E.P.I.C. Podcast "Every Play Is Crucial"
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E.P.I.C. Podcast "Every Play Is Crucial"
The Epic Collision: Sports Talk Showdown
Sports debate reaches new heights as we tackle NFL power rankings after Week 3, with passionate disagreements about which teams deserve their current spots and which are being disrespected.
• WNBA playoff updates on the Minnesota Lynx vs Mercury and Aces vs Fever semifinal matchups
• College football rankings discussion with Ohio State at #1 and Indiana climbing to #11 after beating Illinois
• Heated debate on NFL power rankings with Eagles at #1 and Bills at #2
• Major disagreement about Ravens (#7) ranking above undefeated Colts (#12)
• Analysis of defensive struggles for multiple NFL contenders
• Preview of Week 4 NFL matchups with few compelling games on the schedule
• Boxing updates with focus on upcoming November fights
• Discussion of Saudi Arabia reportedly offering Tom Brady $75 million for a single flag football game
Join us next week as we continue tracking NFL developments and bringing you our unfiltered sports opinions!
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Speaker 4:What's up? The Epic Podcast man? We have some technical difficulties, but we got in here, joined Full House today we got everybody back man here with Jared Isaac, justin and Jared man. How's y'all sports week been since last week? Ike start with you.
Speaker 1:I got one thing, man One.
Speaker 4:Alright, how you feel about your team man.
Speaker 1:I mean the fact that everybody did you know, win is a win Y'all been. How do you feel about your? Team man, I mean the fact that everybody dead. You know, man A win is a win.
Speaker 4:Y'all been ranked in the top ten in injuries for the past, like four years, I think, since like 2019. Yeah, yeah, so that sucks. What about you, Jared man? I know y'all been watching the Reds, but yeah, we fluing it up right now.
Speaker 2:Bingo's worst loss of franchise history on Sunday. What? Yeah, 48-10, worst loss. It's actually kind of shocking that we haven't been beaten by more than 38 ever. But that's neither here nor there. Yeah, it was definitely the worst game I've ever seen, even before I knew that that was our worst loss. I can't recall too many and I've seen a ton, but I can't recall seeing many worse things games than that. But seasons of wash, it is what it is. Yep, ohio State was off, so I've just been chilling really Cool, cool, cool Justin.
Speaker 4:What about you, man? How's your sports weekend been?
Speaker 3:Or week. I should say Solid, solid, yeah, not too much Solid.
Speaker 4:All right, fair enough, fair enough, fair enough.
Speaker 1:I want to add that you did beat the birds up in the woods. Yes, I did.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they did. I highlighted that last week as, like one of those games.
Speaker 1:There's going to be one of those interesting games, yeah nah, indiana did not allow that to be interesting, so I got to turn the game on.
Speaker 4:Man.
Speaker 4:All right, he's off of them. Man, quickly, Like I don't even remember a point that it was like a game, game, but you know, like it just wasn't. But quick WNBA news, man we got the semifinals going on right now Minnesota Link versus the Mercury, and then we got the Aces versus the Fever, which right now we got the Fever leading that series 1-0. And right now Minnesota is beating Phoenix. Right now, 59-49 on ESPN and third with like two and a half minutes left. So good games. Man Fever been popping off man, even without Kaitlin Clark. I hope they get it done. Man Fever been popping off man, even without Kaitlyn Clark.
Speaker 2:I hope they get it done, man.
Speaker 4:Kelsey Milcher been whooping man, so especially against the Aces man, the Aces have just been tough for the past, ever since Asia's been there. I guess you should just say she just won her fourth MVP first player to ever do that in WNBA history. So yeah man, I just hope the fever keep on putting on for the city man. Right now things are pretty good in the state as far as sports go, so hopefully they keep handling business man.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 4:It's all I can ask for man Moving right along. Jump into a little college football talk which we were kind of speaking on a little bit ago. Did you watch that Indiana-Illinois game?
Speaker 1:I got to it late. It was 35-7 when I turned the game on, and it's just a hilarious thing. Late, it was 35-7 when I turned the game on, and it just hilarious thing that. So I'm sitting with the Monetson. My dad attended my graduation twice and text me in the middle of the game. I had no idea that Bloomington was so overwhelmingly Caucasian.
Speaker 4:Yes, Very much so.
Speaker 1:You had to look at the stands to see this.
Speaker 2:Like what it is a very it's probably 95% white down there, especially if you back out the college.
Speaker 1:No for sure, probably the whitest place in the country. That's crazy. I will give him a little bit of bail because my second year year, when I graduated from Grad school, I didn't do the main graduation, I only did black grad. But I'm pretty sure he came to the first one. I did the main graduation. I just don't think he's paying attention.
Speaker 4:Right now, he probably just focused On you and being Excited for you.
Speaker 1:As I'm Excited for him beating the brakes'm excited for them Beating the Berks off Illinois. We got a couple of Easier games I would say that they got to focus on. And then I know we got Penn State and Oregon this year. So Me and one of my homeboys Was talking about Like 10-2 is probably Not going to do it, so we're definitely going to need to win one of those games.
Speaker 2:Y'all play Penn State and Oregon, are you sure? Mm-hmm? We looked at it last week. I could have swore I looked at y'all's schedule and I didn't see anybody on it.
Speaker 4:That's crazy, nah yeah, yeah, we were talking about it last week. How they schedule kind of turned up a little bit, um, I mean taking care of Illinois. I mean that was a big step in the right spot which got them ranked 9th. Now, um and yeah, like, that's wild.
Speaker 2:I did not know that. What the hell I was looking at? It was somebody's schedule from the Big Ten I was looking at. I was just like, yeah, this is a breeze.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's why they were lucky to get last year over again.
Speaker 2:That Iowa game ain't going to be easy. If y'all play how y'all been playing, it should be fairly, but Iowa's a tough place to play.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they play as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, y'all got to go to Oregon and to Penn State.
Speaker 1:They got to stay focused. They got to stay focused, but I mean, I've not seen anything in the last two years that showed me that they wouldn't. We'll see. That's why they play the gang right yeah for sure?
Speaker 4:Nah, for sure for sure. Right now, updated rankings Ohio State 1, Miami 2,. Penn State still holding on at 3, lsu at 4, georgia at 5, they didn't change. Oregon 6,. Oklahoma jumped up to seven, florida State eight. Texas A&M nine, Texas 10. They dropped down a couple spots Indiana at 11. Texas Tech at 12. So ultimately top 12. But you got a bunch of teams just scratching. Ole Miss is 4-0 at 13. You got Iowa State 4-0 at 14. Tennessee 3-1 at 15. Georgia Tech undefeated at 16. Vanderbilt undefeated at 18. Missouri, usc, tcu and BYU all undefeated, to round out the top 25. So, granted, we only four weeks in, but you got some teams just trying to start separating themselves. I don't know how. Notre Dame is one and two still ranked 22 right now. Only team with a losing record just ranked.
Speaker 2:Two ranked teams, two undefeated teams.
Speaker 4:I get that. I mean, with it being this early, though, I think you could take them out of the rankings and see how they bounce back later on in their schedule. But I mean tomato, tomato they're going to have to.
Speaker 2:I like a lot of points.
Speaker 4:You're going to have to. I like a lot of points, all right, you're going to have to demolish the rest of your schedule. Speaking of a schedule, I have not looked at a schedule.
Speaker 2:We got USC left. That's it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, arkansas, boise State, nc State. Yeah, usc. That's not yeah, that's really it. Boston College, Navy, Pitt, Syracuse and Stanford. Like, yeah, that's really it. Boston College, Navy, Pitt, Syracuse and Stanford. Like you said, they're going to have to win by, like they needed those first two wins to rank At least one of them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they could have got one of them, they would have been straight. I mean, I guess best case scenario USC just keeps winning Right and then they like crack the top five or something, and then Notre Dame beats beast to break off them. That's probably the only scenario. These other teams aren't going.
Speaker 4:Although.
Speaker 2:Syracuse might be ranked by that game, though they could. Usc could also not be ranked by that game. That part.
Speaker 4:Yeah, because I don't think. Syracuse, let's see who they play. They lost to tennessee. That was the ranked team. They got georgia tech coming up. Yeah, it's gonna be they got. They got miami and then notre dame. So like, if they beat georgia tech, miami, like I said, and beat these other teams, they should win against. Um, maybe, yeah, like you said, when they get to notre dame, then maybe they rank high enough to make it matter more for them.
Speaker 2:They're not undefeated. Who's Syracuse lose? Tennessee, tennessee, yeah yeah. If they beat Georgia Tech, I mean that's still a ways away. I thought you said it was like the next game.
Speaker 4:No, that's what I'm saying. By that time when they get to them if they handle business, then maybe it's important enough.
Speaker 2:It's such a short time for some of these, like lower teams, like Georgia Tech, to walk around and not be ranked when they play. But I mean, you know, I doubt Miami is too, because Miami and Florida State on the fourth is going to be a good game.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, but we've also seen the Florida, the Florida team has just been yeah, but yeah they're in the same conference too. I just thought about that they both in the ACC, they might fuck around.
Speaker 2:They might have to play in the ACC championship too, because we know Clemson's cooked them.
Speaker 4:Niggas is down for it why do you say that they're like one and three? But you know what? Sometimes Clemson tend to start off slow, but sometimes they just tend to find themselves in the ACC championship and I don't know how it's been times that I've been like.
Speaker 2:If they finally start 1-3, that's some shit. Over Miami, which is 4-0 over, that's 4-0.
Speaker 4:Syracuse you beat them. That's the thing. If you beat these teams, you get so much credit for it. Oh, but they don't play Clemson this year, miami don't yeah, they don't have it headed.
Speaker 2:A lot would have to happen for Clemson to make their way even ranked, let alone next ACC championship.
Speaker 4:Well, if Florida State beats Miami, that's going to jump them up a little higher in the rankings. And then Clemson beat Florida, State beats Miami.
Speaker 2:That's going to jump them up a little higher in the rankings. And then Clemson beat Florida State.
Speaker 4:You said if that's what I'm saying, if that's what I'm saying. I don't know what I'm saying. If they do, then shoot. I mean, there's a path at least to the championship. You know how they feel about college football championship games. If there's a will, there's a way Anything to sprinkle in there. Justin, on college football man. No, I'm good, I guess we'll just get to the grown man league. That's what we came to talk about anyway. Week three recap man Last week was interesting.
Speaker 4:Let's talk about some of these power rankings. Do we all agree that Philly should be number one best team in the league right now?
Speaker 2:you can make a case for it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you can also make a case for the Bills, I think. But I mean I'm not mad at anyone?
Speaker 4:Bills are number two. Do we like Detroit at three, at two on one.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I'm something with Detroit. Detroit is good. I don't know how they lost to the Packers, but Detroit I would have the charges ahead of me.
Speaker 4:That's all I'm about to say. We got Chargers at four and they undefeated. Would you put them above Detroit? I would I would hate that. Yeah, my only thing. Like I said, y'all know how I am with the Chargers, so I would have to wait. I would have to wait.
Speaker 3:Personal feelings are irrelevant.
Speaker 4:You're talking about the.
Speaker 3:NFL season. It's three weeks in. They're undefeated.
Speaker 4:I agree. And they beat the Chiefs first game and they beat the Broncos, so they already got two division wins, three. They beat the Raiders too, my bad. Three of their wins have been division wins, so with doing that, I would say yeah, I would have to put him up there, even though the Chargers just been underperforming the past couple of years.
Speaker 3:It'll play itself out. You're talking about B3.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, right right. I'm talking about the Chargers pre-John Harbaugh. He's only in his second year. He's obviously proven himself as a coach on various levels. Yeah, no, and this has nothing to do with them.
Speaker 4:It's just, you know, like when we just have been talking about them in the past and just looked at the talent of their teams, we just kind of get behind them and they tend to let us down, mainly y'all, but nonetheless, packers at five.
Speaker 2:Just long for the Browns, not after that shit they did in Cleveland.
Speaker 4:I mean but hey, if Cleveland can do nothing else, they can play defense yeah, but shit, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I think it's just the way that they lost it.
Speaker 4:They had full control of that game okay, then would you put, would you put a 3-0 Tampa Bay above Green Bay right now, after barely beating the Jets by two points?
Speaker 3:I would, especially if you're going to look at the full picture just because Tampa still ain't had a full team. They've been without their all-world left tackle Mike Evans.
Speaker 4:I'm not Mike Evans, doesn't hurt, I'm not saying Mike.
Speaker 3:Evans doesn't beat out three to four. They ain't got Chris Godwin. I mean they're still finding ways to win, so I give them credit for that.
Speaker 4:No, absolutely. But I mean again, you can kind of look at them and talk about who they played. The Falcons, they barely beat by three. The Texans, they beat by one, and then you beat the Jets by two Combined. Over the first three weeks you've only won games by what? Six points.
Speaker 3:At the end of the day, I think your record only reflects wins and losses.
Speaker 4:Okay, that's fair A win is a win, that's how you like to look at it?
Speaker 1:Finding a way to do it. You've got to get credit for finding a way to do it. The Falcons are with one and two Yep. The Jets are just having one either.
Speaker 4:So that's all I'm saying, just a little perspective.
Speaker 1:Maybe they get bumped for that. But, like Jess said, doing it without a lot of key pieces, you've got to get some kind of credit for that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, no, I agree with that and that's why I try to look at they scared them. Who have they played Like? Does this make sense to you know? So, yeah, I would put them above, like you said. Maybe the grittiness of their wins put them above Green Bay, like you said, especially after I mean a narrow loss to the Browns. We got the Ravens at seven at one and two, and then the Rams at eight at two and one. Do you switch those around or do you just look at it, you know, knowing the Ravens is just a better team potentially.
Speaker 3:I don't know why people keep saying that either.
Speaker 4:Rams are good man. No, I'm not taking away from the Rams.
Speaker 3:I'm not dimming the Rams light, but it's just they're 7-8.
Speaker 4:So I'm just comparing them to like would you switch those?
Speaker 1:I definitely would switch those I right now don't think that the Ravens are a better team. The Ravens. I don't know what the fuck they're doing on defense Other better team, the Ravens. I don't know what the fuck they're doing with defense Other than Matador defense, because it just seems like they're just letting people go by.
Speaker 4:Tackling has been the worst right now. This is probably the worst tackling Ravens team I've seen in a long time.
Speaker 2:I subjectively still think the Ravens would beat the Rams head-to-head though.
Speaker 3:Well, you're going to find out because they play each other. Yeah, is it? Well, you're going to find out, because they play each other.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, is it this week though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I believe that I think that is no.
Speaker 4:The Ravens play the Chiefs.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's the Chiefs Then, I think. Is it the Rams Then?
Speaker 4:it's the Texans, then the Rams, so they get them in three weeks.
Speaker 2:You know what it's crazy that either the Chiefs or the Ravens is going to be somebody. One of those teams is going to be 1-3 after next week, which is wild.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 3:The Ravens can't afford to be, the Chiefs cannot.
Speaker 4:Exactly, especially with the way that the AFC West yeah, I was about to say the. Afc West yeah.
Speaker 2:If they go 1-3 and the fucking Chargers win again, that division is damn near. Chargers win again. That division is damn near it's already locked. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean, it's damn near locked.
Speaker 4:Especially with the Chargers beating already, beating every team in division already once. So you're definitely going to be on the A ball. These are the games you need to win. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:With the Ravens shit we're last. Slide the Browns' ass Even one and three. Y'all beat the Steelers twice. Yeah, y'all even one in three y'all beat the Steelers twice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't think the Browns is bad, though honestly, like I've watched them a few times, man Miles Garrett's the best defensive player in the league. He's a freaking monster. I mean their defense is what's up. Offensively, I get it. I mean it's not sexy, but I think I give them credit because they have an identity too. They know what they are and they kind of stick to it. They ain't great, but I mean if the Browns mess around and got like six or seven wins, that wouldn't shock me.
Speaker 4:No, not at all, Not at all. You're in, bro, and then maybe at some point make a quarterback change, because I mean, if you keep losing these games, these close games, you know what I mean At some point you're like, hey look, maybe one of these young guys can infuse a bit of energy into our offense.
Speaker 3:Would it be Dylan Gabriel? They already said that, but I think what they're waiting on I just said, one of them.
Speaker 4:I don't care.
Speaker 3:No, I'm saying they already said it would be Dylan Gabriel. Chidora doesn't even get any reps. He's been playing with the scout team gave him. Shador doesn't even get any reps. It's not even a question of who the next man up would be. If I'm not mistaken, I think they are waiting to get through that brutal part of their season, which I think the first six or seven weeks I think they said was crazy matchups where Flacco made more sense. Then after that, that's when you could potentially see a change, if that were to happen.
Speaker 4:Okay, Because, let's see, they played the Bengals, the Ravens, the Packers and they got the Lions Vikings Steelers. So they're probably after that Steeler game they probably will make a change because then you get the Dolphins, Patriots, Jets.
Speaker 3:There it is. Yep, that's the part where they said if they're going to make a change.
Speaker 4:That's the part where they said if they gonna make a change, that's probably yeah, because then after that, because after those three games, then you get the Ravens, the Raiders, the Niners.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, you want to make it, yeah, you want to make a change to get your, get your rookie or whoever you put in, I should say yeah, you ain't trying to pick it so, yeah, you put your rookie in against some of those you know softer teams, yeah, and then hopefully they be in rhythm by the time you get to the Ravens and the Raiders and the Niners. Yeah, that makes sense, that would be the right play. With. That being said, though this may be a little interesting to y'all the Commanders at 2-1-1, you got them below the Chiefs, you got them below the Rams. Would you move them higher than 10 right now?
Speaker 3:I wouldn't move them above the Rams, but above the Chiefs.
Speaker 4:yeah, okay so the Chiefs are at nine right now. We're talking about the Commanders.
Speaker 2:Commanders.
Speaker 4:Two on one just beat the Raiders 41 to 24.
Speaker 3:You tripping me out, man, because there's two teams. I ain't heard yet.
Speaker 4:No, I'm just going by how they got it right on it.
Speaker 3:I know this, ain't you, but I'm saying the list is that you're reading. It's tripping me out because I'm like how much further are these teams that I'm thinking about?
Speaker 4:we're here, we're here. I think we are here right now. Okay, so now you had at 11, you got the niners with a 3-0, you got the Colts at 12 that's 3-0 and you got the Vikings at 2-1. How did Colts get low?
Speaker 4:I only think and it's crazy, you say that because I was just talking to my best friend about this I'm like, from how I look at it, like from a fan standpoint, I'm like I need to see more. I need to see more consistency. I'm not putting too much to see more. I need to see more consistency, Like I don't you know, I mean I'm not putting too much into this because I've been too too much with the coach you know what I mean Over the past like six, seven years, so I can't get too high on this. But from a national media standpoint, you got to kind of earn your way and I think the coach had been so bad for so long that I think they may be looking for the same thing, Like let's get some more consistency behind it and let's just see because who have they really played? If you look at, you know the teams we done played. We played the Dolphins, which is horrible. Then we played a decent Bronco team and only beat them by one, which was a penalty, which was crazy.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, how could they not punt and beat them in the last second field goal? They have one punt in three games, yeah.
Speaker 4:And then you get the Titans, which we see what they are right now. Ass Right, but now you got the Rams coming up, which is a good team. You got the Raiders coming up, which is playing decent, so those are going to be two good tests. You get the Cardinals we don't know where they are Been playing.
Speaker 2:Bad, fucking horrible.
Speaker 4:Right, and then we get the Chargers after the Cardinals, so like we got some teams that's coming up that we'll be able to see if the Colts can truly. Are they legit, or you know what I mean or is it just waiting to get more tape on them?
Speaker 3:I guess I don't understand. Is the rank like they can change every week, right?
Speaker 4:Yeah, the power rank is yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay. So like I still don't understand how they have them that low, because it's like I mean, like some of the teams they got ahead of like not even being funny, but like there's no way Baltimore should be above either one of those teams in my opinion. Like I think you've named one or two teams that are one and two that are ranked high. I don't get that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, my only thing, and, like I said, I just think from a national media standpoint they look at the coach like, okay, let's see if they're legit. You don't want to pour like the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 2:I think a lot of the Like man, the Ravens will beat the Colts.
Speaker 4:And I think that's what they're looking at too, like Baltimore. We're going to give them the benefit of the doubt before we give the Colts the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 2:I think the national media fully believes that the Ravens will beat the Colts. I totally believe that the Ravens are better for Baltimore than the Colts. I don't, but I mean, you know.
Speaker 3:No, I'm just being honest, I'm just, I'm even-keeled when it comes to any team. Really, the reason why I say they don't is because, if we're going to be honest, you've got Derrick Henry who's struggling to I mean, he's fumbling every game, but the reality is we have a horrible defense. The Ravens' defense is horrible.
Speaker 2:Y'all are some close games to some of probably, if not, the top two out of three teams. Both games were winnable. Like I'm still sold on the Ravens, like I don't think. I personally don't think. Obviously I'm always going to give the conversation to the fan of that team, so like you got it. But I'm still a believer in the Rams, bro, I mean the Ravens. I feel like the Ravens, on any given Sunday, can beat any team, can beat the shit out of any team in the NFL.
Speaker 4:And I think, being a Colts fan, I think 12 is high only because you look at the teams above them. All these teams made the playoffs last year, I mean except for San Francisco. But you look at Washington, the Chiefs, rams, baltimore, tampa Bay a lot of these teams are playoff teams from a year before. So before you give the Colts this huge know what I mean this huge jump you got to give the teams who at least made the playoffs last year, and you know who they are, the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 3:Are we basing this on the history of the team or on what they've done this season? I guess that's what I don't understand.
Speaker 2:I think you got to go on, based on what they've done this season.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it's based off this season, Some kind of, Because I mean, like we're talking about With the schedules, there's some 3-0 teams that aren't 3-0 and this is no shade I'm not even talking about the Colts, I'm not even thinking about it when I said this but there's some 3-0 teams that probably haven't played a tougher schedule Than somebody who's 2-1 or 1-2. Like, I still don't think that you just put, you just use that and that's just self y'all. There has to be some kind of subjectivity to it. Like, okay, yeah, this team is 3-0, but like, this team is 1-2, but this team will put belts to ass if they was to play. Like you still kind of got to use some of that. Like you got to look at who players got, I mean, who teams got, what players they have, the situations in which they lost. I mean you figure, if Derrick Henry doesn't fumble in the Bills game and in this game, they're probably 3-0. That's ridiculous, that's just ridiculous.
Speaker 4:And you look, and the Colts have beaten loser teams.
Speaker 3:Like out of the teams they played.
Speaker 4:They've only got one win.
Speaker 2:As a Colts fan, by all means Take some credit.
Speaker 4:I'm not optimistic about it, but I look at being 12 and still think the Ravens would beat the Colts. And, like I said, I don't see a bunch of teams above us that would that I feel like we could beat, like I don't. I mean, that's wild to me.
Speaker 3:That's wild to me. I'll only be and I'll say it this way One because as good as Baltimore. If you think about it like this, jerry and maybe this would make sense too they kind of remind me of the bangles last year. I mean, the ravens offense is putting probably 35 points of the game but they're losing because the defense can't stop anybody. That's what I'm saying. Like that's why I don't have a whole lot of confidence, like you got, like I get what you're saying, but I think the colts would beat them because the colts have a solid defense and they have a really good rushing attack and they have people who can make plays.
Speaker 3:You know, what I'm saying, Like it's not, the Ravens aren't stopping anybody. I mean, you got to think if they're averaging 35 and losing, that's a problem.
Speaker 2:How many did y'all give up to the Browns?
Speaker 3:17 or 21.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they didn't.
Speaker 3:So think about that. We gave up 17 or 21 to the Browns and to your point.
Speaker 4:Matter of fact, that was a.
Speaker 3:And he didn't even get to touch the rock. So just imagine if Juckins had got the 18 carries he got this week Against Green Bay, against the Ravens. You know what. I'm saying I thought he did.
Speaker 2:That was his first game, so they didn't give it to him like they did this past week against Green Bay, I thought he did, he played, but that was his first game, so they didn't give it to him like they did this past week against Green Bay. So, yeah, yeah, like I always say, I definitely ain't going to argue with you about your team now. You got it for sure.
Speaker 3:No, I figured you probably know where I'm coming from, though, with if your defense ain't stopping nobody.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying, Like it's hard for me to say that they your defense ain't stopping good teams, though, so it's a little different than not stopping nobody, because I've seen us give up 30 times to the Browns.
Speaker 3:Yeah, damn right, but here, okay, I'll say it this way Even if you look at the Ravens' schedule, right, you look at the rest of their schedule. Yeah.
Speaker 4:You look at the rest of their schedule.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they have a tough schedule. I mean, I can pull it up for you. They have a tough schedule. So it's not like they have games in which you're going to be like, oh, this offense ain't good, like this is one of them years where they got a tough schedule to go through.
Speaker 2:I feel like our schedules, like your team and mine our schedules, is hard every year, because I feel like, even with us, didn't we finish last in the division? No, we didn't finish. We went last year.
Speaker 1:No we weren't last.
Speaker 4:I don't know. I don't know. Justin, you think y'all's schedule is hard. I think maybe the beginning of it is.
Speaker 2:The.
Speaker 4:Lions, the Chiefs and the. Ams.
Speaker 2:The NFC North is a decent division this year.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but the Bears have been playing bad, the Dolphins have been playing bad.
Speaker 3:The Vikings. You said the Bears have been playing bad. Did you watch them this weekend?
Speaker 2:I wasn't talking, I'm talking about the Lions?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but did you see them?
Speaker 3:before that you don't really get tougher than that. No, no, no, no, no. I'm talking about Vernon. He talking about Vernon.
Speaker 2:He, he talked about it. Yeah, no, no, no. He said that he said the dolphins.
Speaker 4:I mean no, I said the bear, I said the bears also. The bears are one and two, but like I mean, yeah, they won last week, but did you see them the two previous weeks?
Speaker 3:I'm not I did, and they've gotten better each week.
Speaker 4:I don't think, when you're comparing them to like a tough like, if you're considering them a tough team as we see them now, I don't consider them a tough team for you. For the Ravens no, I don't know how, not I don't. I mean maybe by week six, seven, maybe by week seven.
Speaker 2:yeah, maybe they're playing, you know they have improved every week, but I'm nothing on the.
Speaker 3:Bears, and I'm actually with you on that, jared, but I'm just giving them credit. They've improved every week.
Speaker 4:that they've gone out they have.
Speaker 1:They're looking much so are the Chiefs. I'm going to put an asterisk on the Ravens game, though Every offense looks good against the Dolphins.
Speaker 3:Just like every offense has looked good against the Ravens, that is a little bit of a problem, you know. So is the Chiefs a tough game.
Speaker 4:I think the Chiefs will forever be a tough game.
Speaker 2:I will still give the Chiefs a tough game.
Speaker 4:I don't think the Texans will be tough. They just haven't found themselves yet. I think the Rams will be a tough game. I don't think the Texans will be tough. They haven't found themselves yet. I think the Rams will be a tough game. I don't think the Bears will be that tough. The Dolphins won't be that tough, the Vikings won't be that tough, the Browns, I mean those are all a team.
Speaker 2:Well, the Vikings is I mean the Vikings is a beast. Hey, their defense is crazy too. It is the.
Speaker 1:Vikings' defense is fucking nuts. I think the Vikings probably should have kept Sam Donald. They would have been a lot tougher.
Speaker 2:They're slept on. That defense is crucial.
Speaker 4:We'll see how Carson Wentz plays by that time.
Speaker 2:They said that through two games I think it was like two games and a quarter they haven't given up a third down conversion of longer than six yards. That's crazy, that's crazy, that's crazy. I agree he ended up getting like two of them before I got annoyed and started cleaning the garage, but yeah, up until that point they haven't given up a third down conversion of longer than third and six. So keep an eye on Minnesota's defense, because that's and then, oh boy, oh boy is all pro. Just based off that game against us, he had three forced fumbles, a pick-six and then a fumble recovery.
Speaker 4:Isaiah Rogers. He was on our team and we kicked him off for gambling. Oh, that's that dude, we drafted him yes, it is, that is him. Yeah, he had to sit out. He had a year of suspension.
Speaker 2:Buddy's an all-pro based on that one game, because that's crazy. Yeah, they said that was like the best defensive game.
Speaker 4:Stat-wise in the history, yeah, but then you look after that, I mean after the Vikings, y'all get the Browns, y'all get the Jets, y'all get the Bengals, steelers, bengals, again, patriots, and then y'all end with Packers and Steelers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, y'all going to skate through that portion.
Speaker 4:You know what I'm saying. There's a good portion, especially towards the end of the season, when y'all probably going to be playing your best football.
Speaker 3:That's false. That's false. You tell me one game that the Steelers haven't played, them with Name one.
Speaker 4:That's probably the toughest game, but then you also got the Jets.
Speaker 3:The Packers ain't going to be tough, then the Bengals twice. But the Packers ain't going to be tough. Those are your last two games.
Speaker 2:I know we said it. There ain't no point, bro, we are ass.
Speaker 4:Those are your last two games. I'm just saying, like before, that you get the Patriots and then you get the Bengals twice. You got the Steelers in between there, but then you got the Jets before the Bengals Patriots, packers, steelers. Right, I know I'm looking at it, I'm just saying. I'm just saying like it's a portion of y'all's schedule If you want to consider the Vikings tough, that you get the Browns, the Jets, the.
Speaker 3:Bengals. I ain't got to consider none of them tough. You're acting like. The thing that I don't understand is you're acting like the Ravens have been great. That that's the thing they haven't. Their defense sucks. You can't say it, no other way. Right, but what offensive powerhouses are y'all about to go through? All right, let me ask you this when the Browns played the Ravens, was that a powerhouse?
Speaker 4:You said when they played no offensive powerhouse no.
Speaker 3:And yet we still somehow skated through that game 41-17 is very misleading, because that game was close, if you actually watched it. All I can do is look at the score 41 to 17 yes, it ended up being 41 to 17 by uh by the end, but I thought that she was like jared at the end of the third it was uh, I'm sorry, going into halftime it was 10-3.
Speaker 2:I was one of them kind.
Speaker 3:Yep, and then third quarter. It was a 10-7 game, so the score ended up being 20-10 going into the fourth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't watch one snap of that game.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like so. Again you're acting as if Baltimore has been some crazy good team. They haven't been.
Speaker 2:I think you're still giving Baltimore the benefit of the doubt. At least I am. I ain't going to speak for nobody else I am too.
Speaker 4:I'm just a fan.
Speaker 2:Arguably the best quarterback. It might be time for niggas to. Lamar Jackson is fucking fantastic. Oh he is. He is fucking fantastic, and so is Derrick Henry when he's not on that weak-ass shit. I seen something today. It was like bro, there's no way that Derrick Henry isn't gambling. That is crazy. But no, I think people are approaching it, I'm approaching it. They still got really good players. They still have, I guess, decent coaching.
Speaker 3:And let me just put this out there. I don't want to comment on that, I know.
Speaker 4:I mean John Harbaugh has been there forever.
Speaker 3:so I'll just say you know, yeah, I'll say this, though, and then yeah, I'll just say you know, yeah, I'll say this, though, and then yeah, I'll move on whatever. Because, like I said, I think there's other teams that, like the 49ers and other ones, they should be ahead of them. But I think you also are missing the point of. The Ravens were healthy in the first two games.
Speaker 2:That's very true.
Speaker 3:They've lost their best pass rusher both of them Justin Matabike and Kyle Vannoy are both out. So you're telling me the defense is going to get better, Vernon? They still don't have Patrick Ricard, so they still can't run the ball for nothing. So, lamar, he was crazy, the first game, though he went crazy.
Speaker 2:the first game though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was the first, that was the only game, bro, that was the only game that they that they.
Speaker 2:I haven't tapped in it.
Speaker 3:I ain't tapped in it, the only game they've been able to run the ball in. And the crazy thing about it is and we still ain't who really he's the one that helps make the run game go. And that's just to name kind of the three bigger pieces that are missing. If they miss the next three, four weeks, according to Vernon, I'm going to go ahead and let me look up the schedule, because you're telling me out of these next three, four weeks.
Speaker 4:The Chiefs, the Texans, the Rams and the Bears Right. So they should win three of these four.
Speaker 2:They can definitely beat the Texans, the Rams and the Bears Right, so they should win three of these four. They can definitely beat the Texans Out of the three or the four.
Speaker 4:They could probably win two out of the four All right, we're going to see.
Speaker 3:I'm just saying Again, anybody can win, right, right, We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 4:All I'm saying is based off. What I'm saying is that they're not going against. There's a portion of their schedule where they're not going against offensive powerhouses. So if you're saying their defense is bad, that's fine. That may very well be and it may carry on through the season, based on injuries and everything you just said. That's your team. I agree with that. But what I'm saying is that they still may have a huge chance of winning just because they're not going against no godly offenses in in a in a decent portion of their schedule outside of probably the Steelers. And if you want to call their offense a powerhouse, whatever, y'all seen them enough that y'all gonna. It's gonna be a good game, as it always is, but that's what I'm saying. So even if y'all defense isn't playing where it normally does, or even good, if it's decent enough, you can probably still win these games with a Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry, with these guys playing well.
Speaker 2:Damn. Derek Henry had 23 yards against the Browns.
Speaker 4:Yes, yeah, man, they wasn't having it.
Speaker 2:These last games have been. And that's plastic buddy. What is going on?
Speaker 3:But do we really think that's going to continue? That's like some Chase Brown shit. Yeah, Lamar has been the entire offense he has.
Speaker 4:He's 722 yards, nine TDs. His QBR is 81.6. He's ridiculous right now.
Speaker 2:And Derrick Henry got 41 carries for 242. Our starting running back has 93 total yards. Well, 93 total rushing yards per three games and he started all three of them.
Speaker 4:So I mean, maybe at this part of the season you could move up a San Francisco 49ers to one of those top ten teams. I would agree with that, even if you want to move Baltimore down, definitely I mean the Chiefs I would definitely. They wouldn't be top ten to me. I wouldn't put them above the Commanders or the Niners right now. To beat a Giants team like that doesn't look well. That's about to make a QB change. Meh, moving right along, you got the Vikings, the Seattle Seahawks and the Broncos below the Colts. You put any of them above the Colts or the Niners right now nah, especially when we beat the Seahawks.
Speaker 1:They're the only ones who yeah, maybe, but we beat them. So yeah.
Speaker 4:And then I mean I guess the Colts beat Denver also. So I mean Minnesota will probably be the only one that may have a case, but they riddled with injuries. And then we just round out the top. You know the top ones. You got the top 20, you got the Cardinals and then the Steelers, jaguars. I think all these are pretty fair Falcons. They got Cincinnati at 20. Is that too high for you, jarrett?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wouldn't. I mean really you'd have to look at who they have under the boot.
Speaker 4:I mean, they got the Texans, the Raiders, the Bears, the Cowboys.
Speaker 2:The Texans would beat us, the Cowboys would beat us. Man, if we're talking about without Burrow, we damn right can't beat us. New England, cleveland, carolina, all those teams can beat us, like Cleveland should have beat us with Burrow first game of the season.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They missed the extra point. They missed the 30-some-yard field goal, they missed a 30-some-yard field goal, they missed a first-down conversion where two drop passes, the two interceptions we had, were drops. Like if one of those things goes out of the way we're cooked, if they make the fucking field goal, we lose, like. So without Burrow we really can't beat any of those teams. But I'm not surprised, like as you, we talk about football, like I had no zero expectations for them. I knew the team was still garbage.
Speaker 2:Then people were jumping up and down about trying to resign certain guys. It's the same guys we had. I would have been trying to sign new guys. Obviously, I mean it was good. Obviously you had to sign burrow, which that was. You know, that was a couple years ago, I think. Now then chase was last year, higgins higgins would have had to sign Burrow, which that was a couple years ago, I think. Now Then Chase was last year. Higgins would have had to go, trey Hendrickson would have had to go. I would have actually tried to draft somebody. I don't know. Man, you just can't get right.
Speaker 2:I'm not confident that we could beat anybody, even with Burrow going into the season. I wasn't confident. I told y'all that we were going to lose to the Browns. I picked the Browns. Had the Browns not given the game away, they would have won. We had, like they say we had seven yards net in the second half. I counted two yards. I went back through everything and I found two yards. The official record said we had seven yards in the second half. Bruh, that's come on, man. Yes, I'm not confident that anybody that we can beat anybody at this moment.
Speaker 4:Okay, like I said, I mean that's probably fair. I mean, a lot of these teams are still trying to figure out who they're going to be Like. I mean the Steelers, the Cardinals. These are two-on-one teams. Jacksonville, you just spoke on your team, but everybody else is either 0-3 or 1-2, which I don't really see.
Speaker 2:Jacksonville was the game too, they silly Jacksonville they gave was the game too, they silly. They gave us Jacksonville. They gave us the game.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but again I mean the. I mean where do you? I mean, that's just another one of them teams that just don't know what to do, yep. So yeah, man, that's all I got. Man, that's all I got for now. Man looking at, oh, I guess we can look into week four. I would say something about pick'ems, but we ain't been doing pick'ems though.
Speaker 2:I ain't even do mine.
Speaker 4:I guess like yeah, keep my money. So let's look at Keep my money. Let's look at week four coming up. I guess we could just talk about some of the matchups. What do we think some of the best matchups are? Miami at Buffalo Thursday night. That was this past week oh, that's the past week.
Speaker 3:Next week and please don't bring that up as an interesting matchup.
Speaker 4:Oh, the Arizona-Seattle?
Speaker 3:yeah, we ain't going to talk about that. Let's talk about the interesting matchup.
Speaker 4:Damn.
Speaker 2:Thursday you got to talk about that. Marvin Harrison Jr. I haven't watched one game with him so far.
Speaker 3:Hey, he's boned.
Speaker 2:Oh boy.
Speaker 1:He drops everything. He dropped two clear touchdowns last week.
Speaker 2:Yes, I haven't watched one of his games.
Speaker 1:He has been a huge. There was one of them, there wasn't none Fred Warner, and he was probably 10 yards away, yep.
Speaker 3:It was almost like you remember back in the day, where you know you're playing outside with a buddy and they just toss it up to you. So you're there like catching it, like a punt that's what it was. He was so open, that's all it was, and dropped it.
Speaker 1:Dang Now. Granted, it was a little underthrown by Kyler, but still Nobody around that man I don't, we can't even give him that excuse. No, ten yards before the next person.
Speaker 2:At least ten yards. That's a sad story. I haven't tapped into him at all. I didn't tap in at all last year and haven't seen him at all this year. It's crazy. I literally haven't watched. They had a prime time game at some point, but I I think the Cardinals only hit that one clock. I think they're going to release a Thursday night game. They're a Thursday game this week.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they got the Seattle.
Speaker 4:Thursday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is their.
Speaker 4:Thursday game this week, At least a Thursday night game. There's a Thursday game this week. Yeah, this is their Thursday game. By the way, WNBA update Phoenix and Minnesota just went to OT 79-79, so if anybody cares, but Sunday matchups. We got Minnesota at Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's a W. Oh, it is, yeah, so it's a home game. Oh, I see that it's a home a W. Oh, it is, yeah, so it's a home game. Oh, I see that it's a home game for.
Speaker 4:Pittsburgh, but it's in. Ireland. Yeah, all right, well, get ready to wake up super early to watch. 9 am starting time on that NFL Plus 9.30. 9.30. Washington.
Speaker 3:Atlanta that's not interesting. Why are you bringing that up?
Speaker 4:I'm just bringing up, I'm just telling the games for the week.
Speaker 3:That's all I'm saying hey, the games that you see, ignore until you actually see something.
Speaker 4:I mean what? I mean there's nobody to talk about this. I mean you can't talk about Detroit because they play Cleveland.
Speaker 3:Eagles and Bucs. Eagles and Bucs, that's going to be it.
Speaker 4:Okay, all right, cool, I guess Indianapolis and the Rams, baltimore, kansas City.
Speaker 3:No, I wouldn't say that that's two bad teams, I mean.
Speaker 2:It still makes a good game. Stop it. That's two bad teams.
Speaker 3:Kansas City can't get out their own Whiteboard right now they look bad. Kansas City look bad. What? Get out their own whiteboard. Right now they look bad, man. Kansas City look bad.
Speaker 2:They look just as bad as they did last year.
Speaker 4:But they were winning those games. They were winning those games.
Speaker 3:We talked about that last year though. Yeah, we did.
Speaker 2:They were just as buns now, as they did last year.
Speaker 4:They were just like breaks and now they just not. Something would happen. They would block a kick. It was just something that would happen.
Speaker 2:Every week we were coming in here talking about it. Or Isaiah Lightley with his toe on the line, and now it's just not falling that way this year.
Speaker 4:They are definitely losing those games that they would have won last year. Back to the Cowboys, the Giants they didn that way this year. They are definitely losing those games that they would have won last year. Yeah, man.
Speaker 1:That ain't going to be a good game.
Speaker 3:Right, you're talking about Dallas being like ooh.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's historic, you're right.
Speaker 1:Mike is going back to Dallas.
Speaker 4:It's an interesting story. But that's it. You can't talk about Monday night because New York is the Jets and Miami. Bro, three games. You can talk about that hey let's just say, I've heard it 0-3 versus 0-3 on Monday night.
Speaker 3:Somebody?
Speaker 1:going to come out with a win.
Speaker 2:In theory, that Bengals and Broncos game was supposed to be lit.
Speaker 1:Right yeah, the last time In theory that Bengals and Broncos game was supposed to be lit Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was really good, because the last time we played them last year that game was good. Yeah, that was a very good game. So they probably was like, oh yeah, that's cool, what do?
Speaker 3:they know. In theory, it is a must win, though, for the Broncos.
Speaker 4:Yeah, to keep up with the Chargers they got to, especially if Kansas City end up pulling out a win and go to 2-2. Yeah, they're going to need that. No, absolutely, because I mean, I don't think I don't think the Chargers are going to have no problem with the Giants, but this will be one of them games I'm going to say this right now this will be one of them Charger games that they're not supposed to lose and they let they let Dart go out there and go. One of them Charger games that they're not supposed to lose and they let they let Dart go out there and go crazy for his first game.
Speaker 2:He's definitely going to go crazy his first game, for sure.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I can see the Rams losing I mean not the Rams but the Chargers losing that game Kind of being a trap game.
Speaker 3:How do you feel about them? Jags coming to San Fran? He ain't got nothing to worry about Trying to be in the trap game. How do you feel about them, jags, coming to San Fran?
Speaker 4:He ain't got nothing to worry about. Built to ass.
Speaker 1:Definitely. I mean I'm not going to say built to ass.
Speaker 4:Well, no, I got a lot of answers.
Speaker 1:Every game has been close for us, that's true, but I will say we have been pulling out close games.
Speaker 2:Y'all have played weak teams too, haven't y'all they?
Speaker 4:played the Seahawks. We beat the Seahawks. The Saints.
Speaker 1:New Orleans and Arizona.
Speaker 4:But all the games have been within five points. All the games.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that ain't a good look, but when is Purdy coming back? Brock Purdy, as Cam Newton would say.
Speaker 1:He could come back this week he might have to come back this week because Matt. Jones got hurt last week.
Speaker 3:Bosa being gone is ugly yeah.
Speaker 2:I heard somebody report that they were calling the Bengals about Trey Hendrickson.
Speaker 1:I saw somebody say something like I don't think I heard it, especially during the season.
Speaker 2:I don't even think their phones are on, bro. I don't even think there's anybody, you can even call.
Speaker 4:They're not entertaining nothing.
Speaker 2:They don't there ain't nobody there. They don't got no GM, I imagine during the day, like the offices are just empty, Like who's in them? Who's doing anything for the Bengals organization?
Speaker 4:But y'all got a president of football operations Doing anything for the Bengals organization, but y'all got a president of football operations, I think it will fall to him.
Speaker 2:No, nah, we got a director of player personnel guy.
Speaker 4:Oh, that's who it is Okay.
Speaker 1:And they still using AOL dial-up internet in there.
Speaker 2:They probably are, I wouldn't doubt it. Man, I guess I was watching a video on the Chargers, like new practice facility. It's just like I don't understand how they need to put something into the NFL where the teams have to stay equally competitive. Like how can certain teams have stuff like that and then we literally are practicing out of our stadium Taxpayer money? It should not be able to happen like that. That is crazy. We literally don't have a practice facility, y'all.
Speaker 4:Yeah, when we went to that game, bro, and you was like, oh, there's a practice facility right over there and I turned around and looked. I'm like you mean that little blimp? It's like a little blimp house.
Speaker 1:I drive by that joint every time I drive home bro.
Speaker 2:It's all like, and it's like, just think of it from a fan's perspective Like it's unfair because, like, who would want to play here? And then we already like try to pinch corners and nickels and stuff anyway. It's just like I don't understand how certain teams could have you would think you know the NFL would care about it being a level playing field because, like, don't you want your league to be competitive? So how can one team have a state-of-the-art practice facility and one team be practicing still out of a 25-year-old stadium? It's just bizarre, bro. But let somebody get a DUI, oh my God. I mean, granted, that's bad. I ain't trying to downplay DUI because somebody could be killed, so I ain't trying to do that.
Speaker 4:But if nobody, is they deep dive into that?
Speaker 2:Or let somebody get arrested for doing some petty crime they deep dive into that. Or let somebody you know get arrested for you know, doing some petty crime. They deep dive into that. But you can just let an owner just screw a team, a city and its fan base for unlimited years. It's crazy. It's like at some point, step in and at least have a sit down Like, hey, man, what direction are y'all trying to go? And if you don't know that direction, it's probably in your best interest to sell the team Instead just letting this guy just. It's crazy. It's crazy Because, like any other team that has Burrow and Chase and Higgins on rookie contracts, bro, you're getting a Super Bowl before you have to pay them, guys, like any team would, and we didn't do it. So it's just like man, when is somebody going to come in and be like, hey, y'all need to get y'all shit together? But I mean, I guess it's never going to happen. I've been waiting on it.
Speaker 4:I mean, but if we're looking at the 49ers, I mean y'all schedule kind of. Y'all got an area too where y'all got some opportunity the Rams and the Bucs, but then, like y'all get the Falcons, the Texans, the Giants, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Schedule is ass. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The Jaguars.
Speaker 4:Like I'm just looking, like y'all get the. Panthers, the Cardinals, the Browns, again the Titans.
Speaker 1:Still have pieces that. I mean I think Jawan Jennings is maybe still a week or two out. Mayuk is week six. They're thinking right now. I mean at this point, if Mack is okay, I would say he can get Birdie another week, because I don't know who the third string guy is. I tried to look into him but I didn't really see much on him.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they're saying Birdie is questionable right now, jennings is questionable and Watkins right now is questionable for young. But I said Purdy could have.
Speaker 1:Technically he could have came back last week, but things like now we're going to let him sit another week. So I think he's ready If we can give him another week. I'm pessimistic and optimistic at the same time. I'm optimistic because we still have pieces. Our offense hasn't hit its target, no, so we've been in these games literally solely because of the defense. Chris.
Speaker 4:McCaffrey hasn't scored a rushing touchdown yet either.
Speaker 1:He has not. He's only had a receiving touchdown.
Speaker 3:Stoller got that defense plan though, boy.
Speaker 1:I'm definitely optimistic because of that. But the fact that every week somebody goes out for a couple of plays or last week I was supposed to be out for the year Because, kyle, you took me out last week as well for a couple of plays it's almost like every week somebody's laying on the field. I'm like, all right man.
Speaker 4:By the way, your third-string quarterback is Curtis Rookie yeah that's through to IU.
Speaker 3:Yeah, rookie, yeah that's the guy at IU.
Speaker 1:Yeah, iu, yeah, that was IU. That wasn't even the name they said last week, but I do know who he is. I can't remember the name of who they said the dude was last week. Nonetheless, I don't need a third-string in there right now, so I'm needing the MaggaGA program to figure it out yeah.
Speaker 1:But I was thinking with, you know, not extending any more injuries, because we can't afford to continue to get hurt and to kind of continue just running. We got a week scheduled, but that ain't going to matter. If you know, we got 10 people to play, right.
Speaker 4:Especially at key positions like quarterback. You know what I mean top-row receivers, o-line stuff like that. Those are some of the most important positions, though, that you don't usually have, especially at quarterback. You just got who you got. It's not like a running back or something like that, where you can throw somebody, throw a third stringer in there, then we don't risk, because the CMC is going to have the ball.
Speaker 1:A lot of players are going to need to. I mean, maybe they'll spring in a little bit more, brian Robinson Jr. I would expect that to be the case, but we're definitely going to be super run heavy in any game in which our third string quarterback is in, and that is going to cause problems. Yeah, or?
Speaker 4:13 quarterback is in and that is going to cause problems. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, man, yeah man. This schedule I ain't going to lie man. This schedule is pretty trash this week coming up, that's all right man, let us stay on the radar.
Speaker 1:You shut your face, hey.
Speaker 3:No no.
Speaker 1:Nobody that know that we exist. We're a family where people don't know us.
Speaker 4:Listen, bro, I am right there with you, like I am not. That's why I didn't get too high on the coast. I'm like, look, let us just keep doing what we're doing. Hopefully you know what I mean. Things stay cool, you know. And like I don't want to roughen no feathers, just keep playing football, coach, the way y'all been playing. But this Rams game is a big game. I feel like this is our first test.
Speaker 1:It's likely going to be for the division lead, so yeah, it's a really big game.
Speaker 4:So if they come out and put belt ass to the Rams, then I'll probably be, more confident next week when we talk about them. So far, man, they're playing definitely to their content.
Speaker 1:You say what that's? Two weeks We'll get to Jacksonville. Well, I was talking about us, oh yeah.
Speaker 4:Y'all do that to the Rams. Yeah, I was talking about us, my bad, hey, look, hey, whoop the shit out of Jacksonville, bro, I'm with you, beat they ass. So, but yeah, no, the schedule's kind of trash. I'll probably watch the, definitely watch the Coast game, but I don't know a 1 o'clock game I really want to watch. I mean, maybe get up early and watch that Minnesota Vikings game or the Tampa Bay Philly game, I'll watch that. But yeah, later on that night, man and Monday, you ain't even got to worry about football. Really, if you don't want to, nope, you ain't got to watch none of that. So, but that's all I got, man.
Speaker 4:That's it alright final thoughts man, we got any any boxing matches. What we got coming up in boxing man outside, of you know tanking, taking, jake, ain't that what they call it taking?
Speaker 3:that's not. That's not boxing, so please don't. That's a disgrace to our show. Hey man, y'all to bring that mess man. Hey man, I'm just here, man Nah, boxing, boxing that I know about Ain't until November.
Speaker 4:Okay, what we looking at.
Speaker 3:I have to look at that card. I want to say it's David Benavidez, though, so I think he's on that. Let me see. I think he's on that card. Let's see.
Speaker 4:Boxing Schedule Key dates. A title fight Junior middleweight title Hold on that's October 25th in Vegas.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he got one in October, but it's.
Speaker 4:November you're talking about In Saudi Arabia, yep, benitez and Yard.
Speaker 3:Yep Yardy and David Benavidez, but they undercard is pretty solid on that one too.
Speaker 4:So it won't show me everything. It'll just show me the main.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they make it so difficult to find. That's what I'm looking for now. You can't find undercar stuff. I can't find it. It's crazy, yeah, but long and short, that's the next one that I know of. That seems like it's going to be worth watching. I guess I'll say so when it gets closer. And you know how it is with boxing. I tell y'all all the time I don't talk about it because you never know when something's going to back out or whatever. So middle of October, end of October, is when I actually bring it up. That's when you should know, because they'll be in camp and all that, so you'll know the fight's on.
Speaker 2:You'll definitely be bringing up stuff the weekend of Yep man, because boxing's broken, like it's broken.
Speaker 4:That's why Dana Whitenam jumped into it, and that's what I'm saying, Like I was just about to ask you that, Like, do you think what Dana Whitenam and his buddies are trying to do is going to infuse some I don't know, some excitement?
Speaker 3:back into boxing. I'll say this depending on if they buy into it. Yes, because the one thing I've always said that you got to respect about the UFC is the best going to fight the best.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:They're going to put on the fights that everybody wants to see, and that's been boxing's problem for so long. So do I think it'll help For sure, as long as people jump on board. So we'll see. Yeah, we'll see. When you got people doing clown show exhibitions to make money, you know, it's kind of like you don't know how many other boxers may jump into that clown show either. So who knows? But I don't know. If y'all seen this today, though this would be my final take or whatever you said. As far as that goes, I seen something earlier. They said Soddy is paying Tom Brady $75 million to play in a flag football game.
Speaker 2:Wow, they just out there wasting money, ain't it?
Speaker 3:Bro, they got it bro. One flag football game, fam. Is he going to do it? Bro, they got it bro. One flag football game, fam, is he going to do it? I guess you better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my understanding is you guys get hit. You're just throwing the ball.
Speaker 2:That's who be putting on them. Fights man, they got it, they got it.
Speaker 3:You know, they got that oil money them pockets is crazy, crazy I mean. They got that oil money them pockets is crazy, crazy I mean long-time generational oil money. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's my final take, or whatever. However, we end in this thing. Final thought, yeah, final thought. I about passed out what's the 75 million to play one flag football game. It is wild, man, that's wild. When do they ever get a chance to see?
Speaker 4:Tom Brady, though. No, you're right, you're right. They're going to have to do something extravagant like that to get Tom Brady in the country, I mean.
Speaker 3:But they do those things. I mean, they've done it even in soccer. They pay Cristiano Ronaldo, they pay Neymar crazy amounts of money to come play in their leagues, like just to bring more attention.
Speaker 4:So it's not like this is something new. No, this is definitely a Saudi moment.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean the amount of money they paid Cristiano Ronaldo was he's old yeah. He was way I mean he's past his prime but the money they paid him four years ago now, I think, it was crazy.
Speaker 4:Crazy. I mean he wasn't playing bad, but I mean he definitely wasn't what he was. But, yeah, no, when I yeah, yeah, it was the richest contract like ever, almost at that point, I believe.
Speaker 3:Oh, it was.
Speaker 4:I know I think Messi and what's he called Got some more money since then, but like at that time, yeah, nah Wasn't nobody close to him.
Speaker 3:Nah, ain't nobody still. I mean because when he went over to Saudi it was a two-year contract for like $700 million, oh, oh two years, I thought it was Two years bro, I thought it was longer than that.
Speaker 4:Wow, two years bro, I thought it was longer than that.
Speaker 3:Wow, okay, yeah. Plus he got like 15% equity in the club.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and not to mention all the money he made before then, Like yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he dumb, he's always been one of the highest grossing athletes period any sport, in terms of his endorsement deals too. Yeah yeah, that's crazy Because he got to deal with, like Armani or one of them that pays him crazy money too.
Speaker 4:By the way, mercury ended up winning that game in OT. They've tied the series with the Lynx. It's both 1-1. Fever and the Aces are playing now and the Aces are up 22-7 at the end of the first 22-15, my bad at the end of the first quarter.
Speaker 2:Watch it. Stay down, oh you confused 7 and 15.
Speaker 4:Well, I was looking at the time and the time had like 27 on it, so I was looking at the time. Look man, I went to IPS.
Speaker 1:I got nothing for you.
Speaker 4:Everybody can't have a great Ohio education.
Speaker 1:Well, I just went to the smart school and they publicized it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:That's what Maurice Clarez said too.
Speaker 4:Oh, wow, okay, Escape, escape, oh delete, get out of here. All right, y'all man this has been. I mean Jared, you got anything?
Speaker 2:Nah, bro, defund the Reds. I'm sick of them, but yeah, same shit.
Speaker 4:Ike you good up there.
Speaker 1:I mean I guess I'll tell Justin I apologize for telling everybody his secret last week What- was my secret what you said? Oh, that you still wear your bow jeans.
Speaker 3:hey, if you got a pair, throw them my way look, ain't no shame in my game, man, I don't care nothing about that.
Speaker 2:Uh, uh he was dead ass I don't have.
Speaker 1:I hope he doesn't have them. No, I don't have any, but I hope he doesn't have them.
Speaker 3:No, I don't have any, but I'm not a person that cares about a brand, so if they in good shape, throw them my way, that part.
Speaker 2:That's real, that's part.
Speaker 3:Hey, throw them my way, hey, take them, boys, to the cleaner and get that crease down the middle baby.
Speaker 4:I can't deal with that. Hey, take the boys to the cleaner, Get that crease down the middle baby. I can't deal with y'all.
Speaker 3:Hey, stand them, boys up, like the one I put them on. Stand them up on the floor, baby.
Speaker 1:You know, starched it. I'm like all right, get us out of here. Get us out of here.
Speaker 4:You mean the Jabot jeans. You can stand up in the corner because they so starched. Lean them up against the wall the joes walking by themselves now man ready to go? All right? Well, if that's it, then this is it, man. This has been another week at epic podcast. Man, we appreciate y'all. See y'all next week.