Transcript of Chiefs Remain Undefeated, Eagles Bounce Back, and 'Traitor' Travis | Ep 102

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Espn didn't want to see you go fucking ape shit in Buffalo, did they? They didn't want to see you just rip your shirt off.

I was watching tweets and tailgates and just like, Oh, my gosh.

Mafia's just calling, Jason, come out and play.

They're not letting me. I got to stay in the house tonight. I got to do my homework.

Welcome back to New Heights. A WNDRI Show, produced by Wave Sports and Entertainment, and brought to you by Buffalo Wild wings. Let's go, Sports Bar. We're your hosts. We're back at it yet again for another week. Travis, Kelsi here. This is my big brother Jason Kelsi out of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Cincinnati Bear Cat Alums. The Bear Cat's coming off a 34 to nothing domination over the Houston Cougars.

They should be three and oh. They blew that game against Pit.

The guy Narduzzi had it going.

I am.

I'm always. They should be three and other. They looked really good last week, and we're going down to Lubbick, Texas, to take on the Texas Tech Riders.

You and Pat got a little side bet going?

I told Patty Mahomes, he's He's got it. Come on now. You know we do. You know we do. When it happens, you'll know. You'll know. I might just fucking... If Cincinnati doesn't hold it down, I might look like an idiot next week up here.

I can't wait.

Come on, Bearcats.

I don't know who I'm rooting for anymore.

Go down there and call some havoc. Subscribe on YouTube, WNDYRY Plus, wherever you get your podcast, and follow the show on all social media @New Heights Show with 1-S. Jason, let the people know what we got coming up, brother. Oh, of course.

We got another great episode lined up for you guys. We're going to talk about the Chiefs being 3-0 to start the season. The Eagles, big bounce-back win down in New Orleans. Nola, I think it's called. Nola, I think it goes. And the rest of the biggest stories around the League, including the surprising division leaders, Justin Fields, success in Pittsburgh, and Andy Dalton, the gingerered, souless creature, winning big in Carolina. Anyways, first, we're going to get a little bit of... We're going to get to a little bit of...

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A little history lesson last time. We're going to talk about a little bit of grotescarie. That's right, Travis. Nice.

I like how you said that.

First item of new news is Travis's acting debut. Well, I don't know if that's true. Travis has acted in a few other things, guys. But this is his biggest acting world debut, where he's a featured cast member for multiple, multiple episodes. What's your other close to him? Moonbase 8, where you had the- Moonbase 8.

Technically, I was acting on SNL, but yeah.

Those are one episode, one-off. This was a full season. True. Well, tonight, that's right, tonight, Wednesday, September 25th, the first two episodes of Grotesk Yeti, starring Nisi Nash, Courtney B. Vance, and, of course, The Big Yeti, will air on FX.

Oh, nice.

Are you the bad guy? Are you the killer?

Can't tell you. Can't tell you. You're going to have to watch Jason. Make sure you have the girls watch this. They're going to love this show.

Listen, Kylie will murder me. I am going to have the girls And then the moment... Is there a warning or is there a lot of surprises?

That was completely a joke. Do not let the girls watch this show.

Girls, there's Uncle Travis. Oh, my gosh!

I don't know if they'll even understand what's going on in the show.

Dude, you know what movie we watched?

It's very... I don't know.

Yeah, it's a little bit too advanced.

It's a little bit too advanced for toddlers.

I think I was having the girls watch R-R-R. I was watching R-R-R, and Kyla was like, What are you doing?

The opening scene is... It's not funny. I don't know. I'm laughing because you let your daughters watch that.

Kyla was like, Are you kidding me? But you know what we did just watch? Which... So, why it's at the stage now where she enjoys who's not good. It's not good. It wasn't. Hopefully, I didn't do permanent damage. It's not good. Hopefully, why it doesn't start like... Hopefully, we don't find neighborhood pets riddled in our backyard in a few years. I don't know what I just did.

I'm laughing because I could see Kylin's face. Jason, what the fuck are you doing?

Yeah, it was...

You were...

It's not good.

No, it's not good at all.

All right, anyways. Mama Kelsey also appeared to stop by the Crosa Tescari.

Look at mom. Looking fantastic. I like that. It's like a nice wine color on her. I love that for her.

Yeah, did she know she was going to match so well?

I don't know. I think she just She went with the purplish burgundy, which is like- She just knew she was going to look good in it, and she was like, I'm rocking it.

That's a good horror color. When I think of bad, I think of purple for some reason. Is that because of Super Mario? Like all the bad guys are always purple?

I don't know.

I don't know. Like Waluigi?

I do know that mom got to meet Nisi- Nice. And had nothing but an amazing things to say about her, which everyone does. Nisi Nash is amazing. Yeah. She just had a blast. She went up there with Uncle Don and Aunt Joan, and Everybody, they were all texting me afterwards telling me they enjoyed it, and they can't wait to keep watching it. I'm just like, Man, I didn't know you guys were into readers like this.

You're excited about the premiere?

Yeah, I'm excited. I just want to see... I haven't seen anything yet. I I've been just focused on training camp and football as everything's been getting edited and finished. I've just been locked in on the season.

You know the story, but you are like, This is going to be fun for you to actually get to see what it looks like firsthand. Yeah.

You read the scripts and everything, and I'm not going to lie, I focused on my parts more than I understood the entire grand scheme of the show. Sure. There are parts that I was watching the trailer, and I'm just like, Oh, this is really interesting.

Oh, that was happening?

I'm definitely going to dive in and watch it for sure.

Well, it'll be nice to see a Kelsey finally in something other than a commercial. But while we're on the topic of commercials, let's talk about your Pepsi commercial.

Oh, nice. Yeah, that was awesome.

That's the other thing besides this beautiful series, premier scripted content that's coming out tonight. Probably, it's got to be commercial of the year. I mean, star-studded.

Dude, it's pretty sweet.

It was an awesome kickoff to the football season. It's so cool when you get to put on a cool outfit like that.

Pepsi custom-made our armor, our gladiator's armor.

Is it actually metal or is it plastic? Don't lie to me. What?

Don't lie to me. I had to defend myself from a tiger. You think that shit's plastic? Oh my gosh, it's plastic. You're ridiculous, Jason. I hate this. And I did get to keep it, which is pretty sweet.

That's pretty cool.

Josh, Derek Henry, Justin Jefferson, they all did fucking unbelievable jobs. And sure enough, the director, Jake Scott, is the son of Ridley Scott, who directed the actual movie Gladiator's, and I cannot wait to see that movie. It looks so good.

He's directed a lot of movies. Yeah.

And his son, Jake, did an unbelievable job. Jake, he rolled us through everything and knocked everything out real fast, and it was just awesome. He knew exactly how he wanted to get everything shot. Yeah, he was unbelievable at giving me the direction, literally. I'm coachable, man. You coach me up, I can do it.

Ridley taught him well.

It was just fun. It was cool to see the final product.

Well, yeah, it was an awesome final product. You guys fended off the tigers, you danced, you sang, you came together as a group of friends.

As gladiators do.

Ready for week one of the NFL.

Yeah.

Had my man, Winnie Bish out there. You know who I had as a director in a commercial recently?

Who's that?

Neil Brennan. I didn't even know he was a director.

Yeah, dude, Neil is awesome. His stand-ups are great, too. Yes. And you don't realize he's directed a lot of stuff.

I didn't know it at all. Because I knew he was involved with Shapel's show.

Yes. He's awesome, man.

I had obviously seen his stand-up, but I did not know. When I showed up to the commercial shoot, And he was directing me. I was like, What's going on right now?

Why? It's an honor. It really is an honor. He did my Loews commercial with me and McCafery.

Oh, nice. Nice.

Shout out to McCafery, man. Hopefully, he gets on the field here soon. But yeah, man, the Pepsi commercial was amazing. Grotesquery comes out tonight. And yeah, man, cannot wait to see everybody's reaction of me being in a mystery thriller. Kind of scary.

I'm turning all the lights off.

What the fuck is going on? It'll get you thinking now.

That's what I love when they're thriller, like mysteries, like who's the killer? I get sucked into those shows so easy.

Buckle up, boys.

Are you even alive?

Are any of us alive, Jason?

Are you Bruce Willis, six-sensing it? Are you even- No.

Don't you? It might be a little of that.

Don't play mind games with me right now.

It might be a little bit of that. Maybe, though.

I don't know what to expect.

Yeah, me neither.

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All right, let's get some football. Chiefs 22, Falcon 17, Sunday Night Football, NBC.

Are you ready for some football?

Oh, man. Initial thoughts from the game, Trev? Anything you want to start off with?

Pat said it. Coach Reid said it. We're finding ways to win games, and we're not playing our best football. Everybody can clean it up. I think everyone saw my drop in the fourth quarter, that crucial third down, just trying to do too much before putting the ball away. That's probably the biggest thing for me is making the play in big-time moments like that. I think with how defenses are playing us right now, I'm not really getting a lot of opportunities to make plays down the field, but not using that as an excuse moving forward, still trying to make sure that I can help the team out in that regard, knowing that I've been that weapon for us in the past. Moving forward, everyone's just tweaking their game in the right direction. We know what we have to do to get better this week, going out West to play the chargers. Excited for the challenge, baby. We're 3-0, man. It doesn't get any better than a 3-0 start.

Pat and Coach Reid were asked about Big Yeti. We talked about this. We're calling plays for Travis, and it's like two or three people are going to him. People are really emphasizing trying to take him away, Pat said. And then Andy says, They're working hard at taking Kelsey out of the picture. If they're doing that, where she is going to get a lot of catches, and Trab knows that, sometime that will level off.

Whatever it is. It's football, baby. I'm not getting caught up in getting the targets and all that. I just want to have a successful offense. And I think Pat's doing a great job of finding the open guy making the right decisions right now. We just have to keep finding... It's a new offense, new players, new pieces, and we're just finding how to have success throughout the season. As an offense, you're going to go through these ups and downs throughout the season. You just want to make sure that you clean up all the mistakes, that you're making sure that you're communicating so that everybody understands exactly where we're going moving forward. Nobody does it better than Coach Reid and Pat Mahomes in that regard.

There's no question. I mean, it has been. It feels like you guys have dealt with this in semblances of it over the last couple of years, especially last year, midway through the season, defense is playing well, and then you guys turned it on in the second half of it. But these soft coverage is where they're really taking everything away underneath or giving you everything underneath, but taking away the explosive. And you have to take these little... I mean, you're running the ball like crazy, and you have to when they're giving you boxes the way you guys are getting them. You can imagine that you're frustrated.

I've had a lot of catches in this League, man. I'm not worried about the catches and the yards and all of that. I have the most fun when I get the ball thrown my way. I mean, who doesn't? Execution feels emotional. It has everything to do with execution, just making sure that we're doing whatever we can to win these football games, man. That's always going to be the goal.

It's going to go your way, especially if you freaking keep being the guy you've always been. You know what I mean? There ain't nobody that I've ever played sports with and nobody that anybody has ever been on a team with that has loved being out there with Trav more. I know it's frustrating for me to watch and have to listen to, but I can't wait. We don't got to put that in there. But I just can't wait. I fucking can't wait for it to turn.

And if it doesn't, as long as we're winning football games, we're good to go, baby. Rashe had a hell of a game. Carson Steal had a hell of a game. My dog, 4'2, man. Dundee, as I call him. He's got the Crocky Jay Alligator back in Indiana as a present from his dad, which is the coolest thing ever, man. And he runs the ball like a maniac, man, just like a freight train. Some people call him the White Rhino. He's hitting the hole and he's dragging guys for an extra three, four yards every single time he hits somebody or he's at the point of contact. You just love a guy that just hits the hole like that, man. It puts such a strain on the I don't like comparing guys to necessarily...

When there's a white running back, I feel like they always are white D. Lyman, they always get compared to other white guys. You know what I mean? I don't like that comparison. But when he leans forward, He looks so much like Larry Zonka. You remember watching Larry Zonka run?

I wasn't expecting that.

It's almost like a torpedo that's at an angle off the ground. That's what he reminds me of for some fucking reason. I don't know why.

That's a hell of a fucking reference right there. That's pretty good. Yeah, Rashe, he's rolling right now, man. I couldn't be happier for the guy. You want to talk about one of the hardest workers in the building, man. Week in, week out, day in, day out. He is out there busting his ass in practice. And I'll tell you what, man, he's getting rewarded with the way he's playing right now.

Yeah.

And he's really... I mean, he's the charge right now. He's the front runner in terms of who we're trying to get the ball in his hands every single Every time he touches the ball, he's breaking tackles. He's finding a way to get the ball. He's finding a way to get first downs. He's doing an unbelievable job in terms of blocking and just helping the rest of his teammates out when they got the rock. And he's playing self This football, and I couldn't be happy for him right now.

Yeah, he's playing phenomenal. One of the things I love watching a guy is yards after the catch. A guy that turns an average catch into something special, and he's been doing it all season long. He's right now leading all players in yards after the catch this season with 200. He also leads all receivers with forced mistackles with nine. So he has been electric with the ball in his hands. So yeah, they should probably keep throwing it to them because good things are happening. Defense comes up big. In spags, we trust. The Chief's defense continues to play at a high level. The defense finished with two sacks, eight tackles for lost, 10 quarterback hits, and an interception. How That's a lot of negative plays. Let's get into some of these highlights, starting with the interception and lateral. Very Ed Reid, Baltimore Ravens-esque. Whenever I see an interception lateral, I always think of the Ravens. I feel like they did this for a number of years.

Yeah, get the ball on Ed Reid's hands.

Go, go, go, go. Are you pro? I mean, you're pro-laterally on offense. You got to be pro-laterally on defense after an interception.

Everybody, yeah. I'm in on laterals.

Laterals are so like, do you see that hook and ladder? That was Lyons? Lyons.

Yeah, it was Lyons.

Lyons, right? Yeah. Love it. Love a good hook and ladder.

For a shutdown, good hook and lateral, man. When teams used to break that out in high school, it's so fucking electric.

Is a hook and ladder best for Zona or man?

I'm going to say man.

Man?

Mm-hmm.

That makes sense. Yeah.

Who knows? It might be good against all.

I feel like you want the hook. You got to have enough space there. So it's got to be enough soft coverage that he can catch it and lateral it. But what do I know? I have no idea.

Yeah. Jamari is playing his ass off right now. It wasn't just the pick here. He's making plays left and right. And really, our entire defense is lights out. I mean, outside of maybe what? Like the first driver, the first quarter, they were just They were lights out, man. And I can't say enough about what Spag is doing with these guys. He's just putting him in such a position to have success and just to have fun and play free and fly around. I mean, it's a nod to everybody on that defense to own up to their piece of the puzzle. You got guys like Mike Panell who is just driving offensive linemen into the backfield. Leo Chanel just driving guys off the ball and just making sure that they play their gaps so hard that the running back and the linebackers just have these lanes to shoot. No more prevalent than this huge fourth down when nick Bolton came flying through a gap untouched to get B. John Robinson right here. And that really secured the win for us. It's awesome when you see the defensive side just making these huge plays, man, because it really does make you feel unstoppable when you're putting up points, man.

I will say, I don't know what the hell the lead blocker was doing on this.

Yeah, he didn't have his eyes. But that's the thing. Was he expecting the guy to go underneath? I don't know. Sometimes those design, those game plan runs, you just don't get enough looks at them. So you get an awkward look. And if it's not the look you practiced, you got to have guys that can just wing it. And unfortunately, it didn't look like he had his eyes on the right guy or who knows, maybe somebody else screwed it up, and he had his eyes on him. That's a fair point. You never know how that thing was supposed to play out. I just know that it looked like the Chief's defensive line got a real good push. It looked like we capped the defense right here and didn't let him get outside numbers on a sweet play like that. So Bolton, man, he's playing huge for us. Everybody, he went down there for a quick second, got himself back in the football game and made the biggest play for us, man. Just love of a fuck. He's a heck of a player, man. Just a ball player, man. You could tell he's- Just a ball player.

He just wants to fucking win, man. I love that, dude.

Wants to win, communicates everything, gets guys lined up. He's really the quarterback out there, especially for the guys in the box. It's fun watching him play.

Yeah.

Next week, you guys got the Chargers in LA.

If he's correct, yes.

How will it be different preparing for this team with new head coach, well, new head coach, older head coach, Jim Harbaugh? Yeah. The Chargers are coming off a loss to the Steelers, but are two and one. The Chiefs have beat the Chargers the last five times. You guys have played them.

Don't mean a damn thing. Yeah, that is in the past. Every time you get new season, new head coach, especially a motivator like Harbaugh, these guys are going to fucking play hard. And they've been playing their ass off, really, the entire season. I know they lost to the Steelers, but they were flying around and not making it easy on them.

It sounds like they're going to be missing. I think Bosa. Is Bosa going to play? I know he got hurt in the last game.

I have no idea who's up and who's down right now.

I know Derwin James just got suspended, which- I do know that.

Yeah, that's unfortunate, man.

You always love going up against Derwin.

He's the best, man. He's the best, and I love going up against the best.

Yeah.

He should be out there. I'll leave it at that. Other than that, I think whether or not Herbert plays. All that's out of our control. Our control is we still have to get better offensively. Our defense is playing lights out. I think Coach Reid's message in the building today is that we just keep finding the answers.

No doubt.

And we just keep climbing the ladder on getting better. And let's go out there and play our best football for four quarters. And that's all we're really focused on right now.

Well, let's focus on a LeBron stat for this last game. With the win over the Falcons, Pat secured his 77th career win, surpassing Tom braided and Roger Stalback for the most quarterback victories in their first 100 starts. And second LeBron stat, Andy Reid now has more career wins with the Kansas City Chiefs than with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Yeah, baby.

He's got 131 with the Chiefs and 130 with the... He has won 261 games? Mm-hmm. Just as a head coach, not even going back to Green Bay. No. That's a heck of a ball coach right there, man.

That's a ball coach right there, baby. Give me.

Shout out to the Big Red.

Heck, yeah.

Before we get out of the Chief section, we have some housekeeping. Oh, there we go. Housekeeping we need to address. First, Chris Jones wants his half-sack back. During a press conference last week, Chris Stone cold Jones let the football world know He said he's not happy about his half-sack against the bangles being taken away and given to teammate George Carloftis. Chris Jones was quoted as saying, I'm trying my best not to get fined, but in my nine years of playing three days later, when my hand was clearly on him, I don't know who He viewed it. Play 29. He calls it out by name. Okay, play 29.

But who's counting?

Who's counting? I can just hear this in Chris's voice.

You know, I'm trying my best not to get fined.

We both touched him at the same time. So is he arguing that he should have got a half-sack and he didn't get credited with anything?

No, he got the half-sack in the game, and then a couple of days later, they reviewed it and they gave the full sack to George. So he got his half-sack taken away. But then once he let it go, he said, George agreed to treat me for dinner, so I'm good now.

I mean, he did help assist the tackle, right? But George had him. He had Joe wrapped up around the leg.

I have no idea. I don't even know what it looks like.

I saw it.

You saw it.

George has him on the ankle. I think he's probably going to get the sack. But I mean, there's no question, Chris, shoves him down. I don't know how they count these things. I really don't. I just know that there's a race to touch a quarterback whenever he's going down. That's all I know.

That's what it really is. Who can get closest to him?

Yeah, he said, George agreed to treat me to dinner. I'm good now. Something tells me he's still upset about it, but that's fine. Can we do anything about this? Can we call the Commissioner?

I mean, you probably can.

Justice for Chris.

Yeah.

Make a big stink about it. I'm not getting involved in this. Lastly, Cree Humphrey has a great bit going on. I've been noticing this, too. This is awesome.

Loved He's killing it right now. He love the pregame fits. He started it. We keep winning. He has to keep doing it. He's got to keep doing it. He got to keep doing it. I'm pretty sure he was going to keep doing it regardless. But I think the 3-0 start is very... It's getting a lot of juju, a lot of good juju from Cree. In his pregame fits.

Well, it's been three weeks since Cree started his T-shirt bit, so we got to show them all right now. It started with just the first game, then they won. So then he decided to do the old duct tape maneuver and write bangles over it. Here's that one. And yeah, they won again. So he's staying true to it.

He ain't new to this. He's true to this.

There's something about duct tape that is just like... It's a great item.

It fixes everything, man. It fixes everything.

It's a heck of an invention. And to use it in this way I still remember you fucking putting duct tape on your cut.

Oh, my God. What an idiot, man.

No, it works. It works.

Dude, the way that hurt. I know that hurt like a mother when you ripped it off. But either Anyway, I love how the first two home games. Home games are a little bit more lax. You know what I mean? You're at the house, but then when you go on an away trip, business attire, still wore the T-shirt underneath a nice blazer. He was ready to rock and roll.

The real question is, do we think Cree is washing this shirt each week?

I don't know. I'll have to ask. Somebody's going to have to ask them.

I mean, it still looks fresh.

It's real nice.

I can't wait to see what it looks like this week. Something tells me it might be the- It's going to be the same.I.

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I'm glad you asked Trab because I'm actually having some new favorites right about now. The triple bacon cheeseburger and fries. I got to have some traditional wings tossed in the Buffalo Bacon Sauce. How about that?

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All right, now, let's move on to some bold topics. Jason's Monday Night in Bristol. Hey, yo. Bristol, Connecticut, ESPN's headquarters, I believe. You were back doing Monday Night Countdown on ESPN in Bristol this week. Every Monday. How did you like doing the show from the studio versus at the stadium.

It's cool. It's definitely more fun at the stadium with the environment, the players, the fans.

I would assume.

But whenever I get to be up there with Scott Van Pelt, Brian, and Swagoo, it's a fun evening, to say the least.

Yeah. Espn didn't want to see you go fucking apeshit in Buffalo, did they? They didn't want to see you just rip your shirt off.

I was watching tweets and tailgates and just like, Oh, my gosh. That was so much better.

That Mafia. Mafia is just calling, Jason, come out and play.

They're not letting me. I got to stay in the house tonight. I got to do my homework. It would have been a lot of fun up there in Buffalo, but wasn't the case. Two games. Two games is different. You got to prepare a lot more. I love learning from these guys, man. Swag and Ryan and Scott have been doing it for a long time.

They're awesome, man.

Man, it's just impressive. It's very, very impressive what they're doing.

It's my favorite show in sports. The biggest takeaway from 92 Percenters was definitely your dad's sneakers. That's right. You're up there. This picture is fucking electric right here. Whoever screen shot at this.

What's so electric about it?

Double hand on the hips. I'm listening. That's a listening.

That's my listening.

You're open. You're engaged.

With hands on the hips, I'm open.

But you're engaged.

Here, I don't know if you're listening or not, Here, you're not-Disinterested.

Yeah, you are.

I'm not listening to what's happening right now. Here, it's like, Okay, yes, sir. No, I got what you're saying. Okay, let's talk about it. Boom.

Nice. That's good body language. Yeah. But yeah, nice kicks, man. The old dad balances.

Yeah, dad balances.

There you go. They had Kelsies. You could fix the second floor bathroom in those things. You could spread some mulch in those things. You can ask your kids to cut the grass in those What else can you do in those things?

You can do anything you want in those things.

You can be a Little League. Yeah, you could be a Little League baseball coach.

You're going on Monday Night Count on with those things. You can do whatever you want.

Man, Ed Kelsies got to figure it out, man. Did any part of you consider wearing flip flops?

No.

Is that frowned upon in the ESPN studio?

Espns give me a lot of leeway. They're pretty much saying you can wear whatever you want, Jason.

Just make it make sense.

I think we were doing a little bit there where I needed to be a little bit agile, so I felt like If my shoes were necessary. I like the flip flops. I just don't like flip flops when I'm actually moving around and doing a bunch of stuff. Then I do prefer shoes. If I'm just going about my day and I'm not going to need shoes, I'll go flip flops, and that's the majority of my days because I'm retired and bored and lonely. But the shoes work very well. It just feels like you're working a little bit. Yeah.

I got you.

I'm locked in. Ancles are ready.

Yeah, I get you, man. You get that ankle I need some ankle support. Watch out. No, I need it. Yeah, all you need is Jason Pell.

I get them ligament springs.

Jason Kells you some ankle support. Jason Kells you give Jason Kells you some ankle support.

I need the ankle support. I need the base, especially if I'm going to be passing it and Swagoo over there.

Some new ankles.

There's double-breast Dust in burgundy. Cribson? What is that?

Crimson. Listen, that's why it's Swagoo, baby. 92% immediately compared Jason's dad's shoes to... Oh, my game day sneakers. That's funny. What costs more? I think we both know the answer to this. What are they? I had some rare sneaks. What are they? Yeah, I had some rare sneakers on, man.

Which ones are these? The Jordan 3s.

Yes, they're the Legends of summer. Is that velvet? These are Justin Timberlakes right here, man.

Jt's. Nice. Is that just paint Or is that why is it so... It looks like it's got an interesting texture.

No, they're just different fabrics and different textures.

Yeah. It is a different texture?

Yeah, 100 %.

Is it velvet?

That's a great question. I'm not sure what the actual texture It is. Was it before? I'm not good with textures. I just know that it has a bunch of different... You love textures. I do love textures. You're right. I like different textures, and that's why I love these shoes. That, and I know Justin Turbillake. That's my doll. Yeah, dude, the sneaks, Jordan 3s, Retro 3s. My dog, Harry Clarke, HT the Great, as you know. Heights legend. Cleveland Heights. He's got a fun theme going on right now. We're wearing retros for every game. So this week will be retro fours. So be on the look out, man. I don't know which one is the one to wear I'm going to go ahead and see what exclusives I can find in either my closet or online real quick, and then throw a fit together for it. But join along, Chief's Kingdom. If you want to join us, we're rocking fours this week.

Make sure Harry gets me some shoes in for in a couple of weeks when I'm up there.

Nice. I think it's week five. Don't leave me out. Make sure he gets you some five, some Raising Bull fives or something.

You're just going to keep stepping the numbers up? How high do the Jordans go? What number is it?

They're still going.

What number are we at now?

I think like 30 something. I don't know. It was '86 was the first year, so you do the math.

Every year, it's a new model.

A new Jordan.

They don't ever do two models in a year. It's always one Jordan per year.

One Jordan with the number on it, like the Jordan 22s, the Jordan 25.

And within the Jordan 22s, there's different ones that happened within that year, but those are all Jordan 22s?

Yeah, I think those are called team Jordans, but they come out with a whole bunch of different types of shoes now. I don't know how it's all done. I just know I'm a fan of the retros more than anything, and it's been fun rocking them for the first three weeks.

Is the pants being shorter than the shoes?

Is that-Yeah, Floodin.

It's in now?

Yeah, that's the style of suit.

Floodin's in?

Yep, Floodin's in. I be on my suit and tie.

Who determines what's in and what's not in?

However you want to rock your shit, dude. I really don't care what's in, what's not in. I just go out there and I have fun wearing some shit that I think looks cool. I I wanted to flood because I thought I had some cool shoes on.

I mean, it looks great. I'm not knocking the look. It feels like designers, they gravitate towards specific themes a lot of the time.

Yes, whatever you want your bad line to be.

Either way, it looks good. I do know that. Yeah.

Man, I wish I played as good as I felt. All right. Well, that does it for- Bristol, Connecticut. Storylines. Yeah.

That does it. The highlight of the evening was Scott Van Beld bringing donuts. Got some donut holes, apple cider. Nice.

Svp bringing some donuts in. Sooking it up.

It was like an orchard donut holes apple cider. Dude, did you feel like- It was a classic on the East Coast.

Did you feel all those cool-ass ESPN commercials when we were kids? Did you feel like you were in one of those commercials? Did you see mascots running around? No, it's not that cool. Did you see other famous athletes? It's definitely cooler in the commercial.

I saw a couple of personalities. Nice. Espn personalities, but that's about it. I just pretty much did the show, watched football, tried to give my perspective on the football I was watching, and hung out with a bunch of dudes.

Love that for you. Nice. All right. Well, moving on to Week 3 story lines. Let's move on to talk about some of the biggest story lines coming out of Week 3 in the NFL, starting with the Eagles game for all our Philly 92 percenters tuning in. Oh. Eagles, 15, Saints, 12. A nail-biter as well. And a bit of controversy at the end. Jason, initial thoughts?

Well, at one point, we had 300 yards of offense and zero points. Damn. Which was crazy. Yeah, I mean, listen, the defense showed up and played fantastic. It was actually awesome to watch. They came out. There's a lot more five down looks, which they've been better They're in all year. And the Saints were the number one offense coming into the week. And the defense, they played fantastic. Jalen Carter was a menace. Jordan Davis got a sack. Zach Bond was playing in the box. He's playing on the line of scrimage. They were... I mean, it was just such an awesome bounceback game for those guys. And, Vick had them coming. It was an impressive game by the defense. Offensively, it was an impressive game. They just, again, turnovers, had some failed fourth-down conversions. Block punt. I mean, when you really think about it, between all that stuff, it's remarkable that we did end up winning the game. I don't know. It's impressive, man. They had almost 500 yards of offense or did. So I guess on the bright side, they stopped turning the ball over and they start playing more disciplined and less critical mistakes, they're going to...

I mean, the game shouldn't have been close. And this is a team that had blown out the first two opponents by double digits. So I think it's a lot of looking at it with the positive, but it's also like, Hey, we got to get this fixed, guys.

Let's pick up where we left off last week with the Eagles fans being mad about fourth down calls. At least that's what the rave was on line. The Eagles were down three, nothing, and it was fourth and one with 14 seconds left in the first half. Birds fake the tush push. The birds fake the tush push and handed out to who gets stopped short, unfortunately.

It's tough, man.

That's the game you play when you're going forward on fourth. It is. We just played the Falcons. They went forward twice on fourth down late in the game and didn't get it. I know. I think they were both fourth and manageable, right? Or at least, yeah, the last one was.

The last one for sure. I think this one was hard because there's only 14 seconds left. You just wonder, even if you get it, you get maybe one trigger situation from the 10 or something like that, where you have to throw it in the end zone. Is it worth the risk in that situation? The reason the fourth down decisions are being criticized is because they haven't been working. That's the end of the day. They did work in 2022, and they helped us get to a Super Bowl. And nick Siriani, he has seen firsthand how much going for it on fourth down can help and improve your chances of winning a game. Obviously, when it's not working, it does the opposite. And these are the unfortunate circumstances you live by as a head coach making these decisions. It's hard. I thought Ryan Clark said it really good yesterday when I was with him, too. I like being the aggressor. I just do. I like having the ball in my hands. I will say it feels right now that the points league-wide are down. Offenses are scoring less points. It feels like points are at a premium.

So I don't know how that changes these analytical metrics on a per-season basis. We're only three weeks in, but across the league, people aren't putting up as many points. All of these games have been pretty low scoring. Maybe take some points, and maybe that changes what these metrics are. But even the fourth and one with the fake little Cuby snake, people were like, That was against the analytics. It was like 51.3 % to 49 %. You ain't finding better odds than that on a roulette table, putting it on on red. It's still- Hold on now.

Hold on now. Hold on.

Yeah, you know. Hold on now.

I know about the odds on the roulette table.

So the reality is, well, this one I get. This one, I think, with the way the time was, I think that they probably should have just... And also, they got the ball coming out of half. So when you compound the fact that we get it coming out of half, let's take the points, let's get some momentum. I mean, easier said from where I'm at now that it didn't work, because I know what's going in Nick's head, what I think is, I haven't talked to him. We ran that fake quarterback sneak handoff against Washington last year, I think it was. I think it was Washington. And It ended up being an explosive, right? Because they sell out to try and stop the QB sneak. It didn't work. And I'm thinking in the back of my head, it's like, maybe we're not just converting here. Maybe he thinks that we'll sneak a countdown out. We still have a time out. We should at least He skipped the first down. But with where the game was at at that point, it's three-nothing. You know it's low scoring. Take the points. It's even game. You get the ball coming out of halftime.

But- I say go for it.

I love it. Gosh, see, this lawyer is better than This is why you're better than me. This is why you're a better man. You say, screw it. I'll put my nuts on the line. Gosh. I love it.

I want fucking tutties, man. I don't want to fucking settle for three and then get the ball.

Andy has been kicking a lot of field goals. Andy has been kicking a lot.

Well, I'm not mad at that either. I'll take fucking points. This is why Travis doesn't call place. It is what it is. I trust Andy with everything because he does all the work in terms to make those decisions, right? And Coach Seriani was in quotes saying, I called to play, Kelen did not. So he owned up to it and made sure that, Hey, listen, this is just how I coach. This is my style of football, and it's won us a lot of games. And unfortunately, it ended that 15 Clean play drive, 78 yards, ended in nothing before half. But at the same time, it's like, I just love the mentality of going forward on forth. I just do. And you guys have the horses and everybody involved that can get the job I'm fucking done. It is what it is. I like giving the ball to Saquon Barkley on fourth and one. I like it. It sounds really good in my head.

If it's fourth and 1, we're not giving it. We're usually push-pushing it. This was an outlier.

Whatever it is, He's pushed nice. I like giving Saquan Barkley the ball anytime in the game, let alone when we need one yard.

They should have gotten him involved way earlier, and that's one of the downsides of the RPOs. But bottom line, nick has had a lot of success in this being risky. The last two years, I think there's been a number of instances that have stuck out. But ultimately, it's one of those things. You live by the sword, die by the sword. I love the confidence. I love how I've seen it work in our favor. I know nick, and I know how much time he puts into this. I just think that by and large, he is making better decisions than most coaches. I really believe that. I watch other guys late in game. You know about game management, clock management? I think nick is still one of the better coaches in the league at that. I know the decisions haven't gone right. I know this one, it didn't work out. The one coming out of half didn't work out.

Still found a way to win the football game, baby.

I still got faith. I'm still riding with nick. I mean, you know that.

I know you. You're a team guy like that. Is there anything more frustrating than a '15 play fucking drive that ends in nothing, though? It is just That took a kick in the balls.

It's just straight to the balls. Like, goddamn.

Saquon Barkley and Dallas Godert saved the day. The Eagles had 284 yards of offense by the end of the third quarter and zero points, but everything changed in the fourth quarter. Saquon ended the game with 147 yards of his own and two tutties, and the Eagles were once again glad they called that guy.

You want to come over to the Philadelphia Eagles?

We We really think we could use you.

He had all of it in the second half. They got to get him involved earlier. They have to. This is one of the problems.

Or they just have to eventually get him involved, and you guys are good.

If he's going to be that good in the second half, maybe we should hold him to the second half. I didn't think about it that way. It's a good point. Just the water zone a little bit. Now, I think that's one of the downsides of the RPOs. I feel like is a lot of the times you can think you're calling these run plays, but based on the way the reads happen, it just doesn't end up manifesting, as opposed to just the call in a run. I'd like to see them get Saquan dedicated touches earlier to make sure that he's getting opportunities.

Dude, sometimes those run pass options keeps backers and safeties out of the box, though, man. It is what it is.

They do. And maybe that did make it... Listen, the RPOs didn't work in the first half. They were really bad. But who knows how that affected them in the second half? Maybe they're still thinking about the RPO. Maybe they're still more hesitant to come downhill because we do that. The RPOs have been successful in the past for us. I think early on, we got to get Saquon the ball a bit more. I do believe that. It did reach a top speed of 21.66 miles per hour on a 65-year run.

For anybody that had any questions about- That is moving. Yeah, he is moving 65 yards to that house. Clots are not standing down. It didn't look like anybody could catch him on that one. He was second fastest play by a ball carrier this season. Man, I wonder who the first one is.

And you brought it up, Dallas. Dallas had a fantastic game with AJ going down, then Smitty going down late. It's like, Dude, come on, Baba. We need you.

Ten receptions, 170 yards.

Well, he had a big play in the first half before Smitty went down. What do you call it when you're going for a sail and then you do a throwback? What's that called? On a boot play? You know on a boot, how you would go over and sail back out? But you act like you're doing that, but convert it and you do a throwback. You know what I mean? It's like a fake sail.

Sounds a fake sail throwback.

Is that what it's called?

Call it whatever the fuck you want to call it. He got wide ass open on it, though. I know exactly what you're talking about. He had a bunch of big time catches, like you were saying. He had the ridiculous 30-yard one-handy catch in the fourth. I love seeing that guy have success. Every single year at tight in you or whenever I see him out in Philly, man. He's such a good dude, and he works his ass off. He gets put in some tough... When I say tough He's like, one-on-one with a corner, one-on-one with a DB, one-on-one in the run game with a defensive lineman, one of the pass pro, whatever it is. He's all around. He does it all. He does everything you need. And the ultimate utility guy for that offense, man, I don't think he gets enough credit for what he's been for the Eagles, man.

Couldn't agree more. He's been very underappreciated, I think, on the national scale. I think Philadelphiaans realize it, but I know the Eagles do. Yeah. And then obviously, the game clinching reception with 116 left to play. We're down 12-7. Jalen connects with Dallas on a 61-yard scamper that the Eagles get down to the four-yard line. It was obviously a little bit of on the defensive side.

Running into each other.

Sometimes you need that, though.

That's a fucking catchy jingo, man.

Sometimes Sometimes you need that, though. And this ended up being an awesome play for the Eagles, and they connected and ended up winning the game off of it. Cj Garner Johnson, your favorite DBs couldn't chase a tight end down.

What's he trying to say, CJ?

I think he's trying to say their DBs are slow.

Or is he trying to say- Are you trying to say the tight ends are slow?

The tight ends are slow. That's what he's saying. Do you think you're going to outrun CJ? No. No.

Resounding. I could get just enough separation for just enough time to catch the ball, though.

They found a way to get it done. But the highlight of the night was the defense.

It was a defensive battle, yeah.

It's a huge bounceback game for those guys. It was a low-scoring game, and the defense was put in a lot of positions where they had to bow up, and boy, did they.

Yes, they did.

Saints have put up a combined 91 points total the first two weeks. The Eagles are coming off of just a bad performance against the Falcons, where they ran outside the zone to the two-man surface at will.

What was the score?

The score wasn't high because they did a good job in the red zone, which, listen, that's what it matters about. That's a good defense.

They also gave up a big two-minute drive.

I mean, it was a bad performance by the D. It's one of those where you turn on the tape and you're like, Man, we got to fix this run defense now. But they did.

They did. They bowed up. Three yards per carry.

Dude, it was against Alvin Kamara and this rushing attack that had been killing people. I forget how many yards they put up against Dallas, but they torched Dallas on the ground.

Six tackles for loss, a sack and interception. Reid Blankenship, who has officially sealed the victory for the Eagles. There was a minute left on the clock. Eagles's up 15:12. Derrick Carter throws a deep pass, and Blankenship just makes a fucking play. Sometimes you just need a big play from your DBs, man. Sure enough, he showed up, baby. But it was Jalen Carter. Everybody saw it. He was the one that was just absolutely just wrecking the game on Sunday and played 50, one of the 58 snaps. Guys, just a workhorse. Three pressures, two hurries, one QB hit, two passes, batted down, four stops, whatever any of that means. He was out there fucking causing havoc. They could have blocked. He earned the highest PFF grade of any detackled this year. Oh, nice. He's got a good agent.

They couldn't block him. I mean, he was in the backfield all game long. It didn't matter whether it was the guard, a tackle. He was wreaking havoc in the backfield. He was talking trash. He was fired up. The energy was there. You could tell. He announced it that week. He had said, I played like trash, and then he goes out there and just, I mean, Say, Hey, come on now, Bubba.

It's the opposite of what I did. I played like trash. I got to get it right. I'm going to get it right. Don't worry. Then I go out there and just play like trash again. I I'm playing winning football. It's not trash, but it could be better. Either way, I hear you, though, man. You could tell at the end of the game, he was still fired up.

Dude, we need him. We need this every week, Bubba.

Unfortunately, even though you guys got to win, a few A few injuries. Lane Johnson went down, unfortunately, in the first half. An offensive lineman, Fred Johnson came in for Lane after not having played a snap in three years and held it down against a pretty damn good defensive line. Not just Fred.

Mikai Becton went down as well in the game, and Tyler Steen had to go in early. I mean, Steen, he might have played the best out of every... I mean, the offense line, they all played fantastic. Steen and Fred got it done. And to be thrown in there in the middle of the game, that ain't easy.

It's big time, man. That is big time.

Before, in past years, when Lane would go down, it would cripple us. Lane is such a huge piece of our offense. And actually against the Saints, like Cam Jordan, I can't remember, specifically, giving us issues when Lane Johnson went down. Big Fred, he has been quietly to the public, not known, but everybody watching him do his business in the NovoCare complex has known this guy has come a long way.

That's awesome, man.

Tyler Steen, he's injured in OTAs. He gets injured in training camp. He can't get his ankle right. Mekai Becton plays well. He becomes a starter. What's he doing? He just keeps working. And the opportunity comes, and he answers it. He played fantastic. He moved his feet well. He shot his hands well. He played with good leverage. Both those guys, all the guys up front, played fantastic. It was a masterful performance from the O-line. Couldn't be more proud of those guys.

Nice, man. Well, we know they're They got one of the best coaches in the game leading them. Stouty. Yeah, Stouty's got them boys rocking and well-prepared, whether or not they're starting or not. Unfortunately, you guys got hit with Devante Smith taking that shot. Gosh. It was a tough one, man. Did you see it? Of course, I saw it. Everyone in the world saw it, man. It's tough, man. Defensive guy is holding you up. You're fighting for extra yards. Sometimes you want to get down, and you just can't get down as fast as you can. I think it's just guys playing ball. I didn't think it was too dirty of a hit, but at the same time, it was an aggressive shot.

It's one of those shots where if you're a teammate, you're fucking pissed off. If you're out there, you're like, Let's fucking go. And you saw the answer, the quote with CJGJ after the game, Man, that's the dirtiest shit I ever saw in football. You could tell the team was rattled by it and it lit a fire under their ass, which it sucks when you see a guy, especially a guy as good as Devante, just a great dude, just a dog. And to have that happen, it's going to eat at you. And I think I don't look at it like that when you're not on the field. It did look like the guy was playing to the echo of the whistle. If anything, I think it's on the refs, you got to stop the play earlier.

That's forward progress. Was that the one? Yeah.

Come on now. What are we doing? Blow it dead. But depending on what I get, because he pushed Slate out of bounds, towards the bench. Come on, you know you're out of bounds. But at the end of the day, I like when guys play to the echo of whistle and play through it. That's what I'm telling my team to do.

That's what I'm telling my team to fucking do.

Just being honest. I don't like it if I'm the Eagles, but if I'm a coach, I'm telling guys to play to the echo of the whistle, not go at people's heads. And I don't think that that's what that guy was trying to do. I don't think he was. You're not trying to hurt people It didn't seem like that. But it's important in football to play. What happens if he doesn't... Nine times out of 10, that's not going to be a concussion. He's going to hit Devante hard. And what happens if you force a fumble? That's how you play defense. You play until the play is over. But all that being said, if I'm out there, I'm fucking pissed.

I hear you. Well, hopefully, Devante is doing good today.

You hate to see him and Lane. I hope they're both... The head stuff is...

It sucks. Next week, the Eagles have the Bucks in Tampa. The Bucks and eagles are both two and one. Last time they played was, of course, in the playoffs last season. Jason remembers, unfortunately. What do you... The eagles needs to... Don't do that to me. Sorry. Asshole. Just throwing daggers at you. Jason remembers it as his last- I deserve them.

I deserve all the daggers I can get.

Bucks and the Eagles are both two and one. Baker Mayfield over there has them playing pretty good. He is.

They struggled a little bit this last week to Denver, but yeah.

Last time they played was, of course, a playoff last season. What did the Eagles need to do to keep this momentum?

I think they got to try and keep limiting the turnover. Their offense has been great this year. It's like towards the top in every metric there is. And unfortunately, it's towards the top in turnovers, and they got to capitalize on their opportunities, and they got to play smarter in those situations. And the one thing right now holding this team back from being a great team, especially offensively, is that.

Turnovers are I'm going to kill you, man.

Yeah. Everybody knows. I'm stating the obvious. The other thing that I'm interested to watch is, are Devante and AJ healthy this week? Do we get AJ back? Does Devante clear protocols? I don't know where those guys are at. We played the Bucks last year in that playoff game without A. G. Brown. They played like a 6-1 front all-game. They're basically playing goal-line defense in the middle of the field. That is hard to get a run game going against 6-1. You got to have guys that could win It just is. I'm just being honest. Bro, we got to win some matchups if they're going 6-1, boys. Let's go.

Todd Bowles is going to have some stuff lined up.

Todd is, and he's still doing it. I respect Todd Bowles so much for the coordinator. He is the master at doing- He's never made my job easy. It sucks. He has all of these things that he knows he likes. He has the corner cats that he likes, especially for teams that are underneath. He has the diamond, the bear front that he likes. He has the 6'1 front that he likes. He has all these catalog. He has the Triple A Blitz, where he's going to bring both guys inside the A-gaps with the nose guard head up over the center. Shotgun. He has all of these things in his arsenal, and he's going to find ways to do it in a different way. But it's like, Oh, he's just really doing this.

You know what I mean? The biggest thing is I feel like he knows how to slow offenses down week by week. So this week is going to be, I don't want to say completely different, but he's going to teach his defense to be different.

It's going to be different mentality.

It's going to have a different mentality against this Eagles's offense. And it's going to be different depending on who's available. We know one guy he's going to have to try and contain, and that's Saquon Barkley. It is. He has over 400 yards of offense in three games, which is pretty fucking good, if you ask me. And he didn't get going until the second half last week. But once he got going, he was flying at high speeds. And that leads us to our LeBron stat of the game against the Saints. And that is Saquon Barkley's five shutdowns are tied for most for an Eagles's player in first three games of the season. The Sean McCoy last to do it in 2011. His 351 yards rushing are second most in first three games. And that's also McCoy, who had 395 in 2013. Nice. Shout out to Saint Juan for getting some crazy stats that really don't mean much, other than he's playing really good football. Yeah.

He's balling, and I'm excited to watch this game. Obviously, the playoff game didn't go the equals' way. Both of these teams are a lot different. Both of them are probably better than they were at the end of last year. So it'll be fun to watch. That's for a dang sure.

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Other news around the League, Week 3 roundup. After three weeks, there's five remaining undefeated teams. How about that?

Yes, sir.

Those teams are Steelers, Vikings, Seahawks, Chiefs, and the Bills. Bills is probably the most... Oh, my gosh. Monday night, that was an impressive game by the Bills.

They're rolling right now, man.

I love what Joe Brady's doing, how much he's moving them around. I love when teams are in shotgun, and Andy does this a lot, too, with these motions and moving the back. It's hard when you're living in shotgun in the back, it's too stagnant. It makes it harder on everything. And they move James Cook all over the place. They're motioning people. They lost four of their five receivers from last year. They're spreading the ball around, and somehow, Josh Allen is playing better. Joe braided has been very impressive. Other teams are defeated. The Seahawks leading the NFC West by two games. Who would have thought? 49ers, one and two. Rams, one and two. The Seahawks have, I mean, they just blew out a Dolphins team that's obviously hurting without two. But needless to say, I don't think anybody, through the first three games, expected the Seahawks to be leading that division. The other one that's a little bit unexpected, not on defense. The Steeler's defense has been unbelievable. I mean, ever since Tomlin has been there, they have been able to hang their head on that, especially when J. Watts healthy.

Big Cam Hayward is clogging up the middle.

They're 3-0. They're still playing great defense. The difference is now, they're having a quarterback in Justin Field who's playing better than he's ever played. Is it Arthur Smith?

Maybe it's just a new scenery, man. Sometimes you need a change of scenery, man. Get the thing. Whatever it is. You can't say that it's not Russell Wilson. You heard him give him the game ball last week when they beat Denver. Who knows how close that group is and how Russell has been able to influence Justin and how he's playing. It's probably a mixture of it all if I were to assume something. But yeah, he's playing lights out, and he's making the Steelers a fun team to watch, man. A lot of big plays.

He's playing the way you should play. Their defense is so good. You don't got to be a game manager, but don't do anything stupid. Don't go out there and lose the game. You could tell he's playing more poised. He's playing more controlled. It's been impressive for Justin Field, especially this last week. Sam Darnold.

Yeah.

What the heck is going on with the Vikings?

Dude, Sam is a fucking dog. I I've been pretty high on Sam. I know he had his woes in Carolina and whatnot. I've been a huge fan of Sam Darnold. I think he's got great instincts. I think he's got a big arm. I think he's a smart player. And I always thought he was a gamer. I thought he was a gamer when he was at USC.

You are not the first person who's told me this. I've heard this from coaches and other players around the league. There have been a lot of people that have always thought Sam Darnal was a good quarterback, just waiting for the right opportunity. And he's getting it this year with the Vikings. But the real story Outside of what... I mean, it's on both sides. Their offense has been unbelievable. Kevin O'Neill and Sam Donnell has been a match made in heaven. But defensively, I mean, Brian Flores, he's putting quarterbacks in the twilight zone. They just look You see Brock Perry go up to him after the game, telling him his scheme's crazy. You see C. J. Stroud on the sideline, a deer in headlights. He is doing stuff right now on the back end and up front, mixing in dime personnel. He's playing a lot of too high. He's blitzing a lot. He's blitzing with soft zone coverages where you think you could take a shot.

It's just- They have a lot of really good DBs. They have guys that can do multiple things on defense. Their linebackers are fast as hell. They're very good in coverage. They can also hit the gaps. They got a lot of just great players, and that's the scheme right now. If they stay healthy, they're going to be a problem, especially if a Sammie D can keep slinging the thing around like that. I was happy.

We played him early last year. I felt like they were still fine in the rhythm with Brian, but Hyvin Pace Jr. Dude, he was a rookie last year out of Cincinnati?

Cincinnati's finest, baby.

Like a little Bobcat. I was like, Dude, what is this, dude? I can't get my hands on him. Me neither. When I do, he's like, What is happening right now?

It was the same thing. I had the same reaction when I was playing against him, man. I couldn't get my fucking hands inside of him, man. Fast dude, plays well, plays low.

Yes. It's awkward to block him.

Good player, man. Good job. Playing lights out for floor's defense right now.

Everybody on the Vikings. Who's more impressive right now, the Vikings or what the Bills did? They might be the most impressive through three weeks, huh?

What do you think? Neck and neck, yeah. When you watch them on film, you're like, Okay, this... Yeah, these guys are- They're clicking.

Early season, going well for them.

They're playing well together.

Sounds fun. And also, just as everybody expected, Andy Dalton is one of the best quarterbacks in the league.

Andy Dalton, I can't say enough good things about him. The guy won me a free car. I've known this for years. I think, what was it, 2017, 2018 Pro Bowl down in Orlando? Yes. I think we threw the ball like fucking 10 times, and Andy Dalton threw it twice to me for a whopping 30 yards and a countdown. He threw a deep cross to me. And yeah, I walked away with the offensive MVP of that game. And when you win the offensive MVP, you win a free car. Still got that on die, Genesis, actually.

I thought you were giving that to Anne-Judy. You never gave that to Anne-Judy?

No, she didn't want it.

Okay.

Shot at Dan-Judy. The hell of a game by Andy. What more do you want? 300 yards, three touch downs. Only player in the NFL this season with 300 passing yards and three passing TDs in a single game. So he's doing something right over there.

I think Coach Canales had the last laugh. I think they faced a lot of people really trash in the Panthers, me included, last week. It's like, I don't know that anybody's going to be successful there. They just don't have a lot of the pieces. They don't have a lot of the thing, yada, yada, yada. He got my face. Andy Doff goes out there, has 319 yards, three touch downs. Turns out he was better to go out there and play, as Coach had stated. Ian Rappaport reported, The Panthers are expected to start Bryce Young again this season with the benching of the number one pick viewed as a break or timeout more than anything. They believe he can still be the guy. I don't know that I believe that tweet.

I mean, what do you want a guy to do? You want him to just start him if Andy Dalton isn't going for 300 yards and three tutties every single game? That doesn't make any fucking sense. I get you want to keep the guy's confidence and not give up on him completely, but you can't state that you're going to start him again. Because if Andy Dalton keeps playing like this, why the fuck would you start him?

That's why this doesn't read right to me. It's like, you can't say he's going to start again this season.

That's a weird That's a weird thing. If I'm Andy Dalton, I'm like- Time out. I just balled out. What?

And maybe it got reported- I understand, but- maybe it got reported weird from Rappaport. I understand them saying, We still believe in them. We're just giving them some space and time to get better, potentially.

Yeah.

But this reads more... Because of the way it's worded, it reads more like, Hey, we're going to preserve this guy's trade value because we don't want anybody else to think we've given up on him. That's what it sounds like, right?

I mean, you're lying.

Come on. You're You can't seriously say, We're going to start him for sure again this season with Andy Dalton going out and doing that, unless they don't believe in Andy either.

I believe in Andy. There were a couple of wild finishes in the late afternoon slate. Rams got their first win of the season with an incredible 27-24 comeback win against the 49ers.

21-7 midway through the third quarter. I mean, Matthew Stafford, he can still slang it as good as anybody, man.

Anybody My dog, Demarcus Robinson, out there. Yeah. Loving, baby. D-rob. Fuck, I love D-Rob. I miss that guy, man.

This was a crazy game, too. With all the injuries that both of those teams have had, it was almost like the preseason week three game, half of the roster was out there starting for both teams. All of the star players have been just decimated.

Not on the Niners defense.

That's true. Niners defense still has the horse is moving. The Rams offensive line is hurt. Their skill positions are down. I mean, for them to persevere and come back 21 to 7, pretty sure Sean McVay was pretty happy with that one. Ravens also narrowly escaped a crazy Cowboys comeback. We talked about this a little bit on the Monday Night Show. The Ravens, when they're playing well, they are so good. It's intimidating. They let them back in with just, again, penalties and just being undisciplined. This should not have been a close game. The difference is this time, they got the ball back with a four-minute drill, and Lamar Jackson called game. He just was like, Yeah, I'm done messing around. Boom, ba-da-bing, ba-da-bam. Game over. See you. Derrick Henry finally got going. 151 yards, two touch downs. Jerry Jones was asked why the Cowboys didn't pursue him. He said, We couldn't afford him. That's a good reason not to pursue him. Jerry Jones, that's a good reason. Yeah, it makes sense. I think that's why probably a lot of people didn't pursue him. But it worked out this last game. Cowboys got to figure out the run defense.

It's the second week in a row they've been run on at will by both teams. Either way, it was an impressive performance with Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson. I think that's about it, Trev. Unless you got anything else to add.

Yeah, that does it.

No, no questions. Let's wrap up this show as always with a little bit of No Dumb Questions. Who doesn't love a little No Dumb Questions? All right, first up on the No Dumb Questions from EV23 on Club 92. In recent press conference, leading up to the week 2 game, Matt Nagui said, Noah gray is a U tight-end and a Y tight-end. What does that mean? Is Travis, Kelsey the same? What do the letters mean? And he mentions two tight-end stuff. Does that mean in the routes, play? What's he talking about from Australia, new to the NFL? We He'd say footie, I think that's what they call Australian football, and a swifty, so you'll have to explain it like I'm five. Okay.

All right. So you got it. Yeah. Tight ends, typically in an offense like ours, we typically have one tight end out there, and he is the Y when we're installing plays. So every wide receiver has a letter or a certain call. We have a zebra, we have a Z, we have a F, we have a X. The zebra and the U, tight-end, are essentially the same player. We just swap out players. We swap out a wide receiver for a tight-end. So when there's two tight-ends on the field, you have your wide tight-end, which is your primary tight-end. He's the in-line guy. He's the guy that is going to have his hand in the ground when there's a two tight-end set. But when there's one tight-end on the field, the wide tight-end, you're just the tight-end.

Yeah, it's the only tight-end on the field.

You're the only tight-end on the field. So you can have your hand in the ground. You could be up in it. And the thing about tight is that it doesn't matter whether you're the Y or the U, you're interchangeable. You can be anywhere on the field in this offense, specifically.

Just correct me if I'm wrong, but sometimes, even play-specific, if they want you to be a specific tight end, you It might be the Y or the Y, or do they always make the formation specific to the Y and the Y? Because we'll do that, especially like red zone stuff, where you're getting these crazy formations. It's like, Hey, this person's the Y on this one. He's the F on this one. But you just know where to line up?

Yeah. I'm going to try and explain it like their five.

Like their five. Good point.

Shut up, Jason. The Y tight-end is the main tight-end. And when I say main tight-end, it's when they're calling the play, it helps organize the formations and everything like that, the strength of formations and just where guys line up. It's not necessarily that one guy does something better than the other. Noah gray can block just as well as he can run routes. He can run block or pass block just as well as he can run routes against big guys or little guys. And it's the same with myself. It's the same with Jared Wiley. I think the fun about playing in this offense in Kansas City is that the tight-end gets to do everything. Everything. And that's all I think Coach Nagui is saying right here is that Noah gray can do it all.

That's exactly what he's saying.

He can do it all. We have Noah lined up at fullback, tight-end, and split out in a wide receiver position. We have him doing everything because of how hard the guy works and how good he is at playing football. And I think when Naguih is talking about he's the U-titan and the Y-titan, he's just talking about we can move him all over the place and still have success. I'm not sure if a five-year-old can understand that.

Yeah, I know that I'm I'm going to not talk about it because I obviously can't explain to a five-year-old because I'm a dumb ass. From @bar22 on Twitter, what is or are your guilty pleasure's shows? Something you're slightly embarrassed to admit.

Embarrassed to admit? What am I embarrassed that I watch?

I'm not embarrassed that I watch anything.

I don't care. You can't judge me. I like what I like. Yeah, it is what it is.

What would I be embarrassed about?

I used to not tell everybody that I watched Gossip Girl growing up.

You watched Gossip You're not going to say Gossip Girls? You shouldn't be embarrassed about that.

Dude, it's so good, though. If you watch it, you can get in deep.

Are you talking about Gilmore Girls? What show is Gossip Girls?

Gossip Girls. My guy Chase Crawford, Blake Lively, Okay, nice. Shoot me, but I forget the rest of the names of the cast. It's awesome. It's like a New York high school show with a lot of drama and basically everybody gossiping and talking shit on each other, which leads me my new favorite show out right now, and that's Traitors. Have you seen Traitors, Jason?

I checked it out because of their strong recommendation.

I was about to say we were talking about it yesterday.

I was watching with Lama and Uncle Dan because they were in town last week after the Monday night game.

Oh, nice.

Yeah, they came for the Eagles game.

Which episode? Did you watch the season 2?

We watched season 1. I haven't seen season 2 yet. I know.

I didn't even watch season 1. I just went straight to season 2.

I'm excited after your recommendation. But season 1, dude. So I've played that game. I actually played that game climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, so I'm familiar with it. It wasn't called Traitors, we called it Mafia, but it's the same premise.

Explain what Traitors is.

So anyways, basically, group of people, traitors, Mafia, whatever you want to call it. You start with a group of people. A certain amount are going to be declared bad guys of the group. Those bad guys are anonymous, and it is the group's job to find out which people are the bad guys or the in this show. And you do that by playing mind games, observing people's body language, accusing people. And slowly, you reveal information about through people are Or some people are good at lying, and some people suck at lying.

Yeah. Put them on the hot seat, baby.

Every time, every round, and for this, for Traitors, it's like every episode, it's going to start with the bad guys killing somebody. Somebody, or it's going to start with the good guys voting who they think the traitor is. That person is going to be kicked off, and they're going to say, Hey, I'm either a good guy or a bad guy. So you know how many of the bad guys... Well, I guess in this show, you did it, but usually, you know how many bad guys are left. After that happens, the bad guys decide that they're going to off somebody, kill them, and then that person doesn't show back up to the show. Every round, the trader is getting rid of somebody, and every round, the group is getting rid of somebody. And it keeps going, and the group wins. If they find all the traders, the traders win if one of them is remaining at the end.

It's a hell of a show. I absolutely love it. I've only seen season 2. I heard season 1 is just as good. There's also a British version.

See, now I'm going to be caught up in that.

Yeah. And that British version is just not familiar faces. The American version, everybody's a familiar face in the American version.

I didn't know. I'll be honest. The American version, season one, was all like, reality stars. I didn't know a single person other than Ryan Lockheed. That was the only person I was familiar with on the show.

Season 2 is similar. There's a few others, but for the most part, it's reality TV, game shows.

Yeah, Big Brother was a bunch of them, apparently, in season 1.

The Challenges, Cee T, my guy Johnny Bananas are in there.

What? They're in the second season?

Yeah.

I can't wait to watch the second season. That's going to be way better. But the woman that won season 1, I can't remember her name again, not want to be in a relationship with her. She is playing circles with these people. That's right. Well, we just got from Brandon, he highly recommends the British version, which is actually, Kylie and I's favorite show is a British show. What's that? Two British shows, actually. I guess we just like British shows.

Well, which ones?

Great British Make-off. Every time a new season comes out, we sit down and we watch that. I mean, it's fantastic. Taskmaster. I highly recommend Taskmaster. It's on YouTube. It's also on the BBC, I think, but I don't know how that works. I just watch it on YouTube, but really good. On that one, they give them a bunch of stupid things to do. It works out for me because I got ADHD. But they give them a bunch of stupid activities to do, and then a bunch of funny people just do stupid stuff, and then they make fun of each other, and then they just have a good time.

Dude, you would fucking crush it on traitors. Traitors?

I'm terrible. When I was on the mountain, I can't lie. You know that. I'm an awful liar.

Yeah, but sometimes using that to your advantage.

But I'm not savvy enough. I'm just letting you know, every time we're at the mountain, we did it one time, Columbia Mount Kilimanjaro. I was voted. They, right away, they knew. They're like, Jason's a traitor. I was like, No, I'm not.

And they're like, No, I'm not. It's hilarious. But it is funny to see everyone have to defend themselves when the entire table is pointing at them saying they're a traitor. And to see how someone reacts under pressure. I fucking love it. And sometimes people just fucking fold.

I'm taking notes. There's some people that say some stuff where you're like, Wow, that's a good one.

And honestly, I just want to play the game. It's a show that I think I would have fun with.

We're all going to KC for Thanksgiving because you guys play Friday night, right?

For Amazon? Jason, yeah. I'm playing football. I'm not worried about playing traitors.

No, but after the game, we can play Mafia.

If I win, I'm in.

Andy, can you please get this guy going so that I can fucking play Mafia with Travis?

I do think I'd be better as a faithful, but I think that I could-Trav, you would be good in either one of them? I think I could- If you can be a lead actor in a FX original series- A lead actor is a fucking stretch. Get the fuck out of here. Lead actor. Neezy is the lead.

All right. A lead, not the lead. A lead.

Whatever.

You're the bad guy. I'm a character.

I fucking know it.

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Goodfellas.

Classic.

Who's your favorite goodfella?

My My favorite Goodfella? I mean, come on, Peshe.

It's the best.

It's electric.

My Clown. My Clown. My Funny Like a Clown.

You think of funny? Yeah, funny. Tell me how I'm funny. I'm the funny guy. Dude, that'd be a good movie to review, too.

What, Goodfellas? Yeah. I feel like it's been reviewed a lot.

Oh, you know what I want to watch? I want to watch Biodome again.

Biodome? There's no way that movie is good anymore. There's no way.

All right. I was getting hype for it.

I mean, I'll watch it.

Jason.

It's not going to be good, though.

Jason did a fucking review on twilight.

It's a good point. What if we just review- Are you kidding?

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