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It's still a little weird, no, Al, and Chris, you know I came to love those that combination and now it's Mike, and I'm a big Mike t Rico. Guy knew the rules right when that ball flew over the upright. Still still getting used to the combo though, and John Harbaugh kicked the field goal to make it a six point game. Remember last week in a tie game, he chose not to kick the field goal. Little different not apples to apples, and Chris goes right away, Well, you know, last week he did something, he got crushed. This week he could regret that, And I think to myself, have we jumped the shark? Have we lost our minds? How would you ever regret going up more than a field goal? Because when you go up six points, instead of going for it on fourth and whatever and potentially turning the ball over undowns and only being up three points if they score a touchdown, you then have to score a touchdown to win because you're down four. When you go up six, even if they score a touchdown, you have to kick a field goal, and you have arguably, I don't know, the most potent field goal kicker. I'm not saying he's better than Vinitary in terms of his career, but in terms of pure talent, if you had to have a guy kick a sixty plus yard field goal, you would pick Justin Tucker. In my lifetime, Justin Tucker would be my pick one. He's got the strongest, most accurate lag. So it was the right call. Then obviously the Bankal's going a long drive, and what happens The Ravens are blessed with this very potent combination. Lamar Jackson has been a polarizing topic all year long. Right, how much money do they pay him? They offered him a lot of money. He turned down the money, which I think is a little crazy. But I never fault any human being for betting on themselves. I've done it before, obviously, not at that level. Most of you, if you're listening, if you've done it before, it can be very rewarding, and even when it doesn't work, you find out a lot about yourself. Now, i'd argue this a little different. There's one hundred fifty plus million dollars on the line. But Lamar is a very unique player, and you saw it on full display tonight. His accuracy was atrocious. I hate it when they throw up you know, twenty five percent complete percent You're you guys are just pulling numbers out of your ass. You don't know wide open the percentage either hit it or not, like the percentage is dictated after the throw happens. Now, Lamar was way off on both of the throws, especially the one the doodle was wide open. But listen, that hat can happen like Brady's miss guys. Now, Lamar the knock on him years ago was accuracy. I would say so far this year. In the last couple of years, he's been a pretty accurate quarterback. He has had a fantastic season. Tonight he was off, but he has a different pitch, like some guys just got fastballs. Ash Yankee fans with the rowdis Chapman, who somehow misspractice and is now not on the postseason roster. But when you're a pitcher, where you can dominate is when you have multiple pitches and a lot of guys. The majority of quarterbacks, if they were playing like Lamar jack and just had their Sea or D game, they would be in trouble on that final drive because they're off. They don't have the confidence and even if they're a great player, they might just have a bad night. They can't drive the field and you lose. You know what, Lamar says, Fuck this, I'm going to turn into a running back. Lamar Jackson is the greatest running quarterback. I'm thirty eight years old. Easily I've ever seen in my life. I was around Michael Vick when I was with the Eagles. He was a very potent running back, but it was a lot different. He did not know how to avoid hits and he often got hit and then he got injured. Steve Young, by the time I was kind of growing up into Steve Young in the early nineties, had really morphed into much more of a passing quarterback. If you watch Kyler Murray, who is an elite running quarterback, a lot of his runs are on the edges, they run sweeps, they get him out in space, and he's one of the greatest athletes we've ever seen. Lamar Jackson can literally just go I'm going to run it up the gut and I'll just get seven yards eight yards, four yards, six yards and we'll just move the chains my self and there's nothing you can do about it. But I'm running between the tackles and unlike a running back, I'm not going to take a pounding because before both these guys tackled me, I'm going to hit the ground. He's able to run between the tackles and not take hits. Now guys are still landing on him. I'm not saying he is going like zero zero impact, but he is not taking head on collisions. His ability to just hit the ground, and he's not really a slider, He's kind of like a diver hit the ground guy it's remarkable, and that last drive is exactly why he's one of the most unique players we've ever seen, because he has been a fantastic thrower of the football this season. Off night, you're allowed to happen like Max Scherzer, Jacob Degram like they have off nice throwing Tiger Woods in his prime still might shoot seventy four. And I'm not saying he is like we'll see. I mean I think Lamar jackson ceiling is sky high because what makes him so potent is when he is accurate, and he has been earlier in the season. He gets three four five touchdowns and at any single moment, on any single play, he can get by every single defender in the NFL. There is not a guy that he can not make miss, whether it's between the tackles or outside the tackles. And then the combination when you are and this is why you kick the field goal. When a field goal wins you the game, and he just has to get you thirty forty yards. He doesn't even have to throw it. He just runs his own read, goes up seven yards, eight yards, nine yards, six yards. Boom, you're in field goal range. Justin Tucker comes in and you win the game. Like that combination when you have to have it of Lamar Jackson to just get into around the sixty yard mark of Justin Tucker is a pretty unique NFL combination right now. And that to me is like last week when Harbaud decided to go for it. It's like I would actually be much more conservative because at any moment, as long as the game's close, this guy can get you within field goal range now going whatever to get a touchdown. That is difficult for Mahomes, Josh Allen, Dan Marino, John Away. That's hard for everybody. But if I just have to gain thirty forty yards, if you told me I could have a kicker quarterback combination, you know, obviously, when Butcker's healthy, Mahomes and him probably number one. But I don't know how much farther I would put Lamar and Justin Tucker because of the faith I have in Tucker and just because of how dynamic Lamar is with his feet. Like that was that was a clinic just getting them yards, getting them in field goal range, boom kicking the field goal. And on the flip side, the Bengals have Higgins got banged up, but Joe Burrow is, you know, a top ten quarterback, one of the better players in the league. I know he threw the pick to his former college teammate tonight, but I think if you just had a draft from scratch, he wouldn't especially factor in an age. Joe Burrow is gonna go pretty high. Jamar Chase is a stud. Joe Mixon is also a stud. The Bengals have a lot of talent. And I think it's weird because they may the Super Bowl last year, and they were leading in the Super Bowl, so they obviously had a very successful year. Yet most of us that talk about the league, that watched the league, most of you fans that watch a lot of football, I mean we all see the television ratings, we're all watching a lot of football, would all tend to agree that I don't think their head coach is very good. And then they get into a situation late in the game, on their second to last drive where they go for it in a Harbaugh situation, but on the third down they run Philly Special right basically like a double reverse attempt to pass to Joe Burrow, and when that play originated, the Philly Special, Philly Philly whatever you actually want to call it. The play the Eagles ran against the Patriots in the Super Bowl. They were playing with a backup quarterback against Bill Belichick. They were big underducks. Rightfully, so Bill Belichick all these Super Bowls against Nick Foles, they were the underduck. Do they have anything to lose? You know, you can argue you always have something to lose within the game. It's that game. But they had less on the line in terms of people did not think the Eagles were gonna win that Super Bowl. It's easy to go now, of course, now nick Foles against Tom Brady, give me a break. I think pretty sure Tom Brady through for like five hundred yards in that game too. But you run Philly Special when Nick Foles is your quarterback. You don't run Philly Special when you have Joe Burrow, Jamaar Chase, and Joe Mixon. To me, that is an embarrassing play call that obviously got blown up. Marcus Peters destroys whoever got the ball last. I don't think it was Chase. I think it was someone else. But it's like, what are you doing? And then on fourth down they run some pitch play to the tight end trying to steal it from Andy Reid. Clearly Lyle Collins, the dude they signed from Dallas, either didn't like the play call, wasn't on the same page him and Taylor not seeing eyed. I pretty embarrassing stretch. Then ultimately they get another possession, they drive the field and have a chance to win the game because Joe Burrow makes some plays. But I think it's fair to say the Bengals have a lot of talent, and they have a core on offense with the skill guys starting with the quarterback, that is excellent. I just can't take their coach that seriously. I'm not saying he's the village idiot. I'm not calling him Freddy Kitchens or Jim tom Sula. But I think it's fair to say that we might look back and go Zach Taylor won the AFC. Zach Taylor really beat Andy Reid on the road like that is something that's gonna age very It's gonna be weird. Best time goes on, because I don't think we're gonna see Zach Taylor as some consistent powerhouse coach. I think that's fair to say. Now they're still gonna be competitive because, like I said, they have a core of very, very talented players. To night is a good example. The Ravens are trying to hand you that game and you just do dumb thing after dumb thing. You don't run Philly Special in that situation. It made absolutely no sense and the result was even worse. You know, I guess big win for the Ravens, who again looks still a little off. But like I said, if Lamar is gonna be off throwing the ball, the game should be closer. I also give a little less or excuse me, a little more leeway indivisional games. They just should be close. These teams know each other pretty well, the coaching staff knows each other pretty well, so it doesn't bother me, you know, to see tightly contested games. But we can nitpick the individual decisions as we're doing. The Zach Taylor play is still just it's a head scratcher. Football season is underway, so now is the perfect time to download fan Duel, America's number one sports book because right now new customers get a no sweat first bet up to one thousand dollars. That's free bets back if your first bet doesn't win. Just sign up using the promo code Colin. 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It was well reported last week that it was the biggest point spread in the history of the franchise, fourteen point underdog, and it turned out it could have been twenty five points and it still wouldn't matter. I think the final score was thirty eight to three. The Bills destroyed the Pittsburgh Steelers, absolutely embarrass them, I would imagine, I mean, it's got to be one of the worst losses of Mike Tomlin's career. And as we talked about last week, with with the Steelers. They got very they were spoiled in the Roethlisberger era. Now, when you're gonna give up that many points, it's not all on the offense, it's not all on the young quarterback. I'm not even he really here to talk about the Steelers. One thing is clear, when the Bills are on their ceiling is probably the highest in the league. You know, Josh Allen is every bit as good as Patrick Mahomes Now. He is a superstar. Physically, he's as talented as any guy we've seen the league in forever. I mean six to five, that arm, those legs when he's on, when he's accurate the deep ball, he is just he's the total package. And then like the Chiefs of the last several years when they had Tyreek and Hardiman, they had a lot of down the field speed. Well, the Bills Gabriel Davis can really stretch the field. Stefon Diggs one of the better win win trades in NFL history has to be. I mean, it essentially is Stefan Diggs for Justin Jefferson. Now, at the time they traded him before the draft, it was Diggs for pick twenty two. Ended up with Justin Jefferson. Both teams are doing cartwheels. And Diggs was damn good on the Vikings. He's way better now, Like he's a flat out superstar. He's a top five wide receiver. Khalil Shakier, who they drafted from these from Boise State, the slot guy is a stud. Like when that offense is on, they can score thirty five plus on anyone. I still think when the Chiefs are super loaded, they're as good as anybody or super locked in, but their offense isn't gonna be as explosive as the Bills, just because when you lose Tyreek, they're just they're just built it a little bit differently. But the Bill ceiling is I think we all have to acknowledge when they're on, they are they're probably the best team in the league. And what happens this week I'm recording this. I guess we'll have another podcast after the Monday night game. The Chiefs are gonna be coming off a short week, but they are hosting the Bills, which that's box office. I mean, the two most and probably Lamar Young box office quarterbacks hard to beat. Josh Allen Mahomes doesn't get any better than that. Speaking of doesn't get any worse than that. Brandon Staley and I've said for a long time, I didn't buy into the bullshit. He reminded me of such a politician. He spoke like, Listen, all coaches are different. If you watch Pete Carroll talk, if you watch Andy Reid talk, if you watch Belichick talk, if you watch Nick Saban, Lincoln Riley, every coach has a different you know, tactic or the way just the way they speak, the cadence of their words, the way they they're there toned. Everyone. We're all different human beings. So you're allowed to not sound like the next guy. I'm fine with you being unique. But when I watch Brandon Staley talk, I watch a guy that just has just watched every single coach on YouTube and just tries to emulate what it's supposed to sound like. Yet when I'm watching the guy, I just think like, is this is this an actor playing a coach? Is this just not buying into the bullshit? It just it just feels very contrived, very fake. The whole thing feels fake. But one point in time, Vic Fangio, who I think is one of the better defensive coordinators, last several decades, hired him, really liked him. Brandon Stanley went on to run the Rams defense. They were awesome. Then he gets this job. I thought last year was an atrocious disaster, just an all time tire fire, right the defense, how shitty they were, and then losing that last game, and then this season today, I flip on the game, they're down fourteen, nothing like that. Now, the Browns have a lot of good players, but they all were rolling out their backup quarterback and too before you even blink me. Down fourteen nothing. That is a reflection of the head coach. You don't have the boys ready to go. And then because they have an elite quarterback, I mean, a guy that is just a fantastic player, they are able to compete against anybody because he can make plays. And Eckler's playing really well too. But then late in the game, up two points at midfield on fourth and two. Not quite as bad as what he did against the Raiders, but the Raiders thing has already happened. So now when he goes for it unfourth in two under two minutes on the road against fucking Jacoby Brissette, We're all thinking, what are you He can't be serious. And then there was like a time out or like play stopped, and whoever was calling the game was like, actually, he's not gonna go for it. And then they come back they're like, no, he's going for it. Keenan Allen, who's one of the better wide receivers of the past decade, who's injured right now, who I thinks at home he didn't make the trip. I know he didn't play in the game, tweeted, wtf are we doing? He literally a guy on the team couldn't even hide it. Of course, the Chargers don't want him doing that, but Tom Telesco had to be thinking it. The only way that I can think that he keeps doing this is Dean Spanos in whatever Excels spreadsheet he runs his life on, thinks that that is the right play call and keeps telling him always go for it. Because other than that, if Kate York who missed the field goal, I mean, I've never seen a guy makes such a terrible call and then the Browns be right in position to win the game and the kid I mean slices the ball. It wasn't really even that close. I mean it was just a It was a pretty eye opening miss. He had missed the same thing in pregame warm ups. They kept showing and then he misses in the game, and I was pissed. I wanted the Chargers to lose, not because of my disdain for Brandon Staley, because when you do something that moronic, that just universally accepted to be this is the dumbest decision we've ever seen, you don't deserve to win. And then there were clips of him in the locker room kind of the went viral of him like saying, I played a win and you can see the team like this guy is a clown. I think Brandon Staley is just a created caricature who has no clue what he's doing. Nick Chubb's a really good player. They're slicing and dicing him. The Chargers defense is bad. Brandon Staley has nothing to do with the offense. I just can't believe the dude missed the kick because the Chargers. And when I speak of the Chargers, like I like Derwin James, I like Khleil mac, I love Justin Herbert, I like Austin Neckler, like I like a lot of their players, but I just can't root for that guy to win because everything that he stands for it, which I don't think he stands for anything. I just think he makes everything up as he goes, except for going for it when it makes no sense to go for it and still somehow wins that game. I just that one man. I can't believe it. I really can't, but I feel more and more validated on my opinion on the guy. And then I think you gotta give a shot out to two bald guys in the Big Apple. Now, I would say one guy had a more impressive win. The Jets are three and two, and listen, you never when you're the New York Jets and you've been one of the worst teams in the league for a decade. Three and two is a big deal. But the New York Giants, like the Jets, have a lot of good players. I think the Jets roster dramatically better than the Giants now. Daniel Jones and Zach Wilson honestly might be closer than you think in terms of talent. I'm not a big Zach Wilson guy, but the Jets beat a guy Teddy Bridgewater gets he actually I don't think got a concussion. But he went into the concussion protocol, passed all the tests, and the Dolphins, as we've been saying, are just making up the rules now clearly getting pressure, didn't want to put him back in the game. Even though he cleared the protocols. Didn't let him back in the game. They're playing an undrafted free agent Solitu care Business three and two props the Ball brother, but Brian day Ball. I woke up this morning these six thirty kickoffs for us in the West Coast, Like, I'm sorry. I don't take the England game that seriously. I usually don't watch that much of it. I usually watched like the fourth quarter one. I just I'm gonna watch football basically from ten am till eight thirty at night. Like I'm not doing the England game or Europe game, or UK game or wherever the hell it is. It's usually not even that good. And then I wake up and I see it's seventeen three, Like, you know what, Bryan Dable has done an incredible job. He's about to lose this game, probably thirty to ten to Aaron Rodgers. No big deal. He just he's still competing. Maybe he can get them to seven eight wins. Incredible season. Then all and I just like most people, if you weren't locked into the game, like the Packers seventeen three. Then all of a sudden, I look and it's twenty to twenty. I'm like, I should probably turn this thing on. Then it goes twenty seven to twenty. I'm like, Brian Dayball and the New York Giants are gonna win this game. Flip it on. Aaron Rodgers is driving him down the field and somehow they get to the red zone and he gets two passes batted down on third and fourth. And Brian Daball has an atrocious roster. I mean, sa Quon Barkley is a really good player, came on, has only played now a couple of games, so it's not like he's even been there the whole time. They do not have many good players. I mean they got they got a highly paid wide receiver who's pissed off, who wanted to get traded, and it's just like he's none of it matters. None of it matters. Now you can say, who have they really beat? Well, today, they beat Aaron Rodgers across the pond when they were down big Brian Dave Ball is doing an incredible job. And I said, the major difference to him and all the other New England guys is him going to Buffalo, him learning on his own. This guy's got it, you know, this guy really does. He beat Aaron Rodgers. Beat Aaron Rodgers when he's up on you. What a win? What a win for the New York Giants? How about? And this division has been made fun of over and over and they've deserved it. They have been consistently terrible. Right The Commanders sucked, the Giants have sucked. The Eagles up until last year, had had a weird couple of years. And right now the Eagles are five and oh, the Giants are four and one, and the Cowboys are four and one. They are doing a lot of winning in the NFC. So if it wasn't for the Commanders, this division would be an complete powerhouse. Now. I still believe the Giants are gonna come back to Earth, but four and one's four and one. Man awesome job. And then I just wanted to say, r Ip, I don't know if I time you wake up on Monday morning, it's official, but it's unofficially official. It's over for two guys Matt Rule who got paid seven years and sixty two million dollars. And I don't fault David Tepper for giving him that money. He was making eight million dollars at Baylor. It's not like he was making two and all of a sudden Depper came out and start paying him nine. He was making a ton of money. And in Texas you don't have state income tax. So if I'm paying you eight eight and a half million dollars, that is a ton of cash. And I've never been to Waco, Texas, but I can't imagine that money goes a long, long way. So when David Temper paid him, other people were interested in the guy. He wanted to make a splashy hire the guy. I wouldn't say a media creation because he had won at Temple and then he had won at Baylor, but he got a lot of media hype. Now I had friends that scouts that went into his program at Baylor and loved the guy. They thought he was impressive, that it carried himself like an NFL guy. Everyone I knew thought he was going to be successful in the pros, So honestly I kind of did too. Now I did go out on a limb, and I picked the Panthers to win the division. I miss on that one. I didn't want to pick Brady. I thought the divorce was going to derail him. It hasn't, but Temper and this combination of of Matt rule has been an utter failure. He's now eleven and twenty seven and his biggest I don't even say mistake inability to find a quarterback. He went from Teddy Bridgewater to Sam Darnold to Baker Mayfield, and in a crazy way, Baker might be the worst of the three. Now I know Baker immediately beat out Sam, and Sam might be bad too. Baker is getting worse by the week. He can't move. He's inaccurate, it feels because he can't move. He's a sitting duck. Now he's every other play he's getting up limping. You know, this guy's undoing in the NFL is going to be the undoing of a lot of people in the history of the league. When you can't figure out the quarterback and you're always kind of turning your wheels you get into position, your offense just sucks. And they played a stat today against the Niners. He is now one and twenty six, one and twenty six when the opponent scores seventeen points. Seventeen points, So if his defense is it lights out or his quarterback does not turn the ball over, which you know, listen, even Tom Brady's gonna throw a pick here and there, your team's gonna fumble. Your margin ferrer is nothing because you can't score. So Matt Rule is gonna be at Nebraska, He's gonna be at Wisconsin. Hell, I mean they might fire bread venables. He might be at Oklahoma, you know, by the in two weeks. But the reason he failed because I watched him. I think their defense aculd be pretty solid. Like they got good pieces on their team at different players at different positions. Their quarterback position is last year it was an abomination with Sam Darnold. It got worse by the week, and then they ended up going to p J. Walker. This right now with Baker Mayfield, it's getting worse by the week. And when you have bottom five quarterback play, because that's what the Panthers have had basically two years in a row, you have absolutely no chance to win, absolutely none, no matter how it could be a tie game and half, you're gonna lose because over a sixty minute game, when you can't score points, you can't create long drives, you can't just complete passes on third and six, like you can't get off the field, or you keep getting booted off the field on third down. Because you just can't function as an offense, you have no chance. And I also think looking back, he had only been in the NFL one year. He had only been in the NFL one season as an assistant offensive line coach. I don't think he's as big as a failure as Urban because clearly, like he's a professional, he can handle himself. I mean, Urban didn't last the year, but it does feel like he's a little over his head, you know. And maybe it was just now he has Fitterer, the dude from Seattle. Maybe it was a little too late, not that he would have helped from the beginning, But I don't know, it's just, you know, his NFL career, like he's never getting another shot in the NFL. You can't be you know, if he ends up getting fired in a couple of weeks, he's eleven and twenty nine, Like you don't get a second go round. And maybe and the best part is like, sometimes, if you've got to be a lifetime college coach, as Nick Saban, what that means. That means hundreds of millions of dollars. Someone's gonna pay Matt Rule eight, nine, ten million dollars a year. Because here's just the reality. No different than Nick Saban when he was at Miami or Bobby Petrino when he was with the Falcons. These ads and people in college football will not judge you. They do not care. They look at your collegiate resume. In his collegiate resume, he won in the NFL, he gets his ass kicked, But these ads, they'll open the checkbook. Tepper say, see you. I don't know what Dave Tepper does, but they got to figure out their quarterback position or the Carolina Panthers are gonna suck for a long time. The volume

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It's still a little weird, no, Al, and Chris, you know I came to love those that combination and now it's Mike, and I'm a big Mike t Rico. Guy knew the rules right when that ball flew over the upright. Still still getting used to the combo though, and John Harbaugh kicked the field goal to make it a six point game. Remember last week in a tie game, he chose not to kick the field goal. Little different not apples to apples, and Chris goes right away, Well, you know, last week he did something, he got crushed. This week he could regret that, And I think to myself, have we jumped the shark? Have we lost our minds? How would you ever regret going up more than a field goal? Because when you go up six points, instead of going for it on fourth and whatever and potentially turning the ball over undowns and only being up three points if they score a touchdown, you then have to score a touchdown to win because you're down four. When you go up six, even if they score a touchdown, you have to kick a field goal, and you have arguably, I don't know, the most potent field goal kicker. I'm not saying he's better than Vinitary in terms of his career, but in terms of pure talent, if you had to have a guy kick a sixty plus yard field goal, you would pick Justin Tucker. In my lifetime, Justin Tucker would be my pick one. He's got the strongest, most accurate lag. So it was the right call. Then obviously the Bankal's going a long drive, and what happens The Ravens are blessed with this very potent combination. Lamar Jackson has been a polarizing topic all year long. Right, how much money do they pay him? They offered him a lot of money. He turned down the money, which I think is a little crazy. But I never fault any human being for betting on themselves. I've done it before, obviously, not at that level. Most of you, if you're listening, if you've done it before, it can be very rewarding, and even when it doesn't work, you find out a lot about yourself. Now, i'd argue this a little different. There's one hundred fifty plus million dollars on the line. But Lamar is a very unique player, and you saw it on full display tonight. His accuracy was atrocious. I hate it when they throw up you know, twenty five percent complete percent You're you guys are just pulling numbers out of your ass. You don't know wide open the percentage either hit it or not, like the percentage is dictated after the throw happens. Now, Lamar was way off on both of the throws, especially the one the doodle was wide open. But listen, that hat can happen like Brady's miss guys. Now, Lamar the knock on him years ago was accuracy. I would say so far this year. In the last couple of years, he's been a pretty accurate quarterback. He has had a fantastic season. Tonight he was off, but he has a different pitch, like some guys just got fastballs. Ash Yankee fans with the rowdis Chapman, who somehow misspractice and is now not on the postseason roster. But when you're a pitcher, where you can dominate is when you have multiple pitches and a lot of guys. The majority of quarterbacks, if they were playing like Lamar jack and just had their Sea or D game, they would be in trouble on that final drive because they're off. They don't have the confidence and even if they're a great player, they might just have a bad night. They can't drive the field and you lose. You know what, Lamar says, Fuck this, I'm going to turn into a running back. Lamar Jackson is the greatest running quarterback. I'm thirty eight years old. Easily I've ever seen in my life. I was around Michael Vick when I was with the Eagles. He was a very potent running back, but it was a lot different. He did not know how to avoid hits and he often got hit and then he got injured. Steve Young, by the time I was kind of growing up into Steve Young in the early nineties, had really morphed into much more of a passing quarterback. If you watch Kyler Murray, who is an elite running quarterback, a lot of his runs are on the edges, they run sweeps, they get him out in space, and he's one of the greatest athletes we've ever seen. Lamar Jackson can literally just go I'm going to run it up the gut and I'll just get seven yards eight yards, four yards, six yards and we'll just move the chains my self and there's nothing you can do about it. But I'm running between the tackles and unlike a running back, I'm not going to take a pounding because before both these guys tackled me, I'm going to hit the ground. He's able to run between the tackles and not take hits. Now guys are still landing on him. I'm not saying he is going like zero zero impact, but he is not taking head on collisions. His ability to just hit the ground, and he's not really a slider, He's kind of like a diver hit the ground guy it's remarkable, and that last drive is exactly why he's one of the most unique players we've ever seen, because he has been a fantastic thrower of the football this season. Off night, you're allowed to happen like Max Scherzer, Jacob Degram like they have off nice throwing Tiger Woods in his prime still might shoot seventy four. And I'm not saying he is like we'll see. I mean I think Lamar jackson ceiling is sky high because what makes him so potent is when he is accurate, and he has been earlier in the season. He gets three four five touchdowns and at any single moment, on any single play, he can get by every single defender in the NFL. There is not a guy that he can not make miss, whether it's between the tackles or outside the tackles. And then the combination when you are and this is why you kick the field goal. When a field goal wins you the game, and he just has to get you thirty forty yards. He doesn't even have to throw it. He just runs his own read, goes up seven yards, eight yards, nine yards, six yards. Boom, you're in field goal range. Justin Tucker comes in and you win the game. Like that combination when you have to have it of Lamar Jackson to just get into around the sixty yard mark of Justin Tucker is a pretty unique NFL combination right now. And that to me is like last week when Harbaud decided to go for it. It's like I would actually be much more conservative because at any moment, as long as the game's close, this guy can get you within field goal range now going whatever to get a touchdown. That is difficult for Mahomes, Josh Allen, Dan Marino, John Away. That's hard for everybody. But if I just have to gain thirty forty yards, if you told me I could have a kicker quarterback combination, you know, obviously, when Butcker's healthy, Mahomes and him probably number one. But I don't know how much farther I would put Lamar and Justin Tucker because of the faith I have in Tucker and just because of how dynamic Lamar is with his feet. Like that was that was a clinic just getting them yards, getting them in field goal range, boom kicking the field goal. And on the flip side, the Bengals have Higgins got banged up, but Joe Burrow is, you know, a top ten quarterback, one of the better players in the league. I know he threw the pick to his former college teammate tonight, but I think if you just had a draft from scratch, he wouldn't especially factor in an age. Joe Burrow is gonna go pretty high. Jamar Chase is a stud. Joe Mixon is also a stud. The Bengals have a lot of talent. And I think it's weird because they may the Super Bowl last year, and they were leading in the Super Bowl, so they obviously had a very successful year. Yet most of us that talk about the league, that watched the league, most of you fans that watch a lot of football, I mean we all see the television ratings, we're all watching a lot of football, would all tend to agree that I don't think their head coach is very good. And then they get into a situation late in the game, on their second to last drive where they go for it in a Harbaugh situation, but on the third down they run Philly Special right basically like a double reverse attempt to pass to Joe Burrow, and when that play originated, the Philly Special, Philly Philly whatever you actually want to call it. The play the Eagles ran against the Patriots in the Super Bowl. They were playing with a backup quarterback against Bill Belichick. They were big underducks. Rightfully, so Bill Belichick all these Super Bowls against Nick Foles, they were the underduck. Do they have anything to lose? You know, you can argue you always have something to lose within the game. It's that game. But they had less on the line in terms of people did not think the Eagles were gonna win that Super Bowl. It's easy to go now, of course, now nick Foles against Tom Brady, give me a break. I think pretty sure Tom Brady through for like five hundred yards in that game too. But you run Philly Special when Nick Foles is your quarterback. You don't run Philly Special when you have Joe Burrow, Jamaar Chase, and Joe Mixon. To me, that is an embarrassing play call that obviously got blown up. Marcus Peters destroys whoever got the ball last. I don't think it was Chase. I think it was someone else. But it's like, what are you doing? And then on fourth down they run some pitch play to the tight end trying to steal it from Andy Reid. Clearly Lyle Collins, the dude they signed from Dallas, either didn't like the play call, wasn't on the same page him and Taylor not seeing eyed. I pretty embarrassing stretch. Then ultimately they get another possession, they drive the field and have a chance to win the game because Joe Burrow makes some plays. But I think it's fair to say the Bengals have a lot of talent, and they have a core on offense with the skill guys starting with the quarterback, that is excellent. I just can't take their coach that seriously. I'm not saying he's the village idiot. I'm not calling him Freddy Kitchens or Jim tom Sula. But I think it's fair to say that we might look back and go Zach Taylor won the AFC. Zach Taylor really beat Andy Reid on the road like that is something that's gonna age very It's gonna be weird. Best time goes on, because I don't think we're gonna see Zach Taylor as some consistent powerhouse coach. I think that's fair to say. Now they're still gonna be competitive because, like I said, they have a core of very, very talented players. To night is a good example. The Ravens are trying to hand you that game and you just do dumb thing after dumb thing. You don't run Philly Special in that situation. It made absolutely no sense and the result was even worse. You know, I guess big win for the Ravens, who again looks still a little off. But like I said, if Lamar is gonna be off throwing the ball, the game should be closer. I also give a little less or excuse me, a little more leeway indivisional games. They just should be close. These teams know each other pretty well, the coaching staff knows each other pretty well, so it doesn't bother me, you know, to see tightly contested games. But we can nitpick the individual decisions as we're doing. The Zach Taylor play is still just it's a head scratcher. Football season is underway, so now is the perfect time to download fan Duel, America's number one sports book because right now new customers get a no sweat first bet up to one thousand dollars. That's free bets back if your first bet doesn't win. Just sign up using the promo code Colin. 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It was well reported last week that it was the biggest point spread in the history of the franchise, fourteen point underdog, and it turned out it could have been twenty five points and it still wouldn't matter. I think the final score was thirty eight to three. The Bills destroyed the Pittsburgh Steelers, absolutely embarrass them, I would imagine, I mean, it's got to be one of the worst losses of Mike Tomlin's career. And as we talked about last week, with with the Steelers. They got very they were spoiled in the Roethlisberger era. Now, when you're gonna give up that many points, it's not all on the offense, it's not all on the young quarterback. I'm not even he really here to talk about the Steelers. One thing is clear, when the Bills are on their ceiling is probably the highest in the league. You know, Josh Allen is every bit as good as Patrick Mahomes Now. He is a superstar. Physically, he's as talented as any guy we've seen the league in forever. I mean six to five, that arm, those legs when he's on, when he's accurate the deep ball, he is just he's the total package. And then like the Chiefs of the last several years when they had Tyreek and Hardiman, they had a lot of down the field speed. Well, the Bills Gabriel Davis can really stretch the field. Stefon Diggs one of the better win win trades in NFL history has to be. I mean, it essentially is Stefan Diggs for Justin Jefferson. Now, at the time they traded him before the draft, it was Diggs for pick twenty two. Ended up with Justin Jefferson. Both teams are doing cartwheels. And Diggs was damn good on the Vikings. He's way better now, Like he's a flat out superstar. He's a top five wide receiver. Khalil Shakier, who they drafted from these from Boise State, the slot guy is a stud. Like when that offense is on, they can score thirty five plus on anyone. I still think when the Chiefs are super loaded, they're as good as anybody or super locked in, but their offense isn't gonna be as explosive as the Bills, just because when you lose Tyreek, they're just they're just built it a little bit differently. But the Bill ceiling is I think we all have to acknowledge when they're on, they are they're probably the best team in the league. And what happens this week I'm recording this. I guess we'll have another podcast after the Monday night game. The Chiefs are gonna be coming off a short week, but they are hosting the Bills, which that's box office. I mean, the two most and probably Lamar Young box office quarterbacks hard to beat. Josh Allen Mahomes doesn't get any better than that. Speaking of doesn't get any worse than that. Brandon Staley and I've said for a long time, I didn't buy into the bullshit. He reminded me of such a politician. He spoke like, Listen, all coaches are different. If you watch Pete Carroll talk, if you watch Andy Reid talk, if you watch Belichick talk, if you watch Nick Saban, Lincoln Riley, every coach has a different you know, tactic or the way just the way they speak, the cadence of their words, the way they they're there toned. Everyone. We're all different human beings. So you're allowed to not sound like the next guy. I'm fine with you being unique. But when I watch Brandon Staley talk, I watch a guy that just has just watched every single coach on YouTube and just tries to emulate what it's supposed to sound like. Yet when I'm watching the guy, I just think like, is this is this an actor playing a coach? Is this just not buying into the bullshit? It just it just feels very contrived, very fake. The whole thing feels fake. But one point in time, Vic Fangio, who I think is one of the better defensive coordinators, last several decades, hired him, really liked him. Brandon Stanley went on to run the Rams defense. They were awesome. Then he gets this job. I thought last year was an atrocious disaster, just an all time tire fire, right the defense, how shitty they were, and then losing that last game, and then this season today, I flip on the game, they're down fourteen, nothing like that. Now, the Browns have a lot of good players, but they all were rolling out their backup quarterback and too before you even blink me. Down fourteen nothing. That is a reflection of the head coach. You don't have the boys ready to go. And then because they have an elite quarterback, I mean, a guy that is just a fantastic player, they are able to compete against anybody because he can make plays. And Eckler's playing really well too. But then late in the game, up two points at midfield on fourth and two. Not quite as bad as what he did against the Raiders, but the Raiders thing has already happened. So now when he goes for it unfourth in two under two minutes on the road against fucking Jacoby Brissette, We're all thinking, what are you He can't be serious. And then there was like a time out or like play stopped, and whoever was calling the game was like, actually, he's not gonna go for it. And then they come back they're like, no, he's going for it. Keenan Allen, who's one of the better wide receivers of the past decade, who's injured right now, who I thinks at home he didn't make the trip. I know he didn't play in the game, tweeted, wtf are we doing? He literally a guy on the team couldn't even hide it. Of course, the Chargers don't want him doing that, but Tom Telesco had to be thinking it. The only way that I can think that he keeps doing this is Dean Spanos in whatever Excels spreadsheet he runs his life on, thinks that that is the right play call and keeps telling him always go for it. Because other than that, if Kate York who missed the field goal, I mean, I've never seen a guy makes such a terrible call and then the Browns be right in position to win the game and the kid I mean slices the ball. It wasn't really even that close. I mean it was just a It was a pretty eye opening miss. He had missed the same thing in pregame warm ups. They kept showing and then he misses in the game, and I was pissed. I wanted the Chargers to lose, not because of my disdain for Brandon Staley, because when you do something that moronic, that just universally accepted to be this is the dumbest decision we've ever seen, you don't deserve to win. And then there were clips of him in the locker room kind of the went viral of him like saying, I played a win and you can see the team like this guy is a clown. I think Brandon Staley is just a created caricature who has no clue what he's doing. Nick Chubb's a really good player. They're slicing and dicing him. The Chargers defense is bad. Brandon Staley has nothing to do with the offense. I just can't believe the dude missed the kick because the Chargers. And when I speak of the Chargers, like I like Derwin James, I like Khleil mac, I love Justin Herbert, I like Austin Neckler, like I like a lot of their players, but I just can't root for that guy to win because everything that he stands for it, which I don't think he stands for anything. I just think he makes everything up as he goes, except for going for it when it makes no sense to go for it and still somehow wins that game. I just that one man. I can't believe it. I really can't, but I feel more and more validated on my opinion on the guy. And then I think you gotta give a shot out to two bald guys in the Big Apple. Now, I would say one guy had a more impressive win. The Jets are three and two, and listen, you never when you're the New York Jets and you've been one of the worst teams in the league for a decade. Three and two is a big deal. But the New York Giants, like the Jets, have a lot of good players. I think the Jets roster dramatically better than the Giants now. Daniel Jones and Zach Wilson honestly might be closer than you think in terms of talent. I'm not a big Zach Wilson guy, but the Jets beat a guy Teddy Bridgewater gets he actually I don't think got a concussion. But he went into the concussion protocol, passed all the tests, and the Dolphins, as we've been saying, are just making up the rules now clearly getting pressure, didn't want to put him back in the game. Even though he cleared the protocols. Didn't let him back in the game. They're playing an undrafted free agent Solitu care Business three and two props the Ball brother, but Brian day Ball. I woke up this morning these six thirty kickoffs for us in the West Coast, Like, I'm sorry. I don't take the England game that seriously. I usually don't watch that much of it. I usually watched like the fourth quarter one. I just I'm gonna watch football basically from ten am till eight thirty at night. Like I'm not doing the England game or Europe game, or UK game or wherever the hell it is. It's usually not even that good. And then I wake up and I see it's seventeen three, Like, you know what, Bryan Dable has done an incredible job. He's about to lose this game, probably thirty to ten to Aaron Rodgers. No big deal. He just he's still competing. Maybe he can get them to seven eight wins. Incredible season. Then all and I just like most people, if you weren't locked into the game, like the Packers seventeen three. Then all of a sudden, I look and it's twenty to twenty. I'm like, I should probably turn this thing on. Then it goes twenty seven to twenty. I'm like, Brian Dayball and the New York Giants are gonna win this game. Flip it on. Aaron Rodgers is driving him down the field and somehow they get to the red zone and he gets two passes batted down on third and fourth. And Brian Daball has an atrocious roster. I mean, sa Quon Barkley is a really good player, came on, has only played now a couple of games, so it's not like he's even been there the whole time. They do not have many good players. I mean they got they got a highly paid wide receiver who's pissed off, who wanted to get traded, and it's just like he's none of it matters. None of it matters. Now you can say, who have they really beat? Well, today, they beat Aaron Rodgers across the pond when they were down big Brian Dave Ball is doing an incredible job. And I said, the major difference to him and all the other New England guys is him going to Buffalo, him learning on his own. This guy's got it, you know, this guy really does. He beat Aaron Rodgers. Beat Aaron Rodgers when he's up on you. What a win? What a win for the New York Giants? How about? And this division has been made fun of over and over and they've deserved it. They have been consistently terrible. Right The Commanders sucked, the Giants have sucked. The Eagles up until last year, had had a weird couple of years. And right now the Eagles are five and oh, the Giants are four and one, and the Cowboys are four and one. They are doing a lot of winning in the NFC. So if it wasn't for the Commanders, this division would be an complete powerhouse. Now. I still believe the Giants are gonna come back to Earth, but four and one's four and one. Man awesome job. And then I just wanted to say, r Ip, I don't know if I time you wake up on Monday morning, it's official, but it's unofficially official. It's over for two guys Matt Rule who got paid seven years and sixty two million dollars. And I don't fault David Tepper for giving him that money. He was making eight million dollars at Baylor. It's not like he was making two and all of a sudden Depper came out and start paying him nine. He was making a ton of money. And in Texas you don't have state income tax. So if I'm paying you eight eight and a half million dollars, that is a ton of cash. And I've never been to Waco, Texas, but I can't imagine that money goes a long, long way. So when David Temper paid him, other people were interested in the guy. He wanted to make a splashy hire the guy. I wouldn't say a media creation because he had won at Temple and then he had won at Baylor, but he got a lot of media hype. Now I had friends that scouts that went into his program at Baylor and loved the guy. They thought he was impressive, that it carried himself like an NFL guy. Everyone I knew thought he was going to be successful in the pros, So honestly I kind of did too. Now I did go out on a limb, and I picked the Panthers to win the division. I miss on that one. I didn't want to pick Brady. I thought the divorce was going to derail him. It hasn't, but Temper and this combination of of Matt rule has been an utter failure. He's now eleven and twenty seven and his biggest I don't even say mistake inability to find a quarterback. He went from Teddy Bridgewater to Sam Darnold to Baker Mayfield, and in a crazy way, Baker might be the worst of the three. Now I know Baker immediately beat out Sam, and Sam might be bad too. Baker is getting worse by the week. He can't move. He's inaccurate, it feels because he can't move. He's a sitting duck. Now he's every other play he's getting up limping. You know, this guy's undoing in the NFL is going to be the undoing of a lot of people in the history of the league. When you can't figure out the quarterback and you're always kind of turning your wheels you get into position, your offense just sucks. And they played a stat today against the Niners. He is now one and twenty six, one and twenty six when the opponent scores seventeen points. Seventeen points, So if his defense is it lights out or his quarterback does not turn the ball over, which you know, listen, even Tom Brady's gonna throw a pick here and there, your team's gonna fumble. Your margin ferrer is nothing because you can't score. So Matt Rule is gonna be at Nebraska, He's gonna be at Wisconsin. Hell, I mean they might fire bread venables. He might be at Oklahoma, you know, by the in two weeks. But the reason he failed because I watched him. I think their defense aculd be pretty solid. Like they got good pieces on their team at different players at different positions. Their quarterback position is last year it was an abomination with Sam Darnold. It got worse by the week, and then they ended up going to p J. Walker. This right now with Baker Mayfield, it's getting worse by the week. And when you have bottom five quarterback play, because that's what the Panthers have had basically two years in a row, you have absolutely no chance to win, absolutely none, no matter how it could be a tie game and half, you're gonna lose because over a sixty minute game, when you can't score points, you can't create long drives, you can't just complete passes on third and six, like you can't get off the field, or you keep getting booted off the field on third down. Because you just can't function as an offense, you have no chance. And I also think looking back, he had only been in the NFL one year. He had only been in the NFL one season as an assistant offensive line coach. I don't think he's as big as a failure as Urban because clearly, like he's a professional, he can handle himself. I mean, Urban didn't last the year, but it does feel like he's a little over his head, you know. And maybe it was just now he has Fitterer, the dude from Seattle. Maybe it was a little too late, not that he would have helped from the beginning, But I don't know, it's just, you know, his NFL career, like he's never getting another shot in the NFL. You can't be you know, if he ends up getting fired in a couple of weeks, he's eleven and twenty nine, Like you don't get a second go round. And maybe and the best part is like, sometimes, if you've got to be a lifetime college coach, as Nick Saban, what that means. That means hundreds of millions of dollars. Someone's gonna pay Matt Rule eight, nine, ten million dollars a year. Because here's just the reality. No different than Nick Saban when he was at Miami or Bobby Petrino when he was with the Falcons. These ads and people in college football will not judge you. They do not care. They look at your collegiate resume. In his collegiate resume, he won in the NFL, he gets his ass kicked, But these ads, they'll open the checkbook. Tepper say, see you. I don't know what Dave Tepper does, but they got to figure out their quarterback position or the Carolina Panthers are gonna suck for a long time. The volume