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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Monday, October 23rd and week seven.

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We start in Baltimore, where, sorry, Ms. Lamar Jackson, these ravens are, for real, never meant to make Dan Campbell cry. The Lions played like they were on a bye. Mark Andrews Bogut went sky high for his first of two scores as a Gus bus ran all over Detroit.

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We go to Indy, where Gardner, Two-and-a-half, Minshew and Jonathan Taylor. Thomas had the laugh tracks going in the first quarter as the Colts jumped out to an early lead. And as Deshauncey Billups, Watson and his fearsome D got hurt. It was time for P..J. Walker, Texas Ranger, to step in and give his team some much-needed aids on offense. There might be a little dust in the bottle.

What in Foxboro, where it's always darkest before dawn, especially when you have a lighthouse to show you the way? Bill Belichick, my good personal friend, notches his 300th win and a contract extension someday.

Someday.

Big Mac Jones found his special sauce with game-winning touchdown drive to Mike GSesame Bun. Because it was such a big win. We kick it to our producer and Diehard Patriots fan, Hank Lockwood for comment.

He stepped out, Boom, Oh, he's on vacation.

Bill's coach Sean McDermott was seen drinking apple juice post-game as Bill Belichick little-boyed his team Sunday afternoon. And no one circles the wagons like the lighthouse Patriots Patriots 29 Bill's 25 hank.

That's his yawn boom, I can spot that yawn from anyways up to the meadowlands, we go, where Bong Rivera looked very green as he got lit up by Brian Eightball.

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Say Quan Mi. Barkley had his a-ha moment and some cool-looking draws, while Terry Dactyl-McLaurin looked extinct for the first half. And a touching tribute to my good friend Reek from Game of Thrones, with Tyrod Lenold-Taylor and Sam Throw in the howl. It was a game of sacks. Darren Revell-Waller caught over six pieces of merchandise from the first African-American quarterback to ever win a game for the New York football giants.

In the Windy City, with the Graters vs the Hares as Dante Just for Men saves Chicago from dying. Spiler's secret pageant man snuck up underneath Josh McDaniels as he's no longer to see past his two chins. Come jail away, come jail away, come jailin away with me, as Jalen Johnson said, Look at me, look at me, I'm the captain.

We go to Kansas City, where the Chiefs looked like a well-oiled machine. As Marquez Exxon Valdez-Gatling scored Joshua Machine Gun. Kelly started out looking like it was a wrap, but then got punked. Michael Jackson Mahomes said. I'll be there anytime Taylor Swift is on screen, and Justin Herbert's picks are inevitable as the Giants. Sadness goes to infinity and beyond, continuing to be a collection of unserious toys owned by Andy.

Out West, where the Steelers D double cupped as George Slippins dominated and Jaylene Warren walked into the end zone. 2-2. Pac Atwell put the Rams ahead. But T.J. in the city of Good Old Watts, showed some California love to Stafford, cradling his football to the goal line in a game-changing play. Are the Steelers good or the Rams bad? What?

We go up to Mile High, where Cortland Suttin, about Mary, could only look on as Jerry Judy got hit in his beans and his Frank. Can anybody find Jordan somebody to love? Was under pressure. Da-da-da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da-da. As the Packers looked like they wished they were back in training camp, riding their bicycles. As Russ finally cooked after pleading with the Broncos that he wants to break free late in the fourth quarter, Broncos kicker will da-da-da, another one bites.

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Okay, week seven in the books we are recording during the first half of the Dolphins-Eagles game. We will get to all of that later. Max is actually watching the game on stream. Also, Hank is not here, which is very unfortunate because the Patriots won a game.

It's awful. I really wish that Hank was here.

Yeah, we have some good stats for Hank otherwise, but let's get into the games. What a great Sunday. And let's start with what was supposed to be the premier early game. And was a coronation of the Ravens, being very much for real. Ravens. 38 Lions 6..

I think it was an ass kicking.

It was such a blowout by the Ravens. The Lions didn't get their first first down until the Ravens were up 28 to nothing. Yeah, and we'll start with the Ravens because they deserve all the credit here. It felt like this was maybe, and maybe we look back at this and like, that was stupid.

So, as I said on Friday, I could see the lines blowing out the Ravens. I can't see a world where the Ravens blow out the Lions. Newsflash I'm dumb as shit, I got this one very wrong.

You know what?

Extremely wrong.

It's it's better than what I did, where I basically made a ton of points for why the Ravens would win and then bet on the Lions. Yeah, I was like, the Lions secondary hasn't been tested. This could be a big mismatch for them. Made all these points and then when I made the bet, I put in the Lions and then I felt like the biggest dummy in the world.

Your brain was right, your balls were wrong, right on that, right, as so often happens with us. But yeah, it was. It was an asking. And the Lions, just like straight up, could not compete with the Ravens today.

There is a theory that NFC teams don't because they never see, yeah, they see him once every four years, that they don't fully know how to play defense against him. Whereas AFC teams have seen it multiple times, especially in division. So I, I guess I kind of prescribed to that theory.

Yeah, I prescribed to it, I'm going to take, I'm going to take Lamar against the NFC for the rest of my life. I heard that stat. It was also the first home game for the Ravens in, like, a month, yeah.

Terrell Suggs was there. It was beautiful day.

And yeah, it was, it was just straight up an ass kicking and you see Todd Munkin up in the booth when he was. He hates fist pounds, he hates them. Yeah, like the guys on each side of them, they were trying to fist bump them, and he just slapped their hands with his open.

I have a question for you about the Ravens. So not to overreact, but this is the whole show is we overreact. And we don't know what's going to happen with this Eagles Dolphins game. But would it be fair to say the Ravens might be the second or third best team in the AFC behind the Chiefs? Like right now, yeah.

If the Superbowl were today, the Ravens would win it, I think so. Our Superbowl winner of the week is the 49ers play on Monday. So make no mistake, this was just a straight up ass kicking.

They had that like, 80 yard pass to Gus, yeah, and like, that was right when they could have slowed down. It was like, hey, it was a little bit of a broken play and the Lions were still trying to score at the end and they couldn't.

Yeah, Jamison had, like, a, I think, three drops, one hit him right in the face, yeah.

You could hear Max screaming in the background.

He was, he was a very bad today, the whole like, just in general for the lines, you played like crap today. But the silver lining might be that in 1991, did you know the lion started out five and two? yes, and five and one, they were five and two.

They were five and one going into their their week seven game.

Right, so, the last time they were five and two, they had a 32 point loss to make them five and two, and they went on to win the division. Yeah.

They want to play.

I want to play off game that year.

Stat hole has to stop sending us both the stats.

Yeah, yeah.

Just pick one of us so you can trade back and forth. Yeah, but he sent me that stat, too.

So, um, but yeah, I actually, and a weird spin zone like this. I think Dan Campbell said something like this after the game, like, we probably needed a loss like this.

So yeah, I mean, this is a bury the football, like throw out the tape. You can make the argument a one point loss in a 32 point loss of the same thing, but you also could make the argument. The Lions have beaten some. You know, their week one Kansas City win is very, very impressive. Their Packers win is looking worse. If we're doing BCS computer, the Packers win is looking worse by the week.

Yep.

Uh, they, they killed the Panthers, they killed the Falcons, and they lost the Seahawks. I if you're a Lions fan, there's definitely like, a ooh. This was cause, you know, if you had lost in a competitive game, you're like, Oh well, a road game. Lamar played great. This wasn't a competitive game in any stretch of the imagination.

No, Lamar had his way with you big time today.

This is some big time like pour some cold water on on on the Lions and the Lions fans of like, maybe a reality check.

It's also a very tough day for the Lamar haters out there. Let's say that he can't throw the ball, it's his. He was, he was wheeling, dealing. Patrick Ricard had the coolest reception of the day, he had like a 24 yard gain. And he's just like a 305 pound dude, panicking because he's never seen that much daylight in front of him as he runs downfield.

That's the difference. The Ravens have weapons now and their defense is really fucking good. Yeah, like Roquan is the perfect Raven, even though he, he actually has beaten the Steelers. I don't know why we keep saying that someone has corrected me, but he, I don't know what, his record, maybe he hasn't, actually.

He's he might have one win.

He might have one win, but he might be one in two against Steelers, so he's got to beat him again.

You have to have a winning record against the Steelers to be a.

Raven But they're Ravens defenses and they're getting healthier, which is actually kind of a cheat code by the Ravens. To start the season with all the injuries. Cause then there's no way to go but getting healthier.

What happens is you get a bunch of starters injured in, like, week one, week two. And then it takes a couple of weeks for your backups to get enough reps with the first team, and then they start playing like their first team also.

It's like making a couple of big splashes at the deadline. Yeah, they just added some, some, some key pieces.

Yes, they're going to get a bunch of players back.

They're the most active trade deadline team.

So great, this was a Greg Olson game today, right? We love Greg Olson. Recurring guest. A great tight end, a great looking guy. He's got it all, except for a nice coat to wear on television.

So he took a risk, it didn't work.

It looked like he, like he sliced up a couch with a butcher's knife and then just draped it on his shoulders like a cape, well.

The problem is, I think I have that same coat and I wear it for barstool sports advisors when I'm intentionally trying to look as bad as possible.

It was like it was like, felt. It really looked like he didn't bring a coat. And then he saw the curtains in his hotel room. This morning, he was like, You know what, I'll just put these on.

And I know, like you said, Greg's a friend. Um, and you know, you have to tell your friends when they wear a fucking god awful coat that makes you want to poke your eyes out, you have to.

I think.

Because otherwise you're not a good friend, right? Like, you have to tell your friend. When he wears something that's so embarrassing, you wonder if he should even have the job anymore. You have to say these things, uh, burn that coat, and whoever told you that was a good coat, unless your wife, then I take all this back, uh. But I think it was like some new age, you know? Uh, fashion guy tried to tell him this.

He looked like he was in in, like, uh, a Barbie cinematic universe, where he was playing Ken. But if Ken was like, a really shitty used car salesman, yeah, that's it. It was like, made out of velcro, he so, Greg, Listen, I actually liked the fact that Greg Olson is wearing terrible clothes on TV because otherwise it's not fair.

Yes, that's true. He looked like, um, if he was like in a Bond movie, and he was playing blackjack next to Bond. And then it was like a foreshadowing of Bond. Having to realize it two hours later, when, as a movie progresses, like, what was that coat? yeah.

Yeah, he was up to something. It was a national tight end date.

We're not going to make a thing about the coat.

No, there was a terrible, terrible coat, yeah.

We're not going to, we're not going to make it a big thing, but burn the coat, burn whoever gave you the coat.

Uh.

Start over, just wear a t-shirt, you look hot in a t-shirt, dude, you're a hot dude.

He could pull off just about anything in the world except for that coat, yeah, which I almost respect. Like he found the one thing that made Greg Olson look not super, super handsome.

Yeah, it was like it was basically a challenge. Unlocked. Can you make Greg Olson look bad? He did it?

Good job, Greg, yeah.

But he's calling a game every week, so he's got to have a Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake. The moment you get a package to call a season long, like, you got to go shopping, Jake, you got to vary it up. It doesn't matter if you just wear a regular coat. No one says, Boo, Yeah, it's fair.

Listen, great, he's going to come back. I'm sure he'll have some heat next week. He'll look great and everybody will be like, Oh, what an awesome guy Greg Olson is. He looks awesome on television. But we'll always have this one week.

It's one week and it's how you respond to the bad week. Yeah, it's not how you know. Like, we can't say, Oh, the Lions are a terrible team now, though they had a really, really bad game.

Mary, the Code. Greg Olson probably needed a week like this to bring him down to earth so he can get back in the film room and get back to basics. And what made him great to begin with?

I would like to hear from Lions fans, though, how they're feeling. Because this is one of those losses. That you're riding high and everything feels good. And you're killing the bad teams, which I give credit to anyone, you know, it's the NFL, it's hard to, it's hard to win games no matter what. They pay those guys too. Uh, but then to have a loss like this against another team, you know, an AFC team that is Super Bowl aspirations.

I think what you say to yourself as well. At least we don't have to play Lamar until the Super Bowl, right?

But that now the other thing I was going to say, that's that, that's that whole game, both of us. The 91 Lions being five and one going into their seventh game and losing by exactly 32, that team won a won a playoff game. Would Lions fans sign up for a playoff win this year? Oh, absolutely.

A single, yes.

I don't think else you can't get past that.

I think they would, Okay, I think they would probably.

Yeah, also. This was the first of three straight games for the Ravens against the NFC teams. To your stat earlier.

Okay, so who do we got next week? Oh, I bet I'm going to take the Ravens in that one.

I think Seahawks, here's the other good thing about for the Lions. Their schedule is not hard, They have a lot of winnable games coming up. They play the Raiders, the Chargers, the Bears, the Packers, the Saints, the Bears, again, the Broncos. I'm saying, like the Vikings twice, they have the Cowboys. Week 17..

Yeah, and to our point that we made, I think on Friday, five and two looks awesome.

Five and two looks great.

Five and two is a fantastic record.

Yeah, five and two looks great. Go beat the Raiders next week back in Detroit Monday night football. And then you get a bye week and then you're, you're, you're back. Everything feels good.

I also love how we're just like, kind of completely going back on what we said about the lines. That they don't take games off, that they won't get their ass kicked, I don't know. We're like, you know what it's, it's probably good for them.

I don't even know if they took this game off, they just got, they just got their asses kicked. I think the Ravens are at this point in time a lot better than the line.

Jared was not ready for that defense or the offensive line was. I don't know exactly how they were getting pressure on him all the time. He was uncomfortable. No, he didn't look good.

The very first snap, he didn't have a good game. And they're in the Lions. rush defense, which was the best rush defense statistically going into today. They gave up 146 yards. It was top defense versus one of the best rushing.

I mean, if you're a Ravens fan, you were definitely thinking Superbowl, right?

The answer is probably not, because the Ravens will, then, knowing how the Ravens always act. I still think they're a very good team. But next week they'll go out and like, Lay a clunker, uh? And then everyone will be like, what's up with the Ravens? Then they'll just do it again, where then they kill someone? That's how the Ravens do it.

There was a very weird moment in the second half of this game where Odell Beckham just spat into his helmet, just talked to Louie into his helmet. Some people were telling me that he was spitting on on his visor to, like, clear it off. Oh, like a scuba mask, like a scuba mask. But when? If you watch the replay? He just took his helmet and just like he was holding it like a foot away from his mouth and just spat into it. Indiscriminate, I don't know.

Pretty weird move. Uh, okay, next game. Patriots 29, Bills 25. Um, tough day for us, uh versus the you guys just suck off the Bills and the Lions uh crowd.

So I think I figured out what's wrong with the bills. I think they just might not be a very good football team right now.

I would agree.

I think that there's like some actual problems with that team, especially their rush defense and the offense looks a little out of sorts. To like the bills, we put them in the Super Bowl contending conversation at the start of every year. Cause they have Josh Allen, and Josh Allen kicks ass. But he's not playing his best right now, The defense isn't playing their best right now. I think the Bills just aren't a very good team.

I think the Bills defensive injuries have piled up in a way that they are not. Like. Mack Jones was very good today. Yeah, Mack Jones deserves, he's gotten a lot of shit.

Mack Jones outplayed Josh Allen today. Yeah, Mack Jones, that. So here's a fun stat, Hank, you'll appreciate this.

Yeah, funny, you should ask. We actually just signed to an extension. Um, Tom Kern, who covers the Patriots, who I think is native Bill? At least his sons are, uh, said that. It was interesting because only the last time the Patriots talked about Bill Belichick's contract, which is a mystery.

Know how much coaches make?

I wish we knew, I would guess like 10 million.

Yeah, I was going to say about 10. He's probably he's the highest paid coach by far.

Um, so he said that the last time they talked about an extension and and essentially the same playbook of, Oh, we signed him an extension this summer was right after Spygate. Yeah, so similar, like, Hey, what are the questions going on? and everything? No, no.

I guess so, but it's also not that big of a vote of confidence. The fact that they leaked this right now. If they really believed in Belichick, they probably would have announced that over the summer.

No, but they don't do that. They never announced those things. I think they wait just to be like, break, break glass in case of emergency.

Something weird happens, I don't know Vrabel was there, though.

Vrabel was there. Yeah, he, I think he was getting inducted, uh, into the Patriots Ring of Honor. uh, and yeah, the Patriots. Like, I wish Hank were here, he would love, he would have loved to talk about that game.

We should just remind ourselves that Bill Belichick has the most Superbowl wins as a head coach. He's got six, he's got the most. Or, excuse me, uh, yeah, Superbowl wins as a head coach with six.

Oh, those are great.

So there's just these are just factual stats that I'd like to say.

And what is Bill Belichick? What's his favorite phrase? Second favorite phrase? Do your jobs? Number one no days off.

I also, I love that. Bill. Belichick said that during the parade on a day off, when everybody was taking a half, a day is off.

Uh, but yeah, the the Patriots, like, I feel like as someone who goes through what feels like a tanking season every single year. Uh. Getting these random wins actually is very good for the psyche, cause it's like, Oh, maybe we're not so far off. Yeah, you know, like that's a very, it's, it's an. it's a nice thing.

Yeah, and and the Patriots looked like a regional college school. Playing against Alabama for the last few weeks, right? They look really, really bad, and today they actually play great football.

He did.

He was, he was throwing it, he was he. That last drive was huge. I think he's probably going to go into next week being, like, probably a little too confident if we're being honest.

Oh, yeah, he's his dance after, yeah.

Like he had won the Super Bowl. And shout out to Mike Kosicki, who remains committed to doing the gritty. Yes, and that was an appropriate gritty. At the end of the game. When you score the go ahead touchdown, um, and I think he's, like, intentionally bad at the gritty.

Yeah, and uh, Demario Douglas, uh, who I think is a rookie for the Patriots. He looked like. Now you always have to judge it because the Patriots somehow collect what seems like the slowest wide receivers and skill position. But he looked like he had pop. Yeah, they have something there.

Last week they were, they set like a world record in ineptitude in a game that was won against the Giants. It was they got punched in the mouth last week and then the week before they.

Got punched in the mouth by the Jaguars, Yeah.

They're just they're getting punched in the mouth a lot these days.

They might be concussed, yeah, they might be punched drunk.

Yeah.

So I don't know if, like, you can say, Oh yeah, this is actually good for us, like the lion said, because it keeps happening. So, like, Yeah, you might. You might not be that good of a football team right now.

Yeah, so I mean, the bills look great on offense against the commanders, and then ever since then, they've just looked very, very mediocre at best.

Right, right, and you and you keep saying the raiders as well, they kill the raiders.

That's right, yeah.

Yeah, and so you keep thinking, like, Oh, it's there somewhere, and maybe it will click. And they'll. They'll all of a sudden look like the bills that we've been accustomed to. But right now, I wouldn't bet on it because this is. This is three weeks in a row where they have not looked good. I think we have a Diva watch update, too. Why? Stefan Diggs declined to speak to reporters and mulled at his locker for 45 minutes.

What was he doing at his locker? Just like just staring off in the distance?

How much mulling he just scenes from postgame. Stefan Diggs declined to speak to reporters and mulling at his locker for 45 minutes.

Would you rather have a player mulling or stewing at their locker? I feel like I feel like I'd rather have a player that stew, stew. Yeah, because if they're stewing, I think there's anger.

Yeah.

They're angry and they're thinking about stuff. If you're mulling, you're you're plotting some sort of weird mood.

And that's also like a mull is definitely a sad. When you're sitting, you're kind of questioning your whole life.

Yeah.

How you got here? All that stewing is like, I'm I can't wait for next week. Yeah, Max staring off, he was, he was mulling.

He was mulling, Yeah, when you're mulling, you're thinking about mistakes you've made in the past and you're dwelling on them, right? Like, how could things be different?

And how can I fix this?

I want a guy that stews.

I love Stefan Diggs, but it's a pet peeve of mine when I don't speak to the media. Oh, how dare they just just say, just be like he did? He mulled. You got a story out of him.

Body language, yeah.

You literally, and also I. Here's my counterpoint to that, Jake. When you don't speak to the media, that's also a story. So what's the that's true? Like? What is he going to say? It's better for the player to be like to speak.

Right, like when Cam Newton lost the Superbowl, yeah, it was a big story, and he didn't tell you that's a big story.

So if you're mad that a player doesn't speak to the media, it's easier for the story. But I'm saying it's for the player's benefit is better. If I was a journalist, I would never want the players to speak, cause then I'd just be like, this guy's a fucking pussy.

And he won't talk to them.

Story written.

I'll just, I'll just say that I'm on the record, I don't care when a player doesn't talk to them.

I don't know, cause they rarely say anything good.

Jake, What if you had the worst podcast of your life, right? what if you messed up every nerd nugget and you're just mulling? And then, right?

After I want to be accountable.

Then right afterwards, Hank grills you for like 30 minutes.

I'm like, it's on me, I take full responsibility and then I'd be like, But then? But then I would fall. It's my fault, it's my fault.

I don't, you don't actually mean.

Yeah, if if Hank filed a report saying, Uh, Jake Marsh wouldn't, could not be reached for comment. But like, Ooh, trouble in paradise.

Yeah.

This is awesome, this is juicy.

Yeah, it's also very possible that Stefan Digs just hates losing, which is a guy that you would actually want to have on your team.

I'm also realizing that, like we should, we should teach a journalism class, because the shit you're learning is was so off.

Well, yeah.

You'd be like, drilled into you. That the players have to talk to the to the media. No, the players don't have to talk to the media. It's better story when they don't, cause then you get to just make up worse.

Jake, did you use no comment to us? Yeah, we're going to have to. We're going to have to talk about how, how Jake will address the media.

That's you're not, that's more than sitting in moline like this.

No, Jake, you're not addressing the media right now. When Big Cat asked you a question as a journalist and you said no comment, well, I thought you were going to digs.

I think journalists are just such robots that they're like, Oh, he didn't speak, so now what am I going to do? I would be like, Hey, he didn't speak. Now I get to write a story, just bashing him.

Well, I think that most sports journalists grow up thinking to themselves like, Okay, I want to be a sports journalist when I grow up. And then once they get there, they think that's the most important job in the world, right? It's like that and then being like a a roadie for Bruce Springsteen tied one and two.

Don't tell us you're onto the next week. Yeah, you got to go look at the film.

I absolutely hate it when a quarterback doesn't tell me that every interception I threw is his fault.

I will, I will not. I will not sleep until they tell me that they have to look at the film before they tell me what happened.

Can you believe? Can you believe? This coach didn't tell me that it starts with me and that it starts and ends with me. And that he's got to take a good, long look in the mirror. Bullshit. What am I going to write about?

Also, Stefan Digs definitely saved himself because he if he was mulling, he would have said some shit that he wouldn't regret it.

Yep.

Anyway, I had to mull even more so. Um, okay, so congrats to Hank. Oh yeah, still not here.

And he's not getting it, he's not getting it. It was also the Lighthouse's first win today. Oh, and historic.

Where were you? We were here.

We were here, we were watching it. There was a field goal that the Bills missed in the first half, that was it. It sailed like 20 yards to the right after he kicked it.

So windy.

That's that's the windy conditions that Belichick was talking about, that the lighthouse does provide, yep.

That's a fact.

Give the Lighthouse half the win today.

That's a fact. Uh, okay, before we get to the next games. Game Time the exclusive ticketing partner of Barstool Sports, you shouldn't have to worry when you're buying tickets to your next big event. Game Time is the fast and easy way to buy tickets for all sports, music, comedy and theaters events near you.

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Equinox, where all four major sports Monday it might be, is NBA tomorrow. Oh, Tuesday, yeah, Tuesday, so we're going to have that in the next week.

Yeah, it was a great game and it did last for forever. So, Miles Garrett is the first player since 2000 with two sacks, two force fumbles and a block kick in a single game.

The block was so destroyed.

He just jumped over the line and I think if you touch an offensive lineman when you're trying to jump over him, it's a penalty. And I think it's a big one. I think it's either 10 or 15 yards, so it'd be a first down.

And uh, the, I mean, all right. So the Colts, I'm big fan of Shane Steichen. They obviously have had a weird season because Anthony Richardson has out for the year. The fact that they're, they might be the friskiest team in the NFL.

They're a well-coached team.

They're a well-coached team, they're frisky, they've won against some good opponents there. It feels like they're in every game and they don't make it. I mean, they made a bunch of mistakes today, cause they had fumbles and everything, uh, and they couldn't block Miles Garrett. But no one can.

Yeah, uh, but when they're at home, they they always compete. And this was the first loss in the history of Lucas Oil Stadium, where the window was closed and the roof was open. They still covered. But, uh, they were 10, and oh, now they're 10 and one asterisks, asterisks on this one.

Cause he put his helmet back on, which usually with a concussion, they don't let you have your helmet.

Yeah.

Um, and he got injured on a play where he threw one of the worst interceptions, except the Colts player dropped it at the last second. Yeah, uh, yeah, it's it's gotta be. I mean, Brown's fans know this, they're tortured. It's gotta be extra maddening to know that you kind of signed a deal with the Devil and Deshaun Watson.

Yeah, when he's playing, he just doesn't look like the old Deshaun Watson who was having fun when he was playing. You know, like he would run around and he would actually go full tilt. This Deshaun just kind of looks like he's going through the motions a little bit, and when you put P.J. Walker back there, at least he's trying.

And he has multiple times a game where he throws interceptions that are like, fuck it, I'm just going to throw it and hope something happens.

Yeah, like, I don't really want to be on offense anymore.

Like, maybe someone will catch this.

Yeah.

Maybe not, who cares, but yeah, it's, uh, it's definitely a problem. Because P.J. Walker, he did have the game winning drive, but he's not, you know, P.J. Walker. You can't expect to be your starter for a playoff.

He's a nice backup, He's a very nice, very nice backup.

Very nice backup. Um, also, Gardner Minshew might be back because what he did to the Browns defense today, which was the best defensively coming into today, he had four total touchdowns. He did have some Gardner Minshew moments where it's just fun. Because Gardner Minshew is like, you know, the Tony Snell meme. When he. When he just plays for 30 minutes and doesn't record a stat, Gardner Minshew will always make sure that, you know, Gardner Minshew played.

He's got everything.

He's like, he's, he's the wedding guest that, like, really cuts it up on the dance floor. Maybe that says something inappropriate to the mother of the bride. Uh, tries to make an impromptu speech, and you're, and you walk away being like, Oh, yeah, Gardner was there.

I think this is the very definition of wildcard, he's such a wild card, you feel him.

It's fun you feel something when you watch him.

He'll have, like, yeah, he'll have multiple touchdowns, he'll have some fumbles, he'll throw an interception, he'll probably get his helmet knocked off a couple of times.

He'll do a dance.

Yeah, he'll get up and like, uh, do a big group celebration on the sidelines after a sick touchdown. He'll, uh, give his dad a bro hug in the tunnel after the game's over. Like Gardner, Minshew is, watching him makes you feel more alive.

Yeah, you never walk out of a Gardner Minshew game being like, Wait, who played quarterback today? No, no, no, it was Gardner Minshew.

Yeah, shit will happen, shit will happen, for sure.

Yeah, he's so, um, he might. Minshew Mania might be back, but good for the Browns, even though they got a little lucky there. But you know what, the Browns are definitely in the category of teams. That if they get a favorable whistle, I will never blame them or be like, that's bullshit because they deserve it. I feel like they've probably gotten their fair of unfair, their share of unfair whistles in the history of the Browns.

Yeah, yeah, they missed a couple of tackles on their defensive side today, but overall, like, I think the Browns are still, they're going to be hanging around. They're four and two right now, which actually puts them in third place in that division, that division is kind of crazy.

The division is good.

Cause the Steelers are, I guess, technically above them right now. Um, and you just know that whenever any of these teams play each other, it's going to be like 17 to 15. And there's going to be like multiple injuries. And weird shit's going to happen, there's going to beat the hell out of each other.

And the craziest part is the last place team. The Bengals is the team that would probably feel most confident in making a deep run. Yeah, which, yeah, it's a very good division, very good division.

Five games in a row with a 50 yard field goal, incredible kicking used to be a lot harder. I feel like, right, like when you were growing up and you were attempting like a 51 yard field goal, you'd be like, Oh shit, this is crazy long.

This is why, um, the college game is so much fun, because every kick, no matter the distance, is a hold your breath. This might not go in now in the NFL. I'm shocked when a guy misses, like, a 40 yarder, yeah.

They've gotten so much better in the last, like 20 years.

And it is, you're, you're right, because it's you. I. When we were growing up, there was attempting 50 plus charters, that wouldn't if three of them in a game. Yeah, maybe it was.

Maybe it's coaches have just learned to trust kickers more over the years, cause coaches have always hated kickers. It's been their least favorite position by far, and now, slowly, kickers have proven that. Yeah, we can kick the ball 50 yards if we have to. And over the course of the last, like, I don't know, quarter century coaches have gradually been giving them more and more freedom.

Okay, this is going to be very dumb, what I'm about to say, what if kickers? and I know this is going to be dumb? What if kickers are all in? The NFL? Really good at these long distance kicks, but they actually suck at short distance kicks. And we don't even know it anymore because so many teams go for it.

They go for it on, like, Yeah, it's different angles.

I think we have the extra point back. Yeah, what if that'd be awesome if everyone just kept on missing like 23 yarders?

They've become like Steph Curry.

We just had no idea because they just weren't trying it. They can make all these three pointers, but they can't make a layup.

They can't do it, they can't play the old way. That'd be a great twist, yeah.

Uh, okay, uh. Next game Giants 14, Commanders seven.

Soupy off, soupy off, soupy, officially off. I'm going to turn this over to a magic. Johnson for analysis.

Okay.

Uh, owner of the Commanders partial owner Magic Johnson said It's a disappointing 14 to seven loss for my commanders, the New York Giants. It's hard to win in the N.FL when you only score seven points. I think that's that says it all, right? There, a stat hole did run the numbers on this, so the teams that scored exactly seven points since 1970 are 32, 974 and four.

It was a pretty depressing game. The Giants won the game and the last points they scored was with eight minutes and 56 seconds left in the second quarter. You didn't score for the last 39 minutes.

It was, I think they scored their first, um, first half touchdown of the season today, yeah, and then they did it again. And so I'm going to just sell everyone mode, which build around Tress Way or Punter. That's what I'll say.

That I think that might be. The most frustrating thing that you're going through is that your team stinks, but you have a lot of good players.

Yeah.

Cause, like, I don't have any good players, you have a lot of good players.

We've got some good players.

One of Terry McLaurin is awesome.

Yes, so he Brian Robinson.

Awesome.

Terry, Terry McLaurin had a great second half today and I would like to see him throw the ball to him more in the first half. But um, I'm going to, I'm going to turn it over to actually Jonathan Allen and reach him for comment after the game. This is his quote I'm fucking tired of this shit. I'm fucking tired of this bullshit. it's been seven fucking years of the same shit.

And Sam Howell, Uh, he's 40 sacks now, through through through the uh, first seven games. yep, he got sacked six times today.

Yeah, I was actually disappointed that it was going to be Tyrod when I found out that he was starting today. I would much rather play against Daniel Jones.

So he did two things. well, he did three things. One is, uh, he got. He got Jalen Hyatt involved. So he had two catches for 75 yards, I think he had like five catches before that.

That's crazy combined, that's wild.

He's never had, like, a statistically. He's had probably games that are maybe statistically better in, like four touchdowns or something, but he's never had all three of those over that.

It was also Brian Dable he was in charge of the offense this week. He was like, in all the meetings, well, Tyra, he, he took chances.

He, he's like, decisive, he's seen it all.

Yeah, he, he really has. Uh, congrats to the Giants. Much better team today, there's.

There are one in 15 on third downs.

Get rid of it. You know what I used to say, Uh, keep sweat trade, chase young trade. why not trade both of them now?

Oh, so, you're in full tank.

I'm in full tank mode. Welcome, it's a it's a bad team. Welcome, it's a bad team.

I good news you play the Eagles next week, and I actually mean that you always play the Eagles. Tough.

Yeah.

So that is good news.

Yeah.

Like, you play the Eagles tough.

I'm just fucking tired of this shit.

Yeah, um, that sucked, that was that was the biggest bummer of a game to watch.

It was terrible. The, Uh. The Giants doubled their sack total for the season in the very first half, and the Commanders had more punts than completions in the first half.

It is tough to sell yourself on three and four when two of your four losses are to the Bears and the Giants.

Yeah, yeah, that's, that's fair. yeah, that's fair to say.

But it is, it was bad.

I'm, listen, I'm. I'm familiar with having this feeling right now. I've had it before, yeah.

It's like getting into a warm tub.

I did see, I did see that, uh. Vegas put out some stats on where Belichick will coach next. If it's not on the Patriots, Commanders are the odds on favor.

I think the bears are second.

Yeah, yeah, so we might get Belichick. Listen, I've always said that Belichick is a great coach, not washed up, and it is. It's close to his hometown of Annapolis, Maryland.

You know what, like I? I fully embrace you going to tank mode. I've said it before that, that that moment that you realize your team sucks. Um, you have like a very brief denial phase, and then you quickly are like, I've been here before. This is, you know, I'm crawling back into my own bed.

Oh yeah, that's huge, that's going to be a massive one, that's me a massive.

We saw him almost talk today.

Weekend at Bernie's him on the sidelines. Just like propping him up, putting the transition lenses on him and just putting him there with his arms crossed and not saying a word. He did. He got fired up about one blown call. Um, so I did see him talk today for the first time all season. So he might not be dead unless we've got a ventriloquist. But it was, Uh, I don't know what's going on.

Yeah.

It was all around just a bummer of a game at at. And we always play the giants. Weird, and it's always like 45 degrees at Metlife and super sunny, and it's just weird vibes from the get go. Um, so yeah, let's let's sell everybody, sell everyone.

Yeah, uh, okay. Next up Falcons 16 bucks 13. Uh, this is just like this was the perfect N.F.C. South game in that both teams are not very good. But you could maybe look at them in a light and be like, Ooh, maybe they're okay. And then the Falcons were better, but they also tried to give the game away so many times.

And I think he fumbled at the one yard line twice, yeah.

But maybe he's just like, maybe Arthur Smith was like, listen, no interceptions, he's like, got it, got it.

He he had three red zone turnovers, none of which were interceptions, the first player to win a start with three red zone turnovers since 2000..

Good for him.

Good for him, so he accomplished the impossible. If you're a Falcons fan, that does not have like the YouTube package. So you're watching out of market. Maybe you're watching on red zone and they keep cutting to your team in the red zone. When you're about to score, you probably think to yourself.

And they also are the best team in the NFC South, which is not really a compliment.

Yeah.

But it's a fact.

And maybe you can get better if, uh, Bijan Robinson carries the ball at all.

Yeah, so he was feeling under the weather today, diarrhea. Our our good friend. Jerry also quote treated a Twitter account with six followers. That said, Bijan Robinson was not playing today because during meetings this week, he was smoking a vape. And Arthur Smith told him to stop, and Bijan smoke blue smoke into Arthur Smith's face.

No, that really happened.

Jerry was like, Wait, what if that guy was right?

Followers and the guy was like, All right, just cause he's got eight followers, it doesn't mean that it's not true.

That report say it was a bad headache, it was okay, so my migraine. Yeah, I like guys that we grains guys. Arthur Smith, I think he is.

His reactions are so much better this year, it's like him and Pete Carroll. The Mustache The Mustache has done wonders for his like slapstick comedy on the side.

He's so funny to watch.

Yeah, he's great, I love him, and I also I have a theory about Arthur Smith. I think his strategy is to get a bunch of really, really talented players on offense and then make opposing defensive coordinators have to game plan for them.

L. Patterson And a little mix it in, yeah.

We're going to get freaky with it and put Quarter L out there for a little bit, too. Oh, you've, you've seen what Kyle Pitts does on tape? Guess what? We're not going to throw the ball to him at all.

He's actually a genius. Yeah, he's basically, uh, the the allies in World War Two. When they when they put all, they staged all the dummy tanks at a different part of England. Yeah, or we just drafted a team of decoys.

They, uh, they pushed some like paratrooper out into the Mediterranean sea, saying how D-day was going to be in Italy and drew all the tanks away. Yeah, that's, I think that's what Arthur Smith's doing. He's like, they're going to, they're going to put together the perfect defensive game plan to stop our really talented players. Yeah.

And um, the bucks suck, they do.

Well, I think I think now they're they might be the best bad team in football.

Oh, best bad team. hmm.

Maybe the Rams?

Hmm, rams are definitely in the char, the chargers.

Oh, yeah, you know what, I didn't charge.

It might be the best bet.

I didn't think about that because we weren't thinking of the Chargers as being a bad team. No, they are a bad team. They're a bad team, yeah.

They're, I think the Chargers might be the best bad team.

What about the bills?

Those bills actually might be, I think. To be considered in the bad team category, you do have to be 500 or below.

Okay.

I think that's that's fair.

Yeah, that's fair.

Um, but yeah, that would be, uh, I would probably take Chargers over the box as best bad team.

Who do you think the worst bad team is? Cause I think the worst bad team might actually be the Raiders.

I think the Cardinals, I think the Cardinals got everyone well. The Panthers didn't play this week, so we forgot about them. They're, they're probably the worst, but the Cardinals also. Like. That was again. I think that that Cowboys win has, they're, they're living off that Cowboys win for a while, like when people like, look at the Cardinals, they're frisky. I don't know.

And I think the Falcons have a pretty favorable schedule going forward. Um, so the Falcons, I think the Falcons are going to make the playoffs. I think they're a playoff, I think they're play.

I agree, I agree. Yeah, no, they do. They do have a favorable schedule, they don't play.

Yeah.

I, Yeah, that is. That's their toughest remaining game at the.

Titans because, remember, variable has been. He was game planning ahead, doing the yeah.

Remember the Titans? Yeah, that's true, um, but yeah, the the Falcons, their defense is good, Falcons defense is good, yeah.

They've, and their offense today was actually pretty good, except for the whole fumbling the ball at the one yard line.

Again, I think that I think Arthur Smith just needs to sit down and be like. So, when I said no interceptions, I actually meant to say no turnovers, because that does feel. The fact that he went from three interceptions last week to no interceptions, three fumbles feels like it was a lost in communication thing.

Yeah, Arthur Smith just needs to rebrand. He needs to say, like, Okay, the one yard line is the brown zone is, don't shit yourself here and you'll be fine.

Yes, yes, because it was, yeah, I mean, the Falcons could have won this game by a few touchdowns.

Yeah.

Uh, but yeah, the bucks stink, I'm ready to say the bucks just stink, they're not good.

They're, I would say, the Bucks poorly coached team.

Well, yeah, uh, Top Bowl is not a good coach. No, no, no, it doesn't we. Steven Shay, our our friend and colleague who's a box fan, will not admit that the box stink he was after the game was like, I think the Bucks are better than the Falcons.

No, that requires thinking ahead, yeah.

And also being aggressive.

Yeah, yeah.

It's just it did go for a fourth and six today, so credits him for that.

It's interesting what happens when Tom Brady leaves a franchise. It's almost like, Tom Brady is very, very good. Yeah, and so you can get away with having a lot of deficiencies when he's on your team, yeah.

Top I mean, Tom Brady really does. He's winning everywhere, he keeps winning, He's like Arnold.

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