# Domonique Foxworth on Drake Maye's Disaster vs. Seahawks + NFL Week 1 Expectations | 09.10

An episode of [The Right Time with Bomani Jones](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/982639043), 10 Sep 2026, 1 h 02 min.

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Download the PrizePicks app today and use code BOMANI to get $150 instantly in Lineups if you win your first $5 Lineup! https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/BOMANI Bomani Jones is joined by ESPN’s Domonique Foxworth. First, they discuss Drake Maye’s terrible performance in the Patriots’ loss vs. the Seattle Seahawks and whether or not Drake Maye is already on the clock. Next, they break down how the Super Bowl champions might be able to recover from Sam Darnold’s devastating injury. And finally, they break down a ton of Week 1 NFL matchups, including the Texans taking on the Bills, the Buccaneers taking on the Bengals and the Giants facing the Dallas Cowboys. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:05] Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time. My name
[0:08] Speaker 1: is Beaumont Jones.
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[0:18] Speaker 2: Believe you are a hater.
[0:20] Speaker 1: It is Thursday with Dominique Foxworth. What's going on, brother?
[0:25] Speaker 3: Man. We got football. Life gets a lot easier for us.
[0:29] Speaker 1: It does. But I feel like you ain't been on
[0:31] Speaker 1: it like two months that I'm thinking about this.
[0:33] Speaker 3: Yeah, I miss it. I'm back. You got on the
[0:36] Speaker 3: Honolulu Blue. Everything's right in the world. That's right, baby.
[0:39] Speaker 2: That's right.
[0:40] Speaker 1: I bought all this Honolulu Blue I be forgetting to wear.
[0:42] Speaker 1: Not this year, dog. Not this year. We gonna talk
[0:45] Speaker 1: a little bit more about America's team. But I ain't
[0:47] Speaker 1: gonna lie to you. I don't know if anybody else
[0:49] Speaker 1: feels this way, but I didn't know it was a
[0:52] Speaker 1: Wednesday game until Wednesday.
[0:54] Speaker 2: I thought.
[0:56] Speaker 1: That they were going to run one of these silly
[0:58] Speaker 1: doubleheaders on us because they got the game on Thursday
[1:01] Speaker 1: over there in Australia. And I thought that that game
[1:03] Speaker 1: was going to come on after the first game on
[1:05] Speaker 1: Thursday because the first game is always on Thursday. But
[1:07] Speaker 1: the NFL, just letting you know, they're coming for the
[1:10] Speaker 1: whole goddamn week. They put them a game on Wednesday.
[1:14] Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure that I don't have to tell
[1:17] Speaker 3: you and most people who listen to the show know
[1:19] Speaker 3: that it's most likely about money. They got to sell
[1:22] Speaker 3: a new package. So you know what? Amazon, you want
[1:24] Speaker 3: a game? You want a standalone game? Start the season?
[1:27] Speaker 3: All right, we're going to do this kickoff thing on Wednesday.
[1:29] Speaker 3: You can just stand alone on Thursday.
[1:31] Speaker 1: And I will say this about the Thursday game. I
[1:34] Speaker 1: had to look it up, and I'm going to do
[1:36] Speaker 1: it again. Let me put into the search time in Melbourne. Okay,
[1:41] Speaker 1: so Melbourne is 14 hours ahead, which is to say
[1:43] Speaker 1: they'll be playing that game at 1030 in the morning
[1:47] Speaker 1: in Australia on a Friday. And look, maybe that's one
[1:50] Speaker 1: of them countries where people don't go to work, right?
[1:52] Speaker 1: I just got through going to three different European countries
[1:55] Speaker 1: that appear to be very work-optional. Maybe that's the way
[1:58] Speaker 1: that they treat things in Australia.
[1:59] Speaker 2: I don't know.
[2:00] Speaker 3: I mean, I think the goal of this is world domination.
[2:03] Speaker 3: You would think that they would put it at a
[2:05] Speaker 3: time that's convenient for the other parts of the world.
[2:07] Speaker 3: They got to balance the pay. I mean, I guess
[2:10] Speaker 3: I'm surprised because it doesn't seem like it's any bigger event,
[2:13] Speaker 3: I would guess, for them over there that it's like
[2:17] Speaker 3: this standalone thing than if it was just a game there.
[2:19] Speaker 3: I think I should probably be quiet. They probably know
[2:21] Speaker 3: how to make money.
[2:22] Speaker 1: Yeah, but look, we ain't got no reason to think
[2:24] Speaker 1: they smart. Let's just throw that out there. But first,
[2:28] Speaker 1: in that Wednesday night game, two things happened. Sam Darnold
[2:33] Speaker 1: got hurt and Drake May stunk again.
[2:37] Speaker 2: Which one do you want to get to first?
[2:39] Speaker 3: I mean, I think that Drake May stunk again is
[2:42] Speaker 3: a little bit more interesting to me right now because
[2:44] Speaker 3: we don't have all the information on the Sam Darnold stuff.
[2:47] Speaker 3: I'm sure that'll matter, but he is less integral to
[2:50] Speaker 3: the success of that team than most Superbowl champion quarterbacks.
[2:53] Speaker 3: I would say. Yes. Drake may stuff is interesting. Okay.
[2:56] Speaker 2: We will go to the Drake may stuff.
[2:57] Speaker 1: And then I think I will make the Sam Darnold
[3:00] Speaker 1: more interesting than many people may have expected.
[3:02] Speaker 3: All right. Well, the Drake start with Drake may it's
[3:04] Speaker 3: even more interesting to me because it comes on the
[3:07] Speaker 3: heels of three really bad games in a row. And
[3:11] Speaker 3: so like, I know he was running up for the
[3:13] Speaker 3: MVP and many people voted for him and think that
[3:16] Speaker 3: he should be the MVP, but, uh, It hasn't been
[3:21] Speaker 3: MVP-like since he entered the playoffs and at the beginning
[3:24] Speaker 3: of this. And you know how it is. These standalone games,
[3:27] Speaker 3: I think you're one of the first people a decade
[3:29] Speaker 3: ago was talking about how them standalone games really have
[3:32] Speaker 3: an impact on the way we talk and think about you. So,
[3:35] Speaker 3: Drake May, you're going to have to sit on them
[3:36] Speaker 3: three interceptions until I don't know when the next time
[3:38] Speaker 3: y'all got a Monday or a Thursday night.
[3:41] Speaker 1: He's had four straight standalone bad games.
[3:46] Speaker 3: And one... All but the last two. I guess it's
[3:49] Speaker 3: not all. He won. He lost the last two. It
[3:52] Speaker 3: just felt like such a run in the playoffs, man.
[3:55] Speaker 3: It just felt like he was ripping through the playoffs
[3:57] Speaker 3: even though he wasn't doing nothing. Well, he and C.J.
[3:59] Speaker 1: Stroud, who I imagine we'll talk about a little later
[4:01] Speaker 1: in this, right? C.J. Stroud is going into year four.
[4:06] Speaker 1: But the bottom line is, what you are in year
[4:10] Speaker 1: three as an NFL quarterback, nothing that happened in years
[4:14] Speaker 1: one and two matters.
[4:15] Speaker 4: Right.
[4:16] Speaker 1: It is strictly like this is when the decisions are
[4:18] Speaker 1: being made about whether you get an extension. This is
[4:21] Speaker 1: where people really start locking in and feeling like they
[4:24] Speaker 1: have some idea of what you are. Jayden Daniels had
[4:26] Speaker 1: one of the great rookie seasons that we have ever seen.
[4:30] Speaker 1: All he did last year was be injured. And now
[4:33] Speaker 1: he's on the goddamn clock. We haven't actually seen him
[4:37] Speaker 1: be bad. He is now on the clock. Drake May
[4:41] Speaker 1: was just the MVP runner-up for the whole league, and
[4:46] Speaker 1: his team made it to the Super Bowl, and he
[4:50] Speaker 1: is on the clock. And by the way, I don't
[4:52] Speaker 1: think that is a ridiculous proposition to have. I think
[4:55] Speaker 1: it's ridiculous in the sense that he should be their
[4:57] Speaker 1: quarterback next year, too.
[4:58] Speaker 2: Like, you're here now. You might as well go with it.
[5:01] Speaker 3: Shit.
[5:02] Speaker 2: It's year three, and J.J.
[5:04] Speaker 3: McCarthy is third on the depth chart.
[5:07] Speaker 2: His career is basically over.
[5:10] Speaker 3: He's going to get another chance somewhere eventually. Well, maybe
[5:13] Speaker 3: he won't, actually. I mean, normally a high draft pick
[5:16] Speaker 3: will get another chance. He'll get on another roster, but
[5:19] Speaker 3: no one's going to bring him in with expectations of
[5:21] Speaker 3: being a starter.
[5:22] Speaker 2: That's J.J.
[5:23] Speaker 3: McCarthy.
[5:24] Speaker 1: I feel like if there was another chance for him,
[5:25] Speaker 1: he would be on that team right now.
[5:27] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[5:29] Speaker 2: They starting Carson Wentz over him.
[5:32] Speaker 3: And I think you can go back. Part of it is, like,
[5:35] Speaker 3: the confirming.
[5:37] Speaker 2: We're not starting, by the way, because he's number two.
[5:40] Speaker 3: He's behind Carson Wentz. But I think part of it is, like,
[5:42] Speaker 3: the priors have something to do with it, too. Like,
[5:45] Speaker 3: he was kind of a projection based on his college experience.
[5:49] Speaker 3: It's like, he's going to be something. Then he got there,
[5:52] Speaker 3: and they was like, you're not good, and we don't
[5:54] Speaker 3: really like you.
[5:56] Speaker 1: That's look they went and got the we don't like
[5:59] Speaker 1: you that much all-star to start over him they got
[6:03] Speaker 1: a short black dude that people don't like.
[6:06] Speaker 2: Who got through his year three but we have just.
[6:09] Speaker 1: People have decided stinks i disagree entirely but the decision
[6:14] Speaker 1: had been made and they looked at him and were
[6:16] Speaker 1: like yeah this first round pick get him out of
[6:19] Speaker 1: here man you know why because he's bad for vibes.
[6:22] Speaker 3: I actually don't think that drake may is on the
[6:24] Speaker 3: clock I think this year would have to be really,
[6:27] Speaker 3: really bad for Drake May to not, for it to
[6:31] Speaker 3: be a smart decision for them to mess around with
[6:34] Speaker 3: his money. Like, I mean, he's shown enough for you
[6:39] Speaker 3: to be like, it's worth locking him up on a
[6:42] Speaker 3: long-term deal to get whatever cost savings we could get, right?
[6:48] Speaker 2: I mean.
[6:49] Speaker 3: Well, hold on.
[6:50] Speaker 2: And I ask you that.
[6:51] Speaker 1: I am inclined to agree with you.
[6:53] Speaker 3: Right.
[6:53] Speaker 1: Because I think we know it's just that hard to
[6:55] Speaker 1: go find a quarterback.
[6:58] Speaker 3: But C.J.
[6:59] Speaker 1: Stroud. I would have made the same exact or one
[7:02] Speaker 1: could make the same exact argument or could have made
[7:05] Speaker 1: after year three that you're probably not going to get
[7:07] Speaker 1: better than him. Now, granted, part of why C.J. Stroud
[7:10] Speaker 1: may not have got locked in is we'll get it.
[7:12] Speaker 1: And I'm here taking nobody's discount.
[7:14] Speaker 3: Right.
[7:14] Speaker 2: So maybe maybe that's the part of it.
[7:17] Speaker 3: But.
[7:18] Speaker 2: Drake may could be in that situation.
[7:20] Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm with you.
[7:21] Speaker 1: It's this run of them in a row that is really,
[7:24] Speaker 1: really worrisome. And in the ways, in the ways that
[7:30] Speaker 1: make you wonder if something has gotten tripped off in
[7:32] Speaker 1: the bad way.
[7:34] Speaker 3: Right.
[7:34] Speaker 1: Cause it was, it's, it's seen very bad decisions that
[7:38] Speaker 1: come from being very unsure.
[7:41] Speaker 3: And that's so like, this is where you can get
[7:43] Speaker 3: into trouble with your decision-making or maybe it'll help you
[7:46] Speaker 3: with the decision-making with quarterbacks is, It's never just, can't
[7:50] Speaker 3: say never. If the quarterback's good and he's playing poorly,
[7:54] Speaker 3: it's not just him, right? Like there's so many other complications.
[7:58] Speaker 3: Mike McDaniel is, or Mike McDonald, he busting their ass
[8:02] Speaker 3: back to back, coaching their ass in a circle. It's outrageous.
[8:07] Speaker 3: Like from the protections, eating their protections alive, getting a
[8:09] Speaker 3: ton of pressure. And I mean, that doesn't speak for
[8:11] Speaker 3: what's happening in the previous games also, but in those
[8:13] Speaker 3: other games too, those defense were getting after him and
[8:16] Speaker 3: to the point, That's the thing that kills a quarterback.
[8:18] Speaker 3: And to your point, that could get into a quarterback's
[8:21] Speaker 3: mind is when you are under siege and you can't
[8:25] Speaker 3: trust your protection, you're going to get a little antsy. And, like,
[8:28] Speaker 3: I think he pointed to it last night is that
[8:30] Speaker 3: he was getting impatient because the receivers weren't open. The
[8:34] Speaker 3: big plays that he made a living off of last year, like,
[8:37] Speaker 3: that's what he was awesome at was deep ball connections
[8:40] Speaker 3: to Keyshawn Booty. They said, we're going to upgrade from
[8:43] Speaker 3: Keyshawn Booty, get him out of here. You're going to
[8:45] Speaker 3: hit these deep balls to someone else. And he was
[8:47] Speaker 3: doing fine, dumping it, dumping it, dumping it. Then he
[8:50] Speaker 3: tried to get aggressive, and that pressure started getting there,
[8:52] Speaker 3: and then he just kind of unwrapped.
[8:53] Speaker 1: Yeah, and that last interception where it was quick game,
[8:57] Speaker 1: and after the quick game went away, instead of quickly
[8:59] Speaker 1: throwing it away, he was like, watch.
[9:01] Speaker 3: This, though.
[9:02] Speaker 2: Except I don't think he was like, watch this, though.
[9:04] Speaker 3: He was like, what do I do?
[9:06] Speaker 2: What do I do?
[9:07] Speaker 3: It was so many times in that game when that happened.
[9:09] Speaker 3: The other time that jumps out in my mind was,
[9:12] Speaker 3: the screen pass to the tight end that he decided
[9:14] Speaker 3: not to throw. It's like quarterback 101. You have to
[9:18] Speaker 3: either throw the screen or run the ball. So, like,
[9:21] Speaker 3: if the screen is covered, throw it at his feet.
[9:23] Speaker 3: You get a legal man downfield because you just kind
[9:26] Speaker 3: of panic because it wasn't there. It's just that sort
[9:28] Speaker 3: of stuff that you thought Drake May was passed. And
[9:31] Speaker 3: I know he's only in his third year, but last
[9:34] Speaker 3: year he was balling. I thought he was passing. And, like,
[9:36] Speaker 3: through the course of the whole game, there's just a
[9:37] Speaker 3: number of plays where it's like, to your point, It's
[9:40] Speaker 3: something going on. He just seems so uncomfortable, which he
[9:43] Speaker 3: hasn't seen comfortable in a long time. And that's the
[9:46] Speaker 3: bad part. The stretch. You got to get some bums
[9:47] Speaker 3: on this schedule again, like last year, baby.
[9:50] Speaker 1: That is why every time somebody gets on a college team.
[9:53] Speaker 2: For scheduling bums to start the year.
[9:55] Speaker 1: No, baby, we got to get this thing up to speed.
[9:58] Speaker 1: Can you imagine what an NFL? schedule would look like
[10:01] Speaker 1: if teams got to pick their own opponents?
[10:03] Speaker 3: Well, it'd be a fight over a couple of people
[10:05] Speaker 3: at the bottom.
[10:06] Speaker 1: Well, no, it wouldn't be a fight. It'd go the
[10:08] Speaker 1: same way that it'd go in college. You just throw
[10:10] Speaker 1: a little bread. What they would need is a relegation
[10:12] Speaker 1: situation so you can get you an NFL 1AA.
[10:15] Speaker 2: You understand what I'm saying?
[10:17] Speaker 3: I always thought that was crazy in college. Only for football.
[10:21] Speaker 3: Because it's like actually violent. Like it's actually dangerous for
[10:26] Speaker 3: some of these boys. Like seriously. And y'all like essentially
[10:30] Speaker 3: knowing that you're going to get your ass beat. Like look, you,
[10:34] Speaker 3: your future, insurance salesman. His future, NFL All-Pro. Go out
[10:40] Speaker 3: there for three hours and let him bust you in
[10:44] Speaker 3: your shit. so we can get paid.
[10:49] Speaker 1: Just because we need, y'all are extras, right? That's basically
[10:53] Speaker 1: what it is. We pay you because we're going to
[10:55] Speaker 1: sell these tickets and we need somebody else to come
[10:57] Speaker 1: play this home game. Y'all are cast members. You are
[11:01] Speaker 1: background dancers.
[11:02] Speaker 3: Exactly, but I'm talking about for the institutions that sign
[11:06] Speaker 3: them up.
[11:07] Speaker 1: They're background dancers that get hit in the mouth. That
[11:10] Speaker 1: was one thing I love when D.I. was at Jackson State.
[11:13] Speaker 1: He's like, we ain't going to go play them games.
[11:14] Speaker 1: What are you talking about? And they like, we got
[11:17] Speaker 1: to fund volleyball. Where are we going to get this
[11:18] Speaker 1: volleyball money from?
[11:20] Speaker 3: How are we going to fund this basketball team and
[11:24] Speaker 3: our soccer team? By putting your ass out there across
[11:28] Speaker 3: from Tristan Wirfs and watch that man jump out a
[11:32] Speaker 3: pool at 350 and run through your face.
[11:35] Speaker 1: Hey, the one time it did lead to something cool
[11:37] Speaker 1: in college, though, was that time that Ohio State scheduled
[11:41] Speaker 1: their first game against Buffalo, and Khalil Mack was out
[11:45] Speaker 1: there destroying them.
[11:47] Speaker 2: It's like, yo, who the fuck is he?
[11:49] Speaker 3: Yeah, there might be one player on some of these
[11:52] Speaker 3: teams that's like, this is the only time that people
[11:55] Speaker 3: are going to look at you and respect your competition,
[11:58] Speaker 3: so maybe they are getting an opportunity, but most of
[12:00] Speaker 3: those teams don't got those guys, and we almost got
[12:02] Speaker 3: the Western Michigan upset, but.
[12:04] Speaker 1: But I always imagine them Ohio State boys probably wasn't
[12:07] Speaker 1: even watching the tape.
[12:09] Speaker 3: Right?
[12:09] Speaker 1: And the coach was like, I'm telling you, that number
[12:12] Speaker 1: 51 or whatever his number was there, y'all need to
[12:14] Speaker 1: watch out for him.
[12:15] Speaker 2: They're like, yeah, I bet, coach.
[12:16] Speaker 3: I bet.
[12:17] Speaker 1: Next thing they know, that motherfucker got you up against
[12:19] Speaker 1: the wall. He's shaking the change out of your pockets.
[12:23] Speaker 3: It just hit me that it's so much worse now
[12:26] Speaker 3: because Khalil Mack wouldn't still be there. No. No. Like,
[12:30] Speaker 3: it's so much worse now. Like, those guys aren't even
[12:32] Speaker 3: there anymore. Like, the one, two guys that you might have,
[12:36] Speaker 3: Ohio State already bought their ass. It ain't nothing but
[12:39] Speaker 3: insurance salesmen left.
[12:41] Speaker 1: Yes, in fact, they got to just stop. Like, this
[12:43] Speaker 1: is the best argument for allowing the power schools to
[12:47] Speaker 1: break off into their own thing. Because now it actually
[12:50] Speaker 1: is unfair. Like, not unfair simply in the sense that
[12:53] Speaker 1: they'll probably win. It's inhumane at this point.
[12:56] Speaker 3: It's safety. Yeah, like there at least was one or
[12:59] Speaker 3: two guys out there that could play on the next level.
[13:02] Speaker 3: Now you show a little glimpse, we got some money
[13:04] Speaker 3: for you. We're going to take him too. It's the
[13:10] Speaker 3: only sport like that. Like we see in football, the
[13:12] Speaker 3: big story coming out of the first game is like
[13:15] Speaker 3: major injuries. I was thinking about, I think I text
[13:18] Speaker 3: our group chat this. It's just, I know that it's normal.
[13:21] Speaker 3: We become accustomed to it, but there is no other
[13:23] Speaker 3: sport where like one of the core injuries determining factors
[13:28] Speaker 3: is who going to be left standing. Yes.
[13:32] Speaker 1: There, there is no other sport where everyone acknowledges that
[13:37] Speaker 1: you can't just go play for fun.
[13:40] Speaker 2: You can't even go play for practice.
[13:43] Speaker 1: If the stakes are such that you could only play
[13:46] Speaker 1: this game, if everything is on the line, because otherwise.
[13:50] Speaker 3: It would be stupid. I mean, I know the war
[13:53] Speaker 3: parallels are a little too much, but I don't know
[13:56] Speaker 3: any other line of work or endeavor where everybody goes
[14:00] Speaker 3: in saying, you know what? We all ain't going to
[14:03] Speaker 3: make it out. Guaranteed. Guaranteed. Some of us ain't going
[14:08] Speaker 3: to finish this. Right?
[14:12] Speaker 1: There's no chance that we can get through three hours
[14:15] Speaker 1: with all 53 of you.
[14:17] Speaker 3: We say the Lord's Prayer together. Before we start the game,
[14:22] Speaker 3: every single game, knowing that the post game, our father
[14:27] Speaker 3: will have fewer guys in it because some of them
[14:30] Speaker 3: are going to be getting MR damn eyes. Every time.
[14:36] Speaker 2: Some of them have already left.
[14:38] Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not here. They're at the hospital. They sleep.
[14:42] Speaker 3: Some of them is knocked out cold and they don't
[14:45] Speaker 3: know why we're here, what we're doing. So we know that.
[14:49] Speaker 3: The prayer is serious. This is not just a throwaway prayer.
[14:52] Speaker 3: We're really praying. We need some protection.
[14:54] Speaker 1: There was a night one time where me and you
[14:57] Speaker 1: were on the phone because the ambulance came to the
[14:59] Speaker 1: football game and it left and the lights went on.
[15:03] Speaker 1: They were stopping at red lights.
[15:06] Speaker 2: We were like, hey.
[15:08] Speaker 1: Did we just, did we just, did that just happen?
[15:12] Speaker 3: We had to call each other because we were shook.
[15:14] Speaker 3: We were shaken up. We needed to lean on one
[15:16] Speaker 3: another for support. Brother, did you just see what I
[15:19] Speaker 3: just saw?
[15:20] Speaker 1: To this day, I still can't believe he wasn't dead.
[15:24] Speaker 1: Because everything they were doing said dead.
[15:29] Speaker 3: And it was plausible.
[15:30] Speaker 1: And by the way, he didn't even die in some
[15:32] Speaker 1: football shit. But it was still plausible somebody could die
[15:36] Speaker 1: out here. And they was about to go play again.
[15:40] Speaker 2: It was out there warming up.
[15:43] Speaker 3: It's the only sport like that in like the combat
[15:45] Speaker 3: sports where we've like, you got a plan for something
[15:48] Speaker 3: like that happens because there's a chance that it happened.
[15:51] Speaker 3: If it happens in any other sport, we've like fluke accident.
[15:54] Speaker 3: We blame them. What was you doing? Were you drinking
[15:56] Speaker 3: or smoking? Something happened to you. What were you doing?
[16:01] Speaker 2: You need to get off them drugs.
[16:03] Speaker 3: Exactly. If somebody passed out, that's what we would think.
[16:05] Speaker 3: But at football games, we like, damn. It's football, man.
[16:09] Speaker 1: I do want to say this about the Patriots before
[16:11] Speaker 1: we go. There's only one person for whom a focus
[16:19] Speaker 1: on Drake May is a good thing. And it's somewhat counterintuitive, right?
[16:22] Speaker 1: Because you have your young quarterback, right? He came out
[16:25] Speaker 1: after three years in school. You don't want all the
[16:27] Speaker 1: attention on him and the idea that what happens to
[16:30] Speaker 1: the team is a direct result of his play.
[16:33] Speaker 2: No, you want to feel like you can spread wealth.
[16:35] Speaker 1: But if they losing, there's one person that's served by
[16:38] Speaker 1: the losing being a result of bad quarterback play, and
[16:41] Speaker 1: it's the biggest distraction of the NFL offseason, Pippen Mike Vrabel.
[16:48] Speaker 3: Yeah, ain't nobody talking about it now. No, but we will, brother.
[16:52] Speaker 2: We will.
[16:53] Speaker 3: Yeah, to your point, though, if he wins, it becomes
[16:58] Speaker 3: a funny thing that people point to. If he loses,
[17:01] Speaker 3: it becomes like, part of the story that we say,
[17:04] Speaker 3: this is why it happened. And also, you know, I
[17:06] Speaker 3: was thinking this as you were saying, I knew you
[17:08] Speaker 3: were going to Mike Vrabel, but also Will Campbell.
[17:12] Speaker 2: I forgot about him.
[17:13] Speaker 3: It wasn't much better, big dog.
[17:15] Speaker 2: Well, didn't they say he was hurt last year?
[17:18] Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure.
[17:18] Speaker 1: I know they said it, but yeah, I did not
[17:21] Speaker 1: pay close enough attention to know if things are back
[17:24] Speaker 1: to the way they were, but, but short arms was still.
[17:27] Speaker 3: Well, I mean, To your point, I assume that you
[17:30] Speaker 3: normally don't pay that close attention to the tackles. You
[17:33] Speaker 3: couldn't avoid them in the Super Bowl. You could watch
[17:35] Speaker 3: this game and not see it. I've been re-watching it
[17:38] Speaker 3: this morning, and it wasn't as much that he was terrible.
[17:43] Speaker 3: He struggled a couple times, which is fine, but it
[17:45] Speaker 3: was also that they were doing unorthodox things. They had
[17:49] Speaker 3: him cutting on plays that weren't screens or quick game.
[17:53] Speaker 3: It just felt like they were trying to protect him
[17:55] Speaker 3: in a way that was like, oh.
[17:57] Speaker 2: That's not a good sign.
[17:58] Speaker 3: Right? Yeah, it's like.
[18:00] Speaker 1: Let me tell you a position that should not require gimmicks.
[18:06] Speaker 3: Left tackle.
[18:07] Speaker 1: That's like the security guard at your club. I don't
[18:10] Speaker 1: care how good he is at Kung Fu. He ain't
[18:12] Speaker 1: supposed to be 5'7. You understand what I'm saying? We
[18:15] Speaker 1: don't need no gimmicks out here. Just need a big
[18:17] Speaker 1: old dude that look like a wall.
[18:20] Speaker 3: Right?
[18:20] Speaker 1: Like you try to hit this shit off before it
[18:22] Speaker 1: even gets to anything. You don't even want to find
[18:24] Speaker 1: out if he can fight. Right?
[18:25] Speaker 2: Just give people something to think about.
[18:27] Speaker 1: If this dude, but you come out there and the
[18:29] Speaker 1: security guard all of a sudden starts like, is that big?
[18:32] Speaker 2: But he starts doing all kind of wooka wooka and
[18:34] Speaker 2: everything else.
[18:35] Speaker 3: Hey, man.
[18:36] Speaker 2: This might not be, this might not be it.
[18:38] Speaker 3: Yeah. Like I, it wasn't like a big problem in
[18:41] Speaker 3: the way that it was in the Superbowl, but I
[18:44] Speaker 3: just was, I've been watching it this morning and that's
[18:46] Speaker 3: why I like, I saw the way that McDonald was
[18:49] Speaker 3: tearing up their protections and they were checking based on
[18:51] Speaker 3: their formation because they knew their protections. And I saw
[18:55] Speaker 3: the way that they were making sure he had help
[18:57] Speaker 3: and not leaving him alone and doing special type of
[19:00] Speaker 3: tactics to make sure that he could go. And like,
[19:03] Speaker 3: The Seahawks' edges are pretty good, but we're not dealing
[19:06] Speaker 3: with Miles Garrett.
[19:08] Speaker 1: And keep in mind, again, the Patriots are one of
[19:10] Speaker 1: those teams that were not as good as their record,
[19:13] Speaker 1: and it was a very interesting.
[19:15] Speaker 2: Postseason that worked out.
[19:17] Speaker 1: They played against C.J. Stroud playing dreadfully, right? The terrible
[19:23] Speaker 1: weather game in Denver that somebody had to win because
[19:25] Speaker 1: everybody was losing. They were set for a measure of
[19:29] Speaker 1: regression already. I think one would argue. They went with
[19:33] Speaker 1: 13-4 last year.
[19:34] Speaker 2: Like, come on. That wasn't going to happen again.
[19:35] Speaker 3: Jarrett Stidham was the quarterback. Oh, that's right. That's what
[19:40] Speaker 3: happened in that game.
[19:41] Speaker 2: That's right.
[19:42] Speaker 3: I said you're not going up against Myles Garrett, which
[19:44] Speaker 3: I had forgotten that they did go up against Miles
[19:46] Speaker 3: Garrett last year. And I believe, correct me if I'm wrong,
[19:51] Speaker 3: that motherfucker had five sacks. I think he had five sacks.
[19:58] Speaker 3: And I remember he had like three pressures that should
[20:01] Speaker 3: have been sacks that were more beautiful than the sacks
[20:04] Speaker 3: that he got.
[20:05] Speaker 2: You are correct.
[20:06] Speaker 1: There were five sacks, including what is termed here, quote,
[20:10] Speaker 1: a dominant first half strip sack, unquote.
[20:16] Speaker 3: Yeah, so, I mean, I'm sure he was injured, but.
[20:18] Speaker 2: And by the way, the Browns still lost 32-13.
[20:20] Speaker 1: Of course they did.
[20:24] Speaker 3: How do you get five sacks and you lose by 20?
[20:28] Speaker 3: It's amazing.
[20:30] Speaker 2: Five sacks by one guy, not even a whole team.
[20:32] Speaker 3: Yeah. Five sacks....
[20:35] Speaker 1: I want to throw something here about the Seahawks. So
[20:37] Speaker 1: Sam Darnold suffered a hip injury. There was a concern
[20:41] Speaker 1: during the game that it was broken. It seems that
[20:43] Speaker 1: it is not broken. Maybe it's a torn labrum.
[20:46] Speaker 3: I don't know.
[20:46] Speaker 1: But basically, it doesn't necessarily mean out for the season,
[20:50] Speaker 1: but I do think it probably means out for a
[20:52] Speaker 1: long time. I can't remember where I saw this raised,
[20:57] Speaker 1: but I immediately saw people raising the question as to
[21:01] Speaker 1: whether or not The Seahawks, what quarterback should they go
[21:04] Speaker 1: out there and get? Because they have lost their starting quarterback.
[21:07] Speaker 1: So I saw you throwing out there, maybe they should
[21:09] Speaker 1: go get Kirk Cousins. And brother, I don't know about you,
[21:13] Speaker 1: but if I was able to win a Super Bowl
[21:15] Speaker 1: with Sam Darnold, I'd just do this Drew Locke thing. Shit,
[21:18] Speaker 1: we actually might not have to play Sam Darnold again.
[21:22] Speaker 3: And what makes you think that they're going to be
[21:23] Speaker 3: able to get Cousins? They seem committed to Kirk Cousins
[21:27] Speaker 3: being there the whole year. Would you have to give
[21:28] Speaker 3: up to get somebody like that? That's the thing with
[21:31] Speaker 3: Most positions, honestly, is at this point, ain't nobody available
[21:34] Speaker 3: that you want.
[21:35] Speaker 1: It's going to cost you. There's no, like, who was that? Philadelphia,
[21:39] Speaker 1: when they traded for Sam Bradford that time, right? There's
[21:43] Speaker 1: no just quarterback out here that somebody's just going to
[21:46] Speaker 1: be willing to punk the season and give them up,
[21:48] Speaker 1: I don't think, at this point.
[21:49] Speaker 2: I mean, if you can name it, let me know.
[21:51] Speaker 2: But I can't think of who that player is.
[21:53] Speaker 3: Especially not better than Drew Locke. Like, I mean... If
[21:57] Speaker 3: you're looking for somebody who has, like, the pedigree, like, yeah,
[22:01] Speaker 3: Drew Locke, somebody who's, at some point, people thought he
[22:04] Speaker 3: was rapping Jeezy and people thought he was going to
[22:07] Speaker 3: be their quarterback. And it was Denver, right, where they
[22:09] Speaker 3: thought he was going to be the quarterback of the future. Like,
[22:10] Speaker 3: I don't know, unless you're going to try to pull
[22:12] Speaker 3: somebody out of retirement, which I rewatched that game. The
[22:17] Speaker 3: Philip Rivers one. Them boys in the secondary did not
[22:20] Speaker 3: respect him in the least. They were sitting at five
[22:24] Speaker 3: yards just waiting. Like, go ahead, throw that thing up
[22:27] Speaker 3: past 10. It was outrageous. So yeah, there's nobody else
[22:30] Speaker 3: out there.
[22:31] Speaker 1: But also I think, and the reason that I find
[22:33] Speaker 1: this to be interesting, Drew Locke becoming a good quarterback
[22:38] Speaker 1: is on the board. And if you need an example
[22:40] Speaker 1: of the fact that it could happen, Sam Bradford, who
[22:44] Speaker 1: I still don't think is as good as people are
[22:46] Speaker 1: trying to tell me he is, but I think that
[22:48] Speaker 1: actually emboldens the point that I'm trying to make here.
[22:52] Speaker 1: that the growth arc of a quarterback or the development
[22:56] Speaker 1: arc of a quarterback is actually very long, right? These
[23:01] Speaker 1: aren't running backs. Running backs are like power pitchers in baseball.
[23:03] Speaker 1: You're probably going to be as good as you are.
[23:05] Speaker 1: Day one is probably as good as you're ever going
[23:07] Speaker 1: to be, right? We watch Matthew Stafford have an inexplicable
[23:11] Speaker 1: 17-year growth arc where he just keeps getting better, keeps
[23:15] Speaker 1: getting better, keeps getting better. Sam Darnold, this is year
[23:18] Speaker 1: nine for him. It took him until year seven to
[23:22] Speaker 1: be a passable NFL quarterback. And he was fortunate enough
[23:25] Speaker 1: that people kept putting them in places where maybe this
[23:28] Speaker 1: thing could happen for him. Geno Smith, we saw what
[23:31] Speaker 1: happened after we had completely given up on him. And
[23:33] Speaker 1: I mean, he still gets treated like he never turned good,
[23:36] Speaker 1: but he became at points, even a very good quarterback.
[23:40] Speaker 1: Drew Locke might be just fine, again, for a team
[23:44] Speaker 1: that don't really seem to need very much out of them,
[23:47] Speaker 1: which is amazing considering how few people on that team
[23:51] Speaker 1: whose names I know.
[23:53] Speaker 2: It's like six or seven of them, maybe.
[23:56] Speaker 3: Yeah. When you have the support that they have and
[24:00] Speaker 3: you're asking very little, like if you can hold the
[24:04] Speaker 3: team to 10 points, yeah. There's a lot of people
[24:08] Speaker 3: that can play quarterback in that situation. and get turnovers
[24:12] Speaker 3: in the red zone and give him a short field
[24:13] Speaker 3: on interceptions like that, you're not asking a whole bunch.
[24:16] Speaker 3: And speaking of running backs being good early, like Darion
[24:19] Speaker 3: Price looks like he's going to be really good for
[24:21] Speaker 3: that team running the ball. You're not asking a whole bunch.
[24:24] Speaker 3: And like his touchdown pass, it was a short curl
[24:28] Speaker 3: to JSN, and he took it to the crib. So, like,
[24:31] Speaker 3: not that Drew Locke didn't make any great throws. Like,
[24:33] Speaker 3: he made a couple really good throws, like two, literally
[24:36] Speaker 3: a couple really good throws. But so much support that
[24:40] Speaker 3: I think he can, he's serviceable and he's a veteran
[24:42] Speaker 3: guy who's been around this. The reason why you have
[24:44] Speaker 3: a backup quarterback, he can hold you down for three weeks.
[24:48] Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jigba, I say this all the time.
[24:51] Speaker 2: I saw, did you watch.
[24:53] Speaker 1: That year in the Rose Bowl with him and CJ
[24:55] Speaker 1: Stroud where he caught like 800 yards worth of passes?
[24:59] Speaker 3: Absolutely.
[25:00] Speaker 1: My impression of both of the boys have been skewed forever.
[25:04] Speaker 2: Because that was the first.
[25:05] Speaker 1: And then the next time I feel like I really
[25:07] Speaker 1: watched C.J. Stroud play was the next year in the
[25:09] Speaker 1: playoff where he was unreal against Georgia.
[25:13] Speaker 3: And Georgia's NFL defense, they were at that point. Like literally,
[25:16] Speaker 3: they had like four first rounders on that defense at
[25:19] Speaker 3: the time. Yeah, he was killing it.
[25:21] Speaker 1: Hey, man, Seattle out here. I think we talked about this.
[25:25] Speaker 1: It's very rare that a defending Super Bowl champion could
[25:29] Speaker 1: run the they don't believe in us card. But I
[25:32] Speaker 1: have never seen a team that dominated on its way
[25:35] Speaker 1: to winning that Super Bowl, by the way. be predicted
[25:38] Speaker 1: to be a wildcard team in quite the fashion that
[25:41] Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks have been predicted that.
[25:43] Speaker 2: They will be a wildcard team.
[25:44] Speaker 1: And by the way, it's a fair thing for people
[25:47] Speaker 1: to guess because the Rams got Miles Garrett and they're
[25:49] Speaker 1: bringing Aaron Donald out of mouth balls. Totally get you.
[25:53] Speaker 1: At the same time, if you're Seattle, you got to
[25:55] Speaker 1: be like, bro, what are.
[25:55] Speaker 3: You talking about? Yeah, I was going to say that,
[25:59] Speaker 3: that like, yeah, it's crazy. And if you are the Seahawks, yeah,
[26:03] Speaker 3: it feels incredibly disrespectful. But you know, who is looking
[26:08] Speaker 3: at this situation, not feeling like it's crazy. It's that
[26:11] Speaker 3: Seattle offensive line. They looking up like, they not out
[26:17] Speaker 3: here talking about nobody. We deserve more respect. They like,
[26:21] Speaker 3: this is going to be a goddamn problem. If Aaron
[26:24] Speaker 3: Donald pops up. So, like, they know. The thing is,
[26:27] Speaker 3: they doing that nobody believes in us stuff. But, like,
[26:29] Speaker 3: this is a unique situation. I'm not saying that it
[26:32] Speaker 3: is going to work. But, like, nobody is just being
[26:35] Speaker 3: jerks by not believing in them. They're just being logical.
[26:39] Speaker 2: They're right. All I'm saying is this.
[26:41] Speaker 1: I don't know if any defending Super Bowl champion is
[26:43] Speaker 1: going to be more locked in game after game after
[26:45] Speaker 1: game than that one right there.
[26:50] Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to when they play each other, man.
[26:52] Speaker 3: That's going to be fun. I don't even know when
[26:53] Speaker 3: it is on the calendar, but that is going to
[26:56] Speaker 3: be fun. And I don't think the Rams care nearly
[26:58] Speaker 3: as much, excuse me, about this regular season as the
[27:01] Speaker 3: rest of us do. We want to see it, but
[27:03] Speaker 3: I think they walking into this first game kind of like, eh.
[27:06] Speaker 3: We'll see. Show up. Kick it off. See what happens.
[27:10] Speaker 1: Well, coming up next, we'll talk a little bit about
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[28:49] Speaker 1: are back with Dominique Foxworth. And in Australia, we talked
[28:53] Speaker 1: about this, the 49ers. are going to play against the Rams.
[28:57] Speaker 1: And as we talk about, you never know who's going
[28:58] Speaker 1: to be left standing at the end of the year.
[29:00] Speaker 1: We do know what team will probably have the highest
[29:03] Speaker 1: percentage of people not standing at the end of the year,
[29:06] Speaker 1: and that's the hurt-ass 49ers. I don't know if they'd
[29:09] Speaker 1: be doing it to themselves in practice everywhere else, and
[29:11] Speaker 1: now they get to go start off against Myles Garrett
[29:14] Speaker 1: and them. I guess it's going to be, well, at
[29:15] Speaker 1: least they got Trent Williams, right? We're going to find out.
[29:18] Speaker 1: Every year we just keep assuming Trent Williams is going
[29:20] Speaker 1: to be the same, but we're going to find out.
[29:23] Speaker 3: I mean, to be fair, don't tell him I said this,
[29:25] Speaker 3: but he started slipping a little bit last year. I
[29:28] Speaker 3: don't want to upset him. He seems like the type
[29:30] Speaker 3: that don't take kindly to disrespect. I don't mean as disrespect,
[29:34] Speaker 3: but he wasn't Hall of Fame Trent Williams last year
[29:37] Speaker 3: in the way that he's been in the past. So
[29:39] Speaker 3: he's still integral to the offense. He's still better than
[29:41] Speaker 3: most tackles, but he gave up some pressures, which is
[29:45] Speaker 3: something that he normally doesn't do. So if he's a
[29:48] Speaker 3: little diminished and everybody else on that team is hurt,
[29:51] Speaker 3: Kittle coming back from injuries in record time, that can't
[29:54] Speaker 3: be something that you count on.
[29:56] Speaker 1: At that age.
[29:57] Speaker 3: Yeah, at that age. That can't be something you count
[29:58] Speaker 3: on either. stopped being able to run the ball last year, too,
[30:01] Speaker 3: which is crazy. Like, if you put all that together,
[30:04] Speaker 3: they damn near, they came down to one game away
[30:06] Speaker 3: from winning the division, and their whole defense was hurt.
[30:09] Speaker 3: They couldn't stop the run, and they also couldn't run
[30:11] Speaker 3: the ball. It's like, it's a riddle that I don't
[30:13] Speaker 3: know how you solve.
[30:15] Speaker 1: Hey, man, George Kittle is at this age. I'm in
[30:18] Speaker 1: the best shape of my life.
[30:21] Speaker 3: Uh-oh. Uh-oh.
[30:22] Speaker 2: Bad news. Bad, bad news. He's at that place.
[30:27] Speaker 3: No, that.
[30:28] Speaker 1: Especially considering that they've decided to do this with the
[30:33] Speaker 1: marginally talented quarterback, right? Like regardless of how good you
[30:36] Speaker 1: think Purdy is, marginally talented.
[30:41] Speaker 3: Yuck.
[30:41] Speaker 1: In a division, by the way, where you can finish
[30:45] Speaker 1: third and feel pretty good going into the playoffs because
[30:47] Speaker 1: of the other teams that you're going to have to
[30:49] Speaker 1: deal with. Their season, especially after all the wild shit
[30:52] Speaker 1: that's happening, right? Your owner is a sex fiend.
[30:57] Speaker 2: You got people out here pretending to play for y'all.
[31:00] Speaker 3: Um... Yeah, yeah.
[31:03] Speaker 1: It's so funny how we add that guy, y'all, to
[31:05] Speaker 1: the 49ers stuff. Oh, forgot about Kyle Shanahan and the
[31:09] Speaker 1: shenanigans they tried to run with the accident.
[31:13] Speaker 3: That's their best player. It seems like Kyle Shanahan, their
[31:18] Speaker 3: most impactful player. I hope that his brain wasn't shaking
[31:21] Speaker 3: up too much because he's the reason why they can
[31:23] Speaker 3: still maintain some level of competitiveness. And we'll see, like,
[31:27] Speaker 3: the defense... is healthier now than it was last year,
[31:30] Speaker 3: but it's older too. Like both say the same coming
[31:34] Speaker 3: off injury and they same thing with Warner. Like he's
[31:36] Speaker 3: getting up there and he's coming back from injury. They're
[31:38] Speaker 3: relying on a lot of old guys to make this
[31:40] Speaker 3: defense work. Yeah, buddy.
[31:43] Speaker 1: And you know, Shanahan is so interesting because I think
[31:46] Speaker 1: we all agree, obviously very good at his job, but
[31:51] Speaker 1: in that interesting way where we would not say he's
[31:54] Speaker 1: flawless at his job, right? There are things that come up, but,
[31:58] Speaker 1: They are the clear number three team in that division
[32:00] Speaker 1: right now.
[32:02] Speaker 2: And it could be like that for a while.
[32:05] Speaker 3: He is very good at, like he's very good at
[32:09] Speaker 3: specific parts of his job. It's like, sometimes we just
[32:12] Speaker 3: throw out that like this coach is a good coach.
[32:15] Speaker 3: It just like blanket thing, but you can isolate the
[32:19] Speaker 3: way that he's good in producing offense. He's very good
[32:21] Speaker 3: at that. And I think that overcomes some of the
[32:23] Speaker 3: other like in-game decision-making issues that he's had is, this
[32:27] Speaker 3: team is going to be ready for just about every game.
[32:30] Speaker 3: But I don't know. Last year with that, what the
[32:33] Speaker 3: Rams did to them defensively, the second time that they played,
[32:36] Speaker 3: I think they scored on all but like two of
[32:38] Speaker 3: the drives. That's the bigger question to me is do
[32:41] Speaker 3: they have the firepower? Oh, yeah, you left out Pearsall's
[32:44] Speaker 3: injured too. Do they have the firepower?
[32:45] Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought he might have been, but I couldn't remember.
[32:48] Speaker 1: I feel like he always hurts, so I feel like
[32:49] Speaker 1: I might have been reaching.
[32:51] Speaker 3: Well, he didn't get shot this time. That was there.
[32:53] Speaker 3: That was a wild way. To start your career. You
[32:56] Speaker 3: can't blame that on the substation or whatever's out there.
[32:59] Speaker 2: Well, especially because it was B-Rad. You know what I'm saying?
[33:03] Speaker 1: Like, immediately it raised questions about, man, how far was
[33:06] Speaker 1: you trying to take this?
[33:10] Speaker 2: How far was you going?
[33:11] Speaker 3: Oh, man. Just get that man to watch, please. Give
[33:14] Speaker 3: him the watch.
[33:15] Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was totally on the board.
[33:17] Speaker 2: Who you think you messing with, fool?
[33:22] Speaker 3: This team is going to be I don't know. I mean,
[33:25] Speaker 3: I think they're going to be third in the division.
[33:27] Speaker 3: But I can't say that I wouldn't be surprised. I
[33:30] Speaker 3: still would be surprised if they, like, overcome. But any
[33:33] Speaker 3: other team or any other coach with this team, I
[33:36] Speaker 3: think we're looking at a real high draft pick. They
[33:39] Speaker 3: have a chance to, like, be mediocre to me. And
[33:41] Speaker 3: they even have a chance of winning this first game
[33:43] Speaker 3: against the Rams. But I don't think it's going to
[33:45] Speaker 3: hold up.
[33:46] Speaker 1: Well, also for me, another thing I always wonder, like,
[33:49] Speaker 1: when it comes to Kyle is, he has a defensive coordinator,
[33:53] Speaker 1: but Kyle Shanahan is the head coach of the defense.
[33:55] Speaker 1: Like he's a Tom Landry sort of figure where he is.
[33:58] Speaker 1: His coordinator's job is to run his offense. Like he's
[34:00] Speaker 1: the offensive mastermind and the defensive mastermind. And I feel
[34:03] Speaker 1: like you might be doing too much, brother.
[34:06] Speaker 3: I mean, they have, I know Mike is around there
[34:09] Speaker 3: a lot. I assume he is. He was the last
[34:11] Speaker 3: few years. I assume he's still around there a lot,
[34:13] Speaker 3: helping to influence the way that they prepare for these games. But,
[34:17] Speaker 3: They started last year to change their defense more than
[34:20] Speaker 3: they have in the past because they normally run pretty
[34:22] Speaker 3: static stuff. But because of the injuries, they were in
[34:25] Speaker 3: so much trouble, they had to get more complicated. And
[34:28] Speaker 3: they bring in Raheem, I think, is the coach now,
[34:31] Speaker 3: and he's going to run Sims. I assume that he's
[34:33] Speaker 3: going to run simulated pressure. They're going to modernize the defense.
[34:35] Speaker 3: They're going to have to. And that, I think, will
[34:37] Speaker 3: go a long way to see how good they can
[34:39] Speaker 3: be as a team because injuries are going to pile up,
[34:42] Speaker 3: as they always do.
[34:44] Speaker 1: Hey, man, moving on to the rest of the week one.
[34:49] Speaker 2: I mean, C.J. Stroud, Josh Allen, Buffalo, Houston. Lucky for C.J.
[34:55] Speaker 1: Stroud, that's a one o'clock kick. Maybe it would be
[34:57] Speaker 1: good for C.J. Stroud if it was a four o'clock kick.
[34:59] Speaker 1: If you think he's going to be able to make
[35:01] Speaker 1: something happen, because there's some reason to have questions about
[35:03] Speaker 1: that Buffalo defense that's in transition. When you go nine
[35:05] Speaker 1: years from a defensive head coach to trying to scheme.
[35:08] Speaker 1: with Jim Leonard that is not the same. And we're
[35:11] Speaker 1: not sure if they have the bodies to run the
[35:13] Speaker 1: scheme that they've got in the year where all my
[35:17] Speaker 1: white friends, except for Nick, keep trying to tell me,
[35:20] Speaker 1: I think we're going.
[35:20] Speaker 2: To get it for Josh. I think it might finally happen.
[35:23] Speaker 2: Aren't you excited?
[35:26] Speaker 3: I don't see it this year for Josh, but you know,
[35:28] Speaker 3: I mean, I didn't see it last year for the
[35:30] Speaker 3: Seahawks either. So anything could happen. But like your point
[35:33] Speaker 3: about the defense is a huge one. And this is
[35:35] Speaker 3: as bad as it can get for a place for
[35:37] Speaker 3: the Bills to start because the Texans actually give Josh
[35:41] Speaker 3: Allen hell. They went and got DJ Moore to help
[35:45] Speaker 3: because the Texans just play man coverage. They don't respect
[35:48] Speaker 3: anybody and then get after Josh all game long. And
[35:51] Speaker 3: he'll get some scrambles, but it's not enough to get
[35:53] Speaker 3: it done. So this is a tough place for them
[35:56] Speaker 3: to start. And to your point, the defensive switch, I
[36:00] Speaker 3: don't make a big deal about switching from 4-3 to
[36:02] Speaker 3: 3-4 normally, but if your problem is In the 4-3,
[36:05] Speaker 3: you can't stop the run. You're going to switch over
[36:08] Speaker 3: to the 3-4, and you got 4-3 bodies. And it's
[36:11] Speaker 3: going to be tough. So we'll see what Jim Leonard
[36:14] Speaker 3: can do with his motion or movement up front, stunts
[36:17] Speaker 3: and whatever. But I don't know. This is a good place, though,
[36:21] Speaker 3: because the Texans can't run the ball either. So we'll see.
[36:24] Speaker 1: I saw you and Kravitz and Ben Solak, who I
[36:28] Speaker 1: got to be honest with you, man. I don't think
[36:31] Speaker 1: I had heard Ben Solak's voice before. I had just
[36:34] Speaker 1: seen him looking like he's 14. And then I heard
[36:37] Speaker 1: him talking like a grown man. I thought that shit
[36:39] Speaker 1: was AI, bro. I didn't think that it was possible.
[36:44] Speaker 1: That was, you know.
[36:47] Speaker 3: Was that Geico? We had to look like Talking Babies commercial. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[36:52] Speaker 1: It was in that zone. But the point you guys
[36:55] Speaker 1: made about the Houston, Texas defense was funny. that people
[36:58] Speaker 1: try to make the argument that, you know, the Texas
[37:00] Speaker 1: dude was complex.
[37:01] Speaker 2: No, it's not like they like old Miami.
[37:05] Speaker 1: We got, I mean, by Miami, I mean hurricanes. How
[37:09] Speaker 1: about we rush four, drop seven, and hit people hard?
[37:13] Speaker 2: What you think, guys?
[37:14] Speaker 3: You think we could do it? What you think? It is,
[37:17] Speaker 3: that is it. And they've gotten bigger and better through
[37:20] Speaker 3: the draft and through free agency. Like, it's... They had
[37:24] Speaker 3: no weaknesses last year, and somehow they've gotten a little
[37:27] Speaker 3: bit better. So, yeah, it's nothing too complicated. I think
[37:31] Speaker 3: you want to give, especially if they have a defensive-minded
[37:33] Speaker 3: head coach, you want to be like, oh, he's scheming
[37:35] Speaker 3: the shit out of stuff. Like, nah, it's motivation. It's
[37:39] Speaker 3: motivation and violence is what they're doing out there. We
[37:43] Speaker 3: must protect our house no matter where we are at
[37:45] Speaker 3: all times. Amen.
[37:48] Speaker 1: I don't think we give D'Amico nearly enough credit because
[37:50] Speaker 1: we have forgotten how bad, as a franchise, They were.
[37:54] Speaker 1: And they probably only could hire D'Amico because D'Amico played
[37:58] Speaker 1: for them and got a wife from Houston. But otherwise,
[38:01] Speaker 1: remember when they was just hiring any black dude they
[38:03] Speaker 1: could get to take the job because only a black
[38:04] Speaker 1: man would take that job?
[38:06] Speaker 3: I do remember very clearly when they put David Cully
[38:09] Speaker 3: in there for.
[38:10] Speaker 2: That suicide mission.
[38:13] Speaker 1: And then Lovey, like, they was... Honestly, I'm afraid to
[38:17] Speaker 1: say who I thought they also might hire, because I
[38:19] Speaker 1: think that person might be... No, he's still here. Surprised
[38:22] Speaker 1: they ain't gonna get Romeo Cornell again.
[38:24] Speaker 3: My fault.
[38:24] Speaker 2: I forgot they had already did that.
[38:26] Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
[38:27] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[38:27] Speaker 3: For whatever reason, I thought you was gonna say Hugh Jackson.
[38:30] Speaker 2: Like, that's No, no, I think that's the bridge too far.
[38:32] Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why when you said you had to start Googling,
[38:35] Speaker 3: I was like, oh, okay.
[38:35] Speaker 2: No, no, no, I had to Google to make sure
[38:37] Speaker 2: Romeo wasn't dead.
[38:39] Speaker 1: With Hugh Jackson, the problem is Hugh Jackson got too
[38:42] Speaker 1: much ego. They needed a black man that was just
[38:45] Speaker 1: happy to get a job.
[38:47] Speaker 3: They are happy that this black man has the job, man,
[38:49] Speaker 3: because this team has been really, really impressive. And they
[38:53] Speaker 3: made us all look dumb. when we all were like,
[38:56] Speaker 3: why are you moving up in the draft? I've been
[38:59] Speaker 3: saying that Will Edison move.
[39:01] Speaker 1: Because, you know, the reason was we thought they were
[39:03] Speaker 1: going to be terrible.
[39:04] Speaker 3: Yeah. Right?
[39:05] Speaker 1: Like, we thought they were trading away a top three
[39:08] Speaker 1: pick when they did that. And instead, they made the playoffs.
[39:13] Speaker 3: And he's been... Amazing. Right.
[39:16] Speaker 2: Because that wasn't a guarantee either.
[39:19] Speaker 3: Oh, of course not. Like people were saying that he's good,
[39:21] Speaker 3: but like he's like solid was like the projection. He's
[39:25] Speaker 3: like solid with maybe some upside he walked in the
[39:28] Speaker 3: league and was like nah I'm one of the best
[39:32] Speaker 3: it's just that plain and simple and then Daniel Hunter
[39:35] Speaker 3: is probably a better pass rusher than he is technically but.
[39:40] Speaker 1: They got another local they got the local connection comes
[39:44] Speaker 1: through again that's.
[39:46] Speaker 3: One of those things where and I feel like I've
[39:49] Speaker 3: I've managed to like stop forgetting it. But when you
[39:53] Speaker 3: do this, like every day you analyze football, I think
[39:56] Speaker 3: you look more and more for deeper analysis and more interesting, intricate,
[40:03] Speaker 3: fun scheme stuff to like expose to people. But you
[40:06] Speaker 3: have to remember that the only reason why anybody does
[40:11] Speaker 3: any of that shit is because they can't whoop the
[40:15] Speaker 3: man in front of them. That's where it starts. If
[40:20] Speaker 3: you can consistently whoop the man in front of you,
[40:22] Speaker 3: you ain't got to do nothing but roll a ball
[40:25] Speaker 3: out there. And that's what they doing. Like, I'm not
[40:27] Speaker 3: saying that they're not prepared. Like, they're smart. They do
[40:30] Speaker 3: have some change-ups here and there. But, like, one of
[40:33] Speaker 3: the hallmarks of these modern defenses, and if you watch
[40:35] Speaker 3: the Seahawks, it's like the safeties are going everywhere. It's
[40:38] Speaker 3: so hard to pick out what they're doing. Pre-snap, everybody's disguising,
[40:41] Speaker 3: and it's so confusing. Like, nah, they line up single
[40:45] Speaker 3: high almost every time. It's either going to be one
[40:47] Speaker 3: or three. We might blitz on third down, but we
[40:50] Speaker 3: all going to whoop your ass.
[40:53] Speaker 2: Rush four. Drop seven.
[40:58] Speaker 1: We ain't got to put on all this makeup.
[41:01] Speaker 2: We ain't got to do all.
[41:02] Speaker 3: No, no, no.
[41:03] Speaker 1: We stacked. We got it like that. Pass me them
[41:06] Speaker 1: yoga pads. That's all I need. Shit, in fact, I
[41:13] Speaker 1: don't even need that. Bob jeans, watch. You're going to
[41:17] Speaker 1: see it like that, too. God damn, it don't matter
[41:19] Speaker 1: what they put on.
[41:21] Speaker 3: And then, I don't want to further this analogy because
[41:24] Speaker 3: and then, they get nasty, too. So nasty. They are
[41:30] Speaker 3: trying to hurt people.
[41:32] Speaker 2: They got an energy about them.
[41:36] Speaker 3: Yes.
[41:36] Speaker 1: Energy.
[41:37] Speaker 3: We're going to get that fine. That's fine. We'll pay it.
[41:42] Speaker 3: You remember, wasn't that them who hit Trevor Lawrence late
[41:46] Speaker 3: as hell? Yeah, we'll pay it.
[41:50] Speaker 1: And what was they do with the Arabic name that
[41:53] Speaker 1: put that shoulder on Mahomes that time?
[41:55] Speaker 3: Alshair, right?
[41:56] Speaker 2: Yeah, Alshair, that's right.
[41:58] Speaker 3: He was suspended for like three weeks apologizing. Yes.
[42:02] Speaker 1: I mix him up with the big swole one that
[42:05] Speaker 1: the 49ers got that Mahomes took down.
[42:07] Speaker 3: Mustafa? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He ran through him.
[42:11] Speaker 1: Hey man, that boy, that's a fruity Islam motherfucker right there.
[42:14] Speaker 1: Like that cat right there, he is ready. If it
[42:18] Speaker 1: comes down to the fight, we need to try to,
[42:21] Speaker 1: I don't know who we is, but somebody might need
[42:23] Speaker 1: to try to convert him. Because Allah got a soldier
[42:28] Speaker 1: in that one right there.
[42:30] Speaker 3: I've been on defenses with that nasty edge. And I'll
[42:33] Speaker 3: have you know, we're upset about the penalty. We're upset
[42:37] Speaker 3: about the money. There's a lot of daps. There's a
[42:41] Speaker 3: lot of daps in the locker room.
[42:42] Speaker 1: I thought you were referring to your college defense when
[42:45] Speaker 1: you said that as you went to college with the
[42:47] Speaker 1: maniac named Sean Merriman.
[42:49] Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I've told you a couple of
[42:56] Speaker 3: Sean stories.
[42:58] Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
[42:59] Speaker 3: That guy, he was really good at football. Really explosive.
[43:04] Speaker 3: And sometimes he would do football at the wrong time. As, yeah.
[43:08] Speaker 3: Who was that that made that joke? That was a
[43:11] Speaker 3: good one.
[43:13] Speaker 2: Football at the wrong time.
[43:14] Speaker 3: It was Neil Brennan, I think. That's right. That's right.
[43:17] Speaker 1: He did say that about sometimes they would do football
[43:19] Speaker 1: at the wrong time.
[43:21] Speaker 3: I've witnessed that before. It's like, yeah. It stinks to
[43:24] Speaker 3: do football at the wrong time. But those guys also.
[43:28] Speaker 3: They do football all the time. Yeah. And they do
[43:31] Speaker 3: it better than most.
[43:32] Speaker 1: It's a lifestyle. It's not simply a vocation, right? It's
[43:37] Speaker 1: an ethos.
[43:38] Speaker 3: Yeah, if you do what you love, you're going to
[43:41] Speaker 3: have to work a day in your life.
[43:42] Speaker 1: There you go.
[43:43] Speaker 3: There you go.
[43:44] Speaker 1: So I got a couple games, like three other games
[43:47] Speaker 1: to get to this week. It ain't going to take
[43:48] Speaker 1: too much time, but I do think they are interesting.
[43:52] Speaker 1: one of them is Tampa and Cincinnati and another is
[43:55] Speaker 1: Green Bay and Minnesota. And I feel like those two
[43:57] Speaker 1: games are low key hot seat bowls. Like I feel
[44:01] Speaker 1: like out of those four teams, at least two of
[44:04] Speaker 1: them will have new coaches next year, if not three.
[44:08] Speaker 3: It's possible. I'm really high on Tampa this year. They
[44:11] Speaker 3: have one of the best O-lines in football. I actually
[44:13] Speaker 3: think that if the success of their season is dependent
[44:18] Speaker 3: on how how well they do. Like, I feel confident
[44:21] Speaker 3: that they're going to do pretty well. They paid Mayfield.
[44:25] Speaker 3: And I do think that speaking of these special guys
[44:29] Speaker 3: on defense, I think Ruben Vane is one of those guys.
[44:31] Speaker 3: And then I, Keontae Scott from Miami too, who's not
[44:33] Speaker 3: a big name guy, but makes a bunch of plays
[44:36] Speaker 3: to add to that defense. That defensive line is something special.
[44:38] Speaker 3: I think that defense.
[44:39] Speaker 1: And they got the, they got the fake Aaron Donald, right?
[44:43] Speaker 3: Oh yeah. Yeah. You're talking about.
[44:46] Speaker 2: Yancey. Kalijah Yancey.
[44:48] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[44:49] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[44:49] Speaker 1: And for those who don't know, he's a short little
[44:52] Speaker 1: fire plug who went to Pitt.
[44:54] Speaker 3: Yep.
[44:54] Speaker 2: He's literally a fake Aaron Donald.
[44:57] Speaker 3: And next to him, they got Vita Vea, who is
[44:59] Speaker 3: the opposite.
[45:00] Speaker 1: Yes. Enormous.
[45:01] Speaker 3: And, like, you think he's a run stuffer because he's
[45:03] Speaker 3: built like the old run stuffers, but he's a great
[45:05] Speaker 3: pass rusher also, and Diaby can rush the pass. I
[45:08] Speaker 3: think that's going to be enough to make this defense
[45:10] Speaker 3: really something, and they got a great O-line, so I
[45:12] Speaker 3: think they're going to be good. But the Bengals, excuse me,
[45:17] Speaker 3: the Bengals, yeah, that's, Zach Taylor might not make it
[45:21] Speaker 3: through the season if things don't start off well.
[45:23] Speaker 2: Oh, no, don't you worry. He'll make it through the season.
[45:27] Speaker 3: Oh, that's right. Yeah, that's fair.
[45:28] Speaker 1: As long as he's getting paid to coach 17 games,
[45:32] Speaker 1: he will coach 17.
[45:35] Speaker 3: It's not even that they will keep him. It's that
[45:37] Speaker 3: they don't want to get nobody no bump. No. Can't
[45:39] Speaker 3: make me the head coach without giving me a bump. Yeah,
[45:43] Speaker 3: he'll make it. So, yeah, you're right. He won't be
[45:45] Speaker 3: fired midseason because they're not going to let nobody off easy.
[45:48] Speaker 3: And I think in Green Bay, they got some built-in excuses.
[45:50] Speaker 3: I'm not sure if they're going to accept them, but
[45:52] Speaker 3: they got some built-in excuses with the injuries and the
[45:58] Speaker 3: commissioner exempt list for that running back and injuries on
[46:01] Speaker 3: the defense and injuries on the whole line. I think
[46:03] Speaker 3: they have some built-in excuses, but sometimes that does not
[46:06] Speaker 3: matter at all. And I also think Vikings are safe.
[46:09] Speaker 3: I think they blame a lot of that stuff on,
[46:11] Speaker 3: Of course, the Adolfo Mensah, the roster that he put together,
[46:14] Speaker 3: I think they believe KOC is one of these offensive
[46:17] Speaker 3: guru coaches that was being hampered by a Wall Street
[46:21] Speaker 3: guy who ain't no ball. This is not me speaking.
[46:24] Speaker 3: This is what I believe they think.
[46:25] Speaker 1: Yeah, but I was under the impression that the roster
[46:30] Speaker 1: was the coaches and the staff.
[46:33] Speaker 3: Was the GMs.
[46:36] Speaker 1: Like, how the blame or whatever gets doled out is
[46:39] Speaker 1: going to be interesting. And we know, speaking of complex,
[46:41] Speaker 1: Brian Flores, forever defense head coach, is going to be
[46:45] Speaker 1: out there just throwing things at people.
[46:47] Speaker 3: Somebody's going to hire him, man. It's going to happen
[46:50] Speaker 3: one of these days. No, it's not. No, it's not.
[46:53] Speaker 1: It's not going to happen, and I wouldn't hire him either.
[46:57] Speaker 3: He was so good. Like, he's been... The further he's
[47:01] Speaker 3: gotten away from the Dolphins, the more I appreciate how
[47:04] Speaker 3: well he– like, you remember I was coming out saying
[47:07] Speaker 3: this team was tanking. They ended up winning nine games.
[47:10] Speaker 3: They did. They did. He was an awesome coach, and
[47:12] Speaker 3: he said, you know what? This Tua guy ain't it.
[47:15] Speaker 3: And then McDonnell or McDaniel came in there, and we
[47:19] Speaker 3: was like, oh, Tua good. And then we was like,
[47:22] Speaker 3: maybe not. Maybe Tyreek Hill is awesome. Maybe that's what happened. Yeah.
[47:26] Speaker 1: Some people are– and you're the one who says this
[47:29] Speaker 1: as much as anybody else. Some people just.
[47:32] Speaker 2: Need to be coordinated.
[47:32] Speaker 1: That's true. Right? Like there are other parts of being
[47:36] Speaker 1: a head coach that Brian Flores struggles with, and that
[47:39] Speaker 1: is people stuff. His soft game is not– his soft
[47:44] Speaker 1: game is insufficient.
[47:47] Speaker 2: On a number of levels. His soft game just ain't
[47:51] Speaker 2: up to snuff.
[47:52] Speaker 3: That's funny because that's like he blitzes like twice as
[47:56] Speaker 3: much as anybody in football. And it's like, man, do
[47:59] Speaker 3: football all the time. Yeah, that's it, that's it. Like, yeah. Oh,
[48:02] Speaker 3: you want to have a conversation? I'm sitting in heat.
[48:05] Speaker 3: In this conversation, we sitting in heat. We max pressuring
[48:08] Speaker 3: right now.
[48:09] Speaker 2: That's all he know.
[48:09] Speaker 1: Now, the last game we got here, boy, we're talking
[48:12] Speaker 1: about here, Sunday night, we got the Giants and the
[48:15] Speaker 1: Cowboys and my good buddy, Danny Parkins. Parko got on TV,
[48:24] Speaker 1: and I'll say this, he made a fairly compelling case
[48:26] Speaker 1: for it. He picked the Giants to win that entire division.
[48:35] Speaker 3: Malik Nabors?
[48:38] Speaker 1: He had, you know, Danny's a stat guy, so he
[48:41] Speaker 1: had some stats that made the point, but I....
[48:49] Speaker 2: I thought that sounded like drugs.
[48:52] Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, they got some really impressive guys on
[48:56] Speaker 3: the defense. I mean, they got rid of Dexter Lawrence,
[48:58] Speaker 3: but even without him, their front is still really impressive.
[49:00] Speaker 2: They should be bringing heat, right?
[49:01] Speaker 1: Like, they got Abdul Carter, Brian Burns, and which Ohio
[49:06] Speaker 1: State guy did they get?
[49:07] Speaker 4: Reese?
[49:07] Speaker 3: Yeah, Reese got him, and they played him off-ball, but
[49:11] Speaker 3: he's a hell of a pass rusher, too. I'm sure
[49:13] Speaker 3: they'll blitz him a bunch. That should be it. The
[49:15] Speaker 3: question is, is that going to be enough to compensate
[49:17] Speaker 3: for the other shortcomings that they have in the secondary?
[49:20] Speaker 3: We'll see. Jackson Dart had a good rookie year, but
[49:25] Speaker 3: you go back and look at it, it's a lot
[49:26] Speaker 3: of on the ground running the ball type stuff. We'll
[49:30] Speaker 3: see how that works out with him because he likes
[49:33] Speaker 3: to go in the tent. It's weird when the thing
[49:35] Speaker 3: you do best is also the thing they want you
[49:38] Speaker 3: to stop doing. It's hard for me to imagine that
[49:40] Speaker 3: they're just going to run away and score a bunch
[49:42] Speaker 3: of points. But neighbors, if neighbors, neighbors was like one
[49:44] Speaker 3: of the best receivers in football when he was healthy.
[49:47] Speaker 3: If that's the neighbors you get back, then I feel
[49:50] Speaker 3: differently about this team. I still don't think they're better
[49:52] Speaker 3: than the Eagles or the Cowboys.
[49:54] Speaker 1: I think they sound is so morose in the way
[49:57] Speaker 1: that they talked about neighbors all offseason. I will believe
[50:00] Speaker 1: they they were talking in ways or me or Ryan
[50:03] Speaker 1: was wondering why.
[50:04] Speaker 2: Does he still have a leg?
[50:06] Speaker 1: They were talking in ways that made me think he
[50:09] Speaker 1: wouldn't play this year. So I'm kind of like, we'll see. Dart,
[50:15] Speaker 1: they wanted for Dart. I think it's hard not to
[50:18] Speaker 1: watch the coverage of Dart and not come to the
[50:20] Speaker 1: conclusion they wanted for him and they got him a,
[50:23] Speaker 1: shall we say, partner in crime. You understand what I'm
[50:27] Speaker 1: saying here, right? They got a transcendent running back. The
[50:31] Speaker 1: problem is, Both of them, based on all the available
[50:35] Speaker 1: evidence that we have given, or rather than say both
[50:38] Speaker 1: of them, neither of them appears to be very bright.
[50:42] Speaker 1: In a way that I don't see how it doesn't
[50:45] Speaker 1: affect the football. When Jackson Dart's like, I don't understand
[50:49] Speaker 1: why they keep sending me to the tent.
[50:51] Speaker 2: Boy, what did you say?
[50:53] Speaker 1: You don't understand how to, like, oh, and you keep
[50:56] Speaker 1: doing that dumb shit on top of the fact that
[50:58] Speaker 1: you said some dumb shit, which just makes me.
[51:00] Speaker 2: Think, like, he might be out there like Brett Favre, like,
[51:03] Speaker 2: what's a nickel defense? I don't understand, right?
[51:05] Speaker 1: And maybe he's good enough that he don't need to
[51:08] Speaker 1: know these things.
[51:09] Speaker 2: I could be wrong.
[51:11] Speaker 1: And then that Scataboo boy, whew, I would not cheat
[51:14] Speaker 1: off of his paper.
[51:17] Speaker 3: He said CTE wasn't real, man.
[51:19] Speaker 1: He got up there and did that backflip. I would
[51:22] Speaker 1: not cheat off of his paper. The Giants are not
[51:27] Speaker 1: apparently trying to out-thank you with these guys.
[51:32] Speaker 2: And John Harbaugh possibly cooked.
[51:38] Speaker 1: It's on the board.
[51:41] Speaker 3: I mean, of those two guys, only one position isn't
[51:47] Speaker 3: a problem. I don't know that either. I mean, we
[51:50] Speaker 3: can point to some evidence that suggests that maybe they're
[51:52] Speaker 3: not the sharpest. Maybe they are. But I don't care
[51:57] Speaker 3: if the running back not. It's the quarterback, man. So
[52:01] Speaker 3: if that turns out to be a problem where his
[52:05] Speaker 3: offseason decisions became an issue in the locker room, which
[52:09] Speaker 3: sometimes that stuff is overblown, it might ultimately bring the
[52:11] Speaker 3: team closer together. But the idea that he is generating
[52:15] Speaker 3: this attention... And this doesn't even get to the on-field decisions.
[52:18] Speaker 3: Those are obviously more important. But, like, the idea that
[52:22] Speaker 3: he's generating that attention when you are, like, tasked with
[52:25] Speaker 3: being that, like, adult in the room as the quarterback
[52:29] Speaker 3: and then you're making these decisions on the field also, like,
[52:32] Speaker 3: that is concerning for the long-term future of Jackson Gardner.
[52:35] Speaker 2: I admit.
[52:37] Speaker 3: He's a level quarterback.
[52:38] Speaker 2: I admit I feel bad.
[52:39] Speaker 1: After watching Scataboo do that backflip, I've been waiting for
[52:41] Speaker 1: like six weeks to just get out here and just
[52:43] Speaker 1: say something about that dumb shit. I apologize for even
[52:47] Speaker 1: talking about it like that because I don't know.
[52:49] Speaker 2: Maybe he's some kind of savant. But I do feel
[52:53] Speaker 2: like that is a.
[52:55] Speaker 1: Those are two dudes that run through a wall for
[52:57] Speaker 1: you and somebody be like, but there's a door right there.
[53:01] Speaker 3: Now you got two doors.
[53:03] Speaker 2: Yeah, all you had to do was.
[53:05] Speaker 1: It used to be at wrestling where they had the
[53:07] Speaker 1: steel cage match. And Hulk Hogan would always try to
[53:09] Speaker 1: be like a G and climb over the top of
[53:11] Speaker 1: the cage. And the bad guys would always be trying
[53:14] Speaker 1: to just get to the door. It's a door right there.
[53:17] Speaker 1: You can just walk out. I know it seems crazy, but,
[53:20] Speaker 1: you know, that's your option. Meanwhile, the Cowboys, are they good?
[53:24] Speaker 1: I feel like they're good.
[53:26] Speaker 3: I mean, a Tyler Smith injury is going to hurt
[53:28] Speaker 3: their running attack. But, yeah, we just need proof of concept.
[53:34] Speaker 3: They got all the pieces that you need. We got
[53:37] Speaker 3: the proof of concept of the offense. It's really just defense.
[53:41] Speaker 3: If their defense is... I feel like we said this
[53:44] Speaker 3: ad nauseum. They don't have to be great, but they
[53:46] Speaker 3: have the potential to be actually a good defense. If
[53:49] Speaker 3: the offense returns, they just got to be okay on
[53:53] Speaker 3: defense because last year they were awful. They might be good.
[53:57] Speaker 3: Dak is the quarterback that everyone says is no longer
[54:00] Speaker 3: in the league anymore. This guy who's Kind of like
[54:03] Speaker 3: the opposite, like he's a kind of genius-level football guy
[54:07] Speaker 3: that sees everything and consistently makes the best decisions and
[54:12] Speaker 3: also has the arm strength to rip it, wants to
[54:14] Speaker 3: stay in the pocket. Like he's that guy. And now
[54:17] Speaker 3: I'm sure anyone who's listening to this will bring up
[54:19] Speaker 3: the playoffs, and that's another conversation. But in the regular season,
[54:23] Speaker 3: he's as good as anybody at that stuff.
[54:25] Speaker 1: And they got George Pickens on to prove it one
[54:27] Speaker 1: more again. I feel like Tampa Bay messed up with
[54:31] Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. Get his cranky ass out there with something
[54:34] Speaker 1: to prove again. Y'all out here validating him.
[54:37] Speaker 2: Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. Show me, little man.
[54:40] Speaker 3: That Baker chip on his shoulder thing. Yeah, I'm with you. But, man. Again,
[54:48] Speaker 3: you don't have no other options.
[54:50] Speaker 2: I know.
[54:50] Speaker 1: I understand why they did it that way. I'm just saying,
[54:53] Speaker 1: if y'all was really all in on this year, you
[54:54] Speaker 1: just talk bad to Baker all the time. I would
[54:56] Speaker 1: never say nothing nice to Baker if I was his coach.
[54:58] Speaker 2: You don't appreciate that.
[54:59] Speaker 3: You don't respond to that. I wonder, yeah, the Pickens
[55:03] Speaker 3: thing is people made the argument that keeping him on
[55:07] Speaker 3: this franchise tag situation is, to your point, prove it again,
[55:12] Speaker 3: it's hungry or whatever. Assuming, and you've helped to remind
[55:18] Speaker 3: me and teach me. This is like, as an economist
[55:21] Speaker 3: is like, yeah, you can predict the actions of a
[55:24] Speaker 3: big group. Individuals, man. Like just this assumption that like,
[55:29] Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we're going to get them hungry again. He
[55:31] Speaker 3: going to do just like last year. Like that really
[55:34] Speaker 3: ain't true necessarily. Like maybe I hope so. And like,
[55:38] Speaker 3: people would argue that the reason why he hadn't had
[55:40] Speaker 3: success before he got to Dallas was because he hadn't
[55:43] Speaker 3: had a quarterback to get him the ball, which that's
[55:46] Speaker 3: as plausible as anything. But also like thinking that you
[55:49] Speaker 3: are going to press the right button and get the
[55:52] Speaker 3: result that you expect. I think that.
[55:56] Speaker 1: I think with George Pickens, todo es posible. Todo es
[56:01] Speaker 1: en la plancha. It's all there.
[56:03] Speaker 2: Anything can happen.
[56:04] Speaker 3: That week last year where people say he was loafing,
[56:08] Speaker 3: he snapped on everybody. fighting with the media and everything.
[56:13] Speaker 1: Cowboys every day just kind of like, man, just throw
[56:15] Speaker 1: the ball, dog. Let me tell you what I bet
[56:18] Speaker 1: George Pickens does for the Cowboys, though. I bet he'd
[56:21] Speaker 1: be making them appreciate C.D.
[56:22] Speaker 3: Lamb.
[56:26] Speaker 1: C.D. Lamb is like, George Pickens, but you ain't got
[56:28] Speaker 1: to worry about him.
[56:32] Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, people made the argument that maybe
[56:34] Speaker 3: they'll make a different decision at the end of this
[56:37] Speaker 3: year because Pickens is younger and and healthier than CeeDee Lamb. I,
[56:42] Speaker 3: like you, I assume this is what you would say.
[56:44] Speaker 3: It's like, I don't think they're going to see the
[56:46] Speaker 3: CeeDee and see where that takes them.
[56:48] Speaker 1: Look, I don't know what is going on with George
[56:50] Speaker 1: Pickens that they ain't told us. But I would not
[56:53] Speaker 1: be surprised if it is something. That's all I'm saying.
[56:56] Speaker 3: I want George Pickens and J-Mo on the same team.
[57:01] Speaker 3: That's what I want.
[57:03] Speaker 1: So, you raise a very interesting question for somebody like me.
[57:08] Speaker 1: fan of America's team, the Detroit Lions. If you told
[57:12] Speaker 1: me that that was on the board, right? If they
[57:14] Speaker 1: were like, yo, I'm on Ross St. Brown out of
[57:17] Speaker 1: there for George Pickens and to put him with J-Mo.
[57:23] Speaker 1: That would be what you're asking me is what is
[57:26] Speaker 1: my faith level in Dan-O and his ability to keep
[57:29] Speaker 1: it going? Because Dan-O already couldn't stop J-Mo from humping
[57:32] Speaker 1: the ground in the playoffs.
[57:34] Speaker 3: Yes.
[57:36] Speaker 1: Couldn't stop J-Mo from sending bets at the facility.
[57:40] Speaker 2: What was that other, oh, what was that other dumb
[57:42] Speaker 2: shit J-Mo did? J-Mo threw that interception.
[57:44] Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. I was talking about the shorts where he
[57:48] Speaker 3: bought the house and had on. He did.
[57:50] Speaker 2: That's right.
[57:50] Speaker 1: I forgot what they said, but I forgot.
[57:53] Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
[57:55] Speaker 2: George Pickens doesn't do that.
[57:56] Speaker 1: Like, George Pickens does things that don't make sense, but
[58:00] Speaker 1: J-Mo does things that are outright dumb. Just flat out dumb.
[58:06] Speaker 1: But man, if you had to deal with J-Mo and
[58:09] Speaker 1: George Pickens at the same time.
[58:12] Speaker 3: They might balance each other out. You never know. You
[58:14] Speaker 3: don't know how this chemistry works. You put them in
[58:16] Speaker 3: there and they might be just mellow.
[58:18] Speaker 1: J-Mo, George Pickens, with Jameer Gibbs in the backfield. It'd
[58:23] Speaker 1: be explosive. J-Mo and George Pickens, that's exactly what they
[58:26] Speaker 1: would be.
[58:30] Speaker 2: Explosive.
[58:31] Speaker 3: Did you see... the clip from Amon Ra and the St.
[58:37] Speaker 3: Brown podcast where they were talking to your coach, Dan,
[58:41] Speaker 3: about how he put out a cigarette on Tony Romo's hand.
[58:48] Speaker 3: You ain't seen this one, huh? No. So they were
[58:52] Speaker 3: talking to him and apparently Tony Romo was on part
[58:55] Speaker 3: of my take and he said that when he was
[58:57] Speaker 3: a rookie that he was at a bar and and
[59:02] Speaker 3: everyone really liked Tony and Dan called him over at
[59:05] Speaker 3: the bar and just put out a cigarette on the
[59:09] Speaker 3: back of his hand.
[59:10] Speaker 2: Man, it's good to be white, dog.
[59:13] Speaker 1: You're not becoming a coach after being the dude that
[59:16] Speaker 1: does that.
[59:17] Speaker 2: At least not this kind of coach.
[59:18] Speaker 3: And he said that he and then Amon Ra very
[59:22] Speaker 3: wisely was like, that ain't the first time you did that.
[59:26] Speaker 3: No one does that once. And he was like, yeah,
[59:28] Speaker 3: I would do that to guys. And then he defended
[59:31] Speaker 3: himself by saying, but I do it to myself, too. So,
[59:39] Speaker 3: I say that to say that George Pickens, J-Mo, like,
[59:46] Speaker 3: they might be great head coaches one day. That shit's
[59:52] Speaker 3: just as dumb as anything that they've done. It is. Dumber.
[59:56] Speaker 1: And now I'm saying, guys, I don't know if we
[59:59] Speaker 1: can have all these guys. You can have one knucklehead
[1:00:01] Speaker 1: on the team, but you can't have two. I don't
[1:00:03] Speaker 1: know if the Lions can have two anymore because Dan
[1:00:05] Speaker 1: is one.
[1:00:08] Speaker 3: He's a mature knucklehead, but it's still in him. He
[1:00:11] Speaker 3: stopped drinking as much coffee. Wasn't he drinking like two
[1:00:13] Speaker 3: gallons of coffee a day or something? Trying to have
[1:00:16] Speaker 3: a heart attack.
[1:00:17] Speaker 2: That's going to be such a wild team, man. Every
[1:00:19] Speaker 2: game is going to be like 50 to 48.
[1:00:20] Speaker 3: Yep, no defense.
[1:00:22] Speaker 1: Every single game. They are just going to light this
[1:00:25] Speaker 1: thing up.
[1:00:27] Speaker 2: That is.
[1:00:29] Speaker 1: Dominique Fosworth. We made it to week one, brother. Check
[1:00:32] Speaker 1: him out on the Dominique Fosworth show. Available on all
[1:00:34] Speaker 1: five podcasts. Giving away for free. My brother, I appreciate you.
[1:00:38] Speaker 3: I appreciate you, man. All right, Bo.
[1:00:40] Speaker 4: Time for a quick America's Team update presented by PrizePix. Detroit,
[1:00:45] Speaker 4: they're taking on New Orleans this upcoming Sunday. What are
[1:00:49] Speaker 4: you expecting from your team this season?
[1:00:52] Speaker 1: All right, so this is going to be an interesting
[1:00:53] Speaker 1: matchup as it is my Detroit team against Ryan's New
[1:00:56] Speaker 1: Orleans team. Let me tell you this about Detroit this year. More.
[1:01:01] Speaker 1: Anytime it comes up and you got a choice more,
[1:01:03] Speaker 1: they're going to score a gazillion points. And so is
[1:01:07] Speaker 1: the other team. Maybe the only place you go less
[1:01:10] Speaker 1: is in rushing for the other team, because I don't
[1:01:13] Speaker 1: know why the other team would ever run the ball
[1:01:16] Speaker 1: because you'll be able to throw it on Detroit this year.
[1:01:19] Speaker 2: Goodness gracious.
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