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Rich, I am so great. Yesterday was so awesome. Yes, sir.
Let's go. The first Sunday of the National Football League season, after the first ever Friday of the National Football League season, after the season kickoff in Kansas City, in which the Chiefs beat the Ravens by a toenail, it seemed, and Saquon Barkley dominated the Kansas City, the Green Bay Packers defense, and then all of those games on Sunday, and this is being recorded in advance of the Jets and 49ers Monday Night Football game. Overreaction Monday is back, buddy. Oh, that's so back. It's so great to be back. Gosh.
I don't even know how you're going to choose what to overreact to, because week one is just the absolute greatest overreaction week to have. It's the greatest. I have 10 items. I think I wrote 20 down Sunday night when I was coming up with these. Yes.
They're so hot. I cannot wait to hear what you're going to say. All right, hit it, hit it, hit it.
Let's start it. That was terrible. That was crap. That was garbage. This place sucks. Overreaction Mondays, Monday. All right, Christopher, how about it?
Here we go, rich. I have to start here because it was the story we talked about leading up to the draft, following the draft and the entire pre-season with Kirk Cousins and it's clearly not a hundred percent. The Falcons should start Michael Pennix in week two. That is an absolute overreaction.
That's totally nuts. Kirk Cousins look healthy to you. He didn't look all that great. The Steelers defense. And for our listening audience, listening to us, wherever you get your podcasts, our crack team of Mike Hoskins and Don Bowie have chosen the moment that TJ watt crashed into Kirk cousins and knocked the ball loose.
So there might've been multiple times when that happened on Sunday. I think you're going to find a ton of people are going to look this way against the Steelers defense. I think coming back from an Achilles injury, his first snap since snapping is Achilles. It's just not going to look all that great. We need to start viewing.
And I think we're going to say this a little bit more and more and more. We need to start viewing week one as an extension of preseason football. That just happens to count for a lot of teams. Week one and two, maybe three for some teams. The problem with the Falcons though, is that do you start Michael Pennix Jr? Would you start Michael Pennix Jr in Philadelphia? Really?
Yeah. First game Monday night football. I know that he's healthy. I don't know that Kirk is healthy. Week three.
You're going to start him against the Kansas city chiefs. I thought you'd go that the Falcons are in deep trouble. Well, we're about a week away from that. I mean, they're going to start Oh, and three, right.
I think we can agree upon that. Yeah. They got new Orleans in Tampa at home after this. I think you're overreacting there, but I think the fact that they lost this game at home again, Pittsburgh with Justin fields starting. Yeah. Well, they didn't, the Steelers didn't score a touchdown that you have to win.
You've got to go one and all with the rest of your, your, your, your first month looking the way that it does. I mean, the first moment where you think they could have a minute to breathe is week six at Carolina. Right. And even then we'll be one of those where Carolina, you have assume is going to be better after another month of playing and winning a game on the road and division is never easy. But so I thought you'd go, Atlanta's in deep trouble. Not like they should start their rookie right off the bat and tell Kirk cousins get healthy. No, not benched.
We're going to sit you out until we know you're a hundred percent. Cause he does not look that did not look at on Sunday. I know TJ watt and the steel or D had a lot to do with that.
But if we'll get some of the formations they were running, a lot of it was out of the pistol, which limits mobility to begin with. That's what they do with Peyton Manning back in the day, not the most mobile quarterback. I think Kirk is not healthy. Go with the healthy quarterback.
Give your team a chance to win. Well, you know what? On the flagship show, do you know who's slated to join us on Wednesday?
Thanks to our relationship with Monday night football on Westwood one, kind enough to come right back on our program is Kirk cousins. Oh, so we get to ask him point blank. Wow. What's he going to say?
No, I understand. He'll, he'll say, you know, I'm healthy. I'm I'm good or whatever, but at least we put the question to him.
I think, well, that's good. I think it's an overreaction to start the rookie right away. And basically under the guise of he's not healthy yet. We're going to get, you know, we're not going to turn back to him until he's fully healthy.
Well, that could still be read with you just lost your starting job because we're not going to return to you. If Pennix does have the hot hand that said, you did see the way that pretty much every single rookie quarterback looked in week one, did you not? Well, I think quarterback play in general in week one, wasn't that great. I mean, what most teams had under 200 yards passing on the day.
It wasn't a stellar quarterback day, but yes, the rookies really struggled, you know, Caleb Williams only had 93 yards. So you'd have to extrapolate that. Pennix would pretty much wind up looking the same way in the outlier that balled out against the Steelers defense and TJ want and the rest of those guys and Patrick queen and Joey Porter, jr. And all of that business.
Maybe I don't know. I'm just saying Kirk didn't look great. He's clearly not a hundred percent. Let's go with Pennix until Kirk's back and see what else do you have. You're you're all for one, as far as I'm concerned, one for one, one for one. I'm off to a great start rich. You know who else got off to a great start back in the building where he used to play football for the other team. Yeah, baby. Sam Darnold's taking the Vikings to the playoffs can we sit here and say that how about let's, can we revisit this after they're done with their London game that I'm calling on NFL network, which is when in four weeks. Okay. Well, uh, their next four games are San Francisco at home. Okay. Houston at home. Okay. At Green Bay. Okay. That looks, that looks like a better matchup now home for the jet and then London for the jets.
They might be three and two there. Okay. Um, but let's, let's, let's put a pin in this. Let's just call this for what it is, which is a pleasant start for a guy who deserves to have a pleasant start, right? He does. Actually, you know, I always wanted good things for this guy.
Push back on this. He's had pleasant starts before. Yes. Remember he won his first game as a jet quarterback after throwing a pick six in Detroit and they won Monday night football. Right.
Right. He started three and O is the Carolina panther running all over the place. Christian McCaffrey looked great with him. And we were talking about Sam for MVP. Were we not, if only this podcast existed that season, we would have given him the week three month most valuable player would have been so taking the Vikings to the playoffs, I think is a touch of an overreaction right now. But, but how about that game at green Bay, which may be Malik Willis starting? Cause that's the third week of the three to six weeks.
I would imagine it's really love. Okay. So the Vikings coming up with a division win on the road against green Bay would certainly that's worth something, help things out.
Yep. Um, and they already have a conference win against the giants. That's a pretty sweet tie break. Let's see what happens. They could be one and two going into true into green Bay.
True. But let's put a pin in this coming out of the, by their home for Detroit. And we say have these next two games at home at the Rams. This is a tough next six weeks, three of the next four at home. Maybe, I guess the one of the games is in London, London. Yes, sir.
By week home for the lions. I like that. Yeah. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna basically say to you, we're putting a pin in this.
I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying right now it's an overreaction. They looked really nice. But we liked what we saw out of Sam. Jordan Addison may not answer the bell for week two. He's already got bad soreness in his ankle.
That's what Kevin O'Connell said this very day of this taping on the Monday. If you're wondering, Hey, how's Justin Jefferson going to look with Sam Darnold touchdown just fine. Yeah. He, he caught a nice one, a nice short one for a touchdown and a 44 yard or other. Just fine. You know, my fantasy team could have used a little bit more out of them this week.
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Okay. Dave Canales is already on the hot seat already on the hot seat. What are we doing, bro? What was that?
Derek Carr just threw another touchdown pass. They looked non-competitive. They looked non-competitive. That didn't look good. That was pretty brutal.
That was pretty brutal. What a hot seat hot seat already. You're already dealing with an owner who does the itchiest and all the fingers and triggers. He doesn't care how much he pays on coaches. He's still paying that rule. Dude, this is a six year deal. He gave this guy, he's not going to bounce him one game. And are you out of your mind? Maybe not one game, but you know what I mean? Like, like you're, you're, you're making something out dente.
You got to put the simmer on a little bit to get the pot going. His seat's on out day, uh, dente right now has got the chargers coming in next. That's a loss. They're at Vegas after that.
Now that one, I have, I don't know. The Raiders didn't look great to me. They're home for Cincinnati after that. I mean, Bengals didn't look great. Here's the one that's really going to, here's the one. If you want to see one, that's going to potentially trigger Dave Tepper week five at Chicago, where they see the quarterback, the bears are fielding because of their total disaster of a 20, 20, three season with the guy that they gave up the draft choice for Caleb Williams, potentially being Oh, and four going into that game.
And then if the bears do get there, you know what together and put the bang thing on him. I can't imagine he would want and done another coach. I just can't imagine he would do that. It's bad business, obviously, but David Tepper has proven he doesn't care, but hot seat after just one week, one week, 47 to 10, like it was 27 to 10 seats, not hot 47, a near 50 burger in your first game.
Bryce Young was like, he'd never played before. I have been in owner's suites, watching their team get their asses. Oh no. In my days, it is. It's gotta be one of the most uncomfortable, not fun. Yeah. It is uncomfortable. It is definitely somewhere you want to get out, but you're like, if I leave how, you know, they gave me, they gave me one of their passes.
I was a guest. Yeah. Clearly if I'm like, I'm, I'm running for cover. So you got to sit there, you got to sit there and, and, and hope that you're not making eye contact at that point is the owner even paying attention to anyone else around him, but he's just so locked in on how bad it's going on the field. Treat the owner like they're a pitcher throwing a no hitter. Right?
Exactly. Leave him alone. Don't go anywhere near him. Don't talk. Don't make eye contact. Don't even thinking of making eye contact thing. Don't even breathe. Don't breathe loud.
It's bad. I could not imagine what it would be like in the new Orleans suite, the home of the saints and the home of the super bowl, right? This year with the Tepper family, no doubt thinking this is our year. We hired the right guys. A quarterback had a great final preseason game, by the way, that's another sort of passive way for me to throw in here that we did see that they, he didn't play his final preseason because in our previous episode of this pod, we're like, he didn't even play and he absolutely did. And we got hurt about it and Panthers fans, but they're sitting there thinking this is going to be it different. We drafted a receiver. We bring in Deontay Johnson, not in the house. No way. Okay.
What week does the seat get hot? I just, I just identified that they're all in four and they're in Chicago watching the quarterback that the team that's beating the crap out of them with is the quarterback that you gifted them with a draft choice due to your thorough lack of progress with the guy that you traded the draft choice for in the previous year. And now you're showing up with that guy and the team that is much better because of your awful trade.
And they're using all of that to beat you up with your new coach and your own five. Not good. What else, Chris?
Rich. Yeah. All off season sitting right here. The Steelers revamped their quarterback room this off season in a way we'd never really seen before we didn't expect it and completely unexpected. Yes, sir. And throughout the whole thing, it would competition this competition that we knew it was Russell Wilson's gig.
I'm where I'm wondering where we go. It should be Justin Fields gig to begin with Justin field should be the Steelers starting quarterback all season. Why are we messing around with this Russell Wilson idea?
How about this is a guy, how about this? I can't sit here and say all season. I mean, you can't, I will say he should be the, he should be the quarterback of Denver.
I will. I will say that now this is going to be an interesting week because how can you tell Russ, we sat you, you could have played. We made you the third inactive emergency quarterback. Why was he dressed by the way? Because he's Russell Wilson. He's not, no, he's not inactive. If it was an emergency, if the first two went down, he would, he was, you were allowed to go in.
If you designate somebody is allowed to go in. So he could have put his pads on. He couldn't exactly. He didn't need to be padded up, but he's also Russell Wilson. I understand he's there. He's there with his teammates. He's he's Russ, black and gold. Here we go.
So this is field's esteem. I I'm saying this would be tough for Tom and to look at Russ and say, I know you wanted to play. I know the doctors said you could play. We're being really cautious because you're getting up in years and those calf bustle injuries, those linger clearly it's still lingering going from the sled, right?
From the, from the summer. Yeah. And he's now saying, I feel great. And whatever MRIs they could take, come back clean. And he looks at him and says, it's Sean Peyton week and you weren't in earbud. That's going to be tough. Tough thing to say to him, you know, bench the guy. That's one.
I know they had six field goals. You say he's done enough. He did what he needed to do.
That's a nice throw. Or do you say to him, you are the backup quarterback. That's the sort of stuff we need you to do when we call on you, but you're now back to the bench. And then Russ goes to Denver and does not perform very well or looks hurt. Then what? Then we're just playing ping pong.
But if there's one, I think we're laying out here for you, how week to week, this is going to be, um, a dicey proposition. So you're saying just remove it from the table and announces right now, Hey, Justin's our guy. I don't think his performance in week one merits that for him to box himself in like that.
Did they win the game? They don't have any long-term connection with either of these guys. So ride the guy that's winning. I understand. That's what I said that he should, he should, they should say, yeah, let's see what you do in week two with this. Let's build upon whatever continuity that we have. Like again, preseason was one week, one guy, another week, the other guy, then another week, the other guy, and now they started with the other guy in week one. What are they going to go with the other guy in week two?
How many times are you going to go back and forth? There has to be some continuity. We just said to start this pod that week one is, uh, an extension of preseason football. You got to get some continuity going the, where the team knows this is the guy and they're all practicing together and getting on the same page. They can go into Denver this week.
I think they should stick with Justin Fields. But if there is any sort of allegiance or, um, you know, bleeding a heart, you gotta, you gotta turn to Russ and say, let's use you. Let's ride.
Let's go into this spot. They stay. The reason why you're here is they dead capped you, man.
How about you put a cap in them? So you think if what if it feels is struggling at half, you want to go rust second half? I think you might just turn to rust this week and just say, this'll be the last time we make this change. Justin, thank you for your service. That was your job coming into the season.
This is what we told you about. I think that's the way it's going to go, but I agree with you that Justin Fields could get, should get the start this week, but for the rest of the season, the coach is never going to box himself into that. Who starts more games this year?
Gosh, I'll go Justin Fields. I mean, if Ross is 36 and he's got a calf calf in it. Yeah.
But that may be an overreaction too. Oh baby. God, I love this sport. Last one before halftime. Now on Friday, the flagship show, when we were in KC, what's more likely I said, who's the more likely team that needs to start wanting to know the most Cowboys Browns. And I said, I think we wanted to say Browns, but then yeah.
And they did it. The Cowboys had the most impressive week one victory. Okay. Let's see.
Well, let's, let's, let's have that the clubhouse leader and let's see if I can go down the list and see what you think. Let's go Buffalo with a comeback win in Arizona, more impressive than what the Cowboys did on the road. I would say no Chicago's defense bailing out their rookie quarterback. I'll say no, your boys shocking the Bengals. It was pretty impressive. I mean, they compared to expectations on the season as a whole, but not, not like soup to nuts kicking.
It was more shocking than I think. Correct. Okay. Seattle's win against Denver. I will say that that they're not going to hang that one in the a Seahawk Louvre. Definitely not. Okay. To safety Detroit over the Rams.
That's pretty impressive. Rematch the last year, but what would have been impressive on par is if they did to the Rams, what the Cowboys did to the right, but they were also home. They were home.
It's not discount. Who's on the road. How about Philadelphia over green Bay?
No, although flying 12 hours to play in a foreign country. That ain't easy understood. Houston and Indianapolis road win and do what they did back in the spot with all the revenge. They narrowly almost gave that one up. So far. Nothing's leaping out Kansas city over Baltimore, Miami over Jacksonville charges over Vegas, Minnesota over the giants, new Orleans over Carolina.
I don't think we're going to find one here. Tampa over Washington. No, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll just say is this is it. I mean, dude, I was, I was really impressed. They took the Browns to the woods.
As I said, they treated the dog pound like a fire hydrant. I mean, they beat him. They, they, they, they had turpin return one on, on a punt. They beat him in every, they had, they had, they had a kicker kick one from 66 yards to be wiped out by a delay of game penalty.
And it looked like he should have gone for 71 years. So they had him in the kicking game. They had them in the return game. They had them on defense. They had them on offense, even though their offense didn't look all that great, you know, Dak threw for 59%, 170 some odd yards at CD lamb touchdown had a touchdown scored Rico was running the ball.
Let me just say this too. McCarthy doesn't get the flowers. He called a hell of a game, dude. He called a hell of an offensive game. He kept, he kept the Browns like gasping for air. He kept the pedal to the metal, even though they weren't really, you know, dominant on that side of the ball, but they, they, they were aggressive and, and Micah Parsons had a D he and TJ one had the best defensive player of the year out of the gate performances. I think you're right about that.
Okay. I didn't hear my name called much because miles Garrett was even with a rookie at left tackle, the Cowboys just outperformed him. And did Sean Watson look terrible. Now, again, you got, you got protection problems upfront and Nick Chubb's not there, but some of the times when, you know, you're throwing the ball in the end zone for 50, 50 ball, the ball should not go out of the end zone and hit the back wall.
There were a couple of times when he's thrown to the sidelines and it hit the kicking net. I mean, he was that far off terrible. And then no other way to put it in our flagship show on Monday, Chris long called Deshaun Watson cooked.
And that is, I kind of went, Oh, that's a strong, like an overreaction. That's a strong term, but Chris long is not prone to those things. Right.
I am. But, and so we'll find out if he's right. Or if Dallas just makes people look that way. But as I said, just one last time, just to repeat here, what I said on the flagship show, give them the Cowboys, their flowers, impressive win. You could say that there is a lesser opponent.
So you should treat them like a play thing. And they did. But the only other thing that you could say about Dallas is whatever.
We'll see what happens in January. Also Dallas was underdogs in this game. I like the desert thought, well, because Dallas took forever to sign their stars. Dallas didn't really supplement their roster.
That was the whole all in conversation. And Cleveland made the playoffs thanks to Joe Flacco last year. So Deshaun Watson coming back healthy, they should be better. You think, but it wasn't even close. So that's why, okay.
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Three to two. We are officially on drew lock, watch for the giants. I don't think that's an overreaction again.
I'm pl I'm just connecting the dots here. They want Daniel Jones to work out in the worst way right now. Well, they have no choice.
Well, your premise is there is it's drew lock. Well, yes. Okay.
So they wanted to work out. He's their highest paid employee. Okay.
They got, they got to get something out of him. Okay. And right now, and that's why they, they improve their offensive line and they got Malik neighbors, but they let say Quan walk.
Okay. And I'm just connecting dots here, connecting dots. I go back to, again, one of the rumors I heard at the combine from multiple people as they were done with Daniel Jones. And we did see in hard knocks, they were really trying to move up. Well, they were trying to move up, but they were also trying to redeem him. You, you know, they were trying to say, cause they had to know moving up from six to three was going to be expensive. Exactly.
Or a nonstarter. And it turned out to be right. And new England was not interested in moving down amazingly amazingly new England just beat Cincinnati with the veteran. They got to keep the guy that they drafted and refuse to trade to the giants.
Yeah. Keep them there. Keep them marinating, keep learning while the giants got stuck with Daniel Jones, because they decided not to go with JJ McCarthy or panics that high.
They went with a guy who's really talented and Malik neighbors. And so they were beginning to start to supplement Daniel Jones best they can after a draft season where they were trying to beef up their line and also get guys on defense. So you don't have to score a ton of points, right.
To try and win football games. And it was just a dreadful pre-season and an even worse start two interceptions against Minnesota, Sam Donald's the one coming in to MetLife two days after Saquon scores three times against the Eagles. I mean, for the Eagles against the pack, nobody had a worse weekend than the giants. That's what I'm saying.
Like that, this was a bad start all around. And so I don't think they're just going to keep banging their heads against the same wall, man. I don't think so. And they'll see what they have in drew lock. Maybe he can run the offense better than Jones that he doesn't have hanging over his head, the contract, he doesn't have hanging over his head that he's going to be sent packing. I don't know. Jones is against the same team that he had one of the best performances of his life.
If not the best performance in the playoffs two years ago, two years ago, what, 18 months ago, kind of crazy. But I wouldn't, I, I'm, I'm not, I don't think you're out of, out of left field with that one. We got to Quinn Ewers and Carson Beck looking for real estate. I don't know if those are the guys, but we'll see so far. You got a lot of time between now and then the comp I'm hearing from Daniel Jeremiah on Ewers is Baker Mayfield.
Oh, interesting. That's the one he's competent. Cause I reached out to him during the Texas Michigan game. I'm like, this kid looks amazing. Right? So, and he's, he said he's competent with Baker. I like it. Who by the way was first overall and who by the way, played done amazingly on Sunday.
What else you got? Uh, look, I'm just pound the chest a little bit for my boys. The Patriots are not going to have a top 10 pick in the draft this year. Top 10, dude, not having a top 10 and you, you, you were, you know what that means? The Vikings were seven and 10 last year and, and, and, and drafted 11th. That's why they traded up to go get JJ McCarthy with the jets. They swapped spots to the 10th spot.
What if you're talking to what if you're talking seven dubs, you're talking six, six and 11, seven and 10. What if, okay, look, and I know I was leading this charge all off season of they're terrible. Like you don't need a quarterback to win two games. You don't want to draft top five anymore. I don't, but I want to have one of the, I want one of those top picks so they can, someone can trade up like the giants or the Raiders or the Panthers.
Okay. You know what I'm saying? What if though, what if the line wasn't as bad as we were made to believe in the preseason? What if this is a top five defense? Christian Gonzalez held Jamar chase to 15 yards on Sunday. I had a top five list in my back pocket for the last two weeks, the preseason, but things just in our show, didn't work out to do that for whatever reason. Like we, I kept on pushing it off, pushing it off, pushing it at 120 yards. So the top five list was a top five second year players are going to take the biggest leap on the list. I had Christian Gonzalez.
Look at you, rich eyes. I did. Oh baby. Jamir Gibbs was number one.
Of course. Unless they're just going to keep on rolling Montgomery out for the first two series. Well, yeah, that was some smash. Dude, there had to be a ton of Jamir Gibbs fantasy players who are like, are we going to see him before the second quarter or what I was playing against Amun Ra on Sunday.
So I was kind of holding my breath a little bit when we went to overtime. I mean, so no, but that's not to get too far afield here. He is that good. He is this defense, the team could be better. It couldn't be better than we think the bangles. I guess this is that age old adage who won it, who lost it said more about the bangles than I think new England to me, but that we will find out, but for you to sit here and say there's six more wins in that schedule, not top 10, you kind of sounded with that. Was that, that was a new one. You said, I think you said not right out here. Oh, that I mean it. It's not a new England's next four, by the way, could be Seattle. Didn't blow my socks off on Sunday. Okay. We could be two and Oh, at the jets on Thursday night jets.
We're both two and over. It's come on. Or the jets are Oh, and two losing the Monday night football. And then at Tennessee, which is very feasible on a short week to happen.
Very feasible at San Francisco home from Miami home against Miami. Didn't blow my socks off either. I'll just call this an overreaction. All right. All right. All right. Top 10. That's seven wins, bud. Six and 11. Okay. I don't know. Maybe six and 11 gives you a top 10 pick.
Rich. I want to talk about one of your boys. One of your sons, Baker Mayfield is going to be in the MVP conversation all year long. Don't make me say no. It was the best quarterback in the game yesterday. He said the Falcons were winning the division. And that makes me feel stupid. I'm ready for a mulligan on that.
I don't know why we slept on the books. I don't know if this is an overreaction or not, but I'm officially switched switching. I am officially 100% no doubt about it. Four quarters into the NFL season. I am saying, Hey, listen, it's bucks fans. I don't know if you saw it, but my finger was on that. When I said the Falcons were winning the NFC South and you were not, and the Falcons would be in and the bucks would be out. I am now officially saying my finger was on the chess piece and I'm going to use my one preemptory.
If I may or mall again to do that. I want to apologize to Mike Evans, to Rashad white, to Chris God, honestly, honestly, I was apologize to everybody. And I understand Washington may be an opponent that you could look that way against, but you still looked that way against them as opposed to, well, week one, we did this, we did that. It just shows you again in the week one world that we now live in with fewer preseason games and practice time is less than than ever before that continuity is King Cowboys were all in right on their roster. How'd they look? They looked amazing. Did the chiefs lose many people?
Nope. How'd they look? Pretty dang good. The bucks kept everyone together. Everybody back. They changed the offensive coordinator. Yeah.
But how did they look really good? Right. So I, I, I should take my own advice and say, I need to look at teams that are keeping their teams together. And if that team being kept together, made the playoffs the previous year and appeared to be on the ascent, why would I jump off that train? We got seduced by the cousins and the, you know, I guess the deuce by is all the crap that you say I'm blaming you. Oh no, no, no.
There's six new playoffs team on average. You got to figure out where it is. You got to try. All right. Bucks fans. I am officially apologizing here.
Let me too. But through the entire season in the MVP, we're just going to be talking about them all year. Like that Baker may feel steer that we're going to look at the odds and Baker's going to be in the top five and he's going to be there at the end.
Dude. He's going to do this all year. If he does this all year, he should be in the top five. What if the bucks are 12 and five? If the bucks are 12 and five after doing what they did last year and getting, having Brady for them to bridge the Brady to the Baker era and not skip much of a beat is, would truly be one of the more remarkable feats the NFL has witnessed in the last five years.
The Baker Mayfield story. Now we're talking over now. You see, you know, you're, you're, you're, you're talking, you know, my game is speaking my language, but for me to sit here and say after week one that he's going to be in the MVP conversation all year. All right, hold on. Let's see the week. One MVP.
Who do you got a second? Oh, stop. Are you really having this? I know that's what this is. Podcast is all about.
Post week. One MVP is who you got. You literally said those words Baker Mayfield, Saquon Barkley, and Sam Darnold and Sam Darnold. Okay. Good enough. All right.
Listen though. Let's talk next week. Let's see what he does against the Detroit lines in Detroit.
If he goes in and avenges last year's division round loss and plays the way that they just played by winning from jump and, and keeping it going the entire game and not letting up and being 100% the better team soup to nuts from start to finish in the same way, they just looked against Washington and they do that in Detroit. Then we're gonna have a conversation. That's next week's show. Hold that thought. Okay. Last one before we get to our look ahead over reactions. Yes.
I had the, my tongue is a little bit in my cheek here, but not really. The Packers should call Tom Brady or at the very least, Ryan Tannehill. Oh, let's, let's say that about Ryan Tannehill. Oh yeah. Yeah. I tweeted that out again over the weekend. I mentioned it on the, on the flagship show on Monday that I tweeted out, you know, got to believe that Ryan Tannehill's phone is ringing from a nine to O area code, right? You have to think he'd been called and a response to got one of the most of first responses I got on the dreaded X Hellscape was from somebody saying, be honest, did you have to Google what the Green Bay area code was? And I'm like 100% and I wrote back as charged. Yeah, absolutely.
I had to. So, you know, I believe that Tom Brady dude, just turn the page. Hear me out. Hear me out. Hear me out. Hear me out. Hear me out.
I love Tom Brady more than most. All right. Turn the page.
Wasn't great yesterday, but also his first game call on a game. Okay. Right. Also, why can't Fox just give him like a six week break?
He goes and wins six in a row for Green Bay. Now they're set up with a lot of comes back. Yeah. And he comes back to the booth, but why would he do such a thing? Cause he wants to keep playing.
Yeah. But he's not ready. He's not, what do you mean he's not ready? Did you see the video of him last week? He, he said a max with his all time bench press. The guy is in shape. I don't think he's throwing on the Fox lot.
Dude. Like he's ready to go, dude. He just turned the page.
He's legitimately the story that came out yesterday as well on Sunday on a week. One Sunday is he is about to get his approval to be a part owner. He's going to get it. He's going to get it. He's going to own the Raiders. He's going to work for the Packers and Fox.
He's going to do it all. What better way to indicate to the membership that you have been arm twisting for about a year and a half to get what he's looking for. What better way to say, I'm not real. I'm an unserious minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. Then to say, I'm leaving my Fox job after one week to play for the Packers on an interim basis. He can win a super bowl.
What do you mean? Jordan loves not done for the year. This isn't like Rogers last year. He's coming back. It's an MCL Springs. Chris may linger.
You like slip in the house is the answer. I told you I was just sort of kidding with Tannehill is the answer. Matt LaFleur. He's got that complete, you know, Shanahan history. Everybody thinks the Packers hired Matt LaFleur straight from the 49ers. They didn't, they hired him from Tennessee. And so he does not get talked about enough as being a great coach. That's why I'm saying this is on him now, because if Malik Willis is going to be your starter boy, do they have to coach him up in a way that I don't, I mean, we didn't see much out of him in Tennessee.
I haven't seen it so far. So, so they acquired him to be the backup, which means they should have belief in him, that he can actually do the job to keep things afloat. Problem is the rest of the divisions already won. They're one game behind the rest of the division right now.
Yep. Minnesota and Chicago also won the Rams, almost did them a huge favor last night on Sunday night, but they didn't. The Indianapolis Colts can absolutely come in with that defense. They're going to turn Malik Willis back into his Liberty days. Okay. And Anthony Richardson could be running around like crazy and throwing 60 yard, you know, back leg throws like he did to Alec Pierce, the current clubhouse leader through one week of throw of the year.
And you know, then evolved places, look at that at Tennessee. I mean, I would come back with the entire story. I'd come back with the, the entire Tennessee quarterback room in the last five years.
It's on the floor. Like they should try and trade for Mario trade for Mario. Let's go. If you play, bring back Jake locker to be an honorary captain.
What do you think Jake's up to? That's what I would do. If I'm the floor, that's great. Bring them all back. You know, Donald, last one of them, Kerry Collins, let's bring them all. Let's have like the honorary captains of the Packers in that game. I'm into that. That's what I would do. Tom Brady just turned a page, bud.
I mean, I used it to set up, but he's not walking through that door. All right. So now that it's an in season edition of our pod, we do this every single in season edition of our show each week, you and I predict what we will be overreacting to the next week.
What our media will be saying about a team or situation based off of the next week's results that have yet to happen. Fantastic. All right. You go first. You're week two. Yep.
Nostradamus overreaction prediction is what? The bucks are the best team in the NFC. So you're saying they go into Detroit and they do that thing. Yeah.
They're going to do that thing. Detroit didn't really blow me away on Sunday night. Uh, they let the Rams come back and I did like the smash mouth to end it, but I was really impressed with Tampa, really impressed with Baker Mayfield. Not saying this can't happen, but for this to be right, that they're the best team in the NFC, best team in the NFC, Dallas would have to look less than they did on Sunday against new Orleans at home. Well, even if they do blow them out, I'm saying that's an overreaction to say the bucks, but I'm saying is that an overreaction would, would, would have some sort of merit that Dallas Dallas is a so, so maybe against the saints and then San Francisco would have to either lose the jets or not look that great. Right.
And then the same thing would happen in Minnesota. Who do the Eagles play the next week? Philadelphia takes on, well, we wouldn't know by next Monday's pod because they're on Monday night football against the Falcons, right? Who I think they're going to destroy because Kirk cousins has a history of, of not performing well in Philadelphia, something I'll gingerly bring up to him on Wednesday show. Okay. And then who else we got in the NFC?
Anybody else? I'm just saying who had an impressive win, right? Week one. That's the other one would be Detroit. And you just said that the Tampa Buccaneers are going to be going to write to the bucks are the best team. I'm going to go in the opposite direction.
And I'm going to say, we're going to come on the air and week two, and you're going to look at me and go rich, just like that. The Green Bay Packers are in deep trouble. Oh, that's what you're going to say. Cause I do believe the Colts defense will go in there. And, um, and in, in the Lambeau field opener and Malik Willis is he better. I mean, he's better.
He better eat his Wheaties this week. Yeah. Cause the Colts defense with the forest Buckner and the rest of those cats were in the backfield quite a bit.
And now, now that may, and this may be a Josh Jacobs game in the same way that Houston had a Joe Mixon performance. True. Okay. True. An excellent week one performance for Joe Mixon.
Fantastic. Right. But, um, the Colts defense had that team in the game. And if Malik will, you know, Malik Willis is not going to show up like CJ Stroud. Like I think they're gonna, they're going to be able to really get after him. And if that offense can't, if that offense keeps putting, you know, Anthony Richardson back on the field with mr. Wisconsin badger himself, back in the state of Wisconsin, by way of New Jersey in Jonathan Taylor, this could be an Owen to start for the Packers.
And if Malik Willis does not perform well and looks lost, if you will. Yeah. Then what okay.
Looks like Zach Wilson. It is Nadir. I just use that word. Big word alert. Okay.
That is bottom type bad. Then it's the woman. You're at Tennessee and then you're home from Minnesota at the Rams.
Then you're like, you know, having a seance to try and conjure up some sort of spirit to get an MCL healed faster. Yeah. That's my take on that. And I hope I'm wrong for you. Cheese heads out there. Good stuff.
Good stuff. We're back week. Number one overreaction Monday, 2024 NFL season is in the books for Chris.
I'm rich. We will chat with you next week. What the football with Jim Nance and Susie and Amy Trask season two of that pod we'll hit on Wednesday of this week is Nance is available on Wednesday this week.
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