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the fanat Sports Network. So I'm here your host Michael here again hosting co hosting with Tyler and you want to say, hey everyone, Hello, every everyone. What a way to start off this oilers as you say podcast? Yeah, yeah, we got one more week of oilers. We had a nice, nice opening with the oilers earlier this year, so hopefully we can duplicate that. Yeah, I was at that game. Nice and before I forget, everyone, don't forget to follow, like, share, subscribe,
comment, all that good stuff. Check us out on fanbattlesports dot com for all the latest news, articles and blogs on your favorite team. Earlier this week, I put up an article remembering Frink watch it. Do you have any memories of him back in the early times days? No, because that was before you correct how old was he? Fifty two? Yeah, he got young. That was probably before my time because I'm twenty eight. Oh
yeah, yeah. He was one of the originals that came here as him McNair and Eddie George, the original three got it Okay, yeah, I'm not. I need to brush up on my oiler's history. Yeah. He he wore the Oilers for three years before they got over here as the times. Okay, moving on to the the NFL news of the day. How quick things can change in the NFL. Like, what was it two and a half months ago, everyone was wondering why we didn't keep Josh Dobbs here.
He was out in Arizona looking good, got traded to the Vikings, looked good for a game or two, and now he's basically the practice squad QB for the Vikings. Relegated to third stream. They said, I mean backups are backups for a reason. Yeah, it's kind of the Royn Fitzpatrick syndrome. He could come in and give you two or three good games and then five or six bad games right behind. Yeah, I mean he just doesn't Well. I also think that had JJ been playing those games, I
think that he may have lasted a little bit longer. Yeah, yeah, I think so. That NFL came out and made some news today. They mentioned two rule changes, well, one that they're not going to change in one that they are so. First, Roger Goodell and another executive for events that both said that the tush push is not under consideration for band, that
they wouldn't consider making a rule change just because the play is effective. I think in that instance, teams just need to get inventive to find ways to stop it. Yeah, get a defensive lineman that's going to be good enough to stop it. I mean, get to a Jeffrey Simmons. Yeah. Yeah, and it's it's not unstoppable for everyone. Other teams other than the Eagles have I think they said, are at like sixty four percent success rate
and the Eagles are ninety three. So you're basically just saying the Eagles are too good, So change the rules, right. It's very sly, baby, and I'm not I don't support from The other rule change that they said they are going to make is the fair catches on kickoffs, so that kickoffs continue to be the play where the most concussions happen in the NFL, and that's why they instituted the fair catch. But I guess that rule has impacted
the game too much. Thirty one of the thirty two teams have more than sixty percent of their kickoffs are touchbacks because of the fair catch rule, and so the NFL. I guess it is saying two thirds of kickoffs ship and be touchbacks. It needs to get closer to that fifty percent range that they
they just need to stick with the rule. I mean, honestly, like I'm just sick of they want this like perfect scenario of like they have this like idea of this like perfect NFL game and they're constantly trying to fine tune it until they get it, and I don't think that that'll ever be the case. Like do we need to have a repeat of the Chiefs and the
Rams both scoring fifty points on Monday Night Football like every game? Like no, Like that's what makes these things so special, and so you, like I've said before, like if we keep making these rule changes, you're going to really make the fan base hate the game of football because it's so hard to follow something where there's the rule changes and rule sets are constantly changing and
going all the way back to when they changed the overtime rules. I was a fan of the old sudden death overtime just because it feels like you're taking special teams out of the game, Like if you have a kicker that can kick a sixty yard field goal to win a game for you in overtime. The team shouldn't be punished for that, right, And the same thing with this. They move the kickoffs up five yards to increase the number of touchback
then they institute the faircatch rules. It seems like they're trying to just go away with special teams as much as possible. Yeah. It I understand why, because they don't want people to get injured. But at the same time, injuries are going to happen in the NFL. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of play. Yeah, you got all twenty two guys on the field are basically more than two hundred pounds running full speed into each other. Like guys, they're going to get injured. You can't take
that out of the game unless you're going to play black football. Yeah. But moving on to the the miracle on Monday night, right, Well, what about it? Well the do you think it's time to just turn the offense over to Livis Mm hmm, not yet. I think he still has a lot to learn. He's a rookie. He looked like a rookie there
for a second. He definitely made some rookie mistakes in that Dolphins game with the pick six that he threw and with that fake uh toss to Henry that I'm sorry not to fake the bad toss to Henry that was Oh, that was so bad. There's definitely some things that he needs to work on. I think we can turn it over to him. But I also think he needs a Like I've said before on here, he needs a good supporting cast. And you can't expect your quarterback to do everything otherwise he will get injured.
I e. Lamar Jackson, So I don't want him to be Lamar or to be Andrew Luck in the sense where they don't have a good supporting cast, so they're having to make plays on their own and that offense is their offense because the longevity just is not there. But I think he can. I mean with how specials he looked with d hop the seven catches for
one hundred and twenty yards and the TD that looks very promising. Yeah, and see, I think like I jotted down some stats that as I was watching the game, in the first quarter he had four pass attempts and in the second quarter he had six pass attempts up until the two minute drill at the end of the half, okay, and then in the third quarter we went back conservative because it was a one score game in the second half, and that's always been the Titans monfre to get to the fourth quarter in a
one score game. In the fourth quarter, he had two pass attempts until we were down by fourteen points. So like to me, like he needs more passes. He needs to have more control over the offense than two pass attempts in the fourth quarter. Once he once he was inside of the two minutes. He scored eighteen points inside of the two minutes in the first half, in the second half. Yeah, but you make a very good point, very fair. I just at some point in time it's going to catch
up to him. Oh yeah, definitely. I mean he's going to have his bad games, especially as a rookie that he ain't afraid to let the ball goat. So he's throwing into some top windows and the receivers, like you said, Hopkins is making him look good throwing into those top windows. But if he tries that with Burt's or Carl Phillips, then that might be
picks and tips. Yeah. I mean I watched him throw into triple coverage on Monday night at two to d Hob, which normally you would caution against, but when you have people like d Hob, you're like, oh, triple coverage, Like that's nothing. I mean, how many times have I watched that? I as a kid watched, you know, teams put three or four guys onto Megatron to prevent him from catching the ball. Yeah. I had Megatron on my fantasy team the year that he went over nineteen hundred
receiving yards. He's the only person I needed on my team to win the championship that year. You're very lucky. The other big, big impact player on Monday Night is Howard Landry. Looks like he's fully back with a three sack performance. Yeah. I was very happy with Harold Landery's performance. He definitely stepped up in the presence of of Jeffrey Simmons not being there. I
want I hope that this is just foreshadowing of what's to come. I hope that he continues to have games like this and heat, because then that's going to take some pressure off of Jeffrey Simmons and Denik o Auntrey as well as that's also going to help out Ardent to make some very key plays. So if this is if we're getting the herald landry of old, this could be a team that could be dangerous enough to upset a team in the playoffs.
Yeah, absolutely, because we've we've been begging for that front seven to find a pass rush all year and they not showed up at all. Really, Landry, I wrote down before the bye week he had one hundred and eleven plays, he only generated four pressures in one and a half sacks, And since the bye week he's had one hundred and seventy nine plays, twenty seven pressures and seven sacks. So it seems like that needs getting healthier as this
season goes on. Yeah. I mean I've always been told that recovering from ACL surgeries, it takes like a good year to really feel like yourself like how you used to. So he must have a really good sports medicine doctor. Yeah. Yeah, we can only hope, especially if we're going to try to make this playoff run at the last minute. Yes, that is true, But do you think that this can be a momentum spark for the
team to actually make the playoff? Fish Er, you think it's just too little, too late that they needed to win a game or two earlier. We're not eliminated, so I don't think it's too late. We're close, though. I think that we have an opportunity to really make a good push after this Sunday's game. If we win this Sunday's game, which I think is likely due to the massive amount of injuries that the Texans have, that could. I mean, it's it's hard to stop a team once they find
their rhythm. And so if tij Spears goes out there and continues to you know, rush for twenty thirty yards on the ground and have eighty yards in the air and de Hop has one hundred and twenty yard games, we could we could be a threat, you know. The next we only have one road game coming up where we travel to the Texans in a couple of weeks. The rest are home games. If we can win these three divisional games,
we we have a very good shot. The downfall is is that we've lost to the Steelers, the Colts, and the Browns, so we need some help. I always feel like every year there's always that one team that always needs, like the fifth sun on the seventeenth moon, the eighteenth day of the winter soulstice, help to get into the playoffs, So hopefully that's the Titans. But I mean, I wouldn't be mad if we missed the playoffs so that we have a higher draft pick going into the draft this year.
Yeah, And touching on two points there, we're not eliminated yet, but a loss on Sunday does eliminate us. If we lose any of the remaining divisional games, were officially eliminated from the playoffs. The only game we can lose is the Seahawks game, and with how the Seahawks are playing, I don't foresee us losing that one either. No, Geno Smith is pretty much already designated out that game, so we're going to be going in there
with against a backup quarterback, So so I think it's very possible. Yeah, And the other point talking about the Texans injuries, let's go ahead and start looking at the Texans here. Their number one wide receiver Nico Collins left Sunday's game with an ankle and hasn't practiced all week, so he's likely out. Number two wide receiver Tank Dell is on IR so he's out. They're
starting outside linebacker Cashman has already been rolled out with the ham string. Their number three cornerback Thomas has already been rolled out with the ham string, their starting right tackle has not practiced all week with a hip injury and is questionable, and their stud rookie defensive end Will Anderson has not practiced all week with
an ankle injury and ESPN's reporting film is doubtful. And on top of all that, c J. Stroud hasn't practiced all week with the concussion, and ESPN was talking earlier that the NFL concussion Protocol has five levels that you have to go through to come back, and the second or third level is getting cleared to practice, and CJ. Stroud hasn't been clear to practice, So if he's still on level one or two of five, then seems pretty unlikely
that he's going to play on Sunday. That would be massive for us. If he doesn't play, I mean, it's very sad to hear that he has a concussion. I would not wish that upon anyone. But at the end of the day, if he doesn't play and all of these starters for them truly do not play, this could be the momentum we need to try and make a playoff run. Yep, this would be monumental it'll make two
weeks from Sunday pretty interesting the calls. Most of these guys are going to be back for that game, and so that's going to be the big rematch and it'll be hard for well, I mean, he's gonna ce j Stroud if he does come back, he's gonna be down some receivers. I just I I'm really looking forward to playing the Texans, to play our old number one wide receiver from last year who talked the Mattis smack after we released him. So I'm I'm I'm excited for this game. Yeah, and it's gonna
be interesting. We release him and he talked all that smack and we replaced him with Hopkins, who's also in a rebiwned game against his old team. So it's going to be a battle of who can get the most yards between you and two. I would bet the money that it'll be d hop Yeah. Scenes I mean it could come down to meals versus Levis, and I'll take Levis in that battle every time. Yeah. When I when I watched Levis go one on one with Jalen Ramsey, a top five defensive back in
the entire NFL, who's all pro I think I'll take will Levis. So I was wanting to address this comment here that Mells played well against the Cattans last year, and I would just like to point out that Malik Willis ain't going to be wearing a jersey on Sunday. We got a slightly better quarterback suiting up for this game. I'd also like to point out that I'm so happy that this person said that Mills played well against US in twenty twenty two
and twenty twenty one. I'm just wondering who who did the the Texans have to spend the number two overall pick on a quarterback because didn't have what it took to be a starting quarterback. Nah nice, looks like one of the career backups coming in. Do you think this game is going to be a
Lewis game or a Henry game? Henry likes running against the Texans a lot of two hundred yards games against I'm pretty sure that Henry has records for two hundred yard games against the Texans, So with that, it's hard to say
that it won't be a Henry game. Yeah, I agree, but I'm leaning towards Lewis just because I think that with all of the injuries that the Texans are going to overcommit and sail out to stop Henry, and that's going to leave room for Hopkins and Levis to cook on the back end fair and so especially with Will Anderson possibly not playing, and so that's going to limit their past rush and so they're probably going to have to blitz more and so
that opens them up to play actions and that's will Evis's strong suit. He's those play action deep shots are just where he makes his money at. Yeah, that he does. I'm thinking about that really cool catch that the hop hat laying on his back. Yeah, and what about the diving catch Henry had for a first down on second and fifteen. I was scared. That was the Tabit scary to watch. Yeah, if he landed on his shoulder or on his hip the wrongly and he would be out for the rest of
the season. Yeah, I was. I was scared because you normally don't see Henry do that a lot. Though. I was like, please don't enter yourself, like that's the last thing we need. We don't need you leaving this game when we're trying to win. Yeah, this this is an interesting comment. Rabel versus Damiko to defensive minded, tough former players. That's that's a not cut coaching combo. I don't think either. I think both teams have good coaches with these two. Yeah, Jamiko Ryans I think should
should be up for Head Coach of the Year. Yeah. I think so too, with what he's done with Stroud And everybody was expecting the Texans to be a four or five win team again and they're here competing for a playoff spot. Yeah. They they nailed it with this year's draft box. Yeah. Absolutely. But we talked earlier about Landry and Key and Audrey and can we duplicate that past Russia second week and a row without Simmons because he's not
practiced this week and so it's trending that he's not going to play. I think it's possible. I mean, we had five sacks against Tua, and if they're missing the right tackle, that definitely is going to open up some lanes for us. And we have Deniko Autrey, who's used to playing and in the AFC South against the Texans twice a year, whether it be on the Colts or on the Titans. I think that this could be a really
big game for him. Yeah. I think so too. We also put Picco, which was who was replacing Simmons on I R. And so I think that it's going to be a lot of responsibility put on Audrey for this game. He's probably going to see quite an uptick in his snaps. Yeah. I think also that they'll do a I think the will rotate out the
other defensive end spot. Yeah. And with Key, I mean, if he's going up against a backup right tackle for the entire game, and then Landry is going up against Tunsul who missed one practice this week, he's dealing with an injury as well as well on the left side, So I mean it could be a vulnerable offensive line that they're rushing up against. True, that will make it very hard for them to run the ball. Yep.
And with their number one and number two wide receivers out and their quarterback out, it's already going to be tough sled and trying to throw the ball. So if we just off the run game, that could completely stifle their offense. That is one hundred percent tru But the Titans ain't won a back to back game in three hundred and ninety six days, so do they finally reset that back to zero. I think that they do. I think this is the game too, this is game number two. This is the best chance
I think right now we have to win to in a row. Yep, I think so as well. And it's also been four hundred and fourteen days since we beat a divisional opponent. So just to think that there's been two Halloweens, two Thanksgivings, and a Christmas since we last won a division game. If we lose this one, the next one isn't going to be until after Christmas. So we'll have two Thanksgivings, two Halloweens, and two Christmases
since the last division one. That's brutal, but I think that I think they get it done this week with all the injuries, and then they're going to be still high Monday night win and the home crowd is going to welcome him. I think it's I think this is when we finally get that monkey off of ver Beth. Correct Drew, you got a prediction for the score, I'm gonna say twenty eight fourteen titments. I have it. I have a similar score. I think that we get in the end zone one extra
time. I have it thirty four to thirteen times. We have how many games? How many days has it been since we've scored thirty points? It's been less than four or fourteen, because we score thirty I think against the Green Bay Packers, So that was last Thanksgiving, but I think it's been it's been three hundred and seventy something something like that days. I got it wrote down somewhere because I like to bring up those streets every time I think
they're going to break Themsel got to. But before we get out of here, I was want to look at some playoff math and things that need to happen for us this week. So everyone's posting about the Titans have one percent chance of making the playoffs, which is true if you consider every possible outcome of the NFL season. But the only realistic way for the Titans to make the playoffs is to win all four of the remaining games on the schedule. So if we do that, if we take care of air business, then
that increases the odds to eighteen percent, which still ain't great. One in five pretty much right, But the Titans have three games that they really need to break their way this week. So those three games are the Cowboy beaten the Bills, the Lions beating the Broncos, and the Vikings beating the Bengals. If those three things happen, then the Titans odds increased the twenty five percent again, assuming we win all four of their games. I think two
of the three will happen. The one that the doubtful one in my mind is Vikings and Bengals. I agree with you there, so I was diving deeper into that one before we jumped on here tonight. So they have the same record on the year, but they're both missing their quarterbacks. The Vikings chose to move on from Gods and of course Cousins got injured earlier this year and Burrow is out for the season, so it could come down to which
of those two backups are better. And Browning has looked really good with his wins over the the last couple of weeks. I think one of them came against the Colts if ain't mistaken, and I think did the other one come against the Jaguars that that is true, Yeah, I mean he's looked good. He also has a top five wide receiver to throw to. Yeah, and is Jefferson out this week? I would be shocked if he's playing this
week because he left the game with the chef's injury. I haven't read the injury report though, to see if he's if he's been practicing or not, but I would be shocked if he's. If he's playing, it's sad because I would have loved to have seen Cousins and JJ go up against Burrow and Jamar. But maybe they're saying that ESPN has the Vikings calling him questionable.
But Jefferson himself said in the locker room told a reporter he's playing on Saturday, So he says that they like he's going to make a go of it, So good for him. That'll be interesting Jefferson versus Chase. That'll that'll be interesting. If it was like I said, if it was Burrow and Cousins, it'd be a high scoring game. Yeah, But I don't think it will be. Yeah. So there's a couple other games we have slight
interest in, but they don't drastically impact us this week. One is tonight's game the Chargers and the Raiders. So both of them have the same record that we have right now, so it would actually benefit us if the Chargers win tonight because we own the head to head tiebreaker over them, so we would want to finish in the tile with them. Okay, let's see what
was the other ones I've noted here? The Ravens and the Jaguars. Of course, if the Ravens beat the Jaguars, then that keeps a small path to the division title open for us, So it's better to have two pats than one path. And then the other one is the Stealers and the Colts. So no matter who loses that game, if we win on Sunday, we will be one game behind them and they will be the seventh seeds.
Okay, And so we need the loser of that game to lose two of their final three games because they both on the head to head tiebreaker over us. So it's not good enough for them to lose one more game because then they have the tiebreaker, so we need them to lose two after this weekend. I've seen the Colts of schedule. It's pretty soft. That is because they have the Steelers, they have the Raiders, and they have they have Steelers, Raiders, Texans. Yeah, and I can't think of who else.
It is pretty soft. It's the Steelers, Texans, Raiders, and Falcons. So Falcons they can maybe lose too. Now, if they win and the Steelers lose, then we would need the Steelers to lose two of their final three, which is the Ravens, the Bengals, and the Seahawks. And I could definitely see them losingto the Ravens and maybe the Bengals on
that schedule there. Yeah, so it as much as I would hate to root for the Colts, it may be in our best interest for the Colts to win that one since the Steelers are more likely to lose games down the stretch. That is true, and that would be nice, That would be nice. Those are that pretty much runs it down. But yeah, it sounds when people say you've got a one percent chance, it sounds like we need a just massive amount of help. That we just need help from three
teams this week, and two of them are very likely to happen. So anything maybe gets lucky wants. I mean, I've also I've seen the Colt squander a ninety percent plus chance to make the playoffs. All they had to win was all they had to do was win between the win one game between Jacksonville and Raiders, and they went on to lose both. So I mean any literally, anything can happen. I mean, hell, look at us last year after the Packers game, we was ninety four percent chance to make
it and the Jaguars were less than one percent. You know what happened there? That is I think that'll probably do it for us tonight. You want to tell everyone where they can find you at yep. You can follow me on Facebook at either a warrant or you can follow me on Instagram at Many of Steel. All right, and thanks for everyone to join us that commented. Everybody, don't forget like, share, follow, subscribe, and enjoy some mayo this weekend. So have a good one. Thank you for having
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