Chiefs Close Call, Jason's Philly Return and How to Sound Like a Smart Football Fan | Ep 101

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Welcome back to New Heights 92 Percenters, a Wondry show produced by Wave Sports and Entertainment.

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I'm Travis Kelsey, my big brother Jason Kelsey, out of the University of Cincinnati, and rightful owners of the Victory Bell. Shout out to the Bearcats getting it done over there in Miami.
I forget what the actual name of the city is. Is there Oxford hamilton city or something like that yeah there's

oxford right oxford there you go getting it done after a tough loss to narduzzi and the gang in pittsburgh but yeah we're rolling baby subscribe on youtube one tree plus or wherever you get your podcast follow the show on all social media at new high show with one s jason why don't you tell the people what we got coming up we got another incredible episode we're gonna get to the Chiefs thrilling ender versus the Bengals. I love the energy.
As well as the big Jason Kelsey Monday night extravaganza where all the Atlanta fans are probably really tired of seeing me and I fully get it. I'm sorry you had to sit through that Falcons.
Oh no, they want to see more of you. We're also going to break down the biggest stories from across the league, including a brand new meaning of the term chunk plays.
That's right. Can't wait to get into that.
Ooh. But first, as always, we're going to get to the other new.
I know. The new news.
New news. Coming in hot.
New news. Hey, here's some new news.
New news is brought to you by United Airlines, where good leads the way. Man, we got airlines out on this? We're airborne now? Crazy.
I'm going to take a United Airlines flight this weekend. Are you? Are you guys united out in KC? Yeah.
That was actually the slogan for the team last year was United. Nice.
I love that. It had nothing to do with the airlines.
That is a good. I've never thought about that.
United Airlines using that as like. It had nothing to do with the airlines.
I think it just had to do with United. Is that how United Airlines became United? Did they unite? They were once an ununited airline, and then they gathered all the airlines together, and then they became united.
What's the history of United Airlines? That's a great question, Jason. I don't know.
We got a really good show. United Airlines.
I don't know if we got enough time to Google these things. Does United Airlines have a Wikipedia? Yeah, it does.
Everything has a Wikipedia. This is crazy.
United traces its roots to Varney Airlines, V-A-L. That's a big name upgrade to United.
I'm not getting on Varney Airlines. Whoever's decision that was to go from that name to United, they should have got paid.
It wasn't their founders, probably. Walter Varney is the one that founded Varney Airlines in 1926 in Boise, Idaho.
Ooh, the Idaho gang. Okay.
Continental Airlines is a successor to Speed Lines, which Varney had founded in 1930. This Varney guy, he's a transportation mogul.
He is a pioneer. This guy had a lot of stuff going on.
Yep. And whose name changed to Varney Speed L.
So he just started changing everything into his name. Okay.
In 1934. Then VAL flew the first privately contracted airmail flight to the U.S.
on April 6, 1926. Man, how about that? Okay.
Absolutely nothing interesting at all. Let's get to some bonus content.
Oh, here we go. Here we go.
This is it. This is it.
This is it. Okay.
In 1927, William Boeing found a Boeing air transport. I think we've heard of that one to operate air mail routes under contract with the United States postal office, post office department in 1929.
Boeing merged his company with Pratt and Whitney to form the United Aircraft and Transportation Corporation, UATC, obviously, which then set about buying in the space of just 28 months Pacific Air Transport, Stout Air Services, Barney, and National Air Transport, as well as numerous equipment manufacturers at the same time. Jason, the energy was so good.
On March 28th, 1931, all of these airlines united to form United Airlines Incorporated. It's what we came up with before.
So it makes sense. All right.
I guess we can do the show now. Bonus content update on bonus content next week.
We'll be dropping our first piece of content exclusively for our Wondery Plus subscribers. I wonder what it is.
They haven't even told us yet. Last week, when you guys asked what you wanted for bonus content, and here's a few of your suggestions from emma fell in love is that like a lyric or something do we know all right anyways i'm sure many swifties and tons of dads daughters would love some new height show bonus content teaching football concepts in an eli 5 format what what the hell is eli 5 what is eli 5 explain it like i'm five oh okay all right i mean that's probably the one of the better ideas that the 92 percenters came up with how would you explain football to a five-year-old how do i do it to my how do i i mean we're not very good at dumbing down football i've realized this i talk i talk about it with wyatt but it's like it's real dumb why it is five or will be in three days a couple months here yeah she's coming up uh not even one month so there's uncle trap she doesn't really know football i don't even explain football to wyatt yeah i gotta figure that figure that out.
Nice. Wyatt.
When you try and just.

How do you, what do you think about football?

Tell me how, what the rules of football are.

What the, you're.

Don't put your head through the railing.

Don't, you got stuck last time.

Remember?

Don't do that.

Okay.

Kai, does Wyatt know the rules of football?

Where would you start if you were explaining football to a five-year-old?

Explain score, how scoring works.

Yeah.

But that's like.

You got to start with the downs. We're getting, we're getting.
Okay. we're going to move on.
We're going to move on. This is going nowhere.
Anyways, I'd love to be able to understand the NFL portions of podcasts, but a lot of this is hard to grasp as someone with no background. The only problem with this is I feel like to explain football, it's easier done with visual.
Am I... Brandon, this bonus content is audio only correct yeah so i just don't know that it's going to be great if it's audio only i think it's going to be a little harder yeah yeah but i think that i think it's a good idea and we can we can figure a way to do it audio i think i think that makes sense that's that's like i said i think this is the is the best option.
Let's go to some other options.

Okay.

Sorry.

Yeah, we have more options.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, we do have a show to do.

Okay.

Bonus content idea.

Keep it simple.

Give us the deleted footage.

No. That will never happen because then we won't have a show at all.

Yeah.

There's a reason it's deleted.

Me and Jason will have nothing else to do on our Tuesday afternoons.

Or Mondays.

Or Mondays. Or Mondays.

Yeah, we all will.

Yeah.

I'll be driving Wyatt to school every day.

You'll be able to tell Wyatt exactly what football is after that.

All right.

So that's not happening.

Sorry.

No, that's definitely not happening.

And then BigBlueWorld underscore fishing.

Jason, doing food reviews on things he'd never tried before.

Sounds like good bonus content.

Well, I mean, that kind of – And then BigBlueWorld underscore fishing. Jason, doing food reviews on things he'd never tried before.

Sounds like good bonus content.

Well, I mean, that kind of leads us to this.

How about it?

That's actually perfect timing.

Shout out to Kai for perfect timing. Well done.

Well done, Kai.

So last week, you guys mentioned something about pumpkin spice lattes,

and Travis and I told you that we've never tried them.

So I figured I'd try one now on the show.

I hope it's scorching hot and it just fucking burns your tongue.

So this is something that's nice about lattes, which I never have.

I always drink black coffee.

The milk, it's never scorching hot because you have the milk in there.

So it's always drinkable.

Watch.

Now I'm kind of nervous.

Burn them. Burn them.
Not going to lie, it's pretty good. Nice.
Give us a review. Tell us as if it was bonus content.
It doesn't taste like coffee. Okay, so not coffee.
If you don't like the taste of coffee, I highly recommend this. I think that's all lattes.
Yeah. I mean, it tastes like a, it almost tastes like somebody melted.
What are those old school, you remember those old candies that you had in like grandma's house, the butterscotch cooked like little candies? Oh baby. The gold wrappers.
Yeah. It kind of tastes like if you melted that down into like a liquid form and then added some spiciness to it, that's kind of what it tastes like.
I'm not going to lie. I'd probably be into that.
I used to fucking pocket every single one. I'd take a handful of those candies.
It was those ones and then the little strawberry ones that actually where the wrapper made it look like it was a strawberry. Gosh.
What is it about? try why are we reinventing candy when those have been around forever those strawberries that's a strawberry dude one of my favorites were the uh the lights the cream savers the light you know what i'm talking about where it was the orange and like i think there was like strawberry creamsicles or Life savers. Dude, they were so fucking good.
I used to fucking house those things. Pumpkin spice latte.
Tremendous. If you don't like coffee, highly recommend it.
Nice. It's a really good way to have coffee without having to taste it.
I got a feeling anything that has, like, too much creamer in it, I just, I'm not, I don't love it. I just only drink black coffee.
I don't add anything to it. And now like, I just love the beans at this point.
I love the earthiness. I don't know what it is.
I think it's just like, you know, when you're so addicted to a substance like caffeine that the faster your brain recognizes that what you're drinking is just straight caffeine, the more you're just immediately. I mean, I don't know that it matters what coffee tastes like i think my brain would just absolutely love it it would trick my mouth into loving it does that make sense yeah i mean you play tricks on your mind all the time all right well um yeah so maybe that's some bonus content we can do some food reviews we're still figuring this thing.
They only want Jason reviews. They don't want anybody else's.

Well, do you not want to do food? You're not a big experimenter with food.

Dude, yeah.

And you know how to get the best out of the reviews.

No.

Your reviews are great.

You just don't want to eat it.

I don't like it.

We got to get you reviewing some goat.

I'm not eating a goat.

Come on now.

I'm not eating a goat.

Have I told that story on the podcast?

I don't know. About, what was that that three years ago i'm in los angeles and i'm visiting my brother and my brother makes a reservation uh at this restaurant called lady and the goat heard great reviews from it i i decided i'm like yeah i'll go now and my brother proceeds to not eat anything and complain about there's so much goat on the table.
I didn't think it was like Chick-fil-A where all they have is fucking chicken. They had other stuff than goat.
They had a lot of other things. It was a five-star restaurant and every single piece of protein on the menu.
The food was fantastic. Highly recommend it.
Yeah, it was highly recommended to us. If you're goat forward or just have a pal that is something that resembles an advanced palate, you would really appreciate it.
Advanced palate. But Travis proceeded to just not eat anything and eat In-N-Out immediately after going to this five-star.
I think it was more so the fact that I knew that In-N-Out was right down the street. And I why am i even eating this when in and out's right there that double double is about to fucking kill any of this fucking goat i already know it's about to be so fucking good i do like some of the fine dining but like there's just some things that you're not gonna top once you get your mindset on it it's just like hey you want to go to this fancy new brunch spot or do you want to have a sausage, egg, and cheese McMuffin?

I know exactly what I want,

and it's the one that I don't even have to get out of the car to get.

It's so true.

Oh, God.

Got my girl Janet working the freaking drive-thru.

How are you doing, Jason?

Fantastic.

I'm about to shove the most unhealthy thing down my gullet and it's gonna be delicious that does it we're still figuring out exactly what we're doing if you uh listen to us early uh if you want to listen to us early or without any interruptions and get this bonus content we're still giving you three months free of wondery plus this is only available for a limited time, so get going, 92%ers. Visit wondery.com slash new heights offer to redeem.
That's right. And that was new news.
A lot of new news, a lot of stuff happening. And shout out to Pumpkin Spice Lattes.
New news brought to you by United Airlines. Formerly Varney Airlines.
Varney Airlines. Just learned that.
Shout out to Varney. Shout out to Walter.
Where good leads the way. Let's move along to week two games.
Shout out some fan mentions. The Chiefs social team shared a clip where they asked the team, what was the most random thing that you've purchased since being in the NFL and a lot of you demanded some more explanation I like watching these clips for the first time live and just getting a really authentic reaction it's the best oh I saw this clip there's a lot of random stuff a lot juicer juicer I got an engine too is that is got a I got real into plants

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Thank you. do you have it i don't think you ever shipped it because it couldn't get shipped damn it dude somebody tried to ship that thing was heavy it was like hundreds of pounds it was like a fucking car yeah i was like why the fuck is this thing so heavy can we find the whereabouts of this hamster hamster ball we have to dude i'm not gonna lie maybe that's a piece of bonus content yeah fine maybe not the best for audio all the dumb shit i bought in my my.
I don't know where it is. I thought I had it shipped to you, but if you don't have it, somebody's fucking having some fun with a human-sized hamster ball right now.
There were some bowling pins, too. It was a human-sized hamster ball and bowling pins.
We need to get this hamster ball. Now, why it's at an age where we could just shove her in that and just push her out all day.
oh yeah that sounds like a great time yeah and it's like a safety box that's why hamsters can go in there yeah keeps them away from all the cats if you guys don't know what we're talking about we're talking about those inflatable giant balls yeah and you kind of can go in there and run around and move i mean it's exactly what travis is saying and that is by far the most random shit that i've ever bought you bought a lot of random stuff dude it's up there but that's probably the most what's some other random stuff ah man you're a big art collector yeah i do have a bunch i got a bunch of trinkets i just have shit yeah i have so much shit loads and loads of shit. I'm trying to think of what else.
Those red moon boots that were... Those were free.
Those items. Somebody sent those.
That's all I could think of. That's all I could think of when I spread the questionnaire, too.
I mean, that's the epitome of random things. Should I take Zorb to some tailgates? There's got to be something we do with the the hamster ball at a tailgate or something like that dude i gotta we gotta find this thing or buy another one i mean at this point probably just buy another one right dude i whatever we don't buy it the way i bought it because that thing is way too fucking heavy is that a business expense can we deduct that can we get like wave or wondering to pay for it so that we don't have to buy it because it's technically a prop? Green jacket, gold jacket.
Who gives a shit? Just fucking buy that thing, dude. That's neither here nor there, dude.
That was so good. God damn it.
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All right. Let's talk about some football.
That's right. Bold topics to wrap up week two in the NFL, starting with Chiefs, 26, Bengals, 25.
That's right. Chiefs found a way to get it it done.
Trey, have you got any initial thoughts you want to talk about from the game? You guys found a way to get it done? Yeah. Close matchup, right? Yeah.
I mean, initial thoughts are we got to play better as an offense. I think the defense is playing their asses off, getting turnovers, finding a way to make opposing quarterbacks, you know, uncomfortable.
Yeah, comfortable. And they're really making it hard for them to throw the ball downfield with the type of pressures that we're getting and how much how good our coverage is right now.
And I just think, you know, we have to we have to match that accountability on the offensive side to really become another Super Bowl caliber team. I put that on me.
You know, I think it starts with the leaders. I think it starts with, you know, making sure you're going with the right mentality.
I didn't play my best. It spreads if you don't fix it.
So I got to get that thing fixed, man. What's going on in your head as the game is unfolding? And, you know, Pat tried to go to you twice early on with some incompletions on the interception and then you only have one catch like what's going on in your head as this game is unfolding well there's a lot of things that have to go right for anybody to get the ball you know outside of our running back where you're literally just handing it to him if you if you want to catch the football one it has to be the right play two it has to be the right coverage.
And three, it has to be everybody doing their job up front and on the back end in terms of running their routes for everything to kind of match up and be in sync. And it's just for whatever reason, these past two games, it hasn't gone that way for me.
And that's football, man. I'm not about to sit here and get frustrated about it.
I used to get really, really pissed off and almost lose my cool a lot of the time from not having that success, knowing I demand that out of myself. And I demand that I just like to play the game to such a high level of accountability that it's tough for me to deal with being mediocre or having stats that represent that.
So I stopped caring about stats about four or five years ago, and I just went out there and started to just play free and wanted to play for my guys. And sure enough, I think that's a better mentality.
You think about it more play-by-play and what your job is on that specific play. And I think moving forward, it's just how can I be better? You know, what's the issue? Am I not getting out of my route fast enough? Am I not, you know, you know, whatever the situation may be, it's all play specific anyways, but, um, you know, you're always looking at the film, looking at the scheme and trying to, you know, perfect it more and more each week.
And, uh, you know, typically you see those, these kinds of games earlier on, and then you just, you keep trying to get better and better and more accountable for. And, you know, typically you see these kind of games earlier on,

and then you just keep trying to get better and better and more accountable for the guys around you, man. Well, that's awesome.
And I think that's a testament to where you're at in your career and why the Chiefs just feel like one of the most unselfish teams in the entire league. But probably the most amazing staff in the game.
with the Chiefs win the NFL

teams are now

1 in 151 since 1991 when the team doesn't get 300 yards on offense, allows 21-plus points on defense, commits 3-plus turnovers, and convert 15% or less on third downs.

It's insane, yeah.

It's pretty remarkable you guys won this game.

And like you said, the defense, especially bone-up in red zone situations,

and Spaggs is, dude, I mean, he was so good last year,

and it's gotten off to another great start for those guys.

Yeah.

Why do the Chiefs, besides the refs being on the Chiefs side, why do the Chiefs always find a way to close these close games out? You know, I think always is a stretch. We had a close game last year.
Yeah, exactly. And you guys almost pulled that one out.
Freaking almost catch late down the middle. Might have ended that one differently.
But anyways, go ahead is I think that uh when you have a veteran quarterback like Pat Mahomes and you know he's just he can he always gives you a chance to win it so you always have confidence and you always have you know that in the back of your mind that you know you can find a way to win this football game I think that helps I think coach Reed uh being in the league so long and his his leadership his his swagger, how he kind of leads the team on the sideline. You always feel like you're in it.
You always know you've got a chance and he's going to put you in a really good position at the end of the game. I feel like we just have a team that plays really well together when the moment's bigger.
Guys don't really get anxious or they don't let the moment get too big. They keep their composure and they get more confident as the game goes on and it gets more intense.
I felt that on the sideline. And sure enough, it was a weird ending, man.
It was a weird ending. There were flags on both teams late.
Obviously, the Bengals getting the last of that with the pass interference at the end. But we have to try to beat teams earlier than that last drive.
And I think that's the biggest thing. Shout out to the Bengals, their defense.
The players over there are just, you know, they're comfortable playing us. And they feel like they have a good idea of what we're doing.
That's a huge challenge for us the next time we play them, man. Absolutely.
And it's a matchup that I was looking forward to because all of these contests between you guys and the Bengals have been so close. With the Chiefs' win, they've evened the record against Burrow and the Bengals at 3-3.
Five of the last six Cincy-KC games have been decided by a field goal. That's how close these games have been.
First half offense, Chiefs had a 16-play, 8-minute, 30-yard drive that ended in a field goal. I mean.
Staggering, man. It sucks.
Putting all that work in, and credit to the Bengals for bowing up at the end of it, but when you go all that way and it just doesn't happen, it's frustrating, very, very frustrating. Yeah.
They also had two turnovers in the first half, but the play uh cheese fan loved to see uh was obviously the pat connection to rasheed rice on a 44 yard touchdown that time that was a hell of a ball to 10 it was it's a very impressive we got the clip right here for you check it out protection's good let it go creed gosh perfect ball i mean did he not think he was going to run past him? Was he not ready for that move? I guess not. All right.
After a small drought, the long touchdown pass is back in KC. Mahomes has already thrown as many deep touchdown passes of 20-plus air yards this season, two, as the previous two seasons combined.
Wow. That's an insane stat.
Very interesting. Between 2018 and 2022, nobody was bigger on the deep ball.
Tyreek Hill might have had something to do with that, just probably. I wonder who's now the best at it.
Is it Miami? That's weird. Everybody that Tyreek plays for is the best quarterback.
Mah'm holding you 44 deep touchdowns, second most in that span.

Was this the emphasis to bring them back to the offense?

I really don't. I mean, I think I'm going to answer this for you.

The way teams have been playing Kansas City and really the way teams have been playing the NFL.

If you look at quarterbacks across the league, all of the big plays for the last two seasons have been way down.

Ever since the air raid attack that Casey was implementing with Tyreek and that other offense is starting to do these big shot plays and defenses have adjusted by playing these softer coverages, a lot more too high looks and making you take the underneath stuff and really dink and dunk down the field. And that's probably a bigger reason why these numbers have dropped off besides losing Tyreek Hill, which is a big part of it that and I just feel like I feel like there was a transition period where you know obviously you had you always had big name cornerbacks since like uh Deion Sanders and you know Revis and all and and and those like special guys that would that would get the uh the opportunities to try and lock up a wide receiver, one guy.
There were only really like a handful of guys like that when I got in the league. Now I feel like corners are getting a lot better.
Corners are starting to understand, you know, what kind of routes, how guys are released. And I just feel like the defenses are evolving a lot.
And on top of what you what you're saying you know everybody's kind of just keeping that umbrella over the the back end of the defense and kind of limiting those big uh big plays downfield absolutely as well as the second level guys the second if those guys are backing up the second level guys are are getting a little bit more depth and um running backs and the underneath routes you know everybody the defense is like taught to like rally to those tackles instead of giving up the huge plays, man. Absolutely.
And it's something that's the kryptonite to that, which is why we're seeing it a lot in the NFL right now is running the ball. Yeah.
You guys that we've mentioned that eight minute, 30 second field goal drive. First half, you guys were running the ball all over him.
It felt like you were really moving the ball on the ground well. And maybe that's why it opened up that big play for Rasheed.
Maybe they're like, hey, we got to try and stop this. Let's go to a single high look finally.
Bengals took a 16-0 lead or 16-10 lead into the half. And then coming out, second half, we get right to it with a thick six.
Oh, yeah. One yay.
I'm a big fan of the thick six. though trav was wide open too it's okay we're happy for the big fella to get the touchdown always happy when a big fella gets in he hit it too you see his dance yes oh yeah he had a great celebration man i don't know what he calls that but he was getting it marshall newhouse uh on on x i was like that's uh that's more than three pumps that's's a penalty.
That's a penalty? The old key and peel? Yeah. On second and goal on the one-yard line, Pat connects with O-lineman Wanya Morris for the touchdown, and the Chiefs take a 17-16 lead.
Leo Chanel lined up next to Mahomes in the backfield. How about that? This guy does everything.
He's just a football guy, man. Yeah, man.
Whatever you need, he gets it done. Look at that stance.
What does that say? He's like ready for – It's like a four-point stance, yeah. It looks like he's playing goal line defense right there.
He's just about to bear crawl. He's about to bear crawl into somebody.
Walk us through an O-line eligible tackle play. Well, you don't always have him in the game plan.
It's one of those things where it's a play off of all the running and all the big boy stuff that you do because you bring an extra old lineman to run the football i mean you don't bring a man to throw him a touchdown well that's what you wanted to think there you go there you go yeah um so and one is athletic enough and uh and smooth enough with the hands and uh sure enough he uh he even said to me play, he said, man, I was getting excited because I realized nobody was covering me. I was just like, the fact that you actually know when you're covered and when you're not covered as a tackle, that's pretty good stuff.
Big man news. When you bring a linebacker in and an extra offensive lineman, I'm pretty sure it's a big time indicator for the defense that you're running the football.

So it's a hell of a play call,

hell of a call to draw up or play call to draw up at the,

at the right time.

You got to be a little sneaky at the tackle.

You can't just run straight out.

They know.

Oh no,

he ran straight out.

Oh,

he did.

Yeah.

Nevermind.

Yeah.

He said,

speed kills,

Jason.

He didn't bluff blocking at all. All eyes were in the the backfield they thought we were running at the whole time well you mentioned the celebration let's check out morris here looking good looking good big fella good looking good the next uh chief drive ended in i mean has to be the most impressive interception i've ever seen in my life dude i don't know if know if I've seen one.
I definitely haven't seen one in game like this before in my life. That's one of those when somebody hits like a home run in baseball or they hit one all the way to the warning track and somebody just goes up and robs them.
And then the batter then tips his cap to the guys. It's like, dude, I'm not going to lie.
That shit was sweet. Impressive.
That's a hell of a fucking play, man. Yeah, I don't know that anybody could have.
I think everybody was just like, wow, you know what? Well done. Well done.
Respect. One of the reasons it's so eye-catching is that most of the time on this sideline with your left shoulder being the outside shoulder, a one-handed grab would be like more like grabbing it with your left hand.
Do you know what I mean? The spin right makes it just insane. Yeah, insane.
Phenomenal pick right here from Cam Taylor Britt. Then the fourth quarter, defense comes up big.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Joe Burrow is sacked by Mike Dana. Shout out.
I think he just got – Mike Dana. Yes, sir.
Dana. Sorry.
He got a contract extension this year, right? Yes, he did. Yes, he did.
We talked about him being an important piece, similar to what you're talking about with Leo Chanel, able to do a lot. Mike Dana does a lot on that defense.
Moves a lot all over the place. Forces a big fumble.
And it was recovered by safety Chamari Connor in return for a touchdown. That's always nice.
2-7, baby. Right? Dude, it is, especially at that point in the game, huge, huge for the defense.
I mean, you always set those expectations before the season on how many special teams scores you need, how many defensive touchdowns you need. And right now, our defense is playing so goddamn good.
For them to put up six points like that in such a tight game is such a crucial game, especially with us not playing the way that we think we should on the offense or living up to our potential as an offense right now. I think obviously we're leaning on that side of that ball right now pretty heavy.
That was a huge play, huge turning moment in the game, and no shocker, the guy who kind of initiated this whole fiasco starting was Chris Jones. He's been really good.
Surprise, surprise, through the first two weeks, applying a lot of pressure. He split two on that one.
Check him out. Look at him in the backfield.
Is this just expected from Chris at this point? Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, even in the first week, I mean, he was like taking his – they had some new guys playing for Baltimore.
He was just kind of moving around. Hey, whoever wants it can get it.
It's a frustrating day. No, no, you're supposed to be the three technique.
Not you're supposed to be over here. You're supposed to be over there.
You do it all, man. Per NextGenStats, Trent McDuffie aligned across jamar chase on 17 to 38 routes 45 of the time including four routes and press coverage mcduffie allowed one reception for four yards on two targets as the nearest defender against chase way to go trent solid game it's really great football our entire defense is really playing great football man hats off to the to them keeping us above floating uh man we just just got to start playing up to our potential on offense because we got the guys.
We got the ammo. We just got to get it done, man.
Well, it's always fun when you win games and you're not playing your best. Yeah, that's when everyone says it's a good one to learn from.
Yeah, exactly. Yep, it's a good one to learn from.
That sets us up for the game-winning drive. That's right.
Chiefs get the ball back with uh two minutes and 35 seconds you guys are in fourth and sixth situation with 53 seconds left on the clock pat competes a deep pass to rasheed rice but it comes back trey hendrickson was wreaking havoc all game long and yeah man he was uh he was fired up at the end of the day man you can't put it in the ref's hands that late in the game and that's for both both of us, both sides of the ball. Obviously, you want to play physical.
You want to make sure you make that play. But if you're going to put it in the ref's hands, you're playing with fire.
It is what it is. You're just playing with fire, man.
That's why as an offense, we got to make sure that we don't put ourselves in a position to where we have to score at the end of the game. Obviously, we still feel comfortable and confident that we can get it done.
But if we can win the game before that, I mean, let's keep it out of the ref's hands. Let's keep it out of, you know, the hands of just fate or things just not going our way.
I think it's that's the mentality you got to have. And did we get lucky? Yeah, we got fortunate that they threw the flag on that 4th and 16.
And I would love to make sure that we don't get ourselves in a situation like that again. Yeah, especially two minutes.
Whenever you're in a two-minute drill, penalties, sacks, these things are just crucial that you don't do. Easier said than done when you're trying to block Trey Hendrickson.
But yeah, that one almost killed you guys. And you guys get bailed out at 4th and 16 with 48 seconds left.
Pat targets Rasheed Rice again. But this time somebody arrives a little early.
I don't even know how this is controversial. I really don't.
I get that people are frustrated with the officials and the Chiefs, I guess i mean you can't run through receivers back and try to make a play on the ball i really don't it's just like on the play before that you can't put your hands in someone's face while they're rushing you can't do it exactly it's the same thing it's hands to the face and then there's a there's a pass interference and it is what it But, yeah, I can see how everybody's upset because it's – Nobody likes a fourth down conversion that essentially is given to the Chiefs, but the reality is, like, what do you want the official to do? What do you want them to do? You want them to not call pass interference? Don't run through the guy's back. I don't know what – Like I said, as Chiefs, as our offense...
When it's close, I get not calling it. This wasn't even close.
I don't really know what we're talking about. Yeah.
I agree the game should be called tighter down the stretch, and we should avoid questionable calls, but when it's to the point that the guy can't even make a play on the ball and touch it, what are we talking about? You said it, man. I'm not going to argue for this point.
I'm just going to go ahead and say that I think we need to fucking keep ourselves out of that situation so we don't have to rely on the officials to make that fucking call. But sure enough, they made the call.
Harrison Bucker comes to save the day yet again. Harry for the win.
Absolutely nails a 51-yard field goal. All of us had a lot of confidence in him, but there's always just that lingering feeling.
You're just sitting there like, come on, Harry. Come on.
You got to do it again for us, big guy, please. And sure enough, he came up big for us again, man.
Absolutely. Chiefs are now 2-0.
Some disappointing news following the game, or maybe this was out right before, but Hollywood Brown was put on IR. It was before the game.
It was right around game time. So Hollywood Brown was put on IR before the game, and unfortunately, Isaiah Pacheco is now injured and is going to miss about 6-8 with, what is it, tibia or fibula? One of those two? I think it's the – yeah, it's Fibia.
It's one of those.

Yeah.

That was an aggressive hit.

Even when it happened, I was like, oh, my gosh. You could see that he just had a guy in his legs,

and he just kind of got folded over top of it.

But hopefully Pop comes back.

That sucks, man.

Isaiah, he's been playing unbelievable football, man.

High energy.

Just a guy you love blocking for, you love playing the game for,

you love playing the game with, man. It's just an all-time teammate of mine, man.
I love Pop, and it just sucks that how well he's playing and how comfortable and how fast he's moving right now with the ball in his hands that he has a setback like this. But I expect him to be back better than ever in 68 weeks, man.
On to next week, you guys have the Falcons in Atlanta. Trav, the last time you played the Falcons, the Chiefs won both games.
Actually, you've played them twice in your career only. Wow.
2016 and 2020, Chiefs won both games. The last time you played the Falcons in Atlanta, it was at the Georgia Dome in December 2016.
Eight receptions for 140 yards. That's a good day, Trey.
There we go. Ooh, damn.
It's been that long since I played in Atlanta. I guess I had a few preseason games there, but I haven't played a regular season game in Atlanta yet.
Yeah, that's crazy. Man, yeah, I remember that one.
I think that was the first My Cause, My Cleats game, actually. Oh, wow.
How about that? Yeah, that's how long ago that thing was. Yeah.
All right. Well, good luck in Atlanta.
Shout out to Eric Berry in that pick six. Down in the ATL.
Atlanta loves me right now. ATL, yeah.
LeBron's stat of the game. Patrick Mahomes has 2,424 completions in 98 career starts and surpassed Matthew Stafford for the most completions by a player in his first 100 career starts in NFL history.
It's good company. Yeah, definitely good company.
We also got to talk about your historic streak, Trav. I know the game didn't go the way you wanted it to as far as receptions, and unfortunately, it ends the longest NFL streak in history with a player receiving at least three catches.
That's right. Sunday marked the first game since September of 2018, where Travis Kelsey did not get at least three catches.
It snaps a streak of 114 games, the longest streak by any player in NFL history. Not only is that the longest streak, the next closest is our guy Antonio Brown with 81.
Mahomes is, quote, we play two opponents. We play a lot, and they have a plan on how they're going to account and defend Travis, but as the season goes, he's going to get his catches and he's going to get his yards.
Yeah, and I could have played better, man. It is what it is.
All right. Could have played better.
Could have ran better routes. Could have got out of my breaks a little bit faster uh knowing Hendricks was on one and it's just you know you you see things you know Monday morning quarterback you see things better after the game and realize how you can play better and be better for your teammates and sure enough uh I've always had that accountability I've always been my worst critic and I'm gonna you know remain my my worst critic I think that uh that I can improve a lot for my guys and be there for Pat, uh, in, in a lot of different situations.
But like I was saying earlier, it takes a lot of things to go right for somebody to get the football. Um, I'm just fortunate that coach Reed and this offensive staff has given me that opportunity and, you know, has the confidence that I'll be able to get it done.
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Where'd you get everything Jason Kelsey? Dude, there's a lot of Jason Kelsey. Dude, and the people loved it.
They actually, they wanted more of Jason Kelsey because they wanted to not only see you hype up those birds before the game, but they wanted to see you answer all the questions that they had. Atlanta had to deal with me for four hours before things got rough for the Eagles.
And they were like, Oh no, come back in the booth. Jason, where are you at now? Jason answer us.
What, what what happened and rightfully so um listen it was i want to apologize to falcons fans watching because i understand that you just had to watch just a philadelphia celebration uh in a parade of a former player coming back home we all deserve to see that that was what people wanted to seePN did a great job. Yeah, I'm just going to say I want to apologize, but I'm not going to because it was fucking awesome.
I'm just going to let you know it was a lot of fun. That's the first one.
Let's get into it. The first time.
How crazy is the first time I'm back in the building, I'm commenting on a game. Shout out to Roger Goodell for scheduling that one or

whoever was in charge at NFL headquarters for making that happen. We're going to get to it, but before the game, being out in the parking lot, the countdown, being up in the booth with Joe and Troy.
I mean, it was really, really awesome for me. So selfishly, I am just beyond happy that that was kind of how I get to remember my

first time being in the link, not as a player.

It was so cool, man.

At the same time, I fully understand why a bunch of Atlanta people hate my guts right

now.

So I apologize.

Well, let's get to it, baby.

Jason's Monday night homecoming.

That's right.

We went back to Philly, headed back to the link for the first time since he was playing there um the for a little eagles atlanta monday night football action and uh just like any homecoming it was about the pregame and boy oh boy did you not disappoint and by the way that philly did not disappoint because you weren't the only one there. It was an entire showing of how faithful those birds are and how excited they are about this football team and how good this football team could be.
And you made it to the Eagles tailgate. That's right.
I made sure to hand out some garage beers. I remember what section.
I think there's like C2 or something like that. I can't remember where this was in the parking lot.
I'm surprised you remember any of this, Jason. I thought you were going to black out.
I've seen those dance moves before that we're about to get to. And typically those are.
I know you don't believe me. No way.
I was not drinking until after the game. No way those knees don't work like that sober.
I promise you. I don't know how I did that because I've never done that sober.
Everybody knows you don't have rhythm until you have like 10 beers. Travis, hey, I'm know right now.
I could tell by the way you were talking in the third quarter in the booth that you had been in an up and down roller coaster of being in and out of being drunk since about noon. Zero.
Zero beers. Dude, I could tell you had.
Do you know how hard it was to throw garage beers? I threw probably 100 beers. I'm not exaggerating from a pickup truck.
My arms. It didn't drink one.
Do you know how hard that was? It's a feat I don't think you've ever accomplished before. I'm a professional, Travis.
I don't mess around. I respect it.
No, this tailgate was awesome. A bunch of these guys had been to the golf outing, right? So Dallas sucks, Maniac Malloy, Should pad, Sean and my guy, Dumpy.
All these guys had been around and I wanted to my man. I've seen these guys at all these events throughout the years.
They've cheered me on. I want to be out there with these guys.
I don't know how we got to like throwing garage beers. I think I was like I got up on the top of the truck where they were smoking an alligator, which is pretty gnarly.
I don't if you've ever seen a smoked alligator covered in bacon fuck did philadelphians get an alligator i don't know i don't know that i think that they just kind of do it i oh yeah i remember i remember having alligator one time and it was when fried alligator when we were down in florida florida yeah we went to like that county fair down in florida and they had gator nuggets yes and they were delicious they were fucking phenomenal yes um and uh that was the first time i was like damn i didn't know people were out here eating gator like this that's what we're doing down here we're just catching gators like we're catching fish just going out there and fucking reeling them onto the boat and putting them on a fucking putting them over a fire that's right they've smoked it all day. It was delicious.
They covered, they like stuffed it with like cheese and whatnot, covered it in bacon. Oh my God.
I was getting different pieces. I was getting the tenderloins.
I can't get in on this. I ate a piece of the cheek right off of the freaking face of it.
It kind of tastes, it just tastes like lobster almost. It was delicious.
It was very good. What the fuck? It's kind of like a lobstery chicken i don't want to hear that you're ruining my day by telling me this shit it was good just letting you know i'm in on fried just about fried anything fried gator is probably as far as i'll go on the gator train all right but either way sounds uh sounds very eventful because you don't always have gator at tailgates up in uh Northeast.
It's not a regional delicacy. But either way, it certainly was an event.
They also had cheese sticks. They had a bunch of food at this tailgate.
It was incredible. The fans were into it.
Everybody's getting ready for Monday night football. And we just so happened to have like 1,000 garage beers.
So I just started putting them in koozies and chucking them like grenades. Yeah, becausezies are like it's like bubble wrap it's safe i was basically yeah exactly i was i was basically playing jackpot with an entire parking lot of eagles fans beers throwing full beers might as well be assault i mean none of them i was making eye contact i almost took out a jeep window but i was making eye contact crushed a moonroof it Jeep window, but I was making eye contact.
Crushed a moonroof. It might be cracked, but it was electric.
Dude, throwing beers further than like 20 yards, 15 yards is, dude, that thing, that's dangerous. No, it's got the koozie on it.
It's wrapped in koozie. There you go.
Nice little, yeah. Honestly, it reminded me of the parade.
Every time the parade comes around yeah people are throwing you beers so it felt like it's dangerous now it's time to throw the beers the other way catch this wrath dude but i was making eye contact there were some not gonna lie there's some talented people in that parking lot of catching beers i don't know they can catch footballs but if some of these guys can catch football as good as they catch beers they might want to try out for the eagles you're a fucking idiot um we also got to look at some new moves jason showing off some moves one move that's actually new to me i've only seen you hit one of these two moves that's a new move that is 100 a new move i haven't seen that one yet kylie said it's the same as the stop she said it's just a different variation of your stomp yeah which means it's a new move the the stomp though the running the running man it wasn't my best running man i've been better at running so those knees are getting up that's what i'm saying these knees and this kind of bounce doesn't work unless you have like 10 beers dude those knees are shattering if you're fucking doing it with no what happened is fuel in you what happened is we were supposed to be on that stage to start countdown and i walked over there way too early i had to kill i had to kill 30 minutes before the show started and i'm just up there with these DJs just standing there. I'm like, I got to do something up here.
I can't just stand here like a jamoke. I got to bring the energy.
Oh, you brought it. I don't even know what I'm doing.
It's golden. Do you know? Do you know? you know like you have the greatest running man of all time dude do you know how devastating it is to oh my gosh do you know how so fucking good dude do you know how devastating it is i keep watching it and I keep crying laughing, man.
I was so proud. I was so proud.
Everyone thinks I'm the dancer. Dude, you are the fucking most electric dancer I've ever met in my life.
You can put a smile on anybody's face by dancing, dude. It is so good.
And when you get in that mode where you go full send, oh, my gosh. Woo! Thank you for that.
Thank you for that. I'll have that forever.
I'll have that in my back pocket on a fucking cloudy day. I'll be able to fucking have happiness.
That shit was so good. Do you know how devastating it is to open X and just see a bunch of people quoting tweets of you dancing and putting clown emojis above you running man the running man looks like you're

like you know when they put shoes on a dog for the first time yeah they're just like fucking trying to figure out how to step in those things yeah but they're like getting like their knees oh dude is so fucking good man just countless people quoting a picture of you dancing and, this is a full-grown adult male with kids,

and he's doing this in public.

I'm like, you know what?

I mean, you got a good point.

It's ridiculous.

I don't know that I got a rebuttal for that.

Stop showing this.

It's so good.

Are we going to be able to have the sound?

It looks so much worse without the sound it's gonna look terrible it doesn't make any sense the sound doesn't i mean it doesn't make it that much better it's still ridiculous but god damn it that's so good well it was so good um even pat mahomes had to get a little comment in there on X saying with a lot of the crying emojis, go crazy then, J. Kelson.
That is what you did, man. You snapped.
You went crazy on them and gave the people what they wanted. Pat's seen these dance moves up close and personal.
This is why ESPN hired you, Jason. This is why.
You're doing them are you an expert at football uh yes I mean kind of I guess these moves cannot be re reenacted by anybody else nobody else can do these fucking moves I promise you Jason is the only one and uh you look good doing it because of the jumpsuit Big Dom gave you. Hooked you up with the South Philly tuxedo.
Green

velour tuxedo. Green velour tracksuit.
Did you feel as Italian as you looked? Dude, I feel like, you know when you dress up in a uniform, you feel like more official? I felt like more official. That's exactly why I dress up.
That's why I dress up.

That's the feeling I get when I dress up.

If you dress up as a police officer, you kind of feel like you're...

Yeah, but a good two-piece.

A good two-piece, that'll make you feel like you're in costume.

When I was dressed as a South Philadelphian in this velour jumpsuit,

which, by the way, velour, not very breathable.

Thank you. South Philadelphia in this velour jumpsuit, which, by the way, velour, not very breathable.
Dancing around like that. At all.
Full sweating. My man Marcus Spears had me covered with the towel on the set.
He was like, hey, take this. You're going to want to dab this.
Fellow big sweater. Yeah, he knows.
He knows what it's about. But yeah, Dom hooking it up.
sew on uh these italian flags because it was really an eagles uh track suit but you can't have they didn't want me to have like an eagles thing on which i get and i don't want to show any bias we didn't do that a lot we didn't we were very biased that day we put we we that's actually are way too much the chance you can do the chance all day. Yeah.
You can actively be cheering. You can actively be cheering for the Eagles in the booth.
Oh, he's in. Yes.
He got in, right? I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm not supposed to say that. So good.
I think the Italian flags really set it to another level. Had some nice chains on.
It was a fun look. You look great.
Shout out to Big Dom for getting you some swag. And a lot more.
Shout out to Big Dom for everything. Then we got to see why Jason is making Monday Night Countdown, the greatest show on TV.
And, dude, it was fun seeing you in your element. But even last week, man, it's cool to see that you are now one of the guys that is driving the love of sports yeah you know i think uh it was so cool to hear that you um were getting offered by everybody and you were kind of torn between a couple different uh networks but when you chose espn i'm like in my head i'm like man he's gonna be like a Berman.
He's going to be like a SVP. He's going to be like a Rich Eisen growing up and fueling that love for the sport of football.
And I just, you know, I was so fucking proud of seeing you doing it last week in San Fran. And even this being in your moment with Fletcher Cox and Nick Foles doing the Eagles chant before the game to even being in the booth with Aikman and Joe Buck, two legendary guys in the booth and obviously a Hall of Famer and Aikman.
It's just it's so cool seeing you in this moment and seeing you in this next phase of life in football. And man, I just couldn't be more proud of you, brother.
The shit's absolutely man. It's fun to watch.
I, I, I, man, I appreciate appreciate it i really do i think um first week definitely nervous this week there was so much going on i was nervous a little bit it's interesting being up there you're trying to say the right thing and get things uh you know formulate responses in real time it's difficult there's a whole new respect that i have for anybody that does this like it's it's difficult the pre-show is difficult the booth i mean joe and troy going up there with those guys was trying to fit in and i really i was like man i i don't want to you don't want to overstep yeah i can don't overstep but also there's a chemistry between calling a game with the play-by-play and the color guy and they have it down pat uh better than anybody and tell me if i'm being an idiot yeah i don't you know it's like it was very very humbling to be up coach me up coach me up dude i'm here to get coached i don't want to i i i can definitely respect that i feel like that's i took that mentality uh this offseason in a lot of different uh i don't know uh acting roles yeah acting all that shit everything that i did in the offseason And I was like, yeah, just let me not fuck this up. Coach.
Yeah. Acting all that shit.
Everything that I did in the offseason,

I was like,

yeah, just let me not fuck this up.

Yeah.

Coach me up.

Tell me how to,

how to go about this.

And,

you know,

I think that's the,

that's the right mentality.

But at the same time,

man,

trust your gut,

man.

You're,

you're fun as hell to listen to.

And as much as the Falcons fans probably didn't want to see you

chanting Eagles and doing all that.

You can't tell me they weren't enjoying that shit, man,

because you do it in the right way.

I think they get it.

They get that I was an Eagles fan.

I mean, it's unfortunate for them on a national broadcast that they –

but it was one time, right?

We're going to get back to –

and I really wanted to offer unbiased opinions for the Falcons,

who I thought played a fantastic game, and we'll get to that shortly.

But this was really cool to be back in Philadelphia. It was awesome, and this is probably the one chance I got to kind of solidify my retirement as a player and to be up on stage with Fletcher Cox, a guy that retired the same year as me, Nick Foles, I mean, a guy that I won a Super Bowl with, Super Bowl MVP, and then all the fans.
It was a really, really fun moment. So I can't thank ESPN enough for, I don't know, man, just letting this all happen.
I don't know. It was like – I hear you.
I hear you. It seems a little much, but they definitely looked out for you.
I think it was a great look for ESPN, and it made everybody really excited to watch Monday Night Football, not only yesterday or last week, but in the future, man. You guys are doing a great job, and don't want to not give credit where it's due.
SVP Ryan Clark and Spears, I mean, those guys are the fucking best, man. I love seeing all you guys throughout the game and throughout the evening talk about ball, and you guys always have great takes on it, so shout out to the monday night crew we also had uh speaking of uh eagles fans that you were just thanking that were there a big rod dunphy the eagles super fan on stage and jason jason forced him to do a chess ball you forced him i heard you on the mic you forced him you said no we talked about it beforehand we were both excited about it and i was just calling like come on we're doing this we're getting it done he dumped me get it out of the way get it out of the way you move you move you ready let's do this oh nice three-point stance by the big guy up top and ah man in quotes from uh big dumpy uh fucked whole knee up, but it was so worth it.
Yeah, it's not funny. The funny thing was he texted me after I was asking about him because I didn't know that happened until afterwards I see on Twitter.
He has also tweeted that he waited until after the game to get it checked out. Dude, he stayed the whole game.
That's got to be a good saga. I can't leave.
This is the first Monday Night Football game. It's the Burnt Home Opener.
I can't miss this one. The guy's fucking electric.
Said it was so worth it. And yeah.
I mean, it was an electric chest bump. It's a big dude chest bump big dude chest bump.
I chest bump the fucking Philly super fan with the fucking Philly's fanatic snout over his back. Are you kidding me? That thing was awesome.
I mean, I hate that he got hurt on it, but he's a fucking legend, though. Well, moving on to another part of the pregame show was your interview with Jalen Hurts.

Yeah, baby.

It was awesome to see the interview because you guys just have so much respect for each other.

You guys could tell that everyone could tell how close you guys were when you played,

and you're just so appreciative of each other's work ethic and leadership.

I don't know.

It was just really cool, man.

I don't know.

I mean, he was more loose than I was.

I'm in the interview, and he's calming me down, which is just like, I don't know.

I don't know. It was just really cool, man.
I don't know. I mean, he was more loose than I was.
I'm in the interview and he's calming me down, which is just like, you know, I don't know. I think, like you said, there's so much familiarity there.
I think he knows that I'm the one who's doing something. He's done a thousand interviews.
There ain't nothing new for him. I'm doing that.
Now I'm on the opposite side asking these questions. And he kept the light for me.
So it was awesome. It was really cool to chop it up with them.
It's a different world. It was interesting.
It was weird being in that bubble and sitting across from a teammate. Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
He'll get more normal, but I thought it was great. The tone that he had freaking made, and it was just like when we played.
I don't know, man. He's just got a way about him.
about him he really does well let's get into the game a little bit then the eagles 21 falcons 22 on monday night football not the way the eagles uh planned it and it got it came down to a a play call here uh you know a play call there or um a big play made here or there and it's just you know it just didn't go their way down the stretch man. Falcons come back and steal the win on a Kirk Cousins two-minute drill,

ending with a TD pass to Drake London,

and obviously that Jalen Hurts interception there after that with just seconds left.

The initial thoughts on the game, brother?

Listen, it was a great game.

It was.

It was.

It was.

Yeah, I think it was both offenses kind of struggled early on and started to catch their stride right towards the end of the first half. And then in the second half, it felt like both offenses were functioning really well.
The offensive lines of both sides really controlled the line of scrimmage, I felt like. I think in particular, I got to give Atlanta.
Like, you watch that first game that Atlanta played against Pittsburgh, and T.J Cam Hayward were were given that offense a lot of issues everybody's talking about Kirk Cousins and he's not the same quarterback he can't move anymore there was a lot of narratives out there after week one yeah well prove that wrong and they got him up under center did him I got him into doing a lot of things that he's probably more familiar with throughout his career but really really, the big thing was, bro, they were running the ball, and they were giving him a lot of time back there. And I think that offensive line, that was a big bounce-back game for Atlanta.
In particular, they were running outside zone. I mean, that was a clinic tape of outside zone.
Yeah. Cutting on the backside.
I mean, it was a battle of two really good fucking running backs yeah really good offensive lines they get after it man i keep looking at the eagles offensive line and i'm like dude since you left they have become the biggest offensive line in the world well i think they were already enormous but yeah adding makai becton holy shit it's a big wall every single one of them yeah it's unbelievable yep eagles were without their star wide receiver A.J. Brown with a big wall.
Every single one of them. Yeah, it's unbelievable.
Yep. Eagles were without their star wide receiver, A.J.
Brown, with a hamstring, unfortunately. But Jalen Hurts played pretty well up until that last drive, man.
Jalen went 23 of 30 for 183 yards and one touchdown, 85 yards on the ground with a touchdown. Saquon in his Philly debut, although he had that drop there at the end, 116 total yards, which is exactly what you expect out of him.
The guy can do it, can beat you every single way. I don't see him dropping that ball ever again in that situation.
He's such a good player, man. It kind of rips your heart out when something like that happens.
He's such a big piece for the offense. And that was an underrated thing that really didn't get discussed at the end of last year.
Obviously, we struggled with the blitz, and that was the main narrative the last two games of the season. But another big piece is A.J.
Brown's hurt, and I just think he's an equalizer, man. He's one of those guys, Alshon Jeffery used to say it, even when I'm covered, I'm not, where at any time, he's there, and you can throw that ball up to him, and he can make a play on it.
It opened it up a little bit for Smitty, which I don't know that I've had a teammate that I respect more in my career in Philadelphia. I mean, there's guys I respect as much, but Slim, he's just such an awesome dude.
So happy that he got a little bit more. It was awesome seeing him eat last night.
Yeah, he was killing it.

Yeah, Jalen I thought was a lot more composed.

I thought he played great.

And even the rushing yards, like the scrambles,

it felt like he was trusting the pocket more, staying in there.

And then he would push up when it wasn't there.

And it just felt like he was doing a lot better throughout the game.

I know everybody wants to talk about the last interception. At the end of the game, you're pushing to make a play.
He's getting hit while he's throwing it. I thought he was really good in his decisions he made and his comfort and poise in the pocket in week two.
I thought it was impressive. I'm right there with you, man.
I just watched the game today knowing that we played the Falcons this week. Watched it start to finish.
I thought he played fucking awesome. I thought he made some unbelievable throws, especially over the middle and tight windows.
His touchdown to Skinny Batman. He put one ball to Calcaterra early where it really was kind of guarded.
He just threw it in the right spot to where Calcaterra could go make a play on it. Oh, yeah.
You're spot on, man. And I just think that the Eagles don't need – Eagles fan base, you guys don't need to get too worried, man.
Everybody knows that it probably should have went in their way, but hats off to the Falcons. Yeah.
I mean, the big thing everybody's talking about is the end, right? Yeah, of course. And that's what Falcons fans sure wanted me up there in the booth probably when things weren't going as well but um yeah four minute drill it feels like teams and i don't know where you guys stand on this but like it used to be just conventional like run out as much time as possible you don't really try and throw it in certain situations especially once the other team's out of timeouts and And the big question that everybody's talking about is that third down and three, you know, they elect to go with a roll pass where the running back is into the flat right now.
And I get, listen, I understand. You run it, you're going to guarantee you're going to take off 40 seconds.
Yes, I get it. And that's big in that situation.
And and i think that that's it's hard to argue against but i also think that roll pass is kind of a conservative because if it's not there jalen is going down and you're going to get the time or he's going to run and you're going to get the that's only going to be thrown if it's wide open which it was like it It was the perfect play call. And the percentage chance that a wide open pass to Saquon Barkley is getting dropped like that, I just think that's got to be pretty low.
Very low. If you told me before the play, we can either run it and we don't know how many yards we're going to get, or we can have Saquon wide open in the flat to catch a ball and win the game.
I'm probably taking that throw if he's wide open in the flat. Yeah.
At the same time, you guys got one of the best offensive lines in the league. Yeah.
And Tony, and I will say, Tony Dunn, you brought up a great point with this. With us, it's not even third and three.
It's third and two. Because if you get two yards, you know you're sneaking it on that fourth down.

You're not even giving them a chance. I don't know, man.
It sucks. I think – but we've been seeing more and more of these decisions to throw it in these four-minute situations because more and more offenses are getting aggressive.
They don't want to give the ball back. We actually did it last week.
The week right before this against Green Bay, we elected to throw a slant route.

And I think even – I forget who was announced in that game, but they were like, are they going to pass this? Like it was obvious like, hey, we're running this ball out. And they completed it and it ended up being a huge completion because you picked up the first down.
We ended up fumbling it on the one-yard line in Tushpush territory. But I think it feels like more teams are passing in these situations now than they ever have.
But I don't know. A lot of this comes down to game theory and analytics, and I don't know half of this stuff.
I know the safe call is to run it and to keep that clock moving. The guys that do know this shit are the guys calling the plays and it was a wide open it was wide open and you know i hate to say this for sake one because i love the guy and everything but it is it just is what it is he's he's got to come up with it and i think he knows that and um and here's the worst part about it you win and and you put the you put the game in your defense's hands and the defense has to make a stop it is what it is can't throw it all on Saquon.
You can't throw it all on the play call and things like that. You guys had another chance, and Kirk Cousins just showed everybody why Atlanta paid them $180 million.
Listen, hats off to Atlanta. They played a fantastic game.
I'm not trying to – they earned that win. No two ways about it.
To march down the field there at the end with Kirk, to take all the criticism that Kirk and that team faced going into that game, coming off of the Steelers loss. That was a big statement game.
Offensive line, huge bounce back game for those guys. They played fantastic up front for the Falcons.
I'm with you, man. I don't think I've seen, I seen i mean i might have mentioned this already i don't think i've seen cut blocking like that at this day like you don't see people on the backside cut anymore chris lindstrom was a cutting machine and that ball kept winding back when it wasn't hitting front side i mean it was an impressive performance by the falcons offensive line it was an impressive bounce back game for kirk uh coaching staff adjusted wonderfully.
They got him under center, got him into things that he's done well his whole career. Listen, I'm obviously an Eagles homer, but I'll give the Falcons credit all day.
They played their ass off. And to come into Philly after a game like that, that's a tough matchup.
They answered the bell for sure well with 140 left uh Kirk Cousins drives 70 yards uh gets the go-ahead touchdown to a great route ran by uh by London and um with 34 seconds left the Eagles did have a final drive and I'm not gonna lie man with a couple timeouts in your back pocket it's enough time to get a field goal 100 I was kind of waiting to see if they were going to pull this off. Yeah.
Not kind of. I was.
I fully expected Jalen. I had a little juice that Jalen was going to find a way, man.
And I'm sure he wishes he had that one back, looking back on it on film. But at the same time, you know, throwing it up to skinny Batman is always a pretty good chance.
Did he get hit as he was? I mean, I know he was getting hit pretty much while he was throwing. Did that affect the ball? I don't know.
I have no idea. Either way, either way.
It looked like it in real time. Final drive ends in an interception to Bates.
And, yeah. Any final thoughts, brother? No.
Like I said, I kind of closed it out. I thought Atlanta played a really, really good game up front.
I thought the birds played well on offense. I thought the birds played well, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, both teams did a good job in the red zone of keeping guys out for the most part, but then the offenses got going there towards the end of the game, and Atlanta just executed a little bit better. We talk about this.
Like, you know, these mistakes, like this is the margin of victory in the NFL. And you guys, you know, you, the Chiefs operate so well in these end of game situations at being disciplined and not beating themselves.
When it's this close, the teams that do that better ultimately end up winning more games in this league. And it's just frustrating because it was right there.
But outstanding game by Atlanta. It was right there for them, too.
And they were the ones that capitalized. So shout out to Kirk.
Shout out to that whole offense. Shout out to Raheem Morris.
They got it done. And I know it ended up like it did.
But at the same time, I'm putting the ball in Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley's hands at the end of the game to win it, even after that kind of game those guys have the ability to finish it off and get the wins and i don't think that trust is gonna waver either way i think uh i think you guys got everything you need to be a great team over there man right all right birds uh have the saints down in new orleans next week um how do the eagles bounce back after that game let's hit i don't know that there's a hotter team in the nfl right out now than New Orleans. You see what they did to Dallas this last week? And Panthers.
Well, the Panthers one was like, it's the Panthers. But I'm just being honest.
I think everybody after the Panthers win, they blew them out, which is impressive. Anytime you blow out an NFL team, that's impressive.
It doesn't matter who it is. So it was an impressive win.
But Derek Carr, when he's on, he's a very good quarterback when he's on. Oh, I know.
But this week in Dallas, do you know how good Dallas has been in Dallas? I don't think they lost a home game outside of the playoff game last year. The Cowboys in Dallas have been very formidable, and they went in there and just put a whooping on them.
I don't know. There's a hotter team right now than new Orleans in the, in the country.
This is a huge test and a huge game for the Eagles to try and bounce back from. They look, I mean, their offense right now, I'm a big fan.
They're doing the same thing with this. Like they got to figure out how to stop outside zone because that's all freaking the Saints ran again.

I mean, not all, but Dallas got a heavy dosing of outside zone with Kamara,

boot, shots down the field.

Like, you better be ready.

It's coming.

So they're going to have to. They're going to stretch the east and west.

If I know Vic, he's going to be.

There's going to be some accountability being held.

That's for dang sure.

And they got the guys.

They just got to execute.

Come on now.

Let's move on.

We're going to get to the biggest storylines from across the league

outside of those two games in week two right now.

Right by now.

Big on close games.

11 games were decided by one score, including five that featured the game

winning score in the final minute of regulation or an OT. One of those close games was record-breaking in a buns way.
Unfortunate for the Giants, I suppose. The Giants lost to the Commanders 21-18 and became the first team in NFL history to score three-plus touchdowns, allow no touchdowns, and lose in regulation.
Damn. The Commanders only had field goals and got 21 points.
Oh, they probably had a defensive touchdown? I think there were a few different other ways they scored. Yeah.
Had to be, right? They didn't kick seven field goals, right? Anybody? Waiting on Brandon? You are the slowest Googler. Man, it's not a quick hand.
It's not a quick hand. I could have already found this out on my ESPN app.
Have you ever seen seven field goals in a game? I've seen like maybe five tops. That's a lot of field goals.
It's a fuck ton of field goals. I feel like we've had something close, but I don't know about seven.
They got to find a way to get in the end zone if they're kicking seven. Yeah.
Shit. I feel you on that.
Or not. Apparently you win the game still.
There you you go there are also a few blowouts this week derrick carr and the saints we already talked about it blew out the cowboys 44 19 saints i mean and the cowboys look great against that uh cleveland in week one so you know it's are the saints are the mighty mighty saints you know the i mean yeah the saints baby alvin come in do you know they told me right before i went on air it's not camara it's camara is that right i would camara i thought it was camara for my whole freaking life alvin camara scored four touchdowns in the win ak won the hemi award there on the uh on the monday night football broadcast the same smoothest athletes i've ever fucking seen. I love watching him run.
I really do. It's as annoying as it has been playing big games against that guy.
It is so cool, man. And I think the shoes, like the cleats he wears, like exacerbates it.
You know what I mean? Something about wearing like a light-colored shoe or a colored shoe when you're running, it just like looks different. Looks like NBA Jam when you had Turbo on.
That's exactly what it reminds me of. Oh, my gosh.
You just hit the nail on the head. He's on fire.
He's got the Turbo. Unlimited Turbo, yeah.
Unlimited Turbo G-Code. Yeah.
Saints scored 47 points in week one, and had 44 points in week two. They now have 91 points this season, the most by a team in its first two games in 15 years.
So they're doing something right down there. I really dig what – is it Clint Kubiak, the OC? It's Gary Kubiak's son.
Yeah. Dude, he's doing something right down there.
And Derek Carr has been – he showed – He's playing lights out. He has showed this, his whole career, this upside.

It's just been like inconsistent a little bit when he was in Oakland or I guess Vegas now,

but man,

his first two games have been pretty dang good across the board for those

guys.

Oh yeah.

They're looking,

they're looking good.

Gotta love that.

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Yes, it is, Jason. I'll see you there.
Cardinals took down the Rams 41-10. I got to say, Kyler Murray.
I have not, especially with the injuries that the Rams have right now. I mean, the Rams are not, they got a lot going on in their own organization right now in terms of players injured.
And they've lost maybe three or four offensive linemen, Puka's out. They're struggling right now.
They're limping around a little bit. But that doesn't change the fact that Kyler Murray, it's been an up and down for his career to start.
Dude, I don't know that I've – he was throwing some balls and making some plays that were just out of this world he was incredible he's always been an electric player to watch dude but i mean he's always and he and he's a gamer accuracy like he was putting some of these balls i'm like are you kidding me fucking rifle yeah it was very impressive he might be a little guy but don't don't think he can't fucking sling that ball around man, man. There's always been questions about his committedness towards football, to be honest.
Committedness? Nice. I mean, we're being honest.
I mean, they used to track his iPad usage, right? You've been killing it with your vocabulary today. There were reports coming out that he wasn't watching tape because they were tracking his iPad usage or some crap.
All I know is that I've heard through the grapevine that he's recommitted himself himself in a different way this year and if that's the case and he can continue to do what he did yesterday i mean or this week the cardinals are are very very good damn straight they are yeah cardinals wide receiver marvin harrison jr became the first rookie uh with at least four catches two touchdowns in the first quarter of a game since his dad, Marvin Harrison Sr. in 1996.
That's pretty cool. Which I don't even know if his name is Marvin Harrison Sr.
I think I just know him as Marvin Harrison. I think he's just Marvin Harrison.
There you go. Which is, it's a stat that means absolutely nothing other than he broke a stat that his dad had.
does that work if maybe if you're marvin harrison do you automatically become marvin harrison senior when you have a son that becomes marvin harrison jr no our grandfather's name was don blaylock our uncle's name was don blaylock yeah that's a good point i don't think i don't think uncle dodd's a junior no he's not

all right well this isn't really helping us analyze week two so let's move on that's a big bounce back game for marvin harrison jr though he should have a struggling week one uh big game this week we also got a couple upsets baker mayfield and the bucks take down the lions a lot of people didn't see that one coming but uh baker's playing lights out baby he's rolling and he's got the Bucs rolling their 2-0 start this season.

The Lions didn't look terrible but didn't look great you know i think uh i think the bucks just got after him a little bit svp brought it up on the countdown show but todd bowles man he's a great equalizer he's just such a great coordinator god damn it that guy's good man he can scheme up a run game game and as great as the Lions are and as good as their offensive line is,

and I'm sure that there's plenty of points that they probably had opportunities in this game.

Detroit, if you're shutting down their run game, it can make it difficult.

I mean, Todd is just an incredible coordinator. He really is.

This was an outstanding win for these guys on the road in Detroit, right? Yeah. I mean, come on.
Shout out to Bowles. Got to love playing them in a few weeks, too.
Sam Darnold led the Vikings to a 23-17 win over the 49ers. How about that? Probably the one game this weekend that I definitely didn't see coming.
I thought Sam Darnold has always been a really good quarterback. I think he kind of had some blows over there in Carolina his rookie year or his first couple years in the league.
But I always thought he was a gamer, and he had the arm talent, and he was smart enough, and he had the swagger and the ability to be a great quarterback. And sure enough, he's showing it this year with the Vikings, man.

Yeah, absolutely.

Big time win.

There's not a lot of good quarterbacks that play well

in the Panthers organization right now,

so I don't know that we can hold that against them.

But Andy Dalton's next.

Oh, there we go.

The ginger.

The play of the game, though, as you watch this clip right here

on Justin Jefferson's 97-yard touchdown, the ref is flying is flying absolutely flying trying to stay out of the fucking way yeah not the not the 97 yard reception let's check out this guy look at him oh god this is when he when he cut it back the ref knew he was he was in trouble oh nice hip nice way to open up the hips going full speed. That's pretty good.
You can tell. That's a former athlete right there.

Yeah.

He might not be.

No, that's still an athlete.

That's a current athlete.

Yeah.

Check him out.

Look at the arms.

Look at him.

Get it going.

Get it going.

Stay out of the way.

His core, you can tell he's got a good core.

Yeah.

You know when you see somebody and it's just very stable right here?

It looks like they're floating almost.

It's just arms and legs. That core staying rigid he had he had good rigidity shout out to the ref you don't always see them showcasing their athleticism like that um uh what else we got uh shut oh and the ref's name was uh tyree walton former division two running back uh at adams state adams state there you go second year as an nfl official go.
Well, he's showing real good promise, yeah. All right.
Taking officiating to new heights. Shout out to him.
The biggest surprise in week two. Where are we going with? I'm going to say Darnold.
I think it's the Vikings over the 49ers, right? It's got it. It has to be.
It has to be. Shout out to everybody else.
I mean, the Saints blowout was a big one, too.

Cardinals.

That's not that surprising.

Raiders beating the Ravens.

Another big one.

That was surprising.

Goddamn, Max Crosby, man.

Fuck.

That guy's getting better.

Just when you think he's fucking one of the.

He's topped out.

Just when you think he's topped out.

You know he's looking.

Dude, Aiden Hutchinson is wreaking havoc right now.

Really happy I don't have to play against that guy anymore. Yeah, ditto.
All right. Petty game ball.
In more news around the league, Steelers QB Justin Fields introduced the world to the petty game ball during the postseason. I'm sorry, during the postgame press conference.
Fields was quoted, I think we all know Russ kind of got done dirty last year. It was awesome getting that win for him.
He got a petty game ball, so it was great getting a dub for Russ. There you go.
I didn't know they – I've never heard of that term, but I love it. I'm not going to lie.
I think a game ball is a game ball, whether it's petty or not. Sometimes you just get motivated to win a game for a guy playing his X team.
There you go. Coach Tomlin declined to share more when asked about petty game balls.
I can't give you all the ingredients to the hot dog. You might not like it.
So now I'm even more interested. Like, what the hell are we talking about? I thought it was just a game ball.
There's more to it than just even the petty game ball? And what all are you putting on the hot dog, Coach? You're a relish guy.

There's not a lot of ingredients in a hot dog.

Yeah, hot dogs are pretty.

Actually, you ever seen how hot dogs are made?

There's a lot of stuff that goes into them.

But once the hot dog is solidified.

I don't know what to talk about this.

It's like ketchup and mustard and relish.

I mean, there's only so many sandwich options.

Nice.

Let's move on to the.

Yeah, keep going.

Puke balls. We went from petty game balls to puke balls.
Packers center Josh Myers redefines the chunk play. Jesus.
Prior to the snap on third and 10, you can see, here's a clip if you want to watch it, of Packers center Josh Myers projectile vomiting on the football before he snaps it.

No false start.

I, for the life of me, I have no idea why you would not move your head.

Just to the left.

Just like.

I tried to.

He tried to go a little bit left.

He did.

How funny is it?

It timed up just as right as he was. He was in his yeah that's fucked up man god damn it i mean just what are we eating before the game bud what are we doing what are we we gotta fucking figure out a different pre-game meal or something man taking too much pre-workout shout out to malik willis for catching that like he knew exactly what was happening.
He just caught a football. What did he eat before the game? Do you think there's corn on the ball? Or like...
Do you think there's chunks? Jesus. That is just so gross.
Yeah, I can't get into it. I fucking hate throw up.
It's so nasty. After the game, Coach LaFleur asked...
I asked malik why he didn't throw the ball on third down and he told me josh threw up on the ball uh he's like that's the first time i've ever heard of that yeah me too coach the official came up to me and said we saw your center throwing up on the ball do you want us to take him out next time and uh i said absolutely please do that because you're talking about a critical situation i've seen a lot of throwing up on the football field before never on the actual fucking football this is a first and hopefully a last yeah yeah jason uh were you able to snap a vomit ball without issues i uh i have never snapped a vomit ball and don't ever plan on doing so so yeah i got nothing for you yeah i can't offer a perspective on that moving on to some no dumb questions wrap up the show this week with uh no dumb questions because there's no such thing as dumb questions 92 percenters just dumb people and no dumb questions is brought to you by our friends at nfl sunday ticket on youtube tv my favorite way to watch the nfl on sundays nfl sund Sunday ticket bundled with YouTube TV gives you the most live NFL content all in one place. Terms and embargoes apply.
Going on to from X, it looks like Amelie, Amelie, I have no knowledge about football, but what would be a good sentence to drop during a game so my family thinks I know what I'm talking about? Ooh, I kind of like this. Somebody who doesn't know football, what could they be watching and say something and people kind of be like, oh, he kind of knows what he's talking about? Good catch.
When you see them pass that yellow line, yell, oh, yeah, first down. First down, yeah.
Oh, if the team with the ball starts getting towards the end zone they're trying to get to, when they're inside the 20, say, oh, they're in the red zone. Red zone's a big word.
Red zone offense is a big deal. Big deal.
Oh, when you see them fake it to the running back first and then throw it downfield, it downfield that's called a play action play action see you're doing better at this than i am if you see a running back or somebody with the ball hit somebody with their off hand that's called a stiff arm oh yeah nice stiff arm that's a good one too when it looks like a defensive player is moving really fast and playing like really physical

just say man that defense is playing fast and physical yeah there you go there you go it's

pretty simple you just make up whatever and it'll shake you're good if they try to run a quarterback

sneak make sure you tell everybody that's a 92 chance that that's gonna be successful yeah it

works 92 of the time use your awareness around you and feel how the room is if there's a panel

I'm sorry. percent chance that that's gonna be successful yeah it works 92 percent of the time use your awareness around you and feel how the room is if there's a penalty and you hear a lot of people saying oh you just yell at the refs context clues yeah yell at the refs just be like that was a shitty call you know if the quarterback gets touched at all make sure you you like just be like that's that's quarterback that's uh roughing the passer roughing the passer why the fuck can i i'm an idiot say yeah the quarterback gets touched just you know that's roughing the passer yeah that's a good one what's a good one touchdowns or when they the offensive team gets in the end zone got Got to take the points.
Got to take the points there.

Nice.

How do you explain that?

Analytics say go for it.

Analytics say go for it is a great one.

Anytime it's fourth down, just say analytics say go for it.

Especially like fourth and shorter, like fourth and two, three,

fourth and one, analytics are telling you to go for it here i think that's enough we we hit it though you use that stuff and just like i said use your use your context clues people are getting excited say say something exciting yeah there you go people are getting pissed off around you say something that really fucking pisses you off and typically you can yell at the refs and it works shout out to all the refs moving on to uh gillian from x as well jason what was your favorite book you read in college as an english major travis what's your one random law or idea you remember from criminal justice why does gillian think i was an english did i ever say i was an english major i have no idea i have no idea i didn't know marketing major yeah and i definitely didn't get a degree for criminal justice my favorite book i read in college as a marketing major was probably outliers i really did like like that book. Travis has referenced that book a lot.
My friend Malcolm Gladwell. Just a fan of Malcolm.
I really don't remember much of the book. Yeah, he's a beast.
He's fun. He's fun.
He makes it informative. Yeah.
I thought that was a really, really good, not only pertinent class for marketing, pertinent book for marketing, but it was a good read. So yeah, and that's probably the only book

that college made me read that I really actually enjoyed,

if I'm being honest.

Law or idea?

I think one of the ideas was called

The Broken Glass Theory.

If it's kept nice, they're going to want to keep it nice.

Look behind me.

You can see how nice I keep my house.

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