Click here to subscribe and download all of the latest Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre podcasts!! On today's episode, Jason shares his thoughts on the Dallas Cowboys embarrassing home loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Monday Night Football. The Cowboys were already bad with Dak Prescott under center but they've become downright unwatchable without him. The supposed ‘best backup quarterback in the NFL’ Andy Dalton can’t hit the red side of a barn and the defense is an absolute sieve. At this point, it’s clear that the roster is fatally flawed, and Jerry Jones would be wise to consider moving on from high-priced offensive stars Ezekiel Elliott and Amari Cooper if they want to rebuild the right way. Later, Jason admits that he was dead wrong for calling Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen an MVP-caliber player a few weeks back. As soon as the schedule started to toughen up, Allen went back to being one of the most inaccurate throwers of the football in the AFC. While the Bills may still win the AFC East, it’s clear that they’re not the Super Bowl contenders some made them out to be during the first month of the season. Finally, Jason closes things out by throwing a wild hypothetical question involving two aging quarterbacks: Who would you rather have for the rest of the season: Philip Rivers or Drew Brees? J-Mac makes the case for one, and his answer may surprise you.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up, everybody?
It's Tuesday October on Straight Fire. How about that Monday
night of football? That was something? And uh, you know
they had Josh Allen totally soiling himself in the opener.
I mean, goodness, gracious, he was horrendous. Again. I can't
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believe I called this clown an m v P candidate
two weeks ago. But we're gonna get to Josh Allen
shortly because Straight Fire today. Listen, there's no best bet
because there's no football tonight, and we're gonna sink our
teeth into something. I heart radio. Basically when they signed
me on for this podcast, they were like, hey, you know,
thirty to forty minutes is pretty much a sweet spot,
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and I thought we might do an hour on Dak
Prescott and Jerry Jones and Andy Dalton and uh dumpster
fire that is the Dallas Cowboys. Folks. Listen, I know
Arizona only one thirty eight to ten, and you might think, oh,
there's a blowout. This could have been a literal Monday
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night massacre. I mean, Kyler Murray did not even play
particularly well. He completed nine passes. That's it. I don't
even know if he was throwing in the fourth quarter,
and he completed nine passes. He missed several open receivers
in the first half when they could have blown it open.
But I'm not starting with Kyler Murray and um, I'm
not gonna start with Arizona, who I think looked very good.
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I'm not gonna start with Buddha Baker. Oh my gosh,
highest paid safety in the league, and he was on fire.
He had a sack of force, bumble and an interception.
I mean he was everywhere. I think he wears thirty two.
I'm pretty sure that's what the Honey Badger war in Arizona,
and he looked like the Honey Badger all over the field.
But I'm gonna start with somebody who didn't even play
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in Monday Night Football, and that's Dak Prescott. He is
the biggest winner by far in this game that Dallas
got trucked in. Okay, it's not even close. Jerry Jones
got a glimpse of what the Cowboys look like without
Dak Prescott, and it ain't pretty. If you've listened to
this podcast for the last you know, two months, you
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know I've been reluctant to play pay Dak Prescott the
forty million dollars or close to it for a variety
of reasons. But at least when Dak was out there,
he delivered behind the garbage that is currently the Cowboys
offensive line. I know they're down there left tackle and
the right tackle and the center retired. And I think
Zack Martin went in concussion protocol last night, but Dak
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wasn't playing last night. They could have used it. But
at least when Dak was running for his life earlier
this season, he was making things happen, even if they
had to rally because they were down twenty nothing to
the Falcons, and listen, Dak is part of the reason
they were off to those slow starts. But this showing
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from Andy Dalton proves Jerry Jones, you've got to you
have to pay Dak Prescott. I don't know if you
gotta pay it forty, but you've got to back up
the Brins for Dak Prescott because I'm telling you Andy Dalton,
a guy who took the Bengals to the playoffs four times.
I was told there's not a huge drop off from
Dak to Andy Dalton. I I was. I even thought,
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you know what, Andy Dalton has been to the playoffs.
He's a veteran. It's not that big of a fall, folks.
I mean, Andy Dalton could not diagnose an ounce of
defense last night. I was worried for him. I mean
from the jump, this is a guy I believe it
was his first, maybe a second pass. He was like,
in between, should I throw it away? Am I gonna
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get hit? And it should have been picked off by
the linebacker Jordan Hicks. It would have set Arizona up
inside like the ten yard line, first and goal. Listen,
Dalton's lucky that wasn't picked of course, that led to
Zeke Elliott fumbles. But you know, people are gonna want
to blame Zeke and they're gonna want to blame Andy Dalton.
And least listen, Zeke wasn't very good. Uh, And they're
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gonna say, listen to the offensive line isn't there? Um.
And technically, the Cowboys are still on top of the
division at two and four. The NFC least where the
division winner is gonna have like six or seven wins
and be in the playoffs. Um. But the real issue, folks,
is that Jerry Jones has a terribly flawed roster and
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it makes you wonder watching that defeat where the Cowboys
defense basically just opened up like the Red Sea to
let Kenyan Drake goes sixty yards to the house. I
had him on my fantasy team. It helped. They couldn't
catch Kyler Murray. They didn't know what Kyler Murray was doing.
They actually shut down DeAndre Hopkins. But guess what, they
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didn't even need DeAndre Hopkins. The defensive Dallas was clueless. Folks.
They have given up through the first six games the
fourth most points in NFL history at that's thirties six
points a game. So let me just tell you Jerry
Jones is flawed roster. He's got the second highest paid
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running back in Ezekiel Elliott. He's got the third highest
paid receiver in a Maori Cooper, and he has nobody
on defense. His offensive lineage and shambles, and he's got
to pay his quarterback. Jerry Jones has put the Cowboys
in salary cap hell. I tried to look at this
and maybe Rob g we need to get like a
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NFL salary capologist on the show. At some point. It
looks to me like they cannot get out of Zeke's
contract until and as we've seen with oh, I don't know,
every running back in the league the last three years.
You have to just end up cutting these running backs.
Davante Freeman in Atlanta, Todd Gurley with the Rams. You've
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just got to move on after you give them this
terrible contract. You gotta cut bait and I you wonder
the two fumble performance from Zeke Elliott. Uh is he
still one of the best backs in the league. I
mean behind that offensive line, I don't know, is it
this is I'm not trying to sound mean here, is
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there's that much of a drop off right now from
Zeke Elliott to Tony Pollard when you factor in that
offensive line and Zeke salary, Like, you can't construct a
roster like this. And I was I was kind of
breaking it down on my head. I'm like, Okay, they
can't get out of Zeke Steel until. They can't get
out of a Marie Cooper's until and really with Gallup,
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I know he dropped the touchdown pass with um Ceedee
Lamb with the kids, Cedric Wilson, do you really need
a Marie Cooper. I know he's really good. But how
I mean, what did the Lions win with Megatron? We're
seeing but the Pittsburgh Steelers they dropped this kid, Chase Claypool,
and he's already his nickname is maple Tron, which I
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think is one of the best nicknames in the NFL.
And it's like Juju Smith Schuster two years ago was
the bomb and every aready loved Juju. It's like, all right,
Juju a getting paid. We got Claypool. You know, like
these wide receivers are so interchangeable, and it's starting to
look like running backs are the same deal. So there
is a quick fix. I think if you're Jerry Jones, Okay,
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next year, the left tackle Tyron Smith comes back, the
right tackle Collins comes back. If you can somehow flip
Cooper and Zeke and try to bring in three free
agents at every level. Defensive line, I mean, they needed
everywhere defensive line because they can't stop the run, they
can't get to the pastor Aldon Smith was pretty quiet
last night. Um, you're bringing a linebacker? Uh you know,
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I know Vander esh came back, Jalen Smith, and you
bring back maybe you get two guys in the secondary.
I mean, the Cowboys are just built completely wrong. It
feels like Jerry Jones is captain in the Titanic and
you can see the six or seven win Iceberg straight
in front of you, and you're heading for it. You
can't do a damn thing, and you're just gonna hit it,
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and they're gonna be stuck in this purgatory where you
pay doct mill and you've got no defense, and you
got a line, and you got an overpaid running back
in an overpaid wide receiver. You know, I looked at
this closely. Guys, if you look at how the Ravens
were built when they figured out, oh h Lamar Jackson,
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this guy is pretty damn good. Okay, okay, let's um
make sure we've got the offensive line and check got it.
Let's go get a bargain basement running back, mark Ingram.
They didn't overpay for him, good running back. Let's go
spend in free agency. Let's get let's trade for Marcus Peters.
He's expensive, but let's bring him in. He's a lockdown corner.
Let's go get Earl Thomas in the secondary. That was
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pre Orgy of course, uh, you know, legendary defensive player,
let's go on the defensive line, Calais Campbell. Yeah, let's
load up on the line and the secondary. I believe
the Ravens had the second highest paid defense in the
league right now. And look at their skill position players.
Cowboys are paying Zeke second highest, Marii Cooper third highest, receiver,
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mark Ingramain at top five. I don't even think he's
top ten paid running back and a wide receiver. Ravens
have like Marquise Brown, Willie Snead, this kid Duverney out
of Texas. You can make do at the skill positions.
If you win in the trenches, protect your quarterback, get
to the opposing quarterback. You could win that way. I
looked at the Chiefs Pat Mahomes on the rookie deal.
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Let's go get him Sammy Watkins. They're overpaid for Watkins.
He's a good receiver, high end receiver, fast guy. And
let's draft wisely. Let's get Tyreek Hill. Let's get me
Cole hard Mo. We got speed right at running back.
I mean, do they do they need to spend tons
of money. Let's go get Clyde Edwards, Hilaire Boom. You
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don't have to. You're not paying him anything, he's a rookie.
And then look at the defense. The Chiefs defense was smart.
They added the honey Badger in the secondary. They didn't
have to overpay, was it top dollar. But he's a playmaker.
He's all over the field, and they didn't pay for
an edge rusher. They're like, all right, we'll take a
chance on Frank Clark and we'll take a chance on
this guy. We'll rotate at their edges. Hopefully somebody will
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get to the pastor let's pay for Chris Jones in
the middle. Disruptive. He's not Aaron Donald, but he's not
far behind Aaron Donald. That's what the smart teams are doing.
Chiefs have a monster offensive line. The Cowboys are deeply flawed.
And folks, I hope you're ready for some Andy Dalton
in prime time because two weeks from now, Sunday Night Football,
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the Beige Water Pistol shout out to Colin Coward Andy
Dalton against the Philadelphia Eagles. I mean, that's that's gonna
be hyped because it's gonna be for first place in
the NFC least. But I don't know. I gotta say
I thought the Cowboys were pretty unwatchable. Last night. I
mean he Dalton did not look like the guy who
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got to the playoffs with the Bengals four times. They
spent lavishly on what I thought was the top three
backup quarterback in the league. And his first performance against
the Cardinals defense that really got taken to the wood
shed by Teddy Bridgewater and Matt Stafford put it on him.
And I know Buddha Baker was hurt and missed some time.
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It's not a great front seven for Arizona, and Andy
Dalton looked utterly clueless. Now, I do want to quickly
say the Cowboys have given up a hundred and thirty
seven points in the first half, most in the league.
You need a defense, Jerry. They have six turnovers inside
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their own thirty five this season that have resulted in
opponent's touchdown. They're just handing away three points. Listen, this
is a Cowboy team that a lot of people thought
would be destined for the playoffs. Maybe they were a
Super Bowl team with all those weapons. I don't know, Um,
rob g. This is a Cowboys team that I don't
think has any business going to the playoffs. And you know,
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Mike McCarthy, I don't want to say he got handed
a ship sandwich, because again, in the off season, this
team was projected for real big things and I know
they lost Dak, but when you got Andy Dalton is
a backup, I mean, rob g, this is one of
the bigger letdowns of the season. Oh, no doubt. You
know what I must say before I really get too deep.
And I think that you're being a little harsh on
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my guy, Aye Dalton, because I would make the case
that he played just as well as Kyler Murray did
last night. Uh No, yes, Kyler Murray was terrible, just
like you said. That should have been a seventy point game.
Was nine passing right, but Kyler Murray zero turnovers, okay,
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and he rushed for seventy four yards. Andy Dalton two sacks,
sorry sack three times, two interceptions and one of them
was one of them wasn't his fault, One was awful
and the other he should have been picked off in
the first quarter, like I thought, Dalton looked clueless. Michael
drop a touchdown, pa Us Michael Gallup did drop a
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TV pass um. So you're you're not in on Kyler Murray.
Huh No, I mean he's he's fine. It's just that
last night what bugged me so much about watching that game.
And I understand that when it's a game like that,
you've got to have something to kind of talk about.
And they, you know, I mean, you show us how
bad it was. They were talking about dex contract in
the middle of the third quarter. That's how bad. That's
how bad. Yeah, but you know, those guys are all
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nice guys. Like I know Louis Rick a little bit.
He's a really cool guy. But they were talking about
Kyler Murray like he was just you know, Lamar Jackson
light like you know he was he was you know,
look at the way he runs around the glory. They're
pounding the rock and it's like, are we watching the
same game? Because I feel like they should be up,
but like six touchdowns right now and it's three. So
then that was just my only issue with that. That
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Andie Dalton, uh, you know, he's a backup for a reason.
And Zeke didn't do any favors. But one stat that
I think tells a big story about what the Dallas
Cowboys have become this season. Last night, they allowed twenty
four points off the turnovers. Like we talked about it,
it was rough. They've already allowed a league high eighty
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four points off the turnovers. Next second highest in the
league is fifty two, So they're thirty two points more
than any other team in the NFL. And to me,
I understand Dax Hurt, you know, and Dak I think
is an upper half of the NFL quarterback, but Mike
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McCarthy has just been a complete and utter dumpster fire.
You brought up the fact that they are last in
the league right in the first half. Was that that
that that's that you had the first therapy on score?
Does that not tell you that they are not preparing
at all for any of these games. They are not
ready to start off a game by any church if
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you imagine. And it's the flip side of Anthony Lynn,
who we talked about May about a week and a
half ago. Justin Herbert Lights teams up in the first
half because they're well prepared. Their script is good, they
have a game plan going and where they want to attack.
Their issue is they can't adjust anybody Mike McCarthy. And
this is something that Aaron Rodgers pointed out when he
was back in Green Bay. He's he's a fossil at
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this point, he he doesn't have any movement on his offense.
There's no motion. They don't do anything creative. It's just, hey,
let's hope my guys beat your guys and let's see
what happens on offense. Interesting And then on defense, just
like you said, they invested all of their money in
positions that don't matter, like they're they're they're big money guys.
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On defense are two linebackers and DeMarcus Lawrence, who as
soon as he got paid, like I ain't showing up
And it's just disappointing. And going back to Mike McCarthy
and I'm kind of going over the place, you know
what he said after the game to the local Dallas
media on the zoom when they asked him what he
thought about the game and what was he said coming
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into this game? I felt like it was the most
prepared we had been all season. And well, I mean, listen, again,
maybe he's right, but what can you do about the
two Zeke fumbles? Like, I mean, again, they didn't look tremendous,
but Zeke coughs it up twice, and you put yourself
in the behind the eight ball like that, Like I
get what you're saying about McCarthy, and I remember before
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he got the job, he didn't he Isn't he the
guy who put together some incredible binder where he did
like an entire tour of the NFL and he was like,
look at how much I've been studying the smart teams,
and I'm pretty sure he put together this real big
dossier on how he was going to change, and Jerry
Jones was like blown away and I don't know that
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the fire the higher has like blown up in his face.
But um, you're right, McCarthy, these slow starts are are
really killing. It looks like a team that's kind of
ill prepared. Would you have ever expected to say, you
know what, they would have been better off with Jason
Garrett exactly? But I promise you I think that they
were a better team with Jason Garrett for for all
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the ship that he takes, and rightfully so, because I
don't think he's a good coach either. They they weren't
that good, but they weren't this bad either. They were
consistently mediocre team. I wonder if McCarthy can go to
Jerry and say, you know what, you know, we started
the season with five offensive lineman the center retired. I
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lose both my tackles before week six? I mean, what
do you expect me to do? Who could win with that?
Then my quarterback goes down Like it's a tall order
for anybody. I don't think McCarthy's in line to get
fired or anything like that, although the kid, Mike Nolan,
the defensive coordinator, he might get got sooner than later.
I mean, you know, Jerry Jones wants scalps um, but yeah,
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Dallas is a disaster. You know what Jerry Jones to
say if if Mike McCarthy comes to him like that, say, oh, yeah,
did you see what happened to the Eagles and look
how they're doing. Yeah, Carson Wentz has him and his
starting center and that's it. Yeah that that's Listen that
game Thursday night, Eagles Giants. By the way, quick note
before we get to Josh Allen. So, the big news
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on Monday was zach Ertz is now out like three
or four weeks. Gonna have to drop him from my
fantasy team. And Miles Sanders, the running back who has
back to back weeks with the seventy yard carries, a dynamic,
explosive player, he's out for two weeks. So it looks
like Carson Wentz is gonna be going into a must
win game on Thursday Night football short week against the
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Giants with neither of his two tight ends, who started
the season without his number one running back in Miles Sanders.
I don't know if that's gonna be winnable if DeShawn
Jackson and al Sean Jeffrey and all them aren't there
for the Gamblers out there, the line was six six
and a half. It dropped to three and a half
on these injuries. Eagles are beat up. We'll get into
that game much more tomorrow. Um, but this NFC East
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is like, can we please stop talking about this division?
Maybe Rob G, maybe we could start to talk about
the Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen. Um, I'm a little embarrassed, folks. Listen,
this isn't as bad as when I said the Chiefs
could go undefeated and the Chiefs come out and lose
the next week. This isn't that bad. But after Josh
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Allen carved up Rob G's Raiders, you know Josh Allen
was off to that hot start. I said, dang, this
guy's pretty damn good. Josh Allen holy kill. He's an
MVP candidate. And you know it's early in the season
where I was looking for m VP candidates and Josh
Allen certainly, I mean again, there's under it's there's there's
no denying it. Josh Allen looked very good in the
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first four weeks. He was facing the Jets and the
Miami Dolphins and the Rams on a back to back
East Coast um travel spot and the Raiders, and he
looked great. And the last two times out, Josh Allen,
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I mean you could plot this on a graph. Every
stat measurable, He's gone down. Completion percentage, It's like falling
off a cliff, interceptions ticking way up. Qb R goodbye,
uh quarterback rating see you. I mean he has looked dreadful. Now.
I know that Josh Allen defenders and by the way,
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Freddie Buffalo Bills fans listening hashtag bills mafia, Um, y'all
are crazy because as soon as you blast, as soon
as I blast Josh Allen on social media, it's the
jet stink. Yeah, no ship Sherlock, I get it, the
jet stink. I know what about Josh Allen. And I
can't stand when people do that. I have a cousin
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that I text with a lot um about politics, and
I'm trying to help him see the light on some stuff,
and he does that all the time. I'll be like, man,
did you see this story? He's like, yeah, but what
about this? I'm like, what are we gonna do it?
We're gonna talk about one thing or the other. Bills
Fans don't want to hear how bad Josh Allen has
been the last two weeks. This is a fact. Josh
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Allen was great the first four weeks. This is also
a fact. Again, it's playoff teams in the last two weeks,
and not playoff teams with great defenses either, the Tennessee
Titans and the Kansas City Chiefs. And Josh Allen has
looked below average. He's looked pedestrian, and he was, you know,
in the deep end and he needed, you know, some help.
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Somebody throw that man a life preserver, get a lifeguard in,
or save him. I mean, Josh Allen looked totally lost
out there and against the Raiders. I'll never forget saying
this on the podcast a couple of month days ago.
Josh Allen doesn't even need to run he's so winning
from the pocket. Josh Allen scribbled eight times for forty
two yards, back running again when all else fails. I
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mean it looked like, you know, I wasn't an advocate
of throwing in the rain as much as he did,
but you know, I think he was like incomplete sailed
on him, dropped, dropped, and at that point you're like, bro,
he's over five. Can we can we can we pound
Singletary and Moss here and Alan just I mean he
looked lost, totally lost. Um, I don't know. I mean,
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I'm not totally selling the Bills, but the defense stinks.
They can never get a key stop and guess what,
there's no help on the way. Just because the linebacker
Matt Mulano missed the game, it doesn't mean that they're
going to go to the super Bowl. I'm sorry, he's
not the answer with what ails that defense. If you
look closely on Monday, they benched and deactivated two guys
who had started, and they brought up two guys from
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the practice squad to like send a message, Bro, you're
facing Pat Mahomes and you're bringing up guys off the
practice squad. Mahomes, I mean he might as well have
worn a tuxedo in the rain. Data couldn't breathe on him.
Mahomes doing whatever he wanted. He's the best quarterback in
the league. And Um, I'm out. I'm out right now.
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On the Buffalo Bills, I just I don't see it. Um,
let me check the Buffalo Bills schedule right here to
see if they can bounce back anytime soon. They do, have,
you know, a couple more games, one more game against
the Jets. Oh, it's actually this week. They get the
Jets this week. Hey, Jets haven't fired at him gaze
as we record this podcast, so that means Sam Donald
probably not gonna start. Um, Bills have the Jets, the Patriots,
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the Seahawks, the Cardinals. Roof, they could lose three of
those four games. I don't really know what to make
of the Patriots. They may be a topic tomorrow, UM
on the pod. I'm kind of in a weird zone
with the Patriots. Rob G, do you have any vibe
on them? This is the first time and I think
eighteen years under Belichick they've been under five hundred after
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five weeks. Well, my vibe on the Patriots is that
it's clear they need practice. Yeah, you know, Cam Newton
showed up late. You know, he was a late acquisition.
He gets COVID. They were looking good, actually they started
off the season. I thought that they had you know, redone.
Their entire offense around Cam was looking great. And then
you saw how terrible Brian Hoyer and Jared's they don't
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were against the Chiefs. But defensively they were fine. I
think even last game against the Broncos, defensively they were fine.
They look like a guy a team who hadn't had
their quarterback in three weeks. So, you know, it is
what he said. Sure, I'm sure I still have them
winning that division. So interesting now I wonder, let me
this is a bit of a challenge. So the Bills
are four and two and they have a negative point
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differential as the leader. Um, the a f C East stinks,
it has the worst team in the league. My Jets,
and um, the NFC East is like, oh my gosh.
If you look at the point differentials, everybody is thirty
or more points negative, meaning they're getting blown out. Now,
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I'm just gonna you know, we're gonna talk about this
game more that Eagles game. I just want to say,
as bad as the Cowboys looked. And you guys still
think they're gonna win the division. Just know the last
two weeks, the Eagles have fought tooth and nail with
nobody on offense. They nearly covered against the Steelers. I mean,
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they ended up losing by nine on a late touchdown,
but it was in the fourth quarter, and they fought
hard and rallied against the Ravens and lost by two.
They couldn't convert a two point conversion which never had
a chance. It was a terrible job by Carson Wentz.
The Steelers and the Ravens are combined ten and one,
and the Eagles fought them hard. And I if you
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had to ask me right now, I would take the
Philadelphia Eagles to win that division. Um. They have the
best quarterback. Um. I don't know what that that's saying
in this division. I mean, Kyle Allen is starting for Washington,
Andy Dalton is in Dallas, and Danny Dimes is somehow
clean to his job with New York. Um. Yeah, they
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have the best quarterback and they should win that division. Um.
I've seen enough of the a f C East. I'm sorry,
Rob g. We didn't drill down on this Monday. But
the Patriots are like unwatchable. I know that game against
Seattle was funds because they have no defense, but like
New England, they were reduced to gimmick plays in the
fourth quarter to move the ball against Denver. Miami could
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be the most interesting team there. Buffalo, by the way,
we just, I just, you know, took a dump on
Josh Allen. Sorry about that. We know the Jets are unwatchable.
Miami could be the most interesting team in that division.
Interesting and the best team are two different things. So yeah, yeah,
this is also true. Let me just bring your full
circle here. I know you just you just took a
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dump all over Josh Allen. Tell me if Josh Allen
in and the Bills as a whole is not giving
you Dallas Cowboys vibe where they get out hot against
the really soft schedule and then as soon as things
kind of tighten up, be like, oh, they're not as
good as I thought they were. Thank you merriating on you.
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We'll let you marry. Maybe later in the week we'll
get into it a little bit again. But this feels
like a nineteen Cowboys. Just look schedule for for Josh
Allen later in the season ended. Let's start in December
at Sanford in which could be healthy by then. Versus Pittsburgh,
he may get killed, although he did beat Pittsburgh and
their sorry quarterbacks last year in Pittsburgh cost me money.
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At Denver, which all of a sudden has like an
interesting defense at Bill Belichick. I'm not gonna say New
Englang is Belichick and then versus Miami, so yeah, they
that you could be onto something, all right. I want
to wrop up the podcast Rob g with this. So
I'm such a nerd, and you know, I'm probably a
little over extending myself into this gambling stuff. But I
didn't get a chance to watch a lot of Colts
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Bengals Sunday, so I was really reading about it and
digging in and then I noticed this. Philip Rivers through
for three seventy one yards and three touchdowns against the Bengals.
And I know it's the Bengals, but this is a
week after everybody and their mom said Philip Rivers was
washed because of a bad pick six, a safety and
an ugly performance on the road in Cleveland. I asked
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this on social media and people listening who haven't seen it.
I don't want heads to explode. I think it's a
legit question given what we've seen of Drew Brees in
the last two years. As the season grows on, he
he tends to create her and the arm gets weaker,
and by December you're like, man, this guy I don't
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know who? And then in the playoffs he's really laid
in egg. Who would you rather have rob g the
rest of this season, Drew Brees or Philip Rivers. And
let me just quickly make the case for Rivers. He's
in a new offense. Uh he has familiarity with Reich
and the quarterback guy pet Hamilton's um and he's got
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all these sketchy skill position players, a rookie running back
Trey Burton at tight end, uh old t Y Hilton.
That other two receivers are injured, Rivers or Brees, Who
you got? I would go with Drew Brees because I
trust his weapons around him more I trust Alvin Camaro,
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who is leading my fantasies. Only reason I lost a
week because he didn't play that apparent diva, Michael Thomas.
I think that those two guys alone, well athletic report
it was yeah, yeah, that was a fun episode. It
was a Mike Thomas hit piece. But no, I think that, Uh,
Philip Rivers. I've seen enough of Philip Rivers in the
n f C West. He is he has been washed
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now for like three straight seasons. And I know that
the the Colts have a good offensive line, and I
think that's where they're gonna lean on near towards the end.
They're also in I think a weaker division, but um,
out of those two, I'd rather have Drew Brees. And
I think the weaker division is what leads me to
say that. I just want to say, Drew Brees. You
know they got the first place schedule because they were
so so strong last year. Okay, in the coming weeks,
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that Chicago defense, that Tampa defense, We'll see what San
Francisco has, the Denver defense, the Philly front. Um, there
are some land mines for Drew Brees up ahead. This
could again. I'm not saying he's gonna get benched, but
rob g you watch that game against the Chargers. They
were downe I think twenty three, and it was like,
all right, wednesdaysom Hill or Jamis Winston warming up. And
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I think we're gonna see that as this season progresses,
I don't think we're gonna see that with Rivers. I
know the media is wondering about Jacoby Bricepte, but I
think Drew Brees is more likely to get benched than
Philip Rivers. If by bench do you mean that they'll
put in a gadget play for Taysom Hill that will
go nowhere, then yes, he is more likely to get benched. Alright,
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that'll wrap up the podcast for Tuesday, folks. We will
be back tomorrow. We got a really good guest lined
up tomorrow and uh, we'll talk to you then
This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up, everybody?
It's Tuesday October on Straight Fire. How about that Monday
night of football? That was something? And uh, you know
they had Josh Allen totally soiling himself in the opener.
I mean, goodness, gracious, he was horrendous. Again. I can't
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believe I called this clown an m v P candidate
two weeks ago. But we're gonna get to Josh Allen
shortly because Straight Fire today. Listen, there's no best bet
because there's no football tonight, and we're gonna sink our
teeth into something. I heart radio. Basically when they signed
me on for this podcast, they were like, hey, you know,
thirty to forty minutes is pretty much a sweet spot,
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and I thought we might do an hour on Dak
Prescott and Jerry Jones and Andy Dalton and uh dumpster
fire that is the Dallas Cowboys. Folks. Listen, I know
Arizona only one thirty eight to ten, and you might think, oh,
there's a blowout. This could have been a literal Monday
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night massacre. I mean, Kyler Murray did not even play
particularly well. He completed nine passes. That's it. I don't
even know if he was throwing in the fourth quarter,
and he completed nine passes. He missed several open receivers
in the first half when they could have blown it open.
But I'm not starting with Kyler Murray and um, I'm
not gonna start with Arizona, who I think looked very good.
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I'm not gonna start with Buddha Baker. Oh my gosh,
highest paid safety in the league, and he was on fire.
He had a sack of force, bumble and an interception.
I mean he was everywhere. I think he wears thirty two.
I'm pretty sure that's what the Honey Badger war in Arizona,
and he looked like the Honey Badger all over the field.
But I'm gonna start with somebody who didn't even play
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in Monday Night Football, and that's Dak Prescott. He is
the biggest winner by far in this game that Dallas
got trucked in. Okay, it's not even close. Jerry Jones
got a glimpse of what the Cowboys look like without
Dak Prescott, and it ain't pretty. If you've listened to
this podcast for the last you know, two months, you
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know I've been reluctant to play pay Dak Prescott the
forty million dollars or close to it for a variety
of reasons. But at least when Dak was out there,
he delivered behind the garbage that is currently the Cowboys
offensive line. I know they're down there left tackle and
the right tackle and the center retired. And I think
Zack Martin went in concussion protocol last night, but Dak
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wasn't playing last night. They could have used it. But
at least when Dak was running for his life earlier
this season, he was making things happen, even if they
had to rally because they were down twenty nothing to
the Falcons, and listen, Dak is part of the reason
they were off to those slow starts. But this showing
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from Andy Dalton proves Jerry Jones, you've got to you
have to pay Dak Prescott. I don't know if you
gotta pay it forty, but you've got to back up
the Brins for Dak Prescott because I'm telling you Andy Dalton,
a guy who took the Bengals to the playoffs four times.
I was told there's not a huge drop off from
Dak to Andy Dalton. I I was. I even thought,
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you know what, Andy Dalton has been to the playoffs.
He's a veteran. It's not that big of a fall, folks.
I mean, Andy Dalton could not diagnose an ounce of
defense last night. I was worried for him. I mean
from the jump, this is a guy I believe it
was his first, maybe a second pass. He was like,
in between, should I throw it away? Am I gonna
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get hit? And it should have been picked off by
the linebacker Jordan Hicks. It would have set Arizona up
inside like the ten yard line, first and goal. Listen,
Dalton's lucky that wasn't picked of course, that led to
Zeke Elliott fumbles. But you know, people are gonna want
to blame Zeke and they're gonna want to blame Andy Dalton.
And least listen, Zeke wasn't very good. Uh, And they're
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gonna say, listen to the offensive line isn't there? Um.
And technically, the Cowboys are still on top of the
division at two and four. The NFC least where the
division winner is gonna have like six or seven wins
and be in the playoffs. Um. But the real issue, folks,
is that Jerry Jones has a terribly flawed roster and
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it makes you wonder watching that defeat where the Cowboys
defense basically just opened up like the Red Sea to
let Kenyan Drake goes sixty yards to the house. I
had him on my fantasy team. It helped. They couldn't
catch Kyler Murray. They didn't know what Kyler Murray was doing.
They actually shut down DeAndre Hopkins. But guess what, they
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didn't even need DeAndre Hopkins. The defensive Dallas was clueless. Folks.
They have given up through the first six games the
fourth most points in NFL history at that's thirties six
points a game. So let me just tell you Jerry
Jones is flawed roster. He's got the second highest paid
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running back in Ezekiel Elliott. He's got the third highest
paid receiver in a Maori Cooper, and he has nobody
on defense. His offensive lineage and shambles, and he's got
to pay his quarterback. Jerry Jones has put the Cowboys
in salary cap hell. I tried to look at this
and maybe Rob g we need to get like a
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NFL salary capologist on the show. At some point. It
looks to me like they cannot get out of Zeke's
contract until and as we've seen with oh, I don't know,
every running back in the league the last three years.
You have to just end up cutting these running backs.
Davante Freeman in Atlanta, Todd Gurley with the Rams. You've
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just got to move on after you give them this
terrible contract. You gotta cut bait and I you wonder
the two fumble performance from Zeke Elliott. Uh is he
still one of the best backs in the league. I
mean behind that offensive line, I don't know, is it
this is I'm not trying to sound mean here, is
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there's that much of a drop off right now from
Zeke Elliott to Tony Pollard when you factor in that
offensive line and Zeke salary, Like, you can't construct a
roster like this. And I was I was kind of
breaking it down on my head. I'm like, Okay, they
can't get out of Zeke Steel until. They can't get
out of a Marie Cooper's until and really with Gallup,
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I know he dropped the touchdown pass with um Ceedee
Lamb with the kids, Cedric Wilson, do you really need
a Marie Cooper. I know he's really good. But how
I mean, what did the Lions win with Megatron? We're
seeing but the Pittsburgh Steelers they dropped this kid, Chase Claypool,
and he's already his nickname is maple Tron, which I
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think is one of the best nicknames in the NFL.
And it's like Juju Smith Schuster two years ago was
the bomb and every aready loved Juju. It's like, all right,
Juju a getting paid. We got Claypool. You know, like
these wide receivers are so interchangeable, and it's starting to
look like running backs are the same deal. So there
is a quick fix. I think if you're Jerry Jones, Okay,
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next year, the left tackle Tyron Smith comes back, the
right tackle Collins comes back. If you can somehow flip
Cooper and Zeke and try to bring in three free
agents at every level. Defensive line, I mean, they needed
everywhere defensive line because they can't stop the run, they
can't get to the pastor Aldon Smith was pretty quiet
last night. Um, you're bringing a linebacker? Uh you know,
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I know Vander esh came back, Jalen Smith, and you
bring back maybe you get two guys in the secondary.
I mean, the Cowboys are just built completely wrong. It
feels like Jerry Jones is captain in the Titanic and
you can see the six or seven win Iceberg straight
in front of you, and you're heading for it. You
can't do a damn thing, and you're just gonna hit it,
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and they're gonna be stuck in this purgatory where you
pay doct mill and you've got no defense, and you
got a line, and you got an overpaid running back
in an overpaid wide receiver. You know, I looked at
this closely. Guys, if you look at how the Ravens
were built when they figured out, oh h Lamar Jackson,
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this guy is pretty damn good. Okay, okay, let's um
make sure we've got the offensive line and check got it.
Let's go get a bargain basement running back, mark Ingram.
They didn't overpay for him, good running back. Let's go
spend in free agency. Let's get let's trade for Marcus Peters.
He's expensive, but let's bring him in. He's a lockdown corner.
Let's go get Earl Thomas in the secondary. That was
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pre Orgy of course, uh, you know, legendary defensive player,
let's go on the defensive line, Calais Campbell. Yeah, let's
load up on the line and the secondary. I believe
the Ravens had the second highest paid defense in the
league right now. And look at their skill position players.
Cowboys are paying Zeke second highest, Marii Cooper third highest, receiver,
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mark Ingramain at top five. I don't even think he's
top ten paid running back and a wide receiver. Ravens
have like Marquise Brown, Willie Snead, this kid Duverney out
of Texas. You can make do at the skill positions.
If you win in the trenches, protect your quarterback, get
to the opposing quarterback. You could win that way. I
looked at the Chiefs Pat Mahomes on the rookie deal.
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Let's go get him Sammy Watkins. They're overpaid for Watkins.
He's a good receiver, high end receiver, fast guy. And
let's draft wisely. Let's get Tyreek Hill. Let's get me
Cole hard Mo. We got speed right at running back.
I mean, do they do they need to spend tons
of money. Let's go get Clyde Edwards, Hilaire Boom. You
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don't have to. You're not paying him anything, he's a rookie.
And then look at the defense. The Chiefs defense was smart.
They added the honey Badger in the secondary. They didn't
have to overpay, was it top dollar. But he's a playmaker.
He's all over the field, and they didn't pay for
an edge rusher. They're like, all right, we'll take a
chance on Frank Clark and we'll take a chance on
this guy. We'll rotate at their edges. Hopefully somebody will
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get to the pastor let's pay for Chris Jones in
the middle. Disruptive. He's not Aaron Donald, but he's not
far behind Aaron Donald. That's what the smart teams are doing.
Chiefs have a monster offensive line. The Cowboys are deeply flawed.
And folks, I hope you're ready for some Andy Dalton
in prime time because two weeks from now, Sunday Night Football,
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the Beige Water Pistol shout out to Colin Coward Andy
Dalton against the Philadelphia Eagles. I mean, that's that's gonna
be hyped because it's gonna be for first place in
the NFC least. But I don't know. I gotta say
I thought the Cowboys were pretty unwatchable. Last night. I
mean he Dalton did not look like the guy who
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got to the playoffs with the Bengals four times. They
spent lavishly on what I thought was the top three
backup quarterback in the league. And his first performance against
the Cardinals defense that really got taken to the wood
shed by Teddy Bridgewater and Matt Stafford put it on him.
And I know Buddha Baker was hurt and missed some time.
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It's not a great front seven for Arizona, and Andy
Dalton looked utterly clueless. Now, I do want to quickly
say the Cowboys have given up a hundred and thirty
seven points in the first half, most in the league.
You need a defense, Jerry. They have six turnovers inside
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their own thirty five this season that have resulted in
opponent's touchdown. They're just handing away three points. Listen, this
is a Cowboy team that a lot of people thought
would be destined for the playoffs. Maybe they were a
Super Bowl team with all those weapons. I don't know, Um,
rob g. This is a Cowboys team that I don't
think has any business going to the playoffs. And you know,
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Mike McCarthy, I don't want to say he got handed
a ship sandwich, because again, in the off season, this
team was projected for real big things and I know
they lost Dak, but when you got Andy Dalton is
a backup, I mean, rob g, this is one of
the bigger letdowns of the season. Oh, no doubt. You
know what I must say before I really get too deep.
And I think that you're being a little harsh on
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my guy, Aye Dalton, because I would make the case
that he played just as well as Kyler Murray did
last night. Uh No, yes, Kyler Murray was terrible, just
like you said. That should have been a seventy point game.
Was nine passing right, but Kyler Murray zero turnovers, okay,
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and he rushed for seventy four yards. Andy Dalton two sacks,
sorry sack three times, two interceptions and one of them
was one of them wasn't his fault, One was awful
and the other he should have been picked off in
the first quarter, like I thought, Dalton looked clueless. Michael
drop a touchdown, pa Us Michael Gallup did drop a
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TV pass um. So you're you're not in on Kyler Murray.
Huh No, I mean he's he's fine. It's just that
last night what bugged me so much about watching that game.
And I understand that when it's a game like that,
you've got to have something to kind of talk about.
And they, you know, I mean, you show us how
bad it was. They were talking about dex contract in
the middle of the third quarter. That's how bad. That's
how bad. Yeah, but you know, those guys are all
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nice guys. Like I know Louis Rick a little bit.
He's a really cool guy. But they were talking about
Kyler Murray like he was just you know, Lamar Jackson
light like you know he was he was you know,
look at the way he runs around the glory. They're
pounding the rock and it's like, are we watching the
same game? Because I feel like they should be up,
but like six touchdowns right now and it's three. So
then that was just my only issue with that. That
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Andie Dalton, uh, you know, he's a backup for a reason.
And Zeke didn't do any favors. But one stat that
I think tells a big story about what the Dallas
Cowboys have become this season. Last night, they allowed twenty
four points off the turnovers. Like we talked about it,
it was rough. They've already allowed a league high eighty
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four points off the turnovers. Next second highest in the
league is fifty two, So they're thirty two points more
than any other team in the NFL. And to me,
I understand Dax Hurt, you know, and Dak I think
is an upper half of the NFL quarterback, but Mike
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McCarthy has just been a complete and utter dumpster fire.
You brought up the fact that they are last in
the league right in the first half. Was that that
that that's that you had the first therapy on score?
Does that not tell you that they are not preparing
at all for any of these games. They are not
ready to start off a game by any church if
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you imagine. And it's the flip side of Anthony Lynn,
who we talked about May about a week and a
half ago. Justin Herbert Lights teams up in the first
half because they're well prepared. Their script is good, they
have a game plan going and where they want to attack.
Their issue is they can't adjust anybody Mike McCarthy. And
this is something that Aaron Rodgers pointed out when he
was back in Green Bay. He's he's a fossil at
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this point, he he doesn't have any movement on his offense.
There's no motion. They don't do anything creative. It's just, hey,
let's hope my guys beat your guys and let's see
what happens on offense. Interesting And then on defense, just
like you said, they invested all of their money in
positions that don't matter, like they're they're they're big money guys.
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On defense are two linebackers and DeMarcus Lawrence, who as
soon as he got paid, like I ain't showing up
And it's just disappointing. And going back to Mike McCarthy
and I'm kind of going over the place, you know
what he said after the game to the local Dallas
media on the zoom when they asked him what he
thought about the game and what was he said coming
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into this game? I felt like it was the most
prepared we had been all season. And well, I mean, listen, again,
maybe he's right, but what can you do about the
two Zeke fumbles? Like, I mean, again, they didn't look tremendous,
but Zeke coughs it up twice, and you put yourself
in the behind the eight ball like that, Like I
get what you're saying about McCarthy, and I remember before
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he got the job, he didn't he Isn't he the
guy who put together some incredible binder where he did
like an entire tour of the NFL and he was like,
look at how much I've been studying the smart teams,
and I'm pretty sure he put together this real big
dossier on how he was going to change, and Jerry
Jones was like blown away and I don't know that
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the fire the higher has like blown up in his face.
But um, you're right, McCarthy, these slow starts are are
really killing. It looks like a team that's kind of
ill prepared. Would you have ever expected to say, you
know what, they would have been better off with Jason
Garrett exactly? But I promise you I think that they
were a better team with Jason Garrett for for all
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the ship that he takes, and rightfully so, because I
don't think he's a good coach either. They they weren't
that good, but they weren't this bad either. They were
consistently mediocre team. I wonder if McCarthy can go to
Jerry and say, you know what, you know, we started
the season with five offensive lineman the center retired. I
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lose both my tackles before week six? I mean, what
do you expect me to do? Who could win with that?
Then my quarterback goes down Like it's a tall order
for anybody. I don't think McCarthy's in line to get
fired or anything like that, although the kid, Mike Nolan,
the defensive coordinator, he might get got sooner than later.
I mean, you know, Jerry Jones wants scalps um, but yeah,
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Dallas is a disaster. You know what Jerry Jones to
say if if Mike McCarthy comes to him like that, say, oh, yeah,
did you see what happened to the Eagles and look
how they're doing. Yeah, Carson Wentz has him and his
starting center and that's it. Yeah that that's Listen that
game Thursday night, Eagles Giants. By the way, quick note
before we get to Josh Allen. So, the big news
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on Monday was zach Ertz is now out like three
or four weeks. Gonna have to drop him from my
fantasy team. And Miles Sanders, the running back who has
back to back weeks with the seventy yard carries, a dynamic,
explosive player, he's out for two weeks. So it looks
like Carson Wentz is gonna be going into a must
win game on Thursday Night football short week against the
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Giants with neither of his two tight ends, who started
the season without his number one running back in Miles Sanders.
I don't know if that's gonna be winnable if DeShawn
Jackson and al Sean Jeffrey and all them aren't there
for the Gamblers out there, the line was six six
and a half. It dropped to three and a half
on these injuries. Eagles are beat up. We'll get into
that game much more tomorrow. Um, but this NFC East
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is like, can we please stop talking about this division?
Maybe Rob G, maybe we could start to talk about
the Buffalo Bills and Josh Allen. Um, I'm a little embarrassed, folks. Listen,
this isn't as bad as when I said the Chiefs
could go undefeated and the Chiefs come out and lose
the next week. This isn't that bad. But after Josh
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Allen carved up Rob G's Raiders, you know Josh Allen
was off to that hot start. I said, dang, this
guy's pretty damn good. Josh Allen holy kill. He's an
MVP candidate. And you know it's early in the season
where I was looking for m VP candidates and Josh
Allen certainly, I mean again, there's under it's there's there's
no denying it. Josh Allen looked very good in the
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first four weeks. He was facing the Jets and the
Miami Dolphins and the Rams on a back to back
East Coast um travel spot and the Raiders, and he
looked great. And the last two times out, Josh Allen,
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I mean you could plot this on a graph. Every
stat measurable, He's gone down. Completion percentage, It's like falling
off a cliff, interceptions ticking way up. Qb R goodbye,
uh quarterback rating see you. I mean he has looked dreadful. Now.
I know that Josh Allen defenders and by the way,
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Freddie Buffalo Bills fans listening hashtag bills mafia, Um, y'all
are crazy because as soon as you blast, as soon
as I blast Josh Allen on social media, it's the
jet stink. Yeah, no ship Sherlock, I get it, the
jet stink. I know what about Josh Allen. And I
can't stand when people do that. I have a cousin
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that I text with a lot um about politics, and
I'm trying to help him see the light on some stuff,
and he does that all the time. I'll be like, man,
did you see this story? He's like, yeah, but what
about this? I'm like, what are we gonna do it?
We're gonna talk about one thing or the other. Bills
Fans don't want to hear how bad Josh Allen has
been the last two weeks. This is a fact. Josh
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Allen was great the first four weeks. This is also
a fact. Again, it's playoff teams in the last two weeks,
and not playoff teams with great defenses either, the Tennessee
Titans and the Kansas City Chiefs. And Josh Allen has
looked below average. He's looked pedestrian, and he was, you know,
in the deep end and he needed, you know, some help.
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Somebody throw that man a life preserver, get a lifeguard in,
or save him. I mean, Josh Allen looked totally lost
out there and against the Raiders. I'll never forget saying
this on the podcast a couple of month days ago.
Josh Allen doesn't even need to run he's so winning
from the pocket. Josh Allen scribbled eight times for forty
two yards, back running again when all else fails. I
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mean it looked like, you know, I wasn't an advocate
of throwing in the rain as much as he did,
but you know, I think he was like incomplete sailed
on him, dropped, dropped, and at that point you're like, bro,
he's over five. Can we can we can we pound
Singletary and Moss here and Alan just I mean he
looked lost, totally lost. Um, I don't know. I mean,
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I'm not totally selling the Bills, but the defense stinks.
They can never get a key stop and guess what,
there's no help on the way. Just because the linebacker
Matt Mulano missed the game, it doesn't mean that they're
going to go to the super Bowl. I'm sorry, he's
not the answer with what ails that defense. If you
look closely on Monday, they benched and deactivated two guys
who had started, and they brought up two guys from
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the practice squad to like send a message, Bro, you're
facing Pat Mahomes and you're bringing up guys off the
practice squad. Mahomes, I mean he might as well have
worn a tuxedo in the rain. Data couldn't breathe on him.
Mahomes doing whatever he wanted. He's the best quarterback in
the league. And Um, I'm out. I'm out right now.
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On the Buffalo Bills, I just I don't see it. Um,
let me check the Buffalo Bills schedule right here to
see if they can bounce back anytime soon. They do, have,
you know, a couple more games, one more game against
the Jets. Oh, it's actually this week. They get the
Jets this week. Hey, Jets haven't fired at him gaze
as we record this podcast, so that means Sam Donald
probably not gonna start. Um, Bills have the Jets, the Patriots,
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the Seahawks, the Cardinals. Roof, they could lose three of
those four games. I don't really know what to make
of the Patriots. They may be a topic tomorrow, UM
on the pod. I'm kind of in a weird zone
with the Patriots. Rob G, do you have any vibe
on them? This is the first time and I think
eighteen years under Belichick they've been under five hundred after
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five weeks. Well, my vibe on the Patriots is that
it's clear they need practice. Yeah, you know, Cam Newton
showed up late. You know, he was a late acquisition.
He gets COVID. They were looking good, actually they started
off the season. I thought that they had you know, redone.
Their entire offense around Cam was looking great. And then
you saw how terrible Brian Hoyer and Jared's they don't
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were against the Chiefs. But defensively they were fine. I
think even last game against the Broncos, defensively they were fine.
They look like a guy a team who hadn't had
their quarterback in three weeks. So, you know, it is
what he said. Sure, I'm sure I still have them
winning that division. So interesting now I wonder, let me
this is a bit of a challenge. So the Bills
are four and two and they have a negative point
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differential as the leader. Um, the a f C East stinks,
it has the worst team in the league. My Jets,
and um, the NFC East is like, oh my gosh.
If you look at the point differentials, everybody is thirty
or more points negative, meaning they're getting blown out. Now,
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I'm just gonna you know, we're gonna talk about this
game more that Eagles game. I just want to say,
as bad as the Cowboys looked. And you guys still
think they're gonna win the division. Just know the last
two weeks, the Eagles have fought tooth and nail with
nobody on offense. They nearly covered against the Steelers. I mean,
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they ended up losing by nine on a late touchdown,
but it was in the fourth quarter, and they fought
hard and rallied against the Ravens and lost by two.
They couldn't convert a two point conversion which never had
a chance. It was a terrible job by Carson Wentz.
The Steelers and the Ravens are combined ten and one,
and the Eagles fought them hard. And I if you
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had to ask me right now, I would take the
Philadelphia Eagles to win that division. Um. They have the
best quarterback. Um. I don't know what that that's saying
in this division. I mean, Kyle Allen is starting for Washington,
Andy Dalton is in Dallas, and Danny Dimes is somehow
clean to his job with New York. Um. Yeah, they
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have the best quarterback and they should win that division. Um.
I've seen enough of the a f C East. I'm sorry,
Rob g. We didn't drill down on this Monday. But
the Patriots are like unwatchable. I know that game against
Seattle was funds because they have no defense, but like
New England, they were reduced to gimmick plays in the
fourth quarter to move the ball against Denver. Miami could
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be the most interesting team there. Buffalo, by the way,
we just, I just, you know, took a dump on
Josh Allen. Sorry about that. We know the Jets are unwatchable.
Miami could be the most interesting team in that division.
Interesting and the best team are two different things. So yeah, yeah,
this is also true. Let me just bring your full
circle here. I know you just you just took a
(26:25):
dump all over Josh Allen. Tell me if Josh Allen
in and the Bills as a whole is not giving
you Dallas Cowboys vibe where they get out hot against
the really soft schedule and then as soon as things
kind of tighten up, be like, oh, they're not as
good as I thought they were. Thank you merriating on you.
(26:46):
We'll let you marry. Maybe later in the week we'll
get into it a little bit again. But this feels
like a nineteen Cowboys. Just look schedule for for Josh
Allen later in the season ended. Let's start in December
at Sanford in which could be healthy by then. Versus Pittsburgh,
he may get killed, although he did beat Pittsburgh and
their sorry quarterbacks last year in Pittsburgh cost me money.
(27:08):
At Denver, which all of a sudden has like an
interesting defense at Bill Belichick. I'm not gonna say New
Englang is Belichick and then versus Miami, so yeah, they
that you could be onto something, all right. I want
to wrop up the podcast Rob g with this. So
I'm such a nerd, and you know, I'm probably a
little over extending myself into this gambling stuff. But I
didn't get a chance to watch a lot of Colts
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Bengals Sunday, so I was really reading about it and
digging in and then I noticed this. Philip Rivers through
for three seventy one yards and three touchdowns against the Bengals.
And I know it's the Bengals, but this is a
week after everybody and their mom said Philip Rivers was
washed because of a bad pick six, a safety and
an ugly performance on the road in Cleveland. I asked
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this on social media and people listening who haven't seen it.
I don't want heads to explode. I think it's a
legit question given what we've seen of Drew Brees in
the last two years. As the season grows on, he
he tends to create her and the arm gets weaker,
and by December you're like, man, this guy I don't
(28:13):
know who? And then in the playoffs he's really laid
in egg. Who would you rather have rob g the
rest of this season, Drew Brees or Philip Rivers. And
let me just quickly make the case for Rivers. He's
in a new offense. Uh he has familiarity with Reich
and the quarterback guy pet Hamilton's um and he's got
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all these sketchy skill position players, a rookie running back
Trey Burton at tight end, uh old t Y Hilton.
That other two receivers are injured, Rivers or Brees, Who
you got? I would go with Drew Brees because I
trust his weapons around him more I trust Alvin Camaro,
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who is leading my fantasies. Only reason I lost a
week because he didn't play that apparent diva, Michael Thomas.
I think that those two guys alone, well athletic report
it was yeah, yeah, that was a fun episode. It
was a Mike Thomas hit piece. But no, I think that, Uh,
Philip Rivers. I've seen enough of Philip Rivers in the
n f C West. He is he has been washed
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now for like three straight seasons. And I know that
the the Colts have a good offensive line, and I
think that's where they're gonna lean on near towards the end.
They're also in I think a weaker division, but um,
out of those two, I'd rather have Drew Brees. And
I think the weaker division is what leads me to
say that. I just want to say, Drew Brees. You
know they got the first place schedule because they were
so so strong last year. Okay, in the coming weeks,
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that Chicago defense, that Tampa defense, We'll see what San
Francisco has, the Denver defense, the Philly front. Um, there
are some land mines for Drew Brees up ahead. This
could again. I'm not saying he's gonna get benched, but
rob g you watch that game against the Chargers. They
were downe I think twenty three, and it was like,
all right, wednesdaysom Hill or Jamis Winston warming up. And
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I think we're gonna see that as this season progresses,
I don't think we're gonna see that with Rivers. I
know the media is wondering about Jacoby Bricepte, but I
think Drew Brees is more likely to get benched than
Philip Rivers. If by bench do you mean that they'll
put in a gadget play for Taysom Hill that will
go nowhere, then yes, he is more likely to get benched. Alright,
(30:27):
that'll wrap up the podcast for Tuesday, folks. We will
be back tomorrow. We got a really good guest lined
up tomorrow and uh, we'll talk to you then
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