November 8, 2025 • 28 mins
Colin delivers his latest “Colin Right, Colin Wrong”, calling out what he nailed about Aaron Rodgers’ resurgence and where he missed on the Green Bay Packers
He gives his new Herd Hierarchy
3-time Super Bowl Champion Julian Edelman joins the show to react to all the NFL trade deadline chaos and explain why the Kansas City Chiefs will bounce back after their loss to the Buffalo Bills
Then, it’s time for Colin’s famous Blazing 5 NFL picks for Week 10 — featuring his best bets, sharp insights, and against-the-spread analysis for:
- Falcons at Colts
- Ravens at Vikings
- Patriots at Buccaneers
- Lions at Commanders
- Steelers at Chargers
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Speaker 1 (00:26):
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
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be listening. Matt Hasselbeck's got all sorts of great stuff
and jamac an amazing World series. Fun early window yesterdayy yeah,
late window was decent.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Now Bill's got to win. I'm wearing some Buffalo Bill's
colors today.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Just for you Cowboys tonight, you know, with their favorite
now by three and a half, with Kyler playing a role?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Is that a soft benching? By the way, what is
that kind of isn't it? Is he healthy?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I think he is.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I thought he was a first as quarterback. All right,
here we go on Monday. Colin Wright, Colin Wrong plenty
of both. Where Colin was right, I said, when Sam
Donald gets drafted, I said, he's not Andrew Luck, but
he's like eighty eighty five percent of Andrew Luck. Tough, athletic,
big arm. PFF has him number one third in the
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passer rating. Nobody can work with a Jets. That's Siberia.
Aaron Rodgers looked one hundred years old with the Jets.
Look at him now. The bottom line is Sam Donald
needed a better fit. He's just too damn talented to
not make it in this league. And he was sixteen
for sixteen in the first half. I said, not Andrew Luck,
but his comp is somewhere close to Andrew Luck, and it.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Looks like it. Where Colin was wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I thought Kansas City was the best team in the league.
But it's weird when these two teams play. I feel
like what happened in the game. Before the game, they're
playing ten times, they've met, they're five and five, gave
up four hundred yards, could not protect mahomes. It felt
like from the first series on, Buffalo had better energy,
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better focus, and a better game plan.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's all. Okay, I've been saying this.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Stop telling me about the Steelers defense. Who cares, it's
Aaron Rodgers. They can't run the ball, the offensive line,
pass protections rated very mid. Everybody wants to tell me
about this defense. This team's going as far as Aaron
Rodgers is going to take him. Nine different guys caught
the ball tied for third and touchdown passes. I'm telling you,
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he has not played this well in my opinion, since
his MVP season. He is moving way way better than
he did in New York. This team is Aaron Rodgers.
It's not Tomlin, it's not the defense. It's Aaron and
right now he's playing like a top ten.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Quarterback where Colin was raw.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I love Matt Lafleur, but this team in Green Bay
has no identity, and that's on the coach. They're fifth
in rushing attempts, but twenty fourth in yards per carry.
They want to run, they're not good at it, and
now Tucker Craft's gone for the year. I always worry
about teams and when they don't have an identity, They've
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just got a bunch of good players. I mean they've
lost to Cleveland, Carolina and ty Dallas. This isn't a
lack of talent, it's a lack of knowing what they
are and that's hard to create, sometimes harder to maintain.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
But I do.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Feel like the compass is off and Green Bay's offense
is a little lost right now.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Where Colin was right.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I said this before Game six and seven. Yoshi is
worth every penny because the Dodgers starters there was a
lot of injury. So he started thirty five games this year. Yeah,
I think the Dodgers starter, their ace is worth three
hundred twenty five million dollars. He's an unbelievable talent, four
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and known the World Series, and everybody gets worked up
with all the money the Dodgers have, but they're starting
pitching this year. I mean they had injuries everywhere Glass
now Snell. So the difference between thirty five million, you
go four and O in a World Series and went
back to back. He has mostly paid for himself. Where
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Colin was right, Howie Roseman GM and the Eagles does
it again. He just landed Jalen Phillip from Miami, good
edge rusher for a third round pick. Now he's a
pending free agent. If he leaves, they'll get a compensatory
third round pick. So I've said for years aggressive wins
in sports, and everybody's talking about the Philadelphia offense. They're
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twenty third in sacks. This is what separates Philadelphia from
a lot of the Cincin.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Of the world. They are willing.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
They are on call three hundred and sixty five days
a year to make a deal. And this is a
deal the day before the deadline, and it solves an
issue that nobody's talking about. You better get the stafford
if you want to beat him, You better get to
golf if you want to beat him. Philly Howie Roseman
goes out and makes a deal where Colin was raw.
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I like the commander's direction. I had him winning last night.
I had him as a playoff team. I keep waiting
for the juice and they don't have it. One of
the things that worried me. They're the oldest roster in
the league, the opposite of Seattle or Green Bay. Old
rosters get beat up. They're just not very good and
they're not deep. I think they're much more in a
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rebuild than they wanted to admit coming into the season.
And I like them based on the hype some confirmation bias.
They're not a very good.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Team where Colin was right.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I've always loved the Miami Hurricanes, but they're not a
national brand. And Mario christabal I said earlier this year,
I didn't know. I didn't trust Carson Back. I didn't
know if I trusted him. Mario Christoval is four and
eleven in November and later in Miami, and they lost
again this weekend, this time to SMU Listen. They have
a small fan base, no home field advantage. If you're
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gonna win national championships, those late season games playing at
home matters. I love watching them play. But christaball at Oregon,
his teams were wildly inconsistent, often struggled as favorites or
near favorites on the road, and this was a.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Clunker where Colin was right.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Finally, the Philadelphia seventy six ers are five and one
and not building around Joe lmb. I think I've been
on this for three years. You can't build a franchise
around an often injured big. Instead Tyrese Maxi, who J
Mack would confirm. I said it three years ago. This
guy is gonna be a one. He's averaging thirty four
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a game. VJ Edgecombe on fire. They are led by
their back court. And by the way, the Warriors had
a pretty good dynasty led by Theirs. I never bought
into Embiid. He didn't deliver in the playoffs, he was
off an injured. He struggled even fitting in with the
Olympic team. I preached it for years. He can be
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a great player, he can't be the centerpiece of a
championship team.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Where Colin was right, Where Colin was wrong? On a
Monday and be sure to catch live editions of The
Herd weekdays and noon eastern nine am Pacific on Fox
Sports Radio FS one and the iHeartRadio app. Here we
go on to Tuesday heard Hierarchy. Now go the top
ten NFL teams according to College number ten.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
My coach of the year is Kyle Shanahan. He's winning
with peanut brittle and baling wire and duct tape. They
have no healthy players forty nine ers or five and
two with a backup quarterback. Third down offense despite a
bad offensive line, is top three in the league. Basically,
the offense is Christian McCaffrey and cross your finger. This
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is one of the great coaching jobs you'll ever see.
They play the Rams this weekend, who are fully staffed
and ready to go, and yet it's only a field
goal spread. Niners at ten, number nine, Detroit don't always
loved their coach, lost two of their last three games,
but they're five and zero when they rush for over
one hundred yards, So it's pretty clear. The key to
this team when Jared Goff's got an extra beat, when
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they've got the run game. Detroit's a solid franchise. Are
they a super Bowl winning team? Not as long as
McVeigh and Stafford are in the NFC and Howie Roseman's
running the Eagles, in my opinion, Detroit nine number eight.
Listen the Patriots. They're on a six game heater. Drake May,
my concern, has been sacked twelve times over the last
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two games. That is a problem up front. He's not
getting great protection. But when Christian Gonzales plays their corner,
super athletic kid out of Oregon, they are six to oher.
So there is certainly a way they need to play
to win, but they're doing it.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I have him at eight, number seven the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
They're gonna get Bucky Irving back, They're gonna get Chris
Godwin back. Now, they've got a tough schedule coming up.
They got the Patriots at Buffalo and at the Rams.
But they are a team that's living a little bit
on that borrow time stuff. They have four game winning drives.
I don't love the way they're winning, but I like
their swagger and they've been able to win all beat
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up and now they're getting healthier. Tampa at seven, number six.
I put Kansas City at six. They're all in four
and one score games. They've got to get Josh Simmons
is now back after a four game hiatus.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
That will matter a lot the.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Way to beat Kansas City's clear super Bowl or not
pressure Mahomes. When Mahomes gets hit over seven times this year,
they're not a good football team. He got to hit
fifteen against Buffalo. So they rank second in big plays.
They still have an elite top four red zone offense,
the best quarterback and coach in the sport. They need
to solve left tackle. I think with Simmons now will
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don't sell your stock.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I have them at six number five. I have Denver
ahead of.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Them because Denver's got a better offensive line and I
love their coach too.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
At Denver's weird.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
They apparently are the greatest fourth quarter team in league history.
But I will say there's a stat about Denver that's
really impressive. They have the best offensive line in terms
of protecting their quarterback from sacks, and yet they lead
the NFL in sacks. That wears well in cold weather.
I've got Denver at five.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Number four.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Seattle just added a deep threat from the Saints that
went over Washington. Looked like Ohio State and Youngstown State.
That was a physical athletic mismatch. Four to NOO on
the road. Won their last ten road games. Sam Darnold
advanced metrics. He's the best quarterback in the league this year.
I'm not joking. PFF has them number one two. Their
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defense is young and getting better, three state straight games
holding people under twenty. They are young, but they have
an identity. Green Bay's young and doesn't have an identity.
I like Seattle and Darnold at four, number three. You
know whoever I put number three loses the next week,
I'll put Buffalo there. Highest rush percentage in the league.
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I got to give the organization credit. They were too
Josh Allen reliant. They run the football a lot. I
think they probably need some help interior d line. They
have an excellent excellent pass defense, but you can gash
him on the run. But they took a lead on
Kansas said he forced the Chiefs to throw and Joey
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Bosa that's why they acquired him. They've also gotten I
said this about six weeks ago. I like all three
of their tight ends. It's a tight end run offense,
not a receiver offense.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Number two are.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
The Rams the best coach team in the league. What
don't they do well? Highest overall grade, highest offensive grade
by any team according to PFF. Only team to rank
top three in virtually everything, the lead penalized team for
the second year in a row, the number one run
blocking team. When you watch them play, it is so
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methodical to watch them play. They do everything well. They
don't turn it over, And now I love Matt Stafford
can get a bit reckless now that he's not throwing picks.
I think they are the best team right now in
the NFC, with one exception. Number one, Howie Rosemans made
a couple of deals at the trade deadline. I'm gonna
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put Philadelphia one. They're very good in one score games,
and when Saquon Barkley gets fifteen touches they're undefeated. I
think the AJ Brown situation kind of gets in the way.
The only way to puncture a great team is drama
in the locker room or a severe injury. So I
think their last game when Aj didn't play, that was
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their true identity, A power run team. Saquon fifteen touches.
I think the two best teams in the league right
now are NFC teams one doing it on roster, one
doing it on coach and quarterback, and a good defense
Philly one rams two.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
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Speaker 1 (13:20):
Everybody banged on the Cowboys for the Micah Parsons trade,
and that was the one thing I defended it. It
gave them flexibility. Just think about this this morning. After
the trade they just did the Cowboys in return for
Micah Parsons got an additional first round pick next year.
Still have two first round picks, Kenny Clark and now
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Quinn Williams. That's six Pro Bowls and less than you're
paying for Micah Parsons. I said the Micah Parsons deal.
Do not buy into its devastating. It gives the Cowboys flexibility.
So Green Bay got Micah Dallas got an additional first
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round pick for this year, so they have two firsts
and they don't need a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That is huge leverage. They now have Quinn Williams.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The best rush interior defender in the league, Kenny Clark
another great guy against the run, and they're paying less
than they were for Micah. And if you ask general
managers in the NFL, if you had a choice between
a dominant interior guy or an edge rusher, you'd take
the dominant interior guy. So now the Cowboys have two
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of them, Quinn Williams and Kenny Clark. Because the interior
defensive line position is a rare body type. When you
can get a guy that's six one and a half
three point thirty and has good feet, God doesn't make
a lot of those.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
There's a lot of good edge rushers.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
There's not many Chris Jones and Aaron Donald's and Reggie
Whites on the planet.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Ever. With that, Julian Edelman.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Sundays on Fox NFL Kickoff, All right, trade deadline is interesting,
So let's revisit this. So a team like the Colts
get Sauce Gardener, Sauce gout. Jalen Ramsey can be a
little moody. Things go south, He goes south. But in
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the next six weeks, next five weeks, they faced Drake London, Nicocollins.
You know they're facing all these number one wide receivers.
How do you think Sauce Gardener hopefully solving a Colt's weakness.
What does that new to the chemistry and the room
in Indy.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I think the corner positions the one position you can
bring in and just say, hey, you're gonna guard this guy,
and I think it's going to benefit them. Sauce coming
from the environment he was in in New York, probably
very unmotivated. Yeah he's rich, he's got money, but it's
tough to lose weekend and week out, year after year.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
And that's what he's experienced his whole career.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
And we've seen flashes of really good corner Now you
put him on a team that's buying for you know,
pretty much number one seed, a playoff spot, I bet
you his attitude changes completely. It reminds me when we
brought in a key to lead from Tampa Bay.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I think it was in twenty eleven or twelve.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, and instantly made an impact on our team. And
if he didn't get hurt in thirteen, I think the
year that we brought him in, we probably would have
beat the Broncos in that AFC championship. Like, that's how
big of an impact he had on our team. And
I think corners, you know, a really good corner. All
you got to say is hey, buddy, cover three or
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it's cover one. You cover him, And I think he's
gonna have a great impact.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
On that team.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, the Cowboys when they made the Mica move, My
take was always Jerry's a deal maker and he's been
trapped for two years.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
He has no flexibility.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Quinn Williams, Kenny Clark, and they still have two number ones.
That feels like, I mean, it's it, you know, this
jewels to get two elite interior defensive linemen huge.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I mean that we wouldn't have been the New England
Patriots if it wasn't for Seymour or will Fork.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
That's right, we had And there's a.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Bunch of other guys branch And and there's a bunch
of guys, but the interior part. If you got a
guy that can take away two gaps, that's tough on
the run game. And once you start to make a
team one dimensional and they can't run the football, then
you can dial up better you know, coverage for your
secondary and you can get more creatives. So I think
you know Jerry Jones, he's been in this league for
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a long time and he's put out a competitive product
pretty much, you know, as long as I've been around. Yeah,
they haven't won a Super Bowl, but like you said,
he's got a lot of flexibility.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Now they got some first rounders.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Quinn Williams is going to be in that same category
as Sasce Gardner where he's probably gonna up his game
now that he's a cowboy and he's got a quarterback
like Dak and he's got an offense that can score
like their play is gonna raise.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
So I think that's a win win for them.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So Sam Donald and the Seahawks gave up a couple
of midpicks for Rashid Shahed, meaning they can move JSN.
At Ohio State, he mostly played slot because they had
good sideline receivers, So now they can move JSN mostly
to the slot where he's you know, I mean, the
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kid's unbelievable. So your takeaway, how long does it take
for a Donald and Rashid to like connect? He is
an over the top threat sideline guy, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
When you've got a guy that can stretch the field,
the happiest guy in that locker, he's got to be JSN.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I mean, anytime you got.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Another because all the coverage right now is going to JSN, right,
you know. And once you have a guy that can
blow the top off, it's gonna take one big throw
from Sam Donald to Rashid Shiheed over the top and
then all of a sudden, that intermediate pass game with
a bunch of their tight ends that they have and
Smith and Jigbook is gonna eat all day. I mean,
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that's the number one thing you want. And now that
you have Smith and Jigba, who could you could put
him everywhere? So you could have a guy like he's
kind of like the Rashi rice piece over at the
Chiefs and then you got Xavier Worthy who's stretching everything
and that's going to.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Be Rashid Shied.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
So as a guy that ate a lot in the slot,
anytime you had a guy outside that had speed. Once
you got one pass on the defense, it changes how
defenses play you completely.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, you know, people are banging on the Colts for
giving up two first round picks, one next year, one after.
It should be noted that thirty percent of the first
round picks bust. I mean, it's hard to get guys
right in this league. And even if you do get
them right, they very rarely hit early. Generally it takes
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a defensive lineman or a left tackle, it takes him
a year in this league. The Colts going for it, though,
is telling me Daniel Jones is our guy. Now that's
much easier for me to embrace in Seattle with Darnald
Donald right now, Analytically, the metrics says the best quarterback
in the league, Donald looks like a number one. The
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Colts are telling you with this move, we don't need
a quarterback. We think Daniel is it watching the Colts?
Do you buy that?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I do buy that right now.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I mean the Colts for the last few years have
been a quarterback way. Joe Flacco had him pretty competitive
a couple of years back. Then they bring in Jacoby Brissett,
and you know, Daniel Jones had that little stint over
in Minnesota, got to learn see how this West Coast
operation goes. And then Shane Stiken has that kind of
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same system and that confidence is showing on the screen
each week with Daniel Jones. And I remember going and
seeing him in New York and it was just a
walk through type practice.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
And you watch Daniel Jones.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
First off, he's a big guy, yes, and you watch
him throw the ball and the ball comes off his
hand and it's sexy and he looks like a quarterback
and it just you know, and it never just it
never worked out for him for whatever reason. I mean,
the pieces around him. And so once you see him
in your system doing well like Shane Sikin is doing,
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you have I mean, that's gonna be your guy. And
he's got some experience and he's still a young guy,
and so you know, I think the sauce trade tells
you that they're all in for this year. And rightfully
so they're playing really good football in the AFC is
kind of all over the place right now.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
So you Bill's Chiefs have played ten times, they've split
it a five. I looked at that lost by Kansas
City in My take was they trailed by a touchdown
and had the ball late, and they got worked. They
got worked in the red zone, they got work, time
of possession, they got Mahomes got hit fifteen times. Did
you ever have a rival that beat you in the
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regular season but in a weird way you came out
of the game flying home thinking, listen, they exhausted, they
threw everything they had.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Us, we're the better team. Probably one of those Denver
or Baltimore teams may have.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Beat us, and then we always saw them a lot
in the playoffs. And with this game shows me, you know,
in week nine or week eight, is that the Kansas
City or the Buffalo Bills are just further ahead than
the Kansas City Chiefs right now because when they play next,
if they play next, they're going to be completely different
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teams because of the season, because of you know, a
couple of players stepping up and creating name from themselves
in these next three four weeks injuries.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
So we just take from this game.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Look, Buffalo, last time playing the Chiefs in Old Orchard,
you know, on a two game skid, they needed this win.
They're not afraid of playing Kansas City, and they just
were on their game, and they.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Rushed the ball very well with Cooks, and you look
at the Chiefs. They couldn't get anything going on the
offense side of ball, and Patrick Mahomes at his worst
game of the year.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
So this is gonna happen. But by no means do
I think that this affects the Chiefs the next time
they play, because there'll be a completely different team when
they play.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Games with Names is his podcast. It's exceptionally He's on
Fox NFL Kickoff. It's Julian Edelman on a trade deadline Tuesday.
Great stuff, Jills appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd weekdays
and Neon Easter not a Empacific. So here we go.
Here's this week's Blazing five. Let's blaze it off, Fire
it up. It's Collins Blazon Fox Felkins at Colts.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I like the Colts in Berlin minus five and a half.
Don't overreact to the Steelers' loss. They lead the NFL
at six point three yards of play. They haven't lost.
If Jonathan Taylor just russes for ninety yards, they have
the number two total offense. And Daniel Jones on the
road had a stinker five turnovers against Pittsburgh. Even good
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quarterbacks have bad weekends. I love the Colts. I love
what Sauce Gardner does to the locker room. The Falcons
are on a three game losing streak. They've been out
gained in all of their games. They're the worst third
down team over the last two games, so they are regressing.
I think get to bounce back for the Colts. I
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like Indy here, Atlanta's struggling to score. Indy to win
and cover thirty three twenty four Ravens and Vikings. I'm
gonna take the Ravens coming off extra rest averaging thirty
two a game when Lamar plays. I don't know if
you've noticed this. Lamar's having an unbelievable year. He'd be
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the MVP if he'd been healthy, and the defense in
three straight games now healthy, holding people under twenty points.
Lamar's averaging seventy three completion percentage this year in a
one to thirty seven passer rating.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
He's on fire.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
The Vikings have been out gained in back to back games,
including the win over Detroit, and they're allowing thirty a
game in their last three games, so again, a regressing
Minnesota defense, which is on the field too long. Lamar
owns the NFC Ravens win and the Ravens cover. It's
an urgent week for Baltimore and next week in the
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week after thirty to twenty.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Be more Patriots aid Buccaneteers.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I like the Bucks minus two and a half coming
off of buye and their right tackle returns. Their last
two wins have been by double digits. They're a very
good home team, twenty eight a game at home, getting
slightly healthier. My concern, though, is the Patriots, who have
played the easiest schedule in the league, and I think
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we're a little hot on.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
A young New England team.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Drake May is getting sacked at an alarming rate.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Watch out Todd Bowles. JMAK knows this.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
He dials up the blitzes he and Brian Flores as
well as anybody. So since week seven, Drake May is
under duress. I like the Bucks at home to win
and cover twenty seven to twenty three, Lions at Commanders.
I don't think I've ever taken four straight favorites. I'm
gonna take the Lions. Do not panic over the Minnesota loss.
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They had more yards, they were better on third and fourth,
better time of possession. They've won two of their last
three road games, and they were really last week in division,
kind of pushed around. When good teams get pushed around,
it's an angry, focused week of practice. And they are
getting to the quarterback second in sacks only behind Denver
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Commander's four game losing streak. No Jews just lost Jaydon
Daniels and they only pressured Sam Darnold on three of
twenty four dropbacks. That's brutal, So Jared Goff is going
to have time to throw. Those interior O line injuries
have mostly been cleaned up. I like the Lions to win.
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I like another favorite here. Thirty three twenty one comfortably
Steelers at Chargers. I'm going to take the underdog Steelers
plus three. They're four and oher this year when they
hold their opponents under thirty. Well, the Chargers don't have
either Tackle Becton's hurt as well. They have four key
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O line injuries. Aaron Rodgers one hundred plus passer rating
in four or five games, he's found his rhythm. They
really we held Jonathan Taylor in check. So the Chargers
are gonna need to throw the ball to win here.
I don't think they'll run and be overly dynamic running.
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And I don't trust this old line. Justin Herbert's got
one plus picks in three straight games because he's rushed.
So I think the Steelers defense against the Colts last
week they pushed around that old line and nobody had
all year. I'm gonna take the underdog Steelers so far
is going to be sixty forty Steeler fans, not a
home field advantage. Maybe seventy thirty Steeler fans. I got
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an upset twenty four, twenty three Aaron Rodgers and the
Steelers walk out with a narrow win.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
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Speaker 2 (00:53):
Now Bill's got to win. I'm wearing some Buffalo Bill's
colors today.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Just for you Cowboys tonight, you know, with their favorite
now by three and a half, with Kyler playing a role?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Is that a soft benching? By the way, what is
that kind of isn't it? Is he healthy?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I think he is.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I thought he was a first as quarterback. All right,
here we go on Monday. Colin Wright, Colin Wrong plenty
of both. Where Colin was right, I said, when Sam
Donald gets drafted, I said, he's not Andrew Luck, but
he's like eighty eighty five percent of Andrew Luck. Tough, athletic,
big arm. PFF has him number one third in the
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passer rating. Nobody can work with a Jets. That's Siberia.
Aaron Rodgers looked one hundred years old with the Jets.
Look at him now. The bottom line is Sam Donald
needed a better fit. He's just too damn talented to
not make it in this league. And he was sixteen
for sixteen in the first half. I said, not Andrew Luck,
but his comp is somewhere close to Andrew Luck, and it.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Looks like it. Where Colin was wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I thought Kansas City was the best team in the league.
But it's weird when these two teams play. I feel
like what happened in the game. Before the game, they're
playing ten times, they've met, they're five and five, gave
up four hundred yards, could not protect mahomes. It felt
like from the first series on, Buffalo had better energy,
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better focus, and a better game plan.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's all. Okay, I've been saying this.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Stop telling me about the Steelers defense. Who cares, it's
Aaron Rodgers. They can't run the ball, the offensive line,
pass protections rated very mid. Everybody wants to tell me
about this defense. This team's going as far as Aaron
Rodgers is going to take him. Nine different guys caught
the ball tied for third and touchdown passes. I'm telling you,
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he has not played this well in my opinion, since
his MVP season. He is moving way way better than
he did in New York. This team is Aaron Rodgers.
It's not Tomlin, it's not the defense. It's Aaron and
right now he's playing like a top ten.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Quarterback where Colin was raw.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I love Matt Lafleur, but this team in Green Bay
has no identity, and that's on the coach. They're fifth
in rushing attempts, but twenty fourth in yards per carry.
They want to run, they're not good at it, and
now Tucker Craft's gone for the year. I always worry
about teams and when they don't have an identity, They've
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just got a bunch of good players. I mean they've
lost to Cleveland, Carolina and ty Dallas. This isn't a
lack of talent, it's a lack of knowing what they
are and that's hard to create, sometimes harder to maintain.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
But I do.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Feel like the compass is off and Green Bay's offense
is a little lost right now.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Where Colin was right.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I said this before Game six and seven. Yoshi is
worth every penny because the Dodgers starters there was a
lot of injury. So he started thirty five games this year. Yeah,
I think the Dodgers starter, their ace is worth three
hundred twenty five million dollars. He's an unbelievable talent, four
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and known the World Series, and everybody gets worked up
with all the money the Dodgers have, but they're starting
pitching this year. I mean they had injuries everywhere Glass
now Snell. So the difference between thirty five million, you
go four and O in a World Series and went
back to back. He has mostly paid for himself. Where
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Colin was right, Howie Roseman GM and the Eagles does
it again. He just landed Jalen Phillip from Miami, good
edge rusher for a third round pick. Now he's a
pending free agent. If he leaves, they'll get a compensatory
third round pick. So I've said for years aggressive wins
in sports, and everybody's talking about the Philadelphia offense. They're
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twenty third in sacks. This is what separates Philadelphia from
a lot of the Cincin.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Of the world. They are willing.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
They are on call three hundred and sixty five days
a year to make a deal. And this is a
deal the day before the deadline, and it solves an
issue that nobody's talking about. You better get the stafford
if you want to beat him, You better get to
golf if you want to beat him. Philly Howie Roseman
goes out and makes a deal where Colin was raw.
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I like the commander's direction. I had him winning last night.
I had him as a playoff team. I keep waiting
for the juice and they don't have it. One of
the things that worried me. They're the oldest roster in
the league, the opposite of Seattle or Green Bay. Old
rosters get beat up. They're just not very good and
they're not deep. I think they're much more in a
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rebuild than they wanted to admit coming into the season.
And I like them based on the hype some confirmation bias.
They're not a very good.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Team where Colin was right.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I've always loved the Miami Hurricanes, but they're not a
national brand. And Mario christabal I said earlier this year,
I didn't know. I didn't trust Carson Back. I didn't
know if I trusted him. Mario Christoval is four and
eleven in November and later in Miami, and they lost
again this weekend, this time to SMU Listen. They have
a small fan base, no home field advantage. If you're
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gonna win national championships, those late season games playing at
home matters. I love watching them play. But christaball at Oregon,
his teams were wildly inconsistent, often struggled as favorites or
near favorites on the road, and this was a.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Clunker where Colin was right.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Finally, the Philadelphia seventy six ers are five and one
and not building around Joe lmb. I think I've been
on this for three years. You can't build a franchise
around an often injured big. Instead Tyrese Maxi, who J
Mack would confirm. I said it three years ago. This
guy is gonna be a one. He's averaging thirty four
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a game. VJ Edgecombe on fire. They are led by
their back court. And by the way, the Warriors had
a pretty good dynasty led by Theirs. I never bought
into Embiid. He didn't deliver in the playoffs, he was
off an injured. He struggled even fitting in with the
Olympic team. I preached it for years. He can be
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a great player, he can't be the centerpiece of a
championship team.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Where Colin was right, Where Colin was wrong? On a
Monday and be sure to catch live editions of The
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go on to Tuesday heard Hierarchy. Now go the top
ten NFL teams according to College number ten.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
My coach of the year is Kyle Shanahan. He's winning
with peanut brittle and baling wire and duct tape. They
have no healthy players forty nine ers or five and
two with a backup quarterback. Third down offense despite a
bad offensive line, is top three in the league. Basically,
the offense is Christian McCaffrey and cross your finger. This
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is one of the great coaching jobs you'll ever see.
They play the Rams this weekend, who are fully staffed
and ready to go, and yet it's only a field
goal spread. Niners at ten, number nine, Detroit don't always
loved their coach, lost two of their last three games,
but they're five and zero when they rush for over
one hundred yards, So it's pretty clear. The key to
this team when Jared Goff's got an extra beat, when
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they've got the run game. Detroit's a solid franchise. Are
they a super Bowl winning team? Not as long as
McVeigh and Stafford are in the NFC and Howie Roseman's
running the Eagles, in my opinion, Detroit nine number eight.
Listen the Patriots. They're on a six game heater. Drake May,
my concern, has been sacked twelve times over the last
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two games. That is a problem up front. He's not
getting great protection. But when Christian Gonzales plays their corner,
super athletic kid out of Oregon, they are six to oher.
So there is certainly a way they need to play
to win, but they're doing it.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I have him at eight, number seven the Bucks.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
They're gonna get Bucky Irving back, They're gonna get Chris
Godwin back. Now, they've got a tough schedule coming up.
They got the Patriots at Buffalo and at the Rams.
But they are a team that's living a little bit
on that borrow time stuff. They have four game winning drives.
I don't love the way they're winning, but I like
their swagger and they've been able to win all beat
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up and now they're getting healthier. Tampa at seven, number six.
I put Kansas City at six. They're all in four
and one score games. They've got to get Josh Simmons
is now back after a four game hiatus.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
That will matter a lot the.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Way to beat Kansas City's clear super Bowl or not
pressure Mahomes. When Mahomes gets hit over seven times this year,
they're not a good football team. He got to hit
fifteen against Buffalo. So they rank second in big plays.
They still have an elite top four red zone offense,
the best quarterback and coach in the sport. They need
to solve left tackle. I think with Simmons now will
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don't sell your stock.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I have them at six number five. I have Denver
ahead of.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Them because Denver's got a better offensive line and I
love their coach too.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
At Denver's weird.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
They apparently are the greatest fourth quarter team in league history.
But I will say there's a stat about Denver that's
really impressive. They have the best offensive line in terms
of protecting their quarterback from sacks, and yet they lead
the NFL in sacks. That wears well in cold weather.
I've got Denver at five.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Number four.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Seattle just added a deep threat from the Saints that
went over Washington. Looked like Ohio State and Youngstown State.
That was a physical athletic mismatch. Four to NOO on
the road. Won their last ten road games. Sam Darnold
advanced metrics. He's the best quarterback in the league this year.
I'm not joking. PFF has them number one two. Their
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defense is young and getting better, three state straight games
holding people under twenty. They are young, but they have
an identity. Green Bay's young and doesn't have an identity.
I like Seattle and Darnold at four, number three. You
know whoever I put number three loses the next week,
I'll put Buffalo there. Highest rush percentage in the league.
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I got to give the organization credit. They were too
Josh Allen reliant. They run the football a lot. I
think they probably need some help interior d line. They
have an excellent excellent pass defense, but you can gash
him on the run. But they took a lead on
Kansas said he forced the Chiefs to throw and Joey
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Bosa that's why they acquired him. They've also gotten I
said this about six weeks ago. I like all three
of their tight ends. It's a tight end run offense,
not a receiver offense.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Number two are.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
The Rams the best coach team in the league. What
don't they do well? Highest overall grade, highest offensive grade
by any team according to PFF. Only team to rank
top three in virtually everything, the lead penalized team for
the second year in a row, the number one run
blocking team. When you watch them play, it is so
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methodical to watch them play. They do everything well. They
don't turn it over, And now I love Matt Stafford
can get a bit reckless now that he's not throwing picks.
I think they are the best team right now in
the NFC, with one exception. Number one, Howie Rosemans made
a couple of deals at the trade deadline. I'm gonna
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put Philadelphia one. They're very good in one score games,
and when Saquon Barkley gets fifteen touches they're undefeated. I
think the AJ Brown situation kind of gets in the way.
The only way to puncture a great team is drama
in the locker room or a severe injury. So I
think their last game when Aj didn't play, that was
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their true identity, A power run team. Saquon fifteen touches.
I think the two best teams in the league right
now are NFC teams one doing it on roster, one
doing it on coach and quarterback, and a good defense
Philly one rams two.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
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Speaker 1 (13:20):
Everybody banged on the Cowboys for the Micah Parsons trade,
and that was the one thing I defended it. It
gave them flexibility. Just think about this this morning. After
the trade they just did the Cowboys in return for
Micah Parsons got an additional first round pick next year.
Still have two first round picks, Kenny Clark and now
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Quinn Williams. That's six Pro Bowls and less than you're
paying for Micah Parsons. I said the Micah Parsons deal.
Do not buy into its devastating. It gives the Cowboys flexibility.
So Green Bay got Micah Dallas got an additional first
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round pick for this year, so they have two firsts
and they don't need a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That is huge leverage. They now have Quinn Williams.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
The best rush interior defender in the league, Kenny Clark
another great guy against the run, and they're paying less
than they were for Micah. And if you ask general
managers in the NFL, if you had a choice between
a dominant interior guy or an edge rusher, you'd take
the dominant interior guy. So now the Cowboys have two
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of them, Quinn Williams and Kenny Clark. Because the interior
defensive line position is a rare body type. When you
can get a guy that's six one and a half
three point thirty and has good feet, God doesn't make
a lot of those.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
There's a lot of good edge rushers.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
There's not many Chris Jones and Aaron Donald's and Reggie
Whites on the planet.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Ever. With that, Julian Edelman.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Sundays on Fox NFL Kickoff, All right, trade deadline is interesting,
So let's revisit this. So a team like the Colts
get Sauce Gardener, Sauce gout. Jalen Ramsey can be a
little moody. Things go south, He goes south. But in
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the next six weeks, next five weeks, they faced Drake London, Nicocollins.
You know they're facing all these number one wide receivers.
How do you think Sauce Gardener hopefully solving a Colt's weakness.
What does that new to the chemistry and the room
in Indy.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I think the corner positions the one position you can
bring in and just say, hey, you're gonna guard this guy,
and I think it's going to benefit them. Sauce coming
from the environment he was in in New York, probably
very unmotivated. Yeah he's rich, he's got money, but it's
tough to lose weekend and week out, year after year.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
And that's what he's experienced his whole career.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
And we've seen flashes of really good corner Now you
put him on a team that's buying for you know,
pretty much number one seed, a playoff spot, I bet
you his attitude changes completely. It reminds me when we
brought in a key to lead from Tampa Bay.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I think it was in twenty eleven or twelve.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, and instantly made an impact on our team. And
if he didn't get hurt in thirteen, I think the
year that we brought him in, we probably would have
beat the Broncos in that AFC championship. Like, that's how
big of an impact he had on our team. And
I think corners, you know, a really good corner. All
you got to say is hey, buddy, cover three or
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it's cover one. You cover him, And I think he's
gonna have a great impact.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
On that team.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Yeah, the Cowboys when they made the Mica move, My
take was always Jerry's a deal maker and he's been
trapped for two years.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
He has no flexibility.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Quinn Williams, Kenny Clark, and they still have two number ones.
That feels like, I mean, it's it, you know, this
jewels to get two elite interior defensive linemen huge.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I mean that we wouldn't have been the New England
Patriots if it wasn't for Seymour or will Fork.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
That's right, we had And there's a.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Bunch of other guys branch And and there's a bunch
of guys, but the interior part. If you got a
guy that can take away two gaps, that's tough on
the run game. And once you start to make a
team one dimensional and they can't run the football, then
you can dial up better you know, coverage for your
secondary and you can get more creatives. So I think
you know Jerry Jones, he's been in this league for
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a long time and he's put out a competitive product
pretty much, you know, as long as I've been around. Yeah,
they haven't won a Super Bowl, but like you said,
he's got a lot of flexibility.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Now they got some first rounders.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Quinn Williams is going to be in that same category
as Sasce Gardner where he's probably gonna up his game
now that he's a cowboy and he's got a quarterback
like Dak and he's got an offense that can score
like their play is gonna raise.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
So I think that's a win win for them.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
So Sam Donald and the Seahawks gave up a couple
of midpicks for Rashid Shahed, meaning they can move JSN.
At Ohio State, he mostly played slot because they had
good sideline receivers, So now they can move JSN mostly
to the slot where he's you know, I mean, the
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kid's unbelievable. So your takeaway, how long does it take
for a Donald and Rashid to like connect? He is
an over the top threat sideline guy, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
When you've got a guy that can stretch the field,
the happiest guy in that locker, he's got to be JSN.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I mean, anytime you got.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Another because all the coverage right now is going to JSN, right,
you know. And once you have a guy that can
blow the top off, it's gonna take one big throw
from Sam Donald to Rashid Shiheed over the top and
then all of a sudden, that intermediate pass game with
a bunch of their tight ends that they have and
Smith and Jigbook is gonna eat all day. I mean,
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that's the number one thing you want. And now that
you have Smith and Jigba, who could you could put
him everywhere? So you could have a guy like he's
kind of like the Rashi rice piece over at the
Chiefs and then you got Xavier Worthy who's stretching everything
and that's going to.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Be Rashid Shied.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
So as a guy that ate a lot in the slot,
anytime you had a guy outside that had speed. Once
you got one pass on the defense, it changes how
defenses play you completely.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, you know, people are banging on the Colts for
giving up two first round picks, one next year, one after.
It should be noted that thirty percent of the first
round picks bust. I mean, it's hard to get guys
right in this league. And even if you do get
them right, they very rarely hit early. Generally it takes
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a defensive lineman or a left tackle, it takes him
a year in this league. The Colts going for it, though,
is telling me Daniel Jones is our guy. Now that's
much easier for me to embrace in Seattle with Darnald
Donald right now, Analytically, the metrics says the best quarterback
in the league, Donald looks like a number one. The
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Colts are telling you with this move, we don't need
a quarterback. We think Daniel is it watching the Colts?
Do you buy that?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I do buy that right now.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I mean the Colts for the last few years have
been a quarterback way. Joe Flacco had him pretty competitive
a couple of years back. Then they bring in Jacoby Brissett,
and you know, Daniel Jones had that little stint over
in Minnesota, got to learn see how this West Coast
operation goes. And then Shane Stiken has that kind of
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same system and that confidence is showing on the screen
each week with Daniel Jones. And I remember going and
seeing him in New York and it was just a
walk through type practice.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
And you watch Daniel Jones.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
First off, he's a big guy, yes, and you watch
him throw the ball and the ball comes off his
hand and it's sexy and he looks like a quarterback
and it just you know, and it never just it
never worked out for him for whatever reason. I mean,
the pieces around him. And so once you see him
in your system doing well like Shane Sikin is doing,
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you have I mean, that's gonna be your guy. And
he's got some experience and he's still a young guy,
and so you know, I think the sauce trade tells
you that they're all in for this year. And rightfully
so they're playing really good football in the AFC is
kind of all over the place right now.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
So you Bill's Chiefs have played ten times, they've split
it a five. I looked at that lost by Kansas
City in My take was they trailed by a touchdown
and had the ball late, and they got worked. They
got worked in the red zone, they got work, time
of possession, they got Mahomes got hit fifteen times. Did
you ever have a rival that beat you in the
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regular season but in a weird way you came out
of the game flying home thinking, listen, they exhausted, they
threw everything they had.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Us, we're the better team. Probably one of those Denver
or Baltimore teams may have.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Beat us, and then we always saw them a lot
in the playoffs. And with this game shows me, you know,
in week nine or week eight, is that the Kansas
City or the Buffalo Bills are just further ahead than
the Kansas City Chiefs right now because when they play next,
if they play next, they're going to be completely different
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teams because of the season, because of you know, a
couple of players stepping up and creating name from themselves
in these next three four weeks injuries.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
So we just take from this game.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Look, Buffalo, last time playing the Chiefs in Old Orchard,
you know, on a two game skid, they needed this win.
They're not afraid of playing Kansas City, and they just
were on their game, and they.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Rushed the ball very well with Cooks, and you look
at the Chiefs. They couldn't get anything going on the
offense side of ball, and Patrick Mahomes at his worst
game of the year.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
So this is gonna happen. But by no means do
I think that this affects the Chiefs the next time
they play, because there'll be a completely different team when
they play.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Games with Names is his podcast. It's exceptionally He's on
Fox NFL Kickoff. It's Julian Edelman on a trade deadline Tuesday.
Great stuff, Jills appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
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and Neon Easter not a Empacific. So here we go.
Here's this week's Blazing five. Let's blaze it off, Fire
it up. It's Collins Blazon Fox Felkins at Colts.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
I like the Colts in Berlin minus five and a half.
Don't overreact to the Steelers' loss. They lead the NFL
at six point three yards of play. They haven't lost.
If Jonathan Taylor just russes for ninety yards, they have
the number two total offense. And Daniel Jones on the
road had a stinker five turnovers against Pittsburgh. Even good
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quarterbacks have bad weekends. I love the Colts. I love
what Sauce Gardner does to the locker room. The Falcons
are on a three game losing streak. They've been out
gained in all of their games. They're the worst third
down team over the last two games, so they are regressing.
I think get to bounce back for the Colts. I
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like Indy here, Atlanta's struggling to score. Indy to win
and cover thirty three twenty four Ravens and Vikings. I'm
gonna take the Ravens coming off extra rest averaging thirty
two a game when Lamar plays. I don't know if
you've noticed this. Lamar's having an unbelievable year. He'd be
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the MVP if he'd been healthy, and the defense in
three straight games now healthy, holding people under twenty points.
Lamar's averaging seventy three completion percentage this year in a
one to thirty seven passer rating.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
He's on fire.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
The Vikings have been out gained in back to back games,
including the win over Detroit, and they're allowing thirty a
game in their last three games, so again, a regressing
Minnesota defense, which is on the field too long. Lamar
owns the NFC Ravens win and the Ravens cover. It's
an urgent week for Baltimore and next week in the
(25:42):
week after thirty to twenty.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Be more Patriots aid Buccaneteers.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I like the Bucks minus two and a half coming
off of buye and their right tackle returns. Their last
two wins have been by double digits. They're a very
good home team, twenty eight a game at home, getting
slightly healthier. My concern, though, is the Patriots, who have
played the easiest schedule in the league, and I think
(26:10):
we're a little hot on.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
A young New England team.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Drake May is getting sacked at an alarming rate.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Watch out Todd Bowles. JMAK knows this.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
He dials up the blitzes he and Brian Flores as
well as anybody. So since week seven, Drake May is
under duress. I like the Bucks at home to win
and cover twenty seven to twenty three, Lions at Commanders.
I don't think I've ever taken four straight favorites. I'm
gonna take the Lions. Do not panic over the Minnesota loss.
(26:44):
They had more yards, they were better on third and fourth,
better time of possession. They've won two of their last
three road games, and they were really last week in division,
kind of pushed around. When good teams get pushed around,
it's an angry, focused week of practice. And they are
getting to the quarterback second in sacks only behind Denver
(27:07):
Commander's four game losing streak. No Jews just lost Jaydon
Daniels and they only pressured Sam Darnold on three of
twenty four dropbacks. That's brutal, So Jared Goff is going
to have time to throw. Those interior O line injuries
have mostly been cleaned up. I like the Lions to win.
(27:30):
I like another favorite here. Thirty three twenty one comfortably
Steelers at Chargers. I'm going to take the underdog Steelers
plus three. They're four and oher this year when they
hold their opponents under thirty. Well, the Chargers don't have
either Tackle Becton's hurt as well. They have four key
(27:51):
O line injuries. Aaron Rodgers one hundred plus passer rating
in four or five games, he's found his rhythm. They
really we held Jonathan Taylor in check. So the Chargers
are gonna need to throw the ball to win here.
I don't think they'll run and be overly dynamic running.
(28:11):
And I don't trust this old line. Justin Herbert's got
one plus picks in three straight games because he's rushed.
So I think the Steelers defense against the Colts last
week they pushed around that old line and nobody had
all year. I'm gonna take the underdog Steelers so far
is going to be sixty forty Steeler fans, not a
home field advantage. Maybe seventy thirty Steeler fans. I got
(28:35):
an upset twenty four, twenty three Aaron Rodgers and the
Steelers walk out with a narrow win.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
I don't like a lot of favorites I do this
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