🏈 Week 2 NFL Power Ranking, 49ers-Jets Recap 🏈 09.10.24

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that camera will just turn on and you'll all go hey where the hell did he go uh because I'll be in a Ruba with my new friends yes I also did get uh Hey tank what about that whole never lied to your audience thing we never lied we never I never lied we never said I said the announcement was going to be really hard and I didn't know what I was going to do without all of you I did not say who all of you was I was talking to the Florida state seminal players that's that's why this is often referred to on the radio side as the theater of the Mind ah it's just you open yourself up to some whimsy whimsy uh welcome into the sports ocy here on a power rankings Tuesday it is also reaction time from Monday Night Football last night the San Francisco 49ers taking down the New York Jets Jets Jets Jets and um Jeremy your uh were you as shocked by your defense as I was um shocked I will not say shocked I was disappointed I'm also not surprised that a guy that coached against this defense in every practice forc six years really knew how to manipulate it mhm uh I I can break a little bit of news of what happened last night with s Garner Kyle Shanahan basically was manipulating the Jets so virtually every time the offense lined up they were pushing Kyle yek out to the outside because the Jets play sides and it it got in sa's head of just let me follow Brandon iok around right and Robert Sol wouldn't do it which leads me to th this is not this is not a super chat but I'm going to treat it like one Andreas Pinkney Jeremy love you bro this needs to be said though Robert Salah is just Denis alling with a better PR team and I agree with you wholeheartedly Dennis Allen I agree with you wholeheartedly is he that bad Robert Salah is not a good NFL football coach he's just not you got obliterated last night in a game where talent for talent I think you're pretty even yep I really do I watched every second of it I was very disgusted last night I went back and watched uh some some things that I was little fuzzy on because you know by the third quarter the the boozes had taken over and I'm not going to overreact to what I saw you know what I saw last night I saw a good San Francisco team that really understood the defense they were playing and I saw an offense with Aaron Rogers that looked pretty solid in the little bit of time they had the ball yeah I was very shocked that there was there was no adjustment right they're beating you up on the edges and there was just no I don't know what to do you can't ran you can't run a fourman front on the goal line this is the kind of thing that you learn in JV football now if you're a Jet fan let me um give you a little bit of of this should make you feel a little warmer and fuzzier on on the old innards mhm uh in the next four weeks you play the Tennessee Titans the New England Patriots the Denver Broncos and the Sam darn L Minnesota Vikings and three of those are in New York so uh I think you're going to be just fine Aaron Rogers looked good which was honestly I said this last night I said on Facebook God I don't ask for much but I need number eight to be upright at 15 minutes on the clock in the first quarter y I need to be upright with zeros on the clock in the fourth quarter and that's what I got and he was I mean it was the second Monday Night Football game in a row that he started and did not finish which I did not expect and completely different results obviously the game was so out of hand that they went you know what game's over pulling Aaron yeah and and people that said well tyod Taylor looked better tell me you're an idiot without telling me you're an idiot slow down people the hatred is crazy there are just certain things that people say and I go oh you don't have a clue of what you're talking about sweet things like that are one of them the Jets are fine San Francisco's fine I was really impressed good for Jordan Mason I'd I've always heard that kid is like one of the nicest people you will meet in the NFL hard worker really respect in the locker room and you had a great game on Monday Night Football I was going to say I I came out of that feeling like San Francisco is more than fine I did not expect you to come out and be able to push around one of the best defenses and and schematically speaking as you said KY Shanahan was just toying with him you didn't have Christian mcaffrey last night and you didn't look like you really missed him all that much it wouldn't have changed anything that it was that is a systemic failure that I've had a problem with for years playing sides at this point the NFL is flat out stupid mhm because it's too easy to mess with it worked in 1995 when you didn't have 70% of offensive snaps with a motion player and then you've got a slot guy that's having to figure out who exactly am I supposed to be on here it doesn't work you have the Personnel to not do that that's a categoric failure by Robert Salah yeah now the hope is over the next four weeks you figure that out or guess what teams are going to do that to you you play the Houston Texans down the line uh they can do the exact same thing yep you play the Miami Dolphins down the line they can do the exact same thing so you better figure it out now here is where I will agree with Robert Salah last night he was asked a very basic question does this year's 0 and one start with Aaron Rogers feel better than the one and0 last year his answer was you know what unfortunately it does my answer is hell yeah it does and it ain't even close no doubt it's not even close because that offense did look good last night just didn't have the ball your defense let you down mhm but all of those things are correctable I'm not losing my mind about the Jets today I know a lot of people were texting my phone last night and frankly if I text you back and it was in a language that you don't understand I apologize drunk Jeremy speaks a language that I don't know I can't decipher it so but waking up this morning I'm fine I'm fine you got four winnable games if you winnable all four of them we're hunky dunky I came away last night thinking more positive about San Francisco than I did thinking negative about New York yes you have to figure out that defense but you were schematically getting beat and the fact that you held him to six field goals I feel like was that was at least you know it wasn't the worst right you could have give up five touchdowns instead of just two on those eight scoring drives well no doubt I mean the defense held up in the Red Zone it's just he KY shanan came out with a game plan that flat out the Jets didn't have the Personnel for it they stay in base way too much going up against that there was no there was no reaction to it from Salah um let's see Andrew aers in our YouTube chat said you can say the same thing about Robert he should know that Kyle offense to be honest with you the Kyle offense it changes every single year I mean what I saw last night that did not look like what I've seen from Kyle Shanahan in the past and I'm not trying to give Salah an excuse because you're absolutely right Kyle Shanahan's a better Coach than Robert Salah that that's not to me it's not even debatable right so you know I walk away from that that's a conference game loss a non-conference game loss yes you can make up for all the ills in the next four weeks this is not the time to jump off a cliff no doubt about it Aaron Rogers just completed his first NFL football game in two years and the offense looked together Garrett Wilson at times it felt like he just wanted to run up and hug Aaron and go oh my God this is what it's like to catch a pass and not die immediately afterwards running game was terrible but the line held up Aaron didn't get hit I I I don't know whatever reaction it is that I'm supposed to be doing today but I I'm you ain't going to get it from me well and that's good right that's exactly what we wanted because or or exactly what the Jets wanted because all you can do is overreact in that media Market oh no doubt and so if you could come away thinking that more Jet fans are on your side Jeremy of we're not really panicking about anything that's a win when you hold the ball for 21 minutes in an NFL football game you're going to get your brains beat up sorry the fact they Only outgained You by 140 yards is actually kind of a testament to the defense yes was I happy with what I saw last night no no they could have hurt your feelings MH and they didn't they they didn't I mean it wasn't close I I didn't walk away from it feeling hunky Dunkey I don't understand how a backup running back just bled you like a catfish I don't know I don't have answers to that but all of those things to me are fixable mhm you still have Quinn and Williams my big takeaway from last night you go to Assan reic and go hey you know you know we told you to have sexual relations with yourself on Thursday and we and we want to apologize for that because you shouldn't you or not do that you should we have a deal here that is everything you wanted and you should just sign right there mhm get him back on the field I think he's going to you need him to I've been hearing that's closer and I said it last week I heard it was so close that he might play in this game right I the the report came out over the weekend that he's willing to die on this hill that tells me people look at that the wrong way he ain't going to sit out the year it's not going to do it you're going to get an acred season that goes into retirements that goes into all kinds of things he ain't sitting up the year he's not doing it so I with him last night that would definitely have helped and mean you got Will McDonald out there who I outweigh by 70 pounds and they ran right at him yeah overreactions today for the New York Jets some of the overreactions there are oh my God here we go if it's not one thing it's it's another uh what Jeremy you were the were you the one that shared with me the video of the of the Jets fan beating the crap out of a dummy with the baseball bat because they came into last night going well we know the defense is good the offense is the question and then you came out of last night thinking exactly the opposite holy crap what happened to our top defense and now the offense is okay yeah Andrew AER said your o line Looks slow and old I don't know what line you were watching it didn't look that way at all to me Aaron Rogers could take that uniform he wore last night fold that bad boy up put it in the drawer and wear it next week MH the o line was not your if if you walked away from last night going the offense or Aaron Rogers was the problem I I don't really know what to do to help you because you missed that one by a lot and then the overreaction on the flip side for the San Francisco 49ers is here we go we're on the we're on the road to a Super Bowl and I don't know that they're wrong uh I don't think that's another reaction no based on what I saw from the NFC the Eagles were disappointing the Packers were disappointing I the the Lions and the Rams to me the Lions Rams and 49ers are the three best teams in the NFC and I'm not that's not even spicy at this point that's just what it is y That's like saying today's Tuesday it is Tuesday you I mean you can argue with that all you want to but you're just wrong well I Thanks for for giving away the giving away the secret there those are names that you're not going to hear on the power rankings anytime soon today uh it is a power rankings Tuesday we are preparing for the big trip this weekend uh we got word today that schedules are going to be flipped around we might be heading down to Columbia sooner than we thought um programming note Thursday or Friday night's bunam County High School football game of the week has now been moved to Thursday so you'll hear that on uh ESPN Asheville and on news radio 570 wwbc but hey that means I get a Friday night off and so of course Jeremy's not going to let me sleep in my own bed he wants to take me on the road earlier now well sorry we're going game day right right we got to be down at game day uh dark and early on Saturday morning tailgate experience for South Carolina and LSU the latest stop on the living the dream tour down in Columbia South Carolina yes ESPN's game day program will be there we'll be there to take in all the festivities see all of the crazy Gamecock fans I'm really excited because when when that fan base gets excited it's it's really is just a whole new a whole new kind of a world and I will say that is one of the teams that I'm considering now that I have officially entered my name into the 2024 uh NF or NCA football fan transfer transfer portal yeah I I I mean I'm not down to I think Hubert Queen asked earlier if i' made a decision I'm still weighing my options Tennessee put out a they they put on a a damn fine show um I still got to see Old Miss and we'll see South Carolina this week Memphis there are a few I'm looking at I was going to say what what what is our our our timeline here for making a decision and are you doing the full reveal college football 25 style of your top eight uh no doubt I feel like we should be doing that yeah tomorrow okay it's weird you you beat me to the punch of my own shtick yeah yes so tomorrow I will the schools that I've already said are definitives and no there's not going to be a Georgia or an Alabama I'm not hopping on a bandwagon mhm that's not the go and and I'm not going to come at this with the same ferocity I need to care I still love Florida State we're on the Ultimate Fan tailgate tour and I don't care about the outcomes of these games yep I need a reason to care living the dream tour continues in Colombia always uh a pleasure going on these trips I learn new things about Jeremy every time we get down there and uh I think this might be a whole new level of Rowdy we see him kicked up to this weekend as as we all know uh 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Tuesday bottom of the league we always start from the bottom and hour here number 32 this week the kitty cats you guys are terrible uh yeah worst team in the NFL at Carolina Panthers and I'm not actually sure it's close like if you played the New York Giants right now how bad would they beat you the Giants yeah who by the way secet that's 31 I I mean I'd put that spread at three uh and we're sending that game to Germany No doub we're playing that game but it's happening in Germany hey we remember World War II you budging this is yeah here we go final World War II punishment wow you get Panthers Giants okay uh yeah the Carolina Panthers are God awful it's I mean it's not real close either I don't think the New Orleans Saints are all that good and they made you look ridiculous I have a slightly different take on the Saints than you do but we'll we'll get into that when we get there I I I mean all right with Carolina and and then we'll move into the Giants yep name me a player that walked away from Sunday feeling like I did well I had a productive day I don't is there one I don't have one I don't have an ex example of anybody who should be feeling good about this situation Xavier leeet he got his he he got his first catch of his NFL career other than that I don't have one uh well it's just bad it's it's bad all the way around uh you got to that's a burn the tape game act like it didn't happen and I hope it's better in in week two right who do they play this week the Chargers oh I should we're going to that game I was about to say we're going to that game I should have known that we'll be in the building for that game Yik and it's not going to go well because they are going to run the ball down your throat uh yeah JK doin uh you want a you want a free fantasy play JK doin especially with Derrik Brown you're one of the worst Rush rushing defense in the league yeah dere right and Derrick Brown is now going to be gone so what do you do you all you got to do is just sit there and take it basically that's what you do Carolina's terrible and the New York Giants are a little better maybe but I don't know that it's all that great Jeremy you said you you thought that this might be a blowout if these two teams faced each other I'm not so sure it wouldn't come down to a final field goal uh if these two teams played do you know who loses us we Malik neighbors Malik neighbors loses I think he's already complained oh for sure he's he's already being asked what's the deal at some point he's going to have to turn around and go I can't throw it to myself you don't have a quarterback you don't have any stars other than one wide receiver congratulations you just got Mater by the Minnesota Vikings uh your secondary is terrible yeah I mean you got your secondary got eaten alive by the Minnesota Vikings good thing is you play Washington commanders this week and just tens of people should be at that game yeah there will be more but it it should that that's not the way that should go this is going to be one of their most winnable games for sure and that's saying something because you won't have to wait long to hear the commanders on this list uh correct number 30 the Denver Broncos B Knicks season he's not good I tried to tell you this he's not good he's not an NFL quarterback I never saw anything on tape that made me think he was and in a game that was infinitely winnable because the Seattle Seahawks were just in the words of Bobby Bowen dadgum terrible you still couldn't do anything I I don't I I don't know what Shawn Peyton's doing you've got Pat are T and nothing else there's nothing else on this roster that makes me feel good Javonte Williams I heard some chatter about him having a positive week I mean uh 59 running back do that make you feel good 59 running backs were graded by PFF this week he finished 51st 51 51st really yeah I would if that's what made you feel good you are scraping the bottom of the barrel it's the only guy that I really saw compliments about and again should tell you everything you need to know uh Denver donkeys in our YouTube comments said I think I was being optimistic when I predicted a six- win season I would agree with that CU I don't think we've hit a six- win team yet uh we have our first Super Chat of the day okay that's from our buddy soring eag all right uh he said hey Sean did uh Marvin Jones or Marvin Mims say something horrible little little hate speech or something because why is he not playing I don't know I do not have a good answer to that I do not know how he looked around and went you know what in terms of snaps we want Marvin Mims to be fourth because they'll never think that's coming MH we want to play uh uh Devon Veil they'll never see it coming hit them where it hurts Shawn Payton's just too smart he's just too smart for the rest of he sure he definitely thinks he I I I I don't believe that he is but he certainly believes he certainly thinks to be honest with you I I I want to hug Bronco fans you deserve so much better than this and you got sold a bill of goods by a snake oil salesman and now you're stuck and you did it twice you got it from disingenuous Russ disingenuous Russ there we go there there it is there it is let's go and then a year later you got Shawn Payton you got got by the Kirby cleaner salesman and the Jehovah's Witnesses in back to back years well who is George Payton in this scenario cuz I feel like he's he's he's got a lot of a lot on his shoulders as well Al Bundy is The Only Name he's just sitting in the couch with his hand in his drawers like I just hate everything look what I've built you know I scored five touchdowns in a state playoff game p going do you know that do you remember when I used to be a promising GM in this leag cuz that that's gone out the window oh yeah he'll be he's going to be somebody's VP of scouting or something in the year number 29 and this is by just the thinnest of margins the Washington commanders that defense is horrifically bad that defense is so bad that you convinced Mike Florio to put the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 6 and tell people to stop sleeping on them do you realize how bad you have to snow somebody for them to think the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the six yeah but it's Mike Florio you know I mean come on this this guy was all over Baker Mayfield when he was in Oklahoma oh yeah he's a gamer they probably took his uh his phone book that he was sitting on he didn't say the top half of the screen just oh Baker Baker Mayfield looked like an MVP candidate against that defense I can't tell you he didn't what that means is that for the rest of the year when I go to DraftKings him going be who plays the Washington commanders Daniel Jones oh crap oh wait I got to pay off for you now but hey you know what end of September maybe Joe burrow is worth a little bit and he's gonna have a just a fine day no doubt Kyler Murray the next week it's just it's going to be bad for Washington Commander fans you got promise in that quarterback there's things to like but you got to find something on defense that can guard somebody and you don't have one of those yeah it's uh it's those four teams you are so far behind the rest of the of the league that it's pitiful MH if I could find a uh if I could find a prop right now on these will be the four teams picking in the top four next year what kind of odds you think I could get on that I bet that number would be pretty interesting minus 175 you think so I mean if you're not picking them in order now this like a horse race and you think you can try effect of those bad boys yeah yeah he might have a shot especially if you're willing to not have picking first mhm I don't think there's anybody that would that that has an IQ above salad dressing that wouldn't have the Carolina Panthers getting the number one pick next year I I will say those are the four teams that I believe will be picking uh one two three four yes you're in the sports oy 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oh you were gonna go you're oh yeah I I'm there to drive this year this week I got you Dale's pale's looking pretty slick bro uh yeah the Sam Sandstorm is going to be fun lots of opportunities for tank to dance this week oh god oh I'm certainly drinking now ah you love my moves um we are in the midst of I am GNA find the oh I have a plan I got a plan tank you're going to regret you said that the uh week two power rankings here I also had to figure out a good torture ticket for you after after losing our torture ticket this week it's a good time to bring that up since uh one of those teams in the torture ticket is up next in the week two sports Ury NFL Power Rankings at number 28 the Las Vegas Raiders how's uh how's that does that make you feel good after they uh lost to the Chargers I don't okay we talked about the Raiders way more probably than we should have when we were doing this this morning we should live stream us setting the power rankings I thought about this after yeah because the rationale is really good when you hear some of this you convince me you didn't look good at all you can't run to save your life it's all on Gardner muu and this week you get the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore and and and just that statement of it's all on Gardner menu I don't know that I've heard less encouraging words about an NFL team since the this is Bryce Young's team I'm not saying that he's that bad cuz he's not Gardner is Gardner is good he's good at football he's never going to be great he's never going to be any more than that you know what one day he might even have a Pro Bowl right Tyler Huntley got one at some point Gardner menu may get one but but you're NE you're never going to be that guy you're not a franchise guy gu and I don't think you have that in you it was my number one concern with this team was what are you going to get out of the quarterback quarterback I don't think that's your problem right now I don't know I don't know that your coaching's any good I it it was certainly not good Sunday you got obliterated by Jim Harbaugh and the sad thing is that game was close that was where I was headed with this I don't think the Raiders are this bad I also don't think the Chargers are that good and that was the trade-off was that the Raiders wound up here and I didn't let Tank go kooky Muki on the Chargers because he wanted to and I said no I'm not that crazy about the Chargers maybe a little higher on them than you are but the Las Vegas Raiders certainly had did not surprise me I've always had this problem a gross game I've always had this problem with this team there's going to be a let down can they get better sure but right now they're not good the problem not the talent right that's that's where I've always pushed back that team is better talent-wise than this mhm but you didn't play it and until you do I I can't have you much higher than this here's here's my thing on the Raiders that that team is good they're not a good team like you have good members of the team but you're just sometimes you can pull it together you pulled it together last year despite challenges and they probably will at some point this season but for right now bottom of the league or at least bottom five in the NFL the surprise of the weekend came from number 27 the New England Patriots I let's be real clear here I still don't think you're any good you got a warm and fuzzy win Christian Gonzalez is a dog have you seen the stat lines he's held Elite receivers to no it's insane a a patriot beat writer tweeted it out and I went back and F fact checked it it's right I we're talking less than 40 yards to like Jamar Chase Tyreek Hill Garrett Wilson he is insanely good the problem is that you're going to come up against a team that can score on you and raand by himself is not going to be enough he's just not but I do think you have the tenants of a really good defense you've got the start of a good competent offense it's just a question of when do you start getting Reps for Drake because that's I mean that's the long term we all know that how much has changed in the transition from Bill bich to gerro Mayo because that was very that was very Bill bichan what I saw on Sunday there's a very hyped team coming in here and or or or we're going in to take on a very hyped team and we're just going to come out and we're going to punch them in the mouth play solid football take care of the ball and see what happens you want to know the number one reason Patriot fans should be at least a little excited about what they saw was how many times did jacobe brassette get sacked on Sunday oh was it zero it was once for one yard nice that was my biggest drawback that was why you don't start Drake May it's cuz I'm scared to put him behind that that offensive line they held up just fine yep New England Patriots coming in at number 27 number 26 the Tennesse Titans um I'm not ready to say you have a quarterback problem but I am ready to say that you're 0 and one because of your quarterback mhm what did you see out of your mayonnaise drinking boyfriend the the defense did everything you needed him to do the offense beat you MH the special teams beat you and to me a lot of that is fixable I I do hate to relay the the the bad Tidings that your home opener opener is this Sunday against the New York Jets and you don't have the Personnel to do what San Francisco did so I have not seen the line on that yet but I'm GNA bet it's significant significant I'm GNA bet it's a big old big uh look chance minus four uh yep give it to me he wants to me right now he wants all of it I mean if you're looking for the Silver Lining defense was good Tony paard had a decent game you know you've got a piece there you know you've got weapons the problem is going to be the quarterback I feel like Brian Callahan S no matter how much you like a coach they have to learn how to be a head coach and I feel like he got a really good lesson in that on Sunday you have to be careful with young quarterbacks the the leas that you give them you're up 17 to what was it 17 to10 when he throws that well no when he threw the first interception you're up 17-10 the one that actually beat you it was just a bad read by Levis and you gota you got to kind of put the Reigns on him you have a defense that's good enough to win game 17- 10 problem is you gave up two touchdowns special teams and and with your offense yep I think the Titans are fine you held the Bears to 148 yards that's hard to do in the NFL mhm weird things happen in the NFL all the time you're going to have weird freaky plays you know balls uh you know passes bouncing off dude's helmets and you know the Defenders picking it up running it in for a touchdown you're going to have weird things like that happen the problem is is are you good enough to sustain are you good enough to bounce back when the weird stuff happens and that's what Tennessee showed on Sunday was that they're not they're not there yet we're not good enough to beat a team that can't move the ball against us which is a major major problem so Tennessee you got you got problems with your quarterback man you got a good defense speak speaking speaking of problems with quarterbacks our team at number 25 also has a major problem the Atlanta Falcons I did not think that that was the case I did not either um but it seems to be a problem but woo buddy did you look just downright genuinely awful against the Pittsburgh Steelers your biggest takeaway from that was what because I don't think we're going to agree on this my biggest takeaway was that it just looked so clunky it looked so Atlanta falcony of like this is the first time we've ever done this before it's when you say it you're not being specific what are you talking about I'm talking about running that offense so the offense on the whole pretty much CU it just didn't look like anything was clicking and then when I read L you know this I'm not the X's and O's guy but then when I read after this after this game that Kirk Cousins was for the majority of the game running a formation that he had run like 10 plays of his entire career I'm thinking maybe this is a problem there was a fit there was a scheme mixup here you brought a quarterback in that can't run your system and that seems like a problem that's kind of where I'm at okay but my my problem wasn't with Kirk Kirk and Aaron Rogers came back from injuries that are tough for a 25y old to come back from you get somebody that's in their late 30s early 40s I was impressed by Aaron I was in no way impressed by Kirk Cousins but I'm not sure that that's not going to get better as time goes on here's my fear how in the world did you not get Drake London or Kyle pittz Even kind of involved in this offense it was pitiful against a team that has small Corners you couldn't get either one of them you couldn't even generate a touch almost again it's like it's it's willful remember last year with bejon Robinson how we complained about Arthur Smith and he's not using him properly he's not on the field near enough the guy still had an amazing season despite the fact that he played half the snaps now if you want a reason to be excited bejon Robinson gave you a reason to be excited he did a little bit of everything it wasn't enough for you to get a win because Pitts are Pittsburgh basically looked at bean and said all right you're not running between the tackles out in space there's not a whole lot we can do about that but we can keep you from hitting big ones he was a great allaround running back on Su M the problem is that nobody else was Drake London didn't do his part KY Pitts didn't do his part Zack Robinson didn't do his part to get them the ball and now your reward is you get the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday Night Football which is not going to be fun - I don't think it is at all because that's a team that is very well equipped to dealing with you mhm and I'm I just I know you kind of rolled your eyes at me yesterday when I said this pinex thing is going to get loud MH it's going to get loud you mark my words it's going to get loud well it definitely is going to get loud if your offense can't move the ball at all and Kurt Cousins has 155 yards again Kurt Cousins is just like and I can't what is it ambrosia salad isn't that that weird thing it's got like Jell-O and marshmallow fluff in it yeah which is disgusting of you would you're God you're disgusting do you hate your tongue like you look at the mirror and go I'm going to do all how do you not like that stuff it's it's it's like whipped cream and and and and uh fruit I don't like whipped cream first of all which is strange I don't like whipped cream I don't need a little hat for my for my things just give me ice cream give me fruit M it doesn't need an an ordainment okay okay I disagree I think life is better when you're ordained and I think Adam black would would back me up on that I knew Andrew a said Kurt Cousins had to stay in pistol or shotgun because they didn't really trust the leg and and and and if and if that's the case then you know we're trying to protect him and we're but and at that point we're just trying to get through this game and maybe that is the case right that pass rush we did not want them destroying our entire season so we decided we had to do this but you gave the game away doing it but here's my question if he's that hurt then why is Michael right why the hell are you playing him unless Michael pennix is terrible took him at eight if he's terrible and you already know that you're in bad shape or there's also we don't want to get the fan base riled up cuz God forbid what happens if we go you know what Kirk's not ready right now and then they come out and they score 35 points in the first game of the season against the Pittsburgh Steelers and went well they got into the back field they took advantage of the offensive line but look how mobile Michael penx was throwing on the run and then what are you going to do now you've completely wasted $100 million because now I have to stick with Michael pinnick because the fan base will kill me if I don't I'm not saying that would have happened I'm just wondering if that ever went through their minds of well he's a little banged up but we can't unleash this Beast just yet we got to get something out of this hundred million doll horse uh I do want to touch on a couple things that have happened in the YouTube chat okay uh James Potter said on Sunday before game start every year my dad sends me his official apology for turning me into a Washington commanders fan I feel like my Dad should do that for the Jets I'm just I'm sorry I'm sorry boy that I did this to you you're horse on a Tuesday because we pull for the Jets that's what you do did you see the video I sent you from barol of the guy in the Rogers Jersey that is just wearing out his punching bag baseball bat yeah I said that earlier you weren listening no you're I don't listen I only listen when you say smart things which is why I'm over here like just stay in the win um I had to get that comment in there yes yes yes yes so so we have confirmed now Jeremy was the one that sent me that video um oh is that what you were talking about I was I I was playing Tetris in my head I'm not gonna lie and squirrel uh Power Rankings rolling on here week two in the sports occy number 24 the Arizona Cardinals did you what' you pull away from that game they're not bad what did I pull away from that game exactly what we told you about Arizona going into the season man they're going to be really annoying and they are going to make good teams look bad but at some point you just run out of horses mhm and that's what happens against Buffalo how many I was impressed out of with what I saw yeah and how many times did they do that to teams last year is right where a lot towards the end oh that's what I'm saying when Kyler Murray came back and they started to get you know a little cohesion going with Kyler getting into a Groove and they're starting to build that identity into what they're going to be this year now you've added a superstar wide receiver to it you're you're gonna be just fine and you're gonna sneak up on some teams not so sure one of those teams is going to be the Rams of the Lions which are going to be the next two games that you face or the next two teams that you face pretty sure you're you're you're staring at an 0 and three start but how good is that going to look right how close can you keep those games is going to be the interesting part to me well I mean you have to look at the fact that you almost beat the Buffalo Bills in Orchard Park week one and Marvin Harrison Jr was an absolute afterthought he had three targets one catch for what four yards tresner and our YouTube chat asked is it time to panic on mhj I would say no how can you panic after one game well because he wasn't involved in the offense that's that part was odd to me okay I get trying to ease a guy in and not put the whole workload on him that's one thing when you're when it leads to heavy Target share for Greg dorch that's a little odd to me but how well was he covered and I like Greg dorch don't get me wrong right did he have the space was he getting separation these are the things that I'm literally asking I have no idea like was he just blanketed and they couldn't get him involved or was it a willful we're not going to give him the snaps we're not going to give him the target he wasn't open he I whether that's on him whether it's on the scheme whether it's on Buffalo one game is kind of a difficult sample size it was his first game in the league I think he's going to get better and buffalo definitely had a concerted effort of he ain't beating us yep it ain't going to be him that beats us y we can deal with James Conor we can deal with Kyler Murray Arizona's just going to be a fly in your ointment all year and you said oh it's not going to be the next two weeks against who the Rams the Rams and the Lions don't be shocked if those games are closer than you think I was very vocal that Cardinals plus six and I have was my favorite wager of this week yeah guess what they didn't win they did Cover and I won't be shocked if they do it again I was going to say you think it'll be another big spread next week they will they will get a little bit more respect it's still early in the season so you get a lot of tighter lines the active line in that game is okay then guess the line Rams at the Cardinals eight and a half Rams minus 8 and a half too high oh is it less than a touchdown down 5 and 1/2 too high four and A2 too high three and A2 too high two and too high stop it is that like one and a half too high is a pick them too high wait a minute Arizona's a two-point favorite are you Arizon is a two-point favorite right now for why I with I I I don't I don't know I mean at home against the Rams who are not going to 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more powder in those things he couldn't take any more disappointment oh my God the Jets killed [Music] him welcome back in to the sports accuracy on ESPN Asheville 92.9 FM 880 a.m. and 1400 the sports Ur heard everywhere you go on the iHeart Radio App we're seen everywhere on YouTube just go to the sports oy.com click the live video link subscribe to the channel and that way you can join us in the chat for this power rankings Tuesday one day I want to trade positions with you and I want to make you chase me around on camera oh did I move uh yeah I mean you do every single time do I need to do I need to move this way you need to get it's the first time anybody's ever told you this you need to get shorter am I too tall somehow your chair did did my computer move you had you you moved to my computer to to get your straw or whatever out of the maybe I we'll fix it it's all fine you can watch us on the YouTubes and all of our wacky camera angles uh there's no we unless you got a squirrel in your pocket there is no we just blame it on me always stays the same blame it on me it's fun yeah there you go um the week 2 NFL Power Rankings continuing here in the sports ocracy and number 23 is where we're at and uh look the uh Jeremy's little boyfriend comes in at number 23 go ahead the fighting Sam darolds of the Minnesota Vikings H he's been waiting for a long time for Sam darnold to actually give him something to cheer about and you got it and Minnesota fans you can enjoy it but but for how long can you enjoy it is my question because you you started out against the Giants and you win 10 28 to6 you look you looked good against one of the worst teams in the league congratulations over the next seven weeks nine weeks I'm not sure if there's a win in there for you but but first things first we're one and0 hey that's what legitimately matters is that you won a football game and Sam darnold as I told you is not going to be the problem now what might be the problem is that your defense is just not very good well that's never been questioned I mean it helped that you started with Daniel Jones but this week you get B little block py and that offense just annihilated the Jets uhhuh that's only a six-point line which seems crazy yeah especially after you beat them last year and I feel like they remember that oh they did that's right I'm not one of those they owe you one kind of guys but in this situation I kind of am kind of feel like they like they owe you something but Sam darnold was really really good and that was without Justin Jefferson being the guy you got a jayen Naylor touchdown this week let's go I saw surprise Jaylen Naylor when he scored that was the point where I went yeah DraftKings just uh it's not going it's not going my way this week this is not going to be a Jeremy week this is going to be I complain always always I always love the dart throws we there should be like a dart throw pool game where you you have to pick a guy we should do that on Fridays yeah where you have to pick a guy who averages 0.8 points uh fantasy points for his career who's that who's the scorer going to be this week oh what do we call that that feels like a new segment I I keep sh in the dark I keep trying to think of something with your hobo Rock I can't believe how much another man's trash is another man's treasure that's a good one that's a good one okay all right we'll work we'll we'll we'll keep thinking about it but yes I'm pretty sure I would have never gotten to jail and Naylor no most definitely not Minnesota Vikings congratulations the next eight weeks are going to hurt your feelings you any point list off who they play cuz I just saw the full list the 49ers the 49ers the Texans the Packers the Jets the Lions the Rams those are your next games and then the Colts and the Jaguars and the Titans and the bears it lightens up there's no doubt it lightens up well I was more talking about the defense of the Titans and then you play the Bears that is that is also a fact I'm just saying as as a whole you know the schedule kind of lightens up for the teams but that is a brutal stretch of going Niners Texans Packers Jets Lions Rams good luck I wouldn't like the Eagles against that schedule not saying that they would go over like the Minnesota Vikings are getting ready to but still not what you wanted in the schedule making at number 22 the Seattle Seahawks did you pull away anything uh positive from their performance this weekend oh oh I did pull a couple things away from their performance and number one was that Gino Smith absolutely unequivocally [Music] I couldn't tell you how many times I went you know if Sam how was in this game I think they'd be up by three scores because goo Smith can't help it he holds on to the ball too long over and over and over and over and over again he's always late Kenny Walker's pretty good though GF Smith is the mid-30s girlfriend of the NFL he is always late doesn't matter what you're going to doesn't matter how much time you gave him always late mhm they can run the ball can they stop Elite teams is going to be the question okay so you said they can run the ball yes they can run the ball but for why did you say that what that you saw on on Sunday makes you go yeah I mean Kenny Walker had 103 yards against the [Music] Broncos there were two 20 plus yard runs in that game okay for the rest of the he was absolutely stifled for probably three quarters of that game against the Bronco that actually scared me more than anything really now if you're a if you're a Kenny Walker owner in fantasy football what should make you feel good is that Zach charbonnet was considerably worse I only say his name correctly when he's good I know his shonet I don't care it's Shar Bonnet when you a when you average one and a half yards a carry most people are one yard are two yards tall right which means if you went right over the old belsky and fell down that's a yard he did only fractionally better than that M hey came out you won a close game congratulations problem is you did that against one of the worst teams in the league you also gave up two safeties which is that's that's one of those things I went back and looked at all the teams that have done that you know what they all had in common they're all bad MH most of them real bad well I mean you you have to give credit to to Denver right for putting them in that position cuz there was there was one great uh uh Fielding of the punt where they were able to pin him down at the one yard line oh Riley Dixon stuck him inside the 24 times yeah Riley Dixon was the MVP of the Denver Broncos this weekend you're right right I mean you give special teams credit where credits due Denver did well pinning them back there you just can't come up with stupid penalties the first safety was a hold in the end zone yeah the second one was just complete y'all forgot to block that guy hey Riley Dixon scored the Denver Broncos uh four points and Bo Nicks scored him six so good for Riley Dixon I I don't bu I the Seattle thing just looks really clunky to me and and it may get better over time I like Mike McDonald a lot but it didn't start well next week you couldn't or or on Sunday you couldn't pay me enough to sit down and watch every snap of the Seahawks against the Patriots oh we got a good one uh hit the uh Super Chat button yeah Matthew Hoffman the pickham segment has to be called Zero to Hero which DraftKings nobody can win you the week could do it as a daily draft also that's I love it I I the marketing mind of some of the listeners of the show Matthew Hoffman that's as a matter of fact I found my bell yeah I've yeah you know where I found it where behind my computer I think it's been there for about four months it may it may have been um all right Zero to Hero that's what we're going to call that and I've already got a couple of ideas for some sponsors we need to call for thing so let's go thank you Matthew Hoffman we appreciate oh I know one of I know one of them that you're thinking of yeah I mean I'm not going to say it but I know exactly yeah um let's see here at number 21 this week in the week 2 NFL Power Rankings the Indianapolis Colts Anthony Richardson is what after week one exactly what he was going into this week okay he can make a special play Anthony Richardson is the definition of that term that I that I have used about quarterbacks in the draft of you can make the impossible look simple and you can make the the mundane look absolutely impossible at times Anthony Richardson was fine but you have a better assessment I I he looked like uh like I've always expected he would as you said you're going to have some big plays in there but the consistency is not going to be there you're going to sway Everybody by scoring big flashy touchdowns that rope that he threw 70 yards let's go he has a hoer he that was awesome and we saw him do that several times at Florida the problem is the other 12 passes that you missed on yeah that's and this is this is what you get with Anthony Richardson he completed a 60 yard pass a 54 yard pass another one that was somewhere like in the 40s mhm outside that he had like 40 yards the entire game right I that's that's not how you play quarterback in the NFL and I just I I walked away from that going that game was winnable you had Houston that basically leaned into Joe Mixon it didn't always look great I told you on Nico Collins I tried to tell you whoever the Zone beater is for every team that plays the Indianapolis Colts you should play them every single week I didn't much right this week but I got that right six catches 117 good should have scored a touchdown but he didn't cuz we had to give it to Stefon digs I don't know why and neither do you I thought it was a statement that they were in the game with Houston that's a team that did you think that was going to be a blowout I didn't think it was going to be a blowout but I thought it would be quite comfortable does that make any sense like I didn't think they were going to come out and smoke them by three touchdowns but I thought it'd be in hand you wouldn't there would never be a question of who's going to win this game it went almost exactly how I thought it was going to go okay because that's how AFC South games go that is one of the most ridiculously competitive divisions no matter how good or bad a team is but Anthony Richardson's just like Matt Penn said like a couple other people said he's super Boomer bust yes he will do special things and then there are other times that he couldn't hit the broadside of the ocean which for me would be infuriating men furiating I like that one I was I was going to say maddening I like men furiating better men furiating sounds like something that happens to your wife once a month that's that's where my head was at not going to lie oh y'all are y'all are sick they're just big dumb Bears crazy crazy big dumb bear folks wow you're in 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times do you think he can have a workload that significant and hold up to it well I mean he only had what 10 carries so that's not that's not a great big workload so I would say maybe I was talking about I was talking about the snap percentage which was pretty high maybe I don't have it in front of me but I can pull it maybe three or four times he could have a uh a decent game like this J has always he's always been an incredibly talented guy the problem is the injuries he never sticks around for long that's always been his problem and hey if the thing that would scare me to death if I was a Chargers fan is exactly what I told you going into this game I've never seen Jim Harbaugh be a pass happy guy and you threw it 26 times with Justin Herbert that's not sustainable that's the best player on your team and it's not really all that close if I was going to throw it with him though I'd want him to have some targets he's going to be limited by that all year long your personnel just dictates that he's not throwing this thing 40 times a game the only starting quarterbacks in the league that threw fewer times in Justin Herbert were Gino Smith jacobe brassette Sam darnold Jaden Daniels Derek Carr Josh Allen which is the one that shocked me but he ran it a lot Justin Fields Aaron Rogers Trevor Lawrence and Anthony Richardson that was it that doesn't make any sense to me I don't care who he's throwing to right I don't care if he's throwing to the the sales staff of iHeart Asheville I don't care Jessica's got that height though you she is a Red Zone monster no and TL's got the hands for sure yeah no doubt about it that I wouldn't want to mess with that crew no I don't I no nope it this is but it I don't think this is going to be flashy right you're not getting highflying press the ball down the field offense we knew this I don't need you to be high flat I'm not saying this needs to be 50 passes a game okay I'm saying you won a game congratulations and Greg Roman has already managed to scare the Heber jeers out of me if I'm a Chargers fan well my biggest problem with the Chargers is I'm I don't feel like I'm going to know for a few weeks who this team really is because they just beat the Raiders and you all know how I feel about them now they got the Panthers at Bank of America Stadium this weekend they could win that game 800 to nothing and I still would go yeah the Panthers suck though like it's nothing's really going to be proven to me that you can beat the Raiders and the Panthers Maybe by week three I'm feeling a little bit better more sure about the Steelers that maybe that game going on the road winning that game might be a statement you win a game in Pittsburgh on the road I don't care whe where they are mhm that will help I just I don't think what I saw Sunday is sustainable and it's going to bite you eventually right number 19 the other W the Jacksonville Jaguars man you know if we played 30 minute NFL football games you would have gone up so high this week we don't no you got to finish games you got to figure out a way not to lose the big lead and we we've we we've seen this team do this too many times my biggest plus out of this week was tank bsby he is come he is coming on with a Vengeance and now now that you can add in the wrinkle or you should be douge you should be adding in the wrinkle of maybe we should split these carries maybe we make Travis etn just the you know more of the passing back and then we are going to just hurt your feelings with tank tank bsby was Fant he was great at one point in a game he was averaging like 12 car 12 yards a carry that came back to the to the mean throughout the game but still I mean guy had a great uh breakout week I think he should be on everybody's waiver wire this week no doubt and he's going to get much more of the share than Travis etn won wants him to I would agree with that etn scared me all off season long and I didn't know it was because of tank bsby but now that's a thing I know but I mean you just let this game slip right through your fingers MH and Travis ATN fumbles at the one yard line or this is we're probably not talking about this and we're probably looking at Jacksonville going hey hey and we're asking some big questions about the Miami Dolphins I asking those anyway well we do well yes I mean you have to ask the questions but had they lost this game obviously it would have been much different here's my well I'll ask those questions when we get to Miami yeah Jacksonville coming in at number 19 number 18 the New Orleans Saints this is one that I had a problem with or not really a problem with we just we got to this point and I went are we overvaluing New Orleans because they beat the snot out of the Panthers you just hate Derek Carr I don't hate you hate the Raiders you hate the Saints you're a Derek Carr hater he is maddeningly inconsistent and that's why I dislike Derek Carr see to me Derek Carr is maddeningly consistent in that he's just not awesome all right what's your what's your so you think this is too high is what your I name me the team behind them that you would put them in front I don't really have a great one there you go but I don't know that I I don't know they're not Head and Shoulders above anybody in this no like they face anybody behind them going all the way back to the Tennessee Titans and I feel like that's a coin flip game when the New Orleans Saints are involved I'm looking at the in so I have the entire week two power rankings in front of me yes I trust the top six teams a good bit yes from seven to 26 I don't trust you as far as I can throw you it's just a lot still to figure out but you you have at least a modum of an upside and then you get the bottom six that I just go oh boy you're bad you're I you'll win some games but you didn't mean to no New Orleans is is is a team that if they can if they can come out with that with that same little chip on their shoulder cuz there definitely was a chip there of we have so many naysayers people say our coach is not good we know that they hear all this stuff oh for sure and they came out and mashed a lesser team which is what good teams should do you'll know you'll know more about New Orleans this week yes they go to Dallas and I feel like we're going to learn something about both of them those teams this week that a shootout game I really don't think so I don't know what Vegas has the over under on that game set at but I'm incredibly curious I mean I I would imagine that it would be up there 49 is 49 and a half 45 and a half 45 and a half and I'll take the under really I will okay that has I want to see if New Orleans can win a game like that not just hey Alvin and Alvin Kamar he's back I hope you listen to me on him in the offseason because he looked really good uh and Rasheed Shahed is an absolute dog yes that was my first big win of the weekend on the old DraftKings he's real real fast yes number 17 the Chicago Bears Caleb Williams did not look good he was terrible uh in his start yep they won that game through big plays on the defense and the special teams was it just a one-off or because it's the first game or is this going to be a long learning growing process for Caleb and this offense because he did not look like he was on time with anything Caleb Williams looks like he is very very very far away mhm from being a high-end quarterback he had a 22 qbr by point of reference will Lev's was nine points higher he was awful now here's the question does it continue get to get better week by week this was my fear with Chicago and it remains my fear with Chicago this week they go to Houston the next week they go to Indianapolis then they play the Rams that is three weeks of very different kinds of defense that can create very different kinds of chaos and I'm not sure that we're going to know by the end of this three-week stretch by the end of September the Hope from Chicago would be it looks like you're getting to a competent NFL quarterback Chicago is going to win games in 2024 in spite of Caleb Williams not because of him hence week one week one he did nothing right to win them a football game right the receivers look frustrated and that's not going to get better it's a long time till you play Carolina and you play Carolina and Washington that's two of the three games you play in the month of November but then look at what you get after that because you have to play at the Cardinals which is not a fun defense to play they're not great but it's not that that spunky little team we talked about a very talented Patriots team a very talented Packers team the Vikings who do not look like a pushover with Sam darnold and then look at the end of it at the lions at the 49ers at the Vikings Lions Seahawks at the Packers you better hope you annihilate teams between now and the end of November because if you don't and you're trying to scratch into the playoffs I don't think Caleb Williams can do it it's one thing to beat will Levis when will Levis beats himself there's a big difference in beating Matthew Stafford and beating Trevor Lawrence and Kyler Murray and Jordan love and even Sam darn I don't know that you're ready to compete on that level I don't I don't know that you have the confidence to compete on that level that's a big thing with with Caleb I feel like and I just hope it doesn't snowball out of control for him right there's so many dudes who can come into this league and feel confident you know have that Swagger that they need to go into a rookie season and then they aren't getting it they get you know not necessarily they're getting Mater but they're just're they're out of their element and and the the the noise gets so loud that it takes you completely out of your game and then you just kind of become an even bigger Head Case than we thought you were and I don't know I don't know how quickly they turn on him the problem is the expectation mhm I've already I mean as we've stated we met a lot of Chicago people over the course of our offseason I have been watching their content and it's already starting yikes of uhoh don't do this guys uhoh is Caleb not what he was built to be the defense want it for us but any quarterback could have BL I'm already seen I'm not necessarily calling for a ban on fans like Germaine lumor is but lighten up on the kid a little bit okay let's just take it easy uh David hips sent me a a message on Facebook said men furiating should be the name of the segment for shot in the dark players good for you good for you dude like anytime you send something that's that much of a banger I'm gonna read it because you you deserve the shout out we're not the only funny men here I we got a lot of funny men that listen to this show I was also thinking we that we might need to Rebrand the I'm mad segment to men furiating men furiating with [Laughter] FL a that makes me love that nickname even more now I forgot yeah that's pretty good that's 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imagine that this team got that much much worse in one year again this was a situation we talked about yesterday I don't believe that the Dallas Cowboys are that good to have that kind of an outcome that I mean that was that was kind of embarrassing at times Cleveland was terrible Deshawn's been terrible and if jamus Winston took over this team today I would love their offense more because he can actually throw uh satisfied Browns fan is not satisfied anymore he is uh oh he's super mad he's enraged Browns fan he's M furiated if you will I no doubt um and I get it I I would I all right I'm gonna say something and I don't have a lot on the Browns because I think the the Cowboy game was kind of a throwaway and I the only one that thinks it's funny who are the teams that we thought going into this year had the best handful of defenses in the NFL well maybe Baltimore and Cleveland and New York I never said Baltimore really no and I still don't believe Baltimore's one of them okay Jets Cleveland Browns Atlanta Falcons were up there pretty high they were up there real high for me after they haded Justin Simmons and judon yep all three of them were terrible in in week one am I the only one that thinks maybe there is a merit that defenses in week one are not quite as up to speed as the offenses are because in the preseason nobody's playing so defense is a lot more difficult to me than offense because you're relying on 10 guys one Boo Boo and the whole play shot especially if you play a lot of Zone it's it's something I started thinking about last night because I was going through all these teams that I thought were really really good defensively San Francisco they weren't good defensively last night they just were never on the field mhm when the Jets had the ball they were fine go back and watch it I've already seen it twice uh sober and not so not so sober there's a merit to that there were not many great defensive performances MH two of them happened against each other and that was the Titans and the bears but is that not the NFL these days I think it is but don't be shocked if those defensive teams come on as the season goes along I'm not throwing the baby out with the bathwater with the Browns I'm not doing it with Jets I'm not doing it with um really any of these really good defensive teams even Houston Houston's a team that we think is really good defensively they were not great defensively against indianapol I mean it's you know it's like that old it's like it's like that old diesel engine saying you know you get it's it's goingon to it's going to be fine it's going to get going it's going to run forever but it's slow to get started it's the all conditioner the old air conditioner slogan it's hard to stop a train it's pretty damn hard to start one too so especially to get one to the temperature that Jeremy likes to keep a hotel room I don't think I could do that two nights in oh my God I can't believe you just said that I'm so glad you said that so we stayed in Charlotte for uh the the Mayo kickoff classic yeah I have never I I love my wife to the depths of my soul as as deeply as you could ever love another person M we walk in the hotel we have been tailgating all day she was drinking in my stad because I had to be responsible and drive back the parks for mobile studio so she was in good shape mhm we walk in the hotel she is one step away from just deceased MH the first thing she did when she walked in was turn the air conditioners low as it would go and I went I just I love you so much you are oh just you are the person on this Earth that was made for me I was going to say you've trained her well oh it's I was so proud cuz I mean that's that's that's what I do like even like like like even if we come in and and and I'm cold and I know my wife is hot I will turn the fan on for her cuz I know she's uncomfortable I and you know now how long was it after she cranked it did did she start complaining that it was too cold she never complained really she did however find two blankets in the closet and uh she was see that she's good to go I slept on top of the blankets she slept under like seven yeah yeah yeah that's that's that's Synergy folks I got to remember I got to take my I got to take my hoodie with me your electric blanket no doubt uh bro we're going to Columbia South Carolina I don't think you're going to need it I mean it'll feel good for a minute this will be one time that you walk in and go 60 is fun all right so it's 60 in here it's 8 degrees cooler than the seventh layer of hell outside it Blends it's fine you you walk in almost ready to melt and then you freeze back into a solid just stand in the doorway and then it's Best of Both Worlds boom that's problem solving its finest have we even talked about a team yet yes the Cleveland Browns Cleveland Brown and we didn't have much to say B your quarterback cuz he's awful number 15 just get a free massages sign lead him right into a shipping container and off he goes oh that's too too soon too soon really still still fresh you saw the story he got he got another charge did he there's another lawsuit another lawsuit just got filed dating back to 20120 same lawyer and everything no no no this is not new this is nothing that happened recently this was from 2020 it was you know a a leftover from those days that he'd rather forget and he'd rather all of us forget but none of us are going to I don't think he wants to forget but he definitely wants us to forget number 15 number 15 the Pittsburgh Steelers are they good no no no they're not good they're they're gross they're they're gross and awful and somehow kind of visually appeasing because TJ watt is just that dude good Lord have mercy is he good on defense only are they visually appeasing oh their their offense looks like a wing te brought to you by Lou hole this is football the way football's supposed to be played so I need you to shut your mouth and let them do it still might be better than what they get from Russ though oh no doubt uh Justin Phil's starting this week too m still keeping an eye on Russ but we're starting him again uh and I will say this um Russell Wilson in full pads in a game that he's inactive in is the Dr Anthony Dy of NFL quarterback like just this is why we don't like you okay cuz you're weird and I don't know what you're doing why are your pads on buddy there is nothing that can happen here that leads to you on this field I want to be with like one of the guys but you're not no doubt you're not one of the guys want to show them I'm all in even when I'm not playing I'm in this fight with you that would be like a kid in your high school showing up dressed in full pads for a football Friday and just going I'm one of the guys no you're not that's a guy that's a guy trying way too hard so it's and it's also something tank would do and now I could never unsee that I was going to say that is kind of the equivalent of me wearing black to a white out game you did wear black to a white out game indeed and I'm so glad somebody pointed that out to me look the Steelers this is It's just gonna be a week to we thing they really didn't do anything offensively to win against the Atlanta Falcons but you were so good defensively you kept forcing turnovers you kept creating havoc and that's just what Pittsburgh's going to be if you allow them to create Havoc they can beat you if you don't they can't score on you I would say this is probably about the average of uh scores of their games this year as well I'll be shocked if too many of their games go over 28 points between the two teams because the offense is terrible and the defense is good and guess what you're about exactly the same as the Cleveland Browns that's why we ranked you together oh we got breaking news oh yeah let's break news nope that one it it ISS going to break the news going to break the news's going to break the news the kickoff temperature in Colombia 78 de let's go oh yeah Patrick with the uh with the assist there uh there is a 200% chance of rain though that's that's way more palatable than oh I already said I would much rather it be 78 and raining than I already say God awful 90° and humid oh Jeremy is going to be one drunk just soaking wet rained on Gamecock I'd see it coming oh goodness I'm I there's no telling what kind of shape you're going to be in if the weather's not oppressive rough yeah it's going to be rough book bro let's go number 14 in the week two power rankings the Cincinnati Bengals oh yeah that was my that was my part that was your part the Cincinnati Bengals okay the team that played this week 29 you yes you get ranked way far behind but the fact that we know there's another team in here and the reason we know that is because you continue to show us this every year for some reason Zack Taylor does not have his team ever prepared for week one two or three for the most part on average they are clueless for the first month of the season the Cincinnati Bengals and once I say this you're never going to unse see it the Cincinnati Bengals are the Christmas decorations of the NFL okay if you put them out in September you're a jerk October ah it's still Touch and Go November getting a little acceptable December perfect and it's fine and acceptable to still have them out in January but if you get to February not to much mhm Cincinnati Bengals they're awful in September they're they're half Us in October November December and January is where you actually see what Cincinnati is I am not that worried about that team I know it was ugly you have to get the Jamar Chase thing done I know he said he didn't want to talk about this in season I don't care you go to him you tell him I will give you what you want there you go get it done and frankly I wouldn't be AV vers to you doing it with t Higgins either yep because you're going to need it you are not good stopping the run that part scares me the only thing that doesn't scare me is I look up and down the schedule and go you don't play a lot of teams that really worry me running the ball there's not a lot of teams in the AFC that worry me running the ball to be quite Frank with you the Jets kind of do after much less after last night than they did I don't worry about Buffalo I worry to a point about Miami a Baltimore you need to worry about I worry about Lamar Jackson not D Henry not really oh you should what what that you saw Thursday night makes you go oh God I'm terrified of Derrick Henry that was like somebody trying to imitate an alred Hitchcock movie oh it's so scary the monster is terrifying and it's like a a dude that they just didn't put any light on it's like oh it's so scary I can't say it it's just a guy worried about it Derrick Henry's just a guy look that way Thursday okay surely looked that way Thursday now Lamar Jackson soon slightly different mhm but I'm just I'm really not concerned about Cincinnati they do this every single year mhm and as time goes on they'll get better do you disagree with anything I just said here no I do not that I mean we are we are in full agreement uh on on on the power rankings here we did have a nice little uh come to Jesus session uh uh mediation I guess you can say before the show started we divied up the assets for I leave the show don't do that to people don't God if you could have read some of the text messages I got yesterday you are awful I hate you so much so much and I laughed I'm not gonna lie I laughed a lot yeah no you shouldn't be tapping out on the Cincinnati Bengals this early if they beat Kansas City in Kansas City this week would it shock you no wouldn't me either it will not it would be the most Cincinnati B Jamar Chase returns T Higgins is back everything starts flowing and here comes uh you know Joe Burr who beats Kansas City he three and one against him right and I'm not even saying I'm that I'm picking that to happen it just wouldn't shock me no it wouldn't and then after Kansas City you get the commanders the Panthers the Ravens um and one of those is on a short week I which one it is the Giants the Browns so you got five games there that are completely winnable you go four- one there even if you lose to the Chiefs you're four and three in the back half your schedule is it's fine but I mean none of these teams great you're in the sports occy this is ESPN Asheville 92.9 FM 880 a.m. and 1400 uh we will take the break for the top of the hour and then when we come back we'll be into the dirty dozen well I mean there's 13 left but two of them the Bakers Dozen how about that the uh the Bakers weird The Bakers Dozen coming up next we're going to talk about a team very close to my heart we're way too high in these early Season Power Rankings and I'm not sure that I am liking this you're in the sports Ury we'll be right back Summit Dental believes that success is defined by the quality of care and not by the number of patients seen if you're 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CFT ball NFL Plus premium offer available only to new and former NFL plus subscribers additional NFL Plus premium terms at nfl.com terms the winnings were just uh too much for me to ignore last night with that with that little bonus bet and uh good luck to you in your betting Endeavors this season hope they turn out way better than mine because it's the only win that I have in the last couple of days blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then uh hookham is still up that's still that's still your biggest win and it was real honest with you it's probably going to be my biggest win for a minute cuz I don't see me being that confident about anything I wouldn't I'm not sure I would have bet that much money that the sun was going to come up tomorrow right right uh we can uh continue here with the NFL Power Rankings it's week two we are inside the top Bakers Dozen cuz we have a tie for 12th Place this week and it's between my team the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Green Bay Packers we'll talk about the Packers go ahead the Green Bay Packers we'll talk about them more in just a second but first let's talk about Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers r e l a x okay MH you beat the Carolina Panthers light maybe simmer down maybe don't lose your mind that b going he going go to the proo he's going MVP and we're going to the Super Bowl I I can't take it with you I I can't do it you're all other than tank Ronnie George and like a handful of other Buccaneer fans I know y'all are crazy people you need to a big old glass of water just thrown right in your face simmer down hey you're ordering a glass of water for the face there's one coming on Sunday uh in the form of the Detroit Lions yeah uh this Tampa team has has to go up to Detroit and play against the Lions and it's I don't think it's going to be fun honestly guys I don't think we're going to come away with that thinking the same things we thought this week uh we a s and a half Point dog which is a bad son it's not going to go well Tampa Bay is going to be that team they will smoke bad teams because they're talented they do have talent then you're going to come up against a legit Big Boy defense and you're going to see that Whittle Baker Mayfield is still the same player that he's always been he he he always has those plays and I know every quarterback has those plays but they stand out more to me when Baker does it but for the most part in games like that where you their talent level is equal to or greater than their opponent he's pretty much for the most part always going to shine and that's why it's such a roller coaster being a fan of this team and being a fan of Baker because the the the really good games can make you think he's on the verge of being great MH and then you find out when he faces tougher teams maybe not he lived in that 500 world with the with the Cleveland Browns he's no real different now he's just with a team that has talent outside of one fun little run in 2020 M would you like to hear the qbr of Baker Mayfield every time he's gone over 85 the following week MH 67.7 30 and a half 57.2 oh I ain't got to the good part yet 34.1 that was the only time he did it in 2021 2022 he only did it one or no he did it twice 21.2 30.6 and then we get to Tampa Bay Baker who Tampa Bay Baker was better than any Baker we've ever seen before 23.8 17.1 20.3 and these are games directly after having the week after having an 85 qbr higher in Tampa Bay he never gave you better than a 30 MH and guess what he F to do it again yep CU Detroit is going to screw with you mhm then following week you get there and we might be on the same roller coaster all over again and then we're back to two and one and then you play the Eagles and then you play the Falcons and we're back to you it's you're going to yo-yo like this or we as Tampa Bay Buccaneers we are going to yo-yo like this all the time Mike Florio is smoking them at six and said keep sleeping on this team I'm going to go get my my my night cap and my gown cause I'm going to keep sleeping on this team cuz you're not that mhm you may very well win this division I'm not as sold on that as everybody else is but you're not a threat to Squad no you're not a threat to win a title which leads us to the other team at number 12 yes the Green Bay Packers you're not a threat to squat either and you want me to tell you why because Jordan love is exactly who I've told you he is I was too low on him at the outset and then all of you lost your damn Minds and he became one of the highest paid players in the NFL and then in Brazil you saw exactly what he is just not that good he was horror awful against the against Philadelphia Eagles I'm not saying that's the player he is I don't really see that big of a difference between the Buccaneers and the Packers you have a maddeningly inconsistent quarterback that has a section of your fan base that are complete whacka Doodles and you're not realistic about this guy and it drives people like me crazy because I don't understand what it is you're seeing and I don't understand how you're not seeing this the difference Green Bay has better Talent around uh Jordan love than Tampa Bay does around Baker in in what respect I just Pillar To Post I think you have a better defense I think you have a better receiving Court yes I think you have a better receiving Court they have five you have two okay you give me Jaylen McMillan all you want to he's a rookie mhm he's a that had what a catch in week one and Trey Palmer's fine my five's done Taven Wicks yeah there's a difference there I may not have a Mike Evans right I got five Chris godwins okay might have a Chris Godwin Jaden Reed right now Jaden Reed Chris Godwin which one are you taking because for me it's not even close Jaden Reed not even close absolutely not even close okay and I think in terms of talent Romeo dos and uh yes he's officially got to that point where I will say his name correctly even though he spells it wrong good Christian Watson Don Tavian Wicks I got two tight ends that I think are legit and we don't have a so on the tight end I mean kade's fine but fine he's he's not he's not real good he's not real good I see both of these teams it's a coin it is it is a coin flip between the two of them you've got really good spots you've got really big deficiencies and this is where you're going to live in this little hay we're chasing down a wild card spot maybe threatened for the division but it's not sold that either of these teams are the top team in their division and now uh Chio In Our uh YouTube chat said the offense wasn't great overall week one especially early game so if you want to attack love that offense overall had issues okay let me preface what I just said I'm not attacking Jordan love I absolutely hate the situation the kid's been put in because I don't think he can satiate what you think he is that's not his fault Jordan love is what he is and he gets compared to Aaron Rogers and Jordan love or and uh uh Brett Favre excuse me because of where he was drafted that's not his fault I honestly feel bad for Jordan love that you will never ever be able to satiate the contract you signed and the fan base that is starved to not be in a situation where they don't have an elite quarterback now I'm not trying to attack the kid I think he's done a great job improving on some of his deficiencies the problem is that some of these deficiencies are never going to change his mechanics are awful at times when he gets rushed his feet get happy it it's not gotten better yeah he's gotten better at a lot of things but the structural things that ain't going to change overall these two teams are very similar I I I do not feel good with having them tied with each other though because of the fact that Jordan love is banged up now we don't know how bad that is it all started of oh God he could be on ir and then apparently now they're talking about he could play this week well I don't think he's gonna play this week I think he's going to miss about two weeks but even with that I it doesn't change the two to 53 yeah that injury is not re if Jordan love was done for the year then I would start factoring that in I'm not factoring in a two- week injury this is where I think these teams are if all things are equal right but that's what I was saying for this week they're pretty even long term for this week I couldn't have Green Bay ahead of Tampa because of the injury um then at number 11 short team the New York football Jets but the defense okay so they had a bad game yeah defense the defense was awful they got out schemed the offense gave me a lot to be intrigued by mhm it it gave me they gave me a lot to be happy about MH this was the offense that you were waiting on last year you put that together with the Superstar defense that will come together they'll figure it out hopefully this won't turn into a big drama show who was it s Gardner that was chirping at the coaches last night yeah s Scott mouthy with and I'm I haven't gotten a great read on if it was Salah orri I've heard both m mhm and it may have been both but that's why he was standing on the sideline is that was a that was a punishment thing mhm and he had a point of I'm one of the best corners in the the NFL at worst I might be the best corner in the NFL and I'm out here on Kyle yuse because Kyle Shanahan is dragging Robert solid down the sidewalk in terms of scheme and I understand why he was upset I was upset I could not fathom how are you not seeing what they're doing and how are you not adjusting to it and they never did mhm they never did and then when they finally did try to do something it was at the expense of the front seven and Jordan Mason just ran it down their throats only two teams that we have not said yet here in the power rankings for week two we'll get you inside the top 10 coming up next here on ESPN Asheville 92.9 FM 880 a.m. and 14400 do you have an idea for an 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placed in the off season than I do right now of Josh Allen to win MVP he managed to be the best player on the field and only threw it 23 times MH that's pretty good that's pretty good also Keon Coleman is a dog oh but he doesn't separate he does run real faster 40 so if we're if we're was at the Olympics he would yeah it's just dog MH likey maybe watch a little tape bro stop looking at 40 times Keon Coleman's phenomenal was he dusting him he was phen he only had four catches for 51 yards I went back and watched the all 22 I have a couple Bills fan friends and every single one of them sent me Keon Coleman is going to be a dude and I wanted to go back and see what they were talking about right so yesterday in the 2hour leadup to oh my God the game doesn't kick off for two more hours what am I going to do to keep me from pulling my hair out and eating it I went back and watched some U separate teams that I wanted to see and Keon Coleman is so good so he'll be will he be the one by the end The Season's end I don't think I don't think you have to wait till season's end I think he's the one right now I think he is the number one receiver in that offense right now did you learn anything about their defense because is it a concern that you gave up four scores to the Arizona Cardinals it is to a point but you have to look at how those scores happen MH all right one of them was kicker turn DJ Dallas another one was a fi let's see they gave a field goal on a short field they gave up a two 70 yard drives and a couple field goals MH I mean yeah I hate that you gave up a kick return but the Cardinals had 270 total yards in the entire game they basically had the scoring drives and nothing else so am I concerned about it I'm concerned because the schedule they play is [Music] evil but I'm I Won't Say I'm any more worried about it now than I was I've denigrated the secondary all offseason long I mean you kept Marvin Harrison Jr to nothing mhm seem to struggle out of the slot I I Kyler Murray and Greg dorch they found each other a lot next week Tyreek Hill and Jaylen W down in Miami that's not going to be fun that's Thursday night and that's that's really the that's really the litmus test for what this defense is going to be cap able of you know it's funny you said it way uh because number nine is the Miami Dolphins I punted on this one AFC East I watched all four of you this week and the only one I can tell you definitively is not as good as the other three is the New England Patriots and it's just you don't have the talent could you could they beat two or three win two or three of their six division games sure wouldn't Shock Me in the least Miami struggled mightily against the Jacksonville Jaguars and really needed their own incompetence to beat them and you had to win on a field goal at the horn just to beat a team that actively felt like they were trying to beat themselves I don't I don't feel great about that I had Miami and the Jets ahead of Buffalo starting the year the Jets lost Buffalo didn't mhm do I think Buffalo's better than the Jets right now not really do I think the Dolphins are definitively better than the Bills or the Jets not really not really I think they're three flawed teams but you get into this part of the power rankings and I don't really trust any of these teams now I'm getting into who has the most Talent Miami has a lot of talent the Jets have a lot of talent Buffalo seems to just find a way to win they don't have as much talent as the other two but I think they're a better team right now and that's going to be fluid week to week I'm one of the games I'm most excited about this week is uh Dolphins bills Thursday Night Football MH which is rare because I usually hate the Thursday night game yes at number eight this makes me want to vomit in my shoes the Dallas Cowboys why does it make you want to vomit I don't know I don't I still don't think you're good I really don't I think there's a humbling coming but I don't know when it's coming mhm and you and I battled over the Cowboys of where do they have to go mhm and I feel like this is it you can't you can't say that well the 33 to 17 win over the over the Browns meant nothing but there weren't really great positives to pulled away from it you didn't didn't really feel like Cleveland was pushing you defensively and your offense was clunky as hell I guess did you feel good about anything the Dallas Cowboys threw out on offense no it didn't look like lamb that's a lie I did feel good about C well I mean he's he's always going to be the the static there but did you look at that and go oh you know Dak Prescott's playing with a bigger chip on his shoulder now that he got paid no we didn't see the breakout I I looked at this and went this was an NFL game where grand total you didn't break 500 yards of offense you had two brown turnovers that just completely blew this game out of the water MH and a kick return touchdown for the Cowboys other than that it was a bunch of Brandon Aubry field goals and I'm really sad that he didn't try that 71 yard field goal he lined up for I feel like after we just watched the New Orleans Saints put up 45 points this weekend if they can get close to that against the Dallas Cowboys you could have your humble game coming week two if your offense struggles like it did against Cleveland against the New Orleans Saints you you could lose that game you could I I just feel like Dallas is it's going to catch up to them the fact that they have nobody in the Run game the thing trust it's going to catch up to them that now with the injury to Jacob Turd Ferguson uh only have one receiver that they really trust right of any kind mhm that that's going to get you eventually the defense was impressive I did like what Mike zimber did moved Mike Parsons all over the place and he was a terror but I'm not jumping up and down about anything they did MH Dallas Cowboys are at eight we stay in the division speaking of teams that I didn't jump up and down about anything you did the Philadelphia Eagles well I mean if you think the Packers are good the fact that the Packers are fine the fact that the Eagles beat the Packers I mean that's it's better than beating up on a bad team like the Bucks did or the New Orleans Saints did so I mean it's yeah there had to be something that you pulled away from that saquon barklay is really really really good at football no doubt he is the rug he is the rug that ties the room together AJ Brown is really really good at footb football the next person that tells me Jer Alexander is better than S Gardner I'm going to openmouth laugh in their face that's the three things I pulled from this game yeah the two low keys are Jaylen Herz and Jordan love maybe the two most overpaid people on the planet earthh because it was I felt like they were playing Rano which one of you is going to make the last mistake and that's who wins and that's basically exactly how it happened Jordan love had it last he made the last mistake mhm but I came away from that thinking Jordan loves kind of he he's more on his game than Jaylen is did you feel did you feel that way I thought Jaylen Herz was actively drunk for three quarters of that game running into running into trouble just there was nothing there that was good the interception that he threw to Xavier McKenna was there even a receiver close I have still was there anybody around cuz I think the camera showed there was a guy there but he' had to been 9 fet tall to catch that ball Jaylen Herz makes very questionable decisions as a quarterback that are going to keep Philadelphia in games make games closer than they should be and they're going to do that thing you always talk about a playing with your food mhm they have talent defensively and I think over time it's going to get better quinon Mitchell dog whoa buddy he had one bad play outside of that he was an absolute animal all over him it was a promising start for that young man I just Philadelphia has so much damn talent that at some point that has to make up for Nick serani and you know I don't think it's ironic that the more time Ser spends in that building the worst Jaylen Herz looks I don't think that's ironic I don't even but the fact that they were able to go out and get Squan Barkley and Squan came in and had that kind of a start to where they looked when he had the ball in their hand in his hands they looked every bit of a Super Bowl Contender the problem was when it rested on jayen to make plays you were often left scratching your head going good God if they just had a little bit better of a quarterback and even with that they're so good in the receiving core with AJ Brown and Devonte Smith you can't load the Box up against him no it's hoe Roseman is going to lead this team to a Super Bowl with Nick serani Kicking and Screaming doing everything he can to preclude that from happening this roster build is practically flawless I just I 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92.9 FM 880 a.m. and 1,400 Sports oy is heard everywhere you go on the iHeart Radio App Power Rankings Tuesday we're inside the top six biggest Riser of the week and they lost how do you do that well you take one of the other top teams all the way to the wire in fact went all the way to overtime before the Detroit Lions were able to beat the Los Angeles Rams now sad news for them is a pukaa is going to be out for a while he's he's going to be out at least four weeks with the uh was it a MCL sprain a PCL sprain I think it was the MCL it was a CL yeah it was one of the CLS with the knee injury he'll be uh he re re-aggravated the thing they're put him on IR how much do you care about that though I don't for the first four weeks of the Season as long as he can come back healthy it's not going to it may not matter a whole lot in the long run how many L's can they pick up in the next few weeks while he's gone well you know you play the Cardinals this week you should be able to win that you play the Bears you should be able to win that the real question is the Packers of the 49ers I think they are pretty close to the 49ers I think they're better than the Packers but without puka that does give you less of a margin for error so if you can win one of those two be sitting at three and two when he comes back you then go Raiders Vikings Seahawks in three consecutive weeks that feels like a spot where you should be able to make a little bit of a run that is a potential to be sitting you know pretty fat and Sassy there with a six and one record after seven games i' be completely happy with that and then and and then we're rolling the litmus test for the the Rams is the end of the year the end of their schedule mhm the last six weeks there's a 49ers and a Jets and a yeah there's some challenges there's some challenges there but the Rams are going to win a lot of games Cooper cup looked really good that he did and with a fully healthy Cooper cup and a fully healthy puka AA whenever he returns from his injury Higg is going to come back at some point you got Kiren Williams running the damn ball well I mean and you have Jordan Whittington who is a perfect fill in for puking a they play the exact same position so don't be shocked if he has a game in the next handful of weeks not telling you to play him in DFS just in that uh uh Zero to Hero Zero to Hero that's one that I'm looking at going I see a path that he's going to score [Laughter] touchdown Matthew Stafford ain't done yet and when you have have a quarterback that is that good that can be you know make good decisions with the ball and find the open receiver you're going to win a lot of games and you're going to threaten the best teams in this league the Lions have been at the top of the power rankings since the end of last year and the Rams almost got them without pukan AA finishing that game at number five the Baltimore Ravens all right so they lost but they lost to the Chiefs so you can't really ding them all that much for the week one loss no it's really not it's not that I'm dinging them for that I'm more concerned about the what I saw you doing Lamar Jackson can't run like that we we've been over this we we've played this game and now you're seemingly trying to play it again right when you when you throw it 40 times and run it 20 times there's a usage problem and for a guy who doesn't stay healthy at the end of Seasons you can't keep doing this week in and week out you're going to have to find him some options well I mean and you have to look at how tough their schedule is they play the best teams in the league and so I have I think they're going to get pretty healthy this week against the Raiders if you win three of your or four of your next five going into that game with the Buccaneers uh like 10 days before Halloween on Monday Night Football MH Baltimore is just a consistent team they're always going to be around can you make that next step and somebody else is going to have to step up and be a legitimate receiving threat Isaiah likely feels like he's doing that yes right now if you have had to for Fantasy Football if you had to have a Ravens tight end is it Isaiah likeley or Mark Andrews it's it's Mark Andrews like for me it's not I'm I'm not backing off of that I don't I don't know what that was but I don't expect that to continue I do you think Isaiah likely will be the best tight end fantasy-wise I think Lamar Lamar Jackson has a trust in Isaiah likele that I haven't seen him have with many guys Mark Andrews is one of but Mark Andrews is the bigger the slower the less athletic and isaah likely can just he's basically playing slot receiver at this point yep they can be good at the same time I'm not saying I'm not denigrating Mark Andrew I'm just it should tell you a lot that with the game on the line you basically ran a glorified oneman route to Isaiah likely and there is a reason for that was it also because of the attention Mark Andrews was getting because they know about him not too many people are up on Isaiah likely I nobody in the NFL is struggling to figure out who Isaiah likely is this is not just a hay oneoff if you remember when we were talking about tight ends in the offseason I mentioned this that Isaiah likeley is he is well thought of in League circles he's just too he's too talented and that receiving core is too bad if you have to put somebody on the field is Isaiah likely or agore that's kind of my point yeah all right Baltimore at five number four the Houston Texans you didn't do anything wrong no I still believe in you you you played with your food a little bit more than I wanted you to I'm not sure that Joe Mixon getting 30 carries is a sustainable way of running this [Laughter] offense although man he but you can but but you can it's good to know that you can imagine being a guy that watched our fantasy football show and was thinking about playing Joe Mixon in in DraftKings and two fat idiots told you not to and you didn't I just want to hug every whoever that was somebody asked us a question about Joe Mixon I went ah I don't think so MH n I'm an idiot oops Yeah 159 yards and a touchdown later it's it it adds an element CJ strad was exactly what I thought he was because if you play zone against this team you get what you get CJ Stout has proven I am going to kill it over and over and over and over again by the way is tank Dell the first person to ever like completely destroy a knee and somehow get faster that dude can scoot did you see him on that end oh yeah he was like the cheat code on Madden or or on uh College look like created player in college football 25 and you're playing on freshman right like I think it's speed's 113 how did that happen he hit glitch mode on that at one point and I went how did he how did he skirt across the just scoot scoot scoot scoot there he goes he so we were at the Village ports watching games and that television was out of my sight line it was like in my peripheral and I just see Tank's Face Drop Like good God who was that and I look up and I see the replay and I went well it's tank Dale I know that much and they showed it at full speed I he's Ty kill fast yeah which is impressive mhm that Houston Texan team just has so many weapons and it's going to be pick your poison every week you try to focus on stopping Joe Mixon then CJ st's going to go oh yeah well what about these Five Guys well I mean Nico Collins is a dog Stefon Diggs didn't do a lot but he did do a good portion of his damage in the endzone Dalton Schultz was an afterthought in a game and I thought the offense ran FL L I'm a little surprised that the defense wasn't more consistent they gave up a lot of big plays but I think that'll come in time you just you have a lot of moving pieces there are a lot of guys that are playing big roles on that defense that either weren't here last year I love you I don't know I just also thought like it's it's it's you're going to give up those big plays to to Indianapolis because that's I mean they have the speed they have the speed to match Anthony Richardson's arm and I know I I don't think every team in the league can do that they're going to burn more people than you want that way I don't know I just didn't come away with it went yeah there were a bunch of big plays like that but I felt like it was just Bootsy it happens it happens with a quarterback that is that mobile with an arm that big I'm not so for me Houston dropped two spots mhm it wasn't really anything you did it was how impressive two teams were that passed you yeah at number three the San Francisco 49ers part of my mind wanted to put them at one this week cuz I just did not think that they were going to be able to dominate the way they did last night against the Jets and I know the Jets had their problems and it wasn't the perfect game and all of that but I also look at the fact that San Francisco didn't have their best offensive weapon on the field and they still took care of business that way against a defense that's pretty good well everybody's making last night about the the Jets defense and its deficiencies and what it did wrong MH is it untour to say maybe San Francisco just did a lot right there's no doubt they stretched that defense out all game long and I'll be honest with with it I I absolutely crucified Robert Salah all night long and Jeff HRI I know that defense pretty well I'm not really sure what you were supposed to do that's not a bad team against the Run MH but when you've got iuk and you've got KD and you've got Debo and you've got Jan Jennings and you've got at some point you just thin out of Defense you got big hog mollies that are pretty good grading for the Run mhm and Jordan Mason was special he was really really good he was spe uh they flashed up on the screen earlier today I saw that it was the graphic was that he had like the second highest uh yardage total of an undrafted rookie on Monday night foot insane you wouldn't you wouldn't expect that kind of thing But there again it speaks to the system that Kyle Shanahan has in San Francisco that it doesn't matter what running back we've seen him do it with 7even million running backs but when you throw Christian mcaffrey in there it it cranks it up a notch and they had a dominating win last night under the lights in the season opener and they're the team to beat in the NFC to me you got to beat the man to be the man and they are still the man right now despite the fact s despite the fact that we have another team from the NFC ranked ahead of them at number two the Detroit Lions if you go jimmies and Joe's up and down the roster for the Detroit Lions and compare it to the San Francisco 49ers I think they're better overall a more talented team I do the two biggest problems the Lions had last year were both defensive and it was that you could run up the middle on them and you could throw on them on the outside I saw a vast Improvement in that against the Los Angeles Rams that's secondary they threw it against the wall and saw what stuck and here's what stuck uh Terry and Arnold is real real real good Brian Branch moving back to safety fulltime he's still going to play in the slot some but he's playing safety mhm that allows a lot he had two uh pass defenses that both could have been interceptions and I think they're going to do that all year long you're going to see that over and over and over and over again and I'll tell you who I was the most pleasantly surprised by who's that was Carlton Davis he's playing as the deao one mhm cuz the M Robertson is playing out of slot Terry and Arnold's playing is lined up with with two tyan Arnold was the one that got picked on he's a rookie and he's going up against Cooper cup which is just really not fair but Carlon Davidson's Davis is not bad at football he's not terrible I didn't necessarily think he could be that de facto one in a for me that secondary kind of feels like a hodg podge of we've got a lot of guys we're just going to keep guys fresh we're going to pull guys in and out and then you have Aiden Hutchinson who was unblockable yeah I felt so bad for that left tackle for the Rams by the end of that game of and I bet you just ready to go crawl in a hole cuz he is obliterating you every single time we snap the ball it's just not even fair this is my first time playing left tackle hey who's lined up across from me oh crap um it's that dude it's that dude with eye Wonder one I he's going to hurt my feelings over and over and over again they won by six and overtime over the Rams they get the Bucks this weekend I hope we can keep it that close but I don't think we're gonna what' you say Vegas spread on that game seven and a half should tell you a lot about how these two teams are going to stack up against each other did did you have a most pleasant surprise from the the Lions a most pleasant surprise Jameson Williams that's the one the the the fact that he was able to be the guy and turn in big plays Alro was borderline irrelevant did he even have a drop in that game did James Williams drop a ball cuz I don't remember seeing that and that's been one of the things that well has been frustrating about him is dropping balls not being in the right place shows me that there is more of a connection there growing connection between him and Jared gof and if he legit becomes the one that they want that they drafted him to be this could be the most dangerous team in all of the NFL not just in the NFC Jameson Williams changes a lot I did not love him coming out but he's got trackstar speed and having a guy like that that can take the top off and allowing leapa and Gibbs usually it would be Alan ra but he didn't do as much in in this game that that makes this offense absolutely [Music] terrifying and you mix that with Jared G who I didn't think was great I thought he was fine he got outplayed by Stafford I don't even think that's debatable and you mix that with the MVP running game of David Montgomery you're gonna be killer give the ball to jir gives it's two-headed monster man it's a two-headed monster and it's hard to game plan against because you don't know which way that's coming uh Alex anzelone uh just confirms that he will for now year four be the garbage man doing all the things that keep the world running and getting absolutely no appreciation for it he was phenomenal he gets all the credit in the world in that locker room oh no doubt because that is Dan Campbell's favorite guy I guarantee you oh no he loves those dudes and then that brings us to the number one team in the power rankings week two in the NFL blah blah blah blah blah blah blah the Kansas City Chiefs is it boring now is it getting to the are you getting bored with this yet the Kansas City Chiefs are at the top just every week I've been bored with it for years I hate when teams win a lot at at did because it's never my team it's never my team wins a lot tank yep it's always somebody else yep for some reason it's always somebody in my conference Kansas City Chiefs after their win against the Baltimore Ravens it was just ho home another game and I didn't really feel like anything was special nothing was special about r Rice was good he was Xavier worthy showed up in a couple moments which is all you really ated from him and they're going to continue to do that the scary part is that they're going to run the ball better than that Isaiah peka he did virtually nothing and they ain't but they're not going to mess around with with with Xavier worthy and and or I guess I should say they are going to mess around with REI rice and Xavier worthy and keep giving them balls keep giving them the ball in new and and and exciting ways and what does thatan they're going to hurt you and what does that do when you get the ball to Guys Like rayy Rice and Xavier worthy and and Sky Moore who was completely I don't I think he was inactive for this game you have all these guys that have track star speed and you hit them on jet sweeps and screens and things like that what does it do it stretches a defense out just like the San Francisco 49ers did to the Jets last night yep and they're here again and if you thought that oh Kansas City year we you might be able to get them in the playoffs but you're going to have to yep because as you said earlier to be the man you got to beats the man and the man be the Kansas City Chiefs no doubt about it Kansas City Chiefs number one of the week two power rankings here in the sports occy ESP in Asheville we will be back with you tomorrow uh here on the program where Jeremy will be revealing his top eight as he has entered the transfer portal the fan the 2024 fan transfer portal I have really you know I've conferred with my family uh I've I've uh played a lot of that stupid video game listening to fight songs and who's got the who do I think is going to have tailgates they're just absolutely drunk and 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