2019 Week 2 Recap

They always are wild, Mark, because all the expectations of the preseason in the summer give way to the awakenings of Week one and then things start to get teams into another direction after the second week of football. They do. And today was one of those thank you, those one of those uh special Sundays where they give you ten early games. So you know, if you're at a sports bar, you can just choose to do what you want and

eat food all day long and enjoy yourself. Again, if you're us, it's it's like fifteen aircraft's coming at you at the same time, and you just come out with as much information as possible, and you know the show may suffer for it a little ridiculous to have ten early games. I don't know what the Stress Network angle either.

I'd like what spread them out a right you're usually you're very plugged in with the shadowy League figures, always hob nobbing potentially one of them, potentially one of them in the future. Why is it that they can't give us more balance on us on? I would say randomness would be a factor where the home games are, and then you want to load up. You want to have the most amount of people watching the national game. So that was Saints Rams. So sometimes they like to load

it up so everyone has to watch. I took a quick look because it does affect um some of the stuff on Sunday. It looks like it's happening one more time, but then you get all the bye weeks and that starts to shift some of these clown teams off the schedule for a week or two. All right, so, um, what happened in week two? We're gonna get to it. Two huge quarterback injuries that we'll get to that early in the show. But why don't we start west? How are you a little quiet and early going? My brains

a little scrambled today, But take us through it. What's up? Well, it's just a lot to keep track of. I didn't get to do as much prep work between the because of the schedule between the end of the late games the Bears, broncoss is like he he had like seventy seven snaps in week one. It was it was a pretty you know, relaxing off season, and you're feeling that sometimes the soreness going into week two weeks two is

the real time. There is like a flock of American bricklayers who are like, okay, boys, what's your what are you doing on Sundays? That's so tough? All right, So we have quarterback injuries to get to, but let's start with the wildest ending to a week to game. And it happened. Oh yeah, up in Mile High you go to empower Field West and crazy things go down. He's

made it from forty and fifty two. This one from fifty three right hash scales on the ball, oh down on the hole from the right hash angle, the left, good placement boot, Bye Eddy panierro kick to the up rights. The chicken ish god for what that's zero kid to send Denver down. As time expires, they're sixteen, they escape

with the victory on the road. Say dude, black beautiful, I thought he said to narrow like money, money, I like Panero waiting for something to help does rhyme Jeff Johnny Johnny at with the Copper Bears Radio Network, Eddie Panero, Eddie Money, maybe hold on to me stroke the fifty one yard field goals time expired, lifting the Bears to a sixteen fourteen win. It's one of the strangest, most unusual endings to a football game that you will ever see.

Um West, So much happened here, so much to unpack in the last few minutes of this game. But the Bears stolen at empower Field. It didn't feel like they still it. I think that's how Broncos fans will feel. For fifty nine minutes, it felt like nothing but holding penalties happened in this game. Flacco hits Courtland Sutton to convert a pair of fourth down penalties with the game on the line, or fourth down situations with the game on the line. If then hits Manny Sanders with a

great catch in the back of the end zone. Sanders had a had an excellent game today. And then the craziness starts with the two point conversions that Foggio shows some onions decides to go for the win, not the tie. Let me go through this, West, let me set it up. So they score the touchdown. Like West said to Sanders, Uh, there down one point, they decided to go for two Flacco and the offense gets called for delay of game, backing it up five yards. So it's just a brutal

thing lateran quarterback for that to happen. It might have been on the coaching staff for giving a late call. Who Foggio says, Uh, effort, Let's send the kicking team out for the extra point. Let's try to get to overtime. Brandon McManus pushes it wide right, game over and and and a win for the Broncos. Butt former jetbuster screen offsides another thing that can that happened in that spot.

So it moves back closer to the goal line and Foggio hangs the onions and says, we'll send Flacco and company back out there, and this time the play goes through. He connects with Manny Sanders again for the two point conversion. Uh to put them ahead. Just a wild sequence, a wild sequence, and then the ball goes back to the Bears, who have not trusted their quarterback at any point in this game. The Bears did not trust trust mr Oltrobinski.

At one point, they scored their only touchdown of the year by running the ball nine straight times and not passing at all on the drive. So that's how much they trusted their quarterback. Trabinsky gets the benefit of a very shaky roughing the passer penalty on Bradley Chubb that not only gives the Bears fifteen yards but stops the clock.

More than shaky. That was a disgrace. Yes, I think that was a lot worse than the Clay Matthews call, which got a lot of attention because the Matthews call, and it could be argued, was the letter of the law. This one, I failed to understand. Gravity took hold he he went down on the quarterback because he was tackling the quarterback and it was completely legal when he made contact.

That should be reviewable and it will be no solace to Broncos fan that that judgment calls like pass interference as a route reviewable, but a game deciding call like this is not reviewable even though it's a judgment call. How about a little consistency in philosophy here, NFL. And then it gets to the point where they're in desperation with that at least gives them a chance to get near midfield. And then with their backs against the wall,

Trabinsky finally makes a play. He steps up in the pocket fourth and fifteen, and the Broncos leave Alan Robinson wide open in the middle of field. Now, the play broke down a little bit, so that's why he got wide open. But you still can't allow that. And then they got the benefit of the doubt again from the clockkeeper that they decided there was one second left on the clock, and you could say there was zero seconds.

I thought that was clear to everyone got all up in arms about Okay, did they get the time out? You can say before the play and the coach can say, the second hits the ground, we're calling a time out. And so that rule, that an unwritten rule, that that is how the NFL works. In terms of time outs, you say, you know, they don't really sweat the time. In terms as long you don't never say now if you're if you're down, you can call the types. So I wasn't worried about that because it seemed clear even

then it's borderline, it was bordered. It was one second, though it looked like there was one second I was more hung up like Mark was with the idea of don't you need to get someone's attention and get the time out called? But I guess if you fine with it, if if that's that's how they want to operate with it.

My one thing because the a win like this, Bears fans went through a hellish week after week one, and I get that, And you can feel good tonight about getting out of Denver, a tough one of the toughest places to play with this. And if I'm Vic Fongio, I don't have a problem with going forward on two because I don't think that offense is getting back into

scoring position in overtime necessarily. But Bears and I in nice play by Mitch Drobiski, But I do not come out of this team with anything but hyper concern about the long the long half of this offense season wide. How do you win seven games with this all four point four yards per It was pretty interesting that that the Bronco I mean, Joe Flacco through an awful what appeared to be game ending interception and the red zone just before that happened the last their last three drives.

They're driving up and down the field on the Broncos, they kick a field goal, they throw an interception on the goal line, and then they score a touchdown with the two point conversion on that Bears defense reminded me a little bit of that Eagles game in the playoffs where the offense was bad for so long that the

defense eventually caved in. It's gonna be a long and wild and fun night at the Kicker Club because Eddie Panniero is the biggest superstar in the game this summer and the kicker glove after going through the gauntlet of Bears training camp and offseason activities where Chicago and Matteggi brought in nine different kickers and essentially played mental war games on everyone in that competition as they try to work their way away from the double Joink and Cody Parky. Uh,

Eddie Panniero drills a game winner. I'm sure of being five thousand feet above sea level help. But hey, that was onions chick. Let's hear from Eddie after the game because he deserves it. Yeah, that was. Like I said, I couldn't have done it without my team. Thank god that it was to this point and for everybody listening, Man, if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, you better start, because he's real. I promise you that he's a Bears fan.

That's now confirmed. He said he was emotional because of everything he went through in terms of the Augustus silence, everything like that. West, you update us with your state of the Broncos because sitting next to you when when they called that holding penalty are rather offsides penalty on the Bears. That gave the Broncos another chance. It was the most emotional I had seen you watching a football game in a while. A lot of ups and downs

for the once team of West Tel. Well, that had a lot more to do with the situation that you just don't see, like a last minute like this with with the two point conversions and the onions and the going for it and the penalties. The Broncost had twenty seven first downs in this game, which is the same number as the Patriots and forty Niners and their forty Burgers.

They moved the ball up and down the field all game, and you ask where the big plays were, they all got brought back on Garrett Bowls holding penalties or Ronald Leary holding penalties. They moved the ball. They had big plays, the big players just didn't count because of what we've We've seen at this point, ten or eleven teams that West has, you know, cozied up two over the course of seasons. Did Joe Flacco led Broncos do not at this point to me look like one of those teams.

I will wait and see what we're not letting you off the roller coaster either. That's fair. I spend time in the penalty box, but I will say that the biggest trapped in baby, the biggest issue with the Broncos offense so far this year is they've not been able to do anything in the condensed area of the red zone except on that go ahead touchdown in two point

you get twenty seven first downs. That's nice, you scored fourteen points that again, watch the game, you're gonna see a lot of Garrett Bolls holding penalties, undoing the good of Philip Lindsay, Royce Freeman and Joe Flax and he he remains their left tackle. They said after the game they're not even considering benching Garrett Bowls and I am

Jean John Elway. Whether there's unwritten rules or written rules about that time out is given a call to the New York office just to share his feeling on it, because that is a tough way to lose a game. My goodness. All right, let's move on now to a rematch. Rematch of the NFC Championship game. Again, they empty out and leave Golf alone in the shotgun. He's gonna take this snap with less than eight seconds on the play clock.

Here it comes rushed from the Saints. He froze Let's side Cooper Cup the Cats forty five and fifty stiff farm in the Saints Teret Fury Pete break to tackle, get to block at the thirty Cooper Cup. Funny Queen's back ten Cooper Cup. Cooper Cup was actually ruled down at the one foot line, but who cares. Jared Goff score to the next play anyway and JB Long with the Rams radio network, Uh but the call there? Good Man to nine win for the Rams over the Saints

at the cal seem. It was supposed to be a revenge game for the Saints after last January's NFC Championship Game officiating tobaccle, but instead the Saints are holding their breath after Drew Breese and this is the biggest storyline coming out of this game, suffered at potentially serious thumb

injury in the first half. Breeze. The last thing we've heard as as we go up to tape here um around UM nine o'clock Eastern time, UH that he's gonna undergo testing here in Los Angeles to determine the severity of the injury. UM mark. It didn't pass the test, the sniff test. When you're watching it on the sidelines, right off the bat he he he enters it, his hand collides with Aaron Donald on a pass rush and he's immediately out of the game, his hands taped up,

but he's just standing there watching. There's there's no attempt to try to warm up. And then at one point, UH Fox cameras catch Breeze go to try to even just pick up the ball and immediately tosses it away because obviously he gets a surge of pain. Very bad situation. For the same time, that helps, that's when it helps tap Roy aikmen watching what's happening, because he's been through these things before. He went through some ups and downs with durability, and right away he said, no, Breeze is

absolutely not coming back. In this game. And it's probably more serious than anyone would let on at this point because there were no even there were no doctors even examine. He was just sort of sitting there with a dejected look on his face. And suddenly you're getting a very big helping of Teddy Bridgewater. Too much Teddy Bridgewater in this game. Uh. And we'll see if Bridgewater ends up being there starter going forward in the weeks ahead, and

we'll find out again. Uh. Probably this time tomorrow will have a much better idea of where breezes. But so far, what we've seen Greg from Bridgewater has been underwhelming is in terms of his Saints career Week seventeen, which I get it's a throwaway game. When he played that game, did not play well and was not able to rally the troops on the road against the Rams here. Yeah, who would like to see him, you know, in a start in a game. They're prepping him as the starter,

you know, with starters around him. He didn't have that in Week seventeen. Obviously came in here and the Saints offense wasn't exactly it was very early in the game, but this started out as a defensive struggle. I think these two teams are both maybe not totally up to speed on what they want to do offensively. I know the Saints look pretty good in Week one, at least in the second half of that Texans game, but both seem like they're getting their feet under them in terms

of having the offensive they used to have. I just wonder if you have the next Steve Young, which Sean Payton has called Taysom Hill, why is he not getting the call over Teddy Bridgewater, who had a ten point eight QBR in this game and, like we said, was terrible last year in the season. I would imagine it's because how they've divvied up any snaps behind breeze from August through now. But I'm with you that Taysom Hill is this electrifying New Age type player who does so

many things, throws the ball beautifully. I don't know how its depending it breezes out for a while. How long of a leash do we need with Bridgewater plane If it's this way, there is the possibility that Sean Payton knows. He might say he's Steve Young or whatever, but he knows maybe Taysom Hills a player better in spurts than as they're down to down quarterback and that will probably will learn that for sure, depending on how long he'll play him. And if he's just talking trash, then he won't.

Because Taysom Hills three years older than Teddy Bridgewater. I mean, he's not exactly like a rising young prospect right and the Saints who are very close to being oh and two this year if not for a bailout by Will Lutz there on Monday Night football. Uh. It's what really jumps out to me, um from this game is if this Breeze injury is serious, the NFC South becomes a lot more interesting. It was a kind of a runaway division,

it seemed like for the Saints. Um. If Breeze misses a lot of time, uh, and they do not get good quarterback play, that opens the door for everybody in that division and that will be interesting to watch. Nobody's played well in this division so far. No, No, and Jared go Todd Boles. Todd Boles is flying around, well, he's killing it his back. It's the redemption season. But on the ram side of the ball, Jared got better than he was in Week one, but still not great,

but an improvement. So No, need to panic with Golf and Girle. And again it's coming further into focus now he had his first touchdown of the year. Um In this game, Um averaged almost four yards to carry on sixteen carries. But there they ran the ball thirty times as a team and Girly had just about half those carries. They are going to it seems like it's gonna back up what people suspected that it's a little bit of a running back by committee in l A at least

early in the season. Maybe it's something that shifts this time. I'm fine with that. And Greg, you mentioned the Rams kind of figuring out what they are about at this point, which is absolutely fine. And what I love about them in early trade is they played a resilient second half against the Panthers last week and went away winning that

game without too many questions. And yes, the Saints in this game, that fumble should have been a touchdown for that defense that got whistled dead mid run to the end zone is disgraceful and and everyone calling that game in the official on hand said that should never happen. The rule is you should let it roll and then decide later that it's not a fumble, but I didn't. It's ridiculous that it happened to the Saints in this what essentially was a second helping of last year's disgraceful days,

disgracefully called NFC Title game. That said, I don't think in the end it would have stopped the Rams from doing what they did in this game. I really love the way they played down the stretch two weeks in a row. It's a sign of a great team when you win games that you don't play that well. That they okay, the people saying they haven't played that well this year, well they want on the road against the Panthers. They end up winning this game by eighteen. Goff ends

up throwing ten yards per tempt. The Saints defense gives up what three straight touchdowns in the second half and three possessions? What more do you want? And the girly thing. It's a fantasy problem. And I get that's why it's in our Twitter feed. But if you're the rank, it's like, who don't care? Who cares? He's getting scent of the snapsis the starter? You know, it's a fantasy problem. It's not really a rank. Through a few beautiful passes in this game too. Yeah, his long he had a fifty

yard hook up with Brandon Cup that broke. Go watch that seven yard throw and the other big takeaway. Positive wise, Uh, Cooper Cup looks like Cooper Cup from before the a c L Tarra last year. You mentioned how the NFC South is up for grabs. We'll see if the NFC West is up for grabs. But right now they have three to and no teams. You don't see that too often. I mean there's there's three the three teams out there feeling pretty good about themselves. I'll all go, uh, fourteen port,

so let's start. Let's all start fourteen or no. I predict issues there if you're if you're a game official that's blowing a play dead. Still after this happens fourteen times every year, and everyone else agrees that that makes no sense to blow dead, there's gotta be some type of penalty. I would put the man wake the official. You go to the nearest American shoreline, You put him on a vessel, and the vessel just goes deep out into sea and we never hear from that human ever again.

That would all you'd eliminate people doing this. They do get graded right, so they get a skull in automatic. It's gonna be a deeper punishment. They're out, They're gone into and maybe you get picked up by a vessel that happens to be in the neighborhood. Maybe you land on an island and survive or not. Our problem I started lately, it's like we were gonna trying to solve problems here. These players go out, they have a terrible game,

knowing you know that it happens. Well, it's not a ref's league, Greg, Sorry, alright, more injury issues at the quarterback position. Let's head to Pittsburgh. Penny is wind to the right. Let's keep an eye on Will dis leave the tight end. Russell takes the snap, looks far aside. He's gonna throw downfield. He's gotten that, Jeff, He's gotta touchdown. Save Hawks d J Mett. Jeff one on one down the far sidelines. Good luck, perfect passed by Russell Wilson,

a twenty eight yard strike. That's number two hundred one touchdowns for Russell Wilson. What a Hall of Fame career he is having seven nine. Steve Rabel the Seahawks Radio network with the call Yes, Russell Wilson danger us through for three touchdowns, including that gorgeous twenty eight yard or the DK metcalf. That kid can play. The Seahawks hold

off the Pittsburgh Steelers at Hines Field. The Steelers and we'll get to the the Seahawks in a moment, but the Steelers are o and two and Greg that's just the start of it. Yeah. Ben Roethlisberger left this game with an elbow injury just before halftime. In in the final drive that he had moving down the field, he was shaking his elbow quite a bit. Sometimes right until that he was in a shotgun formation. Sometimes until them

you were giving him some heat, Well he was. He was sitting there flapping his arm until the second the ball came and then he actually he moved him down the field. I believe they scored on that drive, but he obviously was in serious pain. It was his left elbow. Didn't come back out. They're gonna have tests. And James Conner left in the second half and Mason Rudolph came in. Played pretty well, uh for the mo us part, but obviously starting the season oh and two and Roethlisberger being

injured is a disaster. And there has to be a part of Mike Tomlin and everyone associated with the Steelers that is even more worried because they realized Ben Roethlisberger and James Conner's injuries. James Conner also left in the second half. We're not the reasons they lost this game. I mean, we do that segment in the off season. You know what you simpleton's probably don't realize, Like what you simpleton's don't realize, is the Seahawks were, you know,

doubling them up in total yardage in the first Yeah. No, just anyone any hot takes men tomorrow who kind of put this on the injuries. Mason Rudolph moved the ball better than Ben Roethlisberger. It was their defense that collapsed in the second half. That's yeah. And James Connor before he goes out averages three yards of carry. He did

not have a big week one ever either. And West, I mean, I'm if I'm a Steelers fan, I'm concerned do I have the do I have the horses here that do I not actually have the horses here to get this thing going, particularly offense? Or this is just one of those things where a team looks terrible or early September, and by mid November there you know, eight and five and no one's talking about it. I agree the offense is more of a concern that you know,

Collinsworth pointed out last week. They are doing some different things on defense, they are playing much more a man demand. They are younger, they have a lot of young guys in that secondary, and it's gonna take some time for them to get used to that plane style. But on offense, you know, they should be they should be hitting. I'm not saying on all cylinders, but you gotta be playing a lot better than they've done these first two weeks.

I feel like one guy they were counting on was and this this was a suspicious guy to be counting on to some degree, was Dante Moncrief and he's had to really ugly games in a row and he's cost them, he's cost them a lot, and that was someone they you know, you lose Antonio Brown and obviously Juju Smith. Schuster is extremely talented, but he's in a different spot plane. You know, your lead, your lead receiver week after week

and it's not really worked out. He's been held under a hundred yards two games in a row based on the box score, Moncrieff wasn't a big part of the game plan. He was targeted once shot off his hands, so Mason heard his first third and long, it was the second past of the game, went right through. It was a great third, third and long throw to the outside, went right through Moncrief's hands, off his helmet, up into

the air for an interception. And then Donte Moncrieffe did not play for the rest of the game, which which was a smart move. And all this talk about the Seahawks does I mean about the Steelers takes away attention from what was a really great, mature game from Russell Wilson. I think this showed some progress if you're a Seahawks fans of Brian Schottenheimer. In Russell Wilson adapting to what was happening in the first quarter of the game. They're

doing their normal dropbacks. The Steelers are absolutely destroying them up front. The Seahawks offensive line is a big concern for me right now. They're not past protecting well, but they adjust to the short passing game. Russell Wilson ends up getting what did he have yards touchdowns in this game with having to look spectacular without running, without running around. It was just very composed, uh, dicing up the Steelers zone.

They kind of went back to his own defense this week, and he was picking apart Terrell Edmonds and some of the young players in the in the Steelers secondary. And Pete Carroll also showed a little new leaf too for a sixty eight year old celebrated his birthday. Uh for this game. I think he's either the fifth or the sixth oldest coach in NFL history. He called passes on first and second gown down when they had to go kill the clock to end the game after the Steelers

had cut it to two. They did it by throwing and they went for a fourth and one with two minutes left that would have set the Steelers up to maybe go for the winning field goal. They end up going for it on fourth down. So Pete Carroll still learning new things. I guess you can teach an old dog new trick. Also has to have the greatest passenger ference challenge in NFL history. It's only been two weeks, but one one play that the announcer I forget who

was now. I did not think there was any chance that he was going to get it overturned and I didn't. I didn't think there was a great chance either. It didn't, and it totally changed the game. The Seahawks kept the ball and ended up scoring. And that is one of those things where he's going to get the credit. There's probably someone high up in a booth saying, get on that now. Hey, if I'm sixty eight years old, just come congratulate me for living. He's he's youth. I just

want it. That's that's my goal for sixty eight. Forget when in a football What about Greg you getting off Seahawks corner in early September and you know, I'm loving it over there. I mean, they're so accommodating. It's really nice. It's been this is what this is what the last decade has been like. It's very close, it's crazy, it's fun. They'll probably go ten and six and losing the wild card round. Sanna enjoined dk Metcalf making game changing plays.

What about Will Disley not little at all? Actually, Will Lee gotta get behind the Will Dislie express, Who's not all right? Let's move on. Five and a half to go. Can the Packers defense hold first down Minnesota? The Green Bay eight yard line take to Cook Cousins book likes right, Chase Pykeene Lowry looks at right corner of the end song clap car dreen Bay football fake spectacular leafing grabbing.

Now the officials are talking it over. It is Green bayball and yes, Kevin King high in the air using every inch six to gather Wayne Larley of the Packers radio network with the call Ada deln Kirk Cousins. Kevin King intercepted Cousins Layton late in the fourth quarter in the back of the end zone, the biggest play in Green Bay over the Vikings at lambeau Field. Um Mike Patton's defense failed out the Packers for a second straight week after Aaron Rodgers and company went ice cold following

a red hot start. This is a really strange game, boys, and when you watch this on Game Ask, you will agree because the game begins with after the As we all know, the Packers struggle mightily in Week one against the Bears on Thursday night on offense, and in this game they come out on fire. Three straight bang bang bang uh touchdown drives. They're up twenty one nothing um one minute into the second quarter, and you think what

you have is gonna be a total wipeout. From that point on, the game entirely shifted and the Vikings take control on both sides of the ball. Really, Um, the Packers I have about a hundred and fifty total yards for the rest of the game period, Uh, don't score another point, and the Vikings start, you know, chipping away, chipping away, but they continually continuously Minnesota shot themselves in

the foot in this game. Um. They could not get over the hump, and the interception was a perfect uh encapsulation of the struggles by the Vikings to get over the hump. It was a first and goal from the eight yard line midway through the fourth quarter, and Cousins, who really did not have a good game and is not having a great start to second season in Minnesota, forces the ball into douvor double coverage bordering on triple coverage on first and goal from the eight for the interception.

It turned out to be their last real chance to do anything. And you know, I think Cousins was brought um mark to Minnesota to be a steadying presence at quarterback, not necessarily be a superstar that um lifts the team to greater heights, but be a guy that in games like this and division showdowns on the road where you need a big play, he's a guy can give it to you. In this game, he wasn't up to the challenge, and the criticism is gonna get louder and louder the

more games that pile up. Like I mean, I don't think that he should have been brought to Minnesota to be a superstar, but at the time he was paid like one, and they at this point, it feels like, you know, you can look at this game and say, Stephen Digs that past interference that nullified that touchdown was another I don't want to do this with every game, but it seems like the rest are constantly trying to out There were three offensive past interference calls that went

against the Vikings. They were all suspect, none worse than the call marks referring to they Kirk Cousins should have had a touchdown past two Diggs nothing called on the field. As they're bringing out the extra point UH team, they get buzzed down from upstairs and they call an O p I uh. They call I think Dalvin Cook for a screen on a very tiki tach call that was not made on the field, taking the points off the board, and I'll tell you when you watch us, you'll see.

So they lose by five points. Okay, that play is your patent um, Michae Lombardi four point play because they fail to get in the end zone, kicked the field goal that costs them four points. Now there's a one point difference. The next time, the Vikings getting the end zone and score. Stefan Diggs has a long touchdown catch.

Diggs is so angry still that he had the other touchdown taken away that in a rage, he takes off his helmet and mean mugs the crowd at ambo clearly because he was still fired up that he got screwed before they flag him for that unsportsmanlike and because there's a new NFL rule one that I called would cost somebody a game back in like June or something. They fifteen yard unsports unlike conduct for taking off your helmet.

Not enforced on the kickoff, but on the extra point, so backs it up to a forty eight yard extra point attempt. You know what happens next, it's blocked. That's the fifth point directed connected directly to that first play. They lose by five, and this was such a Vikings loss. And uh, you know, I was bemoaning my existence and

moping about the Jets late last week. But Vikings bands they know the feeling too, because this is a uniquely type Vikings loss that when the season ends and wherever they stand up, whether they fall short of the playoffs or don't have a home game or they just missed the package in the division, you're kicking yourself because they should have won a game. They were down twenty one

nothing and they just killed him. When when these calls come down to the sideline, I think it's time that we have the technology to trace where they've come from, because this probably sounds good came from like Mike Holmgren's living room. I mean, who's actually dialing up anyone to say, take a look at that Dick's catch? It came from somewhere in affair. I promise you. I'm just saying someone with Packers ties said I'm gonna get on Green Bay's

side here and cause some issues. Let's not lose track of the good news around the Packers there two and oh under Matt Lafloor. The bad news is they could not have looked worse now for seven out of eight quarters of their season on offense, and you're gonna be stunned by how much they struggled, uh to just move the ball and and Petton's defense bailing him out over and over again down the stretch of this game. They

have a lot of work to do. And we got our first Rogers barking at Matt Lafleur incident on the sideline, which was downplayed, of course, as you'd expect by Rogers afterward. But keep an eye on this because they're still iron iron ironing out some kinks here. Yeah. ESPNS. Rob Demowski, great beat reporter, said, if you had under six quarters into the season when Rogers would come off the field yelling in the direction of Matt the Flower my name for him, then you're a winner. Yeah, but survive in

advance in September football. These teams aren't. No teams are going to resemble what they look like now in December. And they have these two division wins in their pocket, one one in Chicago, one against Minnesota, and they're winning different types of ways. And if if you're a Vikings fan,

it does feel like a Viking stipple. It feels like a Kirk Cousins type of loss because he defies He's got great stats, but he's sort of is I mean a Kime has made at this point our friend who we had in the show cut he has all these great stats, but all the things that you know, saber metrics and people that are in the numbers like don't necessarily believe in clutch or big moments or anything like that. Like Kirk Cousins does struggle in big moments. He does

struggle when it matters. He struggles when he's near the goal line. Pff at a stat inside the ten yard lining in in two thousand seven, he's twenty seven out of twenty seven in passer rating with of his past his averaging one point six yards per tempt. So he struggled. He gets near the goal line and he struggles. That's the problem. It's the inverse of that. When they go back to the draft of Tom Brady was like, hey, all his measurable is not great, but one thing that

couldn't measure was the only ticker inside. Same thing with Cousins that can't measure. It's in the heart. And in that case that that makes up why the guy's not that good and why his teams are never that good. They're playing whatever gets it done in a big spot ever. Alright, and by the way, Dalvin Cook, the one really good news, a bit of good news for the Seahawks. Welcome to the superstar club. This guy balls out and he will continue to do so. Let's move on now. It's fourth

down in two fifteen seconds left to go. Here we go. Mariota backs to throw brows left side, and it's a good place. It's it did Plate on his slant plantern to a j Plann Chritsy Wilson on cleveris for the Cults, and the Cults are gonna win. It's the Cults will win. In week two, with the eleventh seconds left to go, that was fourth Downd the Titans turning over. They're out of time out. They trailed nineteen to seventeen, and the Cults are gonna win it uh Matt Taylor the Colts

Radio Network, Yes, the Colts broke up. A Mariota passed intended for a J. Brown fourth and two eleven seconds to play, clinching Indie's nineteen seventeen win in Nashville. It was that kind of day for the Titoons offense, which struggled to the move the ball against the good Colts defense. That brought a lot of heat on Mariota. Uh. Jake Brisket put the Colts ahead with five minutes to play in the fourth quarter. Uh. And at the end of the day, West, what you really need to do in

that spot? And we and we all got excited about what we saw from the Titans in Cleveland last week, But what you need to do at home if you're Marcus Mariota and it's time to take the next step or you're gonna be sent out of town, you need to get something done there. And that last possession down nineteen seventeen, UM, he barely was able to move the ball. It was checked down pass uh fifteen yards scramble checkdown past spike on a third and two, setting up a

fourth and two that then leads the incompletion. Mariotta after the games, that's on me. I should not have clocked the ball there and it ultimately cost him. So Mariotta fall short again. And this is just a nineteen seventeen Titans lost at home to the Colts. That's that nine and seven Titoons at you right again. So beyond that one drive that mattered at the end of the game, why did they only score seventeen points? They because they had no offensive aerial tech. It's just Uh, Derrick Henry

moved the ball just fine. He's he's I think, a very good running back. They have that element of it, but they you know, there are a couple of things that really jump out to you. Delaney Walker, after having a great week one, he didn't have a big impact in this game. And then remember Adam Humphries. Remember that. Yeah, I was gonna say, remember what a big deal that was that he was going to be a missing piece

in this offense. Uh, thus far in the season, I think he has three catches for four yards in two games. It's odd to me that Marcus Marietta. Marcus Mariotta has always thrown better between the numbers, but has he ever had a slot received? But he does now and he's not even right, but now he's invisible the slot. Right. So Mariota, the average one five five and a half yards per tempt. You have a chance to set up the game winning field goal drive with a you know,

reasonably short field, you don't do it. You spike it on third and in two I mean, that's that. I don't know if that if he's trying to cover for the coaches, probably not, but that's just a I hate when teams spike way too much in two minute situations, and on a third town with the game on the line, is unbelievably brutal. And after the game, Mariotta is talking about how he can't keep taking sacks and can't keep

getting hit. And this is kind of like we talked about with Winston the other night, making the same mistakes five years and these are Mariotta's same mistakes five years in, which is taking those sacks and and taking those hit. Titans writers talked about Mariota being sort of spooked down the stretch of this game, and to Greg's point, getting hit week after week. He got hit a bunch last week. It's lost in the final score of week one, but he took some punishment. It happens again, and the big

plays seemed to have dried up in this game. They had a bunch less there was three. There was only one play in this entire game that was over or two plays over twenty yards by by the two teams combined. Right, Because yeah, on the other side of it, Jake Brisket averages just over five yards an attempt um. He does throw three touchdown passes, including the big hook up with Hilton uh to put them ahead. Uh So the Colts they get back to one on one, but that won't

be the win. Is only going to be a subplot early in the week. And this is another story that's gonna kinda adapt as we get away from the studio.

This uh, this evening, but out of it a Thierry in a nineteen seventeen win missed two extra points and this comes on the heels of last week where he missed what was the two field goals in an extra point um and after the game, so they they basically got beat because of Antierry last week on some level and then uh it almost cost them big here after the game, there was a tweet sent out by let me make sure it was Stephen Holders. Stephen Holder, I think we hear it is Holder. Road just grabbed out

of Vintieri. Was he As he headed to the bus, he said, you'll hear from me tomorrow. I told him we don't see him tomorrow, and he said, yeah you will, um, which of course makes you think that maybe it's all over now for Vintieri, whether he's going to retire or the culture gonna make a move and it's gonna be some type of joint decision. We'll find out, but that's what it seemed like. Um after the game, Ominous Jim Mercy, the owner, talked about it too, that they're all have

to talk about it. Frank Reich really defended his you know, vinitary, but he was hurt in camp two, was missing in camp, and they can't allow it to you know, maybe cost him games. It's a huge win for the for in this division. It's a big game in this division. It might not feel like a seismic game in the NFL, but for the Colts to end up splitting, you know, starting on the road against the Chargers, the Titans, they'll take that, and to get a road win in the division,

it is pretty bag. Such a and Titans fans are gonna think I'm piling on or doing jumping Jack's in celebration, which would be weird to do in celebration. But just such a bad loss. It's like you you come out of that Week one against Cleveland on fire, big on yourself. Delanny Walkers talking about how nobody believes in us, you guys always talking us down. Then you come home against and Andrew Luckless Colts and I know we like the Colts is a still solid team, but you gotta you

gotta show up and you gotta win that game. You get to two and oh, how how are you supposed to be taken seriously as an a f C contender when this is how you come home? This has been something you've been railing against for years and the Titans have yet to prove you wrong. One bright spot after several years of chemotherapy. David Questenberry, the lineman, scores his first career touchdown in this game. But Dan one quick,

which team for the Titan? Titans one quick, but not for the It wouldn't be so celebratory had he scored for the other team. But I just didn't know it's team on. I knew what used to be with Titans. Man. Professionally, Dan, I mean, being a great memorable having a memorable beat is about being industrious and you know, doing you're part of the job, but also hitting it at the right time. And you hit this Kickers thing at the absolute sweet spot in history because it would have been largely a

dead storyline. Week after week, every game we're talking about has kicker nonsense happening. I wish it wasn't such a big deal, because it does. Know, you're very happy that it is working out for you, very well. You actually nailed it. Let's move on. Two point play. Jackson Bille going for the league right here from the two yard line. Man sure, we've gone three receivers left, panned off four net and running left. Dad. He stopped trust and Reid

got in there. The deed stiffens about two point conversion try. The Texans apply thirteen twelve with Bertie seconds left. Mark Vandermere, Texans Radio Network with the call. With the Jaguars looking to steal the game with a two point conversion, justin read stuff Leonard four Nette on the goal line, clinching

a win for the Texans. The stop came after Jacksonville rookie Gardner Minshew led a long drive that included an eighteen yard run on fourth and ten and capped it with a four yard touched touchdown past the DJ Shark, but Doug Moron opted to take it out of Minshew's hands for neck couldn't get it done. Mark Maron's call showed onions for days. But shouldn't I think Jackson just kicked that p a t well. I don't know, because

it's this, it's this is football. If they if they hadn't got that thing, we would have said, you know what, you had a rookie quarterback and you you end the game right there, you get it done, and you're out of there with a big win against the Texans, who had a down day offensively. So I'm not going to kill him for that. I kind of like seeing that kind of thing that said. I mean, just judging by the reaction of fans, people were super down the Maroon.

I I don't know a huge problem with it, with the way that their offense was functioning slash not functioning. Why because you think they wouldn't have had a great chance to score again, that their best chance was from the two kind of do yes? I kind of do? I mean, because it was you know, you needed that last surge from Minshew and the Jaguars to to even get into that situation. Their offense was largely lost. They didn't have a lot of continuity from from March to March.

Minshew and I know he was, you know, and I love the guy, the idea of him, and he was generating massive Twitter heat he has. He he suffered some growing pains here because he took four sacks and if you go back and watch, some of them are just he's holding the ball too long. I still think he throws the ball well. And he showed scrambling ability that got them out of a couple of jams here, and

he did just enough. I think. Another story in this game was the Jaguars defense showed up DeAndre Hopkins held to forty yards and you know in this case that they basically have Jalen Ramsey tracking him, snapped a snap

and that was a great matchup. It was just a weird matchup because by the end, Carlos Hide, with twenty touches for ninety yards, had way more than double and more more carries and way more than double yardage than any other skill position player on the Texans, and more than anyone in the entire game that it was a Carlos The game channeled through Carlos Hide, and Duke Johnson was essentially lost to Shawn Watson took four sacks of his own, and at one point he was hobbling around,

and it's just another reminder that like the you know, Laramy Tuns left the game for a couple of minutes to I just cannot imagine how Watson gets through this entire season. And this game was not a great performance by the Texans offensively. I don't know. This was a two strange games in the ANFC South. This was part two.

I mean, neither team top three hundred yards, so that all four a f C South teams, none of them top three hundred yards, which is pretty it's pretty rare if for a team not to get that high in today's NFL. I don't mind them doing it because Leonard four Nette on that run. You saw the power first of all. I mean he should have been taken down at the three, and he almost got over the goal line. Some Jaguars fans think he did. I reached the ball out at some point. I don't mind the team saying

like this is who we are. If we can't game two yards here after we spread you out and you're worried about our passing game and get those two yards, maybe we're just not gonna be good. I maybe maybe they want I don't think they were about to go march down the field for a touchdown in overtime. I also think Leonard Bournette is never going to be with the Jaguars. Thought he was gonna be when they drafted

him with the top five pick. He spent the off season losing fifteen pounds working out in Wyoming, and I still don't see the big playability from him. So you you're saying, if they could do it over, you'd take Patrick Mahomes, not Leonard. Let me go out. I mean, why they have boardles. They have boardles. They have boardles. So who needs a quarterback garden to meet you? Well, I know you're down on him, Dan, but he he honestly, I don't really. It's like, oh, a rookie sixth round

pick has growing pains. I mean, he had policing Deshaun Watson. He's also he's also throwing the ball better than some quarterbacks that no one's gonna yank out of the starting spot. He's throwing the ball. Well, I don't He was not the reason they lost. He certainly didn't drag them to a win either. It's too bad because if if they had if they had picked him, if they had picked

the perfect play call. I mean you tweeted that you're all out, so based on a photo that's like a year older, I'm just not like Will Brinson misled the public with an old photo. You listen, you gotta know what. Ultimately, I'm just not gonna be on the train and I might really miss out on this because if this, if this guy goes off and leads the Jags to an amazing run to the playoffs, I'm gonna have egg all

over my face. If you're not really going out, yeah, if you're not on the if you're not on the train, though, he is going to be ultimately destroyed on the show with a bunch of secret bits that no one's expecting. So it's this is all This is again completely completely It's completely talked ahead of time by you because you were probably upset you didn't lead the Minshew things. So you're they're jumping out. You're jumping out on the anti

Minshew things. So if someone doing the best he can as a backup quarterback who's looked pretty good fails, you get to exude some sort of joy in it. That's that's an enjoyable like I have a fun time with that, Dan, I would like a list of the strangest you guys have battled it out on that. I'm dead on. This has to be right near at the top. And if they had just called the perfect play on that two point version of Minshew through it going into Thursday night football,

we'd be flying in it. What a and still he can still facial hair? What a cad? No, please, cad, that's not a compliment. All right? Are we ready to move on? Yes? I refuse to fight with you about Gardner Minshew Mark, I'm not gonna do it. I'm not engaging. Well, you already have engaged because you get your little sneaky tweets out there and then everybody's everyone else's job to not respond to it. It's like we all see you well didn't didn't have anything. Least you are one more

thing in this game. How this put the cameras on the goal line. You're worried about a thistle that there's they didn't have the two camera because this is the you know, the CBS is seventeen broadcast. You know it's the it's the Q team covering this game, and you don't have two cameras on the goal line with a sensor in the ball, we could know maybe maybe the Jaguars won this game. Maybe they'll determine it in like

four when they install this technology. A bunch of players looked at one angle and thought they did on the Jaguars silent. Let's move on. ChEI Williams to the left of Mahomes, takes the snap right at his belt, turns the right hip. Now he's gonna gun it long. He wants to Marcus Robinson coming back to the ball. He's done it in the end zone. Touchdown. Can the Marcus Robinson it's his turn to have the game of his life. And the Chiefs at four consecutive touchdowns and Mahomes isn't

a human unsettling towards all right, Mitch Holts. You can hear his voice. It is fun being the play by play man of the Kansas City Chiefs right now. The Raiders shut the Chiefs out for three quarters on Sunday. It's a one quarter where the Chiefs did score that cost Oakland. Patrick Mahomes through four touchdown passes in the second quarter, uh the final one to DeMarcus Robinson, ultimately ten win at the black hole. Greg good job, good effort.

By the Raiders. But once the Chiefs gotten gear, this thing turned into exactly what we thought about. Right. You might you might have a plan for fifteen minutes. You might get up in the Chiefs grill and take them one on one because they don't have Tyreek Hill, and think that you can cover a man and maybe dare Patrick Mahomes to go over the top four you and you're flying around, and the black hole was as loud as I've heard it in in a long, long time.

And then adjustments come and then Patrick Mahomes incinerates you like old Mitch Hols this said. I mean that it was as if the Raiders and even the Chiefs were kind of left in a puddle of off for the rest of the game. There wasn't even any scoring in the second half because everyone had just decided, you know what,

that's good for today, Patrick Mahomes, You're so amazing. We don't need to see anything more than two hundred and seventy eight yards in a quarter where they called some of his plays back, I mean classic Mahomes kind of sequences. He throws one of the best throws I've ever seen across his body on a third and long it was unbelievable. They call it back because of penalty, So what do they do? They just throw a forty nine yard touchdown the next place on third and twenty two. It's the

big plays for this offense. They're there week after week after week, and it translated through an entire offseason. Nothing changed. Mahomes looks better to me than he did before. This game weirdly reminded me of Super Bowl twenty two, which is a million years ago, but that was the game where an inferior Broncos team got up ten nothing and

you thought, why are they hanging around? And then the Redskins with Doug Williams exploded for thirty five second quarter points game over, but no one really scored the rest of the game. It took that effect by halftime. This was the team that was John Gruden's, in a lot of other coaches major bugbear last year, and they destroyed Oakland twice and it took the same form, and it took everything that happened in that nice little Week one storyline that we all enjoyed on national TV and put

a buzz saw right through it in five minutes. Because it's hard to keep that going if you're the Raiders. You don't have the talent. It's it's true, but I still think the Raiders could have something here. The Chiefs are gonna are gonna trash teams. Look what they did

to the Jaguars defense, who played pretty well. Okay, let's take out tyreeko Hey, DeMarcus Robinson six for one, seventy two and forty four yards, Nicole Hardman a forty two yard touchdown, and another seventy two yarder that was called back by a shaky penalty. Mahomes would have gone over five in this game if it wasn't for that play being called back. I just think the Chiefs and Mahomes at twenty four years old, is doing things we haven't seen in NFL history. It's just facts. Well, that's fine,

give give the Raiders defense a pass. They're planning against the Chiefs, But why are you giving the Raiders offense a pass. I think that was the most concerning thing in the game that after that quick start, they shot themselves in the foot. They moved the ball, uh, they would pass midfield. They had a couple of tough breaks, maybe a miscommunication on the goal line was one interception,

a tipped. That was a bed in a pick play where the where a car through uh you know to an offensive player who kind of got you know, steamrolled was another interception. I think this offense is gonna not have enough margin for error because they're stationed to station. Not enough big plays and if you fall down, they might not be a team that can catch up short week. Also, it's a it was a tough week to assign for Oakland. I'd be interested to where they come down next week.

One thing I've noticed is different in my homes. He moves in the pocket to create more time now better than than he did a year ago, where he's he did that last week too. It wasn't perfect, but he did that last like where he's now backing up in in he reads even calling it into some of the play calls where in one play like they have him sprinting out to the left and then turning around and and he's just buying time too so that he can set up back there and then he's torturing him. It's

pretty good. Let's move on. Like Mark Jackson and the Shotgun Cardinals rush five Jackson crush shot deep far sidelines, want a yard line? It is caught by Hollywood ground and he's taken down on the Grolmates red zone. First Town Ravens. An absolute strike. He put it in the

only place where he could catch the ball. Had a key moment having want a point by these two young guys Jerry Sandusky and Jared Johnson on the call for w b A L. Lamar Jackson's picture perfect strike to Markey's Hollywood Brown on third and eleven the clincher for the Ravens, who got another great performance by their second

year quarterback win over the Cardinals. Um, everyone's expecting to see electricity from Kyler Murray in the season's opening weeks, but instead, Gregg the football world is it's fixed on Lamar Jackson. How good was he on Sunday? I mean another two touchdowns, a hundred and twenty yards rushing. Mark Andrews goes crazy for I mean, they're an offensive team

right now. I think some of the Ravens beat writers after watching this game thought, you know, this is different than a year ago when they really relied on the defense to carry them and the running game which wasn't quite there today other than Lamar y yards on the ground. Yeah, that's funny for Lamar and and this year it's been more Lamar's carrying them. I know it's just two games, but this wasn't you know, this was a game where

the Cardinals moved the ball. I thought that. I think that they are perfectly built roster wise to do what they are doing early on. And that is the sixth time in Lamar Jackson's career where he alone is out rushed the opposing team. And there's six and oh in those games. And I know that's not what they want to do every week, but it was a huge difference maker today. But what they have now, they're one of

these teams with two playmaking tight ends. And they also which they lacked last year, which they've lacked essentially outside of Steve Smith, their wide receiver group has been a issue for Ages forever. And Marquis Brown eight catches, eighty six yards, another forty one yard or we saw the

big play on the highlight. This is contagious. I mean, this team can beat you in a lot of different ways, and then you throw in their defense that essentially really kept the Cardinals totally at bay outside of a bunch of field goal drives. I wanna bash the Ravens a little bit for not drafting Durwin James, for deciding to trade down and draft an old tight end like Hayden Hurst in the first room. But then they made up for it by drafting Mark Andrews, who looks like a

pro bowler in his second season. The guy gets a hundred yards every week. And I think this is a moral victory too. For the Cardinals there at oh one and one, I mean, there are already a million times better offensively than they were a year ago. I mean, they kicked three field goals inside the five yard line, which is the first time that's happened since nine So it was a little cautious there by Cliff Kingsbury, but the game ended up being moose. Kyler Murray's making Lamar

Larry Fitzgerud go over a hundred yards every week. Kyler Murray's thrown for three fifty in a second game in Baltimore. I mean, it is pretty good. I can't get over this. I mean, Lamar Jackson, he throws for two and seventy two yards, two touchdowns, doesn't throw an interception, runs watch on sixteen carries his long. It's like Okane, It's two weeks in there must have been a sixty yard run

or something to spike that total. His long was nineteen, so he finished for a hundred and twenty and sixteen carries and it was just all him. Look, I guess ten fifteen yard runs over and over again, which has to kill a defense. Well, but I also think he's the kind of guy and we saw when he when he takes off with the ball, there's four or five defenders looking at him wondering what on earth do I do? Because his next second and third and fourth step are

totally confusing. He's not bashing into the line for three yards, He's swinging off off tackle and completely causing chaos. All right, let's move up now. Is the long back, second down, the thirty nine straight drop, there's a It's by b J w Lambeth. They get it out to the Monster first on cricks and taco Hey's done checks down San fran Shlet's go. They like these thirty eight or thirty

nine yarders and what's old? Slick Monster gets the ball in his hand for again about that is no nickname because he is slick and there is just no messing around. Greg Papa and Tim Ryan of the forty Niners Radio San Francisco. I mean, you know, these guys are sitting in there on Saturday and they're like one better apartments, practicing these little catchphrases and calls. Wait, over and over, did Papa make the move from the Raiders to the forty Niners? That's not under my radar? How about that?

You don't think they pay him better to be in a bigger I just imagine like someone like over looking over like the San Francisco Bay and one of those like whitewashed departments where he's just doing it into his hand over and over the little microphone call. Yeah please. Jimmy Garoppolo tied his career with three down fastest map for you. It ran for a bucket seventy two yards of total offense seventeen lacking of the host Bengals. The Niners open their season with back to back roan wins.

How about that two and over the first time since two thousand twelve. You may remember we were there, most of us. They went to the Super Bowl that season. Greg. The Bengals were frisky in Week one and Week two they were outclassed by the Niners. Well, this was a great example of not overreacting to Week one, which we all did getting excited about the Bengals and being down.

And I'm not saying we all did. I mean about the like and even like being worried about Seattle, and then you know, being as worried as we were about the forty Niners who put together the best game that we've seen under Kyle Shane. I mean, this is the dream five hundred and seventy two yards, twelve yards per attempt, two hundred and fifty nine on the ground, and as as good a US as well schemed the game as there possibly could be because there's just receivers flying open

for Jimmy Garoppolo all throughout the game. The running game was terrific. Mostard had more snaps than Matt Brieda, but Matt Brida went twelve one on the ground, so everyone was getting there's and and Jimmy g through for two and three touchdowns without even really having a big break a sweat made. Some really made a few nice throws too, but a lot of guys were just streaking through that Bengal secondary. Both those guys Breeda and most There it

can play. I'm not convinced that Tevin Coleman he might be the third best runner on this team when he's healthy. I mean, Jeff Wilson scored two touchdowns in this game, maybe the fourth UM few games, both on the East Coast. They win by a combined thirty eight points. And we'll find out that the schedule head is not out of control. But it's interesting because you're gonna be you come home for two games, one against the Steelers, who are gonna

be desperate. Uh might be starting Mason Rudolph and Mason rude could be playing. And then he got the Browns. We'll see what happens on Monday against the Jets, and but that will be an interesting matchup. But this is the best case scenario for San Francisco. When you think back to um, how how bad things looked when Garoppolo was getting his first preseason reps and he played so terribly in that game and there and there was just

this general concern that this was not gonna come together. Well, he wasn't very good in Week one West, but this game it looks like it was a huge step forward. Um, you gotta be feeling pretty good if you're the Niners, right now, well, there is a big black cloud hanging over this. It might not be the best case scenario because arguably the best player on their team, or at least on their offense, is the left tackle Joe Stanley.

What happened to Joe broken fibula looks like he's out two months and they have very little depth behind him. It'll be interested to see if they move Mike McGlinchey, their right right tackle, over the left tackle. But then are you hurting two positions with one moved. That's where stacking that win in Tampa, where they didn't play well and it was a pretty ugly game that was up for grabs in the last five minutes, is so big. Like when you have injuries like that. That's a difference

sometimes between a good season and bad. The Bengals lose the game where they play well on the road last week, the Fortins managed to win an ugly if you're the Bengals, the twenty five yards rushing in this game, and they were the team that I thought changed a lot of minds last week, and maybe not permanently. West Yours mind was not changed. The three of us I think maybe fell and spell to some degree because they look different to me on offense. I thought that they looked like

a new like totally. They had a completely different, revised plan on offense. And today is is killing you. And the Niners had another big turn over Kwan Alexander coming back from his ejection a week ago. That changed the game. And yeah, as as good as the vibes are last week, as Cincinnati, as low as they are now, they're owing

to you. Gotta win a football game next week. Let's move on first for the National Footballs got it looks just looks loose, glows deep middle is outstanding yard and the Lions definite league for the first time to day. That was a great job. But Kenney Golladay shielding the defensive back, keeping them on the back side, coming up with a hands catch touch. You don't think they're saying that in their little apartment rooms. Huge estates Uh and

uh we know Jons House. That's it's looking pretty good, Dan Miller and Loomis Brown with a call for the Lions radio network jaunty Uh. Matthew Stafford threw that go ahead thirty one yard touched up past the Kenny Golladay midway through the fourth quarter. The difference in the thirteen ten went over the Chargers at Ford Field. God they put the lines ahead with one after ahead and Darius Slay made its stand up with his interception with one

minute to play. West. This doesn't sound like it was the most beautiful display football, but the Lions will after Week three without a loss. They got a tie too, but they have a loss. That was a grown man catch by Kenny Golladay with one of the best cornerbacks in the league hanging on his back Casey hey word. That was a big play, and the Chargers can blame themselves. They had a three drive sequence. First drive, two touchdowns called back on penalty, and then a fumble at the

one yard line. The next two drives missfield goals on each of them, and it's hard to blame them for going with um Ti is it? Thai Long, their kicker who was Special Teams Player of the Week short in Week one. This is a guy who nailed eight eight percent of his kicks as an All star kicker in the CFL. They had reason to believe he could kick.

In addition to punt, he misses two with the game on the line, and to me, this is the NFL and anybody who tells you that some soccer player can come in and just take over kicking duties, like it's no big deal. It's ridiculous analysis, and it's incredibly disrespectful day it's it's awful analysis against the pass rush with angles to beat, with pressure on you. It's way different than kicking a fifty five yard field going practice. Give me a break, give NFL there's a little bit of respect. Well,

even the great one didn't. Matt Prater missed two kicks in this game too. It's hard to kick in the NFL, so even even the best of them are missing him back and forth. This unfortunately Chargers fans who love Philip Rivers and and know that they're lucky but probably have a little part of them that are is like remembers these types of players. The interception by Rivers West at the end of the game, like, I mean, that's just

a play. You don't expect the veteran quarterback to make. Well, he was picking on Darius Slay all day and then Slay came up big with the game on the line. There. It does feel like if you're a Chargers fan, you keep waking up into the same awful reality of oh, half our team is injured, and oh, our kicker suddenly is hurt, and there's a backup kicker flooding kicks and we're losing to the Lions by three points in a terrible looking doom. I'll have to go back and pay

a little bit closer attention. But to me, we asked the question, how many players can you take away from the Chargers and have them be less talented or than the Lions. They were in control of this game for most of the game, and they really had no business losing. But maybe the taking the kicker away is making you just a little bit less talentant than the Lion. And I don't know if it's if it's coaching. And I'm

sure Stafford got rid of the ball quickly. But the entire Chargers team had one quarterback hit and no sacks, and even that hit was from a cornerback. So they shut down Joey Bosa in Melvin Ingram West. What happened to our t J Hockenson hype express one catch for seven yards on three targets. Well, the Lions offense didn't do too much outside of carry on Johnson for a while. It was basically carry on Johnson and Kenny Golladay. Again,

I'll have to take a closer look. This was sort of my second game with the Cowboys, so I want to take a closer look on Hackinson. But the Lions didn't really do much until that Canny Golladay touchdown. And we know West was bathing in that Cowboys action. We were watching that like the that the Dolphins are tanking to try to like avoid being the type of team the Lions are. The Lions are just squarely. It feels like right and headed for the middle all of the NFL.

It's not bad. You know you're gonna have some fun weeks. Another way to look at it, undefeated, that's true. Let's move up and they have Brown and Gordon to the left. They spread it against the Dolphins with an empty set from the guard. Brady takes the snap and retreats. He looks left. He fires the back shoulder Brown touchdown. Patriots inside, but you're left pylon. Welcome Anno England kid by the quarterback to the back, shops Antonio O'Brien truss bumping run

from the slot. Brady signals to the head. He checks the playoff and throws a tagger to the orts pylon. That's how you run the back shoulder faid, folks, tell elite talent right there. Good for you. Charming Bob Sochy and Scott and Zolak with the call for the Patriots radio network. Antonio Brown caught a touchdown pass and his Patriots debut, and the Patriots ran back two interceptions for touchdowns.

Bill Belichick kept coming after his former pupil, Brian Flores to the end forty three zip clown suit competition at the stadium formerly known as Joe Robbie. The Patriots have outscored opponent in the first two weeks, and the Dolphins have been outscored one oh two to ten. Mark there was only one NFL team on the field in this game. Yes or no Yes for the second week in a row. That's true of Miami and thank you. Look get a little cough out there, because this theme annoyed me a little.

I mean, they Patriots made it very clear for all the people wondering what would happen with Antonio Brown out of the gate, that they were going to lean on him right away. He he got the first three catches and his fourth was for that score, and when I watched the Dolphins, you know, it was thirteen nothing and a half time, and you almost got the sense of the Patriots were really not going all out on this. In this situation, Miami cannot on either side of the

ball push anyone around at all. It's it's I get it what you're trying to do. You're trying to position yourself to get a generational quarterback that you can build an entire team around you. There's a lot of steps to that. Number One is getting there in real time, which is going to be a very long process for everyone involved on this team. And I like the creative approach in terms of NFL team building, but you've got to nail that draft pick. Who even knows that that

quarterback exists right now? And I just wonder who comes out on the other side of this still attached and willing to sign up for a year two because it's gonna it's already for Brian Flores has to feel like they've been through eighteen weeks. This is impossible to watch, impossible on the eyes. And if your Ryan Fitzpatrick, who was held to about seventeen yards passing on an offense that had about thirty eight yards total at halftime. And

it's gonna be like this week after week. Ryan Fitzpatrick's struggles through two and a half quarters, they bring in Josh Rosen to mop up, if that's what you want to call it. A game that is utterly lost, and it's it's we. This is looking like the worst team in NFL history, And I don't care about anyone that's going on Owen sixteen. You look at that Browns team to do that, they were much more competitive in games. Well, how many teams in the NFL history have ever tried

to tank their season their entire season? Well, no, that's on one hand. I would imagine that's on one hand. But when the processes is ongoing. Minka Fitzpatrick played in this game. He's not expected to play next week because the reports in Miami are that the trade trade is close enough where the Dolphins believe they're gonna get a first rounder back and they and they're probably gonna move on from him. Kenyan Drake might be another guy that

gets moved. I think the you know, the defense I think was competitive, kept kept the Patriots from scoring a ton of points until late in the third. The offense had two first downs late in the third quarter. The problem is Danna Jeremiah said this is you know, he watched the tape from last week. He thinks it might

be the worst off defensive line in history. Now and maybe it's not the worst team in history, but the offensive line is giving Ryan Fitzpatrick and when Josh Rosen is out there apps no chance and it's going to give their offense no chance to move. It's they they have been pushed around to an embarrassing level in two weeks. But I would also look at their defense and say maybe they maybe they were competitive for a stretch today.

They also look at last week they were I mean, as they're also playing the Patriots and a defense that is loaded for bear right now, you know, but it's forty three nothing. It's like they like they played two great teams over Week one and two, and so maybe every week won't won't it won't all look like this, But it's hard to get wiped out more than they have in two weeks. And also, you know, these are

human beings like you. They players are not gonna be all in or even vaguely in, and you're gonna start to play for yourself you've lost huge chunks of the locker room already. These are savvy dudes, like they're not thinking, Oh, we're gonna turn this thing around when the team is week after week trading away your talent. Patriots did have some bad news in this game. They lose their left tackle Isaiah Win. He was replaced by Corey Cunningham, who is yeah foot injury, who was you know, traded for

is kind of a placement level player. They started Marshall Newhouse, who signed on the team on Wednesday, and I believe pff Adam graded as the lowest ranked player in the entire NFL this week, So that was their thinnest position in the enda. If you're looking for a reason for hope here, Dan, I think that was their thinnest position on the roster by a good deal going into the year and they've lost both their starters in the first

two weeks. Well, I don't root for injuries, Greg, but yes, I would like someone to challenge the Patriots in the a f C right now. It is not looking good. But I don't take a lot of I don't take a lot lot of these Dolphins games. As much as it was fun watching Lamar Jackson did last week. Who

is this opponent? I would say, you could take this so if you tell me when you when you check this game out, if you disagree Brady and Antonio Brown, as much as as annoying as that play call was from the Homerisms, they're like they already are in sync and it is an extreme to the point where Josh Gordon was unnecessary in the first half. They're in sync

and he's going to be a mass effect. And he only played twenty five snaps, which is really injured, like less than Ryan is, you know, about a third as much as Julian Edeman. But they threw the ball to I do wonder if there's a chance is the only game Antonio Brown place for the Patriots the NFL is meeting with his sexual assault accuser on Monday. I think it's very strange that he played in this game with that looming over them, that there's a chance that the

NFL could potentially put him on the Commissioner's exemplest. I would assume it's possible based on how that meeting goes and the findings that they have, and it just why, like why was that necessary until this process? The reports that they would not have signed him had they known this was coming. So then you so this is here and now you play him to meet I don't don't

hear those reports. That's the thing is if if if I like to hear them right, I'm saying, if you're gonna put that report out there, like show us with like, don't play him. Their actions do not match anything else. Put an adult in the room next time. Somebody has to make a decision on this guy. Please, and uh the know I mentioned how Belichick kept them going after

Brian flores Um. According to miniche Meda, greg I knows scotch ump in arms your hand motions through eight times they had two pick sixes, and Bill Belichick called a zero blitz on the final play of a forty three nothing win. Zero blitz, if you don't know, is when you send the house at the passer. He did that forty three nothing Well, Rosen couldn't handle it was eighteen. I mean, do you think Belichick agree? Stop defending this

was a joke. Let's move on. Zero blitz second in again three win left side the Sam Josh Allen looks for blocks, Gonna try to run it in himself, headed to the corner of the end in touchdown Buffalo Josh Allen his second touchdown run of the year. This one goes six yards around the right side and it looked him awful lot like the one left week untouched. There. The Bills pull two guys out in front, gets a great cut block online back for Ryan Connolly to set

up the scoring touchdown. John Murphy and Eric would with the call for the Bill's radio network. Josh al ran for one touchdown through for another. The Bill's cruise to win over the Giants at MetLife Stadium. It completes a metal and sweep by the Bills to start the season. The Bills defense force two turnovers um Trent Murphy and Jordan Poyer both had picks, allowed only three of the giants eleven drives to spend longer than six plays. Uh, that's dominance, mark the Bills in control of this one.

What an impressive opening two game stretch for the Bills, who obviously, as you said, we're on the road and you guys got tired of me mentioning this to you downstairs. But Sean McDermott I thought had an ingenious plan and it's a little O. C. D. And it's a little superstitious. It's in a little bit overorganized to mixed all into one. But they stayed at the same hotel. They put the

players in the same exact rooms as last week. The coach wore the same clothing day after day, and they went out and they drummed a second New York team. And the Bills to me are a playoff team if they're getting if they keep getting the coaching that they're getting from McDermott and from Leslie Fraser as the defensive coordinator, and surprisingly to me, Brian Daball as well, I think has done a really, really good job. Josh Allen has impressed me two weeks in a row by overcoming mistakes.

The four turnovers last week could have buried some quarterbacks we've seen who struggle with confidence in this in this early season. He bounced back from that. Took a couple of bad sacks early on in this game, didn't phase them. They've got just enough on the ground with Frank Gore and Devin Singletary. I like Singletary a lot. He got

bang banged up in this game. They're getting just enough from Cole Beasley and the rest through the air and their defense at Oliver, when you nail these first round picks like they have at Oliver looks like a star already. He helped generate on a bad pass, a big turnover in this one. And the Giants are an absolute wandering lost ship and I don't even know where to go?

Is it their defense that could not be more confused and leave Bill's players more wide open and has an absolute talent train or an offense and a coaching staff, especially if you're Pat Shermer, I don't know who is not allowing you to start your other quarterback at this point, just to see what would happen. Because if you continue on this path with Eli Manning, you are not going to be a head coach. You need a spark, you

need someone to come in. We've been saying it every the entire world has been saying and everyone but the Giants organization. It's not just that Eli Manning is better than we think and we're just piling on him. He was the problem today, along with an offense that after the first drive with Sequon Barkley has no ability to surprise anyone. If you could, you're gonna get scored on on that first drive two weeks in a row. That happens. Then you just drop a bomb on him and the

Giants have no answer. Jack Rabbit Jenkins after the game through his pass rush under the bus, saying that he can't cover for ten seconds on every play. Uh. And then Pat Shammer said, look, we're not going to take a look at the quarterback situation. Eli is not the problem. Well, I don't. It shocks me at an NFL coach would would come out of this game, uh, saying that there's

a they have a lot of problems. They don't they're talent poor, and they have an old quarterback that they have to make a switch up Bill bills right now are QB killers? I mean they am not that they you know, gave Sam Darren momano, but they made him look well, you know, we don't know. They gave him the worst performance. I think Mary's Thomas might have given him on that's that's they gave him the worst performance

you know a quarterback had last week? Really and it sounds like similar to Eli Manning nine passes defense, it's that secondary is a veteran secondary and they fly to the Ball's a tough, likable well coached team, and maybe the Jets and Giants both end up drafting in the top five. So these two wins won't seem as impressive late in the season, but going on the road the

first two weeks of the season, that's pretty good. And everyone you know says, the Patriots have this cake schedule early in the year and it gets harder, but they have the Bills in a couple of weeks. They that could be a matchup of two three and oh teams in Buffalo, because because Buffalo has the Trevor Simeons showing week, and people forget that Buffalo gave New England fits on on Monday Night football last season. And so the Bills finally they have their home opener, that's right, their home

opener next week against the Bengals. Bye bye since and then you've got New England at home the next week at one p m. EA. St't don't bumble against Cincinnati, though, because if you stubble against Cincinnati and then get killed in New England, also you're two and two and all this juice is gone. Take care of business next. This doesn't feel to me like the Bills teams of old that have done that systematically year after year, they feel a little bit different. I hope you're right. All right,

let's hope I'm right. Preshot under center, sucking down six with a play fight for Eli. He's got a lot of time deep for the middle. He's got a man of the middle fields and it's tune for the text down to Dvin Smith. How about Davin Smith? You're all that's just play action in the backfield. They've got no safety in the middle of the field. Devin Smith, because runs away from Josh Mormon. Here, great route, great, great,

great pass protection, great call by tell him more. Brad Sham the Sham God, and Babe Lappenberg with a call k R l D stay hot. Dak Prescott, the Cowboys quarterback, carved up the Redskins defense with his arms and legs thirty two sixty three touchdowns and sixty nine yards rushing in the thirty one one Cowboys win West Well. Zeke Elliott eventually take full control this offense once he rounds into shape where we all of a sudden in the middle of us sneaky EVV m VP candidate Dak type Dakassans.

I absolutely think Dak can be an m VP candidate this year, considering the strength of that roster and what Kellen Moore has done with the offense, and then add on top of it Dak Prescott's improvements starting with the second half of last year. He entered this game with the most passing yards in the NFL over the previous nine games going back to last season. He has been playing well for a long time now, and in this game you saw another playmaker emerge, a guy I've been

talking about. Devin Smith led the team in receiving in this game, burned Josh Norman, which seems like not that great of a feat. I think we could do that now. Josh Norman is getting burned a lot on deep balls. Michael Gallant burned him on another deep ball and Dak missed threw it turned him around on the play um. After last week, Dak had a perfect passer rating sluggish starting this one, and the interception off Randall Cobbs hands

was his fault. It was a bad throw, But then he completed eighteen straight passes at one point in this He is getting hot with Kelly Moore calling the plays, and I don't think it's a coincidence. You do have to point out the caveat that the Giants defense is terrible. The Redskins secondary was injured coming up into this game and suffered another cornerback injury during the game. So I think you have to say, let's let's hold off and see if this truly is one of the most dynamic

offenses in the NFL. So far this year, they have been Prescott led Dallas on consecutive touchdown drives of night three and seventy five yards. Well, and they're different. You know, Dan has been on Seahawks owner there's no one, and been on Devin Smith corner like Chris Westley, And to me, that is emblematic of the fact that this team is a little deeper that they have guys like Devin Smith

and Gout. On a day where you know, Cooper gets forty four yards and Randall Cobb gets twenty four yards, they're still putting up four seventy four doing what a really good team should do, which is control a game on the road against an inferior opponent in the division and just walking into two and no. I think I think you can't lose against the Redskins and the Giants right now if you're the Eagles or Cowboys. You just need to rack up four wins against those two teams.

And on the one series where they sat Zeke for the entire series, Pollard came in. They marched right down the field. Pollard scored and lost a touchdown on a penalty, but they ended up with a field goal on that and it didn't feel like I mean, Zike played well. He played much better than he did last week. He went on over a hundred yards because he had a twenty seven yard or to salt the lead late in the game. But this was not something where Zeke carried

the team. No matter who they're putting back there, they're moving the ball. My biggest concern for the Cowboys, and this is a little more long range after what could be who knows a super Bowl season for them, is that Kellen Moore, with the way that coaches are being promoted at such rapid pace, could be a head coach by mid January. And if it, if Dallas doesn't have decisive nature to make him their head coach, I think he's going to be somewhere else. And then you're stuck

with a one and done scenario. There's no way. Jerry Jones is letting this guy out of the building. He'll make him the head coach. You're giving me flashbacks because they did not let Jason Garrett go not to Baltimore when he was the hot rising guy, and Garrett decided to stay as the highest paid assistant in NFL history by far, to stay for another year and then eventually got the job. I'm with you, you can't like it's early. What's the Super Bowl? I think everything's gonna be. But

I don't know. That's debate the move. It's like going to Switzer, except the better. It's not insane. I think I could see fire Jason Garrett if if they won the Super ifew if it is largely identify that it was Kellen Moore's you know they've had Jason Garrett whatever. If it was Kelly Moore's influence, they flipped the switch. Yeah, they might have the top two candidates. Crazy. Why is that crazy? The Cowboys win the Super Bowl, you would fire Jason Garrett to make sure Kellen Moore didn't get

out the door. If the if the Cowboys win the Singer Bowl, it's because Kellen Moore is the guy pulling the d It's not my coaching Candida. On the other side of the Chris Jerry Jones is also the guy who insanely fired Jimmy Johnson. He can do insane things, and he's done them before and they'll do them again. The only in same thing is we're having the conversation after week two. But I like it. We're ahead of

the game on this one. And if the cow if the Cowboys are a soap opera, if the Cowboys are entertainment, what a better cliffhanger than after being so unbelievably loyal to Jason Garrett for a decade back, they have jumping off this bus too fired up? Right when he wins the Super Bowl, no one's gonna see that he altered coming people be coming back for seeing. I should have Sean McVeigh and let Ja Gruden go there you go, all right? Um by the much more saying to keep

Jake Gruden. Um. Devin Smith tours a c L twice as a second round pick of the Jets. This one's not one of those ones. You're like, h they blew it again the Jets. I'm happy for this guy, like he was basically, uh, he was a great college player, amazing athleticism, and it looked like his body just was never gonna cooperate. He gets the chance with the Cowboys and making the most of it. Anybody could have had him.

This was his first catches since two thousand sixteen. Um, all right for you on the play clock to one snap to Ryan. Here comes Philly quick prow. This is Leo jos forty five forty thirty ten five touchdown at Latta. Holy goodness, smokes. What a great call by either Matt Ryan or KRK Cutter or both. They showed selloutlets. They've been showing zero coverage and coming with everybody that wouldn't

covering somebody. All Atlanta needed was one block. They got the walk on the perimeter and who shows the world class speed to put it in the end zone. When the Atlanta Falcons needed a big play, they went to the big man, Jule Julio Jones, who takes the screen pass perfectly executed and goes fifty four yards to the end zone, putting the Falcons ahead, and they stayed ahead.

It got a little dicey there at the end with Carson Wentz making a charge deep into Falcons territory, but they get the stop on fourth down and secure a much needed twenty four to twenty win over the Eagles. The Falcons approved to one and one. The Eagles dropped to one in one. Greg this is a um really quality Sunday night football game, especially the second half where things got really dicey. Nelson Aglar is not going to

sleep tonight. That dropped down the sideline would have put the Eagles back ahead, and then we see what happens with the Falcons, but that's not how it all played out, and the Falcons get the w. You like to see the team that look like the better team for most of the night get the win. That the Falcons moved the ball better for most of the night. They were certainly the healthier team. The Eagles seemed to have the

worst injury luck in the league. Where you talked about it earlier at the NFC South, how wide open it is, and this was a reminder how quickly Week one can evaporate. Because the Falcons are feeling great right now on a night where Matt Ryan through three interceptions, through some of the passes that everyone like you, the doubters, Dan Handis, you were getting I'm in here and I didn't doubt him, I challenged, I think he heard motivated him. You called

them a bum uh. I said, do something right here in a big spot, Matt Ryan, I'm sick of you not coming up big. And what do you do? He came up big, He went to the plane, changed the call at the line of scrimmage, scene that Jim Schwartz once again playing without a safety bringing the house, which he brought the house all second half, and Matt Ryan made him pay on that and Jake Matthews with a

pancake block. It was just a perfectly executed play by a Falcon's offense that has been maligned in the post Uh Shannahan Shanahan years. But for one night and one play call, everything was right and they and they really should have lost. I mean, if you think about the agile ARPI, maybe who knows, maybe Matt Ryan would have gone back down the field to the fact that the Eagles were in this game despite Carson wentzaid about eighty nine yards at some point in the fourth quarter with

two interceptions. He had been hit all night. They lose Aushan Jeffrey, they lose the Sean Jackson, and yet the Eagles were still right in that game to to have agil Or drop it and missed the chance to win there. This in so many ways other than the Ryan picks, This is the kind of defense and the kind of game that dan Quinn wants. I think if if the Falcons find a way to not win this game. Okay, I forgot about that Garry now? Is that's all a song?

She know what? She's croony? Now the newer version is even lesser than that version. Well, she's heading in the wrong direction. So I've got nothing to worry about. I mean, if you're the Falcons, dan Quinn is faced with questions all week about his job security and the direction of a team that you know everyone was all in on dan Quinn, and if they start oing too, they look farther removed from that Super Bowl year than ever imaginable. I'm still concerned though, about an offense where Matt Ryan

is thrown five picks in two games. He had what West seven all year? You mentioned the leading rusher is Edo Smith with thirty two yards. DeVonta Freeman, who's back from injury, is rushing for two yards per carry. I don't know. It's nice to escape with a win here, but the Dafonte Freeman comeback season is not off to a great start. Edo Smith, you mentioned he goes four for thirty two. The long was twenty eight yards, so

he had most on one play. Uh So yeah, I don't think the Falcons are a finished uh product on offense. Hopefully they'll continue to evolved Calvin Ridley and Julio Jones again like one of the best one two punches in

the league. I just want to get back to the Eagles for a second here, went This is one of my favorite and need to rewatch this game, but especially the second half was one of my favorite Carson Wentz games I've ever seen because he did nothing and the Eagles had tons of issues in the first half with the injuries, including Wins who went into the pop up uh tent for a while after taking that vicious shot to his his chops uh and he was he just had,

you know, great will and spirited in the second half of this game. And if alcohol, if alcohol doesn't drop that pass, I mean, this is a totally different conversation we're having. You can't get too excited about the Falcons defense on that last stand because they got bailed out on a terrible drop um and then on fourth down went in the face of incredible pressure and a crushing another crushing hit, hangs in tight and delivers another big reception.

AlGohar caught this one um and then they you know, they got out of it from there. But I think the Falcons have a lot of issues still, and they're gonna feel good about them cells right now, as they should. But I think this team has a lot of work to do. Once is still the guy that. You know. There were two or three plays tonight where we were like he is dead meat, and then he's escaping rolling, you know, pulling away from a defender. You think he's

pulled down. A second time, unfurls a throw, the one where the knee is nearly touching the ground and it's a completion. He's magical to watch when he's on Grady Jarrett with a big game. We talked before the season started how the season could come down to Attack McKinley and Vic Beasley. Beasley not necessarily a good game. He was the guy that that Carson Wentz was carrying on his back on one play as he threw, falling to

his knee. But Vick Beasley did kind of run into a key sack late in the game, and McKinley had eight hurries and two QB hits, so he was very active. Uh for the Falcons. I'm not worried about the stab. Boy, give me a break. They're playing the Eagles, one of the super Bowl type of favorite teams. It's week two. You just try to get out of there with the win, and you're you're happy and break. There's no style points. You just put this one in the gang and you

hope you keep getting better. Flat and ugly in week one, and this was not a very pretty game either, but they did come out on the right end. Well, there's no NFC South team that any of us can feel good about right now. They should feel the best tonight that they're not the team outside both Noel Sean Jeffrey in this game that feels so four days old. De Sean Jackson leaves with an injury, uh and went still almost brought this team back, but he doesn't. They have

to be worried though about about the injuries. They feels like they have some of the worst injury look in the entire NFL. And sometimes sometimes that's what it comes down like. Sometimes you're I mean, seasons come down to luck probably more than anything that that they make the tackle on that hurts when he's coming back to the ball, so he's half a yard short on fourth down, and

maybe that's the difference between winning or losing. You stack up like three of those versus getting unlucky three times, you're eleven and five versus five and eleven. And most importantly, there are reports that this affected uh Rick Holiday's fantasy team, if I'm not mistaken, which certainly directly affects our show, in the result of our show and how we're treated. Why why does that have anything? I don't know anything. Well,

because that's what I'm talking about right now. That's why we don't get that if your fantasy team is playing. I'm abused by Erica that the Julio Jones touchdown costs you your fantasy It did, It did, and well they also had the Patriots defense on their team, but I was still pay it forward. These are the Eagles injuries before we sign off, Corey Clement's shoulder, Tim Jarnagin foot to Seawan Jackson, Groin, Dallas Goddard, Calf, Alshon, Jeffrey Calf,

Carson Wentz, check, for concussion. Nelson Algar check for concussion. Jason Kelsey was injured, I mean Jason Peters at the end, Dan Hands's check for concussion. Please all right, you'll be checked for a concussion with the Jets take out the Browns on Monday Night. See this how you really feel? Fan hands, a signing off or quiet storm, the mail man, the whole plots and Ricky all I find the glads. J