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Chase The Bag
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Chris and Jarod talk about winners and losers from Week 1 in the NFL, Tua Tagovailoa's NFL future after leaving Thursday's Week 2 game against Buffalo, Ja'Marr Chase's future in Cincinnati after the offseason drama and so much more!
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Transcript
Introduction by Chris and J Du
00:00:02
Speaker
You know they wanna stand point, you know we straight to the point Ball Chris with the sis, fast breaks like a joint split in half Ball J with the J, we throwin' heat No gas, that's a touchdown pass You know just how we comin', so it's nothin' left to say Now they hard-leakin' guard me straight team. We 76 bringing us in the episode number 191 up straight to the point. My name is Chris here. Oh my God. j du What's going on?
NFL Week One Surprises and Week Two Predictions
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Speaker
What's going on? Week one is officially over and I love people. Week one is over. We got to talk about the surprise teams. Good and bad. um We'll talk about what oh and one team should we really be worried about long term and what oh and one team. I'm sorry, which one and oh team. I apologize.
00:00:58
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um learned her are frauds in the long term We have to talk about that and give predictions for week two. Jared, let's start with our week one surprise team, good or bad.
Bengals' Performance and Management Critiques
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Who from these slate of games that just passed over last weekend, were you the most surprised and seeing? Most surprised and seeing.
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that I didn't think was going to be the Bengals. We talked, no, yeah, the Bengals. We talked about it on air. We basically said if the Bengals were to lose the Patriots, they're frauds. Right. we we We said, we said they were going to need to be a serious conversation. A serious conversation about being a coaching, coaching hire. But not even that. isn' It's not even just the coaching thing. They completely mismanaged the Jamar Chase situation.
00:01:43
Speaker
And it's still being ah talked about today. Jamar Chase feels like he's been misled. That's reports that came out today. They're talking about he might not be doing any more negotiation for the rest of the season, which again is understandable at this point. You should have had a deal done at all. You're watching all your, uh,
00:02:02
Speaker
counterparts get paid. You, one, who was your closest friend slash big brother and just everything get paid and you see your yourself not getting any money on the table. That's, that begs the question of how much is this team really looking towards you as one of the pieces of the future? And then but as i even just said I think they, I think they view him as a long-term piece. They're a historically cheap franchise. Yeah, it's bad. They don't, they didn't have a, they didn't have ah a dedicated practice facility for a long time.
00:02:29
Speaker
They skimped on a lot of things. They just now sold the rights to name the stadium just so they can, you know, allegedly funnel more money into and get some more money in the books. They can pay people, but they haven't paid people historically. And they're doing this cheap, you know, this cheap stuff with Chase, and it may cost them. It's going to cost them a lot. Remember, they got Higgins who's injured, but He's under the last of remains of his franchise tag contract of the franchise tag them because they we all thought they were doing that to give chase the money. They didn't. And then I just think Chris, we could talk about the game going into that Patriots game. We knew it was gonna be low scoring, but I didn't know it was gonna be to the point where it just it was just a terrible, terrible affair.
00:03:13
Speaker
for the Bengals when it just came to like how their defense was playing and their offense couldn't get anything really clicking. Like it just nothing looked right. Again, we understand that Joe Burroughs come back from an injury, but this was a team where the Patriots aren't going to be good this season. Let's be, this'll be real. They're not. And Burrough did not look healthy. Like he didn't look good at all. That line, you know, the offensive line looked disjointed. The offense itself looked disjointed. Their defense Well, all right. But how much of that is because they played New England and we didn't expect anything great from New England's offense. Nope. But in New England's offense, when they needed to get first downs, they got first downs. They moved the ball down the field at points.
Bengals' Confidence vs. Challenges
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Cincinnati never got anything established on offense at all throughout the game.
00:03:55
Speaker
No. um Touchdown was called back. I'm like, Jasecki, neither quarterback threw a touchdown in this game. My first percent, nor borough threw a touchdown. Remindre Stevenson had a great game. If you think about his 25 carries for 120 yards.
00:04:10
Speaker
And then in the flip side, Zach Moss had 44 yards and a touchdown, but it just, it wasn't the game just didn't flow. If you're a Bengals fan, and you're watching this Bengals team, because this is a team that was just what now what three, four years removed from their own Super Bowl appearance. And we thought this team was going to be one of the AFC.
00:04:27
Speaker
conquest team, dominant teams, uh, you know, potentially usurper compete with the chiefs year in, year out. And they have not done it since then. I mean, to it's, it's kind of unfair to say they haven't done it. It's not like it's a lack of talent thing. No, they got injured, you know, they got injured a couple of times. They've had the, you know, they've had obviously
Chargers and Coaching Changes
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chances, but now we can say lack of talent. Maybe now we can. Cause look at what they've lost throughout these last couple of seasons. I understand. I understand that. But If they went on Sunday when they play Kansas City, these conversations we having right now gone. Again, we're having this conversation because how much do you believe they beat Kansas City on Sunday? I'm not going to. I'm not going to say they have no shot.
00:05:09
Speaker
I didn't say that to you. I didn't ask you that. I said, how much do you think they beat Kansas City? Like, what do where are your percentage chances? It's probably like a 20%. That ain't great. It's not great, but it's not zero. Right. They're one they're one of the few teams. I had more faith in Cincinnati going into Kansas City and winning a game than I do Buffalo. I had more faith in Cincinnati going into a in Kansas City and winning a game, a meaningful game that I do Baltimore at this point.
00:05:37
Speaker
Okay, but if going into the season after if Baltimore wasn't playing, let's say this flip flop. Do you had, did you have more faith in Kansas City? If this is a week one game, go against the Chiefs. Maybe would you have the
Vikings and Saints: Long-term Viability
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Ravens? Cause again, I thought the Ravens had a real shot of winning against the Chiefs. We've won. ah i sorry Okay. Re re re reword that question. If this was flip flopped.
00:05:59
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Okay. And this was a week one game. Week one game. Do you still have a 20% comment? Are you pushing higher? I'll still give it 20% for me. I'm still doing 20%. I would give it 20%. It's hard to, it's hard to answer that question because you've seen what Cincinnati came out the gate with. Right. Like if Cincinnati came out the gate week one and they played Kansas city like that. I think, I think a lot of people would wouldn't be as down on Cincinnati. They would be like, Oh, they had this, they had that, but they played Kansas city. So right that is crux they played the problem is, is they had this and they had that. And then they played New England and we think New England going to be down there in Carolina territory. So if you are here playing down down to New England,
Team Confidence vs. Performance
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you know, what is that? What is that supposed to say? Be your chances and going in there, you know, going to play in Kansas City like that should tell me Kansas City should wipe the floor with you, which i was I don't think that's what's going to happen. Like you have a team, mcca you have a team of Cincinnati who rightfully or wrong, you know, right or wrong, they have the confidence that they think they can beat Kansas City. They're the only team that outwardly talks about Kansas City in a in a they don't really They, they were special and they disrespect them, but they put themselves on that tier rightfully, or, you know, right, right, right or wrong. and Chase still talks about how the Bengals are the team to beat in the AFC. No other team, no other team outside of Kansas city talks about themselves being a team to beat in AFC. Baltimore doesn't know they shouldn't. Buffalo doesn't. They can't. Since that he kind of can't since that is the one team that they could have, but they, whether they should have shouldn't is not my my argument. Right. My point is that they do and that you have to have some type of confidence. If
Long-term NFL Contenders: 49ers and Chiefs
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you're going to play Kansas city, they don't fear Kansas city. Maybe they should, maybe they don't got a shot in hell to be Kansas city, but they believe they got a shot. And that's half the battle right there, I guess.
00:08:08
Speaker
Yeah, that's fair. And then again, I just for what we've seen, I test wise for this Ben was team. They're the biggest disappointment for me. Like they were the biggest surprises disappointment because I wasn't expecting to blow up in any shape or form. now That's what I'm not going to say that, but I did expect a kind a comfortable win in good showing from a team that, you know, i yeah, you're dealing with the off the field stuff. But if you're quarterbacks now, what we thought was going to be healthy coming into this game.
00:08:33
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It would have been at least a couple of touchdowns. though I thought it would be like, hey, bro, throw two touchdowns. Yeah, the Patriots keep it a little close, but you still win by a touchdown. That wasn't even the case. You end up losing by basically a touchdown with the score that they did. And that's just, for me, that's my biggest surprise team where I'm like, we talked about it. It's been confirmed. What about you? Where are you at now? Who was your team?
Concerns about Tua and Miami's Defense
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My surprise, my surprise team in week one,
00:09:02
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Honestly, I did not expect what I saw out of the Los Angeles Chargers. And I was waiting for them to put Vegas away. And it seemed like they couldn't. And it seemed like they had a hard time getting the offense going, especially in in the first half. They seemed like they were kind of like trying to figure some things out. I thought they would hit the ground running.
00:09:32
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maybe, maybe it, maybe that's my lack of feel for the chargers. You know what I'm saying? Cause I, I thought that heart, you put hardball in, you get rid of Brandon Staley, taking up space, doing nothing. And if that team would look better, did they clean up a lot of the dumb penalties and mistakes that a brand, Brandon Staley team had?
00:10:00
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You know, yeah, I mean, again, we wanted a lot of those, week one do like lot a lot of alignment calls. Yeah. I think those would be ironed out throughout the year. But when you look at that, that, that, that game, that Vegas Chargers game. It seemed like but you know you it seemed like Vegas kind of, like if they could do something there, they could have just easily won that game as well. Vegas should have won it. So my my surprise team in a bad way was the Chargers. I did not like what I saw at all. And as someone, you know um all the teams I talked about all summer,
00:10:39
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All off season, I was like, oh, this team going to be this and this team going to be that week one. I was completely all over the board. I was completely wrong on all my teams. A lot of the games that we thought I was, like I was all fun, but I am not, I am not really worried long-term long-term Jared. What Oh, when one team should we really be worried about long-term?
00:11:03
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Oh my god, the Colts nice like again a game where it could have just went to the other side was the Colts game versus the Texans. Yeah, the Texans came
Miami's Quarterback Speculations
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out in one and Stroud played a great performance. No, and no, no interception thrown, right? But if you just watch that game.
00:11:20
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The two crucial plays, in my opinion, that lost the coach to the game were both overthrows to Adai Mitchell that Anthony Richardson had, right? Like both of those plays, I think one was a legit touchdown. The other might've, you know, he might've caught it and got tackled right away, but those are just, both were about 50-yard bombs.
00:11:39
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Both are wide open. Both were just, you know, missteps. Anthony Richardson is still in my, like, you still got to consider him in his rookie season knowing he got hurt last year. So yeah, those are just plays where you missed the ball and instead of playing from behind like they were, you're playing from my head. In either of those, in either of those contests or those series, you're playing from ahead. They play from behind. I think the Colts are the team you got to look out for because the defense is there again.
00:12:03
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And then that offense is getting right. It's going to get right real soon. like It's going to get right real soon. If Anthony Richardson stays healthy, and what the talent pool they're bringing in, and day day they got right now, it's looking real nice. like I like what they got. I agree. That's ah that's a very, very
Week Two Predictions and Matchups
00:12:18
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solid choice. it's It's going to be interesting to see if Anthony Richardson becomes anything more than just all arm. Because he can throw a fastball. He can throw the long ball no problem.
00:12:31
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It's them short, the intermediate routes. It's the mid, you know, mid post.
00:12:39
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That's not a bad comparison. He's, he's a cam with a. with a stronger, can you imagine that cam with a better arm? Yeah. He's literally like, that's what I watch them make them for was like, dude, you stand up like him. You run like him. It's just, we gotta get this accuracy, right? We, that's what you know. I mean, that's what it's going to come down to. Jared. what Oh, and one, I'm sorry. Which one and O team are long-term frauds?
00:13:01
Speaker
The Vikings. The Vikings aren't doing anything this season. Listen, I get it. You dog walk the trash giants. Oh, man. Kudos to you you. You gave them the working, but the Giants stink. The Giants is competing for the worst team in football this season. I didn't think, i think i listen, i there's a game coming up sometime soon. Giants Panthers. Right. like Oh, my God.
00:13:28
Speaker
We're talking about the Woozer Bowl. The Woozer Bowl between them two is is is iconic. And then even worse, at least the Giants got they pick. The Panthers even got a favorite I'll pick again. So it's. The Vikings aren't doing anything this season. I like what I saw from Darno and his revenge game. But don don't expect much after this. Justin Jefferson's like, oh, we got it. The sky's the limit. No, sir. it's It's falling. The sky's falling after this. My one and no team that I think are long term for us, New Orleans Saints, they beat up on Carolina. They put up 47. Yeah, I know. But they played Carolina. That game was over in the second quarter. Oh, my god. They killed they killed the over-under.
00:14:06
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and And like every game isn't going to be since Carolina. Their schedule coming up is absolutely ridiculous. Who's the Saints? The Saints. Let me tell you the Saints schedule for the next couple of weeks. So like I said, they've already played Carolina, right? Yeah. They have Dallas this week. Lost. Then they have the Eagles. Lost. Then they have Atlanta. When? Then they have Kansas City. Lost. Then they got Tampa Bay.
00:14:35
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potential loss. That's where they who's on the same thing with things with that. So even with your, like you know, they they got a couple. They got a couple of L's coming anyway. Oh, yeah. So is therere if um they're going to they're going to probably be a team around 500. I don't expect them to. You know, I still have my faith in Atlanta. Ah, so that's when you're giving them a loss to that, even with cousins, his injury, honestly, going even going beyond that. I've i've made this claim.
00:15:06
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off the, but I'm not just kind of sensationalizing. They could easily lose a Tampa Bay. Yeah. I believe they could lose a Denver because I'm Denver at least has somewhat of a defense. It looks like, I don't know if that's Seattle's offensive ineptitude, but Denver's defense did show up for three quarters of that game. Right. Charges. Like I said, there's charters defense showed up. They're not Carolina. You're much better than Carolina. Then they got to play Carolina again. Okay. big then they got, them I mean, they got a tough middle of the season because then they play Atlanta again, Cleveland, and then the Rams. Right. So like you could easily, you could easily, your season could easily tank.
Saints' Tough Schedule Ahead
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And I am not, like I said, if, if New Orleans comes out in a,
00:15:57
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beat that If New Orleans beats Dallas tomorrow, as we record here on late Saturday night, if New Orleans beats Dallas, then we'll have the same we'll have to have the same conversation, like we said about Cincinnati in reverse. like just flip everything Just forget everything we said about New Orleans being a fraud. Because if they're able to put some things together on offense, if their car is able to not be terrible,
00:16:22
Speaker
Then, yeah, they got a shot because then they have they so then they have the defense that would able to kind of keep them in games. I just didn't think their offense would be anything, anything. But like I said, are you just being bonded because they just beat Carolina? I'm not. Yeah, I don't really like show me. Show me this kind kind of offensive production against a legitimate team like Dallas, like they come out against Dallas and they look competent and relevant and then then we can have a different viewpoint on New Orleans. But until I see it, they're going to have to prove that to me. Especially add doubt at Dallas Cowboys? Yeah, we don't have to that's where you get the that's your real test. So yeah, i mean
Brief Mention of Long-term Contenders
00:17:08
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we'll see. like They have a they have a very um very tough middle of their schedule. Listen, man, Chris, if Carr beats Dak Prescott,
00:17:20
Speaker
It's a car resurgence, car is back. I'm just throwing it out to you. It's a car resurgence, car is back if you mean it's that. Listen, listen, we'll have a lot of conversations about New Orleans and them in a different light if they're 2 and 0 and they put 47 on Carolina and then be Dallas. Like we'll have to have, we'll have to have different conversations. But that's neither here nor there.
00:17:49
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Jared, let's move right along, because we talked about our week one surprise team, good or bad. Which O and 1 team should we be looking out for or being worried about? And then which O and 1 team are long term frauds?
Episode Conclusion and Wrap-up
00:18:05
Speaker
Is there anything else that we really need to cover in depth?
00:18:09
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We can do long-term winners if you want to. no We can do the long-term winners, like which one of the team we see is going deep already? I got two on the list. It's the same two. It's sad. It's the same two. Who is it? Chiefs and 49ers. Listen, man, even with the injury of Chris McCaffrey, I still like what I saw from the 49ers. Again, yeah, you played the Jets that are coming back, right? and And I'm very, and I'm very, and I will say this because I was a Jets guy all whole season.
00:18:38
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That game didn't change how I felt about the Jets. and all i so I saw what I need to see. yeah I saw what I need to see. If it wasn't for the Lazar drop, maybe that drive you know maybe that drive is different. Maybe San Francisco doesn't get a chance to to kill all the clock. But I saw enough on that one long drive that Rogers let them down the field.
00:18:59
Speaker
so That's all I need to say. And then again, like let's not even just start let's not even bring up the fact that Mike Williams only played 15% snaps. like Again, like I saw enough to know Breece is him with a good quarterback. He's him with a good QB. Rodgers still got it in him. Yeah, he's getting the C-Leds back under him. If that game was a little bit closer, after that we saw Rodgers' dominance.
00:19:21
Speaker
And then I like what I saw from the connection between Garrett Wilson and Rodgers. But again, Lazard is not the receiver that you really want as your star number two when Mike Williams is going to be there. I mean, Lazard had a decent game. Yeah, a decent game. He had one drop, yeah, touchdown. Nice catch when the sideline. He had a decent game. Again, I'd like that from a number three guy. I really do.
00:19:42
Speaker
But when you you start really upgrading Mike Williams into that secondary spies, is your number two guy, that defense is going to be there. I just think again, you played a tough opponent in the 49ers. The 49ers is right back. I know Chris McCaffrey is injured, but Jordan Mason stepped up. Deebo is now heavily involved in the run packages. Why? Because Chris McCaffrey down, but you get to see what we all know about Deebo. He might not be a great number one receiver, but he's a excellent role playing.
00:20:09
Speaker
wire he util guy He's a great weapon gadget guy that you can plug and play around different places. And that's great. Are you going to look great? Maybe that's you know a lot of it. That's a lot of just in jail because that one touchdown drop he dropped. He just dropped it. He just dropped it. But yeah hey, you ain't play football all off season. like Let's be real. You ain't practice. You ain't hit the preseason wide because you were trying to get the contract. You got your back and your team still dominated.
00:20:35
Speaker
so They're good. And then we already talked Chiefs already. Like the Chiefs are just still there and they're in the territory of being a three P team. ah Chiefs Chiefs are legitimate. Like let's not make any bones about it. I'm not even going to make no jokes about it. I am going to try to act like there's a shot that they ain't.
00:20:51
Speaker
They could possibly go down as one of the greatest teams ever. One of the greatest dynasties ever. They'd be the only team that ever went through three straight Super Bowls. Yeah. And then we thought it would be with the both Tariq and um Travis, Tariq's going and they're still that team. Like they're still that team. They have reloaded. They've gotten a young, now if it's x Xavier worthy, plays every game like he did this first game, we going to have a real,
00:21:16
Speaker
You know a real problem on our hand they could do it can go for three. Yeah, easily you know we could be talking about Some stuff something we'll never see again. So I Mean What can you what can you say? It's dude that that team is so nasty like any like at this point in time There's never a game where I can't honestly say maybe besides Pacheco. I don't know who's gonna score I don't know where, I don't know who scored. I don't know where the balls won't go, because where they can score either in the backfield or from a catch or she writes to score. I'm watching Watson and Justin and Travis now all see the ball on the tight end and say like it's too much offense, it's too much firepower. The only thing you could probably start arguing is the defense, but they get that together about week five. Like every year we say the chief defense
00:22:07
Speaker
It's a slow start. It's a slow. they chief defense wasn't And the Chiefs defense wasn't bad against Baltimore. At all. at all but they But it gets even better from here. like That's how their defense normally turns up. It gets even better every year. So i I don't have any complaints with that team again. And right now it's the same two teams. Yeah, I'm a Eagles fan, but the 49ers look legit again. And I can only imagine when Christian comes back, like, what do we do then?
00:22:32
Speaker
Jared, let's talk about the Thursday night game that passed. Buffalo defeated Miami. Another concussion for Tua Tunga Baloa. A lot of talk about what Tua should do. Jared, do you like what do you think Tua should do? I would consider having a real conversation about my career moving forward. Knowing that you've had now, this is your fourth major concussion in a game where, and then and that concussion looked even just as bad as the other ones where he was gripping his hand, it like went numb, I don't know, prayers to him. But at this point in time, you only can worry about your health more than you can worry about the game. Like you, these are major blows to your body that you don't know what what the ramifications are one if you decide to continue to play. So I think he needs to really think about it. Game wise though, they didn't look all that great.
00:23:25
Speaker
Even before the injury, they didn't look great. It didn't look smooth. It didn't look fluid. Tua looked exactly as how we've been always course correcting what we thought he is. Like it's like how, where with Tua, when we were talking about top quarterbacks, where was Tua listening in these conversations? And we always had that, he's at like the bottom of the totem Polish. He still showed that in this game. In a game where they had a chance, like they they could have really won this game. ah The Bills don't look as star powered as they used to. And i'm not I'm saying star powered because the name Diggs was attached, but like that ah offense was really flowing and clicking. James Cook looks phenomenal, but the passing game in itself does not look all that right. So it's like you had a real shot if you're the Dolphins win this game and they just didn't really get the chance to grasp it because of the injury and two was quarterback play. I think if i'm so if I'm the NFL, first of all,
00:24:20
Speaker
I'm going to Institute a rule that you get, you know, X amount of concussions in a certain time period. You have to wear that guardian cap. Either that or we have to then like get involved. right like if i know that's what mean like if you I mean, obviously if Miami is comfortable letting him play and the doctors are comfortable letting him play and to of himself is comfortable playing. I think if you're the NFL, I think you strongly suggest like you need to wear this guardian cap thing.
00:24:48
Speaker
Because you need and as much padding and the you know stability to protect yourself as possible. like he should be He should be the first player to wear that thing. on them He should be wearing it, oh period. like and like like I know it's i know is it's it's ah probably ugly and it's not aesthetically pleasing and blah, blah, blah, blah. blah but but When you have multiple concussion, like this is one of, you know, you know, I'm, I'm afraid that the NFL is just, you know, like they can't, they can't have a tragedy like this or could, because we were, I feel like at as a certain point we're tempting fate here. Cause you keep, you keep getting hurt. You just keep being, being issues. And if you can take, like you want to play, I understand the desire of, of, of a player, they want to play.
00:25:43
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They believe they can do it, but they, they got them. If I'm the NFL, I'm making him wear that guardian cap. Like you have no, there's no, there is no work around this. Like you can't work. And there's no timetable for his return. So but I honestly, he has to race it down top with him and his family. Cause you just got paid and you want to play, but dude, your health is more of a priority.
00:26:07
Speaker
oh Even the two aside alone, the defense wasn't much better, Chris. The offense defense. um and Again, you can go back to 2018 when John Ramsey had one word to describe Josh Allen. He called him trash.
00:26:22
Speaker
well Josh Allen has been making him eat his words ever since those comments, that comment, sorry. Cuz now he's only five against Josh Allen. Ramsey has been dusted, killed, they know they were in circles around whatever wherever side he's at on the field. don't like Again, <unk>s it's hard to really make plays when you're not targeted. But it's hard to make plays when they do target you and they they still got you beat. They know exactly where in the coverage you're gonna be at and how they're gonna play you. like Josh Allen and them, they, they kill, they killed him a little bit in this game. The dolphins, like they took a blow and it was Christian wil when you talked about the Raiders are like, they, they, they took a blow like the defensive line. thats And that Raiders offensive line looks amazing with Crosby and Wilkins together. like like ah The dolphins took a blow and now the defense is shown for it. um For all the,
00:27:10
Speaker
you know for all the little like hey back back in the comments they did on Vic Fangio like his defense. The defense doesn't look much better when they made the the new coaching hire in these both of these games right in the game previous and now this game against the bills like the defense has still looked like a bottom 20 team where the women fans was had at least they were top 15 they were in a conversation they weren't great but they were in a conversation.
00:27:33
Speaker
Um, they have to make, they got to figure something out. And now it's got Thompson as the quarterback is rough or dolphin in trouble. Oh yeah, dude. I, again, unless they bring the quarterback, right? Like they, there's quarterback options in the free to see when they bring a quarterback is rough. I have to ask because every time the quarterback gets hurt.
00:27:50
Speaker
his name gets brought up. So, yeah. I apologize to to to he me 76 and it's not screw him. Screw him. You know who's name need to go out there. Chris. Do it. Do it. If you're if you're the Miami Dolphins. Yeah. Yeah. And there were rumors about this guy before. Uh Do you call Tom Brady? Oh, absolutely. Well, 100%. He's the first call I make. I'm i'm saying, hey, man, listen. we know you You just had an interview where you say it was it was rough for your first time broadcasting. And you're not ready for that yet. But I know you're ready to touch this ah touch the sticks again. You're ready to throw that it pick. And you get to play New England twice. You get to play New England twice and and you get to throw to a perennial star wide receiver yet again in target. To two.
00:28:36
Speaker
Yeah, i wow yeah wa you got waddled, you got still running back. Come on, come on, come on. Is Miami's offensive line? Hey, hey, hey, we'll figure that out. We'll figure it out. And guess what? rod I'm not sorry. Brady, Brady's so good. He makes defenses better too. Because just look at how that bug defense is kind of bad because he disappeared. Tom Brady makes defense better. Joe Ramsey, you you might need the Brady effect.
00:29:02
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And then again, if they don't end up getting a break, which is more, it was just probably something we'll have. You got guys like what, Tana Hill still needs a home. Tana Hill reunion? Tana Hill reunion could be an effect. Heineke needs a home.
00:29:15
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And then, last but not least, ah a ah a guy that really doesn't need a home, needs a team in general. might Maybe just needs a third act, a fourth act. Jimmy Garappolo is also available. We know that for a fact. Jimmy G. Jimmy G, back in the Shanahan-esque kind of a system, got Tyreek. There's no way he can overthrow Tyreek. He'll make it happen, because why don't a tiger both fast? He'll he'll still make it happen. There may be some underthrows.
00:29:44
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Hey, em mean if I'm Miami, Jimmy G ain't really a bad idea. Hold up. i'm not anyway but Jimmy G's not horrible. Jimmy G's no, I mean i was seen for the first two weeks So how many days do you really have in Skyler Thompson long term? I don't again I understand that he helped them in the plan get to the playoffs and the playoff game But again, I've seen enough from I know he's not getting you there He's not getting you over the hump and now it's too early in the season where I can say Oh, he's gonna really win you meaningful football games. I don't I don't see that happen I really don't
00:30:15
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Okay. All right, Jared, let's move on to week two predictions in the NFL. Before I start, he me 76 is lock of the week. One to know he correctly predicted the charges as two and a half point favorites against the Las Vegas Raiders. So Jared, let's start with our week two predictions. We start first in Minnesota as the San Francisco 49ers traveled to Minnesota to take on the Vikings, Jared, who you got.
00:30:43
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the San Francisco 49ers. I don't think we need to get much in depth to know they're going to dominate that game. I agree there. Seattle travels to New England to take on the Patriots. Jared, who you got? Seattle and a close one. Is it is it crazy to think I got got New England? I think it's a little bit crazy because yet again,
00:31:04
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um I wasn't really impressed. I think it's better than the Bengals defense. I wasn't really impressed with what I saw with Seattle. Seattle's offense didn't look great in women's defense. We thought would at least be the strength quote unquote of the team that's been their strength has been their identity for many years. Defense special teams winning in the margins. Mike McDaniel taking over in Seattle as the off as the head coach previously defensive coordinator in Baltimore. He didn't really look Like that team didn't really look put together all the way. New England's crazy enough to say this, looked a little bit more complete. Seattle's traveling across the country to play a one o'clock East Coast game. I think New England wins that game at home.
00:31:52
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Jared, the preview of the toilet bowl. as here The New York Giants travel down 95 to Washington DC area of metro and land over Maryland to take on the Washington commanders. Jared, who you got? I got the Giants. A lot of people were trying to talk me out of there and say, oh no, the commanders are winning that with ease. No, I got the Giants. Again, the Giants are underdog. That might change by tomorrow because Like again, if you just will get the team schematic wise, yeah, the Giants got trounced by the Vikings, but you go into this commander's game, division game, they always play better against the commanders. ah Josh Allen, and I'm sorry, not Josh Allen, Jesus, Daniel Jones, hopefully has shaken off whatever he shook off, hopefully, and he's going to go into that game and play a lot better.
00:32:43
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You don't believe that. I do. You don't believe that. I got the Giants. we'll see i got I got Washington. Washington looks like they have a pulse. Washington looks like they're alive. Washington looks like they can compete. The Giants look like they are sleepwalking one week into the season. Well, hopefully neighbors wakes up.
00:33:04
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It's not even about neighbors waking up. No, I'm sorry. The Giants have zero offense. It's bad. You don't care. you i I don't care about neighbors. Neighbors going to get his five catches for 80 yards or whatever. But as long as Daniel Jones is back there playing quarterback, Paul Lees. Let me watch this. Jared, the Chargers travel across the country to Carolina, to take on the Panthers, or you got? The Chargers by the way, that's a lot.
00:33:35
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Amen. Y'all know how to talk about Carolina. It's not a real thing. It's not a real thing. It's not a real thing. They're a high school football team. And they have a high school football coach and a high school football quarterback. so follow yeah Sorry, Dave Canales just got a straight. I don't think he's a high school football coach. But the quarterback, come on now. I keep trying to tell y'all, there's a lot of bad quarterback players. Bryce, Bryce stinks, dude. Like, it's bad. Like, he has, like, listen, there's some Bryce Young propaganda going on where he can make a couple of good throws. That's fine. He's not a sustainable long-term quarterback. And then, like, that's it.
00:34:17
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Saints travel to Dallas to take on the Cowboys, Jared, who you got? Cowboys. I agree. just I agree. Dallas was very good against Cleveland. I believe I had that, by the way. You did. I mean, again, this will be their home game, right? This is their home opener. Yeah, Cowboys. Cowboys. I think the Cowboys continue their momentum. ah yeah This is the Cowboys. We see it every year. They they they look good in the regular season. They're going to get your hopes up. Don't you worry. me Don't you worry.
00:34:47
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Indianapolis travels to Green Bay to take on the Packers jersey. You got the Colts. ah Green Bay is going to be down and under without your love. Jordan Love still listed as questionable, but it's probably unlikely that he will play. He's not playing that game. So it's Malik Willis and Anthony Richardson. So yeah you are a fan of great quarterback play. You go ahead and watch that right now. I am, bro. Anthony Richardson, I'm going to watch him. And then you're going to turn that game on for some star-studded quarterback play. You go right ahead. Jared, speaking of star-studded quarterback play, the Cleveland Browns coming off one of the worst games they've ever played.
00:35:26
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Travel to Jacksonville to take one of Jags after a tough three point loss in Miami. Jerry got the Browns literally got the Browns. Why? Um, why? Like what, what did you see last week? That said, Oh, I think they can go on the road.
00:35:45
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It'd be Jacksonville defense. That defense is still stellar. ah What I've seen from Trevor Lawrence is yeah, I like I like Brian Thomas Junior. I really do, but I haven't seen enough from the Jags offense to be like, oh yeah, you guys are stalwart. You guys are that's this this net now.
00:36:02
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It's not enough. Like we do you just said bad quarterback play Trevor Lawrence to Sean Watson, ah Bryce young, uh, who oh Justin Fields, all of them are in this combination of gay. You can, you might be able to win your team a game or two, but you have not been what we panned you out to be. Hey, I, I keep trying to tell you about bad quarterback play. I don't know. And Trevor was out of all the names we mentioned the most hyped. Yeah. And Trevor's and Trevor like kind of like Herbert. We waiting to see it.
00:36:31
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And there's still, we still waiting to kind of see it. So, who but I have Jacksonville in this game. Jacksonville played much better, much better game last week against Miami where they actually looked confident. They actually looked good on defense for three quarters of that game. I know Miami came back and won that game, but nothing, nothing Cleveland did on offense gave me any promise, any hope, any, any idea. The show was it looks terrible. And he has another sexual assault, a guy allegation against him.
00:36:59
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which is probably like number 87 or whatever. i There's a lot of distraction. isn't it his His performance in that contract for what they gave up for him and what they've allocated to him, they they they upside down on that deal. like That's not a good deal for them. No, it wasn't like that. Baker Mayfield and Tampa Bay looking exponentially better. They looked better with Flacco last year than they did with Deshaun Watson. They have to get out of Deshaun Watson.
00:37:28
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I don't think they can. god They got it. They might just have to eat that money. They might have to do what they did to Ross. Yeah. They got to do a number to just eat the money and just be done with it. Like, this is ridiculous. ah The Jets travel to Tennessee to take on the tightness, Jerry, you got. Jets. Yeah. I agree. I think they look much better than the score indicated um against San Francisco. And I think Tennessee, Tennessee should have beat Chicago.
00:37:58
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And double four, so. Yeah, like what are we like? I liked what I saw from Levis, but yeah you guys aren't there yet. Not yet. David Bay travels to Detroit to take on the Lions, a rematch of last year's playoff games, Jared, who you got. I have the Lions, but I'm not willing to be surprised if the Bucks covered the spread.
00:38:22
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i I agree. Tim Bay has looked good. Tim Bay has played solid defense, you know putting up points on offense. They they pretty much were going shock and shot with Detroit last year in the playoffs. They they beat the brakes off Philadelphia at the end last year.
00:38:43
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They came out and they beat Washington week one. Like we've seen Tampa on a roll right now. Baker Mayfield also on a roll. Like I said, it's playing good football, playing real good football. I know the people of Cleveland are really upset about this. Like you so somebody you just need to change the scenery and you you back to your ways. Yeah. Ironically, speaking of people of Cleveland being upset and change the scenery, needing some, you know, whatever you just said, the Raiders, a team that's changed their scenery plenty of times.
00:39:12
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that was the Baltimore to take on the Ravens Jared who you got the Ravens they might again I think the spread is too high nine and a half is a little crazy but I think they they might really cook the uh Raiders I'm not going to do they might really cook the Raiders you got the Raiders who no know what do why I say big step. Are you you a big step? What? Come on, man. Well, that's the next game. The Rams travel down to Arizona to take on the Cardinals. Jared, who you got the Rams. I got the Rams winning in that game. Yeah, I got the Rams winning. It's really like I don't like that game at all.
00:39:59
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I don't think, I think Arizona's defense is very good. They can compete. I don't think that they're better than the Rams. but It's like, why do the Rams win it though? I think the Rams, I think the Rams have to rely on a lot of Stafford and a lot of cup. Fine. Carl Williams, that you know, the usual, the suspects. They go ahead. I mean, that's what's going to have to be there. Offensive line is banged up. There's no puking the cooler.
00:40:30
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but I don't, I mean, Arizona's about to prove it to me that they can be a quality team. I think the Rams are a good team. They're going to have to prove it. Again, they went, they went toe to toe with Buffalo, but they choked. Dude. Yeah. He left, uh, Murray Harris dude wide open. I mean, I can't, I can't keep giving you points for competing. I'm going to win at some point. Especially you make excuses for why you didn't throw to your best receiver on the team. Like, Oh, I know. I'm not going to force feed the boss. Shut up. You're out. You're out. You're out. You're out.
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Cincinnati travels to Kansas City to take on the Chiefs. Jared, who you got the Chiefs and then I like Chris where you give him 20% chance. I give him a 5% chance to 5% being I have a 5% chance they cover the spread. What is what is the spread? The spread was minus six and a half. So so Kansas City is six and a half point favorites at home against Cincinnati. I think it was six now. I might be so completely lying to you. I just think that's what they set the the line. I was six and a half.
00:41:29
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I will tell you right now, it is five and a half as we record right now. Wow. You know, they're killing. They're crushing that. I thought, see, I thought five and a half was the Eagles. It's up to that game up to six. No, because the Falcons suck. Oh, yeah. Give me the cheese. All right. Oh, by the way, Rams are dogs at Arizona. but Makes it makes sense, though, like this at Arizona. How much of a dog dog is like, what's the spread?
00:41:56
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ah One and a half Arizona favorite by one. That's a one and a half spread. They might as well put it at one. That means it's anybody's game at that point. It's a push. They just gave you a half point on purpose.
00:42:07
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ah so but um that score Next game, Pittsburgh travels to Denver. This was supposed to be the Russell Wilson return game, but it looks like it's going to be Justin Fields traveling to Denver, Jared, who you got.
00:42:24
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Denver. I don't like like the Steelers look trash to be honest. They look trash. And I mean, again, What you already said, you you basically gave the analysis of the Broncos. it's It's valid, right? Like the Broncos defense looked good. And I don't think Bo Nicks looked all that bad. Yeah, he threw two interceptions, but what you like he looked solid. like Again, their receiving is just not great, right? right Whereas the Steelers have everything you can really want when it comes to a defense and offense.
00:42:54
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And the quarterback sucks. sucks. And then then again, maybe I'm just i'm saying Broncos because I don't even like Nigel Harris as much as i I used to when Joe Warren is just that good if he's healthy. But like ah I don't have no faith in field. You got to show me something. and You didn't show it really to me to the Falcons. The Falcons lost it themselves. You didn't really win it.
00:43:17
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I'm sorry. No, that's a lot. I'm i'm i'm truly sorry. TJ Watt won you that game. I'm about to say TJ Watt won they what winning that game. Even with the even with the the call they gave against him at one point, he still won you that game. You didn't win it. He took the words right out my mouth.
00:43:33
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ah i like but The problem is I can't, I want to, ah I want to, because I agree with all the points you made and I want to take Denver because I don't believe in Pittsburgh.
00:43:47
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But I can't bet against Mike Tomlin against a rookie quarterback in the second game. like I know it's Sean Payton and everything. I can't. I can't. I can't see it. I can't. What's what's stopping TJ Watt from doing the same thing again?
00:44:03
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Um, honestly, what's like, it's not like Denver has a single, I can't name a single one on the, denver unless, unless, unless Sean Payton is ready to just go screens away from TJ white or at all times run the ball away from white and just completely avoid him. I don't, I don't see how Pittsburgh, I don't see if unless fields has like an all time stinker, which isn't known for after our win, which is possible.
00:44:32
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Unless Fields has like the greatest thinker ever and I can get on, I can come on here next week and just, you know, nitpicking, nitpicking, nitpicking, whatever. I don't see how Pittsburgh loses this game. Now, of course, since I said that, not a temper will win, but I can't, I can't, get I can't bet against Mike Tomlin with a rookie quarterback in week two. I can't do it. Jared, our Sunday night game, the Chicago Bears traveled to Houston to take on the Texans.
00:45:03
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who you got. Texans, oh man, Texans might, I'm knocking up, that's a lot, I said they might kill them. No, Texans are gonna win, that bear defense is legit. I don't know about killing wins, like right he looked horrible, but that defense is legit. But I saw the Texans winning, cause Stroud is just as legit as any other quarterback that we talk about that's in the top eight category that we do. Top A, QB, Stroud's up there for sure. Now Stroud, Stroud's definitely tough. Chicago showed a different way to win, like they, they had no business winning that game last week. I think they'll be more confident on offense this week. I think Houston wins, but I think this is going to be a high scoring game. I could see this being, you know, 2024, 27. Like Houston tends to play shootouts for a team that you would, you know, with a defensive head coach and everything. They are always kind of in shootouts for some reason. Because their defenses are going to make the steep the key stops you need, ever.
00:46:02
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I don't really see, like again, yeah, they caught a pick versus the Colts last year, see ah last game, but it really didn't stock the Colts run at all. like They were like, okay, yeah, y'all got this little gimme. Your defense still not stopping us. That's the the the way we're looking at it right now. Right. In our Monday night game, Jared, Atlanta travels to Philadelphia to take on the Eagles. I already know who you got. Yeah, respectfully. How much does Atlanta lose by?
00:46:30
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Seven, a touchdown, that's about it for me. Unless, you know, Slade gets the pick stick or somebody gets the pick stick. Touchdown, I don't know about AJ Brown's health. I personally like what I saw from the Eagles. Saquon, yeah, loved it. But what I talk about, what I saw from the offense, I mean like, hurts in that emotional offense, I love what I saw. I can't say I love the turnovers, but I personally would take two of those turnovers off the equation because one of which wasn't really his fault. He just got it. They got to get in the same page him in the center. Cam Juergens in the second one. That field was a landmine. Players were slipping and sliding all over it. If AJ doesn't slip. You're not throwing like that. That's not a that's not a pick anymore. That's a catch. It's a touchdown. You never throw across your body, but when AJ that open if he didn't slip there, that's a touchdown, especially when you call for the ball and slipped the first turnover though. Terrible throwback.
00:47:26
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You never throw on it. You never throw on the back shoulder like that and not in front of the receiver. You do behind them. Terrible, terrible. It's not really triple coverage. Terrible, terrible. But I i saw offense-wise motion. Kellen Moore is going to do some things. The offense looks special at times, and they moved on the field at ease throughout the game, especially when they were in the motion. The defense looked good. Nicole Bedeen played way better. Zach Braun, huge. I just like the Eagles for this game because, again, Kirk's coming back from it.
00:47:54
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very major injury. He has no camera shoot with the guys like none like. Yeah, he had called pit open. He saw him and made that that that was a good touchdown, but him and drink London are on the same page. Bijon was a non factor in the first game. Like I yeah will for everybody that took him for a touchdown, maybe taking for one Disney, but he was a non factor in the first game. So that the files gotta get it together and they gotta to get it quick and and it won't be against the you. I agree.
00:48:23
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00:48:39
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