PMS 2.0 1403 - FIRST 15: NFL Week 1 Recap

0:00Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for the first 15. We'll be doing this on overreaction Mondays throughout the rest of the year. We think these are the top five things that you need to know about. And if we miss a couple, we'll certainly pick those up. This is the first 15. Let's get to it. Number five starts in the Steel City. The Pittsburgh Steelers. The Rogers. Reminder. Still got it. You know, there was a lot of conversation last year about whether or not this guy is worth a damn at professional football. You know, he flew all the way from his home in beautiful Southern California. I mean, he's got a gorgeous.

0:28Oh, yeah. Huge. Good views. Waterfront. He walks on that beach, too. He's got his dog, Apollo, coming around. You know, he's having a good time. It's a beautiful house. He said, you know what, I'm going to go fly back to New York whenever they get the new GM, new head coach. I want to talk to them personally. So I want to go ahead and just kind of see where they're at. If they're going to move on, hey, that's their prerogative. They can do what they want to do. But just wanted them to know that I would like my Jets tenure to end in a good way is what he told us verbatim. Flies all the way over there.

0:52It's about four and a half, five hours, depending upon the Jet stream behind them. You know, maybe five and a half, depend. Yeah, there's, you know, a lot of that thing. Gets all the way down there in Teterboro, drives over to the facility, sits down. Aaron Glenn says, you can go ahead and get the fuck out of here. That is, uh... Pretty much. Yeah, we don't want you. Now, I don't think those are the exact words. Now, the way Aaron describes the encounter and the lack of description of the encounter from Aaron Glenn makes us believe that it probably was a pretty uncomfortable situation. No doubt.

1:20So then Aaron leaves, and now he's trying to figure out his life. Remember, close personal friends going through a cancer battle we would inevitably learn had to be there for them. People that rely upon him were going through some very heavy things. He had his offseason. He was thinking about potentially retiring. Doesn't join any team. Everybody's loud. This guy needs to make his decision for a draft. A little later, that wasn't going to happen. He wasn't going to be making decisions for a long, long time at that particular case. In the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Tomlin was calling him every single week, checking in on him, seeing how he's doing, how's it going.

1:45They were preparing an offense, allegedly, for Aaron Rodgers, even when he wasn't a Pittsburgh Steeler at the time. So you wonder, with all that shit and all the noise and everything that's going on, How would fair thought it was going to be a cagey affair because these two teams obviously defensive stout. I'll tell you what Justin Fields might be the right fit for an Aaron Glenn offense in New York. They might have some things to be excited about. And on the flip side Aaron Rodgers slicing Dyson for four touchdowns. You Steelers fans got to be losing your mind tone. Yeah, we are. It was it was really cool.

2:15Once the Steelers got their first kickoff and you saw Aaron run out on the field like it was a surreal like holy shit. Aaron Rodgers is our quarterback and then you watched him orchestrate that offense like Leonard Bernstein. It was a thing of beauty. You were up to the line, just changing plays, manipulating the snap count. Like, it was awesome. He was – everyone got involved. Like, literally everyone on offense got involved. Four touchdowns. Oh, and he had a game-winning drive, which is what, you know, is something that we haven't had in a long time. It was so cool to watch Aaron Rodgers be a quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

2:47Four tides for him. D.K. Metcalf had some big-time plays. Had a first drop early. Obviously, there were some other things going on. But you could see that D.K. is worth the money. And DK is the best athlete whenever DK is, wherever DK is. And not only that, you guys have a kicker who is potentially doing a hold-in, Chris Boswell. Well, he didn't hold in, and he did play. And I think he made some 55-plus yarder earlier in the game. And then to win it, 60-yarder. Now, granted, there's a minute-some left, so they could have come back and taken that from Chris Boswell. Under a minute 32 take the lead.

3:16I think everybody would call that a game-winning kick. Chris Boswell does that for the Pittsburgh Steelers. So damn pure. Now, there were some misses from the kicking department around the NFL, and I think we should all kind of view it the same way. If a ball is kind of drifting to the right for a righty, okay, not an absolute miss. A miss is going to happen where you just miss a sweet spot, your swing, just like in golf, kind of come across it. But if there's one like drifting to the right, not normally the ball, probably because the kicker's trying to guide it a little bit, you know, trying to guide it.

3:43Like when you're throwing a baseball or a football, it'll be in the vicinity because that's what you're actually doing, but it won't be your pure ball. Does that make sense? Yeah. Like, Luke, the kicker for the Baltimore Ravens, his first kick was a 52-yarder. That thing was drifting a little bit right. He has a massive leg. That kid has a very, very strong leg. Misses an extra point. Obviously, people pissed off about it. He is a very talented kicker. So, his first one going a little bit to the right, I'm like, ooh, he was trying to guide that a little bit, probably thinking about it. Still goes in, still very good for a very long time.

4:11Boswell hits this 60-yarder. Under pressure, first week. Contract dispute. Okay, money. This is actual. Every ball is a money ball. Yeah. Every ball is a money ball. This was supposed to be a 58-yarder. They actually lose two yards to play before that. They try to pick up a couple more yards for him and ends up going back. So he comes out there. This ball is pure. And that leads to Mike Tomlin describing Chris Boswell in only a fashion that Mike Tomlin could describe a kicker. And I can't say enough about Boz. Man, our kicker is a serial killer. Man, he's got a low pulse rate. He can't wait to deliver.

4:45That's what I'm talking about. Boz is not thinking about guiding it. Boz doesn't think about anything. I think Boz said he just goes out there, thinks about his steps, hits the ball, doesn't even watch it, and just leaves the field. One of the greats, one of the greatest of all time. Happy he got a chance to step up and perform and deliver for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Hell of a start for Aaron Rodgers. Congrats to the injuries. A lot of drama over there. Yeah. A lot of drama over there. Came down to a 60-yarder. Yeah. Okay. Came down to a 60-yarder. Big hit. Big hit. Jalen Ramsey, too. New addition.

5:15Big hit. Knocking that ball off the Gary Wolf. Let's get some stuff. The way he's talking is he loves the culture of the Steelers. Oh, yeah. Like, he's talking like we. Yeah, he's doing a lot of like, hey, we are, this is how we play. We're not going to let people kind of come in here and not play us. It's like, it does feel like Jalen Ramsey is supposed to be a Pittsburgh Steeler. Same with Aaron. I mean, even watching Aaron and him walk off with Cam Hayward at the end, Cam and Coach Tomlin have walked off the field together basically for like the last five, six years since social media has really been capturing it.

5:41We don't know how much longer before that. But them waiting for Aaron and then Aaron walking with him, yeah. Like, this is a cool moment. This is a very cool moment, especially walking out of the stadium that he was at last year. And once again, fly all the way over there. Get the hell out of here. I mean, that's a cool moment for the Steelers. Steelers fans got to be pumped. Okay, let's move on to number four. Is Micah Parsons going to be in game shape? Is Micah Parsons going to be able to play football for the Packers after being traded so late? He did address being traded so late where he was like, if we would have done this at the right time, I could have been working with these guys.

6:15I think Michael loves his time at the Packers. Now, obviously, they get a win. Yeah, help. Obviously, he gets a sack. That helps. Obviously, he becomes the highest-paid non-quarterback player of all time, $47 million a year. There's a lot of honeymoon things. But, boy, when Jared Goff just hears a bannit, bannit, bannit behind him, I assume that he thought, no fatso, no D-lineman, no defensive end. Nobody over 220 pounds is going to be able to walk me. I have a 20-yard head start on all of them. Remember, field is 53 in the third wide. Micah hunted him down. Necton mentality like a damn shark.

6:50And obviously he has a celebration point in the sky. The number one looks much cleaner than I think we all thought it was going to be. Jordan Love was slicing and dicing. Feels like the defense is very good. Green Bay Packers fans thinking Super Bowl this year for the Pack. Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, there's no question now. I didn't know going into yesterday because, again, the Lions are still very good. But, boy, did the Packers dominate this game from the onset, too. You mentioned it. I think the Micah stuff, we'll get to that in a second, but Jordan Love, like people are talking about him winning an MVP this year.

7:18He had to do it. He came out, started 10 of 14, and they scored two touchdowns and were up 17, you know, three very early, which they were playing from behind against the Lions all year and in division games. They just look crisp, and everything you were hearing from the Packers offense was like they're really hurting the receiver room. They don't really know. Like we thought Josh Jacobs was going to come out, and if he wasn't scoring multiple touchdowns, like this Packers offense was going to be in trouble, not the case. Love looked phenomenal. And then you mentioned it, Michael Parsons. I mean, everyone can say whatever they want.

7:48I get it. He only played 45 % of the snaps. Only got one sack. Only had three pressures. Those three pressures. Okay, there was a two-yard loss for a completion on third down. Caused a punt. He had the sack. And then they also – he got to Jared Goff, and Jared Goff threw an interception. So those are pretty – you know. Also, guys playing alongside of them. Yeah, that is ultimately what this comes down to is Lucas Van Ness had his best game as a Packer yesterday. Rashawn Gary had a sack and a half. Like, he makes all the guys around him so much better. And, again, you talk about all that stuff of him being happy.

8:24This is a different guy than we saw in Dallas. Like, sure, there's some of that. But everything I heard from him postgame, like, he's ecstatic to be a Packer. From some people that were there, they said when he came out of the tunnel, said it was the loudest pop they've ever heard in Lambeau. Well, welcome to Cheeseland, Micah Parsons. What a way to kick it off. The Packers look like they're legit. Are the Lions dead? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are the Lions dead? Yeah, I'll tell you what. Oh, no. Everything we were worried about this all offseason was exposed yesterday. Detroit is burning to the ground right now.

8:59It's not good. You guys got new coordinators. Good commercial. The offensive line is the biggest worry. Proxy, the Applebee's commercial. You get rings for those? Dan Campbell's F game in that one. Even he admitted he wasn't as funny in the Applebee's commercials. That was a sign. Let's be honest. That was a sign. Oh, no. Not Detroit from five years ago. Yeah, the biggest worry, though, Ragnow being gone was so evident. That's a killer. Long season, though. We got the Bears next. Have to beat them. I believe in Dan Campbell. Yes. So I don't think having a rough start with new coordinators is a bad thing.

9:38But, boy, they're going to have to get much better out there for Lions fans not to lose their mind. Let's go to number three. We've got to go back before the weekend. Should be talked about Herbert's hot hand handles. This guy was electrifying. This was exactly what Justin Herbert was kind of billed to be. This is what we had all hoped that Justin Herbert could be this season. Second year in the Jim Harbaugh culture. And you're talking about Quentin Johnson doing his thing. Keenan Allen, oh, yeah, he's back on the Chargers. And what's he doing? Oh, scoring touchdowns again. Justin Herbert was outrageous.

10:10I mean, everything he did was seemingly the perfect decision at the right time. His leadership, very evident. His press conference afterwards sounds exactly like a robot. Like, sounds, hey, we need AAI. We need a quarterback. It's tall, handsome. He's going to date another celebrity. Appeared to be very happy. I need him to have the proper composure and massive moments. He needs to be able to throw football like a goddamn animal. That's what he needs to be able to do. Needs to be able to run people over. Needs to be able to be more physically gifted than everybody else on the field. And also have an incredibly cool ability to slot.

10:42And stay in bounds. High football IQ. Let's go ahead and ice him and seal this game. But also, whenever he speaks to the media, just needs to say just all the right stuff. Just everything needs to not even come close to being, huh? Huh? Yeah, we're just focused on tonight playing our best football. What do you got next week? Well, we're just going to – I think we're going to focus on playing our best football and we're going to do our thing, yeah. Oh, it was great to have him in here. He works really hard. We try to work really hard. How do you feel about Coach Harbaugh? He's the best. Every day he's working so hard.

11:08It's just every day we're kind of focused on that day that is in front of us and if we keep stacking days, we're going to be good. Okay, what do you think about your wide receivers? They're all so good. They all run such good. Like everything he was saying was just super perfect quarterback, movie quarterback, and he has been called the blueprint. He, Josh Allen, the other very tall, very large, very athletic, very fast, very durable guys are like what everybody's looking for. Is this the year, D-Bud? You've been on the Chargers Justin Herbert hype train for what, four or five years? Yeah, since inception.

11:40Since Mr. and Mrs. Staley coaching tree. Bruce and Linda. Yeah, Bruce and Linda Staley's coaching tree have come through there. You've been on the Herbert train, I would say, since the beginning. I'll tell you what, Friday had to feel pretty good for that train as they got off the stop down there in Brazil. Yeah, and even before that, we had a great coach B.A. sitting in this chair. When he was here, he asked a great quarterback, if you have a clip, what quarterback would you build your franchise around? Believe it or not, I like the guy with the Chargers. Just Herbert. Yeah, just Herbert. I think they've kind of gone by the wayside.

12:15Oh, and I got a lot of side eyes up here on the stage. I saw a bunch of comments on X, and he showed out, man, 25-34, 318 yards, just dotting up. And it was a pass-first offense, too, something you don't expect from Greg Roman, something you don't expect from a Jim Harbaugh football team, just opening up, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass. Got after that Spags defense. Everyone was involved. You mentioned Ladd. You mentioned Kenan Allen been back. And Quentin Johnston, if he can continue to play like a first-round pick and ball, they'll be in a great, great spot. Did the thing with his arm, but with his legs.

12:48To end the game once Chris Jones got a little greedy. It's kind of what makes Chris Jones great. You go and take a chance on the edge. You dope dive inside. Herbert gets the edge and seals it with this beautiful slide using his legs to seal this game. So, yeah, Justin Herbert and the Chargers look like they might be the real deal this year. Uh-oh. AFC West has a lot of competitors. Kansas City Chiefs are going to have to figure it out pretty quick. They're getting loud over there in Kansas City and around the world. I hate to say it, but I think the Chiefs might be dead. No! No! No! They might be.

13:19The Chiefs is still the Chiefs and always will be until these eyes don't see Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelsey, Andy Reid, Brett Fisch, Baggs, and Tobe. NASCAR, we'll talk about that later. We're running out of time here. We need NASCAR. We will certainly talk about it because that was one of the – I'm saying we need it right now, 140. Yeah, we need NASCAR. I don't know if we have enough time. I'm saying just for this whole operation. Yeah, I don't know if we have enough time. So, like, for that NASCAR kick that they did right before half there, there is a cutoff time. They were certainly at it. Yeah, we got two left.

13:48That was unbucked. Yeah, yeah. Well, ladies and gentlemen, number two headline I think we need to be talking about, Josh Allen and the Bills. Boy. You all were probably asleep. I fell asleep after watching Lamar Jackson run 200 yards to pick up a first down after he was outrunning the entire Buffalo Bills D-line, and they were up 15. I'm like, well, if this is happening in the fourth quarter, it has seemingly been the Ravens' night to begin with. Josh Allen has certainly made some massive plays, But this Baltimore Ravens team looked unstoppable. And when Lamar's doing this shit in the fourth quarter and they have a lead, my brain just said, you can go to bed now.

14:24What did I miss? Oh, record-breaking final four minutes where a team is down by 15 with under four minutes. 3.59 right there. Bang, fourth and two. Tip ball. Keyon Coleman, touchdown. Well, now we got to hope for something else good to happen. Well, Derrick Henry, who was having a career evening in Buffalo, going for 100 early, couple touchdowns, does something he never does because Ed Oliver is an absolute monster on that Buffalo Bills D-line. They scoop it. Obviously, Josh Allen and the Bills do what they do. They score, miss the two-point conversion. Now they're down two. Baltimore gets the rock back.

15:04They can run the clock out. They don't. Leads to what? Matt Prater, 41 years old, walk off. Field goal. Buffalo Bills beat the Baltimore Ravens. What a night for Josh Allen. What a night for the Bills. And the number one headline is the Colts going to the Super Bowl. Wow. Colts going to win the Super Bowl. And that is no question. And that's because the big three, as coined by Edger and James, is how I heard it. The big three are holding people accountable in that building. Carly, Kalen, and Casey, congratulations on being undefeated owners. And Danny Dimes, we got a chance to catch up with him earlier today.

15:40We'll run that interview in about an hour or so. He is in the perfect place here in Indianapolis. It was fun to watch. Tyler Warren, this guy, is a Sasquatch actor. This dude's unbelievable, and Danny Dimes loves him. Danny Dimes is getting the ball to everybody. I mean, everybody was eating. Jonathan Taylor had a big game. Offensive line did some amazing stuff. I mean, it was the most fun we've ever had in the Loud House. By far. Since becoming fans of the team. like show, like in the suite. It was spectacular, electrifying. Cam Bynum, you know, I said this to Danny Dimes earlier, which you'll see in the conversation about an hour from now.

16:18Cam Bynum between every single play was like this. And he gets a turnover. You can see that he is just a juice machine and he's everywhere. Lou Anarumo's defense held him to a shutout in the first half and only gave up eight points or whatever it is. And Cam Bynum hit the scene. I mean, that is unbelievable stuff. I wish he would have hit the kip up into the pop lock. But nonetheless, the Colts look different. And with these eyes and boots on the ground, actually, they're going to win Super Bowl. This team's a real deal. 7 % optimism in that athletic poll from a lot of people that are AR fans on the Internet.

16:51And those AR fans are saying a lot of terrible things about me whenever I was pointing out the obvious last year. And now they were saying very negative things whenever Danny Dimes became our quarterback. And everybody kind of said that this team stunk. Everybody. People forget we invested in defense. We got a new defense coordinator. We got dogs across the board over there. And on the offensive side, Danny Dimes has loved his weapons here since the day he got here. The only reason why I know that is because I had a chance to have dinner with him a couple weeks into his stint here, and he started rattling off names, who he likes, how he likes.

17:20And you saw Pittman Jr. do his thing, Downs do his thing, Tyler Warren do his thing, big Mo Alley Cough. Pierce. I mean, Pierce is doing his thing. I mean, there is – we got a team. Got a squad. We got a team. Like our guys. And shout out to Boss Man, you know. Certainly pushing the Pacers on a little bit of a run. Yep. And I'll tell you what, if Jim Irsay is going to be doing a little bit of a run for his Indianapolis Colts, we'll certainly enjoy the ride, brother, one last time. It was a fun day celebrating the boss. A lot of alum came back into town Saturday night. There was a gathering as well.

17:51It was a perfect weekend here in Indianapolis for the Colts, and the team looks damn good for real, Connell. Well, that's the thing is that it was just justifying watching the entire thing because it was domination. You know, we talked about some of the games earlier, like the Packers, they dominated the Lions start to finish. The Colts are one of those teams who dominated week one, the Dolphins, from start to finish. And when you just look at all of those weapons that you just mentioned, this is why living in Indianapolis and watching this team has been such a nightmare for the past five years because this wasn't the first time they've been out on the field with all these great players, all these great receivers, all these great players on defense and performed well.

18:29That's why it is stunk because we've seen the potential. You see A.D. Mitchell, Pierce Downs, you know, Tyler Warren now, Pittman. Like, all those dudes have been there, minus Warren, and they haven't had a quarterback like Dan Jones. They haven't had an O-line play that well like they did yesterday. It was just a big time, like, okay. So, we haven't been watching or talking about the Colts like absolute idiots. They have been this good. They just needed a quarterback to come in, and Danny Downs is the guy. A lot of pressure on them, too. Yeah, a lot on the Colts as a whole. On Dan Jones specifically because you come in and you have a very publicized quarterback battle.

19:03We know what he did in New York and what that was. So it's a lot of pressure for him to come in. And, okay, now it's obvious that he won this job. When I reached out to people in the building once he was named the starter, nobody was surprised, and now you see why. And then the game plan. You'll see it more in the conversation with them, but it was pass, pass, pass, pass, pass out of the gate, and I definitely didn't expect that. But, yeah, he showed up, and then his defense, Luana Romo, been in a new spot with a bunch of new pieces. They were seven minutes away from a shutout. So, yeah, all things are clicking right now for the Colts.

19:35Indiana Jones and the Dimes dive, brother. We're about to have a run over here. And Tyler Warren ain't from here. No. He is gigantic. Add him to the list. And I think he might have the head, the skull, like A.J. has one of these ones. Just a super thick, massive, massive head. Like a cannonball. It is like a cannonball. Yeah. It would have to be to survive that hit. We saw a Penn State guy. The way his head snapped off that. It's the most violent thing I've ever seen in person. Just complete firing. And they just, oh, shit. He's got a handoff on the next play. I mean, he is awesome. And we got OGs that are good.

20:14But you're right. It was kind of like justified. It was like, thank goodness what we've been seeing and talking about isn't just us. Chris Ballard's probably thinking the same thing. Oh, my God. Jesus Christ. I thought we've had a good team for a while. Okay, quickly, D. but you heard the top five there. Anything we missed that people definitely need to know about? Oh, speaking of violence, I saw some violence yesterday. Out there with the Rams, Puka Nikul, an absolute dog, friend of the program, took a nasty, nasty hit from that nasty Houston-Texas defense. But guess what? He didn't cry. He didn't pop.

20:44He went back to the locker room, showed his quarterback, all right, go patch that shit up and get back out here. Need your 12. And he came back out, and he showed up, and they got a big-time win, a tough opponent. Look, week one, it's all about getting a win. Regardless of how ugly, how pretty he is, you want to get that win. But it's not just about offense. That defense, Shuler got the boys still hunting. Landman had a huge, huge punch out. What's his name? Durant right here with this nasty interception on the sideline. Just nasty. Had to replay it to make sure it was an interception like they do all turnovers.