like a personal note but like a side note.
Zach Wilson starting in New York is mouth-feaseless.
His workplace mouth-feaseless.
It's a crime punishable by something painful.
It's so bad they asked Robert Sala about it and he pled to fit.
It is awful in New York.
It's a shock that in time Carson Winston said with the Los Angeles Rams serving as their
backup but it would just make perfectly logical sense to bring in Carson Winston, let him
learn for a week or two, and if you're still in Crapville we're going to make a change.
I don't understand the logic.
You got head coaches leading the step.
He doesn't know why he's starting.
I'm pretty sure at this point Zach Wilson has no idea why he's starting.
I don't think he has an idea that I want to be here.
I think he wants to get through the year.
It is an agency situation when the guy who's in a job, everybody knows he's about to get
removed from the job but you can't actually go for his own job until he's your mate.
So I legitimately think that Zach Wilson will not be a jet next year.
It's absolutely awful.
I think that this stretch of gains is not helping this case.
But alright, we're going to shift into NFL Week 10 and talk about some games that's going
to be coming.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to jump into NFL Week 10.
Of course it's starting off with Thursday Night Football tonight.
Panthers and Bears.
Not a game that I'm going to spend a lot of time on.
Both teams are awful.
Bears have a little promise but no just in fields.
Of course they don't win stomach injuries field.
And the Carolina Panthers are god awful.
So I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this game at all.
The Panthers only have one win.
Excuse me, they expect to get a second win.
It's probably their best chance to get it.
Because again, they're pretty awful.
But the Bears are coming in there.
That quarterback of theirs, that undrafted rookie, he's solid.
Nothing special.
Bryce Young is laying underwhelming, which is what I predicted.
But hey, what do I know?
But yeah, I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this game at all.
If I had to pick a winner, it's at home for the Bears.
I'm going to go with the Bears.
Bears, I'd say six.
I think they have a better defense.
I don't trust either team's quarterback.
I don't trust either team's head coach.
Ownership serves, it's just what's bad.
The better defense in my brain is the Bears.
And so it's a home game for Chicago.
I'm going to go with the Bears by about six.
Now that we've gotten through that nonsense, let's jump into the next German game.
Happens to be my favorite.
So Coach playing the Packs in Germany early Sunday morning is about 8.30.
Change of time, about 9.30 Eastern.
So it is a...
Wait, no, wait, there's some intrigue.
Wait, oh, wait, oh, wait.
There's some intrigue.
Okay, okay, okay, let's look at this.
So according to Adam Schefter, the Bears own the Panthers first round pick.
Curtis hit the number one overall pick trade.
The trade to give by Schumacher.
Chicago would help its chances of getting the 2024 number one overall pick with the win tonight versus Carolina.
If the Bears were to win, they would have the highest position with the number one overall pick because they would get it from the Panthers.
If they would have beat the Panthers, that means the Panthers lose and the Bears own the tiebreaker.
So that means the Bears would end up with a lower pick, basically.
If they lose, it becomes a 28% chance they end up with the number one overall pick.
Then they'd be tied for the third highest.
So there is something to play for for the Bears.
You can basically force the Panthers to be the number one overall pick.
That means you get the number one overall pick and the right to grab Kayla Williams first.
Now, say the Bears win six games.
Do you still drive Kayla Williams?
And I've said that before to a few people.
Let's say the Bears win five games.
Justin Fields looks solid, not great, but he can see improvement.
Do you still drive Kayla Williams?
Or do you dangle Kayla Williams like a carrot, trade down to let's say five,
get a boatload of assets, and now you drive the best left tackle, you get a great receiver.
You got to get more.
You might not even receive it.
You get a great left tackle, you get a corner, you get a safety, you get a linebacker.
You went and traded an edge.
Well, you gave her a second off, fixed Montez's sweat.
So that's your edge person.
You get a left tackle, you get a corner, you get a safety, you get another receiver.
Tied it in the fourth round.
You may have a football team because what you would do is, look at Kayla Williams.
I want your first this year.
I want your first next year.
I want my two back that I lost.
And I want a four.
And I want a six in future years.
I want five picks.
So that means I have two firsts or you swap firsts.
And we're going to have four spots.
I get my second round pick back.
I get an extra third and an extra fourth.
I get a six in the future year.
And I get a first next year.
I mean, that's the kind of cache that Kayla Williams gets.
Or do you simply say we can't pass upon the best quarterback prospect in two years?
You got Kayla Williams.
You tell Justin Fields it's been great.
We're going to work to find you a good spot.
I think Justin Fields in San Francisco would be a great spot.
Purdy's not that guy.
Sorry to break everybody's news.
Sorry to tell you this is the true stuff.
Purdy ain't that guy.
We'll get to him later.
Justin Fields in San Fran, interesting.
Justin Fields in the Jets.
Justin Fields for the Giants.
Daniel Jones is hurt.
His money's guaranteed, sure, but he's not very good.
Justin Fields for the Giants.
Justin Fields in Seattle.
You know, bring a man for one year, train him in the Zeno, hand the reins to Justin Fields.
Basically Russell Wilson will be younger.
Options exist for a Justin Fields trade.
Now you probably have a third or fourth I'll pick for.
Maybe a conditional second.
But you get way more picks for the right at Kayla Williams.
I just think that we have to do a cost benefit analysis.
What's the bigger gap?
Is the gap bigger between Kayla Williams and five picks or Justin Fields and one pick?
Like one pick versus five, like what's the difference?
Is the gap between Kayla Williams potential and Justin Fields potential worth four picks
including an additional first round?
If the answer is no, just stay with Justin Fields and you trade your ass to Kayla Williams.
It's simple.
So the intrigue has arrived in this game for tonight.
It's the right if the Kayla Williams sweepstakes.
But anyway, back to the Cokes and the Patriots.
Looking at this game, I expect the Patriots victory.
Oops, just cheese tag back.
Sorry, it's in my Jax pack.
So kind of spoiled that.
We'll get into that a little later.
But this game is all intrigue, a lot of different levels.
Of course, no Anthony Richardson.
He's out for the year with the injury.
Gardner Mentshue is trying to get a second chance at starting.
Maybe he lands on one of those spots I mentioned.
Getting a second chance at starting.
Tampa maybe because Baker Macyl is not really showing anybody.
But even the second chance at starting.
And the Patriots are in a situation where it's tour morale every week.
Now, J.C. Jackson is not traveling after some mental health situation.
He's not traveling.
There's potential he gets shut down the rest of the year.
There's rumors every week now.
There's rumor, the strong rumor this week was the Patriots don't beat the Cokes.
Belichick may get fired mid-season.
It's growing, but it feels like daily Belichick may not make it through the year.
I mean, it's just a crap show in New England right now.
And I think that the Patriots are hunkering down.
And I think they're going to keep Belichick.
I legitimately do.
The culture is still there.
Two guys, Miss Curfew, Jack Jones and J.C. Jackson, the other one.
Demario Douglas, Demario and Jack Jones.
Neither one played.
They're both bitch.
The culture is still there.
The stand-up is still there.
The talent is not.
Now, Belichick's the GM.
Obviously, I'm with you.
Belichick hit the GM.
It's his fault the talent's there.
He mismanaged some contracts.
He mismanaged some free-agent acquisitions.
I'm not going to go into his draft record.
He's better than you people say he is.
I'm not going to go through every single draft pick of every single coach and go to their success rate.
Belichick's wasn't what everybody believed.
He's actually a little better than most people believe.
So I'm not going to go through has he hit on the superstar position?
No, he has not hit on quarterback.
Maybe Jimmy G. would have been great in New England.
He missed on Mac Jones, so when Justin Fields.
But I'm not going to sit here and meander.
There's free-agency right up when they want him to get down to the Hopkins.
Before last week, the Audrey Hopkins was a shell of himself.
Like, it's just, it's different situations he may have missed a little bit on.
The Nelson Aguilar, I mean, the kill-hair pick is disastrous.
I'm not even going to try to potentially excuse the kill-hair pick.
Disastrous. Especially AJ Brown, a freak who needs a Patriot.
Disastrous pick.
Cole Strange could have been a second pick.
So those two stand out to me.
But for the most part, he's on par with everybody else on the league.
But the coaches still there, so I think they hunker down.
The Patriots are on their own draft pick.
For the first time since Drew Bledsoe, they're going to pick him in top five.
Top seven at the worst.
They own their draft pick.
They're going to pick at seven and thirty-six.
Or seven and thirty-nine.
You know, five and thirty-seven.
Whatever. They own their draft picks.
They're going to cap reset, basically.
They're going to potentially, better say does it right,
a hundred and thirty to a hundred and fifty million dollars cap space.
So I can bring in seven, eight rookies.
And I can sign big money free agents.
T. Higgins has five years, one twenty-five, with eighty written all over him
in a new-youth-made uniform.
It's just sitting there.
Like, it's the most obvious thank you ever.
T. Higgins is there.
Justin Jefferson's not resigned in Minnesota.
I mean, he's going anywhere.
But he's not resigned in Minnesota.
I think you could go to him and they say,
and they go nine and booster tag, two first-round picks.
I think you think about it.
Two first-round picks for Justin Jefferson,
and they're putting Justin Jefferson and T. Higgins tomorrow.
Give Jefferson a big crown check in the history.
T. Higgins five years, one twenty-five.
You got the best one-two punch in the league overnight.
It's worth the first-round pick.
It's worth the next year's first-round pick.
With that second pick, you draft the quarterback.
I think Jane Daniels will be there in a minute or two.
Or, because you're so close, you're at 30.
I think actually the Vikings may want to first.
I think you tell them you can have the first this year.
That's fine.
Let's get the first next year.
We'll give you a three this year and a few in our future six.
Bam.
There's the deal.
So now you still have your second-round pick.
You pack in your second-round pick if you just love a quarterback.
And on future first, you package them and you go get Jane Daniels.
You go get Michael Pennie Jr.
Now you got Justin Jefferson on one side.
T. Higgins on the other side.
But let's say Justin Jefferson's not in the play.
Let's say he's not in the play.
Let's just rule it out.
With your top-seven pick, you draft the quarterback.
People love Drake May.
I'm more of a Jane Daniels guy.
If Shadour Sanders is coming out, I'd go Shadour Sanders.
Again, I'm more of a Jane Daniels guy.
I watch him every week.
That's to me the second-round quarterback in the draft.
I get him with Kayla Williams.
I get it with Bo Nicks.
I get it with Drake May.
I get it with Michael Pennie.
To me, Jane Daniels is the second-round quarterback in the draft.
So you draft Jane Daniels.
You trade Mac Jones to whoever for whatever.
You sign T. Higgins.
So now you're on the depth-side side of the step-back.
You get your second-round pick.
You draft the left tackle.
Or you go left tackle first.
Then you draft your quarterback in the second round.
Again, trade Mac Jones to whoever for whatever.
And you fill in.
You just add speed everywhere.
You get a fast receiver.
You get a couple of fast corners.
You get a fast linebacker, edge rusher.
You pay like crazy infrageance.
You buy the best middle linebacker.
You buy the best edge rusher.
You buy the best tackle.
You sign T. Higgins.
And you got a football team.
I think that's the plan to do a...I think that's the plan to reset New England.
Because again, you can create, reasonably, up to about $150 million in cash-pays.
That gets you whoever you want to leave.
Think about it.
If you give T. Higgins five years, $125 million, fully guaranteed, you still got $125 million left.
I mean, that's what you're looking at, what you could potentially go do with agency.
You really take that chance.
So I think this is a big week for New England.
I think if they win, it keeps the dogs off as far as they're taking five or so another week.
However, it hurts for the Africans.
made in New England.
We'll talk about that game a little later in Jack's Pack.
The Browns and Texans.
Whoa.
Hold on.
One second.
I have something wrong with my rundown.
My apologies. It was Browns and the Ravens.
Because the Bengals have the Texans, which is in my Jack's Pack.
I must have copied it really fast.
Well, the Browns and the Ravens.
Now, these guys in AFC North are huge.
Every team in the division is above high-puncher.
And if the playoffs ended today, all four of them would be in.
So it'd be the three division winners and the AFC North.
Ravens, of course, would get the division win.
And then the other three teams would fill in the wild card.
Most competitive division in football.
I think they have a legitimate chance.
They didn't have to beat each other up so much late.
They'd have a legitimate chance all four of them to get in.
And it's crazy when you think about it.
Pittsburgh is going to be the off-school they hate.
Cleveland Browns haven't had Deshaun Watson a good majority of the year.
Bengals started off 1-3 and Joe Burrows is limping around with a calf.
And the Ravens didn't start off slow, but offensively didn't look all that pretty early.
And all four of them would still be in the playoffs right now.
That's saying something about the AFC North.
But the Browns and the Ravens are going to be a real competitive football game.
It's going to be a physical football game.
I'm interested to see the Ravens against the Browns.
Offensively, or defensively rather, the Ravens are going to dominate.
Again, there's no Deshaun Watson.
They're just going to dominate the Browns offense.
Miles Garry has a chance to completely wreck this game.
Because if he starts bending the edge, if he stands up against the run,
and the Browns come in and stop that run, this could be ugly.
It's a positional game.
The Ravens are being here in the past few weeks.
You guys are the best in the league.
You guys are amazing.
Your defense, the O-1 Ravens, are incarnated.
You got this. You got that.
There's been all this flattery and perfume all over them.
But in the words of Nick Saidman, it's like rat poison.
99% of rat poison is totally edible.
That 1% strip knife will drop a horse.
Like, that's kind of...
So it's, you know, 99% of that flattery, you can probably digest it with no problem.
The problem is every time you get a little piece of that slider,
you're going to get that strip knife.
And so they've been hearing it.
People can say what they want to.
I turn my TV off, I don't hear that, whatever, whatever.
You hear it. It's in the building.
The janitor's talking about it.
The trainer's bringing it up, and you're not listening.
Your trainer member's texting you.
There's 53 people plus the practice squad, over 15, 70 people in there.
70 players in there.
12, 13 coaches.
Say 85 people.
75 of them are hearing it consistently.
It's natural.
You can't turn on score C without talking about the Ravens.
So because of which, it's a trap game.
I think the Ravens win it, but it's a dog fight.
So I think the Ravens win it 24-20.
It's an absolute dog fight.
It's a division game.
Rounds hit them with a trick play.
You get one of those weird pop-up pick sixes.
It's a division game.
Miles Garrix, strip on somebody, the ball comes out, takes back, turns down.
It's a weird game.
It's a division game.
I got it 24-20 Ravens, but it's a dog fight.
And so it's going to be one of the most interesting games of the weekend.
49ers at the Jags.
49ers coming off the bye.
I believe the Jags are.
I don't call the Jags playing last week.
If they did, it was an incredibly quiet game last week.
But I believe the Jags also are coming off the bye.
Let me double-check it real quick.
What did they add their bye earlier?
Yeah, so the Jags didn't play last week.
And the Niners, these are two teams coming off a bye.
Kind of a rarity.
We're not going to pick it because then the Jags back.
Dude, two teams coming off a bye, two teams riding high, two teams with quarterback problems.
You know how to love a Brock Brady.
I talk down on Brock Brady every week because gosh darn it, someone asked you that.
No one else seems to want to do it.
It's like it's an embargo on Brock Brady.
I don't get it.
It's like the media that went out and said no one talks about Brock Brady.
No one talks about Brock Brady bad.
I'm going to do it.
God damn it.
Me, this guy, Justin Jackson, host of Justin Time Sports, owner of Justin Time Sports.
I'm going to talk about Brock Brady if no one else does.
Because I seen it from the jump.
And he's losing his all-pros.
And he's falling apart.
He's not living in reality.
Trent Williams and Deebo Samuel went away and he played like a Mr. Irrelevant.
Mind you, they're still Brandon Matthews.
There's still Chris McHasher.
There's still George Kittle.
They still have one of the best defenses in the league.
He looks awful.
Duh.
He went from five princesses for all pros in offense to three and he looks terrible.
By the way, three is more than anybody else on the league, pretty much.
Think about it, Chiefs.
Mahomes, Kelsing, who?
Saints.
Nobody.
Patriots?
Nobody.
Dolphins.
Tua, Rick, and who?
Nobody.
So the fact that there was a pinch of five all-pros on the Niners offense.
Kettle.
Deebo.
Ayub.
Trent.
Christian.
And the way Purdy was playing earlier, he was potentially Purdy.
And you have three of those people now and you look awful.
I'm just saying, you might want to reevaluate your Brock Purdy stock.
Like, it's feeling game-stopping.
It's feeling where it was really, really high.
And if you sold it all in a bubble, you were really rich.
You look great.
If you rolled it to the bottom, you're worse than when you bought it low.
Like, it's coming down.
You might want to sell it.
I never bought Brock Purdy's stock.
I never bought GameStop's stock.
You might want to sell it.
It's coming down.
It's a cryptocurrency.
It's cool for a while.
It's starting to come down.
When was the last time you guys heard about Bitcoin or moving the margin in those foreign market accounts?
It's been a while for me.
Like, if I were you, I would show you Purdy stock is coming down.
I told you it was never supposed to be up.
You inflated it.
Now he's looking pretty average.
I warned you.
Try it.
You didn't listen to me.
It's okay.
Those all pros aren't back this week.
Now he's going to Jacksonville.
Who's having a quarterback problem on their own?
Trevor Lawrence has been.
Average.
A lot of his numbers this year are 13th, 15th, 16th, 14th.
Slightly above average, considering there's about 35 starters that count.
So he's been slightly above average.
There's six and two.
Over the last 17 games, there's 14 and three.
13 and four.
Lawrence was playing like a top 10 guy.
He's on like a top seven guy second half of last year.
He's probably on like a top 13 guy this year.
So both teams are kind of slandering in quarterback.
Both teams are off to a bye.
Jacksonville has home for the Rams.
Again, we'll pick the score.
We'll pick the game in Jack's pack.
Saints and Vikings is an intriguing game.
Saints and Vikings are two teams that both have a chance at the playoffs.
Well, Vikings have a chance at the blinds, have a division, and are locked up.
Well, Saints have a chance at their division.
Vikings have a chance at a bigger chance at the wild card.
Both of them are kind of in quantities.
Josh Dobbs freaking learns the cadence on the sideline.
Was there five games, five days, and hangs like a 30 ball.
Damn near a 40 ball on the Falcons.
And he again learned the cadence on the sideline.
That's what happens when you're a literal rocket scientist.
You can do that sort of thing.
And the Saints finally found an offense last week.
So this is all kind of stuff being popping out.
Dobbs is a good player.
I believe Dobbs got moved from Arizona because he knew Cuydos coming back,
and they sold high.
Minnesota had a need and they sold to Minnesota.
But Dobbs can play in this league.
He's on his fifth team, but he can play in this league.
And a shout out to Kyle Emmerich coming back.
Can't wait to watch him in action.
But Dobbs, I think they just sold high and Minnesota had a need.
Because Dobbs can play.
It's not like Dobbs is a bum.
Dobbs can play.
Like legitimately play.
As we saw.
And so this is going to be a very interesting football game.
It is not in the Jax pack.
I think the Saints defense, even on the road, is a little bit too much.
There's game, there's Minnesota game tape with him now.
Justin Jefferson is not back.
Jordan Addison is a damn man.
Absolute stud that Jordan Addison is.
And so I just think that they put Marshall Adamoil on Addison.
Kind of roll coverage away.
Slow Dobbs down.
Saints beat kind of an ugly victory.
20-17.
The Saints get out of there with the win.
Probably on a groupie field goal late.
And then lastly, Lions at Chargers.
Very intriguing game.
The Lions got thrashed to sleep by the Ravens.
And that was just a couple weeks ago.
And then you look at how they spent their last week.
They spent their last week trying to figure their life out.
They were off as well last week.
As they get punched on on week eight.
They didn't get absolutely thrashed in week eight.
By a team that you went in there expecting to compete.
Oh, that was week seven.
I'm sorry.
They went in there week seven getting thrashed.
Then you bounce back against the Raiders.
You go into your bye week last week.
And then I come into week 10.
Your competing against a good Chargers team.
Who's starting the game a little more now.
They're starting to pick it up.
The defensive talent that's there.
It's starting to lock in a little bit more now.
They have field day on the Jets.
So much on field day.
In fact, they cost him a fantasy week.
And so they are starting to figure out a little bit.
With the Chargers.
Kudos to them.
They're starting to figure it out.
It's going to be a great contest.
Lions bouncing back.
I like Dan Campbell after a bye.
Not a huge fan of Brandon Staley.
I love Kellan Moore's offense after a bye.
They're going to be a lot more creative.
I just want to get that defense that was rolling.
Now gets that little time off.
In Detroit, they're going to add that hiccup against the Ravens.
But I wonder if that defense that was rolling in Detroit.
Now is the week off.
Maybe lose some of their teeth.
Because that Lions defense was tough and rugged.
Chargers probably couldn't be hotter on defense right now.
Unless you're the Ravens.
It turns out how they're forcing the ball.
Turning the ball over.
And getting points of their own.
Very interesting contest.
It's at Chargers.
It doesn't win a whole lot.
I think the better coach is Van Campbell.
I don't like Brandon Staley.
I want him to get fired to help Justin Herbert.
Promote Kellan Moore and get a hell of a DC in there.
But I'm going to go with Lions here in a shootout.
It's going to be a big time game.
34-31.
I'm going to let Lions get the win.
But up next, we're going to shift into Jax Pack.
Talk about NFL in a sec.
Welcome back into the show.
And now I'm going to discuss our NFL betting segment.
Jax Pack.
We did not achieve our goal last week.
I was going 5-0.
Although we did have a pretty solid week.
I will update you guys on our total standings.
Probably next week.
Again, the move is kind of in hectic.
So some of the guys, I didn't have all my equipment moved into my new place.
But it's been a little bit hectic.
So the goal is to try and get you guys updated on our total standings next week.
So I'll let you know how we're doing.
Although our record is coming up.
So we're doing a lot better on Jax Pack.
We had that rough 1-4 week.
We have been improving ever since.
Not quite back at 500.
But we are going to get there.
I have full confidence in it this week.
The numbers are starting to balance out.
So I like the numbers a lot more.
And so we're going to jump right into it with our first game of the week.
Colts-Patch, the Germany game.
I kind of gave you my answer already earlier.
But Colts versus Patch.
Patch plus two take the patch.
I think the Patriots won the game all right.
I think Belichick just messed with Lubinchi a little too much.
You've got frustration starting to leak out in Indianapolis.
You've got frustration leaking out of New England.
Like K-San Bute's Instagram and Free Me.
Kyle Dugger is playing music that says Free Me.
You've got stuff starting to leak out of New England.
But the Colts have been getting their stars going on record.
Saying that they're frustrated.
So it's going to be two frustrated football teams.
Both of which trying to improve the situation.
I think that the Patriots ultimately though, they come together and they win this football game.
But behind a pretty good Mac Jones game.
The Colts defense, very opportunistic.
Kenny Moore the second coming off two pick sixes of Bryce Young.
So they're looking to continue to make plays and continue to make noise.
I think the Patriots run the ball about them a little bit too strong.
Throw the ball deep a couple times.
We'll be ready to see how Belichick does his inactives and inactives.
I don't think going on Instagram stories is the best way to get Belichick to play you K-San Bute.
But we're going to see K-San Bute outside.
We're going to see how it goes.
Yeah, I don't think it's the best way to go.
But maybe he knows something I don't.
But I think the Patriots win the game all right.
Oh, 24-20.
Up next, I have the Texans plus six and a half at the Bengals take the Texans.
Now, the Bengals are going to win the game all right.
Let's get it out the way.
The Bengals are going to win the game.
But T Higgins is out.
And Jamar Chase is incredibly questionable.
Like the literal definition of a coin flip.
And so that means Tyler Boyd is going to have to step up.
No, Tyler Boyd is a very capable receiver, but that means Tyler Boyd is going to have to step up.
And he's probably going to be the number one target because, again, Jamar Chase is probably, if he plays, probably going to pitch counter.
And Higgins is out.
And so I just think it's going to lend itself to a more low scoring game.
We've just seen what CJ Stroud did against Tampa Bay.
I don't think he does it back to back.
He's a rookie.
But he's going to score some points.
So will Joe Burrow.
He's back.
He's healthy.
He's still to me the second best quarterback in football when he's right only behind Patrick Holmes.
And so he's back.
He's healthy.
He's right.
His receivers are not.
I think they choose to get in close to what it's supposed to be.
But I do think the Texans cover the six and a half.
So final score in this one is going to be 27-21.
Texans cover the six and a half.
Niners, minus three at the Jaguars.
Take the Niners.
I know.
I know you're probably thinking, hey, when I started reading off the score, you know what
was going to the Jaguars?
They just started slandering Bob Purdy.
I would do it next week.
I'm not doing it this week.
Kyle Shanahan had a bye.
So for two weeks, no, so did Doug Peterson.
But for two weeks, Kyle Shanahan, one of the best coaches in the league off the bites,
Velichick Whedon Shanahan, one of the best coaches, Tomlin's pretty good at it too.
Great coaches after the bye usually win and whatever side of the ball they're with, down
the links.
Velichick tortures whatever offense he gets.
Two weeks, he tortures them.
Andy Rees scores 40.
Mike Tomlin, better be lucky if he scored 10 on my defense.
Shanahan's going to score big points in this game.
10 in Florida.
The weather's supposed to be fine.
I just think the Niners, knowing they had two weeks, been Jaguars prepped for two weeks,
and even though the Jaguars are doing the same thing, I trust Kyle Shanahan a little
bit more in the situation than I do with Doug Peterson.
So I've got the Niners winning, I don't know if it's by four, it's got to be close to this
rate by four.
I've got them winning 31-27.
I just think a couple times in the red zone, that Niners even going to tighten down.
Lawrence is playing a little inefficient this year.
I think the CMC breaks a long one.
So I just lean into the Florida, I'm going to make some plays on defense, and they're
going to win 31-27.
Giants at Cowboys.
Cowboys minus 17.
Take the Cowboys.
I never pick games like this.
Ever pick games like this.
I saw 17 and was mad it wasn't 21.
Seriously.
Up until about 22 and a half, I would have won Cowboys.
Because then it gets like 40 to 18 of cover, and you're like, what the bleep.
17, 30 to 10, which is probably going to be the score.
Like in my head, I'd just shoot 30 to 10 Cowboys.
Like, that's it.
They're starting Tommy DeVito.
No one else is on the team.
Everyone's going to load up for Sae Kwon Barkley.
There is no Darren Waller.
There is no Dave Jones.
Like I said, it's Tommy's freak.
It's not even Tyra Taylor.
It's Tommy DeVito.
And you're going to put up against that Cowboys defense and a Cowboys team who just lost to
their division rival.
They're hated division rival needles.
And they're going to go, you're going to co-two them in Jerry World with Tommy DeVito.
And it's only 17?
That's stealing.
Cowboys minus 17 here.
But 30 to 10, I'm probably being nice giving them 10.
Probably be nice on them doing 30.
It might be 40 to 3.
This might be because the Cowboys are pissed.
Okay, this is all to the Eagles.
Kind of decided.
The Eagles kind of physically whooped them in that game.
I've got the Cowboys here.
I'm going to say 30 to 10 officially.
If it's 40 to 3, then shock me one bit.
And then Jets at Raiders.
Raiders plus one.
Take the Raiders here.
I've got the Raiders winning the game all right.
I think that Antonio Pierce juice is real.
I definitely think that Antonio Pierce juice is real.
I think they win the game all right.
And they continue to roll.
I want to say Antonio Pierce get that job.
I really do.
I like him in that situation.
I think they roll over the Jets.
Zach Wilson is awesome.
He's just, that's just call it.
It's call it.
Zach Wilson is freaking deplorable.
Yeah, man, it's so bad.
His own coach is now in interviews when asked why he's starting.
Please miss this.
Like, he can't be there.
He can't.
Like, can't.
Like, it's upsetting.
As a person who likes good football and loves great quarterback play,
I can't watch Zach Wilson play football.
It's horrible.
Maybe that's the right words coming out from the Fannies last week.
No, it's not.
Zach Wilson freaking sucks.
So I think the Raiders are going to win the game.
Zach Wilson is the quarterback of the Jets.
Pretty much all you need to know.
Zach Wilson plays for the other team.
So pick the other team.
I got the Raiders winning the game.
But up next, we have Jack's hot take.
It's going to be about the NBA's officiating.
Welcome into the show.
And now we're going to talk about Jack's hot take.
What's it going to be about the NBA's officiating?
These are the worst reps in the NBA history.
Or it's starting off officiated that way.
Very obvious fouls.
Nothing.
Tic-tac-toe.
Oh.
This flopping rule is a disaster.
I get the idea.
Awesome.
Because to me, some very obvious flops are uncalled.
And some stuffs that, like he landed in my landing area so I couldn't stand up and shoot
so I fell backwards is called a flop.
Like, some of this stuff is a mess.
You've got LeBron James, one of the more impactful drivers in the league, barely shooting free throws.
And Trey Young is leading the league in free throw attempts.
Zion Williamson is going to the hole literally every play.
He's shooting like five free throws a game.
Trey Young is shooting basically 10 or 11.
I'm so tired of the guards leading the league in free throw attempts.
Their guards.
They're shooting most of their shots not at the rim.
How are they leading?
So every time they go to the rim they get fouled.
Because they're shooting 17 field goals a game.
Eight of them are threes.
So out of the other nine attempts they're at the rim and they're getting fouled on half of them?
Like, it's not.
And they're shooting 10 free throws a game, nine field goal attempts, they are threes.
So they're driving the lane 16 times, they're getting fouled on half the drives,
and yet LeBron James, or Zion specifically, who goes to the goal every time,
is shooting four or five free throws a game?
That doesn't make sense.
I'm seeing the goal 10 callback on Draymond was a disaster.
He literally hits the rim as the ball is above the cylinder.
That's as offensive interference as offensive interference can be.
They review it and call it back.
Are you kidding me?
Giannis gets ejected?
Sorry, Giannis gets a technical for dunking on somebody, looking at them,
turning away from them, and doing the two small.
That's a tech?
Like, I feel like I just got tech for saying I was a tech.
These refs are awful.
I don't know what mandate they got from Adam Silver, or whoever the head of officiating.
They're terrible.
Switch them out, switch them up, I don't know, do something.
They're awful.
Get them out of here.
Um, give me the college basketball refs.
It's even tricking down the college basketball.
Hell, the NCAA or somebody just put out a report saying there were several missed calls
from the LSU Iowa women's national title game.
So that can't happen in April.
It's November.
They're raising the banner inside the Pete Maverick Center for the Final Four and the national title,
the first national title in LSU's basketball history, in like a few days.
And you're talking about officiating in April?
Like, whatever.
But the NBA's refs have been awful.
I don't get it.
I don't understand.
They put rules in place like anti-flopping, you know, side to side, it's all a foul,
kick each leg out, trying to do, trying to take away some of the manipulation of the refs.
And yet, Trey Young, I was against the Pelicans, can drive down a lane, stop bumping to somebody,
and finger roll it, and it's a foul.
Of course you got to end one it, because he's just barely, Kyra Lewis, I'm talking, barely touched his arm.
Trey flung his arms crazy, gathered himself, and then laid the ball in and won.
Yet Zion gets hit on the turn, gets hit on the first dribble, gets bumped when he gathers, gets bumped in the air, lay on.
Like, it's just, it's ridiculous.
And I use those two examples because they were playing each other, oh, you know, in that game I can't remember vividly.
LeBron's getting beat smithereens on like every drive this year.
Like, I just don't understand what's happening.
Joel Embiid's beat up, Yonis is getting tossed out, looking at people.
I don't understand what's wrong with the NBA.
It needs to be fixed, it's a freaking disaster, and if it doesn't get fixed, it's going to start turning people away from the games.
I haven't watched NBA in a couple of days because of what's happened with the officiating.
It's going to start turning off the average consumer, because I'm seeing stuff that know the rules, I know what's going on,
and I see rules on being manipulated, I see calls not being made, I see injustice is not happening,
I see injustice happening, I'm going to stop patronizing the product.
Just being honest, this can be a very NFL heavy show, as I just showed you, through the football, honestly.
And then a monthly NBA and I go to the draft.
I mean, it's just like, and I don't want it to be, I love the NBA's product, I love the NBA game,
I love the Superstars, huge Buttercup fan, huge LeBron guy, but love Yonis, I love the Stars,
love Yokish, the rest of the crew, Anthony Edwards, but you've got to do something about this NBA.
It's ridiculous whether they have to have a come to Jesus moment,
and they have just a breakdown of here's what's wrong, let's fix it, get new refs, I say start training former players,
maybe it's guys who want the world's best.
Rick Jefferson's probably too good to be a ref, but that 12th guy on the bench that played four years and I was overseas,
making 50, 60K, put him in the referee academy, have him officiating games, he's in shape,
he's just played the game not too long ago, he understands basketball.
Like, I don't know why we're getting these guys, the NFL has lawyers rushing their games.
It works for the most part, but like why are we not getting former players?
Why is there not a former linebacker or not a kid officiating games from a linebacker's perspective?
Like is it certain things, is it just me staring people in the face but not doing?
The NBA has to fix their officiating problem or they will start to lose the average viewership and consumership.
But that is all I have for you guys today.
That is all I have for you guys today, great show, wonderful show, that's their first show in the new place,
I don't even have all my equipment, so if my audio sounds a little off, I apologize.
But I thank you guys for sticking out with me, it's only a little bit over an hour.
I hope you guys have a great rest of your evening and your morning if you're getting a bright morning.
This is your host, Justin Jackson, signing out.
Thank you.