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22:06DVOA Darlene's. This one's like a little tricky. But it's not like the normal Sam that we've seen before. It's like Dom Sam.

22:16Jourdan Rodrigue:I know what you're saying. I'd love for you to not explain this. No, I don't need to. I think everyone knows. Yep. Who doesn't like a Dom Sam? You're up next. Oh, God. NFC East. cool all right gang here we go so i'm gonna start um are we going in alphabetical order i yeah do it do it by the city name that'll help out because all right look do it by whatever's in your i'll give i'll give you time i'll give you know everyone behind the scenes time we're putting up graphics it's on the nfl channel the words dom sam and um me just saying ouchie or whatever uh is is making it onto the nfl channel and then you can also watch us on youtube and i've been noticing the subscribers they've been they've been picking up a little bit so so just like subscribe support the show and support what colleen is okay here we go the nfc east dallas cowboys first up here five words are filing a missing parsons report oh hey i love a pun thank you i feel like that really doesn't need uh no i think it explains everything yeah they are very disappointing this year and the defense is a massive reason why um okay so next one is the uh new york giants i can do alphabetical order straight off of my head okay you can't sit with us and that is from mean girls and we all it's it's a couple different reasons why okay sit with us because there are so many players that are injured that there's just not room also brian day ball you can't sit with us yeah oh you're out um so that's the giants so normally i would i would hear that and think like they're the cool kids you know what i mean like but no like literally you can't sit with them yeah you have to go home you've been dismissed they don't seem they don't seem that cool right now like that's not a table but they were you would want to sit at i like i actually was liking the giants for a second and i hated the fact that i was liking the giants for a second because Jackson Dart and Cam Scadaboo were super fun and they were exciting and they were ridiculous and they were such bros and I hate it that I was like into it so I I'm gonna have a problem going forward I think with this team but for now yeah you can't sit with did you see that the animation that Malik neighbors happened to post on his Instagram story overnight I wouldn't have seen this either, but now it's getting passed around.

24:51We'll see if we can get permission to it, but it just was about the difference of what Jackson Dart is like at home and then maybe when he's out with the boys. Oh, fun. We'll see. We'll tease it for later. Alright, I love that. I recommend everyone go check that out. Perfect. The Eagles. Philadelphia Eagles torn like Natalie Imbruglia. The great Natalie and Bruglia had such a banger of a song. I'm torn because I love the defense right now. And I really like all of the moves that Howie Roseman made and Jalen Phillips adding him back into the fold with Vic Fangio. He played so well against the Packers.

25:33I'm really into the defense right now. The offense though is so inconsistent. I don't really know what to think. So I am literally torn on this team. Yes, they have the record and they're getting the wins, but I'm trying to protect myself from myself. Don't they feel like though, this is a team and organization that they almost need, they need it like this. They need the chaos. Their love language is, is like an ugly regular season where everyone's starting to doubt them. And then suddenly like at the end, it just ends up being perfect. I hate when you're right. You're right. That's my love language to chaos it's the only way i can thrive you need deadlines yes chaos you need everything falling apart and then you're just like okay we figured it out right now while everyone is at their wits end and you're right maybe that is their secret sauce can i could i like bring you back to last season around this time and like how they were and then can i bring you back to the final three weeks of the season in 2017 when they won the super bowl and everyone just assumed not only is the season over but every like the most beautiful eagle season of all time is completely ruined and there was zero hope left and then they just you know won the super bowl it was like okay yeah how in the world is nick foals and this eagles offense going to play against the minnesota vikings defense and then yeah they did it yeah but that's also not counting the year in between all of that okay the eagles just collapsed and the chaos just like it uh closed in on them that happens um okay and the last one in the division the washington commanders fix you by cold and i just you know it's it's a song about helping someone through a hard time when they're feeling very low and sort of crashed out yeah and i was looking up the lyrics and it's kind of like right on the nose when you try your best but you don't succeed when you get what you want but not what you need.

27:33When you feel so tired but you can't sleep, you're stuck in reverse, man. I mean, I don't know if they're getting what they want unless that's like a trip to Madrid, which is cool. Okay, well, so in my mind, they got what they want when they finally signed Terry McLaurin to the deal, but it was like a little maybe too late. Still so annoyed by that, personally. Right? And they got it last year, too, what they wanted, but not what they needed.

27:57Jourdan Rodrigue:At what cost? It hurts. Alright, Jordan, you're up with the NFC North. Okay, so NFC North, we're going to start with the Chicago Bears. Their good is getting better. You guys, a reference to Ben Johnson's thing that he chants with all of his players in the locker room, scrum, after every win. Good, better, best. Never let it rest until your good gets better and your better gets best. The Chicago Bears. Wait, that's up in his locker room? He chants it every time. That's right. Is this a Dr. Seuss? situation? It's Shel Silverstein, I believe. And he said, never let it rest until your good gets better and your better gets best.

28:37Jourdan Rodrigue:Chicago Bears, their good is getting better. You guys, hope is here. Oh, I do like hope. It just goes to show, you can say whatever you want with these motivational slogans. As long as you can call a play, you'll get by with it. If it's catchy and you can scream it with veins popping out of your neck, it works. Well, Peyton Manning has showed us that Motivate and Manning, you can really make anything, turn anything into a slogan. This ad sponsored by whatever commercial is that. If they, definitely not progressive. Is it progressive? Maybe it is. Maybe it is. I take it back. I like the backup.

29:09It probably is. That's one of those things that if they were two and seven, everyone would be mocking them for it. But since they're winning, then it's awesome.

29:16Jourdan Rodrigue:Detroit Lions, Dan Campbell, Dan Campbell versus offensive regression, which to me is the physical embodiment of Dan Campbell as the Spider-Man who's like holding the two trains as the trains are crashing. And it's Dan Campbell. Like for real. And it's offensive aggression. His little glasses are on his face and all. He's straining to try to pull this offense back into what he knows it could be. We'll see if it works. That was more than five words, though. Well, I'm explaining it. Oh, okay. Did you miss my five words? Greg, the word. I just meant there was no stopping. I just kept going. Well, I'm trying to keep the pace.

29:53Jourdan Rodrigue:You know, we were told to keep this quick. Oh, we were told it's nationwide, by the way. Nation nationwide. Oh, got it. It's on your side. I got it. All right. Green Bay Packers. Too much talent for this. Doesn't need explanation. Minnesota Vikings. One personality with multiple moods. That does need explanation. I want some. One personality with multiple moods. So is that, I would interpret that as Kevin O 'Connell, who seems like a complex man. Maybe there's lots of sides to Kevin O 'Connell. or as a team. I would think so, but I think as a team, we know what this team is supposed to be. We know what they came into the year projecting themselves as, and all of a sudden you're getting this extreme whiplash depending on which version of himself the quarterback is every single week.

30:43Jourdan Rodrigue:And so you do have a purported team identity, right? Yeah. But you never know actually what mood you're going to be in that day or what mood the quarterback is in or what version of the quarterback you get. So one personality with multiple moods. It's like bipolar and being, yeah, dealing with someone who's bipolar. Kevin O 'Connell, who always presents very, like, under control and good guy in public. You've started to see, like, the cracks a little bit. Like, he's starting to get, like, just a little bit annoyed. Lafleur-like. The pressure there in Minnesota. All right. NFC South. That was it for that division, right?

31:20Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. First up, we have, I'm doing the cities here, the Carolina, nope, the Atlanta Falcons. Gotcha, everybody. I do like that it's doubling as a test for can you alphabetize quickly.

31:37Jourdan Rodrigue:See, this is why I was stressed two minutes before we started. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, okay. Atlanta Falcons, starting with the A's here. Southern hospitality. Why? because of their inability to sustain drives, they are really showing their opponents Southern hospitality. You did it in two words. Yeah. That's going to be tough to top. Oh, don't worry. There's some ones that are coming up that are just one word. There's only one way to do that. Are you not having a stopwatch out for the pauses, Greg? She gave a good pause. I'll accept that pause. I'll accept that pause. Okay. Next up, we have the Carolina Panthers.

32:20Cats out of the bag. Oh. Because, you know, they're coming off of the three-game winning streak. I feel like if cats out of the bag, it's like they're not coming back in. It's going to stay bad. It's almost like a prediction. I kind of hope that that's not true, but I felt like the cat was in the bag. They had it in the bag when they were winning. Maybe it's Schrodinger's cat. You don't know if they're alive or dead. Oh, God. Keep pounding. All right. Yeah. Okay. Then we have the New Orleans Saints. Aw, shucks. Oh, I love a pun. Yeah. He's shown some promise. Absolutely. And they got their first road win in week 10.

33:08So I'm happy for it. I want that to be almost more fun. Yeah, it's like, that was like a nice little pat on the head for them. Oh, shucks. Yeah. All right. And then we have the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who, this one for me, it's a little piratey, like an RM80 type deal. Okay. Are you coming up with it right now? No. Okay. Not at all. But they are about to go into the toughest part of their schedule. So I was thinking like along the terms of a pirate and a stormy sea, and they have to weather the storm, but they still have a favorable situation. So it's almost like they're an annoyed pirate. Okay.

33:48But it is our matey, right? Isn't that? That's the phrase is our matey. Yes. Okay. So I've just never spelled it out before, so I wasn't sure.

33:58Jourdan Rodrigue:I'm curious how you did spell it. I would spell it. Just R. I would spell it A-R, but like six R's. Right. Our matey. Yeah. And how does that describe the team again? It describes them because, you know, they had the recent loss, obviously. But they've weathered the storm of all of the injuries that they've dealt with. And now they're about to go into a tough part of their schedule. But they've gotten through this so far. Okay. That now, our matey. wait and see what happens next. We might workshop that one during the break. That one, yeah. A lot of mine need help, guys. No, mine as well. I'm enjoying this segment so much.

34:48Eric, we're halfway through.

34:51Jourdan Rodrigue:Yeah, is this going as fast as you thought it was? You're in charge? No, I think it's going at a good pace. Can you just give us like your halftime speech slash evaluation of how we're doing before we do it. I'm involved in this way too much. You guys are doing great. Okay. Especially the alphabetizing live. That's my favorite part, actually. Thank you. A, B, C, D, E. At all. Everyone has their own. Oh, aren't we hooked on phonics? Let's take a quick break, and we're going to do the rest of the league, and yes, we'll talk a little TNF at the end of the show, too. Great.

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39:17We have some breaking news here on NFL Daily. Whoa, what is it? Colleen Wolfe was making up the Buccaneers slogan as she went, which is totally fine. Listen, here is the situation. I'm a terrible liar, but I also am such a preparer. And when I looked at my notes, I realized that was the only team that I just did not have one for. and I had all of the reasoning, but not the actual phrase. So can I submit like shiver me timbers or something instead in place of that? I think you did well with it in the end, but it was, yeah. I think everyone knew that I was lying and I would just like to say that is a characteristic of a good person.

40:00I'm a bad liar. And I have come around to admit this and I apologize to the listeners for that. What a save. That's like someone who's in a job interview. Like, what's your biggest weakness? I work too hard. You know, I'm just perfectionist. I don't have a bad work balance. That was incredible. Glad to get that off. Same thing happened to me, too. Our producer on the NFL channel side, Quab, asked me what my Steelers one was on the way. And I was like, oh, wait, that's the one I forgot. Thank you so much. It happens to the best of us. And by saying that, I was saying the best of us is me.

40:34Jourdan Rodrigue:Yeah, another interview trick, by the way. It was a little subtle trick of phrase there. All right, let's do NFC North. it's my turn and I'm going to go with the Baltimore Ravens to start and the phrase would be feeling alive closer to death wait because every Colleen show that we do together that is five words, it seems longer I mean don't you, you know you hear that with people whether it's something that happens in their life or something they go through like getting a little closer to death every Tuesday. We do this every Tuesday. It's going to make you feel alive. A lot of death talk. And for John Harbaugh and this Ravens team, you know, falling to one and five.

41:19At this point, like they've done the regular season thing. They've like won MVPs. They've won a lot of games. It's like to just feel a little more alive, you had to fall to one and five. Yeah, you feel to the brink and back. You have seen the worst. You know what it's like and now it's like, ah, almost like a near-death experience. Yeah, yeah. That's where I was going. You could have just said

41:39Jourdan Rodrigue:a near-death experience, but I guess you went your way. Well, I like my way better. You know what? We should make this a collaborative effort, maybe. Go back to the Bucs real quick. The Cincinnati Bengals, the words are calamitous, wretched, ruinous, pathetic defense. Wow, pathetic seems personal. I don't know why. Ruinous is an amazing word. Ruinous. It has ruined. It's ruined so many things. It's ruined Sundays for those fans. It's like ruined the excitement over Joe Burrow possibly returning. It's just horrible. I know. The Cleveland Browns. The curse of Deshaun Watson. Don't think much explanation really needs, but that really explains the last four years.

42:31And then the Steelers, which I did come up with after QAWB reminded me, which is same s***, different year. Just like...

42:42Jourdan Rodrigue:So not only did you come up with one, you also gave Quab extra work. Sure, that's true. But I said it to him and he said, yeah, that's perfect. And that's only four words. It's like, oh, Mike Tomlin, your team is getting outscored overall, but you have a winning record and you seem like just targeted for losing that first weekend of the wildcard round once again. Westafis? Same stuff. They weirdly have... They're too interesting to be put into the west of a spot. They usually get, I feel like now, that Saturday night NBC spot where it's like good ratings, but they probably won't give you a good game.

43:18All right, Jordan, you're up. AFC East.

43:20Jourdan Rodrigue:AFC East. Dream with me here, people. Okay, I'm going to start with the Bills. And imagine this to the popular lit song, Their Own Worst Enemy. What's the popular lit song? Is that lit? Lit's the artist. Yeah, but what's the actual song? That's the song. It's no surprise to me. I am my own worst enemy. See, there you go. Because every now and then I kick the living s*** out of me. See, I tried to help. Sorry. I tried to help. I don't know if we can even keep that. Now I got it. No, actually we can't. We're going to have to play a song that sounds... Because it was so closely in tune to the original.

44:02But yeah. Watch out. Jordan and I are going to go off and start our own band.

44:09Jourdan Rodrigue:Right to the top of the charts. We don't play any instruments, but it's fine. Play like anyone that was on the Warped Tour. You're going to be covering. Oh, man, I love the Warped Tour. Yeah, I mean, this is pretty self-explanatory. They truly are. They have been their own. It's not even the Chiefs anymore. They are their own worst enemy. Okay, the Patriots. I'm fully aware I'm about to lose any cool points I may have ever garnered with either of you two, including everybody in the booth as well. What a setup! I'm so excited about this. Let me put on my Galadriel voice. Whispers of a nameless fear.

44:49Jourdan Rodrigue:Okay, you won't get it. You're doing the face. Lord of the Rings reference. Listeners not only will get this, I will get messages about it, and I will get love from them. I don't need it from you guys. No, I'm very intrigued. And how does that apply to the Patriots? Yes. A shadow rises in the East. What? The old evil has returned. I hate the old evil. Yeah, Patriots. But it's like the old evil with some new paint, though. It's like that little sheen. No. Yeah, when Dave Portnoy is in the owner's box, I think we can call it evil, the old evil. Okay, more. I was like, I can't enjoy my touchdown.

45:30from Drake May. You got to immediately go to Portnoy. It's like, it makes it tough.

45:37Jourdan Rodrigue:More movie references on the way. The Miami Dolphins. How you like them apples? Because when I saw the photo of Mike McDaniel in his car with his giant watch hanging out the window, driving past the Bills bar, I immediately thought of that scene in Good Will Hunting when Will slaps the number on the glass and says, how you like them apples? I got a number. How you like them apples? it's so good too. The same thing. And then he, like they asked him about it on Monday and he did the Mike McDaniel thing where he just gave a total non, like a non-answer that did confirm it, but did it in such a confusing way that you couldn't even totally laugh at that you couldn't quite use it as like a soundbite on shows like this, where he said something like, AI is real, so that could have happened.

46:25And I was like, who are you? But I do love that he did that. more coaches and players just like stunting on their opposition. Even when they're losing bad, like enjoy the wins when you're losing.

46:36Jourdan Rodrigue:Yeah, I never mind it. Jets super earnestly want to say this. Just learn how to win. They're loaded already on draft picks. I don't want them to worry about draft order at this point. I just want them as an organization to understand what it actually means and takes to win football games and get into that habit before they go about this full-on rebuild. And we'll be talking about them shortly. Little TNF. Last time in primetime for the Jets this year. And is that the end of the AFC East? It is. Losing track. All right. Now we're going to go team by team here. Okay. We've divided up Broncos. You have Colleen.

47:14Okay. That John Denver is full of... And that's five words because I didn't say the last one. But it's because... Well, first of all, I don't know if anyone thought that the Broncos would go on the run that they're on just looking at their record. However, it's kind of like when I look at the wins and you watch the games and you see the way that the offense is so inconsistent. Are they full of s**t? We don't know. We're really. A win's a win, though. We're really using that button. I know. Yeah, it's true. But yeah, so I just feel like they obviously rely on their defense so much. And we don't know if the offense can sustain playing at this level.

48:01But they are 8-2 now. Big week. Chiefs Broncos, we'll talk about it on Wednesday. You have the Chiefs.

48:09Jourdan Rodrigue:Mahomes' last wild card. 2021. Oh. And I know it's confusing because it's only five words, right? So I'm only working with five words. He's only not had a first round bye twice. so he played in the wild card round in 2021 yeah so we're technically thinking about the Chiefs possibly being a wild card the wild card team because of the way the AFC is set up right now it's it would be really weird for him to not have a first round by it feels like forever because it has been forever I am bringing this up I would not be able to have remembered this off the top of my head but yes they were they played the uh the Steelers in the wild card round and then they beat the Bills and they got to have it at home because I think there were multiple upsets in the divisional round.

48:55So they still got to have, maybe it wasn't even multiple upsets, but they basically just didn't get the bye and they beat the Bills and then yeah, they lose to the Bengals.

49:03Jourdan Rodrigue:That feels like so many lifetimes. And you know what? It will be a tougher road. All the mental gymnastics that I put myself into so I didn't have to Google Taylor Swift lyrics, guys, to try to make a Taylor Swift pun. I felt like that was going to be the obvious thing. Instead, I went overly complicated. What's the Taylor Swift pun? That's on me. I don't have any. I didn't want to do that. She's really great with her puns and things. And I feel like that would have, I wanted to challenge myself. And then I just set us all through mental gymnastics here. The Raiders are mine. I thought it was great.

49:31I think it's a good point. It's salient about the different path that Chiefs are on right now. The Raiders, familiar path. Forlorn, melancholy, hopeless Pete. That's it. Just like, what do we need with like a sad Pete Carroll? Oh, nobody wants it. Nobody likes it. Nobody needs it. Like, if I could have fit, like, I don't belong here anymore. That was what I was thinking of. He doesn't even go here. It's just sad. Chargers, Colleen. Okay. Chargers. Thunderstruck. That's one word. Wow. Oh. And I feel thunderstruck by the Chargers this year. And I knew that they would be good. And I knew that they would figure things out.

50:13But I just, like, every time Jim Harbaugh has a microphone near him, It's fun and shocking and amazing. And I'm just, I like the vibes of this team. And they've had every reason to not be 7-3 right now. Right. You know what? All these injuries that they've dealt with and still look at them. I love it. Texans, Jordan.

50:36Jourdan Rodrigue:Davis Mills to the rescue? Oh my God, what? I hope not. We got any CJ Stroud news? That was great last week. It was great. I had to really stretch that one out. That was good. The tones. It was like Dan Campbell with his tones talking about the play calling. I'm not calling the play. I mean, I'll do it. I'll stick my neck out. I think they're going to make the playoffs. Look at you. Let's do the Jaguars. Oh, I came up with two with the Jaguars and then never decided which I won. We'll tell you which one's better. Oh, I can do both. Yeah. How about that? I was like, I'll decide in the moment. We will judge them.

51:19Actually, you know, the second one's just boring. The Jags. Messy fun, no longer fun.

51:24Jourdan Rodrigue:Aww. I mean, right? They've just kind of been a bummer to watch. We named them our messy fun team of the year, and then they went out the next week and just had this totally bizarre win over the Chiefs. Yeah. That was so far the peak of the Jaguars season. But you know what? They've got time. They're literally still in the playoffs as of today over the Kansas City Chiefs. It sounds like a college relationship. Yeah. Messy fun and not fun anymore. Yeah, like when you see his bathroom for the first time. Oh, my God. What has happened in here? How old is this? How long has that been sitting there?

52:00Speaking of young men disappointing you, my other one was Trevor leaves us. What's the heart of bleach? All right, I'm done. My other one was Trevor leaves us wanting more. That's more sad. All right, Colts. Colts. The limit does not exist. Two Mean Girls references in one show. I know. I know. Yeah. The limit does not exist for this Colts team because they're going all of the way. Been some warning signs the last few weeks, but I do like that they went into the it's always big. Get into the bye with the win. That was big. And finally, Jordan, wrapping up with the Titans.

52:38Jourdan Rodrigue:Are you guys ready for this? I've never been more ready. The Titans are still playing. Oh.

52:48That's right. Five words exactly. At least they're in Nashville. They have like a cool number one overall pick playing quarterback. And yes, they might be the most forgettable team right now in the NFL, but they might have the number one pick. Again, two straight years.

53:06Jourdan Rodrigue:Good for them. Not a great sign. Jets also in the mix for the number one overall pick. And I'm going to say it. I think that was a success. describe your teams in five words or less. I thought it was fun. I want my Chiefs one back. Okay. Yeah, there's always changes you would make. I'll take the Bucs one back. No problem. After the fact. Eric, are you happy with it? We're getting the thumbs up. It was good. Good job, guys. There felt like a little hesitation. No way. It was good. It felt like we can be better. Let's see if we can line the ship here, guys. That was Dan Campbell denying he's calling plays.

53:38Jourdan Rodrigue:It was good. It was good. The New York Jets are playing the New England Patriots this week. And before the season, if you had told me that it would be a 12 and a half point spread. How crazy. I wouldn't have believed it. But the Patriots have won seven straight games. They're coming off, I think, their best win of the season against the Bucs. The Jets will not have Garrett Wilson in this game. They will not have starting cornerback Azare Thomas in this game, who has a concussion. and I was thinking actually this could be a tricky spot for the Patriots because the Jets have played better over the last month.

54:19They've been a competitive team. They've also won the last couple of games and defensively especially they have turned it around and have been mostly respectable. But losing Garrett Wilson especially is a big bummer for this team. Yeah, because they're going to have to lean on the run and Brees Hall is going to have to go up against this really good Patriots run defense. So I'm not sure how they're going to score points because obviously the Patriots are going to know that they're going to run the ball, so they're going to stack the box. So what do you even do? How do you get creative in those situations?

54:53And Drake May has been playing so well, now going up against a secondary without Sauce Gardner. Will McDonald is also, I knew I was forgetting someone else that is absolutely crucial to what they do. And I think Will McDonald and Jermaine Johnson, it's only been a couple of games together. Like that's a really good edge duo. I think they should be happy that they didn't trade those guys away. And Will McDonald's been playing well, but they don't have a chance like to often play with the lead and then let those pass rushers go. And this is a game where, yeah, they might not be playing with the lead.

55:26Jourdan Rodrigue:Yeah. And the Patriots might be in the Patriots might be running the ball a lot, which means I would like to see more trivia on Henderson. and we saw really his explosive playability on full display last week. And I think there's high potential for that to happen again. I am so impressed, way more impressed than I thought I would be with this Patriots defense. I know it was a place they invested heavily into, and Mike Vrabel set about sort of pruning all of the former Belichick draft picks and removing them from the roster and then playing his guys and some of the guys that they went out and spent money on in free agency.

56:00Jourdan Rodrigue:from the front to the coverage, they are so solid. Even if the Jets had multiple threats in the passing game, it would be so hard. Christian Gonzalez is playing well. This front is defending the run extremely well, but they also are looking dynamic against the pass too. It's just they are an entire handful, and it is why I'm saying they're back. I mean, they're back, unfortunately, for the rest of the East. a new dark is rising. But it was the same dark the whole time. The same evil Greg. It's such a... Our matey! It's such a strange season, and that game was typical of it. Like, their running game was terrible for every run except for two, essentially.

56:47And even, like, their passing game was pretty inconsistent in that game. But you have Drake May, who, as a second-year player, just seems beyond his years. and he is the one who changes the play at the line of scrimmage to set up Kyle Williams for that insane touchdown. And that was just like, it wasn't even bad defense. It was just a perfect call against man coverage and a really incredible throw and some explosive ability from Drake May and Kyle Williams. And same thing with that fourth down play, but like their players are just good. But then you peek behind like the curtain a little bit and some of the numbers don't totally support what the eye test tells you.

57:26Like they're somehow still 29th in DVOA on defense because, you know, they're giving up drives and they they do tend to give up some big plays. But I think to your point, Jordan, that they are improving, that they're a lot better. That's including the entire season of stats in the last month or so. They've been much better. I think the offensive line is getting better, too. That would have been the area where I'd be concerned because Jermaine Johnson and Will McDonald have nine quick pressures last week in that Jets game. They were the best edge duo in the league last week, but without Will McDonald like that, then they can send help to the other side, and there's less of a route for them to win.

58:03And yet there's something about the Jets. I'm always worried. Even though they've handled the Jets over the years, I'm always worried about the Jets. That's their rival.

58:11Jourdan Rodrigue:Look at what we just saw with the Bills and Dolphins. It's almost like a team of pesky, optimistic upstarts could upset dynastic evil, you know? I want you to make a movie about that. Yeah, it's a good idea. They might start Justin Fields in this game, but they might start Tyrod Taylor. They would not take any questions. And by they, I mean Aaron Glenn on Monday. I know, but he was like, he was just like, stop with the quarterback questions. I don't want any quarterback. It's like, it's got to be a question. Kind of a big deal. Especially when like you had zero drop back game. Like Fields is, I think the best way to beat the Patriots though is actually have Justin Fields play quarterback and just run him.

58:52They have not unlocked him as a runner has been a little surprising to me. I guess that's all we got on Jets Patriots.

59:00Jourdan Rodrigue:It'll be fun. Either way. Sad state of affairs. But I do like to see the Patriots in primetime with this version of the Patriots feels new. It does. It's a totally different team. I wonder how much waxing crescent talk we get from Al. It's depending on how the game action is going. Yeah. That's always my favorite moment. They were the first team, by the way, one of only three teams in 25 years last week to have four 50-yard-plus plays. So that was just like a really weird. Wow, really? Like explosive. Yeah. It's hard to get a 50-yard game in the NFL. Wasn't it the first Patriots team since early 2000s to have two rookies have recorded an explosive play at 50-plus yards in the same game?

59:48Jourdan Rodrigue:Insane. And you have Will Campbell, who's getting better at left tackle. They are led by their young guys. He's what now? But he's getting better. He's been good. He's been solid. His favorite. I mean, I wanted Armand Membu, and I would still want Armand Membu, who's on the other side. The Jets offensive line is playing really well. There actually are pieces here, I think, for the Jets fans to get excited about. He's going to fight and die for the quarterback. You never know. Because I'm a homer, I think actually I would take the Jets to cover that 12.5, if nothing else. That's it for today's show.

1:00:15we described the entire NFL in five words. And we did it so well. I'd say we crushed that assignment. I think we absolutely did. We will be back. It'll be me, Jordan, and Patrick Claibon on the preview show. We'll hit 13 games this week. Big week. Can't wait for it. We will see you on Wednesday. I'll see you guys next Tuesday. Ha ha! Hey!

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