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NFL Week 1's Storylines For Each Game
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The Chiefs have a chance to be the first ever team to three-peat, but on top of that, they, if they get to the Super Bowl, will be the first team to ever get back to a Super Bowl having won the last two. So no one's ever three-peded and in fact, no team gunning for their third straight has ever even gotten to the Super Bowl game. They host the Ravens and their quest to do so. Patrick Mahomes, an annual MVP candidate. Yeah, I mean, I don't think last year is too much in your mind. I mean, you're so focused on trying to get better and I mean, we're playing the best of the best. I mean, week one. So we're going to see where we're at. We're going to go out there and play our best football early in the season. But all we can do is go out there and be our best and I mean, it's going to take that in order to get the win and we're about to learn from our mistakes and make adjustments on the sideline and go out there and find a way to be a really good football team. Yeah. Last year, Kansas City started off kind of slowly. They were sort of working their way through the beginning part of the season, knowing full well they'd be there at the end, not a lot of challengers in that division. And it seemed like Baltimore was the class of the AFC. They were the best team in the NFL for most of last year, a lot of turnover, a lot of change, including a defensive coordinator's down the head coach in Seattle, lost a lot of personnel. So this is the time if you're going to play the Chiefs, you'd like them week one rather than say week 16 or 17. Yeah. As the lion's to your point from last year's opener, I do think it's interesting that Rushy Rice didn't get suspended and probably isn't going to. Sometimes the league says, we don't need to find out what happened legally. We can do our own research. Sometimes they wait for everything to play out. So it's kind of, I don't know what to expect rhyme or reason with suspensions, but Hollywood Brown, not all the way back, not healthy. So it'll be a lot of Xavier worthy presumably. They just signed you, Drew Smith, Schuster as far as Baltimore goes first game with brand new 32 year old defensive coordinators, Zach, or and this will go one way or the other. If that defense is really good again, which it should be, he'll be a head coach in two years. Maybe getting interviews this off season, he'll be the next guy that the hot candidate in the NFL, but they lost a lot of assistance. He's elevated from his linebacker. A year ago, obviously their coordinator on defense last year is now the head coach in Seattle. Mike McDonald. So there's some questions on that side of the ball for John Harbaugh after they lost some talent as well. But most of the young players for the Ravens, it'll be coming back and playing are actually on the offensive side of the ball, including Roger Rosengarten. They're projected right tackle from that rookie class. The Friday night game, yes, I said Friday night game. Coach or Taylor? Not Friday night lights. Oh, different. Different. Maybe outside of the state's Friday night lights in the national football league. It's the Packers and the Eagles. We're going outside of the United States, Danny. We're playing this thing in Brazil. Obviously. Do you see any of the, like, yeah, restrictions that the league passed along to players? Oh, no, I didn't see that. Oh, it was like, do not leave your hotel. Do not wear any jewelry. Do not say hello to anyone. Do not pass. Go do not leave the bus without like armed guards. I'm paraphrasing and joking a little bit. But basically they don't, especially after the Ricky Pierce all thing, was just like, Hey, man, let's just stare at the ground and run into any of every building you're going into. And Darius slay and some other guys are like, why the hell are you sending us there? Like, you can't send me for work to do something and then scare me with this. Like, I guess our families are staying home from this one. Yeah, maybe we'll skip this trip and I'll send you a text if I'm allowed to keep my phone with me. Yeah. You know, it's the never ending quest to make this thing global. I'm conflating analogies here, but you got to break a few eggs, I suppose. I don't know. It doesn't seem like a great idea to me. I love the Friday night lights angle. Please and thank you more of that. I'm all about it, but that just seems a little iffy to me. Yeah. You're not going to get a whole lot more of it because it's essentially illegal in the state to have Friday night games because of high school football until after the season ends. Packers Eagles, though, two playoff teams potentially remember Green Bay won a playoff game, destroyed the Cowboys. We talked about it last hour and then they gave San Francisco fits in the postseason. Meanwhile, Philadelphia is highly considered to come out of the NFC East. People think they could be a Super Bowl team. If Jalen hurts, bounces back and the Packers have some new faces in some new places. Matt Loflor has got a brand new running back in Josh Jacobs who led the league in rushing two years ago with the Raiders. The more experience you get with somebody, you find out what they like, what they, what their best stat. But I would say definitely from a past standpoint, how you can utilize them in the passing game, whether some guys are check down guys, some guys are creative route runners. And I think you just got to go through the process and throw some stuff at him and see how he does with it. And it'll be an interesting year to see what he can do. I loved Matt Loflor when he was here in DC was probably one of the coaches on that staff. I was closest with having said that. I am stunned with how good a head coach has become this quickly and a lot of people right away will discount the first few years going 13 and three because it's just Aaron Rogers. You can't. It's hard to go 13 and three men. Be good. But nine and eight last year with Jordan Love developing into a franchise QB, making the playoffs, getting a win in his career, Loflor is 56 and 27 in six years. He sounds when he talks like a guy that's been doing this for 40 years. Yeah. Even when he, well, even when he was doing his 30s, he's just a worker. It's what he sounds like. Right? But not everyone is a burn the candle at both ends and like you tell your wife, you'll see her in January kind of coach. That's Matt Loflor and it is worked in Green Bay. Other side is the Eagles. This is such a fascinating group and obviously I hate them so much and I hope they lose every game and their fans are miserable for a thousand years. But just in terms of objective football stuff, Dixeryani basically fired himself as the offensive leader, right? Enter Kellen Moore sort of revamped this group trying to get Jalen Hertz back to MVP level. You've got weapons out the Yang of course, uh, familiar former first trumpet from right down the street here. Johan Dotson will be their slot receiver to go with the Monte Smith, AJ Brown. It's a revamped defense in theory. That's a group that could absolutely win the NFC East or the coach could get fired. I wonder if Johan Dotson's going to make a player to in prime time. Everybody watching on Friday night, a big debut in Atlanta for the Falcons. They are a sexy pick at NFC South. I think they're being a bit overrated. I don't quite see it the way everybody does. I don't know where the pass rush is going to come from necessarily with them. They did go get Matthew Judon in the preseason, which should help a lot, but they were a really bad pass rushing team last year. I don't know if that's enough of a fix for them in that regard and I don't like their weapons as much as everybody else. There's this assumption that Kirk Cousins, who they bring in is just going to now make Kyle Pitts be what he's supposed to be and Drake London is going to take off. I think they're pretty good. I don't think they're really good to me. That's more of a nine win team than an 11 win team, but they've kind of been crowned. They host the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's a one o'clock kickoff in Atlanta on Sunday for the Steelers. They had a battle that went throughout camp in the preseason at quarterback between Justin Fields and Russell Wilson. Wilson won the thing. In fact, my daughter struggles to say or are sometimes. So she thinks his name is Russell Wilson. I think, you know, I think we all just try to be our best every day. You know, I think every day I step in the building and just try to, you know, bring my energy, bring the focus, the detail, the experience of it all too. And then when you step in the white lines, you know, do everything you can to be your best version of you. Do you think the Falcons should be the favorite in the South? I do. But I also, my second axiom there is that the NFC South stinks. Yeah. Nobody's any good. The bottom is the worst. I think Carolina probably picks first or second again. So it's more about the other teams than Atlanta. Yes. So someone has to win that division. Why? Why don't people default to Tampa one it last year didn't lose a ton. Just assume they do again, because that I don't know if it's has the same streak as the NFC East does, but it always feels like someone goes from worst to first or third to first. And it's Topsy Tervy. They all beat each other. They're all six and one half dozen or the other. All these teams are flawed, low ceiling. We're here also. Someone's going to win nine games. Is this the year Mike Tomlin Steelers finish under 500? I think they scream nine and eight again. It's perfectly set up because again, their division is the opposite. That division is a buzz. Yeah. Baltimore really good Cincinnati Super Bowl caliber like the Ravens, both of those teams strong and then the Browns have a quarterback dilemma. But if you take the Sean Watson out of the equation, it's probably like a 13, 14 win outfit. Mm hmm. That's a loaded team in that athletic piece of polling 31 agents. They asked who the best talent evaluating GM is. And a lot of people said Andrew Barry, their general manager. Now I guess he swung and missed on the Sean Watson and we're not going to count that, but they've done a really good job everywhere else almost. Really. Yeah. So I mean, to me, this feels like the year it finally happens, but you know what Pittsburgh is going to be? Limit it offensively. Great special teams, really competitive on defense. 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And then when the time is right and that's an instinctual thing and I think that plays right into him, that's when you do the the special and balancing that and then some times it's going to get out of whack one way or the other. But always come back to that is kind of like that, that neutral place where he's at his best. Does anybody want to type anything that he's saying, does anyone want to just really loud like the furious typing? So why isn't that at the keys and why is the microphone on your keyboard glide over the keys who is typing so loud. Everyone's talking about the bears and understandably that's where we started. The Titans are a fascinating team. I'm not going to go full Clary on you, Clary said at lunch today that he's got the Titans as a sneaky playoff caliber team. You know, Ryan, I don't want to put words in your mouth. Did you, you said they're going to be a sneaky. Let's watch out for them. He's got a word in the division. Didn't you also say they win the AFC South? That's my hot tag. I think they win the AFC South. I'm all in on Callahan. I think Will Levis could potentially surprise people. So we'll see. What do you like most about Levis? Right place footballer that he eats his bananas with the peel on. It's banana with the peel on, but it's actually more so. I think the Texans kind of fall off and I think the Texans or the Titans kind of take a little step up here. Yeah. So by the way, I'm at lunch with before you, Daris, you got there. It was Ryan and Danny, both telling me how bad the Texans stink. Nope. And they're like, look out for the Titans and watch out for the Jaguars. You both said the Texans will not make the playoffs. Right. But it's very different than they stink. I mean, you're doing everyone that made it last year will make it this year, which never happens. It's always half the teams fall off. They were a game away from flipping and flopping with Indianapolis Colts last year and I want to take all things. Larry's got him seven and 10. You just have him missing the playoffs. Yeah. I think they're nine and eight right around the same as they were. We're going to read that. What's wrong with the Texans articles is, you know, the Colts win one more game and the AFC is too crowded. This is far apart from the state. I never said seven and 10 either as well. You said worse than that. I think you said five and 12. Yeah. No, are tries. I'm thinking like nine and eight. I think they fall off and miss the playoffs. Three and 14. I think it's what he said. Wait on your chicken sandwich. You kill the mosquito and you're like, dude, they're three and 14. They stink. Remember the Titans. Ryan Clary says division champions. I am actually interested though. They did the thing you should do to give your quarterback the best chance. Brian Callahan, OC from the Bengals, offensive minded, comes over, maybe you try to fix Will Levis. They went and got weapons as well, including Calvin Ridley. It's a lot of the things that I think you should be doing. Yeah. Sneaky Tyler Boyd signing as well from Cincinnati. That's going to help them. They basically was like, give it to Derek Henry and let's see what happens. They did that for a handful of seasons and it was awesome for a while. Last couple of years, as they've been beset by Andrews on both sides of the ball. They've been pretty terrible. No more Mike Rebel. They've now kind of updated and changed that roster over a little tiny bit. Again, I don't think anybody in that division is excellent, right? But you know, if you buy the idea that Houston's maybe been prematurely crowned and it's going to be wide open as it's been, maybe Tennessee makes some noise. I don't think they're ready yet though. Let's get back to some of the primetime activity in week one, Sunday night football is going to be awesome. 8 20 kickoff locally for the Rams and the Lions, a rematch of a tremendous playoff game from this past winter. The Lions just narrowly edging out the Rams at home in that game. Now we get to see it in week one on Sunday night football. When Matt Stafford's healthy and he will be to start the season, the Rams are a different team. A Super Bowl contending type club. So two are the Lions. They bring everybody back from that vaunted offense, including their coordinator Ben Johnson who left more teams at the altar for a second straight off season. This is going to be a fun, maybe a telling game. If the Rams come out and beat the Lions, you got to consider them one of the better teams in the conference to kick off a brand new season. This is GM Brad Holmes who put the Lions together on Jamison Williams, who's considered an X factor for Detroit this year. I think it's very evident in the results that you saw this training camp that the work that he's put in. Just like Ray was saying, the route running, everything, just him working with El, working with golf, just doing all those things in the all season in preparation. He's got some good guys in that room. Obviously, you have an elite player like Saint Brown and forget the performance, but how his intent was are and Khalifa Raymond, you know, I mean, you've got really good guys to, to look upon and, and follow, but go to the Rams for a second. Last year, I think a lot of people myself included kind of wrote them off because they started three and six. They were getting smashed by people and they were not impressive, struggling, couldn't find their identity, didn't know who they were, et cetera. After the bi-week, they went six and one. Their one loss was when Baltimore was playing excellent football in overtime in Baltimore, gave them everything they can handle and lost a toss of game and ended up losing that epic one point playoff game to Detroit. I didn't view their season that way. I just remember that start and kind of you have an impression of them. They were pretty nasty down the stretch. One of the Sean McVay's better coaching jobs I would say. Oh, he was great. I thought last year could have been the coach of the year. The Monday night football game to round out week one, now six days away as the Jets and the 49ers, the games in San Francisco, the Jets get Aaron Rogers back on the field for the first time since week one, a year ago, new look, wide receiver room, including Mike Williams coming over from the LA Chargers, Breece Hall is kind of a sexy top of the board fantasy pick. Everyone thinks he's going to become a superstar this year. They drafted a monster ever running back to pair with him in the backfield in fourth-rounder Braylon Allen. No, it's on Reddit who has not yet reported the loan holdout left in football. He's supposed to be a key piece to that defense. So without him, Jermaine Johnson, Will McDonald, their first round picks and 22 and 23 respectively will be coming off the edges. And for San Francisco, speaking of holdouts, no practice time, no preseason time for Brandon IU, Trent Williams, but it's all hands on deck for a perennial Super Bowl power in the NFC as they try to get their season started. For the Jets, they have been a quarterback away for two straight seasons. And that's why they were so desperate and went to get Aaron Rogers and tried to make this thing happen. He lasted about 14 seconds. He's been on for about 20 straight seasons. Well, yeah, for sure. But last year, they were actually really good. And last two years, really, they've been really, really, really, really good defensively. They were fourth in football two seasons ago, a third in yards allowed last season. They're excellent everywhere except that quarterback spot. If you don't have Zach Wilson, if you have a replacement level Randy, just to do checking it down. If you had Jacobi Brissette or Joe Flackoff as countless they probably could have had at any point, that's a playoff team over the last couple of seasons. They haven't been. They are poised for that breakout finally to have it happen there in New York. Remember when they made two straight AFC championship games with Rex Ryan as their coach? She's eating snacks. And Mark Sanchez as their quarterback. Yeah. Who was like sooner back up and then an even sooner out of the league. Same kind of deal then. Like what might that team have been if they could have just had an average NFL quarterback? The seasons may be changing, but the deals and the sharpest rides are unbeatable as ever. Hey, what's going on? 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