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as well. Best and Worst of the weekend. What you
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We will give you our best and worst of the weekend.
Coming up as well, we'll recap the college football weekend
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with the former coach Rick Neuheisel. He'll stop by a
little bit later on as well. Seaton. Let's clean up
our ones poll question and turn our attention to hour two.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Worst loss of the week and your options were the
Jaguars USC, Ohio State, the Padres, and the Dallas Cowboys.
You want to guess the Dallas Cowboys, yes, yes, so
they have about seventy percent of.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
The Oh yeah, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And the USC and the Jaguars are sort of tied
for last place here.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Those I guess not really terrible losses, but they were
up two touchdowns on Penn State and then you let
that kind of evaporate and you had your chances though,
But it's a beautiful day. Everybody thought USC up at halftime.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Okay, a lot of people thought that was over.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, they did. Very few people thought that that one
was over. But Penn State got the win. That's a
big win, especially coupled with Ohio State going to Oregon
and then losing their in dramatic fashion. But we'll recap
that with Rick Neuheiso a little bit later on. The
Lions rolled the Cowboys, but they lose Aiden Hutchinson and
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Ravens over the Commanders. These numbers with Boldemore are really amazing.
They get one hundred yards every game, at least rushing
thirty nine consecutive games. But here's the thing that I
find interesting. The Ravens have outrushed their opponents and thirty
two to three hundred and fifty four. So that's a
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difference of eight hundred and seventy eight yards. The average
distance difference of one forty six rushing yards per game
is on pace to be the largest in fifty years.
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Speaker 2 (02:51):
But you have Lamar and you have Derrick Henry. Now
Derrick Henry is the difference because it feels like there's
going to be a moment where he breaks one forty
fifty yards. Having that element now, Lamar did throw the
ball really well yesterday as well against the Commanders. That
that was a fun game. And I wanted to see
how Jade and Daniels hung in there, and he did.
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He looked pretty good. I thought Caleb looked really good
in London. Drake may look good. Yeah, bo Nicks maybe not,
but uh, Drake May's got a tough assignment there. He does.
That's that's a that's where mac Jones could probably help
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him a little bit there. Hey, maybe maybe I could
give him some advice there, Seaton, what's the poll question
for hour two?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Well, we might try to put together some version of
the worst win this weekend. Todd sent in one that said,
we won, but did we I'm going to remove one
person off of that or one one team off that.
I'm going to take the Lions off. Yeah, yeah, that
Alabama won?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah? Did they technically? They won technically perception one? Yes,
but who else had that? The Eagles kind of stumbled
bumbled their way through the Browns game. But I think
Jalen Hurts had a clean game, which hasn't happened in
a long time. Yes, Tom, But it.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Wasn't just the outcome of the game and barely getting
by the Browns. It was Sirianna yelling at the home fans.
It's just such a mess there beyond the actual game.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
He doesn't.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
He doesn't act like a head coach. Like they're just
certain guys who you know. You see him on the
sidelines and they look like they're in charge of everything,
and they got the respect of everybody. You just see
him and he he just doesn't have the demeanor of
a head coach. It almost feels like he knows that
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those fans are waiting for him to get fired.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yes, well that's the thing, like, uh, you won, but
you're coming away from that win with people still calling
for your coach to be fired.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That's definitely a loss.
Speaker 7 (05:05):
Yeah, yeah, Paulie, Maybe not to that level. But the
Bengals win against the Giants. They squeaked by a win
when you needed a convincing win on national TV to
people to buy into you, plus just the numbers that
they needed to win.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, that's a fun one. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah,
I'm watching that one, and I thought, Okay, let's go,
let's see what Joe Burrow can do. Light him up
a little bit here, schedules kind of user friendly here,
you get back in the mix here maybe and they
barely win, Yes.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
Marton, was it too early to flex the Sunday night game?
Who thought that was a good idea? Bengals at Giants?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yes, I don't know if they could have flexed that game,
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
Well, my real question is who thought that was a
good idea to begin with?
Speaker 9 (05:51):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well not wait, you know you have Joe Burrow and
then you have the New York market, and I mean
obviously they got data that they'll be like, oh, we're
going to do a great rating on this game.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
And there's some big dogs that always come like, oh
it's Dick Embersol or whoever. A lot of big dogs
that NBC come through.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Could they have flexed that game, Pauling?
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Yeah, for Sunday Night Football. These are the official NFL
flex rules, which is surprice Fritzy doesn't have this. They
could be they could flex two games between weeks five
and ten, and then it's at the NFL's discretion weeks
eleven through seventeen.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
So I think NBC had the choice.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Mmm, could they have flexed into Lions Cowboys? I think
some games are protected right by CBS and Fox that
there's certain games that are protected.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, see Lions Cowboys is the kind of game that
you cut away from.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, but you would have signed up for that game
because you would have thought, for sure we're gonna get ratings.
It's a marquee game, no doubt about that. I sent
a text message to the Dan Netz yesterday I go,
why are the Falcons Panthers on it for twenty five?
I was like, what are we doing? That's a one
o'clock game? And I'm like okay, some markets going, yeah,
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all right, we got the Falcons in the Panther's here.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
Yes, Marvin Raven's Commanders was the game. I thought you
reflects that in a heart.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah, yep, yep. But they got data that says this market,
these teams they do well, but that that one would
have been a fun matchup, and it turned out to
be a really fun game. Yeah, Pauling.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Usually I bail and most of us bail on blowouts,
but I was watching the Lions to see if they
were getting fifty plus. I didn't turn because I was like,
oh this is this is getting really ugly, and I'm sticking.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I think you were there for Tom Brady.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Can't blame me.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Hello, Hello, And then Tom got to tell some stories
in a blowout. No, I don't listen with a critical
ear like I did the first week. Like I'm just
I'm just like, okay, it's it's a solid job. But
it's not something where I go that voice or oh
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you know, that's a silly thing. I just I don't
care and I'm just listening. But I you know, it
was kind of a homework assignment that I'm going to
watch and listen that first week just you know, this
would happen with if Lebron James did a basketball game,
we would do the same thing. You would grade him
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after the first game that he did. So Tom Brady's
getting paid an awful lot of money. And I didn't
think he was very comfortable in the first game. No
matter how many games you simulate, it's not the same.
And he sounded out of rhythm. Now he's getting better,
and you know he better get better because they got
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the super Bowl, and you know that's why you pay
him that money. You want him for the big games,
playoff games, super Bowls. Every network wants to have that.
You got your guy and they got their guy. Now,
do I think Greg Olsen is better? Yes, But Greg's
done it for a while. Tom's just learning to hear
his voice. He's learning you got to say something instead
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of trying not to say something. You spend your entire career.
You spend over twenty years trying not to say anything.
Now you have to say something. You've got to reprogram yourself. Now,
Saban's done a great job, Belichick's done a great job.
Tom is still working through that of I got to
give you some information. I got to find some nuance here.
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That's like, hey, you know what, this is what I
would do here. This is a situation you can take
advantage of. Hey, this kind of coverage is going to
lead to that. Now you have my attention because Romo
did that. Now, granted he's not right all the time,
you know, it's probably fifty fifty, but he does bring
you into the game. Tom has to do more of that,
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bring me into the game as if I'm in the
stands or on the field. Hey, this is what I'm
seeing right here. Oh good, I don't want it. After
the fact, I like it when you tell me something,
you see something and then you say it, and that
is something that you know. It's a learned quality trait
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and you can learn it. It's not like you're born
with it. You just learn it. And I think the
more reps that Tom has that he puts himself in
that situation, and you know, you got to push him
a little bit. You know, Kevin Burkhart can go back
to him and say, wait, you said that, what does
that mean? Or explain that a little further. But you know,
trying to get those fifteen second rips in there and
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then get out plays called and then you're going to
analyze and then you got to get out. You know
that whole rhythm. It's no different than running an offense.
For him, you get into that rhythm and that's what
he needs to do. And we're not even halfway through
the season.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Yes, Pauline, I do have a quick update on that
Raven's Commander game and why it was not flexed CBS.
There's a lot of different flex rules. They're very complex,
but I have the one CBS and all the networks
are allowed to protect one game from other networks.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
It's like you won't let it.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Be traded each weekend.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
No for the first half of the seasons.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
The franchise tag.
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Your franchise tag game only one game. Yes, First of all,
you have to flex twelve days in advance.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So Fox protected the Cowboys Lions.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
No, CBS protected Ravens.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
No, but they could have taken Fox's Cowboys Lions.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Yes, I think that was also protected. They're both okay,
but there's a networks can prevent the hijacking.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Josh and Philly. Good morning, Josh. What's on your mind today?
Speaker 10 (11:48):
Good morning dan Patrick?
Speaker 2 (11:49):
How are you great?
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Great? Josh?
Speaker 10 (11:51):
Yeah, I just want to talk a little Penn State
football if I could. I feel like they barely got
by USC on Saturday, and I was just wondering what
you think their playoff hopes are and how they're going
to do against teams like Ohio State and Michigan.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Well, I don't look at Michigan the way we have
in previous years. Ohio State is great, Oregon's the team
to beat right now. I was impressed that Penn State.
They got down two touchdowns, but they came back right
after a second half kickoff, and then all of a sudden,
they're going down and scoring touchdowns. And that defense looks
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pretty good, quarterback's pretty good, tight end is wonderful. It
just feels like they have one of those games a year. Now,
you can have one of those games where you lose
and you shouldn't lose and still make the playoffs. But
in previous years it was like, oh, okay, hey, Penn State,
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it's a white out, and then all of a sudden,
Penn State kind of stumbles to the finish line.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
Yes, Penn State six and oh right now they have Wisconsin,
Ohio State, Washington, Purdue, Minnesota, Maryland. They can afford a
loss to Ohio State when you're six and oh, at
this juncture that Ohio State, let's say you pencil that
in as a loss, you handle the rest of your business.
You're going to the playoff.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, you know. So it's different. And I think it
was Brady Quinn who brought this up that Penn State
in previous years, if there was a twelve team playoff,
they would have made the playoffs every year, and it
was a span of about four or five years. I
think that is Brady who said that Alan Atlanta is back.
Good morning Al, what's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (13:38):
Good morning Dan. We got Buddha and Gus. They can
be jealous and basically a baseball look forward to. But
then it all comes full circle with Shay to remind
me it could be even worse, and then James lets
me know it's got to be a positive attitude. But
best to the weekend in Illinois football, winning in overtime
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fifty to forty nine oversdue great game. Loved watching it.
Worst of the weekend. I went against my cousin's wishes
and I rooted for Detroit to win in Game five.
And I think I'm officially a Detroit mush because they
seem to win all the time until I start rooting
for them.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeah, I just feel horrible. Thank you, al Yeah, I
was rooting for the Tigers against the Guardians. I just
like the story. And then you have this year's Cy
Young winner, terrk Scoubel, who got roughed up there, gave
up a Grand Slam, he got mentioned the Dodgers. Dodgers
shut him out Game one, and then Guardians at the
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Yankees coming up later on, and then Bill's at the
Jets Chad and Dayton, Hey, Chad, what's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (14:52):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (14:53):
Good morning, Dan? How are you great?
Speaker 9 (14:56):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (14:56):
Six foot two o five. It is dark and dreary
and Dayton right now, and it's kind of like being
a Cowboys fan in Ohio. The best thing you can
say is, at least it's not the factory of sadness
that is the Cleveland Browns. So that's the best we
got going right now. But I had a couple things
for you. One, I know it's been beat to death,
but if you had a pole question, because coaches getting
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fired because the players is nothing new, But if you
had a pole question with some throwbacks, who is most
responsible for getting their coach fired? And it was Reggie Jackson,
Magic Johnson, Lebron James or Aaron Rodgers. Who do you
think would win out of that group? And then the
second thing is does it feel like this year that
the Miami Hurricanes and cam Ward are just the Florida
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state of last year? If we had a fourteen playoff?
Would they not put them in because they're too predicated
on one person?
Speaker 10 (15:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Might be the wayback machine with Reggie and Magic and
Lebron and Aaron Rodgers. Well, Rodgers didn't get Robert solifiired. Uh,
he didn't go into management and demand that. But his
play is why Robert Sally got fired. If Aaron Rodgers
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plays better, and he even said this, Robert Salastowe is
his job. Reggie Jackson and Billy Martin that was always
ugly that Billy got himself fired. Magic probably would be
the winner there, going in basically saying get rid of him. Yeah,
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I've cold said, I mean Lebron didn't want to play
for David Blatt, all right, yes, marm.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Then the next coach wins the championship with yes, yeah,
well tell yeah, I think that was the right move.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yes, it was. It turned out to be the right move.
All right, let me take a break. Our buddy Ross
Tucker will join us. Coming up next here, Dan Patrick Show.
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Speaker 2 (17:03):
He's a busy man. He's Ross Tucker Westwood One, CBS Sports,
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do you do if you're the Lions today this morning? Ross?
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Oh, Dan, that hurt my heart? Man, that really really did.
I mean he's probably their best player, you know, to
watch that and I felt bad, Dan. I literally all
I had this past weekend was a college game. So
while I'm watching the Lions blow out the Cowboys, I
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post on social media I'm ready to watch the Lions
win the Super Bowl. I'm not kidding Dan. Within two
minutes that injury happens. So Lions fans think I jinxed them.
They I think they do need to at least explore
who else they could get. Heck, maybe they should call
the Jets and try to get Hassan. Redick doesn't seem
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like he really wants to be If Drew Rosenhaus is
meeting with the Jets today about Reddick's contract, why don't
they just he probably doesn't really want to be there,
figure it out that send him to Detroit somehow, Because
you don't say this, with that many injuries, it's hard
to picture them winning the Super Bowl without him. He's
their best player. He was one of the front runners
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for Defensive Player of the Year. Yes, teams overcome injuries,
but rarely the guys like that. You're gonna play three
or four playoff games, you need to close those games out.
You need to have a dominant player that offenses need
to worry about. In the offensive lineman like me, we're
doubling up. We're talking about all week. That is a
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that that feel like one of the injuries you can't
overcome unless you get somebody else in there.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Okay, do you call the Browns about Miles Garrett.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Yeah, but they're not gonna do that. I mean that
that would really surprise me. Although in fairness I say
that about the Jets. They just fired their head coach
and this is the last year of the contract for
the GM Joe Douglas. So if you're Joe Douglas, why
would you trade us Son Reddick? And in fact, why
won't you just give a Son Reddick whatever contract he
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wants so he plays for you as soon as possible
so you can win ten games and make the playoffs
and maybe get a new contract from your owner, Woody Johnson.
I mean, it's not your money at this point. You
might as well do whatever you can, throw out all
the stops to try to get Reddick to play for
the Jets if you're there this year. I mean, yeah,
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you can call the Browns, but that would really surprise me.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
The Cowboys situation, it's not going to get better. It's
probably going to get worse. But and you do anything
to placate your fan base here at least the Jets
fired their head coach. What is Jerry Jones? What did
the Cowboys do to rectify this if they can?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Well, So that's interesting because it feels like Jerry Jones
used to be very sort of a impulsive, impetuous owner.
He's changed Dan almost in every way. Right to go
into this season being clearly worse at a number of
positions and to know probably ahead of time you weren't
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really a contender going into this year, and he seems
okay with that for whatever reason. My guess is they
will convince themselves that, you know, that only happened because
Micah Parson didn't play and DeMarcus Lawrence and when they
get those guys back. But it does feel like there's
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a number of situations around the league right now where
it feel like the head coach is kind of kind
of hanging on by threads.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Okay, would you say Doug Peterson's situation is worse in
trying to keep his job or Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
I would say Peterson's is worse just because they've been
that bad. The Cowboys, you know, last week they beat
the Steelers in Pittsburgh without some of their best players.
So at least I think for the Cowboys you could
stay We're still right in the mix in the NFC East.
For the Jags, it feels like an ugly situation. I mean,
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almost all those guys, if you look at that team, Dan,
almost all those guys have gotten big contracts from the Jags, Like,
these are the guys the Jags want to have playing.
It's not some big injury issue. They paid the whole
O line, all their receivers are like Gabe Davis, Christian Kirk,
I mean, their whole defense, these are these are these
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are the guys that the Jags want to have on
their team and they've invested in and they're still terrible.
That's a really tough thing for a coach and GM
to come back from.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I know you're close to the Eagles situation. Nick Siriani
doesn't comport himself as a head coach like you're engaging
with the crowd and look, I know that Philadelphia crowd
can be rough even after a win. It just it
just feels like this doesn't end well. Your thoughts about
this team.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Well, so, what's so interesting about it is that he
did stuff like this in twenty two when they went
to the super Bowl and we're probably the best team
in the league. And because they were so good, and
because they were winning, and because he was primarily doing
it like to the camera or to the opposing teams fans,
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a lot of people kind of liked it. Right, Well,
they have the collapse last year they're not playing well
this year. They certainly did not play well yesterday even
though they won the game, And now he's doing it
to Eagles fans. That does not go over very well.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
Now.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
The funny thing is is, you know, I'm from there, right,
and so I see the text messages from my buddies.
I know that if a bunch of my buddies were
ever the head coach of the Eagles and they were
getting booed, that they would probably do the same stuff.
Sirian Ah, we won. What do you think now? What
are you gonna say now? Because that's how a lot
of people from where we're from are like. But it's
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not a good look. I'm surprised he did it. You
know what's interesting to me about it, dan Is Brandon
Graham was laughing about it, and then Jalen Hurts that
after the game that I guess a bunch of the
leaders on the team, like Hurts and Brandon Graham, have
encouraged Sirianni to be more like he was in twenty
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twenty two, to show more emotion, to be more like that.
Maybe maybe he was trying to do what the players
told him they wanted. During the bye week, I'm not sure,
but man, you barely beat the Browns. You win a
game like that, it's not a good look. Look, you're
never gonna win. And you know this, Dan, but especially
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in Philadelphia, you're never gonna win saying anything to your
own fans, anything other than they were right to boo.
We weren't playing well. We were in a close game
against the Browns. We had just gotten a field goal
blocked and returned for a touchdown to tie the game.
I understand why they were booing. I would have been
booing as well.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
We're talking Ross Tucker, Westwood one, CBS Sports, NFL and
college football analyst, host of the Ross Tucker Football Podcast. Yeah,
and then he brings his son to the press conference, Like,
if you want to deflect getting in front of the media,
bring one of your kids and sit him on your lap,
as Nick Sirianni did yesterday. Well done.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Well, he's done that a bunch. In fairness, he does
bring his kids to the postgame press conference a decent
amount of the time. You know, that's another one that
it's so funny. Like when they were winning and really
rolling people, Dan, people thought it was cute and awesome, right,
But now that he had that incident at the end
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of the game and they barely won. Now everybody's saying
he's deflecting, and you know, in fairness, you know, or
using them as a shield. In fairness, the Philadelphia media
does not care. They asked them all the questions anyway, right,
I mean, they don't care who you have there. They're
gonna ask the questions anyway. So I mean, I if
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the goal.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Was to say, you say, to your kid ear muffs,
you know, yeah, like if that was the goal to
protect him, I don't think it really worked because they
still ask him those same questions. Okay, what do you
expect to happen tonight with the Jets offense against Buffalo?
Now that you've demoted Nathaniel Hackett and you've fired Robert
salah Man.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
I am so curious. I mean, let's be honest. At
this point, they might as well just made Aaron Rodgers
the player coach, right, I mean, they might as well
just go no huddle and let Rogers call the plays.
You know, that's what he wants to do anyway, you know,
that would be his preference. I gotta tell you that
game last week, Dan, when they were playing the Vikings.
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That's about as miserable of a facial expression body language
as I think. I've seen a guy play football in
a long time, and I posted during the game, I'd
be really surprised if he plays next year. I mean,
maybe they turn it around, they have a great year
and they go on a Runnie, but he's getting the
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craft beat out of him. He looks like even when
Brady was playing for the Bucks, he didn't look old,
you know what I mean. Maybe that's because of whatever
Brady he does with his body and whatever, But like
Rogers looked sad, old, miserable. He did not look like
he looked like he was having zero fun.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
Dan zero fun.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
The Ravens with Derrick Henry and without Derrick Henry, how
does that? I mean what they're doing running is historical.
I mean we have not seen this differential between what
the Ravens do running and what the opposition does. So
you're keeping your defense off the field, you're running the football. Now,
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play action really means something. So when Lamar does play action,
I mean this is old school football in a lot
of ways. But Derrick Henry is does he make them
the best team in the AFC?
Speaker 6 (27:52):
I think he does. That's exactly. You just took the
words right out of my mouth.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
Dan.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
I think he does. I mean, what you have is
a quarter that's still playing at an MVP level like
he did last year, and you've added a Hall of
Fame running back. And by the way, I don't know
how many more Hall of Fame running backs there are
gonna be, or how many more guys we can say
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while they're playing, or a Hall of Fame running back,
but that's Henry and he has added an element to them.
The concerning thing there is they're not as good on
defense as they've been the last couple of years. They're
not as good, in particular in the secondary, which is
why I think it behooves them to run the ball
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more like they have been with Derek Henry, to try
to keep that secondary on the sideline. I mean, I
thought they were the best team last year and they
blew it against the Chiefs in the ANFC Championship. Right now,
I think they're the best team again. Whether or not
they'll be able to get it done in a playoff
game against Mahomes and Kelsey and the Chiefs will see,
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but they certainly have a lot of the pieces that
you'd like to be able to knock off the chiefs.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I think that's the first behoove that we've had on
the show, at least in a while. I mean, very
impressive there.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
I don't break it out often, and I don't really
know where I got it. You feel like that's the word,
a type of word that someone says when they're trying
to act smarter than they really are. Or was that
just did that flow naturally?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Well, it's a I went to Princeton and you didn't
kind of feel to it. I mean, that's what I'm
getting from you.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Well, what's the other word I would use there? Like,
what's the other word? And what's the alternative? It helps
their defense out and use it? It behooves their defense.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
It would be good for them. You could have said,
but you you dropped a behoover.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
I got a question. Do we think that Fritzy knows
the word behooves what it means and or has ever
used it in a sentence in his life.
Speaker 8 (29:53):
I'm familiar with the definition.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
I don't know if I've ever used it.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
What is the definition?
Speaker 8 (29:58):
I don't know how to define.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
No, No, we're asking for the deafini it would behoove me.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
To not eat like nine slices of pizza when I
get home for lunch. That would be it would be
a good idea to not do that. It would behoove
me to go for a walk instead of eating like
a Jersey Mike Giants sub.
Speaker 8 (30:18):
That's how I would use behoof.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Okay, all right, well it behooves me to say goodbye
to you, Ross, because it's time to move on. We
have to give our best and worst of the weekend.
Thanks for joining us as always been.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
All right, take care Dan.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
That's Ross Tucker Westwood, one CBS Sports NFL College football analyst.
He's a busy man. Busy man, Charlotte in El Paso. Hi, Charlotte,
thanks for holding best and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 12 (30:47):
So I have two best and one worst. Okay, My
best part of the weekend is when the long Corns
dominated Oklahoma and getting to talk to you guys is
my second. And you start that organ is the one
to be. I think it's the Longhoarings. We have a
high power offense and a hard hitting defense.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Well I meant in the Big ten, Charlotte, but you're right,
Texas is a great football team, and thank you for calling.
Please call again. Yeah, Texas looked great against Oclomba. I
was talking about the Big Ten because it's Ohio State
and Oregon two best teams there and then put in
Penn State. But this whole cross country travel is that
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it's a real deal. We've seen that these teams go
on you know, two three time zones. They're not playing well.
Let me see Luke and Charlotte.
Speaker 13 (31:39):
Hi, Luke, Hey everybody, I hope you had a good
weekend at the best and worst. You know, I got
to go with my Ducks for the best of the weekend,
specifically Dan Lanning. A couple of great things there. You
guys touched on the twelve men definitely a little bell
check and play there. But then also I loved probably
the funniest on side kick I've ever scene where they
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just nailed the front man. Yes, I mean it takes huge,
huge stones to pull that off. And my worst I
gotta go with Aiden Hutchinson just s feel for the
guy in Forklions.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, that's tough. Yeah, thanks for the phone call there, Luke.
I think it's everybody's worst of the weekend. Just you
knew the injury was bad. As soon as you saw it,
they weren't even going to show it to you again.
It was that bad. When we come back, our best
and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
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Speaker 2 (32:39):
Ever since the NFL expanded its playoff format to fourteen
teams in twenty twenty, it has been theoretically possible for
all four teams from a single division to make the playoffs.
We were just talking about this during the commercial break,
that the NFC North, you got four teams with records.
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The format only guarantees the four division title winners in
each conference you get a spot in the postseason, while
the three next best teams regardless of division, make it
in from each conference. That allows for a division like
the NFC North to have a chance to qualify all
four of its teams, depending on how everything shakes out.
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They brought this up last year from Pro Football Network
because they were looking at the AFC North if you
could get all four teams in, but it's not happened
so far. But the NFC North is certainly going to
put that possibility to test here.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
Yes, Paul, what's going to hurt it is that most
of the NFC North inter division games start after Thanksgiving
or mid November. They're all going to start roughing each
other up. But it's much more likely. I saw this
other website that said situation like the NFC North, everyone
in the division will be eligible for the playoffs, like
around Christmas.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
It will not have been decided because they're so close.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Well, they're going to cannibalize one another because they're going
to face each other, So you're gonna have teams they're
gonna be knocking each other out of the playoff. Hunt
Rick new Heiser will join is coming up at the
top of the hour. We'll recap the college football weekend,
Beast and Worst of the Weekend. Todd, I'm gonna start
with you.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
Best of the weekend.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
Penn State senior tight end Tyler Warren. Huge game against
USC at the Coliseum, seventeen catches, two hundred and twenty
four yards on a TV. It tied the FBS record
for most catches by a tight end in a game,
second most receiving yards in Ntney Lyons history, and for
worst of the weekend. In the first Red River Rivalry
game as SEC members, Oklahoma gets humiliated by Texas.
Speaker 8 (34:40):
The Sooners actually got on the board.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
First with a field goal in the final seconds of
the first quarter, only to get out scored thirty four
to nothing the rest of the way of the cotton
ball see.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
No Connor my best of the weekend. Yeah, I'm gonna
say Justin Fields really, yes? He Look, he wasn't great.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
All right.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
He didn't do anything spectacular, right. He threw for one
hundred and forty five yards, He ran for another fifty nine,
two touchdowns. He didn't do anything that was great, but
he didn't do anything that would cost him the job.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
They won, but by nineteen points they're four and two.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
That's exactly what this lad needs to be doing to
get himself back to a good spot.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
It's exactly what he needed, right, Okay, anything else, Paul, I'm.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Gonna go ahead and disagree with you.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
As nice as the Justin Fields play has been this year,
I think his issue is he's very tough to deal with.
When he runs, he just runs too much. He still
pulls the ball down, and he pulls it down for good.
There's other guys who scramble, he drops back, looks, looks, runs,
and while it makes for good highlights, I don't know
if you can go deep into playoffs with it. He's good,
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he's entertaining, that's my It's like he's got that one
thing that keeps him from being really really good.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
I just feel like he needs to do something to
get him back on his feet, and right now I
feel like, so far this season he's absolutely doing that's fair. Okay,
So I don't know that you're making a deep playoff
run this year.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
However, he's doing well for himself. Well, they're gonna have
winning record because Mike Tomlin always has, he always does. Yes,
did you have a worst of the weekend? My worst
of the weekend.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Not only did the Cowboys get absolutely humiliated, which was delicious,
it was great, so good, but watching that game was
just a constant reminder too of how poorly engineered that
stadium was, because the sun is constantly in your eyes
no matter where you're sitting, no matter which direction your
team is going, the sun is always blazing right in
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your face, and you can tell nobody can see a
damn thing that's going on.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
And you spend billions of dollars to do. Hey, where
does the sun go? I don't know, but just a thought.
They have to have factored that in with the engineers,
and you're probably thinking all of our games are going
to be played at four thirty East coast time, so
three point thirty low cold time, right, always great, where's
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the sun going to be? First of all, the JumboTron
is too big, too big. It's a poorly designed stadium.
I think it looks like, Wow, they that's the taj
Mahal of stadiums. It's not, yes, Pa, it's what's.
Speaker 7 (37:22):
That thing that the cyber truck. It's the cyber truck
of stadium. Oh it's flashy. It shows you have a
lot of money, but it has no utility whatsoever. And
it's just a colossal doorstop. That Stadum's awful to Cowboys
stadium for watching a football game.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Didn't Elon Musk when he was trotting out that utility
vehicle saying that the glass was bulletproof and then shot
the glass and it shattered something crazy like that. I
saw one of those, you know, moving through town the
other day. Yeah, I see them all the time. Yeah,
it's it's not a good look. Not a good look,
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all right, Marvin, best and worst?
Speaker 8 (38:01):
All right? I got two best first best. Dylan Samson
from Tennessee twenty seven carries one hundred and twelve yards
three touchdowns as they beat up on Florida.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Then, okay, what that's your best?
Speaker 8 (38:17):
Yeah? Go ahead? What should beat up?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
They beat Florida?
Speaker 8 (38:22):
He had a great day. Okay, Oh oh, I didn't
say Tennessee bud.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Okay, all right, okay, that's your best of the weekend. Okay,
yeah it it is yours?
Speaker 8 (38:31):
Okay, I can't wait. Okay, go ahead, all right, my
other best NBA inside stuff getting inducted into the Basketball
Hall of Fame for the Kirk Goudi Award, Big Fan.
A my rashod means to me what Brent Musburger means
to you, like I don't know, I said what he
means to know?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Okay, it can't be wrong tomorrow. Okay, it can't tell him, yes,
because will Obey meant to me what a mad rashad
meant to you?
Speaker 8 (39:04):
And Summer Sanders.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Also and Summer Sanders.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
Yes, man's a lot of judgment. Judgment, mondays, I know
what the heck things that you like? A moderate really.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
So you're saying there might be a chance that I
get in if they have the they have the inside stuff.
Speaker 8 (39:24):
You weren't on every single Saturday.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
I was on every night.
Speaker 8 (39:28):
They were appointment viewing.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
I I did all of those highlights you did.
Speaker 8 (39:33):
Yes, I did, and you did NBA's Greatest Games.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Also, yes, I did. Paulie Best and Worst of the weekend.
Speaker 7 (39:38):
How would go Dylan Gabriel the quarterback at Oregon three
forty one and two touchdowns? He was That was a masterclass.
He ran that well in the second half for Oregon.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Great win.
Speaker 7 (39:47):
I'm gonna go another best. Jack Flaherty Dodgers pitchers seven innings,
two hits. Yeah, six k's two based on balls. They
really needed a nice outing from a starting pitcher. They
won nine zero versus the Mets. I fall into the
trap where the one by nine in game one, so
I assume they're going to sweep when yeah, I get
carries over like oh nine.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
No, I always go, oh, you should have saved some
of those runs for game two as if they could.
All Right, some more phone calls coming up. What are
the results of the poll question Seaton for hour two?
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Let me see, let me update you on hour one,
hour one, we had a worst loss of the weekend.
Right now, the Cowboys still have about seventy percent of
that boot, which is wonderful. Then we also have we won,
But did we Alabama Eagles Bengals right now Alabama leading
that pole.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Yes, that was way too close for comfort after losing
to Banding. Two hours in the books, one more to go.
Did Oregon pull a fast one on Ohio State and
will it lead to a rule change. We'll talk to
Rick Neuheisol about that coming up final hour in this
Monday