The Fellas with Anthony Gargano & Jason Fitz talk the Return of The NFL, the Eagles, Week 2 of College Football Matchups & MORE!

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this is just amazing, man Chiefs and Ravens. A record
of twenty eight point nine million people watch the opening
kickoff which was fantastic, incredible everything and the toe. It
was just an amazing start. And last night we had
Game number two Friday Night, a little bit of a

(01:13):
different vibe from Brazil, but interesting game, a little sloppier
than I think than Thursday night, but we saw the
stars on display. Sa Quon Barkley, Oh man, I just
I feel your pain, Giants fans, I feel your pain.
Saquon three touchdowns last night Eagles over the Packers, and

(01:38):
we hold our breath for Jordan Love to make sure
he's okay. He did walk at the end with some help,
and you saw him hobble off to the sidelines and
he was walking back in the locker room. He did
not speak with reporters last night. The Packers did not
have any idea what was wrong with its status is

(01:58):
so we'll find out about that. A big day at
college football. And my main man awaits for his Raiders
the autumn win is a pirate, and so is Jason Fits.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Good morning, FITZI.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
You know, I was watching that game last night or
a few hours ago in our lives, and all I
kept thinking was how happy I am for you, and
how beautiful this offense is gonna be. Like it's funny,
I was. I was doing a show for Yahoo a
couple of days ago, and I said that I thought,
I think and I do believe the Ravens have the
chance to be one of the toughest offenses to stop

(02:33):
in the NFL. And I laid out my case for why.
My co host said, so, you must feel the same
way about the Eagles offense, because you can make the
argument across the board, and I said, absolutely, like you,
what you saw last night was the power that the
Eagles can present in a lot of different ways. Jalen
Hurts a little sloppy early on. I think we can
all agree some of those throws were regrettable. There were
some moments early on, but I think we all have

(02:55):
to understand, especially going into tomorrow, that's gonna happen for
every team. Just the leg rep the limited, everything like
that is going to happen, and so the question is
can you survive that and make the most of it?
And my god, it just their ability to beat you
at every different layer and level of offense is just
going to be a problem for everybody all year long.

(03:18):
The fact that they were able to replicate the Brotherly
Shove with so much success, I think was wildly significant.
The fact that they survived that field with no injuries
was wildly significant. So I don't know, man, I just
I felt like it was a statement win for the
Eagles early on, and really just a key moment for
that team to say, hey, we are as good as
advertised and we are one of the best teams in

(03:39):
the NFC.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, I mean it was great. You know, you had
obviously Green Bay has an incredible power house.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I think the quarterback play was spotty with both on
both teams. I thought Love and Hurts did not play
especially while not given that I think they're both of
their talents and to your point.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Barkley is absolutely frightening.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
I mean, you know, the the the offensive power that
the Eagles have, your spot on fifty, it's just scary
because Aj Brown is probably one of the most underrated
receivers in the league. He's got incredible size, speed, amazing hands.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
It is a completely dominant player.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Like we hear you know, rightly so about some of
the speed guys in the league and everybody else, and
you know, Aj Brown just kind of is there.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
DeVante Smith is a legit weapon.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
And when you have a triangle of Brown, Smith and Barkley,
I mean it's I mean, that's just ridiculous, right, and
you also got a good tight end. I'm with you.
I did not like the way Hurts played last night.
I'm going to talk it up to not playing in
the preseason, and which is my beef with Sirianni and

(05:03):
has been my beef, Like you gotta play a little bit, man,
I mean, you have a new center, you have, you know,
a new interior part of your line.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
You got. You gotta play.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
I mean, you know, no one's saying you gotta play
four quarters, but you gotta play a little bit. They
didn't play it down in the preseason and they only
had one joint practice and they looked incredibly rusty. It
was an incredibly sloppy game.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
But hurts.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
I did see some stuff that I saw last year
that I did not like. He was very careless with
the ball he had. He nearly got picked off three
other times, bad decisions.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
As great as he can be and he can be good,
but he's.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Gotta give me more subtle movements within the pocket and
not take off constantly. He's got really happy feedback there.
That was a problem last year, and they're gonna blitz
them all seasons. People are gonna be in his face.
That's a Packers defense with a new DC, that's a
revamped defense. And with those skill people that you have,

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you got to be going point, and you got to
be making decisions, and you got to be able to
see what you're looking at. You know, you chalking up
the first couple of games to that whole thing rossed
and everything else. But I did see some tendencies that
I saw last year that I didn't like. And if
you're gonna call out the protections, you got to make
sure you see it correctly. There was a couple of

(06:36):
times when guys were coming free off the edge and
it was complete miscall and protections.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
There was also a fine line. I felt like the
broadcast praised a couple of those throws where somebody was
coming in free and say, well, they knew he was coming,
and there's just a little bit of you can't trust
your athleticism so much that you're not willing to make
the proper adjustments. I agree with that totally, and he
is definitely Both quarterbacks last night, I will say we're
not only a couple of times really reckless with the ball,

(07:06):
but they were late in a reckless decisions. Hate like
if you're throwing the ball, if you're throwing the ball
up for grabs, but you're doing it because you're just
heaving it late, that just doesn't feel good, you know,
So certainly some things I think to work on. But
if you're walking away from it and you see that
explosion from Saquon and I don't think. You know, it's
funny because over the course of the last few years,

(07:28):
we all know how good Saquon is. I don't think
there was ever a question of that, Like health has
been a concern at times, But then the minute he
got away from the Giants, didn't we all sort of
think this is gonna be something. This feels a lot
like Christian McCaffrey when he got away from the Panthers.
It's like, well, now he's around enough talent that it
can be exactly what we saw last night. And that's
just you know, I've been tough on Keller Moore on

(07:49):
this show, right, and I thought last night Keller Moore
had a really nice Saquon game plan dialed up and
that was just that was fun to watch. And if
you're a Giants fan, and we've we've talked a little about,
you know, what the hot seat looks like this year
in New York. If Saquon continues to do this week
in and week out and the Giant struggle, that's only
gonna make Giants fans scream more for heads to roll

(08:10):
in New York.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, man, I mean I can only imagine if I'm
a Giant fan I'm sick to my stomach because you
realize what you've had over you know, the you know
the past years that you just completely wasted without a quarterback.
I mean, you know othersten I can nitpick with with

(08:32):
Jalen Hurts all day long, but you know he's an
accomplished quarterback with amazing weapons. And you know that to
have the weapons around Saquon, like I talked to out
a James Brown and DeVante Smith, I mean, when you
have those guys, I mean, it's it just makes a
running back like you saw it. You can't load up

(08:55):
the box. It's impossible to do that. So he's going
to have space. If I were the Eagles, I would
ditch the RPO all day long and just freaking run
the ball like you don't need to be cute about it.
You got you know McKay becked in it right guard
and just run the freaking ball.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
And you see.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
How explosive he is through the between the tackles and
how he can just bust it. I mean, I'm with you.
I think he's going to have a monster you know,
not just with touchdowns. I think he I mean, he's
going to be going for a buck thirty a buck
sixty like he's scary. He saw him on the wheel
route and the touchdown. I mean, my god, And.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
That was a really nice throw as hard as we've
been on her. So that was a nice throw the
right spot, Like, yes, it was yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, beautiful throw. Listen, he could throw it. He can
be accurate. He could, you know, one of the best players.
The best games I've ever seen the quarterback play was
was the Super Bowl against Kansas City, where I mean
he was every bit as good as my homes with
his throws.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
I mean they were all on the money.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
It's just the other nuance of playing the positions is
kind of where I'm at with that team around you, right,
Like we're grading at a super Bowl level, which is
not fair and week one, but when you had those
skill people around you, I mean, quarterbacks would kill for
what he has.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Well here two thousand percent, right, and let that heightens
the expectation. We talk all the time about, you know
the fact that there's this cesar te to totter and
the talent lifts the quarterback in the beginning, then the
quarterback lifts the talent. The Eagles have chosen not to
participate in that and then figured out a way the
rest of the league should be enviable about where you
can continue to put those types of weapons around him,
you know. So it is an all star sort of

(10:49):
opportunity to come in. But even it's funny as we're
talking the games on replay on the NFL network on
in my office right and I'm watching literally as we're
talking the it just makes no sense some of the play,
like Jalen Hurts doing the RPO thing makes no sense
with the rest of the offense being around and you
just mentioning that. But its just at some point he's
gonna have to trust his athleticism a little bit less

(11:12):
and he's gonna have to be a little bit more
of a quarterback in this system in my mind, you know.
And that's and speaking of that, the other thing too
is I looked at coming into this game, I expected,
you know that. I've had my my opinions on Jordan Love.
I thought, Jordan Love, I think he's gonna take a
little step back this year. It's not I don't It's
not that I don't trust the talent. I just think
he got hot last year on a good run. I

(11:32):
don't know what that's gonna look like for the majority
of this game. In fact, the numbers, I mean seventeen
to thirty four for two sixty, the numbers do lie
because there were a couple of really nice big passes
in there that inflated those. I thought Jordan Love looked
a little lost through some of this game wasn't particularly
Jordan Love of last year.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
So I spied on let's I was. I wanted to
dive into it.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
You were You've been saying that in uh and you've
been spot on, you wall, you were spot on last
night he uh Ayden Reid had the that one big
play and had a couple of others and you love
miss guys all light last night. I thought he was
terrible last night. To be honest with you, I thought

(12:12):
he missed guys a.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Lot of throws that were behind. To your point, yes,
guy's cutting across the field and it's like it's just
it was thrown to the wrong shoulder over and over
and over again. And I'm watching this thinking, man, this
is the young crew that we've been touting all off
season that you're growing and developing with that you should be.
You should at this point have chemistry like we can
only talk about the youth of this team for so long.
They've been together for a minute, right, So I was

(12:35):
a little surprised to see that some of those throws
were just they were late and behind. And that's just
not that's not good.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
No, And again, you know, I don't want to freak out,
you know, for him and Jalen in the sense that
it's Brazil, right like, so you got to take that
into account. It the filled with slippery the uh, it's
the opening night when you not playing a ton in
the preseason.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
The only the only bad part of last night was
the freaking flags.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Oh my god, one after another after another. I mean
it feels like we do this every year where we
complained about the laundry on the field, but it was
it was just egregious last night. And and I guess
I'll just talk it up to like we're talking about
but you know, with week one, and I guess that's

(13:31):
what it's gonna be like. But you're right, man, like
Jordan Love you dude, you got to talk about weapons.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Is he lacking anything?

Speaker 2 (13:40):
And where was Luke Musgrave? Where I didn't see Luke
Musgrave anywhere? I mean I saw craft on a couple
of breakdowns, especially the one crosser. But I didn't see Musgrave.
You know, Dobbs was pretty quiet. I saw I saw
guys running free too.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah, that's that's the biggest part of it, you know
what you just said. It's not that the coverage was
so sticky. Nobody was there, Like, there were guys out
there and he just didn't find him. And when he
did find try to find some guys. There were a
couple of drops, but they were also you know, be
credited to his drops, but they're also bad, you know,
bad throws. And I'm most surprised by that. I was

(14:19):
a little surprised that there wasn't more effective running from
Josh Jacobs. I thought the Eagles did a really nice
job for the most part of bottling Josh up. Like
I thought, big things, explosive things from a running back
that I think can handle a lot, and you know,
he had one big run and the rest of the
time was really pretty much under control. So it's, uh,
the offense itself looked a little out of whack for

(14:40):
Green Bay, and Jordan is a part of that. I mean,
if he's if he's missing those throws, then it just
changes everything. So yeah, he was as got a lot
to work on.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Oh yeah, he it's.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
A couple of third outs that were that were bad.
Like I'll be honestly, I was. I thought he was
wildly inaccurate. I mean, he had guys open that he
just flat out missed. I will say this that Kenyan
Mitchell is the truth. The cornerback. He's a rookie cornerback

(15:12):
who from Toledo who I think is really really good
and uh zach Bahn fifteen tackles. That's the way to
clean up in the middle of that field.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
And by the way, Mitchell, they went at Mitchell early,
they went at Mitchell often. I felt like they and
he was there. Yeah that you watched that and thought, Okay,
all of that draft type was actually real, all of
that draft type was actually worth something. Nikobe Dean had
a couple of moments in that game that, even if
you didn't get credited with, he disrupted plays. I think
there were there were some really good prices.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Jalen Carter, Wow, Jalen Carter is going to be a
game wrecker.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
Man.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
He was in there. He was in there more than
a few times. He's a nasty young star waiting to blossom.
He just he's good.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Jalen Carter is a beast.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, And I mean we kind of I think we
had heightened expectations for Jalen last year because he was
so touty coming into his first year. I think you're right,
he even looks more like, you know, a man amongst
men at this point the year in the league feels
like it's just it's changed his body a little bit,
It's changed his conditioning a little bit. You're right. He
was disruptive and that's isn't that what we were waiting

(16:29):
for all your last year? Like we thought immediately him
coming into that defensive line that the year before it
had so many sacks and so much disruption, we really
thought that that was going to be, you know, epic,
and last year it had some moments. But you're right.
I sat there and watched last night and thought, yep,
this is something is clicked, and sometimes it takes a
little bit, you know, for guys to have a click
like that.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
He was really good like the first half of the year,
and then yeah, he hit that rookie wall and he
really kind of tailed off. But uh, like you saw
last night and he's he's going to have he's going
to have a big year. I could I could see that. Listen.
We got so much to talk about today. This is

(17:12):
gonna be uh I can I just tell you how
great is.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
It to have the NFL back.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
I mean, my god, twenty eight point nine million people
watch it, so we're not alone. Man, Like Thursday night
was absolutely spectacular. On the other side, we got to
get all into that because it was. It was spectacular, FITZI.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, Thursday night felt special. It really did. With those
two teams. I know, we got lots to break down
on that. Thursday Night felt special. It felt right. You know,
you just had this your your whole soul calms down.
You hear the music, you got the game, and I
had it on and every speaker in the house so
that wherever I went, it was just following me and
it just got it. It felt so good.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
That's awesome. All right, Sit tight. We got tons to do.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
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is another good day. And then of course kickoff tomorrow.
So we got a ton of things to go over

(18:22):
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Speaker 3 (19:18):
So I'm just watching.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Somebody had a video of Jordan Love on the sidelines
after the injury, and man, he's hob one.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
That does not look good.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
I mean, this is and by the way, totally catastrophic
for the Packers if it's any meaningful time. They went
out and get Malik Willis from the Titans, who was
I think a third round draft pick but never really
in serious contended to be anything for the Titans. It
feels like that was a miss. They took a flyer
on a quarterback in the third round and just tried
to see if they could develop something they couldn't. He

(19:49):
gets traded for a conditional seventh round pick, and it
looks like he is the backup. So if you're a
team right now that you know you're building on the future,
and you're also in the moment right now in one
of the toughest not the toughest division in football, you
can't afford to lose your quarterback for any amount of time.
So the hope is that whatever that is, you know,
long flight to have to go through too with whatever
that is, hopefully you know the test I'll come back

(20:11):
negative and he's going to be fine. It's nothing substantial,
but you're right, it did. The hobbling looked pretty bad,
Like I know, he walked off, but it didn't look right.
So let's see what it looks like.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, there was a h I just saw an Actually
there's him. He was like walking on the sidelines and
it looked nasty. Yeah, obviously the knee, it just looked
it just looked tough as he was trying to kind
of hobble around.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
So I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Hopefully he's uh, he's all right, doesn't have to mis
serious time. I mean, you're spot on about Malik Willis.
I mean, he's no answer, that's for sure. I mean,
and you know, to have a season with all kinds
of hope, and you know you God forbid week one
to lose your quarterback. It reminded it was horrible. It

(21:00):
reminded me of a play that I'm still scarred from.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
And the year was nineteen ninety one, FITZI.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
And I was a boy and a young Eagles fan,
Randall Conningham. There was there was a play at Green Bay,
lambeau Field guy named Bryce Pop got Randall Conningham and
broke his leg four passes into the season where the

(21:32):
Eagles had the greatest defense on the planet, Reggie White
and Jerome Brown, and the season ended catastrophically. They had
the best defense, but they finished with no quarterback and
the season died four passes into it. So you know,
I wish that'll know one.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, it's it's that moment where you lose all hope
when it starts to feel like that's your situation. And
you're right, I mean that's what Jet's fans felt last year,
right like, yeah, look at it and you say, how
could this possibly happen? So, you know, for Jordan particularly too,
you're just it's such a dynamic offense. It's built around
the slow and low approach that they've given to developing him, right,

(22:15):
so you know, there's supposed to be something special this year.
But also I want to continue to harp on the
fact that you're talking about a player that is still,
in football terms, kind of young, you know, like hasn't
played a ton of football. He needs these games, he
needs these reps, you know. So it all makes me
nervous for where the organization is going to go moving forward.

(22:35):
And again, hopefully we find out that this is just
a little thing that will bother him for a couple
of weeks. But we've also seen plenty of times where
even if it doesn't keep a quarterback out. Remember how
different Trevor Lawrence looked last year with the high ankle
Sprain for example, he played through it but didn't mean
that he was the Trevor Lawrence that were used to see.
And so you know, they got to hope that they
get the best version moving forward of Jordan Love somehow,

(22:58):
some way at some point this season.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
All right, so let's talk Thursday night and let's talk
three pete because it's entirely possible.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Man, it's entirely possible.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
And you and I talked about this, this one weapon,
and I always talked about Andy Reid loving his toys.
Xavier Worthy, man, FITZI, he's scary with them. He's absolutely frightening.

(23:34):
Xavier Worthy could change, could change the whole course of
the Chiefs in the sense that they're as good as
ever on defense right with spags, and he makes things
work even though there's no sneed. He offensively to give

(23:55):
Andy that speed guy to go along with all those
other pieces to check go Kelsey. You know he'll get
Hollywood brown back at some point. That's frightening, dude. Xavier
Worthy is a frightening piece to the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
I literally sat there watching the game and I said
out loud to no one. At one point they got
their Tyreek again. And you know I loved I loved
Xavier when he was drafted. I love Xavier on the show,
I love Xavier in my fantasy leagues. I got him
in all of them because it just felt like this
was inevitable. But I watched the beginning of it, and
it wasn't even just him at the beginning of that

(24:34):
game when you saw his explosive speed and then Rashi
Rice just had an extra pop like yeah, it felt
like suddenly the turbo button was pressed. And all I
kept thinking is every NFL team is watching this and saying,
Holy you know what, how are we supposed to stop this?
Because if you go back and think to how hard
last year looked offensively and how everything felt like Mahomes

(24:56):
had to pull teeth. They went into this raven team.
I'll be a new defense, it's some coordinator, gonna be
some adjustment. I'll buy all of that. But they went
in against a fairly talented defense and it looked really
easy for that offense to move the football, and that
in Week one, we just talked about having a little
bit of grace and forgiveness for offenses being a little
out of sync. When you think about what we saw
last night. Well, then think about what you saw Thursday

(25:19):
night because the Chiefs. Yeah, no, I'm more confident now
than ever that the Chiefs are gonna repeat.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
I know. I mean, Rice was ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
You know, Ravens are good, right, like the Ravens, Like,
that's still a good defense. I know the lot some people,
but that's still a good defense. They're frightening, man, They're
every bit scary that Chiefs team. My god, you know,

(25:50):
because they could have Checko just rolling and they could
just beat you at you know.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
Kelsey was quiet.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah, and it's funny, Becau. I feel like the summer
conversation was, well, no tight end at his age other
than I think one time at his age has ever
had a thousand yards receiving. So everybody's thinking, well, what's
gonna happen? And you looked at that and thought, exactly,
they don't really need a thousand yards from Travis Kelcey.
Like they can continue. They can do after one game.

(26:18):
They can do exactly what they did last year, which
is let Kelsey just sort of take it easy, be
a part of it, but don't wear yourself out. Save
it for the postseason, and then when they get to
the postseason. He can then put the turbo button on.
It's electric. When you think about how many different ways
that this Chiefs team is going to be able to
beat you offensively this year. And I watch that, I think, Plus,

(26:41):
you've got Mahomes working with such effortlessness when it comes
to his ability to get the timing down, like Worthy
is the fastest player we've ever seen in the combine
and he never had to wait on a football Like
to me, that's just so incredible for a quarterback to
just be like, yep, got it. We hear all the time, Well,
you know it's gonna take them some time to gel together, Chiefs.
Not if you're Mahomes takes you out a day and

(27:02):
then you're like, yep, got this hit him and stride
over and over and over again.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
You're right.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Andy Reid is just so capable of cooking with whatever
he gets that it's it's really beautiful.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Well, the other aspect of it, thanks the other. The
other aspect of it is, uh Andy is a brilliant coach, right,
and he does not subscribe to Hey, I'm gonna turtle
up in the in the preseason, and so he played
those guys in a pre in the preseason. He practiced hard.

(27:34):
Their trading camp is hard, and so when they come
out to start the season, they're ready, like they looked
game ready, and Baltimore is the same way. Like you
saw the difference between two teams prepared to play the
regular season and two teams who weren't.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah, you're so right. And I think what's funny is
if you're listening to the broadcast, the number of times
Collins were kept saying, well, this this is Look at
the emotion of Lamar. He's so fired up. He's putting
everything into this game. Which I hate that concept because
it implies that, you know, Lamar doesn't bring it every game,
which when you're a two time MVP at his age,
is fairly stupid. I think it's bad analysis. That being said,

(28:16):
I will buy that the Ravens have spent the entire
offseason thinking about this game, came in with the thunder
of the Gods to this game, played with everything they
had for this game. They gave it all and they lost.
So like it's just it's I mean, yeah, yeah it is.
And it's just a reminder that there's like the Chiefs
and then there's not a gap. There's like a moat.

(28:37):
There's a whole like there's a whole continent between the
Chiefs and the rest of the NFL.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
In my mind, dude, I'm still with you.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
I look around and I go, all right, so who
else out there is as good as that?

Speaker 5 (28:54):
Like?

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Who else in the AFC? Look at the contenders? All right?
You got sense it and he will see.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
We're gonna go look at them, and you know, you
got to believe that they're gonna be pretty good. You
look at well at the East I don't you know,
we Muffalo, We've been through one hundred times. Miami. We'll
see about the Jets if Rogers stays healthy. Uh, you know,
love the Browns defense, don't love the Browns quarterback.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
There's nobody.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
I mean the Texans are you know, you know, we'll
see because they have a lot of firepower that you know,
they could be the next best contender. I mean there's
a possibility, but many they are just wicked. Man, you
got the best quarterback in the game, and now you
give him that speed guy. Dude, nobody I have to

(29:50):
say this right because I've been around Andy since he started.
I was with him in nineteen ninety nine when he
started his head coaching career in Philadelphia, and that dude know,
as good as he is as a coach, he might
be a better talent evaluator. Nobody knows talent the way

(30:13):
he does. Nobody knows quarterbacks, mu said with that, but
nobody knows receivers. He's unbelievable at identifying receivers. Deshaal Jackson, right,
the speed guy who I did the little speed guy
that he identifies, It's unreal. Deshael Jackson, Tyreek Hill and

(30:37):
Xavier Worthy, Racey Rice, like, the guy knows the talent.
He knows offensive lineman. My god, his greatest gift might
be that.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
And he knows he knows what he needs because a
lot of those players when they if they go to
a different system, they go to a team, they may
not have the same success. Tyreek Hill obviously an exception
to that rule. But he knows exactly what he's looking
for and exactly how to make the most of it.
And when you ask who can compete, I think what
we have to acknowledge is who else in the league

(31:12):
has not even the best let's just say top two.
Who else in the league has a top two quarterback
and a top two head coach and a top two
GM and a top two defensive coordinator. Because that's what
the Chiefs have built, and there's no doubt about that,
Like there is some moment where we have to step
back and just acknowledge that a big part of why

(31:32):
the Chiefs are great is that they've really got like
this mount Rushmore going right now. Andy Reid is him,
Spags is him, right, Mahomes is him? So where do
you catch that? How do you find a coach that
is going to be content in a place being an
offensive coordinator for years even though he might be capable

(31:53):
of being a head coach. Again, where do you find
a head coach it's accomplished absolutely everything you could want
to accomplish, but is still going at the level he's
going and doing it with a level of joy that
creates a locker room people want to be a part of.
Where you're gonna find, you know, a quarterback that is Mahomes,
You're not where you're gonna find you know, a Kelsey
You're not, you know. So it's just you put all
of these things together and then you add the extra

(32:13):
seasoning of what worthy can be, what Rice can be,
and what Pacheco can be, and what Chris Jones obviously
was to that defensive line, like, this is not just
Brady and Belichick. I cannot stress that enough. This is
Brady and Belichick and more all in one. And that's
just you ain't gonna beat it like you might beat
it on any given Sunday because it's football and you
can get lucky. But if your game plan is to

(32:35):
sit down and say, how do we top all the chiefs,
we do it by building a better organization. We're gonna
build a better widget. Guess what you can't like They
are head and tails above everybody.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Else for a race. It's spot on.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
And and you know, here's the thing about Belichick is
that you got Andy right, who is just an offensive coach.
Obviously he matterage the game, but he's the offensive coach.
And you have Spags, who's the defensive coach, who is like,
so you have a whereas Belichick was one man, here's

(33:10):
a two headed monster and he doesn't even look at
the defense. You know, listen, you know how close I
had with Steve and my kids called Michael Spags right
like that dude, I've been saying for twenty years is
the most underrated football mind. I was telling owners, what
do you do when you got to hire this guy? Like, oh,

(33:32):
forget about Saint Louis. It was a disaster. What happened.
He walked into a job that was that was made
to foul, and yet this guy was on the street.
It was a disgrace. It would really disgrace the guy.
Nobody coaches defense the way that dude does.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Think about to the real quick the moment right before
or the moment of the game where Spags called a
timeout and on the broadcast, they were like, he can't
do that. Only the head coach can. Head coaches that
would have had a problem with their defensive coordinator running
down and calling a timeout, not Andy Reed. It just
speaks to the empowerment everybody has in that organization, empowerment
with that level of talent. Yeah, good luck trying to

(34:11):
beat that.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Amy's the beast, you know, listen, you know, I mean
it's bags. I was breaking the stones about it. We
were texting about it yesterday. I'm like, dude, what a
big red set? And he goes, I know I gave
you a lot of leeway, but geez, whatever, wait till
I retire. You know, it's funny. It was funny. All right,

(34:35):
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We got stuff to talk about all day long, all
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Speaker 3 (34:56):
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Speaker 2 (35:00):
You know what the best is that like the last
two nights just having the NFL and then now going
into a day of college. Oh my god, it's I
don't know what it is, but I think the I
think the fans, I think we love it even more.

(35:23):
Like I don't know what it is, but like they
broke records Thursday night by over a million people, over
a million viewers, and I sense it, like I sense
people just going, oh my god, thank God's football's back.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
You sense that too, not just.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
That and it And the funny part about that is
you could argue that usually a two time defending champion
that could go for three would be a reason why
people are bored, right, Like, yes, yes, and that's not
all the case. I understand why people are freaking out
frankly about college football because this year is going to
be so different than anything I've seen, so like I

(36:02):
get that. What I'm a little surprised that everybody's flocking
to the NFL when maybe, like right now, it just
feels like it's a little more predictable. And then it's
been night. The NFL is never predictable. But if we're
today just making a guess, then you could say that,
all right, right now, the Chiefs look like they're set
to three peet. That's not usually the greatest thing for

(36:23):
a sport. But it's not holding anything back here.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
It's so true. It's you're so spot on, man, so.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Cultural phenomenon right now. It's just I think it it's
more than the game. It's just the social experiment, social
experience that the game has become, you know, like it's
it's it's it's bigger than all of that. And that's
that's the crazy part about it. Like there's a my
group text we're all blowing up on Thursday night. You know,
this just feels so right and oh my god, and

(36:54):
everybody's talking trash last night, and like it just feels
like it's bigger than this is an event it's a
social event even for people fantasy football gambling makes it
this way. But no matter where you are in the country,
no matter where your friends are in the country, you
come together for this social event that has become. Yeah,
you know the NFL is it?

Speaker 3 (37:14):
That is it? I guess it is.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
I don't want to think it's solely because of fantasy
football and gambling. But I watched that speaking of Peacock
because the game was on Peacock. They have that show
about ancient Rome, those about to die.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
And they have the games, right, like the.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Games, not just the gladiator fights, but they have chariot races,
and they like they show the people.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Freaking like, oh it's the gauge and they're freaking out.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
They're loving it, and you know, they have it like
it's brilliantly dumb because it follows like a betting.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Paller and.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
It's it's a it's a good it's really well done.
But I'm thinking, is this just modern day bread and circuses?

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (38:10):
I mean to me, it is because it wasn't that
long ago, ten years, fifteen years ago. What are you
want to say? It wasn't that long ago that a
random game that you didn't care about like Titans Bears.
If you're not a Titans a Bears fan, you don't
have a reason to watch it. Right now, Titans Bears,
which I think is actually a sneaky interesting matchup on Sunday,
is something that people are gonna watch like, and people

(38:30):
are gonna talk about, and people are gonna be interested in.
And you know, we've become so consumed with not just
the gambling part, but I think the fantasy parts a
huge part of it, and it allows everybody to invest
in players in a different way than they used to.
In the NFL. What's interesting is that we've talked about before.
In the NBA, they market the players and they don't
care about the teams. In the NFL, you have generational

(38:52):
fandom of teams and you also have rooting player interests.
So you managed to capture both somehow. You've captured the
individual the team because of the life legacy. You've captured
the individual because of the gambling and because of the fantasy.
And that means you're paying attention to every ounce, every game,
and that's that's just different. That's different than any other sport.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
Yeah, I know, I yeah, I hear you.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
I mean, it's it's amazing, like I just you feel it,
like you sense it social media, just the local and
you're in every nook and crany of our country. It's
something that's, oh my guy, it's like, thank god football
I don't have to worry about elections and the state

(39:33):
of his country. I could just watch and enjoy some football.
Like that's enjoyable.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
God, you're so right. It just makes such a huge difference.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
All right, let's do this.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Coming up, I want to switch to a little college football.
All right, Michigan and Texas coming up. We're gonna get
into that. Fellas hanging Fox Sports Radio, Sports Radio. Well,
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into what's going to happen tomorrow. But let's go to

(40:39):
college football. A big day today, and usually it's funny.
The week two is usually a stepped down from the
week one and all the fanfare, and I do want
to go over week one with you, but we don't
have it step down because we get started big noon
kickoff on five, and it's a monster Michigan Texas. We

(41:05):
saw Texas last week and it was a lot of fun.
Colorado State they drill, you wears, it's a party. Arch
Manning gets in the game, he does a little flip, right,
little flip mahomes like touched down and the crowd's going
wild and it's a party as Colorado State is getting

(41:27):
playing the Turkey dinner in Texas. Now it's Michigan, and
you wonder what's Michigan going to be like. They struggled
a little bit against Friends. No they pull away, they
win thirty to ten, but you know it was thirteen
to three after three quarters. You know, you wonder about

(41:49):
just how good they are. And you're gonna wonder about
you know what it's like. You know what's life like
without Harball, well, losing McCarthy, losing all those guys.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
So you're you come in now you've got to.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Face a mighty Texas team that's looking at the flex
they're a seven point favorite. How about that at Michigan
a seven point favorite. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
But the thing of it is, and look, I try
not to overreact to week one in any sport, So
like one thing we're all gonna do is we're gonna
freak out week one the NFL and decide that teams
are terrible or teams are great based on one game.
I don't want to do that. But you can't take
away the fact that Texas looks so effortless, Quinn viewers,
looks so accurate, sharp with the ball, a good ball placement,

(42:39):
quick to get it out, like just just really a
great understanding of exactly what they're trying to accomplish. And
then you go back and you rewatch Michigan's win over
Fresno and you're right, like it was disjointed, is the
best way I can say it. Like I walked away
from it without a real sense of what the identity
of Michigan football is right now. So for me, it's
hard not to see Texas just win it big. The
explosiveness of Texas offense was maybe the most impressive thing

(43:02):
we saw in Week one outside of maybe one of
the big wins. It to me, Texas looked so in
control from the outset. This is an opportunity to make
a very big statement win. This is an opportunity to
in a tough sec for particularly, it's an opportunity for
Texas to get that landmark Committee win that will help
them if they are fine for the at large bid. Like,

(43:24):
there's just a lot on the line for Texas in this.
I think they roll. I think Texas wins by double digits.
And that's in part because Texas looks that good and
in part because I just have no idea what Michigan's
actual identity looks like right now.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Well, you and I see it the same way, completely,
the same way. Texas looks mighty. It just does. It
looks it looks mighty, and I and I'm with you,
like you know, you know, I know it's Colorado State,
but they executed flawlessly, and I you know, this Michigan
team is obviously we all knew what it was, what

(43:58):
it was going to be like after the National Championship
and losing its soul in Harball. We knew what it
was going to be like, and so you know, this
is kind of where it is. But it's funny. You know,
who would have thought right and they're at home and
they're a seven point dog, and you go, that's not enough.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
Yeah, my god. Like, but that's just such a crazy
statement to the new world of college football, right because
I think we just sometimes we forget this is the
first season we've seen with no Saban, no Harball, and
that means we're allowed to reset our expectations on what
some of these teams look like. There are coaches that
intrinsically every year get benefit of the doubt, and those

(44:40):
were two of them. I struggle to give that benefit
of the doubt to more, you know, like and even
to some level to debor like I think it's going
to be interesting. They have to earn that right like
every other coach does. So it's okay to look at
it and say this is a new Michigan, But it's
also weird to think about the Big House being sort
of this spot now that Texas can go in and roll.

(45:02):
I just said that that's not normal in any of
our minds. But this is where if you're Texas. You
go in, you execute to this the hype, and I
know we say Texas is back every year and we're
wrong about it. Like, I don't want to do that.
But man, as good as Arch looked in the second
half when he came in for slop time, it only
made it more impressive to me that Quinn viewers has

(45:23):
held off Arch through this whole point, whole process, which
speaks to how well Quinn has played. I just I
struggle to find a real weakness for Texas football right now.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
No, And I gotta tell you the viewers is uh.
I love that kid, man, I really do. Because we
all knew Arch and we all kept waiting for Arch
and they were looking for any excuse to supplant him.
And I love to see a humors party, right like,

(45:56):
make this just be one big you know, libration him
this year. I'm with you, I'm I'm rooting for him.
And they're they're nasty, man, They're really really good, they
really are. You want to do a little exercise and
go through last week and what we learned.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
So let's start.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Let's start in a game that we both loved and
it was Georgia Clemson and it was the route we expected.
It was you know, Carson Beck, and it was you know,
Georgia Rowland. All over all Clemson not being able. You
could see that they are just in a different class.

(46:44):
They're not in that elite class that George is in.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
The biggest proof of that is the very argument Clemson
fans make on while we're overreacting to the result, because
they'll all say it was close for the first half.
Bad teams are capable of keeping it close with good
teams for a half, but then the depth plays into it.
The inability to compete at that level for the entire
sixty minutes plays into it. Like all of these things
are things we're used to seeing when we talk about

(47:10):
small school takes on big school or okay school takes
on good school. That's exactly what we saw on this.
Like Clemson was competitive for a half. Their defense played
really well. I will give them a lot of credit.
Notre Dame's defense. Sorry, George's defense looked absolutely great throughout
the course of this, But the fact that it just
got so ugly in the second half is just a
reminder that in a world where you choose not to

(47:30):
use the transfer portal and where nil isn't as big
a deal. You just don't have the depth to compete.
Georgia is elite, Clemson is everybody else. Clemson is a
mid level program at this point that's fighting for mid
level attention, that's going to be fighting for the occasional
wild guard spot in the playoffs. They are no longer
nationally prominent.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
Like I know it was six and off at halftime,
having watched that game.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Like you did, they didn't even look close to score
like there was no you saw quite.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
Friend, I have a friend of.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Mine who dabbles in the the betting arts, and so
he was texting me about the game and what I thought,
and I was like, by the way, dude, if I
were you, I jump all over Georgia live. I mean,
I don't. I can't see this game there. It's inevitable
that they're gonna pull away. And that's just the way

(48:23):
it look like. First quarter they were sloppy, like you
could see the Georgia offense was sloppy, and then you
could see them start to come alive.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
And to me, it was it was I know it was.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Only six to nothing, and I know it was scoreless
after the first quarter, but it looked.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
I saw that. You saw the disparity between those two teams.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
No, I mean, and this is what we're gonna see
all year long. By the way, like Georgia is at
a spot now where at halftime they went in and said, okay, guys,
we should probably wake up. Let's let's go ahead and
take care of some business. And then they did exactly that.
And it's funny because I think one of the most
slept on things nationally, I won't say necessarily in the South,
but nationally in college football this year is the Georgia

(49:06):
is the number one team in the country. Like I
just I don't feel like we sit here every week
and say, man, Georgia, we're not talking about Georgia with
the same tone and tenternationally that we usually talk about
teams that are as dominant as they are. And this
is a wake up call to all of us, Like
Georgia just came out, they shmacked him around and just
reminded us all that they are better. And that is
going to be the case for the course of the year.

(49:27):
Georgia is going to be in the College Football Playoff.
At this point, you just look at it and say
they are a juggernaut that deserves all of the respect.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
All right, let's keep going down.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
Penn State game that was delayed by lightning against West
Virginia alor three touchdowns.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
He's got such a great arm.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Man, My god, Singleton gives one hundred and thirty four yards.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
They look good, man, Penn State. Listen.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
I know you got Oregon, and I know you got
Ohio State, But man, that Penn State team's got a
chance for the playoffs. They have Bully Reid today, so
you have a layup today. Then they got Kent State, Illinois, Ucla.
They don't have to play a real team until USC
on October the twelfth. Then they're at Wisconsin home Ohio

(50:24):
State home Washington, at Purdue, at Minnesota, and then home Maryland.
So they got a favorable schedule.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Yeah. They showed a reinvented version of what Penn State
football looks like. New offensive coordinator came over from Kansas.
Depth of target went through the roof in that game.
Drew Aller pushing the ball down the field, but pushing
the ball down the field with accuracy. He has a
real chance to become a superstar in this offense. You
saw that, you saw some of his control in it
early on. And we also saw right out of the

(50:56):
gates of the ap pol is an absolute jokes abomination
because they were number eight going into this. They played
a true road game against an actually valued opponent in
West Virginia. It wasn't a cupcake they went out there.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
That was talking about upsets, like, you know, they were
flexing against Penn State.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Yeah, and Penn State kicked a snot out of them
on a true road game with a new offense that
looked reinvented. And for that, they went up a total
of zero spots in the eight. People like, it's just
absolute garbage that we'd even do polls this early because
nobody knows what the hell they're talking about. But I
thought the Penn State win was one of the most
statement wins we saw over the weekend, mostly because it

(51:36):
wasn't because they won. It's because they dominated with the
level of offense we haven't seen from Penn State in
how long, Right, So you looked at it and said, okay, Like,
over the course of week one, the Big ten reminded
us that they are much deeper than we were giving
them credit. For a lot of people because Penn State
looked great, USC looked great like those were not expected
developments for them to be that dominant in week one.

(51:59):
Penn State app looks like a national championship contender after
one game.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
I agree, I agree, I like them. I like him.
Tennessee interesting game tonight. They're at North Carolina State. They
rolled over Chattanooga sixty ninety three. I'm gonna leave a
crow for three fourteen three touchdowns in the first half alone,

(52:24):
and so you get a cupcake and your flex. But
I'm curious to see him tonight against NC State's prime time.
I'm curious about what Tennessee looks like.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
Tennessee was my sneaky playoff pick for y'all who sports
for axample shows. I believe in a hypel I believe
in their ability to create good offense. I think you
know I would say I want my best coaches to
be like the show Chopped, where they open up the
basket and whatever they have to cook with. We've seen
Tennessee do that. We've seen that they can be explosive

(52:58):
down the field when they need to. We also have
seen they can calm things down to run the football
when they need to. This version has a quarterback that
is absolutely going to be electric all year. This version
has a coach that I believe in this version I believe.
I mean, it was everything we thought and more out
of the gates for Tennessee. I think that was big.

(53:18):
Tonight's a big statement opportunity for the Balls against stan
See State that I think is a little over hyped.
I think the Balls winning this game. I think they
roll in this game. But I also think that every
single week more momentum is going to come. By the
end of the year, Tennessee's going to be in the
college football playoff and everybody's going to be saying, Wow,
why don't we pay more attention to this early on?
Tonight's the opportunity for that. This team is, this team's talented.

(53:38):
They're talented all over the place.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
Will Howard looks like a perfect fit at Ohio State.
The beauty of the transfer portal, the beauty of the
way college football, the landscape is, go get a veteran quarterback,
Will Howard, veteran quarterback comes in and I know it's
Zachron and you get the cupcake and getting other one today,

(54:07):
but geez, and that.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
They look they look pretty, they look pretty nasty.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
That Jeremiah Smith is something, and they got weapons glore.
It's amazing how they just keep replenishing.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
Yeah, and it's you know, you're right that it's cupcakes.
And I hate the cupcakes as much as everybody else does.
But good for Ohio State on giving themselves an opportunity
to get Will Howard worked in right, Like, we can't
play both sides of the fence on this. I'm sitting
here saying some of these teams in the NFLN college
football looked a little out of sync early on because
they don't have the preseason reps. Well, Ohio State takes

(54:41):
care of that by essentially giving themselves preseason reps.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
Right.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
So in Ohio State, just like you know, just like Georgia,
they started a little slow last week and then they
woke up and it was all fine. And that's exactly
what's going to happen for them. And look, the problem
for Ohio State isn't going to be any of these games.
The problem for Ohio State is that nothing short of
a national champion ship will be considered success for this
team and the amount of money that they've spent with
the coach they have, so everything right now is nice.

(55:06):
It's a cute little building block, it's a nice little story.
But through all of it, they've got to win the
Big Ten. They've got to be a prominent playoff team.
I think people will be disappointed if they don't have
a top four seed home game, and frankly, if they
don't win a national championship, this season will be seen
as an abject disaster. Is that fair? No? But Fares
wear a pig gets a ribbon, So like that's just

(55:27):
the way this thing's going to work for them the
rest of the year. Southernism's coming out.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
For I know, I love it fars where pig gets
a rivet, I love it, pigs get a ribbon, I
love it.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
Speaking of transfer.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
Portal quarterbacks, how about that cam Ward three eighty five,
three touchdowns on a absolute sweltering day at the Swamp.
He looks great against Florida Miami.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
And he just dominates that game. And cam Ward looked spectacular.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Yeah, and and the domination of that look for all
of the bad that we've talked about for the ACC
from the first weekend, which I think is all fair
criticisms of the ACC man Miami just absolutely coming out
and looking so dominant was a little surprising to me.
I think it's fair to say that I wondered when

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it all gelled together. It did quickly, I take nothing
away from that. Cam wardire right absolutely looks incredible, and
by the way, I mean, Florida looks terrible. I just
this is this is going to be an awful year
for Florida football. I am struggling to find three wins
for them at this point. So Florida has hit the
absolute bottom. And I don't even know that I blame

(56:49):
Billy Napier. They just they don't have enough talent right now.
That talent isn't Yeah, but that's that's on Napier to
a certain extent. But my god, like I just right now,
Florida schedule is so brutal. Just bag it up. This
thing's done. This thing's over, This whole regime is over.
Florida is gonna be making change. The questions it's just
is it at the end of the season or is
it in the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Yeah, man, they just need a whole new makeover, a
whole new entree into the new world, because they they're
definitely in the old world, that whole gated chop man.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
Wow, all right, we're gonna take quicktio.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
We'll come back and uh, there's another quarterback, not a transfer,
but a freshman. And I'll tell you one man is thrilled.
One man has been devoid of a quarterback for years,
dating back to his time in the NFL. We'll talk

(57:50):
about that. He's got a big game tonight, perhaps the
biggest on the slate, the most interesting.

Speaker 3 (57:56):
At least we'll talk about it.

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let's talk about what's going to happen tonight. They're back

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in Lincoln, Nebraska. They're excited because they finally have a quarterback,
Matt Ruhle after suffering in Carolina with sam Donold and
bringing back Cam Newton and dying for a QB. Well,

(01:00:20):
in last year at Nebraska, dying for a QB, they
got one Dylan Rayola, who was their amazing recruit. Was
just terrific. You just saw how good he can be.
In nineteen to twenty seven, two thirty eight, two touchdowns,
Nebraska rolls over UTEP. But it was funny. I was

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texting Matt and after the game and I'm like, dude, what.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
About the kid. He's like, we got a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
We got a quarterback, and so they got Colorado tonight Prime.
This will be a great matchup, man, Rayola versus Shador, Like,
it's gonna be a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
Man, you say it's gonna be a great matchup. I
think it's gonna be a slaughter. I think Nebraska is
gonna like, I mean, look, this is the real.

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
Of it a monster movie.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
Yeah no, But like Shador and Travis Hunter are both
really nice players, and this is set up in a
way where ironically they're both gonna be guys that put
up huge numbers and get a ton of Heisman conversation
and a ton of draft conversation, and they're gonna have
to put up huge numbers because the rest of the
team just isn't good. Like, they've got players on the
defensive side of the ball, but they have absolutely no

(01:01:41):
plan for those players, and their offensive line still looks
like a liability. So, you know, and I'm so tired.
I'm just exhausted by the apologists that keep saying, well,
North Kota State's actually a really good program. Not if
you're playing a real college football team, Like I'm sorry,
North Kota State would not be putting up competitive games
against Joe or Texas or any of these teams that

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are worth the amount of tention they get. Colorado is fine,
Colorado's They're fine. They're gonna win five or six games
this year. They're okay. I just think that we overblow
so much of this because it's Colorado and Nebraska. Nebraska
looks like they're gonna be really good. I mean this
to me feels like I'd be stunned if Nebraska doesn't
win by seventeen or.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
War Yeah, I dude, I mean, I mean, I think
you know how I feel about the Huskers, and I
mean I'm smelling the same thing I'm smelling this should
get out of hand right, Like this should be one
of those games where you know they flex Rayol is legit.

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
Dude is good good, he really is.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
There's a reason why man like Yo, Matt loved them.
I mean, was was hot after them. And you know,
look the the Nebraska Coalist and spent money for real
money for them. And you know, I'll never forget Kyle McCord,
who will talk about a little bit, was in town

(01:03:09):
and he was in Lincoln for the weekend, and uh,
you know they were looking that way. They wanted rail
all along because with that program, you know, you just
need to build it right like you need to and
having a guy with you know, come in for a
year like McCord doesn't really fit kind of what you're

(01:03:31):
trying to build, especially since they're scheduled so favorable a
lot of home games that you know, you want to
make sure that this year you're building and you got
the kid, and the kid is is just he's good
and he's he's gonna be a lot of fun to
watch him over the years.

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
Yeah, I mean, and for him to come in and
this is going to be modern quarterbacking, like we talk
all the time about in the NFL, there's not the
grace that there used to be for Sidham and develop them.
In modern college football, that grace isn't going to be
there either. Like as you mentioned, the coalitions come together,
they put good money into these positions, into these players,
and the expectation is that they're gonna more often than

(01:04:11):
not if they're called on. They need to be reliable, right,
So I thought it was impressive for Real able to
come out and throw the ball so well, it's the
first time anybody, most of us have gotten to see
anything from him, and you watched and he thought, yep,
this guy just has that factor out of the gates,
you know. So this is a big moment for him. Obviously.
I think it's a big moment to continue to prove

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some of that. But I just I have no concerns
whatsoever on Nebraska being able to handle this moment.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
By the way, Nebraska is his six and a half
point favorite.

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
I mean, really that it's funny the two of them.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
I just don't even understand Texas Line and Nebraska. Like,
by the way, if you're one of the these parlay people,
I mean, there are teaser people what you call Texas
laying one and Nebrads can lay in a half.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
I don't know how that loses.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
Yeah, it feels like the lines have been cautious so far.
And you know, obviously we'll talk or later in the
show to Brad and we'll see what he thinks.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
But Brad's actually the South of France.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
Oh, Brad's in the South of France.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Yes, yeah, so Brad, Brad, but you and I talking
about picks.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
Yeah, Brad, Brad's a little he's uh, he's like James Bond.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
If I had the choice between hanging out with us
in the morning, were hanging out in the South of France,
I would take the South of France.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Yeah, listen, I would not be offended when you go,
because I love you. But I'm going to be in
the South of France's weekend and I go and join these.
My brother send me a you know, a picture of
you holding.

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
Up at.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
You know, I feel like that that would be a
speedo picture. That's all that would come in that picture
is just me and a speedo. If I'm in the
South of France, I'm rocking the speedo. That's the way
it's going to go. Yes, it's just up on a
yacht and a speedo feels like the right way for
me too. Yes, I don't know how I feel about
any of that, No, but I do feel like the
lines in college have been a little a little bit

(01:06:22):
cautious in some of these games, and I think it's
interesting because you got to sort of separate yourself from
what we think versus what we've actually seen and what
we know. And Colorado's effort in that first game, there
were some moments, but even at the end, you know,
if you talk about the play calling, whether it came
from Dion or as he said later, it was being aggressive.

(01:06:44):
Throwing the ball late in the game almost.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
Cost My god, that was stupid.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
It's like, what do you what are you doing that?
You're giving them that that opportunity and not for nothing.
I think if North South Zakota State had used there
or Northcott they use their timeouts better, then they would
have been in the situation at the end where they
could have won that game. So it all came down
to that against a team that shouldn't have even been
in contention at that point. I just the Colorado thing

(01:07:11):
is is just an ugly head this year.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Yeah, I think you're right, and I think it could
come to an ugly, end ugly head this tonight because
if they get smashed tonight, that'll be the end of that.
If you go in the Lincoln and it's you're not competitive,
you could say goodbye to all the hype.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
I don't care what right, Like, I know my man will.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
Have d I will have all kinds of excuses and
everything else if he gets plastered, and you know, good
Locke because nobody people will start will stop caring right away.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
Well, And I guess my question for the world is,
and can I be critical of Colorado football without having
to be that I'm attacking Dion? Like that's the one
thing I just I don't understand because I feel like
every time a video gets posted that I'm part of
where I'm like, yeah, this team's no good, people just
immediately come back yet another person hating on Dion And

(01:08:16):
it's like am I or am I? Just? Am I
just watching what I watch and seeing what I see,
And I don't believe they're a very good football team,
Like am I not allowed to believe that without it
having to be some level of a hate towards the coach?

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
I know it's like, I you know, really you can't
even feel Ambivoli. It's like there's no hate and just
look at them like they're not good, Like what's the
big deal?

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
Like why are we doing that?

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
Yeah? I think the problem is this is the problem
with Colorado football. It's no longer about anything that's happening
on the field. It is either a I am pro
Dion or I am anti Dion. And to be clear,
I'm neither pro nor anti Dion. I'm pro watching it
and trying to figure out what we see and I'm
anti that defense that I'm anti that offensive line being

(01:09:02):
as much improved as we hoped it would be coming
into this season. And if it's not, that means Colorado's
not going to be very good. It means Chador's going
to put up big numbers, means Travis Hunter is going
to be a joy to watch. But Colorado's not going
to be very good.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
Let's move on. Actually, this is a this is good game.
Sneaky Syracuse Georgia Tech McCord looked good last week for Syracuse.
He threw for three fifty four and four touchdowns against
the Ohio Now, but you know that's a sneaky little

(01:09:37):
game that at Georgia Tech two and zero. I know
Florida State doesn't look as impressive after Florida State going
on too, but still that's a nice little game.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
Yeah, and you know, the Florida State thing gets interesting
too because Florida State, I mean, let's be honest to
Mike Novella is somebody I really I like. I met Mike,
I met coach when he was in Memphis, and I
liked him there, and I like the hire for Florida State.
But also, let's be honest for a second, that first
year at Florida State was not an easy one for him,

(01:10:07):
and there was a lot of conversation about not connecting
with the locker room right. And then all of a
sudden they start winning, and it's amazing how winning fixes everything.
We all know that now that they're not winning, what happens,
you know what I mean? Like, how long can all
of this be held together if this team just absolutely
falls off the rails. I expected more from Florida State
this year. I truly did. And you can even if

(01:10:30):
you want to excuse the first week, you can't excuse
the second one. You can't excuse BC doing that too.
It's Boston cous you can't excuse it. So things are
about to hit full panic. Vote at Florida State, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
Yeah, oh yeah, had a big, big way bab back
at it tonight. I know they had, you know, a
cupcake in Western Kentucky. But one thing I love that
Jalen Milroe.

Speaker 3 (01:10:57):
Man, he got he he's so good. He's just he's
the truth. Man. He could do so much, so much
with here U. I know they only threw nine times
in the game and didn't have to throw it all.

Speaker 2 (01:11:14):
But they're they're they're interesting, They're gonna they're gonna be
They're gonna be somebody to watch even without saving So
they're you got South Florida tonight. Next week interesting, you're
at Camp Randall, so you're at Wisconsin. And then the

(01:11:35):
big one that's right September the twenty eighth, Georgia Bama.
Oh Saturday night, Brian Denny, Are you kidding me? How
great would that be? How great game is that gonna be?

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
I just wonder how much that game is gonna be
the freak out moment for Alabama fans, like, because as
we said here, I don't believe there's just a gap.
I believe there's a continent between Georgia and everybody else
that includes Alabama. So that Georgia Bama game, it just
it gets interesting to me all of this would Georgia
becomes such a line in the sand for the world,

(01:12:15):
you know what I mean, Like, how how good is
your team is going to be so largely dependent on
how well did you compete against that football team. That's
that's what becomes, you know, the difference maker here. So, yes,
you can go to Camp Randall and Camp Brando can
get tricky. I think Camp Brandall that's a great environment.
It can get tricky. But coming back and going to
george playing Georgia at home, that one is going to

(01:12:38):
be the one that Bama fans start freaking out at
because I think that's where they discovered that this is
not the Alabama that we've seen over the last few years.

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
Yeah, I think it's a great point.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
All right, with the quick teo as we're hanging out
next hour, we'll take a look at tomorrow. So tomorrow
we'll go through each and every game out number four.
We're gonna have some picks. We'll kind of look at
the whole thing from a hole and you know, I mean,
it's just just one of these days. Man, it's great

(01:13:11):
to just talk ball. It's bat baby. Jason Fitz Anthony
Gargano fits he's ready for the speedoup.

Speaker 3 (01:13:21):
Because we.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
Fox Sports Radio fellas from the tyraq dot com studios,
we're looking at the college football slate, looking at kind
of landscape, what happened last week? What have we learned
entering a week two of college football? And uh, kind

(01:13:48):
of looking at some of the teams, what we liked
out of week one, who we liked who to cross off? Like, uh,
my man's southside Chuck Kentucky Man asked you or we
don't want to wish my happy birthday too, by the way,
and he answer you, Yeah, we love our south side, Chuck.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
It says, Uh, does Dion leave Colorado for Florida State?

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
Makes perfect sense, right because they're gonna be bereafs of
talent and then he goes to Florida State and they
go all in on nil and he goes back there.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
Yeah, I think that makes the most sense. And if
you're if you're a Florida State, you have to know
that's in your back pocket, right do you have to
think that that makes sense for everybody, especially if this
Colorado thing goes wrong this year, because then Dion could
just walk away, say, you know, I gotta go home.
I gotta go back to the place that I love.
Nobody questions it to win for Florida State, to win

(01:14:52):
for Colorado, or sorry, to win for Dion, and then
Colorado just has to figure out how to do whatever
they're gonna do next. You know. But but that's going
to be a difficult decision for that school to figure
out how to remain nationally prominent without winning a bunch
of games, because it seems that winning a bunch of
games at Colorado, don't know, matter he your coaches is

(01:15:12):
a tougher task than you know people want to acknowledge.
But yeah, and that move would make a ton of sense.
And if I'm Mike Norvell, I'm certainly aware that that's
always right there in the shadows lurking.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
Well, and I got to believe that that's the easy
you know, that's the easy fix. That's how you get
people off their money, right, Like, that's how you get
the alumni ready to roll, Like all right, you know,
we're we're a year laid into it. But now we're
coming in. We're coming in with Prime and you know

(01:15:43):
Prime did his you know, he did his residency in
Colorado and now he's home right now, he's ready to
build a big time program.

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
You could see it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
It's an easy say pitch. I wonder if that sales
pitch loses some of the appeal if Colorado wins four
games this year. But I also think that the argument
everybody will make is you can't win at Colorado no matter.

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
Who you are.

Speaker 1 (01:16:11):
It's not Deon's fault, right, Like, that's the way people.

Speaker 3 (01:16:14):
That's the spade.

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
And by the way, they're not really they're not entirely wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
Either, correct. I mean, you're going to have such a
better recruiting stomping ground in Florida then you do anywhere
near Boulder, Right, it's going to be easy. They have
the money to get whoever they want to get. And
if you're Florida state, you also don't want to go
through this process of you have an opportunity right now
to really seize the state if you bring the right

(01:16:42):
person in. You know, because Florida, as we mentioned earlier,
like Florida is not in a good situation at all right,
so you're really coming in for Florida State and you're saying, Okay,
we don't want to let Miami seize the state. This
is our chance for us to come in and kind
of make our statement. I think it's important for Florida
State to remain If they want to remain nationally relevant,
they're going to have to make sure that they figure

(01:17:03):
out a way to win more football games, and that
might mean bringing in a coach that can help them
do that. I hate that for Norville because I really
I like to coach a lot, but I think you
can't ignore the beginning of the regime when you're talking
about what we see right now with the regime.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's tough. I think that's where
it's headed. Let's keep going further down. And what did
you think of Let's look at well, a whole misplate Furman,
and there was a whole lot of Jackson dart Man.

(01:17:39):
My god, six first half touchdowns for Jackson dart Uh.
You got Middle Tennessee today, another cupcake, and then you're
at Wake Forests Home Georgia, Southern Home, Kentucky at South
Carolina at then you then you got at LSU, but

(01:18:04):
you gotta you gotta go all the way to October
and then your home Oklahoma. So you got, man, that
schedule pretty easy.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
That's part of why I picked ole Miss. Like, look,
I wanted a chaotic national championship pick, so I picked
on and overall Miss just for fun. But Ole Miss
is a playoff team. Not only are they very good,
but the schedule lays out for him. So now ole
Miss is a playoff team.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
And the only thing is, you know, you got that
easy schedule start, and then it gets dramatic, right because
then you're at LSU, your home Oklahoma, You're at Arkansas,
then you have to host Georgia, you get Florida, and

(01:18:51):
then you got Mississippi State, so get and they'll lose nasty.

Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
They'll lose one of those, maybe two of those, but
that's still gonna.

Speaker 3 (01:18:59):
Put it in the playoffs. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19:01):
And then if I got a one game playoff and
I got Jackson Dart with a coach that they've been
together for a minute, man, I feel pretty good about
you know. I like coaching and player relationships that are
existing going into this year's playoffs. So I think guys
that have had history together will have an advantage. So
I think all missus got a really nice path in
front of them.

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
Yeah. I think that's a great point. I do.

Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
I think you're I think you nail it with that.
That's something in a year, in a year where everything
is moving so quickly and guys come in and you
got to get you got.

Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
To hit the ground running. To have that kind of
history to build upon is a big deal.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
Yeah. If I can have an experienced quarterback, like if
I could have an old man at quarterback, I like
that too. So any guy that's been around a minute
or knows their coach, well I'm banking on Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:47):
All right, Well coming up, we're gonna do a little NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
We got to also get the Notre Dame and where
the fella is?

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Speaker 2 (01:20:46):
Man, there's so many great storylines, there's so much good stuff.
We've been going through all the college we started with
the first two games of the season, kind of in depth,
all kinds of good stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:20:58):
We're gonna go through.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
The slate for tomorrow. I got one question from the week,
and maybe you know more about it. Who you follow
this story at all? But I found it very interesting.
The did you see that the Commanders fired their vice
president of content and the guy in charge the content.

Speaker 1 (01:21:24):
For the comments that he made.

Speaker 3 (01:21:25):
Yes, right, So I got a question for you.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
So if people didn't see the story or got lost,
he was on a date and the woman was an
undercover reporter and he makes these comments. You know they're
goofy and the league is run by Jerry Jones, and

(01:21:51):
Jerry Jones is you know, homophobic and races. There was
all these charges, right, and you know he's talking about
the league. He said all these things, and you know
clearly he was someone trying to impress this woman, and
you know the way he was speaking and you know,
firing out all these you know, these wild comments. He

(01:22:14):
got fired. But what was weird about it was that
he's being secretly recorded on what was supposed to be
a date and then the woman says she's a I
don't know, I don't know if she told him or whatever,

(01:22:36):
but then she, you know, puts it out there on blasts.

Speaker 3 (01:22:41):
How is that okay?

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
I mean, forgot about the comments were ridiculous, right, and
and reckless and foolish, and you know you deserve to
get fired for just speaking out a turn like that.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
But how's it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:53):
Okay to to uh to to actually for her to
publish those things.

Speaker 1 (01:23:00):
I'm stunned it it was, and I would be stunned
if there isn't some sort of a lawsuit that he
files at some point, you know, civilly, because it is
absolutely altered his life. And you're right, like, there are
moments where okay, we just can't say that, and that's
what everybody says. I would just remind the world. Imagine
if you you know, your your worst joke, your worst moment,

(01:23:22):
your worst date, your worst holiday experience, the thing that
you said about your grandpa on Thanksgiving when he's wearing
you out imagine if that was recorded you had no idea,
and then it was played for him, Like it doesn't
mean you should have said it, No, of course not.
But also there has to be some ramification, like I
cannot imagine being on a date and then suddenly losing

(01:23:43):
my job because I said something on a date to
somebody about Jerry Jones. And it's not that simple, I
get it, But there is some simple element of like
recording without consent. It's just absolutely it's just wrong. You know,
it's secretly recording somebody and then releasing those recordings too,
you know, to get them in trouble. Is not the

(01:24:04):
sort of behavior that should be rewarded.

Speaker 2 (01:24:06):
I gotta tell you. I mean, the whole thing comes out,
and I keep waiting for the other shoe, which is,
how is that okay? It's like she's an undercover reporter.
What like, hey, if you're going.

Speaker 1 (01:24:21):
In the one, that's not a thing and under recover,
like an undercover cop is a thing, an under undercover
reporter is not a thing like that. That that's that's
just making up some way to get somebody.

Speaker 3 (01:24:34):
Dude, I thought, listen. I studied journalism.

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
I was a journalist in another life, right, I was
a newspaper writer when newspapers mattered, and that's not a
thing like that's you know, investigative journalism is something. But
going out on a on a tender date and recording

(01:24:58):
the guy over over old fashioneds.

Speaker 3 (01:25:02):
That's not a reporter.

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
That's ridiculous and it's it's reckless and dangerous, and it
was funny. I thought of you only in this sense,
you know, because you're in the dating world, Like, how
could you actually go on a date with someone you
met online in one of those apps and trust anything.

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
I don't think anybody can trust anybody anymore, you know.
And that's why, at least until you get into you know,
deep and meaningful stages, I think you really have to
be careful and you have to make sure that everything
is take the high road on everything. And to this day, sure,
amongst my closest friends, amongst the people I care about

(01:25:48):
the most, if I was sitting down having conversations about
the band I was in, I would probably say some things,
But ninety nine percent of my life, if anybody asked me,
I have nothing but glowing things to say about everybody
that I was ever toured with. Why because like, and
there's just no good in bringing any of that up there, Like,
we no longer live in a spot where you can

(01:26:09):
feel safe even venting. Right, It's just it's such a
weird world to be and to know that you can't
even really like, so what do you do? Needs to
be a very easy, shallow conversation and follow up questions.
You need to just always spin the positive because until
you truly know someone, I don't think you can trust
anybody anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:26:28):
No, it's bizarre.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
You always the whole the whole thing, where the whole
thing was talked about. It was like undercover reporter, I'm like,
well what and then and then I'm thinking to myself, Hey,
there's a million things wrong in this world right now.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
God only knows what's happening behind closed.

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
Doors in a lot of arenas, what happens at the
Washington commanders. Who gives a bleep? Are you kidding me? Like,
are you like seriously when you have the world going
the hell and all kinds of stuff happening, and you know.

Speaker 3 (01:27:15):
You were to waste your time on that this undercover reporter.

Speaker 1 (01:27:20):
Yeah, And it's not like they were going after the
owner of the team or exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
It's some some schlep, right who should charge of social media?
Like were you kidded me? You're recorded?

Speaker 3 (01:27:32):
Oh god, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:27:34):
What we become. We become a gotcha society, like and
this is this is even true for our sports takes.
I could sit there and have a nuanced conversation about
Colorado all day long, right, but if you say one
thing in that thing that either gets clipped off or
somebody's yeah, then all of a sudden, people want they
want to find the one reason that they can clap
back without any nuance. Like it's just it's wildly frustrating

(01:27:57):
to me that that's way the way we be come
consumers of all information. It doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 2 (01:28:03):
No, it's there is no context to anything. There's no context,
and there's no nuance to your point, there's none of it.
You can't actually have a conversation that covers the you know,
covers runs the whole gamut and looks the number.

Speaker 1 (01:28:20):
Of times like some if something really quick is is
clipped off of any of the shows I've ever been
a part of a thirty second sound bite, and they'll
be like, well, you didn't talk about this, this, this, this,
and this, and I've responded to people in the past
a different you know, when I cared more, I responded
to people and be like, no I did. It's it's
in the entire twelve minute conversation going back and you
get a whole thing, and the first thing that people
say is, well, I'm not listening to all that. It's like, okay,

(01:28:42):
so you don't even want the context. You just want
to be able to find a reason to disgree with
me and tell me I'm an idiot so that we
can engage in this like fake debate that just serves nobody.
And that's that's what gotcha society we live in.

Speaker 2 (01:28:55):
Yeah, none of it has a point, No, it's it's like,
it was funny. I was having this conversation last night
because you know, the other piece of it is if
you're criticizing the home team, you're a jackal right.

Speaker 3 (01:29:15):
So I was having this conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
I was watching the game with my cousin and we
were talking about Hurts and I'm like, I tell you,
I'm disappointed him, right, Like, you know, I expected more
week one. I know he didn't play, but you know
I expected a better handle of the position. Like I

(01:29:38):
expected him last night to not be his happy feet,
to keep his eyes down the field, to really kind
of look and play the quarterback. Forget about being reckless
with the ball, because that was obvious. But you have
you have a quarterback's dream around you. You need to

(01:29:59):
now understand and what you're looking at and be a quarterback.
And I thought he fell short last night and that
he had some moments and he could certainly throw football,
but he needs to be the court. If they're gonna
win a Super Bowl, he's got to play the position.
And we were talking about that and I go, you know,
I can't go all I'm like, I was frustrated by it,

(01:30:22):
but you can't go over more because then if there's
a clip of that and go like you're a hater
of Hurts, I'm like, no, I love Hurts, but he
needs to be a quarterback.

Speaker 1 (01:30:32):
My friend. It is an annual tradition as a lifelong
diehard Raiders fan every year, and I'm I'm pretty realistic.
I've been within one game of the win total almost
every year that I've made a prediction every year in
the summer when I'm asked to make a prediction of
the Raiders and I predict that they're going to be bad.
I get absolute hate from Raiders fans constantly about you know,

(01:30:54):
yet again, you don't believe in this team. Blah blah
blah blah blah, you're not even like, you're not even
a fan, all the things a fansy. And then inevitably,
when the year is going about like I expected to
and I'm not the sky is falling with that because
it's kind of what I thought would happen, then people
come in and be like, why aren't you tougher on
this team. It's like, because they're exactly who I thought
they were gonna be. Like this year, I think the

(01:31:15):
Raiders are gonna go seven and ten, maybe eight and
nine if I'm lucky. That's the way I see the team.
So if they go seven and ten, eight and nine,
I'm not gonna this guy's not gonna be falling. But
fans are gonna freak out at me the entire way
because I wasn't positive enough when they wanted me to
be positive, and I wasn't negative enough when they want
me to be negative. And that's the weird part of
the way sports are consumed now. Even like I don't

(01:31:37):
think people want honest evaluation or honest news anymore. People
just want their feelings reinforced about their favorite team. And
if you don't do that, you're obviously a moron.

Speaker 2 (01:31:49):
Yeah, yes, yes, yes, Speaking of Raiders, did you see
who is back in the media or back with a YouTube? No,
the Groo Dog is back on YouTube? Is actually on
YouTube now, John Gruden.

Speaker 1 (01:32:10):
You know, coach, I'll like this is my funny Gruden story.
In twenty twenty, the first year for the team in Vegas,
I did some work for the team. I do some
digital shows for the team on the side for front
and every year they sort of at the end of
the years, so thank you, they get me some gear,
some things like right, like I love this. So twenty
twenty they were like, hey, can we get you something

(01:32:32):
for helping us out this year? And I said, you
know what, I would love a sign jersey that has
the number twenty and the word Vegas on the back
because it's first year in Vegas twenty twenty. I want
to remember this. Ever that's cool and they said, and
they said, who do you want to sign it? So
I thought at the time and I was like, well,
players come and go and we all know, players come
and go, so who can I get to sign this
thing that will be relevant to this team? But also

(01:32:52):
I don't ever have to worry about like, ah, that
guy signed the jersey. So I say, can coach sign it?
Can Gruden sign it? They're like, yeah, we'll get Gruden
to sign it for you know forty. So I get
this jersey sign. I have it framed. It's in my basement.
I have this frame jersey sign and it's from Gruden,
and I remember hanging in thinking this is perfect because
there'll never be a problem with this one.

Speaker 3 (01:33:10):
And then oh my god.

Speaker 1 (01:33:13):
I sat there and when everything went down, I was like, what, Oh,
that is an interesting jersey to have signed on my
wall now, so you know it is. It's funny to
me that the one guy I picked, the one guy
that I thought, hey, there will never be like this this.
He's not gonna go play for somebody else, He's not
going to go be a part of a rival. I'm
not gonna have to worry about these things. And with players,
you just never know. So right next to my sign

(01:33:35):
Max Crosby jersey is a sign Raiders jersey from Gruden
that I thought would be problematic.

Speaker 3 (01:33:41):
Oh that's great. That's a great story. That's what that is.
That's a strong that's that's a strong story.

Speaker 2 (01:33:48):
He's like a member of the Fired Coaches Society, the
NFCS National Fired Coaches Society NFCS. That's right, let's go
through the games, you know, you know, partly it just
grooted tall.

Speaker 3 (01:34:07):
He's got the whiteboard. Oh my god, it's By.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
It's By, like one of the Gamble gambling company is
the one.

Speaker 1 (01:34:15):
No doubt, I mean no doubt. Like, but that's also
funny to me, Like my guy has made what one
hundred million plus in his life and still these these
coaches are so passionate about the game that they're like,
I gotta find a way to talk about it. Like
it's just it's it's there, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:34:30):
Yeah, he's it probably drove him nuts, just like he
just couldn't sit on his money. No, It's like it's
like Belichick. Belichick is is on Instagram, right, Like Belichick
joints Instagram.

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
Like why well, I mean I'm watching Saban every Saturday.
And Saban was great on game Day last week. By
the way, he had a moment they were talking about
the pay that has gone to the players at Ohio
State and he had such a real moment where he said,
you got to watch out, though, because if you pay
the wrong guys, your s out of luck. And he
said the word on TV and it was such a

(01:35:07):
brilliant clip of analysis. I was like, this is what
Saban brings to this and it is incredible. I love
Saban on game day is absolutely great.

Speaker 3 (01:35:16):
What are you doing? What do you do?

Speaker 1 (01:35:18):
You finally have Saturdays off for the first time to
hang out with Miss Terry and the family, and now
you ain't doing that. You're out there, Like I know
he's getting millions of dollars to do it, but come on,
Like I still look at him, like just show up.

Speaker 3 (01:35:30):
That's just the one thing where the money is relevant
to those guys.

Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
Like what's you That's true. It clips to certain level.
You're not doing it for the money. You're doing it
because you can't give it up. Like it's like, well,
I got to be part of the game. I got
to be a part of the landscape.

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
I get it. Like you know, if you.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
Think about it, it makes complete sense. You have two people, right,
two types of coaches. The lifelong coach that will never
be on television that only wants to coach and like,
to me, that's Andy Reid. Andy Reid is, Oh, he
would never do TV. He would like he does those

(01:36:12):
I talked him about this. He does those, the Nuggie commercials,
the State Farm stuff. He does it because of Mahomes
because he loves Mahomes right like they are. They just
have a beautiful father son type of relationship. And he
does it for him. But he doesn't he would want
no part of doing it a to be on you know,

(01:36:34):
some battle like no interest in that. And Belichick surprises
me that he wants to do that. That's weird.

Speaker 3 (01:36:45):
I got.

Speaker 1 (01:36:45):
You just got to feel like he wants to talk ball,
you know. And I will say I got really lucky
when I got out of touring and people said, do
you miss it? I said no, because I went from
one locker room to another, like a tour bus. Life
is like a locker room. ESPN life honestly like a
locker room. You've got friends with you everywhere. It's like
a college campus meets a locker room. You've got all

(01:37:05):
those things. So you know, certainly for for guys like Sabing,
it gives you the chance to be around Hall of
Famers and talk, you know, talk ball with a bunch
of people that you know you really enjoy. I see that.
For a guy like Belichick, you get to be at
every big event every Saturday, so it's a really fun
way to stay around the game. I see all of that.
I also just want to be clear, I love working

(01:37:27):
on the fellas. If I was worth I don't know,
Like let's say, let's say ten million dollars, my friend,
I would just listen to you every Saturday. I want
to hang out with you. I just listened to you
every Saturday. Like there's a number, and once I hit
that number, I would just be like, yep, I am out.
I am going to sit on my butt. I say
that I'd make it a week sitting on my butt,
and then I'd need to fight something to do. You know,
i'd make it a week, but I certainly wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:37:47):
Yeah, but you would. You would do stuff like.

Speaker 1 (01:37:52):
Animal shelters and like your help the world.

Speaker 3 (01:37:54):
Yeah, you would. You would do it. And I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
I don't get what some of the coaches, you know,
the TV piece of it like that, you know, I
get you want to talk ball and saving You're right,
is good at it, like he's good in those commercials,
the whole thing. But at some point, I don't know.
I mean, it's just it's bizarre now. The lifelong coaches

(01:38:19):
like I know that Andy would never like when he
left the Eagles, he got fired, right, and he got it,
which was unbelievable. Right, he got a job the next day,
Like I thought he would take off a year. No,
he gets a job five minutes later. He had a job.
There was no way he was giving up coaching, no way.
I absolutely loves it, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:38:39):
I do love that though. You know, and I will
say too, if you want to stay in the game,
you don't want to take the time off, right like.
And that's I can't speak to what it's like to
be a prominent football coach, but I can tell you
what it was like a year and a half ago
when you know, the New York Post let the world
know that my contract was, you know, being terminated by ESPN.
And the one thing I'll say about that, a lot

(01:39:00):
of people don't realize in our business and that level,
the contracts are fully guaranteed. So I had the option
of sitting on my butt and not working for eighteen
months and getting all of my money or going to work,
and you know, we were we were negotiating with Yahoo
within a day, and I was back at work, you know.
But as soon as that contract was figured out and

(01:39:21):
Fox was figured out, I was right back at work.
And there were plenty of my peers that were like, hey,
just take some time and go sit on a boat,
you know, like hang out, like you've worked really hard,
Like take some time for me. Because I wanted to
stay in the game and I wanted to make sure
that I was still relevant and people still knew my work.
There was never a chance that I was going to
take more than a day off if I didn't have to.
So I totally feel that if you're Andy Reid, you're
looking around and you're like, doesn't matter that I don't

(01:39:43):
need to work. I want to stay in this, and
if I want to stay in this, I don't want
to give anyone a reason to forget what I'm doing.

Speaker 3 (01:39:48):
Yep, great point, Great point.

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Speaker 3 (01:41:31):
Let's begin our.

Speaker 2 (01:41:32):
Foray around the card tomorrow, my brother, because I want
you to look at I want to look at it.

Speaker 1 (01:41:39):
Wait wait, wait, wait, what's tomorrow? What's tomorrow? Oh it's
the start of the NFL seas. Oh my god. It's
just like, what does tomorrow look like for you? Because
the egos have already played. I know we have football
to talk about, but this is interesting to me. The
egles have already played, So that means tomorrow you have
the grace of the first Sunday of the NFL where
you can do whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:41:58):
Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:41:59):
However, you want what does this look like for cousin?

Speaker 3 (01:42:01):
Yeah, I actually love that.

Speaker 2 (01:42:03):
I love when my team plays on a Sunday night
or a Monday night, or you know, like in this
case of Friday night. I'll watch every game possible. Now,
I want to stick to like, I'll stick to a couple.
I'm not the biggest red zone, but I have like

(01:42:24):
the package, right, So I will wind up kind of
clicking through everything and I'll watch chunks of every game
and I'll sit there and I'll take I have my
notebook like you do, I'm sure, and I'll just start
because so much I know about you, like when you're

(01:42:45):
at the sports bar or whatever. I'm home watching these games.
There's so many things that just pop up. So I
just sit with a legal pad and just write a
bunch of stuff. Players, I like, nice plays, moments and
you know, and I'll you know, some games if i'm
if it's a full game, I'll chart it, you know, one,

(01:43:08):
you know one ten twenty eight right first and ten
and twenty eight yard line, two seven thirty one three
yard run right like you know, tackle by x Y.

Speaker 3 (01:43:19):
So I do those? Do you do those charts? Do
you chart games like that?

Speaker 1 (01:43:23):
No? I don't usually chart a lot because I'm I'm
rarely watching one game at a time. But what I do,
like this is sort of my nerdism. I always have
a Google doc open, and then i Google is apparently
talking to me. I have my doc open, and I
have it separated by games, so then I can go
in and with all the tabs open, I just quick

(01:43:43):
make notes on everything. So that's a constant, Like I'm
making notes on every like one play, one player, one line, lot,
for you. A lot of times, what I do is
like I'll read type it like too. Yeah, like I
type in because I I type fast. So to me,
it's like it's easy to write two thirty big big pass,
and then I can go back on game Pass. If
I want to rewatch anything to try and figure out
what I was talking about, I can go back on

(01:44:04):
game Pass and watch it the next day. So like
for me, Sunday is absorb as much as I can
because Sunday night I do a Yahoo reaction show where
we react to every single game. So yeah, you have
to have a little bit of a sense. But then
Monday Tuesday is rewatch, right, Like I think that's one
of the most important things in our job, is like,
if there's a game you know you're going to be
talking about, you just got to rewatch it a couple

(01:44:24):
of times. So game pass, let's me do that the
next day. So I try and make notes that I
can re reference on game Pass.

Speaker 2 (01:44:30):
Yeah, So Mondays and Tuesdays I go to NFL Films
and I sit with Baldy and we watch film. So
I'll spend a good chunk of chunk of time. You know,
we'll get big cups of coffee and sit there and
kind of just go through the tape.

Speaker 1 (01:44:50):
So and it is funny to me because the first Sunday,
like this year, they're adding We've added back a Sunday
fantasy football show for Yahoo. So from noon to one,
I'm doing a fantasy football show that ends right as
games kickoff. That's my only detern tomorrow because I really
want to go to a bar, because I love the
energy of a sports bar that's packed and everybody's super
into it. The problem is the only like Connecticut doesn't

(01:45:14):
have the best sports bar scene, honestly, like so most
of the sports bars that I would want to go
to that would actually have the games in the audio
from games and like a game vibe or solid twenty
minutes away. So that's my big decision is like, if
I'm done with the show at one, do I just
walk downstairs three four TVs let it happen, or do
I go to a bar and be amongst the people.

(01:45:35):
That's my great debate I haven't figured out yet.

Speaker 2 (01:45:38):
I'll be at home. I like I'm more of a
home body with football. I'm not a big fan of
being out. I hate being out with my team plays, but.

Speaker 1 (01:45:50):
Oh yeah, I shouldn't be in public when the Raiders
play it. I myself, Like you talk about recording conversations.
But the one thing I would say is that sometimes
the advantage to being like in a Buffalo wil Wings
or whatever, the advantage is that you might not have
your eyes on a game at one particular time, and
then a whole crowd goes nuts that's pocketed over watching

(01:46:10):
a game. And it'd be like, oh, I can quickly
write down, you know, three minutes first period for three
minutes first quarter Browns. I mean, like something happened there
that made all the Browns fans go nuts. So I
do I kind of like the cheek code of having
a bunch of other people that are also watching.

Speaker 2 (01:46:23):
That's that's that's interesting, that's smart. Do you have a
problem that I that I have at a place like that?
Compared to you, you are, uh. The one one of
the things that I admire most about you is your discipline,
right Like you're you're you have amazing discipline that you're

(01:46:47):
on this incredible you know journey, uh for your body
where you know you're eating certain things and at certain
times and and you know you're not drinking and right, like,
you're amazingly disciplined, I'm not, and it's a it would

(01:47:07):
be a huge week. So if I'm home, I can
control myself because I don't keep a lot of the
band stuff around, right, But if i'm if I'm at
a sports bar, I mean, for I would drink.

Speaker 3 (01:47:23):
Twelve beers. You know, maybe not twelve, but I'm all
day long.

Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
You know, I'm not getting drunk, but I'm watching I'm
drinking beers, right, I'm just sitting there, I'm ordering wings
and cheese, fries and with everything else, and I'm like,
oh God, and then I feel horrible. But what I
just did, right, as much as I enjoyed it, like,
I can't There's no way I consider the bar all
day and not have beers and wings and fries.

Speaker 1 (01:47:53):
The food element of this is difficult for me because,
as I've said before, like I'm a Raiders fakers. My
dad's a Raiders fan. When I was a kid, he
would get a dozen donuts and we would we split
a dozen double chocolate donuts every every Sunday watch a
Raiders game. So when I was on the road, you know,
I would send a runner to go get a dozen
chocolate donuts, and I would always I would I buy myself,
especially every first Sunday of every season. I've always eaten

(01:48:15):
a double a dozen double chocolate donuts and you know,
drink three two liter bottles of diet Ruper. That's my
game routine. And as the season goes on, sometimes it's
not a dozen. Sometimes it's six or eight if I'm
feeling less roggy. But I don't remember the last time
I went through a Raiders game and didn't try and
house a dozen donuts, especially the first game of the season.
And tomorrow I will not be doing that. So like that,

(01:48:36):
that is going to be interesting. I usually my feelings,
and I usually, like usually I'm good to have a
stiff drink at the beginning and the end of the game.
That's not in the cards either, So we'll see how
a mocktail and a mocktail and grilled chicken serves me
during the brain I might be even angrier than usual
by the end of the Chargers game.

Speaker 3 (01:48:57):
Yeah, dude, that's rough, man.

Speaker 1 (01:48:59):
I got my body's already, like my body can already
taste the double chocolate duncan, so like it doesn't know
what it's gonna do without him.

Speaker 2 (01:49:07):
I don't know what I'm gonna do, cousin, Yeah, I dude,
I don't know how you uh yeah, I don't know
what your conditioned. Yeah, we are Pavlov's dog, right, like
we're a lot like that.

Speaker 3 (01:49:19):
So football, beer, pizza wings.

Speaker 2 (01:49:23):
You know, like all my cousins house last night and
he had pizza wings and beer.

Speaker 3 (01:49:30):
So it's perfect, Like you know, I did well.

Speaker 2 (01:49:33):
I only had We're gonna have one slice of pizza
and three wings and one beer. So I did all right,
you know, because I'm trying to watch. So I did that.
But like there's no way I was gonna have anything right,
like you know, so you know, I mean it's gobbles.

Speaker 1 (01:49:53):
Like I'm gonna I'm gonna take the first month of
the season because everybody says, well, moderation, and I've accomplished
enough physically at this point that i could have a
splurgs day every week. And I don't think, you know,
my trainer's not listening to this right now. He would,
but he probably wouldn't object too much. But I will
say that, like I'm worried that a splurge day on
Sunday turns into well Saturday Sunday Monday are splurged, you

(01:50:13):
know what I mean. So I'm gonna take the first
month and stay really diligent on Raiders game day and
then see where my body, how my body feels. So
I don't know. Yeah, see I say that today, but
by next Saturday check in, I might be right back.
Do a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:50:25):
How you do it?

Speaker 2 (01:50:26):
I mean you're at a bar, like you're at a
sports We're Buffalo Wild wings just to just to the waitresses,
you know, the waiters bringing over trays of food past
you you know, I mean, that's like, that's disciplined, Prianna.
Could you sit there all day at a sports bar
and watch the waitstaff bring uh food after food baskets

(01:50:52):
of wings and fries and pizzas and you name it?

Speaker 9 (01:50:56):
Absolutely not.

Speaker 6 (01:50:57):
No, I couldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:50:58):
No, actually, and I I would order.

Speaker 10 (01:51:00):
I would like start off and be like, oh, let
me just get like some cauliflower wings and then maybe
a little thing of fries. And then I'm like, well,
I'm gonna be here for the next two hours. Let
me get twelve twelve wings, and then maybe I'll got
another thing of fries. Let me get two beers. Yeah, no,
I would it would be NonStop, like the.

Speaker 1 (01:51:16):
One thing I do right, Like, no, that's the one
thing I do want to Oh God, see no, So
I eat right before I go out. That way, I'm
not as tempted. And then when I sit down at
a place like Buffalo wil Wings, if I'm watching a game,
like if I go to beat Ups tomorrow, the first
thing I would do is I will hand the waitress
probably forty or fifty bucks and just be like, hey,

(01:51:37):
this is your tip. I'm not going to eat or
drink a lot, but I want to know you're taking
care of now. If you could just make sure that
I have soda water the whole time, that'll keep me
on track. And I'm going to have a huge thing
of grilled chicken tenders at halftime. I don't want any
other food than that. But I always tip her first
so that she knows I'm not occupying that seat for nothing.
And I usually overtip so that like, because I drink
a lot of liquids. That way, you know, I don't know,

(01:51:59):
I might spoilt little bit. Have a diet, so I
haven't had a diet so in a long time. Might
have a diet so tomorrow, like that could be that
could be my splurge. But yeah, I just I want
to make sure she knows she's taken care of. But yeah,
I know that's where we are.

Speaker 2 (01:52:09):
I got, dude, I see beer like I look at
the tap gulling and I and I just want to,
you know, put my mouth on a tap.

Speaker 3 (01:52:21):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (01:52:21):
I'm like you, I have learned to like some non
alcoholic beers, but I got to count those in the
macros because they still got calories in them. So you know,
I got to watch that too, even though it's not
care of.

Speaker 3 (01:52:31):
Them the greatest. I'm beer dude.

Speaker 1 (01:52:36):
This show, this show, it speaks to our differences. Like
Cousin like beer is the greatest. I'm like, I'm more
of an espresso Martin. You guy like nice little I can.

Speaker 3 (01:52:51):
Listen. I so you won't do any beers.

Speaker 1 (01:52:54):
No, So the funny thing is this non alcoholic journey
when you're drinking no never, Guinness was the only beer
I ever drank, and I didn't. I rarely drank that,
so when I was drinking, it was always expressed with
Martinez and old fashions or and then after a couple
of those, you just go straight whiskey on the rocks
like that. That's always been more my speed. I'm out
on Jack Daniels because I drank too much of it

(01:53:15):
for too much of my life, and beer has just
never been a flavor I like. But in this now
non alcoholic journey, because that's the only option I've had
some places I've had it, and I actually have learned
to really like it. Like Athletic is a company in
Connecticut that they're everywhere now, but Athletic makes really good
like they taste good, they taste and Guinness getness non
alcoholic tastes just like regular guinness. So I find myself

(01:53:36):
enjoying beer more now mostly because I don't. I just don't.

Speaker 2 (01:53:40):
I love it, you name it, I like, I can find.
It's something I like with just about any beer. I'll
be honest with you, respect that. But again, but then
I like gin and I like tequila, right, So yeah, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:53:57):
Not like I don't want I like it all. I
like at all.

Speaker 2 (01:54:00):
The only thing I won't drink is vodka, right, that's
it because it's bad experience back in the day.

Speaker 3 (01:54:05):
But that's really it.

Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
I mean, I enjoyed my spirits cocktails, but beers. Like
if I'm at a bar like during the day, I'm
not drinking cocktails during the day, you know, unless it's
happy hour, right, but if I'm watching a game, I'm
usually you know, I'll drink a beer.

Speaker 1 (01:54:23):
All right, we're gonna talk about the games. And I
got it straight into to toe.

Speaker 3 (01:54:28):
You got me, yeah, and then you got me.

Speaker 2 (01:54:29):
Now I'm like visualizing the twenty ounce cold beer and
it's like, what time is it. It's seven forty two
here on the East Coast. I'm like, you know, just
like this is my problem. I'm thinking about it. I
go I can go for a bit like right now,
Like if you if you put a cold twenty ounce

(01:54:53):
I don't care what in a Guinness medello hein, I
don't care what it is. I would I would drink it,
you know, not to get drapped just because it would
taste good. Because we just got done talking about it.
Where the fellas, you got amazing discipline, God bless you.
As we hang out the games we go through them.

(01:55:15):
Coming up next right here at Fox Sports Radio, fellas
Jason Fitz Anthony Gargan hanging out game day, College game
Day today. Two big games you talked about earlier Michigan. Oh, man,
Michigan's in for it. They are an underdog at home. Now,

(01:55:37):
who would have thought?

Speaker 3 (01:55:38):
FITSI?

Speaker 2 (01:55:39):
Right then, here you are an underdog at home, big house,
and you just go I can't even imagine them beating Texas.
I just don't see it. I don't see it. I
see at Texas route as you do. Uh, that's the
big newde kickoff on Fox. We talked about that. We

(01:56:00):
talked about the last the first two games of the
NFL card. Of course, the Chiefs looking great, the aighty
reads new toy, the Xavier worthy, and of course afterwards,
uh did you hear the Ravens after the game, Fitsy
and Isaiah likely said well, if that's the best.

Speaker 3 (01:56:22):
They got, we'll see them in the playoffs. Like okay, cause.

Speaker 1 (01:56:28):
I just don't even understand the point of the comment either,
because at some point you just gave them the best
you got, and that's that's what it was like. Both
of those teams went into that game wanting to make
a statement and one of them want to revenge. Well,
they didn't get it right, And if you're Baltimore, you
came out with an offense that I had heavy expectations

(01:56:49):
for and instead, you know, Derreck Henry ends up with
only thirteen carries, which I thought was, you know, under
where that should have been. Isaiah likely was really the
only threat that they used on the offensive side of
the ball, and Lamar ran around everywhere. And you could say, well, first.

Speaker 2 (01:57:05):
Like he had Flowers, like Flowers is a great player,
he missed them like when sometimes when he's a erratic man,
certainly missed them last drive.

Speaker 1 (01:57:16):
But I also felt like if the argument was, well,
they just need a little time to get things together
and get things right. Okay, now let's flash forward to
what the Eagles look like offensively. And even though we
talked about the fact that there was some rough moments
and some raticness from Jalen Hurts, like you saw the
Eagles offense and you walked away from it and said, Okay,
I understand how dynamic this is. I understand what they're

(01:57:38):
doing with Saquon. I understand that they'll be able to
beat you at every level. I understand that this defense
is going to take smarter this offense, I should say,
he's going to take smart defensive coordinators with a really
good game plan to be able to even slow them down.
I didn't walk away from that the same level of
confidence with Baltimore. Now again we both love and trust
the Spags as a defensive coordinator. Hear all of that,

(01:58:00):
but man, I expected the Ravens to come out and
really show the world, hey, you can't if you stop.
If you stop, say then you're not gonna be able
to stop Derrick Henry. And it wasn't that at all.
It just it just never really got on track. I
never really got in rhythm.

Speaker 8 (01:58:14):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:58:15):
And you mentioned last night, man Sequon Wow' smashing debut
for se Kwon Barkley.

Speaker 2 (01:58:27):
Three touchdowns just looked incredible. My god, did he looked
the It's imagine how happy he is that he gets
to play on a team with a legit with two
legit receivers.

Speaker 3 (01:58:44):
Right a tight end.

Speaker 2 (01:58:46):
A quarterback who's a real quarterback needs to play better,
but he's a real quarterback like uh oh, Manquon the
happiest man on Earth today.

Speaker 1 (01:58:58):
Man, of those chump cuts. I know it was a
slick field, but those jump cuts were just how do
you stop that? And now all we're gonna be thinking
about all year if this continues is Wow, Remember hard
knocks when the Giants decided what the value was and
decided nobody should give it to him like that. That
looks gonna get worse and worse and worse every single

(01:59:20):
week when doing this. So shame on the Giants right now.
If it's only one game, but right now, shame.

Speaker 2 (01:59:26):
If I was Mara, I would be freaking out. I
would be pissed off. Man, are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (01:59:33):
I'd just be sending Joe Shane like a dot dot
dot text. That's it, just dot dot dot. Just ay
you're looking at this.

Speaker 2 (01:59:39):
Because I'm looking at this, I know I would be
freaking out, fired off text. Where the fellas big alar,
don't go anywhere right here? Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:59:49):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:59:52):
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(02:00:35):
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missed any of it, all of our stuff, my love
for Saquon, my man Tony in the Chesapeake is all

(02:00:59):
Saquon up with me. I still can't believe if you're Mara, dude,
you're out of your mind. Man, You're out of your mind.
You're so upset it's crazy. We got Fitsy, Marky hit Marky.
We got Fitzy. All right, So all right, let's uh

(02:01:19):
recap what we've talked about, so Big College Day today,
as you know, Michigan on Big Big New we got
your buddy.

Speaker 1 (02:01:31):
Okay, everything came unpluggd so like I've been scrambling the
whole unit that my headphone came unplugged, my audio came
up bluged, everything came unplugged. It's my fault. The dog
decided to walk over the wire. So I have no
idea what you just said.

Speaker 2 (02:01:44):
So, no worries, no boy's body, no worries. Let's get
to it. I was just talking about Saquon, so my
main toty from Chesapeake old saquand up with me. So
I was just gushing some more. I had to gush
a little bit more, all right, So let's get into it.
Let's get into what's gonna happen tomorrow. This is the

(02:02:06):
first full day of the NFL season, so let's take
a look at it from a betting standpoint and from
a fantasy standpoint as well. So let's start off Arizona
and the Bills. The Bills six and a half point favorites.
This would be interesting. There's a lot of people that

(02:02:28):
like Arizona. I don't, and I do think the Bills roll.

Speaker 1 (02:02:35):
I don't like Arizona's defense at all. And the Bills
are gonna roll. Here in Dalton, Kakad's gonna have a
big game, hammer of the over on his yardage because
you know, frankly, much has been made about this, but
let's be real. There aren't a lot of guys on
that roster that have caught any passes from Josh Allen,
and I've talked to Josh at this point for Yahoo
probably four times this offseason, and it was interesting because

(02:02:56):
he was pretty open. The first time we talked about
the fact that none of them really to each other,
and each time he's talked about the building chemistry. But
I think last week when I talked to him, he
spent a lot of time talking about Dalton. I think
Dalton is going to be used in the beginning of
this while they build it a lot, like you know, Kelsey,
when you know Kansas City needs that, that guy Dalton
kin K is gonna get big numbers. Arizona's defense is

(02:03:17):
just gonna be awful this year. I think their offense
can be fun, but their defense is going to be awful.
I think the Bills roll here, and the reason people
are high on Arizona over them is just because we've
got that anti Bills narrative that will be gone by
week six. So on on in on Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (02:03:32):
Yeah, we see it the same way, man, I I
and I think they. I mean They're going to run, run, run,
and run right through them. I'm a big Cook fan,
so I.

Speaker 1 (02:03:43):
You know what speak you speak a cook. I just
want to put on everybody's radar by the end of
the year. I think Ray Davis, sweet baby ray Is
I like to call him from Kentucky, the running back
they drafted. I think he has a chance to also
be really good so late in the year, he's somebody
that I keep an eye on.

Speaker 3 (02:03:58):
Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 2 (02:04:01):
Cincinnati and New England as the post Belichick, Oh my,
the post Belichick era begins. Now listen, I do think
Drake May's got some ability. The rest of that team
is tragically bad, but you know, I mean, you gotta start.

(02:04:27):
They're starting down low.

Speaker 1 (02:04:30):
Yeah, and that's that's the real of it. Like New
England's the worst team right now, they're the worst roster.
They're going to have the worst season in the NFL,
I believe, And the question is just they're gonna have
the type of season that a lot of coaches don't survive,
especially coaches replacing legends. But Jerod Mayo and his pre
existing exists relationship with Robert Kraft gonna make a big
difference in this. So I feel good about where they're

(02:04:51):
gonna be. I feel fine about where they're gonna be
building towards if they can do it patiently. I think
Drake may hasn't a chance to be very good. I
also would not play Drake Maye for a single snap
behind that just horrid offensive line this year if I
can avoid it. Let everybody else take the hits and
keep Drake may safe and start planning for next year.
Win three games, go get yourself the first pick in

(02:05:12):
the draft, and then see what you want to do
from there.

Speaker 2 (02:05:14):
Yeah, man, I'm completely with you. Meanwhile, Cincinnati, you gotta
hope you know this is it, Like you know, Borrow's healthy,
chasing folds, you know, I like you like Chase brown Man.
All he does is just make big plays like he

(02:05:35):
You know, I don't care how many touches, how few
touches he makes an impact on a game.

Speaker 1 (02:05:42):
That's a really good, good point by you that it's
not about volume for him. It's just about the fact
that when he gets those touches, he can make the
most of them. I think that's absolutely I think he's
he's in line to have a big game. I think
he's in lined up to be a bigger part of
this offense or at the course of the season. And
I'm really interested to see, Frank what this offense looks like.
Rigawise because we know that if Jamar plays, he's going

(02:06:04):
to be limited, right, So they have put so much
on the shoulders of Joe Burrow this year. The belief
in Joe Burrow is so astounding that we're not talking
about that enough. I do think the Bengals, if things
don't go right with Jamar quickly, they can be doing
a little bit more of a heavy lift than we expected.
And in a year where I think the Super Bowl
is sort of the ceiling, I don't want to know

(02:06:25):
what the floor is if they don't get wide receiver
production from Higgins and Chase, Like the reason you kept
all this together was to get that this year. So
if they don't, it's going to be a disaster for everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:06:34):
Yep, yep, yep, yep. All right, let's looking. You're looking
live at the Meadowlands in North Jersey where the Giants
kick off their one hundredth season hosting Minnesota. And I
look at them and just say, ew, I just don't

(02:06:58):
know how, I don't know how good. I look at
that Giants team and I just don't like them.

Speaker 3 (02:07:05):
I don't like them a little bit.

Speaker 1 (02:07:08):
No, the Giants, Frankly, this this is gonna be a long,
hard year for them, and Minnesota doesn't have a quarterback
that I believe in. I think two things can be true.
I think Minnesota can win this football game, and I
think it also means we can all calm down on
the Sam Darnold. It belongs as a starter in this league.
Talk that's inevitably gonna happen. Like, Minnesota has a head

(02:07:28):
coach that I think gets good amount of credit and
deserves even more for what he can do with the quarterbacks.
So they're gonna be fine, and they they Minnesota's gonna
be a harder out this year than I think a
lot of people want them to be. The Giants are not.
The Giants might as well just roll over there. If
New England is a surefire for the first pick, in
my mind, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the

(02:07:49):
Giants have the second. That's how bad I think they're gonna.

Speaker 2 (02:07:51):
Be there, I know, I mean, I want to touch
the game there. It's two point favorite. I kind of
like the under. It's forty one and a half and
see this game going under.

Speaker 1 (02:08:04):
Yeah. I like unders, by the way, usually in Week
one anyway, but that one particularly.

Speaker 2 (02:08:10):
Yeah, Yeah, the game early game that I'm fascinated by
and I can't wait to watch is Tennessee and Chicago,
So we get all kinds of this is gonna be fun, Man,
this is gonna be great. You get to see the

(02:08:30):
much weighted debut of Caleb Williams. Man, I mean, you're
Chicago and you've been quarterbacks starved your entire lives, right,
generations of Bears fans who've had no quarterback, who've had
to deal with the memories of Jay Cutler, right, and

(02:08:53):
Jim McMahon Dave had nothing, no quarterbacks, one bad one
after another, and they finally get this wonder kid.

Speaker 3 (02:09:06):
It's a great story.

Speaker 1 (02:09:09):
It is, and I think it's a sneaky like. I
love that you mentioned this game because I think this
is the toughest to predict and maybe most interesting non
you know, dynamic billboard game of the entire weekend, and
large part because there's such a level of unsurety from
both sides, right, Like, if you look at the Titans
and you look at the way that this organization is

(02:09:31):
built this year, I don't think anybody has any idea
what to expect, right, So we don't know who Brian
Callahan is as coach. We have no idea. He wasn't
even the play caller in Cincinnati, so we don't really
know what his offense is going to look like. We
don't know what it's going to be when they when
they piece it together. We don't know how this staff
is going to approach anything. The adage around the league,

(02:09:51):
if you talk to people that follow it, is that
the first week of the season, you have about a
twenty percent and that twenty percent is things that nobody's
ever seen before. So you have twenty percent new. In
this particular case, you're talking about an all new staff.
I think you're talking about forty percent new from the
Titans at least. Like all of this is so hard

(02:10:11):
to predict. So you've got a first time head coach
coming in and a first time defensive coordinator at first,
like all of this just screams first time. So for Caleb,
he's coming into an NFL game where it's not like
he can just sit there and watch film and know
what to expect. They're really genuinely gonna have to adjust
on the fly as they go and there's gonna be
a huge test for Caleb's processing and when if it

(02:10:34):
doesn't go well, there's gonna be a lot of people
that freak out and say, well, the Titans aren't that good,
why didn't he play better? Without acknowledging the context that,
my god, like, you've got a defensive backs coach from
the Ravens that's now running that defense. Is he gonna
run it the same way that you know the Ravens
ran their defense when he was there, We don't know.
Could look wildly different. So I think Caleb's got a
heavy lift week one, and this could be a really

(02:10:56):
interesting game.

Speaker 3 (02:10:57):
Agreed. I'm looking really looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 (02:11:01):
What are these names, dude, we talked about McMahon, Jim Harball,
Eric Kramer, Mitch Trabisky, Cutler, Kyle Orton, Cave McNown, Jim Miller, Fields,
Craig Krenzel, Shane Matthews, Steve Walls, Dave Craig, Oh my god,

(02:11:26):
Mike Tom Zach.

Speaker 3 (02:11:28):
Nick Foles.

Speaker 2 (02:11:30):
I mean our man Mighty Mark, who, along with Breonna
doing a great job producing.

Speaker 3 (02:11:37):
Mighty Mark is from Chicago.

Speaker 2 (02:11:40):
Dude, you grew up with all these dretched quarterbacks.

Speaker 9 (02:11:45):
Rex Grossman. He got me to the what he got us,
not me, got the team to the Super Bowl. But
because he wasn't a kid that know how to play
in the rain. He couldn't throw a pass while it
was raining. But you know, someone else knew how to
play the raign and win a Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (02:12:05):
Yeah, yeah, dude, I feel for you. Man. You've had
to deal with a lot of bad quarterback Vince Evans,
Vince Avins waw.

Speaker 1 (02:12:18):
Former Raider legend. Uh yeah, but think about it now,
if you got this right, and I think Kayleb Williams
is just going to be great. If you're a Bears
fan and you got this right in the modern NFL,
that means for the next fifteen years, you got a quarterback.
You can believe it, for the next fifteen years.

Speaker 3 (02:12:34):
I much hope for their sake that they that it
works out.

Speaker 1 (02:12:37):
I think, look, I think it's good for the league
if it works out.

Speaker 3 (02:12:42):
I liked the kid the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (02:12:43):
Yeah, I'm just talking about I feel I always feel
for fan bases like I have empathy for certain fan bases,
like if you've never had a quarterback, like you're and
you're in Chicago and you look around you and your
arch rival the Packers, and the Packers go from you know,

(02:13:04):
Bart Star to Brett farre to Aaron Rodgers to.

Speaker 3 (02:13:09):
Love like you've had it, you know, like I feel
for the Bears people.

Speaker 9 (02:13:14):
All those teams every season when they had a quarterback,
they had basic hopes of at least making a plan
to get to a playoff game, whether they lost a
playoff game, but you had great hopes that your quarterback
could maintain run the ship and get you places to
make you happy and make you want to buy tickets

(02:13:36):
and make you want to buy stuff. So there was
all this that hopefulness that you had a quarterback. So
now that the Bears potentially have somebody to run the
team and run the offense, it's, you know, great dreams
and great hopes are coming out.

Speaker 1 (02:13:53):
That's the most beautiful thing about getting your quarterback is
that in the for the first two three years, I
would argue that wins and losses aren't even the thing
that you're paying attention to. You're just obsessing over can
this kid grow into to the answer? And it gives
you hope. Even if it's a six win team, you
look at it, you're like, oh my god, like it's
a six win team, but we got our guy. And

(02:14:14):
then all of a sudden you go to eight wins
and it's like, well, yeah, it's eight wins. We didn't
make the playoffs, but we got our guy. And it's
just it buys you so much time of joy as
a fan knowing that you got your guy, and that
means that every year you come in with a chance.
Like I would argue the Chargers are not a good
football team, but the Chargers this year are not as
despondent as a fan base as most fan bases of

(02:14:35):
bad teams, because they look around, they're like, we got
Justin Herbert. That's what happens if you get your guy,
Like everything feels different. The Raiders haven't been good for
most of my life, but even in the beginning of
the Derek Carr era, was like, hey, but we got
Derek Carr, and that means we at least we're in
this thing. We at least have a shot at this thing.
Like there's value to that, There's value to the way
it makes you feel as a fan, for sure.

Speaker 2 (02:14:53):
Yeah, big time, big time, big time. All right, let's
continue going around. I don't you sounds like you like Tennessee.
I could see it. It's a game that I would
stay away from I'm.

Speaker 1 (02:15:06):
Staying away from the game. Yeah, I lean Tennessee. But also,
just like I said, we don't know what that defense
is going to look like. We don't know how that
defense is going to stop all those Chicago weapons. I
genuinely don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:15:18):
Yeah, I think it's a tough game.

Speaker 2 (02:15:20):
Like great, Uh, Carolina and New Orleans. Believe it or not,
there's a lot of Carolina love out there. I don't
know why I do not love them. I would bet
the game the Saints for four. I think the Saints
would win, But I don't like Carolina.

Speaker 3 (02:15:37):
I know.

Speaker 2 (02:15:38):
Are you one of these people that all of a
sudden there's optimism for the Panthers.

Speaker 1 (02:15:43):
No, I have no optimism for the Panthers. But I mean,
let me throw this at you. If Carolina somehow beats
New Orleans, Okay, let me read for you the next
several games on New Orleans schedule. If New Orleans starts, oh,
win to one, they will then go to Dallas, then
they take on the Eagles, then they go to Atlanta,
then they go to the Chiefs, then they take on

(02:16:04):
the Buccaneers. If they don't win this day on Sunday,
there is a very real path to Owen six for
the Saints, at which point Dennis Allen will be fired
like there's a you're not keeping her Owen six coach,
at which point everything's falling apart. Like I think there's
actually sneaky pressure on the Saints somehow to win this game,
to somehow fix their red zone offense, all of these

(02:16:25):
things that they're gonna have to do, because if this
team starts own six, it's over. It's done. So I
am not a Carolina supporter in this, but I do
acknowledge that if Carolina wins this game, the sky will
be falling for Saints fans everywhere.

Speaker 3 (02:16:40):
Yeah, now you're a you're right on, dude.

Speaker 9 (02:16:43):
You might make Brionna cry a lot.

Speaker 3 (02:16:47):
Oh that's right, she's a Saints fan.

Speaker 1 (02:16:50):
Oh no, take it all back, And I'm sorry, I
can't take it back. It was it was still inaccurate.
It's still accurate.

Speaker 3 (02:16:57):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:16:58):
Not a good game is at because I'm manxious to
see Atlanta?

Speaker 3 (02:17:03):
Who are the Falcons?

Speaker 1 (02:17:04):
Man?

Speaker 2 (02:17:05):
I'm maxious to see could Kyle Pitts with an actual quarterback?

Speaker 3 (02:17:10):
Right? How good is he going to be?

Speaker 2 (02:17:12):
And how much will that help Bejeon at the running
back position. I'm fascinated by the Falcons.

Speaker 1 (02:17:22):
Yeah, I think it's funny too, because I will remain
consistent in my belief that you should not bank on
a threewenty two year old quarterback coming off an Achilles injury. Now,
I don't care if we're talking about the Jets, we're
talking about the Vikings. So to me, I get a
little bit of the Vikings or the Falcons. I get
a little bit worried about Kirk Cousins coming in and
just presuming everything's going to be great. That that's problematic

(02:17:44):
for me. But I don't know that there was a
bigger addition by subtraction in the entire NFL this year
than Arthur Smith no longer being part of the Falcons
organization because the dynamic weapons on that offense had been
wasted for so long. I'm just eager to see what
it looks like when somebody is out there not trying
to get cute, not trying to get weird. Somebody's out

(02:18:04):
there actually utilizing the players to the strengths that they have.
So like, what's Bijon looked like, what's Kyle Pitts look
like when he's finally being utilized. Like this is what
gets really interesting to me about the Falcons. I think
every week is going to be the eye test of
is this team as good as we think they can be?
Because on paper, if we were playing the video game
version of it, the Falcons look pretty damn good.

Speaker 2 (02:18:25):
Yeah, dude, I like him. The bar to the line's
three and a half. I like him. I think they
I think they would that game. I look at the Steelers, man,
I think Ross is completely cooked. They're gonna have to
figure it that, figure it all out with I think
with fields.

Speaker 1 (02:18:46):
And do we buy into any Because you know me,
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, So let me say this loudly.
If we didn't walk on the moon, that won't change
my saturday, right like if if fourteen people were in
the grass see Nolan kill Kennedy, that doesn't change my Saturday.
But conspiracy theories around football tap. So my only question

(02:19:07):
is calf tightness. I mean, are we buying calf tightness?
Like sure seems convenient that well, now he can't play
because that that tight calf, and now Russ is gonna
get in there. And if Russ gets in there, is
he ever gonna or sorry. If Justin Fields gets in there,
is he ever gonna get rid of the job? Like,
I don't know, I like this. This one feels a
little This one feels a little tricky to me.

Speaker 3 (02:19:27):
I know, I know. Uh, all right, we're gonna take
quick time out. We'll come right back. We'll continue going around.
We've got some good games coming up though. Man Jacksonville, Miami.

Speaker 1 (02:19:39):
I like that game.

Speaker 2 (02:19:41):
I love Houston, Indianapolis, which is the jewel of the
one o'clocks, the fighting Fitzes.

Speaker 3 (02:19:51):
At the Chargers.

Speaker 2 (02:19:52):
We got to talk about cowboys and Brown's a lot
of good stuff Rams Lions Way to get to and
then the Monday night.

Speaker 3 (02:20:00):
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through tomorrow first big day the game. I'm looking forward
to the most Texans and Colts. So the Texas. We

(02:21:44):
talk about the Eagles weapons, probably the team with the
that rivals them the most. The Texans man, they are
loaded loaded at wide receiver offense looks to be nasty,
And I'm actually looking forward to Anthony Richardson too to

(02:22:06):
see how he's doing.

Speaker 1 (02:22:07):
Yeah, and I'm gonna be consistent with Anthony Richardson the
same way I was with Jordan Love. We are making
Anthony Richardson out to be the second coming based on
what four games last year, And the knock on Anthony
Richardson coming into the league was that he needed more tape,
more time. He didn't get that last year because of
the injury, which I think is significant consequence. So for me,
this year becomes a little bit of a what we

(02:22:28):
thought last year would be, like learning curve, growing pains,
all those things. That's gonna be real for Anthony Richardson.
So I think this starts off as a big test
and a big test to our patients and ability to
not overreact, because if he looks bad at all in
this game, we're gonna overreact. If the Texans struggled all
against this defense, we're gonna overreact. But you're right, this
is sort of a who's real, what's legit moment for

(02:22:50):
both of these teams. Are the Colts a playoff team?
Are the Texans on the same level with the Chiefs
and the Bills. That's where they think they're gonna be
this year. The Texans have invested a lot of money
that checksas have invested a lot into this moment, So
they're not They're not playing to be a nine win
team that you know barely gets into the playoffs thanks
to one or two plays. Like, they're playing to be elite.

(02:23:11):
So there's a lot here that I love. Steph Diggs.
The last two quarterbacks he's worked with have been two
of the easiest going quarterbacks in the NFL, and he's
had problems with both of them. So how does that
manage into this locker room? How does that play into
c J. Stroud and his leadership? Is a second year
player now, Like all of this stuff becomes really interesting
to me, is right? The league gave us a real

(02:23:32):
juicy matchup right out of the gates with this one,
and I think there's gonna be a ton of learning
out of it.

Speaker 2 (02:23:37):
You know why everybody's in love with Anthony richardson fantasy Yep,
he's a great fantasy player. So we distort reality and
I like andthy Richard like like, you know, I promise,
and he's in a good spot with Shane Steichen, and
I think psychn get a lot out of him and
he can grow, but it's way too early to put

(02:24:00):
all kinds of expectations on him. Again, coming out of Florida,
we knew he was a project. He looked good all
right again, Like you said, four games, he is a
terrific fantasy quarterback, and I think we blur it all
the time, so I think that's kind of why you're
hearing all that love.

Speaker 1 (02:24:21):
And I also think Shane Steich and by the way,
did an amazing job last year, and I understand why
he's getting a lot of benefit of the doubt again.
After one year, we had decided that Dable was the
future of the NFL, and now we're not even sure
if he's gonna have a job by midseason, right, So
I'm so risk averse with all this. I just want
to see a little bit more. And that's why I
think this is sort of much must watch out of

(02:24:43):
this game, because these are our chances to really see
more and try and figure out how good this team
actually is.

Speaker 2 (02:24:48):
Totally totally another great game early Miami and Jacksonville.

Speaker 3 (02:24:54):
I'm curious.

Speaker 2 (02:24:55):
This is a huge year for Lawrence, and all right,
the excuse is stop, Let's see what you got. It
was a disaster year last year. All right, you regroup,
Let's see what you got going on. Because you know,
Doug Peters's job depends on it. And I'm curious. He's
got a lot of talent. I still believe in Lawrence,

(02:25:19):
and I believe what's around him. And you know, this
is a big deal for him. This is a big.

Speaker 1 (02:25:24):
Year, Taylor. Two years last year, Trevor Lawrence pre high
ankle spraying, Trevor Lawrence post high ankle spray, right, and
he was just never the same. But there is some
level of you gave the QB all the money in
the world, and so you've told the entire world you
have the guy that can make you mahomes in right,
like you have a guy that can help you compete

(02:25:46):
at the highest possible level. And sometimes we do need
to remember what the conversation sounded like a year ago
right now. The conversation a year ago right now was
all about the Jags taking the same leap I'm talking
about the Texans taken now. So this is the sort
of game. Miami has a reputation that they have earned
to be very clear where they cannot beat good teams.
The Jags need to be a good team, so this

(02:26:07):
should be a test for both sides, that it should
be an opportunity to see where both of them are.
You're right, this is one of the better matchups of
the opening weekend.

Speaker 3 (02:26:14):
Three and a half.

Speaker 2 (02:26:16):
I hate to tell you, I don't like it. I
don't like the game. I can't read it.

Speaker 1 (02:26:22):
I'm gonna be honest with you, my friend. As a like,
I used to always say I was a dabbler. I've
now decided that I am a degenerate. I'll give you that.
I realized that I gamble too much on football, not
too much. I don't have a problem, don't really worry,
I will say this I am. I am for the
most part, taking Week one entirely off. I feel like
all of the spreads are too There's just not enough

(02:26:45):
reward to make the risk worth it. I would rather
sit out a week, let everybody overreact, and then come
into Week two and actually, like, actually have the chance
to make a little cash. I just don't. I don't
feel like it's worth it. I don't like a lot
of these spreads. But then I sit there and I
get nervous. What does Vegas realize that I don't, So
I'm sitting on the sidelines for most of this in
Week one.

Speaker 3 (02:27:05):
Good swat.

Speaker 2 (02:27:05):
That's smart, very smart, because these games are difficult. Why
about you, Di Sac Chargers Raiders.

Speaker 1 (02:27:15):
This game is actually pretty simple. Jim Harbaugh is going
to want to run the football because that's what he does.
And the Raiders, if they have a susceptible part of
their defense, it looks to be stopping the run. It
fundamentally wasn't great last year. It wasn't great in the preseason.
Even Antonio Pierce to address that. So the path to
winning for the Chargers is to just run the ball
down the Raiders' throats. The path to winning for the Raiders,

(02:27:36):
it's pretty simple. It's got to be Gardner Minshew limiting
any sort of turnovers. I don't think Gardner Minshew needs
to complete more than fifteen or sixteen passes in a game, honestly,
which sounds neanderthal like for modern football. He just needs
to have a zero next to the interception column.

Speaker 3 (02:27:52):
Right.

Speaker 1 (02:27:52):
So the big part of this is how does the
offensive line hold up for the Raiders. That's going to
be a question mark. They're still going to be down
a little bit on some injuries there, and then how
do they stop the run. This is the type of
game that if the Raiders are going to be any
good this year, they have to win. I would say
the same thing if I was a Chargers fan. If
the Chargers are gonna be any good, they have to
win this football game. I really think that this comes

(02:28:12):
down to the trenches, and that makes me nervous, especially
at so far. I wouldn't be surprised at all to
see the Chargers win this game.

Speaker 3 (02:28:18):
Yeah, Chargers are a three point favorite.

Speaker 1 (02:28:21):
It feels about right. Yeah, it feels about right. This
feels like an ugly football game where we walk away saying, man,
neither of these teams are very good right now, that's right, and.

Speaker 3 (02:28:30):
That's got to be six three written that halftime.

Speaker 1 (02:28:35):
Yeah, I wouldn't be like this feels to me like
twenty seventeen is the final on It just just kind
of ugly, gross. And then it's like, well that set
football back a decade.

Speaker 3 (02:28:44):
Well what will you do?

Speaker 2 (02:28:46):
You could take us into your world, all right, some
greaters Chargers.

Speaker 3 (02:28:52):
There's no donuts.

Speaker 1 (02:28:53):
We've learned, there's no donuts. I am going to air
fry some chicken. The air fright chicken will be ready
for me. I am going to have a large plate
of vegetables, some carrots and things that I can stress ee,
and I am going to I'm going to hop on
the walking treadmill and I'm going to try and walk
the aggression out. Okay, that is my plan right now. Obviously,

(02:29:15):
there are other games in the afternoon that are important.
So you know, I have the basement setup is where
I have the four TVs, but that's too dark to
watch NFL Sunday Football. So I go to the living
living room TV where the big ones above the mantle.
The Raiders will go on the big TV. I will
pull two of the TVs down that I need to
and put them just on top of my piano next
to it so that I can have a couple extra

(02:29:36):
TVs going, and I will half ask my preparation on
the other four o'clock games while I yell at the
TV the entire time. I do think I will give
myself the grace of maybe some diet soda, which I
haven't had. I've have very little to any diet soda,
so I might go get myself some diet roop here
and at least have that that. But I also know
that I stress drink, I stresst I stress drink and

(02:29:57):
I do. This is a no free, no free sponsorships,
but they don't pay me. Liars is a company that
makes fake cocktails, non alcoholic drinks, and they're really good.
They taste like actually, I went to a bar and
I got a cocktail and so they're canned. They have
canned cocktails. So I'm going to have a canned fake
cocktail to start the game.

Speaker 2 (02:30:16):
There you go, not yourself out sounds, pathetic sounds.

Speaker 1 (02:30:23):
And if that doesn't work, next Sunday for the Ravens
Raiders game, I'll just go to J Tim's and have
the best wings in America all day.

Speaker 3 (02:30:29):
I don't always want you to do that, just for
the game.

Speaker 2 (02:30:32):
Just do it for Raiders, man, Like, don't do it
the rest of the week, but just do it for Raiders.

Speaker 1 (02:30:38):
I mean a bucket of wings from Jims Jtimothy's. And
for anyone that's never been to Connecticut. When I moved here,
everybody told me they were like, what's good? Like what
is the food here? And everybody told me wings and
I laughed because I was like, wings are not your
signature food. And then somebody told me, well, J Tim's
is one food TV's best wings in America a couple
of times, and I was like whatever. And then I
went to j tim at these once and I'm telling you,

(02:31:00):
my god, they really are the best wings I've ever had,
and they sell them by the Yeah, they're ridiculous, talking
myself in. Yeah, I mean J Tim's, Oh man, dirt
wings with a Tai Chili sauce on them. Oh thereous
to dip theman. Yeah, oh my no nose are saying
yes yes to this. I'll let you know if I
can resist the wings tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (02:31:18):
Yeah. You deserve it, dude, beast all summer, all year.
I mean, I'm down.

Speaker 1 (02:31:24):
Thirty five pounds, thirty five pounds since May.

Speaker 3 (02:31:26):
I'm just saying, man, I'm still.

Speaker 1 (02:31:28):
I'm like, I don't know, Man, I don't know. It
can't have for.

Speaker 3 (02:31:31):
You deserve just for the Raider game. That's it.

Speaker 1 (02:31:34):
Little talking me into it, a little window. You deserve
watching Bill the one PM games. Like if I commit
to going to the gym in the morning before Fantasy
Football and then I walking treadmill the one pm games,
then it's just a net neutral day.

Speaker 3 (02:31:50):
Oh yeah, you're you're rid it, you're rid, You're rid.

Speaker 1 (02:31:54):
I'll send you a I get the wings.

Speaker 2 (02:31:56):
Please, those wings. I've had those wings. They're ridiculous. Cowboys
and Browns is a great elite four o'clock game. Browns
two and a half, the total low forty and a half.
I kind of like the other of that one too,
that Browns defense, no joke.

Speaker 3 (02:32:19):
I like Cleveland that game.

Speaker 1 (02:32:22):
I still I mean, you know where I am on
the Cowboys. I don't trust Deshaun at all, and I
am I don't want to make everything about a quarterback
because it shouldn't be and the Browns are so good
and their coach is so good that the rest of
the roster should be a problem for everybody. But man,
I just I'm sitting there saying, well, if I got
a bank on somebody to make a mistake in this game,
it's going to be Deshaun. And like, here's the crazy part.

(02:32:45):
Somebody asked me the other day, when's the last time
this entire offseason we read or heard a report from
anybody at camp with the Browns that was like, man,
DeShawn looks great, or even DeShawn looks pretty good. We
haven't heard of any of that. I just I don't.
I can't find a light at the end of the
tunnel when it involves to Deshaun Watson. Not the human being,
because that's a whole nother conversation, but Deshaun Watson the

(02:33:07):
football player. I don't trust him. I think the wrong
team's favored here. I think the Cowboy's gonna win this game.

Speaker 2 (02:33:12):
Yeah, man, I hear you, And I'm dubious when it
comes to Deshaun Watson as well.

Speaker 3 (02:33:19):
So I feel I just love that defense. Man.

Speaker 2 (02:33:22):
I'd love with that Cleveland defense, how that's built. You know,
Miles Garrett gets no love. He doesn't get enough. As
great as he is, he doesn't get enough love.

Speaker 3 (02:33:36):
Man.

Speaker 1 (02:33:36):
Yeah, I totally agree with that, Like we are forgetting
that we are seeing a Hall of Fame caliber player
that is just dominating at a level. You know, this
is such a weird world to live in that two
of I think the most dynamic pass rushers we have
ever seen and most disruptive defensive line forces in Miles
Garrett and Max Crosby are both names that we know

(02:33:58):
and they're both on teams that we are not paying
attention to be with those players like it is. It
is incredible to me that Miles just seems forgotten at times.
It's absolutely incredible for somebody's down there as he is.

Speaker 2 (02:34:10):
All Right, we gotta take quick t we'll come back.
We'll wrap it up. Where the fellas hanging out every week.
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(02:34:33):
the uh as we hang out from the tyraq dot
com studios. All right, let's let's kind of go through
some of these games because there's still a lot more
that I want to talk about.

Speaker 3 (02:34:46):
Washington. This is gonna be interesting because you get.

Speaker 2 (02:34:51):
Daniels and Jane and Daniels against Tampa. I talked to
Baldy the other day, and Baldy really bullish on the Buccaneers.
I'm kind of like Luke warmal Baker Mayfield. He thinks
Baker Mayfield has a goth light like of Renaissance.

Speaker 3 (02:35:13):
If that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (02:35:16):
It does. The only clapback I would give to that,
and you know Baldy Obviously hard for me to clap
anything to Baldy because he could, you know, destroy me
with his pinky toe. But the only thing I would
say to that is Dave can alyis no longer being
there to me is significant, And in talking to Baker,
he made it clear that there was a good relationship
there that really meant something to him. And so now

(02:35:38):
somebody else has to come in and capture that same communication.
I think that there's an opportunity for a little bit
of a step back. Like it's crazy, because this goes
one or two ways. It goes Golf like or it
goes Geno Smith like. And you know, Gino had a
really big year. Then they gave him a contract that
sort of showed part of that. And now Gino's back
to a after last year we took a little step back,
He's back to approve it year. That's kind of what

(02:35:59):
I think is gonna happen at this point because Canalis
deserves a ton of credit for being the right voice
at the right time, the right calming presence for Baker.
Baker just seemed like he was different after last season,
So I'm not as confident that Baker has no drop
off in this But that being said, this game also
interesting because the Washington side of it. I mean, Jade

(02:36:19):
Daniels is so dynamic, and there are some playmakers for Washington.
Like Washington I think right now is a franchise. Looks
like they're in better shape than the Giants, right So
I'm not putting Washington in the basement. I just don't
know that Washington has enough to push forward. But I'm
really interested to see what Jayden looks like from day
one in this in this offense, in this league with
Cliff Kingsbury.

Speaker 2 (02:36:39):
I mean, he's got wapids too, Like it's you know again,
Terry McLaren's Gary Terry. To me, it's been one of
the most underrated receivers in the league. He has no
quarterback preach.

Speaker 1 (02:36:52):
God, you are so right, Like you talk about somebody
that can literally do everything that you want a wide
receiver to do, and he does it all effortlessly. Yeah,
Terry McLaurin deserves much more credit, and he would be
getting it if it wasn't the Commanders and if he
had a decent quarterback.

Speaker 2 (02:37:06):
Right The game of the day though tomorrow is at night.
It's Rams Lions. It's too high powered offenses. It's I
think the Rams are sneaky. I think Rams have a
real chance to win the West. And you know, love
the Lions and what they look like. That's a uh

(02:37:27):
that's that's a great game Tomorrow night. Lions are four
and a half, feels like it's a little uh fat,
kind of like the Rams. The totals fifty two and
a half. I'd still go over. I think it's a
high total. But I think you were going to see
the both of these teams go up and down the field.

Speaker 1 (02:37:47):
Yeah, and this is going to be the proven moment
for the Lions on the defensive side of the ball
because they've really tried to rework that secondary. Boy, you
talk about a great way to see if you've reworked
it from the outset, you know what I mean, Like
taking on McVeigh, taking on a quarterback that absolutely can
carve you up, that has seen so much football and
processes so quickly, taking on those wide receivers. I mean,

(02:38:08):
the Lions. We're gonna find out literally week one if
the Lions have taken care of their biggest weakness or not.
And so I think that's it's wildly interesting, and I
am curious to see what the Rams look like with
no Aaron Donald defensively, Like what change does that make
to the entirety of their defense? But I'm with you.
I think the Rams are being slept on a little
bit this year. I think they have a chance to

(02:38:29):
be a playoff team, absolutely, And the Lions are getting
such benefit of the doubt now, such glory going to
the Lions. I think this is a really interesting out
of the gates. Is your defense better and can you
handle the pressure that now comes with being the hunted?
That's all going to be answered in one Sunday night, Gay, Like,
that's just beautiful planning by the NFL. God, we're going
to be salivating over that.

Speaker 2 (02:38:50):
I know, dude, And of course you know Monday Night
Rogers Niners. You got to read on the Niners nine
Ers four and a half. I like the Jets in
the game, but I think.

Speaker 1 (02:39:03):
The Niners are gonna be fine, and I actually like
the Niners in this game. I like the Niners in
this game. That Niners defense is going to be disruptive.
I still don't trust the Jets offensive line until I've
seen it.

Speaker 3 (02:39:13):
Happen.

Speaker 1 (02:39:14):
So that's and Trent Williams. I asked George Kittle last
week about Trent and any concerns, and he said, he's like,
he's a hall of famer. The preps like a hall
of famer. Every day, nobody works harder. I still believe that.
So I think the forty nine is going to be
just fine. All this contract stuff they're used to. It
happens every year. Every year the forty nine ers have holdouts.
Every year they get him signed. We need to stop
talking about it like it's a big deal, because it's
not a big deal to them.

Speaker 2 (02:39:35):
Yeah, the whole out thing I get. I just I
don't know something about them. Maybe it's the Super Bowl loss, right,
you know? Is there some sort of hangover? I mean
that's been real, that's been kind of proven. So but
we'll see. FITZI, this is it. Good luck to your raiders,
all right, We love you, buddy, enjoyed. All the football
fellas are out.

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