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Thank you for joining us on this glorious Thursday afternoon, heading into week two of the NFL action, which means it's time for us to make our picks. Woo! Wa-wa-wa-wa! That's good. Quite the week for the crew. Only a collective two losses. Yup. All told. Four and oh, three and one, three and one across the whole week. It's a good week. It was a good week. That's how we like to shout out our picks. Last week I went bare three and a half of the Titans, Texans minus three of the Colts, Jags plus three and a half of the Dolphins, Vikings minus one and a half versus Giants. I still don't understand how that line was only one and a half points. That felt like free money. Dusty YouTube chargers minus, I'm sorry, Packers plus two versus the Eagles, Vikings minus one and a half, Lions minus three and a half, and the under in Bengals-Pats and boy was that a guarantee. Easy money. Rust-YouTube. Stupid Packers. The only loss. Yeah. And that one was close. They're just that by a point, right? No. No, no, lost, missed it by. That's right. Yeah. They scored it again. Two points. Rust-YouTube Chiefs minus three got the outright win, Falcons minus three and a half against the Steelers, Chargers minus three against the Raiders, Jerk, Jaguars plus three and a half at the Dolphins. Not too shabby. I guess I won last week, so I'll go first. There's a line already here that I don't understand until, or I didn't understand until you brought it to me what the change was. Colts minus three at the Packers, Malik Willis, who was just traded to the Packers less than three weeks ago, is starting for the injured Jordan Love. That defense did not look very good. The Colts looked pretty good. If Anthony Richardson could string together some stuff, which, did you see that throw that he had over the middle? He has those throws, man, that just go really well. The consistency. That's what you're looking for. But you also, as throws where you go, oh. Yes. That consistency is there, and that Green Bay defense did not look spectacular. Now they did force some turnovers, but also I think that had more to do with jail and hurts being terrible. But I'm going to go with the Colts minus three because the Packers don't have any hope of offense. Yeah, I was just looking this up on quarterback adjustments based on your starter to your replacement. It was a big one. And Vegas thinks that the talent disparity here is a nine and a half point line with Jordan Love out. He takes away six and a half points. So that's where you get your difference. That's where you are at three here. So I mean, that's a big, that's a big move there. We saw Malik. Well, let's play last year. I don't think you're going to get anything. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good point. That's a good point. But how high are they on Anthony Richardson? They think that if Anthony Richardson was out and Joe Flacko was in, there would only be one point difference. So between between those two quarterbacks. But yeah, that one is a bit of a head scratcher there. My first game that I'm going with, I'm one of the Chargers minus six at Carolina. I will not believe Carolina is good at football. That's the end of the sentence right there. I think that's all we need. I know what you're going with. They will not be good at football this year. So I'm going to go with the Chargers, traveling, going on the road. Don't care if you're going east coast to west coast. Give me the Chargers minus six. I'm starting out with the old Thursday night football tonight. Miami's two and a half point favorites. As you may have heard in my updates, Josh Allen, six and 0 in his career on Thursdays. Five of those have been on the road. He averages basically 265 yards a game on Thursdays. What do we got here 14 tuddies against six picks Miami though. They are thinner running back to a one and one on Thursdays. So give me the bills plus two and a half at Miami, Miami, Miami. That be a road dog. Oh, look at look at Rusty digging in here. Road dogs early. We saw the Patriots beat the Bengals. I don't know how much of it was the Patriots winning or the Bengals losing, but they still didn't look good. The Seahawks on the flip side of that did look pretty good in their opening win. And they made Bo Nix and the Broncos look pedestrian. They're going up against a worse offense likely this week and they're favored by three and a half. They are a road favorite. But give me the Seahawks in the points. Yeah, New England, New England didn't look bad, but I have the Seahawks minus three and a half as well just because the defense of Cincinnati looked out of sorts. And if you cannot run the football effectively, you will not have an offense for New England. They ran the football effectively against the Indian or the Cincinnati Bengals. So I don't think that we're going to see another 120 yard performance against the Seahawks defense. This game is going to be ground to a halt on the ground for New England. And I think that gives Seattle a comfortable win in Foxboro. I'm going to Carolina as well. And if I lose that game, I'm totally fine with it. Yeah, I'm a I'm going to Carolina as well because they are well. They are. Where did it go? Yeah, that's right. Anthony Newman. Exactly. And the Chargers look, Justin Herbert didn't look great in week one. This will be a good nice little rebound week for him and old the old ball coach, Jim Harbaugh. Yeah. So give me give me the Chargers. You know what was I I sent this to you guys because I saw it and I was just like, whoa. The Panthers posted a 9/11 tribute on their Instagram. Oh my God, boy, the comment section. I sent it to three different social media like directors that I know in sports and I said eight there. I asked them. I asked every one of them. Would you have left these comments on every one of them with some form of profanity and no. Are you crazy? The hell to the no was it was carnage in the streets, man. I mean, you just jaw dropping the comments from Panthers fans. Yeah. Jeff Rust and Mr. Jesse here. Do you see you guys know the Chargers line is five and a half. Would you like to take it at five and a half? Yeah. Okay. Sure. Go ahead and update them. Because I am I'm currently updating my particular, I mean, that means it has been a bit down, which is weird during the show, a lot of people on it and a lot of people on that action. My third game. This are these people looking at. I have one new idea. I literally just went, I'll take that line. Yeah. You just took it under two field goals for me. Yeah. I'll go ahead. I'll gladly take that. They watch the same team play. I have no idea. In what will be my running joke of the year, I am going to take every time I can find under a touchdown on the Panthers and anything under six against the Giants. The commanders are two point favorites against the Giants. They were the Viking scheme and is one and a half point favorites against the Giants. I don't know how this is only a two point game. Yeah. I understand rookie quarterback, Jaden Daniels looked good. Through for a buck 80 ran for almost 90 yards and two touchdowns. He looked every bit in control of an offense as much as I've seen of a rookie in a long time. Yeah. Yeah. There's nothing about that Giants team that looks remotely functional other than that front four and that's just not enough. Yeah. In this game, I'm taking the under on 43 because even if the commanders score 42 points in this game, I don't think the over sitting. It's a and look, I think some of the apprehension may be that you saw 37 points put up on the board by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but Baker Mayfield ain't run through that door. Mike Evans isn't run through that door the and also I do like the New York Giants defensive line and pass rush to make to muddy this thing up and make life hard on Jane Daniels. But I don't see a lot of points on the board and at 43, I'm going to take the under on this game. I'm going to go ahead to the desert Glendale where the Cardinals are one and a half point favorites over the Rams. Look, I know the Rams didn't look very good, but I don't trust. I still can't trust Carla Murray as far as I can throw him, which isn't very far until they show me something. The thing with the Cardinals is always going to be their duty also. Yeah. So I'm going to take another road dog Rams plus one and a half. Oh, yeah, and the Rams look good. I again, they don't have Pooka, Nakua often the line banged up because of the lions. There's no shame in losing the line. No. Oh, line got banged up. Nakua got banged up. Stafford was incredible, particularly in man coverage, which the lions run almost exclusively in line, but you give him those opportunities, but he's, he's, he's still got it. Yeah. He's still got the. That's a tricky line. I was, I was in stay away form on that one. That scared me. No, again, there's, there's some lines this week where I went, I'm not touching that. Another one that I'm going to take is 49ers minus five at the Viking. I would scummy. I went favorites on all four and I don't like it. I don't like it at all, but that 49ers team looked really good and that Viking team is as good as they looked, they were playing the Giants. I just, I don't, I don't know what you can take out of that. This feels like a game that the 49ers should win comfortably. Yeah. Uh, you mean the Jets. They played the Jets, which also, also not functional on the defensive side of the football. They were very, very, very, very bad. So yeah, you're going five and a half on the road, huh? I got, I got the Sam Darnell, baby. Sam, Darnell, I just looked on ESPN has a five and a half draft Kings. We go after half Kings. Yeah. We go after half Kings here and that, that may have changed. Um, it's at five. Perfect. Uh, well, I wish it was five and a half on my final game. Did the Jags look good, certainly not, but didn't either did the Browns. Hey, they had a first half lead. So I'm going to go, well, yeah, yeah, the second half got away from them there. Well, they were the stadium after, after Trevor Lawrence today, Tyree kill went for 80 and Jacksonville said, yeah, we're good. Yeah. We're good after this. I'm going to go Jags minus three at home playing the Cleveland Browns zero faith into Sean Watson and those Cleveland Browns. And look, I'm just going to go with the spite that don't like Sean Watson. So guess what? Go Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, he, well, he sucked last week and he just continued to suck and Miles Garrett has been put on, uh, a little injury report. They're now saying that's nothing serious, but he did not practice today. Did not practice. And neither did Smith. They're past rushing duo, both dinged up. You want to, you want to know how good Vegas thinks just Sean Watson is. Oh God, please to be with the backup switches. If they were to put Jamis Winston in that quarterback, uh, plus three and a half, it would be a half of a point, no, that the Cleveland Browns lose. So this line, if Jamis Winston were to play would go from Jags minus three to Jags minus three and a half. I think I'd rather take Jamis. I can't. Oh, you need to know. There was a national NFL show. I was listening to the day and they, they said if the Sean Watson looks like he did in the first half of this game, do they make the switch this week? And he said, coin toss, like it's already there. And then you toss in his legal situation. Yep. And the fact that what was his, his father and best friend, uh, his dad and a high school teammate died. Yeah. Yeah. So he's a terrible person. Terrible things are happening to him. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Can you name the, oh, wait, Russ, get your, get your, get your, you got your last pick. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm going Jacksonville minus three as well because Cleveland spite pick and they also are renaming the stadium Trevorbank stadium. Bam. Cause he is part of the, that's, they're one of his sponsors and he's part of the naming rights deal. Yeah. Everbank. I want you guys to think about this when we come back. There are three quarterbacks in the national football league that Las Vegas, Nevada thinks their team would get better if they did not play. Ooh, it's a nice little tease. Yeah. Yeah. Why don't you think about that? Well, hit that when we come back here on Danny and Dusty TV fan from the mind of a two foot tall talking spokes puppet comes this year's biggest challenge. It's time for Bob's dare to compare the hottest game show on TV that asks what happens when you compare Bob's to the competition, you get style, you get quality, you get beeps and boops and dings and wops and thousands of dollars in savings. 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Yeah, there are currently three quarterbacks in the NFL that if their backup came in, their team would actually get better odds in Vegas. Can you name those three quarterbacks? Bryce Young's backup. That is correct. That one's a given because he's, look, I don't like bagging on the kid because it feels bad, but he might be the biggest boss in NFL history. Legitimately, he might be worse than Jamarcus. Yeah. I just, there's nothing redemptive about him. It's not good. It's not good. Yeah, if Andy Dalton were to go in for the Carolina Panthers, Vegas would give the Panthers a one and a half point bump. Was the last time Andy Dalton appeared in a game? Oh, last year, right? Did he come in? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So Andy Dalton is one of them coming in for Bryce Young. If Bryce Young was benched, Panthers would get a point and a half. Can you name the other two? Who's Richardson's backup? Anthony Richardson in Indianapolis. It is Joe Flacko. That one's close, but it's not going to be there. Who are the top backups right now? I thought maybe Minshew in Las Vegas, but I don't think AOC is bumping that up. There would be no line movement if A is no common win in. They're saying that one's even, which is basically the same damn thing. How about the Giants? Yeah. So DeVito is the next one. Get all Tommy Cutlets in there. It is not Tommy Cutlets, but it is Drew Lock and the Giants would be one point better with Drew Lock over Daniel Jones. Oh, God. He is number two. That's a sad state of affairs. The third one, uh, Taysom's the backup in New Orleans. God, who? Who's the third? The Pads? No. No. No rookie. If it may came in, the Patriots would lose a half of a point. Are they saying? Oh, you know what? Are they saying Caleb? They're saying the Bears? No. Okay. Mm hmm. Nope. Stillers. Nope. That is another zero line movement. If Russell Wilson comes in over Justin Fields. They're doodoo also. Yep. They're calling that a no-counties. God. I don't know. It is Mason Rudolph replacing Will Levis in Tennessee. A half point difference in favor of the Titans if Will Levis gets benched for Mason Rudolph. Boy, you are garbage if Mason Rudolph's going to give you a bump. I probably would have gotten that if I'd known who the backup was, but then again, knowing who the backup was would have probably caused me to pause. Sometimes I just don't matter. Zero line movement for the Steelers Raiders and Denver Broncos. If Bonix went to the bench in favor of Jarrett Stidham, no line movement would be affected. A half point is New England with Drake May over Bursett and Cleveland with James over Deshawn. One point swings negatively would be Indianapolis with Anthony Richardson for Joe Flacco and Minnesota, Sam Darnold for Nick Mullins. Caleb Williams accounts for two and a half points over Tyson Bayjent. Ethan Daniels is a one and a half points over Jeff Driscoll. Thought that might be a little bit different, but apparently not. Two and a half points swing for Gino Smith and Sam Howl in favor of Gino over Howl. Here's an interesting one. If Aaron Rodgers got benched for Tyrod Taylor, how many points do you think the Jets would lose on the betting line? Eight and a half. No. No. Not even close. Really? Yeah. Three and a half. Three and a half points. Wow. It would be three and a half points if Tyrod Taylor replaced Aaron Rodgers. Atlanta in with Kurt Cousins and how bad he looked for Michael Pinnock's juniors, four and a half. I don't know. And we can talk about this probably in our football news and notes segment here to wrap up the show at 45. So Falcon there's somebody from practice, Falcon's practice just released video of him going through play action and it looks like a peg leg. Yeah. His right leg does not look. He can't plant. He can't do anything with it. Nope. I don't know how he's playing football. Nope. The biggest shifts if a quarterback would go to a bench, Patrick Mahomes for Carson Wentz is seven and a half points on the line. And Lamar Jackson, if Josh Johnson is, yeah, yeah. And then Buffalo seven for Allen and Trubisky. Those are the big ones. It's just mean that Trubisky looks like he's somehow related to Josh Allen. Like when you see him, he looks like, I think he looks like Drake May, which does not make me feel better. You know what? That's what I'm thinking of. It's not Josh Allen. Thank you. I think he looks like I think he looks like Mr. Bisky and Drake may kind of look alike, which is also like, if you did like the caveman thing, the evolution, it's like Drew Bledso, Mitch Trubisky, Drake May, Tom Brady, and somebody's in between Brady and May, but it looks like if you just smashed those two Brady and Bledso together, you get like this weird Drake May Mitch Trubisky thing. Yeah. Like looks worse. Yes. 100%. Yeah. That's like almost like they do like a facial profile for their quarterbacks. They have their scouting, but like, they want cheekbones. They love those. They love cheekbones. Robert Kraft loves some high cheekbones. He really does. That's what's keeping him out of the hall of fame. Probably. Come up next. We do have Thursday Night Football. We haven't gotten to that game yet. So let's dive into Bill's dolphins. Come up next. We hear the Bitcoin with sports on update. You mind if I have some of your tasty beverage to wash this down? Turns out he really put the cuffs on Tyree Kale. He's tough to stop. Now it's going to be up to the Buffalo Bills to slow him down tonight. This is going to be a really interesting contrast in styles. Josh Allen does not have weapons like at all this year. That didn't stop him in week one in maybe being the best player on the field in the NFL. He took that game over and he did it with his arms and his legs. He was incredible in that win over the Arizona Cardinals. They needed every single inch that he gained. Like I know they won by a touchdown, whatever. But it is something looked off and they are working through some stuff right now. But so is Miami. When you look at Miami where he mostered out with the chest injury, you have A chain who is apparently going to go. He went through his Instagram. He's posted and apparently people are going full bore with A chain is going to go. But he's limited by an ankle injury. Two is going to have to do it through his arm, through his passing game. And look, when you have Tyree kill the ultimate cheat code, they're going to have to go in Jalen wattle out there. It is going to be this game is going to be fun 11 of the last 12. The Bills have beat the Miami Dolphins. And it seems like they've got their number, right? And that includes the playoffs too. But this is also not a weaponless Bills team, but it's significantly different than what you've seen for the last four or five years. Well, and where's Jordan Boyer playing now in Miami, right? Remember, he said, you know, when I was with the Bills and when the comedy made, we looked at this team, we thought you were soft. Yeah. But going down to Miami in September, it's not going to be a day game where they're in the blistering sun and the sun's going to affect them or anything like that. But it is warm. It'll be humid. It'll be a little bit different than what Buffalo's used to. And usually that is an advantage for Miami. But if you're Buffalo, you're looking at this game going, if we were to pick a time to play in Miami, this is it. It would be eight 15 PM in Miami early in the year. If you have to go there in September, you do not want that one 15. Yo, God, no, that is going to just be draining blistering hot because the way they built that stadium, the sun comes down hammers you. Miami's in the in the shade the entire time visiting team is just getting just absolutely scorched. And so, look, Buffalo has got all the advantages heading into this one. I thought, you know, you had to scratch and claw for victories in both sides of this. Miami did not look polished by any measure, having to rally from behind to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars. He's a way that the against he's a cheat code. He can cover up for a lot of warts, but you're also looking at a Buffalo team that they struggled mightily against the Arizona Cardinals and it was an Arizona Cardinals team that didn't throw the ball for 300 yards. Kyler Murray, they did a great job on Marvin Harrison Jr. and they're still being, you know, much said about his debut, which let's pump the brakes on just judging a receiver by his NFL debut because not every guy comes out and just absolutely goes ham in their first game in the NFL. I was, I was looking this up, somebody posted a Dane Bruggler did, the athletic either draft scout guy, Justin Jefferson's debut, two catches 26 yards, CD lamb six or 59, I'm on Ross St. Brown two for 23. It's not indicative of what you are going to be or your career is going to be based on the very first game and Buffalo gave a ton of attention to Marvin Harrison Jr. They took him away, Kyler Murray also missed a ton of open throws and that is probably the thing that worries me the most about this Buffalo team is that Kyler Murray missed those chances and missed those opportunities to get the ball to his most explosive playmaker, but the pass rush gave Arizona fits, but there were opportunities to get the ball in the playmaker's hand. One thing that Mike McDaniel and to a do a really good job of get the ball of the damn playmaker stands and you have more weapons here. You have Tyreke and you have Jalen Waddle. Do you have the balance that they would prefer to have? No, you're going to have to rely on Tua to go out and win this game for you today. If most of it is out and a chain is limited, you're not, you don't have this deep stable of backs in your backfield. You have got to rely on Tua to go out and win a game. And for Buffalo, hopefully that pass rush is as effective as it was against Arizona because Kyler Murray, he missed a lot of targets due to the pressure that was being applied by Buffalo. Josh Allen was, was incredibly effective in the game against the Cardinals. Yeah, buddy. 23, 2, 32, two touchdowns. No interceptions only took two sacks. Also ran the ball nine times or 39 yards and took massive hits going into the end zone. He got John L. Wade on the one where he dove in and got absolutely smashed. I don't know how he's going to do that for 16 more weeks. I mean, he's a big dude. He's strong as hell and you can't wire him any differently. They've tried. There was the, the whole incentivizing thing that they tried and just not really working. He wants to win. Yeah. Keon Coleman would dig well in his debut for catches, 51 yards, five targets. If you take a look at the target sheet, no one had more than five targets. Keon Coleman led the team in targets. You'd be three to Shaquir, three to cook, two to Hollins, two to Knox, two to MBS, two to Curtis Samuel, two to Dalton, Kincade. I thought you would see Kincade and Knox feature more prominently because if you look at what, the, the bills did is they ran the living hell of the ball against the Cardinals. 33 carries, 130 yards, run the ball. And I think that's going to be the staple of this team in that you put, you have two very good tight ends in Kincade and Knox. And if you get out there in that, in that big personnel, that double tight end personnel, and you're able to run the ball effectively, that can alleviate so much pressure and put Josh Allen into play action where you can use Keon Coleman on some one on one coverage and let him go be effective on the backside. I thought Jacksonville did a really good job early of establishing the run in, in carving them up. I mean, you go for, it's weird to think how our brains get wired from NFL to college football, but 128 yards rushing in week one, it was effective run game because they, the jags were averaging five yards of care over the course of the game. That's a good rushing total. You get, you get a buck 25, you got, you're having yourself a damn good game. You get four yards a pop and you are through the moon. You get up to five and all of a sudden your offensive coordinator is feeling himself because now you're, now you're able to get by getting from the sticks over and over again and Buffalo is going to give fits to Miami. That's why I like Buffalo in this game straight up by, I mean, they're two and a half point dogs, but I like them straight up because if you can run the ball, you can keep Tyreek in wattle at day, you're going to give yourselves more than a chance to win down in Miami. This is going to be a fun game. I love this Thursday night matchup early in the year though. These are the fun ones. Like if this were to happen later in the year where teams are coming off a short week or they're banged up and they don't want to be there, those are the ones that suck. Having this early in the season, a marquee matchup division that is going to be decided in late December and we get the two top dogs going to head to head week two, sign me up. This is going to be good Thursday night football tonight. Yeah. And looking up and down for the for the bills, other than Matt Milano, they're not going to be missing too many impact players and Milano's basically out for the year. So he is out for the year and that happened in training. Yeah. So you're not, nothing, nothing coming out of week one that's going to be detrimental to them. It's, I am going to, it is going to interesting to see how Miami is able to look at McDonald's as smart as they come, but not having your running backs like plural. That does make things interesting. If I prop bet Tyree kill lining up in the back, back field is running back. Like I feel like almost a certainty, doesn't it? Yes. You're going to get like plus 900 right like what the Niners did with Debo this last weekend. It was like you're going to probably see him get three or four carries cat in there. Their run game was ineffective though because those guys were limited during that game and they didn't run the ball well against Jacksonville. So thank God you had an ADR teddy by Tyree kill and the threat of always being beat vertically. That's why, you know, I think to us going to have himself a day there, there were spots where Kyler could have hit open receivers time and time again for Arizona. Just tomorrow. Two is going to, two is going to do it too. And that's, it's going to be a close game. Yeah. I mean, it's going, I think this is going to be a phenomenal football game. I hope it's not. It's, it's fun that we get a couple of really good matchups right out of the season or right out of the game. It's perfect. It's what we need. It's what we crave. It's what plants crave football fans crave. That's right. Come back next. We'll get some final news and notes ahead of a NFL week two here on Danny Dusty Taney, the fan. Russell Wilson getting closer, but not quite ready for the Pittsburgh Steelers since right now. If I was a betting man, I would imagine Justin Fields is going to be your starter out there for week number two, which is an interesting spot to be because Arthur Smith was asked about his game plan last week against Falcons. And he said it was his choice to not have Justin Fields throw to the middle of the field. He didn't want to have Jesse Bates wreck the game plan, says he has a ton of respect for Bates. His actual quote was, our Jason born TJ want wreck the game. There's didn't. Look, I like a healthy respect for your, for your guys because obviously Falcons are the Smith. He's very familiar with Jesse Bates, but to tell your, to not trust your quarterback enough to be able to throw the ball over the middle at all. My God, does that speak bounds about how bad he is? Yeah. I think this is doing it. Justin Fields is doing a very poor job of trying to protect your quarterback. We know Justin Fields. We know that Justin Fields does not feel comfortable throwing the ball in a pocket towards the middle of the field. You know, the thing that is the most valuable thing maybe to do in the NFL now, they got out of that game and a lot of it too is if you don't have the weapons to get loose across the middle, then you don't have a quarterback that doesn't feel comfortable. Yeah, then don't do it. But I mean, you've, you have, you used, you picked them apart on the edges and Atlanta's got big concerns because they lost a field goal fest. Yeah. And Kirk Cousins, they're bigger. I think we know why their quarterback is playing with one leg. But the fact that you're going to sit there and say, yeah, that was by design. No, it wasn't. That's like the Jets offensive coordinator coming out saying like, yeah, we only wanted Aaron to throw to the left side of the field. Yeah. No, no, it's where your quarterback felt comfortable. If you see it again in another week, you're going to be really concerned if you're a Jets fan because then you're going, all right, now Aaron Rodgers literally cannot push off his foot and throw to that side of the field. But for Justin Fields, we know he's limited. He is wildly limited as a quarterback. He doesn't trust his vision to the middle of the field and using Jesse Bates as the crutch for that. Good on you. Way to go. But we know that's not the real reason why Justin Fields, not a very good quarterback. Nobody is shocked by this. The Justin Fields experience Steelers fans. It's not a good one. You mean one and O Justin Fields. Yeah. And that's what some steal of him. Like, oh, we got the wind. Okay. Got the win. Okay. Got the win. Okay. One and O. I love Steelers fans. You guys love your teams. Sounds like an O and one fan right now. So it sounds like to me, sounds like I want the Raiders to go O and 17. Sounds like a guy who went O and one and week one. O and 17, baby. What? You got Cooper flag out there waiting for you. Yeah. Give me the top of the draft. Give me the top of the draft the next three years and get an infusion of talent. There's no way the Raiders would screw that up. No, no way. It's not like we've done that before. Wait. Yeah. Perfect time in Cam War just pop it on TV. You don't want to take Cam War number one. You want to let other teams take a quarterback. Don't do this yourself. I've taught myself in the Cam War and Quinn Ewers, I think. I know. I know. It's sad. I know. I'm aware. You need to. You don't need the number one pick. You can't have the number one pick. It would do you need what the perfect situation is other teams to take quarterbacks off the board. I had to. Now, selfishly, for show purposes, I would love the Raiders to get the number one pick. The great news about this studio is I don't think I could put a hole in this wall very easily. True. It's reinforced. Yeah. And it's not drywall, which is what happened when they took Darius Hayward Bay and Jamarcus Russell. He was fast, though, ran that straight line really well. I just look, I want as weird as it is. I had this like weird like for the Steelers just because of the history and how they have been so committed to who they are and their coaching tree being basically like one branch. It truly is incredible how successful they have been, but it's like for the love of God, will you move on and stop trying to talk yourself into everybody else's trash? Well, that's what every fan base does when you don't have a quarterback. And it's like, you know, I just it's not kind of how Neil Olshay ran an organization. Yes. And what did I say about that? Damn. Stop doing this. Wait, are the Steelers, are the Steelers the Blazers, they kind of are kind of hanging around just good enough. You're good enough to make the playoffs. You're good enough to have a respectable record for really, but everybody looks at your team and goes, you're not good enough to win the Mariners and 54% yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the thing is, I think the Steelers are happy with what they are at organizationally. I don't. Yeah. I think they would rather just win nine to 10 games every single year than have a down period. Absolutely. Absolutely, they would, which just to me, it's just gross. I would rather crawl through the mile of crap, just for a chance at freedom. How's that been going for you the last 20 years? Josh, they haven't had a chance at freedom though. That's the thing. Isn't that what drafting players is? Yeah. Well, how many, how many top three picks have they had? I don't know. Just I think it's just the one, it's just a Marcus. All right. That sucks. They're like a guy. We know gallery was three. Yeah. So these are two. And boy, do they bomb both of those. All right. Look in here, I mean, you had the seventh overall pick, which you guys wisely invested in Tyree Wilson. Oh, God. And he's not. That was a good one. Yeah. The number four pick, which you guys wisely invested in. Clellen Farrell. Got it. From off. Spad. You had three first round picks that year, Josh Jacobs, Jonathan Abram and Clellen Farrell. One for three. It's not bad. No. Where's Josh Jacobs? No. Use the number four pick on Amari Cooper. It's a good pick. Use the fifth pick. Amari Cooper. You use the fifth pick on Clellen Mac. He's really good pick. Where's Clellen Mac? Yeah. Use the eighth pick on Orlando McLean. That one was bad. Use the seventh pick on Darius Hayward Bay. Really bad. Fourth pick on Darren McFadden. That wasn't bad. First pick on Jamarcus Russell. Really bad. Yeah. Third was on the gallery, right? Second. Second on Robert Gallery. Yeah. Turn into a really good guard. Dang. Yeah, that sucks, man. I'm sorry. God. I'm making Danny sad. All right, everybody. 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