E (2:05)

Boop.

A (2:06)

Johnson. Johnson scores. Now that obviously is going to make it 26, 8. We're right back where we thought we were. A couple of seconds ago. Bo does not bow down. He answers. Bo on the move. Thibodeau. No edge, no chance. Bo Nicks touchdown in Denver. And all of a sudden with five minutes left, we got a real game. Yeah, we do. 26, 16, 10 points, only two scores. What's Jackson Dart going to do with it? 456 left. Other team has one timeout. Jackson third and five. Oh no. Jackson. Oh no. Jackson Jacks Jackson. Rookie mistake from the rookie quarterback of the New York Giants. Will Bo Nix take advantage of it? Why certainly. Once again on a rollout, drop off to Harvey. Touchdown, Bo. Knicks. So that's a turnover. That's a touchdown. Big Moe's rolling. How you feeling, okari K? Not great. 26, 23. Did they leave too much time for Bo Nix to come back? Yes, and then some. Give me that touchdown. 151 left in the game. We take a four point lead. 30, 26. Jackson Dart was given no opportunity to come back. Is Jackson Dart going to be the guy who leads his team in final minutes of games? Yes, he is. Runs in it himself. Did they score too quick? Did Bo Nick score too quick for Jackson Dart? Did Jackson Dart score too quick for Bo Nix? Well, let's just go through the procedural extra point here to make sure everything's really copacetic mess.

F (3:37)

Oh, no.

A (3:38)

What? 33 yard extra point. How old was DT when he passed away?

F (3:44)

33 years old.

A (3:46)

How much time is about to be on this clock right here?

C (3:48)

Oh, my God.

F (3:49)

33 seconds.

A (3:51)

Bo Nick says 33 seconds down two finds mims over the middle shot. Bo Nix no timeouts. What are you gonna do? Hurry, hurry, hurry. Rush, kill, kill, kill. Situational football stupendous from Bo Nicks. Off sides can't get because you're injured. Let's go ahead and tack on five more yards then. Are we done? Are we settled here for a field goal? Will Lutz. No. Let's find Cortland Sutton. The man who carried on DT's tradition of bringing donuts in for the wide receivers. Gets a massive catch to put them even more into field goal range. Down two. Bo Nick's kill at three seconds. Will Lutz walks on the field and Will. There's only one L in Will. The other L is headed to you, New York Giants as they win 33, 32 in an unprecedented comeback that has records breaking all over the place. There's multiple stats that you can pull from. There's one that was like 1,601 or something like that. Times with 18 point lead with six minutes left has a team won. Then there was another stat that came. It was like, yeah, 3,677 losses for any team that had been trailing by 18 plus in the final six minutes of the fourth quarter. Since the 1970 merger, there's only been one other team that's done it, and obviously that was the Colts over the Buccaneers. If you remember on Monday Night Football, the stadium actually emptied out. That game was over. Peyton Manning goes crazy, the boys go bananas. And then I think Mike Vanderjagt banks in a kick, and they end up winning that game on primetime. And this Denver Broncos team did just that. Now, obviously, we're pumped for the New York Giants having a guy Jackson dart be able to lead a team into Denver on that day with all the emotion and all the energy and have massive success. Has that pick late, obviously can't have it. Everybody's going to talk about that. Kicker's got to make both extra points that he missed, let alone the one in the final minute to potentially put the other team in a bad spot. But other than that, what did we learn about this Broncos team and what did you learn about the Giants in this entire process? D Bucks.

B (5:53)

A lot of what you said the Giants. I still think all arrows are pointing up. You know, you still have, I think the quarterback of the future. Maybe Dave will have saved his job going too dark. But, I mean, we always talk about playing 60 minutes. The game's never over. You talked about DT being there. They did a great job with. With his statue right next to Peyton's and then The Super Bowl 50 team being there to honor him. So, yeah, they weren't losing, celebrating dt. So shout out to him. We had a lot of battles against him, but yeah, Bo Nix, the boys, 33 points in a quarter. First quarterback ever to have two rushing and two passing touchdowns in the same quarter. Just unbelievable grit. We talk about grit all the time. You just fight until the absolute end. And that's what the Broncos did. It's always a fine line between winning and losing in the National Football League. This is something we never seen before. We saw the win probability. We always see that chart. I think this one got up to like 99.8, which is insane. So to get it all the way down there, get it done, man. The Giants fought and obviously people appointed the kicker. But everybody can point themselves in that locker room and look at different moments in time where they made a mistake and put their hand up and say, I could have done better, but this is football, man. You stick beside your guys. You keep fighting an unbelievable win for the Broncos.

A (6:59)

Obviously, that 33 points is the most points in the fourth quarter by any team. They'll shut out in the first three quarters in NFL history. Sure. Yeah. Says if you stink through three quarters, you're not just going to have an offensive explosion in the fourth quarter. Unless you're Bo Nixon. Sean Payton, interesting relationship, because I feel like we're up on them. At the beginning, we didn't really know then. We're up on them then. They're kind of not being talked about. Now they have a massive fourth quarter. What do you think the story is of Bo and Sean Payton? When Sean Payton drafted, Bo loved him. He came on our program. Actually, we had to draft spectaculars before we were with espn, where we were.

C (7:31)

I think that might have been our first year on espn.

A (7:33)

Yeah, Whatever the case, he said, I love this guy. Everything about him felt like a match made in heaven. Then had to go through their own learning this year. That win that moment, is this what's going to propel them to being great the rest of the season?

C (7:44)

I mean, I would assume a game like that kind of has you believe in, like, hey, no matter what happens, we can win. But I think because he started so much in college and because he is a little bit older, maybe, you know, some people would like Bone Knick.

E (7:56)

They.

C (7:56)

They view it more as more of a veteran guy. Like, hey, we should let this guy throw a little bit more as opposed to kind of really managing him. But, I mean, you talk about, like, a personality match. Like, he. He does kind of remind me of Drew Brees a little bit. And we obviously know the relationship those two had. So I like that Bo Nix, because that. That was kind of the big thing with Russ is, you know, like, we knew right away, hey, these guys don't get along. They go back and forth at each other. But clearly, Sean Payton trusts Bo Nicks when it matters the most. And, yeah, if you're a Broncos fan, I think you're thinking, hey, this might be the team this year.

F (8:26)

And also, you just don't care you won the game. You know, like, as. As terrible as the first three quarters are. Like, you shouldn't, if you're a Broncos fan, be like, well, it was the Giants. The Giants are good, too, right now. Now I have a feeling. Defense, yeah, defensively, they're great. Like, they. They were awesome. And then even on offense, the Broncos off, or defense, rather, is one of the best defenses in the NFL, and they still were able to put up 32 points. Now they had, you know, I don't know, the ghost of someone in New York because the fact that they had a deflection off the hands into one of their players.

A (8:56)

Hands after I was just building up the draft.

F (8:58)

Yeah. Yeah.

A (9:00)

I felt like there's. And another story not talking about with the Broncos.

D (9:03)

Yeah. They played last weekend against the jets in London. Like they didn't have a lot of teams take a bye week after that. They fly all the way back. And this isn't flying back to the east coast. They're flying back all the way to the mountain time zone. So, yeah, they were battling it there. Started a little slow, but then obviously, you know, they got their. Their time zone legs underneath.

A (9:18)

Next gen stats put out the point you were saying I believe or somebody mentioned.

B (9:22)

Yeah.

A (9:22)

Yep, there it is. The 99.8. I mean, that's plateaued at 100%. Basically this team's been asshole game. No way they have any chances. Not that they have a sense of feel whenever they're doing these stats. And instead the Broncos come back and get a huge congrats to the bucking Broncos.

B (9:35)

5 and 2.

A (9:36)

5 and 2. Talking about where can it go? Well, that AFC west is all of a sudden a little bit better than it was. And that might be another headline at another moment. Let's go to the fourth headline. What do you see? Huh? What do you see? What do you see?

C (9:49)

A couple.

A (9:51)

Yeah, What'd you see?

B (9:52)

Oh, yeah.

A (9:53)

All over the place. Not only on winning teams. Okay, here's the ones that we put up. But it feels like there's a lot of different names each weekend that could win. This MVP feels more wide open than it has been in years past. And maybe that's because the teams are at the top of the NFL right now. Weren't supposed to be at the top of the NFL. So all of a sudden, guys that maybe you didn't know were going to be incredible or incredible and also on good teams. So we're learning a lot about them. Insert North Carolina quarterback for the New England Patriots. This guy Drake May is unbelievable right now.

F (10:22)

Yeah, he's the best in the business. And there's a lot of stats right now that are, you know, he's the first ever to do this. First ever to do that. Those are cool. When you had Tom Brady as your quarterback for this franchise for 20 years and then this guy's br. Breaking Tom Brady's records. I think that's the coolest thing. He already tied 2007. Long hair model Tom Brady for most games in team history with at least 200 yards, 135 pass rating and two passing touchdowns in a season. Four's the record in an entire season. He's done it four times in seven games. He's also basically the greatest dual threat quarterback in the history of the NFL. Now we'll just say in this span of six games, but stats are telling us, and people love these stats, but they're telling us it's absurd.

A (11:08)

Lamar's most of the time mvp.

B (11:09)

Sorry, sorry.

A (11:10)

Six games into this season, they're saying things are a little bit different for Drake than everybody else.

F (11:14)

Well, and that's the thing. It's not just six. It's just in a six game span. So in this six game span, this is something Lamar Jackson's never done. 150 plus pass attempts, 75 completion percentage, 125 passer rating and 150 plus rushing yards. So no matter what, I, I get it there. There are other fantastic quarterbacks. He makes no mistakes. He's taking what the, you know, defense gives you, which I feel like is a big problem. At least last year that was a big talking point. Hey, everyone's running cover two. Everyone's cover two. You know, you can't attack any more downfield. You can't do those type of things. And instead of trying to attack and making mistakes, he's just giving them what the defense is kind of given. And then now he's five and two and we're talking about him as an mvp. It's unbelievable.

A (11:59)

It's crazy what the Patriots have been able to do. Vrabe's gonna feel so good. Let's talk about Dak Prescott now for The Dallas Cowboys QBR. 81.4 through seven weeks. 7th highest ever right now. Breeze, Lamar Rogers, Peyton and Brady have had a higher one this far into the season, but that's obviously some epic names. And his records against the Commanders. I mean, I guess we should have known going in that he was just going to cook them. He goes into Washington as a Cowboy and beats the hell out of them. Okay? He's like LBJ.

C (12:25)

He is, he is cowboy.

A (12:27)

LBJ going into Washington, doing his thing. If Washington D.C. is taking on a Cowboy and Dak Prescott's there, he's going to beat their ass. I mean, he's undefeated. His QBR is something through the roof. Amount of touchdowns, he has this amount of interceptions. None. 22 touchdowns, zero interceptions against commanders, just seven and zero, I think is his record. And he continued his dominance. This guy Special debugs.

B (12:47)

Yeah, he's unbelievable. The stats are one thing, but just watching him play, we all watched enough football, been around football long enough where you could tell when a quarterback is just in a flow. You could just tell when they have complete control of what's going on. And he did a lot of this. Without 88 on the field. Turpin was banged as well, but without the one of the top three highest paid wide receivers on the field with CD Lamb, he had been missing in action. George Pickens had kind of taken that mantle, become a wide receiver one. So now with CD Lamb back in the fold and Pickens still doing what he's been doing, building that reporter he's built with number four back there is unbelievable in Ferguson. Ferguson seems like he scores a couple touchdowns every week. So he I think coming into this game he led this team in target share. So if their defense is can give them any help down the stretch like this Dallas Cowboys team is going to be one to fear down the stretch.

A (13:34)

I think a guy that's on pace to have over a thousand both rushing and receiving and thank God he's back. If you're The San Francisco 49ers Christian McCaffrey, we saw this in primetime. This dude had 129 rush yards, 72 receiving yards, which is 62% of his team's total yards from scrimmage last night. That's highest percentage by any player this season, obviously. And this is what we saw from the Niners whenever they were on their run with Christian McCaffrey. Get George Kittle back last night. Now through the air, George Kittle might not have done much, but there's a bunch of stats coming out that George Kittle blocking for CMC in their run game in total is up to the right whenever he's on the field versus off the field. CMC back to his MVP form D Butch, there's a chance he wins another one.

B (14:12)

Absolutely. He's back to form. It was crazy because we had huge question marks about him health wise coming into the year. But from week one they've been giving him, you know, his fair share of touches. So getting on the ground, getting in the air. He talked about George Kittle. He's kind of like the Gronk now, like he's the best blocking tight end when it comes to it. And then he can also be a threat in the past game as well. Wasn't last night said he was. He kind of used this game to get back in shape. But I think the 49ers and CMC, he'll carry him a long way. That defense now kind of patching them up a little bit. But it's this offense has been cooking.

A (14:43)

What's McCorkle Jones's record out there?

F (14:45)

Mac Jones, I believe, is 4 and 1 right now. His only loss coming to Tampa. In Tampa.

C (14:51)

I know. I know we don't need to do it right now, but it's very cmc.

A (14:56)

We're gonna do it to Schefter, though. Yeah, right. In about five minutes, we are gonna do that to Schefter. Just because since day one, I think we all on this particular program are like, just. I think it's because how close we were to the Mac Jones number three overall story. Okay. We are very close to that entire thing.

C (15:11)

Like, pretty big in the room where it happened.

A (15:13)

Bingo. Like, we were pretty in the story there. So I think just the way that all panned out and then how his career goes, and then him ending up back there with the same exact people in charge, same exact coach with everything been hearing that was being said and acted like. And then, bang, we're going Trey, Lance, out of nowhere. It's like, you always have that what if in there, always cooking what if, what if, what if? And now Shanahan and Lynch are getting an opportunity to kind of live their what if, and they're having a lot of success. $200 million to another quarterback. I get it. And we love Brock.

B (15:41)

I'm still. I'm on the island with. I'm over on the island. I'm still on the Brock Purdy.

A (15:46)

Me too. Hey, I love Brock Pie.

B (15:48)

I'm looking forward.

C (15:49)

But the conversation is, if he comes back and doesn't play well, the conversation is there. Okay, we got to go back to Mac.

A (15:55)

Shanahan is a guy that will pick Mr. Irrelevant over a number three overall pick. I mean it. He's literally already done. Yeah.

C (16:03)

Proofs of the pudding.

A (16:04)

Now, Mr. Irrelevant was very, very, very good football player. Yeah. Still is. Very, very good football player, but, boy, first love. Mac Jones, first round talent starts doing all this. Damn, we're close. Let's go to the third one, please. Let's get to the third one. La lights up. Oh, I'm sorry. We got another. I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Jeez. Yeah, I was. Cannot get past this.

F (16:27)

Yeah.

B (16:29)

Oh, here we go.

A (16:30)

I see him every week. Okay. I see him with my. My actual eyes whenever we're down there on field, and these boys are getting after it, then we're obviously watching them on TV as they're playing against the minions. And I would like to say the GRU post that the Indianapolis spoke.

C (16:43)

That was good.

A (16:43)

Was brilliant. I think that was very good social media. They should be incredibly proud of that particular play, especially after a big time win. Chargers are known for having great uniforms. I think these, these uniforms should get thrown out.

F (16:54)

Yeah, agreed.

A (16:55)

Forever. I mean, it's hurt us Colts fans. We are forced to watch you guys wear this shit. Okay. I love the Chargers. I love the Chargers creativity. I like the Chargers mindset. I like everything about them, actually, except for these jerseys. This was disgusting to wear against us. We had to look at this. Colts fans had to watch this. We had to watch these yellow things. Now on that note, it was a pretty good vibes while we were watching.

D (17:17)

Sure.

A (17:18)

Great. This Indianapolis Colts team, easy vibes. Everybody's eating. Everybody's eating. Danny Dimes could be in the MVP conversation. Jonathan Taylor's going to score three touchdowns a game. He's on pace to maybe have 4,000 touchdowns. They're talking about everything. He's on pace for the amount of tuds he has combined like four other running backs that are all big name running backs and his dance is sick. So I'm talking about when you talk about a branding, when you talk about performance wise, the Colts are it. The only thing that's bad is people aren't going to want to show these highlights because these damn Chargers uniforms are all over them now. I still believe in the Chargers. I still like Justin Herbert. He went for 421. Who do you throw the ball to?

F (17:56)

Doreen.

A (17:59)

Exactly.

F (17:59)

Okay, the second.

A (18:01)

Yeah. So we believe, we believe in Justin Herbert and the Chargers. We are still fans of that. But this Colts team is kind of doing what like Vandy was doing to people last year. So, like nobody really thinks the Colts are really fucking good. So whenever the Colts beat your team, the fans have full panic, full meltdown or whatever, you know, Like, I think a lot of people out on the Chargers because they lose to the Colts this way. It's like, hey, the Colts are a very. We're a wagon. Two MVP candidates leading in on the offensive side and that man, J.T. and the quarterback, Danny Dimes. It must be a great time to be alive to be these boys. And all they keep saying is all the right things, D. But we haven't done anything still early in the season. We got to keep going forward. They're a mature bunch that hasn't really been on a stage that much.

B (18:42)

I love that. And the fact that everybody you know, a bunch of the pundits and talking heads still aren't really giving them that credit. It's still going to be, I think probably the Chiefs is going to be the conversation now with how they're playing, but they're rolling. And you kind of, as a coach, it's easy to motivate the squad. You know, you don't have to deal with as much rat poison. But these boys keep playing like this, this train, people are going to keep jumping on this train. Danny Dimes, we talked about it. He's just finding guys the offensive line. It always starts in the trenches. They've been protecting us. He's been dissecting defenses. And then Jonathan Taylor, we know all of the great running backs that have come through this organization. He has a chance to be the very best one when it's all said and done. Already up to 12. Touchdown. You mentioned earlier, third game already this season with three touchdowns. Leading the league and rushing. Leading the league and rushing yards as well. Like, he is a dominant force. So, yeah, we got two legit MVP candidates on the offensive side of the ball.

A (19:31)

J.T. valuable running back. He's a valuable running back. Scores so many touchdowns.

B (19:35)

Yeah. Might be most valuable player.

A (19:37)

Yeah, he might be. He might be the most in the entire league. And then Danny Dimes going crazy. Here's some stats about this Indianapolis Colts offense juggernaut led by Shane Steichen here. Most points per drive in a season. Colts 3.5. Patriots in 2007. 3.2. No big deal. They were great, right?

F (19:54)

Yeah, Very, very good.

A (19:55)

Highest drive score rate in a season. Colts in 2025. 63%. 2018. Chiefs. You ever heard of them? 53%. Fewest punts per drive in a season. Colts 19% of the time. We're punting with Rigoberto Sanchez, who's a great punter, by the way. Just would like that to be known. And incredible holder, which was on display this weekend with people not being great at holding. 2018, Rams 24. Were they good? Yeah, I think so. Seven games in, but still, that is ridiculous. Company keeps, says Hembo. Thank you, Hembo with the little tagline at the bottom. Yeah, we didn't punt for like three weeks or whatever. It's like Dimes knows exactly what to do in every single play. Knows exactly, like, even where to run. And then if it doesn't work out, Jonathan Taylor's vision is he'll cut that shit. I mean, he's going obtuse angle.

F (20:37)

Yeah.

A (20:38)

And then it's wide ass. Open over there, too, because our offensive line has been doing incredible job. So it's a. It's fun to watch. They're not the only ones. There's a couple more MVPs that we saw from winning teams this weekend. How about over there in London Town? Or Matty Stafford. Now, this guy's special.

F (20:52)

Special.

A (20:53)

And obviously Devonte Adams goes bananas. And Matthew Stafford's still doing that Matthew Stafford shit. Now he needs not to wear cleats over there on the Baltimore Orioles pitching. Matt, good point. Even though that might be the best pitch that. That that mound has seen in the world, they go over to LA and absolutely crush. Devonte Adams has to be so happy about the decision to go to the Los Angeles Rams. And this is all without Puka Nakua. So obviously we all miss Puka. We're all pulling for Puka. And this Los Angeles Rams team with Sean McVay at the helm is incredibly disgusting all the time. And Stafford looks like he's 32 years old, D Bud. I mean, he looks like he's 30 with all the throws and everything he's doing.

B (21:32)

I know you said don't, don't do it, the cleats on the mound and all that, but whatever you did this week, do it, do it whenever. Like the teams I'm sure we talk about, it's a copycat league. When did they go over to London?

A (21:42)

Saturday.

B (21:42)

Yeah, so the latest arrival there ever. And they just showed up and absolutely dominated all these passive touchdowns in the red area. I'm sure a bunch of people that had Kyron Williams possibly on the touchdown ticket were pissed off, but great job by him. Five touchdowns. Then Devonte Adams, three touchdowns. Unbelievable performance out there. London time.

A (22:00)

And the last winning QB that we're thinking maybe Emma MVP conversation is the guy Patrick Mahomes. Hey, I don't want to say this because it sounds disrespectful. Patrick Mahomes is the greatest at football again. And the only reason why I'm saying that is because he's playing like he was playing a couple years ago. So their offense kind of transitioned into a different offense, whether it was the personnel that they had. Remember, there was a time where they didn't have anybody catch the ball, so they had to go on the run game. They had to do defense. They had to be very conservative. There was a time where he was wide open, throwing it all over the place, running all over the place. And they've had success both ways. Feels like we're back to Showtime patch. Mahomes feels like it's time. He'll put the team on his back if he has to, but we're throwing the ball over the place. We're. No, look. And we're doing absurd shit on a regular basis, and we. It'll be a headline here in about a second. Everybody knows what's going on with the Chiefs right now. As soon as anybody starts seeing some of these highlights, Rasheed Rice is back. How you doing? Keep moving. Let's go ahead and force feed him a couple touchdowns, make sure he feels welcome. We got Worthy as well. Oh, yeah. And we got Travis. Oh, yeah. And we got. And we got. And we got. And we got. Oh, yeah. And we got Patrick Mahomes from a couple years ago when he was putting the team on his damn back as opposed to the conservative offense. Patrick Mahomes that he had to be. Once again, I don't want to say that he was doing anything by choice. Had to do it to win it. This is exciting. This is electrifying. And this is why as soon as the sportsbook saw a glimpse of it, there was like one game three weeks ago where Patrick Mahomes started moving. They're like, yep, yep, he's the favorite. Let's go ahead and put him right back up there with what they're going to do. That AFC west is tough. There's the odds, obviously. Obviously. We didn't put Baker on Today's list of MVPs that we saw over the weekend because he plays tonight. So let's go ahead and get excited about that. Same with Jared Goff. So we apologize for not doing that. And yeah, I think there's a lot of great football right now with no standalones for who the MVP is. Now let's go to the third headline, shall we? LA lights up London. To your point, Darius. This is another international game, another weekend. 9:30 Sunday, Eastern Time game to wake up to have a little coffee. Coffee. Hang out with baby girl, watch her eat some eggs. And then, oh, yeah, we got football playing. That's amazing news. Who did I pick? Whenever we were doing the picks? Oh, the Jacksonville Jaguars. Because Liam Cohen had a lot of time in la. He'll know what they're doing. Yeah, that's. That's good. And this Jaguars team's good team. They're good in la. They're not going over until Saturday. They think this is a joke.

F (24:21)

Stupid.

A (24:21)

What you didn't remember? What we didn't think about? I think I mentioned it on Friday, but it didn't hit me until them choosing to Fly over on Saturday, stay on the east coast, Baltimore, then fly over there. They have those long ass flights on a regular basis when anytime they get a fly to the east coast from la, it's four, five, six hours. So if they're in Baltimore and that's a five, six hour flight to London for them, it's just like we just got to get used playing in the morning. Other than that it is status quo. And they just beat the hell out of the Jacksonville Jaguars. I mean they look fresher than any team I've seen go play international. They look better than everybody and they might have had it figured out. And this team's for real yet again, Darius.

B (24:57)

It's for real now. You know, offensively they're always going to be for real with Sean McVeigh and Matt Stafford calling the shots, but defensively with Chris Shula and some people are calling for him in some other places to take the reigns. But that defense is absolutely dominant. It starts with the front, tend to blood, birds, Fisk, all Turner, just a bunch of dogs up front. Chris Shula has the boys rolling, hunting. They lead the league in dying personnel so they're going to get stops. But offensively they're going to score points week in and week out. You talked about it. This was without Puka, who was a top two, top three wide receiver when he was playing this season. We expecting to pick up right where he left off when he gets back in here. But yeah, Matt Stafford slinging the ball all across New York. This guy, he's going to be a dog as this season continues to go. And we saw him in college, Ferguson. Yeah. Second round pick, but yeah, this team is special to watch. And what are they now? Five and two on top of the NFC West. Yeah. So I can't wait to continue to watch these boys roll.

A (25:49)

Raining like hell obviously. Tea and crumpets all over the place. Matthew Stafford loves everything about, about it. They're almost throwing more because it was network out there. Go ahead.

C (25:57)

Yeah, that's what I was going to say is to do it in the inclement weather because like it was, it was pouring and you know, I think a lot of people, maybe not so much with Stafford because he's played for so long, but they just assume with the Rams it's like oh, that that's a dome team, like you know, and then when they have to travel potentially for the playoffs, like they're going to be in trouble because they're so used to that. And obviously we saw last year in the playoffs that Wasn't necessarily the case. But for them to be able to go in these conditions and just beat the shit out of the Jaguars, I think it speaks volume.

A (26:23)

They pummeled these jacks.

B (26:25)

Are we worried about the Jags?

A (26:27)

No.

C (26:28)

A little bit after that one. A little bit.

A (26:30)

No.

C (26:31)

London's a home game for them.

A (26:33)

No, but it was rainy. Number two headline. The Chiefs isn't still the Chiefs. They're better.

C (26:39)

Oh, no. Oh.

A (26:40)

I don't want to be the bearer of bad news. I think we're all seeing it. Okay. Sportsbook saw it before any of us. Yes. They're the ones that change the odds immediately somehow. They must have had a little conversation inside. Okay. When Rasheed Rice obviously comes back, they're going to have another weapon. Okay. And with Worthy being faster than everybody on the field, they're going to have this year's version of their Tyreek Hill. Travis Kelce is going to somehow drink from the fountain of youth. Kareem Hunt's going to do the same damn thing. They're going to start having more weapons than everybody else. And then, oh, yeah, Patrick Mahomes is going to make a decision that he's just not going to lose anymore. That's what Patrick Mahomes says he's going to do. He'll run through you, he'll run around you, and then the defensive side of the ball. Hold the phone. They have a shutout. Are they good, too? Debuts.

B (27:20)

Well, look, you gotta factor in the opponent here.

A (27:23)

Wow. Kenny Pickett play.

B (27:25)

That man's a Super bowl champion. Exactly my point. So they ran 30 plays on offense. I don't know what I should be a record, at least in the last. Yeah, that's. That's unbelievable. Yeah. You know, Spags in that defense is going to figure it out and start humming and start playing well. But Patrick Mahomes is the first game, I believe, with Worthy, Hollywood Brown and Rasheed Rice on the field at the same time. And you mentioned Travis Kelce finding that Fountain youth. Yeah, definitely. He's going to be open. That intermediate part of the field has to be open because as defenses and DBs, we got to get the hell back with all these guys running four twos all around the field. So Andy Reid, you know, they're going to figure it out. Spags is going to figure it out and then tube on the special teams in that third phase. He's going to figure it out as well. So, yeah, it's not a great moment for any teams in the afc, any teams in the NFL, really, when this team of red is humming.

A (28:11)

We saw Travis Kelsey on the ERAS tour come out on stage, shave his lady.

C (28:15)

Yeah, sure.

A (28:15)

Okay. The whole thing. We saw him Happy Gilmore. Nail it. Yeah, absolutely. Nail it. Obviously, we've seen Patrick Mahomes do some commercials, and we've seen him out there kind of doing his thing. You saw him do a little thespian for the fake.

C (28:31)

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

A (28:32)

Ah, like run it.

F (28:33)

Going for it on their own 40.

A (28:35)

Town eight on fourth and a foot. Tried to draw him offside.

F (28:45)

Sorry, my home says coach.

A (28:48)

It doesn't.

D (28:48)

Oh, there they go.

A (28:49)

He was faking it. Holy hell, bro. That's genius. I love everything about it. A couple of the linebackers look like they weren't falling for it, but just all you need is one D lineman just be like, oh, yeah, we aren't falling for it, brother. Whoa. We're out of nowhere. Love the fake spike. Anytime anybody does it. And I guess we're gonna, you know, anytime, Patty, Showtime. Mahomes starts putting on a Broadway act in the middle of a show. I'm gonna buy because I think he sold it pretty good.

B (29:17)

I mean, he fooled what Tony Romo played with 15 years in league. He fooled the hell out of Tony. Now, I'm sure a lot of people probably hated that from Tony, but I loved it. I think it actually, I think it made it better. Look, think about Tony. You feel like he's excited watching the game, so I can appreciate that from him. And we know we've seen Patrick Mahomes. You, you. You never know what to expect with this bunch. Whether it's spinning around in a huddle in the red area or something. Always got something up their sleeve. So this was. And it's the Raiders. Sure, why not? Go for it.

A (29:44)

Yeah. I mean, it's only seven nothing at that point. Little did they know that that would be the Raiders final score. And Pete Carroll, I don't know if he's loving necessarily coming back into coaching to be the Raiders. And what's that conversation later? We'll certainly ask Schefter here in a matter of moments. And number one headline, I'll let you guys read at home with your eyes. First cold screw in Super Bowl. I mean, it's so cool. They're finally going to play somebody that's good. Beat the Broncos. Okay, just. Just so we all kind of make this argument kind of disappear quickly. Chargers aren't going to let him just do that bullshit. Danny Dime's going to fight. Yeah, right. We're better than everybody. We're literally better than everybody. And we got 390 pounders deflecting balls and catching it. This guy cooks wings in his sink and he's doing this to your fav quarterback. Give me that. Bats it up in the sky, pushes a guy off him. Let me find that thing. Fingers and wrist tape. Ah. Then our entire team joins him. Everybody that is in LA from Indianapolis hits the field and celebrates with him. But whenever things like that are happening, you know, good, good. Juju's on our side. And then you think about the story. Grover Stewart was actually one who brought the guitar. So they've been bringing a guitar for Jim Mercy. It's one of his guitars for the boss. Bring it in. I don't know if it's player of the week person that gives a speech. I'm not 100, sure how it goes to who it goes, but obviously bring the guitar. You got to get the pick. So now every person that is defense that brings in a guitar, we're expecting the same thing. Grover Stewart's not supposed to get picks. Brought guitar needs one so he can shred that thing. This team's real deal, brother. They are for real. All three phases, too. Badgley goes back. He was kicker for the Chargers. Makes a couple big ones. Rigoberto Sanchez was called on a couple times. He makes it. The defense humming all over the place. And we just got Kenny Moe back. Okay. So the fact that he's getting his feet back under him for the run. The Colts might be starting out too hot, but also we might be nowhere near our peak yet either. I mean, there's so many different things and angles to kind of discuss about it. How do you feel about the team and what do you think about our upside still? I feel like we're still only learning more about ourselves.

B (31:41)

Yeah. I expect at this point for us to be kind of figuring out and finding ourselves hopefully being like around 500, maybe in the. In the battle for the AFC South. So to be sitting here going into what, week eight, Week nine, and you're at the top of the league like we're the class of the division. When you look at, obviously the AFC south and the whole conference of the afc and you talk about it when you watch this team play, it's not like gimmicky shit or they got an offense that, hey, defense haven't quite figured out yet, or defense, like, you're just seeing sound fundamental football in all three phases. Regardless of the injuries. We've been pretty healthy in offense, but a ton of injuries on defense. Danny Dimes. Like I, I. It's unbelievable. They was hot in this quarterback in New York for those years. Like I feel terrible for all these quarterbacks that will and we'll never see.

A (32:27)

Some of us knew.

B (32:28)

I mean I didn't know. Most of us didn't know. We remember the, the poll we watched.

D (32:32)

The Vikings playoff game.

B (32:33)

Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure you were in the minority with those reports. You were very optimistic. Let's talk back at it. Yeah, but let's talk about now. Man, he's been it. Shane Stichting. Unbelievable. It's a big win for him too against one of his former teams. You talked about Big Grove and just that what you saw with the sideline, like I talked about it weeks ago with I think it was the Eagles at the time. But like when you see those type of vibes, like that's the type of shit that just comes through the screen. We, we you can tell what's going on in the building Monday through Saturday when you see shit like this with the side. I don't think I've ever seen this many people run off the sideline on an NFL, NFL game. This game's nowhere near over middle of the second quarter. It's not like fourth quarter game ceiling interception. So the vibes are immaculate right now of the Colts long season ahead. But from everything that I'm seeing and that we're seeing, it looks like they're going to only continue to get better.

A (33:20)

Last step before we bring in a man to correct us or give us more depth on every conversation we've had. Daniel Jones is responding to pressure better than any QB we've ever tracked, says Hembo, his 91.8 QBR when pressure would be the highest in a season in the history of the metric. The previous record was Josh Allen's 83.5 in 2024 last year. That was an MVP season. For context, the league average verse pressure is 27.8. Ladies and gentlemen. Joining us now is a guy who I think to just say hand the MVP trophy to Danny Dimes next senior NFL insider for ESPN Michigan man M Shefty she first 15:39 minutes in at this point. We appreciate you joining us. Anything that you saw us talk about that we missed there or needs to be mentioned.

E (34:05)

Jonathan Taylor's had a pretty good hand in succeeding where Danny Dimes has. And Danny Dimes, you know what's amazing is the Colts are under a lot of pressure, a lot of heat and they haven't added that much. They added A quarterback and they added a tight end. Right? That's basically what they did. Tyler Warren, Daniel Jones and those two guys have turned that team into a dominant outfit. And a lot of people said they hadn't beaten anybody early on. Okay, fine, they went into LA and yes, that Charger team was beat up, but they beat up that team. You don't see an offense run up points the way that the Colts are doing. And what's amazing to me also is they're very rarely in third down. Like they're getting everything on first, second down. They've been incredible to watch and they are right now as good as about any team in football outside, with all due respect, maybe the Kansas City Chiefs.

A (34:56)

Okay, well, obviously Kansas City Chiefs, we just did an entire thing about what Patrick Mahomes looks like right now and how they're potentially only getting better. I think we as the Indianapolis Colts. I'm not going to say we. I'll say as the fan of the Indianapolis Colts, I want to speak for that. A lot room. We'd like to play the Chiefs right now. Okay. Now I think in a few weeks. I think in a few weeks this Chiefs team might continue to kind of do a sick. But so are we. So are we. I think we would not be scared of the smoke. And then Tampa Bay obviously is thinking the same thing down there in Tampa. We'll watch them tonight. Obviously, you'll give us some more intel on the two games this evening. Let's go to Bermuda. Bahama. Come on, pretty mama.

E (35:36)

Baby.

A (35:37)

Why don't we go to Coco? You know what, we'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow. That's where we wanna go. Way down in Coco. Let's talk about the benched boys, okay? Not the Beach Boys. Let's talk about Tua, Geno and Justin Fields. Obviously not a super positive thing to chit chat about, but the benched boys is how we'll refer to them. What should we be expecting for their stories going forward? And is this just because the team looked like trash on this particular day? Let's go ahead and scrap off and move forward.

E (36:18)

I mean, I can't believe all the things that are going on in the league and that giant Broncos game. We're going to go to the bench boys, but okay, like you want to go there.

A (36:24)

You missed the first 30 minutes. You missed the first 30 minutes. We already hit that. Yeah, we already hit that. But did you have these updates that we don't have? Tua and the Miami Dolphins, obviously interesting situation. Geno and the Raiders, Pete Carroll and the Raiders, and then Justin Fields. Aaron Glenn came out and said every situation is still going to be moderated early in the week. Feels like those are pretty big stories with three pretty big names there.

E (36:48)

Yeah, Listen, Aaron Glenn is leaning on the advice of other people, as he mentioned during the press conference. Wants to talk to some other coaches around the league. I would imagine that means he'll be talking to Bill Parcells this week. Maybe Sean Payton gets some impact put on what he should and shouldn't be doing at quarterback. I think when you're talking like that, I think it's hard to go back to the initial guy. So it wouldn't surprise me if they go to Rod Taylor here, but that'll be a decision that Aaron Glenn has to make here. Tua Tungavailoa has struggled. It's not like they're going to turn to Quinn Ewers. I don't think this early in the year they're going to keep riding Tua right now. He'll be the guy. He's thrown a lot of interceptions. They've played bad football. You know, I know a lot of people thought that by this time the Dolphins would have wholesale changes today. It's not happening. They've been wanting to hold off on this for as long as they possibly can. I think we all recognize what's ahead in Miami, that there could be significant changes that come. They don't seem to be coming anytime soon, but obviously when you play the way they have and lose the way that they are. I had one Dolphins fan text me yesterday that this is one of the lowest points in franchise history. There's going to be changes, and we know that there'll be changes. We just don't know how soon they'll come. But I'm not expecting any changes this week. The Raiders are on a bye week. They're going to have to sit down and evaluate everything. Their backup quarterbacks, Kenny Pickett, I guess they could try that for a spark. You know the problem? Yesterday they ran 30 plays, 30 total plays all game. If you look at it, I think that was like the lowest number of play. I haven't played my. In my phone. It's like the lowest number there. It is. Okay. Lowest amount of plays since at least 2002. I have some. Yeah, I mean, just. You're not going to win that way. And it was a bad performance. They have not played well offensively. They should get Brock Bowers back after the buy. That'll help. They never. Jacoby Myers, like, who's Geno throwing the football to yesterday? It's a tough thing.

A (38:43)

Yeah, it's a tough thing. Injury is also a tough thing in the NFL storyline. We know you don't love that. That is a part of your gig, but it's real, especially at the quarterback position. Now you have Jacoby playing for ky. You have Carson playing for jj. Then we got a couple more seemingly yesterday. Go ahead, D Bus.

B (38:58)

Yeah, Carolina got another win yesterday, but Bryce Young went down late in that game. And then also Jaden Daniels went down in his game as well. Any updates there for those two quarterbacks?

E (39:07)

Bryce Young won't play this week. He'll be out. He's dealing with a sprained ankle. And as for Jaden Daniels, well, Bryce Young, here's the play. He hobbled to the locker room after he went down here gingerly, didn't come back in the game. Andy Dalton came on, and Andy Dalton will wind up starting, starting for Bryce Young this week. Jaden Daniels also went to the blue medical tent, hobbled. People weren't exactly sure what it initially was. It turned out to be his hamstring. Look, we've seen what this is before. Whereas Lamar Jackson had a hamstring injury. Now, who knows if they're the same grade? We don't know what grade Lamar's was, but he missed two weeks. They have the buy, and I think the Ravens feel like they'll get to him back. Jaden Daniels hobbles off the field, doesn't come back in the game. I think it would be safe to say right now that it would be a surprise if he's playing a week from today against the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday Night Football. And the Commanders are about to embark upon really, like, the teeth of their schedule. They play the Chiefs, the Seahawks, the Lions. I think that it's fair to think that Jaden Daniels is going to miss some of those games at the very least. At the very least, with a hamstring injury like that. Here's a guy that makes his living with his legs, with his arm, and again, I think it'd be a surprise if he's back next week.

A (40:32)

That sucks for all of us. Mark Smariota, though, has already gotten some time. Obviously, we'll see how that goes for Monday Night Football. Two guys that I mentioned there early. And we got a chance to experience the Carson Wentz experience yesterday. And also, you know, what's going on out there in Phoenix. Go ahead, Tone.

D (40:47)

Yeah, we did get to experience that. And JJ was limited in practice this Week. So it wasn't a surprise that Carson was starting this week. But what about going Forward? Is. Is JJ McCarthy the starter when Carson Wentz or, sorry, is JJ McCarthy the starter when he is healthy? And then he. Pat talked about out in Phoenix, is Kyler the starter when he comes back as well?

E (41:07)

My understanding is with Carson Wentz and jj, The Vikings play a short week this week. They had the Chargers Thursday night. I would expect that we get Carson Wentz on Thursday night.

F (41:18)

Yes.

E (41:18)

And. And I. I was told there's a chance that JJ McCarthy will be ready for the week after at Detroit. At Detroit. So again, I think if Carson Wentz comes back and plays well, they win the game Thursday night, maybe that buys JJ another week. If not. If not, then I think JJ could be back as soon as that week at Detroit. Now, Kyler Murray, they're on a buy this week. My understanding all along has been that he will be back for Monday Night Football two weeks from tonight at Dallas. Kyler's from that area. He's not going to miss a game in Jerry's world against the Cowboys. So you could expect to see Kyler back two weeks from tonight.

A (41:55)

Okay, so Kyler's back in Jerry world. I think he has a pretty good record through high school and everything like that. And then Jacoby Brissette will continue to spin it for them. And then Carson Wentz is on Thursday night against the Chargers. Is that what you said?

E (42:07)

That. That. That's what I would think. That.

B (42:09)

That.

E (42:10)

That would be my expectation right now.

A (42:12)

That's been the problem with these 9:30am Sunday games. We had a taste of Carson Wentz Football at 9:30am we had a taste of the Carson Wentz Experience at 9:30am and we thought to ourselves, this is the greatest way to start a day. Did you see him yesterday? We are in full Carson Wentz experience time right now with the Minnesota Vikings. Kevin o' Connell could say what he wants, but when a guy can do that, drop it on dime, Jordan Addison in the corner, you're allowed to do whatever you want. He'll do this every once in a while. That's an easy one. I'll miss it. Okay. Just because it's better for you. And then, oh, it's going to get snapped over my head. Obviously not his fault, but he'll make the play great. You know, he's going to get on that play. He's been in that position before. And every once in a while he's going to take a huge shot, just throw it to the Other team that's not his fault. Took a massive shot. Quarterbacks are going to do that. They obviously crib that thing, so that's a little bit of a different story. And Carson Wentz will get a little handsy. Yep. Let me throw it backwards real quick. Out of bounds. This. This is the Carson Wentz experience we were talking about. Anything could happen on any play, including this cross body hawk. That thing to who? Somebody like a punt. It's a punt. Don't worry about it. Carson Wentz says. And then whenever you talk about evading and escaping and dropping, he does that on the other side of it. That is the Carson Wentz experience. And as the game got later, Carson only got better. Feels like the Eagles were only getting more scared. Little underhanded stuff. How you doing, T.J. hawkinson? Why don't you get it out there? And then every once in a while, there'll be a little bit of chaos. Let me throw it right into the ground here. Who's around me? No, buddy, that's obviously an intentional grounding. Yeah, that'll be a sack there. So. So there's just a never ending of. He's like the Michigan Wolverine football team, but on every single play. It literally could be the greatest play or it could be the worst play at any given moment. And that's Carson Went's experience that's coming on Thursday night. Consider me in. Amazon needs to be thanking their lucky stars that Carson Wentz is playing prime time on yes. Yeah, we got hardball talk, talking Jim Harbaugh stories and features happening. And then we got Carson Wentz playing ball. Holy. This is the mega ball.

C (44:11)

Yeah, it is.

A (44:12)

This is. They need to have a human wrestle a bear at halftime. Spamoni. They need that out.

D (44:18)

Ben Herbert's there.

A (44:19)

All right. Anyways, sorry. We had to get that in. Had to get the Carson Wentz experience. That's the only reason we asked that whole question.

C (44:25)

Jeff, he gets it.

A (44:26)

So, Chef, we appreciate you alley ooping us for that.

E (44:28)

That was quite an array of highlights. Of course, I did not expect to get the full Carson Wentz express experience when I popped on here, but we did. That was the full experience, dude.

A (44:36)

We got to experience it as Colts fans. It's the greatest and the worst. But that's the first one.

C (44:40)

Exactly. That's part of the beauty.