September 20, 2024 • 39 mins
Colin gives Aaron Rodgers and the Jets props for their dominant win over the Patriots but puts things in perspective as we are only 3 weeks into the season. After Shohei Ohtani became the first 50 homerun - 50 stolen bases player in baseball history, Colin officially declares Ohtani the greatest player of all time. Plus, the best NFL bets for week 3 in the Blazin' 5.
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is the Best of the Herd with Colin cowher
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
All Right, here we go. It is a Friday, baby.
Hope you enjoyed that Josh Allen interview on the Facility.
That was great live in Los Angeles. It's the Herd
wherever you may be and however you may be listening.
Thanks for making us part of your day. You know,
I drove into work today, Jmac, knowing how happy you
would be. And sometimes when a C student gets an
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A there's no reason to be cynical. Wow, there's no
reason to be judgmental.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
The standard for Jet quarterback play over the last seven
eight years has been so low. You should feel great.
All right, you're a Jets fan. You should feel great.
You should be happy today.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You're choosing violence early the standard Come on Rogers.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
With lights out last night Colin went.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
All right, so what's interesting about the NFL? I said
this yesterday. We kind of know how it's gonna end up,
but week to week you don't know what happens. And
so before the season started, Jay McK and I went
back and forth, and I said, I think the Jets
are gonna be a nine ish ten win team. I
think they'll be in the playoff race with Miami for
that wild card spot. Buffalo's gonna win the division and
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they're already in first place. I said, they'll be in
that wild card spot until week sixteen, seventeen eighteen. And
that's what I thought. And so last night's game in
August looked like we thought it would look in August,
Aaron at home against the terrible Patriots team. But when
New England beat Cincinnati, I'm sitting there thinking, hey, and
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New England's got to bite. They're terrible. Bill Belichick left
Girond Mayo a mess. New England is talentless on offense,
so nothing personal. But Aaron teams at home against a
talentless New England team on a short week with a
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rookie head coach. So here's what the Jets are. They
got crushed by a really good team. They crushed a
really bad team, and they had a real tug or
on the road against an average team. That's what they are.
But we know that Aaron is at his best when
he's comfortable and playing with the lead at home, decent protection.
He was comfortable last night again at home playing a
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bad team on a short week, had to go on
the road. Aaron was really comfortable and it felt good.
And the other thing is like Kirk Cousins on Monday
Night football, Kirk looked better on Monday Night than the
previous week. Kirk moved better. The happiest moment for the
Jets was the first time Aaron moved out to the right.
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He got flushed out to the right, Aaron moved better.
So that is a really good feeling for the Jets.
Because in the postseason, if you get there late in
the season, postseason January football, you got to extend plays.
You got to make plays off script. That's what Mahomes
is doing, Hurts is doing. You can't just be sitting
in the pocket. I don't care if you have the
best coach and the best roster. Jimmy Garoppolo just sat
in the pocket you want to be able to move,
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and Erin now is moving. That's a great sign. So
if you extrapolate Aaron's numbers, if you take his first
three games and you extrapolate him over the season. Now
the schedule gets tougher. He's got to face Josh Allen
twice to what will be back, gotta face him twice late,
Kyler Murray, Trevor Lawrence. He's got face much better quarterbacks.
And you cross your fingers on Garrett Wilson's health because
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if he's gone, not the same offense. But if you
project Aaron's numbers, this is what they would look like
at the end of the year. Thirty five hundred yards,
one hundred three passer rating, complete, sixty seven percent of
his throws. Are you kidding me? New York Jets Football.
I would sign up for ten years of that. So
Aaron maybe forty, But like Kirk Cousins, he looks like
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he can move a little bit. Now, let Jet fans
bask in the glory. I mean, just let them have it.
This is no day to be cynical for Jet fans.
They're gonna go on WFA and radio in New York
and this day they're buying their Super Bowl tickets. But
you remember yesterday I went on the show and I go,
I don't understand the line. And when I got off
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the show, I got a text from a buddy. He goes,
Colin New England's bad on the road, short week, rookie coach,
bad quarterback play, that's why it's six and not three.
And I'm like, Okay, that's why he's a better I'm not.
That's why he's a pro. I'm not. But you figured
it out pretty quickly. Airin at home air uncomfortable a
team in a short week, there is no reason to
be cynical.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I think the Jets margins, I'll say it again, are
very very thin. If they lost a Bresee Hall or
a Garrett Wilson, they gotta win with defense, and I'm
not sure this is a great defensive team, although they
looked great last night. But let's just take a deep breath.
A team that's been a D plus C minus student
at quarterback over the last day, on average, they had
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an a night, let him have fun, a second beer,
let fireman ed, scream and yell, and they don't get
these very often. The Jets don't look good at quarterback
very often, so when they get it like last night. Yeah,
I know it's New England. Yeah I know. We all
thought New England would be the worst team in the league.
Wasn't they beat Cincinnati. We went, uh, they're the worst team
in the league. Here's a happy Aaron Rodgers on a
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nice win. He looked good. New York's happy. New York
football hasn't been good Giants Jets in years. Here's Aaron.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Feeling real good out there. I felt good pregame. And
you know I've been progressing. I said to you guys
after Week one, you know it's going to be a process.
I've continued to extend plays once I feel more comfortable,
and this was kind of the first step in playing
like I know I'm capable of playing. I felt like
I was, you know myself.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
He was. He looked good. No cynicism, no snarky, no condescending.
The Jets looked like, let's be honest. Before the season
in August, we said, you know, it's gonna be a
nine or ten win team. Nine or ten win teams
with a Hall of Fame quarterback, even if he's old,
are gonna hammer teams like New England at home. They
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did good job. So earlier in the day, the greatest
Major League baseball player ever, and I don't think it's close,
had the greatest day for a player ever. Sho, hey A.
Tani went six for six, three home runs, ten RBIs,
seventeen total bases. And what's even more remarkable. This is
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what's even more remarkable. This is a rehab year for him.
He's not pitching or fielding, so this is really a
rehab year for him. It's not fully healthy. When asked
about the pursuit of the fifty to fifty club fifty
home runs, fifty stolen bases, Otani had said, hey, I
just want to get it over with, And yesterday he
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got it over with on a one two. Oh, Tani
says her in the air the other way, fickid guus good?
What of a kind player? What of a kind season?
So hey o, Tony starts the fifty fifty club. Now
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for most greatest players ever, that would be enough. You'd
go home in the clubhouse, pop open a cold, one
high five shower, go out. But show, hey, Otani isn't
just a great player, he is the most remarkable baseball
player ever. And it wasn't long after he joined the
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fifty fifty club he did this. Hey you guess, so.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Ho Tidy the greatest day taste history.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
This is not real life.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
He is not human. I had said about two years ago,
I thought Shoho Taani was better than Babe Ruth, and
I got pushedback. I admit I was wrong. He's significantly
better than Babe Ruth. He is the first six tool player.
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I would like to remind you again, this is a
rehab season. He's not fielding, he's not pitching. Even Mookie
Bett said, I don't know how to explain it. He's
just feeling sexy. He just has one of those days.
He just feeling it. This season, he is first in runs,
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second in hits, first in home runs, first in rbi
ops slugging percentage, total bases. Shame, he's dropped a second
in stolen basis. You know, power here are not supposed
to steal bases. Power hitters look like guys who do
deadlifts like five times a week. And guys that steal
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fifty bases aren't supposed to hit it like that. They're
supposed to be twitchy. Yeah, there's never been anything like
this guy ever on a absolutely loaded roster, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts.
There's talent everywhere on this roster. Even O Tawny is
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marketly better, superior, more remarkable than every other player. And
oh yeah, for the first time in his career, yesterday,
among his personal exploits, he clinched a playoff spot. So
we'll get to see him in October. He deserves it,
and so do we. J Mack I'm sitting home waiting
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for the football game, watching the Dodgers and thinking, sometimes,
you know, I always said there was one baseball player.
There's only one athlete in my life that I didn't
see play that I wish I would have in all
sports because I got old Wilt Chamberlain, and that was
Sandy Kofax, who literally the greatest hitters of his time
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are like, yeah, Bob Gibson was this, Bob Gibson was that,
But nobody could hit Sandy Kofax, like the greatest players
the Frank Robinson's are like, yeah, you just could't hit him.
This could literally not hit him. And anybody born this
morning may not get the prime years of show, Hey Otani,
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but we are watching like a modern day Babe Ruth
although Ruth didn't really pitch and hit in one season
a lot. He was either a hitter or a pitcher.
And maybe Otani when he pitches and hits next year,
maybe the offensive numbers and stolen bases come down. But
that's the greatest baseball player and the greatest day of
his career ever. And it was remarkable.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
What a night to be a sports fan.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
You've got Otani going off six for six and then
the Jets getting the victory.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
And I got a new.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
President this morning, a new paper weight here for the show,
for the desk, a little Jets performance, So the staff
is excited, and.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Uh, I am not going to be cynical. Oh, I
would hope do listen. After years of Tim Boyle, Zach Wilson.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I don't even remind me of those guys.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I know. It's like I was driving in this morning,
I thought, you know what, it's okay for people to
be happy. We're in a very divisive time in America.
There's hate and anger everywhere. Let's celebrate what the Jets did. Yeah,
it was a great date. New York football has been
in a tank for about a decade. You want to.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Celebrate fifteen quarterback hits, seven sacks, four hundred yards of
offense coming A lot to be excited about. Oh, by
the way, they got bo Nicks next week at MetLife
bon Nicks, assuming he survives his weekend in Tampa, things.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Are looking up for the New York Football Jets. Colin,
let's get excited.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
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Speaker 1 (12:10):
I do it more than you think. Defend Aaron Rodgers,
but you just remember the negative stuff. I'm gonna defend
Aaron Rodgers again on something. There was a moment last night,
second quarter when Aaron Rodgers and Robert Sala had a
really weird moment on the sidelines where Aaron was obviously
perturbed with Robert Sala when he came for the push.
And I'm gonna defend Aaron Rodgers here. Sala, for my
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money is too raw raw. I like players to show
emotion and position coaches to show emotion because they're the
most closely associated with players. But the further you go up,
the coaching wrong. I want to grown up, I need poise,
I need composed. I'll give you an example, Jay Wright Villanova.
They're facing North Carolina in the National Championship Game and
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a shot goes through for Villanova. Do you remember Jay
Wright's reaction? Jay Wright as good as any basketball coach
collegiately in the last five ten years. That's how you
act in the Natty. In the moment, circumstance and situation,
you should remain resolute. By the way, remember the Andy
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Reid Travis Kelcey situation at the Super Bowl. You know
why that didn't blow up? Do you know why that
was diffused? Can you imagine if you did that the
Robert sala It was diffused because of Andy Reid's temperament.
He just let it slide. Sala is not a position.
Coach Aaron Rodgers was right. It was the second quarter,
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it was against awful New England. It's Week three. Remember
the Super Bowl, Bill Belichick, Pete Carroll. New England had
controlled the game, and here came Russell Wilson, a big
completion down the sideline, literally was going to change the
Super Bowl. Seattle was done, and Belichick on the sidelines
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just sat there and let the Seahawks burn a time out.
Wanted them. He wanted Seattle to overreact. His team was prepared.
Kyle Shanahan looks like a cool poker player. You don't
know if he's winning or losing. And again, I'm not
against a fist pump. I'm not against some energy, but
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save that for position coaches, players, even coordinators. Dude, unless
it's the other coordinator's job, you can take the headset
off and fist pump it. But to me, sola sometimes
is too raw. Raw. Got to separate from that stuff.
The Belichick's, the Jay Wrights, the Andy Reids bark at officials.
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That's when Belichick uses his energy. Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams
bark at officials. But players look up to coaches to
be the adult in the room. And that's what Aaron
did last night. Bro Chill second quarter New England at home.
Chill Aaron after.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
He's not a big hugger usually, so I didn't know
he was going for the hug. He likes to do
the two hand chest push as well, so but he
talks a lot about two score leads.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah against not the end of the world. But it
was on social media a thing last night for a
couple of hours. And my take is Aaron's right, like,
chill out, dude, it's no hugs, it's New England, it's home.
We're leading, it's week three, it's second quarter. We just
we just struggled. We just got blown out by San
Francisco and struggled to beat Well Levis. This is our
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job to do this, this is what we do. I'm
paid to beat New England at home in a short week.
That's what I'm paid to. Don't celebrate a fundamental part
of your job. Hammer nail for a construction worker. You're
paid to do that. Talk on the microphone. I'm paid
to do that. We don't pump fists after a good
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Speaker 1 (17:05):
George Kittle may not play now. For the Niners. So
no Christian McCaffrey, no Debo, and probably no George Kittle. Basically,
Brock Purdy in the San Francisco weapons have gone from
stacked to normal. They still have a great offensive head
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coach and the best left tackle in football, and a
dominant number one receiver Brandon Aik number three PFF receiver
last year, and a good second receiver in a Jennings.
So they'll just be normal this weekend. By most standards,
they'll have a normally weaponized offense. But that's what franchise
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quarterbacks are about. It's not about winning when you have
the best hand in poker. It's about winning when you're
missing a right tackle and your number one receiver, no Debo,
no Christian McCaffrey, and no Kittle. We all know you'd
need those guys to win a Super Bowl, But against
the Ding dep Rams, I don't care where the game
is being played, Brock Purty should be okay. You should
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not need an abnormally stacked roster to be excellent. It's
like the band who releases a really good studio album
and you're like, Wow, they're good in studio, but you
want to make sure, like when you see them live
first Queen, great studio album, better live at Wembley Stadium.
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I don't want to see brock Purty look like Milli
Vanilli this weekend when the record skips and he's running
off stage. And almost anybody can produce a good studio album.
Let's go live in front of a few thousand people.
Anybody can do a banger in the studio. Anybody when
you have Christian and Kyle and Trent and Kittle and
Deebo and I Yuke to layup drill. Here was brock
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Purdy about having to oh my, having to carry a
little bit of the offense.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
We never asked Brock to really do too much. We
ask them to do the play that's called if nothing's there,
what are your options after that? You scramble, You throw
things away, sometimes you take a sack. Things you always
try to do is not turn it over. But nothing
really changes when you're missing guys. It's game plan can
sometimes change, but not what you ask the quarterback to do.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Obviously that's Kyle, not Brock. So we'll see. I know
you all think I'm anti this and anti that. I'm
not anti brock Purty, but you know, he does feel
a little bit like a trust fund kid. You know,
he basically gets all the gifts. I mean it's like
Magic Johnson got Kareem, Okay, but then Magic Johnson that
rookie year, Kareem gets hurt, he has to play center. Okay,
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that's fine, but most people don't inherit Kareem in his prime.
And I'm just saying. I'm not saying that some trust
fund kids aren't hard workers and wouldn't have done well
without the trust fund, but it helps a lot, right,
you know that money coming in every month when you
inherit debo and now you can Kittle and Trent Williams
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and Kyle. I'm just trying to contextualize this a little.
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Speaker 1 (20:22):
Giant Sid Brown's six and a half points is too many.
Cleveland's got fourteen players on the injury list this week
and really good players. The Giants o linees playing well.
Daniel Jones has protection. They did not allow a touchdown
in the loss of the Commanders Jake Jack, Conklin's out,
David Mdjoku, Miles Garrett, Zadarias Smith, Denzel Ward. Cleveland's banged up.
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Their offense is twenty eighth in the league. Deshaun Watson's
completing fifty eight percent of his throws, and they're one
of two defenses without a takeaway this year. But it's
really about Deshaun Watson. How much better than Daniel z
owonnes Izzy this year? I'm not sure he is. Six
and a half is way too many points. This Cleveland
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team's a fraud. Giants win it take the points twenty
four to twenty three.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Broncos it Buccaneers.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I like the Bucks, not six and a half points.
I'm taking Denver plus six and a half points. Listen,
the Broncos are a really desperate team and they've got talent,
but this is about the Bucks. They were out gained
by Detroit by two hundred and fifty yards. They were
two for ten on third down. Baker Mayfield got sacked
five times. I like Tampa, I don't like them that much.
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Their defense is missing Vina via Antonio Winfield. It's all
beat up again. A desperate team, whether or not a
factor you're not facing the Steelers defense.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
This is the weakest defense. Denver wolf face bow Knicks
will have time to throw. And the Bucks defense this
year has been bad. It's just not a very good defense.
The Broncos are gonna cover here. I'm gonna take the
Bucks to win in a late field goal, but that
I'm taking six and a half all day long with.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
This Dolphins aid Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Okay, I'm gonna take a favorite. I don't get the line.
I'm gonna take Seattle at home minus four and a half.
Skyler Thompson completes fifty percent of his throat. This story
is about Seattle. We taught Geno Smith. That's not the story.
It's their new defensive coach from Baltimore. Seattle has the
highest wedded defense in the league according to PFF. It
was near the bottom last year with the same dudes.
They're allowing four yards of play, second best in the NFL.
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Opposing quarterbacks have a sixty one passer rating against the Seahawks.
It's not about Geno Smith and DK Metcalf. This is
an excellent defense. Skyler Thompson, What are we doing here?
He has a sixty passer rating I don't understand the line,
and Miami never feels the same when they travel or
go up north or go out west. I'm gonna take
the Seahawks to win. I'm gonna swallow the points twenty
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eight to seventeen. They will shut down Skyler Thompson in
the Pacific Northwest Chief said Falcons. Here's my upside of
the week. I think Atlanta's a I told Philadelphia fans
when the Falcons beat, you, take a deep breath. Atlanta's
a good football team. They're gonna win their division, win
eleven twelve games. I'm gonna take the Falcons plus three points.
They had no turnovers in six point six yards a
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play with Kirk Cousins. It's one of the best old lines.
Excellent running back room, could be the best running back
room in the league. By the way, twenty to twenty
nine against the Eagles, Kirk Cousins moved better Kansas City
first road game, Mahomes first couple of weeks, worst in
passing yards, in turnovers, and Kirk Cousins had this reputation
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bad in primetime. No, he's not last four primetime games.
He's completing seventy five percent of his throws. There's gonna
be an upset this weekend. I think it's close. I
think it looks like the Philadelphia game, and I think
I think Atlanta at home wins this game. I know
I know Colin stay away from Atlanta. I know I
know my ATM receipts would tell me stay away from Atlanta.
I like him in this splot.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I do.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Jaguars had been Jaguars are not a terrible team. Okay,
They're gonna play well. Five points against Buffalo. They're zero
to two. The season on the line for Jacksonville. Greg
Cosel told us yesterday, Trevor Lawrence is good. He's tall,
he moves well, he throws well. They got off to
a slow start. Trevor Lawrence is completing fifty one percent
of his throws. You really think that's what he is. No,
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that's not what he is. They've had twelve plays this
year up twenty or more yard. That's tied for the
most in the league. The Jaguars offense is a big playoffense.
They'll be fine. Bill's major injuries Matt Mulano out, his
backup's hurt. They have a linebacker in the corner that
may not play Trevor Lawrence in primetime games is actually
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eight touchdowns no picksman. Okay, I like Buffalo, but five
points feels like way too much for an explosive offense.
They're dinged up on the defensive side. Jags win twenty
six twenty four. Remember we thought the Jags last year
before Trevor Lawrence got banged up, they looked like a
playoff team. The year before they were playoff team. They're
not terrible. They're not They're gonna be very competitive. These
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teams are much closer than you think. Twenty six twenty four.
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The code has heard h eerd, so let's look at
our bets again again. I'm taking a lot of points
this weekend. I think the market's a little crazy. I
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like a lot of underdogs. I like Jacksonville as an underdog.
I like the Giants as an underdog. I like the
Denver Broncos as an underdog. I'm taking four underdogs and
the Seahawks to cover at home against the Dolphins. J
Mack any reaction to that, don't don't love what I'm seeing.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I do like that you're fading the Bills and Dolphins.
I don't mean the Jets all alone in first place.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
But yeah, I know I.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Don't know they.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I don't know about the Giant Daniel Jones against the
Jim Schwartz defense.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
I'm looking at the injury.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Report for the Browns. We'll see what becomes of fishing
later today, Mile Garrett. If Mile Garrett is out, that's
a great call.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Giants offense at line. It's great at left tackle and
has played very good this year. The Giants on line
has played. If Miles Garrett does not play, Daniel Jones
and that receiving core. Now that Neighbors is the one
and everybody slides back a slot, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
To play the Vikings and the in Washington. You know
there's a big step up the brown Miles Garrett. I
do like the Broncos pick. By the way, I'm riding
with you on that one.
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Speaker 3 (26:44):
One of the questions is who will have the most
passing yards this week? Rock Purdy, Lamar Jackson, Dak Prescott
or Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Who you got Cowherd.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I think the Saints Eagles is a bit of a shootout,
so I would take her. I just think that you're
going to have to I don't I think the line's appropriate.
I think it's a field goal game, and I don't
think you're holding New Orleans down to seventeen points. So
that thing feels like thirty three thirty to me. So
even without AJ Brown, I think they'll throw the ball.
They got good tight ends, they'll move it around. Defa.
J Smith's a great player too.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, Brock Purty, you can't back missing all the receivers
I just got.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
And what that tells you is if I was if
I was San Francisco, I would run the ball, shorten
the game. You're not going to have to score a
ton to beat the Rams. Cooper and pookinakop are out.
I'd be like, you know what, forty carries. Let's get
out of here, so FI get home. We're all banged up.
Last thing I want is to spread it out, throw
the ball, kill the clock. So sometimes when you're playing
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a ding up team and you're ding de up, you
just want a short game without injuries and get on
the flight home. All right, Well, we do it every
week at this time, and then when we get into
the football season, they become his picks and he's off
to a pretty good start. We call it tomorrow's headlines
today Ravens Cowboys the big Marquey game of the weekend
(28:03):
on Fox. Lines about Ravens minus one. It feels about right.
It's rare.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I think we hit like ninety seven percent last season
when we were in Lockstown.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
The headline for Ravens Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Will be you lookla marvelous Ravens get faithlift in Dallas win.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I really like Baltimore here.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
So again you had this add only twenty and one
for Lamar against the NFC Cowboys have not seen him
since twenty twenty. This strikes me as a big Lamar
Dereck Henry game. Get Dereck Henry going on the ground again.
The Dallas run defense got gash Kamara just chewed them
up last week. And you know, let's be honest, this
Dallas offense has not looked particularly great. Good spot for
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the Ravens defense, which, by the way, has not looked
good at all.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yeah, since losing, we can have.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Some points in this game too. There's some weapons in
this game.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
And I know the sky is falling for Baltimore, but
when they were up twenty three thirteen in the fourth
quarter with like fourteen minutes left, it didn't feel that way.
So I think there's a little overreaction to Baltimore struggles
down the stretch against Gardner Minshew.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
But uh yeah, give me the Ravens here and in
twenty three twenty or thereabouts.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
You know, J Mack, this next pick. Sam Darnold's had
quite a season he has. This is a good game.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
This is a great game.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Tomorrow's headlines today, who would have guessed a couple of
years ago, Texans Viking, jag gotta lot.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Yeah, yeah, Now they injury report for the Texans is
scaring me. This Joe Mixon news and Damon Pierce. The
headline will be Two's Company. Three's a stroud Texans end
zone gets crowded.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I like Houston.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
There's some interesting stuff going on. So Brian Flores loves
to blitz. By the way, if you watched any of
the all twenty two against the Niners, he was down
on some exotic stuff. Everybody up at the line of
scrimmage and then everybody backs off and perty was not
processing it quickly enough. Do you know who one of
the best quarterbacks in the league is against the blitz?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
CJ.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Stroud seventeen of twenty this season. Wow, when blitz people.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Try to get him.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Always young quarterbacks off war slump, He's dot everything. Stroud
is crushing it off the Blitz. Now, I want to
add this cam Aker situation definitely scares me because he
is fumble prone.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
As we know, they're.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Really good back but Sean McVay just bailed on him.
Yeah he is. I'm done with the fumble.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Lego Collins, who was an injury scare this week at practice,
but he seems good to go. If they have all
the receivers and the tight Endalton Schultz, I think they
can make headway with the Vikings. And you never want
to get caught looking ahead. But this is a bit
of a sandwich spot right for Flores last week, huge
game home opener, Niners. Now you play a non conference
game against Houston next week, big one against the Packers
(30:34):
and Jordan Love in division matchup. I think the Vikings
get caught napping here, Texans get the dub.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I agree with you. Now, who thought this in August
would be a matchup. Tomorrow's headlines today Lions and the
Arizona This feels like a shootout.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, so you had a great I don't know. Maybe
it was my point yours, I don't know. But week
three is kind of like.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Oh, these are who teams?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Really?
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Jets last night?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah, the Patriots?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Patriots?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Okay, this is who they are. Are we going to
see that? In Lion's Cardinals, the headline will.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Be my baby back, baby back, baby back Gibbs.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I like Gibbs, Jamir Jamar Gibbs, the Lions running back.
Listen the Cardinals this the linebackers can't cover anybody. The
defense is mostly a joke. I think the Lions say,
oh my gosh, look at the film. Why the hell
did we throw fifty five times last week? Let's get
back to ground and pound. We've got the best offensive
line in the league. And oh, by the way, this
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Arizona offense is looking like it could be like a
top five six unit.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
You need to keep the ball away from them.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
A lot of Montgomery, a lot of Gibbs short stuff.
Amara Saint Brown is good to go.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
He's gonna play this week. And I just want to
remind the genius Ben Johnson. You know you can use
Laporta in the red zone.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Remember he had like eight red zone touchdowns last year.
He has like three targets in the red zone this season.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Do you feel like it just me Detroit's getting too
cute overthinking it? One hundred percent, Ben, You've got the
best online goff is great on play action, not fifty
five pass attempts. Run the ball, use your tight end.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
And I know the thought was, oh, timp is dinged
up in the secondary, let's take advantage.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Well, I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Arizona's defense stinks everywhere. It's not good.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
They have no players. Look what the Bills did with
Cook in the opener.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
I mean they just ran wild Detroit to do that. Now,
this total is high. I think it's fifty one and
a half. I would actually.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Consider the under just give it some thought.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
In case Detroit says, hey, we're gonna hold the ball
for forty minutes.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
That's not a bad strategy.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Again, that's another thing when you're on the road. You know,
the way these teams look on the road is let's
go do work, make it quick. If you have the
running game. Yeah, don't put your quarterback in harm's way
before divisional play. That's not a bad call.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
And we have banged on the Lions for not looking
sharp the first two weeks. This is I think a
get right spot against an anemic defense.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Tomorrow's dead lives today Bear's Colts. I like this.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I know there's some stats floating around, some trends with
a lot of people like Colts are owing two.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
You got it back an oh and two team against
the spread.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
The headline will be win nee the pooh Bears look
sweet ass, honey, kick Caleb the dub. I you know, listen,
this is a Bears team that looked very bad last week.
I thought against the Texans despite the cover offensively.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
But they hung around in the game.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yeah, this is more about what's going on with the
Colts defense. So DeForest Buckner to the ir their top
cornerback is gone. They have injuries all over the defense. Hey,
DeAndre Swift is a good running back. Can we get
him on track? Colin He has like done nothing through
two games. I think the Bears offensively should have a
lot of success against the Colts defense. And by the way,
(33:45):
Gus Bradley, you know he likes to sit in his
cover three. We even broke this down last week. He
just sits back in his zone. Packers said, we're gonna
hand the ball off if he does that again. This
should be a big game for DeAndre Swift. I know
my brother has him in fantasy. He's very excited. Injury
no for the Colts. Michael pit Man, check that injury report.
We'll see if he practices today. If he doesn't go,
then it's a lot of like Alec Pearce and Richardson's.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Missed a lot of throws. I know there's some questions about.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Richards I told you to GM text me this week
and say his tape in this this year has been awful.
Last week he just said he's missing high school stuff.
Greg Coasell echoed that.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Now, final note is you know, if you were into
the narrative stuff. Eber Flus used to be an indie.
Perhaps a revenge spot here for Matt Eberflus if you
like that kind of thing. Eberflus and the Bears get
the dub.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
On the road. Finally, tomorrow's headlines today, I took Atlanta
Chiefs Falcons? What say you? You know?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
I do like agreeing with you a lot, and I
know you've got a big weekend ahead, but I don't
want to ruin it.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
I don't like the Falcons.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
The headline will be living beyond your means.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Mistakes too costly for Falcons.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I like it Chiefs here and again this goes back
to a lot of narrativey stuff. Oh the sky's falling,
Kansas City doesn't look good. They got lucky against the Ravens.
They got lucky last week against the Bengals. You know again,
I try to look into some of this scheme oriented stuff.
And what have the Falcons done historically with Rogie Morris
and their new defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake. They want to
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sit back and cover three, cover four zone. Well, you
can't zone. Patrick Mahomes. He annihilates zone defenses because he's smart.
He's processes quickly. Rashi Rice crushes zones.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Travis Kelce about Rashi Rice, if you if you got
a parlay or a prop bet Rashi Rice against the Chiefs.
He's gonna he's against I don't know, I don't think
they'll win, but he's yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
He's gonna go off against his owne And I just
want to say, like these these players, hear the stuff Colin.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Travis Kelsey's been hearing all week that he's washed.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
And he had what one catch for five yards and
he I think he's gone like four or five straight
regular season games under fifty yards. This is a really
good spot for Travis Kelce against this soft zone defense.
And the final note is Kirk Cousins. I know he
had an awesome comeback against the Eagles. They barely blitzed
him and barely got to him. What does Spagnolo do
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number seven in blitz percentage last year, fifth so far
this season. He's gonna be bringing the kitchen sink against
Kirk Cousins, who's immobile. I can see some mistakes from Cousins.
I like the Chiefs here in a primetime spot to
get the win. I know it's a three and a half.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
But I think Mahome shows up here and they they
wouldn't buy a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
He we gut, they'll breaking news.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Oh no, what happened?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
The Chargers are officially listing Justin Herbert as questionable against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
That's not bad.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Herbert told reporters he suffered a high ankle spraining against Carolina.
Those are those last?
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Okay. Matt Lafleur, Packer head coach announced Jordan Love is
officially questionable with the knee injury. I think i'd keep
him out. And if you had a loss to Indy
but you beat.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Why would you play Herbert?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
I don't think. I don't think I would.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
I'm not messing around.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I would give her beast next week.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Yeah, easton stick, I mean the season. If Herbert's out
for like ten games, it's over for this.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
The Steelers are going to be three and oh and
I'm still not gonna pend on the hurd higher.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
No, no, they should. They don't deserve it.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
They deserve it. They might not get eleven seed all year.
They go nine to oh, I'll have them eleven.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Yeah, they could win this game nine to six or
something in one touchdown blowout.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
My blowout of the weekend is Bengals blowout Washington. That's
my blowout of the one blowout.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Way to go out on a limb there, buddy, Oh gosh,
I gotta pick a blowout. But give me the Browns
twenty seven to nine over the Giants. By the way,
Brown's injury report looking healthy. I know we talked about
it early.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
It looks like both tackles are back and Joku will
not play. But Giants secondaries bat I mean Jalen.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Jayden Daniels did not punt last week against the Giants.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Like Deshaun Watson. This is another get right spot for him.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Do you understand how bad Jaden Daniels today is better
than Deshaun Watson. I don't even think there's any question
Deshaun Watson. I'm not even I'm serious on this. Is
he a starter on a good team.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
I don't know that I can push back that much
against that.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I mean, Jayden Daniels has juice to show.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Watson has two drives. That's it, give me two good drives.
He had one last week.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
I'll say this, the Giants offensive line has played well
and they've drafted it, so it should. Secondly, now that Neighbors.
Neighbors is a twelve. They're gonna give him nine catches a.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Week targets I believe.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Yeah, No, no, he's nine ten targets. He's a he's an
eight catch guy. It's all the other guys on their team,
like Darius Slayton and where they're now in their appropriate
spot as twos and threes and fours they're receiving. It's
like adding an astier staff. Now everybody goes back a
slot in the staff the Giants. If Neighbors is what
I think he's becoming, and this O line, the Giants
(38:52):
will score some points.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Hey, Denzel Ward, I hope you're watching get healthy lock
up name, well, don't lock him up too much.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
I got him in fantasy. But I think the Browns
win that game.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
USC Michigan. Who you like?
Speaker 4 (39:02):
I'm on USC?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Okay, all right? I am too. Not at your level though,
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is the Best of the Herd with Colin cowher
on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
All Right, here we go. It is a Friday, baby.
Hope you enjoyed that Josh Allen interview on the Facility.
That was great live in Los Angeles. It's the Herd
wherever you may be and however you may be listening.
Thanks for making us part of your day. You know,
I drove into work today, Jmac, knowing how happy you
would be. And sometimes when a C student gets an
(00:47):
A there's no reason to be cynical. Wow, there's no
reason to be judgmental.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
The standard for Jet quarterback play over the last seven
eight years has been so low. You should feel great.
All right, you're a Jets fan. You should feel great.
You should be happy today.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You're choosing violence early the standard Come on Rogers.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
With lights out last night Colin went.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
All right, so what's interesting about the NFL? I said
this yesterday. We kind of know how it's gonna end up,
but week to week you don't know what happens. And
so before the season started, Jay McK and I went
back and forth, and I said, I think the Jets
are gonna be a nine ish ten win team. I
think they'll be in the playoff race with Miami for
that wild card spot. Buffalo's gonna win the division and
(01:30):
they're already in first place. I said, they'll be in
that wild card spot until week sixteen, seventeen eighteen. And
that's what I thought. And so last night's game in
August looked like we thought it would look in August,
Aaron at home against the terrible Patriots team. But when
New England beat Cincinnati, I'm sitting there thinking, hey, and
(01:51):
New England's got to bite. They're terrible. Bill Belichick left
Girond Mayo a mess. New England is talentless on offense,
so nothing personal. But Aaron teams at home against a
talentless New England team on a short week with a
(02:11):
rookie head coach. So here's what the Jets are. They
got crushed by a really good team. They crushed a
really bad team, and they had a real tug or
on the road against an average team. That's what they are.
But we know that Aaron is at his best when
he's comfortable and playing with the lead at home, decent protection.
He was comfortable last night again at home playing a
(02:34):
bad team on a short week, had to go on
the road. Aaron was really comfortable and it felt good.
And the other thing is like Kirk Cousins on Monday
Night football, Kirk looked better on Monday Night than the
previous week. Kirk moved better. The happiest moment for the
Jets was the first time Aaron moved out to the right.
(02:55):
He got flushed out to the right, Aaron moved better.
So that is a really good feeling for the Jets.
Because in the postseason, if you get there late in
the season, postseason January football, you got to extend plays.
You got to make plays off script. That's what Mahomes
is doing, Hurts is doing. You can't just be sitting
in the pocket. I don't care if you have the
best coach and the best roster. Jimmy Garoppolo just sat
in the pocket you want to be able to move,
(03:16):
and Erin now is moving. That's a great sign. So
if you extrapolate Aaron's numbers, if you take his first
three games and you extrapolate him over the season. Now
the schedule gets tougher. He's got to face Josh Allen
twice to what will be back, gotta face him twice late,
Kyler Murray, Trevor Lawrence. He's got face much better quarterbacks.
And you cross your fingers on Garrett Wilson's health because
(03:36):
if he's gone, not the same offense. But if you
project Aaron's numbers, this is what they would look like
at the end of the year. Thirty five hundred yards,
one hundred three passer rating, complete, sixty seven percent of
his throws. Are you kidding me? New York Jets Football.
I would sign up for ten years of that. So
Aaron maybe forty, But like Kirk Cousins, he looks like
(03:58):
he can move a little bit. Now, let Jet fans
bask in the glory. I mean, just let them have it.
This is no day to be cynical for Jet fans.
They're gonna go on WFA and radio in New York
and this day they're buying their Super Bowl tickets. But
you remember yesterday I went on the show and I go,
I don't understand the line. And when I got off
(04:20):
the show, I got a text from a buddy. He goes,
Colin New England's bad on the road, short week, rookie coach,
bad quarterback play, that's why it's six and not three.
And I'm like, Okay, that's why he's a better I'm not.
That's why he's a pro. I'm not. But you figured
it out pretty quickly. Airin at home air uncomfortable a
team in a short week, there is no reason to
be cynical.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I think the Jets margins, I'll say it again, are
very very thin. If they lost a Bresee Hall or
a Garrett Wilson, they gotta win with defense, and I'm
not sure this is a great defensive team, although they
looked great last night. But let's just take a deep breath.
A team that's been a D plus C minus student
at quarterback over the last day, on average, they had
(05:01):
an a night, let him have fun, a second beer,
let fireman ed, scream and yell, and they don't get
these very often. The Jets don't look good at quarterback
very often, so when they get it like last night. Yeah,
I know it's New England. Yeah I know. We all
thought New England would be the worst team in the league.
Wasn't they beat Cincinnati. We went, uh, they're the worst team
in the league. Here's a happy Aaron Rodgers on a
(05:25):
nice win. He looked good. New York's happy. New York
football hasn't been good Giants Jets in years. Here's Aaron.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Feeling real good out there. I felt good pregame. And
you know I've been progressing. I said to you guys
after Week one, you know it's going to be a process.
I've continued to extend plays once I feel more comfortable,
and this was kind of the first step in playing
like I know I'm capable of playing. I felt like
I was, you know myself.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
He was. He looked good. No cynicism, no snarky, no condescending.
The Jets looked like, let's be honest. Before the season
in August, we said, you know, it's gonna be a
nine or ten win team. Nine or ten win teams
with a Hall of Fame quarterback, even if he's old,
are gonna hammer teams like New England at home. They
(06:14):
did good job. So earlier in the day, the greatest
Major League baseball player ever, and I don't think it's close,
had the greatest day for a player ever. Sho, hey A.
Tani went six for six, three home runs, ten RBIs,
seventeen total bases. And what's even more remarkable. This is
(06:37):
what's even more remarkable. This is a rehab year for him.
He's not pitching or fielding, so this is really a
rehab year for him. It's not fully healthy. When asked
about the pursuit of the fifty to fifty club fifty
home runs, fifty stolen bases, Otani had said, hey, I
just want to get it over with, And yesterday he
(07:01):
got it over with on a one two. Oh, Tani
says her in the air the other way, fickid guus good?
What of a kind player? What of a kind season?
So hey o, Tony starts the fifty fifty club. Now
(07:26):
for most greatest players ever, that would be enough. You'd
go home in the clubhouse, pop open a cold, one
high five shower, go out. But show, hey, Otani isn't
just a great player, he is the most remarkable baseball
player ever. And it wasn't long after he joined the
(07:48):
fifty fifty club he did this. Hey you guess, so.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Ho Tidy the greatest day taste history.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
This is not real life.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
He is not human. I had said about two years ago,
I thought Shoho Taani was better than Babe Ruth, and
I got pushedback. I admit I was wrong. He's significantly
better than Babe Ruth. He is the first six tool player.
(08:26):
I would like to remind you again, this is a
rehab season. He's not fielding, he's not pitching. Even Mookie
Bett said, I don't know how to explain it. He's
just feeling sexy. He just has one of those days.
He just feeling it. This season, he is first in runs,
(08:48):
second in hits, first in home runs, first in rbi
ops slugging percentage, total bases. Shame, he's dropped a second
in stolen basis. You know, power here are not supposed
to steal bases. Power hitters look like guys who do
deadlifts like five times a week. And guys that steal
(09:09):
fifty bases aren't supposed to hit it like that. They're
supposed to be twitchy. Yeah, there's never been anything like
this guy ever on a absolutely loaded roster, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts.
There's talent everywhere on this roster. Even O Tawny is
(09:29):
marketly better, superior, more remarkable than every other player. And
oh yeah, for the first time in his career, yesterday,
among his personal exploits, he clinched a playoff spot. So
we'll get to see him in October. He deserves it,
and so do we. J Mack I'm sitting home waiting
(09:53):
for the football game, watching the Dodgers and thinking, sometimes,
you know, I always said there was one baseball player.
There's only one athlete in my life that I didn't
see play that I wish I would have in all
sports because I got old Wilt Chamberlain, and that was
Sandy Kofax, who literally the greatest hitters of his time
(10:13):
are like, yeah, Bob Gibson was this, Bob Gibson was that,
But nobody could hit Sandy Kofax, like the greatest players
the Frank Robinson's are like, yeah, you just could't hit him.
This could literally not hit him. And anybody born this
morning may not get the prime years of show, Hey Otani,
(10:34):
but we are watching like a modern day Babe Ruth
although Ruth didn't really pitch and hit in one season
a lot. He was either a hitter or a pitcher.
And maybe Otani when he pitches and hits next year,
maybe the offensive numbers and stolen bases come down. But
that's the greatest baseball player and the greatest day of
his career ever. And it was remarkable.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
What a night to be a sports fan.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
You've got Otani going off six for six and then
the Jets getting the victory.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
And I got a new.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
President this morning, a new paper weight here for the show,
for the desk, a little Jets performance, So the staff
is excited, and.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Uh, I am not going to be cynical. Oh, I
would hope do listen. After years of Tim Boyle, Zach Wilson.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I don't even remind me of those guys.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I know. It's like I was driving in this morning,
I thought, you know what, it's okay for people to
be happy. We're in a very divisive time in America.
There's hate and anger everywhere. Let's celebrate what the Jets did. Yeah,
it was a great date. New York football has been
in a tank for about a decade. You want to.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Celebrate fifteen quarterback hits, seven sacks, four hundred yards of
offense coming A lot to be excited about. Oh, by
the way, they got bo Nicks next week at MetLife
bon Nicks, assuming he survives his weekend in Tampa, things.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Are looking up for the New York Football Jets. Colin,
let's get excited.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
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Speaker 1 (12:10):
I do it more than you think. Defend Aaron Rodgers,
but you just remember the negative stuff. I'm gonna defend
Aaron Rodgers again on something. There was a moment last night,
second quarter when Aaron Rodgers and Robert Sala had a
really weird moment on the sidelines where Aaron was obviously
perturbed with Robert Sala when he came for the push.
And I'm gonna defend Aaron Rodgers here. Sala, for my
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money is too raw raw. I like players to show
emotion and position coaches to show emotion because they're the
most closely associated with players. But the further you go up,
the coaching wrong. I want to grown up, I need poise,
I need composed. I'll give you an example, Jay Wright Villanova.
They're facing North Carolina in the National Championship Game and
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a shot goes through for Villanova. Do you remember Jay
Wright's reaction? Jay Wright as good as any basketball coach
collegiately in the last five ten years. That's how you
act in the Natty. In the moment, circumstance and situation,
you should remain resolute. By the way, remember the Andy
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Reid Travis Kelcey situation at the Super Bowl. You know
why that didn't blow up? Do you know why that
was diffused? Can you imagine if you did that the
Robert sala It was diffused because of Andy Reid's temperament.
He just let it slide. Sala is not a position.
Coach Aaron Rodgers was right. It was the second quarter,
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it was against awful New England. It's Week three. Remember
the Super Bowl, Bill Belichick, Pete Carroll. New England had
controlled the game, and here came Russell Wilson, a big
completion down the sideline, literally was going to change the
Super Bowl. Seattle was done, and Belichick on the sidelines
(13:55):
just sat there and let the Seahawks burn a time out.
Wanted them. He wanted Seattle to overreact. His team was prepared.
Kyle Shanahan looks like a cool poker player. You don't
know if he's winning or losing. And again, I'm not
against a fist pump. I'm not against some energy, but
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save that for position coaches, players, even coordinators. Dude, unless
it's the other coordinator's job, you can take the headset
off and fist pump it. But to me, sola sometimes
is too raw. Raw. Got to separate from that stuff.
The Belichick's, the Jay Wrights, the Andy Reids bark at officials.
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That's when Belichick uses his energy. Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams
bark at officials. But players look up to coaches to
be the adult in the room. And that's what Aaron
did last night. Bro Chill second quarter New England at home.
Chill Aaron after.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
He's not a big hugger usually, so I didn't know
he was going for the hug. He likes to do
the two hand chest push as well, so but he
talks a lot about two score leads.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah against not the end of the world. But it
was on social media a thing last night for a
couple of hours. And my take is Aaron's right, like,
chill out, dude, it's no hugs, it's New England, it's home.
We're leading, it's week three, it's second quarter. We just
we just struggled. We just got blown out by San
Francisco and struggled to beat Well Levis. This is our
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job to do this, this is what we do. I'm
paid to beat New England at home in a short week.
That's what I'm paid to. Don't celebrate a fundamental part
of your job. Hammer nail for a construction worker. You're
paid to do that. Talk on the microphone. I'm paid
to do that. We don't pump fists after a good
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Speaker 1 (17:05):
George Kittle may not play now. For the Niners. So
no Christian McCaffrey, no Debo, and probably no George Kittle. Basically,
Brock Purdy in the San Francisco weapons have gone from
stacked to normal. They still have a great offensive head
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coach and the best left tackle in football, and a
dominant number one receiver Brandon Aik number three PFF receiver
last year, and a good second receiver in a Jennings.
So they'll just be normal this weekend. By most standards,
they'll have a normally weaponized offense. But that's what franchise
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quarterbacks are about. It's not about winning when you have
the best hand in poker. It's about winning when you're
missing a right tackle and your number one receiver, no Debo,
no Christian McCaffrey, and no Kittle. We all know you'd
need those guys to win a Super Bowl, But against
the Ding dep Rams, I don't care where the game
is being played, Brock Purty should be okay. You should
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not need an abnormally stacked roster to be excellent. It's
like the band who releases a really good studio album
and you're like, Wow, they're good in studio, but you
want to make sure, like when you see them live
first Queen, great studio album, better live at Wembley Stadium.
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I don't want to see brock Purty look like Milli
Vanilli this weekend when the record skips and he's running
off stage. And almost anybody can produce a good studio album.
Let's go live in front of a few thousand people.
Anybody can do a banger in the studio. Anybody when
you have Christian and Kyle and Trent and Kittle and
Deebo and I Yuke to layup drill. Here was brock
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Purdy about having to oh my, having to carry a
little bit of the offense.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
We never asked Brock to really do too much. We
ask them to do the play that's called if nothing's there,
what are your options after that? You scramble, You throw
things away, sometimes you take a sack. Things you always
try to do is not turn it over. But nothing
really changes when you're missing guys. It's game plan can
sometimes change, but not what you ask the quarterback to do.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Obviously that's Kyle, not Brock. So we'll see. I know
you all think I'm anti this and anti that. I'm
not anti brock Purty, but you know, he does feel
a little bit like a trust fund kid. You know,
he basically gets all the gifts. I mean it's like
Magic Johnson got Kareem, Okay, but then Magic Johnson that
rookie year, Kareem gets hurt, he has to play center. Okay,
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that's fine, but most people don't inherit Kareem in his prime.
And I'm just saying. I'm not saying that some trust
fund kids aren't hard workers and wouldn't have done well
without the trust fund, but it helps a lot, right,
you know that money coming in every month when you
inherit debo and now you can Kittle and Trent Williams
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and Kyle. I'm just trying to contextualize this a little.
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Speaker 1 (20:22):
Giant Sid Brown's six and a half points is too many.
Cleveland's got fourteen players on the injury list this week
and really good players. The Giants o linees playing well.
Daniel Jones has protection. They did not allow a touchdown
in the loss of the Commanders Jake Jack, Conklin's out,
David Mdjoku, Miles Garrett, Zadarias Smith, Denzel Ward. Cleveland's banged up.
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Their offense is twenty eighth in the league. Deshaun Watson's
completing fifty eight percent of his throws, and they're one
of two defenses without a takeaway this year. But it's
really about Deshaun Watson. How much better than Daniel z
owonnes Izzy this year? I'm not sure he is. Six
and a half is way too many points. This Cleveland
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team's a fraud. Giants win it take the points twenty
four to twenty three.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Broncos it Buccaneers.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I like the Bucks, not six and a half points.
I'm taking Denver plus six and a half points. Listen,
the Broncos are a really desperate team and they've got talent,
but this is about the Bucks. They were out gained
by Detroit by two hundred and fifty yards. They were
two for ten on third down. Baker Mayfield got sacked
five times. I like Tampa, I don't like them that much.
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Their defense is missing Vina via Antonio Winfield. It's all
beat up again. A desperate team, whether or not a
factor you're not facing the Steelers defense.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
This is the weakest defense. Denver wolf face bow Knicks
will have time to throw. And the Bucks defense this
year has been bad. It's just not a very good defense.
The Broncos are gonna cover here. I'm gonna take the
Bucks to win in a late field goal, but that
I'm taking six and a half all day long with.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
This Dolphins aid Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Okay, I'm gonna take a favorite. I don't get the line.
I'm gonna take Seattle at home minus four and a half.
Skyler Thompson completes fifty percent of his throat. This story
is about Seattle. We taught Geno Smith. That's not the story.
It's their new defensive coach from Baltimore. Seattle has the
highest wedded defense in the league according to PFF. It
was near the bottom last year with the same dudes.
They're allowing four yards of play, second best in the NFL.
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Opposing quarterbacks have a sixty one passer rating against the Seahawks.
It's not about Geno Smith and DK Metcalf. This is
an excellent defense. Skyler Thompson, What are we doing here?
He has a sixty passer rating I don't understand the line,
and Miami never feels the same when they travel or
go up north or go out west. I'm gonna take
the Seahawks to win. I'm gonna swallow the points twenty
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eight to seventeen. They will shut down Skyler Thompson in
the Pacific Northwest Chief said Falcons. Here's my upside of
the week. I think Atlanta's a I told Philadelphia fans
when the Falcons beat, you, take a deep breath. Atlanta's
a good football team. They're gonna win their division, win
eleven twelve games. I'm gonna take the Falcons plus three points.
They had no turnovers in six point six yards a
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play with Kirk Cousins. It's one of the best old lines.
Excellent running back room, could be the best running back
room in the league. By the way, twenty to twenty
nine against the Eagles, Kirk Cousins moved better Kansas City
first road game, Mahomes first couple of weeks, worst in
passing yards, in turnovers, and Kirk Cousins had this reputation
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bad in primetime. No, he's not last four primetime games.
He's completing seventy five percent of his throws. There's gonna
be an upset this weekend. I think it's close. I
think it looks like the Philadelphia game, and I think
I think Atlanta at home wins this game. I know
I know Colin stay away from Atlanta. I know I
know my ATM receipts would tell me stay away from Atlanta.
I like him in this splot.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
I do.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Jaguars had been Jaguars are not a terrible team. Okay,
They're gonna play well. Five points against Buffalo. They're zero
to two. The season on the line for Jacksonville. Greg
Cosel told us yesterday, Trevor Lawrence is good. He's tall,
he moves well, he throws well. They got off to
a slow start. Trevor Lawrence is completing fifty one percent
of his throws. You really think that's what he is. No,
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that's not what he is. They've had twelve plays this
year up twenty or more yard. That's tied for the
most in the league. The Jaguars offense is a big playoffense.
They'll be fine. Bill's major injuries Matt Mulano out, his
backup's hurt. They have a linebacker in the corner that
may not play Trevor Lawrence in primetime games is actually
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eight touchdowns no picksman. Okay, I like Buffalo, but five
points feels like way too much for an explosive offense.
They're dinged up on the defensive side. Jags win twenty
six twenty four. Remember we thought the Jags last year
before Trevor Lawrence got banged up, they looked like a
playoff team. The year before they were playoff team. They're
not terrible. They're not They're gonna be very competitive. These
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teams are much closer than you think. Twenty six twenty four.
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The code has heard h eerd, so let's look at
our bets again again. I'm taking a lot of points
this weekend. I think the market's a little crazy. I
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like a lot of underdogs. I like Jacksonville as an underdog.
I like the Giants as an underdog. I like the
Denver Broncos as an underdog. I'm taking four underdogs and
the Seahawks to cover at home against the Dolphins. J
Mack any reaction to that, don't don't love what I'm seeing.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I do like that you're fading the Bills and Dolphins.
I don't mean the Jets all alone in first place.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
But yeah, I know I.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Don't know they.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I don't know about the Giant Daniel Jones against the
Jim Schwartz defense.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
I'm looking at the injury.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Report for the Browns. We'll see what becomes of fishing
later today, Mile Garrett. If Mile Garrett is out, that's
a great call.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Giants offense at line. It's great at left tackle and
has played very good this year. The Giants on line
has played. If Miles Garrett does not play, Daniel Jones
and that receiving core. Now that Neighbors is the one
and everybody slides back a slot, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
To play the Vikings and the in Washington. You know
there's a big step up the brown Miles Garrett. I
do like the Broncos pick. By the way, I'm riding
with you on that one.
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Speaker 3 (26:44):
One of the questions is who will have the most
passing yards this week? Rock Purdy, Lamar Jackson, Dak Prescott
or Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Who you got Cowherd.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I think the Saints Eagles is a bit of a shootout,
so I would take her. I just think that you're
going to have to I don't I think the line's appropriate.
I think it's a field goal game, and I don't
think you're holding New Orleans down to seventeen points. So
that thing feels like thirty three thirty to me. So
even without AJ Brown, I think they'll throw the ball.
They got good tight ends, they'll move it around. Defa.
J Smith's a great player too.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, Brock Purty, you can't back missing all the receivers
I just got.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
And what that tells you is if I was if
I was San Francisco, I would run the ball, shorten
the game. You're not going to have to score a
ton to beat the Rams. Cooper and pookinakop are out.
I'd be like, you know what, forty carries. Let's get
out of here, so FI get home. We're all banged up.
Last thing I want is to spread it out, throw
the ball, kill the clock. So sometimes when you're playing
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a ding up team and you're ding de up, you
just want a short game without injuries and get on
the flight home. All right, Well, we do it every
week at this time, and then when we get into
the football season, they become his picks and he's off
to a pretty good start. We call it tomorrow's headlines
today Ravens Cowboys the big Marquey game of the weekend
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on Fox. Lines about Ravens minus one. It feels about right.
It's rare.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I think we hit like ninety seven percent last season
when we were in Lockstown.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
The headline for Ravens Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Will be you lookla marvelous Ravens get faithlift in Dallas win.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
I really like Baltimore here.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
So again you had this add only twenty and one
for Lamar against the NFC Cowboys have not seen him
since twenty twenty. This strikes me as a big Lamar
Dereck Henry game. Get Dereck Henry going on the ground again.
The Dallas run defense got gash Kamara just chewed them
up last week. And you know, let's be honest, this
Dallas offense has not looked particularly great. Good spot for
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the Ravens defense, which, by the way, has not looked
good at all.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Yeah, since losing, we can have.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Some points in this game too. There's some weapons in
this game.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
And I know the sky is falling for Baltimore, but
when they were up twenty three thirteen in the fourth
quarter with like fourteen minutes left, it didn't feel that way.
So I think there's a little overreaction to Baltimore struggles
down the stretch against Gardner Minshew.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
But uh yeah, give me the Ravens here and in
twenty three twenty or thereabouts.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
You know, J Mack, this next pick. Sam Darnold's had
quite a season he has. This is a good game.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
This is a great game.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Tomorrow's headlines today, who would have guessed a couple of
years ago, Texans Viking, jag gotta lot.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Yeah, yeah, Now they injury report for the Texans is
scaring me. This Joe Mixon news and Damon Pierce. The
headline will be Two's Company. Three's a stroud Texans end
zone gets crowded.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
I like Houston.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
There's some interesting stuff going on. So Brian Flores loves
to blitz. By the way, if you watched any of
the all twenty two against the Niners, he was down
on some exotic stuff. Everybody up at the line of
scrimmage and then everybody backs off and perty was not
processing it quickly enough. Do you know who one of
the best quarterbacks in the league is against the blitz?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
CJ.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Stroud seventeen of twenty this season. Wow, when blitz people.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Try to get him.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Always young quarterbacks off war slump, He's dot everything. Stroud
is crushing it off the Blitz. Now, I want to
add this cam Aker situation definitely scares me because he
is fumble prone.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
As we know, they're.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Really good back but Sean McVay just bailed on him.
Yeah he is. I'm done with the fumble.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Lego Collins, who was an injury scare this week at practice,
but he seems good to go. If they have all
the receivers and the tight Endalton Schultz, I think they
can make headway with the Vikings. And you never want
to get caught looking ahead. But this is a bit
of a sandwich spot right for Flores last week, huge
game home opener, Niners. Now you play a non conference
game against Houston next week, big one against the Packers
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and Jordan Love in division matchup. I think the Vikings
get caught napping here, Texans get the dub.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I agree with you. Now, who thought this in August
would be a matchup. Tomorrow's headlines today Lions and the
Arizona This feels like a shootout.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Yeah, so you had a great I don't know. Maybe
it was my point yours, I don't know. But week
three is kind of like.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
Oh, these are who teams?
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Really?
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Jets last night?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah, the Patriots?
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Patriots?
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Okay, this is who they are. Are we going to
see that? In Lion's Cardinals, the headline will.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Be my baby back, baby back, baby back Gibbs.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
I like Gibbs, Jamir Jamar Gibbs, the Lions running back.
Listen the Cardinals this the linebackers can't cover anybody. The
defense is mostly a joke. I think the Lions say,
oh my gosh, look at the film. Why the hell
did we throw fifty five times last week? Let's get
back to ground and pound. We've got the best offensive
line in the league. And oh, by the way, this
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Arizona offense is looking like it could be like a
top five six unit.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
You need to keep the ball away from them.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
A lot of Montgomery, a lot of Gibbs short stuff.
Amara Saint Brown is good to go.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
He's gonna play this week. And I just want to
remind the genius Ben Johnson. You know you can use
Laporta in the red zone.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Remember he had like eight red zone touchdowns last year.
He has like three targets in the red zone this season.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Do you feel like it just me Detroit's getting too
cute overthinking it? One hundred percent, Ben, You've got the
best online goff is great on play action, not fifty
five pass attempts. Run the ball, use your tight end.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
And I know the thought was, oh, timp is dinged
up in the secondary, let's take advantage.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Well, I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Arizona's defense stinks everywhere. It's not good.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
They have no players. Look what the Bills did with
Cook in the opener.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
I mean they just ran wild Detroit to do that. Now,
this total is high. I think it's fifty one and
a half. I would actually.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Consider the under just give it some thought.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
In case Detroit says, hey, we're gonna hold the ball
for forty minutes.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
That's not a bad strategy.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Again, that's another thing when you're on the road. You know,
the way these teams look on the road is let's
go do work, make it quick. If you have the
running game. Yeah, don't put your quarterback in harm's way
before divisional play. That's not a bad call.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
And we have banged on the Lions for not looking
sharp the first two weeks. This is I think a
get right spot against an anemic defense.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Tomorrow's dead lives today Bear's Colts. I like this.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
I know there's some stats floating around, some trends with
a lot of people like Colts are owing two.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
You got it back an oh and two team against
the spread.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
The headline will be win nee the pooh Bears look
sweet ass, honey, kick Caleb the dub. I you know, listen,
this is a Bears team that looked very bad last week.
I thought against the Texans despite the cover offensively.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
But they hung around in the game.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Yeah, this is more about what's going on with the
Colts defense. So DeForest Buckner to the ir their top
cornerback is gone. They have injuries all over the defense. Hey,
DeAndre Swift is a good running back. Can we get
him on track? Colin He has like done nothing through
two games. I think the Bears offensively should have a
lot of success against the Colts defense. And by the way,
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Gus Bradley, you know he likes to sit in his
cover three. We even broke this down last week. He
just sits back in his zone. Packers said, we're gonna
hand the ball off if he does that again. This
should be a big game for DeAndre Swift. I know
my brother has him in fantasy. He's very excited. Injury
no for the Colts. Michael pit Man, check that injury report.
We'll see if he practices today. If he doesn't go,
then it's a lot of like Alec Pearce and Richardson's.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Missed a lot of throws. I know there's some questions about.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Richards I told you to GM text me this week
and say his tape in this this year has been awful.
Last week he just said he's missing high school stuff.
Greg Coasell echoed that.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Now, final note is you know, if you were into
the narrative stuff. Eber Flus used to be an indie.
Perhaps a revenge spot here for Matt Eberflus if you
like that kind of thing. Eberflus and the Bears get
the dub.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
On the road. Finally, tomorrow's headlines today, I took Atlanta
Chiefs Falcons? What say you? You know?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
I do like agreeing with you a lot, and I
know you've got a big weekend ahead, but I don't
want to ruin it.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
I don't like the Falcons.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
The headline will be living beyond your means.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Mistakes too costly for Falcons.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
I like it Chiefs here and again this goes back
to a lot of narrativey stuff. Oh the sky's falling,
Kansas City doesn't look good. They got lucky against the Ravens.
They got lucky last week against the Bengals. You know again,
I try to look into some of this scheme oriented stuff.
And what have the Falcons done historically with Rogie Morris
and their new defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake. They want to
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sit back and cover three, cover four zone. Well, you
can't zone. Patrick Mahomes. He annihilates zone defenses because he's smart.
He's processes quickly. Rashi Rice crushes zones.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Travis Kelce about Rashi Rice, if you if you got
a parlay or a prop bet Rashi Rice against the Chiefs.
He's gonna he's against I don't know, I don't think
they'll win, but he's yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
He's gonna go off against his owne And I just
want to say, like these these players, hear the stuff Colin.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Travis Kelsey's been hearing all week that he's washed.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
And he had what one catch for five yards and
he I think he's gone like four or five straight
regular season games under fifty yards. This is a really
good spot for Travis Kelce against this soft zone defense.
And the final note is Kirk Cousins. I know he
had an awesome comeback against the Eagles. They barely blitzed
him and barely got to him. What does Spagnolo do
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number seven in blitz percentage last year, fifth so far
this season. He's gonna be bringing the kitchen sink against
Kirk Cousins, who's immobile. I can see some mistakes from Cousins.
I like the Chiefs here in a primetime spot to
get the win. I know it's a three and a half.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
But I think Mahome shows up here and they they
wouldn't buy a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
He we gut, they'll breaking news.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Oh no, what happened?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
The Chargers are officially listing Justin Herbert as questionable against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
That's not bad.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Herbert told reporters he suffered a high ankle spraining against Carolina.
Those are those last?
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Okay. Matt Lafleur, Packer head coach announced Jordan Love is
officially questionable with the knee injury. I think i'd keep
him out. And if you had a loss to Indy
but you beat.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Why would you play Herbert?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
I don't think. I don't think I would.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
I'm not messing around.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I would give her beast next week.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Yeah, easton stick, I mean the season. If Herbert's out
for like ten games, it's over for this.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
The Steelers are going to be three and oh and
I'm still not gonna pend on the hurd higher.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
No, no, they should. They don't deserve it.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
They deserve it. They might not get eleven seed all year.
They go nine to oh, I'll have them eleven.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Yeah, they could win this game nine to six or
something in one touchdown blowout.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
My blowout of the weekend is Bengals blowout Washington. That's
my blowout of the one blowout.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Way to go out on a limb there, buddy, Oh gosh,
I gotta pick a blowout. But give me the Browns
twenty seven to nine over the Giants. By the way,
Brown's injury report looking healthy. I know we talked about
it early.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
It looks like both tackles are back and Joku will
not play. But Giants secondaries bat I mean Jalen.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Jayden Daniels did not punt last week against the Giants.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Like Deshaun Watson. This is another get right spot for him.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Do you understand how bad Jaden Daniels today is better
than Deshaun Watson. I don't even think there's any question
Deshaun Watson. I'm not even I'm serious on this. Is
he a starter on a good team.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
I don't know that I can push back that much
against that.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
I mean, Jayden Daniels has juice to show.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Watson has two drives. That's it, give me two good drives.
He had one last week.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
I'll say this, the Giants offensive line has played well
and they've drafted it, so it should. Secondly, now that Neighbors.
Neighbors is a twelve. They're gonna give him nine catches a.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Week targets I believe.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Yeah, No, no, he's nine ten targets. He's a he's an
eight catch guy. It's all the other guys on their team,
like Darius Slayton and where they're now in their appropriate
spot as twos and threes and fours they're receiving. It's
like adding an astier staff. Now everybody goes back a
slot in the staff the Giants. If Neighbors is what
I think he's becoming, and this O line, the Giants
(38:52):
will score some points.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Hey, Denzel Ward, I hope you're watching get healthy lock
up name, well, don't lock him up too much.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
I got him in fantasy. But I think the Browns
win that game.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
USC Michigan. Who you like?
Speaker 4 (39:02):
I'm on USC?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Okay, all right? I am too. Not at your level though,
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