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It's a Tuesday live in Los Angeles. It's the Hurd. Wherever you may be and however you may be listening. Thanks for making us part of your day. Jmack, it has been very difficult for him this morning. He is wondering what he has with the Jets, and I'm here to tell him nobody knows, not even the Jets. The good news is Aaron Rodgers wasn't limping around. He just wasn't highly effective. After that one really good first half drive where I thought the play calling was good. Oh the free pass touchdown, Give me a break. I'm not getting two worked out, but I did think they had one really good drive. Now the Cowboys have five really good drives. The Niners had seven really good drives. So be that as it may. But I'm my question is are the Jets capable of having eight scoring drives in a game, and I don't think they have the players to do it.
By the way, Julian Edelman's coming up later in the show. Remember the first time he was on here, he took a jab at me about the Jets. I wonder how many they'll be lobbing my way today. You kind of earned it, not me, Robert Salah earned it. Coach up the defense, buddy, that's your job.
Weren't you kind of appalled by it?
Kind of appalled?
Undrafted running back, seventh round quarterbacks, seventh round receiver, pushed all your first rounders round off the field.
The kids asked if I could they could have dessert. I was like, I don't give up, and I just was angry. I'm like watching the game just so, yeah, take it out in your kids, That's always the answer.
Very professional, right.
Leave me alone?
All right? Here we go. My takeaway on the Herd hierarchy. There are two teams in this league that I think are really good. I'm not sure there's a third. I'm not sure sure. I think we have two really good teams in this league and a bunch of uneven lopsided teams. And bad quarterback play. Here we go, heard hierarchy.
Now go the top ten NFL teams according to College.
Number ten, listen, Baker Mayfield was fantastic. Tampa scored on seven of eight drives. Baker was twenty four of thirty and totally comfortable. And that's against dan Quinn, who's regarded as a pretty sharp defensive mind. Evans and Godwin thirteen of fourteen one hundred and forty four yards when targeted. I don't think Tampa is a great team, but Baker looked like the MVP.
Of the league.
Bucks at ten, number nine, listen, they were in big trouble for a while, but I know what Miami is and what they are. On a very distracted day because of that unfortunate Tyreek Hill situation, they outscored the Jaguars when it mattered, thirteen nothing in the second half. The only team in the league to have multiple one hundred yard receivers. Listen, They're not an even team. It's all about the brain and McDaniel, the speed on the outside in Tua. But right now in the NFL, that's a top ten team. I like Miami at number nine, number eight Chargers. Again, they have an identity, more rushing yards than passing yards. Physical play. I thought Joe Alt for a rookie was unbelievable. Did not allow a single pressure eleven snaps against Max Crosby. So they are a at tackle, a at rush end, a at quarterback, and a at coach. They have an identity. Ninety percent of this league this morning doesn't have an identity. Chargers at eight, number seven. Maybe it's low the Texans. They're still young, and that was a tough road game, but they didn't have any turnovers. CJ. Stroud played clean. They had four hundred and seventeen total yards. You know, I'm I'm about a week from putting them at number three. If they go home and hammer the I think I may move the Texans to number three. I'm not quite ready, but good God, Stefon Diggs comes in touchdowns. Joe Mixon bang. I cannot believe how quickly they have built this roster up. I'm a semi believer. If they hammer the Bears, I think I'm putting them at three right now. I've got them at seven, number six, and it's just experience. Why I have the Ravens at six because I worry about Baltimore's offensive line three new starters, but you know what, they didn't even play that well and they almost beat Kansas City at Arrowhead. I just love the players and the things I love about Baltimore. I truly love the owner, the coach, Lamar Stanley, the toughness. Listen, if you can go toe to toe with what appears to be an excellent, better than last year Chiefs team and lose by an inch and a half, you're pretty damn good. Ravens at six, number five, But I'll give the Cowboys credit that I turned the fourth quarter off. Sorry Fox, Sorry Tom. It was a blowout. I mean, they got so so many pressures on de Shaun Watson. Now some of that is The offensive line for Cleveland was a mess. Like the Rams, it was using backups. So I don't want to go too crazy on Dallas. I still thought, situationally on that sixty six yard field goal, it's Dallas and it was a banged up team. But I'm gonna give them credit. I know it's September, I know it's hype, but I'll put the Cowboys.
At five, number four.
The Lions played poorly in one. That's the sign of a good team. Their defense allowed three hundred and four passing yards, but some of that is McVeigh, Stafford, Cooper Cup that's what the Rams do. But but I did think many of the completions and throws were great plays by Stafford, not bad defense. It wasn't like the Jets last night where guys were wide open all over the field. Stafford made amazing throws and the offensive line right where it should be. With PFF is number one. Again, I think this is a power team, not a pretty team. They got a little cute and pretty against the Rams. I think they should be running the football forty five times a game. Number three, it's weird. I think it's the Eagles, and I don't know if they're good. They're bad defensively. Now some of that's Green Bay's great offensively, but let's be honest. AJ Brown and Devonte Smith seventy five yards plus rushing Saquon Barkley over one hundred yards. Jalen hurts they got nothing but weapons offensively, and this is an offensive league. Well, their defense isn't good. Well, the Jets defense was atrocious last night, and that's supposed to be a good one. The Ravens defense is supposed to be a good defense. Kansas City did whatever they wanted. I mean, you keep telling me about all these great defenses, doesn't matter. At the end of the year, it's all offenses. All I see with Philadelphia is playmakers everywhere all over the field. So even though Jalen Hurts had some turnovers, there were a machine. I think green Bay could get to the Super Bowl and green Bay couldn't stop them. Number two San Francisco eight straight scoring drives against the Jets. I could put them at number one, but I have so much respect to be able to beat the Ravens. I'm not going to it is the Jets. What's amazing is an undrafted running back. They got a tight end from Harvard, a seventh round receiver, a seventh round quarterback, didn't have Christian McCaffrey, and they did whatever they wanted to everything, interior running, outside running, jet sweep, scream, everything they wanted to do they did. All those first rounders on defense for the Jets pushed all over the field by six and seven rounders. Number one, I'll give it to Kansas City seven yards of play against the Ravens defense. And again I'll go back to this who really plays great defense in the league. If you're great situationally, then you're great in the NFL. Dallas had a great pass rush against Cleveland's backup all line.
Yeah.
I think the bottom line is Xavier Worthy touched the ball three times and had two touchdowns. That had to be encouraging. Hollywood Brown's coming back. I think we have I'll say it again, I think we have two great teams in the league after that, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Detroit our flawed team. Philadelphia and Detroit's back end defen didn't very good and Baltimore's on line concerns. If they didn't have Lamar Jackson, I don't know what i'd think, but they do, so they'll get away with an average offensive line.
The way.
I saw some bad quarterback play this weekend, but not with Mahomes and brock Purty. So there's my top ten. Nick right, first thing's first host joining US live. I think you'll probably not like the Philadelphia pick, but I'm serious.
Yeah.
Listen, Amos scored forty points and that's with three turnovers. It's like they can win shootouts. That's what the league's become, hasn't it.
Well, sure, so I, yeah, I don't like I like this hierarchy a lot. In general, there's a few I would pick a few knits. I think, you know, the Bills have an argument they should be on there over the Dolphins. I really like that you gave Bakers the you know, the love. But let's talk about Philly because coming into the year, there was concerns how much are they going to miss Jason Kelsey.
Well, they had bad snaps and couldn't execute a Toushbush. Seems like they miss him.
Is Jalen going to continue to turn the ball over at an alarming rate? Well, he had three and was very fortunate he didn't have five. So yeah, is the defense going to be a bottom five defense in the NFL for the second straight year.
It didn't blow me away.
Despite the fact that anythink Jordan Love was that sharp, I think you are potentially overestimating how good the Packers defense is when evaluating how great the Eagles offense looked. Listen Saquan was sensational, and we know AJ Brown is a superstar and DeVante Smith is as good of a number two receiver as anyone has.
But I don't trust the coach.
I don't trust the defense, and as more and more time goes passed since that Super Bowl, I lose more and more faith in the quarterback. So I think Philly is way overvalued. I think Colin, what you set off at the end there is exactly right. If you watched football from Thursday to last night, it sure feels like the Chiefs and the Niners are here and the rest of the league is here. Yeah, which maybe makes an argument that Baltimore should be number three, because while you know Kansity controlled the game, Baltimore did have a chance to steal it.
And I don't know.
How many people are gonna play when Kansaity is locked in and essentially fully healthy, them tougher than Baltimore did. And I know teams will get better, and you know it's early, but it sure seems like that Kansas City and San Francisco, the two Super Bowl teams from last year through a week, look like clearly the two best teams in football.
Also, I think what speaks so well other sports can't do this. But Houston was a laughingstock two years ago, So if they blow out Chicago, there's an argument they are in the upper cross of the league. Which is why it's so much fun. C J. Stroud is so good, so fast. I want to talk about the Jets, though, I said this, even though I can be disappointed with teams like Miami, I know what they are, Buffalo McDermott, Josh Allen, I know what they are. Hell the Patriots, physical defense, I know what they are. I come out of the Jets game last night. My take is, what are they? The defense was awful? What was your interpretation of what you watched?
Oh that's so surprising that you said you came out.
What are they? Colin?
You know what they are? They're the Jets. The Jets, the team. They've always been a team that is poorly coached, unreliable, has had a good but if we're being honest, a little overrated defense, folks.
If folks have been.
Trying to play this shell game, this three card MONI game with the Jets narrative for three years now, which is we have this amazing pass defense they've told us, and I think it's good. I think it's a good pass defense. Sauce Gardner is a great player. But then they've also been saying, and we won seven games despite having the worst quarterback, play in the world, not recognizing one of the reasons your past defense number was so good was because your own quarterback play was so bad. Teams got a lead and didn't feel like they had to throw the football, and so do I think that the Jets, you know, letting their number one pass rusher go because they were gonna get Hassan Redick.
And then they gosh started, I knew it. Did we leave the stove on? Do we leave the garage were open?
Oh?
No, we forgot to.
Get him signed to a contract, the only hold out left in the league, the Jets, who knew Matt Hackett's not an NFL offensive coordinator? Can we replace him? Yeah, let's replace him. Oh wait, we're not actually able to get that done. The Jets are just gonna out keep acting as if we have any evidence that Robert sala is an NFL head coach. We know he's a defensive coordinator. Is the NFL head coach? And then there is the Aaron Rodgers. We know he can throw a pretty ball. I'm old enough, literally old enough to remember Colin being a kid watching the NFL today on CBS, and they went outside for like a demonstration, and Dan Marino, who might have been fifty three years old. Ye, he watched him throw a ball. He's hurting people's hands. You're like, my god, Dan still got it. The problem was he couldn't move. I watched Darren last night. I know he can throw a pretty ball. I don't know that he can move. I know he got the ball out faster than any quarterback in the league yesterday except for Jayden Daniels making his first start and Baker, who was just one two pass basically ever drop back. I don't know why people wanted to believe this Jets team could be a juggernhut. Oh my god, look at the weapons. Well Mike Williams is one of the weapons. They're like, oh, well, he's not healthy yet. Well, that's always the problem with Mike Williams. Right, Garrett Wilson is a very good receiver, Breese Hall is a very good running back, and that's the offense. The offensive line is fine, which for the Jets is a massive upgrade Rogers right now, if you were to do the AFC quarterback rankings, he comes in right in the middle, and they have a defense that might not be able to consistently get a pass Rush.
They allowed to score.
On eight consecutive possessions yesterday, So yeah, I know what the Jets are.
They're the Jets.
And it's crazy how many people believe this team could win thirteen games and Rogers could be an MVP.
Yeah, I was saying this about brock Purdy. Is it the horse of the jockey. I feel like the Niners offensive weaponry and Shanahan are a combination of Secretariat and Seabiscuit and Seattle Slough. But I want to give the jockey credit too. I will say this part about brock Purdy. He doesn't have a lot of horsepower. Nick. He literally throws to the right spot accurately every time. And I don't know if he was six six and had a howitzer or he ran around like Kyler Murray if it would be better. He gets the ball to Hall of Fame level players constantly, and it's he always makes the right decision. And I said, you know, we always talk about does a quarterback get the right coach. I almost wonder if the coach got the right quarterback in Brock Purty.
So that's an interesting way to put it that there are there quarterbacks in the league. I'll take Kyler because you mentioned him who objectively have more talent but would not be as successful, Like would Shanahan say, no, give me Purty the last pick of the draft over Kyler the first pick of the draft, even if they had the same salary. I think that's an interesting argument. And I will also say this as a well, you know, kind of established party skeptic. I was more impressed with his game yesterday than some of his one hundred and thirty passer rating, three touchdown games. I thought yesterday he played very well, even though the stats are pedestrian. What I will say is this, if someone were to come out today and say, Jordan Mason, that's top five running back in football, I think a lot of people would be like, well, hold on, like what do you mean?
And they'd be like, well, look at the numbers. What more do you want him to do?
And I think people would say, well, the context of it has to matter, Like we know the Shanahan system, we know how many running backs, and they say, well, he's five yards to carry twenty eight yard.
He did everything right.
There is a bit I and people can say it's unfair, but Jimmy Garoppolo casts a massive shadow over this for some of us, which is, if Jimmy Garoppolo was a D plus quarterback who looked like a B plus in Shanahan's system, is there some concern that brought Party is a C plus quarterback that looks like an A plus and shanian system.
There is? But he is in the system.
And I thought yesterday without Christian McCaffrey, he was very very good.
Yeah.
I mean baseball, if a guy hits three point fifty, it just doesn't matter. He can hit. If a guy throws a no hitter, he can pitch. Same with golf, same with basketball. It's very hard. Very rarely am I fooled on a basketball player because of what's around him. But in football it happens a lot that Aaron Donald gets three people stacked up to block him in the Edgeoe has get solo blocking. So I'm with you on this. I like him. He didn't have a lot of horsepower, but he does go to the right place and with a brilliant coach, that matters. I was saying this about the Cleveland situation. It's a mess, and I said, you know what's funny is that Cleveland kind of decided and I got it at the time, we're gonna upgrade from Baker. We're better than Baker. And I'm gonna make argument, Cleveland is Baker underdog, little brash, chip on the shoulder, feisty. What they're not is DeShawn Watson. But I'm watching Baker and is there an argument that they just should have fought through and just stayed with this kid? Now it's easy he.
Is there an argument?
How dare you ask me that? Yeah, there's an argument. I was making it to you and you're trying to run him out.
Of the league. Yeah, there's an argument.
Yeah, that Baker Mayfield, who took over a team that was one and thirty one in their last thirty two games before he took over, and his first year made him respectable. His second year, they beat the Steelers in a playoff.
Game, and then he got hurt.
Like the Baker's story is very simple to understand. He suffered a shoulder injury to his throwing arm. He tried to play through it, he was awful. Then oddly O'Dell's dad turned against him, which really was a big deal, and all of a sudden he's gone.
And so, yes, I.
If the Browns could have gotten a sure fire thing, then I get it.
But the Browns, it's just so it's so bad.
That it's like, hey, this twenty six year old coming off forty nine hundred yards is available, we can go get him. That's never happened before. Well, yeah, it's never happened before. Because that's not all you're getting with Deshaun Watson as we have seen, and to me Colin appears Deshaun doesn't want to be out there. Yeah, I think that, And by listen, I think that at Homi's booed on the road.
He's booed.
It's mortifying by the way, I shed no tears.
He obviously did this to himself.
And there is a long list of people that are bigger victims because of Deshaun Watson than Deshaun Watson is. But I think the Browns are in such of their own doing a terrible spot. I don't think people understand what the cap situation is for them. They they still owe him in CAP dollars, Colin, Yeah, one hundred and seventy three million, that's right. They have one hundred and seventy three million of CAP charges owed to Deshaun Watson starting next year. So he's unmovable, he's uncuttable, and he's unplayable. So I think Jamis gives him a better option. H But this is without question the worst transaction in NFL history, And with the new with his play Sunday and then the latest lawsuit yesterday, it just seemingly gets worse.
Yeah. No, people look at that Russell Wilson deal. But with Russell, they got bo Nix, who appears to be capable, they got the coach right, and the truth is it wasn't all guaranteed, so you can move off it like this. You're they're the wrong.
I mean, I just want to again, let mean be a captainer just for a moment, because people like say the CAP's fake.
CAP's not fake.
The cap is a credit card, and you can kick the can down the road, but eventually it's due. Prior to Russell Wilson, no team had ever had a dead cap hit of more than forty million dollars. Russell blows it out of the water.
It's eighty.
If they were to cut Deshan, it's one hundred and seventy two million next year.
That's not you can't do it.
The caps to seventy your team would be insolvent.
You can't do it. So it is. We used to be twenty million of dead cap was untenable.
The Russell thing where they're like it's eighty will split it into two years, fifty five and twenty five. This is unprecedented, and they they've.
Got nowhere to go. I know we're gonna leave. Can I pay you one quick compliment?
Sure?
Because I'm just shocked by it?
Sure?
Sure?
Man?
I really expected for at least two, maybe three of these these questions to be Sam Donald related.
You have really?
I mean, I compliment you for staying focus. But what a day in the Coward household watching Donald just dice up the giants.
Oh my goodness.
It took every bit of personal discipline to not get on X for two hours taunting everybody. All I've asked for, all I've asked for my audience, because you have people that like you. IM not sure I do all I've asked. I've been doing this thirty years. Could one person in America support me on Sam Darnald? I can't find one who goes well, he was twelve for twelve, It look pretty good, That's what I said.
I couldn't believe it.
I turned on the Hurt one of my favorite sports days of the year, Sports TV days, the first Monday after the first NFL season, noon Eastern, See.
What Colin's going to talk about?
And I'm like, man, I know he's supposed to talk probably Cowboys, Grady, all of this. There's a great Sunday night game Lions Rams. He might lead with Darnald. Colin might lead with Darnald. I was really on the edge of my seat, but so you great restraint, my friend.
All right, uh, Nick, right, first things, first, great show right after us. Uh yeah, it does feel like we got two great teams in the NFL. And then I don't know. I I what what the Houston Texans have done. I know it's not a big brand. What they have done in three years is is why the NFL's king that I can't turn Houston off. That that team is so much fun to watch. They got playmakers everywhere. Then they go get Stefan Things and Joe Mixon and they were good, offensively lacked here. I think I'm underselling him. I just I keep saying, don't be hyperbolic, don't go crazy. I don't know. Maybe I'm slow on Houston but I watched I think that went over Indy. I think I think the Texans are going to hammer the Bears this week. It's my favorite pick of the week. I think I think he is I'm I may be sleeping on him. They could be the third best team in this league after the Niners. You think I'm nuts. That game in Indy. Everybody in the world, all the numbers told you take the Colts Division rival at home underdog, and I think Indy's good. I have them number eleven, rams twelve. I had them in eleven. This week, I think Indy's good.
No Saints at eleven, They're gonna get hammered by the count the slow down.
I wanted to show restraint on Donald because I knew if I came out and I was too over the top, it would sound ridiculous. I thought Donald was great, but again, I think the Giants are absolutely awful, so I don't want to go too crazy.
And I thought, where are the Texans better than the Lions?
Just this point?
One spot quarterback?
Really, I thought Jared Goff was your guy.
He was. I think CJ. Stroud is a more mobile Jared Goff. I'm not joking. I mean at some point you see things I told you about Miller Moss, USC's quarterback. You start giving me week after week. I watch you. It's like C. J. Stroud may not be at Mahomes maybe Alan Dude he is. He is special, no doubt about it.
I mean I and.
Their skill people are better than Detroit, their receiving, Cord tanked Ell, Nico Collins, Tefon Diggs.
I'm a Ross Saint Brown, Jamison Williams.
Coming when he's healthy. They don't have healthy now, but they don't have a third. Who's their third?
Khalif Raymond better at tight end with Laporta. Lions running backs are better with Gibbs.
And bodow down Joe Mixon.
Joe Mixon is good.
He's not better than Gibbs and Monty little thunder and lightning action.
Right.
You got me on the Lions. Now you're pivoting to the text.
I can't deal with you, man, You put it off. You'd be in a much better mood if the Jets and want You can't deal with anything right now.
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All right, the developing story in Pittsburgh.
Justin Fields obviously started Week one for the Steelers. He was not amazing, but he did a good enough job to get the job done.
Six field goals for Pittsburgh.
Well, Mike Tomlin just addressed his week two quarterback situation talking to the media.
There's what he had to say.
As I sit here today, we're preparing as if Justin is going to be our quarterback. I think that's the appropriate way to do it. Speculation is a waste of time. Russell's heard, he's not available to us, and we'll take it day by day. Russ is not scheduled to work in totality tomorrow to what degree I do not know, and then we'll play it by ear from there based on the results and the things that we see.
All right, Well, that's not very hopeful. Did you see there was a chart Warren Sap does a lot of this stuff. There was a sharp, Warren Sharp. There was a chart that Warren Sharp did and it showed Justin Field's throws. He will not throw over the middle of the Field's great, he listened, he just he just he is. I'll run and throw outside, which makes it very easy for a defense. So force him to throw over the middle of the field. Like, that's the difference when you people used to bang on Jimmy Garoppolo and I'm like Garoppolo loves the middle of the field. He attacks it. That's costant.
Was that confidence or Shanahan scheming up stuff in the middle of the field.
They were tight, windows off. It's always tight in the middle of the field.
It just feels like like over one hundred yards. Yeah, Russell Wilson, man, the end is near. It started to feel like right. Next up crappy injury news.
Pookakua sustained a PCL sprain in the Rams loss of the Lions, saying me that he hurt during a joint practice in training camp. Puka and Coua put on the I r will miss at least the next four games.
Yeah, this is rough because they also lose their second best offensive lineman, a top guard Avila. So this couple of years ago their o line health did him in. My guess is it's a lot and Cooper Cup is an interesting player. Cooper, at this point in his career, has been verbal, has said sometimes it's hard for him to have two back to back really high volume games because he's got some you know, physical stuff as he's aged. So to me, it's like they're going down to Arizona and they are running the football forty five.
Times Cooper Cup, I think at twenty one targets in the open area. I mean, so once Pooka went out, it was basically like and they don't have Tyler Higby the tight end. So now they're without their top tight end and they're arguably their number two ride receiver.
Rams game is run, rinse and repeat. Run.
Will Blake Korham get a carry this week?
By the way they draft him, all this hype aboub Blake didn't get a carry in the open what's that about.
I thought he was gonna be good.
Now, maybe this is the game where McVeigh n leashes him and he gets fifteen carries, but offensive line falling apart, Arizona is favored. I know over the Rams, you're worried about an zero and two start for your team of destiny.
I really like the Rams, but nobody what do you do with injuries? I mean, I thought they played a brilliant second half at Detroit, and you just ran out of bodies that overtime game. They were just shot. They just didn't have any more energy. They were done with it. They had no jewice left.
Final story is a bizarre one, okay, So Jadon Daniels of the Commanders, your team, the Commanders. Jane Daniels for some reason carried the ball sixteen times for eighty eight.
Yards and the loss to Tampa.
Now he did score twice, one was in garbage time, and damn Quinn has come out now and said he wants way less running from.
His rookie quarterback.
We'd love to see him remain a passer first, and I think it's gonna come with more experienced Scott. Honestly, you know, when I can go extend it to throw it, when they hey, this plays over, I'll get rid of it and move on to the next play. So I think you'll see that trajectory continue Scott as we go. Certainly, eighteen carries is not the model you know that we're looking for, certainly with Brian and Austin and others here. But at the end of it. I do think we'll continue to grow in that spot, but certainly not by design to have that many.
Listen, I think what Jaden is doing is when he doesn't quite have a feel, I'm taken off and running. And that's the advantage to mobile quarterbacks. Oh well, I mean I've seen this before, like Patrick Mahomes when you're not quite seeing things, and Mahomes admitted year three, the light went on. That's the advantage to a mobile quarterback is that you can take off and pick move the chains. I don't know what to make of Week one. Baker was fantastic. They have real issues on the back end of their defense. They need to go get the trade deadline. They need to go get a corner.
Okay, So sixteen carries for Jaen Dan's right, Does that seem like a lot to you or no?
It does?
Okay, So our Crack research team has come up with a list of quarterbacks who had at least five out of carries in the career and the number of times they've had sixteen or more carries in a game. You know where I'm headed with this. Do you want to get so many times Michael Vick had sixteen or more carries in a game once zero Steve Young zero. Josh Allen, who loves to run zero. Cam Newton won in his entire career. Jane Daniels did that in the opener. Colin Kaepernick one time he had sixteen carries. Colin, this is bad news. I'm definitely unsustainable. The only guy who's really done a lot of it is Lamar Jackson, who's had seventeen of them. And we don't like our quarterbacks running well.
We also don't know he's as good as Lamar Jackson would be. That'd be if he had as good as Lamar Jackson. I can take. I'll deal with sixteen carries.
Jalen Hurts a lot of them, was you know, the brotherly shove. Justin Fields twice has had sixty or more carries.
With the law.
I'm not this Daniels. He's going to be knocked out for the season. But midway mark if he's carrying sixteen times again.
Now they they come home, don't they to face the Giants the Demon? What do you think about that? Both teams were embarrassed.
I may have bet the Giants this morning getting to it.
Well, I was gonna say both teams got embarrassed teams that get like Carol Lina getting six at home against the Charge. Yeah, like that's a lot of points for a team, and the Chargers that doesn't have high octane deep threats.
So Brian Dabele took over play calling and the offense couldn't move the football.
Their first series looked harold.
They got inside the ten twice and couldn't score any points. So I think, I know people love Daboll and he was great with Josh Allen to say he's coaching for his job.
That's accurate, right, No day Ball's coaching for his job, you think, so, all right.
But they look like maybe the one of the worst teams in the league with the Panthers right in Week one, A new think it's a vikings.
Of course you'll get another job. But I don't know. Colin Davell. I think this is like back to a corner.
He's got empty the playbook and they show well against Washington win because the media is circling.
The buzzards are circling in New York. Not quite for the Jets because we know they've already always been there. But there's a big one for.
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Sunday, Week two of the NFL kicks off on Fox as Derek Carr leads the Saints against Dak Prescott and the Cowboys, or the.
Rams battle Kyler Murray and the Cardinals.
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Very interesting. Keep your eye Cults packers. We don't know who's gonna start at quarterback for Green Bay. Uh listen, there's two things. The hype train for the Cowboys has started. There's two things we're gonna be exhausted from by early November. Election coverage and the Cowboys hype. If you look at their schedule, Dak got paid, Mike is talking about getting paid. Their big favorites over the Saints. Here's the thing. They got five games on the schedule. I'm gonna judge them because they got a B plus quarterback, B plus coach. They're gonna win a lot of these games. Giants are two wins. I mean there's a lot of Washington and Giants in Carolina and Atlanta and who knows what Pittsburgh is. So the Ravens, San Francisco, the Lions and Philly twice. Those are the judgment games. Those are the games I'm really gonna watch because what we saw in the opener was a very aggressive defense with Mike Zimmer an excellent coordinator. Wasn't a terrible head coach either. But yesterday Michael Irvin came on the show and he said, despite all the discussion of money this offseason, they didn't get sidetracked.
It's a tsunami when it's the Dallas Cowboys, right because we all use it, we all talk about it, and I worry about the mental strength of the players.
You can't talk.
Money all off season and then think you're gonna walk into Week one and whoop somebody in the National Football League and they've been talking ball all off season and winning all off seasons. It doesn't work that way. And I'm happy that Dak didn't fold.
Nope, Dak played well, played one of his better games. Now the Cowboys, this is what they do Week one last year they won by forty. It's an interesting week in the schedule. One of the things that really jumped out, man, there is a gap between the good quarterbacks and the rest of them. I think the Thursday game Buffalo at Miami is one of the rare games this weekend where you get two high functioning quarterbacks, but it's a lot of quarterback mismatches. It's the Raiders again, Lamar, it's Justin Herbert against Carolina. Yeah, I mean it's it could be Anthony Richardson against Malik Willis. I'm Trevor Lawrence is at home, Deshaun Watson appears to be washed, so it's I mean, it's Aaron Rodgers against a guy I'm not sure it can play, will Levis. I guess Stafford and Kyler Murray's a really really good matchup. Joe Burrow taken on Mahomes, But I mean CJ. Stroud against Kayla Williams is a mismatch. I mean, one guy's at home and is a legitimate top six or seven quarterback. So and then Kirk Cousins goes to Philadelphia. You know what was interesting about that game. I heard somebody talk about it. I apologize for not knowing. On Sirius XM this morning, somebody was talking about it. They said, you got to look at the Atlanta Pittsburgh game. Because Arthur Smith is now the coordinator for Pittsburgh. He knew that entire Atlanta roster, like he knew, he knew all the weaknesses. That was a huge advantage. Watch Atlanta go to Philadelphia and be a more competitive football team. But when you watched, when you watch Kirk Cousin throw against Pittsburgh, it was step and throw. He did not move at all in the pocket. Kirk Cousins off surgery, like Aaron Rodgers off surgery, had about a three and a half four foot radius. He was not moving out of it. So, but it's it's a lot of quarterback mismatches, a lot, very rarely do you see this many six and seven point favorites in the NFL. This week is littered with him, and I like the favorites in most of them.
Can I ask, I don't know what the point was of the kirk Cousins not moving in the pocket.
So is this person saying, hey, that was at home.
Yeah, they're saying Philadelphia's defense is.
Atrocious, atrocious You thought that the front seven.
Well, it gave up seven yards of play to Green. Give me a couple of chunk plays to Jayden. So the take is that Atlanta basic faced their old head coach who knew the whole roster fail. Me much more viable offensively against a bad Philadelphia I mean Philadelphia. Atlanta's getting like.
A touchdown six six and a half and they gave.
Up seven yards of play the Green Bay.
So it's like, but wait, hold on, Colin, this is in Philly as opposed to South Paulo, and it's at night. I know Kirk cousins huge weakness. Remember he loves the one pm games. That's what he said his best on his schedule.
Night games. He has struggled Sunday night football, Monday night football.
I like, this is a weird week, you know. I like dogs. I like almost all favorites. I love Houston, I like Dallas.
I'm with you on Dallas. It's a big number for Houston to.
Be laying at home.
I like Jacksonville, I like Detroit. I like all the favorites this week, I know it.
It's a dangerous I saw Tampa Bay could be down three guys in the secondary.
Winfield got hurt against Washington.
That's not good for second There are not many great secondaries to start with. Seattle's got a good one.
For the blazing Fires.
I'm just saying I looked at all the numbers, and the first thing that jumped out to me is Wow, there is a lot of six and seven point favorites. Last week we had one big favorite, Cincinnati one. This week you have like seven of.
Them favored by six and a half.
And I liked the favorites, so I've got to revisit it. I found myself liking all the favorites. Drink you know, or two our three Gillian Edelman
