Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins a second round of Mad Minute. Hosts Sherree Burruss, Kyle Brandt, Akbar Gbajabiamila, and Manti Te'o discuss more impactful games in Week 9. Jamie Erdahl speaks to Vikings safety Cam Bynum from Minnesota. Artist Big Boi joins the show to talk about his connection to Georgia and the Falcons. Plus, Nate Tice reveals what this week's film is telling him about the matchups this week!
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Well, welcome to Good Morning Football, drought to me by our friends at Old Trapper Beef Jerkey. We are live coast to coast, even a stop in the Midwest on this Friday, November one.
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My name is Sherry Buris, alongside Akwar Baja, Vivamilla Mantaito. Here at the table that is Kyle Brand in New York City. As I said, we have a stop from an.
Friend, Jamie Rdal there in Minnesota.
But looking at that game last night, you think back to this week, guys, remember when Aaron Rodgers said you have to make peace with the darkness.
Well, they went into halftime, maybe.
They didn't turn the lights on, and it was like a whole nother game in the second half.
Yeah, the front of the New York Post had ended like beckha. Maybe that was a turning point for the Jets.
We welcome in now are insider Ian Rappaport were last night Ian watching that game. Injuries clearly a big part of it, guys missing, But as we saw yesterday just looking at it, even Texans pass rusher Will Anderson he heard that ankle last night. A couple of injuries you've been watching this morning. What's the latest at least on his STATUSY, you can get us started.
Yeah, and end of the stream of injuries it seemed last night, I would say most of them considered to be short term type injuries. A lot of players left and came back. Will Anderson suffered an ankle injury pretty early.
On in the game.
The same with Anderson, who has been basically dominating this year seven and a half sacks, thirty nine quarterback pressure is one of the best edge players in football. When download that ankle injury was listed as questionable at a round halftime, did not return. You could see the obvious pain that he was in. Did a little extra time before the Sunday night football game. When they play next, we will see if he is able to go. Obviously, test today will determine the severity of that injury. And he has been battling an ankle injury of various sorts really for more than a year now. Meanwhile, when we are watching from not involved in this game, Huko Nakua, who missed most of this season a PCL strain in his knee, actually suffered a knee injury at practice yesterday, same knee which I think for a couple hours was pretty alarming and pretty concerning my understanding, though not considered to be a major injury, more of a scare than anything else. TBD on a status for Sunday, but nothing long term for Puka, which is excellent, excellent news. And then one we are watching and have been watching for the last several days for Sunday. Jordan Love, the Packers starting quarterback, left last week's came with a groin strain, which is why Malik Willis came in once again and to quitted himself quite well. The fact that Jordan Love was at practice yesterday seen in some videos with elaborate handshake situations going on with several teammates.
The vibes looked really good at practice.
Maybe that's another reason for some optimism there. Expect him to practice today.
If he doesn't, obviously that would be bad.
But if you.
Practices today at least, as he says, he has a more than realistic chance to be out there in a huge.
Game and that would mean a lot.
Yeah, and we appreciate your time there, and that is a perfect setup for round two of mad minute here on a Friday, but sixty seconds back on the clock and we're going to start.
As I said, right there where Ian ted us up perfectly.
A clash between two NFC North powerhouses. Dan Campbell in the lines heading to Green Bay To's take on the Packers. The winner of this game will be in first place in the NFC North entering week ten. Kyle, who do you see being on top of the standings after this matchup?
Someone has to at least force Jared Goff to throw a couple in completions, not interceptions, incompletions. I talked to Jared Goff this week for the network. It's going to air on Sunday. He hates hearing the word perfect. He's like, I'm not even close to perfect. I got to do all these other types of things, and I'm like, when you're going up to the line and you're like a Monro hasn't had a catch, it's the first quarter, or Laporta has too many today.
I got to get to this guy.
He goes, the team is not like that. I promise you, no one cares. We just go out there, we ball, we win. Green Bay is a very good team. Jared Goff is playing way too well right now for me to pick the Packers.
I think the Lions going to lamb and win.
Well, this is going to be interesting territory for Jered Golf because this is going to be the first time this season that he's played outside of a dome. So how is he going to handle the elements? How's he going to be in that situation, especially when they say the temperature is going to be it's going to be raining down there.
Let's see how he does with that adversity.
Well, you know, you talk about the elements, to see how he does with the Xavier McKenny back there. He leads the league with six interceptions. He got his six last week against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
So it's going to be a good game.
So that Jared Goff Xavier McKinney exchange. I'm excited to see how that thing goes down.
Just checking Akbar if you're curious.
The weather forecast Sunday in Green Bay is fifty degrees and rain, So maybe.
A lot of running, a lot of running that game. Oh that's cold. Let's talk about the next one here.
We have another divisional matchup between the Dolphins and Bills Ochbar Can the Dolphins hold off Josh Hallen, who for the most part this season has done a really good job keeping the ball protected and not turning it over.
Well, I think this is going to be tough because we do know for since twenty seventeen, the Buffalo Bills they've dominated at home against the Miami Dolphins. But the Miami Dolphins look like they're back. Tyreek Hill now starting to get back into it because they got their quarterback back, they got Tua back. I want to see that connection between Tua and Tyreek get back to that high performance ofphense. Then they might have a chance to beat the Buffalo Bills.
Yeah, they might have a chance. And we all saw what happened the first time these two teams met. It was a nightmare for the Miami Dolphins and we saw Tool go downs. But for me, if there's anybody that's more excited to have too back as Mike McDaniel's seeing all of the little flicks and no look passes from Tua. So it's going to be electric. I hope that it's a great game. But we saw how the first game had happened.
We know Tom Brady is an owner of the Raiders. Josh Allen is an owner of the Dolphins. It's not a matter of opinion. That's not me editorializing, guys, That's just the facts.
The Dolphins fans know it.
It would be refreshing and different and something new to talk about for the Dolphins to go to Buffalo and beat the Bills and beat Josh Allen. They just almost never do and I don't think they will this week either.
Next up, we had to what I can call the Kyle Brandt Bowl. We have the Bears taking on Arizona.
Remember the pound puppy he.
Lets The Cardinals are his team in addition to Chicago. But they are coming off that incredible heartbreak of that hil Mary against Washington. Maybe Iberflus is losing the locker room a little bit. It sounds like Mantai from some of the comments the players made. But who do you give the edge? Do you think the Bears can come back or the Cardinals going to take advantage of maybe an emotional Chicago team.
Well, you know, the Bears have a lot of talent on that side of the ball and on that team. However, I like the Cardinals in in this game because that team for two weeks straight has found a way to win in very close games. It takes a lot of grit to win in the way that they won against La Chargers and last week against the Dolphins. It's going to be a good game, But I got the Cardinals.
You know, two players, or rather two people on the Bears who weren't very well known a week ago household names this week. One of them was Tyreek Stevenson and one of them was Matt Ebraflus. Both of them need to have huge gamest Ebraflus, by far, I think this is the biggest game of his career. I think he needs to answer a ton of questions. The team has to be disciplined, organized, focused, none of which they were at the end of the game.
Lest this is actually a really big game.
Sure they lose, they go to four and four, they're losing a lot more than just one game.
If they fall again after that debacle in Washington.
Yeah, this is it's going to be pretty interesting for Chicago, especially because they're losing.
On the road.
They're all and three on the road this season, and you talk about the hot streak that they're on. For the Arizona Cardinals, winning two straight Chicago, they made a mount up.
Yeah, the Cardinals haven't won three straight since two thousand and one. But we are going to look at our last one here. NFC West wide open. The standings, top three teams all four and four, but the Rams three and four as they take on the Seahawks this weekend.
Kylos, we said it.
It is a tight race in the NFC West. Who do you see in this matchup trying to get a leg up at least I know?
Don't let the Rams get hot. Don't do it, guys, do not let the Rams got it. Don't let Matt Stafford get a hot hand or Sean McVay. I love now we've been hearing about Pooka all morning. We're seeing all this video of him running around again. They didn't trade Cooper Cup. They weren't gonna trade Cooper Cup. I don't care what anybody said. I liked actually the Rams in this game. I know Seattle's tough at home, at least I thought they were. I mean, Buffalo beat him by about fifty last week at home. I actually think the Rams are going to reintroduce themselves to the conversation now.
I like la here just let me reintroduce myself. My name is Yeah Pookaula. I'm about to go somewhere else. Cooper Cup. They're back. I saved myself. I didn't get canceled. But that offense is hot right now because they've got the dogs back at the wide receiver position and then the Seattle Seahawks defense. They're giving up thirty point four points per game. That is not acceptable against this offense.
Now, yeah, I got the rams too, and my big thing is against Ryan Grubbed, offensive coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks. Listen, the quarterback shotgun run game does not work in the NFL when you don't have a QB that poses a run through.
Right, Ryan grew up, throw that out. I know this is your first year in the NFL.
Sorry, busy busts, stop running. Stop running that tell us Montai don't worry.
But also to remember the Nakua did leave practice on Thursday early. He did miss those five games with a knee ailmen, So something to watch, as Kyle says, never count out the rams. That is a mad Minute, Part two on your Friday and coming up here. NFL analyst Nate Tice joining us here on GMFB previewing the Broncos Ravens Week nine matchup. Ken Lamar and Company rebound Why lost to the Rounds.
Kyle Bus Viking safety cam buying them joined GMFB. Is this the biggest game of the week, Vikings Lions, it feels like it. We got boots on the ground or stiletto's on the ground or ugs on the ground. Whatever Jamie's wearing, because she's there, She's going to be part of the game. Vikings Lions talk right after this, plus breaking out every single game your team team, Hey, you know how we do it. JMFB on a Friday, Good Morning Football.
Welcome back to Good Morning Football. I'm omar Res and the Jets defense stepping up big time in that win against the Texans last night, sacking CJ. Stroud eight times, or Judy Batista catching up with the joker Quincy Williams after the game.
Well, Quincy, you arrived here as the joker tonight.
This game was no choke though this was basically a must win in Week nine.
How you feeling right now?
Hey?
Like I said, there's gonna be a battle, good two good teams going head to head.
It's gonna be little details I mean all details, but most of the live details go who execute.
Better and we execute better? Always gonna be a close game though.
All right, you got the Cardinals and the Colts coming up before you got the buye. Is this team still in the mix?
Yeah?
The biggest thing is getting getting these couple.
Today's getting out bodies together like a short week by getting out bodies ready to get.
Ready to go.
Want to know Vikings with a big showdown against the Colts on Sunday night. Let's head back out to Minnesota, where Jamie is now joined by Viking safety cam buying them.
I have been enjoying my time in Minnesota. It's been five minutes since I've been back, and everything is coming up Vikings for me. I found this jacket in the green room, which I promptly put on instead of my own attire, and now we are joined by a Minnesota Viking cambine them on GMFB morning Cam.
Good morning to you.
I'm doing well, good, good, good you doing.
I'm wonderful.
I'm all jacked up on Mountain Dew because I was invited to sound the dollar horn this weekend?
Did you know that?
That's why I'm.
Here at big time I didn't know that exactly, but that's big time.
So as a player, do you have any awareness for the clapping and the horn at all or are you?
Guys?
Oh you are.
That's something we look at and Kazar is interesting. Who's doing it every single week? Over last year Kirk did it, yes, randomly. We didn't even know when he was doing it, and he came out there no share it on with chains on, so it was funny. So now that's something I'm always aware of. Okay, after the chant and we look up and see, Okay, who's up there, Well, it's going to.
Be me, which I grew up five minutes from the old facility. Just so you understand the reason why you're not just like, that's that random girl from.
The MFB up there.
That's not why I have a total love affair and attachment to this team and this organization, which is why I'm so thrilled to just.
See you guys and have you on the show.
Of course, how's everything going.
Everything's good.
Yeah, Season's been kind of different with our schedule lately with the bye week than a Thursday game or regular Sunday game, then straight to a Thursday game.
Then you get the mini by Yep.
Now we're back on track and we're ready to go play some more football.
You know, Kevin O'Connell told us before your London game that in the summer, this team came together in a really organic way.
Do you guys feel like you have to rely on.
That again a little bit maybe, just to get things back on track and playing the way you want to.
Yeah.
I think this is the time where we really have to look back and really think about, Okay, this is what made us good, the fact that.
We're all like brothers.
As corny as it may sound sometimes, but that's really what you have to lean on, is how close you are as a team, especially in times like this where we've won five straight then lost two straight and we had a little little time off to reflect. Now we have to get back to be who we are playing together, having that collective joy when we're out on that field, and that really leads to us making plays and us playing well well.
Sometimes brothers fight in this defense, you guys are physical, you fight, you battle with each other. It's been so impressive to watch this team. What's your favorite part about playing on this Brian Flora's defense.
I think just the excitement that we have when we play well, and how much we're not shaken if we aren't playing well. So just the fact that we're just even killed the whole time. Everybody's eager to make plays, everybody wants to play together, and just the fun that we have out there. The fact that we're able to have a lot of freedom in the defense. Coach flow gives us the freedom to really govern ourselves within the scheme and it helps us to play even faster.
So Anthony Richardson is a certain type of quarterback Joe Flapp very different. When you hear of a quarterback change like this, how does your defensive week change.
Really just knowing you're locked in because there's less film on both quarterbacks obviously, Okay, yep, Flacco's played Richardson has played some also with them announcing that Flacco is a starter, right, we have to really go back and look at those games, but really study the coordinator more than anything, what he likes to do when certain quarterbacks are in the game. So it's kind of a fun little game that we have to play of knowing, okay, this is the type of offense they run with one quarterback and versus the other. So it's a little more studying, but it's fun to be able to try and figure those things out.
In baseball, if guy's hitting a home run every other game, they're like, man, he must be seeing the ball like a grape fruit, Like it's just easy to hit and he can hit it really far. When you guys have interceptions, you leave the league and picks. Do you see that ball sometimes coming to the air like it looks so catchable. Does the mindset change when the interceptions start flowing like that?
I think so, And it's almost it almost becomes an expectation. It's disappointing if we come out of a game, especially for me personally, if I come out of a game without a turnover, it's kind of frustrating, and obviously you can't get one every single game. But that's the standard that we've set, especially on this defense the way we started, and that's the standard that we.
Were going to keep all year.
Making sure we force turnovers, whether it's interceptions like you mentioned, force fumbles, any type of way we can get the ball. That's really our standard at this point. In every single game, that's something that we go into it expecting it to happen and being ready for when it does happen.
One thing that's been really fun about this team not only is the defensive prowess and the intensity, but also to your point, the fact that everyone's just really bought in and committed. Now you and Josh Mattellis took your commitment to a different level in London with this handshake from the parent trap. Do you have any more preparations at hand for celebrations defensively or do you feel like, hopefully not you peaked.
No, for sure, haven't peaked. That's something I've like. We really take these celebrations series.
We put that in our.
Saturday You're meeting to exactly knowing and expecting success. So you have to be prepared to have fun because especially on defense, for offensive people they have touchdowns every game, it's easy for them to get celebrations off. For defense, it's a lot more rare that you get interceptions or turnovers. So we every time it happens, we know we have to come ready with you.
Guys always go movies or is it like something trendy or how does it?
It's a little bit of everything.
Okay, you have to understand okay with if you want it to be viral, you have to know it's it's relevant, like the para trap ding that's our generation totally. We're in London, so there's certain things like that you have to think about.
We try the parent trap thing. Okay.
So also let me just do a humble pit. So I dressed up from bring it on yesterday for all. Gabrielle Union commented on our reel that I did for that's what I need, and Lindsay Lowan commented on ours, so I got.
Okay, seek you just got a pick six right, okay, cut the ball.
Branch celebrating you did it?
Okay.
Oh oh it's opposite.
Here switchedep shake everybody, good job, thank you for having me.
We did that.
I'm glad you got that. Yeah, yeah, you looking at me all right, Good morning football.
We have a lot of guests.
We love them all, but some of them are just a little bit special or a lot joining us.
Now.
He's a Falcons fan, he is a rapper, he's a father, he's an og. You've probably been on the dance floor of his music.
You've probably had a great party to his music, done unmentionables to his music.
We love his music, Big Boy joins us this morning. What's up, big boy? How are you doing?
Oh? Man, we're doing good man? How you doing?
Dude?
You look great. We're all so excited to see you. I don't even need to hesitate right now. You got the hat on, You've got a first place team in the NFC South, big boy, with all the things.
You got going on. How you feeling about your twenty twenty four Falcons?
And it feels great? Man, I mean the city is on fire right now. Man, I mean proud of the boys. And they locked in.
Yeah they are, Yeah, they are locked in.
And a big part of the Falcons success this year has to be a new quarterback, Kirk Cousins. I mean, what has it been like watching him on the field, the fans and how they're reacting to him, And how do you think he's acclimating to Atlanta because he seems to have that a town swag.
Yeah. I mean, like you said, man, you just walked in the trap and took over the trap. You know what I'm saying?
Like that, he's boys, man, He's accurate. He's a I think the first and foremost what I see. He's a team leader, man, and he getting the boys pumped up.
Yeah, speaking of Kirk Boy, I'm sure you saw this already, but for any of yours that haven't, he led the team out of the tunnel last week with a little wrap up his own list.
Take a listen.
Yes that's co now, big boy from a legend like you. Do you have any advice for him? What kind of advice do you have for him?
Don't go to Majes City till Monday after.
WHOA, WHOA.
Nice for you?
Are you gonna sign them to your label?
You think you might do it, like maybe on one or two day contract with him on your label.
One or two day contracts on.
Me right down a steep street from says bands.
Yo, ten day contract for Kirk big Way. It's so great to see you. I myself have lived in Atlanta for a hot minute, and I wore my Falcon sweatshirt just for you today. I've gone to Mary Max tea Room, Varsity, a couple of new spots, but I know for you you've partnered with former Falcons quarterback Michael Vick on many community events. Atlanta is a very unique and special place. How is your friendship with vic also been very meaningful to you.
He's just been cool from the start.
Man, always been the same guy, and he's about community and he's about taking care of the kids like me, you know what I mean. So whenever we get a chance to give back, we team up and we do something explosive.
Man. I mean, he's one of my favorite people.
And I know there's so much history there and it's a golden era of Falcons football and they're playing some really good football now too, big boy, But we got to talk about this.
If you're wearing it, we got it. You've collaborated with the Falcon this week.
Hell yeah, we want to hear about this partnership because, honestly, big Boy, it is so fresh and so clean talk about.
Hey man, it's just you know, we've been you know, supporters of the franchise since we started, and they always supported us, and we just thought it would be something cool. We ourcast merchandise is you know, the merchant is being renewed and we bring it back the old with the wing and we thought we better way to do it than bring it back with the Falcon wings.
Man. So it's gonna be a lot more to come go Olcast dot com.
I mean, it's on fire, all right, man, I want to get a little personal with you, big boy man. Your son Cross Patten. He's now playing at the HBCU, but Thune Cookman down there in Florida, and.
You don't you don't miss any games.
And I know with.
Your busy schedule, obviously that's got to be challenging. But with what is that like being a dad in the stands watching your son now playing football.
It's been there's been a long journey man.
He started out, he was went to Oregon, played at Oregon for a couple of years. When two Pac twelve championships in the Rose Bowl, he played with Justin Herbert k Roon Thibadeau. Then he went to Nevada and then he played at Nevada and then he got his masters, I mean got his degree. And now he's getting his masters down there with Throm Cookman. A matter of fact, I'm leaving to go out there tomorrow. They're playing on Grambling. Hopefully we'll get this w Man and the single Knights that we'll be on.
The field with it.
I love it.
I love it, you know.
Here here at JMFB, we love music, we love football, we love food.
I know you'd like to go all out for your game days when it comes to cooking. What's your perfect tailgate spread while you watch the game on Sunday.
We used to do like a real lobster tail cram leg burgers. You know.
We always have the guys over and we just you know, try to make it an event like every Sunday. But this Sunday is going to be out cast day at the Falcons game. So we're going out there to beat the Cowboys.
Oh man, I might need a tutorious.
Can we come over?
Oh my crab legs at my house.
It's early, but that makes me hungry. You always always eat well in Atlanta. That's something I've definitely learned.
I do again. Want to follow up on the family front here.
Congratulations also to you for being a grandfather talking about getting to watch your son play football. But I'm expecting my second and my parents have just been like over the moon sending everything already for you. What is it like getting to watch your grandson grow up?
It's amazing, man.
You know, I'm always you know, wanted to be young, healthy with a strong back.
So I could Chase. I really would expected. But he's been on the road with me. Man, he's a young Jedi training.
Man.
I bring him on stage and the people go crazy. Man shout out to units aka Cheesecake. Yeah yeah, man, just just making it happen man.
Next.
All right, so let's get right to the crux of what you're all about, big boy. If if Cheesecake could be one day a multi platinum rapper or a Falcons quarterback, which would be better quarterback?
Why? Yeah? Right now? With just rapping with the streaming, No, that's.
Not Wow, it's bad out there on the streets like that, huh.
I mean just with with the streaming.
I mean, you know, we came up, you know, physical copies, CDs, tapes and all that, But with just streaming, like a billion streams, you make like one hundred thousand dollars. I don't like that race yet. Yeah, gon't get that two hundred me out of quarterback contract. Make sure you got right, Officeland.
I hear you, dude, I hear you.
Listen the stories of you in the early days, you and Dre working as hard as you did and running and doing the lyrics while you were running so you could perform them on stage.
They're legendary.
What would you say, right now to a young person who wants to be the next big boy, who wants to be the next outcast, but is doing it in this climate for music, what would you say to what's your advice?
Originality is key?
Man?
Just be yourself. There's so much cutting pace out there. You got to break through. You got to be different. Man's that's the whole mantra Outcast. We never wanted to fit in on anything normal. So just do something new man. And if you want to go, get it, go get it.
You got to. You gotta just practice hard, man, and just get it done.
Special to be one of one. And I love how you guys came up with the name outcast.
When you hear though that your songs are still to this say, I'm talking like the Originals, the throwbacks being played as stadium anthems when.
You guys are in the booth.
Did you ever imagine that we would still be bumping too some of these songs?
And as this Outcast day on Sunday?
Are we going to see you also propel from the ceiling at Mercedes Rands?
There? Are you afraid of heights?
It all?
I don't think my insurance don't come it in. You know, it's just a blessing man, you know, to make timeless classics and the music. You know, we started out in nineteen ninety three and now here we are thirty years later. It's still hot, relevant TV commercials, world tours and yeah, man, God is great for sure.
And so are you guys, and so are everything you do.
You know what we love that you have big boy going on is say we love jersey collections.
It's NFL. It's what we do.
You showed off your hangout where you have all your jersey collections. It's an amazing top to bottom collection you've got. You have one that's like either your favorite jersey or maybe one that you're missing that you really want to get your hands on.
You know, it's crazy because they're all signed, right. I need to get Tom Brady got. I just don't have an autograph Tom Brady a bumping to him, but I didn't have a jersey on And then I actually found O Jay Simpson.
It's not signed though, and I don't think I get signed at this morning.
Yeah, yeah, that's.
Not but I'm gonna just put it up anywhere.
Do you have a Deon Sanders? Deon Sanders Colorado, because I mean, you know he's hot right now with you got to coach Prime.
No, I don't but them. He's supposed to be sending me some shoes.
But I do.
You know what, a lot of people ask why I don't have Michael Big. I do have a Michael Big. I got a Michael Big mannequin with the jersey, the tights, the shoes and everything. They just didn't see that that's.
In the other man.
That's that's a serious man cave trying to just be all but that man cave like I need one like that.
Keeping it play uplip.
Listen. This is Big Boy. This is the gear. He already plugged at outcast dot com. You can get it through the NFL. This is all officially licensed gear. You look great, dude. You never miss a beat. And of course when it comes to.
Your falcons down there in the NFC South, Look, the South got something to say too. And you know that, Big Boy, we love you, we love you, coming back, Thank you so much.
Appreciate your son again this weekend they've traveled.
Man.
Look keep that that is a set up.
I want I want that for christ Troy and the crab Legs on the grill, Calvin.
Johnson cool, good mom football.
Yes, the calendar says November first, so we saw fourteen games ahead of US Week nine. So let's bring in now our NFL analyst, Nate Tide, who has been hitting the film room hard.
Nata is always great to see you.
You think there's an under the radar heavyweight matchup, I'm looking at the slate here, where are you taking us on Sunday?
Yeah, a game that has a nine and a half point spread the last time I checked. But really, this is the statistical champ for the statistical champ. That's the Ravens offense versus the Broncos defense. This is as good on good as it gets any NERD number. You want to look at yards per play success right, explosive play right, this is number one versus number one.
So I'm just very excited.
I think in a game that looks like, oh, you know this kind of lopside of a rookie quarterback, it'st the Ravens defense a rope Kwon Smith. On the other side, you got Lamar And what is this Broncos defense. This is very very very good units going at it. They haven't played the toughest schedule. So that's why I think this is gonna be a really fun challenge for both units. It's a cool matchup as far as personnels. If the Ravens want to go Patrick Card, Derek Henry bully ball. Broncos got some guys for it. They can get big as well. They have their dbs, they have the corners and Patrick's ertain and Riley Moss that can match these quick, fast Ravens receivers that beat man coverage really well as a Flowers or Shot Babeman and now Deontay Johnson. So maybe I'm trying to really find what the angles are gonna be because both teams have answers for each other. So again stat wise, eye test wise, a really good matchup on this side of the ball. The other side maybe a little maybe some holes on each side, but still this side the ball very very fun nate.
Some teams win because they have great quarterbacks, and we get it, that's why you win. But there are also teams who have great quarterbacks who aren't really relying on them to save them. And one of those is the Bills, which has been their mo for It's just Josh Allen, just go be Superman.
But they're actually changing it up right now, and that's what you're saying.
Yes, absolutely, there's no longer the Josh Allen, go do something funny, go go make us a play job. This is complimentary football that the Bills are playing. They've had good defenses, so they still have that this year. But now we got a run game that's complimenting everything, just even outside Josh Allen. First, I want to show you the Deon Dawkins splits here on a zone run that the Bills have been really leaning into the last few weeks. Now, zone runs don't always mean go to the side that you're going. There's a cutback lane on these plays, and the offensive line does a great job, and because of the threat of Josh Allen, the safeties play back against the Bills too high safeties, so the Bills are able to get to these runs over and over. You even see defenders like the Jets defenders Tony Adams running with Josh Allen as he carries a bootleg. You fast forward a few weeks you go against the Seahawks. Here again you're getting a too high safety look. That means the light box, that means we can run the zone run away from the tight end, you get the wide split from Deon Dawkins again, Boom, this one hits to the front side and goes for another explosive run. So it's becoming an efficient run attack with James Cook and Ray Davis. But it's an explosive run attack, and you don't really need Josh Allen to be funny every single time. He could just drop in like a character actor and it's great. But that is why this Bill's attack is really evolving and becoming, i mean, surely a top top six offense with the compromary defense as well.
Mat you were talking about the Ravens and Broncos game and you're kept bringing up this word stats stats, Champ, ver stats, Champ.
Stat stats stats.
One big stat going into this week is Patrick Mahomes has a career low in passyards per game. However, they are still seven and zero. How are they getting it done on the offensive side.
I'm just going to continue the trend of a run game with a really good quarterback is a good at offensive attack with a good offensive line. This Chiefs team has realized, oh we have three really good interior blockers, let's use them. And they're really really just using its death by five yard games. It's a run attack like duo zone. They run a little bit of everything. It's just brutal efficiency that this Chiefs attack is leaned into. It feels like an old Andy Reid offense from me, either in Philadelphia with Donovan McNabb or his early years with.
The Chiefs with Alex Smith.
There's still that threat of the quarterback does so much to defenses that they're like, Okay, we don't want him to beat us with a haymaker. So what these offenses are doing, first the Bills and now the Chiefs is just Okay, we're gonna jab you in the face over and over and over. Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the face. Here with the Chiefs, it's Carson Steel or Kareem Hunt. It doesn't matter who the running back is. They're getting these gains so they don't need to launch the ball over and over. It's a brutally efficient attack and really the best run game in the NFL right now.
And that brings us to where we are now. I still can't believe that it's November. First, we're in November, so it's the back half of the season. Now this starts to get real right now. There are a lot of teams that are starting to separate, and there's some teams who are fighting back. We saw that last night with the Jets trying to fight back. What teams stock are you buying into right now?
This is one.
Maybe it's because I'm just buying my own Sason Hype. This is the Arizona Cardinals. They're surging right now, and they get a much easier second half schedule that I think I can really hedge on this surge that I'm talking about. But they've expanded Marvin Harrison Junior's role. They asked them to do a lot of the hard stuff, and now they're giving them some more gimmes. The touchdown that he had against the Dolphins is a great example of that running across the field. Their run game is one of the best in the NFL right now. Kyler Murray is playing very confident. This is the most he's had to ever play quarterback under center, deep play action stuff, and it's looking really, really good. So you've got a great run game, you got a pass game that's evolving and it can do a lot of the hard things. Have you mentioned Trey McBride, who's emerging as I would say a top four tight end in the NFL right now, not just fantasy wise and true true football play. Kyler Murray really relies on him as comfort with him. And then you got Greg Dortch in the slot, who's like a full hero. So you got a really really fun offense that can do a lot, can be explosive, can be efficient with a funky defense that gives offense. You can watch a fun George Kittle interview about that. So this team with an easier schedule, they ad just in the second half of games as well. I'm really really buying their stock and wide open NFC. Why not, because if you have an offense like this, it's a really good bet to make.
And with that type of involvement, you think they'll do well fine against the Chicago Bears.
I do.
That's a low key, really good matchup that I know what happened with the Hail Mary with the Bears. It's a good defense, I trust me it is. But maybe look out for a Marvin Harrison junior double move. That's one of my low key predictions. But yeah, so that's a really good matchup though, that Cardinals offense Bears defense is gonna be a nice slug fest.
Well, Nate, as we well know, and that's why you're so knowledgeable in all this. You watch like fifty hours of tape a week. I don't know how you do it, but.
Keeps rising every week.
With Halloween here, how much candy were you devouring that?
I to myself have been watching a lot of film but also ranking my candy and do research.
So who is this cutie?
That is my son Jack he's about to turn to That is his first Halloween outfit. He won as Max from all things Are Yes, we had a he has a big head like me, so we had to really fix the crown. That was something that we had to work with.
But he enjoyed.
He actually enjoyed handing out candy.
He's he's gonna be a yeah, he might be a point guard in basketball.
Wow, you know so it's like, yeah, he he doesn't want to score, so but no, he was.
He was loved it. It was a great time.
It was great for us too, a lot of fun, great neighborhood that we live here in Vegas, So that was a really enjoyable experience with to share with Jack and my wife's a professional photographer.
So that's cool pictures there.
Yeah, yes, well, so glad you guys enjoyed Halloween early.
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The biggest game of the weekend is the Lions at lambeau Field against the Packers on Sunday. And just a question, is anybody in any industry and any walk of life having any bet life right now than Jared Goff. I sat down with them. I asked him about that and so many other things. There's just a little taste of what's going to air on Sunday with the Lions quarterback.
I've got the Jared Goff scoreboard right here. I just want to rattle it off.
Okay, you're on a first place team, playing the best football of your career, you have a generous long term contract, masses of fans, chant your name and publish. How did a dreamy blonde Cali bro from Marin County become the hero of Rust Belt Detroit.
I think you know a lot of my journey. You know a lot of these fans can relate to and it's such a wild thing to experience, not only at games but all over the place. We got the best fans in the world, and you get something I'll look back on years from now and realize how wild and cool it's been.
Wild and cool is right, Guys, we talked about a bunch of different things, all these crazy trick plays and Ben Johnson doing hook and ladders. Offensive lineman Goff said, listen, that's about a six on the scale. We got some mates, nines and ten's ready still in the bag. The Lions are for real. The offense is incredible, and Jared Goff is the perfect leader in the most unlikely city.
I mentioned it.
This pretty boy from Marin County is the face of Detroit, Michigan, and he has a huge game this weekend. Guys for Akbar, for Mantai, for Sherry Burris.
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