HR 2 - Respecting Darnold, Big Ballers, Picks

Tom And Chris talk about Seattle quarterback Sam Darnold, pick their big ballers for the game, look around the NFL and make their official predictions.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Chris, do you respect Sam Donald? Are you a Curb
your Enthusiasm fan? First of all, have you ever seen
that show.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
How We Connected these two?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Well, there's a great episode. Have you do you respect Wood?
Because people keep putting drinks down without a coaster and
creating a ring on a wood table.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
So, Larry Day, do you respect Wood? I thought that
Sam Donald made a cameo Ino Curb one time. He's
not that. Do you respect Donald? Though? He seems like
a nice human being? I respect him as a human being.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Forget that crap I'm talking about as a quarterback. Look
at him as nothing more than just a a I
don't know what an action figure on the field right now,
playing like it has nothing to do with this human side.
I'm sure he's a fantastic person. I'm sure I'd love
to get a few beers with him, maybe more than
a few beers with him.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I have your babysit, your kids. Let's not go that far.
I don't know him that well.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
I'm talking purely from a football level where you're at
with him because bit of a different case study than
the usual quarterback. It seemed like he was a bust
right like it looked like he was gonna be a
bust and had a really nice.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Second I'm seeing ghost clip from Oh Yeah, that looked
like it was going to do him him.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Had a very nice second act though to his career,
or is having a very nice second act to his career,
especially last year in Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's funny.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
It's like him and Gino Smith kind of did the
same thing. The Jets just screwed him up and then
they had to kind of go to quarterback or rehab
somewhere else for a little bit, and then they waited
and waited and got their turn. Gino with Seattle, Sam
with Minnesota took the most of it. Now Gino's in
Vegas and now, funny enough, Sam Donold is Seattle's quarterback.
But you know he's not bad. Like I know that

(01:47):
he can beat the Steelers in this game, like it's
a possibility. But I also just think that he needs
to have a genius with them to get the most
out of him. He needs to have a Shanahan where
he went to kind of back up rock party and
maybe kind of rehab a little bit. He needs to
have a Kevin O'Connell where he was in Minnesota and
had a ton of success led that team to fourteen wins. Like,

(02:09):
he's not a quarterback that necessarily has, you know, the
ability to go into the phone booth, put the cape
on and be Superman and just go and win you
a football game. No matter what, I think he needs
to have a really nice nest. I think he needs
to kind of have a perfect storm of things around
him in order to maximize Sam Darnold. And Seattle is
not Minnesota. They just don't have the weaponry that he

(02:32):
had to deal with on offense. In the passing game,
they don't have as good of an offensive line as
the Minnesota Vikings do. Running game probably not as strong
as Minnesota as it might be a bit comparable. I
know the Vikings have Jordan Mason now got him over
from San Francisco after last year, and they still have
Aaron Jones too. Caught a touchdown passing that game from
JJ McCarthy. But you know, you say that's a comparable thing.

(02:55):
Then there's the running games between the two teams. But
this is a lesser offense, certainly lesser offensive mine. No
disrespect to the OC of Seattle, but Kevin o'connell'st the
top of the game, Like I could say that about
almost anybody when it comes to offensive mind. So you know,
I just don't think that he's got all the tools
he needs to succeed really in Seattle.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
And that brings me back to my point of stopping
the run.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
I would be comfortable with Donald having to feel he's
got to put things on his shoulders to win this game.
I don't think that usually goes pretty well when Donald
has to do that.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, if you're asking me, we talked about earlier about
maybe you don't want at forty one years old, Aaron
Rodgers being in that Superman cap for the entire game,
seventeen weeks a season. But you know, if you're telling
me it's the fourth quarter into tie game, or one
possession game, whatever it is. If you're asking me if
you'd take him, I think Aaron Rodgers at that point,
you'll ride with that and take your chances. And even

(03:48):
at forty one, I'd probably rather have Aaron Rodgers in
that situation or in those types of situations than I
would Sam Donald. It was really curious that the Seahawks,
like you just mentioned Geno Smith, It's like they kind
of swapped out, you know, I don't know. Did they
see a higher ceiling and they paid, they outbid whatever
the market was. Donald was the free agent, So what

(04:10):
did they think they were doing that? I mean, you
wouldn't make that move. You're not thinking you're upgrading. Did
you really upgrade? I don't know where you go from
Gino Smith to Sam Donald as if it wasn't like
they were in you know, Drew Lockell or something like
that where they had just a placeholder quarterback or they
were just cycling through. Just they were getting good production
out of Gino Smith the last couple of years. So
I thought it was interesting that the Seahawks went that

(04:33):
route rather than just keep the guy I know, and
I know Pete Carroll was Gino was a Pete Carroll guy,
and Gino went to where Pete Carroll is and it
was god by the track record, right. I don't know
Sam Donald. People kind of forget. It's not like he
just went from the Jets and was about, you know,
flamed out and then went to trade to the Vikings
and had that season. He was a back up in
San Francisco. One need to get much of a chance.

(04:54):
But remember Carolina had him. Now Carolina was at that
point and still to some degree a dumpster fire. I mean,
Baker Mayfield played out there. Both of them were there.
That was always the funny meme from last season whenever
Donald and Mayfield were two, you know, two of the
better quarterbacks certainly the NFC, and they were both Carolina teammates.
And when a season that you know what one, one,

(05:15):
two and fifteen or whatever it.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Was, I forgot Donald to stop there for a second time.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, So there's a what I'm saying, there's a long
and vary. It's not just like lol Jets is why
they they didn't recognize Sam Donald's greatness. He was at
you know, three other teams before he got to Minnesota
and only started because McCarthy got hurt last last pre season. So,
you know, I'm still in the proven to mea Sam
Donald and if he has a good season with a

(05:39):
second team in a row here now and kind of
lifts them up. Although again he still has that that
tape from the final two games to find the regular
season finale that counts very consequential regular season finale and
then in a playoff game from last season, He's still
he still got a you know, a tone for that
before I start annointing him as being a top level
quarterback in the league.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
And he was on the goal line against the Niners,
trying to lead a drive to win it, and he fumbled.
I mean, it's maybe not the clutch gene is just
not there when it comes to Sam Donald, but he's
an adequate quarterback.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
He's somebody that you can't, you know, just completely.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Disrespect, I guess is where I would land when it
comes to Sam Donald.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
You can disrespect him a little bit. How about that?

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Just some nice light disrespecting going on.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Disrespecting the wood or respecting the wood. You better respect wood.
Chris put that on a coaster.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
He's got one target, though, and that goes back to
my point of you know, back in Minnesota, Addison and Hawkins,
sand and Jefferson, I mean, there was an embarrassment of
riches there for a quarterback to utilize one with the other.
The last name is I guess, so he didn't have
He doesn't have that here other than Jackson Smith and
Jigba Jackson. Okay, sorry it was did you say he

(06:45):
is a great receiver? I mean he had oney one
hundred and so many yards last year exactly one hundred
catches last year, he had six touchdowns. We referenced this
stat I'll reference it again. He made up for ninety
one percent of the total air yardage that Seattle gained
in Week one against San Francisco with one hundred and
twenty four yards, and he was targeted on sixty percent

(07:07):
of Sam Donald's dropbacks. So Smith and jig but is
the guy when it comes to that Seattle offense. He's
their best player running backs, quarterbacks, linemen, receivers, put them
all together. Smith and JIGB is your guy first. And
it's no secret that Donald was really keying in on
him against the Niners in that game last week. So

(07:29):
I expect to see a lot more of the same
this week. And that's why your injuries in the secondary
can really make you a bit nervous. I think, because
you don't have a Joey Porter junior. Potentially we'll find
that out for sure later today, probably very soon. You
don't have a Deshaun Elliott. You know that for sure.
So you're short handed back there, and their greatest threat

(07:49):
is that wide receiver one.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
So there's no secrets.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
I think of what Donald's gonna want to do when
he passes the football, but the Niners knew that too,
or started to become a aware of that as the
game played out and Jiggle was still producing a lot.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
And one thing that Terror Austin brought up the other
yesterday was about Brandon Eckles. Now you know he was
signed before. I'm sure it was with him. We're talking
almost hours or the day or whatever that week before,
and I'm sure they were going to They knew Darius
lay was available and things like that, but they the

(08:23):
Steelers signed him to be they started and then you
certainly didn't know they were gonna get Jaanen and Ramsey
at that point, right, they believe he can be a starter.
So even if Joey Porter Junior can't play in some ways,
if if that's what you wanted, if I mean, I
think Ramsey wants it. He wants to be that show
that he likes to follow around. I think he's made
a pretty clearly like I think any you know, alpha
number one corner wants to do that shut down the guy.

(08:45):
If the Steelers choose to do that and have him
follow around what seems to be what is by far
their number one target in terms of the wide receiving corps.
They could do that now because especially if Eccles is
playing for Porter, because then Echoes can go the slot
or go the outside. He can do either one of them.
And I think you can do that depending on where

(09:06):
Smith and Jigba goes. Now you talked about the other day,
Cooper Cup has sort of displaced Smith and Jigba as
being their slot. They have to put him in the slot, right,
So if that's the get, But if you wanted to
do that, in some ways it almost makes it easy.
Now you don't want a Misjoy Porter junior. Of course
he's a better player than than Echoles overall, you want
him there. But I think that might be an option
that they go to. I think I think us as

(09:27):
fans are observers, assume that a lot more maybe that
the corner there's the corner follows a guy around. It
doesn't happen as much as I think we think or
anticipate or want to happen or in a lot of cases.
But the Seahawks, you feel like, I mean, the ninety
one percent thing. I mean, he is so far at

(09:47):
this point there after letting go a guy like a
DK Metcalf, remember him they let him go of the
of the offseason, and and you know, Tyler Lockett was
there for so long and after what they did, and
they've they've kind of made him their their alpha guy
no matter what. In the receiving course, you could have
Ramsey follow him around no matter where he lines up.
We'll see if that's the way it plays out. But
if that's the way the Steelers wore or the Steelers

(10:08):
they made such a big talking point about having guys
will line up with wherever. And you know, you saw
Sleigh and Man coverage against guys and the one time
he didn't work out at the touchdown with Gary Wilson,
but that that was you're gonna get beaten no matter
what at some points. But you also saw him and
Man coveraged other points during that game against the Jets.
So I'm curious to see it, especially and then the

(10:29):
poor like I said, we were all robbed. I mean,
if all the things I mean people were actually physically hurt,
and Elliott and Porter, but like we were, and the
third world probably being robbed of seeing how the Steelers
secondary they intended it to shake out. Whenever you got
two injuries in Week one, it was I was so
fascinated to see how they deployed the division of Labor
and it's right away. Sorry, So now yes, and now

(10:51):
you got Peppers in there, and so who knows what
the heck you're gonna see in terms of how they
deploy this against the Seahawks. But but yeah, Swift and Jig,
but is the guy and not breaking news that you
want to shut down from their passing game.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
I get the sense that Peppers is going to play
a lot as long as he can get up to
speed defensively, and I'm sure there's gonna be a lot
of vanilla stuff that they can maybe deploy him out
there with. But I think that they like him. I
think that I would not be surprised if when everybody
does get healthy, he's kind of that third guy kind
of jumps maybe in front of Chuck Clark.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, i'd say that too. Yeah, he definitely seems to
be more of a fit now without Elliott. The only
thing I would say is, but you know, Clark seems,
if if you go by most of ly a clone
of what or the the the most Elliott type player.
Oh yeah, I think it's gonna be thrown Hill and
Clark starting in this game in base. But but Peppers
had been here longer, maybe have a little bit more

(11:44):
to say in that.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
But I bet you he plays, and he's gonna play
on the special teams, I think for sure, and.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
I think he'll be part of the defense. I don't
know how big Week one here, Well, we went for
him his first game his debut is what I meant
to say.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
But Mike Tomlin, you know saying, you know, we we
signed your Bill Peppers as a reaction to what happened
with the Sean Elliott. You know that's probably true. But
Peppers is a Steeler for the year as far as
I'm concerned, Like he's gonna get a helmet pretty much
every game day, probably every game day. He's your third safety.
I think that's what it's gonna end up playing out
being like that. So we'll see how he does in
his first action as a Steeler. You brought up DK

(12:17):
Metcalf when we were talking there and about Seattle's weapons.
You know, they don't have like any pass catcher from
last year returning other than Smith and Jigma, like Lockett
and DK, where there are other two huge contributors in
the passing game. Gin know Smith led the league in
passing yards last year, like they were throwing the ball
around the yard and they lost a lot of that.

(12:37):
And I like the comments from DK Metcalf kind of
downplaying things in this game, you know, kind of saying like, uh,
it's just another football game for me. There's no there's
no real revenge to be had. I think that that
is the appropriate thing to say. Rogers said a lot
of similar things before the Jets game and then actually

(12:58):
took his shot after the game was over, saying that
he was proud to beat everybody involved with the Jets.
Maybe we'll get that DK moment after I was proud
to beat everybody with the Seattle Seahawks. Either way, it
was the right thing to say right now leading into
the game. There's no bulletin board material there for Seattle.
And the other thing is that maybe this is me
just reading in too much on something that's irrelevant.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
It doesn't really matter.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
So you could maybe label this tangent I'm about to
go on as a waste of time. But there's no
one really involved with the Seattle organization still that was
there when DK got there and was kind of at
his prime in Seattle, like Pete Carroll was the coach
there when he was drafted. Russell Wilson was the first

(13:44):
quarterback that he played with, Like that era is so
far gone now. And I know he did play last
year with Mike McDonald, so there is some familiarity there.
But I just don't know if you know, he gets
the sad stuff. He's going to go back there and
it's like, oh, look at it, all these old faces
that are playing with a new guy, Like they found

(14:05):
this new, young, hot lady to go out with. What
the hell, I'm still great? What happened to all the
good times that we had. I don't know if he's
gonna get that sense. But then again, he might just
look at the logo. He might say, it's still the
same ownership group that didn't want to give me that
money you brought up on the show earlier this week.
That maybe he went to them as like a tactic
like hey, I want traded, and they were like, yeah,

(14:27):
sounds good.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
And then maybe that kidd I thought I was just kidding.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Maybe that fuels it a little bit though, right, maybe
it was like they didn't want me that, but like
I thought it would be at least a little bit
of a thought. I thought it would have been at
least a little bit of a tough to shit. I gotta, hey, okay,
I gotta talk to the owner DK, Like, let me
call the owner down here, like this is gonna take
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
We want to meet.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Like he's like, yeah, great, I got like five teams
I have in mind already. So like maybe there's a
little bit of like a a sting there that he's
just like, yeah, come on, Like you didn't even try
to keep me. It seems like you were too eager
to get that trade request.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah. Again, it was only six months ago. This all
went down and pretty rapid fashion. Like like you said,
you usually don't see I don't know the time of
the calendar to contributed to that, because it was early March,
and that's when things happen, right, That's when trades happened.
That's when free agent, that's when there's a lot of movement.
It's a lot easier to do that and like make
a parson requested the trade in late August. It's a
little bit different, and that obviously did materializes the trade too.

(15:18):
But and it seemed like he had I think Marco.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Was doing that again for negotiations and saying like, hey,
you're dragging your feet. I'm gonna say publics when I
want trade, and so Dallas can get this over with
and sign me.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
And then of course they actually traded it. Yeah, And
if you look at the history of requested trades, the majority,
I don't know how you define how formal. It's not
like it's something that goes but if you if you
do went back at studied, I'm sure most of those
players end up resigning with requested the trade and became
a commander. Yeah, there were what there was another big
one I thought during during camp.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
There James Cook request the trade. I don't think you
requested it. I think he just sat out.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
I think absolutely, yeah. Yeah, but yeah for them, so
I'm sure there is. And you could tell as much
as de Trey Hendrickson right, Yes, yes, he definitely did.
It's a angle, yes there so it's always for leverage
and when he gets I don't know, you know, I'm
not going to go back. I don't know what DK's
situation was how because that all seemed to I mean
a couple of years earlier, the Russell Wilson thing with

(16:15):
you know, it was kind of thought, I was crazy
if Russell Wilson has been a Seahawk forever and they
that that situation deteriorated or whatever it is. Maybe it
is this is a situation where Pete Carroll left and
they're just sort of turning the finally just ripped the
mandate off that they're no longer the lesion to Boom's
what's going a new era. Like we said, they've been
a consistently good, you know, above average team. Still they

(16:35):
sort of weathered going from a I mean, they weren't
a dynasty by any stretch the imagination, but they're an
NFC power there for going on a decade with that
same group, with that defensive group and Russ Wilson and everything,
and they transitioned nicely out of it without bottoming out
to a you know, a three and fourteen season or
whatever it might be. And and it's kind of like,
and DK wasn't to be fair part of that the

(16:56):
Super Bowl teams in Seattle. He's still young and everything,
but it has to it. He seemed as if he
had genuine respect and like for Jackson Smith and Jake
by his position mate. But it was sort of the
they you know that the Seahawks moved on from him,
and knowing his his demeanor on the field versus off
the field, I'm sure, and it's just human nature. I'm

(17:18):
sure he wants to win more so than not. Is
it super duper personal? Is it? Either way, he's going
to feel quite gratified if he makes a play and
the Steelers win against the Seahawks on Sunday. I can
guarantee you that much. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
It's time now to award our big ballers for the
game against Seattle, some players of the game that we
predicted beforehand.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
On the offensive side of the ball, I'm.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Gonna go with the receiver, but it's not going to
be DK Chris. I'm gonna make my big ball Alvin Austin.
I think Austin's going to follow up a nice performance
in Week one he had seventy yards against the Jets
with another very nice performance against the Seahawks. Secondary is
a lot more well rounded for Seattle, that's for certain.
But I just think that Calvin Austin's going to be

(18:02):
able to be slippery enough for a few big plays downfield.
So he'll be my big baller on off defense first.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, of course, I'm very, very excited about the offensive
pay defense. Alex high Smith a guy who had a
very good game. He was he had injuries during the
preseason and training camp. Last year. He scored, he was
nagged by injuries again, a guy I guess forgotten in
this defense that has said so many names and so
many big name acquisitions and so many contract all this

(18:30):
stuff going on, you kind of forget Alex Hithmith is there.
He's always going to be the no matter what, always
going to be the robin to t J. Wats Batman
his own position. But he's a pretty damn good player
in his own right. He had the only sack. I
felt like he was pressuring, you know, if you go
through whatever you believe in that what was it? PFF
had him tied for second in the league and hurries
after one week there was a QB hits, which is

(18:52):
another stat that's actually kept. He was tied for second
that in the NFL through week one through week so
I think he was kind of maybe a big bawler
last week. Is a big bawler again this week for
me in week two for the studio.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, all right, so now why don't you do your
offensive one too. Why don't you hit it back to
the ball.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
I'm gonna break the house because I'm very excited for
this one. That this is, this is I'm coming off
the top wire for this one. And I know how
it's gonna be hard to quantify or to judge or whatever,
but I'm going to go. I'm showing a leap of
faith here. Broderick Jones is the big baller on the offense.
I think he's going to go out. He's going to
have We're not again, maybe not see him very much. Okay,

(19:32):
the run game will be better. No sacks or at
least charge of him or obvious things like that. I
think he's We're going to see. It's all going to
click for Broderick Jones. I'm going to live for this.
I'm very excited for this one. Tom hopefully if we
can delete it.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
If it doesn't work, you're trying to speak this into
existence's please play good?

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Please No, I like it.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
I kind of similarly took a tact like that on
the defensive side of the ball for my big ball.
I'm gonna go with Peyton Wilson. Yes, I'm stressing stopping
the run. I don't know if you've just tuned into
our show today. But I've been saying stop the damn run,
and it comes from those linebackers just as much as
it comes from those defensive linemen.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
So I'm gonna go with Peyton Wilson.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Make a splash, right, have a big game, you know,
put yourself a little bit on the map here. This
is a put yourself on the map type of year,
mister Peyton Wilson. Second year in the league. You had
some nice splash players your rookie season. Establish I think
is the keyword. Now, establish yourself.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
If I'm not mistaken, I made him my follower last
week and then yeah, yeah, that's all right. He's gonna
be a big You just trying to piggyback off me
and steal your genius, Chris. What can I say?

Speaker 1 (20:36):
All Right, that's it for big Ballas when Chris and
I come back, we'll take a look around the NFL
Week two slate that's on the way on Steelers Blitz
on the Steelers Audio Network. It's Tom Offerman and Chris
Danski on the Steelers Blitz on the Steelers Audio Network.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Gonna take a look at.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
The Week too slate in the NFL, and we had
our first game of the week yesterday as the Green
Bay Packers took on the Washington Commanders, and once again, Chris,
this is now back to back weeks where the Packers
faced a team that is a very realistic contender in
the NFC, and not only did they beat them, but

(21:23):
they just looked in complete control for the entire game.
There was a moment where the Commanders made it seventeen
to ten, I think that was early in the fourth quarter,
and everybody was kind of like, maybe Packers went right
down the field, Tuckerkraft found the end zone. Back to
a two score game. It was like clockwork for them.
I mean, they're very impressive. I thought they were the

(21:44):
most impressive team after Week one. Why would I be
singing a different tune after week two. It's not just
that they're dominating offensively and defensively, it's the opponents that
they're dominating against. Now, maybe the Lions regress and maybe
Washington takes a step back this year as well. But
as of right now, all we have to go off
of is what are hunches were based on last season,

(22:06):
and Washington and Detroit are two very good teams. Green
Bay made them look a lot further down the pecking
order than they themselves are in these previous two games. So,
I mean a very strong statement to twenty twenty five
for a team that a lot of people picked to
go to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Yeah, the totally the final score didn't tell the story.
Is they say the total yards four oh four to
two twenty that I mean, you watching that game, he
didn't feel like it was even competitive. I mean, the
fact that the score was so close was it was
sort of a I mean, it just seemed like the
offense for the Packers just operated a will, and it
seemed like the Commanders really couldn't do that much. I mean,
Jordan Love, what was his yards per attempt? Nine point
four yards per attempt? How many? Just looking at the

(22:48):
long catches here fifty seven yards? Mtucker Craft? What the
heck happened to him? But I mean he looked like
he was just a cyborg out there just do what
he would catch passes and rumble and you score a touchdown.
They looked really really good and look like I text
you during the game, I think I have a new
number one. We'll see maybe if the Eagles go into
Arrowhead and and just toy with the Chiefs or something.

(23:08):
Maybe maybe I'll keep them in number one, but but
I'll tip my cap to you had the Packers up
at number one, and that certainly at the Thursday night game.
But the offensively end defensively, We'll see if the command
the Commanders have that win against that, Like we said,
the FCS opponent and the Giants where they're at exactly
the Maybe that's part of it. And I know the
Packers had both games at home, but you know, just

(23:29):
started out beating the Lions and the Commanders, which was
an NFC championship team last year, and the people in
the er up pointing up. But you know, young team
jayde Daniel's second year. I think people expect the big
things to them. And the Lions, of course were fifteen
to two last year. They're that the Packers division rival
to start out two and oh, and not only start
out two and oh, but two big wins like that
against two of your Now you have tie breakers and

(23:50):
play and things like that. When we get late in
the season and Mike Parsons isn't even completely assimilated and
you know, maybe one hundred percent HEALTHI or whatever it is,
yet and and you already have that from it. That's
a whole other figure. There will be growth in terms
of his impact. When you get late in the season
and you're already seeing this from the Packers, it's a

(24:10):
they look like the right now the league. Michael Parson's
played with sixty eight percent, two thirds of the snaps
for the defense, and you figure he'll probably play some
more as the as things get along here too, and
he was already making an impact. It's Jordan Love, you know,
he's one of those quarterbacks that could take that step
up to when you think about the elite of the
elite or whatever. I mean, three quarterback hits from Michael

(24:31):
Parson gesture. He was disruptive. He's insane.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
I mean every snap he breaks through. I mean that
that was the big problem that he only had the
I think it was it a half sack and three
quarterback hits in the game. That didn't tell the story.
Though Michael Parsons was the best player on the field
last night. They couldn't do anything on offense for the Commanders.
Every single time Jayden Daniels tried to make something happen,
he was.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
On the move.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
He had to move he he could not sit in
the pocket for a second. Parsons was incredible. He breaks
through on almost every single play. And Chris, you said
that you picked him to go to the Super Bowl
before they made the trade for Micah Parsons. I was
in that same camp too. I picked him to go
to the Super Bowl before that, or was going to
And then you put that Parsons trade in there, and
it's just like they just went way over the top.

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I mean, I thought it was going to be more
offensively this year from the Packers. The defense was good,
but I thought it was going to be like Jordan
Love would take that next step forward and he will
be what delivers them into an NFC North champion and
maybe a Super Bowl as well. But my god, that
defense might be just as good, if not better than
that offensive side of the ball. And you're looking at

(25:36):
a team that is very rare but might have that
perfect storm of a top five defense and a top
five offense.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yeah right now. I mean, it's funny because the Packers
have played these two high profile games as it is,
and you and what is the The Packers play the
Eagles this year in the regular year on a Monday
night game on Monday night. See that as of it's
been well, listen, we're seven days into the season. If
you were eight days in the season if you count
last Thursday night, and you know, so you this week
two lit his week two Thursday nights. That still a

(26:03):
lot of Week two tells the truck tells the truth.
All right, so we do that right now, you know,
knee jerk reaction. And I said, maybe the Eagles lose
to the Chiefs on Sunday and ruin all that. But
right now, Packers Eagles is the marking matchup that I
want to see.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
They definitely have arisen as the top contender to dethrone Philadelphia.
I think that's very clear that And to be quite honest,
they took out the other ones to start the season,
like you would think, go out Detroit, Washington, who could
take on the Eagles, and green Bay really quickly was like,
that's our mantle this year is we're going to be
the team that dethrones the defending champs. Now green Bay

(26:39):
gets a little extra time off and then they get
to play the Browns, So I mean green Bay should
kind of go into cruise mode here a little bit.
That's a that's another test though, right, It's like, yeah,
you had two high profile games out of the gate.
Now when you take the foot off the gas a
little bit, how you gonna continue to respond? How how's
that gonna look? We're gonna buy too, right, I'm looking
at the schedule now, like they got a long week now,
they got a long week off now because of the

(27:00):
Thursday game Cleveland Cowboys by.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Another other primetime game Cowboys there too, and Sunday night
football game still be back. Yeah, this it's they've had that.
You know that four to twenty five window, which is
was the Big Fox and shesume Brady did that game.
I was working at that time on Week one, and
then you get them the.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Uh that was actually CBS for some reason.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Answer either way. So you had to You had the
high profile window, the number one team and it was
on most of the country, and you get the Monday
night game, and then you got a Sunday night game
coming up, and in the middle you have the one
pm game against the Cleveland Browns. That it's almost like
the track. We're going back to the college couch. It's
the it's the trap.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
I don't want to go back to that couch never
never again. We're going back till next week.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
We're some galoshes or something. But yeah, but right now,
and it's it's week two over reactions. But right now
the Packers are my juggernaut. As uh. You know what
do you want to know? Give them to him right now?
Crown crown, their ass is uh as uh. Denny Green
once said, the.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Rest of the NFL scale and the one o'clock window,
you got a couple of jungle cats going at it.
The Jaguars are playing the Bengals in Cincinnati. The Giants
take on the Cowboys in an NFC East matchup, the
Lions and the Bears in an NFC North matchup, Rams
and Titans. Little interconference play there. You've got the Super

(28:19):
Bowl rematch as well. Chris, we talk about how we
like super Bowl rematches. We missed that one the other day.
Rams Titans. This is the first Super Bowl I remember
Dyson falling short against the greatest show on turf.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
At the time. That was one of the the great
super Bowl. It still is, I guess I when you
go down to the final play, when he's reached it
to the conics, it's a great super Bowl, you know,
I shot there Dyson's and he knows he's not gonna
make it, but him reaching out everything he has distress quite.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
The season from air McNair that year too, steeping, their
winning an MVP and that close to being a super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
I mean, if you can't remember, it's hard to describe
Kurt Warner. The Chiefs are the Rams at the time
signed Trent Green and that was their big and they
were just they were.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
I've seen the movie ex actually I know I know
the story at keep explaining.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
It was just unthinkable that this guy, this guy named
Kurt Warner and nobody had ever heard of, was gonna
take over only because of an injury after they already
signed like this, Like I mean, Trent Green, he's not
the you know, it wasn't the real with the answer.
And the Chiefs in the Rams were just this punchline
throughout the entire decade pretty much, and then all of
a sudden they are just like completely re ramped the
entire league's offense and how things are perceived by just

(29:25):
like running up at will with two Hall of Fame
wide receivers and scoring forty some points a game every
single week. It was it was quite a phenomenon. Actually
a good movie, by the.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Way, if you've seen it, an it's corny, don't That's
what I assumed. The story is so worth it because
you're right, it's insane, like what he went through working
at the grocery store, and like, just it was funny
they did this thing with the packers where he went
as a tryout, and that they probably made this dramatic
for the movie, but like he was on Green Bay
and the coach for Green Bay was like, all right, Warner,

(29:54):
get in there now and take some snaps, and he
was like, I just got here. I don't know the
offense yet, and they cut them, like because now that
was probably the movie being dramatic, but still it was
just like the arc that he took and then to
be the not only make the Rams, but then to
be the starting quarterback for the Rams and then to
lead them to the super Bowl and to win the MVP. Yeah,

(30:16):
it truly was one of the It's one of the
better NFL stories that there is. He won't be playing
in this game and the Rams are gonna kill the Titans.
I just I don't think Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Is very good. Yeah, that's what I almost I didn't
want to go with the Welks. I picked the Rams
as a road team last week too, But I don't know,
like it's just like that feels like almost too easy
if you're going by going by, because I mean the
Titans aren't good. I think the Rams are very good.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
I like to always assign a game as the toilet
Bowl every week, Chris, the game that I just think
is going to be awful. I think I have my
winner in Patriots and Dolphins at one o'clock. I thought
the Patriots would be a better team this year. They
didn't do anything Week one against the Raiders to make
me continue thinking that they looked awful. And I think
Drake may is still a pretty solid quarterback, but again,
he didn't do anything against the Raiders that made me think, Wow,

(31:02):
he's really going to take a leap here in year two.
And Miami had to be the most embarrassing team of
Week one, right, I mean that had to be the biggest.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Low light team of the week.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
The lasted by Indianapolis in Indianapolis, So, I mean, this
is just a stinker. I think, funny enough out of nowhere,
the biggest quote unquote contender I don't know if you
can really call him this, but the contender to the
Bills in the AFC East and the team that's probably
gonna be runner up is the Jets.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Now yeah, no, yeah, you're right, because I think my
I think it has a look of something that could
really go off the rails and get really ugly. I mean,
they're already talking about trading people and after week one,
I mean, you have a coach's who's act if you're winning.
Is cool when it's great, but then when you start
when this starts happening and you got players begging out

(31:48):
but whatever, whatever's been going on there with what the
trades they've been making, things are going well and you
get blown out by Daniel Jones in week one. It's
just it has the look of something that could really
go off the rails and really start to get ugly,
especially with the trade deadline coming up and everything and
coaches and so yeah, Miami Tennessee, the Saints saw that,

(32:09):
the Browns looked okay week one. These are the teams that, uh,
that'll be in contention for whoever the and I guess
it's no longer sure they'd be arch Manning is the
number one pick based off of his first Uh he's
a big first game in college, that's true, Aller.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yeah, there it is Niners Saints in the one o'clock window.
I wouldn't call that a toilet bowl. But that's a
boring game. Like I just don't care about that at all.
But nine Niners aren't playing, Brock Party is not playing.
Uh so you're gonna see the mac Jones experience for
San Francisco. They got some other injuries as well. For
San Francisco. I think Juwan Kittle's out, he's on IR.
I think Juwan Jennings got hurt too, Like they're just

(32:44):
banged up as always. So like that's a boring angle
to that game. And then the Saints are just one
of the worst teams in football. Like I have no usually, Chris,
I have an intrigue in a young quarterback, you know
what I mean, Like take a peek nothing for Spencer Ratler.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yeah, and if if show.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Comes schuck shah shahaha, if he comes in the guy
from Louisville Tyler, Yeah, Louisville.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
And like I'm kind of interest in him either, Like
that's just not he said all to me that he
couldn't beat out Spencer Raut. That's all I probably need
to hear is if he wasn't, like atlichould be intrigued, like, oh,
maybe you know he's twenty seven years old or whatever
he is, and maybe there is something there and you'd
be intrigued to watch it. But the fact you couldn't,
I mean, because you know that Spencer Ratler isn't the
long term answer for the Saints, right.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
So Spencer Ratler is the answer to let's win two
games this year and be in that arch Manning sweepstakes.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yes, that they seem to be almost embracing the embracing
the suck. Yes, Bill's Jets in the one o'clock window.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
That's kind of a sneaky, intriguing game. Are the Jets
going to be able to duplicate that performance they did
against the Steelers?

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Have a close game against the Bills.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
It could be another moral victory for the Jets that
all of a sudden you feel really good about your
team and the direction of your organization, But then you're
also zero and two and this season is in trouble
a bit.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Steeler Seahawks and then of course.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Evens Browns round out the one o'clock window in AFC
North matchup.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
In that one.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
O'clock window, I think the game that other than the
Steeler Seahawks, because I think that is the best game
of that window.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
I think that Jets.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Bills one probably has the more interest than the other
ones at one o'clock just because of what the Jets
did last week. I Mean, you could make the claim
for Lions Bears, but I think the Bears look pretty bad.
I think the Lions will bounce back nicely against them,
and Sneaky Sneaky one would be Jags Bengles, I guess.
But I think that that Bill's Jets one is the
one that I'm like really curious to see. What are

(34:35):
the Jets gonna follow up that performance with? What's the
encore gonna be?

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Yeah, there's intriguing that in both angles too, because I mean,
the Bills had on paper the biggest win in terms
of beating the best opponent last week, but they had
them at home, and they gave a lot of points
and it was more like a frenzied fourth quarter. Are
the Bills? I'll say the Bills for real, because obviously
they're a contender, But was that a sign of if
they come out and just go on the road smack

(35:00):
a division ponent, then then you're you're back to cooking
with gash Nick and the Bills are you know, the
legitimate you know, maybe the super Bowl AFC favored to
get to the super Bowl and the Jets the same
on a mini smaller level, the same thing with the
Jets hanging with the Steelers and you know it wasn't
for a fifty yard field goal getting a win there
against a playoff caliber team. Is that what the Jets are?

(35:23):
Or the Jets could you know, come out and lay
an egg? We got through that same old Jets, you know,
so I think on both I'm curious. It's a showing
me for both teams and a different and a different class,
the middle class and the upper class.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
What we saw out of that Bills run defense, you
would think the Jets can keep up in this thing
at the point.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yeah, that's that's an excellent point. Yeah, that that's a
That's why it's like, I'm the Bills had this great
win on paper, and it's like part of me, maybe
it's by because I was there and I saw the
Jets play, and I was you know, you got to
be coming away impressed, more impressed the Jets than you
thought going into it for sure. Maybe that's all it
is to protect against that, But yeah, I see this
as a you know, it's a touchdown spread and that

(36:04):
you know, and you would think the Bills after getting
that again, the best win on paper in the league
last week, you know that touched down against the Jets.
I'll take that, but it's it's yeah, I don't know.
I just didn't want to go there for sure, and
making my picks.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
In the four o'clock window, you got the Broncos and
the Colts. At four oh five, you got the Panthers
and the Cardinals. At four oh five, you've got the
and that's there's only three in the four o'clock window. Actually,
then at four to twenty five, you have the marquee
matchup of the week, the Super Bowl rematch between the
Eagles and the Chiefs. Your Sunday night game is Vikings
and Falcons, and you got a Monday night doubleheader this

(36:40):
week with Bucks, Texans, Chargers, Raiders. We'll talk about those
games though on Monday's show, But Chris Eagles Chiefs is
obviously the headline game. Kind of crazy that it's week
two when we're getting this rematch. You know, that's very
early for these two teams to see each other again. Boy,
Chiefs could be owing two real easy. And I think

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a lot of people who assumed that they wouldn't be
as strong this year. Some people even said they might
not make the playoffs. I had him as a wild card.
I thought they would get in still, but they won't
win the division for a change. But man, tough two
matchups right out of the gate for them, and they
lose Avier Worthy last week, so they're not going to
have their or what they thought was probably going to
be their best pass catcher there.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Oh excuse me.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
I got so sick thinking about that tragedy that happened
to Xavier Worthy, the friendly fire.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Maybe just thinking of Hollywood round being and what WR
won for a game. That's what ma That's what Mahomes
gagged on.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yes, So you know, I think in their mind they
thought he would be their biggest weapon.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Worthy.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
No one had the imagination that Kelsey was going to
have this crazy final season.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
But they lose Worthy. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
I just don't know if they have the explosion. I
don't know if they have enough left in the tank, Chris,
I mean, like it's exhausting getting to the championship conference
championship game every single year for the past what six years.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Yeah, it's one of those things where there's so much
and then just the natural reak ration of winning. All
you talked about. They lost Week one in the one
possession after being what eleven and oh is that what
it was last year? In one possession games that you
figure that is going to catch up to them, and
you know, I had them up high in my power
nice my first attempt to really matching that. And it's

(38:18):
just out of kind of respect, and you know, if
you gave me true serum, do I believe that the
Eagle or the Chiefs are going to be a you know,
a fourteen to fifteen team win team again and get
to the Super Bowl Gain? Probably not. There's just so
much working against it. And at some point, but at
the same time, they've I said that, laud I just
until they somebody has to thrown them. But if they
start owing to and lose a home game, and I

(38:41):
get I know it's the Eagles and I know everything else,
but it's still and they played these high profile games uh,
you know, and then that that the Brazil game, and
now you're coming to the travelers. There's a lot we're
working against them here, but still started owing too, is
starting ohing too, And that's a hole that you got
to dig out of, no matter how good you are,
no matter what you're what the circumstances are. So but
it is interesting that this is the Week two game,

(39:02):
but the schedule. They loaded up so many of those
good Week one games last week, and they have the
super Bowl rematch b week two, and especially that fun
I like when I talked about although with my job,
I usually don't get to see them that when they
put a markeee game with the four to twenty five slot,
that kind of you know, I get the prime time.
There's they can flex things any of that and stuff.
But I really like when there's a really big game.

(39:24):
Something about that late Sunday. You know, it's the end
of your weekend there. I know there's a night game
and all that stuff, but it's more kind of relaxed
till whenever it's the late afternoon. I really like when
there's a big game, and heykayn't get bigger than the
Super Bowl rematch, right, Super Bowl rematch. Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Panthers Cardinals is another one that's kind of stinky. I
think the Cardinals are good though, but yeah, yeah, Panthers,
just Cardinals team Falcons and Vikings for your Sunday night game,
the game that you were just talking about, that you
will be able to kind of sit back and take
a breather and be like, Oh, I've been at Acretra
Stadium all day, I can finally relax a little bit.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
I don't think it's going to be a bad game
by any stretch, you know. I think both of these
teams are going to be competing for playoff spots this year,
Like this is going to be a game that probably
has some weight to it when it comes to ultimately
deciding who the wild cards are in the NFC, because
these are two teams I see fighting for those spots.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
And we talked about JJ McCarthy, What what do you
take out of that week one that he was so
bad for almost two thirds of the game, would say,
but then he was so good in the final third
of the game. Is that which is the real JJ
McCarthy at please stand out? Yeah? Yes? Is that we
going to see so? And because that there's a lot
riding on that. What I mean, the Vikings, their roster

(40:33):
and they're coaching is good enough that there's no reason.
I mean, they went fourteen and three last year, no
reason they can't do that again. And if you go
fourteen and three, there's you're by definition a legit contender
to get out of your conference. But if JJ McCarthy
ain't that guy, then that derails the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
Right, He's not that guy, Pal, He's not that guy.
Chris and I will make our picks against the spread
when we come back and our game picks for Steelers Seahawks.
That's on the way on the Steelers Blitz and the
Steelers audio work.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Oh, the football is almost here, everybody.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
I can taste it on the tip of my tongue.
Got a little college action tonight, I think a lot
of college action tomorrow and the NFL on Sunday. It's
time for Chris and myself to make our picks of
the week against the spread. Chris, of course went to
in one last week and I went into Sorry I'll speak,

(41:32):
I went one in two, So that means Chris is
up by g Chris, why don't you do the honors
for the first pick against the spread, since you did
indeed have the win in Week one.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
I'm gonna go. It's gonna random order, of course, not
my love of confidence. But we referenced earlier how bad
I believe the Dolphins are and how much their their
season I think could really go bad. I'm getting points
with the pager I know the Pagerots didn't look that
good in Week one. We had a point and a
half and division road game, which is it gives you pause,
of course, and especially the Patriot they didn't look that

(42:05):
great in Week one, but I'm still gonna buy in.
I'm not gonna overreact. Week one can lie to you,
and I don't think what we wanted to not lie
to me with that the Dolphins are trash, So therefore
I'm gonna believe in the Patriots. The Patriots fall to
h and two, you know their season might be over
forty even starts under Mike vrabel, So I think they'll
get the job done and win by more than a point.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
So you're taking the Patriots plus one and a half.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
Yes, at the Dolphins. There you go. Patriots plus one
and a half is in Chris's pocket.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
I'm gonna go with the team that I've talked you
into in recent episodes of the Steeler Splits. I'm gonna
go with Jacksonville on the road plus three and a
half against the Cincinnati Bengals. Now, people are probably out
there going, I can't believe you're doing that. Cincinnati's gonna
bounce back this week. They're at home, it's their home opener.
They're gonna light up Jacksonville.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
I don't know if Cincinnati is a team that really
blows teap people out.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
If I took them minus five and a half against
the Browns last week, I felt very stupid doing so.
So maybe just out of a spite, I'm gonna bet
against them this week, But I like that.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
I just be always works well.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
I think Jacksonville is is good enough offensively, Chris to
keep up against that bad Bengals O bad Bengals defense.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
And I think that's sick. Sorry everybody, And I think
that three and a half. You're giving me that hooker
point five. I'll take a Bengals.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Twenty seven to twenty four victory over Jacksonville in the money, right,
I think that's how it plays out, So give me
the Jacks.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah, and I keep talking to that. Are you gonna
take them too? No? No, no, are you talking to
me in the jack by the Jags. But I've been
way too publicly in on the Bengals that I couldn't.
I thought I could never bet against it. I can
never go against my The second game I'm choosing this
week is the Las Vegas Raiders at home getting that
hook again, the three and a half hook there against

(43:48):
the LA Chargers Monday game. Yes, I thought of that
a lot.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
I like that Raiders in that one. Yeah, good pick, Chris,
good pick. I just won a game on a row.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
The Chargers are in to travel back from Brazil, kind
of feel a little that'll howdy about themselves. That the
h A U G H T. I don't know whatever,
try to make up words or use words. LE don't
know what they are. Haughty, howdy howdy, I don't know.
I'll look it up in the break and we'll get
back to a bunday. They're feel good about themselves. They've
been a little cocky. How about that. They're feeling you know,

(44:17):
they're a little bit into themselves.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
They gotta go on the road and play the Raiders,
who are a better team than people think.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Yes, exactly, and they want to. You know, Pete Carroll,
I think people start talking about the Raiders, they start
out too and oh, they won a game at the
aforementioned Patriots already. I like it, especially getting points at home,
getting that whok of the three and a half. Even
if they do lose again, but the aforementioned twenty seven
to twenty four score, whatever it might be, I feel
good about the Raiders getting points.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
I like that pick a lot. I'm not gonna pick it,
but I like that pick too. I was thinking about that. Yeah,
I think the Raiders are better than people think. I
think that they probably they could win this game. I
think and B two and zero, and everybody will kind
of have to take that step back and be like, whoa,
we thought this was the basement of the NF of
the AFC.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
You imagine the Raiders have a two game lead on
the Chiefs through two weeks, which is in play. It happens,
for sure, don't tease me.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
We'll cross that patch if it avails itself to what.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
Was a show before they played? That's right. We can't
even my Monday. We can't even do our standings now,
I guess, all right.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
My second pick, I'm going with the team that the
Steelers are very familiar with. I'm going with the Jets
at home plus six and a half.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
You went there. I was saying, I couldn't that game
fuddled me?

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Take a big home dog here, I mean, that's a
big home dog six and a half points at home.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
I just think that Jets offense is going to be
able to run the ball a lot. On that Bill's defense,
Derrick Henry and the Ravens certainly were able to. So
I think that the Jets are going to have success
on the ground, much like they did against the Steelers.
I think that keeps the game close. They have Josh
Allen the MVP. But I mean the Steelers were only
able to scratch a two point victory away from the Jets.
I could see the Bills win in by like four

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or five points, keeping it within that that one score game.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
Yeah, I just I had trouble with that game. But
I like, by the way, I my interject real quickly,
h A U G H T Y howdy, oh wow,
whatever messed up, But that's what it is. I think. Yeah,
I could turn it up. You want me to, Okay,
never mind, all right, he's arrogantly superior and disdainful. I
don't know the disdainful, but I don't know. I don't
know if but it is Jim Harbor. I think he

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has he does have some Carroll yeah, so maybe maybe
that is it. I did see a quote.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
From Pete Carroll at his press conference where they asked
him about Harbor, and he was like, I remember Jim.
No good he goes, no, he goes. No good memories,
no good memories. But I remember Jim. Those coaches in
that division. Good lord.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Wow, that's all right. Here's your final pick. I'm going
And this is a repeater last week, but because I
am probably more bullish on the team and picking than
most teams, and also this similar to the Dolphins. I
think the opponent stinks even though they're at home. Taking
the Rams minus five and a half at the Titans.
The Rams won me a game last week against a
good team on the road and the a FC South
team that detextans the AFC South favorite. Now they got

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the a f C sALS, probably worst team again. I'm
confident they can there be more than a touchdown better
than the Titans, especially starting cam Ward and still going
through that whole process. I like the Rams this year
a lot, and I think they'll win by at least
five and a half at the Titans. That is a.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Lot to lay down on the road, but I like it.
I think I think that the Rams will handle Tennessee.
It might be one of those games, Chris, where you'll
be going into the fourth quarter up by five or
something and you'll be like, oh, I'm.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Sweating it a little bit.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Yeah, and then you'll have that Nikua final touchdown from
Stafford that makes it the two possession of They ask
how many are puts you in the clear? Yeah, I
think that that's gonna hit. Even though I'm rooting for
it to.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Not my final game.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
This was my only win last week and it was
a big one. I was all over the Colts against
the Dolphins. I was like, Colts are favored in this game.
It looks weird.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
I don't like it. It smells funky. I'm going to take
the Colts. I'm do it again. I'm taking the Colts.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Home dy doves right that Diddy dives train another home dog,
just like my New York Jets plus one and a
half points for the Indianapolis Colts. They're hosting the Denver Broncos.
Denver's got a great defense, But I don't know, man,
I another one of those lines where it's like, shouldn't
Denver be favored by more than one and a half points?
I get that it's on the road, and what the
Colts did last week is impressive, but I don't know.

(48:17):
I'm sniffing something out there a little bit, and I
don't like what it smells like.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
So I mean, we've talked to take the Colts at home.
We mentioned o'callin on, we mentioned the good offensive. Mind,
you know, Shane Steik stikes kind of on that border
where if this doesn't work out, well he's gonna lose
that genius status that people have. But if it does
work out and you turned Daniel Jones and that offense
into a dynamic offense, that then you deserve whatever plotted
you get.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
All right, Steelers prediction time. I do think the Steelers
win this game. I'm risking myself sounding stupid again, but
I'm gonna predict the same rock fight that I did
last week against the Jets that didn't play out. I
got the Steelers winning something around like seventeen to thirteen.
I think that's where this score will settle in. It'll
be tight game, it'll be a nervous game. Maybe it's

(49:02):
thirteen to ten Seattle eight and Rogers needs to do
some magic. But I think Seattle's defense is really good,
and I think the Steelers defense is really good too,
and they're gonna bounce back. So give me a low
scoring game again. For my prediction, I was oer for
one as far as that aspect was concerned, But damn it,
I did pick the Steelers to win last week, so
keep someonement him going there. Steelers seventeen, Seahawks thirteen.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
I was wowd how the overrunner almost hit, the over
almost hit in the first haush half of the Steelers
Jets teams themselves almost clear the Yeah, Steelers for four,
that's right. Yeah, So that was not what anybody expected.
Line moved out, you know. I so for me once,
for me twice, I guess, so I need to be
full the second time that we'll have a rock fighter.
I similarly thought it would be a low scoring game,

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and heck, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna ride again. Chris
Boswell game winning field goal as time expires again, so
we'll go Steelers sixteen, Seahawks thirteen.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
So not an easy watch for US fans on Sunday.
A lot of stress, a lot of stress, but a
happy ending. He's Chris Adanski, I'm Tom Offerman. Thank you
so much, thanks for giving us a listen on the
Steelers Blitz. We will be back on Monday recapping what
we think will be a Steelers win and a two
and zero start against the Seattle Seahawks home opener as
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