NFL Cover Zero: Blocked Kicks, Throwback Uniforms, and Thriving backup QBs!

Summary

NFL Cover Zero: Blocked Kicks, Throwback Uniforms, and Thriving Backup QBs!

Podcast: KSR (iHeartPodcasts/Sports Talk 790)

Episode Date: September 22, 2025
Hosts: Matt Jones, Drew Franklin, Billy

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Episode Overview

In this lively, wide-ranging episode, the KSR team—Matt Jones (calling in from South Africa), Drew Franklin, and producer Billy—recap a wild week in the NFL. Standout topics include games drastically altered by blocked kicks, the resurrection of throwback uniforms, and the surprising early success of backup quarterbacks. The hosts weave together sharp NFL analysis, personal stories (Matt’s South African misadventures), and their distinct Kentucky-centric humor. The show also pays tribute to a recently deceased friend of the show, Manny Robertson.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. Matt’s South African Adventure & Tribute to Manny Robertson

• [03:04] The hosts address their episode hiatus following the passing of Manny Robertson, a close personal friend and avid show listener. Drew receives heartfelt condolences from Matt, who notes: “He was a great one, he’s listening somewhere, prayers to the Robertson family.”
• [05:01] Matt shares hilarious and awkward details from his South African trip, where he’s the lone man in a fellowship group of 10 women. He also relates the culture shock of discussing NFL football with South Africans unfamiliar with the sport.
• Phone Mishap Story [07:05 – 12:18]: Matt tells an epic story about losing his phone to a Coke Zero spill off the coast of Robben Island after giving up his ferry seat to a formidable South African woman:

  "I put my Coke Zero in my coat pocket, not realizing my phone was in there. The next bump we hit, the Coke flips over, pours onto my phone, shorts it out...So I tell people: I spilled Coke on my phone on the island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned." – Matt, [09:43]

2. NFL Game Breakdowns

Eagles vs Rams (Game of the Week)

• [12:50] Eagles mount a massive comeback to beat the Rams 33-26 after trailing 26-7.
  • Jordan Davis blocks two field goals in the 4th quarter.
  • Jalen Hurts ends a 10-quarter TD pass drought with 3 TDs late.
• Quote:

  “Two blocked field goals by the largest man on the field...the last run back was one of the most epic plays I’ve seen.” – Matt, [13:14] “Jalen Hurts didn’t even smile...he might be a stone cold killer.” – Drew, [14:50]

• Notable: Drew highlights the devastating gambling loss from the block return: “That’ll be one of the worst beats we ever see in the NFL.” [14:34]

Packers vs Browns

• [19:49] Browns snap an 8-game losing streak with a 13-10 win, scoring 13 points in the final 4 minutes, capped by a 55-yard Austin Schmidt field goal.
• Quote:

  “Packers...how in the heck do they only have 10 points?” – Matt, [20:56]

Chicago Bears vs Cowboys

• [29:30] Bears notch their first win of 2025. Rookie QB Caleb Williams throws 4 TDs (3 to Luther Burden III).
• Quote:

  “This is the best they’ve looked in probably three years...Caleb Williams looked like what we’d hoped.” – Matt, [29:55] “If you’re losing to the Chicago Bears, a winless team, Week 3 at home, it’s going to be a long year.” – Drew, [31:39]

Chargers vs Broncos

• [32:07] Chargers move to 3-0 behind another game-winning drive and a “dicker the kicker” winner. Broncos QB Bo Nix struggles in a clear sophomore slump.
• Quote:

  “I had high expectations...but 3-0, having beaten the Chiefs in week 1, that’s a surprise.” – Matt, [32:31]

Steelers vs Patriots

• [34:29] Steelers force five turnovers, beat the Patriots 21-14. Aaron Rodgers passes Brett Favre for 4th-most passing TDs all time.
• Billy’s humorously retro recap style becomes a running joke.
• Quote:

  “I don’t know who I hated more in this game...I cannot stand Patriots fans...but how can you like someone [Bill Simmons] and want their teams to lose every single game?” – Drew, [36:08]

Buccaneers vs Jets

• [38:48] Bucs go 3-0 after another game-winning Baker Mayfield drive. Emeka Egbuka shines as OROY candidate. The Bucs wear “creamsicle” throwback uniforms.
• Quote:

  “Baker Mayfield has turned me into a believer.” – Billy, [39:21]
  “Maker Playfield! He’s earned it.” – Matt, [39:50]

49ers vs Cardinals

• [44:15] 49ers and backup Mac Jones edge Cardinals 16-15 on a last-second field goal.
• Insight: Matt reiterates his prediction—Niners will finish 14-3 but are a “bad” team in disguise:

  “They’re going to be 14-3 and not good. I cannot wait to bet against them in the first round of the playoffs.” – Matt, [45:53]

Colts vs Titans

• [49:33] Colts trounce the Titans 41-20. Jonathan Taylor scores three times.
• Titans’ coaching and operation errors are hilariously savaged.
• Quote:

  “At the end you’re getting to the point that you’re hate-watching them. I like when that happens.” – Drew, [50:17]
  “Mark Stoops looks like Nick Saban compared to Brian Callahan!” – Matt, [51:38]

Backup QB Successes & Other Games

• [58:45] Vikings’ Carson Wentz shines in a rout of the Bengals, highlighted by Isaiah Rogers’ four-turnover first half:

  “First time anybody’s ever done that [defensive TD and two forced fumbles]...that’s insane.” – Matt, [59:05]

• Raiders vs Commanders:
  • Chris Myers calls a rare non-bottom-feeder game, to Drew’s delight, [61:51].
• Panthers vs Falcons:
  • Panthers post a shocking 30-0 win, in memory of Manny Robertson, a show favorite and superfan.

3. Uniforms & Nostalgia

• Throwback uniforms (“creamsicle” Bucs; “Pat Patriot” for New England) are debated:

  “It’s funny how after time, things that used to be terrible become things you have nostalgia for.” – Matt, [42:30]

• Other best throwbacks: Oilers/Titans, old Seahawks, old Rams/Eagles.

4. NFL Culture & Gambling

• NFL’s U.S.-centric culture is highlighted through Matt’s South African interactions, with humorous confusion over the rules.
• Recurring theme: NFL as a culture of heartbreak—particularly for gamblers, fans of certain teams, or those on the losing end of improbable finishes.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On Jalen Hurts:
  "He didn't even smile... the sideline's going crazy, but he was just stone cold." – Drew, [14:50]
• On Eagles kicker drama:
  "That'll be one of the worst [gambling] beats we ever see in the NFL." – Drew, [14:08]
• On phone mishap in South Africa:
  "I spilled Coke on it on the island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned..." – Matt, [09:43]
• On Baker Mayfield:
  "He's almost better at the end than he is during the game... it's becoming like Reggie Miller." – Matt, [40:43]
• On Colts-Titans coaching debacle:
  "Double timeout, followed by delay of game... that should be one of those you get fired at that moment." – Matt, [51:53]

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Fun Anecdotes & Off-Field Hijinks

• Matt’s encounter with baboons in Simon’s Town, South Africa:

  "They can mimic human behavior... they'll open your backpack, find the best stuff, and take it!" – [24:38]

• A souvenir shopping debacle involving a suspiciously shaped hyena sculpture leads to embarrassment at a hotel:

  "He pulls that out of your bag and goes, 'I don't think this is your passport.'" – Matt, [57:29]

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Key Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamp | |-------------------------------------------------------------|------------| | Tribute to Manny Robertson, intro to South Africa stories | 03:04 | | Matt’s phone mishap on Robben Island | 07:05–12:18| | Eagles-Rams review, Hurts comeback & blocked kicks | 12:50–16:57| | Packers-Browns, Browns' 13-10 comeback | 19:49–22:01| | Bears’ first win & Cowboys woes | 29:30–32:07| | Chargers-Broncos, Bo Nix's struggles | 32:07–34:29| | Steelers-Patriots, Aaron Rodgers milestone | 34:29–38:22| | Bucs-Jets, Baker Mayfield's thriller, uniform nostalgia | 38:48–44:02| | 49ers-Cardinals, Mac Jones & “bad good team” theory | 44:15–46:16| | Colts-Titans, coaching chaos & Taylor’s huge day | 49:33–54:20| | Cincy-Minnesota, Wentz’s revival & defensive heroics | 58:45–61:08| | Commanders-Raiders, Chris Myers gets a real game | 61:08–63:48| | Panthers-Falcons, Michael Penix struggles, Manny tribute | 67:16–68:36| | Seahawks-Saints, New Orleans collapse | 69:16–71:13| | Closing, Table Mountain banter, Matt’s abseiling adventure | 71:13–END |

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Tone & Style

• The show balances sharp NFL insight with irreverent, Kentucky-friendly humor and authentic personal storytelling.
• The hosts’ chemistry, willingness to rib each other, and regional quirks (UK basketball references, hate-watching NFL teams) keep the show accessible and unique.

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For New Listeners

This episode is a great introduction to the KSR crew's blend of in-depth (and often quirky) NFL coverage and relatable personal anecdotes. Whether you’re here for league analysis, fantasy/gambling chat, or just outlandish Matt Jones stories, this is an engaging listen for any NFL or sports radio fan.

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Most Memorable Line

“They’re going to be 14-3 and not good. I cannot wait to bet against them in the first round of the playoffs. You will remember that is the COVID NFL Cover Zero moment of the week.”
—Matt Jones on the 49ers, [45:53]

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Transcript

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[Matt Jones]

Ooh i did a little red zone on my couch but you sounds like you had a much better view also i'm glad that no technical difficulties we're good to see you haven't talked to you in a week in south africa so yeah glad to be talking to.

[Drew Franklin]

You today i want to start this by saying we didn't get to do a show midweek and the reason was one of our friends also a listener to this podcast manny robertson passed away both of us were friends with him drew he was one of your closest friends and we wanted to give you some time off to be able to honor him and he would be listening right now and proud of you and good to have you back and i'm sorry for both of our loss but particularly you you were he was one of your best friends yeah thank you.

[Matt Jones]

We'Re very close lost a great guy very unexpectedly but i appreciate the little time to grieve and be with the family and sort things out but it's good to be back with you guys we'll miss him but you know he.

[Drew Franklin]

Was a great one he's listening somewhere prayers to the robertson family they were there he was a great guy so let i'm in there have been people who might say matt are you going to be in south africa forever because i've already been here a week and i have like ten more days for for people who don't know i'm i was i was doing a fellowship with the aspen institute as all nfl podcast hosts do and now i'm on an eleven day trip around south africa that includes a safari and i don't think people on this podcast know drew it is me and ten women and tonight was the welcome drinks where i met the ten women it was quite a thing they all sort of were like you're not a woman you are a man and so for the next ten or eleven days it is me and ten women throughout the bush of south africa should be very exciting i gotta.

[Matt Jones]

Ask at the end of the night did you have to give nine of them a rose and send one home that's what this sounds like a welcome party open a limo one at a.

[Drew Franklin]

Time it was going to be a trip where we just leave one everywhere we go one of them has to stay no i actually had to leave it was a typical male thing to do i had to leave the party early to go watch football i was like look i have to go i have to go watch the nfl to be able to do this show but the nfl it's interesting i don't want to say it's not a thing here as soon as i talk to people here about sports they ask me about they call it here american football they're like tell me about american football but they don't know any of the players and they all say the same thing which is i watch it and i don't know what's happening and you know for us it seems like the most basic thing in the world but i can see like if you don't know the rules like one of the guys looked at me and said how come they stop and i said well i don't really know how to answer that question like he said they fall down and then everyone stops which i guess is true but maybe we don't think of it like that drew yeah that's.

[Matt Jones]

Gonna be a lot of explaining how that works to them but you're right in america it's just like accepted culture in the fall sundays a lot of people just knowing i'm on my couch watching football yes it's every single week.

[Drew Franklin]

Here so if anybody has any suggestions as to how i can explain the rules to south africans that i meet that would be good i also have had a situation drew that you know me well enough to know how difficult this is for me i haven't had my phone for the last couple days and i'm not going to have it for a couple more days and that's difficult enough for me as it is i'm sort of wedded to my phone but what's even worse is when i explain why i don't have my phone oh you've not even heard no i don't know this but this this is one of the more embarrassing things i've ever done so you know nelson mandela right he was personally south african president.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah never met him but i'm familiar.

[Drew Franklin]

You guys were not boys but you know you know who he is he was kept for twenty seven years as a political prisoner on a place called robin island which is like five miles from cape town so to get there you have to get on a ferry and you go out there so my fellowship group we went out there now i don't know how much people know but like this is where the two oceans come together this is where the indian ocean and the atlantic ocean come together and thus the water is very choppy because it's different temperatures this is some of the choppiest water in the world the tip of africa and the tip of south america so when you take the ferry to robben island it is very very choppy so we go to robben island it's a very powerful thing we saw the cell where nelson mandela was for twenty seven years very powerful thing but when it comes to we were there for like four hours so when it comes time to come back i need a soda right and they don't have diet coke for those of you video they don't have diet coke in in southern they only have coke zero and so i've been drinking a lot of coke zero well i get on the boat coke zero is forty five cents here i mean it's unbelievably cheap so we get on and there's a group of probably twenty older women who are from rural south africa drew and have never been to robben island now i am going to defer to these ladies like whatever these women want drew you're going to let them.

[Matt Jones]

Have right absolutely yeah it's a treat.

[Drew Franklin]

For them this is a treat for them so i'm sitting in my seat this woman is sitting a few rows behind me she walks up to me in the middle of the boat ride and it's very rocky and she walks up to me and she looks at me she's probably ninety years old and she looks at me and goes get up i said what and she went get up and i got up and she just sat in my seat okay all right she just sat in my seat she's like that will now be my seat okay and it threw me off and as soon as she did that someone took her seat so now i'm staying right so i'm standing on some of the choppiest waters in the world in this ferry and i'm getting thrown around all over the boat right so i have my coke zero and i'm like having to struggle to stand and so i put my coke zero in my coke pocket my coat pocket so that i could brace myself what i didn't realize is my phone was in there and so the next bump we hit my coke flipped over poured onto my phone shorted it out and i now have the story matt how did you break your phone well i spilled coke on it on the island where nelson mandela was prisoned that is how i lost my phone so at least it's an interesting story did the.

[Matt Jones]

Lady that had you moved did she know that this happened was there any do you think she had guilt no.

[Drew Franklin]

No guilt she had no guilt and i think we should all have the self confidence that woman had to just say you're going to get up she didn't say may i she didn't even give a rationale and by the way she had a chair it wasn't like she was standing she just was like i would like your chair and i would like you to have no chair.

[Matt Jones]

I can't imagine now that you don't have a phone just being in south africa with a phone at all not just the fact that you like having your phone it's always in your hand just being alone and in another country and not having your another country can't.

[Drew Franklin]

Get an uber okay can't get an uber no map so i'm not really sure at any given moment where i am you know and then you go so then think about this when you don't have a phone first question is where do i get my phone phone repaired well how would you find out you'd have to use your phone they.

[Matt Jones]

Don'T have an apple store near your.

[Drew Franklin]

Safari well they did so they do so in south africa and i'm not gonna spend the whole show talking about south but in south africa things are cheaper it's probably like a third of what things are in america except for some reason apple phones are like three times more expensive so like you can get a full dinner for three dollars thirty cents but an apple phone is like three thousand five hundred bucks so i don't really i can't really replace it and so it's just like if they can't fix it then i'm just gonna be roaming around hoping someone takes me where i need to go when i'm in south africa now you know.

[Matt Jones]

Last time on the show we heard you were just having trouble getting yogurt now you're telling me you don't even have a phone down there that's is there any danger involved with not having.

[Drew Franklin]

A phone what they tell you johannesburg was a little different what they tell you in cape town is you can walk most places not everywhere but most places during the day always take a car at night but i'm now having to be like my grandmother and like order a taxi at the front desk.

[Matt Jones]

I don't know you could still do.

[Drew Franklin]

That i didn't either but i'm like can you call a taxi and they're like they look at me like still what are you ninety yeah well that's what i have to do because i have no other way of of getting anywhere but still got to watch the games and now i'm ready to go now billy you're going to give us the we're we're kind of doing the games in the order of excitement today you're going to give us the score and some notes about them what would i think the biggest game billy was probably eagles rams oh yeah yeah i.

[Billy]

Got to start eagles rams a battle between two two and o teams philadelphia wins thirty three to twenty six thanks to jordan davis blocking two field goals in the fourth quarter the rams had a twenty six to seven lead at one point jalen hurts hadn't thrown a passing touchdown pass in ten quarters and then throws three in the final two for the eagles to stay undefeated i.

[Drew Franklin]

Watched almost all of this game today when i turned it on i think the rams were up like nineteen to seven and i thought that's a really strange score and then the eagles you just kind of had a sense they were going to come back two block field goals by the largest man on the field you always i guess they just take the view no reason to go around i'll go through and the last run back was one of the more epic plays i've seen drew it.

[Matt Jones]

Was an epic play for a game with you know some high stakes in that conference but also if anyone dabbled on rams plus three and a half you probably thought that was good you probably thought you had that from the first quarter until it was already gone because they had a lead most of the game until philadelphia scores the four straight touchdowns but even with the field goal attempts you're good the one thing that couldn't happen was the run back and i think that'll be one of the worst beats we ever see in the nfl that's i didn't even think.

[Drew Franklin]

About the gambling aspect of that that would be that would be really difficult it was very well played game the rams if you remember from the first episode of nfl cover zero the rams were my super bowl sleeper pick i actually picked them to go to the super bowl on this show and i was feeling really good about that in the third quarter i still feel good about it but i think it would have been a lot better for them if they could have i mean that would have been a big game today for home field advantage if they'd been.

[Matt Jones]

Able to get it absolutely look good the whole time it's kind of going viral now but jalen hur i mean the eagles sideline is just going absolutely crazy they're running he didn't even smile i mean it was just stone cold there are people bumping into him they're just bouncing off of him and he just walks straight onto the field to.

[Drew Franklin]

Shake do you think he cared it looked like he had somewhere to be he was just like well this is fine can we get to the next.

[Matt Jones]

Thing i just think he might be a stone cold killer i know the eagles are sharing that video a lot like look at our quarterback just locked in didn't need to go run and celebrate but huge win i would like.

[Drew Franklin]

To know what i would like to know what's gone viral for this for from this but i have no idea because i can't get on my phone and i can't log into any social media so i'm just going to have to take your word for it that it went viral do you think i lost like this if you're the rams can you can you come back from that like that one pulls at your.

[Matt Jones]

Soul yeah there's there's no moral victories when you're in the nfl and you're the rams but to basically beat the eagles for three quarters in philadelphia i think if anything it just gives you a hunger to get to get another shot at him because you you had them really dominated the first half and you know that maybe you are on a neutral field or maybe you can get home field that in another shot you're going to be right there with.

[Drew Franklin]

Them now i haven't seen any analysis but how did this dude who's looks to weigh about three hundred thirty how did he block two kicks straight up the middle i mean have you seen anyone make an analysis of how that.

[Matt Jones]

Happened it was a little wild because and we'll get to some of the others but in the witching hour red zone there are a lot of blocks and including the eagles game you never.

[Drew Franklin]

See block kicks it was insane i.

[Matt Jones]

Mean it was like three and three minutes and jordan davis eagles kind of i don't know if it's the last year of his contract but there's already been talk about him really getting paid if i were him i would have walked straight to the gm's office after blocking two kicks and beaten almost single handedly beating the rams with that play and saying where's my payday did they.

[Drew Franklin]

Say it was because the kicker kicked low the like i haven't i haven't heard and i couldn't figure out watching exactly what he did that made him.

[Matt Jones]

Get through so quick he got right through the middle just straight up through the middle just like a ball yeah yeah he got his hand he got his hand up pretty high i mean in another game there was some nice hurdle but on on the block that he took back for a touchdown i mean he just straight up the middle got his hand up got his and.

[Drew Franklin]

Picked up the ball so jalen hurts as billy said had gone you know two and a half games without throwing a touchdown throws a bunch there at the end they look to be i don't want to say unbeatable but i think that that at this point you would say they are the best team in the nfc by decent margin if i gave you over under one and a half losses what do you take.

[Matt Jones]

I mean they don't have many tough games coming up that division looks like it might have a couple of teams that aren't going to threaten them much if they were going to drop a game i know this was at home but the rams was one of the toughest ones on their schedule i i think they might be a one loss.

[Drew Franklin]

Team which is crazy that is crazy but i think you're right if you look at it they go to buffalo.

[Matt Jones]

They go to buffalo so that's one where they'll you could potentially that might.

[Drew Franklin]

Be the one give a shout out to my man greg olson okay greg olson did that game and he is so good and you know he got bumped for tom brady which i thought you know like that was a little rude like you bring in a guy who's never done anything like never well i mean he did play football well but he never called football with any background and just completely i think greg olson in my opinion is the best announcer in the nfl and i thought he was excellent on that game i i he does such a good job breaking everything down i don't i think he is the most underrated person that calls maybe any sport but certainly the.

[Matt Jones]

Nfl yeah i love him too and i'm with you on just putting brady above him i'm like greg's been a rising star he's earned this spot let's have him everybody loves him they got a little criticism the broadcast team because during a tush push lane johnson got hurt and they kind of didn't even really mention it so eagles fans are all open arms about that looks like he's going to be okay but they.

[Drew Franklin]

Said it though at one point that he was out didn't they or he.

[Matt Jones]

Got hurt during a tush push and they just kept talking about just in general the tush push and i think people were like hey let's talk about how you know one of the best eagles is hurt on the ground is hurt right now but he is going to be okay but that was one thing that some eagles fans online were kind of upset about with greg olson but i love him i think it's.

[Drew Franklin]

Great it wasn't quite as like i mean they succeeded in it but it wasn't quite as overwhelmingly effective because now they finally have to stop false starting right like they don't get to just keep jumping a second and a half.

[Matt Jones]

Before everybody else last week the entire offensive line it was a false start on the tush push then he get called today there was another one but it was only one guy so they're starting to at least wait to snap the ball but yeah it's the tush.

[Drew Franklin]

Push and going anywhere well good win for the eagles exciting game and you're right you don't see a whole whole lot of games end up on a blocked return kick changing the COVID of the game sorry to the gamblers out there who lost that one what's next.

[Billy]

Billy well speaking of blocked kicks there was one in this next game in the packers browns game an ode to brown spot spider and first lady the browns snap an eight game losing streak spider eight game losing streak dating back to last year at a thirteen to ten victory over green bay they scored thirteen points in the final four minutes they were down ten to zero there was a blocked kick as the green bay looked to take the win tied at ten all but browns go down the field and austin schmidt hits a fifty five yard field goal for the.

[Drew Franklin]

Win i like for billy like doing the radio version of the game right there you know i we didn't because of the manny's passing we didn't get to do a show in the middle of the week so we didn't get to do our survivor league picks thankfully because i would have picked the packers and of course the browns get the victory they're down ten nothing with four minutes to go and then flacco says no longer wacko and takes them down the field they score three times in four minutes that's pretty epic choke job by green bay right it was and.

[Matt Jones]

It was the final leg of my moneyline parlay but you know the packers even though it was only ten oh most the game never imagined they could lose i'm like how in the heck do the packers only have ten points but then jordan love threw a horrible interception late in the horrible interception about three minutes left browns get it at the green bay twenty five score a quick touchdown then you get the block field goal that set up their field goal so i mean just similar to the to the rams i mean the whole game you think you have it then just an absolute meltdown there at.

[Drew Franklin]

The end congrats to them and then as for the packers that's another one like kind of like the ram i mean you're going to get to to playoff seating and you're going to go how could we lose that game at cleveland that'll be a big one i was going to say by the way when it was ten nothing you got to replace flacco with dylan gabriel now and i guess flacco probably keeps the job for a little longer right yeah.

[Matt Jones]

He had an interception i don't think any touchdowns wasn't his best day but if he you if you beat an nfc contender like the packers i mean there's no way you can make a.

[Drew Franklin]

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[Matt Jones]

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[Drew Franklin]

All is this billy is this cat just going to be drew talks about his gambling picks show today well this.

[Matt Jones]

One this one especially because like yeah.

[Billy]

Wait until we get to the titans.

[Matt Jones]

Oh you know you don't want to hear me about the titans no well.

[Drew Franklin]

Actually i was just showing us his.

[Matt Jones]

Car all day and we won't do all gambling talk but today i told my wife i was like i'm feeling it every game i bet three times more than i normally bet and i went over seven so absolutely got murdered today but this game is in south.

[Drew Franklin]

Africa that he could fix my phone and it didn't work so i was over one as well speaking of that for a second when have you do you know what the cape of good hope is do you know what that.

[Matt Jones]

Is i'm familiar with it but i couldn't explain what it is i like.

[Drew Franklin]

I recognize the name it's like the southernmost point in africa and you know so i went there and right next to right right next to the cape of good hope is a city called simon's town okay and simon's town is an interesting place because you drive into town it's the only city i've ever seen in the world when you're driving in town there's a sign that says baboon watch out for baboons now you have to understand this is a city this is not like like it's not like you're out in the woods like there's a grocery store there's a restaura and there's a beach shop and there's all this and then they're like watch out for baboons and i kind of thought it was funny i even pointed out the people i was with i was like they think i'm gonna see a baboon like at the mcdonald's well you know what oh you do the baboon there are baboons in simon's town walking down the street like like just like people like they're walking down the street just and they're it's almost like they mimic people people i mean you know they're smoking cigarettes and they're making phone calls and and and they have a flood wall on the town i guess in case the ocean rises or whatever and there was a baboon just sitting on the flood wall just watching people eat and the people were watching it and i just thought what imagine if you were in lexington and you just saw a baboon walking down the street you'd be a little scared in simonstown it's just like they're part of the they're just part of the community.

[Matt Jones]

That'S wild i have a mental image right now of like a street corner like it waiting for the crosswalk sign to change like it's a bunch of humans and baboons sitting there waiting for the pedestrian walkway yeah you get to you get to mcdonald's and a baboon pulls the door open for you and lets you go in first are they.

[Drew Franklin]

Just.

[Matt Jones]

On the sidewalk like they're well.

[Drew Franklin]

They don't i don't know that they follow all the traffic rules i think they just kind of go where they want to go but i mentioned to the waiter i was like you know there's a baboon just there on the wall and he said oh they can mimic be human behavior he was like they can they will open your backpack and then this is what he said they'll go through and find the best stuff and take it and i wonder what the baboons is he talking about the most expensive stuff is the baboon like listen to old computer i'm going to get your ipad instead but he said that the baboon would like find which of the things were the best to steal and then take them they're.

[Matt Jones]

Going and pawning off people's things i know you're not the biggest fan of dogs is it uncomfortable that baboons just roaming around all around you can walk up to you at any point yeah.

[Drew Franklin]

I was in the car when the baboon was like on the wall but i will say i seem to be the only person that even had a.

[Matt Jones]

Problem with it so it's that common.

[Drew Franklin]

Everybody was just like well there's johnny you know he's he's been drinking so we're gonna let him go give him away it's an interesting and interesting part.

[Matt Jones]

Of it well if only you could get video of this i'd love to see it but you know i wanted.

[Drew Franklin]

Video i literally was going up to strangers and like will you use your phone and then send it to me.

[Matt Jones]

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What'S next all right it wasn't the closest game of the afternoon slate but the bears get their first win of the year matt's team they handle the cowboys and caleb williams looked good three hundred yards passing four touchdowns to luther burden the third roma dunes a dj moore cole comet everybody was getting in on the fun and not just that the defense looked good to two interceptions of dak prescott a big win for ben johnson and his first with the.

[Drew Franklin]

Bears great game for the bears i mean this is my team this is the best they've looked in probably three years i mean they i thought they played exc i thought they played you know they played well against the vikings too in the first week i'm i'm confident it was interesting i heard the announcer say that ben johnson the coach said if i was jared goff i would not like this comment the announcer said that ben johnson said that you know in detroit the offense had to be perfect and he's had to get used to having a quarterback who if the play didn't go perfect could still do something if i was jared goff i'd be like dude we went what fifty and two why you gotta why you gotta be like that but but caleb williams looked like what we'd hoped.

[Matt Jones]

Yeah congratulations they looked not just kind of good they looked awesome including ben johnson dialed up a wild flea flicker for their second touchdown early in the game i actually turned it off in the second half because it's getting ugly but at least in the first half of what i was watching they were just gashing the cowboys defense there were so many big explosive plays it almost felt like dallas was down a man in the secondary because the bears were hitting on so much and i think in our first podcast of these i told you to look out for luther burden and it's taken two or three weeks now but finally had a big game and i think there's many more of those to come they got a.

[Drew Franklin]

Lot of weapons i mean i wish they had i wish they had won that game against against minnesota because i think if they were two and one they'd be a dangerous team they you know they've got a hard schedule their their schedule if you look at it they had to win this one because i think they play the chiefs in the next week or two so they they got a tough thing as far as the cowboys you know your secondary team they're one and two could easily be oh and three are they just a non factor this year you know.

[Matt Jones]

I didn't think they would be all that good but would contend for the playoffs but if you're losing respectfully to you matt if you're losing to the chicago bears a winless team in week three at home when you go you got philadelphia twice even though they've already played one of those that's a loss you got kansas city on the schedule you got two with was this is one of those games in your schedule came out and you're almost counting that as a win you got to beat the bears at home to do anything so i think it's going to be a continue to be a long year a downward spiral if you can long.

[Drew Franklin]

Year yeah i think the cowboys are in for a long one now finishing right as the show started the chargers get a twenty three to twenty win three and oh your boy justin herbert you know they've beaten three good teams they've all been close games but they've won them all are you are you on the chargers train the game got kind of wide yeah and i had.

[Matt Jones]

I had high expectations of the chargers this year but the beginning you know the three and oh where they are having beaten the chiefs in week one that was a bit of a surprise now getting this big divisional game yeah they're they're going to be a big time threat i don't i don't know that they'll be up there with the bills ravens that group but you never know three and oh with these wins they might try to join that conversation.

[Drew Franklin]

Come playoff time and we got a game winning kick from dicker the kicker which is my favorite my fa when you name a guy dicker you gotta hope he's a kicker and you get the rhyme he's on the team jim harbaugh and bo nix i knew college bo nix was going to show up at some point and he's done it this year it's been a big sophomore slump really been a sophomore slump for him you could even argue for drake may michael pinnock really everybody except caleb williams you know jaden daniels unfortunately got has gotten hurt i mean the sophomore slump has been real and i think it's been the most real yeah broncos.

[Matt Jones]

Fans actually had some excitement behind this team maybe not so much in bo nicks but they at least thought they had a good operation i mean you get one win but it was against my tennessee titans i don't even know that i would celebrate that one but then you've now lost two games that again kind of like i said with the cowboys the colts you lose them last week they're surprised team but the broncos are a team that's probably not going to do much i really had.

[Drew Franklin]

Some high aspirations it's been bad i mean i just i last year i would see him play and i'd go that is not the bo knicks i know it's he's going to come back to to bonick's reality and that happened and i'm glad to see it chargers now three zero and in first place.

[Matt Jones]

And his backup is jared stidham so it's not like you know they got some rookie it's like you got shador or somebody you're waiting to just you know unleash them is jared stidham he.

[Drew Franklin]

Puts out like direct to netflix action movie movies right i think so i.

[Matt Jones]

Think so when he's not backing up.

[Drew Franklin]

I believe so okay what's next all.

[Billy]

Right this was a one o' clock game the pittsburgh steelers advanced to two and one on the season after a twenty one to fourteen victory over the new england patriots the steelers defense forces five turnovers and aaron rodgers throws two touchdowns and in doing so he now is thrown the fourth most passing touchdowns all time with five hundred ten by passing brett favre today with his two.

[Drew Franklin]

Touchdowns why are you talking like a like with the energy of like a nineteen seventies advertising executive in ra setting the scene how you usually talk like why are you are you feeling energetic.

[Billy]

For some reason i am i'm excited we're watching football and getting to talk.

[Drew Franklin]

About like you you're talking like an old timey rape baseball announcer you're like and then how your normal voice is.

[Billy]

I can go back to monotone billy and for the next one i think.

[Drew Franklin]

I like monotone billy the five turnovers for the patriots stevenson the running back fumbled in it i think eighteen times during the game they had to be getting i mean the patriots fans have to be livid that you talk about they fumbled it twice inside the one.

[Matt Jones]

Yard line yeah and drake may had a bad interception in the red zone bad it's not just that they had five turnovers they were in like scoring position on just about all of them this could have been a big win for the patriots if you just hold on to the ball and not make that bad interception may have just just rocked his head on the play before.

[Drew Franklin]

From winning the game they had they fumbled it steven stevenson fumbled it twice inside the one all you got to do is hold on to it i didn't know who i hated more in this game you know i cannot stand patriots fans specifically is it bad that i get joy when bill simmons loses like well it's this is a bad characteristic because i like him he's the reason that i got into this whole business but how can you like someone and want their teams to lose every single game so you can listen and take joy in their misery is that.

[Matt Jones]

Fair it is because the boston success that they've all had we all have a little sports jealousy of the of boston there's like that famous there's the kid that went to like all the parades and he takes the he's like ten and he's been to ten championship parades or something silly like that so i it's i think it's universal to anyone that's not in the boston fandom i think we all hate them just because we're a little bit of jealous of how often they were winning there.

[Drew Franklin]

For a while so you get the bill simmons versus how much i hate aaron rodgers and this game i just wanted they kept going back and forth and i would root for both of their miseries but i ended up i was at the end pulling for the steelers because i think they got a tougher trek than the patriots do aaron rodgers had they won but he had a couple terrible throws i mean terrible it'll be interesting when they get to the meat of their schedule i it's hard for me to see him succeeding when they play that ravens defense and some of these teams going off yeah.

[Matt Jones]

I keep doubting him and he keeps proving me wrong though at least so far this year i thought we were going to see a big decline i thought the age father time would catch up to him but he still got it there was a moment in this game though that he does we got to admit man can sling it around he can sling it there was a moment in this game where i really really really missed my my peloton guy mike vrabel bike variable he went for it on fourth and one on their own fifteen early in the game down seven and that's he's about the only maybe dan campbell but there's only a couple people that would do something that crazy and it panned out they went drove down the field so that was a pretty unique moment in this game.

[Drew Franklin]

Game yeah they i want to give a shout out by the way well actually i'll save it for for another game what's next billy all right up.

[Billy]

Next we've got jets bucks stop right.

[Drew Franklin]

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[Matt Jones]

Now you're doing delilah all right we'll.

[Billy]

We'Ll find a middle ground here.

[Drew Franklin]

Delilah i met this woman on the bus.

[Matt Jones]

I made mario laugh we got mario over in the corner laughing.

[Drew Franklin]

She was eating a kit kat and i looked at her and i told her she was my honey go ahead billy all.

[Billy]

Right my team the bucks are off to their best start in twenty years after a twenty nine to twenty seven win over the jets you thought it was going to be easy it was for most of the game it was twenty three to six then the jets score a touchdown they block a kick and they return it for a touchdown they take a one point lead until baker mayfield leads his third game winning drive in three games and the bucks are now three and oh the bucks.

[Drew Franklin]

Are three and oh they're exciting to watch i'm gonna let you talk here for a second bill you're a bucks fan are you for real they are.

[Billy]

But they're they're injured i mean they're they're missing three offensive linemen mike evans looks like he's got a hamstring injury i mean and he has one every single year they're still waiting for worfs and godwin to come back i mean levante david got hurt today they are just beat so i mean the division's a joke i mean if they can stay somewhat healthy they'll they'll make the playoffs again and win another division title but can they beat the eagles and the rams and some of these better nfc teams i don't know but baker mayfield is turned me into a believer.

[Matt Jones]

No no no no no no no no maker playfield maker play because he's earned it he's earned that name that we laughed at earlier first qb in nfl history he's gone back to back back to back game winning drives it's been i'm not a bucks guy but i've watched all three of those he he's looking pretty awesome and how he's brought him back from every game they.

[Drew Franklin]

Could be owing three right now elite guys outside elite guys so you take away mahomes allen lamar of the next tier guys there's no one in football that when he gets the ball at the end i'm more confident in the baker mayfield and that's crazy i would have never believed that could be true but he's it's almost like like it's becoming like reggie miller where he's almost better at the end than he is during the game and you have more confidence at the end than you would in a normal play yeah i saw.

[Matt Jones]

A graphic i don't have the exact numbers but you know they do the probability at certain points of the game the bucks have had which are all.

[Drew Franklin]

By the way those are completely hard.

[Matt Jones]

But i mean just it just just the image of you know we all know it's not accurate but just to show how down the bucks have been all three weeks and he's let them back he hadn't thrown an interception all year i thought i guess it last week though when it looked like he got hurt and gardner johnson's taunting him and he just gets right back up and he gets his face i'm not a bucks guy but i like maker playfield and i'm jealous that you have.

[Billy]

Him and emikay buka is rookie of.

[Matt Jones]

The year he's been great he had.

[Drew Franklin]

Another he's been great today and a lot of fantasy experts were picking that before the year and he's been great i i will say you know know the thing about baker mayfield is i love to see a dude who has been like life has just hit him in the crotch and they get all the way down to the bottom and then they come back i think that's a really i think that's an interesting you know he was the top of the heap number one pick falls down is embarrassed is a joke and then to re have birth i think is a very cool story makes me root for him whereas i used to kind of not be a fan well really.

[Matt Jones]

It looked like his career was over and then he gets that one chance with the rams a little rams on.

[Drew Franklin]

Like a random thursday night they didn't have anybody else and then he's just.

[Matt Jones]

Completely changed he had gone to carolina didn't look good backing up the rams and you're thinking well we've seen the end of him and he's completely revived his career also it helped you know they're fun to watch anyway but they wore the creamsicles today billy y' all gotta wear those every week those are.

[Billy]

Awesome they're so good and usually they have like a losing record in the cream sickle but it was nice to.

[Matt Jones]

Finally get a win it's funny how.

[Drew Franklin]

After time things that used to be terrible become things you have nostalgia for so when i was a kid the bucks were awful and the creamsicles were like an example of why they were awful right why would you wear this this is a loser thing and now you go all these years same thing with the uniform the patriots wore today those were hideously ugly uniforms that now they've brought back and people even though the teams weren't even successful when they wore those uniforms well i have a.

[Matt Jones]

Mental image when the bucks were terrible of like they'd have the brown bags and it was the creamsicle area where the fans and the just miserable and you forever you would associate with that associated with that but it is it's just kind of like we're kentucky basketball fans you know the denim back in the day was kind of you know some people liked it but mostly throwback.

[Drew Franklin]

Like like if you're talking throwbacks what are the are the cream sickles for tampa bay the best sort because because the current tampa bay logos kind of boring so i've i've long thought they should go back to the creamsicles they're.

[Matt Jones]

More fun yeah i mean i'm a titans fan the oilers look there's been kind of a houston tennessee fight over who actually had that one i can i like them i hated these in when they were current but the old seahawks ones i kind of like those with the silver and the little blue and before they went neon and navy.

[Billy]

I like those the rams back in the day i think had good ones even the eagles i think have some pretty good old ones but nothing like.

[Drew Franklin]

That it was interesting that they both the patriots and the bucks wore those today because when i think of sort of old school uniforms that have kind of gotten lost to history those are the two that stick out and they both ended up happening today day what's.

[Billy]

Next well five backup quarterbacks started in the nfl this week and one of them was mac jones for the forty nine ers as they beat the cardinals on a last second field goal by eddie pinero sixteen to fifteen looked like the cardinals were going to get the best of the forty nine ers when cla campbell was i guess he had a holding call in the end zone it gave two points to arizona but you know what it's going to be a win for san francisco sixteen to.

[Drew Franklin]

Fifteen final score yeah there was a major safety at the end look like arizona was going to be able to sneak it out arizona loses more games on the last play arizona does not have a game that does not end it's seven twenty five while we're waiting for cbs sixty minutes and does not end in last second heartbreak more no one gets that more than arizona forty nine ers three and oh i know i say this every week their schedules really easy the hardest part of their schedule was at the beginning and now they're winning all the games and they're three and oh they're going to end up i've said this all year they're going to be fourteen and three and not good drew that's what's going to be i mean there's still two of these three games been won by mac.

[Matt Jones]

Jones yeah they should be owing three remember week one they had the catch they said the most improbable catch of the week you have the saints who are terrible are driving last week and spencer rattler fumbles and then this week you know last second field goal fifteen sixteen what is just boring score game there too but the fact that the forty nine ers have had some pretty improbable wins so far it's it's running right into that record you're predicting a bad team with a good record they're.

[Drew Franklin]

Going to be fourteen and three and not good i cannot wait to bet against them in the first round of the playoffs i mean i'm dead serious they're going to end up being like the two or three seed and they are going to get smashed in the first real game of the playoffs i cannot wait wait for that moment and you will remember that that is the COVID nfl cover zero moment of the.

[Billy]

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All right it's time drew it's forty one to twenty colts beat the titans this week jonathan taylor three touchdowns on the ground over a hundred.

[Drew Franklin]

Rushing yards he had the best run he had one of the best runs i've seen in years that that touchdown run where four guys had him one on one and he beat all four of them i don't mean to interrupt you billy but that was like one of the best runs i've seen in.

[Billy]

A long time yeah leading the nfl in rushing yards right now as well cam ward two hundred and nineteen yards one touchdown one interception but can't do.

[Drew Franklin]

It alone you're that your titans stink yeah they stink the saints stink too but the titans really stink and i.

[Matt Jones]

Knew they were going to stink my expectations i thought were at the bottom and they've managed to not even match that at the end you're getting to.

[Drew Franklin]

The point that you're hate watching them i like when that happens tell me about tell me about hate watching oh.

[Matt Jones]

You know i guess we're already shopping for number one picks next year i'm already looking at mock drafts and it's mid september knowing that going to at least have one of the top two picks but i have a lot of friends that go to titans games season ticket holders they're texting me brian callahan got booed so bad they were saying it's like the loudest the stadium has been in years with booing the head coach at the end of the first half he did like it made you wonder how this man had a job this was like elementary level football like if you've even played one game of madden you would know how to handle this situation but they've crossed the fifties there's two minutes left they have a first down you have cam ward the crowd wants you to go for the end zone it's you're you're you're down by a little more than a touchdown you got your rookie let him throw it they run run run then they try to settle for a field goal this is where all hell breaks loose colts call a timeout titans call a timeout at this point there's been two timeouts they trot out the kicker and get a delay of game with the kicker after two timeouts which pushes him back and which made people go crazy is colts were able to get the ball back which never should have happened anyway and then they drive and score again before halftime so i know we have a double i know we have a lot of kentucky fans that listen and we we talk about mark stoops in the end of the first half mark stoops looks like nick saban compared to brian callahan i don't know how that man has a job and he.

[Drew Franklin]

Got to go let him cook.

[Matt Jones]

Unbelievably.

[Drew Franklin]

Bad yeah the the the double timeout followed by delay of game is one of the great coaching mishaps and by by the way our coach mark stoops has done that too i mean that is a double timeout delay of game that should be one of those you get fired at that moment when it happens and it's like you're substituting it's.

[Matt Jones]

A kick you just trot out your kick that they practice it just delay.

[Drew Franklin]

A game i want to talk for a second about my man danny dimes again i mean i three and oh okay three and oh in games that i think they were predicted to lose all three have he's looked great shane steichen has him playing the way you know he had a little bit of period in new york where he looked like that but most of the time he did not the bangs are still cooking you know he sits on the sideline reading dostoyevsky in between plays which i think is a nice move by him gets a little tolstoy in the post game press conference he's doing i don't know he's doing his thing is is daniel dimes danny jones he going to be i don't know are the.

[Matt Jones]

Colts for real you know the first week john the taylor's so good he.

[Drew Franklin]

Doesn'T even have to be that great.

[Matt Jones]

How about this today in the second quarter they punted for the first time this season it's week three second quarter they punished daniel jones also had like a twenty yard run where he's breaking ankles it's crazy this guy that kind of became a dog he's able to do that yeah but i mean he.

[Drew Franklin]

Was always able he always had that.

[Matt Jones]

In his ye but i'm just saying he's just out there and it is against my titans but i mean he looks great out there and he's kind of listed as a comeback player of the year guy i think if this continues and i'm not saying he would win the mvp but the way he's on the way he's played so far we need to put him on another tier of where he yeah i'm not handing the award if someone else have that but he at least needs to climb some tiers of quarterbacks because this isn't like a fluky situation he has.

[Drew Franklin]

Looked really good he has looked he has looked great it's been and you know i there i'm usually anti colts but i've enjoyed watching him and i've always kind of had an affinity for daniel jones so i like i like seeing him him succeed before we go to these other games real quick let me i want to give you another south africa moment do you when you travel somewhere do you do you buy souvenirs like are you a are you.

[Matt Jones]

A souvenir guy i'm actually a big postcard guy because i have some family members that always want a postcard like when we do our road trips try to grab them so i don't really get stuff for myself but i have people that like getting stuff like occasional gift but not for me so.

[Drew Franklin]

Trying to figure out how best do you know what a do you know what a hyena is right yeah do you know how hyenas are are shaped are you yeah are you yeah okay i'm with you so think about how hyena is shaped all right so i i don't ever buy souvenirs matter of fact if you were to come to my house you would think i'd never left my house like there's no there's no remnants of anywhere i've ever been or anything i've ever done because you know i'm home but sometimes when i came here i had a lot of people say to me buy me a souvenir which i think by the way is a very rude thing to say because who wants to carry it all the way and i don't have kids i'm not gonna get them a penguin right so you know but a couple people have asked me for a souvenir and so one of them said get me an angel animal well you know i'm kind of mad that they asked me so like not get him an elephant not getting a majora okay but a hyena nobody likes a hyena kind of ugly it doesn't do it it's ugly got its big long shaped and then around like butt looks like it's got.

[Matt Jones]

Some back issues bad posture yeah so.

[Drew Franklin]

I get the hyena thinking like okay there you go that's what you get you get a hyena you thought you were going to get an elephant or giraffe you're getting a height and it's like all multicolored and all this and i go to i go to pay for it and it's it's got bedazzles and all that and they asked me if i can wrap it up and so they wrap the whole thing up in paper and it's white and so you got this long top top and then this bulky bottom that you can guess with that wrapped up what that might look like right long slender top bulky bottom wrapped in white paper and probably like that long okay so i look at it and i go well this is unfortunate but it's wrapped up so i put it in my in my suitcase don't think anything about it go to the hotel my passport is in my bag and the guy says he's got my my bag and he's like he was like do you have your passport i was like actually it's in that bag just reach in and it's right there and he reaches it and he grabs and pulls that thing now would you just think about that you stand in the middle of a nice hotel lobby and he pulls that out of your bag and he looks at me with this big smile and goes i don't think this is your passport.

[Matt Jones]

I think you just got to run with it you got to say man i'm traveling alone you know it's.

[Drew Franklin]

Lonely out here in south africa don't judge me do not judge me the.

[Matt Jones]

Heart wants what it wants i always say the heart wants what it wants.

[Drew Franklin]

So he reached the passport i think he was doing one i think he was he was doing it on purpose and so it was embarrassing and now i got to figure out how i'm gonna get it through customs because they'll go through your stuff in customs i don't want this to happen again drew.

[Matt Jones]

I can't i can't skip over just someone making you travel with this with this thing cause you're still there a little bit you know you already had.

[Drew Franklin]

Packing i'm here for eleven more days i think it's very rude to to ask for a souvenir can you give me a souvenir no that's why the.

[Matt Jones]

Answer is no that's why i'm postcards i they're gone before i even leave the city i mail them from the hotel they're there when i get back easy to do but i no i.

[Drew Franklin]

Can'T walk around europe last i was in europe last year you know i was in like eleven countries they said bring me a magnet magnet back from every country i was like okay but that starts to get heavy when you get a lot of those and they stick together and it's like it's i you will never hear me ask for a souvenir from anything what's next two.

[Billy]

Backup quarterbacks in this one o' clock game cincinnati first game without joe burrow they didn't look good forty eight to ten the final score minnesota wins with carson wentz throwing for one hundred seventy three yards and two touchdowns five turnovers by cincinnati and two defensive touchdowns for the vikings and defensive back isaiah rogers.

[Matt Jones]

Who become the first player isaiah rogers.

[Drew Franklin]

Game for a sec yeah go ahead he scored a interception return touchdown fumble return touchdown and caused two other fumbles think about that he caused four turnovers it's the most any player it's the first time anybody's ever done that that little combination that is one of the more insane performances of all time in terms of just being able to create.

[Matt Jones]

Havoc right heck yeah a guy that i think he went to they said it's like umass or something like a small guy coming in the nfl and having a game like that that's got to be one of the all time performances for a defensive and that was.

[Billy]

All in the first half too yeah.

[Matt Jones]

It'S just i mean that's just outrageous in the first half he was on.

[Drew Franklin]

Fire wow well he was definitely talking a lot of trash the less said about this game the better except for carson wentz you know quarterback controversy forty eight points looked amazing i mean i you know jj mccarthy mccarthy has had basically one good quarter which was the final or quarter against the bears second game not good and then this and then he doesn't play and carson wentz does it i don't know man maybe he's maybe carson wentz is the new baker mayfield put him on a different well i guess it's like a fourth.

[Matt Jones]

Team but still no no no not fourteen that here's what's funny about carson wentz this is his six team in six years it's like sometimes nba players like a rondo at the end of the career i think one game yeah yes he said that was an nfl record six teams in six years has been quite the journeyman but you're right i know they're fired up about mccarthy but you have went step in there had two interceptions today i know defense was a big part of it but he really handled it well yeah he.

[Drew Franklin]

You know as we've said about him before he got engaged at a castle in versailles kentucky and for that i pull for him tough day for the bengals you know jake browning played all right last week i think once you have tape on him it's going to be tough for them with burrow out i'm not ready to write the bengals off yet but i'm pretty close what's.

[Billy]

Next the commanders defeat the raiders forty one to twenty four it's next man up in washington no jaden daniels no austin eckler no problem they've got marcus mariota they've got jeremy you wrote that.

[Matt Jones]

Didn'T you no i didn't write it.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah he wrote it didn't he yeah.

[Matt Jones]

Why didn't he do his radio voice though i was that would have been.

[Drew Franklin]

You were like no there's no way you on the fly said no jaden's daniels no austin eckler no problem well i get no way you didn't write.

[Billy]

That down all right well you know what we'll just agree to disagree mario.

[Drew Franklin]

Did he write it down i think.

[Matt Jones]

He wrote it down mario mario mario.

[Billy]

Says he doesn't come look at my notes but it was a big win for washington and an odd game the raiders are one and two despite geno smith throwing for three touchdowns.

[Drew Franklin]

Yeah there's the only thing i care about this game my man chris meyer's starting to get some respect he got put on this one that's respect when i saw panthers falcon i thought see you see you then chris no no he got commander's raiders and i don't know where that is on the chart but i don't feel like that was one of the worst games today on the chart so chris myers after all these years of having to watch terrible nfc south game after terrible nfc south game got to see this in person salute to chris myers this might be the best game he gets to see all year.

[Matt Jones]

You'Re happy for your boy chris myers i'm happy for my boy marcus mariota who i didn't even know was still in the nfl former titan and i don't know if you saw this but he took his helmet off his hair doesn't have a few grays it's not kind of gray he has full gray hair now gray oh it is full gray not a not a little dusting not a little sprinkle mariota is mariota is gray gray and i was happy he was still out there having a big game he's not that old no no he's it can't be at all this is a big game for him too because chip kelly is the oc for vegas who was his coach in oregon so they had a big reunion so i was i was pretty pretty excited watching mario to have a big day i really enjoyed him when he was in nashville yeah i mean the.

[Drew Franklin]

Great thing is tough like when it happens to you but if it happens to you in your early thirties that would be much worse you got it on the beard i get it on the sideburns you know the one that cuts my hair is like like we're gonna do gray blending and sometimes it's like seems like it's more gray when she's done than when she starts so this time i was like i'm going to south africa i don't want any gray and i mean i'm not like george clooney right now in that play when he's oh yeah but like it's a little it's a little darker than it's normally been so i can't seem to find quite the balance that we.

[Matt Jones]

Need well mariota he can't be much thirty one thirty two and he's he's rocking the gray hair he wears well.

[Billy]

Ran into dan quinn made a bleed.

[Matt Jones]

Oh yeah good call ability did you see the dan quinn i that looked horrible run into it and see that what happened hit his head on the on the ground real hard he popped right back up i haven't seen anything out afterwards but i think he was okay but it looked like it was a nasty fall he got ran over and his head smacked the ground football guy though he hopped right up dan.

[Drew Franklin]

Quit when i think football guys he's right there he's right there at the top by the way we've gone this far cincinnati reds the wild card i'm of course here i saw i saw on on the website again i can't get on social media so it was on just an old website that the hotel computer yeah the reds have against the pirates this weekend they're saying might be the biggest series in cincinnati in six years and of course i'm not there so but let's go reds mets get red sweep the cubs mets lose three straight to the nationals and now.

[Matt Jones]

It'S tied drew yeah it's very fitting that you're in south africa you'd kind of thrown in the towel a few weeks ago and they had the bad west coast swing you leave the country and the reds like up matt's gone let's flip the switching and the only.

[Drew Franklin]

Guy not playing well is ellie like the rest of teams playing well they've moved ellie he's hitting like seventh now because they because he's been playing so badly so if they make the playoffs and i'm here i'm not going to.

[Billy]

Be thrilled what's next the texans are now oh and three after a seventeen to ten loss to the jacksonville jaguars it was jacksonville's first home win versus the texans since twenty seventeen so a long time coming brian thomas junior who's been fighting demons made a big catch late in the fourth quarter the next play travis etn scores the jaguars win by a touchdown what do you mean.

[Drew Franklin]

He'S been fighting demons well people are.

[Billy]

Saying he's scared to go over the middle or afraid to get hit he's taken a lot of criticism are you.

[Drew Franklin]

Talking to brian thomas people with a lot of brian thomas junior i'd say.

[Billy]

The nfl media angry fantasy football owners just the general consensus i didn't know.

[Drew Franklin]

I'Ve known you a long time you've never mentioned brian thomas junior to me i didn't know you had this strong strong an opinion about it this was a changing of the guard game for me billy hit the right stat eight straight years years they've lost at home to the texans i picked the jaguars to win the division this year colts are obviously going to have something to say about it but i think this is a cha a passing of the torch from the texans to the jaguars and liam cohen's era today drew i.

[Matt Jones]

Agree with the passing of the torch i'm still not sold on jacksonville overall i think it might be more of the texans just coming down stroud did not look good at all he had two bad interceptions lawrence was just kind of fine what i've what i watched this game travis hunter made a nice offensive play he got a catch and then took some ankles absolutely juked some guys but then after the game i see that he played more defense than offense this time so they're they're committed to the bit i think it was forty three defensive snaps and thirty seven offensive snaps so he's he's really gonna.

[Drew Franklin]

Split the time i don't know man i don't know if you can play eighty during a year every game but i like watching but they're they're actually kind of this wasn't a high scoring game but they're kind of fun to watch and they they they had a field they missed a field goal they had another another kind of weird turnover i they i thought they dominated this game and and still won by seven.

[Billy]

What'S next we've got two games left and it involves three nfc south teams the first game is the panthers falcons in which carolina won thirty to zero.

[Drew Franklin]

In that game another crazy game the two interception return touchdown downs michael pennix looked awful i mean he looked awful he was throwing the ball like an old man like he he he was awful i you know i like him but he's an older rookie to begin with and that was one of the worst performances i've seen from a quarterback for a long long time yeah to.

[Matt Jones]

Lose to the panthers like that i mean thirty to nothing i do have to add here we've mentioned my boy manny that passed away our he was a big panthers guy he even we've talked about sir purr the mascot he had a custom panthers jersey that said sir purr on the back so i was smiling really big during this game we were all texting each other keep pounding but what a shocking win for the panthers to win by thirty and shut out the falcons who didn't look nearly as bad until this week well.

[Drew Franklin]

I was mania panthers fan you know.

[Matt Jones]

What it was one of my best friends and i never even got a clear answer for it but he was he would he was always keep pounding on sundays and he had a couple jerseys in fact at the at the funeral one of his pictures he was in a panthers jersey so i did i did smile a little bit when they won thirty oh today the panthers.

[Drew Franklin]

Could not have looked worse than they look last year or last week and they could not have looked better than they looked this week i don't really understand how that's possible the nfl is such an odd league with such high talent and such hugely different performances week to week and nothing epitomizes that more than the panthers but my takeaway for this game is michael penix i mean i had some belief in him coming into this year and i know it's one game but that was a brutal performance and he hadn't been great in the first two weeks either i'm i'd be a little worried if i was the foul a falcons fan about the pinnocks era then what's left finally the.

[Billy]

Seahawks defeat the saints forty four to thirteen it was twenty one to zero eleven minutes into the game and then it was thirty eight to three before halftime ugly showing if you were a.

[Drew Franklin]

Saints fan what is there to care about is there anything to care about the team this year none of the play none of the quarterbacks going to be playing again for you i mean like they might be a backup but that you're going to be drafting a quarterback so nothing that happens this year is going to matter is there any reason if you're a saints fan to care about this season at all no.

[Matt Jones]

Not even a little bit and like i keep making fun of my team the saints are worse i mean spencer rattler and tyler shaw yeah tyler shuck got in the game today through a couple incompletions but they were down thirty eight nothing in the second quarter like just go home what are we doing.

[Drew Franklin]

I mean what are we doing they could have scored eighty i know like like for real i mean this was you they could have scored as much as they wanted the saints are just absolutely horrendous and i've been down here with a saints fan was in my group and and she said she is on a plane right now and she asked me to text updates to her because she could get texts but she couldn't get the game text updates during the game and i forgot until about ten minutes in and it was already twenty one to nothing and i just said you don't want to know and she said are you serious and i was like it just got worse because they scored again yeah so that's what she knew about the game you just you don't want to know and it just got worse you should have just.

[Matt Jones]

Sent her well you can't you know have your phone but you could have showed her there's an insane punt return tony horton he had two touchdowns it was a crazy punt return in that game too as they were just piling on them early that's one if anyone watched the second half go find something else to do if you watch the second half of st seahawks today because.

[Drew Franklin]

That game was over she is somewhere over the atlantic ocean right now and when you listen to this later serena i'm sorry about your team it is really really a sad sad state of affairs well thank you all very much for listening subscribe like tell your friends i made the entire group of nine women on my trip subscribe today i was like i'm sure you all will like this especially you woman from new zealand this will be your kind of thing but tell your friends and drew it's nice to see you and we will be back wednesday where i will will be probably at the top of table mountain recording oh wow what could go wrong there yeah look at look up real quick look up table mountain look what it looks like i'm going to right now you're going to be shocked to set to find it looks like a table and oh yeah that's.

[Matt Jones]

The day flat you can set a.

[Drew Franklin]

Level on that that's right that's the day i'm rappelling down the mountain so nervous wow rappelling mean i'm not excited they asked you know i'm not an adventure guy really and there's a lot of that on this and so the repelling i think they call it ab sailing here i'm not i'm not looking forward to it but you know what you only live once you got to try stuff true so that's what we're.

[Matt Jones]

Going to do yeah those those nine women will teach you how to do it that'll that'll that'll be a good.

[Drew Franklin]

Look for you i'm definitely going to look really manly.

[Matt Jones]

I think i think you ditched your phone so you'd have an excuse to not have any video or photo evidence of this there's going.

[Drew Franklin]

To be no video that's right no.

[Matt Jones]

Video yeah the phone's broken billy it's broken i get it now if things.

[Drew Franklin]

Don'T go well i'll never see these people again we don't have to act like this ever happened thank you guys very much we'll see you next week on nfl coverage here nfl cover zero with matt jones and drew franklin is a production of the nfl and iheart podcast for more podcasts from iheartradio visit the iheartradio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast this is julian edelman from games with names applebees just cooked up the ultimate option play with.

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