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Nate Tyson from Yahoo Sports in football 301. I think Brady kind of nailed it.

The end of his game saying some good some bad. That's early season in a fell. It's sure you could apply that to multiple weeks, but I think their bad is noticeable when you're like, okay, they're just not in sync right now. But the biggest game that we're all really excited about was a rematch between Buffalo and Houston, where the last time Josh Allen played at Houston, he was sack eight times. That part of it was masterful. We can get the

personnel and all that kind of decisions there. But kind of the headline for me, Nate on this one is that I think both teams should kind of feel good considering the standard that both these teams are out in the AFC and look Houston doesn't want to lose that game. But I think both these teams should feel really good about themselves. I think so too. And even even if you look at how the Texas defense performed, which is kind of, you know, I consider them going into the

season. They are my preseason top defense, which is arbitrary rankings for the summer. But they were and they held a bills run game that's really good over the last couple of years to a low success rate 30%. And if you saw that, you'd be like, well, that Texas dominated it, right? And then there's this, you know, dragon playing quarterback named Josh Allen, who who was just launching

stuff. And I really, I'm right there with you where I, I agree that I think both teams feel good.

We can get Texas offense in a sec. But was really encouraging to me, at least from the bill's offense was, okay, we're going against the Texans. Well, Anderson's Neal Hunter. They got waves of past wrestlers. They got so much speed. Was the scheme was really good as far as just the changing the launch point, changing the protections. They had a lot of multiple protections, not just the same play action protection over and over. They're moving Josh Allen left,

moving him right half rolls, full rolls, front side rolls, straight drop acts. And that is how that's thoughtful game playing. That's not just, yeah, there's moments where it's like, hey, Josh Allen goes, go, make us right. The rushing touchdown, the two-minute drill, he kind of created his

Own luck at the Dalton Concade and the DJ Moore when they squeezed in.

aggression, you get rewarded. Like fortune favors the bull, especially at quarterback. And so I, I'm right there with you. This was the fifth highest passing success rate allowed by Texans defense

under Dimeco Rines, which is ridiculous. In the first half, it was 77%. Anything above, like 48%,

good. So, 77%. Against a defense that I think everybody in the world has as at the very least, as a top three defense. So, I think the bills are extremely happy with how they're often performed, especially with a run game, not getting going. The defense was, the defense doesn't have

forces, but they did enough. I thought that the bills defense, but that's what I expected before

the season. It was exactly what I expected. I want to see how Jim Leonard works with this group as the season goes along. And then, yeah, we can talk about the Texas offense, too, and talk what they did as well. But when Josh Allen's throwing the ball over the middle, he's not really taking any negative plays or the offense and not taking negative plays and he's averaging over 13 yards per dropback. That's a pretty good day at the office. And that's not saying that the

Texans play poor at all. No, I'm glad you brought up what this meant for Dimeco's Rines defense, because I was looking at the numbers today. This is as out of character as you could possibly get, but it's also because Allen, because the craziest thing, and it happened on the last touchdown drive, it's like perfect, like that, that drive is a perfect, a perfect, I should say, representation of what it is with Allen. Because I feel like whenever I watch a bills game,

like every set of downs is bad play, play, oh my god, I can't believe he did that play. And then it's like, okay, first down, let's do this all over again. So, it's not that the play to play consistency is there. They only ran 50 plays because they were hitting on so many these bigger plays. Now speaking of bigger, we love 13 personnel on this podcast, and we make that as a joke, because it felt like once the Rams are in 13 personnel, then every smart person was like

13 personnel 13 people couldn't stop talking about 13 personnel. However, it is relevant. There was

what happened here. If you look at, if you look at the 12 personnel, it's 52 percent of the

steps. If it's 13 percent 13 personnel, it's 36 percent of the steps. That's more than double.

I think any 13 personnel grouping for Allen in a game, keep big people on the field. It

frees up and cade. Big people on the field means they can cade and the Titans can work against somebody else. Maybe it means, you know, DJ Moore ends up going off. So, somebody that understands is certainly better than I do. They do look at this as a Houston specific game plan, because it definitely worked by quanting down the edge guys and having these big players in there, but keeping bigger players out there on defense. Like, is this something you think the

bills wanted to do all season or they wanted to do against Houston? It's a little bit of what to do against Houston, because then you get jail and Petri off the field, who's a dynamic player. Awesome. But the overall thing, though, is that they have the ability to pivot. It's just like basketball playoffs. Like, hey, we have a match up. This ninth kind of bench is actually really relevant in this game. This extra big that we have is relevant in this game,

because of the matchup. We need rebounding. We need size, yada, yada. That's really what it is, is that those games that they need to lean into it, like they did here, that they can do an it's valid. And the thing about the 13 personnel, it's not just a magic wand. Like, even the undercenter talk right now, I'm already getting annoyed about, because it's not a magic wand. You look at the commanders and the fricken eagles. They're horrible passing the ball out under center

yesterday. But it's not just a magic wand, you need the actual horses to do it.

Like, Jackson Haas, who's their second year player, who's a day three pick last year, they need a

guy that can hold up in line. But you also need a tight end that can attack vertically. The ramps can do it, because they have Terrence Ferguson, who can attack vertical. Yes, he wasn't getting a lot of yards and everything. But you need the threat and to create space in the whole offense. It's, you need shooters. Like, that's what a receiving tight end is. That's what can Kate is. So they would get to 13 personnel, and it's the variety of looks that you can get out of it.

You can make 13 look like 12. You can make 13 look like 11. But again, you just need to have those horses. You can have 13 look like 21. Like, the bears will do that a lot, where it's like,

oh, they're making it look like an eye formation look. But I think that's what's nice is they

actually have those guys and can Kate can be a matchup issue. If you're going to get the team that has those guys, they can pick apart. And that's really what the Texans defense. Yeah, those were what they identified within get after. They have a couple of weeks of guys and coverage up the spine at linebacker and safety. And if you just get him outside, King Kate has enough speed to attack vertically. And you, you felt that. And yeah, even the final

touchdown to Josh Palmer, which wasn't 13 was 11, I think I'm trying to figure out what the deep safety was doing on that play. Came a bowl like was like, she did over all the way past the hash. And it was a man coverage play where it's, it's bizarre because last year the corner was like playing inside leverage. It was man. I can get into that too while he was doing it. But he gets beat inside. But it was weird to me. It was, was it because King Kate was just owning

Them.

Creed's gravity. If you have a tight end that can actually stretch the seam and do that,

they have to honor. So really, that's what it is. You have to be valid to honor. If you have

a bunch of non-blocking tight ends, all right, we'll just match you with nickel. We'll just match you with dime and just play, all right, cool, all right, you want to run the ball. You're not going to be able to help block the edge. But these guys can all block the edge or attack vertically. So, again, it's that ability to pivot and do that, can Kate who I love coming out. All right, and this is, we saw some stuff is rookie year, they dealt with injuries. What's that?

He's a Vegas guy. He's way, went to San Diego or he went to different schools. But he was, or you taught the ad. But he's from Vegas right down the road from it. Look, those of us that watched him at Utah, you were like, I think this guy has a chance to be nasty.

And I think the, the injury stuff is played a big part of this. But he played in 73% of the

steps in this game. He was a 37% of the steps for games and 24 39% last year, 130 yards, receiving the most by Bill's tight ends since 1967. And when I think about the bigger personnel, keeping bigger people in the field, the thing is he would get stingy one on one and win. He would get last or one on one. So even even if you were like, well, we don't want to just have some lineback or trying to run with this guy because that's going to be a disaster. We're talking about terrific

players in the secondary where there's just not much you can do. It's like the old grog thing. I'm not calling him a grog, but you would have these matchup ideas with grog and he'd be like, okay, all of this just doesn't work. Like, none of it really works because he's that kind of freak. I don't know if can Kate's going to be that. But if he, if this is more like the guy we saw his rookie year, I think it changes a lot for who both dogs can be. Yeah. And they shoot, oh, I'm sorry,

his weakness. He's not a great blocker, but Joe Brady, I'll give him credit. He, he knows that. So he's

not going, hey, blocked in your honor, head up, you know, hold that. Like, that's why the crushing

loved ones are the world. I like the real Tucker crafts are the world are like the real dudes. Like, can Kate, so they run RPOs. So, all right, if he's on the field, we'll just run an RPO. He doesn't have to block. So he just runs a flat route. He just runs a slant. It's when he's attached in line or he's on the back side of a run and the bills have showed way to kind of mitigate that as well. So again, it takes some thoughtfulness where guys maybe have a weakness like that,

but it was encouraging that Brady is not just going to go like we're, we're challenging you this year to block. He's like, all right, you're not good at it. All right, which is, you know, we can wave this way and you can do other things. Houston's offense. I actually felt good about, I think the crossers, a lot of stuff was kind of if we wanted to turn this at all negatively about the bills you go. I don't know how many of those guys back there can cover, reminding me a little bit of

Igmedos in his junior or Ohio state where he just felt like he's getting a flag one and a half like every, I think he ended up depending on the count as like 14 penalties for him as junior year. He cleaned it up his senior year because I remember people talking about him and his junior year, I'm like, this guy's, this is not it. And then he was terrific. Okay. And then I don't even know how many snaps he played. They're talking about pletuning the other corner on the side for Buffalo

and it was just kind of reminding me of like when it gets bad for him, it's just like I'm going to start grabbing everybody all over the place. They can't call him all. But it felt like on some of the crossers stuff that they were doing maybe later in the game too. It's like they once these guys turn on any of these routes like this is going to be open in the middle of field for stroud and you know it's another reason why granted they need the touch and the end of the

end of the post whole thing out. I still felt good about the old line. I felt good about you know a rushing standard there where it was at least something you had to respect throughout the entire game. And I know there's still down one receiver on top of everything else. But maybe it's just the floor was so low for stroud. It was like, hey, it was all right. And this is good. And with this defense, if that's the kind of stroud game that you're going to get, they're still going to win a

ton of games this year. Yes. I agree. Bills are a good team. Well, you know, those are your two great teams going at it. No, I, this was very encouraging for me. And even more encouraging upon review, it was a lot of good, like a lot of good, a lot of stroud through some darts yesterday. Like some real deal high in throw. So like the double move to Nico Collins on the second drive, that was,

that's a hard throw because you got to get it up and down. And that's what stroud can do when he's

feeling it. And he scramble a few times, which is always something you kind of have to pull out of them

because he wants to win from the pocket. He was stepping up. He had developed a bad habit of, you know, moving backwards. Some cord Rex to get away with that, Jordan Love. Stroud though has shown that step up, step up, step up, step up. Underwying numbers for strong. I thought the run game was really encouraging. You know, I thought the variety that they had in the run game, success rate wise. They were both high, 48% and everything. 48% overall, 48% rushing, 48% passing. That's, that's a good day at

the office. It's just, it was just sandwiched by two strips acts. One was just Trent Brown lost. And the first one was, you know, Stroud just got a strip. And that's one thing. He's not the strongest biggest dude back there. And that can happen. But I really was. I'm right there with you. I was encouraged by how this, how this played out. This is why I'm high on Houston. It doesn't have to be a

Top five elite offense.

But again, that's how this team, this is the formula of this team. Running the ball, seeing that is more encouraging than anything Stroud does. I know what Stroud's hide end play is. It's just the variety in the run game, the soundness in the run game. Really only Trent Ingram. I thought it had a ruffer game, maybe in Pasprone, Trent Ingram, Eddinggram, a right guard was maybe the weak point,

which I've always, I knew. You know, that's not a new surprise. But the run game was so encouraging.

And they had 10 explosive plays. That's, that's good. And Nico Collins, of course, is the focal point. They have everyone kind of contributed. You saw some rolling climb in there. They've rookie tied in on Michigan. A Kishan booty had the one catch, which was nice and they got sought off. But, you know, it's encouraging that the other guys got involved in big moments, too. It wasn't just Nico, but Nico, of course, is going to be the focal point. He's a, Nico's the top five receiver.

It's just that he's got to stay healthy. So that's, if you have an ace like that, and the other guys are, again, valid enough that the team wants to run zone, which is what the, what the bills did. By the way, I thought Leonard might lean into more man coverage. But I think he knows where he's got. So it's a lot of quarters, a lot of quarters. And all right, we're going to play quarters. We need other guys to kind of step up underneath over the middle. So that's

probably why he saw some of those throws work end up working over the middle. If you notice, it was a lot of outside the Nico, or kind of the other guys over the middle, makes sense, because

that's how usually attack quarters. You take a 101, or if you don't like the 101, or the cloud,

over the top, okay, that I work the other side. So again, long story short, encouraging and kind of what I expected. I thought this game would be a barn burner in the, absolutely was. Green Bay, another blown lead. Here's a number for you from Mike Sandow. Since week one of the 25 season,

Green Bay is seven and five with nine or more point leads in the second half. Okay, so here's

a scenario with a lead of nine or more points in the second half. Green Bay, since the start of last season is seven and five. That's a 58% winning percentage. The rest of the NFL is winning 90% of those games. I was going to say, yeah, this is that's, and you know, the last time we saw you guys, it was a massive collapse to one of the Williams in the fourth quarter in the playoffs. So I think an easy thing to do is to look at the fourth-down decision. It's fourth and six. They lined up for the

field goal. They're just outside of the red zone. I think, I think it was like 23 yard line or some like that. They lined up. They get the field goal, but it's still only going to put them up 25, 17 after finally Minnesota getting a touchdown, right? So they go to fourth and one,

they run the QB sneak, they get stopped. I don't know how much you've seen. I think smarter people

realize like the move is the QB sneak with Jordan love in that spot in fourth and one year at the

17. Look for the touchdown, put this thing away. The problem is, is that it's like this defining

moment of the timeline of the game, where then Minnesota scores three touchdowns in two and a half minutes. One is a nice drive off of that field fourth down to 10. And then there's the fumble, then there's interception work, green base giving it to them with I think 15 yards of total offense on those last 14 points. So there is a trend here with green bay not being able to hang onto any of these leads. This felt like just chaos. I don't, but I can't blame the fourth down

decision of taking the three points off the board and then going for on fourth and one is supposed to the field goal in fourth and six. It's, it's, it's a new age. You know, that's the old ad age, you know, you never take points off the board, but it's a new age and also, you know, he's not saying, by the way, I hate to take points off the board. I hate to take points off the board. That's thing because everybody wants to come. Oh, here's my guy. I have so many parcels,

isms that I don't like, but go ahead, he won't get to all of them today. The problem was, everybody tried to copy him for like 20 years since you're not billed parcels, like, you know, stop, stop trying to act like him. I'm sorry. It's, you know, like, the guy that's like, actually, the most parcelsy and his, like, Sean Peyton, which is no one would consider as like a real parcels guy. I mean, he is, but it's kind of that. But, um, I digress,

you know, the other thing, too, is the Packers will use Tucker craft as a QB sneak guy. So I was actually surprised that they didn't kind of pull that trigger, maybe because of his injury, um, working back from that. I'm not sure. I, I was not disappointed the decision. Go for it. I, uh, be aggressive, be aggressive. Like, you got to trust your defense against a backup quarterback

named Carson Wentz. Like, if you don't trust him here, when are you going to trust them? I think

the issue with the Packers. And I did not, I've been hiring the Packers the last two years, but not this year. Because I, again, I, I use this term a lot. I don't have the horses. They, they have issues that align. They have issues at corner, and they can't rush the passer. I think you need a couple of those things to, to be a real valid team and put games away. And I, it showed up in this game. Like, they had the Vikings stifled so throughout, but unless they were blitzing and Jonathan

Ganon blitz more than he had, uh, like, I think it was the second highest blitz rate for him as a

Play caller.

dunking on guys. So I, I really do think that I find with the Packers being aggressive and just trying to get like, hey, what's get out of this came and just like, you know, put it away. So I'm not mad at that at all. I'm more mad at, I want to say mad, but the Packers align fell apart because it's a bunch of backups. The rotating guys, like Packers are like a high school team sometimes. They'll rotate tackles and rotate guards even when they are healthy. They've done that for a few years.

Packers do their own thing with everything. We don't play rookies. This must be nice not having an owner. Um, but they really just kind of like, seriously, they can just get away. They've no

media never asked some hard questions. It's, it's kind of nice there. It's not bad living. Uh,

but really the online, you could see the trickle down effect in the second half. Like, so of course, Brian for his blitzes. We've seen all the blitz stats. I won the highest blitz rates in the last seven years. What a yada yada yada yada. The first half, second half, though. Uh, first half, during look, eight for 16, 180, 90 yards, two touchdowns against the blitz.

That's great. Gash or B. Gash, go for it. That's how you want to attack the blitz.

Second half, you took four sacks and had a pick against the blitz. And you could see on those, note that last drive, we're all fell apart. The right guard, right tackle and the tight end are getting off the ball late. They're on the road. It's backups. They're on a silent count. There's no communication happening. And because it's on a silent count, those guys have to look in and their heads are already spinning because they're going against four s. So they're looking in

and then they're wait with their eyes. And so the Vikings are just teeing off on that. That's why

the first half felt like that was because there's no crowd noise. You know, in U.S. Bank, it's loud.

So the second half, that crowd's going nuts. And they have to look inside. They have to look inside. And then it's like, all right, where's my assignment? Okay, I'm right here. The linebacker right here. Okay, I'm like, oh, shoot the ball snap. And then there's Dallas turner already up the field. It was just a, it was a trickle-out effect. Like, during lunch, you have a purple heart. Like, yeah, you don't seem down on Jordan Love at all with this one. And it's, it's like,

all right, when he gets manhandled, it's super embarrassing. And then it's like, do I not have the

ball anymore? Like, that play was one of those plays. You're like, what the hell's going on here?

Yeah, he's getting bullied. But you're physically going to get bullied, no matter what. Unless you're like Josh Miller came new. And then that spot anyway. So that leads to the one you are touched down. When he throws the pick, my favorite thing on the James Pier pick is that Harrison Smith is so mad that he drops it. He stays on the ground and he's so mad.

Friend of the show, Harrison Smith, who I think I'm supposed to reach out to his brother to finally.

That's on me to Harrison Smith's brother, by the way. We're supposed to have him on the pot. I don't know what happened. I'm pretty sure it was my fault. But he's so mad. And it's like, well, actually, no, this is going to work out here. Because there was a play. I figured if it was a second or third and twenty, where Jordan moves up in the pocket and changes his throwing platform and just absolutely delivers and I watched it and I rebounded. I went, this is why he got paid.

This is why, because I think it's very easy because of how embarrassing this collapses in this pattern of yesterday. Last time they played the bears. They were up 21, three and a half. They were up 21, 60, the end of the third quarter. They were up week 16. He gets Chicago 13, three late in that third quarter as well. And there's these NFC North games where you're going, why is this now happening? Like, I thought that was kind of this outlier, weird thing. We're barely over 500 on these games

where we have these huge leads in the second half. And now we're not winning any of these anymore. And you feel like if you're doing, hey, Jordan love dot dot dot on Monday that that's completely missing the story of yesterday's game. He watched the, he plays against Brian Flores, how you're supposed to play. Like, you're supposed to stand in there in deliver and try shit. And he's doing that left. He threw from every possible platform. Like, you straight up right,

you know, 10 degrees, 20 degrees, like, he's just, he threw from every possible platform. One foot, no feet. It was, it's exactly how you're supposed to play. They had no run game. It's, you know, it's Chris Brooks, who's a protection back in special teamer. And then Marcia and Lloyd, who's had like 150 carries since high school or including high school. And who's kind of like a bouncy guy, more zone guy. And then the O'Wine's a bunch of backups and hurt players as well.

Zack Tom, he changes name, but he's act Tom to me is probably one of their better offence linemen. He's banged up, you know, and he got, he got the fumble or whatever. And they're like, land, he, like, caught it. And then he got sought off. He's probably like, I didn't want that,

you know. Yeah, right. So life is a ball and he gets hit as he's already already. He's probably

like that. It's sucked. Jordan love got pressure at half his drop back. 50, not blitz pressure, where he got pressured 50% of his drop-ax. Anything above, you know, 25%, 28%, crazy. And he's double that. And he usually doesn't take sacks. That's the thing about Jordan love. He creates big plays and he doesn't take sacks. That is a formula. He's locked in to me. That's like, it's, it is the floor. Overlooking like top 10 rankings. That's where I have Jordan love.

I, and it's only going higher. But it's just one of those things where it's like, it's a tough matchup, and they just don't have a lot of dudes right now. The other headline from this one, Kyle and Murray, who I say, he doesn't get, he doesn't get

Dinged.

disaster, interception. You know, like this isn't fun. It felt a lot like Texas, Ohio State, in a way. And then he gets crunched on this play. We're hit no chance of getting the first down. I didn't think, um, you know, and it was a very high. Because you actually didn't know what was wrong. Until it went a little bit longer, you're like, okay, it's probably head injury here. But even the

announcer, I think, on the broadcast, it said, "Oh, he's holding that left leg." I mean,

he's holding that left leg. And I mean, this is not to be critical of him, but it's just the

reality that he, he pays a way bigger price on these NFL hits than I think anyone else playing the position. And you know, it's unfortunate. We'll see what happens once he gets clear. But I don't know if this opens up the door for JJ to get reps in here again. Unless you thought you'd like what you saw from once, you got the three touchdowns. But it, I wouldn't say it was like a pretty game from Carson and relief. Oh, no. I mean, even the touchdown at Jefferson was hilarious, um,

because it was a free play. And so they just ran all goes. And when it has it, so usually you're just looking and then launch it. Okay, I got free play. He gets it. And then I'm just saying this is how once his head was spinning. He looks and he's like, he looks to his right. And he's like, oh shoot, that's Jordan Addison. Oh, where's Justin at? Okay. And he goes all the way back to his left. He wasn't looking off a safety. He was trying to find number 18, which I thought was here. Yeah, once was,

I'm not the biggest once fan. He takes too many hits. It's like his, his play style is not the best

city. He took was the roughing the passer, which was bullshit. Yeah. Because, I mean, look, there was the took a charge. There was three penalties on that drive. Two of my thought were totally

justified. But that third down and the roughing the passer was brutal. So, you know, that's another

part of it. It's not really a score thing because the thing gets so out of hand. But we'll see what happens there with me to sort of the quarterback position. The pick, the pick was interesting to with a Kyler was that that was a great example. They were in a five-man protection and empty protection. And what the right guard will fries has to, it's called squeeze. So he has to work inside and then the right tackle has to keep squeezing. So it was a great example of like five-man protection

sometimes. If you blitz it, which Jonathan, Jonathan, in a dead, that the free runner, you're going to allow a free runner against a blitz when you have five-man protection. But it's physics. You want the longest path to the quarterback. So you don't want the A gap or to be the guy

clean. You want the furthest guy. So it should have been the right outside guy. So that's why

Kyler was like, oh shit. And then should not do what he did. You know, like again, Jordan loved doing that. It's different than Kyler doing that. Jordan love has one of the best arms in the NFL. Kyler has a good arm. That's the difference between the lead arm and good. And I really did think that that was one of those where it was like a trickle down the stuff. And he's not the guy to kind of like stop that trickle down. If that makes sense. Like the if other guys make mistakes,

he that's where he wavers. Jordan love other guys make mistakes. There's times that he can overcome that. That's the difference of those tears of core backs. There's something for everyone when it comes to recess. Now we all understand the standard, right? Two peanut butter cups. One for me,

one for you, likely two for me, none for you. Or maybe you just don't get buried. And there's always

going to be two for you. And you don't even really have to have that discussion. What I would tell you though is there's this thing that'll happen with the miniatures where you're like, I'm not really doing anything. I'm just having miniatures. It's not that big of a deal. But then there's something about having the two to your name or it's like, I'm in full control. I know exactly what the plan is. I'm having these two. And then I'm good. Minatures. There isn't really any plan. You can do whatever

you want. No one's even looking. Whether it's fast break or take five or outrageous fast breaks, kind of crazy fast break. I'll even have days and like can I do this today too? The problem is it's also tempting because we know how great that relationship with peanut butter tastes. It is something that you look forward to when it's hanging out. I've got one in my kitchen right now, staring me down. It just staring me down for three days. And much like on a third down

where I'm skating the field, trying to recognize where the pressure's coming from, I have no idea what's going to happen. I don't really know what the result's going to be on that drop back. Quarterbacks don't. When I drop back into the kitchen, I know I have nothing to fear, only reward pure enjoyment. Reese's the official candy partner, bar stool sports, go get Reese's wherever you shop. Okay, Baltimore. I'm going to include this one in here because there was a

lot of anticipation with mentor as they have coach. Now, we had some under center numbers for you here early down to week one, the highest under center rate that we had was still another game to go here since 2017. Lamar under center just over 50% the highest of his career. Five or six years of offense. Lamar, what I actually loved about this domination was that he didn't feel like. I don't want to see him not be this running threat that freaks everybody out.

It's just the way this game goes, that eventually those numbers continue to go down. His

Are going down last year was disappointing.

bit of a part of it like the guys that are injured that are playing. But it wasn't really,

it was an absurd offensive output here, but it wasn't necessarily because Lamar was back to

peak Lamar running. I mean, it's seven for 40, but that's take out what 19 yards on that one run and it's six runs for like 21 yards. So this was a contained Lamar where they still were this dynamic. And as you said, the under center thing doesn't fix everything for everyone. It just happens to be one of those things that everybody was talking about and it's certainly played out week one. Yeah, and it was very encouraging. I thought I mentioned them before, but Dwayne led for their

offensive line coach. I'm a big fan of what he did in Atlanta was really cool. Like he had really interesting designs and that carried over. And also the Mars, like the the variables are like with the formula of Lamar running, is changing where it was he used to get about seven or eight design runs again. And now it's just one or two that you sprinkle in in high leverage situations.

And high leverage meaning late down, third and short short yardage or in the low red zone,

like his rushing touchdown. You don't want to build the whole plan out of Lamar on design runs any more. You just want to sprinkle him in. That's exactly where the whole league is going. But it was like that that touchdown, that rushing touchdown, Derek Henry's first touchdown, that it's the good stuff.

Like, that's why I'm very encouraged by what I saw. Like they almost average eager. It's a play.

7.9 yards per play. Lamar average 12.2 net yards per attempt. So net yards are include sack yardage there. And they actually pulled the urban Meyer. They had 200 yards rushing, 200 yards passing. Like, Irver Meyer said when he came to Jaguars, they he wanted to average that. And and everybody in the NFL was like 200 rushing. Have you have you watched an NFL game? Like, 100 is great. It's a great day at the office. So they actually pulled the urban.

But no, he only got stacked twice, but he didn't get hit other than that. He had the long

scramble on third down, but that's a perfect time to scramble. It's third next to one because that's

usually the actually the best play. But the design run was cool. They was a it's what they call zone read arc where you're reading the defense. They really attacked Arden key for the Colts. The first play they attacked him on the bootleg. They ran into his side. He crashed on the running back. Lamar Scott free goes as a flowers. And then on that play, the zone read arc is one of those where if you run a zone reader in defensive end, everybody knows that read the defensive end. He crashes

on run a back quarterback keeps it defensive Scott smart. They run this thing called scrape exchange, which is where a defensive and crashes into the linebacker scrapes over the top. They exchanged duties to then take their quarterback that has been going off for years now, especially in college. But the arc, and this is the tight end usage in this run game is really, really cool. The arc block is then the guy in the back field then leads for the quarterback. If he keeps it

for that scrape guy, they didn't need it on that play, but that was really cool to me to kind of like see this unbalanced formation. Tackle over zone read arc and they're sprinkling that in other tight end usage stuff on the run game with Derek Henry, where the tight end's screaming into motion. And it's almost like a motion lead block. They kind of are creating a crease, like they're creating like a natural cut for Derek Henry, and it gets 260 pounds. When you get

to crease like that, it's just game over. And you saw that a couple times. I don't know exactly what to call it. He did a way and let for did that in Lanna a lot with Bajron Robinson. And now you see Derek Henry reaping the benefits from that. So just really creative stuff. And then on top of that deck one Doyle, I thought that's a really nice past game designs. It got zafew hours running choice

routes. You got some nice kind of third down stuff as well that I thought the more really comfortable

with. But I was that was really, really encouraging. I thought to see that from the Ravens and how cokeyship everybody looked. There's something else that I kind of love about week one. It's like the best players are so fresh. Like Derek Henry week one. Yeah. It's like, oh, wow, this is what it would look like if guys weren't banged up the entire time. Even for a week one, although Fred kind of looks like that the entire time Nick Bosa and that game against the Ravens. And he's like, oh,

that's right. This is what it's supposed to look like when he's healthy. It's just a little bit of reminder how taxing this game is to see how insane some of the best players are because they're the healthiest that they're going to be now for the rest of the year. Were you worried about what the colds looked like at all as far as talking about healthy? Uh, because I'm a little scary Daniel Jones can't plant and throw out. There's there's a couple of throws. Those balls are some

marining on them a little bit. So speaking of health, the the colds were a little worried. Tower Warren looked a little banged up. The wrong game looked good. But yeah, I was I was a little worried about how Daniel Jones looked. That leg looks a little limp right now.

Yeah. I think the sauceguard or acquisition will be questions. Although, uh, you know,

because you're just like, oh, yeah, this guy's like being talked about like he was at least even if it wasn't real sauce was talked about is like, okay, if it's not certain then it's then

Maybe it's this and then next group.

were like, he's not that. And again, my whole sort of tan thing is that I'm never going to compare

anyone to him until further notice. No, the just, you're okay. He's covered that. Yeah, all four and then you're kind of like, oh, that's right. And it was funny. Like, I saw a play. It wasn't that great. I was like, yeah, that's we're not that far removed from him. But on the Daniel Jones part of it, usually, and that's what I always think is so interesting about the Trevor Lawrence conversation is and they let it up. So I'll let you cook on that one a little bit. But is Trevor really going to

be somebody who took like five years in and it's that second half of the season and that's now

who he's going to be and certainly that's what it looked like a week one. I think the opponent

has something to do with that. But maybe this is maybe it is like, that's a really long time to feel like you're getting it right. And maybe it was just Liam combed coming in and it all works out and that's fine. But but Daniel Jones gave us multiple years of evidence that he wasn't really the guy. He lights it up at his historic level. Like, look at some of those performances at the beginning of last year. Or then it's like, oh, you know, this is why it went so high. Right. We just start.

We get different results. And then we start recreating all of these versions. It's like, dude, he sucked with the giants. Okay. He wasn't good. You can sit there and talk about the franchise and their history and how long they've been losing in New York with both teams here. But I thought that was more of an outlier. And then the wheels kind of fell off. He had the huge turnover games. Granted, the Pittsburgh game was a disaster. I think was there a Lana game right after

that where he's like, fumbling the ball like crazy. And so I don't know that it was necessarily that bad. But there was a moment there in those first two months of 25 where it was almost like,

yeah, no one should have ever thought that Daniel Jones couldn't have done this. And I'm like, really?

Like, this is kind of surprising. And maybe it's strictly him rushing back this soon from it. But I feel like I'm being a little too harsh. We got coming back from a very significant injury here. But it's like it's probably going to look more like average would be, would almost feel like the reward with Jones moving forward if he's the guy the rest of the year. And then, you know, who knows what with the decisions that they'd make. Yeah, playable. It was playable.

I know. That's not exciting for anybody. No. It was first, that first half of the season last year, I'm like, I don't think this is really true either. No, they were, I mean, they were average and over 30 something points at game. I was like, oh, I was eating Crow. No, no, I'm eating QBR games. Yeah, but she's the guy in lighting has the good. It's like, she's the guy who's a great play color and a play designer. So like he does deserve some credit. Uh, they're all lines pretty good too.

Tony Sprung Jr's pretty dang good as a coach. Um, you know, and John the Taylor is John the Taylor.

Like, he's, he's a dude. But I'm with you that more evidence has pointed to him as average at

best, limited and kind of how he progresses as well. I always thought Daniel Jones is best when he

points to point shoot. You know, as soon as he has to come off that first read, he's, you don't want that. He's not one of those guys. But the thing was, he's such a good athlete. And they did a good job last year of kind of limiting his touches. The design runs kind of the summer conversation with Lamar, but then you watch him to yesterday, he can't outrun TBS Robinson to the edge. And that's worrisome that if my point shoot, all right, if I can't get the number one, I have to now create.

And then now he can't create. So I mean, every design has to be dead on like dead on like he can not be wrong in the design can't be wrong. And then there's times where the design is right, there's a play in the second half where it was a third down. And they ran a slot fade. It was, there's a man be to overall. But a slot fade to Josh Downs who's a good player. So in Josh Downs wins on a slot fade, you want to take that one on one, Blitz, boom, let's go. The past rush gets

there. So Jones has to step up. He can't step up again to throw it. Like his, his leg only allowed one movement if that makes sense. Like so it because it's just right like. So he can't point that is scary to me. Because that means everybody else has to be on their pees and cues. But you don't pay a quarterback if everybody else has to be on their pees and cues. You know, what I mean, you pay the quarterback to wash away and be mouthwash for everybody else's

woes. Yeah, the math of the Colt's this year is off for me. Like they they're a weird, weird

kind of zombie team right now. I always until halfway through the air and maybe the Achilles feels

better. But it's, it's a little worrisome for me right now. And the defense isn't like all that either worrisome Detroit pulls it out. They hang on. And I couldn't believe like whoa, you really going to run Jamer Gibbs this many times. And he, when he was drafted, I was kind of like, I don't know that it's worth it. The old running back thing. I still would say that I'm, I mean, that camp of like I'd, I like to germ out of love pick. But generally, I don't necessarily

want to do this. And Gibbs is just that scary. As soon as he touches the ball, but I'm like, I, this isn't, I know my gummer is gone, but this doesn't seem all that interesting. And then if you get time a shock on the other side, you're like, oh man, this guy's going to suck today. And that was brutal. Because it was bad. It was bad. It's disappointing is not get the two-point conversion. Love them going

For it.

hey, this could really give us a spark this season if we get this two-point conversion. Like,

people are going to be doubting us all this stuff. I think the, the positive stuff this is one,

obviously the Detroit hangs on that Gibbs looks that scary. There's a lot of stuff in Detroit's offense. I didn't necessarily love in this outside of that in the passing game. But at least there was a bounce back to Chuck or even in the third quarter, you're turn over turn over and you're like, I guess this guy, not that I was going to say, hey, everybody was wrong. It was overrating this guy,

but I think the comeback proves why everybody always talks about him. So there's some silver lining

in there for the Saints on what's the disappointing comeback. Yeah, because he was the thing about shock. Actually, it's kind of summer. We call off a little bit. It's how he deals with pressure. You know, not, not mental pressure and all that, but more just literal pressure, how he deals muddy pockets and everything. And he was bad through two and a half quarters when there was no pressure. And that's where I was like, I didn't really worry because I was like, all right,

are you just not hitting throws? Because again, if you're not going to be an ultimate creator type,

then you have to just be, you have to be money. You can't make mistakes. You have to be accurate.

And he wasn't playing like that. He got encouraging as the game went along. Yeah, not having during Tyson, their pick, top pick. You know, that that was that the math of their personnel is not working.

I do like racelands though, trail lesson, relance is a little brother. I do like him in a lot of

ways of stud as well. And Joanne Johnson and hidden shock have really nice chemistry. It was just one of those, I was a little discouraged by how it went. Having said that nine explosive passes by the end of the game. And I thought the last quarter and a half in, even until over time, they had some real nice moments where he stood and delivered at the line's defense. I don't think there's going to be very good in coverage. So that was also discouraging, too, because it was like,

all right, if you can't shred these DBs right now, they're all banged up for rocky outs and starting for them, they're running man coverage. You can't beat them within a lobby. It's a stud. That's that was kind of worrisome for me. I thought the old wine gave up a lot of pressures as well. Like, so again, that that that kind of is a little worrisome just overall with the saints, having said all that much better felt a lot better felt more explosive, because I wasn't

encouraged what happened last year. He shook kind of beat up on some bad defenses last year during his run. So I kind of have been kind of like middle with him. It's like, yeah, you might be a starter. He's older than Trevor Lawrence. And, you know, that kind of, if your older and Trevor Lawrence and we're talking about like, oh, you need still more development. That's out enough. To me, it's like, I would have lost something a little bit more exciting. But at least you can get,

I think this is going to be like a starter-ish guy for this year, and we can assess and at least

everybody else, we can assess and see how they play as well, because they got a pretty young team at young offense. Trevor Lawrence, let's bring it back to that, because we were touching on it there a little bit. You seem very bullish. We've talked about the jack's offensive line concerns. And maybe there's some, some guys coming back, want a particular that maybe sure is that group up a little bit more, but I would say based on every unit ranking stuff that I've looked at.

The jack's are not near anyone's like perfect example of an offensive line. They light it up yesterday. And Trevor Lawrence is in his 60 year. So, this is not normally how it goes. When you're number one overall, when you have the urban disaster, when you turn it over, you clean house, and then you're thinking, okay, now we're just going to cater everything to him, which could then also be a cam-word conversation where like, is everything being catered to cam-word

or, you sound like you want to just jump at that right there. I got to watch that game back before I throw a hot take. I'm not sure if I'm Brian Dable over all, so I want to rewatch that game before I go on your show and throw out some big takes on that one. Because I think some of the Tennessee personnel decision stuff is like, well, we have to do this because they said, like, well, are you just spending to show that you're spending for them or you're spending on the

right people here? When Dell Robinson, making almost 20 million year, that would be one of

those examples I would come up with. But this timeline, one, it's not usually allowed, but is this, is this the rare case where he actually is going to be everything we thought of him. Look, I liked him just like everybody else did watching him run around a country and like, how could this not work out? I thought the second year part of it was like the really alarming season where I'm like, is he seeing ghosts out there? Like, what is he looking at? Red zone throws that,

you know, normally it's pretty easy to kind of avoid some of the red zone mistakes because you know what has to be so quick to get rid of the ball. Not to say like, like, red zone to me is the, you know, that's exactly what was this issue. Is he had some of the stupidest turnovers you ever see in the red zone? I couldn't believe what were you looking at? Yeah, because there's so many quarterbacks. Once you get into the red zone, you're just like, okay, this is the difference between

you and like the top guys, right? But then I think the benefit of being down there is that you know you have so little time and the routes, once they're over, it's just over and it's all clogged up. Yep. Like, you can then just get rid of it or in his case scramble or you can take the check

Down if that's in the play.

and you're like, this is, this is, who does this? Like, this is getting way worse. And again,

here we are, you're six. They light it up. So I, I feel like I already know your answer on this one,

but is this the rare case of like, he will be the thing we all thought of. It just took longer than usually anyone ever to get the opportunity. Yeah. I do think that's it. He got the actual timeline to actually get to that and now has surroundings and Liam Cones got the goods, him and his coaching staff are very, very thoughtful with their game plans. They do some really good stuff. And now these guys in their second year in the system, you can kind of see them. They

like set the record last year. I don't know if I already told you this, but like for a legal shift last year and a legal formations because no, they guys could get lined up. Great. Make sure it's for that. And then the second half of the, hang the banner. And then the second half of the year, then it kind of really got cleaned up. Like Jacobi Myers was really calmed everybody down. But I've

always kind of compared to him to like a souped up mat Ryan. Like that's kind of always been my

comparison for Trevor. Like just a kind of a juiced up more twitchy mat ride. Where is he a lead guy? Like what I can say are the true tier one guys? I don't even think there's three right now, which is Josh Allen the mar and then Patrick my homes to me. And then there's a kind of a glut of tier two guys. I could say I'm a tier two guy. I haven't kind of more in that like eight nine ten range. I really do. You have Lamar over Burrow? Yeah. Yeah. I have Lamar over Burrow.

Burrow has got to get some more explosives before I'm going to prop them up isn't a week. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah. I'm cloud coverage. Cloud coverage. Yeah. I mean, it was more of the same yesterday. I understand area. Yeah. It's like I appreciate Joe Burrow. I love to use him as teach tape for a lot of quarterbacks. But like the the dudes to me have that little something more that little more creation. Again, you know, whatever you want to call out the dragons of the world. Like they do

stuff that you can't coach as far as just like it's not within the scheme of the play. You know, that creation ability, but I digress. But Trevor yesterday, that was the second best game of his career in terms of success rate as far as a regular season. They were absolutely cooking. I mentioned again, if you're near 50% success rate, you're cooking on passing. He was 68% yes, Brown's caveat. I have to say that, but he was so decisive. He wasn't taking bad plays. I thought I even tweet this out

and everyone's curious, but like you see it's one-hitch ball out. One-hitch ball out. That's decisive. And it's not one-hitch ball out five-year-throw. It's one-hitch ball out 20 yards down the field. And that's where there's that Matt Ryan where he really likes to work that intermediate area.

And that's where I think that's where he makes his living throwing over the middle,

which is always encouraging because again, you have confidence what you're seeing and you have

anticipation. So I'm I'm very high on what this offense can be. And especially how the rookie left guard look, I know this is very specific, but a manual pregnon is a rookie from Oregon and he is a maller. And him and Anton Harrison onto the left side, that's like a plus left side. And that is like, okay, now if we got a couple good starters, who's the weak link now? Probably either the right tackle. But that's the thing is if it's just one weak link as opposed to two

weak links or three weak links, feel a little bit better about what the run game looks like in the past protection looks like. And they have this sneaky signing on this offense, Chris Rodriguez, who's a hammerhead. And that's that's really helping this offense stay on track in the run game. It's not as boom bust as it was last year, which again lifts the floor up and I think Trevor is that guy that kind of have achieved a high ceiling like they had yesterday.

All right, let's try to get to as much of this as we can with some quick hitters here to close it out. I don't know how many losses are going to have to happen before we surpass the charges lost Arizona being the worst loss. Like it's the worst loss of week one, can it keep that belt for multiple weeks. Now, as we told you on this podcast, I loved Arizona over three and a half. Yes, it does not mean look, there's too many talented guys that

thought for three and a half. And I know the schedule was like considered tough. And most difficult. But I, you know, as Nico Harrison once said, I hope people can see the vision now.

And they won the lottery. I think mine has more to do with like, look, did you see all the

dudes out there that are running around a lot of it is kind of rounding up the new guys on defense a bit like with the couple pieces and the offensive line for Houston, the expectation is like, all right, well, these younger guys are just a little bit better. It wasn't necessarily about that. I mean, Herbert was a disaster. I know lad gets hurt and then the offensive stuff on EPA falls off a cliff once lad is out. Lambert Smith was also out in this one, another receiver for them. But some of this is just,

I may not be able to talk about Herbert for a month. We declared like Herbert guys stop at leave malone. The fourth down, not even getting the ball out and taking a sack is the worst thing you can do

Is a quarterback throw a fucking pop up into the red zone and see what happens.

too long to do it. I understand people mistakes. Then it's almost the frustration double double coverage

pick that felt like I'm just mad. So I'm going to let it fly even though it makes no sense whatsoever. I call this is Indian balls. Yeah, I love that. Let's keep using that this season. But once you have the tackles back, you're like, hey, the guys are back there. Like this is not what this is

most of the look like with Mike Daniel. I think it will take now Arizona may in fact be better than

certainly Vegas thought they were, but it still is just such a nasty loss for you to like, oh, all the Herbert haters, a great afternoon for you. Yeah, I congratulate you, you know. Yeah, that's good. I got, I know people going like, so the final sack was one of those things where this is the limitation to me of being a shenanow offense, which is what Mike McDaniel runs, is they put, and this is for better for worse, and this is what Kyle shenanow and Matt Ryan had

to go through in 2015, 2016. This is what Aaron Rogers and Matt LeFlor had to go to in his couple years in Green Bay or last years in Green Bay is that that offense, because that's so much motion, has so much stuff, is they don't put the changes of protections on the quarterback, even if it's

a vet, they put it on the center. The charges are starting a day two rookie at center in his first

game, and that blows my mind that Justin Herbert who has so many starts doesn't have that right to change the protection there. So what they do, and why I, I squint at this, because the shenanow offense says a lot of cool stuff and good stuff that a lot of people should take, and they do, is why I have a consternation about this is, you know, my dad growing up, or what he does, and what like Sean Payton often says do, and others is that the quarterback has the trump card. They can

change that. They can change the protection that they see it. If you see Dick Prescott, he does it all the time. Josh Allen has the right to change protections. My home actually has earned that right to change protections, and the fact that Herbert hasn't had that license is weird to me, and on that play though, Nick Rawls, the defense coordinator for the Cardinals is funky. He does some really good rule breaking blitzes, sometimes to his detriment, but some real good stuff, they broke the protection

there. And what the shenanow offense do is like, we have a built in hot. So we're, we're going to beat

the blitz with the thrill, and that works all fine and good, but number one, I think is Mac Wilson

for the Cardinals sprints to where the hottest. So then, Herbert trying to do the right, Herbert's kind of a robot, like, good, and bad. I call him the terminator, because you can't kill him, and he's just kind of like, he does the right thing constantly, and just like, ju, ju, ju, ju, like, everything is just like, I am throwing this dig hell or high water, like, you know, that he is the terminator, but he's going, okay, I'm throwing it to the hot. Oh, it's not there.

Eat the sack. And it's like, no, just throw it, do something, like, you know, like you, like you said. So it's one of those things that's where you see the limitations of this offense. And again, can airing the coal mine, whatever you want to say, that's worry, something that they said, no, we're going to stick with the offense that our rookie day to center is going to have that

license, and not the quarterback that we pay hundreds of million dollars to, and has all these starts,

which is also kind of gets into coaching a little bit, too, which we can extrapolate from there. But I, having said all that, not as worried upon review. I, I, I knew we were going to talk about this. So I made sure to watch this game back. Not as worried about the offense as I thought it would be. There was a lot of good moments. A run game was boom busty. A man in Hampton had some tough ass rounds that quarterback that touchdown run was awesome. The passing game, there's just

have to say, I don't know, they, they're like, they're guys are kind of getting stuck. And they also just kind of like, it just looked a little sloppy at times. Actually, though, having said all that, what worried me was the defense. I didn't think the defense looked good at all. And yeah, we can say the Cardinals and Jacobi percent, and the Cardinals have some real dudes on offense. I just thought the defense wasn't threatening. They weren't in pressures. They're blitzing like crazy.

At Crystal Larry's going to be a blitz guy, but then they weren't doing damage with the blitzes.

So if you're blitzing and not doing damage, that's the worst thing possible. Because now you're

just creating weaknesses for yourself. They're dropping too into the pollute too and coverage too much and he's their best pass, pressure. So I, that actually upon review had me more worried than anything. So I guess protection rules and then defense a play. That for the charges where a team I actually was fairly high on. And I still think this offense can get there. That, that, that was more scary than anything to me. All right, you go on force. Oh, yeah. I mean, I got a few. I actually hope which one

do you want to go to? I could go into, all right. So the one thing with me is, again, watching that Commander Kagan to the Commander's Eagles right now. Yeah, I want to because my headline would be based on my expectations, both good and bad. I felt like I learned nothing except sunny styles may be illegal by weeks six. And yeah, he, I think he's like locked up defensive rookie the year.

I'm just like, oh, that's the guy.

he just jumps out all day long. Yeah, you're like, this guy's going to be filthy six, four and run like that and and blows up, say, Juan Barclay on a blitz and then plays the run like that,

plays covers like that. And yeah, they, they don't build them like that. And that's why he's the top

ten pick. Um, no, that I'm, that was kind of what I expected. And I don't mean, and anyone that heard me last week when I was with you and we're talking about some of these teams. I was low on Commander's offense. I'm kind of, if he, on what the Eagles offense is going to be, the Eagles might have some old line issues. And which, what was this pressure rate? Because I think at one point like Jayden was like 56% of his dropbacks. He was pressured, which was so nice to see on two of

those throws. It was the third down and then it was like, hey, you know, when he had time, this is why

we like this guy so much. Like, look how nice this looks. And then you realize this hasn't been clean all game long, but to your point, it, like, think the best dad I think for hurts, they were a ten and fourteen on third downs considering all the chaos that he was dealing with. Because that was a battle line game from the Eagles. Yeah, landed Dickerson looks done. I, I, I, I appreciate the player. He was a hell of a player. He just looks so banged up that he can't move. And he was like a true

weakness for them, run game and pass game. But I, yeah, Jayden, I also, I would keep with the Eagles first. But yeah, no, I, I thought the under center stuff is just exactly how I played out. Like combined, these guys went three of eight went throwing from under center. Heard's went 104 and the one was the bomb to, to Wix early that he admitted he had thrown that route the entire time they practiced it. So he was just launching that thing and it worked out great. And then Jayden Daniels wasn't

pushing the ball at all. That's, that's always been my thing with Jayden. He likes to attack

to the outside. He can't throw over the middle of fairly well. But he just kind of doesn't prefer that. Is that when he gets pressured, his eyes come down because he's such a good scrambleer. When when I say eyes come down, he's not scrambling to launch and create an explosive. It's a lot of underneath underneath underneath. And he went, what do you go? One of six yesterday on throws a 15 or more air yards. The only completion was that one to Antonio Williams on the

over who had a really nice game and Tony Williams looks like a keeper. But I, I thought both of these teams look pretty rough on offense. And like the Eagles, the wrong game is just 78 of Seqwan Barclays 83 yards came after contact. And in the commanders improved their defense, but not like that. Like where it's like, this is going to be like a top 10 defense. They're just not going to be awful. They had three holding penalties. They're offensive line. They gave up three

sacks. And they don't do enough down to down to mitigate all that. Hurt's was explosive and had some of those. But 25% of Hurt's drop-action resulted in a sack of scramble. And then 14% were going to expose the past. That means two out of five drop-action means our sack scramble or explosive play. That's a tough way to live if your run game is going to be that poor. And this is now been a multi-year issue. Saigwan's discussed rate in 2024 is 44%. Last year is 35%. Yesterday was 28%.

That, again, I look at kind of math of an offense. Can you attack, can you get on base, success rate, and then can create those explosives? They got explosives passing still. But the run game is falling off and it's like, it hasn't changed and it doesn't look like it changed at all. I thought they were pretty sloppy up front, which is a little worrisome to me.

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It makes sense once you have it. Raising Cains chicken fingers. One love. All right, I've got one for you. I think Harbaugh took the Giants job, not just because he wanted to coach again and because it's New York. I think he likes this roster. I was really impressed with a bunch of parts of the Giants win last night. Look, it's super easy to just go Jackson Dart just had the best game. It was just career last night. He's still going to take the hits.

You could tell Collins worth the way he was talking about him. And this is what I love. You've done it long enough. He was basically telling you the tape from last year was kind of a mess,

which I had always thought it was a mess. He was new. It was exciting. You were going to round

up. Everything is a former first round because you have all of this hope. I loved him in college, but I also knew there was a bill that came with it was like this exercise tax. It's like just so you know, a lot of it's going to be a lot of fun. But like this is going to be the part that's really alarming. The Caleb Downs hit, which was great on the broadcast. He just did not recognize the math of that being like if he's coming up here, especially the way Caleb Downs is going to be used,

you're going to have to account for him. He doesn't. He gets clobbered. The great thing is that Jackson is so thick that like another lesser man maybe knocked out of the game. I thought the sideline hit was, I thought it was bullshit. The throw flag on that. He is still running. Okay, they're talking about it on the broadcast. He's way out about, he was not way out of bounds. We are to the point now we're like we're putting these defensive players in a possible situation. We're like if he's still

live, I've got to, I've got to finish this play and close them out. The problem is these guys

are so massive. They end up 10 feet deep. It's on the team sideline. There's if you went through the science of how many times the flag is thrown for the late hit out of bounds on that team sideline

versus the opponent. It's going to be like 70 times more likely is going to get the flag. But I think

you know, whether it's an online that I don't really know enough about yet, record who makes me think, why isn't everybody trying to get a 275 pound fullback who's just basically an extra line and even if he ends up telegraphing where the play is going, neighbors being back was awesome, likely being the number one tight end was terrific. I think there's more to this roster and clearly of Harball, we're going to take this job. I wondered at first, I'm like, is Jackson the guy to do this

when you could probably pick your spot on the next few, but maybe maybe I'm overreacting to the week one win. But maybe there's something more to be said about this roster that he built and I haven't even talked about the front. Although I'd like to say that I wish the front was a little nastier because I think the name recognition, at least for me is a college fan. I'm like, yeah, but collectively, it doesn't feel as nasty. It's supposed to be with all these resources that are

up there. Yeah, Abdul card is a real deal, but it's I agree. And the thing was their defense just, their defense just played more sound, which I guess maybe is somewhere the Harball to it or Wilson or Denar Wilson, their defense coordinator. But I do think that like they actually tackled that was there. She last year is there's a horrible tackling and there's so much better. But this, the strength of this team is going to be running the ball and that's not just a camp

scattered. I do think the offense aligns real good. I think Francis Malno, I think C.C. I think he goes

by C.C. Yeah, he's moving guys. That was their first round pick or one of their first round picks. Dramana Blumenor was the right tackle, had like a career last year. And Andrew Thomas went out these on the podium for best tackle's game. But sure. So, but what's other thing is not just the old line. It's just what I call their auxiliary blockers. Like, record, like you mentioned, they have multiple blocking tight ends, like Theo Johnson and Chris Manherds are both good blockers.

And then they got Malkai Fields, the rookie from Notre Dame, who was him in Stribling, they got the four in Austria after probably the two best blocking receivers because I care about this shit. But he really was and he, my next gen step, buddy, Keegan Abdu, sent me this that Malkai Fields had the most crack blocks of any receiver in week one. Again, niche stats that's like screen setting. But he came up. He was put him getting free on that motion. You know, we're actually

was the route because it looks like he's coming down to crack and then he'm getting free. I thought they did a great job of pointing that out. Yeah, it was, it was, it was, it was, that's again, this run game is going to be the real deal, whether it's Scadaboo, whoever Greg Roman actually, like he has his works, maybe in passing game designs, but he's real good in the run game.

He will be, he will be good in the run game throughout this year.

dark, who, I warmed on him as, as watching him as a rookie, he still has a long ways to go. I think to be a real quarterback. But the, I thought, the thing about him was he wasn't trying too many of those hero plays like he had last year. I thought the ball was coming out quick. I mean, he peppered four flat routes in a row because the cow was apparently, can't cover a flat route, even Brian Schott and Herbert joked about it. But it was, you know,

he had, when you gave multiple touchdowns on flat routes, that's, that's usually an easy day of the office. But I thought that was encouraging that Dart seemed very streamlined. Maybe that's

the best way I can put it. Like I thought it's thinking was very streamlined. You don't want Dart

hitching a bunch of times. If he does your dad, because then bad things might happen, he might take hits. But I was encouraged, really encouraged by the old line, the blocking. And it was kind of, this is their formula and have enough on defense. I don't think the defense can be outstanding, but they got some juice of front, but I actually thought the cowboys blocked them up pretty well. It just, yeah, their defense couldn't get off the field. That was, I don't know if you saw it,

but that was, they went nine of ten until the, that final knee on third down, the giant's did,

which I, there's no way you would ever think the giant's. Even if you go, hey, the Dallas defense isn't going to be that much better, but you let the giant's go nine for ten on third down. Like that's, so there's that last touchdown drive where there's the neighbor's throw, which I do think is a good throw for somebody like Dart who you're going, okay, what is this going to look like? Is he going to have the finesse part of this game? Yeah, and to me that was a

finesse throw, because he had to get it up and over the defensive back, get it to neighbors for the safety's coming back. It wasn't like one of those crazy, there was a one foot window throw in there. It's still open, and that maybe is the more damning thing as Collins Rose is also saying, like, okay, so all right, that throws that one, but what are we doing with likely over here? Why are there two? How is there, is there miscommunication or you just allowing these guys? It felt like there

were four throws there where it didn't really make any sense what Dallas was doing, and I'm willing to just believe it's mistakes because it's week one, and it's a new defensive coordinator, but that was a really disappointing series that essentially puts the game away for Dallas. Yeah, they had some weird, weird, just communication stuff with their, like, their flat defender,

I guess is the best way to put it. And again, the Fangeo defense, which is what they're running,

is going to take time because they just have rules against formations, so motion, if you have a guy that aren't used to it, they can bust, but it was kind of like the same. When you get repeat mistakes, that's a little discouraging, where it's like, fix it. Somebody told him to fix it, like somebody yell out there, like, you got the flat, something of that sort. Now, the likely touchdown was just, like, why is likely, like, why is

somebody going, well, let him go? Yeah, I don't, I'm actually pulling it up right now, so they're in quarters. They cut it, they have two guys on that right side that basically hit each other. The corner has the corner has the fallback. He has the drum blend, has to, has the fallback. So that's on blend. To me, it's on blend. And those kind of looks, and again, I'm assuming here, they make what's called an under call. So when that outside receiver goes under five yards and

and he falls off, it's to take away what they exactly ran, which is called a smash concept or China, whatever you want to call it, corner pitch, or corner pitch, China, yeah, corner pitch.

Those kind of concepts, that, yeah, you should see paid man's signal, paid man's

man's signal for that. But no, with the under route is going, you know, under D, I think

Jerome Blan has to fall off there. That's always my assessment on it. Okay. All right, let's do a

a couple more on anything else that we haven't hit. Okay. Oh, yeah, we already got to my Jags gushing. I already, I already loved that. Well, I want to talk about the bears dropping fricking almost to the bears. You want to? I had it. It was my last thing that I was going to I would rather talk about that than anything else. So, you know, I mean, we could, I could go maybe into, you know, chill out, make her may field. Just, you know, relax a good minute on chill out,

make her may field. Yeah, he's, he's, he's learned nothing, but that's, that's Baker may field. Like, he's going to play how he plays. I thought what was, again, discouraging was maybe that the final, the final fumble, because he had multiple, but the final one was where he Tristan Worse was blocking for so long that he thought the ball was out already. So he was the guy out, kind of leaking side at the very end. And Baker who started all these games is still double

clutching triple clutching. And again, I was on the show last week saying, hey, I'm still, actually fairly high in the box. Again, upon review, I was like, okay, there's some stuff here. It was that I thought those times is like, hey, we got to get the ball out. You shouldn't be taking these hits anymore. Like, he, but the thing was that's what led him to success in the

first stretch of last year where he was scrambling at the highest rate possible. And I think now

he has to trust what he's got. Like, they weren't, they had a bad game script because of those turnovers. Like, the run games there, bucky Irving, look good. In the run game, the whole line is still good. And the Bengals defenses improved. I will, I will give him some credit. But when he's

Pressured, he's taking hits, he's taking sacks.

and then also it really drops his play. And so don't take the hits. But again, I'm

not as coach, but it's really for me discouraging on the top of it. That was the highest amount of throws he's ever had behind the line of skirmish in his entire career. 43% of his throws were behind the line of skirmish. So if you're turning the ball over and throwing that short, your teammates have to do something. Like, but they, you know, but we're paying you Baker made feel to do something.

And so again, he's got to chill out. I think he was just so amped up to make all these big plays

after getting paid. And, but that's Baker. It's kind of the given taken Baker. I will say last thought, bangles. A Mary's man's right tackle. Absolute stud. Absolute phenom at right tackle. A Mary's man. So guy gave him a shot out as well. It was noticeable that since it has defense felt like they are going to be serious. Or it's like, OK, you guys are going to have some nice wins on here. I know that sounds very vanilla or whatever, but I mean, the defense has been such a

problem for so long that I was like, OK, it looks like there's some guys here. All right, I will warm 43% behind the line of scrimmage. That's not my favorite set of a weekend. Let's close with the bears. So we know it's 59.552 yards. My favorite part 10 to 14 on third down, even with me being

OK, look guy, there's two lovelin throws in there or I'm like, oh, you know, like as I always worry

about like the accuracy stuff with him, because they're kind of these alarming accuracy numbers.

But here's the positive, right? You're going to go, why are you doing this or so? It's kind of

about to get real positive. He's clearly even more comfortable week one, right, with Ben Johnson and what the rules are. He will give you the shock. So the explosives are there. I feel like he's escaping with still staying in the play, as opposed to escaping like all young guys do and some older guys that never figured out, but escaping with no plan. What I love about him and I'm not putting him in this first tier of all the different things that we're doing. But if you're talking about

problem solvers on dropbacks facing chaos, he is if this is what it's going to be like, he's going to be in that elite group of of three or four quarterback. And I'm not, it's not saying he's allergies, my homes, but specific to the solving of the chaotic dropback with the arsenal that he has right now. That's my favorite part of him. And we saw a lot of that yesterday, even though it was total domination, there was still a lot of like, all right, I've got to kind of figure this

one out here as opposed to just clean pockets all night long, because I don't think that's going to

happen. If you, the two-minute drive is everything you want. Okay, Williams, third and eleven

breaks contained. Third and extra lungs are quarterbacks, go do something. Either be a hero with a throw or maybe create with your legs. Like if you have a dude that can do this, that's such an asset, such a weapon. But he has a third and eleven throw, breaks contained to his left. They're certain guys that cannot throw while moving the left. J. Owen Hertz, Baker, like they, they're just too stiff getting around. He can throw to his left. And not only do that, whiffs a

frick in a hundred mile hour fastball while moving to his left as he's like, it legs in the air. Next play, or are we a couple of what later in the drive throws an in-breaker to Luther Bird within structure. And then on the final play, just put it at home, scrambles, and it creates a touchdown with his legs again. That's the, that's kill wounds. That's with the elite guys, dude, not saying he's a weak. Yeah, because I agree. He's also, because he's a line drive throw,

line drive throwers, misfortune. They, so that's the, that's the love-lin in the end zone throw. Yes. Yes. Well, that one got down. It was in front of him a little bit, but it was like, hey, with if I have a defensive back on me, and I'm lovely like, let me win the ball against this guy. Like give me a chance. And on that one that wasn't there, and those, like if he ever cleans that up, forget it. That's the thing is like we're still scratching the surface and Ben Johnson, who's a real

tough critic of Caleb and everybody is like gushing about them, which is like, all right, like, again, some guys gushing about the guys, like, Harba, I'm like, all right, Ben Johnson gushing about his guys. I'm like, okay, I'm going to listen to this, you know, it's a scale. Hey, Harba said, okay, Herbert's going to be the greatest of all time. When he got the San Francisco gig, he said Alex Smith was right up there with Brady's and Manning and Breeze, and it was like, he's,

he's then you benched him for capital. And then JJ McCarthy's the greatest Michigan quarterback ever. Like, that was another one of his lines, too, about his quarterbacks. And I, I, hey, as I appreciate coaches trying to pump their guys up, I do, but again, like, how Ben Johnson goes about it. I like, I take, I take his with a lot less salt. How to breathe. There's a different level of sincerity. Yeah, the, and then Caleb, too, on top of it, is like, he's just so fast. And, and I've tweeted this,

I think Nexian stats is tweeted as now as well, is since last year, he has seven runs or scrambles,

where he broke 20 miles an hour or more. All of the quarterbacks combined have five.

He has seven.

his, he's got one of the strongest arms in the week. And now the game is slowing down for

mentally. Again, if you see him working over the middle, I agree with you that his scrambles are a little bit more with, uh, scrambles are explainable. You know, or the creations are explainable. Guys, that scramble just the scramble. That's where he gets a little worry. Some archmaning have scramble in the beginning or scrambles of a guy who doesn't know what's going on, which is almost every one of these dudes, no matter how high you're drafted in the beginning.

Yes, like, Jane Daniels is a perfect example of it. Like, hey, I really like it. I like the stuff that's good. But if you think this guy's going to survive on these one read and tuck it and run things, like, he's not going to. And this is why he's already been hurt. And I still thought, like, despite some of these great Jane Daniels plays, he needs to look at, like, almost the Caleb tape from year one to the end of year two, you know, who knows what the rest of it's going to

like, look like here early week three, but like, if this is what it is, because I'm still like he's so wild that he's so gifted and he's all of these different things, that should be the template for the other quarterbacks that can't seem to ever fit. Because it makes it, I've talked about this all the time. It makes sense why Bryce Underwood would be like, I want to just tuck it run. It was like, yeah, because it's worked for your entire life, your specimen, but eventually you're

going to meet in opposition where it just, it doesn't work anymore. And the whole point is figuring out the rest of it. And it's crazy to think there's even top 10 guys that are drafted

that haven't figured out any of that stuff. And that's what I hate about. Never ever do. And that's

yeah, I mean, the old line improved, but the thing was, too, is that he's like, Lamar, he's got kind of that gratsky thing where he doesn't get hit, if that makes sense, like, really full on, full contact hit. James Lincoln Lamar are like their own group for me, because I was thinking about that yesterday. Like, I still think Lamar, if we're going contemporaries here, it's a peak Lamar. It was this

thing where it's like, you're never going to get that clean hit on him. You're never going to,

and I hope that's what it is for Caleb. You're saying it's close to it. I guess I just would always like think Lamar is, he's kind of his own thing. But again, yeah, that's why I only give him the gratsky doesn't take the hits. You know, the slippery kind of like just knows how to like get through, like just doesn't take those hits. But last year, Caleb was only hit on like knock down as a stat I have, so that's hits and sacks combined. On the end, 7% of his drop-ups, which is the,

which was the lowest rate in the league. So he took the fewest hits on drop-ups. Like, he avoided those awesome number. Yeah, because there's still a decent pressure number on him, isn't there? And the pressure number, they absurd one from his rookie year. I could hear. Yeah, and then, but last year was more just kind of like middle and good, good. I was like, all right, I would say, I would say 20 slow 20s. Yeah. Yeah. Which is huge kind of league average and everything. But you know,

I got to just, because this is what I do is I got to give a shout out to also to what I like about what the bears is all their star players or potential star players, Roman Dunes A, Luther Bird and Colson Lovewin. I'm not even going to say star here, but even role players like Cleve Raymond,

they're all dogs on the run game. They will block their asses off. And that's what Ben Johnson's

all, like, actually legitimately carries this out. No block, no rocks. Some guys, some guys actually just say that and then they're like, well, we need some points now. All right. All right. Go out there, OBJ. Let's go, go, go. Yeah, go, go, go, go, go. We're going to slant. These guys, like, and their eyes are really good. So I mean, they're well coached. They, the long run, we'll call them a non-guy, Luther Bird and sips out and shorts out the block. That's what, why this bears team is scary,

is that the stars are willing to buy into that dirty work stuff. And now they see the rewards of that. And then on top of it, they have a quarterback that, even if there's going to be maybe some down-to-down frustrations, but I'm high on Caleb, so don't get me wrong. I think he's going to be a dude. It's that the ceiling, he's the ultimate ceiling raisers. So if the floor's high, and he go with the ceiling, that's an offense. That's elite. That's, like, truly high-high end stuff. So

I'm, yeah, very encouraged what they did, hanging into the wrong game, stop buried, did that. So if they, they, they do some cool stuff. I was, like, scheme stuff as well. If we're giving shoutouts, then let me just hit up, uh, detackle for the bill's DM walker,

second year on a ton of times. Yeah. Because he, six, seven, three,

three, thirty. And I was reading this, got her reports this morning. I'm like, what happened here?

And it was like, he didn't test as well. So it goes wrong. He wasn't as good at six, seven, three, thirty. You guys wanted me. I'm sure, look, the people that do it for a living, there's plenty on tape for him to last as late as he did. He was in that, you know, I was called the Edron Cooper Award, where it's like who the fuck is that guy award? Yeah, and Cooper has some nice plays yesterday too. That one series in particular, just an absolute game record. I think, uh,

maybe we'll just call it the Edron Cooper Award. We'll do it every single week on that one. Because, uh, I, the unwalker had himself a game, even if it wasn't like the bills just shut

Down.

kind of like, oh, is that, because he's a big, he looks gigantic. He looks like a

Hainesworth or whatever, John Henderson, but then he plays kind of finesse, like he's a gap shooter,

as opposed to like a plugger. So I think some guys were like, oh, this is a big,

host nose tackle, and then they walked in there, like, oh, you're like a, like finesse, gap shooter type, like, you know, quick hands and winds around, which is like freak, freak stuff. Um, so I do think that's actually a dinged him a little bit, like to me, because I had him. He had so much variety of stuff. Yes. Yes. This is the best defense for Jim Lander, because he slants his guys so much. So this is a great defense for him. So I, I think this is just

the beginning of him. He was like, one of my breakout players before the season, but this is a reason why I look at the reason why we had you on Mondays. You already unlocked it. You're like,

yeah, I actually had him back in July when we're doing pre-ape. Um, you're the man that is a Monday

with Nate Tyson. We'll do some college ball later on. I'm going to do 10 minutes on Texas Ohio State, so we don't have to do any more on that. Um, but it was just such an exciting week one. And we just want to get going and rolling your technical watch, watch Ciani. He's stud. Yeah, that's my guy. That's my tackle. Oh, he's your favorite tonight. Uh, I'm going to go, I'm going to go Broncos. And then it's just Josh Simmons is not playing. You got a backup undrafted left tackle

with. That changed my technique. Yeah, I know that sounds. Yeah, that's that's scary because the strength why I got even a little bowl trying to achieve this year was built online. So left tackle undrafted for Asian starting. Yeah, I'm going to get a little bit lower on that. I do think the Chiefs defense

is going to surprise people this year, though. I think that's going to be a fun defense. We'll talk

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watch a lot of that because I'm just already watching games. I don't know, it's been more time you've already heard that speech before I covered it, but considering what happened last year and you know, Texas having this, this loss of Ohio State, a game that very easily could have gone either way, depending on the bounce of a ball here or there, it's just kind of delayed the whole idea of like what Texas is supposed to be. You know, they bring in arch, socks there, top occlusion

classes. There was well funded as any program. They move over to the SEC, granted, we know this has been going on for a while. They've made some playoff runs. There's a lot here that we're kind of waiting on with Texas and where Ohio State has generally been not only the standard of the big 10, but you know, the standard for all college football here with a recent national championship. And when I was watching some of the pregame stuff, you know, arch was great. And it, you know, arch,

I think, I've talked to some people that recruited him, didn't get him, but they loved him.

They loved how round it he was and that he had every like right as a young person and maybe see himself a different way and in a way he kind of uses what everybody expects of him to kind of like disarm them and in very humble in a way that, you know, it can feel like bullshit with so many of these other players, but there's just a lot of people that really liked him, but we're all kind of like waiting and it's like it's way too much hype beginning of the season. You're like,

how come this guy's in the high school? Why is he projected to go number one overall? And that was something that happened with a mock draft even last year. So waiting on this thing to happen when you're watching the pregame stuff and whether it's the facilities at Texas and you're seeing all the things which is not specific to Texas, right? All of these programs kind of talk about, hey,

Here there's a standard and we have a way and you're like, look, this is prob...

anybody else and just because I've been to a bunch of these places and they're like, oh, you

made some fucking t-shirts and you put some sayings around the facility like now everything's different

or whatever. And I know that everybody kind of has to do this stuff and I'd even allow that, hey, if you have this kind of positive reinforcement, if you have win the day in the corner when Chip Kelly is up there in Eugene, you know, you're likely going to win the day. They also were awesome too. So I don't know if it was the sayings plastered all over the stadium. But when it doesn't happen and you're getting these like full access moments, they're like, all right, but like,

when are you going to win one of these games? All right, can you actually win a national championship? And I know that the stakes keep getting raised is not like they're in a bad program, but you're like, we're all kind of waiting on New Texas. We're waiting on this moment and then Saturday night happens. And this is why I love football. I love so many different sports and for various specific reasons. I talk about basketball the reason I've made love that one the most is that the

best player can just decide it in any given moment. Like, I have to do something and take over, even though it doesn't seem like any if this is going to be easy. And like if the best players get to do that and just impose their will on everyone else, that's really kind of like what we're talking about here. But with football, it is very different in this sense that you can be getting your ass kicked for almost three hours. And you've got to come off to the sideline completely frustrated,

whether it's another three now, or you just gave up a touchdown, or it was a turnover,

and you have to come back and you have to stay in the fight. And that is not for everybody.

I mean, imagine if you were an outfield or in baseball and for an hour, let's say three innings, no one hits a ball at you. No one notices anything you're doing, right? But during those three innings of that one hour, say gameplay, you were also getting pushed 50 times and no one cares. And there's no reward. And it's not going your way. Like, that would be brutal. I'm going back to the dugout being like, all right, that sucked. And that's kind of what football is.

You go out there. Most people aren't paying attention. I think it's happening other than the football. And you're just getting your ass handed to you over and over and over again. And you're incredibly disappointed. I mean, even think about the start of this game. The place is on fire. Austin is ready to absolutely erupt to get revenge to talk about this SEC Big 10 thing, which has gone the big tens way here. To talk about Sark, this coach that so many people are like, yeah, you know, he's pretty

good with the offense, but I don't really know if he's that guy. Meanwhile, we did the same thing to Kirby Smart. He was dumb until he wasn't. We said the same thing about Christopher all until he got to a national championship game. Well, how state fans wanted Ryan Day fired the year he won a national championship. So we do this a lot with coaches. We're just kind of like collectively. I don't know about that guy. And then it happens and you go, all right, fun. Great. I don't know

Christopher all lost in the national championship game. So you come out. Bevos there. You're fired the

can and celebrities all over the place. And you first play fumble. And you're like, all right,

this sucks. Hold a new field goal. Next possession pick, you're down 10, nothing. Like, you don't even know if you're at Ohio State's level. This test, like, are we national title contenders? Can we get revenge on Ohio State? We don't even know if we're the same as them or better because we're giving this thing away. If you're Texas, and then you're coming back to the sidelines. It just continues to get worse. The first half here are the possessions for Texas.

Fumble, interception, punt, field goal. They tried to go for them fourth down with the win go end around. I actually like to play a call. Ohio State stayed in their lanes. They had to cover it up. Next thing you know, Ohio State taken over at midfield on the turnover on downs. They hit Jeremiah Smith for a touchdown. So even when it was 13, three, and you're going for that fourth

down being like, hey, if it's 13, six is bad as this first half has been, it's 13, six. Football's weird.

It can look like there's a canyon between the two teams based on what you've seen play out. And you're looking at the score going, look at the NFL games that we have every single

week in here. Like, how the fuck is this a game? And that's what Sark and that offense is

thing. We're like, we just get this fourth down. You can feel a goal, man. 13, six. That doesn't seem like a correct reflection of how this game has played out. And then it doesn't happen because they scored touchdown with 10 seconds left on that last play. And now you're down 23 and they're getting the ball back. You know, like this sucks. And Texas still doesn't score in the third quarter. In the third quarter, I think we're talking in seven plays two punts. Like, this isn't going

to happen. And arch, I mean, it's not all on arch. They didn't look like they could run the football. Didn't look like they could bend Jeremiah Smith saying his terrific. All these defensive guys, 15 different players drafted into the NFL. The last two years, just from Ohio State's defense. And you're like, I guess they're still good. Like anybody having questions will be like, are they actually still going to be special on defense? Yeah, I guess they are.

I guess it's not going to be an issue. Bo Jackson's going off. And he's going to like just write through the throats of this defensive line in line back or group that we all like from Texas

and in the third quarter, it's still a mess. Some of the arch throws these predetermined

Bubble screens that are just infecting college football.

quarterbacks, they're supposed to be first round draft picks. I imagine when they call it, it's

it's also like no matter what throw it out to it. Like, what if we see a bulldozer coming to kill the

receiver? Nope. Still throw it to him. And that gap happening. You're like, these are buddy pegs. You're going to get one of these guys killed. There was one throw where he actually like clutch and like it wasn't like a pump fake. He just was late with getting it out and I'm like, oh my god. And so that all of that's happening. And then Texas gets a little momentum at that end of the third quarter. And then they score immediately because of how the clock worked fourth quarter.

You know, so it's like nice to say they had the three touchdowns. But some of that work was done in the third quarter. Texas is able to start running the football. And I don't know if it was the heat. I don't know what it was. But it was like, hey, all right, we got to quick one there. Like now you're going to have to keep playing defense. You can get on days case. I guess if you want to of like playing not to lose. But, you know, they missed that field goal. This is entirely

different conversation. Now granted that field goal would have put them up two scores. Texas scored that last touchdown three 51. They may have managed the clock. Obviously, they would have managed a lot different if they were down to scores. But that's still asking a lot to get two scores. Like you get to get another one. You get to get a fourth score and get to even get the ball back with all of this. But the point of like the saying and all this kind of stuff is that this win should mean

everything for Texas. Like all of that stuff, it should mean some the standard. The fight. Do we

have it in us? That's why I think those guys were out of their minds after the game. And I don't

know what happened with the Sark interview. Apparently there's a problem at halftime. He walked away from Hollywood. Arch wanted to get back with the rest of those guys. I'm just being sent videos from dudes that were at the game. Him going off. Like this wasn't just a win against big battle Ohio State. This wasn't just revenge. It wasn't just about the SEC and the big 10. It's about Texas and all of us that have been waiting on this moment to happen. And it's still like who knows

because I'm sitting there going. Once the last time you picked a national championship game, we're both teams lost in week two of the college football season. And that's what I felt like for a long stretch Saturday night after Oregon had lost to Oklahoma State because I had Texas over Oregon. And I'm like, that doesn't have a lot. I can get shit wrong. But whoa. And look, as we know with the playoff, all these teams after a loss would still be in it. Oregon's still in it. Ohio State's

still in it. But the meaning of all of this. And I don't know that the SEC big 10 thing matters. You know, Michigan can get Oklahoma earlier. Hey, thanks, Mississippi State if you're in the SEC offices on some of that stuff. The results haven't been there. The depth is there. The results have been up in there. And the national championship games. Obviously, we know what's happened last three years. But for Texas, just for Texas, that program in Austin on a night like that to stay

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possibly imagine. Invest of all kids. I am liquid. So now you know what's possible. Let me tell you what's required. All right, life advice, life advice, [email protected], sorruti and Kyle are with us. How was week one for you guys? I was good. It was hack-dick. Yeah, I mean, you know, Kyle and I were talking

before. It was like a nice brisk sort of fall feeling. For the first time really here in the

northeast and then you get a little bit too excited and you throw a sweatshirt on, you go outside and you're like wait a second. It's actually still 85 degrees outside and sweat my balls off. But today's hold up. I'm feeling a tumble AF. I mean, it really does. It smells different today. But it's good for the shirts. A tumble AF. There you go. Yeah. So, so trying to get the

Rights from Albany.

they would mind a little royalties. I can get back to us. Yeah. It does seem like a few of those

itself. It's an I feel like it would be really big on not overstocking that out of him. Yeah,

a little bit of a lot of the whole inventory. It could be totally co-opted. It's just like every city has it in their gift shop. You know, like now it's just we didn't get we missed out on all that money because they just went. The plan compensated everywhere. Yeah, maybe the plan is just to have a bunch of super niche t-shirts and only make like five of them. And that's our plan. So there's just super scarce. So if you see a very market, then we'll be watching watches and then the next thing

you know. It's like Detroit versus everybody. And then it was named Tucket versus everybody. You're going too far. Yeah. Get a little feedback. Counting down sucks. Confirmation bias. May fellas want to preface this by saying I love all of you guys, but and the pod, but come on counting down and set sucks. Some pretty serious lift or try to multiple occasions of accounting up and just going to failure is way simpler. When I count down, I either grossly over

us to make how much I have in the tank and don't make it or complete the undersmith and finish knowing I could have gone harder. Everyone I've asked about this a reason says that it sucks and hurts. There was a lot about going 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. You thought about that? Or have you been at know what if you go 0, negative 1, negative 2, start dropping lower? Yeah. Sub 0. I'm convinced that the emails you receive praising is just confirmation bias from the small

population who it works for, then they write in to tell you. I love that you think that that's what it could be. Now you might be right and it didn't work for you and that's fine. But how is it confirmation bias from us and not from you? Sorry. That one. I can't continue to listen to this bad advice. Need to hit your ego a little bit. Love the pod. Go lines. Yeah. Look, I don't know if it's, I would imagine if you're like really good in your series

lifter and you kind of know the range that you're in all the time. Maybe it doesn't work for you. My trainer tried it after I talked to him about it and then he came up and was like it actually worked on a couple of things. It's crazy. So, you know, look, I don't think there's a lawsuit that needs to happen here. But if it doesn't work for you, it doesn't work for you. That's fine.

But I think the issue that I have to have is that you're accusing us of confirmation bias

from emailers emailing in saying that it's working for them and that I've suggested it's worked for me for years and you're in the clear though. Does that make any sense?

I'm embarrassed to say I'm not a hundred percent clear on what confirmation bias is. I always

feel stupid when I do this with like gaslighting or something but I feel like this one you could explain in one sentence to me and we'll just move on. Is that just you're hearing what you want to hear? Here's a perfect example like in the draft where if there's a player that I like say Scoot Henderson and then he has the good game, I'll be like C. I talk to you. There you go, perfect. If you like a player, you watch them through the lens of liking them. If you don't like

a player, it also applies the same way. If there's a player who I already know I don't really like and then I go back and do the draft tape, I may watch them through the lens of everything that I'm seeing. I'm trying to steer towards a confirmation of what I originally thought. Great explanation. Love that. I was kind of like 90% there but it's one of those words you

don't want to use wrong. I think you had it. Yeah. What about Occam's Razor? Winhorse's favorite. Is that the

one you're planning to do? I think everyone who doesn't knows. Kyle knows me. We'll do this for everybody. I think it's is not a simple solution as usually the right one go. Okay. Yeah. I didn't know it right away. I just don't know about that. Murphy's law. Everything that can go

wrong will go wrong. That one I know. A little more powerful. Yeah. That was how he's always on my

toes. Because Wilcane would throw like a theory at you every now and then he'd be like yeah. I remember one time straight up he's like, "Do you know what this means?" And he saw my delay and I went, "Yeah." And he knew I didn't know. And that's a great co-host. Did he have mercy? Yeah, because he was like, "Yeah. Exactly. You know to explain it to the audience." Because I just was like, "I don't, this is tough. I choked." Stuff. Yeah. All right. Some emails.

My husband says I pull three feet instead of three sheets. When I saw that, I immediately thought, "Hey, your husband's right. You're wrong. You sleep in the same bed. You pull the sheets off of him." I don't know when the women got together to have a meeting about this about just we're going to start with the sheets and then we'll have the right to vote. But I think, well,

Look how the women's suffrage movement was.

taken that long. That's a little ridiculous. I believe what you do. I believe a woman was elected to Congress before women could vote, which is one of the most weird outliers of all time. That's an interesting fact. I think we're going to get IT on that. I wouldn't be shocked because anytime I'm reading about something and then it just kind of comes back and you're like, God, tough run there, tough run for the ladies. All right. So female listener, official stats,

five, four basketball, continental, middle ball. I'm definitely flashed over fundamentals. I have a sweatshirt with his face on it. And honestly, I really only watch for the halftime shows.

You've lost some equity with us here on that one. 19 17, by the way. First woman elected a

Congress. So dead right there Steve. There you go. All right. I mentioned the result of

timers being like, and that's why the Titanic went down. Yeah. Okay, final. All right. Now,

I need you to help me dribble past a ridiculous argument. My husband started. He's basically become the official role referee. He recently caught. So this has nothing to do with betting. He recently called me out and said I use quote three feet, three feet of toilet paper instead of three sheets. And quote, when I'm taking care of business. But here's the absolute kick or switching to this organic bamboo toilet paper was all caps bold his idea. Instead of staying with normal

Sharmin double-fly, if you've ever used the bamboo paper, you know it's then trying to use just three sheets is a high stakes gamble. I use exactly enough to my liking because I want total protection. I like to share a comfortable barrier. And anything less is just a hazard. Plus happy wife, happy life. Am I right? The best part of all this. He pretty much only handles his major business on his company's clock. Anyway, so he barely touches our roles at home. He needs to put away the

yards. So the yardstick can just let me roll in peace. Am I being totally unreasonable? I like a thinner sheet, too. And I like to double-tribble up. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I just, I don't want to get too graphic. But I'm just saying I like it. I like the thinner sheet. I think the number one thing is birthday present Christmas present the day seat. Here you go. Now we're not now. I don't want to hear it because you you complain so much and I know dudes are a little bit

hesitant. You know, I mean, you might sit on that thing for a year before he turns it on. But the what he does, it's an absolute life changer. You have one right now? Yes. You still have to wipe your own

butt afterwards, right? And then just wait. Yeah, if you want to be crass about it, yes you do. Yeah.

But he's guy, but it's, I mean, it's more of a drying. It's like, it's like a one-two past sort of deal. If you get what I made with the air dryer in it, dude. I'm a big day, new, admittedly. But like, how is they're not also just like splash it everywhere? Like, how is they're not just, how is it not just soaked to really clean in there? Yeah, come on. Yeah, it is. You're saying it is. I'm on her side. I'm totally on her side. He's on her side. I'm on her side. Yeah.

They're not, they're, it's a really personal choice, I think. And I, I don't think we should be policing, you know, if you ate half of the leftovers, yeah, we could talk about it. But if we're talking

about talking to sheep numbers, no. And then, you know, it's like a roommate that never comes home

going like, are you really going to put that table there? And you're like, oh, you're not here. Yeah, I would just, I would just hear it and be like, yeah, that's what I do. I don't think I

defend myself. I'm like, that's what I do. Yeah, but I've definitely been known to you too much,

T. P. So I can't, I can't even talk. As long as you're flush in the right amount, and there's no, you know, you don't get to call anybody. It's fine. Yeah, good plumbing. Put some water on that thing. Well, I will say my, we, you know, our daughter is in the process of being potty trained. And so she just likes to pull and pull and pull and just have a huge old bundle in there. And well, that's fun. That's just, she'll be like, oh, yeah, that's just fun. She'll be like, right. But it's like,

we're talking number one here too, by the way. And then she said, well, Dad, I pee a lot. And I was like, logically, that doesn't make sense, but actually, like having to explain that to her is just like, you know, it's a little bit mind numbing, but, you know, she just grabs like half the roll. Dabs it, puts it in there. I'm like, right now you get the plunger out here we go. My knee six is funny to send me pictures while she's going through it. The thoughts wait, post, like, post,

no, not, not that bad. I just told my sister. I was like, yep, she's still cute, but let's go back to the outside stuff and picking flowers and you know, my new one is just proud of herself. They just want to tell you, you know, yeah, she's getting there. So we're all rooting for I would say like bigger picture though, in relationships. And look, I'm not the easiest

first couple weeks because it's usually, you know, I'm, you know, so you're like, oh, great.

You're putting my fancy steak bands in the dishwasher.

And I'm not acting like it's OCD. I think some people would just be like, when you're by yourself

all the time and like your stuff is where it is. And then if you're hanging out with somebody a long time and it's significant enough that they're like feeling comfortable to do things. Like that person just kind of wants to be in it. And if you're a tight about this stuff, I would, I'll know immediately. Like, hey, just fucking who cares which order the silverware is in. Like who can now, the steak knives fancy steak that is in the dishwasher can be kind of above.

Oh, I'm just gonna say I'm a little bit of a dishwasher jar. Yeah, if you ever had a nice steak knife, it's known in the family. Like, if you know the plastic cups behind the glass one, do you like, no, no, no. It's more, it's more about like just maximizing space, you know, and then, you know, I, a poorly loading dishwasher will drop you up a wall though. Yeah, and I was the whole good mindset. Me telling this, but like my mother-in-law loves to put like just full plates of food in

the dishwasher. I'm like, you just, you just can't do that. You can't do that. Like, okay, nice, you know, there's like chunks of meat on the plate. Like what are we doing? Like, I'm not going down the drain. Yeah, but I would say all of that stuff, all those like little things,

but like, oh, that's how you do the pillows or that's how you think the men should just,

who cares? All of it should just not care. Like, let's get together and make a pact and not care, because we kind of need to know how to say that to the guy though. You know what I mean? You can't report the, I'm not doing it right now. I know. I'm saying he needs someone to step in and say it to him, because like the person he's upset with, like, there's a veil there that can't be broken. If his dude was like, dude, you're being fucking crazy right now. Once you sit right out,

why are you relaxed? Right. That's like, there's nothing you could say to that. I'm like,

right, I shouldn't be so tired about this. I remember the first time I ever worked in a restaurant,

I put a kitchen knife in the sink and another chef came by and was like, oh, you know, getting chef's handle stuff with, um, I would say very little decorum. I will fucking kill you if you ever do this again. And I went, okay. Well, this seems like stakes are high on this and it makes a lot of sense. If you can't see a kitchen water in murky water and you're sticking your hands in and grabbing a cutting board out to clean it or whatever, your load taking stuff out of the

load of the dishwasher, we could have a really, really big problem. So it stayed with me and stayed with me for a long time. And then I had it happen with somebody I was with and I'm like, and it was the worst. I was the worst. I was like, so what do we do when we're putting kitchen knives in the bottom of the sink? It was like, I don't say that. I'm taking it easy on you. That guy threatened to kill me. Yeah, I'm just giving you the luck. And I could see she was kind of like, what, horrified. But

there's, I'll take any time I've ever done the kind of, okay. This is a disruption to you being by yourself all the time and then having some of the else here that's going to start moving stuff around. Because they don't know the program. None of us, if I went to Cerritis house and was like,

tasked with doing something that I'm not going to do with the way he's always done it. Here's the

point is none of it matters. None of it matters. And whenever I've caught myself, I'll just go, what are you doing? Who cares? It doesn't matter. And so when it comes to this, I hate when like little things like this can plant the seed or these become really an extension of some other issue that two people are having with each other. And then you're freaking out. You're like, you know, and the little spoon should be closest to the outside because we're using them more often.

The volume is so much higher. The usage rate, the big, who uses the big spoons?

Oh, you know, and then it's like, what do you do? When's the last of you had soup, huh? Exactly. Yeah. Oh, Mrs. Burr, Mrs. Bone broth is here. We're all going to start having bone broth all the time. Because you read about it. You're going to have a podcast. This is a little too close to home for me. I need my, I need some silver flection here. I'm just proud of when I've caught myself going, this doesn't matter. Don't, don't say anything. Do not care about it. Right. Like,

don't care about it. All right. Maybe we helped to reveal it. So she should just help me relax. That's what we're saying. I think she should just keep going. I think so too. I don't know what she's going to place the bamboo. Be like, you're not even using it. Mr. All natural. Yeah. Oh, really a day. If if she, if you're not clogging the toilet, you're doing it. You're doing fine. I think that's the, that's the, that's the, well, it can get a little annoying. You can get, you know, if you're out,

if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're, you know, calling for help in there. Yeah. I guess, imagine how or to use, he'd go through like eight roles. You know what, you know what sucks though, is he's probably doing it as a passive aggressive joke? That's like over and over again. Like

the three feet, not three sheets. Like, he probably thinks that's clever. Yeah, I think he's got a lot

of time on that. That's a body of clever. That's a, that's a, that's a bummer. We try to get two more in here.

Little handicap talk.

rowing machine, Pilates, lots of stretching. There you go. Big guy doing it right. I'm going to the

gym today. It's all stretching. I'm not allowed to touch her way. Also, curls to the girls, but can get,

but can't get biceps big. Player comps end on Hamilton. I just worms my heart here in his name.

Played hard, got some rebounds, but it always maintained enthusiasm and a smile during play.

Zenon was a hell of a player. Here's my dilemma. I had a rough, work life. Okay. First in retail, mostly unloading trucks, and then as a UPS driver, making over 200 stops a day. Finally, after 15 years, I had to come off the road due to injuries. I've had over 20 surgeries through the years. From a neck fusion to hip tears down to getting screws put into my foot, but the biggest problem is my knees. I've had so many knee issues that I had both replaced four

times. Are you fucked? I'm just like a lie. That's both. That's eight knee replacements. Oh, wait, wait. Two on each knee. All right. So still not said. That's still than insane number. All before I was 50, I can walk great on flat surfaces, but being on my feet for long periods, climbing stairs, the pain of my existence caused me problems running and squatting, or possible,

and my vertical is less than an inch. Because of this, I've had a handicap. Okay. So I thought this

was a golf. This is far more serious. A handicap placard for years. I can't tell you how many times I get dirty looks, or people mumbling under the breath when I get out of my car. And yes, sometimes I pour at the plant early because it makes my life a little bit easier. While back, you guys said you hate when you see what that happened, especially when the person doesn't look handicapped. So what should I do? Should I stop boarding early? Maybe the limp a little bit more and fathically? Should I give

up my handicap placard until I'm older and look the part? I know it's stupid. I shouldn't care what

people think, but it sucks having people think you were gaming the system. Finally, great friggin show,

by the way, my wife runs the timing company that times running races. So if you ever want to know someone's 5k marathon, et cetera, times any good. We can tell you. All right. We'll keep that. All right. So this is far more serious. I'll tell you right now. I get it because you're not that old and you're walking. You're going to get the dirty looks. I might even give you a dirty look at some point. But what I know you are not is somebody who struggles the portion control

because we had a portion control queen the other day taken up a spot and you were like, you're fine. You just, you know, I'll leave it at that. So man, you, I mean, it would suck to have to get a t-shirt that just said I've had four knee replacements and now should there just be levels, you know, but maybe they should color code them. Just based on like severity, just so you know, you know, like my, so the carrots are aware. Right. Like I'm a little more, I'm a great one. Like it's

not, I have some trouble with my knees, whatever. You just know it's like a low level situation. So that okay. And then there's like, how can you get this guy's phone quadriplegic like he has whatever high level is? Like their, that just feels like it should be done. I want to stay for this guy. I feel bad for him, right? Like none of us are saying he shouldn't have it, right? But initially, I was going to have to go totally flip me. Like you totally flip me. I don't remember saying that.

It sounds like something I would say. I'm sorry. I'm up and I just and I just remembered like

grow a shocker like growing up with guys that like when they first started to drive and it's like,

I just grabbed my grandmother's placard and like, yeah, we're good right here. We're good, right? It's like, it's like, a lot of times it wasn't them. It was like someone in their family that they like borrowed this from or something, you know? You know, grandfather's dead. We still got the thing. As long as they don't notice the, you know, the expiration date on it or this one's good for a while. Like, I just, I've seen so much abuse of it. I think I'm still going to think that way, even though I feel

bad when I think that way about you. But I don't think you should have to worry about it. I don't think

I think you earned that placard. Yeah, but it's still that's what you have to do. It's that he's

still going to like, he's still going to get looks. Like, you know, it's like he's doing the right thing. It's like their parking spot. I like that might just be charging the game. Dude, I'm saying, do you buy, do you buy a cane? Like, you just like, and you only use it in public places, you know? I don't think you should have to do that. So you buy a cane is the best advice question in a long time. You know, you just have, just like, just so like, you do kind of need it.

Like, you, you said you're one in vertical, like, your knees hurt like walking around. Like, maybe it's not the, and it's not like, I don't think that that's fully stolen Valor. And it also lets people know in public that, okay, yeah, like, here's this, and then you feel better by yourself. Like, I know you shouldn't have to do that, but I think it will make you feel better. Were you a member of a union or something? You'd get a sticker and be like, "That guy

probably did some work." You know what I mean? That's probably just a long life of working, working hard, you know? Yeah, or maybe you buy that, you know, by the US open half that I have. It looks like the stolen Valor hack. You just wear something like that around so people get kind of confused and think that you might have served. That's crazy. I actually thought, you know, I was thinking when he was in the beginning of the email, I was like, "Man, you know, I did, I didn't miss

Those early morning truck unloads at Models, but by the end of the email, I w...

everybody." I don't know, sometimes I think like, I think the old guys have a harder.

This guy proved it wrong, I think, but like, sometimes I'm like, you know, would just like

deliver packages like I'm just listening to podcasts all day? Like, I know it's a little

taxing on everybody. I like driving personally. I don't really mind it. I always have it to be with my

wife. But some people were from their pounds of cat littered. Right. And the old ladies like just bring it inside, please. Yeah, then like two hours in, I'm like, "Okay, this is probably not the fun job I thought it might be." But I also like to be by myself, so it's like, "Hey, I'm just in the car all day by yourself." You know, I could be kind of that. That's the thing. Like, I was saying, like, Models, there was like three guys with us for their different departments, like,

getting shit off and figuring out where it goes. Like, that guy's solo. And whenever his in his truck is in his truck and he's just got to get it done. And some people are ordering, you know, pulling spring water bottles, you know, with five gold. Like, people order insane shit now to their house, because they actually don't want to go to the store and bring it in. And maybe UPS isn't where it comes, but I mean, those Amazon guys are bringing all sorts of shit. I mean,

silly things. Like, you should just go get this yourself. And there's too many Amazon stories,

but there's like, move the drill situations when somebody falls down at a factory in your life. It's second. We're supposed to keep working today. What's going on here? So, I don't know. I'm probably just proving my own, sorry. It's not a dream job. I just thought I'd thought about it. All right. We'll see. We'd like you to think about stuff. We're going to application into the case things get real South quick. I just see too many people

where you go, I've always, as you said, Kyle, like, I'm shocked when there's somebody that I

would know that we like, oh, I've got a placard. I'm like, you're just okay with, and they, their their processes. Once I obtain this, someone in the family or anyone has it, it's just for all of a sudden. It's for all of us. Like, what's wrong with you? And I'm like, oh, so I'm wrong. I don't understand it. And you've had real stuff. And so I think it's, it's a bit like, when you're in the midst of a dilemma, knowing that you're actually right during the dilemma. And

for this, this isn't probably an everyday thing for you. Like, just just be at peace on the idea that I know I'm right. And I'm deserving of this. And anybody that wants to look at me, I mean, you know, we're to start going down at strangers. I mean, like, I've had four. Yeah. So to say, I stop looking. Yeah. Right. Because if the guy's big, you're probably not going to be able to run away from, all right. Let's see. That's so long. God, that's so long. And one, yeah.

We need a quick one. That's a book.

510, 185 solid dad bought never lifted to get bigger to stay in shape. It started to get

after a little bit more this year. Get the bench up to a five for the first time. My neighbor broke my lawnmower. And my question is, how awkward do I make it? We moved in our house five years ago, two dollars, both five. Couple across the street has a girl the same age. Girls have become friends and play together often. That part's going to make this break of tough. My wife has become friends with a mother. Let's call her Carmen. And they get together often for social events. Carmen's

husband. Let's call him Taylor's a little different from me. And we've always been friendly, but I'm good with the wave in the 30 second meaningless conversation from across the street for us. A few weeks ago, Carmen asked my wife if they could borrow our pushmoor because there's this broken. I came a come home for launch and see Taylor mowing their yard with our mower. No big deal. When I go to leave my house, our mowers in the driveway. And when I start to push in the garage,

I notice something's wrong with it. It's hard to push. And when I look more, the parts that raises and lowers the blades. He could use a fucking hair. Crack in half. God looked at the yard in half of it as scult. It's beyond obvious that it broke while Taylor was using it. My wife asked Carmen about it. Her husband said nothing happened and it wasn't broken. He returned that man. I get stuck with $180 repair bill plus $40 to pay the kid down the street to mower yard while it's in the shop.

I now refuse to interact with Taylor. Recently, our families were all out at the same place together. I kept my distance from the group. I told my wife I'm done with Taylor. Let's see. It makes it right. She said that makes it awkward for her because of her friendship with Carmen. But she knows

I'm right. It looks like this guy's going to be in my life for a while. So where do I go from here?

As the tables return, I would have owned up to it immediately offered to pay for repairs. For context, both families have nice houses. Good job. So $180 isn't going to cause this financial trouble. The mower is only two years old and a quality brand. He has a feedback thing in there. We're just going to keep it moving. I think the great thing about this is you already didn't like him and he was pretty clear. You are going to become friends and now the girls can

keep playing the wives can do whatever. But you have an awesome out. Like this, you think it's bad because he's going to be in your life for a while. But now you have a reason to never hang out with somebody. You didn't want to hang out within the first place. So it caused you $220 total. Yeah, the Bronx tail thing right there. There you go. Yeah, it's a bummer. I think it's a bummer when

You find out.

some people just aren't built like that. They're not built up. They're not built to own up to

something that's even so small. You know what I mean? You think most people are. And then you come across the guys like he's really not going to admit this is insane. This is insane. And I could tell

many things real quick. Do you think more people are like this guy or more people are like,

what do you think that is? It's like the uh, I think sometimes you don't know until they're face

with like something out of the ordinary. Like they're good. Like they have just enough spine for

their day-to-day. And if anything weird happens though, he's a fucking wildguard. Like, you know,

I mean, no, but I'm talking like if we went, I don't know. I don't know if you just keep

doing Americans. So what are we looking at? Like a hundred and sixty-hundred and seventy men?

I'm going to kick out the kids. So do you think it's 50-50? Do you think it's actually like 90-10? It's not 90-10. That would only do it. That are just willing to do the right thing. Yeah, this is like the shopping cart theory. Like probably seven are you a person who returns to shopping cart or your person who just leaves it in parking spot to piss somebody else off later. And I think most people think that they would be the person who returns to the parking

via the shopping cart. But certainly I am too. I don't want to be on that show. I like to believe in the better. And I think it's the, I think it's the majority of people we don't know. It's like 70-30, but the 30 are real good at candle flashing as the 70,

you know, until until like something happens and then you have to see that they're the part of the

30. I hope so, buddy. All right, thanks for time, Kevin Kyle. And so, really all of our episodes available on Netflix. Subscribe to the show, Ryder Silasho, our story sports.

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