Talkin' Jake is breaking down the current playoff picture in MLB and what games will matter the most in this final week of the regular season!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:45 AL East (Yankees Locked it Up?)
5:20 Cleveland Guardians
7:10 Tigers IN, Twins OUT, Royals NERVOUS
13:40 Mariners and the AL West
16:15 MASSIVE Mets vs. Braves Series
20:05 NL West
25:10 Jets Crush Patriots
27:55 Giants Beat Browns
30:35 Packers Beat Titans
32:35 Colts Beat Bears
32:50 Vikings CRUSH Texans (Darnold Truthers Coming Out)
35:25 Eagles Survive Saints
37:07 Steelers Beat Chargers, Stay Undefeated
39:25 Panthers Beat Raiders
40:25 Seattle Crushes Miami, Stays Undefeated
41:25 Ravens Hold Off Dallas
42:30 Rams Beat 49ers
43:30 Lions Win Over Arizona
44:50 Chiefs Beat Falcons
45:55 Monday Night Football Preview
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Hello, and welcome to Waken Jake myself, Jake Story li BBD. We are talking the wide world of sports baseball. We are less than a week away from knowing the playoff matchups week and a day away from the first playoff baseball game of the year. This is why we do it. From spring training till now, every team profile and projection we're gonna do. The Baseball Conversation did a little bit of around talking baseball, the Ale Central and the teams there flunking the dunk slash, controlling their own destiny, the fun parts of it, the bad parts of it. On the other side, Mets and Braves are playing this week to essentially see where that wild card race is going to land. I don't know. I guess I could do some Otani judge for clicks, just because I'm mad about people commenting on it. And it was a big football weekend that continues tonight with two Monday night football games. Get jazzy for that. Let's get into it, the Baseball Conversation. And if I came in a little a little low there, it's because I wanted like the topic that was different, Like it feels weird when I do awaken, Jake. That's eerily on the nose to talk in baseball, but it's that time of year. There's one week left the conversation. The conversations are the conversations. And let's do some snaps for my Yankee. We'll do an MLB around the Horn taken snaps for my Yankees. They are six games up on the Baltimore Oriols. They are going to win the American League East barring six straight losses and six straight oriel wins, which if that happens, get ready for some good content. The Yankees have won the American League East. Happy for them. It's a weird year. There won't be one hundred win team in baseball, so I don't know. Everything's felt a little off the Yankees. God, there was two months there, a month and a half where the Yankees were playing around five hundred baseball where it didn't feel like things were clicking. The Orioles have been worse. The Oriols have been under five hundred since the deadline. They have some real questions. The Tigers beat them this weekend. Talk about them in a second. Baltimore is one of my I think they're one of the teams I'm most interested to track the rest of the way. The Yankees are the Yankees, and it's gonna be a big test of their I mean, it's Sodo, Judge Stanton. There's some ancillary parts around that. Some will have good series, some will have bad. It is Cole rodin heel with a mix of Luke Weaver, Tommy Keinley, some other guys in the bullpen. The Yankees are the Yankees. They are gonna roll it out there. Yankee fans should be more excited. I can't tell if it's just we've been so hurt in recent years that were scared to get excited, or maybe it's just that Houston's lurking, but the Yankees have been the best team in the American League. They're two and a half games up on Cleveland three in the lost column for the one seed. An important one seed too, to stay away from Houston, just in case they look like Houston, which they probably will. The Orioles Man they just activated two guys, Ramon Urius see Eurius in Jordan Westburg. Jordan Westburg was really good with them while he was playing this year. I think it was even all JM at third base. The first month of the season. They're plugging him right back into the top of their lineup. They need him to go, and they need someone else to click. Whether that's Rushman, whether that's cows Er, whether it's whoever. Their lineup has felt like it's been missing a piece for a while. They still have Corbyn Burns, who has been one of the best pitchers in baseball. His last start was good. He'll have one last tune up against the New York Yankees. So Yankees in the coming week, they're gonna see Corbyn Burns, They're gonna see Efln, They're gonna see Paul Skins. So it's gonna be interesting in games that kind of don't matter for them. You wonder if that's a good thing, like they're gonna see some playoff level pitching. It's also I don't know, it's kind of a little you have to do some mental gymnastics because you're like, it's good they're seeing that, But I don't know if Paul Skeins pitches well against them.
That's is that bad? Are they like in a bad head space? After you'd have to think no.
It is the time of year that I think that baseball mentality of being able to wash things off. If something goes wrong, you're gonna have to wash it quick. If something goes well, well, don't wash that quick. But then if it starts to change, you do have to. Because that brings us to the beautiful American League Central. The Guardians have been delightful this year, fantastic. They are ninety and sixty seven, a team that had low expectations coming into the year. You know about the bullpen at this point, if you've been listening to this, they've got options down there. The starting pitching come playoff time is gonna be interesting. I have no idea what they're gonna do. Biby you think would be their one. Cantillo has been pitching well lately. Ben Lively's there, Matthew Boyd. I wonder if they can play matchups. If there's a team that's bad verse lefties, can they throw lefties out there? Interested to see how they do all of that. Meanwhile, Jose Ramirez is still Jose Ramirez and just a lot of their young guys. Kyle Manzarto might be a name we talk about a lot this postseason. He's been batting second for them the past half week or so. And Angel Martinez leading off. You guys have that that's a twenty two year old switch hitting left fielder. And Angel Martinez who played third base on Sunday, and Kyle Manzardo who's been dhing as a twenty four year old. The Guardians. If you think you know what they're going to do this postseason, I would love to hear it, because I don't think they know. I don't think they know, but I think they're going to get a bye.
Oh wow, Ron Marinaccio the White Sox.
God damn it. First, Davy. Now this let's get to the actual juice, because if the playoffs started today, the storyline is the Detroit Tigers would be in. They would be the sixth seed, with the Kansas City Royals being the five. That means the Minnesota Twins, who there was a point where they had one of the best three month splits in baseball. And we laughed when we did their exercise the other day because it's like, wait, have they been playing without their three best players? They have their three best players back, and they've been playing a bad brand of baseball. Luckily for them, so have the Kansas City Royals. And it's unbelievable to look at the standings and see the Royals and the Tigers with the exact same record. Royals have the tiebreaker over them, so they would be ahead of them right now. That's an L seven for the Royals, seven straight losses heading towards the postseason, two and eight in their last ten. The Baltimore Orioles are three and seven in their last ten. The Minnesota Twins are three and seven in their last ten. The Tigers are fun. We are in an interesting point of the year where the expanded wildcard you could debate whether it's good or bad. It's starting to feel like two bad teams are gonna kind of get in depending how these central teams round out. It sucks how good the Royal story was that rotation ersage in the back of the bullpen, and now our guy Lynch has been twirling it well down there, and you were gonna have a starter kick to the bullpen, and man, Kansas City is a baseball town and they believe in the top of the lineup. The Vinnie Passmentino injury has been heartbreaking for them, just brutal L seven as them, the Tigers and Twins try to limp into this play. The Twins have the tiebreaker over both, so they just need to get equal with them. They are currently one game behind both of them. The Detroit Tigers are fun. I can't tell you it's a playoff brand of baseball. I can't tell you what it means at all. I can tell you they have a bunch of kids in their starting lineup. They have one, two, three, four, five, six. They currently have six starters who are twenty five or under in their lineup. Trek Scoogle is gonna win the Cy young, So that's cool and it would be cool to see him on a big stage in a three game set. You gotta deal with this for one day. They have a good bullpen. Everything else. I mean, give me their third best player. It's an exercise I did with the Royals. The Royals, it's Bobby Witt Salvey, it was Vinnie Pasquentino. Now we're baiting between Michael Massey, Tommy fam Freddy Fer mean two catchers for the Tigers. Kerry Carpenter is great. He mauls Man. Love that Riley Green climbing was one of the best players in baseball list. I mean, your third best player might be Matt Vierling, Colt Keith. Just a reminder, if you do this exercise with the Houston Astros, you have Alex Bregman four. I don't know. They are young, they're playing fun. The new phrase I've stumbled into is they are the hunters, not the hunted. They're young, they don't care. They finish with three against the White Sox that it feels like the Tigers who fangrafts have it at a seventy one percent chance to get in if they just handle their business or survive Tampa for three. Tampa playing for nothing, and Scooball does start that first game, the Detroit Tigers are going dancing, which would line them or whoever out of the central comes out well, the low man will play. Houston go to Houston, so nobody wants that. The other team goes to Baltimore, and Baltimore couldn't hold serve there last year and they've been playing poorly that whoever gets matched up with them, they're gonna be feeling pretty good. They're gonna be feeling pretty damn good. I mean, Schooble Corbin game one for like all the marbles, that would be interesting. Twins are just kind of a disaster class and I don't I don't know what to do. Trevor pluf tried to warn us, and I don't think anyone believed they have Miami in Baltimo more at home to finish this thing off. I mean, they're just gonna need some big boy performances down the stretch. Bailey Ober with two starts, in Pablo with one. They kind of need all three of those. Otherwise it's Simeon Woods, Richardson, David Festus, Zebbie Matthews and then their lineup, which I've been fooled by this year. It either feels like everyone can hit or nobody can hit. Buxton, Larnac, Correa Walner, Royce Lewis, Willie Castro, Santana. I don't know. It's a weird team. Trevor, who's normally one of the more positive guys. Slash also just about the Twins. Hasn't been about the Twins for a while, and look where they've ended up below the Royals in the standings. And the Royals just need to win a damn ball game, but they've failed at that the last seven times. The Central's pretty ugly. I think consensus and I don't know if this is popular or unpopular, and having talked to Jimmy a couple times about it now, but how much the Chicago White Sox are going to depict the final two playoff spots is kind of brutal. The worst team ever to play this beautiful sport and they're going to dictate two of the six playoff teams. I know that's not exactly how it works, but it also kind of is. Because the Seattle Mariners still have hope. Hope is a dangerous thing. They're at Houston for three and then they play three against Oakland. They have a seven percent chance to make the postseason. They have zero tiebreakers in our two games back. They blew a five run lead last night to be one game back. I would love to know what that would have done to their playoff odds. Would that have doubled it would be seven to fourteen? Would it be seven to like twenty five percent? Bryce Miller, Logan Gilbert, George Kirby, Luis Castillo, Brian Wiu all having great years, fantastic years. Julio's going nuts. God, it's uh, it's beautifully tragic. Seattle fans. You may not believe this. Buck the whole system. If these central teams keep losing, find a way. Uh. It starts tonight, Bryce Miller versus Hunter Brown, Logan Gilbert versus Ramber Valdez, and George Kirby versus Use Kakuchi, really good pitching matchups. It's in Houston. I think Seattle's actually done well with Houston the past year or two. But man just feels like there's gonna be a lot of would it could have shoot out of Seattle again this year. Prove me wrong. Seattle go nuts, because if you end up in the playoffs over one of those central teams, you've now become arguably the third biggest threat in the postseason. The Yankees are legit. Houston is Houston until they're not. No one believes in the Guardians. It's just honest. Chris Rose, big Sports guy, big Guardians guy, hasn't believed. It's a bunch of kids. Maybe it all clicks, maybe it doesn't. If the Seattle Mariners made the playoffs, I think they'd be like the third favorite to make it at this point because the Orioles are floundering, and if Seattle were to get in, that means they'd have to win five out of six and they have pitchers. They have so many pitchers, you know about it? I don't know. I have become a little unfortunately salty against Seattle because they need more hitting and they traded away au Hennio and Taoscar and those guys are hitting or Taskar just a free agent. Taskar was a free agent, right.
He was a free agent. But they were like, yeah, not even thinking about it.
No, And I kind of get why, but I kind of don't. In the National League, tune in to Mets Bravos. They start tomorrow for three games as the Mets try to get rid of those demon Braves and they can. They are driving the bus. It's in Atlanta. I expect Truist to be rocking. Unless the Mets win the first game, they could really pop the balloon pretty quickly. God, if they won those first two, that third game in Truist would be quite an interesting scene as the Braves try to fight for their lives and they have a I mean, in theory it's in their hands. They're listed as a forty percent chance to make the postseason. They would have to handle their business and quick. Chris Sale, I think, is supposed to be lined up to pitching that the last game we'll see. The Braves are not dead. Until the Braves are dead. They deserve the respect of the other teams. I know they're missing Ron and Spencer and some other pieces. A little monster as the Albi's just came back only hitting righty. Pretty crazy. We're at that time of the year, whatever it takes, whatever it takes to win. God, if the Braves give the Mets the business, which normally that would be the expectation. If this is any other normal year or time of year or whatever, that's what we'd expect. The Mets are running on I don't even know. Grimace Power, their vagabond second baseman who has a hit song of the summer, is playing out of his dome. They called up the Braves MVPs little brother and he's been bawling out. Their whole rotation feels like a reclamation project that's been reclaimed. Pete's balling doing his thing, Nimo's getting in the action. The Mets are fun. God, I hope they make the dance if they have their balloon popped by the Braves yet again. Cheese and biscuits. I don't know what you do. You can't you almost can't. And I don't think they're gonna. I think if this was any other year, I'd be sitting here saying like it's gonna happen. Right, the Braves are right there. Haven't we seen this before? It just doesn't feel like that. And maybe that's naive. Maybe in a couple of days, I'll be disappointing myself, but I really don't think so. Man, the Mets have something in baseball that's hard to bottle up, and it just feels like a journeyman collection that's all coming together with youth or stars and Lindor the youth, and Vientos and Alvarez, the veterans. I mean, Marte sneaky, big time old thirty six, maybe pi Alonzo's last run with the team. H It's exciting. Man Kintana's got a scoreless streak, Tyler McGill is back in pitching for them, Manaiah has been incredible, Edwin Diaz back to back Big Boy outings. It feels beautiful. I hope I'm not wrong in a couple of days, and that's ain't that the beauty of it? And maybe I will be because I sat here five days ago, six days ago, and I told you don't rule out Craig Kimbrel from the Orioles postseason plans. And as I pre recorded that the next day, dirty Craig Kimbrel was out, he could say he did me dirty. I won't say that. Everyone's I've seen a lot of people hype about Padre's Dodgers. I maybe I'm missing it. It's a three game Dodgers lead. It's in La. I guess they're lined up with King Cecan muskrove that if San Diego brings the broomstick to the office, they would be tied with the tied with the Dodgers. And I think they'd have the tiebreaker if they win all three of these games. That Padres fans, I think we're a little mad we didn't talk about them more on Talking Baseball. Uh, I don't know. I guess I just believe in the Dodgers so much. Shoe Hey, fifty three and fifty five, Mookie Betts is back for bookkeeping purposes.
I think they do have the tiebreaker, no matter what, they need to win all three to tie it right for it to come into a thing, I guess.
And Hey, Padres fans, and maybe this is where I need to be more de lulu with you guys. I see six game road trip against the Dodgers and the Snakes, and I have you guys being more worried about dropping behind the Diamondbacks than catching the Dodgers. Maybe I'm off it. I know the Padres are a sexy World Series pick. I understand why they've got arms on arms. You Darvish just broke another record like two thousand MLB strikeouts or something like that. Get him in the Hall of Fame, if not our Hall of Baseball. When we make that Hey again, Padre fans, I'm I'm willing to be I would love to be proven wrong. H But I see six game roadie Dodger Snakes. I'm thinking you guys need to be worried about holding off the Diamondbacks, not catching the Dodgers. It says they have a nine point two percent chance to win the division, don't. I've never been a numbers guy.
One out of ten Ish.
Go nuts, go nuts, make baseball fun, Make the late nights fun because I think it's Braves Mets, and then this would be the late night flip. Little Seattle Houston in the mix. Watch a lot of baseball this week. That's what I ask of you. Even if it's one of those floundering Centrals teams in the seventh inning and it's a tied game, those are playoff level at bats. That's gonna be your first taste of it. And we've been seeing some of it around the league. So I'm excited to go nuts on baseball this week.
In the other side of that NL West hodge Podge before the d Backs Padre series we've been talking about for feels like a couple of weeks now. The Dodgers have the Giants before that, and they've been playing a better brand of baseball. They've basically split their games up till this points. Maybe that's part of what this Padres optimism is because they've kind of had the Dodgers number this season so far. But there's a lot, it's a lot of factors, it's.
A lot of there's gonna be a lot of dancing the next couple of days, and that's the fun of it.
Great scheduling.
One at bat is gonna swing one thing. And if you're the Royals and you gotta let those losses go and win two and then things are okay. But you need to do it. I'll tell you what. I say this every time. And there are some bad stats on this page too. The number one baseball team an on base percentage, good ops, good run scored the best. The number one team in those three categories Arizona Diamondbacks, and they have pitching options. I don't know if it's gonna happen again. Yeah, I guess Padre fans be a little mad at me. I think the Snakes are chasing your buns. This week proved me wrong. Go work. The Dodgers make the whole NL West a disaster. But e Rod who just came off his season high strikeouts, Brandon Fought, who just had one of his best starts of the year, and Zach Gallon. That's who. That's who the Snakes are throwing at San Francisco as they try to win this thing out. God. Yeah, I don't know. I'm skeptical. I'm skeptical of Dodgers Padres. This week prove me wrong. Watch a lot of baseball. This is the week to start it. It's gonna be a good practice round for next week. We're gonna be stream and everything. I can't believe MLB postseason is here. What a run it's been. We're gonna have to get foolish on here. At some point he'll be all excited. Let's talk a little football, because it was a fun one, fun weekend. No Europe game, you guys know, I'm getting excited for that. But we started in the Europe of America in Beautiful Jersey at Jet Life where the Jets hosted the Patriots. Rogers and the Boys. They've been showing more life. It's happening. But the Patriots, the big bad wolf that's almost snuck out a two and zho start to this game season. Yee ye, twenty four to three. The Patriots did nothing. One of my buddies kept joking all week or after Thursday. He started Remandra, Stevenson and Fanny, and he kept saying, hey, let me know when the Patriots play six for twenty three for Remandre. Their offense did nothing. Drake May gets his first taste of the NFL, gets tossed around a little bit. Welcome to the league, young man, Drake May. I don't know if he's married. I'm gonna assume he is, but he's dated the same girl since middle school. I did see that interesting little fun fact Aaron Rodgers is not, but he looks solid in this one. Two eighty one, two touchdowns, no picks, Brayalen Allen, your youngest guy in the NFL, as they remind you a lot on the broadcast. He looks solid in this, as does Breese's pieces. The Jets are here, man, they are fun. Rogers is doing enough offensively, he is looking he is improving week over week over week. They host my Broncos a game I've turned down tickets to twice now and we'll talk about my Broncos in a second. It's also right before playoff baseball, like that's it's just a bad tone coming up, and it's Sunday, a one, like I've got stuff to do. Anyways, Patriots, I think they're gonna you know, they got excited a little bit. We're playing defense, new head coach. I think they want things. I don't want to say fall off the rails, but let's get Drake May in there without expectations, so hopefully you can start planning a next step of Patriots football. That was Thursday, which led us to Sunday. I was asked for a hot take hot Take Jake for this NFL Sunday. I guess that's something we're posting on the socials every Sunday. My hot take, the Giants will get their first win. They sure did. You want to have expected it. After the first two plays kickoff, fumble, first pass, Deshaun Amari touchdown. Hello, the zero to two Giants are down seven to nothing on the road in Cleveland against the coach I like in a great defense. Unfortunately, the Browns are ass and it is all coming.
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They gotta do something. They don't believe in DeShawn. DeShawn doesn't believe in DeShawn. Jamis is the backup right now, and things have to start getting tempting because although this kind of looked like it got close late, the Giants do get shut out in the second half. The Giants win twenty one to fifteen. Malik Neighbors arrives two touchdowns for the rookie. He looks incredible, looks like he can kind of get open at will if Daniel can get him the ball. Uh. I think the disappointing thing for the Giants has to be last week, if if they had a kicker, they win at Washington and then they're two and they're two and one, and how good does their well, I shouldn't say how good does their twenty eight to six loss to the Vikings look, but it looks a lot better.
It's a lot easier to stomach in hindsight if you've won the two games since and Vikings keep winning.
After that, Minnesota beat San Francisco and Houston. They blow out Houston Morley not words thirty four to seven. I guess they play the Cowboys next week. Who the Cowboys have kind of been hot ass. Let's see if the Giants can get back in the mix or or keep the season afloat until they host Washington in Carolina for a season that went from hopeless about a week ago. A week ago. Hey, I think the Giants have a defense. I think Devin Singletary is an okay football player. I think Malik Neighbors might be a good football player. There's something, don't be asked. They needed this to not be completely deflated on the year. Happy for them in the talking Giants guys. Let's see other things from around the league. Titans. I am very entertained by Will Levis, but oh my god, oh my god, the bad plays just have to stop being so bad after a little bit, he's currently everyone loves a player comp Ryan Fitzpatrick. I know fits magic by the end, got more entertaining than not. And we'll talk about experience as a quarterback Sam Darnold, But yeah, will Levis is just making tragic errors. And I think the bigger thing is, dude, the Packers are doing this with Malik Willis, who had one of the worst performances of quarterbacks we've ever seen. It was like him and Nathan Peterman real ones no, which just goes to show. And this was kind of one of the biggest takeaways from the weekend, which feels obvious, but it feels like MLB currently has. Like if your team has a good analytics department and knows how to train pitchers, Milwaukee, I was gonna say, Tampa the Guardians, we play defense, we scout a little better, You're gonna be in a good situation. It feels like NFL. There's some good offensive coaches out there that it feels like Malik Willis, who again looks so bad that Lafleur and them have him playing a really good brand of football. Six carries for seventy three yards on the ground, thirteen of nineteen through the air for two h two touchdown, no interceptions. So coaching feels more important than ever. Analytics in baseball feels more important than ever, and it feels like every team has the same information except the White Sox and kind of the Rockies. Rockies, I get, we have a really weird variable we need to figure out, but the other team plays in the same variable. I'm going to crack that code one day. White Sox worst baseball team ever. Bailey wanted us to talk about it more. Here we are Who's Bailey bears Colts kind of a no thank you. Caleb racks up a ton of passing yards, a couple bad mistakes him and AR five was kind of a tough game to watch. Both these teams are one and two now the Vikings, as I mentioned, they have become one of the stories of the NFL. I don't want to give myself too much credit. I've told you guys, football wise, it's clearly not as as much my bag as baseball, but I very much enjoy it. I told you I'd learned the Vikings coach's name because he won me over Kevin O'Connell man. This guy is a stud. Look what he's doing with Sam Donald, and now the Donald truthers are starting to rise up, which I'm not there yet. I think O'Connell's a great coach, which ties into everything we're talking about. But Donald, we're starting to get the Donald age tweets out there. Donald is younger than Lamar Jackson. Donald is a lot younger than Gino. Donald is younger than Dak the big one that everyone's jazzed up about. Sam Donald is younger than Joe Burrow. So everyone thought Sam Donald was going to click at some point when you start to look at his history of the Jets and the Panthers, I think that opens everyone's heart a little bit. And I just think the point of having a good coach and a good offense in today's NFL, if you got a quarterback can stand in there process it. And Darnold is doing that, and Justin Jefferson is a sick pupp How many times that guy was wide open. It's mind blowing. It's the old Kelsey effect, like when it was just Kelcey and Mahomes, like for even a chunk of last year and it was like, how does Travis Kelsey get open? He's the tight end you have to game plan for, but somehow he did. Justin Jefferson is in the same boat. There was times he was just running in space and the Vikings roll up on the Texans. The other name that I want to get out there because it's coordinator season. Everyone was talking about Clint Kubiak from the Saints, Brian Flores, the old Dolphins head coach, that him and Tua had their problems. Everyone harps on that, and not enough people harp on the fact that the owner was actively trying to have them lose. Remember that that story got buried a little quick. I think he's the best defensive coordinator in the league right now and the Vikings are playing that way. And there was that weird Rock Purty postgame interview where he told them that and everyone was like, what was that? Brock? And I think me and Brock kind of look like each other sometimes did it on the YouTube subscribe over there, by the way, and thank you guys for doing that. Eagles Saints was one of the big ones of the weekend. Did either team want to win? Did either team want to lose? The Eagles end up sealing it late. Dallas Goddard down to the one big play. It's always cool to see. That's kind of what football has. A third down dictating the game, and not only is it a first down, it is the big play that was missing throughout this game. They punch it in, the Saints get it back. Car throws an interception. The Saints really only had one other touchdown attempt or Shid Shaheed popular free agent or popular fantasy play this week. I should say he had one ball that Carr got there that he couldn't squeeze that would have been a touchdown early. To put this new prolific Saints offense up early doesn't happen. Fifteen to twelve Final the Eagles in the most NFL way. They probably win a game they could have easily lost. After they lost the game, they should easily won a little bit of sanity in Philly, and their d line played so much better. Jalen Carter had kind of done nothing in the first couple weeks, and he dominated this this week. The Eagles are back. I think they had to Tampa next week. That'll be an interesting matchup. Saquan is that guy pal Philly run the ball? We'd be talking about a three and oh Philly if they remember they need to run the ball. I know you paid Jalen, but the play action and the better you run it, the better it'll make him. He had a nice run in this game too. Steelers, Chargers, you're three to oh, Pittsburgh Steelers. Absolutely, Russ is our starter. He's hurt. Here's Justin Fields? Does he know the playbook? The fun stat going around? I believe the Steelers offense has three touchdowns through three games and they have three wins. So defense still wins it in the NFL if you have a special defense, and they do, and Justin Fields is doing enough. Justin Herbert was in this game. He has to leave early. They didn't know if he was going to play. His ankle was pretty chewed up. Justin Fields twenty five to thirty two, one touchdown and interception. He has a rushing touchdown in this game. I don't know. Man. Again, think about the excuses we make for some coaches. I don't think Mike Tomlin is the offensive guru of a Kevin O'Connell, a Lafleur, a McVeigh. But look what he's doing with this team. Should we not be talking about the Owen three Steelers with Justin Fields like that could very easily be the conversation, and it is not. God they are keep TJ. Watt healthy because three and zero in that division right now, Baltimore's one and two, Cleveland's one and two since he's owing two. Depending what they do tonight, that if they get enough ahead, they can just kind of waddle their way into the playoffs. And I'm glad man. I hope this goes down as one of Mike Tomlin's cooler coaching jobs, because I think we all looked at Justin Fields and Russ as their quarterback situation, not as a good thing. And hey, Rus, this is collecting a pretty good paycheck, so I don't feel bad for him. Just watch it, You'll be okay. Would be interesting if Justin Field is actually good. Add that to like the Bears quarterback curse thing. I'm not there yet, but he's like actually making some throws that NFL people like, which that would be an interesting plot twist if Caleb's development does not take off. Raiders Panthers is kind of a not really except Andy Dalton had the best QB passing year of the season, so that shows you what NFL can have up his sleeve. Sometimes. I think he's the only three hundred yards three touchdown passing of the season so far against the Raiders, who they had a beautiful come from behind when at Baltimore last week they lose to the Panthers. Antonio Pierce laying out the loss saying, guys were making business decisions. A lot of eyes on Devonte Adams, who's kind of requested a trade, has requested a trade, being to see if something happens there. Tough for the Raiders, man, we should be talking about them. Two in one. This is in Vegas. Brock Bauer stood out last week. Davante was there. I started daydreaming as Minshew as this, you know, weird six year Raider quarterback, just with all the hair and buying and moxie. And it feels like that's gone in one week. Speaking of Dolphins, were playing with their backup quarterback. They lose to the Seahawks twenty four to three. The Seahawks are three and zero. Did you know, didn't really Denver, New England and Miami with their backup quarterback? Not exactly. Murderers row one score game to Denver and New England. Good for the Seahawks. New head coach there new Era. You know how I feel about Gino and the receipts. Dolphins, Let's see how much this spirals without tu them and the Titans next week are There are a lot of bad teams right now. I keep looking to open a team's schedule and be like, oh my god, Dolphins next two weeks Tennessee and New England. So they might after that it's Indy, so Dolphins might be back, but they need something at quarterback. And Skyler Thompson had a rough day at the office. Ravens and Cowboys, how about them? Cowboys looking to bounce back after getting embarrassed by New Orleans. The Ravens were owing to the Ravens came in and they kind of dominated them until the end. I can't believe the final score is twenty eight to twenty five. A nineteen point Cowboys fourth quarter in an on site kick recovery makes that a lot closer than it was. A quick math nineteen minus twenty five six, it was twenty eight to six. I could have done that math a lot easier. Cowboys can't stop the run, Ravens can run. Sometimes It's kind as simple as that. For simple lass both these teams are one and two. Raven's got to be feeling a lot better about it. They played, you know, the Chiefs week one and then that weird Raiders comeback. Well the Cowboys, they feel like they've got some serious issues after a dominant Week one win over Cleveland Giants. Cowboys is gonna be fun and I might be at the tailgate for that game this Thursday. Get ready exciting times. The forty nine ers in the Rams played one of the more fun games of the weekend. Niners go up fourteen to nothing. We looked up the numbers. I believe Shanahan was four are nine to four against McVeigh. Jiwan Jennings is bawling out replacing deebo was heard in this one. McCaffrey's still out, Purdy was rolling, and the Rams slowly chip away and come back in this game. Matthew Stafford old silver Fox. Matthew Stafford is sneaky climbing the list of best quarterbacks in the league. It almost feels like Matthew Stafford outlasting that generation of Brady Breeze kind of Rogers Roethlisberger. Him like outlasting them has flown him up the QB charts. If there's a guy you want in the ball in your hand laid, it's Matthew Stafford. He's friends with trev Cool. Lions win twenty to thirteen Well Hook and Ladder Jamiir Gibbs amen Ra. Lions are back to two and one. They feel a little grounded after that loss to Tampa. A nice road win against a solid Arizona team who it felt like Marvin Harrison figured out and clicked last week. They rolled on the Rams last week. The NFL right now just has so much back and forth and motivation, and you know, I think part of the reason the Giants played their asses off yesterday is like the difference between one and two and on and three like changes your next four weeks, Like it's let's compete and beat the Cowboys and get to five hundred next week. Owen three is like your season's over. You're looking around at Daniel Jones like this is it? Huh? And I think we saw that from a lot of teams this week, lines of Cardinals. It was interesting talking to some football people about that. They said, the Cardinals are trying to build the same way, get physical, They've got a tight end, they like they got a white out they like. But I'm interested to see where the rest of the Cardinal season goes. Washington next week like that as a bounce back at San Francisco at Green Bay and the Chargers. Okay, so that's a nice little stretch for them. We'll find out who the Cardinals are in a couple weeks because I still don't know. I still don't know. And it wraps up Sunday Night football, Chiefs Falcons. The Chiefs are three and zero. Another friendly pass interference all for them. This one was kinda worse in the end zone. Kyle Pitts, who's grabbed the ire of my attention a few times before for fantasy reasons. Everyone's hated fantasy player Kyle Pitts. But that should have been called and that would have been another late comeback drive by Kirk and the Falcons. And what would we be talking about or would Patty have let him back? Probably because that's what he does. But that was a tough finish and I know we got rid of the pass interference challenge thing, but that's tough to watch. That's tough to watch. I know in livetime it's brutal, but that that felt like it took a lot, a lot of the air out of the Falcons, it looked good and went toe to toe with the Chiefs. So maybe that is an internal win in a couple of weeks. But let's check in on that in a couple of weeks. Tonight doubleheader. Like I mentioned the Buffalo Bills, they host the Jaguars in the seven thirty game two and zero against oh and two. Maybe I should listen to my motivational football stuff. But that being said, I did parlay Bills to win and Bengals to win because sometimes I think it's just simple as that, and we overthink it. Bengals host the Commanders, bangles are zero and two Commanders are one in one. Yeah, let's see Burrow and Allen ball out tonight. When will the Jade and Daniels breakout happen? Because I do believe in him even though the Talking Giants guys told me not to. And then are the Jaguars just heading to disaster class or are we gonna wake up with one of those weird NFL dubs today? Let's find out tomorrow. Make sure you guys have subscribed. Tell them about Uncle Dan Beebes.
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