2021 Week 2 Recap - The Afternoon Saved Football

a French phone booth. And it's not going to well over on the east side of the building, isn't Mark, No, it's very French. Um, I mean it, you know, if I were just to come in here and chat with a friend, I mean it's it's plush red seats, but um, an entire windowed wall on this side of me, to my left, and um, it appears it's you know, a very talented group of producer I t types shooting a sucks darts at me and laughing at me while I

do the show. Daniel like literal literal darts or its suction darts that stick to glass, and I don't know else describe it, but um, you know, I thought it was like figurative I darts or something no, but of course, you know, let's send the guy who was in a hospital three weeks ago up a flight of stairs with forty pounds of equipment to find, you know, some other place to set up. I see how this works. So,

as you could see, we are challenged right now. We thought we were, you know, it was gonna be smooth sailing from here, but that's not the way things work when you move into a new building. But that doesn't matter to you, the listener. What you care about is Week two of the NFL season, and this is the flagship show, and we're gonna go through every game that was played, even the early games. And you know, I would file a petition, petition not just because Zach Wilson

threw four interceptions today, but mostly because of that. UH do not cover the early games and instead only focus on like three games in the in the late window. But I guess, Greg, we should be thankful for those three games in the late window because it gave us some excitement in our first day in the newsroom, the new newsroom. No, the late games were great for the

most part. But yes, you were proclaiming throughout much of the morning football is dead, Um that you didn't think football could recover from the early games, that they were too boring and that was it. We were all just gonna have to pack up and go. It wasn't just that they were boring either. And again the Zach Wilson meltdown at the Metal Ends definitely colors my view if he had four touchdowns no interceptions in every other game, but just every game was pretty wretched for the most

part on the early window. But yes, we have good games to get to. It will be a little front loaded, and we will close the show with Sunday Night football. Hopefully that is a contest worth bantering on about. But let's get into it. Let's roll. Let's start with some of these fun late games featuring all kinds of walk off goodness from kick ers and not so goodness. Let's start. Listen, Vikings fans, We're not gonna start with you, so just

deep breath, deep breath, you will get through this. Let's start right across the street from US, right across the sidewalk from US Dallas Chargers. You know what, though, Brad, It's talk gonna be a moot point and all gonna be forgotten after Greg's airline hits this fifty six yard fifty six for the win, right hash snap hole kick kick on the way kicks gun in the Cowboys win.

We knew it all. That was Babe Laufenburg trying to speak into existence a moment for the Cowboys that would eclipse the horrendous game management by the Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy and Brad Sham the Sham God. With the call for k r l D. Greg's airline connected on a fifty six yard field goal as time expired to

give of the Dallas Cowboys win over the Los Angeles Chargers. Yes, across the sidewalk from us here at so Far Stadium, Greg the leg saved the bacon of a lot of people, most of all Mike mccarthur, who basically wasted away the last minute of game time and set up his kicker for a disaster. And more on that later, But Greg, this was a huge win for the Cowboys after last week's near miss versus the Champs. It was and it

was a great game. It had everything that you would want a Cowboys Chargers game to have, except for like points like I can't believe how bad the defenses were in this game. And yet the final score was seventeen. There wasn't a punt until midway through the third quarter. Uh, and that might have been the only punt of the game. It was, And yet because both sides kept shooting themselves in the foot, especially the Chargers with penalty, that's the

end we got. Like you couldn't believe how well Justin Herbert played in this game. Uh when when you look at the final score or I'm not surprised, Um, you know, I'm surprised to see the Cowboys only have twenty points in this game because it felt like every Charger's defensive possession was just hoping for a prayer. But in the end, two touchdowns taken off the board by Chargers penalties down the stretch feels like it feels like a difference maker

like Jared Cook will help your team. And you're like, wow, that's a good pick up Jared Cook, until he gives you the one Jared Cook play that he just seems to always have it. In this case, it was a holding call on a long touchdown by Justin Herbert. And then later in the fourth quarter, I went to go to the bathroom after the Chargers took a four point lead, not realizing it's the Chargers, and there was actually in the legal formation the touchdown didn't count. There's a crazy call.

There was just like a little bit of everything, and yet I think we got the ending that we deserved, which is just like one team getting a little luckier than the other. I mean, Greg, I gotta ask you, because I think we all saw at the same time justin Herbert unfurl an incredible past to Keenan Allen that sailed over for the head of a you know, falling down backwards Cowboys cornerback. But he also threw two interceptions in this game. When he came from the Dallas nine,

what I thought you were gonna ask him? He left the door open. He said, he went to the bathroom. Here at this new facility, the toilets are heated. There's there's the days involved. I want to know more about Greg's trip to the bathroom. Start. Let's start. I'm chugging water all day long. There was nothing too complicated about it. I come back and it's like second and goal. I'm totally confused. Uh, and then they call this crazy in

the graphs quarterback play. But yeah, Herbert had two interceptions the second one Keenan Allen fell on it happens. The first one was a bad throw. But that that one throw you you mentioned to Alan where he kind of um puts it in the turkey hole or whatever John Gruden used to like to say, it was beautiful. And yet it came a few plays after one of the best throws I've ever seen, which was a forty five yard on a rope with no like arc to it whatsoever.

Throw that again was overturned by penalty. So like that just felt like that was the story of this game. It was. It was incredibly entertaining though, Like it was everything I wanted out of a week two games between Cowboys. I would ask Greg, you know, multiple questions about the you know, his trip to the toilet. But I mean, we know how these Sundays work. We don't have time to sit down on heated toilet seats. Is not the world here on Sundays. It's an active time, um, you know.

As the second half was unfolding and I was thinking about the two teams involved, the Cowboys, who are involved with so many games like this that go down to the wire, and it feels like more often than not in recent years, it goes against the Cowboys, and then you have the Chargers on the other side, which they're famous for their fiascos through the years. Late in games that I was thinking, how does someone win this game

and how does someone blow it to lose it? And what happened was the Cowboys actually did both, which was really commendable. And again, let's let's set the table year um with the situation, Greg, it was I think there was let's see, I'm gonna go to I want to check out that I want to get this right. So

this to start the game winning field goal drive. They had three minutes and fifty four seconds left, and that was to set up the fifty six yard there you go, I mean, and here's and the question now became when they had the one time out left and they have a running play and the clock's running after Tony Pollard goes uh three yards to the Chargers thirty eight thirty seconds, thirty three seconds, clocks ticking ticking, ticking, ticking, and finally

the Cowboys call out call time out with four seconds remaining, seemingly settling for a nearly impossible making that situation. They get bailed out after the game Mike McCarthy explained why he had such an issue. But the clock I was watching, I went off the board and then you know, Clauke Kellen had nothing, you said, a camera, black camera. So the communication was great from top. And you know, obviously you want to you want to call that time out

between three, you know, three and four seconds. So this this is one of those like explanations from someone higher up, like a restaurant manager, that you just know isn't remotely giving you the straight answer, like, Okay, let's say you couldn't see the clock or and and everyone is taking this is like, okay, well that makes more sense than them just being total idiots. Well then, like, then, how did you take the time out with four seconds left?

At some point you just totally blanked and panicked. And if you can't see the clock, you you have to find some other way to do it. It was. It was the most Cowboys like thing possible because they had a ton of time and they could have gone right down the field. The Chargers defense did not offer much resistance. I was very impressed with the Cowboys offensive line. Uh they protected Dak Prescott well, they ran the ball really well.

I think the Cowboys actually could have run the ball more in a lot of key situations, and they let the Chargers off the hook. It felt like a miracle anytime that the Chargers gotta stop. But that was pretty much true on on both sides of the ball in this game. Are we at a point though, where you look at Zeke Elliott and Tony Pollard sixteen touches for Zeke, thirteen on the ground for Pollard. Are we in a full on time share here? I think it's a good situation. Yeah.

I mean they ran for yards and they split snaps, So to me, that's like a good problem to have. I don't think Zeke's looked that bad this year. I I know fantasy heads are all like worked up about it, but he's still a good back. Pollard is just more explosive, and he definitely was today, as Greg said, And this is just the Chargers in a nutshell and it just you changed the players, you change the change of coaches, and we keep getting these outcomes. Flag twelve times for

ninety nine yards, two touchdowns taken off the board. They're now eight and seventeen in one score games. Uh, since the start of the nineteen season, So Mike McCarthy gets bailed out by his kicker and Greg the leg goes from goat to hero week to week. That is the NFL. And um, speaking of big kicks from big men, let's head to Seattle. Sam said, kick, yes, how about these Titan chests? Yes, yes, the impossible situation possible My Keith Titans radio with the call, break up the grave digger.

Derrick Henry goes off for one, two and two fourth quarter touchdowns. You never fade the big dog and Randy bullocks big boned. Randy hit a thirty six yard field goal midway through o t and the Titans not the Titoons. You thought they were dead, so did I? If you follow my twitter feed rally from a fifteen point deficit stunning the Seahawks and they're building loomin field nightmare thirty three to thirty and uh man, wait, what's the nightmare?

The name of the field or the game? Absolutely absolutely you could also another nightmare. Greg locked up the Chargers. Yeah, that was a nightmare. I keep keep going, starts the sea and two. That's that's in auspicious. Also locking up the long wrong team. How about the Westling brothers locking up the Seahawks. That's a tough one because Tennessee they looked done in this game. They could not get anything going.

They were um down nine in the second half when Freddie Swain caught a rainbow from Russell Wilson and took it in. It made it thirty to fourteen, and you think, let's go home, Well, thirty fourteen in your building becomes thirty three thirty low. Just a crushing defeat force the Seahawks and a enthralling, uh potentially season changing winning win for the Titans this early. And this from John Glennon

who sighted CBS. So really from CBS, the Seahawks were fifty two and oh when leading by at least at least fifteen points at home. Now fifty two and one, UM, so you know you you credit it's it's a team effort because the Titans got a lot of big stops on defense in the second half when it looked like the Seahawks were just going to run away and hide in this game, and they kind of did, but the defense made enough stops to let Tennessee get back in the game. They got back in the game because Derrick

Henry turned back into a total monster uh. He had a first touchdown run where the play was to the right. There was nothing there stretch right play, he stopped in his tracks, reverse backfield and then beat everybody to the corner on the other side. And then the other one was those type of runs that we saw all last year, a sixty yard touchdown where a man that large I believe he's seven foot seven, three eighty thousand pounds, gets to the outside and then just out runs cornerbacks, safeties,

linebackers to the house. Those big, big time plays. Um and when Mike Rabel doesn't go for two when they tie it with under a minute to play, I mean, a lot of people are thinking, I'll come on, Rabel, show some stones. But it was the right move because they still got it done in overtime. What a win for the Titans. Brave digger. I feel a little job though. We should have had a walk off safety. I don't

know when the last walk off safety was. Wasn't did Cameron way Kevan against the Bengals along Thursday Night Football that that could have been it and it was a walk off safety. We all saw it. Russell Wilson took took a sack and threw the ball away in the end zone and they marked the ball at the half yard line, but it I know, I didn't know this was your game, Dan, And I know it feels like the Titans like stole one and it's a bad beat.

But ultimately they had thirty three first downs in this game in five and thirty two yards, and I know a lot of those yards came late, but I don't know if that's stealing, that's beaten up on the other team's defense after a while. And Wi Jones also, Julio Jones had a touchdown that got overturned that was very suspect. It was a back at the endz. It looked like he got two feet down. I don't know what the whole thing going on there was, but they kind of

got jobbed out of four points there as well. They did. The offense definitely got back on track, and I know that's important if you're the grave digger and Titans fans, because Todd downing there said Arthur Smith, you're starting to chew on your fingernails in early in the second quarter. But they showed that they could put up that thirty spot in a big spot. I mean, there's some unlovable

whispers about the Todd Downing experience as well. But I mean, you look at Julio Jones after last week a hundred and twenty eight yards off six catches. That helps heal the narrative that what you mentioned about Derrick Henry. They had the ball for forty two plus minutes. I had they no matter how had if they had lost this game in any way. I mean, they're owe into the places going nuts in Tennessee. I mean for what a team that people thought could be an a f C

title game. Uh, you know entry, So get getting back to one and one. Um. I don't know if it changes my feelings about the Seahawks a whole lot, other than the fact that Tyler Lockett is a top five receiver. I mean, he had a hundred and seventy eight yards today, Like every time I looked up, he was racing down the field catching some sort of rope from Russell Wilson.

Pete Carroll's got to find his defense. I mean it's been five years now, So if Russell Wilson got the offensive coordinator he wanted, but he does not right now have have a defense to help support him. And again just underlining what a surprising turn of events it was in the second half the Titans. Their offensive line was completely scrambled in this game. Teller Luan, who of course sent the gotten his feelings on social media after Chandler

Jones embarrassed them in week one. He's warming up in the end zone before kickoff and does something to his knee and aggravates that knee that he had repaired the a c l uh knee, So he misses the game. UH. Roger Staffold, their left guard. He goes down with a shoulder injury. Um comes back, then leaves again in the second half. So the fact that the offensive line was

in complete tatters. To be able to get protection for Tannehill in the second half, UM, and to open up lanes for Derek Henry just enough, because Henry could do so much with so little. UH. Really a credit to the Titans and Ryan Tannehill. I haven't brought him up. UM. He was good in this game, but the best when it counted. He was seven for seven on that final drive and regulation when they got it from thirty twenty

three to a tie game. UH. Six of those seven passes went to running backs, but they moved the ball with efficiency, big win and the Seattle Seahawks motto, and that's a bad one. That's a bad beat. Resilient Titans. Now now some bad kicking like a horror story. Let's get to it from thirty seven yards away to win it for the Vikings. Snap spot. The kick is up and the kick is no good. He missed it? Why

to the rights? He missed it? And the cart does win at thirty four, thirty three, I missed extra point and now a missed field goal at the gun and Arizona's two and old. Hey, Ricky, I'm gonna ask you this in real time to dig it up. I do want to hear the Vikings called. Yeah, sometimes you want to hear that Vikings Joseph con it is good? Are you kidding me? Mr? Paul? Oh my this Mr Ryking hes a gut punch. So I hate to call someone out one of our favorites. But ultimately, like, that's on

you two to call that wrong. That's that's the equivalent to be good that he was willing. That's Paul Allen missing a seven yard Paul Allen goes wide right too. Give me that music back, Ricky from the team that brought you Gary Anderson, Blair Walsh and Dan Bailey. The Minnesota Vikings present their latest masterpiece. Goodreg Joseph Dreams Slayers, I'm miserable. I'm taking somebody, Vikings, come along for the ride.

Joseph missed a thirty seven yard or, as you heard, wide right, a dagger through the heart of the Vikings and their fan base. Thirty three they lode to the Cardinals. Mark Kyler Murray through for four yards and three touchdowns in this game, and Arizona's two and oh and that there's a lot to be excited about there if you're a Cardinals fan. But all I could think about is the Vikings doing it again. Unbelievable, absolutely, And it was Mike Zimmer who said after the game, you know, we're

probably two plays away from being two and oh. And you know we keep mentioning this, but the look on his visage, his face every time these things seem to keep happening to them, Uh, it tells it all. And and you know, the one thing is it's impossible not to watch the Cardinals and go off about Kylum early left and right. And we can talk about that, but the Vikings offense they really set themselves up to win

this game. For much of it, I mean, Dalvin Cook was doing everything that Derrick Henry could not do to the Cardinals last year. On the ground, he was sensational and he played through paint at an ankle injury, was on the ground a number of times, and for all the flat that Kirk Cousins takes, I mean he was sensational out of the gate, eight for nine hundred and twenty two yards, three touchdowns, had a pivotal twenty nine

yard run. No, they could not be stopped. I mean this was the game of the day and what it started to creep up a little bit because Kyler Murray made I would suggest you go watch what he did on one play. There is something about Kyler Murray and it has to me it's almost like Patrick Mahomes, where you can tweet the play, you can try to verbalize it, you can try to write about it, you can try to, you know, stamp it on someone's back as a tattoo if you want, but nothing is gonna work to describe

how fascinating he is to watch. He had one play where he escaped um coverage, extends it as he always does. He's circling around and finds Rondale Moore in a seventy seven yard strike, And at that point, I thought the Cardinals are the most interesting team in the NFC. They're also possibly way better than we thought. Totally explosive. You know, everything that I thought about them in the off season was becoming untrue before my eyes. And Kyler Murray, like,

you know, justin Herbert, he's a young quarterback. He threw a costly pick six. He threw another interception in this game, and it allowed me Minesota hang around when Arizona could have completely taken off. But Minnesota's defense played really well at times to Daniel Hunter had three sacks. So it was one of these games where, you know, back in

the old days, we used to write these things up. Um, I would have had a heart attack attempting to narrate everything that happened down the stretch because it was a back and forth affair. And I mean, my you know, Dan, you say you need to take someone with you because you had a bad day. You I feel like you are being a little aggressive to take the Vikings fans

of all fan bases with you. I mean, they've seen enough they've seen horrors for decades and today is just another chapter in one of the more ugly books to read. Listen ce just because you're no longer amidst the wreckage doesn't mean you could decide who the miserable get to take with us down at the hell. I absolutely can have an opinion on it, though, and I find I

find your actions to be a little bit questionable. The Cardinals, the Cardinals, you know, the they had four seventy four total yard we'll start here, but the Vikings to have a three touchdown day from Kirk Cousins without a turnover, to get a hundred and seventy seven yards on the ground including Dalvin Cook a hundred and thirty one averaging six yards a carry, to intercept Calormary twice including yes, a pick six, and still lose that game. It just

can't happen. It's just and it all comes back and that you hate to just put it greg on the at the feet of the kicker. But when a team works that hard in a in a tough situation on the road to get to that point and the kicker ms is a thirty seven yard or that is the type of loss that can really um kill a team season. It's that type of loss. Absolutely, But I think Zimmer is gonna be kicking himself that his defense is struggling in both of these weeks. You know, I think that

the defense ultimately lost the game against the Bengals. The offensive line wasn't great, and you give up this many point. I know you made some plays on defense in this game, but you give up this many points. You let Kyler Murray stay back there that long. He had two touchdowns where he held the ball five seconds or more. That's almost impossible, they said. In his entire career before today, he had three touchdowns where he held the ball that long.

So I know it's Kyler Murray. It's a unique player to have to go after. But like if Mike Zimmer has a mediocre at a bad defense again, this Vikings team isn't going anywhere because Cousins Cousins has played great through two weeks. I think one of the underrated stories the last week, I thought Cousins played awesome. Uh, the offensive line was terrible, everyone else was terrible, but he played great and he played great again and then they're

a one too. But along with the two picks, Xavier Woods. Xavier Rhodes also popped the ball out of Rondel Moore's hands at the goal line at one point. I mean, yes, you're gonna give up yardage to Kyler Murray. You're gonna give up amazing plays. But they generated turnovers and you know, last week, penalties dog the Vikings, and they didn't have a penalty in the game, you know, deep into it, I mean they were it was a different Vikings team from a week ago, and I mean it does come

to down to these the fates. I mean, these wacky little things that happened because the same kicker made a fifty two yard or earlier in the game. So it's just you know, this isn't a an autumn wind blowing through the stadium. I mean it's it's a completely serene place to kick. And the Vikings have in week three, the Seahawks coming off their own stomach punch loss, so that that's no gimme. And then they got the Browns, and the Browns are a a f C superpower mark,

so you know that's a tough one too. Can we slow down or not? We'll get to that, but I mean they nearly were They nearly lost to the Texans, so I'm not these narratives. You're up there in the penthouse now, Cessler, you can't come down here. I should feel this is the most offensive place I've ever recorded a podcast from. I can promise you from what I'm having to deal with for you know, visually to the

left and right of me. While you guys are down in your quiet little secluded rooms, have a nice time. Let's move on. You know, we have this brand new studio and it's just sitting in darkness right now, like some of the clown suit like floating by me, like you know, with bells and whistles and cups of whipped cream. I mean, this is just, you know, it's too much to Miami. It's being a clown collar goes to motor Singletary,

big hold up the middle, find room. He's at the thirty five touchdown Buffalo a forty six yard touchdown run on the second play from scrimmage. John Murphy would called w g R. Devin Singletary started the score and the Bills never looked back from there. This was too easy. Josh Allen threw two touchdown passes. Zack Moss had two touchdowns as well. Why not? And the Bills knocked out Dolphins quarterback to its unkle By Low early with a rib injury on the way to in the thirty five

zip win over the Dolphins on the road. Doug Boat locked this one up. I didn't think it was gonna be this easy. I don't think anybody thought it was gonna be this easy. And there it is, got on the board. And if you're a Dolphins ven, you're really worried. Rereg You're worried that two is this guy fragile? Can he stay healthy? It's a rib injury. Got carded with it. We'll see how he is. It sounds like it could

be worse. Bruce ribs X ray comeback negative. But then on top of it, you just can't protect Two got drilled twice for sacks on the first series. Second series, he gets smoked again and gets injured. Jake Briskett comes in. It wasn't even better. It wasn't any better for him. So you have protection issues and in general just being non competitive in the spot. It kind of washes away anything positive from the win up in Foxborough last Sunday, Right,

I mean the games they all count. The same in the standing, so that you know they're tired at one and one, and then the Dolphins have a division win. But you have to look, if you're a Dolphins fan, at this goliath that is the Bills, and you have to think in two of our last three games, they have embarrassed us that I think people forget weeks seventeen, Dolphins still had a chance for the playoffs. The Bills had absolutely nothing to play for in that game. Matt

Barkley wound up playing half the game. They put fifty points on them. They beat him by thirty when they had nothing to play for. That is some big time Like I'm the bully in the division. We have this matchup set and whatever Brian Flores cooks up defensively against other quarterbacks, it doesn't work against Josh Allen. He's undefeated against this Dolphins team in the Florist era. And these last two have have to be two of, if not the de two worst losses of it all. It wasn't

even that good in this game. I mean they that it's like whatever. They scored two quick touchdowns and then went pretty quiet on offense for a while there um and I think it just got to a point where the offense for the Dolphins was not doing anything, and eventually the defense caved after a while. There's only so many three and outs and fruitless drides before the other side of the ball is affected by that. Of course,

it's in Miami. It's hot there, it's humid, and you leave a defense on the field long enough, they are going to eventually crack. So all the way around domination for the Bills, and I think on both on two fronts, so so the Dolphins. It watches away Week one. For

the Bills, I think it does the same thing. That was a very disappointing loss to the Steelers uh in Week one, But now you're feeling a lot better about where they are, even if that big play of their element of their offense, or at least the passing offense mark still isn't quite there. Well, you know Stefon dig So I see sixty yards a touchdown. I mean, he

blew up against Miami twice last year. I'm very much with Greg though, because you know you're gonna measure yourself if you're Miami number one, winning your own division and and centering yourself against the other teams inside that division. And Buffalo has you know, knocked him around time after time, and they did a lot this offseason to surround to UH with new talent um. But you know, leading into this game, there are a lot of weird things going

on with Will Fuller. We're not sure what's happening there. He didn't play, and your offensive line seems to be a huge issue. They gave up six sacks. I mean two is getting hit hard, punished that it doesn't matter what weapons are around you, if that kind of chaos is being created. And you know, Buffalo, I think their defense is better than it was last year, but I think it was probably an aberration to They're not going to do that every week, and Has says Miami's line

they did it last week. That's two games. Now, if you add up the yardage that they've given up in those two games, like that's less than but that's also Pittsburgh's offense, which good defenses strangle bad offenses, and they've basically done that back to back weeks. I think that's very encouraging if you're a Bills fan that they've allowed

less than five yards combined through two games. I mean, they'll easily be the number one defense in terms of yards allowed after this week, and that that's what you want to see. That you don't need to get points if you're the Bills. And we'll find out what is going on with two from a health standpoint. But with what we do know is now the Dolphins one on one, get the Raiders on the road next week, and we know and we're gonna talk about the Raiders in a

little bit. Um are hardly a push over themselves right now. Uh So, total blowout. We'll see how both these teams um come out of this game. But definitely a capital s statement. Greggy by the Bills, more by the more by the Dolphins. Please, what statement did they make that it's not gonna make anyone in Florida happy? Yeah, they authored a question a question mark. All right, let's move on. Nailed it. The delay, run, jump the middle, popses off.

I had carry's out of another tackle across the fIF title's another head driving inside the fire, was finding his way to the water, pushing his way to the end zone, pissing in touchdown. Patriots real loveless Damien Harris, Bob Soci

was Zolak hollering in the background. Patriots Radio Network. Yes, that was Damien Harris, the man who cost the Patriots a game against the Dolbins in Week one, breaking by my account, eight tackles on his way to the end zone against the Jets, twenty six yard touchdown run essentially the clincher in New England's six and over the Jets at the Meadow ends. And yes, Bill Belichick unleashed his

Bookie QB. Voody forcing my boy, the boy that you'll lead us well nowhere today Zack Wilson into four interceptions, no touchdowns and the Jets are off to an O and to start for the three consecutive season. Mm hmm, I saw you know at one point he had four interceptions and four completions. Like, I guess compare this game. I'm curious Dan to the scene Ghosts game in in some of the early Donald games. Right, A lot of

people are drawing that comparison. And with Donald and the Monday Night Seeing Ghost game, that was obviously a disaster. It was a different type of disaster though, because with Donald in that game, it was clear that Belichick had cooked up a game plan that had flummixed the young quarterback. At the time he was confused. That's why he said I'm seeing ghosts. He was expect think something and getting another thing. And I'm sure there were moments in this

game for Zach Wilson where the same thing happened. But this was a lot of the mistakes you saw from Wilson, especially early, didn't seem like a confused quarterback. It seemed like a quarterback who hasn't quite learned yet what he can and cannot get away with at this level in the NFL. There were interceptions where you had someone flash open underneath and he would keep his eyes downfield and try to fit one downfield and get getting burned by deflections and uh ball being a little too high and

then ending up an interception. Because the Patriots are a opportunistic defense, and if you try to make those type of plays, if you're not completely on your game, you're gonna get burned. So I thought, it doesn't mean that I feel any better than I did after the Ghosts game for Donald, but I I saw a different type

of issue for a Jet quarterback. And the frustrating thing here is these two teams were basically even um to the only thing that wasn't even was the quarterback for the Green team wasn't there and wasn't competitive in the game. And Zach Wilson is going to hopefully learn from this and grow from this and get better as opposed to regress and develop some type of issues off a bad game like this. But I thought the Jets were much better in past protection. They actually ran the ball well.

The defense, especially given all the picks, really did a nice job holding the Patriots down. Mac Jones didn't really have too many splash plays at all in this game. It was a lot of a lot of checkdowns, um, but ultimately a good team like the Patriots. And I don't think the Patriots are great, but I think they're a good team. Are going to eventually take control of a game when the other quarterback is doing things like Zack Wilson was doing. And that's what New England did.

I mean, I see that the Jets had nine of twelve drives go for under forty yards, so they couldn't get anything going. I mean, I'm a little surprised, mostly just because you know, and I you're learning a lot of new things. But this was meant to be a Shanahan offense, which is so quarterback friendly and you're saying the protection was better. So last week, what I thought I saw from Zach Wilson was that he overcame punishment and early mistakes to shine to show you why they

drafted him. I mean, even within that ugly game itself from a team just totally absent of that today. Is he not seeing the field? It was just a bad day. It was. It was, and when you watch you'll see it there was. He was just trying to do too much and as the mistakes piled up, um and perhaps it's a credit to him because we know that he has all the armed talent in the world, and he's a guy that's known for being able to extend plays

and create splash plays. It got to the point by you know, the second quarter of the third court where it felt like he was trying to come up with like twenty point plays to get the team back in the game. And I think there's coaching involved there too, and you need, whether it's Robert Sala or Michael Fleur or just his teammates, there's gotta be a way to say, hey man, you gotta comment down here, um, you know,

get things back under control. I even thought at a certain point, maybe it's a good idea to get him out of the game, um in the way that the Brian Flores handled to last year, because I don't think there was going anywhere positive, but they were looking for something to take out of the end of the game.

It just never happened. I mean, the Jets out game Patriots by seven yards, But isn't like the game you're kind of describing almost the description of Mac Jones versus Zack Wilson coming into the league, Like, yeah, Zach Wilson's got a much higher ceiling. Almost every team would have

taken Zack Wilson ahead. I'm sure they still would and you were you know you're saying during this game, and I can't disagree from what I've seen, Like Mac Jones has a like a mid career Alex Smith vibe to him already, and and maybe that's not going to be thrilling, but but this was a day where like all he had to do was not turn the ball over and

that like that ultimately outplays Zack Wilson. And two weeks in with the Patriots, to me, it my feeling entering the season was I felt like they could be a nine or ten win team, a wild card type team. And if this is who Mac Jones is now, think they're in very good hands because they're gonna play maybe not the most exciting brand of football, but it will be ball control. He'll he will make occasional plays. He had a couple of really nice throws in this game.

And then because of that defense, which I think is going to continue to evolve and grow and get better. Um, I think they're gonna win a lot of games. So I still see Buffalo is the favorite in this division, but I think there's a pecking order developing now after two weeks where it's Buffalo, the Pats of frisky, The Dolphins have big question marks now and the Jets. It's gonna be a very long season and you just hope

that this isn't going to snowball for Zach Wilson. But obviously the first Jets home game in you know, two years, fans fill up that building and it's just hyper disappointing because you just want you knew it was possible because that's what Belichick does. I talked about it on the Thursday preview show when the Patriots Twitter account put out that video of Belichick praising Zach Wilson's talent. You knew he was cooking up something evil and and I don't

even know if he did. To be honest with you, it wasn't something where I thought that the Pats were brilliantly schemed up something here. I think Wilson just had a really bad Hey, welcome to the NFL type game. And I hope he shakes it off. Nick Folk revenge Game, by the way, it became, you know, set the all time Patriots record for consecutive kicks move aside out of minitary move aside, Gaskowski, it's the Nick Folk Revenge Game

getting in the record. I don't know he's They don't even try to attempt anything over forty four yards, so that's part of the reason he has the streak. But you gotta, you know, and he's a nice match for this Patriots team too. All right, let's move on. They need inches, inches to win the game. Jimmy, he's gonna pat Max, but then come forward and pick up a first down. The forty Niners will win the game, and they will go to to and Oh Gregg popular with the golf for KG Oh, Jimmy, g hew, you still

in there. You got the kid Trey Lands waiting for his term, but the Niners keep winning, we'll see anyway. So Jimmy g gets a sneak to clinch it and for the second trade week, defense gotta stop it needed late in the game, uh in a seventeen eleven win over the Eagles. Greg the Niners have showed us through two weeks that I guess either side of the ball is capable of carrying the day, and that's a good trade to have, it is. I didn't know what to

take away from this game. Sometimes like two teams play and just one has to win and you don't have to have some like gigantic takeaway. Like my biggest one was you know that forty Niners are way better with Nick Bosa, Like that was my biggest one. He had two sacks in this game. I thought he made a huge impact in Week one. He made a huge impact in this game. They felt like two very very evenly matched teams, and the Eagles missed so many opportunities to take a big lead in the first half and it

came back to bite them. They lead at one point in yardage two d four to sixty four. The forty Niners, for the first time in Kyle Shanahan's tenure, did not have a first down in the first quarter, and it wasn't because the Eagles had the ball the whole time. They had three drives, three and out, three and out, three and out. The Eagles get inside the ten at one on one drive which ended with a failed attempt at a filly special with Greg Ward throwing uh throwing

a pass a very fully special looking like play. They had six plays inside the four. They had first and goal at the one, and I guess that's my other second takeaway. Okay, number one, Nick bos a good number two. Someone's gotta win Number three. I even got three. The Eagles let me down in terms of the probably yardage and their dynamic running game. I thought their short yardage and dynamic running game was like gonna be really tough

to prepare for. And that was what let them down is they had many opportunities in short yardage where they couldn't keep um drives going, including that time on the goal line, and that ended up being the game. It does feel like you're starting to learn more, obviously, with each new week. Where the Eagles last week played the Falcons defense and we saw the Falcons defense today mostly collapse again, and so you're gonna get it's a different version of Jalen Hurts and the passing game and him

on the ground. But I look at you like the Niners, they are secretly very banged up. Um Trace Sermon left with a concussion. The Eagles also lost Brandon Graham with wasn't an achilles? I mean some of these I feel like every game today seemed to have some sort of laundry list of carnage. The Eagles had a terrible day because they lost two of their best players. I mean Graham for the season. You know, he's so big on

that defensive line. And then Brandon Brooks, they're great all Pro guard left pretty early in this game and never came back, and so they definitely had a rough day. Kind of a bummer this game, right, I mean I didn't get a chance to see yet, but a seventeen eleven final. You thought these were two, you know, two teams coming off kind of exciting Week one games. Greg, this was not what you were expecting. I'm sure. No.

Josh Norman started at cornerback. I guess you gotta get of the forty Niners credit for finding a way to get a tough victory in a game where the Eagles looked very good upfront, especially on the defensive line again, like that's going to keep them in games and and pretty much their offensive line to at least protecting. But you start Josh Norman against across from Lance Lenore, that's their fourth and fifth cornerback starting. You're down a couple

of starters there. Vrett's gone for the season. Uh, you don't get anything going. Jimmy g had a C minus game I think in the first half. Um, but that's the thing about Kyle Shanahan, like he gave him answers in the second half. It also was like a little flukey like Hurts had a a ninety yard play where they don't quite get the touchdown on a beautiful throw.

He had another what looked like a long touchdown where Jalen Reagor stepped out of bounds and so it was overturned upon review because he was like an inch out of bounds. So it was just like those little margins here do you think? And it's early, but the Niners are two. No, that's the best you could possibly be

at this stage of the game. But do you think there's a scenario where Kyle Shanahan watches this film and starts thinking about the quarterback position even if they are winning, or do you think as long as they win, Jimmy G is gonna keep rolling as a starter. I think if the running game continues to struggle, and it it basically did today. You know, Mitchell only had forty two yards, I wonder if he wants to play Lance more to really jump start the running game. They didn't need it

today because their defense played so well. But I felt like Jimmy G was like a bad third quarter away from seeing Tray Lance, and then he played a perfect third quarter and they made the place. Wouldn't matter. I mean, the only thing is they've got green Bay next, and

we don't know that. You know that not the worst place to deal with on a defense, but Seattle after that, then the Cardinals, then the by So the question is like, if Tray Lance, you know it's he can be sprinkled in and be very effective, is he ready to run the offense? You know, they didn't in for a play today. No, not even I think that's Lane to some degree, especially

in the game that this was this type. I think so the some of the forty Niners reporters made the case like this was not the game for Trey Lands because ultimately Philly was felt like they were winning up front. You had to get the ball out quickly and you had to like make quick decisions with the ball. And that's fine, but Jimmy G's gotta play a little better

than he did from this game. You know. There also goes another like fun theory we all had entering the season that Kyle Shanahan was going to be doing cartwheels,

doing all this wild stuff with Trey Lance. Well, he did throw a touchdown a week one, but otherwise it's been pretty much Jimmy G Show, uh so far, but one one one theory on that what would be better than two because it's such a week by week league in terms of our reaction that we now get off this tray Lance bus and then next week they played

the Packers and he totally unleashes them. I mean it's like, right, put everyone into a nap and then then pour a big bucket of cold water on like a two people. But I mean I think it hurts. Hurts As kind of an example of what maybe a Trey Lance offense might look like it was very boom or bust. There's not a lot of chain move throws. There's a couple of big time throws. You you have the running from hurt um. But it felt very like erratic and I don't know if that's what Kyle see speaking a big

bucket of cold water Ricky Hollywood. You know, we talked about it mark the dense fog when we're trying to discern dense means. In this situation between Rickey and Greg, and Greg tried to get her kicked out of the PIS competition. Ricky had a chance to make a statement herself, but she locked up the Eagles America. Yeah. No, it was like kind of like Greg said, like I've just even watching this game. It was just like, so, you know, I wanted to hang some onions and I thought the

Eagles might might do it. But I was wrong. I had them to win too. They were my favorite upset pick of the week. They hurt me. They hurt me again. I feel like in general, when you try to hang onions, Ricky, it's not gonna be um effective. Just from anatomical and what was that radio station last week? Dan just went there with the anatomy. We were thinking it. He went there. All right, let's there's another team. I love you too, buddy another here's two more teams that we're looking to

keep their season undefeated through two weeks. Only one team gets to do it, though, Donald gives to McCaffrey on the counter, McCaffrey to the Tim, McCaffrey to the Hive, and McCaffrey insists on the end zone touchdown Carolina, he was not going to give up until he got there and McCaffrey's first touchdown of the season. Nick mixing with the called Panthers Radio network, did they say he insists he gets in the end zone. That's a good way to put it, because that is what CMC does. And

he's at it again. The superstar running back went over well over one yards for the second straight week from scrimmage, adding a touchdown this week in seven win over the Saints.

Speaking Week one, narratives going up in Flames, who looked nothing like the team, the pants and the packers in Jacksonville last week, mark Panthers looking certifiably frisky after back to back home winks they do and I tend to think it's legitimate, um because I think a lot of it has to do with the growth of their defense, which was incredibly disruptive today and really put it to the Saints. They had six first downs in the entire game New Orleans a hundred and twenty eight yards total

and three yards per play. They also, I mean, did you just say they had a dred and twenty eight yards total. They were six first That's impossible. It was the It was the lowest since for the Saints. This is the same Saints team that had thirty eight and five touchdowns from James last week. Well, I think I think number one though, I do think that if you're the Saints, you went through a terrible week. You had no Marshawn Lattimore on defense, no Marcus Davenport, uh C

G J, Chauncey Gardner, Johnson was not in there. I mean they were part of it was Carolina's offense. They just looked today a lina. Joe Brady is their offensive coordinator, Phil snow on defense, very well coached. We've talked about

that coming into this. Their pass rush for the second week in a row caused total havoc for Jamis Winston Jamis Winston got into the scenario which we've sort of wondered what he would be in this where he threw a couple of floaters up ill advised picked off and we didn't get the Jamis Winston from a week ago who you know, not a lot of yards but was efficient and scoring touchdowns and you know, seeing the field, we thought differently. Um, Alvin Kamara had five yards rushing

in this game. Carolina went in with a plan and completely had their way with it with the Saints. And so maybe the Saints are an up and down team or or their matchup based, um, but they don't match up well with Carolina. And I'll tell you one thing. Sam Donald also looked really good in this game. This might have been saying I think this was Sam Donald's the best game of his career. Um. He fits so

well with the weapons in this offense. And you know, of course getting CMC back, who I think just breaks the will of opponents, because they were a number of times in this game where you know New Orleans could have maybe come back in and it was always McCaffrey dropping a bomb on the on the opposition and just creating, you know, converting one more first down, Donald was very clean. He had one lost fumble. I believe it was Yeah, I had a fumble at one one stage. That was

really the only mistake. Um they had a blocked field goal. They got into a little bit of a trap Carolina where you thought New Orleans, if they're gonna have any life, would come back in. But they had no life, They had no answer. And I think this is one where Sean Payton, as great of a coach as he is, just did not have the resources to deal with Carolina with what Carolina brought. And it is not lost on me. Twitter,

and I'm sure you know you think you're clever. It is not lost on me that Sam Donald has been good through two weeks while the Jets are oh and two in the rookie just threw four picks. I obviously am watching this, but I also, if you want to go back on Twitter and check the last three or four years, I always thought Sam Donald could play. I I think I had like ten different tweets where I said Sam Donald is not answer for the Jets. I think if you put Sam Donald in a positive situation,

the Jets didn't have a Sam Donald problem. The Jets had a Jets problem, and they still do and that's why Zack Wilson, in part struggled so much. Today Donald has a shot here now. One thing I do want to see because I know we're often running with Sam Donald is great now as a narrative in general, UM

League is same thing with Jamis Winston. I do want to see Sam Donald when things aren't all going their way, when they're not out front early, because I did see a lot of that last year when he would press like Jamis Winston has been known to do. And the turnover start coming. So I don't think we're in the clear yet, but it is a very promising start. And as much as it annoys me that my rookie quarterback failed, I am legitimately happy for Donald because he deserves the

second shot. Things. I mean they put the bang thing on him. I mean yards three three that it's just preposterous. I mean, Saints fans who we're waiting to kind of at the feeling of what the post Drew Brees era, this is it. When you fall down, sometimes you know you're not gonna be coming back that easily necessarily right now, this team has been through a lot. I don't think it has been given that much attention that they've been

on the road for four weeks. Now, they're living in hotel rooms, their families, their houses, everything like that, Like their lives have been shaken up. Their roster is decimated by injuries right now. I didn't even know CD Deuce was out of this game, so they were. They were out there top two corners. You know, their best pass rush are a lot going on um on the roster. You do wonder if that's like a cumulative effect. And oh, by the way, you're going up against his Panthers defense,

who looks freaking legit. We know Matt Rule is a good offensive coach and that he's gonna create yards. He did it with Teddy Bridgewater. They just didn't finish drives with Teddy, but they moved the ball up and down the field. We know. I'm not surprised about the offense. It's the defense that looks in year two like it is really coming together. And I think with Shaq Thompson

chain to number seven, something happened. He turned from like a borderline pro bowler, very good player, but then you put the seven on He's ray Lewis, Ray Nitschkey Brian or locker Bobby Wagner all roll up into one. Shack Thompson suddenly like the best player in the league. Yeah, I mean it's back to back performances were incredible. Brian Burns is legit. I mean, you know the way they went about this. They drafted all defense a year ago, and you know, you think maybe two or three of

those hit and they're fitting together really well. Again, I think Phil snow Um had a great plan coming into this. And they asked Brian Burns, Ricky has this sound? Is this a fluke? Or is this maybe a playoff team? Let's hear what he had to say. Yeah, facts, yes, let's again. Let's hear that again. Brian, it's such a long clip. You think this is a playoff? How about the look at the schedule for the Panthers. By the way, they got the Jets in week one at home. They

got the Saints with all their issues at home. In week two, they go to Houston game. You gotta give them their props there. They go to Houston next week for the Texans. Then they're at the Cowboys, home for the Eagles, home for Vikings at Giants at Falcolm's. That's their first half, they have a chance to to get out of the first half of five or six wins, especially if they keep playing like this well, and then you find out that, you know, potentially half the NFC

South is fraudulent and that booster win total. And you know, I picked him as a wild card team not just because I like that rule, but because you know, I honestly think that if you're going to be a successful organization, you need to make that jump in three years two was pushing it a little bit, but there was a lot to like about what was going on on offense already. And they're just really well organized. And I think that they caught they almost caught more teams by surprise a

year ago. Now they're doing it for real. And arrow up if you're a Carolina Panthers fan. Speaking of arrow up, Denver Bronco got the Jacksonville Jaguars in week Let's check in on that quick throw right side pass. Talk to the zo touchdown procols. Did you see, actually on the subject of pep pounding that the Panthers and their infinite wisdom try to quietly discontinue that from their game presentation. Keep pounding and the fans went nuts. They're like, where's

keep pounding. You don't get like, we're just trying to keep pounding. Let us keep pounding. And I don't even know. I don't know for sure, but I assume pounds and returned. It's back. It could only mean good things. I mean, it's not a good idea to go against what, you know, a vast majority of your fan base feels some sort of identity towards some maybe Sam Mills thing it was. It was. It's kind of like I think the Red Sox had the idea, let's let's kill Sweet Caroline after

seven years. It's basically like the most embarrassing thing since us being like the last team to sign like a black player in the MLB. But it's like, no, the fans, they had to bring back Sweet Caroline. That's what it's like. Teddy Bridgewater through two touchdown passes, one of them to tight end no offense. You heard that, and the Broncos rolled to win over the Jaguars. How about this for a stat, Denver's two and oh for the seventh time in nine years. Okay, I don't know if that just

surprised me. Greg. The Broncos also got a breakout game from Courtland Sutton in this one. So, uh, you know, cushy schedule or no arrow up for the Denver Broncos major arrow up. I mean the Broncos. They are the team of th h a l I mean I'd beat two and oh and the Locks if I just took the Broncos each week, I'm a I'm a loser. Never won a game in September before this, before this season,

and this is all you can do. You can't talk about the opponents of like, Okay, you got lucky, you were on the road and you absolutely destroyed two other two teams. Like the scores in both of these Broncos games, I don't think has been as indicative of how one sided uh these two games. Or they gave up a first drive touchdown to Trevor Lawrence who made three or four great throws on that drive and the Jaguars didn't

do anything else the rest of the game. Teddy was better I think this week even than a year ago. Thirty four throws for three. You lose Jerry Judy and Courtland Sutton is showing up like this looks like a good NFL team, and it's almost like We're already taking that for granted, but this has been a loser of a franchise for a little while now, and they already

look absolutely legit. I want to see him against better competition, but stomping down on some Jaguars, especially defensively, like that is showing me that this defense I think is going to be there week after week. I mean, I gotta ask you because I see that, uh you. Trevor Lawrence was ten of twenty three on passed attempts of ten plus eight yards. Marve Jones leads with fifty five yards. Your next leading receiver is a tight end, James O'Shaughnessy

with twenty four. So I mean it's a second week in a row. We're outside of a couple of throws that you mentioned from Lawrence. Like the offense feels like a nonstarter. Do you see an identity in this Urban Meyer offense? No, he looks lost. Trevor Lawrence looks lost. I mean he got a tough draw these first two weeks.

I know people don't think the Texans are a tough job, but what Lovey Smith just was like backing off that the books out right now, And I mean, Fanji was gonna show you a lot before the snap, changed it up after the snap. They did not need to pressure Trevor Lawrence to scramble his brain. Um it was. It was a tough situation. But also two of the interceptions he had were incredible plays. Kareem Jackson, like I thought of West because West loves scream. Jackson just sprinting across

the field out of nowhere. Those are plays not being made in the SEC. And then Patrick Certan, you know, they're their top ten pick, made an unbelievable jumping interception on on the sideline. So this this Broncos secondary, I think is there with the best in the league. Denver's defense absolutely feels legit. And after they completely confused Trevor Lawrence,

they get Zack Wilson and the Jets next week. So you figure that will not be easy, uh for Wilson after Lawrence, the number one overall pick, struggled in this game. And you know, circling back to Courtland Sutton, you know, he has such great tools and he's a guy that everybody thinks very highly of, and he he just came up on the year anniversary of of the knee injury that cost him all of last year for the most part. So for him now to have nine for one nine uh,

including I get brilliant. I saw the fifty five yard or that started the second half. Um. It comes at a perfect time because we talked about it on the preview show and on the network show that when Jerry Judy goes down, they're like, oh, how is Teddy gonna get things going well if Sutton is now back? And certainly this effort shows you that he just might be. That is a huge lift of this offense. It's huge.

I mean he doesn't look as explosive, but I think he's just such a good route runner and technically um proficient and smart and Teddy seems to have a great connection with these guys fans making play. I mean, Teddy has bawled out these two games. He has he has exceeded even my expectations. Is this is like a tough bar too for him to stay this good all season. I don't expect it, um, but he has played like near perfect football for Teddy. I mean, you've been thankfully, um,

not overly vocal. We were in our our office for the first time for on on Sunday, you know, in eons and you didn't hear Greg crowing about that, which was which I appreciate. I mean he also on defense. Von Miller Bradley Chubb played their first game together since I think the fourth game of the season. I mean they planned for the week at a week and that Chubb cannot stay in that lineup. Yeah, it's a re aggravated that ankle injury in the second quarter and looked

pretty upset as he came off the field. So you wonder if that kind of restarts his claw and maybe even then some one getting back on the field. We shall see, So that would be the only I guess, big um a bit of negative news for the Broncos. But otherwise Greg Arrow up for the team of text team falls look team of the team of t h A. I don't know, it doesn't really work. Let's head to the dog Pound, makefield takes it, yips it chop ryns twenty five plenty tick game ten five. He then touch

do hit chub He didn't chub you? Oh ah? Did he say he didn't chub you? I don't I'm not sure what how to translate it about what was happening in this game and in the booth between Jim Donovan and Doug Deacon and the Browns radio network. Yes, Nick Chubb twenty six yards to the house and Baker Mayfield, through his first touchdown past the season, also ran for one, leading the Browns to a thirty over. The Texans got

another fan homecoming game, this time in Cleveland. Mark A strong showing by Tyrod Taylor was producing some upset vibes until Taylor exited the game of the handstring injury and then it was over. Yeah. I think it was another reminder. I mean, with Tyrod Taylor in there, this Texans team is not as advertised. They are friskier. Um. Their veteran Leyden and Tyrod Taylor was ten for eleven and moving

the ball up and down on Cleveland's defense. Um. By the way, Cleveland's secondary, I know that it's a bunch of new faces. And that was another UM heavily dipped in milk and cream narrative that we talked about five d and twenty five times. UM. You know, between February and September, they didn't look a whole lot different to me than last year. They gave up one big play after the next. Davis Mills came in and after initially being you know, really jolted around, Um, he found his

form too. And so I think that's a concern for Cleveland because this is a game that you think you'd want to control from wire to wire. It was much closer than that where Cleveland, um I found themselves and I think it's you know, reassuring because it's who they are. They just started to run the ball NonStop down the stretch and the combination of Kareem Hunt, Nick Chubb and catching the ball as well to Beatrick felt in there.

I think steel of a rookie out of U c l A who has a little bit of Eric Metcalf in him, a little bit of some other athletes that are frisky. Um started. You know they wait, they didn't do a whole lot with him last week. He today was a big impact. He it was like a thirty three yard rip up the middle touchdown run that helped them a lot. Um, But it came down to just being who they were, and they and they stopped being cute. Baker Mayfield had a tough interception, but he finished the

game again. You know, statistically he was nineteen for twenty one. He was real clean um. He made some nice throws, but they lost Jarvis Landry to a knee or knee injury early. We know that Odell Beckham was not in there, so it was you know, your third, fourth, and fifth guys out there and your tight ends making plays and so I think that limited them a little bit. But there's still there was no excuse to lose this game. They pulled it out. Um. You know, I'll take win

ugly over you know, twenty five years of losing ugly. Um. But it wasn't one where you walk into your week. If you're the Cleveland Browns thinking we are what everyone says we are, there's a lot of work to Mayfield went ten for ten after that first half interception. He heard his shoulder trying to make a tackle on the pick and left shoulder shoulder non throwing and he had

to pop the shoulder back in the socket. So obviously, you know he's a tough guy and hopefully that's not something that becomes a troublesome issue for him as the season goes along. Miles Garrett had this to same Marky, he's like breath far of two point oh less picks, though referring to his top. I will say this about Mayfield. There's I can think of four or five times where you can tell that he was physically damaged and he refused to come out. I mean even going to the

locker room today. It was like point eight seconds later that he was running back out. So I think the toughness is one of his traits. Yeah, I don't know about the Brett five thing. Well, I know everyone's going to have an issue with that, but I mean, I'm just saying all parts of Brett Farve he is. He seems very without the interceptions. Well, I mean, I think he would make Tom Brady look like Patrick Mahomes John Beck. I feel like Baker follows instructions now very well, like

they are a highly managed offense. He's got a great offensive coach. He's in a great situation, and that's good. That's what you want out of like a young quarterback. And I've been impressed, Like Mark emotionally hasn't really shown many scars here of the you know, somewhat embarrassing um failure to cover twelve points that that happened here. I mean, you get Davis Mills in the game and you can't you can't cover twelve points Cleveland Browns and stuff. He's

on your radar. I mean, I am, you know, attempting to cover two games at the same time. I've got sound from both games in my ear. I can barely figure out what my name is. So to get out of here with a win. I don't care about the spread. I don't just you just feel like Mills gets in there, You're gonna you're gonna win that. You know you're gonna get well. Mills now plays on Thursday night against the Carolina Panthers, Like that's where it's headed. Which is I mean,

that's gonna be that could be problematic. So wow, things are really set up well for the Panthers. They get Davis Mills now too. I see where you're going with this. I'm just they haven't really played anyone. You know, they're a soft two enough. I see them as they they're just dominated a team today. But that is a very good set up for them, obviously. Um all right, Browns by the Texans on Week three of TNF. Anyways, I mean that that schedule makers come back to us, please,

Jarvis Landry. I believe it's an MCL issue. We'll see if it costs some time. Um it ended a streak of having at least two receptions in a hundred and eleven straight games. Leaving this game early, and you just wonder if there's anything to kind of key in on in the week leading up to Week three for the Browns, O'Dell's somewhat mysterious situation now with his health. If Jarvis Landry is unavailable, that puts a little bit more pressured for O'Dell to get back on the field. And if

he's not healthy, he's not healthy. But we'll see what happens with that saga over the next few days. Uh, let us move on Eastern. Had the shotguns snap, we'll protect Lets it go right side? If packed, Jayleen Ramsey got the right sideline, secures the week to win four l A O give it. In my movies, has my buddy JB Long and the Dying Days of Summer. I was with Keisha and the boys and Emily and then JB and his beautiful family, and we watched Yadi by Nature Tribute Fan all things ros. I was there. I

was also there. If you were there, you weren't sitting with us, I was no. I was spy. You have a little fence area that if you pull up across the you know you go down one alleyway. Yes, you can spy on your home, and I often just spy on your home in your backyard. So I witnessed the whole thing. A lots of lots of uncover there and break down. But let's focus on the game first. Yes, J. B. Long, Yes B N l A. Mett Stafford led the Rams

on too late scoring drives. Matt Gay made a tie breaking thirty eight yard field goal with about two and a half minutes to play, and Jalen Ramsey sealed the game with that late interception. Three Rams over the Colts, who have opened their season with back to back losses at Lucas Oil Stadium. Even worse, Greg Indy finished the game without wins. Carson Wentz, that is, who exited with an ankle injury, and he looked pretty upset on the sideline. I just watched Carson Wentz and I think, why is

everything so hard? Like every play feels like a replay of every Eagles play over the last few years. And he made some big plays in this game. These two teams looked very even if you took the uniforms off you would say like this is like, these are two good teams that Colts failed twice in first and goal situations, and that kind of felt like the difference in the first half blowing uh two chances, one of which was on an ugly Carson Wentz shovel pass to know, you know,

to the rams that made no sense whatsoever. But whereas Matthew Stafford feels like he's thrown to open receivers for the most part, Wentz invites pressure and he made some plays, but it was just very frantic and I'm not saying like he got himself hurt, but this the combination of how this offense, which is very condensed, is run, and the way Wentz plays, it just seems like a bad recipe. He got hit a lot in this game, and so it almost felt like him leaving the game was a

matter of time. It's that's such a great way. That's a great word to describe Carson wins in these last couple of years. Frantic and he never just seems kind of under control, and everything seems like just like this mad dash, mad scramble to turn a bad play into a good one, and it just doesn't always work out. So that's a tough situation for the Colts. And you know eleven QB hits on him too, that's too many hits, of course, and Jacob Easton's the backup, so you're not

gonna get any miracles, most likely behind Wentz. And it's only going to ample amplify the speculation if Wentz mrs time here that Nick Foles should be in this building, because what is Nick Foles doing in the league if he's not backing up Carson Wentz at this point, Let's let's be honest. And for the second straight week, uh, the Colts aren't able to get the running game going here. Greg. You got Jonathan Taylor who was like a superstar down

the stretch last year. You thought he would build on that, but fifteen for fifty one here with a long of thirteen. Yeah, partly I think game script. You know, they fell behind and they're they're trying to catch up a little bit as part of it, but they're just haven't been effective. Like it's like we talked about coming into this game that the offensive line doesn't feel like a difference maker, and I think their defense was mostly game uh here, Like I maybe I misspoke by saying things are easy

for Stafford because I'm imagining like the cup touchdown. But the Colts got their hands on a lot of Matthew Stafford passes. They had six pass defense, they had an interception. It probably could have been two or three interceptions of Matthew Stafford uh in this game, which would have made it look a little a little different. That's concerning. But I will say Cup last week, Cooper Cup of seven catches a hundred yards of touchdown today nine for one,

sixty three and two touchdowns. I mean you have to the chemistry and the Matthew Stafford signing was huge for him. And I do hear a sound in the distance, Ricky, would you please um amplify the sound that I hear? M yeah, you really reeled me in there. I thought there was a real production element about to body rock the show. But that's good. You got the lock too, so um, Greg, you came into the season really confident, but here you are, oh and two confident are not

confident ahead it's all in act. And my winds were almost entirely based on randomness and luck and and and now it's going against me. That doesn't sound like Sanna's I was attempting to dance to the bongo dance that you um let us off with. I guess there was. I don't know it was a tour go into the building. A man and woman not I don't think they're from our company, just standing a foot from me's looking at me in this glass off thing like an animal like.

It's just there's I don't I don't quite get what's happening. I think, yeah, we'll have to have some conversations with the powers that be to make sure this never happens again. But we are we are soldiering on rams two and oh holt oh and two. What are the Colts have next week? What have we got here for Indy? Because they're on it? I mean that division. We'll see what's going on in the South tightens with that big one. They are in Nashville next week early game. That would

be helpful. Put it that way. Um, all right, let's move on. It's shook time car takes a snap from the gun. I'm fake gonna go deep down the middle of got it works webs Shi, Jeff put baby. Henry Ruggs goes to dis notes. Isn't it nice that Brent Musburger there for a compass media Raiders radio network. That's amountful. Let's just call it cmr r N. Even that's amountable.

Man that hurts. So Um has this like great third act to his career, now live in the life, live in the Rosenthal Dream in Vegas, and gets the call games for this fund Raiders team. Derek Carr through for two yards and two scores, including that the very pretty sixty one yard strike to Henry Ruggs midway through the fourth, and the Raiders topple the Pittsburgh Steelers to seventeen. Now we welcome in the pipe who will talk about quasi badass Derek Carr, who spreaded an ace Steelers d for

two sixty three in the second half. I wrote in the recap today, everybody who hates on Derek Carr, which you know, that line is pretty long and it's grown over the years, they all must now line up for their reckoning because he has had an incredible two first games to this season and this one, you know, last week was kind of you could call it flukey. It

was a wacky game even to begin with. This game felt more like a bit of a prove it game for Derek Carr and the fact that they were up by two points on the road in Pittsburgh and very easily could have folded. And what does he do. He drops back, stands one over the middle deep to Henry Ruggs and sends Brent Mussburger into a tizzy in the booth and ends up winning them the game. So, um,

you know that. I think that there's still some to be desired from the Raiders so far, but the receiving corps coming together, and Derek Carr is the one, you know, uh calling me, you know, making all the moves, calling all the shots and delivering the football accurately to a variety of different pass catchers, and that ends up being the difference. Yeah, it was. It was a day of quarterback grit across the league, and especially with Derek Carr

who got rolled up on from behind. I think it might have been Robert Spilein and rolled up on him from behind. It looked kind of bad, at least at first it looked like it could be serious. He was on the ground for a while, ends up coming right back into the game, tapes his ankle up, sprints out to the field to test out his foot and uh, and you can't even tell he was hurt the rest

of the game. I would say this if someone told you a month ago, you know it's let you make any proposition you'd like, but I'm going to tell you that Derek Carr will beat the Ravens and the Steelers out of the gate. Um. I would ad slutely gone a hard no on that, So respect where it's due. I mean, I want to see him do it over the course of a year. He's in this offense for like the fourth year in a row, he should be growing. Um.

But no doubt about it. I mean I would flip it around and ask you about Big Ben because it looked like it was another up and down adventure for him on this Sunday. Yeah. And two things I always come away or have come away from watching the event so far this year. One, we know he's old and he can't move like he used to. And the reason that that's important is because number Two, that offensive line

has not jailed yet. You know, you've got multiple new guys, you got a rookie playing center, and they're struggling to protect him or at least consistently, and you come up against the Raiders team that in Week one had a pressure percentage over and you know, cause all kinds of problems to the Ravens. Now they get the feast on Big Ben and while he's hard to bring down, he's not that difficult to pressure anymore. And and it caused you know, it forced him into throwing an interception this week.

He actually had a similar situation last week against Buffalo that was called it was overturned by a penalty, but this time he didn't get the break of the penalty and resulted in an interception and they fraz to him. Now, statistically he doesn't look terrible and he still moved the ball. But what they lack is is a consistent run game because of that offensive line. Again, and it kind of puts them in a position they were in last year where he's forced to throw it over forty times a

game and even in a one score game. Um, you know, they ultimately couldn't, you know, use that to try to come back. So there is some concern. Offensively, their defense is strong, but because that offensive line is still not a very solid group, I think it's gonna take some time. But you just would rather when when you're imbalanced you want the great offense, you know, you lose t J. Watt in this game. So that's a concern. They've played

two games. It's early, but they scored what sixteen points last week on offense, right because they had the punt return, and he scored seventeen this week. You know that that says at all. If you do that throughout the course of the season, you're gonna be among the worst offenses

in the league. Yeah, it just it doesn't help when because like the Steelers defense took a noticeable step back as soon as they lost whatat It kind of makes you think about it because T. G. Watson's the most imposing athlete on the field, but he's so effective that when you take him off the field all of a sudden, their pass rush really does lose a lot of that punch that it had, which I think he's the best

pass rusher in the league. Yeah, I guess it wasn't on the field and that long completion of rugs t J. Watt. I mean, I think that's a big part of that. And you know, you talk about you want to be the better offensive team in the defensive team, Well, if you lose your best defensive player, and you're already not a good offensive team. You're staring in an uphill climb.

He's the jaga piece of that defense. No doubt. Any early indications on how bad the groin injury is is going to keep him out multiple weeks or where are we out to be heard anything? No, not that I heard, but I do know that as soon as he came out, it was basically no question he wasn't coming back in. They showed him on the sideline and it was a pretty quick ruling. At first he was questionable and then he ended up being downgraded out, but it didn't take

very long. And just like with Denver, and they need somebody to step up when Carl courtland, Sutton is that guy, and hopefully Jerry Judy comes back and he's that guy as well. His draft classmate Henry Ruggs is such a key part to that offense. And seeing him break out here that long catch, I mean, did was he causing issues all day long? Or was that more just a splash play? That juice the box score? What were you

seeing from Rugs? It was a splash play. But he has kind of progressed both last week and this week into a player who I think is going to take that step that Mike Mayock talked about on multiple occasions of the offseason where he simply wasn't a good enough route runner to make a difference last year. I think he's made the progress uh this year and he's going to continue to be that guy. But I think also he's going to be effective because Derek Carr has no favorites.

As much as he targeted Darren Waller in Week one, this today, he did not have any favorites. He spread it all around Foster Moreau, hounter Renfro especially on third down he hit up Waller again, goes to Rugs. He's got a number of guys you can throw the football too, so I think it's gonna help Rugs overall. What did Nagy Harris? What are you seeing from him? I saw some interesting can't really get much going on the ground, had a highlight, real stiff arm, but otherwise it wasn't

really that effective on the ground. Again, I think that's the offensive line. Did have a very nice touchdown grab. He caught it out of the flat, out, ran a guy down the sideline, doe to the pilot to score. Um. I mean he's an athlete, and he's a good runner. It's just he needs some room to run and he isn't getting that so far. Let's check in with the defending champs who drew the Atlanta Falcons and profit. It's old pass padded out of the air, picked off inside

the tap, touched up Tampa five. My Edwards Task two, My cast two Jane A. Mike Edwards closed out his Sunday with back to back pick sixes. He'll sleep well and Tom Brady through for to seventy six and five touchdowns forty four years old, now talking about play until fifty? Are you doubting him? Tampa Bay Buccaneers extend their winning streak to a franchise record ten consecutive games that included a Super Bowl dub. Of course win over the Falcon

shook the final score here. That was a little bit misleading, right, It depends how much do you value a quarter of football? Because going in third, the Falcons have a legitimate chance to potentially take the lead. But again you're reminded of the talent deficiencies of the Falcons. I mean, Cordell Patterson's their best option out of the backfield. Right now, they found themselves backed up inside their own five. It was basically a recipe for disaster, which proved to be one.

But um, I mean they you gotta give them credit for performing admirably and cutting down a deficit. I just kept sitting there thinking early in the first half, I was like, this is one of those games where it's a foregone conclusion. It's very clear who the better team is. Can we get this over with already? And yet the Buccaneers let the Falcons hang around for a little bit, and credit to them for scrapping their way back into it. But ultimately they the Falcons proved to be the Falcons.

Which it's it's sad to say in week two, but because of this roster that you know you're dealing with, you knew that mistakes are going to happen. And and and uh interception that was basically a good play by the defensive back coming in there and and uh tipping the ball up and then returning it to the house. That was like, oh, here it comes, here comes the avalanche. And sure enough, all that snow followed and before you knew it, they were completely buried. I mean, it's not

just that Brady's throwing for five touchdowns. Is the first time he's ever thrown nine touchdowns in the first two weeks of the season. He's making it look better than he ever has. Some of the throws today they weren't they weren't the foul. It didn't look like it's the Falcons defense just giving him throws. He was putting balls into tiny windows. He did some arm angle stuff. He's

throwing on the move. Occasionally, they you know, leaks are calling some like boot action plays for tom Brady last week. It's blown my mind a little that he's doing it with more style right now then maybe at any point in his career like more Wow. Also, from this standpoint, either four or five years ago, tom Brady's on the Patriots and he's in the Super Bowl against Matt Ryan, who's the reigning m v P. And I'm not saying now you fast forward to the present tense and Matt

Ryan shot. But Matt Ryan no longer moves as well. He might not throw as well anymore either. He's getting older. And it's just interesting to have a game where you see Matt Ryan being on be the other side of his prime and being five or six years younger, eight or nine years younger than Tom Brady. It just once again illustrates what what tom Brady is doing is just unheard of. I mean with with Matt Ryan, what do you see? And I saw a tweet there shook that

Ryan has now perfected the art of the third down sack? Uh? Is he able to lead an offense to you know, big results at this stage? What are you seeing through two weeks here? Well? I mean if I could play the theoretical game and put him behind the Eagles offensive line, I would say yes. But the offensive line he's playing

behind now doesn't really do him any favors. And it's funny that you mentioned tom Brady's mobility or lack thereof, because as I was sitting there watching them, to look, we both we all know that Tom Brady is a guy who has not been fleet of foot for the majority,

if not all, of his career. Right, But as I watched Matt Ryan try to escape the pocket and kind of climate and find somewhere to throw in a third down the second half on Sunday, I thought, Wow, he's running with concrete and issues, which is what I used to think of when I watched Tom Brady run. It's hilarious when you see the two on the field in the same game and the comparison of the two and where they are, and it's also because of the group that's around them. I would say that Matt Ryan can

still lead you. I mean he still had a little improvisation in a nice little touchdown pass along the goal line. It's not that he's a terrible quarterback, but he's beyond his prime physically and he doesn't have the group around him to kind of prop him up and make him

that's still very effective quarterback. Well, it's not the year you'd want to put Matt Ryan in a new offense, which he's in where Conversely, Bruce Arians said after the game that Tom Brady and I think we're seeing this nine touchdowns in two weeks is Greg mentioned, I mean just the way he's playing, the confidence, the creativity of the offense. Arian said, he's light years ahead of where

he was a year ago. And they you know, they were seven and five and lost to the Bears at one stage last year, then went on that toward run and they picked up right where they left off and they make it look so easy. But I think it matters that Brady is completely comfortable in an attack where Matt Ryan is in week two of Arthur Smith's offense,

which looked better than last week's version of it. But you know it's gonna be a long I think, you know, Arthur Smick got he got a little creative this week. He did kind of open some things up that he didn't do last week. I don't really think get much of an opportunity to last week. But speaking on that Brady point, I think what we're seeing now is the product of a quarterback who has for so often, so

much of his career been in this box. Right. He's been in the Patriot way, and and he's conducted himself publicly that way. He's come out of his shell. Since he's gotten to Tampa Bay. He's more expressive. You see him doing more commercials. He does the Tommy and and Gronky thing where they talk about play until fifty, like you guys said, and and it kind of shines in his play. It's almost as if he's more relaxed, comfortable and feels like he can go out and do what

he wants to do. He's not Patrick Mahomes. He's not going to go author some crazy highlight reel play in that regard, but I think he's more comfortable and playing free er than he might ever have been before. Let's head to Chicago. Snapped to Burrow looking right, throwing right, It's intercepted, intercepted by rogue one source forty thirty ten five and touchdown touchdown Bears pick six Jeff Johnny Act w BBM. With the call. Roquan Smith returned to interception

fifty three yards. That was his first career touchdown, one of three straight picks by Joe Burrow during the defining stretch of the Bears team win over the Bengals shook. The Bears finish this game with Justin Fields, who are please replaced an injured Andy Dalton? What do we see from the kid there? Let's start right there. Well, it was kind of a it was an interesting game to throw him in because it was a defensive slog. I mean, we we third quarter, it's seven to three and and

it was seven and nothing going in a halftime. It's not like we're seeing a ton of offensive production. And statistically you look at it. Fields finished with sixty yards passing in an interception that almost opened the door for the Bengals. To pull off a crazy comeback win. But I will say he does offer a little bit more in terms of the fact that he can get mobile. You know, he scrambled on third down to get a key first down to keep the ball out of the

Bengals hands and ultimately win the game. Um. I think there's still a lot to be desired from that offense, and I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that there's uncertainty instability at the quarterback position with you know what Andy dalton ceiling is, and how are you gonna throw Justin fields in for a few players? Oh wait, now he's got to come in and play every play. Um, It's it just seemed like

they're not really on the right track. The only positive that I really pulled from them offensively is you know what, you have a pass catcher from you know, Allen Robinson and and whatnot. David Montgomery has played really well. The stats don't show it, but like when he runs the ball, you're just bill today, they didn't really show it. If you get three yards to carry when he runs the ball, you're like, man, that guy's running hard. That guy makes

people miss. He runs through tackles, you just wish that he had more opportunities, which I think he might get over time. They could help justin fields. But it's not like it was a resounding performance from fields. M I mean, it's again, it's one they dropped back to past twenty seven times they had eighty three passing yards the Bears. That's a fiasco. We should be given the Bears. And perhaps they did just go win a game like that,

that's nice. Um, But if they can design an offense around fields, assuming Andy Dawton is not gonna recover and or take back the starting job, which would seems surprising at this point, maybe it can be different. Because whatever this passing game is like, it wasn't working today. I kind of have a feeling this Bengals defense is gonna be decent all year, and they've definitely been that through

through two weeks they've been they've been pretty good. But but still, twenty seven dropbacks for eighty three yards is is a fiasco and you won and he won the game, so that must mean Joe Burrow had equal or or almost what happened with this Joe Burrow like insane meltdown. I mean three straight, three straight picks on three straight passes.

Um Basically, the Bears gave the Bears defense gave them this victory, and it was it started with the real Quan picks that we heard and that clip, and then it just kind of snowballed from their um you know, Burrow through another pass forced it to one on one coverage. Jalen Johnson made a nice plan, but if you look at it, there's no reason you should ever be throwing there because he's essentially blanketed and Johnson just made a

nice play on the ball. And then the third interception was Burrow in his face, just trying desperately to deliver the ball, get rid of it, gets knocked up in the air and easily intercepted. It gives the Bears great fuel position, not that much of a challenge for them to try to turn it into points. Roquan with one of those touchdowns, and then all they had to do was hang on and hope that their own offense didn't shoot themselves up in the foot enough to give the

Bengals a chance to come back. Even the long, you know, Chase touchdown was on a pretty under thrown ball by Burrow. So it's just gonna I don't know. Coming off the cl there's gonna be ups and downs. And it's a reminder to the Westling brothers like Nick really wanted to take the Bengals, Phil really wanted to take the Seahawks. It didn't matter, so you guys should take. I have

a little quick story. I bought a butterfly wind chime um because of Lakisha was saying that when she sees butterflies, she thinks that, you know, it reminds her of west Or when the wind chimes go off. And so I've found a butterfly windschrime the other day. So I bought it and it's hanging outside my window. And as the Bengals lost, I kid you not, the wind chime went off.

And I don't know what that means, if it means anything, but it did make me laugh today during yelling at yelling at his brother forever thinking to lock Cincinnati, which really made me smile today. It's definitely yelling that's what the wind chime. He is representing their um All right, hey Chookie, thank you buddy. And I was saying to Mark earlier in a private moment that I'm gonna make public now in the newsroom that I envied the way, Um, Kyle Brandt filled out a T shirt. Um, and I

just have to say, maybe Nick beats out Kyle. I mean, look at the the way that thing just pours over his body, graat cash on me. It's hard work pays off. I would give the advantage to give the advantage to shook on just sheer bulk um. I think Kyle's bulking up came in one offseason, if I remember correctly, that kind of stunned people. I mean, Shook. I feel like it's probably been muscle bound since age six and a half or seven. I feel like that's just sort of

what your true. I mean, I got pretty decent jeans, but it was I was a late bloomer mark. In fact, I started high school about five ft sixty pounds. So yeah, hey, don greg in high school and then now you became there. See that's a lesson. So we can all do it. Don't don't knock five five six, we can't even see it. Dial that down a little bit, make it one seven, and they're just falling all over all. Right, there you go,

good five six talk shookie, Thank you, buddy. A three is always from oh and Dan by the way, the pipe thing, much to Grace's mate, totally catching on according to Twitter this week. So good for you because it's a great good nickname. We'll go with. All right, thank you, Nick, and see you guys on to Sunday Night football. This monster offensive line, you've got extra offensive diamond in there. Chiefs had to make sure they don't jump and Jackson will get the first down and affect in the games

go on? Where that Sean hard Paul Oh, we like to talk about onions on this program. John Harbaugh. He hung them with the game on the line. But it's easy to do that, or easier with Lamar Jackson's your quarterback. Lamar Jackson on fourth and one year midfield gets the yardage necessary, clinching a big time come back victory for the Baltimore Ravens, who outscore the Chiefs twelve zip in the fourth in route to a thirty six win in Baltimore.

Just a massive win, Greg and Mark for the Ravens, who looked like they were going to get run out of the building instead run into week three on fire kryptonite no more. Lamar Jackson gets the monkey off his back. I mean things are going against the Ravens. I can't even track like Greg's favorite players anymore, and he's taken SI for himself. Hey guess what the rest of America

loves Lamar Jackson with me joined the bandwagon. He's fun to watch and this game and this organization no matter what happens the rest of this season, like no other team I don't think wins this sort of game with it, with the injuries and everything that's gone against them, in the situation that they were in of all the games, to actually beat the Chiefs, this to me like blew me away, like gave me a big time shot of adrenaline at the at the end of like a long

Sunday to just see a football game this good, with this many like great players back and forth and when the Chiefs were across mid yield on the last time, you think it's absolutely over. Oh way forces the fumble, but then not only for m John Harbot asked Lamar Jackson,

you want to go for it? It's like Harbo new in that moment the NFL, you know, like the cameras on him because he knows LaVar is gonna say, yes, I want to go for But it's also the play call and the ability of this offensive line to execute that play was a very creative play call. They stack one side and more importantly, they do it at a tempo which takes a lot of cohesion. They ran up to the line of scrimmage and instead of wasting anytime,

they snapped it right away. It didn't look like there's a huge hole there for Jackson, and he uses all of his patients and waits for those offensive lineman who maybe are the m v ps of the game as a unit to get that hole open, and you win it doing what you do best. You never gave Patrick Mahomes the ball back, and that is just like an unbelievably impressive victory by the Ravens. Yeah, I mean you have to factor in what Baltimore has gone through over

the previous Fortnite injury y is. I mean, their backfield isn't even what they planned for on any level. And on that fourth down play, if you're Kansas City, you know exactly what's coming and you can't stop it. And that's how you feel about Kansas City's offense. But when Baltimore is chiming in the way they did right there, they're unstoppable. I love the fact that Harbaugh overcomes what would have been a huge talking point. Burning the two time outs so early. It put them in a terrible spot.

It gave Kansas City UM a glowing chance to win UM before that fumble. But you know what, against Kansas City, you need to create their mistakes. It must. You must find a way to even out the mistakes. Because Lamar had those two interceptions, Honey Badger played his mind out with the pick six, but you got Patrick mahomes Is first interception in September. Clyde Edwards Hilaire, his first fumble

in the NFL, came in the same game. And I love the idea that even though you know these were not successful, they kept going for the two point conversion. Kevin Zeidler was so clearly pushed on one of them too. I thought that was very questionable. But they just overcame Baltimore their own mistakes, which is unlike what happened with the Browns in Week one. Baltimore proved themselves to be

the class of the division. And they mentioned Greg Roman at the end of this game, and I like that because Greg Roman, I think you know fairly and unfairly has taken plenty of heat for the way the offense broke down at points last year, but tonight they just stuck to their identity. They are who they are. You may not like it, you may not like it at times because it collapses here and there. But tonight it was overpowering. It was too much for the Chiefs, and

you don't see that often at all. Um, It's been a zany misadventure for the podcast today with our new studio meltdown. And you know, after we finished the initial portion of this podcast, we take a break. We watched the rest of Sunday Night Football. Um, Greg and I stumbled and found this movie theater in this new building that has a legitimate, like big screen movie screen, where we watched the end of this game, and and Greg hit on which has always been a pet peeve of mine.

When the Kansas City Chiefs had the ball with four minutes to play in the game, he said, oh, the Chiefs have an eighties seven percent win percentage chance right now. I was just making, which has always been if you listen to this podcast, a pet peeve of mind. I hate win probability. It's stupid. And I said, well, let's calm down, Greg. A lot of things can happen, you know. I know Mahomes is gonna be do Mahomes things, but maybe the kicker messes up. It had to be somebody

that was gonna mess up. It wasn't gonna be my Homes And it was Clyde Edwards Hilaire. And you saw the reaction. And NBC does such a great job with having cameras all over the place to Marcus Robinson, I believe it was collapsing to the turf of his face down. It's a week two game, but everybody knows the stakes and everybody knows how many people are watching this game. And Clyde Edwards Hilaire, who has been you know, had a middling career to this point, uh for a first

round pick who had a lot of expectations. That's gonna stick with him for a while now. And you hope he gets a chance to um move on from this and become the player he can be. But to put the ball on the ground there, oh my goodness. So I'll always remember that, and yes, credit John Harbaugh's decision making there. I even said in the moment punted away. They have no time outs the chiefs, pin him with your special teams, and then hold on for dear life.

But the move was the trust Lamar Jackson, who looks every bit um a reminder that he is an m v P. He is a guy who could be the m v P again. He is a special player, and there's nobody like him. I mean, I agree with you, but can I can I just suggest one question? So you were invited by the way I was invited, but I have I like you know, I T has made it very clear you don't leave like forty pounds of computer equipment exposed telephone. So I'm up here, I'm up here.

There is no oxygen in this room. I'm up here in this little tiny like pod that's about to shoot out of the building if there is some sort of meltdown. And you guys watched the rest of the game on a movie screen, Well I'm I'm that's that's new. But did you hear this? You would have to take like literally threty different pieces of equipment to a different floor so that Greed could sit comfortably in his easy chair

right into a movie screen. I left, I left my computer open, I left the iPad, I left my phone here and reporting you to you know, information technology Mark, who are the criminals? Like? Wandering through this building right now looking at the security ends to my left. I don't trust anything that they're about. You can't even move around without a sensor on you like the securities finding here.

But you know what, if you were in that room, I probably would have had to tone down my glee as it was ending, because as this as our our stream yard, you know, links started. You're not happy that the Ravens, who looked like they could have been down and out here at oh and two, instead get as as meaningful a regular season victory as they could possibly get.

That reaction Dan that you said, uh, you know when o Way makes the play and look, that's a first round pick that was kind of controversial, and here he is showing up in his first two weeks. The look on Lamar and Sammy Watkins his face, putting their arms around each other before they even go on the field. This was a momentous when because in so many ways the Ravens didn't have any answers. I mean the Chiefs

went up and down the field all game. You know, the Chiefs got the eleven point lead going into the fourth quarter. Hey, how about that story? It's like, Oh, the Ravens aren't built to come up from behind. How about they just came from behind against the two time defending a f C champions in the fourth quarter by running the ball. Also like they they held Tyreek Hill

to fourteen yards. That's something almost no team does. And I wasn't unhappy for them because I view the Chiefs kind of like a Hulk Hogan Hulk Hogan figure from the eighties, where you know he's gonna go through the motions, you think he's gonna lose, he never loses. And the a f C has not touched outside of the forgetting You told me that you you wanted the Ravens that take a dirt nap that that maybe that maybe how

I feel going into most Ravens games. But I do have tremendous whether whether I like them or not, I have total respect for who they are and the way they carried this game out and how gutsy they are. That's how you deserve to win. And you know, Dan, I know you had them. Was it below the Steelers and the power rankings? Um that gets flip bluffed hardcore because this is the division horse right here now. And by the way, Chris collins were tonight, um using the

term at one point hosses. I just that's what I don't need from kiss Chris collins Worth. I know you guys love him to death, but it's a little to midwestern. This has been a tough day at the office for you. I mean, he said, hass and now you're all fired up about it. It's like West and I always used to talk about the fact that he's a little folksy and like he's going he's like pressing into it with hosses. But it was a tremendous football game and one of

the better Sunday night games in a while. Um, your excitement, your enthusiasm jumps off the screen right now. I am not being unexcited about this. I think I'm appropriately you know, it's it's a lip on the radar in life. And you know I don't need to I don't need be dancing around pantless around yond Greg's little Yeah, let's let's find the middle Porridge Bowl. This is the game of the year. Like this, not just until next week. No, this We're gonna play the whole season and at the

end of the season. You're gonna make the top five games of the year, and this will be one of those five. I don't know if it'll be number one, but it's got a chance. You can go a whole season without a game like this because think of the individual plays that happen in this game. That Travis Kelsey touchdown they didn't see live but went back to watch. That was one of the best touchdowns of Travis Kelsey's career. Next Gen Stats gave it a three point three percent chance.

I'm gonna give you some weird numbers. The Byron Pringle play was absolutely a ray like outrageous. That touchdown that at a point seven percent chance supposedly of being a touchdown when he caught that pass. Like the back and forth of this game, Hollywood Brown, right back and forth, starting with the turnovers, and and I'm with you, Mark, I thought the game was like more than over and I was pleasantly surprised to see like how that all

ended up all right. Hopefully these teams play again in January. That would be fun, and it's very very it's very possible. These are two excellent teams and that was a lot of fun. And I just want to thank the Dallas Cowboys, the Los Angeles Chargers, Tennessee Titans, the Seattle Seahawks, Minnesota Vikings, the Arizona Cardinals, the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Baltimore Ravens for saving professional football. And you were there for us and we will not forget it. All right, Well,

we got through it. Week two, flagship show in the books. We have one more game to come Detroit at Green Bay Slaughter and you will hear from us next on the Around the NFL podcast Tuesday, hopefully from our studio. But at this but that's about we could be in broom closets throughout the building hardcore TBD. Alright, wherever you guys are in the building, get home safely, and I will try to do the same, and thank you to

everyone for listening. And until then, until to days. So I need the car, h the