The Saturday edition of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with a look back at questions surrounding the need for change within the Cowboys. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, Akbar Gbajabiamila. Manti Te'o, and Sherree Burruss examine Jerry Jones' reaction to another bad loss in Dallas. Vikings Head Coach Kevin O'Connell previews his matchup with the Lions while also bringing a surprise for Jamie. Plus, a look at the top games in Week 7 in Mad Minute!
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Let's talk about the Cowboys. I just watch forty seven and nine afterwards. This is one piece of sound here from the owner paying attention, so if you can even follow what he's saying, Jerry Jones after the loss.
Generally speaking, I think my message is is I know you don't need to hear me say this, but I'm well aware that we're in the proverb utiful herb right now.
Jerry Goot, what would it take you to a value of making a head coaching change in season?
Oh, I haven't considered that. I'm not considering that. We're so you're clear, I'm not considering.
That, but you've done it.
I wouldn't have to be a hypothetical in that matter. Do you think I'm an idiot?
Do you okay?
Well, I'm not hypothetical with you about one not considering coaching change and a lot of the timing we're sitting here with I'm not at all.
Wow, what a clary.
Little ornery.
Okay, so you an idiot you begin to evaluate being a head coaching change, I am not even being I'm not I'm not even considering that. Do you think I'm an idiot? I am not even going to speculate that. Oh boy, that was a bad, bad loss for the Cowboys. Not the first time at home though this season, and this trend even goes back to the playoffs in January, Peter the State of the Nation on the Cowboys all Terry Jones. Where do you go from here in this conversation alone.
Well, troubling trend. You go back to that Packers playoff game. They have now been outscored in the first half one hundred and ten to thirty four in their last four home games one hundred and ten.
To thirty four.
They were eight to zero at home last year, They're oh to three at home this year. Team doesn't seem to be turning it around. Even the last two wins, which we celebrated against the Giants and the Steelers.
In primetime, we were saying, like, doesn't look great.
Like the defense found a way, but the offense doesn't look like it should be looking here's the brass tacks. It sounds like they're not firing Mike McCarthy. But in a world where Woody Johnson said goodbye to Robert Sala after a two and three start, I don't think anything's off the table. There's a bye week now like this. If you look at when it's time to fire coaches mid season, you usually do it during the bye week, and usually do it on a contract year. This is Mike McCartney's, Mike McCartney's last year of his contract.
And the defense, I don't care how many guys are injured.
I know Kendricks and Parsons and Bland weren't in You can't give up forty seven points at home on National TV with Tom Brady saying, man, I wish I could play quarterback for the Detroit Giants.
Just a trouble. But like Jerry's, Jerry's all.
In on Michael Carthinn the why din't you give him a contract extension this offseason?
Are you all in on Mike Zimmer as a defensive coordinator. Are you all in on Paul Gunthart? These their names from years ago that are now and I look at the talent.
They are star heavy, and you could sell a lot of jerseys with Dak Prescott and Micah Parsons and Cdee Lamb. But they sure are thin on that roster. They sure don't have a lot of backups. So those guys go out. And I know Brandon Cooks didn't play yesterday, but I don't know if any other wide receivers did either. It was a really eye opening performance and Jerry might be sensitive, but at eighty two years old, I don't know. I'm looking at it at a seventy seven year old owner and Woody Johnson who looked at his team and said, probably not gonna win a Super Bowl this year. I'm gonna rip the band aid off and try to do something to kickstart our team.
This is the bye week.
If the Cowboys were gonna do it, I would think this would be the time.
What a way to celebrate your eighty second birthday. I mean, that was just gut wrenching.
You know.
When I looked at it, you know, schematically, it seemed like it was real easy to just take.
Away the Cowboys.
It's like, hey, look we're going to stop the passing game, right, that was the probably the best attribute that they had offensively, and we're going to see if you can run the ball. And they just couldn't run the ball. They couldn't do anything. They couldn't really get the ball down the field, run the ball. And I think that the Detroit Lions really played them well to a point where it just really exposed this big issue.
This is a great.
Opportunity for the Cowboys, getting ready to go into the bye week, to really kind of change that momentum, change the narrative, get that team going back in into in Week seven. Now, they got to spend this week seven by going whoa, who are we?
What are we? How do we come out of this?
Look, they really missed Michael Parsons not being able to put any pressure on the quarterback. I mean, look, Jared Goff was just statuesque and just going out and just dising up the defense down the field. It was it was just it was an epic failure in a large way, like when you start doing trick plays like this to just like really show up and like I dare you guys to do something.
Try I bet you can't touch me. I bet you can't touch me.
And it's not like Jared Goff is like the most mobile quarterback, not that he needs to be, but he was just sitting there, just standing like a wreck, just standing like I actually thought I heard him go in the pocket.
That's that when quarterbacks start going micd up in the pocket. Yeah, that's tough. When we see the micd up of this. Gonna might hear him say that. I think there's a loathness for teams to be the first team of the year to let a coach go. I think they don't want to do that. And then when someone breaks the seal, as the Jets did, then it's open season. Have you ever worked with someone whose greatest talent is office politics? I definitely have whose greatest skill is just getting the people in charge to like them and to go to war for them. I think we're there with Mike McCarthy. I think they should make a coaching chance. I think they should make it this morning. I don't usually like lighting torches and say fire this man. It's crude and it's it's not what I do. But let's make a coaching change. Peter referenced this, I want you to understand the historical context of this. Four straight home games where at halftime they're losing by fifteen plus.
That's the longest streak of all time.
That's never happened before, not in the twenty first century, not since the merger, since the advent of the game. No team has been getting its ass kicked at home at halftime more times in a row than these Cowboys. And made me you sympathize because they have a lot of big injuries, especially on defense. All right, they have the worst rushing offense in the league. They have the worst red zone offense in the league. No one has more red zone turner rows than the Cowboys, which is really the worst thing you can do in the sport. They do leave the league in something field goals. Mike McCarthy is not a bad guy. He is not a bad coach. I don't even think he has a bad football team, because they're worse than bad. In Jerry's universe. They're hopeless. And let me tell what I mean by that. What is the best case scenario for the Cowboys that the defense gets healthy and they pull out of this rut. And they finish eleven and six to just get annihilated again in the wild card round by the Lions, the Niners, the Packers. Take your pick, that's the worst case, sneer and not the best, because then that just resets the cycle and you have yet another dark age of Cowboys dignitaries like Emmitt Smith going around to every show saying they can't believe Mike McCarthy is still the head coach on the past where he said, one of the reporters said to.
Jerry, Jerry, you've done this before mid season.
It's true.
Twenty ten, Wade Philip we fired mid season the year before. They're in the divisional round, great, doing really well. They started one and seven. Jerry did it immediately. Jason Garrett comes in, wins two games, they finished five and three. It made a massive change. I just don't know what we're waiting for around here. I don't know why he started this season. I don't know why Jerry Jones is obsessed with Mike McCarthy. He says, do you think I'm an idiot? No, I don't think you're in I think you love Mike McCarthy. It's your eighty second birthday.
Yesterday.
Treat yourself. What else do you possibly need, Jerry? Do you really need a new hellipad on the yacht or do you maybe need a new coach on the sideline? Treat yourself. You've earned it. I think the Cowboys fans deserve.
It, and Kyle something else they do well. They give the ball away a lot. They're second in the league in giving the ball away on offense. I mean that's the giveaways. You can't win games eturnal.
We know that.
We hear coaches t ako.
Yeah, they're not protecting much the Cowboys. That response from Jerry to say, do you think I'm an idiot?
To me?
That speaks of a.
Man who he wants to be the first to bring this topic up. I don't think Jerry Jones wants to be incessantly asked about his head coach and the status of h his decision making and how he goes about it. I think Jerry Jones wants to stand up, let's say on Friday, and say I have had a profound idea and it's my idea and it wasn't because you baited me into this conversation. And I want to be able to answer this question when I do about Mike McCarthy. Kyle, that was I know for you, you had to know what you were saying and when you said it and how you said it. When you say that I think the Cowboys should make a head coaching change, and now you're saying if the Cowboys are hopeless, that Teeter's on the old parenting tactic of I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed in you.
Because if a football team is.
Bad, that's one thing to be hopeless. And Kyle Brandt is on a Monday calling you hopeless, then that is another bad thing, Kyle? What got you here?
Finally, it's that thing.
About it at home? They're terrible.
And you think about the Cowboys fans.
If you get up on a Sunday, we're gonna go to the game. We got tickets, we're gonna put our jerseys on, we're gonna park and we're gonna tailgate. We're gonna walk in and four straight times, you and your wife and kids, your husband or whatever, you're just dennihilating. Should we leave at halftime? What is this product? So you walk into this beautiful edifice and this product in this star and it's just awful and not at the end of the game. They lose on a field goal. The game is over at halftime, and you're honestly thinking, like, should we beat traffic? And you should. So it's not bad. It's just miserable and the future is hopeless. I don't understand. I know that's so negative, and I hate that on Monday. It's not what we do in this beautiful yellow and blue good morning football. World's suposed to be po positive. Find me the positive. It's really really bad. And I don't understand why any other team would say we should make a coaching change, but Jared's like ready to punch someone if you even suggest maybe you should. I don't understand the loyalty you've shown plenty, Jerry. It's time to get to the bottom.
I think the optics are huge too.
You're playing three nationally televised games with Tom Brady on the call, and you're losing by these nuts things and.
They're all at home. You look at it. They've looked good on the road.
They beat Cleveland in Cleveland, they beat the Giants in New York, and they went into Pittsburgh at one eleven in the morning on the East Coast and came out with the victory, but for whatever reason, their product at home has just been so substandard that Saints loss still rubs me wrong. Now you look at the Saints. The Saints are two and four team that aren't going anywhere. The Saints had six straight touchdown drives against that defense with Micah Parsons on the field, So there's questions abound.
And it's also the optics of.
In their building Jerry World, and they just get run all over and they have no shot in these.
Games and couldn't even score touchdown. I mean that's the path. Yeah, they score touchdown.
For the man that's calling plays, it's not good.
Offensively Dacks after the game saying I love that man. I love Mike McCarthy. I'll go to war from everybody in that locker room loves and loves and loves them, and I totally respect that. You have to take it out of their hands.
The Jets love Sala. They love Salah, and if.
You love them so much, score a touchdown or tackle someone. It's great that you love them. You don't play like you love them, So it's not your decision.
It is not well, as they said, they're entering a bye decisions to be made. They have some time to think on it, look at the tape, and it's not just one game. As we have said this morning, it has been a trend and it's been trending downward.
Good morning football.
Have an O'Connell, the head coach of the under period Minnesota.
Yeah, let's go this guy.
Good morning coach, what coach?
Good morning guys.
I've been I've been looking forward to catching up with the crew man.
It's been a long time.
T hell Yeah, welcome.
In, get into the breakfast table here at KOC.
Listen.
I have to imagine, and Kyle just referenced it, the amount of hype and training camp surrounding your building and your team. There's one way to coach that you can say, Hey, people doubt us, they're not looking at us, but now there is no ignoring you.
Guys.
You sit five and zero.
What's the more challenging thing to coach? Is it avoiding noise at a five and o team? Or is it an underappreciated team to start the season.
You know, Jamie, I think for us, I had a lot of confidence in our team from the time we started to see the pieces we added with our returning players. In the spring, I started to feel something that could be unique and cool and a really fun group to coach with a lot of potential to have a great season. So when we came to training camp, my first meeting with the guys was really not about anything other than I think we're going to be a good football team. I think we got to go earn it. I think we got to get a lot a lot accomplished every single day. But if we do that, they're going to be talking about us, because that was my belief in the team. Uh So when you do it like that, there's really not any noise. That's either not enough people talking about you or now that we've had a little bit of success here, people seem to think we, you know, have something going on here.
The outside noise is just that. And and my hope was the guys would.
Listen to each other and and and the and and the words that I had for them to try to get them thinking about what was important, which was the guys in our locker room and the fact that we all had confidence we could have success. And and that's just kind of how it's happened. It's it's it's been a really cool group of guys, and I love my coaching staff, love our players, and we just go to work every day.
KLC Man. First off, you know I say it to you all the time. Now I'm just so genuinely, genuinely happy for you. You know, I look at your.
Career so far.
You know, you got to start off hot team and fourth start off your first season as a coach. Then that kind of goes down into that seven and ten season and then here we go. You rehabilitate and you guys are starting off hot five and zero, but particularly you rehab that your player, your quarterback, Sam Darnald. Many of our business would say, you know, we would call Sam Donald, you know, a success surprise, like I can't believe it. Can you tell us why you're not surprised about him and what his game has been able to do for your team, for your offense, and why is he a perfect fit for your offense?
Yeah?
Okbar, I think every quarterback goes on a journey, and you know, I think you guys on this show do a really great job of highlighting the quarterback play throughout the league. And there's so many great players, but all of those guys at that position are on a different path, different journey. You just never quite know, you know, until you get a chance to coach guys, you never quite know exactly what their truest potential is. And I just remember bar Sam in college, seeing him, you know, with all the talent in the world, and always thought to myself, I think that guy could play at a really high level in the NFL. We get a chance to coach him this year. He's done everything we've asked of him from day one, you know, put together a heck of a spring, a great training camp.
None of us were surprised.
And you really talking to a lot of his teammates, they see the talent, they see the makeup, they see what he's able to get done on a daily basis, and then he's just taking that right into right into US Bank or anywhere else we played and put that on display for the whole world to see. I'm proud of Sam. I think Sam can keep on getting better and better, and I think there's a lot of great football out in front of him leading our team this year.
Kevin, We're happy man, We're happy to have you on the show. We're happy to see you guys five and zero, and it's especially great when it's one of these surprising seasons. But you're telling us you had the conviction all along. I will ask you, what's up with the blackout shades behind?
What is that? I see justin Jefferson run some routes? So what are we doing? What do we open up up the shades behind you?
I would like to see some practice here, but I got it is.
It's a beautiful view out to our practice fields. The only problem is when I get together with the fellas to put together a little game planning right about you know sundown, that thing shines in here with the fires and you know what I've got between looking at my computer screen, my television, or I'll tell you what, you know, maybe a late night rerun of Good Morning Football.
You know I got to.
The glare is not, uh, you know, too bad, So I apologize for that. I promise you We've got beautiful facility in all the NFL, and I would love to show you those practice fields.
But yeah, down this morning.
It's a sleek looking office. Peter looks way better.
Than the Fays.
Sorry has cool slogans.
Though, yeah, well yeah, everybody hustle.
Yeah, I haven't seen his new one.
Yet, But I can tell you they need those slogan because those concrete walls they had to hide, they had to hide them things.
I spent a lot of time in that bunker with Sean, so I know you did.
Hey, speaking of in the bunker, I don't know where you spent your bye week, But I'm watching this Lions offense in the Dallas and they're doing trick plays and they're throwing it to linemen and Ben Johnson's winking at the camera and it's like, I don't know if this was a message for Dallas or if this was a message for Minnesota, and hey, you got to prepare for this.
Where did you watch that Cowboys Lions game? And just how different.
Was that kind of offensive game plan in a week six game, showing all the bells and whistles that Detroit did on film?
Yeah, I watched.
I watched it at home with my two boys, Caden and Colton, and they kept on saying, man, that was a cool play, Dad, Man, that was a cool play.
Dad.
I saw the same thing everybody else did, but making mistake about it.
Detroit has been.
They've what you know, what they were on Sunday is what they've been which is a highly highly coached, very talented offensive team, and really it's their whole football team, guys. They're really well coached. AG does a great job on the defensive side. I think Ben is, you know, a phenomenal coordinator, great play caller, but it's one thing to call plays, but that.
Group is really well coached.
Their execution, the detail that you see come out on tape.
It's a really good football team.
And we've got to play really well in all three phases to have.
A chance to win the game. It's going to be awesome to be at home.
Our home crowd has been phenomenal for us this year, and we want to play well again in front of them, and we're going to need to to try to have a chance to win this game.
We can't wait to watch this game. We really are genuinely excited. It's the best game of the week everyone's going to be watching. But I'm going to go off script for you here, Coach. I have I have something. I have so much respect for your career as a player and a coach. You've just seen it all and you have so many interesting relationships. So I'm gonna give you a hypothetic all right, you were at a very very fancy steakhouse having dinner, and there's steaks, and there's bottles of wine, and it's a huge bill. The bill comes at the end of the meal. Here are the people at the table with you. You're there with Kirk Cousins, Rex, Ryan, Sean McVay, and Tom Brady. Who is reaching for the check first?
Oh?
Well, I can promise you it's not gonna be me.
I know, you know, I would say would I would like to you know, I can tell you this much, Kyle, I got a distinct order of who's reaching for that bill.
But I care about all those every one of those folks you just mentioned.
Good answer.
I think the best answer is I probably wouldn't even have brought my wallet to that dinner. Yeah, that would have been the expectation. But I would have ordered myself something nice. I promise you that I would have been drinking, you know, probably very nice wine that I definitely did not order.
It would have been a phenomenal.
And I can tell you I do all know, I do know all those folks, and that meal has never taken place before. But that might be one for one for the ages. If we got that group together.
I gotta do it. The best part is that cousins would pay for the check, but you pay with a gift card that he had. We gotta make that meal happen, all right, listen, coach, Not only are we very excited to have you on before the best game of the week, apparently you come bearing gifts. I heard that you have a surprise and I would like to give you the floor to present it.
I got nothing but love for you, Kyle Akbar Peters, my guy. But you know, Jamie, obviously you hold a special place within this building, as you know, as a Minnesotan and a former resident of the Twin Cities. We figured what better time to bring you back home than when we play the Indianapolis Colts.
I know you know a.
Lot about our culture, our great environment at US Bank Stadium, But how about coming out to sound our galler horn?
Nothing? You know? What do you think?
That's amazing? Coach?
Oh my gosh, thank you you coach? Oh my gosh, I don't thank you.
I can't wait. When is the game?
We uh, it's it's it's a couple of weeks away.
We play, obviously the Lions, and we head out to play the Rams, you know, hopefully not in shown bunker office, and then then we'll host the Colts.
So, oh my gosh, I love.
To have you. It would be phenomenal.
And I just want to say, there was a lot to unpack with your conversation with TP as a as a now third year resident of Minnesota. There's a lot to impact there for me. Yeah.
Well, when we hopefully share a good bottle of wine someday, I will give you all the insights to where not to live, not to send your kids to school. I got all the takes apparently for the state of Minnesota. I am so honored and florida and speechless, and I really have nothing to say.
I am so griekful.
Thank you. I love the state of Minnesota so much.
Coach, thank you.
Wow, I get this is good.
Yeah, guys, thank you for having me much this weekend.
Coach.
Coach, Oh my god, good luck this weekend.
But oh.
Good football.
But it's time to play a little game of mad minute. We're going to put sixty seconds on the clock. You guys each get a comment, but there are four of you, so let's try to be nice and allow some other time for other hosts. As you just saw in that video, we are hyping up that matchup between the Vikings and the Lions. Vikings still undefeated in their division as they take on Detroit.
Peter, I'm gonna start with you. The floor is yours.
Tell us what excite you the most in this one.
I don't think it's been a better offensive coordinator over the last few weeks than Ben Johnson, and showed it last week against Dallas where he had no problem emptying the bag in the fourth quarter of a blowout, throwing the ball to offensive lineman, doing hook and laterals to offensive linemen.
And then on the other end, you've got Brian.
Flores who has been all world as a defensive coordinator.
Really cool chess match here.
I'm looking at the coaches and their game plans because I think it's going to be great from both sides.
Someone has to win.
I listen, I'm looking at someone has to play some defense to Lions lead the league in points. They are the number one offense in the NFL, and if you pull up the key quarterback statistics, I won't bore you with them. Jared Goffer of the last three games has done something no one has ever done since the merger. My favorite phrase in football since the merger. No one's really ever had a hot hand like Jared Goff does. Right now, Vikings have to have some stops.
Yeah, this is the game of the week.
I think this is going to come down to you know, which team is going to be able to handle pressure and pressure. I mean, I know for Jared Golf, he's going to get all that pressure from Brian Flores and then Sam Donald, I don't think he's ever playing the game this big.
Yeah, stop to run. If you're the Vikings, you got to stop that run because all of the other stuff creditates off of the run. So stuff the run.
Stopped the run.
That exactly hit all the buzzer.
Sam Darnold won five plus consecutive games for the first time in his career.
Will he stay hot?
But heading to the atl where Kirk Cousins and the Falcons they play hosts to the Seahawks, who have lost their last three games in a row. Kyle, what'son out to you in this one?
Yeah?
The Seahawks are like the Pacific Northwest Saints, Like they started really well and then everything's just falling apart. I don't like this matchup for them. I think Atlanta runs the hell out of the ball. Between he and Bejon, Atlanta is playing really hard and taking on the personality of their head coach right now. I like Atlanta in this game. What do you got our bar?
You're right because you look at this Seattle's defense. They're giving up I mean, one hundred and forty four yards a game. Bijon's don't go off, Algiers gonna go off. I really like this guy. I'm gonna give you some more time though, man.
Time, thank you, thank you, thank you. Give me more time and give Kenneth Walker the ball more. That's that's what you got to do. You're the Seattle Seahawks. Take that pressure off of Gino. Like Gino's feeling a lot of pressure, he makes a lot of bad decisions when he feels that pressure. Take some pressure off. Give the ball to Kenneth Walker, let him do his thing.
I would say, DK Metcalf. I'm gona keep an eye on because the last time we saw him he was put on a headset and screaming at the offensive coordinator on the sidelines of that Thursday night loss. Look, it's been a long ten days up until the kickoffs because they lost on a Thursday night. Seattle should not lay an egg in this one. They should come down there being ready to play. And after three straight losses, I would feel like this is kind of the season in the balance. Are you a real team or are you a pretender? We'll see this weekend.
And as good as Mike McDonald had that defense looking early on in the season, you gotta imagine put a little fire under those guys behind. Now looking at Eagles Sakon Barkley heading back to me life to play his former team, the New York Football Giants, Akbar, how off do you seeon gonna go in this game?
You know we can all talk about Saquon. I'm gonna plump that off to some of the other guys to talk about Taquon. I'm want to see this offense for the Philadelphia Eagles kind of click and dial in with the wide receivers. I want to see you hitting Smith and I want to see you hitting Brown down the field. I want to see Hurst. I want to see this offense compete and flow on a more consistent level outside of just the run game of Saquon Man.
I miss mylik neighbors, I think we all miss Milik neighbors, and I don't think anybody misses Milik as more than Danny Dimes. Like, when Malik is in there, the New York Giants just look like a totally different team. So let's get Milik Malik in there and let him, let him do some magic.
He's back.
You know, it's going to be hyped as the Saquon revenge game, and we could talk about all that we've done that. I do think both these fan bases are very very concerned about their teams right now, and for different reasons. The Giants they can't score at home, they can't win at home. Meanwhile, the Eagles, whatever that was with Siriani last week, like what's the response? That was the maybe the worst possible way to win a game, and especially the fan reaction afterwards in the media reaction, it was as if they lost the game and now they've got to go into New York, which is not a friendly environment.
Takes some time.
So guys, a minute. The segment's called mad minute.
Yeah, it is sixty seconds.
If we have four prescribed responses, sixty divided by four is fifteen fifteen. So we want to be at forty five, thirty and fifteen remaining. Let's see what we can do on this one, Sherry, come.
On, let's go.
This isn't to come to you first, to make sure you have as much time as you want.
Plus the fifteen.
All right, Mike McDaniel, the Dolphins will be to turn things around when they had to Indy to take on the Colts, said Kyle, all you on this one, Well, when.
You think about the Dolphins and the Colts, there's so many great things come to mind. Firse, you go to history. I mean some fantastic players when you see those Sulla all kind of you know, Manning Marino, all these old rivalries, but what really comes to them?
I go ahead, off, bar just spend.
Oh well, okay, well, first off, I don't even know how to come back from that, but I do know that the Miami Dolphins have been horrible with them.
Out of time, our bargo, make it fifteen seconds, let's go twenty fo Okay, you got Michael Pittman Ada, Ni Mitchell, Jonathan Taylor, but the main guy for me is going to be Josh Downs.
That's that's that's my guy, and Ripson's guy.
And I'm up right now.
Go ahead, Peter, Oh, Peter, Peter, get in there.
I just I mean, Flacco has been winning games.
Sloco has been throwing the ball well, but everything I'm here, and it's like Richardson's the guy. That's a really fascinating situation. And it's one of those where it's indianapoisis three and three a win there right in the thick of this thing.
Do you really go.
Back to the young quarterback or do you ride the hot hand? This is the stuff that decides seasons, And it looks like they might go back to the young quarterback Lack.
We almost stay with I mean, Faco magic. We almost made that whole sixty seconds work. Let's try again, shall we. Titans coming limping into Buffalo. The Bills are standing right at four and two after beating Rogers in the Jets. You remember back on Monday night football, Manti for you, what is on your mind.
When you look at these two?
What's on my mind is, how does Amari Cooper affect this offense? Like, how does he affect Kate, How does he affect collucial career? How does he affect Cooks in.
The run game?
Just to see that dynamic kind of play out itself. I'm looking forward to that.
Yeah, Tennessee is your season.
You know, Will Levis, we put you in that same group with Caleb and with and with Bryce Young and all those young quarterbacks you were grouped in there. Caleb, it's going great. Bryce Young is not Will Levis, it's not going well. And Mason Rudolph played on that Monday night game and played better than Will Levis. So to go into Buffalo and get a win would be huge. But I don't have a ton of confidence that it's suddenly going to snap and work like this, especially with Calvin Ridley being so disappointed last week with his action.
Don't you think DeAndre Hopkins just sits there and looks across the field and he looks at Amrii Cooper and what's wrong with me? He said yesterday. I'm something about it. I'm where God intends me to be, which is a beautiful sentiment. It's got to be tough for him to look across the field and Titans are not good.
Yeah, Buffalo coming off that big Monday night football win. All I got to say is Ray Davis he didn't get a lot of love. So I'm just gonna take up this time to keep saying his name, Hey David, that dude the bow out of Kentucky.
I don't care if the buzzer went all.
I want that dude to get his love.
I'm telling you right now, Ray David's gonna run for a whole bunch of yards.
He's right, yeah, and tells me Josh Allen's one hundredth career start in week seven. How about that for a milestone? All right, guys, last one from mad minute. The five and one Texans come into lambo facing the four and two packers. This should be a good one. Peter, tell me what standing out when you look at him.
Any other week, this is the game of the week. Yeah, literally, any other week, this is the game of the week. It's almost like the fourth one on the slave. This is like a really good boxing card, and this is like the early undercard Houston Green Bay.
I look at the quarterbacks. We've got two.
Great quarterbacks who are both understated, and they're not looking at me.
Guys.
There are two players and markets that aren't necessarily New York and La and Dallas. I think Love and Stroud. This is awesome and guess what it could be a Super Bowl preview.
Who do you take if you get one of these quarterbacks moving forward for your franchise? Who do you want? Who do you want? I think I would probably take Stroud is a little younger, and I just think he's slightly more talented. But this is luxury stuff. I love this get in here.
Yeah, it's gonna come down to the defenses on both sides being able to rattle these two superstar quarterbacks. And that's what is gonna come down to me. Defense bringing pressure, getting these guys to play out of character.
Well, the Houston Texans are ranked number one and QB pressure, So if there's anybody that can handle that, it's going to be Jordan Love. And you know he's a little older, but he's still this is only his second year in the NFL, So you're going against two of the best quarterbacks in the league right now, and then it's gonna be an exciting one.
And then coach mak o' ryan's looking forward to taking on Jordan Love.
In that game.
Great work, guys, I think for the most part, I'd say that was success.
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