Week 1 Wildfire: Upsets, Overtime Thrillers & Fantasy Heartbreaks

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Ooh, what's going on? We got the drums going on at the Deconstructing Topic Podcast.
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Welcome to a new season of the Deconstructing Topic Podcast.
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My name is David and I'm your legendary, legendary host of Deconstructing Topic Podcast.
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And in this new season, obviously we're going to be talking a little bit of the week one football.
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If you love sports, once again, tune in to this little episode.
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Well, even if you don't love sport and you want to learn about football,
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tune in to the Deconstructed. We're going to do a weekly kind of schedule because
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I always remind people, I came to United States illegally just so that I could
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watch American football.
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348, hoot, hoot, let's go. What a week one.
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Crazy week one out there for those people who are keeping scores and for those
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people who are in the fantasy football.
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You took some L's. You took some Dubs. I took a dub. Let's go.
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Let's go. For the second year in a row I got.
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J.S. Ennis. And for those people who wonder who J.S. Ennis, you already know.
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The wonderful wide receiver, Jackson Smith Jigba.
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All right, Jigba and Jigba. Let's go.
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That word right there, that word, if you don't know how to say it,
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you might get in trouble. But the fact is this, beautiful week one,
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crazy week one, threw up football. Football is here.
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We make it happen. Once again, I'm going to do a weekly thing on my podcast
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Yes, in the future I will have a separate channel Sports, comic books,
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and all that good stuff Well,
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I'm going to pretend that I'm into comic books But I'm familiar with stuff there
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that ain't listed But you know what?
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Sometimes I say to myself The Deconstructing Topic Podcast The topic means that
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we're talking about a little bit of it all And welcome once again,
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It is a new season because football is here and it is a new season of my podcast
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where we're just going to probably just going to go crazy.
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And why not go crazy with the first game? For some reason, the NFL now is in
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every damn application, streaming app there is.
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Sadly, if you are one of those people that don't have Netflix and you love football,
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then you might have missed, what is it, Thursday's game between the 49ers and Ram?
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So normally, and in the last...
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My understanding of the over, and I'm sorry about that, the over the 10 decades
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or whatnot, especially with football having its own network,
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is that you have to have football 24-7.
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You know, football's opening night is Thursday, but this year it was on a Wednesday.
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On a Wednesday between, hey, listen, the rematch of a Super Bowl,
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of last year's Super Bowl, that was somewhat of a dud between the Patriots,
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New England Patriots, and the Seattle Seahawks.
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Interesting game. Hey, listen, the Patriots play a little bit better.
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They didn't get blowout.
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They went to Seattle. Seattle getting them rings. You already know. Super Bowl champion.
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But the fact is this. Seahawks defense, just like they did in Super Bowl, stymied the Patriots.
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The final score was Seattle 13, the Patriots 10.
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So it's one of those deals where you just say to yourself, hey,
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listen, are the Patriots going to be the Patriots from last year?
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Are they going to step up or are they just going to go and revert back to the
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old early 90s Patriots or something to that effect?
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Let's see. Time will tell. But Seattle, hey, listen, their defense,
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despite Sam Darnold going down in the first quarter, whatever it is,
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hey, they got that boy Jackson. You already know.
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Oh, I am for real. Let's go.
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But that was the final score, 13-10 Seattle. Drake made with that end zone where,
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you know, people are wondering whether or not he's going to be a good quarterback
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or he was just a one-year fluke or whatever. But let's see.
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Now, we move on to the Thursday game where typically in the NFL,
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we would have a Thursday opening.
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But the powers that be in the NFL, hey, listen, they want to be in every damn streaming app.
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Sooner or later, you're going to have to open an account in two just to watch
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one single game of football, just one game that's not going to be on TV.
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I'm telling you, you know, football's not even on TV anymore like that.
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I'll take it back. It's on the weekend. You know, we got the Fox and CBS,
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and then, you know, you got the, how can I say, the Sunday night game,
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so, you know, Peacock, you know, whatever it is.
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But on a Thursday, the 49ers going against the Rams, which it looked like they
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were playing more like the Lambs, Silence of the Lambs, because everybody in
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the Ram teams was silenced.
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You know what? You know, props to the 49ers.
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And I'm going to say that 49ers have been in the last for over a decade,
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even before, you know, when they had a hardball as a coach.
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The fact that the 49ers have been one of more consistent teams,
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the fact that, you know, with Lynch, you know, the general manager,
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whatever it is, this Ram, I mean, this 49ers team is a well-coached team.
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And, you know, to tell you what this team is, you know, the fact that Brock Purdy, Mr.
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Irrevelling, the person that got picked the last, that not even supposed to
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even touch one minute of football, happened to be the starting quarterback and having to excel.
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I would just want to say shout out to the 49ers because the Rams came here like
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a dream team from whatever team, but it was more like the silence of the lamb type team.
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Final score 49 is 27 Rams 7 A lot to think about And the fact that Miles Garrett,
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They're all American They traded the whole house For this individual That he's hurt I'm just saying.
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But you see, we wake up on a Sunday. That's what football is.
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Don't get me wrong. I love me those weekdays football once in a while.
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But Sundays, where is that? Woo, woo. And Sunday football is one of the most
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beautiful days, I tell you.
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I always say to every church that I've gone to, make sure that you end your
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service at 1130 in the morning.
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And if you want to do some late afternoon service, do it somewhere way late afternoon.
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Way late afternoon For 15 minutes Wait, listen With all props to the good Lord
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Jesus But I'm just saying.
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We need football Sundays Let's go And one of the most exciting games,
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I take a little strip of my little coffee here Got the little coffee love Let's
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go One of the more exciting games is the Saints And the Detroit Lions Which
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went to overtime Hey, listen I got that little red zone thing going on,
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In my laptop with, you know, hey, listen, shout out to, you know,
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the NFL that at least bringing that option and not, you know,
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going crazy and buying the whole NFL package.
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NFL Red Zone gives me the option to flip channel.
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I mean, not flip channel, but watch these channels, you know,
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and these touchdowns or whatever the case might be.
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I'll take it back. The touchdowns and then, you know, the person,
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the host there in the Red Zone just going crazy with the Lions and the Saints.
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The fact that the Lions, who won this game 31-10 in final overtime,
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they were dominating this game, but somewhere in the fourth quarter against the Saints.
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They let up. The Saints came back. They tied it. Well, the rest is history.
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The Saints, listen, they got the ball in a final overtime, but they wanted to
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go for the win. They did not get that two-point conversion.
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That's fine. But these are, you know, you live and you learn.
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But the Lions, once again, I'm one to kind of root for the Lions to make it to the Super Bowl.
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I'm rooting for once, you know, for the last three years, the Lions and Buffalo
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Bills, you know, these are two franchises that I hate. Listen,
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the Lions have never been into a Super Bowl.
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They were known for a championship team a long time ago, way before the Super Bowl.
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So let's go Detroit. But my concern with Detroit, it's always been in the last
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couple of years, is that they played with this, you know, I got to say,
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no pump on the gas type of deal for three quarters.
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And somewhere in the fourth quarter, they fatigued, they tired, boom.
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But the Lions came, and hey, the Lions hold off.
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They persevered 31-30 against the Saints. Let's go, New Orleans Saints.
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We move on to the next game, the Cincinnati Bengals against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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You already know Baker Mayfield with the big dollars doing the dollar sign, all that good stuff.
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But they played horrible in the first half, and they managed to make it a close
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game, which they did. But turnovers, turnovers, turnovers, turnovers.
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Defense couldn't stop the Bengals, but again, turnovers, turnovers.
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The Bengals, Cincinnati Bengals, 33-27 is the final score.
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You know, borrows, change. Hey, listen, Bengals is trying to get that.
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Kind of go over the hump in regards to getting back to being a contender for the AFC title.
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You know, you got a tremendous quarterback. You got tremendous receivers.
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You got a tremendous team here.
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You know, you give up some points here. You almost let up.
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And the Buccaneers, Buccaneers, I don't know. There are going to be a lot of
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question marks in the Buccaneers. But, hey, who knows? In that division,
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the NFC South, it's a wild division.
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Woo, let's get it. Next game, the Ravens. Baltimore Ravens led by Lamar Jackson
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versus the Indianapolis Colts.
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This was an interesting game.
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Lamar, I have not seen Lamar playing loosely in a while.
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And I always say that with Lamar, in regards to the previous coaching staff
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and whatnot, it looks like he was not having fun. He was tense,
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doing a lot. But in this game, he let loose.
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Throwing 18-0 to Flowers, who had like 150 yards. And he's on my fantasy.
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Let's go. In the first half.
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Imagine if he played the second half. He probably would have 200,
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maybe 250. Messing around, they probably tried to break the record.
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But the fact is that the Ravens was playing loose. Yeah, the Colts tried.
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The Colts tried. but they felt a little bit kind of short there.
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But the Colts are in a struggling, you know, kind of run here.
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Last year, I remember they started the year on fuego. People was like,
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okay, then Daniel Jones get hurt, and the rest is history.
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Despite Daniel Jones coming back, it's still the Colts are playing like that
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coach team with the team that have lost like six, seven in a row.
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A team that squander a playoff kind of opportunity there for what it's worth.
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But the Ravens, hey, listen, These are the games that the Ravens,
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Lamar Jackson, and the boys kind of, hey, they take it.
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It'll move on to another game that is one of those games, hey,
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Jacksonville versus Cleveland Browns or Jacksonville. Woof.
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And Jaguars, look, Jaguars, you know, they tend to.
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And I'm going to say that this year they're going to play with a chip on their
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shoulder. They're going to probably say it's this. We need to make it happen.
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We believe in ourselves. Some people question us.
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Some people question Trevor Lawrence. But the fact that the Jaguars came to
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the Browns, the Browns, hey, let's say the Browns is the Browns.
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And you get a win no matter how pretty, how ugly, but this was a pretty win.
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You get it from the Browns.
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The Browns, the Sean Watson and them, I mean, they just, they just,
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I don't know. Did they play football? I think they did. They scored 10 points, you know.
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But the fact that Jacksonville came in here, and once again, just get those dubs.
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Get the dubs that you know you have to get because you don't know down the line
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when, you know, some of these wins could come, you know, At a cause where it's
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going to be a little bit difficult Get them
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early as you can And this is the perfect example The Jacksonville Jaguars 34 Cleveland Browns
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You know 10 Cleveland whatever,
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We got the New York Jets versus the Tennessee Titans These are two teams They
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are not contenders They struggled last year They coming in this year with a
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lot of stuff going on Whatever it is,
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But these are one of these games Where you play And it doesn't matter You take
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these dubs and the Jets showed up.
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Titans, I don't know. Better you leave your heart, Tennessee.
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And the Jets, I mean, the Jets, it was not a pretty game. Not a pretty game at all.
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But the Jets take the win. The Titans, again, the Jets basically,
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you know, struggle a little bit here in terms of, you know, certain things,
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defense and offensive. But the Titans could capitalize.
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And these are one of those games. You take a W. You take it.
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So the Jets 23. The Titans 10. Let's see what happened in game two.
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The Buffalo Bills versus the Houston Texans.
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And it's one of those beautiful games Heading to this game Because the game
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was over there in Houston, Texas The fact that, you know, you kept on saying
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that Josh Allen just struggled against the Texans over there in Texas,
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It doesn't sound so weird You know, Houston, Texas playing Houston, Texas Whatever,
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But then, you know, Josh Allen balled out on this one The Bills win this one
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36-31, it was a good game CJ Stryer, look, these are two contenders We might
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see these two teams in a playoff.
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But these are one of those games that George Allen had to kind of get over the hump.
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The fact that the dude is like one in 10,000, one win with 10,000 loss against
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Houston over there in Houston, Texas.
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Keep saying Houston, Texas. I tell you, I get it.
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I get it. But the fact is that the Bills win. They hold on to it.
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It was an interesting game.
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But the Bills defense came towards at the end. Hey, listen, we'll grab it.
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Get that formal, whatever it is that they got. Bills 36. Hey,
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Bills. Bills is one of those contenders. So a great win like this, why not?
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Why not? You know, you live and you learn.
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Next game is the Steelers and Falcons.
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These are one of those toss-up games. You know, the Steelers' first year in
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a long time without their coach, Mike Tomlin.
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But, yeah, they got Aaron Rodgers,
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who's like 70 years old, who's not looking to retire any time soon.
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So he might be one of those players that might be in the Hall of Fame while
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playing at the same time.
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This probably might happen in NFL one time Gotta look into that I think it was
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a kick or something like that,
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But anyways Steelers win this game 20-13 Against the Atlanta Falcons The fact
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that this was what A little bit of the ugly game These are one of those ugly games that.
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It was ugly but yet pretty And the Steelers win by being the Steelers And the
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Falcons lose by being the Falcons basically,
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You know, you squander a league, whatever it is, the Steelers capitalize,
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defense, run the ball, whatever, hey, it's there.
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The Steelers win. That's what matters.
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Get those first up. Get that first up. Start the year with that,
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hey, one win and zero loss. That's how you start the year. Let's get it.
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We got the Chicago Bears, the Bears, versus the Carolina Panthers,
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and what a wild, wild game.
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If you tell me that the Panthers will score 37 points and lose,
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then you'll be like, okay, how much the other team scored?
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38, 39? No, 59.
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The Bears, 59. The Bears and the Carolina Panthers, 37.
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You're going to see these two teams. These two teams are interesting,
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especially Bryce Young, who picked up in his career, then struggled.
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Now Bryce Young is playing with confidence, but you know who's playing with some crazy confidence?
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That kid from the Bears Khalid Williams Khalid Williams,
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I'm going to be off the bat. I've been watching football for three decades,
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and the Bears and QB are not a thing.
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So the fact that you got this young quarterback in the helm in Chicago,
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listen, you put in 59 points or whatever your, you know, three touchdowns,
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whatever your dead age, Bears are going to be scary.
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They're going to be scary, I'm telling you.
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You know, especially in that NFC. NFC, the NFC is the NFC.
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But 59 to 37, gee. What the hell is that? A college football or a college basketball
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score? You know, where's that?
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But the Bears get that win. That's what it matters. Because this is what week one is.
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You get that dub. Then you got the Packers versus the Vikings.
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Interesting game, interesting game, interesting. Because the Packers is winning.
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Kyle Murray from Minnesota Vikings get hurt. What is it? In the second, whatever it is.
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What is it? The second draft, you know, Kyler Murray gets hurt.
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Crazy hit. Well, it's legal or not. That's besides the point.
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As people already know that Kyler Murray, Kyler Murray is 5'5",
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and when he puts a uniform, he's 5'6".
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With all due respect.
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But it's little frame in the NFL sometimes, you know. And once he went down,
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and I'm like, okay, here it goes, Vikings.
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And Packers was dominating. Boom, boom, boom. I think it was like 19 to zip
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to score. Then out of nowhere, Carson Wentz, the backup quarterback,
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veteran, start throwing it to Justin Jefferson. Start throwing it to everybody.
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Start throwing it to Jefferson again.
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Start throwing it to everybody. Start throwing it to Jefferson again.
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And the next thing, the Vikings put on 39 points.
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And the Packers had no answers. They were like, oh, okay. I guess JJ's back,
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meaning Justin Jefferson.
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Because, hey, he needs the ball. and pass them the rock.
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So the Vikings, they came in there. I mean, it looked like, again,
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in the first quarter, first whatever it is, it looked like, oh,
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we're going to have a Vikings, another Vikings.
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We're kind of, I'm not going to say, season. And, you know, they're going to
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be talking about the quarterback position. And you got this plethora,
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good receiver, especially Justin Jefferson. But whatever.
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That's the situation. Excuse me. That's the situation with that thing. Vikings get a win.
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Then we got the Las Vegas Raiders versus the Miami Dolphins,
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or what I like to call them, Miami Tuners.
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But the fact is, this is one of those games.
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Both franchise, you know, look into whatever it is that they look into,
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moving on with new, fresh blood.
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But the Raiders is the Raiders, and the Dolphins is the Dolphins.
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It was one of those games that either way, somebody had to win, and they needed a win.
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And the Raiders were a better team. physically, you know, running the ball,
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the quarterback position. You already know Cousins and all of them.
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And the Dolphins just had nothing.
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The Dolphins looked like a shell of a team that, you know, they looked different
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because, again, we were used to the, you know, the Mike McDaniel 2 or whatever,
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you know, kind of team that was scoring like 30, 40 points but still squandered the league.
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You know, now we got a Dolphins team that is called 13 and obviously giving
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up 27 is never a good thing.
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So the Raiders get this dub. Hey, listen, early in the season,
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week one, you take those wings.
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I think this, the next game, is the little upset of the kind of week in a sense.
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The Arizona Cardinals versus the Chargers. We heard Chargers.
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We heard Chargers all over. You already know. Chargers got a good team.
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Can they get over that hump? We don't know. But Cardinals with Jacoby and them,
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hey, listen, they put 26 points.
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Chargers looked a little bit lost on that kind of game. And I'm like,
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are they actually going to come back? Are they actually going to play?
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But the Cardinals were just like, nah, nah, nah, nah.
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And they get the win. I think it might be the upset of the weekend in a sense.
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So that's where the Cardinals is at. Hey, 26-14, you take it.
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Don't matter, you know, whatever, a good team.
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If the Chargers is a good team, but the fact that they didn't play good and
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you beat them, you take that.
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Next game, the Eagles versus the Commanders. Good game.
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It was an interesting game because it was very competitive, but the Commanders
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fell short against the Eagles.
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24-22 But the Eagles is a contender The Commanders You already know now The QB is back,
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And let's see what the Commanders do But the fact that they fall short And it
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looked like there were You know Times that they probably could have Just gone
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over the hump Take a lead You know Stomp on the Eagles But you know The Eagles
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is the Eagles What can I say?
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Jalen Hurts All those people What can I say?
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You can never count them out And against your NFC East rival an opponent that
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you play twice a year you take a dub because that's very important.
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And then the Sunday night game between the Dallas Cowboys and my New York football
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Giants interesting game the Giants win 28 to 20 when the Giants beat the Cowboys
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let me tell you something,
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we don't beat the Cowboys like that and I've maybe there was a time where we,
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might have some matchup where we were beating the cowboys but for the 30 years
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that i've watched football,
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probably a little bit more. I'm going to say that 80% of those times of the
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years, the Cowboys has beat us twice. Remember, these are two NFC East rivals,
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so they played twice. You know, you already know, got the home-and-home game.
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But the fact that the Giants, it was an interesting game. It was one of those
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old-school pound and ground and, you know, whatever it is, and then, you know, the defense.
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You know, both defense, especially in the second half, which is strange because,
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you know, both teams just had the ball like maybe twice or three times in the second half.
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And those two or three times they would score, especially the Giants, I'll take it.
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But the defense was no call, no show in regard to the second half.
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But again, the Giants winning against the Cowboys is big, especially your,
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rival, your NFC East kind of thing because it's just like the Eagles,
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you beat your NFCA, you take those dubs because that could be,
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you know, No difference down the line if you become a playoff contender.
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So let's go, Giants. Let's go. And finally, the Monday night game between the Chiefs and the Broncos.
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You already know the Broncos is coming here with some high expectations,
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super high expectations.
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And they went to Kansas City as if their expectations was better than the team
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that still had Patrick Holmes and Kelsey or whatever it is. The Chiefs are the Chiefs.
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And every year they're going to be a contender.
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And the Broncos are coming here with high expectations. Don't forget who the Chiefs are.
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They represented the AFC. They have won Super Bowl.
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In the last 10 years, they won, what, three Super Bowls, whatever it is that they won.
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The fact that they repped, the fact that they still got the key players,
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the Broncos forgot that. I think a lot of people forgot that.
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You know, probably people are expecting the downhill of the Kansas City Chiefs,
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but not on Monday night. They put in 31 points, Broncos, 10.
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Broncos just looked at like, what the hell happened here?
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We're the young, hungrier team, but they just face the more veteran,
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better coached because, you know what, the Chiefs has a ship on their shoulders
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us like, hey, listen, AFC, we haven't forgotten.
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Remember who got the chips? Remember, we come there every once,
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every once, every two, three years, or whatever the case, and maybe this is
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that one year that they all head back to the Super Bowl. But let's see.
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But that's what's going on in week one. Crazy one out there for those fantasy
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football lovers. Hey, I had a dub. Let's make it happen.
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Some wild stuff. I mean, we're going to go to week two. Like,
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okay, Hey, if week one gave us that, well, imagine week two.
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I'd be just going to go back and just be like, okay, whatever.
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