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Joining me on this episode per usual. Yeah. My humble co-host. Happy new. Student of the game. What? Volleyball Savant. The dude is going to be steering the ship for the week three review show here on the football function. I am the captain now. Yes, he is going to be steering this bad boy. And I'm looking forward to that. I'll be doing my best. I really am. I'll probably listen to it while I'm at the Atlanta airport waiting for my flight. Hopefully. Jesus. Hopefully you're in the airport listening to us. When you're listening to us in the airport, good job out. You made it. Everything worked out. Man. And the reason you probably just heard me hit my mic, you got the headphones on, did you hear it? Yeah, a little bit. That was me throwing my hands together praying. Please don't let there be any hiccups. If you listen to the Jets and Patriots preview show, then you know what we're talking about here. In real time, the situation is hopefully resolved. Yeah. One way or the other. I just hope it's the good way. I just hope it's the good way. And we're looking at it happy. Man, I hope it's the good way. I hope we've got to go that other way. So be it. We've got to go that other way. What a journey. It's going to be. We're sleeping in the car. It had been already. Oh, man. Had been there, Doug. Been there, done it. It ain't the funnest, but hey, you got to do what you got to do. Maybe you got to do what you got to do. Let's hope that doesn't happen. We're going to have a good time here. You guys say, grab, baby. We're going to have a good time on the football function. A preview show for the week three slated games. And also, like we just mentioned, we've got a juicy one coming. Oh, boy. She just got a line up, man. I'm talking. We're throwing out the 2016 Warriors. Slide. We're throwing out the '08 Celtics. We're throwing out the 1998. Some of you weren't even bored. St. Louis Rams. I'm talking Kurt Warner, who is taking the place here by young at Terence Minifield. And obviously, we got Marshall Falk. That's young Caleb Grant who's going to be helping us out here. You got Tory Holt. He got Isaac Bruce. That's our boys, obviously, CM, Grim Reaper. What? We couldn't have done any of that without Orlando Pace. Not a thing. Orlando Pace being our buddy Howard Poole. I was protecting Terry's blind side here. Most important part. Most important part. And let's get this bad boy started. Woo hoo. I don't know what sucks. I really wish that I'm going to be here. But we already have the games that these guys are going to be covering. Terry and I took it upon ourself to try to divide it up. Not only just as fair as possible, but also, you know, give them what they want. You know, we know that they want to cover their favorite team for number one. So we tried to organize it in that manner. So we're going to go not, you know, we're not doing it draft style this week. And we're not going to go in chronological order. So we're not going to go all the new games first. We're going to go slate by slate. We're going to go person by person. We're going to let you guys know who's going to be covering what games as we preview them. So let's just go ahead and go with the, you know, the host of the show this weekend. Terry's minifil. Let's get his games out of the way. We'll start with his noon game that he's going to be covering the Green Bay Packers versus the Tennessee Titans. Yes, sir. Jordan Love, I saw a return to practice. Does that mean he's going to suit up or you think it's going to be the Malik show going against his former team? I definitely think they're going to be more patient this time and all their endeavors towards their quarterback and they're going to, they're going to play this on safe and let Will Levis. Hopefully, hopefully that's the way because. Malik Willis. Yeah. Malik Willis. Sorry. Going up against Will Levis. Yeah. It's a revenge game. This is a major underrated aspect of this week. Have you, did you factor that in when you picked it? Yes. I did factor that in and you know, they ran that they as in the Packers, you know, they ran the ball so much last week and I feel like that is not going to happen again. It gets the Titans. The Titans are going to have a stingy defense, especially the defense in front. That's not going to allow them to put up the numbers that they did on the ground. So I think they're going to have to rely on Malik Willis a lot more this game and who knows Malik Willis more than Titans defense. So I'm giving the edge to the home team here. I think the Titans will tighten up here and put it on them and catch the victory. This is a little bit of deja vu from last week. He picked an AFC South to beat the Green Bay Packers. Now the Packers were at home against the Colts. Yeah. That is a little bit different. Now the Packers have to go on the, you know, on the road to play Tennessee, but I said it, man, I saw some comparisons and some similarities last week and the week before just this season of Will Levis comparing him to Desmond Ritter. Yeah. And I think this is going to be the one time that the revenge game actually works. You think so? I think Malik Willis, he's not going to be asked to do much. You still have many carries happening. I know this is a different, this is a different beast. We'll be talking about defensive line, but you know, Jeffrey Simmons and, you know, what the Titans have is going to be hard, but the running game is one thing that does travel. And I think Josh Jacobs, that's someone that isn't phased by a tough running defense. Yeah. And I just think that the Packers have, you know, gone toe to toe with some pretty good teams. That's, you know, I saw what the Eagles can do firsthand this past week. Packers went toe to toe with them. Packers dismantled the Indianapolis Colts as kindly as you can. So like they scored 40 points, but I feel like they were just, you know, the better team in that, in that game and it kind of showed from the start to finish. And I think in this game, it's going to be kind of more the same if Malik Willis does have to throw a lot. Yeah. That's the big question. That's what I'm making on right there. I think that it could be tough. Yeah. You know, that's a given, you know, it's going to be very, very different than if Josh Jacobs is toting that thing 30 times again. But I just think that on the other side, I need to see more. And I know that the weapons are there, man, like, so yeah, the Titans should be able to get it done. Yeah. Look, they should have got it done last week. They had it done for three quarters, half of the fourth quarter, and then we'll let us shitted the fucking bed and get probably the worst quarterback throw, play, whatever, in the world. So if they didn't have that one play, they would be probably in scoring position for field goal or touchdown. They win this game. So, you know, I'm putting all of my, my, uh, chickens in the basket of Will Levis not making a stupid ass mistake. Hopefully. All right. You went packer. Use the Titans. Okay. Well, let's keep it NFC North versus AFC South here. We're going Chicago Bears versus Indianapolis Colts. Rematches Super Bowl 41 and all those. These two teams are very, very different, hopefully for fans of their respective teams. Each of these teams have found their franchise quarterback and now we're getting ahead to the head show. This is going to be where this is going to be the game that Caleb Williams throws his first touchdown. Who? And this is going to be the game that Caleb Williams, you know, it's not his first win because he snuck away with one against those Titans week one. And I think that he can do the kind of the same thing this week, the, you know, the running game could probably be going for the Bears this week. We saw it happen against the Colts last week for the Packers. I expect the Bears to kind of take a little bit of a play out of that playbook, maybe do a little bit of the same thing, but I just don't know if the Colts have the guys in the back end that are going to be able to contain with what the Bears are going to be trying to do. But all that goes out the window of Caleb Williams isn't, you know, able to sit back in the pocket and throw if the offensive line just folds like it did on Sunday night against the Houston Texans, then the Bears really have no shot and this is going to be a game where the Colts are the team who are getting off the ship. But I think that I can comfortably pick the Bears in this game again. I'm not trying to take any shots at any Colts fans because I picked the Packers to beat you guys last week. But the Packers did come away with the win and I think it has more, you know, to do with your quarterback and I think that the Bears are pretty good defense in their own right. They got Montez Wet rushing the passer, the passer obviously, you know, some decent guys in the back end. Jalen Johnson has nothing to sneeze at, very good number one corner. So I think that they're going to give the Colts enough problems where Anthony Richardson is going to struggle to score points in this game and I think the Bears are going to do just enough kind of like in week one where they can walk away with the win. Yeah, I'm right there with you. But I definitely think the quarterback play from both of these teams are going to be a lot better. We're going to see these two young guys play up to par with what we thought they can do. We're definitely going to see Anthony Richardson throw his beautiful 60 yard bombs. That's going to be apparent in this game. It's going to be inevitable. This guy's a highlight reel just waiting to happen. It's the little Dink offs, the crossing routes. If we can get those managed, if those can just be routine plays, the Colts could take this one easily, but they've been getting gashed on the run game. So we're going to get a lot of DeAndre Swift, this one. I feel like the Colts are, I mean, the Bears are in a tough spot where they could be better and they know they're better and play better. I also think that the Colts are in desperate mode, so that could also spill over to the worse or you know, it could also go to the better side. But second straight week on the road, I'm going to give it to the Bears just because I feel like at this point in time, I feel more comfortable with Caleb Williams getting over his woes than, you know, second year Anthony Richardson trying to find like what we're talking about with the culture with the Patriots, trying to find that. I feel like they're in a lot harder spot than, you know, the Bears are in the fun. I want to see Caleb Williams have a bad game when his offensive line plays well. Yeah. If his offensive line has a good game and he's still just making terrible reads, it's not a bad look. I mean, that's a bad look. Yeah. And honestly, it was a pretty bad look. You know, I don't want to say bad look, but when you saw that miked up him and see their strata at the end of the game, which he was trying to kind of give advice, he's wasn't trying to hear it. Well, you got to understand he just lost the game prime time his first national television game and he did get sacked a lot, which probably leads to you being extremely frustrated. You saw pictures of him on the bench just just completely out of it, you know, and that's probably not the best time where you want to hear it. But you know, at the same time, you know, I understand what he did was doing. He was literally just trying to help the guy. Like he was giving him very genuinely advice, you know, like stuff that's going to help him in the long run. He's been through it. I feel like Caleb realized that at the end, kind of what was going on. But at first, you can tell he thought it was going to be like a good game, you walk away like, no, bro, like he's trying to help you out here. It's someone that just did it a year ago, you know, watched the NFL. You don't realize that he just drought just kind of threw himself in his franchise on the map. Yeah. And you're one. Now, before riders could even write, how long is this rebuild going up? He's had the face. It's happening. There is no rebuild out. So you're there. There they've arrived. Nico Collins. We're going to talk about him here in a little bit. I can't wait for the wide receiver guy because man gets him a couple more weeks to put up some big numbers. Because if he does, he's going to find himself on that wide receiver. I am scared though. I will tell you that. I will tell you this much because we all know how much of a prima donna stuff on these can be. Okay. How long to where it's where it's he wants all those touches that Nico Collins has. I just feel like whenever you're on it, when you're on it, I don't want that to happen. No, I get it. I don't want that to happen, but we know. It's a possibility. Yeah. But I think that why do you want to think to have those prima domino moments whenever you are on the Vikings and that's who drafted you and it's 2018 and you've been to the playoffs and been eliminated several times. It's another thing whenever you're with the Buffalo Bills and you become a meme from standing there watching confetti fall against you in the postseason year after year after year. And now you're on a team where you're not the big dog in the house. You're not the guy who's making the physical plays to run after the catch. Like yes, on paper, you might be the wide receiver one, which means you might draw the attention of their cornerback one, because if a cornerback two is against you, you might see a monster game from Stefan Diggs. So they have to respect you in that aspect. But you're still coming in like you're still a new guy and a new team that made the playoffs last year and you know, had a really good run. So I think that, yeah, you know, as much as you are a competitor and you want to be a big part of the team, which they're probably trying to do, obviously, Bobby Slowick, their offensive coordinator was getting head coaching opportunities last year for a reason because this is someone that knows how to get talented players in the ball. Look at guys like Teng Dell. Look at guys like Nico Collins. We're seeing Joe mix and thrive in this offense already. I think it's only a matter of time before Stefan Diggs does find his way into the rotation. And you know, obviously we won't have to see that version of him. Yeah, I hope to God not. But yeah, we're not even talking about the technical. That was a good breakdown of him. I'm sure. Kevin appreciates it. Hell yeah. Shut up. What you have on your slate is you're going to three o'clock slot game. We've got to see all five of the people who are going to be contributing this weekend. Terry. Sam Howard. Grim. They do Caleb Grant. They all have one game in the three o'clock slot and a couple of them have two games in the noon slot. Terry and Sam, I believe one of the games that Terry's going to be covering is taking place in the three o'clock slot Detroit Lions versus Arizona Cardinals, man, who would have thought that this one would be as juicy as it is right now, but that's exactly what it is. Marvin Harrison looks to do what he did last week and is welcome to the NFL party, which is just remind me so much of Julio Jones is crazy. 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Time on the road to state farm field. State farm arena used to be Atlanta Hawks. It's actually where the Atlanta Hawks play now. It used to be the Phillips Arena. But nonetheless, I'm going to roll with the Detroit Lions. Oh, okay. They're going to get it done. Do me for a curveball there. I'm going with the Cardinals. They're coming off an impressing victory last week, and Kyler played outstanding. Marvin Harrison played out of this fucking mine. This is going to be a shootout. I think it's going to be in the high 30s, and I really do believe the Cardinals are going to come out with it. I think they could run the ball. I think they could pass the ball. Their offensive line is protecting Kyler, and when they don't, when it breaks down, Kyler can make plays with the seat. Obviously, we know he can make it with his feet. But man, the way he can make his receivers get open just by anticipating the throws and how accurate he is. Kyler is in MVP form right now, and he's got his number one receiver, Marvin Harrison playing. So fundamental football right now is perfect, and I believe they're going to continue doing it on home field territory right now. It's going to be scary for what the Lions have to go against right now. Okay, so just to recap, the three games that Terry's going to be covering, the Packers at the Titans, Bears at the Colts, and the Lions at the Cardinals. So moving on to Caleb Grant's two games he's going to be covering. Obviously, in the noon slot, we're going to get the flash drive. Cleveland Browns at the New York, or the Giant at the Cleveland Browns. I did that twice in our prep for the show, getting the order of these games, getting them to decide as he's playing who's covering which games I keep thinking the Browns are going to New York. But no, the game is in Cleveland. Yes, sir. And the Browns are going to win. Damn right. The commanders lost last week, heartbreaking fashion because of Malik neighbors are going to try to come back and get some retribution. We're going to be on the road. Not going to be easy. Browns have a very good defense. They kind of look like they kind of got going last week. I expect more of the same. Browns get a win. Browns won behind the defense last week, and I expect no change. The Sean Watson, I expect change in that too as well. He did play better last week. Was not good. I mean, let's be real. There were some flashes. There were a lot of flashes, and let's hope these flashes continue into routine plays in making that who the Sean Watson is, who we know he could be. So definitely believe in the Browns defense, and I definitely think they could handle anything that the Giants could throw out of them. No shots though. I don't know. The next game that Caleb is going to be covering his one game in the three o'clock slot, we gave him a juicy one. I know he likes to watch his division rivals play to study them, find their weaknesses. So we're going to give him the Baltimore Ravens at the Dallas Cowboys, one of the juicy games on the slate. We saw the Cowboys get decimated last week on their own field. We slathered. Very good ball carrier coming in. This isn't just Derrick Henry who wanted to sign with the Cowboys this offseason, they just didn't do it. He went to Baltimore. So you're going to have a pissed off Derrick Henry coming into your stadium. That's number one. Number two, Lamar Jackson. I'm sure you've heard of this guy. Who is that guy? If you are not on your P's and Q's, we saw the Saints just eliminate Micah Parsons. We saw them just score at will against this team and Saints have kind of been doing that start the season. We'll see if it's just a Cowboys thing, or if they do it to the Eagles as well when they play them this week, but not only that, Lamar Jackson is coming off a pretty tough loss. Yeah. Just last week. And I think he's taken the first. You think that, you know, I mean, and I will say, man, AT&T Stadium, something about it. Opposing players can go off in that field. I've seen it happen. I've seen Julio Jones do it. He's produced. Obviously, you know, I haven't come here, just did it not that long ago. Aaron Jones, Cowboys fans know all about him doing it. Players go off on that stadium. It's a beautiful field. You get motivated to play when you walk in that bad boy, if you're an NFL player, playing against the Dallas Cowboys, America's team. But Mark Jackson, I don't know how many times he's played in this stadium. I can't tell you, but this is probably going to be the best version of Lamar that we've seen this season in the 2024 campaign, and it's hard for me not to think the Ravens are going to go in there and get a win. It's not going to be a blowout. Those Cowboys aren't going to get decimated. Like we just said, the Raiders beat the Ravens. So clearly they're not unbeatable, but I think that they have what it takes to give the Cowboys a really tough time here, and I think the Ravens get the win on the road. Yeah, Ravens are desperate right now. They are desperate for a win, and I believe they could be the scariest team that is hungry for a win. I mean, honestly, they could just spark it at any second with the run game, and I think it all boils down to the Ravens offensive line. They played horrible as well as, you know, my Patriots lines, but I have a feeling that they have adjusted a lot of those things up front, and I believe that they got away from their game plan last week against the Raiders. I feel like they were toting it a lot more than they were the first game, and they got away from that game plan. And I feel like they're going to run the hell out of Derek Henry this week, and I feel like they-- Blech, blech, blech, blech. They forgot about them in prime minutes last week, and I feel like they're going to get the heavy dose of Derek Henry a lot this week. So King Henry, he's going to make them known why his name is King Henry. So yeah, give me the Ravens. I believe it's going to be a three-point affair as well. I think Justin Tucker is going to win this one for him. Okay, so just to recap, Caleb Slate, New York Giants at the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens at the Dallas Cowboys, a nice little doubleheader for him, so now let's move on to another familiar voice here on the football flinch. Let's move on to the Tuesday morning titillator. What's that, man? Hey, his episodes have to drop on Tuesday for him to keep that nickname. You little tiddly. But he's also known as Mr., you know, still your grandma. Yes, sir. Mr. AKA, the host that knows the most. He's the most. Not the NCAA. That college football, baby. It's your boy, CM. What? It. Do. Okay. I've edited enough of his shows where I could do the whole intro. You got it. I'm not gonna. Let me see. We're going to tell you the games that he's going to be watching. We're going to start out in the noon slot, a nice little layup here, Denver Broncos at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I think this is a pretty easy win for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And when you look at the connection of these two franchises, it's hard not for me to think about John Lynch taking his legendary career from the Bucks to the Broncos. But obviously, I just think that this is a match up of two teams who are not on the same level. I would love more than nothing else. Or more than everything else, I should say. For the Broncos to go into Tampa Bay and get a win, oh, of course, at least show them that poke some holes in this perfection, you know, right now, Baker Mayfield is one of the MVP candidates. Now you don't want to be that in September. You want to be that in December, you know, January, that's when you want your name to be thrown around the MVP candidates or in that discussion. But I just don't, I mean, because, you know, as a Falcons fan, I don't want us to have no, I mean, are we really going to be the team to have to be that team to show you guys? I see the Saints kicking everyone's ass and I've literally said that some of the people in some groups had some life. All right. We're going to have to be the fucking ones to show you how to do it, right? Fine. I'll do it myself. Be your mind. I've seen the Falcons be the same number one and nine, they're nine and one division match-ups are different. Oh, yeah. It's anybody's game. So everything out the window. That day was the wind blowing any given Sunday at that time, because I tell you what, there's a few things that are certain when the Falcons and Saints play blood shed blood shed. Someone's going to die and there's going to be some shit talking obviously, but anyway, it's the kind of game I want what, um, yeah, I'm hoping that, you know, the Bucks have a loss before we have to do that. When the Broncos get it, maybe get bonics. It would be nice. That's kind of why I want to see him to get this game. He was a big bonic guy in the draft process. Hell yeah. Could this be his best game yet? It's against one of his division rivals, the Buccaneers. I feel like this one kind of fit in perfectly. I want the Broncos to win, but I am picking the Bucks to get it. Man, I would love for Bonic to catch it up here and throw his first touchdown pass. He's had a lot of yards through the air. I would just love for him to find the ins and find pater, but I definitely think the Bucks are going to keep rolling, man. They have been riding high, dude, and there's just been major issues with Bonics. It's just something about his connections with the team, I think, in my eyes. I just don't think it's nowhere near anything with Baker and his company is bringing in the time. And Tampa Bay's defense is physical as hell, and they're going to bring it. So at home, it's hard to pick and get the Bucks nearest. Well let's give him another new game here. There's only a few things that I know CM loves more than watching Texas Tech football. That's some gumbo. That is bowling and watching the Saints play. He loves watching the Saints on a Sunday afternoon. He'll cancel plans. You may have dinner plans or some lunch plans with CM, but if the Saints are playing, if who days on, he's going to watch, but it's strictly hate watching. That's how he watches this. He wants to eat last week because if there's one team, he'll enjoy watching more than the Saints. It's the Cowboys and the Saints and Cowboys played each other last week. So I bet that was just an absolutely nightmare for him to watch. But in all seriousness, we're going to give him the Eagles at the Saints. Let him study up on this division a little bit. Enjoy the dose of the Eagles. I need to see his breakdown because I'm not going to be able to watch this game. Remember, I want to be in the streets of ATL. Chan rise up. I won't be able to watch any of these games. So I'm going to need CM to fill me in. Give me that. What's going on here? Number one, are the Saints for real? Are they about that life? And number two, did we whoop the Eagles ask so much that they still getting up off the mat? I'm going to need to know everything about this game. And I know CM is going to fill me in, but yeah, give me the Eagles to give the Saints the first loss. I'm picking them up. Oh, man, they should be 2-0 right now, man. If they were at that point, if they came in in this game too, I would definitely. Even if the Saints blew out the Cowboys last week, about 41 points or whatever, I still would have picked the Eagles, but it's just not looking good. There are problems where we thought problems would never be for the Eagles, man. Last week, Saquon dropped the pass that would have, I'll call it, that would have probably put the game away from him. Who would have won the game? Yeah, it probably would have put the game with it for him. We had no shot after that. So, I mean, that's uncharacteristic type of shit that I know he's branded to the team, but damn, he's Saquon, all right? And also the defense, defense shut down. I mean, the defensive line is nowhere to be found. It's kind of ridiculous how we were ramping and raving how they were just bringing in defensive linemen and all these pass rushers, and they're still nowhere to be found. So I just think there's a whole bunch of issues right now for the Eagles that they need to figure out. And this is a tough team to figure it out against. I feel like the Saints may be the real deal, Holyfield, and looking into going when they get done with this game to be in 3-0. And it's really behind the run game, Al Camara is rejuvenated. He's put all the issues behind them, and it has football as number one focus. And I feel like a lot of the people in League don't want that to happen, because I mean, look what happened last week. I could take over games, and in an instant, you could see the back of his jersey. And I feel like this is going to be a lot of the same. We're going to see a lot of the ground attack, and a lot of Derek Carr showing us why he's, you know, he's not going anywhere. He's here. He's a veteran in the game. He knows what's going on and what's being presented in front of him, and there's nothing that you could do to disguise anything that he hasn't seen. So I feel like a vet in a determined Derek Carr, along with an offense that's just churning, like a train that's coming down the tracks with nothing, and nothing can stop it. You know what I mean? The Saints are on to something. 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Give me Brock and the Raiders to get a home win here against Carolina Panthers. Yeah, the Raiders, I feel like, just like any other team that's won last week, are just flying high right now, especially the victor that they had coming from behind against the Ravens. I believe they had a worse, like a worse task to get over last week and a harder game to play in. And a more battle tested, Max Crosby is coming in his game playing phenomenal defense of in-play, and he is rushing the passer with his endless energy. His motor is always ringing, so I feel like Andy Dalton is going to be filling a lot of Max, and Gardner is going to just play well how he's been all season. In the past two games, he's just been managing, keeping the team in it, and I feel like if you give him enough time, enough space, enough minutes left in the game, he'll figure out a way to get you a dub, and that's exactly what he did last week, and I have no doubt that he's going to find a way to beat this Panthers team with everything that they have against them, not saying that the Panthers won't put any fight, I feel like they'll rally around Andy Dalton and feel like, I feel like CM will be happy with what the Panthers are presenting. Well, let's move over then from CM to another host here, young Howard Poole, lego Haber. So the game we're going to give him in the noon slot, obviously, Chargers at Steelers. This is going to be an interesting match up here. I really think it is. It's just something that I think AFC football is going to be one of those hard-nosed games. You've got Jim Harbaugh who likes to run the ball, you've got Arthur Smith who likes to run the ball. It's going to be so much running in this game. Take the under on the passing attempts, on the passing completions, passing yards. I feel like you can feel relatively safe taking the under on the passing stats in this game. Oh, yeah, easily. It's going to be a lot of running, and, yeah, I think that the man, this is going to tell one of the games. They're just in fields. I mean, I'm taking Herbert in a vacuum, which is those two quarterbacks, but situationally, I don't know, the Steelers' first home game of the season. Steelers have the better defense. I think there's a chance the Steelers can start 3-0 here, so, yeah, I'm going to have to roll up the Steelers. Two teams that are coming into this game 2-0, that's pretty crazy. Who would have thought it would be these two teams, not any shots, but these two teams, like you said, are the physical types, and they're going to show up to play this game. TJ Watt is going to be all over Justin Herbert, but I'm looking forward to that matchup as well. Joel has been playing phenomenal tackle, or at the tackle spot. He has solidified that spot for Justin Herbert, making it safe for him, and I'm looking forward to that matchup, seeing how TJ puts it to the little rookie. I feel like they're going to get, you know, that's going to be the actual deciding factor. If TJ Watt could have his way with Young Rook here, he's going to take over this game, and it's going to be hard for the Chargers to move up and down the field. If TJ Watt is going to be, you know, doing his sack dance, or, you know, maybe possibly breaking up a screenplay, taking it to the Haas, pick 6, you know, giving the Steelers with their defense in Justin Fields, playing good football and turnover-free, so, I do believe that both these teams are going to show better. Offens the play. I'm looking more forward as to how Justin Herbert is going to look at opening up through the air. Like you said earlier, they have ran the ball so heavy these past two games. John Harbaugh is just really taking the pressure off of Harvey, and there's going to be a game where he's just going to unload it. He's going to have Justin Herbert throw the ball maybe 30 times, and I'm waiting for that to see. He's going to use this game so we can see a little bit of the air raid, and that offense, see how that offense looks through the air, a little bit more of a two-minute offense is going to be looking cool through the eyes of that whole new offense and stuff. But in this game, I really do think the Steelers will have it at home. That defense has come up with a couple turnovers, just enough for him to take the game. So moving on to Howard Poole's 3 o'clock game, 49ers at the Rams, divisional matchup early in the season. Rams look a little bit vulnerable. Yeah, they think that. The Niners are just the Niners, and then stop them a force when they want to be whenever they're clicking them all cylinders. I don't think the Rams are going to be an issue here, give me the San Francisco 49ers to get the win. Yeah, when I think of the 49ers, I'll always will have my attention towards the defense. I don't know why, and obviously the defense is captain on that team, Fred Warner. This year has been playing really well, and even in that loss against the Vikings, he was making plays all over the field, and I feel like that defense flies, how he flies, so in a loss last week, I believe they're going to play with their hair on fire. This week against the Rams, the Rams are coming in a little banged up. Their two most important weapons won't be playing this game, I think, don't really quote me on that, but, you know, I feel like Brock Purdy and company on the offense also missing a couple of weapons. I don't think Debo is going to be playing this game, and I think another person is not going to be playing. Oh, CMC obviously is not going to be playing, but yeah, I still think they have enough firepower and coaching will, obviously, with Shanahan. I think that matchup goes to Shanahan a lot. Just some major players on both sides, that's why I think it's still kind of in a vacuum, the Niners still kind of edge it out for me. Yeah, I believe so as well. I'm going to give it to the Niners defense coming up with a couple turnovers and win them on this game as well. Okay, the final two games that we're going to talk about here are Grim Riefer's games. The first one, Houston at Minnesota, the new slot, Bicy, our buddy Kevin Watson is going to be at this game. A lot of stuff, a lot of stakes here on this one. I can't wait to hear his breakdown. I'm going to pick the Texans to go on the road and get it done. I think that just right now with how they're playing defense, how they're getting after the quarterback, Sam Darnell could be in for a long day on this one. Yeah, I definitely think this game is going to be a hunter revenge game. Oh, shit. Yeah, definitely, definitely give me the Texans then. Yeah, I feel like offensively, they can match exactly what the firepower brings for the Vikings. I believe in the Texans defense. I believe in their physicality. I feel like their defense line can bring it to bring pressure for Sam Darnell. Don't get me wrong, Sammy's been playing out of his mind this year. Yeah, he's a third baker with the MVP talk. Man, there would be nothing more than to see Samuel. Sammy D win the fucking MVP. That was a little tongue twister for me. But I would love it, man, just to see everybody, especially Jets fans. That would be the fucking Panthers fans too, man. They had a big commitment. Sure. They're both all in out right now. My attention is more towards the Jets. But anyways, yeah, give me the Texans in this one, man. I feel like this is going to be the number one game of the week. Final game, three o'clock slot, Miami Dolphins at the Seattle Seahawks. I just think that, you know, you saw the Seahawks, oh, so Skyler Thompson is shooting up. Yeah. Seahawks taking it. Yeah. Yeah. That's all I had to say. And that's all that was. Even though you had to say legitimately. Even though you can throw a two yard screen at Tyree Kale and Jalen Ward will make it take it to the Hawks. Yeah. Some fast boys in the Seahawks. He got an end of on a chain. But yeah, like you said, the Seahawks, the defensive Hawks, God damn it. The defensive play of the Hawks, Seahawks, we'll take over this game, God damn it. The Divas will play well. And I feel like they'll come up the show and handle, you know, anything Tyree can, and then the penguin could throw at them. Well that does it for us here on this episode of the football function podcast, the week three preview show, very juicy episode coming in the, or in store for you guys coming down the pike. So stay tuned. Because I'm definitely looking forward to that. Wish me luck on this little adventure I'm about to go on tomorrow the next day. And this goes a quarter in the prattle fan is overreacting and it's all going to work out tomorrow. Oh, I know it is going to be smooth. We're going to be looking back at this and then laughing at us for even, yeah, even thinking about that. Even panicky. Let's go. Anyways. Thank you guys so much. Have a good weekend. Walk passionately in the direction of your dreams and we'll talk to you soon. Owning a rental property sounds like a dream until you realize how much work goes into getting it ready. 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