PMS 2.0 1413 - FIRST 15: NFL Week 3 Recap

0:00Pat McAfee:Put 15 on the clock, please welcome to First 15. These are the things that we think you need to hear about. Now, it might be 15 minutes on the clock, but this is off of the first 15 plays, you know, that are kind of scripted in there. So that clock is there, but it certainly has not worked in the past couple weeks as we have debuted this. Let's dive right into the five big headlines that we seen from the weekend of ball for the NFL. Number five, how about some super duper? All over the place. Now, not great for punters in a lot of situations. Not great for kickers in a lot of situations. but everybody talks about the offense hey who is quarterback and lead them defense they got championship defense nobody's talking about the third phase i think we try to bring it up obviously because i was a punter so i have massive respect for the guys playing on special teams which is back half of the roster that's a rotating bunch too so the special teams coordinator is the only one that addresses the entire team offense defense and then obviously the guys that are just there for special teams because at any moment you could pull from in in any play could win the game yeah Any play could sway playoff hopes, Super Bowl dreams.

1:00Pat McAfee:That's what special teams is. Let's dive into some highlights. Torrey Horton from the Seahawks. I'm sorry. Jalen Lane from the Commanders. 90-yard return versus the Raiders. Then Torrey Horton, Seahawks, 95-yard punt return. They also happened to block a punt earlier in the day. They blocked a punt. Go ahead and give me that. Seattle Seahawks not only return a punt, They also block a punt. Should have scooped and scored that one, put another seven on. But they beat the living dog shite. Out of the Saints, it feels like a lot of people are doing that, but you've got to be able to hold up in special teams down there.

1:38You've got to be able to hold up. We used to call it the fourth down army. We were in the Indy, and that, look, complimentary football, that third phase doesn't get talked about enough. But, I mean, unbelievable. You've got to be an athlete there and scoop and score that, though. Got to get seven.

1:49Pat McAfee:Have to. Okay, let's go to Cameron Dicker of the Chargers. He's had the greatest start in NFL history, first hundred kicks. Now he has one to win it. Fourth quarter, five seconds left. Game on the line against division rival, and Cameron Dicker does what Cameron Dicker do. Knocks it right down the middle. Justin Herbert's the real deal. Cameron Dicker might be the best kicker in the history of football, D-Bugs. He might be, and you knew as soon as they got him in field goal range now. Up until this point, we have seen some big-time blocks and big-time moments, so that would have been the only thing that got in the way of Cameron Dicker, but he is Dicker the kicker, the best in the business.

2:24Big-time kick, took 3-0 against three divisional opponents to start the season. Unbelievable start.

2:29Pat McAfee:That's a great way to start for the Chargers. Let's go to the Bucs, Chase McLaughlin. He has a 36-yarder to win it. How did we get here? You might ask. Well, let's do some more special teams. Earlier, two minutes left. Will McDonald off the edge. Block, and then what? Scoop, then what? Score. Cut to Tyron Taylor in the middle of a play, Fox. He loves it. Why are we doing that? Touchdown, New York Jets. Special teams block a Chase McLaughlin kick right up over the center. No leverage was used. No call was made. Game-winning blocked kick. Scoop score right. Aaron Greg. We did it. We did it. We did it.

3:10Pat McAfee:Yes, we did. What a moment. 149 left in the game. That might be too much for Baker Mayfield. Yeah, right. All Baker does is have comebacks. Chase McLaughlin would then nail this 36-yarder. 29-27. The Bucs remain undefeated. Unbelievable stuff from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Now let's go to the 49ers. They're starting Mac Jones as their quarterback. They were in a dogfight with the Arizona Cardinals. An absolute dogfight. Eddie Pinheiro knocks one through, wins the game. You know, Moody, who had been kicking for the Niners, lost his confidence, and maybe the op wasn't great. He had been missing a lot of kicks and extra points.

3:52Pat McAfee:Pinheiro coming out and making that and saying, this is my shit. Yeah. This is my shit. Huge for them going forward. The Niners might be inevitable, by the way. They got a lot of people hurt. A lot of people hurt. And they're still winning. Christian McCaffrey, I got a stat from Hembo. He's on pace to have the most touches in the history of ball. Like who? Like how much they're using him right now. He's on pace to have more touches. He's healthy. If he can stay healthy and the Niners can continue to do what they do, and Mac Jones doesn't turn the ball over. Nope. What's he doing? I mean, look, Mac's going to do that sometimes.

4:22Pat McAfee:You know how Mac is, but also, you know, that's just classic Mac Jones. What he's referring to is Mac Jones. Whenever he was asked about the turnover, basically said, I threw the ball right to the guy. Oh, way to go. He's a professional athlete. He caught the ball. That's real. That is actually a true story. We appreciate Mac having the personality in the moxie and also being undefeated. Congratulations to Mac Jones. He might get paid$100 million. Now let's go to that Packers-Browns game, shall we? Two seconds left. 55-yarder for Andre Smith. How did we get here, though? Well, let's go back. 27 seconds left in the game.

5:01Pat McAfee:Unbelievable, really. To steal a win against the Browns. Nope! Blocked kick. The Cleveland Browns special team. Bunch of dogs in the dog pound. Come around the edge. Got to get a handle on him, Tuck. Got to get a body on him. We got to get a better shove on the edge. He comes around, gets a huge block. They scoop it. Only need a few more yards now for you to be in game-winning field goal range. And they certainly did. Andre Smith out of Syracuse. Right down Broadway. What a kick. Flag was not on the kicking team. And that's how the Cleveland Browns beat the Green Bay Packers. Block kick into a long kick.

5:42Pat McAfee:And that's called stealing that shit from the Green Bay Packers. Ty, what a heartbreaker for you in the dog pond. Yeah, absolute heartbreaker. You just saw it there. 27 seconds. The Browns have no timeouts. They block a kick and Flacco completes one pass. They get down, spike it. Apparently didn't think they'd have any time. It is a cool story for this Andre Schmidt guy, though, because last week he did, or week one, he did not play well. They were calling for his job. I think he lost his mom. And then for him to respond, you know, this way and absolutely dagger the Packers' playoff hopes, you know.

6:13I mean, that's what a lot of people are saying. Hey, this team can't do anything. You can't beat the Browns. So we'll see. Tiger in the playoff. Okay, so you guys are saying we might win some games.

6:24Pat McAfee:This will be fun. But when we got to go on the road and win a big one, we lost to Cleveland. I don't know if you're respecting Cleveland and Cleveland enough. And those jerseys? Yeah, those jerseys are sick. Those jerseys are sick. But how many road games you got to play a year? Eight. Less than half of them. Yeah, exactly. You're worried. I mean, we'll see. I wasn't. What if the Cleveland Browns are good? The Browns D-line is going to be amazing. I mean, we talked about the Giants, I think. They're D-line for a while, and then all of a sudden you think, okay, never mind, Mason, Grand Miles, Gary, and the kid from Ohio State they got.

6:55Yeah, all three of them just were collapsing pockets yesterday.

6:59Pat McAfee:And we can't talk about super-duper special teams without bringing out a super-duper play. A man who's over 330 pounds, his clock going the fastest that a man 330 pounds has ever been clocked going. Ladies and gentlemen, this man, Jordan Davis, should not be able to do what he did as easily and as smoothly as he did it. Now, granted, obviously he could fall over and win that game by one, no problem. Instead, clean scoop, not easy. Ball's oblong, obviously. Right after he demoralizes a guard, snags a kick out of midair, clean scoop, give me that, and let me just go ahead and beat everybody to the end zone.

7:33Pat McAfee:Tight end right there realizes, I'm not going to be able to catch this guy's 330 pounds. He was striding out. Earlier in the game, it wasn't just Jordan. It wasn't just Jordan. Jalen Carter blocks a kick on this guy, too. I mean, you're talking about Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis getting a block this early. Obviously, that's going to make other teams think to themselves like, okay, we got to be stout against these guys. But Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis, now that they got one, it's almost like taking a lid off. Like, okay, if we do drive just a strain a little bit, then we get our hands up, we can actually block these kicks.

8:04Pat McAfee:It's like a confidence builder, I think, for people. And Jalen Hurts during Football Night in America came in during Maria Taylor and Jordan Davis' conversation and basically said, Yeah, I saw you two Georgia boys out there. It's like, this is what we got these guys for. And they did just that. I don't know how one guard is going to stop them. No chance. Genuinely, I have no idea how one guard is going to stop. On the offensive side, everybody's talking about the tush push for the Philadelphia Eagles. This is cheating. This is cheating. And they jumped off sides again. Yeah, which it is. And it didn't get called.

8:33Pat McAfee:This is cheating. We are a supporter of the play. It's a football play. You got to do what you got to do. You got to stop them. They did jump off sides again. It didn't get called. But the tush push, you know, still involves pushing and shit like that. for blocking of kicks, they used to let linebackers, like multiple linebackers, go put their hands directly on the cheeks of these D tackles, and they would push them, and then they would be the ones that would be up there jumping. They got rid of that because they said it was unsafe. Now on the offensive side, they still got it going on, but they got rid of it on the defensive side.

9:01Pat McAfee:Now you've got Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis. That's basically similar to what it used to be with four people pushing. I think they're going to use this as an advantage. I think there's a real chance that because they get two this early, they get confident, and they're only going to get more deep. I mean, it's a lot of power, a lot of explosiveness right in the middle of that defense. They've been playing great on defense as well. But when you get a guy that big, that tall, and I don't know if we all remember, he blew everybody away at the combine because of how big he was and how explosive he was.

9:28I believe he ran like a 4 '8 or somewhere around that at that weight. So to see him scoop and score, we talked about the Seattle one, it should have been a scoop and score. To see him be an athlete like that, scoop and score, and take that thing all the way to the crib for a walk-off. I mean, a terrible beat for a lot of betters out there who had Rams plus three and a half. But a great way to finish the game for them Eagles.

9:47Pat McAfee:Yeah, it was a terrible beat. It was a great win, though. Sirianni was losing his shit out there. Jalen Hurts like this while watching Jordan Davis run down there, super casual, no facial expression. Sirianni's watching it happen, looking for flags, taking his headset off. And he said, we're meeting at the end zone. He's running how fast? I'm going to try to run about half of that. Yeah, we got it. There's a thought. Get down. Somebody's thinking. No, you know what? Actually, go. No. Score. Go. Score. Go look for flags. There's no flags. Holy shit. Holy. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, we did. Yes, and right behind there, the guy with the sunglasses, the mayor, Randy Brown, who's a special teams coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens or special teams, whatever.

10:28Pat McAfee:He's got a really big title. He's been there for a long time. That's his boy. Okay. Yeah, who's special teams for the Philadelphia Eagles. They both won the Super Bowl. Obviously, they've done a lot for special teams. I respect that and appreciate that. But, boy, Jalen and Jordan getting that much confidence this early is not good for anybody. That is not good for any kicker out there, but it is good special teams. Number four, how about we must protect this house? And they did. 12-3 yesterday, all the home teams. Now, there were a few that went on the road. There was obviously not a zero in that second column.

10:57Pat McAfee:It's just three. Why do you think this is happening? Do you think we got a home field advantage? Do you think it was just the matchups, D-Bone? Maybe just the matchups. So I don't think home field advantage is that big of an issue, especially at this point in the season. 12-3, D-Bus. Division game, Shepton. I mean, it is division game. Let's see. What do we have here? What is the most surprising going here? The Browns? The Browns? The Panthers 30-0. That was a pretty surprising. Shout out. Shout out. Texans going on. Who? Who might be in trouble? Michael Penix. That was a bad, bad one. Good news.

11:28Pat McAfee:Got$108 million of backups. Is that good news? And he looked good. Tony, home field advantage normally counts for, what, three, four points with the sports book? Yeah, it does. And two D-Buts points. 53 % of home teams won last year in 2024. 53 % of the time the home team won. How come we didn't put up the teams that won on the road? Because that's more impressive than the home teams. Who was it? It was the Chiefs, which they're a dynasty. Oh, great win last night. Yeah, that was. I was trying to watch them be back. Now, Andy Reid and Travis Kelsey doing a little. I didn't seem like that. No, not getting each other's grill.

12:01Yeah, but they love ball. They do. Are they back?

12:03Pat McAfee:Are they back? They win by three scores. Yeah, I think any NFL team, I think they're definitely back. Certainly some moments where you go, they don't look like a good team right now. But win by a bunch, that's what Chiefs are. They go on the road. They're not in the field. So you expect them to win on the road. You'd expect the best team in the NFL to win on the road. That would be the Indianapolis Colts right now probably. So they did. True. Go for it. We did go to Tennessee and we blew them out. And the other one, you'd expect, you know, the six-time Super Bowl champs, the greatest franchise in NFL history to go on the way on the road.

12:31and the Pittsburgh Steelers, they did that.

12:32Pat McAfee:Yeah, you're right. I guess only the dynastic teams are able to win on a road right now in the NFL. The Chiefs, the Steelers, and the Indianapolis Colts. That's right. That's what we're talking about tonight. Could that change? We shall see. That's number four. Number three, Baker Baker, comeback maker, becomes the second guy since 1950 basically to lead, yep, three fourth-quarter comebacks for the first three games of the season. Last week, Baker obviously came off Monday night and said, we don't take no shit. Now he beats the Jets in the fourth quarter as well. We saw the blocked kick. The Jets definitely thought they were going to win that game.

13:09Pat McAfee:What they didn't realize is you gave this man way too much time. Baker Mayfield, give me that. Big-time throws and big-time moments. Feels like the guy's cut of his jib is perfect for this situation. And I'll tell you, football gods bless some teams with some teams of destiny-type feel. Three fourth-quarter comebacks this early with the mentality that they have. D, but I like what the Bucs are cooking this year. Yeah, you always hear it in the locker room. Hey, 60 minutes, whatever it takes to get it done. And now three games in a row where Baker has played his best ball down the stretch to get his team over that finish line.

13:41And look, three weeks in a row, this is the first time they've been 3-0 since 2005, I believe, as a franchise, which is crazy. And big day for Tampa Bay. I believe they were celebrating 50 years. So Coach B.A. will be here. We saw Coach Gruen, Derek Brooks, a bunch of legends out there. Steve Spurrier, who was the first quarterback in franchise. I had no clue about that. Ibuka was a superstar again yesterday, so a big, big day for the Tampa Bay Bucs. And once again, they are believing.

14:07Pat McAfee:The Bucs game-winning drives thus far. Against the Falcons, it was five plays, 63 yards in a minute 18. Against the Texans, it was 11 plays, 80 yards in two minutes and four seconds. And against the Jets, it was seven plays, 48 yards in a minute 49. They go ahead and just drain that thing and just take it over. Is Baker in that conversation now where it's, hey, too much time? Yeah. What's up, Baker? And by the way, backwards hat one time, next time looking cool. Baker said, I don't care what I look like. I'm letting you know. We ball, and we don't take no shit. Respect to Baker. Number two story of the weekend.

14:40Pat McAfee:Back up quarterbacks. Back that thing up all over, folks. Okay, Mac Jones, we talked about him. How about Marcus Mariota? He scores a touchdown. We assumed that was going to happen. Marcus Mariota football. Congrats to them getting a big win. And then Carson Wentz. Oh, yeah. In the Minnesota Vikings, we didn't see much of the Carson Wentz experience. What we saw was the best of Carson Wentz. And they demolished the Bengals. I mean, the Bengals, I'm not saying it. No, you might have to say it. We spent all our season talking about it. Say it. They paid wide receivers. They paid a quarterback. They spent 50 % of their money on six positions.

15:16Pat McAfee:I don't know if that's winning football. Then you get Joe Burton. I'm not saying it. It's over. Do you want us to say it? No, no. Keep going. It's bullshit. They can't block. They can't tackle. They can't punt. They can't kick. They can't cover. The only thing they can do is hope Joe Burrow can bail them out. And guess what? Joe Burrow's big toe is around the neck of Eric Armstead because he ripped it off week two. All right? So I'm done with the whole Bengals thing. Cincinnati, eat poop. All right? That's it. That's Austin Conner saying that. Your team sucks. And guess what? We're going to have to see Jake Browning in prop time.

15:49And that's shite. Okay? There's a lot of stuff going on with the Bengals. that's going to piss everybody off, and I think that we can foresee it happening.

15:57Pat McAfee:Okay, well, there was a lot of conversation about that in the offseason. We said, can they win that way? They were able to. Now they don't. Carson Wentz might have been a problem for anybody with Kevin O 'Connell on the call, though. Yeah, and he really only got to get through the first couple pages of the playbook because they were beating the hell out of him. Kevin O 'Connell didn't even get to unleash Carson Wentz, so I think it makes sense. Hey, let's unleash this guy in Ireland. Let's introduce them to a brand of football, and we'll get the entire country to maybe even flip. I know they're a Steelers country.

16:25Maybe they're going to be fans of the Vikings and Carson Wentz after next Sunday.

16:28Pat McAfee:I assume McQuaid is getting a one-on-one with Carson Wentz. Without a doubt. And what Carson Wentz is going to tell McQuaid, don't put this out until at least kickoff or so. We don't want the Steelers to hear about this. But they're going to unleash me. They're going to unleash me next week for the Irish people to understand what a shamrock could potentially look like out there as it's running on the field. Yeah, exactly. The Irish people are going to see pale skin and red hair and be like, Like, okay, this is our football player. And then they're going to see this guy potentially tough and reckless.

16:54Pat McAfee:Yeah, exactly. They're going to say, this is our guy. We're talking about Ireland being a Steelers country. It's going to stay that way, but I think there's a chance that Carson Wentz becomes like the LeBron of Ireland. Dude, think about the Irish people, too. They would love. Yeah. Oh, what are we doing? Hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup. They're going to love that. Carson, now I know the Steelers have had representation over there. Rooney has served as a diplomat, I believe. to Ireland, and there's so many Irish people in Pittsburgh, and I couldn't even fathom the amount of Irish Steelers fans.

17:26Pat McAfee:So that's going to make for a great game. But if they see Carson Wentz too much, Steelers fans are going to hope that he keeps that helmet on because if he takes that thing off, time for a crack. Who is that? Is Seamus playing quarterback for the Vikings? Is he from County Cork? Where is he? They're not going to turn on their greatest ambassador of all time, but I'll tell you this. There it is. Ambassador, I like diplomat. It's a big thing. Carson ain't giving that job back. That's certainly a conversation to be had. Another day, we hope JJ gets healthy. Congrats to the Vikings. And the number one story of the weekend, you guessed it, best team in ball is right here in Indianapolis, Indiana.

18:03Pat McAfee:Danny Dimes, only guy to do everything that he's done and not have a turnover. The Colts, the only team to ever do what they've done and not have a turnover. The percentage of scoring drives higher than anybody that's ever played ball. Only having one punt through three full games of NFL action is better than everybody that's ever done it before. The defense is all over the place. Brought in the right guys. Lou Anarumo, D coordinator, being one of the right guys being brought in, let alone Cam Bynum and Moni. The energy on the defensive side, different than it's ever felt. And on offense, Tyler Warren is the one.