NFL Preseason Preview: Key Games and Player Insights
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00:00The NFL is back in earnest this weekend with all kinds of preseason action.
00:10What do you got?
00:11It really is, Scott.
00:12I find your Pittsburgh Steelers to be an interesting game.
00:15Russell Wilson's going to be out.
00:17Justin Fields gets an opportunity to start a football game and make his case to potentially
00:24be the starter.
00:25I like the Pittsburgh Steelers against the Houston Texans in this spot.
00:29Teams are playing a Hall of Fame game.
00:31They don't like it, and they don't like this next game after because it's a quick turnaround.
00:36The teams normally go after it in their third game after this, so I think it's a good spot
00:41for Pittsburgh here.
00:42I like their quarterback rotation that they have here, Scott, with Kyle Allen and John
00:46Reese Plumlee will be playing in this football game as well.
00:50Allen's a guy that's been around a little while.
00:52Plumlee was a decent college quarterback.
00:55I think Houston are just sort of buying time, trying to not get injured as one of the favorites,
01:01and get into the regular season.
01:04Some intriguing games this week, guys, in the Atlanta Falcons and the Miami Dolphins.
01:09The Dolphins are a top-heavy team, right?
01:11They spend all their money on big-time players.
01:14They're not like a deep team.
01:16They haven't drafted super well.
01:18They're very muddy.
01:19If you look at the Dolphins, for the most part, they've all been bought, right?
01:24There's a few guys that have been drafted, but they're a very sort of free-agent type of team.
01:28They haven't done a great job, like 1-53, stockpiling talent.
01:34So this is another team.
01:35McDaniel's a guy, man.
01:37He doesn't care about the preseason at all.
01:40And you have the Atlanta Falcons situation here, guys.
01:42Michael Panik, Scott, great quarterback with Washington.
01:46He's going to be starting this football game for the Falcons.
01:48So we're going to get a look at Michael Panik, but then we have a really good backup quarterback
01:52situation for Atlanta, guys.
01:55Heineke.
01:56So you've got Heineke, who's the third-string quarterback now, except he's expensive for
02:04a third-string quarterback.
02:06But we're talking about a guy that's played in regular season games before, and the guy
02:09that's trying to take his job, Scott, was the MVP of the CFL, Nate Rourke, who's going
02:14to play well.
02:15He played well last year in the preseason for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
02:17So take the Atlanta Falcons.
02:20I like the Pittsburgh Steelers at home against the Texans, and we like the Atlanta Falcons
02:25on the money line, Scott, against the Dolphins.