Friday Fun Show! Browns-Steelers TNF Recap + Final Thoughts for Week 3

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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the Friday fun show, working title. Mother. I'm Dan Hansas, Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler from their homes. Week, threes upon us and this is your your dive into that I called a wobbly spiral. Greg thinks it's tight as hell. I mean this song is tight as hell and uh, I think you called it weak mill last week. Well, that's just like giving meek mills some credit. That a man in the sound library of the NFL is not going to match him. But it very much sounds like what is that song with drake? Anyways, the Friday fun show, I think the name is stuck. I think this is it God's plan. Is that what you're saying? Whatever, what's up, mark? I don't I don't appreciate Greg Um slamming like our generic music library, that we're doing the best we can with what's offered to us Um in an outside trademark world. That's fine. The Friday fun show, presented by no one, is about to get rolling here. We have a live, live audience coming to you. Ten Am here in Los Angeles, one pm New York, six PM London, and it is very, very, very exciting to have you guys with us and we're gonna have that as part of the show, as you know, the Friday fun show, working title, uh, live listener feedback throughout the proceedings. That's where grave digger comes in, Eric Roberts, all the team behind the scenes, um connecting us with the listeners. We're gonna have our week three M v P predictions. And, by the way, it's time to get one of these right. Guys. Hero of the week here. It's not MVP, I mean I don't think of it as M v P. But Dan, to your point, the Latin the two that I picked in week one and week two have not just only been off the mark, they have been like nuclear fallout disasters. So I I hear what you're saying, but that's like that's like Greg going on one of his twitter rnts about like, Oh, you know, now that we see how bad all the panthers quarterbacks have been, isn't Teddy Bridgewater Great? When the bar is that low, anything looks good. So you can only go up from here, I hope so. It literally could not get worse. What a terrible personnel decisions they've made. If they had teddy bridgewater the last two years with that defense they would have won seven or eight games. They were an average offense. They were an average second into the before Greg dropped either a Geno Smith or teddy bridgewater reference. Eighties. Six seconds is what I had it. And then he's got some st stuff. Now it's it's cute. It's like, I don't know what it is. There's something about these underdog middling quarterbacks that you connect with Greg on a almost personal level. It's fine, to be clear. I didn't bring it up, but it's like darn gonzas with the chains. If I if you bring it up, you gotta give the man a chance to respond. Hey, that's fair all right. So before we get to the week three hero predictions, before we get to any listener feedback, before we open up the floor to a certain hero, a snarky, handsome Brunette and a black shirt. See, if you watch it, listen, if you're listening to the PODCAST, you don't see greg looking very zaddy like this morning. So that's another reason why to to watch live. Let's get to the first game of week three, Thursday night football. Chubb will be the tail back pro hope for fullback. They turn, they give it the chubby vault. He spills. He loves to look at this stadium and listen to this stadium. Has the proms go tell him a little bit open up. But there it is the call from Jim Donovan of W K R K. The Cleveland Browns on Sunday. They let victories slip away. This time they get it done. They recover the on side kick at the end kind of they get a I think it was a backdoor cover score. Any whatever, it was a score as a time expired to make it look different than it was. But the final score is seventeen browns over steelers, and that was Nick Chubb, of course, going in for the score. I think. Did Donovan Call Him Chubby? I like that. Hundred and thirteen yards on twenty three carries, nearly five yards of tote and that touchdown. So the browns are two and one on the season. There are one minute and fifty five seconds away against the jets. Are Being Three and oh. But whatever it is, and whatever you think about the browns and you're rooting interest in the Browns, this season has started off very well for this team. Mark sssler, yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't disagree at all. I mean there were concerns going in, I mean at wide receiver, along the defensive line and certainly at quarterback, and I think that the version that we've gotten from Jacoby Brissette the past two weeks um used. Take away that interception against the jets. He's really played for Jacoby Brissette the best version of his football ever. And I mean, I thought last night his connection with David Njoku, with a Marii Cooper. I mean, they don't really have much else through the air behind those guys, but they delivered. And you know I'm looking at a steelers defense. I checked this out on on PFF. That, I think, one UH offshoot from the way that their offense played in the second half, where they had four straight punts and three straight three and ounce. They came into the game with guys like Alex Highsmith, Miles Jack Cam Sutton killo witherspoon leading the league and snaps at their position. They've been on the field a lot. It was that bengals game, it was the Patriots game and last night they were on the field for thirty six minutes, and so I think you know, Mike Tomlin said it when you're if you cannot stop Nick Chubb and they cannot and you cannot stop cream hunt, it's a tough out. And then so if you get the throws that you get from Jacoby Brissette, the offense functions. I mean it's like, I think with Jacoby Brissette, the journey was always you're gonna get to Shaun Watson coming back. You wanted to go maybe seven and win seven games. Just give yourself a chance. And they're very close to being three and oh. They have a manageable two and one. They've got a tough schedule coming up down the stretch, but this is not this is a manageable situation for the browns and probably as good of a thing as they could have imagined back in August. No, I mean you you mentioned Zaddy's Dan. I mean what what a three weeks this has been for mark's Guy, Kevin Stefanski, you know, the ultimate Daddy. I assume he has children. Maybe he doesn't. He has multiple children. Okay, he just feels like he's a dad and uh, and a handsome one at that. I mean I know that everything weird about back and forth between you guys. Right now, I think it's a reminder of what Stefanski did when he first arrived in Cleveland and what you see right now to me, is coaching. Their offense has carried them, even including last night. I would say their defense, on balance, has been disappointing and a little below average. Their offense is extremely efficient, despite questions that I had going into the season at offensive line. But you know what has solved? It coaching, like they coach up that offensive line so well and they still have talent there. It's not like they don't have talent, and that's helping them run the ball. Nick Chubb is running the ball better than ever, but more than anything, it's shake brisket. Sliced me off a little piece of this version, as you said, mark like Kevin. Kevin Stefanski would absolutely take this version of Jake Briskett over maker may bringing that because he's predictable. You know what he's gonna do and we've seen it before. We saw him throw eighteen touchdowns in six interceptions under Frank Reich, another guy who helped Jacoby brissette speed up his clock a little bit, get the ball out of his hands, help him take advantage of a nice big arm every now and then with some play action and have a really effective season for that coult team about five years ago, and we're seeing that now. He's better than Baker and you can see the difference between how he was this year and how he was a year ago in Miami. I mean the only difference is coaching. It's not and the players around him. It's not like Jake brisket is a different human being. Yeah, we didn't listen. By we I mean the football Cogniz Anti. We didn't give Jacoby brist a chance entering the season. Everyone just wrote him off as the worst starting quarterback in the league, amongst them, and it simply has not been the case. In fact he's been you know, week one was maybe a little mad, but week two and three he played really well both weeks. So you know, and Mark Cooper, they have over two yards receiving in the last five days together. So that is there's a connection there. Nick Chubb is I think I saw you on twitter, Greg and tweet about and I agree. This is the best I feel like he's ever looked. He's just an absolute monster and he should continue to get the ball at least twenty three times a game. Until Deshaun Watson gets back in even after Deshaun Watson gets back, because he's that much of a difference maker. I don't want to hear anything I saw. I also saw people talking about Mr r Biski. Well, Mitch was actually pretty good in this game. Get Out of here, get out of here with that. What do we do? Like the steelers? Let's Move Oz, let's move forward. We know what this is kind of the best case scenario from Mitch, and you're just you're right now. You're you're an organization sitting in a cul de sac and it's time to get back on the road. And if you think you drafted a quarterback in the first round, unless there's something else going on that we don't know about, which happens all the time in our league, give a shot, put him in there and let him start his development process sooner rather than later at this point, because they're very hard watch offensively. I know they have pieces, as we know. That was an unbelievable catch, um one of the best catches that you'll see the season by George Pickens, and that's just the reminder that there is talent on this roster. Uh. You know, you saw Nazi Harris running the ball well in this game. So let's see what we can do in that realm mark, tell me about your Thursday night. By the way, had an Lef me ask you about this, but it will remain a curiosity for me when you're at a local watering hole and you're having a couple of drinks and the browns are going up and down the field and winning football games and what's going on? Be Honest, please be honest. You know, I went to watch the game. I mean, I think. First of all, I mean it's it's just kind of honest to say that we don't really have too many chances where we get to go watch the game and just have no kind of responsibility or report to file after or have to talk about it for fifteen minutes. It's like I just went and enjoyed it. I don't think, I can't remember the last time that I watched the browns game. Um, out of play out on the town and that's where I went and that's what I did and Um, I would give the night a out of one score of Ninety O. that's I you know what element mark, can I can I say something? Yes, because it's not it's never been me doubting your integrity or anything else, but I find that now, with the passage of time, time, and I'm not saying the Deshaun Watson situation is any better a look for the browns and that he's going to enter the picture in a couple of months. Al Michaels was the last guy I wanted talking about that last night and any fumble day. I trust him to do just about anything except talk about hey man, I trust al Michael's for three cocktails in Malibu. I do not trust him to get the Deshaun Watson story right. My point is is that, as as someone that loved the Browns your whole life, I can imagine how conflicting it would be for you to actually not be rooting for the browns and enjoying the browns fan experience. Um, last night, when you're at a bar having a couple of drinks and they're winning and beating the steelers. I was rooting for them because I think I think the way that the team is structured right now, like Um, Jacoby Prists, very enjoyable and I kind of like the journey for Jacoby Brissette and I am like the Nick Chubb thing, like he's just the kind of football that I loved watching, and so I kind of just went and said, I don't I'm gonna go just watch the game and I wasn't sitting there rooting against the browns on any level. I'm not leave it here. I'll leave the conversation here and then we'll move on. Okay, whenever if you get the feeling like you're you want to just I feel like it's you're rooting for them and it was not. This is just the way it played out. Your heart, the heart wants what the heart wants. You just come back to the show and you're honest with it. We will not hold it against you. We'll totally understand it and I'll leave it there. Well, let's see what the future holds. I mean, I I've never like not stuck in cement on anything in life. I think that's become clear. Total support from us. And Yeah, when they had that drive where they ran at every single play to win the game except for that beautiful play action shot Tomor, I just thought, like this is a mark sessler drive and this is Cleveland Brown's fan drive and and Chubb's just his feet and his vision. It's another level. Man. If I had to pick one running back to get me five yards that's alive on on this earth right now, it's it's Nick Chubb. How about that onside kick, though? Yeah, I mean the last, like the last couple of minutes of that game so bizarre and it was so stupid. You know, they stopped the game and then they don't convert the first down and then they go to the line and run out the play clock and then kick up punt it away, and I'm just thinking to myself if he's if they snapped his singing ball over the browns punchers head. My sons were watching. He's like I was trying to explain to my son's football and the mechanics of it. I once the onside kick play happened and went out of bound and said, guys, because they don't get it, they're little kids. The game's over right now. All the browns have to do is do basic things and run out the clock. And then I said, but kids, there is a chance here that the snap goes awry or the punts blocked, and if that happens, all these fans that you're they're gonna walk into the lake nearby, because that's what would have happened if the browns somehow blew up, but they didn't. Browns are two and one people that don't like the browns anymore. You could say thank you to my jets for keeping them from being three and, Oh, throw US flowers if you'd like. That's that's up to you. Send me to NFL network headquarters. Angle with California. I don't think the steelers what I scored on that touched then. But, by the way, Anthony Walker, they're they're great linebacker WHO's one of their leaders, of their team. It's been announced as we're taping that he's gonna miss five to seven months with the quad injury. So that that's unfortunate, the loss for them. All right, let's move on. Hey, grave digger, how are you doing, buddy? Hey, Hey, I'm great. How are you, Dan? I mean the way you came in there, it was almost like Jessica walked out on you. Left you a dear John Letter, Dear Justin letter. How long was the best man's speech that we talked about last week? It came in just over seven minutes, including hugs at the end, which okay, so just under seven minutes, which was longer than I thought because I reared it and it was four and a half. That's what happened. I don't know how to go there. It went really well. I feel proud of myself and happy that I had a lot of people come up and say hey, great speech, which would have happened probably no matter what the speech was, but if that great, it would but that's nice to hear. We both said, yeah, I said three to five. He said you said five to seven. I mean under seven's fine. I'm just saying that the reason why he wrote four minutes worth of speech and it turned into seven was for applause and laughter, breaks and General Joy and revelry and what's the most special occasion in a lot of people's lives. And Justin he brought the rain, but the rain in this case was pure joy. You're working the room that you're you're you were. You shifted into showman mode and I think that it's fine if it adds seconds to the operation work in the room. I Want I want some questions here. We saw some five up. One asked Um, one guy asked where does pickens is catch rank all time, and this reminds me, like enough, of emotional love connections with the people that matter to you most. Let's move to the football. The pickens catch was another, another feather in my cap of like there's one play made every week that it's better than any play made in the entire deck. Nineteen seventies or nineteen eighties. The pickings play would fit into that. That's it. I don't know where it ranks all time, but it would beat it would beat a couple of solid decades of play. But to Dan's point about Trabiski, and like I thought he was good for Trabisky. Like, I want to see the coaches film go. Look how wide open Um Chase claypools on that play. Uh, this from Sammy shamrock. Is Mike Tomlins stubborn approach with Mitch gonna Cost Him his first losing season? No, Mike Tomlin will never have a losing season. But after the game he was not even considering it. And he will. He starts ten games, they will have a losing record this season. Do you point about the coaches film? I tried out that, that other channel. What's it called? The next Gen channel on the Amazon Amazon. Yeah, I really I enjoyed it last night. I think I'm going that with every week. It was I think they show how open Claypool is if you watch that. H what else? What else? We Got Darren from Dublin question for Dan and his monologue about KDE York. That's the rookie kicker of the browns. He's been atrocious ever since. That's a little strong. What's his status in the Kicker Club at the moment? Surely the bouncer realized he was using a fake ID ouch. Listen, he pushed the extra point wide right against the jets, but he's not the reason they lost. They had way more crucial errors that went on in the last two minutes of that game. So whatever. He missed again off the upright yesterday and it's like, okay, be carefully her kid, because kickers can get the yips. And you missed two extra points and you're twenty two years old. I'm a little nervous about the second miss in five days, put it that way. But he's still obviously hugely talented. Stays in the club for now. Stayed a little too late in the club. Maybe maybe we'll put him in a crib. We'll put him in the corner, get him right, boot Chaboo. Question. Who is your anti cornered animal team? As the two and O team that you trust the least? That's a good one. For me, it's the giants. That kind of covered that on the show this week. What do you guys think? Well, when I think anti cornered animal, I almost think like a team that's a little too pleased with themselves. Uh. No team springs to mind, I guess. If I had to go with one, it's partly because they're playing the bills this week. It's the Miami Dolphins. I still want to see what happens when they play a better pass rush and, more importantly, I'm a little worried about their defense. I don't I don't think they've covered themselves in glory yet. Well, I don't know if I would use the bills as a measuring stick for anyone, but I have to go giants because of all the two and Oh teams, Um maybe Miami is the one exception. They're like bona fide playoff heavies, and the giants are that team you get every year. So there's more that it's nicer to and Oh. I have enjoyed the story, but they're not going to be four. No, right. I had the dolphins in the playoffs, by the way, I think, the only one out of us, and I think they'll win ten or eleven games. But in terms of like this is just gonna be a top three offense, I guess I'm I'm with Dan. I do want to watch and see that. All right, we'll get back to the listeners in a bit it, but now the floor is yours, Greg Zy Rosenthal. Well, this this Friday fun show, I'm thinking about Chris, Chris Westley, and if you're if you're new to our show, uh, and I know you hear US talk about him a lot. But I do hear from a lot of people that think it's cool how we talk about Chris, but they they're new to the show and they didn't have that history with them and we miss him every show. And one thing I've learned like the more when I talk about him and when we talk about on the show, it keeps it keeps them here with us and it makes me happy and to me that that's fun. And I thought about making like an all star team, the West all stars, because when I'm watching games on Sundays I often think of like what would west think about these teams and these players right now? And I think of some of his favorites. That he was so right, and so stop me at any point. I'll go through the offense first, but some, some Chris Westley now, but it's just like no one wants to here, uh, a five minute monologue. So I'll think about it as like a best man speech, like Chris as your best man. Chime in after. Josh Allen was the one guy he pushed back on me so much, and mark, you did too. I think you were kind of a Josh Allen Guy from the beginning. But Man, he would love to see this version of Josh Allen who's just like the best player in the League. Marks after. I don't I don't want to have that log of a monologue. But man, like everything, it's true, sometimes you can see it right away, and he saw the athletic gifts Alan had from the beginning and always figured he could figure it out. He could figure it out, and you know what, he was damn right and he's a supernova and like almost anyone we've ever seen. Roster. I know I said I wouldn't, I wouldn't enter it's like five or six guys. Uh, I'm putting two running backs in here. I always thought he had a great eye for running back. Aaron Jones and Jonathan Taylor were two guys who, very early in their careers, he could just see how that pure burst and could move move away by seeing the the rush in front of Nick Chubb is good at this too, but they've got even more like explosion and he knew that initially. So we're going with two running backs in the backfield. At wide receiver we got Terry mclaurin, who I remember we watched early and again. This is Chris westling's ability to see guys early in one of those Monday night games in his rookie year, he just thought mclaurin was gonna be the next level guy. Marcus Mariota's just kind of cheering everyone on from the sideline. I think Chris would would really be enjoying this Marcus Mariota season. He was always fascinated by his his footwork. We we could throw Rogers and Herbert in there, but that that's the offense at least. Those are those are the westling allstars. I like him. Yeah, do you think he'd still be mclaurin would still be the number. Theer's so much to pick from at that position. I get what you're saying, but like, I don't know, Pizza, I'm just going off the dome. I mean I thought about it yesterday, of course, and thought like what, what came to mind? And those were the ones, and I was hoping you guys would have other ones that to mind. Two the ones that receiver that came to mind where guys who are retired, like Steve Smith Larry Fitzgerald, were two of his all time, all time favorite. I don't know for I guess because I respected his football documents so much west that the ones that he didn't have right stuck with me like he was way in on uh was he was in on Mariotta or Winston? I can't remember. Yeah, he remember, but that's why I think he would. He would enjoy and have some hope here, and I do too actually, that this version of Mariota might give us some some entertables. So, Greg, Greg, you should have put on Kristen Michael in the Backfield, just as in honor areas he did love up Mer Abdullah as well. On defense, I will throw he also called Leonard Four Nette Battleship Lenny, which I was enjoyed he struggled to change direction a couple of his favorite defenders of all time. It struck me watching J J watt last week. Man J J Watt, when he plays, still makes a big freaking difference. Um, no one enjoyed the early J J watty's more than West. Honey Badger is one of his all time favorites who's quietly, I think, settled into that Saint's role and has played pretty well through two weeks and he has given them what they want in his hometown in New Orleans. And then I was noticing a little juice out of late in vander ash the last couple of weeks after a couple really down years. I'm not saying he's gonna turn into the guy I think west and I hoped when him and Jalen Smith looked like the best linebacker duo in the league, but he looks a little more over those injuries and he's played good football the last couple of weeks and he loved himself some Vanderas. So I think he'd like the Vanderash to admit when I think I saw him in week one or whatever. I was like for a second. I was like, wasn't he had a league two years ago? But then I got him confused with Shawan Lee, and that's just being racist show. Yeah, we're here in the listeners. Bridget says she she loves here in the West Easter eggs at the end of the shows and another listening. Uh, let's for the first time ever, that is this is the first you are visibly uncomfortable and I'm enjoying that, Greig. Yeah, this is like when we did a zoom for Dan on his birthday during corona with like eighteen different threads of friend groups and he could not handle for more than about six minutes. Oh my God, that was one of the nicest thoughts, Um expressions of love that my wife shared and Um, but she just miscalibrated what the old Zeuser likes and what the old Zeuser doesn't like. I like to keep my silos separated. Well, we were all wondering because, you know, the call ended, but I was like, I would give a thousand dollars just to see what the conversation is in the hands of household because of the balance of it was a wonderful idea. That totally sunk like a rock and water. She she she felt bad because she could tell I was like dying. That was that was that was like almost that was the ultimate pandemic moment. Now, taking back, that was kind of it. All Right, does that? Do you have anything else, Greggy? That's it. No. Thanks. Thanks to you guys. Thanks to the listeners too, for always enjoying when we talk about West. He is he's with us. We think about him as we're heading to London next week, these sorts sorts of weeks. He's always a part of us. Absolutely well said, Mr Rosenthal. Do we have anything else who want to throw to the from the listeners here? Justin before we move on to our week three? Not M v P, but hero picks. Aaron Jaffa Canada would like to know which NFL coach will be fired first. We'll get to that in a few minutes. Anything else you're putting that? I had matt rule as my guy last week and hero of the week, so I don't know. I hope that. I mean it's not a spoiler alert. I was not wrong. What's the first thing you'll do when you come to London? A good question. I got an update. Um, we have tickets if we want them, and I do want them. I'M gonna go to the UK Germany game fresh off the plane, Um and Um. I was gonna mention that to you guys after the show. Nick Pike slacked us that the NFL UK office is hooking us up now. It's a little tricky right off the plane, but that's a pretty bad thing to see. Ambitious but also, like you know, the tickets are the fire. That's unique. The tickets are there, though, like we have the opportunity to go when we're there. We don't have to confirm or or decline. Right now. I think there's so you know, that's such a nice thing. I would like, Um, to find someone for for all of them, and we have some people that could certainly take them if you don't want them. But yes, we got the tickets there there in the John Gonzalez, who you may be aware of, is traveling to London on a separate assignment working for sports illustrated, and he is securing tickets for Um mark and and myself with you on to see Crystal Palace versus Chelsea. Um and Gonzo thinks that Crystal Palace is right up my alley, Um, and I'm gonna see what that I don't even know what that I think I'm going to join you guys. I think I'm gonna try to do a doubleheader, because then think any extra tickets. I'm I'm a I'm a Hammer Fan West Ham, but they're playing later that day. That reminds me of the one time we went to London and and we were doing some live event and Greg's like, Oh, I'm gonna Wear my West Ham Jersey and my kit and then everyone's gonna Cheer me and then he didn't realize it was it was like wearing like a Boston red sox shirt in a Times Square for a promotional event and you just got hissed the London teams. It's just it's not you know that all the other London teams don't like it. I'm being told that the crystal pals are very jets, so that that checks out. Greg's getting destroyed for calling the soccer team UK instead of England in the college. I just wanted to point that out. That's a good point. I'm I'm an angler and someone who was asking about the product. Um. I talked about all the time. It's Redkin Brus work hard molding paste. All right, let's move on now to that's a new listener, because you mentioned that roughly once a week. Your hair product. Absolutely week three hero predictions mark start us off. Alright. So I just want to let um newer listeners to the Friday fun show on know that in week one I picked Danny Gray, the niners speedster, who wasn't active. Titans by picking Ryan Tannehill, who, right, right, the titans were treated like Um, you know, lost infants by the bills. So that didn't go well this time around. Who I hope that finally the curses over, because I am going to pick a player that I've really enjoyed watching. He's only played two games in his career. It is drake London of the Falcons. Um they to me. I think their offense has just been spicy. It's been interesting, and this is someone now everyone wants to know. Why is Kyle Pitts not getting forty two targets a game? They'll figure that out in time, but they have what that's six targets game. That's fine, but I I for me it's like they're playing the seahawks who quietly have really stunk up the joint on defense, like I mentioned yesterday, they're the only team in the league without a three and out and I think they have the thirtieth passing defense dv o A. Right now. It's a good spot for the Falcon who scored points, to get right and I see a breakout game for drake London, which means he will catch one pass three yards. Um. All right, I will. I think I had Russell Wilson last and that didn't quite work out either. So we're all kind of struggling. I mean, I think you had the best one of the three of us, but this is already in week three of this program. We have a two time M v P prediction and, Um, I don't know if you saw, but Dan Orlovsky and ESPN took out his laser pointer and showed his audience that the panthers offensive attack had to tell when Christian McCaffrey was in the backfield. According to Orlovsky, the defense, if they're paying attention, knew when the Carolina offense would pass a run based on where Christian McCaffrey lined up in the backfield in relation to Baker Mayfield. Orlovsky, sensing a viral moment, called this coaching malp practice, and Matt rule was asked about it on Friday. Yeah, I saw, I saw, I saw the instinct. Um, you know, I think it's I think it's I've been wrong, you know, the wrong long enough. I've seen enough coaches, you know, I've seen enough coaches gets. Every time they do this, it's gonna be this and then it's wrong. You know I mean, Um, I disagree with it. If you're saying that they knew whether we were running or passing, I would say, well, how come we're for six yards and the six point three yards from carry? You know so, and of course everyone's having fun with that because those numbers are spiked by a couple of chunk gains by McCaffrey. and Um, it's Matt rules turn this year. Last year was Matt Naggie who drew the short stick. The year before it was gates. Next year it will be somebody else. Every NFL SEASON There's one head coach who appears doomed before things even start. And then things start and it's obvious and it just becomes a question whether that individual makes it to January. And it doesn't mean that Matt rule is a bad man or even a bad coach. It's just his turn. And this did not work out and made me think of Chuck Pagano who, after his fight with cancer and some real success with the cults a few years back, refused to let the fact that it was his turn uh define who he was. And, speaking of Chris Westling West and I always vibe done that. We just loved how UH Pagano handled that situation. UH, they can't eat you. They can fire you, but they can't eat you, Pagano said, after a fifty one sixteen pasting by the Jaguars dropped the colts below five lat in two thousand and fifteen. So if the worst thing a year from now, let's say I'm in Boise this time next year playing with my granddaughters, I'm going to be fine. This ain't going to happen, but I'm going to be fine if I have to go down that road. I think Matt Rule has some Chuck Pogano in him. People are going to continue to have their fun with rule until he's gone, but I do not think the monster will consume him and I like that. I could tell in these press conferences. He's not going to be a punching bag. He's gonna go down swing, have your have your jokes and fun with Matt Rule, but he's my M v P because I could tell he's gonna have some New York Grit how he handles in situation. Also, the one thing about NFL coaches. If it does go down this season, he's still under contract for like another four plus years because he got that super long contract from the panthers. You get paid that money, you can go play with he could go play with Chuck Bogano's grandchildren if he wants. I mean you would suddenly had I do think that if you were in that situation, and this is me personally, everything starts to boil, it starts to go south and they're like, you know what, Mark, we've had enough of you, but we're gonna pay you for the next five years. I'd be like, I'd be dancing down the down the way to exit the workplace. So we would be like mark, actually, we're not firing yet. We just wanted to talk about some concerns and and in Mark's just like packing his bag. Mark, your turn, your or is it? No, it's great. To one of the listeners, Angel asked, is spicy better than Frisky, and other listener, Mike Mika, said, uh, you know, frisky is one step ahead of spicy. I think they're different. They refer to different things. Yeah, I don't think they're connected. Like that's a great question. Angel does believe Frisky is better than me. Spicy is different. And how does Matt Rule even win this, by the way, like so you're predicting they're gonna win a game. I just wanted to talk about Matt rule and we could try to distill that into whatever silo that belongs in, because to me he wasn't that spicy there. He was taking a little two line down from because I like taking him apart for the howie butter knife, the stats for the previous week, and they're just gonna keep coming for him. I just I'm rooting for him that he doesn't become miserable over it. I think spicy is better than Frisky, by the way. I think spicy is like look out for this team. Frisky is more like like the Falcons, like, okay, they could give you a hard time, but you should take care of business. Maybe from a football acher I'm seeing the two words in different contexts. Greg close it out. Alright, my hero of the week as a man by the name of Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. That's right, it's the Pharaoh's so okay, where he's? Here's the thing. People like are so ready to kind of like bury, or at least like say he's in this gradual decline. You know what he is. He's returning to his roots. Yeah, it's gonna be a little bit of a transition. He knows what it's like to play with a great defense, and this is a great bucks defense that can control a game and he knows how to problem solved during games. And the fantasy numbers might not be that great and he might be missing too offensive lineman. There's no Donovan Smith here. Cole Beasley might be active because Julio Jones is a game time decision. Mike Evans is suspended. No one's healthy, but you know who I trust in the fourth quarter against a good defense? I Trust Tom Edward Patrick Brady, and he's gonna be he's turning the clock back Dan. He is maybe declining, but declining to like two thousand and three, when they won a super bowl and they found a way to win a lot of close, slow scoring games, and that's what he's gonna do this week. New Bark wasn't listening to anything because he saw someone say that he looked handsome. Right now. I saw his eyes. I did not. I did not see that. You did look cancer. You Look Great, Mark Uh you know I'm not in the business. Greg of Tom Brady declined talk anymore with you. This is it is a transition. It's clearly a transitional time for him as a human and, I believe, as a player. But now he's gonna he's gonna turn it back to that that game manager that just people can't understand why they lost in the end. Yeah, there's also a reason why I declined to use my first pick in the draft on Thursday's podcast on Um the UH bucks, because I don't think they're very fun to watch right now, especially in the state of the offense with all the injuries. But fair point. I'm not doubting Tom Brady. All right, before we say goodbye, let us check in Rogers, and you know, Tom Brady's fun enough for me. Oh here, Greg, Greg Rosenthal. Injury minute presented by acres sure, which is maybe a weight lost drink for old people. That's a guess. Go ahead, all right. The bills are in trouble here. They're not only missing Dane Jackson, which we expected, but Micah hide, their safety, is out for this game. So is Jordan Phillips. Jordan poyer might be out too. That's good news for Julie, I mean for Tua and friends, Julio, as I mentioned, game time decision. Lyle Collins does look like he will play for the Bengals, which I think is good, but maybe not the way he's been playing. David Bactieri's practiced the contimes. Jerry Jones, yeah, Toron Armstead, watch out for Miss Practice all week for the dolphins, they're great left tackle who's really changed uh their team and might Miss Uh this game. And, as I mentioned, Cole Beasley, I think we'll play. You got anything mark you want to jump in the injury minute? I think that's about it. I mean, I think that was about a minute. So I don't. I don't. I think we're good. Alright. I don't have any major things that great. I'm just reading the comments at this point. We are going to be any last comments before we go? Someone wants me to send feet picks. I don't think that. Someone saying don't cover the hair. Dan Put on his Yankees Hat. I think he was transitioning into Uh. I am alright. Judge goes for sixty one tonight. Let's go all rise. Thank you everybody for listening, for watching along Sunday flagship program then we're on to London. ticketmaster. Around the NFL join us at the live show, special guests and fun Galore next Thursday night until Sunday night. He had the call. Enjoy your weekend going bad. That's the song going bad. God's playing, God's playing wheezy out the pointed, Witty Eddy Mittyting Pos