Falcons-Panthers Recap + Week 10 Odds & Ends (Friday Fun Show with Patrick Claybon)

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to another edition of The Friday Fun Show. Working title Your Guide to Week ten and perhaps beyond. I don't know yet. Well, we'll see, we'll see. It might be it might be a show that it is completely rooted in the events of the next seventy two hours, or it could be a dissertation on the future of society. I don't know the term elections at all. Um Dan Hans is here with Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler, Patrick Claiban. How is everybody in the top quartile of the top quartile? Mm hmmm. I like that we got a little Claiban doing It's about Me today, so we might we might get some hot politics states. There is a there's a bit of pressure on you because I feel like you're born for It's about Me, Claibon. But it was like, we can't we can't wait it out anymore. We need to turn the entire show over to Patrick and see what comes of it. Thank you to everybody that is live streaming with us right now. We have literally hundreds of people UH in the top quartile of the top quartile, of the top quartile of UH podcast listeners, So thank you to everybody. This happens every Friday, and coming up on today's show. Yes, Patrick Claibron will get something off his chest. Speaking of a chest he had, he's like a Henley pull over. That one button was down a little bit of a show and I mentioned it and then he quickly buttoned it up. The temperature was getting very hot in the pre show chat between us and UM. I think it was appropriate for the view or that that Claibon did that, Um or maybe not, Maybe he needs to go in the opposite direction. Well, I was trying to. I was trying to match Mark honestly a little bit of chest reveal as well, maybe you guys could join us? Uh? Yeah, who anybody have let us here? Anybody have chest hair? I do not, not like overwhelmingly, but it's there's I don't have the back hair that the rest of the Rosenthal men do, but I do have the chest. I always feel like like if I'm at the shore and I'm at the beach and I see the guy that is insanely Harry, and I know there're people watching right now that are this way, so I'm not making fun of you, but it just sucks like very hairy back and then there's nothing up top, and it's just like, God, what's up? What are we doing here? You didn't need to do this. I don't know anyway. I my Irish heartage means I'm basically a wet seal, so I don't. I can't. Really, it's not a great show for me either. UM let's get into all of the action. Yes, um, it's about me with Claybon. We'll do some listener feedback, We'll have the week ten injury a minute, will make some predictions, but first let us close the door. On the first part of week ten Thursday night, football Smith now motions right the snap hand off Foreman. I want to go right side, going downhill, touch down Foreman kick trucking. Wow. D'ante Foreman gets the highlight. All right. Dante Foreman had a big day, so maybe he deserved it, going a hundred and thirty yards and a touchdown inin for the Panthers over the Falcons on a rainy Thursday night in Charlotte. Um M, where to start on this one? First? I'll start here. I locked up the Falcons and you know it's annoying. I knew it at the time. There's a trophy, right here. It's because I'm good at this and I made some mistakes. I did not look at the weeks late. I just looked at t n F. Never locked t n F. That was mistake number one. It's a weird, funky, silly game to never lock up Marcus Mariotte on the road. I did that. Number three, never lock up Marcus Mariotte at home, which he wasn't. But that's just a safeguard. So lesson learned for the old zuser. Who's gonna make things a little more competitive or interesting in the locks challenge? Now that I've given you guys a game, I mean, and make it more competitive. I housed you last year, Greg, and I was in first place before Thursday night, so I've made things a little more challenging. So you're market made an excellent move to jump out of the Falcons. I mean, I do wonder mystically, Dan, had I kept the Falcons is my lock and the lock brothers, which are brilliant, impenetrable solar force. Had I kept my lock with the falcons have just one, I might have caused the loss for you, which I apologized. No, that's a good call, but I think what I should have done in hindsight is once you did it as a lock brother, that should been my message. I gotta get out as well. Again, you learn lessons in this life and hopefully, um you get better as a person and as a game picker. All right, let's get to the game. Uh sloppy. Also another rule is when there's a tropical storm pounding the region where the stadium is, just get out. Get out of that as well. But um, yeah, the Panthers did a nice job bouncing back here, Greg from a game where they last week. They're down forty two nothing in the third quarter. So get in the w You get some dignity back in the in the locker room and in general you you stick it to a division rival and oh not for nothing kind of stay on the periphery of the division race. What a what a year in the NFC cell? Right? If the games go on Sunday as I personally expect, which would be a Seahawks win in Germany and a Saints loss in Pittsburgh or Saints win it, that wouldn't matter that the Panthers only one game out of first with three division wins. They felt confident, I think because they pushed around the Falcons just two weeks ago. It is a division game where they outplayed the Falcons in Atlanta because they could run on the foul kins. And I think they see the Falcons running attacks so much they're a little more prepared for. The Falcons are one of those teams I think that are tough to prepare for. But they know what they're about after playing against Arthur Smith with his defense for a while, and they stuffed the Falcons running game early, and they made Mariota have to be a drop back passer a handful of times, and you got the bad Mariota game half the weeks this season. I'd say he's a huge part of their great running game and it's almost built around him. And he's good with all the ball fakes and he he makes just enough, you know, good decisions with the ball throwing that it all is fine. It's play action. He's protected. The other half he looks terrible, and this was that other half. Maybe the worst game I've seen out of him. The box score didn't really say it, but they could have had three or four interceptions on him. I mean, it reminds me what they did, what Carolina did against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and that sort of surprising result where they ran all over him. I thought they looked at the Falcons and said, you know, like a friend to a friend, like, um, can I try your dress on? They just played the Atlanta's offense and stuck it to And I thought it was a weird uh, a weird night for Arthur Smith, who I've been a fan of and I enjoy what he's done with with lesser parts in general, but at one you know, I think it was their third drive that you know, they come out kind of throwing the ball in in rain, in this hideous weather, more than you'd expect. And on the third drive they're stuck in their own right near their own goal line and run the ball three times inside their own tent and punt the ball away. It's like what happened to the creativity? Cordell Or Patterson wasn't used very much? Um Again, it's like, I just look at the Falcons and and they have been frisky. Um. I don't know if they qual a five for that now. It's point but Mariota and it's his killer mistakes. He doesn't a couple of things well, But I wonder what the conversation inside that building is about when do we find it appropriate or necessary to insert Desmond Ritter or or what do they know about Desmond Ritter and practice that says we're not ready to do that yet because of what we do know. But it's like all the reports on him in the preseason where he's smart, he's really good with the offense, he knows the playbook, like do you make the switch just to see what you have? And honestly, Mark, because immediately after the game the question was asked to Arthur Smith and it was a fast no, like a fast and decisive no on the quarterback change. And you know, we don't know because we're watching on TV. He's standing there in the rain. But did you guys not feel the frustration in the play calling from Arthur Smith, especially on the heels of an eight play ninety two yard drive where Marcus Mariota has a has the touchdown pass, they pull within the score, and then they come right back out on the first down on this opportunity for the Marcus Mariot to TNF legacy drive and they have this first down run and it's miserable and then Mariota is trying to navigate the pocket under pressure and and there's a holding penalty and then that happens. It was the team was in absolute hell on that most important drive of the game, and you and you kind of left wondering what does this what does his offense do? Like, what's what's the plan? What do they hope to accomplish? And it's just a lot of question marks after just a nasty game like this from Billy G. Kyle Pitts is stuck in that jail cell with Mark Yeah. I think he had two catches and eight nine targets and gets wide open all the time. This is not a Kyle Pitts is a bus situation. This is a quarterback can't shoot straight situation. And heading into this game, um, we were coming off the Sunday game where Mariota was missing throws all game and it was just like my god, Like you just got the vibe watching Arthur Smith on the sideline like he's he's probably gonna be ready to move on after this year. So I don't after watching this game on top of it, that's a too rough. Uh, you know, game tape days for Mariota and you just wonder if you should take anything out of what Smith says immediately after the game. He's trying to keep things under control. But at the same time, I don't think it's to me any question. Mariota is not the future. Is Desmond Ridder of the future? I don't know, Maybe maybe not, But I think there are one or two losses away and they're coming with Mariota cratering like this from it being a no brainer to turn it over to the kid and then you get a at him before you make your decision in the off season, I think it's to me it's just inevitable at this point. Yeah, they're trying to make the playoffs too, and if Mariota's making rookie mistakes and it's not like he's winning from you know, above the neck in terms of like making all the right decisions, that's probably been his biggest problem this year, then why not try out the kid? I mean, p J. Walker wasn't much better. He made a few good throws, he tried to throw the ball away a couple of times, when Steve Wilkes surprisingly let him try to win it with his arms on a few third and longs late in the game, and neither team could catch an interception. But I like that we got Deonte Foreman at the beginning because he was awesome throughout. And you look at their running attacks and Wills has taken over. Their three best rushing days all a hundred and sixty nine yards and over have happened in the last four weeks. Since they've traded Christian McCaffrey. Like it's running backs are important, I think that gets a little overrated. Obviously, Christian McCaffrey's better, but it's also no question that they've become a much at a running team, partly because of the opponents, cartly because they're just getting better. But since they've traded Christian McCaffrey, I don't think they're gonna get back in this race. But this is one of the worst divisions I've ever seen. It's right there with the Panthers Division when they had a losing record and the Panthers very last second, I think they went seven eight and one or something like that and then played the Cardinals in the playoffs. I think that's happening. I don't think the Panthers are gonna be the one to take it, but I think a losing record wins this division. Is there a weirder quarterback room that you can remember during the run of this show than p J. Walker starting while two first round draft picks, including a first overall picks sit on the bench. I think because they just set up better. It's a good call. And it's also you know, Mayfield stays in the headlines by headbutting teammates with his cap on, which you know he's got to do something at this point. Um, it just shows they're so adrift in their quarterback room. But both these teams, I mean, this is going to be I think a division. Uh. And you could look at the Saints as well, perhaps here and maybe even the Bucks where we could have a major facelift at the most important position, because I think not this isn'tna go across the board with this division, because I don't think Brady's solely to blame for their issues over there. Um. But the quarterback play I think is a big reason why this division is so bad. Uh. And that and that play that Mariota, that's the legacy play for Mariota, the play in the second half near midfield where he's spinning down and his his butt hits the turf, but he still throws it up for grabs and it's intercepted and he gets saved because his his butt cheeks hit the turf. It was like at that point, I don't know how Arthur Smith watches the tape and says that this is the guy I'm gonna ride or die with for the rest of the season. He just looks like a dude that's hit his expiration date. I have a have a sandwich bet for you guys. Oh, let's get it. Whoever wins this division, they go into the playoffs as the obvious underdog, but they will be playing at home. I'm telling you now, whoever wins this division convincingly wins their playoff game convincingly, I'm gonna say they would it. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm just gonna say they flat out win their playoff game against a heavy favorite. I would say I would take you on it, but this is a weird year and I'm thinking out loud right now. So they would be the lowest seeded division winner. They would get the top seeded wild card, right, so they would get let's let's say the Giants in their Cowboys. I mean, I think at the Cowboys I think they're cooked. But I mean if they get the Giants or another kind of funky team that you could see falling on its face on the road. Yeah, I'm actually not gonna take you on it. The leaks too weird this year. Just so I can get in on a sandwich problem, I will take because I see a chance the Vikings lose a couple of games and you can get Kirk Cousins against Tom Brady at home. Yeah right. I actually don't like the odds. Are the Bucks win this division and then if they're at home, they're probably favored or close in that game almost no matter who they're playing. But I'm gonna take you just for the fun of it. I'm gonna lose, but I just want to be involved in a sandwich prop and I just want to buy you a sandwich. I like the spirit of this. That's very nice of you. Plus the huddle here the food is free, so like that's an easy one as well. Um, all right, can't be from the huddle. We need to make a rule. It is not cold, yeah, ham and cheese. Any other thoughts on this game before we move on? One quick one, which is that Derrick Brown has made himself more money this year than almost any player, a top ten pick that was kind of seen as a bus coming into this year and has been one of the best nose tackle defensive tackles in the league. They'll pick up his fifth year option, guarantee him ten plus million for and then he'll make a monster contract. And he kind of came out of nowhere. He was looking at like a bus. And I was gonna say, Arthur Smith might be a believer in the whole playing a rookie quarterback too early thing, and that might be why we're not seeing Desmond ritter Mark. What is the food in the in the local penitentiary that you're I mean, I am attempting to convince you that it's not a penitentiary. How do I see you in the studio? Three time is a week and then I'm shuffled back to this like high level. So it's I mean a sort of three work release program. Alright, alright, well, it's the food is fine. It's only one day a week. I have to deal with it. It's like a new volunteer prison where they simulate what prison is like for people who want that feeling. Yeah, we established on last Week's Friday Fun Show that it's one of those country club Greenwich, Connecticut type. Um reform homes more than it's you know, state lock up. You know you're not writers, insider traders in market read large novels, lift weights, be comforted. Oh he'll be comforted. All right, Um, all right, let's move on. Let's check in with the listeners. Um, anything you got? What? Hey? Where's grave Digger? Want to say? Hi? How are you? Buddy? Um? Somebody tweeted at I'm great, somebody tweeted at me earlier today, or maybe the whole group that we've been, you know, riding you a little bit in recent episodes. Do you do you sense that? And if you do, I want to preemptively apologize for Mark Um. But it's all good fun and we love you well, Thank you. I appreciate that, Mark Um. No, I feel like we're just bantering. Mark just flipped double birds from prison, which feels right. You feel good about You're okay? Though? Yeah, I don't feel animosity between us. You know, I think we're I think we're all doing well. I'm always You're gonna watch just the Friday Fun Show live because you can get stuff before they're blurred out. We're somebody will grab that, I'm sure and it will be up on Twitter if you're listening, Sorry for cutting you off, or we're gonna say no. It's like, I I feel that I adequately assess Justin's work, and he's done a very good job most of the time. Oh he was about to say excelent and then he downgraded it to very good. I enjoy his presence. There's something there. I don't know what it is, but we're gonna get to the bottom of it by the end of the season. What do we got Justin? From the listeners slash viewers? All right, this is a fun one for Dan and maybe Greg to answer two part questions ahead, Buddy, is Geno Smith the best player the Jets have drafted in the past fifteen years? How far could this Jets team go with Gino at QB? Well, I don't. I don't hate on Sam Green because I get it he's trying to get a rise out of me. I don't think any Jets fan is thinking right now, man, if only we had Gino. That ship sailed so long ago. It's like it's like feels like another generation generation ago. He got drafted by the Jets before this podcast started. So, uh, Gregg doesn't believe it. I don't. I'm fine with Gino having a nice season. I don't want him to have a good game against the Jets. I don't believe that you guys were rooting so hard. I even pretend that you would be loving it if he was. You're missing You've always missed the point with this. I've never been rooting against Gino. He's rootting against you, so that what I mean. But it's at this point it's like the same there's nothing personal for me with Geno Smith. Um, this version of Gino would be a huge upgrade over Zack Wilson, by the way, So those are two I don't I don't live in a world where I wish, you know, was my quarterback. But I also you can't hide from the fact that Gino is having a great year and if you combined him with the Jets team as a whole, they'd be better. So there you go. I'm trying to think of who's been a decent draft pick by the Jets over the last second was coming, Yeah, Williams. I was thinking more like further back, but because they had a great little run from like oh seven to to eleven if they had the jet, if they had Gino this year in an offense which isn't uh dissimilar from the one Seattle runs, I think they'd have a chance to make the super Bowl and be harder in the a f C, but I think they'd have a chance to make the super Bowl. And it has felt personal Dan sometimes over the years because like the whole thing with him getting punched in the face was I out like painted as like, well, this guy is kind of obnoxious, and that I think that was the thing that that got the Geno supporters most upset, like somehow that was, well do you The only reason I've ever given Geno uh crap about that was it sounded like he was being a to a teammate, Like he stiffed the guy, a no name player on a six hundred dollar flight after he blew off that guy's camp for children in Texas. And when the guy that was not a even a guaranteed salary dude was like, hey man, can you pay me back for the flight or half the flight, he kept on like brushing him off and kind of laughing him off. And then the guy did the wrong thing, I cam Polly, and but those aren't like those aren't like a both sides things where they're they're equal to me, or that they're like, you know what, you're the morality police here. That's that's fine. But that was the wrong thing for Geno Smith to do and he had to miss games. This is this is such a stupid conversation. I can Polly was an ask for and he did obviously, but it's not that Gino and I'm not saying Gino Smith deserved it, but you can't just view it in a vacuum as he was an innocent man that I clocked in the face. He was being a dig and sometimes when you're you get popped in the mouth. That's what happened to good question, Samuel Green, Yeah, bring it. What else we got? All right, let's stick to the quarterback discussion here. Daniel Black wants to know has Burrow elevated above the to a Herbert debate? He's always, um, I mean, why is this debate? They can all be good, they can all be good. Um. The fact that like some people are gonna question either quarterbacks. Some people of course are gonna question Joe Burrow and managing the pocket and taking sacks and all this. I think all of these guys are good. I think football itself, in football discourse, can elevate above like oh this guy, I know. Like we rank quarterbacks and that's something that we do and it's a fun discussion. But like, we don't have to pick these guys against each other to take one. If one goes up, another doesn't have to go down. I think Joe Burrow to a talk about lot Justin Herbert are going to be starters in the league for the next ten to twelve years. Sometimes they're gonna win, sometimes we're gonna lose. They're gonna do it differently. It's not I hope people don't think I'm fencitting to say this, but I think they're all good. I think they're all good. They're all good in different ways. Is that well, That's part of the reason I love you Claibon is that you just look at things from a different perspective than a typical sports fan. I think for me, it's like it's fun to debate who's better than who, But when you look at it from that lens, it's like it's true, you don't have to decide this guy is better and that makes this guy worse. Uh, And that's why I'm looking so forward to what's about to happen in a couple of minutes. It's about me with Patrick. What else we got? All right, let's do one more quarterback question. Becca Roby wants to know how quickly do you think the Lions are looking for a new quarterback. I think they will stick with Goff for another year. Love all of your work, gentlemen. I don't think that. I'm and I think that they've set their whole world up collecting draft picks. The whole golf switched in, the whole Stafford thing was to eventually get another quarterback. He's he's the dictionary definition of a placeholder. And I mean he's he's sort of fine. He's sort of dalton Linish to me on some level. And I think that there's a better draft coming up if Detroit's not looking at starting with a new young quarterback. I'm not quite sure what they're doing, he he going. I mean, there's no chance they've actually put themselves in the position that they tried not to be in initially, which is like, well, we don't have to take a quarterback. We we need to take time because we need to build up the rest of the team first. And that's fine. They didn't fall in love with any quarterbacks available to them in the last two drafts. But this season they're stuck in the place where they have to They can't go into next season with Dared Goff, assuming the coaching staffs even there next year, which I'm not totally assuming but I think is likely, they absolutely have to do whatever they can to get him. The British Nights cut you off there, Greggy, I was ending it. It's all good. Apologies. They're you know, they're very regal, but they're also very conscious of time. Apparently. Yeah they have they have someone whipping them behind the scenes. All right, it is time now, Yes, much long awaited h contribution uh from Patrick Claiban on the segment we like to call in honor of the great Chris Westling. It's about me. Oh, it's about me. This is cool. It's also cool that I can look down at YouTube and see instant reaction from people all over the world while we do this, because that ability hasn't always been available to us. So while it's still around, I would like to shout out social media, website, Twitter dot com, UM, Mike, anything involving people, it can have an extraordinary set of problems because people have problems, some of them more than others. But one thing it fundamentally changed for me and for millions of other people around sixteen years ago. Uh, it changed the way we watch and consume sports, and that was with each other digitally. UM. I can think back to all these moments, Ray Allen in the corner, a season changing field goal, hitting not one but two posts, the lights going out in New Orleans, watching the phrase orchestrate a murderous coup at a redding, at a wedding. UM. I think about how I went a decade without watching wrestling, but I knew the second that takers streak at WrestleMania came to an end. I just none of these things that we shared was a corporation. Uh. None of that was gifted to us by a billionaire. Uh. That was us. We invented the quote, tweet, the sub tweet, the modified tweet. UH, entire genres of communication and jokes birth by us just being in the same place, sharing the same moments. And so this place where I've strengthened my relationships with all of my coworkers who can understand me because of this website, the place where I met my wife, the place where we go to angry and happy and everything in between. I'm not saying this because the u r L is in danger from some talent was fraud. I'm saying this because I love what we were able to accomplish and what we were able to make together, and when and if the opportunity presents itself, we will be able to do it again here here. I that's that's great. I love I love that, Patrick, and it makes me think also like for me um in my sports fandom moving across the country and you know, I wish I could watch games with my friends and my dad and my brother, and Twitter for me has been like a companion uh as well where I get to share opinions also here other takes like that. It really has changed the sports fandom experience UH to such a positive degree. So it is. Yeah, it's worrisome and a little bit annoying that billionaires, as they tend to do, are trying to ruin a good thing. When you like, when you were talking, I thought to myself, you mentioned, you know you've made friends, You got to know coworkers, you met your wife on Twitter. That's pretty incredible. Um that. Uh. I became friends with West on Twitter like a year and a half before he came to the NFL, and we had tweeted back and forth about um, things that annoyed us, about books that we love. Fred Extulely's a fan notes which he's shared with you guys, like notably, And I was like, I don't, like, you know what Chris looks like, or I've never seen him on a video thing because there was no Chris video back then. He didn't do that stuff. And like, I just got to know him through words and through and through writing. And so for me, I can get real cynical about what Twitter is. But that's the high point. I also can think of about maybe a d eighty tweets that I've sent out over the last ten years that I kind of wish I didn't. Um. So there's that element of I mean, that's the low, that's the low, the low ebb of it. Yes, but it is a powerful venue. I love that the the YouTube comments I jumped in there was reading them live, had a few myself. Um, we're expecting like a takedown of what's going on on Twitter. But I think clai Bon reminded us of all of our better selves. He was like, Jeff, Saturday is gonna be on Sunday, um in that locker room when everyone's expecting it to go poorly, and he's got to make us want to run through a brick wall for for Twitter. Twitter survives? Are you picking the Colt screen? Maybe maybe Mark grabbing off of me. I'm very pro cults on Sunday. I cannot wait to see what Sundays with Saturday is pretty fun. I just want to add to all of this discussion that I wouldn't even have this job if it weren't for Twitter. I became friends with the social media manager of the Tennessee Titans. He sent my resume to the NFL like this would this wouldn't even be happening right now off it wasn't for Twitter. So that's a prow. I'm justin. I adore you and think that you're wonderful at your job, and I'm glad that Twitter exists so that you exist in our lives and our fold. Thank you for being here. Thank you. That'll be a job. Um. Good stuff, good stuff, all right, it's time now and I crowdsourced it this week with our amazing listeners. Um what is accra shore. It is time now for the Greg Rosenthal Week ten Injury Minute, presented by Akrashore safety nets for circus acrobats. Again. This is injury news as of one thirty Eastern time. Do check your latest injury report later in the day. In David and Joku and uh Jeremiah Uso Kormore both out for the Browns. Denzel Award, as Mark mentioned, will be back this week. Darren Waller and Hunter Renfro were both placed on injured reserve Thursday. Good Luck Raiders h Jonathan Taylor is practicing and is likely back. Josin Josh Allen didn't practice all week. You might know his status by the time you hear this, but it's not looking good. Jordan Poyer is also out. Kenny Golladay's back, Ezekiel Elliott's back, Antoine Winfield is back. Just engages out a Russell gage rather for the Bucks. Mike Williams and Keenan Allen have not practiced as of this taping. Matthew Stafford has not practiced. It's looking like Johnny Walford of them, maybe they'll mix in a little Bryce Hopkins. Ryan dani Hill is limited and does seem to be practicing more trending towards the return. But I'm not going out on a limb like Tannehill. I mean like Graver there. Justin Verrett, very disappointingly is out for the seasoning after tearing his achilles. That is disappointing. My guy, Pete Warner looks like he's gonna miss for a very banged up Saints team. kJ Hamdler got hurt in Germany and won't play this week, and uh, Eric Stokes is gonna be out for the Packers. Shack Leonard, by the way, has uh suffered an injury or at least just isn't getting over that injury. It's kind of been a quiet part of this Colt season. He's not looked the same at all, and he is back to being out and let me go out on a limb on that one little PostScript that the owner is not rushing Shack Leonard back to action. Well, he's been playing and it's awkward, but he's probably been their worst player and has been a big problem for the defense. And see in July. It's just too interesting Sundays was Saturday? Did you say kJ Hamler was in Germany? Did I? I that was a brain fart that I should not have said that, but that, but Greg, that would keep him out of the game, So that's possibly true. Correction, he is definitely not in Germany. I mixed up like the old Russell Wilson team and the one he's playing anything else Grave Digger before from the listeners, before we get to our fearless prediction, Um no, I catch Flatwood. It's fun. Let's come on, there's a million great ones looking at stream through. It's tough. It's don't know how to do all right, Jim w Will the league shift their head coach criteria? Jeff Saturday is a successful coach? Oh, I see what you're saying. Um, So to hire Yes, every what is more copycat than like coach Sean McVeigh, boy Wonder succeeds, So we're gonna hire twelve other boy Wonders and four of the least he was in Like the um the world of NFL coaching, this that. I don't know if a copycat scenario presents itself here. But what do you guys think, Yeah, the copycat is the owners get to do whatever they want, so right, it depends if he becomes their head coach, and Jim Mercy did kind of indicate that it could be something beyond this year. Maybe it'd be something to do with an interim I mean interim coaches. What does it really matter? And that on some level you kind of keep the coaching staff in the same spots that they were in. But if they actually give him the real job next year, that's a little different. Alright. What else we out here? A W please take my wife out to dinner? Pat Wow suck scenario. That's that's that's for you to do a W. But I'm I'm rooting for you. I'm rooting for everybody. AW is not quite understanding how marriage works apparently here. But well he has a different viewpoint on it, Peter. Our point of view, you're a good hedge head coach. Who was available? Which hot seat most interests you? Oh? I like this one the Arizona Cardinals, although I would love it if there is a different GM there because Kyler Murray is their quarterback. I would like to work with him and watching Cliff Kingsbury try to rally the troops and just thinking of the veterans that have been in that locker room for three years and what they're thinking when he speaks to them. I think that that place is due for a coach that looks good replacing Cliff. I don't think that Kyler is the problem there, but I don't know if he's the solution either. I don't know. I might go Detroit. I'm going, I'm going right here in southern California, And well, that's a good point. I fire right now, one more fry farms. At the halfway point of the season. Is Kirk Cousins still the prime meridian? Is he the Dalton mine for quarterbacks? But he kind of goes up and down and he just has But I mean there's I mean, what's the prim ridian right now? Is like this season? Like, I think he's playing above Kirk Cousins levels for the most part. I think he's a unique player because I think he's been above the prime meridian this whole time. That's the whole that idea. We've never put him up as the Dalton scale. He's just this weird spot where he's like twelve always and that's not the middle that's why he's getting that all that guaranteed money. Is he's like slightly better than it was. It was a car. There was a Tan Tannehills car. What I don't think So it was out in the comments section, what car Fields perfect. His car is back to sinking because of what's going on around him. But he's fine. It's like, he's not the solution, He's not the problem. Yeah, that I think we talked about that in the episode. That the fact that Cousins keeps getting gobs of money is he is such a kind of a unique dude that nobody knows what to do with him, so you just keep giving him all this money. But he also is, like Greg says, not a top ten quarterback, but he's also not at bottom sixteen. It's he's got a nice spot, all right. Anyway, Uh, let's move now to fearless predictions. What do we have Last week? Mr Grave Digga, we had a bunch of predictions that went awry. Mark had four on his own. Mark said the Titans will beat the Chiefs by ten plus points. That did not know that was looking good for a minute. For a second. If if Tannehill played, that could have happened. Dan will turn full villain on Zach Wilson by sundown on Sunday. I am not full villain. Uh No. Zack Wilson beat Curious and the Bills, so he's some doubt they're still them. Greg will eat cottage cheese at some point during the weekend. I actually don't know if Mark was correct about this or not what happen, right, It's been months, it's been And also Mark said that Rachel will hike Runyon Canyon and encounter Diego Luna and then went off on a big, long, fantastical tangent. I don't think any of that happened, because Rachel flew to Munich before that could happen. Okay, Greg said the Falcons would rush for two hundred and seventeen plus yards against the Chargers, but the committee would still have no ruling on Mark's guys, Tyler Algier. That was close, Greg, the Falcon's rush for two hundred and one yards but lost. And you're certainly right about the second part. We're still three to four weeks in terms of the processing. I mean, Algier had three catches for negative seventeen yards last night, so I don't know what the like the big competition for the guy is thing. Here's part of a five man running back committee. I've never seen such a big committee. Also, it's a it's a holiday weekend, so you know how that backs up paperwork. So I think we're back up to four to six. Okay, um Dan said the Chargers would lose to the falcon Is because the Chargers are the Dalton scale of teams. You're correct about the Chargers being the Dalton scale of teams, but incorrect in the prediction about the Falcons. What a clown show. The Falcons just banging the over and over weekend, faux feisty, faux spicy. Yeah, they they've lost it, by the way, they are no longer spicy, They're no longer here and that they are they are, they are. And finally, Rachel with the only correct predictions, said that Aaron Rodgers would lose to the Lions, although she also said he would burn sage on the field, which I think that part if you don't know, we don't know that. We'll have to follow that up. All right, I'll go first with a prediction, very straightforward. We talked about it on the Thursday show. The Rams are in the worst way. Who do they have again this week? Cardinals? Cardinals? The Rams in the worst way need one of their stars to win a game, and Aaron Donald, who's had a quiet season. I'm not blaming on Aaron Donald Donald because there's all sorts of issues with that team, but he has not had the year you expect to. Statistically that changes. He's gonna have multiple sacks and force a turnover. Uh, you know, be a star of this game in a big Rams win like that. It's good, all right, Mark? Oh no, we're gonna save Mark because this is all just the build up to Mark at this point. Greg. Okay, my favorite moment, or one of my favorite moments, I shouldn't say my favorite, but one of my favorite moments of our live show in London is when a listener came after me for talking too much about Gino, and then the rest of the crowd rallied behind me and started chanting Gino. Well, that won't be the only international chant of Gino this year. The German fans at some point will be chanting gen no, geno, Gino when the Seahawks take down the box. All right, so they have the chant Gino and they need to win. They need to win too. And by the way, we might we might have another live show coming up in the Los Angeles air you. Uh, let's just put a little tease there, little tease there for the wet clay mix on that one batrick. I'm also gonna go super simple, mainly because I'm I'm over on the season on predictions right here on the Friday Fun Show. So no, you got it last week two weeks ago. Either way you did two weeks ago, I don't know. It feels like, all right, I'm uh, forty seven points more than forty seven points will be scored in Santa Clara on Sunday. Uh. The arrival of Christian McCaffrey has broken something within Kyle shanahan. Also, they got a bunch of guys back on offense the forty hours and Chargers will score a lot of points, almost fifty. Yes, Claibon, you said that Giants would score under twenty one against the Seahawks and you were correct. Look at that. So this this feels, you know, close to a Clay bonn rainmaker. Essentially, we need we'll need to work here again today, Greg and Patrick. Don't don't rule out the possibility that you hit on this one too, because after the Giants prediction, you do have some momentum. All right, Mark closed it out. Okay, it is a m A swift three part uh one, it will not be swift, well, it will be. At one, a player is forcefully kicked by someone. Um and Dan, I know that you and I were working together during this. I'm thinking of the Nodomican Sioux match Shop Thanksgiving incidents. Something on that level will occur. As as if working on Thanksgiving doesn't suck enough, then you have the star of the Lions kicking a guy in the nards was great. Yeah. I had to take a plane that day out of l a X and I was assigned to that game. And they're like eighteen spinoff posts. It's like, come on, football gods, you're already annoying. UM. Part two, Tony Romo starts weeping out of happiness and a boylike excitement, and then starts speaking in tongues. After a particularly elite Patrick Mahomes touchdown pass, they quickly cut the commercial break. UM three, stop there at top that that's your best one all year. I love you know what I'm starting to think because I think we all get the vibe that maybe Tony's not working quite as hard as before he got the bag, that he's just doing these games because he doesn't need to do really and he's studying at this point in the homes because he's called almost every one of his games in the last five years. Right, just play the hits. I I totally I'm with you on that. That analysis the third one in Germany, Colleen or Rachel will get a selfie with Tom Brady before the weekend raps. Oh, that's good. You could see that he's kind of kept in shrink wrap on I don't know. Well, that's so it would be so it's not a home run. It's not an easy prediction. It's uh, you know not. And that's why I think you should be free, free Sessler free. Alright, Wait, do they think everybody? No one or the other. It's got to be a friend of the show one. That's the only two friends of the show that I that I truly know. Well, I guess the Good Morning Football cruise over there, all the shots fired to no. I just I was trying to think of like like like people that come on our show all the time, and Colleen and Rachel. Joe Thomas just heard this and was like, Oh, what the heck, Mark, I thought we had a bond. You know you're Browns fan. I I love everyone is over there with with the deepest part of my heart. Rich Eisen's like, I started this network. You you don't like me, don't missed opportunity there, Mark to lob the grenade back. Oh you know, Peter and all the guys. I'm not looking to create um problems. All right, thank you everybody for listening. Enjoy your weekend, enjoy the football On Sunday. We'll be back with the flagship program. Until then, free Mark Sesler and he's the call.