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You don't foper Bowl Championships. That should always be the expectation.
All right, man, ex you go ahead.
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Welcome back to the Richard Sherman Podcast, brought to you
by our friends and partners over at Brightling. They got
us blinged up, y'all know the vibes for sure. They
got my boy raheem blinged up in Atlanta. They had
my guys Salah blinged up in New York until Woody
Johnson made a knee jerk decision, a knee jerk reaction
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to a loss in London and his team got to
play tonight, and that's what we're here to talk about.
The Buffalo Bills at the.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
New York Jets.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
It it was a good game, very close game, came
down to the wire. Thought the Jets had a number
of chances to finish that game. To Greg zure Line.
Zer Line missed two field goals in the fourth quarter,
which ultimately determined the outcome of the game. I think
very makeable field goals for him. There was a swirling
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win throughout the night, so you know that may have
factored in. But I thought this was one of Aaron Rodgers'
best games as a Jet. He did throw an interception,
but he threw the two touchdowns, had the zip on
the ball that you're used to seeing. Got sacked three times,
threw for two hundred and ninety four yards, which is
a lot for Aaron. I think the most that he's
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thrown as a Jet, the most that he's thrown in
the last couple of years. Reese Hall had his best
game this season, eighteen carries for one hundred and thirteen yards.
Alan Lazard had some huge catches, including a hell mary
that he caught at the end of the first half.
Garrett Wilson got fed all day. Eight catches for one
hundred and seven yards. Could have been more. But the
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story of this game, I mean, Josh Allen and the
Buffalo Bills did a really good job controlling this game.
Didn't make a lot of mistakes. Nineteen to twenty five,
two hundred and fifteen yards, two touchdowns, no interception, ran
the ball, not a ton of running, not a ton
of yards, just nine carries for thirteen yards. But he
did have the TD and just was in total command
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this entire game, spreading the ball around to different receivers.
Dalton kink had six catches, Mac Collins had an eight
yard touchdown. I saw a lot of guys get involved.
Khalil Shakir had a few grabs, but I think unfortunately
the referees were the story of this game. I saw
a number of just unnecessary flags. Unnecessary flags, it'd be
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offsetting flags that neither had to happen, like, just let
the play play. We called multiple defensive pis on on
DJ Reid, and I know fans are like, oh, it's
pis PR because they're slow mowing it and you get
to see every angle and it's like, oh, man, the dB.
The dB people don't understand. They have an implicit bias
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against defensive places. You have an implicit bias.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You always think they're guilty. So when you're looking, you're
looking from a lens of like, he probably did something.
Let me make sure he did something. But I'm watching
from the lens of, hey, I know how to harder
displayed position. You guys, let these receivers get away with
way more than you would ever let us get away with.
Then get upset that we defend ourselves. So the first
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PI has I think it was mac Hollins stiff arming
DJ Reid and people. And people are like, oh, receivers
get to push off. That's not offensive PI. Yes, it's offensive. BI,
it's offensive PI. And then you tell the ref and
they're like, well, we'll call it, but don't grab his hand.
It's like he's got a hand in my chest. Literally
had DJ read by the jersey and literally as the
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ball is about to come, it's going to finish the push,
catch the ball and either score touchdown or have a
very big gain on the play.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
What do you expect a dB to do?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You're allowing them to push off, allowing them to stiff
arm a corner away, grab his jersey, and then you're like, hey,
but don't grab his hand. Well, then call something. Why
he's got his hand in my chest because he's not
allowing me to do my job, which is to defend him.
So if I if I'm trying to run, if I
grab the receiver by the chest with my hand in
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his chest down the field that far, they call illegal
contact or holding or whatever the call may be.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
But the call doesn't go both ways.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So I don't like to see the PI call when
when the receiver puts his hand in the chest. I
tell all my corners, and I tell them every single time,
if he puts that hand in your chest, don't give
it back. Don't give it back. Make them call it
because that it's an unfair advantage. And there's no rule
protecting us. You want you want points, so you're gonna
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let them do whatever they want to get open, but
you're not gonna let us defend it. Like, hey, I
gotta knock his hand down, pull through, And then you're like, oh,
look at that, it's PI because he pulled through. No,
it's hard to play defense in this league. The rest
did a terrible job tonight. For a while, it looked
like they were calling it one way, and then they
started to call makeup calls. They called a nonsense roughing
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the pass or on the Buffalo Bills. They called a
nonsense PI late in the game on the Buffalo Bills
on the final drive for the New York Jets, and
I just don't I'm not a fan. I'm not of
how that game was called. I think these reps can
be better than that. I thought. Anytime you see a
ref featured that much, where you know his name and
his face and we're looking at him every freaking you know,
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five ten minutes, that's too much. That's too much. Like
you can call penalty on every play if you wanted to.
That's not what people want to see. That's not what
people want to see on prime time on a Monday night.
So unfortunately, that was the story of this game. But
another story of this game was the Buffalo Bills defense.
They played really well. They they I mean, especially the
safety play. Taylor Rap was all over the place. He
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and Deamar Hamlin had a couple of crucial plays in
the end zone where they where they broke up touchdown passes.
Taylor rap also broke up a first down looked like
a first down catch on second and sixteen on the
last drive of the game. There was some really cool
plays throughout the night from that defense, and it's a
really young secondary that just continues to get better, continues
to develop. And that's a hats off to the Buffalo
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Bills coaching half and their scouting department because they just
next man up mentality, next man up mentality. Guys keep
stepping up, and even the linebackers. You know you're being
banged up at linebacker, and they just keep having guys
step up. Aj Epanessa had two sacks, was all over
the place. They put a lot of pressure on Aaron Rodgers.
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Even when they didn't get the sacks, they hit him,
they knocked him down. You could see him limping throughout
the game. Obviously that had an effect on him. Had
a number of throws that were high rushed where you
could feel the pressure. But this is gonna be a
tough defense, and even though they're banged up, they lost
a lot of veteran presence from last season, they look
like they just continue to put together great defenses and
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great offenses and win football games. They're four and two
at the top of the AFC East and it's looking
like they're gonna win that division. On the other side,
the New York Jets have a lot of talent, good
quarterback in Aaron Rodgers, but it's just turmoil. And we
talked about this early that Woody Johnson injected turmoil into
this team. Sure they could have won this game. Most
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of the time when there's a coaching change, the team
with the coaching change wins the game. After that, I
don't know why. I think that's I forget what the
exact number is, but it's a winning record. But you
don't go to the playoffs with those teams. I think
only one team in this in recent memory has gone
to the playoffs, and that was the when John Gruden
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got fired from the Raiders and Bashati got hired and
or was the interim. They went to playoffs. But that
was a good team, wasn't a bad team. He wasn't
fired because they were a bad team. That's fired for
some stuff that got uncovered or whatever it was. But
I just don't see this going well for the New
York Jets. I want them to make the playoffs. I
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want them to win and do well because I wanted
to show that Salas system, you know, his culture change.
The decisions that he made throughout his tenure were the
right decisions. He doesn't have control. He didn't control over
every decision. They didn't give him power over personnel. So
when he's playing Zach Wilson and he doesn't want to
or he you know, he has to play the guys
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that they put in front him. So that's a tough
thing for a head coach.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
There are a lot of head coach coach GM dynamics
that are different throughout the league. That's the New York
Jets is. I don't agree that that should be the case.
I think the head coach needs to be able to
say who's the starter, who's sitting in these games, especially
if he's going to get fired or hired for it.
You look at the Carolina Panthers, for example, Temper makes
an executive decision at the eleventh hour, after all these
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scouts and gms have done all their research all year
or forever many years on these quarterbacks, and they wanted
to pick CJ. Stroud, and then he wants to pick
Bryce Young and now they pick Bryce Young. Bryce Young
isn't ready at the time, doesn't necessarily play well his
rookie year, So now you're firing an entire staff because
of a decision you made. And I just feel like
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sometimes everybody's like, Oh, it's the owners, it's their teams,
so they could do it. They do, they do, but
it just doesn't make sense. You pick a guy who
has a detrimental impact on the staff and then you
fire the staff like it's their fault when it was
your decision. I guess you can't fire yourself, but take
some accountability on the decision you made. Be able to
eat that. And again, in this situation, you would think
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they would have gave Robert Salah at least a full
season went air at least a full season. The defense
has played pretty well at the top are near the
top and a number of statistical categories. That's what he is.
He's a defensive head coach and he's done well. Unfortunately,
this team doesn't have it right now. Offensively, well, this
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was their best game offensively, honestly, and special teams is
what let him down. And I think the conditions had
a lot to do with that. But it's just an
unfortunate situation. The Jets go to Pittsburgh next week, which
is gonna be a really tough out because that defense
is playing really well and that offense is playing well enough,
and they're starting to get a feel for what Justin
Fields wants to do. He's taking his shots down the field.
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I think they need another weapon outside of George Pickens
at receiver in order to really get that offense into
another gear. But I think that's gonna be a really
good game, And if the Jets lose that game, I
think it's going to be another hard decision somewhere that
Woody Johnson's gonna have to make, like you thought you
made the right decision, and if they lose another game,
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then it's like it looks like a ridiculous decision because
it was a ridiculous decision. And I don't know what
the next decision it is that you make, because you
already injected the turnoe onto the team. You could have
just let it play out and let's see what happens,
not have a knee jerk reaction. But the knee jerk
reaction is what you did. Now we got to see
how it plays out. I don't think you can make
another drastic change right now at this point in the season,
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even if they're two and five. But the Bills host
the Titans. I think that'll be a good game too.
I think Will Levis has regressed a bit. Josh Allen
looks like he's in total command. I think that Buffalo
Bills pulled that game off. But we'll talk about that
next week. Now, let's talk about the Sunday night game.
Wasn't the most exciting game in the world, at least
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to me. It was a defensive game. I thought the
Buffalo I mean, the New York Giants defense played really
well majority of the game. I thought the Cincinnati Bengals
defense played their best game all season. Held the Giants
under ten points is the first time this season that
they are the first time since Week one that the
Bengals have held it an opponent under twenty four points. Obviously,
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having bj Hill and Sheldon Rankins makes a huge difference
on those things. It's the first game back together, and
of course they play a really good game against the run.
Tyrone Tracy, coming off his best game against the Seattle Seahawks,
was held to fifty yards on seventeen carries. They were
trying to find different ways to get him the ball,
trying to find different ways to get him open into
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open space. But that defense just kept swarming throughout that game.
I thought Jermaine Pratt had a really good game. Trey Hendrickson,
always menace, always all over the place, made a huge
impact in this game. Two sacks on Daniel Jones. I
thought Joe Burrow played a solid game, but he was
sacked four times. That New York Giants defensive line, one
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of the best in football, lead in the league in sacks.
They got to Joe Burrow four times, but he did
have the forty seven yard touchdown run, which was incredible.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I did. I didn't know Joe. You know, they always
say Joe.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Sneaky athletic, and that's the way of saying, we don't
think he's that fast, but every now and then he'll
get you ten yards, he'll sneak up on you. But
for a forty seven yard or in the National Football League,
you gotta have real athleticism in real speed, and that's
what he showed on that drive. Really cool play that
they needed to have. They won this game seventeen to seven,
and Jamar Chase had a solid games five catches for
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seventy two yards. T Higgins seven catches for seventy seven yards,
but they were in battles all day with the Giants.
D I think, I don't know what to say about
this game other than you know, they did enough to
win the game. There were times that the Giants could
have pulled this game out. There were plays to be had.
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Cincinnati could have easily been one and five, but they're
too and four the Giants are too and four. The
Bengals go to the Browns. That's a winnable game. Deshaun
Watson isn't playing particularly well. The Browns defense can call
some chaos, obviously, with Miles Garrett and Denzel Award and
the secondary they have in the front they have, but
it's gonna be Desaun Watson's gonna have to wake up
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and really figure it out. They can't bench him. We
already heard Stefanski say they're not benching him. They really can't.
They own too much money and it's all guaranteed, and
so so any any rhetoric or any conversation about anything
otherwise it's probably false because they can't bench him. I
don't It doesn't matter what you think about how he's playing.
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You bench him, you're conceding that you're gonna pay him
a lot of money to send on the bench for
the next a couple of games, the next year, next
two years, next three years. You can't trade him. I
don't think he's His trade value is not there. So
unfortunately for the Browns they got to see it through.
Hopefully Deshaun can regain for him. You know, he shows
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flashes throughout some of these games that he could get
back but hasn't yet. The Giants host the Eagles, and
the Eagles haven't looked great, but they've won games. They
beat the Browns twenty to sixteen in a game that
you know had a lot to had a lot to
do with the defenses playing well. Aj Brown had a
huge impact in that game, and I'm sure he's going
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to have another huge impact in this game against the Giants.
But the Giants defensive line, I don't think the Philadelphia
Eagles offensive line has been the same since Jason Kelsey left,
and I think that that's where the matchup is. That's
where the Giants have a chance. If they can be disruptive,
if they can continue to get after the quarterback. The
way they have this season. They'll have a chance that game,
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but they have to find some way offensively, and I
thought they may have found the strategy against the Seattle Seahawks.
Daniel Jones looked good. He was he was, you know,
making making pass him, making the game look easy, taking
what the defense gave him. They had screenplays that were
developing really nicely, and I don't know why they got
away from that in this game, but they're gonna have
to get back to that. They expect to to get
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back in his division race. Uh. For the NFC East
and the Cincinnati Bengals just got to keep on keeping on.
They got a favorable schedule over the last next couple
of games. And you know, this is just how what
we've known from them. They start off slow and find
a way to get get to five hundred, get hot
late in the season, get to the playoffs, and make
some noise. And we'll see if they're able to do
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that again this season. The Niners get some good news
for change. Ricky Purcell back at practice, uh forty four
days after being shot in that tragic incident in San Francisco. Uh.
I mean all we all we've heard heard his positive
things from OTA's to mini camp to training camp. He's
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he's been fantastic. We'll see how they can fit him in,
and it's already really talented offense. A lot of mouths defeat.
Talked about the big games. Juwan Jennings had, Pebo Samuel's
coming off his best game in the season, Brandon Ayuk
had a really good game against the Arizona Cardinals. George
Kittle had two touchdowns this last game, so hopefully there's
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you know, a few footballs to go around for him.
They got some positive news on Jordan Mason the injuries
and as severe as they thought, he's practiced, so it's
positive things going on for the forty nine ers. Hopefully
that gets them ready for their Super Bowl rematch this
weekend against the Kansas City Chiefs. I will be there.
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I think I'm the honorary captain. It's gonna be a
fun game. I'm gonna bring my son. Hoping that the
Niners can get their revenge. It'd be a fun game
to watch again. We talked about Kevin Stefanski sticking with
Deshaun Watson. He hasn't thrown for two hundred and fifty
yards since Week three of last season. Blacko threw two
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hundred and fifty yards multiple times last season and the
offense looked really good. David and Joku looked incredible with
Joe Flacco, and you just saw the difference that he
can make in this offense. I thought they would with
how he played, they'd bring him back, but he got
scooped up by the Indianapolis Colts. But it's just not
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a lot of great, great stats going on for Deshaun
Watson and he has to figure it out. They lead
the league in sacks despite he's got sacked thirty one times,
but offensive line is given him time to throw, but
he's just still taking sacks, holding the ball longer than
he should been a bit inaccurate. So there's not a
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lot they can do. He has no trade clause in
his contract. He has a seventy three million dollar cap
hit for the next couple of years. I don't know
what you're doing in this situation. It's just unfortunate for
Browns fans and for what they expected from Deshaun Watson.
And it's sad for Deshaun Watson because he had been
a really good player in this league, really good quarterback.
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That's why they paid him the money they paid him. Hopefully,
you know, he can get past these things and really
find his mojo back, because confidence is a tough thing
to get back once you lose it, and it just
looks like he's lost in a bit. Hopefully going forward
he'll find it and he'll give this team a chance
to win ball games. I don't think they'll switch their
quarterbacks because they just can't at this point. And DeVante
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Adams talks have gone dormant. Yeah, of course they have.
Of course they have. It was unnecessary for them to say, oh,
we need a second round pick for him, or we're
not giving him up. Look, this is National Football League.
They understand what's going on. They see the writing on
the wall, They see the public sediment, sentiment, they see
that he's unhappy there. They're not giving you a second
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round pick for player that clearly wants to leave your franchise.
That's always been the case. They see it's like a
guy being banged up. It's like, hey, the price goes down.
But when a guy doesn't want to be there, if
they're paying a second round pick, then that's them coming
out of nowhere and saying, hey, this guy can make
me a difference maker on our team. I know he's
happy over there, but man, could we use him? And
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we're trying to pry him away from you. He's not
playing right now for the anybody. You're paying him not
to play, and I know that he's rehabbing an injury,
but I'm sure if he got traded tomorrow, he'd be
playing and suiting up for that game. So they're gonna
have to lower their price. They're gonna have to swallow
their pride because right now you're paying a lot of
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money not to play football games. And that doesn't help anybody,
doesn't help the Raiders, it doesn't help Davante.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
It's not good.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
So hopefully the Raiders can figure it out because they're
gonna have to make a decision on him. Either force
him to play, which isn't you know. I'm sure he's
a pro. Davante's a pro. He'll show up, do his job,
go home, but you know he doesn't want to be there.
That's not the culture they're trying to set. And so
you need to make a move. Make the move, Make
the move, you know what I mean. Cut your losses,
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Hey say, well take a third and the fourth walk away,
you know, it's it's that easy. I'm sure the New
York Jets are one of the teams interested in them.
Here in the New Orleans Saints are a team that
is really really interested in them and could use them.
But he's a good receiver and I think him being
wasted like away at home isn't good for anybody. So
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I think he'll make it out of Vegas at some
point or another before the trade deadline. But it's gonna
it's gonna take them swallowing their pride to do it,
or they're gonna keep paying him not to show up,
which not to play football games, which doesn't make sense.
Now it's time for our Thursday night football review. We
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have the New Orleans Saints versus the Denver Broncos. Denver
Broncos three and three, coming off a very tough loss
to the LA Chargers Denver. There's three and one in
the last four games. New Orleans is on four in
the last four games. Boone knicks in the last four games,
six hundred and ninety eight yards, five touchdowns, only one interception,
one hundred and twenty yards rushing and two touchdowns. It
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just seems like Sean Payton and Boone Knicks are starting
to get a good rhythm, a good understanding of what
one another needs. The what Shawn's looking for from Bowl,
what Bowl likes on the football field, the plays that
he likes called, the things that he does well, the
way he's seeing the field. I think they're starting to
find chemistry and rhythm. And of course he's a rookie quarterback,
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so just only getting better each and every game. That
Denver Broncos defense with Patrick certain As as the best
corner in the National Football League, is going to be
a formidable matchup, especially for this New Orleans Saints team
that's just so banged up. Derek Carr is still out
of the lineup. Spencer Rattler played a solid game last week,
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but it's gonna be two rooky quarterbacks going at it
in the Soup Dome. Sean Payton's first game back at
the super Dome since he's been with the Denver Broncos,
and I'm hearing a lot of things from Saints fans
that are not They're not happy about the way things
went when Sean Payton left. I'm not sure he's gonna
get to welcome that that he he thinks he'll get.
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But it all is Drew Brees Day and they're retiring
Drew Brees' number, which is which is an awesome side.
He was an incredible player for that franchise for a
really long time, helped them win their only Super Bowl
and really just had phenomenal years, you know, through for
five thousand yards multiple times and just played that game
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the right way at a high level. It's gonna be
a fun game to watch. I'm thankful that we'll be there.
Hopefully I'll get some good food, good eating in New Orleans.
That was this week's TNF preview, presented by Prime Video,
and be sure to watch this Thursday, the Broncos take
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when we start the best party in the best pregame
show in football. Tune in all right now for this
week's power rankings. And I know, I know Mitchell's out
here again.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Mitchell. Mitchell wants me to put the Detroit Lions. He
wants me to put the Detroit Lions at number one.
Not doing it.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Number one, Kansas City Chiefs number two, coming off of
bye week, still undefeated, Minnesota Vikings. I'm not taking undefeated
teams off of one and two until they lose.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Number three.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Is a debatable position that the Detroit Lions have a
very strong argument for the number three spot. They have
a tough art, They have a good argument, good argument,
really good game forty seven to nine in Dallas, Houston
Texans looked really good, but they almost lost to the
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Jacksonville Jaguars who were won and five. All Right, I
can do it. I can do it. Detroit goes three,
Houston Texans will move to five. Because if Baltimore Ravens
are starting to look like they once did look very dominant,
the combination and the duo of Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry,
I mean just it's probably everything they dreamed it would be.
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They're taking over the games, wearing defenses down. They don't
know which way to go. If you go for Derek
king Reed, Lamar's carved you. If you go for Lamar,
Derek Nrie is putting a helmet in your chest, and
then Lamar is doing it through the air as well,
through for over three hundred yards last game. So I
got the Baltimore Ravens moving up, even though they have
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two losses. They've been rolling lately, They look like the
championship team that we expected coming into this season, and
so that's who I have. At Ford to Houston, Texans
with CJ. Stroud are still sitting there at five even
though I want to put the San Francisco forty nine
ers in there. They're three and three at five hundred.
I need them to win. These next couple get over
five hundred and start looking like the contender that we
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know they are, and they'll move back in. But this
has been the Richard Sherman Podcast Monday Night Recap. I
appreciate you joining us. You could be anywhere in the world,
but you're here with us, and I dang sure appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Have it blessed, not
Speaker 1 (27:37):
The volume