2025 NFL Week 3 AFC Preview

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Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where I'm still feeling conflicted about skipping the Oasis concert a couple of weeks. I'm Greg Rosenthal here in the Chris Westling podcast studio, very excited to be talking about the six AFC games. Some include the Lions. You know, it's if the AFC team is at home, and yes, just to get it out of the way there, Like I had, I had an end to go to go to Oasis, but it and and even like you know, good seats and what backstage and all that, and it was the night before week one and I was just like, eh, I don't really want to.

00:00:43
Speaker 2: That's that's how dedicated Greg Rosenthal is.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're also a band that if this concert was on any day pretty much most days the rest of the season that was you know, convenient, or the rest of the year that was convenient, would love to go. On the other hand, not a band I was like obsessed with as a kid or anything. I will say that I got like drunk consistently for the first time with no parental supervision while listening to Live Forever on repeat for like an entire weekend. But I'm not like a mega fan.

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Speaker 3: I do love the picture you've painted.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just a little a little gret you didn't go.

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Speaker 4: Also, sorry to the listeners. I think I blew out everyone's ear drums. Just that shocked though, Greg, I mean and also I love Oasis. You could have passed that good vibe.

00:01:28
Speaker 1: It wasn't well, it wasn't one of those things. I don't think I could have. It was like, wow, this is excluse a connection, I guess, but.

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Speaker 3: Wow, what a freaking flex.

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Speaker 1: It's tricky though. It's okay. It's at the Rose Bowl. It's gonna end at like twelve thirty, impossible to get out of there. You're home by like one thirty. If it was like if Kurt Cobaine was alive and it was Nirvana, I was trying to think of a band that would be coming like but I'm not passionate enough at this age to do despite.

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Speaker 3: A core memory.

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, well they were not going to play live forever until like the you know, the end.

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Speaker 2: Maybe just maybe just go for the end.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm talking about this right at the top of like the best game of the year so far.

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Speaker 2: Because it's worth it. It's worth it. Yes, let's get to our am.

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Speaker 4: Because you missed maybe the best, one of the best concerts of the year.

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Speaker 1: That's why a great game.

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Speaker 2: Could it be Oasis level? We'll find out.

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Speaker 5: The Detroit Lions making their visit to the Baltimore Ravens, who are favored about four and a half points. The over under is fifty one and a half. In the last few seasons the Lions have had this opportunity to play against the Baltimore Ravens. It has not gone well. But maybe John Morton could be the one to save the Lions. Greg Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, and Lisa Salters and Laura Rutledge on the call for Monday Night Football.

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Speaker 2: Is John Morton the answer? Do they beat the Ravens?

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Speaker 1: I mean, are you just pouring a little salt good? That was so good? That was that was amazing.

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Speaker 4: I see what you did. Also, thank you very you guys really brought it this show.

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Speaker 1: I also think that in the lab. Yeah, like the NFC, that was fine. We bring out the great stuff for the AFC. I sense a little bit of confidence here for the Baltimore Ravens. Patrick Claybhn's team. I'man into this matchup. No, you just kind of mentioning how the Ravens blew the doors off them previously. It almost feels a little tongue in cheek that, like, oh, John Morton could be the difference I.

00:03:22
Speaker 2: Needed to make the Oasis reference. That's all that was.

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Speaker 5: No, I've never competent that can beat anybody, that can lose to anybody.

00:03:28
Speaker 1: I do like the matchup has worked for them, that they did a few things defensively that scrambled Jared goff Springs in the past. Now we're going back to twenty twenty three for that last game, which it's been a minute. And I do think they're catching them at the right time of year. I do think about this. Right now, these teams are so different than how they'll be in December. The Ravens are a perfect example of that. No team has more consistently improved, especially on defense late in the season than the Ravens. And I do have questions about their defense. Think this could be a shootot, but I just don't know if the Lions defense is ready for a game like this.

00:04:05
Speaker 4: No, And I think because right away we've seen questions emerge about their front, not just their pass rush, but their run defense and the way that they handle different looks, different layers in that in those phases. And on the other side, Jared Goff is playing settled, confident football and John Morton what he is doing more than I guess he would who must not be named in Detroit now who just came and went to a cacophony of booze he you know.

00:04:32
Speaker 1: John Ben Johnson, Ben Johnson.

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Speaker 4: Which by the way, Jared Goff did condemn that, because that's that's a classy guy right there. And it's interesting he's he's more settled, I think because they're they're putting him in play action a little bit more. Ben Johnson already used it at like a thirty percent rate with Jared Goff in previous seasons, but it's even more now under John Morton. And that's that's really going to settle him down early. And I just I just think, like to your point, Greg, I think this is going to be a points game, lots of points on both sides.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Well, considering the way things have gone for for this Ravens team, especially defensively early, I think there were some positives to take away from the opener. You learned a little bit more about how to deploy the defense, and I think that came out uh in you know, not as much jaire in the gaming.

00:05:19
Speaker 1: Not any rights.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, significantly less giant for the for the Ravens in the secondary. And this is this is that that opportunity to show how much you've improved in terms of past defense, not just past coverage, but but the rush as well. And this this Lion's secondary, especially when you because I always mentioned both Kirby and Brian branch And being two of the best safeties in the NFL, where it's tough to get the types of deep explosive plays that the Ravens have kind of relied on in the run game and the past game where you're going to have to have consistent uh first downs and consistent like short to intermediate gains where they're going to make you earn it. And Baltimore will see if they can do that.

00:06:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the only way the Lions win this game is a shootout. And so even though I'm almost looking past the defense because the pass rush is so one dimensional, it's just dayon Hudginson. I mean, Marcus Davenport had the most Marcus Davenport play of all time, which is that he got hurt on a sack and you don't want to be like mean to the guy. But Saints fans went through and Lions fans have now too that you just he can't stay on the field. He ended up finishing out that game until hopefully he's there. But you're essentially starting two players who act like nose tackles in the middle of your line, and if you're not great at stopping the run with that, you're giving up so much as a pass rush. And I did Mina Kimes's podcast this week, she pointed out that the Lions have have always gone so far, it's a small sample size to base personnel when the other team plays two tight ends and so you're thinking about Angeloni on the field and Derek Barnes on the field and kind of the speed missmap if the Ravens do get Isaiah likely back, which it's s trending towards.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's why I say points points, points, because the Ravens have so many changeups in their offense, and I just think that the Lions so far, you know, also had to you know, replace a coordinator. And Calvin Sheppard was more excited than anybody I think to hold Caleb Williams to what they did, and I really appreciated all of the sideline shots of him, and I think that's a confidence boosting game for them. But this is a confidence killing game for them, and I think for the for the Ravens defense as well. It's a scary one because the Lions offense is rolling right now. They look we were waiting for them to look quote unquote Lions, right they look Lions now of what we know them to be over the last you know, couple of years under Dan Campbell and whoever is coordinating that offense. And also, you know, this is a tough challenge for the Ravens on the defensive side, but it also is such a tough challenge for the Lions defense because of all of the layers both teams can deploy and all of the different like math problems to solve.

00:07:58
Speaker 1: Here, you mentioned Kelvin Sheppard. I'm going to put you on the spot here. While we were watching the games on Sunday, I noted to you that Kelvin Shepherd was involved in one of the most one sided franchise changing one for one trades in NFL. I would say in this century in the last decade plus or so. You can't google it.

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Speaker 2: Although the question the questions for Jordan's zone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair. No, don't lean back. I said who it was. Who was Kelvin Shepherd who is now a defensive coordinator, traded for that player was still in the NFL as of last year.

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Speaker 4: Amazingly as of last year. Oh my gosh, you are putting me on the spot. You also are assuming I listened to anything you said to me while we were watching Cays.

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Speaker 1: Totally fair.

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Speaker 2: That's a big key.

00:08:45
Speaker 1: Tell Greg, it's Jerry Hughes, just an underrated player who the Colts thought was a little bit of a bus traded to the Bills and off he went into a Hall of very good season. That's that's in a side. But that's what we can do here when we're giving every team just a little extra love.

00:08:59
Speaker 5: Yeah, the space, you know, extual love and an opportunity for some tough love. Because harry On Arnold bit on a double move from Romo Dounze. Teams have been attacking him and you know, would like to see a little bit more out on the coverage side, because as evidenced by three catches this season for new Hopkins could have been three touchdowns if one wasn't down at the one inch line. It's it's our really first chance to see a designated guy who can fight for the ball and play the ball in the air, playing with Lamar, and Lamar's taking advantage for that because it's really just been Mark Andrews and no one else Isaiah likely in spots, but at the wide receiver position.

00:09:40
Speaker 2: This is the best hands Lamar has ever played with.

00:09:42
Speaker 1: It's crazy that Hopkins has three jaw dropping catches, all of which should have been touchdowns. He was like a half yard shore on one of them. And he's only played twenty eight snaps this year. Like if you just watch the highlights, you would think like he's out there all the time. They got a problem. They have too many like mouse to feed. Mark Andrews has no product, Rashad Bateman doesn't really have much production. Za Flowers is taking a nice leap, I think in terms of being a complete receiver, but it's almost like they have they have too many weapons. The only problem is keeping them all happy and sharing the ball.

00:10:12
Speaker 2: We got to talk about our guy, Greg because you talked about nukes.

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Speaker 5: Twenty eight snaps a guy who's had twenty offensive snaps but keeps making great plays.

00:10:20
Speaker 4: Isaac to slow You mean Isaac Newton? Why is that defying gravity?

00:10:25
Speaker 2: Yes, I was.

00:10:26
Speaker 5: Gonna say, because he's the gravity will eventually draw the fenders.

00:10:29
Speaker 3: You even brought an apple in today. You know I had to make.

00:10:32
Speaker 1: You know, did he? He damilar story that I two for two?

00:10:37
Speaker 3: Both insane.

00:10:38
Speaker 1: Now. I don't know when he played because obviously some of it was at the end of the second quarter, but he did bump it from just a handful of snaps to seventeen. So that's on the right.

00:10:46
Speaker 2: Pa. He's on pace to pace play six thousand STAPs in again.

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Speaker 1: Uh, he is on pace to have like a touchdown for every catch he has in his entire career. And yeah, last week was a reminder that you can stack up all these different offenses. The Lions have more great players than you do. Even the Raps. I think as good as a moon Rah Luck last week, as good as Jamiir Gibbs is. They tried to run outside a little more last week, which I think was really effective, Like he was just out the shoot on some of those like outside zone and trap plays.

00:11:15
Speaker 3: It totally took the teeth out of that Bears defense.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 1: You have Jamison Williams, who I think is just coming into his own. Laporte is still great, and so it's all about players. My question is just kind of like, is their interior line ready to win like a forty one to thirty eight game like or will they make some sort of mistake at some point, giving up like a force fumble to mad Week or Travis Jones something like that changes the game.

00:11:38
Speaker 5: Let's get to our next AFC home matchup. It is an all AFC battle. The Pittsburgh Steelers were favored by one and a half points, with Aaron Rodgers at the New England Patriots and Drake May the over under forty four and a half. I an eagle JJ Watt Evan Washburn on the call. Will let Greg discuss his team, but we'll start with you as as you Jordan, what do you think it takes place here?

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Speaker 4: Less mistakes wins here because the Pittsburgh Steelers were defined by two massive, massive mistakes that completely altered the game, one of them being the Aaron Rodgers interception where he was very quick. In the little slow Moll replays of the discussion after that play to point out where the receiver should have run even though he threw it into double coverage on that play, and also the special teams gaff Caleb Johnson not running after the ball and even just kicking it out of the end zone. The Seattle Seahawks being able to fall on that for a massive point swing that led to seventeen unanswered in that period that to completely changed the game for the Steelers. They were the dominant team throughout most of the first half of that game. The defense was really coming to life. Then they lost Alex Heismith, and then the mistakes started happening. And so I think with this one, fewer mistakes.

00:12:54
Speaker 1: Wins the two very sloppy teams so far. Not shocked that the steel are favored here, but two teams I'm not sure what to do with Josh McDaniels Mike Tomlin. This would be a revenge game for Mike Tomlin. McDaniels has had some of Mike you know, Tomlin's worst moments. Josh McDaniels was on the other side coordinating. I mean, I think that Tom Brady was probably a bigger factor in those games than than Josh McDaniels. But I did think, yes.

00:13:21
Speaker 2: Marius Thomas, you know, may rest in peace, all right? Was that was? That was? That was McDaniels right in the playoffs against Mike Tomlin.

00:13:29
Speaker 1: Did he make t Did he make the playoffs? I think they were on a different coach by them or am I am I crazy?

00:13:36
Speaker 2: No, I may be misremembering that.

00:13:37
Speaker 1: I we will check that. The research is looking it up right now. I'm thinking more of like the AFC Championship games all that sort of stuff. Look, they do have a little bit of a predictable defense in terms of what they run, and I think they have more personnel problems right now because of injuries than usual and because of usage like Keanu Benton as a nose tackle is not working. You're running through the middle of this defense. You mentioned Heismiths gone, Derek Harmon's gone. Their you know, their first round pick Patrick Queen is over running plays. They are twenty seventh in DVO eight. I know it's two weeks, but they haven't exactly faced a murderer's row of offenses here with Seattle and the Jets. They've looked completely undisciplined, kind of like the Patriots defense. On the back end, like these have been two bad defenses to start the year, eighteen.

00:14:23
Speaker 5: Point two percent misstackle rate, like almost one of the membery five times the Steelers have an opportunity to miss to make a tackle, they missed the tackle. Yeah that was John Fox that was coaching for the Denver Broncos in that game against the Steelers.

00:14:38
Speaker 1: But I guess we'll give Josh was like Joshganos didn't have any good times there. The only good time was getting to five and zero his first year and beating the Patriots in primetime and then losing almost every game after that.

00:14:51
Speaker 2: But the Patriots.

00:14:52
Speaker 5: It's I lean Steelers in this matchup because I look at that game against the Miami Dolphins team that were all kind of circling like vultures watching trying to pick players that would be good contributors elsewhere like trade deadline is.

00:15:06
Speaker 2: I like the.

00:15:07
Speaker 5: Patriots were huge Dolphins mistakes like pick one, and the Dolphins win that game to the extent where I just wouldn't feel comfortable of picking the Patriots in this.

00:15:16
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers versus the pass rush is really interesting to me because that the Patriots pass rush has been good in both weeks. Milton Williams has been fantastic.

00:15:25
Speaker 3: Look like they paid the right guy, right.

00:15:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, Christian Barmore has been a little quiet, but Harold Landry's making plays. I thought Calebon Chason had a good game last week. They have a really high pressure rate, you know, one of the highest in the league without having a high blitz rate, and yet they're giving up chunk play after chunk play because everything in the secondary is terrible. Christian Gonzalez might be returning this week, but it's more than one player can solve everything. I mean, it'll help a lot, but they you pick a safety or a linebacker and they're playing badly.

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Speaker 4: But Aaron Rodgers is not throwing the ball down the field, and I think that helped. It's the Patriots case. It's not just getting Christian Gonzales back. But if you're a team giving up chunk plays, you do kind of want to play this at least statistical version of Aaron Rodgers who is not throwing the ball down the field despite the enormous amount of play action and massive you know, people on the perimeter. And DK Metcalf, for example, who was the most successful play of the game was throwing like sort of a low fade, you know, jumper to DK Metcalf for a touchdown, and then the two point conversion, you.

00:16:28
Speaker 1: Know, lining up Darneaul Washington, Yeah.

00:16:31
Speaker 4: Lining up Darnel Washington on the outside and basically saying you're taller than everyone else here. Let me throw it up really high and you come down with.

00:16:37
Speaker 3: It like that.

00:16:39
Speaker 4: Is that those were the only really truly successful looking plays of this game, and it took them, you know, piece by piece by piece to get down there in the first place.

00:16:48
Speaker 1: I'll defend Aaron Rodgers a little bit in point out. He's had a few throws every in each game that were awesome. I mean, he had one on his first throw of the week last week, which was on a penalty. Ultimately, for I think the Steelers, none of it mattered. Was up there with the best throws anyone's made all season on the run, like fifty yards down the field. He can still do it. It's just that for a guy who doesn't want to get hit like he sure is getting hit a lot. Their offensive line's been bad. It's a bad combination of he's getting hit, he's taking a lot of sacks, his time to throw is very low and he's not throwing it deep, so it's like this safe offense where you're still having all these bad things happen. I actually don't think that's all on him, but I don't know if he's going to be the guy to fix it.

00:17:32
Speaker 5: And he's getting rid of the ball fast and the targets are close to the line of scrimmage, as Jordan pointed out. But when there is a little bit of glimpses of Rogers extending plays, things have gone the wrong way. And I think that could be attributed to a lack of cohesion and opportunity for these guys to play together, like in the play where Calvin Austin gets in the way of a ball that I believe was intended for Pat Friyarmouth and ultimately gets picked off after like both of them had a chance, Like they're both in the same place, like they're in the scramble drill and they run to the same spot. I think things could ultimately get better, But it is a little bit of a positive yeah, to say that Rogers is moving around and extending plays a little bit, not that he's doing it a whole bit.

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Speaker 1: And it won't I don't think the defenders are just going to be in the way like you know for the Patriots that they were for the Seahawks. Sorry, I'm a little down right now. I just watching these linebackers. These linebackers have to earn that week. I'm testing out a theory. I only said that once and it was by mistake. Robert Splane is a guy they gave a lot of money to. I mean, he looks like he's in slow motion. And then they're playing Christian Ellis, who was a special teamer who was our friend Bo Wolfe's maybe favorite Philadelphia Eagle of all time. He literally just couldn't make the Eagles fifty three, like he wasn't good enough to. And he's starting and playing every snap and they look like they're playing in the nineteen nineties and like the rest of the game is happening around him. I feel like a little bit at their safety. They have a rookie, Craig Woodson too, who hasn't been bad. But it gives me a theory about Rabel, and the theory is that Rabel leans on players that remind him of Patriots teammates. Now, I can't give the one to one like comparison, But these guys just seem like they should have been on the early two thousands Patriots, you know what I mean, Like Robert Splaine would be like the new Ted Johnson or something like that. But football is different now, and it's like it's passing them by. Maybe yeah, and so are quarterbacks.

00:19:31
Speaker 4: You know.

00:19:32
Speaker 5: Maybe the Patriot way for Aaron Rodgers was having good cohesive teammates the whole time and not being surly in interviews for no reason.

00:19:39
Speaker 1: By the way, I've successfully not gotten too excited about Drake May's near perfect game last week. I don't know, I know it wasn't flashy, but it was near perfect.

00:19:49
Speaker 4: I feel like you bringing it up just now reveals how excited you actually no.

00:19:53
Speaker 3: I about it, and I could see on Patrick's face.

00:19:55
Speaker 1: I want to see it again. Last thing on this game we should move on, is I did think it was a good sign. They ran a completely different game plan game two to game one. Maybe it's learning the personnel. Maybe it's Josh McDaniel's kind of doing what he does and having it like a versatile offensive scheme.

00:20:09
Speaker 5: And Drake May had a rushing touchdown. He was back scrambling again, which he did so good last season, didn't really do it in the first week of the season two. Our next game to Cleveland, where the Browns play hosts to Jordan Love and the Green Bay Packers, who are favored by eight and a half points.

00:20:23
Speaker 2: Deel Fredder is forty two and a half.

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Speaker 5: Carrol, I mean, excuse me, Kevin Coogler and Moose Johnson Johnston on the call, Greg, is this the end? In the final starting game for Joe Flacco in twenty twenty five?

00:20:38
Speaker 1: Now, I'm surprised this has been such a question. I think they're going to have more patients. And I also think at Joe Flacco's age, if you get one really good performance followed by one really bad performance all season, that's like a that's under part, like that's good, that's better than you could possibly expect. And that's what's happened the first two week. So I wouldn't be surprised if he comes out and he looks as good as you could expect against a Packers defense that is so far made you know, some young quarterbacks look terrible this season.

00:21:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love this Packers defense.

00:21:12
Speaker 4: Jeff Hafley is all the way in his bag, the way that he used Micah Parsons in primetime just to completely change responsibilities for blocking and change the math and moving him all over the place. He only played forty four of sixty five defensive snaps. I expect that number to keep increasing as he gets his feet under him. We forget when we watch him on the field with how great he looks that he actually missed the entirety of training camp and did not have the same ramp up period as everyone else. He is absolutely itching to get on the field floor. He's been very clear about.

00:21:46
Speaker 1: That on that, Like, do you ever wonder if like training camp is just very overrated the way everyone talks about it, because quinch On Duwkins, for instance, like literally is a rookie that's never practiced with his team, and he signs with them and practices for the first time. I guess he was there in Ota on Thursday, and then he plays like a full game on Sunday, and then you know what I mean, like they somehow managed to like get up to speed pretty quick.

00:22:08
Speaker 3: I don't think training camp is overrated.

00:22:10
Speaker 4: No.

00:22:10
Speaker 5: I think that I'm on record is, yeah, I think a certain positions in certain situations, as long as you used properly.

00:22:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a little over because they make it sound like it's so big, but then you miss the whole thing. And when they show up from these hold outs, then Jamar Chase is playing like five days later, and you know he looks great.

00:22:25
Speaker 4: But this is a guy who's supposed to take them to the Super Bowl playing off a like off like being completely cold, off of laying on a training table. Yeah, I want him to ramp up a little bit when you cannot physically contact people in regular season practices. But yes, to the point, I do think that, and I know that I am definitely going to hear from people on this because my error. I forgot to include the Packers as one of the top five defenses I believe are going to stay in our last episode.

00:22:53
Speaker 3: And I don't know which order that.

00:22:54
Speaker 4: These will publish, but I will say the Packers are very much one of those teams for me one and two. With the Chargers right there, this is such a fun group to watch. Jeff Hafley is already getting the whisper treatment. Oh how long are we going to keep him from the local reporters out there? This is such a fun defense, not just because of the talent on the roster, but the way that he is finding ways to maximize every player on this roster, even when there are questions about cornerback.

00:23:24
Speaker 3: This is just really a fun group to watch.

00:23:26
Speaker 5: And some guys have maximated, maximized their opportunity, like Kishawn Nixon, who is such a big part of that.

00:23:31
Speaker 2: What are they going to do?

00:23:32
Speaker 5: Five targets at Kishaw Nixon on Thursday Night football, five passes broken up, like the guys that were there have raised the.

00:23:40
Speaker 2: Level of their game.

00:23:41
Speaker 5: And I'm wondering because I said it, as soon as Miles Garrett requested a trade, the Packers should put together an offer. And it is my conspiracy theory. Not really, it's the same, but it's my head canon that they take that offer that would have gone to the Cleveland Browns for Miles Garrett and send it within their draft to the Dallas Hey, Jerry, here, you're frustrated with this guy, and now Miles has to look across the field. I love it, all of this. This could be your life, but you elected to stay with me.

00:24:08
Speaker 1: It's true because we mentioned Fred Warner might be the defensive player of the Year earlier, I would vote Miles Garrett through two weeks. It's silly to just point out that Miles Garrett is great, but like he's been so unstoppable these two weeks. He's you know, he's got four sacks and they were like they're flashy sacks too, but his run stuffs are like leading the league as well. He is just always in the backfield and he will be playing against most likely a rookie right tackle in Anthony Belton, who struggled a little bit in his first start. If they don't get Zach Tom back, And you're right, he has to be a little sick thinking about it because I don't think it would have even would it have cost as much it was before the draft, h I think, yeah, it would have been pretty pretty similar. And instead Michael Parsons, like Brett Favre once did, is just like getting people jobs. You know, he got Dan Quinn a job and now he'll get Jeff a job because like, none of this, none of this, it's all true what you're saying, Yeah, but also none of it would happen if you didn't add you know, the second or you know, best player in the league. I would say these are the two best.

00:25:10
Speaker 4: But I would say this defense was already gonna be good coming into it, and I think he just what I love about the way that Micah Parsons fits with this group is he because of the attention he commands and because of the way he can move around. And like I said, Jeff Hafley's looking at this like a giant math equation as well of skill sets and where people can win and what blocking is going to happen. They're using Micah Parsons the way they're moving around the field. It's the way that offensive coaches use motion players to get defenses to declare whether they're in man or not. He's doing the exact same thing. The way that he moves Michaeh Parsons around the field gets the offense to declare what they're blocking strategy is. It is freaking cool to watch. And what it does is it lifts everybody else. It gives everybody else more opportunities to win because they know the answer before the test even starts. And that is really cool because this was already going to be a great, great, really good defense. Now it can be a transcendent defense because they also have the answers before the quarterback does.

00:26:08
Speaker 1: Right I think he's just like a he's a one to one and like that he could be so successful in all of those spots. So I don't think we're going to learn that much about them. Unfortunately though, this week, because the offensive line for the Browns is sneaky bad. That was one of the things that you really liked about the Browns during the Stefanski era, and the tackle position is no longer nearly a strong. Joel Buttonio is out of practice, so it's such a mismatch. Actually, think on the other side, there is some interesting football to be seen because the Browns defense has played pretty well. They're especially good against the run. They Josh Jacobs is trying to get going. This will be a tough team to do it against. I mentioned Miles Garrett and then just the advanced nature of Jordan Love this season. I was listening to a podcast with Logan Paulson, the former Commanders player, called Take Command. As we all know, decided.

00:26:58
Speaker 6: To really go ahead and start Take Command.

00:27:01
Speaker 1: And yes, that's just an excuse to get that in there. I listen to him point out he was talking about how like in the first drive of that game last week, Jordan Love had three like check with Me's on the first drive of the game, built into the you know, game plan on a short week, and he was just saying, that's not normal, Like you need to have like that just wouldn't happen in most situations. You need to have an offensive group that has been together a while and a veteran quarterback. Which it's weird to think Jordan Love has a veteran quarterback, but he has been in that system his entire career, and all the players around him have been in that system their entire career, and so they're just like operating at like a week fourteen to fifteen level where most teams are just you know, gearing up in like late preseason and stuff. So when they're on offense, it'll at least be a little interesting. All right, let's take a quick break and we will be back to wrap up our exciting journey through the AFC.

00:28:02
Speaker 2: We're back on NFL Daily.

00:28:04
Speaker 5: The NFL International Games return to NFL Network on September twenty eight. Six games for cities Dublin, London, Berlin, and Madrid snooze off game on for Sunday Morning Football only on NFL Network, also streaming with NFL Plus subscription required for NFL Plus visit plus dot NFL dot com per turn.

00:28:22
Speaker 6: Oh.

00:28:22
Speaker 1: I hear Patrick reading these promos on NFL Network all the time. Fantasy Live Game day View, I'm like, I want that on NFL Daily.

00:28:30
Speaker 2: It is good.

00:28:31
Speaker 1: Give it to me, especially one that's near and dear to my heart. I will be in Dublin next week, jealous mention it a couple shows ago. Most of the shows, including this one, will be taped here and then I'm going to be flying over for the game doing a live show by the way, with the Irish NFL Show. I think there's some tickets available on Friday night, so check that out. I think I'll be part of the toksport coverage of the actual game if you want to listen on the radio part of Sky Sports. And obviously doing work doing all these shows, and will be still still do an NFL Daily. We're not going anywhere. I might just be in a little box and you guys will wave to me, which will be a lot of fun.

00:29:09
Speaker 3: That won't be the gesture I will be making.

00:29:11
Speaker 1: Oh how dare you? It is really exciting this same year when when the international games start going.

00:29:18
Speaker 5: Yes, especially our friends in Ireland exceedingly jealous. Take care of them, Gregg as I am sure that they will take care.

00:29:28
Speaker 1: The expectations are high for this one. I feel like the first Ireland game is going to be a banger.

00:29:34
Speaker 5: We got a banger here in the AFC West, the Denver Broncos at the Los Angeles Chargers, who are two and oh. They are favored by two and a half points the over unders forty five and a half. You know, it's a great game because the greatest of all time, Kevin Harlan is on the call with Trent Green and Melanie Collins Jordan do the Chargers get to three and oh?

00:29:54
Speaker 4: The biggest matchup and the coolest matchup possibly of the week for me is in this game. It's the combination of Sean Payton and bow Nicks, and that Broncos offense and Jesse Minter, Diane Henley, Derwin James, and that amazing Los Angeles Chargers defense that has been absolutely lights out through the open to this season and this game, especially how they move and countermove against each other from you know, quarterback versus linebacker to offensive coordinator versus defensive coordinator on opposite sides. This is gonna be so much fun for me. This is going to be for me personally to watch, and I'm hopefully well. I guess I won't have this game, but I wish I did. And I really feel like this is a test for bon Nicks because he has been up and down over the course of the first two weeks. He's had a little too much dip on his chip and won I think, tried to make things happen that weren't really there. And he's gonna be playing against sort of this very cloudy match quarters cover two zone, this shell defense that the Chargers really deploy with great effect. Bonix against the zone is thirty eight for fifty four three hundred and forty yards, two touchdowns but three interceptions. And here's where it really starts to get interesting. He takes two point eight four seconds time to throw on average against the zone, so he's holding the ball a little bit, trying to figure out what he sees. It's not that he doesn't have outlets. When he takes the underneath outlets and the options that are there for him, it's five point eight are yards per attempt, and that's what has led to this seventy point four percent completion percentage, So it means it's the options are there and he takes them. But when he doesn't trust when he's seeing, that's when the turnovers happen and he is he will guess wrong sometimes when he doesn't know what he's seeing from these zone coverages. So it's all about what options do you have, will he see them, will he take them, or will he try to press.

00:31:50
Speaker 3: And do too much.

00:31:52
Speaker 1: I when I watched the Bonicks game against the Colts, I expected a better overall performance than I saw. I think Sean Payton got a lot open and Broncos fans are very sensitive and they're asking for everyone that was critical bon next week one? How are you saying sorry week two? And then he throws, you know, a game killing interception, and I thought overall he was uneven in that game. And so sometimes I like to just check and I actually do fine. In terms of like grading the quarterback position, I don't mind. PFF is one part of the equation. And I was shocked to see this, but it backed up what I thought that it wasn't like a great performance, it was actually their lowest bon Nicks you know, graded passing game except for Week one since last September, which kind of matched my eyes that it felt like a September of last year bon Knicks type of game. So I don't think he's out of the woods yet. And this is such a great test. You really said it all just testing his patients. This is the defense that will test his patient.

00:32:49
Speaker 2: It will test his patients.

00:32:51
Speaker 5: I think that they were the beneficiary of a weird performance by the Las Vegas Raiders because there's a with Khalil Mack on the field for this team. And yeah, like the players like Hnley's having a great season. He had great season last year.

00:33:04
Speaker 3: Yeah he did it.

00:33:06
Speaker 5: Still is one of the more the more dominating around the line of scrimmage to tacklers and adjusters in the league right now. But I think this is the moment where if you're a Broncos team, you have to take advantage of Khalil Mack being out for these four weeks.

00:33:20
Speaker 1: He's on injured reserve. He is. Yeah, we haven't mentioned that on this show that he's expected to return this season.

00:33:26
Speaker 3: More news than they thought.

00:33:27
Speaker 5: Yeah, considered it like looking at him in the sling and especially watching unfortunately looking at the replay.

00:33:32
Speaker 2: I thought that was going to be it for Khalil Mack for the season.

00:33:34
Speaker 5: So that's good that he'll be back, but it's good news for the Broncos that they don't have to contend with him. And maybe we see bow Knicks get back to where he excels in using his legs a little bit more because that fell off and it hasn't been back this season.

00:33:48
Speaker 2: I want to see bo Nicks run a little bit more.

00:33:50
Speaker 1: I'm leaning Broncos here just because I have a hard time like imagining a world where everything's going so well with the Chargers with no can Tell I don't know right it would be three and ohero with a two game lead over the Broncos and the Chiefs after three weeks and all the wins in the division. That would be incredible. Khalil Mack, you know, being out hurts because.

00:34:12
Speaker 2: Now that's the thing. But the Chargers thing.

00:34:16
Speaker 1: I was worried about their pass rush overall, but it was good against the Raiders. Tully Bolowtu was fantastic in that game. My biggest question in this game, other than the one you pointed out with bo Nicks, is which Patrick Stan do we get because he had an ankle injury last week and he played through it. He only missed I think one snap. It did not look good and he didn't play well. He didn't look like Patrick Sirtan after that. I think he gave up four or five catches and some of them were down the field. One was to Pittman, one was to Warrant and you just you don't see that ever, like you didn't see it once last season. So he just needs to be healthy, I think, because I think that the defense is built in some ways around Patrick Sirtan being a special player, and there's every reason to believe he he will be as long as he's healthy. It's more of a question of is he one hundred percent?

00:34:58
Speaker 4: And you know who is playing really well all Quentin Johnston, you know, So that'll be a challenge. And I also expect the Chargers to start getting a couple of these other players that the younger players, you know, going Trey Harris and and you know Lad McConkie has been showing up a little bit, you know, light lightning ladd as.

00:35:15
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have room for Trey Harris and KeAndre Lambertsmith, like maybe a little bit but they got like Keenan Allen's I'm shocked.

00:35:21
Speaker 4: By right, No, that's how I was just That's what I was just going to bring up. It'll be a tough decision to make between these these corners in Denver because keen Allen is playing like a much younger version of Keenan Allen and he's playing like their one, like their number one receiver. So this is going to be super interesting, you know for the Denver Bronkers defense, who is getting a lot of pressure. But you know, we'll kind of just have to see because this Chargers offensive line, despite all the shuffling that it's had, has looked pretty dang good itself.

00:35:50
Speaker 5: Yeah, the benefit for Herbert and the Chargers offense is when he's able to extend the play, which is healthy. Justin Herbert is always going to do Keenan Allen knows where to go. Yeah, right, And you know, as much as we think of Lambert Smith and Trey Harris and all that they have to contribute, like Keenan Allen will forget more football today than those guys may learn ever, and so like that veteran presence, and yeah, he still looks good, like he's ability to run the routes is good. And for Quentin Johnston, like he's always been able to finish plays, but the great thing for me was to watch him track that ball over the shoulder and then finish the play like in that particular order and not try to do one before the other. And it's just it's so good and every like you said, Greg, everything's going great for the charge.

00:36:32
Speaker 1: They compliment each other, right, Like this is a group that compliments each other. I watched our friend Matt money Smith does like an Instagram video after Chargers. Where do you see him at the game? Oh? Right, And so he's watching it. He's watching it, and he says, watching those two guys lad and Keenan next to each other because usually they're lining up on the same side depends on, you know, on the play who's inside. Like, watching the precision of the route running next to each other is just incredible because they're two of the best at that specific skill set in the entire league. And that I think that has a little bit of a multiplying effect and certainly is gonna calm down, I think justin Herbert. So shout out to Money who, by the way, had a flex on this ig video that he had gotten back from the game around one point thirty. He was taping the video around eight and he had already gone surfing that morning, and his hair is wet, he's looking looking all buff. You know, it's just everything's coming up that much.

00:37:31
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just dedicated to doing what he wants to do. If he were in position to be backstage in oaysis concept, I think Matt Redy Smith would have ultimately been there. Two Jacksonville, Florida we Go where the Jags coming off a rough one and a loss that they donated to Cincinnati, playing host to the zero to two Houston Texans and all the promise with two close losses, Jags favored by one and a half, Greg the over unders forty three and a half. Spirodidas Adam Marchioletta and Addikik Walla on the call. Do the Jags bounce back after making a donation?

00:38:04
Speaker 1: Hmm, tough game to pick. I think the Jags have definitely played better overall this season. I think they're well coached. I think they're a little unlucky to be too and zero. I also think their offense has room to grow and it's already been good in that this is like a really fascinating matchup, and yet there is something about I don't know how my brain works that looks like beyond the x's and o's and like just thinks like this is a big spot for Damiico Ryans and CJ. Stroud and this organization. They were zero and two last year actually very similar type of spot with a bad start on their offense. They played the Jags in that spot, a worse Jacks team, they beat them, and that helped to turn their season around. I just think it's a really important game in the AFC South, Like this is a really big game, especially for the Houston Texans, but you could look at it the same way for the Jags too, because they could put some distance in a real well I think questions and hurt on where the Houston Texans are as a team. If they can win this game, I think.

00:39:06
Speaker 3: It's a you make a statement.

00:39:08
Speaker 4: More so maybe if you're the Jags on this, because they've dropped twelve of the last fourteen to the Texans, right, and obviously that's different regimes, right, So if you're the new regime and you want to make it very clear that things will be different. Now You've got to go out and beat this Houston Texans team.

00:39:24
Speaker 3: The Texans.

00:39:24
Speaker 1: Man.

00:39:27
Speaker 4: I watch their defense, and I think that's real freaking football right there, Like that is real tough.

00:39:34
Speaker 3: That is deep February.

00:39:36
Speaker 4: Excuse me, deep January, early February caliber physicality.

00:39:40
Speaker 3: That is real football.

00:39:43
Speaker 4: And then I watch the offense and they the same problems that there were before.

00:39:47
Speaker 1: And I'm really.

00:39:47
Speaker 4: Shocked because I fully expect and I know this that Nick Cayley wants to build in outlets and wants to run quick passes and quick throws, and I know that the receivers are hurt, but I know he wants to bring some of this Patriots he kind of, you know, help for the quarterback and get the rhythm going and stay ahead in the down and mitigate pressure and do all of these things help the offensive line which just still looks totally embattled. And I'm sure Seth Pain is like popping a vein in his forehead every time he watches this group. Yet again, I know that they want to do all these things. Screen development that helps with your zone runs. You can call that an extension of your zone runs, and still take pressure off the quarterback, And I know not having Joe mix and hurts, and I know having the receivers hurt that they you know, that they're working with that they wanted to be working with hurt hurts them. But they have to find answers and they have to do it quick because this is again, like you mentioned it, Greg, another zero and two start, where the same problems with the quarter not with the quarterback, but with the system around the quarterback and with the cast around the quarterback are hurting the quarterback.

00:40:50
Speaker 3: And maybe the quarterback.

00:40:51
Speaker 4: Is having to do a little bit too much, which he wanted at the beginning of this season. But you got to save that protect that guy from himself a little bit.

00:40:59
Speaker 5: I'm willing to look past it and place the blame on the schedule. I think Rams defense, Bucks defense is a very difficult way to start the season versus the Jacksonville Jaguars, who have started against a team that's trying to change some things, as well as a Bengals team that loses their starting quarterback in the game.

00:41:18
Speaker 2: That's why I lean Houston in this one.

00:41:20
Speaker 5: And I know that you know, you folks want teams in situations late in games with leads to be aggressive, and we saw Monday night where that can go wrong, where you end up having to have somebody chase a quarterback after chasing somebody else looking the other way, and then doing the same thing with Bucky Irving. Whereas this Jags team, I just there was so much Brian Thomas Junior conversation this week and break down. Should we listen to what Coach Cohen had to say a conversation about conversations with BTJ because I have some data.

00:41:56
Speaker 6: Just think anybody on this team, nobody was pleased with the outcome, right, and we have some good conversations, really good conversations, and everybody was frustrated. But at the end of the day, he's got a great opportunity to bounce back, as does the rest of our team, and feel really confident about that.

00:42:15
Speaker 5: Okay, what I have here for the viewers on YouTube as well as the folks the folks watching is a look at some Brian Thomas Junior routes from the successful weeks for Brian Thomas Junior from last season. Do you guys notice anything about the direction that these routes are going.

00:42:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're all breaking in.

00:42:33
Speaker 5: Yeah he's breaking in, But He's doing a lot of deep stuff and a lot of breaking out. So that was this season, as Jordan notes the in breakers. Let's look to last season and this is not Matt Jones propaganda. This is where Brian Thomas Junior was running and a lot of these places where he's trying to make catches in traffic, that's not where Brian Thomas Junior was successful.

00:42:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd like to see Brian Thomas Jr.

00:42:56
Speaker 5: In space on the outside, making plays, not necessarily utilizing him like a tight end.

00:43:00
Speaker 2: Hopefully they do that. But I'm still picking the Texans because I do think they're the better.

00:43:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think their two extremely talented wide receivers are not playing with a ton of confidence. The postgame interview with Brian Thomas Junior was sad. Actually, the two saddest press conferences I've seen this year, I think our CJ. Stroud and Brian Thomas Junior, because CJ just wears his emotion on his sleeve and he's frustrated and he's bummed about what is happening right now. And Brian Thomas Junior was asked about his confidence and he just answered it very softly, and he has struggled, and we've talked about this during the preseason since like day one of training camp. For whatever reason, him and Trevor have not been on the same page. He's been dropping a lot of passes, like from training camp into preseason, into the regular season, and then with Travis Hunter, it does seem like the game is coming at him a little fast where they're having a manufacture touches, and to me, he looked a lot more comfortable at cornerback. It did not take them long to kind of change the plan that we heard was going to be the plan. Because last week he played forty five snaps on defense. I thought he looked good. I went back and watched because I'm just a sick of his coverage snaps, and he looked more fluid and natural I thought playing cornerback wards right now, he almost feels like a little bit of a gadget player on offense, which is not what I expected.

00:44:11
Speaker 3: I have a theory.

00:44:12
Speaker 4: This is not reported, but it is a theory that I have, and it comes from Liam Cohen's background and who he came up with in under that like early versions of that Sean McVay offense where you had Cooper Cup and Robert Woods and what are they doing but running a route chart, a heat map that looks a lot like this, the first one that you showed of what Brian Thomas Junior is being asked to do this year. If that's not his game, that's fine. Multiple things are true. It is fine to want and need a receiver like that in your offense the way that you want to run it. If you eventually want to make somebody you're Chris Godwin, You're Robert Woods, to even your Cooper Cup, to run as sort of that f player who can be the mismatch and really kind of sell out the way that we see a lot of the receivers in those coaching trees do in the middle of the field.

00:44:58
Speaker 1: That's it's as a blocker. He is not that guy, But it's.

00:45:00
Speaker 4: Fine to want that. Well, it's also true that Brian Thomas Junior is that's not where his gifts are and he is so gifted in other areas. Now, this is a theory, and I'm not wanting to speak out a turn because I'm not in the game planning rooms, but like it's maximizing if you have a player who's who is not good at that and not good at anything else, then that stinks. But Brian Thomas Junior is so gifted at other stuff that that's where I'm failing to see the logic here. And I would like to see players maximize to where they are most talented. And I also know that this offense, when those players have those responsibilities that are complimentary, that's the highest functionality, right And so I can understand trying to make it work or try to see if it works, but you're also not going to run Travis Hunter across the middle like that.

00:45:44
Speaker 1: You go about your system, it's it's about, you know, getting the best out of your players because you know a role Brian Thomas Junior is great in well so Brian Thomas Junior yea like he was like a top ten receiver as a rookie, kind of in a bigger better Jamison William like year four, but he's year one role. That's his role is freakazoid.

00:46:05
Speaker 4: And I think that's where you're seeing where this Jaguars team is because again, the ideas are there. You know that the scheme is there. But if it's a square peg, round hole situation with a receiver who, like I said, is very gifted in other areas and could build confidence back in other areas. It is a sign that shows this team still has some building to do. They still need to build out their receiving corps, They still need to build out the layers in the passing game that Liam Cohen does want to have.

00:46:30
Speaker 3: And like I said, all.

00:46:31
Speaker 4: Of this is just a theory, but I feel like it's them trying to place players into things that they know work. It's just you don't quite have the full a couple seasons of drafting, even two seasons of drafting to be able to make that happen.

00:46:44
Speaker 1: And weirdly, throws to all the other receivers are incredibly effective. Parker Washington's killing it. Yeah, Seommy Brown's killing it except for dropping a touchdown that would have probably won the game. And Breton String just killing it. So the running game seems very cohesive. I think it gives them a chance. I'm leaning Texans as well.

00:46:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, so, which ultimately meets in our other show, Cynthia will beat us on a random last second Travis et in touchdown. Let's go to our final game in the AFC, where the Tennessee Titans and the number one Rod Pick cam Warder playing host to the two to zero Indianapolis Colts, who were favored about four and a half points. The over under is forty three and a half. Tom McCarthy, Ross Tucker and Amanda balionis Our dear friend is Paul, Yes, the friend of the show.

00:47:25
Speaker 2: Greg does dimes do it again?

00:47:29
Speaker 1: I think so? I think I think this is.

00:47:31
Speaker 4: The right matchup for quarterback Island Greg.

00:47:34
Speaker 1: That would be crazy. But if he plays like this for a couple more weeks, yeah, I mean he's helping to define the position so far with big time throws. Now he has one of the highest rates of like throwing to his first read in the league, which is not shocking. If you're watching these games, they are scheming up good plays. But what I think has gotten lost is so many of his great plays have been under pressure. Is that sustainable? I don't know, but he's dropped some dimes. If you watch the very first play of last week's game, it was one of the best throws I think Daniel Jones has made under pressure, moving to his left like fine Josh downs down the field while Zach Allen is like digging into his chest and that's like a soft layered throw. That's one aspect of what Daniel Jones is doing well. On his very last throw of the game, third and six, gotta have it under pressure again, he hits Tyler Warren in stride to get the first down. For some reason, Shane Stiken decided to stop playing football at that point. It should have cost him the game. It was the worst coaching move of the week. I'm sick of like results deciding how we look at it. It was an insane turtling up of Shane Steiken at that moment. But you know what, I look at that third and seven and think that is growth from Daniel Jones and ultimately, like I am trusting all the people around him, the system, the organization, the players around him to carry him.

00:48:54
Speaker 5: This week, Dimes has killed the blitz this season. Right, The Tennessee Titans were one of the list blitz rate teams in the NFL. There's familiarity here with the Shane Steikin situation. I'm I'm feeling good about Cam Warred getting his first win, so yeah, I was. I heard those Survivor music, Greg, I thought, I thought you might be willing to lock up the cults here.

00:49:15
Speaker 3: Quarterback Island music.

00:49:17
Speaker 1: Oh it's pretty much the same music. But I'm glad you brought that up. I was gonna save it for the end of the show. I did forget to pick a Survivor team this week. It's not being Annapolis Colts. The idea it's in the name is to survive and advanced, to just keep going. And so I'm taking the team playing the Browns once a time.

00:49:38
Speaker 3: Are you looking at me when you were the.

00:49:40
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers? Now I've loved your picks last two and now shows me you're taking it seriously. But I'm taking the Packers. I am not taking the Colts. I could see that happen. That is very much a Week three result, like Titans getting their first win, Colts coming back to Earth, even if I'm not ready to pick it.

00:49:56
Speaker 4: First of all, I've always taken this Survivor picks thing seriously. Just want to put that again on the record.

00:50:03
Speaker 1: You told me you weren't you didn't care at one point.

00:50:06
Speaker 3: That's you can't prove that.

00:50:07
Speaker 4: Also, So Patrick, I like the idea of like, I think, way friskier than we thought they would be. Tennessee overall team we knew kim Ward was going to be good.

00:50:20
Speaker 3: We hoped he would be good.

00:50:20
Speaker 4: He's even better, I think than a lot of people on the outside we're expecting. But he'd been doing all of this stuff since college, so we kind of saw it coming.

00:50:28
Speaker 3: He looks awesome. His line does not.

00:50:30
Speaker 4: That could be a difference maker for him. But I also think that the Titans defense, which has looked creditable over the course of the first two games, where they are deeply susceptible, is against the run. I don't know that this bodes well against this particular Colts team. I don't know that it bodes well for the Titans to not give up a lot of points here.

00:50:52
Speaker 1: I know Daniel Jones is sucking up so much oxygen that nobody's noticed. Donovan Taylor's leading the league in machine and literally ran faster than any running back, any player in the NFL since twenty twenty. It was Raheem Moster name drop for the second time in this show that had the fastest speed until that play by Jonathan Taylor a week ago. And oh, by the way, Tyler Warning is leading all tight ends in receiving.

00:51:20
Speaker 4: Two so it's crazy they're susceptible. The Titans are really susceptible on sweeps and screens as well. We saw that last week with Pukainakuo what he was able to do for an explosive gain and then one hundred and fifty rushing yards per game and the sixth highest explosive run rate.

00:51:34
Speaker 3: I don't think this is the Titans.

00:51:36
Speaker 4: Week, per se, but I do think they're still going to be fun to watch, and I love that for them.

00:51:41
Speaker 1: I think it could be they've they've done well. I mean, not that it really matters. These are the new coaches, but in this rivalry somewhat over the years, and Brian Allen kind of needs some positivity. The Titans fans are getting a little restless. He's he's been in the middle of some bad decision making processes in each of these games. And they really built their team resource wise, and what they talked about was important to them on the offensive line, which has been a liability. That's always that's always a red flag when you when your focus is struggling, you gotta get worried. So we'll see fun little AFC South game. We picked the survivor. We went through all fifteen games and we laughed a little.

00:52:23
Speaker 2: I had fun I had a lot of fun.

00:52:26
Speaker 1: I will be back in this feed on Thursday night with my little buddy, Nick Chef.

00:52:33
Speaker 2: Little Buddy's gonna survive. Let's have little Buddy love.

00:52:36
Speaker 1: It is absolutely happening. We're getting a lot of comments. That's just how I look at him, my little buddy. So check us out Thursday night. We're gonna make it fun. Bill's Dolphins. When you don't think that the game's going to be great, that's when it's going to be great, and that's when our performance is going to be great. I'm sorry I didn't laugh Arder at the Tyler Dirton joke, and then I'm a I'm a jerk.

00:53:00
Speaker 6: Uh.

00:53:01
Speaker 1: We'll see you Thursday night, Bill's Office.

00:53:10
Speaker 2: M hm