2026 NFL Week 3 Recap Goes Hard

18:20So this might be a good time to try to go after their defense. But ultimately, it's about Mariota, who I'm telling you when you watch on tape during this week, I think will impress you because the Seahawks had nine quick pressures in this game. And I think the Commanders had either three or nothing. Like their offensive line, Washington's, was not really playing that well, like pass protecting or not. It was just the old gunslinger making plays.

18:48Jourdan Rodrigue:Well, and on time, too, which it's interesting because Terry McLaurin played his best game so far of the season. Yes. And he was six catches on nine targets, 77 yards in the touchdown. They were all contested. Like, it was all tough catches. He looked like himself, and it's kind of like one of those things where you could tell those two specifically have gotten a lot of, whether it's practice or game, whatever, their timing and Terry McLaurin, you know, I wouldn't call Marcus Mariota like an out of structure playing quarterback or anything like that. Now he picked up some key plays with his legs, but it was so clear that those two just have a feel for each other.

19:24The game ended in surprising fashion, which was after Seattle goes down the field in, I think, let's see, it was an outrageous drive. One minute, six second touchdown drive before the two minute warning on five plays. So I was like, oh my God, the commander is going to somehow blow this game. They're going to need two first downs or they give the ball back to Seattle and they get it on a third and nine run by Rashad White. And then that third and nine run by Mariota. Not how you would have expected this game to end. JSN just continues to be one of the best players in the NFL, if not the best. Ten catches, 128 yards, two touchdowns.

20:00But they need a little more out of Rashid Jaheed not doing too much right now. It's all Jackson Smith and Jigba or nothing. Commanders get the win. They're going to London next week. That game looks a little better right now than it looked going into the day. You know what game looked a little better than I expected all day? It happened in Pittsburgh.

20:18Nick Shook:Burrow gets a snap. Play action pass. Rolling back. Some pressure coming. Derek Harmon gets it. Tracks it down. Ball is loose. A battle for it along the ground. Who's got it? Does Sebastian Joseph Day have it? The Steelers think they have it. The crowd certainly thinks they have it. waiting for the official signal. And it is Pittsburgh Steelers football. What a play by Derek Harmon. Bing, bang, and boom. Great call there by Rob King and Max Starks on WDVE. The Steelers. I don't know why this felt like such a big upset. Like they were three and a half point underdogs. They're at home. It's a division rivalry, but it did.

21:02They're two and one. Bengals two and one. Not what I was expecting to see. Derek Harmon, who's played fantastic the last two weeks, not out of nowhere, but definitely the best two games of his career in a row, gives a rare defensive highlight on an offensive-led day, including a good performance by the Steelers' offense, Jordan.

21:21Jourdan Rodrigue:Do not let the very weird and interesting ending to this game in more ways than one distract you from the fact that the Steelers' offense, mostly, looked completely different from the first two weeks. Mike McCarthy holding a play card that was laminated so sharp he looked like he wanted to slice heads off with it on the sideline was in his bag. Motions, formation changes, condensed sets, a lot of changing around what they did from play to play, from series to series. And Aaron Rodgers was hitting his deep passes for the first time this season. His two first touchdowns were two of his first three deep passes.

21:59Jourdan Rodrigue:and they were his first two deep ball completions all season in nine attempts. A big difference here was that the receivers were, at first, catching the ball. Roman Wilson being the receiver on the first touchdown. Ben Skronik, who had a great game, by the way, recovered a special teams issue that the Bengals had and gave the Steelers another chance to score. Ben Skronik had a touchdown, too. So it was a completely different offense to meet, mostly, because the receivers started dropping the ball late in the game. Over 400 yards, seven yards per play. You put up 30 points on paper. But, you know, before I break it down later in the week, like this, it looks like one of the most transformational, like, OK, maybe we have something here.

22:42Games of the week. What did you see, Jordan, like in terms of pass pro? Because we've been given this Bengals pass rush a pretty good compliments throughout the last few weeks. But it sounds like they protected well enough.

22:55Jourdan Rodrigue:Yeah, they did. they had, you know, Max Akenahor. I do that wrong. That's right. They made the big change and that right guard as well. Brock Hoffman was in there too. And I thought for the most part, it looked pretty solid, but Aaron Rogers was also moving. He actually scrambled. He rolled a couple of times. And that, like I said, the mixture of formations and motions and the different types of things that were taking some of the teeth out of what the Bengals wanted to do to hassle Aaron Rodgers. He did have time to step into his throws. The big change here in a positive way was his receivers were more consistent earlier on in the game.

23:32Jourdan Rodrigue:Still had some issues with DK Metcalf late, who had a hold that brought back poor Jalen Warren must have put up like a hundred extra yards on the ground that either got called back or a touchdown. You were groaning after another drop too. And had a touchdown though, but, but, and, and Roman Wilson dropped a couple at the end And two, to me, a big Roman Wilson drop that was contested. He had some contact through it. Could have swung this game. The Bengals really started teeing off and really putting these drives together and trying to capitalize on it. But they just kept going. And this, to me, was probably one of the best Mike McCarthy called games I've seen in a long time.

24:09Jourdan Rodrigue:And Aaron Rodgers, you got kind of a more vintage Aaron Rodgers game. I mean, he looked great in this game for the most part.

24:15Nick Shook:It's crazy because when we looked at the first two weeks of the Steelers offense, We saw glimpses of what they wanted to do. They just weren't doing it. They weren't executing properly, but you could tell that they were more, they wanted to be more aggressive downfield. They wanted to open up this offense more like a Mark, Mike McCarthy offense does. And then they finally get that opportunity. And if you're trying to really break down, why did this work for the Pittsburgh Steelers against this defense that had played well through two weeks? Let's think about offensive coordinator matchup week one.

24:40Nick Shook:You play the Buccaneers, Zach Robinson week two, you play the Texans, Nick Kaley. Now you're getting a guy who's seen and been in the NFL a lot longer than those two guys who comes in with an ideal game plan to attack them at their weaknesses and he's got the quarterback capable of doing it even if he maybe I mean this was the second worst offense going into today but they weren't today they weren't today and you know what they finally got our guy Mount Washington unhinged take the hand off Rogers toss to the tight end Washington the big man works his way to the sideline Washington

25:19Nick Shook:A men's play for Pittsburgh. When you feel the earth move from Mount Washington. This guy is a weapon.

25:33Jourdan Rodrigue:It was that was a delightful thing to watch in real time. And like, what a great call. And to me, what's really interesting here is the Bengals. So the Bengals went shot for shot for the most part. You know, T Higgins had a great touchdown catch as well. Joe Burrow was doing a lot of different things. Initially, they were they were getting the play action working. Then he went back into the gun. They were doing different things, had some big gains from multiple players, even though they lost their even thinner now at receiver. And even Mike Gisicki got banged up a little bit by the end of the game.

26:06Jourdan Rodrigue:To me, the Steelers were so fortunate that their defense came through and stepped up big for them because the Steelers had opportunities to move down the field and Dexter Lawrence, you know, the Bengals defensive tackle, Greg, good player, Greg, great. Who he, he sacked Aaron Rogers twice on third and must have and held them to field goals. And so if the Steelers hadn't have been able to close with that play, there was a sense that Joe Burrow was going to march this team back down the other way and potentially go ahead and could because they weren't ahead by touchdowns instead of field goals. They were only ahead three points at that time.

26:46Yeah, I got a very angry text from our friend, the Spice Rack, long-time listeners know, saying that the final drive started by burning their second time out with 2.08 left. And it was very clear that Joe Burrow was furious with Zach Taylor at the time. I've been there too, Joe. I've been there too. Big win by the Steelers to get to two and one. Talk about matchups in primetime that look a little better than they did this morning. Oh, Brown Steelers. We'll get to the Browns in just a little bit. For the first time on this show, we got to hit one of the undefeated teams. Let's go to the Nickel City Bills.

27:26Three tight end set.

27:28Nick Shook:Knox lines up behind Allen. It's a sneak over the left side. and Allen is in untouched for a two-yard touchdown run. And Allen, with his two rushing touchdowns, becomes the first quarterback in the Super Bowl era with two or more rushing touchdowns in three consecutive games. He is now the fourth player to run for multiple touchdowns in each of his team's first three games, joining Jim Brown, Stephen Davis, and Priest Holmes. Nothing more successful. than a Josh Allen run. He's stealing all those touchdowns from James Cook, who did get one eventually in a 24-16 Chargers loss. Bills win, go to 3-0.

28:15Chargers have not won a game. Man, for so much of this game, Nick Shook, it looked like it'd be different. The Chargers jump out to a 10-0 lead. They don't take advantage of five turnovers forced by their defense. They somehow outgain the bills and go plus four in terms of turnovers overall. And yet they lose. How did they do this? Okay.

28:40Nick Shook:Well, first off, every team that's giving up these Josh Allen one yard touchdown runs, I have a message for you. He's going left. Right. Okay. Okay. He's going left. Just, just, just shoot that gap, please. Okay. So how did this happen? Well, if you're the Los Angeles chargers and you, I told you going into Buffalo that you were going to force two Josh Allen interceptions and a fumble, and you were only going to get 10 points out of it, would you be a little disappointed? Would you be a little concerned? Because that's where they lost the game. It wasn't the second half. They played a great first half.

29:10Nick Shook:They were clean. Didn't commit any penalties. Forced the takeaways. Only got 10 points out of it. Had a drive with a missed field goal. And then the second half, they go back to the Chargers that they were in the first two weeks, which is penalties all over the place. There's a 13 play 69 yard drive in which four penalties are accepted against them for 30 yards. Two of them being blocking penalties. Ronde Gadsden with a block in the back. Joe Alt with a hold. And yet Justin Herbert finds a way to overcome this with his arm strength, with his arm talent, ripping a couple of beautiful throws in this drive alone.

29:38Nick Shook:And yet they end up settling for three points. And then from there, it's just a litany of like my notes just say blank comma. No, we start with Dalton Kincaid. No, because Tarheed still punches the ball out of his grass on a long catch run. And Tony Jefferson recovers. That's another takeaway for the chargers. Josh Allen. No, He fumbles on a third down sack. Fifth giveaway of the day for the Buffalo Bills. Chargers should be winning this game. They should be winning this game by a substantial margin. Then it's Justin Herbert. No. Throws the interception over the middle. Let's get to that one. Bills rush for Herbert with time.

30:15Nick Shook:Fires down the middle. It is picked off. Intercepted. CJ Gardner Johnson with a lane. Gardner Johnson ripped down across the 40. What a huge play and a 41-yard return. Herbert trying to throw down the middle of the field. The ball does scaling, but there's a safety in the middle of the field. And that's Gardner Johnson. Poor awareness, poor decision. Throws him a meatball song. Hot and ready. I love that Tom Brady's on socials and he's trying to get clipped. It worked. That was a meatball sub.

30:58Jourdan Rodrigue:I like the D lineman just porpoising. He's like, wow. I also like that CD deuce, Chauncey Gardner Johnson. He's in the honeymoon phase. He's changing games again. He's in big spots. I love that. For all the tiresome Herbert discourse that's about to hit the airwaves this week, and it is rough, and I was getting texts, I got to watch this game closer from from interested parties who I trust. Well, that was absolutely killing Trey Harris and Valdez Scantling and Quinton Johnston for the way that they played this game. The receiver is not helping out. That was a meatball. So, yeah, that was like that was the turning point of the entire game.

31:41They're driving at 13 to 10. It's just it's just rough. Plus, Cameron Dicker is missing kicks like everything that can go wrong for the Chargers is going wrong. but man, this one hurts. That interception happens after the Josh Allen fumble.

31:55Nick Shook:That's on Buffalo's 28. That is the biggest waste of all of this takeaways on the day for the chargers. And it continued from there because even after they were saved by a holding call on Dawson Knox that wiped out a Ty Johnson touchdown, they get the ball back with a comeback attempt in mind. And then there's a third down pass where Herbert puts it right on Quentin Johnston beyond the sticks and he drops it. And then they turn it over on downs. They just, for as high of a sense of urgency as they had going into this game, understanding we are 0-2, our backs against the wall, we cannot afford to be who we were the last two weeks, they wasted all of that and became the Chargers again.

32:32Nick Shook:And the Bills, meanwhile, not to talk about the losing team the entire time, but the Bills, they get out of here with a win that they probably feel like they maybe don't deserve, but they'll point to as, look at us overcoming our own self-inflicted wound.

32:43Jourdan Rodrigue:But Chuck, didn't you see all the reports pregame that the Chargers practiced extra hard?

32:48Nick Shook:Oh, and they played extra hard for a quarter and a half.

32:50Jourdan Rodrigue:The thing, our producer, Eric Roberts, has big feelings, negative feelings about the Bills jerseys that they wore. They're 1-0, undefeated. And I just have to posit, was it just a battle of the cursed entities and whoever was the least cursed, whether it's those jerseys or the Chargers themselves right now? I mean, you could not like the jerseys. They don't look like it's a Bills team that's wearing those jerseys. I get it. But the facts will state they are undefeated in Nickel City jerseys. analysis when it matters. And maybe we'll never see them again. I think they're bringing it back. How about the running game, though?

33:24James Cook in the running game. 33 carries overall for the team. 176 yards. This is the recipe for the Bills to get a W. And they got it done against a game Chargers team that falls to three losses on the season. Man, it's going to be an ugly week here in Los Angeles. Bills undefeated. That's the first of the undefeated teams. Entering Monday, because we still got the Eagles to play, there are six undefeated teams. We will hear from a whole gaggle of them after the break.

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37:31There were different points. We were going to go with different ways to start this game. We're going to get to Brock Bowers' excellent afternoon. But then when you go fumble, interception, fumble, fumble to end what was a shootout, you got to go with that big play by the Raiders' defense, the undefeated Raiders. 35-27 in a fun one, Jordan.

37:58Jourdan Rodrigue:I had a blast. This was an awesome game. It was weird and chaotic. You know, the fourth quarter where Tyler Shuck has been so, so good. It has been his best friend. The fourth quarter suddenly completely imploded and inverted on him in terms of the vibes. Because when you mentioned those possessions and how the possessions ended, it's because Tyler Shuck goes fumble interception fumble and he's getting sacked and that's what's leading to the fumbles. and the Clint Kubiak Raiders score 14 points off of those three turnovers and then obviously seal the game at the end of it. That was the entire story because these teams were hanging around with each other.

38:37Jourdan Rodrigue:It was a fun game where the run game started going in the third quarter for both of these teams, but it was the Saints turning over the ball that many times sequentially and the Raiders capitalizing off those turnovers that really, really sealed this one. The surprising thing is how clean overall, to me, that the Raiders offense has been this season. It's been well coached, and it makes it easier to coach when Brock Bowers is back in the game. 10 catches, 116 yards, and this touchdown.

39:07Nick Shook:Down to two. They get the snap. Cousins looking left. Fires left. Tom Bowers at the goal line. Spins forward. He got a touchdown. Brock Bowers, his first touchdown of the year. He is back, baby. And the Raiders cap off the masses pick. Go for six. 34-27 with 6.22 to go.

39:27Jourdan Rodrigue:You guys, the ends are officially tight. Oh, ain't that. Okay, six of seven touchdowns for either team today were scored by a tight end. Those six touchdowns by tight ends tied an NFL record, getting tongue-tied, set in 1981. Noah Fant, Michael Myers, Jawan Johnson, Noah Fant again, and finally Brock Bowers with that last highlight that you just saw and heard. It was such a I am going to just geek out over this game for so long type of game. I had so much fun. Yes, to your point, previously Greg, it was genuinely a clean, positive operation, I thought, for both teams. Minus the run game, it was very pass-heavy and they were moving these tight ends and especially Brock Bowers was moving all around the formation.

40:18Jourdan Rodrigue:He was playing against man coverage. He was playing in zones. Like they were doing so many different things with these guys. Then they get their run games going, both of them in the third quarter. And then you could really see what it is that these football teams are both uniquely trying to be, which was very exciting, I thought. The Saints certainly, you know, like to play with two or three tight ends on the field. Nothing too crazy. Yeah. 30, 40%, whatever. You know how many plays that the Raiders didn't line up in heavy personnel today? And I would define that as two tight ends, three tight ends, or two backs, or six offensive linemen, of which there were many plays.

40:51You know how many plays?

40:52Jourdan Rodrigue:Three. Three plays! That's outrageous! That is absolutely next level. That's a Jordan Roderick football game! Fully ball. Hell yeah! And look, it's not setting up an effective running game right now. Mike Washington ripped off a long one. That was huge for them. But overall, they haven't run the ball that well the last couple weeks, but it's setting up the passing. Yeah, and Ashton Janty looks like he's a little bit banged up. He had a tough go of it a couple of times this game. I think getting him spelled a little bit with Mike Washington, who had their explosive gains, and then getting Ashton Janty back in the mix in the passing game serves the Raiders well right now as a formula.

41:33Jourdan Rodrigue:On the other side of it, it was Alvin Kamara being the spark for the Saints run game in the third quarter, getting a little Kendra Miller in there and just really trying to get that push that they really badly were missing through the first part of that game. It, you know, I hate to, I hate that, that they just completely imploded with those turnovers because you really got the sense late in this game that this was going to go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth all the way until zeros.

41:59Nick Shook:Well, I mean, the Raiders tried to give them another opportunity. Like there, there was a period there where we thought, okay, this is over with the second to last turnover. over and then the saints managed to get the ball back one more time.

42:10Jourdan Rodrigue:Kirk cousins get sacked. Yes.

42:11Nick Shook:It's a sack fumble. Yeah. So, uh, and which is covered by Connor Hayward, which is hilarious. Cause he, he like runs to the left and then quickly realized he's like, Oh, I'm doomed. But then he goes out of bounds.

42:20Jourdan Rodrigue:We can't advance the ball. Cause cause of what the situation was. So it was like Connor Hayward being like, do I run out of bounds?

42:27Nick Shook:Like what do I do here? Yeah. So they get the ball back with a decent amount of time, but you know, I've guessed fittingly, that's how the game ends with the Juwan Johnson fumble. And the thing that broke my heart the most is I have this running joke with myself because I don't think anybody else is going to get on board. But I love Juwan Johnson is one of my favorite tight ends. We've discussed this before. And he had a huge moment in week one against Detroit in that comeback attempt. He had a huge moment last week. And there he is again catching touchdowns in the second half. I have coined him America's tight end, but he's really only my tight end.

42:56Nick Shook:So when he fumbles, that was the end of America's tight end.

43:00Jourdan Rodrigue:You guys, I mean, you guys know what they say. Tight end giveth the tight end taketh away. It's fair. And look, he could be America's side. And he's trying to be. He's trying to be like a TikTok star. He's doing a lot, Juwan Johnson. Are you on TikTok? I am not. You've referenced it multiple times so far. I am not. But I hear complaints sometimes or some fans of his. He's always doing the most. Chris Olavi goes over 100 yards again. We should mention Tyler Shuck did throw for four touchdowns before it all caved in. But the Saints lose. They're at one and two. and the Raiders, one of the stories of the season.

43:35Also a big story. Hezekiah Masses with his third interception. I mean, he's a defensive rookie of the year candidate right now. What a story. This Raiders team has been another surprise 3-0 team. It's getting great play from their defense. Went to Tampa today and got another W.

43:54Nick Shook:Takes the snap. Four-man rush. Cashman got through. Baker spins away from him to the left. Now Eric Wilson's trying to ruin his day. Baker's able to get away from that. He's looking like Fran Tarkenton with the way he's running around. So he'll throw it to the right. Intercepted! Andrew Van Dinkle has picked off Baker Mayfield. That was Paul Allen on KFAN. A fitting conclusion to a 23-16 victory by the Minnesota Vikings over the Buccaneers in Tampa. Baker Mayfield dislocated his thumb on that play. He will take an MRI to determine how serious the injury is. He was in a lot of pain. But I thought that had to be the highlight, Shook, because that was the game.

44:48Both these quarterbacks, Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray.

44:51Jourdan Rodrigue:Or King Bull. Being totally flummoxed by the blitzes that were coming at them. And Baker, in particular here, just trying to make a play, just trying to make a play, running around. Everything is chaotic. It's more of the same from what we saw this season. I should have seen this coming in this game. I thought the Bucs' offense would respond better and the defense would play well. The defense did. But, man, they just had no answers for what Brian Flores, who goes over 50 % in terms of the blitz rate. Again, you know, it was calm for him, like 55%. so many quick pressures. As good as the Bucs defense was, the Vikings defense was even better.

45:30Nick Shook:Well, not only is it the short King Bowl, it's the short Sooners Bowl, and it's also the Blitz Bowl because both of these coaches love to blitz, Brian Flores and Todd Bowles. So you knew that this was going to be... The Bowles Bowl. Oh, wow, that too. Almost as good as last week's Todd Bowl. So sorry. But the big issue with this is what that clip showed, that play that ends the game for the Buccaneers and seals the victory for the Vikings is what we've seen from the Buccaneers offense all season, which is Baker in the pocket. Baker, not sure where to go. Baker trying to reset Baker, trying to bail out disaster occurring afterward.

46:01Nick Shook:And Buccaneers fans have to be very frustrated. Vikings fans. Meanwhile, have to be very just elated that they have won three games that are not conventional by any means. No, they are three and O with like familiar instability at quarterback. Their quarterback that they chose to start this year does not look good, especially under duress like he did today. And yet here they are three and O in a really tough division. So it's a win for them. Yeah. As much as Baker struggled, Kyler Murray, I thought, looked worse today. Both of them were just holding the ball and trying to make a play. And it was just chaos ball.

46:32Ball, but Baker was a little bit better at it. I mean.

46:36Jourdan Rodrigue:Chaos ball. Keep side rolling. I don't know. Can we play Baker? Baker ball. Keep side rolling, baby. Taking on a new meaning. Yeah, it feels wrong coming off the injuries. Baker ball. Keep side rolling, baby. That's horrible. It's horrible. When that play happened and it was a somewhat controversial call, according to the Bucs people I follow, that was a fourth and 13 when they still had three timeouts and could have punted it away. I think it was the right decision by Todd Bowles because you're at midfield at that point and you can still stop them three and out, get the ball back in theory anyway.

47:12Like either way, it's going to be hard. And they did. But it was a game where you just couldn't move the ball. Here's the third quarter of this game, by the way, just to give you an idea of what kind of football. nine possessions between the two teams. In those nine possessions, there was a total of 27 yards and three first downs. Like just total domination.

47:34Nick Shook:There's a sequence here where the Buccaneers on, let's see, math, seven possessions, six of them punt, punt, punt, punt, field goal, punt, punt, field goal, interception, interception. It's, it's probably why I don't kill Baker as much for this game. There were eight quick pressures from the, Vikings linebackers alone 13 overall that's outrageous that's only compared to three from the Bucks so there are there are issues with this Vikings offense that the success rates for these two teams in this game had to have been the worst game of the season it was under 20 they were both at 23 percent so it was like equally bad they just took advantage of a couple short fields the Minnesota Vikings did but Kyler honestly looked like a problem Justin Jefferson I should have mentioned earlier, leaves this game with an ankle injury in the first quarter.

48:22That is going to change the Vikings offense. Obviously today, the plan and moving forward, if that's a long-term injury, that's a major problem. But Kyler just was not comfortable at all back there. And I thought they protected him well enough. Like he had time and he's just holding it. He's falling away from throws. There's a couple like hope balls to Jordan Addison that worked out, some that didn't, but it all felt just like hope balls.

48:48Jourdan Rodrigue:And they need to run the ball better too. I mean, I think it's pretty clear that Aaron Jones is a little banged up. I mean, he left, he was banged up last week and was cleared late in the week. This, you know, leading up to this game, but man, the Vikings, they have to settle Kyler down. They have to find a way beyond, drop my pen.

49:05Nick Shook:That was nice catch.

49:06Jourdan Rodrigue:Greg's pen.

49:06Nick Shook:Great job. They have to find a way beyond the protection up front to settle Kyler

49:12Jourdan Rodrigue:into a rhythm to make him comfortable back there. Because to your point, it did look like they were protecting him. Okay. It's just every other element that makes Kyler Murray tick. Honestly, it's, they just, I just think they need to, everyone needs to settle.

49:25Nick Shook:That's the problem though, is when can you recall the last time Kyler Murray looked settled? It's been a minute. It's been years.

49:31Jourdan Rodrigue:Yeah. Clayton Adams, James Connor, Drew Petsing. He had some moments in 2024, but yeah, that was, that was a while ago. These two running games were both total disaster. The Bucs were actually worse, under 20 % success rate. And they lost Bucky Irving to what looked like a back injury at the end of the game. He left. But yeah, Minnesota couldn't run the ball. Tampa couldn't. But this Vikings defense is special. And I know that they're going to have to play better offensively long term. But these wins count. And the Buccaneers are in the NFC South. So they're only one game back at 0-3. But when I saw that fourth down play call and Baker got hurt, I was like, and those are one of those plays that you think about when a coach gets fired.

50:15I don't think Todd Bowles is getting fired this week, but they're 0-3, and he will need to start winning games sooner than later or it'll become a discussion. Man, this Vikings team is fun to watch. Miles Price, by the way, with a special team's long touchdown. I don't know. I got to listen to this call. Eric said it was amazing, and I know we've gone long on this game, but we got a return touchdown. It only happens so often in the season.

50:39Nick Shook:Here's veteran Riley Dixon. He's had nine blocks in his career. Not that one. He gets it off to Miles Price, who cuts loose at the 15. Heads right to the 20. He gets by Dixon at the 50. That is loose. Miles Price touchdown. And there are no flags on the field. That's the Minnesota Vikings first punt return touchdown since Marcus Carroll's in 2016. And price just gave his position coach, Matt Daniels a birthday gift because today is Matt's birthday. And it's nine zero Minnesota. That's good. That's good context added in there, but miles price has been flirting with this basically since the preseason.

51:23He might be the early leader in terms of all pro return man. Not too many punt return touchdowns in the NFL each year. The Vikings get it done. Special teams and defense. The purple people eater Vikings would be proud. Let's go to a team that has been complete all year, and they play in Santa Clara. Purdy under center, McCaffrey behind him. Use check in motion. Here's the snap. Play action. Purdy rolling out to his right.

51:47Nick Shook:Pumps. Kettle. Touchdown. 49ers. George throws the ball into the stands A big hug It's the fourth touchdown pass of the game For Brock Purdy And the 49ers with a clutch drive I love when the analyst in the game I believe this time it's Tim Ryan This goes Kittle Early on the play And you're like George Kittle's open Good call there by Guy Haberman on KNBR The 49ers start fast on offense They finish fast once again. In between, the defense falls apart a little, lets the Cardinals back into this game, but ultimately they hold on for a 36-30 victory. Brock Purdy throws four more touchdowns. Chuck, what did this young MVP candidate look like?

52:42Nick Shook:Ooh, I like that, and I will support that idea through three games. I mean, he did more of the same. He's completely comfortable in this offense. He diced him up again. And that, that throw right there, I thought it was actually fitting because it was a good little bit of redemption for George Kittle because Purdy had this incredible scramble for a touchdown that then was nullified by a Kittle block in the back. And, and as it happens, he, he hits Buddha Baker in the back. Baker goes down to the ground and Kittle immediately turns to see if there's a flag, a flag is already falling. And he just goes, no.

53:07Nick Shook:So then for him to catch the touchdown that then seals this game was nice, but it's, this is an offense that unlike their defense in the current state has most of its key guys, Christian McCaffrey, obviously being there, Mike Evans played a role until he left with an injury. You know what you have in George Kittle. The whole group just looked solid. They look like a team and a group that is just very familiar with what they're supposed to do. They also did something that we probably haven't seen since the Ben Johnson Lions, which is run a hook and ladder early in the game. An incredible play call.

53:36It was the first play of the game, hook and ladder, which leads to one of the best box score moments that we will have all season long. Debo Samuel has zero targets in this game, zero catches, but he is listed under receiving with an 80-yard touchdown. That is unreal on the first quarter of the game there.

53:58Nick Shook:Little collab, little Mike Evans to Debo Samuel, getting around the edge, breaking an arm tackle from Buda Baker. Nobody's going to catch him. Good job Denzel Burke on giving up on the play early. He probably could have caught him, but it doesn't matter. Debo Samuel in the end zone for a touchdown. That's what set the tone for the day for the 49ers. And for a lot of this game, They just felt like they were miles ahead of the Cardinals. It wasn't until the defensive injuries started to pile up for the Niners. Again, the team that always seems to suffer the most injuries. Drake Greenlaw leaves in the fourth quarter with a quad.

54:24Nick Shook:Halton, one of the defensive linemen, gets hurt on an Arizona field goal and basically is dealing with an issue there. Diamador Lenore leaves early, returns. Mike Evans, obviously, on the offensive side. Looked like he was in a ton of pain when he left, but they just cannot get out of this. Trent Williams leaves with a stinger as well. They can't get out of these games without getting hurt, but it speaks to their, I don't know, intestinal fortitude, their ability to overcome this adversity that they're able to, even when the Cardinals fight their way back, still finish the job because the last possession that they had before that Kittle touchdown way too easy for their offense, just going right through the Cardinals defense.

54:55Yeah. Trent Williams stinger. That doesn't usually end up as a long-term injury. Mike Evans. They don't know if it's a broken rib. Kyle Shanahan said after them, it could be an oblique injury as well. He looked to be in a lot of pain. Jordan Brock Purdy's performance last week was the best. in terms of EPA per play by any quarterback all season long. Can you guess what was the number two performance all season long by any quarterback in EPA per play? Rock Purdy. Today.

55:25Jourdan Rodrigue:Pretty good. You know, you're doing a nice job of really teeing me up for these. I tried to set you up. You're two for two. Man, another insane stat. And I know, like, it's early. And, you know, they played the Rams in Australia. So some people will poo-poo that. And the Dolphins and the Cardinals, not the two, you know, greatest defenses in the world. But this is one of the most insane stats I've ever heard. They have almost as many wins so far this season as they have negative plays on offense. Wow. They have four negative plays. Wow. That's great. That's insane. That's not counting kneel downs.

55:59We don't count kneel downs.

56:00Jourdan Rodrigue:The Cowboys were at seven by the fourth quarter today. In today's game? In today's game. Wow. Like, holy shit.

56:07Nick Shook:It is going to get more difficult for them. Sorry.

56:10Jourdan Rodrigue:That's a crazy stat.

56:13Nick Shook:It's got to get more difficult for them because they play Denver and Seattle next. Okay. We'll get real tests here.

56:17Jourdan Rodrigue:It's already dead. They're missing half their roster. Yeah, it's tough. I hope they get healthy. But I also hope Nick Shook, in his heart, feels a little bad for ranking them seventh in the past. I mean, they're the number one team in DVOA. We're going to have a lot of movement this week. And you had them seventh last week. Man. You know what I at least like to see in this game before we move on? Is just, hey, the Cardinals, if you're going to fall down big, at least get like Michael Wilson and McBride and Jeremiah loves some fantasy stats. And I won't even call them garbage time because they got back into this game.

56:48Jourdan Rodrigue:They were in this game. I want to see that out of this Cardinals team because this will be happening to them. The Cardinals and the Dolphins started the year as the two bottom teams in terms of projected over under win total. The Cardinals have been surprisingly frisky for moments of Miami's game on Sunday. They were frisky as well. Third down and six for the Chiefs at the 11 of the Dolphins.

57:15Nick Shook:17-10 Kansas City. Three minutes to go in the game. Walker the lone setback. Drifts into the right flat. Mahomes will throw a corner. Caught! Newside! Touchdown! Kansas City! 61 touchdown passes now by Mahomes to Kelsey. I should have given the Dolphins a little more credit here. This game was still a game until that drive, and that touchdown to make it two scores is just under three minutes to go. Creditable performance here by the Miami Dolphins, who tend to play really well in the first half on offense. Mitch Holtis from KFNZ on the call there. Ultimately, the Chiefs got it done. They are 3-0 on the season, and the Dolphins fall to 0-3.

58:01What stands out to you most from this one, Joanne?

58:03Jourdan Rodrigue:Well, I want to be clear. Like to me, it felt like the Chiefs were inevitable to win this game. I mean, they've been playing so well and deserve a lot of praise for that. But because we probably won't be singing a ton of praises for the Dolphins this season. I did want to shout him out a little bit. Speak for yourself. You're praising them every week. You love this. The lone voice in the very loud crowd, Greg. Miami hung in there and hung in there and hung in there and hung in there through more of this game than the box score shows. Love that you shouted that out. and Malik Willis played well other than a fumble that was lost and then an interception.

58:39Jourdan Rodrigue:The timing of those were difficult. The fourth quarter, they're down. Right before that Travis Kelsey touchdown on the previous Dolphins possession, they're down just a touchdown, and Malik Willis throws incomplete on third and fourth down. So then that's what sort of killed them was in the late-down situations and the time where they could. They were hanging around and hanging around. the time where they could really seize an opportunity to capitalize on a pretty close score and some vulnerabilities that the Chiefs showed, whether it was their foot wasn't totally on the gas. They were a little bit vulnerable defensively as well to some of the things that Miami wanted to do.

59:16Jourdan Rodrigue:And to me, and then the Dolphins defense was keeping them in this game as well, which we'll get to in a minute. But it was not capitalizing in these opportunities. a couple of failed fourth downs. And then, you know, at the exact wrong time, the miscues happen.

59:32Nick Shook:And through three weeks in the Malik Willis era, unfortunately, that feels like the theme, which is I see the potential. I see that you're putting things together. You're getting down the field, but I'm pretty sure you're not going to finish it with six points. It's actually been really consistent, like that they've moved the ball pretty well in the first half. He's had late game turnovers. Their running game has been a huge letdown all season. unfortunately. They lost Devon Achan in this game to an injury, a knee injury that after the game, Jeff Halfley said did not look good. So that's really disappointing.

1:00:05Ollie Gordon comes in and he struggles 41 yards on 17 carries.

1:00:09Jourdan Rodrigue:He gets banged up as well to the point where he has to leave the game to get an IV at halftime. And then he's not in at the start of the third quarter. The Dolphins don't have another active running back. So it's receiver Malik Washington who's coming in and taking handoffs. So this is a huge issue that they have to figure out because if they could have run the ball consistently through this game, that was where the chiefs were showing at least a little bit of earlier vulnerabilities that, and the fact that, that the dolphins defense, um, they were playing hard there, man, they're, they're young.

1:00:39Jourdan Rodrigue:They're going to have big errors. They're going to have big thing, big holes open and all of that. But this guy, this rookie Jacob Rodriguez, I know 31 other teams wish this kid was this young man was on their team because he He has two run steps, two tackles for loss and an interception of Patrick Mahomes. And, you know, the old guys are playing well to sealer. You know, these are guys who are they know that they are what they are this year. That's what I really took from both of these teams. The Chiefs know exactly who they are and what they are already. And they are running the ball with Kenneth Walker as two touchdowns today.

1:01:11Jourdan Rodrigue:And they are doing the things that get them through games like this. And that's what they did. You know, great teams and teams that are going to be a behemoth down the stretch. can do that. The Dolphins are very self-aware too. They played their asses off. How do you think Mahomes looked? Rasheed Rice had seven catches, 88 yards, so his best game on the young season. You know, the running game was solid. He wasn't really bothered. He wasn't getting pressured. Mahomes, he looked, again, this looked like a very self-aware Chiefs team where, you know, other than the interception, which was kind of bobbled and batted and a great play, you know, ultimately on the Dolphins' side, you know, this looked like go in, take care of business, leave.

1:01:50So that was 3-0 Corner. So excited. My voice cracked. Let's take a break. If we're going to get out of 3-0 Corner, let's take a break, and we'll come back, and we'll talk about Nick Shooks Browns, as teased earlier. Don't advertise him like that. And see if he's getting on board. Okay, how about Andrew Siciliano? There we go.

1:02:10Jourdan Rodrigue:Yeah.

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1:05:32Nick Shook:and the Browns will win. Oh, I love Andrew Siciliano. He knows it's not about how the call starts. It's how you finish. You can recover from that. Great game. Great job by the Browns winning 21 to 18. Andrew, of course, working for WKRK. And just thinking thematically, Chuck, I'm thinking about how the young players made big plays in this game. And so I want to go right away to the ending sequence, which includes a go-ahead touchdown by another young player, Harold Fannin Jr. Third down, Browns can get a first down just inside the five. Watson has the snap. Watson looks left. Deshaun up in the pocket.

1:06:22Nick Shook:Deshaun throws. End zone touchdown! Harold Fannin! Oh, he's so smart. Browns take the lead with a minute 48 to go. That crack in Andrew's voice explains the pure joy of that moment for Browns fans.

1:06:41Jourdan Rodrigue:You're five years old, Greg, laughing at the word crack. No, that's not why I'm laughing. I'm more laughing that Andrew's going to be listening to this if we're lucky. Great job by Andrew. Great job by Andrew. Thursday night recap. And he's going to be like, why are you focused so much on me?

1:06:54Nick Shook:Because that explains the joy that Browns fans felt in a game in which they were almost certain they were going to lose. It followed the formula of, I don't know, the 2023 Browns, where it's hope to get enough from your offense. Defense carries you through most of the day. Then the defense runs out of energy at the end. And it looked like it for a while with John Mechie catching an eight yard touchdown pass from Bryce Young at the end of a drive that moved way too quickly for anybody's standards. And the Browns being down 18 to 13 and fans confronting the fact that they needed Deshaun Watson to lead a touchdown drive.

1:07:24Nick Shook:He did it for the second straight week, and he did it with a play like that, which I haven't seen from him in a long time, stepping up and out of the pocket, making the throw-off platform to Harold Fanon, who was open and letting him know, I'm open in the end zone, and then he's able to celebrate, and great day for the Browns. Yeah, from what I saw, and it was definitely true last week, I called it, it was Watson's best game as a Brown, I thought, and definitely the best he's moved as a Brown. He ends up with 45 yards on the ground. There he's extending plays. Look, he averaged under five yards per pass.

1:07:53It's disastrous, and I saw two dropped interceptions. So it could have looked a lot different for Deshaun Watson. But what do you think overall they're doing on offense and defense that are kind of complementing each other and getting off to the surprising two-in-one start? They definitely tried to run the ball more today

1:08:10Nick Shook:to mixed results with Kunshan Judkins. Rocket Sanders with one carry, but every time he touched the ball, which I think was like two or five times, it felt like a pivotal moment. He extended a drive there. But what it really comes down to is the defense being suffocating. generating pressure, not even having to blitz that much and still generating pressure. Mason Graham being the center of this defense through three weeks. He's already got four sacks this season. He makes a bunch of big plays in this one. He has a sack late against the Panthers where he takes down Bryce Young on third and 10 and sets up a long fourth down.

1:08:41Nick Shook:They don't convert that when they turn it over on downs. Looks like the Browns might win. He's been a force. He splits a double team on that sack. Specifically, he had one earlier in this game that kind of set the tone. He kind of embodies the way this defense is running right now, which is I'm getting, I'm shedding my blocker and I'm just going straight to the quarterback. And because they're caging a lot of these guys, they're there for the taking. It's also Carson Squessinger, who's been excellent, who was the defensive rookie of the year last year. And it's the rest of this defense, the secondary, and some of these names that you may not like, you might recall Makai Blackman.

1:09:10Nick Shook:He's back there. Ronnie Hickman gets the interception to finish the game, but you still have Grant Delpit. You got Denzel Ward. Miles Harden is getting a lot of snaps. What I like the most about this group is that Jared Verst leads them in pressures today, doesn't log a sack, but also makes a difference. They're playing cohesively on that side and they're getting enough out of the offense in the fourth quarter, which is basically Deshaun Watson to Denzel Boston time every week to be able to win these games. Sumer Sports, you can get these advanced statistics from different outlets, has them in this game as the highest pressure rate in any game by any team this season.

1:09:46They have them over 60%. First with his best game, six pressures, according to NGS and three were quick. Bryce Young went into the medical tent a couple of times, came out. He was just getting hit all the time. Like they moved the ball, but he threw the ball. I think, you know, 48 times in this game, more dropbacks. They just need to get it done. They fall down to one and two. Kind of a letdown game, I would say, by the Panthers after that Falcons win.

1:10:12Jourdan Rodrigue:Yeah, that banged up in a lot of places, too, with the Panthers. and, you know, Jalen Coker comes in and he's already dealing with an injury. J.C. Horn has to leave the game with what Dave Canales was calling, I think, a quad injury. Bryce Young was talking about how he hurt his foot, which on one of those times where he was trying to escape pressure and got hit. And that did, Dave Canales said that that did affect some of the throws. I mean, you know, we've such a high ceiling for this Panthers offense. In my opinion, we've seen what it can achieve. It's staying healthy, protecting the quarterback and sustaining, you know, that play.

1:10:45Jourdan Rodrigue:Oh, so simple. You know, right. Yeah. No Devin Lloyd in this game. Why doesn't everyone do it? You know, when we did the preview show, we had no clue that Devin Lloyd could miss this game because he was so good last week. That's a big loss for them. And we're now looking at a Thursday night football game, Chuck. Oh, boy. Brown Steelers. We've had a lot of those TNFs. Yep. And it's the Browns' only time in primetime. And a couple weeks ago, I'm thinking, why would you have the Browns in primetime? But you know what this is? It's a battle for the first place in AFC North. Oh, my God. And you know who believed in the Browns?

1:11:15not Nick shook, correct. But our friend, Kevin Patra is actually the subject of the Browns social media post who notes that Kevin Patra is a dog and everyone else just, uh, the sad little kitties that picked the Panther.

1:11:32Nick Shook:I would like to thank the Browns social team. Uh, Brandon, I know you're out there. I don't know if you're listening for, um, avoiding mentioning me by name. I get enough criticism from Browns fans on a weekly basis. They are personal near and dear to me. So thank you for leaving me out of this. Good job by the Browns. Another team that I wasn't expecting to be entertaining earlier in the year. And they've been better than expected. Deshaun Watson, you know, holds off the boos, at least for now. Let's go to Jacksonville, where there was nary a boo in sight because the one beat down in the early window was the Patriots getting it put.

1:12:11Nick Shook:Third down and four from the 16-yard line. Jackson been very good on third down. Seven out of ten today in the ballgame. Trevor rolls to the left. This is a straight quarterback run. I don't like that. Still on his feet. Inside the five. And he took a knee at the one-yard line. He did not run it in. Trevor Lawrence could have run it into the end zone, but he took a knee at the one-yard line to keep the clock running. How about that? Well, I don't like that. I might have gone ahead and scored on that one. I don't like that, Frank. I love it. That was Jeff Lagerman. Talking to his buddy Frank Frangie on WJXL.

1:12:46Jourdan Rodrigue:What if as you were talking, I just kept going, I don't like that. Greg, I don't like that. I think it would make a lot of sense. I love it. This was not something to love, by the way. No matter what, it was stupid. Trevor Lawrence admitted after the game it was stupid. Yeah. He does score. Galaxy brain did it. There's eight and a half minutes left in the game. Just score. No one told him to do that. It was almost as if he didn't know how much time was left in the game. He made a joke. He was trying to help out Basial Tootin's fantasy numbers because Tootin ended up cashing in on the very next play with a touchdown.

1:13:18It's not like they saved much time. But the Jaguars were destroying the Patriots so laughably at this point that Trevor Lawrence could just kneel at the one-yard line. They go on to win 35-6. The biggest story in this game is how bad Drake May was and where the Patriots' offense is. But I do hate leading with negative because I think it's right when fans complain that you don't give them their props. And before we get to the May of it all, I do want to point out like the Jaguars dominated every facet of this game. Their pass rush was better. Their run game was better. Their pass protection was better.

1:13:59There was not one aspect of this game that I think the Patriots played well. Their discipline was poor. Like Mike Vrabel talks about not beating yourselves. They had a ton of penalties. The Jaguars were totally clean on both sides of the ball, and especially in terms of creating pressure on Drake May without blitzing while stopping the Patriots while they were blitzing really showed up. And I thought Trevor Lawrence, just a nice, mature game. We talked about Mahomes and the Chiefs. I think the Jaguars are at that point where, yeah, like if the other team wants to implode, the Jaguars are just going to run away from you.

1:14:34They're that type of team now at 2-1.

1:14:36Nick Shook:This is a team that could have had another letdown this week after the way that things went in Denver last week. They could have let that snowball and they did the exact opposite and they did it in a complete fashion. All these different Patriots drives that end up in Jacksonville territory that don't produce points. That's a team that bend up, don't break, bow up, get the stops, get the takeaways that they need. And you have a quarterback who's very capable and comfortable in this offense of running, doing exactly what Liam Cohen wants to do to the point. Like we just showed that he ends up taking a knee on a quarterback.

1:15:04Nick Shook:I know. When Lagerman said, I don't like that, I thought he was talking about Trevor Lawrence lowering his shoulder. He was. That was his first. And then he didn't like the kneel either.

1:15:12Jourdan Rodrigue:He didn't like multiple things. And then he loved it. But Trevor Lawrence, first of all, we have quarterback Island coming up. And we are going to have to have a serious conversation, not just about Trevor Lawrence for the positive, because I think he's played great to start this season. Are you going to do it? We're going to have to have a serious conversation. I don't think it's going to be that long. I mean, Big Bay's been one of the worst quarterbacks. I don't know. It feels like you've kind of been putting it off through this entire segment so far. No, I mean, this is what I wanted to do was you give the Jaguars their credit.

1:15:41Just sneak it in there. Five for five in the red zone. And Lawrence was six of eight against pressure. They were really good on like big snaps. I just wanted to point out like how excellent they were. Because on a play to play basis, these two teams didn't look that different. Like the Patriots went into the Jaguars territory seven times and didn't score a touchdown, which has almost never happened. but Drake may as bad as the end of week one was, this was like a full game of that. It was one of, if not his worst performances, I would say like as a pro I had to, it's a new low. His first fumble, he just drops the ball.

1:16:19I don't know if like it's slippery or it was indecision, but the interception that he had to Travis Hunter was absolutely brutal. And I just knew that the Patriots radio call and I haven't heard this yet, but I just know that the Patriots radio call of this throw by May is going to be painful.

1:16:41Nick Shook:Ramabre is the single back. A bunch to the right tight. William split tight left. May rolls out to the right. Dre looks toward the end zone. Throws it to the back end zone. Picked off. He threw it fading away to the right. Threw it toward the end line and right to Travis Hunter. Touchback Jacksonville. is there a chance you might see the veto at some point two to three games he's done the cardinal sin you can't do in the red area turn them all over the end zone oh my god scott zolak you're off the island you're off announcer island give me a break everyone's selling their drake may stock i'm not sure when it's going to turn around i will buy all of it i will buy all of it Now it might not turn around like until next season or until mid season.

1:17:26Right now he is playing with so little confidence in the way that the reason Zolak said that was before that interception, he's missing layups. He is not making quick decisions. It is almost, there's a random great play in there. I mean, he ends up with 200 yards and 25 attempts, but it's so like, yeah, not confident right now.

1:17:48Jourdan Rodrigue:You can see how in his head he is. I mean, It's even when he speaks postgame, which I think we have the audio of, he's so in his head. I think it's disappointing. I think if the ball starts rolling like that, we can't get out of our own way and can't get out of my own way personally.

1:18:09Nick Shook:I've got to look at myself in the mirror and take this as a turning point. It's week three. At the same time, we've got to have some fuel and realize that what we're doing out there offensively is unacceptable for three weeks. This is not to demean him in any way, but he does sound like he's almost on the verge of tears. That's how frustrated he is with how things are going right now. He is playing like a guy who is feeling all the pressure. Yeah. And then whenever something good happens, like Matt Collins makes a big play and then gets a 15-yard taunting penalty to make it fourth and 16 instead of fourth and one.

1:18:44Kyle Williams is going to score a long touchdown for Drake May. He steps out at the 12-yard line. Kyle doesn't make the greatest route fighting back for the ball on another one of Drake May's interceptions, but none of that is to excuse a quarterback who, you can hear it there, is totally lost. And it's a full offensive meltdown. Right now, they have 30 points in 29 possessions. The only offense, I believe in the Super Bowl era, that is worse on a points-per-drive basis in the first three games of the season are the Zach Wilson Jets from five years ago.

1:19:20Nick Shook:I mean, you can even see it in simple numbers like his average time to throw today. If you just didn't have it in front of you, what would you guess it would be? It's bad. 3.2? 3.4. Yeah. That's somebody who just doesn't, he's hesitant, doesn't know where to go. He's holding the ball forever. To me, too, you look at the splits of what coverages he's seeing.

1:19:39Jourdan Rodrigue:Teams are mixing up man and zone against him. You can tell by volume, they're trying to build these layups and for him underneath those zones. But I think teams are playing cloudier. And also the pressure that he's seeing, he's not handling it very well. But he is almost second-guessing every single thing he's seeing. So is Romeo Dobbs, who's been a borderline fiasco and had a couple more negative plays in this game. It is all bad right now for the Patriots. Offense, defense, not too much better in this one. You know where we saw some good offensive play, some good quarterback play. How about in Detroit?

1:20:09Let's go there. So here come the Lions now. Now second down and four from the 17 of the Jets.

1:20:16Nick Shook:Goff takes, tosses to Gibbs, running right, finds a lot of traffic, comes back left, there he goes, 15, Gibbs 10, outside 5, Gibbs, end zone, touchdown Detroit Lions. Oh, baby, what a run, Jameer Gibbs, 17 yards, went right, nothing happening, came all the way back to the left side, might have even gotten a pick from his quarterback, Jared Goff, along the way, and he gets in for the score. That's a thing of beauty right there. Not many players in the league can make that. I don't think there's any player in the league that can do that. In fact, the only person that comes to mind who is going to make that play is Barry freaking Sanders.

1:20:54Oh, yeah.

1:20:55Jourdan Rodrigue:Who was there in the audience? Who wore that uniform well. The Lions get to 2-1, beating the Jets 31-24 in an offensive shootout. Back and forth and back and forth they go. They get the final touchdown. That was Dan Miller on WXY &T. It is the Jameer Gibbs show each and every week. Yeah, that was exactly what I was going to say, Greg. This was the Jameer Gibbs game. He was totally unguardable. He had three touchdowns and 165 scrimmage yards. The Jets did not have any answers for him. Drew Petsing did a phenomenal job of getting him into space in the passing game. This was an all 11 effort or 10 other players effort, including Jared Goff throwing a little stiff arm out there, the lead blocker.

1:21:37Jourdan Rodrigue:you know, to get him into space and to maximize what he could do. Just like you saw and heard his control over his body, the change of direction, the speed, explosive play potential was all there. And you want to credit to the Jets who made it a legitimate game. It's 24-24 late after a good challenge by Aaron Glenn that reversed a no-touchdown call on the field and ultimately ruled a Garrett Wilson touchdown. And then a laser by your guy, Geno Smith, for the two-point conversion to Sterling Shepard. but it's a huge gain by Isaac Tesla that flips the field. And then who else at the end of the game, but a wide open Jameer Gibbs in the flat to ice this game.

1:22:15Jourdan Rodrigue:Ultimately the game winner.

1:22:16Nick Shook:Goff's going to work out of the gun. He's got Gibbs to his right. There's the snap golf back. Lost it to Gibbs, right side gives wide open five end zone. Touchdown Detroit Lions. Jameer Gibbs over the right side. Jared Goff found him. There was nobody between him in the end zone. and you're not going to catch up to him. Good job there by Kingsley and Nagbari for the Jets, who had no chance to make that play, but was so disgusted by Jameer Gibbs clicking his heels over the goal line that he gave him a good shove and didn't let him enjoy it as much on the ground.

1:22:50Jourdan Rodrigue:Yeah, and even then still, that Gino and the Jets, they really had a legitimate chance to drive to tie and or win the game, depending on whether or not they could have converted at the end. And Kelvin Shepard, the Detroit Lions defensive coordinator, who has taken a beating the last couple of weeks for his team giving up all of the yards and points that they have. He calls the exact right blitz at the exact right time against his former mentor's team, Aaron Glenn's team. Chuck Clark sacks Geno, forces the fumble. Jack Campbell recovers. It's game over in Detroit. This is the recipe for them. Like, Geno goes over 300 yards, only has six incompletions, and throws three touchdowns.

1:23:30He played great. In no way can they be satisfied by their defensive effort, the Lions that is, and yet they just need to make enough plays to win shootouts and hope Brian Branch comes back and figures out things during the season. And I love that. Like, Gino's just throwing it up for Garrett Wilson, who looks like one of the best wide receivers in the NFL.

1:23:49Nick Shook:That's why I still have a lot of confidence in the Jets at 1-2 because this was a game that, I mean, last week they should have won. This week they had a chance to, they fought their way back into this game. This fourth quarter, by the way, was insane. It starts with a Gibbs touchdown run to make it 24 to 10. Then you have two jets touchdowns, including a successful two point try on the second time around. And then that Gibbs, like there's a ton of scoring in this final fourth quarter, which kind of falls in line with what the Lions defense has been like so far. But when it comes to the jets, the fact that they're still fighting in this, in this game and that they can produce these types of points and that Garrett Wilson and Gino Smith have such a good connection and that Gino was able to find Kenny and Sadiq for a touchdown earlier in this game.

1:24:24Nick Shook:I still believe in this group. I just need them to finish. Okay. I am ready. We make tiny table predictions on the show. Jordan said Kenyon Sadiq was going to get two touchdowns. He goes over 100 yards and gets a touchdown. That's worth at least half a point in whatever point system we're giving you. Great job. Great job on Kenyon Sadiq.

1:24:44Jourdan Rodrigue:Thank you so much. And Jeremy Ruckert got a touchdown. Yes, Jeremy Ruckert got Kenyon Sadiq's second touchdown. So for me, this actually, I love what the Jets are doing for the most part. I think that they look like a very creditable team. And I appreciate, too, that Aaron Glenn's decision-making is improving in terms of the situational stuff. Like I mentioned, that was a good challenge that he had to make sure that Garrett Wilson touchdown counted. To me, what I am getting kind of annoyed at is I need to understand why the Jets are not maximizing their 12 personnel the way that they could. And I understand game flow and the looks that you get and all of these things.

1:25:24Jourdan Rodrigue:and I'll have to go back and watch probably the last two weeks to really dig deep. Because none of them can block. It's on the personnel. You know, Mason Taylor is hurt, and Tadiq can kind of block, but Rucker, Jelani Woods, those aren't those dudes. But they're in 11 personnel so much, you're not asking your receivers to block either. So to me, it's like the way that they get better at some of the chips and some of the things they have to do is to play more football because their success rate when they're in at least 12 personnel was at 58 % today with the two touchdowns, and their yards per play was the highest that it was by far for this game.

1:26:01Jourdan Rodrigue:And so I understand mixing it up a little bit. When in the third quarter, though, that was what actually kick-started Geno and this team and this offense was to activate the tight ends through those 12 personnel packages and actually start really moving the ball. You felt the Jets. You felt them coming after the Lions in those moments, in that third quarter drive where they are getting the tight ends. more activated with Garrett Wilson sprinkled in there too. So the Lions get to two and one. I feel like the Lions are lucky to be two and one. And this is another game that they managed. They were lucky to win that Saints game.

1:26:32This is back and forth. They are figuring things out, but their offense deserves a lot of credit. They are a team and Lions fans. I know you're going to have some complaints and everything, but you're now an organization that figures out how to win games when you're not totally at your best, which is a huge step forward. And you can change and get better defensively as the season gets along. The Jets, I feel like, have been a little better than their 1-2 record would indicate.

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1:30:25Nick Shook:Goal! It's good! He's perfect on the outseason. Ice water in his veins. Spencer Schrader gives the Colts the lead once more. Spencer, mother bleeping Schrader made me spit across the table. Thank you. I was in the splash zone. He's been one of the best kickers in the league. He was great in the preseason. I love that Matt Taylor and WFNI gave that call the excitement it deserved because there was still some time left. The Texans couldn't do anything with it. Ultimately, I thought they might have Kaimi Fairbairn try a 65 yarder, but apparently he just doesn't have that sort of leg. Really? I don't know.

1:31:11So they tried for a Hail Mary after CJ Stroud got relatively close. The Colts get their first victory of the season, 19 to 17. The Texans are winless. And one happy person, as a little bit of a non sequitur, is our friend Henry Hodgson, because next week's London game could have had two winless team, Colts commanders. Instead, they pulled off two upsets and the Colts, one of those teams is going to be two and two after next week. Their season could change here. And I think it's a well-earned victory by the Colts who dominated much of this game.

1:31:45Nick Shook:Yeah, much of this game. The score didn't really reflect it because they didn't quite finish these drives. Spencer Schrader finished the drives then with field goals. But it was a team that I think was very complete in the passing game. Daniel Jones looking very strong and working with a stable of receivers that most would complain about, most would struggle with. It was the Josh Downs show early in this game. He had 11 targets. He only caught five of them, but for 77 yards, Keenan Allen got involved after we thought Keenan Allen might be on his way out. He catches a touchdown pass as well. Tyler Warren had one bad drop, but otherwise was a strong contributor as well.

1:32:15Nick Shook:So that was like, okay, not a good day for Jonathan Taylor, who at one point took a toss left and fumbled and then picked it up in the middle of running after the football and continued running and for a small gain. And it just, they didn't have balance offensively, but they did well enough in the passing game. And then defensively, they shut down this Texans offense. This Texans offense had no life for most of this game. And it wasn't until basically they get one stop off of a turnover forced by the Texans defense. And they go down the field in seven plays, 54 yards, two and a half, about three minutes to score and take the lead.

1:32:47Nick Shook:And you're thinking they're going to pull this one out. Right. And they didn't. I thought, because I checked this game with about 8, 10 minutes to go, and the Texans at that point didn't even have the ball, and they were getting almost tripled in total yardage. It was incredibly one-sided, like 250 to 80. And then they get a long field goal drive. As you mentioned, they force the turnover with a sack fumble, and they get a touchdown drive off of that, and it feels like, wow, they could save their season right here with 10 points in the fourth quarter and steal a game that they couldn't get. And they give up a field goal to the Colts.

1:33:25And I know it's putting too much on the defense, but if they want to be special, like they just need to get one stop and they win the game. And Schrader has to kick a long field goal. They give up a long yardage situation. But ultimately, like Indianapolis does get 300 yards in this game. They haven't been a shutdown defense. So while the offense wears most of this, they got stuffed on fourth and short. The passing game was dreadful most of the game. the running game was even worse. Like the defense hasn't been good enough either in big moments. Yeah.

1:33:53Nick Shook:And I think Texans, you know, I spoke of that formula earlier that was familiar to Browns fans, which is like ride the defense and hope the offense can do enough. They're not even getting that much from the offense in these last two games. There's cause for legitimate concern because this is a Colts defense that statistically was bad in a number of different categories. And you're only able to muster 17 points. And until the final two minutes of the fourth quarter, 10 points against this team, that's a major red flag for this offense was just lacks a lot of life. Now, I know that Texans Colts games get weird.

1:34:20Nick Shook:We know that. It's a division rivalry. Things get weird. This wasn't weird. It was just ugly on the Texans part. They have a lot to figure out on that side. You didn't want us to get to this game too early because you were ashamed as someone who was assigned to it to cover it, which I think is a little harsh. Well, I mean, I would hate to have to track the downfall of your Super Bowl.

1:34:38Jourdan Rodrigue:Oh, my God. It's embarrassing for us. So the thing, the first couple of weeks, I think you could find real faults with the Texans defense and significant issues and breaks at the worst time and not enough pressure in week one, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. This, to me, as the dust has settled a little bit off of that kind of start. And yes, not showing up in key moments. That's this defense. if it wants to be great historic, the way that they talked about it before the season, talked about it to me in a, in a very poorly aging story that I wrote for the athletic, you know, that they, they wanted all of this for themselves.

1:35:13Jourdan Rodrigue:And to me, okay, you're still, you're at the end of the day, you're holding a team under 20 points. You have to be able to trust an offense that you just paraded around the entire off season, talking about this offensive line is, is going to be better because we've adjusted it again, year two of this play caller with this quarterback. CJ Stroud, for the most part, has been fine. Yes, there are injuries in the receiving court. Those are significant. The run game is not working. They're not getting pushed, and the run game is not working. To me, it's like the two things that they knew they needed to fix were the run game and some of the sustainability with this offense in general.

1:35:54Jourdan Rodrigue:And those two things are not working, and the defense is not where it hoped it would be. Right. It's it's complimentary bad football, because part of the reason they hold them to 19 points is because the Texans defense can never get off the field. They give up a 13 play drive, a 12 play drive, a nine play drive and a 15 play drive that goes into the fourth quarter. And so many of those are ending in a couple of those are ending in field goals, you know, some in touchdown. But like, it's just all bad. I don't think the season's over. They started 0 and 3. They've got the league right where they want.

1:36:22Jourdan Rodrigue:This feels worse than a year ago. and talking about predictions that are aging well, that it is shaping up to be the worst Super Bowl prediction I have ever made. But I'm not giving up because when they turn it all around, we can't claim credit. It's really my fault. I'm dragging you down. No, no, it's all bad. You know what else is bad? The Giants and the Titans game. Not a good football game.

1:36:45Nick Shook:24 seconds to go in the game. Giants by five. Ward takes the snap. Back to throw. Pumps. He's under pressure. He's going to escape to his left. Now lobs it in the end zone. Intercepted by Javon Holland. Javon Holland saves the day. The Hulk. His third interception as Ward was flushed out of the pocket. The Giants have dropped two interceptions today. But Javon Holland comes through with a clutch. Javon Holland with a great interception. Leaping in the rain and an even better celebration. Great moment. The Giants get to 2-1. They win 12-7 in a game where they don't get a touchdown. Where I think Jameis Winston hurt his job security, even though they won.

1:37:37But man, that was a disappointing ending. It was just so fitting. The Titans offense was bad, and Cam Ward was bad in so many different ways. They had three and outs on five of their first six drives. Just run, run, pass. The runs are terrible.

1:37:55Jourdan Rodrigue:Hide the quarterback. Just hide the quarterback is absolutely right. And then in the second half, they actually moved the ball quite well on three straight long drives to end the games. But two of those long drives ended in total disaster. One where they don't get the third and long and Cam Ward and his receiver start walking off the field dejectedly because they failed in the red zone again. But then the coaches are like, no, no, go back out there. Go for it on fourth down. Instead, they barely get the fourth down snap off instead of taking a timeout. And he just basically throws the ball away on fourth and goal.

1:38:37That's when they're down 12-0. They get a touchdown. But in one of the, I think it was on the touchdown drive. Maybe it wasn't. he had one of the biggest groaners of a dropped interception on one of the worst decisions when they were about to go score anyway. So like he had that interception, but I'm glad they mentioned it on the call. He had two more total groaners that the Giants could have had. And ultimately, if we're talking ethical football, it would have been, it was hard to see either one of these teams win, but man, the Titans offense did not feel like they deserve to win a football game.

1:39:11I give them a little bit of a break.

1:39:13Nick Shook:And I give the Giants a little bit of a break. And it's only because this game, like last week's game at MetLife Stadium, was played amid a torrential downpour. Okay. And it really ruins the product. It wasn't as crazy as the Jets game, which I feel like I gave more of a pass to, but you're right. But it hurts the product in these scenarios. And it also hurts a quarterback like Cam Ward, who shout to our senior editor, Jeremy Bergman, up in the second floor of this building. We're sitting there watching. And I know he's watching Titans Giants. And I just keep hearing repeatedly, Cam, what are you doing?

1:39:45Nick Shook:Oh, come on. And then the groaner of the interception that ends the game just captured the entire experience. So congrats to the Giants for winning this game. Like you just described, probably not one of those wins are going to be proud of, but they all count the same. Right, they do. And Ward also had like a wide open receiver on another, I think it was the second, the third down before another failed red zone. Like I said, like the last, you know, three, four drives of the game, like the Titans often suddenly woke up. You saw Carnell Tate show up for the first time all season. He ends up with six catches, 58 yards.

1:40:17Wandale is like celebrating. They have all these terrible shots of Brian Dable. Oh yeah, it's the Brian Dable sort of revenge game kind of. No, I mean, it was the Giants fan revenge getting to see Dable so frustrated.

1:40:31Jourdan Rodrigue:Giants fans probably loved it. It poured on the guy. Yeah, he was up in the booth, but the booth shot was the greatest revenge that they could have. It wasn't like a flattering angle, and also he just was getting very angry all game long.

1:40:45Nick Shook:The whole, this is the staff to help this offense, and Cam Ward take the next step has not materialized.

1:40:51Jourdan Rodrigue:I'm bummed because I thought in the second half a couple of times, and last week, they had, first of all, he had some definite moments. He made a couple of great throws, used his legs more last week. This just is unfortunate. It is. And the Giants, I don't know what they take out of this game. Brian Burns did wind up playing and was a situational pass rusher, but did not make much of an impact. I thought Arvel Reese had a good game. Kim Scadaboo ends up with their most reception yards on the game, 40, and was a battering ram. They actually got good juice out of Najee Harris. He kind of woke the offense up in this game at one point.

1:41:28They never finished their drives. I thought Jameis Winston in some ways looked more concerning than a week ago because even though he wasn't as inaccurate, he just was holding the ball and not sure what he was seeing. That's what he does. Yeah, but it was not encouraging. And so there were some pregame reports that they might call Jimmy Garoppolo, that they might make a trade. They are two and one, and their schedule's pretty easy. Their backup right now is Jake Hayner. They are going to add someone else to this mix. We will see who it is. but buys them a week, buys them another win, and they can try to figure things out and improve as they go.

1:42:04They get to 2-1. Let's talk about two teams with much higher aspirations on the season. Let's go to Sunday Night Football in Denver.

1:42:12Nick Shook:Stafford by himself. Broncos bring five. Stafford gives ground. Throws a ball that is intercepted! Intercepted by Talanoa Lufunga! And it's over! Hufunga to the rescue. He gets two. His first two as a Bronco. It was. Oh, the Bungos. The Talanoa-Hufunga game. Two interceptions in the second half as the Denver Broncos put up 30. Beating the Rams 30-26. 30 after halftime. Trailed 16-0. At the break, Matthew Stafford, who was game for a comeback until that final play. Not sure what was going on there. Devontae Adams didn't really look. It was doomed from the start. And frankly, this second half was doomed for the Los Angeles Rams after playing so well in the first half, give up a couple touchdowns in the third quarter.

1:43:16They're driving with the lead in the fourth quarter. And that's when Hufunga initially turns this game around.

1:43:26Nick Shook:Stafford stands back there by himself. Five-man pressure. Stafford quick drill. Ball intercepted. Talanoa Hufunga down the west sideline. Hufunga cuts up inside. Inside the 30, 20, 15, 10, 5. Touchdown! Talanoa Hufunga. His first interception as a Bronco. a memorable one. That's Dave Logan on KOA. What an innocent time it was when it was 19 to 16 with under five minutes to go. Finishes at 30 to 26, and the Broncos get to 2-1. Rams fall to 1-2. Hufanga giveth, gave up a big gain earlier on that drive, and then he taketh away with that big interception. A missed opportunity for the Rams. Some bad calls by the refs on the Broncos.

1:44:20last touchdown drive. So much went wrong for them. Where do you want to start, Jordan?

1:44:25Jourdan Rodrigue:With like some multiplicities, which we're just going to juggle a lot of things at once here on this here show. The Rams were up 16-0 at halftime and in the third quarter ended with zero net yards because of lost yards they had taken and then a bad sack from Matthew Stafford that nullified the rest. that nullified the rest of the yards that they had gotten. That was a Hufanga sack on a deep blitz where they showed Zach Allen wide on the edge to sort of change the blocking configuration. The Broncos defense really brought it in the second half. The Rams offense totally imploded. Pressure starts getting to Matthew Stafford.

1:45:13Jourdan Rodrigue:He finishes the game six of 20 for like 81 yards and an interception off of pressure. And it absolutely inverted the game. Terrible, terrible pass interference call at the end. Yes, but does not neutralize the fact that the Rams gave up a 16-0 lead. Yes, and look, the Broncos also moved the ball down to get into that position. They end up finally getting it over the line after an excruciating sequence. It's Bo Nix with the Drew Brees trademark Mark jump over the line of scrimmage at the goal line to get ahead with 47 seconds to go. Stafford had responded to that pick six in very typical Stafford fashion with three passes, including a deep shot for 48 yards on a blitz by Vance Joseph.

1:46:01The blitz, you know, Nate Tice called an emotional blitz where he leaves Riley Moss out there. He gets beat on a double move and Mumfield goes for 48 yards for them to take the lead. So it's exciting. It's back and forth. And I have yet to see Shook Bo Nix play a normal game. Like this is like people think this is a weird game. Oh, they were shut out in the first half and then they go crazy in the second half. It's like, no, this is just kind of what the Broncos do. And he made a number of really great throws in the second half as discombobulated as he looked in the first half.

1:46:34Nick Shook:I don't want to sound like the biggest hater in the world because I know Broncos fans think I hate them. And I this is not why. But I think that in review of this game that was won by the Broncos tonight, Broncos fans can look and say, you know, we didn't play our best football for four quarters. You know, they had us in the first half, not going to lie. And then Bo Nix and the Broncos wake up again. A lot of this second half followed a script that was pretty similar to the Jaguars game the week prior. All that was missing was the Riley Moss interception until Talanoa Hufunga picks off Matthew Stafford, and takes it back to the house.

1:47:11Nick Shook:They frustrate me, the Broncos do, because they cannot play a complete game. And they really frustrate me because they look so much better when they come alive in the second half. But all credit to them, they're the ones who overcame the 16-point deficit and won this football game. They deserve it. And they did it without a running game. I felt like it's Knicks having to lift up his running game, whereas on the other side, I feel like Stafford in the passing game was kind of letting down after the early drives their running game, because their drives, They kept settling for field goals in the first half because of negative plays.

1:47:40It was a lot of sacks. It was a holding call and a running play, but it was also other penalties where they ended up in long yardages, and they're settling for field goals, and then the Broncos made them pay.

1:47:50Jourdan Rodrigue:Yeah, they were only up 16-0. I mean, that was a big comeback for the Broncos. You outgained the Broncos in the first half, 273 to 67 net yards. Jalen Watson leaves the game with a shoulder injury.

1:48:02Nick Shook:Everything changes.

1:48:03Jourdan Rodrigue:Emmanuel Forbes comes in. the Broncos score on back-to-back touchdown possessions. Emmanuel Forbes commits a special teams penalty that sets the Broncos up in great field position on one of those penalties. It just, you could, it was an implosion. It was like the most clear inversion of what had happened in that first half. For half over half, it was like watching two different football games.

1:48:29Nick Shook:Our dear friend, Patrick Lavon, insists that momentum does not exist. This was a great example of a game. Data.

1:48:36Jourdan Rodrigue:We have data now. Definitely exists. I mean, until it didn't when he hits Mumfield three straight times and they intercepted the ball that would end the game. But the momentum made the referees make the bad call because then we would be having a completely different conversation. That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm just saying teams are streaky. I'm more on Patrick's side of this. And both teams responded. And Stafford did a great job even getting them in position to get inside the 20 for that last play. But it was not to be. And ultimately, look, the pass rushes kind of took turns for the two different teams.

1:49:11But Nick Benito had a big sack in this game. They made a couple more difference-making sacks. They're still waiting to get a little more out of Aaron Donald. Kobe Turner did make a big play in the fourth quarter where he hits Bo Nix's arm, and that turns into an interception. I just think these were two really good teams that are going to have a chance to go deep in the playoffs that are still figuring out who they are at this point in the season. And, you know, one of them's got to lose. But one of them doesn't have Puka Nakua playing. And after Sean McVay said he's going to return next week, literally said that, we hear from one of the insiders, well, you know, hopefully he returns, but surgery is possible.

1:49:53But they're trying to avoid it. I'm kind of noticing what's happening between McVay and some of the reporting and Puka not playing in two straight games after finishing week one. That's something happening. Miles Garrett's not going to be back for six weeks or so. And the Broncos, meanwhile, I think are just kind of figuring out their offense and Vance Joseph ultimately making enough good calls. Just a good game. Sometimes it's a good game between two good teams. Someone's got to win.

1:50:15Nick Shook:Neither of these teams are in their final form. That's the beauty of it being week three is that they're nowhere near their final form for better or for worse. But I really would like it if Pat Bryant hadn't drawn that DPI. Okay. Okay, that's fair. That was OPA. No, you're absolutely right that you don't like a game being ruined.

1:50:31Jourdan Rodrigue:Well, that's the thing. Chuck and I were talking about this before you came in, Greg. It was just like, you know, multiple things being true. Really hate that a game can be swung that way so significantly with a call like that. Yes. That also looked, and I'd have to go back and watch, but it looked like Josh Wallace had come down with the interception. At the same time, a call wouldn't be swinging a game like that if you hadn't let the team come back in. Which is the same argument that Sean McVay and the Rams were trying to tell Saints fans after a much more blatant pass interference call. Sean Payton on the other sideline of that one still.

1:51:06Meanwhile, Saints fans are like, this does not make us feel any better that Sean Payton gets the benefit here. Look, they're not in their full form. We're getting closer. This was a great week three recap. An incredible week three. Thank you to the NFL gods for delivering a bunch of incredible games, including the one in Rio. And we actually had some boots on the ground. A friend of the show, Ali Hunter, who works for TalkSport, I've worked with him in the past, with Will Gavin, was there covering the game. And he sent a report. When we have boots on the ground in Rio, we might as well listen.

1:51:40Hola, and bienvenido to the Maracana, Greg, and the gang. Wow, what a game we had here at the home of Brazilian football. Rio de Janeiro really did not disappoint. It was sensational. The crowd was incredible. It definitely was a Cowboys crowd. I would say 60 to 40, but they were loud, those Ravens fans, right at the end. Loads of different jerseys all over the place as well. It was just loud. It was such a great atmosphere, and we get to do it all over again next year as well. Hopefully, you can come down. and look, Greg, I'll put you up on my sofa. You're about the right length for it.

1:52:25Nick Shook:Hey, look, man, somebody who spent a lot of the last month sleeping on my own couch. Oh, poor Nick. We got to get into what's happened since you moved to Los Angeles. Not happy with your... You'd fit on my couch. Former landlord. Great job there by Ollie. We appreciate just the crowd pop and the dig. So many great Ollys in our universe. And yeah, he's now a Brazil resident, So he covered that game and they will be back in Rio. That was a success. Despite the field not being incredible, the crowd delivered. Week three has delivered. So Monday Night Football has a lot to live up to. We will see if it's Case Keenum.

1:53:00Probably. Might be Tyson Bajan, who's active for the game. We will be covering this game live on YouTube, Jordan. So everyone, check us out. Just a few minutes right after that game. That'll be Bears and Eagles. Week three was a lot of fun. We appreciate everyone who's been checking us out. And what did he say? Bienvenidos?

1:53:25Jourdan Rodrigue:Nailed it.

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