Mark Willard & Ephraim Salaam Discuss Aaron Rodgers The King Of Petty, Give Their Three Big Observations From Week One, Ravens Outperforming Bills, And More!!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
How y'all did today? Oh? Baby?

Speaker 3 (00:11):
We have got a plethora, an overwhelming amount of things
to go through as the day that we have been
waiting for is finally here and it unfolded in all
kinds of as expected unexpected ways, And of course we
got a massive watch party that's about to get started

(00:32):
the Ravens and the Bills Sunday Night Football eight from
salam Mark Willard will follow along with all of it
with you.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hello from How you doing, my man?

Speaker 1 (00:44):
I'm good, brother? How you doing.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Better than I would have been when there was three
minutes to go in the forty nine er Seahawks game.
I know that, my god. Yeah, we got a lot
to go through with a lot of football games. There
was some ugly beck that a little bit. It's week one,
people are getting all the bugs kind of shaken out
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
There was a little bit of pretty. In fact, let's
start here.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
I thought one of the prettiest games of the day
was between two teams that I haven't seen look pretty
in a.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Decade a long time, and they I know what you're did?
You're thinking, you don't even have to say it, and
I'm on the same page.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Sixty six points when the Steelers played the Jets. Wow,
what are we talking about? With two quarterbacks who switched
teams and neither one of them could.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Move the ball last year? That that was wild man.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
I like you, I don't even know what the over
under was in that game, but you could have sold
me that there would have been about half that many
points in that football game, and I'd have believed you.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Sixty six I would not.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
No, it was actually the game of the day. I
mean it was exciting. Of course, all eyes were on
the Steelers and and what type of showing the great
Aaron Rodgers would have, and he didn't disappoint. I hadn't
seen Anon Rodgers play like this in a long time.

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And on the flip side of that, I was thoroughly
impressed with justin Fields like, Wow, Okay, the Jets may
have something. Of course, it's early, but we knew how
he played last year at the Steelers, and I believe
had won four games before he was just replaced. I

(02:33):
think he was four and one or something like that
before Aaron Russell Wilson came in and replaced him, and
so he's just on that trajectory.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
I think you know his ability to run brace Hall
goodn'tess they have an excellent, excellent offensive team. It was
you know, dare I say, must see TV.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Oh Man, the hell of football game, Man, Hell of
the football game, and potentially only overshadowed, as usual, by
what happened after the game. Listen, we got plenty of
time to get to the game. I was blown away
by this, and then I was blown away by the
fact that I was blown away because I don't know
why I'm so stupid, he from. I don't I don't

(03:25):
know why I still get surprised by stuff like this.
So let's hear specifically what Aaron Rodgers said after defeating
his two year X team, the New York Jets thirty
four thirty two with his new team, the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Guys, go ahad and play that one for us.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
He spoke about the meeting with Alan Glenn. I'm McAfee
a few months ago. Feeding him is your significance In nassense,
he basically told you to your face that.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
They eaten Thank you.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
You were right for that team.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yes, that's what he didn't, so there are significance in
beating him for you.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
I was happy to meet everybody associated with the Jets.
Oh doctor, Now hold on a second.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
I'm not going to sit here and act like I
know about every conversation. I'm not going to sit here
and act like I know about every relationship.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
But here's what I remember over the last two years.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
And I know, I know he's talking about Aaron Glenn,
and Aaron Glenn wasn't there the last two years, but
he was asked about Aaron Glenn, and then he took
it to everybody else. What I remember about a two
year run with the New York Jets is that they've
been over backwards to acquire him. Then four plays into
a season, he missed the season. Then as he's approaching

(04:50):
his fortieth birthday, they continued to be all in on him.
Fired a coach for him, fired a general manager for him,
continue to acquire receiver after receiver for him, and then
when he leaves, brother, you gotta have a different level

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kind of nerve to say that, after what this organization
tried to do for and with you over the last
twenty four months of our lives, I couldn't believe that.
But like I said, how stupid am I that? I
couldn't believe it because it's Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
You know, he's a petty king good lord, you know that.
That didn't shock me. It was actually on brand.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Right, But are you kidding?

Speaker 6 (05:40):
No?

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Man, No, No, It's like being in a relationship with
somebody abusive and you're going to you go on vacation
by yourself and they come home and they still abusive,
and you like, but I've been gone. No, man, you
are who you are. He's petty. You knew it meant
something to him, and that's just how it That's how

(06:01):
it is. They didn't want him, and he's he went
out well he went out there and took it out
on him. Tell you that they didn't want him anymore anymore? Yes,
they wanted him. Really, it doesn't matter when you get dumped.
When you get dumped, you get dumped.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Brother, Like, do you want to know one of one
of my least favorite things in life, why what's happening
is being dumped?

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (06:29):
I'd have to how many times that happens? I carry that? No,
Actually it's this and it's why often.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
I don't know if you know this, But like on
in my hometown in San Francisco, I.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Get accused of being a homer a lot from me.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Why why wouldn't you.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
I get accused of being a homer and and and
maybe there is some of that whatever, And that's not
even the point. The point is is one of the
reasons I think that happens is I have for whatever
reason that I would need a psychoanalysis in order to
figure out why. But I really really get triggered when
there is a lack of gratitude four good things. So

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when I hear silly fans say Kyle Shanahan's a terrible
coach and he should be fired because he never won
a Super Bowl, Or when I hear fans say Steve
Kerr has done wrong by Jonathan Kaminga, so he's a
moron and he should be fired with four rings on
his fingers. When I hear stuff like that, I get
bothered because I'm not saying that they're perfect coaches.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Nobody is.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
But there's a respect level and a gratitude for the
health of those organizations that those guys have contributed to
and helped create. And so I don't like that when
people come down the road, Like if you're nitpicking, fine,
like why is Jake Moody still the kicker?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Let's nitpick, okay, but like he should be fired.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
That's that's ridiculous in my opinion, And that's why I
was bothered by this. You're right, I shouldn't be surprised
by it, but I do think I get to be
bothered by it, Like why why does Aaron Rodgers, even
if he's not wanted now, why does he get to
forget what they did for him the last two years?

(08:12):
They got zero return on their investment? Zero, They got
absolute bub kiss and their investment when you factor in
who they let go and who else they acquired, was
well over one hundred million dollars, probably closer to two
hundred if I added all that up.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
I think that stinks.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
I think that stinks that Aaron would take an Aaron
Glenn question and then fire on everyone associated with the
organization that has done right by him for two years.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
I mean, divorce is hard, Yeah, Amen, divorce is hard,
and there's two sides to every divorce, and there are
also sets of feelings to go with every divorce, and
once it's final, you're gonna feel how you're gonna feel

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no matter what the person in the relationship had done
for you in the past, how you feel about him
now is the thing that lasts, and it'll always be
that you could have had twenty great years with a
partner and the last year been miserable. That last miserable
year will be the thing you carry after the divorce

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for eternity. That's just how it goes.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
It's a fair point.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
And so I'm not shocked by the fact that he
felt like he still had more to go, And so
with his play today, obviously he's like, obviously I can
still go, I can still slang this thing. I just
needed to write pieces around him, like all I'm just
reading between the lines, but this this is what that's what.

(10:01):
That's will. That was his message. So yeah, him being patty,
he on the microphone at the end, of course, of course, Look,
I don't care what it is. Be petty. I will
be petty all year.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yeah, because yeah, I don't care. Like it's not like
me not firing on me and not firing on anybody.
I know.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
I just think it's odd. But if you're mad at
Aaron Glenn, be mad at Aaron Glenn.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Yeah, I just like, yeah, I look, I think I
think he had to expel the demon, an exorcist, he
had to exercise, uh, you know, his feelings. And you know,
shout out to the Pittsburgh's dealers who we thought watched

(10:45):
the whole quarterback situation. Is this this whole offseason?

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Now?

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Look granted this week one, but I tell you what,
it's very promised that Aaron Rodgers is still Aaron Rodgers.
Obviously he can still play now. The leadership he brings
to a team offensive, I thought him and DK had
good chemistry. Calvin and Austin good lord, Yeah, he made
some beautiful plays, right, and so I think they need

(11:11):
to really really get a hold of this ground game,
right because you're not gonna be able to just throw
the ball all over the yard, nor would you want
your forty plus year old quarterback to have to do
that every game. But with that said, I think without
being in preseason and not a lot of mini camp,
the chemistry he had with the pass catchers, friar Mouth,

(11:34):
the tight ends, everybody. I thought Smith, I thought was
was was a great sign for the Black and Yellow
Steel Curtain to stealer fans all over the nation that
it's looking good. It is looking good.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
The Steelers scored twice as many points as the Bengals.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Oh my goodness, what what talking about? Tough watch?

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Brother?

Speaker 3 (12:02):
What is up with them in September? Like, I know
they won? Good thing Brown miss win. Well, they're a
handful of teams that did they win? Like, yes, their
number ended up being bigger than the other team. But like,
what on Earth is?

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Is going on there?

Speaker 3 (12:22):
And I'll reboot the same thing you and I have
said for weeks and weeks and weeks. How did your
seventy two million dollar receiving cores look today?

Speaker 1 (12:34):
How'd they look? Goodness?

Speaker 3 (12:35):
How'd they look? How many yards combined? For these two
thirty three plus twenty six? There you go? Fifty nine yards?
Fifty nine yards? Look, they won. It's one game. They
seem to do this every September. I guess whatever, but god,

(12:59):
it still just looks.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Had one hundred and thirteen yards passing yep, with two
of the highest paid receivers on the planet Earth.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Uh, four point nine yards per drop back?

Speaker 1 (13:13):
That's impossible. And they won?

Speaker 2 (13:17):
They won? They won?

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, the Kickers all had the he b GBI's today. Dude,
What the hell was all that man. You know how
I feel about oh that guy. I know every single
one that missed. I'm sitting there going ooh he from
the kickers, and then and then and then my team's
kicker came in and start.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
I was just like, oh. I even said, you'll love this.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
I said before the game, I'm with my my, my
lady and the kids, and we're sitting there watching.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
I go, hey, man, I get wife say I'm with
my wife.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Ye, with my wife.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Let the people know what did this? My lady is
your wife?

Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yes, it is my wife, And I said, I said
to her, I said, Jake Moody has already had a
good day even before the game starts, because if he
goes out there and missus a kick, it's okay because
everybody else did too.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
And unfortunately I was kidding at the time.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
And then he took his twenty seven yard kick, the
first one of the year, and jointed it off of
the upright and he better be damn thankful that the
the Niners limped into a win. There. We're gonna go
through all of it, Okay, we got we got all
the games. We're live here in the Fox Sports Radio studios.

(14:30):
Week one is not done yet, because what we need
to do next is set the table for this very
sexy matchup that is about to begin between the Bills
and the Ravens.

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We almost forgot to get you in the mood, and
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Super Bowl introduction.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Hey man, Ryan Jacko from.

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San Diego State number seventy four from Salam.

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Speaker 1 (16:23):
Here we go with that. We got action, baby, but
a starting on the fifty. Talk to the link, kick return.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Talk to me, the Bills and the Raiders talk to me.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Oh yeah, what do you think? I think it's gonna
be a heavyweight fight. I think it's two quarterbacks who
don't need to warm up or fill the Florida game.
These are two of the very best quarterbacks to play
and have been for the last two three four years.
I think it's going to be a heavyweight fight, and

(16:53):
I'm excited to see what ancillary pieces the dese two
quarterbacks have at their disposal. Will step up and step out? Yeah,
James Cook for Buffalo, got his new money, held out
or held in? Got his money. Let's see if he
can match wits and pace with a behemoth over there

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and Derrick Henry.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Derrick Henry Man. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting. The ageless one.
We'll see. And James Cook just moments ago getting his
first carry of the year and it moves the chains.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
I heard it not to cut you off words, Yeah,
that I wanted to. So, Dereck Henry's been in the
league nine years, right, I believe this is going on
his tenth year, and he's had two thousand yards twice.
He's won rushing titles a bunch of times. Do you
know in nine years of the NFL, he still hasn't

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eclipsed his four years of high school in terms of total.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
What that's crazy? Did he play for four years? Yes,
like he played for like high school for four years.
So what I mean, what what the hell did he do?
What did he five thousand yards of a year or
something like? What the hell did he do his senior year?
I believe he rushed for like forty eight hundred yards.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Good god, that's like.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
In nine years of being him.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
But that's like four or five hundred yards a game.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
And nine years of being him, he has not eclipsed
what he's done. I think he's five hundred yards short.
I mean of his entire high school total just incredible.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
I mean, obviously most of us met him for the
first time at Alabama.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yes, at the same time.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
I just get the perception that Derek was born that side,
just like that, right, Like I'm so sorry for his mom.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
I feel like Derek was born this way.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
You know, like you ever heard of the story of
Pete Wheatstrow born seven years old?

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Oh my god, I mean so like, I'm just my
mind is imagining what like that litw you know, kind
of like snot nosed dude with the attitude linebacker just
at high school, just flying off of Derrick Henry trying

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to cat.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Right, trying to take him down.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
In high school, Yeah, he probably scored every time he
touched the ball. They probably scored every time he touched
the ball. So anyway, that's funny. I want to throw
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Speaker 2 (20:10):
Here's the thing about these two teams.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Right as I turn the TV on tonight, and I
know that this is not fair. I'm a big fan
of both of these teams. Yeah, both of these quarterbacks.
Big fan the organizations, the way they operate. I really
love the way they do things. I think though that
this year and this is just the way sports works.

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Both of these quarterbacks are running into the idea of
fan fatigue.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
And here's what I mean.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
So not fan fatigue in terms of rooting for them
or having fun watching them. I don't think they can
afford to continue to make the.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Playoffs hand and got around.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Too and be favored and lose. You can't like somebody,
especially brother. The Chiefs are already on one. Go get him.
Somebody from this football game has got to go to
a Super Bowl for crying out loud.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
First touchdown on the board.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Boom, Josh Allen, Dalton Kinkaid, right, um, just like that,
right down the field.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
They're brilliant they're brilliant. Now it doesn't help that you
start at midfield.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
No, that's just hey, this kickoff rule change and demand
my god, it's like if you're inside the thirty, people
are looking at you like, what'd you do wrong?

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Right exactly?

Speaker 3 (21:47):
I mean field position is, which is all the more
reason why I'm looking at the teams that didn't get
to twenty points and I'm going.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Strog?

Speaker 3 (21:56):
What do you started all your drives? You're already a
third of the field is gone. It's just gone struggling
sounding anyway, seven nothing bills, there's your opening.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Drive, opening drive, last year's raining MVP and Josh Allen
as we throw to our raining MVP, Steve the Seger, well.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
Played, Hello, gentlemen. It is seven to nothing bills. And
by the way, with the new kickoff rule, it's not
every touchback comes out to the thirty five. I'll not
name the announcer, but one of the big network announcers saying,
as soon as someone took a knee in the end
and it's coming out to the thirty five, you know
there's a new no. No, it landed in the red zone.
The landing zone is and then rolled in in this

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case to the end zone, and that drive actually started
at the twenty, and believe me, it looked very odd
to my eyes. What starting at the twenty? You know,
we were talking on a previous Sunday night show. There
was an old, old, you know, like back in the
Terry Bradshaw days penalty where if you got clipping on
the kick return, they would actually assess it to make

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it a first and twenty five to start the drive.
So forget the fact that people didn't have good field
position in the first place. You know, your drive was
killed before you had a first down play. So we
are actually making some progress, as they said Canada. The
Bills are leading seven to nothing against the Baltimore Ravens
and the Ravens offense about to finally get their hands

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on the ball. Green Bay was leading seventeen to three
at the half against the Lions, two touchdown passes for
Jordan Love twenty seven to thirteen. The final. Detroit had
a last minute TD pass from Jered Goff last two
minutes the Niners scored to win seventeen to thirteen at
Seattle Rock Purty with the late four yard touchdown pass.
He had two TD tosses two interceptions. Christian McCaffrey sixty

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nine yards rushing. He had nine catches for seventy three
yards as well. But George Kittle left early with a
hamstring injury. He'll have an MRI in the next twenty
four hours. Houston Texans three for three on field goals
but no touchdowns, and they're lost in LA to the
Rams fourteen to nine. Matthew Stafford with a TD pass,
Kyron Williams a one yard touchdown run. At Denver, the

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Broncos beat the Titans twenty to twelve. Tennessee's offense just
seven first downs today. On third down conversions, they were
two for fourteen at Jacksonville. That game was suspended by
lightning in the second quarter. That was about two pm Eastern.
Over an hour later they resumed. Jacksonville won the game
against Carolina twenty six to ten. Pittsburgh thirty four to

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thirty two winners at the Jets Aaron Rodgers four touchdown passes,
Chris Boswell a sixty yard field goal with about a
minute to go. Washington defeated the Giants twenty one six.
The Giants team that last year was the NFC's lowest
scoring team at sixteen points a game six today. Two
field goals in this game. Arizona winner at New Orleans

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twenty to thirteen, Kyler Murray two short touchdown passes. Las
Vegas a twenty to thirteen win at New England. Ashton Genty,
the rookie running back for the Raiders, nineteen, carries thirty
eight yards in a touchdown. Raiders star tight end Brock
Bowers left late with a knee injury. He says he's fine.
He had five catches one hundred three yards. Indianapolis over
Miami thirty three to eight, Gentlemen. The Colts scored on

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all seven drives they had. ESPN research says they're the
first team since nineteen seventy seven to score on literally
every possession in an NFL game. They did actually line
up and punt once, but of course there was a
Dolphins finally in. It was fourth and two, so I'm
gonna continue that drive. Apparently, it's the first time this

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century that the Dolphins have failed to record a single
defensive stop the entire day. Daniel Jones beats Miami thirty
three eight. He had all three touchdowns for the winning side.
Cincinnati seventeen sixteen winners. At Cleveland, you reference kicking. The
Browns missed an extra point kick in the third quarter,
missed a thirty six yard field goal attempt with about

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two and a half minutes left. That was former Syracuse
star Andre s mid kicking, and Tampa Bay won twenty
three to twenty. At Atlanta, the Falcons missed a forty
four yard field goal in the final seconds. Atlanta wide
receiver Drake London has a sprained shoulder already. Wide receiver
Darnell Moody Mooney was not even active today due to
his shoulder problem. To Major League Baseball, the Yankees edge

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Toronto four to three, so the Blue Jays first in
the Al East, just two games over the Yankees, Dodgers,
and Padres each one. And we do have an update
on Luka Donsich. He had quite a day forty two
points as Sloveni advanced to the quarterfinals at the EuroBasket tournament,
beating Italy eighty four to seventy seven. On free throws,
he went fifteen for sixteen. He had ten rebounds one

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assist in the victory. Greece also won Janis Antennacumpo thirty
seven points in twenty nine minutes as Grease beat Israel
effect on two point shots. Janis was eighteen of twenty
one from the floor today. Yesterday, Finland upset Serbia to
advance to the quarterfinals. Serbia with Nikola Jokic scoring thirty
three points in defeat. Finland has Lowry markinin He has

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had twenty nine points in the victory. Buffalo Bill is
leading five minutes into the Sunday night football game seven
nothing over Baltimore.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Back to you, all right, Steve, absolutely great stuff and
thank you for like is this is gonna take everybody
a minute.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
I love that. Like Steve just described the rule. Does
everybody understand the rule? Now?

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Okay, thank you?

Speaker 3 (27:23):
So kick the ball off and if it lands in
the landing zone, which is what twenty to the goal line, right,
If if it lands in there, then obviously you catch
it and you're run.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
You're running for your life.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
But if it lands in there and rolls into the
end zone and then you down it in the end zone,
you get it at the twenty.

Speaker 6 (27:41):
Right because the kicker's done his job, right.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
But if it lands in the end zone and you
take a knee, then you go to the thirty five, okay, and.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Then h.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Has to touch the zone first.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Exactly exactly so all right.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
And then and based on what I'm watching, where returns
happen a good It's like everything's past the twenty five
and most things are past the thirty.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
And if you if you slip by that first line
of defense, well now you're damn near midfield.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
Well, I from reference the opening kickoff return here all
the way to the fifty time at Buffalo. That game
at green Bay there were ten total kickoffs, two touchbacks.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
I have to withhold any analysis of that game at
green Bay because Ephram and I are going to debut
something at six Pacific, nine eastern every single Sunday called
three things.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
And he will have his.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Three and I will have my three, the three observations,
whatever we want, things that stood out that we want
to get to from today. And my goodness, I've I've
got one from that game. I've got one from that
game that that Lions game. Lamar Jackson on a run

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to the forty yard line of the Bills, and uh
so they are on the move. The Bills on their
opening drive from looked like the Bills and so far
the Ravens look exactly like the Ravens.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Well, I feel bad for defenses for these two teams, man,
I mean, what do you do well? And that at
the quarterback position? Right, Y's ridiculous?

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Right and now, and now you're starting at you know,
somewhere around the thirty five or forty yard.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Line every time too.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
So now it's almost like you're giving these you know,
teams like this, this great offense.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
You're already giving them their first first down.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Now you got Derek Henry catching passes up the backfield
for first down. Good lord, man into the high red
zone they go, ye, just you get about six gold
chain zone too. Yeah, they look like an old pimp.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Well, he's like, I mean, who the hell do I
need to impress at this point? Right Like, I'm gonna
do it the way I want to do it. And
who's gonna tell that? Man?

Speaker 1 (29:59):
No deal has and eclipsed what he rushed for in
nine and in nine years of the NFL has not
eclipsed what he rushed for in high school? Are you?
This is us out of control?

Speaker 3 (30:12):
That that is? I want to know what that like?
I do you don't have that?

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Do you? How high school games did he play? I
want to know what he averaged per game.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
You know what, I'm not going to even touch my phone.
I know a guy did we had. We just heard
from him. As soon as you start talking, that's true,
his hands start moving. And watched this one, two three.

Speaker 6 (30:33):
And apparently in Florida he had over one hundred and
fifty touchdowns rushing his four years in high school.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Well, why the hell would you throw the ball? What
moronic offensive coordinators like I think we should throw it
on this play belt touchdown.

Speaker 6 (30:47):
He remembered four thousand yards his senior year state Rappord.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
How many carries Steve Well, it.

Speaker 6 (30:54):
Was nine yards of carry his senior year.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Okay, so we can do the math. Bet at tenth
of that, goodness.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
A nine yard to carry everything? Right, exactly? Smoke is Patrick,
I Wowia Sam. Just smoke is just fogging up Sam's glasses.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Oh not something else.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Imagine the opposing teams, right, Imagine they're just like, oh god, oh,
I'd be like coach someone's uncle, the guy, Well, we
played a team with the with the uncle with somebody
the uncle who's carrying the ball.

Speaker 6 (31:33):
Okay, this is the stat that does it. Here we
go for a four year high school career, he averaged
over two hundred and fifty yards rushing per game.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Game god, in four years.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
Oh my god, that's almost fifty games over two hundred
and fifty yards per game.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Could you imagine rushing for two hundred thirty yards? And
then when you get to school the next day, they're like,
what went wrong?

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Right? It's like whoa, yeah, wow, are you okay?

Speaker 2 (31:59):
We did you?

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Were you sick?

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Yeah? They slowed your ass down.

Speaker 6 (32:02):
And he ran the hundred on the track team and
all of that.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
And he drove the team bus because he had a license,
and goodness, he's he looks like a grown man in
the NFL like he looked in college. Yes, when you
saw him standing next to like Justin Fields or or
somebody in college or no, it was mark Ingram. There's

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a picture of him standing next to mark Ingram. They
played the same position. I'm like, ain't no way, there
is no way. It looked like he drove mark Ingram
to the game as his dad.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
That's why one I'm working for Football Sunday College Football Sundays,
and one is still chugging away.

Speaker 6 (32:53):
And they were still splitting carries with Henry and others.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Why did you do that?

Speaker 6 (33:00):
I mean, they did have a fair amount of talent.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
I would give him all the carry. That's just like
Miami when they had their Clinton porters, Frank Gore, h
Willis McGahee like that. They were all that team. They're together.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
I love it, that team.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Like four first round running backs.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Whenever anybody goes you can't prove that that college was
paying players that Miami roster, I go, then explain to
me how the hell this happened.

Speaker 6 (33:32):
I think that might be the most talented college roster
I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
In the history of the world.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
Steve, you were probably at the Rose Bowl for that game, right,
we were probably at that game together that was over.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Was it Nebraska that they played?

Speaker 3 (33:48):
Yeah, Miami and Nebraska and their tight ends I think
were both Kellen Winslow junior and Jeremy Shockey, both of them,
both of us.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Crazy talk.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Who were the receivers on that team? Was Andre on
that team?

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yes? Yes? What what is happening? The only thing they
didn't have was a quarterback?

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Right?

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Why need one?

Speaker 2 (34:17):
One?

Speaker 3 (34:19):
Guess what? Who was Derek Henry's high school quarterback? I
bet they didn't have one either? Yeah, exactly, Winston.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Oh, that's funny.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
All right, we're in the we're in the Fox Sports
Radio studios. Guess what, somebody actually stopped. Somebody, Lamar Jackson
got sacked, and so that is going to have to
be I think a field goal attempt on coming for
the Ravens. Yep, we're gonna get a look at the
Raven's new kicking game after.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, the former kickers is not there anymore.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
So so that's coming up here in just a second.
We'll get you updated on all of it as we
continue to watch party and Yeah, three things coming up
at the top of the hour with I from Salama,
Mark Wizard.

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Speaker 3 (35:17):
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Speaker 2 (35:24):
If we sound happy tonight, it's because we are.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
There's there's football all over the place. It's it's coming
out the ears. We got more that's happening right now. Yeah,
thank you, we got more tomorrow night. I'm interested as
hell in that one and coming up in ten minutes.
We've got three things. This is what we're gonna do
to start our number two every single week during the
NFL season.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Three things.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Three of our top observations that we would like to
get to from the NFL day that was I just
saw something though, pop up on Twitter that I want.
I wanted to throw the statue. I thought this was
a banana stat Are you ready for this? All right?
The Browns held the Bengals in the second half to

(36:15):
wait for it, wait, are you ready?

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Let's get it?

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Seven yards in the second half. Joe Burrow and his
seventy five million dollars in receivers got seven yards. It
is the fewest yards in the second half by a

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winning team in the last twenty five years of football.
Cleveland out gained Cincinnati in this game three hundred and
twenty seven to a one hundred and forty one and
had twice as many first downs. Joe Flacco quarterbacks of

(37:03):
that team, Joe Burrow quarterbacks the winning team. I thought
rock Perti's win was ugly. I think this one was uglier.
Oh yeah, I think it was even ugli Yes, yeah,

(37:25):
I couldn't. I was watching it I was trying not
to watch it, but I was watching it because I
watch every game and it just they don't have an answer.
The only thing that they can take from that is
we won. Normally the past few four years, they would

(37:46):
have lost that game because they look bad and they
lose early in the season. They gotta win out of it.
I guess that's the only over lining, Like we can
win ugly, guys, we don't have to out goring on
shout out to the defense for stepping up.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
I mean, I know it was the Browns.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
But well, and then shout out to the field goal kicker.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
Well, just do miss we shippy. Just let us get
to our three things segments. Okay, okay, I mean.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
We might need to move this up to the first
hour because both of us are like, wait, just time,
this just did Derrick Henry is still good?

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Still good?

Speaker 2 (38:37):
By the way, can we I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
I would like to explore that with you a little bit,
because I want to know if in your football background
you ever sort of have an eye for those who
are ageless, because it's been all kinds of talk this

(39:00):
week in the Bay about Christian McCaffrey and his calf
and his usage and where this is all going and
all of the hits that he's taken through all of
the years, and this, that and the other. And I
think he's twenty nine. And I don't know if you
know this, but Derrick Henry is not. He is not

(39:22):
twenty nine. He is thirty one. And in fact, come
the playoffs, this year's gonna be thirty two. So why
why does the faucet turn off at thirty for all
the running backs but not him?

Speaker 1 (39:35):
Because he's built different. He nothing about him, says other
running back like, he doesn't take a lot of punishment,
not saying he doesn't get hit a lot, but he
doesn't take a lot of punishment. It's different when you're

(39:56):
giving punishment because lad in games don't want to tackle him, right,
That's why he's stiff or I mean you out of
the club just routinely you're trying to take an angle,
get him from the side. Yeah, you know, change the apron.
Nobody wants that type of pressure on their neck all game.

(40:22):
So he's just built different, man Like, Seriously, m hm,
lebron is built different.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
Yeah, I get it. That's a good comp. That's a
good comp. I wonder if those two are standing next
to each other, who would look like the physical physically?

Speaker 1 (40:36):
That would be crazy.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
Yeah, yeah, they look like they Yeah, might be about
the same. But all right, it's seven to three. The
Ravens have the ball again. Steve will have all the
update on that. We will do three things next.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
He not just a badass.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
He's a former offensive lineman, so he knows when he
sees someone who he would love to block for. That's
why right out of the gate tonight you started talking
about the ageless one, Derek Henry. He is only four
months away from his thirty second birthday and he is
already only moments away from taking over Sunday Night football.

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Long touchdown run for Henry puts the raven Too ten
to seven, and you started.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
The night off talking about the right person, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
H is unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Like I'm gonna have a nightmare tonight and in it,
I'm gonna try to tackle Dereck Henry.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
No, don't wake up, man, wake yourself up. Good lord,
this is my nightmare. Unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Wow, wow wow. And just watching like when he gets
through that first.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Right, watching the DB's trying to talk.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
I just said, it's hey, look man, they like I'm
not running. Well, how am I supposed to run up?

Speaker 2 (41:51):
He and do?

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Look at it? He took an angle.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Look, they don't even get their hands on him.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Instead of trying to cut across him, he tried to Okay,
I'm gonna let him get a little bit by. I'm
trying to grab them down. Oh god, nobody wants to
run into a truck over and over again. It's not
gonna happen. That was crazy.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
Six rushes fifty two yards a touchdown, the Ravens lead
ten to seven early second quarter. Will keep you up
to date on what's a real good looking matchup here
to open up football night in America, we're broadcasting live
from the Fox Sports Radio studios and YEP, right around
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the east, or anywhere in between, or if you are
beyond the American borders, wherever it may be. Get Ready,
every single Sunday at this time, we will do three things.
So let's go ahead and fire this up. Our top
three observations. Things that we want to get off of
the chest today after a day of watching NFL football,

(42:53):
would you like to go first? What's your first first day?

Speaker 1 (42:56):
Kickers?

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Say it?

Speaker 1 (42:59):
My first thing is kickers, and I wonder just what
they are doing in training camp. This is week one.
I know what everyone else does at every single position,

(43:22):
and I know they must be ready week one. Quarterbacks
have the quarterback receivers got to catch, running backs gotta run,
DB's gotta cover d lineman. Everybody comes out ready to

(43:43):
go fresh. The person who's had less contact, less practice
hours in terms of the strain on your body, and
less meeting time, enters into week one and can single

(44:04):
handedly destroy all the hard work you've had for the
previous six weeks. Enough is enough, shame on kickers. You
want to talk about completely undermining games? The Browns kicker.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
Yep, that's what them needs to be.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
Go working on cars or selling insurance, are going and
being a vet or something other than kicking.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
He missed a short one that would have put the brown.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
He doesn't even have a vow in his last name.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Schmidt smit right, which is a normal loss. Yeah, but
not the way.

Speaker 9 (44:50):
Yeah, go ahead him, why t uh huh, let's just
submit and you know how they say it AEI O
you and.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
Sometimes why well, now it's one of those times.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
Good miss gracious, hey man, go sit in the corner
by yourself and contemplate choices.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Don't leave out young way cool.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
Young way, young way not cool? Are you kidding me?
Put on top of that, the only reason that they
were in position for that was because of Tampa Bay's kicker.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
We'll miss twice. What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (45:37):
Yeah? Yeah, And then you go to Moody brother, what's happening.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
That's gonna be a long day for Jake Moody tomorrow. Brother,
he's got the goal.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
It should be a short day.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
No, he shouldn't.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
It shouldn't be a short day.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Oh, buddy, should have been gone.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
But come on in here. We're gonna take all these.
Give me the pass to get in the building. Give
me the the key card. That's one of my three things.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Yeah, okay, here is here's my first thing.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
Dan Campbell is on new coordinator Lord, he is the
new coordinator.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Alert.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Ben Johnson is gone, Aaron Glenn is gone. And yeah,
when you said he's doing again, I thought you met
Dan Campbell mill talking about Derek.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Kenny, Henry Lord flying around in.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
The secondary yet again. But at Dan Campbell. That was
nineteen touches for Jamiir Gibbs, everybody's fancy second or third
pick in the fantasy draft, and it led to fifty
total yards. That tells me somebody done been ready for
Jamiir Gibbs. It's only one game. Green Bay's a strong opponent.

(46:45):
I'm not gonna panic yet, but the Detroit Lions without
Ben Johnson and without Aaron Glenn.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
Looked very different.

Speaker 3 (46:53):
So we'll see if Dan Campbell, who was the perfect
coach at the time because he could be a culture changer,
a raw, raw guy, the ultimate in inspiring.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
A team, but is he the.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
X's and o's guy that when they are now expecting
you to be good, you can still be good. I
have questions based on what I saw to that.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
Yeah, you know that was they went into a bus,
all right there? They Jordan Love. You know, I have
a lot of questions about Jordan Love. He's done an
excellent job answering those questions early on. If he can
be like this consistently, then Lamar Jackson scores again, then
Green Bay is gonna be They're gonna have all right.

(47:45):
Time for my second thing.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Go ahead, do it.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
One man's trash is another man's treasure.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
Say it.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
You ever been dating somebody and been like, you know what,
I'm just tired of you. Get on out of here,
get take your stuff and get out of here. And
then you turn on the TV and they're walking on
the red carpet premiere. They just got a huge movie.
You didn't even know they acted. You didn't even know

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they were a thespian, and now they're a number one
box office draw.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Geno Smith, Oh, I was sitting there trying to guess
what name are you about to say?

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Okay, Geno Smith, three hundred and sixty two yards passing wown,
come on Seattle Ooh, okay, Gino all right, but look
it doesn't stop there.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
Read it.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
It doesn't stop there. And it pains me to give raiders,
you know, a big up, but I did pick them
up to make some noise. Aaron Rodgers two forty four
four touchdowns. We haven't seen him do that since two
thousand and twenty one.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
You you didn't mention the other quarterback in that game too,
and I know he I know he lost.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Hey man, you don't you don't get to be in
the category unless you do something that you ain't doing
at the other place. He lost at the other place too.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
That's fair. That's fair, oh Ryer.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
It's Danielle Jones to seventy two thirty three point. They
smoke Miami. Who is Daniel Jones?

Speaker 2 (49:30):
On every drive?

Speaker 1 (49:31):
Every single drive, they put points on the board, no punts?
Are you kidding me? One man's trash is another man's treasure.
Micah Parsons, you're not fit to be a Dallas cowboy.

(49:53):
We're not paying you that He was a game changer
in his thirty snaps that he played. If he got
a sack every game, one second game, he'd lead the
league and sacks and be All Pro oh again for
the third time in five years. That's my second one.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
My second thing. I'm glad you brought up Daniel Jones.
I'm gonna go straight to that football game, my man.
I'm a big fan of this guy. He's got a
wonderful sense of humor. I think he's a smart play caller.
I think he knows what he's doing, and he was
everybody's cup of tea just a couple of years ago.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
But Mike McDaniel's not gonna make it.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
He's not gonna make it out of this season with
that job as the head coach of the Miami Dolphins.
The Dolphins absolutely, one hundred percent were the worst looking
football team of Week one, and it was not even close.
As you already heard Steve bring up and we just
talked about, they allowed points on every single drive.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Every time the Colts got the ball, the Colts scored.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
As for the Dolphins, every time they got the ball,
they did not score until the very end when it
was apps garbage time. It was very often that when
Tua would drop back, they could not even function. They
could not even get the pass off, let alone complete
the pass. I think we were seven minutes into the
NFL season when Tyreek Hill was already on the sideline

(51:16):
banging on the bench and screaming on an assistant coach.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
That's how long it took.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
For the Dolphins to be furious with one another on
the sideline. They too, a mini version of the Bengals
have two highly paid, if not overpaid, wide receivers, and
they cannot get either one of them to fifty yards
in a game on a weekly basis right now, with
or without Tua. So that team is a hot mess

(51:43):
on both sides.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Of the ball.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Go ahead and put them in the favorite slot right
now for the number one pick in the draft. And
as much as I love Mike McDaniel a from he
not gonna make it.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
And let me tell you this, I said this to you.
I believe last week or a week before, Kirk Cousins
will be quarterback in Miami Dolphins before the end of
the year.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
It's a wonderful observation. I like it.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
They're going to well out, They're going to understand they
have an opportunity right now and they need a real quarterback.
Tua is just not getting it done. It's just not now.
This third one for me, Okay, let's do it, all right,
This third one for me. I'm gonna I'm gonna get
a little bit off the beaten path. Okay, I'm gonna

(52:32):
get a little bit off the beaten path. Let's go
the Los Angeles Dodgers. Not quite sure if you saw
the game last night, but my man, y'a'm a moto
was on a heater, perfect game, no hitter, two outs, left,

(52:58):
two outs in the nine and the bottom of the
ninth inning, two outs. He gives up a home run. Okay,
we haven't seen the pitcher pitch nine innings ever this year.

(53:18):
They give up a home run, it's fine, bringing snail.
I think it was trying, Oh god, tried to just
unforget that and the wheels fall off. The score with

(53:41):
two outs and the bottom of the ninth was three
to zero. Correct, the game ended three to four? Are
you kidding me? Dodgers, get it together. It's not that
they lost, it's how they've been losing. And that was

(54:02):
the fifth game in a role that they've lost, and
it's been ugly. They're playing against the last place, or
it just it didn't make any sense. They won today,
but I don't care that game yesterday I couldn't even
believe it. That's my third.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Yeah, I liked him in that spot. I really did well,
but it didn't work out.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
And the one thing you left out a lot of
people coming after right fielder Andy Pahes for not even
attempting to rob a home run that barely barely barely
made it over the fence. What was he just to
have that in there?

Speaker 1 (54:35):
As one? Did they want to? Does he have a
forty inch vertical?

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Clearly? Not? All right?

Speaker 3 (54:42):
My third thing and I really want your reaction to this.
I got you, Okay. I was disappointed in Bonnicks today.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
I really was. That's not now one game.

Speaker 3 (54:54):
But I really thought, and you know this, I've already
predicted that Denver Broncos are going to win the AFC West.
Their defense was exactly what we told their defense was
going to be.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
They held the Titans to twelve points.

Speaker 3 (55:05):
Obviously, the quarterback they're facing is in his first NFL game,
so maybe you could call it an easy assignment at
home for a good defense. But they held up there
end of the bargain, and the Broncos won the game.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
They grind this thing out. They win it twenty to twelve.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
Raise your hand if you had him in a survivor
pool and you were stressed late in the game. My
hand is way up. But they won. Everything's fine. But
this is more of a fine tuned kind of a take.
This isn't about his stats. One hundred and seventy six
yards four point four yards per dropback e from one
hundred and seventy six yards on forty throws and was

(55:43):
picked twice only through one touchdown, But there were also
It goes deeper than that.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
There was a lack of awareness in the pocket.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
There were times where he stepped up into an open
spot in the pocket and.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Then just made poor decisions Downfield.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
Is still a young player, but he was good last
year and we were expecting a step up this year,
especially under a great offensive coach like Sean Payton. And
I was disappointed in what I saw with his matchuration
so far today.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Yeah, I agree with that. It looked a lot real discombobulated. Yes,
it didn't have a flow to it. I mean four
point four yards. You can't throw the ball forty times
and have one hundred and seventy six yards. That's not
winning football.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (56:32):
If that's the case, you got just heading the ball
off more right instead of thirty rushing attempts, make that
forty rushing attempts in thirty passing attempts, Especially in the
game where you controlled the game for the most part.
Because of the indeptness of the Tennessee Titans, it's just
not a lot to work with for cam Ward in Tennessee,

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they got a lot of building to do. I mean
there's no talent on that team. They got a second
really a second string running back, and Tony Pollard they
have a Calvin Rittley who yeah, I mean drops all
over the place.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
A huge play.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
It just is a lot for the number one pick
in the draft to try to carry this, you know,
the way it looked today, he they better be careful
they don't get him hurt. Sacked six times, hit a
whole bunch more times. But you're absolutely right about bowl Knicks.
We expected it to look a little bit better than

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it did coming off last year and having Sean Payton. Uh,
it just looked discombobulated.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
Totally, totally. I really liked three things.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
And I thought that you having a baseball take in
there was like plus eight hundred, Like if anybody bet
on that. Uh, they're they're they're feeling powerball rich right.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Just showing my rain.

Speaker 3 (57:54):
I loved it. I loved it. It was a good
take too, all right. Uh, it's interesting that we brought
up a young player in cam Ward bow Nicks. There's
a different position on the field where I want to
address the idea of young players. Coming up next, we'll
do that. The Bills are in the red zone as
we speak. We'll keep you up to date. Steve is

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only ten minutes away with me from salam Mark Willard,
and this is Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Are you ready for some football?

Speaker 3 (58:24):
Might be one of the hardest things to ask human
beings to be, and the word is patient.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Well, we're not good. We're not good at that at all.

Speaker 3 (58:38):
But I have a little something that I want to
throw out everybody, And for those of you who have
a furrowed brow and red cheeks right now because of
your fantasy team, I have something for everybody that I
think is important and there's a little story.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Attached to it too.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
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Speaker 3 (59:01):
Catch us and all of our Fox Sports Radio shows
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presets in the iHeart app so it will always pop
up at the top of your screen. I've told you
this story before. I think a few years ago. There

(59:22):
was a young rookie for the Minnesota Vikings. His name
was Justin Jefferson. I took him late in my fantasy draft,
about halfway through the season, I decided, you know what,
this just isn't popping like I thought it would, and
I needed the roster spot. It got some injuries, We're
dealing with some stuff here with our franchise, and so
we're going to head out on the free agent market

(59:43):
and make a selection, and we are going to we
are going to give his unconditional.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
Release Justin Jefferson. Whoops.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
Yeah, So I know that's a different position than what
I'm about to say, but I've no is this around
the league based on watching a lot of fantasy drafts.
Be patient with your rookie running backs. They don't know
how to pass protect yet. Therefore the coach isn't gonna

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put him in the game yet. But if you have
stock in Caleb Johnson in Pittsburgh or RJ.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Harvey and Denver.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
Who did get some you got some run, he broke
a long one. If you have stock in Jaden Blue
in Dallas, who was a healthy scratch from that football game.
If you were annoyed, constantly annoyed by the presence of
Ramandre Stevenson, who got more carries than Treveon Henderson, if

(01:00:48):
you're looking around the league and you're already annoyed because
the big fancy rookie running back that you thought was
really gonna pop if you went big on all of
that talk about Jacory Krofsky Merritt and now he popped

(01:01:08):
a little bit for you. But I bet it worried
a lot of people early when they're like, why is
Austin Eckler getting all of the carries? If you decided
that you thought that Jacksonville backfield, Oh you're gonna get
everybody in round thirteen with base shalt touton. And then

(01:01:30):
you saw Travis Etn get sixteen carries for one hundred
and forty three yards. If that's you, breathe and wait,
because it's coming. Not for all of them, but it's
coming early in the season. Coaches are gonna go with
the people they trust, and they don't trust the twenty

(01:01:53):
one and twenty two year olds yet.

Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
For the most part. For the most part, Yeah, I
just want to get that out there. That's a good message.
That's a good message. It's coming on right, And yeah,
how many leagues are I am? Oh, it's too many,
It's too many, dudes. One two, please please get up four, Get.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
Up, not three, not four?

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
Five?

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
Okay, I am two, I'm in five.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
And it's the kids.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
Kid asked me last night, he goes, Dad, were kicking
everything off at ten o'clock, do you have any games
where no one is starting?

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
And I looked at the list and I went, no,
I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
And then they went to wait, I'm not starting anyone
in the Cardinal Saints game. I have people but didn't
start them. So there was one one game where I
wasn't starting anyone in any leagues too many leaks.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
It's a lot of leagues.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
But I'm also not gonna I'm not gonna stop. Can't stop,
won't stop.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
You from can't stop, won't stop.

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
Which is usually what we should probably say every time
Steve to Sayer comes on the show.

Speaker 6 (01:03:19):
Good Evening once again, Jellow, hey, Steve, can I just
say out loud that Derrick Henry has one hundred and
twenty three yards rushing on nine carries tonight at Buffalo?
Thank you. That includes a thirty yard touchdown run forty
nine yard gain as well. And yeah, it's the Ravens
in the lead under two minutes to go in the
first half at Buffalo Baltimore up seventeen to ten. The

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new Ravens kicker Tyler Loop with a thirty to fifty
two yard field goal and Lamar Jackson a ten yard
touchdown run. The kicker these days for Buffalo with the
Tyler Bass injury is Matt Prater. They settled for a
twenty five yard field goal here late in the first half,
had a near seven minute drive. Buffaloeen plays settled for three.
So they're still trailing at home seventeen to ten, Ravens

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in the lead. How do I put this mildly? If
you didn't see the Tennessee at Denver game today, you
didn't miss a thing. Wow, Denver twenty to twelve the final.
It'll sound like, you know, kind of a lot of
things went on, right the Broncos were down twelve to
ten in the third court. No, not a lot went on.

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Joey Sly of Tennessee was four for four on field
goals to give him the lead. Six total turnovers in
this game. The Titans, I know they have a rookie
quarterback and they weren't good, and they earned that number
one pick this past year. But the Titans offense had
fourteen drives and seven first downs. Oh, they had more
punts than first downs on opening day today, no touchdowns

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sacked six times, thirteen penalties for Tennessee for one hundred
and thirty one yards. The offense only had one hundred
thirty three total yards. The penalty yardage was almost equal
to that the Titans offense on third down conversions two
for fourteen, but the Broncos had four turnovers, three by

(01:05:12):
quarterback bow knicks. It'll count as a win and maybe
nobody will remember the game. Denver twenty to twelve. The
final not exactly a picasso in La but the Rams
get a w fourteen to nine over Houston, which had
no touchdowns. Houston led nine to seven at the half.
Kyimi Fairbairn out of UCLA did have well three for

(01:05:34):
three on field goals. He hit from forty five from
fifty one from fifty three yards out. That is also
a great kicking stadium in La Nico. Collins held to
three receptions. San Francisco won with a touchdown pass with
under two minutes to go. Seventeen thirteen at Seattle, the
Seahawks only had two hundred and thirty yards of offense.
Couple of fumbles. Kenneth Walker ten carries only twenty yards rushing.

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At green Bay, the Packers were up seventeen three at
the half. Jordan Love two touchdown passes. Green Bay beat
Detroit twenty to thirteen. The Lions as a team twenty
two carries just forty six yards rushing. Among the earlier games,
Pittsburgh beat the Jets thirty four to thirty two. The
Jets missed two two point conversions and lost by two.

(01:06:19):
They went for two early in the game for no reason,
only because there was a defensive penalty on the extra
point kick. Hey wait a minute, we're gonna get it
from half to distance. Hey, offense, get back on the field.
Turned out the Jets had missed the kicks, so they
were kind of bailed out already. But no, no double down.
Let's put the offense on the field, try and run

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straight up the middle. Stuffed No, and then with about
seven minutes left, missed another two point try. This reminds
me when the Lloyd Carr's Michigan team lost to Appalachian State.
They went for two twice, missed both and lost by two.
Is nobody doing maths on the sidelines?

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Campbell?

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
Yeah, Yeah, that's when analytics goes wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
It looks like Aaron brought that over from old from Denver.

Speaker 6 (01:07:09):
Praise for Chris Boswell a sixty yard field goal with
about a minute ago. Pittsburgh wins at the Jets thirty
four thirty two, Aaron Rodgers four touchdown passes and can
I mention that. In the Brazil game Friday night, Chargers
defeated the Chiefs twenty seven to twenty one. Chiefs wide
receiver Xavier Worthy suffered a dislocated shoulder as he collided
with a teammate on crossing routes over the mill. Yeah,

(01:07:32):
Kelsey took out his own man early in that game,
and Kansas City was, of course already without right wide
receiver Rashid Rice, already serving this six game suspension. Update.
Tyler Loop the new kicker for the Ravens forty nine
yard field goal about thirty seconds left in the first half.
Ravens lead twenty to ten at Buffalo. In baseball, the
Yankees were four to three winners over Toronto. The Dodgers

(01:07:54):
got two homers from shoey Otani. He has forty eight
five to the final. At Baltimore, Clayton Kershaw's ten and
two this year after getting today's when La snaps a
five game losing streak. But I'm guessing they still remember
that Saturday night game that he did reference earlier, Seattle
eighteen to two winners in Atlanta. Col Rawley is fifty
third homer. By the way, as that was going on

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that whatever that was that the Dodgers lost last night,
literally none of us could ever think of a moment
in baseball history that that had occurred. And apparently that
it hasn't occurred, because as stats came out, the closest
it came is the Dodgers and Padres about a decade ago,
were in a zero zero game in the ninth and

(01:08:37):
the Dodgers broke up a combined hitter and won it
in the ninth inning. This was down three nothing, breaking
up a no hitter and scoring four in the bottom
of the ninth to win.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
It's just astounding, literally impossible to do. I just you will.

Speaker 6 (01:08:51):
Never hear of that again in the rest of your days.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
Almost tour the house up, I was like, are you
kidding me?

Speaker 6 (01:08:58):
Denny Hamlet took the next Vascar race, Carlos Alcarez won
the US Open, and a final stat for you. As
we mentioned the greatness of Derrick Henry, we mentioned it's
only nine carries for one hundred and twenty three yards
in a touchdown. So ap tonight looks up, what's the
most yards rushing a guy has had in the first
half of a first game in the season. Well, they
look back at least through nineteen ninety one and the

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record is one thirty five in a first half. So
Derrick Henry is not far from that. The guy who
had won thirty five it was the first half of
his first game with his new team in two thousand
and eight, Michael Turner, who had been very good with
the Chargers but was the backup to Ladanian Tomlinson. First
year in Atlanta, he led the league in carries, had

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seventeen hundred yards rushing, and had a first half like
I just mentioned. But of course he's no Derrick Henry,
who never rushed for fewer than one hundred yards in
a high school game.

Speaker 1 (01:09:53):
Back to you, never fewer than two hundreds.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
Like we said, when he got to math class on Monday,
if he went for two twenty five, they asked him
what went wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
He must have been sick exactly Thanks Steve. Thanks Steve.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
We're already less than an hour away from getting to
talk to Steve again.

Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
Isn't that nice? So sweetey, Steve.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
Tyler loop of forty nine yarder as Steve reported there,
so we got a twenty to ten game.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
Ravens lead the Bills.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
The Ravens look effective, they look dominant.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
They look very very effective.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
Now, with twenty five seconds left in the half, Ken
the reigning MVP Josh Allen pull up Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 3 (01:10:46):
Were sure, well, let's see, sure he can. They also
don't have no timeouts. No timeouts either doesn't matter right
now with old Patrick.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
I know he did it again on Friday. I was like,
come on in the half, well.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Now that was that was the kid? That was Hampton's fault.

Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
Man, wasn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
Can I ask you a question about that?

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
And for those of you who don't know what we're
talking about, Omari and Hampton, who is the uh the
young running back for the Chargers, very talented. I thought
he looked good. Didn't put up huge numbers, but I
thought he looked good. But right before the half, they're
kind of setting up their own field position game and
he took a ball on a sweep around the right side,
which is a questionable play call when you don't want
to go out of bounce, but they did, and he

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just looked like, I mean, it wasn't even he just
flew right out of bounce and they go, well, that's
a rookie mistake, And I thought to myself.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
It is. However, you don't need seasoning in the league.

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
You don't run out of bounds, and college or high
school either.

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
What I was saying, why why does that happen? Why
he's just a rookie. I said, yeah, but he's been
playing running back for a long time, Like, did he.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
Not didn't have coaches and college they didn't have sidelines.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
Now you could be like you was so excited. He
wanted to get the yards, he wanted to get the edge,
and as he was stretching the play, the field got
shorter and shorter and each should have just dove his
back to the ground. Uh, and they wouldn't have given
up three points to end the half, which was it?
I mean, yeah, it came back and it was gonna

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bite them in the butt. Patrick Mahomes had all that
time with forty something seconds, that's easy points. Easy points
as we just see Josh Allen. Uh probably about you know,
eight yards away from already already there past they're already there, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
Yep, Like with one play they got across midfield already
and so uh so yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
Oh ran out of time, It ran out? What that play?
It took a long That took too long?

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Why did they?

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
Patrick wouldn't have done that?

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
Yeah, well, uh things.

Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
Ken not our patricks Patrick, yes, Slee Patrick, Josh Allen
is asking for one more second?

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
La Mar Jackson in the room. To be fair, I
wouldn't have done that either, Yeah, still in the still
in bounds, Still in bounds?

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
Why man still? And then oh, I mean there is
is that reviewable?

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
I didn't know they're going inside.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
They're going inside. He was touching the sideline before the
clock hit zero. But you can't ask referees to I
mean you can't.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
Like that's kind of like the plock put another second
on the They.

Speaker 3 (01:13:44):
Really did look at that seeing you took a you
took a shot at Josh Allen and now you're probably
own apology.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
Yeah no, that was terrible. What would you First of all,
you had the ball that he had seven seconds to
start with, but it works in a drag Roll should
have run quick out.

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
It worked. Now they're all the way with the twenty
five yard line.

Speaker 4 (01:14:05):
Will the kicker be a kicker? It doesn't even kicker
Phil be a kicker. Wilson brand new kicker I think
is that Prader's crater.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
Right, Tyler Bass is hurt? All right?

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
Field goal is good now, Lamar and everybody can go
to the locker room twenty to thirteen at half. Much
more on this. I do want to get your thoughts
on a wobbly game in the Northwest for brock Party,
who threw what I felt was the worst game winning
touchdown pass I've ever seen in my entire life.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
But let's let's talk it out. I would love to
get your thoughts.

Speaker 3 (01:14:42):
Were in the Fox Sports Radio studios and with me
from Salama Mark Willard on Fox Sports Radio, and that's
exactly what we're doing right here in these Fox Sports
Radio studios with E from Salam.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
I'm Mark Willard.

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
I always talk about this and think about this process
versus result. I'm much more of a process guy. I
think that that's how results end up in your favor
over time, but they don't always end up in your favor.
Like well intentioned things don't always work out. So I

(01:15:17):
wanted to ask you because this was my read on
that forty nine or Seahawks game.

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
I thought you had a.

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
Football game there where the fans of the forty nine
ers were really asked to head into conflict with one
another or with themselves. So, to what level is kind
of a flawed process excused when you get the result
you're looking for?

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
How would you answer that? To what level a flawed
process is? To what level is it excused.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
If you get the result that you're.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Looking for.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
When it's a one off.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
When it's a one off? I like that answer. Do
you think this was a one off?

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
Boy? I hope for the sake of for the fans
it was.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
Because for those of you didn't see it. Here's kind
of what I'm getting at. First of all, you've already
detailed the kicking escapades. A twenty seven yarder that don'inks
off of the upright. The next kick was blocked. I
guess not Jake Moody's fault. At least he wasn't the
main one in fault. But anyway, special teams has been
a mess in San Francisco for a while, and it

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was as messy as ever.

Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
Today.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
The defense was fantastic.

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
The offense came out and went hot knife through butter
to start the game and then totally stalled out, in
part because of the kicking problems. Thirty one touches for
Christian McCaffrey two days after he left practice with some
sort of a calf cramp or something.

Speaker 2 (01:16:59):
And then I.

Speaker 3 (01:17:00):
Thought, a really solid first half from brock Purty under
a lot of pressure. In fact, I saw the analytics
of his pressure rate. It was almost fifty eight percent,
which is the highest I think of any game in
his career. So run that through your filter. But then
in the second half, two very very poor interceptions. But

(01:17:24):
then he does what the Niners never do, trail late
and go on your game winning drive, and he hit
a beautiful pass down the left sideline to Ricky Piersall
to set the Niners up in the red zone. But
then pressured out of the pocket and Ephraim he.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Threw a loser into the air. He threw an absolute.

Speaker 3 (01:17:46):
Rare game lose inder just a quack of a ridiculous
nature right at a defender and his backup tight end
into the mixed George Kittle out for the game with
a hamstring, his young backup tight end jumped in front
of a defender took it from him in the Niners one.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
Then, as people flock to fantasy football to pick up
that guy, Jake is gracious.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
Jake toungous. So, dude, I don't know what to make
of it. I don't. I don't know what to make
of that game. They're one at all.

Speaker 1 (01:18:25):
It was ugly. It was I mean some of the past,
and you know we are rock pretty fans, yes, but
as he was releasing some of those those interceptions, I
was like, no, they weren't good pass it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
They were bad. They're bad decisions, which is.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
Very bad decisions right now, which is I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
It's the hallmark of what he does.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
When Kittle went down, he's running out of weapons and
it's the first game and Jawan Jennings went down to
So this is about to be as easy as their
schedule is. Shout out to Ricky Piersoll because he showed up.
Sure did as easy as their schedule is. I mean,

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this thing can get ugly fast for them. Now. Granted
it is extremely difficult to go to Seattle and win
especially opening week. It is a tough place to play.
Brock Purdy happens to be four and one there, right,
just to throw that, including today, four in a row.

(01:19:34):
So maybe not that hard for him, but it looked
like it was hard. It did.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
I mean, that's the constant thing about him. It's like,
you make mistakes, but it's like, sure, no Brandon Aiyuk,
no George Kettle, no Jawan Jennings, no de Marcus Robinson.

Speaker 1 (01:19:56):
No anybody. Right, you had Chris Jenden and hey, you
the heck him by Lois at.

Speaker 3 (01:20:01):
A fifty eight percent pressure rate, which is awful and
obviously not his fault.

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
Yet this thing is.

Speaker 3 (01:20:12):
New Orleans next week. Robert Sola's defense looked good, man,
they look good. They got some youth out there and
they look good.

Speaker 1 (01:20:24):
What do you think? What do you think about Sam?
We'll talk about Sam one others.

Speaker 3 (01:20:27):
Let's talk about I'd love to talk about Sam, so,
uh yeah, we still got a lot of games to
go through. We'll do that coming up next. Marking a
from on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
And we are broadcasting live from the Fox.

Speaker 3 (01:20:44):
Sports Radio studios. And in his week one in the
National foot Ball League, the Ravens and Bills performing Football
Night in America, and the Ravens are outperforming so far.
Three plays on the opening drive of the second half
and they are already hitting pay dirt extra point is

(01:21:06):
good twenty seven to thirteen. So Josh Allen and the
Bills are going to be in hurry up mode very
early in this one. We said it already in that
first half. But my god, if if this is what
we're looking at with the Baltimore Ravens, here's my prediction.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
And they were already right up there.

Speaker 3 (01:21:28):
But if this is what we get for the second
half tonight, we're going to be looking at the Baltimore
Ravens as the clear cut Super Bowl favorite in Vegas
when we wake up tomorrow morning.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
Because the reaction is that instant.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
And the Chiefs lost, and while the Eagles won, it
was wonky and weird and unimpressive and a lot of
people felt like ceedee lamb drops for the only reason why.
So this stuff happens fast and right now. Of all
the teams I've watched so far this week, this is
easily the most impressive team.

Speaker 1 (01:22:03):
Yeah. If this thing holds form, goodness, gracious, yeah, cool,
Just think about all the teams Ravens have to play
and they don't have Josh Allen.

Speaker 3 (01:22:16):
Right, Like, this is what they look like at Buffalo.
At Buffalo, they are hosting Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
Next week, Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
And they have what in.

Speaker 3 (01:22:25):
Theory looks like on paper, a really difficult start to
the schedule. Yes, they host Cleveland next week, but then
they host Detroit, and then they're at Kansas City, and
then they host Houston, and then they host the Rams
and on and on, like these are teams, these are
playoff teams from a year ago, over and over and
over again. In the first six weeks of the raven

(01:22:47):
schedule headed to a week seven by But dude, if
this is what you look like at Buffalo, then I
ain't scared of anything.

Speaker 1 (01:22:55):
Yeah, this thing is. But I just I can't. I
can't even put it into words how easy this looks
for Baltimore. Yeah, you know, I'm not saying that. You know,
Buffalo has you know, number one defense in the league,
but they are a championship contending team the odds on

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favorite actually, and so I mean it's literally like they're
just out there doing anything they want. They have no
answer for Derrick Henry which gives you no answer for
Lamar Jackson. And if that's the case, boy man, this

(01:23:49):
is this is Look I'm speachless because it's impressive.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
It's it really is.

Speaker 1 (01:23:55):
Like they they they've come out to send a message
and that's how they're playing. And I'm sure Jim had
this to say in the locker room. Look we are John,
this is we This is our send a message year,
every game matter, every game. We need to show the

(01:24:17):
world what Ravens football is going to look like this year.

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
Well, I mean I said to you off the top.
You know, these two football teams. Unfortunately for them, there's
not a whole lot that they can do in the
regular season that's gonna make everybody get all giddy because
they've been really, really good in the regular season for
a long time. We're looking at the last two MVPs
go head to head against one another, and both of
them largely look good. Like Josh is getting out played,

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but not because.

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
He looks awful. Josh looks fantastic.

Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
So we know that when provided health, these two teams
are going to the playoffs this year. They are probably
going to win their respective divisions. That would be my guess.
But it's it's it's hard. I always say it's hard
for a team. It's kind of like how mad you
all are at the Dodgers right now.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
It's hard when a.

Speaker 3 (01:25:08):
Team will not be judged until you get to the
end that nobody's interested in this time of year.

Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
And so like, I love these two players. They both
look great.

Speaker 3 (01:25:18):
Tonight and h and yep, we'll see him in January,
but nobody wants to hear it anymore once we get
to January. Like one of these two dudes has got
to go to the super Bowl this year.

Speaker 1 (01:25:34):
Have to at least go No, no, I'm with you.
They've been too good too long to just go now right.

Speaker 2 (01:25:41):
I understand that, But they haven't even done that.

Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
I remember when Joe went and Joe Burrow went early
yep and he lost it. It was like, oh, okay,
all right, you did that's first three years after that,
you got to go win it, like we were not
like Peyton Manning just going to the super Bowl, what

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you know, Like that wouldn't have been just okay.

Speaker 3 (01:26:09):
Right, I just mean, let's crack that egg first. It's
kind of crazy, to be honest.

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
You got to crack it and eat it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:15):
At the same time, I'm not against what you're saying
at all. I just like, in this moment, I'm like,
let's let's talk about February. When we get to February,
I'm interested in January.

Speaker 2 (01:26:28):
One of you has got to win the AFC.

Speaker 3 (01:26:31):
You have to go through that gauntlet of quarterbacks that
the AFC is going to offer you. You're gonna get there,
and it's either going to be each other or Patrick
or Joe or Justin or cj or all these people
who I don't even need to give you their last
names that you've got, and you've got to do that.
You're gonna have to navigate that darn thing and uh

(01:26:54):
and and get into the Bowl and then we'll deal
with Jay Len or Jared or whoever the hell is.

Speaker 1 (01:27:00):
Yeah, because once anybody you're playing in the Super Bowl
is inferior to you, it would seem anybody you play.
If Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen make it to the
Super Bowl, there isn't another quarterback in the NFC that
is comparable to either of those now. So that's why

(01:27:24):
I'm saying, oh, no, no, no, you can't just go.
You have to now if you can make it through
the gauntlet of the AFC and those quarterbacks. Once you
get to the super Bowl, you got to finish the deal.

Speaker 3 (01:27:42):
Josh Allen is a Central California kind of northern to
central California. Grew up in a little town called Fireball
out on Highway five in the middle of the state.
And the Super Bowl will be at Levi Stadium here
in northern California. This year would be a whole lot
of fun for him if this could be the one,

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But he might be looking at his biggest challenge right
now here in front of him on his own field
right now.

Speaker 1 (01:28:11):
Yeah, this is this has AFC Championship game written all
over It.

Speaker 3 (01:28:18):
Sure does, because by the way, the Bills are about
to get a first and goal themselves a little pass
interference down down close to the goal line, and so
they're set up to have the answer that you asked
them to have.

Speaker 1 (01:28:32):
Yeah, this, I mean you gotta fight. This is about
to be the Canelo Crawford fight next weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:28:41):
I love it. I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:42):
This game has looked exactly like I think all of us.
I mean, it could be a little closer, although we
might be moments away from a one score game, but
these are the offensive fireworks. I know everybody was hoping
for out of this game. Plus it's the last game.
So all of you who have somebody who needs to
catch you up in a fantasy game or something like that,
hopefully it's.

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
Lamar or Lamar. I have Lamar.

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
Yeah, hopefully he's catching you up.

Speaker 1 (01:29:05):
I have Lamar and Mark Andrews.

Speaker 2 (01:29:07):
Oh oh, well, Andrews hasn't done a whole.

Speaker 1 (01:29:09):
Lot, I know, but I just needed to catch a
couple more.

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
I need to get in the red zone.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:29:14):
See, they're scoring too far out of.

Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
The red zone. Yeah, it's a it's a I'm catching
up with their kicker. Their kickers having a day.

Speaker 1 (01:29:22):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
Nobody remembers justin anymore, do they? So?

Speaker 3 (01:29:26):
Anyway, bills are inside the five. We will keep you
up to date. You asked me about Sam Darnold.

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
I also have Josh Allen though, and another one.

Speaker 2 (01:29:34):
Well, of course you do. We're both in five leagues
from You have everyone.

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
I do have everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:29:38):
You have everyone. That's what someone someone asked me this week,
who'd you get? I said, all of them? I got
all everybody. Yeah, isn't that wonderful? All?

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
All right? Can we do something, of course, we can
tell me your five starting quarterbacks.

Speaker 3 (01:29:53):
Okay, so I have to start with a little caveat
because one of the leagues I think I've told you
about is that super flex thing where we.

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
Start to which is ridiculous but it's actually really fun.
But anyway, anyway, so let me take you through it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
In one league with my with all my family members,
my quarterback is Lamar. In my work league, my quarterback
is Joe Burrow that didn't go great today. In that
super flex league, the two quarterbacks are also Joe Burrow
and Rock Party.

Speaker 1 (01:30:32):
Trash go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:30:35):
He put up some points though he threw for almost
three hundred yards.

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
And then let's see.

Speaker 3 (01:30:42):
Oh and then I have a league with my little
guys dads, and that quarterback is Dac Prescott, but I
had a bye this week so I didn't play.

Speaker 2 (01:30:56):
And then the last one, which is what my high
school friends.

Speaker 3 (01:30:59):
I actually would love your input on this because I
waited on QB and kind of got stuck, and then
I picked him in like back to back rounds. And
I'm going to toss up of which one I should
start each week.

Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
I have Drake May and Kyler Murray Kyler Murray. Well,
I started Drake this week and it might bite me.

Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:31:18):
Well, I thought that was a good idea going against
the Raiders at.

Speaker 1 (01:31:23):
Home, So I tell you my good Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:31:26):
Who are your five?

Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
So in my of the one league I originally play in,
I have jayde Daniels. Okay, I should have started Justin Herbert,
he's my backup.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
Yeah, but why would you you know I didn't?

Speaker 3 (01:31:47):
Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, right, Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
In my second league, I have Lamar Jackson. Okay, right,
is getting that a lot of there and going to
the other league.

Speaker 2 (01:32:04):
We're still at the stage where you're like, I don't remember.

Speaker 1 (01:32:06):
I don't, I don't know, I have I don't. It's
too much, it's too much right now, Okay. In the
league i'm in with my sons and their friends. I
have Josh Allen. My youngest son has Josh Allen. Uh.
And my oldest son has Justin Herbert. Great job for
him today. And and my final league, my quarterback is

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Joe Burrow.

Speaker 3 (01:32:33):
Okay, you you drafted quarterbacks pretty early because you have them, dudes.

Speaker 1 (01:32:38):
Yeah yeah, Well, I mean I also have Sakwan and
also will have you know, James Cook, and I have
some Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
I don't mean like first round early, but in order
to get the Lamars.

Speaker 1 (01:32:50):
Oh yeah, I had. I wanted. I wanted superior quarterback.
I see. I didn't want to do the whole Oh god,
is this Jared Golf gonna be Jared?

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
Like I?

Speaker 1 (01:33:00):
I just wanted guys who were going to show up.

Speaker 3 (01:33:02):
Yeah, so you were doing it in the second and
third round yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:33:05):
Often?

Speaker 3 (01:33:05):
Yes, all right, So why did you Why did you
ask just for fun or was there no?

Speaker 1 (01:33:11):
I just I just wanted to see how a line
we were when it came to that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
I always want I always want Lamar or Josh, and
it just didn't usually work out. But I got Lamar
in one. I got Lamar in one, and I was
glad to get Joe. And I'm not worried about today.

Speaker 1 (01:33:31):
No, no test run.

Speaker 2 (01:33:33):
They always do this, they did this last day.

Speaker 1 (01:33:35):
Do it every year, Yeah, every single year.

Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
So shout out to all the people who took Jamar
Chase from first overall.

Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
Yeah I did. That's pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (01:33:46):
Do you want to go off right now about what
the bills just did? Do you want to do that?

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
Yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:51):
Go off so I know how you feel about it
without you even saying it.

Speaker 1 (01:33:54):
I mean, this is how you respond.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
Well, no, I mean the fact that they went for two.

Speaker 1 (01:34:00):
Oh no, oh god, and I refuse. I'm not I'm
not gonna play that game with these people. Don't do that.
This is this is this will be my early warning
to teams. Don't do it because you're unless you have
the San Francisco's forty nine ers kicker? Are the Cleveland

(01:34:20):
Browns kicker? Are who else was on that list?

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
Young?

Speaker 1 (01:34:27):
Way cool? Unless you have them, never go for two.
Just take the points because you'll find yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:34:34):
Not never, I mean, if you're down by two with
a minute to go, I would.

Speaker 1 (01:34:37):
That's a different, completely different stories. What you do is
you put yourself in that position when you go for
two when you're not supposed to.

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (01:34:48):
So now you find yourself as the Jets when you
go for two twice and you miss both and you
lose the game by two points. Hmmm. Two field goal
are two extra points? Two points? Game is tied over time?

Speaker 3 (01:35:08):
Brother, I wish we could put the toothpaste back in
the tube. I don't think we're gonna win this battle.

Speaker 1 (01:35:13):
No, we're not gonna win it.

Speaker 3 (01:35:15):
I mean, they're gonna go for two and they're gonna
go for it on fourth down, and they're gonna and
they're gonna and they're gone.

Speaker 1 (01:35:20):
You know, this game is probably gonna come down to
anywhere from zero to six.

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
Points probably, and the Ravens will probably win it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:29):
Bye, I'm gonna only right by three, like I get.

Speaker 3 (01:35:34):
The analytics state that the one two punch of being
down by fourteen suggests that you can gain an edge
mathematically by going for two the first time, because you
can just.

Speaker 1 (01:35:45):
Throw it out leave the mat right, But the.

Speaker 2 (01:35:48):
Second you don't get the first one, it's over.

Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
You then mathematically are now in a major disadvantageous position,
which is what the Bills have just created for themselves.
The roll it all away. Yep, yep. So all right,
we never got to Sam. Let's get to Sam. We
could talk about Sam coming up next. Sam Donold is

(01:36:11):
the one we're talking about. That's he from Salama. I'm
Mark willerd. This is Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Radio Studios.
That's he from Salama. Mark Willer.

Speaker 2 (01:36:20):
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Speaker 2 (01:36:40):
You'll see today's show.

Speaker 3 (01:36:42):
Post it right after we get off of the air
from I know that analytics may not be your friend,
but sometimes there are little.

Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
Quirks that we get to learn that I do find amusing.

Speaker 3 (01:36:55):
We were talking about that Niners Seattle Seahawks game and.

Speaker 2 (01:37:01):
The Brock Purty game winning touchdown throw.

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
Next Gen Stats just tweeted out a short time ago
that the completion probability of the throw when it left
his hand.

Speaker 1 (01:37:15):
Probably had to be what do you think it was? Zero?

Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
Not that bad bad fourteen point seven.

Speaker 3 (01:37:27):
Fourteen point seven percent complete completion probability when it left
his hand, and he was traveling almost sixteen miles an
hour when he let it go, running straight to his
right and the receiver again, the name is Jake Tongjus.

(01:37:49):
Jake Tongjis had zero point four yards of separation God
when the ball arrived.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
That's why they pay him the big bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:38:00):
That's a fifty two million dollars throw right there, right there, right,
that's how the ball works this way through there.

Speaker 1 (01:38:07):
Fifty two million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:38:09):
Boy, you keep paying them one million, that ball gets
picked off.

Speaker 1 (01:38:13):
Yeah, yeah, you paid. You paid a passer her a
million dollars. You get a million dollar throw.

Speaker 3 (01:38:20):
Oh boy, but you asked me about Sam. What'd you
think of Sam? I didn't think Sam was bad in
this game.

Speaker 1 (01:38:26):
No, I didn't think he was bad.

Speaker 3 (01:38:28):
Sixteen to twenty three a buck, fifty, no tugs, no
picks at a rating of eighty seven point.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
Two for the game today for Sam Donald.

Speaker 1 (01:38:38):
Yeah, but that's not how you want to start your
new life. No, at home with the twelve meaning the
twelfth Man, the crowd, they're historic, and Seattle's very difficult
to play up there. I played up there a bunch
of times. It's very difficult. You gotta come away with

(01:39:02):
this wins, especially as bad as brock Party was playing.
You gotta get this win. And this was a winnable
game at home for him being in a new situation.
The guy who left went to Oakland and burned it

(01:39:23):
down at his new home. So just looking at it now,
they go to Pittsburgh, right, like, so you gotta start,
you gotta start looking at things like you let that

(01:39:43):
one get away. So now you're oh and one, yep,
you go to Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (01:39:48):
Only team in the division that lost, by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:39:50):
Right, you go to Pittsburgh, and you're probably gonna starting too.

Speaker 2 (01:39:57):
I mean they'll be dogs.

Speaker 1 (01:39:58):
Right, Oh, they would definitely be dogs.

Speaker 3 (01:40:00):
Here, I got the line for you right now. I
got all the week two lines right here in front
of me, the two and a half. Yeah, two and
a half.

Speaker 2 (01:40:06):
You're right.

Speaker 1 (01:40:08):
And so now you're looking at owing to new place.
Knew you new money, you needed this one. But you
gotta be you gotta be looking at the urgency for
someone going to a new place and trying to establish
themselves because what they defense don't know you, right, they

(01:40:30):
don't know you. And what I'm saying is it can
go bad fast.

Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:40:39):
Sam Donald is such an interesting football player.

Speaker 2 (01:40:42):
Tenth in the MVP voting. I think it was last year.

Speaker 1 (01:40:45):
Yeah, he had it though.

Speaker 3 (01:40:47):
You know, it's funny, and I hate saying this about
players because there's this connotation and the quarterback that he
was playing against today is the one who suffered from
this The most. But for whatever reason, we get stuck
on this whole product of system or product of surroundings thing,
which I firmly believe just about everybody is.

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
You know, sure, I guess.

Speaker 3 (01:41:11):
You could like, if your name's Lamar, Josh or whatever,
maybe you are bigger than the soup in which you sit.
I don't like maybe, and I'm open to that, But
just about everybody else, if you have crop around you,
you're going to struggle.

Speaker 2 (01:41:26):
If you have good things around you, you're probably gonna
play better.

Speaker 3 (01:41:29):
And Sam has proven that, Like if anything happened with
his time in Minnesota, it was it showed that it's like,
you give me a good quarterback, coach, you put a
good offensive line in front of me, you give me
some next level receivers. We got action, and even that,
by the way, fiddled out in the end. It fizzled

(01:41:52):
big time at the end of the year and in
the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:41:55):
But it was a good year.

Speaker 3 (01:41:57):
But then you bring him to Seattle and then two
thirds of your receiving cores.

Speaker 1 (01:42:01):
Out away from Seattle.

Speaker 3 (01:42:04):
Correct, you bring in Cooper Cup who I'm sorry today
looked washed.

Speaker 1 (01:42:09):
Oh my goodness, he looked washed.

Speaker 3 (01:42:12):
Jackson Smith and Jigba was wonderful, but Sam was locked
in on him. Thirteen of twenty two targets went to Jackson,
Kenneth Walker bottled up completely.

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
Charbon Ay looked better, but no big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:42:29):
The Niners young defense largely showed out and played really well,
and you have a defensive head coach. I don't think
Sam has what he needs around him. That's my assessment
of Sam today.

Speaker 1 (01:42:44):
You're not wrong. You're not wrong, and you know that
further makes the point of ough Man. He really really
needed this one. That is a lot of pressure that
he's gonna be dealing with, and it's you know, things

(01:43:10):
have a way of getting ugly fast, and you know
it sucks, but dims beat of breaks.

Speaker 3 (01:43:22):
Indeed indeed, but then sometimes you get good breaks, Like
you'll be sitting around doing something, talking about things and
Steve de Seger shows up.

Speaker 1 (01:43:32):
It was like, whoa that a good break? That's pretty good.

Speaker 6 (01:43:35):
Yeah, hey Steve, Hello again, gentlemen. You mentioned that Derrick
Henry in the first half, on nine carries, had almost
one hundred and twenty five yards rushing in a score.
James Cook for Buffalo in the first half seven carries
nineteen yards. He does have a two yard touchdown run
mid third quarter. It's twenty seven nineteen Ravens leading late
in the third at Buffalo. You see after the Cook

(01:43:56):
touchdown and the extra point kick, as you reference, there
was a defensive penalty, so hey after distance gold, let's
let's go for two and with a pentaly and the
end zone and the loss of down with it, the
pass fails. They're down eight at home. Twenty seven to nineteen.
Ravens lead at Buffalo. Henry has thirteen carries, one hundred

(01:44:18):
and twenty nine yards rushing and a score. Derrick Henry
has rushed for at least one twenty five in a
game ten times since turning thirty years old. The only
player with more such games in the history of the
league after their thirtieth birthday Walter Payton twelve times he
had at least one hundred and twenty five yards rushing

(01:44:38):
in a game. Again, it's a lead for the road
team and the Ravens have looked good. Lamar Jackson with
a rushing touchdown, a passing touchdown and he hasn't passed
that much. Zay Flowers six receptions, one hundred and thirty
four yards and a score at Green Bay twenty seven
to thirteen. The Packers defeated Detroit. The Lions as a
team twenty two carries just forty six yards on the ground. Now,

(01:45:02):
Jamier Gibbs did have ten catches out of the backfield,
but that was ten receptions for only thirty one yards.
That's the fewest receiving yards in a game where a
guy had at least ten catches in the history of
the NFL. And a couple other Niner stats. You had
a really good one there a few minutes ago. Brock
Party was pressured at Seattle today on fifty eight percent

(01:45:25):
of his dropbacks, the highest pressure rate he has faced
in a single game so far in his pro career.
But Christian McCaffrey's calf as apparently okay. San Francisco wins
seventeen thirteen at Seattle on a touchdown pass with under
two minutes to go. McCaffrey had thirty one touches from scrimmage,
the most ever for any forty nine er player in

(01:45:48):
a Week one game, according to Associated Press. In the
Bay Area update, Lamar Jackson with his second touchdown pass
of the night's extra thirty four nineteen late third at buffer.
They had his first time targeted to night. He reaches
out with one hand at the goal life thank grabs.

Speaker 1 (01:46:08):
The dB had his other hand. That's why he only
reached with one.

Speaker 3 (01:46:12):
You know, sometimes they called a one handed catch because
someone starts with one hand, but then they bring it in.

Speaker 1 (01:46:17):
That was just one of them run in.

Speaker 2 (01:46:18):
He's like, I don't need my other arm for this one.

Speaker 6 (01:46:21):
We'll just repeat what we said. Plaseason. The rosters of
the Ravens and the Eagles are the most impressive rosters. Now,
can they put it from paper to field? Well, the
Ravens are doing that because they have thirty four points
at Buffalo and we're still in the third quarter in
this game. Rams beat Houston fourteen to nine. Denver over
Tennessee twenty to twelve. Giants, Well, they lost twenty one

(01:46:43):
to six at Washington. The Giants were the NFC's lowest
scoring team last year. Jacksonville beat Carolina twenty six to ten.
The game was suspended by lightning for over an hour
in the second quarter. We had a lightning delay at
Philly and the Thursday game they won. We had a
lightning delay at halftime at Denver. Today Pittsburgh won at
the Jets thirty four to thirty two. Aaron Rodgers four

(01:47:03):
touchdown passes, Chris Boswell with a sixty yard field goal
with about a minute tog wins on the road for
Las Vegas and Arizona. For Cincinnati as well, the Bengals
won seventeen to sixteen at Cleveland. The Browns missed an
extra point kick in the third quarter and missed a
thirty six yard field goal attempt with about two and
a half minutes to go. Wins for Tampa Bay and Indianapolis.

(01:47:24):
The colt scored on all seven drives, beating Miami thirty
three to eight. The Monday night matchup will at Minnesota
at Chicago. In baseball, the Yankees edge Toronto four to three.
The Dodgers won five to two at Baltimore. Shoheo Tani
with two homers. He has forty eight wins for Texas
and Seattle. The Mariners Cal Rowley hit his fifty third homer.

(01:47:45):
Carlos Alcarez won the US Open, beating number one seed
Yanick Center, and Denny Hamlin took the NASCAR race at
Saint Louis, his fifth victory of the year. But guys,
you were talking about the no hit bid lost with
two outs in the ninth by the Dodgers last night.
Guy who's doing kind of something like that out of
the bullpen this year is the ace reliever of the

(01:48:05):
Boston Red Sox Eraaldus Chapman. He got to save today
they won seven to fourd Arizona. His eras down to
zero point nine to eight for the season. It turns
out he hasn't allowed a batter to reach base in
his last seventeen appearances. Since July twenty third Eraaldas Chapman
has retired fifty batters in a row. Good lord since July.

(01:48:30):
Hey didn't he used to be a Dodger, no Yankee,
But this is the equivalent of, you know, almost back
to back perfect games. At this point, fifty batters in
a row retired back.

Speaker 1 (01:48:42):
Code h The only.

Speaker 3 (01:48:47):
And I'll say that very firmly, the only bad thing
about football season being here is that Steve is not
going to go on a four minute Gulf escort. It's
over at thirty Pacific. Yeah, it's it's on hiatus. We'll
revisit it and it'll happen again.

Speaker 6 (01:49:06):
We had not mentioned Rory McElroy's name once.

Speaker 3 (01:49:10):
Golf, Yeah, golf, golf.

Speaker 1 (01:49:14):
No time, there's just no time.

Speaker 2 (01:49:16):
There's no time. But it's Steve awesome. Thank you, thank
you for all of that. Tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:49:21):
The Ravens look absolutely electric electric tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:49:30):
Thank you. Yeah, they look electric.

Speaker 3 (01:49:33):
That was ridiculous, And I love the way you said
it because I feel like sixty two percent of America
did the same thing that you did. When he caught that.
They went hold on a second, Deando, Wait, wait.

Speaker 2 (01:49:45):
What the hell did that happen?

Speaker 3 (01:49:49):
Yeah, that's a very accomplished wide receiver that's over there
playing the number two slash three slash whatever?

Speaker 1 (01:49:57):
Who what?

Speaker 2 (01:49:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:49:59):
Who are you?

Speaker 2 (01:50:00):
DeAndre Hopkins? And he can still catch?

Speaker 1 (01:50:04):
Oh man, they the Raves is gonna be a problem
this year.

Speaker 2 (01:50:07):
Guys, they're gonna be a problem.

Speaker 1 (01:50:08):
It's gonna go out on a limb and say, yeah,
this thing's about to get ugly.

Speaker 3 (01:50:12):
Just uh, I don't know, I don't know about ugly.
They're gonna win, They're gonna win, but uh yeah, Buffalo,
Buffalo is not gonna be stopped. They're not gonna they're
not done scoring. Let's put it out.

Speaker 1 (01:50:26):
No, no, no, no, no, I'm talking about ugly. For
the league.

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
Fair enough, I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:50:32):
Talking about ugly for the league.

Speaker 3 (01:50:34):
This thing is stay healthy, young, Skywalker, good Lord, stay healthy.

Speaker 2 (01:50:39):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:50:41):
I mean he's a little ageless also in certain terms.
And here's what I mean by that. And I'm talking
about Lamar Jackson. Like Lamar is only twenty eight years old,
but and he has obviously dispelled anything about the whole

(01:51:01):
like running quarterback. I don't even want to call him
that because he is doing everything that a quarterback can
do at the absolute highest of levels. But usually when
a quarterback is still using his legs as a part
of what he does, it breaks at some point, you

(01:51:29):
know what I mean. And I always worry about that
with him, worry about it with Jalen Hurts, and so far,
so good, and he looks as spry as he ever has.

Speaker 1 (01:51:45):
Yeah, this something else, This is something else.

Speaker 3 (01:51:52):
I'm trying to think back to the conversations that you
and I had about the MVP race last year. And
I thought, not that Josh was not deserving, because.

Speaker 1 (01:52:02):
He was, but he didn't have a year like Lamar.

Speaker 3 (01:52:05):
I thought Lamar Jackson got removed from consideration due to boredom. Yep,
I don't think people want to give the reigning MVP
the award again unless he is overwhelmingly the best player.
But I watched all the games. You watched all the games.
We looked at all the numbers. We see who is

(01:52:29):
the center sphere of their team the most. And I
know both these players can argue that, but I absolutely
thought Lamar Jackson should have still been the MVP again
last year, and based on tonight, I'm going to firmly
say again to win it again this year.

Speaker 2 (01:52:46):
That's the best player in the NFL. For my money.

Speaker 1 (01:52:48):
Yes, I would agree on that, and just think they
wanted him to play receiver. They asked him at the
combine to play receiver. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that sounds right.
It sounds about right.

Speaker 3 (01:53:04):
Nothing like some good old racism to just throw into
the whole.

Speaker 1 (01:53:07):
Mix, right, See, are you crazy?

Speaker 2 (01:53:12):
Uh not?

Speaker 3 (01:53:12):
Everybody's begging to have quarterbacks with wheels.

Speaker 1 (01:53:16):
You have to have them begging. It's not happening.

Speaker 2 (01:53:22):
No, you can't do it without them. You can do it
without him. All right, we're.

Speaker 3 (01:53:26):
Moving into the fourth quarter, so are we. We're live
in the Fox Sports Radio studios. That's it from Salama
Mark with her. This is Fox Sports Radio. All right,
these are Fox Sports Radio studios. That's one hell of
a fun Week one show. Mark, Yeah, this is this
thing flew by my man.

Speaker 1 (01:53:45):
Man I was I looked up like, oh stab okay.

Speaker 2 (01:53:50):
So working on week two, I got two things for you.

Speaker 3 (01:53:55):
First of all, I know you're not gonna be able
to explain it to me, because I know you disagree
with it. When you unnecessarily go for go for two
once and it doesn't work, you're supposed to it was
to go for two again the next time to make
up for the point that you lost the last time,

(01:54:19):
unless I would argue the other team has scored a
touchdown in the meantime, because then when you score a touchdown,
as the Bills just did, you're down by nine and
you can go for two to try to get back
within seven. But I don't really understand the thought process.

(01:54:40):
You kick the one so you stay within eight, so
you can still get that two point conversion the next time.
You say, well, Mark, why not do it this time? Well,
because you run the risk of emotionally kicking your team
in the face, which is exactly what McDermott just chose
to do. They did not get the two, and now

(01:55:03):
they're down by two scores. Yep, my god. There are
a lot of problems in this world, and some of
them are out of our control, and some of them
we make for ourselves.

Speaker 1 (01:55:16):
Just sign up for it. Yeah, you understand that one
at all. Look, I'm a fan and I'm old school. Okay,
I get it. Wow, he's tied for with Thurman Thomas.
Josh Allen.

Speaker 3 (01:55:36):
I think he just passed him. Actually, oh my god, Yeah,
he just passed Therman Thomas.

Speaker 1 (01:55:40):
Most rushing touchdowns Thrman Thomas was a beast.

Speaker 2 (01:55:46):
That's a Hall of Famer.

Speaker 1 (01:55:47):
Yeah, Thurmi wormy baby, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:55:49):
Yeah, yeah. Josh hasn't turned thirty yet.

Speaker 1 (01:55:53):
Oh man, these two dudes. This this is zerious, perfect
Sunday night football game. It's almost like someone planned it. Dude, man,
you know this is this is great.

Speaker 3 (01:56:08):
Thirty four to twenty five, Ravens lead twelve forty five
to go and they've got the ball. But yeah, Josh Allen,
that was his sixty sixth rushing touchdown as a bill.

Speaker 2 (01:56:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:56:25):
This is good looking stuff, man, this is good looking stuff.
These two players.

Speaker 2 (01:56:31):
Got shout out one other player, though, of course I all.

Speaker 3 (01:56:33):
Shout out a player from a completely different game of
all the games I watched today.

Speaker 1 (01:56:37):
I want to shootout and I want to give a
shout out to but yeah, give.

Speaker 2 (01:56:40):
A shout out. I got. There's one player I'm like, dude,
I would love to have.

Speaker 3 (01:56:45):
You on any team for which I root, because you
are just I don't even know how to describe you.

Speaker 2 (01:56:57):
I don't know where this pookinkoul.

Speaker 3 (01:56:59):
Dude, I do not know what the hell that guy
is made of. But that is the toughest wide receiver
I've ever seen in my life.

Speaker 2 (01:57:08):
And I've been watching debo for a while.

Speaker 3 (01:57:12):
This dude, who was drafted in the fifth round two
years ago. He's underpaid, walked onto a field out of
the fifth round and started producing week one bang.

Speaker 2 (01:57:28):
This dude ten balls for a.

Speaker 3 (01:57:31):
Buck thirty today, including the game closer, the clincher. But
he also had the right side of his head completely
bashed in yep, and that dude went, give me like
a quick run to.

Speaker 1 (01:57:45):
The blue ten and I'm ba baby, and then.

Speaker 3 (01:57:48):
Go ahead and put some of that stuff on my
eyebrows so it stops bleating. Then he went out there
and his helmet wouldn't fit over the bandage. But he's
still catching balls. So then he left so they could
redo the bandage, and then after the game they just
walk into the locker room like nothing happened.

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
That guy is a foot.

Speaker 1 (01:58:08):
Ball player, period. Oh what a player. I agree. I
championed those sentiments. Who you got, Jalen Ramsey? Okay, Now
there was a lot being said about the Steelers and

(01:58:30):
the things that they did this offseason. Oh and they
didn't do anything. They got rid of an old corner
and got an old corner. They got rid of a
receiver who was problems and brought in one with the problem.
They brought They got rid of two quarterbacks, then they
brought an old quarterback in who hadn't been good. Jalen
Ramsey changed the whole trajectory of that game today. Yep,

(01:58:53):
you want to talk about big play after big play
after big play, and then made the biggest play to
seal the victory. Boy, you can win with that. You
can win with that guy. That defense needs a player. Wow,
it's Dereck Henry. Oh gosh, here we go. He's gone
one again. He's gone again. He about to have two

(01:59:16):
hundred yards ruction. This is ridiculous. It's the fourth quarter. People,
he's been in the league ten years.

Speaker 2 (01:59:25):
I think the Ravens should go for two.

Speaker 1 (01:59:27):
Oh my god, get out of here. I see your
next week, brother.

Speaker 3 (01:59:32):
Another three play drive. And what's so crazy, dude, is
we're caught on Derrick Henry. But while you were giving
the Jalen Ramsey take, I think I might have just
seen the best play of Lamar Jackson's career.

Speaker 1 (01:59:48):
Oh yeah, that's scramble.

Speaker 3 (01:59:49):
He went twenty five yards behind the line of scrimmage.

Speaker 2 (01:59:53):
It had two hands on.

Speaker 1 (01:59:54):
What do you do? I mean, there's nothing you can do.
There's nothing you can do except for tune in as
the kicker doing sit off the upright. Oh, I'm done.
I can't This is.

Speaker 2 (02:00:05):
Well he's been he's been good though.

Speaker 1 (02:00:07):
I can't do it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:09):
He can't do it, but you gotta do it. He's
been having a good day.

Speaker 1 (02:00:13):
Derek Henry's having a good day. He's been having a
good day. We had a good day. We had a
great day.

Speaker 2 (02:00:18):
Right, We're probably gonna have a good day again next Sunday.

Speaker 1 (02:00:20):
Oh, I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (02:00:22):
Enjoy enjoy Monday night football.

Speaker 5 (02:00:23):
Brother.

Speaker 3 (02:00:23):
Okay, we'll talk to you next week from marking a
fram That's it.

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