Bears-Rams Recap, Terrifying Thoughts and TNF Preview

me that, give me your hello again? Helloa, Okay. What it sounds like to me is hello, my baby, Hello, my daughter? Yeah, a little bit of Katherine Hepburn in there, maybe just a tinge. What's up? Billy? Moira Rose from Ship's Creek is my idol? And who I really just model everything out? Hey, what's up? How's everybody doing Tuesday? Well,

we gave almost Halloween, you know for our listeners. They should just be aware that Dan's doing this show um in a somewhat distracting way with a killer doll behind his right shoulder. His name is his name is Sam. He's not a doll. He's like half boy, half alien, and my children because these are the dark days of society,

and can't really go out or do anything. On the iPad, they watch a lot of YouTube videos of the famous Spirit Halloween warehouse stores that pop up in the fall all across the country, and they became so obsessed with the different animatronics at the store that they learned all of their names by heart. Like I could bring in Jack right now and he could just tell you every

single one of them. And one of them is Sam, who is um a yeah, half boy, half demon that comes out on Halloween night and visits one town every Halloween night, and you have to follow these certain rules that he sets and if you don't, he punishes you with definitely belie. It's a rated our film called Trigger Treat My Children. Thankfully, Child Services says have not seen it,

but this will be Jack's Halloween costume as well. Deed, his grandmother made a really incredible effects Emily Well, I mean, every boy should have his heroes. So a boy demon um mash up feels appropriate for a seven or eight year old, six year old it feels like a year Sam Sam take on Los Angeles. It's very confusing though, like no one really knows what counts as Los Angeles. Um so it's a lot of people. Nobody knows. Sam. It's like, does it end that thousand oaks? Like is

that count as it? Or like, I don't really know. It's that's how you can get Sam. Wait, I missed that entire thing. What does it have to do with the city limits? Well, he said, he comes, he visits one town every I don't know where it ends. There's a lot of work. Sam's gonna be like, there's a lot of sprawl here. Who the voice is concerning? Colleen, Thank you for joining us the Tiny Bay. It's a pleasure. Um,

good show. Today, we're gonna recap Monday Night Football as thrilling as that affair was between the Rams and Bears. We're gonna preview Thursday Night Football, mark a showdown between Whom and whom the Carolina Panthers under the watch of Matt Rule Verse the floating away Atlanta Falcons. There you go.

So we got that NFC South showdown coming, will preview that. Also, Yes, it is Halloween on Saturday, and obviously this is a huge deal in a house with two boys here, um, and we are going to have a little Halloween fun on today's show. Terrifying thoughts in the NFL, and uh Ricky, speaking of terrifying thoughts, you answered the door for a potential serial killer and handed him a knife on Sunday's podcast. So where are we at on that? And that had happened? Folks?

That everything I just said was not an exaggle. I don't know if the guy is a serial murder, but you did open the door for a stranger who looked unbalanced and handed him a stabbing tool. Yeah. I mean what started as a ha haha, WTF moment during the pod ended up being very very scary and for I want to clear something up. I did not hand him a knife. I did offer to because my place is situated off the road, right, so when the only people that come back here are people that live here. Again, Yeah,

this guy was in the unit next door. He was moving in next door. He was in the physical unit he was inside it came asked me for a broom earlier when I first moved to my apartment. I deep cleaned it before I moved in, So all these things are making sense. When he comes, he has a frozen pizza that's already cooked, but he doesn't have silverware because he just moved in classic crazy person move to me A yes, wasn't naive? Yes do I so he you offered him, but he didn't take the knife. I was like,

just borrow it because I was doing the show. I was like, and he came to my window and was like, had this frozen pizza that wasn't cut It was like a little Amy's frozen pizza and it was cooked. And I ended up cutting the pizza for him, and he did kind of force himself inside my house and it could have been really, really bad. And we ended up finding out from the landlord that the unit was vacant, so not only was he in the apartment next door, came into my place. The police were here till late

into the wee hours of the morning. On Sunday night, Eddie Spaghetti rushed over. It ended up being, you know what, was kind of funny during the podcast turning into something that could have been really really serious and Big John stud Tampose was not happy your old man's was not happy your behavior either. I mean, you were in a tough spot. It's hard to react, especially when you're in the middle of you know, producing essentially a live program.

But he wasn't happy. Well at least we know he's vegan, you know, so he's keeping himself healthy. Those are vegan pizzas and nice guy. My thing is like I've I've been alone, like in the house for a day or two, and I've cooked a frozen pizza. And I mean, I guess because like I have the utensils around, I'll just cut it in half. And why am I cutting it into fourteen slices? If I'm alone, I still have to cut it in half. So he did me a full pizza, which I would just pick it up and eat it.

I would pizza. Nothing happened. A lot of alarm bells were going off at this point. But it was also like to me, I was like he's the new neighbor. He was physically inside the apartment, Like to me, it's been empty. I was doing all of these sort of It's not like I'm I'm in a place where people walk by my house all day and some guys like hey, and people live next And if my mom rang the doorbell during a podcast, I'm not answering it, like she can wait till it's over. Well, that see, that's how

men are taught to know. That's that's how Greg is taught, especially with my mom. We haven't spoken in like seventeen years, So shut up, Amy. I have many questions that I won't talk well, I won't ask them all right now, but we're going to have to talk more offline about this. Yeah. I actually spent like all day in bed yesterday. I was very upset, Like I was very I'm very upset.

One underlying sort of silver lining here. I mean, can you imagine during a pandemic, Dan and Greg if we had to somehow find a new producer on the fly over the court between Sunday and Tuesday's show, the inconvenience that it would have caused, um, the three of us would have been that's a near tragedy, right, Yeah, what stress you would have been under? That would have been? I don't it would have been the tipping. I don't even know Nobile's number. Right, All right, let's get into it.

We're glad you're okay, Erica. Just I didn't hand him a knife. I thank you for clearing that up. Would your neighbor that you thought you was your new neighbor if they needed utensils? Like to me, I know it sounded crazy, but I was doing all this deductive reasoning in my head. And you're a good Samaritan. I mean, the guy it was, it was legitimately a coin flip that he was a psychopath and you did let him

into the house, but that that's I didn't. I opened the door and then he was standing outside and I and I was like, you know, w t F, I'll go cut this pizza. And then I hear the door shut and he's in, like, oh my god, this is my worst nightmare. What yes, stop it? Yeah, And you guys are on the you guys are on the screen going like Erica, Erica, but you couldn't see anything not running into a dateline episode, right, all right, let's just let's purge our minds of that horrific situation. Glad it

all worked out. Um, all right, let's get to Monday night football. My goodness, half the Halloween. Everybody gosh, Gerald ever and and he walks into the end zone, touchdown, rash pushing all the right buttons. Tonight, this Sean McVeigh Ricky is still alive. We're very lucky that's the case. She shouldn't have opened the door bell at Rams twenty four Chicago Bears ten uh the Rams use a defense

that would not let Nick Foles get going. Uh, to keep the Bears out of the end zone on office, They're only score Chicago came on a defensive bumble recovery and even that, somehow it was boring. The Bears are the worst or at least at least the most boring five and two team I can remember the Rams all. So, now, what were your takeaways from this affair? Well, watching it, I just feel like the identity of this Rams team is now the defense completely. Like Jalen Ramsey was so aggressive,

he had he had that pick. He was so physical. You had Aaron Donald. They were able to just get home so quick to Nick Foles. They sacked him four times twice by Leonard four Net, which was the actual sneaky revenge game angle that everybody was talking about. Oh, Nick Foles revenge game. Leonard Floyd, that was the revenge game and he exacted some there twice. He sacked Nick Foles in the game. But the Bears offense, like, ah, it was just so ugly to to watch this game.

So many stretches. I mean, they really couldn't move the ball. They had fewer than three hundred total yards in the whole game, and it just felt like against this Rams defense, they really got exposed for what they are. Like Chicago's defense, it's good, but it's not dominant enough to carry this Bears team throughout an entire game anymore. They did a good job, but they're they're doing it with zero help, and that's just not sustainable. I've been saying this all year.

They're just you can't win the way the Bears are trying to win. They don't want to try to win this way because there's no defense that's that even the best defenses, I would put the Bears in the top four or five. They can give up thirty any week, Like everyone loves the Steelers defense is great. You can give up. You can go seven to Carson Wentz and you know, a bunch of ham and eggers, you can give up. You know, the Bucks can give up a lot of points in any given week. You gotta have

an offense. Is the is the point, and Matt Naggi is in a tough spot because he doesn't have a quarterback and he doesn't have an offensive line. I think that's been lost a little bit this year. Their line, which they've basically kept together for three or four years, and it's always been okay, it improved, I would say over the last couple of years, it's been terrible. This year. They have no running games. David David Montgomery has no

juice whatsoever. He never makes a guy miss, never breaks the tackle, and so you have Folds back there telling Brian Greasy that he knows um when the play is called in like if it's a seventh step drop to go, you know, throw to Alan Robinson, like he's not gonna have time to throw it. And I think people way overreacted to the to what this quote meant. It was just obvious, Like I don't think it was even like um a bad thing in terms of Matt Maggie's coaching.

It's just like we'll watch them play. Of course he knows he doesn't have time on a five or steven step drop. It literally happens every play And doesn't mean you have to you stop calling those plays because you just have to if you watch those games, they just don't have any solutions. I mean, I like, it's not

great coaching. I mean we're you know, we're years into Matt Nige and to me, uh, you know, he was hired from the Andy Reid you know Tree, this nice little branch off that Tree to come bring offense to a Bears team that has done this before. I mean, I feel like this is the eighth incarnation of the Bears team that relies on d defense to generate um, not just you know, juice, but points that you can't

win typically in Chicago unless the defense scores. And the only way they even climbed vaguely back into the contest last night was a defensive score. And I guess I'm tired of it. And I feel a little bit like when you critique the Bears on you know, during a game like this, their fans come at you real hard. And I get it. It's it's rough to watch your team getting its butt trouns on national television. But it's also fair to critique a Bears team that deserves to

give more to its fan base. I mean, I just I couldn't be more with you on David Montgomery. I feel like we've mentioned him before that, you know, all offseason long, it's like this guy better be you know, on your radar and fantasy drafts. The Bears want to run the ball, but it ran the ball for like two point three yards per carry. It's the same story every week. But they they team builded this roster for

this moment. They went into the season with a bunch of bluster about you know, Mitch Robinsky and Nick Foles, and it's exhaust seen at this point. I mean, I think we saw this coming in March April, and may I mean in the Rams. The Rams. Also, the team's combined to go eight for seven on third down, so the Rams like offense has some issues too. And I still feel like, you know, tell me if I'm wrong, because we're in l A and you I listened to a lot of l A talk radio and Jared Goff

gets mentioned a bunch here and there. But I feel like nationally he doesn't receive some of the critique that he should um in terms of the fact. I wonder if it's because he's just because he's like his haircut, he's just solid. He's there, He's a little bit better than average if you if you protect him, well, he's like an inoffensive Banana republic ad. I think he's just to critique. He's like he's good, he's okay, like he right, solid, is strong. He had he's viewed as baby being sort

of baby sat by Sean McVeigh. So you have to critique Sean McVeigh, which does not happen in the NFL. Very good offense. They're not great. They're like, you're like six or seventh and d v o A. They're like great in term to the running game. You we can team up with how they run the ball more than you guys know a great run game. They're the best. They're the most efficient running game in the league in terms of like per play, they're they're they're a great

running team. I don't know about great. The Trabinsky full situation is tough because Nick Foles really, uh, that much better than Trabinsky, And it did cross my mind, like Matt Naggy is getting killed now and you could feel like the pressure coming from the Bears fan base. It's kind of like an Adam Gates light situation to me, where you could feel that kind of negativity creeping around that organization. Now, But Naggie did get Trabinsky drafted, and

we don't need to relitigate that situation. Uh. And then Nick Foles comes in and he's not the same player anymore, Like what what chance did he have to really get this offense cooking. I don't know, because quarterback plays so important and Monday night, like that game jumps out to me, Colleen that like in in our league, uh, Troy Aikman,

all rights reserved. You have to have a quarterback that can move and and when things if you're if you can't scheme up guys open and you can't if your playmakers can't win one on one matchups, you have to have a backup plan now because the league is too strong and too fast. Coming after the quarterback full sitting back there like a statue, it's just like there's just

no there's no pop, there's no juice. Well, especially in this game against the Rams pass rush, because you would think, okay, if Nick Foles is going to be in this game and he can't get out of trouble in the interior of that offensive line as questionable as it is, let's try and neutralize some of that pass rush by running the ball. But obviously, as you guys pointed out, like it just hasn't happened all season long. Coming into the game the previous three weeks, the Bears were averaging forty

two rushing yards per game. No other team in the entire league had fewer than sixty four rushing yards. So last night, what do they do, same thing? I mean they total forty nine rushing yards, twenty in the first half. That's not how you get it on And obviously when you're behind, you're not gonna be able to run the ball, but like from the jump, maybe try and get it going a little bit there and help out Nick Foles, because that's a lot what the Rams do with Jared Golf.

They built stuff off of the run, and Golf was methodical. He spread the ball around a seven different pass catchers. They mixed it up on offense, they were balanced, they round the ball. Five different guys were able to carry the ball. So this bears offense. It just doesn't move the needle at all. And Matt Naggie's in a really bad spot now because what are you gonna do. You can't go back to Mitch Drabinski right Well, they're back to back coaches of the year McVeigh and and Naggie.

Yeah they could, and they might not much change anything, but why not. Bols didn't earn anything in Chicago, hasn't. I mean, you rotate the guys in and out every week. There, you're right there, there's no solution, but you're to point between McVeigh and Naggy. I think is is a smart one and the organization like they built the right team. I mean, Golf has no mobility either, although he's approved a little bit uh in that realm. I think this year he's made a couple off platform throws he did

last night. Um, but like when you're getting Johnny Mutt and Josh Reynolds involved with big plays like that does show the difference in terms of the coaching and the team building. The Rams can still have a pretty respectable offense with you know, not necessarily the best talent in the league, and the Bears are just I think Goff's lack of ability hurts that offense too. He I think

he's a better version of what Nick bole. He wasn't sharp part of a lot of times games come down to who comes down with like free balls at Goff could have had three turnovers. There are two plays he could have been picked. He had a fumble that the Rams recovered, whereas the Rams kind of you know, did capitalize on their turn over opportunity. Turn opportunities on defense.

So it's like it wasn't that a difference. It's like like seven years away from twenty three quarterbacks essentially being sort of Kyler Murray clones and the Jared Goff's in the Nick Foles of the world, and even some of I look at someone like Baker Mayfield, who isn't really a scrambler. I mean, that's a liability at quarterback half

a decade from now, if not now already. And so the quarterback position is changing, and someone like Nick Foles looks like he was thrust to us from three decades ago. And let's give before we move on, let's give a little love to a man that should be going to the Hall of Fame, Johnny Hecker. And I know Ray guys a punter that that's in the All of Fame.

I don't know if there's anyone else, but Hecker has been incredible, uh for the Rams his entire career and in a game that was pretty boring, and that was one of the kind of uh narratives on Twitters like this game sucks. You had Johnny Hecker punt five times, each punt dropping in getting down inside the ten yard line, especially in a game like that, a low scoring, you know, field position driven game. The man is like a nuclear weapon, and uh, I just enjoyed seeing Hecker have a moment there.

That was fun. And not only that, just real quick before we wrap it up, like, I'm really curious to see how good this Rams team actually is when they start playing real competition within their own division. I mean, we saw what they lost to the Niners, but they have five wins, four of them are against NFC East teams, so it's like, yeah, that's fair, that's fair. This is a good win. Bears have, Bears have beaten good teams like the Bucks. So just just to get it done

and get it convincing, it's good for them. But you're absolutely right. I am curious, like when I'm thinking of like what's the Rams weakness And to me, it's just like they're in a they're in a conference with in a in a league with like super sensational offenses. I don't know if they're there, they're like they're pretty good, you know, they're like Jared Goff, They're pretty good. That's what they were two years ago. All right, that's Monday

Night football. Before we get to terrifying thoughts, uh Mark mentioned his Browns and Baker Mayfield. Mayfield will not have Odell Beckham for the rest of the year. We talked about it on Sunday Show. Beckham was injured Mayfield through an interception on the Cleveland's first drive of the game in Sunday's win against Cincinnati. During the rundown of that

interception run back, Odell gets his knee banged up. It turns out, of course, Uh to be a torn a c l So hopefully he's back healthy and ready for one. Do you buy into its Seessler? I think you tweeted something along these lines on Twitter? Do you buy into the idea? And obviously at stinks for Beckham, who when he's when he's right as an electrifying talent, but that he ever that he never really made Baker better. And can you connect dots between Beckham going out on Sunday

for instance, and then uh Mayfield going off. Well, I mean it's a it's a small sample size. I mean I retweeted someone who just put the basic numbers of what Baker um produced without Odell Beckham from when he came into the league till now and with and and there were some stark differences. I mean, I never would say that taking a all pro level wide receiver off your roster will make any team better. But this is

just conjecture. But I just kind of feel like the Baker O'Dell thing Um was engined off a lot of force throws last season and this year was um. They did a better job with it. They got Odell Beckham involved in a different way. But I can't remember, you know, two or three games in a row, I mean really even two where you said that Baker Nodell Beckham were

on the same page. Uh. He Baker has looked much better with guys like Richard Higgins Um who had a hundred yards in the last game, guys like Richard perrimanen I And I don't know what that means. I think that the one little other thing that jumps out to me with Baker Mayfield, I think he needs to be and whether or not you agree that he is this, I just think he needs to kind of be the

alpha male, the alpha dog in the room. And when we bring in Odell Beckham, I mean, you're adding great talent, but I think it kind of changed the dynamic of what Baker's role was. I think he was sort of clearly catering to Odell Beckham a year ago and feeling the pressure around that. I don't know, I mean football strange. Maybe sometimes you remove someone from the mix and the chemistry is altered and um, more players get involved. They had a lot more players involved last game and they

needed to um and they're gonna keep needing too. But I don't think removing it makes you a better team, right. I think two things can be true. That they're worse without Odell Beckham and that the Baker Mayfield Odell Beckham thing has been a you know, disappointment. Not you know, it's unfortunately he got injured, but Odell, you know, was on pace for under a thousand yards this year before

the injury. It just wasn't in an efficient connection. And I know Adell was playing through an injury, but he played all last year and there were so many drop passes and bad you know, interceptions that the interception that Odell got hurt on was it was a throw to Adell. So I don't know what the answer for that is, but it's just it wasn't in a efficient connection. I don't think it makes them better, but I like Baker

to O'Dell wasn't working. I'm curious if Baker to everyone else can work better when they're not playing the Bengals like that. That's a bigger question. Um. Yeah, any any other thoughts on that county. It's just like such a bummer with all of the injuries we've seen all season long to so many of the big names, and this is just another one added to the long, long crazy.

It feels like everyone especially I mean, this isn't the case, but it just feels that way, like the elite guys, someone you're gonna pop in a c L at some point and Backham. One of his issues, uh really since his Giants heyday has been staying healthy. He's always been hurt. Uh, And it's unfortunate now that he gets hit by the a c L monster. I think he turns twenty eighth next month. Um, so he's gonna long rehab ahead of him.

Don't you think back to like I think to with West on our podcast, you know where we wish West was on the show today, But just talking about like that, O'Dell has an all time great talking about that year by the way of Johnny Hecker as an all time great too, that that season was heckers like m v P year and now it's just through bad luck and then the trade and every thing like well, I remember

west career has totally changed. When we did Sandwich Props ahead of the twenty nineteen season, coming off the summer Brown's hype, West had predicted that Beckham was going to set the touchdown records. So that's kind of where things were in terms of hype. And West obviously was a guy that knows his stuff like you was right. He he had one of the past four years to start a career. Ever it all, I kind of made sense that it was going to happen. It just never has

and who knows if it ever will. Um? All right, Dan, I cannot stop um peering at this boy demon over your shoulder. I'm sorry, it's just slightly disturbing. Keep the happy lollipop. Is it more disturbing than when I filled out my my general election ballot before today's show? And Kanye West was one of the options as vice president? Yeah, but I thought he was running for president because I thought the same thing when I filled out my ballot yesterday.

Didn't he flip? He became the undercard to that to some other he didn't realize that that's the thing that happened. You know, It's funny, like if you would have told me, let's say, you know, after college dropout, maybe late registration around two thousand five, like, oh, Kanye for president. M I think there's some things that would potentially make sense about that, But as time has gone on, I just don't think. I don't think Greg. I don't think he's

the answer. I don't you know. We we've been, um, we've been promoting NFL votes. It's like, yeah, NFL votes except for Kanye, but yeah, check out check out l a vote dot net. If you're nearby. There's this website that shows you how long the weight is that all the early voting centers I'm going today, I'm excited for that, and they're all under fifteen minutes at least today. There. I was in and out yesterday, which if that should

be the case for everybody everywhere. But the one thing that I really felt like it was a bad omen was as we left the voting center, there was just a brush fire that had started out of nowhere and was like starting to rage on the side of the road, and no fire trucks were there yet or anything, so like that that was something that was scary. Yeah, don't don't love that symbolism. All right, let's let's get into it. Yes, Um,

the NFL. We're almost halfway through the regular season now, and I always like, you know, some of the you know, if you're kind of a generic bro, you're gonna say, hey, season don't really start till after Thanksgiving. Like, I mean, that's what we've been saying, Hey, decease, don't even watch

till the turkey serbed. That's that's very normal, Princess. It is something FRANCESSA would say from his godfather Bill p ourselves started right, But I think what Francess and whomever else that was more like that's when you really start to see who were the true elite teams and all the separation happens. But for me, Halloween is a really good time to take a take a look at kind of where everybody is, uh, And we're going to kind

of do that in a segment we call terrifying Thoughts. Now, these thoughts everybody could be terrifying in a negative way for a team or in a positive way for a team, and more terrifying for the opposition. So it could go positive negative. Let's get going here with Greg Rosal. All right, um, I'm gonna go positive at least in terms of the Green Bay Packers. And think if you're an NFC contender and you find out over the next week that the Green Bay Packers have added Stefan Gilmore to the mix.

Albert Brier reporting that the Patriots have been listening to offers for Stefan Gilmore. And you think about this Green Bay Packers team with j Are Alexander maybe the best shutdown corner on one side. Then you add Stefan Gilmore, who's probably looking for some money on the other side, and suddenly Mike Patton can cook up all the things he wants to do. It doesn't matter that you run. Defense is bad. Terrifying? What let me ask you this, Greg,

because that is terrifying. It's terrifying to think that the Patriots are just giving up and starting over, because why would you step on Gilmore. I know he hasn't been quite as good this year, but this is the reigning defensive player of the year. He's still I believe twenty eight or so. This seems like a guy that should be around in the building, but they are potentially ready to just tear it down. Well, I think you gotta look at where do these reports come from? And I

think Stephan Gilmore wants to get paid more. He's actually thirty dan and he's not gonna be um a free agent for another two years. I think, you know, this year and then in the next season, and he's relatively underpaid. Is he gonna ever get that big payday? Again? Who is floating this out there? The Patriots seem unlikely to

just give him a monster deal. They did just give him out of the kindness of their heart, you know, for Belichick five extra billion dollars this year, kind of the Gronk deal of like, hey, we know you're wildly underpaid, will give you a little bump um. But he might know he's not getting that big extension with the Patriots, and that makes sense. I love the idea of this swap because you know, if Mike Petton's defense, which has seems to have issues wherever it occurs, when it thrives though,

you think back to Cromarty and Rivas Island together. Now that was Rex and Petting together, and they can they can argue about who did what. But that's that's what Mike Petton defense is to shut down type corners. And I mean Richard Seymour. You look at guys in New England that have been shipped out when people still found them extremely effective. That's the bell and sometimes they trade them during a Super Bowl season. It's happened. They're good players.

So I wouldn't put anything past is at the same level as a Gilmore though this is the first team. I mean like a Chandler Jones that was before a Super Bowl year. I mean they were gone into first didn't he from Raiders? It is wild that, like we're sitting in this position where the Patriots are talking about trading one of their best defensive players, Like that's just so of the league. Mm hmm true that, Colleen, you're up. Oh okay, great. So, UM, I may have taken this

in a wrong direction. Um, I just did general terrifying thoughts. So I'm just trying to do before Greg, before we decide whether it works. Let's hear what college says first. Okay, alright, so, uh, the first terrifying thought that really popped to my head was a really frightening one. Um, and it's how we will all be spending our Week eight in prime time. Really, we're just gonna suffer together because three NFC East teams are in the prime time windows of this week, and

the scariest of all Sunday Night football. We got Cowboys at Eagles, Carson Wentz and I guess Ben Denucci. I mean, as if that isn't enough of a complete horror show, then Monday Night football we have Giants at Bucks. So

it's obviously a truly chilling division. In fact, it's the first division in the history of the entire NFL without a three win team through Week seven, so it's historically scary, and I think most blood curdling of all is we're sentenced to watch one of these teams continue in the postseason. So we're gonna have to lean on each other through this, you know, really terrifyingly scary time and just stay strong

because everything is very sinister. It's great, okay, absolutely, I mean this is this is so grim and I'll give you a little like preview of a terrifying thought on my own. The Bears and Rams have played in prime time against each other three years in a row. We don't need any of that anymore either. I think it's time. And this again, if West was here, he would absolutely jump in um. But it's time to take a step

back with these NFC East prime time games. Understand the markets involved, but until that division gets it's pooped together, you cannot put that on your schedule. It's bad for everyone, including the networks. They're always helpful, and this is this isn't the last week. That's terrifying. We've got We've got Cowboys coming up in a few I think there's three more Cowboys prime time games. I have. I have the I have Cowboys, Washington and Giants and thirty in the

power rankings. If the Cowboys beat the Eagles, I'm gonna get to put them in a four pack cocoon of sadness right just north of jets Land. I mean, that's where we're at. This is historic. It's really bad. It's really really bad for us to have to, like, listen, prime Time should be the most exciting game of the week. I mean, I even felt like this past week there were so many amazing finishes. Well there goes my microphone,

got it. Look at those catlike reflexes. Uh, there were so many amazing finishes in the early window, and then we got to the afternoon and it was kind of like, oh, all right, well, thankfully we had the night game with Seahawks and Cardinals. But it just feels like every week they should just they should just flex things out every week and have the game of the week in prime time. We've seen, we're seeing, unfortunately because the coronavirus, that the

NFL can sustain itself with flexibility and the scheduling. Maybe it's time to start protecting prime time a little bit more. I don't all right, I'm gonna jump, I'm gonna piggyback Connie off KENNFC East because I want to talk to Cowboys specifically. Here we go this terrifying thoughts. The Cowboys are now two and five. Andy Dalton is a mess, Bunny Blucci. It sounds like my neighbor back in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Everson Griffin is on the block of rap sheet reported.

Have you ever seen a more obvious UH signal? Sending up the old bat trade signal to the Seattle Seahawks after their Gholston on Sunday night, Please take our aging veteran pass rusher. You need him more than we do. Dak coming off a gruesome lower leg injury, and we'll still command Mahomesian money on his next deal. Dallas obviously needs to kind of fix this roster and get some more flexibility. Yeah, here's a r if I thought the Cowboys might be tanking for Trevor, think about it. Think

about it now. Now the two wins is already putting you in a tough spot. I could put this flashlight on a new uh. So you almost have to come close to losing out to have any shot of it. But you wonder if they if things ever played out where they were either at number one overall or close enough to maybe make a godfather offer to get there, If Giarra would say, do I want to give four million dollars to Dak Prescott and try to fix a

broken roster? Or will I take a uber rookie Trevor Lawrence, get the flexibility of that rookie contract and take a swing at it from a different angle. I mean, the fact that I even can pitch this as a possibility tells you how off the rails things have gone. And doubt it is. It is scary. What why? I don't think it would be easy to pull it off. Is that they still have plenty of games against the NFC East and they're bound to and I don't trust them. I don't trust you NFCS. I did, but I don't.

But here's the thing, this coaching staff. Iff if even if you got everyone on board and said, look at you're all safe going into next year, I need you to find a way to lose. Like everybody don't need to try to lose. They're great at it. No one is better at getting blown out than the Cowboys. I just if you, if you tell Mike McCarthy and Mike Nolan, now your job is to lose these games, they will find a way to not get that job done and win three by the stat sounds like a movie, right,

was really the icing on the cake? Oh yeah, I love that idea. What if the coaching staff was so bad that the ownership went in and did the Castanza move where it's like, do everything opposite, and then that team went on a Super Bowl run. That's kind of the fun idea for a movie. And there might be you know, it might not just be Trevor Lawrence. Maybe it's Justin Fields. Who knows, there's other QB prospects, it's

pretty early. You're right. If the Cowboys are even in the top five area, that gets pretty interesting because as bad as the NFC East is, I think the Cowboys, even if Dalton comes back, are the worst by far because there those offensive linemen aren't coming back and their defense is showing absolutely no signs that they'll ever get better, like they could lose all those games. I'd be curious

what a Cowboys fan would think about that. If you were presented with that option, it would be good for Dac. You know, Doac deserves to get out of this franchise. He'll maybe land somewhere else, so you know, it might not be the worst thing. All right, Mark, all right, this is um a vision that I received, and it it I find it's something terrifying to ponder. It starts off sweet and it's Patriots Patriots based. It starts off suite with New England falling to Buffalo thirty to sixteen,

okay on Sunday, one day after Halloween. But then the Paths come out in week nine running the scheme that employs multiple centers in a dizzy rotation of backs and tight ends who received the direct snap wildcat style out of an old Air Force flexbone formation that Belichick has been studying. No quarterback is used, but Cam Newton has a major role. He has given the same giant shoulder pads worn by touchdown Tommy Vardell with the Browns in artifact that Bill Belichick has kept in a vault below

Gillette Stadium. Here's where it gets weird. Can becomes a rumbling nightmare who averages a hundred and five yards a game, while Sony Michelle, James White, Ryan Izzo helped the Pats to become an offense that passes for sixty five yards a tilt but run for four hundred and six yards per game. Down the stretch, all right. They blow the doors off Miami, Buffalo and the Jets over the final three weeks, and when the a f C East at eleven and five over Buffalo by tiebreaker, oh they're back.

They beat the Browns to seven in the first playoff till before knocking off the Ravens twelve to nine, and then beguiling the Steelers twenty to nothing in a contest that sees cam Izzo. When the Patriots hold the ball for forty eight minutes, you don't need steph On Gilmore. Then in Super Bowl fifty five, they surprise talking head chucklers by having Jared's Stidham out of nowhere throw the

ball twenty straight times to open the game. He goes nineteen of twenty with one drop by our pal Izzo to build a fourteen nothing lead over the Green Bay Packers. Belichick McDaniels then come out of the third quarter and hand the ball off to Izo fourteen straight times. He never gets more than four yards, but never less than three, and by going forward on fourth down every time, they carve up Mike Petton's little defense as little boy with a beard freaks out on the sideline, that drive eats

up fourteen minutes of the third quarter. Then New England answers a Teddy Bridgewater touchdown tossed to d J. Moore by having Julian Edelman go eight for eight passing out of the run and shoot out of nowhere in the final quarter with a touchdown strike to center David Andrews to the seven Super Bowl win. All our worst fears are realized. What a detailed vision. My favorite part of that was that is Oh would never run for more than four yards. Another lesson run for less than three.

That's just funny to me. The first thing I learned in Pop Warner. We had this coach and he was a great coach, but he he would go I think to the old Kawana's club after work and put a few down before coming to coach. Boys up and uh. He told us this before every game. Look, all I need to do is get three yards on every play. And I was like, well, you know, we'd think like,

but that gets us the fourth and one. He's like, we if you can get me three yards on every single play, we will go for it on fourth down every time, and we will maul every team we play. Now that did not unfold that way, I can promise you, but that was his theory. Are down when you drive home after a couple of Jane is just stable the speed limit and never make any illegal turns. That was he. It was a small town. He he knew his way home. Is that your worst fear? Though? Mark sounded like you

might enjoy that, like you've still got some nine. Yeah, you kind of would love it. I mean, if you're putting Cam Newton in one of those like the shoulder pads, like come up to the top of your helmet. I think that is chaos. You like chaos in all forms. But that's not That wasn't terrifying to me, that was sci fi. That was that was fantasy because the Patriots.

There's no saving this team. That's how we feel. Now you know what great coaching is gonna do for this team, Greg and I I'm I had Belichick as my Coach of the Year pick because I thought he was gonna be able to do it. But there's only so much one can do. I think he's gonna coach this team up to seven and nine. I think that's the ceiling year. Do you agree or disagree? Too many crazy things have happened in every season by that we never see coming that.

I wouldn't say that's the ceiling because you never know. But I'm not have no optimism. What's the record on January one? If I had to guess, I would probably go about, yeah, eight and eight, and even that feels optimistic very I mean, they've been one of the word. They've been the worst team in the league last two weeks, right there with the Jets. Do you like the idea of just having a rotation of guys taking direct snaps.

That is really innovative with multiple centers remembers, so like you don't even know where the ball is coming from. It's like he dips deep into like old Air Force schemes that were used to nearly beat Michigan in two thousand twelve. That kind of stuff. How exciting. Mark that was the best comedy sci fi since Spaceballs. Yes, another space Balls reference on the podcast. I don't get your fascination with that, with that, I've never even seen that film.

What what one word? You love it? Right? I know you're a space ball San. Let's go around the horn one more time, Connie. I'm just gonna go Connie, here we go? All right? So where is it? Okay? Uh? Here's here? My my internet is a mess? My computer? Slow god. Hey, here's a truly terrifying thought. Though. Imagine just imagine for a second being chased by DK Metcalf, Like is somebody who only runs one being chased. This

is a truly petrifying thought. Now, Buddha Baker not a slow dude, and DK Metcalf just full on sprinted the entire length basically of the field and took him down to the point that it even caught the attention of USA Track and Field, who invited him to Olympic Trials next year. So he's scary talented, he's only in a second year. He should be feared by all. That's my

terrifying thoughts. I love that, you know, I would say, this is what a thing I would love to see, because the funny thing is, I crossed my mind after Sunday Night Show when you went through the whole list of all the crazy stuff, we didn't talk about DK running down the pick six, the sure pick six, which

was one of the great plays. Uh, if you if you gave me an athletic contest of DK Metcalf, let's say Miles Garrett and then throwing Mahomes because obviously he's not as imposing as those guys, but he has these supernatural hand eye coordination gifts. And then just do a series of athletic events. I'd love to see, like who would win because net calf size, like combined with that speed, they maybe throw Derrick Henry and to get him in the competition too. I mean, it's just incredible to watch

what he can do. He had like tree on that tackle. Baker ran a four or four five and then and it was running away from everyone else. That was the part of it that freaked me out. It's like he was running away from other receivers and other defensive backs and then Metcalf just comes from But yeah, I regretted

not mentioning that as a big fumble. I've gotten some analytics people on Twitter a little bit annoyed because I've made light of the fact that don't tell me about the top speed thing, because everyone runs twenty one point seven miles per hour at their high speed, the fastest guys, but no, DK is the guy that broke that by

going twenty three. I think it's scaring that critique boot Like Buddha Baker had a ten yard head start and somehow someway d K was able to catch up with him and then just basically absorb him on the tackle. I think a big thing that helped him was obviously Buddha has the ultimate momentum, he steps in front of the ball and he's gone. But when you showed the replay, Metcalf was curling out of his route, kind of coming back toward the line of scrimmage, so he was kind

of going in that direction as well. That gave him the start he needed and then he oh my god, that was fun. If you put Metcalf at the end zone and me seventy yards away at the thirty running towards the other end zone, I'm not sure that my chances are good in that situation. Is that the whole eisen uh forty yard dash thing at the combine, I think they did that. It was something similar, and I think with the like the pre or they they put the little image of the of the haunting ghost player

on top. Catch enough to eyes and sure, all right, great, give us another one. All right, I'm gonna give you two really quick, the first one just because I want to throw it out there. It's a trade I could see happening. The best deep ball thrower in the league, Russell Wilson, the most unstoppable vertical offense in the league, and you just give them a little will Fuller on a contract year. Texans don't need him. Jack Easterby crawls out of his hole to make one last trade before

they get rid of them. But my my real scary thought is for Bengals fans, and you think about Geno Atkins not playing, Carlos Dunlap not playing a j Green. You know, making seventeen million dollars in your last year of Bengals and you know what you do, absolutely nothing like the last thirty years in your entire franchise history. That's your nightmare. That's scary, that is that's what they'll do. That's what the Bengals do. That's by the way, Zach

Taylor has three wins in twenty games. At some point you need to win some games. I know they're making progress on the competitive out, but at some point that was my Coach of the Year pick. I mean, there's still time, all right, Let's keep rolling here. Terrifying thought. Tom Brady kicked out Ricky wears my music. Tom Brady kicked out the door in New England. Don't listen to Greg or any of the other pr flax attached to that team. They thought they'd be okay without him. Right now,

he's playing like a top three quarterback. Gronk remember him. He wasn't kicked out the door in New England, but he stepped away. He was done with the Patriot way

and now he's continuing to improve. Antonio Brown hits the scene as pure Mr Big Chest and becomes a killer part of that offense, a defense led by Devin White knocking on the door of the superstar club, Anton Winfield Junior rolling toward defensive Rookie of the Year, the Bucks all these things together could become the overwhelming favorite to win the suburbal played in Tampa in front of ghosts because there's a global pandemic that ruined the world and

that's scary pirate ship, where's the nightmare. It's a terrifying thought that this team, as great as it's playing right now, if Antonio Brown gets there and finds a role in the offense, and I think he just might. Uh. And with everything else the way it is building, and and the Brady thing, really I talked about on Sunday Show

that jumped out to me. I mean, how awesome he looks the last couple of weeks, Like if you're gonna get that guy with this defense, and now you bring in the most productive wide receiver pound for pound in the history of the league, with whether you like him or not, a out to prove WHOA. I think it's delightful. I mean it's delightful for the NFL. Like Tom Brady at forty three, after everything he's done being supported by the best roster I think in the NFL and a

great coach. I don't know, like signed, sign me up? I even. I mean I'm rooting for him this year. I think it's one thing it helped with getting getting a tenth at Super Bowl appearance to tie his buddy Lebron but go for the seventh title. Yeah, I mean all that is exciting, And if you are a Patriots hater and you've suffered through years, the idea that he left there and is thriving while Belichick is scrambling just to be halfway mediocre. I mean, all this stuff could

not be playing out any better for Brady. Although there's a pretty big segment of the Patriots fan, maybe not as much in Boston, but I know a few who are kind of on board with it, that just loved Brady so much that they don't have the I think they're upset about the Patriots, it's not going to be their favorite team, but that they're they're going along for

the right. And then there's a larger segment who it drives them crazy and it feels feels possessive about It's different than like it's different than Brett Farve going to the Vikings. He didn't go to the Bills. I mean, he's in a different conference and you have to be probably from Boston to not find some small enjoyment. And in half these Patriots fans are gonna go back to being Celtics and Red Sox and Bruins fans solely in

about three years. So that's out started. End. I have one little related, last quick scary thought go ahead, and it's because looking I think that one thing that for all the all the fun poke to Tom Brady about his sports science, his diet, the truth of the matter is something about what he does, and it's d n A and it's everything else. It's got to be in right condition. He is forty three and looking better than most quarterbacks twenty years younger that can't even make the

throws he's making. So I think about the fact that if you're the little Raiders or the little Bronco out in your outposts thinking hey, we're good with Derek Carr and we're good Withdrew lock and you know you thought you came came into the year thinking we have to organize our franchise to take down Patrick Mahomes now Patrick Mahomes plays as long as Tom Brady, he'll be there till about which is a concerning thought if he's still

as good as Tom Brady is at his age. But now you also have to deal with Justin Herbert, the rookie that no one thought would be a factor and probably would be a dud, is looking like the next big thing, and suddenly the Raiders and Broncos have to pitch to their fan base. Drew Lock, you know, don't worry about his knee braves falling off as he dishes his knee into the snow and he can't make alls and the offense is a mess. We're great, Derek Carr.

He's gonna be the same forever. But you're fine. You're in a hot, boiling tank of water. If you're in the a f C West. It's two quarterbacks now, not one. Very scary and it goes for the rest of the A s C. Yeah. I The only the only pushback for for that for me is I don't think the Rays ever really were in the Brady sweepstakes because, as it was reported, he didn't want to leave the East Coast.

Wasn't that a thing? Well, I'm just saying that the Raiders car or Tom Brady for one year or not have to deal with Patrick Mahomes and for the next twenty years, and it was just Mahomes. Now it's two quarterbacks in your dad, Mark Davis wanted Tom Brady, and I did think about that while Mark Davis is watching um the Raiders from home because he refuses to go to his new stadium, which still which is awesome and

weird but kind of awesome. But then watching Brady shred the quarterback that he not so subtly threw under the bus in March. M hmm, all right, good, so that was truly terrified. Colleen. What are you bean for Halloween this year? Uh? Well, so I just found out that they want us to dress up for t NFU for a segment, So I UM trying to come up with something very quickly on the fly. So I guess you'll have to wait and see. It'll be a big surprise

for all of us, including myself. Maybe anybody transition. Does anybody have any ideas for Connie? How about tinker Bell? I feel like you would be a good tinker Bell. Yeah, so, okay, I'll tell you what I'm what I was thinking about. I'm thinking about dressing up as a trash can and being the NFC East. That's perfect. That's so good. They're not going to do that right now. That's good. You

should try it. That's good. Last year I was a wolf in sheep's clothing and I had them get me like the absolute most unflattering huge sheep costumes so I could be in that um and I like cut off the sleeves because we were in the desert. We were in Arizona for that game. So uh, we'll see. I mean, maybe they'll let me dress up as a trash can. This means crossed. They have no problem with you putting three of the market shares that basically carry NFL network

in a trash can on on Thursday night football. This is what you do. I will run to Spirit Halloween Connie for you, and I will buy you the Tinkerbell custom you hang up. You hang that in the dressing room so they think that's what you're putting on, and then five seconds before you go live, you roll out in the garbage can. I love it. I love it. Alright, you guys have to tune in see what happens and

see what I'm dressed up. There you go. And that is the transition to Thursday Night Football, the Atlanta Falcons at the Carolina Panthers. Falcons coming off another, I mean, just another just insane, ridiculous loss. We already knew they weren't going anywhere this year, but nobody needs that. And it did make me think, as Todd Gurley, you know, falls into the end zone for the go ahead touchdown, that actually is the steak through your heart. Somehow the

Falcons pulled that off. Uh. Dan Quinn watching that at home with a bowl of ice cream? Uh? Did he miss being part of the action or was he just feeling free that he wasn't connected to the curse of the Falcons? I don't know. Uh. And now they traveled to Charlotte to face the Panthers. Matt Rules team continues to be competitive week after week, but they have lost two in a row. Connie, you anchor coverage of Thursday Night Football for NFL Network. What are you looking forward

to here? Alright? A couple of things here. I still don't expect Christian McCaffrey to play in this game, but they haven't ruled him out yet. Um, he's pushing to play, and Tuesday they designated him for return from i R. So more than likely it's just he'll end up playing Week nine against the Chiefs, but there is still a chance he could play in this one. UM. Mike Davis, who has been his replacement, really struggled this week again or last week against the Saints. He's been dealing with

an ankle injury of his own. Now he's on a short week. UM. When you go back to Week five when these two teams played last though, Mike Davis had a really nice day. He had a hundred and forty nine scrimmage yards in that game. But there are a few things that are different UM this week compared to Week five when they played last. Matt Ryan won't have to deal with Kawan Shot or Eto Grossmatos in this game.

Obviously the Panthers lost short for the entire year, and then Grossmatos is on i R because of that ankle, and Matt Ryan on the other side, he will have Julio Jones this time around, which is obviously a big deal because I'm not sure this Panthers secondary. I think they're gonna have a hard time dealing with both Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley. Yeah, watching Julio last week with those option routes where him and Ryan are just trying to read the field the same, it's just a reminder.

It's like, yeah, it helps to have a first ballot Hall of Fame still playing, you know, Hall of Famer playing like really at the top of your game, because suddenly that opens up coverage for Ridley. It is a tough matchup for the Panthers. Um the Falcons are healthier in the back end to a j Terrell has been playing pretty aggressively Grady Jared's doing is I'm not saying this is a great Falcons team, but they're like the best one in five team you've ever seen. They they're

about three plays away from one and six. There are three plays away from being four and three. They deserve to be one and six because they find these ways to lose. But they're a tough out. I think it will be a good game, and I hope Ted, in his only prime time game of the year, balls out because he's coming off maybe his best game of the year. He's throwing the ball so well versus pressure. He really

reminds me of a young Breeze. He really does. I mean, not as good as Breeze, but Drew Brees doesn't take that sack leading to the sixty five yard field goal. Time. That was a tough one. It was interior pressure that came on a little quicker than he expected. You're you're right, now, you're right, You're right. Rule, Actually not even the Rule got on him yesterday basically saying he did have the opportunity. It was obviously water under the bridge, but he played

a great game overall. I agree with you, Locket pocket presence is there. He and you know Matt Rule, I think Greg basically, when we had Matt Rule on our show, Um, you know, I've been really waiting and excited to talk to Matt Rule. Greg opened the segment up by announcing that Dan and I UM had been on a campaign flaming Teddy all offseason and asked what Matt Rule thought about the other two chumps on the show. Um and

Matt Rule. I mean, the one thing I remember about that was his passion and total dedication to Teddy Bridgewater, the person, the player, the whole thing. And I still remain kind of suspect about what Teddy could be. And he's been great in this offense, I mean great and compared to what I thought he'd be se completion percentage.

I mean, the one thing I feel about the Panthers, and we've already been through this what the expectations were for where they are, But they're good players are playing well, like Robby Anderson has used really well. D J. Moore has used really well. And I know that you know, the defense was really young. They're thirteen and points allowed. I mean, they're not a total disaster. At the same time, I don't love the matchup. I mean they let the Saints go twelve or fourteen on third downs and pile

up four hundred and fifteen yards. And the Falcons, I mean, their strength is still that they can move the ball, and so I I think like it's gonna look to me like a lot of other Falcons and Panthers games, which is close in the fourth quarter. Um, the Panthers don't get blown out. They just don't do that. And

for reason, I kind of liked the game. I'd almost want to go lock up the Panthers here, but we that doesn't really jive with our you can that I got other ideas because it's also one of those games. It's NFC South, be team between two wacky teams. I don't need that drama that night. And I will say this because obviously there is still, even in the midst of a two games skid, an ongoing love affair with

the Panthers on this pot and that's good. I'm not a part of it, but I respect your guys admiration for this team. Better win a ball game on Thursday night. You better because guess what after that? You're at Kansas City home against Bucks and that's you know, that happy story about them being a playoff team. I mean, they're not going to the playoffs in this game or not. You can be staring at three and seven if you don't find a way to win this game, is what

I'm saying. Colleen. Now, you, of course, in one of your roles as the anchor of the NFL Network coverage on Thursday night football, is you get to interview real anyone you want. Basically, does I understand, I don't do. Does anybody ever turned down the opportunity to be the interview focus on NFL Network? Do you do they have that opportunity or how does that work? It has happened?

Who's who's turned you down? Let's name names? Oh my god? Well, all right, I won't How about the entire Saints team? About six seven years ago there was there was some you know but basically gets first DIBs on whoever the interview is. And then sometimes guys will double dip just to like pull the curtain back. Let you guys know how it goes down. Uh. And then sometimes guys can refuse to do the double dips, So then we have

to go with the second choice. Uh. Interesting, Okay, So let's say, uh, Fox, something horrendous happens to Fox gets swallowed up in a black hole. You get the first option for anybody you want. Who who would you love to be interviewing Thursday night? Teddy like it? Like abriage water, It's a good one. Can I want a credit to Carson Wentz by the way, who doubled dipped last week?

I noticed so now that I didn't know that that was how you know it all it all works there, but I saw that he doubled when well, no, I would say, speaking of Fox like I mean Troy Aikman is one of my favorite players growing up, and I for all the people that knock in my love is like, do you are you in Troy like pals? Now? I see you guys like you're interacting online or on air and just oh my gosh, we go way back. Listen, we're all just like we have text change. Are you text?

Have you texted with? Well, that's what I wanted to know. That's my part. I'm done, Colleen. I'm not even upset with you that you cheered from the stadium bleachers in when I was concussed with the old bed. Have you ever spoken to Troy Aikman, not on live television, like when we were on the road we would see each other and like you know, hotel lobbies and things like that and at the game. Yeah. Good, but that's pretty much the extent of it. Alright, good Erica. Are you safe? Yep?

Here I am. That pause made me one extra second there. Sorry. I'm thinking maybe it's time to move away from the window because of all the harrowing things that happened on Sunday, And I know you went through a lot. When I saw that creep walk across the window, uh that that gave me the chills and I don't want to have to see that again. So if you could maybe move maybe get with a wall separating you. The window just feels an extra layer of security. Never hurt anybody, it's bad.

And Thor's barking at the door right now, so I'm all like freaked out, like I'm I'm on the like there's a reddit post um where someone screen captured that moment where the man was seen between you know, outside your window, and it's like blowing up and a lot of people are concerned. Yeah, yeah, let's show that on that we put this show up on YouTube, right, I'm gonna give you a little extra work if you could and give us a shot of that for the viewers. Okay, Okay,

she's like, I'm not going to do that. I'm just gonna hope in uh in Two Men and a Baby where you see like the ghost in the background, yeah you know, yeah that was real, by the way. Yeah, and a lot of people were commenting that you guys didn't take it as seriously in the in the moment um, but we all were sort of finding out in real time what was going on off are you guys were very great. We did use it for entertainment value as we're getting killed on the subreddit. That's nice. Well, yeah,

well we will do we will. There are subscriptions. You had a guest bedroom, like I could come up, like I can just leave the house like you guys were great. I also said we didn't cut all that out of the show because once it felt like it became a serious situation. We didn't want to make light of it. But you were like, no, I need I need the clicks,

I need the there's that's what happened either. Now I didn't see it happen, but what I picture is exactly what I'm looking at it Dan screen right now, um with the scarecrow whatever villain behind him. So is that sort of what it was like? It was like, here, give me a full screen conn look at that. So this is basically what happened. That's the real sound. This is not added. Can Possy come come and live with me?

Come just come to the ranch. I'm coming. I'm all the day because this this is uh, this was too close for comfort. All right, We'll be back on Thursday, uh to preview all the rest of the games in week eight, And a reminder, um Thursday night, while Connie is doing her job on the network, I believe Greg and I will be handling recap duties of the NFC South showdown we just talked about. Uh so, thank you and Connie, thank you as always you always bring just

the ray of sunlight too. The show. That wasn't my dog. That's the other thing. She got a dog named Thor. A's seven pounds. How about we get a German shepherd in that apart of it, and now you actually have protection and not a But why is he barking like I'm just freaked out. You can just borrow Dasher, but you'll have to not have Thor Thereasher will take care of Thor as well. Okay, stay stay safe, Ricky, Connie,

good luck on this. Dan handsOn signing off for Quiet Storm, uh the Old Boss, Rickie Hollywood, the Tiny Box and Thor and Sam until Ursday