Ravens-Bucs TNF Recap + Final thoughts for Week 8 (Friday Fun Show!)

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Speaker 1: He's welcome to another edition of the Friday Fun Show. Working title be Around the NFL Guide to all things Week eight related and beyond. Yes, it's a live stream, so everyone right now on the YouTube stream was up. Good to see you. I see the rooms already hyperactive. A lot of talk about Giselle. I don't know what that could be in relation to. But yes, we will get into everything that's going on in the league. Joined today by heroes Greg Rosenthal and Mark Zessler and again a special guest, just a special guy, Patrick Claiban. What's not packing to see again? But not good to see you guys too. Yeah, I don't know what people would be referencing other people's marriages about this. It's always weird. It's it's a weird spot. But hey, this this is the Friday Fun Showing. I'm glad to see you guys. Right, It's not Friday is not fun for everyone? Um unfortunately? And Mark, what how are things judging by your set up in a state penitentiary. How I've been taken in by the cops for a variety of incidents, and so I'm recording to reporting you live from a local jail. Just in the Valley. But let's say it also could be like a middle school boys locker room or high school boys and possibly Mark, are you in a boy's locker room right now? I am not that. Let's um, let's we can stop the surmising at that stage now, alright, very good, alright, So we got a lot to get to today. Like we said, we have the listeners live streaming and we're gonna be connecting with them. We're gonna get some fearless predictions in. We're gonna check in on the Injury Watch ahead of Sunday and Monday's Action. We have a new edition of It's About Me. But before that, yes, let's tie a bow. On the first game of week A, Thursday Night Football five to ten, Jackson takes the snap fax the handoff the Fleuve backwards running to the right, fires back of the antson Isaiah likely touch Ravens his first NFL touchdown gives the Ravens their first lead of the night, and it was a lead they would hold on to for the duration of the contest to win for the Ravens over the Buccaneers in Tampa. Very nice win for Baltimore and their topsy turvy season. And another dispiriting loss for Tom Brady's team, twelve hours before it was announced that his marriage with Gazelle is over. Um Lamar Jackson threw for two thirty eight yards and two second half touchdowns. You saw one of them to Isaiah Likely. Uh. This is Baltimore's first winning streak of the season if you count two games patrick as a winning streak. I counted his momentum. Baby, Lay, you are the number one Lamar stand so you must have enjoyed the second half. Concern me, he doesn't have a lot to work with. Yeah, that's the problem. It was. It was the quintessential but at what cost? Thursday night football win. But you can see when things are upfront good Ronnie Stanley's back. When they have that going, that version of Lamar can show up and no matter what's what's going on. If it's Isaiah Likely, if it's Devin Duvernet, if it's uh, DeMarcus Robinson looking like a wide receiver, one, Lamar can get it done. As long as things are solid up front. It's just for the long term. You hope that Rashad Bateman and Mark Andrews are there because you can beat a Bucks team that's floundering and Tom's throwing bounced passes without those guys. But when you start talking January, when you start talking Chiefs some Bills, Uh, that's when you really need those guys. But hey, to see them not melt down, because this is honestly, because we said it all the time. The team could be undefeated. The team could literally be undefeated with without catastrophic fourth quarter errors. And they didn't make them for the second game in a row. They kind of made them against the Browns, but nothing today, none yesterday. So hey, win's win. They've They've been up by ten points at some point in all eight of their games, which is outrageous. Like the other list of teams in NFL history who have done that, I've all been close to undefeated. Are these great teams and the Ravens aren't one of these great teams, but they are a great running team. Now two four yards in the second half. It was bizarre that they passed at thirty times with seven runs in the first half, if only because they've run the ball so well over the last two to three weeks. After we started the season saying where's the running game outside Lamar, it's been there. Their offensive line, you mentioned it. Since Stanley has been back, has been great, and then yeah, you lose Andrews. Supposedly, he said to reporters it's nothing serious. Bateman's a foot injury. That's a bigger concern. I think they should trade for someone. But the fact that when Lamar's missing all his weapons, and then you look on the other side, and there was all this talk early in the year how Tom Brady doesn't have any of his guys, Well, they were all there last night. You know, Godwin's there, Evans is there, who Jones is back? Uh, you know, I know there. They had a couple offensive line injuries. Oh, by the way, so did Baltimore. It was the offenses for this game that was a difference. And the Ravens offense is a great running offense, and Lamar was eight for eight for ninety four yards and two touchdowns in the second half. So the running game kind of set up his passing game, and that that's what you want when you're the Ravens. I mean, this Bucks team, it's not just their offense that's it's become unwatchable. Their stamp was meant to be their defense all along, and it's it's a second week in a row where the injuries in the secondary I think contributed to what Baltimore was able to do in the second half, because the Panthers did it a week ago. And when the Ravens mystified me with how they came out in this game with what you mentioned, Greg, like a thirty two to seven passed to run ratio in the first half. Then I loved what they did in the second half. And again we keep talking about who can be this next team in the a f C. Can it be the Bengals where they're they got some issues right now with injuries. But the Ravens, to me, if they can run the ball this way on teams and you want to see a game after game, um, that's the dominant nature of who they've been in the past. And I love the way that they attack. But the the Bucks last night, who simply cannot tackle anyone right now, I mean their defense is a mess. I think we talked about it on the Thursday preview show. It's time to see some teams graduate from good to very good or even great. I think Baltimore stands as that's a possibility. I'd like to see them get some help uh for Lamar in the passing game at the tread trade online. Will know by UH Tuesday if they do. I thought Baltimore scoring on four straight possessions in the second half was just imposing their will and yes, using that running game two yards in the second half. Um. And then on the defensive side for Tampa Bay, like you're saying, that's their fourth consecutive game without forcing a turnover, I mean, that's that that's not sustainable. You need to when your offense is struggling the way it is, you need your defense to come up with big plays, create short fields. That's not happening. This has been a team wide kind of meltdown as they have gone from two and oh to losing four out of five. And we've talked about Greg Um, Devin White, and he's one of these veterans in Tampa that needs to step up. And that was a slaughter reel Um in terms of tape that he put out there in that game, to the point that the TNF crew highlighted it right down to Todd Bowles like giving him a w t F talk on the sideline, like what is going out there? Going on out there dude. Yeah, week after week, teams are picking on Devon White. I think it shows a difference between like the awards that you suh out sometimes send out from the NFL, because he won NFC Defensive Player of the Month in September. He had a better month in September, but he was getting picked on in coverage then two and it's just like teams take advantage of his aggressiveness. Not like he's their biggest problem, but he is a problem still though I put I still put it way more on the offense. Tom Brady didn't look right like the The most telling three play sequence to me of the entire game is after he hit Mike Evans with one of his best passes. And that's the thing that fools you. He has a lot of great passes, really great passes in that game. The one at the end of Julio that got over turn was insanely good. But after he has the fifty one yard or to Evans when they were down eleven, the three play sequence after that he misses Kyle Rudolph who was open for a touchdown and he pats his chest. Next play he throws a nearer interception to Mike Evans, one of the seemingly fifteen miss communications to Mike Evans over the last two weeks, and Mike Evans after that play packs his chest. They line up for a fourth and three, and then they have an offensive penalty before the snap, which they've had a lot this season. And then uh, Todd Bowles chooses to kick a field goal on fourth and eight, and like those four things in a row have been all happening so much that the field goal decision killed me. By the way, they had a touchdown on fourth and eight on the goal line later in the game, so it's it's possible to do Todd Bowls, be a little more aggressive. You just gotta try to win it. But it's the offense is just so sloppy, and it's Godwin, Brady and Evans a lot of the time. It's not just these other secondary players. What's also I think the penalties. I mean, they're just an undisciplined team and it's such a different looking Bucks squad on that front than the last couple of years. I keep bringing this up. I know, like it's I'm not gonna go into it again, but I I just think that the Todd Bowles experience has been a tick down from Bruce arians. It just has. I don't know, this is a there's some coaching elements to this, and there's also some personnel issues because they lose Shack Barrett last night, so that's not gonna get any better. And there was one point the game Kirk kirk Street said it was a misread. I honestly think Lamar just saw Joe try on Sharenka there as the one defender and decided to keep the ball and proceeded to have a twenty five yard run because of that. And then you look later in the game and he's on the bench just watching from the side because there's there's personnel. It's bad top to bottom right now, and tam he's out the rest of the season now. They reported an achilles tendon tear, and that's a very thin position, as Patrick just pointed out, for them, one little, one little thing from this game they talked about afterwards, and I think Tom Brady obviously going through a lot on multiple fronts, but that he just of sat at his locker in silence and talking to really know one other than blame gather quietly and totally dejected. He's never been anywhere like this in his career. And there's one other moment when they lost to the Giants in the Super Bowl, when I really think he was injured in that game, where he sat at his locker so dejected, slowly peeling one sock after after the next, and it's like he took those losses hard. But I think where he is right now is completely unsharted territory for Tom Brady. It's um remarkably public how this is played out, And I guess that's not a total surprise because they're two of the most famous people in the world. But even by the standards of Hollywood type gossip in public marriages, um failing the fact that it's all been kind of like right at the service, we don't know any other underlying issues. But the fact that Brady retires six weeks later, he comes out of retirement immediately you hear that Giselle is not happy about it, and then by Halloween their marriage is over and that statement goes out the morning after Uh, he loses for the third time in the row in a row, for the first time since what two thousand two or whatever it is, um, and it's just been I can't even imagine how difficult this has been for Brady and you wonder where his head at that that's all fair to wonder, and you know, you just kind of feel for the guy who seems like he's gotten so much in his life that's gone his way. This feels like some type of karmic retribution that he's dealing with that he's probably like, how did it get to this? Uh So that's a major subplot around this team to like can you can't? You don't want to play up the gossip side, claibon, but it's like this is playing out with the most important player of the team and it it cannot be helping in terms of his preparation and his focus. No, it definitely doesn't help. But I do think because we can look back at Tom's life, he's been through a separation before, right, and and we very rarely do the math on how it impacts people on the field when things are going well, but we tend to do that when things aren't going well. And there's any number because all of these guys are human um and any number of scenarios. Dawson Knox's uh brother passing away a couple of days before he's trying to play a football game. People are always going through things and it's tough to to ask what impact it's having. But I think essentially Tom Brady has done this before. Tom Brady's played football his entire life. The one thing Tom Brady has not done is not played football, and I think that's the thing that's probably more difficult for him to deal with because he's dealt with breakups, he's dealt with losses, but probably the specter of not playing the game anymore. I think that's more of an issue because it's tough for me because I'm not in a relationship. I don't the fascination with celebrity relationships is difficult for me because any relationship that I'm not involved in, I don't necessarily have context for or or no why. I do think I doubt that any issue that developed in UH is ending a thirteen year relationship. I think there's probably other things that go into that, but that's that's just speculation for me and someone in the comments to say it, I'm letting him off the hook. I'm just being blind about how the way he's playing, because I mentioned how he has made really great throws throughout this the course of the season. But the reason I mentioned that was because how that contrast to how he's playing otherwise. Last night was I think his worst game of the season, one of the worst games I've seen out of him in a long time, missing open guys not on the same page. This has obviously been his worst season, along with the last nineteen, the last Patriots. He's not playing well, and I think last night was the worst that he's played. It was was very lucky not to have a few interceptions. And he's forty five years old. He's out there like outside the pocket, trying to make plays like none of it is good on the field either for him. Right now, all right, let's check in with the listeners on the stream for the first time. What he got Grave Digg forty three three NFC South. Remember when it was g and three teams went through to the playoffs? What has gone wrong? Well, let's let's go through them quickly, one by one. The Bucks we just got into that. Uh. The Saints, we talked about that through the summer, that they could potentially be very good this year or potentially bad, and they're leaning that way. The Panthers, we knew was a dicey proposition from the start, and I feel the same way about Atlanta. So yeah, I think really the destabilizing force in the division is Tampa's funk. Like for me anyway, that's the only team I felt really confident about is a ten to twelve win team. So to see them struggle like this, uh, that's that's to me what really stands out. Well, think about three of the four teams have a head coach they didn't have a year ago, and I mean with the Steve Wilkes situation, maybe that's a plus, but it isn't a plus with Sean Payton, it's not a plus so far in Tampa Bay at all. The Saints fans have to be wondering, like this is the year that but the Bucks fell apart because they're supposed to be all in there pushing everything into the future so that they can sneak a couple of extra playoff spots, and now they fell apart as the Bucks due too honestly like pushing that. That was the statement, and that was the statement to me when I was down there. But then they they trade C J g J to a contender, and it's just like the Bears trading Robert Quinn to that same contender, and it's it's like, what's going on? I mean, were there were whispers that that was a Dennis Allen type thing that had Peyton been there. I don't think he gets traded. I really don't. What else we got? What's Greg's favorite Beastie boiler? Oh? This is going to take a second. I don't have one question. I'm not actually particular big Beastie Boys fan, not a fan, am I celebrating the twenty anniversary of Deaf Tones around the Fur album? This is These are the questions we have so far today. Let's get back to these people being concerned about Mark Boys locker room or prison or something. Grave Diggers smoking tree over there with great questions over here on the we're really throwing Grave Digger. I've never listened to a deaf Tone song in my life. Patriots, which teams are willing to stick a nitty gritty fork in? That's an interesting question. I'm wondering if how about the team of at l M. You know, this is a weird season to do it too. It's way to the fact that the NFC South could have the Panthers leading it by Sunday Night tells you everything you need to know about the state of the NFL. This is not a good stick of fork season Texans. Texans is the one team I'm willing to stick a fork in a Michael Morrigan, Mark, you shouldn't say smoking tree while detained that that's true, that you have to be to behavior that is a legal um activity in the state where I am and right now and advice. How many games do the Giants have to win to stop being overlooked as a playoff team? Ask Greg? I think they'll be a playoff team because they're six and one. I think they're making the playoffs. So if if you're saying that we are opinion is they won't make the playoffs, you're wrong. I think I believe they'll make the playoffs. I believe Mark and Dan believe they'll make the I do. Also, our opinion doesn't impact their ability to make the playoffs. There's a set form already established. They also could go four and what five or four and six the rest of the way and make the playoffs. So they're they're going to make anything. It wouldn't that be great? Won't greg to see them? Really? Creator? Why didn't you love it? Johnny Bevan who's gone first? Byron Leftwich or Nathaniel Hackett, uh left, which I guess is a natural fall guy in Tampa, but I don't see it. I think Hackett as for the reasons we've described, all the things going on up in Denver, new ownership included is gonna be very vulnerable if they don't get the train back on the tracks before December. Brady Brady wanted left, which you know there were the reports that he essentially got Bruce Arians fired because sim and Leftwich, you know, works so well together. That's part of its great all right, let's uh take a break there and hit the horns. It's about me. It's about me me. Uh, we're gonna know, Jets fans. Sunday, October two thousand two is the day for the Zach Wilson Experiment in the medal lens. Over the past three years, GM Joe Douglas has meticulously uh rebooted this roster and built it into something interesting. They've gone from laughing stock punching bag to a five and two team that is frisky and with a strong young core in place. The Jets can't wait another year after this to see if Zach Wilson can play. If he if he bottoms out or he doesn't show mass improvement. Uh, they will be in the market come next offseason, most likely be a trade. I would guess for a veteran quarterback and he's four and oh Wilson, it should be stayed in his starts this year, but his play has been uneven. He's been bad for two weeks. And this game, this game on Sunday, has a massive, incredible amount of importance to the franchise. Here's an example which is very funny and I love these types of stories. Uh. Robert Sala announced this morning that the Jets will set off fireworks one hour before the game as a signal for every fan to get into the building by kickoff. Sala said that the team estimated this is awesome of paying customers were not in their seats in time to see Sauce Gardners sack safety that kicked off a win over the Dolphins. The goal is that the fireworks show will get Jets fans out of the parking lot for their tailgating and into MetLife Stadium, which is kind of cute. I have to say, Um, only Dad's born before nineteen sixty, like fireworks and kids. So I don't know if it's gonna get in a massive amount of um like fans into but it's a signal and it's fun. The parking lots fun at the mental ends, So I understand that. Uh, it's sometimes it's hard to you know, wrap things up and get in there. But I know what the Jets are saying. I know what solid messages here. It's like this he's saying it to This game is so important against the Patriots. It's a chance to really make a statement. And Zach Wilson, especially in light of the loss of Breeze Hall, so much is on his shoulders to show that he can make big plays and maybe carry a team to a win. And if he does, watch how much rope it earns him with the fans, uh, the organization and all the players and coaches that are piste about thirteen last year uh for New England. So we can't have him bomb out. We can't have him throw for a hundred and fifty yards and have like five of those plays where he's under pressure and he does seventh ends in a pirouette and has a panic throw at a bounds. We need to move on from that version of Zack Wilson um. If he fails, if the Patriots celebrating that building on Sunday, it will be remembered mark my words as the beginning of the end for Zach Wilson with the Jets. I've seen this movie before. What's new is that the Jets have a young, dynamic core, all on rookie contracts. Wilson needs to start being the guy now or it's probably never. Let's go Zach, maybe maybe probably holding up as Zach Wilson is good Church. Now, are you suggesting if they lose and he plays poorly that you would be starting to think about bringing another quarterback in right now to the season. Just this one game, Dan, This determines. This will determine whether or not will since the quarterback next year? Yes? Do you think Joe Douglas shares your timeline here? Yes, even people don't want to admit it. This game is everything's been building up to this moment for Zack Wilson and the Jets. Zach Wilson needs to show he's worthy to be the future of this franchise. If he bombs in this game, the season will start to go downhill, mark my words, and they will start over at quarterback if if he uh, if he struggles in this game. I don't think we're that far away from a legitimate conversation of like should we play Mike White or Flacco? Because this is a playoff team and he'll need to do more than play well in one game to meet, you know, to prove it, at least to me that he's he's kind of gonna be the guy moving forward. But but it's not like if he plays well in this game, then he has a free pass forever. I think playing really well in this game could really build up some momentum that the team can then run with, and he could have some confidence, uh moving forward. I think you'll lose a lot of people with a bad performance, especially the fan base. He's gonna lose the fan base if he bombs against the Patriots. I will say, danim a little like what makes me a little sad about this Jet season for you is that if we knew in August they'd be five and two. Um, I wouldn't predict that you'd have this like constant drumbeat of ominous undertones every time you seem to discuss the team. I mean, they're five and two in a bad NFL. Uh, I think there's a chance to go to the playoffs and win a player. I understand that, But you know what this if it seems like I'm being negative this week. First of all, yes, those the injuries were crushing earlier this week, so I had to process that. Um. But the everyone knows like it's about the QB in the league and the Jets can definitely make strides this year. But if Wilson plateaus or gets worse, and where he is now there's still far far away with no obvious solution. They still kind of need him to develop to become seen as maybe a true contender in the a f C. So as as positive as as the steps are right now, there's still a lot that needs to be done, and so much at the quarterback position. So yes, I think I think any Jet fan, if you ask them that are honest about this, there's apprehension right now. Still five and two has been great, but for the things we talked about, they've beaten a lot of backup quarterbacks. Wilson has not been good overall. Uh, there's still reason to not be all in and just acting like the Jets are some type of great team. Now we're not there yet. If I could make one case for positivity, because I feel like Dan, not just you, but an entire planet of people who have of an affinity for this football team have been through a lot and history has told them there's a lot of reasons to be sad. And I am marking your words and just like I marked them after the receipts newser from Robert Sala and a lot was placed on that next game. Right if we turn the clock back, you might have been ready to dump the franchise as it's currently structured if things didn't go right in a few games after that, I think five and two is an okay place to be. I think Justin Fields had a rough start to the season, Zach Wilson's coming back off of knee surgery. His season hasn't gotten to the point right where he could maybe start making the improvements that Fields has made in the past few weeks. If it goes wrong, I'm just saying, Dan, maybe it's not the end. Maybe Zach Wilson's okay. That's that's all I'm saying. Maybe he's fine. You're entitled to that opinion. Patrick, It's just that, I mean, if you follow the Jets as closely as I have over the years, you'll understand there's a bit, a bit of fatalism that's built in and this is a part of the fan experience. So you're using some cold blooded logic, if you will, But I'm telling you, this is the fan experience, and some of those things don't intersect necessarily. And I am positive and I do think they're gonna win, and I hope they're gonna win. But also there's a protection element that's built into this as well. That's just that's it is what it is. Um Now, I'm going to root for the Jets like out of for your emotional stability. It sucks being a fan. I gotta be honest with you. It's just tough. It's like, yeah, you're right, five and two is an incredible place to be, all things considered, but you're just kind of always waiting as a fan of this team for the other shoe to drop. So prove me wrong, proved me. It's a whole new world now and we shall see. It does remind me of that Brown season when they had they had Kyle Shanahan's offensive coordinator under Mike Pett and they started seven and three and then never won another game. You're just watching a car slowly spin off a cliff into the abyss and where you were. You highly invested in that team, and it made it hurt even more after the seven and three start when they You know what honestly got got me to believe was an article that West wrote an incredible back in the a ten days when you just could write about whatever you wanted UH. And he wrote this study on Brian Hoyer on how he was being used in shanahan system. And it's like the Shanahan we know now what he does with every quarterback, but it was working with Brian Horrier. I didn't think he was the future at quarterback and was like, I'm riding this train, but then the train hit a brick wall. A brick wall behind me. Those are cinder blocks. I think that that's to keep the prisoners. The sledgehammers don't work in a wall that has built that thick U. Let's check back in with the listeners before we get into the UH Week eight injury minute. Shout out to Greg Sagamo, who says that this is the best week in recent a t and history. Thank you for your work, everyone, Thank you, Thank you Greg. I think that might be given some pop to uh the first episode, the first of many of This Guy Gets It, which really was a breakthrough moment in the history of that I think that really set us apart. I'd say, I feel like, you know, I think people that are not paying attention to that series, I would go and download it right now, because that's how you just get smarter, is listening to This Guy Gets It? What any any questions here? Um? Justin uh MB wonders Marcus podcasting from the corner of the bathroom in a public park good WiFi is really this is really begging our audio listeners to do. How many houses get out of trick or treat at before they realize he's a father that one before they realize he's yours. That's that's probably what else have you got any by the way, anybody um like dressing up for with the kids and going trick or treating? Like, what's your what's the play there? All right? That's always my plan. That's it's my one of my favorite nights of the year. And I'm working Monday night at for the Channel five coverage of Monday night football. I'm pretty heartbroken because I think it might be his last Halloween that she wants to go with their parents. I don't know, she's in fifth grade. At some point she might not want to, but at this but I'm out. I'm I'm sad. That's a bummer. Dude, Yeah, what can we do about? That's a sad story. I'm a se a scale serious if that Friday Dude show, how much is Joe Lombardi holding back Justin Herbert? What a notable scale? Good? Wait, so Coutar is the top of the scale of helping someone. I like that. I like that. Um, I don't know, Okay, Jim Bob Coutter had moments. I think Joe Lombardi is holding back Justin Herbert, But I do think like him not wanting to get hit and the fact that Keenan Allen has been out and the fact that they were already incredibly thin at wide receiver before Alan and got you got hurt, uh is part of it. But I do think they need a new offensive coordinator and they'll get one. All right. Now, it is time, ladies and gentlemen, for the Greg Rosenthal branding in baby Week eight injury Minute presented by Akrash Your horse glue for horse shoes go ahead to be. Hubbard is not gonna play this week after that nice outing a week ago. Seek is gonna be out. We don't know that for sure, but he's expected to miss this week's game. James Conner returning for the Cardinals, most likely after some limited practice. I'man ros st Brown and DeAndre Swift both trending towards plane. Russell Wilson not even on the injury report after being limbed practice. Uh so he's starting in London. Darren Waller might be returning, he's been practicing. Jarvis Landry and Michael Thomas still out. Though they're still out, they're they're not expected to return. Ryan Tannehill trending towards the return he was limited. Alan Lazard might miss a game this week, which would be bad. Johan Dotson is out once again. Uh, Nico Collins uh is gonna probably miss this game, which helps out your guys lock against the Texans. And then finally and most sadly, and maybe we'll talk a little bit more about this for a minute. Is Jamaar Chase is expected to miss for to six weeks, originally reported by Adam Schefter with a hip injury. That is devastating. And I've heard from multiple old Bengals fans, namely Nick WestLine and especially Spice Rack who are who who were like you after the Jets injuries Dan, and maybe to even another degree because they're they're worried about Jamaar Chase's future, like as a football player, it's it's sad. What is the what is it as a fracture there? It's a hip, we don't know, but whenever you hear hip, it's very in that that's very vague. It's it's very concerning. I wouldn't mention that Paul Denner, like friend of the show, mentioned it was a hip flex restraint, that it probably wouldn't require surgery at least that they think time can help heal. But any we've always said this anything with a hip, you're deeply concerned. Mm hmm uh yeah, that's a bummer. The upside would be that, well, there is no upside, but uh, you have ty Boyd, who really stepped up and had a huge game last week against Atlanta. He'll have a bigger role t. Higgins elevates he's their number one receiver, and Hayden Hurst. I think if if you a little fantasy nug out there, he feels like a I who could have an even bigger role in this offense now because Burrow is gonna keep throwing. I don't expect them to change their offense entirely. I think it might change some things about what they do, because I think they were all ready to just go all out aerial salt. As long as this heat streak lasted, it will be interesting to see how Zach Taylor pivots, if at all, with Jamaar Chase on the sideline. Hopefully it's not serious. UM. I understand why Cincinnati fans would feel that way, because this guy is special. It was earlier in that game, after he'd scored his uh second touchdown, where after a play ended, he did that thing which I can't even imagine what it would be like to do it, where you're flat on your back and then you use like your core uh to like flip yourself back up from flat on your back. And it was like he was just being braggy and his a lead athleticism. Um, and then you see him limping off the field at the end of the second quarter. Mart does that to start every morning. It's not a hard thing. It just you just gotta practice it a few times. Second nature. Mark just wants to get some sleep, but at at five am every morning, his cell mate does one thousand pull ups and he's very loud and smelly. All right, Time for fearless predictions. How do we do last week? Graver? What's upright? Not good? Last week? Over five week for the for the group, Mark had two that he missed on, including a wide ranging power outage occurs at one stadium and mishap involving a player with the team bus. I don't think either of those things happened. Dan, You said Rachel would announce her Jets fandom on bench with Vanetta. She did no such things. She didn't take the Jets, but tried to help Rachel, like, enjoy your Chargers fandom. That sounds exciting. Oh yeah, you're you're having a blast right now, right now, you just struggling your way through to Greg said that Belichick would do something inspired by George Hallis d ring a Pat's win over the Bears that did not come to fruition and Rachel said that week seven would be one of the most exciting weekends of the two season, which, like, how do you I don't even know how to judge that, So I'm just gonna give it an X. You're being wrong. So wait, So we're six and a half for twenty eight on the season, and yet you guys wouldn't give it to me when I said Cooper Rush would have two interceptions and he actually had three. You should be giving it to me, just for the brand to have a little higher number here the team sport. No, you just didn't get it. You just didn't get it. Mark, you get it. This guy gets it. Check out the latest episode amongst the other offerings on our feed this week. What's your fearless prediction mark for a Week eight? Okay, I know that you know offense has been in the dull rooms around the league, but we're gonna get three forty burgers this weekend or I'm including Monday night with that. UM, And that is part A my prediction. Part B is that a referee faints. UM. In one of these games, a referee just flat out faints, and you know that that doesn't mean you could have a fainting spell because if heat and you're fine five minutes later. I don't predict anything worse would happen, but you know, I'm a human man just faints UM in zebra clothing. I can't wait mark until a zebra official UM faints in one of these games. And then when we find out who it is, it's like the sideline official, not technically the referee, and then we can't give it to you know, it's any official, It's not the referee. Referee is different, well, any official. Like my prediction market predicts harm on a human being involved in the NFL this weekend. I think fainting can be a bodily defense against UM. Certain things could could be a good thing, and then maybe you wake up with a new perspective. How about you, Greggy. Well, now I feel bad after all this Jets talk, but I'm gonna say my prediction is that Mac Jones comes out and as determined by a panel of this guy gets it or rather Friday Fun Show co host next week. We determined that he played pretty good in a Patriots win, So they have to win or pretty well in a Patriots win. And I'm gonna just trust your guys. Is Um and and honesty next week that he has to have played pretty well in a win and we'll have that vote next week. At this time, there you go hanging those shalots again. I mean, they gotta win and he's got to play well. That's give us some data, give us numbers, give us three scores or you know, so we don't. You don't need us to be the arbiter. Actually not, that would be fun. Never mind, never mind? Um so in their three game in their most recent three game win streak, the Giants have scored greater than twenty one point. Uh. The Seahawks defense has not been that great season long. I think they're playing better. I do not think the Giants will score twenty one points in Seattle on Sunday. Okay, let's like one points in Seattle. I'm feeling that picked up Seattle's defense. The fantasy league mine will be. You know, you saw the Emmanuel Acho madness that his heart take that viral. I don't pay attention to him in any capacity, but all right, don't it sucks? But there's this like humble Bragg, well with that mind, um no, you know that you have the two and on situation going on. He sucked into the two and on he had this long monologue or not long but detailed, well, not really a lot of details, but he said that two is better than Justin Herbert, and the fact that he has more winds backs it up and all this other stuff. Um, here's the annoying thing. Maybe he was looking ahead at the schedule because he's got the Lions to a on Sunday, and this to a Herbert debate, which is annoying to everybody. Um, it's not gonna get any more pleasant because two is gonna have a big day against the lines. Three plus scores, will go over three hundred yards, and uh, the Dolphins roll. So if you are annoyed by what Brandon Staley has done to Justin Herbert the season, or what bad ribs have done to Justin Herbert this season, and you're annoyed with people saying that two is better than Herbert, it's not gonna get better after this week. Two has a big game, Dolphins roll against the lines. Okay, so you say three has to be three scores and the debate has to intensify. You just got on me for having vague goals here, Well, three plus scores, so at least three scores and uh put them over three hundred yards passing and they defeat the lions. That is, we get a sense of a tipping point with that debate. I think we can we can judge that. Yeah, I think it's just I'm just saying it's gonna be more fuel for the acchos of the world, not something we need to measure, per se. Okay, And we can always put their fire out in our personal spheres by blocking them, not watching any of their programming, and just letting them toil on and futility while listening to people who have valid things to say. Dropping the hammer from his daughter's bedroom, I'm just guessing I don't know where you are right now, three rooms in the house. But yeah, okay, all right, thank you everybody for watching and listening and following all our content. 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