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Saints Marching In
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Jarod and Coach Defense of the Lockdown Defense Podcast discuss how Aaron Rodgers and the Jets looked in Week 3 and what is their ceiling this season, the 2-0 teams that really surprised them, why certain teams are coming out hot, while other teams come out flat, Week 2 results across the NFL, make Week 3 predictions and so much more!
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Introduction and Episode Context
00:00:01
Speaker
You know they want standpoint, you know we straight to the point Ball Chris with the sis, fast breaks like a joint square in into episode number 192. Up straight to the point, my name is Chris. And before I introduce my guy J-Dub and our special guest, Lockdown Defense podcast, I have to explain to you why I'm not more prominently featured on this week's episode.
Guest Introduction and NFL Talk
00:00:50
Speaker
Truth is, I got stuck in traffic. Jared tried to diss me at the end of the pod.
00:00:55
Speaker
and tell everyone that I was stuck in traffic and then I couldn't I could have just joined from my phone or my microphone and we all know like that's that's not that's not that's not happening like that's not happening like I think you get arrested for podcasting while driving and I'm not doing that so there's that so without further ado we joins up the lockdown defense podcast giving us a rundown of his schedule and then him and Jerry talking about the NFL I run my shows, uh, weekly, uh, do live shows on Tuesday nights, sports talk with coach and Kurt each and every Tuesday night, 9 PM. I do my live show for fantasy football on Wednesdays with Alex nine 30 Eastern standard time on Wednesday. So, uh, we have two live shows. We cover everything NFL.
00:01:39
Speaker
Uh, like I said, fantasy football as well. Uh, YouTube shorts, we read blue content every day between Monday through Friday. So yeah, check us out. As you can see above the banner here, uh, youtube dot.com forward slash like the divas podcast. So check us out there at each and every day we drop content and the afternoon and we have two live shows on Tuesday and Wednesday nights through the NFL season. Definitely check them
Jets vs Patriots Analysis
00:01:58
Speaker
out. And then right, because he said NFL, we're going to start off with week three. We have to know how did you feel about the game with week three?
00:02:05
Speaker
The Jets, in my opinion, played a game that I thought was going to be a predictable in first, the Patriots. But a lot of people were saying they should either blew them out by more. They said there's a little bit of an undersell with Rogers. that I thought Roger Rogers finally showed his resurgence. How do you think, how do you feel when you watch that game and what you saw from the jets versus Patriots? Well, yeah, I definitely give him a Roger credit. He did look much better in week three than he did in week one.
00:02:30
Speaker
And he got those jitters out when in regards to how he played on the Jets field, because the last time he was there, he tore his Achilles out of the four plays. So, you know, getting those jitters out and getting back on the field and ah looking somewhere like the Aaron Rodgers of old, I think they're still jelling. ah Again, them they haven't spent much real time against live fire together. If you count the time that they've all been on the field at one time, new ah office of line.
00:02:51
Speaker
and things, and they're just still trying to figure those things out. So I think they did, I think it's, for my money, I believe that they did pretty much what we should expect for them in week three. Now, if it was week 12 and they were playing like that, I think it would be cause for concern. But I think they look pretty good against the Patriots team. It's just a feisty team. I mean, you know no matter what, Bill Belichick or any of these disciples, they always ah are going to try to play you tough no matter how much talent they have or do not have. So I think it's to be expected for my money.
00:03:17
Speaker
I think my only concern is just the same concern I think anybody would have is just the workup of Mike Williams. How long is that still going to take knowing that again? The snap count has not been there for him. I know he went up again at a 30%. He started at 37% snap count from the first week to now. This third week, he only had around 70% of the snaps. Yeah, he saw a red zone target that yeah Obviously he had dropped because of the fact that again he hasn't been really worked into the ah offense or at seeing much because of his return from injury. But it's also the same case goes to Garrett Wilson. He's been there all off season. The connection between Rogers and Wilson just hasn't floated gel as much as we have thought. Again, it's only week three, it's really early. They finally got their first touchdown together. This is the first touchdown I think Rogers ever thrown to wait.
00:04:01
Speaker
top first round pick wide receiver in his career which is oddly enough to say knowing that the talent pool of wide receivers Rodgers has had going into his career and then now going to the Jets but when you just look at this I think that for me is the only concern I'm having just the flow between his number one receiver in Rodgers because again Lazard and him have been they have their connection Lazard right now I think leads the NFL and wide receiver touchdowns which is again like Astrid because it's only week two but You're talking about this just team. How far do you think they go? If let's say this game is just is that is where we that's their cement. That's their peak of this. If we're going just off of this game alone, how far do you think the Jets go?
00:04:44
Speaker
Uh, well, if that's the litmus test, then I think that they don't go too far in the AFC to be honest with you. Um, you know, there is some questions to be answered in regards to what the devil is going to look like with, or without tool. We don't know how long he's going to be out. Um, can they gain ground in the division while he there's sputtering, quote unquote, trying to figure out that quarterback situation. That's one thing. But, um, I mean, I actually hadn't predicted as, uh,
00:05:06
Speaker
a non playoff team, to be honest, which I think it was going to be right outside the bubble. Just not making the playoffs. I mean around eight, nine, nine and eight timeframe. I think they can still achieve that, especially again, like they said, if they, they gain some ground and pick up some wins while the dolphins are kind of floundering. No pun intended.
00:05:21
Speaker
But ah if they're if they're doing that and they they lose they they lose a few, um based upon their quarterback situation, then they can gain a little bit of a ground and maybe sneak
Surprising Early Season Performances
00:05:29
Speaker
in. But I mean, a French playoff team at best, but you know i think I think it's still some time to work out the kinks. Like I said, they got a whole new O-line practically. They got three new starters. you know Again, Rodgers hadn't played with these guys before snaps and live fire. They played a smidge of the preseason last year and didn't play nothing this year together. So you know when it comes to the offense, it's about chemistry.
00:05:47
Speaker
You gotta build chemistry, you gotta add throughout the season. that' more The more reps you get, and the more time you get, the more you get comfortable with each other, then the better you are offensively. So i think it'll I think it'll get better, but just a question of how better how much better it's gonna get.
00:05:59
Speaker
I like that you kind of mentioned the Dolphins. I kind of want to now shift away from the game. and Obviously the Jets won, but they did play a Patriots team that we don't have a lot of expectations for. When you look at other teams around the NFL, when you watched week two, what was something that you saw that you either were really concerned with or something? You're like, okay, I can see this being something great. You know, I know this is early, but when you look at these teams now in week two, the the the the jitters is gone, right?
00:06:21
Speaker
A lot of the teams that haven't the got of the guys or the teams that didn't use their preseason to really play their starters, that's week one's for. Right. Now week two is when the plays start to really roll and you start to see the offense supposedly or the defense quick. Have you seen enough of that yet? Are you still thinking you you haven't seen enough or are you starting to see some surprises there? We're like, I didn't even expect this team to be great. What what do you see so far? Well, I think the the, I guess you can say the production, early production for certain teams are based upon guys that didn't have a lot of turnover.
00:06:50
Speaker
So guys are bringing back a lot of starters, you know i.e. Houston. I think they added and we know more so, but they had a good nucleus and good core. So you see them kind of clicking early. ah The cheese for the most part, and they added a piece of here, a piece there, but the nucleus is pretty much intact. um So I think from that perspective, even the Saints, because the Saints are one of the teams that did surprise me.
00:07:07
Speaker
in regards to being 2-0. They were on my radar as far as being one of the most unexpected 2-0 teams that we have right now. You know, it's credit to click QB acting in that offense because he's from the Shanahan tree. You know, a lot of people may not know that, but he's from the Shanahan tree. So he's looking much like, you know, the Denver Broncos of old and what the 49ers look like now. He's got that offense coming. So if that's going to be the norm, I think they are going to be one of the more unsuspecting teams that are going to shock people down the line.
00:07:35
Speaker
I think for the most part, unless you didn't have, if you had a lot of turnover, you know, or if you didn't play a get get together a lot due to injury, whatever have you, then you're still trying to figure things out in week two. Cause again, nobody plays in the preseason more starter wise, but you know, I think the Saints surprised me to Buccaneers, which did have a lot of turnover either. They surprised me with Baker Mayfield.
00:07:52
Speaker
it being a whole year in that system, even with a new OC. So those are the two teams that are probably on my top tier list of two unexpected undefeated teams and the Seahawks would be third. The Seahawks surprised me because they do have a new regime, whole new coaching staff, but they did bring it back to everybody practically. They didn't have a lot of turnover either. So I think that's the common thing that if you have a lot of people coming back and they kind of know each other, that's where you get off to
Minnesota Vikings Discussion
00:08:15
Speaker
a hot start. But the people that are fresh off the street, you didn't know each other week to week, that's where you're going to have those bumps in the road.
00:08:23
Speaker
Then let me ask you a question about this team. Again, I people are looking at them but they've already they are to know is the Minnesota Vikings. Again, if you think about their week one matchup. You can kindly say okay yeah that that could have been on one and oath. That's a one to know victory but then you look at last week, where.
00:08:42
Speaker
they ended up winning again and they played the 49ers. Yeah, the 49ers a little banged up, but that's still a team that we put on the pedestal of a team that's supposed to go to the championship or are supposed to be at least a two-ball contender. And they they ended up sneaking out a win. And then there's a very good one at that where, how do you feel about a Viking team? Are you thinking this is a team that could actually surprise us or are you thinking this is a little too early? This team isn't, this is it. Like they've they've hit, their the bumps in the roads are going to come sooner than later.
00:09:07
Speaker
Well, you would think that big, based upon the fact that they didn't, they didn't have even full strength, teacher Hoggins is still out. You know, Justin Jefferson's in and out of line of Jordan Hessen really hadn't played. So you would think that once they really get rolling, that it could get better, but I still hold a ceiling to Sam Donald's production.
00:09:23
Speaker
But I will say this, I will give Kevin O'Connell a lot of credit. I believe he might be the new quarterback whisperer. Because if you see what he did with those backups last year, all like all the turnover he had when Kirk Cousins went out, he was either in competitive or won games with backups. And what he's doing with Sam Donald, who has been a retread from the Jets to the Panthers to the 49ers, you name it. He's been around the league and he hadn't really done anything.
00:09:44
Speaker
So I think he's getting the best. He probably gonna get out of Sam Donald, but is it sustainable, especially in that division? I'm not too sure. You got to face the the Lions. toys You got to face the Bears. They're trying to figure it out. They also got to face face the Packers. So I don't think that ah they are actually going to be a playoff team, but I do think that there is one of those feisty teams that if you keep them around and let them hang around, it could beat you.
Ravens' Struggles and AFC North Dynamics
00:10:05
Speaker
Yeah, especially like you look at the other side, right? The other spectrum is the Ravens. This is a team where I predicted they kind of now be better than what they were last year, knowing that yeah, they they saw the homes in the championship game.
00:10:19
Speaker
unfortunately lost, Lamar was MVP candidate, won it. And then you add Derek Henry, offense is not supposed to be at a hundred percent, right? Like our injuries come back from injury, but you've got Zayflower, Rashad Bateman, Derek Henry, you have Lamar Jackson healthy. I say likely he's now emerged as like either you're tight end one if you need him to be, or he's still your tight end two wide receiver, two, and now they're own two.
00:10:42
Speaker
but You lost to a team that is the Las Vegas Raiders, which again, you might not have great things to say about them, but they, they look a little surprising me defense wise. Right. Defense is still top 10 in my opinion, but the Ravens had a chance to, they want, they were winning the game. Oh, absolutely. They were up big and they let that Raiders offense led by Gardner, Menchu, Menchumania come down and beat them. Yeah. Devontae Adams was talking big.
00:11:07
Speaker
But again, you could credit the Raiders as much as you can credit them. But the biggest thing is just that Ravens team still looks the same as what we thought last year or the year before, where they still don't have a number of our receiver. That's the problem. I like Zae Flowers. I like the target share he's getting. And if you think about fantasy purposes, oh, it's massive. He's saying about eight to nine targets a game. But when it comes to winning football games, once they seal him out of the middle of the field, goal line stuff, he's not getting the ball.
00:11:36
Speaker
Right. Derek Henry. Yeah. He's a great running back, but he's not getting the touches. Like we thought he was either. The carries aren't there. Uh, even their coach Harbaugh is like, yeah, he's not going to be seeing the same type of carries he saw in Tennessee, which is fine. But I didn't think it was going to be this huge chunk going like this is a guy that was getting about what 22 to 25 carries a game that dropped down to about 14 and 16 in the past two weeks. I don't know.
00:12:04
Speaker
what I can really say about this Ravens team that's gonna be like, oh yeah, they can, they can change it. I know it's only week two, but this is a team that's never going, oh, into what Lamar Jackson was a starter. And now this is what they are. I'm a little nervous because of the division they're in as well. I asked you, if you were a betting man, do you still see the Ravens coming out of their division? Far as winning it?
00:12:32
Speaker
winning it. um yeah yeah i do I do believe they do have a great chance of winning it. And I say that because I am ah still trying to figure out the that ah what the Bengals are doing. I mean, they're 0-2 as well. yeah I think the Steelers are, you know, the Steelers again, they are Well, coach, well-disciplined unit, but I don't think they are going to you know be overpowering from a perspective that their offensive line is ah it's an issue. The quarterback situation is week to week. We don't really know. um you know They have a weapons issue outside, much like the Ravens have, and things like that. Which is going to keep both teams in the game, Ravens and Ravens end still is a you know good solid defense. And I think that's really what they're trying to hang their head on right now. So they figured this office of a momentum out. But before the Ravens perspective, I think that, I think they're well coached enough that they were in talented enough, you know, with a two time MVP that they can, they can give themselves, they will themselves to the playoffs. And again, in the walking division, and I didn't even count the Browns at this point, cause I just don't know what they are. They are a mess.
00:13:30
Speaker
you know that yeah maybe they'll stabilize when the shuttle comes back but again he's coming back over leg injury so you know you want to work him back kind of slow so i believe that they'll probably econ division be tighter than we think or you know we thought we'd go into the season you know we probably thought they might have been a two or three game ahead winner it might be one one one and a half games and it it just depends but i do believe there's still a best team in that division now it's my issue for them is really the o-line the protection and them throwing the ball more glowingly and that's its problem you're throwing but you're trying to throw the ball more ah at a higher clip than running the ball when your identity has been and always been running the football. You got Derek Kenny for that express purpose. That's how monkeys just needs to buy into that identity. You know, I don't know if him or Lamar Jackson are both trying to prove to the league constantly that he can be an elite passer.
00:14:15
Speaker
But just play the restraints and win football games, you know, that's really what they should put what it would water boils down to and and let's be honest The biggest threat that you have is that our P.O. Game with him and Derek Henry because guess guess what? You don't have to deal with any one of them in our P.O. Game If you've load up and try to stop Derek and our P.O. Game Lawrence look suck it and he's gonna run for 80 So do you really want to deal with that make them beat you make them stop that first and then you can play everything off of that particular ideology, but Yet again, I think that they just need to figure out what their philosophy is and what it's going to be and stick to it and make people stop there and then go didn't have something else in your bag to go to to win football games. But if they figure that bar it out, and I think there is going to be a really good level test for them to face in the Cowboys this week, it's going to tell to tell whether or not they're going to try to get back to their roots. They have to because they don't really have no more receivers, like you said, and nobody can win on the outside. They just want to pack in the middle and and bracket, you know, Andrews or likely all flowers that are all hanging around in the middle of looking for the football.
00:15:08
Speaker
So if you have nobody going to win on the outside, then that's where you're going to struggle. I think you kind of hit the nail in the head where a Mar Jackson, two time AP, yet it still feels as if he has to prove something with his arm, right? He still feels like he has to throw the ball where at this point for me, you really don't like the naysayers are or the team. You got to get out of this concept that you guys need to throw this ball He needs at least 25 to 30 passing attempts at yeah at this point. You can cut it down if you're being honest. Unless you're down in the game, you can cut that down because at this point in time, you're stifling your offense rather than you're helping it. And then you talk about the Dallas Cowboys. who Yeah, they they got destroyed by the Saints.
00:15:51
Speaker
That team for me has question marks as well, but they only have question marks for me because they didn't do anything in the off season. I'm looking at Dallas Cowboys team where you just mentioned to me about how like a lot of guys brought their all their veterans back. It's the same core. Yet his team has the same core.
00:16:05
Speaker
Slightly. because long Yeah, defensively. Being rebuilt. It's gone. No, it rebuild is understated. It's gone. And yeah, Dak is also in the MVP conversation at least once or twice every other season. But when it comes to they still, to me, don't have a solid receiving corps that's not CD land. Now you're talking about an offensive line that's depleted and they're looking to like kind of build it back up with these young guys. And yeah, they got some names there. but You have a running back trio, not in the duo, a trio that can't get the ball past three yards carry. And they're not, I thought they can't do that at all. I mean, again, this is, people are going to come at me later in the comments saying, you're an Eagles fan. You have to handle the Cowboys. No, I got a lot of qualms with the Eagles as well, especially after that loss of the Falcons. But if we talk about our defensive tendencies that can be fixed and their offensive ones, I think is going to be a struggle for them.
00:16:59
Speaker
I have an issue with the fact that the Cowboys offense could not put any real points on the boy versus the Saints team that was torturing them throughout the entire game. Am I worried about the Saints for the Eagles? Yes. Do I think the Saints Overrated right now a little bit, but the car resurgence for me. I think it's real So that's why I'm like, I'm i'm a little nervous as well cuz like I've never seen car play so well in the first weeks of NFL Mm-hmm, maybe his third week or his third season and then fell as a Raider Like um I haven't seen that in years. So yeah, I'm a little nervous about Derek Carr in the Saints But I'm also just worried about the NFC as a whole because NFC is the whole looks yet again.
00:17:41
Speaker
A toss up, up for grabs. It looks terrible. And I say toss up for grabs, as in it's just only the Eagles and and Cowboys. I don't, I don't talk about the Giants and Commanders. I'm gonna be honest with you. ida I saw the game. I actually watched the game. yeah When you win a game or field goals alone, those teams are making it far. true right But I want to talk about your team a little bit. I'm hearing the injuries reports. um I'm seeing the news.
Fan Insights on Coaching Changes
00:18:08
Speaker
I mean rumors about Easton stick. Might be the back of quarterback that starts again. I know Heineke is there, but we're we're talking about a North Dakota quarterback might be the guy that's going to be taking snaps on Sunday. What have you liked about your teams for? What have you seen from them? That's the good and the bad like where where are you at? Where's your mindset at?
00:18:28
Speaker
Well, yeah, I mean, it's a completely other regime change, you know, and it's something we've been pining for since probably the late 2000s when Marty Schadenheimer was a coach, you know, a prayer a hard nose, you know, tough rugged coach is going to bring an identity to the team and and hold people to a standard, right? We haven't had that since then. So I think Harbaugh is that guy and he's definitely brought that culture in and just some about him and his aura. He walks in the building and in and he catches people's attention.
00:18:53
Speaker
You know, so I think that definitely is is a breath of fresh air and something we are still trying to digest because again, we've been, you know, we have people that I haven't been fans long enough to know what Marty's you know team was like. So they still don't still kind of shell shocked in the sense that we play in solid mistake free football.
00:19:08
Speaker
So I think that's the number one biggest thing that we are trying to get adjusted to as fans, is to understand that we playing mistake-free football, we're not turning the ball over, we're running the ball. We haven't had a running game since Lidamia Tomlinson, I'm going to be honest. You know, we haven't had a dominant running game since him. So, you know, we're getting you back used to that. JK Diamond's, you know, ah he's resurging, he's finally healthy. He's looking good. ah That pick in Joe Alders looking like a slam dunk so far, even if he's playing right tackle, because he never had played before. So that just tells you right there.
00:19:37
Speaker
his transition has been seamless and he's been trialed by fire for him. He had to go against Mike Crosby week one, had to go against Jadavian Conley week two, then he got TJY this week. So you know he hadn't given up but one pressure since he's been you know in the starting lineup. So it's a lot a lot of positives to this team, a lot of things lot lot of things that are new that we are enjoying at the moment. We're still trying to figure out our passing game and i you know and who's our number one receiver.
00:20:01
Speaker
you know, we go back and forth between, you know, loud McConaughys more like a slot that we drafted in a second. Quinn Johnson was the first round pick holdover that a lot of people have angst about because it's a catching ability.
Fantasy Football Strategies
00:20:10
Speaker
Somebody did have a good game last week against the Panthers. So, you know, he went up against a good corner, J.C. Horn, and he beat him one good time for a touchdown. So, you know, it's a lot of things that to to be optimistic about. um I will say that um I think that we our past resection, it really hadn't been tested yet to a large degree because we've been running the ball at such a high clip and it's been dominant.
00:20:28
Speaker
I think that ah that that particular ideology is going to have to be ah shifted a bit because the Steelers have really good front seven. So the idea of us running the ball and just, you know, at will ah is going to be, you know, I think we're going to kind of be more balanced in passing and throwing. So I'm going to be very interested to see, you know, assuming that Justin plays because ya has yeah he does have a high angle spring.
00:20:50
Speaker
So ah you know we know high angle springs out are very tricky. Sometimes they are you know a week to week thing. Sometimes they're four to six week thing. You just don't know. um he's been He's been out there at practice with his if with his equipment on. He just hadn't been in part of the drills that ah media can see. So we're not sure what his mobility is like.
00:21:08
Speaker
But um we yeah, I mean if he plays I think we're gonna have a nice ah Chance to ah go into Pittsburgh and get a W, but he does not I'm very leery about Easton stick I'm not sure about him at all. And I really don't know if ah he has some type of ah blackmailing Tapes on the owners in in in the front office because he still has a job. I don't get it I don't know, I just don't understand. Now go and get to the Heineken upgrade, but yet again, he is, there's a cliff ceiling there with him too. So, but if I did, if I had to pick between the two, I would play Tyler Heineken. I think he gives a better chance to win. um You know, I think he's, he has a better arm. I think he's more mobile and things in that nature. I think he make better decisions out of the two.
00:21:50
Speaker
So, uh, but I'm just hoping that Justin is able to play, but you got it. It's a long season. So if he is limited now and we play KC the very next week, I think you might want to save him for that. Maybe give him a week to kind of let their ankle heal instead of throwing them out there and hopefully you don't get rolled on again.
00:22:06
Speaker
and But you know, I think that's the really only question wasn't that Justin plays if he does play and I know he wants to play That'd be I think we have a good chance of of of executing a good game plan and beating Pittsburgh But it's all an if and it's independent so we get to Sunday. We probably won't know So here we go. Listen We we had to do it. The fans want to know your fancy guy Let's start with your team the smokescreen of Quinton Johnson. Lamaconkey's there, but we don't know where he's going to be at yet. wait Where are you going fantasy guy? Where are you going fantasy while these guys were Dobbins alone might've saved many people's fantasy lives already. I know it's early, but but how long do you take him to continue this aggressiveness that he has? How long do you think, do you think the fall off is coming soon? And do you see the rise of your receivers or do you think it's going to always be even keel where this, this, this season alone might be more of a run heavy charges team?
00:22:59
Speaker
I think it's going to run every charge the same for sure. I think that we're never going to leave that. I think ah if you have JK diamonds in your fantasy line of football and line up now, you're going to be good to go for the rest of the season. Now, you know, we'll say they might spell them in certain cases, but you look at our backups. I think Gus Edwards is more of a, you know, short yardage and goal line type of guy.
00:23:16
Speaker
um So he may vulture some goal line carries outside of that. I think JK Diamond says that is the number one back at this point that we get clear in that regard. We've got ah Hassan Haskins as well as Kamani Vidal, ah who is a more of ah a dual threat kind of also echelon type back. So, you know, it just depends on, you know, what Harbaugh wants to do week to week and who we face. But, you know, kind of like I alluded to with Pittsburgh, he he probably knows the back of his mind that Pittsburgh is going to do everything in their mind and their and their mind and their body to try to stop the run.
00:23:43
Speaker
they they go on They want us to make them beat them with the passing it. They're going to try their best to keep the ah run the runs to a minimum and and keep us from getting downhill. And I think every team from different hand on out, whether the other person or not, is going to load up with that idea. So we're going to have to sometime or some point figure it out. um I think the the person is probably going to benefit from that to your point. ah Once they that their passing game starts to get rolling a bit and starts to gel more, it will be Lab McConkie because he's the best and most highly skilled person we have in the receiving room right now.
00:24:16
Speaker
Okay, see, I like all ah everything I'm hearing, because then, before we get into any of the week three predictions, I'd like you to give us your start sits of the week three. Who are the guys that you're very high on, if they have if these players are on this this person's fantasy team, who are the guys you're like sell low, don't play him, don't start him, maybe possibly trade him. What is your week three start sits of the week? You can go from quarterback down.
00:24:38
Speaker
OK, that's pretty easy, because we actually did this on our fans show. up There we go. See, hey, it's because I listened. I too did. That's it. That's it. So we both like Josh Allen and and and against ah guess the Jaguars. we We do like him. ah We like ah Devin david A-Chain. He's going to be the lead dog in Miami. And they're probably going to be a more run heavy with a new backup quarterback.
00:25:00
Speaker
ah you know, from from a running back perspective. Y receiver, I believe that ah we have, i like ah I like a sneaky pick in the sleeper pick in Jalen Naylor, um because I think Jordan Astin is almost likely going to be out. So Justin Jefferson, you know, they kind of, you know, you want to over-ulise him with that quad. He says he's healthy, he says he's good to go, but I think that if they focus on Justin Jefferson, I think Jalen Naylor could be a benefit benefactor.
00:25:22
Speaker
of of targets from Sam Donald this week in that perspective. I was going with George Kittle, but he sat out. ah They sat him out of practice today, and he's not going to play ah this week. So, tight end is a rough one, man. Tight end position has definitely been a rough spot for people, and and it hadn't been really productive if you unless you had an outlier, you know, here, there, like Isaiah likely in the first week, right? When he went off. Who started Isaiah liking the first week knowing he had Mark Andrews?
00:25:48
Speaker
Nobody. I mean, I'm in a 16 man league and they he's still doing it. It's nasty. 16 man. that That is brutal. i definitely say I pray for you. I pray for your strength in that league. Cause I think the best, the most, like the largest thing I've ever done is 14. Yeah. That's, that's, that's a lot. That's definitely a lot. I can't even, uh, if you there in that perspective, but, um, but yeah, I mean, holistically, I think that, um,
00:26:14
Speaker
I think that we're going to, ah oh, I forgot about Joanne Jennings. i didn't I did want to highlight Joanne Jennings. Joanne Jennings ah from the 49ers, because you got you missing Deebo, Coach, you're missing Purcell, and Kendall is now going to be out. So I think Joanne Jennings is going to get a lot of targets. Demarcus Robinson is a bit is ah is a guarantee benefactor of, you know, Kuber Cup and the Cougar being out.
00:26:35
Speaker
Uh, and Mike is second tight end. That's not exciting. That was targeting. And my consecutive is going to be another one that I feel like it's going to be a good one for a Joe burrow. Uh, cause he had a good game last week. I guess the cheese, you know, they lost. I think that he's getting comfortable with Joe burrow, throwing him targets, even though he's like, he's going to play. I think that makes you might open up Mike is saying his game more so than it did prior because you're going to have two guys on outside drawing a attention. So Mike is saying you should get a lot of targets.
00:26:58
Speaker
Uh, in, in week three. So that's definitely somebody I will look at. And you know, if you're in a deep league, like you are, you know, if you got, if you can stash somebody like, uh, Kareem hunt, you know, for your future, or you can get Carson still, um, or somebody P Ryan from the cheats. Cause you know, uh, check those out. So I would look to get him and Todd Chandler, Todd Chandler is another one. um Unfortunately, I missed out on all three of those names. The only person I can stash at the moment, you go 60 big league, your waivers is, is already your doubt bad. um i again Jordan Whitington.
00:27:28
Speaker
for the Rams. Oh, wow. They're going to try to stash him again. I'm hoping for the best and looking at this team that the Rams, they, they're down. Like they're down. We're going to this rookie like, hey Hey man, you know, you might, I'm not going to play you week three, but there's going to come a time where I'm going to need you. But then again, if you're also like me, I took Joe Warren in like the fifth round. And how would you feel if you told Joe Warren in the fifth round, looking at the usage rate?
00:27:57
Speaker
Well, right is you just waiting for the first two weeks. It was is they've been down. I mean, I think they've been kind of trying to slow him walking so back into the lineup because he was hurting preseason. So this I think a lot of people actually targeting him this week to have a better game. At least they have a more target share. He's going to get a more. We get more of a target share this week because he's he sees you should be three weeks removed from his injury. So I think they he'll play more of a prominent role this week than he has in the first two weeks. So you might have a shot in playing pretty decent.
NFL Week 3 Predictions
00:28:21
Speaker
I don't know. i Yeah, so the bear will talk about a 16 T week. it's It's gross, but yeah, our players are like, again, John, this is not even a name I really thought of just in general, because again, I don't know. A lot of people would even think about him with kiddo as the face. Deebles there. I youked there, but again, there's a four and I seems that is deeply injured. And I don't even know where the I uke in pretty connection is yet. I mean, this is the game we see it.
00:28:49
Speaker
But I have it. And then now that you gave us your you're start six, now it's time to get into the week three of the NFL. I'm going to start with the predictions here. We're going to go into just a couple of games here where I'm not even going through the entire game schedule, literally. So I'm going to start with what I consider ah yet again, the snooze bowl of the week, who's Browns and Giants.
00:29:10
Speaker
Okay. I got a Brown's winning that one. I do. I got a Brown head at home. I got a Brown's winning that one. Uh, I had to stash DeShawn Watson in one of my leagues because I have Jordan Love and Justin Herbert, who both are questionable to play. So I had to stash DeShawn Watson. So I think that I'm going to put my chips into the DeShawn Watson Cleveland bag for this week to beat the Giants. Is it wild that I think the Giants are going to get their first win against the Browns at the Browns? It's not, it's not at the realm of possibilities, but I think the Browns are a better team technically.
00:29:38
Speaker
I have the giants winning. Okay. I have, well, I liked what I saw offensively last week from the giants know that I still have question marks all around Daniel Jones, but he can move the ball. Or if he just wants to target one guy, you could target that guy and he's, they're going to get him open. And that's what they did with neighbors. but I think again, they're going to work their other guys in. I like what I saw from the office that moved down field. The defense was terrible.
00:30:05
Speaker
The defense was terrible, but your the defense was not equipped to really go against a McDale's dual threat as a runner and a passer. Watson hasn't been really mobile like that. he At one point, we thought he was, but he really isn't anymore. He can move a little bit out of the pocket, but he's not scrambling. I think the giant's a key into that a little bit more. I think the the way he's still not throwing the ball is accurate as I thought when it comes to his number one target into Mario Cooper.
00:30:30
Speaker
I think I can see the Giants winning that game out. Now, if they lose, well, I'm sorry, but that that's where I'm at right now, because again, these are two teams that just, for me, yeah, the Browns have a win on their on their record, but it wasn't all that great. It wasn't all that, oh yeah, we did a we had a dominant win, or we we won this game, and we feel confident going forward. If I'm the Browns or the Browns, I'm still not confident about this team. Yeah, I understand.
00:30:57
Speaker
The next game is going to be Eagles and Saints. I'll go first, as i because again, they're going to come in for biasing. I have the Eagles winning. I've said it. I'm locked in. Do they win? Yes, by a field goal. That's it. so That is all I have for you.
00:31:12
Speaker
OK. Yeah, I'm high on this thing's train right now. oh I'm very disappointed. I'll be honest with you. I'm very disappointed in your defensive play, your defensive coordinator. I mean, just and just just the you have the names and the personnel, but why are we playing so bad defensively?
00:31:31
Speaker
is beyond me. I don't understand why we can't get a pass rush, why we have issues stopping the run, why we have issues in coverage. When you have all these, you know, quote unquote studs in the secondary, you brought the Jonathan Gonson back, you got Quinn Young, Mitchell Cooper, Dajean in the draft. I'm just like, why are we playing so bad? And why is Devon White not playing in the middle of this defense? Aye, it's beyond me. It's a lot of questions here.
00:31:51
Speaker
A lot of questions you that I have asked for and a lot of dysfunction and coming off that dead dead the bill of saying laws against the Falcons. It might be another holdover because my calling card for the Saints and going into the season with their defense. defense I thought the D was going to be really good. I didn't expect all to obviously put up this type of production. So if they come in with that same fervor, y'all might be in for a long day. Yeah, that's bad. I don't understand.
00:32:14
Speaker
Fangio's mindset when it comes to this defense right now It's very questionable to me when you had Devin Weiss not playing as a Rogers isn't playing either Cooper DeGene isn't played either And these are guys that are all healthy but in actively healthy It's a lot of question marks across the board and this defensive line can't Stop the top of the run at all and they can't touch the quarterback if he was a snail They still wouldn't be able to touch the quarterback right now. It's it's It's bad, but I think this is the game where you can do that because car doesn't scramble cars not mobile Kirk isn't either but I don't know that the the Falcons offensive line was killing us with the Bijon runs Kamara might do the same but I think you you gas out after a game like that versus the Cowboys as less than the mindset I'm trying to have that's the believe I'm trying to instill my glass half full I get it I get it
00:33:04
Speaker
The next game we're going to talk about is the Texans and Vikings. Two teams that we just previously mentioned in this podcast, one of which we see going very high ceiling, one we see is going to peter out sooner than later. Who do you have winning?
00:33:17
Speaker
I definitely got a Texas winner. I think the the bubble burst with the Vikings this week. I don't think that we're going to see what we saw in the first two weeks from the Vikings. I think the Texans are coming down on business. And once they're down to because Cam Akers, because Pierce and Mixon are out for this week. But I don't think it's going to matter. I think they're going to be able to get it done. Cam Akers actually looked pretty good. He's two years removed for that injury now. He's looking really good. He looked really good in the preseason. So I think with them having him was as a serviceable back and the weapons they got on the outside,
00:33:45
Speaker
I think it could be too much for the ah for the Vikings. I just don't think I don't. Although I love Brian Flores as a coach, ah he don't have the personnel to keep up with this thing. You know, um I'm fully 100% with you in the Texans. ah It was about time the Vikings came down to Earth. I the propaganda of just Jefferson still trying to propel. Sam Darnold the QB. It's great. I love to see it.
00:34:05
Speaker
It's not going to happen this game. I see them losing, and I see them losing by a wide margin. Next game, Broncos, Buccaneers. Ooh, this could be the snooze ball of the week. Because the Buccaneers are going to kill them. Well, it would be lopsided. I definitely agree there. I'm not optimistic that all the Broncos are going to do anything against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when they're playing. No, I do like what I'm seeing from Bo Nix, though. The interceptions aside, the man has found the passing game is there for him.
00:34:35
Speaker
is just the wrong decision at the at the worst time. And they don't have a run game yet to speak of, so he has to throw this many times. Like when I watched that Bronco Steelers game, it, for me, a lot of people was arguing to me about, oh, Justin Fields looked good. I honestly thought Bo Nix played a better game than Justin Fields. It's just defense alone is the calling card of the Steelers. And the run game did a better job than what the Broncos run game was in the Broncos defense.
00:35:04
Speaker
the bonis I think out through doesn't Jeffers. I mean, that's the exceptions. All over. heads are opposed Yeah. Yeah. So he turned the ball over. That's the, that was his killing seal right there and going to get that pass rush. I mean, I mean, TJ want to break that game by itself. Yeah. I did the first game too. I guess the Falcons like that's TJ watt right now is my defense play of the year. So yeah, not a bad pick. and Next game I have for you Packers and Titans. I believe.
00:35:34
Speaker
Jordan Love may suit up, wink, wink. We don't know yet, but they're saying he's progressed very well. He's already back to practicing. If Jordan Love plays, do you see them coming out versatile? Oh, absolutely. I actually think they might beat him. I mean, even when Malik Willis, that's a revenge game for him, because that's where you got traded from. So I think they beat them regardless. I think that Malaflor is going to have these boys ready enough. And they think, you know, he was able to get Josh Jacobs going last week with Malik Willis in the center, on the center. So I think that they'll just basically play conservative football, get the, get the running downhill with those two backs that they have and, and, you know, just timely pass. And I think that the Titans.
00:36:09
Speaker
Uh, the bad enough offensively, we'll, we'll let was that they will ultimately e the eke out of a small victory. But if Jordan love does play and he's healthy enough to run the offense for four quarters there, they definitely win. Yeah, I agree with you. I believe the Packers are going to win. Uh, our next game is going to be the bears and Colts. Both teams are on two. One team is more surprising only two than the other, which is the Colts because the Colts had a chance to win against the Texans and they.
00:36:35
Speaker
Uh, really just underperformed versus the Packers in the last week. And we will. So we just previously spoke about but who do you have winning these teams are both on to a lot of expectations were all on these two teams a little bit more than I thought for the bears though. They shouldn't have that many expectations, but they do. Who do you got?
00:36:52
Speaker
Well, Anthony Richardson for me has been very erratic. Even in last season, when he was those five games he did play, like he played good one week and then one big game struggle. So I think that he played bad last week when he played good the first week. So I think they might be if he if he's alternating games, this would be the game he plays well. And I think that they might propel them to a victory.
00:37:11
Speaker
I'm really concerned about the birds online. I really am. I don't know what happened year to year. Like they were protecting just it feels much better at the end of last season and they are Kayla Williams right now. And you ah people would argue that they were they better this year as a unit. So I just don't know. I mean, Darnell Wright is whiffing on on on ah on ah on pass pro reps. He's getting Caleb killed in the backfield. He only have a time to throw the ball. so Yeah, I've i had to pick. I would definitely say the coast should win, but but it could be close game because I think both teams have issues with their quarterbacks in confidence right now. This is something that Chris and I spoke about last week. I reference that when I watch Anthony Richardson, he reminds me of Cam Newton just with a stronger arm. Like what I'm seeing from him is so Cam like.
00:37:57
Speaker
that when I see these overthrow for one of the receivers downfield, it's like, ah, yeah. And then the mobility, yes. And then the, the poise is there. Just the mechanics are there. Cause again, he missed half his own rookie season, but but then on the other side, I have a lot of pressing concerns, not only because of the bears online that you just mentioned, but also the chemistry with his receivers, they all off season.
00:38:20
Speaker
I, there wasn't a lot of mention between how well he and more gel. It was him and Kenan and him in a doomsday. It wasn't about him and more and more is your primary guy. ah or alice heard Yeah. And with him hurting, even, I think if even if Kenan was healthy, I think Kenan is no longer a one. He's now kind of a two because of the regression that he's kind of been showing. More is your one. And yet they haven't quit. They're resurfacing resurfacing.
00:38:50
Speaker
Oh, quotes by him where he was like, he thinks Justin feels a better quarterback than kill was before and the bears that drive to kill Williams. And then they show it now. They're showing the video from last week, the game that they played against the Texans where the Warriors on the sideline pissed. Oh yeah. So I, I, again, I don't see the bears winning. I just have a lot of pressing concerns with the team. Cause this team had a lot of expectations. Cause again, if you look at kill wins as a quarterback, this is the most town I've ever seen a number one QB walk into offensively. Yeah.
00:39:19
Speaker
Oh, defensive to the defense is very good as well. That's why they won. They first game, but offensively, I've never seen a guy come in where you have, you know, let's say ah we running back and swift two elite receivers in more in Allen, a solid tight end and commit. And then you have this rookie and doomsday in it.
00:39:36
Speaker
They just haven't gotten the job done offensively at all. but not like it's a ball That's the thing. You have time to throw the ball and you're not running it. That's the thing. What they should be doing with all these rookie quarterbacks you know is give them a solid ah you know foundation in the run game to take the pressure off. if ah If you have to take your rookie quarterback and make them throw 30 to 40 times a game, that's the recipe for disaster.
00:39:56
Speaker
trying to figure it out in the league and it and how things work when live bullets are coming at them. Because again, i mean how about you play preseason or the small small so sample size you play the preseason? It's nothing like the real NFL, real live games where it matters. Because people want those things at you that you haven't seen. And you if you don't if you want them to figure it out, you know you want to be able to get make the game simpler for them early.
00:40:17
Speaker
ah Run the ball, you know, you know, timely pass, you know, just make it real simple. Don't, you know, you know, a lot of under intermediate, the underneath stuff and let them get comfortable. But if you don't do that and they got to go out and carry the team on their back when they're still trying to figure it out, that's, that's where they fail. I think that's where they fell with Justin Fields. And I think that's currently where they fell with Kayla Williams. Yeah. It's getting tails all this time when it comes to number one QB is going to a situation where there's a new head coach, new regime, and you just got to work all through it and everybody has their own growing pains.
00:40:47
Speaker
This is a team that's going to have the growing pains, but it might be a little bit worse than what we imagined coming into this season. I'm going to go into the next game. This is the last morning game of the week. It's going to be your charges versus the Steelers. I'm going to go and start with, I honestly think the charge can win this game of her place. That's my mindset. The charges win of her replace.
00:41:10
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. It doesn't play. I'm out. I'm out. I might go to the gym if Eastern sticks suits up. I really might. I just, I might not be able to take it in my heart, but I have to watch the replay and when it would all, all the dust is settled. I really might, but yeah, I'm hoping to just in place. I mean, again, but I do want to play the long game with it. I much rather have him a much healthier and able to go get the Chiefs versus the Steelers. But You know, if he's going to get played both, then fine. But I was worried about his long-term health, because people out there realized as well that that foot he injured is the same foot he had that planted fresh out of his head. So do you really want to have risk it to the point where he hurts it completely and it's out? Out? So I don't know. um But I hope that Harbaugh and everybody, you know you know, makes the best decision possible for him and his long-term health. But, you know, one game is just one game. I mean, you know, if you lose this game and you can somehow, you know, he got a good win against Kansas City, I'll take that all day.
00:42:01
Speaker
So, you know, if I had to sacrifice one game, I would sacrifice still this game and that I can't sit again. And then again, I'm all, I'm all for seeing Justin Fields play a good football into my timing, but it's, it's not great football to be honest. Doesn't look good. The defense is just propelling it. Now you're going against a defense just almost as good as yours. And then you're talking about a run defense that It propels the charges a lot. So I think I can see them winning even with Heineken. It can pass behind. I agree. If he we put Heineken out there, I think we still got a chance. But Visa's taking the back of quarterback, which still I don't understand. And I don't know what blackmail or, you know,
00:42:40
Speaker
You got the owner in the diaper somewhere that he don't want to get get leaked to the media. It's the only reason I can say that he still has a job, but he should not be the backup. I think Tyler Haneke should be, and he's been in the system long enough to know the office well enough to be able to you know get it done as playing in place of Herbert.
00:42:59
Speaker
yeah And then now we're going to the next game. Another backup QB should be potentially starting. No, not even potentially. He is going to be starting. We have Skylar Thompson in the Miami Dolphins taking on Gino Smith in the Seahawks. This is now going to be the four o'clock AKA one o'clock slate. Best time to watch football. And by the way, the West Coast, uh, this is the time where we now get to see him take over.
00:43:23
Speaker
for the team with two are now out with another concussion injury. ah Career is now being questioned. His career is now being questioned, but he's saying he's going to continue to play football. He is now has to get through the concussion protocol. Who do you have winning this Dolphins game? Oh, I'm all on the Seahawks and they at home. Yeah. You got to go to Lumi if you want to back up quarterback. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I don't give the Dolphins a much chance in this game. I love Mike McDaniel was a call play caller, but you know, I think he's very limited with scholar Thompson. I even heard rumors that Cam Newton was down in Miami. It could have been just quizzing it.
00:43:51
Speaker
going to be this quiz it is, but I heard that he was even down there. They were talking to Ryan Tanner here and all this other stuff because they just don't know how long two is going to be out. I mean, at least four games because you and I are. Yeah. So, um, I personally, I mean, we talked about this on my show this week. Um, I think a video came out yesterday about how we talked about, uh, what he should do with his career. I really don't think he should play it again at all personally, but, um, you know, but until they figured it out until he's clear to get back on the field, they're going to, they want to struggle unless they upgrade themselves as a quarterback. Cause I think Skyler Thompson clearly has a ceiling.
00:44:19
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. And then also, I just want to agree with the Seahawks as well. I think they're just going to dominate this game. Tariq and Watto, it doesn't matter who who you throw the ball to. If the quarterback can't get the ball to them, you're not going to win a football game. Agreed. Next game, this might be the highest blowout of the week. We have the Raiders taking on the Panthers with Andy Dalton now as the starting QB for this week three.
00:44:45
Speaker
Well, I mean, I think i i think the Raiders should win this game, but I think that the issue is always when you're facing a a quarterback change midstream, it's always an issue because you don't really have film on him currently. um So I think that there may be an issue with the Raiders not knowing what they're getting with Andy Dalton.
00:45:04
Speaker
Um, they could be more efficient offensively with any dog there versus bright young. So they could shock you. I think it it might be, I wouldn't be surprised if this game starts out and the parents take a lead at some point. But I think that once, once the shell shock wears off in the second half, I think the Raiders should win the game. I think my issue is just going to be again, the run game. Who's running the ball for the Panthers?
00:45:25
Speaker
And does that, again, affect them? Because it ain't done enough seeing it, not just on this team, but on any team that he's been the backup for. You you can get the ball moving. you You can roll. But you're going up a defense that I'm like, OK, the Raiders have a de defense that can stop that, cut that short really quick and really easy if you can't establish the run. So I still have the Raiders winning. But this like this has to be, I believe, the Raiders statement game. It has to be your coming out party to the AFC with your new head coach, guarding measures, your quarterback,
00:45:55
Speaker
Devonta Adams trying to say the Raiders are here, Raider Nation is here. This needs to be your statement game. I know you guys came back versus the Ravens and you can make that you can argue that was your statement game, but no, no this blowout needs to put you guys on the map. The same way the raiders and um i'm sorry the same way the Saints have been killing the teams that they've been killing, you guys need your statement win as well. Yeah, it's their home opener too, so what better than you have done in your home opener?
00:46:19
Speaker
We now have the Rams taking on the 49ers at home. This is a game where both sides are injured. One side more than the other, but both sides are injured, and the but the quarterbacks are healthy. Mass staff are still going to be there playing. Who do you have?
00:46:35
Speaker
Yeah, I unfortunately got the 49ers. I think that um when I had a preseason, I thought that fully healthy. you Both teams in the Rams could really give the 49ers ago. But yeah, when the two missing receivers, no tight end, online missing three starters. Yes, it's gonna be a rough day for the Rams. It's gonna be a rough season for the Rams so to get healthy. um So I think that the 49ers, despite their injuries, will will, you know, he got ah a victory and probably won't be a blowout, but I think there will definitely be ah a victory because of some reason, no matter what shot, maybe plays well against couch and at.
00:47:04
Speaker
So, you know, it's, it's, it's one of those things that gives all, gives them problems with that offensive play calling. But I do believe that, you know, it's going to, the luck is going to run out at some point. if when hours well win So I also have the
Critique of Coaching Strategies
00:47:15
Speaker
49ers winning. If you're the Rams, when do you call it for massed Africa? And I'll say massed Africa. When do you shut it down, when do you just say, okay, we didn't win the seasons.
00:47:25
Speaker
a loss. Do you trade him eventually or eventually as in, do you consider trading him? And if you consider trading him, there is a team, yeah, I know the quarterback's an IR, but there's a team in the dolphins. I can use a QB. You're the Rams. Would you consider trading mass staff at any point in time throughout the season and shutting them down?
00:47:42
Speaker
Not really, I mean, because it is still pretty punitive for his contract. um Because I think he just actually re reworked it this offseason. So he's got more guaranteed money in his deal going forward. So we'll be kind of punitive to move him. um But I will say this, if they feel like they are in contention, they could shut them down in a place that's a bended or one of their backups. And it could be really, they could be in line for a high draft pick and it could go into the draft and get themselves a rookie.
00:48:05
Speaker
ah Carson back, you know, Quinn, yours, ah you know, cut names comes up, should do a Sanders. So it could be in a lineup to get a, get a guy to be a successor. um So once Stafford is deal is done and he retires or leaves the organization. But um I think that'd be more so looking from a a high traffic perspective, more so than trading Stafford away. Okay. All right. Then I think the next game is the shootout of the week.
00:48:28
Speaker
We have the Lions taking on the Cardinals. The reason I call it the show, though, is because both teams have a high octane offense. Both teams have been playing stellar football, especially on the Cardinals side. They've been playing stellar football. You talk about number three. Kyle Murray threw three touchdowns in the first half with 2 Marvin Harrison Jr. And it was phenomenal if you just watching that game. Who do you have coming out of it, especially when you see both teams are kind of neck and neck when it comes to the talent pool? Well, what concerns me about this game is Jared Goff. Yeah.
00:48:56
Speaker
Because Jared Goff hasn't looked like the Jared Goff that we expected, especially when he's had good conditions. Because I've always had this gripe about Jared Goff and his ability to play outdoors in cold weather, you know rainy weather, things of that nature. But he's been indoors you know for whatever reason for the likes of Fritsville Games and he didn't play well.
00:49:13
Speaker
So I'm curious about that because he's going to go to Arizona. Arizona's inside. So you you would i you would like to believe that he's going to play well. I think it's time for them to start to figure things out because it's getting a little shaky with how the office is looking. you know Everybody had high expectations. So I want i want to say the Dolphins should win this game. I think it might be closer than they think because ah Arizona for some reason is a fight the team and doesn't want to play to their, you know, their ranking level that people had them at.
00:49:39
Speaker
ah But I think that the Arizona Cardinals will definitely give them a go, but I think the Lions should win this game, especially with eight hundreds and racking up four sacks a game. Yeah, I have the Lions ring as well. I think.
00:49:52
Speaker
Just like we talked about with the Vikings, I see it coming soon with the Cardinals. I don't think it's going to be as bad as the drop off, but I see the first loss coming. Yeah. And not even the first loss, because obviously they didn't. They did lose first game in the tight. It's like they didn't. I think they could have won that one. I think they should have won that one. And they kind of let it slip through their hands. This is another one I think that they should win, but they're going to slip through their hands as well, because their defense just isn't as formidable as the line defense is.
00:50:18
Speaker
It's really up to how well golf plays, but golf plays like really good in the dome. So I can see him coming out with this win. We have the next game on the docket, Ravens and Cowboys. I'm gonna go first. I have the Cowboys winning. Yep. Gross saying it. you yeah That's why I wanted to go first and just get that out of the way. I have the Cowboys winning. It's just, just, uh,
00:50:41
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Yeah, I have to win it. They're not going to let that loss. They just took it against the Saints. It's good. I know it rubbed in the wrong way. And they're normally a team that bounces back hard. It's good, yeah. They're going to take a loss like that, especially now that they're at home. So I have them beating the Rams. That's the problem, though. Them and the Jaguars have an innate ability to play bad home, which is crazy to me. I don't understand how you play better on the road than you play at home. But I think that the Ravens are a more desperate team in this conversation.
00:51:09
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You know, cause they, did you know, they when there were, da the not dollars, but the Cowboys are one and one, they're O and two. So I think that and oh O and three is a deaf sentence in the league right now for playoffs. And so if they go O and three, and I think they know this, that, so they should come out playing really, really tough. All right. Those football should get back to their roots and run the ball against the Cowboys. And again, for some reason they play bad at home. So I think that the Ravens win this one.
00:51:31
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Yeah, it's a toss up. It's a really, really good. It should be, it should be one of the better games of the day. I agree. I agree with that. Because now for the Sunday night game, we have the Chiefs taking on the Falcons. Falcons squeaking out one of the worst losses I've seen in the season so far. Might be the worst loss of the season, the Eagles versus the Falcons on Monday night. Short week for the Falcons. Short week for the Falcons. Now they're taking on the Chiefs, but they will be at home. This is another prime time game. Kirk just came out of one of them.
00:52:01
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that Now the second one of the week, who do you got winning? I still got the Chiefs. I still got the Chiefs. I'm not betting against Mahomes and Andy Reid just yet. You know, it was nice. It was cool for the Falcons to pull out that victory against ah the Eagles, but I don't think, I don't see Lightning striking twice. I think the Chiefs does still win this game. I think that their, their offense, despite missing their running back, is going to be too much for them. I think Mahomes is going to you know you know kind of you know look look at it from the perspective that but we need to really get rolling. you know We've kind of been a little bit lot little bit little bit sloppy in the first two weeks. you know So I think we're trying to tighten the reins a little bit, you know get back on the fairway and and get things moving like we want to get them moving offensively. And Diva is going to be there. like I want to say that I don't think they have an answer for Chris Jones or Karloff. So yeah, Kirk Douglas is going to have a rough day, I believe.
00:52:47
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Yeah, I agree as well. I have the Chiefs winning. I think this is going to be the game where we finally see Travis Kelsey utilize more in the office. I don't know what's been going on. I don't know why they were going to utilize him. Maybe an injury that's being undersold that we have as we talked about. Well, I think it's low management. I think it's low management. I think they're just trying to stay the same. We're a low advantage in the first couple weeks. He's 34 years old. I mean, I mean,
00:53:11
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yeah yeah but for face owner what touchdown I get it. But I think that from a from a team perspective, they're trying to low management have him fresh for the playoff. man they need na He's going to be walking down the aisle soon. They probably try to get him healthy for that as well. It's possible.
00:53:28
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And then now we have, you know, due to the newer changes to NFL, added games to the season. We have two Monday night football games this week. We have the Jaguars taking on the Bills as the first game. Who do you have? And then let's be honest, we know you have, but why do you have them?
00:53:42
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Well, yeah, I think the Bills walk all over the Jaguars. I don't know what's going on in Jacksonville. They're a very weird team. they got ah They got some very interesting players. I love Travis Etienne. Everybody's one of the crown Trevor Lawrence being the next, you know, ah you know prince of whatever come comes out of quarterback and he hasn't played well.
00:54:00
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ah b Brian Thomas Jr., who I'm very high on in the draft, I think he's a really solid receiver. um you know yeah Everything, or you know he's out this week, he's been non-existent. I don't know what to make of this jaguar scene, I really don't. And at the end, the Bills are very ah well coached. The Divas are playing well, despite losing a lot of you know big names and personnel. They're still playing really good football on the Divas side of the ball. And I think Josh Allen is starting to really you know get comfortable with the idea that he don't have to play hero ball.
00:54:26
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So that's going to bode well for the for the bills as well. So I think they definitely make a statement and and be the beat the Jaguars in this one. Yeah, I have the bills as well. ah Trevorland should turn to Neverland because at this point in time, I don't understand what the Jaguars are doing from their draft for the picks they make besides this previous one. brian That was a very good pick. right I don't understand what they're trying to attain. I don't know what they want because again, this is a team that was just in the playoffs.
00:54:56
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They made a great comeback and yet, even throughout that entire season, they're theyre in in and out of being a team that I'm like, okay, this is this is the Jaguars, we won. And then they're like, okay, the Jaguars stay. And it's the same thing this season. I don't understand. if I don't want to throw Duggan in the bus anymore, but Doug Peterson is on the hot seat now because at this point in time, this team is Supposed to be better. It's supposed to be. Yeah. And I said this on my podcast as myself. I really feel like this is could be a hot take, but I got a feeling because you, you can speak to this cause you're an Eagles fan. I think that the league has figured out Doug Peterson. Oh yeah, absolutely. I think they figured it out because I think their issue is, cause how do you, want one, how do you get fired a year and a half after you win the Super Bowl? When you see that the first team, the franchise is very first title. You are out of the door after a year and a half.
00:55:42
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because of whatever reason you want to give. Then you get to Jacksonville and you would think that the resurgence of the offense will come instantly and it's still sputtering, you know, two and a half years later. So I think the league just might have caught up to Doug Peterson's way of doing things and reason why he's struggling. Because there should be no reason why with the weapons you have, with the quarterback you have, and the defensive personnel that you have, because you got dogs on both sides, that you struggle with this mightily. It's not, it's not, it's not clicking.
00:56:08
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like doug Doug Peterson I think at this point is in the same conversation that we used to have with Ron Rivera where it came to yet you you were a good head coach yeah's how much less when time is passing and you are revamping like Mike McCarthy had to take a break and revamp and come back to NFL he had to change up everything because it wasn't clicking for him either the same with from the Veron Rivera and now the same for Doug Peterson where You're running schemes, and you're running things that like it's is reading, they're reading it. It's like it's like coaches are reading it, defenses are reading it. It's textbook.
00:56:42
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in the plays that you do have that shake them up. Unfortunately, just some players just dropped the ball. But these these play calling, is its it's easily red. It's the same thing that we have when we had him for the Eagles, where we knew what he was doing before before the the the ball was even stacked. We knew what the play call was. We're still running these same college level receiver screens, where I'm like, we got to stop that. like it's Honestly, in the NFL, get rid of those.
00:57:07
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Unless you're using speedsters, stop using your Christian curves or your Ryan Thomas is like, these, these stop. There's a lot of play calling. This is, it's just not there for Doug anymore. You either need to give up complete play calling or at this point in time, yeah they're going to, they already have them on the Hasi. I think that it's going to be really under fire. If they go through the season, it's going to be really under fire. Yeah,
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00:57:29
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I agree. I agree. And then the last game,
00:57:33
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Of the week, we have the commanders taking on the Bengals. This is a team that you talked about earlier in the podcast that you said you questioned them. I don't really question the commanders. I think they are what they are right now, and I i i don't hate it. I do hate that i they scored 21 points on the field goals, but I hate what I've been seeing. Who do you have coming out of this game?
00:57:51
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Yeah, I think it's the Bengals bounce back game. I think so. At home, ah T Higgins looks like he's going to, he's turning towards playing. So they're going to be whole offensively. ah So I think that, you know, for the first time in this season, so I think this is where they turn the corner, start winning ball games. So I definitely got the Bengals winning this game. ah I'm liking what I'm seeing. ah Cause I think, yeah ironically enough, you look at all the rookie quarterbacks that are playing.
00:58:13
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Jay Daniels seems like he's the most comfortable at this point, you know, in his progression. So I think that they're going to put on a good showing, but I do think the Bengals do win the game. I think the Bengals win as well. I think this is the time we're going to see Jamar Chase score his first touchdown. Yeah. I think we could see a tee in session, but they're going to work him in. Right. I agree with you Quillen and Jay and Daniels. I think the only issue I have with Jay and Daniels is not him. It's the coaching staff when it comes to they're not utilizing him enough with his arm because Terry record has been like open a lot of times and there's not. through yeah I don't understand that dynamic at all. We, we got him on panic alert within in our fantasy football podcast. He just not getting the, he's not getting the targets. I'm never seen the big, this is the biggest fall I've ever seen when it comes to a wide receiver of his caliber is telling his speed, just not seeing the target share, not seeing the ball.
00:59:02
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And yeah, you you beat the Giants, but I think it'd beat them more convincingly. In my eyes, if you threw the ball to turn the board, who's open to a certain place where even even the announcers are calling it out. yeah So I think they got to figure that out. They got to get the ball rolling or they won't let the ship sink when it comes to just trading the court and let them find a new home somewhere else if you're not going to utilize them to the fullest capabilities. But that is it for the week three predictions.
00:59:25
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We're going to see how they play out. Honestly, um' I'm nervous about five of mine already. i I've already started convincing myself in my head down. Why did I choose them? But I had to stick through. I have to. Um, before we go, I just want to wrap up by saying, Hey, thank you so much again for coming on. I appreciate you to acknowledge it and in everything that you've done for this show so far. Cause again, my co-host decided traffic was more important than a hobby in the podcast. Oh, right. Right. Right. Again, I say this in jazz because you can't control traffic, but I did tell him you could hop on through the phone.
00:59:56
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yeah I don't, the service would have been horrible. We'd have been yelling at him for his bad, uh, microphone connection, but still you could have came up. Well, thank you for coming on the show. I appreciate it. Uh, drop your socials and your content one more time for us before we get up out of here. Yes. My youtube page is youtube dot.com. For says lockdown Davis podcast. You can find me on Twitter at lockdown defense everywhere else. Lockdown defense sports. And you need to email me locked down divas sports at gmail dot.com. If you have any sports related questions for the NFL.
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01:00:50
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