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3 & Out - Reaction to the Philadelphia Eagles DEFEATING the Dallas Cowboys on TNF
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What is going on everybody? How are you doing? John Middlekop here. Three and out podcast. We just did a live reaction on YouTube which is also our podcast. So you will hear that from the game that we just witnessed. The Eagles beat the Cowboys from the spit gate to Jalen Carter getting ejected before the first snap to the lightning delay to CD lambs drops to tush pushes. We got it all tonight. What a start for the National Football League. So we'll dive into that. Christian McCaffrey injured again. Shocker. And you know, I'm not exactly Adam Schefter, but boy went a little viral today. And we'll dive into kind of the ramifications of that. The story that was discussed with the scouts being banned and then Stucky. A lot of you guys have asked the Stuckey return. My guy Stuckey from the Action Network, degenerate gambler. No, I mean this guy, when it comes to college football and basketball, no one's is locked in in football. He knows every player in every roster. So we bonded years ago with gambling. And he comes on, I record with him every Thursday morning. And we'll hit on a couple college games. We'll hit on the NFL slate who he likes, some prop bets, and that'll be basically every Friday podcast. He actually has a baby on the way too, so. Yeah, so we'll see how that plays out in December and January for both of us. But we're going to be rocking and rolling here. You guys know the deal. Subscribe to the podcast wherever you may. Listen, Spotify, Apple, you guys know the drill. Also YouTube channel. Subscribe to that. We're going live after some of these primetime games. And then we just obviously put it out as a podcast with the anything else we do. So go check that out. We got. We got a lot going on and we will dive into it all. But before we dive into any of it, listen, do you want to go to one of these games? Because if you do, football is here. 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The Cowboys get the ball back with under three minutes with a chance to drive right down the field. I thought Dak played really well tonight. Even at one point in time, my wife looks over to me, she's like, did Dak get good? I'm like, well, you know, he's actually a decent player. He's playing pretty well tonight. He was slinging that pill around, obviously at the end of the game, hit CD Lamb right in the bread basket and that ball comes flying right out of his hands. Everyone was moving so fast. It really wasn't that close to get getting intercepted, even though it went through a Philadelphia Eagles defender's hands as well. But that was kind of the game. I personally, you know, I think it was 4th and 3 or 4th and 4. It was 4th and 3. I hate a go route. I hate something deep breaking down field. I understand you're in a one on one situation. I understand you're with one of the more talented players at any position in the NFL. You give him a spot to make a play, but you know, Dak kind of off his back foot throwing it up. Now, I'm also not a proponent of running like a, I don't know, some, some quick moving play outside of the pocket that takes out half the field. You see that play run sometimes and if it gets taken away, the quarterback has nowhere to go. I don't pretend to be some offensive schematic genius, but I do like some relatively easier options. Listen, you know, more than likely Fangio had been blitzing down the stretch. You might need to get the ball out of your hands quickly. But when you throw that moon ball, I don't care if it's Randy Moss, Terrell Owens, Calvin Johnson, CD Lamb, I mean, elite, obviously you're throwing it up to an elite player. It's kind of like a coin flip. Feels a little bit like you're playing roulette. I love playing roulette as much as the next guy. When you're hot, it's badass. But when you're putting chips around, hell, when you're putting on red and black and it's going up the opposite, it sucks. And when that ball's in the air, let's face it, it's not a high percentage to being completed. So the Cowboys were in A position where they were massive underdogs with, you know, the Eagles, as Chris Collins were said the moment it happened, the best defensive player on the team and easily one of the more talented young players in the entire NFL, in the entire NFL, gets booted before you can even blink. Huge advantage for the young offensive line. They're in a position to drive and win the game, and they don't really give themselves a chance. Now, I also think let's start with that situation, because that's going to be a major headline tomorrow. I would say as the first half played out, it's one of the more jarring starts to a game I've ever seen. I don't ever remember. Now, you could argue my memory's slipping a little as I age, but I'm pretty good with football stuff. Don't remember a player getting ejected in a situation where the game. Some you've seen crazy things happen before the game. You remember guys have been suspended by their own team. Like, remember Jameis came out in college in his pads and Jimbo Fisher was pissed off and told him to take him off. Like, we've seen crazy stuff happen way before the game. Fights, probably more in college, that happened in the pregame warmups. But once the game starts and the kickoff happens and they're kind of setting it up to start for TV and the two huddles are. Are taking place, all of a sudden, you don't really know what's going on because this dude on the Eagles just tore his acl, who is coming off last season where he tore his knee and missed the entire season. You see his face going, how the fuck can this be happening again? Kind of feel bad for the guy. And then all of a sudden, Jalen Carter is ejected. You're like, what is going on? Obviously, as it plays out, you realize you spit on him. I'm getting texts from people in the NFL like, he's getting suspended. He's going to get suspended. How many games? I don't know. One game, two games. And I'm not some proponent. Like, this guy has to get suspended for this. Honestly, it didn't cross my mind he was going to get suspended at first. Then Florio reports about the rules. Like, Dale Carr is going to be in some trouble. He just impromptu, you know, unprovoked, goes up to the starting quarterback on the opening night for the National Football League, and you could say, listen, you know, Jalen Carter was in a vehicle that ran another vehicle off the road where people died. Now, you could argue he wasn't in the NFL yet. But, like, the NFL looks past a lot of. But when you mess with their games, when you devalue the shield on the. This is how they make their money. That is the revenue generator. NBC Thursday night, Sunday night, Monday night, the primetime games. If I had to guess, I mean, I don't know, but 17 million people just watch Arch Manning play Ohio State. So if you told me, Cowboys, Eagles, Thursday night, 35 million people. And clearly we've seen the demos, growing number of women. That was not gonna fly with Raj. He was fucked. But then the video comes out, and I would imagine it took place this way. Jalen Carter's in the locker room telling, you know, Sirianni, who's telling the trainers, telling Dom they're forwarded to Howie. They get word that, hey, he provoked me. Now Dax spit at the ground and. And gave him a nod. Part of sports is getting under people's skin. Like, welcome to I don't know, the NFL. And listen, this is why during the draft season, so many people in the media is always like, you're so mean. You can't say this about their character. You don't know. Jalen Carter was a massive red flag. And one of the main things I consistently heard, and this happens to a lot of players, struggles with emotional maturity. And you saw it right there. The guy was tossed before they played a snap. I started thinking, I can't even imagine how mad Fangio is. I mean, he's your best player, and he's the player that the other team with young offensive linemen, a rookie guard, has spent all week long and probably all training camp long, talking, thinking and game playing against, and he's gone. And it was a huge advantage for the Cowboys. They go right down the field. And really offensively in the first half, they fucking dominated. And this was an offense that last year couldn't run the ball. It was in just. I mean, their running back room was terrible. And tonight, Javante Williams, once upon a time was viewed as. As like a pretty good prospect, a pretty talented guy. Obviously had a bad knee injury. I thought tonight he was running pretty hard. I don't know what his final numbers were tonight. Fifteen carries, 54 yards, had a couple touchdowns. But I just thought he ran hard. He gave them kind of a physical element. And not having Jalen Carter, I mean, has a huge domino effect on the defense. Now, I do believe this. The video of Dak does not absolve Jalen. Like, he's going to get fined 1000%, if you ask me, right now, do you think he's going to get suspended? That probably gets him off the hook. I wouldn't bet on it. You never know with Raj because, again, that just made the whole thing look a little bad. And there are a lot of people. It's. It's not just me and you drinking beer, sitting on our couch, watching the game, kind of laughing. That was crazy. It's a lot of women now, and it's a changing demographics of the people that watch the sports, why so many people are watching the sport. So I would say it's still on the table, but clearly the Eagles wanted that message out because, listen, I had to Google, like, well, who do the Eagles play next? Oh, they play the Chiefs in Kansas City, and they're coming off a long week, but so is Kansas City. And I'm going to assume I. I would imagine the Chiefs win in Brazil. And if they win, you get 2, 10 teams losing. Chris Jones, or I mean losing. I mean, you're Chris Jones. Jalen Carter would be a pretty big deal. But this also shows. And I'm not going to try to, you know, psychoanalyze this entire situation, him as a player, their situation, big picture. But I always struggle with, like, you know, they're going to have to pay this guy. We always love doing that, like seven games in to a guy's career. Even Jaden Daniels, like, you don't have to pay him for four years. Well, let's just see him do it for three more. And I love Jaden Daniels as much as the next guy. It was like, Jalen Carter, they're really going to have to break the bank. He had one good season. You know, part of getting paid huge amounts of money is every year doing it at a really high level.
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So with. Especially with the amounts of money that we're talking about with defensive linemen, we got a long way to go. Because that was a moment even if you want to say, hey, listen, Dak got under his skin. The Eagles got to be furious. Howie Fangio, like, that was an embarrassing. The other players on the team, like, like Collins or said the night is basically spitting on all your teammates. That's essentially what you're doing, getting booted out. I mean, you're screwing everybody and you immediately become a man down. Right? It's one thing when guys get injured. It's part of the sport. No one can't control that. Like Landon Dickerson's torto roll. And, you know, painkillers wear off as the game goes on. No one can control that. So they're down an offensive lineman when you do that and you get booted, especially when you are. I mean, there are some star players in this game tonight. There's a lot of money on this field, from Saquon Barkley to Dak Prescott to CD Lamb, obviously, to Jalen Carter is one of these guys. So you remove one of the major chess pieces, it just has a huge, huge impact. And listen, you could argue like, that was the Cowboys chance. Now it's hard to really figure out and quantify, like, the second half, was everyone thrown off? They have to disappear in the locker room for an hour. I can't even imagine the buildup for this game. It's. I'm sure it's humid there. You're just naturally exhausted. It's the first game of the year, and then it's a tight game. It's a. It's actually a very entertaining game. And all of a sudden, we call timeout for, you know, over 60 minutes, and you got to go back in the locker room and just kind of sit there. That really threw off the flow. So trying to act like the end of the game or the. The last, whatever, 20 plus minutes and put that into context is hard because the game had a much different flow until that happened, and then the game became completely different. I mean, the Cowboys defense, and this was the argument of, like, hey, even if Mike is there, this defense is going to be atrocious. Obviously, he would help. He's a fantastic pass rusher. You watch the Cowboys defense in the first half, you're like, jalen Carter looks like Barry Sanders. Or, I mean, Jalen hurts. Looks like Barry Sanders running around. It's like, what is going on here? They look atrocious, and then they come back from the delay and they're just stuffing Saquon behind the line of scrimmage. They're chasing Jalen out of the pockets. Like, God, they look fast. They look pretty good. So I think that it's that that delay had a huge, huge impact on the game. But listen, if you're the Eagles, you get your best defensive player kicked out of the game. You know, you're starting quarterback. This is the thing with Jalen Hurst, and this is why I think it's very, very difficult. Like, Dak at this point in time, he had one run where he ran for four or five yards. He looked like me running like his days as a mobile quarterback. They're done now. I wouldn't say Dax Mobility is Kirk Cousins or Jared Goff, but, you know, or Joe Flacco. But he is no longer what I would consider a mobile quarterback. He is a pocket quarterback who could run a couple yards. So the ankle injury, the hamstring injury, he is a pocket quarterback now. Tonight, he was 21 to 34, countless drops. I thought he was slinging that pill. I thought he was playing at a really, really high level. Jalen, very efficient. But you look up, and at one point before that, AJ Brown, and I love this AJ Brown. The elephant in the room is like, AJ Brown hasn't had a target at one point in time's like, you guys are up in this game.
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Isn't the goal. Isn't this a team game? Aren't we worried? A.J. brown's on his third contract, so it's. I understand sometimes if you're a young player, it's like production leads to getting paid. AJ Brown's not his rookie contract, not a second contract, his third contract. He's a fucking elite player. A dominant, dominant player. No one questions, like, I wonder if AJ can produce. We know he can produce. He is a dominant individual player. They're going to be games. For whatever reason that he doesn't have much production, who cares? The point of the game is to win. And then he gets that final, final catch. But we all know it. We're like, well, I bet he was going to be really hot. Probably still not happy, but at least he gets his target. Now, listen, that's part of dealing with wide receivers. You got to deal with it. But that was clearly, like, kind of floating around, you know, like a cloud. It's like, oh, this is. You could. You could win this game by 10. But, man, if he goes, if he gets a goose egg, not even a target, you know, that dude is not going to be happy. But that's the thing with Jalen. He's got like 140 yards passing, but he only has a couple incompletions. You watch him, you think he's been pretty solid, but he doesn't throw for that many yards. Kind of dinks and dunks a little bit, but his running, especially in the first half, is just such an element. Listen, I was dead wrong on the player when he came out. And I watch a lot of Oklahoma and Alabama football, especially when Lincoln was the coach and Nick Saban was the coach, I did not think he was an NFL quarterback. Completely wrong. He throws it dramatically better now than he did in college, obviously, but he's turned into a very solid thrower of the ball. I did not think he could throw in college. Hell, neither Nick Saban, but his running. I said, I said, listen, if he can't, if this throwing never works out, and Nick Saban was right, he could be 100% like a pro bowl level starting running back. And you watch him run tonight and listen, he could go for spurts over the course of a season, especially the last couple seasons where he doesn't really run tonight. Maybe it's early in the season, maybe it's because they're playing the Cowboys. Maybe he's just amped up, hasn't really played live football in a while. He just turns that running back like he's not. He's not Kyler, he's not Lamar. He's really more like a Frank Gore in the open field. He's kind of slow, steady, instinctive. And you look and he's got 14 carries, 62 yards, couple touchdowns. He. It is just, it's natural. There is a calmness to his game. Honestly, both these quarterbacks, I thought very under control tonight. No, I mean the opposite. What we saw of like Arch and some of these quarterbacks in college kind of freaking out, getting those frenetic feet. Like both these guys, just very calm, cool and collected. Obviously, a couple times both their offensive lines got smoked. You know, Jalen can scramble much better than Dak at this point in time, but you know Jalen, it's weird. He's not. He's kind of hit or miss in the pocket, but he does throw a nice ball and he hit Dotson on the one deep ball. He throws a beautiful deep ball. He's kind of turned into a better version because he's a much better runner than this player. But like when desean Watson was really good with Houston because he's such a good playmaker outside the pockets, and he turns into a great runner and he's pretty solid from within the pocket. He's definitely just good. One thing that he brings to the table that I don't think he gets enough credit for is he will just get rid of the ball. And he's good at just getting rid of the ball either to his check down or his tight end kind of near around the line of scrimmage, kind of down in the flats. He does that a lot and it just kind of keeps the chain moving. And now listen, they voted on it this summer or I guess this spring. And my take was simple like, listen, I don't care either way if they, if they let them keep playing. It's a legal play. This is football. They do it Better than everyone. They have this quarterback and really they're running back that squat, like combined, you know, 1500 pounds. It's part of strength. My lotta was being quoted by Collinsworth like this play sucks on my body, but it obviously works. And if they banned it, like I wasn't going to complain. I got to be honest, it's a terrible play to watch. Now I get it if I'm an Eagle fan, you know, and I think part of it's a terrible play to watch. You just know what's going to happen. Part of what makes football fun, whether it's Tom Brady, Peyton Manning or like Daniel Jones, when the ball is snapped, you know, even if you're very confident, like Tom Brady's going to complete it, you don't 100% know what's going to happen. I mean there were plays tonight. It's like, oh, they're going to give it to Saquon. Saquon's probably going to bust a long run and he'd get like a TFL for 3 or 4 yards. It's part of, the great part about football, it's why people often freak out, especially the coaches when it comes to like the Connor Stallions or the Belichick, you know, Deflategate or not deflate gate, but Spygate or stealing of the signs. It's like the, the purity of the game is the defense does not know what's coming. Now they can study and they can get a good idea, but, but if I even have half the idea that I know you're running left, even if I don't know the run, whether it's an off tackle, whether it's a pitch, whether it's off the inside of the guard, that is a huge advantage. Most defense, most times the defense is taking educated guesses, but they don't know run past what is coming. And the tush push just feels like an inevitable play, right? It's, it's almost feels like watching in baseball, I don't even think they do this anymore because they automatically send them to first base. But most of my life when, when they just go like this and they just throw four straight balls, you're like, what's the point? And thankfully baseball just kind of outlawed that and just sends the guy to first base. But it's just not a fun play to watch. Now I don't blame them for doing it. I would do it too. It clearly is a very effective play and it works, but it is, it's kind of a crappy play to watch other than that from this game. Yes. CD Man, I, I'll reiterate what I said earlier. I do think on fourth and three, in situations where the game is on the line, I just don't like kind of go routes and just 50, 50 balls down the sideline. I'll just never be okay with that. I just think that that is, that's taking too big of a chance. Especially in a situation where it's one thing if you're down multiple scores and you're kind of desperate. It's another thing when you're down four points and you're driving the football. And your quarterbacks played really well. Like you have a $60 million quarterback who. Listen, we can nitpick dak all we want. He's not a top five quarterback. But tonight, like he played like a guy that you'd feel confident calling the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th guy like in that range, right? So he's, he's been very accurate, very confident in the pocket. I, I don't know the exact route combo to run, but run two or three routes that are breaking off a yard or two past the first down marker. Give yourself a much higher percentage pass that like I just said about Jalen, hurts. One thing. They do a really good job with him as a passer and I get it, drives people nuts because he does have these explosive plays. But he's got no problem on first and 10, turn it into second and six because he just threw the check down or some little curl route to Goddard for four yards. They do it all the time. He's going to do it all season long. Most of his stat lines are going to be 160 yards, are going to be 200 yards. Like he's not throwing that often for 380 yards. This isn't Joe Burrow, you know, he's not having Lamar Jackson or Patrick Mahomes in his prime stat lines. But it's very effective and keeps the clock moving, keeps the momentum going down. And listen, I did get not, not emotional, but as someone who's lost his dad and my dad meant a lot to me and I don't even do like my dad was a farmer. Like my brother works in that world. So I can't imagine being a guy like Brian Schottenheimer, whose dad was a extremely famous coach, a really high level coach. And him talking about his dad pregame and then during the break when they showed him getting emotional during the, during the anthem, like that was pretty powerful moment and it was cool to. And I'm guilty of this too. Everyone's been talking a lot of shit about the hire and I stand by like no one else was hiring him to be their offensive coordinator, let alone be the head coach. But Jerry hired him to be the head coach and I thought tonight he did a extremely respectable job. He's also the play caller and I get it, they lose Jalen, but him going against Fangio who is, I don't know, five, six million dollars coordinator probably. I mean, I think there's a pretty good chance he's the highest paid coordinator in the NFL, maybe solid for them to get him back this year. But I mean, you're talking paying a guy ton of money who is a lead at his job. And Schottenheimer went blow for blow with him tonight with Dak Prescott, who while he makes a lot of money, we all think is a little overpaid. Now, I also think you saw, and I might have been wrong on this a little bit. George Pickens does definitely add from a talent standpoint, a huge positive for them. Gives them, you know, an explosive player on the other side of CD. Obviously he in theory should be a 50, 50 guy. He caught a nice kind of contested catch down the sideline. Did have an awful penalty where he tried to decapitate a guy. But hey, that's the George Pickens experience. But, but overall, long game, fun game and we're off and running. We get, we got Chiefs, Chargers tomorrow. I don't have much to say on this game besides just big picture. 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And I remember when McCaffrey first got there, Kyle Juszczyk was doing an interview and he said, he said it was crazy how often when Christian first got traded through the first couple weeks, he looked at me. He would look at me during these team meetings and be like, is this really happening right now because like the way and how deep they got on offense. And Christian's a football junkie and obviously when he's on the field in this scheme, he was when healthy, a dominant player, an MVP level player. Now it's hard for any non quarterback to win the mvp, but that's how good he is, right? Sometimes injuries just derail people. And for whatever reason, whether it's just wear and tear, whether it's muscle composition, you're just wound too tight, whether it's just, you know, age, I don't know, I'm not a doctor. As a sports lover, we have seen guys that you wouldn't think be able to stay healthy that are just durable for 15 years, and then guys that are built like Greek gods just can't stay on the field. So there aren't any answers. But at this point in time, we have a long history of going, you kind of just got a bet on Christian McCaffrey being an injury question mark. And it's almost like a couple years ago in 2023 was an outlier. So when the news broke today, I was shocked when Christian McCaffrey had to leave practice with a calf. But then I started thinking about it. Part of the reason, I guess I was shocked is because he's been healthy all off season. He's been healthy all training camp and then going into week one, just like last year, all of a sudden he's injured. How does that happen? But it did and it does. And I think it's extremely concerning because the reality is if Christian McCaffrey is injured is, I would even say compromised is not 100%. For the majority of 2025, the 49ers are not making the playoffs. They could still be a competitive team. But if you tell me Christian McCaffrey is in and out of the lineup, if this calf turns into an Achilles, turns into missing games, they're not good enough, they're not deep enough, they're not talented enough, and they are just too Christian McCaffrey dependent. And I think this offseason, anytime that you try to quote, unquote, save money, I think it's hard for people to get behind you. Now, when you cut a player who's making a lot of money to quote, unquote, save money because that guy's not good, no one has an issue with it. It's like, yeah, that guy, you're paying this guy who's a diminishing player, you cut him before week one so you don't have to pay him $20 million or $15 million or whatever. The money's not guaranteed. Any fan, anyone in the league, like, totally makes sense. But when you just start cutting guys or trading guys like, oh, we don't want to pay Jordan Mason a couple million dollars as our backup running back. Well, you don't know that Christian McCaffrey can stay healthy because based on recent evidence, you would say that is definitely up in the air. And then you get a bunch of young defensive linemen, you go, well, we want some young defense. We'll save $10 million by cutting Leonard Floyd. We didn't miss a game last year. Even if he's diminished slightly, you have a bunch of cap space. You don't have that many proven players at those positions. Why wouldn't you keep them around? Was he a bad guy? No, he's really high character guy. We really like him. We just want to save some money. That's hard for people to get behind. It's understandable in baseball. Pirate fans expect you to not spend money. Sacramento A's fans, like, how I dropped that. They're actually the Oakland A's, Vegas A's. Who knows where they're playing. They're actually currently playing in Sacramento. Expect for a low payroll. But when Hal Steinbrenner comes out and says, you know, we're going to trade a couple players because we got to reduce the payroll, no one's going to give you any compassion. No one's going to get behind you on that one. And I think when you're an NFL team, whether you are Mike Brown and the Cincinnati Bengals or you're Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys, we all know you got money and you can afford it. You're just choosing not to. So I think if this 49er season, if Christian's injured and he's in and out of lineup and they end up missing the playoffs with this joke of a schedule, it's like, God, they didn't have enough good players. Like, you chose to get rid of some guys. Like, I understand letting Tyler Noah, who Funga go like he's been injured multiple times. You're not. They're going to offer him a big contract to go to Denver. Okay, you drafted a bunch of safeties. Totally get it. But when you just impromptu. Yeah, we'll just trade Jordan Mason to the Minnesota Vikings. What are they paying him, like $10 million a year now? Just a couple million dollars. But. But we got like a, you know, fifth or sixth round pick. Like, no one cares. And then all of a sudden, McCaffrey misses week one against Seattle. It's like, well, we go with the Brian Robinson we just showed up a week ago. Was Jordan Mason better than him? Could you have both of those guys? Yeah, we could have. But like, we, you know, we want a little extra money. It's hard for people. And I'm not, you know, one of those people. I'm the opposite, actually, when it comes to, you got to pay everybody. Everyone deserves the max contract. Like, I'm not pro that, but I'm also not for pinching pennies just to get rid of a guy to have a bigger cap number just for the hell of it. And that's what it feels like. The 49ers did a little bit with a couple guys, and now the injury props up and you go, what's going to be the end result here? This thing, this thing could get weird before it even starts. And if Christian McCaffrey is injured, it derails a lot of your guys, fantasy teams. Because, hell, I mean, maybe I have too much faith. Maybe I'm just, you know, I don't know, rose colored glasses with the guy. But if you would have told me, should I draft him number one overall, like, that's a little risky. Should I draft him seventh? I'd be like, yeah, well, why not fifth? Yeah, do it one, why not? I mean, what if he plays, you know, 16 games? He could have 1800 yards and score 20 touchdowns and it turns out, yeah, he ends up playing three games. That's if you told me right now he plays three games. Totally believable. Tell me he plays ten games. Totally believable. If you tell me he plays the majority of games. That feels kind of unbelievable at this point because certain players, their body just breaks down on them. Okay, we'll end on this. During the Belichick game the other night, and I've talked about this now, I think three days this week when the Pete Damill report came out that he was being hard on the scouts and giving out shitty, you know, too deep to the scouts and the media. I just immediately started texting some of my buddies and I started getting people just peppering me back, like, yeah, man, it's. I haven't gone, but one of our guys went. It was a. It's a. It's a shit show. It's a disaster. It's not very pro friendly, and they've banned the New England Patriots. And so I put it out, just as used it as a take. And I knew if it, you know, people heard it, which they would, you know, People listen to this podcast, they would gain some steam. It gained a lot of traction today, and it kind of went a little viral that Belichick has banned the Patriots. And then Benjamin Albright, who's in Denver, on the Broncos tight end with the Broncos, tweeted out that they banned the Broncos, too. I guess one of the dudes that works for the North Carolina personnel staff was fired by General Patton in Denver. So they're just extremely bitter. One thing I just can't wrap my head around, and I won't, is I understand hating someone for firing you. I do get that. Whether you've made $100 million or whether you've made $5, we all would emotionally, if we've invested a lot, have some resentment and bitterness. Even if you're an optimistic person, even if you're just Gary Vee, always like the positive side. Just head up, smile, battle through it, don't look back. No, I listen. We're all human beings, whether you're Belichick or whether you're me or you. But there does get to a point where you're running an organization, especially in college. The NFL is very interwoven in the college game. The scouts, especially in these power forward programs, scouts, assistant GMs. Hell, GMs are around all the time. It's a huge. It's very normal if you're at Alabama, if you're at Georgia, if you're at Ohio State, if you're at Texas, you see these people constantly. They're just interwoven in your day to day. So to push back on that side of it, which again, I like Michael Lombardi. I've said over and over, I listen to his podcast. For years, he's come on this podcast. I've texted with him. He was a gm. Like they would know that doing this is counterproductive from their entire messaging. And I heard someone say this, I forget who to give credit to. Might have been Josh Pate when he was talking with Colin. A lot of people have been saying this, but I think it was Josh that coaching in college and coaching in the pros. Well, you're both coaching football. And 1st and 10 is 1st and 10, right? 4th and goal from the 2 is 4th and goal from the 2. A 40 yard field goal is a 40 yard field goal. Now, the hashes are a little bit differently, but still football's football. Couple rule changes, right? One foot in, out of bounds. If your knee hits, you can get up. In football in the pros, if you're not touched. There are obviously There's a lot of different rules. OT is a little different, but the NFL coaching job is dramatically different than the college coaching job. And whether you like it or not, and listen, I'm a believer that recruiting isn't as important as it used to be. Like being a great recruiter 20, 30, 40 years ago, a huge part of that, like, you're going in people's homes, you are having dinner with mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, the high school coach, their family, their uncles, their brothers, their sisters. You're going to high school basketball games. You're doing a lot of shit that NFL people never have to do, don't even have to contemplate doing. Honestly laughed at. Nowadays, you don't have to do that as much. You know, Deion Sanders has never done a home visit. He doesn't have to now. I would imagine that Sark and some of these guys still do occasional home visits, but money has changed the game. What have we been talking about it all week. Like, you know, 10 years ago, been hard being critical of Arch. Well, arch is making 8, 9 million dollars. Makes it a little less like, bro, you know, different than any of us. You're making more money than 99% of society, 99.9% of society. So you're going to play that bad. Like, we're just going to talk about you like a pro. And hell, I've been told by my scouting buddies that the head coaches tell them that they've become a little more cutthroat. Like when they know the nil is paying their middle linebacker $700,000 and he's supposed to be an All American, and then he goes a month and he's just missing tackles left and right. Like it's. It's a different experience than 10 years ago. And that was my guy. I've known him. I'm going to build with him. I know if this doesn't work, I'm either going to cut him or if he hates me, he's going to leave. So we're in a different day and age, but being a college coach is a completely different job than the NFL. You're dealing with boosters, you're dealing with the Board of Regents, you're dealing with the president, you're dealing with an ad. You see the softball coach every day. You just deal with stuff that you would never deal with in the pros. And I have changed my tune in a short period of time. I thought Belichick would probably be able to turn, turn it around. But when I see stuff like this happen and listen, it's not even about banning the Patriots. I'd say the bigger issue than banning the Patriots is being anti NFL, being anti the NFL scouts. Do you know what an advantage that is for Miami, Clemson and Florida State, who already had a massive advantage on the University of North Carolina for the last, I don't know, my entire life? So you're putting yourself at a disadvantage when you were already behind. That feels like the opposite of everything. Bill's already, you know, always done in texting with some people today. It's like when you're that stubborn, you almost don't care about things that when you were in your right mind and younger, you never would have operated like this. And listen, we give Jerry a lot of crap. Listen, everyone has ripped Jerry Jones. It feels like at one point in time, over the last couple years, and a lot of it is like he's brought that on himself. And some of you are so young, you don't remember this. The last four or five, six years of Al Davis were pretty ugly. And if he would have been in this modern era of social media and more podcasts and TV shows, it would have been really, really ugly. But again, a lot of itself inflicted. And it feels like this stuff with Bill. You're going to make mistakes naturally, right? You're going to recruit the wrong guy. NFL too. You're going to hire the wrong coordinator. What were the Cowboys? They had a first round pick that didn't even dress tonight. You have the wrong draft picks, you hire the wrong trainer. Humans, we all make mistakes. There is not a human alive that hasn't made a mistake this week. Some bigger than others. But the more and more you rise in whatever business you're in, the more mistakes you're going to make and the quicker you can pivot from them and the quicker you can realize, well, if I don't do this, I can avoid that mistake. I don't need to step in this situation. I can just avoid it. And it feels like he's just stepping in it double middle fingers because that's how he's been in New England, where I just, I don't think that's a good idea, you know, And I clearly it's going to backfire. And this story is just an ugly one for him. It really is. And it's one of those. I didn't make it up. I was told by enough people. I'm like, it's true. And you never truly know. It's like, it's not like I had tried to do a school call and then the North Carolina confirmed it. Yeah, they're like, yeah, they're not welcome. I'm like, damn. Not only did they not hide from it, they embraced it. They said, well, the way they treated us, there's no way we're going to treat them well. So f you to them, I'm like, geez Louise, I've been hard on a lot of coaches. Two guys that I would say until I. It's hard for me to be critical because they've won a lot of games would be Sark and Ryan Day. One thing, and I like Sark more than I like Ryan Day, but one thing you cannot dispute with either guy is they take recruiting, they take dealing with the NFL world and helping their guys take the next level and dealing with the scouts very seriously. And you know, you saw that Ryan Day learned that from Urban Meyer and Sark learned that from Nick Saban and that that's a really, really big deal. Right. And I just think it's kind of a sad ordeal at this point in time. Okay. That that'll wrap it up for night one. And I guess sources say that we will be back for tomorrow night. Chiefs, Chargers, and let's just keep our fingers crossed that we don't get a lightning delay and we don't get pushed back an hour. But hopefully everyone enjoyed the football and I will see you soon. A wingman never leaves your side. They've got your six, come what may. Folds of Honor proudly provides the same unwavering support for families of American heroes. A Folds of Honor Wingman donates $13 a month, which becomes life changing scholarships for the spouses, sons and daughters of fallen or disabled. U.S. service members and first responders join their ranks today as a wingman. More than 3,000 scholarships have been made possible by wingman donors preserving legacies and opening doors for the next generation. Your $13 monthly gift is profoundly symbolic. 13 represents the number of times a flag is folded before given to grieving families of American heroes. 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Okay, I've been getting asked, when the hell is Stuckey making his return? And I just assumed we were just off and I realized I hadn't texted him and he texted me and I'm in Hawaii drinking Mai Tai's. I'm like, hell yeah. Next Thursday. Let's roll back and Adam from the Action Network. Big bets on campus. Go subscribe Action Network podcast this guy is a gambling extraordinaire and I can't imagine like me, you just. Last week was pretty fun. You know, obviously the NFL recording this before Thursday night game is awesome. But that college football weekend, especially with the big games, you see some of those television ratings. Stuckey Action Network. What's up, bro?
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What's going on? Yeah, it's. It's good to be back. We were like halfway back last week with college Football full slate this week. Now we're all the way back. It's like NFL Thursday, Friday, full college football slate Saturday, full NFL slate Sunday. And from here until the Super Bowlers, there's, there's no rest. So yeah, looking forward to another season of chopping it up and hopefully can pick some winners.
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Okay, before we dive into the NFL, I remember last year, was it one of your favorite college bets, Michigan to miss the playoffs like two or three to one.
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Yep.
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You, you know, you live in Lexington, SEC country, you're a college just fucking fanatic when it comes to football and basketball. Anything you saw last week, like did you change on Clemson? Are you now all in on lsu? Arch looking kind of like a scrub. I mean clearly Texas is good, but does that give you pause? Ohio State more impressed. Expect that. Any big takeaways from your big picture? Maybe a big bet you had in terms of the playoffs, something you saw last week that, that impacts the, you know, Final eight, Final four, national championship hunt.
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Yeah. I mean the biggest question this year, it's wide open. I mean you go look at the, the odds board, there's no like clear, there's no clear alpha team. And the biggest questions with many of the teams at the top are quarterback. A lot of the teams have uncertainty at quarterback. You can look at Texas like everyone just assumes the Manning name, that he's going to be the guy. But we still haven't seen a lot. Like last week was his first road snaps and he, he was pretty inaccurate. Doesn't mean he can't get it together. But there's definitely questions there. And Texas also lost a lot of pro town elsewhere. Ohio State, new quarterback lost a lot. And I think saying looked okay. I don't think they really tried to do much. They were relying on their defense but they only have 200 and 203 yards of total offense. So there's still some questions there with saying Alabama I was low. I, I am not a Ty Simpson guy. He did not impress me at all. I don't know what's going on with Alabama and DeBoer who's like always so trustworthy and now he's lost.
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We love gambling on him. Biggest bet of my life to the to date is still betting on him against Sark in that semifinal game.
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Yeah, it's.
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And remember what the week before he beat Lanning, he was like, you know, almost a 10 point dog in the championship game.
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Yeah. And even before then, anywhere he's gone like offense coordinator had like he's always been so successful I, I don't know. I mean, I don't think Simpson, I, I think they have to go to one of the younger kids at quarterback, but we'll see. The effort just wasn't there on defense. Like some of the clips you saw of some of the guys, it was, it was definitely concerning. So I'm curious to see where Alabama goes from here. The team that I was, I was pretty low. I was lower than the market. On Clemson, everyone was just like crowning Clemson, I said like pump the brakes. Like this team last year, I know they bring everyone back, but this team last year shouldn't have made the, even made the playoffs. They needed Syracuse to beat Miami. They lost to every SEC team they played. Klubnick, yes, he played better against Texas, but like for the whole season, if you looked at the toughest competition, he didn't play that well. So I still had questions about Clemson. Like I knew that they were a good team, a top 10ish team, but I, people were just like crowning them already. The team that I came away most impressed with, the team that I was high on coming of the year, I had bets on the win. The sec, the only national title future I have now is lsu. I, I was super impressed. Them, they the biggest question on the team. I loved all the tranches they brought in on defense. I'm a Blake Baker guy. That defense is trending up. It seems like they figured out how to use Perkins. That defense was outstanding last week. The biggest question, and we know Nussmeier, of all the top teams, who do you trust? Their quarterback situation, The LSU has to be up there at the top. So that's a good starting point. That's a good place to be right now. It doesn't mean like someone else can't come and catch them and one of these younger quarterbacks can ascend. But LSU's in a really, really good spot compared to a lot of these other top teams. From a quarterback perspective, they have all the town on the outside. The biggest question was their offensive line. And you know you lose four guys to the NFL. But if you go back to last year, they could not run the ball. They were the worst rushing team in the sec. They had no balance. So it was just now Nussmeier had all day was protected well by all these NFL offensive linemen, but they couldn't figure out the zone run blocking scene. So, so you got, you put all these new guys together, some young, you know, five star freshmen, some transfers. If you can actually get some semblance of A rushing attack and then give that, Give Nussmeier some balance because he's not going to run the ball. Like this offense could be really good. So, yeah, them going on the road. They even had a touchdown taken off the board. They fumble, gave him a field goal. Super impressed with lsu. You told me to pick a national champion, right now, I know you could say it's overreacting, but I'm going with lsu, a known quantity at quarterback that I'm very confident in.
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What's your take on Florida? I know it's hard to. I mean, half the top teams played, you know, nobody's. But clearly that quarterback. I was texting with someone yesterday who's just, you know, die hard football guy and we were texting about Arch and I was like, you know, the next couple weeks, no one's even going to. It doesn't even matter. But in, you know, what, three weeks from Saturday, he takes on Lagway. Like to see another guy that clearly is an elite talent with a team that might be pretty good. That could be a really tough spot if, if all of a sudden Florida's three and oh, going in that game, wins that game. Could they be a legitimate SEC contender or are they not as good as, like, you know, Georgia? I thought Tennessee, you know, again, Syracuse, but they look pretty good.
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Yeah, Syracuse is way down this year. I mean, they lost just a ton. I don't know if Joey Aguilar can. The App State transfer, was it UCLA for a minute, can actually, you know, lead them to an SEC championship. It's kind of like a, a rebuilding year in a way for Tennessee. They're still going to be very competitive. But this, it's not a team that went into the portal heavy. Like they're like developing guys. They're doing it, I think more of the right way. I think you want to have a good balance. So just from a roster perspective, I think that they understand that this is. They have a couple freshmen waiting in the wings at quarterback, that this is probably a reset year. Florida is interesting with Lagways one of the most talented quarterbacks in the country. Their schedule is just. I mean, they should beat South Florida this week, but that game is, you know, that might be difficult. Then they go lsu, Miami, Texas, Texas A M, Mississippi State, who's better, Georgia at Kentucky ad, Ole Miss, Tennessee and then Florida State now looks significant first. So that's. That looked like a guinea coming into the year.
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That could be one of the hardest schedules in like the history of sports.
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It's. It's it's insane. The one thing I'll bring up far, you can't take too much away from playing the Long Island Sharks.
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I didn't know they had a football team.
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It's. They're bad. But the one thing I'll mention is that they have a new right tackle who was getting destroyed by Long island. They gave up 11 tackles for loss. He was getting destroyed. I don't think they can have him out there. Like, you want to go play Miami in a couple weeks. And those Miami defensive ends with a right tackle who was horrendous. So their offensive line was like a strength. They had a bunch of guys returning, but the right tackle, new guy in there, had a horrendous game against Long Island. So something to watch with Florida as they ramp up a competition is that right tackle spot. But yeah, I mean, they're a really good team. I think I'm like a top 15 team, power ratings wise. They could ascend to top 10, maybe in top five. But the problem is, can you get through the schedule without. Maybe if they go nine and three though, with this schedule, you can still get them in. But yeah, they're, they're. They're one of the better teams in the country and they have a quarterback that you can definitely rely on.
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I watched a little bit of the Michigan game and didn't watch any of Oklahoma, so I went back and watched the highlights last night of the two quarterbacks. I mean, obviously Underwood, easy to see why, you know, like, relative his talent compared to Arch, not even in the same ballpark. But Mattier, I thought had like a little like, Farvee and Josh Allen, gunslinger to him. I mean, he's like, holy shit. But the ball comes out of his hands. I do, I get it. Like, and I texted a buddy with Oklahoma. He's like, yeah, he's got a chance now. This is a huge game. I do think if Oklahoma covers, you know, Michigan's getting four and a half. It's always hard. I mean, this guy's a true freshman now. Probably the highest paid true freshman not named Cooper flag in the history of the ncaa. But like, that's, that's going to be a tough one. That place is going to be rocking. It's at night. Oklahoma's defense, right? Ton of returning guys. Honestly, last year, remember when I went to the Texas Oklahoma game, that game was basically tied with a couple minutes left in the first. They were good on defense last year. Their offense was just a joke. And I do think if Oklahoma kind of commands and Wins this game, they might have something with this quarterback that four and a half's kind of in that weird zone. I guess you would just have to take history. True freshman. But what if this guy really is that special? It would make me a little nervous, but that's historically been a pretty tough place to play. Now Michigan's probably got, you know, they got an NFL defensive coordinator in Wink going up against Mater. If Mattier plays well in this game and like throws three or four touchdowns, hell, just throws a couple touchdowns, has like a Nussmeyer type game and you just like he's going to start darting up the draft boards, is he not?
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Yeah, I, I, Number one, Underwood was super impressive guys.
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All that running back they have from Alabama. Haynes, Justice Haynes, like, that guy's a beast.
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The problem with Mitch, like Underwood. Yeah, every throw you're like, wow, this kid can make every throw. The problem with Michigan is they still have like their offensive line still has some questions and their receivers just aren't great, so. And you lost Loveland at tight end, so he doesn't have as much help as you might think. Michigan's recruiting very well. Like next year they should look better in that department, but they're, they're like supporting cast outside of the, the running backs leave a bit to be desired. So I'm very curious to see how he looks against his Oklahoma defense, which is really good.
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You like Oklahoma in this spot?
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Yeah, I mean, if you just over the, if you look at last week, a lot of these very young quarterbacks like making their first start going on the road. I mean, look at Alabama, Notre Dame, if you faded all of them, you had a good weekend. So it's a tough spot. Like really tough. Defense off its line isn't great secondary. I mean, excuse me, wide receivers aren't great going on the road. Hostile environment. First true road start as a true freshman. That, that's tough. But I there Oklahoma is not without its flaws. I mean, they played Illinois State last week. There's not too much you can take away from, but they couldn't really run the ball. Their offensive line is still a question mark. They couldn't run block last week. They have two true freshmen on the offensive line. So Michigan's defensive line, down a step from last year, but still really talented. I assume that Wink is going to blitz a ton here. So if they can like, if Oklahoma can't run and they're in like third and long and obvious pass downs, Wink's going to blitz. He loves the blitz and we're Going to see how Mattier can process the blitz against a much talented defense because you can look at this two ways. At Washington State he struggled a bit when he played power 14s so if you look, he was, you know, if he had, he was sacked. He was sacked eight times against Boise last year who blitzed a ton. He had a little trouble processing the blitz and getting it out to his hot read Texas Tech in Washington last year. Like he wasn't great. He's great running if they're not throwing and this is a step up from there. So we're going to see what he can do throwing the ball because I don't think Oklahoma is going to be able to run it. So this really profiles is like, I mean it's boring to say but it probably even with so much excitement at quarterbacks, it probably profiles as an under game now that it's come way down. It was at like 54 this summer. It's like 45 and a half now. But it's hard for me to see Underwood as talented as he is having much success without his, you know, without much at wide receiver offensive line. And then I think Michigan's defense will come to play here. So this probably profiles as an under game four and a half. It's probably a stay away for me. Oklahoma got bet really early. They were minus one and a half, went up to six and a half. Michigan got bought. Now it's sitting at four and a half. But I'm really, I want to learn more about both quarterbacks. It's mater against top tier competition and then Underwood, what can he do in a hostile environment? Because if he can win this game, man, you got to be super impressed. The last note is Barham, one of their Michigan's best linebackers. He suspended for the first half due to a targeting. So that's noteworthy. He's really important in like the blitz and pass rush. So we'll see if Oklahoma can take advantage early.
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My favorite story of week one non on the field was Clemson. Was it? Yeah. Clemson realized that that LSU transfer from Houston got kicked out in the second half of his last game. And no one's new, no one's paying attention, no one's watching that game. That's, that's, that's college football for you. Before we dive into the NFL transition through Belichick, did I see it correctly that that number was originally at about three touchdowns, like 24 and now 21.
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Before the games last week and then obviously it comes down under two touchdowns now and then. Yeah, it Opened back up around like 17 and then got bet down to like 12 and a half. I think over two touchdowns. It's worth a bet on Charlotte. Just on the spot. Charlotte might be really, really bad. I mean I had Charlotte week one plus seven. They closed plus two. They got destroyed. They should lost by 60. Tap state and app State team that was brand new. They looked horrendous. So it's hard to really quantify how bad they are. But it's also.
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What was the score of that game, the final score?
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A lot.
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Too little because Belichick, I saw him say that they got killed too. I didn't even.
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40, 42 to 14 or something. Let me see.
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So it was a complete blow up. Sorry.
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D
34, 11. But like it could have been worse. They, their defense looked really bad. Brand new team, brand new coach. So it's same with North Carolina. But the spot is so bad for North Carolina. Like so much went into that game. So much hype, so much build up. It was on a Monday night. Now you're turning around playing on Saturday like that never happens in college. And you're playing in at Charlotte in their stadium, which is, which is weird that North Carolina's playing there. But that's their Super Bowl. Charlotte also played last week like during a weekday. So they have extra rest, extra time to prepare, which is important with both of these teams which are brand new. And if you North Carolina look completely lost like after that opening script it was bad. So I think I'd need over two touchdowns or 14 plus. But just on the spot alone and the uncertainty, I think I gotta, I gotta make North Carolina prove they can win by two touchdowns on short rest with Charlotte super bowl extra rest here. They could just come out a little flatter than you might think.
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I know this. Belichick loses this week, you're looking at a long season. I mean you might be talking like two win team, right? I mean they clearly would have no talent, which is what you just don't know.
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Like look at Florida State last year, brand new team after they were national title contenders this year and they went, they won two games. North Carolina is not at that, even at that tier. So it could happen.
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A
Let's dive into the league. Okay. I'm gonna start with some dogs. These games are ugly. But the, the morning slate, especially week one there, you know, we don't have bye weeks. Some of the. We don't even have the double headers quite yet on Monday Night Football. So we got a lot of games early on. You got a lot of Carolina, Jacksonville's. And that number jumps out to me like I'm out on Jacksonville this year. I'm just like, I know everyone's like Liam Cohen, Travis Hunter. I. We've seen the song and dance with so many different coaches, with so many different players. I just, I'm just betting against Trevor Lawrence. Now listen, Carolina, what we saw down the stretch, was it a little of no one taking them seriously? Was it a little of Bryce? Actually might be pretty decent. Is her coach decent? Getting over a field goal in this game. Now still defensively is going to have some issues, but I got a buddy that works on the staff. He's like our offensive line. Carolina is fucking good. Like their offensive line is good. If Bryce is just solid now, weapons wise, obviously draft McMillan really high. You know, we'll see. I think a lot of question marks still with Leggett. You get rid of what's his name, trade him to Minnesota and then you bring back Renfro, which clearly didn't make your team because you didn't think he was good enough a week ago. So that's not ideal. But Carolina plus three and a half. I'm doing it.
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I can't get there. Mainly because I don't mind your line of thinking. I am a Liam Cohen guy. I mean, you look at the Kentucky teams over the last four years. He was there, he had two stops. It was the only time Kentucky's offense been good, but other times really bad. You saw him with the Bucks last year. It's really good. Last year's Jacksonville team was a joke. Like just schematically the things that they were running. No motion, no plation, no innovation. Like he should be able to provide a bump. You said you don't. You don't want to bet on Trevor Lawrence. If you do want to bet on Trevor Lawrence, I did bet anytime. Touchdown, like four to one. You can find even a little better. There's word that they might be going to push, push on all short yard situations. So you can get four to one and they're going to do toush push and. And Lawrence can run a little bit anyway. Like, he's sometimes like a boot. He could run it in that way. But if they're going to do push, push near the goal line, that's a good bet, in my opinion. But the thing that scares me the most about Carolina, obviously their defense is terrible. It should be a little better this year because last year they were terrible and hurt. So you get guys like Derek Brown back, they're a little healthier, but it's still not a great defense. You mentioned the offense. The offensive line, yes, is very underrated, very strong, but they might be without their left tackle. I think he's doubtful. Now Iquanu, their left guard, who's really good. Damien Lewis, super underrated. He's questionable. I think they're right guards, even so, like, the offensive line's not healthy. And then you mentioned the weapons. You lose feeling. Coker, who they were going to rely on, just got put on IR. So now you need leg to hit. You need McMillan in his first start on the road to be good. And then like it's David Moore. So all of a sudden this offense, which was starting to ascend last year, they need the offensive line, which doesn't look like it's going to be fully put together. And then the weapons don't look as strong as it did a few weeks ago. So that's a pass for me, but I did that on Lawrence. Touchdown would lean over. I'm a little afraid about Carolina, but with some of these injuries. But I think both these offense still should score and this could be a higher scoring game and you have the new kickoff rules. Field position could be much better this year and there could be a lot more explosive plays on the return. So that's something worth watching as well.
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Okay, Giants, Washington. Are you of the, I guess conventional wisdom that Washington's got a little regression in them last year after winning some of those crazy games?
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Yeah, I mean, they were. They went 20 of 23 on fourth down. That is completely obscene. It's like, it's hard to even put into words how crazy that is because it's not like they had 23 4th and ones with the Tush push and J.
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They're like fourth and sixes.
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Yeah. And that even with 20 of 23 for the Eagles on Tush push is like. That's like pretty good. Like you want. You probably. They're like 90, you know, 85, 90%. They did that on just all four downs. A lot of them are fourth and five, fourth and four. They were throwing it a Lot. There's just no. No way. And think about, they played in a bunch of close games and they did well in close games. Think about all those four down. Like if you take away like six or seven of those and then you're still good on fourth down. But in close games like that, those swing entire games, the wind probability. And so, yeah, they are probably due for some aggression. I still have questions about the defense. I think the key is probably going to be Lattimore. What does he have left at corner? Is he washed? Does he bounce back? And because if they can have him as a lockdown corner, that does a lot more for Quinn in that defense. So I'll be curious to watch him against neighbors who torched them last year. But I.
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Well, really, they did it. They did it with three guys, right. Lattimore was last year during the season. But then they. Instead of using cap space, which I don't. I'm not against, because who you're really buying in free agency, they trade for Debo, who's $16 million in a contract year that he could be washed or this is a rebound season. And Tunzel, while still good, Casario, I think pretty well established at this point, pretty good at his job, was like, I'm not going to give this guy $100 million contract. So I'm punting right now. And Washington goes. So they get Debo, they get Latimore and they get Tunzel, who are veteran guys who are, you know, especially Debo and Tunzel are going to think like, time for me to get paid if I start doing well. That's this young, kind of vibrant locker room now. It's like oldest team in the league. You bring back Ertz. Is Bobby Wagner still on the squad? So it's like you had Von Miller. I mean, so for sexy as Jaden Daniels is like, no one would argue against that. Lot of like interesting kind of dynamics in that locker room that's not just like young and hungry, you know?
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Yeah, fascinating. Fascinating team to watch. But there's definitely some. Some aggression. I mean, there's a team that won on. They went on a Hail Mary against the Bears like that. That doesn't happen.
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Oh, sick.
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Insane. While one of the Bears, Steven.
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Yeah, they're very second. Yeah, just celebrating on the side.
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Unbelievable. Just taunting fans. One of the funniest moments of the year. So, yeah, there's some natural regression there. And historically, week one, it's a dog week. Divisional dogs, you know, you're talking 60, 65% depending on the time frame. You're looking. So yeah, I think the Giants are the only way you look here. I, I do think the Giants are a bit underrated coming in the year. Like I don't know how much Russ has left but look at the quarterback situation last year and this is a team that went was in a ton of close games. Still the offensive line, you have your left tackle back. That's big. So the offensive line should be a little better then like defensively this team could be feisty. I mean they have one of the best pass rushes on paper in the league. I like their safeties. You add Holland, I'm always been a Newman guy since he came out of Minnesota last year. And then your corners cornerback two is still a major question but you bolstered that room so this Giants team could be feisty and you know they have there's, there's tape down what this Daniels offense is going to look like. There's some potential regression. So yeah, I think the only way you can look there is the Giants.
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Well I think there are two teams last year, the Giants and the Titans that if you just give them you know like the middle of the road quarterback maybe slightly better like Dak Prescott what he'll probably be this year. Someone like that, they go from drafting one and third overall to drafting like 14th. Right. They're not a playoff team but they are on a weekly basis if they're playing well can beat anybody. Last year, I mean the Levis situation and the Daniel Jones getting cut in the middle of the year, I mean it was. It just couldn't get been much worse. In the modern day NFL when your quarterback is that shitty. This is not college where you know, I mean Texas even if Arch is average can win eight, nine games with ease, right? In the NFL if you get really bad quarterback play or below average quarterback play, you're going to lose a lot of games. And I think the Giants now I'm not a Russ guy I do think is pretty interesting. I don't know if it was shocking but once it comes out that Jackson Dart is the number two. I saw Jordan Renan who covers the team. He's like when you're at practice, Brian Dayball is by this guy's side. He's like a dog, you know, just falls around Jackson Dart and the other two guys just kind of do their own shit. It's pretty clear. Like I don't know if they're going to go to the bullpen week one but I what's your over under for us seeing Jackson Dart Month?
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Yeah, I mean, it depends. The Giants have a tough schedule, so like there's a chance, there's probably a good chance that they fall behind record wise and then. Yeah, I think then you pull the.
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Trigger and Russ could just get hurt. I mean, he's older player. It's not like he's that mobile anymore. He takes a lot of sacks. I mean, my guess would this happens much sooner than later. This is Brian Dabel's hand pick. Guy clearly likes him a lot. He's in this weird dynamic of like kind of coaching for his job, but kind of. If you're, if you're the owner, do you let them hand pick a guy in the first round and then fire the coach who's a quarterback guy? Kind of in a weird spot, right?
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Yeah. Yeah. I think if you go to Dart, like as long as it's not a complete disaster this year, I think you give him another year and so I agree. Let's see what you have. I think, I mean Dable, he's. He wasn't put in a great spot. Like the, this Giants team was ruined. Like cap wise, management wise. And like it was a disaster that he walked into. And then they had that one that what Daniel Jones somehow had that one year where he led them to the playoffs out of nowhere and won a game. So. But yeah, I played, I did play the Titans week one. If you go back to same 96, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 8 plus point favorites in week one, 16 and 36 against the spread. So I mentioned it's a dog week. Like a lot of that. What's baked into this is that, okay, the Broncos are going to be as dominant defensively as they were last year. On paper, yes, they are. But that's not guaranteed. Like, defenses are fickle year to year, year over year, so they might not be. And they were One of the 25 best defenses from an EPA perspective over the last 10 years, 23 of the previous 24 dropped by an average of 8 in the rankings. From an EPA perspective the next year, it's hard to maintain that level. Hard to maintain that level of health. So we'll see. Think about last year. Just throw this out there. Going into last year, everyone was saying the jets and the Browns defenses are two of the best. No, that didn't really play out that way. They're secondaries didn't play as well. There were some injuries and so we don't know if Denver's going to be as dominant. And last year, look, they won 10 games but they got their 10th win because Kansas City benched everyone. They only beat one playoff team all year. They went one in six against playoff teams like this is a big number to cover in the NFL with a small total like 42. And yes, the Titans all they had. They upgraded a quarterback with Cam Warden. There's uncertainty there. It could be a disaster. It's a tough spot going to Denver and altitude week one first start rookie quarterbacks have not had success. Number one draft picks have not had success in their first start on the road. I think they're like 6 and 23 but they're usually on bad teams. They're about 500 against the spread last year. Disastrous quarterback play. Like a guy just giving the ball to the other team. So as long as Kenworth doesn't do that, you're a step ahead. The offensive line last year it wasn't all in Levis was a disaster. So they bring in a left tackle. It allows Latham to go to right tackle. You bring in one of the better right guards, four to five unit, really good offensive line coach. They should be much better there. So the offense is not just a complete disaster. Defense was pretty good. It's like it can be a league average unit especially if Snead can give them something as a number one corner.
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And then didn't Simmons drop a bunch of weight to try to be a little bit more of a pass rusher than like a one stuffing defensive lineman.
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Yeah, a little, little quicker off the ball because you have now you have sweat there too. It's kind of like who can take that role. So yeah, the defense has potential. And then something that a lot of people don't talk about last year with this Titans because they were just, they were the worst against the spread team of all time. Their special teams are one of the worst in the history of the NFL. I mean like middle school type plays that cost them games, cost them close games. They overhauled the whole unit. It's not going to be an elite special teams but as long as you're not again like the quarterback giving away games then you should be better there too. So yeah, I think that this in what profiles is the lower scoring game. I think Cam Ward can keep them in this game. I wouldn't be shocked. There's always one or there's going to be a couple. There's going to be a couple games this week where you're like every year where you're like whoa, how did that happen? I if Tennessee wanted Denver wouldn't completely floor me.
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Well it's different. I actually think Titans, I mean, if Cam Ward is just like rookie of the year level good, the upgrade you would have from Levis to him is dramatic. And you get him 7 and 1 to make the playoffs. I mean, I think they, you know, their, their floor is much more seven or eight wins than what they were last year. I'm with you. I like the Titans just this year to be kind of feisty, but that's a lot betting on Cam Ward, which you never truly know with rookies, but I think it's a pretty good player. And I mean, you watch some of these quarterbacks in college, like he was so good last year. I mean, he was kind of, he's a different type player, but I mean, you won't watch a lot of college football in your life. Like, I'm not saying he's Jaden Daniels, but in terms of like carrying a team that was atrocious on defense, I mean, what do they win? Four or five wins if they just have an average quarterback play at Miami last year.
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Yep. Yeah. To get that last wild card spot if Cam Ward hits, I don't hate it. I played their, their win total over, over five and a half, I think. Yeah, like you said, floor is much higher. But yeah, this could be one of the shockers. There's probably going to be one, maybe two every year.
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It was Patriots, Bengals last year.
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Right? Patriots, Bengals was last year. There's, there's always going to be a shocker. And like I said, eight plus point favorites in week one, 16 and 36 against the spread last 30 years.
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Okay. One team I liked a lot last year. I mean, you get them like 8 to 1 to get the number one seed that didn't hit because their offensive line and offensive coordinator and offense was just atrocious. I do think they're going to be better on offense and defensively. You know, you talk to people in the league, if you just, it's pretty clear when you just look at the talent. I mean, they got two guys that are under 25 that are top, I don't know, 15, 20 players in the league in Will Anderson, definitely Derek, I think Derek Stingley, you know, if you put him on the Cowboys, on the Rams, on the Packer, I mean he would be considered, you know, like one of like we talked about Reavis or Sherman. I mean he's a fucking elite. Like Sas Gardner is never going to be good as him again. Like they met at a fork in the road and Stingley hung a left and Sauce Hoping to resurrect his career. And I just think D' Ameco is just like Mike McDonald, one of those coaches. If they were offensive coaches, we would discuss them way different. But we just discriminate a little bit against defensive guys. It's not as sexy, especially younger ones. Right. The way that we hype up Kevin O' Connell or, you know, LaFleur and those type guys. I think Houston's going to be really, really good this year and getting three points at la. We got a lot of question marks at Stafford, you know, with this back. I mean, is it something that if he gets hit during the game, it could happen? Is it something that's going to catch up to him as the season goes? Obviously, there's a lot of hype about the Rams before the Stafford back situation propped up. Like you were saying before we hit record, I mean, the question mark still is going to be Houston's offensive line. The one thing, you know, part of the reason Florida State sucked last year is because Verse and Braden Fisk disappear and those two guys were awesome in the NFL. So those two guys are ass kickers. And they already had what's his name from Wake Forest they drafted the year before, who's a good player. So, yeah, I mean, I just like Houston in this spot. Not, not saying they're going to win. I'm not taking them to win the game outright. But you're getting three points. I think Houston's going to be one of my favorite bets of the year. Stuckey. It's come down a little bit. It was Plus110 probably a month ago. It's like Plus105 is just Houston to win that division. I just have a hard time seeing them. I think that would, you know, the way the Ravens and the Bills get treated in their division. I think Houston should probably get that treatment. And I think a lot of it is. Some of that's the stench from the Slowik offense. I think they're going to be a lot better this year.
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D
Yeah, one of the interesting storylines here, I mean, the Slowik play calling, the timing of the plays, the first down play was so bad I wasn't on him. The offensive line was also a mess and they had wide receiver injuries which were killer last year. But I think from an offensive coordinator perspective, huge upgrade. They bring in Nick Haley. One of the good, interesting storylines of this game is he comes from the Rams convey guys. The passing game coordinator last year. He's now their office coordinator. Upgrade. Clearly in my eyes. But who get. Who has the edge there like so he knows the Rams defense was just the passing game coordinator but this is a McVeigh offense and McVeigh knows we've had all off season. So that's interesting chess match I think. Yeah. You got to take. If get three here. You got to take it. I think this profile is the lower scoring game. The Texans defense, one of the best NFL. You mentioned Stingley. Stingley and certain that's like the corner conversation. They're. They're edge rushers. They have all the pieces on that defense. The one thing that concerns me with the Rams defense is always their. Their back end. But their front is really good. Their first team in NFL history to have their first. Their top four sack guys in a season be all first or second year players which happened last year. So young. They hit on the draft. Young.
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He's a Wake Forest guy, right? Young.
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Yeah. The they. They hit on the draft. They needed to because they were in a tough position. They went look they did it right. You got to get sneak credit because they went out. They sacrificed their future on paper to get a Super Bowl. Got it. And they were. They were. They were going to be in a tough shape roster wise, depth wise, everything unless they hit on their draft picks specific on defense. And they did. So that front is really good. And the biggest concern for Houston coming into the year. They upgraded their weapons. Should be healthier. They upgraded the offense coordinator should be better from a play calling perspective. But the offensive line, did they upgrade it? I don't know. It could have got worse. It's hard to be worse than it was last year. But major questions there. So that's going to be the biggest question. So Los Angeles could really dictate the line of scrimmage when they're on defense. So it might be tough sledding for the Houston offense. But on the other side of the ball I don't see this Rams offense coming out firing. And we have a ton of data that says quarterbacks that don't play in the preseason also that we're dealing with injuries. I mean look at Joe Burrow over the last couple years. Was fit that same exact molten. He's a lot younger and. And right at this point better than Matt Stafford. It. It's a struggle early timing and especially at Stafford's age. So I wouldn't be shocked if that offense looks extremely clunky early on and who knows the back it could flare up and he might not finish the game. It's going to be something that's at his age with that injury all year long it's going to be an issue so we'll see how the Rams handle that left tackle is also a concern for the Rams. I don't I think Jackson might play but another thing that's going to be storyline all year long really good left tackle got paid he's got blood clots cost him I think 8 games 2022 that could be a problem something worth monitoring I think there it's probably they'll make the decision this weekend. I might have missed something today but that's something worth noting. But this profiles is a lower scoring game so yeah taking the points here makes sense especially with the uncertainty with Stafford. So I would agree with you matchup to watch those that that coordinator battle the new office coordinator against McVeigh knowing each other and then how how does this Texans offensive line hold up and it's not like the rest of an amazing crazy home field advantage. So it's like home field isn't and there's a travel like they know in this game. So yeah I think you got to take the points here and I would look under as well I think my.
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Favorite long shot division winner bet because I think I don't I don't really like any of them except Seattle at like 5 to 1 who went 107 last year. Who you know their coach is good. They get Kubiak who I mean through the first two games last year with the Saints look like he was his dad. Just I mean I think clearly knows offensive football and that is very quarterback friendly. Bring in Sam Darnold. They have a couple talented running backs there. Their defense on paper with some young interesting guys. You follow college football could be excellent. Now I'm not saying that you know the Niners somehow are still favored. I think that that's a little bit of what has happened in the past more than now. Not saying they can't do it but their margin for error pretty top heavy team, you know with a lot of young random question marks. They're trying to do what the Rams did two years ago right Reset the roster build and we just don't. We just don't know. So to me five to one with Seattle is by far to me the best long shot. This game's a little weird. I think the Niners are going to have a huge I mean they were such an embarrassment last year in the Vision. Remember what they lose like four games where they had leads in the fourth quarter to all three teams but specifically Seattle, they had a bad loss to Seattle at Home DK Metcalf scored a touchdown. Geno's like celebrating on their field now granted he's gone, but I don't know. This is to me is a stay away because the Niners are getting our favorite on the road, which to me feels a little off. But whenever I bet on the Niners I lose and whenever I bet against them I lose. So I don't even know. I'm just, I'm saying. But this game's one of the better games of the weekend that it's a good overtime.
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So yeah, that who's. I mean last year the 49ers was so unlucky from an injury perspective which it seems to happen. Who's their strength and strength and training coach has been there for like six years. What is there any. I add them saying it's their fault, but this is all but one year where they've been like one of the most injured teams in the league. Do you have any thoughts there? Like why does this happen every year? It seemed.
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I mean I think they have draft like they drafted Ricky Pearsall who had some shoulder injuries and then he gets there and he's got shoulder injuries. Right. You know they just sometimes draft some guys that have been injured. And then the quote, you know, Nick Bosa was hurt in college and he got hurt again in the pros. You know, I mean they, and they do like Kyle really likes physical players and it's like yeah, the wear and tear on these guys body. You're Trent's older but McCaffrey had been hurt a lot, you know, so he gets hurt there. And the other thing is Kyle's not really a big like let's rotate our guys. You know, it's like Jesus, give some of these guys a blow. Now by all accounts, kittle's really healthy, McCaffrey's really healthy. Trent's really healthy. Bose is really healthy. Warren's really healthy. They love Pierce all remember last year. Offensively I think we view ah, shitty ass year. They were actually really good 20 to 20. They were just terrible in the red zone.
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D
Yeah.
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A
Now I think they're high on Piersol. Juwan Jennings a little happier now. Yeah, he gets got his $3 million. The calf injury, it's kind of like the Micah Parsons more actually goes away. But I do think it kind of comes down to Trent Williams and Christian McCaffrey. If you tell me they play 15 of the 17 games, I think they'll be okay. If you tell me one of those guys missed half the season the other Guy's banged up. I'd say they'd be in some trouble.
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D
Yeah.
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A
The Seahawks Sol is back. That helps.
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D
Yeah. If they've needed him. Um, it's not going to be an enormous schematic change. There's a lot of, A lot of the other coaches still on, on staff. They, they just needed his voice and presence for years. So I think that's a good marriage. Their defense is going to come down to their office, going to come out of his health, as you mentioned. And then their defense is like all these guys, like, I don't. I'm looking at the roster. They could start. Nick Martin I don't think is going to start, but they could.
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They like, they like him. He's.
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D
He.
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A
He'll. He'll end up, I bet in a couple of years be a really good player. But I mean, depending on him as a rookie. The kid from Georgia, Mikel, I mean.
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D
Stout, who I like. His size is the question mark.
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A
When he weighs 120 pounds.
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D
Yeah, we're gonna see if he can hold up in the nickel. Then you're gonna get Mustafa back eventually. I know a lot of 49 cents. Don't like brown.
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A
Lanier's a good. Lenore is a good player. Obviously. You know, Ricardo Green from Florida State when he played had showed promise, but he's been banged up.
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D
Yeah, but there's like three or four rookies that if they hit this defense could be really good. If they're bad, you're gonna need the offense to be good and stay healthy. So yeah, there's some variance there. The Cardinals, do they not fade away like they do every year? And then the Rams with Stafford could be hurt, might not make it through the year. Like so yeah, this could the Seahawks take advantage Possibly. I think now look like taking a step back. Ryan Grubb like Tabor. If we're gonna start to question them. I mean, panics. By the way, I got the Falcons this week. How much. How much did panics help them? And then last year the offense really wasn't that great of a fit. Schematically. I love some of the things Kubiak does. The offensive line was a big question, but they seem to have hit on Zabel, that kid from North Dakota State. And like they've hit on some of these guys who really. They run the same type of run blocking scheme in North Dakota State that Kubiak wants to run. So it was like a really natural fit. And they look like they hit some of those guys so their offense could be better than many expected. And yeah, this is going to be a top 10 defense as long as they stay healthy under McDonald.
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A
So yeah, you think Seattle's a playoff team, not necessarily win the division. But like are you viewing that way or no?
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D
No, they're close. They're fringe, a lot of it. But like they have. They could. I don't mind the bet to win the division because there's a lot of variance with some of these other teams. The Niners defense and health, Stafford's health and then you know, the Cardinals like Kyler next step. Does Kyler fade away in the second half like every year? So yeah, that they're. They're close. Like it's going to come down to can they protect Darnold enough that the pass protection when he needs to throw. That's what I worry about. He doesn't have Darn doesn't have the same weapons like cup is. He's not what he once was. He has not the same weapons that he had in Minnesota. So that would be my concern there. But there could be massive upside with. With this Kubiak and like so yeah, very interesting game. I will say I don't expect a ton of explosive plays in this game. Like so the 49ers right now, they don't have their full complement of weapons and the Seahawks defense is really good and good at taking away explosive plays. And then if you look at the Seahawks offense, it's like there's no DK Metcalf to go down the field. They're going to rely on the run game. There's going to be a lot of running in this game. So I don't mind the under. But I will say I'm probably not going to bet at pregame. What's probably going to happen here is I would expect Kubiak to have a good game script here and then you're going to have them at home hyped up against, you know, young defense. I could see Seattle going down and score a touchdown. Shanahan, one of the best in the NFL, if not the best at opening game script I could is that all off season I could see the 49ers going down clinically scoring a touchdown at 77 in the first quarter total live total goes up. I'll probably look at taking a live under because then I can see that game dying and this becomes more of a running possession battle. So if this gets the three, I'd take Seattle two and a half probably pass but would look at a live under there and I don't hate the Seattle take a shot for the division game with the the combo of Kubiak and McDonald the only the longest Kittle's.
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A
Own Seattle and they drafted that kid in the second round from South Carolina who's got Kyle Hamilton, right?
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D
Yep. Yeah. I mean where he's they're going to use him like Hamilton. Really really impressive player. So yeah just Another piece for McDonald to work with. The only long shot I took division wise is disgusting. It's the giants that's 30 to 1 probably has no prayer would need help would need like Hertz or Barkley to get hurt right. Washington to regress hard. You know the Cowboys trading Parsons helped but it's like does they're gonna win a ton of close games have ton ton of things go their way and then like Washington and Philly with injuries like fall behind but maybe Dart is like the guy they they bring him in and he ends up being so like there's some variance there and I think the defense will be really good. That's a lot. I would not recommend following along on that but that is the longest division shot that I played.
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That is sicko material.
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D
Yeah.
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D
Yeah. I mean the Ravens are probably better. I mean maybe the Bill's offensive line is better, but the Raidens from a whole roster perspective are better. Now the rookie, they're going to have a new kicker, Tucker, who fell off anyway. So that's, that's worth watching, that I'm interested in as a ratings fan myself. I, I always. And I can sympathize with you as a 49ers fan. We. One of the things last year that was a disaster was their special teams dealing with Moody. But I'd like to 10, 15 years where you just were like, okay, we're gonna make this kick. Which is a very nice feeling because most NFL fans are like, well, it's pretty rare.
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It's pretty rare.
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Yeah. So we'll see how that works out for the, for the Ravens who had a. They fell off special teams like the first time they didn't finish in the top 10 in 15 years. Part of that was Tucker falling off. So yeah, these two teams, like I had the Ravens had the better roster. I had them power rated higher, number one. They're the most like complete roster in the NFL right now and then but you know, you get the Bills home field advantage and the Bills don't lose at home over the last three seasons. They lost twice at home. That's it.
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Jesus.
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D
They lost to the Vikings one year in a weird game by like one, I think. And then the Broncos in a really weird game I think in overtime by three. Like that's it. Those are the two games they lost at home.
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And wasn't that Vikings game worth a down big and Cousins. That was when Justin Jefferson one handed catch. Remember that?
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And there was like a big review. Yeah, that, that, that game was crazy. So that's it. That's the only games they've lost at home in the regular season. But the. I mean I, so I get the Bills Respect home field advantage. Harbaugh, by the way, is the most profitable coach in week one in NFL history. I think he's 12 and five against the spread. Really good with prep. Really good Week one. So they'll be ready. The team that knocked him out last year, whatever. The Bills will be ready to. That's narrative street. But I think the Ravens are in better shape roster wise. It's hard to bet against Allen at home. Usually when either these two quarterbacks are a dog, you take them. The Ravens were a dog. Now the Ravens are favorite. So I, I think the Ravens win this game. Do I really want to go bet it now that they're favored? Probably not. I have too much respect for Alan. This is what about. I'm projected right where this is now because the Bills are beat up and they have a couple guys they added in free agency along the defensive line who are suspended the first four to six games of the year. They're. They're going to be DEP pieces, but they'll contribute. That's noteworthy. But they're still fine there. They have a lot of depth at defense. Fine. Most important thing is their secondary. That's the biggest question coming into the year. Every year for the last. I mean, the Bills have averaged 12.2 wins over the last since COVID and they have no super bowl appearance to show for it because their defense lets them down. Specifically the secondary. Can they put it all together? Their safety is very big question mark again this year. Right. There's no hide anymore. Like, there's no Poyer. It's can Bishop and Rap be the guys in the back end? And then the cornerback room is a major question mark. You drafted Hairston out of Kentucky. He's now an ir. You're going to need him to hit Trey White. Way past his prime. He's hurt. Didn't practice again today. Christian Bedford, one of the better corners in the NFL. Really good fit for that scheme. He didn't practice yesterday. I think he returned today. That I just read five minutes ago. But it's a groin. I don't know if he's gonna go. If he can't go. You're talking about a questionable safety room. I, I think they would start. I don't know for sure, but I don't even know who's on the rock. Like, I know every roster inside and out. I think it's Dorian Strong, a rookie from Batek. I don't even know who the other corner is. That's because you have Ben. You have Taryn Johnson, the Nickel. It's really good. Who had a down year last year, but he's really good. I don't even know what the other corner would be if you both of them are out because now you're down your top three corners on the outside. It's probably rookies. That's bad news against the Ravens. So, yeah, the injury situation is definitely worth monitoring. That's why the line is flipped. I think the Ravens win this game, but I do have a ton of respect for Allen. If down guides his team down. Opening drive. Touchdown. I'll be betting the Ravens live, I'll tell you that. And you want to bet Narrative street. Mark Andrews touchdown. Anytime. Touchdown. Like 2 to 1. He fumbled the game away last year against the Bills. The Bills can't cover tight ends questions of safety. Now there's cornerback questions. They're gonna have to help on the outside way more. That's going to open the middle of the field up. Likely's hurt. You know, I just know, knowing the Ravens, Harbaugh, I can already see he wants to get answers in the end zone. Probably early to shake those demons off from last year. Start fresh. Andrews was killing himself all off season because of this. They're gonna try to get him the end zone. It doesn't mean it's a lot, but 2 to 1, I think it's worth a fly. I can already see, like, him Harbaugh laughing and like hugging him after he gets in the end zone. All the team surrounds him like, they're gonna try to have that moment. So. And it's a good matchup for him. So I think that's worth a bet. But really fast in the game. Generally speaking, you get one of these. Any of these quarterbacks as an underdog, you take them. So I, I couldn't fault anyone for taking either side. Like you're going to say, like, hey, even if you give me a point and a half with Allen at home, I'm taking it. I just think these Bills injuries on defense are probably too much, especially given that the roster was already a step behind the Ravens overall.
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And what you're saying, they. They do a little of the quarterback sneak stuff with Mark.
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D
Yeah. Also could get in anytime. Touchdown. He could get in, like, goal line stuff. Lamar doesn't do the tush push quarterback sneaks. So every once in a while they'll motion Andrews. Like, you'll see it on the fourth down. They'll. Lamar will be in shotgun. It's like fourth in inches. And I'm like, oh, my God. Because there's Nothing that makes me angrier than shotgun Lamar usually gets it, but snapping the ball five yards back on fourth inches. But then you'll see fourth inches. Lamar and shotgun Andrews will come motion, get under center, quick snap. So they could do that at the goal line for sure. And this game, after what happened last year, you want to get Andrews in the end zone. Probably a higher likelihood of that happening at the goal line as well.
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I think. I think John Harbaugh saw when Mahomes did that sneak and that kneecap came out. He's like, we ain't ever risking that as long as I'm here. And he hasn't done it since.
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D
Yeah, I don't think he's sneaked it no one time since.
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I do think the quarterback sneak. Some guys are good at it. You know, Brady was really good. And some guy you could tell, architect, in fairness, it's not a play you really practice. It's kind of an instinctive. You either got it like Jalen hurts. Probably been natural at that since he was like 7 years old. Quarterback sneak. And you just feel comfortable. Some guys are just like you. We were talking before Drew Brees. It takes some balls. Drew's not the biggest guy. I mean, he's leaping over 320 pounders, putting that ball over. Now linebackers, you know, like Troy Paul, he was unfazed, fearless.
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Yeah. So, I mean, the two best, by the way. Yeah. It's weird how some guys are good at it. The two best in NFL history with a sample size from a success rate standpoint, perch is probably out there. I haven't looked at this in a year or two as far historically, but going back ways, the two best were Brady, who was like automatic and not the biggest guy, just knew how to do it, and Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco with the Ravens for like 10 years, was automatic on quarterback sneaks. So you can't even look at a guy and know. But once you see them do it, you're like, okay, he's good at it or he's not. Like, but you can't. If you put like 10 quarterbacks in a room and like, with their body types, height, no clue, you wouldn't be able to tell. But some guys have the knack and know how to do it and. And some guys just don't. But Brady and Flacco were always the elite. Like 90%. It was 92, 93% of the time they were going to get it. So. But yeah, should be a fun game on a fun weekend, I guess.
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I Won't talk to you. So after Monday Night Football you got Caleb making his debut with Ben Johnson against Flores. I guess Ben Johnson obviously has experience coaching against Flores, but this combination, you know the Vikings, you have the Ravens, power Raiders, the best roster in the league, I would imagine. You have the Vikings pretty high, don't you? Guy for guy. Non quarterback.
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D
Yeah. The question is the quarterback with them.
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But just remove, if we just remove every quarterback from every team, just do roster roster. They're they a top two or three roster in the league.
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D
Yeah. Removing quarterbacks. They got the receivers now. Receivers not in as good a shape.
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Right now, assuming they're healthy and not suspended and stuff.
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D
Yeah. The offensive line elite. They added Mason to the running back room, which I think is important. So running back room is really good. The defense added to the defensive line. Secondary has questions. They got to make up for that. Schematically that's where they're like a step behind the Ravens who have just like five first round draft picks in their secondary. But they're up there and then they're. Everything's going to come down to the quarterback who's basically a rookie compared to like a multiple MVP award winner. But yeah, their roster's up there. Flores and their coaching. They have arguably the best coaching combo like that. You can put the 49ers up there. Chiefs and yeah, Chiefs, but they're. They're up. You have o' Connell on the offense and we've seen what o' Connell could do with all, all kinds of quarterbacks. Like so that's, that's got to be. Gives you at least a feel safe. If you're a vikings fan with McCarthy and then you have Flores the mad scientist defensively, I will say Johnson has gotten the better of him over the past couple of years. This is a perfect litmus test for Caleb Williams. So the Bears roster is pretty good as well. It's just going to come down to does Williams take the next step or is he. So in order to beat this Flores defense, what did Goff do? It's. You're. He's sending pressure blitzing. Golf's getting rid of the ball quick, getting it to his playmakers in space. It's going to be well schemed. So that's what's going to happen here. We're going to bring pressure, they're going to be blitzing. Does Williams, is he able to process and understand the offense, understand his reads, not pat the ball, not fail and can he command the offense? Is a perfect test. It's like okay, you have John. We're going to learn so much about did Williams progress? Did he grasp this offense? Is this Bears team going to be a real player in that division? Because you're going up against the Flores. You have Johnson, who's had success against Flores, knows how to call an offense there, knows how to put a quarterback in position to have success. Ken Williams, do it. Kenny make. No you're not. Try to make the superhuman play every once in a while. Yeah, you can do that. But can he actually make the quick read, make the right throw, understand what the defense is doing, what Johnson wants him to do. So I can't wait to watch to see how far along he's come under Johnson. And that chess match between Johnson and Flores, which is always fun.
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It's the best game of the week from a podcast sports radio standpoint.
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D
Oh yeah, hot takes.
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Oh, because. Because even Bills and Ravens, it's like, oh, once Bills gets out, it's all, they're both going to be good. You know, even Niners, Seattle, it's like, let it play out. They'll be fine. Good coaching this. There are a lot of unknowns and.
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D
There'S a lot of your clip on Twitter going viral. Tyson Badgett Ayla Williams is done. When they lose 38, nothing.
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So well, you agree it's a little weird how the head coach constantly talked up the backup and then they gave him a random extension. Now you could argue from a value standpoint, it's not crazy. Little weird to do when you still have an unknown with the number one overall pick at quarterback. And then you're like, okay, that second preseason game happens. But you go, well, if you look at the Bills and Chiefs in the second preseason game, they clearly are hard charging in practice and their guys are done and then they don't even play their starters. But by the third preseason game, the Chiefs are a good example. They treat that kind of seriously and they tried. And Ben Johnson was like, this is an embarrassment. What the fuck was that? So you're like, it's just a little, just unknown. I'm, I'm not writing Caleb off, but let's face it, his style of play, unless he can change it, which is much more DeSean Watson, Russell Wilson, which is the antithesis of what Ben Johnson clearly is looking for. Couple steps, get rid of the ball, do what I tell you to do. It's why you love Jared Goff.
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D
It's also the same way in New York with the Jets. You got someone who came from the line staff. Justin Fields does Not fit that line.
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A
That's going to be a disaster.
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Thanks from offense. So Bears are a little better shape roster wise. Yeah. And Williams is a little better than Fields but same kind of thing like can. Can they mold Williams like you. You want to keep some of those traits but for sure can they rein them in enough to operate this offense? It's going to be fascinating to watch. That's what that whole division is going to be a fascinating watch.
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Well I was when I'll get you out here on the last flying to Hawaii and I. I watched. I downloaded like the first half of that game and you watch Mahomes I think what makes my home so awesome and you watch him against the Bears. It was a preseason game but the Chiefs clearly like focused like it was like we want to get some real reps here. He can make the spectacular play but he can also just like on 3rd and 6 knows how to get rid of the ball can diagnose. It's just like he's just playing quarterback now I'm not comparing Caleb Williams to Mahomes but ultimately to be the quote unquote playmaking guy. What Mahomes does it's so great is he can also do the easy shit. That's why Peyton Tom with. With his eyes closed. And you got to be able to. You can't function in the NFL when you can't do the easy shit. It's impossible to be good teams. It's impossible to beat random teams. If it's like well you just third and eight. He wasn't even close. He fucking went to the wrong spot.
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D
You're fucked. Yeah and it's so much harder. Teams are making you drive the field consistently now. Taking away explosive plays. More. More. You know, too high safety looks changing. Like it's hard. Look at the Chiefs offense. The Chiefs offense is no, not explosive in order to drive them. But you're going to have to hit some of those easy throws. You're going to have to execute consistently otherwise you're going to kill way too many drives.
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Okay Stucky. You know how coaches talk. Like we. I don't sleep much Monday through Friday. I feel the same way like Thursday through Monday I'm just watching football, getting up early. This is when I turn into a coach just to sit on my couch and consume.
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D
Yeah, it's. There's. I don't. I'll find a nap every once in a while. Not even during the weekend. Like Tuesdays second nap Monday sometimes that. That's. I. I'll sleep in April. April to August. I get some good sleep. But yeah, I'll be running on fumes in a month. But it's good to be back.
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Okay, Enjoy the week and I'll talk to you next week.
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D
All right, brother. The Volume.
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