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Speaker 1 (00:25):
All right, here we go our two first one flew
by just starting today and I am Monday live in
Los Angeles. It's The Herd wherever you may be and
however you may be listening. Listening Jmac. Underdogs are having
their way. I have an underdog tonight. I have Dedroit
plus the points. We haven't talked about the Knicks t
Wolves trade. That's a big one. I have the Seahawks

(00:47):
the night plus the point. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I have
the Seahawks, which is, by the way, I wouldn't trust
me because all my underdogs, all my picks. Thank god,
I had the Ravens last night. Thank god. That's a
nice step. Hey, you know that's the bulls ends? Are you?
I'm the head with me on Rams and Bucks. You
were right surprising.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well listen week to week theories Zigzag theory, you know,
just put it in play. It is insanely effective. The
public is going to go after what they just saw.
Everybody's going to bet.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Baltimore this week. Whoever they're facing.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I think it's a Bengals.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, that's an interesting game. Yeah, all right, we do
it every Monday. Colin Wright, Colin wrong. Here we go
where Colin was right. Well, I predicted before the season
Kingsbury would be a home run higher and Washington would
make the playoffs. I said they're going to be the
surprise team. They'll make the wild card. Yeah, well, they
may win the division. Kingsbury has been a perfect fit.

(01:43):
Washington has more listen to this, more scoring drives than incompletions.
I don't even know how to explain that. That's ridiculous.
That's video game. That's ridiculous. Through four games, Jayden Daniels
has the highest completion percentage in league history, eighty two
percent of his pass says. I was told before the season,
get on the Washington vandwagon early new owner GM coach,

(02:08):
Kingsbury's going to be a home run. We were right
on that one.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Where Colin was raw.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, my optimism was Sean McVeigh and Matt Stafford fixing
all the problems for the Rams health. It's my optimism's dying.
No Puka, no Cooper, they have no playmakers. Everything has
to be a long drive. Matt Stafford not super mobile
moves okay, as trying to save the team and he can't.
It's not any players offensive line. The backups are backups

(02:34):
to backups. McVeigh is great, but there are limitations when
you get cluster injuries to two key areas for an
offensive coach. And this is just not going to be
the Rams year where Colin was right day one on
Nick Sirianni, I said, I was told he was not
a head coach. He was closer to a position coach.

(02:55):
They are not only three and eight in their last
eleven games, folks, They're the only NFL team without a
point in the first quarter. And listen, I know there's injuries.
This is the NFL. Everybody's hurt. From his opening press
conference on I think there have been times when he's
been a bit juvenile to be a head coach. Doesn't
have a certain gravtas and Philadelphia is a well run organization,

(03:18):
but they are very impatient and I don't know if
he lasts the season.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Where Colin was raw.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
You know, I defended the Doug Peterson hire in Jacksonville
Post Urban Meyer. I thought he had the right temperament.
Doug's not gonna yell and bark. It's gonna work. But
this thing's unraveling. They've lost five straight. Trevor Lawrence has
lost nine straight. It's an organization and this was a
little bit Doug's reputation. They're a little loose. They're not

(03:46):
great on the details. And I've supported Doug from day one,
and I'm not sure who's exactly to blame, but there
are fissures now and they're going public. Here's Doug after
the loss. Coaches. We can't make We can't go out
there make the plays right. It's a two way street.
So you know, you guys can sit here and point
the finger all you want, and that's fine, point right

(04:06):
at me. I can take it. If it's not working,
it's not in rhythm, whether it's your plays or not.
You hazel play color. Yeah, sure, okay, I'll take it
into consideration when it goes public. When the couple's fighting
in public, you don't know what the drive home's like.
It's trouble in Jacksonville.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Where Colin was right.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Anthony Richardson, He's fun to watch, but you got it
complete stuff from the pocket. It's hard. I get it.
But yesterday he got hurt again. He's reckless. You know,
I understand loving athletic quarterbacks. Nobody's a bigger fan of Lamar.
I've been defending him for four or five years. But
the Anthony Richardson thing. If Shane Steichen can't fix it,

(04:48):
and he's one of the really smart guys in this league,
if he can't fix it, I don't think you can
fix it. Yesterday again, Anthony Richardson got hurt where Colin
was right. Don't buy the Browns ownership. I love the coach,
I love the general manager. But I think Deshaun Watson
was desperate yesterday, passer rating at eighty five. Raiders were

(05:10):
missing DeVante Adams and Max Crosby. They're two best players.
That's as vulnerable as the Raiders can be. Raiders are
still rebuilding and Cleveland couldn't get it done. So I've
said before, just I look at organization's top down. I
don't buy Cleveland. I think Stefanski and Andrew Berry you're
really sharp guys, but I think their hands are tied

(05:31):
and this contract is awful. Where Colin was raw, Boy,
was I wrong on Colorado three weeks ago, two weeks ago,
I said, give me a break. You're the fake idea
of college football. You're trying to tell us you're something
you're not. H Yeah, they're now four and one and
this weekend. Now we know Travis Hunter's the best player
in college football and Shador Sanders has talent. But to

(05:55):
beat forty eight to twenty one over UCF and some
of the play this game, this is not supposed to
be a great draft. What if Colorado gets Travis Hunter
taking one, Shador Sanders taking number two? You think it's crazy.
But when you watch these guys play, you talk about
jump through the television. They're insane talents. Dion now is

(06:17):
beating ranked teams. There four and one. I was way
wrong where Colin was right when I thought Bama would
beat Georgia, Carson Beck good luck. But after watching shaduor
Sanders are not going number one. And I'll say this,
Kaylin de Boord did this at Washington. He got the
Huskies do a national championship without a lot of NFL
bodies his ability too. He's not a great recruiter, but

(06:41):
he may develop offensive players as well as anybody I
have ever seen. This game was a blowout early, then
Georgia pulls back. But I said, when he got the job,
it would be the greatest coaching handoff in the history
of college football. I said, he's basically on the offensive
side of the ball, and to take that lead and

(07:03):
dominate Georgia that had won forty two straight games. Go
back and look at what he inherited at Washington and
what it became. The guy is a marvel. Where Colin
was right, I said, be careful about telling me the
Saints are going to rule the league. You got a
new coordinator, but I think Derek Carr is more middle
of the pack than elite. Dennis Allen last year. Questions

(07:25):
about the coaching, I think Atlanta's going to win this division.
I think Tampa has been a great story. But this
offense to me in the first couple of weeks was
not sustainable. Now maybe Washington Commander's offense isn't sustainable either,
But Jayden Daniels just looks different than everybody else in
the league. Where Colin was right, where Colin was wrong.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Heard Hierarchy.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Time.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Now go the top ten NFL teams according to College
number ten.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
I thought Seattle missing their four best defensive linemen. Look
Gino Smith, That dude throws a beautiful ball, is totally
in tune with DK Metcalf. I like their running backs.
I mean, I'm sorry. Gino leads the NFL in passing
yards second and completion percentage Kenneth Walker. I was blown away.

(08:16):
Seattle didn't have their four best defensive lineman against the
best O line in the league. You knew they wouldn't
make stops. I thought Gino was exceptional and a Monday
night on the road Seattle at ten, number nine Texans
only loss came on the road to the Vikings. They
got House, didn't have Joe Mixon, but their top eight
de offense, top five defense, and I love c J.
Strout Joe Mixon's coming back listen. C J. Strout is

(08:37):
a young quarterback. To see Kayleb Williams this week when
he got a run game with de Andre Swift. Oh,
Caleb looked pretty good as good as c J. Stroud is,
and he's got his weapons like Nico Collins. Young quarterbacks
especially they need their running backs. Joe Mixon returns. I
like Houston nine. Number eight the Packers. It's weird. They're

(08:57):
zero and two with Jordan Love and two and zero
about him. They do lead the NFL in big plays.
I like all their structure. Listen, Jordan Love hasn't taken
a lot of snaps because of the injury, and he's
he's not quite ready to go. Second half, the offense
looked better than the first half. They lead the NFL
in takeaway So Green Bay is a feisty, aggressive defense,
which is what their fans have been complaining about for years.

(09:19):
How come the defense can't be as good as the offense.
I still think Green Bay is an ascending team. It
is a young team with a quarterback that comes in rusty.
They're gonna be just fine.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Number seven.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
I don't know what to do with the Commanders, but
they're breaking every single NFL record offensively. Jaden Daniels. We
thought he was gonna be like Lamar Jackson? Light is
he or is he just Lamar Jackson? I mean, kids, incredible.
I just read here this morning. He has five total
touchdowns and six complete incompletions over the last two games.

(09:53):
I do think the Cliff Kingsbury oc higher and we
predicted this. We thought Washington would be a playoff team.
I think all flushing out the bad vibes, the bad
owner bring it an entirely new organization in owner down
for the first time in a decade. Everything is good
vibes and positivity. I don't know where it lands. I

(10:16):
don't know when the regression is coming. But I thought
Arizona was one of the better sides of the week,
and they blew them out in Arizona. But Washington at seven,
number six, I know they won last night. But that
defense on the back end, Jared Goff once again is
the strength of a team and nobody wants to acknowledge it.
In the last two weeks, he's completing eighty eight percent

(10:38):
of his throws. They've got an over the top receiver,
they have Omar on Saint Brown, they have two backs.
I like a great offensive line. Don't trust Dan Campbell
in situational football. But here's the reality with Detroit. It
is hard not to be a good team when you
have a dominating running game and a dominating O line
in a very capable Super Bowl quarterback. They're just gonna

(11:00):
win a lot of games. They're gonna mash a lot
of people, and it's not always going to be pretty.
I have Detroit at six, number five Buffalo. Now they're
getting some of their linebackers who were injured back. They
were a mess this past week and they ran into
a buzzsaw. It's called Lamar Jackson. He does that at
home a lot. He blew out the Niners and the
Lions last year in Miami. I'm not selling my Buffalo stock.

(11:21):
I think they have offensive balance between kincaid and James Cook.
The rookie receiver looks special to me. I think Buffalo
is gonna be fine. They've been a roller coaster for years.
All Kansas City games look the same. Buffalo doesn't. Buffalo's
a little Dallas cowboy. They're a little Mike Tyson knockout
or unraveling. That's kind of their DNA. I still think
they're good. Buffalo five, number four San Francisco. So now

(11:44):
they're getting their guys back, Debo and Kittle. They don't
have Christian McCaffrey, but the reality is they lead the
NFL in time of possession. It's still Shanahan Purty Debo Kittle,
you Jennings, come on. When this team is healthy, whether
without Christian McAffrey, it's a really good football team. And
again Fred Warner is playing linebacker at a level we
have not seen for a long long time. San Francisco

(12:07):
at four, number three. I'll never sell my raven stock.
I'll never sell it. They look like the fastest team
in the league. If Kansas City's got the fastest defense,
they have the fastest offense. And he may never beat
Patrick Mahomes number one total offense. With Derrick Henry now
number one rushing offense, They're not very good on the
back end. Everybody's got a flaw. You start paying your

(12:28):
quarterback huge money. Everybody's got a hole. The Chiefs have
a wide receiver hole now with Rashid Rice, Ravens have
a little bit of a hole. I like Kyle Hamilton.
Maybe they have a cornerback issue, but I'm not selling
my stock. Derrick Henry leads the league in rushing with
Lamar Baltimore or Buffalo literally looked like they were waving
the flag Monday night. They had zero answers nine yards

(12:50):
of play. Number two Minnesota. I don't think it's a
fluke I didn't buy into the Saints. I'm not sure
if I bought into the Jets after they beat New England.
Into this team, everything works. They're defensive coordinators excellent, their
special teams are consistent, their offense is amazing. They have
the tall Sean McVay as a coach. They're not only
four and oh, they're four and oh against the spread.

(13:11):
They're beating people badly. Darnold leads the NFL in touchdown
passes passer rating, and the defense leads the NFL in sacks.
It's not a star studded defense. It's not Kansas City
where you can see it completely disrupting people. And it's
the same two or three guys. It's Chris Jones every week,
wreaking habit. It's not that. But it's good, and it's
exceptionally coached. And I have Minnesota at two number one. Listen,

(13:34):
Mahomes is eighteen and fourteen when trailing by ten or
more points. That's a silly stat But the other thing
that we have to acknowledge, Rashi Rice had become a
really really elite receiver, and you cross your fingers, but
that's trouble. Xavier Worthy is not a volume guy, but
he isn't over the top guy. Are they going to
be at the trade deadline in the market for a receiver.

(13:56):
I'm not quite sure. They won last year without Worthy,
he didn't even have an over the top receiver. Again,
their structure so good, but Mahomes has five picks and
four have been ugly. I just kind of trust him.
Every game looks the same. I've said this for two weeks.
They look like New England. He just very good defensively,
great coach, amazing quarterback. I mean, how many great receiving

(14:20):
cores did New England have? It always felt like they
had an element or they'd have a Welker when they
had Moss. They didn't win a Super Bowl. So my
takeaway is this is my best top ten so far.
I feel very strongly about this top ten.

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Speaker 1 (14:41):
Well, only one other player in the history of football,
one other quarterback, has had a game like Kirk Cousins
had last night in primetime over five hundred yards. Think
about that, five football fields, four touchdowns, Kirk Cousins and
Tom Brady in a primetime standalone game that was an
all time performance. He's joining us live. It doesn't even
look tired. Look at this guy, looks like you just

(15:04):
got nine holes to Aren't you a li I mean
it went to overtime? Aren't you a little beat up
this morning? Kirk? A little?

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (15:12):
I definitely am.

Speaker 5 (15:13):
I got home about two thirty in the morning last night,
so it was a long night but a fun night.
And now We've got a long weekend to rest up.
And I'll be posted up with my couch watching everybody
else play football.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
So we know basketball players talk about getting into his zone.
We know baseball hitters talk about getting into his zone.
And I'm watching you and by the way, Baker played
a heck of a game, but you're on You're passing
like fifty five plus times. So do quarterbacks get into zones?
I mean, you've always been accurate, But did you did
you have something extra last night? Or is it there's

(15:49):
too much stuff going on in your head to worry
about that.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
I think you certainly can get to a place where
you feel like the game slows down and you've got
good anticipation I think that for me, what to start
the year was, I didn't feel like I had that
anticipation or that sense of where things were going.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
And each week I've improved and.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
Then I felt like last night our offense and my
own play kind of took a big jump forward. Where
I was anticipating better, I was playing fast, I was quick,
but I wasn't in a hurry, and that's really where
you want to be all the time. But it's just
taken me a few weeks to get there, and uh,
now the challenges can we sustain over the next few months.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
So you're a veteran quarterback and Stafford's talked about this before.
You're on a very young offense Drake London, Kyle Pitts, Bijon,
these are kids and you are you are You're like
a coach. Is that hard? Is it refreshing? How does
that land for you?

Speaker 2 (16:45):
I enjoy it.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
I enjoyed.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
I think it gives me a chance to assert myself
more as a leader. When I was in Washington, I
was playing with players who were twice my age at
those skill positions. You know, Vernon Davis, Pierre garcon De,
Shaun Jackson. These guys had double digit years in the league,
and I was, you know, year four, just.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
Trying to figure it out and hoping they weren't going
to get mad at me.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
So now as a thirteen year VET working with guys
in year two and three, it gives me a great
chance to be an encourager, to kind of help them
hopefully get to where they want to go and be
a part of that. So I enjoy that opportunity.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
So I want you to take me because I said
the start of the show, there's not seven eight guys
in the world right now playing quarterback that could have
done that last minute fourteen no timeouts. That is really hard.
That is it's you to be, first of all, cognitively
clock young teammates the way you guys scrambled. The referee,

(17:38):
by the way, did a great job to piro it
out of there. They did, did a great job. Take
me to the last minute fourteen? Is there ramped up anxiety?
What are you looking for? Everybody was clearly on the
same page. Is that do you get more focused in
those little micro moments?

Speaker 5 (17:57):
Well, I think you trust your training and you go
back to your process. You know, ku being the kicker,
you know that you have some grace as to how
far you need to go to get that field goal,
and then you know we're pretty well coached on you know,
those situations of when the ball's got to be out
of bounds or to the end zone and when you
know we have have.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
To clock it.

Speaker 5 (18:18):
So that was executed well and to your point, the
referees have gotten a lot better. Yeah, allowing people to
clock the ball quickly. I think two or three years
ago that ref might have taken too long. We wouldn't
have had a chance. So kudos to them for kind
of getting that dialed in where he just touches the
ball and enables us to operate quickly.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
You know, I was looking at this, your coaches, this
is crazy. McVeigh, Shanahan, Lafleur, Mike McDaniel, Kevin Stefanski, Kevin
O'll come. You have had smart dudes. You've probably and
I think Raheem Morris for a defensive coach is he
was mcvay's buddy. He's probably better than average for a
defensive coach. Do you did you take little bits and

(18:57):
pieces out of all of them? And I mean you
could you say McVeigh showed me this, Kevin O'Connell or
if you've always been kind of the same guy, have
you borrowed things? Do you take things when you have
that many good coaches around you.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
That's a great question.

Speaker 5 (19:11):
Many of them came from the same tree, and so
they were often in the same room, and as a result,
we sort of speak the same high level language with
all of them. That being said, has been fascinating to
see as they've gone their separate ways, They've each kind
of put their own spin on things. And so I've
gotten back with a Kevin O'Connell or a Zach Robinson

(19:32):
after being with Sean McVeigh and being away from Sean
for several years and then learning how Sean and their
group evolved it from where we were when I was
with Sean has been really cool to see. And then
each person kind of puts their own creative spin on it,
and you know, now in Atlanta, we're kind of trying
to evolve into what the twenty twenty four Falcons look like,

(19:52):
which is, you know, different from the twenty three Vikings,
different from the twenty three Rams that Zach Robinson was with,
but keep trying to take those steps innovate and then
also as a copycat league, so you try to steal
from the good ideas you see on tape. But I've
been very fortunate to be around a lot of great coaches.
I throw Gary Kubiak and Clint Kubiak and Rick Dennison
into that list. Big part of having success at the

(20:13):
quarterback position is who are your coaches? And for thirteen
years I've been able to be around a lot of
good ones.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
You have a lot more records than people realize. Most
game winning drives in the history of the league in
a single season eight And you know I said this earlier.
You and Peyton Manning are very detailed, precise guys. You're smart.
You're detailed early in both of your careers. Sometimes instead
of the one o'clock game, you go to these primetime games.
You're sitting around all day in a hotel and early

(20:39):
in your career, and Peyton's people said, well, kurtin primetime games,
isn't the same quarterback? Well that's changed, and it changed
for Peyton. You go back to your first, second, third
year in the league, and now what have you done?
Because something's different. You're now one of the best in
the league. So was Peyton at the end but in
the first couple of years there was a label Kirk

(21:00):
Peyton and they're precise, they're detailed, they don't like to
be off their you know, schedule. Was that true? What happened?
What's transformed for you?

Speaker 4 (21:10):
You know, it's hard to say.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
I think when you beck and look at it, I
had a couple of clunkers in primetime when I was
a young player, But to be honest, if those games
have been played at noon or one o'clock, it probably
would have been a clunker anyways, because of how young
of a player I was. But the reality was I
was playing on teams that were five hundred teams, and
in primetime we often got scheduled to play defending Super
Bowl champs and division champs and you know, teams that

(21:33):
were going to make deep runs in the playoffs, and
so it was unlikely we were going to win going
into the game, and then when we lost, it became
a you know, Kirk's not great in primetime, but if
you really look at the production, I was pretty much
the same player from just a statistical standpoint.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
In those primetime games, we just weren't winning.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
And as of late, we've been able to kind of
turn the tide when it comes to finding a way
at the end of the game to win. But if
you know a call doesn't go away last night, or
a break doesn't go our away, you know, yes we lose,
but I don't walk away saying I didn't play well.
I just walk away saying we didn't do enough to win.
And I understand it's all about winning, but you know,
I wouldn't have changed my approach as to how I

(22:11):
played or how I prepared. So you know, as a quarterback,
you're gonna always kind of get too much praise, too
much criticism, and I think some of that showed up
with the primetime narrative. But I'm kind of on the
other side of it now, where now people view me as, oh,
you're playing well in time time, and I'm thinking, well,
I'm playing about the same.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
We're just winning, and so it leads to a little
more praise.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, clutch Kirk Cousins. By the way, about forty five
seconds left first game off of surgery, people said, look
at Kirk. He doesn't trust his body. Second game, everybody's like,
Kirk's back. We got forty seconds, but you've can't. I mean,
it did look like that first game, you were kind
of feeling your body out. How do you feel now,
how do you feel?

Speaker 4 (22:49):
You know? It had less to do with the achilles.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
It had more to do with the fact that I
just hadn't played since Week eight of last year, and
I had won a red jersey in practice all these months,
and I didn't play a game and practice oftentimes we
were going against the twos and there was just a
lot of simulated things that weren't the real deal.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
And so to be back in.

Speaker 5 (23:08):
The fire for the first time, I had some rusto
to get off. And I think each week, the last
you know, several have been an improvement, and I think
last night we took a big step forward. But now
the challenges is can we continue to maintain that standard.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
As we move forward.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
But I did feel a different level of anticipation and
playing fast last night.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
That is back to kind of my old self. That
I felt was we.

Speaker 5 (23:33):
Were on our way there, but we hadn't really closed
the gap it felt until last night.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
By the way, Zach Robinson, maybe only throw fifty four
times next week, not fifty eight, five hundred and nine
yards four touchdowns. It's just it was remarkable and congratulations,
you've earned it. You not only deserve it for your career,
you've earned it and I appreciate you doing this. Go
take an afternoon nap on us. We appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
I think I will. Colin, thank you you.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Bet Kirk Cousins on a magical night for him and
the Falcons. This this league is so close. They had it.
They lost it. They had it, they lost it, they
had it. I mean, when Mooney drops that ball, I'm thinking, oh,
why don't he got a second chance? What a night?
Kirk Cousins, crazy, absolutely crazy, all right, blazing fives around

(24:24):
the corner. I got a rebound. I stunk last week?
How was it one? Not good?

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Okay, we'll just leave it at that.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
Bounce back.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
It's all of us. We all got a bounce back
in life. Pal, come on, you got this. Just pick
the Jets. You'll be fine. All right, it's the hurd.

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Speaker 1 (24:51):
Favorites do very well in London. Vikings minus two and
a half the better team the healthier team. Jets are
all banged up, including Aaron Rodgers. They have not trailed
in the last three games against the Niners, Texans, and Packers.
Darnold's on fire. They also lead the NFL in sacks,
so they put constant pressure on you. I think the

(25:13):
game will be close. The Jets don't want to be humiliated.
But their two wins this year have been against Jacoby
Brissett and Will Levis, and that Will Levis game came
down to the end. Aaron Rodgers, Morgan Moses, Elijah VERA Tucker, C. J. Moseley.
They're banged up. This is not a good spot for
the Jets. Favorites do very well when you go overseas.

(25:34):
Vikings win a competitive game twenty seven to twenty.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Lay the points, Cardinals at forty nine ers.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
I'm gonna take Arizona seven and a half. That's a
lot of points. George Kittle, Christian McCaffrey. Kittle's not going
to play. Fred Warner limited, he may not play. Listen.
James Connor McBride is back, so Trey McBride, the great
tight end, is back. Marvin Harrison four touchdowns in three
games become a stud and I just like this Arizona offense.

(26:04):
They had a stinker last week, but if you go
and look, I mean, Kyler Murray was completing seventy percent
of his throws to the last three games. I like
this offense. Niners defense, third down defense this year stinks.
They're all beat up. I'm gonna take the Niners to
win a close one at home, but seven and a
half points per division game for a pretty desperate Arizona

(26:24):
team is too much. Twenty seven to twenty three nine
Ers Giant said Seahawks, So the wise guys think the
numbers at a whack. It was much better earlier in
the week when the Seahawks were minus like five. But
I like Seattle here, maliite Nighbors is not gonna play
Devin Singletary. They can't run the ball with Devin Singletary.
He's all banged up. Gino Smith's on fire, DK Metcalf

(26:48):
on fire. Minus six and a half, I can lay
the points their defense. I'm sorry, but I think they're
getting a couple of their defensive linemen back. I think
Seattle was really impressive, like tam was last night in
a loss. In a standalone game. The Giants only win
came against Deshaun Watson, who looks like he's cooked. They've

(27:08):
been held under twenty points in three of their last
four games. Malik Neighbors is out, by the way, won
Dale Robinson's banged up, Brian Burns is banged up. This
offense is a bb gun and those numbers are with
Malik Neighbors. I'm gonna take the Seahawks to win twenty
eight to twenty.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Cowboys at Steelers.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
I like the Steelers. I like the better when it
was minus one, but I'll take it not getting the
best of the number. Pittsburgh minus three. Okay, they were
beat by the Colts, but they outscored the Colts did
Pittsburgh on the road twenty one to ten in the
second half. This is about Dallas, though, yippie, they beat
the Giants in the Browns. They can't run the ball
seventy five yards rushing a game. They can't run the ball,

(27:54):
and the Steelers have a great run defense, so it's
gonna be very deck reliant. Also, the Cowboys defense since
we two has been bad. You can run on them.
What does Pittsburgh do? Run? Brandon cooks out Micah Parsons doubtful,
DeMarcus Lawrence out, Trey Von Diggs banged up. This I
get a healthier team at home, and I think Arthur

(28:16):
Smith and Justin Field has been pretty good. I'm gonna
take the Steelers to win again. Competitive Game twenty eight
twenty four Saints said Chiefs. I think the Chiefs are
gonna win. I'm gonna bet the number five and a half.
The Saints have been an unlucky team. Their losses have
been Falcons and Eagles, both losses by three points or
fewer again five and a half points. Derek Carr PFF

(28:38):
has them as the highest graded quarterback. Alvin Kamara leads
the NFL in scrimmage yards. The Chiefs have trailed by
seven or more points in every game. No Rashi Rice.
Their offense has seven giveaways this season. Only the Eagles
and the Titans have more. It's a sloppy team now
without their star volume receiver. And by the way, Mahomes
this season has a pass a rating of one sixteen

(29:01):
when targeting Rashie Rice. Everybody else it's eighty two and
he's out. The Saints offense this season has been pretty
robust points per game. First third down percentage excellent. Second,
I'm gonna take the Saints to cover. I'm gonna take
the points all day. Chiefs win another close game, twenty
four to twenty three. Remember Mahomes not targeting Rashi Rice

(29:26):
eighty two passer rating, Jamack Win sing at that Jets man, No, no, listen.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Just for grading purposes, I see Steelers at two and
a half. I'm not trying to get in any arguments here,
but you got a bad number, Dare.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
That's gonna be two and a half. For grading purpose,
they should be. I could bet at two.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
And a half right now. So I think that's a
great thing. I think that's the best bet you've got.
And I like you holding your nose and taking the
Arizona Cardinals seven and a half. I don't I'm not
mad enough to do that, but that's a good bet
for you.