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Matt Jones and Drew Franklin open NFL Week 3 with Matt continuing his stay in South Africa trying to explain 'American' football.  Matt was amazed at the Eagles comeback win over the Rams and explains why he thinks Greg Olsen is his favorite announcer.  How did the Browns get past the Packers?  HC Ben Johnson gets his first win as the Bears down the Cowboys.  Drew was impressed with the Chargers staying undefeated.  The Patriots missed out on a huge opportunity against the Steelers.  

Baker Mayfield has the Buccaneers undefeated with 3 straight game winning drives.  Is there another QB you're more confident in?  Matt has a end of season prediction about the 49ers. Are the Colts for real and are Titans fans already eyeing possible #1 picks for next season? Daniel Jones could be eyeing a bigger award than Comeback Player of the Year.  Isaiah Rodgers led the Vikings defense, but how about Carson Wentz?!?  Matt thinks the Texans passed the torch to the Jaguars today.  The Panthers blanked the Falcons and Matt says Atlanta fans should be concerned. What is there to root about as a Saints fan? 

We wrap up with Matt's next adventures in South Africa and living without a cell phone. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin is
a production of the NFL and iHeart podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, after a.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Few days hiatus, we are back. It is Cover zero NFL,
NFL Cover zero. That's the way they want us to
say it.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Here.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I am in Cape Town, South Africa. Yes, that's exactly right,
Cape Town, South Africa. Drew and Billy are in Lexington.
It is twelve forty five at night, and Drew, I
did something that I don't know how many people do
in Cape Town, which is sit and watch NFL Red
Zone all day looking out over the ocean.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
And it's great to be here with you.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Who I did a little Red Zone on my couch,
but it you sounds like you had a much better view. Also,
I'm glad that no technical difficulties. We're good to see it.
Haven't talked to you in a week in South Africa,
so yeah, glad to be talking to you today.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
I want to start this saying we didn't get to
do a show midweek and the reason was one of
our friends, also a listener to this podcast, Manie Robertson,
passed away. Both of us were friends with him, Drew,
he was one of your closest friends, and we wanted
to give you some time off to be able to

(01:24):
honor him. And you know, he would be listening right
now and proud of you and good to have you back.
And I'm sorry for both of our loss, but particularly you.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
You were he was one of your best friends.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, thank you were very close lost a great guy,
very unexpectedly. But I appreciate the little time to grieve
and be with the family and sort things out. But
it's good to be back with you. Guys. We'll miss him,
but you know, he was a great one.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
He's listening somewhere prayers to the Robertson family. They were there.
He was a great guy. So I'm in. There have
been people who might say, Matt, are you going to
be in South Africa forever? Because I've already been here
a week and I have like ten more days. For
people who don't know I was, I was doing a

(02:11):
fellowship with the Aspen Institute, as all NFL podcast hosts do,
and now I'm on an eleven day trip around South
Africa that includes a safari And I don't think people
on this podcast know Drew. It is me and ten
women and tonight was the welcome drinks where I met

(02:32):
the ten women. It was quite a thing. They all
sort of are like, you're not a woman, you are
a man. And so for the next ten or eleven
days it is me and ten women throughout the bush
of South Africa.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Should be very exciting.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I got to ask at the at the end of
the night, did you have to give nine of them
a rose and send one home? That's what this sounds like.
Not the welcome party, one at a time.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
It was gonna be a trip where we just leave
one everywhere we go, one of them has to stay. No,
I actually had to leave. It was a typical male
thing to do. I had to leave the party early
to go watch football. I was like, look, I have
to go. I have to go watch the NFL to
be able to do this show.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
But you know, the NFL. It's interesting.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
It's I don't want to say, it's not a thing here.
As soon as I talk to people here about sports,
they asked me about They call it here American football.
They're like, tell me about American football, but they don't
know any of the players. And they all say the
same thing, which is I watch it and I don't
know what's happening, And you know, for us, it seems

(03:47):
like the most basic thing in the world. But I
can see like if you don't know the rules. Like
one of the guys looked at me and said, how
come they stop? And I said, well, I don't really
know how to answer that question. Like he said, they
fall down and then everyone stops, which I guess is true.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
But maybe you don't think of it like that, Drew.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, that's gonna be a lot of explaining how that
works to them. But you're right, in America, it's just
like accepted culture in the fall Sundays, a lot of
people just knowing I'm on my couch watching football.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yes, it's every single weekend.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
So if you ma as these suggestions as to how
I can explain the rules to South Africans that I meet,
that would be good. I also have had a situation,
Drew that I you know me well enough to know
how difficult this is for me. I haven't had my
phone for the last couple of days, and I'm not
gonna have it for a couple more days, and that's

(04:41):
difficult enough for me as it is.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
I'm sort of wedded to my phone.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
But what's even worse is when I explain why I
don't have my phone.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
You've not even heard.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Oh I don't know this, but this, this is one
of the more embarrassing things I've ever done. So you
know Nelson Mandela, right, he was not personal South African president.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, I never met him, but I'm familiar.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
You guys were not boys, but you know, well, you
know who he is.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
He was kept for twenty seven years as a political
prisoner on a place called Robin Island, which is like
five miles from Cape Town. So to get there you
have to get on a ferry and you go out there.
So my fellowship group we went out there. Now I
don't know how much people know, but like, this is
where the two oceans come together. This is where the

(05:27):
Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean come together. And thus
the water is very choppy because it's different temperatures. This
is some of the choppiest water in the world, the
tip of Africa and the tip of South America. So
when you take the ferry to Robin Island, it is
very very choppy. So we go to Robin Island. It's

(05:48):
a very powerful thing. We saw the cell where Nelson
Mandela was for twenty seven years, very powerful thing.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
But when it comes to we were there for like
four hours.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
So when the time comes time to come back, I
need a soda, right, And they don't have diet coke
for those of you video, they don't have die coke
in souven They only have coke zero. And so I've
been drinking a lot of coke zero. Well, I get
on the boat. Coke zero is forty five cents here.

(06:17):
I mean, it's unbelievably gee. So we get on and
there's a group of probably twenty older women who are
from rural South Africa, Drew and have never been to
Robin Island. Now I'm going to defer to these ladies, Like,
whatever these women want, Drew, You're gonna let them have.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Right, Absolutely, Yeah, it's a treat for them.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
This is a treat for them. So I'm sitting in
my seat. This woman is sitting a few rows behind me.
She walks up to me in the middle of the
boat ride and it's very rocky, and she walks up
to me and she looks at me. She's probably ninety
years old, and she looks at me and goes get up.

(06:56):
I said what, and she would get up, and I
got up and she just set in my seat. Okay,
all right, she just set in my seat. She's like,
that will now be my seat, okay. And it threw
me off, and as soon as she did that, someone
took her seat. So now I'm standing, right. So I'm

(07:17):
standing on some of the choppiest waters in the world
in this ferry and I'm getting thrown around all.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
Over the boat. Right.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
So I have my coke zero and I'm like having
to struggle to stand, and so I put my coke
zero in my coke pocket, my coat pocket so that
I could brace myself. But I didn't realize is my
phone was in there. And so the next bump we hit,
my coke flipped over, poured onto my phone, shorted it out.

(07:50):
Oh and I now have the story, Matt, how did
you break your phone? Well, I spilt coke on it
on the island where Nelson Mandela was prisoned. That is
how I lost my phone. So at least it's an
interesting story.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Did the lady that I had you moved? Did she
know that this happened? Was there any Do you think
she had any guilt?

Speaker 1 (08:10):
No guilt, She had no guilt, and I think we
should all have the self confidence that woman had to
just say you're gonna get up. She didn't say may I.
She didn't even give a rationale. And by the way,
she had a chair. It wasn't like she was standing.
She just was like, I would like your chair, and
I would like you to have no chair.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
I can't imagine now that you don't have a phone,
just being in South Africa with a phone at all,
not just the fact that you like having your phone
it's always in your hand, just being alone in another
country and not having your other country.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Can't get an uber, okay, can't get an uber, no map,
So I'm not really sure at any given moment where
I am.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
You know, and then you go. So then think about
this when.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
You don't have a phone, first question is where do
I get my phone phone repaired?

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Well, how would you find out? You'd have to use
your phone? They don't have an Apple store near to
your safari? Well they did, so they do it. So
in South Africa.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
And I'm not gonna spend whole show talk about South
but in South Africa things are cheaper. It's probably like
a third of what things are in America, except for
some reason, Apple phones are like three times more expensive,
So like you can get a full dinner for three
dollars and thirty cents, but an Apple phone is like

(09:32):
thirty five hundred bucks. So I don't really I can't
really replace it, and so it's just like if they
can't fix it, then I'm just gonna be roaming around
hoping someone takes me where I need to go when
I'm in South Africa.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Now, you know, last time on the show, we heard
you were just having trouble getting yogurt. Now you're telling
me you don't even have a phone down there. That's
is there any danger involved with not having a phone?
What they tell you now, Johannesberger was a little direer.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
They tell you in Cape Town is you can walk
most places, not everywhere, but most places during the day.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Always take a cart.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Not But I'm now having to be like my grandmother
and like order a taxi at the front desk. I
don't know you can still do that. I didn't either,
but I'm like, can you call a taxi? And they're
like they look at me, like still.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
What are you ninety?

Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah, well that's what I have to do because I
have no other way of getting anywhere, but still got
to watch.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
The games and now I'm ready to go.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Now, Billy, you're going to give us the we're kind
of doing the games and the order of excitement. Today,
you're gonna give us the score and some notes about him.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
What would I think? The biggest game, Billy was probably
Eagles Ram?

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, I gotta start Eagles Rams, a battle
between two two and OHO teams. Philadelphia wins thirty three
to twenty six thanks to Jordan Davis blocking two field
goals in the fourth quarter. The Rams out a twenty
six to seven lead at one point. Jalen Hurts hadn't
thrown a passing touchdown pass in ten quarters and then
throws three in the final two for the Eagles to

(11:09):
stay undefeated.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
I watched almost all of this game today. When I
turned it on, I think the Rams were up like
nineteen to seven, and I thought, that's a really strange score.
And then the Eagles. You just kind of had a
sense they were gonna come back. Two block field goals
by the largest man on the field you always, I
guess they just take the view. No reason to go around.

(11:33):
I'll go through. And the last runback was one of
the more epic plays I've seen, Drew.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
It was an epic play for a game with, you know,
some high stakes in that conference. But also if anyone
dabbled on Rams plus three and a half, you probably thought.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
That was good.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
You probably thought you had that from the first quarter
until it was already gone, because they had to lead
most of the game until Philadelphia scores the four straight touchdowns.
But even with the field goal attempt, you're good. The
one thing that couldn't happen was the runback, and I
think that'll be one of the worst beats we ever
see in the NFL out.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
I don't want to say about the gambling aspect of that.
That would be that would be really difficult. It very
well played game the Rams. If you remember from the
first episode of NFL Cover zero, the Rams were my
super Bowl sleeper pick. I actually picked them to go
to the super Bowl on this show, and I was
feeling really good about that in the third court.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
I still feel good about it, but.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
I think it would have been a lot better for
them if they could have I mean, that would have
been a big game today for home field advantage.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
If they'd been able to get.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
It absolutely look good the whole time. It's kind of
going viral now, but Jalen hurts. I mean the Eagles
sideline is just going absolutely crazy. They're running.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
He didn't even smile.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
I mean, it was just stone cold. There are people
bumping into him, They're just bouncing off of them, and
they just walked straight onto the field to shake.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
And he cared. It looked like he had somewhere to be.
He was just like, well, this is fine. Do we
get to the next thing.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
I just think he might be a stone cold killer.
I know the Eagles are sharing that video a lot
like look at our quarterback just locked in, didn't need
to go run and celebrating, but a huge one.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
I would like to know what I would like to
know what's called viral for this from this, But I
have no idea because I can't get on my phone
and I can't log into any social media. So I'm
just going to take your word for it that it
went viral. Do you think I lost like this? If
you're the Rams, can you come back from that? Like
you that that one pulls at your soul?

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, there's no moral victories when you're in the NFL
and you're the Rams, but to basically beat the Eagles
for three quarters in Philadelphia, I think, if anything, it
just gives you a hunger to get to get another
shot at him, because you had them really dominated the
first half, and you know that maybe you are on
a neutral field or maybe you can get home field
that in another shot, you're gonna be right there with them.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Now. I haven't seen any analysis, but how.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Did this dude who's looks to weigh about three point thirty.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
How did he block two kicks straight up the middle?

Speaker 1 (13:56):
I mean, have you seen anyone make an analysis of
how that happened?

Speaker 2 (14:01):
It was a little wild because and we'll get to
some of the others, but in the witching hour red zone,
they're all a lot of blocks, and including the Eagles game,
never it was there, I mean evers like three and
three minutes and Jordan Davis Eagles kind of I don't
know if it's the last year of his contract, but
they already been talking about him really getting paid. If
I were him, I would have walked straight to the

(14:23):
GM's office after blocking two kicks and beating almost single handling,
beating the Rams with that play, and uh, Sam, where's my.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Did they say it was because the kicker kicked low,
Like I haven't. I haven't heard, and I couldn't figure
out watching exactly what he did that made him get
through Sol.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
We got right through the middle, just straight up through
the middle.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, he got his hand, he got his hand up
pretty high. I mean in another game there was some
nice hurdle but on on the block that he took
back for a touchdown, and he just straight up the middle,
got his hand up, got his and picked up the ball.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
So Jalen Hurts, as Billy said, had gone you know,
two and a half games with without throwing a touchdown
throws a bunch uh there At the end, they looked
to be I don't want to say unbeatable, but I
think that at this point you would say they are
the best team in the NFC by decent margin.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
If I gave you over under one and a half losses,
what do you take.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
I mean, they don't have many tough games coming up.
That division looks like it might have a couple of
teams that aren't going to threaten h much if they
were going to drop a game. I know this was
at home, but the Rams was one of the toughest
ones on their schedule. I think they might be a
one loss team, which is crazy.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
That is crazy, but I think you're right if you
look at it.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
They go to Buffalo, they go to Buffalo, so that's
one where they'll you could potentially that might be the one.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Well even shout out to my man Greg Olson.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Okay, Greg Olsen did that game, and he is so good.
And you know, he got bumped for Tom Brady, which
I thought, you know, like that was a little rude,
like you bring in a guy who's never done anything,
like never well, I mean he did play football well,
but he ever called football.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
With any background and just completed them up.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
I think Greg Olsen, in my opinion, is the best
announcer in the NFL, and I thought he was excellent
on that game. I he does such a good job
breaking everything down. I don't I think he is the
most underrated person that calls maybe any sport, but certainly
the NFL.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
I love him too, and I'm with you on just
putting Brady above him. And I'm like Greg's been a
rising star, He's earned this spot. Let's have him. Everybody
loves him. They got a little criticism the broadcast team
because during a tush push, Lane Johnson got hurt and
they kind of didn't really mention it. So Eagles fans
are all open arms about that looks like he's gonna
be okay.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
But they said it though one point that he was
out thedn't they orboy got hurt during a touch and.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
They just kept talking about just in general the tush push,
and I think people were like, hey, let's talk about
how you know, one of the best Eagles is hurt
on the ground as hurt right now, but he is
gonna be okay. But that was one thing that some
Eagles fans online we're kind of upset about with Greg Olsen.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
But it wasn't quite as like I mean, they succeeded
in it, but it wasn't quite as overwhelmingly effective because
now they finally have to stop false starting, right Like,
they don't get to just keep jumping a second and
a half before everybody else.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Last week, the entire offensive line, it was a false
start on the toush pushes then get called. Today there
was another one, but it was only one guy, so
they're starting to at least wait to snap the ball.
But yeah, it's the toush push, I adn't going anywhere.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Well, good win for the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Exciting game, and you're right, you don't see a whole
whole lot of games end up on a blocked return
kick changing the cover of the game.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
Sorry to the gamblers out there who lost that one.

Speaker 5 (17:47):
What's next, Billy, Well, speaking of blocked kicks, there was
one in this next game in the Packers Browns game,
an ode to Brown Spider and First Lady.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
The Brown snap an eight game losing streak Spider eight
game losing streak dating back to last year.

Speaker 5 (18:01):
At a thirteen to ten victory over a Green Bay,
they scored thirteen points in the final four, they were
down ten to zero. There was a blocked kick as
the Green Bay looked to take the win, tied at
ten and all, but Browns go down the field and
Austin Schmidt hits a fifty five yard field goal for
the win.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
I like, Billy, like doing the radio version of the
game right there, you know, I we didn't because of
the of Manning's passon. We didn't get to do a
show in the middle of the week, so we didn't
get to do our Survivor League picks thankfully, because I
would have picked the Packers.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
And of course the Browns get the victory.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
They're down ten to nothing with four minutes to go,
and then Flacco says no longer wacko and takes them
down the field. They score three times in four minutes.
Pretty epic choke job by Green Bay.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Right, it was, and it was the final leg of
my money line parlay. But you know, the Packers, even
though it was only ten oh most of the game,
never imagine they could lose. I'm like, how the heck
do the Packers only have ten points? But then Jordon
Loved through a horrible interception late in horror, about three
minutes left, Brown's get it at the Green Bay twenty five,

(19:13):
score a quick touchdown, then you get the block field
goal that set up their field goals. So I mean,
just similar to the to the Rams. I mean, the
whole game, you think you have it than just an
absolute melt down there at the end.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Congrats to them.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
And then as for the Packers, that's another one, like
kind of like the RAM.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
I mean, you're going to.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Get to playoff seating and you're going to go, how
could we lose that game?

Speaker 3 (19:35):
At Cleveland? That'll be a big one.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
I was going to say, by the way, when it
was ten to nothing, you got to replace Flacoh with
Dylan Gabriel now, and I guess Flacko probably keeps a
job for a.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Little longer, right, Yeah, he had an interception, I don't
think any touchdowns. Wasn't his best day. But if you
if you beat an NFC contender like the Packers, I mean,
there's no way you can make a move there.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
You can't. You can't make a move.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
No, I just it costs me about five hundred dollars
on a money line parlays.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
So that's all? Is this really?

Speaker 1 (20:01):
Is this KT just gonna be Drew talks about his
gamling Picks show today.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Well this one, this one especially because wait until we
get to the Titans. You don't hear me about the Titans.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Well, I just showing us his car.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Well all day and we won't do all gambling talk.
But today I told my wife, I was like, I'm
feeling it today and every game I bet three times
more than I normally bet and I went oh for seven.
So absolutely got murdered today. But this game, especially in.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
South Africa, that he could fix my phone and it
didn't work.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
So I was, oh for one as well.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Speaking of that for a second, when have you do
you know what the Cape of Good Hope is?

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Do you know what that is?

Speaker 2 (20:46):
I'm familiar with it, but I couldn't explain what it is,
like I reckon like the southern most point.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
It's like the southernmost point in Africa, and you know,
so I went there and right next to right right
next to the Cape of Good Hope is a city
called Simon's Town, Okay, And Simon's Town is an interesting
place because you drive into town and it's the only
city I've ever seen in the world. When you're driving
in town, there's a sign that says, uh, bab boon

(21:13):
watch out for baboons. Now you have to understand, this
is a city. This is not like like it's not
like you're out in the woods. Like there's a grocery
store and there's a restaurant, and there's a beat shop
and there's all this, and then they're like, watch out
for babboons. And I kind of thought it was funny.
I even pointed out to people I was with. I
was like, they think I'm gonna see a baboon like
at the McDonald's. Well you know what, oh you do

(21:37):
the baboo. There are baboons in Simon's Town walking down the.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Street like like just like people.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Like they're walking down the street just and they're it's
almost like they mimic people. I mean, you know, they're
smoking cigarettes and they're making phone calls. And they have
a flood wall on the town I guess in case
the ocean rises or whatever.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
And there was a.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Baboon just sitting on the flood wall just watching people eat,
and the people were watching it.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
And I just thought, what imagine if you were.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
In Lexington and you just saw a baboon walking down
the street, you'd be a little scared. In Simon'stown, it's
just like they're part of the They're just part of
the community.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
That's wild. I have a mental image right now of
like a street corner like it waiting for the crosswalk
sign to change. Like it's a bunch of humans and
baboons sitting there and waiting for the pedestrian walkway. Yeah,
you get to you get to McDonald's and a baboon
pulls the door open for you and lets you go
in first. Are they just on the sidewalk like.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
A they're well, they don't. I don't know that they
follow all the traffic rules. I think they just kind
of go where they want to go. But I mentioned
to the waiter. I was like, you know, there's a
baboon just there on the wall, and he said, oh,
they can mimic the human behavior.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
He was like, they can.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
They will open your backpack and then this is what
he said. They'll go through and find the best stuff
and take it. And I wonder what the baboon is
he talking about the most expensive stuff. It's a bad boom,
like listen, an old computer. I'm gonna get your iPad instead.
But he said that the baboon would like find which

(23:16):
of the things were the best to steal and then
take them.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
They're going and pawning off people's things. I know you're
I know you're not the biggest fan of dogs. Is
it uncomfortable that the bab boons just, you know, roaming
around all around you can walk up to you at
any point.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, I was in the car when the baboon was
like on the wall. But I will say I seem
to be the only person that even had a problem
with it.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
So it's that common.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
Everybody was just like, well, there's Johnny. You know, he's
he's been drinking, and so go give it's an it's
an interesting an interesting part of it.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Well, if only you could get video of this, I'd
love to see it, but uh, you know.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
I wanted video.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
I literally was going up to strangers and like, we
use your phone and then send it to me.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Well, can I tweet from your account? I really wouldn't
want people to see these animals roam around.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Please someone David, all right, Billy, what's next?

Speaker 2 (24:26):
All Right?

Speaker 5 (24:27):
It wasn't the closest game of the afternoon Slate, but
the Bears get their first win of the year.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Matt's team.

Speaker 5 (24:32):
They handle the Cowboys, and Caleb Williams looked good three
hundred yards passing four touchdowns to Luther Burden the third Roma, Doonsay,
Dj Moore, Cole Comet.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Everybody was getting in on the fun. And not just that.

Speaker 5 (24:45):
The defense looked good too. Two interceptions of Dak Prescott.
A big win for Ben Johnson and his first with
the Bears.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Great game for the Bears, and this is my team.
This is the best they've looked in probably three years.
I mean they I thought they played excellent. I thought
they played you know, they played well against the Vikings
too in the first week.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
I'm I'm confident.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's interesting I heard the announcers say that Ben Jonson,
the coach, said, if I was jeered Golf, I would
not like this comment. The announcer said a bit. Johnson
said that, you know, in Detroit, the offense had to
be perfect, and he's had to get used to having
a quarterback who, if the play didn't go perfect, could
still do something.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
If I was jeered Golf, I'd be like, dude, we
went what fifty and two? Why you gotta why you
gotta be like that?

Speaker 1 (25:32):
But but Caleb Williams looked like what we'd hoped.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, I congratulations. They looked not just kind of good,
they looked awesome and including Ben Johnson, dialed up a
wild flea flicker for their second touchdown early in the game.
I actually turned it off in the second halfcause is
getting ugly. But at least in the first half of
what I was watching, they were just gashing the Cowboys defense.
There were so many big, explosive plays. It almost felt
like Dallas was down a man in the secondary because

(25:56):
the Bears were hitting on so much, and I think
in our first podcast of any these I told you
to look out for Luther Burdon and it's taken two
or three weeks now, but finally had a big game,
and I think they're as many more than of those
to come.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
They got a lot of weapons. I mean, I wish
they had.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
I wish they had won that game against against Minnesota
because I think if they were two and one, they'd
be a dangerous team. They you know, they've got a
hard schedule, their schedule if you look at it. They
had to win this one because I think they played
the Chiefs in the next week or two, so they
got a tough thing. As far as the Cowboys, you know,
your secondary team, they're one and two, could.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
Easily be zero to three. Are they just a non
factor this year?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
You know, I didn't think they would be all that good,
but would contend for the playoffs. But if you're losing
respectfully to you met, if you're losing to the Chicago Bears,
a winless team in week three at home, when you
go you got Philadelphia twice, even though they've already played
one of those, that's a loss. You've got Kansas City
on the schedule, you got two with Washington. This is
one of those games in your schedule. Came out and

(26:54):
you're almost counting that as a win. You got to
beat the Bears at home to do anything. So I
think it's going to be a continue to be a
long year, a downward spiral if you came long year.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Yeah, I think the Cowboys are in for a long
win finishing right as the show started, the Chargers get
a twenty three to twenty win three and oh, your boy,
justin Herbert, you know they've beaten three good teams. They've
all been close games, but they've won them all. Are
you are you on the Chargers train? The game got

(27:24):
kind of wild at the end.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yeah. I had high expectations of the Chargers this year,
but at the beginning, you know the three and oh
where they are haven't beaten the Chiefs in Week one,
there was a bit of a surprise. Now getting this
big divisional game, Yeah, they're gonna be a big time threat.
I don't know that they'll be up there with the Bills,
Ravens that group, but you never know. Three and O
with these wins, they might try to join that conversation

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come playoff time.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
And we got a game winning kick from Dicker the kicker,
which is my favorite, my favorite. When you name a
guy Dicker, you gotta hope he's a kicker and you
get the rhyme.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
He's on the team.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Jim Harbaugh and Bo Nicks, I knew college bow Knicks
was going to show up at some point, and he's
done it this year. It's been a big sophomore slump.
Really been a sophomore slump for him. You could even
argue for Drake May, Michael Pennix, really everybody except Caleb Williams,
you know, Jade Daniels unfortunately got has gotten hurt. I mean,

(28:22):
the sophomore slump has been real, and I think it's
been the most real in Bo Nicks.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, and Broncos fans actually had some excitement behind this team.
Maybe not so much in bow Knicks, but they at
least thought they had a good operation. I mean, you
get one win, but it was against my Tennessee Titans.
I don't even know that I would celebrate that one.
But then you've now lost two games. That again kind
of like said with the Cowboys the Colts, you lose
to them, last week their surprise team. But the Broncos
are a team that's probably not going to do much.

(28:47):
They had some high It.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Has been bad.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
I mean, I just I last year, I would see
him play and I'd go, that is not the bo Knicks.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
I know.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
It's he's going to come back to bow Knicks reality.
And that happened, and I'm glad to see it. Chargers
now three to zero and in first place. Back up
as Jared Stidham. So it's not like you know, got
some rookie. It's like you got schador or somebody you're
waiting just you know, unleash them.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Is Jared Stidham.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
He puts out like direct to Netflix Action Movies, Right,
I think so?

Speaker 2 (29:19):
I think so when he's not back in Jared stick,
I believe.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
So. Okay, what's next?

Speaker 2 (29:24):
This was a one o'clock game.

Speaker 5 (29:25):
The Pittsburgh Steelers advanced to two and one on the
season after a twenty one to fourteen victory over the
New England Patriots. The Steelers defense forces five turnovers and
Aaron Rodgers throws two touchdowns, and in doing so, he
now has thrown the fourth most passing touchdowns all time,
with five hundred and ten by passing Brett Farve.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Today with his two touchdowns.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Why are you talking like a like with the internship,
like a nineteen seventies advertising executive.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
In ray, I'm just setting this up how you usually.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Talk like, Why are you fair? You're feeling energetic for
some reason. I am.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
I'm excited we're watching football and getting to talk about it.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Like you you're talking like an old timey rape baseball.
You're like and then it's not how your normal voice is.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
I can go back to monotone Billy, and for the
next one.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
I think I like monotone Billy.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
The five turnovers for the Patriots, Stevenson, the running back,
fumbled it I think eighteen times during the game. They
had to be getting uh. I mean, the Patriots fans
have to be livid that you talk about they fumbled
it twice inside the one yard line.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Yeah, and Drake may had a bad interception in the
red zone. That It's not just that they had five turnovers.
They were in like scoring position on just about all
of them. This could have been a big win for
the Patriots if you just hold onto the ball and
not make that bad interception. May have just.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Far away from winning the game they had, They fumbled it.
Steven Monde Stephenson fumbled it twice inside the one. All
you got to do is hold on to it. I
didn't know who I hated more in this game. You know,
I cannot stand Patriots fans specifically.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
Is it bad that I get joy when Bill Simmons loses?

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Like, well, it's like this is a bad characteristic because
I like him. He's the reason that I got into
this whole business. But how can you like someone and
want their teams to lose every single game so you
can listen and take joy in their misery?

Speaker 3 (31:31):
Is that fair?

Speaker 2 (31:32):
It is because the Boston success that they've all had,
we all have a little sports jealousy of the of Boston.
It's like that famous there's the kid that went to
like all the parades and he takes the posteries like
ten and he's been to ten championship parade or something
sothing like that. So it's I think it's universal to
anyone that's not in the Boston fandom. I think we

(31:53):
all hate him just because we're a little bit of
jealous how often they were winning there for a while.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
So you get the Bill Simmons versus how much I
hate Aaron Rodgers and this game I just wanted to
They kept going back and forth, and I would root
for both of their miseries, but I ended up I
was at the end pulling for the Steelers because I
think they got a tougher treck than the Patriots do
air Rodgers had. They won, but he had a couple

(32:19):
terrible throws, I mean terrible. It'll be interesting when they
get to the meat of their schedule. It's hard for
me to see him succeeding when they played that Ravens
defense and some of these teams going on.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yeah, I keep doubting him, and he keeps proving me wrong. Though,
at least so far this year. I thought we were
going to see a big decline. I thought the age
father time would catch up to him. But he still
got it. There was a moment in this game, though,
that he does. We gotta admit it. Man can sling
it around. He can sling it. There was a moment
in this game where I really really really missed my
peloton guy, Mike Vrabel. Mike Vrabel, he went for it

(32:55):
on fourth and one on their own fifteen early in
the game, down seven and that's he's about the only
come maybe Dan Campbell, but there's only a couple people
that would do something that crazy. And it panned out
and they went the drove down the field. So that
was a pretty unique moment in this game.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Yeah, they I want to give a shout out by
the way, Well, actually, I'll save it for another game.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
What's next, Billy?

Speaker 2 (33:17):
All right, up next, We've got Jets.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Bucks. Stop right now.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
You don't have to be in all you're doing.

Speaker 5 (33:22):
Delala, all right, well we'll find the middle ground here.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Hella, Delilah. I met this woman on the bus.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
I made Mario laugh. We got Mario over in the
corner laughing.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
She was eating the kitcat and I looked at her
and I told her she was my honey.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Go ahead, Billy, all right, my team, the Bucks are
off to their best start in twenty years after a
twenty nine to twenty seven win over the Jets.

Speaker 5 (33:49):
You thought it was going to be easy. It was
for most of the game. It was twenty three to six,
and the Jets score a touchdown. They block a kick
and they return it for a touchdown. They take a
one point lead until Baker Mayfield leads his third game
winning drive in three games, and the Bucks are now
three and zero.

Speaker 1 (34:06):
The Bucks are three and zero. They're exciting to watch.
I'm gonna let you talk here for a second.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
Bill. You're a Bucks fan? Are you for real?

Speaker 2 (34:16):
They are?

Speaker 5 (34:16):
But they're they're injured. I mean, they're they're missing three
offensive linemen. Mike Evans looks like he's got a hamstring injury.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
I mean, and he.

Speaker 5 (34:24):
Has won every single year. They're still waiting for wurfs
and God wouldn't to come back. I mean, Levante David
got hurt today. They are just beat up. So, I mean,
the division is a joke. I mean, if they can
stay somewhat healthy, they'll they'll make the playoffs again and
win another division title. But can they beat the Eagles
and the Rams and some of these better NFC teams.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
I don't know. But Baker Mayfield has turned me into
a believer. No no, no, no, no, no, no Maker Playfield,
Baker play because he's earned it. He's earned that yet
name that we laughed at earlier first QB and NFL history.
He's gone back to back to back game winning drives.
It's been I'm not a Bucks guy, but I've watched
all three of those. He's looking pretty awesome. And how

(35:03):
they's brought him back from every game right.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
Now, guys outside the league guys, so you take.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Away Mahomes, Alan Lamar of the next tier guys, there's
no one in football that when he gets the ball
at the end, I'm more confident in the Baker mayfield.
And that's crazy. I would have never believed that could
be true, but he's it's almost like it's becoming like
Reggie Miller, where he's almost better at the end than

(35:32):
he is during the game, and you have more confidence
at the end than you would in a normal play.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah, I saw a graftcheck. I don't have the exact numbers,
you know, they do the probability at certain points of
the game the Bucks have had.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
Which are all by the way, those are completely hard.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
But I mean just just the image of you know,
we all know it's not accurate, but just to show
how down the Bucks have been all three weeks and
he's let him back. He hadn't thrown an interception all year.
I thought, I guess it was last week though, when
it looked like he got hurt and Gardner Johnson's taught
him and he just gits right back up and he
gets his face. I'm not a Bucks guy, but I
like a maker playfield, and I'm jealous that you have

(36:09):
him and Mika and Buka. Maybe Goodness of the year, Yeah, great,
he had another. He's been great today.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
And a lot of fantasy experts were picking that before
the year, and he's been great.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
I will say, you know, the thing about Baker.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Mayfield is I love to see a dude who has
been like life has just hit him in the crotch
and they get all the way down to the bottom
and then they come back. I think that's a really
I think that's an interesting you know, he was the
top of the heap, number one pick falls down, is
embarrassed as a joke, and then to re have birth,

(36:47):
I think is a is a very cool story. Makes
me root for him, whereas I used to kind of
not be a fan.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Well really it looked like his career was over and
then he gets that one chance with the Rams, a
little with the Rams on like.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
A random fast night they didn't have anybody else, and
then he's just completely changed.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
He had gone to Carolina, didn't look good backing up
the Rams and you're thinking, and well, we've seen the
end of him and he's completely revived his career. Also
it helps you know. They're fun to watch anyway. But
they wore the cream stickles today, Billy, y'all gonna wear
those every week. Those are awesome.

Speaker 5 (37:16):
They're so good and usually they have like a losing
record in the creamsicles, but it was it was nice
to finally get a win.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
It's funny how.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
After time things that used to be terrible become things
you have nostalgia for. So when I was a kid,
the Bucks were awful and the cream sickles were like
an example of why they were awful, Right, why would
you wear this?

Speaker 3 (37:39):
This is a loser thing?

Speaker 1 (37:41):
And now you go all these same thing with the
uniform the Patriots were today, Like those were hideously ugly
uniforms that now they've brought back and people love, even
though the teams weren't even successful when they wore those uniforms.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Well, I have a mental image when the Bucks were
terrible of like they'd have the brown bags and there
was the creamstickle area where the fans and the just miserable,
and forever you would associate with that, desociated with that,
but it is. It's just kind of like we're Kentucky
basketball fans. You know, the denim back in the day
was kind of you know, some people mostly hero back.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Like like, if you're talking throwbacks, what are are the
Are the cream sickles for Tampa Bay the best sort
because because the current Tampa Bay logos kind of boring,
so I've I've long thought they should go back to
the cream sickles.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
They're more fun.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah, I mean, I'm a Titans fan. The Oilers loiler.
There's been kind of a Houston, Tennessee fight over who
actually had that one? I can I like them. I
hated these and when they were current, but the old
Seahawks ones I kind of liked those with the silver
and the little blue and before they went Neon and Navy.
I like those two.

Speaker 5 (38:50):
The Rams back in the day I think had good ones.
Even the Eagles I think have some pretty good old ones.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Nothing.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
It was interesting that they both the Patriots and the
Bucks wore those today because when I think of sort
of old school uniforms that have kind of gotten lost
to history, though, are the two that stick out and
they both ended up happening today.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
What's next?

Speaker 5 (39:11):
Well, five backup quarterbacks started in the NFL this week,
and one of them was Mac Jones for the forty
nine ers as they beat the Cardinals on a last
second field goal by Eddie Pinero sixteen to fifteen. It
looked like the Cardinals were going to get the best
of the forty nine ers when Kalayis Campbell was I
guess he had a holding call In the end, Zona
gave two points to Arizona.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
But you know what, it's going to be a win
for San Francisco sixteen to fifteen. Final score.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
Yeah, there was a major safety at the end. Looked
like Arizona was going to be able to sneak it out.
Arizona loses more games on the last play. Arizona does
not have a game that does not end at seven
twenty five while we were waiting for CBS sixty minutes
and does not end a last second heartbreak more. No

(39:58):
one gets that more than Arizona forty nine ers or
three and zero. I know, I say this every week.
Their schedules really easy. The hardest part of their schedule
was at the beginning, and now they're winning all the
games and they're three and zero. They're gonna end up.
I've said this all year. They're gonna be fourteen and
three and not good. Drew, that's what's gonna be. I mean,

(40:19):
there's still two of these three games been won by
mac Jones.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Yeah, they should be zero to three. Remember week one
they had the catch, they said, the most improbable catch
of the week. You have the Saints who are terrible
are driving last week and Spencer Rattler fumbles and then
this week, you know, last second field goal fifteen sixteen
what is just boring? Score game there too. But uh,
the fact that the forty nine ers have had some

(40:42):
pretty improbable wins so far. It's it's running right into
that record. You're predicting a bad team with a good record.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
They're gonna be fourteen and three and not good. I
cannot wait to bet against them in the first round
of the playoffs. I'm dead serious. They're gonna end up
being like the two or three seed and they are
going to get smashed in the first row game of
the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
I cannot for that moment.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
And you will remember that that is the cover NFL
cover Zeroad moment of the week.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
All right, it's time, Drew, It's forty one to twenty.
Colts beat the Titans this week.

Speaker 5 (41:31):
Jonathan Taylor three touchdowns on the ground over one hundred
rushing yard.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
He had the best run.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
He had one of the best runs I've seen in years,
that touchdown run where four guys had him one on
one and he beat all four of them. I don't
mean to interrupt you, Billy, but that was like one
of the best runs I've seen in a long time.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (41:48):
Leading the NFL in rushing yards right now as well,
cam Ward two hundred nineteen yards, one touchdown, one interception,
But can't do it alone.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Your Titans stink. Yeah they stink. The Saints stink too,
but the Titans really stink. And I knew they were
gonna stink.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
My expectations I thought were at the bottom, and they've
managed to not even match that.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
At the end, you're getting to the point that you're
hate watching them. I like when that happens. Tell me
about tell me about hate watching Oh.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
You know, I guess we're already shopping for number one
picks next year. I'm already looking at mock drafts and
it's mid September, knowing that it's gonna at least have
one of the top two picks. But I have a
lot of friends that go to Titans games season ticket holders.
They're texting me, Brian Callahan got boots so bad. They
were saying, it's like the loudest the stadium has been
in years. With booing the head coach at the end

(42:36):
of the first half, he did like it made you
wonder how this man had a job. This was like
elementary level football, Like if you've even played one game
of Madden, you would know how to handle this situation.
But they've crossed the fifty. There's two minutes left. They
have a first down. You have cam Ward. The crowd
wants you to go for the end zone. You're down

(42:57):
by a little more in a touchdown. You got your rookie.
Let him throw it. They run, run, run, Then they
try to settle for a field goal. This is where
all hell breaks loose. Colts call a timeout, Titans call
a time out. At this point, there's been two timeouts.
They trot out the kicker and get a delay of
game with the kicker after two timeouts, which pushes him

(43:19):
back and which made people go crazy, is that the
Colts were able to get the ball back, which never
should have happened anyway, and then they drive and score
again before halftime. So I know, I know we have
a lot of Kentucky fans that listen. And we talked
about Mark Stoops in the other first half. Mark Stoops
looks like Nick Saban compared to Brian Callahan. I don't
know how that man has a job and he got
to go.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
Let him cooksably bad, unbelievably bad. Yeah, the double time
out followed by delay of game is one of the
great first get one of the great coaching mishaps. And
by the way, our coach Mark Stoops has done that too.
I mean, that is a double time out delay of
game that should be one of those you get fired

(44:02):
at that moment when it happens, and it's not substituting.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
It's a kick, you just tried out your kick practicing
just a wag game.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
I want to talk for a second about by man
Danny Dimes again. I mean I three and oh, okay
three and oher in games that I think they were
predicted to.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
Lose, all three have He's looked great.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
Shane Steichen has him playing the way you know he
had a little bit of period in New York where
he looked like that, but most of the time he
did not.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
The bangs are still cooking. You know.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
He sits on the sideline reading Dostoyevsky in between plays,
which I think is a nice move by him. Gets
a little toll Stoy In the postgame press conference he's
doing I don't know, he's doing. His thing, is Daniel Dimes,
Danny Jones? He gonna be I don't know. They're the

(44:54):
Colts for real.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
You know, the first week because the day was so good.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
He doesn't even have to be that great.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
How about this today in the second quarter they punted
for the first time this season's three second quarters. They punished.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
Crazy.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Daniel Jones also had like a twenty yard run where
he's breaking ankles. It's crazy to this guy that kind
of became able.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
To do that. Yeah, but I mean he's always he
always had that in it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
But I'm just saying he's just out there and it
is against my Titans, But I mean, he looked great
out there, and he's he's kind of listed as a
comeback Player of the Year guy. I think if this continues,
and I'm not saying he would win the MVP. But
the way he's on the ways play so far, we
need to put him onto another tier of where he Yeah,
I'm not handing the war to someone else to have that,
but he need at least needs to climb some tiers

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of quarterbacks because this isn't like a fluky situation. He
has looked really good.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
He has looked he has looked great.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Uh, it's been you know, I'm usually anti Colts, but
I I've enjoyed watching him and I've always kind of
had an affinity for Daniel Jones, so I like, I
like seeing him him succeed before we go to these
other games. Real quick, let me uh, I want to
give you another Sound Africa moment. Do you when you

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travel somewhere do you do you buy souvenirs?

Speaker 3 (46:11):
Like are you? Are you a souvenir guy.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
I'm actually a big postcard guy because I have some
family members that always want a postcard, like when we
do our road trips, I always try to grab them.
So I don't really get stuff for myself, but I
have people that like getting stuff like casual gift, but
not for me.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
So I'm trying to figure out how best do you
know what a do you know what a hyena is,
right of course?

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Yeah, do you.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Know how hyenas are are shaped? Are you? Are you?

Speaker 1 (46:40):
I'm with you, So think about how hyenas shaped, all right?
So I don't ever buy souvenirs. Matter of fact, if
you were to come to my house, you would think
I'd never left my house, like there's no there's no
remnants of anywhere I've ever been or anything I've ever done,
because you know, I'm home. But sometimes when I came here,
I had a lot of people say to me, buy

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me a souvenir, which I think, by the way, is
a very rude thing to say because who wants to.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Carry it all the way? And I don't have kids.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
I'm not gonna get them a penguin, right, So so
you know, but a couple people have asked me for
a souvenir, and and so one of them said, get
me an animal. Well, you know, I'm kind of mad
that they asked me, so like, not getting them an elephant,
not getting them a giraffe, okay, but a hyena.

Speaker 3 (47:31):
Nobody likes a hyena. It doesn't do it.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
It's ugly, got it's big, long shaped and then around
like but it looks.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
Like it's had some back issues, bad posture.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
So I get the hyena, thinking like, okay, there you go.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
That's what you get. You get a hyena.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
You thought you're gonna get an elephant or drafte. You're
getting a hype. And it's like all multi colored and
all this. And I go to go to pay for it,
and it's it's got bedazzles and all that, and they
asked me if they if they if I can wrap
it up, and so they wrapped the whole thing up
in paper and it's white.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
And so you got this long top.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
And then this bulky bottom that you can guess with
that wrapped up, what that might look like, right, long,
slender top, bulky bottom wrapped in white paper and probably
like that long. Okay. So I look at it and

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I go, well, this is unfortunate, but it's wrapped up.
So I put it in my suitcase, don't think anything
about it. Go to the hotel. My passport is in
my bag and the guy says he's got my bag
and he's like, he was like, do you have your passport?

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I was like, actually, it's in that bag. Just reach
in and it's right there. And he reaches it and
he grabs and pulls that thing out. Now want you to
just think about that. You're standing in the middle of
a nice hotel lobby and he pulls that out of
your bag and he looks at me with this mixed
bile and goes, I don't think this is your passport.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
I think you just got to run with it. You guys, say, man,
I'm traveling alone, you know, slowly after in South Africa.
Don't judge me. Do not judge me. The heart once
when it wants. I always say, the heart once when
it wants.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
So he reached the passport. I think he was doing one.
I think he was.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
He was doing it on purpose, and so it's embarrassing.
And now I got to figure out how I'm gonna
get it through custom because they'll go fig your stuff
in customs.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
I don't want this to happen again, Drew. I can't.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
I can skip over just someone making you travel with
this with this thing, because you're still there a little bit.
You know, you've already had packing.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
Here for eleven more days.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
I think it's very rude to ask for a super
Can you give me a right? No, That's why the
answer is no, That's why I'm postcards. They're gone before
I even leave the city. I mail them from the hotel.
They're there when I get back. Easy to do, but
I know I can't walk around hereat. I was in
Europe last year, you know, I was in like eleven countries.
They said, bring me a magnet. Magnet back from every country.

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I was like, okay, but that starts to get heavy
when you get a lot of those and they stick together,
and it's like it's you will never.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
Hear me ask for a souvenir for me? What's next?

Speaker 5 (50:37):
Two backup quarterbacks in this one o'clock game, Cincinnati first
game without Joe Burrow. That didn't look good. Forty eight to.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Ten the final score.

Speaker 5 (50:44):
Minnesota wins, with Carson Wentz throwing for one hundred and
seventy three yards and two touchdowns, five turnovers by Cincinnati
and two defensive touchdowns for the Vikings and defensive back
Isaiah Rodgers, who become the first.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Player about Isaiah Rodgers game for a second, Yeah go ahead.
He scored a interception return touchdown, fumble return touchdown, and
calls two other fumbles.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
I think about that.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
He calls four turnovers it's the most any player. It's
the first time anybody's ever done that, that little combination.
That is one of the more insane performances of all
time in terms of just being able to create havoc.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Right heck yeah, A guy that I think he went
to they said that it's like you master or something
like a small school guy coming in the NFL and
having a game like that. That's got to be one
of the all time performances for defense. That was all
in the first half too. Yeah, it's just I mean,
that's just all in the first half. He was on fire.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
Well he was definitely talking a lot of trash less
said about this game. The better except for Carson Wentz.
You know, quarterback controversy. Forty eight points. It looked amazing.
I mean, you know, JJ McCarthy has had basically one
good quarter, which was the final or quarter against the Bears.

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Second game not good, and then this and then he
doesn't play and Carson Wentz doesn't. I don't know, man,
maybe he's maybe Carson Wentz is the new Baker Mayfield
put him on a different well, I guess it's like
a fourth team.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
But still, no, no, no, not fourteen That's here's what's
funny about Carson Wentz. This is his six team in
six years. It's like sometimes NBA players like a rondo
at the end of the career. I think one game,
all right, Yes, he said that was an NFL record.
Six teams in six years. Has been quite the journeyman.
But you're right. I know they're fired up about McCarthy,
but you have Wentz stepping There had two interceptions today.

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I know defense was a big part of it, but
he really handled it well.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
Yeah. He uh.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
You know, as we've said about him before, he got
engaged at a castle in Versales, Kentucky, and for that
I pull for him. Tough day for the Bengals. You know,
Jake Browning played all right last week. I think once
you have tape on him, it's gonna be tough for them.
With Burrow Owl, I'm not ready to write the Bengals
off yet, but I'm pretty close.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
What's next.

Speaker 5 (53:01):
The Commanders defeat the Raiders forty one to twenty four.
It's next man up in Washington. Jaden Daniels, No, Austin Eckler,
no problem. They've got Marcus Mariota, They've.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Got Jeremy Nichols.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
He wrote that, didn't you.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
No, I didn't write Yeah, he wrote it, didn't he?

Speaker 3 (53:15):
Yeah? Why didn't you do?

Speaker 2 (53:16):
His radio voice though I was talking about.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
You the way you were like, no, there's no way.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
You on the fly said no, Jaden's Daniels, No, Austin Eckler,
no problem, no way.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
You didn't write down.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
All right, Well, you know what, we'll just agree to
disagree with Mario.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
Did he write it down?

Speaker 2 (53:30):
I think he wrote it down, Mario Marson. Mario says
he does.

Speaker 5 (53:33):
He can come look at my notes. But uh, it
was a big win for Washington, and in an odd game.
The Raiders are one and two despite Geno Smith throwing
for three touchdowns.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
Yeah, here's the only thing I care about this game,
my man, Chris Myers starting to get some respect. He
got put on this one. That's respect. When I saw
Panthers Falcons, I thought, see see you then, Chris. No, No,
he got Commanders Raiders.

Speaker 3 (54:03):
And I don't know.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
Where that is on the chart, but I don't feel
like that was one of the worst games today on
the chart. So Chris Myers, after all these years of
having to watch terrible NFC South game after terrible NFC
South game. Got to see this in person. Salute to
Chris Myers. This might be the best game he gets
to see all year.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
You're happy for your boy, Chris Myers. I'm happy for
my boy Marcus Mariota, who I didn't even know was
still in the NFL former Titan. And I don't know
if you saw this, but he took his helmet off.
His hair doesn't have a few grays. It's not kind
of gray. He has full gray. Oh, it is full gray.
Not a little dusting, not a little sprinkle. Mariota is

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Mariota is gray gray. And I was happy he was
still out there having a big game. Films no, no,
he can't be at all. This is a big game
for him too because Chip Kelly is the OC for
Vegas who was his coach at Oregon, so that a
big reunion. So I was pretty pretty excited watching Mariota
have a big day. I really enjoyed him when he
was in Nashville.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Yeah, I mean, the great thing is tough, like when
it happens to you, but if it happens to you
in your early thirties, that would be much worse. You
got it on the beard I get it on the sideburns.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
You know.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
The woman that cuts my hair is like, we're going
to do gray blending, and sometimes it's like seems like
it's more gray when she's done than when she starts.

Speaker 3 (55:26):
So this time I was like, I'm going to South Africa.
I don't want any gray. And I mean I'm not.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Like George Clooney right now in that play when he's
going to do but like it's a little it's a
little darker than it's normally being. So I can't seem
to find quite the balance that we need.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Well, Mary Oda, he can't be much in thirty one
thirty two and he's he's rocking the gray hairy where's it? Well?
Ran into dned Oh yeah, dude, good call Billy. Did
you see that dan Quinn that looked horrible got run
into See that what happened to hit his head on
the on the ground real hard? Be boped right back up.
I haven't seen anything out afterwards, but I think he
was okay, but it looked like it was a nasty fall.

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He got ran over and his head smacked the ground.
Football guy, though he hopped right up.

Speaker 3 (56:10):
Dan quick.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
When I think football guys he's right there. He's right
there at the top. By the way, we've gone this far,
Cincinnati Reds hot the wild card.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
I'm of course here. I saw on.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
The website. Again, I can't get on social media, so
it was on just an old website that the hotel. Yeah,
the Reds have against the Pirates this weekend. They're saying
might be the biggest series in Cincinnati in six years.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
And of course I'm not there so, but let's go Reds.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
Mets get loose, Reds sweep the Cubs, Mets lose three
straight to the Nationals, and now it's tied Drew.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Yeah, it's very fitting that here in South Africa you'd
kind of thrown him the towel a few weeks ago
and they had the bad West Coast swing. You leave
the country and the Reds like Met's gone, let's flip
the switching, and.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
The only guy out playing wells Alley, Like the rest
of the team's playing well.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
They've moved Ellie.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
He's hitting like seventh now because they because he's been
play so badly. So if they make the playoffs, then
I'm here. I'm not going to be thrilled. What's next?

Speaker 5 (57:12):
The Texans are now oh to three after a seventeen
to ten loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. It was Jacksonville's
first home win versus the Texans since twenty seventeen, so
a long time coming. Brian Thomas Junior, who's been fighting demons,
made a big catch late in the fourth quarter. The
next play, Travis atn scores the Jaguars win by a touchdown.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
What do you mean he's been fighting demons.

Speaker 5 (57:35):
Well, people are saying he's scared to go over the
middle or afraid to get hit.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
He's taken a lot of criticism.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
People are you.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
Are you talking to Brian Thomas People with a lot
of Brian Thomas Junior.

Speaker 5 (57:45):
I'd say the NFL media, angry fantasy football owners, just
the general consensus.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
I didn't know. I've known you a long time. You've
never mentioned Brian Thomas Junior to me. I didn't know
you had this strong, strong opinion about it. This was
a changing of the guard game for me. Billy hit
the right stat. Eighth straight years they've lost at home
to the Texans. I picked the Jackaguars to win the
division this year. Coats are obviously going to have something
to say about it. But I think this is a

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passing of the torch from the Texans to the Jaguars
and Liam Cohen's era today, Drew.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
I agree with the passing of the torch. I've still
not sold on Jacksonville overall. I think it might be
more of the Texans just coming down. Stroud did not
look good at all. He had two bad interceptions. Lawrence
was just kind of fine. What I watched this game.
Travis Hunter made a nice offensive play. He got to
catch and then took some ankles, absolutely juke some guys.

(58:38):
But then after the game I see that he played
more defense than offense this time, so they're come into
the bit. I think it was forty three defensive snaps
and thirty seven offensive snaps, so he's really going to
split the time.

Speaker 1 (58:48):
I don't know, man, I don't know if you can
play eighty during a year every game.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
But I like watching them.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
They're actually kind of This wasn't a high scoring game,
but they're kind of fun to watch. And they they
they had a field they missed a field goal, they
had another another kind of weird turnover. I thought they
dominated this game and still in one by seven. What's next?

Speaker 5 (59:09):
We've got two games left and it involves three NFC
South teams. The first game is the Panthers Falcons, in
which Carolina won thirty to zero.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
In that game, another crazy game, the two interception return touchdowns.
Michael Pennix looked off. He looked awful. He was throwing
the ball.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Like an old man, like he was awful.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
You know, I like him, but he's an older rookie
to begin with, and that was one of the worst
performances I've seen from a quarterback for a long long time.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Yeah, to lose to the Panthers like that, I mean,
thirty to nothing. I do have to add here we've
mentioned my boy Manny that passed away, our boy. He
was a big Panthers guy. He even we've talked about
Sir Perr, the mascot. He had a custom Panthers jersey
that said sur Perr on the back. So I was
smiling really big during this game. We're all texting each other,
keep pounding. But what a shocking win for the Panthers

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to bout thirty and shut out the Falcons, who didn't
look nearly as bad until this week.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
Why was many a Panthers fan?

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
You know what? He was one of my best friends,
and I never even got a clear answer for it.
But he was he would, he was always keep pounding
on Sundays, and he had a couple of jerseys. In fact,
at the funeral, one of his pictures he was in
a Panthers jersey. So I did I did smile a
little bit when they won thirty oh today.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
The Panthers could not have looked worse than they looked
last year or last week, and they could not have
looked better than they looked this week. I don't really
understand how that's possible. The NFL is such an odd
league with such high talent and such hugely different performances
week to week, and nothing epitomizes that more than the Panthers.

(01:00:50):
But my takeaway for this game is Michael Pennix. I mean,
I had some belief in him coming into this year,
and I know it's one game, but that was a
brutal performance and he hadn't been great in the first
two weeks either. I'd be a little worried if I
was a Falcons fan about the Pinnix era.

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
Then what's the last?

Speaker 5 (01:01:08):
Finally, the Seahawks defeat the Saints forty four to thirteen.
It was twenty one to zero eleven minutes into the game,
and then it was thirty eight to three before halftime.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Ugly show.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
If you were a Saints fan, what is there to
care about? Is there anything to care about the team
this year? None of the play none of the quarterbacks
are gonna be playing again for you. I mean like
they might be a backup, but you're going to be
drafted a quarterback. So nothing that happens this year is
going to matter. Is there any reason if you're a
Saints fan to care about this season at all?

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
No, not even a little bit. And like I keep
making fun of my team. The Saints are worse. I
mean Spencer Ratler and Tyler shar awful. Yeah, Tyler Shaw
got in the game today through a couple incompletions, but
they were down thirty eight nothing in the second quarter,
Like just go home? What are we doing? I mean,
what are we doing?

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
The they could have scored eighty I no, like for real,
I mean this was they could have scored as much
as they wanted.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
The Saints are just absolutely horrendous.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
And I've been down here with a Saints fan was
in my group and she said she is on.

Speaker 3 (01:02:20):
A plane right now.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
And she asked me to text updates to her because
she could get text, but she couldn't get the game
text updates during the game, and I forgot until about
ten minutes in and it was already twenty one to nothing,
and I just said, you don't want to know, and
she said, are you serious? And I was like, it
just got worse because they scored again. Yeah, that's what

(01:02:44):
she knew about the game. You just you don't want
to know, and it just got worse.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
You should have just sent her, Well you can't, you
don't have your phone, but you could have showed her
there's an insane punt return, Tony Horton. You had two touchdowns.
It was a crazy punt return in that game too,
as they were just piling on them early. That's one.
If anyone watched the second half, go find something else
to do. If you watch the second half from Saint
Seahawk's today, because that game was over.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
She is somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean right now. And
when you listen to this later, Sorita, I'm sorry about
your team. It is really a sad, sad state of affairs. Well,
thank you all very much.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
For listening.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Subscribe, Like, tell your friends. I made the entire group
of non women on my trip subscribe today, just increase
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nice to see you and we will be back Wednesday,

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where I will be probably at the top of table
Mountain recording.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
Oh wow, what could go wrong there?

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Look at look up real quick, look up table mountain.
Look what it looks like. Now you're going to be
shocked to set to find it looks like a table
And that's today. You set a level on that. That's right,
that's the day I'm repelling down the mountain.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
So nervous, Wowell.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
I mean, I'm not excited.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
And they asked, you know, I'm not an adventure god
really and there's a lot of that on.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
This and so the repelling I think they call it
ab sailing here. I'm not. I'm not looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
But you know what, you only live once you got
a try step true, So that's what we're gonna do.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
Yeah, those those non women will teach you how to
do it. That'll that'll be a good look for you.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
I'm definitely gonna look really Mainly, I think I.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
Think you ditched your phones. You'd have an excuse to
not have any video or photo evidence of.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
Right, no video, the phone's broken, Billy, that's it. If
things don't go well, I'll never see these people again.
We don't have to act like this ever happened. Thank
you guys very much. We'll see you next week on
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