Week 2 Recap, Week 3 Picks

Joe and Cecil recap week 2 and make their picks for week 3 of the NFL season!

Episode Transcript

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Hello, and welcome to the Thirdand the Down Football Show. I am
Joe with me as Cecil. Asalways, we're back after week two,
gonna have some interesting thoughts about theweek two games and preview the week three
games. Cecil, you were atthe Bengals game this weekend. You know,
we'll get into the breakdown of theanalytics of it or the analysis of
it, but you know, areyou the bad luck charm? I am

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not. I think I have alifetime record for the Bengals. I think
I am lifetime. I think Iam eight and three all right overall,
so we have a winning record wherewe win twice as many games as they
lose. My brother was at thegame though, traveling from New York,
and his all time record is probablyabout five and twenty. So he is

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definitely a bad luck charm. Hesomehow own season tickets and he should just
stay away. But other than that, I'm doing well. A lot of
my parlays hit this weekend, soyou know, my Bengals maybe doing horribly
right now, but at least sportsgambling is going off to a good a
good start here. There's always somethingto keep you going. It's always even

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when everything all your hobbies don't feelthe same, and everything seems dark and
gloomy. There's always something to keepyou guys going gambling. That's how it
is, all right. So wehave some recaps to do and see if
we're gonna get this started with thecrazy Thursday night game with the Vikings and
the Eagles. This is quite possiblyone of the craziest games that ended up

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with a backdoor cover for the Vikingsif you're if you're a gambling fan out
there like we are. They lostfour fumbles the Vikings did throughout the game.
We found out that Alexander Madison isnot very good. Kirk Cousins actually
played well on primetime. That waspretty good. He's able to keep bringing
back three hundred and sixty four yardsand four touchdowns. It's pretty good for

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him in prime time. We haveDeAndre Swift getting all the carries because Kenneth
Gainwell is out of a lot ofpeople had DeAndre swipp maybe he didn't start
him even though Kenneth Kimball was out. You probably feel stupid right now.
And then you have a J Brown, despite the Eagles winning, blowing up
on the sidelines and possibly kind ofruined up messing up the chemistry of this

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team because he wants some bigger contracts. There was a lot of different things
going on, and it was likea game where you thought like, oh,
the Eagles are about to pull away, and then all of a sudden,
the Vikings come storming back with KirkCousins playing well. So I think
it's a you know, Vikings arenow o and two, the Eagles are
two and o, which is youknow, makes sense after this game,
but just kind of crazy how wegot here. Sees. Yeah, it
was a crazy game because I meanyou could have sat there at halftime or

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early third quarter just been like,Eagles are gonna win this game and turn
it off and then by them.And I mean it felt like that for
the entire second half until like thelast five six minutes of the fourth quarter
where the Vikings just keep scoring pointsthe Eagles just keep letting them. Obviously,
they lost when there's key secondary membersand Maddox in this game, which
was a big loss for them,and I think that also opened up the

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Vikings passing game a lot. Butyeah, I mean, Kirk Cousins had
a good game. A lot ofit was while the Eagles were playing soft
and basically Kirk Cousins made the play, so I can't fold him too much.
I mean, I'm not gonna thisis better than normal Kirk Cousins prime
time, but also still not likewhere he needs to be. He didn't

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get the win. If he gotthe win, i'd say the curses over.
He didn't get it. He didback to our cover. They probably
pissed a lot of people off,and that's why he took the Eagles minus
five and a half like I did. But regardless, it was a wild
game, a lot of fumbles.The Vikings running back situation when Madison is

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tenuous right now, they don't reallyhave anyone better. You know, part
of it. I think his offensiveline plays it's not great either. The
Eagles were pretty much hitting him inthe backfield before they ever got to the
line of scrimmage at the time.And you know, it's a past first
team. It should be you gotJustin Jefferson, you got T. J.
Hawkinson. I mean, Addison hascome out of the gate and played
really strong these first two games aswell. I mean it should be a

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pass first offense and then let Madisonhe can if he can catch balls out
of the backfield, he should beall right. The biggest thing is his
pass blocking is horrible, and passfirst offenses, you kind of need you're
running back to be able to doall those things together. Otherwise it's it's
hard to keep them on the fieldat times. Look at the Bengals and
Joe Mixon can't pass block. It'shard to really get you in on pass

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plays because if you're in, theyknow there's a good chance the ball could
come to you. But yeah,overall, it was a weird game.
There's night games always seem to bestrange. But the Eagles are able to
pull out the win. But theygot to figure out the stuff with A.
J. Brown and they can't havehim be disgruntled. And again the
Eagles offense still not looking fantastic.You know, we gott Jalen Hurts,

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who got a lot of those oneyard getting pushed in the end zone plays
and some people say should be illegal. Whatever, they're legal now. But
the passing game and the deep touchdownsyou have DeVante Smith, but A J.
Brown is not getting involved. Ithink that's a big that's a worrying
sign. And that's also another reasonwhy he's upset. It's because he doesn't
get the contract, he's not gettingthe yards, and uh, it's sometimes

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for these receivers, it's hard forthem to celebrate with a team when they're
not getting their touches for some reason. Yeah, and I do. I
do have to give it to theEagles in this one too. It's something
we see with other teams. We'regonna get to a little bit here.
They found out that running the ballfor five yards every single carry with DeAndre
Swift was the best way to winthe game, and they just kept on
doing it. And that's what youshould do. If if he has twenty

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eight carries at the end of theday and you win, that's that's what
you want. So you know,a lot of other things weren't working,
like a J. Brown, andthe important thing was they got to win
that DeAndre Swift comes out out ofnowhere at least based on last week.
We kind of game well was startingand there's a lot of teams who like
things are working and then they tryto change it up or get keyte with
it. If it's working, justkeep on doing it. And I think

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that was the most impressive thing forme. It was just watching that game,
like they're probably gonna give it toDeAndre Swift again and he's gonna pick
up five yards again. So propaslythe Eagles, I think for good play
calling and just kind of you know, trusting their guys to get the job
done. All right, Seas,we'll go to the game on Sunday that
you were at. The Ravens wintwenty seven to twenty four. This strategy

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for the Ravens against the Bengals ispretty clear now. It's to possess the
ball for a lot of the gameand then when Joe Burrow does get the
ball, make things tough for himwith pressure. Whether they can do that
with four rushers or sometimes they bringmore, that's what they're trying to do,
especially with the hobbled Joe Burrow.Since Natty's offensive line did not look
good in this game, Zach Taylorhas been too conservative. Yes, a

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lot of defenses are playing more Coverthree, more Cover four to kind of
prevent the big play, but stillhave to get some shots downfield somehow.
There's no deep threats. Jamar Chaseafter the game doesn't need some go balls.
Just a lot of things going onthat are just like game plan wise
that you can kind of see endof the day, though this game could
have gone to quitely differently. JoeBurrow, there's this interception and the third
order on a play that he probablymade a good read on, at least

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based on what we should see,but the guide kind of did. Geno
Stone did something that he really wasn'tsupposed to. That was the turning point
in the game. Otherwise it wasthe same old sled for the Ravens.
What they try to do, theytry to kill the clock, pressure Joe
Burrow, and both things work thistime, right, And I mean it
seems like these Bengals Ravens games areall turning this exact same way. Where

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like you said, the Ravens aregoing to just try to wear them down
and keep the ball on Joe Burrow'shands much as possible. And I mean
the first half they absolutely accomplished that. I mean, I think the Bengals
got the ball three times in thefirst half. One was not a great
offensive drive, the second was apunt return so the offensive didn't even get

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on the field, and the thirdone was again not a very successful drive.
Other than that, I mean theRavens were dominating. I mean they
get their big runs. They havea lot of great design runs that looked
really good. But other than that, I mean was a close game.
The Bengals offense started to look betterin the second half. Obviously, Joe
Burrow had that interception, which hedefinitely wishes it could have back, but

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at least they were moving the ball. They were scoring touchdowns finally, and
you know, they look like asemblance of the team. You know,
Jamarro was covered a lot of times, you know, and Joe Burrows perfectly
five would going with t Higgins whohe had on some intermediate kind of passes
got the touchdowns. So I meanthings were looking better. Obviously, the

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calf injury, which we'll get tolater on in this week's previews and everything,
it's a bummer and a downer,and that happened, you know,
in the last offensive drive of thegame. But I mean, the Ravens
know how to game plan. They'rea good team, they're well coached team,
and you know, it was itwas still a close game in the
end. I mean, it wasone possession, was a field goal to

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tie it, and the Ravens werejust able to keep the ball away in
the last drive because the I meanthe defense was tired. They've been on
the field, you know, twothirds of the game, and you know
it's not a winning formula for theBengals. You know, I'd love to
see them get more deep shots.There were times where, you know,
especially being there, I you know, I'm not the expert of reading every
coverage, but Jamar is there.Jamar doesn't seem like he's getting utilized on

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anything that's more than ten yards out. I get part of it is because
they don't want Joe Burrow to getsacked, because they don't want to reinjure
the calf, which he did anyway, But there aren't enough deep shots.
There are plenty of times where Jamarwas left out. You know, put
him in the slot, he hasa chance to be a single coverage and
you know, a checkdown happens instead. And I'm not saying you shouldn't you
should force them ball Jamar every play, but there need to be more designed

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ways to get Jamar open, youknow, and get that go route and
take that shot down field. Morethan once a game. You have to
do it multiple times. You havethe talent because if you just get one,
it's a complete momentum changer. Youcan really change you out looking the
entire game. It could really makethe whole defense lose heart for the Ravens,
but they're afraid to accomplish it.There aren't as many three receiver sets

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as you've seen. They're doing alot of two tight ends because I think
they're trying to max protect Joe Burrowas much as they can. But the
reality is this offense doesn't work thatway. It's you know, it's a
conundrum right now. You can't runthe offense you need because Joe Burrow is
not completely healthy. But you know, an unhealthy Joe Burrow not being able

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to you know, run the offensethat they're sick successful at isn't getting a
great result either. So you know, what do we do here? Do
we we play a backup? DoesJoe Burrow keep playing knowing that that probably
the calf will not fully heal thembecause he's going to keep using it week
in and week out. Like it'sa conundrum, It's a place I definitely
don't want to be on the Bengalscoaching staff to figure out, you know,

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how much do I really want toforce the issue with this, how
much is it worth it? Andunfortunately, it's the front office's fault for
not really developing a backup quarterback thatcould win a couple of games in the
meantime. So it's not looking greatfor the Bengals right now. You know,
they're still trying to figure out wherethey are with the calf injury.
They haven't said much since you know, Monday, and hopefully it's nothing too

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major. Joe Burrow can continue toplay and continue to try to get a
little bit better as we saw themthe second half. I'm with you,
Sees. I think this specifically thebackup quarterback point, there's there. If
they benched Joe Burrow for the firsttwo weeks of this season, they basically
punt on those games. Maybe Iguess, maybe, I guess the brownser
could have just run the ball moreand done something. But you know there's

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guys out there you can get.You can get Colt McCoy's a free eager
right now. You can you cango trade for a backup or something.
But you see, like the Chiefslike they don't sometimes miss a beat when
Patrick Mahomes goes down. It's notbecause Patrick Mahomes isn't talented and the backup
can do his job. It's becausethose guys don't need reps and we need
guys right now. We've got weWill Greer and Jake Browning for the Bengals.
You put them in and Burry sayingBurrow needs some time off, then

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you're punting on this season if yougo oh and three with the loss of
the Rams, That's that's what thatis. I've seen a lot of Bengals
fans on Twitter say, oh,we need to protect the long term health
of Joe Burrow. That's fine ifthat's what you want to do, but
then you're throwing away one of theprime windows of his career. So that's
something that Bengal fans will have tolive with. It's a catch twenty two
situation. Probably not a right answer. I expect Joe Burrow to want to

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play through the injury and we'll seehow it goes. But yeah, I
think it's it's tough right now tostart and two oh and two against the
division and get things go on that. It's just it's Bengals fans, you
know. I want to think likeit's nothing's wrong, but the panic button's
on the table right now. It'sjust we're playing with fire every year starting
these low starts, and some yearit's gonna burnus. It might be this
year with Joe Burr's injury. Wejust don't know, all right, Next

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one upsets. We have the Bearsat the Buccaneers. The Buccaneers win this
one twenty seven to seventeen. BakerMayfield looks pretty good. I have a
couple of notes down here to goover real quick. We have you mentioned
this last week? Mike Evans gotballs deep in a defense. Second straight
week he's done that. Luke Getsyhas been pretty awful as an offensive coordinator

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for the Bears. There's plays whereguys are running the same route in the
same spot, so there's curl routeswhere the guys are duplicating, where the
running running into each other. Itseems like Austin Fields just being being over
coached. He had an open receiverand they said like hey, he said,
like, I'm concerned because they wereboth in the same spot. There
was like two steam routes going thesame way and he didn't want to throw

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up because of that. And yeah, I think the Bears offensive line is
struggled. And you know, JustinFields hasn't been playing that bad. He
hasn't been playing that well, buthe's also I think in the system where
a bad offensive blind, bad playcaller, that's what you get. And
their defense was not fixed. Theirbig plays were still happening, so that's
what you get. And good tonote Cecil Baker Mayfield had a pretty good

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second week for the Buccaneers. Likethe Buccaneers were expected to win this but
for a guy that was pretty muchwritten off for dead, awesome to see
him kind of come back here anddo some good things because they still got
good weapons like Mike Evans and ChrisGodwin. They can do some decent things
in the NFC South this year,right. I mean, there's a lot
of pieces from the Super Bowl teamfor Tampa Bay. They're still there.
You know. Obviously Tom Brady isnot there. That's obvious. Everyone in

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the world should know. But ifyou don't get, it's time to get
out of your cave. But theother pieces, a lot of them are
still here. I mean, surethey're not maximizing, they're spending because they're
going for it in a window rightnow. But I mean these guys have
been under contract. They still havea good defense. You know, they
have some wide receivers. The bigquestion this whole off season has been what's

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the quarterback position going to be?Like? What's the run game really going
to be like? Because it's thathasn't been strong either. And I mean
as of right now, Baker Mayfieldis accomplishing and answering those questions that you
know, the path the offense isgonna be. Okay. Now, does
that mean they're gonna win the NFCSouth, I don't think so. I
think you look at the two teams. You know, Minnesota doesn't have a

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great defense and the Bears are justa complete another ship show. So you
know, it's hard to tell,you know early in a season like this
where you know you can tell someteams aren't good, but other teams look
good but they're playing bad competition.So I mean, where I need to
see Tampa Bay against the top halfdefense and then I will really kind of

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figure out where this team is.You know, if they play, you
know, when they play the Saintssomebody like that, I think that'll be
a big indicator of where they areas a team, if they have what
it takes to win this division.Obviously, right now they're still they're kind
of they moved out of the dumpsterfire category into the will wait and see
category, and that's kind of wherethey are. The Bears have gone from

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the will wait and see category tothe dumpster fire category. Yeah. I
mean at this point, I don'tknow how much longer are you can let
you have to be the offensive coordinatorof this team because it's not working.
It's just quaint and simple, andit's not just like, oh, this
one thing didn't work and it willdevelop. It doesn't look like there's really

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any concepts to develop. If youas the play car and play insteller,
you know, you have a defensivehead coach, so your offensive coordinator is
the guy when it comes to offensiveinstall and pretty much final stay in the
offense most times. Why do youhave two guys run the same route point.
That's just lazy. I mean,there are plenty of offensive coaches,

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you know. Not everyone is youknow, a Sean McVeigh or a Mike
McDaniel. I get it, butthere's a lot of people who are better
than this. And honestly, atthis point, I don't know if you
just rely on Justin Field's ability asa creator, because I know they're under
they're afraid of him getting hurt.They want to protect him, you know,

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he's the future of the franchise,which I agree with, but there's
no design runs that worked really wellfor him last year. I mean,
at this point, if the seasonand the offense is going to look like
this, they might as well goback to what they were doing last year,
where at least it looked like theoffense was creating points and doing something,
making yards and converting you know,the downs, and this game they're

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not doing that. And this defenseis still not very good and it's hard
to refer it to really develop intoanything because they're on the field constantly because
the Bears offense is horrible. Soyou know, at this point, how
I don't know how many more weeksthe offensive coordinator is going to have a
job. I hope not very muchlonger. These are the results we're going

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to get at that point. Whoevergets that job to be the offensive play
caller, I think you just gotto go, all right, you know,
we got just in fields. Youknow, what he does best,
it seems, is run around andthrow the ball out of the pocket and
create things. And I mean it'snot great long term health wise for him,
but Ultimately, if that's what weneed to make the Bears look like

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a semi competitive team, that's somethingyou can build towards for another year and
develop, versus just being like it'san absolute dumster fire and it's just a
bible to even the answer because hecan't beat but not in this style offensive
they're currently calling. Right, Imean, you're absolutely right. Gets you
Last year, I think it waslike week eight or nine or ten or
something. Finally it lets Justin Fieldsrun the ball and the offense takes off

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the rest of the year, andeveryone in fantasy football is like all pumped
because Justin Fields runs the ball andgets a lot of points that way.
And then this year it's like,oh, we're not gonna let him throw,
or we're not gonna let him run, We're not gonna call design runs,
and it's impacting the offense. Ifyou have a Ferrari, use the
Ferrari, you know, like,let him run. He still has a
rocket arm attached to him and hecan make throws. It's just maybe reading
the fields a little bit tough rightnow, and maybe some of that over

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coaching. But if you don't usehim that way, then you're basically trying
to turn him into someone who couldmaybe be a bad pocket passer, and
that's not gonna work. So justlet him run, let him have the
extended plays. And this is adude who ran a four four forty.
Let them let him use that.So I don't understand some of the some
of the offensive coaches in the NFLwho want to take a guy and make

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it that way. I get youwant to protect your investment. But at
this point he's still on a rookiedeal. So if it ends up that
he ends up getting run into theground, very unfortunate. You don't want
to see it, but it happens. So just you have to use the
players to their strengths, all right, So the Green Bay Packers and the
Atlanta Falcons, this was an interestinggame for a couple of reasons. Seats,

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we had the Packers traveling to Atlantaafter Jordan Loves Big Week one game,
and we also had the Falcons withthe chance to go to two and
oh, which they ended up doing. They went twenty five to twenty four.
Remember, the Packers didn't have AaronJones. Elton Jenkins went down in
this game, so there were someinjuries here, But I think some funny
things too. We had Jordan Lovefalling down when trying to do a quarterback

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sneak. We had aj Dillon fallingdown on a short yard of situation after
being a big back. And wehad Arthur Smith using his playmakers. Drake
London had six catches for sixty yardsixty seven yards and a touchdown, and
what looked like the game was over. The Packers couldn't get the job done,
couldn't close the door. The Falconsscored the last thirteen points of the

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game to win. That include somefield goals at the end there by Young
Hoku, our Lord and Xavier,and he gets the job done. I
think this is one of the oneswhere the Packers should have one. I
think it's equally on their offense fornot shutting the door nor fourth quarter points
and their defense. You just youcan't give up thirteen nine as your points
to the team like the Falcons withDesert Ruder at quarterback who didn't play terribly,
but he didn't play overly well either. So that's that's what I took

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from the game right basically, WhileI'll add to that is if Arthur Smith
can play and coach a game likethat where he gets more of it.
He gets Drake London involved, youknow, a number one receiver. They
get a passing game that actually lookslike a semblance of something real. If
they can if this is the kindof Falcons offense we have going through the

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rest of the season, I willbe much more prone to say they've got
a real shot at the NFC South. I think so if they play like
this there two and oh, theystart getting all their playmakers involved, which
has been the big thing with ArthurSmith. You get Kyle Pits, you
get Drake London. These are huge, big time playmakers. So it'd be
Jean Robinson and you want to usehim. And I understand if you want
to be a run first team,but you still got to get those guys

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involved because if you get them involved, it's going to make what you want
to do, and that's possessed theball and be a you know, running
grading kind of team. It willmake it easier to accomplish that because teams
still need to account for your passinggame. The defense is still okay.
I mean they've signed some people,you know, Jesse Bates was a big
addition for them, he's played wellso far two games in, and the

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Packers, you know, they're justthey're a middling team now with Aaron Rodgers.
Matt Laflore not an elite coach byany means. He's not the absolute
worst coach. But I can't saythat the Packers are going to be a
good team. Like. It seemslike they're going to be a very like.

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Maybe they'll make the playoffs, maybethey won't, you know how far,
I don't think they really have ashot to ever go deep in the
playoffs when they do make it,with the way the roster is currently constructed.
And I mean, maybe Jordan luttwill continue to take steps forward,
sure, but I just don't feellike Matt Laflour in the system he's created,
in the offense and just everything thatthey're running feels like it's something that's

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going to work long term. Forthat, Yeah, I would agree.
I think there's gonna be some changesafter this year in Green Bay. I
think specifically defense coordinator Joe Berry.But also, like I said, you
can't go the whole fourth quarter withoutscoring any points either, so I'm gonna
need to figure that whole thing out. And like I said, with the
Falcons, they spent some money ontheir defense. They drafted Bijean Robinson,

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and man his he looked good.Man. They keep on getting that guy
at the ball. I know theywant to want to run the ball a
lot and give Tyler al Jerk touchesand then when Corderol Patterson comes back,
give him touches. But God's there'sa case to be made that, like
by week five, we're talking abouthim being the best running back in the
league already. So that's just it'scrazy, all right. Kansas City and

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Jacksonville rematch up a playoff game lastyear. Now, see before we get
started into the analysis, there wasa I know you were at the game.
There was a big argument with theboys because of the YouTube multiview thing.
I wanted this game on the screen, but we couldn't get this game
on the screen if we wanted towatch both the Bears and the Packers game.
We were watching with Bears and Packersfans, So I put this on
the from on my laptop to watchthe game. They were okay with watching

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their their garbage teams. That's verynicely, just because I don't like those
people, but garbage teams so Iwatched this on my laptop and honestly,
he didn't miss much. It wasa seventeen to nine game. Here the
biggest things here for me, ChrisJones seems to be important and disrupting for
that Chief's defense. Nine points tothe Jaguars is pretty good. I mean,

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this low scoring game was I thinkdictated by the bad offensive line play
by both by both teams. Forthe Jaguars, I mean, Trevor Lawrence
kept on getting pressured. For theChiefs. Juwan Taylor, the guy who
everyone was making fun of for gettingfalse starts, and week one on Thursday
night game, he gets benched becausehe has so many penalties with the false
starts because the NFL said they're gonnacheck into it, so he gets bench.

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Then he gets put back in benchin the middle of the drive.
This is not like a Mona Lisaof a game for either team, but
I an eagle. When Travis Kelseyfinds the end zone, says he found
a blank space. For all theTaylor swipt fans out there, since the
rain rumors are they're dating again,anyone could have missed this game. It's
a game these two teams could playin the playoffs. But this shows a

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lot of RUSS from these offenses anda lot of RUSS from these offensive lines.
I think there might be three orfour offensive lines that anyone feels comfortable
within the league, and the restis just very very suspect these past couple
of years. He's yeah, alloffensive line play is definitely an all time
low, it feels like, andjust it's not getting any better. Shout
out to the Rams, who havesomehow managed to piece together a decent offensive

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line. We'll get to their gamelater, but since we're talking about an
offensive line play, the Rams areprobably one of the random teams that seem
to they've they've found a bunch ofnobodies. I don't think their left tackle
got drafted, or if he did, he was a late round pick.
I've never heard of him before inmy life. But I mean, they're
they're giving Matt Stafford some time againstthe forty nine ers defense, and the

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Rams still love playing, you know, three receiver sets, so there's not
a lot of help. Maybe there'sone tight end they're not you know,
do a max coverage or anything likethat, so you know, it goes
to show. I think it's partthere aren't that many guys who want to
play offensive line anymore. You know, it's not a beloved position, especially
in the age of social media andthings like that. You know, these
guys don't get beloved, but youknow they probably deserve. I mean,

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it's just that's how it's always beenwith line play in football. It's just
kind of assume they're there, andthen when they screw up, you're there
to find out what their name isand scream at them. And two,
I think evaluation between college and NFLfor offensive lineman is kind of becoming almost
uncomparable between what the college style offensesrun these days. Well, you know,

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five wide and you know these kindof all everything out of the shotgun,
and then trying to transition these guysto grow footballs, you know,
you know the I formation, youknow, basic stuff like that, and
going up against you know, toptier defensive lineman because there's not usually as
many athletic freaks in every game dependingon where are you playing, what conference
you're in. So I mean,there's a lot of offensive line play,

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but it's true. I mean,it's definitely gonna continue to play a factor
in a lot of games. Anotherthing I want to talk about here is
Chiefs did go it out slow.I can't believe how slow they started in
this game. That's on the lookoutfor but ultimately too, the Chiefs defense
looks pretty good so far. Youknow, they've got Chris Jones back,

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They've got George Karloftus who they draftedtwo years ago. They got Trent McDuffie.
You know, they've gotten some youngerguys in there as some of their
older guys they like go to freeagency because they had under money assignment and
they've replaced them pretty well. IfKarloftus keeps playing with this, you know,
that's a great replacement for Frank Krk, who's been up and down last
year for the Chiefs anyway. SoI mean, if they keep playing at

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this level, I mean the JaguarsI think will figure it out more as
this season goes on. I mean, the Jaguars, a lot of people
say they are gonna win the AFCSouth, and I mean that's a playoff
team right there. And you know, the offense wasn't moving very well for
Kansas City and the defense was ableto hold him to nine points. So
I mean, if the Kansas CityChiefs defense keeps playing like this, I'm

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sure Pat Mahomes at Travis Kelsey willfigure it out here, and you know,
Pat Mahomes will eventually get some rapportwell on these receivers. I mean,
that's a pretty good bet towards anothersuper Bowl they play like that.
I mean, I don't think PatMahomes has ever had a top honestly top
fifteen defense. And you know alot of times these all thing quarterbacks when
they do get to a Super Bowl, it's because they finally get a good,

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you know, top half defense thatcan hold the ball down and get
them the ball back so they canwin it. So something to look out
for us the season goes on.Yes, he's we've kind of I think
the Chiefs, maybe not of us, but definitely other people have talked about
how the Chiefs have those offensive struggleswith some of these wide receivers, but
they've invested a lot of their picks, early picks into the defense, and
when they got Chris Jones back,it looks like it'll be pretty good.

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I mean, they what twenty onepoints to the Lions, and Lions are
a pretty good offensive team, andthen nine points to the Jaguars on the
road. I mean it's they're gettingwhat they're paying back. I mean they
use the draft picks, They're gettingwhat they put into it, so that
it's always good to see teams whoput stuff into things get rewarded for doing
it. So we'll see how theyhold up for sure, and if maybe
that's a defensive more of a defensiveteam than in past years, we'll stick

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with some AFC South teams. Heresees we have the Colts beating the Texans
thirty one to twenty. Anthony Richardsonhas two rushing touchdowns, but he goes
out with the concussion. It seemslike he's gonna be okay. Cardner Minshew
comes in, doesn't miss him bebest backup quarterback in the league. We
all love him. Here Zach Mosscomes back from the broken arm, shows
that he's the number one back whenJonathan Taylor is out. I mean that

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we saw at the end of lastyear with Dean Jackson not really meeting much
of a factor and Zach Moss gettingmuch of the carries. But he really
played well in this game, youknow, eighty eight yards, one touchdown.
He's he's the guy to pick upin fantasy this week. If you're
not picking up Draim Forward, theBrown's backup running back, who's now going
to get a bigger share, Andthen, you know, I think it's
it's good for the Colts to win. They have Anthony Richardson who can run

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ball. He has looked better thanexpected, and the defense is good.
But for the Texans, I don'tcare about the record this year, but
CJ. Stroud looks like probably thebest passing rookie quarterback so far. Bryce
Youngs had a struggles we'll get intothat. I'm going to night football,
but he had three hundred and eightyfour yards and two touchdowns. A lot
of it was in comeback time whenhe's protecting the football dealing with a lot
of pressure from the Texans offensive line. He was plenty of guys out and

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he's playing really well. So thatis encouraging for Texans fans. Even though
the record is not good this rightnow, it probably will not be good
this season. Right You know alot of people wanted this game and thought
it was going to be very close. You and I thought the Colts will
win it because it seems like theystill have a bunch of better roster overall.
But CJ. Stroud did take somegood steps in this. He also

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got their rookie Tank Dell, whohad a good Group four with and drink
training camp in the preseason involved alittle bit, so I'd like to see
him and develop as well. ButI mean, the defense just isn't doing
anything for anybody. You know,they got Tamika Ryan's there now as head
coach. You know, maybe ittakes a little time for them to develop
that defensive identity, but so farit has not been it. That's what

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I think most of all you wouldhave expected from the Texans maybe is for
their defense to get better, andit seems like it's just it's the same
it's been since Jijia Watt left.It's just piecemealed together and they're not really
stopping anybody, especially when they absolutelyneed to get the ball back. I
mean, I would like to seethem get another receiver. You know,

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Tank Dale's young. They signed Daltonshoulta tight end. You know, he's
not an absolutely be so of atight end receiving threat. You know,
Damian Pierce has played better than anybodyexpected after coming out of nowhere last year.
But there's just a lot of pieceson this offense they still need.
I think they would really benefit fromespecially maybe they had a first round pick

(30:51):
this year, but you know theytraded it, and I get why,
but I mean that might cost him. Honestly, that might cost him Morvin
Harrison Jr. At this rate thatthey're going, and that's a big cost
considering that will be a perfect person, especially considering C. J. Stroud
was his quarterback. Well, theyalready they already cost him that because remember
they traded their first round pick,saying it would be nice if they hadn't

(31:17):
traded Yeah, right, right,right, I just I just yeah,
the Texans draft pick strategy the lastcouple of years have been interesting. Yeah,
don't trade away draft picks in thefirst round if there's a pretty good
chance you're still going to suck.It's a rule of thumb. Yeah,
but yeah, I mean the Texansare still far off. That sucks if
you're a Texans fan and you knowthe cults are still okay, and you

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know they might be a team thatends up beating you know, some teams
we don't expect them to, justbecause Richerston is able to use his legs
and it's worked out well so far, and you know, if the Jonathan
Taylor drama dies down, he doesshow back up and plays well. I
mean, that's a formula to wina couple of football games. They could
win the FFC South if he comesback and they just run the ball a

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lot. Like the defense is stillgood season. I mean, I don't
know. I don't think I'm gonnapick that way. I think the Jaguars
are still better, but they couldall right, so the next game up
seats won't take too long. Onthis one, the Bills absolutely obliterate the
Raiders. They win thirty eight toten. DeVante Adams plays well early but
then suffers a concussion. We gotta, we gotta give an old golf clap

(32:24):
for Josh Allen. He did notthrow an interception this game. That's that's
really big for him. Well,Jimmy g did throw two interceptions. And
then Josh Jacobs did nothing, absolutelynothing. He didn't rush almost at all
for any yards after leading the teamor the league in rushing last year.
To me, Sez, again,I don't want to spend too much time
on this game because we knew theBills are better and the Raiders or whatever.
But Josh McDaniels is such a badcoach. Yeah, it's good to

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see the Bills get back on track. It sucks that Devanta Adams is there
because he's probably a really the bestperceiving the league, and he just it
sucks now because he thought he wasgonna get Derek Carr, and Derek Carr
got ran out of town and nowhe's got to deal with the drafts with
Daniel shit show. So hopefully maybewe can get Devant Dams back on another

(33:07):
team. You know, it'd begreat to see him get traded someone in
each receiver. Don't think it willhappen, but that would be nice to
see him be able to beat inthe playoffs because he's really good. He's
really the only reason to watch theRaiders at all. Pretty much. Yeah,
all right, we'll keep it movingfor the Chargers at the Titans and

(33:28):
cease the Chargers can knock it overthe second half collapse that happened again,
they're not Oh and two, Ithink we can talk about Brandon Staley firmably
being on the hot seat. Itisn't lost to a team that is that
is a solid team usually in MikeRabel. The Titans scored seventeen unanswered points
to win. The score was fourteento ten at halftime in favor of the

(33:49):
Chargers, and then they score fourteenpoint second half. They could a feel
gold over time to win and sealit. Herbert's justin Herbert's on fire.
But they keep on and enjoy.Bosa had two sacks. But they keep
on blowing things late. Excuse methe chart. Yeah, the Chargers did
score ten second half points. Thatmath doesn't end up, but they still
keep on blowing these second half leadslike they had to lead a halftime they

(34:13):
had a chance to close down thegame at the end of the game.
It's these collapses will have to beanswered for. And Brandon Salley has not
been answering the questions too nicely whenpeople bring up all the collapses. So
that's something to note. No,I mean, I don't think I mean
if they lose another game, likeif they go over three, you know,
I think this is the point whereyou know, Brandon Salley should have

(34:34):
been on the hot seat, probablyshould have gotten fired the end the last
year, considering the collapse that happen. And now I mean this year,
we're getting off the same start.Sure, my Dolphins look really good two
weeks in and they lose a closeone. But they have to lead in
these games, you know, Titans, Like they have to lead a half
time. And the Titans don't havea good passing offense. There are one

(34:57):
dimensional team at the end of theday, Like they really are. They
They're not Ryan Tannehill is not anygood. Like It's it's that simple.
You'll Justin Herbert, who people keepsaying it's like one of the best quarterbacks
in the NFL, and like Iagree with them, but like where are
the game winning drives? Where whereare they? They just they aren't Cutch

(35:19):
and it sucks, And I feelbad for Justin Herbert because I mean,
this team just doesn't get wins whenit should and they are it's just it's
it's looking like a weird franchise andthey're gonna they're kind of their windows closing.
And how a big quarterback deal theyhave to pay Justin Herbert. The
team's gonna start getting a little lessand less. And if this is what

(35:40):
we're gonna see, it's it's notgonna work, and it's Chargers are gonna
be It's gonna be really weird tosee Justin Herbert on such a good team
to give them such a chance andwatch them can squander it week in and
week out. That's how I feeltwo season. I think if Brandon's Daley
was this guy who was kind ofseen as maybe being to an analytics and

(36:00):
too nerdy, but then he shiftedaway for like they had a chance to
go for it on some fourth downsand didn't do it. He's changed how
he coaches, and I think whatmade him good his first year there was
that he just kind of listened tothe analytics and did what he wanted.
And now he's just kind of lettingthese voices get in his head and he's
maybe the team too, Like it'sjust the chargers are going to charge er.
That's how it works, all right. So the Seahawks and Lions,

(36:22):
see this is one of the moreentertaining matchups of Sunday, and you would
never think it based on these teamshistories of you know, it's the Seahawks
and Lions, but they produced somepretty good football here Seahawks win at thirty
seven to thirty one. We haveJared Goff was going on almost the longest
streak in NFL history without throwing aninterception and then he threw us a pick
six and that starts a comeback bythe Seahawks and he I think Gino came

(36:51):
back to form in this game.It wasn't like he was playing too terribly,
but he had three hund twenty eightyards and two touchdowns the Detroit offense.
Maybe he has a limited amount ofweapons. And I think Jared Goff
is doing well, but James Williamsis still suspended, and Josh Reynolds is
coming out of nowhere just produced anda Moon Ross Saint Brown got banged up
in this game, so it kindof makes it a little bit intense.

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And then Seattle has no run gamein this game either, which is surprising
to me Sees, but they wereable to get to win. This is
when we kind of noted would bea fun one, and it ended up
being even more than we thought.Right. It was definitely just an offensive
slugfest at times. Jared Goff obviouslyhad that pick six, and it is
looking like in Detroit they don't haveall their weapons and it seems like Gibbs

(37:37):
and I am a full disclosure aGibbs Fantasy owner, I do have an
investment in this man. And hisseason. But again, you know,
one of the top picks in theNFL draft, they're not using that much.
You know, Bijon is getting useda lot for the Falcons, and
I get Dave Montgomery is a fineback in everything, but Mere Gibbs should

(37:58):
be in all with time like youshould be in you know, probably probably
the snaps in some way. Youdon't have to get the ball every time.
You don't have to have him runfor thirty you know, touches a
game, but have him involved inthe game plan. Make people account for
him. He supposed to be thisdangerous back who can catch the ball out

(38:19):
of the backfield, that can run. Put him in there with Montgomery,
I mean, get the guy involved. You know, Dan Campbell's using on
his coach speak that he's a rookie. He doesn't want to overwhelming. Well,
I mean, sure, you're arookie, but when you're you know,
a top ten pick, you knowthat rookie stuff goes out of the
window pretty quickly. I mean,you're running back in the NFL. Your
career is like five to six yearsthese days, so you better get the

(38:44):
max out of this thing or it'sgonna look even like you're gonna look really
dumb if at the end of theseason Jeremy Gibbs has like a fifty to
sixty percent snap chair, especially ifthey don't have one of the top running
offenses in the league, it justdoesn't make sense. They'll look better Jamison
Williams gets back, but at thesame time, like maximize your weapons,

(39:05):
and you know, Dan Campbell andthis Lions team, you know, they
closed out the Chiefs, was great, but then this game kind of turned
to the same thing we've been seeingover the last year or two is they
had trouble closing out these games.You know, they can't put that you
know, kind of dagger in theheart to really just end things. They
had to come back in this one. You know, they had the lead

(39:28):
and you know, they let theSeahawks come up. They managed to take
it over time, and then fromthere they couldn't do anything. So it's
you know, Lions still I likehim to win the NFC North, especially
compared to how everyone else has donetwo games in, but this is definitely
something they need to fix and DanCampbell needs to be acutely aware that he's

(39:49):
got to maximize the talent on histeam. That's and there's so many NFL
coaches that I just I still don'tget it this day. We talked about
this all the time. They don'tmaximize the town on their teams. They
try to use the scheme and theytry to just game plan like they're just
another player who's above average. It'slike they're not above average. You know,
they're supposed to be these superstars aresupposed to rely on to win you

(40:12):
games. That's honestly how you winthe NFL. You play in your scheme
around these guys. You maximize theirpotential if you let them take over the
game, if they're going to takeover the game. But it just hasn't
happened in Detroit yet. And youknow they have mentally talent at the quarterback
position, they need to use thattalent in the other positions that they have.
I'm with you, see, Ialways am a big opponent of play

(40:36):
the best players. And he mightbe the best player in that offense other
than I'm on Ross Saint Brown skilledposition wise, maybe even more so than
him. We just don't haven't seenhim enough. So yeah, use them
and maybe David Montgomery being banged upnow will make them use him more in
the next couple weeks here, andit could be the best thing that happens
to that team. Unfortunate as itis, that someone else got injured.

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All Right, the Giants beat theCardinals see thirty one twenty eight, but
that did not come out without alot of drama. If you're like me,
it was twenty to nothing at halftime. I bet the Giants have you
I'm thinking the Cardinals are taking Yeah, they played the Commanders tough, but
you know they have Sam Howell,They're you know, they're not that great
either. They have good defense,and then all of a sudden they come
back and win thirty one to twentyeight. Daniel Jones through the air with

(41:19):
his legs did a lot. JaleOn Hyatt kind of proved himself as a
deep throat. That's all he does, so we said in the Draft show.
All he does is a deep threatthat's always going to be and he
ended up proving his worth yer whenhe had two catches for eighty nine yards.
The bad news for the Giants isthat's Aequon Barkley's banged up now,
probably gonna miss some time. That'ssomething not to go overcome because he is
their best player. Just by DanielJones playing really well in the comeback,

(41:42):
and you know, this is likethey shouldn't have been this hard against a
team that is tanking. This teamis tanking so much they just put Buddha
Baker on the ir probably not asa result of them taking but like it's
gonna be really bad for this team. So Giants, I'm not really sure
they're good, but that was atleast exciting. Yeah, I mean at
this point after all that, thatabsolutely just I mean, the Cardinals collapsed

(42:05):
at half time, but you're athome. It's you're the other team is
coming from New York to the desertout in Arizona. That's a wet you
know, it's a West Coast game. You know they're tired travel, you
know, and you're already up onhim. But like it's a three possession
game and they just Daniel John DanielJones just goes off and again, that's

(42:28):
great. I'm glad he did thatagain. Don't know why it took him
an entire half to figure out offense, it is. You know, they
have Jalen Hyatt at least he's provingto be a deep thread, which helps
because We're worried that he wouldn't beable to get the ball, you know,
out there because of Daniel Jones andthe way his offense runs, and
it would be worthless anyway. Soat least they're using him. Still need

(42:50):
some guys that can actually throw tooin the middle of the field. They
gotta get Darren Waller more involved.I mean, without say Quon, it's
hard to really feel threatened by thisGiant's offense. I mean, se Quan
is the every down, every place. He's the guy you gotta count for.
He's that talented. He really makesthis offense run a lot more than

(43:12):
Daniel Jones does. I'm not I'mnot scared about Gradaut and I'm just gonna
spy Daniel Jones. Dan Jones reallyisn't that fast, so any spy will
be able to catch up with him. It's not Lamar Jackson, you know,
he's not you know, justin fields. He's not super fast by any
means. He's actually pretty slow.So, I mean, this offense is
becoming one dimensional. I don't likewhat this means for the Giants. I

(43:37):
didn't think the Giants are gonna makethe playoffs anyway. It's just it's unfortunate
to see se Quon, who youknow, is fighting for running backs everywhere
it seems like to make more money, and he gets hurt again. And
you know, it's the thing withrunning backs is they are one of the
most fragile positions in the NFL.I mean, they do get beat up
and it shows you and it's justunfortunate. I hope he's able to come

(43:58):
back quick, million healthy, andyou know, I don't want to see
them, you know, just fallapart because of this. The Cardinals,
though, I got no I gotnothing for you. I don't really have
any advice. I don't have manymanuals. I don't know what how many
pep talks coaches have. When youblow a three possession lead at half at

(44:20):
home, there's no real excuse forit. It's just it's honestly up to
that. It's poor coaching because Imean, clearly there was some talent there
at some point, they just theyfumbled it away and it sucks. And
the Cardinals at this point, againthey're own too, just just spade off
into the night. The number onepick the Texans if you have to,

(44:44):
but if they don't, think theyend up playing. But you know,
just do whoever you can to getthe first and second overall pick, get
rid of Kyra Murray, trade himto some SAPs out there, and then
maybe you have some once of beinggood. Is U there is Gannon gonna
be a great coach? I don'tthink so. You know, I don't

(45:07):
know why they went with a defensiveminded head coach in the first place,
when you know they have a quarterbackthey paid a lot of money to,
so a lot of question marks.Don't like what's going on in the desert.
You know, the Cardinals might doanother classic they fire the guy after
one year, because they've done itplenty of times before now, and if

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this season goes this way, Irich Gannon may not be their long term
because I mean, I don't reallywant to get a rookie quarterback or get
someone like Kaye Williams whoever ends upbeing the number one quarterback drafted and pair
them with a defensive coach just doesn'twork. Yeah, see the Cardinals,
it would be really cool if theydo get the number one, number two

(45:49):
pick. I'll just that'd be socool. They get Marvin Harrison and they
get Kayle Williams and they just tradeCalgary for some more picks. That'd be
fun, but I'm with you,it sucks the sake. K One got
hurt again. He's a guy thata lot of fans have been invested in
three at the through fantasy or justthe fact that he's a very talented running
back and you hate to see guyslike that get injured. So hopefully the

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Giants have a tough turnaround here.They're playing in San Francisco on Thursday night,
so they've a lot to figure out. But we'll just see how it
goes, and you know, we'llsee if they can maybe pull off with
a huge up set because it's Thursdaynight or something. The or the New
York Jets at the Dallas Cowboys.See the Cowboys when thirty to ten,
they are blowing teams out and leftand right to start the year, both

(46:31):
the Giants and the Jets. Howgood are those teams? So I guess
what still remains to be seen.But the defense looks really good. That's
the that's what's getting them there.They had three interceptions in this one.
Michael Parsons, it looks like anearly candidate for MVP, which is very
hard for a defensive player. Todo, but just he's everywhere getting sacks
and everything. Zach Wilson had threeonint s. I'm not ready to throw

(46:51):
on the talent Zach Wilson yet asbeing like the guy who can help this
Jets team make the playoffs. Buthe maybe gets one or two more weeks
to kind of prove what he cando, maybe against a team that isn't
as good defensively as the Cowboys beforeyou have to make a change there and
try to win a super Bowl withsomeone else. So kind of what we
expected the Cowboys to win, butjust maybe not by that much of a
domination. Yeah, the Cowboys rolledthrough this game, and I expected it

(47:15):
to be a little closer because theJet's defense looked really well week one.
I don't know if it's a hangoverknowing that Aaron Rodgers is gone, and
now it's kind of a you know, the shock is kind of set in,
Like the shock's over and the reality'skind of set in there. Zach
Wilson wasn't horrible, but you know, he's he's it's hard to expect that
much from him. But yeah,I mean, the Jets are in an

(47:37):
unfortunate situation. The Cowboys They've beattwo teams that we don't know really how
good they are. It's early inthe season, but right now I think
they're better than the Eagles, andI think right now i'd pick them to
win the NFC East. You know, got into my head that's what I'd
say. I picked the Cowboys overthe Eagles right now. Wow. I
mean I've called a homer if Isay that. But like I, Okay,

(48:00):
let's ride, Let's ride. See, let's do it. It look
better right now? You know Ihad sticky Pixar on the season, But
I mean two weeks in, theEagles will pay. The offense don't need
to figure a lot of things out. The defense isn't as dominant. The
Cowboys are just destroying people. SoI'm ready to be hurt against Sea.
So I'm ready, not by theBengals, by the cowboysn't ready to be
heard again Bengals. I can't behurt anymore than I've already been hurt.

(48:24):
We'll just school keep moving because thatwas a blowout. We'll go to the
forty nine ers at the Rams.All I gotta say is, while they
did lose, I'm very impressed withthe ramps ability to find guys out of
nowhere. We saw Kyra Williams stepup this week, a guy who we
talked about in the draft process weliked but didn't do anything last year when
he was on the Rams to twoAtwell had a good game, Puka to

(48:46):
Couis at the record for rookie receptionsin a game, and they played the
forty nine ers closer than we thought. I think a lot of that's because
Matt Stafford's shoulder might be healed nowhe looks really good. But they also
they also played him closer than wethought because they were down ten with four
seconds to go. It kicked afield goal to help them cover the spread.
They got within the got within theeight points. Most people had them

(49:07):
eight and eight and a half points, maybe seven, seven and a half
points, and they lose by sevenbased on that, So I don't that's
a that's a sad field goal ifyou're a football team, But if you're
a gambler, if you're better,you're like, heck, yeah, man,
take those points when you can getthem. So the forty nine ers
can deserve all the credit they canget. We talked about them a lot,
very good team, very balanced,Rock Party looks good. But those

(49:29):
were the things I took from thisgame. Was more just like the forty
Nineers did what they were supposed todo. The Rams played better than I
expected them to and still kept itwithin the point spread based on this kind
of a weird thing at the endthere. Yeah, that's two weeks a
row. There's been a very weirdcovering the spread thing that's happened that.
You know, most of the timeyou're watching the NFL game, you go,

(49:51):
why the hell would you be doingthat? You know, And I
mean they came out way before sportsgambling. This stufsn't happening for years,
right, all been there as NFLfans screaming at the television telling your coach
you're an idiot. So it's it'snot new. It's not because somebody is
secretly sports gambling. I mean maybethey are. I don't know, but

(50:12):
I'm here for the ride. Butyeah, the forty nine ers still played
well. The Rims. It's reallyyou know, Sean McVeigh guru, right,
you know, he's back to Guru'sstatus with me. He's back to
he's he's done it. He's firsttwo games without Cooper Cup have shown me
he knows what the hell he's doing. Congratulations, you're in the upper echelon

(50:36):
of elite coaches again for me.You know, last year was rough when
Matt Stafford out, so you know, it's hard I guess the game plan,
especially without a good quarterback. That'swhy they went out and got staffed
from the first place. And they'reyou know, their tenuous backup situation continues
to be a problem for them becauseBrett Rippion isn't gonna win them any games.

(50:58):
But that being said, I Imean, what they've done with these
young receivers out of Cooker Cup isnot is any is phenomenal, nothing short
of amazing. Their offensive line,they've retooled it completely. It seems like,
you know, no Boom I thinkis playing guard after he was playing
tackle last year. Again, there'sguys, there are virtual unknowns playing on

(51:20):
this team as offensive line, andthey're playing decently well against the forty nine
ers defense. That's really good.Fred Warren had to start blitzing, you
know, they really had to startmoving him in and create some pressure on
Matt Stafford. So Kyron Williams hasbecome a decent looking running back. Cam
Akers is once again fallen out offavor. There's one thing with Sean McVeigh

(51:45):
I won't understand sometimes is him andShanahan. They seem to have these dog
houses. You know, it's thedoghouse, you know. I guess if
you're a guru, you gotta havea doghouse, I guess. But there
just seems to be at times itdoesn't make any sense. Players just completely
lose favor with their offensive coach.And I don't know that's great, you

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know, for the flow and schematicsof a season. But yeah, whatever,
cam Akers is pretty much out.It seems like considering they're trying to
trade him and kind of a weirdthing. If you're a poor cam Akers
fantasy owner, I really hope yougot Kyron Williams off the waiver wire.
If you didn't, God bless.And if you're the poor person out there
who traded four cam Akers from mein a fantasy league, congratulations you are

(52:34):
the biggest idiot. And I'm sorry, but yeah, Kyron Williams, good,
cam Akers bad. Don't draft camAkers like I did. And if
you did, try to get outof it as soon as you possibly can.
Let the boat's probably gone. Yeah, it's really good. That is
the weirdest thing I think I've everseen in this league is, you know,
we like Camakers enough to draft them. We're gonna make him the guy.

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He gets hurt, he comes back, we make him the guy again.
We said we don't like him.We try to trade him. He's
an active last year for a couplea couple of weeks, no one,
no one trades anything for him,so we put him back in the line
up. At the end of lastyear, plays well, we like him
again. We like him to startthe year, it seems like. But
then Kara Williams a week one comesaround. Kyral Williams is a guy.
Now we're trying to trade him again. Is a level of back and forth.

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I don't think I've ever seen whethermost people are if you're done with
someone, you're done. I don'tknow. This is like a toxic relationship
you gotta tell your boy to getout of or something like that. I
don't know, but yeah, Ithink, like I said, I think
more impressed with the Rams than Iam. Like anything with the forty nine
ers is just that we knew theforty nineers are good coming in. We
will see how these teams do nextweek, the forty nine Ers, as

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we mentioned, short week for them, and then the Rams coming to Cincinnati.
We'll answer a lot of questions aboutboth thieves. Next one up,
we have the Washington Commanders at theDenver Broncos. This one was a weird
game, back and forth, highscoring. We didn't really expect that they
Eric b enemies to work in hismagic with thirty five points scored for the

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Commanders. At the end of thegame, we have Russell Wilson throw a
hill Mary when they're down eight andit actually converts. He threw a moonball
down there and let the guys getunder it and it worked. Two point
conversion. Courtland Sutton looks pretty open, but there's some clear PI that was
not called. We know you canget away with murder on the last couple
of plays of the game and haveno PI call. That's that's just what

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history tell us is ninety nine percentof the time, unless you're Logan Wilson
and the Super Bowl, then they'llcall it every time because that's the Bengals.
And we have other things from thisgame just kind of I noted that
it just came with some drama there, but Brian Robinson had a good game.
Marvin Mims is a good deep threatfor for the Broncos. How's this
statline sees two catches, one hundredand thirteen yards one touchdown. Holy crap.

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So that that'll be good for theBroncos. But it's gonna take a
lot of more time for Sean Paytonto fix this team that I think people
initially thought. You don't just haveRussell Wilson come back and be totally fixed
through a couple of preseason games oneone week. Yeah, the only trouble
you thing is the defense is gettingworse, which is a big problem.

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I mean they were good and youknow, maybe the Commanders, you know,
you didn't have a bad game,but I mean the defense should have
play a lot better against the Commander'steam that you know, I get by
enemy has probably done a lot withthis team, you know, as an
offensive coordinator, and it's starting toshow a little bit. But I mean
there's really no excuse for that milehigh you know, a team that doesn't

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know have a great offense and suddenlyjust hang points on you, and Russell
Wilson's got to try to get ahill Mary. So it seems like,
no matter what the Broncos do,something's wrong. If they could get in
a time machine and get Peyton Manningback and relive that that year of twenty
ten, I think they wouldn't heartbeat. I think they would too.

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So yeah, two of the teamswho don't really expect to be all that
good this year. But big winfor the Commanders to get to and it
we'll see if they can kind ofhold on down the stretch. We're gonna
move on to Sunday night football,Seaes. The Dolphins win this one against
the Patriots twenty four to seventeen.I don't know if you solve the new
thing with their lighthouse thing. There'sstart but it's the cheesiest thing ever where
they built the lighthouse in the stadiumand someone rings a bell and a start

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the game from the lighthouse. KennyChesney was the super fan who got to
do it for the Patriots in England. It's in New England, so so
stupid. Everyone needs a pretty gamethat I mean the Bengals, everywhere,
the jungle, everyone has their things. Now it's just we have a lighthouse.
That's that's awesome. Yeah, Idon't know, he's losing he's losing
a step man two US five andOHO against Bill Belichick when he's able to

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play, or he most dirt lookspretty good. Is in control of that
offense. We know that'll change onceJeff Wilson gets back or Devin h Chain.
They just decided they want a differentrunning It's the same San Francisco offense.
I don't decide they want a differentrunning back. At some point.
Tarry Kill is still killing it.Had a touchdown in this game. They
did let the Patriots come back.They got off to an early day.
They let the Patriots come back.There was a couple of cool things.

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There was a Patriots did a runningfield goal block on the Dolphins where the
dude ran parallel to the line ofscrimmage and then when the snap of the
ball game he ran towards the kickand blocked it. I think it was
Colin Schooler did it, and itwas amazing. People have been trying that
maddened forever. It was now inthe NFL. There was deflective past the
cold strains, the guard cut andit looked like he had a first down,
ended up getting called back and thatkind of helped end the Patriots hopes

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of catching up to the Dolphins inthis one. So it was entertaining at
the end, but the Dolphins werethe clear better team through rep. Yeah,
I mean the Dolphins definitely looked better. The Patriots did get back into
it. There was a questionable touchdownwith Hunter Henry there at the end where
he pretty much blocked somebody like infive yards and then blocked him, pushed

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off and then went into the endsopen the touchdown, which was a little
questionable, but that's okay. Youknow, the Colton Strange one was another,
you know, close call and itwent the other way for the Dolphins.
So I mean, again, MattJones has some plays he looks really
good. There's other times where hejust makes bad plays. And I'll tell

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you this, the Dolphins defense maybenot like elite, but they are fast.
But they are so fast. Ilike sit there half a time and
just like cactually watching my screen,Leo agrees, they're very fast. I'm
just watching people get blown up.So yeah, I mean the Dolphins look

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really good two weeks at age rightnow, between all the AFC teams,
I'm really confident in the Dolphins.You know, he is a Shanahan disciple,
maybe even a new third Guru.Perhaps there's a lot going on.
Maybe he he doesn't. Maybe maybethe key to this is not to be

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a guru at times. Maybe it'sto be someone who's also very smart and
realizes that he is not an absolutegenius. Because Kyle Shanahan, maybe I
thinks themselves sometimes maybe thinks I don'ta real quarterback to win a game.
Mike McDaniels goes, I'm getting thebest quarterback I can to run the system,

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and I'm gonna make the system greatfor having. You know, I
think that might win more games.I don't know, we'll see, but
I would you know what I'd loveto see right now a Dolphins forty nine
or Super Bowl. I think itwill be great. Great STORYLINESSU the Guru,
Master and Disciple. I mean that'sa lot of storylines, folks.
I mean I haven't gotten the scriptyet, but the script writers are out

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there. I mean, it doesn'tget much better. I mean, we're
talking about it. This is astoryline. It's been going on, and
I'm all in for it, allright. I have I have a minor
hot take. You may ever,may not agree with. Gun to my
head, Okay, so like gointo my head, I have to pick
one coach to coach with my teamto a victory. I'm taking Mike McDaniel

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right now. I mean I thinkit's a good pick. Yeah, I
don't think it's too much for hot. No one's supposed to say it because,
like, yes, I get thatBill Belichick is the best coach in
the league based on acomplishment. MikeTomlin and John Harball, all the guys
who've been there at Sean mcbig,Kyle Shanahan, the kind of up and
coming gurus who've been around for ashort time but have had to have achieved
a lot. But man, thisguy, like you said, he's like
does now think himself. He knowslike speed is important. He gets the

(01:00:14):
ball into his playmaker's hands, likeknows that the Jimmy's and the Joe's are
better than the exs and the o's. But if they work together, you
can have a good team. Imean, I know we're Bengals fans here,
Like if he was working with thisBengals offense, maybe two oh and
I'd be I'd be sleeping like ababy. Yeah. I sat there all
Sunday night after watching that game,just going why why don't we have a
coach like that? What can Ido to get a coach like that?

(01:00:37):
I don't hate Zach Taylor or saywe should just fire him, but I'm
like, it's there a world whereZach Tayler wakes up and goes. I
don't want to be ultra conservative atold times. I really want to create
a game black or maybe we justfind an offensive coordinator or just somebody on
the team on the offensive side thatgoes. I've got some crazy ideas,

(01:00:59):
Like you said, Sean mcvay's disciple, do they not have somebody in the
coaching tree that maybe wants to stepup and be I don't know, can
we get somebody? I don't know. It's it's hard. It's frustrating to
know how much talent is on theBengals team. And you know, Zach
Terlory, he gets a lot.You know, he's all hard and that's
great, love the man, butultimately, I mean, we got to

(01:01:19):
see a little more. I wantmore. I two, and I'm with
you. I think the Dolphins,I mean, Kurl, it's still early
too and though, but if twous healthy could be the team to be
in the AFCC is. This isnot something we expected from the last couple
of years. All right, Sowe had its double header on Monday Night
football, which is kind of differentflow to things here, but we had

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to start it off with the Saintsand the Panthers. The Saints get to
win twenty to seventeen. The Panthershad a late comeback attempt. But you
know, give credit to the Saintsdefense. They are better than most people
expect. People still haven't stuck intheir minds that they're like as bad as
the Drew Brees days. It's notthe same defense. They're actually good.
Saints get to win there. Theygot a chance in this Mfacy South and
see I think, you know,Bryce Young's getting some hate on social media,

(01:02:04):
but that offensive line's pretty bad.The receivers aren't that good. They're
not creating separation. You know,one of his top arkets is out of
theeland who's clearly lost a step.It's it's you know, be patient with
the young quarterback, is all I'mgoing to say. Yeah, I mean,
I don't know where we started.You know, rookie quarterback or expect
to have like great seasons, ButI don't know when that started. It's

(01:02:24):
it's been proven more often than notthat that's just not gonna happen. What
you gotta look for is a fanof that team is you got to commit
to. It's gonna be rough.There's gonna be times that it's not gonna
look great, especially if the rosteryinherits is really bad. And then you're
the Panthers who traded up from nineto one and got rid of your best

(01:02:45):
receiver in DJ Moore, which wasa weird part of the deal I did.
I didn't really again, I guessthey didn't want to have to pay
him eventually. But that's stuff likethat where it's just like, how can
you evaluate a young quarterback completely whenhis offensive line bad and he has no
weapons. He has an old guyAdam feel and trying to catch the ball.
And Adam Feeland is good in thered zone, but and he's a

(01:03:07):
veteran knows kind of how to movein space, but he's not fast.
He's not gonna get you, youknow, in between the two twenties,
Adamtheland is not gonna be worth thatmuch to you. It's really he's not.
He's good in the red zone andhe's shifty, and shifty is a
word I use when you're not fastanymore. You just have awareness. You

(01:03:30):
know you have a great one hundredIQ and you know one hundred awareness and
maddens. But if you got aseventy speed, I'm not putting you on
my roster on my xbox. It'sthat simple. I can't control you.
I want your speed anyway. Butyeah, it's it's just this weird.
Bryce Young sucks because they didn't beatthe Saint sushould win the division. Find

(01:03:52):
me the logic. The Panthers area work in progress of anything. They
should continue to just suck to getbetter players. And you know, as
long as he progresses through the seasondoesn't have some grus in an injury,
you should consider it a success.You know, anything about that. It's
just great, Like it's just nice. If they have a winning season,

(01:04:14):
that's awesome, But it's really justis Bryce Young getting better as the season
goes on? Are they building themomentum until next year? And if they're
not even building momentum, are theyat least going to get a good draft
pick to maybe have another weapon andanother good draft to maybe really come out
and have something for a second yearquarterback in Bryce Shall, I'm with you,

(01:04:34):
see this great point about the rookiequarterbacks. I mean, Joe Burrow
two and seven, I believe inhis rookie year before he get injured to
a to we just talked about,good too has been. He was benched
a lot his rookie year, whichis seeming like malpractice right now for a
coach to bench to it. Butback then maybe not. I mean you
can even go back to Patrick mahomesIs on the bench, Aared Rodgers on
the bench. To the rookie years, it's not expected that you come in

(01:04:57):
and produce right away. It's veryrare and guys like Justin Herbert who do
that's really good and it could meanthat you're gonna be a good quarterback.
It's not the end all b Also, I'm definitely on the team be patient,
especially when you don't have the bestteam around the guy. If you
have a super Bowl winning roster anda rookie quarterback, which rarely happens,
maybe you have different expectations. Butthat's not what the Panthers are not at
all. All right, The lastgame we're gonna recap was the last game

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of the week. These Steelers beatthe Browns twenty six to twenty two.
This took some defensive touchdowns by theSteelers to get the job done. It
was an ugly game. The onlyoffense for the Steelers was George Pickens four
catches, one hundred twenty seven yards, one touchdown. He is very,
very good receiver. But otherwise DonjieHarris did nothing. Jalen Warren did okay,

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but that's still not great. KennyPickett again not all his fault,
but didn't look the greatest. Soa lot of things to figure out there
now for the Browns, Nick Chubbgoes out with an injury. A little
bit of a situation where a guyhad him wrapped up high, but Mickey
Fitzpatrick tackled him low. People onlinewill say dirty. I disagree personally.

(01:06:00):
I think you if Nicky Fitzpatrick doesn'ttry to tackle Nick job there, he's
gonna be yelled at in the filmroom of why didn't you try to tackle
him? Why? What are youdoing? Like? Why why did you
try to tackle him? How hewas already wrapped up high? You gotta
get low. That's just when youhave a train track, a train coming
down the tracks, like Nick ChubberDerrick Henry, you have to go low.
I get that it sucks and he'sinjured. I don't think there was
any intent there, but sometimes youplayed for certain organizations and that's how you're

(01:06:23):
going to be seen because that's howit has been in the past. But
Shaun Watson also biggest story of thenight I think was he had two face
mask penalties on stiff arms. Okay, that's great, and then he pushes
an official and then after the gameblamed the defense of why he grabbed their
face mask and said there I nevertouched the official. And this is on

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top of him not playing very well. I don't think he played as best
people are making out on social media. I think he played like a below
average game. But you're paying thisguy enough money that he should not be
having blow average games and causing controversyand causing distraction. Everyone knows how we
feel about the Shaun Watson, butjust having him on a national spotlight show
that like, this dude has problemsis so sit rewarding. Are you telling

(01:07:10):
me that Deshaun Watson after they're beingvery clear evidence that something happened if a
humanly denies it, are you tellingme that's what happened. That is what
happened on Monday night. For legalFor legal reasons, I will not say
anything further excellent, But yeah,I mean I don't think it was a
dirty kid either. I mean,that's one hundred percent when you've got it

(01:07:30):
all time, you know, allworld back like Nick Chubb is. I
mean, you're not gonna just likewhat's he supposed to do? Just sit
there and I mean how many timeswe see guys try to shoulder tackle all
these big running backs like Derrick Henryand Nick Chubb and it just they look
like idiots. He breaks free andthen he runs for a touchdown forty yards
down the field. It happens,you go through legs. It's it's just

(01:07:51):
an unfortunate, freakish injury that reallysucks. It's not like makeup and Patrick
like tried to like me hiss,like tried to helmet is me or something
crazy, you know, like there'snothing in that play that shows that he's
trying to intently break his knee.Like it's gruesome. It's football. I
mean, it's just part of it. It sucks when it happens. It

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sucks too because it feels like they'rejust like the Jets with Aaron Rounders.
I feel like it's kind of thebrown season right there, because I mean,
I think Ford will do okay.I think they still have a good
offensive line, but I mean theBrowns were doing okay in this game.
You know, Deshaun Watson doesn't dogreat against the Steelers, and you know,

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this is now going to be aCleveland team that has you know,
there's still a road to make theplayoffs. It's still road for this team
to be good. But Deshaun Watsonhas to become Deshaun Watson that everyone believes
he was in Houston. I don'tever watch it Deshaun Watson game when he
was with the Houston Texans and go, wow, that guy was elite.

(01:08:56):
I went, this guy's beating abunch of teams in garbage time and they
still got four wins. That's that'swhat I saw. But if there's this
mythical Deshaun Watson that existed in HoustonTexans, he hasn't shown up in Cleveland
yet. You know it's he played, you know, some two pretty good
defenses. You know, the firstgame was in the rain. We know

(01:09:18):
all that. But now there's noNick Chubb. Nick Chubb was what you
had to worry about in this offense. Deshaun Watson needs to play like a
franchise quarterback. If he does,the brown still a shot to really win
the NC North right now, withthe defense the way they play, I
mean, they can win. Theyhave that shot. I mean, but

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the Browns and Stefanski, I don't. I don't think de Shan Watson Stefansky
can manage that. I think theyhave a really talented run game, and
now that's going to be lessoned andteams are gonna focus key more in on
Sean Watson and it's gonna be astruggle for him. Steelers defense looks elite,

(01:09:59):
they look Steer's offense looks like abottom five in the league right now.
They signed on On Robinson, whichwas supposed to be like their like
saving grace, like the holy grailthat they got this second key receiver,
and I think he has like threeor four catches through two weeks or like

(01:10:20):
maybe fifty yards, you know,And I wasn't expecting to be their best
receiver, you know, George Pickensis supposed to be that. But I
mean Pat Friarmouth had one reception Ithink for like three yards. You know,
Najie Harris continues to be terrible,and uh, Kenny Pickett is just

(01:10:41):
pretty much hoping to God that GeorgePickens catches balls. That's that's all.
It's really their offense right now.We're just hoping to God that George Pickens
can take over a game. Andthat's not saying much. George Pickens is
I think good. I think he'sabove average. You know, he's a
chance to maybe be a lead ifhe really put it all together. But

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Kitty Pickett's not going to help himget there. And the way there's offensive
Steelers is working right now, it'sit's definitely not going to be there.
Like I've never seen a team whereI've it's like I'm starting to get the
vibe of like the Rex Grossman styleBears, Like that's where I'm starting to
feel. But at least they hada good running game and these guys do

(01:11:30):
not. They have one good receiverand that's it. But I mean they've
got a good defense that more importantly, it's not much as just not allowing
yards. They're a scoring defense ordefense that can get the ball from you,
turnover and score points themselves. Ithink that's the biggest thing with some
defenses. I'm not gonna say they'regonna give up the least yards or anything

(01:11:53):
like that, but they can't scorepoints and they are aggressive, and we've
seen it the last two years.They got playmakers, They've got t.
J. Watt, theyve got MakerFitzpatrick, Guys who will take it to
the house, Guys that are honestthe swivel where they have that ball pops
out, they're gonna be ready totry to get it. They're gonna be
ready to try to score. Soin that regard, really good defense probably

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going to be one of the betterscoring defenses in the NFL. But their
offense is gonna get them seven points, seven to ten points a game.
You can't there's too much variants indefensive like touchdowns to expect the Steelers to
do anything. So they're one andone on the year one and own division.
But unless Kenny Pickett magically takes astep forward and the line gets better

(01:12:39):
that they don't have a shot withyou on that seas. I do want
to say, you know, we'reBengals fans, so it's hard to point
out kind of fun things the Steelersdo. But the Steelers fans channing to
fire Matt Canada was actually kind offun. I will say, I think
they're right, like the offense isn'tgood enough. I think it's partially Matt

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Canada, their offensive coordinator, partiallyon the fact that their offensive line has
not been old Steelers offensive line.The running game can't get going. Kenny
Pickett, we we told you comingin to last season, told everyone like,
this guy is probably not the guy. He's gonna be an okay quarterback,
He's never gonna be a great quarterbacktype of thing. Right, There's
all these things working together, andthen the top of that, you have
Steelers fans who say, like,oh, Jontay Johnson, we hate him.

(01:13:20):
He has drops and like he's agood receiver, he has dropped,
sure, but like he's out forthese games too. So there's like so
many different things people think is theissue, and like it might be time
where it's like, hey, Mike, Mike Tomlinn, Hey we're gonna sit
you down. His ownership, We'rejust we're gonna hire someone specifically for offense.
You're still the head coach getting ridof Mike Tomman's probably a mistake.

(01:13:42):
But we need someone to run thisoffense. We're gonna draft you some offensive
lineman. Your defense is already readyto go, as you saw that last
night. We're gonna draft some offensivelineman. We're gonna see if Kenny's the
guy, and I Kenny's not theguy, We're gonna get a quarterback.
It takes. It's not just MattCanada. It is an organizational from top
to bottom type of failure. Inmy opinion, for that offense, it's,
you know, they can't even beold Steelers football. Like we're watching,
you know, the game last night, and I'm like, they can't

(01:14:03):
even run out this clock on theBrowns because they don't have the old Steelers
football being able to run it.So that's what I would do. I
think a lot of times, alot of times you want to fire head
coaches. Maybe I'll fire Mike Tomlin. Maybe you just say, hey,
we're gonna get We're gonna get adifferent guy to run the offense. You're
just gonna be a defense and motivationalguy on you know, for the team.
But I don't know, that's justwhat I would do. Yeah,
I mean, Mike Tomlin's never hadof losing seasons. So I mean he's

(01:14:27):
a motivator. He's gotten the mostout of this team the last couple of
years where we thought they weren't talentedanymore. So there's no shame in him
going, I'm not an offensive guy, you know. I there's not like
somebody I'm gonna hire or replace me. But like, find an established offensive
coordinators some of these head coaches thatblame out that we're good offensive coordinators,
hire him back and tell him I'mgiving you overy much autonomy over the offense.

(01:14:51):
Thank you're saying, Look at DickLabo when Bill Carroll was there,
Dick Labo had almost autonomy over everything. By the end there he was it
like he was the defense. Inthe end. They eventually let him go
because they all NFL evolved. ButI mean, get somebody who's tenured,
somebody that doesn't have to be headcoach or is trying to be head coaches.

(01:15:13):
Find a guy who who knows offenseand knows an offense that can compliment
the way Mike Toma coaches, anduh, you know, make sure this
defense is their strength, and justget an offense that that is league average,
that would that would be nice forthem. See, I would say
one of those guys who could doit is Todd Haley. Like he might
think there's ghosts in his in hisroom or like the tap that the ownerships

(01:15:35):
tapping his phones. But man,that guy could call an offense. All
right, the paranoia, you know, you it's like your uncle at Christmas.
Man, you gotta take the goodwith the bat man and take the
good with the bat That's right.People who are good have some bad to
him always. You know, ifyou're just kind of a blank slate in
Matt Canada, then yeah, you'rejust gonna get what you get. So

(01:15:56):
let's let's have some more entertainment.We've you know, we've seen you know,
let's have Todd Haley come. Ican have some more enterteament. We
can bring back the what's it thePro Bowl house that we talked about all
this years ago. It's been Macadoavailable. He's got to be somewhere at
least to be fun. Yeah,slap a must slash back on that guy
and get him back on the fieldabsolutely, all right. See that's the
that's a recap for a week two. Let's go preview week three. We'll

(01:16:18):
start it off with our pick ofThursday Night football. We already mentioned it
a couple of times. The NewYork Giants at the San Francisco forty nine
Ers not looking likely. The sakeKwan is gonna play in this one.
The forty nine Ers are currently favoredby ten points. Yeah, give me
the fourt in hours to winning cover. No Sae Kwon Barkley or say Kwon

(01:16:38):
Barkley ankle hang on by a threadis not looking good for a Giant's offense.
It's already not great, and Imean the Giants defense hasn't really stepped
up either, So getting the fourhours to win big, I mean the
most stars and night games. Ialways say, like take the underdog.
It's just like a weird week.We saw it last week with the Vikings

(01:17:00):
able to get that back door cover. Different situation. Forty nine Ers are
an elite team and the Giants withouttheir best player. I think is a
good recipe for the forty nine ersto be able to cover, and it'll
be good for them to get thatmini buy for both teams to get back
healthy for a couple of different positions. All right, Sunday afternoon game cease.
We first one we have up isthe Baltimore Ravens or the Indianapolis Colts

(01:17:24):
at the Baltimore Ravens the old showdownof the one team who left Baltimore and
the team that is currently there.Right now, the line is at eight
points for the Ravens. I thinkit's a fair line, especially with Anthony
Richardson. Is he up in theair currently? You can cuss your protocol.
Has he been cleared? I havenot seen him seen him be cleared

(01:17:45):
yet. Okay, I think ifhe plays. I don't love the line
because he's a quarterback. They canmake things have on his legs a little
bit. But I'll be on thesafe side here. I'll say the Ravens
win and I'll have them covered.But this is a spread i'd probably stay
away from, and especially until Iknow more about Halfy Richardson. Yeah,

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this is a game I don't wantto bet, but since we are in
the business of picking all the games, I'm going Ravens to win. I
think that'll happen somewhat easily. Iknow they've kind of banged up, and
that's that's part of the reason whyI think they'll still win. But like
it could be close. Anthony Richardsoncould playing close. Even Gardner minshew,
I can get a couple of gooddrives and maybe make it like maybe it's
twenty to twenty to thirteen. Well, they still or you know, that's

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still a good win for the Ravens, but they, you know, the
Colts are still within that spread.So I'm going Ravens to win and Colts
with the points. The next oneupseats we have the Denver Broncos at the
Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins are favoredby six and a half points. Yeah,
give me a Dolphins to winning coverhere. I mean, the Drunkas
have just looked horrible so far.Their defense is supposed to be decent,

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it has not been. And Imean the Dolphins are rolling right now.
So give me the Dolphins to winningcover. Same here. Like I said
earlier, Mike McDaniel, big fanof him. The Brucker's I think could
keep this close at the start ofthe game. You know, they do
have Pat's retain on that defense andthat can help slow down some things.
But eventually the playmakers will take over. They'll win and they'll cover, especially
being at help. Next we up, we have the New England Patriots at

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the New York Jets. The Patriotsare favored by two and a half points
on the road. Give me thePatriots to win and cover. Belichick is
has an age on the Jets,and he's gonna pull out. He loves
young, inexperienced, middling Jets quarterbacks, you know. I think that's that's

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his dream. I think that's whathe loves more than anything on earth.
So he's definitely salvating over this andover Zach Wilson. And yes, I
make that sound the way that youthink it sounds. But anyway, I
think the Patriots win. It's it'swithin a field goal. I think the
Patriots win. I think they cover. Jets defense is good. I think

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you know, they might be makeMac Jones have some issues were Ultimately,
if we're talking about you know,teams and coaching and just game planning and
just needing to grind it out,I gotta pick belchack against the Jets by
a field goal. I'm going thePatriots to win. But with the Jets

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with the points, and this isyou know, maybe splitting splitting things a
little bit too closely, but Ithink it's to be a close game,
right, Like we know both quarterbackswon't be great, the defensive should play
well. I'm just hesitant to favorthe Patriots about three points, given their
weapons on the road against any team, especially a team that like the Jets,
who have a good defense. SoI think it's I think the lines

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just out of wacke. I thinkthe Patriots can still win, but I'll
take the Jets with the points.I just I don't know how to what
to make of that kind of line. Somebody's waiting on a two point conversion
of win the game. Let's goheck yeah, Houston Texans at the Jacksonville
Jaguars. The Jaguars, this lineis moved can cosiderably. Earlier in the
day was seven and a half.It's all we up to nine and a
half season. Wow, this one'smoving. Yeah, give me the give

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me the Texans to lose. TheJaguars are gonna win this game. But
I'm taking the Texans with nine anda half. It's just too big of
it. It's just too big ofa spread. I think CJ. Stroud
showed he can kind of throw slingthe ball a little bit. Jackson's offense
has not looked great. They hadtrouble last week, and I mean they

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were right with it with the Coltsin the end. I mean it was
close, like the Colts were drivingto try to be in position to win
that game. So, if you'regonna give me nine and a half points,
I'm going with Houston. Here,I'll go. I'll go with the
Jaguars. I think this is oneof the games where they can try to
get right. You know, theythey've had that tough game against the Chiefs.

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They stay at home for this one, playing an inferior opponent, at
least we believe their inferior proponent stillimpressed with the with the Texans have all
but I I think I think theJaguars will winning cover. I think they'll
be able to do it all right. The Tennessee Titans at the Cleveland Browns.
The Browns are favored by three points. He's I'm gonna take the Titans.

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I'm gonna take the Titans to awedding cover here. I think this
is going to be one where theBrowns are gonna have to figure out their
identity now a little bit more withoutNick Chubb. And you know, first
game without him, you know,rough loss the Steelers. You know,
it's a short week, playing onMonday night. You know, that's a
that's a lot to overcome. Andthe Titans have played better than expected at

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times and they beat the Charters.And I mean, I don't love the
Titans right now, but I thinkthey're getting the Browns on a short week
off a major injury to probably themost key player on offense, and I
think they're gonna try to force theshout Watson and make some stuff happen.
Then right now, I don't trustthe Sean Watson to do that. So

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give me the Titans in a closeone, same pick here, Titans to
win, Titans out right for thesefor these picks against the spread too,
and it's I think you're right.I think the heart and soul of the
Browns is gone. DeShawn Watson hasn'tproven he can kind of find what he
used to be. The Titans area team I don't really like, but
I think they're gonna be. Imean, trying to tackle Derrick Henry kind

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of thinking like wow, we usedto have a guy like that, like
running the ball like that, Likeit's it's it's not gonna be fun for
Browns fans to watch this game.I don't think Titans still have their problems,
specifically they moving the ball down fieldthrough the air. Hopefully Ryan Tannellton
get back. It's what he usedto be doing at least two three years
ago. But it you know,last year wasn't really good and so far
this year hasn't been the greatest either. The Atlanta Falcons at the Detroit Lions

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cease and the Lions are favored bythree. Give me a Detroit to wedding
cover. I I'm on ross ABrown is a little banged up. They
said it's crap. I don't know, you know what the extent actually is.
Cramping seems very vague, and forthe way people were taking it doesn't

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seem like it's just cramping. Noday Montgomery. But I think again that
might be a blessing in disguise.You see what JAMR. Gibbs can do.
And you know, I think theFalcons, if they play like they
did last year, it's gonna bea very close game again or played last
week against the Packers. But ultimately, I just I like the Lions.

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I like their weapons, and Ijust like what they've been doing overall as
a team right now. And Igotta go with them at home winning cover.
Yeah, I'm going with the Lions, who winning cover two. I
think what you said is right aboutJamr Gibbs just it could be he has
a breakout game. I think thedifference here is really the quarterback play.
Like you know, Desma Ritter cannotmake all the first Jared Goff can make.

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You know, Jared Goff got alot of hate a couple years ago,
and when the Rams traded him,he's played great since then. He's
done a great job. I thinkwhile Von Ross, Saint and Brown might
not play, I think you couldstill make the throwers Josh Reynolds, Clif
Raymond. You know, Marvin Jonesis gonna help him Mountain Laporta. I
have the lines to winn and cover. I'm excited to watch the spective,
specifically Seas because we do to seethese two rookie running backs go up against

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each other for sure. All right, new or on Saints at the Green
Bay Packers. The Packers were favoredby two right now, man, this
is this is a weird one.Give me. I'm gonna go to the
Packers to winning cover two points athome again, good roster. The Saints

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are you know, they look likeagain. I think they went in the
division. But Derek Carr didn't lookgreat yesterday. You know, there's parts
of New Orleans offense I really like, but there's times where they also like
Derek Carr, just hasn't been puttingit together. Their defense is good,
not great. It's really a questionof do I trust Derek carmoreton Jordan Love.

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But I do like Jordan must gettingChristian Watson back probably their defense.
It's a rough one. I'm justI'm going with the home team here.
I don't like this game at all. If you're gambling, I stay away.
But giving the Packers to winning coverexactly what I was a good see
staying away from this one in gamblingterms. So I agree with you on

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that. But I'm going with theSaints for my pick. You're just giving
me point. I don't know howto differentiate these teams, yet I'm going
to take the points with this one. I'll take him out right too,
just because it's so close. Butright I think I trust Derek Carmore than
Jordan Love. Aaron Jones is bangedup, you know, I know Jamal
Wavis is banged up for New Orleans, but Aaron Jones really helped that team
week one with those two touchdowns andChristian Watson being back. Maybe we'll see

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how healthy is he. And thenall every here from Packers fans is their
defensive coordinators an idiot. Joe Barryneeds to be fired. And you know
they didn't score a fourth quarter pointlast week, so maybe it's the offense
too. But if that's what you'reselling me, that he's ruining this defense,
then I'll trust Derek carr and tothrow those good balls that Jameis Winston
wants to see from the bench andto find Rashid Shahid, who had a
pretty good game last week as well. All right, so the Bills are

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going to take on the Commanders.The Bills are favored by six and a
half on the road. Yeah,give me the Bills a winning cover.
It's under a touchdown. Commander hashad a lot of offensive firepower last week.
I think this is kind of adifferent league than the blocos are,
So I'm trying to figure out exactlywhat they see that we don't. But

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I'm pretty confident in this one.Bills to winning cover six and a half.
Yeah me too, I'm going Billsbecause they're a better team, and
you know, I'm gonna trust thatJosh Allen just will not turn over the
ball too many times. You know, if he if he keeps it to
under two turnovers, they should beable to win and cover. Impressed with
Eric b enemy is done on sucha short notice, but I don't think

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you're keeping up with the Bills,So I'll good Bills to win to cover.
Now, one of the games I'mprobably most excited for the weekend,
it's the Chargers of Vikings. Thisis a nail in the Coffin game.
If you go, I win threein this league, it is very unlikely
you're making the playoffs. I'm excitedfor this because Brandon Saley has had some
meltdowns in the second half, theVikings have don't have a great defense.

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It's gonna be fun. Chargers arefavored by one on the road at the
Viking Seas. Yeah. Talk abouttwo teams that look like, you know,
a lot of people expected them tobe in the playoffs that are now
you're just going. I mean,the Paland is still there we saw on
paper, but Jesus like they justthey can't win games, especially the Chargers.

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It's just can't close them out.I'm gonna go Chargers to winning covers.
They should win the game. Butthese are two you know, hungry,
desperate animals out there. I don'ttrust the Vikings defense at all,
so it's another reason why I'm definitelygiving the Chargers the edge here. But
there's just a good chance that thesetwo are tied in the fourth quarter.

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And I don't know if we justsee a bunch of balls keep fumbling out
of the end zones or what startshappening, But I think anything and everything
is possible here. If you wantto throw some money down on a potential
over time, this might be agood game to do it. Yeah,
I'm with you. I'm going Chargersto wouldn't cover on the road. I

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think they're just the much more talentedteam. The Vikings are going through a
soft rebuild right now, which willprobably turn into a full rebuild this this
upcoming off season. So good team. I mean, we've already talked about
the Jets and Giants being teams.I mean, are Giants being a team
they had the playoffs and Jets wereclose last year's being teams that just don't
look like they're great either. Butthis might be a totally different year from
last year, which makes it fun. Chargers wouldn't cover for me. Now.

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See, if you have a girlfriendand boyfriend whatever, this is the
week you say, Hey, I'mdone watching the one o'clock games. Why
don't we go to a nice earlydinner. I can get back home before
the Sunday night game or even missSunny Night game two, based on what
the sunateight game is. But fromhere on out, the slate's pretty dry.
That's partially because there's three four fouro'clock games, four twenty five Eastern

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games. There's also two Monday nightfootball games, so that's one less game,
but also there's they're not the greatestgame. So let's get started.
You get your get your brownie pointsin now if you need to get some
some girlfriend wife points in, youknow whatever. Carolina Panthers at the Seattle
Seahawks. Seahawks favored by six anda half. Seahawks winning covered high point

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spread is all concerning, but ultimatelyI don't see the Panthers make any clothes.
I don't either. Seahawks winning cover, especially they're at home. The
offense seems like you got back inthe right foot this past week. So
I'm going to Seahawks winning cover.Next one up on these four four o'clock
games, see Chicago Bears at theKansas City Chiefs. We've got a Matt
Maggie revenge game. He's back withthe Chiefs going against the Bears. Chiefs

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are favored by thirteen points. Holycrap, oh man, there it is,
so we've got our first oh mygod, oh my god spread of
the season. Yeah, the Chiefsthe winning cover. Screw it. Bears
are an absolutely dumpster fire and theChief's offense does not look good. But

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Jesus, I mean, I thinkyou could find a high school team,
put Pat Mahomes to the quarterback andjust they'll give them like a week of
practice. I think VIATM Holmes couldstill win by a leasa touchdown in that
scenario. So I think it's real. I mean, he can, he
can do it. Give me thegive me the Chiefs to winning cover.
Here, I'm going Chiefs. Ithink the Bears are the points for a

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couple of reasons. One, Ithink Justin Fields is going to start instinctively
running like he's gonna screw this.If we're going down, If the Chips
if the Titanic is going down,I'm gonna go down my way, right,
We're gonna be playing the violins onthe ship whatever. I think that'll
help them keep it within the spread. I also, we haven't seen the
Chief's offensive explosion yet. This isa team to do it again. Still
get me wrong, but I haven'tseen it yet, and I kind of

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think that maybe the Bears can.I would say, maybe put the best
players on the fields. Maybe RoshawnJohnson gets some more carries here too,
So I don't know. I thinkI think the Bears can keep it within
the thirteen. And then also thelast reason seas this next game has also
an absurd spread, and I'm gonnatake the opposite on that one. So
I'm gonna pick one one team tocover a big spread, one team not

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to cover. So we got theCowboys at the Cardinals, completing these three
great games at four PM for theNFL. The Cardinals are excusing the Cowboys
were here by twelve and a halfpoints on the road. Absolutely give me
the Cowboys all day. I mean, I'm more confident in them covering that
spread than the Chiefs. Aren't buya good amount. Yeah, I mean

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the defense will just get it done. So I'm going Cowboys to winning cover.
There. That's part of the reasonwhy didn't go with both crazy spreads.
It just always seems like that happensall right now, the Sunday night
football game cease again. If youif you're able to get back from from
dinner, from your grandy points ofhanging out with your your girlfriend, boyfriend,
whatever, you can come for theSenate a game, or you can
just make it an extended Brownie pointsto night. You say, hey,
we can watch your favorite reality show. Whatever you want to do. It's

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the Pittsburgh Steelers at the Las VegasRaiders. Historical for sure. Historical for
sure, but after how we've seenthese two teams play, maybe a Sunday
night football game you can miss.The Steelers are favorite by one on the
road. Give these Steelers to winningcover. I guess what a who the
hell? Who did this? Whata the NFL? I mell, you

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know whatever, the four clocks schedules, Like, you got two Monday night
games, I get it. Whothe hell made this? The Sunday night
game three week three was like,I guess, two big national brands.
I see that point, But likewe knew Jimmy Garoppolo was going to be
the quarterback, right, And Idon't think anyone was really just like Steelers
elite team, especially going like earlyin the season. You know, there's

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no hype around either of these teams, no hype like this is could be
the least hype, one of theleast types the night games I've seen a
while. So yeah, you may, it might be on my television because
I you know, I my ritual, I gotta watch the game to fall
asleep. But you know, ifyou know, halftime comes around, and

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even if it's you know, threeto six, which there's a good chance
it might be, just it's okayto just go to sleep because you can
read the recap of the five offensivepositive plays each team had the next morning
in about two seconds. So don'tneed to be there. Yeah, I
get that, I'm a sicko.I watch every game, but maybe this

(01:34:36):
is one where you know, Iread a book during it, or play
some video games on the side,or just change it up. But if
you're an average person listening to thisshow, you yeah, you don't need
there's probably one you can skip,you can. You can feel confident about
that. I'm going to Seelers towinn't cover to that defense is the reason
why to Wante Adams had the concussions, you could be Myers as it concussion

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for the Raidersjimmy Garoppolo is not good. Josh Mthdaniels is not a good head
coach. I trust the Steelers more. I don't know going to Steelers all
right. The first of two Mondaynight football games the Philadelphia Eagles at the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Eagles favored byfive and a half points. I think
it's a fair spread, for sure. I like the Eagles to winning cover.

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I mean, the Matos out isa blow to their secondary, especially
with Mike Evans. Mall is deep, as we say on this show.
But ultimately the Eagles are still areally good team. They still have a
good offense. I'm as confident asthem beating them as I was in the

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Eagles beating the Vikings. So fiveand a half I think is fair.
That's exactly where I probably put itin, where between four and a half
and five and a half points.So give me the Eagles to winning cover.
Same thing here. They'll be ableto run the ball, control the
clock, and cover the game,and then you just have to worry about
Aja Brown three can out on thesidelines if he doesn't get the ball,
but they should be able to justdo it their way and control the clock,

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all right. The last game ofthe week seas the Los Angeles Rams
at the Cincinnati Bengals. Bengals favoredby one and a half. Now,
if you did the line before,actually the lines two and a half.
Now, sorry, it's update twoand a half, so we'll go with
that. It was six and ahalf before Sunday's games and then moved all
the way down to two and ahalf. Have to think some of that
has to do with Bengal struggles withthe Rams being better than expected and Joe

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Burrow possibly sitting out. Yeah,this is what I'm definitely avoiding regardless out
there Vegas. But so it's theBengals plus minus two and a half is
the spread? Is the line?Yep, man as it looks right now

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as of the recording at four thirtyon a Tuesday, with Joe Burrow's entire
status being very up in the air, and it's not looking great even if
he does play. I'm picking theRams to win when and obviously cover out
right went out right. I thinkthe Rams will look a lot better,

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you know. Going into the season, I thought this would be a game
the Bengals would have not that muchof a difficult time with considering what we
saw in the Rams last year.But their offense is succeeding, and they're
succeeding in the ways the Bengals reallysuck, which is run to run the
ball well, and they're doing alot of short passes that are you know,
moving the chains over and over.And there's also the Aaron Donald factor

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that Aaron Donald might just blow upthe middle of the Bengals offensive line.
And Joe Burrow if he's out there, or if it's one on the backup
it is Jake Browning. I don'thave the confidence in either of those things,
considering the help Joe Burrow is andthat it's gonna go very well.
I think there's gonna be a limitedBengals offense, which Joe Burrow if he
plays, I think there's gonna bea lot of protection to try to make

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sure Aaron Anold doesn't murder him.And it's just not looking good. They
are owing two. I mean it'sstarting to look like, you know,
it's a must one kind of game, or they're gonna be punning on the
season, and it's it's not agreat place to be right now. Maybe
we see Joe Burrow get out therepractice, you know, he practices,
you know, a couple of timesthis week. But where I'm a standard

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right now, Joe Burrow hobbled orthe backup, it's it's looking scary,
and I'm going with the Rams.I'm going Bengals to win and cover.
But I'm with you. I amgiving myself an indefinite suspension from betting on
Bengals games. It's not one you'regoing to the casino gambling, going on
your apps and gambling for they don'tplay up to their talent level early in

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the season. We'll see if that'sjust the first two games. Thing Zach
Taylor has shown to his credit,we've criticized this play going, but test
shown that he's good at making secondhalf adjustments in his career and also making
adjustments within the season. So let'ssee if you can do that. I'm
gonna assume Joe Burrow plays because it'sa calf injury. I get that the
calf's attached to the Achilles maybe there'ssome risk there, but if it's just

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it's calf injury, I feel likeyou can play through it and just have
some pain. We'll see if howthat works out. But I'm gonna assume
E plays. I assume everything goesgoes right and they open up this offense
a little bit more. They have, you know, an extra day to
prepare, not over the rams,just extra day in general to prepare.
Hopefully they get that done, andthey really need to find a way to
get pressure with four and stop therun of the defensive lines. Defensive line

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it's not been good. So man, I really hope they're able to do
it. But I'm with you,I'm not I'm not going anywhere near this
game. I don't no player props. I'm not doing anything. I don't
care nothing. You you literally can'twith the Bengals right now because you you
don't even know what the offense isgonna look like. It's not fun,
it's not functional right down because they'reoffense like they can't do what they want

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to do, which is they wantus well, you know, at least
have three receivers out there, andyeah, Joe Burrow gets a little time.
Maybe they leave running back or tightend in the chip or stay in
block. And Joe Burrow can movea little bit. He does not runner
or anything like that, but hecan move a little bit, and I
think that's been kind of the bigthing is his twitchiness has helped us offense

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a lot of ways through the lasttwo seasons. He now cannot in this
current state. I don't see howhe can move. Then again, Pat
Mahomes injured his ankle and it lookedfree bad, and then suddenly he was
running for twenty yards the next game. You know, al the pocket and
dress angles and I get angles andcalfs aren't the same. I'm not a

(01:40:40):
sports medicine guy, but you know, just from a human being who's run
around, I feel like the ankleis worse than the calf. You can
correct me, but either way,I feel like if Pat Mahomes can play
semi normal and then basically Joe Burrowis like it sounds like he's just can

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like incapacitated. I don't really understandthat. I don't I don't get where
the world it is. I've seena lot of guys strain their calf I
feel like, and I mean infantasy football in general, and they play
somehow like I I'm not saying theBengals should play it no matter what.
If the doctors are really saying it'ssomething that can long term be really bad,

(01:41:21):
Like we're talking like Achilles, Imean, I don't know what the
percent chance of that happening is.I mean, I'd rather Joe Burrow sit
and this season maybe be gone andJoe Burrow tears Achilles one hundred percent of
the time. If there's a Bangalsfan out there that says, I'd rather
risk a fifty percent like or likethirty to forty percent Achilles tear, you're

(01:41:44):
crazy and I would say, yeah, we're not doing that. But we're
talking low, you know, fifteenor less percent. I don't know,
Like the Bengals, you want towin. The Bengals do not have a
backup plan. Unless the Bengals decideto invest in a backup plan very quickly,

(01:42:06):
which is they're already very far behindon a backup quarterback that I can
have confidence to wind like two orthree games out of like a potential you
know, four or five games start. I don't, I don't know.
We don't have an answer right now. I think the Bengals organization doesn't have
an answer for us right now.And what I do hate, though,

(01:42:28):
and I'll end with this, isis that the stadium and if I hear
some random drunk Bengals fan or justuninformed human being say that Joe Burrow got
this money and sucks now, becauseI heard that way too many times in
the stadium, I'm going to fightsomebody. I would fight another Bengals fan
live in the statement, and that'shaving more and more often as you can,

(01:42:50):
as you've seen by some of theviral clips out there, I will
I'll watch out. You know,I'm not gonna get headbutted in one shot
and be down like I can die, all right, But I just just
just let's just stop it. Likehe got a reasonable injury. He has
got me injured more times than you'dlike. You know, injury prone is

(01:43:12):
a label that's that's hard to define, but he does get hurt. But
for you to like connect the twowith the contract, it's just stupid,
unfair and it just makes it looklike the worst fan base possible. I
would agree, I would respect themove if Joe Burrow just decided to quiet
quit after getting the money, that'dbe fun. But I'm with you,

(01:43:34):
he is not bad. It's justthe offense is not called the right way.
The offensive line is struggling, andyou know that's there's a couple of
different things that have stopped them frombeing a super Bowl organization in my opinion,
and that is when they get tothe cusp of things, they never
go all in. I want tosee some more one year free agents to

(01:43:54):
come in and make an impact soyou have some depth. I want to
see, hey, we have abackup quarterback who you know, we never
plan on this guy playing, butif someone does get hurt, that we
have a guy like Coulte McCoy wherehe's available right now. Or the Chiefs
had Chad Hanny those years. Hedidn't need reps. He didn't need any
reps in practice. He could justgo in operate the offense. And last
year we had one receiver go downand the whole offense just went to put.

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We never got a fourth receiver.The Cowboys pick up t Y Hilton,
he actually produced for him. Likethere's so many of these little things.
They just need to get over thehump to make them a championship organization.
You can't prevent injuries. They've donea really good job trying to get
the offensive line better. I'll givehim credit there. They've drafted pretty well.
But there's these little things. Man, I'm with you, like,
there is no vacuum plan. Youcan do the Peyton Manning thing where you're

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like, if he gets hurt,we're screwed. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
Or you could say, hey,you know, Culte McCoy's out there
and cost two million. Can hewin you four games out of eight while
Joe burrows out to keep you withinit within the picture. Maybe, I
mean, it depends on what theschedule looks like, but maybe he could.
So that's what you have to thinkabout for me personally, is does

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this team, does this organization havethe wherewithal to to just go that extra
mile to get the depth to makesure if one offensive bladman goes down this
year that we're not in the bestsame spot we were the last two years.
That's that's where they're coming up short, even though it is something that's
very, very tiny because they've doneeverything else pretty well. But that's that's
where I'm at, all right,see s any final thoughts for the week,

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Bengal shoots probably signed Colt McCoy.I'm just saying he's out there.
I mean, I think it's asmart move regardless of if Joe Burrow is
able to play this week or not. I think it's smart to just get
somebody in the building that I havesome someone's a confidence in making a game
competitive and probably possibly pulling out awin because the Bengals have a good roster

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overall, and you know it's JoeBurrow. I get that's where confidence is.
And if you're committed to If JoeBurrow is down, that's fine,
and we're going to bowl up theseason and just build in the draft.
But that's the decision. I don'tlike that decision. But that's a decision
I don't want though. This weird. We're going to try to compete with

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Jake Browning and Will Grew. Soin Joe Burrow's calf, I trust whatever
I gotta do, man, Igotta rip mine out. Yeah, I'm
with you, man. So itsounds like we're in a similar place for
the Bengals. We'll see how thisweek goes for the Bengals and all these
teams. My Turner, I neverwant to like and subscribe on YouTube and

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