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21:58Jourdan Rodrigue:I find it hard to see Jacksonville slowing down more. You know, I just think they're rolling, honestly. Like I'm going to pick Jacksonville. And therefore you've set me up exactly for what you want, which is. No, because I want Jacksonville to win. I'm a hater for Denver a little bit. You know, it wouldn't It wouldn't bother me. And yet I do think Denver will win, but I don't feel strong about it at all. This is exactly what I knew was going to happen. I don't participate in your shenanigans. In this case, I will not come back at you because I have no conviction whatsoever. I want the Jaguars to win.

22:36I want that to happen. And I hope you're right. I am a little concerned, obviously, about the Denver offense, not just Bo Nix having one of the worst games of his career.

22:46Jourdan Rodrigue:The receivers were so sloppy too. Dropping passes, penalties, holding penalties, He's not being in their spots. Like, and, and Bo Nix was not good. The running game like was, they gave up on it pretty early, but it certainly doesn't profile as an explosive running game. You kind of also are tipping off like R.J. Harvey is the passing get down. And J.K. Dobbins is a little one dimensional. I'm not panicking after one week, but they're right up there with the Chargers who are, we're getting to next as the team that I feel like the most worried about. Yeah. No, not the most worried, but I think just that the fans most need and want to see a week two win and look like the team they expected.

23:27Those two and the Packers would probably be the three teams

23:29Jourdan Rodrigue:where week two feels the biggest. But the difference between them and the Chargers and the Packers is they have to play Jacksonville this week. So, like, you could play well and you could lose. Let's go to the Chargers game. Why not? They're favored by six and a half over the Raiders. A lot of points, considering it's not a home field advantage for the Chargers when they play at SoFi against the Raiders. It's a weird situation here in L.A. where both teams are the local teams. I don't think people from outside of town know the Raiders are still carried like on KCAL. You know how you're on in the preseason?

24:07Preseason star Jordan Rodrigue? You know, we treat the Raiders like a preseason local team. Like we get their local coverage too. These are our two teams. the Raiders and the Chargers. Max Crosby. I'm just going to go with an obvious name. Haven't heard a lot of talk about the Raiders' defensive effort last week. I think people just assume, well, yeah, they played the Dolphins. So, of course, they were awesome. But what really caught my attention was Max Crosby and Quidipe to a lesser degree and Malcolm Koontz to a lesser degree, but really all three of them taking turns winning against Patrick Paul and Austin Jackson.

24:44And you can tell me, oh, the Dolphins offense isn't great. Those are two guys who Paul's a rising young, good tackle. He really struggled in that game. And then Austin Jackson's guy who's paid a lot of money, started a lot of games. So it's not about Miami. It's about those individual matchups. And Crosby specifically, I thought had a ton of juice. His pass rush win rate. I got to go check it. I wouldn't be surprised if he led the league in pass rush win rate. It felt like almost every snap he was winning. So whatever the Ravens saw on that exam, it did not show up on week one. And then spinning forward here, it's a much tougher matchup.

25:20He'll mostly draw Joe all, but also Rayshon Slater. He goes on both sides. It's just a good matchup. And if the Raiders can have a pass rush on the outside, especially, then the Chargers could cave in a little more even than they did a week ago.

25:34Jourdan Rodrigue:Yeah, it's a troubling thing for the Chargers to me because they looked so non-functional. functional outside of their scripted drive as an offense. At times it was a little bit stunning. I always thought, and I mentioned this, you know, right at the beginning when Mike McDaniel was hired, that I thought that this would take a little bit to come off the ground offensively, as good as it can look, as clean as it can look in a practice, as exciting as it can look. There are a lot of timing elements. There are a lot of little layers. There's a lot of different formations, a lot of different things that do, when this offense is at its best, make it highly functional, but it also, it was a concern from the entire group for me.

26:14Jourdan Rodrigue:And it started up front. It wasn't just the rotation that they had at guard, right? They kept rotating the two, the two guys at guard. It was also that there seemed to be confusion with setting the protections and there seemed to be issues with like where receivers were supposed to be in their spots. And there were, you know, there were receiver issues again in this game and there were turnovers. And I think to me, it's the Cardinals were, they weren't like world beaters on defense or anything like that. They were just active enough to bother people to disrupt timing a little bit. When I think of the Raiders, I don't think again of a world beating defense.

26:50Jourdan Rodrigue:I think of a very much work in progress defense. When I think of Max Crosby, I think of somebody who just irritates the heck out of you and disrupts timing and messes with people and messes with stuff the entire game and has zero like lack of energy, like never gets tired doing that. So to me, that's where I get worried, even though their problems were more so on the inside versus the outside. I do get worried about that for the charge. Yeah, the matchups are strength on strength, I think, on the outside and then weakness on weakness on the inside. As much as the guard rotation annoyed all the Chargers fans, I'd be more annoyed with Cole Strange's contract because he was their biggest weakness last week and Mike McDaniel brought him.

27:30He's the guard that they brought from Miami and it's really supposed to be set up for him to be a good run blocker, but their run blocking was off. You mentioned wide receiver. Lad McConkie was awesome last week, was probably the best player on the Chargers along with Joe Alt, certainly on that offense. Had a good game, took a bunch of big hits. He's out of practice.

27:49Jourdan Rodrigue:Yeah, he landed really hard on his hip slash back. It's uncertain whether he's going to play this week, which makes this next stat even more worrisome. They threw 13 targets to non-Lad McConkie, wide receivers. I'm just going to ask you to guess. I know you don't like playing games on this. All right, 13 targets, mostly to Johnston and Harris. Yeah, I'm trying to remember. How many yards total of those 13 targets? There's also one to Darius Davis. 40. 37. Very good guess. I'm like, I'm remembering. I'm going over. or click, click, click, click. That's under three yards per play. That's crazy. That's a disaster.

28:27On the other side, one thing it took me watching the game to have a take on was Kirk Cousins. Like, start warming up that Fernando Mendoza arm because Kirk Cousins, as much as Justin Herbert was not great, I mean, Kirk Cousins, I think, was more of a concern. A couple of bad picks, just not super encouraging out of Kirk Cousins despite the easy win.

28:51Jourdan Rodrigue:I was concerned, I think, going into it about just the arm in general, but then also like his put the biomechanically, like putting everything together, the body movement that has to happen and how much focus that takes. And then, you know, the Dolphins defense will get to them, but they weren't, you know, I think my expectations are very, very low for this team. They were active at times. they were especially in the middle like they made some plays at times I'm trying to sound so positive but at the same time like I just I'm with you I think it was interesting you saw Fernando and he's listening in his helmet he's got his helmet on on the sideline similar to how Kirk Cousins always used to which I thought was really funny he's listening to the calls in the helmet he's clearly preparing and preparing and I guess we'll just have to see it won't be this week I don't think but we'll just have to see as time goes because I was of the camp at the beginning of this where I was like, I think that they'll just play Kirk as long as they can, even if that means the entire season, because there's no expectations on this season for the Raiders.

29:57Jourdan Rodrigue:But I think after last week, and again, when you're Clint Kubiak and you're running this system, you want to get some of those long run to pass connecting boots and all of those things. And the real positive was Ashton Janty in the passing game as well. And I I don't know how the charge is going to fare with that because they gave up a lot of yards. But other than that, though, I was concerned about some of the core elements, the base elements of what the quarterback has to do in this offense. Yeah, Kirk Cousins didn't give a lot of confidence. It was one week. And I agree, they'll play him as long as they can, whether that's four or five weeks.

30:29I mean, if they're winning games, they're obviously going to keep playing him. I think he needs to play better. But this offensive line showed a lot of potential in terms of run blocking and Gentry showed a lot of potential. Mike Washington, watching him back, I thought was like electric in that game, too. So they are going to have a really fun one-two punch. Curious. I think the Chargers will see Cousins in this passing attack and see food and take advantage and bounce back. But you never know. Brock Bowers might return for this game. We don't know his status yet. So if they get Bowers back and the Chargers don't get McConkie, like, whoo, there could be some nervous Jim Harbaugh and his staff on the sidelines if this thing is tight going into the fourth quarter and the Raiders fans are getting loud at SoFi.

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34:44Sunday night football that I was surprised they chose for like week two Sunday night football Colts in that spot. And, and they're going back to back primetime Mahomes coming off an injury. Well, Mahomes, he's going to be fine. We'll, we'll figure out the passing game. They are six and a half point favorites against the Colts who need to do what the Denver Broncos could not and get a win in Arrowhead or else they're Owen too. And in one of the worst vibe teams in the league, What caught your eye between these two teams in week one?

35:16Jourdan Rodrigue:Well, who didn't catch my eye in a good way because he didn't have anything bad happen to him, was undrafted free agent left tackle, apparently now starting left tackle Khalil Benson. Wanted to shout him out. We talked about him a little bit on the recap show, but wanted to give him a little bit more love here. Gave up just one pressure in his 32 pass blocking snaps. Almost 85 % of those needed no chipping help. Did it himself, one-on-one according to NextGen. and also the Chiefs as a whole blocked well against the run. And when they didn't, Kenneth Walker made them look even better. And the Colts, now I guess sort of famously, because we've talked about it on this show, are having some serious issues at linebacker.

35:57Jourdan Rodrigue:They are not playing C.J. Allen, who they drafted to be the green dot. He did not play last week. Not even as a backup. Not even as a backup. He's the last guy in the rotation. According to Joel Erickson of the Indy Star, Cam Bynum, the defensive back had the green dot, which is a challenge switching that that late in the in the process between a linebacker, obviously in the middle of the field and a safety who's back deeper. And to me, what is an opponent that just put up a lot of tape that makes you think, man, I really hope I don't have problems at inside linebacker this week. But the Kansas City Chiefs, oh, my goodness.

36:30Yeah, sending the fullbacks and the tight ends. You know, you got three tight ends out there. It was mostly 12 personnel, which is with two tight ends on the field. So they're rotating pretty evenly and they have three that they can trust. But they also had a lot of just six offensive linemen. Yeah. Seven offensive linemen, one play. And the play that really typified what I think the 2026 Chiefs could be, like if you want to look for great omens, was the third and one. It was one of those extra offensive line plays. uh, extra offensive lineman plays. It was either six or seven and they call the third and one for Ken Walker.

37:11And he just goes behind those seven offensive linemen. And he just like waits for a while. And he's like, I'm going to let y 'all just push them forward for like two yards. I'm just going to stand back there. And I'm like, is he going to go? And then he just waits. And then he just goes for like the four easiest yards that you'll ever see on an inside run on fourth. And I was like, Oh, that looked really cool. That looked like a tractor, you know, cutting the grass, just moving slowly down the field. And like, he's just walking after us. Like that was awesome. And there was a lot of that in this game.

37:43Jourdan Rodrigue:Yeah, it's, I mean, I'm excited to see what week two of this run game looks like because of how much potential we saw in week one. I would like the Chiefs passing game to manifest itself a little bit more. But in this game, I don't think you're going to need to. I think you can, again, attack it really heavy with the run. You can play Emmitt, Emmitt, Emmitt Johnson too too, because he had some bursts at the end of the game. You could spell Ken Walker a little bit. Like, I'm not saying it's just going to be a pushover game for the Chiefs. But if they run the ball like that, a lot of teams are going to have some real issues, especially ones with such questionable personnel in their front seven like the Colts have.

38:19It's so weird to think for a Patrick Mahomes team. But I think this is going to be a run to set up the pass type of team. And that's great, but they have to be able to do it. And I actually think this is an early good test to them because they should be looking at the Colts secondary and think, man, if Declan Doyle can get these guys open by 5, 10 yards every snap against an inex, they're either really inexperienced or they're looking a little past their prime in the Colts secondary, not including Sauce Gardner in that mix.

38:48Jourdan Rodrigue:But they're playing, it's a very one-dimensional defense in the sense or one-dimensional coverage in the sense that it's almost, the coverage philosophy is almost past its prime because you never really see... Shots fired at Lou and Arumo. No, but you never... And Lou and Arumo is better than this. Like, you never see a corner just be able to be avoided. I mean, yeah, you do sometimes when you're playing like a lot of man coverage, stuff like that. But like, corners, you have to make a player like Sauce Gardner as unavoidable as possible. But a lot of the other players on the field have to help dictate the offense toward doing that.

39:27Jourdan Rodrigue:And I just don't think they can do that. They do get one back this week. Cornerback Cam Taylor Britt, who used to be on the Bengals and reportedly had a really good training camp and is going to have a big role, is back from a one-game suspension this week. I am as curious about the other side of the ball because the Colts' week one performance on offense felt like a feeling out process. I didn't think it was as bad as some people did. I think Jesse Minner presented some challenges for them. and we'll see if this Chiefs defense, who's very young and I thought got a great performance out of Felix and Adike Uzama, their first round pick from four years ago.

40:05He was the guy who really flashed kind of checking this game out again. And then Mansoor Delane, I think is going to play in this game. It's really good news that he's at practice on Wednesday.

40:15Jourdan Rodrigue:After banging up his shoulder in Monday night's game. Right, like missed that entire game after his interception, essentially. He played, I think, three or four snaps. So let's see if the Colts offense can kind of work their way into this season or else it's going to be kind of boring. Just a little fun note that we were hoping for. And then we actually get to see Kyrie's Tonga playing offensive and defensive lineman, Travis Hunter, who? No, I'm just kidding. It's just fun to watch. Travis Hunter did get a couple of touches. Listen, I'm, I'm a believer, man. Don't. It's not great out here for the Hunter heads.

40:47And it's hard to even say anything because they didn't throw at him at all. So that's a good thing.

40:52Jourdan Rodrigue:I'm just saying, here's the two-way player that we're watching right now. No. It's Josh Simmons, their left tackle. You mentioned Khalil Benson is probably going to be the left tackle again because Josh Simmons is still out of practice. Let's go to Dallas. I am more interested in this Cowboys game than I was going into week one. They are four and a half point favorites. It's the Tom Brady game. It's Kevin Burkhart. This is our national game in the late window. I like it more for a surprising reason, Jordan. I'm going to make you guess again. Damn it, Greg. I don't know. That's too vague. Can you guess my surprising reason for liking this game?

41:33What unit in this game was I kind of surprised by? A little more impressed than I thought.

41:40Jourdan Rodrigue:Commander's linebackers? You got it. Commander's defense. Well, I know you, Greg. I said unit. I said commander's defense. I'm just going defense overall. The guy who caught my eye in particular was Nick Cross. Now you could call him a linebacker because he's coming down and kind of playing that hybrid role. That hybrid role, really a safety. But I thought he was a great example of how physical, how cohesive, how tough this defense was last week. I think they were tough up front. And look, there's two first-time defensive coordinators in this game. One of them, Christian Parker, got a lot of attention this offseason.

42:12Jourdan Rodrigue:Oh, man. Durante Jones got a lot less. And so I want to give him some flowers. they looked cohesive and they they looked like a Brian Flores. They did. They did. They blitzed. They gave up a few big plays. But if you took out like five or six plays, they were a lot to deal with. So I'm glad the rest of the country is going to get to watch them. And I think led by Nick Cross, who, man, he'll hit. He'll run after you. He'll get in passing lanes. He is going to be a leader for this team. I'm really curious to see how they match up in a very tough matchup, a tougher matchup for them against this Cowboys offense.

42:46Jourdan Rodrigue:Yeah, a ton of five man pressure by Durante Jones, but it was coming from different directions and different angles. And he's got move players, which you know that coaches out of that coaching tree, that system that Brian Flores runs love to have. It takes a high level of communication to do it. I was I was also impressed by what I saw because it looked better, so much more assertive than it did last season. I heard Logan Paulson, who covers this team for Washington, talk about it. And he wasn't trying to cast any aspersions on the previous staffs, but he said it was nice to see how few, like, busts there were, how everyone knew to be in the right spot.

43:23And this is week one, and it was kind of the opposite of what happened to the Cowboys defense last week, where there were a ton of coverage busts and just linebackers didn't know where to be, and communication seemed to be off. So that's really impressive. I'm more impressed by the Commanders week one than I'm just, you know, killing the Cowboys for the whole season after one week.

43:40Jourdan Rodrigue:Well, I'd say, too, I'm bullish on both of these defensive coordinators. I've been high on Durante Jones since he was in Minnesota. And then also Christian Parker, I think is going to learn from this and is going to get better. And I think some of the issues that really frustrated me watching, because you know how much I love the Vic Fangio defense. And this was not that, um, you know, this defense in its most intended iteration is supposed to play down in a match zone. So coming out from a very simple sort of shell coverage, look matching down over the tops of routes. It takes a lot of, of communication.

44:19Jourdan Rodrigue:Like you mentioned, it does take, you can, you can, if you, a guy like Darius Williams, for example, the year that the Rams played this style of system and, uh, you know, an undrafted free agent corner had the best season of his career and never had a season like that again, because of how much a match zone, just putting in the communication and the time and really understanding what the opposing team is trying to do to you. And that's all the week of preparation for the entire group. Instead, they looked like they were playing spot to spots defensively to me, which is really bad if you're going against a team that's suddenly not running or passing to the spots that you thought they were going to go to.

44:57Jourdan Rodrigue:And so it looked very still in a lot of ways that this should not look still some of that I think is like well what are you going to do if you're not getting the pressure that you want if you're not stopping the run the way that you need to if your front structure is kind of a mess like to it to me it exactly when you watch it was frustrating because when you watch the the same play get run to the flat over and over and over again by the Giants and you're wondering to yourself is it that is it that they just cannot stop it because they don't have the right personnel to be able to, even when they brought a safety down into the flat to try to stop that play, he gets knocked back a couple of yards.

45:37Jourdan Rodrigue:So for me, it's like, I need to see more movement, more activity, more assertiveness from the Cowboys defense. I need to see more physicality from the Cowboys defense, better communication alignments where you're supposed to be. Like I, it's all a learning curve to me, but I was really disappointed with, with how they looked coming out of the gate against a team that just out physical them. And we'll see if Washington can do that. I think their offensive line showed some promise last week. Their rookie wide receiver, Antonio Williams, had a really nice first game. Stephon Diggs and Terry McLaurin and Antonio Williams feel like a little duplicative.

46:12And so you have Terry McLaurin doing some things that maybe it's not his best role. Even Diggs and Williams, they all feel we can do everything, but we're not like a true X type of receiver. They should be good route runners. I think their offense will get better, and they did play better down the stretch of that game. But look, Jaden Daniels entered the fourth quarter nine for 23, and there were like four drops. They had some negative aspects to their offense, which it shouldn't be as tough a matchup for Dallas this time around. I did think the running game had a pretty good start for Washington.

46:49So keep an eye on Bill Krosky-Meritt, and I think they're going to try to run the ball against this Cowboys group. I think the Cowboys offense got a little too much criticism. I think they ended up. I think they're going to be fine. They also ended up with either a second or third highest EPA per play in the league on offense. He just didn't have the ball that much. George Pickens did have a couple of drops and he's heading into a big contract year. Brian Schottenheimer, are you concerned? And then with George Pickens, some uncharacteristic drops from him. You say anything to him and then just how do you think he'll bounce back?

47:25Jourdan Rodrigue:I don't say anything to George. George will be just fine. He's going to usually catch that ball going down the sideline and probably pull through it, then jump over people and spin and then jump into the end zone. And so I don't worry about George. He's like, are you crazy? Do you know George? I'm not saying a goddamn thing. All right, let's wrap up with the San Francisco 49ers who are favored by 13 and a half. Oh, my. Over Miami. We've already reached the point of the season where it's like, how high can the line go when the Miami Dolphins are involved, especially on the road? And here is where I stand on the tiny table to make my tiny table take for this show.

48:15Writing this down.

48:16Jourdan Rodrigue:I think we're going to get another 50 burger, Greg. Oh, okay. I like that, but that's why it's a tiny table. 50 is a lot. 50 is a lot. 50 is a lot. But the first two weeks of the season, we see weird stuff happen. And I think Kyle Shanahan, after that strong outing the first week against the Rams, yes, very, very, very limited personnel, even more so. This year, Jake Tonjes is going to, looks like, miss the season. He is out for the season. We got two bad injury updates for the 49ers on Wednesday. Deshaun Stribling is out for 10 weeks, reportedly. And Jake Tonjes, who's really important to them, is out for the season.

48:52Jourdan Rodrigue:Yes. and I think it's like you know the football god said okay one of your great tight ends is healthy finally so now you're going to lose the other one which sucks um the but the the way that they can run the ball the way that they can move people here here is what caught my eye and who caught my eye will you allow me to be a big fat dork for a second why change now Kyle Juszczyk yeah in those motions. Some great reporting by my colleague, Ted Wynn. They call it a dash motion. I like to call it a pelican motion because it reminds me of when you watch pelicans dive into the water in this big arc from the sky.

49:30Jourdan Rodrigue:We are theorizing, Ted and myself, that that play that Kyle Yushek, the looping motion that he runs and particularly was so effective to the tune of something like six and a half yards per carry out of motion for the running backs when they ran this play was so, it's so interesting because there are so many different ways that you can run it that at this point we're, we're thinking it's like something like an option motion almost where he can choose where he cuts the motion. You watched him, um, chip block out of it. At one point you watched him block lead block for into the, into like a middle gap from it.

50:07Jourdan Rodrigue:At one point you watched him arc it really a lot wider and block downfield in it. And so for me, that makes it so incredibly difficult for a linebacker, for example, or a downhill safety to actually key on what the play is and where the gap is going to be, because the gap isn't actually, it's a moving target even after the snap. And because he can choose which way he can, like how far wide he can arc that particular motion of where he ends up on the field. All that being said, Jacob Rodriguez had a great game for the Dolphins last week. This is going to be such a brutal test for the young man, the rookie who played really, really well.

50:44It's a great matchup. And Jordan Brooks, I think, played well last week. I was thinking about your weight-bearing walls for the Dolphins. What are their names here?

50:53Jourdan Rodrigue:Devin? Not like their names. I thought you had a different term for them in Miami. Oh, I don't. Miami's calling them pillars. Everyone's looking a bit wobbly. But Jordan Brooks played great. Jordan Brooks played great. I was a little concerned that Aaron Brewer and Devon Achan in that running game, their pillars did not stand tall against the Raiders. So you want your best players to look as good as they looked with the previous staff. And it was one week, but they didn't on offense. I think they did on defense. So that's a great shout out. That matchup is going to be fun. I think Christian McCaffrey calmed a lot of doubters like myself.

51:31I was going to say, I'm, I'm prime. Number one, my Christian McCaffrey take before the season could be very wrong because they're giving him more time off and because his lateral quickness in that game looked awesome. Yeah, their running game. People kind of forget was terrible last year. It was one of the worst running games in the league. That was my number one takeaway from the 49ers week one. Not just that the older guys like Bosa and McCaffrey looked good, but if they have a running game that can cook, then I'm less worried about the lack of depth at receiver, which is worse without stripling and is really worse without Tonjes.

52:06Yeah, you could make the argument like Tonjes, this season.

52:10Jourdan Rodrigue:Big Demarcus Robinson season, you know? You know who could use Demarcus Robinson? The Rams. Yeah. You know? Demarcus Robinson steps in, so he'll step in for striveling. Like, I'm not saying Jake Tungis is better than George Kittle. I'm saying George Kittle coming off of a torn Achilles. Jake Tungis for the first half of the season was probably going to be your tight end one. He kind of was in week one. Well, in the passing game, Kittle looked good as a blocker. Sure. I just mean like he's going to play as much or more, and he's going to have a big role. So, that's unfortunate, but I do really look forward to watching this running game cook.

52:44Yeah.

52:44Jourdan Rodrigue:And I think it will. I think, you know, it's not to say that it's just something it's, they're going to throw a lot at this young linebacker and Jordan Brooks has experienced. They're going to throw a lot of both of them that they just haven't seen. I hated what I saw out of the dolphins offense around Malik Willis. That wasn't the young receivers. Like that's where everyone's worried. It was more that they couldn't run and they couldn't pass protect. I thought the offensive line had a really bad game. And yes, I am going to be looking for excuses from Malik Willis all year. But I'm being serious that the offensive line.

53:16Yeah, he did

53:17Jourdan Rodrigue:make a couple of nice. Yeah, I thought Malik Willis played fine. Nice throws and he had a couple good runs too, but we'll see how it goes. I thought he played fine, but I think we're lowering expectations. I have high expectations. I think he's going to be one of the best running quarterbacks ever. Ever. Just in terms of the running ability. Ever. But he's going to find a hard time against Osa and Bosa. Has anyone coined that yet? A little Osa and Bosa combination for the 49ers defensive line. We'll let you have that one. Osa and Bosa. Greg. They got to get a little deeper, but at least you have two really strong players up front.

53:52I think the 49ers are going to be a lot of people's survivor pick this year. In this week, I mean. That's it for week two. We did it. Thank you to everyone who checked out our late game preview. We will be back in the podcast feed with our big week two picks. Jordan will be back on Sunday when we're recapping all these games.

54:14Jourdan Rodrigue:Hope I get the ones I want. I guess we got to figure out what games you are covering. There's a lot of them. How many games we have on Sunday? Too many. The most possible. 14. It's a lot. We'll see you then.

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