MNF Recap; Quarter Pole Power Rankings

You mean football? Yeah, he says site baseball is one of those archaic terms attached to a dying sport that I'm gonna allow it to continue to grasp onto a right, a nice little baseball dig in there again. Marcus spent most of this week complaining that all sports, the seasons are too long, regular seasons and in what I've literally every sport now he has the same conversation. I used to be baseball, but now he's moved on to basketball,

all sports he doesn't watch it. Well. I found it interesting that he really really dug your heels in when I brought up hockey is not being as being too long? No, I really like my sports. I don't think you know anything about these sports. And you're saying, but the season is too long. I know you don't even watch the games, but but I would, you know, I think about I think a large chunk of people that even enjoy basketball would say the regular season has lost some of them.

Jerry Jerry j takeaway here's that we all have empty lives and we need this to fill them. That's what sports are, Aren't they something that you could turn on and watch when you get home from the factory. I'm sitting out there, that's it, Marks, just I've got a great seat. I'm not gonna You're not gonna participate. My feet up and watch this magic. This is great. There's no easing into this show. You want some real magic. Yes,

Oh my goodness. Our live show next Friday, a show that Mark would like to shorten to half the time. It applies to certain things that must be short sold out. Our London show sold out in less than a minute when it went on sale this morning. Uh an incredible, incredible feeling for the whole group here, because I mean, what else can you say? It's It's like, now we know what Limp Biscuit feels like when they toward Jacksonville

or something. London is our hometown. You know what I mean, R Fred Durst, an incredible feeling, um, but hopefully for our shadowy League figures, an incredible feeling of missed opportunity that we could be filling up a theater four times the size. I mean, we've we've made these thoughts this big venue. You guys were not selling it short either. It's not like we sold out as it's one next next time around, we're gonna keep pushing to get a bigger place. So what we can see more of you,

well see you throughout there will be that show. We should keep pushing for a bigger venue when you get to the point where there are roughly empty seats, and that's what I feel like a different Nuts episode. We need a manager who will build us out of most of our money, is what we need. We need that a Colonel Parker. Yeah, we need to take all of our money and some rig deal and then I mean, I'm not trying to get after the shadowy leg figure. Um. You know who's helped us a lot on this way.

It's it's it's larger than one person. It's NFL corporate policy. But hopefully we can chisel away at that part us put us in an arena and if you have to tarp off the upper deck, top off the upper deck. We want to know how many people we how much meat can we put in the seats in England, that's the question now, because we know when a show sells out in under sixty seconds, we have an audience feels

indicative of something. Well, hopefully somebody upstairs for our for our non ut, you guys are gonna love the next week and a half. Yeah, it's it's and delivered to you. We will be here state side. Brought it up. I think it's important. And we promised to the listeners who are like, oh god, they're going on on then again and we're gonna have to hear about it all week. We'll we'll bounce it out. It's not gonna be you know, we're not gonna be there. It's gonna be great. It's

gonna be great. We're gonna have our same number shows, maybe even an extra show if we put the live show up as well, so you're gonna get more content. Uh, and we'll only be gone away. I mean case in point, we did our c our Week one preview from a cricket stadium last year. Uh, we were highly professional in invariable US. I thought we did one of our best shows of all time. I've never seen us all that sick before. Very professional. We we will be on better

behavior in twenty nineteen, potentially. All Right, got a lot of get a lot to get to. Uh, we're gonna talk some power rankings at the quarter pole. We're gonna do some news, including a a couple of injury updates unfortunately, and a surprising suspension. But first, what's close out Week four with the Monday Night football recap. Rudolph stays in the shotgun. The Oklahoma State kid Connor stands to his right.

He wants to throw it. He's back, big Rush grows it down, The peel of the man wide opens and it's pulled on body up Hey juson a touchdown. Rudolph took shotson forty three yards. Hanif Steelers are having from play football? Bill hill Grove, first time we've heard him this season w d V with the call. Yes. The Pittsburgh Steelers got the perfect anecdote to end their early season funk. It was the Cincinnati Bengals coming to town, a twenty seven to three pounding of Cincinnati at Hines field,

Mason Rudolph threw for two yards and two touchdowns. Jalen Samuel's had a big day. Uh, James Conner finally did something uh at running back and the defense took it to Andy Dalton, who got sacked eight times UH Bengals in his score in the final fifty one game minutes. A total disaster of a showing um for the Bengals West the Steelers for all the doom and gloom, and why don't you start owing three? It is doom and gloom and it's well earned. Well, they're only a game

out in their division right now. Well, we saw a couple of teams and we'll get to one a little bit later. Who had Here's a new kind of game for you. The last stand game. This is the last stand for the Steeler season. And they pulled out all the stops. They pulled out their gadget game plan, which included a lot of wildcat and Jaln Samuel's because to this point they don't trust the processing ability of their quarterback pre impost snap. And that's that he's only had

what one start before this game, So that's understandable. They want to turn their season around and not have their quarterback ruin it for them, So this is the game plan we got. It didn't tell me that much new about the Steelers other than they can make a game plan for Mason ruff because we've said it. Stephen Tour, Cameron Hayward, and t J. Watt are having great years, not good years. They're having among their best years. And

these are three really good players in their front. It didn't totally shock me that they can stuff the Bengals. But one hundred and seventy five yards two point seven yards per play for the Bengals and the amount of pressure Dalton was under it is still pretty It is pretty remarkable. We've seen some of these defensive performances this year where the bad offenses in the league just can't operate any more more in this September than we've seen

in a while. We didn't, you know, the Bengals weren't immediately placed in the same category as the Dolphins of the Redskins on offensive. In fact, they've been competitive in two weeks, but two other weeks they've been blown out right and it's I think it was obvious to see that the mismatch of a Cincinnati's line, which has been a liability all year. Wasn't hot water against a Steeler's front. You mentioned the players involved there, They've tied or led

the league in sacks the last two years. I feel like that gets that slips on off people's radar a little bit. They don't see that, and they don't see the team that way, but they've gotten pressure consistently for a long time. They laid total havoc to the Bengals, and it's not a good look. And I you know, I saw the tweet that Boogram McFarland mentioned that, you know, he really loved what Zach Taylor was doing, you know, deep into the third quarter when they're losing by like

twenty four points. Well, that's that's not the quote he probably was looking to tell the nation there. But I'd be really concerned with the whole organization of the Bengals team because they're not an organization that is going to fast track away out of this mess based on what we know historically now. And they had a they had some pretty big line questions to begin with, and then you you lose three or four starters, a couple to retirement, and in in your first round pick, and suddenly you

can't even operate. I'm just curious Ken Mason Rudolph, you know. And we get an answer this coming week against Baltimore. That's a big Week five game, considering that the Steelers are one and three. You know, how many of these games can you come up with where you're protecting your quarterback like that? There's there's a lot lately though the NFL is different where you see a pretty shaky quarterback or not shaky but not one of the best quarterbacks

start the game twelve for twelve. It's like Jacobe Prisette starting sixteen for sixteen, Josh Rosen seven for seven. All around the league where there's scheme. Mitchell Trabinsky basically did that against Washington. They're scheming all these throws that don't go past five yards and and it kind of works. I just don't think it can work for the whole season. It can work a few games. Well, this is the trend. It's not brand new, but I think over the past

two years we've seen that. Well, they're taking the high risk plays out of the passing game across the league. It's college football, you know it. There's something called you know, they used to say, you're going into the happens like can he make pro throws? It's like you can watch Jared Goffy's struggling right now and you can still see ten pro quote unquote throws that probably Mason Rudolph and some of these other quarterbacks haven't made in their entire

NFL careers combined. And he does it in one game in which he struggles. My natural skepticism of analytics and the impact it has on the beauty and art form of sports leads me to believe this is an analytics driven thing where it might be helping the risk for teams,

but it's not helping the viewing product for us. No, And I like, you know, we'll get to the to the Power rankings part of the show later, but like that, because I'm hitting into something that I saw in the Power Rankings that I feel is very unusual for any time that I've been alive, even covering the a f C North or watching it as a fan, But us together to have two a f C North teams out of four buried deep, deep deep in rankings like that, and I think I get the Steelers just because there's

innate trust in that organization to climb out of the holder into some degree, but they're in a much different situation than they've been in before based on your quarterback comments. All right, and uh, we'll look ahead of course on Thursday's episode at week five. But we got Baltimore coming to Pittsburgh on Sunday, so things can get interesting if the Steelers can find a way to um run back a similar performance or effort as they did against the Bengals.

All right, let's do some news big Welcome back to NFL Fantasy League one. And right now, we decided that we're going to mail it in and start stealing segments from other shows. And it's a segment that a p N likes to call what's more likely you know what, Adam Raik if he's putting it out there and he's owning it that they're lifting the bits. Uh, that's cool with me. What about you guys? Yeah, absolutely, I kind of think you like. I like the approach. It's just

saying we've we've essentially just stolen your creative property. This particular one to never bothers me when you see some if you see similar ones, because it's just like either or it's not like we came up with that the words though itself what's more likely? I like that. I stick to the line that it did that we did come up with it. It is ours and let's trip.

Do you know what? The first what's more likely was what's more likely Ricky Hollywood returns from her europe vacation, her European vacation, or Sammy Watkins becomes a top ten wide receiver. And they said, there's absolutely no chance that Sammy Watkins becomes a top ten wide receiver, but that's still more likely than Ricky Hollywood returning from Europe. You do have like a second leg to the trip after our London trip, what is that? I'm going to Barcelona

and then also potentially Lisbon, uh, Portugal. Wait, and and there's a trip preceding the London trip. Yes, Emma's weddings this weekend, I'm going to New York. You know the regular season is currently ongoing, right, Yeah, But if I leave now, I don't have to leave during free agency. Again. I don't even dare ask what you're why you're going to Lisbon and what's going to be happening there as

week seven turns into weekends. Sounds like a great place and you know, our show, over the course of a thousand episodes or so, we've never lifted anyone else's eye for any segment we've ever done. That happens quite a bit within under the umbrella of this NFL media group for ideas we've come up with. So the fact that Rank is at least putting a name on it, that's nice. I mean, we have five creative powerhouse sitting here around the table, so we don't need to lift Jack from anyone.

All right, let's get to it. You knew Vant's Perfect was in trouble when he laid out Uh didn't even lay him out Jack Doyle, the Cults tight end, was in a prone position. He was he was vulnerable, he was already his momentum had stopped. And Perfect comes from the other side and cracks some helmet to helmet and knowing Perfects history and his um background when it comes to find and suspensions for dangerous play, you knew something was coming. Well it really did come. Perfect is done

for the year. UH. Rap Sheet reported Uh that he has suspensed. He's been suspended for the rest of the season for his hit on Doyle. Rap Sheet reported Perfect will appeal the suspension, UH, and it interesting little note to this. The Raiders are in the United Kingdom UM this weekend for a game UM UH as part of the London series, and Perfect flew to London and just had to come right back to the United States because he ain't playing no MO, Well, isn't he free? To

my question too? I think you guys over on our text SED was once you've landed in London and you no longer have a job to do between now and you know, at best next July or something, why not do what Ricky's doing when she does have a job and just vanished to Lisbon or points unknown and throughout Europe? Why are you flying back to Oakland? I think he could you get the free flight? You know free? You know you don't have to pay for it. I'm sure on the way back, so let's save a little money.

Contest Perfect just clothes lining random tourists across Europe, UM John running in the NFL VP of Football Operations, UH. In a release following UH each of your previous rule violations, you were warned by me and each of the jointly appointed Appeal Officers that future violations would result in escalated accountability measures. However, you have continued to flavorant lye abuse rules designated to protect yourself and your opponents from unnecessary risk.

Your extensive history of rules violations is factored into this decision. Uh and Frank Reich, the Colts coach, told reporters on Monday, he's just thankful the league took the action at did This goes back to college, where he had twenty two flagrant penalties in thirty seven games at Arizona State, which helped him slide through the two thousand twelve draft undrafted

UH immediate almost immediately upon getting to the NFL. Two thousand and fourteen, he's fined for intentionally twisting the ankles of Cam Newton and Greg nold Olson after the play. He lines up Max Williams, former Ravens tight end for a terrible cheap shot in week seventeen, not long after lines up Antonio Brown for a cheap shot on the head. Once knocked out three Steelers for for the game in one season. This guy, I mean, he's just this is

what he's done his whole career. He has He'll end up playing forty seven of a possible ninety six games since two thousand fourteen. He's unavailable to his team half the time. He uh is an important part of that defense, which is not very good at linebacker. He had been up and down to played pretty well this year, and they have to hear Whitehead. They had one of the hard knocks UH stars, Jason what was his name, Jason Cabinda.

So they want to bring back now from Detroit, like they've cut some of these guys, and then another team picks him up and they have no depth. It is. It is a really bad defense that I think on a in a given week and get schemed up by a pretty good coordinator. But just talent wise, Mayok has not been able. Uh he hasn't at the time to fix everything that's going on on that side of the ball. They're in trouble. Also was flag twelve grand for flipping off.

That's called using your middle finger Dan to the crowd, using the bird aimed at fans. Also against him. Once shoved a cameraman to the ground just because he happened to run into him and then he was still standing there, right. He didn't get the spending for this, and he got suspended for everything he's done in the NFL. For in terms of that it being this long. If if a different person had had this same hit, I think they

might have been suspended. But it certainly it's like the reverse of the Academy Award that goes to someone for like their twelfth best movie, but they're almost done, and so you've got to get that thing. When Scorsese got Best Director for um, what was that Departed? Departed? That's a great movie, a very highly watchable movie, rewatchable movie, A nice a nice piece of work for Scorsese, but not anything close to his best work, which he never

got honored for. Anyway, good Scorsese talk. I thought, we don't talk about this too much just because where can we go with it? But there were too many head shots in week four, too many shots to the head, too many guys leaving on stretchers, and I applaud anything that leads to more rejections, more suspensions. You gotta get it out of the game. And these guys are wearing helmets that are bigger than ever, harder than ever, and they're not afraid when they go in to make attack.

They're not afraid of their own head. And I think start losing games, that's when coaches will pay attention and put a stop to this moving on. Terrible news for the Denver Broncos, who as we know, are really scuffling this season oh and four, and now they lose one of their best players for the year. Pass rusher Bradley Chubb towards a c L was a partial tear of his a c L. He's out for the season. H James Palmer reported this on Monday. ESPN first had it.

Vic Fonio confirmed it to reporters. Uh. Chub actually left the game multiple times against the Jaguars. Um came back, finished out the game with the knee injury. Came to the facility on Monday. It wasn't feeling right to get the m R. I and they get the bad news. It's also, I believe seven years to the day since Um the injury came UH, since he last tours a c L. So he's actually now torn the A c L twice in the same knee, which is obviously not

great news for a set getting your player who's when right? UM, I don't know. The Broncos defense as a whole got off to a slow start, but Chub looked like a superstar once he got hot last year as a rookie, and his backup from last year is now leading the NFL and sacks for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Shaqu Barrett, I think a Vic vic fans, you didn't have bad luck, he'd have no luck at all. This this Broncos team is experiencing some like old school country music hard times

right now. Yeah, Chub is one of the guys you build around. He had such a good preseason. He had the fourth most votes predicting defensive Player of the Year on NFL dot Com. Three people picked him, only Kleil mcmiles, Garrett Aaron Donald had more, which is a little silly that he was two votes ahead of von Miller, But either way, that was like the expectations for this guy

going into the year. And I don't know if there's there's there's worst teams like the Bengals and and Red Skins and the Dolphins, But I don't know if you know any fan base is more bummed out right now than Denver just because of how swift of fall it's been from their their championship on and just how hopeless it feels right now. That is a like deep, like

father to son mother to daughter fan base. You do not like that, does not You don't become the child in Denver that suddenly roots for some other team that like I having lived there, that place is all about the Broncos from head to toe. And it was amazing to see Chubb making plays on the field after he hurt his knee in big plays. And that was Von Miller and Chubb gave you, no matter what the team's record, was an immediate identity that you'd focus any primetime game around.

You'd spend thirty five forty minutes talking about Chubb and von Miller. And when that's gone by by the time you're heading into October and that coaching staff and Vick Fongio has got to be some of these dudes. I just wonder if they if he if he could reverse time, you'd say, put me back in that Chicago booth. I want to be back there. They're smoking my cigars as opposed to the Steelers. They lost their last dayn game

against the Jaguars. And now to me, the Rancos are more interesting from like a human laboratory perspective, who's checking out under adversity the rest of the way, I like this with so we've we have the quarter and animal game at O and two. We've now established the last stand game from oh and three outfits. And you can see a last stand game when you watch the game, the emotion they're playing von Miller doing dances through the Jaguars offensive line when they get penalized and he's out

there playing with like a ten percent intensity. Their whole defensive swarming and then men, she was an eleven minute drive and it all goes into Gardner Min Show breaks teams. But you can you can, Yeah, the Titans have just not been able to rebound from that that lashing he gave him the last stand game. Can that can happen anytime of the year though, right? I mean you could have a five and seven. Yes, I was about to say five and seven was the number that came to

as well. Sometimes last stand games pop up different stretches of the season. Could have a December last stand game from a team that might have started out four and oh and is now I mean almost every team has one. However, a cornered animal game is specifically applied to O and two outfits. That must be made clear. What is an O N eight team trying to get their first win. What do we call that an I mean they've been dead for there's a smell coming off of that that's

called like a huge Jackson game. Another star player out for the year Kwan Short the Panthers, the Panthers Pro Bowl defensive lineman who had missed each of the past two weeks after suffering a um rotator cuffed tear in his shoulder. While the Panthers decide this is not gonna work out, so they put him on the I r UH and he will miss the rest of the season. The Panthers have signed defensive lineman Brian Cox Junior. From the print is that the Brian Coxe's his son? Does

he have the big pads in the back board? That uh? Brian Cox Junior from the practice squad to fill the spot on the active aust big loss there, Greg Massive. It's been under the radar that they've improved their defense last two games without him. It says something about the star power of this team that you can lose Cam Newton, Kawan Short and win two games and you still have guys like Christian McCaffrey and Luke Keikley, two of the best you know players going on their respective sides of

the ball still on the field. Not many teams have like a top you know list like that, but this this is massive. He's been their best defensive player a lot, you know, behind Keikley for a long time. They've also hooked into the unbreakable trend at the moment that if you have a player named Shock on your roster, he's going to be electric. And Shack Thompson is coming off one of his best performances in a long time. But they you're right, you look up. Mario Addison never gets mentioned.

Always productive. They have dudes, and they found a way to do sort of a soft reboot of that defense where you kept key guys around, but the secondary is

look is a different casting. They're allowing the fewest yards per game in the NFL pass scene wise, they are tied for the Patriots for the most sacks in the NFL, and that's without kik Short for the last great news for international player program uh graduate f a Obada, who's been playing inside lately, was a big story last year and to kind of get some more snap A lot of hype around, a lot of buzz around the possibility that Maurice bow Ringer lingering somewhere right now Cincinnati still

I believe so. Hasn't he hurt though as part of the halfway program? Uh? Whether he will continue to get that spotlight treatment from the Around the NFL podcast, It's an ongoing discussion internally, it will believe it at that For now, Well, there's other players to talk about. Yacob Johnson. I mean, the Patriots thought so much of them, they wouldn't even use that little special spot because they thought they might have to have him in the regular season.

And who was making a big block on a key first down in the fourth quarter last week, Yacob Johnson. That Jacob, It's Jacob. At a certain point, Mobo is gonna have to come off scholarship. Mhm. Why does everything Why doesn't have to turn around and be negative? Why did can there just be because there's a lot of I mean, there's a lot of that happening from you. So Dan's Greg is afraid of Henry, and Henry's got a start cutting way about him. Most people are afraid

of Henry. Yeah, and I friend, but I just I have to call a spade of spade and just point out that mobile can't be on scholarship forever. Henry directly scouted many of these international players and a lot of working out, so I would say overall, Henry's track record as a scout a pure player finder is strong. He's like the Steve Belichick of Europe. Jay Gruden, Uh, he's not ready to decide which quarterback will get destroyed by

the Patriots this weekend. He's evaluating three quarterbacks ahead of the matchup against the defending Super Bowl champions, Case Keenum, who was yanked from Sunday's game against the Giants after a slow start. There's the first round rookie Dwayne Haskins, who looked like a total mess when he got his chance to play against the Giants. And then there's that boy, Mark's boy, Cult McCoy, the man who marked named one of his children after he is also in the mix.

Uh if his leg allows that he has had that lingering leg injury. So J Gruden is just staring at a wall right now, trying to decide which men will be sacrifice to the football guys. I don't doubt that Cult McCoy on the whole would be as ready as Case keenom, if not more. In this offense where the

coach likes him a lot. I think it's not exactly You're not exactly doing a favor to a player that's been through some uh strange issues with the team in terms of the way his physical health was treated, not the only one on that team with those concerns, and instead, you know, you're saying, welcome back. I'm now gonna put you into it completely broken down, dysfunctional offense that will ensure you endure a ton of punishment comes Sunday. I'm not sure if I'm cult McCoy, I want to do that.

But at the same time, he is. His career is long goer than anyone ever expected. He's a warrior. I think that you might not want to play if you were Culte McCoy. But Colte McCoy, that's not why you named your kid after. He wants to play. He just comps my comments saying I think he would want to Pyeah. I'm that's what I mean. This is it's an unwelcome scenario to throw a quarter absolutely, but talk about last stan Jay Gruden has been wanting to start Colte McCoy

his entire run in Washington. He entered this offseason. I think right wanting to start Colte McCoy in Week one, that that was his preferred guy that he's kept around and he's running out of time. They're both running out of time. He knows it. You used to let your case Keenom flag fly. I mean, Jay Gruden, let your

cult McCoy flag fly. He's the only one with a chance to beat the Patriots, who he would have before, would have if the Patriots up thirty four to ten and two, if I was gonna get an if I was going to give anyone a chance, it would be cool. Who question for the room? Who are West Martin and Robert Davis were there? There's some of the deep receivers on the team. These are Week four starters for the Washington Redskins, which fielded the worst offensive personnel we've seen

all year, including the Miami Dolphins. You did not have Brandon Sheriff, Trent Williams, Jordan Read, Scary Terry all out the lineup. They are West Martins starting that guard. Robert Davis elevated from the practice squad, immediately made the number one receiver and then cut after the game. What is going on with this team? I would allow Greg to

lock up New England against the Patriots. The Patriots against the Redskins, because the last time Colt McCoy faced them, he went fourteen for nineteen for a hundred and seventy four yards, ran for a long touchdown and Peyton hillis stomped over a totally confused Tom Brady led Patriots team for a hundred and eighty four yards and two touchdowns. Let's dial it up again. I'll take them. Of course, that was before Colt McCoy walked with a limp. Really, I don't know their point, but it was a long

time ago. Now it was almost a decade. It's a decade. Who was on the cover of Madden Ones one, fair and square through a fan vote. I feel like that's the type of thing that wouldn't happen in two thousand nineteen. Beat out Michael. People wouldn't allow it. They just are like, no, no, no, no, yeah, I mean, this cannot happens. If you're talking about that West Martin, I think that everybody knows. I mean, they

drafted him in the in the fourth round. They must see some promise, and that's just what I don't know. If I'm talking about the right guy. Are you talking about the guy that played college at Indiana and he was like, wow, fourth round guard, you got it? Yeah, he's like three fifteen pounds if I'm remembering correctly. I don't know if that's the right guy. And this you, this fantasy show is right, really stepped up Ricky's game. Who has left their keys out for Ricky to go

into the lab? She's allowed in him. Poor Marks still upstairs. That's fine, he's chilling at the poorhouse to myself. Finally, in the news, Adam Feeling has thoughts on the VI King's offense after UH Minnesota no showed an offense against the Mighty Bears defense. Uh Feeling express some frustration. Um, I'm not sure if it was with the offensive philosophy or the guy who's supposed to be thrown in the ball.

Let's listen it. Well, I think I think that's probably most frustrating thing is is we knew that that was gonna happen at some point. At some point, you're not gonna be able to run the ball for a hunter, Um, even with the best running back in the NFL. UM, And that's when you have to be able to throw the ball. You have to be able to make plays. Um. You have to be able to um you know, hit the ball at the deep balls. You have to do that because otherwise it's too easy for changes tea up

and rush the quarterback. So we have to be we have to be able to run the ball and pass the ball. In this league, you cannot be one to mention, well, it's just too easy to defend. It's odd to see Minnesota struggling at at this level. And of as lest you may remember, but shortly before the season started, I was very high in their offense. I thought they could really maybe even be a top five, top three, number

one unit. But it's all gone totally to hell. And the one thing that has really jumped out to me that's has surprised me is that the one thing he could always count on, UH in a Kirk Cousins offense was he was gonna put up numbers and they were his team will move the football. That is what's disappeared here and that's been to me the most surprising thing. That you add Dalvin Cook into the mix, and we talked about it on Sunday. The offensive line obviously has issues, UH,

but that they would be this inept. I just did not see this coming at all. It's fascinating to me. Cousins is a rhythm passer and he hasn't been in rhythm really since last October. And I think if you read between the lines with Adam Feeling, he at least he and maybe other players with the vikings have some issues with Kirk Cousins right now, and maybe he's not. Maybe it's that he's not pulling the trigger when the

passes are there. And in Cousins defense, it's not often that the passes are there because his offensive line, the mixture of that offensive line, that system and Kirk Cousins, is it working. It's not a good thing. When Feeling in that same interview, was kind of asked, you know, what's the difference this year? You know with you guys, you know, not you know, getting as much separation, And the most telling thing is he immediately said, that's not what I see. I mean, he's he's saying he's open,

And yeah, Cousins has been under pressure. There's a good article, uh in The Athletic yesterday about it. It hasn't been extreme. Watching that game, there were many plays where he did have time and there are deep throws. You know, you would think to give a shot to digs and dealing, and he did try a couple, he hit one, and he's instead checking the ball down, And I think that's

the frustration. And when you have Mike Zimmer on Monday saying the same thing, you've got to pull the trigger when you're when you're talking about your quarterback that way, it's just I don't know, it's just well, yeah, it's there's bubbled over frustration. And there probably is an effect that you can't really measure scientifically on most quarterbacks outside of the most mentally tough, that if you've been damaged and battered and hurt for a season plus behind a line,

you lose some trust for them. We've seen younger quarterbacks even earlier this year, after a game or two of that, not act the way you'd expect them to Aaron Rodgers doing. In the last couple of years. You develop bad habits. Absolutely. There's this one play where they do the boot action and and Cousins rolls out to his right and he had there's no one within twenty yards of him at that time, and he immediately like fires a fast ball

over the middle. To his running back. I think it was c. J. Ham who was one yard past the line of scrimmage and he did it like right away and I and that's the type of play where you just it drives you crazy. I think if you're whenever c. J. Hamm is open though, you've got to get the ball to him, get it to him in space and watch the magic. That's that's the philosophy the football coaches the world over. That's what's happening in the news. All right,

let's get to it. Oh, I want to do a plug by the way, um, before we get to the power rankings. There's a new edition of the Mark Sessler Weekly Jam Out. It's called I'm blanking on it right now. Help me out. Mark on my radar, on my radar with Mark Sessler. Let's on your radar. Let's get that radar. Let's get that radar sound effect back ricky um, Mark, what's on your radar? What I wanted to hit on this as we talk all these dead animal teams and all these animals that are on the fast stand that

can't get out of their own ways. Radar is work that works. Does around submarine have radar sonar? It depends how sounds studio catalog is, but I think that that gets the message across to some degree. I just wanted to look at some teams that have kind of changed

the way I feel about them. A team like the Lions, where I first spent a decade plus thinking that they're like a raging bowl of vanilla ice cream and I can't wait to not watch them every week, and that changing my mind after one month raging bowl of an all right, I feel that way A little bit of obviously about the Jaguars with with Gardner Minshew, I thought the week four change changed the way I feel about the Browns from where I was a week ago, which

was internal concern about them that there's some lights. So a couple of teams that in week four changed kind of build some stock. Understanding the hook now of the weekly column on My Radar by Mark Sessler that typically when we use the phrase on my radar on this show, it's for negative reasons, but that is the beauty the subversive nature of on my Radar with Mark Sessler, that

it's positive rates. Well, radar is something you're seeing. You don't know if it's a friendly craft or a or a you know, probably have some negative radars, but they're depinitely more positive over well. I have also learned that you know when you're when you're when you're offering one of these things a week, that if you go super negative, it's just it tends to disappear in the mix from the social selling points. So if you can pump up

a couple of things. But I also think it's early in the year and I've not gone totally cynical yet, that will happen. I think this will get very a very grim weekly piece. It was very positive ties in directly again with the Cleveland Browns making you happy on Sunday and that all filters out. So if we got another big Browns victory on Monday night, I bet on my radar is gonna be another Well I'm not gonna be writing about them every week, then it's that looks ridiculous.

What about the head you know? What about the journalism saying if it bleeds, it leads? I never heard that negative dot com not me. The NFL game Pass COVID got together, we convene and rendered a verdict on the lines. They've been upgraded from frisky that just playing fun and I'm fresh out of caveats with this tight stick, a pin and a because we're gonna get to the lines here in the Power rankings were a quarter of the way through the season. Quarter pole. It is a thing.

If you say it's a thing, it's a thing. So don't tell us it's not a thing. Quarter Pole. Uh so, let's check in with the the old juicer who has authored every Tuesday since the beginning of really since the middle of the preseason Power. What person is this you're checking in with yourself? It's like seventh person. I don't know what that is. To be very quiet, I'll be in the clearing. We have the incredibly in a film Networks.

I'm lonely, so oh scanned it away. Yeah. So Dan did a really nice job putting together You know he's doing the work and you could tell, but I feel bad. You're setting us up in a nice way. What you could have asked one of us to gingerly do the same. I have no problem doing it. For my words, comfortable doing this A lot of work. You could us the first person like a normally a lot of effort. Dan is really putting in the work, and you're seeing that on the paper and it's everyone wins. So let's dig

into it. Uh. We'll go through essentially breaking into tens, A ten, ten, twelve, start with the top ten and I'll point out uh and you can check this out at NFL dot com slash power rankings. UM, Patriots in chiefs one too. I think if you look at power rankings across the universe, and there are millions of them, but there was only one on NFL dot com, Uh, everyone will have the same two things get trickier in

the top ten after that. UM. I I was really sold by the Saints performance on Sunday night and uh, and just how great they've been, uh the last two weeks as a team. And I have them all the way up to three, the Cowboys dropping one spot after losing to the Saints. Uh, and then I moved the Bears to number five. Uh, move them up three spots, and that is a testament just the dominant level of their defense. Anybody have an issue with the top five here? No,

I sort of like. I think it shows where philosophies can differ but still make a lot of sense. Regardless. I think if the Saints and Cowboys played seven times on the neutral field. I would trust the Cowboys more. But the Saints have earned this. They went into Seattle and then they beat Dallas and they've earned this. I get it. But they probably wouldn't be in my top ten, uh, the Saints. The Saints would not. You know, they won

a game and see they've won. There's a difference I think between like a great football story and you're getting wins and that's important, uh for the rest of your season and looking good as a team. I don't think they've looked that good as a team. The offense has had three of the worst performances of the Sean Payton era. They weren't competitive against Los Angeles, they were doubled. They

didn't look like the better team in Seattle. I mean they want, they're resourceful, and that's terrific, and the home performance is impressive. I went to check football Outside if I'm just curious what their efficiency is. I was guessing wouldn b I They have him as the twenty one best team in the league right now and then, which obviously seems a little harsh. But I don't look at them other than they're solving early season problems and think this is a good Saints team. Well, I think they

have an offensive problem going back to last year. Yeah, but they have a bigger problem with Teddy Bridgewater at quarterback. That problem is ample defense played unbelievable on on Sunday Night. If that's a sign of things that come, they're gonna be a lot better. But they've had some line issues. They're not deep. I mean, they have the star power, but they don't have the debt. Even Withdrew Brees back.

I wouldn't see them as a topic. See Dan, I think you're dealing with no matter what you did at three, you can make an argument for someone else because there is no clear cut and other This is true untrue of other seasons. There's no third or fourth dominant or pressing to be dominant. The Cowboys probably would have been my choice, But there's a team at six, and you get to it. That's who I would have put into

the top five over some of these others. Uh one, let's get to that in one moment, Mark, But you would put the Cowboys ahead of the Saints. After the I would put the Cowboys, the Eagles, the Rams, the Packers, I put them all ahead of the Saints. All right, let's yeah, let's check in out. So in the top ten, I have the two AFC teams and the eight NFC tas right now. I just can't figure out what's going on in the a f C right now. But the

Eagles I have them. I moved them all the way up to six because the rest of the team's that I got. I got Niners at seven, and I'm giving them a little bit of a lollipop because they're undefeated. That they got the undefeated lollipop, but they're gonna have to win again to stay there. Uh, the Rams at eight, dropping them five spots, the Packers at nine, and I'm closing out the Seahawks attend h Mark, you would have

the Eagles higher. I I, well, so, I don't know how when you're if you're saying this is this is as of last you know, Sunday nor Monday night, this is where I'm ranking them. Fine. For me, I look at the Eagles overall holistically and say, I totally believe in this team. They've been through a ton of nonsense injury wise. Early on, I thought that was a huge win on Thursday night football in a tough environment to play. I thought they were gonna win that game, and they did.

And I believe that the Eagles will be there at the end of the year, minutes away from the NFC title game, no matter what happens record wise through all of this, and I would take them personally. The Bears defense best in the league, maybe right there with New England, but I would take the Eagles as an operation over the Bears in a second if I could own one

of the teams and hope to have the ride. I think there's real concerns about their defense and that you might not get you know, you get him during again back and eventually Darby back. They're just haven't even looked great on they don't look as balanced. I'm with you for the most part, and I think this is where I put him to Dan and agree with what Mark's sane. But I think there's a bigger concern than previous years that their defense is just that they're not balanced, that

the offense is going to be better. They're not even balanced on defense. They stopped the run and they're terrible against the past. I just think that that that they're going to be more than the some of their parts a little bit, and they're gonna win a playoff game. Maybe they shouldn't against on the road, and they're gonna just be at the edge right there at the end. Let's make the case for the Niners. Though you said

you're giving them a lollipopham. Their fans could say, Hey, we're number two in efficiency right now in d v O A. Our defense has played lights out three straight weeks. You know, opponents are crucial in that, I get it. Uh. They played Mason Rudolph and they did a good job against the Bucks in week one, they played the Bengals. Uh, and then they have a chance to be explosive on offense. Hasn't always been there, but you've got a great play caller.

Just on what they've done, they've been pretty impressive. Monday Night is a fascinating game. But with them in the Browns, the by is so annoying because you want to see more from them. You want to see and the fact that the Niners and Jets both shut it down. It was actually good for the Jets, but for the Niners, you want to see more from them because they've been

very intriguing. Uh. In the in the middle of the power rankings, there are two teams I want to point out the Browns, who I have at fourteen, up seven spots from last week. UM. We hit on it a little bit at the end of the Sunday Flagship program West that, UM, who do you really who can you

vouch for and and pound the table for? Is the third team in the a f C. And I look at the Browns with their upside potential and how high their ceiling is, and the Texans, a team that's trying to figure some things out right now it feels like,

but can get hot at any moment. I believe those are the two teams that I would point to say I would be most confident in them becoming maybe not powerhouses, but real strong teams that can put a scare into the top two teams in the a f C. I would have both of those teams you mentioned, the Browns and the Texans over the Chargers, which you have ranked twelve, two spots higher than the Browns. I just haven't been impressed with the Chargers. Do have looked terrible to me?

I think they can't. They have the pieces to get better. But I'm with you and uh, I think the Browns. To me, I've noticed that with each year the NFL community, The overreaction to each week's swing gets more and more pronounced every year, and the Browns are this week's prime example of the prisoner of the moment team. You know, before they beat the Ravens, they were a bumbling, stumbling, can't do anything right, will never overcome their offensive line.

Their head coaches in over his head, Their players are buying into their hype. They're a joke. We can't stand them. Why are they on TV? Why does Baker have many commercials carry every Everything's wrong roll? Hall of Fame? Is that even real? Now that you've been a Ravens team that was picking on lesser lights early in the season, and we're calling, you know, the Browns the third best team in the a f C just because of one week's data, And I think you need to be anchored

by more data than that. But I agree that the Browns are probably right in the middle of the pack, slightly above average, and their talent is even better than slightly a bit. I think some of that overreactions because of the sample size is so small, and Cleveland legitimately looked like a different team than they had on offense, but it felt like a Flukey game because they had three plays over sixty yards, you know, where a lot

of it was the defense having breakdowns. Now the defense has been really solid, and and you asked this, Dan, I think it was off Mike. You know, who would you pick as the third a f C team like like you just mentioned, I think West And I did say the Browns just long term because I like the

makeup that they'll figure it out right now. If you were just basing strictly on we've seen, I think it would be the Bills because I kind of know who they are, and people coming out of that Bill's Patriots games saying, oh that, you know, the Patriots have one of the best defensive all time. I mean, they weren't the best defense on the field. The Bill's defense is fantastic, Tremaine Edmunds making the damn me and I kind of

know who they are. Maybe their upside isn't that high, but I think they're They're gonna be really tough to deal with them. It's interesting you're saying that and you put them first out of those teams. So yeah, I mean I certainly respect them and think they can make noise, But you're so down on Josh Allen right now, and you you're you're you've been leading with charge saying he's

really not making as much progress as people think. Well, if that's your starting quarterback, definitely gets back from that. There's also more to playing quarters and passing the ball with touch. I mean, that's a huge part of it. But I think when Gregg's talking about Josh Hollen not getting better, you still have the factor in what he does as a runner. Yeah, when he's not knocking himself out. But you're right, it is a it's a good point,

Dan that it totally caps their upside. It's just I feel like I I tweeted something about they have a lot of gimmes on their schedule, so I think they have a good chance to make the playoffs, and then but everyone responded, Okay, well that's only eight wins if you count those gimmes. And I look at the Bills is they're gonna be in every game. So all these games against the Browns and the Texans and the Chargers that they have, I give them a good chance to

win half of those games. They can get to ten wins. I mean, to start the way they did that carries at least one or two playoff teams a year. I could be wrong. I've been over excited about Bills teams early in the season. I think their defense is legitimate, and you know, when you watch the Bears and the Patriots, I think you're seeing what continuity does for a team, and those guys have been playing together for a long time. The cores of all three of those defenses, that's a

great point. Bills, pant Panthers are two more. I count, and it's easy to count because it's basically count the winless teams, dead ass teams UM, Bengals, Broncos, Cardinals, Jets, Redskins, Dolphins. So forget about them. But in that in the twenties, I'm going ask you guys a question. So you got the Colts, I have a twenty the Bucks twenty one, the Tycoons of twenty two, the Giants of twenty three, the Raiders of twenty four, and the Falcons at twenty five.

The Steelers ay six, What is which of those teams are you most confident will get hot, get on a run, and be playing in January. Pittsburgh Steelers. Wow. But I've come around a bit on the Bucks, and I know I I jumped on you and you you know after they beat a bad Giants team. Um, and I really don't think the Rams are a good team, but I did think they're defense. Unfortunately for the Bucks have my attention. They're making plays on defense. Winston is playing well, but

the offensive line has really exceeded my expectations. And Ronald Jones is running like a man possessed. He is my new like Dalton scale for running backs. If you're not playing better than Ronald Jones, what I mean he was? He was way other than Todd Gurley in that game. M I mean he might be above the Dalton scale he has. I just used him for like, hey, why

can't you get extra yards? When I just saw Ronald Jones get extra He embarrassed John Johnson, our former guest on this on one play, on a couple of plays, but one actually that was called back by penalty, but he just unpants him. I still buy into the cults. I still buy into them. Bucks would be Bucks would be my choice. I know I've wanted to see if

the Tytoons are gonna suck anybody in after that. I don't waste a lot of verbal uh energy on the Titans, because I agree with Dan that it's a week to week proposition and it's it's too much to deal with. I need to see a six weeks stretch where they play with no letdown games in that six weeks. Well, I I as someone who's been over excited about the Bucks like you have been with the Titans, I guess we're just extending out our quarterback argument into the teams.

I want to see the Bucks these next two weeks in New Orleans, and then we'll see him in London against the Panthers too. Tough division games. They've just been so different, like great on defense the first two weeks, great on offense the next two weeks. I wanna you gotta at least split these two games to stay right

in the mix. I think it's only fair. I will suggest this to Mark and maybe he'll agree with me that Bruce arians and his staff have earned the right to put a stop to all jokes that he's just uh already regretting taking that job. Well, no, I've moved that over to Vic Fonio because and that happened all on Sunday, Because it happened midway through the third quarter at half time, you were still saying Arians didn't want

to be there. There is there is something about Arians where I feel like a little bit of air has been let out of the balloon. In terms of the Arians that I once loved. He just seems a little bit annoyed. But when you go and drop fifty five points of franchise high on a RAMS team that was looked completely beguiled for half the game, you're probably happier, all right. I kind of think he got wind of this and I helped him out eat this fifty burger. I know you don't like meet Sessler, Shove it down

your gullet. If fifty five burger should actually be rounded up to a sixty burger, him sixty burger. He turned sixty seven years old on Thursday. What if it's just, hey, he's accomplished more than he ever expected in life. He's just a little more at ease with him. Not as much fire, but you don't need the fire. Doesn't mean you're not doing it as good. A good job. Maybe doesn't mean he still isn't going for a legacy grab. By the way, don't forget about the number twenty three

team on Dan's rankings. The old Zeuser working their way up and they get the Vikings in total panic mode coming into the meadow ends on Sunday. Feels like good timing to get the Vikings or bad timing. How things can play this article. They were previously ranked number twenty three, and they're ranked again at twenty three, So they're not what the team took care business at home. But you just described him as coming up as it's the winds of change are blowing. But they got beat the Vikings.

I'll hang tight till next week. I'm all in on the Giants. If they beat the Vikings for a third straight win, well, I hope, you know, I hope you'll be all out on the Vikings if that happens too. Oh yeah, okay, they'd be in the dead ass group potentially. Wow, it's the Battle of the Battle of Kansas Sunday. We might have to draft that game and you'll find out on Thursday. All right, before we go, let's um preview

Thursday Night football. The Los Angeles Rams, who I believe West just said almost casually, are not a good team. Not a good football team, travel to Seattle the clink in prime time? Who wins in Seattle? In prime time. Well, the Rams are gonna have to try to do it against the Seahawks. Uh. Rams. The last few years in prime time, one of those up at the clink, one of those for sure they clinched. Was like there was also like the Jeff Fisher special when he pulled out.

There's like nine to seven wins where Russell Wilson and a complete anomaly would be sacked like twelve times. Anyway, this is a great uh, great Thursday night game, great division UH rivalry. UH and Mark, this is a game you'll watch. Oh, this is a This is a I've watched every Thursday night game. The Bengal Steelers game tested my patients and I eventually had to say goodbye to that one. But this one, forget about it. This is actually great for Thursday too because division rivals don't need

as much time to familiarize themselves. And Seattle is one of these teams. I don't know where they were in the rankings. I trust them to be there at the end. All I do. They fit well at number ten. They belong there, and they are not a perfect team. But when you plug in a guy like Jaenevian Clowney and he is making impact plays every week. I know that Chris Carson is someone that obviously would have lost some coaches trust, but they got a nice game out of

him last week. Russell Wilson statistically is at the best he's been in every category. In an offense where I thought they were going to run the ball two and forty times a week, he is playing in an m v P level. Greg, you mentioned that I don't trust the Rams right now at all. I don't even know what they I just don't know what they are after the buffet locking it up, I'm this is a kind of game that I would really like to lock. But if I lose my lock on Thursday night, either one

of two things happened, I totally forget about it. But on Sunday or it it absolutely cast an ominous globe over the entire weekend. So I'm gonna think on my radar column if Mark Yeah, I would to go right at that team that cost me. It's it's a matchup where two units I think that want to play a lot better go against each other. In terms of the Seahawks pass rush and then the Rams past protection, the

Seahawks pass rush hasn't been nearly as bad. The Rams are dead last in Pro Football focuses past protection grades. So Rob Havnstein, who was pretty good for a few years, is dead last that tackle through an injury. There two guards are ranked right near the bottom. They're all Pro left tackle. Andrew Whitworth has been fine, but he hasn't been the dominant guy. And so that's why Jared Goff is making these mistakes. I swear Jared Goff. If you just if you just counted the number of great throws

each quarterbacks made this year, he's near the top. He's also just made a ton of mistakes and he's not a guy maybe that's gonna thrive with pressure on it too real quick to your point, the PFF has five of six Rams lineman from that last Bucks game ranked in the deep red negative twelve or below category. That is hard to do in a single game, five out

of six. It's fascinating matchup the UH. There was a great segment from Steve Wish on the Aftermath show Monday breaking down the book that is out there now on how to stop the Rams, and a lot of teams are going to a six one defensive front, six six defensive Lineman's stop Todd Gurley on early downs, take away the off tackle runs denied Brandon Cooks or vertical routes. Make Golf throw more and forty times from the pocket instead of doing boot action, rollout play action, make him

play quarterback instead of holding mcveigh's hands. And now you're stopping the Rams because this guy, I believe had a thirty seven to seven TDed interception ratio on early downs through his first twenty eight games. It is six to seven on early downs in the most recent eleven games. They are not getting it done on third downs because teams are taking away first and second down. I'm not sure if they could do that if Todd Gurley was

still Todd Gurley. And I know the game script got banged against the Bucks as they fell behind and we're trying to play catch up, which led to how many passes, but Todd Gurley got five carries. Well, part of if if you watch a game, part of that is because the offensive line was penalized almost every time in the first quarter when they try to run play I mean five or sixteen yards and Gurley after the game, I don't call the players bro. He also doesn't fall start.

This is a big, big game. I love it. This feels like maybe it's just the flip to October Week five, feels a little meteor. This feels like the first like big game of the year. I don't know that that we've seen enough of these two teams. I like what you've seen out at Seattle, getting a little bit better each week there. I don't know if they're overachieving on defense, but they're doing well with what they have and l

a the defending NFC champs in a big spot. They can either put the NFC West right back to where it's been. Basically, hey, this is our division, or it's suddenly this pretty cool three team race where the forty Niners and the Seahawks are both ahead of them. The Desert Sees that sees this game is essentially as a pick them, and it's really let's pick this game because this is this is a real toss up for me.

On one hand, I do love the idea of the Seahawks at home, Russell Wilson, like we said, playing as well as he is, Chris Carson running the ball well when he's not fumbling it, and then you have the Rams, who are probably pretty tied after what happened last week, and they got a great coaching staff and Steve Weich made great points, but also Sean McVeigh we're told as a genius, so you know this is the is the same thing too, and he's gonna try to make adjustments, uh,

perhaps as soon as Thursday. So for that reason, I think I'll pick the Rams to a bit of a statement win, uh for l A, who have not played very well this season, but perhaps this will be their coming out party. But I could easily see it going the other way as well. Guys, how about everyone else on the podcast? First time you guys are talking, you know us in our track, you made some good points and I've lost so much faith in the Rams that I would of course pick against them, Yeah, on the

road in a short week. But I don't know. I feel like I've been doing too much reacting off of the previous week. In my picks so far, Less and I are combined O and eight in our locks so far. I'm in my own at right now, and maybe I should just pick the Rams because you don't do it, because they'll smart if we know that there's a book on the Rams, and he must know, but that's that book is written by Vic Fonio, and we four teen last year. I mean, that's There's been a couple of

good articles about it. The Bears had the blueprint, the Eagles basically copied it and did a good job in Los Angeles, and the Patriots did a lot of similar things in the Super Bowl. And other than the Panthers, almost every team they've played this year has done something similar. I thought, isn't that the book? And how much is this Todd Gurley is just a shadow of what he was and and the lines not as good. If I was a Rams fan, I'd take encouragement from the offensive

performance against Tampa. You know, those those interceptions that he had. One he got just confused on. One was a tip um one, you know he he made he made a mistake under pressure, like they were big plays, but they moved the ball. They moved the ball really from the first drive on. But he couldn't run and against the team just trying not to mess up a huge lead. I don't know. I'm taking the Rams wow three for the Rams mark set, all right, That's why I did.

I didn't jump in I'd see I'm thinking like a producer. I thought it would be good to go back and forth. Rams stop it up. It was like I was like, I didn't want to go with that, nothing like a podcaster. Let's just stay right there, like I'm going Seattle, and I'm soft locking it for right now because i may change my opinion while I'm allowed to change. It's unlocking it for now, and I'm black locks. I think Seattle's defense cannot wait for this, so it could be easily picked.

And when you've got a guy on your defense. And Michael Kendricks who was nailed for insider trading, everyone thought he'd be out of the league. He's back in kicking, but I want to do insider trading if like a two weeks slap on the wrist. Apparently, well he's back. He's part of the defense that I think is gonna win this game. They're gonna take it four in six. In fairness, it really seemed like his friend basically did it all and used his money. You know, I don't

know the details. It seems like it's not that bad of a thing to do with. Becky's gonna get the electric chair for you know, getting her kid into college. And we got people getting thrown in the slammer for like a week for insider trading. I think it's because I think what happens is most people don't understand what insider trading is, including myself, So you don't sounds bad,

you don't cling to it. But when like the actress like shoves her daughter into a college and everyone feels there's a lamb of justice, well everyone can jump on that story and you understand it. That's why I don't put her in the chair over it. I'm not the judge. How about the public shame? Isn't that enough? I don't make the decision. Someone else will. Okay, maybe she does

belong to go there. We'll be back Thursday with a preview of all the week five games, and then there will be a mini pod featuring Dan Hansas and Mark Sessler. Like this new thing completely disconnected now that reality I know. It just feels even more distant now, like I'm drifting away for myself. Somehow, Mark and I will uh handle the Thursday night recap of that very compelling game in Seattle.

Uh And finally, yes, thank you to the fans in London, like we can our careers could go in the toilet um tomorrow over. You know something that Mark says that gets magnified and we get canceled. That could happen and they'll never be able to take away that. We have a show that's sold out in less than sixty seconds. That's all you need is that that That is a huge career accomplishment. I don't care if there's four people

packed into the venue that sold out quickly. It's a testament to the hard work of us as a group and the amazing fans overseas. If you ever get a Wikipedia page, it will be in the first pair, sang, it better be in that first graph, right in the lead. If your career goes down the toilet, does the person you continue to refer to today in the third person? Is he still safe? I believe so. I'm not sure. It's a little confusing. All right, let us head of Ricky.

It's your accomplishment as well. Thank you very much, Dan Dan hands is signing up for Dan ranzas Uh, The Quiet Storm, the mail Man, the Old Boss, and Ricky Ally went behind the glass until Thursday m HM.