Grant and Danny
Are We In On The Double Dip For Monday Night Football?
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I see a lot of complaining about having two Monday Night games. It doesn't make sense to me. Number one, I think most people have the opportunity when watching games to have multiple screens at this point. Whether that's via the phone, the computer, and your TV, or just a setup where you've got multiple TVs in the man cave or something. I'd say there's a lot of people who have the propensity to watch two games at once. That's number one. Even if you don't. If you're kicking it old school, you got one TV and you can only watch one thing at a time. Just going back and forth between two games with the previous channel button. Doesn't have to be a lost art friends. And the beauty of two games is if one stinks like Titan's dolphins did last night, a 31 12 final. Tennessee pulled away with 22 points in the second half. By the way, the dolphins are in big, big trouble. They are having props. One in three right now. Then you just watch the other game. The NFC matchup, which was as advertised, a shootout, great offensive displays for both teams. Gino Smith was cooking. He threw for 395 yards last night. Jared Goff has not thrown an incompletion since the game started. Eighteen of 18 passing for 292 yards, two touchdowns. And Jared Goff caught a touchdown last night. Have a night. Have a night, Ryan. Larry, your boy was being celebrated around the NFL, praying, man. Just wandering down that left side with a lineman chasing him. God, it was great. He made a catch. He caught it. I couldn't believe it. Best throw the night was when he threw it into the stands after catching a tuddy. That's true. Deep shot. I was definitely his longest throw in the night. Oh, yeah. But he had Jameson Williams for a catch and run touchdown of 70 yards. I was asking, Larry, because we were talking about the lines a couple of days ago, what is wrong with them? Why are they not right? The first few weeks of this season, they just weren't the same team as last year. Last night was the breakout. That's where they are. They're that. I think now for every reason, when these two teams get together, nobody stops anybody and it's great theater. I don't know why Seattle has whatever Detroit's defensive Kryptonite is, but they do. That's fun. Kenneth Walker had a million, everything's last night was the lowest scoring game between these two teams in the last three years. Think about that, which is great. 71 points combined. Sign me up. I hope they play every month. But for Detroit, that's what that offense looks like when, when they're right, when it's everything that you do, you have to cover something. You're going to get hit in the gut with the David Montgomery downhill. Jameer Gibbs comes in as the best changer pace back in the NFL, probably the way that he burst through the line of scrimmage or goes around the edge. He's incredible. You want to cover on on Ross St. Brown? Fine. Jameson Williams is going to hit you through the scene. If you want to cover both of those guys in Sam LaPorte, you got to worry about that with probably the best offensive line in the sport, that offense, when their right is poetry. That's so pretty because they can just run the ball better than most teams and it sets everything else up. But Ben Johnson also is good for about one or two trick plays a week. Last week, they scored on a hook and ladder. And then yesterday, Jared Gough catches a touchdown from a Monroe St. Brown on seven yards from just outside the five. But the lines looked great. I think the Seahawks are for real too, weirdly enough in a loss. I know their defense got mauled. I think I feel better about Seattle today than I did 24 hours ago because you and I were both saying they're three and oh, but they haven't played anybody. This is not an authentic three and oh team by any means. Their best opponent on their schedule so far was a dolphin steam with Skylar Thompson at quarterback, but they went toe to toe with Detroit for the most part. That was a 28 20 game in the third quarter, a 35 27 game in the fourth quarter. And then the lions pulled away, but I think Seattle's going to be a wild card type team on it too. Mike McDonald in his first year as a head coach. Yeah, I think their ceiling is lower than Detroit ceiling. I think, you know, we got a little evidence of that last night, but Seattle ain't bad. Right. I mean, usually you play three teams that are inferior to you. You stumble in one of those and you win two out of three or you kind of look shaky. They beat the, they were much better. I think they're both than all three of the teams that they played. I know it was a little bit closer with Denver, but week one of the season, I like their offensive diversity. When Walker's healthy, he can do a little bit of everything. Jackson Smith and Jigba is a great kind of intermediate threat. We know a DK Metcalf can do. And if all else fails, Tyler Lockett has helpful as well, kind of a, a sticks moving kind of guy to me defensively. I don't know about them, but they're plenty good enough to win nine games, especially with the start, they're off to Gino Smith is also sneaky, better than he gets credit for. I think he's a victim of his early career. He was a second round pick out of West Virginia. He failed in New York with the jets, but who hasn't mean Aaron Rodgers is trying to reverse a commanders and bears like run for quarterbacks, basically, in that city. But late career Gino Smith in Seattle has been mostly really, really good and watching him last night, he was slicing and dicing the lions. Frankly, this is why I can't trust Detroit to get to a Super Bowl. I think they're good enough offensively to win a title. I think they could beat anybody in the NFC. I think they could beat Kansas City or the bills or the Ravens or whoever comes out of the AFC. I don't trust that defense. When Washington was interviewing Aaron Glenn, it didn't make a lot of sense to me. I'm sure he's a leader of men type and he's very popular in a building, but his defenses are never that good. Like the one thing you could say about Dan Quinn, even if you were a detractor from the standpoint of him being similar to Rivera or having had a chance already or not wanting a defensive minded head coach or whatever, his defenses are always excellent. This year, clearly they're not yet, but it's early. They got to continue to work at it and we'll see where it goes. But the Lions defense, how do you win a Super Bowl with that group? They're just, they give up too many big plays. I don't know what they hang their hat on. They gave up five hundred and sixteen yards last night. Yeah. It's hard for me to advocate for them the morning after. I'll do my best here though, right? But I tend to agree with you just for the record, devil's advocate. They're built like those Colts teams back in the day with Peyton Manning, a company where the resources rightly so were on the offense. What they want is to get a lead, duh, and make you one dimensional, drop back and pass to let Aidan Hutchinson eat to maybe have guys like Carlton Davis or Brian Branch or otherwise maybe break on a football and get your turnover. Maybe those New Orleans Saints teams that could never really stop anybody, but the one year they got turnover luck. They won the Super Bowl with Breezing Company. I think that's the design, but I'm with you down in and down out. There are 15, 16, 20 defenses I'd probably rather have than the Detroit Lions. They're vulnerable. Hunter than the Badass, I mean, he's got six and a half sacks here through four weeks. Other than that, I'm not sure what it is that you do here. When it comes to making plans, you are the best. 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