Alabama Is Back On Top, The Catch That Wasn't For Virginia Tech, More Bad MNF, NFL Coaching Hot Seats, and MLB Wildcard Predictions

[00:00:08] Speaker A: Welcome back. This is sources from the Sofa. We're sports podcast. I'm Rome. We also got Jason. Aaron is Mia in Vegas this week, but he'll catch up with us again on Thursday. We just had two Monday night games. I don't know who was watching the Dolphins, Titans. I was kind of pulling for the Tynes to get a victory. And Lions, man, that was really exciting. But we'll go to that a little bit later on. I really want to talk about college football first because this is, like, probably the first big weekend up and down the board. [00:00:42] Speaker B: I thought you weren't going to talk about that. Aaron disappeared in Vegas and decided not to record today. I thought that's what you're going to lead off with at the top of the podcast. Allegedly, he had 22 must games to watch on Saturday. So that must have been exhausting since he was out in Vegas. And, you know, so if he watched all 22 much watched games and then put all the money down that he was talking about for all the winners he was doing, I see no reason for him to return to the podcast because he'd be just walking away with money at this point. [00:01:11] Speaker A: Well, the funny part is he told me, he gave me, like, like ten games of post on Twitter, like, like gambling games. I'm like, do we have to, like, narrow this down a little bit? I can't fit it all in one tweet. After doing two tweets, like, go find the restaurant on the dub club thing, this guy's getting really into it, which is good. I'm really happy for him because that's what I want. [00:01:27] Speaker B: He's just given winners to the audience. But, like, we'll see if he returns on Thursday. So that means, you know, his winners weren't as good to not continue the podcast and retire on an island somewhere. [00:01:39] Speaker A: We actually did pretty good on the weekend. Here. Let me pull up real quick, though. I'm trying to find his text. [00:01:43] Speaker B: See. [00:01:45] Speaker A: We were eight and five with college football picks. Eight and five and two. I don't know. How do we get to 61% allegedly from Aaron? So I might have to take his word. [00:01:59] Speaker B: All right, well, we'll go. We'll confirm that before he comes back on Thursday, whether he's eight. [00:02:04] Speaker A: Yeah, most definitely. He was right about Arizona, though. [00:02:08] Speaker B: He called right about Arizona. [00:02:10] Speaker A: Yeah. So, okay, well, we'll go to air Arizona a little bit. But first I want to talk about the Alabama Georgia game. That was a crazy game. Aaron did pick Alabama with the upset, and I. So my Internet went out, my house so I'm, like, scrambling, going, like, bar to bar, trying to watch the games, text new guys, getting updates. It's so frustrating. But Carson Beck, who everyone thinks might be, like, a number one pick, kind of struggled a little bit, had a few turnovers, but it still had 400 yards, but Jalen tore it up. I've been, like, a pretty harsh critic on him, like, not being, like, the full, complete quarterback package, mainly a guy that just runs with his legs but not really tossing the ball all that much. But the strides he's made this year and in this game, 350 yards passing, 100 rushing, 80% completion. An engine like that, nothing was bigger than that last throw. It was a 75 yard touchdown bomb to Ryan. Uh, was. What's the name? Williams, who's only 17 years old, did, like, a little spin move, had six catches for 177 yards. It was pretty surprising. And now they're the new consensus number one. [00:03:16] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a crazy first half. Cause you don't see a team get all over Georgia like that, except Alabama. If you look, if you were looking at the past, there's some stats last, like, three, four years or something. Like, Bama has got three losses, or, I'm sorry, Georgia has three losses. They're all to Bama, and then they come out and up 21 nothing first quarter out of the gates. Like, you just don't see that in a defense from Georgia. And at that point, I was like, oh, this game's over. Like, I kind of turned it off there at the half. And then, you know, I had a couple, couple buddies texting me, too, like, you were about the game, and they, a couple of them were big, you know, big, big on Bama for that game to win like Aaron was, and all of a sudden, that got a little quiet, and then I kind of peek back in the score, and George is making this comeback. And then take the, takes the lead or ties, you know, takes, ties the game up at the end, and then one play later, you know, bama takes it back. Like, it was, it was, it was kind of crazy. You talked about Ryan Williams. Yeah. Like, six catches, 177. Just insane, you know, steep balls at 75. That, that seven to 75 yard reception, you know, it really put him ahead, was, you know, it stunned the Georgia fans. I think that's some of the best part about college football. You watch these things, and it's just like, you know, 15, 20,000 people in this one corner. That's all for Georgia or whatever, like that. Just try. It's just, you know, eyes open and just pure shock. Because they came all the way back, and in one play, it was a dagger, and it was. It was kind of over. [00:04:48] Speaker A: It was crazy. So, like, kirby smart, he's one in six against Alabama. That's it. It's just a kryptonite. Alabama says kryptonite. So I was watching college game day. I really like Saban McAfee. Saban's kind of cool down there, too. Like, it's like the weirdest pairing. But I remember last year how McAfee was singing the Georgia song, and he's like, forget I'm taking Alabama. And then he did it again this year, more or less. And I. I think he was the only one that was taking Alabama for the game. Everyone else had Georgia. There were everyone's number one team. [00:05:20] Speaker B: So Saban didn't pick Alabama. [00:05:22] Speaker A: I don't remember. I thought my Internet went out. [00:05:27] Speaker B: You know, I will say, if we're talking about the college like McAfee, I think, you know, definitely tailors to a particular audience. I think you and I are part of that audience. That different? Yeah, it's a different type of, you know, energy and vibe on the show. I think some people that were like, kind of the purists of college game day, where it's kind of college program. Yeah, they were. But I think it's a little changed this week. I, or this year. I like Nick Saban on the show. He. Definite different perspective that it's a, you know, there's a seriousness, but it's a, you know, this is a guy who's done it all at the coaching level, probably the best college football coach ever. But it gives really great insight, and I think it's. I think it's a good dynamic this year when you're watching that show. But, yeah, I mean, bama, you know, I think, really surprised people. You know, and some people, I would say, but because Georgia has been so dominant, we knew it was gonna be a great game. But I think that first half was, hey, coming out of the gates, bam is just gonna put them down and like, wow, this is the class of the SEC, potentially, because, you know, people are on Georgia where they're at. People are in love with Texas. There was a lot of hype with Ole Miss Tennessee, you know, so there was a lot. And bama's, you know, hey, they're not, they're not taking this, taking this lightly. They got a new coach, but, you know, the cupboard wasn't bare tons of talent. And, you know, you got a 17 year old wide receiver making plays in this game, too. So you got even more talent that we don't even know about that, bam. Is getting so really the hot. The highlight of probably the weekend was that game. It was, you know, great prime time game, and, you know, couldn't ask more for college football for me. [00:07:02] Speaker A: And then I also love the Miami Virginia tech game, which, I mean, which. That's a fucking catch, dude. That hail Mary, that was a completed catch. I don't know how they got overturned. The play was over, and then they say he fumbled or, or he ripped it out. I thought Miami got away with one, and they didn't play very good in the first half. Like, I was really nervous. I'm like, what the hell's going on here? Everyone's big on cam Ward. He had another big game, though. I think he has five straight games with 300 yard passing and three touchdowns. And every game, he's definitely looking every part of what they signed up for. But Virginia Tech, man, I feel bad. [00:07:40] Speaker B: For them because there's a certain point, it's funny. Miami, to me, and Rome, you may be the same. Miami to me, is one of the programs. Cause, yeah, when I'm, you know, when we were growing up, like, it was that early, two thousands Miami team was Sean Taylor. And just like, yeah, it was great. And then, and then, you know, and then back in the day of the eighties, Miami teams were like, you know, the thing as well, but Miami has never won the ACC. They've been in the ACC since 2005. They've never been the ACC champion. [00:08:14] Speaker A: Really? [00:08:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Which is crazy. So Mario Cristobal, like, excellent recruiter. That is really, like, why, why he was brought in. [00:08:24] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:24] Speaker B: But a lot of questions about his game management. I think we've talked about it before, and last year, like the infamous, you know, running the ball when he could have taken a knee. [00:08:34] Speaker A: Right. [00:08:34] Speaker B: But Miami, even not in the Mario Cristobal era this entire time, as they've ran through the ACC like they always have. Oh, man, we got a, we got a special guest on the pod right now. [00:08:45] Speaker A: Yeah, someone didn't go to sleep yet. [00:08:46] Speaker B: Oh, man. But. [00:08:52] Speaker A: Handoff. [00:08:55] Speaker B: But, yeah, going back to Miami, they always have this loss. You know, it's a, it's a Thursday, Friday night game. It's versus an unranked opponent. You know, a team that's, you know, solid but not great, that they should win. And this potentially could be the turning point for Miami for a season that a lot of people expect them to make the playoff, potentially win the ACC. And you mentioned Cam Ward. I was like, that was the biggest get that this team needed. They needed a quarterback. He has put this team on his back. Four touchdowns again this week in this game to really, you know, bring them back as they're down and half. So Miami's got an interesting, like, schedule. [00:09:36] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm looking at right now they get a nice little break with Cal this weekend. [00:09:41] Speaker B: They do. Yeah, they do. And then you play, you know, Louisville, like as of right now is their only ranked team. They're playing, which a Louisville team that just lost to Notre Dame this last week. So, you know, Cal's a pretty tough opponent. They're playing a bad Florida state team, which probably would have been a good game, but now that should be, but it's not. And then you're playing, you know, a bunch of other unranked ACC teams that Miami should go undefeated type thing when you're looking at the schedule top to bottom. But I. There's going to be a lot of traps in there. You know, Duke has played well. Georgia Tech, you know, they had the Florida state win, but who knows? So there's some challenges. But, like, Aaron picked Miami to win the acc. I was, I was back and forth on them. [00:10:22] Speaker A: It's looking kind of good, actually. [00:10:24] Speaker B: It's looking good. I look, I thought they'd make the play. I thought they make the playoff. I think Clemson, you know, I know they're, everyone's pumping the brakes because of week one, but I think Clemson still has got the talent there. And if you're looking at the ACC championship game, Clemson, Miami comes down to it, you know, both teams probably in the playoff at that point come, you know, one way or the other. But yeah, the Miami game was definitely, you know, a great game on a Friday night and a controversial ending that you're going to live for. I, you texted me and Aaron right. [00:10:54] Speaker A: Away, like, you know, Aaron said, I'm like, that's. [00:10:59] Speaker B: I agree. I agreed with Aaron. Just because you had from, you just had so many people like, lying out of bounds and like, limbs left and right. Like, if they, if they did catch it, like, I think, I think it was a tough to call that guy. And then initially, I mean, they called a touchdown on the field, but, like. [00:11:15] Speaker A: It took, it took evidence to overturn it. Like, that does not get overturned nine times. [00:11:20] Speaker B: I think they just wanted to go to replays. The only reason they called it a catch because it almost was like the refs weren't paying attention to make a call. It was like, hey, these don't get completed. And then they're like, oh, this is, this was close. I don't. Okay, touchdown. And then we'll, we'll review it and see what's up. So, yeah, tough, tough call. Tough break for Virginia tech because they, they challenged them and played them well. But if this is Miami's closest, you know, game of the regular season and that gets into the ACC championship game, like, you know, maybe they're over the hump, but still a lot of football left to play, but very entertaining game for a Friday night. There's been some really great Friday night games. [00:11:57] Speaker A: I was great night games, but I. [00:11:59] Speaker B: Know you had the Illinois Nebraska like, a week ago. Then you had this game last Friday night, too. So it's college football. Like, it's the second biggest sport behind the NFL. And this first year of the playoff, I'm curious on how the playoffs gonna be, but there's a, it feels like there's just a little, you know, college football is always popular, but it feels this year there's a little more excitement to what's going on across the country. [00:12:23] Speaker A: Well, it's kind of interesting. Cause a lot of people said that this might diminish, like, the regular season, but I think this heightens or, like, this heightens the regular season even more. Cause now it's all about matchups, having these tough wins. You need, like, breaks every once in a while, and you're gonna have at least a couple teams that are gonna have two or three losses maybe, I don't know, Michigan escapes again in a ugly, you know what? It was like a 50 yard performance. But when you look at, like, all the undefeated teams, let's talk about, like, your Notre Dame really quick. Louisville was pretty good. I think Nordain was up pretty handily right in the first half, and then they kind of let the ball drop in the second half. They didn't score for like 20 or so minutes. [00:13:00] Speaker B: Yeah, they didn't. They didn't score till the fourth quarter. They were. [00:13:03] Speaker A: Offense looking kind of shady. [00:13:05] Speaker B: Notre Dame's offense has been shady, man. Like, there hasn't been. They haven't found the quarterback that is really going to come in and make the plays to really lie. This team, they've gotten transfers, the last two starters, you know, Riley Leonard coming in from Duke last year, you know, only through for 163 yards. But they're. Since they lost to northern Illinois, part of the strategy has been getting Riley Leonard involved in the run game. So he was their leading rusher and leading passer. I think that's still a problem, too, because I think Jeremiah Love, Notre Dame's running back, is the playmaker on offense that they need to kind of get the game, get game breaks going and they, he only had eleven carries in the game, but the defense is carrying him. Notre Dame has a great defense and that is, that's what, you know, put them in the lead early on. That's what's kept him in these games. Notre Dame, probably a playoff team. It's a biased opinion. I know, even though you say this is unbiased pod, but they're a playoff team. But, but this isn't a team that contends for the national title because you put Notre Dame up against one of those SEC teams, Bama, Georgia, that are just going to be flinging the ball up and down the field, making big plays like Notre Dame's not keeping up in a track meet like that. They're keeping these games, you know, very close, defensive minded and so, but Louisville is a good team and it was a big win for Notre Dame because, you know, that is probably their toughest test until the season finale against USC. So Notre Dame could be walking into that USC game with just the one loss against Northern Illinois and, you know, they have their playoff hopes on the line there at the right, the finale. [00:14:48] Speaker A: Yeah, it's be really interesting. So Notre Dame escapes. Ole Miss was not so lucky. Man, I'm a big lane kiffin guy, so I always kind of root for him. I always feel bad how he's been fired from every place and, you know, he probably brings a lot of that drama on his own because he used to be a diva. But I. They didn't look that good against Kentucky. [00:15:06] Speaker B: No, but Kentucky's been, you know, they took Georgia to the wire the week before and yeah, and in one this, so, you know, they've been a super competitive team and that's where you look at sometimes the depth of the AC, the SEC, where, you know, teams like a Kentucky, which, hey, if they're playing in the ACC, is Kentucky a much better team, but they're going against all these behemoths in the SEC. But yeah, I mean, disappointing loss. [00:15:30] Speaker A: I was as much, yeah, they just don't have much more wiggle room for the rest of the season. They play LSU. They got South Carolina, Oklahoma, Georgia, Arkansas, which, you know, depending on the weekend. [00:15:45] Speaker B: It's a tough schedule. I think Ole Miss has the talent to go up against LSU, LSU, to me, still shaky. Georgia and Oklahoma definitely be some games. But going back to your comment earlier, I think when you look at what these teams are playing about the playoff. Like, this is why I like the playoff, because I want good teams playing good teams and not these guys worried about, like, oh, I'm going to get two losses and now I can't win the national championship. Like, I want ranked teams playing ranked teams and big rivalry games. And I don't want, you know, three games against Georgians, Georgia Southern and all these other, like, you mean like twelve? Yeah, I mean, I want to see the good teams play the good teams and, like, not them, not be decent devised to do that. And I think now, hey, you, you can play tough games during the regular season. You can potentially get a big out of conference game to beef up your schedule, too. And then when it, you know, you're battle tested when it comes to the playoffs. And that's, that's what makes the regular season entertaining. So that's why I don't buy the value of not having the playoff, that, oh, it diminished the value of the regular season. Like, no, tell that to the Saturday night Georgia Alabama game that, like, you know, I know it's a conference, you know, it's a conference game, but, like, these are the games we want, and we want schools to schedule these in non conference games, too, where you get a big non out of conference game that, you know, can have, can have some stakes, but at the same time, it isn't, oh, I'm, you know, I'm going to lose the second game of the season because I'm going to go conference to play Michigan or something. [00:17:14] Speaker A: So real quick, man, because we got, what, twelve teams going to playoffs, right? Notre Dame's just right there at 14, just outside. I think they're probably better than LSU at this point. And Ole Miss. I don't know. There's going to be, like, a lot of changing of the guard here, and there's been so much turnover at the bottom half. Anyone below rank 20, like, how good are you feeling about the top twelve teams right now? Who do you think might stumble out? Because we're like, at a really good spot right here. We're, we're like at the third, almost halfway marker, this one shit starts getting real for college football. [00:17:46] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, you got a lot of teams that are going to be playing each other and I think that's, that's what's going to do it. You get, you got a lot of SEC teams and Big ten teams, you know, Oregon, Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan. And then, I mean, honestly, I'm looking at the top twelve right now. [00:18:03] Speaker A: Like, does USC, miami, does Michigan stay. [00:18:06] Speaker B: There well, okay, the top twelve right now. Top twelve right now. Only one team is not the big Ten or SEC. It's, it's Miami. Everyone else is big ten or sec. So, I mean, some of these teams are going to cannibalize each other. [00:18:21] Speaker A: Oregon, I'm thinking about pac twelve. Like, no, you are, but you got. [00:18:24] Speaker B: To think like Oregon. USC now part of the Big Ten. Like, yeah, so you're top heavy in these two big conferences and that's what the Big Ten and the SEC wanted. Like, they, hey, we have this two big power conferences, but, yeah, they're going to start cannibalizing each other. There's a lot of these games, you know, these SEC games that'll be there. And then I think that's where Notre Dame can come in. That's where Clemson comes in. You still need a representative from the big twelve. I know I was big on Utah and they, they lost this last week, but. Yeah, but there's, there's still some. The shuffling. It's. I think it's early in the season, you're going to see this play out where, you know, all of a sudden a couple losses to these sec had to head matchups and Big Ten had the matchup. [00:19:06] Speaker A: So is there anybody in the bottom half the rankings or even not ranked that we should kind of keep an eye on? Boise State, their running back, I can't remember his name. The guy's dominating. Heisman hopeful. He's killing it. [00:19:20] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, Boise State, you're talking about Ashen. I think it is. [00:19:26] Speaker A: Yeah. There you go. [00:19:27] Speaker B: I mean, Boise State was my pick for the, you know, the non utility on power five countest. Like that's. Aaron was on Memphis. I was on Boise State. UNLV, undefeated right now. [00:19:38] Speaker A: You know, they lost their quarterback and they didn't. [00:19:41] Speaker B: Right. So, I mean, unlv, you know, they, they could be somebody that, you know, potentially is up there, too. I think they're ranked in the. Maybe in the coaches poll or something like that, but they're right in the top 25. So, yeah, I mean, they, they make a play, you know, potentially be there. So one of those teams that is getting in, I still think it's Boise State, but I don't think I watched. [00:20:02] Speaker A: This much college football in a long time. I'm really liking this season. I don't know why. I don't know what's different. And what's crazy is I'm already looking ahead in the draft. In four years, that draft is gonna be so loaded. You see so many true freshmen killing it right now. And that's been like a rarity because we've been having a lot of these six, seven, eight year seniors. [00:20:20] Speaker B: And Miami's got like a nine year senior tight end or something like that. I think the guy's our age. Oh, Nick's was another one that I felt was in college forever that just got to the pros. So, yeah, you're right. And not even four years in the draft of three years. If you're, if you're some of these guys, you're blown up freshman year. You're not saying all four years. Like a lot of these guys get their degree in three years and they're out and they're in there to the end. They're to the pros. And, you know, you don't can blame them. You know, you want to get to the league as soon as you can. [00:20:48] Speaker A: And I think Ohio State got some really good freshmen. Alabama has a few good freshmen. I don't know. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Anything else you want to talk about in college football? [00:20:58] Speaker B: No, it's a good week. I know we'll probably get in some previews. Aaron will have like 47 games for us to watch this weekend, so we'll have to figure out. I mean, I got several tvs in the house, but I don't have enough tvs to keep up with Aaron's much watched game. So I don't know. I don't know his setup to have 22 games on. [00:21:14] Speaker A: Huh. It's ridiculous. They have the big screen and they have. [00:21:17] Speaker B: Yeah, I've seen it. But still to, you know, 22 games to watch. I don't, I don't know where he's getting all that. [00:21:24] Speaker A: So it's wild. Just to recap for our college football picks on Twitter or x rather, also on dub club, you can subscribe to the podcast picks. Aaron's kind of leading that thing more or less. But we did. We had a really nice weekend winning 62% of our bets. So check that out. We'll take a quick break. When we come back, we'll talk Monday night Football and a hell of a week for NFL. [00:21:53] Speaker B: I. [00:21:56] Speaker A: Cool. We are back. It's just me, Rome, as well as Jason. Tonight. Aaron lost in Las Vegas. We'll find out how his weekend went on Thursday. But NFL up and down week, man, we called some upsets. My Steelers I saw coming, man. I saw it. And despite their best efforts of giving away, given the game away, they almost came back and won. But let's start with the two Monday night games, which another doubleheader. Thank God there was two because one was trash. Who would have thought the Miami game would have been this shitty? [00:22:32] Speaker B: I mean, they're playing the Titans. I don't know. [00:22:34] Speaker A: And the Titans were pretty bad, too. [00:22:36] Speaker B: There's something about the AFC south whenever it's an in division AFC. Actually, Miami's not even AFC south, but you put the Titans on prime time. I'm always, I'm always skeptical. Generally. It's a Thursday night game. [00:22:48] Speaker A: The Titans like a Thursday night game. Yeah. Well, first Levitz, he had like this first down, like dive. He got the first down. But I have a feeling the coach is just like afraid of challenging it. You know, everything now. It should have been a first down. They punt it. Here's his shoulder. Mason Rudolph ended up coming into the game and then you have Huntley on the Dolphins, which this is like, it felt like a weird Ravens Steelers matchup from last year or the year prior. [00:23:16] Speaker B: And it's the, it's the worst of Steelers. Ravens. They're playing the two third string quarterbacks. [00:23:22] Speaker A: It was so rough. Dolphins, you would think Hunley would have opened the game up a little bit. They got some stuff down the field, but nothing much. And probably a good thing that Levis went out because Mason Rudolph, he actually did pretty decent with the Steelers and relief and they scored the most points of the season so far. Some field goals. Nick folk, I totally forgot he was on the team, but they went pretty handily. 30, 112. I don't know if we need to talk a lot about this, just that the Dolphins are just hanging the wrong direction. Two is not coming back to week eight. And then the Titans happy to see that they got a win. [00:23:59] Speaker B: Yeah, they got the win. I mean, you keep, you keep trumpeting these Steeler quarterbacks or former Steelers quarterbacks and what they did. Mason Rudolph threw for 85 yards, man. So like he didn't come in and vote. He wasn't contributing to these 31 points as much as you're saying. They got the ball in Tony Pollard's hand. They got the ball in Spears hand. This is a team that, you know they're going to run the ball in this Callahan offense. You know they're going to run the ball. I think I talk about this every week for teams that need to utilize the running game. The Titans are going to be one of those teams because if Levis is in, he's good for one spectacular turnover or me moment. Moment every week. But yeah. Mason Rudolph, 85 yards, nine for 17. That's not blowing the socks off of anyone, but, I mean, the same sign Huntley threw for 96 yards, dude, it was, it was a brutal game. You know, when you have Tyreek only getting 19 yards, you know, I don't even like. I know he was 19 yards rushing. Tyreek had 23 yards receiving, Jalen Wallen had 36. Just, you know, you have these playmakers that were with Tua last year that were getting up and down the field. That's why a lot of people like them. I like them. The McDaniel offense was, you know, being able to do those Shanahan schemes in the running game and really get anyone to be able to run the ball and open up into the passing game, and it's just been nowhere this year. And this is a team, you know, I like to go with trends a lot with some teams. The Dolphins are a team that plays well in September and October in recent history, and then they collapse toward the end. So it was a team that's this year not getting out to the hottest start, and then they're going to go to a time of the year where they're historically, in the, in these previous years, not doing well in these cold weather games down the stretch. So it could be a rough year for the Dolphins for a season that was supposed to be, hey, this is a team that's going to compete and be in the playoffs and potentially go to the Super bowl, but at this .1 and three, probably not going to the playoffs. [00:25:54] Speaker A: Let's go to the next game. Lions, Seahawks. I think I called out a potential shootout here. It was fun. It was fun. Golf was slinging the ball. He was almost a. He was almost perfect tonight, wasn't he? 18 for 18, just under 300 yards. So two touchdowns. But, you know, Smith, man, this guy balled almost 400 yards, touchdown, interception. He tried to do as much as he could, but, you know, right, right when the Lions got that assessed on the fourth quarter, to kind of seal it like, that was it. But it was a fun game. I was going to, I kind of want to talk about, like, the last of the unbeatens because it was the Seahawks. You have Vikings and Chiefs, and then it was Seahawks. I don't know who else was undefeated. Oh, Steelers, they lost this weekend. So it's just two teams left. Aside from this, though, like the Lions. It finally looked like how we all expected this offense to be clicking. The defense was swarming Geno Smith a lot. The pocket was collapsing. [00:26:56] Speaker B: It was a great game, like you said, like the Saturday night Bama Georgia game. We were talking about great primetime Saturday game. This was a Monday night game like you, like you said, thank God we had two because if we were sitting with dolphins, Titans only, it probably would have not been most exciting. But yeah, this one was up and down the field and Aaron was big on the Seahawks earlier in the year. I was not convinced here in year one post Pete Carroll. But Gino continues to surprise and, you know, in a division that so far hasn't been, you know, that they've been the class of the division. With San Francisco struggling, all the injuries, all the injuries to the Rams and where they're sitting, the Cardinals have a one good game, but then they're sitting out one and three as well. So, you know, Seahawks still sitting good, you know, with their first loss of the year and they've been impressive offensively. But yeah, the Lions getting back where they're supposed to be. Aaron and I both agree that the NSC north is the best division in football and I, and the Lions are supposed to be the class of that and I. This kind of proved that they are back on track. They will thought they would be offensively and woke up. So it was a matter of time. It's a team that I've always kind of questioned because of golf. Like there's, there's something about. It's always been a thing for me, like there was a reason Sean McVeigh got rid of him is that they weren't, they weren't putting, he wasn't putting the Rams over to that next step. And when the Rams potentially could have gotten maybe more out of that core to win Super Bowls and they only got the one title and it was always seen as golf not coming up in big moments and a lot of like, primetime games are in the playoffs. [00:28:34] Speaker A: So I like some. I'll go ahead. [00:28:38] Speaker B: No, but, but he's been better with, with Detroit and it's been really this reckoning of a quarterback that's, you know, matured and developed. But I think, you know, one of my friends will text me, you know, golf's gonna goff. And at a certain point, you know, and last year, you know, bias versus the Bears, like the Bears beat the Lions last year when the Lions were good and the Bears were not so good, and it was one of those games where Goss turning the ball over and doing some of that stuff. So. But all in, all right, now, this is a level set game. They're back, you know, at top of the, near the top of the NFC north. You have an undefeated Vikings team that's still there, but going to be a real, real test down the stretch and it's good to see this Lions offense get back to where it was because, you know, Ben Johnson, that was the guy I wanted for Bears head coach in the offseason. I still think he probably should be the Bears head coach, but he gets the most out of this offense for, you know, the creativity and how he mixes things up in the running game and the passing game. [00:29:38] Speaker A: So save those thoughts because I do want to talk later on our first official hot seat list. I got five names right here of who should be a little worried. And I definitely the Bears are on there. So let's talk about the Vikings, though. They win against the packers. Love did come back. So that was a good call by you. I kind of got nervous. I think I had the Vikings, you know, straight up, but they were up big and then I didn't catch. The end of the fourth quarter, packers scored 22 points and made a lot closer than what it was initially. Jordan Love balled out, though. He almost had 400 yards, four touchdowns, but he did have three interceptions. I'm not sure how many of those were on him, but Sam Donald, again, solid. Although there was some weird play calling stuff. I was like, oh, this is like the Sam Donald from the jets, but they made it out alive. Justin Jefferson killing it. Really fun. [00:30:35] Speaker B: I mean, it's been so shocking for the Vikings. I, when you look at the Vikings, I think the Steelers, you were worried about the Steelers going to this week. Just these classic kind of NFL. We've won a couple games in the row. The, you know, it's, we're due for kind of a letdown game. Happens a lot in the NFL where teams go, and that's what I felt in this Vikings game because this would. [00:30:55] Speaker A: Have been, yeah, this has been it. [00:30:57] Speaker B: Like the packers, you know, have been, you know, kind of so far because love got hurt and, you know, they've been doing different things with Willis, but the Vikings have been this, like, hey, we're up and down the field scoring touchdowns and now we're going to have this NFC north rivalry game that, you know, is a big game for both franchises, both fan bases. Was talking to a friend of mine that was a Vikings fan and he was talking about the thing and he's like, and he asked me what I thought about the game. I'm like, man, this just feels like a game you guys are just gonna, just gonna drop because, just because like, it's just, something's gonna happen. It's gonna be a weird game, but they came out and we're just blowing them out. I'm like you. I'll be honest, I didn't watch much of the second half because I was like, this thing's 28 seven at the half. Call it a wrap. And, you know, Jordan Love got a lot of praise for his second half of the season, obviously got hurt. So it's not been the thing. But three interceptions in this game, threw for a bunch of yards and had the four touchdowns, but the turnovers and his first game back from injury. But there was questions, I think, on non serious twitter accounts that we should have kept Willis in. This is where the running game was coming from and this and that. Yeah, it's, you'll find all the irrational stuff, but big win for the Vikings. You know, Aaron, Aaron and I both are saying this was the fourth place team in the division because of Sam Darnold and he has proven everyone wrong. There wasn't anyone saying that this was going to be, you know, this is going to be the shocker of the league that we thought they had. This team's going to take a step back offensively. They're going to struggle to get Justin Jefferson the ball, but when you have Justin Jefferson, man, you can put it up and he's going to make plays for you. And Sam Darnold, you know, has, you know, has stepped up with that. So interesting. We talked about Geno Smith and Sam Darnold, like former jets, you know, quarterbacks that have gone, you know, kind of around the league a little bit and saw some things and came to, you know, find themselves a little bit in these roles. And there's, there's a lot of conversation as we look at the rookie quarterbacks, too, you know, kind of switching the subject a little bit. But, like, a lot of the expectations is, and I'm always obsessed with this cause I like, I like the salary cap stuff and team structure and how you build a team and, like, the philosophy behind building a winning team in the salary cap era is like, if you got the quarterback on a discount, you get the spend in other areas and really put a lot of talent on the team. So, but once you pay that quarterback, hey, you're not getting the high price pass rusher or a, a big time wide receiver or what that might be. And so, you know, there's a rush to play rookie quarterbacks is kind of the biggest thing, but once you rush them and they're not ready for all that goes into being at the hardest position in professional sports and then you dismiss them right away. I think Sam Darnold, Gino Smith has definitely proved that. Hey, you go around the league and you're just around for a while and you get some playing time here and there. Like there, there is, there is. These guys had first round talent, so it was there. [00:33:55] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:33:56] Speaker B: Putting it together sometimes takes time, and we've seen that and a couple different. [00:34:01] Speaker A: Spots, so, and I'm a believer, like, ending up with the wrong situation, the wrong team can totally dismantle your career. We've seen it so many times. So just bad lat landing spot, not the right structure, coaching changes. Half these rookie quarterbacks have, like, a new offensive coordinator every single year. Like, look at Baker Mayfield. New coach every year, and even now he has, like, a new coordinator again. And down in a tampa. [00:34:24] Speaker B: Yes. Yeah. ESPN did something. It was, it was around that draft class you mentioned Baker bf. Because it was Baker. It was Sam Darnold, Lamar Jackson. Like a bunch of people in this draft class, it turns out I think only Josh Rosen was the only person that was chosen from, from your, from your UCLA Bruins that I think has been out of the league for a while. But, but it was an interesting draft class on, like, where all those guys are sitting from a starting point and some of them didn't succeed in their first, you know, first spot, but the guy like Baker, Sam Darnold and some of these, you know, other ones like, have found, have found a place and had success. [00:35:00] Speaker A: So we talked about Vikings. They're four. No, that division stacked it. So Vikings 40 Lions got the win today. So three and one. The Bears and Packers still alive at two and two. Since we talked about the Vikings, I just want to do like, what are the biggest wins this week? So I want to tell you my biggest wins and then get your opinions on that, I think. So we got Vikings, Panthers I thought was a really important divisional win. I think bucks upsetting the Eagles is really huge. [00:35:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I agree with you on that one. The Eagles. The Eagles are pretty hurt, though. They didn't have, I think, both starting wide receivers and so there was some other injury. So there was questions going to that game. But, you know, the Bucks have been able to really put it on people and be three and one right now. And Baker's been the shining star. And I don't know if we're skipping segments right now, but if you're talking about hot seat, I think you're looking at the Eagles with Nick Sirianni right now because, because they. Yeah, because they wouldn't have patience with the man last year when they kind of collapsed down the street stretch and two and two right now potentially, you know, should have been, I don't know, three and one with that, with that Falcons game. But I think there's going to be a lot of questions, you know, with that team. But that was a very impressive win by the Buccaneers to really kind of keep pace in that NFC south division with, you know, the Saints falling, the Falcons getting to two and two and now, hey, the bucks are leading the. [00:36:28] Speaker A: Way, Spangles and Panthers. [00:36:31] Speaker B: It was a, it was a need. When the bangles like you can't you that I, you always talk about must win games like you are owing three. You are facing what many consider the worst team in the league. You got to win this one and you leave everything on the table. They did the Panther, Red Rock, and. [00:36:46] Speaker A: Let'S pull it out again, too. [00:36:48] Speaker B: He did. Chuba Hubbard, you know, running back for the Panthers had 104 yards that was out there. But, you know, the Bengals needed to win this game and they did. And I think that was getting them on the track. I think, I don't know, the second or third season they've started with kind of this slow start where things are at, but they, you know, it doesn't, it's not going to get easier for them because, you know, they're going to play the Ravens, you know, twice. They're going to play the Steelers later on this year. They got a game against the Cowboys. So there's some tough games that they're going to have now. They're going to get some giants and browns and some of that stuff mixed in, too. But you got to win this game. You're not making the playoffs at zero four. It's already a tough at zero three and being at one and three with this win now. [00:37:29] Speaker A: So this is 100:14 that's made the playoffs. Who is that one? The 92 Chargers. San Diego. [00:37:37] Speaker B: Okay. [00:37:38] Speaker A: Yeah, they were owing four and I think they finished eleven and five. Is that right? [00:37:47] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:37:48] Speaker A: You're telling me that. Yeah, I read it earlier today. I thought that was kind of crazy. Yeah, big one there. Bucks Eagles. That was big. Commanders cards. I thought that was a big win by the commanders. Some people said that, you know, was last Thursday kind of flukey. Jaden Daniels, dude, I can't believe like how good he's, he's playing. They had like a stat that he has like the highest passing completion percentage in the first four games of the season at 80% something ridiculous. He has more touchdowns than incompletions. It's wild. And I'm really happy for Washington fans because it's been like a graveyard, just like Brown's, I guess, right, a graveyard of, like, quarterbacks. But Jaden looks legit. He looks like the real deal. Looks like everything that they did, the new ownership, new coaches, I don't know, are they going to turn that division around? I thought that was a really, really big win, especially with the cards, how they've been playing on offense as well. [00:38:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, Washington, they have, they have some interesting, you know, weapons around their team. Brian Robinson, junior, really, really solid running back and he, they gave him the ball 21 times yesterday and he got over 100 yards. I've always been a big fan of Terry McLaren and I think Dave can, he's succeeded whatever quarterback Washington's thrown out. And, you know, Jaden's been able to get him the ball, but I think the, the unique combination that Jaden's had between both passing and running, so he's able to run the ball and he has just freakish. I thought that ability that you saw in college is translated pretty well to the pros, but, hey, he's also super efficient with the ball and, you know, has the high completion signings, like he said, and, you know, he had the one interception in the game, but, like, it hasn't been disastrous turnovers, that has really, like, derailed the team. So Washington's off to, I want to say, a surprising start because I don't know if many people saw this for the lack of, the lack of overall team talent. You know, new coach, first year, not sure what you're going to get out of that first year, but the building blocks are there for, you know, a ton of success in the future for them. [00:39:54] Speaker A: Considering the talent that Arizona has, especially on offense, I thought this was like a big win to show the rest of the division that they are for real. Three and one, they held the Cardinals to only 14 points. They scored 42. Man, that's an ass whooping. [00:40:07] Speaker B: Yeah. The Cardinals have been, I don't know, they blew out the Rams, and that was kind of, and that was the Marvin Harrison kind of like, yeah, show, party. Yeah. And then, but that was, that was really the highlight of the year. They kept it close against the Bills in week one. You know, offense wasn't as great versus the Lions, which was interesting. So last two games, they've only scored 13 and 14 points in Arizona. So sometimes with Kyler I, he has, he has high talent, but is it consistently every week we're putting things together. Pretty sure Aaron and I both saw this team finishing last in the division, and so far, I don't, I don't think that changes. This is a team that's going to have, probably have just some highs that is going to be who? Super, super, you know, big Marvin Harrison catches and some spectacular plays, but I think that's just going to be it and it's going to be a last place team. [00:41:05] Speaker A: I don't remember what I had them as, but them, their coach as well as the Bengals coach might make my hot seat list if things keep on going the way they're going later on the year. Last big win that I thought was really huge. Ravens just dismantling the Bills. Bills have been on fire. I didn't think they showed up this Sunday, though. They look like they were checked out right from the beginning. Baltimore definitely needed the win more than the Bills did, and they showed out. Derek Henry, thank God he's out of Tennessee. I'm really happy for Henry to have the year that he's having so far. Almost 20 yards, touchdown, just dominating. [00:41:42] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, the first play of the game, like, you know, I was out, broke out and about watch, I was out and about watching this game and all of a sudden it turned around. This big play happened. I was like, is it, was that the first play? Like. Yes, you know, it was, it was crazy run and they're getting him the ball. A lot of questions about Derek. Yeah, a lot of question about Derek Henry, of how much he has left. But they fed him yesterday, 24 carries, the big one, big run, obviously, but another one. So, I mean, that's going to set up Lamar pretty well on the, on the flip side, I was not happy with the Bills. As far as, you know, James Cook, they got a running back that I've talked about week over week. He got the ball nine times and. [00:42:22] Speaker A: Is he on your fantasy team? [00:42:23] Speaker B: He hundred percent is. Obviously. Why am I not talking about it as much? All right, was a steal in like the third round or something like that. But yeah, so I'm gonna talk about him every week. So my team goes, which he goes. But, but yeah, I think that is the skill, that's the skill player on this Bills team that will make the rest of the offense like, open up on the receiving game with Coleman and Shakir and stuff like, you really need to establish that for Josh Allen if he's just out and about slinging it and there's nothing, no threat from the running game. I think that's why you'll get behind in these games where, when he cooks, had some big performances. It's allowed Allen to go out and make plays and do things, too, so. But overall, I think these are one of those. They look the same. [00:43:09] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:09] Speaker B: Well, the Ravens had to win this game. [00:43:11] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:43:11] Speaker B: Bills are three, and, oh, the. It was, you know, at home in Baltimore, which is. I don't know, there's something. There's something about when they play in Baltimore, it just looks like there's, like, fog everywhere all the time. It's like. And it's. It's. It's just like a gloomy atmosphere, and it's just like. It feels like a great home field advantage for the. Anytime I watch a Ravens game, and it's just like, whenever they're playing this night game in Baltimore, it just feels like. And everyone's wearing all black with the black uniforms. Like, it's one of the best viewing things when I watch, like, ravens games, and it just feels like ravens are gonna roll. [00:43:45] Speaker A: Have you been to Baltimore? [00:43:46] Speaker B: I have not. [00:43:47] Speaker A: It's like a mixed bag of a city. Like, it's gritty. It's nice at the same time, I guess, every big city, but they have, like, an edge to it. But, yeah, any reference from. [00:43:56] Speaker B: Any reference for me, for Baltimore is gonna be the wire. So that's just what I want to think Baltimore. I want to be, like, doing, like, random wire quotes. [00:44:05] Speaker A: I avoided watching the wire for a long time. Then finally I ran out of shows. I'm like, fine, I'll give it a shot. But it was a great show. [00:44:13] Speaker B: Oh, I mean, it is. [00:44:14] Speaker A: Loved it. [00:44:15] Speaker B: Top. Top five show of all time. [00:44:17] Speaker A: Like, your top five? [00:44:19] Speaker B: Yeah, it's in my top. [00:44:20] Speaker A: What is your top five? We'll just do, like, a quick little segment. What is your top five? [00:44:24] Speaker B: Top five. Top five tv shows. [00:44:26] Speaker A: Tv shows. Yeah. That's tough. No pressure. Maybe we can't come back to it. [00:44:31] Speaker B: We'll come back to that list. We'll save that for. We'll save that for off season stuff, offseason stuff. When there's no good football going on, when we have to talk NBA, that I won't care about. [00:44:40] Speaker A: Dude, you and Aaron don't care about the NBA. It's gonna be me. So, yeah, those are the big wins, big losses. I think these were terrible losses. We mentioned eagles, bucks, eagles completely shot the bed. Steelers, colts. I don't know if that's a bad loss or not. You know, they were bound to lose Richardson. We talked about it on this podcast before. He looks really hot and then really not really on cold on his athletic ability. And it was, maybe it was funny. [00:45:10] Speaker B: It was funny for me because this is the one week Justin Fields, like he threw for 312 yards at this game. And I'm like, okay, he's making some plays that others question. He had 55 yards rushing. Like it was, it wasn't this, you know, terribly like on the ground three yards and punt and a cloud of dust and whatever. [00:45:30] Speaker A: Like, that's a bad play though. Like he had a battle over. I'm like, this is the feels I remember from Chicago. Like, fuck me. [00:45:38] Speaker B: Yes. I mean, that. And I think he took a bad sack at a certain point too. That was a pretty big. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't see it sold it. Yeah, I mean, that, that is, was always the knock on fields is like making these negative, the negative plays in there. But I mean, overall the rest of the game I think was pretty positive. Richardson went down tons of questions on the coach for Richardson getting, you know, hurt. Then he goes back in and immediately does like a running play with Richardson the next play which, which puts him out, you know, that was thing. Flacco comes into the game. I think Joe, Joe Flacco might be the greatest, you know, backup quarterback ever right now. [00:46:19] Speaker A: Just, yeah, this guy won't die. [00:46:22] Speaker B: No, no, it was funny. Is like his postgame interview, silent reporter asked something about like Anthony Richardson basically saying like, you know, hey, yeah, he thinks Joe Flacco is cool. And Flacco saying like, I don't know how seriously or how cool he thinks I am because Flacco's like, I don't know, like eight days younger than Anthony Richardson's mom or something like that. Really? Yeah. So like, you know, you're paying, you're playing with polar generations right now. We're like, Flacco's old enough to be Anthony Richardson's dad right here. But yeah, Flacco comes in. I, you know, it was interesting, you know, with Flacco coming in. One, I was watching that Miami game. Well, I wasn't really watching it, but you had Mason Rudolph and Huntley going and I had a friend of text me like, you know, in a group saying, why aren't NFL teams like investing better in backup quarterbacks? And it usually immediately thinks to like a flacco that, hey, man, this is a guy that he's going to come in. You won't see the drop off. Now on the flip side, why they don't invest in backup quarterbacks is because there's not many people that play this position great, but, you know, someone like Flacco, someone like Flacco has proved his worth as being a guy that can do some starts and, and since I know the Falcons got a ton of heat for drafting pennocks after having cousins and stuff like that. But like in, in hindsight, you know, now me, I think maybe the value of taking panics, whereas that is the questions because they probably maybe could have traded back and still got panics, whatever it might have been. But like, in hindsight, yeah, but in hindsight, in the 17 game schedule, like how many QB's are playing all 17 games? You almost need to have a quarterback that's going to back up quarterback that's going to be able to start a couple games throughout the season because your quarterback is probably going to get some, you know, dings and there is going to be an opportunity where your backup is going to have to step in. So I, there's something to be said from that as the season is longer, you know, the travel potentially a little more now that almost, you know, every team's playing an international game or majority are having an international game. And then you got the Thursday, everyone's playing Thursday night games and short weeks and things like that. So, you know, when it comes to the playoffs, to the end of the season, one game could matter and it could be like, hey, did you have a backup quarterback come in and, you know, make a couple plays and manage the game? [00:48:38] Speaker A: Yeah, I was on the Falcons ass about that. Just because he was a high pick. He's a little bit older, so you don't want some guy that old sitting two or three years. They gave cousins that fat contract. Who would have known, like, how he was gonna come back? He's, he looks okay, I guess, right? You know, right now, rogers look like shit, but yeah. [00:49:00] Speaker B: Yeah, that was, that was an interesting game. I was, I was flying during the, the morning. [00:49:07] Speaker A: Bad loss. That's also next to my list. Jets, Broncos. [00:49:11] Speaker B: That's bad loss. [00:49:12] Speaker A: Just a bad loss. [00:49:14] Speaker B: It's just a bad game. I know it was, I know it was raining pretty bad in, in the metal ends and that was kind of part of the beat. But then it's raining a ton. But you can establish the running game and bries hall goes ten carries for four yards. Like you have one of the best running backs in the league, but you're going to have 42, 42 pass attempts for Aaron Rodgers in the rain. Way too much in a game. That's not a shootout like that. This is where I, sometimes when you lose yourself in the game where I got a quarterback, he has to have the ball in his hands, like, no, you know, I question. You don't win this game because in a bad conditioned, you know, in a bad condition game, you only got ten carries for Brees hall, eight for Braylon Allen. How are we not, like, doing things more creatively to protect the ball, run the ball and not try? But, yeah, 42 attempts and Rogers in that weather. I thought Washington was kind of a mismanagement. That partly due to why they lost. [00:50:12] Speaker A: Bad play calling. Broncos had no business winning in New York. Ten, nine Bo Nicks, only 60 yards. It's just a ugly game. I. So those are like my big three biggest losses. I don't know if there's like another game that kind of stuck out for you, but no, I can see like, my hot coaching or like my hot seats for coaches. [00:50:37] Speaker B: The hot seat. All right. [00:50:38] Speaker A: The hot seat. If you want to hear it. [00:50:40] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, let's hear it. [00:50:41] Speaker A: And we kind of circle back on some games. But the hot seat right now after the fourth of the season, so Nick Sirianni, Doug Peterson, Matt Everfloos, Dennis Allen and Robert Sala. [00:50:56] Speaker B: I don't know about Dennis Allen. I think I know he was a. [00:51:00] Speaker A: Popular pick to get fired right in the beginning of the season, but they did have like, those two outstanding games that, you know, that's still fooling everyone right now. So he kind of saved himself there. They're, they're a two or two. Robert Salado, I've been saying this for years. I don't even know if he's a good NFL head coach. And I know Aaron's a big fan of his, but I just like, just, he just looks lost. He doesn't, he doesn't look engaged. He's just staring at the OC, just throwing up plays out of his ass. It just, he just always looks. [00:51:32] Speaker B: The OC is, the OC is Rogers's guy that I know, you know, bombed as a head coach in Denver. But, yeah, I think if you ask anyone in New York media about Robert Sala, like, it's been questions forever made potentially, why is he still there right now? [00:51:49] Speaker A: Do they like them? [00:51:50] Speaker B: Puts a, puts a solid defense out there. You know, had, you know, was one of the orchestrators of a great defense in San Francisco, but they've consistently pumped out good defensive coordinators out of San Francisco. So sometimes it's questioning whether it's actually that defensive coordinator. They. Hey, John lynch, you know, puts a heck of a defensive team of talent out there for these guys to do something. So yeah, if the jets don't make the playoffs, Sal is 100% gone. This was his kind of prove it year. So I don't disagree with you on that. I think you, I think the questions you have on Sala is what I have on Eberfluss as the same like is he's a, you know, Matt Iberf loose is I. He has put a great defense out there. I think you can say the Bears defenses of his architecture and the reason the Bears are to have two wins is because of the defense, not because of the offense. But this is, this is a cycle that happens with Bears coaches all the time that are like the defensive, like, you know, guys. Because hey, we have a top five NFL defense that the city of Chicago loves because we love defense but can't make the hires or whatever, do anything offensively to pair with that defense. And the defense has to do too much. So, you know, the Bears win this game versus the Rams because of the defense, not because of Caleb for the most part. [00:53:17] Speaker A: I almost had that upset, dude. But they pull out the victory. So congrats. And then Taylor Swift's cousin, Deandre Swift, he had a pretty good game. So. [00:53:25] Speaker B: Yeah, that, I mean, and he was, he was the one, I know, under fire from. They gave him a big contract. He's been, he's been nothing. This, and even early in the game wasn't great. But I think I, where, you know, he really came to, it was like he had a big screen pass that he took. You know, the distance I think was at the end of the first half that really set him up and then had a couple big runs, a 36 yard one I think being the longest one. But, you know, he was, he had seven targets in the passing game for 72 yards. Had the 16 carries and that was kind of that. He was supposed to be this swiss army knife. But I think Roshan Johnson, the backup running back, is the guy that runs in between the tap. The criticism for Swift, he is just, he is doing lateral runs, taking things from the outside and it's not getting anywhere where I think some of the strength of what the Bears need to do is run up the, run up the middle with Roshan between the tackles. So if they get a balance, I think that's where it's at. But there was a lot of questions here, too. [00:54:23] Speaker A: Look at you. [00:54:25] Speaker B: It was a big Bears win, man. I got, I got the coaches gear on, you know, this. [00:54:29] Speaker A: Was it a big win or was it more like, you know, just the Rams or just a yemenite pleaded and, you know, someone had a win. [00:54:36] Speaker B: I mean, for me, it's a big win because the Bears, so every win, every wins a big win because I'm talking so much trash of everything. This is, this is my one team that's going to be good, good this year. And I'm a huge fan of Sean McVeigh, and even with all the injuries, I think he gets the most out of a lot of his talent. [00:54:54] Speaker A: He does. Yeah. [00:54:55] Speaker B: But, yeah, I still think it's a big win for the Bears because they're gonna have some tougher games later in the season. But they had a very soft schedule to start. The Rams are an injured team. You gotta win this game. Still haven't really put that complete Caleb Williams performance together, but there was some, there was a particular throw. His touchdown patch to DJ Moore was a particular, you know, hey, this is an NFL starting quarterback, a top tier guy that stands in the pocket, steps up in the crowd, throws a dime in the back of the end zone. You know, that, that was the type of, that was the type of play you want to see from Caleb Williams that people, like, question stuff. And then I was pulling a pull up. There was a pretty, you know, I always, always find a random stat on x that's gonna give me, give me the, I can't find it, but basically, Caleb Williams. Caleb Williams had a 124.5 passer rating when under pressure in week four, the highest in the NFL among all qbs. [00:55:59] Speaker A: Wow. Okay. [00:56:00] Speaker B: So that was, you know, to me, under pressure the early in the season, the Bears o line couldn't, he couldn't block very well, and he's under duress and he was making some big plays in this game. So still some things to clean up. But I think going back to eternity loose, I think he's definitely in the hot seat because, I mean, yeah, if this team doesn't make the playoffs, he's out. [00:56:21] Speaker A: This is too much. I know, man. I'm, I'm telling you, Jason plays is too much. [00:56:29] Speaker B: I'm just saying he, he has to make the playoffs because you, you are not going to. If they keep him weapons and they. [00:56:38] Speaker A: Haven'T done anything really on offense, they haven't. [00:56:40] Speaker B: And so that's that. I, that's gonna be, it's gonna get to a conversation, depending how Caleb's performance is, is zebrafloos the right coach? Has he hired the right people that's gonna develop Caleb Williams? Cause the Bears have put it there and Shane Waldron like, I was critical in the first couple weeks and so was everyone in Chicago. I wasn't the only person. And Shane Waldron had a big meeting amongst this week among team captains and himself, and reflecting on feedback of his play calling, which is good. I'm glad you're being accountable to that. But I think how that offensive goes and where Caleb's developing, that is going to tie to ebert fluss job status. Because if you don't make the playoffs and there isn't huge strides for Caleb Williams, like, there's going to be a lot of calls. Like you need a head coach that's going to do something. I mentioned Ben Johnson earlier in the, in, in the podcast from the Lions. Like, this is a guy who's got the most out of Jared golf. He was a hot head coach in Canada in the offseason, like everyone thought he was going to the Carolina Panthers, and he basically said, no, I'll just go back to Detroit and be no, see. So he's gonna be very, he's gonna be very particular. He knows he's the hot candidate. He's gonna be very particular on the situation, you know, potentially, could the bears be that right? Situation? They go up because he's gonna look for a team that has a quarterback. So. But yeah, iberfloos, he needs to win. So you're right on there. [00:57:53] Speaker A: Iberflu salah for sure. I guess we'll skip Dennis Allen, but he's on my list as well. But Nick Sirianni and Doug Peterson. Jacksonville lost again, and I was kind of surprised how close that game was. Texans kind of etched that out a little bit, but Stroud was money. Trevor Lawrence, I think we kind of talked about this with young. A lot of his throws just seem like they're just sailing over the receivers. Dumb interceptions. He looks lost with the play calling there. Doesn't look confident. I wasn't a big Trevor Lawrence guy coming out of college, so I didn't think he was the guy. But once it got rid of Meyer Urban and brought in Doug Peterson. [00:58:38] Speaker B: Meyer Urban. [00:58:38] Speaker A: Meyer Meyer Urban. [00:58:42] Speaker B: I was like, were you, were you saying it? Meyer comma urban. Like we're just doing last name then first name. No. [00:58:47] Speaker A: Yeah. No, that one. I like Doug Peterson. I thought he should have never got fired on the Eagles, but he did good initially, and now I don't know what the hell is going on there, but that seed's got to be hot. [00:59:04] Speaker B: I would assume it is. I think there's a ton of questions around Trevor Lawrence because consensus number one, he was top prospect out of college. This is the guy that you're going to build around. Already got the contract. But there's a lot of stats out there. And when I was trying to be Justin Fields apologist with the Bears, there was a, there was a lot of stats that basically said Trevor Lawrence is Justin Fields, you know, from, well, I mean, statistically, there was a lot of things that lined up for what, what you expect Lawrence to be that he hadn't been thus far. And now a collapse late last season. Owen, four to start the season. [00:59:44] Speaker A: Ten straight lines now. [00:59:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Is it ten? [00:59:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:59:48] Speaker B: Okay, so, yeah, I don't, I don't think you're wrong. This is a very, you know, this is an organization that has not had a ton of success in Jacksonville. Like, they've, they've had a great team and then they're terrible. Get to a great team and terrible. [01:00:03] Speaker A: They're the weirdest team because I was a big fan, man. I thought they should have went to the Super bowl that one year. [01:00:09] Speaker B: They should have beat the Patriots. They should have. [01:00:12] Speaker A: Who's the quarterback? He had like two good years. [01:00:15] Speaker B: Portals. [01:00:16] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Blake Bortles. I thought he was decent. Yeah. They finally put the pieces together, dominated that one year. What, they were like 13 and three, went to the playoffs, and then after that, they just fell apart again, restarted. They brought in what's his face from the Giants to kind of lead all the player development. Coughlinde. He only stays for a couple years, new ownership, Urban meyer, and then he's gone. And now Doug Peterson. I don't know what the hell goes on in jacksonville. [01:00:50] Speaker B: Yeah. Interesting, interesting ownership group there with the Khan family. I know shad Khan owns the team. His son, tony Khan, runs all elite wrestling, which I am, you know, really big wrestler. I'm a big wrestling fan. So his son has started a wrestling company a couple years to compete there. Yeah. So, and that's been, you know, pretty successful as being a challenger brand. But they, it's a family that also owns a Premier League football team. They own Fulham. So they're, they're invested in a lot of different sports, but the Jaguars specifically haven't been a team that they put a lot of on field success. It's interesting how, you know, the Jaguars play, I think, two London games. They play two games in London where they, they're, they're growing their brand, potentially internationally. [01:01:35] Speaker A: That's. [01:01:36] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Where they have some home games in London and stuff like that. So Jacksonville is an interesting market, you know, because it's not one of your traditionally big markets, but, you know, in the NFL, I guess Duvall county, baby. So. But, yeah. Going back to Peterson. Yeah. Owen. For ten straight losses. If you're going back to last season, like things got to turn around. They play the Colts this week. If you, if you're going against Flacco or injured Richardson, like that could, that should be a winnable game for them. Then they play the Bears in London after that, which, you know, I'll say the Bears win, but, hey, that's, that should be, that should be a winnable game for Jacksonville, too. Like they should be able to be competitive with the Bears. So, and then I think they come back in the Patriots after the week after. So I think they have back to, they have back to back London games. That's crazy. I think they play bears and Patriots both in London. Look at their schedule. Right. [01:02:32] Speaker A: So I think out of all the divisions, Texans have nothing to worry about in that one. [01:02:37] Speaker B: No. And historically that's been one of the worst divisions. [01:02:43] Speaker A: Has it? [01:02:45] Speaker B: Titans, Titans, Jaguars, colts, Texans has been, usually is one good team in three. Junk. [01:02:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Especially. [01:02:56] Speaker B: And they, and they put the junk on Thursday night Football. [01:02:58] Speaker A: Oh, dude, they do. Well, let's go to my other one, Nick Sirianni. Do you think that's getting hot over there? [01:03:04] Speaker B: Oh, it's, yeah, it was hot last season when he collapsed a little before. Yeah. Bad loss against the Bucks. You, you mentioned Doug Peterson. Like they, the guy won the Super bowl for them and he wasn't safe after. He wasn't successful for a few years. So. [01:03:17] Speaker A: So they fire coaches like nothing. They don't care. [01:03:20] Speaker B: Yeah. So I, there's a lot of people that think Belichick circling around this job. [01:03:25] Speaker A: That's what I'm hearing. [01:03:26] Speaker B: So, yeah, I think it is interesting with some of these jobs you call the hot seat because there is a very, there is a very interesting and strong coaching pool of guys looking for jobs. And I think Belichick thought he was getting that Falcons job and they think they, too, interviewed him. And then I know where I think Arthur blank rumors were. He was talked out of it by, by several people and that's why they didn't go that way. But the most successful NFL coach of all time. I don't know if you call him the greatest, but definitely the most successful coach he's gonna be. Yeah. I mean, he has the Super bowl creds. No one else has and, but he, for, for Belichick, he wants complete control. And that is a, that's a that's a different conversation when you go to different organizations because people don't want to give up control. That was some of the rumors behind the Falcons is that they didn't want to give up, you know, some of that control there. [01:04:26] Speaker A: So if he didn't draft so shitty with the Patriots, I'd say give him full control. But I do like a potential Belichick fit either with the Eagles, and I kind of like him going back to the jetse, the job he was supposed to take anyways before he bounced out to the pats. [01:04:39] Speaker B: I don't know if it's the jets or it's the other New York team, Giants. I mean, there's, people talk about him going back to the Giants where he was, he was a successful defensive coordinator and the Giants have looked pretty bad. I, you know, dayballs, I think only in year two, but three, year three. And so they're, they, they look like their last place in the, in the NSE east. That could be a team if you're taking Dennis Allen out as dayball on the hot seat and, you know, like dayball, though. I think people like Dayball, but their, their GM has not been great. [01:05:12] Speaker A: I'm guess it go, they, they have. [01:05:14] Speaker B: Tied themselves to Daniel Jones. That has been probably the biggest, you know, regret for, for dayball at this point because, well, they're idiots. Yeah. So I don't know. The people have been talking about the, the Giants, the Jets is an interesting thing for Belichick, too, but I, I think keep an eye on the Giants because if the commanders continue to win, the Cowboys, you know, generally have a pretty solid regular season, depending on where the Eagles at. The Giants are last place in the NSC east and they could be looking for a new coach. [01:05:41] Speaker A: It's a bad Cowboys team. That's a bad team. [01:05:47] Speaker B: The Cowboys regular season, though, always seems to work out. And so we look forward to the, we look forward to the January Cowboys, where it's just gonna, we're gonna hear the, the legion of cowboy fans come out and then be, they're going to be unhappy. [01:06:00] Speaker A: So, yeah, no, if I was a cowboys when I'd be definitely nervous. That whole division is kind of weird, though, but I didn't think about dayball. Anybody else you want to talk about? Hot seat? [01:06:14] Speaker B: I don't think hot seat. I don't think hot seat right now. I gave you my, I gave you my spiel on the bears this week if we want to go bears corner. So I think I gave, gave you a notch. Be back next week to give you the breakdown of their, their next opponent. [01:06:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I was going to ask you the panic meter, but they won. You're wearing bears outfit, so I'm not going to ask you this week. We'll skip it. [01:06:34] Speaker B: Now. We're in a hur. We're in hundred percent pro bears this week. [01:06:38] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm digging it. I think we kind of covered it, more or less. [01:06:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I don't think. [01:06:44] Speaker A: I really have nothing to say on saints, falcons. I have nothing to say on 49 ers. Patriots, browns Raiders. [01:06:53] Speaker B: I mean, someone had so the Browns Raiders, someone had to win the game. I think that's what you talked about for that one. [01:06:59] Speaker A: Sounds rough. [01:07:00] Speaker B: I mean, Chiefs, Chargers, interesting. I think, I think more so. I think you've been down on the Chiefs as much as any the entire year and there are they one of two undefeated teams, another game that they. [01:07:15] Speaker A: Could have lost and they could have lost. [01:07:18] Speaker B: I mean, they did lose on the injury front. You know, they lost rice for the year and that's, that's big because he's supposed to be, you know, the heir apparent to Tyreek to be the game changer. Maybe they have it in Xavier Worthy because, you know, they had that huge bomb from a homes to worthy that was kind of almost vintage Patrick Mahomes to Tyreek back in the day. But that was like the only big play. Play really of the game. But Kelsey got a little more involved this week, had seven catches and then the Kareem hunt sighting. Kareem Hunt got the ball 14 times in his, you know, return back after the Pacheco injury. But, you know, Chiefs got a lot of injuries there, too. And I think if you look, a lot of these teams have a ton of injuries, but the Chiefs have been able to weather them so far and so far be the class of the AFC when many, like you like, think, hey, they could be easily owen four, as they are four. [01:08:12] Speaker A: And oh, yeah, they really can. It's really frustrating. [01:08:16] Speaker B: Well, I mean, interesting next week, Monday night matchup for them. They go against, you know, they go against the Saints at home. [01:08:23] Speaker A: What Saints team are we, are we gonna see exactly for the first two weeks or was it just a mirage? [01:08:30] Speaker B: Yeah, could be. The offenses have been in the last two weeks. Is it going to be there at Arrowhead on a Monday night? But I think that's an, it'll be interesting game. Cause a potential look ahead the following week, the Chiefs are playing at San Francisco. I'm sorry, that's two weeks. They actually have the bye week before San Francisco. So do you come flat going into the by week for the, from the Chiefs perspective, but a good win against a chargers team that has, you know, Jim Harbaugh. They got rid of a lot of talent in the offseason, you know, kind of a little bit rebuilding, but they've been, you know, a very competitive team all year with the Chargers. And I, I don't want to say it's a surprising two and two, but I think for all the talent that Herbert, you know, lost on the offensive side of the ball versus what they had, like, they've been, like they have kept in the every game and been competitive. [01:09:18] Speaker A: Yeah, the offense looks pretty anemic. I'm just not used to seeing Herbert stat line like 179 yards, like he was coming out of college, is having 300 400 yard games. He's, I think he has like, what the record for like the most passing yards in year one year, two year three year, four touchdowns and now we're just. They got, I mean, they got nobody to throw to. [01:09:41] Speaker B: I mean, yeah, I mean, you seen, you know, they've definitely using JK Dobbins and Gus Edwards in the running game and getting the most out of them. And if you look at historically with Jim Harbaugh, like he, he's really an old school coach, man. He's, he's going to throw a fullback out there. We're in the I formation and we're running downhill and he's, he's going to run the ball. So you look at his previous offenses at Stanford and San Francisco and at Michigan. So I don't think he's going to always have this quarterback that's going to go on, which is interesting because Harbaugh was a quarterback. He'd figure he'd want to have that. But, you know, he runs, you know, a very traditional offense that's not in the modern NFL game. He's not running the click, the Kingsbury Air raid offense. You know, it's going to be more ball control. You know, control the clock three yards, wait for some big plays in the running game. [01:10:34] Speaker A: But his offices are still dynamic. You know, Stanford, they are. They were high scoring. The 49 ers were really entertaining. Michigan this past, you know, few years have been pretty entertaining. [01:10:45] Speaker B: They were. But think about the questions around Michigan. Was JJ McCarthy, like, it wasn't a quarterback that was doing a ton lot, but it was. [01:10:52] Speaker A: They weren't asking the carry offense. No. [01:10:54] Speaker B: Yeah, they was big into the running game and the running game, you know, I. I sound like a broken record at the same time because, yeah, it leads a ton of stuff there, too. So you're established, you establish one of these things in the running game. That's where maybe Justin Herbert doesn't have to thrall or the ball, you know, 50 times a game. You know, he's able to really get some more, you know, quality passes that is going to open things up downfield to make it easier for. But I don't think this is the year for the Chargers. I think you'll see maybe next year or the year after when some of this stuff matures. This is like the building blocks here for what the Chargers will be under. Harbaugh. [01:11:30] Speaker A: Cool, man. That's it. [01:11:33] Speaker B: Yeah, that's the slate. I see a lot of good games coming up this week and then you're going to go get into the bye weeks here with some of the teams. So yeah, this is the first NFL is in full swing. What was that? [01:11:45] Speaker A: This the first week? By weeks, you might be right. I'm excited to get back on Thursday. Thursday Night Football. Who's playing third? [01:11:54] Speaker B: Thursday night we got the Buccaneers and the Falcons, which would be a fun interest. Yeah, it's pretty interesting game. [01:12:02] Speaker A: Falcons must win for them. [01:12:05] Speaker B: I don't know if it's a must win. They're two and two, but I think it's a statement for them to say. [01:12:11] Speaker A: Divisional. [01:12:12] Speaker B: Yeah, division. We I picked the Falcons at the beginning of the year. Many people did that. Adding cousins to the offensive pieces was going to be a dynamic offense. They haven't put it together yet. Baker's the one that's been dynamic. So. But I, but I think that's a good, it's a good early season divisional test. That could be an indicator of who's going to carry this division down the stretch. [01:12:32] Speaker A: I'll be fine. I'm congrats to Aaron's Braves for winning one of the doubleheaders. So now they're in the playoffs. I was really looking forward to seeing them not be in the playoffs, but it is what it is. Wild card games. What? Tuesday, Wednesday? Best of three, right? Let's do some wild card picks then. [01:12:57] Speaker B: And so it's funny how I was a man. I hate to bring this back to my team all the time, but it. [01:13:07] Speaker A: Was your White House. Congratulations, by the way. [01:13:10] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [01:13:10] Speaker A: Big winners. [01:13:11] Speaker B: Big time winners. But interestingly enough, the most losses in MLB history. However, not the worst winning percentage or losing percentage. MLB three. The Met, the 62 Mets. Still, I think they still had a worst losing percentage because they only won 40 games. So they were 40 and 120 versus the White Sox. 41 and 121. [01:13:32] Speaker A: Okay. That's good news. I also found out they have the most in modern history, but not the most losses in MLB history. There's like some team. [01:13:41] Speaker B: Yeah, there's something else out there. [01:13:42] Speaker A: Yeah, 140. [01:13:43] Speaker B: Don't take it away from the White Sox. Other terrible. It's a good. There's, there's. They're terrible. We got a records, remember, broken. [01:13:52] Speaker A: Man. [01:13:53] Speaker B: They are. We. And I say we as White Sox fans got a letter from much maligned owner Jerry Reinsdorf to the fans. Basically, we're gonna do better. But, you know. Yeah, this is the same team that wasn't. It basically said, we're not gonna sign any free agents, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We're gonna earn the trust back of the fans. So, ultimate joke. We'll get more, more takes on Reinsdorf any time because he's absolutely done nothing for that franchise after the 2005 five World Series. But anyways, I was, I was bringing up the White Sox because it was, it was going because there was stat. I don't have the stats in front of me, but. So there is. There is three Al central teams in this playoff. [01:14:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:14:44] Speaker B: And there was stats out there that if they didn't. If the teams didn't play the White Sox, several of them would be under 500. [01:14:53] Speaker A: Really? [01:14:54] Speaker B: Yeah. So if they didn't play them. Yeah, I got. I'll get to look it up. But, yeah, there was just a grease. Like, the White Sox were so bad, they gifted all of these wins to the Tigers and the Royals and the Guardians. So like, they're, they're pretend. I think. I think the Tigers and Royals specifically probably are not in the playoffs if not for all the gift wins the White Sox gave them. [01:15:16] Speaker A: Probably not. No. I didn't realize how stacked that division was this year. [01:15:21] Speaker B: Well, you say stacked and. But they. Yeah, they got three. They got three teams in the playoffs, but, yeah, they could, they could thank the White Sox for, for all those gifts, for the reason that the AL Central has three teams, which many consider the worst division in baseball. But I think the White Sox delivered for the better of the division to. [01:15:37] Speaker A: Get more teams in 51 games back. That's impressive. All right, back to wild Cardinal Mets. They're in the playoffs. They face the Brewers, Aaron's Braves against red hot Padres. [01:15:52] Speaker B: The Brewers, we talked about a couple weeks ago, have been very under the radar all year, basically coasting to the NL Central title. Not many people nationally talking about the Brewers. I think they were low key. [01:16:08] Speaker A: I think they had the best record in baseball at one point. Way under the radar. [01:16:13] Speaker B: Yeah, super under the radar. I think they take this series versus the Mets. I know the Mets will get a lot of the hype for the New York media as far as them coming back after their terrible start to the year, but I think the brewers are just. The brewers have been an interesting story all year, and I think they're under the radar. I think they get past the Mets fairly easily in the first round. [01:16:35] Speaker A: Okay. [01:16:40] Speaker B: If you go, I want to. If you go hop to Aaron's Braves, we can talk about it more. But I. Chris Sale was scratched from the start. I think we'll win the NL Cy Young, but probably will. I think they announced today he will not pitch in the Padres series at all. And they already have questions in their rotation. So while I think it's a good story for Atlanta as far as sneaking into the playoffs, I think San Diego, like, they have the studs in the rotation with, with King and cease, that they win that series fairly handily as well, too. So for all, all for nothing. I'm basically saying this Mets Atlantis two games today meant nothing. And they're both going to get bounced. [01:17:17] Speaker A: Very quickly, for sure. Detroit and Houston. [01:17:24] Speaker B: Detroit's been an interesting story. Story. And then in game one, they're going to have scuba, who, you know, Al Cy young right there. Houston still, like, weirdly owns the AL west. And has Billy been like, the class of the American League for this decade? Yeah, I mean, I think Houston takes it out. Detroit's been a very good story, but I think you go chalk on this one as well, too. And Houston is going to win this series. [01:18:01] Speaker A: I always root for Detroit teams. I'm pulling for the Tigers for an upset. And I just can't see Houston going. I just don't want to see him even entertaining another World Series. I'm going against him out of hate, out of spite. [01:18:13] Speaker B: Out of hate and spite. [01:18:15] Speaker A: I'm fueled. Casey and Oreos, Baltimore. [01:18:22] Speaker B: Baltimore's just got just so much talent. I think they were potentially the second best team in the AL, behind the Yankees for a lot of this season. I think the Orioles win this. Kansas City, another good story. But I mean, I think my White Sox stat for both the Kansas City and I, Detroit stories like, are these really playoff teams if they didn't play the worst baseball team of all time for a good portion of their schedule, but at Baltimore, just, man, they got, they got a lot of good young players on that team. And I think talent will prevail. So basically, I'm giving you, I think, all favorites to win these series. [01:19:06] Speaker A: So, yeah, just going the easy road. [01:19:08] Speaker B: I'm going chalk man. So Aaron can come in and say, aaron's going to come in and say he called Atlanta winning. He's. And he picked Detroit or something like that. He will come up some wild stuff. But I. I think this is Chuck. [01:19:21] Speaker A: I think Baltimore might have, like one of the better uniforms in MLB, but, yeah, they're talented, though. I got them winning that one. Cool, man. Baseball playoffs, football, basketball gets started pretty soon. [01:19:42] Speaker B: Yeah, a lot of good stuff. We got a couple weeks off of Formula One, so I think at certain point, we got the. The United States grand Prix kicking off in Austin in a couple weeks. So maybe, maybe you and Aaron give me a few minutes on Formula one by myself as we get closer to the end of October with that dude. [01:19:58] Speaker A: I gotta link back up with that italian guy. We'll get him on board, too. And then I can give us some time to read up on that on Formula one. [01:20:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Interesting stretcher, Formula one. I bring it up because this has been a very good season for Formula one overall. There was, there was some drama here a couple weeks ago with one of the more popular drivers, I think, on pop culture, Daniel Ricardo. So if any, anyone's watched the drive to survive series, he's kind of been the kind of star of the series since it's like, since its first season, you know, super personable guy. Just got a kind of just like a draw to him that he's just, you know, got a lot of people into Formula one, really, from. Through this Netflix series. But he's had an interesting route from. He was on the Red Bull racing team at the start of Formula one, had some success there, left for them, went to Renault, went to McLaren, and then was kind of out of the sport for a few months. And then the Red Bull sister team at the time, it was Alfatari last year, brought him back midway through the season to replace a driver who was in. And this was kind of this redemption story that was kind of playing out where Daniel Ricardo wanted to get back to Red Bull because he left. He left Red Bull because there was a young driver at that time, which is now three time world champion. Max Verstappen was taking over as the team's number one driver, but now Ricardo wanted to get back. I say all this because he lost his ride now with the visa cash app race, Red Bulls, which is the second Red Bull team. So he's kind of done. His Formula one career is kind of over. This was kind of his swamp song. So didn't get the redemption story he was looking for to go back to Red Bull, to be the number two driver behind Max Verstappen. So it was kind of interesting for a guy that was kind of much beloved, wasn't the most successful, never won a world championship. He won, like, seven races in his career. But when you look in the United States for the. I guess, really it was the pandemic that got a lot of people into Formula one. I've been a fan of open, real racing for open wheel racing for a while, but as Formula one got onto the national stage in the United States, it's obviously huge in Europe and around the world. But Daniel Ricardo was kind of like this star that was out there, and now he's no longer there. So, interesting storyline going into the. Now that it's coming to Texas, that we have two Formula one races in the United States over the next couple of months, and kind of like, yeah, I am not going. I am not going. I'll be watching. I went to the british Grand Prix this year in Silverstone. Saw my. Saw Lewis Hamilton win. It was a great win there. That was my one one race for the year. [01:22:28] Speaker A: Nice. [01:22:29] Speaker B: So. But good, good Formula one season right now. We got a. We got it really tight in the constructors championship. And then you got Max Verstappen, who's a three time world champion, in the lead right now, but really has a bad car with Red Bull. This car has been terrible for several months. And McLaren, who took over the constructors lead, you have Lando Norris really leading the charge and second in the points right now to come take them back. So it's gonna be an interesting end of the Formula one season. So I'm gonna be throwing this stuff into you guys and annoying it, just basically talking to myself about Formula one. But last year's season was a bore because Max Verstappen won basically all but three races. And so it was. It was a wrap. People are like, Formula one's done in the US, and now they kind of delivered with a really, really great competitive season that have seen multiple drivers, multiple races, and you've had four constructors doing winning races and three of four in contention for the constructors championship. [01:23:24] Speaker A: I did watch more formula one this past year than I've ever done. Just because, you know, my friend Alex is watching it. I have all these Italians around me watching it in San Francisco. San Francisco is actually a big Formula one city. Every bar is playing it. They're like, up early. It's almost like soccer, right? Or like, you know, it's. [01:23:42] Speaker B: It's six or 07:00 a.m. on a Sunday, man. It is. It is an early watch. [01:23:46] Speaker A: Everyone's drinking their irish coffee, so it's good. Goodbye. But, yeah, I did see Verstappen just went in. And that's where I have a lot of questions for you. When we get to it. Like, they like the length of the cars, basically, if you win the poll, you win the race. Just all this stuff. You can school me and Aaron on that stuff. [01:24:02] Speaker B: Yeah, different stuff with that. We have, you know, we have one more year of the current regulations of, you know, of the car, which is the end of this year, and then next year and then 2026, you got a. Basically a new. New regulations that will make the car smaller. You also have interesting ads of the series. Audi is coming into Formula one in 2026. And so Audi is taking over what's now the Sauber Formula one team. And Audi. Audi's gonna make their own powertrain, so basically their own engines when they come into Formula one. So there's some. There's some things changing within that. And then a lot of driver moves, which is, they call it silly season, where the drivers start moving to different teams and stuff. And it's been an interesting one play out throughout this entire year, because Lewis Hamilton, my favorite driver before the season started, seven time world champion, leaves Mercedes, where he's won six world titles and is going to Ferrari. And so basically, the. One of the greatest drivers of all time going to the legacy brand of Formula one next year, you know, and really gives them a really stacked driver lineup with Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc. So, some interesting stuff going into next year with. With the last year of those regulations and how tight the top of these standings have been with Red Bull, McLaren, Mercedes, and Ferrari. [01:25:19] Speaker A: Fuck, yeah. I'm excited out the way. [01:25:24] Speaker B: Get it, man. It's going to. It's some great races. This is kind of one of my favorite because you're going to get Austin, you're going to get Mexico, Brazil, Vegas. So you get kind of this western hem, you know, north and South America races, and then they finish in the desert this year with Qatar and Abu Dhabi. So some really cool tracks that are very interesting in the fall kind of get overshadowed in the US because it's football season. No one's talking about it. But since Aaron wasn't here, I was using some time up on this podcast to get in my Formula One talk. [01:25:52] Speaker A: Now we're good to go. You know, I'm actually really into cars. I don't know if you know this, but in high school, college, I used to race out Honda Accords and Audis, and I rebuilt, you know, mainly german cars. I'm really good at that, but never got into f one, for whatever reason. I don't know, but if I could just spend all day wrenching in the garage, it's easy for me. [01:26:16] Speaker B: That's it. You can wrench it, and I'll drive it. [01:26:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Cool, man. Fun podcast. College football, NFL, even, like, a little wild card baseball. I dig it. No, Aaron. Peaceful. [01:26:32] Speaker B: Some may say this podcast was better without Aaron. I don't know. Some could be saying that. [01:26:38] Speaker A: I know. Cool, man. I loved it. We'll be back on Thursday. Source from the sofa. Follow us on x instagram. We got some YouTube shorts now, some little clips on. On all the platforms. TikTok, we're on tick tock. We're out to get, like, a tick tock thing going. I don't know how to use TikTok. I feel old. [01:26:54] Speaker B: I'm not dancing. [01:26:56] Speaker A: Yeah, we're not dancing. Maybe Aaron can dance. Cool, man. It was a good one. Peace. [01:27:02] Speaker B: Peace.