October 24, 2022 • 41 mins
Dak Prescott is bac, but it's Micah Parsons and the defense that is carrying the Cowboys. Raiders are also back and primed for a run, while the Chargers continue to be snakebit. Plus, a preview of MNF between the Bears and Patriots on the Prop Bet Monster.
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way tire buying should be. So Dak Prescott's back, the
Dallas Cowboys get their starting quarterback back and Dallas and
just a flawless performance, never never in any trouble gets it.
Detroit Lions. Uh yeah, I was listen, you know, a
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little bit off, Yeah, a little rust there, a little yeah,
a little bit of rustaurant rust. Dak Prescott. Wasn't that
a little bit? Um? So? Uh the quarterback for Dallas,
Dak Prescott, he is that is uh what an awkward luf.
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But the quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, Dak Prescott, not
Cooper Rush. He was back under center for Dallas. He
talked after the game about replacing Cooper Rush coming back
in after this time off and just sort of where
the team stands. I don't know if I would have
felt it not being able to watch these guys for
the last five weeks, honestly, and everything happens for a reason,
and so um yeah, I mean that's time that I
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had off. I was a blessing. Coop did an amazing
job obviously of keeping us in this position. I know
how talented. This team is I know what we can be.
It's not about me, Um, it's about all of us.
And UM just trying to make sure that I play
my part and make sure I put this team in
the in the right situation each and every play, and
UH just make the most out of whatever situation I'm giving. Uh.
Their defense is awesome? Are they a legitimate contender in
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the NFC? The Dallas Cowboys with that defense and with
Dak Prescott is their quarterback? Is that a team you
could see? Why would not be? That's because I think
a lot of people look at it and go, well,
I don't know, Dad can't win any big games. You know,
there's just sort of a narrative that's written around him.
I look at him and say that defense. I know
Philadelphia has got a two game lead in the division,
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and good for them. I still think Dallas is is
a live dog in the NFC. To make some noise.
I'm maybe I'm a lot higher on them than some
people are, but I think Dallas absolutely as a chance
in the NFC. With Here's the thing about the NFL schedule,
whether it's the Giants or the Jet Shawks, teams that
have have probably exceeded our expectations coming in the season. Um,
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they haven't played that many divisional games. All these schedules
are backloaded where the second half is where they get
into the meat of these divisional games. And so for me,
like looking at that, I just kind of say, yeah,
we'll see. I mean, if I'm not mistaken, I think
the Giants only played one divisional game, and I think
they might be and one within the division. So you
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look at how this all stacks up, and then the
wins are great, but you also have Dallas. What do
you also have Philly winning, which means it's larger gonna
come down to those divisional games that are gonna ultimately
decide a who wins your division, which is always the better,
easier path through the playoffs, you know, But be like,
as far as what that wouldn't lost records gonna look
like what it's all said, done for a wild card spot,
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that's gonna a factor. So, uh, Dallas is alive dog,
There's no doubt about it. Their defense has been a
big piece of that. But I think the thing I
took away was, you know, look DA's adjusting to his
grip with his thumb. You know, surgery and the injury
coming off of that, it's gonna take some time. Like
it's just similar to Russell last year with the finger injury.
No different than when Wentz comes back, you know, even
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though it's not as significant because I believe it's his
ring finger on his throwing hand. This stuff takes time
and it's and it's not gonna look you know, pretty always.
But what I like to see about it was they
kind of stuck to that game plan that they are
using with Cooper Rush, you know, running the football, playing
good defense. I think that's their formula until things get
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kind of smoothed out with Doc and you really need
him to go win you a football game. So they
obviously didn't need to yesterday versus Detroit, but at some
point they will, and and I think he'll be ready
when that moment happens. I really do well. They most
likely won't have to do it against the Bears either.
They can work. I mean, if you're talking about the
perfect time to work somebody back in and work through
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the rust of of sitting out, you would think it
be right now, he's got they got two bye weeks
coming out. I mean, you would have never thought that
green Bay would be a game where you'd say, oh,
they they might be are you know they'll be okay
in that game as well. But I mean, now, when
you think about it, Minnesota is probably the hardest game
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that they have in the next three weeks. You've got
Chicago coming up, and then you have green Bay. Now
you do have to travel to to Green Bay, and
you have the Beers at home. So I mean that
stacks up. That align is really great for you. But
then now you've got to deal with the Vikings in Minnesota.
You get the Giants back at home, you get the
Colts at home. The Colts are are a conundrum. I
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really don't know what you're gonna get with them from
week to week. Anybody who tries to prognosticate for them,
good luck if you report on that team. You know,
God bless you, um because I don't. You just don't
know what you're getting out of the Colts. But that
could be an interesting matchup. And then you got the Texans,
you got the Jaguars, and then then, as as Brady mentioned,
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I mean, like you gotta you gotta win that next
one against the Eagles. You gotta get that one against
the Eagles. Who knows what happens with Tennessee and you
you end off the regular season with with the Washington team. Um,
I think this this schedule in a lot of ways
seemingly is very very positive and and very um you know,
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I guess good for for this team. So I mean,
they don't have any if if it doesn't pan out
where they show that they're a contender, bye bye seasons,
and then that's kind of one of those things where
nobody you can't point the finger anywhere else. You've got
to be looking in the mirror if they can't really
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put together a nice season the rest of the way. Yeah,
I mean, even they're a wild card, I still look
at him and say, there's just there's nobody in the
NFC like Philadelphia. We can say what we want about Philadelphia,
but I don't think anybody would be scared to have
to go to Philly to win a playoff game. I
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just don't see it. And that's why when we talk
about why not, I just I don't. That's a hard
ass place to play. Bro Philly is hard to play.
Even if they're not the greatest of teams at times,
that is still a hard place to go play and win.
I'm telling Philly's hard. Yeah, But I just look at
Philadelphia and I go, not everyone seat is created equal,
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And I don't think they're close to UF. That's just
a difficult environment to play in though, Like that's that
they're they're one of those teams that home field is
an advantage, Like that's an advantage for them because they
throw snowballs in Santa Claus bro That's that's a that's
that's a that's a hard place to play. Just there's
just some places that are hard to play. Philly is
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a hard play used to play. So Dallas, you are
you buying into the return of Dak Prescott and your
Dallas Cowboys because you said they weren't going to make
the playoffs alright, So how you'm still going I'm honestly, um,
I think that at best they'll be a wild card team,
and they will and and the way things are going
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right now, seemingly they might have to be a second
wild card team out of the nfcast. The way it's
going right now, I would I wouldn't bet on on
New York Giants being the first wild card if if
if it doesn't, if it could flip flop in my opinion,
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could it could flip flop between Philly in New York?
He's slot what the Dallas. But here's my concern with it.
With the Giants Kwans touching the ball fifty six percent
of their offensive snaps, like he's either running it or
catching it, and that's obviously excluding the quarterbacks rushing intubs.
So think about that for a second. Like, this offense
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hinges on him, and he's been he's been dynamic, he's
been special, whatever adjective you want to throw on there.
He's been incredible this year. If he gets injured, if
he misses some time, really, I mean, it changes the
entire dynamics of this team, even as good as their
defense has been. And so that's my that's my biggest concern.
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It's like it all looks good now, but they've only
played one divisional game. They're owning one in the division,
so they've got a lot of important games coming up
and all of this has to stay the course because
like Daniel Jones has been improved taking care of the football,
but I keep sitting back going. He really hasn't had
to put a game on his shoulders and spread things
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out and go win that thing, just chucking it and
ducking it, you know what I'm saying. Like, I think,
when that situation presents itself, then we really see how
much of those issues he had in the past, all
those fumbles in the pocket and those interceptions, then we
really see if those things have displayed themselves. One Dale
Robinson left that game, you know, uh, banged up yesterday.
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He's been He's been a nice piece too to help
them out because they don't have many options at wide
receiver the way this whole season has worked out with
Kenny Golladay, Darius, Tony Sterling, Shepard getting hurt like it's
it's starting to get thin, man, And so if sa
Kwan becomes either ineffective, banged up, missing some time, you
might have a big question mark there that that's my
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biggest concern for them, right And I know Dallas, you
know z Got has had a knee injury too, and
yesterday's game, but they have Tony Pollard and some people
think that Tony Pollard might be better yea, And Michael
Parsons is a defensive Player of the Year. Correct, it's
over on that over. I don't know, dude. I mean
here's what I say for Quinn and Williams, like that
he's got at least be in the conversation that dude
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is wrecking games. The problem is he's not going to
have like an interior d lineman stats like Donald does.
Even though Donald they'll move him around more. It's just
that's the tough than Michael Parsons right now. That's that's fair.
Like he's like everything, he's impacting every every play. So
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let me ask you guys this. They have Seattle coming
up New York leading the NFC West. No one saw that.
Let me, did you lay money? Would you lay money
on Seattle to win that division? Right now? Yes? I
think they got to be the favorite. I will I
actually don't think they're the favorite. San frances this favorite, yeah,
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fran Yeah, yeah, but I'm not I'm not a believer
in San Frand yet Seattle's five to one, so you know,
a hundred wins five hundred if you bet on the
Seahawks to win the division the Niners, I mean, that's
that's something good money, like plus one oh five, so
right about even, and then the Rams are sitting at
plus two. I don't buy the Rams at all. Yeah,
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I just I don't. I don't get it. Um. I
Actually I would be more confident in Seattle than I
would be the Rams because you're not even mentioning Arizona
at this point. It's just plus eight h Yeah, look,
there's value. I'll take it. Yeah, I mean, of course
I will. I'm a terrible better so of course I
would take that at plus eight hundred. But what would
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you think the Giants record would be the rest of
the way. They got the Seahawks, then they got the Texans,
the Lions, then the Cowboys, Commanders, Eagles Commanders, so it's
super heavy with with divisional games. Then they had the
Vikings and the Colts, and then they finish up with
the Eagles. I mean, what would you what would you
think their record would be the rest of the way. Well,
(12:44):
there's six and one right now, right, Yeah, I mean
they have to get to I think it with that
schedule they at least get the nine maybe ten wins
like that. I feel like you can almost say they're
a shoeing for winning maybe double digits. Three more wins
like that guaranteed, is it not? Yeah? Well, and I
would say based on how the NFC looks, right, now
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you'd have to say that that is probably a pretty
safe spot for a playoff. Damn. So you're gonna say
they're gonna lose seven games, No, no, no, no no, no, no, no,
you're not understanding what I'm saying. It's a shoe in
they win at least three of those, and so well,
what I'm trying to portray to you is they are
That means they are probably a playoff team because the
NFC has been so bad. So if you're looking at conservatively,
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like I don't know what the odds are for them
to be a playoff game, but you should definitely lay
some money on that. I mean, you came to the
right place to ask, and me just vamp a little
bit and I'll make sure you get what I'm saying.
That schedule of our there's no way to me they
don't win three or four games. So that's guaranteed money
in the bank. You know, go ahead and bet that
whatever I mean minus three hundred to make the playoffs.
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Significant favor to do so well. But again it's guaranteed money.
I mean, if you want a hundred dollars, you have
to put a three hundred, but you're good to win ten,
how because there's yeah, there's three games on the schedule.
You look at and go, those are wins Texans, Lions,
and Colts later in the year. Later in the year,
I don't know, Well, no one knows about the Colt.
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You think you think Matt Ryan's going to be upright
by week seven? Don't know? They might be good by
week seven? What the hell happened to Jonathan Taylor? Matt
Ryan got there and they're like, hey, let's just chuck
this thing around. Forget about Jonathan Taylor in this ridiculous
running back They're bad, man, They're bad because they they're
like trying to play the type of ball that like
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Matt Ryan was playing in Atlanta, like running the football.
You've got one of the best running backs in the
league and you're kind of shelving him to then put
your offensive line that has not played well this year
in a position where they're trying to protect a constant
drop back game. Like, that's not advantageous for anyone on
that roster. Yeah, it's that was not a good look.
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And by the way, Tennessee, where do they want four
in a row? And yeah, I think I think Tennessee's
won four are heating up. Yeah, there's still a little
bit that division is heating down. Yeah, everyone else around
them falling apart, starting to come back to Uh what
the a f C South normally is. Let's get back
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guess who's starting to make some noise. The Raiders. What
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the Raiders, Yeah, they beat the Powerhouse Houston Texans yesterday,
Josh Jake, that's why you got all that thing stuff.
Oh yeah, come on, come on the bar, all the Raiders.
You're not fired up about the Raiders. There's a kid
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on our football team. He plays for the Chargers where
the charter charges, but he's a Raider's fast. So every
time he says Raiders, you go Raiders. Raiders. Yeah, coach
coach the Raiders, and he like shows his teeth like
his k nines. It's weird. I'm telling him, man, I've
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noticed that, Like I just saw bird. Oh do it.
That's why I just said it. Like, why why does
everybody say Raiders like with an attitude like y'all think
y'all tough' that's what they are. Man. You'll be like
really wanting to fight on game day. Like I was
in Vegas for something. Yeah I was. It was game
day and I was in the elevator and I'm like, Hi,
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They're looking at me like beat your ass. Well, it
could be gangbangers, I mean what type? Yeah? Oh oh
I didn't. That's a good one. That's a good one. Okay,
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all right, we'll play the bar. I just got it
and see who he did there Au. Yeah, but the
Las Vegas Raiders are back. I mean, listen, when the
Houston Texans coming to your building, you know you gotta
be ready to strap it up. And they strapped it up.
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Josh Jacobs, by the way, under the radar. Fantastic start
to the season for Josh Jacobs. He's been great. Not
telling you look at the Raiders and you go, yeah, listen,
there's a potential the Raiders could go on a run
here all right, like that, you have the Saints and
the Jags coming up, but now those are on the roads.
It could be a little bit dicey there. But uh,
you know, those are winnable games. The Colts the Broncos
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are bad. They're gonna be at Seattle in about a
month from now. That's all of a sudden, a more
difficult game than a lot of people expected. There's a
chance the Raiders around games in l A, you could
could get back to five hundred and next thing you know,
they're within striking distance of making a run at an
ANFC wild card spot. Who's in on the Raiders? The Raiders?
Who's in? I think they're getting bed at what are they?
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And one the last three games, yea, and for overall,
but forget about overall. Yeah yeah, well that's what I'm
saying is and you know, new head coach, Um Derek
Carr's get his feet wet. I'll say this about that offense.
You know Carr was playing the West Coast system his
time with the Raiders. This is not West Coast, all right,
It's very very different. Um. The responsibility is the verbage
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all of it. And the way Josh McDaniels likes his
system run. He's very, very, very particular. Like, trust me
it it takes a lot to get on the same
page with him. And ultimately, what he's looking for is
for Derek Carror to be an extension of him out
there on the field. He wants them to think, you
know what he's thinking and understand exactly why he's calling
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what he's calling. And has played a lot of football.
I always think like when people are like, you know, hey,
you know Tom Brady for example, or Aaron Rodgers. You
know those guys they go to new system, it should
be easy because they played so much football. I actually
think it's harder, Like it's there's a reason why you
say there's that saying that you can't teach an old
dog new tricks because they get so ingrained into one
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offense their entire life, it gets hard to call something
something else. And so unless you're just gonna, you know,
adapt to that quarterback and what he's done as the coach,
it's difficult to really get into a new system and
play the way you need to play. With the cut
down off season that all these guys have. Like I mean,
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first off, you know, talking about Rogers and Brady, we
said this earlier, like those guys aren't even showing up
really for the whatever offseason that it still exists. And
for the guys you have been in the league long enough,
like they remember when you had quarterbacks school, when you
came in earlier before everyone else and you were just
dropping you you weren't allowed to throw. So all you
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did was you worked on your drop, You work on
your footwork, you work on your timing how we should
feel with your feet, and you watched hours of film
so that when everyone else got there, you were ahead
of everyone else. They don't have that anymore. So it's
just I think it all takes a little bit more
time than people are willing to realize, and you're starting
to see it come together. You're seeing the rushing attack
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car it feels more comfortable. The defense is playing better,
so we'll see. I mean, they got a shot to
climb back in this thing. That's the crazy thing about
this year is normally I would sit here and say,
with the records being what they are, whether you're a
losing team or winning team, like it's it's you're kind
of set as far as what this is gonna look
like moving forward. There's so much parody this year, though,
I feel like everyone's still in it. I don't think
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you could. You could eliminate anyone right now with the
way the schedules are set and how much parody there is.
We're doing so funny because they go they in theory,
could win the vast majority of the rest of their games.
They can go on a run and win pretty much
all their games, and they play they're one of those teams.
They play the Chiefs so so tough, they play them
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so well because they're so familiar that you know who's
good who isn't good. That kind of goes out the
window when they play. So that's just one of those games.
But I mean, you look at their schedule, it is
favorable for them to actually climb back into it. That
Cardinals loss looks worse and worse as the week's going
because they had it. I mean, you had it. It
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was the way I don't think though, Hey, I don't
think it looks worse the port are they got hot back? Well,
just on the record, like that was one that was
in the bag and now you're four and then but
there's a there's a lot of teams you can make
that case. Look at the Browns right now. Look at
the Browns Jets. You blew in Atlanta, Falcons lead. I
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mean you had multiple chances. It gets Baltimore yesterday and
they just cannot seem to get anything done. Hey, by
the way, you you mentioned this and I kind of
scoffed at it and said, no, I can't see that happening. Dude,
Stefanski might be in trouble. Man. Like if you're like,
we watched the Browns and you just look at how
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like they've come unraveled and losing those close games. I
don't care that Deshaun Watson is not there or not.
You these are games that you can win, and you
look at them and they're a shell of where they
were like, they're they're gonna go on on a bad
run here and their season is basically over, Like there's
many more weeks until he's back. What four comes back?
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Week twelve? Yeah, we twelve. It was the first Houston, right, Yeah,
the game that we thought the NFL didn't want them
to see a return there, and I was just returning
to Houston. Yeah, it's like it's gonna get bad before
it gets better for Cleveland. I'm trying to think if
this was the game I was watching, Like the clock
management and the management of just the overall decision with
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certain things is what kills me. And I feel like
at one point in that game, I think they took
like it was a delay of game late. I can't
remember which game I was watching. I was like, did
that really just happen? Like they took a delay of
game late that essentially kind of ruined any chance of
them even having a field goal. But there's just even
some of the fourth down calls when they decided to
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go for and when how they go about going for it.
It's been tough to watch this year. Like I think
for Browns fans, you were tickled a little bit because
you see them with these leads, or you see them
competitive in games. You're thinking, like, we can close this
thing out. We just make a player two here or there,
and then the play just never happens. I mean, there
was a touchdown pass that got called back Mary Cooper
(25:01):
for a push off on Marcus Peterson, and I'll be
honest with you, I don't know, like I like use
you if it's a two arm push off, I'm always like, yep,
that's o. P I get it. With one arm, it's
a little harder. And in this case, Mariy Coop already
had Peters beat and he just kind of pushed off
a little bit, and Peter's kind of sold the acting job.
But I mean they almost stopped after Cooper caught the ball.
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I kind of like walked in the end zone like
it was so blatant that they just had to call
to make that call, which I don't know. Again, I've
seen it multiple times. The receiver does exactly what Maria
Cooper did and it's not called. Did you see Sauce
Gardner and Jerry Judy on that throw to the end
zone late in the game. I mean they were literally
both grabbing each other's jerseys and like the the the
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official just said, well whatever, I mean, just the officiating
game to game, week to week is so inconsistent, and
that's what's fresh. Charles Davis was like trying to make
the point. I love Charles, but he was trying to
make the point that, well, you know, I think the
official just said, what you guys working out together? It's like, well,
wait what, like hold on, hold on a second, Like
Sauce Gardner's literally got Jerry Judy on the back of
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his caller, like you could argue like if he takes
him to the ground, that's a horse caller, Like he's
literally grabbing the back of his caller. And then just
they just didn't they didn't make the call. They're just
like whatever, We're just gonna let it play out. So yeah,
and then just to see the Amari Cooper stuff, it's just, yeah,
Cleveland looks bad. The Chargers. Here we go again. Man,
more injuries, all right? J C. Jackson, what dislocated his
(26:34):
knee cap yesterday? Yeah? Just yeah, by the way, I've
dislocated my kneecap. Yeah. Yeah, what were you doing playing basketball?
I was, Yeah, I was in Monmouth. Uh. The true
story family Uni Moms, Illinois and uh playing basketball two onto.
(26:56):
My my girlfriend at the time was just an atrocious
basketball player. She threw me averything up with her. Yeah,
threw me a pass. Uh and uh I wasn't weathering
for her basketball skills, but so she threw me this.
Uh this, she threw me this basketball. I jumped up,
I landed on like my foot landed on the curb.
And when I came down. Yeah, my kneecap was hanging
(27:19):
out by my calf and so they had to pop
it back into place. And yeah, it's not fun. Probably
should had surgery, didn't, so you know, but he could
come back. I never did anything with it, just put
it back in place. No, yeah, put it back in
place and then just try to rehab it and on
your own. Yeah. I mean that's the common man. That's
that's what I'm not going to say. That's common or
(27:42):
relatable for certain I mean, some people would have asked
for an ambula, but you just asked for it. Did
you just ask for it? Njoy? Yeah, I mean I said,
you guys got a DJ line around They're like, what
like at a club, and I was like, do you know, no,
one's a bigger fan of DonJoy that it's so funny. Man,
it's weird, but he loved Don Joy. I just remember
(28:04):
my brother had a knee injury when he was playing football,
and I just remember Don Joy on the side of
the knee brace. So I just and it became an
ongoing joke because Brad and I watched Joe Flacco slide
one time and as Don Joy came apart to bro
it was like when Tom starts running and the shackles
(28:26):
just come off of his legs, it's just sprinting like
it was basically that for Joe Flacco. Don Joy blew up.
Oh man, So so yeah, that's inspector gadget where you
get the note and then explodes after he reads it
or something. Yeah, it's not not not great? Will what
Do's not a great? What it is that as soon
(28:48):
as Tom m are the Chargers making the playoffs, I
don't I think they're done. I think they're done. The
NFL is so happy that we're having this conversation right
now like this. They want us asking this question every
week up until Week eighteen, the final week of the season.
(29:09):
What they want what? Why are injuries always a problem
with them every single year. And every team deals with injuries,
but the Chargers lose key players to injuries every year
every year, whether it was Rashawn Slater to start off
the season, it's j. C. Jackson, It's Mike Williams now
who suffered the ankle injury like every year. Herbert got
(29:32):
banged up against the Chiefs a little bit like every
single year. If not for Austin Ekeler, I don't I
don't know what hope there is for the Chargers because
basically he's one of their best pass catchers. They don't
commit to the run at all, and they're just like
Herbert's out there just kind of running for his life
at times. I man, the Brandon Staley conversation is gonna
(29:55):
get louder and louder, Like it's gonna get louder and
louder as the season goes on to on. You man
is happy about that? Yeah? They missed the fourth and
one early, and I just kept like shaking my head,
thinking to myself, here we go, we go, here we go.
And they had some confidence in Seattle boy. It was
feeling good. It was Seattle boys feeling good. Bah getting
(30:19):
it Why, Like let me ask you this. At some point,
if you're Brandon Staley and like the I think they
ended up only convert one of the three fourth downs
they went for, did you just go all right, maybe
our analytics aren't like or take a fuel goal. Like
there's times when they're actually in field goal range, but
(30:41):
it's all it'd be long. It's like, okay, well, like
we've all of a sudden gotten away from thinking that
we can just have kickers go out there, and their
kickers are as good as they've ever been in my opinion,
Yet we're now like foregoing them taking a shot at
you know, high fifties and sixty yard field goal and
they're making them now more than ever. Our kid kicked
the forty forty plus yarder to win the game, really
(31:04):
high school like games on the line. Yea, yeah, yeah, man.
I thought they were going to do it because they're
they're they had a kicker too, but they guess what
they did. They went for it. They Brandon, Brandon stated it,
and they went for it. We picked them off a
field goal to win. Can I give you guys a
(31:26):
quick come on, give us conspiracy theory? Oh wow? You
notice how like kickers are bombing fifty yard field goals
like there's nothing now. It's just like, yeah, like fifty
five fifty six, it's eat back in the day, that
would never happen. Here's what I think happened. I think
the NFL made a silent handshake agreement. I think they
(31:48):
told they got all the kickers together in the league,
and they said, we're moving back the extra points, but
we'll let you guys get on the gas. What do
you think I think the NFL did that. Oh yeah,
there's alteringdom set, not the ball. Yeah, just like, hey,
you know what, we'll you know, if you guys piss hot,
we're just gonna look the other way. What do you
(32:11):
think about that? You can run with that. It's not reckless?
Can I say this though? I feel like Seattle might
have the offensive rookie of the year and potential defensive
rookie of the year. Kenneth Walker has been phenomenal, but
Terry Wolan has been really good too. That draft class
looks better and better. Huh, Like, my goodness, it's like
(32:31):
Pete Carroll's gonna get the last You still have the
music plan for that. That poor conspiracy thingy that died
was presented. That might be your poors. Yeah, checkers on
the gas the extra point back. If you think that's
his worse, you have not. You haven't seen anything. Yeah,
I got Yeah, I give Judas some time. Well, that's
(32:53):
the experience. That's the worst one I've experienced. Once he
starts freestyling where he just starts spit stuff about on
live era that he doesn't like give much thought to. Yeah,
that's when you go, that's that's not that's such a
good one earlier. I mean it was it was on
par with what I was going to say, So I
was like, I was happy about but I think totally
go and redeem yourself. Jonas dumped one time. I think
(33:15):
he didn't cuss or say anything vulgar. I think he
dumped himself one time for a really bad take just
so it didn't make it on I swear to god,
you did that one. That's probably that's probably that one
was a dumpable one? Could that one because it was
like it was either that or actually, you know, prepare
for the take before the show, and I said, no,
I'm just gonna wing it. It'll work out on that. Well, No,
(33:36):
it wasn't that. I think we were having a conversation.
It led to like this randomness of comments being made,
and you said something that was like, oh, probably I
thought that whatever too sensitive. You're hungry. Yeah, I'm hungry.
Maybe that's what made me hungry. Story there's there's a
(33:57):
vegetable platter in the kitchen, so you can go check that.
Ever dress that food in there. I ever touched that food,
and now I've never touched Let's go Leo eating anything.
It doesn't matter, like Lee was shaking, is it? Lee?
You wouldn't need it. You're gonna eat it. Veggie platter
Numa because his veggies not good. You wouldn't need it.
Lee would eat a sewer rat of Tabasco. Came with it,
(34:19):
eating anything that's sewer ratte with tabasco. All right, speaking
of somebody who's not a sewer rat, the one and
only Eddie Garcia, I said he's not. I said he's
not right now. No, I'm just saying, because Eddie, you're
at the Charger game, I'm assuming correct. I was, Yeah,
how'd that go? Not good? Eddie? Eddie? Are the Chargers
(34:42):
making the playoffs? Uh? Probably not? Because they can't stay healthy.
How will that affect your home life will be bad.
Grumpy wife, grumpy life. Yeah, yeah, that's that's all right. Man.
Well he like football so much. I mean you have
to ask her. I guess you just like, why do
(35:04):
we like football so much? It's great, It is great. Yeah,
with a long gall a nice tea too. That's so
great though. And you know the cart is coming out
every other quarter though. Yeah, they're just doomed. Man. Yeah,
sorry to hear that, Eddie. Give your best to my
wife then, you know, give what was that again? Give
(35:24):
your best to to your wife there? All right. I
was just saying, if you caught it. I was just saying,
if if you click on your toes, I will if
I if I survived the nuclear winter in here, the
thermostat is broken and it is quite chilly in here,
(35:45):
my lord. All right, let's say it's just still cold there.
They haven't fixed that thermosta yet. We told Eddie to
come into to the studio here and do the updates. Here.
He's sitting in like in the ideata rod right now,
trying to do sports. Eddie. Why don't you normally sitting
there with him? Uh? Yeah, I have some other stuff
I have to do, and I've got a voice stuff stuff. Yeah,
(36:06):
that kind of thing. Next time, next time we're all
in there together, it's gonna be a very cozy room then. Alright,
but let's see if we can warm me up here
with some hot baseball scores about Uh. The World Series
is set. It's gonna be the Astros against the Phillies. Uh.
The Astros wrapped him a sweep of the Yankees with
a six five win. Alex Bregman RBI single the seventh
(36:28):
that was the game winning it as It's onto the
World Series for the fourth time in six years for
the Houston Astros. The Phillies closed out the pop Rays
with a four three win. Bryce Harper go ahead to
run home in the eighth inning. They wrap up that
NLCS four games to one, first ever Houston versus Philadelphia
World Series matchup. Of course, for many years Houston was
in the National League along with the Phillies, but that's
(36:50):
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with the Sunday Night are in Miami where the Dolphins
get quarterback two a talking about low back, and beat
the Steelers sixteen to ten to have finished twenty one
of thirty five passing two unt or sixty one yards
with one touchdown no interceptions. The Chiefs are now five
and two on top of the a f C West
after at three win over the forty yards Patrick Homes
four hundred twenty three yards passing and three touchdowns. Christian
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after being traded from Carolina. Eight carries thirty eight yards,
two receptions twenty four yards. The Giants are six and
one to meet the Jaguars three to seventeen. The defense
with the g Men stop Jacksonville at the one yard
line on the final play of the game to preserve
that victory. Buccaneers lose to the Panthers one to three,
and the Packers followed the Commanders one and A couple
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Cowboys beating Lions to six. Dak Prescott back at quarterback
for Dallas from his injury, nineteen of twenty five, passing
two or at seven yards, one touchdown, and the Cowboys
are five and two. Bengals over the Falcons seventeen. Joe
Burrow four hundred eighty one yards passing four touchdowns, forty
three through the year one on the ground. Atlanta meanwhile
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way tire buying should be. So Dak Prescott's back, the
Dallas Cowboys get their starting quarterback back and Dallas and
just a flawless performance, never never in any trouble gets it.
Detroit Lions. Uh yeah, I was listen, you know, a
(01:24):
little bit off, Yeah, a little rust there, a little yeah,
a little bit of rustaurant rust. Dak Prescott. Wasn't that
a little bit? Um? So? Uh the quarterback for Dallas,
Dak Prescott, he is that is uh what an awkward luf.
(01:48):
But the quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, Dak Prescott, not
Cooper Rush. He was back under center for Dallas. He
talked after the game about replacing Cooper Rush coming back
in after this time off and just sort of where
the team stands. I don't know if I would have
felt it not being able to watch these guys for
the last five weeks, honestly, and everything happens for a reason,
and so um yeah, I mean that's time that I
(02:10):
had off. I was a blessing. Coop did an amazing
job obviously of keeping us in this position. I know
how talented. This team is I know what we can be.
It's not about me, Um, it's about all of us.
And UM just trying to make sure that I play
my part and make sure I put this team in
the in the right situation each and every play, and
UH just make the most out of whatever situation I'm giving. Uh.
Their defense is awesome? Are they a legitimate contender in
(02:33):
the NFC? The Dallas Cowboys with that defense and with
Dak Prescott is their quarterback? Is that a team you
could see? Why would not be? That's because I think
a lot of people look at it and go, well,
I don't know, Dad can't win any big games. You know,
there's just sort of a narrative that's written around him.
I look at him and say that defense. I know
Philadelphia has got a two game lead in the division,
(02:55):
and good for them. I still think Dallas is is
a live dog in the NFC. To make some noise.
I'm maybe I'm a lot higher on them than some
people are, but I think Dallas absolutely as a chance
in the NFC. With Here's the thing about the NFL schedule,
whether it's the Giants or the Jet Shawks, teams that
have have probably exceeded our expectations coming in the season. Um,
(03:16):
they haven't played that many divisional games. All these schedules
are backloaded where the second half is where they get
into the meat of these divisional games. And so for me,
like looking at that, I just kind of say, yeah,
we'll see. I mean, if I'm not mistaken, I think
the Giants only played one divisional game, and I think
they might be and one within the division. So you
(03:37):
look at how this all stacks up, and then the
wins are great, but you also have Dallas. What do
you also have Philly winning, which means it's larger gonna
come down to those divisional games that are gonna ultimately
decide a who wins your division, which is always the better,
easier path through the playoffs, you know, But be like,
as far as what that wouldn't lost records gonna look
like what it's all said, done for a wild card spot,
(03:59):
that's gonna a factor. So, uh, Dallas is alive dog,
There's no doubt about it. Their defense has been a
big piece of that. But I think the thing I
took away was, you know, look DA's adjusting to his
grip with his thumb. You know, surgery and the injury
coming off of that, it's gonna take some time. Like
it's just similar to Russell last year with the finger injury.
No different than when Wentz comes back, you know, even
(04:21):
though it's not as significant because I believe it's his
ring finger on his throwing hand. This stuff takes time
and it's and it's not gonna look you know, pretty always.
But what I like to see about it was they
kind of stuck to that game plan that they are
using with Cooper Rush, you know, running the football, playing
good defense. I think that's their formula until things get
(04:41):
kind of smoothed out with Doc and you really need
him to go win you a football game. So they
obviously didn't need to yesterday versus Detroit, but at some
point they will, and and I think he'll be ready
when that moment happens. I really do well. They most
likely won't have to do it against the Bears either.
They can work. I mean, if you're talking about the
perfect time to work somebody back in and work through
(05:03):
the rust of of sitting out, you would think it
be right now, he's got they got two bye weeks
coming out. I mean, you would have never thought that
green Bay would be a game where you'd say, oh,
they they might be are you know they'll be okay
in that game as well. But I mean, now, when
you think about it, Minnesota is probably the hardest game
(05:24):
that they have in the next three weeks. You've got
Chicago coming up, and then you have green Bay. Now
you do have to travel to to Green Bay, and
you have the Beers at home. So I mean that
stacks up. That align is really great for you. But
then now you've got to deal with the Vikings in Minnesota.
You get the Giants back at home, you get the
Colts at home. The Colts are are a conundrum. I
(05:47):
really don't know what you're gonna get with them from
week to week. Anybody who tries to prognosticate for them,
good luck if you report on that team. You know,
God bless you, um because I don't. You just don't
know what you're getting out of the Colts. But that
could be an interesting matchup. And then you got the Texans,
you got the Jaguars, and then then, as as Brady mentioned,
(06:09):
I mean, like you gotta you gotta win that next
one against the Eagles. You gotta get that one against
the Eagles. Who knows what happens with Tennessee and you
you end off the regular season with with the Washington team. Um,
I think this this schedule in a lot of ways
seemingly is very very positive and and very um you know,
(06:33):
I guess good for for this team. So I mean,
they don't have any if if it doesn't pan out
where they show that they're a contender, bye bye seasons,
and then that's kind of one of those things where
nobody you can't point the finger anywhere else. You've got
to be looking in the mirror if they can't really
(06:54):
put together a nice season the rest of the way. Yeah,
I mean, even they're a wild card, I still look
at him and say, there's just there's nobody in the
NFC like Philadelphia. We can say what we want about Philadelphia,
but I don't think anybody would be scared to have
to go to Philly to win a playoff game. I
(07:14):
just don't see it. And that's why when we talk
about why not, I just I don't. That's a hard
ass place to play. Bro Philly is hard to play.
Even if they're not the greatest of teams at times,
that is still a hard place to go play and win.
I'm telling Philly's hard. Yeah, But I just look at
Philadelphia and I go, not everyone seat is created equal,
(07:38):
And I don't think they're close to UF. That's just
a difficult environment to play in though, Like that's that
they're they're one of those teams that home field is
an advantage, Like that's an advantage for them because they
throw snowballs in Santa Claus bro That's that's a that's
that's a that's a hard place to play. Just there's
just some places that are hard to play. Philly is
(07:59):
a hard play used to play. So Dallas, you are
you buying into the return of Dak Prescott and your
Dallas Cowboys because you said they weren't going to make
the playoffs alright, So how you'm still going I'm honestly, um,
I think that at best they'll be a wild card team,
and they will and and the way things are going
(08:20):
right now, seemingly they might have to be a second
wild card team out of the nfcast. The way it's
going right now, I would I wouldn't bet on on
New York Giants being the first wild card if if
if it doesn't, if it could flip flop in my opinion,
(08:42):
could it could flip flop between Philly in New York?
He's slot what the Dallas. But here's my concern with it.
With the Giants Kwans touching the ball fifty six percent
of their offensive snaps, like he's either running it or
catching it, and that's obviously excluding the quarterbacks rushing intubs.
So think about that for a second. Like, this offense
(09:04):
hinges on him, and he's been he's been dynamic, he's
been special, whatever adjective you want to throw on there.
He's been incredible this year. If he gets injured, if
he misses some time, really, I mean, it changes the
entire dynamics of this team, even as good as their
defense has been. And so that's my that's my biggest concern.
(09:25):
It's like it all looks good now, but they've only
played one divisional game. They're owning one in the division,
so they've got a lot of important games coming up
and all of this has to stay the course because
like Daniel Jones has been improved taking care of the football,
but I keep sitting back going. He really hasn't had
to put a game on his shoulders and spread things
(09:47):
out and go win that thing, just chucking it and
ducking it, you know what I'm saying. Like, I think,
when that situation presents itself, then we really see how
much of those issues he had in the past, all
those fumbles in the pocket and those interceptions, then we
really see if those things have displayed themselves. One Dale
Robinson left that game, you know, uh, banged up yesterday.
(10:08):
He's been He's been a nice piece too to help
them out because they don't have many options at wide
receiver the way this whole season has worked out with
Kenny Golladay, Darius, Tony Sterling, Shepard getting hurt like it's
it's starting to get thin, man, And so if sa
Kwan becomes either ineffective, banged up, missing some time, you
might have a big question mark there that that's my
(10:29):
biggest concern for them, right And I know Dallas, you
know z Got has had a knee injury too, and
yesterday's game, but they have Tony Pollard and some people
think that Tony Pollard might be better yea, And Michael
Parsons is a defensive Player of the Year. Correct, it's
over on that over. I don't know, dude. I mean
here's what I say for Quinn and Williams, like that
he's got at least be in the conversation that dude
(10:53):
is wrecking games. The problem is he's not going to
have like an interior d lineman stats like Donald does.
Even though Donald they'll move him around more. It's just
that's the tough than Michael Parsons right now. That's that's fair.
Like he's like everything, he's impacting every every play. So
(11:14):
let me ask you guys this. They have Seattle coming
up New York leading the NFC West. No one saw that.
Let me, did you lay money? Would you lay money
on Seattle to win that division? Right now? Yes? I
think they got to be the favorite. I will I
actually don't think they're the favorite. San frances this favorite, yeah,
(11:37):
fran Yeah, yeah, but I'm not I'm not a believer
in San Frand yet Seattle's five to one, so you know,
a hundred wins five hundred if you bet on the
Seahawks to win the division the Niners, I mean, that's
that's something good money, like plus one oh five, so
right about even, and then the Rams are sitting at
plus two. I don't buy the Rams at all. Yeah,
(12:00):
I just I don't. I don't get it. Um. I
Actually I would be more confident in Seattle than I
would be the Rams because you're not even mentioning Arizona
at this point. It's just plus eight h Yeah, look,
there's value. I'll take it. Yeah, I mean, of course
I will. I'm a terrible better so of course I
would take that at plus eight hundred. But what would
(12:22):
you think the Giants record would be the rest of
the way. They got the Seahawks, then they got the Texans,
the Lions, then the Cowboys, Commanders, Eagles Commanders, so it's
super heavy with with divisional games. Then they had the
Vikings and the Colts, and then they finish up with
the Eagles. I mean, what would you what would you
think their record would be the rest of the way. Well,
(12:44):
there's six and one right now, right, Yeah, I mean
they have to get to I think it with that
schedule they at least get the nine maybe ten wins
like that. I feel like you can almost say they're
a shoeing for winning maybe double digits. Three more wins
like that guaranteed, is it not? Yeah? Well, and I
would say based on how the NFC looks, right, now
(13:05):
you'd have to say that that is probably a pretty
safe spot for a playoff. Damn. So you're gonna say
they're gonna lose seven games, No, no, no, no no, no, no, no,
you're not understanding what I'm saying. It's a shoe in
they win at least three of those, and so well,
what I'm trying to portray to you is they are
That means they are probably a playoff team because the
NFC has been so bad. So if you're looking at conservatively,
(13:28):
like I don't know what the odds are for them
to be a playoff game, but you should definitely lay
some money on that. I mean, you came to the
right place to ask, and me just vamp a little
bit and I'll make sure you get what I'm saying.
That schedule of our there's no way to me they
don't win three or four games. So that's guaranteed money
in the bank. You know, go ahead and bet that
whatever I mean minus three hundred to make the playoffs.
(13:50):
Significant favor to do so well. But again it's guaranteed money.
I mean, if you want a hundred dollars, you have
to put a three hundred, but you're good to win ten,
how because there's yeah, there's three games on the schedule.
You look at and go, those are wins Texans, Lions,
and Colts later in the year. Later in the year,
I don't know, Well, no one knows about the Colt.
(14:14):
You think you think Matt Ryan's going to be upright
by week seven? Don't know? They might be good by
week seven? What the hell happened to Jonathan Taylor? Matt
Ryan got there and they're like, hey, let's just chuck
this thing around. Forget about Jonathan Taylor in this ridiculous
running back They're bad, man, They're bad because they they're
like trying to play the type of ball that like
(14:34):
Matt Ryan was playing in Atlanta, like running the football.
You've got one of the best running backs in the
league and you're kind of shelving him to then put
your offensive line that has not played well this year
in a position where they're trying to protect a constant
drop back game. Like, that's not advantageous for anyone on
that roster. Yeah, it's that was not a good look.
(14:54):
And by the way, Tennessee, where do they want four
in a row? And yeah, I think I think Tennessee's
won four are heating up. Yeah, there's still a little
bit that division is heating down. Yeah, everyone else around
them falling apart, starting to come back to Uh what
the a f C South normally is. Let's get back
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guess who's starting to make some noise. The Raiders. What
(17:03):
the Raiders, Yeah, they beat the Powerhouse Houston Texans yesterday,
Josh Jake, that's why you got all that thing stuff.
Oh yeah, come on, come on the bar, all the Raiders.
You're not fired up about the Raiders. There's a kid
(17:25):
on our football team. He plays for the Chargers where
the charter charges, but he's a Raider's fast. So every
time he says Raiders, you go Raiders. Raiders. Yeah, coach
coach the Raiders, and he like shows his teeth like
his k nines. It's weird. I'm telling him, man, I've
(17:48):
noticed that, Like I just saw bird. Oh do it.
That's why I just said it. Like, why why does
everybody say Raiders like with an attitude like y'all think
y'all tough' that's what they are. Man. You'll be like
really wanting to fight on game day. Like I was
in Vegas for something. Yeah I was. It was game
day and I was in the elevator and I'm like, Hi,
(18:12):
They're looking at me like beat your ass. Well, it
could be gangbangers, I mean what type? Yeah? Oh oh
I didn't. That's a good one. That's a good one. Okay,
(18:33):
all right, we'll play the bar. I just got it
and see who he did there Au. Yeah, but the
Las Vegas Raiders are back. I mean, listen, when the
Houston Texans coming to your building, you know you gotta
be ready to strap it up. And they strapped it up.
(18:53):
Josh Jacobs, by the way, under the radar. Fantastic start
to the season for Josh Jacobs. He's been great. Not
telling you look at the Raiders and you go, yeah, listen,
there's a potential the Raiders could go on a run
here all right, like that, you have the Saints and
the Jags coming up, but now those are on the roads.
It could be a little bit dicey there. But uh,
you know, those are winnable games. The Colts the Broncos
(19:16):
are bad. They're gonna be at Seattle in about a
month from now. That's all of a sudden, a more
difficult game than a lot of people expected. There's a
chance the Raiders around games in l A, you could
could get back to five hundred and next thing you know,
they're within striking distance of making a run at an
ANFC wild card spot. Who's in on the Raiders? The Raiders?
Who's in? I think they're getting bed at what are they?
(19:39):
And one the last three games, yea, and for overall,
but forget about overall. Yeah yeah, well that's what I'm
saying is and you know, new head coach, Um Derek
Carr's get his feet wet. I'll say this about that offense.
You know Carr was playing the West Coast system his
time with the Raiders. This is not West Coast, all right,
It's very very different. Um. The responsibility is the verbage
(20:01):
all of it. And the way Josh McDaniels likes his
system run. He's very, very, very particular. Like, trust me
it it takes a lot to get on the same
page with him. And ultimately, what he's looking for is
for Derek Carror to be an extension of him out
there on the field. He wants them to think, you
know what he's thinking and understand exactly why he's calling
(20:23):
what he's calling. And has played a lot of football.
I always think like when people are like, you know, hey,
you know Tom Brady for example, or Aaron Rodgers. You
know those guys they go to new system, it should
be easy because they played so much football. I actually
think it's harder, Like it's there's a reason why you
say there's that saying that you can't teach an old
dog new tricks because they get so ingrained into one
(20:46):
offense their entire life, it gets hard to call something
something else. And so unless you're just gonna, you know,
adapt to that quarterback and what he's done as the coach,
it's difficult to really get into a new system and
play the way you need to play. With the cut
down off season that all these guys have. Like I mean,
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first off, you know, talking about Rogers and Brady, we
said this earlier, like those guys aren't even showing up
really for the whatever offseason that it still exists. And
for the guys you have been in the league long enough,
like they remember when you had quarterbacks school, when you
came in earlier before everyone else and you were just
dropping you you weren't allowed to throw. So all you
(21:28):
did was you worked on your drop, You work on
your footwork, you work on your timing how we should
feel with your feet, and you watched hours of film
so that when everyone else got there, you were ahead
of everyone else. They don't have that anymore. So it's
just I think it all takes a little bit more
time than people are willing to realize, and you're starting
to see it come together. You're seeing the rushing attack
(21:48):
car it feels more comfortable. The defense is playing better,
so we'll see. I mean, they got a shot to
climb back in this thing. That's the crazy thing about
this year is normally I would sit here and say,
with the records being what they are, whether you're a
losing team or winning team, like it's it's you're kind
of set as far as what this is gonna look
like moving forward. There's so much parody this year, though,
I feel like everyone's still in it. I don't think
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you could. You could eliminate anyone right now with the
way the schedules are set and how much parody there is.
We're doing so funny because they go they in theory,
could win the vast majority of the rest of their games.
They can go on a run and win pretty much
all their games, and they play they're one of those teams.
They play the Chiefs so so tough, they play them
(22:33):
so well because they're so familiar that you know who's
good who isn't good. That kind of goes out the
window when they play. So that's just one of those games.
But I mean, you look at their schedule, it is
favorable for them to actually climb back into it. That
Cardinals loss looks worse and worse as the week's going
because they had it. I mean, you had it. It
(22:54):
was the way I don't think though, Hey, I don't
think it looks worse the port are they got hot back? Well,
just on the record, like that was one that was
in the bag and now you're four and then but
there's a there's a lot of teams you can make
that case. Look at the Browns right now. Look at
the Browns Jets. You blew in Atlanta, Falcons lead. I
(23:16):
mean you had multiple chances. It gets Baltimore yesterday and
they just cannot seem to get anything done. Hey, by
the way, you you mentioned this and I kind of
scoffed at it and said, no, I can't see that happening. Dude,
Stefanski might be in trouble. Man. Like if you're like,
we watched the Browns and you just look at how
(23:37):
like they've come unraveled and losing those close games. I
don't care that Deshaun Watson is not there or not.
You these are games that you can win, and you
look at them and they're a shell of where they
were like, they're they're gonna go on on a bad
run here and their season is basically over, Like there's
many more weeks until he's back. What four comes back?
(23:58):
Week twelve? Yeah, we twelve. It was the first Houston, right, Yeah,
the game that we thought the NFL didn't want them
to see a return there, and I was just returning
to Houston. Yeah, it's like it's gonna get bad before
it gets better for Cleveland. I'm trying to think if
this was the game I was watching, Like the clock
management and the management of just the overall decision with
(24:19):
certain things is what kills me. And I feel like
at one point in that game, I think they took
like it was a delay of game late. I can't
remember which game I was watching. I was like, did
that really just happen? Like they took a delay of
game late that essentially kind of ruined any chance of
them even having a field goal. But there's just even
some of the fourth down calls when they decided to
(24:40):
go for and when how they go about going for it.
It's been tough to watch this year. Like I think
for Browns fans, you were tickled a little bit because
you see them with these leads, or you see them
competitive in games. You're thinking, like, we can close this
thing out. We just make a player two here or there,
and then the play just never happens. I mean, there
was a touchdown pass that got called back Mary Cooper
(25:01):
for a push off on Marcus Peterson, and I'll be
honest with you, I don't know, like I like use
you if it's a two arm push off, I'm always like, yep,
that's o. P I get it. With one arm, it's
a little harder. And in this case, Mariy Coop already
had Peters beat and he just kind of pushed off
a little bit, and Peter's kind of sold the acting job.
But I mean they almost stopped after Cooper caught the ball.
(25:24):
I kind of like walked in the end zone like
it was so blatant that they just had to call
to make that call, which I don't know. Again, I've
seen it multiple times. The receiver does exactly what Maria
Cooper did and it's not called. Did you see Sauce
Gardner and Jerry Judy on that throw to the end
zone late in the game. I mean they were literally
both grabbing each other's jerseys and like the the the
(25:48):
official just said, well whatever, I mean, just the officiating
game to game, week to week is so inconsistent, and
that's what's fresh. Charles Davis was like trying to make
the point. I love Charles, but he was trying to
make the point that, well, you know, I think the
official just said, what you guys working out together? It's like, well,
wait what, like hold on, hold on a second, Like
Sauce Gardner's literally got Jerry Judy on the back of
(26:11):
his caller, like you could argue like if he takes
him to the ground, that's a horse caller, Like he's
literally grabbing the back of his caller. And then just
they just didn't they didn't make the call. They're just
like whatever, We're just gonna let it play out. So yeah,
and then just to see the Amari Cooper stuff, it's just, yeah,
Cleveland looks bad. The Chargers. Here we go again. Man,
more injuries, all right? J C. Jackson, what dislocated his
(26:34):
knee cap yesterday? Yeah? Just yeah, by the way, I've
dislocated my kneecap. Yeah. Yeah, what were you doing playing basketball?
I was, Yeah, I was in Monmouth. Uh. The true
story family Uni Moms, Illinois and uh playing basketball two onto.
(26:56):
My my girlfriend at the time was just an atrocious
basketball player. She threw me averything up with her. Yeah,
threw me a pass. Uh and uh I wasn't weathering
for her basketball skills, but so she threw me this.
Uh this, she threw me this basketball. I jumped up,
I landed on like my foot landed on the curb.
And when I came down. Yeah, my kneecap was hanging
(27:19):
out by my calf and so they had to pop
it back into place. And yeah, it's not fun. Probably
should had surgery, didn't, so you know, but he could
come back. I never did anything with it, just put
it back in place. No, yeah, put it back in
place and then just try to rehab it and on
your own. Yeah. I mean that's the common man. That's
that's what I'm not going to say. That's common or
(27:42):
relatable for certain I mean, some people would have asked
for an ambula, but you just asked for it. Did
you just ask for it? Njoy? Yeah, I mean I said,
you guys got a DJ line around They're like, what
like at a club, and I was like, do you know, no,
one's a bigger fan of DonJoy that it's so funny. Man,
it's weird, but he loved Don Joy. I just remember
(28:04):
my brother had a knee injury when he was playing football,
and I just remember Don Joy on the side of
the knee brace. So I just and it became an
ongoing joke because Brad and I watched Joe Flacco slide
one time and as Don Joy came apart to bro
it was like when Tom starts running and the shackles
(28:26):
just come off of his legs, it's just sprinting like
it was basically that for Joe Flacco. Don Joy blew up.
Oh man, So so yeah, that's inspector gadget where you
get the note and then explodes after he reads it
or something. Yeah, it's not not not great? Will what
Do's not a great? What it is that as soon
(28:48):
as Tom m are the Chargers making the playoffs, I
don't I think they're done. I think they're done. The
NFL is so happy that we're having this conversation right
now like this. They want us asking this question every
week up until Week eighteen, the final week of the season.
(29:09):
What they want what? Why are injuries always a problem
with them every single year. And every team deals with injuries,
but the Chargers lose key players to injuries every year
every year, whether it was Rashawn Slater to start off
the season, it's j. C. Jackson, It's Mike Williams now
who suffered the ankle injury like every year. Herbert got
(29:32):
banged up against the Chiefs a little bit like every
single year. If not for Austin Ekeler, I don't I
don't know what hope there is for the Chargers because
basically he's one of their best pass catchers. They don't
commit to the run at all, and they're just like
Herbert's out there just kind of running for his life
at times. I man, the Brandon Staley conversation is gonna
(29:55):
get louder and louder, Like it's gonna get louder and
louder as the season goes on to on. You man
is happy about that? Yeah? They missed the fourth and
one early, and I just kept like shaking my head,
thinking to myself, here we go, we go, here we go.
And they had some confidence in Seattle boy. It was
feeling good. It was Seattle boys feeling good. Bah getting
(30:19):
it Why, Like let me ask you this. At some point,
if you're Brandon Staley and like the I think they
ended up only convert one of the three fourth downs
they went for, did you just go all right, maybe
our analytics aren't like or take a fuel goal. Like
there's times when they're actually in field goal range, but
(30:41):
it's all it'd be long. It's like, okay, well, like
we've all of a sudden gotten away from thinking that
we can just have kickers go out there, and their
kickers are as good as they've ever been in my opinion,
Yet we're now like foregoing them taking a shot at
you know, high fifties and sixty yard field goal and
they're making them now more than ever. Our kid kicked
the forty forty plus yarder to win the game, really
(31:04):
high school like games on the line. Yea, yeah, yeah, man.
I thought they were going to do it because they're
they're they had a kicker too, but they guess what
they did. They went for it. They Brandon, Brandon stated it,
and they went for it. We picked them off a
field goal to win. Can I give you guys a
(31:26):
quick come on, give us conspiracy theory? Oh wow? You
notice how like kickers are bombing fifty yard field goals
like there's nothing now. It's just like, yeah, like fifty
five fifty six, it's eat back in the day, that
would never happen. Here's what I think happened. I think
the NFL made a silent handshake agreement. I think they
(31:48):
told they got all the kickers together in the league,
and they said, we're moving back the extra points, but
we'll let you guys get on the gas. What do
you think I think the NFL did that. Oh yeah,
there's alteringdom set, not the ball. Yeah, just like, hey,
you know what, we'll you know, if you guys piss hot,
we're just gonna look the other way. What do you
(32:11):
think about that? You can run with that. It's not reckless?
Can I say this though? I feel like Seattle might
have the offensive rookie of the year and potential defensive
rookie of the year. Kenneth Walker has been phenomenal, but
Terry Wolan has been really good too. That draft class
looks better and better. Huh, Like, my goodness, it's like
(32:31):
Pete Carroll's gonna get the last You still have the
music plan for that. That poor conspiracy thingy that died
was presented. That might be your poors. Yeah, checkers on
the gas the extra point back. If you think that's
his worse, you have not. You haven't seen anything. Yeah,
I got Yeah, I give Judas some time. Well, that's
(32:53):
the experience. That's the worst one I've experienced. Once he
starts freestyling where he just starts spit stuff about on
live era that he doesn't like give much thought to. Yeah,
that's when you go, that's that's not that's such a
good one earlier. I mean it was it was on
par with what I was going to say, So I
was like, I was happy about but I think totally
go and redeem yourself. Jonas dumped one time. I think
(33:15):
he didn't cuss or say anything vulgar. I think he
dumped himself one time for a really bad take just
so it didn't make it on I swear to god,
you did that one. That's probably that's probably that one
was a dumpable one? Could that one because it was
like it was either that or actually, you know, prepare
for the take before the show, and I said, no,
I'm just gonna wing it. It'll work out on that. Well, No,
(33:36):
it wasn't that. I think we were having a conversation.
It led to like this randomness of comments being made,
and you said something that was like, oh, probably I
thought that whatever too sensitive. You're hungry. Yeah, I'm hungry.
Maybe that's what made me hungry. Story there's there's a
(33:57):
vegetable platter in the kitchen, so you can go check that.
Ever dress that food in there. I ever touched that food,
and now I've never touched Let's go Leo eating anything.
It doesn't matter, like Lee was shaking, is it? Lee?
You wouldn't need it. You're gonna eat it. Veggie platter
Numa because his veggies not good. You wouldn't need it.
Lee would eat a sewer rat of Tabasco. Came with it,
(34:19):
eating anything that's sewer ratte with tabasco. All right, speaking
of somebody who's not a sewer rat, the one and
only Eddie Garcia, I said he's not. I said he's
not right now. No, I'm just saying, because Eddie, you're
at the Charger game, I'm assuming correct. I was, Yeah,
how'd that go? Not good? Eddie? Eddie? Are the Chargers
(34:42):
making the playoffs? Uh? Probably not? Because they can't stay healthy.
How will that affect your home life will be bad.
Grumpy wife, grumpy life. Yeah, yeah, that's that's all right. Man.
Well he like football so much. I mean you have
to ask her. I guess you just like, why do
(35:04):
we like football so much? It's great, It is great. Yeah,
with a long gall a nice tea too. That's so
great though. And you know the cart is coming out
every other quarter though. Yeah, they're just doomed. Man. Yeah,
sorry to hear that, Eddie. Give your best to my
wife then, you know, give what was that again? Give
(35:24):
your best to to your wife there? All right. I
was just saying, if you caught it. I was just saying,
if if you click on your toes, I will if
I if I survived the nuclear winter in here, the
thermostat is broken and it is quite chilly in here,
(35:45):
my lord. All right, let's say it's just still cold there.
They haven't fixed that thermosta yet. We told Eddie to
come into to the studio here and do the updates. Here.
He's sitting in like in the ideata rod right now,
trying to do sports. Eddie. Why don't you normally sitting
there with him? Uh? Yeah, I have some other stuff
I have to do, and I've got a voice stuff stuff. Yeah,
(36:06):
that kind of thing. Next time, next time we're all
in there together, it's gonna be a very cozy room then. Alright,
but let's see if we can warm me up here
with some hot baseball scores about Uh. The World Series
is set. It's gonna be the Astros against the Phillies. Uh.
The Astros wrapped him a sweep of the Yankees with
a six five win. Alex Bregman RBI single the seventh
(36:28):
that was the game winning it as It's onto the
World Series for the fourth time in six years for
the Houston Astros. The Phillies closed out the pop Rays
with a four three win. Bryce Harper go ahead to
run home in the eighth inning. They wrap up that
NLCS four games to one, first ever Houston versus Philadelphia
World Series matchup. Of course, for many years Houston was
in the National League along with the Phillies, but that's
(36:50):
beside the point. Weeks seven in the NFL, we'll start
with the Sunday Night are in Miami where the Dolphins
get quarterback two a talking about low back, and beat
the Steelers sixteen to ten to have finished twenty one
of thirty five passing two unt or sixty one yards
with one touchdown no interceptions. The Chiefs are now five
and two on top of the a f C West
after at three win over the forty yards Patrick Homes
four hundred twenty three yards passing and three touchdowns. Christian
(37:12):
McCaffrey did play in this one for the forty niners
after being traded from Carolina. Eight carries thirty eight yards,
two receptions twenty four yards. The Giants are six and
one to meet the Jaguars three to seventeen. The defense
with the g Men stop Jacksonville at the one yard
line on the final play of the game to preserve
that victory. Buccaneers lose to the Panthers one to three,
and the Packers followed the Commanders one and A couple
(37:34):
of the big upsets of the day we had the
Cowboys beating Lions to six. Dak Prescott back at quarterback
for Dallas from his injury, nineteen of twenty five, passing
two or at seven yards, one touchdown, and the Cowboys
are five and two. Bengals over the Falcons seventeen. Joe
Burrow four hundred eighty one yards passing four touchdowns, forty
three through the year one on the ground. Atlanta meanwhile
(37:55):
tied with Tampa Bay for the NFC South lead at
three and four. Ravens with the Brown Seahawks. I'll score
the Chargers thirty seven. Twenty three was the Titans beating
the Colts nineteen to ten. Raiders over the Texas Jets
down the Broncos sixteen. Tonight Tonight Monday Night Football, Patriots
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twenty matchup, before or after halftime? Before? After, Yeah, I'm
gonna go before before most rushing yards in the game
David Montgomery from Andre Stevenson, Justin Fields or Damien Harris. Yeah.
(40:06):
Who finishes the game at quarterback for the Patriots? Mac
Jones or Zappy? What do the Bears have more on?
Who sell your name? Say your name? Bailey's happy? There
you got sapped? There we go. What do the Bears
have more of? Touchdowns? Field goals or turnovers? Turnovers? I'll
say touchdowns? How about it? And the color of Bill
(40:30):
Belichick's hoodie? Is it blue, red, gray, or no hoodie
at all? That's gonna be gray. I'm going no hoodie.
It's not cold enough yet. Wait, what do they wear
at home? Do they wear blue? I remember? Because with
these throwback jerseys, I never know what anybody's working with.
Referee is getting aggressive these days? To man, what happened?
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!