The volume catching phase is brought to you by Fan Duel. It's never been easier to play fantasy on FanDuel. Whether you love basketball, golf, soccer, or any other fantasy sport. There's a contest for every fan. Fan Duel more ways to win. True Lies our new segment. You know, story time we lead, That's what they wanted to call it, but I thought True Lines was a little bit better, you know what I'm saying. So they said, give us a story about a post game something, reporter team, just any postgame you was kind of frustrated. I said, I got one for you so bad. Mr. Year after we won the Super Bowl. So it's TWI teen season. You know, a lot of new people on the team. Uh, we had one pretty good lineman joined the team. What I'm saying, pretty good. You know, he came in March. We welcome him to the team. You know, he gave a nice little speech. You know, we went through O T A S. You know, a couple of times we bring it up, bring it up. We just won the chip. Now, mind you, we're super Bowl champions. He knew to the team we bring it up, bring it up. He would bring it up. He would get a little speech. Break it down. Boom. I mean that's cool. You know, you knew you had an important position on our team. You're trying to establish that, you know, respect level, You're working hard, you're doing everything you'reupposed to do well. Had no problem with it. He ppposed to get a speech to the training camp time coming around, you know whatever team meeting. We have an exclusive team meeting. He get in front of the team, give another speech. So the season started, first game of the year. I think coach might have let him talk to the team first. I was like speeching number four. You know what I'm saying. Season kind of get gone. We start off pretty good. I don't remember our exact records, but I remember Boom. We lose one at home, like Sunday night to Kansas City and its Tyreek Hill coming out party. Actually, he doesn't run a pump back, gotta rush. He had a rushing touchdown, receiving touchdown, and a and a return like a kicking touchdown, so three touchdowns on it. That was his coming out party for real, for real. Chiefs beat us at the wire all the way at the end of the game, so Boom, we get in the locker room. Coach cool hot, he getting on us, getting on our ask, man, we need to do this Monday. We're gonna come out and do this all week. I don't want to see this. I want to see this in practice. He gave us the whole rundown right, nothing else to say. Into his speech. He say, and do anybody got something to say? New guy? So I got something to say, Coach, I said, Man, now funk that. Coach. We're good. He says, I can't talk. I say, you talk all off season, all training camp. We don't need didn't know more your speeches. Coach, we're good. Kobia brought it up. Ain't bring it up. He's hit, were good, We're good. You know what I'm saying. That kind of you know it was. It was a kind of situation. It got a little hot in the locker room, a little situation, but man, it was enough. I just felt like it was enough. Man, we had enough speeches. Coach is the lead dog. He already told us what it's gonna be for this week. We don't need to hear nothing else, you know what I'm saying. So I spoke my mind. He kind of spoke his mom. Man, a little little friction in the locker room, uh after that game, But all in all, we got back cool. We pieced it up. The season ain't in that well, you know what I'm saying. But me and him we ended well good. Now I could talk to him. Now he kind of understood where I came from. I understood where he came from. True lives, baby. I hope you all enjoyed that story. My takes from the Cardinals Vikings game Kyler Murray DeAndre Hopkins definitely top three duo quarterback receiver duo in the NFL. Man, even with Patrick Peterson over there. Not a huge day from Hot, but just the just just the attention that he demands. He made the Vikings staying cover too, man. He they played a bunch of covered too. He kept them in too deep safeties. Many they wanted to keep a guy on top of Hot. So just his presence, man, and then Kylin Murray his escapability being able to find Hot downfield. These guys is they're on the same page and zone coverage. Hop no where to stop. He knowing Hot gonna sit down. Man, They're just on the same page. No way, They're not top three duo in the league. Probably number one. No way, they're not top three duo in the league though. Uh. Another take is this defense, man, defense was so high, so good week one, so bad Week two. Man, I think they got better in the second half. They did. They did stop Dalving a little bit in the second half, but they didn't stop Kurt. Kurt kind of did what he wanted. He drove up and down the field. Man. So as good as this Cardinals offenses, it would be the Cardinals defense as usual defense win chips. It would be the Cardinals defense that get him over that hunt. Man. They really need to clean some stuff up. It looked so good week one, mediocre week two. They gotta find a way to be consistent against that run, keep rushing that passer, find a way to get some turnovers in that secondary. I'm gonna see them Cardinals again this week. We got Jacksonville Cardinals at Jacksonville. I will be there check these boys out again. But y'all watch out for these Cardinals. Man. They look at more dangerous and more dangerous every week. I just gotta get this get this defense together, man. And my takes for the week, we got NFL Network start James Jones on, y'all don't want to miss it. NFL is back, and Fan Duel sports books want you to get the most out of every player. That's why they're given everyone a ten dollar risk free beat every week. All you have to do is better same Game part laid Back with three legs or more, and if your bet doesn't win, Fan Duel pay you back up to ten dollars. 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Let's get to it. Uh. So you've been in this media ship a little bit longer than me, and I'm saying, what was the transition like for you? You seem to have made an easy, smooth transition yourself. What was crazy about it is when I when I was playing, I was like, man, I was one of them ones who was like, Okay, I want to play twenty five years like brand Farming there, Rodgers and them. But you know, at our position, if you ain't Jerry Rice, usually usually that don't happen. You know, you out there covering people, tackling people. I'm running around getting banged up. Usually that don't happen. So I'm like, man, what I'm gonna do? So so I um every off season, like for like the last three off seasons before I retired, I would come on the network and just you know, hey, you know, meet the meet the right people jump on there for free, And I was like, man, you know what this would be good for me to get into man still be close to the game, you know, talking some football and all that. So I just really put the bug out there man to to Charlie and Mike, Marianna and all them boys like, hey, man, you know I would love to do it. So you know, once I retired, they reached out to me and was like, man, you you're still interested into the TV. And I was like absolutely, man, So I just jumped into it. But to be honest with you, would really helped me is the little radio stations that I had in Green Bay, TV shows that I had in Green Bay to where it's like, okay, get up in their act of foods, show your personality. So when I jumped on the TV, it was like, man, shoot, I've been doing this man. Just you know, hey, be you show your personality. Man, got to bring the people into the locker room. You enjoying it so far? Huh? I am, man, I'm having a ball man. And and I'm a storyteller too, so you know I like to tell stories. So that's one thing that helped me too when I first jumped on because one of my mentors that was that was TV that I grew up with in college he was like, j J. You you are blessed to leave. You are blessed, you know, because you played the game. You know. So if you ever get a question and you're like, man, I don't really know how to answer what to talk about? Tell a story or you tell time. I heard that. Yeah, well you tell a story. Like hey, man, I hear what you're saying about Aaron Rodgers. But I played with Aaron. I've been in the puddle with Eric. This is what there. You know what I mean? He said, telling. So that's what I started doing early, you know, you know, in my career in this TV thing. Man, share some stories and just personality. But I'm having a ball with it, man, that's what's up. Man. I'm that I'm having fun with this ship too. It's mine kind of different than yours. I didn't really go out seeking, like man, what I'm gonna do. I just was kind of chilling. You know. The agency kind of got at me and like, man, you should do this introduced me to the people, so I'm I'm taking me into stuff, but I don't know if I was really taking it that serious, right, And then I really got done and ship she just started coming right, So I feel that though. Let's go back. Let's go back, man. You from San Jose, right, yeah, I'm born to raise Saint Jose. Man. I've seen you playing the league, so I know you went crazy in college. So what made you go to San Jose? Uh? College? Man, you want to just stay local? It was crazy, man, because I had all at the time, I had all these packed ten offers, man, and I know you had to and I want to. Man, I wanted to go to Oregon. Man, That's where I wanted to go. Man. But uh, about a week before signing day, Mom's got real sick, man, and mom was in the hospital. And at first she went to one doctor and the doctor told her she had twins, she was pregnant. And my mom like, nah, I can't be pregny. I'm saying, like I ain't been getting at it like that. I can't be praging. So we went to another doctor, man, and he was like, no, you ain't pregnant. You got a tumor in your stomach size of a football. You know what I'm saying. So it was a bunch of stuff going on. Moms was in the hospital, man, and then I was I was I fell in love with my receiver coach Keith Williams. Man. Uh coach dub. I don't know if you heard of him. He had Baltimore now out there coaching the receivers. But I fell in love with him, man, and I was like, man, dude, gonna get me ready for the next level. Man, and I might be able to stay home, stay local. Man makes your mom straight. And that was my stay at State. Man. I feel I feel that I knew it had to be something because I'm like, I know James Jones toward high school. Luck, bro, he he wasn't that later. Come. I was receiver my first three years and then my senior year I played quarterback. Man, So I know he would turn that ship up. Bro. Yeah, I was getting at it man, So yeah I had it. I had a bunch of offers man from the pack pack team and stuff. Man. But yeah, mom's got sick, man, So I stay at the crib definitely definitely was the right thing to do. Uh. So you get the Green Bay and Brett Farve over there, Man, tell me about that that young James Jones in the same building with Bret for how was that? Man? It's crazy because I get to Green Bay and you know, I go out there for you know, we gotta go to our little rookie minicamp to where you know, you you're going up against dudes that may be on practice squad or dudes that maybe you know, only played three or four games. So as I get to the rookie minicamp, I'm killing it and I'm like, man, I'm calling the wife and I'm like, man, we're gonna make millions. I'm like, these dudes out here ain't no good. Yeah. Then we then been rookie minicamp going and in the vets and all that stuff. Get out there, man, and we're getting the training camp and I'll never forgetting training camp. We're doing one on ones and would jump up there. So I'm like, shoot, this is my time to see what I got, you know what I'm saying. So I jump up there against wood. He about about seven yards off to leave eyes in at the quarterback. You know what I mean, Uh, quarterback, get me curl routes. So I'm like, cool man. You know, JJ ain't never been a burner, but hey, I run these routes though. You know, I can tell you deep man, I come off the ball and I get in and out of my break. I promised you I might have been the best break I ever had in my life. And I'm in and out of my break and that's the balls coming. I'm like, oh, we are to walk Charles Woods. They sing, I know this boy coming in front of me, man picking that thing off. And I was crazy because in my head, I'm like, man, i might not be able to play in this league. Man, I'm not good enough. That was my best. I'm like, that was my best and he picked that thing off, man, And and uh so I just picked one's brain after that, man, And I'm like, bro, what made you jump on my route? Man? And he said, well, you came running with your head now, so I knew he was counting your steps. I knew you weren't going deep. So he said, I knew. I knew either he was running the end route or you just going to stop on the comeback or curl. And I said, damn, man, these boys is like for real. These boys study and they know the little ends and out to the whole game and all that. And it was crazy. So after that, after me calling my wife and telling her, a man, I'm we're gonna make millions I called her. I said, we might get cut good enough. But man, Brett, dude, Brett probably Brett was Brett was a real dude. Man, he was a real dude. I'll never forget because when I first got there, I was with the Twols. I was a rookie third Rounte pick I was with the Twols and and Aaron was the backup quarterback. So me and Aaron got a lot of reps and all that together. And before the first preseason game, coach was like, hey, you're going in with the starters. You're starting, And I actually told him no, like, hey, I don't want to go in there with Brett. Bro Like you know, Aaron and Aaron been at practice, we got chemistry, Like he's been spending it to me. I got going there with Brad. He's been a throw with the Donald Driver, Greg Jenny's like them doing they already know what them does could do. I'm trying to show what I could do. Put me in there with twelve, and coaches like now you're going with the ones, and I'll never forget the first player of the game, Brett throw it to me, came over there spending it to me, man, and I was getting busy in the preseason, and then I ran the Royal route and we come back to the meeting room and coach like, bro, come on, now, you gotta know you gotta know what you're doing man, And Brett, I never forget Brett stood up, was like I told him to do that. No, one, he didn't tell me to do that, but he still that I told him to do that. And I looked back like I'm like, oh man. Then we got out on the fielding like I got you back, bro. Trip. But yeah, he was cool, dude, fun to play with. Man, That's what ups. How was that? How was the train? How was the building when it went kind of like, you know, it had a transition Brandfather Gonne and ride you up? Was What was the building? Like? Man, it was fifty fifty man, you know it was. It was a bunch of because we had an older team then, so it was a bunch of the older cats who who wanted wanted four, who wanted to day, and then there was a bunch of us younger cats like me, Greg Jenning's, you know, Jamaicael Finley, all the boys. We're like, no, we're riding with twelve. Yeah, we want we want twyl to be our quarterback, you know what I'm saying. So it was it was fifty and obviously, like we all knew twelve of special, we didn't know that turn into this. We didn't know it was gonna be a three time m VP and have all this stuff. But we knew like armed talent, him getting out the pocket. We're like, bro, we're gonna be all right, you know what I'm saying. So you know that's the That's the first time I really got like a taste of the media because that was after my rookie year. We get all this breat farm and Roger Saga, and the media comes up to me, who you want your quarterback? Now, me being in the media, I'm like, man, shoot the right answer with a been a man whoever. The coaches go with what you say though that I gotta go run my routes, you know. But at that time I was a youngster. I'm like, man, Aaron is our quarterback, and all these tackerfice came out like who does he think he is? He? Then here twenty years he's trying to get rid of the god out here and all that they was going in on my head and I'm like, man, I want to weill man, you know what I mean? But it was it was crazy, man. It was fifty fifty. And that's the first time I really seen it, like fifty fifty locker room, you know what I mean. Usually in the locker room, like we ride with whoever we ride with, but at that locker room usually know and yeah whatever y'all know, we know, we think. We didn't really tell y'all, but I feel but it was kind of like fifty fift because it was a bunch of older players and all that. But I was riding with seven man. Yeah, I had a right and he got around a right. So look, you've seen a young a Rod when he was trying to become a Rod build his name up. Now he is the three times m VP S Super Bowl champion, I a rock. Is he different? I know everybody different, but is he Is he different than he was when he back then? Well? You know what, back then, I truly feel like he was like trying to prove something. You know what it was because because you got Brad fav Leavin, who was a Hall of Famer who did all these great things. You know that they have passed the Torch over to him, you know, after all this saga and all that's been on, and you know, basically they said, no, we're going with Aaron Bratt. You can go do what you're gonna do. So I kind of I kind of felt like, you know, he always was a jokester with us, you know what I'm saying, you know, but with the media, he always kind of had a little shellow when it came to the media, and in his early days because of I feel like, because of the Brett soga and all that, you know what I mean, and everything, so he kind of had a shield all but you know, I just felt like them early years in his career where he was going out there, like, man, I gotta go out here and show I'm the best quarterback in the world and prove to people I'm the best quarterback in the world, because they left Brett farther out of here, you know what I mean. And now when I look at him, he's more cool, he's more relaxed, you know what I'm saying. You know, he letting the media see see the good side of him, and you know, of him telling all the jokes and him cracking jokes, of him being a rod and all that, not being like you know, of tighten the media and all that. So I love him letting that side out because we always seen it, you know what I'm saying, but the media didn't always seen it. Like everybody come up to me, how's there, And I'm like, dude, he's the best dude in the world, you know what I'm saying. You know, he just got that shell over when it comes to the media early in his career because of all the stuff that he's been through, you know what I'm saying. So I'm glad he's able to see that now. But on the field, bro, he all you know, he always been the same man and d and I caught him out there in training camp, man, and in practice he don't never want to make a bad throw. If you make a bad throw, and practice, man, he hot about it, you know what I mean. And I've seen that out there from from day one until I went out there in training camp this year. Man. So it's hunger still there. It's hunger to be great and all that is still there, man, you know what I mean. I'm just glad he's letting the outside really see you know, who he is. And I had that shell all man and show his personality man, because he's a good dude. Man. Yeah, that's what's ups. So is it over with? Is it over with? Green Bay Phone? It's last one? You know what, man? I think. I think it's gonna be tough, man, you know what I mean? I was I was telling people going into this season, I said, tols ain't going nowhere. They're gonna work it out this season. That's what I said. So now when people come into what's go happen next year? I said, I can't answer that question. I don't know what. I ain't as confident as I was doing right, something like time burn off. This chick burned off first, They ain't burn off tom burn off a rocket burn off to And what I'm like, I'm like, I don't know what he's gonna do. I don't know what's on his mind. I'm not confident enough to say, hey man, he's coming back. But what I will say, though, if they if they win this thing, you know what I'm saying that that's that's probably gonna be a good chance that he'd come back. Now if they go out here and they're losing the playoffs or something like that, I don't know what it's gonna look like for toil Man, you know what I mean, I don't know if it's gonna be him trying to go somewhere else or him saying, you know what, I want to finish the job here. So it's gonna be interesting to see, man, what he chooses to do. Yeah, yeah it is. It's the Broncos, you know, saying I've been nice wine over there. Broncos and that defense, I know that's gonna deefense. They definitely gonna have a game playing for he We're gonna bring the jet out for they don't have a hell of a sales pitch for especially. Yeah, let's get to the out nowadays football, what teams to two weeks in? What teams you like right now? Who're looking good? Oh? Man, I mean we'll shoot obviously you got Temple, who's you know who's looking good these these first two weeks. But to be honest with you, men, that the teams that that are really surprised and not surprising me. But the teams that I think is gonna be good Man, them l A. Rams, It's gonna be problems that that's a team that I feel like, Man, is gonna make a lot of noise, man, because I've been telling everybody Matthew Stafford is Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes, and everybody look at me crazy. I'm I said, I'm not talking about just him running and doing the armed talent. When you talk about armed talent for armed talent, any throw Pack can make, Rogers could make, Stafford could make, you know what I mean. So it takes it takes them to a whole different level when you when you when you talk about that, man, them dudes is just special, you know what I mean. I do the special. So the ram, the rams is high. I was. I was extremely high on the Seahawks, you know what I mean. After seeing what they was doing in week one and did and did to the coach in week one, I'm like, oh, we they got it. You can't stop locking the DK metcalf for Russ. You know what I'm saying. They could run it. They're playing some solid defense. But then I see them below a fifteen point lead to the Tennessee Titans. You know who I call, you know what I mean. And then I watched Buffalo and I'm like, man, Buffalo probably a problem. I see them I see them losing week one, I'm like, man, they don't really know what they want to be right now. Yeah, they bawled out last this past weekend, but I still didn't like the way that look. Turnovers not a lot of you know what I mean. Dolphins gave them much opportunity. But I'm gonna tell you them Raiders. Them grooding in them Raiders. And I know, I know Grooden drafted June, but grooding in them Raiders. Man, I'm telling you, Derek Carr playing at the MVP level right now. You can see the swag and the confidence they're playing with. Man, it's a it's contagious over there. Man. So I'm liking what I'm seeing over there, Man, Grouden and the Raiders. But you know, obviously you got Tampa, but those my two teams right now that that's really surprising me everybody that I thought, like, Okay, they might be something. Man took the l this week, you know what I mean. I'm glad to see Tennessee bounce back, but the Raiders, them Raiders is probably the most impressive team to me right now. Man. They got it going over there. And then you take the game, you call like, I don't know if it's too many people who want to see the Cardinals when the Cardinals. When the Cardinals got it rolling, and I know this is a tough division and I like the Rams in it, but the Cardinals is gonna be problem. This is division from the beat each other up. Yeah. That that that division is that NFC West and the a f C West. Boy, listen, uh, they got it together, man, And I'm about to say your Broncos Teddy Bag and Broncos. Hey, NFC West, a FC West. They the teams look good for me and be like, man, listen, I gotta defense, I gotta fortune and all that he never did because he never did force. Just this is what he been waiting for a situation. So I like, I like what they're doing too. Yeah, uh, what about these young qbes? Who you like out of these young qbes? Well, first off, I'm excited to see the young fellow go out there for the bear Bears, justin Fields. I mean, I hate to see my dude Andy Dalton go down because I don't like to see nobody get hurt. But I'm excited to see them going to a week putting the game plan for him him and letting and let him go to work. A lot of people don't understand that game plan was for Andy Dalton dropped back past whatever, you know what I mean. But I want to see them putting the game plan for him, putting some some pass routes and all that for him, some read options and all that for him, and and let him go. You know, I know, I know Trevor Lawrence and Zach Wilson both struggling, but I think Trevor Lawrens is gonna struggle all year law strictly because he's gonna be from behind. You know, He's gonna have to be throwing this football to to to win some games for for his team, and he's gonna make those mistakes. He's gonna throw those interceptions, you know what I mean. But for me, it's just a stupid place. You know. Like I watched Zack Wilson and I've seen him. I've seen him be special in preseason. I seen him do some good things last week against Carolina, and then this week is just bro, what is you doing? What did you seeing? Like? Man, you trying to create too much many times last week? You try to create too much this week and you're just throwing the ball up man and and and letting guys go get it. But with that being said, we already knew it was gonna be ups and downs. I think all these young quarterbacks are gonna planning out to be excellent quarterbacks. I think I think all these organizations is in good hands because I watched Zach Wilson throw the ball. He could throw the ball with the best levil You see Mac and Cheese, Mac Jones over there in New England. He looked just like Tom Brady back there in the pocket, standing there, taking what the defense is giving him, not turning the football over, you know, really doing it the Belichick way. Obviously you get more pieces around Trevor Lawrence. He's gonna be better, you know. Once a young boy from the Niners come in the game, I think he's gonna take over and be just five. With Kyle Shanahan back there back there calling me, you know. But when it's all said and done, man, I think I said early before the draft even started, that Zach Wilson was gonna be the best one. But now that I sit here and watching, man, I think it's gonna mess around and be justin fields. He's gonna mess around and be the best one to come out of that draft class. Man, as I watch him and just see when he makes a mistake, how cool and calm he is. Come back out there, let me do my job, make another play. I think he's gonna mess around to be the best one coming out of this class. But I think all five of these dudes, man, got potential to be really good. Yeah, I really like this class to all five of them. I I'm a ride with mc jones. I think mc jones just the situation in it's just so perfect form. Yeah, that's gonna allow him to, what I'm saying, to elevate his game the fastest. So think mc jone is gonna be the one out of these quarterbacks. What about these rookie whiteouts? Were you like so far? Who we? Man? Well? I was really high on st. Brown from Detroit, man, you know, just because I knew that he was gonna be able to jump in there and get a bunch of a bunch of opportunities early, you know what I mean, Number one, number one too, and he did solid Week one, you know. And and I think they're gonna be behind in a lot of games too, and have to spend the ball over over to him. But I like him because he could do everything. Man, he could run. He's a really good route runner. Man, he showed he showed that at s C. You know what I mean. He's a really good route runner. So so I was I was high on him. You know, Jamaar Chase. You know, as as I watched more Jamaar Chase, man, you know, finding that, finding that swave. But not only that, you know me, I'll be watching the receivers when they're not getting the rock, you know what I mean, Because you know I'll be I'll be coaching my little pop on their kids. And I said, man, listen, I didn't learn this until like my fifth year in the league. You ain't gonna get the ball every place. If you get five if you get five catches the game, that's an excellent game, you know what I'm saying. So you think you got eighty players in the football game and you might touch it five times, and that's an excellent game, you know what I mean. I said, Then other the other, the other seventy five reps. You gotta let the quarterback. The dudes. The coaches know when they turn on the film I'm killing my dudes on the routes every play, and I'm open, you know what I'm saying. And when I watched the March chase, if you just watch him run routes when he's not getting the ball and all that he winning, when you know what I mean. And when you and when you got a rookie rookie receiver right there like that winning man. You know what I'm saying. That that's big tie. You know what I'm saying. So I really like what I'm seeing from them. Two dudes right there, man, Jim March, even though he struggled in preseason, I'm liking what I'm seeing from them too. And then obviously the one that everybody talking about, Elijah More. If you watch him without the ball, I know Zach Wilson struggling, but if you watch him in the slot and you're watching him run routes, man, and you're watching him get off the ball, get off the releases, man, he's gonna be a problem too. So those are my three three right there that that I like right now. Know I picked a lot of first rounders, you know what I'm saying, But those my three that I like right there, just watching them d technicians out there. Hey, and that boy, I've seen Ron delle Moore yesterday. Yeah. Hey, they got a mean little packaging for him. They get him the ball man. It was super explosive. He's gonna be a problem to He got to figure it out. And it's the offense for him that spread college. I'm saying a lot of a lot of reverses. It's perfect form. Thursday night. You got uh Panthers Texas? Who you like? Man? I like the Texas, but Tyrod Taylor porl is hamm me. So I don't like the Texas before, you know what I mean? And and that sucks with Tyrod Man because he was balling, playing at a high level. I was just saying, man, all the crazy, all the madness that that happened in Houston, you know, then losing J. J. Watt, you know obviously the Deshaun Watson area. I mean, I'm sure I'm not the only one like, man, these Texas are gonna be bad, man. And shoot, if they don't lose, if they don't lose Tyrod Taylor in that game against the Browns, they might mess around and win that game against the brown you know. So you know, They're really surprising me. So I liked them in this game and until that happened. And then you know, you watched Sam Darnwald and then and then against New Orleans, man, and after New Orleans beat up on my packers, Damn Darnald looked good, man. He fined, he finding more, he finding more, he finding Robbie Anderson. Man. And obviously you got twenty two in the backfield getting it done. Man. But I think the most impressive thing is that young defense. Man, that your defense for the Carolina Panthers just playing some football right now. Man. You know the whole the Saints, the seven points, shut down, the Abricamary. They got after them boys pretty good. So I like Carolina in this game, man, Sam Darnal to continue to stay hot, man, and they go out here and get a w I like it. I like it with Hey, I appreciate you, my boy. We're catching phase. Anytime you got anything. I know you got your own platform on that network, but you know we love it. Have you baby there anytime y'all need me. Man, y'all let me know. Man, I popped up phone order here for you. Bro. 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Now, mind you, we're super Bowl champions. He knew to the team we bring it up, bring it up. He would bring it up. He would get a little speech. Break it down. Boom. I mean that's cool. You know, you knew you had an important position on our team. You're trying to establish that, you know, respect level, You're working hard, you're doing everything you'reupposed to do well. Had no problem with it. He ppposed to get a speech to the training camp time coming around, you know whatever team meeting. We have an exclusive team meeting. He get in front of the team, give another speech. So the season started, first game of the year. I think coach might have let him talk to the team first. I was like speeching number four. You know what I'm saying. Season kind of get gone. We start off pretty good. I don't remember our exact records, but I remember Boom. We lose one at home, like Sunday night to Kansas City and its Tyreek Hill coming out party. Actually, he doesn't run a pump back, gotta rush. He had a rushing touchdown, receiving touchdown, and a and a return like a kicking touchdown, so three touchdowns on it. That was his coming out party for real, for real. Chiefs beat us at the wire all the way at the end of the game, so Boom, we get in the locker room. Coach cool hot, he getting on us, getting on our ask, man, we need to do this Monday. We're gonna come out and do this all week. I don't want to see this. I want to see this in practice. He gave us the whole rundown right, nothing else to say. Into his speech. He say, and do anybody got something to say? New guy? So I got something to say, Coach, I said, Man, now funk that. Coach. We're good. He says, I can't talk. I say, you talk all off season, all training camp. We don't need didn't know more your speeches. Coach, we're good. Kobia brought it up. Ain't bring it up. He's hit, were good, We're good. You know what I'm saying. That kind of you know it was. It was a kind of situation. It got a little hot in the locker room, a little situation, but man, it was enough. I just felt like it was enough. Man, we had enough speeches. Coach is the lead dog. He already told us what it's gonna be for this week. We don't need to hear nothing else, you know what I'm saying. So I spoke my mind. He kind of spoke his mom. Man, a little little friction in the locker room, uh after that game, But all in all, we got back cool. We pieced it up. The season ain't in that well, you know what I'm saying. But me and him we ended well good. Now I could talk to him. Now he kind of understood where I came from. I understood where he came from. True lives, baby. I hope you all enjoyed that story. My takes from the Cardinals Vikings game Kyler Murray DeAndre Hopkins definitely top three duo quarterback receiver duo in the NFL. Man, even with Patrick Peterson over there. Not a huge day from Hot, but just the just just the attention that he demands. He made the Vikings staying cover too, man. He they played a bunch of covered too. He kept them in too deep safeties. Many they wanted to keep a guy on top of Hot. So just his presence, man, and then Kylin Murray his escapability being able to find Hot downfield. These guys is they're on the same page and zone coverage. Hop no where to stop. He knowing Hot gonna sit down. Man, They're just on the same page. No way, They're not top three duo in the league. Probably number one. No way, they're not top three duo in the league though. Uh. Another take is this defense, man, defense was so high, so good week one, so bad Week two. Man, I think they got better in the second half. They did. They did stop Dalving a little bit in the second half, but they didn't stop Kurt. Kurt kind of did what he wanted. He drove up and down the field. Man. So as good as this Cardinals offenses, it would be the Cardinals defense as usual defense win chips. It would be the Cardinals defense that get him over that hunt. Man. They really need to clean some stuff up. It looked so good week one, mediocre week two. They gotta find a way to be consistent against that run, keep rushing that passer, find a way to get some turnovers in that secondary. I'm gonna see them Cardinals again this week. We got Jacksonville Cardinals at Jacksonville. I will be there check these boys out again. But y'all watch out for these Cardinals. Man. They look at more dangerous and more dangerous every week. I just gotta get this get this defense together, man. And my takes for the week, we got NFL Network start James Jones on, y'all don't want to miss it. NFL is back, and Fan Duel sports books want you to get the most out of every player. That's why they're given everyone a ten dollar risk free beat every week. All you have to do is better same Game part laid Back with three legs or more, and if your bet doesn't win, Fan Duel pay you back up to ten dollars. 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Let's get to it. Uh. So you've been in this media ship a little bit longer than me, and I'm saying, what was the transition like for you? You seem to have made an easy, smooth transition yourself. What was crazy about it is when I when I was playing, I was like, man, I was one of them ones who was like, Okay, I want to play twenty five years like brand Farming there, Rodgers and them. But you know, at our position, if you ain't Jerry Rice, usually usually that don't happen. You know, you out there covering people, tackling people. I'm running around getting banged up. Usually that don't happen. So I'm like, man, what I'm gonna do? So so I um every off season, like for like the last three off seasons before I retired, I would come on the network and just you know, hey, you know, meet the meet the right people jump on there for free, And I was like, man, you know what this would be good for me to get into man still be close to the game, you know, talking some football and all that. So I just really put the bug out there man to to Charlie and Mike, Marianna and all them boys like, hey, man, you know I would love to do it. So you know, once I retired, they reached out to me and was like, man, you you're still interested into the TV. And I was like absolutely, man, So I just jumped into it. But to be honest with you, would really helped me is the little radio stations that I had in Green Bay, TV shows that I had in Green Bay to where it's like, okay, get up in their act of foods, show your personality. So when I jumped on the TV, it was like, man, shoot, I've been doing this man. Just you know, hey, be you show your personality. Man, got to bring the people into the locker room. You enjoying it so far? Huh? I am, man, I'm having a ball man. And and I'm a storyteller too, so you know I like to tell stories. So that's one thing that helped me too when I first jumped on because one of my mentors that was that was TV that I grew up with in college he was like, j J. You you are blessed to leave. You are blessed, you know, because you played the game. You know. So if you ever get a question and you're like, man, I don't really know how to answer what to talk about? Tell a story or you tell time. I heard that. Yeah, well you tell a story. Like hey, man, I hear what you're saying about Aaron Rodgers. But I played with Aaron. I've been in the puddle with Eric. This is what there. You know what I mean? He said, telling. So that's what I started doing early, you know, you know, in my career in this TV thing. Man, share some stories and just personality. But I'm having a ball with it, man, that's what's up. Man. I'm that I'm having fun with this ship too. It's mine kind of different than yours. I didn't really go out seeking, like man, what I'm gonna do. I just was kind of chilling. You know. The agency kind of got at me and like, man, you should do this introduced me to the people, so I'm I'm taking me into stuff, but I don't know if I was really taking it that serious, right, And then I really got done and ship she just started coming right, So I feel that though. Let's go back. Let's go back, man. You from San Jose, right, yeah, I'm born to raise Saint Jose. Man. I've seen you playing the league, so I know you went crazy in college. So what made you go to San Jose? Uh? College? Man, you want to just stay local? It was crazy, man, because I had all at the time, I had all these packed ten offers, man, and I know you had to and I want to. Man, I wanted to go to Oregon. Man, That's where I wanted to go. Man. But uh, about a week before signing day, Mom's got real sick, man, and mom was in the hospital. And at first she went to one doctor and the doctor told her she had twins, she was pregnant. And my mom like, nah, I can't be pregny. I'm saying, like I ain't been getting at it like that. I can't be praging. So we went to another doctor, man, and he was like, no, you ain't pregnant. You got a tumor in your stomach size of a football. You know what I'm saying. So it was a bunch of stuff going on. Moms was in the hospital, man, and then I was I was I fell in love with my receiver coach Keith Williams. Man. Uh coach dub. I don't know if you heard of him. He had Baltimore now out there coaching the receivers. But I fell in love with him, man, and I was like, man, dude, gonna get me ready for the next level. Man, and I might be able to stay home, stay local. Man makes your mom straight. And that was my stay at State. Man. I feel I feel that I knew it had to be something because I'm like, I know James Jones toward high school. Luck, bro, he he wasn't that later. Come. I was receiver my first three years and then my senior year I played quarterback. Man, So I know he would turn that ship up. Bro. Yeah, I was getting at it man, So yeah I had it. I had a bunch of offers man from the pack pack team and stuff. Man. But yeah, mom's got sick, man, So I stay at the crib definitely definitely was the right thing to do. Uh. So you get the Green Bay and Brett Farve over there, Man, tell me about that that young James Jones in the same building with Bret for how was that? Man? It's crazy because I get to Green Bay and you know, I go out there for you know, we gotta go to our little rookie minicamp to where you know, you you're going up against dudes that may be on practice squad or dudes that maybe you know, only played three or four games. So as I get to the rookie minicamp, I'm killing it and I'm like, man, I'm calling the wife and I'm like, man, we're gonna make millions. I'm like, these dudes out here ain't no good. Yeah. Then we then been rookie minicamp going and in the vets and all that stuff. Get out there, man, and we're getting the training camp and I'll never forgetting training camp. We're doing one on ones and would jump up there. So I'm like, shoot, this is my time to see what I got, you know what I'm saying. So I jump up there against wood. He about about seven yards off to leave eyes in at the quarterback. You know what I mean, Uh, quarterback, get me curl routes. So I'm like, cool man. You know, JJ ain't never been a burner, but hey, I run these routes though. You know, I can tell you deep man, I come off the ball and I get in and out of my break. I promised you I might have been the best break I ever had in my life. And I'm in and out of my break and that's the balls coming. I'm like, oh, we are to walk Charles Woods. They sing, I know this boy coming in front of me, man picking that thing off. And I was crazy because in my head, I'm like, man, i might not be able to play in this league. Man, I'm not good enough. That was my best. I'm like, that was my best and he picked that thing off, man, And and uh so I just picked one's brain after that, man, And I'm like, bro, what made you jump on my route? Man? And he said, well, you came running with your head now, so I knew he was counting your steps. I knew you weren't going deep. So he said, I knew. I knew either he was running the end route or you just going to stop on the comeback or curl. And I said, damn, man, these boys is like for real. These boys study and they know the little ends and out to the whole game and all that. And it was crazy. So after that, after me calling my wife and telling her, a man, I'm we're gonna make millions I called her. I said, we might get cut good enough. But man, Brett, dude, Brett probably Brett was Brett was a real dude. Man, he was a real dude. I'll never forget because when I first got there, I was with the Twols. I was a rookie third Rounte pick I was with the Twols and and Aaron was the backup quarterback. So me and Aaron got a lot of reps and all that together. And before the first preseason game, coach was like, hey, you're going in with the starters. You're starting, And I actually told him no, like, hey, I don't want to go in there with Brett. Bro Like you know, Aaron and Aaron been at practice, we got chemistry, Like he's been spending it to me. I got going there with Brad. He's been a throw with the Donald Driver, Greg Jenny's like them doing they already know what them does could do. I'm trying to show what I could do. Put me in there with twelve, and coaches like now you're going with the ones, and I'll never forget the first player of the game, Brett throw it to me, came over there spending it to me, man, and I was getting busy in the preseason, and then I ran the Royal route and we come back to the meeting room and coach like, bro, come on, now, you gotta know you gotta know what you're doing man, And Brett, I never forget Brett stood up, was like I told him to do that. No, one, he didn't tell me to do that, but he still that I told him to do that. And I looked back like I'm like, oh man. Then we got out on the fielding like I got you back, bro. Trip. But yeah, he was cool, dude, fun to play with. Man, That's what ups. How was that? How was the train? How was the building when it went kind of like, you know, it had a transition Brandfather Gonne and ride you up? Was What was the building? Like? Man, it was fifty fifty man, you know it was. It was a bunch of because we had an older team then, so it was a bunch of the older cats who who wanted wanted four, who wanted to day, and then there was a bunch of us younger cats like me, Greg Jenning's, you know, Jamaicael Finley, all the boys. We're like, no, we're riding with twelve. Yeah, we want we want twyl to be our quarterback, you know what I'm saying. So it was it was fifty and obviously, like we all knew twelve of special, we didn't know that turn into this. We didn't know it was gonna be a three time m VP and have all this stuff. But we knew like armed talent, him getting out the pocket. We're like, bro, we're gonna be all right, you know what I'm saying. So you know that's the That's the first time I really got like a taste of the media because that was after my rookie year. We get all this breat farm and Roger Saga, and the media comes up to me, who you want your quarterback? Now, me being in the media, I'm like, man, shoot the right answer with a been a man whoever. The coaches go with what you say though that I gotta go run my routes, you know. But at that time I was a youngster. I'm like, man, Aaron is our quarterback, and all these tackerfice came out like who does he think he is? He? Then here twenty years he's trying to get rid of the god out here and all that they was going in on my head and I'm like, man, I want to weill man, you know what I mean? But it was it was crazy, man. It was fifty fifty. And that's the first time I really seen it, like fifty fifty locker room, you know what I mean. Usually in the locker room, like we ride with whoever we ride with, but at that locker room usually know and yeah whatever y'all know, we know, we think. We didn't really tell y'all, but I feel but it was kind of like fifty fift because it was a bunch of older players and all that. But I was riding with seven man. Yeah, I had a right and he got around a right. So look, you've seen a young a Rod when he was trying to become a Rod build his name up. Now he is the three times m VP S Super Bowl champion, I a rock. Is he different? I know everybody different, but is he Is he different than he was when he back then? Well? You know what, back then, I truly feel like he was like trying to prove something. You know what it was because because you got Brad fav Leavin, who was a Hall of Famer who did all these great things. You know that they have passed the Torch over to him, you know, after all this saga and all that's been on, and you know, basically they said, no, we're going with Aaron Bratt. You can go do what you're gonna do. So I kind of I kind of felt like, you know, he always was a jokester with us, you know what I'm saying, you know, but with the media, he always kind of had a little shellow when it came to the media, and in his early days because of I feel like, because of the Brett soga and all that, you know what I mean, and everything, so he kind of had a shield all but you know, I just felt like them early years in his career where he was going out there, like, man, I gotta go out here and show I'm the best quarterback in the world and prove to people I'm the best quarterback in the world, because they left Brett farther out of here, you know what I mean. And now when I look at him, he's more cool, he's more relaxed, you know what I'm saying. You know, he letting the media see see the good side of him, and you know, of him telling all the jokes and him cracking jokes, of him being a rod and all that, not being like you know, of tighten the media and all that. So I love him letting that side out because we always seen it, you know what I'm saying, but the media didn't always seen it. Like everybody come up to me, how's there, And I'm like, dude, he's the best dude in the world, you know what I'm saying. You know, he just got that shell over when it comes to the media early in his career because of all the stuff that he's been through, you know what I'm saying. So I'm glad he's able to see that now. But on the field, bro, he all you know, he always been the same man and d and I caught him out there in training camp, man, and in practice he don't never want to make a bad throw. If you make a bad throw, and practice, man, he hot about it, you know what I mean. And I've seen that out there from from day one until I went out there in training camp this year. Man. So it's hunger still there. It's hunger to be great and all that is still there, man, you know what I mean. I'm just glad he's letting the outside really see you know, who he is. And I had that shell all man and show his personality man, because he's a good dude. Man. Yeah, that's what's ups. So is it over with? Is it over with? Green Bay Phone? It's last one? You know what, man? I think. I think it's gonna be tough, man, you know what I mean? I was I was telling people going into this season, I said, tols ain't going nowhere. They're gonna work it out this season. That's what I said. So now when people come into what's go happen next year? I said, I can't answer that question. I don't know what. I ain't as confident as I was doing right, something like time burn off. This chick burned off first, They ain't burn off tom burn off a rocket burn off to And what I'm like, I'm like, I don't know what he's gonna do. I don't know what's on his mind. I'm not confident enough to say, hey man, he's coming back. But what I will say, though, if they if they win this thing, you know what I'm saying that that's that's probably gonna be a good chance that he'd come back. Now if they go out here and they're losing the playoffs or something like that, I don't know what it's gonna look like for toil Man, you know what I mean, I don't know if it's gonna be him trying to go somewhere else or him saying, you know what, I want to finish the job here. So it's gonna be interesting to see, man, what he chooses to do. Yeah, yeah it is. It's the Broncos, you know, saying I've been nice wine over there. Broncos and that defense, I know that's gonna deefense. They definitely gonna have a game playing for he We're gonna bring the jet out for they don't have a hell of a sales pitch for especially. Yeah, let's get to the out nowadays football, what teams to two weeks in? What teams you like right now? Who're looking good? Oh? Man, I mean we'll shoot obviously you got Temple, who's you know who's looking good these these first two weeks. But to be honest with you, men, that the teams that that are really surprised and not surprising me. But the teams that I think is gonna be good Man, them l A. Rams, It's gonna be problems that that's a team that I feel like, Man, is gonna make a lot of noise, man, because I've been telling everybody Matthew Stafford is Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes, and everybody look at me crazy. I'm I said, I'm not talking about just him running and doing the armed talent. When you talk about armed talent for armed talent, any throw Pack can make, Rogers could make, Stafford could make, you know what I mean. So it takes it takes them to a whole different level when you when you when you talk about that, man, them dudes is just special, you know what I mean. I do the special. So the ram, the rams is high. I was. I was extremely high on the Seahawks, you know what I mean. After seeing what they was doing in week one and did and did to the coach in week one, I'm like, oh, we they got it. You can't stop locking the DK metcalf for Russ. You know what I'm saying. They could run it. They're playing some solid defense. But then I see them below a fifteen point lead to the Tennessee Titans. You know who I call, you know what I mean. And then I watched Buffalo and I'm like, man, Buffalo probably a problem. I see them I see them losing week one, I'm like, man, they don't really know what they want to be right now. Yeah, they bawled out last this past weekend, but I still didn't like the way that look. Turnovers not a lot of you know what I mean. Dolphins gave them much opportunity. But I'm gonna tell you them Raiders. Them grooding in them Raiders. And I know, I know Grooden drafted June, but grooding in them Raiders. Man, I'm telling you, Derek Carr playing at the MVP level right now. You can see the swag and the confidence they're playing with. Man, it's a it's contagious over there. Man. So I'm liking what I'm seeing over there, Man, Grouden and the Raiders. But you know, obviously you got Tampa, but those my two teams right now that that's really surprising me everybody that I thought, like, Okay, they might be something. Man took the l this week, you know what I mean. I'm glad to see Tennessee bounce back, but the Raiders, them Raiders is probably the most impressive team to me right now. Man. They got it going over there. And then you take the game, you call like, I don't know if it's too many people who want to see the Cardinals when the Cardinals. When the Cardinals got it rolling, and I know this is a tough division and I like the Rams in it, but the Cardinals is gonna be problem. This is division from the beat each other up. Yeah. That that that division is that NFC West and the a f C West. Boy, listen, uh, they got it together, man, And I'm about to say your Broncos Teddy Bag and Broncos. Hey, NFC West, a FC West. They the teams look good for me and be like, man, listen, I gotta defense, I gotta fortune and all that he never did because he never did force. Just this is what he been waiting for a situation. So I like, I like what they're doing too. Yeah, uh, what about these young qbes? Who you like out of these young qbes? Well, first off, I'm excited to see the young fellow go out there for the bear Bears, justin Fields. I mean, I hate to see my dude Andy Dalton go down because I don't like to see nobody get hurt. But I'm excited to see them going to a week putting the game plan for him him and letting and let him go to work. A lot of people don't understand that game plan was for Andy Dalton dropped back past whatever, you know what I mean. But I want to see them putting the game plan for him, putting some some pass routes and all that for him, some read options and all that for him, and and let him go. You know, I know, I know Trevor Lawrence and Zach Wilson both struggling, but I think Trevor Lawrens is gonna struggle all year law strictly because he's gonna be from behind. You know, He's gonna have to be throwing this football to to to win some games for for his team, and he's gonna make those mistakes. He's gonna throw those interceptions, you know what I mean. But for me, it's just a stupid place. You know. Like I watched Zack Wilson and I've seen him. I've seen him be special in preseason. I seen him do some good things last week against Carolina, and then this week is just bro, what is you doing? What did you seeing? Like? Man, you trying to create too much many times last week? You try to create too much this week and you're just throwing the ball up man and and and letting guys go get it. But with that being said, we already knew it was gonna be ups and downs. I think all these young quarterbacks are gonna planning out to be excellent quarterbacks. I think I think all these organizations is in good hands because I watched Zach Wilson throw the ball. He could throw the ball with the best levil You see Mac and Cheese, Mac Jones over there in New England. He looked just like Tom Brady back there in the pocket, standing there, taking what the defense is giving him, not turning the football over, you know, really doing it the Belichick way. Obviously you get more pieces around Trevor Lawrence. He's gonna be better, you know. Once a young boy from the Niners come in the game, I think he's gonna take over and be just five. With Kyle Shanahan back there back there calling me, you know. But when it's all said and done, man, I think I said early before the draft even started, that Zach Wilson was gonna be the best one. But now that I sit here and watching, man, I think it's gonna mess around and be justin fields. He's gonna mess around and be the best one to come out of that draft class. Man, as I watch him and just see when he makes a mistake, how cool and calm he is. Come back out there, let me do my job, make another play. I think he's gonna mess around to be the best one coming out of this class. But I think all five of these dudes, man, got potential to be really good. Yeah, I really like this class to all five of them. I I'm a ride with mc jones. I think mc jones just the situation in it's just so perfect form. Yeah, that's gonna allow him to, what I'm saying, to elevate his game the fastest. So think mc jone is gonna be the one out of these quarterbacks. What about these rookie whiteouts? Were you like so far? Who we? Man? Well? I was really high on st. Brown from Detroit, man, you know, just because I knew that he was gonna be able to jump in there and get a bunch of a bunch of opportunities early, you know what I mean, Number one, number one too, and he did solid Week one, you know. And and I think they're gonna be behind in a lot of games too, and have to spend the ball over over to him. But I like him because he could do everything. Man, he could run. He's a really good route runner. Man, he showed he showed that at s C. You know what I mean. He's a really good route runner. So so I was I was high on him. You know, Jamaar Chase. You know, as as I watched more Jamaar Chase, man, you know, finding that, finding that swave. But not only that, you know me, I'll be watching the receivers when they're not getting the rock, you know what I mean, Because you know I'll be I'll be coaching my little pop on their kids. And I said, man, listen, I didn't learn this until like my fifth year in the league. You ain't gonna get the ball every place. If you get five if you get five catches the game, that's an excellent game, you know what I'm saying. So you think you got eighty players in the football game and you might touch it five times, and that's an excellent game, you know what I mean. I said, Then other the other, the other seventy five reps. You gotta let the quarterback. The dudes. The coaches know when they turn on the film I'm killing my dudes on the routes every play, and I'm open, you know what I'm saying. And when I watched the March chase, if you just watch him run routes when he's not getting the ball and all that he winning, when you know what I mean. And when you and when you got a rookie rookie receiver right there like that winning man. You know what I'm saying. That that's big tie. You know what I'm saying. So I really like what I'm seeing from them. Two dudes right there, man, Jim March, even though he struggled in preseason, I'm liking what I'm seeing from them too. And then obviously the one that everybody talking about, Elijah More. If you watch him without the ball, I know Zach Wilson struggling, but if you watch him in the slot and you're watching him run routes, man, and you're watching him get off the ball, get off the releases, man, he's gonna be a problem too. So those are my three three right there that that I like right now. Know I picked a lot of first rounders, you know what I'm saying, But those my three that I like right there, just watching them d technicians out there. Hey, and that boy, I've seen Ron delle Moore yesterday. Yeah. Hey, they got a mean little packaging for him. They get him the ball man. It was super explosive. He's gonna be a problem to He got to figure it out. And it's the offense for him that spread college. I'm saying a lot of a lot of reverses. It's perfect form. Thursday night. You got uh Panthers Texas? Who you like? Man? I like the Texas, but Tyrod Taylor porl is hamm me. So I don't like the Texas before, you know what I mean? And and that sucks with Tyrod Man because he was balling, playing at a high level. I was just saying, man, all the crazy, all the madness that that happened in Houston, you know, then losing J. J. Watt, you know obviously the Deshaun Watson area. I mean, I'm sure I'm not the only one like, man, these Texas are gonna be bad, man. And shoot, if they don't lose, if they don't lose Tyrod Taylor in that game against the Browns, they might mess around and win that game against the brown you know. So you know, They're really surprising me. So I liked them in this game and until that happened. And then you know, you watched Sam Darnwald and then and then against New Orleans, man, and after New Orleans beat up on my packers, Damn Darnald looked good, man. He fined, he finding more, he finding more, he finding Robbie Anderson. Man. And obviously you got twenty two in the backfield getting it done. Man. But I think the most impressive thing is that young defense. Man, that your defense for the Carolina Panthers just playing some football right now. Man. You know the whole the Saints, the seven points, shut down, the Abricamary. They got after them boys pretty good. So I like Carolina in this game, man, Sam Darnal to continue to stay hot, man, and they go out here and get a w I like it. I like it with Hey, I appreciate you, my boy. We're catching phase. Anytime you got anything. I know you got your own platform on that network, but you know we love it. Have you baby there anytime y'all need me. Man, y'all let me know. Man, I popped up phone order here for you. Bro. You just all at me. Thursday Night Football continues this week Panthers Versus of Texas exclusively on NFL networks. Appreciate you, James Jones, yea