PMS 2.0 1413 - FIRST 15: NFL Week 3 Recap

Put 15 on the clock, please.

Welcome to First 15.

These are the things that we think you need to hear about.

Now, it might be 15 minutes on the clock, but this is off of the first 15 plays that are kind of scripted in there.

So that clock is there, but it certainly has not worked in the past couple of weeks as we have debuted this.

Let's dive right into the five big headlines that we've seen from the weekend of ball for the NFL.

Number five.

How about some super dupers?

Oh, hell yeah.

All over the place.

Now, not great for punters in a lot of situations.

Not great for kickers in a lot of situations.

But everybody talks about the offense.

Hey, who is quarterback and lead them?

Defense, they got championship defense.

Nobody's talking about the third phase.

I think we try to bring it up, obviously, because I was a punter, so I have massive respect for the guys playing on special teams, which is the back half of the roster.

That's a rotating bunch, too.

So the special teams coordinator is the only one that addresses the entire team, offense, defense.

And then obviously the guys that are just there for special teams, because at any moment, you could pull from in any play

could win the game.

Any play could sway playoff hopes, Super Bowl dreams.

That's what special teams is.

Let's dive into some highlights.

Torre Horton from the Seahawks.

I'm sorry.

Jalen Lane from the Commanders, 90-yard return versus the Raiders.

Then Tori Horton, Seahawks, 95-yard punt return.

They also happened to block a punt earlier in the day.

They blocked up.

Go ahead and give me that.

Seattle Seahawks not only return a punt, they also block a punt.

Should have scored that one, put another seven on, but they beat the living dog

shite

out of the Saints.

Feels like a lot of people are doing that, but you got to be able to hold up in special teams down there.

You got to be able to hold up.

We used to call it the fourth down army.

We were in the Indy, and that looked complimentary football.

That third phase doesn't get talked about enough, but I mean, unbelievable.

You got to be an athlete there and scoop and score that, though.

Got to get seven.

Have to.

Okay, let's go to Cameron Dicker of the Chargers.

He's had the greatest start in NFL history.

First hundred kicks.

Now he has one to win it.

Fourth quarter, five seconds left.

Game on the line against division rival.

And Cameron Dicker does what Cameron Dicker do.

Knocks it right down the middle.

Justin Herbert's a real deal.

Cameron Dicker might be the best kicker in the history of football, Debu.

He might be.

And you knew as soon as they got him in field goal range now, up until this point, we have seen some big-time blocks and big-time moments.

So that would have been the only thing that got in the way of Cameron Dicker, but he is Dicker the kicker, the best in the business.

Big time kick took 3-0 against three defensive opponents to start the season.

Unbelievable start.

That's a great way to start for the Chargers.

Let's go to the Bucks, Chase McLaughlin.

He has a 36 yarder to win it.

How did we get here?

You might ask.

Well, let's do some more special teams.

Earlier, two minutes left.

Will McDonald off the edge.

Block.

And then what?

Scoop.

Then what?

Score.

Cut to Tyron Taylor in the middle of the playoffs.

Why are we doing that?

Touchdown.

New York Jets.

Special teams.

Block a Chase McLaughlin kick right up over the center.

No leverage was used.

No call was made.

Game winning.

Blocked kick, scoop, score.

Right.

We did it.

We did it.

We did it.

Yes, we did.

What a moment.

149 left in the game.

That might be too much for Baker Mayfield.

Yeah, right.

All Baker does is have comebacks.

Chase McLaughlin would then nail this 36-yarder.

29, 27.

The Bucs remain undefeated.

Unbelievable stuff from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Now let's go to the 49ers.

They're starting Mac Jones as their quarterback.

They were in a dogfight with the Arizona Cardinals.

An absolute dogfight.

Eddie Pinero knocks one through, wins the game.

You know, Moody, who had been kicking for the Niners, lost his confidence, and maybe the op wasn't great.

He had been missing a lot of kicks and extra points.

Pinero coming out, making that, saying, This is my shit.

Yeah.

This is my shit.

Huge for them going forward.

The Niners might be inevitable, by the way.

They've got a lot of people hurt.

A lot of people hurt.

They're still with you.

Christian McCaffrey, I got a stat from Hembo.

He's on pace to have the most touches in the history of ball.

Like truth.

Like how much they're using him right now.

He's on pace to have more touches.

If he can stay healthy and the Niners can continue to do what they do, and Mac Jones doesn't turn the ball over.

Nope.

What's he doing?

I mean, look, Mac's going to do that sometimes.

You know how Mac is, but also, you know, that's just classic Mac Jones.

What he's referring to is Mac Jones, Whenever he was asked about the turnover, basically said, I threw the ball right to the guy.

Way to go.

He's a professional athlete.

He caught the ball.

That's real.

That is actually

true story.

We appreciate Mac having personality in the boxing, also being undefeated.

Congratulations to Mac Jones.

He might get paid $100 million.

Now, let's go to that Packers-Browns game, shall we?

Two seconds left.

55-yarder for Andre Smith.

How did we get here, though?

Well, let's go back

27 seconds left in the game.

Unbelievable, really?

To steal a win against the Browns.

Nope.

Blocked kick.

The Cleveland Browns special team.

Bunch of dogs in the dog pond.

Come around the edge.

Got to get a hand on him, Tac.

Got to get a body on him.

We got to get a better shove on the edge.

He comes around, gets a huge block.

They scoop it.

Only need a few more yards now for you to be in game-winning field goal range.

And they certainly did.

Andre Smith out of Syracuse, right down

Broadway?

What a kick.

Flag was not on the kicking team.

And that's how the Cleveland Browns beat the Green Bay Packers.

Block kick into a long kick, and that's called stealing that shit from the Green Bay Packers.

Tie, what a heartbreaker for you in the dog pond.

Yeah, absolute heartbreaker.

You just saw it there.

27 seconds.

The Browns have no timeouts.

They block a kick, and Flacco completes one pass.

They get down, spike it.

Apparently, didn't think they'd have any time.

It is a cool story for this this Andre Schmidt guy, though, because last week he did, or week one, he did not play well.

They were calling for his job.

I think he lost his mom, and then for him to respond, you know, this way and absolutely dagger the Packers' playoff hopes.

You know, I mean, that's a lot of people are saying.

Hey, this team can't do anything.

You can't beat the Browns.

So we'll see.

We'll see.

Dagger the playoff hopes.

Okay, so she was saying we might win some games.

This would be fun.

But when we got to go on the road and win a big one, we lost to Cleveland.

I don't know if you're respecting Cleveland and Cleveland or not.

Those jerseys?

Yeah, that jersey lines are sick.

Those jerseys are sick.

But how many road games you got to play a year?

Eight.

Same amount as home.

Less than half of them.

Yeah, exactly.

You're worried.

I mean, we'll see.

I wasn't.

What if the Cleveland Browns are good?

The Browns D-line is going to be amazing.

I mean, we talked about the Giants, I think, their D-line for a while, and then all of a sudden you think, okay, never mind.

Mason Graham, Miles Garrett, and the kid from Ohio that they got.

Yeah, all three of them just were collapsing pockets yesterday.

And we can't talk about super duper special teams without bringing out a super duper play.

A man who's over 330 pounds was clocked going the fastest any man.

330 pounds has ever been clocked going.

Ladies and gentlemen, this man, Jordan Davis, should not be able to do what he did as easily and as smoothly as he did it.

Now, granted, obviously, you can fall over and win that game by one, no problem.

Instead, clean scoop, not easy.

Ball's oblong, obviously.

Right after he demoralizes a guard, snags a kick out of midair.

Clean scoop, give me that.

And let me just go ahead and beat everybody to the end.

So tight end right there realizes, I'm not going to be able to catch this guy at 330 pounds.

He was striding out earlier in the game.

It wasn't just Jordan.

It wasn't just Jordan.

Jalen Carter blocks a kick on this guy, too.

I mean, you're talking about Jalen Carter or Jordan Davis getting a block this early.

Obviously, that's going to make other teams think to themselves, like, okay, we got to be stout against these guys.

But Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis, now that they got one, it's almost like taking the lid off.

Like, okay, if we do drive just a strain a little bit, then we get our hands up.

We can actually block these kicks.

It's like a confidence builder, I think, for people.

And Jalen Hurts during Football Night in America came in during Maria Taylor and Jordan Davis's conversation and basically said, yeah, I saw you two Georgia boys out there.

It's like, this is what we got these guys for.

And they did just that.

I don't know how one guard.

is going to stop them.

No cheating.

Genuinely, I have no idea how one guard is going to stop.

On the offensive side, everybody's talking about the tush push for the Philadelphia Eagles.

This is cheating.

This is cheating.

And they jumped off sides again.

Yeah, which it is.

And it didn't get called.

This is cheating.

We are a supporter of the play.

It's a football play.

You got to do what you got to do.

You got to stop them.

They did jump off sides again.

It didn't get called.

But the tush push, you know, still involves pushing and shit like that.

For blocking of kicks, they used to let linebackers, like multiple linebackers, go put their hands directly on the cheeks of these D-tackers.

And they would push them.

And then they would be the ones that would be up there jumping.

They got rid of that because they said it was unsafe.

Okay.

Now on the offensive side, they still got it going on, but they got rid of it on defensive side.

Now you got Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis.

That's basically similar to what it used to be with four people pushing.

I think they're going to use this as an advantage.

I think there's a real chance that because they get two this early, they get confident and they're only going to get more deep.

I mean, it's a lot of power, a lot of explosiveness right in the middle of that deep.

And they've been playing great on defense as well.

But when you get a guy that big, that tall, and I don't know if we all remember, he blew everybody away at the combine because of how big he was and how explosive he was.

I believe he ran like a 4-8 or somewhere around that at that weight.

So to see him scoop and score, we talked about the Seattle one.

It should have been a scoop and score.

To see him be an athlete like that, scoop and score and take that thing all the way to the crib for a walk-off.

I mean, a terrible beat for a lot of betters out there who have Rams plus three and a half, but a great way to finish the game for them Eagles.

Yeah, it was a terrible beat.

It was a great win.

Sirian was losing his shit out there.

Jalen Hurts like this while watching Jordan Davis run down there, super casual, no facial expression.

Sirianni's watching it happen, looking for flags, taking his headset off and he said we're meeting at the end zone started going

he's running how fast i'm gonna try to run about half of that yeah we got it good there's a thought get done somebody's thinking no you know what actually go no go score go score go look for flags there's no flags holy

holy yes yes yes yes we did yes and right behind there the guy with the sunglasses uh the mayor randy brown who's the special teams coordinator for the baltimore ravens or special teams whatever he's got a really big title he's been there for a long time.

That's his boy.

Okay.

Yeah, who's special teams for the Philadelphia Eagles.

They both won Super Bowl.

Obviously, they've done a lot for special teams.

I respect that and appreciate that.

But boy, Jalen and Jordan getting that much confidence this early is not good for anybody.

Okay, that is not good for any kicker out there, but it is good special teams.

Number four, how about we must protect this house?

And they did.

12 and three

yesterday, all the home teams.

Now, there were a few that went on the road.

There was obviously not a zero in that second column.

It's just three.

Why do you think this is happening?

Do you think think we got a home field advantage?

Do you think it was just the matchups, Debo?

Maybe just the matchups.

I don't think home field advantage is that big of an issue, especially at this point in the season.

12-3, Deba.

Division game champion.

I mean, it is some division game.

Let's see what do we have here.

What is the most surprising win here?

The Browns?

Browns versus Battlefield.

The Panthers 30-0?

That was pretty huge.

Shout-outs.

Shout out.

Texans going on.

Move might be interesting.

Michael Pennix.

That was a bad, bad.

Good news.

Got $180 million in backups.

Same now.

Is that good news?

And he looked good.

Tony, home field advantage normally counts, what, three, four points with the sports?

Yeah, it does.

And two debuts points.

53% of home teams won last year in 2024.

53% of the time the home team won.

How come we didn't put up the teams that won on the row?

Because that's more impressive than the home teams.

Who was it?

It was the Chiefs, which they're a dynasty.

Oh, great win last night.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was.

I was trying to watch them be back.

Now, Andy Reed and Travis Kelsey doing a little waiting.

I didn't seem like they were not not getting each other.

Yeah, but they love ball.

They do.

They love ball.

Are they back?

Are they back?

They win by three scores.

Yeah, I think any NFL team, I think they're definitely back.

Certainly some moments where you go, they don't look like a good team right now, but win by a bunch.

That's what Chiefs are.

They go on the road.

And they're trying to do it.

So you expect them to win on the road.

You'd expect the best team in the NFL to win on the road.

That'd be the Indianapolis Colts right now, probably.

So they did that.

True, report.

And then the other one, you'd expect, you know, the six-time Super Bowl Champs, the greatest franchise in NFL history to go on the way of the road.

And the Pittsburgh Steelers, they did that.

Yeah, you're right.

I guess only

the dynastic teams

are able to win on the road right now in the NFL.

The Chiefs, the Steelers, and the Indianapolis Grand College.

That's what we're talking about

tonight.

Could that change?

We shall see.

That's number four.

Number three, Baker Baker, comeback maker, becomes the second guy since 1950, basically to lead.

Yep, three fourth quarter comebacks for the first three games of the season.

Last week, Baker obviously came off Monday night and said, we don't take no shit.

Now

he beats the Jets in the fourth quarter as well.

We saw the blocked kick.

The Jets definitely thought they were going to win that game.

What they didn't realize is you gave this man way too much time.

Baker Mayfield, give me that.

Big time throws and big time moments.

Feels like the guy's cut of his jib is perfect for this situation.

And I'll tell you, football gods bless some teams with some teams of destiny type feel.

Three fourth quarter comebacks this early with the mentality that they have.

Debut, I like what the Bucs are cooking this year.

Yeah, you always hear it in locker room, hey, 60 minutes, whatever it takes to get it done.

And now three games in a row where Baker has played his best ball down the stretch to get, you know, get his team over that finish line.

And look, three weeks in a row, this is the first time they've been 3-0 since 2005, I believe, as a franchise, which is crazy.

And big day for Tampa Bay.

I believe they were celebrating 50 years.

So Coach BA will be here.

We saw Coach Groon, Derek Brooks, a bunch of legends out there.

Steve Spurrier, who was the first quarterback and franchise.

Ibuka?

I had no clue about that.

Ibuka was a superstar again yesterday.

So a big, big day for the Tampa Bay Bucs.

And once again, they are believing.

The Bucs' game-winning drives thus far against the Falcons, it was five plays, 63 yards, and a minute, 18.

Against the Texans, it was 11 plays, 80 yards in two minutes and four seconds.

And against the Jets, it was seven plays, 48 yards, and a minute, 49.

They go ahead and just drain that thing and just take it over.

Is Baker in that conversation now?

Where is he?

Too much time.

Yeah, too much time.

And by the way, backwards hat one time.

Next time looking cool.

Baker said, I don't care what I look like.

I'm letting you know we ball and we don't take no shit.

Respect to Baker.

Number two story of the weekend.

Backup quarterbacks back that thing up all over, folks.

Okay, Mac Jones, we talked about him.

How about Marcus Mariota?

He scores a touchdown.

We assumed that was going to happen.

Marcus Mariota football, congrats to them getting a big win.

And then Carson Wentz and the Minnesota Likes.

We didn't see much of the Carson Wentz experience.

What we saw was the best of Carson Wentz.

And they demolished the Bengals.

I mean, the Bengals.

I'm not saying it.

No, you might.

You might have.

It's time.

We spent all of them.

All our sins.

We spent all our seven talking about it.

They paid wide receivers.

They paid a quarterback.

They spent 50% of their money on six positions.

I don't know if that's winning football.

There you go, Joe Burrow.

I'm not saying it.

It's over.

Do you want us to say?

No, no, keep going.

They can't block.

They can't tackle.

They can't punt.

They can't kick.

They can't cover.

The only thing they can can do is hope Joe Burrow can bail them out.

And guess what?

Joe Burrow's big toe is around the neck of Eric Armstead because he ripped it off week two.

All right.

So I'm done with the whole Bengals thing.

Cincinnati, eat poop.

All right.

That's it.

That's Washington Connor saying that.

Your team sucks.

And guess what?

We're going to have to see Jake Browning in prompt time.

And that's shite.

Okay.

There's a lot of stuff going on with the Bengals that's going to piss everybody off.

And I think that we can foresee it happening.

Okay.

Well, there was a lot of conversation about that in the offseason.

We said, can they win that way?

They were able to.

Now they don't.

Carson Wentz might have been a problem for anybody with Kevin O'Connell on the call, though.

Yeah, and he really only got to get through like the first couple pages of the playbook, you know, because they were beating the hell out of him.

So they really did.

Kevin O'Connell didn't even get to unleash Carson Wentz.

So I think it makes sense.

Hey, let's unleash this guy in Ireland.

Let's introduce them to a brand of football, and we'll get the entire country to maybe even flip.

I know they're a Steelers country.

Maybe they're going to be fans of the Vikings and Carson Wentz after next Sunday.

I assume McQuidd is getting a one-on-one with Carson Wentz.

Without a doubt.

And what Carson Wentz is going to tell McQuaid, don't put this out until, you know, at least kickoff or so.

We don't want the Steelers to hear about this, but they're going to unleash me.

They're going to unleash me next week for the Irish people to understand what a Shamrock could potentially look like out there as it's running on the field.

Yeah, exactly.

The Irish people are going to see pale skin and red hair and be like, okay, this is our, this is our.

And then they're going to see this guy potentially tough and reckless.

They're going to say, this is our guy.

We're talking about Ireland being a Steelers country.

It's going to stay that way, but I think there's a chance that Carson Wentz becomes like the LeBron of Ireland.

Dude, think about the Irish people, too.

They would love

all.

What are we doing?

They're gonna love that.

Carson do his thing.

Now, I know the Steelers have had representation over there.

Rooney has served as a diplomat, they believe, right?

To Ireland, and there's so many Irish people in Pittsburgh.

And I couldn't even fathom the amount of Irish Steelers fans.

So that's going to make for a great game.

But if they see Carson Wentz too much, they're not going to turn on.

Steelers fans are going to hope that he keeps that helmet on.

Yeah.

Because if he takes that thing off, time for a crack.

Who is that?

It's Seamus playing quarterback for the Vikings.

Is he from County Cork?

Now, where is he?

They're not going to turn on their greatest ambassador of all time, but I'll tell you this.

There it is.

Ambassador on diplomat.

It's a diplomatic thing.

Carson ain't giving that job back.

Yeah, that's certainly a conversation to be had.

Another day, we hope JJ gets healthy.

Congrats to the Vikings.

And the number one story of the weekend, you guessed it.

Best team in ball is right here in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Danny Dimes, only guy to do everything that he's done and not have a turnover.

The Colts, the only team to ever do what they've done and not have a turnover.

The percentage of scoring drives higher than anybody that's ever played ball.

Only having one punt through three full games of NFL action is better than everybody that's ever done it before.

The defense is all over the place.

Brought in the right guys.

Lou Ano, deep coordinator, being one of the right guys being brought in, let alone Cam Bynum and Modi.

The energy on the defensive side, different than it's ever felt.

And on offense, Tyler Warren is the one.

And Danny Dimes is so fucking good.

I don't know if he was always this good.

I don't know if the Giants ruined it because you see Saquon, he leaves.

He wins the Super Bowl.

Danny Dimes right now on pace to win an MVP after getting an opportunity that isn't in the New York Giants uniform or organization.

What he's doing is awesome.

Pittman's awesome.

The offense is awesome.

The offensive line is awesome.

Jonathan Taylor scored three touchdowns.

We like that.

We like that a lot.

Okay, let's get some tackles 244.

We like that a lot.

Let's go an up value of entire team here.

Tuning up the band as the boys were rolling down Broadway.

You see that?

That's Broadway down there in Nashville.

Oh, it is.

Broadway.

I've been down there.

Yeah, great play.

I will say Nashville, the city itself.

Maybe favorite in the country.

Really?

Whoa.

It's top five without a doubt.

That's a hell of a state.

It's top five.

It came from Miami.

Without a body of water, it's.

Okay, yeah, without body water yeah miami doesn't have body water either really coral gables i didn't see that you get the one flew over it yeah i could feel it miami coral gables beautiful absolutely beautiful i wasn't in miami was in coral gables the entire time absolutely glorious i actually thought about buying a house tonight was zillowing okay okay all weekend good while i was down there property's cheap down there nashville great time Yes.

Yeah.

When it comes to strictly inside city limits, it is top three in zero.

Yeah, I don't even know how to do the numbering system because I haven't been to every city city in every city I've had a good time

you've been to the major ones you're not put in one of those shitty ones Nashville is awesome so we hope that their team becomes good we hope they become great I don't know about coach down there oh yeah I don't know

coach is gonna get fired in the next few weeks here I think it looks like it might be good for him he is yeah he's an angry man he's wound tight real sawed off prick yeah what's that what you said he saw it off a little bit does sound like he is that yeah yeah just just a little bit and it's not his fault that the Colts are putting him in a living hell.

I think Pittman said it is the smartest team I've ever been around.

But, I mean, has there ever been a greater start for new ownership?

I guess we can say Commanders, but they didn't even start 3-0 last year.

Like, when it comes to the big three, this is unbelievable.

I don't know if there's ever been when it comes to just the same players for the most part, same coaching staff.

Well, there's one pretty big difference.

And I got a lot of heat from a lot of people that don't know ball on the internet last season.

There is one pretty big difference.

And I'll tell you what, might be the greatest quarterback that's ever played in the NFL.

Might be the best player

of all time.

So smart.

So I was talking to Name Drop.

Boom, coming.

Peter Berg.

Okay, he makes movies.

Peter Berg,

Giants fan, I think.

in that area knew Danny Dimes the entire time.

And whenever Danny Dimes got drafted, obviously all Giants people are like, who's it?

No, remember the reaction?

Oh, yeah, they went crazy.

So Peter Burgs started doing research on this guy.

He's like, oh, my happiness is going to depend upon this guy.

Like, bye, bye, bye, his dad.

I think Giants fan, the whole thing, like, he gets in there.

And then I guess people ought to do were like, he's got to throw the ball like 80 yards if he has.

Like, he can run faster than literally everybody.

He's got a Duke brain.

So, like, from day one, Peter Burgs, like,

run, throw far, super genius.

This should be.

a guy.

And then in the Giants, it doesn't work out.

Then he goes to Minnesota and they're like, Minnesota's thinking about offering.

They really like what they're seeing, but nobody nobody really knows what it's going to look like.

And then with Shane Steichen's offense, it feels like he is just fully in control, understands it entirely.

Shane has empowered him, and we got weapons.

Yes.

We got guys for him.

It's like he's getting a chance, I think, to finally be the quarterback that he is.

But did he need to go through all the shit to get here?

Is the question, I guess.

Yeah, probably.

And look, it takes time.

We talk about it all the time.

Like, it's hard to play in the National Football League and you need the people around you, not only people on the field, but the coaches from the top down, the ownership level.

You mentioned the big three.

But what that tweet from Conte is the biggest thing because the biggest issue with Daniel Jones throughout his career was turning the ball over, not only interceptions, but fumbling the ball.

So to go through three complete games without turning the ball over, only punting, you know, what, one time is crazy.

So him playing well on offense is huge.

Us, you know, starting off, Kenny Moore with a pick six.

So going on the road in the vision arrival, they talked about kind of even with

the intros.

They were like, ah, these guys don't have the energy.

They're not ready to play today.

So when you kind of put that fork in them early and kind of suck the energy out of that building on the road, one of those games I would assume the coach said, hey, we're going to have to bring our own juice, boys, down here in the music city.

And they did.

Kenny Moe did.

He left for the injury.

We signed Mike Hilton this week.

But a big start on both sides of the ball.

But Daniel Jones, he has been playing phenomenal.

Jonathan Taylor, you mentioned him earlier.

Like that long touchdown run, that's the type of shit that'd get the whole team on the sideline juiced and going, man.

So

when you see your guy doing shit like this, you're like, okay, yeah, we're going.

So, I mean, it's all on the table right now.

three and oh played you know the combined record of the three opponents he played a little ugly but you know i like we're at i like his celebration

oh yeah yeah yeah it is it is great don't love what he did but he's certainly a good football player and uh seemingly got a lot of years left too a lot of years left very fresh very fast joining us now ladies and gentlemen is a man who knows all the things that maybe we weren't able to cover there senior nfl insider for espn ladies and gentlemen adam shafter

let's wrap it up here on the colts danny Dimes, is this what he was supposed to be?

Is this what he always was?

It was just a Giants

uniform and organization?

Or what is kind of what you're hearing about Danny Dimes on a renaissance type of year?

Look, I remember I said this past offseason when there were some teams that were going to be in the market for a quarterback, I was surprised at the level of people that had the level of interest that they did.

in Daniel Jones.

Now, not all the situations materialized, and the Colts were the team that made the most sense and pursued him the most aggressively.

But there were some very smart football people that really liked Daniel Jones, that had an interest in making a move on him, that didn't need to.

And so he winds up in Indianapolis.

And again, let's remember this, Pat.

I would have to look, but was it two years ago?

Two years ago, roughly, that the Giants signed him to a contract for about $40 million.

Three, three, three, three.

They made a playoffs.

Remember, Minnesota, the whole thing?

Yeah, yeah, no.

No, I remember.

Okay, so it it was three years ago.

So three years ago, they gave him a contract befitting of a franchise quarterback.

And that was a year in which what he did was magic.

And in fact, it was so impressive that they opted to re-sign him over Saquon Barkley because they couldn't do both.

So they chose over Saquon Barkley.

We don't need to do that.

Right?

Hey, we don't need you to be doing that right there.

We don't need you to be doing that.

We're having a good time with Danny Diamonds right now.

Could have paid both.

Could have paid both.

There are places that have certainly made it possible in that type of situation but we love him here in indy feels like he fits the town perfectly not scared to go have a couple beers with the boys

which we love

we respect okay let's move some other news out of the weekend that maybe people need to be caught up with uh shefty what did we miss maybe in there that's in your department i saw some achilles i think some other injuries uh obviously that's going to happen with football what should we be paying attention to

Well, we got a bunch of injuries going on right now.

Mike Evans looks like he has got a low-grade hamstring strain.

We'll see how long he's sidelined.

He's missed a few weeks last year with a hamstring injury.

So I'm going to guess he misses a little bit of time here.

C.D.

Lamb, the thought is a high ankle, but he believes that he could try to play next week.

We'll see whether he could do that.

Colston Loveland had a hip injury.

Doesn't appear to be serious at all.

And obviously, the two big injuries of the day yesterday were at the running back position.

Najee Harris, you saw his Achilles on the replay pop.

Awful injury.

The Chargers confirmed after the game, it's an Achilles injury.

They were waiting to get the MRI for the official word, but I think everybody knows what's coming there with Najee Harris.

And of course, we have the situation with James Conner, the Cardinals running back, who now suffered an awful ankle injury that's going to end season and require surgery.

I don't even know exactly

what it was, like whether it was an ankle dislocation, whether there was also ligament damage.

I just know I was told it was severe and it's going to end the season.

And that's an enormous blow for a guy who not only is a great running back, but also the leader on that team and incredibly popular in the locker room.

So it's a bad scene.

And the crowd, when they replayed the play on the scoreboard yesterday, gasped when they saw his ankle bend in the way that it did.

They didn't even play the replay on TV.

And it was just one of those injuries you knew right away.

And of course, Nick Bosa is about to get his MRI right now as we're talking for his knee injury.

We don't know the full extent of it.

He obviously was spotted walking off the field, gave a thumbs down sign to some fans in the stands.

Exactly.

Kyle Shanahan said he didn't think it was an ACL.

That was the initial test.

What that showed, it was intact initially, but they have to go send him out for further testing.

And sometimes things show up on a second test that didn't on a first, or sometimes it's not as bad or worse.

We'll see, but I know he's about to go into the MRI as I was coming on the air here.

Okay, so hopefully he's good.

Obviously, walking off means something, but doesn't.

He might just be a completely different species of human, especially if you look at him, you think maybe life is a little different for his body than for ours.