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

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Travis Kelsey here.

This is my big brother, Jason Kelsey out of Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Cincinnati Bearcat alums.

The Bearcats coming off a 34 to nothing domination over the Houston Cougars. I mean, they should be 3-0.
They blew that game against Pitt. Your guy, Narduzzi, how'd it going? I am kind of...
They looked really good last week, and we're going down to Lubbock, Texas to take on the Texas Tech Raiders. Dude, you and Pat got a little side bet going? I told Patty Mahomes, he's got it.
He's got it. Come on now.
You know we do. You know we do.
I'll let it. 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.
Oh, I can't wait. Come on, Bearcats.
I don't know who I'm rooting for anymore. Go down there and call some havoc.
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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. And the rest of the biggest stories are around the league, including the surprising division leaders, Justin Fields' success in Pittsburgh and Andy Dalton, the ginger soulless creature winning big in Carolina.
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Nice.

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A little history lesson last time.

We're going to talk about a little bit of grotesquery.

That's right, Trav.

Nice.

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.
I think, what's your other closest one? Moonbase 8 where you had the... Moonbase 8.
I mean, technically I was acting on SNL, but yeah. Those those are one episodes like kind of one-offs this was a full season true yeah well tonight that's right tonight wednesday september 25th the first two episodes of grotesque yeti uh starring uh nisi nash courtney b vance and of course the big yet'll air on FX.
Ooh, nice. Are you the bad guy? Are you the killer? Can you tell me? 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 in the moment.
Is there like 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 there's uncle travi oh my gosh i don't know if they'll even like understand what's going on in the show dude you know what movie we watched it's very it's very like i don't know yeah it's a little A little too advanced. I'm with you.
It's a little too advanced for toddlers. I forget.
I think I was having the girls watch RRR. I was watching RRR, and Kaya was like, what are you doing? The opening scene is not funny.
I don't know. I'm laughing because you let your daughters watch that.
Kaya was like, are you kidding me? But you know what we did just watch? So, Wyatt's at the stage now where she enjoys who's not good. It's not good.
Hopefully I didn't do permanent damage. It's not good.
Hopefully Wyatt 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 kylie's face so jason what the fuck are you doing

yeah it was you were uh it's not good no no it's not it's not good at all all right anyways um

Thank you. fuck are you doing yeah it was you were uh it's not good no no it's not it's not good at all all right anyways um mama kelsey also appeared to stop by um the crotesque gary look at mom looking fantastic i like that it's like a nice wine color on her did she know she was gonna match so well i don't i don't know i think i think she you know.
She went with like the purplish burgundy, which is like, I mean, that's a good horror. She just knew she was going to look good in it.
That's a good horror color. Like 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 Niecy. Nice.
And had nothing but amazing things to say about her, which everyone does. Niecy Nash is amazing.
Yeah. And she just had a blast.
She went up there with Uncle Don and Joan and everybody. They were all texting me afterwards, telling me they enjoyed it, and they can't wait to keep watching it.
And I'm just like, man, I didn't know you guys were into thrillers like this. You're excited the premiere yeah i'm excited i just want to see you know i haven't seen anything yet i i kind of been just like focused on training camp and football as everything's been getting edited and finished and um i've just been locked in on the on the on the season yeah so you know the story but you kind of are like this is gonna be fun for you to actually get to see what it looks like firsthand.
Yeah. Yeah.
You read the scripts and everything. And I'm not going to lie.
I focused on my parts more than I like understood the entire, like, like grand scheme of the show. Sure.
So there are parts that I was like watching the trailer. I'm just like, Oh, this is, this is, 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, I mean, 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 gladiators armor was that actual is it actually metal or is it like plastic don't lie don't lie to me it's full i had to defend myself from a tiger you think that's plastic plastic you're ridiculous jason i hate this and i did get to keep it 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, Gladiators. And I cannot wait to see that movie.
It looks so good. He's directed a lot of movies.
Yeah. Yeah.
And his son, Jake, did an unbelievable job. Jake just, 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.
And yeah, he was unbelievable at giving me the direction, literally. So I'm coachable, man.
You coach me up, I can do it. Ridley taught him well.
And 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 the 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's 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 that. I didn't know it at all.
Because I knew he was involved with Chappelle's show. Yes.
He's awesome, man. I had obviously seen his stand-up, but I did not know.
I showed up to the commercial shoot, and he was directing me. I was like, what's going on right now? It's an honor.
It really is an honor. He did my Lowe's commercial with me and McCaffrey.
Oh, nice. Nice.
Shout-out to McCaffrey, man. Hopefully he gets on the field here soon.
Yeah, man. Thei commercial was amazing uh grotesquerie comes out tonight and um yeah i cannot wait to uh 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 yeah is it it's 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 like are you even no you're don't you it might be a little that don't play mind games with me right now it might be a little bit of that i 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, Trav? Anything you want to start off with? Pat said it.
Coach Reed said it. You know, 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.
And 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.
And moving forward, it's just, you know, everyone's just tweaking their game in the right direction.

And we know what we have to do to get better this week going out west to play the Chargers.

And I'm excited for the challenge, baby.

And we're 3-0, man.

It doesn't get any better than a 3-0 start.

Pat and Coach Reed 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, Rasheed is going to get a lot of catches, and Trav knows that sometime that will level off.
Whatever it is, it's football, baby. Come on now.
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 and making the right decisions right now um and we just have to keep finding it's a new offense new players new pieces and we're just finding you know how to have success uh throughout the season as an offense you're gonna go through these ups and downs throughout the season the season.
And 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. And nobody does it better than Coach Reed and Pat Mahomes in that regard.
There's no question. I mean, it has been, it feels like you guys have dealt with this and semblances of it over the last couple of years, especially last year, midway through the season, defense playing well, and then you guys turned it on in the second half of it.
But these soft coverages 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, you know, 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. Can imagine that you're frustrated.
I've had a lot of catches in this league, man. I'm not worried about, you know, 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 does it? Execution feels emotion.
It has everything to do with execution and just making sure that we're doing whatever we can to win these football games, man. And 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's ever been on a team with that has loved being out there with Trav more.
And 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 good to go, baby.
Rasheed had a hell of a game. Carson Steele had a hell of a game.
My2 man dundee as i call him he's got the crocky j alligator uh back in indiana as a as a a present from his dad which is the coolest thing ever man and he just uh he runs the ball like a maniac man just like a freight train so people call him the whiteino. He's, he's hitting the hole and he's dragging guys for an extra three, four yards.
Every single time he on, he hits somebody or he's at the point of contact. And you just love a guy that, that, that just, that just hits the hole like that, man.
It just, it, that puts such a strain on the defense. I don't like comparing guys to like necessarily like, like when there's a white running back and back and I feel like they always are a white D lineman.
They always get compared to like 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. Like you remember watching Larry Zonka run? I wasn't expecting that.
It's almost like a torpedo that's like at an angle off the ground yeah like that's what he reminds me of for some fucking reason i don't know why that's that's a hell of a fucking reference right there that's pretty good yeah rashi uh he's he's rolling right now man i couldn't be happier for the guy uh 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 he's getting rewarded with the way he's playing right now yeah and he's really he's i mean he's the he's the charge right now he's he's the the front runner in terms of like who we're going to who we're trying to get the ball in his hands every single time he touches the ball he's breaking tackles he's finding a way to get the ball he's 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 it's just he's playing selfless football, and I couldn't be happy for it 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 leading all players in yards after the catch this season with 200. He also leads all receivers with forced missed tackles with nine.
Easily. So he has been electric with the ball in his hands.
So yeah, they should probably keep throwing it to him because good things are happening. Defense comes up big in Spags.
We trust the Chiefs. Defense continues to play at a high level.
The defense finished with two sacks, eight tackles for loss, 10 quarterback hits, and an interception. How about that? That's a lot of negative plays.
Let's get into some of these highlights, starting with the interception and lateral. Very Ed Reed, 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 in Ed Reed's hands. Go, go, go, go.
Are you pro? I mean, you're pro-lateraling on offense. You've got to be pro-lateraling on defense after an interception.
Everybody, yeah. I'm in on laterals.
Laterals are so electric. Did you see that hook and ladder that Lions are? Yeah, it was Lions.
Lions are in? Yeah. Love it.
Love a good hook and ladder. For a touchdown, good hook and lateral.
Man, when teams used to break that out in high school. Oh, it's so fucking electric.
Is a hook and ladder best for zone 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 like 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. He's not just – 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 drive or the first quarter, they – I mean, they were just – they were lights out, man.
And I just – I can't say enough about what Spags is doing with these guys. He's just putting them 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 Pinnell, 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 gap so hard that the running back and the linebackers just have these lanes to shoot and uh no more prevalent than uh this huge uh fourth down when nick bolton uh came flying through a gap untouched to uh to to get a bjb john robinson right here and that really secured for us. I mean, it's just 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, like those game plan runs, you just don't get enough looks at them.
So you get an awkward looking. If it's not the look you practiced, you got to have guys that can just, you know, wing it.
And unfortunately, it didn't look like he had his eyes on the right guy or Or who knows? Maybe somebody else screwed it up and he had his eyes on the wrong guy.

You never know how that thing was supposed to play out.

I just know that it looked like the Chiefs' defensive line got a real good push.

Yeah.

And it looked like we capped the defense right here

and didn't let him get outside the numbers on a sweet play like that.

So Bolton, man, he's playing huge for us.

Everybody, he kind of 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 can tell. 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. This is 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 2-1. 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, I mean, 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 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 derwin james just got suspended which you know that yeah that's unfortunate man you always love going up against derwin he's just 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, you know, whether or not Herbert plays it, all that's in, 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 Reed's message in the building today is that, you know, we just keep finding, finding the answers. No doubt.
And we just keep climbing finding the answers no doubt and we just keep

climbing the ladder on getting better and and uh and and let's go out there and play our best football for four quarters and that's all that's 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 brady and roger stallback 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.
Nope. That's a heck of a ball coach right there man that's a ball coach right there baby shout out to the big red thank you before we get out of the chief section uh we have some house cleaning housekeeping oh there we go housekeeping we need to address first uh chris jones wants his half sack back during a press conference last week chris stone cold jones let the football world know that he's not happy about his half a sack against the Bengals being taken away and given to teammate George Karloftis.
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 viewed it. Play 29.
Okay, he calls it out by name. Okay, play 29.
counting who's counting i can just hear this in chris's voice you know i'm trying my best not to 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 got he didn't get credited with anything no he got the half sack in the game and then on top and then a couple 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 uh he kind of let it go he said george agreed to treat me for dinner so i'm good now i mean he did he did help assist the tackle, right? But George kind of had him, you know, he had

Joe wrapped up around He did help assist the tackle, right?

But George kind of had him.

He had Joe wrapped up around the leg.

I have no idea.

I don't even know what this 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 treatment at dinner. I'm good now.
Something tells me he's still kind of 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, Creed Humphrey has a great bit going on. I've been noticing this too.
This is awesome. Love.
He's killing it right now. Love the pregame fits.
He started it. We keep winning.
He has to keep doing it. He's got to keep doing it.
He's 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 Creed in his pregame fits.
Well, it's been three weeks since Creed 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, no way.
that hurt. I know that hurt like a mother when you ripped it off.
All right. But either way, I love how the first two home games, home games 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's to rock and roll the real question is do we think

creed's washing this shirt each week i don't know i'll have to ask somebody's gonna have to ask him

i mean this still looks fresh it's real nice oh i can't wait to see uh what it looks like this week

something tells me it's it's gonna be the same

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Jason's Monday night in Bristol. Hey, yo.
Bristol, Connecticut, ESPN's headquarters, I believe. It is.
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.
Yeah, I would assume. But, hey, whenever I get to be up there with Scott Van Pelt, Ryan, 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 would have been so much better.
That mafia. The 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. Yeah.
That would have been a lot of fun up there in Buffalo, but, you know, wasn't the case. Two games.
Two games is different. You got to prepare a lot more and uh i love learning from these guys man swag and ryan and and scott have been doing it for a long time they're awesome man man they're just impressive it's very very impressive what they're doing it's my favorite show in uh in sports um the biggest takeaway from 92 percenters was definitely your dad sneakers that's right you're up there this picture is fucking electric right here uh whoever screenshotted 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 you're engaged with hands on the hips i'm open yep but you're engaged here i'm i don't know if you're listening or not here here you're're not.
Disinterested. Yeah, you are.
I'm not listening to what's happening right now. Here, it's like, okay, yes, sir.
Yep, 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 Kelsey's. 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 things.
What else can you do in those things? I mean, you can do anything you want in those things. You could be a little league.
Yeah, you could be a little league baseball coach. You can go on Monday Night Countdown with those things.
I mean, you can do whatever you want. Man, the egg Kelsey's got it figured out, man.
Did any part of you consider wearing flip-flops no i is that frowned upon in the espn studio espn's kind of 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 uh we were doing like a little bit there where i needed to be a little bit agile so i felt like the shoes were necessary i like the-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 kind of like

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.
Ankles are ready. Yeah.
I get you, man. Get that ankle support.
Watch out. No, I need it.
Yeah, all you need is- I get them ligament sprains. My ankle collapses.
You get Jason Kelgy some ankle support. I need the ankle support.
I need the base, especially if I'm going to be passing swagoo over there. New ankles.
This double-breasted burgundy crimson. What is that? Crimson.
Listen, that's why it's swagoo, baby. 92%ers 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.
I had some rare sneaks. Yeah, I had some rare sneakers on, man.
Which ones are these? The Jordan 3s. Yes, they're the Legends of Summer.
These are Justin Timberlakes right here, man. 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 is. Was it before? I'm not good with textures.
I just know that it has a bunch of different... I do love textures.
You're right. I like different textures, and that's why I love these shoes.
That, and I know Justin Timberlake. That's my dog.
Yeah, dude, the sneaks, Jordan 3s, retro 3s.

My dog, Harry Clark, H.C. the Great, as you know, a Heights legend.

Cleveland Heights finest.

He's got a fun theme going on right now.

We're wearing retros for every game, so this week will be retro 4s.

So be on the lookout, man.

I don't know which ones I'm going to wear yet.

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, Chiefs Kingdom, if you want to join us.

We're rocking fours this week.

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

Nice, nice.

I think it's week five.

Don't leave me out.

Don't leave me out.

Make sure he gets you some fives, some Raising Bull fives or something. So you're just going to keep stepping the numbers up? Yeah.
How high do the Jordans go? What number? 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. So, every year it's a new model.
New Jordan. They don't ever do two models in a year.
It's always one year, one? 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, so I don't know how it's all done.
I just know. I'm a fan of the retros more than anything and uh it's been fun rocking them for the first three weeks is the pants being shorter than the shoes is that uh yeah flooding that's it's in now yeah that's the style of suit yeah flooding's in yep flooding's in i'll 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 wanted to i wanted i wanted to flood because i thought i had some cool shoes on i mean it looks great i'm not knocking the look i just like it feels like designers like they kind of like gravitate towards like 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 uh bristol connecticut yeah that does the highlight of the evening was scott van belt bringing donuts got some some donut holes and apple cider.
SVP bringing some donuts in. It was like – it was an orchard donut holes, apple cider.
It's classic out here 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? Like, 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 personalities.

Nice.

ESPN personalities, but that's about it.

Yeah.

I just pretty much did the show, watched football,

tried to give my perspective on football I was watching and hung out with a bunch of dudes love that for you nice all right well moving on to week three storylines let's uh move on and talk about some of the biggest storylines coming out of week three in the nfl starting with the eagles game for all our Philly 92 percenters tuning in. 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, 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 in all year. And the Saints were the number one offense coming into the week.
And the defense, I mean, 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 scrimmage. They were, I mean, it was just such an awesome bounce back game for those guys.
And, you know, Vic had them coming. It was an impressive game by the defense.
Offensively, it was an impressive game. They just, again, turnovers, you know, had some failed fourth down conversions, block punt.
I mean, when you really think about it, between all that stuff, it's kind of 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, you know, less – more disciplined and less mistakes, 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 uh fourth down calls at least that's what the rave was online uh the eagles were down three nothing and it was fourth and one with 14 seconds left in the first half birds fake the took the tush push a little fake tush push the birds fake the tush push and handed out the sake one who gets uh stopped, unfortunately. Yeah.
It's tough, man. That's the game you play when you're going for it on fourth.
It is. It is.
We just played the Falcons. They went for it twice on fourth down late in the game and didn't get it.
I know. And 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 and you just wonder like even if you get it you get like maybe one trigger situation from like the 10 or something like that like 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 because they haven't been working that's the end of.
They did work in 2022, and they helped us get to a Super Bowl.

And Nick Sirianni, he has seen firsthand how much going forward

on fourth down can help and improve your chances at 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.

Yeah. You know, 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 kind of 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 like a per season basis, right? 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.
You know, maybe take some points and maybe that changes what these metrics are. But even the fourth and one with the fake little kind of QB sneak people like that was against the analytics the analytics it was like 51.3 to 49 like you ain't finding better odds than that on a roulette table putting it on on red like it's still hold on now hold on now yeah yeah you know you know about the mods on the roulette table so like 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 like when you compound the fact that we get it coming out of half, let's just, 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 to Nick's head. I, what I think is I haven't talked to him.
Like 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, they sell out to try and stop the QB sneak.
It just, it didn't work. And I'm thinking in, in, in the back of my head, it's like, maybe we're not just converting here.
Maybe he thinks that we'll sneak a touchdown out. We still have a timeout.
We should at least

get the first down.

But with where the game was at at that

point, it's 3-0. 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 is why you're better than me. 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 gosh see this is why you're better than me this is why you're better than me that's why you're a better man you say screw it i'll put my nuts on the line i love it i want fucking tutties man i don't want to fucking settle for three and then get the ball kicking a lot of field goals and he's been kicking a lot well i'm not mad at that either i'll take i'll take fucking points this is why this is why travis doesn't call place you know it is what it is i I trust Andy with everything because he does all the work in terms to make those kind of decisions, right? And Coach Sirianni was in quotes saying, I called to play, Kellen 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 uh you know unfortunately it it ended uh that 15 play drive 78 yards ended in uh in nothing before half but at the same time it's like i just love the mentality of of going for it on fourth i just do i died and and you guys have the horses and the and everybody involved that can they can get the job fucking done it is what it.
I like giving the ball to Saquon Barkley on fourth and one.

I like it.

It sounds really good in my head.

Yeah.

If it's fourth and one, we're not giving it.

We're usually tush pushing it.

This was an outlier.

Whatever it is.

Tush push, nice.

I like giving Saquon 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 league 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. And I just think, you know, I know Nick and I know how much time he puts into this.
And 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 talk 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 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. i know you the team guy like that is there anything more frustrating than a 15 play fucking drive that ends in nothing though it is just i took a kick in the balls it's just it's just straight to the balls like god damn saquon barkley and dallas goddard 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. Dave, you want to come over to the Philadelphia Eagles? 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. And 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. Test the waters a little bit.
Now, I think that's one of the downsides of the RPOs. I feel like there's a lot of 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 on a run.
I'd like to see them get Saquon 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 like, 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.
Yeah. The RPOs have 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 for anybody for anybody that any questions about yeah he is a moving 65 yards to the house it didn't look like anybody could catch him on that one he 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 had a fantastic game with AJ going down, then Smitty going down late. It's like, dude, come on, Bubba.
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 sale and then you do a throwback? What's that called? Like on a boot play? You know I got 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 sale.
Sounds like a fake sale 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-handed catch in the fourth.
That was just – I mean, I love seeing that guy have success. Every single year at tight end U or whenever I see him out in Philly, man, it's's just he's such a good dude and he works his ass off and he's he's a very like he gets put in some tough when I say tough positions like one-on-one with a corner one-on-one with a DB one-on-one in the run game with a defensive lineman you know one of the bet like yeah pass pro whatever it is he, he's all around.
He does it all.

Everything you need.

And the ultimate utility guy for that offense, man.

He just, 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 Philadelphians 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 kind of like on the defensive side.
Running into each other. Sometimes you need that, though.
That's such a fucking catchy jingle, man. Sometimes you need that, though.
And this ended up being an awesome play for the Eagles, and they connected and end up winning the game off of it. CJ Garner-Johnson, y'all favorite DBs couldn't chase a tight end down.
What are you trying to say, CJ? I think he's trying to say their DBs are slow. Or is he 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 bounce back game for those guys.

Yeah.

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,

and the Eagles are coming off of just a bad performance against the Falcons where they ran outside zone to the two-man surface at will. Well, 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. Yeah, that's...
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.

Yeah.

But they did.

They did.

They bowed up.

Three yards per carry.

Two.

It was against Alvin Kamara and this rushing attack that had been killing people.

They just – 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. Reed Blankenship, who has officially sealed the victory for the Eagles.
There was a minute left on the clock. Eagles up 15-12.
Derek Carr throws a deep pass, and Blankenship just makes a fucking play. Sometimes you just need a big play from your DBs, man.
No doubt. And sure enough, he showed up, baby.
But it was was jalen carter everybody saw it he was the one that was just absolutely just wrecking the game on sunday and um played 51 of the 58 snaps guys just a workhorse three pressures two hurries uh one qb hit two passes batted down four stops uh whatever any of that means. He was out there fucking causing havoc.

They could have blocked him.

And he earned the highest PFF grade of any D-tackle this year.

Oh, nice.

He's got a good agent.

Nice.

Well, they couldn't block him.

I mean, he was in the backfield all game long.

It didn't matter whether it was the guard, the 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.

Yeah.

Say, hey, come on now, Bubba.

It's the opposite of what I did.

I played like trash.

Stop.

I got to get it right. You know, I'm going to get it right.
Don't worry. Then I go out there and just played like trash and stuff i gotta get it right you know i'm gonna i'm gonna get it

right don't worry then i go out there and just play like trash again i'm playing winning football it's not trash but it is uh it could be better either way i hear you though man he uh he and 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 injuries,

Lane Johnson went... the end of the game he was still fired up dude we need him we need this every week bubba unfortunately um even though you guys got the win uh a few uh a few injuries lane johnson went down unfortunately in the first half uh an offensive lineman fred johnson came in for lane after not having played a snap in three years and uh held it down against a pretty damn good not just friends defensive line makai beckton uh 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, they all – the offensive line, they all played fantastic.

Steen and Fred got it done.

And to be thrown in there in the middle of a 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. Like, Lane is such a huge piece of our offense.
And actually against the Saints, like Cam Jordan, I can 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.
Mekhi Becton plays well. He becomes a starter.
What's he do? 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. It was 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 got one of the best coaches in the game leading them.
Stoudy. Yeah, Stoudy's got them boys rocking and well-pre well prepared whether or not they're starting or not um unfortunately you guys got hit with davante smith uh taking that shot uh and it was a tough one man of course i saw it everyone in the world saw it man it's tough man defensive guys kind of 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 and i think it's just guys playing ball i didn't think it was too dirty of a hit but

at the same time and 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 cj gj after the game man that's the dirtiest shit i ever saw in football

like you could tell the team was rattled by it and it lit a fire under their ass which

Thank you. answer the quote with cj gj after the game man that's the dirtiest shit i ever saw in football like you could tell the team was rattled by it and it lit a fire under their ass which i mean they it sucks when you see a guy especially guys as good as davante like just a great dude like just a dog and to to have that happen it just it's gonna eat at you and i think you know I don't look at it like that when you're not on the field.

Like, it did look like the guy was playing to the echo of the whistle.

If anything, I think it's on the refs.

You've got to stop the play earlier.

That's what we're progress.

Yeah.

Like, come on now.

What are we doing?

Blow it dead.

But depending on what I kind of get because he pushed Slay out of bounds, like towards the bench, like, come on, you know you're out of bounds.

But at the end of the day, I kind of 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 do that's what i'm telling just being honest like i'm not 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 the whistle not go at people's heads and i don't think that's what that guy was trying to do i don't think he was like you're not trying to hurt people. But it's important in football to play.
Like, what happens if he doesn't not, like, nine times out of ten, that's not going to be a concussion. Like, he's going to hit Devontae hard.
And what happens if you force a fumble? That's how you play defense. You play until the play's over.
Yeah. So, but, all that being said, if I'm out there, I'm fucking pissed.
I hear you. Well, hopefully Devontae's doing good today.
You hate to see him and Lane. I hope they're both.
The head stuff is, you know, it sucks. Next week, the Eagles have the Bucs in Tampa.
The Bucs 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 that to me.
Sorry. Asshole.
Just fucking throwing daggers at you. Jason remembers it as his last – I deserve all the daggers I can get.
Bucks and the Eagles are both 2-1. 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, the playoffs last season. What do the Eagles need to do to keep this momentum? I think they got to try and keep limiting the turnovers.
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 those situations and it's the one thing right now holding this team back from being a great team especially offensively is that yeah turnovers will kill you man yeah it's the i'm everybody knows i'm stating the obvious yeah the other thing that i'll be interested to watch is are davante and aj healthy this week like do we get aj back does davante clear protocols i don't know where those guys are at but we played the bucks last year in that playoff game without aj brown they played like a 6-1 front all game like 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 gotta have guys that could win like it just is i honest. Like, 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.
Dude, 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 of these catalog.
He has the AAA 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 completely – I don't want to say completely different, but he's going to teach teach us to have a different mentality last week yeah gonna have a different mentality against this eagles

offense you know and it's gonna be different depending on who's available yeah we know one

guy is gonna have to he's gonna have to try and uh contain and that's saquon bark it is it is he

has uh over 400 yards of offense in three games which is which is pretty fucking good if you ask

me and uh he didn't get going until the second half last week but once he got going he was

Thank you. 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 touchdowns are tied for most for an Eagles player in first three games of the season. Leshawn 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 Sangwon for getting some crazy stats that really don't mean much other than he's playing playing really good football.
Yeah. He's balling, and I'm excited to watch this game.
Obviously, the playoff game didn't go the Eagles' ways. 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 dang sure. Other news around the league.
Week three 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 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 talked about the – I love when teams are in shotgun.
And Andy does this a lot, too, with these motions motions and moving the back. Like it's hard when you're living in shotgun in the back, it's too stagnant, 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's playing better.
Joe Brady is, it's been very impressive. Other teams undefeated, the Seahawks leading the NFC West by two games.
Who would have thunk? 49ers 1-2, Rams 1-2. The Seahawks have, I mean, they just blew out a Dolphins team that's obviously hurting without Tua.
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 Steelers' defense has been unbelievable the last, I mean,

ever since Tomlin's been there.

They have been able to hang their head on that,

especially when T.J. Watt's healthy.

Big Cam Hayward's 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 Fields who's playing better than he's ever played.

Is it Arthur Smith? Maybe it's just a new scenery, man. Sometimes you just need to change the scenery, man.
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's 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 can tell he's playing more poised. He's playing more controlled.
It's been impressive for Justin Fields, especially this last week. Sam Darnold.
Yeah. What the heck is going on with the Vikings? Dude, Sam is a fucking dog.
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 Darnold 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'Connell and Sam Donald has been a match made in heaven. But defensively, I mean, Brian Flores, he's like putting quarterbacks in like the twilight zone.
Like they just look like you see Brock Purdy go up to him after the game, telling him his game'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 two high.

He's blitzing a lot.

He's blitzing with soft zone coverages where you think you can take a shot.

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, like, just great players, and that's the scheme right now.
If they stay healthy, they're going to be a problem, especially if Sammy D can keep slinging the thing around like that. That was happening.
We played him early last year. It felt like they were still finding the rhythm with Brian.
But Ivan 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. And when I do, he's like going, I'm 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 like awkward to block him. I hate that.
Good player, man. Good job.
Playing lights out for, yeah, Flores defense right now. Good job, 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. Yeah mean, 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.

I mean, 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 um 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 touchdown he threw a deep cross to me and uh yeah i walked away with the offensive mvp of that game and when you win the offensive m MVP, you win a free car. Still got that Hyundai Genesis, actually.
I thought you were giving that to Ann Judy. You never gave that to Ann Judy? No, she didn't want it.
Oh, okay. Shout out to Ann Judy.
The hell of a game by Andy. I mean, what more do you want? 300 yards, three touchdowns.
Only player in the NFL this season with 300 passing three uh three passing tds in a single game so yep he's doing uh he's doing something right over there i think coach uh canales had the last laugh i think he they faced a lot of people really trashing the panthers me included last week you know 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 They don't have a lot of the thing, yada, yada, yada. A got my face.
Andy Dog goes out there, has 319 yards, three touchdowns. 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't make any fucking sense I mean I get you want to keep the guys you know confidence and not give up on them completely but you can't state that you're gonna start him again like 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 like he's gonna start again this season that's a weird that's a weird thing right if i'm andy dalton i'm like time out i just balled out what what and maybe it i understand maybe it got reported weird from rapapur i understand them saying you know we still believe in him we're just giving him some space and time to get better potentially yeah but this reads more because of theed.
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? Come on.
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. Yeah.
I mean, Matthew Stafford, he can still sling it as good as anybody, man. Anybody.
My dog, Demarcus Robinson out there. Yeah.
Lovling, 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 horses moving.

The Rams offensive line has hurt.

Their skill positions are down.

I mean, for them to persevere and come back 21-7,

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 kind of 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-bang, ba-da-bam, game over, see ya. Derek Henry finally got going, 151 yards, two touchdowns.
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. 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 kind of 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've got anything else to add.

Yeah, that does it.

No Dumb Questions, let's wrap up the 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 Nagy 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'd say footy.
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.
Yeah, we have a zebra. We have a Z.
We have an F. We have an 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 typically the inline guy. He's the guy that's 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 you have your wide tight end which is your primary tight end he's typically he's the inline guy he's the guy that's 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 and the thing about tight end 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 correct me if i'm wrong but sometimes even like play specific if they want you to be a specific tight end you might be the u or the y or they always make the formation specific to the u and the y because we'll do that especially like 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 kind of know where to line up.

Yeah.

I'm going to try and explain it like they're five.

Like they're 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 like organize the uh the formations and everything like that the strength of for the formations and just where guys line up it's not necessarily the one guy does something better than the other no gray can block just as well as he can run routes you know 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 kind of offense in Kansas City is that the tight end gets to do everything.
And that's all I think Coach Nagy's 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 Nagy's talking about he's the U tight end and the wide tight end, 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 going to not talk about it because I obviously can't explain to a five-year-old because I'm a dumbass.
From AtBar22 on Twitter, what is or are your guilty pleasures 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 kid'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 Girl? You should be embarrassed about that.
Dude, it's so good, though. Dude, if you watch it, you can get in deep.
Are you talking about Gilmore Girls? What show is Gossip Girls girls uh gosh my god chase crawford um blake lively um okay nice shoot me but i forget the rest of the names of the cast but it's i mean it's awesome it's like a high school new york high school like show with a lot of drama and basically everybody gossiping and talking shit on each other which leads leads me to my new favorite show out right now. And that's traitors.
Have you seen traitors, Jason? I checked it out. I was about to say, we were talking about it yesterday.
Yeah. I was watching with mom and uncle Don because they were in town last week after the Monday night game.
Oh, nice. Yeah.
They came for the Eagles game. Which, which episode did you watch watched season one.
I haven't seen season two yet. I know.

I didn't even watch season one. I just went straight to season two.

I'm excited after your recommendation.

But season one, 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. Oh, 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 traitors in this show yeah and you do that by playing mind games observing people's body language accusing people and slowly you kind of reveal information it's about through people because people are some people are good at lying some people suck at lying yeah put, baby. Every time, every round, and for this, for traders, it's like every episode,

it's going to start with the bad guys killing 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.

Yeah.

And then that person doesn't show back up to the show.

Every round,

the traders are 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 if one of them is remaining at the end it's a hell of a show i i absolutely love it i've only seen season two i heard season one's just as good there's also there's also a british version see now i'm going to be caught up in that yeah and that british version is just like kind of just like not familiar faces like the american version that everybody's like 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 lockney that was the only person i was familiar with on the show season two similar there's a 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 one the challengers The Challengers, CT, my guy Johnny Bananas are in there. What? They're in the second season? Yeah.
Oh, I can't wait to watch the second season. That's going to be way better.
But the woman that won season one, 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 intern Brandon.
He highly recommends the british version which is actually kylie and i's favorite show is a british show what's 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 watch that i mean it's fantastic yeah and uh taskmaster highly recommend Taskmaster it's on YouTube it's also on the. And Taskmaster.
Highly recommend Taskmaster.

It's on YouTube.

It's also on the BBC, I think, but I don't know how that works.

So I just watch it on YouTube, but really good.

On that one, they kind of give them a bunch of stupid things to do.

It works out for me because I got ADHD.

Yeah.

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 traders.

Traders?

I have to say, hd yeah but they give 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 traders traders i'm terrible when i was on the mountain i can't lie you know that i'm 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 climbing mount kilimanjaro i was voted they was voted. 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 is 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 yeah that's a good one and honestly i i just want to play the game like 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, 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. Jesus.
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.
Nisi is the lead. All right.
All right. Yeah.
A lead, not the lead. lead not the lead whatever you're the bad guy I fucking know it alright that does it for no dumb questions check out all those shows or don't that wraps up another episode of New Heights make sure you subscribe on YouTube to the New Heights channel and follow New Heights on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jason. It's not going to be good, though.
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