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Saturday, September 21:Time Out NFL Week 3
Welcome into time out on the fired-up network. Gerald Bentley and Alex Campbell, we're taking a look ahead at this week in the national. But, Bob, Blake, and, you know, it's a big week as we look ahead. A lot of teams made some moves and I think we're getting a little bit more into, like we talked about last year, in the first couple weeks of the NFL season with the new preseason, the restricted roles in training camp, first tough couple weeks look a little sloppy, usually. I think we're getting more into the body at the league now as we adjust to this newly expanded regular season. Week three, this is almost like the old week one because now we've gotten a chance to see the team's play and we get to see a little bit more of what their styles are and we can start kind of making some determinations as we move forward. What were your big tankaways from week two, anything that really jumped down at you? Yeah, I mean, first of all, what you mentioned, like the play, like you said, has been sloppy and you've seen a lot of, like you're getting used to a lot of differences. Different guys on rosters, I think also makes a difference. Young players are big different, like rookies didn't play a lot in the preseason this year at all, especially the rookie quarterbacks didn't play, some prominent ones only took a few snaps that are playing big minutes now to steal a turn from basketball. So what's interesting to me is for one that, and I knew this was going to happen, the bears on the struggle bus again, the offensive line is not as good as forecasted, the weapons don't make as much of a difference, and I'll say it until I'm blue in the face. If you don't build the offensive line first, I don't care what weapons, what quarterback, I just don't, that's, if you don't do that first, you're going to be lost, and that's where they are now. They can't protect him, he's dancing around too much, and really, the first two weeks has been the remarkable contrast in my opinion of, now there have been other things that have happened, obviously that Eagles Falcons game was phenomenal, but we'll get to that, but the over-lying headlines for me, like the young quarterback play, Daniels for the commanders has been fantastic, just absolutely fantastic, through for 80% last week, look, 80%, and another plan against the Giants, but 80% against any NFL defense is pretty darn good for any NFL quarterback, they got to figure it out in the red zone. They kicked seven field goals in that game, and that tells me that they're really struggling in that condensed area of the field once they get there, but that's typical of a young quarterback, but you look at the rest of the body of the work, I'll take it, I mean if you're throwing 80% taking care of the ball and not turning it over, whatever, man, we'll figure out the red zone, that's a lot easier than figuring out how to make your arm more accurate. Sure, and Caleb Williams, he looked better week two, I mean, he's going to take a mile, I think the Bears are still facing the consequences of having the wrong head coach, I don't think there was any world where Eber Flus should have gotten the chance to ruin the second quarterback, Eber Flus should have been gone, that was an absolute disaster in Chicago last year, the guy never should have gotten another chance to be that coach, and I don't even know if it matters so much what to do with the offense, I just think he's a bad, bad head coach, and the Chicago Bears are in for a long season, I think Caleb Williams is going to be a good quarterback, but also Justin Fields is showing a Pittsburgh with a good coach that hey, he can be a winning quarterback too, the main takeaway I had from the week is God's Dallas had problems. New Orleans went in there with Clint Kubiak running the offense, Derek Carr looks as good as he ever looked with the Raiders, they're playing a ball control offense, Derek Carr had some electric passes, Chris Olave had a great catch, they just slaughtered Dallas, in Dallas, fresh off of giving Dak Prescott the biggest contract in the history of the NFL on an annual basis, that's not going to end well. Yeah, no, and Dallas faces another test this week, I don't think anybody would disagree, a bigger test with Ravens coming in, and that's at home. Oh, and two Ravens, and oh and two Ravens that needs the win. So I don't think so look up in Dallas, like we talked about it before the season began, they can't run the ball like they have in years past, they're just not going to get the production out of that running room and that offensive line that they have in years past, they're still pretty good, but the running back room is completely empty, they're still pretty good on the old line, but the running back room is empty. And so because of that, when they get into these contests where it's close and against a team or they're on a similar competitive level, I really wonder how they're going to be able to compete. If the what every NFL defense is trying to do is make you one dimensional and the Cowboys come in that way to every game to start. Yeah, yeah, they're one dimensional that that's going to throw the ball, they're going to force it to CD lamb, and you can guarantee those things. Yeah, no, Zig Elliott, he's down, he's out of gas, that was the reunion to probably not a good idea. Well, let's take a look at the matchups. We'll start on the shores of Lake Erie, the Cleveland Browns playhouse to the New York football giants, the Giants, the Daniel Jones experiences still going, the fans are chanting for Drew Locke to get in, the pride of Missouri, Drew Locke, the highest paid backup quarterback in the league, not coincidentally, take on the Browns, and man, I don't know, this is a game that somebody has to win, but everybody loses, right? Cleveland's is six point favorite, the over under 38 and a half points. Deshawn Watson played a little bit better, I guess the Browns win, they have a good defense, and Daniel Jones is just horrible. Yeah, maybe this is the game that pulls the plug and Drew Locke gets his chance to be the starting quarterback. Maybe mid game, and then it's the full transition, you know what I mean, that kind of thing. Yeah, I agree, because I just can't imagine that he trotting him out there if he continues to struggle worse and worse and worse. I mean, you can take this all the way back to, I mean, he's always been inaccurate, but it seems to be getting worse, and I think that's the problem with Jones is that over time, and don't get me wrong, some of the transitions that he's had to face in the coaching staff has not been his fault, but it wasn't Mac Jones fault either, and it just didn't work, you know what I mean? And I think this is a very similar thing where I just don't think long it's, I think he's the new Mac Jones, and this just is not going to work. Now, and they're going to have Ebert Flush should have been fired, Brian Dave all should have been right behind them. Yeah, correct. And in both cases, look, give me, pick any head coach in the league right now and give me those two as my coordinators, we're doing pretty good. Yeah, you're going to be good. Yeah, but give me Dave all on offense and Ebert Flush on defense, and we're going to be all right, but neither one should be head coach. No, that's that's on Fox. That's a noon kickoff Eastern time. Green Bay. I want to clock kick off Eastern time noon central. Green Bay taken on the Tennessee Titans. It's the Malik Willis revenge game. Green Bay traveling in. They looked pretty good week one with Malik Willis filling in for Jordan Love and yeah, Tennessee with Will Levis. Maybe not the answer. Tennessee is surprisingly favored by three. Another real low line, 36.5 points. I think Green Bay wins. I think Willis can run the ball enough and Green Bay has some really high end receivers. Tennessee is in disarray. This should be a Green Bay win. Yeah, no. And again, like I look at also the coaching staff, and I think I think Green Bay has a distinctive advantage there. And that's why is that is that he's able to figure out how to make that offense work regardless. And I think we saw that with Willis in the game. He's just going to end up running the ball even more. Willis is going to run the ball a little bit. They're going to play the dink and dunk passing game. And the goal now is, as long as we can say how do the sticks on first and second down, third down should be manageable. And you look at the stat sheet and they're doing pretty well in third down. And it's not a surprise because he's always, I feel like he is right behind Shanahan and McBae. And really, I would put Harbaugh in that same realm as well. Yeah. And Willis was a good quarterback at Liberty, and he can get a couple of chunk plays. If they get them into second and manageable, they're running the ball a lot. Tennessee crowds the line to stop the run. Willis can hit a bomb, or they can get a game break in play. And honestly, I think this game, whoever gets the 16 first, you win. Yeah. Yeah. And I think Tennessee's lost on both sides of the ball. And I think that sucks for Tennessee, but that's, that's hopefully it gets better. Yeah. Well, this is kind of the bottom out here, the end of the label. You had that disruption between Brayball and the management. They were drafting guys at Brayball didn't want to play up the Lake Willis being one of them. And he just ended up with kind of a disarray and the message just got lost. So they really didn't need a reset. I don't think this year is a judgment against Callahan at all, because he was the offense coordinator at Cincinnati's good young coach, he might and I felt legacy bill Callahan son. I think he can get it done, but it's going to take a couple of years to rebuild that roster. No, I agree. And he'll be trusted to do that. You know what I mean? I think they're going to give him probably two, three seasons. That's the ownership groups. Pretty, pretty good in that way. They'll, they'll give him some runway. Now a guy who's had multiple seasons that we talked about, uh, Chicago, Matt Eberfluis and the Bears with Caleb Williams, they traveled to Indianapolis to take on the call to battle the young quarterbacks. Caleb Williams, Anthony Richardson, Richardson's looked good. He's looked electric in plays, but very inconsistent. So this is another game real low over under 43 and a half points in Indianapolis, a one point favorite at home. It's really almost a must win for Chicago, because this isn't a terribly good Indianapolis team. Yeah, I'll take Chicago. I think Caleb Williams can make a couple of plays and get a W. I'll take the Colts at home just to provide a different snide. Yeah, I'll take it. I'll take it because it's, I think it's so much of a toss up. Like you're taking the Bears, I'll take the Colts. You know what I mean? Yeah. You know what I mean? And I'll make an argument for the Colts, I guess. Uh, Richardson is at this point at better than Williams. Williams is creative. I've liked a lot of the things that he's done. And I think creative goes a long way at that level. He's got to figure out the rest of it and they got to figure it out on the O line. And I just don't know that they're going to be able to mid season. In fact, I'd almost guarantee they can't. Uh, and I, I don't, I don't have strong faith that the Bears are going to be able to rebuild it in one off season either. So that's going to be pretty interesting. So he's got to really learn on the fly in a similar fashion that Justin Fields did. You're putting him in a very similar situation. Um, and so, uh, and Richardson, Richardson has showed off that the one pass, the play action pass where he throws deep. Um, he's of a finite number of people in the world that can do that. Yeah. Amazing athlete. I mean, in that, so I think that there is, there is a lot of potential that, that that team still sees there. I, I hope that he stays healthy. And I think, I think that that is ultimately what's going to decide his development and the team and the cult success. But, um, if he can stay, if he can stay healthy, I think he can, cause like all the things that he, he struggles with are in my mind, correctable, you know what I mean? It's a lot of decisions. Now, sometimes those bad decisions add up and you can never correct them, but sometimes that, that, that pass a rating improves over time to those. So that's something that you can move. It's not like he's horribly inaccurate. It's not like he's missing the layups. And, uh, he's got an absolute cannon of an arm. Uh, I mean, a cannon of an arm. It's, it's, that throw again, just sensational. That's the only one you're going to see like it this season, uh, is that hung in the air that long like that. Look like a punt. Yeah. He needs got amazing athleticism. The knock on him coming out of Florida was a, wasn't a good quarterback. It was an amazing athlete, but yeah, hopefully he can work his way into it. A guy who has shown to be a really good quarterback. So far, C.J. Stroud, he brings the Houston Texans into Minnesota to take on a reborn Sam Darnold. The Vikings looking good under Sam Darnold, showing that career renaissance that started as the backup in San Francisco. The Vikings are home dogs by two and a half points to Houston. Uh, 46 and a half point over under, not a lot of excitement in Minnesota. You can get into the game for $66. You know, I feel pretty good about Houston. They seem to really be rounding into it as the, you know, the consensus pick to win the AFC South again. They're going to be there at the end. Yeah, I, I agree. There'll be a, there'll be a playoff team. I really, you know, all the things that they've done, you know, I just love how they recognize that success in the first year and just built on it, you know, just improved, you know, and every, and every way they could in the off season. And it just gotten better. And they seem to rise to the moment too. And I think that, that, that belies the coaching staff, whereas the, the Godi numbers belies C.J. Stroud, but, but definitely the ability for the team to have that mindset that they tend to rise to the moment against tougher opponents in bigger games. That, that's a signal of, of success. Uh, and, um, yeah, I think they win this game. But that said, uh, the Vikings have a chance here. Um, they, they absolutely do. I mean, it's first of all, any given Sunday. Secondly, the Vikings under Donald are pretty darn good. Uh, Kevin O'Connell is a, is a, is a vastly underrated head coach. Another one of these, you know, great offensive minds. Um, you know what I mean? He's very creative with the ball. And, you know, right now, Sam Darnell's kind of like Baker Mayfield North. Yeah. He's, he's looking really good. Let's take a look at a team that this is a tale of teams going in two different directions. The Philadelphia Eagles fresh off of an end of the game. Meltdown, um, had victory in their hands. The Atlanta Falcons grabbed victory from the jaws of defeat. They travel to take on a New Orleans team that's coming off of one of the biggest road wins against the Cowboys in years. I mean, I think you had to go back to 2008. I believe they mentioned on the broadcast, it was Tom Brady quarterback and the team against the Cowboys. The last time the Cowboys lost me as much as they did. Uh, New Orleans offense looks tremendous with a new coordinator. It's a break from the old Sean Payton system. Darren Carr looks comfortable. Kamara looked great. Olave made an amazing catch for the Saints and Philadelphia seems a little bit lost. And if they seem lost, it's maybe with reason Nick Siriani, one of the guys who was talked about is being in the hot seat. Maybe was going to get fired in the off season. Here's what he talked about after the game, how they made that decision in the fourth quarter to essentially throw that game away. They were driving to kill the clock out. All they needed to do was turn around, hands of all the sake, Juan Barclay could have ran the clock out. Instead, they threw a pass. It was dropped. Falcons get the ball, march up and score. Question was asked at the press conference just about an hour ago to Siriani. Hey, how did you guys decide that? When you June, telling more, even talk about the situation, uh, new Eagles offense coordinator, former Cowboys OC, Kellen Moore. Here's what Siriani said. Yeah, just like it would early in the game too, to be quite honest with you, because, you know, um, you're, you're discussing when you're going for a fourth down, what third down needs to look like, uh, in attempts to go for fourth down. Sometimes, you know, a third down's played a little differently. Sometimes it's not. And so all those discussions are happening. They're happening, like I said, um, in the first quarter, they're happening in the fourth quarter. Um, and we've in, in, if Kellen and I are just having that conversation right then, then we've done a shitty job getting ready all week, that conversation happens throughout the conversation happened today, right, of what we would be thinking in those scenarios. And it's just, hey, remember we said in this scenario, boom, right? Um, so that's something that we've been with, that we prep for all week. And then it's just a little reminders within that. Um, and because you're right, it's like calling the game is one thing, managing games, another thing, but they, they have aspects of meshing together. There you go. You see it went well with the Philadelphia media. What was that? That was the question was, hey, did you not discuss what you were going to do to kill the game? And that was the answer. Yeah, it doesn't look good. And of course, you know, Philadelphia is, I would say the most pragmatic team in the league when it comes to moving on. I mean, they move on. If you think about some of the people they moved on from, I mean, they moved on from a Super Bowl winning coach at this period already, by the way, that's our, but they've already done that. Uh, your Jacksonville Jaguars head coach. Yeah. They moved. I mean, they've moved on from, they moved on, uh, from players early, they've moved on from coaches early. They, they move on quickly. So you got to wonder how, you know, that it's got to be this offseason if they struggle, if they struggle, it's got to be this offseason. Well, I would say, do you think there's a possibility that it is after a one and three start? Because you lose to the Saints, then they have a road game against a challenging Buccaneers team. Yeah. And a bye week. There's a distinct possibility, I think, if you go into the bye week at a disappointing one and three, which is quite possible, taking on a Saints team that looks like a buzz saw right now and a Buccaneers team that looks ready to win their division, you could be one in three looking at going to hosting the Browns on October 13th. I don't know if Christianity makes it to that game. Yeah. And he might not. I mean, if they go one in three, I could see, like I said, I could see that, that ownership group moving on, you know what I mean, that front office moving on because, I mean, like I said, they've gotten rid of people who are successful, you know, and still moderately successful. So, you know what I mean? Like, if you can't, if you basically, if the outlook looks bleak at that moment, I don't see a reason why they wouldn't, because if they've got a reset, they might as well hit the button now see if there's anything on the coaching staff that they can promote and just, you know, work from within at like, you know, like they did in Oakland, or sorry, in Las Vegas. They ran, uh, Kelly. Yeah, right. Kelly Mark could be an interim head coach. Kelly, right. Kelly more could be an interim head coach. Um, sure. You know, it could happen and you didn't give him a shot. You know, who knows? Maybe, maybe he really inspires the locker room, inspires the offense and away they go. Man, I mean, young offensive coaches are, are they, are they get right now? So, yeah. Um, in a, you know, maybe he connects with Johnny, Siri on. He was the young offensive head coach, but he's never been the play caller. But if you remember from his, even like his initial presser, right, it's pretty clear that he's of a different acumen per se than like the McBays and Shanahan's where he's, he's clearly more of the motivator than he is the actual, you know, complete architect of the complex. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Uh, whereas, you know, McVay is absolutely the one pushing the button. Shanahan's the one. He's the button pusher. You know what I mean? For sure. For sure. Um, and O'Connell is the button pusher. And, um, and, you know, I, I just don't, I don't believe that he ever really has been even, I know, play calling, even outside of play calling, I don't, you know, because I just can't imagine, but, um, I don't, yeah, Kelly Moore could be a, could be a great ender room there. I can see it. Sure. Yeah, man. And obviously I picked both pick in the Saints. Um, big game for Jim Harbaugh on the road, the Chargers taking on the Pittsburgh Steelers. Steelers behind Justin Fields, who I'd imagine is going to start again. It looks like Russell Wilson has the, uh, most prevalent injury in the NFL right now, the, uh, cap strain. Justin Fields going to be a quarterback. Pittsburgh's favored by one. It's again, a low over under 35 and a half points. And it's going to be a good matchup of a couple of coaches who really want to play the same way. They want to run the ball a lot, play good defense, set it up where you can get a couple of chunk plays and that decides the game. So it's really just going to come down to who do you think is the better quarterback to execute that plan? Is it Justin Fields or is it Justin Herbert? Um, I'm going to go with Herbert. I think Harbaugh wins on the road. Yeah, I like, I like, I think, again, I look at quarterback. I look at coaching. I think they have the advantage in both. So I think the Chargers win on the road. I do. Um, because Herbert, I think, is, is a well more accurate quarterback than Fields historically. Um, uh, he's, he's, he's more explosive in the past game historically than Fields has been as well. Um, Harbaugh is also, uh, led more explosive offenses, uh, than, uh, Tomlin has over the years as well, even though they both run the same style and try to achieve the same goals, Harbaugh's offenses tend to be more explosive than the ones under Tomlin have been regardless of coordinator. Um, and, uh, I think that all of that trends, trends for him, look, I think Harbaugh's arguably the one of the best coaches in the world, if not the best, because I just don't know who makes it work on every level and every scenario wins right away. It just doesn't happen. Sure. Yeah. And they, they hit the ground running. They're looking good. Uh, I think he looking good as a rookie wide receiver. Herbert seems comfortable and they're doing something that Dick Vermeil always talked about. If you want to turn around a team, stop doing stupid stuff. Right. They're not doing the stupid stuff they were doing under Staley, not shooting themselves in the foot. It's, it's fourth and five on your 40. You punt the ball. Yeah. You don't play the video yourself up to fail and just create a easy field goal for your opponent. You don't charger because the line was, well, hey, the chargers are going to charge her. Well, they're not charging anymore. Yeah. They're actually playing smart and they're letting their talent go. They're, they're locked at this point. I'd say the second place in the division and they're going to be knocking on the door of the Chiefs. Well, and the one thing that you see, you could look at that roster before the season and talk negatively about them was the run game. You wonder where the yards are going to come from. Now it looks like JK Dobbins is better than he's ever been. Go figure in this office. He's coming off in Achilles. Exactly. But his skill set feeds directly into this style of offense. So he's, you know what I mean? So, and so they've got him and a couple of young running backs and they're going to roll with that and make it work. You know, and again, I'll hit the O line alarm again. I got a good young O line there, probably one of the top five in the league. So I like to charge this a lot, man. They're going to push for that division. I think this year will be interesting to see how they play the top brass and AFC though, once they once they get to a few of those games on their schedule. It's way too early, but I think they are going to be a playoff team. Yeah, because you're going to be able to pick up some wins in this division with Denver and the Raiders. And let's talk about Denver. The Broncos, Sean Payton, they traveled to Tampa Bay, take on Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers. The the Buccaneers had the nature boy, Rick Flair, launching the Buccaneers cannon before the game last week. And Baker Mayfield telling Bo next to be the man, you got to beat the man. And I don't think you can. I think Baker's getting this win. Tampa Bay, a six and a half point favorite, big line for the NFL. It's kind of really low over under 39 and a half. So everybody's projecting a low scoring week. I think Tampa Bay wins this one and they win it fairly easily because they have a good defense too. Yeah, I agree. I mean, like if you if you look at, you know that that Steelers don't have an electric offense, they're not really a barometer, but they only allow 13 points last week. They only scored six. So with a rookie quarterback, that doesn't really, you know, abode confidence in the next one on the road against playoff team. And just like you said, the quarterback comparison is well in the favor of Baker Mayfield here. Yeah, and you're looking at these offensive stats. I mean, this is just horrible. Bo Nix 384 yards passing, 46 of 77, four interceptions, no touchdowns. And he's also the leading rusher for the Broncos with 60 yards on nine scrambles. I mean, yeah, they're doing nothing well. That is that is an offensive team that is just lost. And by comparison, the Buccaneers are going in a very different direction where Baker Mayfield has completed 74% of his passes, five touchdowns, one interception. They're in a much, much better place. And yeah, I mean, I don't know this the Sean Payton experience not looking terribly well. The ESPN analytics model, they played the game a thousand times in their simulator. The Broncos lose 69% of the time. Yeah, yeah, I felt like last week thought the the Bucks went over the Lions was pretty huge for for them. You know, the Lions are, the Lions are forecasted to be, you know, a division computer in a really a conference, you know, champion kind of competition. So, yeah, that was a huge win for them. And the way they won it also was impressive. Baker goes for under 200 yards in that game, but ball control ball control goes 12 of 15 passing, you know, I mean, it shows that they can win in a multitude of ways. And and yeah, I think for sure they win this one. Another game that I think we can be extremely confident is a win. And it doesn't necessarily say the Raiders are going to be winning any divisions or contending for the playoff spot. The Carolina Panthers travel to Las Vegas to take on the Raiders. Andy Dalton, as you're starting quarterback Bryce Young complaining to the media about not getting a fair shake. He hasn't gotten the opportunities he deserved. It's been a bad situation. All true. But man, get it horrible. They can't keep playing you. The Raiders are going to pounce them. I think the Raiders are five and a half. My favorite, Governor Minshew looked really good last week and a surprising win against the Ravens. Yeah. And Carolina, man, they need a reboot. They may they may want to put Bryce Young back in to make sure they get that number one draft pick so they can take Carson back if he's their preferred quarterback because they need to follow the Bears model. And it's a reset time. You can't truck. You can't drop Bryce Young out there again. The guy's done. Yeah, no, I don't think so either, especially once he starts complaining to the media like that. I think at that point, you're now he really forced your hand. You know what I mean? Because that's, well, I talked about it earlier. That's exactly what Mac Jones did. You know what I mean? And he also Mac Jones also wasn't wrong. You know what I mean? Nothing. Nothing he said was wrong. Nothing Bryce Young said was wrong. It's just that someone in your position doesn't it doesn't vote confidence when you complain about things like that regardless of what's the weakness because you're you're expected to overcome that just as an automatic. So unfortunately, and that and you knew that coming in. So you know what I mean? Like, so yeah, I think they can't they can't put them back out there if they want to win. But you raise a good point. I don't think they win more than, you know, seven games with Dalton anyways. And that may not be the best thing if you go and win those seven. No, because your your futures in the past with Andy Dalton as you're starting quarterback. He's he's shown. He's easily capable of self-destructing and throwing a game away. Of course, it was a while ago. He was the starting quarterback for the Bengals that got supplanted by Joe Barrow. And the Bengals did not a whole lot of anything with Andy Dalton. I mean, he can throw some stance up, but man, he can't be starting. I mean, they'd almost be ahead honestly to lose it out. And if you think Carson Beck is the guy, if you know, ask your head coach, Nathan, I'll say, who do you want? And if he said, yeah, you know what, I think back to the guy, I think we can make him work. Well, not only would I not only would I lose everything. Yeah, not only would I trot him back out there, you know what I mean? But I would also try to play an offense that that fit his skill set perfectly, because I'm going to try to move him in the next off season with with some upside. You know what I mean? Like the problem is the offense that fits his skill set perfectly is flag football. And they only play that in the Olympics. He can't get hit. That's his problem. The guys, you know, well, he's very small. I put 760 pounds out there. You just got to get you just have to have world class athletes at every other position, like they did at Alabama. And then at Alabama, yeah, it should work out everybody. So it doesn't matter. Yeah, which was the the Brody Croyl syndrome, too. We talked about on Sunday night, same reason, Brody Croyl failed in the NFL. Yeah, lit it up at Alabama. I got to the NFL man. You watch him in practice. My God, this guy's amazing. He hits every pass. He's he's taken a half step and thrown it 40 yards into the guy and strides is incredible. And then the game starts as soon as he gets hit. It was like he was made out of glass. Oh, yeah, that's not good. That's why we got him. Um, another Alabama quarterback having trouble. And hopefully this isn't the end of the career, but maybe four weeks stint on the injured list at least to a technically Ola, another concussion, at least concussion for maybe concussion five. I think most people would say it's number five, because one of them was ruled as a lower upper back injury, but he had all the concussion effects. Um, that's going to be a problem for Miami. He is going to be out for a while. And then you have to question long term. Is he able to go? Uh, it reminds me of Chris Miller, the old Atlanta quarterback who eventually had Oregon Duck quarterback eventually had to leave because of post concussion syndrome. Um, that's, that's a distinct possibility here. Miami is in a lot of trouble. Skyler Thompson from case state is going to be their starting quarterback. And he's a functional backup. He played in a playoff game, but he's not going to be able to utilize those weapons to the degree that to a could to a does have elite level accuracy. Uh, Skyler Thompson does not. They take on the Seattle Seahawks in Seattle, tough place to play Seahawks at four point favorites. I think they win this game easily because Miami's got some issues moving forward. Yeah, with Thompson as the starter. And that's the thing is that they're, they, that team relies on its offense. So, so whatever the offense does, feeds right into the defense. That defense is also set up to play with to a quarterback in a way too, because his play style allows Mike McDonald's to call the offense the way he wants to. They don't stay on the field for very long. And, and, and so if they now have to, that's an uphill battle for that defense, especially on the road, um, against the team that just came off of an overtime win. And now they're at home. I like the Seahawks in that game. And the dolphins got to figure out something at quarterback if they want to compete this year. Um, that, that's going to be interesting because they have a lot of expensive roster pieces that I'd imagine they do want to still try to compete this year. Um, so I'll be interested to see, and I think we all are like, what exactly they do. I've heard a lot of things. I've heard, you know, trades for a few veterans on the table. I've heard, you know what I mean, the potential of maybe Tom Brady, which is crazy, but when you think about it, Ryan Tannehill, Ryan Tannehill, I've heard right, but does Tannehill do it? Does Tannehill go out there and win 11 12 games? Maybe, maybe, is he better than Skylar Thompson? Probably. Probably. Now the dolphins do get a little bit of break after this game against Seahawks, which I think we agree is going to be really hard. They do get a Tennessee Titans team that's in disarray on a Monday night. And then they get a New England Patriots team that while they are responding well to Jared Mayo, they are well coached. That's that's carried over. So you did continue that from the Bill Belichick regime. They are still a very untalented team. Yeah. And then they get an Indianapolis Colts team that's still kind of feeling it out. A lot of young talent, but still developing. So they have three winnable games coming up. Season isn't lost, but they're definitely going to have to hit the reset button here. And hopefully to have makes it back after four weeks. Like I don't think anybody be shocked if Thompson drops to like leads the way to drop two out of those three games, though. And I mean, like that could happen. And I just think if in to it, you just what the one thing you can't do is rush him back out there at all at all. So if they tell you it's going to be if they tell you it's going to be six weeks, you should probably take eight. You know what I mean? In a scenario because it's just going to be they're going to look at baseline tasks. They're going to have to get him a player and neurologist. The coaches aren't going to make this decision. Well, nor should they, but but you know, that's that said, like I just, you know, I don't know. It's tough. Like you said, concussion five. You know, it's it's it's tough. I I think the last one that anyone wants is for him to come back in and get another concussion. Last year, I think was great. And that's a year unscathed. But I think if he gets another one, that's it. And, you know, I heard a former player, I wish I could remember which one it was on the radio recently talked about this. He said, you know, it's one thing when it's your leg or your hand, you know what I mean? And it keeps your ankle keeps getting re injured. And you might eventually have to retire from that. He's like, but when it's your mind, like that's just not something that you want to take chances with. And I, I agree. I feel for him, man, because he could, but two is very good. I think he's one of the more underrated quarterbacks in the league. And I thought that for a long time. Yeah, I agree with what Tyree Kill said he's probably the most accurate quarterback in the league. But, you know, the problem with concussions to the more you get, the more likely you are to get another one. So right. Yeah, he comes back and gets another one. That's obviously it for the season and maybe it for the career. There's already been a lot of rumbling that he should retire. And obviously the NFL is under a lot of scrutiny for concussions. I mean, heck, that's why you change the kickoff rule. It's it's definitely up in the air. It's really, it's a it's a difficult situation. It's a situation where real world life is intruding on the NFL. Man, you hit the day on the head. You know what I mean? It's a choice. Yeah, it puts it right in perspective in the in the in like the post CTE era now that we're in of, of, you know, what exactly the right decision. And I think we're all depending on the medical staff to tell us what, you know, what the, because there's this whole protocol they have to follow in the, you know, in all the tests. And so we're all waiting on on that. But I was surprised that so quickly we heard, no, I'm going, I'm going to continue to play. I mean, because it was, I mean, that I can't remember what platform it came on, but that came out. I think everybody says everybody wants to keep going, you know, usually have to get dragged out kicking its screaming. I yeah, sometimes we got Andrew Lux out there. You got Barry Sanders out there. I mean, there's some guys that don't want to get dragged out, you know, you know, and again, that's with your mind. It's a little, you know, it's a little different. So, you know, Jim Brown retired in his prime. So, you know, there's, it does happen. Yeah, not old it often though. Team here, surprising game, challenging game, the Baltimore Ravens coming off of a bus to the Las Vegas Raiders. 0 and 2 taken on a Dallas Cowboys team. A second home game in a row, but after the worst home loss in the Jerry Jones era, the worst home loss cuts, Trey Ekman's first year, so a long time. Wow, it's the afternoon, the late game on Fox, which means it's probably going to be, I didn't look at the broadcast makeup. This may well be Tom Brady again on the call, this could be your national game. Cowboys fans are not excited that Austin said, well, you can get into the game for $36. The Ravens are road favorites at 0 and 2, there are one and a half point favorite over under 48 and a half. Ravens are adjusting to that new offensive line, three of the five linemen are new. That's been a bigger issue that people thought it would be. It's really affected them that I think was the key to the Raiders getting the win because the Raiders really disrupted that Ravens offense. Better match up for the Cowboys than the Ravens aren't going to light it up on them like the Saints did. Do you think the Cowboys lose two in a row at home? I think the Cowboys pulled this one out and the Ravens go to 0 and 3, which is really kind of shocking. It's the most interesting game of the week for that reason. Both teams came into the end of the season with higher hopes than this clearly and still a lot of season left, but it's a point in the season where the Ravens could break a two-game skid or the Cowboys could go on a two-game skid. Neither would be all the better for doing it at this point when they're already behind. The Cowboys, I think that their issues are probably less fundamental because I think their issues are in the run game and there's a potential that maybe they could figure that out. I'd like to see them look at more of a dink and dunk style passing game where they can move the ball in shorter routes. They tend to look really kind of forced of all the CD lamb a lot and some of the deeper receivers. They've got good young tight end and they can throw to those young backs out of the backfield. They'll go untouched for three or four or five yards if they can get the flat. Some of the greatest quarterbacks that we've ever seen have gone through eras of needing to do that because they've been devoid of a run game. Tom Brady, in years in New England, when they struggled with a run game a little bit, you saw him go to more of a short passing because you've got to simulate those short yardage move the sticks play somehow. There's a potential they could figure that out. In the case of the Ravens, you're right. I don't think, again, it's the O line, the O line, the O line. When you have issues and you're shuffling guys around and you've got some injuries, but it's not like they have anybody coming back. They don't have some all pro coming back in the next two weeks. It's going to save the day. They're pretty much are what they are right now. They've got to figure it out as a unit and that can take some time. That can take all the way through the entire season before they really figure it out on the O line. That's going to make all the difference because that Harbaugh offense is predicated on running the ball. Just like the other Harbaugh's offense is predicated on running the ball. If they can't do that, then it puts Lamar Jackson in a spot that you don't want him in playing hero ball. Yeah, and this could be a big game for Michael Parsons, too. He's going to be a major factor. I think it's going to be a matchup of the Cowboys strength against the weakness of the Ravens. That they'll be able to exploit a lot more than they did against the Saints. And then the Cowboys have a chance to get well because then they take on the New York Giants on a Sunday night game and the Pittsburgh Steelers. I'm sorry, the New York Giants on a Monday night football game, the Pittsburgh Steelers on a Sunday night. So they get a couple of national standalone games that should be wins. So the Cowboys pick up this win. I think they can kind of leave that Saints game in the background because you've got a couple of games going up against teams that aren't going to light it up on you. Yeah, like I said, if they can figure out how to get the run game going or simulate the short yardage in the past game, then I think they can do it. But if like Dak is a different deck when they when they can't pick up those easy yards, he just is. So if they if they got to rely on him throwing the deep ball, stay ahead of the chains. You've got to stay ahead of the chains. You can't get behind with Dak at quarterback. He's not he's just now if he's never been great at it and he's passed slightly past prime now. How is he going to be great at it now? You know what I mean? I just I don't see it. I don't see it. That's a great guy. He's a great locker room guy. That's that's the that's the credit he gets. You know, he's a great locker room guy, but you gotta you gotta kind of put things around him. And the Cowboys have done a really good job putting things around him historically. It's just that, you know, right now there's no running back there. Well, in a game brought to you by your friends at United Healthcare, the San Francisco 49ers take on the LA Rams. The Niners are playing without Christian McCaffery, without Deebo Samuel, both out with calf strains. There's reports that Christian McCaffery may be out until week 10 because they're going to hold him out to week eight. They got a week nine game, then they got the buy. So they'll sit him out. He's got the calf strain and some Achilles soreness, Deebo Samuel of calf strain. We mentioned it earlier, Russell Wilson, same injury. That's an injury you don't want to play around with because the calf strain is oftentimes a precursor to an Achilles tendon and then you're out for the year. LA Rams, their weapons going into the season, Pooka Nakuah and Cooper Cobb with Matt Stafford throwing to a man. They're going to be tough to defend. Well, the Rams come into this game with number one receiver to Marcus Robinson, the master of the East West running after catching the ball. It doesn't move forward too well, but man, he goes side to side well and former Chiefs wide receiver. It's up now. This is a very diminished game from what you thought going into the season. The Niners are favored. It's a 44 and a half point over under the plane at SoFi Stadium. I guess the Niners, but I'll take the nice and tend to play well. Brock Purdy doesn't play well. Well, he's missing weapons and Stafford is still an elite level quarterback. It's going to be a challenging game. Both teams, I think they're expectations for where they wanted to be have really kind of been dashed by these couple of weeks of injuries. Certainly, certainly, right? But I think one thing for the Niners is they still have Trent Williams and they've got Jordan Marshall, who can really run the ball. Again, good teams just find these guys. I like the Niners. They still got a lot of players on defense. The defense is loaded. I'll give them that. Like you said, it's such a diminished game from where we would have looked at this preseason. It's hard to really give the coaching advantage to either of them too. I would definitely give the quarterback advantage to other Rams. Very well coached. They'll have the place, the pieces in place. It should be an entertaining game. It should be pretty timely match. Detroit takes on the Arizona Cardinals. They travel to Arizona. The Lions really kind of need to win. Arizona's looked better, but I think the Lions pulled this one off. That was a tough loss. They took last week. Lions are a three point favorite 52 and a half point over under. I like them to rally after the loss, especially behind Campbell and kind of the attitude and the mantra that he puts into that team. They just play for it. But man, I don't know. The Cardinals may be really, really good because the Bills are certainly better than I thought they would be. For one, they've been able to produce a run game and have played pretty well in the offensive line and seemed to have made you figure that those things out, which is the thing they've been harping on them for years now. And lo and behold, I think they look pretty good. And so they lose to the Bills by a slim margin. I think it was like four or five points. And then they blow out the Rams. And Murray's just looked great. He's a couple years older now with H comes wisdom. And maybe he's kind of settled down a little bit. I think we may see a less mistake prone Kyler Murray. And I kind of like some of the pieces around him. I kind of like Arizona a little bit and at home, that's a tough spot for the Lions. I don't know what the number on that is, but I would take the Lions to on the winning line. Well, three is a small margin. So I take I take I take the Lions in the points probably. But still, I think I think Arizona's on the come up and could be very good. And I wouldn't be surprised at all if they win. Oh, yeah, no, it's definitely a close game. Then we go to Sunday night football, the Atlanta Falcons posting the Kansas City Chiefs. You're going to have a happy fan base Atlanta got a win and at Mercedes Ben Stadium. It is fan appreciation night. Every fan gets two free hot dogs, two free drinks and two free bags of chips. And then as you continue, it's two dollar hot dogs, two dollar cokes. Huh? The whole game. That's awesome. They're gonna pack that stadium free food day for the Falcons. Tickets going for 132 bucks to get in Kansas City at three and a half point favorite. The line is 46 and a half. Chiefs have won two games really close. But the Falcons grab victory from the jaws of defeat. Kirk Cousins have this to say about getting in that win right after the game. We had to do it any way we could. And it as so many NFL games do really came down to the the final drive. And just proud of the way we kept playing kept fighting. We leaned on each other. It was really a team win and we needed special teams needed defense needed offense and needed all phases of football within our different, you know, parts of the team to be able to win. So just probably the way we played probably found a way to win and we can build on that. And I think it'll build some character and some resolve in our group and really looking forward to, you know, building on that up ahead because we got a short week against a really good opponent now, which is the way the NFL is. So there you go. And that's man that's quarterback 101. That's what you want your quarterback to sound like. The guys, guys not saying anything you can argue with. He's confident. Hey, I'm on the leader. Let's go. And they capitalize. We played that clip in Nick Siriani early talking about, yeah, we go over all these game day situations. If they handle all the state quad broccoli, the Eagles win, the Falcons take a loss or come in this game on a loss. Instead, they got a chance and Kirk Cousins capitalize on the chance drone down like a hot knife through butter and the Falcons fall off the way again. So you don't surprising fashion. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Going into this game. This is a crazy one because I feel like Atlanta. I feel like Atlanta could do it here. They're really because I feel like they have the offense that could keep the Chiefs off the field. And they also have a great coaching staff. I really like their offensive line a lot are really talented receiver room, maybe the best backfield in the NFL. There's also tight ends, really good. Both of them. There's a lot to like, especially about that offense. And it's an offense that even though there are kind of studs all over the place, it's an offense that is set up so that it churns. You know what I mean? It's a bruising rolling type of offense. So I mean, they're a team that's going to win games just like they did against the Eagles where both teams keep it under under 21 points. You know what I mean? And they win in a slug fest. And that's that type of game that if they can get the Chiefs in, that could be that could be a pretty big struggle for my homes and the Chiefs because I don't know that they have the ability to to withstand that as a defense specifically. Well, especially the defense because this is a bad match up. It's is a extremely athletic tight end. Her cousins can definitely do that ball control possession type passing. That's really why they got them. They got under the stabilize. What was a good team just suffered with back quarterbacking. The Chiefs so far this season have given up over a hundred yards to the tight ends. In back-to-back weeks, the Ravens have really good tight ends. The Bengals, not so much. And they still got lit up by the tight end. Now, you can say that's because the Chiefs concentrated on taking away the Bengals main weapon. They held Jamar Chase to only five yards Trent McDuffie locked him down. But is it a matter of picking and choosing or is it more the Chiefs linebackers just can't guard tight ends this year and they're missing Willy Gage Jr. more than people anticipated they would. A hundred percent. Willy Gage Jr. is sorely missed. It was the best coverage line backer they had. Chanel has the athletic ability. He has the athleticism to do it. But I don't think he has to cover skills at the, you know what I mean, at this point, to cover that that tight end. So they're and to beat those elite receivers, it's McDuffie and a safety roll over the top typically. So, you know, in order to do that, for instance, here against Atlanta, against the great receiving core that they have, you know what I mean? If you if you have to commit the safeties to the past game specifically, you take them away from some of the some of the slots and especially that third option in on the trips like at the tight end. So if you have like a shotgun formation and it's trips to one side with a tight end, that is almost always going to be in the way that they play defense is almost always going to be a linebacker matched up against that tight end. And I think that's their weak spot when they when they go more college football and they spread things out in trips formations, because I think that stretches that defense out. And you could put McDuffie on an island and he'll cover, especially if you roll a safety over the top. But those linebackers without gay are not capable of going step for step. And and pits is is the most athletic tight end outside of maybe Isaiah likely and look what likely did. You know what I mean? I think pits could have a very similar game to what Isaiah likely did. Not to be fair, the Chiefs did shut down the Ravens receivers, except for one long catch that Bateman got at the end. So correct, it is matter of choice. But maybe you'll see a lot of tomorrow. I mean, he may be out there a lot, they may go heavy safety and just just pull back the linebackers. Andy Reid talked about just getting the young guys involved in the game. They get that win late against the bangles, came down to the edge. I mean, the Chiefs are two and over, they could easily be on to Andy Reid talking about this turnovers. They kill you. They don't give you a very seldom give you an opportunity to win the game. So if you come out with a win with returnovers, that's a that's a plus, but we've got to take care of business there. And then penal these when you're all of these things on the plus side of the field, those end up being points, whether it's a field goal or whether it's a touchdown, those are points. So we've got to make sure we take care of business with that and improve. And we had some young guys that ended up with some of these penalties and they'll learn from it. And Kingsley, he's going against arguably one of the best defensive ends in the league. It would be a great experience that he can put away and hear him learn from. And I ended up taking him out of the game. Sometimes you've got to take a step back to take a step forward. So and, you know, so one year came in and did a nice job. Now he had he also had a penalty there, but very seldom are you going to get a guy like that right there that you're playing against. And what you want to do is learn from it and move forward. So they want to get the young guys going and get them a little bit better. They did lose the turnover margin of the Bengals, but they went the game, which is kind of hard to do. That pass interference at the end, get some into position. And, you know, the penalties, penalties just did hurt him a little bit because before that pass interference play, Travis Kelsey had his one big explosive play of the game, 51 yard reception that would have set him up for a chip shot Harrison Buckner field goal. It was called back by an illegal hand to the face for one year Morris and at left tackle. So the Chiefs have been making their share of mistakes, but overcoming it. They need to kind of pull it together and play a complete game, I think, beat Atlanta on the road. I'll, I'll pick the Chiefs, but I think it's going to be a close game. Yeah, I've had to pick one. I'd pick the Chiefs too, but man, Atlanta's really good. I'm, you know, really, really good. Well, and the Chiefs are going to have to deal with missing Isaiah Pacheco, another injury. This one, not the calf strain. This was a broken phobia. He's going to be out for eight weeks, probably six to eight weeks undergoing surgery as we speak. Andy Reed talked about what they're going to do to fill in form. They did just sign cream hunt. The prodigal running back returns to the Chiefs, but he's not going to be active this week. There's Andy Reed said how they're going to play that running back role, which has been important for the Chiefs this year. As far as Pacheco goes, we will go with the guys that we have here. Now, Veach is kind of going through his lists and looking at people and we'll just see where that, where that goes. But we've, we're blessed to have some good people here. Talking about Carson Seal, the rookie free agent, the man with a tech crocodile. You got to see him play, but he did have one of the turnovers and it had a fumble, but played well otherwise, moved the ball, showed some good drive and Samaj P. Ryan, a veteran NFL running back, really good receiving running back. They're going to get the load this week. Yeah. How do you feel about that matchup? Well, that's, that's what I mean, where I don't know that they can, they can churn and that offense kind of the same way that the Chiefs tend to be, when they rely on the past game, tend to be pretty explosive as, you know, because we've all seen, you know what I mean? And it seems like it seems like that receiving course is vastly improved from last year for Kansas City. So, but all that probably would. But again, I just, I see that the potential to stress out that defense though, I just everywhere I look at a positive, I see, I see the potential to stress the defense out on the other end. And I think that's one of them. Things, I think it's going to be another really close game. The Chiefs have shown that they're doing what winning teams do and they find a way to win. Right. Don't think the Chiefs in the same position as the Eagles make a mistake that throw away a chance to ice the game. I think they would ice the game out. Could be a really good one, scoring, scoring game. Because look, if I see it from here, Andy Reed sees it a hundred miles away. So he knows exactly, and he's going to play ball control just fine and he'll figure it out. They will. And that's what I have faith in that between Reed and Mahomes, they will figure out a way to win. And I think any Kansas City fan can have faith in the same thing. Yeah. I mean, take a look at the league too, just looking across the whole league. There are very few games that are predicted to be high scoring games. You have a total of one 50 point over under. And that is the Lions against the Cardinals. Every other game is in the 40s or in the 30s. Two Monday night games this week, the Jacksonville Jaguars, sitting at a surprising 0 and 2, traveling to Buffalo to take down the Buffalo Bills, Jaguars versus the Bills. The Bills are a five point favorite, 45 point five to spread up. I'm going to go to Jaguars. I don't think they go to 0 and 3. And I'm not super impressed with the Bills this year. Yeah, I actually like the Bills. I think the defense has played better than expected. I think the offensive lines played better than expected. They've been able to run the ball cook had what three touchdowns in one game. And they're asking Josh Allen to do less with a less talented roster somehow. I think all things look pretty good. I haven't always liked McDermott and that coaching staff. I haven't always liked the decisions they've made. But they and all the areas that I've demanded the Bills need to improve to win with Josh Allen. It seems like they're starting to put that together now. And I mean, it's remarkable to me how talented Trevor Lawrence is and how it doesn't seem to all come together all the time. You know, for as good as he is. Again, I was talking earlier about like Antoine Richardson and his that throw. Lawrence is one of the other guys that can make that throw if need be. And he's just got incredible talent. You wonder if he can lead that team to the division and get back to the playoffs. You know what I mean? It's all still on the table. It's hard to me for me to imagine they go 0 and 3. But I still like the Bills at home here in a night game on Monday. I with a more experienced better quarterback. I like the Bills at home. Yeah, at this point, at this point, you start for the Jaguars because you were thinking, man, they're going to be one of the favorites in that division. Yeah, it was like rough start again. Well, count last year as an aberration. You know what I mean? Well, remember the playoffs and when he came back to win a playoff game and we'll be back and you know, but. Yeah, it could in an 0 and 3 start is not there. You know, there's 17 games. So I think it 0 and 3 is akin to an 0 and 2. But what are the stats on an 0 and 2 making the playoffs? Remember, they always flash that on the TV. It's like, you know, less than 20% or something. So yeah, so I on they got it. They got to figure it out. On the bright side, their ownership Tony Khan shotgun. They are now on the verge. All the reports are that they're going to get ready to sign about a $700 million extension of their TV contract for all the late wrestling. Fulham playing well in the APL. So yeah, you know, we'll keep rolling. Yeah. Yeah. It's time for the Jaguars to show that they're all late. They need to get this one here. Yeah. Comes down to it comes out. Lauren, you know, that's that's why they're going to be able to prove these teams talented. They got a good coaching staff. It comes out of the money. Got to prove it, man. Got the money you need to put the results up. Yeah. And then Cincinnati, the Bengals get back on the field. They're hosting a surprisingly good. I'd say Washington commanders team. They come on to take the bangles. The bangles need to pick up a win. Same thing. They can't go to 0 and 3. This was Joe Burrow after the game at Arrowhead talking about, you know, here, I just summarized it as this is what losing sounds like. We didn't do enough to win the game today. So, you know, we got a lot to fix. Joe, is there any message between the guys who've been in this spot before, what's kind of a message going forward? Got to get better? The whole press conference is like that. He just wanted to get that out of there. Every answer was like three or four words. And usually he's a pretty talkative guy. You can usually see Joe Burrow sounding a lot like that Kirk Cousins cut we played earlier. Yeah. He just, man, he just didn't want to say anything. What are you going to say that's not going to get yourself into trouble? Seriously. The bangles. The bangles should have won that game. I mean, they had the turnover margin one. They were controlling the ball thrown to the tight end. Had a lead. Just gave it up late. But I think those go to 0 and 3. I don't. I think they beat the commanders, but I will say this. I think they really, really deeply regret not being prepared for the first week. I think I think that is a that is going to they're going to look back on that and really regret that. I know they've had slow starts, but that was different. The Patriots are really, really bad and they were they were totally inept. They were the burrows, an amazing quarterback, and they were completely unprepared completely unprepared for that game. And you can see that in the contrast in the way they did prepare and have prepared time and time again for the Chiefs. So now you see a team that is prepared and how much better they are. Because here's my thing. If before the season, they looked their schedule, they went, OK, well, we can suffer a loss to the Chiefs there. Yeah. You didn't say that about game one. You know what I mean? And now this Washington game, this this team is better than the Patriots. This team is better than expected. This quarterback just threw for 80% passing as a rookie. You know what I mean? Like if you get into a challenge, he's gonna he's gonna he's gonna he's gonna rock your world. Steelers are looking a lot better. Now they do get an exhibition game coming up after playing the commanders. They get to take on the Carolina Panthers. And then they get the Ravens. So you know, I guess the good thing is the team that you expect to be competing with for the division is sitting right there with you at 0 and 2. Yeah. And while you had a surprising loss to the Patriots, Ravens have a surprising loss to the Raiders. So they really are very even right now. And then the Browns are kind of bumbling around their one-on-one. The Steelers are surprising too. And a huge opportunity for the Steelers if they can if they can just keep it rolling. I just don't. I can't imagine a world where they're gonna hold everyone other 15 points. Yeah. Now that's that's gonna be really, really challenging. That's what they're gonna need to do. Well, let's wrap it up here as we finish the week in the NFL. Do our weekly champion, your champion, the last week from our friends with the wrestling spotlight or sister channel. This week on wrestling spotlight, I'm talking to the center of attention. All eyes on her in the center of the ring, just like a circus. Brittany Brooks is gonna be our special guest on weekly champions. Let's get it going. Hey, what's up, guys? This is Tybell Pula with Alonkka and you are watching wrestling spotlight. Alex, who's your champion of the week? Champion of the week for me is Kyler Murray in that performance against the Rams at home. It was kind of like the Kyler Murray highlight reel all day long. It was fantastic. It threw over 80% passing, three touchdowns, no interceptions. Just fantastic. I'm gonna go with another quarterback who has redeemed himself. A guy who probably should have still been the quarterback of your Las Vegas Raiders. Derek Carr played a almost perfect game against Dallas Cowboys, just throttling the Cowboys on network TV, getting the praise from Tom Brady. He looks great and it really highlights how much a wrong head coach hire can really mess up a team. Jeff Joss McDaniel's just had to know clue what he was doing. A naked level job of bad head coaching, Derek Carr, champion of the week. That wraps it up for the week. Go ahead and download that true TV plus app so you can watch the fired up network on any of your smart devices. You can get it on any of the app stores. Now Alex, people can follow you at fired up Alex throughout the week, right? Yeah, and it's the and and uh, excellent. And we'll be back next week. You can catch us to break down the college football season and the NFL season right here at College of Grid I earned in time out on the fired up network. Stay tuned for more sports and entertainment right now.