The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
10/14 Hour 3 - What's Your Confidence in the Texans Running Game Now?
(upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Don't sweat the technique. (upbeat music) - Coming to you live for the Veritex Community Bank Studios, it's the Killer Beans. - On ESPN 97.5 and 92.5. - Here's Joel Blanken, Jeremy Branham. - 86-6, don't you dare forget about Boise. Only lost was Oregon by three. - There's some interesting group of five teams. - That lost was a lot better for Oregon. (upbeat music) - There's some interesting group of five teams. Very interesting group of five teams. I'm, I don't know who I'm pulling for, the group of five. Oregon won that game. - I know, I'm saying, I'm sorry, that, 'cause before people were using Boise State only losing by three is like Oregon's not as good as we thought they were, but turns out that was actually a pretty great win. - Boise State won lost, Army or Navy. - Well, if Army or Navy go undefeated, that means they beat Notre Dame. So Army or Navy, if they go undefeated, would jump Boise. - They would jump Boise, yeah. - I think. Boise's 15th in the country now. Army's 23, Navy's 25. Now the AP doesn't have any bearing. It's gonna be the college football committee. But if Army or Navy finished the season undefeated, I think they would jump Boise. - I do too. - They would jump Boise. - I think they would jump or even without it. I think people are just gonna want to put Army or Navy on. - I mean, Boise's got some rat. I mean, if Army or Navy lose one game, I think if, okay. Army or Navy run the table with the exception of Notre Dame and they finish with one loss. Them versus Boise State with their one loss being Oregon by three, I think Boise's the group of five representative. - You're probably right. I could see the sentiment of when are we ever gonna have a chance to put Army or Navy in the college football playoff and putting them in just for, I don't know, patriotism, whatever you want to call it. But I, you're probably right, but I could see them signing. You know what we're putting in Army or Navy? - If he looks like the Heisman Trophy winner too, he's gonna bring a lot of eyeball truth and that's gonna play a part. - They would. He wins the Heisman. It's like, okay, Boise won loss with the Heisman. Their only loss was to Oregon by three versus Army, Navy, what is their quality win? Their best opponent they lost to in Notre Dame. And to clarify what I said, there's not a guaranteed group of five representative. It's the top five conference champions, which does include one G5. But it's top five conference champions and seven at largest. I had a buddy talking about how Notre Dame can get one of the group of five bids. It's like, no, it's gonna be a conference champion. - They're independent, right? - The top five conference champions. - Yeah, they're independent. They have to get the at large bids. - So it's not technically a group of five champion, but you can do the math. 'Cause there's four power conferences, one conference champion from outside of the four power conferences. There are your five conference champions. And then the top four conference champions get the buy. You can't be an at large and get a buy. So if you're the number two team in the country, and let's say it's Georgia, Texas is number one, but Georgia's the five seed, and they don't have a buy in the first round. - Wow. - It's only the top four conference champions. - I thought, okay, for some reason, I thought the power of that group of five conference champion got the five seed. - Well, they just assumed. - Okay. - That's just assumed. But if it's a year where Cincinnati, a few years ago, they made the college football playoff out of the American, it's the top four conference champions. Pretty sure, like 90% sure all that. - Yeah, no, I agree with, I wasn't arguing that point. I know the teams that get the buy are the top four conference champions. - They might. I thought the fifth seed was that next conference champion though. - You might be right. - The first at large goes to six. - I see what you're saying. Georgia wouldn't be the two seed. - They would be the six seed. - They would be the five seed. They'll be the six seed. - I think that is true. Now that you bring that up. 'Cause I think the conference champions have to be seeded one through five. - Okay. - To like, I guess benefit the conference champions, whatever. All right, CJ Stroud, obviously beat Drake May, right? What was the boxing grade on CJ vs. Drake May? - It was pretty one-sided. I would say technical knockout. - Okay, I'm cool with that. I thought Drake May played okay though. Like, it's not great. - Yeah, but you can tell he's got a lot of, he can throw the football. - Yeah. - Yeah, you can tell he's got athleticism. That's one thing we all, you know, we talk about quarterbacks that are athletes, but he can throw the football. I mean, he made some really nice throws that show you, if this was only game one, I think things are only gonna get better for him. And I think that he had some impressive moments. - Yeah, he, to me, he was, I think that he had some moxie too. He had some toughness, he took a couple of hard hits. I thought he was gonna leave the game whenever Daniel Hunter had the strip sack. And he was like kind of favoring his left hand. So he's pretty tough. I like what I saw for a young guy. - He let, 'cause even Melanie was saying on the sidelines, Melanie Collins was saying on the sidelines that he came over, he was wincing in a lot of pain, but then when they were rubbing the throwing shoulder that he said, "No, I'm okay, I'm gonna go back in," because it was one thing to say, he jammed the one shoulder into the ground. And then his arm was in a very funky position on the top side when Hunter landed on him to where, yeah, he could have had a lot of damage. - Speak with that, 'cause that happened in the, it was, I'm trying to remember, I think it was, I can't remember what game it was now. Oh, is it gets Caleb Williams, the game too. Hunter seems to have a thing that he does whenever he gets the free shot chasing down the quarterback from his blind side, that he always leaps up to make the sack. Now, if he's getting away with that in a knock, he said quarterback's out, I have no problem with it. But it's interesting to watch. Both of those sacks, he gets the free, not the free rush, but basically he gets the free shot coming from behind and always leaps up to make the sack. - He kind of looked like turbo back in the Rockets days going for a dunk the way he got up and then tilted and then landed. - He looked up to fall on them. - Well, it wasn't the blind side when he had the strip sack on May, was it? - I thought it was. - Yeah, I think it was. - I don't think so. - I think May was looking the other way. - But it wouldn't have been his blind side, he didn't come from his back, he hit him in his chest. He landed, May's hand was kind of- - I said he jumped on his back. - Oh, no, no, he came from the side. It was completely on the side. And the hand was here and he got the hand against the top shoulder and then the bottom shoulder was driven into the ground. - Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was in his face. - I think he came from the side. - That's why his left hand landed off right. - I think he came from the side, I think he came. - But Drake May was looking at the center, which side was the middle hunter? - No, I think he was looking to the left side. - Well, I'm talking about it before the snap. If he was under center, I can't remember if he was under center in the shotgun, but if he's getting the snap, pre snap, is Danil Hunter to Drake May's right or Drake May's left? - I believe he's to the right. - Yeah, I thought so too. - Yeah. - I don't think he came from the right to that one. - Okay, May was the technically blind, but the leap thing is- - He did, he was the leap. - I haven't seen many defense or any defense of ends do that, but he, at least on that sack of towards the end of the game against Caleb Williams and then that one against Drake May, he's leaping up to then land on them. - Yeah, he does, he covers a lot of ground with that leap. - He certainly does that. - Yes, and he is really athletic and also very heavy when he lands on a guy and it can do some damage. - Now go TKO, I'll echo that too. Shrout over Drake May and a TKO. Now what do you think of CJ Shrout as a letter of grade? What would you letter of grade, CJ Shrout? - I mean, aside from an interception that I don't believe was his fault, that's one of those flooky plays we talked about where it ended up being an interception. I'm giving him an A. I don't need him to throw for 300 yards and have five touchdown passes against the Patriots. He did everything he was supposed to do. You orchestrated the offense. He made the throws that he had to make. He did everything to get you the win. He got the win and for that reason, all those reasons alone, I don't need the gaudy stats. I think he gets an A. - I'm gonna go A minus with one play away from being an A plus. - Which was that play? - The throwing in the end zone. The throwing in the end zone, adult in shows. I'm not blaming him, I'm not blaming him, but it looks a lot differently if that gets completed. I'm not blaming him, but you can't give him credit for it. Final line for Shrout was 2431, 192 yards, three touchdowns, interception, 100.5 pass the rating. Really a good game, eight minus great. If that goes for a touchdown, now you're looking at 21 of 31, you're over 200 yards, you four touchdowns, no interceptions, your passing rating is gonna go up. So I think that one play was the difference between an A plus, maybe that's unfair of me, but I'm the one great. - I think it's unfair. - I'm the one great in it. I'm gonna give him an A minus, one play away from being an A plus, that being the one play. - Yeah, I'm gonna not give him the A plus for the same reason because of the interception. Look, I know it was an extremely difficult throw, but he left a little bit inside and obviously if that's in the right spot, that's not a pick, but I don't even care about the yardage. I mean, under 200 yards, but it's the Patriots. It doesn't matter. They had that game to control. So I don't care about the yardage. Everything else is pretty much there other than the interception, which was left too far inside. So I'll give him an A. - Yeah, the throw left too far inside prevents the A plus, I'll knock it down to an A. - And I am not saying that that was a throw that he had to make, that's a tough one. Rolling out, pressure, he had to roll out because of the pressure. He was trying to drop it in a bucket from 30 yards out, not an easy throw. Now, Stroud has kind of made us spoiled on those beautiful throws. But I thought Stroud played really well. The control that he has of the game, like he's just always in control. He just has incredible control of the game. - Aside from, I mean, I can't even think of this, one specific throw, but most times too, it's not just throwing to the right guy. It's putting the ball where it absolutely has to be. - The touchdown pass the take was just an absolutely beautiful ball. I mean, he makes-- - In the back corner, the end zone over the defender. Absolutely beautiful. - I don't think he gets enough credit for that unless you go back and watch it again sometimes to see just how accurate he is with the football. - My favorite throw that he had in the game yesterday was the first drive, third and medium, third and long, and the outbreaking route to Diggs. - Mm-hmm. - Got him around the five-out line. - Similar to the Nico one that won the indie game. You remember that one? - Not really. - Oh, he totes half the Nico laid out. - Put it right where Nico could catch it. - Oh yeah. - Pass the marmachia. - Right on the sideline and was just on a dot accurate. - Yeah, he does that with pressure. Like how many quarterbacks, like there's a lot of quarterbacks in the world, that not, I shouldn't say a lot. There's probably a dozen quarterbacks in the world that can dot it the way that he can, but I would say you can cut that by about three quarters with the ability to dot it with pressure around him. Like the pocket's breaking down. There's fire everywhere, and he's cool, calm, collected and still delivers the ball of unbelievable accuracy. But the control that he has impresses me each and every game, the accuracy is unbelievable. Like that's again, that's the interception. We're like, oh, he should drop it in the bucket there. He's shown that he can do that. But also the ability to step in the pocket. Like he trusts his offensive line when maybe they shouldn't be trusted. He doesn't lose like, he doesn't panic. He's always under control. There was a pro football focus nerd last week that compared him to Peyton Manning, which it's a weird comp. But I kind of do if you eliminate everything that's out of the pocket. If you just broke down CJ Stroud staying in the pocket every single play and you eliminate the scrambling and getting out of the pocket and the rollouts, I kind of see it. - The thing that I see and it kind of rolls into this as well is specifically when he steps up in the pocket. A lot of times when quarterback step up in the pocket, they're stepping up, taking multiple steps, and their first concern is get away from the heat. A lot of times yesterday, what you looked at was, he took one step and utilized that step to kind of build momentum to make a throw right where it had to be. Where he already know, I know even if I'm stepping up, I know where I'm going. So if I just step one step quickly and use my plant foot, I could push this thing out of there and still get it where it needs to go. And that Manning was really good at that. - And I think it's worth that comparison comes from. I'm not saying that Stroud's as good as Manning. Manning is arguably the greatest quarterback talent that has ever existed. But if you see how he steps into the pocket and kind of shuffles the feet moving left to right, in the pocket, again, eliminate everything out of the pocket, you can see similar footwork. And then the accuracy on top of that. But Stroud does have elite accuracies. At Peyton Manning prime of his career accuracy, I'm not willing to go that far. But CJ Stroud, relative to his peers currently, has elite, elite accuracy. - I agree. - All right, 713-780-3776 to you, Greg. Also, what's your confidence in the running game now? After what we saw yesterday in New England, it is the B's on ESPN 97-5 and ESPN 92-5. ESPN 97-5. - Houston's only FM sports stations, ESPN 97-5 and 92-5. Live in the Peritex Community Bank Studios, it's the Killer B's. Now back to Joel and Jeremy. - It is the B's, the ESPN 97-5, ESPN 92-5. The group of five or the fifth conference champion does not have to be the five-seat. They can be the 12-seat. So more than likely, the group of five champion who will be the fifth best conference champion will be the 12-seat. I'm assuming that. I mean, Boise State's 16 in the country right now. What if they went out and they're the 10th ranked team in the country? They could be ranked wherever. 713-780-ESPN, HRNP listener line, 713-780-3776, 875-5. It was a plus for me. I don't know if he says it was a. - Oh. - A plus? It was A plus for me. Okay, A plus. - Mixon really, oh, he's talking about the rushing game. Mixon really opened up the offense well. Maybe it was B plus. He seems promising for the Patriots. He's talking about Mayo. This guy can't type. Marcus Jones was sticky with tank, but tank still got his. - Wow, come on, dude. Mixon shares his afterwards. - Did they? - Respect. - I was gonna say they were there together, right? - Mm-hmm. - I think they crossed over for a year. - Okay. - At 9198, what is wrong with Schultz? His effort is two out of 10. Yeah, we talked about this early, but I understand that you weren't with us yet. 9198. Yeah, I'm very disappointed in Schultz. I think he got paid and started to go business into him, going to business for himself. The alligator arms over the last few weeks, the blocking's been questionable. I think he's had some plays where he's been okay blocking the drop yesterday, not even the one in the end zone. We're talking about the drop on the out route on a third and five when there's nobody around him and just goes off the hands, shies away from contact, even though he's a big burly man. Yeah, I've not been happy with Schultz. - Tell me, there's a whole lot of, I don't want to, or I'd hate to say it, but it looks like I don't care. And in a business decision to stay healthy, but the blocking, he's never been known as the blocking tight end, but you know how to get into an athletic stance and try and get in the way of a defensive lineman. Instead of tucking in your arms under your armpits and rolling, like you're trying to avoid a fire on the ground, it was awful watching him try and block yesterday. - Yeah, not been happy with Schultz. 6517 is a Stroud fantasy owner. I give Stroud a C. - That's because of the yards. - He has three touchdowns. - He's got three touchdowns. - He must be on it about the yard. - He's got to be in a four point passing touchdown league. - He's got to be, 'cause you're not whining about three touchdowns if you're in a six point passing touchdown league. What's your confidence in the running game now? Obviously big game yesterday from Nixon, big game. Damian Pierce had the, at least the big carry that makes his line look good. Texans, you look at the total rushing yards. They were around 190 in the game. What is your confidence level in the running game going forward? - Yeah, I've got a lot more confidence. And again, the bigger barometer's gonna be next week, but to see what I wanted to see going into this game, which is improvement and continuity on the offensive line, the ability to open up the holes, the ability to avoid the penalties, the avoid, and then to see the running backs themselves. We didn't know what we were gonna see out of Joe Nixon. We didn't want to see too much of him, but what you saw of him was he's picking up right where he left off. Yes, probably another lesser than team defensively, but the fact that in the passing game, in the running game, in the way that he was hitting the hole, his change of directions, his shiftiness, his ability to stay tough when he got hit, and the fact that Pierce didn't look awful. We've heard so much about him, but we haven't seen any of him to understand what he'd truly be, to understand that he could surpass Cam Acres. He could be a viable second option in the running game, regardless of what Daray does in the passing game, gives you more options in the running back room, which I love. So I'm extremely confident going into the Green Bay game, but this is a better football team because of both getting mixed in back and getting Pierce for the first time. Where would you say it's at like a six or a seven? - Yeah. - Six or seven? Where was it before the game? - It was about a four and a half. - Okay, so they jumped about two points or so? - Yeah. - Jumped about two points or so? I'm at about, I go over on a five or a six, I was probably around a three, so maybe it had the same impact on me. The defense matters here. And like you look back at the Colts game, the Colts had a terrible rushing defense, but you had mixed it in that game, and you exposed that, you took advantage of that, you had a big game on the ground. Patriot's defense, not very good. You bring mixed in back for the first game, and then Pierce back for the first time since week one, and again, it looks good. For me to jump into like a seven or an eight, I need to see it against a good defense. - I need to see it this week. - I think it's possible, and I think it's way more possible after the Patriots game than I thought before Joe mixed in or Damian Pierce where we're taking carries and running the football. 'Cause I thought the offensive line was in shambles, blocking the run, they elevated their game, so that's a good thing, the timing was good, because you got Joe mixing back. So I'm still not overly confident that this team can impact the game, running the football every single time, and pose their will on the game. I'm not to that level yet. I need to see them do it against a good defense before I'm willing to say that this running attack can run on any defense in the NFL. - Yeah, I think that's the key. I think the fact that they showed they can't run the football, and it wasn't just a one-week thing against Indy, even though again, like you said, lesser opponent, but they are capable of opening up some holes. Their running backs are capable of being shifty and speedy and doing things. Now, in order to say they're capable of doing it against the better teams in the league, you got to show me against some of the better teams in the league, and you got some of those coming up, and for the rest of the season, where it's gonna be, at least I believe that they can run the football. Now, do I believe that they can run the football successfully whenever they want to? That remains to be seen. - Like, all I know right now is they can run the football when they have mixing against bad rushing defenses. - Yeah, because it's the capitalized on the matchups that go your favor. - Yeah. - But now, can you do it when there's a staunch defensive line? We know Baltimore's defensive line's unreal. You know, you're talking about better than average teams in New York and Green Bay coming up on the schedule where you need to see that against them. - Yeah, they haven't done it yet. So like, how could I believe that if they haven't done it yet? What they've told us is that they can run the ball well against bad football teams when they're fully healthy. See it against a good rushing defense, okay? Then I'll have the buy-in. Honeyglaze, Brandon, I think fantasy football and fantasy football players are the scourge of football. There's also nothing more annoying than hearing about someone crying about players and not getting them enough points. As an avid fantasy football player that is in 199 fantasy football leagues, I agree. - I agree. - Oh, do you? - Yeah, I do. I don't gripe about my fantasy teams. No one wants to hear it. No one wants to hear it. No one cares about your fantasy football team. It's like your golf game. No one cares about your golf game. Nobody cares about your fantasy football team. Save it. - I think the same thing could be said about the Madden ratings and all the Madden stuff. - It's a little different 'cause it's not individual. It's not about you. - But the players make it about them and what their rating is and what it should be and could be. I mean, just if you just play the game at a high level, who cares what a video game rates you at? - Yeah, I'm with you, but I-- - And I hear you what you're saying on fantasy football because it's one thing to say, it's made football more relevant for more people the way it's become a part of the game, but it's also not how you should rank a player or rate a player's performance from week to week, like we just did with CJ. Whether he got 300 yards or not because it helped you win your fantasy team when a game or not is irrelevant. Did he win the football game? 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As I always tell you, bet anything, anytime, anywhere with the only place I tell you to do it, Mybookie.ag promo code, bet 975. (dramatic music) ESPN, 997, 5. (dramatic music) ♪ Try to be best 'cause of only a man ♪ ♪ And a man's gonna learn to do ♪ ♪ Try to believe that we're gonna get struck ♪ ♪ That you gotta hand talk to me ♪ Broadcasting live for the Veritex Community Bank Studios. It's the Killer B's with Joel Blank and Chermi Branham. On ESPN 97, 5 and 92, 5. Who's getting your game balls after week six minus one of NFL action, Bill's Jets tonight. I'm excited for that game. - I'm actually looking forward to it. That's it. - Wait, what do you do? Are you? I got Rodgers. - You guys can write that train and all you want, but I'm just curious to see what Jets team shows up and if they really think that losing solo was the difference maker that was gonna save their season. Otherwise, they've looked putrid all year, but Josh Allen and the Bills haven't looked good for two weeks. - I think the Bills roll tonight, but I've had a bad week. - I've had a deal with that. - I don't see it. I mean, they catching the Bills in a bad time. Like the Bills, if they lose tonight, they've lost three in a row. - But from the Jets standpoint, they're gonna turn it over to Princess to call all the plays. I think no matter what they're saying in the press conferences. And there's enough weapons on offense that I think they for at least a week that they can save basically. - Man, your first play. - Three saw hasn't looked good. - No. - What, two, three straight games? - Yeah. - That's been the better running guys. - Who do you think is the better team? - Bills. At one, like one to fifty, one to fifty three Bills. - For the season, I thought the Jets right now, it's hard to say anything but the Bills. - Yeah, I think they roll. I think the Bills win by 14 tonight. - I think the Jets win a close one tonight. - I don't love the fact that Frank Ward Jr. is being elevated though. Not a great sign for James Cook. All right, game balls. Who are you giving your game ball to, Blankers? - Well, the first one goes to Baker Mayfield. Unbelievable that Baker Mayfield continues to be considered and/or makes this list with 325 passing yards, four touchdowns. - And two picks. - I thought it was three picks. - I think it was three picks. - I just think that I thought that they could have mailed it in a couple of times when the Saints made the initial comeback when it looked like they were going to run away with it. - But Saints didn't leave. - And yeah, the Saints were definitely in the game. - But he's 17-nothing bucks in the Saints. - Second half. They put like 20-some odd points on the Saints. And Baker's playing really good football this season. I didn't see it coming, so I got to give Miss Flowers. - Yeah, Baker's been overall good this year. Certainly has been a good fantasy quarterback. I'm a little disappointed in you that you didn't lead off with this one. - I'm not going to do it. I'm going to leave that to you every week. - Jordan Love? - Either one of you guys. I'm leaving it to you every week. - Four touchdowns. - You do have a bias against Jordan Love. - How many touchdowns does it need in the game for you to love them? - It's not even about how to touch them. That last touchdown. - Every touchdown tells a different story. - Why would you love Love? - One texture thinks there's one reason. - Jordan Love gets my first game ball, 258 yards and four touchdowns. What a quarterback. Best quarterback the Texans are going to play all year, or at least up to this point. DeMika Ryan's words, not mine. - He completed passes the nine different receivers. It wasn't like he was just taking advantage of just one dominant white receiver. - Watch it. - What a game. - I had it. I was weird at LaByrse, so there's like five, six games going on. - It's not even a mention that you're a LaByrse today. - Trying to get the sponsor in German. We got to make some money. - Well played. - Yeah, so I wasn't watching this closely as the Texans game, but I did have eyes on it. - Jordan Love, four touchdowns. Who's your first game ball too, Brian? - Shout out to Caleb Williams, who didn't look good in this first two games, especially against the Texans, but Caleb Williams said it gets that terrible Jaguars defense over and London, four touchdown passes, Bears rolled in an easy win over the London Jaguars. So Caleb Williams definitely gets a game ball. - Two to commit, two to Keenan Allen, Keenan's been super quiet. - I'm not going to bring up fantasy, but I guess the week I've finally been to Keenan Allen. - That's funny. All right, next going, ball blinkers. - Jared Goff, Jared Goff, 315 and three touchdowns in an absolute dismantling of the Dallas Cowboys. - They were trying to embarrass Dallas. That last touchdown passed from golf. I mean, it was already 40 to nine at that point. There was no reason for it, and I was happy for it. - What about the hook-and-ladder defensive lineman? - When they were big. - Yeah, they definitely would seem like they wanted to embarrass the Cowboys. - They left them on Raw, St. Brian of the game, so he could get a touchdown. - Yeah. - They were embarrassing. They ripped their, they were pouring salt in the wound, kicking them when they were down. All of it, all of it. I'm going to get my next game ball to a running back, a guy that isn't a great scheme fit for the Baltimore Ravens. Derek Henry. - That was my next one. - 24 carries, 132 yards, two touchdowns. Derek Henry continues to show everybody that he does not fit the scheme in Baltimore, that he's lost and too old. - Yeah, thank you, Jeremy, for the shout out there. I'll think of someone else in that game, Zay Flowers, someone who was kind of up and down at different points in this rookie year in this year as well. Knight targets, nine catches, went for a buck 32. Forget Mark Andrews, forget Isaiah Likley. - He's Zay Flowers, he's the number one target there in Baltimore. - I think the reason he's up and down those is because of the offense. - Oh yeah, you're not going to be consistent at me, they're one first team. - You're not going to be a consistent pass catcher in that offense because they're going to beat a lot of teams by two possessions and they're going to run the football 50 times. - Right. He's one of the, he's doghouse because of the most of the stupid decisions last year at the end of the year, but definitely he is the best receiver they got. I don't care who else they have the potential to use. - He might have gotten into doghouse in the sense that they didn't like that he did that, but he was never in the doghouse in the sense that they didn't feed him the ball. - Right, exactly. - It wasn't for a lack of ability or talent, I think that can be easily decided. - Who's up now? - I blew Joel. - Is it mine? I'm going to go Chris Godwin 125 and two. - That guy might be the most underrated receiver in the NFL. - Yeah, that was a great play this week because he knew Mike Evans was going to get shut down and I think at one point in the game, but he was on, he had March on Latimore on him and Chris Godwin has been going off all year, went off big time in that game. - One of the most underrated receivers in the NFL. - And once he got hurt, Nolan thought he'd ever be the same. And because Evans is the prime guy. - He's a free agent at the end of the year. - Is it really? - Curious what they do with him. Sean Tucker, honorable mention in that game too. - I'm drafted. - Out of nowhere. - I'm drafted. - Out of left field. 192 all-purpose yards and two touchdowns. Everybody thought it'd be the Bucky Irving game and Bucky was great. Bucky was good, but Sean Tucker out of nowhere stole the show. I'll give him a game ball. - I'll give one to Josh Downs who low-key is the Colts best wide receiver. He went off with, whenever Joe Flack goes in the field, Josh Downs all sudden becomes a good wide receiver because Anthony Richardson isn't good. - I think Downs first game this year though is when Flacko took over. - He definitely missed week one against the Texans. I don't remember. I thought he was back for week two. - Maybe he played one game. - I'm pretty sure he was back for week two. But either way, I'm pretty sure you played the game. - I thought he was on the I-R to start the year. - No, no, he didn't miss four games. You pulled up the game one? - Yeah. - But anyway, he was seven catches, 66 yards and a touchdown. When Flacko's on the field these last two weeks, he's a lead. I mean, I think he had eight catches the week before. Josh Downs, what he's got, any sort of competent QB play, same thing with Carter Mitchell last year, he explodes. - He played two games with Richardson. But in the second game with Richardson, he had nine for 82 and a touchdown. - What was the first one? - Five for 22. - Five for 22. - You can at least say he's got kind of a Zayflowers inconsistency with what he's got Anthony Richardson back then. - See Downs is their slot guy. Pippman's their outside receiver. I think Pippman's better than Downs. But because of that offense and the way it's utilized, the slot receiver's going to get more exposure and volume. Now Pippman made the play of the game. You see Pippman's catch? - He did. - They go ahead score, just heaved up by Flacko and then Pippman went up and got it. - Yeah, bigger body guy. He's going to get those sort of huge for sure. - Downs more of the inside slot guy. I do like Downs a lot. I'm a big fan of Downs. It's crazy that Pippman was like, they were like mid-week. Oh yeah, he's going to be on the IR. - Yeah, they were. - And then he's making the game when he patched that weekend. - Yeah. - What? - Yeah, they said he had a bad problem. - They're probably going to miss multiple weeks. - They're right. - He did it for the IR. He went from the candidate to being on the IR on Thursday to making the game when he catch on Sunday. - Unbelievable. - What's the drug they give them? Tram dollar or whatever? - Not at all. - Like a quarter zone shot. - Yeah, what's the shot? - The quarter zone shot. - The paint shot. No, there's a name for it. - Right. - I thought you might have done it because of trap. - I forget what it's called. There's a name for it. - The quarter dollar. - Yeah. - Something like that. - Portal, maybe. - Yeah, they shot that up all off at his back. He went from IR candidate to game winner. - I don't think he called it by name. - No, he didn't call it by name. But I mean, is that what he meant? When he said, "Come on." - Travis Johnson's the one who educated me on that. - Was that right? - I thought that's why you might have known. Alright, another game buff. - AJ Brown. - AJ Brown savior for the Eagles. 116 and a touch. And his first game back. - What'd you call it? - The Eagles. - On the east coast. - They're the Eagles. - Can't believe they barely beat the Browns. - Yeah. - That was about to be an ugly, ugly game for Cyriani. - That was a little pillow fight. A little pillow fight and fillies with that. That one was. I'm going to give it to Justin Fields. Justin Fields here in the noise all week. Oh, he has a bad game. They're going to bench him from Russell Wilson. All Fields does, 204 total yards, two touchdowns, wins the game with ease against the bad Raiders team. Najee Harris, a little love here too. Over 100 yards to touch them. - Yeah, Najee was on my list as well. He had a great game. He was just that 36 yard breakaway TV. - There's a Montgomery in that Lions game. Coming off the extension. - You just jumped, Brian. - It's fun. It's fun. - If you're going to mission or running back. - Oh, same game. - Yeah. You're going to make your running back. Go ahead. But I always have a soft part for the teams that established. I was trying to soft spot. There we go. - I said soft sports. - Oh. - So like, anyway, a soft spot. I'll get the phrase out here in a second. But for teams who established it, Lions are usually the teams' funny mission, David Montgomery. But last, yesterday, Tyler Ajir and Bijon go 33 for 203. - Yeah, they did. - Yeah, Falcons definitely went out there and established it. - That back feels weird. Al-Jir had more carries than Robin did. - He did. And it was weird. Some of the times they went to Al-Jir when Robinson was hot and all of a sudden they'd go to Al-Jir and I was like, "But both of you guys are effective." - Well, Bijon's been dealing with a little bit of a hamstring issue, so I think there was some, some management of his work. - But I think he was hot. He had just, he had gotten a couple of big chunk yards. And all of a sudden he's out of the game. I'm going, "Whoa, I don't know what they're doing there." - I don't know what they're doing there. - Bijon, Tyler Ajir, the year before they drafted Bijon, went for over a thousand. So he's a very capable running guy. - I remember y'all talking about him for fans. - Um, are you surprised the Lions extended Montgomery? - A little bit. A little bit. Because they got a guy, a guy right there with him that's pretty damn good, that's on a rookie contract, but you're going to have to pay at some point. But those guys seem to make it work too. He doesn't, I think Montgomery gets way, sometimes more, way more than I expected him to get in terms of carries. And it should be more even. But he's got a lot left. He was impressive in that game. - I think they like him as just kind of the, I don't want to say bell cow, because bell cow implies that you're the only back. - Right. - I think they like him a lot between tackles and kind of absorbing the hits. - I think that's a damn gamble thing. He likes to have two backs. So they did it the year before they drafted Gibbs from the head Jamal Williams. And he got ended up with 17 Russian touchdowns that year. - Yeah, they were a little different though, because. - It was, that year is Jamal Williams and DeAndre Swift. They liked the kind of receiving back. - Thunder lightning. - Thunder lightning, right. - 297-1 Will Anderson. We usually don't give it to Texas, but Will Anderson deservedly a game ball was huge. - I see defensive defense in the week, right? Hands down. - I don't see how he couldn't want it. - I don't, I looked around the box course yesterday. I didn't see one that was better. - Yeah, I mean, even if there were guys that could compete, I mean, with all he did. - If you do want force two fumbles, but even, he, I don't think he had a sack. - Three sacks, a deflection that turned into an interception. - James Cook tonight, guys. - Well, I should, well. - We don't care about being a rant. - We don't care about being a rant. - I mean, just, they're gonna run away with it. - Should you need to know that James Cook's not playing tonight? Mike Garofolo, just, just announced that James Cook's is gonna be inactive. - So, Ty Johnson starting? - I think so. - Cook is tough, wanted to go. Instead, it'll be Ray Davis, Ty Johnson and Frank Ford tonight. - Hmm. - Ray Davis was a little banged up last week. - Otherwise, Frank, we're senior, might still be on that commercial with Dan Marino and Emmett and all the other guys that are trying to play. - All right, 7-1-3-7-8-0-3-7-7-6. What's your car wreck of the day? Car wreck of the day. 7-1-3-7-8-0-3-7-7-6. It is the B's on ESPN 97-5 and ESPN 92-5. ♪♪ ♪♪ - Ah! - You all right? - I'm right. He's broken, the ball's coming. ♪♪ - This is the car wreck of the day. - What is your car wreck of the day? 7-1-3-7-8-0-3-7-7-6. The boss and the gloss coming your way at six o'clock until eight. It's great news because the boss and the gloss are fantastic and also means you have to listen to Booker T. So your radio entertainment on a Monday evening is going to be fantastic for two fronts. Boss and gloss and no Booker T. - Hall of Fame, next four days though. - Next four days? - Yeah. - For everyone who I called came to my ears. - Not that is. - For everyone not named Jeremy. - All right. - You don't like Brad Gilmore either? - I like Brad. Brad, Brad, Gary's that show. Brad, Gary's that show. - I love this rivalry. - Brad, Gary's the one that won't be a rivalry because it's one side and it's just Jeremy towards Booker T. - Well, that's about how we're going to ring too. - Yeah, Booker T was smashing. - What's your car like of the day, Blanker? - Let's start with Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys, because it's twofold. The Cowboys look absolutely pathetic. And Jerry Jones looks really bad because Derek Henry said this weekend, "I live in Dallas in the off season. That's where I wanted to go, but I wanted to go there and they didn't want me so Baltimore was a nice landing spot if I didn't go there and it's worked out." - Jerry's in go for it mode. Derek Henry wants to play for you and you don't want him. - Is that true? Do we know that Henry wanted to play for Dallas and I bought him right? - It came right from Derek Henry. - That he wanted to play in Dallas and I bought more? - He said it was his first choice. - Oh, man. - And that he did not get an offer and he heard they did not want him. So, Baltimore was a nice landing spot. - I don't see the same spot season where Charlie Jones says they were all with him. - That's what I'm saying. And Jerry kept saying, "We're in go for it mode. We're all in." - I didn't realize he said it was number one on his top. - 'Cause he lived there in the off season. - Yeah, I knew the background. I didn't know that it was like they were his number one. That's insane. That's a failure. Instead, they signed a interpolate in Dalvin Cook. - Huge failure. - They play him too much. Just let Rico Dowdle be the guy. Let him be the guy. That was the biggest loss in the Jerry Jones era. Did I read that right? - Is that right? - At least it home maybe. - Was it like that? - It was a 49 to nine? - 47 to nine. 38 point deficit. It might be their biggest home loss in the Jerry Jones era. It wouldn't shock me though if it was just the biggest loss in general. Like cowboys don't get beat by 38 very often. - No. - Even their bad years and I get beat by 38 very often. Maybe it was home. Maybe I'm getting that twist a little bit. - I think they're going four at home this year. - Oh, really? - I think they lost their last home game last year. - Oh, okay. - I think they've lost four in a row at home. - They did last year. That's how the game was green-back. - Yep. Dating back to last year. I think they've lost four home games in a row. They're definitely 0-3 this year. I'm going to nominate Nick Sirianni for being the biggest Joe Brony in the NFL. He just continues to live up to what we thought he was. He is a clown. He is a clown. He's yelling at his own. And Philly, by the way, where they're not very kind whenever you're turning against the fans. He is yelling at the Philadelphia faithful after he squeaks by and beats the Cleveland Browns. You squeaked by, beat the Cleveland Browns and you're yelling at your own fans. He said post-game Sirianni, with his kids, by the way, using his family as a shield on a day where he's yelling at Philadelphia. That's weak sauce, bruv. He said, "We thrive off the crowd when they cheer for us." That's all I'll say. When our crowd cheers for us, we thrive off of them. You know, we hear them when they boo. We don't necessarily like it. I don't think that's productive for anybody. When they cheer for us, we've got them rolling. We love it. You are soft. You're a Joe Brony. You're a clown and you're using your poor kids as your public shield on a day you yelled at Philadelphia. You're clown, bruv. I apologize today. Did he? Yeah. Smart. That was smart for him to apologize. He's a clown. Fire him. Why would you want him as your head coach? Yeah, he's definitely on the high up on the on-sport. Someone else who's high up on the on-sport to get fired this season. Doug Peterson, my car record the nominee, car record the day nominee, has to go to the Jaguars who 35-16 and it wasn't even that close. I mean, first half was decently close. Both teams' offenses were a little rusty, but once it got to the second half, the bear is absolutely ported on. The Jaguars dropped in one of five. It was 35-10 at one point. The same offense, the Texans dominated the week two, and the Jaguars, they can't stop a cold right now. Everyone's running up and down the field on them. The Jaguars pathetic. Is he already fired if they don't have another game in London this week? I think so. I think so, too. I think so. I think it was if they were back home and they could make the change quickly and they didn't have to worry about the travel. They were staying over for another week and having to get a coach there and everything like that. I think so, too. Yeah. Do you know that? I don't know. I'm not going to say most. You know, a lot of the coaches that are fired mid-season are usually fired on their return from a European trip. Is that right? Yeah. Like the amount, like it just happened. It just happened. Salah. Salah. That's right. Got fired on the trip. I can't remember all the other coaches that happened, but it's happened like three or four different times. Most of the time they're playing the Jags. Yeah. When they come back. Yeah. They're done. Oh, it's because it's the Patriots, too. If they lose. If they lose and then they, you know, who they have next role? The Packers. The Jags do? Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. So if they do fire them after this Patriots game in London, you'll get to face the next, the insert head coach. See if they've had some going into that game. Like the Jets will. Not putting eyes in on the car wreck nominee here, but Rich Eisen, I'm not a fan of listening to him. I'm playing my play. Tough. Tough listening on play by play. Not a big fan of his. Yeah. Just so you can see what he doesn't describe. Yeah. Not because he is. 0 9 7 9 car wreck. Brandon permitting. He was on Adderall. Was never on Adderall. He took it one. Not on Adderall. I wouldn't mind. He can't handle it. We're saying, are we live to verify that they were live so that he could say we don't give it up. It was fake tough guy. It was stupid. Fake tough guy. 5 7 9 8 Dallas Cowboys. All right. What's winning? Dallas Cowboys. Dallas Cowboys. Oh, man. I'm Siriano, but Dallas Cowboys is fine. Cowboys win it. What is it for us? Thanks to Brian for the hard work. He's blank. I'm Brian. I'm talking to you tomorrow. Houston Boston gloss right now on ESPN 97.5. ESPN 97.5. ESPN 97.5.