Grant and Danny
Best Matchups Of Week 1 Of The NFL Season
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I think cash to tickets is the spot for you. We're real, we're transparent, we're having a hell of a good time with it, and we sit there and we're there for the sweat with you guys. We're just trying to figure it out just like you. Follow and listen to cash the ticket on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's rank our top NFL games of the weekend. We will go one to five on our rankings. We'll count it down. Danny, get it started. Jets, Niners. Oh my God. Bring it immediately. I want more of it. Could they play twice? I would watch it. Jets, 49ers game of the weekend. Two teams that I think have a great chance of playing deep into the postseason. Maybe even meeting in the Super Bowl dare I say. A lot of expectations in New York rightfully sold out of expectations in San Fran. That is my game of the week. My favorite game this weekend is the Rams and the Lions. Rematch of an NFC playoff game. Storylines galore Matt Stafford back in Detroit, Jared Gough taking on the team that told him to kick rocks at one point in time with Sean McVay. I love it. Sunday night football, prime time, natty TV. I think it is the perfect week one game. Rams Lions is going to be excellent. Also two teams that have a chance to come out of the national football conference teams that I think going into the year view themselves as Super Bowl caliber. Now I'm not as high on the Rams as everybody else is, but I definitely think the Lions could and probably should be the one seed in the NFC. So that's my number one game Rams Lions. You covered it. That's my number two game. It's it would be one and almost any other week. The story lines are there. I think the Lions are poised to make an awful lot of noise. This is one of their 14 indoor games that they play this season and they're designed to do just that. Little bit of a hipster pick here that you're going to hate, but I am I don't know what to tell you your list. I'm really excited about your list. Titan's bears guy. Titan's bears. Can you don't look at my paper. I am a hipster on this. I want to see Caleb Williams. By the way, Bill Belichick shredded Caleb Williams a little bit on the weird show that he does. It's not on HBO anymore or Showtime. It's like on the CW. Ryan Clark hosts it for some reason. I don't know what the show is. It's like inside the NFL or something. But anyway, he was talking about how everyone went crazy about Caleb Williams pre-season. He's like, I just watched the tape and it was a 50% completion percentage and he made two great plays and missed a bunch of throws. Like he was not very happy. No, he's not pleased. I happen to really like what I saw because there were some incredible snaps on film from Caleb Williams. But I want to see him and you and Ryan have been doing a lot of talking about the Titans and the more I'm listening and watching and just seeing people around the league kind of come around on Tennessee. I'm intrigued. I'm not going to say I'm excited about them, but I believe in offense over defense. So getting rid of Ray Bull going with Callahan. I think I like that kind of practice in general. I'm not a big Will Levis guy, but I don't think he's horrendous. I think if you surround him with enough talent and they've tried to. Calvin Ridley, DeAndre Hopkins, the list goes on and on with the weapons. So I'm interested in this game. Titans bears. I don't think it's two great teams, but I think it's too interesting team. It's on my list. Spoiler alert. Number three for me Colts Texans. This is for the division. That's, that's how the last year ended. It's fitting that it's here in week number one, the defending champion Houston Texans, a team that everybody's crowned understandably. Great season last year, great rookie quarterback and C.J. Stroud back for sophomore year. More weapons on offense enters Tefan Diggs, Joe Mixon, more on defense enter Daniel Hunter. They look poised to take it. Here are the Colts whisper quiet waiting in the wings. Anthony Richardson, what is he going to be a promising start last year? Basically a cam Newton 2.0 thump in the balls, a goal line back, a big physical, fastest all hell, rocket, front arm. How good is he as a passer? That's TBD, but that's my number three game of the week. My number three game was your top game. The Jets and the 49ers storylines right themselves. Yeah, Aaron Rogers back in California, where he grew up near San Francisco, the 49ers at one point flirting with Rogers didn't work out. Obviously for Kyle Shanahan, Rogers trying to play five snaps. If they can do that, he'll supplant last year's total with the Jets. They think they can get to a Super Bowl. I am dubious about New York based on the age of the quarterback coming back from a serious injury. Also, some questions about San Francisco, you know, as the air goes on, they're going to be a juggernaut, but Brandon, I, you missed essentially the entire off season. So did Trent Williams. They both just showed back up, ready to go this week. Brock Purdy was pretty rusty in the pre-season with lesser talent around him. I'll be curious to see if they can hit the ground sprinting. My guess is the Niners don't really look like the Niners in week one. And this ends up being a really close good football game. Game number four for me, Browns Cowboys. Not because I like anybody involved necessarily, but I'm intrigued, man. This Browns team on paper is so good. And the quarterback, a lot of dramatics there. And Dallas just stood pat while other people were getting cards to try to get themselves a blackjack. Dallas said, no, we're good, even though we've got a foreshowing. They just sat there. How good are they going to be? What's it going to look like? Fascinated by that one at Texans Colts, which you mentioned is my number four game. And then Cowboys Browns is my fifth game. You know why though? It's just the Tom Brady effect. This game's actually going to be going on in Washington's playing Tampa Bay. So I'm going to have to go back to really sponge up as much Tom Brady as I can. But this will be his debut as a broadcaster. And I was just reading last night. He apparently did a couple dozen practice games like flying all over the country and jet setting with our guy, Kevin Burkhardt. He's putting in NFL quarterback level work to get ready for his first game. So color me intrigued. Also pretty good football teams in Dallas and Cleveland who both plan on making the playoffs and think they can make runs. Game five. You mentioned the Titans bears. I'm curious about the Titans. I'm intrigued. I think they're going to be okay. Not great. I think they'll be frisky. And I want to see Caleb Williams and all the weapons. Those are our favorite games of the NFL weekend that will be anything also receiving votes for you that neither of us mentioned that you think is fun. Cardinals bills. The Cardinals are revamped. You could see Colin Murray run back again and how good are the bills? I like that one. I actually think, you know, if we weren't talking so much about the bucks and the commanders in another market, that game might be worth it because of the Jaden Daniels effect. Just same as I was talking about with Caleb Williams. Like you want to see that guy Tampa was a playoff team last year. I also think it just could be interesting to see Steelers Falcons. Two new starting quarterbacks there and Russell Wilson, if he goes, if not still a new starting quarterback in Justin Fields, Kirk Cousins in Atlanta, a home game for the Falcons. Mike Tomlin's the most successful head coach as an underdog on the road over the last 20 years. Could be a really, really good football game. Hey, Mike Vlini here host a cash to ticket alongside my partner, Jim Costa. It's really simple. Are you tired of podcasts claiming there are a bunch of pro betters when they live in their mommy's basement? Are you tired of podcasts that claim they had 80% of the games? When really, they just lose like most of us think has to tickets the spot for you. We're real, we're transparent. We're having a hell of a good time with it. And we sit there and we're there for the sweat with you guys. We're just trying to figure it out just like you. Follow and listen to cash to ticket on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts.