Mike Giardi and Will Parkinson are back with another episode of the All 32 NFL Podcast! Tune in as they preview the Week 10 slate of NFL games, starting with looking back on an epic Thursday Night Football clash between the Bengals and Ravens. They look at the looming battle of the top three picks, as Drake Maye and Caleb Williams will face off when the Patriots play the Bears. Plus, could the Jets keep themselves in the playoff race?
0:00 - Intro
2:54 - Bengals go for two
6:11 - Referees impact game
8:12 - Ravens playoff concerns
10:41 - Lamar's MVP performance
15:34 - Running backs pay
18:00 - Jets playoff hopes
20:05 - Jets defensive strategy
22:52 - Offensive line concerns
25:01 - Eberflus job security
29:12 - Bears remaining schedule
32:02 - Offensive line struggles
34:11 - Coaching staff evaluation
35:50 - Pittsburgh's tough schedule
38:23 - Washington's playoff potential
39:56 - Ownership change impact
42:58 - Early season success
49:50 - Texans playoff potential
52:23 - Texans need improvement
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0:00 - Intro
2:54 - Bengals go for two
6:11 - Referees impact game
8:12 - Ravens playoff concerns
10:41 - Lamar's MVP performance
15:34 - Running backs pay
18:00 - Jets playoff hopes
20:05 - Jets defensive strategy
22:52 - Offensive line concerns
25:01 - Eberflus job security
29:12 - Bears remaining schedule
32:02 - Offensive line struggles
34:11 - Coaching staff evaluation
35:50 - Pittsburgh's tough schedule
38:23 - Washington's playoff potential
39:56 - Ownership change impact
42:58 - Early season success
49:50 - Texans playoff potential
52:23 - Texans need improvement
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00:00It is caught! Touchdown!
00:04The New England Patriots select Drake May.
00:08He's got the ball! And that's the ballgame!
00:12Welcome to Friday's edition of the All 32 Pod.
00:16Mike Giardi alongside Will Parkinson. Week 10 is upon us, and it started
00:20with an unbelievable game, which we're going to get to in just a second.
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00:36Will, I'm fired up because last night's game had so much happening for it.
00:40Baltimore wins 35-34. They improved to
00:447-3 on the year since he falls to 4-6, and it comes down to
00:48a last minute drive, a touchdown, and then Zach Taylor
00:52goes for two. We'll just start right there. Like the decision?
00:56Yeah, I like the decision because you just gotta look
01:00at it. Ravens in the second half. The Ravens, basically
01:04after it was 21-7, they punted with 4-11 remaining
01:08in the third quarter. It was
01:1221-7, I believe. After that, touchdown, touchdown,
01:16touchdown, touchdown. They weren't stopping a
01:20nosebleed, and they've done a good job this year at points with stopping the Ravens.
01:24I think this was very similar to the first game as well.
01:28The Bengals' defense has been the issue all year. Remember the Commanders' game, one that stands out
01:32probably the most, where I don't think the Bengals punted the entire game, whatever it was, and they still
01:36lose at home. The Ravens game, obviously, put up
01:4040. We've been through this road with the Bengals before, so
01:44they're going for it all night. Early on in the game, they ran a tight end
01:48QB sneak on their own 30-yard line in the first quarter or early second.
01:52I like the decision for a couple reasons. Very similar to what I felt
01:56with Tampa Bay and Kansas City on
02:00Monday night. It's not that I don't think these defenses could have gotten a stop.
02:04Again, it sucks. Both teams will end up losing.
02:08One won for two, one didn't, so it's whoever supported which decision.
02:12The Bengals got shafted on the two-point conversion heavily by the Refs.
02:16In a lot of ways, what they wanted to do worked.
02:20They would have gotten to redo it again.
02:24If you knew you weren't going to get a stop there,
02:28go down swinging with your quarterback who's the best, if not the second-best player
02:32in the field. Mike, to me, I think
02:36we've done a lot of this. Sometimes I think teams are so
02:40overly aggressive. It's like baseball. It's like, who's still uber-analytical, and then there's teams that
02:44aren't. The Bengals are very much, we've seen the Ravens
02:48do this. The Ravens have lost games under John Harbaugh and Lamar Jackson. I believe the Steelers
02:52game two or three years ago where they missed on a two-point conversion in Pittsburgh.
02:56The Bengals' season is kind of on the line here. Do you want to have it
03:00on the line with your defense on the field against the guy who's playing as good a football as anybody in the league?
03:04Or do you want to have the other guy who's probably playing better quarterback than anybody in the league
03:08with a shot on for the two-yard line?
03:12I don't think that all things are equal. The Bucs shouldn't have called a timeout.
03:16They should have gone for two. The Bengals, I thought, did
03:20what was best for this Cincinnati Bengals team. This is not the Bengals' defense
03:24of two, three, four years ago. We've talked about it ad nauseum.
03:28Mike, to me, you give up four straight touchdowns, I'm not trusting you
03:32to go give up three against the kicker at home who, while he's not the same
03:36guy, could still knock it in from 60-plus. Bengals made the right call.
03:40What an absolute blast of a game to watch last night.
03:44I think I tweeted at the time,
03:48right decision, obviously wrong result.
03:52It's the same thing. You get pushback from all sides. You take the points there,
03:56but to your point, they just couldn't stop them. It's been a huge issue for them all year long.
04:00As much as I love Louie Annarumo, this is now year two of their defense
04:04going in the wrong direction. I thought he should have been
04:08a head coach two years ago after the kind of run they had had.
04:12The erosion of talent.
04:16Yeah, exactly. But other than Trey Hendrickson up front, they get no pressure.
04:20The corners are meh. They brought Geno Stone in.
04:24Geno Stone has the brain fart on the long touchdown to
04:28Wallace down the sideline. They have just had a lot of those things this year
04:32where A, they're not good enough and they're not on their details
04:36on the field. I think, to that point, Joe Burrow
04:40had 428 yards, four touchdown passes, no interceptions.
04:44Yeah, we're going to take our chance. He's our best player. You can't cover Chase.
04:48Actually, you know what was the interesting part to me is, and this would be my one second guess,
04:52is when they ran the play and they took it down
04:56to the wire and then they called the timeout on the two-point conversion,
05:00recessed, came back out. When they were running the play to see what
05:04Baltimore was doing, they had Jamar Chase one-on-one on the
05:08side, no safety help. Based on the performance that
05:12he had and the way he was eating on those guys, I'm going to take my shot that Joe's going to
05:16put it in the right place and Jamar's going to go get it. He calls the timeout,
05:20whatever. To your point, the referees, not only did they miss the Gusecki getting absolutely
05:24mugged at the goal line, blatant like he's tackled, but then for the second
05:28time, I believe in the drive, Burrow takes a shot to the face mask.
05:32I'm not one of these guys that believes quarterbacks shouldn't be hit, but that's the
05:36rule. We saw it with Sam Darnold a couple weeks ago, the blatant face mask.
05:40No one wants more flags, but if those are the rules, you've got to be consistent.
05:44Joe the superstar, I'm shocked he doesn't get that call.
05:48I'm fine if you swallow the ticky-tack hold call, the defensive hold or whatever,
05:52legal contact or those sorts of things in those moments, but when we're talking about
05:56something that's that blatant where the hand goes right to the face, head
06:00gets twisted, helmet came up, dude, that's a blow to the freaking head.
06:04What are we doing? And I give Al Michaels credit, who he gives absolutely
06:08no bleeps anymore, but he's just like, too many games like this this year.
06:12Too many times that we watched an excellent football game,
06:16two quarterbacks playing at elite levels, Jamar Chase going nuts, and at
06:20the end of it, we're still left with, but the refs factored themselves
06:24into the game in a way you just don't want. That shouldn't be what we're talking about today,
06:28but it has to be because that's part of the story last night, so very disappointing.
06:32Mike, I have a question for you on your ratings.
06:36We know the Bengals are at best probably going to be the 7th seed at this point. Maybe they're the 6th
06:40if they're able to beat Pittsburgh twice, and they're not dead by any means, but
06:44this three-week stretch is tough. I believe they have the
06:48chargers at the Chargers, Steelers at Cowboys, at Titans,
06:52Browns, Broncos, at Steelers to end the year.
06:56They're 0-5 in games decided by six points or fewer. Feels like of those
07:00seven games, there's four or five that should be wins.
07:04Should be. You can't just guarantee it in the league,
07:08but it almost feels like they've got to win six or seven probably to get in.
07:12Yeah, I think if they've got to get to 9-8 to have
07:16a shot, but they're going to have to beat Denver and they're probably going to have to beat Pittsburgh
07:20at least once, if not twice. My question is more about
07:24I think, look, you're going to pay Jamar Chase going forward. You're going to have
07:28your offense shaped around Chase and Burrow for the next five, six years.
07:32You're going to have to add supplemental pieces. I don't really worry about the Bengals long-term.
07:36I do think that there's some, I mentioned maybe
07:40trading off some guys. I know they didn't go that route because they got hot a little bit
07:44and there's no shame in that. I think you could have traded
07:48Tee Higgins a couple weeks ago or this offseason. He's a guy that's not getting any healthier and
07:52someone else's problem would have been paying him 25 even though he's a really good player.
07:56Again, I don't worry too much about them. They have the coaching staff and foundation.
08:00They've seen them work. Next year, we've seen this a million times. They had both the Vikings
08:04three years ago and the two. Maybe it happens with the Jets. These other teams, when you're
08:08terrible in one score games, it usually flips and comes back to the meat.
08:12My question's about the Ravens because Jamar's playing at an
08:16unbelievable pace. I'm sure we'll get three MVPs
08:20before three playoff wins tweet. It'll happen. Jamar's playing
08:24unbelievable. The offense is really hard to stop. Munkun's calling awesome
08:28stuff. Derrick Henry's much better than I actually. I thought he'd be a big stats, not
08:32great film guy. He's been both. Credit to him.
08:36Kyle Hamilton's not hurt. His defense already sucks.
08:40I don't think I'm being
08:44harsh enough. They're horrible on defense. Yes,
08:48run defense, Brokawan's a madman. They're able to
08:52stop him. I also think part of the reason they're so good on run defense
08:56is a lot of ways the Jets were
09:00first or second in pass defense. Yes, they're good, but teams are just
09:04running the ball the whole time or teams are just throwing the ball the whole time. Last night,
09:08Burrow threw the ball what? 56 times? Yep. Who needs to run the
09:12ball if you're going to throw for 404 tutties?
09:16Their goal is playoffs.
09:20They can't really add much now.
09:24Deontay Johnson trade.
09:28When I saw Baltimore made a trade, I'm like, they added a pass rusher or
09:32some secondary help. They need it. No, it's Deontay Johnson. I get it.
09:36You're doubling down on the strength, but you're secondary.
09:40You're 32nd in pass defense. It's not getting any better. It just got worse.
09:44The numbers just got worse based on this performance. Marlon Humphrey,
09:48who is still a damn good player. Maybe not what he was two or three years
09:52ago because of the injuries and whatnot, but still really good. Quote last night,
09:56I don't think playing like this we can go very far. I think he's dead right.
10:00I don't know how they fix it at this point in the middle of November.
10:04Again, at 7-3, I guess they have a little leeway here in terms of
10:08barring an unbelievable collapse, they're going to be in the postseason.
10:12Zach Orr, there was a shot of
10:16he's losing his mind up in the press box.
10:20They're not very well connected in the back, and you see it over
10:24and over again. I think I brought this up. Mike McDonald had those guys
10:28playing last year so well that they were able to pass off routes
10:32seamlessly, and the guys were on it. It just seems
10:36like there was a crossing pattern to Jamar Chase where you see Roquan pointing to it.
10:40The other linebacker doesn't take a piece of him, so now Roquan is stuck
10:44in between. I've got to keep my eyes on Lamar, but now I've got Jamar
10:48crossing my face. Obviously, he runs well, but he doesn't run as well as Jamar Chase.
10:52Next thing you know, it's a 20-yard play down the sideline, and he's
10:56screaming and yelling. I get it. Dude, we're not good enough
11:00to miss the small details. When you've got a guy crossing your face like that, you've got to
11:04take a piece of him. You've got to slow him down. They're not doing that.
11:08Whether it's a disconnect, whether there's
11:12some of the youth in the secondary, Wiggins obviously the first-round pick. It's a lot of playing time.
11:16Whatever it may be, I thought it would have gotten better,
11:20and it's not getting better. I wonder now,
11:24is this what you're just going to have to live with and hope your offense wins you 38-35
11:28games in the postseason, which I think we know is kind of hard to do. Yeah, a couple things.
11:32One, and we'll finish up on this game here, they're giving them 300 yards a game
11:36through the air. We're not talking about a league
11:40that throws the football well right now. The Ravens have not played the Bengals
11:4410 times. This is games against the Raiders and the
11:48Browns. You have 73 yards a game, but again, 300 yards
11:52through the air, which in some ways is more devastating because
11:56it's all explosives. That's the big problem. You look at a lot of the
12:00Niners, the Jets, those type of defenses, the Seahawks. Not this year, but
12:04that Seahawks cover three, no explosives, let the teams make mistakes.
12:08This is the opposite. They're getting up 25 plus a game, and
12:12just in context, not the total yards really means anything anymore
12:16in terms of just total defense
12:20and stuff. We know those metrics. DVOA and those things are a little bit more indicative of how good you
12:24are. The Ravens have played one more game than the other
12:28three of the other four in the top five.
12:32They're the worst yardage defense in the NFL.
12:36Passing-wise, they're the worst yardage defense by 700
12:40yards.
12:44Kirk said it last night on the broadcast
12:48and shout out to him losing his puppy. Obviously, we're both old people. I was kind of gut-wrenching.
12:52He was like, you just don't
12:56ever see such a disparity where no one runs the ball on you.
13:00As good as Lamar has been, he's going to probably win the
13:04MVP. Burrow should be in the conversation. There's other guys. Henry will be the
13:08offensive player of the year. All fair.
13:12I just really worry that a defense like Kansas City that can
13:16stifle Baltimore to an extent. A defense in Buffalo, honestly, who
13:20we've seen as much of that game didn't go well for Buffalo.
13:24We know those two teams play again, and it'll probably be a much closer game.
13:28Even a Houston where Houston can run the crap out of
13:32football, and then C.J. Stroud, when they're healthy, can
13:36throw the piss out of football. I just worry
13:40a little bit, Mike, that they didn't get it corrected enough.
13:44The talent erosion mixed with mix of coordinators and all those things.
13:48It's a shame because this is, in my opinion, been Lamar's best year, even better than that first
13:52MVP. It'd be a really big shame if the defense is now the reason.
13:56For the first time in the playoffs, it'll be the defense's fault, not the offense.
14:00Maybe they get through it.
14:04I just have my concerns that as bad as even the Chiefs have played
14:08in a lot of ways, Spags will have enough to stop
14:12Lamar enough, and then they're not stopping a nosebleed. If Kyle
14:16Hamilton misses any type of time, I don't know, man.
14:20I'll do respect to Trey White. This isn't 2017.
14:24The Rams were like, someone else, please
14:28take him off our hands.
14:32We'll pay his salary. We'll give you draft picks. Go away.
14:36Trey was a great player, obviously, but
14:40between the knee and the ACL, that's pretty hard to come back from.
14:44Let's move on to our next one, which I know has particular attention for
14:48you, the 3-6 Jets. At the 5-4
14:52Cardinals, the Cardinals are officially a frisky football team.
14:56This is not going to be an easy game for the Jets. No, not at all.
15:00The Cardinals are hot. They're at home. They're in first place.
15:04They're in a division where Kyler's playing, I think, good football. I think he's much
15:08more of the player that we were at least hoping
15:12post-contract he would be. He's not elite, in my opinion.
15:16Maybe he has a great day on Sunday. I don't know. He's a good
15:20quarterback in a market where there's just not a lot of good quarterbacks. When Kyler's engaged,
15:24he can still use his legs really well. It's nice to see. He obviously throws the football well.
15:28They've got some talent on the offensive side of the football. James Conner has been limited in practice
15:32all week, but what a sighting that's been.
15:36No one pays running backs, and they didn't have to give up. I think it was six or seven million bucks he gets
15:40paid. It's a good deal.
15:44He runs the football hard. Their offensive line's not great,
15:48but not bad. You can get pressure on them, for sure.
15:52I don't think the Jets are looking at Calvin Beecham, who played for them
15:56eons ago.
16:00At the same time, they're just doing a lot of things
16:04well as a group. Defensively, it's Buda Baker
16:08and a lot of guys who are just like my day three picks.
16:12A lot of the free agent signings that you maybe wouldn't know about.
16:16They're playing decently as a group. They can be exposed. I'm not overly impressed
16:20with their defense, by any means, but they're playing well enough as a group to help them
16:24get by. On Trey McBride, Marv, Michael Wilson, etc.,
16:28they've got talent. This game, to me, is
16:32more about what Kyler do you get? Kyler has these moments
16:36where early on, he just doesn't really look. He's engaged
16:40and he's not really willing to run. You're like, okay. It's going to be one of those
16:44afternoons. There's other times where Sam Fran, Miami games,
16:48he's locked into it, man. He wants to run the ball 15 times
16:52and 10, 15 times and get out in the pocket of these explosives.
16:56This game is going to come down to the Jets and if the Jets beat themselves. It's been about that the entirety of the year.
17:00The Jets beat themselves against New England. They beat themselves against Buffalo
17:04and Denver and Pittsburgh and all these other places.
17:08Then there's other games where they haven't beaten themselves. You look at Houston
17:12and the first New England game and things of that nature. Oh, they're Tennessee
17:16and the other teams beat themselves and the Jets talent overtook it.
17:20The Jets team has been free and practicing easy and life's all good.
17:24They've been off for 10 days.
17:28If they can stack a win here, and we've talked about it, it's all about stacking wins
17:32for this team to keep themselves relevant. If they win and Indianapolis loses
17:36on Sunday, both the Jets are pick them now and the Colts
17:40are obviously not a favorite against Buffalo. The Jets would be
17:44half a game out of a playoff spot after two weeks ago,
17:48us talking after the New England game of like, are they going to blow this thing up?
17:52That doesn't mean Jack bleep. It'll be at the end of
17:56week 10, but it kind of at least gives you some
18:00hope. I think it's kind of where Cincinnati was at yesterday where it's like, man, if we can
18:04steal one more of these games, look where the schedule opens up. This is probably
18:08the Jets' hardest game for a while until I think they play
18:12I don't know, I guess maybe at Miami is the next hardest. They're home
18:16Indy by home Seattle on a one o'clock kickoff post Thanksgiving.
18:20We know how those things go.
18:24This game, Mike, it comes down to me of like, Rogers
18:28just got 10 days off after finally starting. It looked like it clicked.
18:32Is he Rodgers, the Thursday Night Football
18:36Rodgers we've seen, which is six touchdowns, no picks in like 600 plus yards, or
18:40is it the rest of the year, which has been a non Thursday night game just like
18:44guess what? 10 touchdowns, 7 picks. He's fine.
18:48He's like an old, probably average-ish quarterback, and then he's had moments.
18:52Is this going to be another moment? He's always played well in Arizona, although he had big playoff games
18:56indoors, on grass. What kind of Jets team are we getting on Sunday afternoon?
19:00Yeah, I'm really interested in this one. You mentioned Kyler.
19:04He has been elite on the move, which
19:08again, not surprising because he's an incredibly athletic quarterback, but they have the numbers
19:12to back this up where this year averaging 8.1 yards per carry
19:16when forced out of the pocket or when he decides to go out of the pocket.
19:20He's third in completion percentage when on the move. Five touchdowns, no picks.
19:24A passer rating of 134.9, which is number one. Again, how they measure
19:28the metrics of being outside the box and on the move. Guess who's forced
19:32the quarterback to get outside the box more than anyone other than one other team this year?
19:36It's the Jets. If you're the Jets,
19:40it's critical. Patriots talk about it all the time, about
19:44building a cage. When you're at your best against a mobile quarterback,
19:48you're trying to keep him in there. Let's not forget, too, he's not a big dude.
19:52It's not only keeping him in there, but then when you keep him in there, it's hard for him to see,
19:56which is why I'm a hightest at the position, even though he's playing great.
20:00I always played this year.
20:04Discipline will be important for a Jets team that sometimes hasn't necessarily shown that.
20:08Yeah, that was the one thing last week against Houston. The one nitpick
20:12would be the rush lanes. They were so aggressive in getting after Stroud.
20:16Listen, if they had sacked Kyler eight times and stuff, they'd probably win the football game.
20:20Yes. They do. Redick and McDonald sometimes,
20:24as good as they are, they do go kind of
20:28little 2K, Madden-ish. It's a little bit rogue.
20:32I got this guy. I can do this. The next thing you know, there's this huge lane that you've
20:36opened up. CJ's a good athlete. He's not a Kyler athlete.
20:40It's just the whole system is
20:44rush the quarterback and stop the run on the way there. I wonder if the Jets this week
20:48go, Quincy's going to spy Kyler all game, and we're going to take two, three
20:52steps upfield, and we're almost going to kind of
20:56play that. You're not going anywhere, and we're just going to stand hands up
21:00and try to bat the football down and make you make a decision.
21:04Keep it in front of you. Not easy to say mush rush, by the way.
21:08I would have botched that. Thank God you said it.
21:12My last question for you, and we're taping this early afternoon on Friday.
21:16Offensive line, health issues, is that a concern here going
21:20into Sunday's game? It's a huge concern. It's not a huge concern.
21:24Maybe it's a concern this week. It's not as big of a concern
21:28for me this week as it is. Can they escape these two
21:32games? Kind of a little bit of patchwork. Offensive line, Tetris.
21:36Will Olufasyonu get his, I believe it's third start,
21:40but first start at right guard in his
21:44football playing career? Max Mitchell, right tackle
21:48coming out of college. He's played some left tackle, right tackle, right guard, left guard.
21:52Does he start? AVT was away from practice yesterday.
21:56He's practicing today and apparently moving well. Could he trend in the right direction
22:00or do they give him one more week? Jake Hansen had a hamstring.
22:04John Simpson looks like he's probably the most likely to go with the groin.
22:08That dude's a tough mother effer. We don't talk about Morgan Moses a lot
22:12in this podcast and why it would be. He's an above average right tackle. He's in his 30s.
22:16He is playing on a grade 2 MCL sprain, knee fracture,
22:20and some other 800 effort injuries.
22:24He sleeps in a hyperbaric chamber every night. This is a guy that's not getting paid
22:28LeBron money. I'm not
22:32overly concerned, but
22:36you'd like to have your guys. I just wonder if they'll try to say, let's get through this
22:40week if we can. We have seven more days to get AVT
22:44and Simpson and those guys ready with the bye week coming up here in two weeks.
22:48Got to get to five and six. You can't look too far into the future here with the rest of the season.
22:52In theory, because of the Cardinal defense and their lack of
22:56people on the defensive line, you should be able to get by
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24:12run your game. Now let's get to a game that I don't, quite frankly, want to spend a lot
24:16of time on because two teams that aren't very
24:20good. The 2-7 Patriots visit the 4-4 Chicago Bears. The Bears
24:24had a moment a few weeks ago. That moment has long since gone.
24:28They are having questions in the locker room.
24:32DJ Moore asked if Matt Eberfloos still had the room and he said, I want to say yes.
24:36I want to say yes. So what you're saying is there are
24:40guys in there who say no.
24:44First question, does Eberfloos get fired if the Patriots go to Chicago and
24:48beat the Bears? I'm going to say no. And I'm going to say no for this
24:52reason. I think this feels like
24:56the Bears have been patient and now is going to not be the time.
25:00They don't feel like... I think there's pressure to win because
25:04it's Chicago. There's always pressure to win. And maybe I'm wrong here. But this just
25:08feels like they're going to ride this out. They're going to go into the offseason and say
25:12unless they turn it around here and they get into the playoffs, they're going to say
25:16Matt, thank you. You got us through some tough times. You got this defense up to snuff.
25:20But maybe you'll get a defensive coordinator
25:24job in the next six weeks here.
25:28We're going to go after Ben Johnson with $25 million a year and we're going to take him from the Lions
25:32and he's going to go around with Caleb and this is going to be our thing.
25:36Whether that actually happens or not, who knows. Maybe it's a Liam Cohen or whoever
25:40it may be. But this feels like a...
25:44They should have fired him last year.
25:48He saved his job with a good second half.
25:52So did Adam Gase in year one with the Jets.
25:56But beating Mason Rudolph 13-10 should not save your job.
26:00But regardless, that's what I think will end up happening. I think
26:04people will view this and say the 0-18 stat...
26:08We didn't talk enough about it on Monday because there's other
26:12stuff going on. 0-18 on Sunday road games
26:16in your career is insanity. I don't know how that's even a
26:20possible stat. You think you just stumble into one.
26:24They tried to stumble into one in Washington
26:28in the 60-yard Hail Mary that didn't even reach the goal line.
26:32This game is... I'm very
26:36curious from a Patriots perspective. This is the second time now
26:40we talked about how they handle success.
26:44How do they handle that gut-wrenching, damn, we played well enough to win this football
26:48game. We felt good about ourselves. We had to come back on the last drive and we
26:52lose. Kind of felt a little Seattle game-ish.
26:56Very different games. Just the emotions of it.
27:00Do they look like the way they did against the Jets in week three where they got steamrolled?
27:04Or do they look like a team that they've kind of become where I feel like they're pretty
27:08competitive every week. If you lose because of talent, it is what it is.
27:12This Bears offensive line looks like poop
27:16to keep it PG.
27:20Caleb looks like he's gotten some really good habits and recently there
27:24are some really bad habits coming back. The Patriots could win this game. Whether they do,
27:28we'll see. The Bears have done well, I feel like, in that
27:32beat up on the not-so-good teams.
27:36Again, look competitive. Be nice for Patriots fans if they see them.
27:40Drake may look better than Caleb, but the Bears cannot afford to lose this one.
27:44They want any shot of making the playoffs. They got, what,
27:48five of the six division games coming up? If I'm not mistaken, they're all six? It's one of the two.
27:52Them and Pittsburgh have the weirdest schedules I've ever seen.
27:56They only play division games to finish the year. I'd fire you,
28:00tomorrow, but I don't run the Bears.
28:04We do the All-32 Podcast, so they don't want my opinion, unfortunately.
28:08I think Chicago's got to look at this like
28:12Tennessee did. The Patriots are your chance to be in the get-right game.
28:16Tennessee was playing horrible football, playing worse football than the Patriots. Obviously, the Patriots
28:20come off a win against the Jets. We didn't talk about this enough.
28:24In the Tennessee game, the Patriots came out flat. You're not good
28:28enough to come out with no energy. Mason Rudolph holds the ball for
28:32nine minutes. They go down the field and score. What is happening?
28:36Where's the urgency? This is a chance to
28:40stack. Obviously, Drake did his best to bring them back into the game.
28:44He's the only reason they were in the game at the end. Then, of course, the interception steals it
28:48for Tennessee.
28:52If Chicago has any heart and any
28:56if Everproof still has even the little bit of
29:00sway over that locker room, then this is a game where they see we can beat the Patriots
29:04and we can be back to 5-4. We can postpone the talk about
29:08firing the coach and the playoff thing is done for us.
29:12I have a question for you, quickly.
29:16If I told you right now, if I gave you the over-under
29:20of 1.5 for the Bears' wins remaining in the season,
29:24what would you say? Is that a crazy statement? I'm going to read you their schedule quickly.
29:28Patriots at home. Green Bay. Minnesota.
29:32At Detroit. At San Fran. At Minnesota. Home Detroit.
29:36Seattle. At Green Bay.
29:40I would say the over, but I say the over as in
29:44two. Yeah, as in two. They
29:48legitimately might end up starting
29:524-2 and finishing 5-12. It's not even that they're a
29:56bad team. They had to go
30:005-3
30:04and hope Minnesota wasn't good and hope Seattle's not good and
30:08New England's not good to get to 8-9 wins. Maybe I'm wrong.
30:12This feels like a team that's an arrow pointing up but finishes the
30:16year pretty bad. The Packers
30:20in Detroit and even Minnesota are very good.
30:24I don't know. I don't see a path for them unless they get hot here and Caleb starts looking
30:28awesome. They're just not well-coached enough for me.
30:32Shane Waldron, if you look at the offensive game film this week.
30:36JSN was like, he got another job?
30:40Good luck with that. Stop me if
30:44you've heard this before. It looks like for the ninth time in ten
30:48games, the Patriots are going to run a different offensive line out there.
30:52Mike Nwenu, who is a good right guard, a competent right tackle,
30:56has been lining up at left guard this week. Left guard has been a massive
31:00problem for the Patriots over the last three weeks. Michael Jordan, not the
31:04great Michael Jordan, but the journeyman offensive lineman who
31:08had a couple nice weeks there has regressed badly.
31:12It appears Nwenu's going to go to left guard. Laden Robinson,
31:16the rookie who started against Tennessee and had to be yanked because Jeffrey Simmons was eating
31:20his lunch, will be back at right guard.
31:24I was left with the thought that, did these guys know what they're
31:28doing? I'm not saying that this can't work because I think, obviously,
31:32they believe that Robinson has a chance to be part of their future.
31:36Obviously, they paid Nwenu good money. As they've told
31:40us, he's their best offensive lineman even though he's not having his best year.
31:44Just trying to find the right places and the right people in the right places.
31:48This reminds
31:52me of Belichick. He clearly didn't get it right at the end.
31:56He clearly deserved to go. One of the things that he used to insist upon
32:00and would rarely, rarely make a move like this is, I don't want
32:04to weaken another spot, a good spot, to try to salvage
32:08a different spot. He had to do it last year with Nwenu. He had to kick Nwenu out to right tackle
32:12because right tackle was an absolute dumpster fire. It's not like he
32:16hasn't done it, but for the better part of 20-something years, it's like, nope.
32:20Mike's a guard. He's staying at guard. He's a right guard. He's playing right guard. Nope.
32:24He's a center. He's not going anywhere else. Cross-training tackles. Nope.
32:28Matt Light's a left tackle. Not going to play him at right tackle. He's a left tackle. That's his
32:32position. I'm not messing around with anything else. That's where he stays. I think
32:36this group continues to just be like, close your eyes. Throw a dart. Oh, yeah.
32:40Sure. Let's try it. Then this week, there's a little bit of belly aching about, well,
32:44it's been hard to find the continuity and the consistency.
32:48Some of that is because of injury or bad performance. Some of that is
32:52because you guys keep just messing with it. Based on how they played
32:56against the Jets, where it wasn't a great running football game that day, but they
33:00passed protected as best they had all season long. That's the lineup they should have rolled
33:04into Tennessee, but they felt compelled to switch it again for that game.
33:08It's like a team with a batting order that's like, I don't know why we
33:12can't find a consistency. It's like, well, maybe just letting
33:16guys play 10, 12, 16 straight quarters
33:20in a row at one spot. Maybe they'd feel better.
33:24The roster isn't good enough, so this was going to be a problem, but
33:28man, just pick five and go with it. You've got to live with it.
33:32You're clearly in a year where you're rebuilding, and this is a multi-year process.
33:36You want to play the kid, play the kid. Play Layden Robinson, but just play him.
33:40I would have cross-trained him earlier, and he would have been the left guard three weeks ago, two weeks ago.
33:44When it was clear Michael Jordan was going in the wrong direction, and for whatever reason City
33:48was a starter last year, can't seem to get on the field this year,
33:52we drafted Layden. We started him at the beginning of the year.
33:56Layden, you're going to have to work at left guard because we've got no other option, but I'm not
34:00moving Mike. I'm not moving Mike. Leave him at right guard. That's his best position.
34:04Leave the guy at his best position. He's the one guy you should never move. No, bingo.
34:08Just don't do it. Very confusing to me.
34:12This staff has to show me a lot over the
34:16final eight games of the season. I hear all the excuses about the injuries
34:20and the roster construction, and look, some of that's not their fault. Obviously, Bill
34:24dismantled the roster. The roster was a mess. They inherited a mess, but
34:28they're sitting on $40 million worth of cap that they didn't spend. They re-signed a bunch
34:32of guys from a 4-13 team, calling them the core of their team. I didn't
34:36love that at the time. I said it. I wrote it. I got people yelled at me. What do you want them to do?
34:40I'm like, find some different guys. That's what I want you to do. You don't bring them all back. Even when
34:44you're good, you don't bring them all back. When you're bad, you definitely don't bring them all back.
34:48That's where they are. That's in part why they're a 2-7 football team.
34:52As I've said before, I'm not willing to write off the coaching staff,
34:56but to this point, none of them, OC, DC, Mayo
35:00have proven that they can do the job. Period. End of story.
35:04Let's go to, I think, other than the game we saw
35:08last night, conceivably the best game on the schedule, the 7-2
35:12Commanders hosting the 6-2 Steelers.
35:16You were talking about the weird schedule.
35:20They dug up this note. Pittsburgh will face a divisional opponent
35:24or a team with a winning record, at least as of right now, in each of their
35:28final nine games. It's been great. They've been better than
35:32expected, but now they're going to face the iron of their schedule and we'll see if
35:36they're capable. I guess my question to you is,
35:40it's only a two-game sample size. I know we both don't love
35:44Russell Wilson, but is Russell Wilson done enough to make you
35:48believe that they're going to be a playoff team and that he's unlocked some things
35:52offensively that they haven't been able to unlock for a couple years now?
35:56Yeah, I'm not. I think they'll be a playoff team
36:00because they've got some tiebreakers over teams that they can be competing
36:04with. Again, we'll see on the Cincinnati aspect. They obviously beat the Jets.
36:08That's a game that the Jets will be kicking themselves at the end
36:12of the year, that Denver. My things with Pittsburgh
36:16is this kind of felt like an 8-9, 9-8 team going into the year
36:20and I kind of still feel like maybe it's where they end up. I think
36:24they probably end up in the playoffs. Russ does some things that I think
36:28still translate and Pickens is a great fit for him because he likes to throw
36:32the football up. Mike Williams, who can't really move right now, but
36:36eventually maybe he gets healthy later on in the year
36:40down the stretch and maybe he can be an asset for them. I don't know if I would have given him a fifth
36:44and paid his salary.
36:48To me, this game is like Washington just has to keep pace
36:52right now because Philly is starting to look like Dallas.
36:56If you haven't been paying attention, the last month of Philly football
37:00has been their best since the Super Bowl season. They feel
37:04like they're figuring things out. They feel like they're back. If you're Washington,
37:08it would be a non-conference loss, but you've got Philly
37:12in a week on Thursday Night Football
37:16on the road. That's why if you're Pittsburgh, I feel like you're coming
37:20in here going, hey, it probably will feel like a 50-50 crowd
37:24for us. Can we steal one here with Washington
37:28looking ahead? I don't know that Washington will be looking
37:32ahead. It's a young team. They have some veterans, obviously, but
37:36they're playing well. I don't know defensively. I don't think this is a huge
37:40challenge for Russ. He's got to not turn the football over.
37:44That'll be big, but they should be able to run the football decently and keep this low
37:48scoring and play some good defense. You want to get Afrojean and
37:52stuff like that, but if you're Washington,
37:56this game and the two Eagles games is kind of
38:00sandwiched between three cupcakes. You're going, hey, can we steal one of these
38:04two and put ourselves at eight wins already knowing
38:08we got Dallas at home, Tennessee at home,
38:12New Orleans, Dallas again. Those are four wins. We feel like that's
38:16four wins right there. I don't know. They might be a 13-win team.
38:20They really might be, and Philly might also. I'm excited for this game.
38:24I don't think it'll be beautiful. It won't be the beautiful
38:28game. Pittsburgh doesn't play the beautiful game.
38:32If you're any team in the AFC, you're a huge Washington fan, no matter if you're
38:36a Ravens fan, Bengals, Jets, Colts, whatever it is.
38:40Broncos, you're heavy on the Jaden Daniels train.
38:44It just would be another marker for me for Washington to say, hey,
38:48this isn't a fluke. We're serious. It's another team with a winning
38:52record coming in here and getting the energy and excitement around the
38:56commanders. The commanders for now.
39:00Devin, again, if you're Pittsburgh, hey, kind of a house money game
39:04a little bit before you go to division play, but the way Baltimore is playing, at least
39:08offensively, knowing you got that whole division basically
39:12gauntlet coming up and the winning record stuff,
39:16I'd feel pretty pressed to try to go steal one here in Washington who's a good team.
39:20I'm not sure they're a 7-2 team, but they're a good team
39:24that I think both teams feel like they could win this football game.
39:28I wanted to just quickly, Russell Wilson, 264 yards and then 278
39:32yards passing in his two starts, three touchdowns, no picks, nine-point yard,
39:36five yards per attempt, which kind of speaks to the George Pickens
39:40of the Moonballs pushing it down the field. I wanted to read you a
39:44quote from Terry McLaurin this week who was
39:48asked, is it different? You feel different? And obviously the vibe has
39:52clearly been different in Washington between Jaden and then obviously Dan Quinn
39:56and just the whole thing, the ownership change, everything that's happened in the last year plus.
40:00And this is the piece of the quote I wanted to pull off Twitter.
40:04McLaurin said, practice during the week doesn't feel like work. I've been in situations where the week can feel
40:08such a grind and it's very tough on you mentally and physically. We get our work in here,
40:12but at the same time, there's such a purpose in the way we practice.
40:16I feel like we're always prepared for what's to come, and even when the defense does something or the offense
40:20does something a little different, our competitiveness and the way we're being
40:24trained each and every day allows us to rise to the occasion and be ready
40:28for whatever comes on Sunday. This is a team, and especially
40:32for the veterans like McLaurin, that has been desperate to find success
40:36and now that they're feeling it, there's this unbelievable sense of
40:40joy and of confidence. There's a belief
40:44that continues to get stacked week after week after week, and
40:48to your point, they're not a great team. The roster is not. The roster
40:52needs more work. They signed a lot of sort of veteran stopgap
40:56types, good players and not great players. They had to spend the money. Right, right.
41:00Which is the reverse of what the Patriots did, right? They went out and got some culture
41:04guys who, yeah, did we overpay Tyler Biotish?
41:08Yes, we did, but he's a good player for now, and we know what he's
41:12going to, Quinn having been around him in Dallas, we know what he's going to bring in the locker room.
41:16Dorrance Armstrong, that whole sort of thing.
41:20But yeah, right. He's not even the same. No shade, I'm just
41:24saying the tape the last two years has been. Right. He's not even close to the guy, but
41:28there is a presence about him, an understanding of what they
41:32need to do defensively, whether he can execute it himself is another story.
41:36Mike, you've been around teams here for a long time. Don't you feel like when you do sign
41:40these guys, and you've been around, don't you feel like them winning early on has kept
41:44them engaged, and it's not just a paycheck right now? Like the Eckler, Wagner,
41:48Ertz of the world, always has won titles, and they've been on
41:52like, don't you feel like this is, it's like gives you life?
41:56Yeah, because they didn't sign there. You can't tell me that Eckler, Ertz, those guys
42:00didn't sign there and thought, oh, we're going to be good this year. No, this is
42:04the best money that's out there, or yeah, this is a starting opportunity, and maybe I can
42:08parlay it into another, one more decent contract, even if it's
42:12for a year at their ages. And instead, you start to win early,
42:16you realize that the quarterback, he's been pretty special so far,
42:20and it's like a whole energy shift.
42:24They're banging out the building now. I've been to that place, it was three
42:28years ago, I think, where it was half
42:32full, and it was, of the half that was there, 75%
42:36were Patriots fans. You know, easy shuttle trip, bam, boom, you're in, you're out.
42:40You know, you got to see your team win by three touchdowns, like that's
42:44sort of what it's been like, and now they're talking this week about defending
42:48their field. You know the terrible towels are going to, like, no, we've got
42:52to show them that it's our place, this is our team, we're better than you. It's going to be hard
42:56to play here, and it hasn't been for years, so yeah, there's a whole different vibe
43:00to it, and it's kind of what's awesome about sports, right? There's a
43:04belief there that maybe shouldn't exist
43:08or they're not good enough to have it, but they have it
43:12and they're getting the results, which only lets the belief grow.
43:16Coach says this, I'm going to do what coach says, because it's working, right? He's doing this, I'm going to,
43:20like, I'll do it. You know what? I'll spend an extra hour studying film,
43:24because we could have a home playoff game. We could win the division. Like, there's all these things
43:28in play that certainly, when they got started back in
43:32April and May in OTAs and even during the summer months,
43:36we're like, you know, it'd be like if we win six or seven games, which I think is
43:40where we put them, right? And now we're talking about this disease.
43:44I would be, for them, and the way they played,
43:48I'd be disappointed if they don't make the playoffs.
43:52It would take an injury to Daniels or some sort of unforeseen collapse at this point
43:56for them to sort of crater and fall out of the playoff position.
44:00It's a cool story, and I'm really interested in it. I also want to throw one other sneaky little
44:04number at you. Did you know they're averaging
44:08164 yards on the ground? Third best running football team in the league, the Washington Commanders, only behind
44:12Philadelphia and Baltimore. Obviously, Daniels plays into that with his
44:16legs, but it's been Bryan Robinson and others contributing
44:20to Daniels stats. The home and away splits
44:24are a little funky. Only has two touchdowns at home, but obviously they play less games.
44:28Two really important stats for Jay and Daniels.
44:32In one-score games, they ended in one-score games, obviously, right?
44:3680 for 112,000, 15 yards, 71% completion,
44:401,000 plus yards, five touchdowns, no picks. Pretty damn good
44:44in one-score games. And then last two minutes of halves,
44:4821-26, 323, three touchdowns, no picks.
44:52So in one-score games, he's been really good and efficient, and in
44:56the end of halves, they've been really good and efficient. They will have to continue that, obviously, here through the
45:00stretch run to try to win that division. Let's hear from Game Time.
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46:24Game Time. Let's get to the last one that
46:28it's lacking a little juice for me. The record says it should have juice,
46:32but one team's just not playing the way that we thought they were capable of, and that's
46:36the Houston Texans who are playing the Lions. The Lions 7-1. Maybe
46:40the best football of anybody in the league, even though Kansas City, I know, is undefeated.
46:44Texans at 6-3. Texans coming off the mini-buy
46:48after they lost to the Jets. Nico Collins, as of Friday,
46:52has been designated to return from IR, although it doesn't feel
46:56like he's going to play this weekend. Feels like it's a little too soon as he's coming back off the four-week
47:00hamstring injury. The Texans
47:04thing is very interesting to me, and I heard, shout out to Chris
47:08Simms, the unbuttoned pod. I was listening to it this week on one of my
47:12700 walks with my dog, who was a royal pain in the ass this week.
47:16He was talking about, and we've been on this, you in particular,
47:20about how the Texans just, the record has been good,
47:24but they've not played good football, at least consistently
47:28good football. I was raving about them after they
47:32torched the Patriots by 20 points, but again, consider the opposition in that one.
47:36One of the things that Simms pointed out, and I think you're seeing the impact
47:40on C.J. Stroud in year two, is their pass protection
47:44has been poor. Very, very poor.
47:48He was talking about how they used the slide system,
47:52and Stroud is having to trust the offensive line
47:56and the Bobby Slowick system that they're accounting for the blitzes, and he has
48:00to say to himself, okay, well, we should pick this up. It's coming from the right side,
48:04and they slide to the left, because someone else sees it differently,
48:08and the next thing you know, he's looking up, and he's got someone bearing down on him that he thought they should have
48:12picked up, and there's been a lot of that happening, and there's also just been
48:16a degradation of the interior of that offensive line,
48:20where Scruggs is okay, but Shaq Mason's been below average.
48:24Both greens, whichever one you want to talk about, Kendrick or Kenyon, both have played
48:28poorly at the other guard position. You saw that
48:32most in personal with what the Jets were able to do to them.
48:36Quinn and Williams was in the backfield. Well, actually, they were all in the backfield, as they had
48:40eight sacks in that game, but I mean, CJ was, what, 11 for 32
48:44in that game? We're talking about one of the most accurate passers. His ball placement
48:48generally outstanding. Jets have now owned him back-to-back years,
48:52but I just wonder, and we've been on the Slowick thing, if
48:56teams have caught up to them, and now because of the way
49:00they're deciding to block it up front, and then some of the personnel they have up front,
49:04that this has become their, sort of, much like we talk about the Ravens,
49:08their, this could be the fatal flaw for this football team.
49:12Yeah. If you look at the Texans' schedule, this is very
49:16people think I'm being a loser for this.
49:20I wouldn't rush Nico Collins back this weekend. It's a non-conference game.
49:24It is a game that you cannot afford not to have Nico Collins, especially now without no digs
49:28for the rest of the year. Without now no digs. That was horrible English.
49:32After this game, they go to Dallas.
49:36No Dak Prescott. Everyone should steamroll Dallas at this point.
49:40Tennessee, Jacksonville, Miami. They don't play another game
49:44that you would be shocked that they didn't win until
49:48Kansas City, and then the Ravens on Christmas Day. This team,
49:52even if they lost their three games they aren't favored in, including Sunday afternoon,
49:56they'd still be an 11-win team that should coast to a division
50:00title and host a playoff game. Yeah, seating, you know, they probably would drop to maybe the four-seat as opposed
50:04to the three-seat, and we can have those discussions, and I'm not saying
50:08if Nico's healthy to play, you want to win this football game, get yourself back on track, but
50:12this is a team that's got a lot of injuries, mixed with some bad football, and it feels like
50:16I don't know that Detroit's the team I want to be playing right now when that's not happening.
50:20Now, that said, we said that about Tampa Bay early on in the year, and they went into
50:24Detroit, and they're the one team in the last two years I felt like
50:28that plays Detroit. It's like the Lions and Rams and the Bucks and the Rams. It's like
50:32the Bucks and the Lions having those receivers and stuff, and look at Nico
50:36and Dell and stuff are healthy. I would have loved to see these two teams fully healthy
50:40get it on on Sunday Night Football, but yeah, this feels like
50:44the Texans have got to be better. I don't need them to win this game.
50:48I need them to look like a 10- to 12-win football team,
50:52not a 6- or 7-win football team, and if you're Detroit,
50:56back inside, get out of the elements.
51:00I do wonder about the Stroud protection stuff.
51:04Chris did go to a level that I don't know. I have no idea if it's true or not
51:08that they don't teach C.J. protections. D.J. Bianame
51:12who covers the Texans said that's not true. Even still,
51:16if protections are at all an issue and you're playing poorly on the offensive side of the football,
51:20it's going to be a huge issue. I just want to see the Texans look like a team
51:24that should be a double-digit playoff team. I just don't feel
51:28like all year we've gotten that. We get it in spurts and these moments, but
51:32remember, this is a team last year, I believe, if I'm not mistaken,
51:36had no, outside of their scheduled primetime
51:40game, they were a 1 o'clock window, usually the C, D level,
51:44the Spiro, Adidas, Adam Marchaleta game. Their own
51:48primetime, a lot. Last week, this week,
51:52they were the CBS Maine 1 o'clock game.
51:56It's a much different schedule.
52:00They've got the same record, but they don't look as good.
52:04To me, for Detroit, this is house money. It's like,
52:08hey, we want to go on the road and national television again and go beat up a team
52:12that people think is really good. It's good for us, but let's just extend our lead.
52:16If you're Houston, again, you don't need this one, but you
52:20need to look like the Houston Texans, not like
52:24a couple years ago, Houston Texans. We thought those were
52:28far gone. If there's another 11 for 32
52:32and 8 sacks, press the
52:36panic button. It might be time
52:40to put the fries in the bag. Last week was tough.
52:44It was incredibly tough. It was a first-round pick, right?
52:48Not getting that level of play from him.
52:52I wanted to give you a little number, interesting one. Jared Goff
52:56targeting Amon Ross St. Brown. Since week 3,
53:0030 targets, 30 catches.
53:04A touchdown every week. At least one.
53:08It's the longest streak between a quarterback and either a wide receiver or tight end
53:12since, I think, 1991, I think the stat was.
53:16Insane. Just absolutely insane. He is so good.
53:20They get Jamison Williams back. Again, who knows where his head is at.
53:24It's generally not been in the right place, but obviously an explosive dude that has had
53:28some explosive plays for them over the last couple years, so it could just make a 7-1
53:32team better if they can get that guy absolutely locked in.
53:36Let's get to our prize picks. I have four for you.
53:40Three of them are going to be out of this Patriots-Bears game.
53:44DeAndre Swift, touchdowns.
53:48Take them all on the half a touchdown.
53:52Hunter Henry, who is the Drake May binky,
53:56more than 42.5 yards receiving. Drake May,
54:00look, Chicago's a good defense. Edmonds, real good player
54:04in the middle. Drake May, the number is 28.5.
54:08I'm going to take more on the rushing.
54:12He had 95 last week. I'm going to take more on that one, and then my
54:16one non-one, and the only reason that I will even peer in on the
54:20Germany football game is Malik Naber's more than 74.5
54:24receiving yards. I will echo you.
54:28Daniel Jones, more rushing yards, similar to the Drake May thought process.
54:32The Panthers stink.
54:36This is real. This game is...
54:40This is like a middle figure to the fans of Germany. I guess they don't know enough.
54:44We're giving you two crap teams. More on Daniel Jones' rushing yards.
54:48This guy's playing for his job week in, week out. Now if they don't win, he's going to
54:52have to run the football. That's how he was successful and got paid years ago.
54:56Excuse me. Sorry about that. Last, I'll go to
55:00here, both from the Rams game. Rams at Miami,
55:04or home against Miami. I'm going to go Kyron Williams, more
55:08two and a half catches. And I'm going to go Kyron Williams more
55:12in terms of rushing yards. I'm doing that because
55:16I feel like in order to beat Miami right now, you've got to just
55:20the easiest way to beat them is keep the football out of that offense's hands
55:24and just wear them down on defense. They're a team that I think if you get up on early,
55:28it could get late quickly. So I would go more
55:32pretty much on anything Kyron Williams related. I'm also going to go
55:36one last rogue one here. I've gone to this well before, so I'll
55:40go to it. I'll throw one Jeff's one in here. Devontae Adams
55:44more in terms of receptions.
55:48I think we saw something click last week in the second half.
55:52I can see Roderick really leaning on Tay.
55:56It seems like there was some type of meeting with Chris Johnson
56:00or some type of meeting about, hey, next year and stuff.
56:04It seems like Devontae's really enjoying being here. I'd expect a heavy dose of
56:08Devontae Adams in Arizona on Sunday.
56:12Those are your prize picks. He is Will Parkinson. I'm Mike Ciotti. Reminder to like,
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56:20this thing going in the right direction. Have a fantastic weekend, and we will see
56:24you on Monday as we recap what hopefully turns out to be a
56:28better games than it looks like
56:32there is on paper. We'll see.