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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
Take number one.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Cowboys deserve huge credit for that win last night. They
were supposed to win that game. That was a Steelers celebration,
that was a Steelers holiday. It's this beautiful night after
the rain and thunder clear in Pittsburgh, and it's TJ.
Watts one hundredth sack, and it's history, and it's Snoop
waving the terrible towel and wearing a Steelers jacket supposed
to be a Steelers holiday. And Dak Prescott said, I
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don't care. I can't believe he did that, and I
can't believe I'm gonna say this, but I love this
version of the Cowboys because it's where have you gone?
Michael Ervin, Emmett Smith, j Novicchick never mind any of
those people. This is Dak Prescott out there making sixty
million bucks a year throwing to spare parts like Hunter
Lipkey and Rico Dowdle and Jalen Tolbert Ceedee Lambs over there.
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It had sixty yards something was fine. But I think
it's cool that Dak can do this John Wick thing
and say, fine, bring it on. I'll fight all these
Steelers by myself with this guy from North Dakota State
named lip Key.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I think it's great.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
He won that game with not only a really clutch
touchdown pass on fourth down at the end of the game,
an incredibly clutch fumble recovery on the play before it. So, yeah,
they are not greats and they're flawed, and who cares.
I bashed the Cowboys all the time when they deserve it.
But if you're just doing it constantly after a win
on the road at Pittsburgh, you're doing it for sport
or clicks or ratings. Ran that stuff everybody purports to hate.
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Give him credit. That was a gutty win and a
clutch win. And how many times you say that about
the Cowboys a day after a game. I'm saying it today.
Take number two. The Jets just awful. What the hell
was that game? Credits to the Vikings, blah blah blah.
They did fine. Sam Donald got hit really hard and
wasn't the same. They still hung on to win. The
Jets offense is so terrible. And it's not just that
it's terrible. We've seen a lot of terrible offenses, but
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outside of the Cleveland Browns, there is not an offense
that seems more stagnant, more frozen, more stiff. My impression
of the Jets offense. First and ten, crappy run for
one and a half yards. Second and nine incomplete pass
to Alan Lazard. Third and nine, desperate pass right across
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the middle to Garrett Wilson that sometimes he catches, sometimes
he doesn't. If he catches it, it will be followed
by another crappy run for one yard, and if he doesn't,
it'll be followed by a punt and Rogers like screaming
something in Nathaniel Hackett on the sideline, who's only there
because Rogers wants him to be there. It's so weird
to watch them take number three. DeVante Adams whenever they
land or landed from London, should be standing on the
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New Jersey tarmac with an edible arrangement that says, I'm
a Jet, Now why not do it? I know there's
this thing about, well, you can't just keep giving Rogers
what he wants. Guys, that ship has sail that is
long gone. And when the Jets brain trust flew to Malibu,
California to sit in the back lawn overlooking the Pacific
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at Roger's mansion and woo him to come to the Jets,
they signed up for getting him what he wants. He
wants what he wants, he asks for it, he gets it,
So why stop. Now the fact that you say, well,
we're not just gonna pay DeVante all this money and
bring them in and the salary explodes next year just
because the offense isn't working or Rogers wants them, why
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not do it? You're two and three. You look terrible.
It's like if you're gonna die, go down swinging. This
is like someone on death row where they come in
and they say what would you like for your final
meal before you're executed, and they're like, well, you know,
I've had plenty of good food, all right, Just give
me some grilled chicken and maybe some asparagus.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
No no, no, no, no, no, don't do that. Go for it.
Get the pheasant.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Underglass, get the prime rib, get the soda and the
wine and the tequila.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Just get it all.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
You're gonna die anyway, you might as well go out big,
and maybe maybe the governor signed something at the last
second to let you off, and maybe Devoncee joining the
Jets give some sort of kickstart.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
It probably won't, but it might. I can tell you
what's definite.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Whatever they're putting out there now is not going to
get to the playoffs, let alone win a playoff game.
Take number four. The Bills game was bizarre. I shouldn't
even call it the Bills game. I should call it
the Texans game.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Bizarre.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Houston looked great in the first half, Nico Leeves you
never see him again, and Buffalo it wasn't just they
were bad. It was just unrecognizable. And if you were
worried about the optic or the hashtag narrative, that, well,
maybe they do needs to find Diggs after all. Hopefully
that doesn't come up in this game. Oh my god,
god did it? It was so bad? Alan is trying
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to make a deep threat out of Dalton kaka at
Dalton Kin k does a lot of things. I don't
think that's it. Khalilshakiir is hurt. I get it. He's
a good player. He knows how I get open. He's
not Calvin Johnson. It was really strange. And that's not
even counting the fact that I think the Bills just
ran another passing play backed up on their own end zone.
Sean mcdermoy waited two seconds left the game say yeah,
that was my fault. I know, coach, that was so weird.
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There was no way that that was going to work
out right, and it didn't take number five. Lamar's highlights
are so so stupid, and I mean that as a compliment.
When he retires, they're going to show that play with
the double stiff arm and to throw the back of
the end zone. If Lamar goes to the Hall of
Fame and he's you know, he may win a third
MVP this year.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
If he goes to the Hall of Fame, they do this.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Video vignette before each speaker comes up in their gold
jacket to address the crowd and think their high school
coach and cry. Lamar's video vignette is going to have
that play from this weekend in which he drops the snap,
managed to pick it up, drops it again, scrambles to
the right, stiff arms a defensive lineman, stiff arms him again,
gets to the sideline, gets hit by a linebacker, throws
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it away. Nope, throws it into the back of the
ends on terrible idea. It's caught for a touchdown. That
was like six layers of stupid and it was so awesome.
I mean, there could be a short form documentary on
that play, a long form documentary the Last Dance, but
it has to do with one touchdown pass against the Bengals.
I'm running way behind schedule. I only got four minutes left.
Take Number six is Xavier McKinney on the Packers the
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best defensive edition in the history of the sport? Do
you think I'm being superlative?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
How bare you?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
He has five interceptions in five games. This guy that
they paid so much money as a defensive back to
come in to play for Green Bay, which they don't
normally do. And he's got five picks in five games,
and not like two week two and then two week three,
and then one some other time. Each game he has
an interception. It's really great Deon Sanders going to the Niners.
Never did that, Dean Sanders going to the Cowboys, Champ
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Bailey going to the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You can go on and on. Exavier McKinney.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I think that guy's awesome and he could have had
another and you could have a scoop and score.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
He's all over the ball.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
You watch the Packers games, You're like, Wow, that defensive
back is their MVP. How often do you say that
about a team? Take number seven? The Bengals have gone fishing.
You know, inside the NBA they do the thing when
the team is eliminated from the playoffs, whoever it may be,
whatever NBA team, and do a funny photoshop of them
on a fishing boat with beers and fish nets and
hats and fish hooks and Charles and Kenny, everybody laugh
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about it. If we did that on Good Morning Football.
We did that here, we made a graphic. We would
make it for the Bengals, and it's they're gone fishing.
After Joe Burrow throw us for five touchdowns in Jamart
Chase has nearly two hundred yards and they can't hold
the damn field goal and said they lose to the
Ravens like they always do. This will be my last
take on the Bengals in ten takes for a very
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very long time, and by that I mean until next season.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Take number eight.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Christian McCaffer injury is the strangest thing in the league
right now. If Jayden Daniels is the best show in
the league, and he is, Christian mccaffery's injury is so weird.
How is it that we are in an era of
constant information for every single insider, then every single wanna
be insider, and then every single wanna be wanna be insider?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I think we call those aggregators.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And no one has bubkiss on the offensive player of
the year, maybe like missing the entire year or not
or beaten back. This has been strange from the get go,
right before the first game, where he used to clear
it out. Here we are it's going into mid October now,
and still it's not that he's out, it's that we
don't really totally get how long he's going to be out,
or maybe even why he's going to be out. It's
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just bizarre cryptic reports about him flying to Germany, which
is really encouraging. And then it's his left leg it's
his right leg, it's both his legs, and meanwhile the
Niners keep losing and they need him.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It's very strange. Are you out there and do you
like to aggregate NFL rumors and reports?
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Could you please aggregate something substantive about the ringing offensive
player of the year because nobody else seems to.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Be able to do it. Take number nine. I got
a manicure yesterday. They're fun.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It sounds a very strange segue from Christian McCaffrey. I'm
hearing a lot Angeles right now. I'm usually in New York,
where I live with my family, So after my morning
duties of football, I had like seven or eight hours
to just wander around by myself and sit in my
hotel room and look at the ac units form my
first floor room. And yesterday I was going to be
interviewing someone today who likes to get manicures in the NFL.
I walk across the street, I walk into this little
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strip mall nail place, and I say I would like
a manicure, and they sit down and I was speaking
to what appeared to be about a four hundred year
old woman who was two feet tall, and there was
a significant language barrier in which I was trying to
tell her, can you paint my nails the colors of
the Chicago Bears? And this is in the West Side
in California. I don't think she knows about the Chicago Bears.
I don't think I don't think she knows Chicago. And
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I somehow made it work. I have orange and I
have blue, and I'll tell you why shortly. I have
thirty seconds left. But shout out to the lady at
that salon who I paid with a cash tip. Generous
cash tip by my dad. Take number ten. CAYLEB Williams
is a different dude. He paints his nails. He does
not napologetically. I did it because I sat down with
him today for the first time ever I met him.
I interviewed him different. He doesn't apologize for it. We
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got into everything about him, his background, how many Super
Bowls he wants to win, how he's chasing Tom Brady,
how he keeps his goals as the wallpaper of his
phone so you can always look at him.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
And he brought up directly a Dune comparison and the
Lissan al kayib And that's time, guys.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I have a lot more to say about that, but
the Caleb Williams and ever will be coming the next
few days. Look for breakouts, look for everything that's it.
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