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Jalen Carter's ceiling was always with the Eagles. I'm convinced if he was taken earlier, he would have been good/great instead of transcendent as he's been this far. Very lucky for everyone involved including the fans.
CJ Stroud will have his biggest test this week Vs the Saints, their secondary is no joke.
I predict CJ Stroud finally gets his “Welcome to the NFL” game.
Here go people whining about the refs again in the comment section 😂 same stuff different week
love that you guys talk about multiple games for long periods of time rather than just one team. great podcast one of my favorites!
Reminder that y’all gave the bears a higher ceiling than the niners in the preseason
You give a segment or more credit to the Falcons than the Lions for the NFC c’mon now you guys are better than this
No no. That 74 was a muggy kind of wet heat. I was so damn hot at that game. And I was just sitting standing and drinking water. No booze. Like bruh. That England heat is weird.
Shame on the NFL for allowing Jax to play 2 consecutive weeks in London. No idea how they thought that’d be fair
Kellen Moore’s offence also was terrible in big games. And found it easy to beat on team they’re superior than.
Beyond happy with my Niners this year. Missing piece was an RB that was dynamic (CMC) and a QB that throws open his WR and take chances down field (Jimmy’s limitation). Scoring 30+ points each game is insane as im used to our D holding teams down and we chip away at a lead by FG and an occasional TD. This team looks like they are fighting for eachother and something much bigger. Being bounced by the Rams and seeing them go and win a SB and then having No QB against Philly. This team is HUNGRY and they finally believe.
Week by week. Take care of business with the Browns who have a GREAT defense and a great front 4 generating pressure.
However its BROCKtober baby! Bang Bang Niner Gang🎉
I don't think the NFL rigs games, but like you can't honestly think the size of the KC media market is actually a good defense against the accusations? They have by far the biggest and most marketable star in the league with Mahomes and now all the swifties support them too. You only need to watch 1 normal NFL broadcast to see how much companies love using Mahomes in their ads, and they even get other random Chiefs/former Chiefs like Henne and Andy Reid. How often are any Giants players in national ads? How about Rams players?
Brett himself mentioned it, but listening this morning to these guys on the recap is refreshing, because they spend time talking about teams across the NFL not just the "high ratings" type teams. I'd describe Brett and EJ as like the anti-First Take in the best sense.
To be clear I don't think the NFL is rigging anything, but I do think it's being a little disingenuous to say a 15 yard personal foul on Sneed would have had "no impact" because it was a dead ball foul. Felt like you were being hyperbolic just because you were on a bit of a rant.
I went to the Eagles/Rams game on Sunday (first NFL game ever!!), and it was wild how much it felt like a home game there. Also a great game tho, Rams played hella competitive
I think the impressive thing about the jags win is that they STILL stumbled their own feet in several ways and really could've beaten the Bills by a few scores. The 2 fumbles are something that can be easily prevented, the snap 2 feet above Trevor's head that killed a drive, and the rookie RT Anton Harrison had a two mental errors that stopped a drive at half field. The jags could've hung 40 on these Bills.
The Cowboys are frauds. Across the board this is a soft team. They crumble under adversity.
On the defensive side of the ball I think the players get too full of themselves when things are going well against bad teams and lose discipline in going for splashy plays against teams that can punish them. Kearse was abysmal in terms of coverage and penalties and has been exploited frequently this season, Gilmore is too slow to cover most receivers now, Parsons gets frustrated against physical opponents, shouldn't be a full time DE and was completely neutralized and has done more talking than dominating thus far, Lawrence is the only DE that can stop the run, Vander Esch is slowing down and now also injured with 0 depth behind him. I'm only expecting the D to get worse as the season continues.
On offense it really falls on Dak and McCarthy. Dak cannot anticipate, his accuracy and ability to read the field is extremely inconsistent and he wilts under pressure as has been demonstrated throughout his career. Wild card wins are his ceiling unless the rest of the team plays perfectly. McCarthy's scheme is trash with no verticality nor modern run concepts. Cooks has been wasted on this teem so far. It seems like the scheme is trying to minimize Dak's mistakes to an extreme degree and it's having the opposite effect any time the passing game has to be leaned on.
The remaining schedule is brutal and I would gladly take as many Ls as needed to get McCarthy and Dak out with a high draft pick to try to find the next guy (Lance is not the answer he's Dak with slightly more arm strength). Meanwhile Jerry Jones just reiterated his upmost faith in them and continues to strain my ability to root for this team.
EJ’s eyes tell me that he hasn’t slept in a long while lol
It’s a fact now: Jags have the better Josh Allen! 🎉
The Rams are better than most of the NFC. I think they are the 3rd or 4th best Team.
Here after Monday night. He got his D over/unders right. He should do just Defensive picks next week
The jets D have the pieces you mentioned to match up against the 49ers. But our O would do absolutely nothing against that 9ers d
39:23 That's the influence of Mailata right there. Introducing Rugby plays into football. This makes so much more sense now.
My favorite weekly show ❤
I appreciated the discussion on the Eagles' "brotherly shove" play and how they're good at it because they know how to do it right and the copycats can't do it because they don't understand what makes it work. I was going to compare it to the Kansas City shovel pass at the goal line but you hit that one immediately.
The epic McCarthy rant from 1:07:00 – 1:12:00 was just beautiful and horrible to behold.