2019 Week 7 Recap

sort of pick and shoes dynamic to it become Erica centric. Yeah, Hey, am I wrong? No? Up? Eric is here physically, she's sitting behind the glass, but after a European jaunt, she's not. I wouldn't say she's all the way checked in. Fair to say Erica at this point? Um, No, I do my job really well and I show up and when I clock in, I'm here, Dan, so ready to go that clock? How's that t We do not need any more sound effects of you drinking from that cup again

on this show. Get it done Now is a real thing. I think Mark has it. Yeah, I have it, and you exacerbate it at every turn by apathy is helping me. Mark Assessor has a lot apathy doesn't have a lot of apathy. Is that not gross to anyone else? It's not gross to me? All right, I enjoy your bitter beer face. All right? Well, Week seven? What what? What a day it's been. Ryan Tannehill's back in our life and he's a winner against all odds. Um, we're gonna

get to that. We have the undefeated. Uh, undefeated team stays undefeated. Some winless teams stay winless. So so much to get to. And we'll cap it off with Sunday Night football and a huge, huge moment for Chris Westling who is looking to get off the lock Schneide in a big spot. Uh and in primetime. So a lot to get to. You guys want to start digging into the show, Let's do it. And let's start with a team that's as hot as any team in football, going

on the road to Soldier Field, Saints Football. Baby Bridgewater under center, puts thrown out to the side Taysom Hill, Croft line touchdown Tyson Hill. It's a little variation of your coolie ball there and swing it out to Taysom Hill. He puts his head down and good luck stopping that load. Where the head of students. You have to know where number seven is in the rents on like this. Now about that Zach Streep and deuce McAllister with the call get rid of that generic slop bringing Sam Spence NFL

Films said our library. Baby, you can't take it away, but you can try. I'm out the door if you do. Save that voice right out. Eddy Bridgewater through for two one two touchdowns, including mark to your boy Taysom Hill, and the Saints approved a five and oh without Drew Brees win over the Bears. Don't pay that final score here any mind. The final score is a disgrace because this game was as one sided as it gets marked.

Oh yes it was. You're absolutely right. This is one where, for different reasons than sometimes the box score translates into an ultra lie because before you know, garbage time said it a total disgrace. This we could we can turn negative on the Bears in a minute. I will say I think this game was a decisive turning point in the Mattenegy Mitch Robinsky experience, and it had a lot to do with a better coach and a better coach team coming into Chicago and completely ignoring whatever aspect you

wanted to hand to the Bears before. This wasn't their defense. No, it won't be the Bears defense because the Saints offensive line, one of the best in football, is gonna come in and handle Khalil mac and everyone else and pound them for four hundred plus yards a hundred and fifty plus on the ground, and without Drew Brees in the lineup,

without Alvin Kamara, it doesn't matter. Teddy Bridgewater, you know what. Yeah, you're halfway through this game and he's missed a bunch of throws and he's giving you what you're expecting from Teddy Bridgewater. But he doesn't turn the ball over. He manages this team. Latavius Murray on the ground did just enough and in every single aspect you could ask, the Saints dominated They had nearly the ball for nearly forty minutes,

and in the defense is an absolutely phenomenal defense. I will say this, Chicago, when you're gonna go out there and with minutes to go before this thing turned into garbage time nonsense. Had nine drives of less than ten yards fewer than ten yards, and it is fair to look at the Mitchell Drabinsky experience along with everything around him. It's not just him alone, but he's not surrounded with a lot of people to help him out. There had about seventeen yards rushing in this disaster of a game.

Ms Robinsky is missing throws and doing all the things that are tied to the negative aspects of his career. This was a huge game. They are now three and three. I don't I think if you're a Bears fan, you go to bed tonight with a lot of deep seated concerns about your team and where they're going. It's a terrible look for the Bears. I mean because, like you just said, no Drew Brees, but we already know that the Saints can win without Drew Brees. We've been seeing

it for a month plus. No Alvin Kamara. Now that's at the point where you think no Jared Cooking. There no Jared Cooking. He made big play. I mean, this was a game where you should have seen a compromise Saints team struggle in all phases, but instead, well, Tavias Murray gave you more than just enough. He goes for a hundred nineteen yards and two scores. Alvin Kamara going to be able to do much better, I'm sure. And and so the Saints are is in greatest shape as

you can get. And we heard during the telecast um Troy Aikman spoke on the field with Drew Brees, who didn't rule out the possibility that he'd be back before the bye. Sounds like that's the plan, which is just more good news for the Saints. And yeah, and back to the Bears Trabisky, who I think there's two ways to look at it. And you could say, all right, he just got back from the injury. Let's be a

little bit more patient. But then there's also the side of it where it's just like the confidence looks like it might be shot. And maybe the garbage time helped here, but the concience is shot. And in general the Bears that they just don't look like a team that feels itself at all. Right now, No, last year, I argued to give the guy time to develop. You know, it's a new system. He's only in his first year starting

let him develop, and he's gone backwards. It's sort of like Marcus Mariotta accept accelerated, he's regressed in his second year. And I I think at this point the Bears have to start looking around for other they were down in if you can, I mean, I don't know what's out there, fools. Marcus Mariotte is out there and his offensive the offensive coordinator in Chicago is a former coach of the Oregon Ducks.

How about that put it together? Uh, here's the thing, though, the entire Bears team has regressed in Robinsky is number one among them, but the offensive line has been terrible all game. They don't have a running game, and the defense is not as good. I know they had a couple of splashy games, but when you're giving up long drives to Joe Flacco and you're giving up a couple of really long drives to Derek Carr in the Raiders, I mean they've been a very good defense, a top

five defense entering today. But top five isn't the same as number one by far, and so that puts more pressure on your offense. And I think one of the most memorable things of the season happened today in Chicago. The crowd chanting Teddy, Teddy Teddy for Teddy Bridgewater in Chicago. That's the Saints fans showing up on the road. I mean that is that is something else. And John Payton's gonna get his first coach of the year since his first year in the league, which ended uh with a

loss in Chicago. He deserves it. I know that there's Belichick and everyone else, but there are little things that Sean Payton does. You know, other coaches even if they they they throw the challenge flag and then you know it totally beguiled when it doesn't go their way. Paid through an early one in this game that went the Saints way and kept it took took a big chunk

of yardage away from Chicago. It mattered these little things that he does in the way that he just scripts the offense differently week to week depending on who's in there. And it was it was like a game where it's Matt Nigy. We both have backup quarterbacks. You presume yours as a starter. I know mine isn't, but we're still

gonna go in and school you. And before we move on, my my final thought, and I've had this thought all season, and sports can be humbling, but I keep thinking back to the summer and the hubris of the Bears who brought in the nine kickers and this general feeling from outside the team like they thought, if we just got a guy who could put it through the uprights in

the playoffs, we will be playing in February. Well it's not always that easy, and we're seeing that right now because this team has so many more problems than they thought they did, and we'll see if they could dig themselves out. But it is not looking too hot right now. Let's move on. Not too hot. Jackson was first in the backfield. This is gonna be a quarterback run. Jackson takes a snap, runs the right, He's got a scene, he's still five, he's in touch up Lamar Jackson, Penna

Ravens had taken the lead. Again. That was old school single wing and that was a straight up wildcat play. Great time out, great decision, great execution, and the Ravens are back in front. And that was on fourth down. Jerry Sandusky, Dennis Pitta, Dennis Petta, nice help his hips. Okay, Yeah, that thing was That was a real that game a

lot of trouble. Yes it did. And Jared Johnson w b a L with the call m VP watch let r. Jackson ran for a hundred sixteen yards and a touchdown, made some big throws and took the Ravens to an easy thirty to sixteen win. Yeah, easy over the Seahawks at the clink. West, This game did nothing for you until Lamar got hot. It wasn't easy for two and a half quarters, and it wasn't easy to watch the game.

There wasn't a whole lot going on. And then that sequence that we're talking about the red zone in the third quarter. Uh, Lamar Jackson set it up with a really nice pass to Mark Andrews down the sideline, maybe his best path past of the day. And then kJ Wright and knocked a touchdown out of Mark Andrew's hands. Then Mark Andrews just flat out dropped the ball. Got

to be third and fifteen. Lamar Jackson scrambles for about thirteen and a half yards on third and fifteen, so it's fourth and two and they send out Justin Tucker for the field goal, only to call a time out and give credit to John Harbor who has stood up at the podium and said, this is what's going on with our analytics department. This is what I believe in, this is how I'm calling plays now. Were aggressive the

eight yard rush on fourth two for a touchdown. The confidence Lamar Jackson, the way Lamar Jackson played, and in that sequence, there was also a play where they didn't get the ball off in time and it was a shotgun and Lamar Jackson was as demonstrative as any quarterback you'll ever see, upset with the center. Uh, the center snapped it late anyway, Lamar is mid air jumping, snapped to his ankles and he still caught it while he's

like midair. It was amazing athletic play. But how demonstrative he was and how much he cared in that situation, and he took over from there. The Seahawks defense was so frustrated by his scrambling ability, his legs, and you could see they just sort of had no answer for him. The rest of the way. Well, they played football unlike any other team in the league and on some level, any other team that's ever played. Because he's he's on his way to setting the all time rushing record for

a quarterback. He's on pace for almost he's unpasted. To show matter, he only completed nine passes today. That would have been better as certainly if Mark Andrews had caught his passes. But the thing I think, if you're a Ravens fan that you like is I think the defense has been getting a little bit better each week. And Marcus Peters makes a big pick six today for them. Uh,

that came in handy well along with Lamar Jackson. The other story of the game was it looked like Wink Martindale was finally calling plays like he trusted his secondary again. He he said, I'm gonna bring the house and I'm gonna play man defense back here, and then we're gonna change. We're gonna dare the Seahawks to do it. And the Seahawks office one offense. One of the reasons why I can't really get behind them is I never know what

their offense is. It just seems to be like, let's roll out the footballs and have Russell Wilson make magic. What happens when he doesn't make magic? I mean that's and that happened until this game, right, And that's why Wilson a lot of people when they talk about who's an MVP favorite, he's been the other top of the list because every week he's been carrying this team. So that's why the Ravens we talked about this on the

Thursday preview. Um, their defense is not good this year, and to look at the final stat line, Russell Wilson one less than six yards per attempt, he threw a pick six. This is stuff that has been completely fourig into the twenty nineteen season. Anyone making Russell Wilson look human, So that I mean, that's a huge credit to Wink and company. Yeah, a defense that's been influx and they've made a lot of change changes just in the past couple of weeks. The early results today were the changes

worked great. I I know, I know he was only sacked one time, Russell Wilson, but I feel like every time I looked up, the Ravens were in his face and making life difficult. And Gregg, you mentioned that the reporting out there was that the Ravens, if they were gonna trade from Marcus Peters, wanted him right away for this game, and he made a huge difference. And the Ravens of that kind of team, when they make a trade, it's not just to generate headlines. It's because it's a

missing piece it fits. I think the next missing piece for them might be a wide receiver. We mentioned that on Thursday. I'd like to see something else in the passing game. But when you're gonna run the ball thirty five times nearly six yards per carry, I don't know. Maybe you just ride this out well. And Humphrey and Peters is a legit combo. And even when you know when they get Jimmy Smith back, that'll be even better.

Josh Bines to think who used to play for Detroit and has had moments I think has helped out the middle of this defense. I don't know why he went on signed during the off season. I thought he was one of the Cardinals best defensive players last year. That report was from Adam Schefter, by the way, and it is really interesting that he reported. All this trade stuff happened this week with a call from the Rams to the Browns because they wanted Joel the Tonio for Marcus Peters.

They said no, they ended up. You know, I'm making a lower level trade to the Rams. They call, they call up the Ravens, and the Ravens said, yeah, we want Peters, but we want them this week. We want this trade to be finished in the next couple of hours or else we're not going to do it. And it all happened very fast. I mean, you give up Joel, But who's who's guarding Baker Mayfield my little pony right now? I think that was good by the Browns. He didn't need to do that. I'd like to see that. I

don't need to see that cartoon. Big win five and two right now. They put themselves put some distance. I believe Cleveland Market two and four is in second place, and it's a huge upset at this point with the way the four teams in that division are playing at Baltimore does not handled their business, however, I agree. But however, I just looked at their schedule and they have the Patriots next week, then at Cincinnati. There you go Texans at Rams, Niners at bill So this is gonna be

a tough stretch for them. They have the flip of what some of the other teams in that division had. I mean, it was a rough schedule for a bunch of those North teams. They've done a nice job setting themselves up for that really tough stretch and this was part of that tough stretch and they got it done. Let's check in on a huge division showdown. First down year midfield for the Houston Texas. Watson backs the throw.

We's got time, STAPs up in the pocket, wheels a deep down field and it's pottled and it's in pen plates. They they're gonna say, what do we got? We go the intersection by the Cults, intersection by the Cults, kick CUTI bottled it and then the ball took up from the air. Something about Nilus. Here's Terius letters. Letter comes out with the drill. Co put the interception the second I n the ball game for the Colts. Lets you do it? What is everyone laughing about? I will tell

you in a minute. I don't want to We'll get there. It's Matt Taylor Radio Network. And yes, Darius Leonard back in the lineup, and he comes up with the game uh deciding interception. But to me, this game was about Jake Breast. Jake Briskett, You're a star kid, at least you were on Sunday. Jacoby precent through for three six yards and a career high four touchdowns, leading the Colts past the Houston Texans thirty three, and with the wind, the Colts move into sole possession of first place in

the a f C South. And and you know what, as we near the midpoint of this season. You know it will be week eight come Thursday. Um, you could not ask for a better situation if you're a Colts fan, for Andrew Luck to step away and leave the game right on the eve of the season and then to be ahead of everyone in your division and gaining confidence by the week. Um. A huge win obviously a week

ago against the Chiefs. Now another big brand name taken out in the Texans, and their schedule really softens up ahead, so they have a chance to not only now that their head, they have a chance to put them in position to really put the heat on Houston to just to keep up with them if they can take care of their own business. And um, I my, my big takeaway from what they did that was different this week is,

like I said, Jake Brisket played so well. This has been a team that has runned the football, played good defense, got good coaching, and moved the ball through the air when they had to. Well, this was a game where they couldn't really run the ball and they needed Jake Briskett to do something special and he did. And that's a huge lift for this team. I was laughing because we do these hits for Sky Sky Sports UM in the UK, and if you're on the way the process works,

it's it's a bit tedious. We have to send an email saying here's what we're gonna talk about this podcast. Well I'm not saying it's not, it's just that it's just that it's email based and I and I basically it's my job, like in this case, to send over here's what Dan's gonna talk about, and and they can they will throw to us based off of these sentences that we send. And I was meant to say for Dan, the cults one in a very different way today and all they wrote was they want they want in a

different way today. So like seconds before we're on the air, you know, Alex Mason, our beloved producer there is saying, Dan, who on earth was it that you were to say? I didn't do it And it just wasn't melt. Sorry, It's like my two young sons pointing at each other when there's a spilled milk on the ground or something. Right.

Um anyway, Yes, big win for the cults. I love when teams going to the bye week and you can see when they come out of the bye week that they had some ideas about how they're going to attack differently, and I think the Cults knew what their reputation was there, the slowest pay beast offense in the league. They're the offense that's going deep down the field and not explosive

most of the league. And they come out of that bye week and they throw the ball around and it works, and you know what, I think it's really key and who knows if they'll stay healthy. But we haven't seen the Colts defense all year this today we did. Sheared Dniko Autrey, Darius Leonard all back on the field at

the same time. And for defense that doesn't have a ton of talent, I think it's important that they're healthy because all those guys play almost every single snap, even on the defensive one Darius Lennard jumped right in tent tackles seven solos, a pick that changed the game at the end. I do think he would have been Defensive Player of the Year one, two or three candidate had

he not suffered this concussion. Credit to the Colts beat writers who have been pumping up Zack Pascal since training camp. He goes hundred six yards and two touchdowns today. What what did the Colts do or what did you see out of your boy Watson? Uh? Yeah, at this point the Texans being held to twenty three points is like, I see that as a great job at a defense.

Uh yeah, it was we you know, we just talked about you don't want to always depend on like in Seattle, for your quarterback to have to put on the Superman cape. But Watson, like Wilson, is one of the few guys that can pull it off. He just didn't do it this time. He threw two interceptions in the fourth quarter. One was a terrible throw when he threw off his back foot across his body into the flat for an easy pick. And then they got off the field immediately. Uh,

to keep them in the game. And it was a two score game. And um, he throws a pass a little bit high to Kiki who maybe should have had the ball, but it wasn't put on the numbers. Um, they would have more points if the game officials didn't bang Watson on in the grasp call where he did an amazing job because he's one of the great athletes in the sport of staying on his feet with people trying to drag him down. Hits DeAndre Hopkins for for six. They wave it off because they decided he was in

the grasp. I don't really get the ruling. I know it's done to protect quarterbacks, but usually in that situation, the quarterback gets opt anyway, um and it costs them four points as it turned out. So and that turned out to be a big deal. But Watson was good, not great, and this is a game where they needed him to be great, and uh, it wasn't that. I thought they'd have a chance to maybe, you know, run away with this division. That seems a lot less likely now.

They do get the Colts on I believe it's a Thursday night game, but they also play the Ravens and the Patriots, all those teams kind of battling for seeding. Well, Dan talked about this cult schedule. Their next four games, three home games. In that four they play Broncos, Steelers, Dolphins, Jags.

You can't draw it up much better than that. In consistency continues to haunt the Texans because I feel like every eight or nine days we're talking about how amazing they look and how they're a real threat, and then they drop one of these games, which I wouldn't call it a stinker. Going on the road and losing to a good colts team in the competitive games. Not the end of the world. But they committed ten penalties. Uh,

they had the two turnovers. They they had three um, they had three drives where they went into deep into Cults territory and had to settle for field goal. Uh. They just need to be sharper and really kind of start stacking wins like they did last team is like the ball though, are they fun to be covering Jacoby Brisett and Frank Rank at the Super Bowl? Why not? Let's do it. Eric Hebron made the cat one of

the catches of the year. The one thing with the Texans, I'd rather follow a team that hits you with those occasional high ceiling moments where you feel like they could beat anyone at certain times, then a clunker that's gonna go give you ten wins, but they are limited and you're just you're fooling yourself if you think they're gonna do anything beyond total marginal ten wins season disappearing into the midst I think these are both playoff teams and

I want to be surprised if they play again. AFC is a mess. Why not let's move on, Jeff the Rudgers rain balls right, No, he's stick kind of bounds. Apparently. Apparently it is seven yards touch downstroyed for Aaron Rodgers. Wayne Larity. Look at this song. I mean, I'm just picturing Joe Joe Namath in the hottest club on the Upper east Side, just going ham. This feels like French Connection Part three or something. What's happening here? I love it.

Let's play this for every game. The Packers radio network. Aaron Rodgers looks like an m v P again. Rogers had his best game by far under Matt lap Bleuur, throwing for four nine yards five touchdowns, runs for another score. Flower Power Backers beat the Raiders at Lamba. The wind moves to the pack, the pack to five and one keeps him alone the top the NFC North Greg The Packers are fun again. Not good news for the rest

of the NFC. It is not because Aaron Rodgers has total command of his offense right now, total command of the game. I thought he had it on Monday night. I thought that game was one of the best I've seen in years from him. The surroundings not as much today. It showed up in the statue. They only had the ball eight times with Aaron Rodgers. They scored six touchdowns in those eight possessions, and he scored on all of them.

And the sequence to end the first half and to start the second half where they had to move down the field quickly, to me told you everything. They didn't run, they didn't call a running play, and either one of those drives, they scored touchdowns in both of those drives. In that Kumarro touchdown, he looks off the safety. He hits Kumarro down the field. He was living in turkey

holes today. I mean half of his throws we're just beautiful throws that not many quarterbacks could make eight plays over twenty yards to six different receivers, so they weren't that healthy. Valdes Scantling and Geronimo Allison did play, although they were limited. Eight guys caught between two and four passes. So it's a bunch of guys, you know. Alan Lazard and Jimmy Graham actually made a couple of plays that you unexpect. But he just seems to know everything that's happening.

On the rushing touchdown that he had he saw where the blitz was coming in the middle of their defense, he changed the play and he just ran it in because it was just that easy. And you know this, he wanted this game because, as I pointed out, I wanted this game. This is backed by this is backed

by no evidence. But you knew he was annoyed. Uh when Aaron Jones had the four touchdowns on the ground that one game, and they had an otherwise great game on offense, but Rodgers didn't get the stuff the statute because that's how you win. Everybody. He has a funny way of showing it adds six touchdowns to the Ledger

today and all's even Stephen. That first touchdown that he had today was to Aaron Jones, and it was a back shoulder throw on a corner route by a running back, which is just the highest degree of difficulty you could have for Jones who had to turn around at the last second. Aaron Jones makes some plays every week that just blow you away. So it's not that he doesn't

have any talent around him. He's got Aaron Jones. Where are we add on this white jacket that the flower wears every that bother you, I mean the Flower can do. Aren't anything he wants to do right now? Keep wearing it. I I don't like the look, but uh, I have to admit when they've been dialing up shot plays like they they dialed one up in the first half that it ended up being a penalty, but it worked and they came out in the second half and you could

tell it was a Lafleur special. I mean, Tony Romo was singing, singing CE poems about the play calling that La Fleur had and they knew what they were gonna do. First play out of scrimmage and he hits him for fifty five yards from go ahead Ramo with C poems, Rogers looking like an m v P. I cannot wait to go home and watch this on game pass. This is the first game of the year where on Sunday, I'm like, yep, I'm I'm definitely cueing that one up

when I get home. Well, they're an NFC by team right now, I mean, and they're just they seem to be. You could see it with the offense and little stretches here, and they're getting better and better. And the Flower kind of reminds me of like young al Pacino in like the First Godfather, where his voice is crack Lee and he's like, wait, you're the lead character of this movie. But and you get him ten years later and he's like a completely different human being. Maybe that's the arc

of the Flowers. He starts as someone that we're kind of questioningly, what have you said that for ten years he might be a totally different dude. The flower is gonna keep blooming. I mean, the crazy thing is that the Raiders offense played quite well in this game. They lost the ball twice with the inside the one yard line,

once they were stuffed in a goal line stand. Another time Derek Carr lost a fumble reaching for it like he did a couple of years ago or else this they would have had a lead seventeen fourteen with a couple of minutes left in the In the first half, they went up and down the field pretty easily on on the Packers, and I think John Gruen is coaching

amazingly this year. I mean, Derek Carr doesn't have any talent other than Darren Waller around him either, and they are just moving up and down the field very methodically. But Car, even though his numbers look great in three of the first four drives. He was the reason they stopped. He missed throws on third down, and when you play this kind of like shorten the field, we're only gonna have eight possession type of style. When you miss a

third down throw, it's it's almost like a turnover. And he missed a couple to end otherwise good throws, and he had that fumble and it was like they were no coming back because their defense is offul That's what I've been telling you. Wait, let's see if we can get through another off season with Crew and not falling for some other quarterbacks somewhere by the way, I'm bailing

on publican sensus. I'm now for losing possession when you reach the ball out like a fool and an incredible player, great Man having a good season, iamily Man and his numbers. He's he's he's closing in on Drew Brees all time record for completion percentage. But you've got to be better about protecting the football there in that spot that killed him changed the game. Their roster isn't good enough for

the playoffs, and that starts on their defense. But I always think it's important in seasons like that when you know your roster isn't ready yet to find those building blocks. And Darren Waller and Josh Jacobs are stars. Their stars. Jacobs is so good today. He ran over Adrian Amos on the first play. He had another monster game. Waller is amazing. The defense, I think it's just one of

the four or five worst in the entire NFL. And that you're not gonna beat Aaron Rodgers, I think unless you have a pass rushing and they do not outside of Kleil mac They inherited that. I mean, and there's a liver was a long way to go with that defense. Although they did draft, you know, a pass rusher with the number four overall pick, and he's giving them very very little. Max Crosby, their fourth round pick, is giving them a lot more. Let's check in on another great

division battle. One wide receiver in the game for the Vikings and sticks to the left second and six Cousins play action. He's gonna fire d right side. Yes, Jicks caught it at the thirty handles to the left twenty. He's prints to the fifteen of the tag, holding on tightly to the ball with both hands, and he's taken down at the four Stefon Dicks comes up huge on a sixty five yard reception. It's first in goal Vikingings

and look one half. Paul Allen, one of the great voices in the National Football League amongst the broadcasters Vikings Radio Network. I loved that call. I love it when teams have a chance to close out a game and they could run the ball through a cloud of dust and punted away and hold on for dear life, or you could go win a football game, which is what

they did. Kirk Cousins connects with Stefan digs on that sixty seven yard catch and run from deep in their own territory with two minutes to play, Cousins through four touchdown passes and the Vikings when thirty over the slumping Lions who have suddenly lost three in a row, and yes, you heard it, their play action. That has become what has changed with his offense in these last three weeks where Cousins has become the most productive passer in the league.

UH a stretch where he has completed passes UH throwing ten touchdowns against one interception, UH throwing for I think yards per game during this winning streak. And it's play action. UH and just to give you an idea of how much it's been a change and how it's clearly something

they realized they needed to be taking advantage of. Is for the past three games, a hundred and fifty plus yards of Cousins total is coming off that play action in his let's say, sixteen games last year and whatever it was before that four games this year, so about

twenty games he only did that once. So they realized that they weren't taking advantage of what of what should be something I could kill defenses, and now they're killing defenses with it, and um, West, this is um such a far cry from where we were three weeks ago when Kirk Cousins was the Capital TV Capital P problem.

This is why I got excited about the Vikings offense coming into the season, because when you have the skill talent they have, if they find a way to get into that top gear five yards today, well that problem, uh combined a couple of perfect storm scenarios that everybody always overreacts to the first couple of games of the year.

So you have the normal September over reaction, and then you have whatever it is about Kirk Cousins, where everybody insists on a portioning blame to the quarterback after the game. No matter who's at fault, it always goes to cousins. I'm glad that he's doing this. I'm glad he's playing with more confidence, that he's less timid. That they are a balanced offense. And that's what Adam Thalan and Stefan

Diggs were saying a few weeks ago. We need to be balanced because nobody's gonna be afraid of us if all we do is run the ball. And you're right, then this is the offense you thought you were going to see in the summertime. And and Mark's right because he sat here two weeks ago and says, show me something, Vikings, and they did. They showed you that they they might be one of the best teams in the NFC now, well, perfectly delightful when they do this and use the weapons

the way they should get strong to say. Mark was right about that. He said they were a team that had no chance to win in the playoffs. Maybe they could possy Then well, then are you guys are not giving him the proper credit for the fact that the Vikings are now showing Mark something. Is what's going on, well,

that's good. Hello? Is that because when you were suggesting they can be this the best offense in in football, or they're saying they could change and they have, all right, But I was suggesting they weren't playing up to their parts, and they weren't. They weren't such a good man and he's a good friend, but he's bending over backwards here on this angle. Well, Mark saved me from locking up the Falcons, so I owe him a bunch of compliments.

I mean, alright, this is becoming absurd, but I will say this, they had issues, and I wonder if it wasn't maybe Mike Zimmer that at some point in the process here had to say my idea of offense needs to change. N Stefanski was a guy that other teams wanted, and Kevin Stefanski, I'm assuming was more creative than this offense appeared to be with its play calling over the first month of the season. So you know, it's not all on Kirk Cousins. But they were more than just

Delvin Cook running forty five times a game. Well, and they were playing a defense you can move the ball on. The Lions have given up I think more than four fifty yards and of opposing offense three three games the first time since they went endless and six straight games of a hundred plus yards on the ground allowed and and the Vikings to their credit, they lose Adam Field in to an injury. He might not be able to

play Thursday night. I think IRV Smith is a guy to watch, adding a little more dynamism to their tight end position, and IRV Smith gives them that B. C. Johnson just makes them all the more dangerous. UM on the line side of the ball. We've we've now hit the point where teeters over to the negative side. We were giving them credit for hanging around, hanging in games against really good competition, which is good. It shows that they have progressed year one to year two under Patricia.

And yes, you guys got jobbed. You got jobbed last Monday night. Um, it doesn't mean that you certainly should have won the game, but it really did work out in your favor some of those two UH calls. But again, this game was there for the taking and Detroit has not been able to find a way to close out UH these games. And they're two three and one now. They have not one this month because they had to buy in there as well. Uh and in the division that they play in. And we you know, we just

talked about how great the Packers were. I think we all believe that the Vikings are a team that could win eleven plus games potentially. Um, the lie just seem like they're in deep trouble now and this was the game that they needed and they couldn't get it done. They are. Their schedule doesn't ease up, I would say down the stretch other than the division schedule, but you have to win these You're gonna have to win these

division games, and you're quickly starting to run out. I just think there are a team with some young parts that that that you could believe. But they lost what carry On Johnson earlier, and this is that their starters are fine, but if they get a guy like Carrie On Johnson or Darius Slay injured from starter to back up is a chasm for this team. Dan, would you

like to take a sip of your tea? I feel like I've kind of blocked you out of that because of my issue, But you can always stress the cough button. Then you wouldn't You wouldn't hear it, right? Would be the considerate does this he there is a point where that would be the considerate thing for to do. Really, it's hard to hold the cough button and take and move your microphone and talks as you've just I mean, the struggles we face. The equipment is not cheap, gentlemen.

So to get crazy with the cough button while you're trying to lubricrate, lubricate your throat in a big spot, well, I'm not listening to that argument. By the way, that Adam Feeland hamstring injury um on Football Night in America, your boy Greg Mike Florio reported that they view a potentially as more a week to week rather than day to day. He ain't playing. They're playing the red Skins on Thursday, and he now Florio has tuned in with

the Vikings closet Vikings fans. Also, if you're playing out there, if you're blaming Kirk Cousins for that injury because he somehow threw him into the wall, stop it reevaluate your life choice. Who's somebody's I saw people blaming Kirk Cousins for that injury, which they thought was some kind of knee in the wall thing. It turned out to be a hamstring either way, it wasn't Cousins fault. He's like, you want to keep honking and complaining about not getting

the ball. Here's this wall. Eat the wall, baby, West and Cousins are gonna be going on vacation together. It's just like constantly, you guys are the kissing Cousins corner, going straight to the source. Whatever it is about that guy, he rubbed some people wrong to such a degree that everything gets blamed on him. No matter what it is. You like that, not everybody does U thirteen seconds to go? Is this game is all but over? Poor man? Rush

case to throw heat for the back. Stody shot to the nine yard line and I don't do it, and the Niners were all slotted over the field. They're looking like a bunch of fools out there, Coolly, but they they win the game. They win the game, and you know whats gonna remember that one day? You want who was that? You know who it was? Larry Michael and Chris Cooley. Yes, I I pulled. I had Ricky pull

that because I got some tweets. You gotta check out the Redskins called the end of the game, crying in their beers that was something Nick Bosasa case Keeno to run out the clock belly flopped into a slipping slide celebration. Bosa and the Niners get it done in the elements

driving rain. How come the box scores only showing like first quarterstats for case Keeno and heavy win questions, claiming an ugly nine zip win over the Redskins marked the Niners are six and over the first time since the job. No style points were necessary given the conditions. What a beautiful, amazing, intriguing game this was. And I'm not saying that in a way that I'm not I'm not poking fun at it.

I truly enjoy these kind of games thrown in occasionally to the mix of forty two to thirty six, nine to nothing in a game that took two hours in thirty six minutes. And I thought to myself, I can't remember us being together and watching a game, because this is those that I'm looking for, that game special I'm looking for. I mean, e quote, this is the most amazing thing I've ever seen Mark Seler around, uh you know,

one o'clock today. We all want different things in life and in football, and and this I thought, this has got to be the fastest game in a while, and I shot a note over to NFL Research and they confirmed, at least since the time we've been together, it is. And it goes back to Week sixteen of two thousand and nine when the Jaguars and Patriots played a game

that was also two hours and thirty six minutes. The reason that happened is because this is the first game of the year that I can remember outside of some wind in a couple affairs, where the weather absolutely whatever game plan anyone went in with, it was absolutely blown to pieces by kickoff because the it was you know, and if you were watching the video show here or you were listening to them, the players jumping in puddles at the end from the first quarter on, any time

a player was brought down to the earth surface, it was just a gigantic puddle of wet covering them. I mean, it's the kind of if you've ever played in that, and I have because I played in Pop Warner and high school. Guys. Uh, you know, when you're in a wet weather affair, you're it's it's both What do you mean you played in both levels? Yeah, I wouldn't say I played a lot in high school. It's just sort of on to be its own podcast. There's a lot to work with their The deciding factor here was the

Niners defense, and it's not a surprise. It wasn't a huge challenge obviously, because Bill Callahan decided to run Adrian Peterson lake. We thought he would four hundred and fifty times. And the Niners though a hundred and fifty four yards allowed all game at three point eight yards per carry. But I would just throw all stats out of this. It really was about one team needing to get hot and on one or two tribes and you knew it was over. And the Niners too that Jimmy g had

ten yards passing at half. They really couldn't run the ball either. For a big chunk of this, I am weirdly invested as of people that listen to every show or plugged in on this. Maybe a little bit in Adrian Peterson passing Walter Payton on the all time touchdowns lists. He gets a ton of carries, doesn't find the end zone. It does remind me of a game, uh if if you, if you'll let me go down memory lane. In is

a thirteen year old Jets fan. The Jets went to Washington and won three to nothing, um to improve the eight and five that year. Then they lost out and missed the playoffs. But um, it was the same situation, same exact situation, whereas miserable conditions that nobody could get anything going. And I guess in d C, you know they got the Nationals to look forward to this game. Probably they don't even think about but uh yeah, another

sad day at FedEx. I'd say one quick thing that the Redskins this game would have taken on a different complexion. They opened with a twelve play, fifty four yard run Adrian Peterson nine times drive that took up nearly nine minutes off the clock. That's how you win a game like this. And they basically were shut down right near the goal line and missed the field goal. And you knew at that point I wanted to say game over, Niners will not lose this, but it went on for

another hour plus without the Niners scoring. I think the Niners are a team that can win a lot of games in a different type of way without their quarterback being the deciding factor. Because Jimmy g I like him a lot, but this is he was not the difference today. Well, Nick Bosa has weirdly maybe not gotten enough love as one of the great pass rushers we've seen and enter the league. Incredible in our lifetime. Number one on my

list of defensive rookies list. I mean, I think at this point he's in the mix for defensive Player of the Year. I really when you look at the pressure rates and and especially what he's done since he came back from the injury. Granted that's only a couple of weeks, but he dominated this game. Award four tackles for lost. He's starting to get sacks as well. He got a sack, four tackles for lost in this game. He's winning almost every snap. It is crazy to see what he's doing.

And when I watched I went back and watched that the Rams game and on the coach they have a chance. I know it's super early, but they have it. If we're gonna talk m vps at this point in season, the defensive line has a chance to be one of the great defensive lines. If they're totally healthy, they have a chance to just go like win a Super Bowl by themselves. That that group, because Armstead is playing like a pro bowler, he's the fourth guy on there. Bosa

Ford is playing well, Buckner. It's just a crazy group. And when you if Bosa can stay healthy, he's playing at a level as high as almost any pass restaurant. That's probably lowering a second. But there's so many other faces on that defense. And the reason they only got three sacks on case Keenum is because he only had twelve right attempts today. They kept him out of harm's way the best they could and they still wreak total havoc on them. One note on the Redskins. They have

gone a full calendar year between home victories. That's not good. But don't worry. They were gonna remember that. You're gonna get back at him in nine when they're when they're remember the puddles. Oh, two more things about this game and then we'll move on. There's a lot more. Gave the game ball to Mike Shanahan hired once upon a time, So that's a nice little thing. So Mike made the visit just for revenge. I gan esque and finally and just speaks to how rough things are for the Washington

Redskins right now. This is homecoming day and the conditions I mean what I got washed out basically, or like go home day, I mean, just get out of there as quick as possible, And they helped him with the shortest game in a decade. Mark They say that weather is the great equal wiser in football, and your experience as a peewee football player, did you find that to be true? The teams that I were on were very mentally tough, and we had so you know it other

there were other factors. Weather wasn't really something that would get in our way for the most part. Let's move on. He takes the quick snack, looking right all the way, lots of all the curley out of the backfield, over the shutter. He brings it in the touchdown to Gurley with one of the great catches of his career. Back in Georgia for the first touchdown of the game. He's the voice of Westchester. J. B. Long of the Rams

Radio network. Jared Goff through for two touchdowns, ran for another score, and the Rams rolled over the Falcons thirty seven ten in the building where their offense melted down against the Pats in Super Bowl fifty three. The Rams they had a three game losing streak in the debut of Jalen Ramsey, who uh West, maybe you can let us in and what they did to get him on the field in terms of whether it was tour doll or a brace, you know whatever. Do get that back

straightened out so they could play anyway? Um, first off, you do, oh mark a hug for moving out of the falcons lot lock. I don't know you should get half of a loss for that. I feel like absolutely not. And to the score and to the Rams needed this band, Yeah, that's it's borderline miraculous. I don't know if they brought some miracle healer to the scene for Jayalen Rams to be able to play. But not only was he playing, he was tracking Julio Jones around the field and Jack

and his jaw the whole first half. And then I thought one of the big turning points in the game, Julio Jones beats Ramsey for thirty nine yards. Thenn he beats Ramsey again down the sideline and the ball right in his hands. He has to stretch out and dive and it was so close to being a catch it would have put them right on the doorstep of the

end zone. He couldn't quite reel it in and the Falcons never recovered from that, and then the rest of the game was just a series of points at which I didn't think the Falcons could get lower, and then they would. I just underestimated how low the Falcons could get. Well, doesn't get lower than Matt Ryan getting hurt. Well before that, Davonte Freeman got ejected for doing something stupid like trying

to pick a fight with Aaron Donald. I don't know why anyone in the same week someone sucker punch Myles Garrett Donald. Donald kind of took his manhood by holding him up basically and walking at the same time. It's probably the biggest game Freeman's had all year. Ouch. You know, we're we're sponsored by the Marine Corps, and it don't impose your will on a man like that. That's disrespectful. Been posting your will on the other you pick them

up like a little boy, it's disrespectful. You know, the Marines, we don't, we don't. We don't go for that to ten. I'm not surprised that the final scored that the Rams scored, but the fact that the Falcons only scored You're only a two four yards in a game that Ryan did play most of it's pretty surprising. It's the same thing we've seen all year. He was hit on eleven of his first twenty two dropbacks and no running game because the running back doesn't make anyone miss, so that's a problem.

The offensive line is a problem, and then a couple of near catches. But it was certainly not one of Matt Ryan's better game. They're in that mix now for the top because their schedules stuff. They're in that mix for the top pick. He was hobbling, and word after the game is that they don't think it's a serious injury.

It looked like something he could probably go out there and play on in a Patrick Mahomes limited mobility kind of what And again a sky Sports earlier today, we were asked West by Neil Reynolds if dan Quinn could be out the door sooner rather than later at the bye week coming up week nine, and it's like, well,

what does that matter? Sometimes it feels like that's overblown because it seems like we're nearing a certainty territory that he'll be let go and he won't be the coach in what does it really matter if he's let go when they're one and eight or whatever it will be at the bye week. The mere question is if they get rid of Thomas de Mitrof and they really blow up the whole thing. I don't necessarily think that's a good idea, but it's it's probably something they're considering. Well.

It's it's usually a little bit easier than we think to read these things, and it has to do with credibility. If the coach has lost the locker room and nobody's buying in anymore. You know, Dion Jones after the game says we got his back, We're gonna keep fighting, and and you know, the owner, Arthur Blank said, I still support dan Quinn. So it doesn't feel like he's lost them. It just feels like they're lost. They haven't had a sack. They pop this up up on the screen during the game.

They haven't had a sex since September twenty one. It's been over three snaps now since they've paid a sound long way from that playoff game that you guys were at Sam's Falcon. I mean, it reminds me a little bit, you know, going back to The Bears, where if you're Matt Neege and you come out of a game like this where the offense laid a gigantic egg. It's like, this is why you were brought in. And dan Quinn's defense has not been a dan Quinn defense in a

long time. That owner is not a knee jerk reaction type of guy, though he said he's redistributed some of the play calling duties on defense. Going back to last week. Look at this flex on Sunday Night Football. The graphic most consecutive years is number one ranks show in prime time Sunday A Football eight seasons, passing American Idol, The Cosby Show and All in the Family. What a flex. Wow. We I think that's like the first time in the middle of that we've both we've broken the fourth while

we're talking about Sunday Night Football. But that's what did it for you. I Mean, the NFL occasionally sends these tweets out where it's a the top twenty five programs of the last you know, three months in all twenty five and FL games, and it's just the league being like, hey, you say our league is down, here's a bunch of middle fingers. That's when you if you want, that's how I read it, at least if you know you want to know why Al Michaels has four rolls Royce's in Malibu.

What else is on right now? That's right unless you're like you know, DVR in sixty minutes and watching it for the third time in its total. It's any show and any you know. They just dominate the landscape. That's like, uh, seventy minutes mark, no competition. Let's move on this river that takes the stamp, gives it to Gordon get in. No, he did not. Mcclock is stopped with seven seconds to go. There's a lot of discussion. I don't know what this is about. I'm not sure why the Titans defense took

off running and he's losing the ball. He appears to be. He's losing the ball. That's what it is. The ball is coming out and Woodyard, I think he is the man who recovered it. That's what this is. That's what it is. We wouldn't see it. The typees have recovered the football. That's why they came running out. If it's ruled a fumble, which it should be, the Titans have won this game. We've never had an ending like this here, Mike Key, beautiful call that Titans radio network. Oh my god,

Darrell Casey, is this the song check uses. It's gonna put us in the crosshairs. Might have to scrub this one. There's no way he listens, that's true. Darrell Casey recovered a fumble by Melvin Gordon at the goal line with fifteen seconds to play. The Titans somehow pulled out over the Chargers and the dirt neat dirt knat ball, as we I believe titled it, Welcome to the Underworld. The Chargers greg Even by the standards of the Los Angeles Chargers,

this loss was absurd. No, this was something special, This was something different. Unfortunately I had I had to trade this. I had to trade for this game, had the pleasure of watching it. This may go down as one of the greatest trades, UH since Steve Young to the fort I mean, let's let's not act like it was a trade. You basically imposed your You are very nice and you know what, if you're listening for the first time, you have no idea what. Yeah, we we trade the assignment.

This game was insane how it ended, and we can talk more about the rest of the game, but the ending sequence where Melvin Gordon got a chance to lose the game for the Chargers drives me crazy because Melvin Gordon got way too many chances to lose this game for the Chargers. Sixteen carries thirty two yards. Got the ball three different times on the goal line. The first time in the first half, he was he was stuffed and he kind of almost fumbled it. They didn't call

it a fumble. There was some debate whether it was a fumble or not. They end up scoring on a throw to Gordon the next play. This time they get the ball back on the goal line. There's some back and forth, there's a false start, there's a whole lot of everything, like two overturned touchdowns where the Chargers thought

they had won. But the reality is Gordon fumbled on the goal line, which you absolutely cannot do, and he recovered it, and then Anthony Lynn gave him the ball back, or whoever's calling them, Blake Ken wizzen Hunt gave him the ball back again, and he fumbled it again, which is just insane and drives me crazy because Austin Ekeler

is the only reason they were in this game. They were down ten with six minutes to go, and I said to West the Chargers are like one of those dogs who start clearing the way, you know, for when they want to take a nap. They were, they were digging up the dirt. Ten points down, six minutes to go, but they came back about as fast as you possibly could because of Austin Ekeler as a receiver doing everything, and then you give the ball to Gordon to lose it.

Not even good animal analogy, just thrown it. Not even your best analogy. At one point you seem to compare. Uh, you had a plumbing analogy in which Austin Ekeler was somehow drain oh and Gordon was a ball of tangles clogging the toilet. Is the toilet clogger, called him the antipe luncher. This backfield, to me shows how good NFL players are. And I'd love to see a coach after a holdout. Don't let that guy back on the field until he proves that he's better than the guy he's replacing.

And Gordon has not proven that, missing training camp and missing September. He's a better player than Austin Ekeler. You need that practice. You're absolutely right, and there was a mandate right away. We're gonna get him on there, he's gonna see playing time. In the three games he's back there, owing three not all his fault, but he's not helped.

He has a combined less than one hundred yards at less than two point five yards per carry over three games, all losses for the Chargers, who are now, as Dan mentioned, six to seven ft under the earth. You're you're enjoying the end of this game, Dan, because it was just it was a slow motion car crash that you couldn't believe what was happening. Yeah, it was. Before what proceeded the Gordon fubble was two touchdown scores with the OFFICI

was rule touchdown and then they got called back. On our view, it is so clunky at the end of the game. It took about forty five minutes to play the last minute of the game. Um. But yeah, I think for me and some of my more higher moments of self loathing around the Jets when things are going bad, I'll point out that nobody really knows how to lose and and shock you with their dysfunction and failure. Like the Jets are just really good at thinking up new ways.

The Chargers fans and their fans, they get it as well, because there there's only one team that would figure out a way to blow that game, and it's the Chargers. At worst, they you would have thought they could have kicked the field goal there, although they're on the one in line with seconds left. It's it's such a unique Chargers thing to fail that way where they got in the end zone twice, got called back twice, and then you give it to the guy you definitely shouldn't give

it to. You're basically daring the football gods to smite you, and they say, all right, if you if you want us to, we'll do it. And who's left holding the bad Chargers fans who've been suffering for years and years and years. One question, Greg, because this was the Ryan Tannehill experience beginning, and there was an interesting report that he and his agent or his report essentially the information

came from the agent that they handpicked Titanians. Report that because the Titans felt like the team where a quarterback in place would either a get hurt or be lose the job due to performance, which is a weird thing for in the locker room. I would imagine to come out, you know, in the middle of preparation for weeks since sports. Yeah, that is weird. It's part I know, the kind of everything. But Ryan Tannehill played well today. He threw the ball

really well. He Delanney Walker made a quote, had a quote. They said, what's the difference between you know, Tanneheill Marriot And he said, well, he throws it harder and he gets rid of the ball faster. I was like, those are those are two good things now in Tannehill fashion. This was a good Tannehill game where he threw it really well but still had an interception in two fumbles. Uh, and he took a couple of hits since in the second half and in the interception came on on a

hit that was maybe not his fault. But this was actually a game where the offense has moved the ball quite well. There's only eight possessions each. It was just like a long slope. If you like long slope possessions that end in misery, this is your game. You had the day I could have had, Greg and I know Tytoons fans out there as some of you don't like me very much, but a lot of my frustration and doubt of that organization was always around Mariota, who looks

like he's out of the picture. So he's gone. Now you gotta get rid of the uniforms. That's that's a grizzly look. The next billet point. It's not nearly as important as a quarterback. But I just I just think they need to reboot the and the whole logo thing, clear it all out and start again. I feel like they're not out of the quarterbacks. You hain't everything of

the logo there three and four. I mean, this was a big I know you guys don't think so, but I think it was a big game, especially looking at ball teams upcoming. Well, the first round pick came and played Jeffrey Simmons. Okay, Jeffrey Simmons was one of the stories of the day. He's returning from a torn a c L that he suffered while preparing for the combine this insane and insane comeback, and he was maybe their

best defensive player. He had a sack, he had two tackles for loss, he had a QB hit, and he's made Someone pointed out he's made a bigger impact in terms of tackles for loss and QB hits than Quentin Williams at Oliver and I forget who the other first round defensive tackles. In one game, he had a really great game for them. So that I kind of believe in Mike Rabel. I don't know, I'm not sure always why that is, but I kind of just maybe on defense and special teams, I don't believe in anything this

team has. I like to look at all A J. Brown, these teams looked very even though well they could have lost, and we would, they would be seven feet under the ground. Between six and seven feet. That's the Chargers instead as a child mark of the seventies, okay, in the mustache, which was there's nothing more paternal than the mustache. In the eighties, it was the dad. Look, I think that's what you're connecting with. Yeah, but I wouldn't trust he's

got broad shoulders. Uh, he's a guy. I'll protect you, I'll take you through the darkness, And I think that's what's sitting up. You're not totally wrong on some of that, But my dad never had a mustache, so I'm not interested in someone else's dad can worms. But I like I generally grew up the mustaches where Tad creepy cops had them ravels like the dad you've never had. I'm not sure that's it. Either I'm not. We can keep trying, or we can move on. I don't know. All right,

let's move on. First down at the Josh takes his snap, looks fire straight down the middle of Tecks down, Tecks down, bum John Down, ticks down down. An excellent crow bought Josh Allen. John Brown running up the seam. He goes in motion and he runs up the scene working on Ryan Lewis beats him to the inside against man coverage, and Josh Allen knew exactly what where he was going with the football to John Brown, John Murphy and Eric Would of the Bills Radio network. Smoke John Brown's nickname.

I thought it was Smokey. Well, a lot of people call him smuck. That's cool, That's fine with me. Uh he you know, he's had a he's had a good role with that team, and he's having a nice season. True number one, and um, he wasn't the only star for the Bills. Tradeabus White force two second half turnovers. Uh Mika Hyde returned an onside kick for a touchdown. The Bills rally from a five point the devasit win over the Miami Dolphins, who are still looking for their

first win, but incremental progress. I feel like west White saved the Bills from potential's humiliation on Sunday. Yeah, he was the difference in the game. Um on a day. Well, it's a second week in a row where you look at the Dolphins offense and say, yeah, they're much better with Brian Fitzpatrick. As we've said, that could change in a week or two when he's throwing everything up for grabs,

but he he calls out the protections better. You can see that that the offensive line plays better for him than they do for Josh Rosen uh Mark Walton looked really good running the ball. Preston Williams and DeVante Parker. You you can find worse wide receiver duos than those two. The Dolphins did not look inept and they finished their touchdown drives, whereas the Bills were settling for field goals.

And then Matt Hawk, the Dolphins punter, took a faith field goal up the gut and was tackled just shy of the goal line. It looked like the Dolphins we're gonna get another score. They were already in the lead. They're gonna put this maybe out of reach, and then Jordan Phillips strip sec, Dolphins fall on the ball, and then trad As White next play diving interception. Josh Allen gets the ball, goes six for six on the drive,

touchdown to John Brown. Next series for the Dolphins, Tradavious White forces a fumble and then the game's basically over from there. Tradevious White saved them, And for all we've knocked Josh Allen, I think he's less predictably bad then guys like Trabinsky, where Mark you had that stat where it was like nine straight series or whatever he couldn't

get ten yards. I think just when you think that you have a handle on Josh Allen being a bad player, he does things like that six for six drive, and he uses his legs and I'll throw a touch pass once in a while where you think, if this guy can put it together, he really is a dynamic athlete. It seemed like he was always the quarterback where when he's doing something in the positive column, it might be so incredibly athletically unbelievable that you have to have him

on your team. And that's why certain scouts, he's only the guy who can be throwing less than fifty percent completions first half against the two thousand, nineteen Miami Dolphins, which when you start playing, he's also the guy who can be ten for eleven for a hundred eleven yards and two touchdowns that's happened to win the game. You've told me all year that none of these games against the Dolphins count basically or mean much, and so that's a team like you just wanted to get shots in

at Josh Allen. Here, I'm just say with our podcast, there are three things in life that you can count on, death taxes and Gregg taking pot shots at Josh Allen. It's not potshots. I'm a saying if we're gonna be consistent, they've been consistent, like they need to be better on offense against the Miami Dolphins, that's all. I don't think he's say anything out of I mean absolutely is. I don't think you say anything wrong. I'm just amused by you're always the guy to jump in and say, but

actually he's terrible. He hasn't played well at all this year. Well, if you're from last year, I think he's been one of the bottom six. I'm just saying, in a league where there's so many good quarterbacks, he's one of the bottom five or six, and that hurts. That hurts you. But you also never factor in his running ability, which for him is a big part of his game at five and one, not to also be a wet blanket here. Um,

it's been a pretty soft five and one start. I still need to see some you know, Marky wins before you start saying this a team that has the defense and makes enough players on offense too, shocks and people in January. Maybe he still needs a little bit more from the bill. Well, don't you think that we always look at teams that jump out two starts like this in unorthodox defense or special teams first fashion with a sideways view, because it's got to come from offense or

we don't believe in it. We have after the Eagles next week, they play a slate of teams that don't have more than two wins four more in a row, Redskins, Browns, Dolphins, and Broncos. Not. Well, there'll be eleven and five. Have no problem with them being eleven and five, or even maybe eleven and five. And then what happens from there when you I think they have the pieces to play better on offense. I think Alan can be corral, I

think they can be bad. But if he's at bottom six quarterback, you have to, even in this offseason, think about what you're doing a quarterback. And outside of Tradavis White, their defense was not that impressive today. All right, let's uh, let's finish out the rest of this uh Sunday Slates screen picked off by Unique and got White to the into the five touchdown Big six King Dockway extends the league for Jacksonville. Can you hear the hammer counting on

the nails? That's the nail and the Frank Frangie And I don't know if that was Jeff Loghman, my boy Lockhaman or Tony Basselli, but somebody was launching attacks. Jaguars Radio Network, No Jalen Ramsey, no problem. Unique and Gockway returned in interception twenty three yards to the house, clinching a seventeen win for the Jags over the Bengals. Still looking for that first dub west side of Cincinnati, Quiet agains they never stay there. Chilly Tonight Mark feels like

a seventies rock song. Mark. It was part of a huge defensive showing for the Jacks who stuck Andy Dalton on a stick and made him the ginger haired scarecrow forever. Yeah, I don't know how to follow that up. Put that in your power. I appreciate that because you've come up with something, a new way to describe the Ay Dalton experience.

And I anyone who watched the end of this game, you are dealing with a quarterback that threw three interceptions over the course of five attempts in three possessions that utterly buried Cincinnati's chance to take a game where they were very much in a manageable situation to win against the Jaguars offense that put together drives of nine, eleven, nine and twelve plays move the ball, but could not score field goal after field goal. They finally did punch

it in and that separated them from Cincinnati. But the Bengals had a chance. And I get it. Look at Andy Dalton, is, you know, working with an offense where Alex Erickson had to catch eight passes today to be the leading receiver and they cannot get anything going on the round their running game, and it has to do with their offensive line hit me. This is one of the most amazing statue here. In a first half of the season to this point, the Bengals have rush for

three hundred seventy two yards. Their opponents have rushed for one thousand, three hundred twenty three yards. They are outgamed by nearly a thousand yards. Seven weeks this season, there on pace for the worst rushing team in the Super Bowl era before this game. And then well and they and they gave up to sixteen today And so that's that's been the thing week after week is their line on both sides are totally dominated. So you can't just look at Andy Dalton and their running backs ran for

it called runs with zero yards. That's hard to do and runs for zero yards Joe mixing ten rushes for two for two yards. We figured out Andy Dalton years ago. He rises and falls based on what he has around him, and now he has. He's never had anything worse around him than he has now now he's worse than he ever was. He needs a fresh start in Chicago. He needs the ghost where well I don't that would have a chance to um get his career back on track.

Because both sides need a refresh here. I just turned around pick for Andy Dalton at the trading deadline, who says, no, just do it bad that that that that would be interesting would be done a second. The problem ones with with with Zach Taylor and the Bengals is I don't know. I know they're trying to run a certain type of offense that he's familiar with. You can't have Andy Dalton throwing the ball forty three times in this with what

he has around them. I get that, but the whole thing is so broken down, and it's just the Jaguars were no treat either, but they saved their season because they lost this, your boy, Minshew, they moved the ball. I mean it again. They just couldn't. They can't. They struggle and they've done this all year long, closing drives because they get into the red zone and it falls apart. But he still throws the ball aggressively. Gardner Minshew also is you know he's not Josh Allen, but he had

a couple of keys scrambles today. They kept the drive drives live every game. He's gonna give you that. And he did not throw an interception. And for me, it's like this is a guy that you can ride with six more yards than the Bengals running backs combined. O God, all right, let's close out the pre Sunday night football slate. The Cardinals have a first intent of the Giant hand off Edands here. Look is he gonna do it again? Yes? He is put down. Chase Edmonds has three touchdown runs

and now two. This game was supposed to be about the return of se Kwon Barkley. Instead, their star running back was Cardinals backup Chase Edmonds, who rushed for a career high and twenty six yards a career high three touchdowns Over the gaming at the Meadowlands, Greg Cardinal sack Daniel Jones eight times too. Maybe they're not terrible, or maybe the Giants are. I mean they're not terrible. The little Cardinals are wondering, well, what do we gotta do

Dan to move up in the rundown. We've won three straight, we haven't lost in all of October. We've got Chase Edmonds, a five nine running back out of Fordham University, outshining sae Quon Barkley. I mean, Chase Edmonds has been week. The three teams they've beaten could not be worse. I think they've won to combine three games, so I get it, but they only won three games all of last season. And the running game that Cliff Kingsbury has brought to

Arizona travels because you didn't have David Johnson today. They started him, he had one carry and then he didn't play again, and Edmonds carried them along with the defense led by Chandler Jones, who had four sacks all by himself. Daniel Jones sacked eight times. Daniel Jones fumbled three times, had an interception. He has now thrown seven picks and

has five fumbles in his five starts. And it's disappointing because this was the game you're kind of waiting for where you had Ingram and Barkley and Tate all on the field together. Ingram had a disastrous game, Barkley was fine, and the Giants offense was really kind of the lagging group of this game in a rainstorm. Yeah, I get it. Giant's offensive line has not been a total hot mess

this season. The last couple of weeks, the communication in recognizing where the pressure is coming from, and that happened so many times. You could see that Arizona was like We're just gonna keep sending stunts, and we're gonna keep sending blitzes and doing all sorts of different things. And by the end it was just a feeding frenzy. And Chandler Jones especially, you know, like punched his pro bolticket and when you get those four sack games and looks

soldier he was on both sides, I believe. I believe Remors and Nate's Solder both had their share of struggles. I mean, Kyle Kyler Murray had a hundred and four yards this game. I thought this would be like a high scoring game where both quarterbacks did a lot. Uh not so much. Uh you know what, I three three and one though they're they're five d's times. You know what I heard, Greg, Yeah, I heard the biggest star of this game was actually upstairs in the booth, Greg

Olsen on the by an absolute master class. Uh, one of those remember early Romo when people were like, wait a second, we might have something special here. We got a situation here. I mean, I'm sure Booker is not sleeping tonight because Greg Olsen is right near the end of it's been an excellent career and people are talking, the streets are talking about Greg Olson and the booth. He was awesome to the point where I was just like, who is this new announcer? I like this guy like that.

He's making a lot of smart points, like I've never heard this voice, and I checked and it's Greg Olsen, And yeah, he was a joy to listen to throughout analyze the game very calmly. It's for you know, for a tight end. He can really see, like the game from the quarterback position, just like aking things down and teaching you. How about this for a quote, Greg, I know you love this stuff, so I'm directing it you. Kenny Albert was his partner. I like Kenny. It was

a good deal. Here's what Kenny had to say, according to The Athletic, I don't think I've ever gotten that many texts or tweets during the game about an analyst that I was working with and it was positive. Wait a minute, what was the one center are well? You never completes everybody? We heard him in the playoffs might

have been the analyst he was with last week. We heard him in the playoffs last year, and I thought in his first like ever game announcing he's already second best behind Romo like wrapping in for during the bye week. That's kind of wild too. I mean, that's that's breaking boundaries. You're like in a job and then you already know that the minute that you decide to leave the job that's paying you millions and millions of dollars, that you'll

just roll in as a class favorite. I'm ready to put out the sandwich right now that he's in the booth at Monday night football the season after retires, whether it's twenty I'm with you. He uh, you're not taking me up on it. I read with me up on it right now. I mean there are human beings involved in that process. What a guy you are? What a class act you mean? I'm just waiting until we're not

gonna watch it again. It was very disarming to to have a guy in the booth comfortable and then at the end of the game feels like an aggressive wager. For it does feel a little aggressive, kind I know what's really going on here. We'll talk off air or not. We will never talk again. Dan, you need to sip in your teeth at the end of our relationship. All right, let's move on. Tavon Austin in Motion coming to the

left and then we'll pitch it right to Austin. He's got a first stout fifting touch up with Sam put into the five clutch out on Austin stuck the cresses, the cowboyism scored a first quarter touchdown. The sham God, Rad Sham the sham God with the call Cowboys Radio kay r LD. What Tavon Austin is starting action with a touchdown, You know your offense is gonna have a good day. And that's what happened for the Dallas Cowboys.

In fact, everyone on the Cowboys had a good day and a thirty seven to ten win over the Eagles, a win that snaps the Cowboys losing streak at three and sends the Eagles deep deeper into their existential funk. And if you're Jason Garrett, Greg who after a week, you know this happens almost every year for going on a decade. There will be weeks during the season where people will be pointing at Jason Garrett and saying that man's the problem. Get him out of the building. They

need a better head coach, and perhaps they do. Greg, I think you're one of those people that believe that, and that's okay, but this was as Chris Collinsworth put it well at the end of the game, the pressure relief valve has been hit absolutely, especially going into the bye week. To to get Randall Cobb and Amari Cooper and the best tackle tandem in the league in uh lay All Collins and Tyrone Smith back, you're gonna look better.

I think their offense hasn't been the problem the whole time we talked going into the show, it's been the defense. Can Layton Vanderish and Jalen Smith and to Marcus Slays, can they start making some plays. That's exactly what they did in the first half of this game. They gave their team a few extra possessions by winning the turnover battle three to nothing. The Cowboys did have a couple of injuries with Robert Quinn and vander esh in terms of the second half, but by then the game was over.

It is pretty impressive to see the Cowboys win that convincingly, and yet somehow it's not totally shocking the way that the Eagles have been playing, especially the last two weeks. Yeah, the Cowboys didn't implode in the red zone this time. They've been moving the ball up and down the field pretty consistently. They just haven't been scoring consistently, and today

everything just clicked. Yeah. I look at the Eagles and I thought before the season started, I pointed to them as the team in the NFC that I just believed in the most, from top to bottom, front office, coaching staff, roster. I knew they're you know, they're not perfect, but you thought this is the team that I thought would be there at the end. They watching them tonight. Last week it was the secondary. Tonight it was the defense again. I watched their offense too, would just say identity free.

I don't know what this offense is about. They Greg, I think you kind of mentioned there was sort of the sort of bad energy around the whole Eagles operation tonight, And it's just I I go into Week eight wondering what the Eagles team is right now. I think about the late Tony Sperrano and his famous bury the ball. You bury the ball, you buried the past. It is very close to not very close. This is a bury

the ball game for the Eagles. But you know what the problem with the bury the ball game is, it can't happen on the same week that your head coach tells the media and I know, you try to walk this back. We're gonna go to Dallas, We're gonna win, and then you don't show up. It doesn't mean the Eagles are done. But to Mark's point, they have been

one of the biggest disappointments in the entire league. I believe through through seven weeks and they still have time west to get back on track, and you know what, I'd be surprised if they don't. But at the same time, it's been bad, and it's been rough, and they were not competitive tonight. That is not a good sign, not a good look. Well, we give the Eagles a lot

of credit. I think we have confidence in their general manager the coaching staff that it's a strong roster, and then you can't If you believe that, then then one thirty two year old wide receiver who's a deep threat shouldn't throw off everything just because he's out of the lineup. Deshan Jackson being gone has hurt them and they've been prone to some stinkers. Look, they got blown out by the Saints last year much later in the season, the

middle of November, and they bounce back from that. They lost my forty points but it's strange to see them in two straight weeks on the road against other playoff type contenders, and I think we're clearly the inferior team in both games. I don't think they were that close to the Vikings. I think the final score was appropriate. And when you look at these two teams, they're they're both very tough to get a handle on. But what's been consistent. I think the Cowboys offense has been consistent,

especially when they're healthy. And what's also been consistent is the Eagles defense being lame. I mean, they've been a pretty bad defense throughout, and their offense works really hard for everything. I mean Whence for the most part of this season, we like what he's done, but they're just they had a running game outside of the Green Bay No. I mean, they get some plays in the receiving game from the from Sanders, but they seem to be working so hard, whereas in the past, I feel like Peterson

and went like things just came much easier. Onence missed a couple of big time throws tonight where he had open receivers. So it's not all It's not just one thing. This was your game where the field is a undred and ten yards going uphill both ways, vibe for the Eagles, I mean the Cowboys and what a great what a great night. I mean Jason went the montage of Jason Witten doing fist have that for the video show we do.

I mean, it was a beautiful thing. NBC put together a montage of Jason Witten doing like, like dad fist pumps from here he just won the second set tie break in the men's over forty five championship at the Old Tennis Club. He saw he basically is just farting on Monday night football right there. He's saying he's gonna do what I want to kid rock concert and they just went into like He's like, oh yeah, this is my college jam. Some great pump analysis. I enjoyed that.

You know who wasn't doing all those things we just mentioned it. Go ahead, Mark or West who locked up the Cowboys? Baby, nice job and Mark, you you really saved your buddy here. Oh yeah he did. Uh got out of the Falcons lock, which was you know, god forsaken and now you're on the board. You end. And I said it on Thursday show into Nationally, this story is picking up steam. You're gonna be all over the papers. Uh, if you would pay Pipkins, it was gonna be it

was gonna be grim. So good job with that. In fact, West was being boycotted in China, so it's you know, you're back. You're big in China, You're back on the You're back in China. Actually I have a comment to make about what's going on in Hong Kong right now, but I will save it for the end of the show. Um. Greg also locked up the Packers. We went four. Oh now our time, we really that, so we we don't mention locks at all. For all those weeks we were terrible.

But now that we went for it, oh, we're like, we're almost like two weeks away of from doing that again, of getting to five. Let's honk about it. Hey, listen, it's been a rough ride, always forward, never back. Can't see is Erica's face right now. She wants us all taken out by wild animals before the next minute, or all right, that's it. Good job by the Cowboys, bad bad job by the Eagles. And yet you do feel like the next time they play the game will mean something.

Just the way this division works. Typically, Cowboys got Eagle's gotta figure it out. Though NFC is pretty deep, it's gonna be a little trickier to slide into one of those wild card spots. Week sixteen, they'll they'll meet again, but in Philadelphia. We'll see if that game has huge ramifications for both teams. All right, we'll be back on Tuesday, UM where we will recap the Monday night football classic between the Jets and the Patriots and uh and then

do a bunch of other fun stuff. Might be a classic. I hope it is. I feel like it would be good for the Jets it was a classic because could it be a classic of the Patriots win. Probably not, But if it's being called, if it's being hailed as a classic, I mean, if it was a great game that the Patriots won at the very end, it could be. No. Not if they want to hunt, I'm not. I don't want if they want a hundred nothing and it like

changed football history and still on a classic. Sam's aren't would be a land Ros for six touchdowns, but Tom Brady throws for seven, including a forty eight yard or at the buzzer. That's gonna be a classic no matter who take that, So give me that Ricky tried to end this show sixty seven seconds ago. Let's go, I don't. I'm I'm fine, you guys, I'm loving it all right. Run the music. Just have a spooked Dan ANSAs signing off for Quiet Storm to mail Man, the Old Boss, Ricky, Hollywood,

Ryan Barlett and friends behind the Glass. Thank you everybody till Tuesday.