Will Compton Says "MUST-WIN" For Chiefs + Clay Matthews, Delanie Walker & Taylor Lewan Ride Eagles

Summary

Bussin' With The Boys – Locker Room Episode Summary

Episode: Will Compton Says "MUST-WIN" For Chiefs + Clay Matthews, Delanie Walker & Taylor Lewan Ride Eagles
Date: September 11, 2025
Hosts: Will Compton, Taylor Lewan, Clay Matthews, Delaney Walker
Main Theme:
A high-energy, in-depth roundtable NFL preview for Week 2 featuring analysis and banter from former NFL players. The Boys debate six featured games, give betting advice, riff on football culture, and close with a “must-win” Chiefs–Eagles Super Bowl rematch debate. Throughout, they weave insider knowledge and trademark comical roasting.

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Main Discussion Overview

This episode dives into six NFL matchups ahead of Week 2, with the Boys sharing locker room insights, game breakdowns, and betting picks. The cast debates coaching trends, QB performances, and play-calling strategies, blending sharp football analysis with their signature ball-busting humor and competitive streak. The episode climaxes with a heated discussion about whether the Chiefs face a true "must-win" against the Eagles, with references to Super Bowl history, team urgency, and the Swifties (Taylor Swift fans) influence.

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Key Segments and Insights

1. Banter & Betting Records ([00:00])

• Kickoff with energy: Will Compton shouts out listeners, runs down NFL & college picks records, and sets the slate: Bears/Lions, Jags/Bengals, Falcons/Vikings, Bucs/Texans, Chargers/Raiders, and the big one: Eagles at Chiefs.
• Running joke: Delaney “Moneyline” Walker is ribbed for a poor betting record (“one in five, we knew he would do that”).

  “Willie Boy went 4 and 1. Willie Boy is also at the top five and one on the NFL. Taylor is 4 and 2, Clay is 3 and 3 and Delaney, the Moneyline Walker... one in five.” (00:00)

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2. Gambling 101 & Locker Room Antics ([04:43])

• Delaney and Clay recount learning about sports betting terms—odds, spreads, and ‘moneyline’ confusion when they first joined the show.
• Will points out the risk/reward balance of betting favorites, explaining spread fundamentals.
• Clay jokes about becoming the show’s “ammonia capsule, smelling salts” spokesman, after their on-air supply runs out.
• Life advice via joke:

  “For all you guys out there going on your first date, don’t do what Clay did, like, take them to Sonic, pull in—set the key to happiness is low expectations.” (Delaney, 07:00)

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3. Game-by-Game Breakdown

A. Bears @ Lions ([11:15])

• Predictions: Most go Lions -5.5; Delaney initially argues for Bears but is swayed.
• Analysis: The panel debates Caleb Williams' debut, whether Chicago’s offense "gelled," and the Lions’ O-line struggles post-Frank Ragnow retirement.
  • Clay: “Jared Goff... looked uncomfortable in the pocket. That’s more a testament to Ragnow retiring...”
  • Will emphasizes Lions' run defense: “I feel like they will get back on track...their run defense is nice and I think they’re gonna swallow the Bears, especially at home.” (16:34)
• Literary Color: Delaney, with a Charles Dickens “Tale of Two Cities” reference, calls the Bears’ opener: “Best of times, worst of times.” (13:12)

B. Jags @ Bengals ([19:24])

• Consensus: Leaning Bengals -3.5, except Will who takes Jags +3.5.
• Bengals’ new defense and Burrow’s grittiness wins praise, but Will advocates for the Jags’ smooth offense and ETN’s run game:
  • “Jags...they look kinda smooth...” (24:31)
• Delaney: Notes Bengals’ defensive turnovers were ‘fluky’ and expects Trevor Lawrence to exploit man coverage.

C. Buccaneers @ Texans ([27:32])

• Split room: Will/Clay on Texans, Delaney/Taylor on Bucs (Baker-Emeka connection).
• Defense Focus: Will: “I love that defensive line...They were number two to I believe the Ravens all week long as far as beating the Offensive lineman.” (28:45)
• Counter: Delaney: “I am concerned about the Houston Texans’ pressure...But I love Baker Mayfield’s energy.”

D. Falcons @ Vikings – Sunday Night Football ([32:31])

• The Boys spotlight JJ McCarthy’s coming-of-age drive and Kevin O’Connell’s bold playcalling as reasons to “buy in” on the Vikings (-4.5). Will and Taylor voice concern about overrating the Vikings after an emotional win.
• Key moment:
  • “I love JJ McCarthy’s first half because of how good he was in the fourth quarter...I like the Vikings being a team you gotta worry about.” (Delaney, 34:37)
• Stat drop: Clay: “The Falcons last five games as the underdog, not only have they not won, they have not covered. And the Vikings 10 wins, one loss in one-score games over the last two seasons.” (40:22)
• Result: Some flip picks mid-discussion, with Will and Terror Lawan now taking Falcons +4.5 for value.

E. Chargers @ Raiders ([42:01])

• Divided: Clay, Taylor, Delaney on Chargers, Will on Raiders (with trepidation).
  • Will: “I like the Raiders. I can’t fully tell you why outside of Chip Kelly’s offense...but Geno [Smith] can sling it.” (42:39)
• Raiders’ interior O-line struggles, Chip Kelly/Pete Carroll dynamic, and Max Crosby’s solo dominance highlighted.
• Delaney flags possible too-many-cooks issue on Raiders’ offensive staff.

F. Eagles @ Chiefs – "True Classic Game of the Week" ([53:32])

• Debate centerpiece: Is this “must-win” for the Chiefs, who are (rarely) home underdogs?
  • “This is a must win for the Chiefs.” – Will Compton (53:58)
  • “For the Chiefs, it’s a must win...that they are not going to win.” – Clay Matthews (54:29)
• Clay, Delaney, and Taylor all pick the Eagles (“a more complete team”). Will backs the Chiefs, citing desperate urgency:
  • “Teams that start 0 and 2: you have an 87.5% chance of not making the playoffs...If they don’t win this game, they are not making the playoffs.” (56:09)
• Passionate crosstalk about stats vs. “football vibes,” with fun sidebars about Travis Kelce, the “Swifties” fanbase, and social media culture.

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4. Notable Quotes & Locker Room Color

• On betting swing games:

  “There’s three games right now where it’s three to one and I’m just like...the Raiders one’s the one I’m like, most uncomfortable about.” (Will Compton, 49:16)

• On locker room vibes:

  “Apparently Ru, the team’s around this kid and they’re like this is our leader.” (Delaney Walker on JJ McCarthy, 41:45)

• On Chiefs’ de facto playoff stakes:

  “If they don’t win this game, they are not making the playoffs. To me, this is a must win for the Chiefs.” (Will Compton, 56:51)

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5. “Bet the Boys” Parlay Picks ([66:09])

The Boys each select an anytime touchdown scorer for their parlay (FanDuel odds pending):

• Clay: Jalen Hurts (Eagles)
• Delaney: Saquon Barkley (Giants), but later considers Lamar Jackson (Ravens)
• Will: Javonte Williams (Cowboys)
• Terror Lawan: Bijan Robinson (Falcons)

Plus, locker room jokes and rationales for each pick, lightheartedly second-guessing choices.

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6. Swifties, Social Comments & Football Culture ([62:25] onward)

• Spirited sidebar on Taylor Swift’s fanbase demographics, online hate, and whether NFL is “better when the Chiefs are good.”
• Delaney: “Love you, Swifties.”
• Terror Lawan: “I’ve been to Swifty concerts. When I’m there, it’s kids.”
• Will Compton: “The ones that do [get us], love us.”
  Joking about getting invited to the Kelce–Swift wedding and podcast public perception.

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Notable & Memorable Moments

• Charles Dickens reference applied to the Bears.
• Disputed and comical "change your pick" mid-debate based on stats (particularly Vikings/Falcons).
• “This is a must win for the Chiefs” debate, with real urgency stakes vs. “ain’t happening.”
• Swifties and NFL: jokes, generational callouts, and social media shade.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Time | Segment Description | |------------|---------------------------------------------------------| | 00:00 | Opening/Ball knowledge & records | | 04:43 | Betting basics & panel banter | | 07:00 | “First date” low-expectations analogy | | 11:15 | Bears @ Lions deep dive | | 19:24 | Jags @ Bengals breakdown | | 27:32 | Buccaneers @ Texans analysis | | 32:31 | Falcons @ Vikings (SNF) discussion | | 42:01 | Chargers @ Raiders preview | | 53:32 | Eagles @ Chiefs – Super Bowl rematch + “must-win” debate| | 56:09 | Will drops playoff odds stat; Chiefs urgency | | 66:09 | "Bet the Boys" Parlay picks | | 62:25 & on | Swifties, social comments, pop culture sidebar |

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Final Thoughts

This episode delivers the full “locker room” experience: relentless ball talk, sharp breakdowns of NFL matchups, and inside-baseball on players and coaches. The panel’s blend of expert opinion and playful rivalry keeps it fresh, whether dissecting a game plan or riffing on pop culture tides like the Swiftie effect. The "must-win" debate on the Chiefs-Eagles game highlights the Boys’ knack for turning analysis into entertaining debate.

For football fans and bettors wanting both sharp edges and entertainment, this episode is classic Bussin’ With The Boys.

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Not to miss: The ongoing statistical debates, the eruption of laughter over Taylor Swift’s reach, and the passionate “Chiefs must win” discussion with odds, urgency, and plenty of locker room candor.

Transcript

[Will Compton]

Welcome to another episode of the Locker Room. Shout out all of you guys for tuning in. If you're here, do not forget to subscribe, follow our channels and continue to engage in the comments. If you love ball talk, you love the Locker Room, you love some banter, you came to the right spot. I'm your host Will Compton along with Delaney Walker, Klay Matthews, Terror Lawan. We're going to be talking about six games this week. We got Bears, Lions, Jags, Bengals, Falcons, Vikings, Bucks, Texans, Chargers, Raiders, and we end it with the Philadelphia Eagles at the Kansas City Chiefs. If you want to go to Week one and you're new to tuning in, you're like, who are the ball knowers on this crew? You saw college football last week or yes, on yesterday's show, Willie Boy went 4 and 1. Willie Boy is also at the top five and one on the NFL. Taylor is 4 and 2, Clay is 3 and 3 and Delaney, the Moneyline Walker who swore he was seeing the board last week. One in five. We knew he would do that. He didn't know it, but thank you for tuning in. Get Cozy Comment subscribe let's have a show.

[Delaney Walker]

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[Will Compton]

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[Delaney Walker]

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[Delaney Walker]

Boys, let's get started. Clay, I'm glad we were able to give you a little education on Gambling 101. Thank you, but you shouldn't feel too alone. A couple years ago when we started the gambling thing, slips and picks 500. It was my first year gambling as well, so I was kind of playing the catch up.

[Will Compton]

It's confusing same as it is.

[Delaney Walker]

You get in Delaney, Delaney and I were very new. Will already had bet the bus going on and so all these guys kind of Understood. And I'm like, now, like, hosting a show, and I'm, like, sitting there being like, yeah, minus this, minus that. Like, you get a little confused about those things.

[Will Compton]

And then you think to yourself, too, like, okay, if you're taking them to win by or to cover, minus three and a half, it's like, why not just take a money line? Like, why can't we just pick the games to win? And then, as you learn, you get in there, you put like a hundred on something that might be like minus 300 odds. You're like, I'm not really making a whole lot of money, but if you move that line or you take them to cover, you're like, okay, this feels a little more exhilarating. I see what's happening here.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah, yeah. But, hey, we know the beginning of the show belongs to one man and one man only. Clay, what do you got for us?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, what did you bring this one.

[Delaney Walker]

Entertain us.

[Klay Matthews]

Like, I honestly worried you would.

[Delaney Walker]

Locker room guys. Last week, people, a lot of people were saying, maybe Will Compton isn't the locker room guy. Bus.

[Will Compton]

Maybe it is Clay. What's he going to bring on week three?

[Terror Lawan]

What's he going to do?

[Klay Matthews]

What's he going to do, man? Just my presence alone, I thought that was enough for you boys. But I'm just like the gag guy now. Like the funny guy.

[Delaney Walker]

Ha ha.

[Klay Matthews]

We've been here for, like, what you.

[Will Compton]

Did is you make the mistake all men do. Like, if they go on a first date, you take them to a nice steakhouse and do all these things and set the bar high. So now we're expecting it. You got us a nice purse the first week, right?

[Klay Matthews]

Hey, I'll bring something for next week, okay. Something for the boys.

[Will Compton]

So you don't got nothing this week?

[Klay Matthews]

I don't have anything to say.

[Delaney Walker]

So the viewers now are watching the show who showed up for.

[Klay Matthews]

They should. They should probably just leave for the.

[Terror Lawan]

Beginning of the show. They love the beginning of the show.

[Klay Matthews]

You used them all, bro. You took them all.

[Terror Lawan]

Do you used them all?

[Klay Matthews]

But I'm in the.

[Delaney Walker]

We will be bringing some other contracts.

[Klay Matthews]

Here in the contract talks to, you know, be the official spokesman for ammonia capsule, smelling salts, you know.

[Terror Lawan]

Wow. They reached out. They reached out.

[Will Compton]

We used the rest of them on the stream.

[Terror Lawan]

Oh, yeah, we did Thursday night.

[Will Compton]

Then we had a couple more for Saturday.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, we did.

[Delaney Walker]

Wait, we don't have any more salts?

[Will Compton]

No, we ran out.

[Delaney Walker]

We used them.

[Terror Lawan]

We ran out. We bust them down.

[Delaney Walker]

The box back there has to be.

[Klay Matthews]

It was A ten pack. It was a ten pack.

[Delaney Walker]

We gotta keep that. Cause I wanna take that.

[Terror Lawan]

Well, it may just be two left then. Cause we put, what, four?

[Klay Matthews]

We could get some more boys Thursday night.

[Delaney Walker]

We can get some more. Clay knows a guy who has a guy who is with a guy. But yeah, for all you guys out there going on your first date, don't do a. Clay did, like, take them to Sonic, pull in that, drive through, like, set the key to happiness is low expectations. Set that bar pretty fast. Bears, Lions. You guys want to talk about it?

[Terror Lawan]

Oh, man.

[Delaney Walker]

Bears, Lions.

[Will Compton]

We can talk about Bears, Lions. I'm. Honestly, I'm. I'm disappointed that I'm not looking at an undefeated week because the damn Ravens, bro.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, the Ravens, man.

[Will Compton]

They dominated that game. Josh Allen's a superhero.

[Delaney Walker]

They dominated that. Everything about the game except for the box score. At no point in that game do you watch it and you think Bills are in it. Yeah, but then Josh Allen just wouldn't do Josh Allen things. And then Bill's mafia did Bill's mafia things. Tagging us, saying, you good? Taylor Lawan.

[Terror Lawan]

Oh, yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

Like, I picked him to win the Super Bowl. And now they put me on their Instagram, which I deserve, by the way. Like, I went there and said, josh Allen. They got the squad. This is the year they get over the hump. And then week one, I start philandering around. They catch me in a bet with another woman. For a second, I'm like, yeah, I got caught red handed. And it's just crazy. Like Derek Henry, over 100 rushing yards in the first half. The defense, Kyle Hamilton, that safety, he's all world, bro. Making it with his feet.

[Will Compton]

And it's just how many. What was the score of the game?

[Delaney Walker]

Was it 40 to 31 to 40, right?

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, 41 and. Yeah, 41, 40.

[Will Compton]

The Ravens offense had 51 total plays on offense and they scored 40 points.

[Terror Lawan]

I know.

[Klay Matthews]

Wow.

[Terror Lawan]

Crazy.

[Will Compton]

Every time they touched the ball, whatever they scored, it's 40 points every single time.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah, they have the Meta bowl roster.

[Klay Matthews]

They'll see each other again. Yeah, see each other again.

[Terror Lawan]

They definitely gonna see each other again.

[Delaney Walker]

Do you guys know who Stavros is? The comedian.

[Will Compton]

Love him.

[Delaney Walker]

Love him. Did you see his one about the Raiders?

[Will Compton]

Oh, yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

He had this whole thing by maybe Derek Henry's washed up. I'm looking for a quarterback like Scatterboo or cmc just off the top of the head.

[Terror Lawan]

Wow, he is.

[Will Compton]

Hilarious.

[Delaney Walker]

He's hilarious, bro. He's hilarious. Shout out tyres. But how are we feeling.

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[Delaney Walker]

Delaney about Lions Bears Bears are underdogs five and a half. Yeah, that means if the Lions win by four, the Bears cover for anybody who's listening on the show.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, which is crazy. Just to see how the Lions performed last week that their favorite against the Bears and seeing how the Bears went in, you had Caleb Williams go. I mean he looked good for his day. Another starting the season off with the Bears. Hearing what Taylor had to say about the news, them not getting along, not gelling, I felt like they gelled pretty well. He put points on the board, he moved the ball. That defense was. Defense was exciting. Obviously they didn't get the job done. JJ made some great plays at the end with his feet getting the ball in the end zone. But I'm going to have to go with the Bears. I feel like the Bears is an exciting team this year. I don't know what the Lions are going to do. Obviously they going to make some changes. But that offensive coordinator, who is he? What is he doing? Those boys couldn't move the ball, couldn't do nothing well. So I'm taking the Bears, man. I feel like Caleb is going to get this game done.

[Will Compton]

I wish I could like watch these games with you and understand what Kool Aid you're drinking and what you're seeing for this Bears offense.

[Klay Matthews]

Gelling outside of the first drive, I mean, the rest of the game was a snooze.

[Will Compton]

They were gelling, bro.

[Delaney Walker]

He started 10 for 10 for 51 yards. And it's like that is your scripted plays that you go over at nausea Thursday through Sunday in third quarter, you.

[Will Compton]

Get a pick six. Like the game they're gelling. That game should be over.

[Terror Lawan]

They should have won that game. They should have won the game.

[Delaney Walker]

You start 10 for 10 or 51 yards, you're like, oh, Caleb Williams, he's seeing the field, he's understanding, he's going through his progressions. But then you finally get off the script and he goes 8 for 21 after that.

[Terror Lawan]

I mean, he moving the ball. He got the in the end zone. He had then he hadn't had a rushing touchdown all last. Finally getting it. He's feeling comfortable.

[Klay Matthews]

That was in the first ten.

[Terror Lawan]

I'm telling you, he feeling comfortable. Just.

[Delaney Walker]

Just watch and see Ben Johnson's face. Didn't seem like he was feeling comfortable in that press conference after the game.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah. Cause they lost the game.

[Delaney Walker]

They lost the game they had in hand.

[Terror Lawan]

The defense lost that game for them.

[Delaney Walker]

Have you ever heard of the 1865 novel Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickerson?

[Terror Lawan]

I mean, I may have heard it, but I definitely didn't read it.

[Delaney Walker]

This is a cheers reference for some of you old heads out there. The first line in the whole book is the best of times is the worst of times. That's exactly what it was for the Chicago Bears in that game. They had JG McCarthy in a fucking blender. He was non existent. He seemed Overwhelmed. He seemed like the moment was too big for him. And then the haters and the doubts, like he's got the intangibles. He's a, he's a born winner. He, he, you know, look what he did at Michigan. He didn't have to throw. Cause they had a good run game. And if he doesn't have a good run, they were all over his ass. Then he throws a pick six and you can tell Kevin o' Connell's a little uncomfortable about him because they ran the ball two times in a row after that on the next drive. Then all of a sudden JJ McCarthy wakes up and he's showing that okay. Kevin O' Connell is a hell of a coach. You see it situationally with that 2 minute, with 2, 2 minutes and 3 seconds left in the clock, running it out of the end zone on the kickoff return. You see it with JJ McCarthy sticking with him. When you could have got a first year starter and been like, hey, let's get him out, let's preserve him. Let's save some of this confidence. Let's get somebody else in there to help him out. Kid lit up. If I am the Chicago Bears, that was a demoralizing loss. That's a loss that's like maybe Ben Johnson isn't the leader of men that people claimed he isn't. Maybe Caleb Williams is more focused on the nail polish than he is actually. What's going on in the game plan. The defense looks nice, but like if you're in Minnesota, you're like, oh, Kevin o' Connell is one of the best coaches in the NFL for a reason. Like they're going to be okay. Their defense is nasty. And it seems like J.J. if he continues where he left off in that fourth quarter, you can roll.

[Terror Lawan]

You will see.

[Klay Matthews]

We'll talk about the Vikings when we get to the Vikings. But like I got the Lions beating the Bears right here. I think it is a demoralizing loss. I look at the Lions, though their loss as nothing more. I look at this game as a get back on track game. And I look at their loss as nothing more than a tough loss against a tough divisional opponent on the road. This might be silly to say, but I think the packers had more to play for in this game. Hearing about their one in five divisional records, you know, having a home game to open up the season.

[Will Compton]

What are they going to do with.

[Klay Matthews]

Parsons, the mic, the, the Micah A trade. And you hear the pop of the crowd. It wasn't like that. Since 52 was running out there back in 18. So, like, I put nothing more into it. What I do have a little concern about is their offensive line play. I mean, that is what Dan Campbell has has. The Lions have taken so much pride in blue Collar. Their offensive line dominating the line of scrimmage. Jameer Gibbs just, you know, running the ball. And it looks like they had 44 yards on 20 carries between David Montgomery and.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, between both of them.

[Klay Matthews]

Like, that's tough. And then golf looked uncomfortable in the pocket. He looked really uncomfortable. I think that's more a testament to Ragnow retiring Glasgow moving in. I know they got like a second round.

[Delaney Walker]

Both guards, one guard moves the same.

[Klay Matthews]

But I know some people say, hey, they're looking for their identity and whatnot. Goff was still efficient. I know a lot of them were check downs. He didn't have that touchdown till the very end on that amazing, you know, throwing catch. But ultimately, I believe in Dan Campbell here. I believe they go home, they get this win against the Bears. I mean, it's. I think the Bears are going to start the season 0 and 2. I think it's hard to come back with all the momentum they had leading into week one with that terrible loss. I think they're going to start the season 02. Lions jump back to one and one.

[Will Compton]

I'm with you. I got Lions minus five and a half. I feel like they just played a very good football team in Green Bay. And even you were talking about the offense, the lack of yardage, the lack of productivity on production between the two running backs. But even on defense, like the backers look good, but not a whole lot of pass rush from your boy, Aiden Hudson, Aiden Hutchinson, not a whole lot of pass rush on that side of the football. I feel like they will get back on track because their run defense is nice and I think they're going to swallow the Bears, especially at home in Detroit. Getting to go back home after being at Green Bay. I feel like this is a GBOT game for Dan Campbell. Yeah. So I got Lions covering.

[Delaney Walker]

I'm going Lions mine and a half as well. I love the Lions thought process in taking two guys internally after your OC and your DC leave and taking John Morton the OC and be like, okay, he understands. He's been a part of that culture. And what Ben Johnson liked to run. And then you run into the situation you get with the three interior offensive linemen. I think Graham Glasgow obviously is a teammate of mine at University of Michigan. He goes from left guard into center. You have a rookie starting at the left Guard position, a new starter and the right guard position, you can see it on the film, takes a little bit of gel. Anytime they ran games, they seemed a little loose. A lot of penetration up the middle, which is causing Josh Allen to hit those checkdowns.

[Klay Matthews]

Jared Goff.

[Delaney Walker]

Sorry, yeah. What'd I say?

[Terror Lawan]

Josh Allen.

[Will Compton]

Josh Allen. Yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

Jared Allen. They're winning that game.

[Terror Lawan]

He said Jared.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah. So Jared Goff, I just think that you go back to Detroit, you take a clean look in the mirror. What worked, what didn't. Okay, Jared, even though he's getting in a tough situation, high percentage wise, he is getting a check down. So how do you establish the run game? How do you minimize kind of different looks and stuff like that, make it simple for the guys in the middle? Graham, he's a very vocal guy. He's a guy similar to you will where he's like always in his notebook. Always has. You know, he's got his notebooks from five years ago. To go back and look at the Bears and same guys that are on there. I like that. I like the Lions having a bounce back in this one minus five and a half.

[Will Compton]

And if you think about it too, like Bears are going to have to run the football if they're going to have any success. And are you taking the Bears running offense or the packers running offense? Like, turn on the tape with the Lions. Like, they are nice in the run game. Those backers are good. Between Barnes, Barnes, Anzalone and Campbell. Yeah, Campbell is nice, bro.

[Delaney Walker]

Iowa boy.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Some white team guys out there flying around. I mean, I just don't think the Bears will be able to do that. And then you got to put the game in the hands of Caleb Williams with. If you're on Delaney side, they're gelling. They're moving right now. I don't think they get out from last year.

[Terror Lawan]

What he's doing. That's. Man, that's productive. And then that defense, they ain't going to be able to run the ball on that defense. So we'll see what happens.

[Delaney Walker]

I can't wait to revisit this.

[Terror Lawan]

And honestly, you said that about the Chargers and fucking Chiefs game. I won that.

[Delaney Walker]

Did we talk about the Chargers yet?

[Klay Matthews]

That's later. That's later. That's later.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah, I think that was. Yeah. One of my two losses last week. Would you say that one in five?

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, Yeah, I went one in five. Fourth quarter losses. I can't help.

[Will Compton]

Let's go Jags, Bengals. Talking about Jags, Bengals right now. Jaguars are at Cincinnati Bengals Are favored minus three and a half. The over under on this game is 49 and a half. Taylor.

[Delaney Walker]

Oh, okay.

[Will Compton]

Sorry. Anybody? Anybody? Any of the.

[Delaney Walker]

Listen, I like the. I think the Jags, they look good. I think their game plan going into week one was nice. They did a good job of complimenting the run with the pass. I love the jet sweep they took to the house when they're in that, like, gray area, fringe area, red zone spot. Trevor Lawrence looks very comfortable. Jordan Lewis is a corner, had a couple of nice snags. They doing a good job of turning over the football. A big concern for a lot of people is Joe Burrow in Week 1 and 14 for 23, 113 yards and one touchdown is essentially the same stat line against the Patriots. Week one. I mean, the offense does not do well. The only difference between the Bengals last year is they ended up figuring out a way to get a win on the road against the Browns. Joe Burrow went 21 for 29, 164 yards last year. Week two, he plays Kansas City, Spags his defense, and he goes 23 for 36, 258 and two touchdowns. Jags, I like where they're at. I like Cone. I like the Duval. He seems like the quirkiness is kind of playing a little bit similar to McDaniels did in Miami early. But I like the Bengals getting a 20 start in this game.

[Klay Matthews]

I got. I got the Bengals as well. I mean, when you base this off Week one performance, the Jaguars look better than Cincy. Like you had mentioned the run game, 200 yards rush and ETN looking like his former self. 20, 22, 2023 ETN. It was fun watching Travis Hunter. What they're gonna do getting him the ball. I think what six receptions didn't do much as far as 33 yards, but you can tell he's electric. But Trevor Lawrence, you said he was getting comfortable. I thought he was missing a few throws. You look at his relationship with. Was it Brian Thomas Jr Bro, he had 1300 yards last year with Mac Jones. And when you put the stats of what he was able to do with Trevor Lawrence, like, I just don't see him clicking. I think they had between the two with Brian Thomas Jr. One reception for 11 yards. Like, I don't know. And the Bengals have a new defense this year. They got a new defensive coordinator. Out with the old, in with the two. They. They held the Browns, you know, around. Let's see, 49 yards on 24 rush attempts, two interceptions, two interceptions.

[Will Compton]

The defense Kind of won the game. It is the Browns though.

[Klay Matthews]

Now listen, Trevor Lawrence was the least pressured quarterback in week one. Shamar Stewart, he showed what he's put of his potential in this first game. Trey Hendrickson, I see there being a lot more pressure. I don't know if ETN is going to have as much success going up there to Cincy. And you look at just getting back to the Bengals. The Cleveland Browns notoriously play the Bengals tough. It's a divisional game. You can throw out expectations, money lines, all that. But a win is a win. And Burrow said it after the game, those were the games they were not winning last year. So they go on the road, they get a tough gritty win. They did not play well by any means. You're right, they should have lost that game. But they're one and oh and I think they get and they make it 210 after this week. I think they shut down the Jags running game. They get pressure on Trevor Lawrence, make them uncomfortable. And I think the star power, the firepower on offense, I think they get that passing attack going.

[Terror Lawan]

You think D. I'm going Bengals as well on this game. I mean I'm following.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, give me the Jags. Give me the Jags with the three and a half. I think Jack, the Jaguars, it's again they're down in Jacksonville. I think they're a team that won't be talked about but to me they're like an under the radar AFC team. Not saying they're going to be some powerhouse because they did they beat up on the Panthers. We don't know if the Panthers are going to have another bad year, but their line of scrimmage looks good. Travis Hunter is going to get more involved. I think Brian Thomas Jr. Is going to get his touches. I love Cohen working with Trevor Lawrence. I thought when I'm watching the tape I thought Trevor looked pretty comfortable. A couple misses but it's not like overthrows. It's not like you got DJ Moore wide open, going to score a touchdown and Caleb just sails. I like and etn he's. He was number two in the league this past week in Russia and to where they're not touch him. He's getting about three yards before he gets first contact and him even running through tackles. I think Jaguars could be a team that's talked about eventually in the afc. If the Bengals win, I think it's going to be very close. I like Jacksonville plus three and a half year. I like the Jags.

[Delaney Walker]

It's a. It's a. It's a good argument because the defense. The defense did win the game for the Bengals, but, like, the two takeaways they had against Joe Flacco were like, receiver goes to catch the ball, bounces off the shoulder, they catch it. It wasn't like, you know, they're. They're tricking and disguising. It's a yard sale. Like, Trevor Lawrence is going to have his opportunities against Al Golden's defense. He loves to run a lot of, man. You see it coming from Notre Dame, so we'll see how comfortable he is. Because when you run, man, it allows you to bring a lot of pressure.

[Terror Lawan]

But, I mean, it was 19.

[Delaney Walker]

I like Joe Burrow. Week two.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

And that's why.

[Terror Lawan]

Right.

[Will Compton]

Like, that's.

[Delaney Walker]

I like doing.

[Will Compton]

You look at the stat. Yeah. You look at the box score and stat line for Jamar Higgins. Joe, it's not, you know, it'll come at some point. I'm hoping. Not this week, since I'm taking the Jags, but.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, he was 19 for 31.

[Delaney Walker]

You got a nice little thing up there sitting five and one and right.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. And again, just watching. I watched the full Jags game, and they. They look kind of smooth.

[Terror Lawan]

I mean, that delay, Fuck me, I. I had to get away with that hour delay they had was like, okay, did that play a part because what was it, like 10, 3? And then they went on an hour delay, came back and just started spanking the fucking.

[Delaney Walker]

It's also just the Panthers of the Panthers, bro. Not a whole. They don't get a whole lot of pressure. They don't. They're kind of spotty on defense. Bryce Young's good, then he's bad, then he's benched, then he's back, then he's good. It's like a whole weird thing. It's a whole weird thing. It's gonna be a fun week to watch them.

[Will Compton]

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[Will Compton]

Work back to the episode Buccaneers at Texans.

[Delaney Walker]

Texans are favored by two and a.

[Terror Lawan]

Half, which is crazy.

[Delaney Walker]

Will, where you at on this one?

[Will Compton]

Buccaneers Texans. I like the Texans. I like the Texans. I love that defensive line. They got Stingley and the secondary is going to get going. You got C.J. garner Johnson at safety. They'll get jelled. They struggled a little bit against the Rams. Stafford is unreal. I was watching that game. Stafford with pressure in his face is unreal. Devonte Adams had a couple of drop balls too. I know we're not talking about the Rams right now, but Devonte had a couple drop balls to where I think the Rams will be really nice this year. The pressure of the Texans, you won't see it blown up on the on the stats, but as far as like beating defenders and beating the offensive lineman, they were number two to I believe the Ravens all week long. As far as beating the Offensive lineman not going to show up on the stat sheet. I think that defensive line is nice and if you're the Bucs, you're going to have to be able to run the ball with Bucky Irving. I think Baker's going to be under a lot of pressure as he, you know, as he's running around trying to make plays happen back there. I like the Texans. I think they'll get going on offense because they struggled a little bit last week. I think the Rams defense is really good. I like the Texans here at home with to cover minus two and a half.

[Delaney Walker]

You're not worried about the offense on.

[Will Compton]

The Texan side a little bit, but again, no struggle. There was a part of me like when we're going through the divisional picks that I'm like, you know, as we're. He was talking about Seattle, I might have been saying like Niners, Cardinals, we weren't really talking about. But the Rams defensively, that young defense, them going into year two, like they made some plays last week to where I think that they're going to be a good defense. So a little worried just because C.J. stroud kind of had that sophomore slump last year and will they get going? Will Chubb get going? How much is a miss is mixing him being on the sideline? But again, them at home against the Bucs. I thought the Bucks were a little spotty last week against the Falcons. I just. I like the Texans in this spot.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah, if KU makes that kick at the end of the game, Falcons, Bucks, like we're talking, might be talking about a different result.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Delaney Walker]

I love, I love Emeka Muka though, and I love Baker Mayfield. I love him sitting there in a two minute and be able to slice up the defense and make big X plays down the field. I think a lot of times we look at Baker Mayfield, we don't see. We don't see a guy sitting in the pocket making deliberate, accurate throws all the time. A lot of times it's making extending plays with his feet, waiting for coverage to break down and then being able to take advantage of the defense's mistakes. I love the energy of Baker Mayfield and I might be drinking the Week one Kool Aid of that singular drive and more. Looking at the box score of the Texans Rams game that gets me to walk away a little bit. I am concerned about the Houston Texans pressure, the ability. Will Anderson is an absolute stud. Yeah, Daniel Hunter, like they. They got themselves a little squad. It's tough to play in Houston early in the season when there's A lot of optimism. Everybody and their mother thinks they're going to win the AFC South. I'm going to take Bucs plus two and a half here. I think it's a very, very close game at the end and a lot of that is because of the connection between Nabuka and Baker Mayfield.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, I'm going to tell that too. Just that connection with the rookie is crazy. They still got veteran receivers that they didn't really. He didn't connect with, which I feel like this week they going to be talking about that, spreading that ball around. But with the rookie making plays like that with Baker and the run game, I think I'm going to tell with Taylor.

[Will Compton]

No Cohen calling the offense though.

[Delaney Walker]

That is true.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, that's true.

[Delaney Walker]

That is fair and true.

[Klay Matthews]

I thought it was interesting that I'm taking the Texans as well. I thought it was interesting. Rather than regurgitate everything you guys said, the quotes coming from CJ Stroud after the game, he talked about having a bad week of practice. So their defense, I love their defense. They're fast and physical. I mean, the Rams had no answers for them in the first half until, you know, Stafford and them hung around Puka being a stud. No, we're not talking about the Rams here, but I see them obviously scoring more than nine points this week. You know, they need Joe Mixon back. I don't even know if he's going to show back up, you know, this season. But they need to find a compliment to Nico Collins while Kirk is out right now. But I got the Texans winning this game. I think they, they refocus. I think their defense continues to fly around the field. I, I think the reason why Baker had so much success in this past game, especially on that last drive, it's just that underwhelming Falcons defense and this is completely different from the Falcons. I don't think he's going to have have anywhere near the time he had last week. It was fun to watch and I think Baker should be mentioned in the same breath as Burrow and Allen when you look at numbers. But I don't think this one's going to be close. I got Texans.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah. Baker top three quarterback.

[Klay Matthews]

Not top three. I'm talking about numbers. I'm talking about numbers. Look at his numbers.

[Delaney Walker]

Week one numbers.

[Klay Matthews]

No, I'm talking about. Look at his last two years. He's got three offensive coordinators. He doesn't have twisting Tristan worse out there. Chris Godwin like, bro, he's making it happen. I'm just saying now there's still like a 9.

[Will Compton]

No Tristan, worse against this D line now.

[Klay Matthews]

They're still like a 9, 10 win team because they allow teams like the Falcons to hang around and they're in the South. They're in the South. But this is. I mean, we still got them winning the South. I got to win in the South.

[Will Compton]

Yeah. Yeah. I like not winning this out too. Not winning this game.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that might have been the worst division. NFC South. It's pretty tough.

[Will Compton]

Should we go to Falcons at Vikings? This is Sunday Night Football right now. Vikings are favored minus four and a half. The over under on this game is 45 and a half. Who wants to take a stab at this?

[Klay Matthews]

We talked about Jay.

[Delaney Walker]

I know we talk about Jay, Michigan.

[Klay Matthews]

Guy, talk about JJ McCarthy, what you had touched on.

[Delaney Walker]

I talked about it. I already talked about when we started breaking down the Bears. I'm going to take the Vikings. I'm thinking minus four and a half. There's something about in Kevin o' Connell we trust. And it's something that just gives me really rocked up is watching good situational football go down. And then when you see the replay of that kickoff return with 2 minutes and 3 seconds left in the game and he's looking over at the sidelines to see Kevin o' Connell hitting one of these, and then you see TJ Hawkins in the back being like, yeah, fuck it, let's get one of those going. Doing that and then bringing the clock down to, what was it, 15 seconds. That situational ball is going to be imperative throughout the season as you're breaking in this rookie quarterback. I love J.J. mcCarthy's first half because of how good he was in the fourth quarter. I love the fact that he was able to sit essentially like every Vikings person on Twitter, every fan that says skull and does the upward clap before a game, sat there and go, J.J. mcCarthy is not the guy. We lost. And we missed that pick at the 10th pick overall two years ago. We're fucked. This team's over. This is the packers and the Lions are going to take this division. I think a big one is the Vikings defense is spicy. And then JJ Is going to take the success he had late in the game, at the end of the game, which is the most important part of the game. And he's going to translate. He's going to translate that into week two against, like you said, an underwhelming Falcons defense. So I got JJ Cook it up a little bit. I started to get concerned a little bit about Justin Jefferson when I'M seeing JJ in that game and I'm like is Justin Jefferson like he's a star and he wants his yards. He wants, he's got all the chains on like you want your receiver to be like that. And then all of a sudden you see JJ doing it and it's like you see the locker room after and Kevin o' Connell goes, we knew he'd figured it out eventually and throws him the ball. And JJ's got this fucking, you know, Leonardo DiCaprio from Wolf of Wall Street. I'm not fucking leaving vibe about him. And it's, it's something that I can buy into. It's easy for me to buy into being a biased Michigan guy. But I like, I like the Vikings being a team you got to worry about.

[Klay Matthews]

I think that win changes the dynamic and changes the belief in that locker room like you had said. So I think they go into this one going home. They got the skull chant, they got the horn blowing and Falcons coming off a devastating loss. Yeah, give me the Vikings minus four and a half. I do think it'll be a high scoring affair though. I do think I was really impressed with Michael Penix. I think I thought he played great against the Bucks. I mean all his out routes were phenomenal. He's able to make plays on his feet. Bijan Robinson didn't do a great deal in the rush game but in the passing game over 100 yards had a touchdown. I'd like to see who Zach Robinson, their OC give him the ball more. I think he was third in 20, 24 and rush yards. But ultimately I think special teams is what let the Falcons down last week. But I just think the Vikings to be too much for the Falcons this week.

[Delaney Walker]

And I got to keep an eye on Drake London as well. He hurt shoulder playing. Is he not playing like I think.

[Will Compton]

Is he not playing?

[Delaney Walker]

I think he was limited participant spraying shoulder.

[Terror Lawan]

He's questionable right now.

[Delaney Walker]

He's questionable right now but he, he.

[Terror Lawan]

Was out like the last like the.

[Klay Matthews]

Two minute drive or whatever the def.

[Terror Lawan]

He was not. You know you say about life skin.

[Delaney Walker]

Day to day is what they say.

[Will Compton]

Light skin man soft tish.

[Delaney Walker]

He ends up a little ac spring. You got that little rising buddy on the side that you got to get.

[Will Compton]

That lidocaine put in before the game.

[Delaney Walker]

Put it up there.

[Terror Lawan]

Oh the pat.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah. I think Falcons are in good hands with Pennocks. I think they got themselves. Can we put some pieces around him because Bijan he's nasty. You got to open up those lanes a Little bit in the run game. Like you got to give him the ball and he can't just be your entire offense. It's really easy to take a one dimensional team and be like, we take away this guy, we're putting ourselves in a position to win.

[Klay Matthews]

Yep.

[Terror Lawan]

They also got to get they tight end going too at the Falcons. They want to be successful. Got to get them.

[Will Compton]

They got to go. They got them going a little bit more.

[Terror Lawan]

They got them a little bit more.

[Will Compton]

Historically.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

Huh.

[Will Compton]

I said Pitts has gotten going a little bit more.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Then compared to what you've seen from him historically.

[Delaney Walker]

Isn't Pitts running more of like a wide receiver kind of thing now? Like he's not really.

[Terror Lawan]

Apparently he was like running like practicing with the wide receivers during training camp.

[Delaney Walker]

But let's take this extremely athletic tight end and make him a giant wide receiver.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, he's more of a split guy.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah. They need to utilize him more. He does have, he does have the raw talent.

[Terror Lawan]

Gotta give him the ball. But no said we Vikings, obviously. I'm gonna take the Vikings here. I just what JJ did, you know, I was one of those guys sitting at home like, damn, jj, he may not be it. I feel sorry for Taylor. You know, I'm literally thinking like that.

[Delaney Walker]

Like fuck, I thought I was in your thoughts.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Terror Lawan]

But you know what I'm saying. It was his.

[Delaney Walker]

He's 22 years old. I'm 34. Man, I feel bad for you, Taylor.

[Terror Lawan]

I feel bad for Tay. I just know people was gonna rip you up in the comments. But he showed up, you know what I mean? It was his first game playing in Chicago. I was like, God damn, this is going to be tough one. But the guy, you know, like you say, he came back out, he was relentless. He finished the game and that's what you want to see from a young quarterback. And I think he going to be able to do it against the Falcons. So I'm taking Vikings four and a half.

[Will Compton]

I think I like the Falcons with the points. I think if the Vikings win, it'll be a close game. It's like I'm sitting here, it's like could we be getting too much in the high drinking the Kool Aid of the emotional win over potentially another underwhelming Bears team. Whereas. And then you look at the Falcons, if my man hits that field goal at the end coup. Will we be talking about a different Falcon? You lose a close game like that, obviously it wears on you as a player. You're itching to get out There, you know, nobody's expecting you to win this game because everybody got to watch JJ McCarthy kind of come back in that second half with the Vikings. Could we be buying in a little too much with that? Did the, did the Falcons lose a very close game to a good Buccaneers team? So I'm going to take the Falcons with the points plus four and a half against going at Minnesota on the road. Yeah. And you, you say, could we drink.

[Delaney Walker]

Kool Aid a little? Much like hand up. I think I am.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Delaney Walker]

Like, I looked and I kind of was too.

[Will Compton]

I was, I was going Falcons before we started this whole conversation. I'm just sitting there. Yeah, I was thinking Falcons, Vikings, Vikings as we started this conversation. But it's like, yeah, Pennx looks good.

[Terror Lawan]

He do.

[Will Compton]

Robinson is a dog. Hopefully Drake London's playing. That's one thing you definitely want to keep an eye on. If he's out, hopefully the line goes a little bit more the Falcons way. But Drake London, Kyle Pitts, they're getting him going a lot more defensively. Like, yeah, I guess that's, that'll depend.

[Delaney Walker]

That's your question mark. And the, the Bears defense, they got some studs over there. Yeah, they got some studs. And the thing that worries you, like one play in particular that I was like, oof. This is before JJ had his big comeback. Kevin Byard runs on the line of scrimmage and you hear, it's like JJ's in his cadence and he goes, why did he. And then he sees Kevin Byard. No one on the offensive line says a word. He doesn't say a word. They run the play, comes off the edge, he gets a tfl. It's like, do they really know what they're doing over there? Are they communicating the way they should be?

[Terror Lawan]

Right?

[Delaney Walker]

And I think that's one of those games where Kevin gets to sit there because I do think Kevin's a, he's an outstanding leader. I think a franchise in general, Minnesota is just an extremely well run franchise. Everybody talks about, like how great the ownership is from top to bottom. And I think Kevin gets those things figured out. Where he looks at his offensive line, looks at your captain, your right tackle, o', Neal, and goes, listen, you need to be more vocal in the line of scrimmage. Let's get a couple guys to help JJ with protection, take a little off his plate so we can get him to do what we saw him do late in that fourth quarter.

[Terror Lawan]

I mean, because that was the first look I think I saw of them doing that rotation Effort. Kevin coming down on it, right?

[Delaney Walker]

And it's like they telegraphed it. It wasn't like they hit it very much. Like they brought the safety back over the middle, they brought Kevin Meyer down there and it's like you've got to at the very least say something and you're not too deep in the cadence where you like kind of have to be quiet for somebody to jump off sides. And that was like really concerning. Then the turnaround happens. But yeah, dude, give me the Kool Aid, dude, make it extra sweet while.

[Will Compton]

I'm drinking it real quick.

[Klay Matthews]

Two little, two little nuggets for you. So the Falcons last five games as the underdog, not only have they not won, they have not covered. And the Vikings 10 wins, one loss in one score games over the last two seasons.

[Terror Lawan]

I may switch my bet skull to the Falcons. I may switch my back after that to me.

[Will Compton]

If Vikings win it's going to be, it's going to be a close game. I think that that four and a.

[Terror Lawan]

Half, I think that four and a.

[Will Compton]

Half is, is that slot.

[Delaney Walker]

You feel if it was at like two and a half, three and a half you would change it.

[Will Compton]

If it was at two and a half I think I'd go Vikings.

[Delaney Walker]

You do like that three point, I love that three.

[Will Compton]

But like if it was sitting there.

[Delaney Walker]

Three point that two and a half.

[Will Compton]

Is like yeah, if it's like Vikings are favored by three and a half. Like I'm getting, I'm, you know, I'm spending the money, I'm getting the extra point to move it down to two and a half. But with the four and a half sitting there, it's like any given Sunday.

[Terror Lawan]

Going on the road, I'm actually going to change my bed to the Falcons.

[Will Compton]

All right, come on now. I know, I don't know if I.

[Terror Lawan]

Like that this is a rematch in 2023 national championship too between Pennix and McCarthy.

[Delaney Walker]

We know how that turned out. Yeah.

[Terror Lawan]

Do you think that, do you think that plays any like if that's in.

[Will Compton]

The back maybe with them individually, maybe with Pennix more than it does.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah, JJ's out there applesauce dude, he.

[Terror Lawan]

Ain'T worried about that.

[Delaney Walker]

He already cute ass little baby face bro. And they call him leader of men. I'm thinking that little face.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

Boys we gotta tighten the up. It's like what you, what you doing out here? But apparently Ru, the team's around this kid and they're like this is our leader.

[Will Compton]

Embrace him. I love see the exception.

[Delaney Walker]

That's why you Put a C on his chest. I'm thinking, this dude's 12.

[Terror Lawan]

You saw how they reacted when they gave him the game ball.

[Will Compton]

I mean, that juices you the Kevin oconnell.

[Delaney Walker]

I love Kevin oconnell, dude. I love him. Monday Night Football. Two teams coming off of big wins. Chargers are at the Raiders. Raiders just defeated the Patriots. Chargers went down to Brazil and beat the Kansas City Chiefs. Raiders are favored away at minus three. Will.

[Terror Lawan]

Wait, hold on. The Raiders are favored in this game?

[Delaney Walker]

You know the brain. I'm over here.

[Will Compton]

Raiders are dogs at home with three points.

[Terror Lawan]

I ain't with the Chargers.

[Will Compton]

I don't know, man.

[Delaney Walker]

Slaters out. Max Crosby licking his chops, bro.

[Will Compton]

I like the Raiders. I. I can't fully tell you why outside of Chip Kelly's offense is going to continue to develop and get better with Geno Smith. They have some protection issues. They got to do a better job around the football with Ash and Jente. I'm like me, I'm like. I'm betting that those things will happen going from week one, watching the tape, watching how messy it can be. But Gino can sling it. I like him in that offense with Chip Kelly is Bowers. Where's he at?

[Delaney Walker]

He had a little knee. I know he had nails.

[Terror Lawan]

He gonna play, though. He gonna play optimistic.

[Delaney Walker]

Pete Carroll said that he wanted to go back at the game and they.

[Terror Lawan]

Told me he's going to play. I.

[Delaney Walker]

He's going to play. He's a bone out of the skin.

[Will Compton]

You think he's playing, Mitch?

[Terror Lawan]

I think he's playing. He's playing for sure.

[Will Compton]

I like the Raiders. Crosby. Just getting Devin White man over that Chargers defense, though. I know, I know. Trust me, this is a tough one.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

But I'm gonna give me the Raiders.

[Terror Lawan]

And this is like a fucking battle. Raiders and the fucking Chargers hate each other.

[Klay Matthews]

Divisional game. Pretty close.

[Terror Lawan]

This is gonna be a tough one, man.

[Will Compton]

I give me the Raiders.

[Klay Matthews]

I'm taking the Chargers here.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah.

[Klay Matthews]

But I am impressed with the Raiders complimentary football, offense, defense, special teams. You saw this Patriots game against the Patriots, like, they won their third downs. They won their red zone. I'm thinking this is going to be. You know how Pete ran Marshawn and they couldn't. I mean, you know, you got to tip your cap to the Patriots in their run game.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Klay Matthews]

But this was shut it down. Geno Smith on the road, rainy conditions, 362 yards, 70% efficiency. Like, I didn't see that coming. So I was so impressed with that. They had an instant connection With Brock Bowers over 100 yards, man. Chip Kelly, I think Chip Kelly's the MVP here. He had some beautifully schemed passes. Boys just coming wide open too.

[Will Compton]

They. They reload the formation a lot. They're motioning and shifting everywhere. I'm with you.

[Klay Matthews]

I think the Raiders win some divisional games this year.

[Delaney Walker]

Year.

[Klay Matthews]

I really do. If at the end of the year you tell me they beat the Broncos, the Chiefs and the Chargers once, like, I buy it, but it's not this week.

[Will Compton]

Is he saying, I know, because I had to remind myself, oh, wait, he went Chargers. Yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

Oh, wait, that's right.

[Klay Matthews]

Justin Herbert, like, I gotta apologize. Like Shaq did that one time. Like, I just was not familiar with his game like that. Like him and Josh Allen just being able to put the ball, ball wherever they want. It was remarkable. And then when I had I picked the Chiefs, I lost that game, you know, versus the Chargers. And I was afraid of the Chargers offensive line. Joe Alt looked great, possibly better. He Slater at that left position. I don't know if he's going to give it up.

[Delaney Walker]

He played left tackle at Notre Dame like he wanted.

[Will Compton]

He did not want to go to.

[Delaney Walker]

Chargers because he did not want to play right.

[Will Compton]

He didn't want to play over the right side.

[Delaney Walker]

Jump back and forth a little bit.

[Terror Lawan]

Go back and forth.

[Delaney Walker]

I feel like he's much comfortable on the right.

[Terror Lawan]

On the right side, yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

Against Trey Pipkins Jr. Yeah, the third. The third.

[Will Compton]

He's the third generation.

[Delaney Walker]

No disrespect. No disrespect. I thought he. I thought he had a nice little game too. He did against the Chargers. I mean, I think both offensive lines for the most part played great pretty well.

[Will Compton]

Max is a different animal.

[Delaney Walker]

Max is a different animal.

[Terror Lawan]

They going to find ways to chip them and everything.

[Klay Matthews]

He's the only one that is the problem. I don't think he's significant.

[Will Compton]

I know it's a reach, but I'm trying to get more juice for. We do need more on that defensive side than Max Crosby because he is the only guy pressuring the quarterback.

[Delaney Walker]

I think there's an internal struggle going on with the Raiders offense that people might not be privy to because of the explosive plays they had on the offensive side of the ball. Pete Carroll traditionally likes to be under center. He likes to establish the run game in a big way. And you have three offensive linemen in the middle of that Raiders offense that when you watch the film, you put up basic gap scheme stuff. And the Patriots had to move the line a couple Move their defensive front a few times, it really put them in a blender. They started mixing in their run stunts. They brought in brought five guys and they weren't able to push that line of scrimmage. And a lot of that is Ashton Gente missed a couple holes, but a lot of it was the interior of that opposite line couldn't get movement and couldn't get solidified. And their double teams. So now you got Geno Smith and Chip Kelly who want to kind of be in that shotgun, hand the ball off them that way, utilize the play action. But there's also four coaches on that coaching staff that are offensive line coaches. To me it might become one of those things where you see kind of a glaring issue that's pointing in front of you in the middle of that interior offensive line. And there might be too many chefs in the kitchen of how they should fix those types of things. Jesse Minter's defense in the Chargers, I think they play sound great defense. They got Derwin James in the backhand protecting them. They got Khalil Mack, Bud Dupree. Tier Tart. Which teammate of mine? Tier. Teammate of ours. Tier Tart. Like you said, you gotta play three snaps this game. He'll be all world like he's going to push the middle of that defense and get the pocket condensed. From the interior standpoint, those guys around the edge might have themselves a little bit of a field day, especially pressure on the left tackle. Colton. I like the Chargers coming out in the game against the Chiefs and everyone their mother's like they're going to hand to Hampton, they're going to hand it to Mr. Fourth of July himself, Najee Harris. And they come out and they sling the ball, they flip the script on everybody and they use the Chiefs offense against the Chiefs and put Spags in an absolute blender. They look great all day long. Johnson, TCU wide receiver. He has himself two touchdowns. Spicy about the Chargers. And I think there's some holes or cracks in the foundation of that Raiders offense that maybe didn't come out of the fold because they were playing a lesser opponent. A lesser talented team in the Patriots. Yeah, that's the issue. The Patriots are gonna have to be a team that rush five consistently to get pressure in the quarterback. Carol Landry has two and a half sacks but hard fought sacks. One of them was unblocked. Like he's, he's a guy. But if only I have one guy. Sometimes you have no guys.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, that's true.

[Klay Matthews]

I like the Chargers shout out veteran receivers. Someone had Mentioned Keenan Allen last week.

[Terror Lawan]

Oh, he let it slide.

[Klay Matthews]

Like, that's just a nice name you throw in there. Targeted ten times.

[Delaney Walker]

What?

[Klay Matthews]

Seven receptions, 68 yards, one touchdown. How about DeAndre Hopkins for the Ravens?

[Terror Lawan]

Ah, 3X.

[Delaney Walker]

Getting a kick band. Bills forever gives him the push.

[Klay Matthews]

Shout out the vets out there.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, the vets winning.

[Klay Matthews]

Love seeing it.

[Terror Lawan]

I'm taking Chargers. Y' all already know Jim Harbaugh. That's my guy. Love what he's doing with the Chargers. Turning that whole system around. Justin being a stud. Top five. Top five.

[Will Compton]

Maybe I'm not seeing the board at all. Who knows?

[Delaney Walker]

Or maybe that five and one.

[Will Compton]

There's three games right now where it's three to one and I'm just like that. That the. The Raiders one's the one I'm like, most uncomfortable about.

[Terror Lawan]

You always go with the Raiders, though.

[Will Compton]

I don't always.

[Delaney Walker]

People were concerned about Genting. He did have, like, rookie mistakes.

[Klay Matthews]

Yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

But there weren't a lot of holes for him.

[Klay Matthews]

No.

[Delaney Walker]

To clearly, like you saw when he got the ball, he didn't seem like the confidence he saw at Boise State, which will come with like, repetition and. But there's. There's a couple of like, blocking errors with that offensive line that like, oh, you're not putting your rookie running back in a position to be successful right now. And you can see it's kind of playing up here a little bit in his head.

[Terror Lawan]

He kind of guessing instead of knowing who to go to.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah. I mean, Chip Kelly is a stud. I just think there's might be a little feud at the top about how many times there should be under center.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah.

[Klay Matthews]

Now, Pete brought this. He brought Chip in, right?

[Delaney Walker]

Brought Chip in. Brought Chip in from Ohio State.

[Klay Matthews]

I mean, Pete's been doing this for a long time. I don't think he's going to. I respect your opinion. I just don't think he's gonna bring in anybody who is not on the same page.

[Delaney Walker]

70 years old, they say the whole phrase, can't teach an old dog new tricks.

[Klay Matthews]

Yeah, but they used to have battles, you know, when I was at SC and Chip was at Oregon. So, like, they gotta be pattyco.

[Terror Lawan]

I mean, sometimes I feel like those coaches. When you have a coach like Chip, you kinda gotta let him be him. You know what I mean? They discuss certain things, but at the end of the day, I think he like, here go the rings. Ride this horse. You know what I'm saying?

[Delaney Walker]

Ride this horse.

[Terror Lawan]

If I feel like I gotta talk to you about something, he gonna talk to him about it. That's, you know, that's Pete.

[Delaney Walker]

I mean, Chip's had success in the NFL.

[Terror Lawan]

That's what I'm saying.

[Delaney Walker]

He was just focused on the offense. The minute he started getting a little drunk of power, started taking over the.

[Terror Lawan]

Roster, oh, he started tripping.

[Will Compton]

He started tripping.

[Delaney Walker]

Started freaking out a little bit.

[Klay Matthews]

Started tripping.

[Delaney Walker]

A little panic.

[Terror Lawan]

Cats didn't wanna play for him. They like, we try to get outta here.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

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[Terror Lawan]

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[Will Compton]

Look good, feel good, play good. Back to this episode.

[Delaney Walker]

Go ahead.

[Will Compton]

Every Sunday's got games, but only one fits just right. This is True Classic's game of the week, brought to us by True Classic. We got the Philadelphia Eagles at the Kansas City Chiefs super bowl rematch. Eagles are favored right now. Chiefs are dogs at home. Eagles are favored minus one and a half. The over under on this game is 46 and a half.

[Terror Lawan]

That six and a half. Just fucking.

[Will Compton]

This is a must win for the Chiefs.

[Terror Lawan]

Six and a half? Yeah.

[Will Compton]

This a must win for the Chiefs.

[Terror Lawan]

The line changed.

[Klay Matthews]

Did it?

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah.

[Klay Matthews]

What's going.

[Delaney Walker]

What?

[Terror Lawan]

Oh, one and a half.

[Klay Matthews]

Six and a half.

[Terror Lawan]

You said six and a half.

[Klay Matthews]

You mean one and a half. Oh, my bad. Maybe I missed.

[Terror Lawan]

Oh, okay.

[Klay Matthews]

All I heard was that.

[Terror Lawan]

I heard six, six and a half.

[Delaney Walker]

Bunch of football players see a lot of heads sitting on a stage. Wonder what numbers are exactly.

[Will Compton]

Y' all not seeing this urgency.

[Klay Matthews]

Yeah, I see that.

[Will Compton]

For the Chiefs, this is a must win.

[Klay Matthews]

For the Chiefs, it's a must win that they are not going to win.

[Terror Lawan]

They're not going to win.

[Klay Matthews]

It's a must win that they will not win.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, of course.

[Klay Matthews]

Listen, you know, I'm all in on the Chiefs. I picked him in the Super Bowl. I picked him to win Week 1. But the Eagles, especially after Week 1, are the more complete team. But I'm not like, let's.

[Will Compton]

Are they. Are they going to be able to be disciplined enough to win this game? We talk about what, 11 penalties.

[Terror Lawan]

Learn his lesson. He coming back. No suspension coming back.

[Klay Matthews]

I'm just saying we saw what happened in the Super Bowl. I know it's a separate season, a lot of moving parts and whatnot, but Chiefs did a good job shutting down the run of the Eagles. They opened up the pass game, whereas you saw in week one. Dallas did a great job doing the same, but Jalen hurts, kind of took it upon himself. Efficient. Ran two touchdowns, I believe.

[Terror Lawan]

Ran two.

[Klay Matthews]

Yeah. Ran two in himself. Saquon had another one. I look for them to air it out like they did in the super bowl, try and establish that passing game if they can't get the run game going. But I just think they're a more complete team. From offensive line, I worry about the pass rush from the Chiefs. I thought the Chiefs pass rush between Chris Jones and Karloftus was going to eat against the Chargers and I was wrong. And anytime they did get pressure it was, you know, bringing tranquil or something like that. But we put Herbert on. Herbert was on the edge, made some amazing plays with his feet. I just don't see the Chiefs defense stacking up with Phillies offense now. I love Mahomes. I mean he looks so impressive in the second quarter but really the second half of that game, the way he's able to get the ball out so quick, I think he's the ultimate wild card. I wouldn't be surprised if the Chiefs pulled out. It's going to be because of him. But I got the Eagles just being the more complete team.

[Will Compton]

I don't disagree. I know you don't disagree. There's a big part of me that that's one to take the Chiefs on this game just because again over the last 35 years. 35 years of data. You want some Delaney data right now? Let's give it teams that start 0 and 2. You have an 87 and a half percent chance of not making the playoffs. And if you look at the chief.

[Delaney Walker]

Schedule, feel like that number would have been better if you did the lower note. Go ahead.

[Klay Matthews]

How many take the playoffs?

[Will Compton]

If you start off, you start off.

[Delaney Walker]

Percent chance of not making the playoffs.

[Will Compton]

You start off 0 and 2. Your chances of making the playoffs an underwhelming 13 and a half percent. 12 and a half percent increases.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah, I bet I can get behind.

[Will Compton]

And you look at their next eight games. The Chiefs are going to see the Ravens, the Commanders, the Bills, the Broncos, the Lions and you know I picked the Jags early, so don't sleep on the Jags. They're also going to be seeing the Jags but if they don't win this game, they are not making the playoffs. To me, this is a must win for the Chiefs. I think they know that their defense didn't show up very well last week, but I love to see the veteran leadership going back and forth at the end of the game, tranquil trying to check Chris Jones. They're kind of arguing a little bit. They know they got to get right spacs their team, their assholes are tight. They have to get right this week and you know they got a bad taste in their mouth with how they just got ran out of the game at the Super Bowl. So I, I'm going to take the Chiefs.

[Delaney Walker]

Wow.

[Will Compton]

I'm going to take the Chiefs because this is a must win situation.

[Delaney Walker]

Makes me feel like all of our picks we made today that we're against, we're all on the same page. And Will. Will's going to be right this week.

[Will Compton]

On that one.

[Terror Lawan]

On that one.

[Delaney Walker]

On that pick, you switched almost all of my picks that we were three on one, which was most of the board. Because for you to bend the knee to the Chiefs. Not bending the knee because that sounds like I'm insulting.

[Will Compton]

I got them in a. I can't. I can't not have the Chiefs, like, be in the playoff conversation.

[Klay Matthews]

I hope the Chiefs win. I think it's good for football. I hope the Chiefs win.

[Delaney Walker]

There he goes with that.

[Terror Lawan]

What makes it good for football?

[Delaney Walker]

Football is better when the Chiefs are good. Is that what you're saying?

[Klay Matthews]

What makes it listen when the Swifties are on board. Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Right.

[Klay Matthews]

Yes.

[Will Compton]

And for people that hate it, you need the enemy alive and well. They lose this game, Chiefs are dead.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah.

[Klay Matthews]

Yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

I had the Swifties come at me. They never enemy earlier this week.

[Terror Lawan]

Have never been enemy alone.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah. The Swifties. The Swifties came to get me.

[Klay Matthews]

Can they speak?

[Delaney Walker]

TR posted a photo and he said something. I'm sure it was from a rap song. And I just posted like, you know, you gave that. You slapped the shit out of Trav.

[Terror Lawan]

Damn. You posted that.

[Delaney Walker]

No hey comment. Oh, Swifty comes. Because I knew they were coming for his head. Yeah. Saw my comment and they go, how dare you call him a friend, Travis. A friend. Like, how would you say this about him?

[Terror Lawan]

They don't like y'.

[Delaney Walker]

All. I'm just thinking this thing's got like 3 million impressions and they don't like y' all all the way. So I am a little hesitant to go against the Chiefs. But then I look at Jalen Carter, I look at Spitgate, I look at how the line was eight and a half and I started to think to myself, like, the Cowboys did a good job of establishing the run in that game and were like, mostly protected in the pass. It's like, well, Jalen Carter could have been the reason why that line. The Cowboys ended up not covering that eight and a half. Jalen Carter's back. I'm sure, you know, however he wants to go about it in his way in that locker room, he knows the best way to make it up to his team is to have a massive game.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

We were teammates with AJ Brown. He gets targeted three times. Yeah. I think he has like six yards receiving. I don't know his exact stats, but for the most part, he was non exhausting. During the game and I know that, that Sirianni knows exactly what we know. And that's like you need to get AJ The Brown early and often. Let's turn him up a little bit. That's going to be.

[Will Compton]

Cowboys did a great job though in the secondary. They played good to where you can't just force it.

[Delaney Walker]

They got a little late. And not spying, not spying.

[Will Compton]

Jalen hurts because that's really all it came down to.

[Delaney Walker]

What it came down to was, yeah, you. He has one or two reads and then he's like, let me just make some of my feet. Which I think Spaz is going to do a much better job of. But like the defense, incredible. I think the only thing you look at after week one is a Dory Jackson. Like are they going to come out of Dory Jackson a little more? Do they have the pieces With Xavier Worthy being hurt to come at him. Travis Kelsey is a little long in the tooth. They run zone. He's going to find that little soft spot in the zone. He's going to be able to get his catches. If there's a break in the defense like the Chargers showed late in the game, Travis Kelsey is going to have that catch and be able to have a 65 yard touchdown.

[Will Compton]

Hollywood Brown.

[Delaney Walker]

But they don't. Yeah, Hollywood Brown. Was it Rasheed Rice? He's suspended. He's still suspended. So it's like there's not a whole lot of options. And Pacheco, as hard as he runs like it's a. The run game is more of an appetizer for the Chiefs. They want to win the game through the air and I just don't feel like with Xavier being out, I just feel like the Chiefs have a lot of backed up against them. It's the perfect time to go Chiefs, but I'm just going to take the better roster and the super bowl defending champs in the situation. I'm going to go with the Eagles.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, I'm saying I'm the Eagles. I just, I don't know if the. The Chiefs are going to be able to stop the Eagles. Like, like he said, we got to get A.J. brown the ball. We got to get Smith the ball. They didn't touch the ball really last week. I think that's going to be a focus point. Putting the ball in the air, making our playmakers make plays. Because you know what Jalen can do. Like I said, MVP this year the man is going to control the game. If he can't pass the ball, they can't run it. He gonna Put it in his hands, and he's gonna get in the end zone. We saw him get in there twice. They was 3 for 3 in the red zone. And that's what you want from a team once they get down in there in the money zone. That's what we used to call it. And getting that money. So, Eagles.

[Delaney Walker]

Jason's an offensive lineman. I do want to give a shout out to Josh simmons. Like that 32nd overall pick from Ohio State. Kid looks nice.

[Terror Lawan]

Oh, yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

Kid looks nice. And that's all I wanted to say about that, truly. I just want to go out there, give flowers. Give flowers to a young buck who's protecting the blind side for Patrick Mahomes. I just think he did a great job standing up in Brazil week one.

[Terror Lawan]

He did good. He had three offsides, though. He did pretty well, but he did have some offside.

[Delaney Walker]

Those things, to me, when I'm watching a rookie play his first NFL game in a neutral site like Brazil, every single person in that stadium is wearing a different jersey. It's loud and obnoxious. Like, I'm not so worried about the penalties. I want to see, like, what's the product you put on the field when the penalties didn't happen? I think thought he did. Really?

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah. He. Yeah. Did he give up. He didn't give up a sack, did he?

[Delaney Walker]

No, no, he did not. He looked. He looked kind of nicey.

[Will Compton]

It's a tough game for the Chiefs.

[Terror Lawan]

It is a tough game for the Chiefs.

[Will Compton]

I'm going to give them my support.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, no, I'll hear you.

[Delaney Walker]

I like it. It's a good move. I just want the Swifties know I love Travis. Hey, honestly, from the Bills and from the Swifties, like, can we be honest? I can't do this. I'm not as.

[Terror Lawan]

But honestly, do you think the Sweet Swifties love y', all, though?

[Will Compton]

I think some of the Swifties do, man.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah.

[Terror Lawan]

I don't think so.

[Delaney Walker]

I think if the Swifties, they would absolutely love us.

[Will Compton]

The ones that do. Yeah. The ones that understand.

[Terror Lawan]

I mean, I saw a picture of y', all, and the comments were just brutal.

[Delaney Walker]

They can't be too focused on comments.

[Terror Lawan]

Oh, okay. Can't be too focused on comments.

[Will Compton]

It's the loud minority. A lot of likes, though, because the ones who like it ain't sitting there.

[Klay Matthews]

You know, double tap.

[Will Compton]

The loud minority. Like, the. The loud minority is the loudest. No, we talking about the Swifty fan base.

[Terror Lawan]

You don't think it's black people with no black slips?

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I'm sure. There's some.

[Klay Matthews]

That's the minority of the minority. If we're talking about.

[Will Compton]

Those are those. They're part of the beehive. That's Beyonce.

[Terror Lawan]

Oh, that's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but no, I don't think they got the same crowd, though. The Swifties are like kids. I would say 25.

[Klay Matthews]

Watch.

[Delaney Walker]

I'm just telling you that kill our show.

[Terror Lawan]

No, they 25 and they're watching. And then the be.

[Will Compton]

When we was at the draft. When we was at the draft, this is a.

[Delaney Walker]

A.

[Will Compton]

A white mother is checking me about my. The stuff of the daughter.

[Terror Lawan]

It's because her daughter there. So she's brought in.

[Will Compton]

When they got daughter.

[Terror Lawan]

I'm talking about when they got to take their daughters to these concerts. They get brought in, they start getting all hyped up. Like, oh, I love this now.

[Delaney Walker]

Years old, when Taylor swift single Tim McGraw comes out and she was a star from that moment. She's been in the game. I'm 34 now. She's been in the game for 19 years.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

So you're acting like this. Swifty's up. Like, I'm a Swifty.

[Terror Lawan]

So I've been to Swifty concerts. When I'm there, it's kids.

[Klay Matthews]

You been there?

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, I got daughters.

[Delaney Walker]

Okay. All right. Like, come on, come on.

[Terror Lawan]

Now I'm in the crowd.

[Delaney Walker]

Bet the boys parlay.

[Terror Lawan]

I'm just saying.

[Delaney Walker]

Bet the boys. Swifty parlay.

[Will Compton]

We're with Taylor Swift. We love Travis. Kelsey, of course they should love. They love us.

[Delaney Walker]

But just like, yeah, they know based on how big the wedding is, that Will and I get invited to that wedding.

[Terror Lawan]

I doubt that. Cause I. You know, I saw that on Travis.

[Delaney Walker]

Clip it. Send it to Travis.

[Terror Lawan]

I seen it. I saw. I just saw a picture. They was like, these Trump supporters. Yeah, it was all fucking Taylor Swift fans.

[Delaney Walker]

People want to take things at face value. They see someone we interviewed, and they want to thank all of us.

[Terror Lawan]

Of course. I get it, too. I'm part of that. Yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah, I know you are.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, I'm part of that. I get it, too. I'm like, whoa, I wasn't even in the interview.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, but you did.

[Delaney Walker]

You did just come. You did just come with to hang out and watch.

[Terror Lawan]

According, According to Chat GBT, Taylor Swift's demographic is 18 to 34.

[Klay Matthews]

Not kids.

[Will Compton]

18 to 34, young.

[Klay Matthews]

Young professional adults.

[Terror Lawan]

That's the Internet saying that. I've been to the concert.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, I know what you mean. You can't pick a.

[Delaney Walker]

Choose your statistic.

[Terror Lawan]

What's Your Favorite song.

[Will Compton]

Favorite 10 swip song.

[Terror Lawan]

1972.

[Klay Matthews]

I don't even know if that's a.

[Delaney Walker]

I think it's a 19.

[Terror Lawan]

Ask the Internet.

[Delaney Walker]

I think it's a 1975. And that's a band.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, I like that band.

[Will Compton]

Blank space.

[Terror Lawan]

I like that band. No, it's 1982, ain't it? It's 1989.

[Will Compton]

1989.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah. 1989.

[Delaney Walker]

Why is 1989 irrelevant?

[Terror Lawan]

I just, I just like that song.

[Delaney Walker]

The Year she was born. Growing up.

[Terror Lawan]

Duh. I know it was born. Really.

[Will Compton]

Birthday next week.

[Terror Lawan]

It's a good song.

[Delaney Walker]

Hey, but her old stuff. I love our song.

[Terror Lawan]

All her old stuff.

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[Klay Matthews]

So you don't like her new stuff?

[Delaney Walker]

I just don't know.

[Klay Matthews]

It's a little too dark.

[Delaney Walker]

I am. I still live in the era of 2003 through 2005. Like, I still listen to Blake 182, some 41 Little John. Yeah, I can eat that.

[Klay Matthews]

Atlanta rap.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Bet the boys parlay.

[Delaney Walker]

Bet the boys parlay.

[Will Compton]

We got some anytime touchdown winners for you that were put into a parlay. The odds are not out just yet on FanDuel.

[Terror Lawan]

They will be out.

[Will Compton]

But they will be. And they will be before they before the Thursday night football game because we got a touchdown. Clay's got a touchdown for you coming right out of the gate.

[Klay Matthews]

I, I, they're telling me I can't pick Josh Jacobs on Thursday night, but he has. But for anybody out there who would like to bet this on their own. On their own. Josh Jacobs has scored a touchdown in nine consecutive games. Now, you know, Matt LaFlore is thinking about that. It's not like Josh Jacobs is some charity kick case. You know, he's rushing for 12, 1300 yards, whatever it was last year. So I like that. But as far as bet the boys, they're saying, hey, Clay, you can't do that. I like can't do that. You can't do that, Clay.

[Delaney Walker]

That's your boy.

[Klay Matthews]

Yeah, that's.

[Delaney Walker]

You do the boy, Clay. You can't do that.

[Terror Lawan]

That's my guy.

[Klay Matthews]

Me, Jaylen Herz, to score his third touchdown of the year.

[Terror Lawan]

That's my guy. I like that guy.

[Delaney Walker]

Guy.

[Klay Matthews]

Great guy.

[Delaney Walker]

Great guy.

[Will Compton]

Great guy.

[Delaney Walker]

Oh, these guys.

[Klay Matthews]

I think Chief's gonna play him touch or tough. Excuse me. You know, down in the red zone. I think he's gonna do what he did last week. He'll. He'll make something happen. He'll score.

[Delaney Walker]

Your pick makes me hate my pick.

[Will Compton]

Yeah, same.

[Delaney Walker]

Your pick makes me Hate my pickley. You have the same quote in front of your face as me.

[Will Compton]

Who you got?

[Delaney Walker]

Well, it says right here Taylor Barkley. Listen, I'll have to change mine. You go, I'm going to change mine though.

[Will Compton]

I'm both scored last week.

[Delaney Walker]

I know they both scored last week. But like spags defense at home Chiefs will turning the page and being like all of a sudden I'm for the Chiefs. Like there's a lot of things in my head that I have to now check in my brain because yeah, Saquon Barkley anytime touchdown sounds fantastic. But now I got anytime touchdown Jalen hurts anytime touchdown Saquon Barkley. I love it. I would hate to take a parlay and be like, you got to make sure that these two guys in the same game do it from the same team.

[Klay Matthews]

Double down, baby.

[Will Compton]

Javante Williams. Cowboys want to run the football. They did a pretty good job of it last week. Yes. Jalen Carter was not playing on the other side of the line of scrimmage. But I like Javante Williams. He got in the end zone twice last week. He also got 15 touches, had a lot of success. Give me Javante Williams with the Dallas Cowboys.

[Terror Lawan]

That running game was sweet. I had him too on my play. That running game was sweet for some reason. I guess the hosts are getting the better picks, but I'm gonna let that slide. Anybody have any great. Poupon Robinson, baby. That's who I'm taking.

[Will Compton]

That's who I'll take.

[Klay Matthews]

You take on.

[Terror Lawan]

That's who I'm taking. You feel me?

[Delaney Walker]

I do.

[Terror Lawan]

I'm rolling down the window like in the end zone. Yeah, I like that. So he gonna get in there for sure. The man was great. They need to run the ball more. Yes. He got in the end zone with the passing yards, but I want to see them hand that ball off to this dude and let him be me too.

[Delaney Walker]

Vikings or Falcons?

[Terror Lawan]

I forgot got Vikings?

[Delaney Walker]

To the Vikings.

[Will Compton]

And then you have high scoring game.

[Delaney Walker]

High scoring game. In Delaney Walker's mind. Possibly the over Vikings.

[Will Compton]

Possibly the over.

[Delaney Walker]

I've molded over. I, I, I've talked to my consultant, Ryan Nolan. The person I'm going to go with for my anytime touchdown is going to be Lamar Jackson versus the Browns. I like Lamar Jackson versus the Browns. Browns got better though. Browns got better. They've gotten better this year.

[Terror Lawan]

They switched it.

[Will Compton]

I was going to say, why not just D Henny?

[Delaney Walker]

Because here's why. I did it last week and it hit and yeah, yeah. Like there's no guarantees in Life other than death. But I will say Derek Henry is a close second to that.

[Terror Lawan]

That boy looked good. Other than the fumble, Derek looked a yacht.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah, Absolutely. Yeah.

[Terror Lawan]

Oh, my God.

[Delaney Walker]

He's not slowing down anytime soon. If you're a Titans fan, like, don't watch when the Ravens play. Yeah, don't take your eyes off the screen.

[Terror Lawan]

I mean, it's stiff for him on the first touchdown.

[Klay Matthews]

Why did the Titans get rid of them?

[Delaney Walker]

All about. All about numbers, baby. It's all about numbers. No, I refused to play football after they got rid of Derek Henry.

[Terror Lawan]

It's about this.

[Klay Matthews]

They didn't want to pay him.

[Terror Lawan]

He took less to go to the Ravens. But now he got, obviously, A.J.

[Klay Matthews]

Brown, too.

[Terror Lawan]

Why'd they took less?

[Delaney Walker]

Yo, you gotta watch the interview we do with Howie Roseman. He breaks down the entire AJ Brown trade.

[Klay Matthews]

Could you just tell me now?

[Will Compton]

It was like, a negotiation stuff with AJ I want to say the Titans tried to overplay their leverage on, like, anchoring him down. Pissed AJ Off.

[Delaney Walker]

Can't do that.

[Will Compton]

Can't do that.

[Delaney Walker]

Well, they get a call the day of the draft, say, hey, you want to do this? The picks and everything worked out between picks 12 and 15. Titans picked at 18. 12 and 15. They got the contract done with AJ and then Howie didn't even tell the people. The guys that were in the war room with him walked in, they're like, hey, who are we gonna take with 18? He goes, yeah, I'll tell you. We're taking. We're gonna take A.J. brown. And everyone's like, what?

[Will Compton]

What?

[Delaney Walker]

What? Howie, you're the fucking man. Which I do love Howie Roseman.

[Terror Lawan]

I mean, I think it was that, but I also think, you know, we was the Patriots of the south as well with the Titans, and AJ Likes to go online and tell everything that's happening, and they didn't like that at the time when we was playing. They didn't want you putting information out there. And A.J. was, oh, I'm having surgery. I'm doing this, I'm doing that.

[Delaney Walker]

They got rid of me and Will as well, because we started our podcast.

[Terror Lawan]

That, too. I mean, they told you to take a break. No, they told you to take a break. You did that. You tried. He tried to take a break from the pod, but then you got hurt. Right? Then you came back.

[Delaney Walker]

No, I didn't do the podcast during the season.

[Terror Lawan]

The season. That's what I'm saying.

[Delaney Walker]

I would do the podcast during the season.

[Terror Lawan]

Did they tell you not to do that?

[Delaney Walker]

No. Once Rabel came On. They were. They were good with it.

[Terror Lawan]

Okay.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah. There was never a whole lot of conversation around the pod. They just gave me the whole be careful conversation.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah. Don't put too much out there. Yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

Won that battle.

[Will Compton]

So I want to say there's a rumor, too, AJ Saying he wasn't going to step on the grass unless there was a certain number there.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that too.

[Will Compton]

So just, you know.

[Klay Matthews]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Egos.

[Terror Lawan]

Well, not. Not anytime.

[Delaney Walker]

Touchdown.

[Klay Matthews]

Sorry. Sorry.

[Will Compton]

Yeah.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah.

[Will Compton]

Lamar Jackson, Bijon Robinson. He did flip to the Falcons.

[Terror Lawan]

I did flip to the Falcons.

[Delaney Walker]

So you said Vikings and you're back to Falcons.

[Terror Lawan]

Well, I. Because when you say I have Vikings, but then when I heard him speak and then when I heard him give the statistics, I'm like, okay, I'm flipping over.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah.

[Terror Lawan]

Because I hate hearing stats.

[Delaney Walker]

You didn't like that?

[Klay Matthews]

You didn't like the stats?

[Delaney Walker]

No, I think the stat was favorable. To the Vikings.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah, to the Vikings.

[Klay Matthews]

10 wins, one loss.

[Delaney Walker]

The favorable Vikings stat made you go to the Falcons.

[Terror Lawan]

Yeah. Cause you did that with the Chiefs, talking about how they always win their home opener. You gave that stat and then they got their ass whooped.

[Will Compton]

Jim Harbaugh was 5 and 0 and.

[Delaney Walker]

I was Campbell in Nashville. Think about this.

[Terror Lawan]

He follows my lead, okay?

[Delaney Walker]

Hell yeah.

[Will Compton]

Delaney, Bijan. All right. Lamar Jackson. Bijan. Javante Williams.

[Klay Matthews]

Jalen hurts.

[Will Compton]

Jalen hurts.

[Klay Matthews]

Flex Josh Jacobs.

[Will Compton]

Flex on your own response. Josh Jacobs. If you hear this before the Thursday.

[Delaney Walker]

Washington Commanders, 30th overall in Rush defense last year. Stood up against the giants last week, two touchdowns.

[Klay Matthews]

Then Josh Jacobs solo bet two TUDs. What's that? Crunch the numbers for me.

[Terror Lawan]

That is not on our parlay.

[Klay Matthews]

I was trying to tell you the.

[Delaney Walker]

Washington man's parliament rush defense might have gotten better.

[Klay Matthews]

Oh, I thought you were going to.

[Delaney Walker]

Throw rushing lines last year. They look pretty good against.

[Klay Matthews]

They look damn good, though. They're at Lambeau again.

[Delaney Walker]

Yeah.

[Klay Matthews]

Big win.

[Delaney Walker]

Must be nice.

[Klay Matthews]

Two in a row.

[Delaney Walker]

Only. Plus 270. Only because they feel good about it, too. They liked my stat. That was in favor of the Commanders.

[Terror Lawan]

They think that's possible with that? Yeah.

[Delaney Walker]

Fun stat. Fun show. Great show. We feel good, boys.

[Will Compton]

Great show. Great show. Let's win them all this weekend.

[Delaney Walker]

Love you. Swifties.

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[Delaney Walker]

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