September 9, 2024 • 12 mins
Craig Way and Cameron Parker recap and react to Week 1 of the NFL season as the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans begans the season in the win column while the Los Angeles Rams weren't so lucky.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right away alongside the producer Cameron Parker with you here
up until five o'clock and glad to have you alongside
as well. Coming up, we're going to hear more from
Low Warren's head coach Steve Sarkisian. Not only will we
also update the latest college football rankings, but we also
will have power rankings to update you as well, Yes,
(00:23):
in college football as well, So we'll get to that
in a few moments. However, however, let's get to the
NFL and talk about the action that happened the first
Sunday of the first weekend of the National Football League.
As has been documented and discussed last hour, Cameron Parker
(00:44):
did not did not watch his favorite team, the Dallas
Cowboys in action, as they had really very little difficulty,
very little difficulty with the Cleveland Browns in Cleveland yesterday
with the Cowboy he was winning thirty three to seventeen.
That prescott a very efficient game. Zeke Elliott looked looked
(01:08):
chipper and spry at times out there on the field,
did he? Yes, wearing his new number fifteen, and that
was kind of weird. Joe Davis is doing the game
and just said I can't get used to, I mean
not to Kevin Burkhart, working with Tom Brady said I
just he goes. I can't get used to seeing him
wear fifteen, And Brady said, I know, I'm so used
(01:30):
to him wearing twenty one all of those years.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well he wore fifteen, Ohio States, So yes he did.
Chris Faller and Kirk Ervestreet, if they ever do a
Cowboys by the Night game, then they won't be.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Surprised that's went back in fifteen. That's exactly right. Let
me also say this too, I knew this was going
to happen. I think you did as well, Cameron, and
I think a lot of folks did that. Tom Brady
was going to be heavily, heavily scrutinized the first telecast
(02:04):
and to a lesser extent, Cole McCoy on Saturday Night
and both by everything that I've read got largely unfavorable reviews. Now,
in the case of Cold it was mainly split along
party lines. You know, there were a lot of Nebraska
fans and Oklahoma fans that were kind of taking their
shots at him and things like that. As as as such,
(02:26):
I think Cole will be fine over time. This is
probably gonna take a little bit of time for him
to get completely comfortable with stuff. But he had good
things to say. And then there's the deal with Brady,
and there were a lot of people that said, gosh,
all that weren't for this. For this in terms of
what he had to say his analysis of the game,
(02:47):
I thought it was pretty good. Okay, he had he
he had a lot of the same types of things
you would hear Tonny Romo say, except without all the
you know, the guttural. Yeah. However, and this is where
I think a lot of people got turned off. You know,
(03:08):
I really kind of had to ask myself, have you
really seen enough interviews with Tom Brady over the years
and seeing him accept enough awards and speak to understand
that he really does kind of have a little bit
of a whiny, nasal voice. And I didn't. It didn't
(03:31):
hit me until I watched the game yesterday. It's just
he's kind of nasaling. Yeah, he's kind of there's there's
some of that in there, and I think that probably
bothers some folks as much, and so then then they
don't like a lot of the analysis and the things
that he says. But I thought, what he had to
(03:52):
say during the telecast was good. I just thought he
sounded a bit they was the way that I would say.
So that's that was my review of Tom Brady. I
really didn't think it was that what he had to
say was was bad or anything.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It's game one. I don't think people understand how difficult
it really is to be in his Spoty, What do
you mean You just sit there, you just say it's
a good pass the bad pass. But you have such
little time and you are you know, every single word
you say is going to be criticized and reflected on
and picked apart. It's tough and it takes a long time,
(04:35):
I think for analysts to get really good at being
an analyst. Now, he had Tony Romo, who was so
great in his first season, and I think maybe it
was just because it was just a breadth of fresh
air and the way he was. He was so he
wasn't that far removed from the game, so we understood
the defenses very well and the players and knew all
of that. And I think that's what people wanted to
see from Tom Brady. But also it's Tom Brady, so
(04:59):
everything he I think people weren't expecting twenty Romo to
be as good as he was when he first stepped in,
And for Tom Brady, everybody already expected him to be
at this level and he's not there yet. I mean
even we saw on Saturday, Craig, I know you were
calling Texas Michigan, but the game was on Fox and
at halftime they did like a hit with Burkhart or
(05:20):
sorry Joe Joe Clatt, Joe Clatt talking with Tom Brady,
and it just felt a little awkward. The timing was off.
It's just things that I think eventually he'll pick up on.
But as I think it was, the Ringer Awful Announcing
pointed out yesterday that the one game that really matters
for broadcasting for Tom Brady is when he calls Super
Bowl this year. That's the one game that I think
(05:40):
everyone is going to look at. So all of this week, one,
week two, it's all building up to that to that
Super Bowl game where he'll be on the call with
Kevin Burkhart. So a long ways to go. But out
of all the analysts, Craig in your lifetime, from whether
it's play by play or color or even just on TV,
have you seen an analyst with this much.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I don't know if hype is the right phrase, because
it's been over a year in the building. Yeah, that's
I think that's why. Because I think there was somebody
on Facebook that said all of this hype and all
this for that is the way they described it. Well,
my response to that would be, what were you expecting exactly?
(06:22):
How did you did you expect him, you know, to
be whatever equal parts Dandy, Don Meredith and John Madden
or something. I don't think anybody should have expected that.
If that was the case, he was prepared, you know.
But and also there's there is a limit there on preparation.
(06:44):
He can't visit with other teams the way that most
analysts can because of still being a stakeholder so in
Tampa Bay, so because of that he can't. He can't.
It doesn't mean you can't prepare for it, you know,
and you can properly prepare and they've got producers and
production assistants and all that other kind of stuff. So
(07:05):
I just thought that was a little bit I don't know,
maybe it was just a little bit premature for folks
to say that he was all for us or that
in the first game, because it was it was you know,
too long, you know, it was put it this way.
I think it was premature to say that he was
(07:27):
going to be or thinking he would be top flight
on his first telecast.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
More attention on his broadcast debut than a lot of
NFL games yesterday. I saw more about Brady than I
did see about Jayden Daniels or Caleb Williams at times,
guys who are making their NFL debuts and Brady making
his broadcasting debut a lot of attention, a lot of attention.
So there was really no place from the go except
(07:54):
down off of that broadcast.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, and I think he'll be, you know, like I said,
better over time in this market, we got the Steelers
and the Falcons, and the Steelers with six field goals
was enough to you know, hold off.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They keep winning for Timeless. It doesn't makes no sense,
It makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Buffalo had a little more trouble with the Cardinals than
folks thought they would, but they did win by six.
H You mentioned the Bears, they were down seventeen nothing
that the titan and came back and it was a
will lev has made a horrible mistake in that game.
Try trying to chuck it to get rid of it
and it became a pick six. How about the New
(08:37):
England Patriots. How about that? So the Patriots beating the
Bengals knock at them down.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You know, I've talked about how great the Cowboys are
in the beginning of the season. It's there's some stat
that eventually I'm going to find and pull it up
about their record in September and October, and then it
kind of changes once you get into December January. It
feels like the Cincinnti Bengals are the opposite. Last year
or even the year they went to the Super Bowl,
(09:05):
they always started out slow for some reason, and it's
probably because Burrow was always banged up and get there's
Jamar Chase stuff, but they always start out slow. I
mean in twenty twenty two, the year they lost to
the Rams, they started out h and two in the
season before finally kind of getting it together and then
they went on that huge winning streak at the end
of the year. So Bengals, they're the team where I'm
(09:26):
not gonna look at anything September. Let me see them
in October, November, and then I'll decide.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Historically, they've always been slow starters. If you look back
over their history even to their first time they ever
made the playoffs, and it was their second year as
a as a franchise in nineteen seventy and the first
year of NFC and AFC. The Bengals started one and
(09:51):
six when Paul Brown was coaching him. They won their
last seven games, went eight and six and made the playoffs.
They've had some other years where they made playoffs where
they started off slugacy for whate reason. The Dolphins Tyreek
Hill incident, notwithstanding, found a way to beat the Jaguars
twenty to seventeen. They had to rally back to win
that contest. Also, yesterday Saint just just blasted Panthers. That
(10:19):
was really a Their car had a good game. Vikings
dominated the Giants and the rugly uniforms. Look here's where
I am with those kind of uniforms. And they wore
those like throwbacks are supposed to be from the thirties
and stuff like that. That's all well and good, but
it doesn't work with a modern helmet. On the Super
seventies Twitter site, the guy said it looked like the
(10:42):
It said it looked like Michigan had sex with the
Montreal Canadians, and that was what it produced there, those
blue and red stripes across the jersey.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
There, it only makes Daniel Jones look worse. Like, if
you want a uniform that makes your quarterback look put
Daniel Jones in those threads.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Lord Chargers beat the Raiders, pretty much controlled that one.
Seahawks over the Broncos as they rallied back to win.
That Bucks beat the Commanders. Baker Mayfield and himself a
good afternoon. And then last night the overtime game Lions
Rams Rams looked dead in the water. They were down
seventeen to three and the third and rallied back all
the way back to take the lead. Matthew Stafford brought
(11:25):
him back. But their defense. There were two things that
as a Rams fan, I was just really alarmed about.
First of all, they were down four of their five
starting offensive lineman, two who couldn't play in the game
of the start and two more got hurt during the game.
Said all these backups and it just it wasn't working
for a while. But going to a short pass game
(11:45):
and then changing some things up, then Cooper Cup got hot.
Even after Pooka Nakua had to leave the game injured.
They came back and took that twenty to seventeen lead,
but their defense could not hold it. Lions were able
to drive down, get a field, able to tie it,
and then won the toss. Actually, the Rams won the toss,
and Matthew Stafford called heads. My good friend, the late
(12:06):
Aggie Garrito always said, call tales. Tails never fails, is
what Oggie used to say. Stafford called heads, and the
Rams did not win the toss. He called the toss.
The Lions won the toss, took the ball and the
Rams never saw the ball. The Lions drive at seventy
yards and got the win. I will say this, David
(12:28):
Montgomery's touchdown did help me. I'm probably gonna win my
fantasy football game because I had David Montgomery in the
lineup and he did a lot of the damage on
that drive. A little bit of for you, it is,
it is anyway, all right. Up next, we're gonna hear
more from Longhorn's head coach, Steve Sarkisian. Will continue here
on sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the
iHeart Radio app
Right away alongside the producer Cameron Parker with you here
up until five o'clock and glad to have you alongside
as well. Coming up, we're going to hear more from
Low Warren's head coach Steve Sarkisian. Not only will we
also update the latest college football rankings, but we also
will have power rankings to update you as well, Yes,
(00:23):
in college football as well, So we'll get to that
in a few moments. However, however, let's get to the
NFL and talk about the action that happened the first
Sunday of the first weekend of the National Football League.
As has been documented and discussed last hour, Cameron Parker
(00:44):
did not did not watch his favorite team, the Dallas
Cowboys in action, as they had really very little difficulty,
very little difficulty with the Cleveland Browns in Cleveland yesterday
with the Cowboy he was winning thirty three to seventeen.
That prescott a very efficient game. Zeke Elliott looked looked
(01:08):
chipper and spry at times out there on the field,
did he? Yes, wearing his new number fifteen, and that
was kind of weird. Joe Davis is doing the game
and just said I can't get used to, I mean
not to Kevin Burkhart, working with Tom Brady said I
just he goes. I can't get used to seeing him
wear fifteen, And Brady said, I know, I'm so used
(01:30):
to him wearing twenty one all of those years.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well he wore fifteen, Ohio States, So yes he did.
Chris Faller and Kirk Ervestreet, if they ever do a
Cowboys by the Night game, then they won't be.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Surprised that's went back in fifteen. That's exactly right. Let
me also say this too, I knew this was going
to happen. I think you did as well, Cameron, and
I think a lot of folks did that. Tom Brady
was going to be heavily, heavily scrutinized the first telecast
(02:04):
and to a lesser extent, Cole McCoy on Saturday Night
and both by everything that I've read got largely unfavorable reviews. Now,
in the case of Cold it was mainly split along
party lines. You know, there were a lot of Nebraska
fans and Oklahoma fans that were kind of taking their
shots at him and things like that. As as as such,
(02:26):
I think Cole will be fine over time. This is
probably gonna take a little bit of time for him
to get completely comfortable with stuff. But he had good
things to say. And then there's the deal with Brady,
and there were a lot of people that said, gosh,
all that weren't for this. For this in terms of
what he had to say his analysis of the game,
(02:47):
I thought it was pretty good. Okay, he had he
he had a lot of the same types of things
you would hear Tonny Romo say, except without all the
you know, the guttural. Yeah. However, and this is where
I think a lot of people got turned off. You know,
(03:08):
I really kind of had to ask myself, have you
really seen enough interviews with Tom Brady over the years
and seeing him accept enough awards and speak to understand
that he really does kind of have a little bit
of a whiny, nasal voice. And I didn't. It didn't
(03:31):
hit me until I watched the game yesterday. It's just
he's kind of nasaling. Yeah, he's kind of there's there's
some of that in there, and I think that probably
bothers some folks as much, and so then then they
don't like a lot of the analysis and the things
that he says. But I thought, what he had to
(03:52):
say during the telecast was good. I just thought he
sounded a bit they was the way that I would say.
So that's that was my review of Tom Brady. I
really didn't think it was that what he had to
say was was bad or anything.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It's game one. I don't think people understand how difficult
it really is to be in his Spoty, What do
you mean You just sit there, you just say it's
a good pass the bad pass. But you have such
little time and you are you know, every single word
you say is going to be criticized and reflected on
and picked apart. It's tough and it takes a long time,
(04:35):
I think for analysts to get really good at being
an analyst. Now, he had Tony Romo, who was so
great in his first season, and I think maybe it
was just because it was just a breadth of fresh
air and the way he was. He was so he
wasn't that far removed from the game, so we understood
the defenses very well and the players and knew all
of that. And I think that's what people wanted to
see from Tom Brady. But also it's Tom Brady, so
(04:59):
everything he I think people weren't expecting twenty Romo to
be as good as he was when he first stepped in,
And for Tom Brady, everybody already expected him to be
at this level and he's not there yet. I mean
even we saw on Saturday, Craig, I know you were
calling Texas Michigan, but the game was on Fox and
at halftime they did like a hit with Burkhart or
(05:20):
sorry Joe Joe Clatt, Joe Clatt talking with Tom Brady,
and it just felt a little awkward. The timing was off.
It's just things that I think eventually he'll pick up on.
But as I think it was, the Ringer Awful Announcing
pointed out yesterday that the one game that really matters
for broadcasting for Tom Brady is when he calls Super
Bowl this year. That's the one game that I think
(05:40):
everyone is going to look at. So all of this week, one,
week two, it's all building up to that to that
Super Bowl game where he'll be on the call with
Kevin Burkhart. So a long ways to go. But out
of all the analysts, Craig in your lifetime, from whether
it's play by play or color or even just on TV,
have you seen an analyst with this much.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I don't know if hype is the right phrase, because
it's been over a year in the building. Yeah, that's
I think that's why. Because I think there was somebody
on Facebook that said all of this hype and all
this for that is the way they described it. Well,
my response to that would be, what were you expecting exactly?
(06:22):
How did you did you expect him, you know, to
be whatever equal parts Dandy, Don Meredith and John Madden
or something. I don't think anybody should have expected that.
If that was the case, he was prepared, you know.
But and also there's there is a limit there on preparation.
(06:44):
He can't visit with other teams the way that most
analysts can because of still being a stakeholder so in
Tampa Bay, so because of that he can't. He can't.
It doesn't mean you can't prepare for it, you know,
and you can properly prepare and they've got producers and
production assistants and all that other kind of stuff. So
(07:05):
I just thought that was a little bit I don't know,
maybe it was just a little bit premature for folks
to say that he was all for us or that
in the first game, because it was it was you know,
too long, you know, it was put it this way.
I think it was premature to say that he was
(07:27):
going to be or thinking he would be top flight
on his first telecast.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
More attention on his broadcast debut than a lot of
NFL games yesterday. I saw more about Brady than I
did see about Jayden Daniels or Caleb Williams at times,
guys who are making their NFL debuts and Brady making
his broadcasting debut a lot of attention, a lot of attention.
So there was really no place from the go except
(07:54):
down off of that broadcast.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, and I think he'll be, you know, like I said,
better over time in this market, we got the Steelers
and the Falcons, and the Steelers with six field goals
was enough to you know, hold off.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
They keep winning for Timeless. It doesn't makes no sense,
It makes no sense.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Buffalo had a little more trouble with the Cardinals than
folks thought they would, but they did win by six.
H You mentioned the Bears, they were down seventeen nothing
that the titan and came back and it was a
will lev has made a horrible mistake in that game.
Try trying to chuck it to get rid of it
and it became a pick six. How about the New
(08:37):
England Patriots. How about that? So the Patriots beating the
Bengals knock at them down.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You know, I've talked about how great the Cowboys are
in the beginning of the season. It's there's some stat
that eventually I'm going to find and pull it up
about their record in September and October, and then it
kind of changes once you get into December January. It
feels like the Cincinnti Bengals are the opposite. Last year
or even the year they went to the Super Bowl,
(09:05):
they always started out slow for some reason, and it's
probably because Burrow was always banged up and get there's
Jamar Chase stuff, but they always start out slow. I
mean in twenty twenty two, the year they lost to
the Rams, they started out h and two in the
season before finally kind of getting it together and then
they went on that huge winning streak at the end
of the year. So Bengals, they're the team where I'm
(09:26):
not gonna look at anything September. Let me see them
in October, November, and then I'll decide.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Historically, they've always been slow starters. If you look back
over their history even to their first time they ever
made the playoffs, and it was their second year as
a as a franchise in nineteen seventy and the first
year of NFC and AFC. The Bengals started one and
(09:51):
six when Paul Brown was coaching him. They won their
last seven games, went eight and six and made the playoffs.
They've had some other years where they made playoffs where
they started off slugacy for whate reason. The Dolphins Tyreek
Hill incident, notwithstanding, found a way to beat the Jaguars
twenty to seventeen. They had to rally back to win
that contest. Also, yesterday Saint just just blasted Panthers. That
(10:19):
was really a Their car had a good game. Vikings
dominated the Giants and the rugly uniforms. Look here's where
I am with those kind of uniforms. And they wore
those like throwbacks are supposed to be from the thirties
and stuff like that. That's all well and good, but
it doesn't work with a modern helmet. On the Super
seventies Twitter site, the guy said it looked like the
(10:42):
It said it looked like Michigan had sex with the
Montreal Canadians, and that was what it produced there, those
blue and red stripes across the jersey.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
There, it only makes Daniel Jones look worse. Like, if
you want a uniform that makes your quarterback look put
Daniel Jones in those threads.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Lord Chargers beat the Raiders, pretty much controlled that one.
Seahawks over the Broncos as they rallied back to win.
That Bucks beat the Commanders. Baker Mayfield and himself a
good afternoon. And then last night the overtime game Lions
Rams Rams looked dead in the water. They were down
seventeen to three and the third and rallied back all
the way back to take the lead. Matthew Stafford brought
(11:25):
him back. But their defense. There were two things that
as a Rams fan, I was just really alarmed about.
First of all, they were down four of their five
starting offensive lineman, two who couldn't play in the game
of the start and two more got hurt during the game.
Said all these backups and it just it wasn't working
for a while. But going to a short pass game
(11:45):
and then changing some things up, then Cooper Cup got hot.
Even after Pooka Nakua had to leave the game injured.
They came back and took that twenty to seventeen lead,
but their defense could not hold it. Lions were able
to drive down, get a field, able to tie it,
and then won the toss. Actually, the Rams won the toss,
and Matthew Stafford called heads. My good friend, the late
(12:06):
Aggie Garrito always said, call tales. Tails never fails, is
what Oggie used to say. Stafford called heads, and the
Rams did not win the toss. He called the toss.
The Lions won the toss, took the ball and the
Rams never saw the ball. The Lions drive at seventy
yards and got the win. I will say this, David
(12:28):
Montgomery's touchdown did help me. I'm probably gonna win my
fantasy football game because I had David Montgomery in the
lineup and he did a lot of the damage on
that drive. A little bit of for you, it is,
it is anyway, all right. Up next, we're gonna hear
more from Longhorn's head coach, Steve Sarkisian. Will continue here
on sports Radio AM thirteen under the zone of the
iHeart Radio app
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