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What? It's all spread. I think it's all over. What do you call?
I'll go into it. In Detroit where the offenses went off as Aaron Alex Jones said, I've got the touchdown documents right here starting the scoring for the Vikings in the first. It was a back and forth affair as Sonic and Knuckles ran through the Vikings defense until David Montgomery got the coin set out of him on way to an Ivan pace of play touchdown. The game came down to a decision by the psycho Dan Campbell to stay at the Bates motel as Jake sealed it with his leg in the Lions are atop the NFC North Lions 31 Vikings 29.
We go down to Atlanta for a part and fight where the Seahawks may be beaking at the right time. Did Jason Tatum send a text before the game because Kobe Bryant picked off Kirk Cousins as Seattle went mama mentality on the Atlanta offense all afternoon. Be John Wilkes Booth Robinson ruined a couple really nice plays from the Seattle defense running out of pistol formation, but it wasn't enough as bussing with the boy a Maffee undressed Kirk cousins and the Falcons will need to see a tailor to get looking right again. The Seahawks 34 the Falcons 14 up to the frozen tundra where the Packers were their winter warning jerseys to welcome in 75 degree weather Josh Jacob jingle Heimerschmitt his name is my name to whenever we go out.
People always shout there goes Josh Jacob single Heimerschmitt da da da da da into the end zone for a pass for the first time in his career. Joe was doing mix on it, scoring two touchdowns while Tucker Robert Kraft ran a nice rubber out for a tug and got some love in the end zone from his quarterback with a time winding down Brandon Walker McManus staved off a migraine due to the sunny conditions and mild weather and won the game for the Packers Green Bay 24 Houston 22. To Western New York where in honor of Josh Allen's 100th career start, the bill is acquired Super Mario Brothers Cooper who took a page out of the Aaron Rodgers playbook eating some mushrooms, making the Buffalo offense look a lot bigger and stronger. The bill's defense came out the second half looking very tomorrow, very mindful as Hamlin got an interception and they shut down Mason Big Country Kyle Rudolph going 10 and 0 in the game.
No one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills as I score 34 straight. The Bells 34 the Titans 10. We go across the pond to Henry Lockwood from London. What's up, old dude?
I went to Wembley Stadium where Drake Maggie May made a first-class fool out of the Jaguars defense in his first drive capping it with a touchdown to Mike Holmey Hasty. Brian Thomas Shelby. I don't know whether to go boomers British. He had no limitations in the second quarter scoring on a six yard touchdown and much like his name.
Think the British Centurion take big speed dominated the competition, scoring two touchdowns and making the Patriots wave the white flag. Jaguar 32 Patriots 16. Thanks, Henry. Thanks, Henry.
And also, thanks, boom and also thanks, British boom. Thanks, British boom. We head back state side to the metallands where Max is live for the Eagles and giants in his return to Met life rich homie, Snake Juan said, let me flex on the giants. AJ said what can Brownford do for you as a touchdown delivery was expedited on fourth and three for 40 yards out.
Finally, Bryce Huff and Puff and Blue Daniel Jones down to get one of the Eagles eight sacks of the day. Eagles dominate 28. All right. Thanks, Max.
Back also state side in San Francisco where the party little lie going around the league is that the Niners are still good. Kareem Bergen, hunting fish club said, what man? As he ran for two scores through the San Fran defense. Patrick, Patrick daylight coming.
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Cheefes 28 Niners 18 murder. What murder? We go over to Indianapolis where Anthony, Ethan Richardson is stealing money from my good friend billionaire Jim Ercite. Don't tell Rob Schneider, but there was a foil spill as Tim came in.
Really for Tyler Huntley. He's not that old. He's John new as Smith's score to take an early lead, but the cold said something to be on say about it as Matt gave my name, my name had three field goals and Alec Baldwin, England, isn't technically liable, but he did drop the ball when he took a shot at a big play. Cots 16, the Dolphins 10.
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That was a fun. That was a fun early slate, terrible late slate. Yeah, very fun early slate though. Yeah, it was pretty good.
It was pretty good. We had some some witching hour drama, some back and forth. What about the early early slate? Yeah.
Well, the London slate. Let's start with that game. The Jaguars 32 Patriots 16. Good news for Doug Peterson.
I'm a fucking moron because I think I I watched the opening drive for the Patriots. They scored. It looked like there were some business decisions happening on the Jaguars defense and I was like, Doug Peterson is so fired. And then I forgot that the Patriots also stink and Trevor Lawrence ended up looking great and the Sir Brian Thomas Brian Thomas might be the best rookie wide receiver.
Now that Malik neighbors missed a couple of games, Marvin Harrison is like either he scores four or three touchdowns or doesn't catch a ball. Yeah, Brian Thomas is the real deal looking awesome. But yeah, the Patriots stink and Hank bad news. Drod Mayo use the S word called your team soft.
They were soft. Is that a bad thing? Said we're a soft football team across the board. We talk about what makes a tough football team and that's being able to run the ball being able to stop the run and that's being able to cover kicks.
We did none of those. Is it? Are you saying is it a bad thing to be a soft football team? No, I don't think it's a bike.
He's he's he's right. Yeah, no, he's correct. And what he's saying, but it's always a bad thing to have it be said. It's a bad reflection on his coaching that the team that he coaches is soft.
He also our saw our good friend, Feidelberg pointed this out to me last week. And I've been monitoring it. Drod Mayo is I think the heir apparent to Jim Caldwell is he alive on the sidelines because his face never changes. Yeah, he just kind of stares off into the distance.
I agree with him. I don't think that he is. I don't he's not wrong. It's early to be pressing the S button though.
Yeah. Well, this could what's that old deal saying? It's like hard times creates soft people. Yeah, soft people create soft times.
Soft times create hard people. So you better hope that you're that's where you are. That's where you are. Soft times.
Soft times create hard times. No, soft times. Wait, wait, soft times create soft people. Soft people create hard times create hard people.
You better hope that's where you're at is the hard times. Are you guys are you guys getting harder? They need to get harder. It's like we're getting softer.
Soft. There's not good. I know that soft people, which then leads to hard times. He's also defensive coach, defensive player when he played and the defense is the softest of them all.
You're in the softy. Yeah. And this in this entire length, you're this you're soft people creating hard times for yourself, but we haven't had hard people created out of those hard times. Yeah, it's a process.
Yeah, you got to get a hard guy. You got to draft a hard guy in the draft. Do you think? Well, Jerry Jones, take a look at him.
He's Drake may look good. Drake may look good. Yeah. So that's and that's really all the matters outside of being a soft football team.
But yeah, you lost the Jaguars who were. Got smoked by the. Looked like they were ready to quit, ready to fire Doug Peterson and but Drake may look good. That's what you have to just when you put your head down on your pillow at night, you should be like, Drake may look good.
Yeah, losing the London game first thing in the morning is just no fun way to start a football Sunday. Yeah, it's not. No, it's just me. It puts you in like a bummer mood just to write out of the gate.
There is a way for soft teams to win in the NFL though. If you just embrace the gunslinger mentality of Drake, man. Yeah, you just spread them out. Tell Mayo to put the spread on.
Shoot outs. I don't know that we're right. Shoot out. We got to go through some more hard times so that we can create hard people.
The Jaguars is definitely bad. That's a hard. The Jaguars are bad. But when this you don't really want to win football games, right?
You kind of want to lose and get the number one pick and take Travis under probably. But you you just want Drake made it look good and he did and he looked good. So the first time I was exciting. It was like, oh, let's go.
Yeah, first thing in the morning. Have to quit. Yeah. And then they didn't quit and credit to you.
Hank, he did call the trap game correctly. Yeah, the Jaguars as bad as the Jaguars are, they're better than the Patriots definitively. And they were acclimated and they were acclimated and Trevor Lawrence did look good. He had one of his best games of the season.
Tank Bigs be absolute monster. Do you know Tank Bigs be his real name? I heard it. The runner.
It's it's somehow so take bigs me was was name, take bigs me because it's a classic story that you could have you could have just you knew it before you even read it. Can I guess his dad basically he just ran around when he was a little kid and like bumped into things. I was going to get fine. I was going to get grandmother.
Yeah. It was I think it was aunt and dad. Like he would just run into things and then shake it off. So he became tank, but his real name is actually somehow even better than tank tank is his nickname, which takes me deserves more credit for being one of the coolest names in the NFL.
His real name is Cartavius. Cartavius is pretty solid. That's fucking awesome. You don't like it, Max?
Cartavius is a great name. Cartavius. Cartavius. Bigs.
Bigs. Bigs. He's Cardi B. Yeah.
Cardi B. He is Cardi B. But it's tank bigs. Bigs.
I understand. They know tank bigs be deserves more credit for being one, a good football player and two, having maybe top three name in the NFL. It's pretty solid. And I think we've been saying for the last few weeks that he looks better than Travis A.T.N.
does. Yeah. Right. Like pretty pretty much consistently at least for this season.
And then we know that Doug Peterson appears to lie before games and then tell the truth after games. Yeah. So after this game, they asked him if tank was going to replace Etienne and he said, I don't think so. I'm a believer where injury doesn't replace your position.
I think you have to have a fair competition. Tank has done some good things. Obviously, we're going to continue to find ways to put the ball in his hands too. I disagree with that.
I think that injury can absolutely 100% change things up, especially when the guy that comes in for the injured guy is better than the injured guy when the injured guy wasn't injured. And his name is tank bigs. And his name is Cartavius. Cardavius tank bigs me.
Bigs me doesn't get enough credit either. No bigs me's great. Bigs me's a great name. I just looked at the name tank bigs me for a while when I was taking notes.
I was like, damn, we don't talk enough about how awesome this name is. And he was awesome. He had 118 yards of English. I remember the time I heard his name.
Yeah, Auburn. Yeah, because Auburn played Penn State in a non-conference game. I was like, who the fuck is tank bigs me? Yeah, early in the season.
And it was I maybe one of the coolest running games since Cadillac Williams. The NFL has a surplus of tanks right now. Yeah, tank tell. Maybe next game is going to be in the Ukraine overseas.
Oh, we'll fund it. Send him there. Yeah. So the Jags survived the Doug Peterson fire game because he was going to get fired in this game if he lost it.
Did you have you guys looked at the Jack schedule coming out? Yes, because they're bad. He's going to get fired very soon. They're playing the Packers.
First of all, they don't have a bye week until week 12. I think they probably just said we're good. We don't need a bye week after the lending game. But they're playing the Packers at the Eagles, Vikings, Lions, Texans.
That's their next five games. Yes. So if you're Doug Peterson, just always rise and enjoy this win. Thank God you won this game.
Actually, maybe not. Maybe he wishes he lost this game because the next five games are going to be tortured. That way he can be like it wasn't my fault. Look what we're doing.
Yeah, because there's no way that they could have fired him and then gotten a bump against the Packers, Eagles, Vikings, Lions, and Texans and Ben, like, oh, they, it was Doug Peterson's fault. Doug, they always say like, I wish there was a way to know that you're in the good old days when you're in them. Right now, Doug, you have to take this entire flight back. Get hammered, drink all the free drinks, go into the office next week, just like take a bunch of the snacks that they have set out, stuff them in your pockets, steal from the facility because you're probably not going to come back in it in a matter of probably, I'd say, like, three weeks, probably two weeks, maybe.
Doug Peterson is at the point right now of every single one of my weekends on Saturday morning when I'm like, what if I just get super hot and just win all my bets? He's two and five and he's like, what if we just run the table here? Two and five looks good. Two and five is a lot better than one and six, but it's not going to happen.
It's like, I'm never going to do that. Doug Peterson is not going to run the table, but you have to at least sit in that moment all week and just embrace it and be like, you don't know what's going to happen. You don't know if I can just win everything. You never know.
He might have changed. Yeah. So chap sent this to me, the sad Jaguars, the week, the Jaguars 22 points at the score in the first half is their first, their highest total in the first half since 2017. It's been a minute.
That is a long time. So if you're a JAGS fan, enjoy this. I don't think it's going to make much of a difference on what happens in the future of the team, specifically their coach by the end of the year, but it's always better to see in front of essentially your home fans over in England. You get a win.
Yeah, you got a win. And Hank, you got to start your day watching a soft football team. But again, you knew the first drive. You knew, yeah, it's Drake May.
That's it. That's all that matters this year for you. Drake May, and then you fix everything. Is drive mayo the guy though?
No. Yeah. So I know he was getting criticized for the two-point conversion when they scored, they were down 15. He's he, they went for two.
They scored a touchdown, went for two, didn't get it with 10 minutes left, basically ending the game because they then needed to score twice. Is that not what you're supposed to do in that situation? No, the thing we always talk about, I think you go either way with that one. So the four down 14 is what we always talk about because it's still a one possession game whether you get it or not.
They didn't get the two point conversion. So it was a nine point game. So they needed to get a score, a stop, a score, and then a stop and a score. Whereas if they had just kicked the extra point and they're down eight, you can at least tell your huddle, hey, all we need is a stop and a score.
I don't know. I always go back and forth because you kind of wish you knew what you have to get. But I also understand for a soft football team, you probably want to keep them mentally in it as long as they possibly can. That's the argument is you want to know if you have to go for two now or later and if you're going to make your two point conversion.
Rather have that information as early as possible. So you can play not the rest of the game. The problem is when you're offense stinks and you haven't really done much, is it actually that much more likely that you will get two more scores. Right.
When you're having scores since the second quarter again with and when you have a soft football team, you probably want to use every advantage to keep them mentally locked. This is one of those debates and arguments that I saw online and I got to say, I think both sides are right. I do think both sides are 100% correct on this. I think it completely depends on your football team because you have the math people that have run these games in simulation and the logic, if you're like a game theory guy, it makes sense.
I understand it. But also, if you're just a football guy that hates computers and stats and you hear that argument, you're like, that's pussy football. And I'm like, yeah, he's kind of right. And it's not remotely close to our hand, which is laughing at that onsite kick attempt by the 49ers, we're taking a little early so we can let memes watch the Jets.
The and the Mets, it's not down 14 going for two conversations. That's bad. That's math. And that also is you don't change the fact that it's still a one score game.
That is settled. This is down 15 going for two. You change the fact that you now have a two score game versus a one score. Yep.
Yep. And I don't think if he had not done what he did, if he had just kicked a field goal or kicked the extra point, I would absolutely not have a problem with that. Correct. I don't think it was one of these no brainer situations.
He had the longest international touchdown and also the first ever special teams touchdown from Parker Washington, the 96 yard part return, which that's kind of crazy. That's great because the people over in England, they love the kicking game. If you put a ball in your hand and you kick it, they will stand up and cheer for you and to get to see one run back over there, that was two great plays and one for them. I'm hoping there was at least one guy in the stands.
He's like, I didn't even know you could do that. I've been coming to these games for 20 years and it never happened. That's amazing. Yeah.
You didn't golf today? No. Okay. That was it was a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
You thought you had maybe golf to done the phone watching, which I would would have been totally fine because if you have a soft football team that's. No, I'm committed fan. I was up early. I watched the whole game and then after halftime, I wish I was golfing, but I wasn't.
I'm going to really look into this, uh, Drad Mayo being better alive because he is, he potentially is the, the air apparent to Jim Caldwell. Do you think that the team is, has made you soft as a fan? No, the Patriots never made you soft. Maybe just by the so many good times.
I guess yeah. And the analogy of good times, we had the best time. So you're the softest man. Softest fan.
Yeah. I mean, you're the softest fan out of the people in this room full of losers and hard times. Yeah. Sure.
We are hardest men. I mean, I'm not a fan of the people. Do you feel like this experience is making you harder? Are you getting harder right now as we talk to you?
Are you just going to check out and accepting like it happens to a lot of fan bases? I guess it's just my turn. Are you able to get harder anymore? I don't know.
It's going to, it's been a while since I haven't been able to get hard. Uh, I think it's more what you said. It's every fan base has to go through with this at some point. You can't win forever.
Yeah. And Drake May. I'm just going to keep, like you just need to keep saying to yourself, Drake May. Drake May has looked good in the first two games that he's started and that's all that matters for you right now.
Nothing else. Cushing and all it stud. I'm going to get hard again. Is there a chance to run Mayo gets fired?
No, I think he's kind of the craft. Yeah, but the, but we're in the craft is in his, uh, he might be in his Jerry Jones era where he's going to get like, Hey, I'm not going to live forever. I need it now. But he already had, yeah, he already had a different.
Yeah, it hasn't been that long. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, Robert Kraft actually did it right. Like winning that many Super Bowls closer to whenever he passes away versus Jerry Jones who had to win the Super Bowls and then live for 30 years more watching his team not win.
Yeah, the legacy is kind of finalized on Robert craft. Yeah, he's good. He's good. It's a tough spot for him because the fire may would be like, yeah, I made a terrible terrible mistake directly on him and maybe negatively affected all the fame induction that he's planning on.
Also, I mean, it's brutal for Mayo just like having to follow Bill Bell check. Yeah, like that's, I mean, you like, you're on Mayo saying we're soft football team, Bill Bell check would never have never coached a soft football team. I think Bell check would say that to his team, but he would never say it publicly. Yeah.
And he never actually thinking truly. I think he would. I think he would think it truly even in the midst of the dynasty, he was probably like, you guys are playing like a bunch of soft. Yeah, he's probably said it when they when they've lost before.
For sure. Yeah, I think so. And it was relative that like comparatively they weren't actually that soft. Now would be a soft move on Mayo.
He was saying he was calling them soft in the media to get them mad. Mayo's just like saying they're soft because they're soft. Yeah, but it would be a bad move for Mayo to call them soft just to the media and not say it to their faces. Yeah, it'd be a good move for Bell check to call them soft to the media in order to light a fire into their ass.
Yeah, you hope Mayo says that in the locker room too, not don't come back. What I don't know what I said. He did say so there was a couple guys on the team that said, yeah, I mean, he wouldn't say anything to you guys that he hasn't said so he did say that. And then and then Jalen Polk, he's got some issues on a drops with his hands and with his feet.
But then after the game, do you see what he put up on Instagram? Oh, no, he's put a black screen right with hand emojis. Do you know what the hand emoji was doing? Praying.
No, no, not Praying. Watching a football, dropping a football. First of all, it was the dot dot dot and then the peace sign. Oh, like see, I'm out of here.
Well, you got to be saying goodbye to London. They probably met someone in London. Yeah, somebody in London. Yeah, he's like see that.
That was fun for almost 48 hours. Didn't they invent the peace sign is actually for victory in England, right? They started that in World War II. The USC Trojan started that.
That's true. Yeah, yeah. You're just going to zero dark 31. Yeah.
Great game to start the early slate. Lions 31 Vikings 29 this game fucking rocked. You knew this game was going to be awesome when Dan Campbell decided to start the game with a fake punt from his own 30 that didn't work on him fourth and seven. But the Lions end up winning.
The Lions are it's crazy to think that like the Vikings started five and oh, go into the bye week five and oh, and then come right out of the bye week and now they're second place in the NFC door. Yeah, I mean, that division just continues to be awesome because the Packers won again too. But nothing to hang your head about if you're a Vikings fan, right? You would like to win this game obviously because it means a lot in the division.
But in terms of like how you played, Sam Donald didn't have his best first half, but he looked pretty good in the second half. Yeah, yeah. I think you don't hang your head. You just realized that the Lions are really goddamn good and it's got to be frustrating as hell because you have to play perfect football.
You have to play perfect defensive football against the Lions to beat them. And they even got a defensive touchdown and it wasn't enough. And they got that, you know, punt, the fake punt, which was gifted them a touchdown for Aaron Jones in the first quarter. Jared Goff though, is playing out of his mind.
He is in this last four game stretch, he's 76 or 90, a 1,086 yards, nine touchdowns in one interception. The last two guys who have had a three game streak of 140 plus passing rate pass rating was Aaron Rodgers in 2011 when he won an MVP and Kurt Warner in 1999 when he won an MVP. Jared Goff plus 850 on Drafting Sportsbook for MVP. Just saying that.
You have it better, right? Pretty easy. He's been lights out and it was crazy too because Brian Flores tried to blitz and you know, do his tricks at him and he didn't work. Like Jared was 13 for 15, 163 yards and a touchdown against the blitz was carving him off big play after big play.
And yeah, this game, I mean, it just showed that both these teams are really fucking good. They're both really good. And Brian Branch, that dude is so much fun to watch on defense. Yeah.
That dude is so good. Like that diving play that he had with a little green mouthpiece sticking out of his helmet. That dude has become one of my favorite guys to watch on defense. And that's I don't think again, I don't think that they're a good spot because of the loss of Hutchinson, but I do think that they have enough good players on defense where it won't preclude them from making a Super Bowl.
I also think that they're good enough to get through that. And again, like Campbell, he's the king of like talking about adversity, manufacturing adversity sometimes. This is a real piece of adversity that they have to get through. Yeah.
I feel like there's no better coach than Dan Campbell to get you through. Their offense is hell. Their offense is hell to deal with. Every guy.
Every single guy is a guy. Sonic and Knuckles. A very serious chef to report earlier this morning that Jameer Gibbs and David Montgomery would like to be called Sonic and Knuckles. Which one is Sonic?
Which one is Knuckles? I believe Jameer Gibbs is Sonic. That makes sense. Sonic is a little bit bigger.
And he's faster. Yeah. And we did it. Yeah.
So I think that's I believe that's what it is. Gibbs did have a 45 yard touchdown run, which made him look like Sonic. Yeah, that was sick. That's pretty cool though to be called.
It's it's cooler than Thunder and Lightning because Thunder and Lightning's been done a million times. And they're not a truth. Thunder and Lightning. They're not I like the old Tennessee Titans when it was Lindell White and Reggie Bush and they called themselves Eat and Run.
Yeah, that was good too. That's when Lindell was in his fat era. Yeah. Lindell White tough to bring down.
But yeah, this game the Lions the Lions offense is just I don't really know what you can do. You can't you can't you can't beat them for court because upfront they can they can bully you off the line of scrimmage. They've got two weapons that running back. They've got MVP Jared Goff and then they've got a great tight end and then three at the minimum very good wide.
Yeah, Tim Patrick is his we said it last week, but he has walked into that Josh Reynolds role perfectly and and it all works and Dan Campbell's a psycho and it was speaking of a captain and then never having him in the game. But he's on the sidelines in full pads. Right. I mean, he's just you're asking him to come back from a severely broken leg in less time than what it should be and be effective.
But again, doesn't matter. You got to still you got to still give him that hope. It's basically the dumb and dumber that you're saying there's a chance. Yeah, I guess technically there is.
But would you want him back if your Lions fan? No, I want because you probably get like 40% in hundreds of him doing something bad to either that same leg or his other leg overcompensating or you could just not play him and take the fact that you could still make this move all down. Right. No, I don't want him back.
I want the idea that he could be back because in your head when you hear that you think of Aiden Hutchson picking up exactly where he left off where he was going to probably be defensive player of the year. And that's a really cool thing to just have in your head. Even though it's fantasy land, we all live in fantasy land. We all like to live to jump into fantasy land every now and then and just be like, yeah, we could could be the biggest free agent signing ever in Super Bowl by you get the defensive player that you're back.
Yeah. I saw some some rumor out there that they had either inquired about or the Saints were considering trading chase young. Let me tell you if you are the Detroit Lions, you don't want that. No, you don't want chase.
He looks awesome. Chase Young is probably the guy who looks the coolest and looks the most athletic compared to what he actually does on the field. Correct. He would fit well in that system.
We were having that debate the other day. Sean Oakman was the other name thrown out there. Yeah, for like what he looks like versus production from what he actually is. I feel like Chase Young is tops of the NFL that right now.
Yeah. By the way, I just want to do breaking moves real quick because this should actually be breaking moves. Breaking moves. Hank is just alerted to me.
We do martial sports advisors every single week. Stewing myself and then this week we had a picks competition between Brandon and Jerry. So it's four of us picking games. We pick five games heading into Sunday Night Football.
The entire panel is a combined O and 16. That rock. That's historic moment. That's hard to do.
That's just as hard as 16 and out. It might be hard. It might be hard to do different people too. That's just as hard as 16.
So who would think someone would pick the opposite of the other person? Like that person's wrong. The other person's right. So who?
What do you guys have for tonight's game? I have the Jets. I have the Jets. Oh, I'm on the Steelers.
So I don't know. You might not want to take the Steelers now. I'm statistically do. Yeah, but I mean when you're hot, when you're cold or cold.
We actually, so the only way because it's the three of us and we all pick different things. The only way Brandon and I have opposite sides. He has a Steelers. There's going to be at least one winner.
What's the spread? One and a half is what we had once then. So you're going to go one and 17. We're going to go.
Jerry has the under. We could put two together. We could put two together. We could go under and Jets or under and Steelers and get two full wins.
That's incredible. What a day. I knew too going into this week. I was like, I had a great week last week.
I'm going to suck this week. I think on Friday we actually said at the start of the show. If you did well last week. Just don't bet this week.
Still jumps right in. Yeah, still jumped right in. Okay, anything else. That's off to Vegas.
They did again. You guys, you know what you're doing. I'm going to talk to Jake Bates, the kicker for the Lions, who first of all, he did after he kicked the game in field goal, he did the boom, the big justice AJ Boom Dance, which is that's the new touchdown dance or field goal dance. He also had this to say afterwards.
He said 18 months ago, I thought I was done with football. I was working as a brick salesman in Houston. That's a good line of business to be in. Good for him.
Him and Mincey, both bricks salesmen. Bricks salesmen pays well. Yeah. But yeah, that's a pretty cool story.
How do you sell bricks? I mean, I know how you sell one kind of them, but yeah, I think it's probably, I don't know, the strength of them. Like you probably have some bricks that are stronger than others. Yeah, it's like you just show up and you're like, you want the good bricks or you want the bad bricks.
Yeah, here, take my knife. Try this brick. Yeah, it's like the cut co-sales people. You bring a hammer, you're like, try to break this brick.
You can't do it. Okay. Next game, Packers. Oh, by the way, both these teams, I feel like are going to go to the playoffs and both these teams are very, very good.
So I'm not, like Vikings, as much as that game probably suck, especially the way it went down that you were up late and you get that Dave Montgomery fumble and you're like, holy shit, we're going to win this game. Because it flipped back and forth constantly. It was like Vikings up big, Lions come back up big, Vikings back up and then Lions win the game late. But I think both these teams are both very good teams.
What if once a year Brian Flores was like, you know what, I'm not going to blitz it all this week. They expect me to blitz on like 60% of the plays. I'm just not going to do it. We're just going to run base.
That was what I was saying. If I were a head coach, I would fake punt every single time until the playoffs and then I would start real punting. Like Jared golf would expect it. He would run play action.
He turns his back to line of scrimmage. He fakes a handoff and then he turns around expecting it to be a blitz and he's like, what the fuck? There's so many guys out there. It would make him think for a second.
Yeah, that's true. Also Ben Johnson, I forgot to mention this. I think it was midweek. Someone asked him about like, hey, do you feel like you emptied the playbook a little too much against the Cowboys?
He was like, the well is very deep. I love that. We're good. We're going to get really fucking weird.
We're going to get weird. He's like, don't worry. This thing is unlimited. He's got an unlimited coffee cup of, yeah, here it is.
Ben Johnson on trick plays. I'm not worried about putting things on tape. If anything, it's going to set up the next thing down the road. The well is deep.
I love that. So, yeah, so they're going to have to make a little lateral ball after he catches the back. So another lineman. Yeah, I love that.
So they're playing the Lions or they're playing the Titans at home. So let's get freaky with the game. No, that's just run the straight shit and just fuck them up. Lions at Packers.
That might be a freaky game. That might be a freaky game. And then Lions at Texans to me feels like a very freaky game. Because they're going back to Texas.
Yeah, and they're like, oh, we always get freaky. We always get enough to Cowboys. Yeah. We got to really make their cousins feel it too.
Something in the air down here gets me all riled up. All right, speaking of Packers 24 Texans 22 meet max not over uniforms. They look like over uniforms for like the whole entire fucking game. I think these were 33 points in the first half.
It was crazy. They were scoring so many points. The Texans, the Texans offensive line is bad. C.J.
Stroud was not good today. But I also can say that I'm not going to say C.J. Stroud's bad. I think he's got some issues, but he was under attack.
It felt like on every single play. And then we also had at the end of the game, Dimeko Ryan's and Bobby Sloic with some head scratching clock management play calling to end the game because they basically decided to settle for a field goal when there was a minute and 45 seconds left and didn't make the Packers burn all three of their time out. If you're going to do the hey, let's run it up the gut for no yards. You got to make sure they at least burn all their time out.
You got to commit one way or the other. They ran it up the gut two times for no yards and then ran an out route that in best case scenario, he catches. I don't remember who was targeted that might have been taken out. In the best case scenario, he catches and goes out of bounds and you still don't burn all their time out.
Yeah, it was very bizarre at the end of the game there. I think the Texans will be okay because their defense is very, very banged up. So yeah, I wouldn't again, I kind of put this in the same box as I put the Vikings loss in. You lost a tough game against a good opponent.
You probably did a couple of things that screwed yourself over a little bit. I would if I were a Texans fan sitting there watching into that game, I'd be very frustrated with the way that they manage the end of the game because it was, you know that Jordan Love is good enough to take them down the field for a field goal. If that's all he needs, you got to try to score a touchdown and I get it. Like you're also trying to get them to burn timeouts, but get a little bit creative where they felt like they just threw away the first and second down place.
Maybe they watched a lot of tape on the Packers and they said, we don't really care if Jordan Love's going to drive down the field for a field goal because they're going to miss the field goal. Forgetting the fact that they got branded man who actually is able to make field goals. And I think did their old kicker miss an extra point today? Did he?
I think he did. Is that Andrews? Is he on a team? I think so.
I think so. All right. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, he's on the Niners.
That's an extra point. Yeah. So there you go. So I think they just got caught watching tape from the Packers games of old and didn't realize they got a new kicker.
Yeah, I just, that was a winnable game for the Texans at the end and they weren't able to do it. They ran the ball. Joe Nixon is really fun good and when they get an ego Collins back, but that was a measuring stick game and they failed the measuring stick. I know they're banged up, but they're offensive line is a problem.
Okay. So in the second half, this is a short throw for 86 yards. This is kind of a recurring theme for the Texans and also I think a recurring theme for the Packers that the Texans second half offense is atrocious. They're really bad with the exception of last week.
They scored 27 points, but before that, like they've been dog shit in the second half and the Packers defense has been lights out in the second half. Yeah, you just got second half. Yeah, you got second half. You got second half.
You got second half. 86 yards of shocking though for CJ. Jordan Love. Yeah, very shocking.
Jordan Love is just Brefarff and I know that that's actually a bad thing because Brefarff obviously is a Hall of Famer, one MVPs, one Super Bowl, but Jordan Love. Now we still have to play the Monday night game with Baker Mayfield, but Jordan Love is missed two games this year. He leads the league in touchdowns and interceptions. That's cool.
15 touchdowns seven interceptions. That's very cool. I maybe there's maybe did my home store second one. But either way, he leads it.
He's tied I think with Baker with 15 touchdowns passes, but that's he is Brefarff and he missed two games. He's missed two games this year. I got a question for you, Big Cat. Are interceptions good now?
I like my quarterback's throat least one or two. Are they good? Are they the best thing? Because I'm going to look up right now.
Who's leading the league in interceptions from the quarterback position? Is it Patrick Mahomes still? Patrick Mahomes still? Well, no, it's Jordan Love.
Yeah, Jordan Love. Why asshole? You just talk about how bad jail and hurts is when he throws interceptions. No, we're consistent on this.
Yeah, we would never do that. So Patrick Mahomes, that doesn't sound like us. So listen, that was like two months ago. Those preseason max doesn't make a difference.
We're talking regularly. We're talking regularly season ball. But here's how it works. Well, it's also the funnels.
Here's how it works. When Patrick Mahomes starts doing a lot of anything, that thing actually becomes good. Yeah. So Patrick Mahomes hadn't shown us the light that interceptions were good when Jalen Hurrah's doing it, not because he wanted to be more like Patrick Mahomes, but just because he was a bad quarterback.
Yeah, he's showing us the new way to do this. Aaron Rodgers started throwing interceptions just this year. Great quarterback. Great quarterback.
If he had a thousand stats about it. How about what? Aaron Rodgers throwing picks. Yeah, it was never me.
He was trying to copy Patrick Mahomes who's a trailblazer and Jordan Love has got on to the new trend. But I also like the fact that Josh Allen refuses to go with the trend because he's a man's man. He's a man of principles. He walks alone and he'll stand by himself because he believes in it.
Yeah. But yeah, Jordan Love, I mean, he's, he fills up the stat sheet. He throws picks, throws touchdowns. I, so how would you power rank the NFC North right now in terms of confidence to go deep in the playoffs?
I will, I, I am very, I'll be very unbiased. I think the Bears have the longest shot. I'm not, I'm not fooling myself. I would say Lions number one.
Yeah. I would say, I think I'm going to say the Packers number two. Right. Is that crazy?