MNF Recap & Buy/ Sell Extreme Teams

their eyes are smiling. You're just giving me a major like Kristen Wig vibes of that characters the first time I've been called that, christ Wick. But now now back into the Wolf times. The main reason we're you here with you because you could blur that out right, blurt

out from my memory. But it's great to have me Connie sitting in for Mark Sessler, who is on the mend and uh, you know, we told Mark take your time, get right come back, and he is very antsy but also knows um he needs to give this little time. So Mark is on the right path. Everybody should know that he's not in hospital. He's recuperating at home, but he's taking it easy. And Connie nice enough to be

in the Sessler chair. And when you're in the Sessler chair, Connie Fox, that tiny box, you got to bring that Sessler energy. Well, I definitely had to come in this week after you called me big box last week, like that's not gonna happen. So that's that's a great way to get floaded huge box. I'm so sorry. I stand corrected, um, but now I don't think that one's gonna take um.

All right, I hope not. Please, and we will. You're always on on the Tuesday Show to talk Thursday night football, and we're gonna get to that in a little bit the Jacksonville's Jaguars at Cincinnati Bengals. We'll get caught up debate, caught up to date on if Colleen used any of m A t N slang and any other h A T N Easter eggs on last Thursday's telecasts on NFL Network. So I'm excited to hear about that. Uh. Coming up

later in this episode as well, we will. We're gonna break down any we called this buy or sell on extreme starts. So teams that are three and oh, teams that are own three, maybe teams that aren't winless or undefeated but have had kind of extreme starts if we want to touch on some teams there. So let's check in on where teams are as we head toward week four. But before any of that, we got to close the door on week three, and yes we gotta do it

in big d and talk about the Eagles. Let's do it, hurts and the gun got or sets right back to throw checked out. Don't even intercepted by games quit sound funny ny teks us Vane Smith's Phil down and tree v teaches the second tablet everyone to intersect passes in the first three games of the season. Connie is looking skyword for answers on this Eagle season. There are none coming. Brad Sham, the sham guy, per Kane r l D. I'll tell you what that n digs. The playoff. He's

a nice little playoff. Talk about it. Glow up, yeah, glow up. His pick six really sealed the deal early in the third quarter for the Cowboys, who got ahead early on the Eagles and coasted from their final at Jarro World. And Connie, you got a nice, a really nice win in week one on the road in Atlanta. Then the Eagles in week two, Uh, fight hard against the very good forty nine team come up short. Could have went the other way if they execute better, but

they didn't. And now how do you make sense of a total blowout at the hands of a division rival like this. The worst part was the fact that it was in primetime against the Cowboys, so it was just insult insult insult, And like I asked my mom yesterday before the game, what are you gonna do tonight? What do you what are you and dad up to? And She's like, We're gonna watch the Eagles lose, So she she already knew what was coming. That's the true Philadelphia exactly.

I'm wearing my bad Things Happen in Philadelphia shirt today because I can feel the anger all the way here in Los Angeles. Um, I I this This team looked a mess last night, and it started off right away with the Cowboys just coming out to such a hot start and they were feeling themselves and you could see it. At the half. The Cowboys had more first downs, I believe,

than the Eagles had run total plays. So it was just all so well the end of the first half, Greg, I don't know if you saw this that, but this was wild at the end of the first half, the Cowboys had a nineteen to one first down advantage. I mean it's outrageous, and even our response to it as a little outrageous because like Knyie, you're a Phillip Philly fan.

Gonzo is he's still a Philly fan. I mean, well, he you know, he was born there, so I guess it comes from the territory, but he was so actually he was born in Vegas. I stand corrected now. I think we have that in his bio. Maybe, but John has been in too many press boxes, so sometimes he has a detached viewpoint on sports. But you're saying that secretly he's a little upset about the Eagles, letting you down.

He when he doesn't really get upset about the Eagles or Philadelphia teams, he's either he's happy about it or then he kind of just laughs at them. So it's not really I think it's a mechanism more than anything else. And like what I was getting to is like I'm sneaky and Eagles fan. I don't know if you know that I really am. I think I always I always root for them. I've loved them since Andy Reid was there.

How can you not love Andy Reid was always one of my favorite, but Reid's now with the Chief seems to watch I know, but it's like, I know, I know people who like the Eagles, who maybe work for the Eagles. My daughter likes the Eagles for some reason, just like birds. Anyways, I've overrated them going into this, but they were like, they're not the main characters here. They're just kind of there, like this was a story about the Cowboys, that Cowboys are one of these stories

of the season. The Eagles maybe they'll have a chance to be friskier in the mix or not. Like everyone looked at this division is like, well, maybe it only takes seven eight nine wins. No, I mean the ceiling has been raised significantly. Number One, the offense, which you thought, okay, on paper, maybe this is one of the best offenses in the league, but for some reason I was doubting it. Um. I wanted to see Dak back from his injury. I wanted to see the offensive line all back from their things.

I wanted to see it all work again. And then you're watching for these three games and you're like, oh, wait, these are all veterans who have been with Kellen Moore forever who are awesome continuity, and a quarterback who's in total control. And then the bigger surprises that dan Quinn has their defense playing frisky, And suddenly I'm looking at this Cowboys team, I'm thinking this is not a division that should be close. They are gonna be the heavy

favorites in all their division games. They are the best offense, not just in division, but maybe in the entire NFL, and the this is gonna be a story I'm falling for. I mean, I'm not following for these Cowboys, but I'm believing. I don't know how much you can put, like how much stock can you put into the fact that the Cowboys with the Eagles looking so the Eagles hadn't given up a play over twenty yards like all season going

into this game. And I know they were playing the Falcons in the forty nine, but they were extremely competitive and looked pretty well coached on defense. And I know they've lost some players and that that's gonna hurt them, but to me, it's more just about great offense versus a good defense. In great offense is gonna walk walk them all over the field, kind of like they did to the Chargers. Even though that it didn't show on the scoreboard. They they have moved the ball really well

three straight weeks. I wrote in the new Power Rankings the first line, I wrote, the Cowboys look like the best team in the NFC East, and it's not particularly close. So this idea that a lot of us had come in into the season that this division could play out like it did last year, where it's a bunch of fumbling teams around five hundred. Maybe a ten and seven team comes out of the mix, but it's probably like nine and eight beats out eight and nine to go

to the playoffs. I don't know, man, this looks like a ten or eleven win Cowboy team. And if we're given Kellen Moore credit, we're giving dan Quinn credit. I know he's not a popular character here, but Mike and I know they made some time management. You know what he's gonna do is watch Kellen Moore become the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys like after this season, even if they go to It's it's one of my least

favorite tropes of this podcast where we become enemies. We we see veteran coaches as enemies and don't give them any credit without realizing that they're running the operations. So if the coaching staff is thriving, you have to give the boss some credit. He's not a boss getting a massage up there by himself during team meetings. Oh wait, he was at some point, but that was a long time ago. The point being that Monday was filled with

Mojoe moments, uh for Mike McCarthy's team. And it's not just it's not just Ceedee Lamb and a Marii Cooper that are making big plays. It is Ezekiel Elliott. After all that Hanry Zeke looks fine, he had a big game here. It is Tony Pollard. It's it's a great one to punch there. Dalton's Dalton Schultz is making plays. I don't know where they get these guys, these Nova check Witten Schultz types, but the Cowboys always seemed to

do it. And Trayvon Diggs um they needed stars and talked about this before the season to emerge on defense. Michael Parson seems like he's gonna be that guy. Trayvon Diggs could be a star in the back end. I do want to just point out to with all the Tony Pollard buzz that was going on, like he wasn't face saying nearly the amount of stack boxes that Zeke was so a lot of that had to do with

his success early on in the season. But this game, I know that we don't want to talk so much about the Eagles because they were such a mess, but I do want to just say I thought that it was really weird the entire game plan, the fact that they didn't run the ball, especially in the first half, Like, yeah, I know, you fall behind, you don't run the ball, but they did not come out and run at all.

I mean to surprise him. And they're the Cowboys. Third string back Corey Clement, who used to actually play for the Eagles, had more carries than the Eagles number one guy Like this that should not be Where does this coaching staff fall on Miles Sanders. It doesn't seem like they are interested in making him a focal point of the offense, and he's shown in the past that he could be that. Yeah, and the first two games of

the season the Eagles ran the ball. Well, it's like you know what, Nick Sirianni and your highlighter and your visor, why don't you like focus on how about the way he puts his pen in the side of the visor, like me, the wrong way. Listen, tough game script there for their running game, so you got to say that. But also it's a team that got penalized thirteen times for eight six yards and um, it was just we'll bury the ball game. They don't make sense unless there

were a really great running team. And you know, I've been wrong about a lot of things this season, getting too excited about the Eagles, thinking that they could be kind of Baltimore North? Are they north of Baltimore? Nailed it that their offense only makes sense if Jalen hurts and their running game is the basis of it, And it wasn't that way in Week two against San Francisco. They really didn't run it that effectively, or he scrambled a lot, but it was just out of structure scrambles

and they didn't even try in this game. And to me, that's like the only way that they're gonna make sense and be frisky. But like, you gotta give Quinn, who hasn't been um a coordinator for a while, some credit that we've all we wanted out of this Cowboys defense is just like, hey, can you be average, because if you're average, then this team is a championship type content

under And they've been frisky. They've been missing players up front, including DeMarcus Lawrence, and yet they're still getting a lot of production. It's not it's not just Parsons, it's the rookie a Diggy Zooa is playing pretty well for them. Um, we know Parsons is gonna be like a defensive rookie of the year. Digs is a player. J Ron Curses played great at like safety. They don't need to be amazing. Suddenly I think, like, I don't know, this could an

offense they have and they have great potential. It's like they're throwing a right They're throwing a right tackle for Lyle Collins and he stuffs the Eagles all night. He was that. You didn't hear a word out of Terrence Steele. I am gonna appeal to your desert, desert loving life, Greg. I'm gonna set the over under now after three weeks for the two one Cowboys at ten and a half, I'll go over back. I want to look at the schedule, but I would go over. I did pick them to

win the division. Oh look, there's something I had picked Washington, I believe, but that doesn't feel like it's it's gonna happen right now. But it's still very early. Let's see what happens. But for now, the Cowboys ruled the East and it seems definitive. All right, that's Monday night football. Oh and they might have the best quarterback in the league too. I mean that we didn't bring up that.

I'm just saying like, that's like, That's the thing that gets me going more than anything is that he is a veteran quarterback who has been surrounded by these players in the same system. It's pretty rare in the NFL to have a group together like this, and maybe this is the group it all comes together because he seems like to me, he is like the Peyton and Eli Manning. I was watching the Manning cast for the first time

last Eli threw up the double bird. That was That's why I said, blur it out, blur out the loss because Walker Walker hates the Manning cast. So while he's a way, we watched the first half together. My son he's like, what are these guys talking this this tract and he doesn't want it. But once he went to bed the second half, watched the Manning cast. It's amazing by the way, Mark was totally right. I don't need the guests just I just want to hear the mannings.

The analysis is better than any guests. But yeah, but any analysts, like they have way better analysis. But what I heard from both of them was like their appreciation for a kindred spirit and Dak Prescott that I know they love all quarterbacks, but like I said it a couple of weeks ago to when he played Brady, like who is the successor to the Brady Manning type of quarterback? To me, that's Dak Prescott like more than any quarterback in the league. Like he is in control of everything,

he understands everything, and that's him and Kellen Moore. But I just think he's he has more like more next level mental things to go and you are going to have to really throw some things at him, a different call every other play, Like Nick Saban was one of the guests, not that keep Bramley and I'm sorry, just like making a joke he learned when he was the Dolphins, because it was like if I showed you the same coverage two plays in a row, we learned that we

were dead, like that was something you just can't do in the NFL. And that's what Doc is to me. It's like Tom Brady, Dac those guys, like if you don't keep mixing it up every other play, he's gonna freaking kill you. I saw everybody ripping Saban because he had terrible lighting. Was he like he had he didn't really understand there's like a game going on, and he

sort of treated it like an interview. He had some pretty interesting answers actually, of like why doesn't everyone play hurry up all the time, like like they do in college? And I was just he's just because, like it really hurts the defense and that's how every college team plays. And I was like, that's that's a good note. But that was Nick Saban. But he was an NFL head coach, right he was. He was, Yeah, those Dolphins teams were underrated. Um they He took a terrible roster and went in

and six, which is a little okay. Nick Saban was a great NFL. Now do we have to litigate everything? I'm just saying, do you remember that first Saban season? They were they were a winning team with the terrible it was you know, a fairly unmemorable run. He's like a college guy. But maybe you're right, what was that two thousand four or something later than that six, because it was Drew Brees is his first year in New

Orleans six and seven. The dack thing, I think is snuck up on a lot of a lot of us because before going into I don't know if it was the year before or last season, you weren't quite sure where he fit in in terms of his he and elite guys. He's stepped below and now there's just no question because a lot of it was like, oh, well, he's got Ezekiel Elliott, and it felt like that he was almost Zeke was like the face of the offense at that point. Um, all right, now let's get into it.

I uh, I did some research. It's very busy. Tuesdays are very busy for talk about talk about Tuesday. Golden Tate didn't know about talk about I was disappointed. He just called you Dan, the man, right, the man. Then he's like hey Dan, and then I was like, hey, what's up? Called He's like, You're not so this is a good morning football? You're not so excited to talk to me? I guess. I was like, I don't know. I said, hello, what am I supposed to do? It was a weird moment, made me laugh. Gold take oh

my good man. On a UM's doing a nice job in the uh, the Nate chair. You're in the Mark chair. Golden's in the Nate chair. Um by cell on extreme starts, you're in the Connie chair. I mean, she's done enough full shows at this point there. I mean, we can put press on you. What do you You don't need to be on the White Night a horse right now? Greg. I'm of course Connie's a part of the show. She's the fabric of the show. But I was just mentioning that that's Mark's chair. Dan, how is Gregg making you

feel today on the show? He's hurting me. But I was kind of pivoting this to like, we can have a weekly chair here for you on Tuesdays. That doesn't it's so nice she would take us up on that. Yeah, it doesn't have to be like one time thing where you'ren has another podcast now on Tuesday's Well wait were we record on Tuesday's? Uh? And it drops on Wednesday's next week coming up split ends, It's basically odds and

ends just a whole podcast of it. That's so you jack the I P of this program for your own. That's fine. That happens a lot. I think it's smart on NFL media. But hey, Erica, what is this show about? Like where do you come in? And are you gonna be given us spitt in some takes to or you just make fun of Colleen during the episode, Like how how do you see it playing out? No, it's both of us. We're talking about fun um stories around the league,

like Matt Naggie was in a McDonald's hiring commercial. I mean you can't. I mean, yeah, see this, this is the stuff that you will learn. Damn all right, talking about the fun stuff around the league and split ends have some scoop there. It is ice cream that we're going to taste us next week. Yeah, that's fun. Do you think photo shoot yesterday that was fun? Do you think Colleen is in it for the long hole? You think she's going to be on the show every week?

Or it's gonna be one of those things where she's on the first episode and then the second episode ends up getting delayed two days, but it goes up and then all of a sudden weeks, you know, six and seven, she's out of town on or something like. Definitely, where's your concern level that this is not gonna be a regular level? Isn't isn't good? We had a good business meeting over coffee yesterday. I think we kind of set

our expectations. I think dam Posey is looking at this as a real opportunity to have her own show coming up in the future. Yeah. Yeah, the show must go on, whether Connie's there or not. All right, check out split ends. When's the first episode? The trailer dropped today, So The Feet is live on Spotify. I heart Stitcher. Good, I'll check that out. Subscribe, subscribe, everybody. Let's take a break. Let's get to it. I did my research, is what I was trying to say. Even though it's talk about

Tuesday and I'm very busy. I love that. Um I checked in. There are five three and no teams. This is research. There are five oh and three teams? Okay, and uh but it's still wait three, Greg, and and a lot can change. So maybe we could cherry pick from those teams. And uh, let's start there, Greg, Let's start with the Windless and Undefeated teams, and then we can get to the teams that are have a winner or two wins also, But um, why don't you get

a scone? Mr Rose? You I mean I would see I was going to pick a non a non winless team, But let's let's start with the Broncos then, because that's kind of what I was kind of leading toward. I knew you. I wanna well, I just want to hear where you guys are at with them, because look, they they've won three games by the score of seventy six. That's you know, if you just heard those status would think that's awesome. This is the best team in the

league point differential. I don't think anyone sees them that way. But now that they're gonna face kind of the the meat of their schedule to get Baltimore this week, I'm curious how you guys kind of I think they can move through this season because the injuries really concerned me so far. If you name the players that are out

for them, it's a lot of their best players. kJ Hamler blew out his knee this weekend and that that was a bummer because we know we already lost Jerry Judy and Courtland Sutton, even though he popped in week two, it's still a guy that's coming back from a serious

knee injury himself. So you're you're wondering there, But I will tell you this, Greg, So I have I have the Broncos at twelve in the Power ranks, which is kind of like waiting, not really buying, but also I'm in wait and see mode, but also given them respect for winning three in a row. It is just and this wasn't something I did for effect. It's literally the situation that they their season, their wins are against the teams that are thirty, thirty one and thirty two in

the Power rankings. Like, you can't make this stuff up. Historically, this is one of the softest starts to schedule you've ever seen. So my my issue is not that I don't think they're good, because I think they are. Even though they're beating bad teams. They seem sound on both sides of the ball and well coached. I just don't know how you can't be in a little bit of a hold mode until you see what they do against the real competitor. And I think the Ravens certainly fit

the bill. I this is a great game to look forward to. And Week four this was going to be my first team that I was going to sell on the show because you look at the quarterbacks that the teams that they be. Yeah, I am, I am because I love you know what I do. I love Teddy Bridgewater, Greg Um. I want you to know that. I want

you to just like the defense is very talented as well. Um, But beating the Giants, Jags and Jets who are now combined oh and nine, Um, that doesn't really uh inspire a whole lot of confidence and doesn't light up your Christmas tree cuming. It does not, That's not what it does. I just want to see them beat teams that aren't left. Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, Zack Wilson like the Ravens absolutely will be a better test for them this week. I

like that they have the plus three turnover margin. Um, that's kind of what you get when you have steady Teddy in there. But decision making in the past, he's almost been overrated for it, like he made a lot of mistakes considering he's not like a big playmaker and he has been on the money. I do worry the handler and Judy. I mean, those are your two kind of quickness guys that get open in space. Patrick and Sutton are similar players. They're not gonna get that open.

They're the guys on the outside, but they have a running game. If Glasgow and m and Riisner, who are there two guards who got hurt in that game, are coming back, Judy gets back eventually, maybe Chubb gives you something like their Their offense has been really good. I know, I know the matchups have been solid, but like they looked like the best offense so far against the Jets,

you know what I mean. Like they looked like they've been very under control, well coached, and they have a really good one to punch in Javonte Williams and Melvin Gordon. I think that Teddy is undeniably an upgrade over what they had last year, and and I am leaving the door open to see that he's gonna actually be closer where you saw him and be a legitimate good quarterback. I don't think he's ever gonna win a Super Bowl.

I don't think this is a super Bowl team, but I am buying in the sense that I do think inc with this hot start with the fact that there. They look so good. I think they can win ten games. That's where I kind of pegged them right now. Not a dominant team, but a solid team that might end up eating up one of those wild card spots. I'm just worried about the health of the team, like that's

an issue. I mean, Chubb being on I R with the ankle injury, and obviously, um, you just have you have a lot of you as another guy didn't mention one of their highest paid players. Yeah, so I'm buying it like a discount is that? I mean, ten wins is going seven and seven the rest of the way, And I know it's a tough division and you're gonna have to play the Browns for instance, out of Division two. But I'm more optimists. So you're buying, but you don't

feel great about the purchase. Yeah, I feel like buyer's remorse could happen. But I also I'm not buying it and thinking, oh, I'm gonna put this right in the middle of my living room. Now I'm thinking of them as like some type of piece of art or something like like a boss like this one. I'm gonna actually put this maybe in the guest bedroom on the dress you know, the dresser that used to be in my bedroom.

And then I got a better addresser, so I'm moving gets all of the recycled stuff that you kind of just want to push out of where it is in your house. So I bought like a you know, moderate vase. The brown goes to me, all right, what about you? Okay, So I am selling the team the last team that I saw on Thursday Night football. I'm going to sell the Panthers, who are so right up the bat, the two three and oh teams that everyone's freaking out about Connie selling on them both. And and it's like, um,

it's a light cell on the Panthers. Um, but I just think that Sam Donald, Yes, he played he played well. Um, he's played well this season. I liked last week he

had the two rushing touchdowns. Um. I'm just really worried about Christian McCaffrey and this offense if he loses significant time because when he went down in that game with the hamstring injury in the second quarter, Uh, you could see that Donald was a little rattled and then he shook it off and was okay, And everyone's thinking, Okay, it's just a Hamshire and they didn't put him on I R. But honestly, based on what I saw after the game, when I was leaving the stadium and I

saw Christian McCaffrey and he was he was on the car. It was sitting in the front seat with the driver. He had crutches, he had his hood over his head, and he the look on his face it looked like he was sick, and that made me feel sick for him. So it's just to me in that moment looking at him, and that's that's not any inside information or anything else. It's just a gut feeling. By looking at his facial expression, it just doesn't seem like it's something he's going to

be bouncing right back from. And I think that that will really hurt the offense. I think you're absolutely right. I think this Sam Donald's experiment in Carolina really hinged in a lot of ways on having cmc B be the lynchpin, and and the fact that he's not on I R. Tells you they think they could get him back within three weeks. However, you actually saw Christian on

the cart. I I wasn't even part of the conversation, but I overheard a conversation with a prominent retired NFL player UM at some point in the last twenty four hours, and I'm trying to right now, he was saying, like, that's that's major. That's a problem. That's a problem because even if even if uh McCaffrey comes back, that's something that sticks with an athlete. If you really pop a hamstring badly and to expect him not only to come back, but to come back and be the workhorse again, his

body is probably not going to allow that. And I would imagine a lot of McCaffrey's UM. What made him so upset that night is he missed all of last year and now he has another injuries just making a stutter step. So I'm selling with you. And I'm curious where you stand Gregg on Donald because we haven't had a really a chance to talk about him yet, and I know you've been famously kind of out on him,

UM the last couple of years. I sometimes I feel like I can't even provide any real analysis with Donald because it's just it's a little too hot for a Jets spend to try to figure out where things are at right now. I see him and I'm watching him. Was like he's definitely better than he was in his

last year or two in New York. But I also see a guy that maybe five weeks from now, we're gonna have a different view of what his season is with the With the Panthers, Yeah, he hasn't had to do much beyond hit his first read, and he's done that well. Like he puts it in there, he's been pretty accurate. There was a couple of second reaction plays where he had to do something on his own. Generally,

if you pressure Donald at all, he struggles. And their whole offense so far has been McCaffrey or DJ Moore on these option routes, and they're gonna have to expand that. That said, I think that's great coaching. Like they they've almost put a clinic on like week one, we're gonna do this, then we're gonna build it up a little more than we're gonna build it up a little more. And you look at their schedule. You got the Cowboys this week. That's a tough game and a better defense,

but not a defense that scares you. And you've got a lot of winnable games until a totally brutal stretch run. Their last four games is at Bills, the Bucks, twice at the Saints, which is just crazy. But I see a lot of doable games. To me, I think the offense is gonna be good enough. It's whether the defense can be this like otherworldly and whether that's just about the fact that they've played Zack Wilson, Jamis Winston and

Davis Mills. Yes, that's probably a big factor. Like if their defense can stay in the top seven defenses, let's say, all year, then they are for real. I'm just holding because I think I think they're gonna be a story all season. I think they're gonna be in the playoff mix and they might. They might get to the playoffs and playing the Cowboys though, with that defense, and that's your biggest question to see whether or not they're sustainable.

Losing J. C. Horne is a huge huge blow for that defense, and we hope possibly return later this year, but he's going to have to have surgery. They just traded for C. J. Henderson to try and help, but that's that's stuff in the middle of a season. A C. Henderson has already struggled to adapt to the pro game after being the ninth overall pick. Also kind of interesting that and it's one of those things where summer football tap talk, you know, the football got just laugh at

you all that Sam Donald Dan Arnold talk. And now that's not even the thing anymore because it's not even on a team. But obviously, um that was, Yeah, we'll see something there. I mean, that's that's a not a top ten pick four years ago. That was last spring, the ninth pick and the entire draft with C. J. Henderson a cornerback that has elite skills, so maybe a

change of environment that could be a steal. And then if J. C. Horne gets back, whether it's this year or next year, you might have a serious nucleus in that back end. Now I am going to buy on a team because we can't just sell on everything. I kinda show is this. We were doing our around the NFL TV show the broadcast with ysh and Claybone on Friday,

and they'll be joining us again this weekend. About I don't know, Greg, it was about an hour and forty minutes to the show, and You're like, have we just been relentlessly negative in so I'm gonna do something positive and and maybe we'll be more positive on the television program Friday as well. I'm buying on these Raiders. I'm in um, I'm buying on the start. It seems sustainable to me. Um. It's been dramatic, of course, dramatic wins over the Ravens, a dramatic win over the Dolphins. That

was a fun, weird game, by the way. The Dolphins score fourteen, the Raiders score the next, then the Dolphins score the final eleven, then they trade field goals, and then the Raiders win on that amazing one of the best games of the season. Great game, and UM happy that Handsome Hank was there with his son, and his son got to slap Dan Reino's hand coming out of the tunnel. Just a great, great thing. But anyway, the Raiders are a vibe in that in that stadium. And

now we look at their schedule. So the three and all they got across the sidewalk here on Sunday, they got the Chargers. That's a tough Monday night. That's on Monday night. That that that is a great game. And imagine they win that game. If they ever got past the Chargers this weekend. It's not crazy that they could beat the Chargers. They then get the Bears at home

at Denver, another toughie home Eagles at aance. So I think there's a very real chance at the midpoint, well what was the traditional midpoint, but now just about the midpoint of the season, they're gonna be six and two or seven and one even uh, and that is gonna that's gonna play. That's gonna play to the point where in a loaded AVC West you might actually have a chance to win that division. I'm not getting ahead of myself there because I know what the ratives have done

in past years under John Gruden, but this year feels different. Yeah, or n Greg, I'm buying. Yeah, I'm buying because I think the defense, similar to Dallas, is gonna be okay enough. It's been better than that so far. They've won, you know, two kind of crazy close games, so there's some variants there. Derek Carr can't play any better, but I don't think that that should be used as a negative. He's just playing the best that he's ever played like. He is

one of the five best quarterbacks in the league. That no question about it. He's someone who's been the system a long time. He's got enough weapons. Yeah, yeah, that yeah, this whole division. I'm buying the whole division. I said that last week. I was kind of trying to say, I think all these teams are good. That's possible, you're buying the whole division. I just I just bought it up the Raiders. Oh yeah, that's true. We are we are the best that we try to avoid those things

that we are the best time zone. I mean, our sports schedules way better, pretty good. The weather is better, Yes, West Coast biased in your time back East. I love the NFL schedule, It's great. The Raiders were the team that I had the most questions about for this exercise. I wanted I couldn't tell if I was buying or selling or or what I should do here. And I just have so many questions about them because I wonder if they can consistently outscore better offenses in the league.

Their defense, I think has a couple of questions with the linebackers and in the secondary. Lamar definitely helped them out Week one with the fumbles and Jacobi Porsette and the Dolphins just took them to overtime. So I don't know what you guys are thinking about the Dolphins, But does that maybe give you a little bit of pause, maybe temper any of your expectations after seeing that game.

It Actually what it did was remind me how smart the Dolphins are for having capable backup quarterbacks, because I thought Jake Brisket played really well there in that game. Yeah.

I don't think the Raiders are obviously dominant by any stretch on defense, but they have an identity with that pass rush now, uh, and if they could just you know, make enough plays car with this offense, they have a chance to do that thing that we talked about so many teams now in the modern NFL just play okay defense and then score like hell when you have the ball. And that's what they've been able to do so far, thirty three and thirty one points in the first three

weeks there. Yeah, their offensive line like has been a little up and down. There, a totally different team than they were the last few years. They're not a great running team. The offensive line is up and down. But I do think they're getting enough contributors in the defense where I'm like, Okay, I see you, guess, Bradley, it's like the race to the middle, like every I almost

feel like not that defense doesn't matter. And this is this was like a hot take on PFF at one point where you know they were they were saying in an outlandish way, defense doesn't matter. But there is something to the fact that defense doesn't matter as much as offense. And defense is like number eight through four in the NFL. I don't know if there's that big of a difference. It's just sort of like, can you get make a

couple of plays in a given week? All right, before we go around one more time, let's take a break. Oh professional, Alright, we're back. Before we get to any other ones who want to throw out there, I just want to hit these oh and three teams real quick, Jags, Jets, Giants, Colts, Lions. On Good Morning Football. They put up a graphic which is just and tells you the state of Big Apple is Western New York has nothing to do with this, uh,

Northern New Jersey football. The Jets and Giants are tied for the worst record in football since I believe the number was seventeen and forty nine. It's it's something like that because I saw Garafolo tweet that out and think about that. But of these teams, Jack's Jets, Giants, Colts, Lions. Obviously we're selling I would think on all these teams, Connie, but can you make a case for one of them digging themselves out of the grave clawn out dirt under

the fingernails? I thought, I honestly thought that before Sunday the Giants would be able to win because such a bad loss of the problems killed them bad. And that came after the Thursday night game against Washington, that they should have one and they basically had won that game seventeen different ways until they just crushed themselves with penalties, eleven penalties and obviously that one at the end that was the killer. Well what about the Falcons and Dori Jackson?

I think we brought it up but on Sunday night, But that again, you gotta close out games. So yeah, you can make a case maybe the Giants should be actually two and one. But the problem, Connie, is then you look at their schedule coming up. They're not two on one, they are oh and three. They have no wiggle room, and they're now they got to go to the Superdome, which is gonna be on fire. It was

literally on fire a couple of ago. Now it's gonna be on fire emotionally with the Saints team that's gonna want to put on a show back and uh, Nola do is gonna be called Nola down there? Greg, Yeah, people say no, Nolan's um. That's gonna be a great vibe for the Saints and their fans. The Giants are in a lot of trouble. Yeah, the the schedule after that game, and they're not They're not cooked and they were they I think they've been the best of all these teams, like their eighteenth and d V o A

the Giants are. That doesn't surprise me because to me they've kind of looked mediocre. But the Colts would be the one. Can you buy in on the Colts getting back to and making this a season again? I can yes, because of the organization, because they have moved the ball pretty well this year and more than anything, just like hoping that the Titans don't run away and hide there.

There are some soft spots in this schedule. You know, you've got the Texans, when you got the Jets, the Jags, you got you know, Texans twice, Jacks twice, Like you could stack up some wins, but you have to start doing it. Soon. They've they've moved the ball fairly well, but like Carson Wentz on injured ankles is just not like an exciting It's so bad and I can't even imagine what his mental state is after last season with

the Eagles getting crushed out and playing like Wow. I didn't realize Philip rivers shoes were so big to fill, but I guess they were. I tried to tell you, yes, we all is Phil coming back? Is that still going to happen? There was that report at the end of August. They need to be competitive because they also give up a bet. You got a root for Carson Wentz to stay healthy as an Eagles, you get a better draft. They really think there will be a controversy at some point.

Yeah that if they're like two and seven, they're like, oh yeah, we gotta sit went down and get him a hundred percent healthy for that getting absolutely, that's a that's a first round pick on the line and that's a good call. Greg. They will absolutely that's like a karma thing for Philly pulling its starters against the Giants against Washington, for the Giants to lose the division especially, and it's it's so tellent because you just saw a CJ.

Henderson get traded as a number nine overall pick. I know urban Meyer. Before urban Meyer was hired, there was no such thing as the Jaguars to urban Meyer, so there's no sense to try to work with a guy that talented. But in general, once you start to get the calendar turns over to December, and then of course through the early stage of the offseason, it's crazy how draft obsessed these organizations are and how draft pick obsessed

they are. And when the Colts, if they internally turned the page too, they're gonna freak out about that pick, and they're gonna say, there's no way we're giving that thing up. To ride out the string with Carson five games, which might happen naturally, they might not have to do anything messy divorce because he's gonna want to play. Okay, okay,

my comeback player of the Year prediction not looking alright. Greg, Do you want to throw out either two and one team or one and two team that has been extreme to you? Us extreme team in the league to me is the Saints in terms of just being up and down. I'm buying them at two and one. Marshawn Lattimore I think could have an all Pro cornerback season. Him missing Week two was a big part of them, uh struggling so much in Carolina. Cartney Chauncey Gardner Johnson too missed

that game. When they were back on the field, and Dennis Allen has that front kind of cooking. They still have the bones of a really well coached I think difference making defense. There's only some defenses that matter around the NFL. I think they're one of them, and I think as the season goes along, they will figure out something with this offense, assuming Torn Armstead comes back at

left tackle, which they should get them back at some point. Uh. The offensive line is really good, and I just think if you look at the Saints history, they often closed much stronger that by the time we get to mid November, that they can figure some things out offensively, they can stay alive in the meantime, and they have been through a lot this year, and I think that should come out of that stronger than ever. And they're gonna be in New Orleans this week. I know the team, they're

just so excited to get back home. I know Mulligan's don't count in our league, but if you want to give them the mulligan for week two and they had COVID issues and injury issues, and they're like five weeks into their road, like they've got like the cafeteria worker coaching up the defensive Exactly. If there was any time to give a mulligan, even if you can't do it

in the standings, it's that. So if you take out week two, awesome, Week one against the Pack, really strong Week three against the Pats in New England, and I know that Pats aren't the same anymore, but still that was a really good effort. Uh yeah, I'm buying too. I think that I think and they might not be that watch or fun. I mean, they're they're deef, They're passing game Is is a tough well. I'm buying Sean Payton. I'm buying defense defense tomorrow, but I'm not. I'm still

not buying Jamis now. Unless you like a rock in the QB index. I was gonna say, unless you can in two thousand one build a quarterback proof team that's probably going to bang him in the end, Which is why I have the vikings is that wanted to extreme team that I'm into because I just think again. No, you don't get anything for coming close. But they could easily be three and oh right now with a little

bit luck in execution, and they were Connie. They were brilliant on offense against the Seahawks, shredding him in every direction without Dalvin Cook and Mike Zimmer sat after the game it was the best offensive game he's ever been a part of as a Vikings coach. I like the Vikings going into the season. I picked him to make the playoffs over the Saints, and I think they are a better team. And I just want to give a

shout out to the Vikings fans. I think we kind of sleep on the U. S. Bank Stadium as in the conversation of best home field advantage. I love. I love that stadium and I'm sure you've been in there on Thursday nights when the places on fire. And I'm not just talking about the horn, although the horn was just going on constantly throughout that games down rolling up,

it was it was a horn fest. Um, I always said something else, but like, it is a team that I think is going to build off that Week three performance and they will be in position like eight and five as they entered December. I feel that about the Vikings and buying. I was really impressed with Alexander Madison too, coming in six uh for one twelve. I mean, he just it felt like he kept ripping off these runs

that were pretty pretty long, just breaking off there. I just think that that that team is a little spicy and especially right I know, and that's the thing because I don't I keep being like, well, I don't buy into Kirk Cousins, but then I watched and I'm like, I don't know, Kark Cousins is like not that bad right now. And I loved the quote that he had this week. I think it was this week when he was saying that Kyle Shanahan told him that his swag is having no swag, and I was like, oh my god,

that's the most accurate thing I've ever seen. That's his cousins in that cube that he talked about in the summer, the plexiglass. I won't get the shot, I won't get the jab cube staying healthy because he obviously is vulnerable because he's not vaccinated. But so far, so good. This is what Adam Phelan said. It's been a different Kirk. He's just locked in and on time. He's trusting it so that I mean that's a sometimes a narrative. You know,

he's different now. It was just playing really well, but he has He's throwing up some He's got some passes that I don't think he would in the past, like that completion to kJ Osborne last week on the late third down. That's a ball that I feel like Cousins eats to be safer, you know, but instead he did a little Kyler Murray imitation, backpedaling and throwing it. And he's made some plays on the run. You do have a Thursday night game? Are you going all season to

every stadium for the London game? They're gonna be hosting Steelers week fourteen? Is Kirk Cousins? Um like, would he be a good guy on the podium? Well, you gotta be on the podium before and it was awkward, I remember, because it was not your right. Yeah. Yeah, they were having issues, but that's against the Steeler. Is like, um, yeah, you don't. You know, you want to be careful with Kirk. But maybe he'll bring me make it go in the cube and lower him from the seat. Jokes about that.

I'm sure it'll go great. I think. I think for some of the weeks, every team is different. So sometimes we'll have a player up with us on like the dais. Other times we'll have a player just like throwing headphones on from across the field. So maybe sometimes you Sam Darnald and he'll just be like, this crowd is great. It was. It was even worse. It was like that

was my favorite. We're gonna get to there's a public since you brought it up, Darnald, you guys, you have him on the day is it's it's an exciting time the Panthers at three and oh it's a home game. You got you know what. Two wasn't a home game. It was just two hundred fans like right by the set and you guys t M I say, you said, Sam, look at this. They're all here for you and celebrating with you. And then the cameras on Sam Andy goes

it's awesome. And then but then and then there's say like a three second pause from you, Steve and the gang, and you guys are waiting for Sam to give you something else, and it just never came. And then I don't know who it was, but there was like a chuckle, and then I was like, Okay, well, I wasn't going

to get it. I didn't even to ask him about that, but I couldn't ignore it because as soon as we stopped, the Panthers fans were just going wild for Sam Donald, and I was like, this is a weird kind of thing to get used to, and there were so many of them in Houston, so I had to ask him. And I thought for sure that like, this is his opportunity to be like, it's here, let's talks, let's say they are that they came out to night blah blah blah.

I don't know. I think no one had a worst start to their career in terms of just getting beat up physically, mentally, emotionally, being taken advantage of by a bad coaching. Sam Donald, that was a nightmare. This was his moment to shine on prime time and when he finally threw it to him and he had his chance

to get it all out there, awesome. He just seems like he's a guy that's really tightly wound, and I think that he went through a lot of trauma and it's like, um, the America, what was the South Park Guys movie? America? Number one fours or whatever it was, and they have the Matt Damon Guide. It's just like, I'm Matt Dame that maybe by the end of the year, if they keep winning'll loosen up as it. It's really awesome. I think he's just afraid to say the wrong thing.

He's coached up well. He's a good guy. I said that after he got traded, like he deserves this because he went through. Hell um, we're off track. Do you have one before we move on? Do you have another one? We already we already covered all of the ones that I had like prepared good talk. I I don't if that comes off raiders, if that comes off being mean to Sam Doarnold. First of all, calm down, relax, we're just having fun here or me being bitter about it,

I'm not. There's mark uh. It's it's just kind of funny to me because New York tried to get stuff out of Sam for years to Colleen now has tried one day get something that it's gonna happen. And the reason Pathers fans are so excited because they don't have to watch Teddy Bridgewater anymore. I mean, they're both undefeated's

see we'll see who finished. Also both former Jets. I mean as if it's just like a stew of pain and agony for the Jets, everybody that's ever been a quarterback, Bryce Petty somewhere three and oh right now, I'm sure all right before we go Thursday night football, I keep on forgetting. I want to get the Prehnka song to get us ready. I know you love it in my city. Oh that's good. I'm married a Jonas guy. That's exactly how it goes. It's baking on my data day. It's

this it, you have it. I'm married a Jonah. My name is Jonah. Best Weezer song, greg Um, I don't know the first song on the first album. My name is Jonas. Yeah, no, that's not at the that is yeah, this is oh yeah, it's fantastic. And this is where like they would like show her superimposed in front of like in front of Skyline Chili. You know, it would be like suddenly Prianka is wearing a Bengals jersey in

front of Skyline ship. It was great. It was, I mean, the top of the line special effects graphics package in two thousand twelve, the best like digital city you could have behind Um an Indian pop star. It was. It was wonderful um, but it didn't it didn't take off the way we wanted to. We like that song. I liked it. Yeah, it was a whole thing on our podcast back in two thousand and we had a podcast and there before we had a producer then who at

one later stole our Stitcher award. But at this point it was like, Hey, I think we got Pank on the books, just gonna come in and do the show. And she's like, oh, she's like one of the biggest stars in the world. That sounds pretty good. It didn't materialize. We had we had Prok on the hook. We were told you don't still think about it though, right, never, let me think about it all right, let's get to it. Thursday night football And on the surface, listen, Connie, you

can't say it. I can feels like another dud for the fans. Oh, who wants to watch the Cincinnati Bengals in the Jacksonville Jaguars in prime time? But here's the thing, I'll sell it this way, and I don't have to sell it too hard. Yeah, the Jaguars are a mess and they're winless, but you got a chance to see Trevor Lawrence in his first primetime game. And Trevor has been obviously up and down, but come on, he's Trevor Lawrence.

Is gonna be fun to watch him developed. And the other side, it's in Cincinnati, there two in one, and there's some genuine good vibes around this team when you look at their schedule. They have a chance here to get on a little bit of a run. Uh and it starts with whipping up on a winless Jags team. It could be a celebration Cincinnati, and I love the idea. Connie of Burrow obviously slam don't get him up on

the day as if they win. And maybe Jamaar Chase is buddy at L s U and you could tell that you get more than it's awesome if you get those two guys together. There's no question you might get a cigar up there. Connie beaming right now thinking about it. I know, well now that now that you have say it that way, I'm very excited. First I was like, yeah, it's a jungle cat game. Okay, cool, we got the Jags, um, But I'm excited to see Joe Burrow. I think that

he's played really well. Also, last week he didn't he had the luxury of not having to face t J. Watt and Alex Highsmith, so he was able to connect with Jamar Chase a bunch, and those two have looked really good. Their connection, it's really carried over from college. Demarches four touchdowns, two and twenty yards on just eleven catches so far this season. So I saw from NFL research that Chase has become the youngest player in NFL history with four plus receiving touchdowns in his team's first

three games, passing Randy Moss. So he's been outstanding. And I really love the trio of wide receivers that they have there. I know Tee Higgins didn't play on Sunday because of the shoulder injury, and I'm not sure what the short week means for him. Could be a little dicey if he goes or not. But Tyler Boyd, he's sassy and I like it. He's talking some trash. I like what he has to say about the Steelers just

giving up at the end of the game. So that's I think I know what he was talking, or at least I thought was he talking about Tomlin kicking a field goal with eight minutes left, because that felt like given up to me after the I think it was because it was a fifteen play like nine minute drive and they're like, we can't not score here. This is embarrassing. We have to just kick the field goal to save

our face, save my face. And going up against this Jaguars defense, I think that all the opposing quarterbacks have diced them up so far, so Joe Burrow I don't think will be any different. I am also really excited about the Bengals defense too, who look really improved from last year. Right that that's been their story. Looking at d v O, I'm guessing they've got to be in the top five defensively. They are fourth on defense right now. On offense, so the first couple of games, the offense

was starting to come together. But this is why I just remind me last next preseason again, and it's just like none of this stuff matters. It's like even early in the season, I was overreacting a little bit to Burrow, but the first player last week's game against Pittsburgh, he escaped from the pocket um in a in a really great way, like legitimately upset about this thing, talking about the preseason letting you down well, and just that we talk about these topics of Jamar Chase can't catch it,

and Burrows not confident. And I didn't think Burrow look confident in his knee the first couple of weeks, but okay, that's that makes sense. And then last week you could see it. On the very first play he escapes multiple pass rushers, he starts doing kind of the running around Joe Burrow thing, and you could see after that play he was so confident. He cut on that knee multiple times and he looked like Joe Burrow and he started

hitting players outside the numbers. And on that touchdown to Chase. Look, he hasn't completed many deep throws this year, even with that one, but you saw that last like five yards of the route where Chase just goes man. It was just like, Okay, that doesn't show up on the forty time with with Jamar Chase, but you could see it

right there. And those two guys had incredible games. That was one of the best games of Joe Burrow's career still including last stood in the Rocks, and he still probably should have taken the tackle but if this is gonna be, if this is gonna be what it is and they really have something here, Uh, they didn't blow it and that's something to celebrate, and just don't don't

mess this up. Angles. You're gonna have seventy five thousand West Cincinnatians and Midwesterners there do not do not below us. And you know who else is going to be the courtesy of definitely not huge, the tiny box she hooks up. Westling Brothers place is gonna be filthy, it's gonna be louding with Westling Brothers on Thursday night the Cincinnati We got three officially coming in. Wow, and one of them is Tim Westling and it's his turn to share the

Westling Brothers lock of the week. And I think you know where this is going. Hey around the NFL podcast. This is Tim Westling. Uh, this is Chris Westling's brother. You know invest as west got it. Uh, it's my turn to pick this week. So I'm going to the

Thursday night game in Cincinnati. It's gonna be Jacksonville versus Cincinnati. Sure, I'm a little biased, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing Trevor Lawrence play, but much more I'm interested in seeing show burrow into mar Chase Domini, which they will do again this boom. In that case, I'm gonna go with the Cincinnati Bengals, and I'm locking it up.

I mean, was that the greatest thing ever? Tim West They all have their own Nick sounds a lot like Chris, which will freak you out if it catches you the wrong day. But Tim doesn't sound like anybody else in the world. And Phil as well so has like a little bit of West I can I can hear when he's I feel like we're on a westling World tour this season, and I'm loving it. I am loving it. I'm loving it so much. I won't point out this is actually, uh, you know, seven and a half points

in the desert. It is over are let's look in the mirror thing. But it's a Cincinnati home game on He's very weird this game in general. But you have to, let's give him a little accident forgiveness because they did lock up against the defending champion. Bucks wouldn't lost absolutely, you know, not giving me when you can lock up the worst team in football by far on the road on a three day week, you try to do it.

They're all listening right now, so just know in the future, check out what the desert saying and try to keep it underneath seven points. Guess who else is going to be at the game with the Wes Lukisha. So we're the party in Cincinnati. You get well after after work, how loose we get. We're getting wild. When do you get on a plane to come back. Well, I have to fly to Philly first, and I'm doing the Saturday show from NFL Films. But you have a chance to go out after the game and have a little fun

a little bit. Yeah, it's usually a late like wet't get done until midnight or so, but yeah, it'll be fun. Right. I want to see Trevor Lawrence like play better. I'm a little worried because this Bengals defense, as you mentioned, is playing really well. I don't know if a Woozier who's played really good at cornerback is going to be in for them. Suddenly they're on their like third and fourth corners. Eli Apple played like eighties snaps, so in theory,

maybe you could attack them. Trey Hendrickson has been great for Cincinnati upfront, but Trevor Lawrence it looked and everyone understandably saying, you know, it's gonna be fine. And he had like the touchdown throw at a chart last week that was an amazing throw. He has one or two of those every week. Um. But DJ Reader also has

been really good. I don't think he gets enough love either, But like Laurence yet, but Lawrence, it is worth pointing out I wouldn't expect this to suddenly get great this season. You know, this three game stretches worse than any three game stretch of some pretty good rookie quarterbacks seas, and so I think you'll get there eventually. But it doesn't seem like the scheme is helping him out much, and he's just really late. Back on that a little bit.

I think the fact that you're pointing out, um correctly, that he's had a few while throws every week means that it's better than a different situation where he's not giving you anything, like I've seen from the number two pick, Zach Wilson the last couple of weeks. I think Wilson's played better than Trevor Lawrence over all. Right, Well, I see what you're saying. I had to pick. I think

also Trevor. He might be dealing his expect Patians are a little inflated, but that's part of the deal when you're the number one pick and people say you're the best prospects since Andrew Luck. So I don't know. It's almost like I'm in a wait and see mode by Trevor Lawrence, and I would would I would love to see him play well in this game, because that would that's some juice. You could have Trevor Lawrence on the days two That's true, that would be interesting as well.

I think this is a good step. Did you get and we check in every week on this any a t N easter eggs into the telecast, of course I did. If you guys are going to give me a challenge like that, I'm going to deliver. I got snow patrol in, I got let it snow untright. That was that was maybe I don't know if it's taking off, but oh my gosh, I asked. I totally forgot to tell you.

So after the interview ended and we went to break, Sam Donald was getting off the stage and I was like, oh hey, wait, wait, wait real quick, just a quick question, Uh, is anyone in the locker room calling, referring to the defense at all as like either snow patrol or you know,

like saying let it snow. And he's looking at me like I am insane, which I am at this point, and he was like Nu Ran like Irish rock band from the mid aut was like no um that started two days ago on that podcast you were on with no other context hasn't reached the Lacker yet, but we're trying to make it. Everyone is trying to make it

a thing. Wherever Phil Snow has been so I didn't realize this Temple they were doing it at Baylor, they were doing it like the local radio station there in town has been trying to do it so for some reason. And and Donald's only four and snowshow hasn't had a hit for a while. But I guess I'm really curious this this Has Sam Donald ever heard chasing cars? Has you ever heard of them? By the way, can we

do this week? Though? Here a challenge for this week? Okay, what do we got so Jags and Bengals or if you want to, if you want to tweet it later, we can get it on the right and round. What about you? Greg? Got anything We're going to give you something to try to and also listeners will make this a challenge. Why don't we call it the uh t n the a t N t NF challenge. That's a little bulky for a hashtag nothing, because then it's gonna

be like, it's gonna be tough to get it. I got Flying Camel spin in last week for Steve White and Stacy Dale's and that might have been So you're just doing this for everybody now, we don't feel suspecial. No, no, no, that was just a one week thing with them. You. I will always be true to This is my chance. Let me think on it and we'll see what we can do. And Ricky, if we can get things into the show, please pull it for Connie's next appearance on Tuesday.

And Connie, thank you for you know step of course, your queen. Greg the Top five. I was a little distracted at one point at the end of our last segment because I was coming up with the top five Weezer songs number one The Good Life of pink In, number two, Island in the Sun off the Green album, number three, l Scorcho also off Pinkerton, number two, My Name Is Jonas. That is track one on the Blue album, and the greatest Weezer song is say it Ain't So

don't overthink it. Don't overthink it. It's a functionally perfect, perfect song. I'm I'm sort of part of partial to undone the Sweater song, just because I remember, like when the video came out, it was like the album still hadn't come out and I and it just blew my mind. I was like, what is this thing? What is this? And me and my friend Phil went and bought the album like three weeks later. Then that wasn't That was like before, Yeah, that was before before you know, videos

were coming out, singles were coming out before albums. That was an incredible song that I completely just erased from my memory. Scene was deleted there. But I'm with you how that happening. It's just I have no control over it. They just they're just gone. So here one day, gone

the next. All right, good stuff too. Should we give any update on our London journey that we have a sold out show as people know, and everybody's upset because we keep on putting these shows on sale in the middle of the night in England and then they're sold out in minutes, which is awesome, but you know, we get it. We're efforting for a second show. We're not sure if we're gonna have it, but we're working on it, and if we do, we will promise you again another

Team America callback. I promise I will never die. We promise you that we will give your heads up when the tickets go on sale. If we haven't put it at a specific time, it won't be in the middle of the night, and that then it will be fair for all, but even that will be fair for all, and then a free for all. I'm so bummed. I can't come with you. Guys. We're gonna have so many mojo moments. I know. Let me know about them. Just text me every five seconds. Great, all right, good, and

the Split Ends podcast is coming. Another plug for you because you are you appreciate it. Just a wonderful woman. Thank you. What do you want? I just want you to be my producer until I die. I want I want to be ninety years old and be really bad at talking in football. And and you're stuck to a promise that you gave me in two thousand twenty one that you would never leave me. That's dark. I'm not the better my podcast. Does you know it doesn't mean

I'm leaving. Oh no, it does mean that looks you're already trying to get out. I split ends as any success, there will be a Greg, there's gonna be a conversation with a shadowy league figure. It's like, I just don't have a time to be doing the producing thing anymore because I'm such a hit. Uh. And I mean this is like a three year old story that Harry wanting to get out. So yeah, that's not true. You're you're spending false alright, and and Ricky's going to be with

us in London too. I love it all right, let's go. Next time you hear from us Thursday the preview show Thursday night the tn F recap with me and someone to be determined later. Until then, he the call M