NFL Week 9, Fastest 2 Minutes, CJ Stroud Has Arrived, The Dolphins Can't Beat A Good Team And More

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9.

Wait, it's not week 8.

9.

Are you saying 9 or 9 9? Okay? In week 9, we had a rematch of World War II, where U.S invaded Germany. And they brought their fat man and Little boy with Andy Reid and Mike McDaniels.

Back to America, Real America. Houston, Texas, where the Stroud Boys had an uprising. While Tampa Bay tried to stop the count late in the fourth tank. For whom the Dell tolls, it tolls for Thee. Tampa found his hemming way into the end zone twice. Houston was cooking up a storm on their food network as Dolphin Brown combined for 16 catches and 283 yards, leaving Todd on the toilet. Bowls. Texans 39, the Bucs 37..

Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick in Atlanta, where the Vikings season had a Jaren Hall pass after they were forced to start the rookie. But PSSH, Oh my God, that's stone cold. Josh Dobbs Music As God is my witness. Josh Dobbs is back, Josh Calvin and Dobbs in relief. Had the Falcons defense looking like paper tigers, and he put defenders in the funny papers time and time again, Giannuna Matata said. There will be no worries for the rest of your days if you own Kyle Pitts in Fantasy.

Up to Baltimore, where Michael Keaton Mitchell was looking dope and sick as he hit the multiplicity button on yards. The Seahawks were on a hot streak but seemed to have run out of luck at the Cajino, busting out broke in another game. Odell Beckham blew out the candles for his birthday and then celebrated by blowing out the back of the Seahawks as he forced it into their end zone. Michael Jackson, Smith and Jigba will be moonwalking back to Seattle as the Seahawks are bad, they're bad.

Out in the desert, where it was Tony P and LV showing off positive masculinity as Antonio Pierce felt and touched his players before the game. The Giants aren't good, but they have some fellas like Tommy two times, DeVito, we call him Tommy two times because he throws interceptions two times. Here's a pic, Here's a pic.

We go off to Green Bay, where Sean Timothy McVay's plans blew up. In his face and Puka necklace, Nakua looked like a shell of himself. Andrews hot Carlson took a dump all over the Rams face, kicking for two field goal. And Rams fans watching their backup play felt like they were ripping balls on Heikadelics. Watching Brett fumble, snaps and throw picks. Return of the Matt LaFleur is back up in the game, playing with his favorite R&B Aaron Jones again as the Packers beat the Rams 20 to three.

Over to New England, Joe Sly, the science guy, started off the scoring with a first quarter field goal. Bill, bill, bill, bill, bill. Belichick had no answer for Brian Jackie Robinson, who broke the goal line barrier in the second quarter for seven. Hunter Henry Lockwood was flying high after scoring this weekend. And remind giant Stevenson was asking the crowd Does anybody want a peanut? After rushing in for a touchdown of his own late in the quarter, Mac Jones was picked off by Jartavius Martin Garrix, who was high on life after stealing the win.

Over to Philadelphia, where the Cowboys play in a house of pain. Jack it up, jack it in, let me begin. I came to win.

Standing on a corner, Jameis Winston down in Nola, such a fine sight to see. It takes some hill, my Lord, running for a score and throwing for a score, running Chicago's D. Come on, Bajan, get off the pavement.

That's all me, I love you. It was a pure Henry, yes.

So week nine in the books. We're going to talk about Bengals bills at the end, cause we are in the middle of the fourth quarter right now. Looks like the Bengals are going to win after a very costly Dalton Kincaid fumble. But let's get into week nine, let's get into week nine. I feel like we really found out who the absolute worst teams in the league are this week. And also more questions at the top than I had going into it.

I feel like I disagree. Oh, okay, I think we found out who the best teams are.

We do have I. Yeah, there's a couple of very, very good teams. I'm more talking. Yeah, I'm more talking Cowboys, Eagles. I'm. I'm still very confused how that went.

They're not real, not real, they're they're going to continue. They've got some very winnable games coming up, uh, and then the times where they play against the good teams, I think we're going to see more of the same.

When they play Kennesaw State in two weeks, they'll probably put up a hundred, uh, and then they got to play Alabama and it's not going to look good. So the Dolphins, uh, are now verse teams with a losing record five and Oh, with a combined uh score two 34 to one 25, so almost doubling up the score. The Dolphins versus teams with a winning record are Owen three 100 for their appointed opponent, 51 for them.

When they play a good defense, they they kind of turtle a little bit and I think the Chiefs are a really good defense.

I think the Chiefs are a top five defense, which is crazy to say, but I think that that's the scariest part about the Chiefs is that they're often. Still. Doesn't look, uh, like Peak Bahamas. Cause I think in the second half they went completely to sleep. I think they have 46 yards total in the second half, uh, but their defense is very much legit.

Andy Reed beat time. Yeah, we can, that's. he's so good of a coach that he beat time. Andy Reed versus seconds is a battle for the ages. And he came out on top again.

Of the first half.

That was the play of the game, where it's, I mean, Tyreek, former chief, talking a lot of shit going into this game, get stripped, loses the ball, they return it, they rugby it back for a touchdown. And at that point, it felt like the Chiefs were going to, like, just dominate and put them away. Like, you know, 40 to 47, 40 to 14, something like that.

The Dolphins defense played well, and I think there's, if you are a Dolphins fan, today's not a great day because this was. You need to beat one good team to feel like you are a true Superbowl contender. Because guess what, when you get to the playoffs, all you do is play good teams.

It doesn't matter who you play in the playoffs you're going to. If you're a Dolphins fan, you are going to be officially nervous as shit for that first game.

Right? But the Dolphins defense did like they looked good in the second half. they, they the Chiefs did basically nothing in the second half. But it's the fact that they just whenever the dolphins, that high flying greatest show on a surf, is what they're calling. It goes up against a decent defense, it gets stymied and looks completely different.

Yeah, and I love watching Isaiah Pacheco run with the ball, where he looks like he's just splashing through puddles, just stopping. Every single time he takes a step. Very, very, very, very much like a vertical runner. To the point where I guarantee you as high school football coach. Or definitely Greg Shiano at one point is like, Why are you running so scared out there? Yeah, why? why are you so upright?

What? What's going to happen is the D. The Chiefs defense is so good this year that they are going to keep them at the top of the AFC for just long. Enough for Patrick Mahomes to figure it out with his new receivers, that's what's going to happen. You, I. We're going to get to late December and it's going to be like, Ooh, or she. Rice and Patrick Mahomes are figuring it out together.

It's always video games. Yeah, you know, I just had the guys over my house, we just played video.

It's just something like that. Uh, I have a question, Uh, that was the two, uh, and who was it on the third and 10? was that Waddle or was that Tyreek?

I'm not sure who that was. With a pass that went short.

That was just miscommunication, right? That wasn't to a trying to throw as hard as he can.

I don't think that was possibly to a trying to hit him in stride.

Okay, good, good, good, good.

I'm going to apologize for two, I'm going to make an excuse and say that. He was not trying to lead them on that pass, because if he did that, Tommy DeVito would have thrown that ball better.

It was the tebow like pass, where, you know, the famous one in the wind in a Broncos.

Yeah, it was, it was a bad pass.

So yeah, the the the two MVP obviously takes a ding. uh, probably had taken a ding a couple a couple of weeks ago against the Eagles. But the Dolphins, they just have to beat a good team, they have to. And until that happens, I don't think it's unfair to be like, yeah, they're, they're a decent team, but a Superbowl contender, I don't think so. And now, who do they got?

They, they might fraud themselves into actually becoming like a little bit of an angry team. Because everyone now is going to be saying that they're frauds and get a lot of bulletin boards to look at, like, if you're the dolphins, you don't. Now is not the time where you want to listen to what the media is saying about you after loss. You actually should, though, because every, every morning show in America is going to be like, they're frauds, they're fraudulent. They can't beat a good team.

And look, I actually want to spin it positively for the Dolphins because I am a member of two and on and I don't. There's no reason for like, there's no ill will I have against the Dolphins. I would like them to be a really good team that can beat other really good teams, cause I think the league would be more fun for it. So let's let's do positives that are going for it. I think your defense is getting better, healthier. A chain will come back.

You're going to get faster.

You're going to get faster, your schedule is not that tough. So like the idea that this is maybe going to slip, like it did last year, which was more because of injury to Tua. I don't think that's going to happen. Like I think the doll. I can confidently say the dolphins are going to be in the playoffs.

Out and try a new blend.

So I have one question coming out of this game. Is Mike McDaniels? To Q He's, he does.

Get a little cute with some hiding behind, like some other other coaches trying to avoid.

The cameras, the press conferences, the sunglasses. Does he need to? Does Mike McDaniels? Maybe need to get like a neck tap, maybe maybe a a teardrop tat? And be like, I'm going to be a heart hardcore coach and not the cute coach that everyone's fallen in love with. Because if you can't beat the good teams, the two, cute thing does, it starts.

He does need to bring back the double hoop earrings. That would be a good start. I was like, that was a good look for him when he was a ball boy in Denver, like, you don't fuck with that guy.

Just do something, Mike McDaniel, to not be as cute as you have been because you're so fucking cute. I want to put you in my back pocket.

You're so cute, Mike McDaniel. He goes, like, from, uh, looking like a weed smoker to a weed dealer, yeah.

If he puts the earrings back in, maybe gets like a a white Jetta.

Yeah, the white Jet is not that fearsome.

That's like a that's like a high school, like, Uh, you, you, you got enough money dealing weed that you can lease a White Jetta, maybe.

Like a Honda Civic SI with like manual, put some bucket seats, some racing seats in there, put a huge fucking spoiler on the back of it.

Yeah, I don't know, just something to heart, maybe maybe Mike McDaniel just needs to beat someone up.

So I actually think that they they might be in a better place if they had lost last week to the Patriots if they weren't. A three game losing streak. Because Mike McDaniel has said, like, I can't. When I got to the NFL as a head coach, um, I couldn't wait for my first three game losing streak. Because that's when you know that you have to get the guys together. Yeah, he had it last year, he rallied them together.

So Mike McDaniel has not started coaching yet.

Not yet, not till he loses three in a row. Yeah, and I'm looking at the schedule right now. They're not going to lose.

I still think the Jets are going to be a tough game for them on Black Friday.

Well, that'd be great if they lost New York, if they lost to the Jets, the Cowboys and the Ravens, then they circled the wagons. Play the bills week 17 or 18. I guess, snowballs, snowball cold. Well, no, that's at home, so yeah.

That's, yeah, okay, yeah, not cold at all.

Humid.

Not cold at all. Okay, let's play a fun game before we get to the next game called What? Where is the next Chiefs loss going to happen and how much will people freak out about it? Because I think we were in agreement that the Chiefs and we'll get to the Ravens because the Ravens have been playing incredible football. But the Chiefs are the best team in the AFC. Uh, and what they basically do is they'll just find a couple of losses here and there where everyone can be like, what's wrong with the Chiefs?

I think they might lose to the Bills in Buffalo December 10th. Okay, that's going to be like the Bill Super Bowl. That's going to be a must win for the Bills at that point, okay?

I could see them losing to the Packers in a fluky game. No, yeah, just in a weird in Lambeau. Maybe it's cold.

Maybe the Raiders If the Raiders get another interim head coach, yeah.

I don't know there's going to be, you know what's good, you know what's going to happen. The the the Chiefs will lose one more inexplicable type game. And everyone will say, Oh, no, Barry Chiefs, and uh, is there? uh? the Chiefs have some problems? or the Chiefs? Can the Chiefs be had? No, the Chiefs will probably win the Super Bowl.

So, um, Andy Reed did have the quote of the week, though. And this was before the game. And, uh, the the German press was just talking about football, what it means to America, what it means to him, what he's been through. Yeah, and Andy said, If we could just figure out how to get all the countries to play football, we wouldn't have war, yeah.

This is like the old, Uh, remember when we learned it in McDonald's? It's not true.

Yeah, no two countries that have McDonald's have ever fought a war against each other.

That was the greatest lie that we learned as kids.

No, and it does not make sense. Um, it's factually inaccurate. Although the McDonald's in Iraq they were actually called, I think they were like McDonald or something like that, They were like fake McDonald's. But you couldn't even say that about football, American football either, because countries that have American football have actually fought a war against each other.

I would say it would solve world peace. Uh, for 18 Sundays a year, like that's the thing you can't fight a war on an NFL Sunday.

It's like saying, Yeah, football is the great peacemaker. You never see Raiders fans fighting. it's Chiefs fans. Yeah right, cause we're all here to watch football.

No one's ever seen an Eagles fan or a Chargers fan.

If anything, it would start more wars. I think, yeah.

But they would just be fought with, like bottles, bottles, flares. And dudes that don't have the higher ground. That think that they can just punch up against like 16 of the team they're playing against.

Just guys wearing throwback jerseys from like the year 1975 that they bought online from, like an illegal sweatshop in China.

Ditch the camouflage and grab your finest pair of jean shorts. We're enlisting in the army.

Can you imagine if the United States military had dudes wearing the ravens, camo shorts, just running up hills, charging and fighting? Never lose, wouldn't fuck with them, never lose.

Never lose the UM. The dolphins are frauds.

They're frauds. Chiefs are very....

This is what it is.

Chiefs are still very, very good.

Yeah, yeah, Chiefs are very, very, very, very good, and I wish, I really wish that the Chiefs had just gone on Tuesday. Cause I would have won a lot money, a lot more money and my day would have started off in a lot better place.

I would not have bet on the dolphins at all if there wasn't such a huge difference in travel. But I guess we learned that we're. Once we find something and we latch onto it, we'll just get obsessed with that thing until we're proven wrong.

The amount of times I think I've figured it out, it's it's incredible.

I still think it was the right bet, yeah.

No, but yeah, uh okay, next up, maybe the best team in football right now.

Yeah, I forget if he played that or not.

So the scores of the Ravens games against teams over 500 28-3 against Cleveland, 38-6 against Detroit, 37-3 against Seattle, yeah.

Two teams that are leading the divisions or were leading their divisions, Seahawks and Lions combined score of 75-9 against those two teams. The Ravens had four sacks today that leads the league.

They also had pressure on 54.

That's crazy, it's insane. Their defensive back, Gino Stone, he got his sixth interception of the year.

Gino to Gino, probably first time ever.

Probably, I would imagine that's the first time that he's still leading the league right now. And they got another weapon at running back, so it seems like whoever the Ravens put in at running back is going to be great.

From ECU.

From ECU, he's a pirate. He had nine carries, 138 yards. that's a 15.3 average per carry. He had a touchdown.

That would have been funny if you were like the San Diego Chargers.

He blocked a kick in the playoffs against the Titans and returned it for a touchdown. That was the winning score as the Ravens went on to win their Super Bowl. Wow, the first one, yeah.

And it just is crazy. The Ravens have figured out their running game because that was a lot of the talk. Once Dobbins went down, it's like, Okay, they, they still probably need someone here because they do like to run the football. And now they get this kid, Keaton Mitchell Out of Nowhere, who's like? The perfect complimentary piece to Gus Edwards, who is clearly the goal line back. And yeah, the Ravens, I mean, their defense, I didn't know, hand up.

Oh, you did.

Yeah, well, he, he was, I don't think he. I think he signed recently with the Ravens.

I knew that he was around at least for a few weeks.

He, but he, I don't think he started the season with the Ravens.

Calvin Nooye We look him up.

He had a sacks on back-to-back plays.

How old do you think Calvin Nooye is?

He's young.

He's only 32.

Okay, so he did play the whole season, so maybe I did know that. Either way, I was like, Wait, Calvin Nooye's on the Ravens, because I thought he was. Where was he last year?

He was on the chargers.

Chargers That's right, okay, that's where I got it. He got lost in my mind when we went to the Chargers.

You know what it is about Calvin Nooye? I think he, he streams so much that you think he's retired that you're like, Oh, this guy's not playing anymore.

He tweets a lot.

Yeah, yeah, he tweets a lot, he's, he's too online to be playing still.

I have them, they're my Super Bowl pick.

I think the Ravens are the most complete team.

He did sign in late September.

Okay.

So, a little vindication.

Didn't start the season.

Yeah, he didn't start the season.

But the way that the Ravens play against good teams, they are, I think they're the best team in the league.

They still have to figure out like it doesn't feel like their offense is fully clicking. Like Lamar, he was good today, but it's he wasn't like, I thought he's pretty good, he didn't throw any touchdown passes.

The stat sheet doesn't really tell how good Lamar was today because he got a little dinged.

Up.

He was a 21 for 26.

No, he was good.

I'm just saying, deep, that much.

Yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't like, Um, what was it? Oh, it wasn't the game against the Seahawks or the The Lions.

When a quarterback throws for 80 yards to their tight end and he's their number one receiver, yeah, then you lose track of how good he was. Because he also completed nine passes to Mark Andrews. Yeah.

Listen, I've, I've. I've been on the Ravens since before the season started. I have them 18 to one, like I've. I thought. The Ravens have everything. Their defense is nasty.

Yeah, the Ravens are are extremely good Seahawks. I don't know what we can take away from this because we saw the Lions get their ass kicked by the by the Ravens. And it turns out the lines are still pretty good. So I don't know that I'm ready to bury the Seahawks yet, but you are going to bury them.

I'm not going to bury the Seahawks. I'm done with Gino. Yeah, I've had enough Gino. I think I'm good with Gino.

He might bounce back. Gino always bounces back. You're writing him off. I am writing him off. you're writing him off.

And he ain't right back. I'm just kind of I'm good with it, like, I think he's okay. I'm not saying he's bad, I just I don't. I will never feel a trust in Gino to be like, you can go win this big, big game.

Right, I agree with that, but I don't. I'm not ready to bury them. I still think that they could.

You know, their team is talented.

In the N.FC, they're probably going to make the playoffs. Yeah, and this is a year where I think a lot of people were writing the Seahawks off, like, Oh, they're going to roll with Gino. Okay, we'll see how that far that gets you.

I think it really comes down to like, Gino doesn't. Whenever there's a lot of pressure. And yeah, obviously you can say this for every quarterback, but whenever there's a lot of pressure, it just feels like Gino doesn't have any solutions. You know what I mean like, it doesn't feel like there's, it's just a problem that there is no way out of.

And at the end of the day, he's always going to be the guy that got his jaw broke by his teammate, yeah.

I maybe, I'm, maybe I'm being mean. I do think the Seahawks are a very talented team and I am not going to just say one game means that you suck all of a sudden. But yeah, I think I'm just good with Gino, I think I'm good with Gino, people telling me that Gino's like, somehow, way, way different than he was.

I think Gino's like a 20 to 15 caliber NFL quarterback.

I think he's just the exact Gino where it's like, yeah, he's got a lot of, a lot better players around him now. And uh, there's games where you can look great. But at the end of the day, would you, would you, would you put your life? would you trust your life with Gino Smith?

I would not trust my life.

I would not trust my life with Gino Smith.

I would trust it with Lamar, I would trust it with on certain occasions. Yeah, until until you get to the playoffs. And a team tries to do some weird scheme like, Was it the Chargers? was it Anthony Lynn?

What quarterbacks did you trust your life with? I think it's Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, it might be Jalen Hurts.

I think Joe Burrow.

And Joe Burrow? I think that might be it.

Life, yeah.

Like, you put your life on the line for it.

I would, I would with those three guys, for sure.

I think those are the three guys that I would only, yeah.

Not dak.

Definitely not dak.

I just want to say, not dak for the record.

Kirk Cousins before he got hurt.

Yeah.

As weird as it sounds, maybe Josh Dobbs in relief only.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know.

It's a very, very short list, but yeah, no, Gino's not on that list.

I'm wondering if what Seahawks fans will say about that, because again, I do think they're a good team. I just, I think I'm just done with Gino, I think I'm just good with it. I'm like, he's good at times, but I'm never. I don't want to be told that Gino is something totally different than what he has always been.

I might trust C.J. Stroud with my life.

It's getting there, it's getting closer, it's getting closer.

Do you think that? Do you think that Jim Harbaugh and John Harbaugh share any sort of like, advanced scouting tips with each other? Because this looked like a game where the Ravens had all their signals.

That's true. Well, Conor Stallions is, he's a free job right now.

He resigned, he did not get fired, he resigned. And also, and also, Jim Harbaugh had no advanced knowledge of what Conor Stallions was doing behind the scenes.

I believe that Jim Harbaugh shouldn't be punished whatsoever when opposed to the NFL.

I do love Conor Stallions, though. I love the fact that he's like, you know what? I don't want to be a distraction to the team. I didn't, I didn't do anything, they didn't ask me to do anything.

Uh, okay, next game Vikings Falcons. Josh Dobbs, What a fucking performance. Josh Dobbs, I, I have to apologize, because when Josh Dobbs came in, I was like, I'm like, Josh Jobs isn't good.

Yeah.

And the story coming out of it afterwards. The Josh Dab So Kevin Seaford from ESPN UH, tweeted that Josh Dobbs didn't take a single rep with offense and practice this week. No snaps from his center. Garrett Bradbury had never thrown passes to any of the guys on the team and didn't know most of their names. And said afterward, That's for next week.

I would love that every team should be so lucky to root for one week of Josh Jobs, exactly one week of them, it was crazy, and then probably nothing more than that. Jordan Addison said that, uh, Josh Dobbs didn't know the place because obviously he had only been there for a couple of days.

Yeah, I mean, we did watch you for two months with the card.

I think what we've learned about Josh Dobbs is he is the best guy that you could ever. Have. To come on the field in the middle of a game, or maybe to do like one start for your team.

He also just seems like the best guy, period.

Great guy, yeah, and he's, and he's an astronaut, basically.

He's an astronaut, basically. That fourth and seven. So Josh Dobbs played, played stunk at the start, first two series, played great after that, and then the game goes back and forth.

We'd have the conversation, like, how come you can't get a Josh Dobbs jersey in the Minnesota Vikings Team store? Yeah, it should be there, it's a good question, like, looking back on it, the Cardinals were probably trying to tell us something like, we don't want to rip off our fans selling his jersey. Because we're probably going to ship them away in a couple of weeks.

It's also just very funny to think of, like Josh Dobbs on the plane ride home from Atlanta and being like, Man, that was a sick touchdown pass. What's your name again? Yeah, I'm Brandon.

I want to hear the Madden stories about him, I want to hear how he has to learn his teammates names by playing Madden. Yeah, that'd be sick. Well, it was Dobbs.

Yes, it's, um, it's weird seeing Bijan, he just is never in the red zone. Packages. He's not like, he, Yeah, like, what'd you say?

I'm not going to put this on the offense, I'm not going to put on Taylor Heineke. The defense had some big problems today and I thought that the defense was good. I like, going into this game, I thought the Falcons had, like, a, I'll say this, a stout defense.

You can't game plan for Josh Dobbs.

You can't. There's no, there's no doing it yet, there's no tape on them with those receivers.

It was crazy, it was crazy to watch, he was just it felt like I was watching a big college football game. Where the quarterback is, you know, when you watch. We'll talk about on Wednesday when you watch a college football game. And the quarterback's just better than everyone. So like, if he needs to run for a first down, if he needs to throw for it, like he. Just big play after big play. That's what it felt like watching Josh Dobbs against the Falcons defense.

Yeah, it was honestly very, very fun. Yeah, shout out Josh Dobbs.

Also, here's a fun fact If the playoff started today, the Minnesota Vikings would be the seventh seat crazy.

So now Jordan Addison should keep playing, keep playing. yeah, keep playing. We're back on, okay?

One in four to five and four and I they. They have their one and a half games back from the Lions and they have both their games against the Lions coming up. So, like, out of nowhere, the Vikings with Kirk cousins, playing great football and then getting hurt and being out for the year. And now Josh Dobbs. They still have Nick Mullins coming back as well.

Like, you got to ride. Josh Dobbs, Oh, yeah.

You know what, I'm just saying, like, I'm saying more, Uh, they have enough quarterbacks that more of them can get injured because it feels like the Vikings have the injury bug. To anyone whose name we know.

Their emergency quarterback today was Cam Akers. Yeah, Cam Akers Tours Achilles. Yeah, so yeah, there's something going on up there.

It's the drummer from Spinal Tap.

Yeah, so if you're a Vikings fan, you have to do that. We need to fire a strength and conditioning coach because we're getting all these Achilles injuries at the quarterback position, yeah.

And didn't K.J. Osborne get knocked out of the game, too?

Yeah, that was bad.

Which is like Josh Dobbs did this without Justin Jefferson and K.J. Osborne. So you think the Vikings are going to get a little healthier, and I mean, what if the Vikings make the playoffs? My pinky?

They could, they could very easily make the playoffs. ARTHUR SMITH Just a little word of advice here. You still have another thing that you can do to try to get yourself off the hot seat. And that's just have one game where you just load up Bijon and Kyle Pitts and Drake London for a fuck load of yards and points.

And whatever happens, you win.

Then you can say like, Oh well, they figured something out on offense, now their playmakers are getting involved, just like force feed them.

Or Bijon fumbles, like three times, and everyone's like, Oh, the coach is smarter than us.

Yep, and then everyone blames the GM for using the draft pick on a running back.

And again, we're not calling for Arthur Smith's job, we like Arthur Smith. I'm saying that it's clear that Falcons fans are. People are getting a little antsy, I think, because the NFC South is very winnable. And again, you went up against a guy who just met his teammates.

Yeah.

You should win that game, yeah.

I mean, the Falcons are in just as good a position to make the playoffs as the Vikings are, though.

Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Someone has to get that seventh seat.

Yeah, it's going to be someone.

Actually, they aren't because the Vikings are a game ahead and they have the tiebreaker.

Yeah, but it's not, it's definitely not said and done like the Falcons could very easily make the playoff, yes.

Okay, next game. Texans 39 Bucks, 37. Holy Shit C.J. Stroud.

Oh, I love it, the kickoffs, yeah, everything about it.

Everything becomes weird. Uh, so this game got very weird, but C.J. Stroud was out of this world good.

He was so good. We're very rarely right about things on this show, but standing up and standing by for the Stroud Boys was a great call on our part. I think we should be recognized for that.

I will get to Price Young, but I don't know. I don't remember a one, two pick being decided this quickly.

No, no, I really don't. I can't think of one either.

I thought Price Young would struggle this year and maybe get better, and I guess there's time for that. Um, but C.J. Stroud looks C.J. Stroud's the top 10 quarterback.

And there's some people I think Edward or tweeted out like this should put all the naysayers to bed. Those who said that the Texans screwed up the first round of the draft, people were never mad at the Texans for taking C.J. Stroud again with. He was like, very clearly the number two quarterback in that draft. They're mad because then they moved up again and they took the defense.

It's also the only rookie in NFL history, NFL history, the only rookie in N.FL history to have a game where they go for over 400 yards. Four plus TDS, no interceptions.

It's pretty good, and that's pretty good. He's a gunslinger now, cause he's not, he's not afraid to throw picks.

I wanted to say we, I think we touched on this on Friday. Um, how the Texans love to run the ball on first down, they do it more than any other team. Thankfully, they realized the Bucks rush defense actually is good. They only ran the ball 17 times today.

Well, it's cause the, uh, the bucks, I think they're like two or three in the NFL in terms of how much they blitz. Yeah, so they're able to stop the run when they see it.

And Vita Bay, yeah.

And Vita Bay is also a big key to that, too. But C.J. Stroud is awesome against the blitz. It turns out. We told you this was awesome all the time.

He was awesome in college. It's like, shouldn't be a surprise.

You know what, Ohio State quarterbacks are actually great in the NFL, They're great, there's great, yeah.

And the Bucks past events was atrocious. Yeah, they got absolutely torched, but I like it.

It's good for us long suffering fan bases to see. Like, okay, if you, if you re, if you go like all in on your window. You're just going to come back to us, just come on back and be shitty with us.

And there's no regrets, you know, flags fly forever. But yeah, it's true. Like the Bucks were like, Hey, we want a Super Bowl. Now we're getting a little older. Let's just plug and play a couple of these key positions and hope it works out.

Cause you have to think some of your older players that were on that Super Bowl. They're going to get into the Ring of honor one day. They're going to be invited back. For, you know, every ceremony. It's like, Oh, members of the Super Bowl winning bucks. So you can't like, cut them the year after. You don't want to leave a bad taste in the mouth.

And it goes even down to just being like, Oh yeah, uh, Todd Bowles will be our coach.

Yeah, he stinks 0 0, he goes forward on toss up situation.

And Stephen Shay, our friend who's a diehard Bucks fan who's slowly coming to grips with the Buck stink. Cause they've now lost four straight. They started the season three and one. Uh, he rightfully was very angry at Todd Bowles because Todd Bowles was like, 40 seconds left, they fumbled the ball.

I think it went between like 55 seconds down to 40 seconds after the touchdown, some some like situation where it was about a 15 second swing. And in that part of the game, like, yeah, you don't, you don't need to call a timeout. You've got four shots at the end zone you're going to take, right?

Don't call a timeout, then take a shot at the end zone, yeah, and also wait to maybe run the ball and then take a shot at the end.

And they could have tried to kick a field goal later. You want that timeout in case you need to, in case you get tackled inbounds, you take a sack, you have to kick a field goal, call a timeout, get your guys out on the field. Todd Bowles is a bird brain.

Todd Bowles is a bad coach. Um, nice guy, poor Steven Shea, he's he, he rides with the Bucks so hard. He even said, Uh, when the Bucks had five seconds left, 70 yards from the end zone and they started the lateral play. He's like, Ooh, I like how this is looking really. Steven, the the left guard, just just like, coughed up the football backwards 10 yards down the line of scrimmage.

It was hopeless.

It was hopeless. But C.J. Stroud Man, he's the real deal. Like, if you're a Texans fan, you really just went through hell and and escaped pretty quickly.

Yeah, the Deshaun thing was hell, and you had Mills mafia.

Yeah.

And now you, you have all the hope in the world and you got draft picks coming up next year.

And you have the coach. Yep, like Texans, you might want to buy all the stock in Texans, because if you're a Texans fan, the hope meter is completely full. And it's like, this is now. Hey, if you could somehow sneak into the playoffs, you don't even have to make the playoffs this year.

Yeah, the the real life hack Tank Dell is awesome. The life hack isn't necessarily drafting well. It's hoping the people in front of you draft really poorly and that you're just given a gift, right?

You get a panthers or a bears in front of you.

Enjoy, yeah, enjoy this gift, yeah.

All right, Jake, you got to score Gomi. I did. Congratulations, thank you, appreciate it.

How, how much of a big cat you changing your tune on? This is the fact that Jake wasn't around us to cheer on this 100 100 if he had, if.

He had, if in the middle of the witching hour and I was sweating out bets, that's what he.

Said about Jake.

And Jake said, Hey, can someone take a picture of me in front of the TV while I'm like, dying? With every bet I would have 100 fuck score. After last week's interaction, I would have like, gone to the PMT studio and take a. But I realized I was. I want you to do that, shake.

We want you to be you, I want you to be you. And also realize that it's not a you problem that he's upset with you about score, Gomi's, It's not your problem. It's when he is, when he's sweating out a bet, when he's losing in all likelihood, like losing a bet, coming down to the end, and then he sees somebody else.

No, if someone's happy about their other bet, I'm fine with that.

Other bet Yeah, yeah, but if it, if it's you getting your picture taken in front of numbers and he's going to.

Be like, Well, my numbers, numbers are bad, do anything.

My numbers are bad. Why are your numbers good?

And your numbers didn't win you anything, but it did win you something. Happiness, that's what I realized, so I apologize. I appreciate the change of perspective.

This was a good score. It was because I don't like it. When their numbers that you think would have happened before. And then you get excited about, like a a 20 to like, 11, score Gomi or something. When it's a game where it's what? 37 39, yeah, 39 37 Texans, when when you see that score, it's like, those are some funky ass numbers.

And the fact that it happened, there was no alert for this, although this one was all.

At the end.

This one was cool because it was directly related to Fairbairn getting hurt, right? And then them kneeling the two point conversion. Because they had to, and they didn't want to give up. Like a pick or any kind of weird play happening. So yeah, this score. Gomi. I actually kind of enjoy it like that was. It also was because you weren't taking the picture in front of me, but I did enjoy it.

DARIA Okay, boom, yep badger.

Uh, Jake, just wondering how many score gummies are left, just so I can prepare myself in this new world.

Well, no, but like, let's say that under fifties, like each side has under 50 under fifties.

There's like a hundred, but most of them are in the forties under under 30, there's like 10 realistic ones with the winning team under 30. How, how pumped were you for this one? It was great cause.

Is that why you got home, just in case?

Yeah, just in case, cause if you had missed the picture, I would have counted it and you would have loved that. No, I'm fine with you taking a picture somewhere else, yeah.

Here's the deal. You can, you can do it.

I don't think you're trying to be annoying.

You can do anything you want, you can do it. You can do it. You can do anything you want. You can if it makes you happy.

Do it, I can, also if it makes me happy to be like, Fuck you Jake, I will say it in the moment, but yeah, you can do it. I know it's not personal. Yeah, it never was personal.

I don't think so it's gotta be.

It's gotta be also. When you did down Agami the other day, that was that was a reach. We have too many Agamis, I'll admit it.

This has gotta be a record.

First and 23.

There was also a first and one.

Yeah, now you got it in my head, which I don't hate. It's very Jake and I, that's okay.

There's just unlimited agamis if you translate it to any part of life. But it was, it was a reach.

When he said, Down Agami, I was like, I have to stop this now, otherwise we're going to Agami everything. But Jake, you be you. I apologize, I will continue being myself, yes.

You know what it is, you're on pace for Agami Gami.

Oh, what's the most in a year? I don't know. I'll have to do the research, do the research, all right.

NSL.

It was all agamis, it was unlimited agamis. Oh, that's it. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm happy for you, thank you. Yeah, okay, so this game ruled.

It was awesome, we had a great witching hour. Listen, the football was great today. We've had some weeks where it's like, you get one or two good games and the rest are just shit.

And it was funny because we went into this weekend being like chiefs, dolphins, seahawks.

That's wild, we had all the games on.

Right, I figured, but I don't know if there was a red zone box, but it was so sick. Yeah, that is sick.

No.

They weren't as good.

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Okay, the big one, commanders of Patriots hank, sit up, sit up, Henry.

Adjust your posture hank.

Adjust your posture.

Look professional.

I'll just be moderator here, I'll let you guys do whatever you want. The Commanders 20, Patriots 17. Sam Howell looked awesome.

Yep Pft.

Except for that one touchdown, or, well, it was a touchdown.

He threw it into the end zone. Yes, Hank, thank you for calling on me. I had a question for you. Trivia question, Yes.

That was dirty what you just did.

He beat Sean Payton, he beat our good friend Bill Belichick, and he beat Mike McCarthy, so 3-0. Sam Howell. He's like a little mini Tua back there.

Top 15 quarterback.

Top 15 quarterback in the N.FL, I would say top 12, top 12 quarterback and guess where he is. That's like when Ravel says, I own upwards of nine pieces of merchandise.

By the way, the top 12 the qualifiers that were used was quite something to watch right now. It was right now, so it was like eliminating Matt Stafford, Kirk cousins Aaron Rodgers.

They're not playing right now.

All these guys.

Current starting quarterback.

It was like, literally, like the last two weeks.

Current starting quarterbacks in the N.F.L. top 12..

Because you had one that was wild.

I had a couple that were wild.

Yeah, that were just wild.

What were they?

You want them over to Sean?

Yes.

Even though we took contracts out.

Yep, okay, do you know? Yes, yep.

The Stafford one was cause Stafford one was. I was like, if he plays next week, PFT was like, Yeah, I'd take Sam Howell over Matt Stafford.

Yes, I would, I would still do that next week.

I would not.

That might be insane. I actually think that Matt Stafford is great and very underrated still as a quarterback, somehow, but.

That changed quickly. You have a future on the Rams win total.

I do over seven and a half, but that was before Matt Stafford got hurt. Okay, he's hurt, he's hurt. He's got a dislocated thumb, big cat.

Hank.

I was a mid-off, gross game to watch. Patriots are very uninspiring. Per usual, I wouldn't say that the Patriots are mid.

No, they're actually.

We need to have that conversation.

The worst team in the AFC isn't mid like a battle of average teams.

Yeah, it is. Hank's mid is doing a lot of work on that.

Hank, fact or fiction, is the worst team in the AFC.

Well, mids is the worst type of weed. No, it's actually one of the best. No, it is. no mid is average, it's mids.

What about oregano? That's the worst type of weed?

That's bunk.

Okay, so the Patriots are bunk.

I guess, yeah, the patriots are ass.

Hank, fact or fiction, is the worst team in the AFC.

Fact.

Yeah, record-wise, they are the worst.

Well, then fact, that's fact, statistical fact.

Statistical fact.

Good for the draft position, which at this point is all I'm rooting for.

You are right now.

I did want to get that lighthouse on the board, I didn't want to have to admit that the lighthouse is not. Yeah, that's we've got work to do there.

You right now are taking brock bowers.

Oh, baby gronk.

That's pretty exciting, baby gronk.

But I have to, you know, I have to admit, the lighthouse is not real. I have to make a Powerpoint presentation, which is just more work, which sucks.

You have to admit what we all knew.

Although the team did release a really cool video today of a drone panning up from a water. Federally funded. And you could see the lighthouse in the background, which I got some tips from the inside, was not a coincidence. Yeah, so it was interesting because you showed me that video, acting like it was proving something. And the drone starts off, like 100 feet in the air and then goes up 200 feet in the air. So I don't know, I don't think you can see it from the waterway. It didn't really prove anything.

Are we boring you?

Yeah.

Yeah, well, you just yawned in our face.

I think you knew the lighthouse was fake all along, and your like, Defend the Wall Patriots hank kind of came out a little bit.

It should be a relief.