PMS 2.0 1408 - FIRST 15: NFL Week 2 Recap

0:00Pat McAfee:Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for the first 15. Please put the clock up and let's get started. Number five to debuts his points. The best brought some beat dons across the board. Now, obviously, the Baltimore Ravens and Lamar Jackson, they're good. Chuck Pagano back in a much better way this week than he was maybe after week one. He's celebrating the greatest passing quarterback in the history of the NFL. Lamar Jackson's passer rating is now the highest in the history of the league. Look at him holding the ball right there. No laces. Doesn't need him. Oh, yeah, he also happens to run a 4-2 and is the most elusive guy on the field.

0:35Pat McAfee:So not only can he get it done as a running back, a quarterback, with his arm being the best ever, he's also got an entire team around him filled with absolute dogs. They end up beating the hell out of the Browns. 41-17. D-Bot, your thoughts on this game? I mean, this game just absolutely dominated on the offensive side of the ball. A lot of chirping. I think Conman touched on it last week. A lot of chirping between both of these two teams in the headlines. and the Ravens got it done. Browns did do a good job with Derrick Henry kind of sealing him up, but Lamar Jackson, you mentioned it. The all-time leader, passing rating, and also the all-time leader at the quarterback position when it comes to rushing yards.

1:10So a beatdown within the division here, Ravens-Browns.

1:14Pat McAfee:Let's talk about any division beatdowns. Guess who's back? Back again. Brand new Lions are back. Tell some friends. MCDC, MCDC, MCDC's got the boys buzzing. The Detroit Lions, 52. Chicago Bears, 21. At the beginning of those, Chicago Bears scored 14 points early. So it looked like, oh no, the Lions stink. This is the same old Lions. Maybe Kelvin Shepard, former teammate of ours, friend of ours, should not be handling his press conferences the way he's handling them. Maybe he was speaking a little bit too much cart before the horse, where he's saying we don't make excuses to play football, had a little bit of an edge to him.

1:55Pat McAfee:Hey, you haven't done anything as a DC is what some people were saying about this man. And then 14 points are scored pretty early by the Chicago Bears. Everybody's like, wait a minute. Is this Lions team going to let Caleb Williams, Ben Johnson come into their house, roar all over their faces in a revenge game? And then all of a sudden, something just went like that. And poof, the brand new Lions showed back up. Same old Lions for a while. Then the brand new Lions showed up. And I'll tell you, they just kept on going. Yeah, they did. And they ran that shit down their throat. Ben Johnson obviously coming back into town.

2:28Pat McAfee:Welcome back, Bob. We appreciate you going to the division rival. Out of all the different places, you could have won. Players mentioned that. Fans mentioned that. And MCDC treated the game that way. Are we all the way back to just believing the Lions are the brand-new Lions and just get rid of what we saw in week one against the Green Bay Packers, who might be the best team involved, D-Budge? The Packers might be the best team involved. Yeah, I'm all the way back on the Lions. I wasn't too far out as week one. You know, week one is all about just getting a win. How can you figure out a way to get a win?

2:57Obviously, they didn't get it done. It takes time. It takes time to build some continuity with the play callers, with the players. Jared Goff looked like his old self getting the ball around, had the running game going. Gibbs, Montgomery, St. Brown, they all scored, I believe, for the ninth time, which is the most by any trio in NFL history. So I love that goof getting in there. And I love the saltiness. I love the salty news about the Lions fans. Ben Johnson coming back. Way to welcome back, putting a 50-burger up on the board.

3:25Pat McAfee:Yeah, 52 must be nice. Foxy, today a little bit better than one week ago from today. Yeah, we're all the way back. Super Bowl is on. Three touchdowns for St. Brown, a touchdown for J-Mo, a touchdown for Sonic and Knuckles. Jared Goff, five touchdown passes. No, not ass and cheek. Jared Goff, five touchdown passes, no turnovers. They looked incredible. I am all the way back. Congrats to Detroit. We didn't want to celebrate you with the Mize, but it did look like it was coming right in front of our eyes. And instead, you're all the way back. Did MCDs and them Lions move that rock out of the cave?

4:00Pat McAfee:Sure felt like it there. They are all the way back. That was a huge statement for week two. And then let's talk about the team that also, you talk about the Packers maybe being the best team in the ball. There's a team up there in Buffalo that had hard knocks, that's the current MVP. Buffalo Bills just absolutely smacked the New York Jets. As we're watching this game take place, we're all wondering to ourselves, oh, no, this might not be good for the Steelers. This might not be good for the Steelers because the Jets looked very good against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Justin Fields all over the place, spinning it, running it.

4:32Pat McAfee:The defensive intensity and accountability for the New York Jets was exactly what we thought it would be under Aaron Glenn's head coaching leadership. But then inevitably what happened was the Buffalo Beals were the Buffalo Beals. They end up winning 30-10 over the New York Jets. A couple of division blowouts here. What does that say to you, D-Bunch? You know, divisional opponents, they mean a little bit more during the season. You want to send a message to everyone. And one of my favorite things I love to see in the National Football League, when a guy who's deserving some money gets his money, and then he shows up and shows out early and often.

5:02That was James Cook yesterday. It wasn't pretty as far as the stat sheet for Josh Allen. If you had some parlays or some prop bets, you probably didn't hit a bunch of them. But he did his thing, took care of the ball, had some runs, had a little scary injury there with his nose, but he came back, finished the game. Just an all-around dominant performance in the AFC East with the Bills over the New York football jets.

5:22Pat McAfee:I think Josh Allen probably appreciates the fact that he's going to have the photo with the – Yeah, the thing. Yeah, the nose. The black guy. Yeah, yeah. He's probably – not fun. I'm not saying it's a good thing. And it's going to suck to sleep. You know, that's going to – Sneezing. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. And we're getting into cold season, too. Josh, vitamin C. Yeah. Get it. He can't be sneezing with that entire situation. Obviously, getting punched in the face is no fun. He's tough, son. I mean, there's no questions asked. So, there were some beatdowns yesterday. Congrats to the teams that showcase that they are great, either once again or will continue to do as such.

5:57Pat McAfee:Let's go to number four, a team that everybody thought was going to be great. Spent all the money this offseason. Uh-oh. Bro, it breaks his toe. Oh, no. They're saying he's at least three months. Oh, Joe. Long time. He was healthy in training camp. They paid his wide receivers. They get Hendrickson back. Shamar Stewart said, okay, to a clause. Everything that was kind of tumultuous ended up being smooth sailing. This is going to be the best Cincinnati Bengals. Holy hell, they won a game. Yeah. Now they got home. Sam Hubbard's the ruler of the jungle. Need to be calling a crowd to get in there a little bit earlier.

6:28Pat McAfee:We want this place to be electrifying. It's Trevor Lawrence, Liam Cohen come into town. And they get a win. Congrats to the Bengals. Get a huge win. Could have lost that game multiple times. Did a huge win. And that's a positive. They can't buy a break. No, they can't. This team cannot buy a break in Cincinnati. They try to buy their players out. They're trying to pay everybody. They're trying to run a new business. We're going to sell the rights to the stadium, and we're going to build an indoor facility. They're trying, I think, to become a team that is, you know, kind of showing respect to the football gods.

7:02Pat McAfee:Like, hey, we understand the power of having an NFL team and the responsibility of having a team in our city of Cincinnati. We want to do right. They were doing it. It seems like they were doing it all. They had everybody. And then, boom, week two, Joe Burrow was 7-13 for 76 yards and a tod. Okay, let's assume that just continues. For sure. And he just has a great game in front of Sam Hubbard, a ruler of the jungle. Yeah. And he gets standard tackle here by Eric Armstead. Bang, toe, out three months. That sucks for the Bengals, but that's a huge storyline for the AFC going forward. Yeah, it is.

7:35And it does. It sucks so bad. They were doing everything, Pat. You said it. They paid everyone who we said you couldn't. You can't pay all those guys and keep them. They won the first two weeks of the year. They never win the first two weeks ever. And then this happens to Joe Burrow.

7:47Pat McAfee:And I saw this edit last night, and I did not like it. It was Joe Burrow, and it flashed Andrew Luck. And then it was Joe Burrow, and then it flashed Andrew Luck. It was Joe Burrow. It kept going. It was intense. It was like, oh, no, these guys, they started their career with all these injuries. They're this incredibly talented, but they were behind potentially an O-line that isn't going to protect them. And we have these stats from Schefter that he then put out this morning. And those don't look good either. I'm just hoping Joe comes back healthy. And it's not a similar situation to Andrew where he's like just – he's just taking all these hits because he is unbelievable.

8:20He's great for the league. And this sucks for Cincinnati. And hopefully Browning, you know, can lead them to the promised land as well.

8:25Pat McAfee:We remember whenever he got into the league. Yep. It felt as if he was trying to be on a jacked up segment. Yes. With him being the one getting jacked up every game. Yeah. And then he came out and spoke. He was like, I like your hit. I feel like I'm in a football game then. Whereas one time against Philadelphia, Eagles we actually saw his body move and his helmet and head stayed in one spot oh yeah and then he got slingshotted into the ground he leaves game then he comes back I think leads him to overtime in this entire thing his durability and his toughness is always something that's talked about but anytime a quarterback's toughness in the NFL is talked about it's normally because he's getting his ass beat right that's why you bring up the toughness and what the ranks are there for the offensive line I believe that was a hembostat through an Adam Schefter Twitter account I don't know what they're judging on i'm assuming offensive linemen would say well that's not real it wasn't my job nonetheless we've seen joe get his ass kicked and we've hated it since day one yeah and now i'm not saying this particular situation went to tell that seemed like it's pretty standard tackle happening it seems like misfortune if i've ever seen it yeah uh but in the entirety of it all you pay everybody do you take care of the o-line they made some moves they tried their best but it's like this might be an entire career of this which we don't hope or wish upon anybody godspeed Godspeed, Joe.

9:36Pat McAfee:Godspeed, Joe. And Godspeed to the Bengals fans, too. You're undefeated. Yeah. And Jake Browning's played before, obviously, because of similar situations. Well, and that's kind of the silver lining here. It's like two things. One, Jake Browning, unbelievable. He's proven he's won games. Two, Joe Burrow's house not getting robbed anymore because he's going to be home a lot. Yeah. Okay. Good silver lining. I think he'll still be with the team, you know. Well, I don't know. I mean, I think he should kind of stay home, man. I didn't like that those people robbed his house. He didn't. It was messed up.

10:02Pat McAfee:Did you hear about who it was? No, who wasn't? Do a little research. Pretty scary stuff. All right, let's go to number three. For the brand. And Aubrey is unbelievable. Are you not entertained? This man is like a gladiator, and they're doing things that nobody thought was possible. We actually got a chance to talk to him a little bit earlier today. Let's talk about this past weekend. Yesterday, obviously the 64-yarder, absolutely insane. Different ball flight than you normally hit. Yeah. Why was that, you think? Did you try it, or is this a new kick for you? No, that's just a little power fade.

10:37I was just trying to add a little bit more to it and kind of came off my foot a little funky and it had that little slide and got nervous for a second, but then it corrected itself and got back on its path. I don't really try to do it, but when we get back there, I started to notice I do take that little hitch step to give myself a little bit more behind the ball. you can see it there but um yeah i don't try to do it i'm more of a field kicker i don't watch a whole lot of film of myself um if you if you pay attention closely not any single kick is exactly the same for me as the last one there's a lot of times especially early in the season where my soccer form takes back over and i kind of land on my kicking foot and those are the ones i try to get away from because those those are bad um but they tend to still go go in um i don't know i try to try to keep it as similar as possible but um you see a rush coming out of your peripherals then you try to get off your plant foot real quick and it makes your form look funky so uh as long as it's going in i'm happy and i'm trying not to be too robotic but try to get myself in the same position every time and uh uh make it make a kick yeah you do he does uh 82 and 91 on his career

11:48Pat McAfee:thus far which is 90 which i assume is the best ever to start a career he is unflappable we had a full 15 minute conversation with him that we will certainly put out but him chatting about this particular kick and saying yeah i mean that thing just started going i was hoping i was hoping as well he just makes kicks and once we kind of got done with that conversation with him earlier he has the makeup he has the brain of one of those guys you know and it's crazy that he's this new to the football world and has already made a name for himself but he's unbelievable and obviously the Cowboys need them, Con, man.

12:20Yeah, and it's lucky. If you're a Cowboys fan, do not take this for granted. As a Patriots fan, I lived through Adam Vinatieri, lived through Stephen Gostowski. I just assumed, like, oh, okay, so I could go out there and probably kick a ball and we'd be okay. That's not the case. If you're a Cowboys fan, you got the guy. You should hang your hat on having the guy. When you mention Dak Prescott and C.D. Lamb and all these superstars, mention Brandon Aubrey, because he's going to win you games for the next 15 years, and when he's gone, you You are going to miss him like you've never imagined you'd miss a kicker before the Patriots damn near lost a game yesterday because of two missed extra points.

12:54Brandon Arbery is nails. And the conversation is unbelievable. He's like a dude.

12:59Pat McAfee:It's sweet. Yeah, very much so. Yeah, football guy. Yeah, and he said it. He's very recent that he started to like, oh, yeah, football. This year he said. Yeah, he's so new to it. It's like he was soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer. That was what it was supposed to be. and then if my memory serves me right him and his wife were watching something yeah either on youtube or on and it was kicking and she was almost like can't you kind of could you uh and he just started he was traveling like an hour or two hours for four times a day for like two years just finding the stroke getting good getting good getting good then he gets his opportunity he just never misses so yeah and it's uh what a beast especially for the cowboys because they're always going to be on national television he's becomes the first ever kicker uh to hit a walk off game tire at the end of regulation then a walk off game winner at the end of overtime obviously zeroes on the board across both of them it's either do or die uh seemingly for kickers every single kick there's been some ass kickers in the nfl this year yeah i don't like that brandon aubrey's making up for it on the other side all right the champs is still the champs you know i always say the chiefs is still the chiefs and there was moments in this game yesterday where i'm like yes the chiefs is all the way back the chiefs is this still the chiefs And Patrick Mahomes had some magical moments.

14:15Pat McAfee:Travis Kelsey had some insane plays and then obviously did something that he never does. I mean, he's like a most shorthanded guy maybe in the NFL. So him bat one in the red zone as they're going in for a touchdown to become a pick the other way is just a nightmare. Absolute nightmare for the Kansas City Chiefs. And on that note, the Philadelphia Eagles did what the Philadelphia Eagles do. Philadelphia Eagles get a huge win. Saquon obviously is going to do Saquon stuff. Jalen's doing Jalen stuff. Nick Sirianni goes into the kingdom and gets a dub after an ass beating in the Super Bowl. I think I learned that the Chiefs might not be as bad as maybe we thought the Chiefs were going to be.

14:49Pat McAfee:And that the Eagles might be the real deal, brother. What are your thoughts, Ty? Yeah, no, I mean, I think if you're a Chiefs fan, you're definitely not hitting the panic button. But I think it might be time for, you know, cause for a little concern. First time in Mahomes' career that they've lost three games in a row, if you include the playoffs. First time the Chiefs have started 0-2 since 2014, coincidentally. That was the last time they made the playoffs. And you mentioned it. It's kind of like Kelsey doing things that just he never does. Mahomes is their leading rusher again. Like, he's kind of got to put everything on his shoulders right now.

15:22And then on the flip side with the Eagles, a lot of people after yesterday saying, you know what, that might be the game that finally gets the tush put in. Because you've got guys moving. You know, it's just they literally every time they need to pick up a first down on third and short or fourth and short, guess what? They get it. People are tired of the rugby stuff, and that's what Schefter said. He said the Chiefs didn't lose that game yesterday. They lost that game at the league meetings when the NFL said, hey, we're not going to ban the tush push. That's awesome.

15:50Pat McAfee:Boo-hoo! That's awesome. The football game, if they get loud, Greeny this morning was like the abomination of a football play. The tush push. It seems like there is getting a little louder, and obviously the shots of everybody being off sides and everything like that. Tush push out. Brotherly shove out. Let's go to the number one storyline of the weekend. The Dimes dive is in. Hell yeah. Three touchdowns in two weeks. Danny Dimes dive. The Colts, okay. I said it last week. Everybody laughed. Colts go into the bowl. I'm not laughing anymore. Denver Broncos, great defense. Yes. Denver Broncos got a great defense.

16:24Pat McAfee:Best preseason. A lot of people talk about Denver Broncos maybe winning the whole damn fucking thing. Denver Broncos are the team. A lot of money on the Denver Broncos. Because now they were in a dogfight with Tennessee week one. And I understand Cam Ward had some generational talent plays against them and everything like that. But they were coming into the lighthouse. They were coming into Lucas Oil Stadium. I think all of us were a little bit worried about, are we real or are we not? I mean, we're about to find out. Sean Payton on the other side with Bo Nix a little bit more. And what we found out is, ah, yeah, the Colts are for real.

16:52Pat McAfee:And Tyler Warren might be the best football player in the NFL. Danny Dimes obviously having a full resurrection under this Shane Steichen offense. that's the dimes dive and it is beautiful okay it is a touchdown maker a touchdown creator and i don't think we've even come close to perfecting it there's bodies flying in the back there's a little bit else but with danny dimes ability to run he even hit a second gear whenever a guy got free and got the edge around somebody and picked up a few yards which could have been a sack in a loss there was some throws that were perfectly placed out of danny dimes and there There was a no quit from the team that we had maybe seen in years past.

17:31Pat McAfee:There's multiple times where the Broncos should have won that game, could have won that game. The Colts could have had a three-an-hour, got out of the way, or the defense could have just not shown up and kind of gave up another field goal and maybe just let the momentum go the other way. We bring him in in the offseason out of Minnesota. Full vibes guy, full celebration guy. It is on good authority, I've been told from my source. Ciz. That blew the mascot, did not know they were doing that celebration at that exact moment. So Bynum's freestyling celebrations that are becoming the best celebrations around the league each week.

18:01Pat McAfee:It is a good time to be a Colts fan. It is a fun time to be a Colts fan. And leverage is in the rule book. Yeah, it is. Can't be trying to break guys' necks. No. We're trying to be a healthy operation. We're trying our best to make the game safer for future generations. You can't be trying to swan con bomb over a guy's head like that. You can't be pushing that, trying to get over the top. Now, I did see Denver Broncos fans point out some other plays that might have looked like some leverage. I'd argue that maybe it does happen on a regular basis. I'd argue maybe they don't call it. But when it's that egregious?

18:43Pat McAfee:Come on. That egregious? Can't win or can't have it. You got to call it. We all saw it. I'll tell you. I was in a suite, had direct eye contact on hold from Roberto Sanchez. Punter for the team. Haven't seen him. Yeah. No. We don't do that. No. We don't do that around here. Okay. Indianapolis, we don't punt anymore. Rigo could be on his way to Pro Bowl season. Did have a punt. Might have been 60-some yards. Then they ran into the punter first down. So he did have a punt in game one, but it did not count. It got ruled off. We got a first down because everything's working. for the Indianapolis Colts right now.

19:21Pat McAfee:But I had direct eye on Rigoberto Sanchez and Ball and Spencer Schrader, who has been great for us. This kid, Spencer Schrader, we're very happy he's here. Born in Indiana, right? Yeah. Westwood, Indiana. Then he went down to Florida, I believe. So he's an Indiana kid. We had Matt Gay. He was the highest paid kicker in the NFL for us. Ball didn't always go in. Good dude. Schrader kid feels good. I have direct eye contact on Rigoberto, the ball. As soon as he hits it, not good contact. This ain't going in. Okay, that's just immediately upon contact. Nope, that thing, you hit that thing. No way.

19:54Pat McAfee:So we all think it's over. The electricity is drained from Lucas Oil Stadium. And all of a sudden, what's out there? Oh, again, another flag on the play. These Broncos fans acting like this was the only call that everybody was like, come on. These refs were a part of every play. It was very annoying, to be honest with you. There was a lot of flags in the game. That leverage one's tough. If I was a Broncos fan, I'm certainly very loud. But on that note, we getting the re-kick in the outhouse, we didn't care. We want ape shit in there. What a huge win for the Broncos. D-Bot, you were on the call for ESPN Radio.

20:26Pat McAfee:I can't wait to hear that. What a game for you to get to call. I mean, what a game from wire to wire. Both of these offenses are moving the ball up and down the field. We always talk about in the locker room playing complimentary football. We always talk about, hey, it's going to take 60 minutes, have each other's back no matter what happens. And that's what happened with the coach yesterday. The offense was moving the ball well between the 20s all day long. A few drives, stall, stall, stall. But Strader was nails all day. Went five for five from field goals. So we weren't punching in touchdowns.

20:52But we made the big plays when we needed them. That big one to Jonathan Taylor up the sideline, that was huge. The Camp Bynum interception because the Broncos, they were getting in the red area and they were converting touchdowns. Bo Nix was pretty sharp once they got in the red area.

21:04Pat McAfee:Franklin, is that the wide receiver? Troy Franklin, yeah. Weren't they college teammates at Oregon? Yeah. So this was kind of his breakout game. But this interception was huge. We always talk about tips and overthrows. and that's what Cam Bynum and all the good deep free safeties do. They make you pay for those. So that was a big one getting that turnover there. Special teams, defense. Defense wasn't great all day long. Like I said, Bo Nix was pretty sharp, but made a play when we needed it. And offensively, just been sharp, man. I mean, just every drive we're getting points. We're getting touchdowns.