Breaking Down the Big Week 2 Games

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And now, move the sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks. What's up everybody? Welcome to Move the Sticks. It's a Monday edition DJ Bucky Rhett back with you and guys in, I want to know, be honest. We all had things to do Saturday night. We're all busy traveling, doing different things. Show of hands who stayed up to watch the Colorado Colorado State game to the middle of the night. Oh my God. Like all of us? Yeah. All of us. Like all in. I, not only about the game, so here's what I'm saying, like, because I know you guys probably know Jeremy Bloom has already started his fun so they can do the experience for prime. He put in a hundo, right? He put a hundred three in. Every week is now an infomercial for Colorado. I'm waiting for my dog to be like, Hey, Dad, I think I'm on plan Colorado. Like, it's kind of like, it's kind of like the end thing. Like I'm finding myself like, Hey, you know, like, it's nice and all this. Well, good God. Celebrity. Let me tell you guys. Everywhere. Oh my gosh. It was, I mean, look, you know, weasies leading the team out, like, come on, like it's nobody in college for both. It's ridiculous. The rock was there. Here's, here's the other thing. All right. I come at this from a good husband point of view, okay? Because I had just taken Cana and the boys to Indiana with me to watch the IU Louisville game. They came. We were on the way back. Cana is, thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Stop. Great effort in a second half. Gonna be better back to 500 this year. There you go. Cana is a Colorado state of law. So she went on a state. And so we're on the plane back. So we had connected into Detroit and we're flying back. And so we cut the entire game, right? And, you know, I'm looking at this from a good husband point of view. I'm like, this broad case, I mean, like, do they know the state's point? It was all Colorado. Yeah, we don't need to come on. They're just a foyer. We don't need them. We don't want to win. I mean, I understand the, I understand, like everything that's going on is very exciting, but come on. There's kids over there too now. No. This was a buck. I know we had similar childhoods. You know what that reminded me of? It reminded me of like a Saturday morning. And it was this match between Jimmy Superfly Snooka and Bill Smith. I mean, it's like the Washington General's over here. Yeah. I don't care about that. We came to see the American Dream Dusty Rose. I don't care. Yeah. Hey, I want to see my guy. People's help all the time. Elbow drop. I want it. I don't. Look, I get that. And I'm excited that you're doing the good husband thing. Like I understand that. Like I'm with them. Hey, the Rams wrote up a fight. They actually gave us a good game because everyone was talking about the blowout and all that. Titan's a player. That makes it nice. Yeah. Yeah. It was great. And I was, but I'm sitting there like, hey, man, I think I'll lose the Colorado State. I might have to stay up and figure out how. I'll tell you what, the network executives were gripping watching that. I can promise you. Oh, my gosh. And he is ratings gold. And the longer they can ride that gravy train, the better for everybody. So they were, I bet you they were a little bit nervous. And Colorado took their foot off the gas a little bit late. And that was enough. And shoot her to a nice job. Get them down the field. But hey, look, that's college football. We usually stay for college football for later in the week. But I had to find out top of the episode. If you guys were in with me because I'm sitting there looking at the clock going, go to bed. You moron. What are you doing? Why are you awake in Nashville watching this game? I couldn't turn it off. So, but we're all in the same in the same boat there. All right. We're going to do our games here. We always take eight games and try and dig into them. I'll start us off here, boys. With the first one, the one I was at. The charger dropped O and two. They lose on the road against the Titans. It was a come from behind win for Tennessee on their side of things. Ryan Danielle did what he always does against the Charters. He plays well against them. There's a big week for him coming off last week. You needed to see him show some signs of life. This is a team that kind of under the radar lost eight games in a row. Lost their last seven last year and then the opener this year. So, he needed a performance and he had won. He was 20 to 24, 246. He ran one in on an option, which was a pretty slick play and then had to had a touchdown pass. There are Henry 80 yards. You know, it wasn't anything that blew you away. I thought the Charters did a pretty decent job against him. But this game came down to two things. Number one, it was explosive plays. Those were the touchdown drives for the Titans. The Charters defense, I think, had five sacs. They played well. Got after it. Bosa had two. But they gave up two home run balls. And their home run balls were you're rushing four, dropping seven. And they're in seven man protection. Running two man routes three if you want to count the back leaking out late. Like, you can't give up home run balls in that situation. So, you give up big plays. That was the number one reason. And then the number two reason was you have dumb penalties. You had two personal fouls on third downs where you're off the field that results in a scoring drive. So, in the buck, I'll go to you on this one. It just feels like when you're playing one possession games, so many of these games are one possession games. I feel like it's these details. It's last week if you're the Charters and you have just your tailor on Tyree Kill on the biggest third down late in the game with no help and you lose. And this week on two of the biggest downs late in the game, you have Deandre Hopkins. They're best wide receiver on a low e-gillment. You're safety with 12 yards of cushion and no help. And that's where the ball goes. Like, you can't, like, those are details. And in a league where there's so many one possession games, I feel like, man, that's what it comes down to. It's those details. And hats off to Rable and the Titans, they got to win. They did get to win. So one thing, Mike Rable and the Titans is Underdogs. 23 wins when they've been the Underdog going into a game. Like, he does a great job of making every game a close when even when he's overmatched. Does a great job of kind of finding a way to kind of win the little margins that put tilts the game in his team's favor. But as you talk about with the Charters and you talk about the league really being a one-square league because most of the games are decided by eight points of fewer. And it's about turnovers. It's about penalties, pre-snap, and foolish penalties, and big plays allowed. And DJ, you talked about the trifecta. If you turn it over, you give it to big plays. And if you have dumb penalties, us for some of like penalties and those things, you're going to lose games. And what the Titans do because Rable comes from that Patriots way thing. Like, they kind of wait for you to implode. And if you give it to them, they're taking it because they're always in range. And the thing that's troubling, if you're the Charters right now, you're looking up in a division already. Like, you're looking up at the Kansas City Chiefs. And the Kansas City Chiefs, because they came down to Jacksonville and do what they do. They continue to win. Are you ever going to close the gap on them by being more buttoned up than they are? Because I can't say that the Chiefs are the most buttoned up team. But when they have a quarterback like that, he can help them skip steps. The Charters have to be more down in and button up to win those games. They can't give away a game that everyone would say that they're supposed to beat the Titans. You can't give those games away because it costs you down the stretch. Yeah, I would just give some credit to Ryan Tanehill as you kind of did there at the top to each of you. I mean, this is a guy who was kind of left for dead last week, you know, with the multi-interception game that I was saying. I was thinking if this goes bad, like we might see somebody else in the second half of this game. That's kind of what I was thinking. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know that you're wrong there. So credit to Mike Vrable, you know, credit to that offensive staff. We're getting Ryan Tanehill in some positions, you know, where he felt comfortable. 2024, you know, gets anybody is pretty then good, you know, to be that efficient with the football. And, and then, you know, you've got Derek Henry needs some clock too. And then, you know, using tag, you know, it was only the one carry, but it ends up going for the touchdown, run a little triple option. Like, I love having that in your bag, you know, especially with an athlete like Tanehill. He's got the wheels, use them. And so I just, I just thought that it was nice to see a team, you know, back up their, their quarterback that's kind of gone through some trials and tribulation to the last state games now. And, and comes back out and sees the fruits of the labor. So credit to the Titans, certainly, and I think the charger's got to be a lot better in third down too. Mike goodness, you got to find a way to extend some drives there. Yeah, no, it was, that was, yeah, it was not great. That was a big key to the game. They didn't finish drives down the red zone. They weren't great on third down. But where we want you to jump in, tell us about your ball game you had with the Jags, a tough one against the Chiefs. Yeah, tough one against the Chiefs. But here's what I say about a Ken City Chiefs. As long as they have their big three, they're always going to be in the title hunt. Their big three is Pat Mahomes, Chris Jones and Travis Kelsey. And in watching this game, man, the Chief did not bring their A game. This was a team that was kind of sputtering on offense for most of the day. The Jaguars got three turnovers, had a plus two advantage in the takeaway thing. But yet, the Chiefs found a way at the end of the half to go ahead. And the reason why is because the Jaguars could not get it going because Chris Jones was unblockable. And what Steve Spagnolo did, because these are, let me tell you one, you have the better job right now in terms of your end of booth. I'm on the field. It was a hundred. Oh, I can't imagine how high it was. It was a hundred and 22 degrees. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Hold on, Bucky. Because did you see Baldi down there? Did you happen to see Baldi? I didn't. Can you guys? Oh, is he soaked? Look at the sweat. Oh, my gosh. Oh, yeah, he soaked through. Oh, hey, that's strong. That's strong. Baldi, you were getting after a down on the field. I appreciate it. You were down there in the heat. Oh, man. So I feel your pain, Buck. So I had to find a tent. In the middle of the second quarter, it's so hot. I was like, man, where's the tent at? I need to, like, just kind of cool out for a minute. So to think about how hot it was for me, and I'm thinking about Chris Jones, who hadn't been in training camp, hadn't practiced. I'm like, there's no way this dude's going to log these snaps and be a dominant player. Oh, no. Chris Jones showed up. And what they did is, P. Spagnilla said, hey, guy. It's Dylan's choice. You get to line up wherever you want to line up over any line, and you want to line up and have your turn. So walk a little. You get a turn in. And find Harrison. And you get to, oh, Brandon, sure if you're struggling a little bit, you get a little bit of this. And within the first drive, he had a sack. He had pressures. He was all over the place. And what he did is, he opened it up for George Carloftus to get it going. And so their defense played well. Now Travis Kelsey, on offense, he couldn't move around. He was limited. But what he did is, he gave Pat my homes his security blanket. So at the end of the first half, they can't get it going. Pat my homes, take some down the field, because Jaguar's gamble. He goes and scores, and you're like, uh-oh. They get the ball coming back. They drive. Travis Kelsey has two catches, bang, bang. Last one is a touchdown. On what they always do. You get down in the red zone, pat my homes, kind of runs around. Travis Kelsey, like, oh, post up. Touchdown. Toss it into the stands. And I'm sitting there, and I'm saying, man, because they've won so many games, their experience and expertise is going to allow them to steal games, kind of like that, that vintage old team that's older than everybody. They just know how to win. As long as they have those three guys, they can't see the chiefs are going to be a viable content. Because they're, their supporting cast is fine, but those guys know how to make the plays that need to be made in those critical moments. You know what I was looking at, you know, and looking at this game, because I was doing game day live while this game was on. And so we, you know, check in periodically, you show some highlights from this game, and, um, yeah, with the one thing that I didn't realize in showing these highlights and talking about, Patrick Holmes spreading the football out, like I have never seen before. Nine different receivers with multiple receptions, right? Nobody over four catches, and then another couple of, and then ends up, you know, finding completions to two additional receivers. So he completes passes to 11 different receivers. Meanwhile, you know, and I guess, you know, it can be a bit of a positive two for the Jaguars. Christian Kirk was the dude, right, in the past game, yesterday for the Jags. Calvin Ridley, you know, just two catches, but Kirk ends up with 11. So, you know, it was a little bit more concentrated on that side, which is good, because, you know, if Calvin's not there, you can, you can find Kirk, but man, just the amount of different ways that Patrick Holmes can find completions. Again, even if it's not Kelsey, I think is, it's just dangerous, depending on how a defense wants to play them on any given week. I'm going to transition this to your game, Rhett, with this one to put a bow on that, uh, that Chief's one. Are you a little, we talked so, oh, no, we weren't going to go there. Uh, to me, the, uh, the, the AFC, I don't know if we're going to see a 14-in-2, 13-in-3 team this year. Uh, it is so low in its, uh, it's, it is, they're going to just beat each other up all year long. And, and we'll get to it with your next game, because here we are, uh, with Cincinnati Bengals, a lot of teams, a lot of folks had them, you know, kind of as a Super Bowl, training Super Bowl pick here, with what they've done over the last few years, and, and here they're sitting at 0-2. 0-2. 0-2, Deach, and, you know, I think there was a lot of talk about Joe Burrow last week, right? And, you know, the worst game of his career, or career low passer rating, passing yards, completion percentage, you know, whatever you, and look, it wasn't a pretty game, obviously, this game was much better for Burrow, and I think it kind of gets lost in the fact that they lost here, but he made some big throws in this game. It's a tight window throw, some sideline throws, he was threading the needle, you know, beautiful back-of-the-end zone throw to the pylon that went right through Tyler Boyd's hands, and I end up scoring on the very next play to T Higgins. Um, but, man, I mean, like, Burrow looked fine, and they actually protected him very well in this game. He was sacked once, but only hit three times. He was only pressured eight times, you know, depending on where you look for that. Um, you know, I think that, what it comes down to here, in this game, for the Bengals, was their defense. They couldn't get off the field. You know what I'm talking about? They were, they allowed the Ravens to go nine for 14 on third down. The Ravens had drives of 13, 12, 12, and 10 plays, and scored on all of them. Bengals ran just six plays in the first quarter. It was a very limited possession game, and so when you weren't scoring on offense, you found yourself, you know, in a 14-nothing hole. And then, you know, you were 10-nothing hole, and you get the punt return touchdown, which kind of saves your bacon there early from Charlie Jones. But, um, overall, I'm not concerned about Joe Burrow in the past game. I'd like to see a little bit more in the run game. I thought they protected him very well. I think defensively is where they're going to need to see some improvement here. They allowed the Ravens to really kind of run it up on them in the ground game, too, in this one. Yeah. What's interesting about the Bengals, uh, the ON2 star, Joe Burrow, having the recurring calf injury, I'm beginning to get a little concerned about that. Did he rush back? Is that going to be an issue that continues to kind of hamper them? But, you know, a lot of people didn't talk about it, but when they flipped out their secondary, this offseason, they lost both of their safeties, Jesse Basin-Vonville. I mean, say what you want about Ely Apple, Ely Apple was a starter. So three-fourths of your start in secondary is all gone. You bring in young players trying to fit them in, they're trying to get a communication and stuff, right? And so there are a lot of different things that are working, but this is about to be the way of the world for the Cincinnati Bengals, because when Joe Burrow gets the money that he has, you're going to have to live with some of these growing pains from your young players. Zach Taylor didn't seem to concern after the game since we started this last year, but the difference last year in this year, I believe the AFC is more competitive this year than it's ever been and fallen behind two games. Makes it really, really horrible when we think about getting to the tournament, even though we're only in week two. Yeah, the other thing is on the Ravenside of things. I don't think they've got it all figured out just yet, but this is what they've always done. Even when they're trying to change and morph and grow and evolve, they win games. Yeah. That's that old thing. I mean, it sounds cliche. Winners win. Like the Ravens have won there for 20 plus years. They don't win. They get in these games. They don't lose them. They don't lose them. And the good thing is if you're a Ravens fan, they're going to get healthier and they're going to get more comfortable in this offense and you're going to see it continue to grow as we go forward. So again, Ravens off to a pretty good start here. A big win for them over the Cincinnati Bengals. All right, let's take quick break. We'll come back. We'll jump into the Cowboys continue to just dominate. They did it for the second week in a row. We'll jump on that right after this. Hey, this is Mike Wright from the Fantasy Footballers dynasty podcast. You heard that right. The fantasy footballers have officially entered the dynasty space. 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Man, I would love to see what Aaron Rogers going in there, the hype around that game. You had Romo and Nancy, it was all built up and then of course Rogers is gone. So you're going to see, let's see what Zach Wilson looks like. Is this the new Zach Wilson 2.0? What's this Jets offense look like? And the Cowboys defense came out there completely dominated the football game, dominated them up front. Micah Parsons just making plays all over the place using them as a looper. They can do so many different things than they couldn't, they couldn't block them. There was some interesting things on that side of the ball for the Jets. They didn't run the ball. Breeze Hall was tweeting about it after the game and they get four carries. So they just didn't, they didn't attempt to run the ball. And when they do run the ball, Buck, they should be a right-handed run team. That's your power side. Like they have a power side there. It's back in. And Vera Tucker, that's where you want to run. They're not running the other side, which I do not understand. They go empty. And to me, it's, I don't know. And I'll get you on this, Buck, because some of the stuff won't hit on this game, but I'll get it over to you. But the, I feel like there's, there's teams around offices and there's teams that run plays. They run. And you kind of like the empty, the empty stuff, like you got to be immersed in the empty stuff if you're going to do it. And on the broadcast, they were hammering Zach Wilson. Like, hey, it's empty. You can't, you can't double-hit. I think Rome even said you double-hit. You're going to get sacked. And he did. So I'm like, I'm watching it and mind you, Zach had some, his turnovers were terrible. He did not play good. I'm not excusing his, his performance, but I'll say this on that play. You've got, oh gosh, the tight end. Why am I drawing a blank here? Excuse me. The, uh, Yuzama. Yuzama. Yuzama. Yuzama. Yuzama, they're empty. He's in the slot. So he's running an out route book. He gets the top of his route. And he's trying to give shoulders. I'm like, dude, this is come empty. The ball's got to come out. Like this, you, you are speed cutting everything. So Zach Wilson's waiting on him to finish his freaking dance moves at the top of his route. And he gets sacked. But I mean, that's why you can't just pick up a play. We're going to do this a little bit like, you have to major in something. Like that's got to be who you are and what you do because that's a teaching point. That's like lesson 101 when you're running empty stuff. Yeah. Yeah. My frustration with the jazz DJ, we talked about it. We talked about like the blueprint. Basically just steal what the 49ers have done early. We brought pretty run the football to the cows come home. Heavy formations, do stuff to just commit to it. And so wrote about it on Friday. Talk about it, wrote about it. Hey, this is what the jazz can do. It's not all is not lost. And then I'm like, you tune in and you're like, all right, here we go. We go see. We go see the jazz kid after digger and run the ball. And you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. So many passes. Like, to me, I said the magic number should be 38. They needed about 38 rushing attempts. You know, when you hear a chanahan talk some games, you say, hey, this is a 40 rush attempt game. You're like, my god, like that's all the game. But to me, that's what they needed. They needed to play, let's see if we can get the game into the fourth quarter and make it a 15-minute game. And they decided that they wanted to throw it. And you're right, Zach Wilson's turner was terrible. But some of that, I'm saying. All the fourth quarter. I'm saying decided to use it. I'm just like, give you a young quarterback a chance. And you're right. This is all solid. This is them sending Hackett. If you're going to play, because you saw how they played against Buffalo, complimentary football. We're going to run it. We're going to play defense. And every now and then we'll give Zach an opportunity to push it down the field. But that wasn't a game plan that we saw against the Cowboys. Is this a situation at all? You guys think where we're still not yet evolved out of the Hackett Rogers offense to enough of what Zach can do well with the thing. You know, we're not, we have not morphed the offense back, you know, away from the things that Aaron was really good at and that he and Nathaniel were really comfortable together game planning for and getting out there in a game and just haven't we haven't gotten to that point yet where it's going to be all right. Nathaniel's got to sit down with Zach. And we just haven't, we haven't gotten enough of that yet. I mean, like, do we give it more time? Is it going to look better with time? Well, I mean, look, that's that's that's that's curious about. That might be the best defense in the NFL. And coming off, coming off a week where you played pretty good against a really good defense in Buffalo that just stymied the Raiders. So, and it like doesn't get easier. They're schedules brutal. So, but I will say let's, let's let it evolve a little bit. But if you, if you we finished the game the next week and you look down and Breeze Hall's got four carries and Dolvin Cook's got four carries. Oh, yeah, by the way, Dolvin Cook fumbled and gave up a short field. That's not, that formula ain't going to work. But like, even like what? One of the interceptions late on the go ball. Like, it's a whole shot. And Zach has a hose. Like, that has to be a flat firm ball. The safety is coming back from the backside. Like, you can fit that in. And he's got the arm to fit it in. And he just lofts it, puts a bunch of air underneath it. Like, that's not every throw requires a different trajectory and velocity. He just, he was the wrong choice from that standpoint. But he made some nice throws. He did some decent things there. He just can't be like, he's not the lead actor. If he's the lead actor in the play, the play's going to suck. Like, he's got to be playing in a supporting actor role or that's not going to work. The one thing that I know I just saw this tweet. They said after the game, the teammates, five offense teammates surrounded Zach Wilson and encouraged him. And they talked about, he's not the same guy. And so the coaches have to take that and make sure that they give him an opportunity to be successful. And it has to be run game first. Zach Wilson. Right. So, so on the other side of this thing, Buck, the, the Cowboys offense, that played great. They had seven explosives. I believe they were all six of the seven were CD lamp. So I'm like, okay, who's CD lamp cooking here? What's he got going on? And it was double move against DJ Reed for a win. Yeah. It was a seam against zone. It was an out against zone. It was a whole shot against zone. Like, and I'm sitting here going like, man, from the, from the Cowboys side of things, hats off to you. You executed, that played great. From the jet side of things. Like, you got a Ferrari in sauce garden. You might as well take it out of the garage. Like, he's, he's, he's four guys like CD lamp. Like, let him out. Let him go out there and no nose to nose. They don't want to play like that. It's so weird because like, that's not how Salt Lake is down. Like, they, they are a hybrid zone team. And you have that Ferrari as you talk about a sauce garden. Like, everyone is, is looking for that corner. Because in that game, hey, sauce. Yeah. This is really solidified your reputation as a dude. You got him wherever he goes. And we were working around it. Some people are not comfortable living in that world. Because it makes the other team guys have to adjust. But in, of all the times, yeah, you got to play man to man. You got to make him earn his yards when you got a superior athlete like that and salt. Let me, let me go back to you on that real quick. And then Rhett jumping on the back of this. The, the, the NFL to me, guys, it's, it's a matchup league. It, that's all it is. It's a matchup league. And to me, I can understand you lose. Hey, good on good. You got me, you win. But I feel like I'm seeing it through two weeks now. And I've seen it a lot of these games. And this is another example of it. Like you get back on the bus knowing that you, you let their best player beat up on either a zone where you weren't dialed in on them or you didn't have your best guy on him. I just don't know. That doesn't make any sense to me. It doesn't. I mean, I don't get it. Go home, go, go swinging, man. But don't let them, don't let them beat you with the best pitch. They'll let the best guy beat you. Yeah. Well, you know, in, in looking at this, you know, in the Cowboys offense of perspective, you know, obviously, you know, had tip in what we saw on the defensive side, my goodness. But I think the early returns on what we've seen from Mike McCarthy calling plays pretty dang solid. I think you've gotten, you know, the very best out of Dak Prescott. You know, very efficient Dak. We're talking about 31 completions only going for 255 yards. May not have seen that in years past, but you'll take that because it's a goose egg by the interception column. And then on the other side, look, Tony Pollard. You know, that's a, that is a tough front and right in a really good second level. That front seven for the Jets is good as anybody in the league. And they kept pounding it, right? 25 carries for Tony Pollard and didn't get, you know, didn't shy away, even though they were, you know, they were sub three yards of carry for much of the game. So, you know, like, I think that commitment to the run game is showing some dentists and dividends and this, you know, kind of new way of going about attacking defenses from a play calling perspective for Dallas is showing some really positive early returns. Well, obviously keep an eye on it down the stretch here. That's a good note on a Mike McCarthy because I don't think people really understand how good of a play call he was. A lot of it was attributed to Aaron Rogers, but one of the things he talked about the off season is making sure the running game has to be affected to make the game easy for the quarterback. And so the commitment to the running game you see is not just a pound at control the clock. It's to unlock some of the big plays that we're seeing from that press cut and to make the game easy for the quarterback. And so I get that. And maybe sometimes it's the experience of a long time guy that can do it. What's the next one here? Oh, I got the Niners and the Rams and Niners. The Niners come down the other way, taking over whose house and just doing what they've always done with Kyle Shenhan and Shawn McVay. Like this is, I mean, we talk about big brother, little brother, knowing each other and doing those things. But there's something about Kyle Shenhan. He just understands how to play against the Rams and Ryan Morris, one of his best friends. But the Niners offense, man, Christian McCaffey going over a hundred yards, Brock Purti looking like a casino dillard just making play after playing play to swag that he has and all this other stuff. I mean, I'm going to say if we've got to be the seventh round pick, Mr. Irrelevant, I don't know if that have ever seen a more perfect fit with this dude in this offense with this play call it. It is amazing to me to see Brock Purti really elevate this offense the way he's asked. And then when you hear the stories about Trent Williams and those guys saying they knew way back. They knew way back in camp that not this camp. But last year that, I mean, this dude has some stuff to him. I don't know, man. I think it's the mystery that every scout has to has to solve because if you can find a quarterback like that. Oh, my gosh. Man, we need, we need to figure out what the secret sauce is because I'm trying to figure out what the secret sauce is to know that Brock Purti is a guy because you see it each and every week for the Niners. You know, I just kind of going back and I was driving home listening to some of this game. And you know, I think from the 49ers perspective, you just kind of take a peek at some of the production, you know, like, all right, Purti throws for 200 yards. You know, Capri runs for buck 16, obviously, 100 yard game. You know, your average about six yards a pop. But I mean, it was not like an overly, you know, Capri did have the long, you know, 51 yard run, which was impressive. But it was not like an overly, you know, crazy offense of outputs till they throw up 30 points. I mean, they started almost every one of their every single one of their drives started at around the 25, the minus 25 yard line. And they still, you know, kind of methodically seven play drive, seven play drive, five play, six play, seven, you know, 11, like, they don't go three and out a bunch. You know, they find ways to stay on the field and just put points on the board. And it just, it's like a cumulative thing with the Niners. And speaking of cumulative, how about my guy, Puka, 20 targets in his game with 15 catches. Or you can, I am ashamed that I shied away from him in this match up against. You're picking. You're scared. You're scared. You don't give a reward. You don't get awarded. Yeah, you found him. And then you let him go. I know. I know. I don't even know who won. I can't even remember who picked. But we'll find tomorrow. But on the Puka thing, because that was I was going to put a bow on this and then get it back to ret on this next game. Bucky and I have talked for years about the whiteouts. And we've used the phrase. It's the polished route runners. It's the craftsman. It is, it is held so true. We're almost feel like if you go back through every draft and we just say, okay, these were the purest route runners. Because I'm going back. You look at like CD lamb who goes off today. You know, there was so many whiteouts in that draft. I think we had him as the top. I think we both had him at the top. Yeah, he was up there in that draft. He way up there. And because the route running plays, man, like that's, and especially the more too high safety stuff we're seeing all over the league, you got to be able to uncover underneath. So you better be efficient. You better be able to get in and out of breaks. And you don't. And it's like they all have the same. They almost all have the same kind of formula. They're all mid four, five guys. They've all got play strength and they can all separate like Bucky. It's another example. It's a run after catch up. And DJ, but you remember, we did that study years ago. And we found that the number ones were, I think the average 40 time was four five four. And so I will say this as someone as a receiver, I can never stop. Like I was fast going back. I could never stop. Take 15 steps. Stop on the comeback. Luis Mendosa. But DJ, there's something to those guys because the guys that are not as fast, they have more control. So they can stop and start and get in and out of their breaks, whereas a lot of times it is rare to find a guy who is fast. Went up the field, can put his foot in ground and then go. That's why Tyree Kill is a. He's not a planet. He's like he's a different. He's a different dude. Like you don't see many guys that can do that. But you're right. As we continue to look and kind of study the wide receivers that are popping. It's four or five route runners. And you know, you know who my comp was on him, by the way, when we're back and look through my notes. Pushman Zada. Pushman Zada, who I think had been training him, but that was my comp for him as a route runner. Because remember who was who was who was not fast coming out? But he could separate catch everything. Look, I timed him. Remember the old Oregon State facility upstairs. They were running the cafeteria. Oh, yes, yes. And they were running into the wall and you had to catch him. Yes, I timed him up there. And it was, I think it was four, five, nine. Because I like it. I think I might have pencil whipped it instead of four, six months. He played with Chad Johnson. He got Chad Johnson lined up. And when you did this counting, because it's funny, Jonathan Smith was a quarterback. Chad Johnson was a receiver. TJ was on the other side. TJ did all the dirty work. He was a guy that did all the dirty work, the possession receiver and those things. And like got from Rams doing it. He is falling. No, what shall happen with Cooper cut back? What what happens? Where's the ball going go? And they're going to have two receivers with with 20 targets a piece and then catches each. It's completely red. Red's trying to figure out how do they play with three slot receivers? How do we do this? You know, don't worry. Scoronical get his targets. There you go. There you go. What do you got next, Rhett? All right. Let's let's move to a really fun game in Detroit. And obviously more fun if you were a Seahawks fan. Full disclosure. I didn't see I did not see one play of this game. So this is like hearing a story for the first time though. I don't know what happened. Okay. Well, let's let's tell it, shall we? Because it was a lot of fun. And we went we kept coming back to this thing on game day live. It's just every every couple of minutes. It felt like there was a new there was a big highlight happening. There was a score happening again. It was a 3731 game in overtime. And I thought the quarterbacks in this game were fantastic. Geno and Jared golf were absolutely doing in dealing. Okay. I mean, these guys, if I go back, I think the opening drive for Seattle was a 12 play 70 yard touchdown. It had a big play to DK Metcalfe get down to the goal line and Kenneth Walker ends up punching it in the run game for either team in this game were minimal. Both of these quarterbacks were well over 60% completion in this game. Up near 70, 72 in this game. I mean, golf is 28 to 35. Geno was 32 with 41. I mean, the way that they were spreading the football around and just making big plays, chunk plays, 18, 12 yards, 20 yards, 16 here and there. I mean, it was like a tough day if you're a defensive coordinator. I don't think either team got a ton of pressure on the opposing quarterback. In fact, I was looking at that. It was kind of one of the reasons I was like, God, Geno was just kind of sitting back there and carving these guys up. You know, Aiden Hutchinson was the only guy that was really providing any type of pressure. They got nothing from the interior players like Alimic Neal and Levi Owens or E.K. for the Lions up front. So I want to be better up there in the interior, kind of trying to collapse that pocket a little bit. But I just, I thought both of the quarterbacks were really good. But the one mistake though. And it was kind of hard to diagnose on the table. As you went back and watched the interception from Goff, that was a pick six from Tray Brown. Kind of running like a chase concept. We had a driver. We had Josh Reynolds on a driver out and then they were running the chase from the back, right? Jamir Gibbs on a little Texas route to kind of follow and get into that gap. And it almost looked like Goff was expecting Gibbs to sit down. But with the concept that just didn't seem right because the ball is about three or four yards behind him. And then you look back. You see new Chenternuoso is absolutely folding up the right track and coming through there and just provide some real pressure. And so if throws the right to Tray Brown who takes it to the house, that ends up being the difference in the game. Now he responded well. Goff did came back. Let a couple of more scoring drives. I gotta say is both these teams really fun to watch on offense. The past games were fantastic. I think they can run the ball when they really want to. But I keep going really encouraged by both of those quarterbacks who both of which last season entered with real question marks. Right about whether they were the guy for their teams. Now it's good to see both of those quarterbacks much more line. But both of guys have responded really well in their new environments. You talk about Jerry Goff playing to the point where Detroit is going to have to kind of write a big check to keep him around. Because he's playing at that level where it doesn't make sense for them to say, oh, we're going to move on from him and go and get one in the draft. Geno Smith also for the Seattle Seahawks, the way that he's been able to kind of drive that offense. And we expect this offense to be explosive and dynamic with the pieces that they have. And they're continuing to do so. It is funny because we talk about how tight it is in the AFC. I think we'll begin to see some separation in the NFC with the quarterback play. And we can talk about Jerry Goff and Geno Smith being at the top of the charts when it comes to the NFC. Because that's going to be the deciding factor in the NFC to quarterback play. And, you know, just to wrap this up because we did get the season or the NFL debut from a top 10 pick in the cornerback, Devin Witherspoon out of Illinois for the Seahawks played basically the entire game for the Seahawks. I went back and watched all of his snaps too. I thought he was excellent run support. Man, his mentality, his aggressiveness. I think you saw that at Illinois a bunch. Part of the reason why we loved him, right? He's just kind of, he's a missile all over the place. And, you know, he's got the speed to cover ground, saw it on a PBU. He forced on a sandal port, a crossing route. Problem is, he's so willing in the run game. He really got sucked up on the fleet flicker that Jerry Goff ended up throwing a Khalif Raymond. But he wasn't the only one. Kwondri Digs took some heat on that one too. But I think they're going to love Witherspoon and Wolland and Trey Brown in there as a third corner too in Seattle for many years to come. All right. I'll keep us moving. But I do just want to point out right now week two of the season that I'm predicting. This Seahawks Lions will be like a Saturday morning playoff wild card game that just feels like it's fun. It just feels like that. That's your like Cheerios playoff game. You know, that's fun. It'll be a fun one. All right. Falkins in a big win over the packer. Sorry to be able to 25 24. Doug into this tape this morning. I wanted to see Ritter. Ritter was 19 to 32 for what two thirty nine two thirty seven. I had to touch down a pick the pick. He just gets drilled by Kenny Clark absolutely smoked in the backfield. But man, he could have two other picks like two other throws one hit Kway Walker right in the chest that he dropped. So it was a little bit spotty from from him. But he got Drake London going which was nice to see got him involved. I'm just watching this going like man, we. This is a big win. John I'll get to be John a second. But this was my thought walk and watching this was we've heard so much scuttle but about man. If you're a you're the jets you trade for Kirk cousins like your teams ready to win right now. I'm looking at a pretty good offensive line and I'm looking at one of the better sets of skill positions led by I think B. John Robinson. You I you don't I can't tell you one running back. I take it for him and I know McCaffrey and what he is. I'm just saying what what I saw in my eyes in that game. He looked like he's going there. Tomlinson. I will take be John right now. So I'm saying you're going like shoot maybe the Falcons need to trade for Kirk cousins. I mean I don't want to I'm not trying to to Barry Desmond Ritter here. He's just he's okay but that's a massive upgrade. And this team this division is infinitely winnable right now. And they they are a quarterback away. So that was my takeaway on the Falcons side of things on the other side. Kway Walker who I mentioned 17 tackles he was flying all over the field. Your defense played you know they flew around played well obviously. Don't end up getting getting the one that you want there. Jordan love was fine. You know the numbers look good. He just didn't put up a bunch of yards. But to me that was my takeaway. I just came way going like Cali there. You throw a quarterback on Atlanta like they're ready to roll. Yeah. And and also just to button up the Jordan love court. Bucky. No Christian Watson. No David Bakhtiari. No Aaron Jones for the packer. Chris kind of you know budding superstar players at least in Watson's case. Like they're going to get better. This packer seems going to be better. They absolutely going to be better then they got it better. They have to get improved on defending the run. But let's just talk about the Falcons in the running game. Because everyone. Dead pan to pick when they took B. Summer. What are they doing? They just got tired of just why would they take a running back? Why would they be committed to this much to the running back position? And DJ the comparison was Ladinian Thompson with B. Thomas and was coming out. You just don't turn down a Ladinian Thomas and type when you have an opportunity to do it. And Arthur Smith talks about last year they can run the ball on anybody. Well now you added better player to a team that can run the football. The fact that they were down in the fourth quarter still committed to running the ball. Let's you know exactly how they feel and in a league where guys are getting smaller on defense. The running game is a huge advantage. And Arthur Smith has to look to the West and see what the Niners are doing and say that if we can run the football. It's going to give us a chance to get in the tournament. And then if we get a quarterback, the right quarterback. It's going to give us chance to win a bunch of games and make it maybe advanced far. Remember last week. Buck I said, hey, they got this they got this new driver and it's like a teenage driver. And they just kind of drove around the neighborhood. They let B. John get on the freeway a little bit in this. Oh, the game. Some touches. They let him get. Hey, we're going to go a couple of exits down. We'll get you off the freeway. But you got to open it up. You got to he found he found fifth gear in this one. Rhett and they opened it up a little bit. No, that was so much fun to watch. I mean, he's built his cutting ability like I don't think he's just I don't think we see that anywhere else. That frequently at least. I mean, the amount of moves you can make in this framework of one one play is just so much fun to watch. So yeah, I did have B. John in case anybody is wondering for tomorrow show. Oh, there you go. All right, Buck. Get us to this our final one here. We got to help his Patriots. This is the last one. What do you got? Okay. So the Patriots and dolphins. To me, it's really fascinating. Because everyone wanted to know what was Bill Bella check going to do with Tyree Keele. After watching Tyree Keele go absolutely bananas against the charges. How is he going to throw the blanket over him? And for the most part, they did a pretty solid job of keeping him on the rafts. Didn't let him get loose. He only had 40 yards. It continues the theme where when he plays the Patriots, he's really a non factor. The thing that finally impressed me about the dolphins. They ran the football. Like this is the dolphins that I thought we were going to see at the beginning in terms of running the football. Mike, we then you being the run game guru getting to it. They got to it and it really affected them because that's the way they were able to kind of win the game. But what I like about the dolphins this year. They can put you on the freeway and they can throw it all over the yard with Waddle and Tyree Keele to a look. I don't know how he gets the ball. He sees the bliss. It's like I put it out. It is out. They're really taking any shots. And so you have the ability to kind of put this stress on opponents with the speed of your wide receiver core. But you have the physicality and the toughness of the running game. If they can put this together consistently, they are hard to defend. Did you ever play the game that little device called Bopit? Did you ever like with your kids or whatever? You know what this thing was? There was a game called Bopit. So it's like this stick thing and it has a buzzer on it. And then so one of the handles you twist it. So it has the audio. It goes twist it. So you have to twist it. And it goes Bopit. And you have to hit the thing. Pull it. And you pull the other one. And it starts going faster and faster. And you got to listen to it and react real quick. Or the buzzer and you lose. I bet Tua is an animal for that game. He was like, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. His processing and how quick he's getting the ball is stupid. And a lot of times with that, you sacrifice big plays, Rhett. Like, they're still getting chunk plays with him getting the ball out like that. I mean, the ball comes up. Yeah. And it's a lot of fun to watch. I mean, he and Mike McDaniel are definitely rolling right now. I mean, you know what's about to do? That's five and oh against Bill Bella check. Come on. Yeah, that doesn't happen. Come on. That does not. No, look, I know it's not a quarterback versus a head coach. But you just. Still, I don't have context from that, right? Yeah. I agree with you on that for sure. And you know what? I was kind of just looking at it. And, you know, as we're kind of assessing the shape in which this Patriots offense is going to take moving forward. I mean, 58 dropbacks in week one for Mac Jones. 47 in week two. That ain't it. I don't know, man. And like, I think we shouldn't really be surprised. Think about the way that Bill O'Brien ran this Patriots offense when he was the O.C. before Josh McDaniels came back and they're throwing it all over the place. You know, they just don't have rainy moss on this team. You know, I don't just the high end targets to me don't necessarily match up with the way in which they're playing at this point. Maybe it will eventually, but at this point, I don't know. I'd love to see a little more Ramondri Stevenson. I think he can be a, I think he gave me a force, but I don't know. It's just one thing that jumped out to me on the way the Patriots are operating at this point, DJ. Yeah, no. So I was going to say it would have been mean if you'd have said it, but I thought you were getting ready to drop the other. They got Kate Moss out there. They don't have Randy Moss out there. Are you going to get a Randy Moss? Are Randy Moss? He's worked at NFL media. There's horse racing. Or Todd Mossberg, one of our producers. Oh, Mossy Mossy. Yeah. Mossy Mossy. Yes. All right. Here's what we're going to do. The games we didn't touch. This is going to be literally less than 30 seconds. We'll just go around the horn. I'll pick one. Then I'll give Bucky. You do the second one. Rhett, the third one. We'll just go down the list here. Bear's Bucks. Bear's Bucks to me. Mike Evans. Huge day. Wash all his explosives. Baker Mayfield's throwing with anticipation. The ball is out. We talked about two of it doing that. Baker did that. And then also Baker extending plays. So get the ball out on time with anticipation to win. And then every now and then extend, create. It got a broken play. Got Mike Williams on a big one there. So that was kind of the thing that got people excited about Baker Mayfield. You saw in this game and Mike Williams was the beneficiary. That's Texans. Sorry, Mike Evans. There you go. Yep. Close to. Go ahead, Buck Williams. Yeah, go ahead. Cold Texas. I mean, look, I think this always comes down to Anthony Richardson. The first two scores. You see him run around and do all the things that we talk about. But for the second week in a row, he's been out the game. And so if Anthony Richardson is going to be this wonderkin that does all this stuff on the ground, he has to find a way to protect himself. And I see a talented runner. I see a runner that lacks a little awareness. When it comes to, hey, man, I'm about to get hit. I need to get down or whatever. I don't think he's the most natural runner, despite the tremendous physical gift steady possesses. Yeah. Quickly for me, Raider's Bills was one that I was watching quite a bit. Raider's run down and score a touchdown on the opening drive. And you're like, all right, this Raider's team beat the Broncos week one. They're rocking and rolling here on the road for a second straight week. And then the bills come back and score like 38 unanswered points. And we got, we got good, we got good Josh Allen. Yesterday, real good Josh Allen, 31 completions, 274 yards, zero turnovers. When he has zero turnovers, the bills win football games. It's also got a hundred yard day from James Cook. So the bills found a formula on offense, Deach. Pretty good. That's a good one. Yeah, nice to see Josh Allen bounce back. Giant's cardinals. I'll be honest with you every now and then on my picks. I'm not ashamed to admit that I farmed them out to my son and his roommates at the dealer apartment. And this week when they sent him back to me and they had the cardinals beating the Giants, I thought, well, I'm getting ready to be a laughing stock around the sports world. That I was the only one who picked that game slash my son and his four roommates. But man, I'm getting on the bus for the Charters. I'm like, it has tough loss for the Charters, but I'm going to look like the smartest guy in the world. The Cardinals are beating the brakes off the Giants right now. Oh, incredible. Beating the brakes off of them. Yeah. And then Daniel Jones just put on a clinic with Dave. Yeah, he came back and won the game. So as a man, that's a big performance for them is the, I mean, not saying the heat. They were playoff team last year. But man, it's bad. It's against the Cowboys. Now you're going to go lose the Cardinals. They bounce back and it was a big win for them. So that was my, my almost victory lap that I got to take there. It didn't happen. Commanders and Broncos are the same for me. I'm sitting there. I look up and man, the Broncos are just absolutely waxing. The Commanders. And then all of a sudden it all flips. It all flips around. Eric me enemy disoffends. Finds a way. Sam Howard gets hot. They kind of get it going. And they end up when it went in spite of. I hear Mary being surrendered and having to defend the two point play. Big win. The Commanders are two and oh, and I don't know if any of us saw that coming. Yeah. If I could just double down on that one real quick. You know, it was a tough, it's a tough weekend. You know, here in the Clenchment Lewis Whitworth household. You know, wife Colorado State Rams fall in overtime. To see you. And then the Broncos, you know, they get the, they get the Hail Mary. They did the hard part at the very end. All he needed was the two point conversion. So good news is though, you guys should check it out. By the way, shameless plug here for the wife's big show. The big story ABC News live. Yes. Here just started at five to seven p.m. Eastern time on ABC News live. Wow. Check out the most talented member of this household. Saw that. That's what I'm talking about. Way to go. Cana. Nicely nicely done. Nicely done. All right. So. Buck, tough one. Jags lose. Chargers lose. The two teams work with. But hey, our college teams won something. Right. Does anything about it? Big win. And then, hey, I saw Epstein. He's Carolina. Carolina. Everybody. Just playing. Everybody in state. Is that what the skater was trying to. We're just trying to win a state championship. That's all. What's Green's bro doing? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Come on up. Come on up the hill. All right. Yeah. Exactly. Again, appreciate everybody. We've got some new reviews and five star ratings. We appreciate those. As we continue to grow this thing coming up on a thousand. We're going to have a thousand. I think is it later this week or next week? It's coming up. It's coming soon. Next week, Nabil just said so episode number 1000. I'm sure we've got something really, really special plan there. Maybe we'll try and see if we can coax the Hoosiers into one in a game for Rhett. Making feel better. I don't know. We got it. All right. We'll see. All right. That's going to go for us. Appreciate you guys hanging with us. We'll see you next time right here. Unmoved the sticks. Hey, this is Mike Wright from the Fantasy Footballers Dynasty Podcast. You heard that right. 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