Full Transcript for NFL Power Rankings After Two Chaotic Weeks

field. 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:38.560 And everyone needs to hear this. 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:45.360 There's a 99% chance Caleb Lewin would beat the fucking shit out of you half asleep with R's hair. 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:51.360 He would beat you to the death of couch warriors or stop calling NFL players pussies. 00:04:51.600 --> 00:05:01.279 He got attacked a million times last year, and he stood up every time and put out a campaign that we all finished the season going, oh man, he was this close. 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:06.560 So everyone really from the bottom of my heart shot the fuck up. 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:12.399 Nobody wants to hear your couch position on him being on his uh his ability to be tough or not. 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:12.720 Okay. 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:13.839 Yeah, he got emotional. 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:14.959 Who fucking who? 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:16.000 Get over it. 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:17.759 Um, I'm really glad he's not hurt. 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:19.839 I'm really glad he's not severely injured. 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:29.920 Yeah, I mean, I was I was um definitely gonna affect my bathing toaster when I thought uh when I thought that he was Achilles. 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:33.360 The text message I got was well, that was fun while it lasted. 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:35.360 Dave was in the top end. 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:38.079 I was not in a good place when I thought it was his Achilles. 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:41.360 Well, the thing about the Achilles is that's not season, that's career altering. 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:46.560 You know, it literally changes the way that they process the game because that that fear never goes away. 00:05:46.879 --> 00:05:47.279 Yeah. 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:48.959 Anyway, I'm glad he's all right. 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:58.800 I I just I wonder what we can do to keep the commodities on the field that isn't like over protection rules and you know, not let them get sacked or whatever. 00:05:58.959 --> 00:05:59.519 You know what I mean? 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.319 Like I don't Isn't that what we were supposed to be doing right now? 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:08.560 I thought we were told that if we sh if we took away the amount of games, we gave them more time on the practice field, that we were gonna see less injuries. 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:13.279 It feels like, and I don't have stats to prove it, it feels like we're seeing more injuries right now. 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:15.040 So I don't know what the answer is. 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:20.319 I don't know if you if you extend training camp to get them more time in the actual facilities. 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:24.639 I don't know if you take all the games away and just make it joint practices. 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:26.399 I I really I wish I knew the answer, but I guess. 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:27.360 I like that idea. 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:40.959 I also had the idea of, and I know they're never gonna do this in a million years, completely unrealistic due to the revenue, but I had the idea of you go back to 16 games, but you make the final preseason game like a half a game, like you make it a tiebreaker game. 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:50.959 So it's like who it like if you're down to a division winners with their same records, if one won their final preseason game and one didn't, then that gets you over the line. 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:57.680 It's it's kind of NBA playing uh mid-season tournament thinking, but I think it might work. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:02.480 Um I don't I don't give a shit about the preseason. 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:03.759 I'm probably never going to. 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:12.480 I'm still uncomfortable with the 17-game season only because it took me so long to already have the math of everyone's records in my head. 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:14.879 So now I have to add a game to that. 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:17.839 I'm like, wait a second, it's not 11 and 5 anymore. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:19.360 I don't I don't understand. 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:23.279 Uh my my gray matter had already hardened in that area, so I don't know. 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:27.759 But yeah, I mean I appreciate your your staunch defense of Caleb Williams there. 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:33.040 I personally don't give a shit what anyone has to say about him, and I find that to be such a luxury. 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:35.040 A luxury I've never experienced. 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:37.439 Like knowing your guy is good. 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:44.959 Knowing your guy is good is a is a luxury I've never come across in my Chicago Bear quarterback watching life. 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:47.120 Like I quite like it actually. 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:51.279 I I think the the comments sections, he's Gen Z, man. 00:07:51.360 --> 00:08:00.160 Like, he's gonna be reading this shit, you know, and like I think I know what I know about him, and I honestly think he might throw for six touchdowns when he comes back. 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:14.720 I don't think that's gonna be against the Eagles, but uh what what I like about it personally is that the guys I've watched play quarterback for the Chicago Bears don't get made fun of this virently because nobody was scared of them. 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.319 And at the end of the day, is that a real gun? 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:24.000 Uh no, it was used in it was used in a uh in an armed robbery though, so I kept it. 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:25.759 Cool. 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:26.720 Alright. 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:29.920 Um turns out you can take evidence home. 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:33.120 Um what was I saying anyway? 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:38.879 Um, yes, I think that Caleb Williams is awesome, and I'm so fucking relieved that he's not hurt. 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:45.279 I really was in a bad place when I thought it really, really was in a bad place, like spiritually. 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:47.919 It hurts it hurt me to watch it happen. 00:08:48.000 --> 00:09:06.240 But I also

think the thing that we have to consider is you know, you have to consider the the bottom line of the owners in this situation because Robert Kraft owes a lot of money to the IDF, so he has to make sure he's selling popcorn in August and in September and in October, because he can't be ruined Mackelmore's career if he's not doing that. 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:07.200 So keep that in mind. 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:09.679 Shout out McAllamore, shout out Sean Sharif, Udam. 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:17.120 Honestly, a fun thing, a fun thing that Bobby and I always used to do when we uh when we did the power ranking show together, because I was a Bears fan, still am. 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:18.320 He is a Cowboys fan. 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:22.799 Now he's a fan of like the pink monkeys that he sees floating in the sky or whatever is going on with him. 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:37.360 But Cowboys and Bears, we would kind of do a little section where I would talk about my team and he would talk about his team before we launched into the greater pool, which is usually occurred because neither team was in the top 10 or honorable mentions a lot of the time. 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:40.399 And uh that's probably not gonna be the case moving forward. 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:48.159 But considering, spoiler alert, uh the Bears and the Patriots are right next to each other at 16 and 17 on your on your overall power rankings list. 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:50.639 I mean, we might as well take the time to talk about it. 00:09:50.879 --> 00:10:01.279 I think we've had quite similar experiences this season, except what happened to you in game one happened to me in game two, uh, as far as like losing and really not looking good. 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:03.840 Yeah, we should really clip my reaction to that, by the way. 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:04.960 We should clip that. 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:05.840 Sure. 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:24.879 Um the and then obviously the reverse when we get back to to uh Chicago just stinking up the place against the Brian Flores' blitz, but now that's two teams that have done that, so I don't know how worried about that I actually am, especially interdivisionally, and really unfair in the Minnesota Vikings, by the way, to make you play two divisional opponents back to back to start your season. 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:27.039 Like people care about them. 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:38.879 Um the nice thing for me and for you, I would believe, is that I've already decided that my guys are good. 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:43.440 I've already decided that Ben Johnson is a football psycho, he's gonna be awesome. 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:45.679 I've already decided Caleb Williams is sick. 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:50.480 I don't care that people are like mad that he was emotional, that he thought he might not play. 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:57.919 What I will say for you is there's this scary win for uh season from hell possibility forming for you right now. 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:00.320 I think the chain of events goes like this. 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:02.320 And correct me if I'm wrong or tell me if I'm missing anything. 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:11.919 It's Vrabel is the dominant NFL story of the summer with his affair with sports writer, journalist, uh, by the way, Marks, Diana Rossini. 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:12.720 Absolutely would. 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:15.600 I mean, it's a Monica Lewinsky situation, you know. 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:19.039 Uh you give it a few weeks and all of a sudden everyone's like, eh, it's fine. 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:28.320 Um, what it did do though was severely damage her reputation because of the sad reality that uh when women do something wrong, they get punished a lot harder for it. 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:29.919 Then again, journalistic ethics. 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:30.879 We're not getting into that right now. 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:34.960 The fact of the matter is, side note, if I were a girl, Vrabel would so you know. 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:36.399 Oh, Vrabel. 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:38.559 Yeah, I could see that being your type for sure. 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:39.440 You want to feel safe. 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:41.600 You want to feel safe. 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:43.519 You want to be helped, I want to be helped. 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:46.639 You want to know that if something happened, like he would protect you. 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:47.120 I get it. 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:47.519 I understand. 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:48.320 Safety is important. 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:50.720 Safety is a human right, for God's sake. 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:55.600 Uh, something everybody seems to generally agree with, except for Robert Kraft, it turns out. 00:11:55.759 --> 00:12:01.840 It turns out safety's a human right if you're anyone but a small brown baby in Gaza. 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:12.799 So he was mad that Mac Lamore said what I would call the least inflammatory version of a speech about the worst atrocity occurring on the planet right now. 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:14.879 And that's just that's not me saying that. 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:17.519 That's the United Nations and the International Criminal Court. 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:18.559 Here we are. 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:24.799 The the the pendulum is swung, the culture is no longer shaming you for saying what's happening with your eyes. 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:36.720 Here we are, except if you're Robert Kraft, like I said, he took a shockingly little amount of shit for uh the decisions that he made in order to kick McLamore off that tour. 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:40.639 But it this is a sports podcast, and we're gonna talk about it, Matt. 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:49.039 And I want you to have your platform, but I do want you to talk about it in the context of the year from hell, New England Patriots. 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:52.080 Now, that being said, you also lost the Super Bowl, Super Bowl hangover. 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:58.879 That happened

before the whole Racini Vrabel thing, and the whole Robert Kraft is a um is a completely soulless monster thing. 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:00.320 Zionist piece of shit. 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:00.639 Go ahead. 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:06.240 Now you're now you're in this position where you lost your first game, but you bounced back quite effectively, I thought. 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:09.440 So tell me your overall feelings on the Patriots so far. 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:10.879 You you have the floor. 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:11.919 I'm pretty low. 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:12.799 I'm pretty low. 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:13.679 I I agree. 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:20.240 Yeah, I thought I was gonna see a high-powered offense, and right now I'm seeing a lot of rocks in the in the head of Drake May. 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:21.759 Bad decision making. 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:25.200 Um, our our left tackles are right guard, that's a problem. 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:27.840 Um is an issue. 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:29.919 I think we should discuss that further, but it's so bad. 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:31.440 They're so bad. 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:41.039 I just really wanted to watch AJ Brown catch a lot of touchdown passes um because I I you know I've been trying to catch that Randy Moss first year uh feeling again for the my entire life. 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:42.320 Uh I'm not gonna get that. 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:42.960 That's fine. 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:43.759 That's fine. 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:48.480 Uh but uh man, I I I'm happy to watch the defense flying around the way they are. 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:48.879 I am. 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:57.759 It's just um beating up on Aaron Rodgers at 43 with a fake girlfriend doesn't feel uh like I'm watching a team that I want to play the Ravens. 00:13:57.919 --> 00:13:58.480 You know what I mean? 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:03.279 And they're going to play the Ravens, and uh they're gonna play the Bills twice, and it just doesn't. 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:11.840 I I like the thing I know the writing on the wall here, and I'm really gonna put a lot of chips in my bears basket because I think the Patriots are gonna break my heart again pretty severely. 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:12.559 I think this is a team. 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:14.399 What makes you say that? 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:19.200 You were you were just you were just in a great place. 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:23.840 You're you were you're a Super Bowl contender by by all by all checks and balances here. 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:25.679 Like that, I don't understand what you mean. 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:35.200 You have your franchise guy, you have a coach who's a proven commodity, there's a a myriad of great players on your team. 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:42.320 I'm of the opinion, I don't think I'm saying a hot take here, I'm of the opinion that you have the best secondary player in the league right now on your team. 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:51.200 Um, if I was gonna pick anybody to come and revitalize the bear secondary and I could have my choice contracts notwithstanding, I I would take Christian Gonzalez in a second. 00:14:51.360 --> 00:15:02.080 And the and the fact that uh you guys went up for negotiations with him, I thought you were about to do the dumbest thing of any team in a in a contract sense in in the in the offseason. 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:03.519 So and you didn't. 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:12.000 You just paid the guy, you paid your best defensive player, you paid your difference maker, you played who I would argue was the best performing player of the Super Bowl. 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:14.720 I that's what I would say, despite the fact that they lost. 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:18.799 And again, I don't think I'm saying any hot takes here, um, but I love a guy like that. 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:21.279 And I and I I just don't see it this way. 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:30.879 It's been two games, like you're such a f if if your power rankings are any indication, the the wild swings of of some of these positions, uh you're such an overreactor. 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:39.360 Uh like it's it's the conversation's not gonna be off this in a couple of weeks, and you're still gonna win 10 games this season and have a chance in the playoffs. 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:40.639 That's really all you need. 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:42.720 Yeah, I wanted like 15. 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:48.399 Um I'm just you know, I'm just really low on that AJ Brown injury. 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:51.200 And uh how long five, six weeks? 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:52.000 Yeah. 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:52.720 Yeah. 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:53.840 Six weeks ago. 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:54.320 You know what? 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:57.600 He shouldn't have acted like such a bitch about it on the field if he wasn't gonna be done for the season. 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.320 I gotta say, let's not let's not go throw an ouchie's around, okay? 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:01.519 Let's not go throw an ouchies around. 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:06.000 Um, it's just the offensive line I don't think is gonna hold up. 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:09.600 I think that we're we're two injuries away from having one of the worst in the league. 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:13.279 Um, I think Drake's showing a lot of really poor decision making early on. 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:15.200 And it's he's young and it's early. 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:18.399 Um I just you know, to start off as high as I did. 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:22.559 It was a really steep fall, so I gotta climb back up, and they're not helping me really. 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:26.799 But yeah, the defense looked good, I guess, against Aaron Rodgers. 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:28.639 Wow. 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:31.519 Um, I didn't know it was gonna be so depressing. 00:16:31.759 --> 00:16:34.399 You really haven't recovered from that H round injury. 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:35.679 That's that's tough. 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:37.679 Um I've done it.

00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:38.080 Okay. 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:47.200 Well, I think it's time for us to take a little journey, a little, a little picnic basket into the forest that is the rest of the National Football League. 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:53.759 You are so kind in making your full 32 power rankings list when you make it. 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:59.440 Bobby the lazy son of a bitch, he only ever uh did the top ten and and and really never had to answer for his crimes. 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:03.919 Well, in all fairness to me, there's only one person up here, so I've got some time to think. 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:04.960 Um true. 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:07.039 I mean, there's a lot of conversations to be had. 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:09.440 So who has the time? 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:20.319 Um I'm gonna break it up into tiers, and the very first uh I just think it makes it a little bit easier to digest because there's a lot of similarities in the teams in different places here. 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:29.599 I do think there's people in positions that aren't they're not gonna be, or a couple I hope are not gonna be in in the positions that they are for the remainder of the season. 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:31.279 I think there's still a lot of time to change. 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:34.880 I think the first few games, you're gonna see a lot of movement, right? 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:37.519 Because the NFL is an incredibly unpredictable sport. 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:41.119 It's really hard to know who's gonna be really good and who's not. 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:44.160 The chargers are a conversation I want to have in that vein. 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:48.240 Um, I I really didn't think they were gonna just absolutely suck, and I'm really starting. 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:49.279 I'm not 100% there. 00:17:49.359 --> 00:18:00.799 I'd say I'm nine, ninety percent there, nine out of ten there, that it might just be they might just not be good, that that Justin Herbert, I'm I might have liked him because he's in fact Jay Cutler, 2026. 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:01.680 Like, I don't, I don't know. 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:11.519 There's a there's a conversation we have, but first, we have to talk about the tier that I'm gonna call possible cross-offs from here uh moving forward into the rest of the season. 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:18.720 I'm looking at the bottom of your list here, and I'm gonna take the Falcons, the Dolphins, the Commanders, and that's it. 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:26.799 I think those are the three, the bottom three you have here, I think makes complete sense to me as a possible cross-off contender. 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:30.240 And I honestly feel like we missed last week. 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:37.359 And as a penance, I do think that we should probably put our flag on a crossoff team. 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:44.240 A cross-off team for those who don't remember last season or the season before it is a team that we are personally guaranteeing is not gonna make the playoffs. 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:46.160 We are personally guaranteeing it. 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:53.359 It becomes a game where we'd like to have all the cross-offs crossed off before it's mathematically impossible. 00:18:53.519 --> 00:19:02.000 So we don't want to cheat towards the end, but oh my gosh, if we have to uncross off a team, the embarrassment is it's palpable. 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:04.960 So there is actual stakes at failing at this. 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:26.480 Now, unfortunately, I think I was probably much more reasonable about this in the past few years because I'm currently doing a podcast with a person who has encouraged me to do probably 12 of the 17 worst decisions I've made in my life have probably come through your encouragement since uh you know the the eighth grade. 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:28.319 So I would love to know. 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:29.119 You're welcome. 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:36.880 So I would love to know, uh, Matt, would you like to really fight a corner on one of these three teams to go bye-bye? 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:46.799 And I I I would just ask that it's not the commanders yet, because although Jaden Daniels went down, that's just gonna be a depressing cross-off, and and I think it's incredibly premature. 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:48.640 We both have to agree, we both have to agree. 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:49.519 Okay, fine. 00:19:49.599 --> 00:19:56.880 So, based on the fact that we've got Caleb and Drake in our corners, let's not cross off the commanders because I don't I think it's even that juju. 00:19:57.839 --> 00:19:58.400 Right? 00:19:58.640 --> 00:19:59.279 Exactly. 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:00.720 Let's not piss off Jaden. 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:01.839 Plus, I think Jaden's. 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:05.200 I have been so nice about Drake May this entire fucking time. 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:06.640 I've been nice about Caleb, man. 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:10.160 It's a complete I think I can influence the karma play. 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:12.960 I I'm getting that keeping together. 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:13.599 Yep. 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:16.640 There's something in there that that bonds them. 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:19.920 I should we cross off two because now we're two weeks in. 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:23.039 The Falcons can go. 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:24.799 Falcons can go, dolphins can go. 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:25.759 The Dolphins can go. 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:27.039 They can both go. 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:27.839 They can both go. 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:29.920 We're crossing off the Falcons and the Dolphins. 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:31.119 Let's talk about why. 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:34.319 Um explain to me why. 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:40.720 We know why the Miami Dolphins are crossed off because they they entered the season intentionally as a cross-off team. 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:45.359 They've got more dead cap space than a guy with a hat too big on him uh has. 00:20:46.000 -->

00:20:46.559 It's terrible. 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:49.599 It's a 10-gallon hat of dead cap space. 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:55.680 And I don't think that that is a tenable situation, and thankfully, neither does the front office in Miami. 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:57.519 Like they're doing a full reset. 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:04.480 So, all things considered, I I don't really give a shit to talk about them for the rest of the season because they're not participating this season. 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:08.480 You know, like they're they're on the fucking physically unable to perform list at this point. 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:18.559 So it might be funny a couple of times, and they might earn some radio time if they win a game they shouldn't win, if they're in competition at the bottom, that would be funny. 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:23.920 If uh if they perform hilariously bad, if someone drops a record amount of points on them, if they truly go 0 and 17. 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:24.319 I don't know. 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:25.519 Anything could happen. 00:21:25.839 --> 00:21:27.920 Right, but but interception, butt fumble, who knows? 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:29.440 Something like crazy might happen. 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:34.400 I'm not, it's not a cross-off of never being discussed, although that is a lot of the time what it means. 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:39.599 It's a cross-off of playoff contention, and the Miami Dolphins are not a playoff team this year. 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:45.920 So if you'd like to say anything to sign off on them for the for the season, barring any, like I said, newsworthy moments, please. 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:47.200 Uh, but the floor is yours. 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:48.720 If not, we'll move on to the Falcons. 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:54.000 To the players and the fans, here's the good news you're already in golf weather, so go enjoy. 00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:55.599 That's nice. 00:21:55.759 --> 00:21:57.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:21:57.359 --> 00:21:59.759 Uh, you know, I mean, there's the red zone. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:02.240 Has all this action going on from around the league. 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:06.480 You don't need to just watch the Miami Dolphins on Channel 4 or whatever it is you do. 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:07.759 But here we are. 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:10.960 We're going to go talk about the Atlanta Falcons. 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:23.920 What to be said, other than an NFC South team that I guess has never truly recovered from that game against New England. 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:29.839 Like they've never really looked, like there seems to be some sort of like horrific culture change since then. 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:30.720 Yeah. 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:35.279 There's a quarterback disaster there, and I don't want to bring up a sensitive subject. 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:37.119 All they do is turn the ball over. 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:41.440 I don't think they have a terrible roster, but they look anemic on defense. 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:47.039 Um, they've not had a single play in the red zone all season. 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:49.519 Now that's only two games, but also that's two whole games. 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:52.240 It really sort of depends how you look at it. 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:56.480 Um their intended QB situation, obviously, was Michael Penix Jr. 00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:58.400 He's working back from the ACL. 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:00.640 Tua got injured right away. 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:02.079 What did you expect? 00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:05.119 Cooper Rush, I mean, what what are we doing here? 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:11.279 Like it's literally the 229 passing yards, one touchdown, four picks through two games. 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:19.519 Carolina, we will come on to talk about borderline and honorable mention with how they performed so far this year, despite uh one-on-one record. 00:23:20.160 --> 00:23:22.480 I don't think that was a factor here. 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:24.079 I think anybody would have kicked their ass. 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:24.319 Yeah. 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:30.799 Um, I'm very confused because I do like, and I think you do too. 00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:37.519 Well, it's considering a game that has not been released yet, you you may you build a really fun narrative around Michael Penix Jr. 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:38.400 Right. 00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:42.559 B J Jan's on everybody's fantasy team, probably went top three. 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:44.960 Drake London is a f is a fan favorite. 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:46.000 I really like him. 00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:49.440 Kyle Pitts, another nice offensive weapon. 00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:52.400 B Jan's the only reason they move at the ball at all. 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:53.119 At all. 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:59.440 This minus six turnover differential, it's it's shaping up like uh like a Jets-like record uh to be coming up. 00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:00.960 And it's not, we never took it away. 00:24:01.119 --> 00:24:03.279 It's maybe it might be we gave it away more than anybody else. 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:12.880 So what is it with this Falcons team who who have players featured on fantasy teams around the league who who do exist in the zeitgeist of football at this point? 00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:15.039 And and yeah, their division is is turgid. 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:19.440 So maybe there was a couple people saying they might actually do something this year, but I'm ready to overreact on these guys. 00:24:19.519 --> 00:24:19.759 I don't know. 00:24:19.839 --> 00:24:20.400 You feel me? 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:22.160 Here's my position on it. 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:26.400 They don't have a strong leader as a coach, they don't have a quarterback behind them. 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:32.799 What's going to happen here is they're the locker room is gonna turn on them before Michael Panics can put them on the field in the position to win. 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:34.880 The defense is gonna be

exhausted, they're gonna start. 00:24:35.839 --> 00:24:38.160 That's tomorrow that that's happening, apparently, though. 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:39.519 Yeah, we'll see. 00:24:40.160 --> 00:24:40.960 We'll see. 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:42.880 He's still gotta go out there and do it. 00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:44.559 We can't cross them off yet. 00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:45.599 We're crossing them off. 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:46.079 They're already off. 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:47.440 Hear me out. 00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:48.480 No, I mean, yeah, no, no, no, no. 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:51.519 It's like when you take your hand off the piece and chess, it's not until we record the show. 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:53.039 All right, I'll let we release the show. 00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:55.359 All right, fine, then we gotta cross the Browns off then. 00:24:58.799 --> 00:24:59.279 Wow. 00:24:59.440 --> 00:24:59.680 Okay. 00:24:59.839 --> 00:24:59.920 Yeah. 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:01.680 Jesus Christ, this is interesting. 00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:01.920 All right. 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:03.119 30 allegations. 00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:04.319 See, that's that. 00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:05.759 30 allegations for their quarterback. 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:06.799 We can cross the Browns off. 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:08.480 Why are they the 24th team? 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:09.759 Why are they ahead of the Cardinals? 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:11.839 They've got two talent on their roster. 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:15.680 You need a quarterback. 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:17.599 You can't win this league without a quarterback. 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:18.400 You have to have a lot of things. 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:19.279 We can still make trades. 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:20.720 You can still make trades. 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:23.759 You can go get Anthony Richardson. 00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:28.160 Oh, right. 00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:28.559 Yeah. 00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:30.960 Um that's fair. 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:32.559 That's fair, fair point. 00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:35.920 Um, no, we're just gonna cross off the dolphins and be done with it. 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:36.960 It's fine. 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:38.079 It's our first cross-off. 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:38.960 We shouldn't do two. 00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:40.079 I'm not a pussy. 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:41.440 It's a long season, trust me. 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:42.160 I've done this before. 00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:43.599 Okay, fine, fine, fine. 00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:46.079 Um so there you go. 00:25:46.160 --> 00:25:47.680 The possible cross-off list is done. 00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:51.759 I I mean, I guess the Browns might maybe could have made it, but you confuse me by putting them so high up. 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:54.720 Um, I'd be interested to talk to you about the Buccaneers. 00:25:54.880 --> 00:25:57.680 Well, did you expect this coming in? 00:25:57.759 --> 00:26:01.440 How how big of a swing has this been in your in your power rankings so far? 00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:06.720 I I thought they were gonna be much better than being featured at 29th on your list. 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:10.319 They lost their offensive leader and they look like it really bad. 00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:13.279 I mean, Baker's not up to stuff right now. 00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:17.200 And I don't know if it's the injury, if it's the OUI, I don't know if it's having another kid. 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:18.319 I don't know what his deal is. 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:22.480 Does not look like Baker last year that people were talking about a potential MVP run from. 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:24.400 Something's up there. 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:25.440 I mean bad. 00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:27.440 They lost their offensive leader. 00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:28.880 Yeah. 00:26:29.759 --> 00:26:30.240 Yeah. 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.359 Losing losing to the Browns is bad news bears, dude. 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:40.240 Yeah, uh, you you can't you can't be losing to the Cleveland Browns if you're if you're a Buccaneers team, everybody was tapping to make a playoff run. 00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:41.920 They're 0-2. 00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:44.319 They haven't been 0-2 since 2014. 00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:44.799 Did you know that? 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:54.480 That's this is the first 0-2 start since that in 12 years, which is actually kind of shocking considering I never consider them that high like to achieve a stat like that. 00:26:54.720 --> 00:27:00.720 Um, Baker, like you said, he's got less than 400 yards in one uh passing TD through two games. 00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:04.880 Oh yeah, I kind of thought he was gonna go back. 00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:08.559 Like he'd go up against Cleveland and and and prove something. 00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:13.200 He looks uncomfortable in the system, he looks really hesitant in the pocket. 00:27:13.359 --> 00:27:15.839 He's trying to extend plays instead of getting the ball out. 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:19.119 It's very like Caleb Williams year one kind of mistakes. 00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:21.839 Um, and the passing concepts seem complicated. 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:25.200 They seem like they're not developing properly for him, and that sucks. 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:28.000 They shot them their own dick off in week one. 00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:34.880 Um, they again, turnover differential, they're cough, they coughed the ball four times and gave Cincinnati point after point. 00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:40.160 You but you essentially help Cincinnati have a strong start to the season, which hasn't happened since the fucking Dust Bowl. 00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:45.839 And you're like you're doing everything you can to change the typical narrative around the Bengals. 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:54.319 And against Cleveland, they didn't cough the ball up as many times, but they can't finish drives. 00:27:54.400 --> 00:27:55.759 Uh they they can't. 00:27:56.000 --> 00:28:00.640 I've seen this in Bears teams, I've more rarely seen this in in

Pats teams. 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:07.039 Getting there and not being able to get the job done, you know, a little, a little like you know, you're fucking, but you're just you're not gonna come. 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:08.319 Like you had too many whiskeys. 00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:10.960 Like there's nothing, you there's nothing you can do, babe. 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:14.000 Like, uh, we just gotta call it a night if we're both good here. 00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:16.319 You always regret that last line, don't you? 00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:18.160 Yeah, yeah, exactly. 00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:20.319 Yeah, that's that's that's the way it is. 00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:29.680 Now, Buck Irving, uh the defense held Cleveland, but like I feel like me and a few of my friends might be able to do that. 00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:33.359 Atlanta is fundamentally dysfunctional. 00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:36.640 Tampa looks like they're playing bad situational football. 00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:38.160 I'm not ready to give up on this roster yet. 00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:39.759 It's only been two games. 00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:45.599 I think they're not devoid of talent, you know, like a point, a point you made uh about other teams earlier. 00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:48.720 They're just they kind of just look like they forgot how to win football games. 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:51.359 And I I think if they could, it's stuff they can clean up. 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:58.960 So I I don't think that they will languish down here at the bottom in 29 and your power rankings, but I'm not saying they don't deserve to be here for that reason. 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:05.920 I if I had to raise either team, either Atlanta or or Tampa, I probably would pick Tampa. 00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:11.839 Um I'm ready now to have the conversation about the Chargers, a team that we both whiffed on. 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:16.799 Uh we we agreed really hard in the preseason power ranking show that they were gonna show us something. 00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:19.839 We've always been Justin Herbert fans, the Harbaugh factor. 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:24.480 There's been a myriad, there's a myriad of reasons to like that the Chargers. 00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:33.279 There's kind of the second team, the plucky underdog in LA, but it they're looking a little more clippers these days, and I don't understand what's happening. 00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:35.519 The McDaniel thing, you overpaid for him. 00:29:35.759 --> 00:29:36.960 I've always liked him. 00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:42.480 So again, I was high on the on the Chargers, and it doesn't look like he knows how to communicate with his quarterback at all. 00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:44.319 It doesn't look like he knows how to coach him at all. 00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:46.319 So far, so far. 00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:49.440 Um, Herbert Books fucking lost out there. 00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:50.720 Lost, man. 00:29:51.119 --> 00:29:56.240 There's a lot of really high round draft picks on that offense that's just not producing. 00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:58.640 So what the fuck is going on here in Los Angeles, man? 00:29:58.799 --> 00:29:59.839 Do I hear a bad stat? 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:00.960 A really bad stat. 00:30:01.119 --> 00:30:08.400 They're the second team since the merger to be favored by six and a half points or more in each of their first two games and lose both games. 00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:10.480 The second team since the merger. 00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:11.759 That's not good. 00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:15.279 That means everyone was high on them, and everyone's confused if this is happening. 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:16.799 So even Vegas. 00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:18.480 Vegas has even lost on them. 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:19.440 So where's the problem? 00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:20.640 What's happening here? 00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:22.640 Yeah, something's broken there. 00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.960 I I don't know what's happening again uh to this to this fucking team. 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:38.000 I guess my synopsis would would sort of uh land somewhere within I I mean if there's any sort of outrage that that they're sitting here at at 28, I understand. 00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:46.480 I mean, I think this is low, but I also think that I wasn't I wasn't shocked shocked when I saw it at first because this is this is bad. 00:30:46.559 --> 00:30:48.240 I mean, it's been a fucking mess. 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:57.039 They they brought Mike McDonald to replace the last guy to modernize the offense because it looks slow, and his name was Greg Roman. 00:30:57.200 --> 00:31:09.200 And the the 11 and 6 record last year going into losing to fucking Arizona, who again we could talk about them, like they're the maybe bad to good team this year. 00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:13.200 We we could see they they've basically had the opposite trajectory of the of the Chargers. 00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:16.880 But Herbert's lines are bad, man. 00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:20.160 You know, two TDs, three picks, 401 yards total. 00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:27.279 He's been sacked six times against uh I keep calling him Oakland, but against Las Vegas, he was pressured on most of his dropbacks. 00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:31.359 The line is bad, and it doesn't look like they're it's a it's a personnel issue. 00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:35.200 It looks like they don't understand their blocking schemes, which is a really bad sign. 00:31:35.359 --> 00:31:39.440 I mean, I I think you can fix that as the year goes on, but like you gotta hurry up. 00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:43.200 It's very Cincinnati Bengals at the start of every season, they just don't look ready. 00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:45.680 So, you know, maybe, maybe we see something. 00:31:46.079 --> 00:31:47.279 It looks like a playoff roster. 00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:48.319 It looks like a playoff roster. 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:52.480 You can't point to the guy who's got so many early round draft picks in there, you know. 00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:53.920 I

mean, it's a real thing. 00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:57.359 Um, Herbert's is he just bad? 00:31:57.839 --> 00:31:59.279 No, I don't I don't think he's bad. 00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:04.880 I think he doesn't have the right coach behind him making an offense, and I think he's not being blocked for properly. 00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:08.160 And I think it's a little bit of everything that's going wrong for them right now. 00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:09.599 It's still a great roster. 00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:10.480 I still expect them. 00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:14.240 They I would not cross them off the list five weeks from now if they were 0-5. 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:18.000 So I still think that they're dangerous, and I think their division allows for it. 00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:22.480 Um it's just man, this is not this is a historically bad start. 00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:23.359 All right. 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:25.759 A quick, a quick devil's advocate. 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:34.240 And Joku's out, Fibula, uh, Charlie Kohl Kohler had surgery. 00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:38.799 They have a left guard that's out, they have a nose tackle that's out. 00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:41.279 He's gonna miss some time, it looks like. 00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:41.599 Yep. 00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:48.880 Um, uh Rashawn Slater, groin injury, Pipkins, Lamakonke is coming back from that rib issue. 00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:49.440 That's something. 00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:55.039 I don't know how much you rate him, but those first two losses were supposed to be easy points in the schedule. 00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:57.039 And I and I it's it's bad. 00:32:57.119 --> 00:32:59.119 It's it's contextually quite bad. 00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:04.640 They're about to go play Buffalo, Seattle, Denver, Kansas City, LA, and Houston. 00:33:05.359 --> 00:33:06.240 In that order. 00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:12.880 Like, that's a very, very real, very, very real 0-8. 00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:16.319 That's that's a fully possible 0-8 Chargers season. 00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:30.000 I don't think it'll happen, but they could have been, you know, with a schedule that tough, if they came out of their first eight games, four and four, everybody would have been like, that's the strongest four and four team we have. 00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:37.680 Because they, yeah, they had two of the two of the four teams they beat, but they beat two of the six toughest teams in the in the league. 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:46.720 If they if they take two games from any of Buffalo, Seattle, Denver, Kansas City, Rams, or or Houston, those are two, you've seen something in those games, you know? 00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:47.359 Yep, that's true. 00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:48.880 Now, and that remains true. 00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:49.759 That remains true. 00:33:49.839 --> 00:34:02.000 If they make a good account of themselves over the next six games, this conversation is moot, it's dull and void, it's it's in the ether, it's fugazi, but I don't think they're gonna is the problem. 00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:11.119 So I I don't mean to be immediately out on a team I had I was high on preseason, but damn, I'm I am worried though. 00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:16.800 Um J-E-T-S, Jets, Jess, Jets, Titans, Cardinals, Browns, Colts. 00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:33.119 Yeah, we're getting into this middle-of-the-pack scenario here, but the thing that really jumps out at me, Matt, is that last week I named less than 21 teams that I would have ahead of the Green Bay, or 20 teams that I would have ahead of the Green Bay Packers. 00:34:33.199 --> 00:34:35.760 And now here they sit at 21 in your power rankings. 00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:45.039 So it sounds like you've come around on the frailty mentally of the Green Bay Packers, of the how little we actually support Matt LaFleur. 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:48.000 We're out on this offensive coach and his terrible decision making. 00:34:48.159 --> 00:35:02.639 The the terrible omen that is the referee getting on the stadium mic and saying they're gonna take the points off the board, which was uh hilarious uh to take that tone while announcing the role. 00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:05.119 Like even the ref was like, I don't know what the fuck they're doing. 00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:11.440 Fail at converting it on fourth down and then proceed to give up an embarrassing comeback against the Minnesota Vikings. 00:35:11.679 --> 00:35:14.000 Um, yeah, I don't know. 00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:18.000 I don't know if they are better than a few of these teams that are in here now that I'm looking at it. 00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:21.679 This might seem incredibly unfair to the folks at home, but I don't know. 00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:34.800 Is it completely beyond the realm of possibility for the the LA Chargers to turn around and beat the Green Bay Packers next week if they if they if they so could if they were playing? 00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:38.559 Um don't the don't the Packers have the Thursday night game? 00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:39.440 I believe that they do. 00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:39.920 They do. 00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:42.320 So either we're gonna see them again really, really soon. 00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:44.880 Oh, they're playing the Falcons, another team we just talked about. 00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:45.760 The Thursday night game. 00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:52.800 If the Packers lose to the Falcons, I am going to shit on them so fucking hard. 00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:55.519 It's also a single possibility, Matt. 00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:56.639 It's it's a real thing. 00:35:56.800 --> 00:35:59.840 Um what made you drop these fuckers all the way down to here? 00:35:59.920 --> 00:36:02.000 Give it, give me, give me a few seconds on it. 00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:11.760 Because the okay, so the Jets earn their spot over the bottom teams because they're at least playing, they're winning the way I would expect a rebuild team to play. 00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:17.039 They're playing dirty, they're keeping teams in their uh mindset, trench

warfare there. 00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:27.599 The Packers are even missing out on Park Parsons and Jacobs, should not be in a dogfight with a team like the Jets, who's uh massively undertalented compared to them. 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:30.159 I don't care what your offensive tackle situation is. 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:34.480 The Packers should be handling that team every time they play them. 00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:35.440 And that didn't happen here. 00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:37.679 It took them to overtime Minnesota. 00:36:38.239 --> 00:36:40.239 Really, really, that was an embarrassing loss. 00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:47.360 This team looks lost without Jacobs and Parsons right now, but uh they are without Jacobs and Parsons, your two best players. 00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:56.079 So I have to give them at least that deference there that if they when they get those players back, this team becomes formidable again, at least they could become formidable again. 00:36:56.320 --> 00:37:02.880 Again, easily a team that could drop the ball here and and lose the locker room, and that would be the end of their season. 00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:06.000 If they lose this week, I don't care that you don't have Josh Jacobs. 00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:10.800 If you lose to the Falcons with that quarterback situation, you're in big, big trouble. 00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:15.840 I'm gonna call that tier like, oh, we might be worried. 00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:17.360 They should be worried. 00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:23.280 And uh, and there's a few teams in there that I think at least one of the teams we've just talked about in the last few minutes is gonna bounce back. 00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:24.480 It's gonna have a bounce back season. 00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:25.519 I'm not sure who that would be. 00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:31.920 If you were to guess, between the ones that with a with possibilities, I I'd say the Falcons are a possibility. 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:33.440 I'd say the commanders are a possibility. 00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:35.760 How bad is Jaden Daniels' injury? 00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:38.480 I don't think we know yet, but it didn't look good. 00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:39.599 It sure didn't. 00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:41.840 He looks kind of frail. 00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:46.480 Um, I guess I'm still gonna say maybe, you know, maybe we get good news. 00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:47.280 Hopefully we get good news. 00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:51.760 Buccaneers, it could turn around, chargers, it could turn around Jets, they look a little friskier than I thought. 00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:55.440 Of I'd say from looking at your list, Steelers on down. 00:37:56.000 --> 00:38:01.199 Which one of these teams do you think could actually have a real bounce back situation occur if you had to throw your lot behind anybody? 00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:02.400 Packers. 00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:03.760 Yeah, it's probably true. 00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:04.719 I mean, it's probably true. 00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:12.639 I I'm I I I

have fun with my aggressive bias, but yeah, they're they're easily the most likely team to actually bounce back and start to have a good season. 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:17.440 Or if you're talking about a team like the Cardinals, maybe actually sustain. 00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:18.880 I don't think they're gonna though. 00:38:18.960 --> 00:38:20.639 I still ownership problem. 00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:28.239 Yeah, I mean, I think it's been fun, but I do want to give them a couple of minutes because honestly, they're at this point they're a winning team. 00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:36.639 So they deserve to be talked about, but I also at the same time understand why they're in this 20 plus tier that we're discussing at the moment. 00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:42.480 So um yeah, I mean they got absolutely fucking rocked by Seattle. 00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:46.639 Like that's but that's I don't think there's anything wrong with that necessarily. 00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:49.840 They looked a little frisky, they didn't look terrible. 00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:53.039 Oh I thought week one was legitimately impressive. 00:38:53.199 --> 00:39:02.000 How impressive will probably be directly determined by what the Charger season looks like over the next few games or or many games, depending all things considered. 00:39:03.280 --> 00:39:04.639 The Marvin Harrison Jr. 00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:05.599 thing is an issue. 00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:08.400 Um, I don't know if he's uh good. 00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:09.440 What the fuck? 00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:10.639 What do you think is going on there? 00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:11.280 Uh I don't know. 00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:14.159 One catch for 33 yards through through two games. 00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:15.519 That is staggering. 00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:17.360 Um he's not getting open. 00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:18.239 He's a big boy. 00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:21.519 He's not getting the space he needs, he's not getting the looks either. 00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:22.880 That's you know, obviously. 00:39:23.039 --> 00:39:26.320 But man, he's he was uh he was slated high. 00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:27.840 They were saying Julio Jones. 00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:31.440 They were saying like like we're gonna see glimpses of DK Metcalf here. 00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:33.039 I'm not seeing glimpses of shit. 00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:34.960 Yeah, yeah. 00:39:35.119 --> 00:39:35.840 That's tough. 00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:39.920 Maybe they'll get him going, but maybe I mean defensively, I wouldn't panic. 00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:49.519 They they had Seattle held to seven points at the half, which I think a game and a half from that that that defense, that overall perfor game and a half performance, pretty fucking good. 00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:50.960 They were playing the champions. 00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:52.239 There's really nothing you can do about that. 00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:56.000 They're a definitive top two team, which however you slice it, probably number one right now. 00:39:56.079 --> 00:39:59.599 If you if you really think about it, it's between them and the Bills. 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:06.800 They're not broken, they're not dysfunctional at that point, I don't think, but I don't know if they have enough juice. 00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:09.039 I just don't know if they have enough juice to sustain. 00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:13.360 I think that they have some some players that want to win, and I think that's cool. 00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:16.239 I just I mean, it's a problem. 00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:17.519 They're about to play San Francisco. 00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:24.159 You could really say whatever you wanted about them right now, and and it's gonna remain true for at least one more week, all things considered, with the San Francisco 49ers. 00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:24.880 What do you think? 00:40:25.119 --> 00:40:27.039 I yeah, no, I completely agree with him. 00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:28.559 I completely agree with him. 00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:29.440 All right. 00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:31.519 Uh, moving right along. 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:33.199 How about them Panthers? 00:40:33.519 --> 00:40:34.880 Oh man, crazy. 00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:37.199 I was high on them at the beginning of the season, man. 00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:37.920 Were you? 00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:38.800 Yeah, kind of. 00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:40.559 What did we put him in our prediction show to remember? 00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:42.000 I'm sorry, right now, hold on. 00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:49.519 We had Bryce Young went out there, looked pretty fucking good against Caleb Williams in week one. 00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:50.400 That's a real thing. 00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:52.960 I get that they just played the Falcons in week two. 00:40:53.199 --> 00:40:57.039 That's not that doesn't really mean anything, but the offense was really good. 00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:01.920 And like, yeah, they didn't put up any fourth quarter points, but a large part of that fact is that they didn't have to. 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:06.960 They're they're one and one, and they looked pretty good for the first three quarters against the Bears. 00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:12.320 They went into uh oh, so sorry. 00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:14.079 Um I got totally distracted. 00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:18.079 Um, they looked pretty good in it, like they put up 37 points in that first game. 00:41:18.239 --> 00:41:22.079 I think Bryce Young finally looks like the guy that they thought that they drafted. 00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:25.840 I really thought it was all over for him after that those first two seasons. 00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:28.400 I did not think he was gonna bounce back to this to this level. 00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:39.119 Tet looks good, Jalen Coker looks good, uh Legette looks good, Chuba Hubbard looks good, Darren Waller caught two fucking touchdown passes on Sunday. 00:41:39.360 --> 00:41:45.039 That's a pretty credible supporting cast to have around Bryce Young, and he seems really comfortable with his

guys. 00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:50.400 He seems like he might actually, I mean, I think they could win nine games this year, especially in the division that they're in. 00:41:50.719 --> 00:41:54.320 They have an issue, they have a worrying issue on the defensive side of the ball. 00:41:54.480 --> 00:42:03.679 It's it's probably not as extreme as some of the sports media are making it out, but um despite some injury problems, is Bryce Young good? 00:42:03.840 --> 00:42:04.960 I guess is my question. 00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:07.360 Like this is what we talked about weekly in Cleveland. 00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:09.920 Are we starting sort of like, all right, all right, Bryce? 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:10.960 Like, let's see. 00:42:11.199 --> 00:42:11.840 It's encouraging. 00:42:11.920 --> 00:42:12.960 That's what the word I would use. 00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:14.639 It's encouraging to watch him go right now. 00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:17.920 He's a little fella, he doesn't have a lot of support in his line. 00:42:18.079 --> 00:42:19.679 They look like they're ready to play. 00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:20.880 I love that. 00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:24.559 I feel really bad for the Giants, man. 00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:28.079 That's I mean, I don't agree with the guy's politics, but I never want to see a guy hurt. 00:42:28.159 --> 00:42:47.599 And I I think to go from the high that they had in week one, where they look like a genuine Harbaugh built battering ram, a team that had really bought in to what was being espoused in the culture all already, to see Dart get that injury and to hear that it is definitively season ending. 00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:50.480 I am my heart's broken for the New York football Giants. 00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:53.280 I mean, I really thought that I was it was the position I was in. 00:42:53.679 --> 00:42:57.679 Listen, they're in one of the most they're one of the most fun divisions in football to watch. 00:42:57.760 --> 00:42:58.559 It sucks for all of us. 00:42:58.960 --> 00:42:59.840 It's crazy, isn't it? 00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:01.280 I hate the Giants. 00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:02.000 I hate the Giants. 00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:03.519 It sucks for all of us. 00:43:03.599 --> 00:43:08.320 It's a better league when they're ground and pounding on Dallas and they're ready to play. 00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:08.960 This sucks. 00:43:09.119 --> 00:43:10.800 They still have a very talented roster. 00:43:13.199 --> 00:43:14.320 Yeah, let's see, I guess. 00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:17.280 It's just it's the same thing that happened to him last year, so I just feel kind of bad. 00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:24.639 I I thought that their issues this year were gonna be like Cam Scadaboo is gonna just piss John Harb off so much that he didn't use him as a weapon anymore. 00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:25.440 You know what I mean? 00:43:25.519 --> 00:43:26.719 Like I don't know. 00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:27.199 We'll see. 00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:31.280 Um you know, Jackson Dart did has a little

bit of culpability here. 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:36.400 Right before week one in an interview, you said, I don't know, it feels like every time I get hit, I end up in the tenth. 00:43:36.559 --> 00:43:38.400 Like, dude, don't put that in the ether. 00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:40.320 Have you not heard of the football gods? 00:43:40.400 --> 00:43:41.440 Don't say that out loud. 00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:42.480 What are you doing? 00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:45.840 I know you're tempting, you're tempting fate there for sure, for sure. 00:43:46.559 --> 00:43:48.079 We did the Bears and the Patriots already. 00:43:48.159 --> 00:43:48.639 Thank God. 00:43:48.719 --> 00:43:50.960 Um I don't want to talk about them. 00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:55.679 I mean, I'm I'm looking at the middle of your list here, and it looks it seems pretty reasonable, man. 00:43:55.760 --> 00:43:59.280 I I the Jags dropped quite a significant amount. 00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:09.679 Um The Ravens that this this tier is making me think the Saints are too high, but the the the this tier is making me think a little bit like we still don't really know anything. 00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:13.039 I mean, I know that's not great content, but we really still don't know anything. 00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:20.239 I'm looking at these teams and I kind of keep being like, mmm, wouldn't make it there's a few teams down the bottom that I would make a definitive call on either way. 00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:25.440 Now I'm in a position where I'm looking at these teams and I can't make a definitive call on them whatsoever. 00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:29.360 Like the Vikings are the front runners for the nobody wants to play them awards. 00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:34.800 Like they're they're easily the like, oh it's yeah, we might beat them, but God, it's gonna look so annoying. 00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:38.000 That seems to be the brand, yeah, and like that blitz is crazy. 00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:41.360 That seems to be the brand of football that they're producing, and I and I I have respect for it. 00:44:41.519 --> 00:44:42.639 Honestly, I've always liked Flores. 00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:44.719 I always thought he was a good defensive mind. 00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:48.800 Um, and I thought it was bullshit that he didn't have a job for a while, the NFL's racist. 00:44:48.880 --> 00:44:50.480 So Ryan Daybo. 00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:52.639 Yeah, it's that's bananas. 00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:56.159 Um, and you know who gave him his first uh job back when he was a praiah? 00:44:56.239 --> 00:44:56.880 Mike Tomlin. 00:44:57.360 --> 00:44:58.800 So just something to say there. 00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:01.199 Maybe maybe not such a bad guy after all. 00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:03.119 Maybe not God the shit. 00:45:03.840 --> 00:45:05.280 How's Aaron Rodgers doing watch this year? 00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:07.199 Yeah, that's gonna, they're gonna be a tough watch this year. 00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:07.840 How is that? 00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:08.960 How was she watching that? 00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:10.320 Tell me, tell me that work. 00:45:11.280 --> 00:45:12.320 How does that work? 00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:15.280 Um tears. 00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:17.280 Next time catch the tears for me, send them to me. 00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:19.599 I don't like I don't like when she's uh upset. 00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:23.440 I I don't like when she doesn't when she doesn't uh see her team win. 00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:25.840 But it's gonna be a long year, man. 00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:26.400 It's gonna be a little bit more. 00:45:26.639 --> 00:45:30.320 Yeah, I just want to let you know, I really do enjoy it when you watch Steelers lose. 00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:30.800 I'm sorry. 00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:31.440 So go on. 00:45:32.239 --> 00:45:35.440 I mean, she got to watch them win in Gillette in person because of you. 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:40.719 I think you well, I think you secretly were like, oh, I would love to send them in here to watch the Steelers lose. 00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:42.079 Of course that's what I want to see. 00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:44.000 Of course that's what I want to see. 00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:45.760 It didn't go that way. 00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:47.440 That's funny. 00:45:47.679 --> 00:45:50.800 Um are there any really interesting teams to talk about? 00:45:51.119 --> 00:45:55.360 No, I guess I I you could you could roast me for having the Texans up so high. 00:45:55.440 --> 00:45:56.480 That defense is scary. 00:45:56.559 --> 00:45:57.440 I don't care what anybody says. 00:45:57.519 --> 00:45:59.199 I'm not gonna I'm not gonna doubt them yet. 00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:00.960 Who? 00:46:01.519 --> 00:46:01.920 Texans. 00:46:02.000 --> 00:46:03.519 I have Texans at 11 at own two. 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:05.599 Um I still have faith in them. 00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:06.239 Yep. 00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:10.800 I think I think CJ, I think CJ Strad's the issue. 00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:12.400 Oh, yeah, clearly. 00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:14.559 I was way too hot on him at the beginning of the season. 00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:16.239 That defense is scary, man. 00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:17.199 They fly around the field. 00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:18.159 I swear to you. 00:46:18.639 --> 00:46:20.000 The fastest defense I've ever seen. 00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:21.360 They're so fun to watch. 00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:27.519 It's it's really I whatever happens, they're gonna top the if we if we I should start doing uh watchables. 00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:29.760 I should start doing a TV power rankings. 00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:36.639 You do the if they're good, I'll do the the the top 10 at least um most watchable teams, and like I'm gonna watch the Texans every week. 00:46:36.719 --> 00:46:39.679 Like, I just am it's it's gonna be a lot of fun that defense. 00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:42.960 Up until up until now, I would have put the Giants on that list too. 00:46:43.039 --> 00:46:44.320 They're a fun offense to watch with the game. 00:46:44.480 -->

00:46:45.679 I would have put them up there too. 00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:48.880 I mean, the that battering ramp style is like a lot of fun. 00:46:49.039 --> 00:46:52.239 Like he really he really built a tough team in one offseason. 00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:53.039 I really like that. 00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:56.000 I I don't think they were not tough last year. 00:46:56.079 --> 00:46:58.719 I I just think that they were badly schemed. 00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:04.960 So I just I thought that this was gonna come together, like not this quickly, but then Dark got hurt, and it's like, damn, that sucks. 00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:07.679 Um it sucks so bad. 00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:12.320 Yeah, I mean they're in the perfect position at 11 because they really are like a true honorable mention. 00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:16.079 They they they're they're still thereabouts, as far as I'm concerned. 00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:17.280 Owen two doesn't concern me. 00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:20.239 And then that was the team I was looking at when I said, like, I still don't know. 00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:24.559 I I still don't want to make any definitive decisions on these teams right in this in this tier list. 00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:25.840 So yeah. 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:31.599 Um, the Ravens, it's gonna be tough to talk about them because they sort of just look like the Ravens. 00:47:31.679 --> 00:47:32.719 Like, I think they're gonna be fine. 00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:37.039 I I don't get a new coach with a new scheme and it didn't seem like it. 00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:42.800 It's it seems like their last three coaches on top of each other's shoulders in a trench coat trying to get an Rated R movie. 00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:45.199 I mean, I for some reason. 00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:46.480 This is the thought that came into my head. 00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:52.800 You ever like been to like a like a new like swanky new restaurant and you look around and you're like, oh, this fucking place used to be an Applebee's? 00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:54.400 It's like that kind of feels like what it is. 00:47:54.480 --> 00:47:58.000 Like they just read it in Applebee's as something new, and it's still Applebee's. 00:47:58.159 --> 00:47:59.280 I don't want to eat an Applebee's. 00:47:59.440 --> 00:48:00.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:02.800 It's like a dentist's office, and it was clearly a pizza hut. 00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:08.079 Like it was clear, it was it's the shape of the hut, you know, and you're like, okay, that's cool. 00:48:08.320 --> 00:48:10.000 Um, they're dangerous still. 00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:13.519 I mean, Lamar's dangerous, like, he's not not an MVP candidate still. 00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:15.840 Zay Flowers going down matters a lot, obviously. 00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:16.480 That sucks. 00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:22.079 Um, I don't think they should have put as many eggs in that basket as they did anyway, but something's off. 00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:28.000 Like something's kind of been off about this team, and I'm just concerned that I'm not gonna see anything change. 00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:33.440 Like, I was sad for them when I when I saw Zay Flowers leave the game, hamstring also. 00:48:33.599 --> 00:48:37.760 Um, but that puts Rashad Bateman as your primary receiver, and I just he was good. 00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:43.599 Don't get me wrong, he was good after that, but it's just that's come on, it's a different dimension without Zay Flowers. 00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:49.519 I know you still have the most dynamic guy behind the line of scrimmage, but there's a bunch of injuries, it's not just him. 00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:52.719 You know what it can't be losing in the scene. 00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:57.920 I I I'm sensitive because that with the way the internet's been hamstrings fucking suck to hurt, okay? 00:48:58.079 --> 00:48:59.840 So everyone shut the fuck up, okay? 00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:05.280 They do like pull your hamstring, go out, do some fucking calf curls, and tell me it doesn't hurt when your hamstring hurts. 00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:06.079 Everyone leave my guy. 00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:09.360 I'm gonna get Caleb Williams arm arm sleeves, I'm gonna get him for him. 00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:16.239 I know it sucks, and unfortunately, because of the attitudes of the guys, the rest of the guys on our podcast, um, I'm not I don't feel the same way about Drake Man. 00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:19.760 I'm gonna have to actually come for him as hard as possible over the course of the season. 00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:21.360 So uh that's just the way it is. 00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:23.039 Like we are now blood enemies. 00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:26.239 But um I but I again I do I want to invite that juju in. 00:49:26.320 --> 00:49:26.719 I don't know. 00:49:26.880 --> 00:49:32.239 Um I already stuck up for him on the podcast because I was scared of the juju, so it's like just sort of is what it is. 00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:42.480 Um the Jesse Mentor Doyle era has inherited Baltimore's sort of maddening habit of not of letting games get away that they're in control of. 00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:43.440 So I don't know. 00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:45.119 I I hope that that's not the case. 00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:46.719 I hope that it's not in the DNA. 00:49:46.960 --> 00:49:50.159 And that's our deep side on the Saints, but is Tyler Show good? 00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:53.440 That was impressive. 00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:56.159 I don't think so, but that would be a lot of fun if he was. 00:49:56.239 --> 00:49:57.920 Like it's it's kind of impressive. 00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:00.320 If he panned out, I would be pretty into that. 00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:02.559 Um it's very Saintsy. 00:50:03.199 --> 00:50:05.199 It's very it's very Saintsy that performance. 00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:07.199 I don't I don't think he's bad, not yet. 00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:07.760 I don't think we can. 00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:09.519 I mean it's Drew Breeze Saintsy. 00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:10.639

It's this is strange. 00:50:11.440 --> 00:50:11.920 Is it? 00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:12.719 Yeah, man. 00:50:12.800 --> 00:50:18.480 He drew breeze to come back against against I mean the Ravens, if the Ravens defense. 00:50:20.639 --> 00:50:21.119 We'll see. 00:50:21.199 --> 00:50:21.840 You know, I don't know. 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:23.119 I don't know who these teams are yet. 00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:26.559 Like uh everybody sort of just looks like they looked last season. 00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:29.519 Um chat, there's a lot of game left. 00:50:29.840 --> 00:50:31.360 Yeah, I mean there really is. 00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:34.960 Like there's just too much, there's too much to to talk about. 00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:39.920 In fact, the most sure I am about stuff is actually more at the top of the table here. 00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:44.239 Uh the teams that I know are good and are gonna be there and talked about for the whole season. 00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:46.239 Some annoy me more than others. 00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:49.039 They're they're sitting pretty right at the top. 00:50:49.199 --> 00:50:49.519 Yep. 00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:51.440 I'm less sure about some and and and others. 00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:58.239 I mean, I mean the Eagles and the Jags being eight and nine on your list makes a ton of sense to me just because it's like again, they could sort of go either way. 00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:04.000 Like I the Eagles are just doing a new and interesting way to be sort of like hopeful that they're not going to be good. 00:51:04.159 --> 00:51:08.400 They're pretty annoying, but they still go 11 and 6 and they have a chance in the playoffs. 00:51:08.480 --> 00:51:11.199 Like, that's just like what the season's looking like to me already. 00:51:11.280 --> 00:51:41.679 So the AJ Brown loss is obviously big, but you know, Hurts isn't Hertz isn't the gro the, you know, I wouldn't put him top five as a QB, and and I I probably wouldn't put him, I probably wouldn't put him top eight, and and then you can sort of have a debate after that, but I do think he looks like a grown-up running the offense that he's been running for the last few seasons, and I do think that he's in charge of that offense, and I do think he's trusted completely by the organization, and I think that all really pans out, especially early in the season. 00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:42.320 Shoot. 00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:46.159 Um, the Bears are playing them on Monday, and we have to play them with fucking Case Keenum. 00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:50.480 It's it's tough to imagine the Bears going one and two to start the season. 00:51:50.639 --> 00:51:52.000 I really was high on them. 00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:55.199 Um, but I you know, I hope we can do something. 00:51:55.280 --> 00:52:00.000 I mean, Ben Johnson's a smart guy, and our we're run first offense anyway, but man, I don't know. 00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:04.400 I I I I don't want to be playing the Eagles right now, and that's what I'd say about the Eagles. 00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:07.039 And that's why they're on eight, because nobody wants to play the Eagles. 00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:12.000 What's up with the Rams? 00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:19.360 Dude, the dude, so okay, they're you're without Miles Garrett, you're without Puka Nakua, and you still have Stafford and Devontae Adams. 00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:19.760 That's the problem. 00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:22.719 It's next man up there, and we saw it again, we saw it this week. 00:52:22.800 --> 00:52:23.679 28 to 6. 00:52:23.760 --> 00:52:24.400 Like, come on. 00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:28.079 They're still good, they're still very talented without two of their best players. 00:52:28.400 --> 00:52:29.360 That's a problem. 00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:32.320 I guess. 00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:38.639 I mean, I knew that they weren't going to be as bad as they were in the first game because I think they kind of just threw that game away. 00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:40.000 Like they were like, whatever, it's so stupid. 00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:42.239 We have to go to Australia, we're just not going to do this correctly. 00:52:43.039 --> 00:52:46.480 Um kind of lame for like the people that are going. 00:52:46.639 --> 00:52:52.079 Um, they got fucking smoked by San Francisco, but that seems like that might be a recurring theme for a lot of teams. 00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:56.159 You know, that that loss looks that loss looks a lot better all of a sudden after week two. 00:52:56.320 --> 00:52:58.159 We'll come on to talk about them. 00:52:58.480 --> 00:53:05.280 But Monday night against the Giants, Stafford, still good, 22-31, 327 yards, four tutties. 00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:08.320 Rams put up 481 yards, 60 plays. 00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:10.559 That's eight yards a play, roughly. 00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:12.639 Kyron Williams, Blake Coram. 00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:14.559 I I've been waiting for Blake Coram to come good. 00:53:14.639 --> 00:53:16.800 I drafted him in fantasy two seasons ago, and that was early. 00:53:16.880 --> 00:53:17.920 That was way too early. 00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:19.280 Uh, but he's looking pretty good. 00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:20.960 He's a big fella. 00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:24.159 He's little, but he just he needs to do the common unguy thing. 00:53:24.239 --> 00:53:27.440 He just needs to be a guy who spells the dude in front of him every now and again. 00:53:27.519 --> 00:53:30.800 If you're in a correctly schemed running offense, it's fine. 00:53:31.039 --> 00:53:39.199 Um, speaking of their running offense, uh their passing offense featured Devontae Adams going fucking nuclear. 00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:41.280 Eight catches, 195, two tutties. 00:53:41.440 --> 00:53:43.840 He's 33 and he looked 23. 00:53:44.079 --> 00:53:45.360 He looked so fucking good. 00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:47.039 He was so he knows the offense. 00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:48.800 He looks like he knows the offense now. 00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:51.199 Great connection, two veteran guys. 00:53:51.360

--> 00:53:52.239 Honestly, fun to see. 00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:55.280 What I thought we'd see from week one, but it only took until week two. 00:53:55.840 --> 00:53:58.559 I think the interesting development though is their defense. 00:53:58.800 --> 00:54:00.320 Aaron Donald's back. 00:54:00.719 --> 00:54:03.280 His individual stat line wasn't bananas. 00:54:03.440 --> 00:54:06.159 Um, he only had one pressure, I think. 00:54:06.320 --> 00:54:07.679 Uh, a few tackles. 00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:11.599 But the Rams hit the presence, the aura matters. 00:54:11.840 --> 00:54:13.119 You have to scheme for him. 00:54:13.199 --> 00:54:14.960 There's no way around that. 00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:17.840 I'm curious what you do when you have to scheme for both of them. 00:54:18.079 --> 00:54:18.480 What do you do? 00:54:18.639 --> 00:54:20.800 What do you do with the two and the three hole or closed for you? 00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:21.280 Good luck. 00:54:21.519 --> 00:54:30.880 It's it's it's I'm I'm scared of them at full potential and full health, but I was also morbidly sort of curious as to what it was gonna look like, also. 00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:37.280 And I I don't I'm mad that I didn't really get to see that across uh the first game, at least, and only a little bit across the second game. 00:54:37.519 --> 00:54:38.880 It's gonna be scary. 00:54:39.039 --> 00:54:40.400 He's had knee surgery. 00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:47.280 I don't I don't know what the return timeline is for him, but if they can maintain a decent season and then add that kind of weapon back in, that's pretty fucking crazy. 00:54:47.440 --> 00:54:53.519 I think he's minimum eight weeks out, but yeah, and look, I'm not saying anything's definitive or proven here. 00:54:53.599 --> 00:54:55.280 I mean, Darkov injured on the first drive. 00:54:55.440 --> 00:54:59.039 You know, like that game could have gone very, very differently if that didn't happen. 00:54:59.440 --> 00:55:01.199 Puka is a huge question mark. 00:55:01.360 --> 00:55:03.119 Mental health, physical health. 00:55:03.280 --> 00:55:05.119 He's questionable for Denver. 00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:09.599 And I I don't know, he's questionable in uh in general. 00:55:09.840 --> 00:55:13.440 Like, I think there's something, there's something kind of up there. 00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:15.119 They're gonna go to Denver Sunday night. 00:55:15.199 --> 00:55:16.880 Denver are in a must-win position. 00:55:17.039 --> 00:55:20.559 They really are gonna need to have to to turn their season around. 00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:28.079 And um I don't know, I'm I'm not saying they're having a bad season by any stretch, but like that first game, they looked really, really, really bad. 00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:32.400 I think these are two teams that like kind of need to win this next game. 00:55:32.480 --> 00:55:35.199 And I and I'm really, really interested in the Sunday night football game. 00:55:35.280 --> 00:55:37.119 So we can talk about them sort of as a package. 00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:38.239 Who are you higher on? 00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:51.679 I mean, obviously you're higher on the Rams or the Broncos on your power rankings list, but overall, if you really had to stake your claim, think especially thinking about them playing each other in in in prime time, like where were you at the start of the season and where are you now? 00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:58.400 At the start of the season, I thought we were gonna see the Broncos maybe collapse a little bit under the pressure of not having a real quarterback. 00:55:58.639 --> 00:56:06.000 That clearly doesn't feel real, uh, especially after this week, because I was very high on Jacksonville um to start the season. 00:56:06.079 --> 00:56:09.519 But yeah, no, I I'm I'm not gonna take the Broncos there. 00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:10.960 Like I don't think I can. 00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:12.000 Can you? 00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:19.599 I think uh I think I thought uh I think I thought Bonex was better than he than he actually is. 00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:23.119 You think I thought he was gonna be worse than I think he's worse than he actually is. 00:56:25.440 --> 00:56:28.400 I mean he looked like himself again, uh uh thankfully. 00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:34.639 Uh 22 for 31, 288, one touchdown, he miserable opener, and then he turned that into a one-on-one. 00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:38.639 We kind of glossed over this, but Jacksonville's defense is shockingly underperformed. 00:56:38.719 --> 00:56:39.360 That's shockingly. 00:56:39.679 --> 00:56:40.400 Yeah, they're not great. 00:56:40.480 --> 00:56:41.039 They're not great. 00:56:41.360 --> 00:56:42.800 I thought they were gonna be really good. 00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:49.280 I thought that whole I thought that whole team was gonna be better than they are, but again, I I'm not ready to to make any differences on that team either. 00:56:49.440 --> 00:56:50.559 Yeah, a lot of game left. 00:56:51.599 --> 00:56:54.639 Um speaking of defenses though, the Denver defense is still really good. 00:56:54.800 --> 00:56:57.119 I I think they're really gonna make a lot of plays this year. 00:56:57.199 --> 00:56:59.760 I I am like to your point higher on the Texans still. 00:56:59.840 --> 00:57:02.320 We'll see how that goes as we as we go through the year. 00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:08.079 But um Trevor Lawrence threw a pick against that defense, and it didn't really feel like it was his fault. 00:57:08.159 --> 00:57:12.719 I mean, it wasn't a great draw, but I'm I'm sort of just like, I don't know, I think they're gonna get a lot of picks this year, so it's whatever. 00:57:13.119 --> 00:57:14.880 You don't have a big margin of error with them. 00:57:14.960 --> 00:57:16.639 That's the beautiful thing about their defense. 00:57:16.880 --> 00:57:19.199 Yeah, Denver's gotta get their running game going. 00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:22.559 I think that will, you know, I I don't think that they've been able to really do anything. 00:57:22.639 -->

00:57:32.320 They've they've they're a little anemic offensively in a way that I think a lot of untrained eyes are gonna blame Lawrence and and maybe start giving up on this on this system and this tandem. 00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:38.400 But I um I think that if they just get their run game going, they might actually be able to put something together. 00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:44.639 The other thing is Kansas City look a lot better than we thought they were gonna look. 00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:53.199 So, like that again, it's another situation where it's like that win, that loss for Denver is looking a little better every time Kansas City go out and perform like vintage Kansas City, right? 00:57:53.280 --> 00:57:54.639 So that's a real thing. 00:57:54.800 --> 00:57:56.239 Um Kenneth Walker, man. 00:57:56.320 --> 00:57:57.119 Jesus. 00:57:58.159 --> 00:57:59.199 They're playing each other, man. 00:57:59.280 --> 00:57:59.920 Like, this is great. 00:58:00.000 --> 00:58:00.239 It's good. 00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:06.960 We're gonna get our first true litmus test because these are two potentially good teams or potentially underperforming teams playing each other at the same time. 00:58:07.199 --> 00:58:14.079 And they both had week ones where it was, oh dear god, and week twos where it was, oh yeah, that's that's why I thought this team was gonna be good. 00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:20.719 And if it Denver beats the Rams convincingly, you know, you having them here at number six is gonna look a lot less aggressive, right? 00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:21.599 And vice versa. 00:58:21.760 --> 00:58:22.800 So I I don't know. 00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:24.880 I mean, I I think it's a game I'm circling. 00:58:25.039 --> 00:58:29.599 Uh I'm really interested in seeing this game out uh on on Sunday night. 00:58:29.760 --> 00:58:35.840 Um, great scheduling by the NFL, who honestly have historically never done anything wrong, either logistically or morally. 00:58:36.079 --> 00:58:39.679 So um here we are, and now we have to talk about the Kansas City Chiefs. 00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:43.199 We have to talk about the Kansas City Chiefs, and it's very upsetting. 00:58:43.440 --> 00:58:45.360 Um they look really good. 00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:54.000 I have a few things to say about the Colts and and some of their decision making down the stretch, but uh, can you talk to me about how scared you are uh of the Kansas City Chiefs? 00:58:54.239 --> 00:58:56.719 Yeah, I just you know it's one of those things. 00:58:56.800 --> 00:59:03.920 Me me and my old man were just talking about uh at the beginning of the season, and we were laughing about everyone talking about Mahomes being done. 00:59:04.239 --> 00:59:10.159 Because as a Brady fan, I know that there is no such thing as Mahomes being done. 00:59:10.559 --> 00:59:13.599 Patrick Mahomes, and we'll be done when Patrick Mahomes says he'll be done. 00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:20.159 The addition of Kenneth Walker gives Kansas City the most dynamic offense they've had since I can remember seeing them. 00:59:20.239 --> 00:59:23.199 I don't remember them having a uh was the last time a running back that was this good. 00:59:23.360 --> 00:59:30.000 I guess there was that time period right before Mahomes, but man, they look uh absolutely out of their minds. 00:59:30.079 --> 00:59:40.480 I and to me, it looks like they have one of the best free agent moves of the entire year, and Mahomes is alive, and Kelsey is alive, and his wife's cheering them on with billions of dollars up in the booth. 00:59:40.800 --> 00:59:42.719 I would I never counted the Chiefs out. 00:59:42.800 --> 00:59:48.880 I did have them low to start because you don't get them just on your world, but Mahomes is back and welcome. 00:59:49.119 --> 00:59:50.480 I don't know what y'all were thinking about. 01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:12.719 Okay, sorry. 01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:15.920 Um Yeah, I mean it is terrifying. 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:16.880 It's terrifying to watch. 01:00:17.679 --> 01:00:29.199 I'm I'm a little annoyed about it, but at the same time, I'm like, uh, is there something that makes me feel a little bit more comfortable that they're good, you know, that they're they're maybe gonna become the yardstick again, the measuring, the measuring line against all others. 01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:32.000 I do think that they still have flaws in that team, but they really look prepared. 01:00:32.079 --> 01:00:36.400 They really look like they came in being like, oh, you thought you thought you could fucking play with us because of one bad season. 01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:37.280 I really like that. 01:00:37.599 --> 01:00:45.599 Um as a coaching, as a coaching and uh quarterback tandem specifically, um, I did not think Kelsey was gonna come in looking like this. 01:00:45.679 --> 01:00:47.039 I didn't know he had that dog in him. 01:00:47.119 --> 01:00:50.159 If if that was me, you couldn't even get me on the phone. 01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:53.679 Never never mind on a fucking on a fucking football field. 01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:55.440 So you got that dog in him. 01:00:56.079 --> 01:01:00.800 We have this unique perspective because we know from watching the UFC that hungry dogs run faster. 01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:05.519 The hungrier boy out there that's been through the rough time is gonna fight harder almost every single time. 01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:16.239 Unfortunately for the world, and people might not get this reference, uh, Travis Kelsey appears to be more like Armand Saruki and where he can be worth a billion dollars and still want to kill you for the love of the game, and he's doing it. 01:01:16.559 --> 01:01:16.960 I know. 01:01:17.119 --> 01:01:17.679 That's crazy. 01:01:17.760 --> 01:01:18.880 Good for him, honestly. 01:01:19.119 --> 01:01:20.400 Um, he didn't want to go out like that. 01:01:20.480 --> 01:01:22.639 They went, they wanted him, they want him one last run. 01:01:22.880 --> 01:01:25.360 Um, they're actually closer to me.

01:01:25.679 --> 01:01:29.119 They're closer to the Golden State Warriors than they are to the New England Patriots. 01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:31.599 I think that that they that's the vibes they sort of give. 01:01:31.679 --> 01:01:36.639 I think Steph Mahomes give like generationally give like a very similar vibe to one another. 01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:40.800 Changing the game of the changing the way the offensive kind of rolling the West Coast for sure. 01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:47.199 So yeah, I mean, yeah, definitely changing how you how you play the game of football, like a lot of in a lot of ways. 01:01:47.280 --> 01:02:02.400 Um, from the sort of Tyree kill, we're just down the field, there's nothing you can do era to the you can't count us out, we can be system check down or dynamic and kill you era to the like we're never it turns out we're never gonna not be good era if we get to the Super Bowl. 01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:04.880 Padre Mahomes has a chance to beat you, you can't give him the ball, you know. 01:02:04.960 --> 01:02:06.559 Like, this is all true. 01:02:06.719 --> 01:02:08.400 Two minutes is two minutes too long. 01:02:08.639 --> 01:02:12.400 I'd like to point that out to Shane's fucking styking that pussy. 01:02:12.639 --> 01:02:21.119 So, like, I'm watching this um game Sunday night, and a great play. 01:02:21.360 --> 01:02:22.880 A great play by Jones. 01:02:23.039 --> 01:02:25.039 Makes a great pass, great catch. 01:02:25.280 --> 01:02:30.559 Guy stands up, gets the ball punched out, everyone thinks it's a fumble, and that's game over. 01:02:30.639 --> 01:02:35.679 It's ruled down by contact, which I'll be honest to me, it looked that it looked like there was contact while he was on the ground. 01:02:36.480 --> 01:02:39.679 We do like just on first watch, that was my instinct. 01:02:39.920 --> 01:02:41.679 I I said that I stuck to it. 01:02:41.840 --> 01:02:49.280 It was a lot lighter contact than I thought, than even I thought, because it was it to me, it was like not enough to overturn, honestly. 01:02:49.440 --> 01:02:50.960 Like not enough to overturn. 01:02:51.280 --> 01:03:10.880 However, if you do feel that way or you do feel it was completely unfair, whatever justice was eventually done, courtesy of Shane Steichen and his massive vagina, just deciding to run the ball twice, fuck up on third down, and then kick a fucking field goal to give of all people Patrick Mahomes a chance to beat him in in overtime. 01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:17.119 And I swear to God, there was nothing more likely in the whole wide world than death and taxes at that moment. 01:03:17.199 --> 01:03:20.639 Then Patrick Mahomes is going to come down the field and fucking beat you. 01:03:20.880 --> 01:03:25.360 He oh you gave Patrick Mahomes the ball when in a situation where he only needed to be in field goal range. 01:03:25.440 --> 01:03:26.719 You're a fucking idiot. 01:03:26.880 --> 01:03:34.079 They also have for better or for worse, I don't like the guy's politics either, but for better or for worse, they have the one of the best kickers in the game right now. 01:03:34.159 --> 01:03:36.400 You know, they have a distance boot. 01:03:36.559 --> 01:03:45.440 You think Pat Mahomes can't put Harrison Bucker in a fucking position to beat you when that's all he has to do to win? 01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:47.039 You're a fucking idiot. 01:03:47.199 --> 01:03:49.519 You have to grab the balls next time, Steikin. 01:03:49.679 --> 01:03:50.400 You just have to. 01:03:50.639 --> 01:03:58.639 Harrison Bucker from 45 yards out is gonna sit there knowing his wife is standing in front of the oven, baking him cookies, and hit that shot every fucking time. 01:03:58.800 --> 01:03:59.360 Every shit. 01:04:05.760 --> 01:04:11.280 And she's a lady, and she's standing on the sidelines with her headset on, and honestly, somebody should have listened to her. 01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:14.079 I bet she would have fucking gone for it on fourth down, you bitch. 01:04:14.800 --> 01:04:19.440 Um I really was annoyed by that because like it cemented a lot of narratives. 01:04:19.599 --> 01:04:23.840 It cemented a lot of narratives about the the uh Kansas City Chiefs. 01:04:24.639 --> 01:04:25.280 Man, you're gonna be a big thing. 01:04:25.440 --> 01:04:27.039 You have the Genghis at three, bro. 01:04:27.199 --> 01:04:28.719 Yeah, I do have the Bengals at three. 01:04:28.880 --> 01:04:33.119 Um uh I think that they have an MVP on their roster, and his name's Joe Burrow. 01:04:33.280 --> 01:04:41.360 And uh I guess finally the year that we don't just watch them mire an injury and and uh bad luck and and not put an offensive line in front of them. 01:04:41.440 --> 01:04:45.119 Or are you sure Houston's not just like not that good? 01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:45.760 He does. 01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:48.719 He does, but like Houston's good. 01:04:48.800 --> 01:04:49.119 We agree. 01:04:49.199 --> 01:04:51.599 Houston looks that defense is good, right? 01:04:52.559 --> 01:04:55.840 Does but but does the Cincinnati defense actually exist now? 01:04:56.000 --> 01:05:03.599 I mean the ceiling was obviously always really high with Burrow and Chase and Higgins and that era, whatever. 01:05:03.760 --> 01:05:07.519 The defensive improvement is genuinely real, like yeah, right. 01:05:07.599 --> 01:05:08.239 It's like we're gonna be able to do that. 01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:12.239 We're probably gonna see a 3-3 game against Pittsburgh next week, but like Oh, yeah. 01:05:12.480 --> 01:05:13.360 You're probably right. 01:05:13.519 --> 01:05:16.960 But we we were just saying it about um about uh the Rams. 01:05:17.280 --> 01:05:18.159 What do you do? 01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:31.599 How do you close the box of linebackers when and you know we're not we're a vibes podcast, I know, but when Dexter Lawrence is shutting down your two and your three hole, and you can't drive the ball up the middle and get three yards, make space for the linebackers to back up,

how do you get your first downs? 01:05:31.679 --> 01:05:33.280 And that's what they're challenging teams to do. 01:05:33.599 --> 01:05:35.199 Beat us, shorten the field. 01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:38.960 Yeah, sure, you're gonna get within field goal range, but you're not gonna score on us. 01:05:39.679 --> 01:05:47.760 I would be if I was if I was taking this from a gambling perspective, I would be extremely nervous about their offensive line playing the Pittsburgh Steelers, despite how bad the Pittsburgh Steelers have been. 01:05:48.159 --> 01:05:49.679 They still have a crazy good pass rush. 01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:52.800 So we'll see what this Bengals offensive line actually looks like. 01:05:52.960 --> 01:05:54.960 It'll tell us a lot about both teams. 01:05:55.199 --> 01:05:59.760 Um Seahawks Bills are number one and number two, and I'll just do a brief. 01:06:00.320 --> 01:06:02.480 I think it's that way. 01:06:02.719 --> 01:06:06.400 Like for the foreseeable, I think it's going to be hard to knock them off that perch. 01:06:06.639 --> 01:06:11.599 What I will say is I believe the Bills were one last time we did this show and the Seahawks were two. 01:06:11.679 --> 01:06:18.159 I think there's going to be a lot of flipping back and forth because you know the nature of these teams, who they play, how they looked in those weeks. 01:06:18.320 --> 01:06:23.599 I still would say, just based on what I've seen over the first two weeks, like the Bills are the teams, the team that scares me the most. 01:06:23.679 --> 01:06:26.559 I know there's a lot of juju about like the Bills can't win. 01:06:26.880 --> 01:06:27.599 They're not winners. 01:06:27.679 --> 01:06:28.800 It's a cursed franchise. 01:06:28.960 --> 01:06:32.559 Like they are just meant to not get there and not and not do it. 01:06:32.880 --> 01:06:35.039 Josh Allen looks like the best player in football. 01:06:35.199 --> 01:06:43.280 And I think that there was I don't think there was that much argument of that last season during the regular season, but there was definitely some dissent. 01:06:43.679 --> 01:06:45.119 He looks fucking unbelievable. 01:06:45.199 --> 01:06:48.159 There's guys that are really unique athletes in the NFL. 01:06:48.400 --> 01:06:51.679 There's guys that are probably better pure quarterbacks in the NFL. 01:06:51.760 --> 01:06:53.760 Like I think I can name maybe two. 01:06:54.159 --> 01:06:58.800 One of them definitely being Patrick Mahomes, like the guy at the quarterback position, right? 01:06:58.960 --> 01:07:01.760 Uh who you who you have to bet your life on to win a game. 01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:05.519 Josh Allen looks like the best athlete that we have right now. 01:07:05.760 --> 01:07:10.880 Like he looks like the most fun sportsman to watch in the United States of America. 01:07:11.039 --> 01:07:14.320 And I'm proud of him for bagging that actress. 01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:18.639 And uh he just looks like he has a life that you could only dream of. 01:07:19.280

--> 01:07:21.920 He looks like he'd be a good guy to hang out with all the time, which I hate. 01:07:22.239 --> 01:07:22.400 I know. 01:07:22.559 --> 01:07:23.360 I bet he's really nice too. 01:07:24.079 --> 01:07:24.480 He's really nice. 01:07:24.639 --> 01:07:25.039 I wish you would be able to do that. 01:07:25.199 --> 01:07:25.599 I will say this. 01:07:26.480 --> 01:07:28.880 When it came down to it, why do I put the Seahawks first? 01:07:28.960 --> 01:07:33.360 First of all, I'm a big fan of the fact that if you're gonna if you're gonna take the belt, you have to take the belt. 01:07:33.440 --> 01:07:35.039 So you gotta beat the big three. 01:07:35.199 --> 01:07:38.559 If you want to beat champ, you gotta beat, yeah, if you want the belt, you gotta beat the fucking real thing. 01:07:38.800 --> 01:07:41.440 And the bills have allowed a lot of fucking points. 01:07:41.519 --> 01:07:42.800 And you can say whatever you want. 01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:43.519 We know it. 01:07:43.760 --> 01:07:46.639 Winning games by shootout is not sustainable into the cold months. 01:07:46.719 --> 01:07:48.400 It just doesn't it might be. 01:07:49.199 --> 01:07:50.400 They look really good. 01:07:51.760 --> 01:07:53.360 It might be for the first time. 01:07:53.440 --> 01:07:56.079 They look like they can fucking score points, dude. 01:07:56.159 --> 01:07:56.480 I don't know. 01:08:04.239 --> 01:08:05.519 He's having fun out there, man. 01:08:05.760 --> 01:08:12.559 I do agree that it gets harder in the winter months, and I also agree that like in the playoffs, we've seen this dude come up short in the past, but it's hard to do. 01:08:12.800 --> 01:08:14.719 What we're asking him to do is hard to do. 01:08:14.880 --> 01:08:15.920 Not everybody can do it. 01:08:16.560 --> 01:08:18.720 With fucking Drake Maywood, but you know, whatever. 01:08:19.359 --> 01:08:27.439 Look, it's a useful comparison coming into week three because they both play teams we've already talked about with a little bit of length to it. 01:08:27.680 --> 01:08:31.119 Seattle is gonna go play Washington, Buffalo's gonna go play the Chargers at home. 01:08:31.279 --> 01:08:38.000 I would imagine I would say that the the Buffalo Bills have a harder game because of the where the Chargers season is. 01:08:38.159 --> 01:08:40.720 It's a big context issue for the Chargers as well. 01:08:40.880 --> 01:08:43.199 If they lose this game, like holy shit, they're getting written off. 01:08:43.359 --> 01:08:54.079 Like, I I think they could mathematically still come back, but I think everybody's completely out on them, even though it's Buffalo, and even though Buffalo looks like, at least for the first eight weeks, are gonna stomp fucking everybody. 01:08:54.239 --> 01:08:56.159 Stop Seattle going to play Washington. 01:08:56.239 --> 01:08:57.760 I mean, that's this is a good time to play Washington. 01:08:57.840 --> 01:08:58.720 They're probably absolutely disappointed. 01:08:59.680 --> 01:09:04.479 I don't know if it's gonna mean as much work on some trick plans, but let's actually see what they look like. 01:09:04.560 --> 01:09:08.079 Let's see what they legitimately look like against each team. 01:09:08.319 --> 01:09:14.159 Um, I think the Bills putting 36 points up on that Texans defense was so impressive. 01:09:14.319 --> 01:09:22.880 I think uh on the flip side, um, I mean, 31 41 points, 41 points against Detroit. 01:09:23.199 --> 01:09:33.760 That told me more about Detroit's defensive frailties, and I was pretty impressed with them able to stay being able to stay in the game and actually put up points when they looked like they were gonna get steamrolled like a few times. 01:09:33.840 --> 01:09:36.479 But Buffalo's average averaging 38 and a half points. 01:09:36.640 --> 01:09:43.199 Seattle beat New England in a game there where it seemed, and honestly, you guys had this game last year, so I wouldn't really worry about it. 01:09:43.279 --> 01:09:44.800 It was the very similar to the Steelers game. 01:09:44.880 --> 01:09:50.560 It just seemed like a game that was there for the Patriots to win, and they just wanted to do everything they possibly could not to. 01:09:50.720 --> 01:09:53.840 And I don't think that really bodes well for the team that actually won. 01:09:53.920 --> 01:09:55.119 Plus, they just played in the Super Bowl. 01:09:55.199 --> 01:10:03.520 There's a lot of unfair, we already talked about this, a lot of unfair sort of context to it, but I haven't seen Seattle actually tested in the same way this year. 01:10:03.760 --> 01:10:04.159 Oh, yeah. 01:10:04.479 --> 01:10:08.960 I think the complication, I agree with you, is the Buffalo defense. 01:10:09.119 --> 01:10:10.319 They've already surrendered. 01:10:10.399 --> 01:10:11.680 These are some pretty damning stats. 01:10:11.760 --> 01:10:12.880 They've already surrendered again. 01:10:12.960 --> 01:10:15.279 I just explained the context, so and I know there's a lot of game left. 01:10:15.359 --> 01:10:16.319 It's blah, blah, blah. 01:10:16.640 --> 01:10:23.359 They've surrendered 736 yards and 62 points versus Seattle's 428 and 27. 01:10:23.840 --> 01:10:25.920 That's an enormous difference. 01:10:26.159 --> 01:10:28.960 Um, that's a really big distinction. 01:10:29.039 --> 01:10:33.840 So I'm gonna frame it as if you're playing Seattle, what weakness are you attacking? 01:10:34.560 --> 01:10:38.079 They have an elite defense, JSN is still destroying people, they can run the ball. 01:10:38.159 --> 01:10:41.359 They're 2-0, 31-7 with their backup quarterback. 01:10:41.520 --> 01:10:43.119 I mean, this is a real thing. 01:10:43.439 --> 01:10:45.600 Buffalo is always gonna be able to say that's fine. 01:10:45.760 --> 01:10:46.560 We have Josh Allen. 01:10:46.880 --> 01:10:50.319 Like that's gonna remain the case as as time goes on. 01:10:50.479 --> 01:10:52.640 They're they are the best-looking offensive football. 01:10:52.880 --> 01:10:54.239 They're number one on the TV rankings. 01:10:54.319 --> 01:10:57.760 I hate to tell you everybody, they're absolutely number one with a bullet on the TV rankings. 01:10:57.840 --> 01:11:01.520 If they're not number one on the power rankings, and it's it's an important distinction. 01:11:02.720 --> 01:11:06.560 If you're doing power rankings, you should reward the entire roster, though. 01:11:06.640 --> 01:11:10.000 And I do think with everything we know right now, that's Seattle. 01:11:10.159 --> 01:11:13.600 I I don't think it's I don't think it's a terrible pick. 01:11:13.840 --> 01:11:16.640 Um This is how I got you to do all those bad things in life. 01:11:16.720 --> 01:11:17.520 We agree. 01:11:17.760 --> 01:11:19.279 I do I do agree. 01:11:19.439 --> 01:11:20.159 I fully agree. 01:11:20.319 --> 01:11:23.279 Um, I nothing about your power rankings uh truly offended me. 01:11:23.359 --> 01:11:26.319 I do think the Saints are a little high, but I guess they earned it, all things considered. 01:11:26.880 --> 01:11:27.439 And there we are. 01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:30.960 We came, we saw we power ranked, we only crossed off one team, the Miami Dolphins. 01:11:31.119 --> 01:11:36.720 I think this was a lot of fun, but what ends up happening at the start of the year, Matt, is there's a lot of things you just don't know. 01:11:36.880 --> 01:11:50.560 So, what we're gonna do going into week three, me and you, our homework assignment, is we're gonna start digging into two things we notice about each team that we are now sort of starting to uh we're it's starting to crystallize what teams are worth talking about. 01:11:50.720 --> 01:11:53.039 And I and I think that's a really important distinction. 01:11:53.199 --> 01:12:05.119 So we'll talk about who's good on TV, we'll talk about who's good, period, and we're really gonna start to hone in on the thing that we think is gonna tank an upside and the thing we think is gonna put air in their wings. 01:12:05.279 --> 01:12:08.239 So I would say I would say 10 to 20 becomes very important. 01:12:08.560 --> 01:12:18.000 10 to 20, I think was the most important section tonight because of the fact that there's a lot of teams that they're gonna inevitably have to go up or down in the in that section. 01:12:18.159 --> 01:12:24.159 This top 10 is gonna change, but the top of the table is looking like it's gonna remain the top of the table. 01:12:24.239 --> 01:12:26.640 I guess there's one or two teams that might make a case to get up there. 01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:28.239 We're gonna have to see who that's gonna be. 01:12:28.319 --> 01:12:30.720 So for myself, DK Sizzle. 01:12:31.359 --> 01:12:33.600 For Matt, Will Cock. 01:12:34.239 --> 01:12:38.000 And for all you motherfuckers talking shit about my boy Caleb Williams. 01:12:38.159 --> 01:12:40.159 I just want to sample in cases on all you motherfuckers. 01:12:40.319 --> 01:12:41.840 King Kong ain't got nothing on me. 01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:43.439 This has been this.