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After $20 bill credit, plus $5 per month without auto bank, debit, bank account required, regulatory is included for qualifying accounts, $35 connection charge applies. One of the most unlikely outcomes of the day, talk about a team playing with its food, the 49ers are unable to deliver the death blow and the Rams come back and steal one from them. I don't know what the Rams are going to be this year. I think the injuries make it very difficult to sustain what they did. If they do, that's great. Hats off to them. For now, it's kind of like early season sport or like, we're not supposed to win this game. We're down key pieces. Let's just see if we can whip something up that pins an L on a Super Bowl favorite and makes them wonder, are they really as good as they think they are and are they going to be a team that's far different from what we've seen in recent years. It was the shocker of the day to me right here. I know the 49ers had injuries too, with no debo and no Christian McCaffrey, but the 49ers are such a deep football team. It's one of the best rosters in the league. Is Brandon Ayuk still on the team? Barely. I mean, yeah. I mean, it's again, no training camp and they paid him this money. And yes, there's not a big role for him in the offense right now. But yeah, that was a tough loss for the 49ers and it looked like they were going to bounce back in the right way after losing the Minnesota last week. I mean, they were dominant in the early game, early part of the game. It was just like, wow, I mean, Jordan Mason's just going to run up the middle for five yards every run. Brock Purdy, people are open. They look like they were in a different class than Los Angeles Rams for the whole first half. And then the Rams faked a punt on fourth and six and the game changed to some capacity where it went. Oh, okay. Hey, they have a they have some hope here and that allowed them to hang around a little bit into the third quarter. The 49ers still look good and did some things there. But it was the 49ers defense that I'll look at to go 21 7 24 14 and they just continue to let the Rams offense make plays and dial it up and slowly dissect them play after play. And then they have the punt return and the 49ers miss a field goal and all that. And the Rams just kind of had the momentum of the game late and took it over and won the football game. Byron Williams was incredible. Yeah. Matthew Stafford. Unbelievable how he just continues to make things amazing without looking to cool without Cooper cup. Look at this throw. They're incredible. That's after the miss field goal by Jake Moody, the 55 yarder. So the Rams had another one 45 and he just fires it all the way down to fear to to add tool. And it's too too out. Well, and it's like, I can't believe they're going to like, okay, the 49ers are still going to like. Okay. Yeah, they're still going to find it. Right. The Rams had their fun, but all right, you know, big brother still here, I kept thinking that too. Unbelievable. You kept thinking like, okay, they're going to close the door here. Oh, well, Perdy got stripped, sacked, fumbled when they're going to close the door and Byron Young came around the edge. It's just, hey, LA found a way to kind of hang around and then where they're dangerous is McVay doesn't get enough credit for how tough his football teams are. Stafford's one of the toughest quarterbacks we've ever seen. And as the longer they hang around and then they start to get a feel for, ooh, they're playing us like this in this situation and doing this when we get in this personnel group, they start to crack the code slowly, but surely. And that's kind of what they started to do. They started to kind of find the runs that worked for them in the second half. Stafford found, you know, the plays he wanted in the past game and they started to dice up the 49ers and the 49ers couldn't kind of regain momentum in the fourth quarter. Unbelievable win by the Rams. It really was and yeah, unfortunate for the 49ers to lose the game that way, you know, after a tough loss in Minnesota the week before. We mentioned Brandon IU. Yeah. He was targeted 10 times five catches for 48 yards and they're paying him 30 what million? 30 million. I think it's 30. A little over 30. A hair over 30 as I'm wearing. I'm supposed to think I'm in Ross. Right. Right. Jwan Jennings. Yeah. As a restricted free agent, he had a tender of 4.89 million. He signed a two-year 11.89 million dollar deal. Jwan Jennings had 11 catches on 12 targets for 175 yards and three touchdowns. Yeah. I mean, one of the things we talked about while the IU acrimony was going on, is he going to be the guy that falls into the gap between the great receivers who absolutely command top dollar and you're not good enough. We're not going to pay you big money because there's other guys that can do this. Jwan Jennings just when they prove that point, there's other guys that can do this. We don't have to give Brandon IU 30 million dollars. No. Listen, Mike, you know me. I've said it all throughout the offseason. I would have never prayed Brandon IU at that money. Never. I don't think he's a game breaker that way to where I look at him and just go, oh, we can line him up over here and he'll just dominate all day long. He needs a little help as we see. Let alone. Yes. Like as Peyton Manning made fun of him for on the Manning cast early in the year, training can't matter. And it does. And he's drops balls in every football game and certainly hasn't looked the same to this point. And yes, Shanahan knows how to get everybody that's on the team to the team. I mean, he gets to the point that he made. Make the deadline. You know, you're going to do the deal. Make the deadline to start a training camp. Why is the deadline week one? Right. Then you got a guy that's not ready. That's not good for anybody. I think that he for lack of a better frame, you know, way to say it is, he messed around with them. He jerked them around in a lot of ways, you know, trade means. Are they found a traitor? I don't want to go there. They didn't say anything. I don't want to go there again. I know. That's a, it was a little bit of a nuanced situation there where the player, I mean, self-admittedly, I made things a lot harder than the situation. You know what? At a certain point, you got to throw up your hands and say, well, we'll just make Joanne Jennings number two. Listen, that's what, that's what I would have wished they would have done. I would have because Shanahan's showing throughout his career, he can get anybody open. That's for sure. It doesn't matter. Either way, they paid them, they're stuck with them. The 49ers did so many good things yesterday. I mean, Brock Purdy played great. He threw the ball phenomenal. Jordan Mason still looked good. The 49ers, oh, line, I think as good as it's maybe been in the Shanahan era. It's overpowering at points during the football game. With their new guard and Pona, he's really good. So all of that's positive. I, I look at it and still go, wait, this is the 49ers. They got this, all this talent and money on defense. They were up 21 to seven. They were up 24 to 14. You got to make the stop. And the 9ers, I worry about a little bit and something you hear me say all the time, right? It's the opposite of the Chiefs a little bit. I think that they don't do enough on defense. And I think it shows in certain moments like that at times where you play a good quarterback and a good play call or they start to go, wait, this is what they're doing today. That's it. We're going to start to attack it with all the players we like against that defense. And I think the 49ers are a team that needs to be a little more creative on the defense aside of the ball is what I would say. Apparently I, yeah, I am sleep deprived because what you do, I'm, I'm told that, that someone on this show used the term incredible. I could have moments ago. I might have. I might have. We'll have to check the tape. We'll check the tape. We'll go back to it. Simzism. It's not me. It wasn't me. Incredible, but or unbelievable or unbelievable could be thrown together and we get a new word. And there's a chance that somewhere, somehow it's become an accepted term. Hey, incredible. I'm me. Fail English. That's unpossum. That's, that's, that's an incredible word. I like it. All right. Here's a little from Sean McVeigh, who I have a feeling was very calm, collected. I saw a team respond after a really humbling week last week and you know, three hours will never define you good or bad unless you allow it to. And you know, we've got to do a good job of being able to build on this. You know, this game's going to be over. It's great to be able to get our first win in the fashion that we were able to get it. But how quickly can we make sure? Hey, let's look at this. Let's clean it up and let's move forward on making sure that there's still a little bit of joy in terms of how you move. And this will make for, you know, a good opportunity to progress and try to be able to build on this. Look, it was an exciting day. He was a game. They should have lost. They should be. Oh, and three. They should be. Again, that was, that was miraculous. I give them a lot of credit for hanging in there and being tough in the way they are. And to your point, McVay is always like that. So there's never emotions. It's like that in the first quarter, the fourth quarter, the press conference, whatever. He's consistent. And I don't think he makes very emotional based decisions. Well, no, he's, I mean, it's just like that. Yeah, it's always. He knows how to make good decisions in that overall frenetic reality that is his brain. Right. Calculators make good decisions too. And they're moving very fast. I mean, that's kind of how he is. It's nonstop. Go, go, go. Yeah. I knew he was going to be. I knew he was going to open him up. I didn't, I didn't know that's how he was going to be. That's good. I figured that's where it was. Kind of language. Yeah. All right. That language used in Dallas yesterday. Was it? Where? Well, I just assumed that somewhere Jerry Jones was saying some things in the booth yesterday, especially as the, the Ravens were racking up a 28 to six lead. Damn. And then they tried to do the thing that the Ravens do. Yeah. They just watched it all fall apart to the point where, especially because, you know, they got it because it was happening as the Rams beat the 49ers. Like after the Rams win that game and Ravens Cowboys is still going, it's hard not to think. Well, the Cowboys are going to do it too. Right. Onside kicks. They did their second onside kick probably too early, but still they got it down to three points. Yeah. And gave the Ravens a scare and the Ravens end up getting the win. And the Cowboys, I mean, their defense is just horrible, 275 rushing yards. So the end result was kind of what we thought it was going to be. But man, the Ravens really had to burn out of a lot of anxiety to get there. Definitely. We're covered on side kick was huge. That certainly gave Dallas the chance to maybe mount the comeback. I do think that again, some of these defenses were bending late in the game. I want to be like, wait, you can't just totally go conservative. We're not going to let up the big play. Do that. You got to do some of the stuff you were doing early on in the football game and sprinkle that in. I think that's what the Ravens fall into the trap up a little bit too. We got the big lead. Let's just play it safe instead of like, Hey, what about all the defensive calls where you kick the crap out of that team for the third three quarters? Let's sprinkle that in still and you can still be somewhat tactically conservative in some moments there to not let up big plays. But I think all in all positive by Baltimore, I mean, to run the ball, you have 60 plays on offense. They run the ball 45 times. That is incredible. I mean, when I was watching the game and saw that, I went, wow, this is what the Ravens should be. You've heard me last week kind of saying the Ravens aren't great at anything. They need to be great at something. They're kind of having trying to have it both ways, but they came out in this game of Lamar runs and said, we're going to run downhill to what you said, Mike, on a not very good run defense. And we've been saying that and anybody that listens to me and Chris Simms, I'm buttoner here would tell you the Cowboys defense attack will stink. Okay. Their, their middle linebackers aren't very good. Their safeties aren't all that great either. So there's issues right down the middle of the defense, let alone Mike Zimmer's defense and what he's doing. I think everybody knows what to expect from him a little bit and his code is getting cracked a little bit by some of these offenses as well. I think it's been cracked. Yeah. It's been cracked. He brought back an old code, the double A gap blitzes, all that stuff that worked for a while with the Vikings, you just bring it back after it was gone for a while. People just, everybody blows the dust off the old playbook and let's, yeah, we know how to beat this. And you know, double A gap, especially when you don't have the horses up the middle to stop the run. Right. Right. Right. It's, it's, they're going to have to find a new way to play because I don't think they're going to be able to play Mike Zimmer. We play sound defense and think we can still win the game. One, I don't think they're talented enough to do that. I think they're going to have to be a defense. It's going to have to start to look at it and go, Hey, let's create chaos. Let's make some plays and almost being a, just go, we're going to get in the shootout with you. Cause we think drag Prescott's best that way and that's our best way to win. But like playing defensive slug fest, I don't see that for Dallas cause Dallas can't run the ball either. But man, that was awesome by Baltimore on that side of the ball. And that's where I look at them and go, continue to do that. All the sexy pass game stuff and justifying Lamar's contract and Todd Monken being the OC. That's all going to look awesome. And if you continue to run the ball like this, you do this, you're going to get looks on first and second down in a few weeks where you're like Lamar Jackson is going to go, are they seriously playing like this? They're playing this coverage right now with Zay flowers and Mark Andrews and all this stuff. Holy crap. And that's where I think it was really cool on Baltimore. But you've got to have receivers who are unselfish. It swings a pendulum back to the point where Hollywood Brown wants out and the only way they can get receivers is to draft them because nobody's going to sign with them if they swing it back that way. But that's what works. And that's what they're built by. Henry 25 carries 151 yards and two touchdowns. He averaged 6.0, Lamar average 6.2, Justice Hill average 6.6. He only had five carries for 33 yards, but that's what works. And you know, it's very simple when you find something that's working against a team, you keep doing it until they stop it, right? Because that makes your life a lot easier. You're not to make your head hurt coming up with other ideas. What we're doing works, keep doing it until they stop it and the Cowboys just couldn't stop it. Right. The good team, all good teams, good teams we talk about ever, they always have one thing that they do great, right? There's one thing that we're great at this and we feel really good and big moments to rely on that greatness or you have to go to such an extent to stop that thing we're great that you're now going to have other areas or holes in your defense. And that to me was my point in getting them to be great at something. And hopefully then they can find the blend of, yeah, I'm not saying they need to run the ball, you know, three out of every four times. Maybe they can be a little bit more balanced as we go here because teams will play more run defense and then they will be able to throw and it won't have the wide receiver problems that you bring up in such a way there, no doubt about it. But man, yeah, that was the big time offensive performance by Lamar, Derek Henry, the attitude of the Ravens, all of that, I give him a lot of credit and yeah, Dallas has got to be a little concerned. Something I said last night, when you have a really special season and it's not like they were like 85 Bears special season, but it felt like they were really good. They were clearly the best team in the regular season. They get to the postseason, they get their asses kicked at home, they get embarrassed, let's talk about changing coaches. And I think that when you follow a season like that, where the regular season went your way, the postseason was a horrible embarrassment, you just want to get back to the postseason and rectify it. You lose sight of the fact that you got to build your house that goes there, right? You may not even get to the playoffs. Jerry Jones recently said the pressure from Mike McCarthy comes in the postseason. There might be no pressure at all. Yeah. Because there might not be a postseason and now we're starting to see the frustration come out. It happened yesterday. There was some CD lamb saltiness. There was some Demarcus Lawrence and Michael Parsons frustration, right? And they downplay it, but it's a byproduct of a team that is under-rechieving, a team that is one in two, a team that went two straight years winning at home in the regular season and has now lost two in a row at home in the regular season. And something Jason Garrett said last night, the formula for the Cowboys is get out to a lead and then unleash Michael Parsons, essentially. Right. Basically, you're right. But they're playing from behind, Parsons is neutralized and they can't stop the run. So people are just chewing up the clock, right? And it keeps it in the game of, yes, we don't ever get the other team into a passing moment or have to do that to where now Michael Parsons and Dexter Lawrence can just do whatever they or Demarcus Lawrence, excuse me, can do whatever they want. You're right. They can't get the game, they can't get the game in that way to go where they want ever since week one. And we know the Browns are obviously a team that's got some issues here too, being one and two. But yeah, don't love the overall look of the Cowboys and I don't know how it's sustainable right now with their defense. And then they are totally in a, we can't run the ball and they're going to rely on Dak Prescott to have to throw the ball and make all these plays and that's really cool. And I like that and he's capable of it. But I don't think they're totally explosive and creative in the pass offense that way to just be a team that could, I could say, although they can, they can let the pass game carry them. They're not good enough in that way throughout the rest of their team. It's not Dak Prescott, it's the other receivers as the creativity, the offense that I question and Dallas. CD Lam did not meet with the reporters after the game, which obviously you're required to do and you can get fined if you don't. The things we saw yesterday during the game were downplayed as frustration. Well, of course that's what it is. Of course it's frustration. Right. We don't think you guys hate each other, right? I mean, we don't think that it's inherently dysfunctional and everybody's about to start fighting. The frustration is what the problem is because the frustration manifests this friction and you better do something or it's going to get worse. The frustration keeps coming back when the team isn't doing what the players expect the team to do. And at some point you just accept the fact that maybe we're not as good as we thought we were, but this is that process of teams who are finding out, hey, we thought we were going to be really good, we're getting a bucket of ice water dumped on our head and yeah, we're frustrated and you're going to see flashes of it. It shows that things are not that we needed that other than the scoreboard, but it just shows that things aren't right with the Cowboys right now. And who knows how they fix. No, no. And they got some personalities on their team. We know that. I mean, they're intense that way. Michael Parsons, the guy that wears his heart on his sleeve. So that's the way he is. CD Lam's very similar that way, but yeah, CD Lam has started with him. He was frustrated as you saw in that clip there. I mean, I don't know if you want to play it again. He's basically saying, I don't really care. Watch at the end and just give me the effing balls. What he said. Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. I'm not going. Just give me the effing ball. Yeah. So he said, right? So yeah, I mean, he's going, wait, you saw what we do when you delivered me the ball. We're dangerous on offense, but the Ravens, of course, are creative and I didn't get a chance to watch the film or anything, but I'm guaranteed they did some things that take him away and not let him be the guy that burned him. Got another example. Exactly. No training camp. Yes. Right. Guy gets plugged in. No urgency. Jerry Jones. No urgency to get a deal done. Get these deals done before the start of camp. It's not complicated. The Vikings get Justin Jefferson's deal done before mandatory many camp agree that this is the deadline. You're going to be negotiating with these agents over and over again. Look, here's our deadline. It's in everyone's interest to get this done. Let's get that. We're going to pay them. This isn't some impasse where we refuse to pay you. We're going to pay you. We're going to work out a deal. Let's do it at a time where it's in everyone's best interest. Let's not go through this stupid ass charade that hurts everyone. Yeah. I hear you there, Mike. You brought that up a lot. I don't really understand the approach there either. I don't get that, but it's going to be interesting to see what Dallas does to rebound. Short week now. Got to go to the Giants. Play them. The Giants aren't as bad as I think people thought they were. They could very easily be two in one if their just field goal kicker was healthy in week two. Dallas is not going to be any cakewalk and certainly with the way Dallas is playing. Yeah, Dallas has no run game. Dallas can get run on. The Giants are good in both of those areas. The Giants can run the ball a little bit. The Giants got some guys on the D line that can cause some problems and make you not be able to run the ball. Then if you have to pass the ball too much, they can rush the passer. So, yeah, the Cowboys got to figure out how they're going to play going forward with this football team. But to think they're going to play, I think, through the defense and run the ball to control the clock, I don't think they're capable of doing that, Mike. And I don't see how they can, I'm going to be interested to see what they do to rectify some of their problems. First of all, congratulations on becoming the official grill and bar sponsor of the National Football League. How does it feel to serve up the NFL? Man, it's a real dream come true. I'm glad we'll be able to serve up some extra heat this season. Do you have any plans to celebrate? Absolutely. We're going to serve up America's favorite bonus wings with just 50 cents each to kick off the season. Any of our sources, whether it's in restaurant or to go, it don't matter. That's all 50 cents all the time. 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No. After he had all those yards and two touchdowns yesterday against the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones was asked about it and he said, we can't afford. Yeah. We couldn't afford Derek Henry. Why not? I don't know. Why can't you buy a mansion when you live in a different kind of house? We couldn't afford it. We can't make that all fit. That's as simple as that. And that's a load of crap. I'll do respect to Jerry Jones. Great for the game. Great for the game. There's a spot in the Hall of Fame, but cheap, short-sighted, and not as smart as he thinks he is. That was my tag. I hear you. Back it because do the deal with CD lamb, a hell of a lot earlier than late August, do the deal with Dak Prescott, a hell of a lot earlier than the morning of the first game of the regular season, and you would have had the cap space. You would have had the wherewithal to sign Derek Henry. That's what all in meant. You've got to get these guys taken care of. They had a gift given to them. Michael Parsons didn't insist on a second contract. That is a gift for Jerry Jones. You get a player of his caliber who is willingly playing for $3 million this year, and he's not rattling the cage to get more from Jerry Jones. That is huge. You could have had Derek Henry. Yeah. I reject completely as false, false. We couldn't afford it. You chose not to afford it. You chose not to pay CD lamb earlier. You chose not to pay Dak Prescott earlier, and you did it anyway. That's what is so frustrating about it. They ultimately did it. Why not do it earlier? No. Listen, I think all that's real Mike, how they allot their money and all of that I think is all questionable in the contract. I mean, again, you look at it and go, "Why can't they pay anybody? Who are they paying that's so great and whatever else that?" And that's, I think, part of the problem, too, is right now you're not quite getting maybe the return on investment for a guy like Demarcus Lawrence. You don't see him popping a ton. The offensive line. There's a lot of money and assets in that department there, and they're not dominant in the run game. So they become really, it's like if Dak Prescott and CD lamb and Michael Parsons don't ball out and make unbelievable plays, it kind of feels like Dallas can't win the game. That's what it feels like right now. Trayvon Diggs is still not quite himself in the secondary, so you don't see him making the pick sixes or making plays that way, but yeah, it's, I think, going to be a struggle for Dallas all year, and it's going to kind of be a roller coaster ride with them as a football team. All right, we take a quick break when we return some more of the news coming out of week three superlatives style that's next on BFT log. I do miss doing the show and doing it with you. There were two folks sitting across from me, two ladies who live in Pittsburgh, and they watch a show. Yeah, and one of them does. I think the other one was just being nice, but going on and on and on and on about the show. It's like, I mean, we've known this over seven years, and we've never been mad at each other when the show's over. We might have been a little, you know, like a Parsons Demarcus Lawrence during, but we've never been mad afterwards, like you've gotten texts from your mom, like, are you guys okay today? But like we even forget about like what we're even arguing about. Definitely. It's never personal. And it's never, and it's never like, oh, hey, we're going to debate this point. You take that side. I'll take that side. We always just have to. It happens. It doesn't happen very often. Right. It's funny. Yeah. Okay. Sunday superlatives. Oh, oh, they were blowing that horn a lot yesterday. Oh my gosh. That was unreal. And what's your superlative? I'm actually very excited to hear about this. I mean, you know what? I don't have one because I'm nervous. You know why I'm nervous? Why? I think Sam Darnell's knee may be messed up. It's my nervous. That's my superlative. I'm nervous that it's over. I'm nervous. I'm nervous. This is going well. But I'm nervous. Didn't it look bad though? It looked bad. He got hit from behind by the nail hunter, and he was down, and he had that look on his face of like, oh, man, dammit, just when things are finally, you know, we've all had that kind of like, dammit, it's always something like, things are finally working out and son of a, ah, man, and then he missed one play and he was back, and I don't know whether it was adrenaline, determination, stubbornness. They did make him available to me by phone yesterday, which usually if they, I think if they feared he was seriously hurt, they wouldn't have, unless that's just part of the denial. Like they're into it. Like everything's normal. Do your press conference. Florio wants to talk to you. Go ahead and do that. And think happy thoughts, and we'll do the MRI to MRI to MRI. I asked him specifically, how's your knee? He said, it's good. And that's as much as I'm going to say about it. It's like, well, why do you need to add that at the end? If it's good. Yeah. And then we're going to have the MRI tomorrow. I thought that's all you were going to say about it. Now you're telling me we're going to have the MRI? So I think everybody's going to be sweating out today with that MRI show. They should be. And when he goes to roll out of bed today, the adrenaline's worn off, how's he going to feel? Right. Anytime the knee gets kind of hit on the side like that, right, that's the always worry about that. I mean, of course the ACL, which I don't think is the problem here, but you know, the MCL, PCL, those become a problem, hopefully he's okay. He's like, oh, it's it the Vikings are real, like it's no longer just like, oh, hey, how do they find three and oh, this is a feel good story. Like they're not every team. There's nothing to look at to go wait. I see like the ceiling falling or the walls collapsing here at some point like when you guys were 13 and four or two years ago, I was every game was a flip of a call. I was sitting here telling you they're not even that good. I don't care. They get to the playoffs and I'm going anywhere. They were better. Last year. Honestly, this year, it's even better than all the years. One, you guys can run the ball this year. I mean, you can run it with two guys, two guys, a tight channel. Exactly right. I mean, we know Sammy D's playing awesome. You know, you got wide receivers. You can pass for tech and you got arguably the two hottest coordinators in the game. One of them being your head coach in O'Connell going right now with a much better defense than you did the last two years. So I look at Minnesota and like, oh, wait, we got to stop talking about like, oh, this is a cool story with Sam Darnell to start going, no, this is one of the best teams in the NFC. And then I don't see anything to make me think it's going to change. I think they're going to be in that conversation. You beat the Niners. As long as Sam Darnell. Exactly. As long as you beat the Niners and then you beat the Texans the way you did yesterday, you're a good football team. That was dominant yesterday. Well, the final score of the Niners game was 23, 17, but it was going to be 27, 7. Right. They were controlling the game through a bunch of the ball out and the 49ers took the ball the way down the field to their credit and scored a touchdown. But that was domination. Yep. The score didn't show it yesterday was domination week one was domination. And now they go to Green Bay on Sunday, this will be awesome where they lost cousins last year. Yeah. And the question is, will Darnell be there? Will it be Nick Mullins? Brett Ripon is the next option. Right. So yeah, be interesting. I've never seen, and this is where we got to give Brian Flores again, hopefully he gets a head coaching job at some point in his life here. It's going to be tough. That lawsuit. Him, that was, I would say, other than early season rookie CJ Stroud yesterday was the most uncomfortable. I saw CJ Stroud look since he became, whoa, the rookie phenom, right? Maybe there was a Jets game there in early December last year where he looked ugly. I think they didn't take him out of the game. Yeah, right. There's some stuff there. Yeah. But the defense again, the brilliant disguises, the changing up of coverages, never letting an offense, getting a rhythm, they find ways to expose your past protection. There's a tight end blocking green art. Good luck. Oh, look, they knew they're going to slide. See, that's where the studying of Flores comes in. He realizes who they slide this way in certain moments. I'll blitz him here. He'll get free. Then, okay, here's your double A graph kind of Zimmer type look. Are they going to blitz? Whatever. No, they drop out. They're just, they're awesome that way. They're extremely creative within being detailed in that, and it's hard to make those things co-exist, and Flores is doing as good as anything. Aaron Shanahan talked about it last week after, just like, you know, they mix it up. You have no idea what's coming. Nope. You can't predict it. You can't read it. You just have to sit back and wait and see what they did. Always have to have a plan for the all-out blitz. So every play you go, wait, we got to have the all-out blitz audible already, or the all-out blitz second call in the huddle. And I can't. So they really put you in some handcuffs at times. Great win by them, really, really Minnesota surprise of the league right now. That was a pair of 2 and 0 teams in yesterday, the other pair of 2 and 0 teams were in Pittsburgh. I think we got ourselves a quarterback, we got a starter. You're all in with that. I'm all in with that. We, yes, I am. Why would you want to mess it up? The Pittsburgh Steelers got their quarterback in Justin Fields. I don't understand why there's been any more conversation going forward. You know me, I was one that thought they should start Justin Fields from the get-go anyways. I think he fits their style of play, and then you're seeing this type of stuff from Justin Fields. Let's just leave the pocket and run anymore. It's leave the pocket. Let me see if somebody else is still open. And then that play right there. Can we rewind that again too? Right. Like the two plays before, honestly, are just show the whole pack again because I'd love to. We know we can run. They're running the ball a little bit traditionally too, which I just think it's all going to get better. So, Najee Harris run game, and then you start to add more in Justin Fields run game, watch out. Justin Fields two years ago, when he leaves the pocket right here, he runs. He goes runs, chicken with his head cut off, and we don't know what happens. Now he's doing stuff like this. The next play here, again, tight window, confident, decisive, throws the ball in there. I love everything I'm seeing from him. And then they have a defense that's awesome too. So why would you want to mess with this? Justin Fields is the quarterback. I talked to Calvin Austin, the third yesterday who made that catch. They had four receivers for the game. Now, Coro Patterson, the gamebook shows that he was a starting receiver, but he's a running guy. So they had four receivers, Van Jefferson got hurt early. They were down to three. It was Scotty Miller, Calvin Austin, and George Pickens. And they just had to step up. And he told me like, this year, there's no panic in the offense. And he was very careful not to, not to say. We panic all the time that Chicago that year? There's no panic. No, no, no, I mean. It's very Calvin Austin. Yeah. Sorry. So, they're putting it together on both sides. Yeah. Yeah. And I asked him about it, like, is there any tension? I tried to ask it in a way that maybe he would say something that he could turn into an annoying Kyle Shanahan head. But you know, I'd like to say, how is there no tension? How is it not awkward? And he said it's just not that everybody's just focused on their job. You're going to hear talk though. I said this last night. As the trade deadline gets closer, they'll be talking about trading Russell Wilson. They shouldn't do it because Justin Fields could get injured. Exactly. $1 million, a Super Bowl winning quarterback, as your insurance policy against the Justin Fields injury, you don't give that up. Yes. No matter how badly Russell Wilson wants to go somewhere else, you don't give that up. 100%. You don't give up on your whole football team because one guy wants to go somewhere else. If he even does. All right. If he did, right. They got to protect their assets of their football team and go, wait, we're throwing you know, we're one of the better teams in the AFC right now. Of course, we're going to keep Russell Wilson and Wilson as our backup. Justin Fields goes down a few games. We got one of the better backups in the game. But man, all in all is looking good in Pittsburgh. The defense is real. We know that Nate Herbig, I mean, he's the best backup line outside pass rusher linebacker in football. I mean, the fact that, you know, they, they have him is, is incredible. We know TJ Watt is great. And the offense, it is, it's going to get better. Arthur Smith is definitely an upgrade from what they've had there. We're seeing the run game. We're seeing some explosive plays in the past game. And I think it'll only get better as we go along. All right. Seahawks, dolphins, superlative there. And I hate to say this. Oh, okay. Pete who? Because I love Pete Carroll and I think he should sit up in the NFL, right? But they apparently needed a change and it's worked so far. Right. Mike McDonald, the guy they hired from the Ravens, commanders wanted him. He went to the Seahawks instead. So far, so good. And it wasn't like, and Gino Smith had some comments after the game. He wasn't happy about the offense. It should have been 41 to three. Yeah. It felt like that. And it was because the dolphins could do nothing and credit to the Seahawks defense. McDonald said he was sick to his stomach last week. They gave up 185 rushing yards, even though they still managed to win in New England. They just completely suffocated the dolphins. And Scott of Thompson's out now, Tim Boyle came in, who knows what Thompson status is. We know three more games, at least two are talking about Lo is going to miss. The dolphins are just kind of a first time under Mike McDaniel. They've been under 500. Yeah. But that's, you know, what you look at the schedule, we're going to go to Seattle week three. That's tough one. And it's still as tough as it's ever been. It is. And then Mike McDonald, who we've, we've seen, he has a propensity or an ability to slow this offense down. I mean, what did they beat the dolphins by in December last year, 75 to 20? I mean, what, what was that game? They dominated the dolphins, right? And the year before they showed, and the great comeback, I believe the dolphins had, they played for three quarters and showed they understood how to stop the Mike McDaniel offense. Let alone, there's no toa. The offense has been built around to it. So you had to expect anybody to be able to come in there and execute it to the way he can. Absolutely not. The dolphins looked like a team yesterday that was not very motivated to be there. Like, like, man, we don't have to, but we can't win this game. They've been through a lot in two weeks. They have. Remember I said the Thursday night game against the bills, one of the reasons I picked the bills to win, everything they went through with the Tyree kill stuff and the aftermath of that, it's too much to overcome. It's too emotional. It takes too much out of you. Then you throw on top of it, the to a situation. I think, I think they are drained and it's not going to get any better. And when you're a team that's had great starts and struggled to finish, right, you do that for a couple of years. Yeah, you start to question the real. Why are we even doing the, why are we even doing the, why even bother with the great start? We know what's coming. Yeah. So you're bringing your brain and you just, you're quicker to surrender. And that's going to be the test. It is. Can Mike McDaniel get them to dig deep and not surrender and not give in? This was the question we had with Tula is the quarterback. Now they got to dig even deeper because it's not going to be the greatest show on turf. And, you know, the Harlem Globe tried her fast break and all of that. It's, it's not going to happen. You got to get Tyler Huntling ready. They just, they just signed him last week from the Baltimore practice squad. He was number three yesterday. Yes, he was. They got to get him ready. Yeah, they do. And they're going to have to find ways to get Tyree kill the ball still, maybe in a different way than they did when Tula was the quarterback. But yeah, this is gut check time for the Miami Dolphins. And yesterday they looked like a team that was like almost willing to accept defeat in a lot of ways. It just did not look like the harder the fire was there. Seattle did some good things. Seattle can run the ball a little bit. Seattle can make some big plays in the past game. We've seen that. That's exciting. Yeah, Gino through a dumb interception backed up that gave Miami the field goal attempt at one point. And yeah, they couldn't consistently move the ball in the second half to kind of put the game away, but, but nonetheless, they get it in their three and up. We will see both of those teams Monday night. I hate the two games on Monday night, not that they can salt me, but we'll see the dolphins against the desperate Titans and we'll see the Seahawks against the Lions. We need to take a break. We will continue our review of the third Sunday, the 2024 NFL season when PFT live continues right after this. Oh my gosh, convertible picked it off and listen to 40, he got to him, it was hard as kill running, getting tired and I said, I'm not going to make the end zone just went down. Except for that. I'm always racing. I don't really have a celebration of mine, so I'll say, let's just like get the end zone to figure something out. Get the end zone. You look at me. They're like, Hey, who was great? Oh my. Oh, hey. How's that point? Everybody shot. Doing the shot? Sign up. Brandon Jones on the heat in Florida, no reference to swamp ass there. It was a swamp ass day. It was for sure. And Buccaneers got swamped and you know, this one of those where, yeah, Sean Payton has done well against the Buccaneers. Yeah. Todd Bowles and Sean Payton. Sean Payton didn't have the team. Yeah. Yeah. That was the biggest surprise to me yesterday. Well, almost the biggest, the biggest one happened in Las Vegas. But to see the Buccaneers who had made it all the way to number three in the very scientific PFT power engines, to see the Broncos go in there when the Broncos who just looked hapless and hopeless and there was a report from James Palmer that Steelers cornerbacks were laughing about how thin the playbook for Bowniks was after the Steelers went out there in one week too. I just, I didn't think the Broncos would be capable of doing what they did, but they did it. 26 to seven. It all started on the first drive. The first drive of the football game was like the first moment where you were like, wait, the Broncos are moving the ball. Bowniks looks not rattled in this one. He's actually in a rhythm. Well, whoa, whoa, big pass down the field here to Reynolds. Okay. They got something going. A little momentum and confidence for the rookie quarterback and really the best drive of his young career to start the football game. They go up seven nothing and what is even better for a young quarterback that the other quarterback throws a dumb interception right after that backed up, Baker Mayfield throws a horrible interception, gives the Broncos a short field. They go up 14 nothing and the Buccaneers are still warming up getting ready to play the game. So that was like the start of the game could not have gone any better for Bowniks, Sean Payton and the Broncos and then he threw the ball was comfortable that way and made a number of plays with his leg yesterday that were encouraging for Broncos fans and the Broncos in general. It really was incredible to see or uncredible is the case may be to see Bowniks play the way he did after the struggles to start. I mean, it's been yeah, it's been struggles though and those quotes from Baker Mayfield that came out on Saturday or Friday or whatever it was, I guess the podcast that he did was in the summer. They would hit now and you know, there's some people who were like, Oh, that's what you get for popping off about Tom Brady. I understood what he said. And I could see like, especially by the last year with Brady where he kind of checked out that kind of undermines him riding them hard like Bella check as a player coach would have done. Right. So people were like, yeah, you know, mayfield, he got a little of his come up and but I think the most things we're out there about Brady is last year in New England. I know, but it's one thing for one thing for the guys that tell you that's replacing him. Right. Matt Jones never said it. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. No, it certainly put a little maybe more attention on the Buccaneers altogether. And as Bowniks is going to steal the story today for the Broncos and all that, the real story was Vance Joseph and the defense and that the the Buccaneers offense could not do anything at all. They broke a few runs with their rookie running back from Oregon and Irving. But other than that, there was nothing to look at. The day was full of Baker Mayfield double clutching the ball, patting the ball three or four times, looked like he couldn't find the Buccaneers like to throw the ball down the field. It looks like there was nobody open down the field and then the Broncos did a good job of getting pressure and people harassing them all day too. The Buccaneers offense never gotten a rhythm and he never felt like they were going to really threaten the Broncos when we got in the second half. They could never get it going and you kept thinking, okay, this is a bucks team that is shown because there's a lot of points it's done well, but it usually comes week four or week five where we get to the point where everything we thought was wrong, but we found out week three, everything we thought was wrong and this seemed like a clear win to pick and easy win to pick. It's not like it was even tempting like the Cardinals beating the Lions, you could at least make the case for that. Yes, agreed. You couldn't have made the case for the Broncos. No, no, I couldn't have slept and gone like felt comfortable with myself with the Broncos. I had to see it to believe it to actually pick them in this football game and they had all the right answers and Sean Payton good for him and getting their first victory of the year. I didn't feel comfortable with the idea. The Giants going to Cleveland and beating the Browns here. What's the bigger story here? The Giants might not be dead or the Browns are. I guess the Browns story is probably bigger because I don't think anybody expected anything with the Giants. The Browns went to the playoffs without their $50 million a year quarterback last year and say you go, well, they should go to the playoffs and be better with the $50 million quarterback. Oh no. They're actually worse on offense. I mean, they can't run the Sean Watson is, I mean, like nowhere in the class. Not the guy that he was, not the guy that he was. So that's that's an issue. We know that the Browns defense, which was dominant again, not that it was bad yesterday, but Daniel Jones and Malik neighbors had their ways, especially in the first half of the football game. But but yeah, the Giants, I give them a lot of credit. I mean, that was a tough loss last week against Washington. And the one thing that I love that they're doing is they're just going, wait, the one thing we got that's blue chip top of the line is Malik neighbors. And they're featuring him and they're going to wear him out and they're going to make you do something to him that until eventually it's going to open up other stuff. But look at that. I mean, neighbors. Both feet down. Oh, he's he's without a doubt one of the best receivers in the NFL already three games in. Now we know why and you were right. You had him ahead of Marlon Harrison Jr. teams trying to trade up to get him Vikings wanted to go up with the Chargers. People think that's crazy talk. You see it's not crazy talk. You get him for four years at $29 million when guys are commanding more than 30 million a year. They got a special player with the Johnson. They can build around. Yes. He's a game breaker. I mean, he's he's a special special route runner. He's got special explosive ability. He's got special physicality like you saw down the left sideline there to kind of bump and, you know, hit the guy and still control his body to read just and catch the ball that way. Daniel Jones, you talk about a pressure game for him way to go Danny Dimes. The Giants at least can protect to a degree and at least can run to a degree. And I think that's the least the positives here going forward and we know they got the Cowboys this week or not exactly the 85 bears on defense. So we'll see where it goes. That game got far more interesting. Oh, yeah. I'm always giants. They got far more interesting based on yesterday's games. It definitely did. And then I think the other thing you look at with the Giants and we hit on neighbors and Daniel Jones is, Hey, Dexter Lawrence is like one of the best defensive players in the NFL. We got to start giving him that kind of phrase. He is everywhere in every game. And then when you couple that with the way Brian Burns and Thibodeau and everybody looked yesterday, they whooped the crap out of that Cleveland Browns offensive line. They were all over Watson and Cleveland can't run the ball right now and they can't run the ball without no Nick Chubb and they haven't been able to get it going. And I got, I got concerns with that Cleveland offense. They've got a couple of games where they can try to get right. They go to Las Vegas to play the Raiders and play the commanders on the road and they better get wins in both of those games because after that it's at the Eagles, Bengals, they've done well against Joe Barrow and the Bengals, but still it's the Bengals, the Ravens after that and then the Chargers before they have their bye week. So the Browns had better get right now. Yeah, or it's going to be a long season for me. It could be. And their defense again is shown here that teams have figured out Schwartz a little bit. They're very prepared for all the blitzes and things he does. And you saw the Giants yesterday with some long drives and just going, Hey, we're not going to take chances. We'll just take five here, six here, five here, six here and they executed down the field. But yeah, Schwartz might have to come up with some few new wrinkles here because teams are on to them a little bit. And Miles Garrett with the feet injury, not foot feet, aggravated one MRI, took a cart to the parking lot that could even walk out of the stadium might need surgery on both of those feet and we'll see how that all plays out, but that makes it even harder for that defense. That's all of the defense. Yeah. If he's not available, they got it real. When you take into account the Giants fumbled the opening kickoff and on the first side of the game was a Mario Cooper touchdown, you went, Oh my gosh, the Giants are cursed. The game's over the way they battled back and then kind of control the game really for the most part from there on out. That was impressive. Good for Brian Dable. We're going to take a look at the teams in the NFC North chasing the bar three and oh Vikings next on PFT live. Draft King Sportsbook is the number one place to bet touchdowns and new customers can bet $5 and get $200 in bonus bets instantly download the app and use promo code PFT live when you sign up. Draft King Sportsbook the crown is yours and please wager responsibly or don't know. I think I just wanted to do that. You've been you're a hello. Good to see you. I mean, do a little research on the gambling problem. I know. I merge in the past. All right. I don't want to be part of that problem. I know. I hear you. I got it. Packers defeat the Tennessee Titans. No problem. They're now 0 and 3 with Carson Wentz. I mean, we'll love us at quarterback Malik Willis. Yes. You know, I'm not saying the Titans should have kept him and made this made him the starter, but like they had something with Willis. Why the hell did they even draft Levis in the first place? I think he felt around too and they got a gift, but and they weren't sure. I think Malik was going to turn the corner and be college might remember Mike for able didn't seem to like him. Yeah. He was rookie year. He wasn't using him. The GM pick and he's just guiding back and forth. Yeah. Yeah. But he was phenomenal yesterday. Like you heard me say a million times over the last two weeks, he fits this offense. He was great in the preseason. This is a great trade by Green Bay and Green Bay is not a one trick pony. They are a really good football team and why does this guy not get respect Matt LaFluor? He's one of the best coaches in the game. Yes. They dominated run the ball. He made some big throws in the past game and the defense is a pain in the butt too there in Green Bay. Colts defeated the Bears 21 to 16, Kayla Williams, he's got the wristband, try to help him command the offense a little better. If you don't have blocking, it still doesn't matter. I saw an image down to the goal line where like the entire Colts front seven was in the backfield. They run. They can't block and they're not that creative or explosive in the past game. So that's a problem. And that it's going fine. Yeah. Good luck. The Colts at least can run the ball and then Anthony Richardson, even though he might missed a broad side of the barn on 50% of his throws, he's going to make three or four throws that you're going to go. Oh my gosh. There's only a few people on the planet. Could do that. I hate to say it. Yeah. It's kind of like the Tim Tebow experience where when he cranked it up, you never knew where it was going to go. I hear you. Sometimes it went to the right place. I hear you. It says it goes harder or a spiral, but yeah, right, right. But it's still that same kind of let's roll the dice and see what happens. It definitely is. You're like, I don't know where this is going. We'll see. But a good win for the Colts yesterday. Well, we disagreed on one game this week. Lions Cardinals. I got a little, I got a little shipping and thought the Cardinals could pull it off again. The Lions get the win, although it looked like it could have gone either way. Do you still have concerns about the Lions? I mean, yesterday made me feel better. I know the game could have gone either way, but the one thing that I loved about it, and we hit on this last week, is yeah, they can't be Jared Gotham on the ball 50 times. Last yesterday, they whooped butt up front. They became the Montgomery and our guy, Jamir Gibbs Show, and that's the way they should play. It still wasn't perfect. I get that, but I found it to be an encouraging look for their offense, at least. All right, let's take a break. When we return a quarterback change might have been exactly what the Panthers needed. They need ownership change. We'll be back for more PFT Live right after this. I triggered you before I sung out Andy Dalton in and what a difference it made now. That's entirely possible to Raiders drop the ball on this, thinking all they have to do is show up, Antonio Pierce said after the game, "We got some guys that made business decisions today, and we're going to make business decisions about them." Right. But still, kudos to the Panthers. And the Panthers fans are all activated now. Let's see what you do as the year goes on, but clearly the shakeup that they performed worked for now. Yeah, I mean, we see this a lot in football over the last few years. Head coach changes, quarterback changes, definitely give a team of bumping momentum and energy and whatever else. So, that's not shocking from that standpoint. And the Raiders, I think, yeah, a little of that psychology of, "Hey, we just beat the Ravens. We're kind of good. It's the Panthers." I think we saw a few games that people fell, or teams fell into that trap yesterday. But Andy Dalton, from anybody you talked about outperformed Bryce Young all spring, all training camp. And the team took the field yesterday like, "Hey, we got somebody here today. Listen to the attack, and maybe we can call some plays that we couldn't call with Bryce Young. They look totally different, unoffense." And it's fun to watch the reporting out there on what the Panthers are going to do now with Bryce Young. Like, "Oh, he's going to come back and start again." Bullshit! He's not coming back to start again, but they're trying to keep the trade value. Yeah, well, and of course, like you said, we'll see. They might fall off, and they might need them again here later on. But if they're not going to use them, they should do right by him and trade him to a team that will give him a chance to flourish in a non-disfunctional environment. Let's take a break. We'll wrap up this Monday edition of PFT Library after this. When you look who's here, you know, it's kind of like seeing a Sasquatch, only with a lot less hair and a lot bigger head. Okay. You're one day a week. That's great. Oh, that's good. Thank you. Thank you. Good to see you, too. Good to be back. You need to be able to shave your back, apparently. Yeah. I look pretty Jack there, though. That's like, that's the good thing. Two Monday Night Football games tonight, not a double header, not simultaneous, a staggered star, right? Yeah. Gonna have to bet them on two screens. Jaguar's built. Jaguar's desperate. We saw Owen two teams desperate and win yesterday. I'm hoping they do, because you got them as a best bet. Yeah, it's true. Yeah. Let's go. But I got the Bengals are desperate. The Bengals need this one. Of the four teams playing tonight. The Bengals need this. The worst. Definitely. Bet. Bengals. Yeah. I still think they're a good team. And we talked about it. They outplayed the Chiefs last week. It's good, too. That should be really good. Enjoy the games. Everybody be good. He won't be. He won't be. I won't be here. Definitely. Oh! Yeah. Hey Applebee's. Congrats on becoming the official grilling bar sponsor of the NFL. How does it feel? I'm glad we'll be able to bring some extra heat. Any plans to celebrate? Yeah. 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