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Chaos Sunday: Defense Collapses, Records Shatter, And Fans Fume
Every once in a while, the league serves a weekend that rips up the script and hands out hard truths. This one delivered: Cincinnati’s offense put up fireworks while the defense vanished, Dallas talked its way into a storm and got cooked at home, and the Steelers reminded everyone what six takeaways can do to even the “hottest team” in football. We pull apart the chaos, the missed tackles, the soft zones, and the coaching choices that turned winnable moments into season-shaping narratives.
We start with the Bengals and Bears, where over a thousand yards and eighty-plus points still couldn’t cover for a defense that whiffed in the final minute. Player reactions told the story—when stars beg for “one stop,” you’re looking at a locker room asking for complementary football. From there we pivot to Dallas: ownership’s public indifference to defense, a loss to Jacoby Brissett, and a flurry of trades that feel like optics more than identity. Culture shows up on third-and-7 just as much as in the press box, and you can’t buy communication in November.
Pittsburgh earns flowers for a turnover avalanche, but injuries loom, and we talk frankly about the broadcast’s handling of a gruesome Washington moment and what that means for players and fans. Then it’s the psychology game: Buffalo beat Kansas City, sure, but the Chiefs still walked away more dangerous because belief is a weapon. Across the AFC and NFC, parity rules—there’s no juggernaut, just teams that solve details faster than their rivals. That means tackling angles, pass-rush lanes, smarter snap management, and pulling starters when a blowout is truly over.
If you crave honest breakdowns, sharp film-room takeaways, and the unvarnished truth about how momentum and mentality decide seasons, this one hits. Tap follow, share with a friend who lives for fourth quarters, and drop a review to tell us which team’s identity you trust when the clock gets tight.
Oh, what a week nine. Only thing I'ma say is like this is that each week, each week, you know something. If you think you know something, you don't know it. Because the NFL just always give us one. This team is gonna beat the no, that's not gonna happen. Hey, it's your boys. TJ and DK with the DK and Tree Podcast. Um, I already know where we're starting at. Um, we're gonna go up to um Cincinnati, Ohio. But I'll I'll let you uh go ahead and serenate Cincinnati. They and my division, I would be bass if I'm talking. So you serenate them.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, thank you. Thank you. I I think I think um I deserve to do the honors given that my team had a bye week and I couldn't watch anything else. So I I had no choice but to watch a lot of this foolishness. So here we go. Um I thought the Cowgirls had uh like the worst defense in the NFL until I met Cincinnati yesterday. Or Sunday, I'm sorry. And um, I'm not joking. The so for those of you that watch the game, the sequence was crazy. Bengals, no, I'm sorry. Chicago whooping up on Cincinnati. It was bad. It was like, it was like up multiple scores. We're like, okay, you know, Bengals lose again, whoop-de-doo, uh, you know, okay, cool. And then we were on the phone, and I'm like, wait, uh, you might want to start watching this game again. Damon's like, what? Why? I said, uh, the Bengals just took the lead. You just scored. And we're like, what is going on? We're watching, and um, I'm like, okay, there's like a minute and some change left. I think it was, or I think it was under a minute, actually. We're like, all right, you know what? Looks like this game's gonna be it, the game's gonna be over. Bengals win. What a win that was fantastic. Then the Bears got the ball. And there, I swear to God, their sole purpose purpose on that drive was to get in the field range. They wasn't trying to score the Bengals defense. Okay, in my back, am I back? We're gonna have to we're gonna have to call StreamYard because I am about sick and tired of every single time I get on this microphone, my camera gets to be cut off. I'm sick and tired of it. Okay? I you I love y'all. Y'all usually get it right any other time. Every time my voice is going on this microphone, y'all want to try to cut my camera. Absolutely ridiculous. That's a joke. And y'all know y'all can do better than that. Anyways, I'm thinking, okay, the Bears get the ball. They're not even trying to score a touchdown, they're just trying to get in the field goal range. Caleb throws the uh incompletion, second down. Like, okay, all right, okay. Then I think it was like a short gain that he had on the following on the following play. Now we're like, okay, third down. This is huge. You know, this this determines who won who you know who wins the game here. Right. Then he throws it to Lovelin, the tight end. He throws it to Lovelin, the tight end, and not only does he catch the ball, he proceeds to run after someone by the name of Geno Stone. Yes, I am using names now. Oh, yeah. Who didn't even really try to tackle him? Like he just kind of, uh that was his version of trying to tackle him. Okay. The only time I see stuff like that is if you can tell female don't like you and doesn't want nobody touching her. That that's the that's the shrug they give to tell them, to tell them to get the fuck off of them, right? Geno Stone throws this little fake ass shoulder to try to tackle this big old tight end who's running full speed.
SPEAKER_02:And literally, the Loveland brushes him off and just scampers to the end zone. And I'm looking right at the I'm looking at my phone and I'm like, are you serious?
SPEAKER_03:When I saw it, I said You kidding me? What? You kidding me? What what is what is going on here? What is going on here that this is going on? I I was just like, wait a minute, what what's going on? I said the Bears just scored again on the Bengals? Let me see. A thousand yards of offense between the both of them combined. Tell me where the defense was. Craziness. It was it wasn't even on either side. None. None. Both teams should be ashamed.
SPEAKER_01:Both teams should be ashamed.
SPEAKER_03:And by way of the Bengals losing, we go into second place. I'm like, bro, wow. That's crazy. And okay. It's not like Flacco ain't doing his job. It's not like Flacco ain't doing his job. It's not like Jamar Chase is not doing his job. It's not like T. Higgins ain't doing his job. I saw a post. It was um one of one of my Cincinnati fans, and she said, throw the whole defense away. The whole defense. And then she added some names in it too. I was laughing. I was rolling. So if it's any Cincinnati Bengals fan that's watching this, uh how y'all feel about this. I mean, don't hide. I'm I'm I'm here. We're we're both here. Don't hide from us. I want to know how you feel. Because not because it's in my division. It's just the simple fact that that's pathetic. That's pathetic. You only got one phase of three on your football team. The offense. That's it. Because it ain't no defense and it ain't no uh special teams. Oh, wait a minute. I gotta give special teams props. They did um do a kickoff return for a touchdown. Gotta give them props. That won.
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SPEAKER_03:And then Chicago came marching in. Yeah. Uh I I don't get it. I I I just don't understand. Any Cincinnati fan wanna explain this? Any any Cincinnati Bangle fan? Any any Cincinnati Bengals fan that's out there that won't explain this? None? Oh. Okay. Here's my thing. If you're walking up and down the street. This is not this is not an explainable offense. No. How can you explain that someone with seconds left on the clock? What? And I start around 40 seconds. They have about 40 seconds left on the clock. Then next thing you know, oh, touchdown. Okay. I'm like, what? Are you serious? But let you at Chicago march right back down the field. Oh, we ain't worried about their defense. Ah here you go. Touchdown. What? And went for two and didn't get it, but it didn't matter. It didn't matter. Yeah. It it didn't matter. It didn't matter.
SPEAKER_01:Jamar Chase and Chase Brown was pissed. And pissed. And pissed. You know, a lot of times people get on players for being very critical about how certain games go. And we're like, oh, you you know you you can't be saying stuff like that. You you're supposed to say it differently, you know, the the team, the team, the team. When those guys got in front of that microphone, and the reporter asked Jamar Chase uh what was going through your mind after y'all scored, and he literally said, just get one stop. Just get one stop. One. And it was like, it was like, you heard that, and it's like, you know what? Like, he's obviously very pissed off. He's upset. Okay, cool. You know, he was being very nice about it, had a smile on his face a little bit, but you could tell, angry. Then Chase Brown got in front of the microphone. And I I I appreciate players who keep it real, like legit. He gets in front of the microphone, the reporter asked him a similar question, and he's like, We score all these fucking points. Just finish the fucking game. Word for word, word for word is what he said. And I was just watching, I was watching what he said, and I said, you know what? I ain't mad at him. I ain't even mad at him. I'm not mad at him. Not at all. And you could tell how pissed off he was. Like it was like he couldn't even, it wasn't one of those scenarios where you could hide it, where you could try to turn it around and be like, you know what, we're gonna try again next week and see what we can do better. No, it was like that's fucking ridiculous. And what made what made this game worse? And I I heard this that literally not too long before uh we hopped on here, there hasn't been a team since I repeat, I'm gonna say this very loud and clear. 1996. Again, 1996 that has scored 35 plus points in back-to-back games and lost both. No team has done that since '96. I'm talking Michael Jordan Bull's years, 1996, before I was thought of. Both. I heard that stat. I said, if that doesn't tell you how pissed off the offense should be, I don't know what does. I heard that stat. Yeah. And we were we were talking about it too. And I had said the defense, the whole entire defense, the defensive coordinator, uh, all the defensive staff, the defensive players, nobody should say a word. I mean, every crash. You know what? I'll take a step further. I made this joke earlier on in the season. I'm gonna do it again. What I feel like should have happened when everybody was clearing their lockers, the offense and the offensive coaches take the flight home. Everybody else take their bags and walk. Walk. Walk. Not walk. You can't play defense, then guess what? You can't take a flight home. And they were at home. They did this at home. This happened at home. In regulation. Usually, right, when stuff like this happens, you go into overtime, something uh freakishly stupid happens. Okay, cool. People get tired, people tired of playing, they just want to get the game over with. Okay, got it, cool.
SPEAKER_02:All of this happened in regulation in four quarters, in four quarters, sixty minutes lost, bro.
SPEAKER_03:Put up what eighty-three points, eighty-three points in sixty minutes, over a thousand yards of offense between both. Bro, I it's sad. Walk home, it's sad, walk home, walk, walk home, walk home, walk, walk let me let me make this loud and clear.
SPEAKER_01:Walk, walk. I don't care which way. Walk, walk, walk. Whatever you do, you ain't having a comfortable ride home. No, walk, walk, exit stage left.
SPEAKER_02:Cause that right there is inexcusable. Inexcusable.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, I'm I'm I'm I'm trying. I'm I'm I'm trying to be nice today, but I can't. That's a joke. That was a joke.
SPEAKER_03:You walk home after that. Absolutely. You don't you tell me you come off from beating a team to losing two. Losing two because of your defense. Your defense is trash, super trash. I mean dumpster trash. Incinerator trash. Just trash. To allow Chicago, Chicago, the Chicago Bears, and Caleb Williams to beat you all. That's sad. That's sad. That is sad. I I I have no words for it.
SPEAKER_01:I kid you not. This was me watching the game. We were like, oh, okay. Bengals lost, okay, cool, whatever. Put the glasses on. I'm like, is this game tied and they're about to take the lead right now? And then when the touchdown happened, took the glasses off, had to rub my eyes. Cause I couldn't believe what I just saw when Bears scored. I said, bro, this is enough. Right. This this is unbelievable. Whoa.
SPEAKER_03:Man. Listen. I don't know what else we're gonna have to say after since that. You know something? They're gonna start getting censored. They're gonna start getting censored. We're not even gonna say their name. We're gonna start censoring them.
SPEAKER_01:We're gonna start censoring them. I only reserve that for an entire team. But they are. Oh boy. They are close. Oh yes, they are. And you know what? If I if I'm Joe Flacco, if I'm Joe Flacco today, I as old as I am, I should have been retired like five years ago. Everybody would have understood. Totally fine. I you mean to tell me I throw the ball for 470 yards at my old age. And I lose? I lose. I lose the game. My team loses after I have a career game at 45,000 years old. My team loses? Really? I'm not even joking. We we get on players for retiring early and we're like, man, like we wish he could have played a little bit longer. If Joe Flacco would have just said, I'm retired after that game, I wouldn't blame him. Actually, you know what? You know what I would do? This is what I would do the entire time. And that, my friend, is how you go out. That is how you go out. If he were to retire off of that game and they lost, I would have totally understood him retiring. On the spot, on the spot. Go figure out your quarterback situation.
SPEAKER_03:Like, you know, something. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good.
SPEAKER_01:Hands off. Hands off. I wash my hands with it. This is done. I can't do this no more. Right. He has he has more gray on his beard and in his hair than than some than some some teams have on their on their logos. That's how much gray hair he has. After that game, it doesn't get more salt and pepper than that. Oh my god. Oh my god. I would have retired on the spot.
SPEAKER_03:I'd be like, you know, so embarrassed me enough. You you embarrass me enough. I'm out. See you later. Here's my papers. I'm done. I'm done. There's nothing else I can do. I'm done.
SPEAKER_01:I would have totally understood. I would have totally understood. Oh my god. Oh, actually, I wish that happened. That's what I oh that would have broke the internet. I just know it would have. If Joe Flacco, after that game, which they lost, and he had a career game, sat up there and said, You know what? Um, yeah. My team tried, but I'm done. This is it. I'm retiring. Yeah. Actually, you know what? Homework assignment for those who love to play around with AI so fucking much. Someone have Joe Flacco in the press conference with him saying that. Send that over to me so I can post it everywhere. Oh my god. I I we might we might be famous after that. Uh and I'll make sure I credit the person that did the video. Someone, this is their homework assignment. Put Joe Flacco with the Bingo's logo behind him in the press conference with him saying, hey, you know what? Can't do it. Can't do it. I'm retiring. I'm done. I'm done. Hands up. Wash my hands. See if this team is ass. This team is sorry. Can't do it. I done threw this ball for too many yards, didn't score too many touchdowns. I'm done. Hey, hands up. I'm washing my hands. Absolutely not.
SPEAKER_03:Yep. Yep. Lands is in the house. All right. Go birds. Yep. See, already I knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. You better know it does. You better know it is. I knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. Man.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03:Cincinnati. I would say better get it together. Nah. Y'all good. The offense got it. The rest of the team hasn't had it. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Oh my god. Listen, listen, listen. I I couldn't believe it when you told me they threw that touchdown. I said the Chicago scored. Not if you go, they scored. That fast? Yeah. Yes. That's just sorry. When I mean sorry, I mean sorry. Now, if you want to get the sorry, let's go to Monday Night Football. Please. Hold on. Last night. I got this one. I got this one. I got this one. Sure. So a lot of a lot of the Dallas fans, and I was explaining to some of them today, that statement Jerry Jones made about he has a hundred billion dollar oil or gas company or something like that. Why do I need to worry about fixing the defense? Let that sink in just for a second. Let that sink in for a second. He said this on a news outlet or wherever radio show he's on. Why should I worry about fixing my defense when I got a hundred billion dollars worth of oil out here that I can do that? Wow. Let me let that sink in. And the reason I started off with that is because look what happened last night. You got beat by Jacoby Brissett. Oh, JB here, that wasn't a game. Hey, wait a minute. Hold on. We're gonna get we're gonna get on JB here for a second. Okay. Yeah. You know why, right? You know why, right? Right. But again, you ain't worried about fixing your defense. You're not worried about fixing your defense, right? But your team got shellacked by Jacoby Brissett. I want to say this again. Not Kyler Murray, Jacoby Brissett. Torched your defense. He beat the brakes off of y'all. But you ain't worried about fixing your defense. But you know, the funniest thing I saw was when they panned up to the booth that Stephen A was sitting next to him. And you know how much and you know how much he trashes the cowboys. That's his that's his buddy. That's his friend. Yes, hey, hey, J B say he come in peace.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, we come in peace too. We missed you. We missed ya.
SPEAKER_03:We missed you. We miss when y'all don't come through. But um it's good to see you again, JB. Yeah. Any Cowboys fans out there? And my boy, he always posts on this post, even sometimes while during the game, he just posts to L. He said, Nope. I'm putting the L up right now because that's what we're about to take. NL. And I've been saying this for years about Jerry Jones. You don't know nothing about football at all. You are the smartest person in the drawer, right? Not not the short knife, the smartest person in the drawer. Because the knives are clearly sharp. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You get up here and you just down your whole team talking about I'm not worried about I'm not worried about I'm not worried about the defense. I got all out here. I ain't worried about this. What does that say? What does that say to your team? And your team, I'm pretty sure the players that play for you hear this. He don't give a shit about us. Apparently not. Because he ain't worried about if y'all win or lose. I'm just here. My old doing good, so I ain't worried about it. Hey, any cowboys fans in here wanna uh talk about this? I mean, any cowboys fan, anyone that's listening.
SPEAKER_01:This is this is what makes last night's game worse. Right? They lose in the fashion that they did at home. Okay, yeah, and then today was the trade deadline. Trade deadline where a lot of teams were making moves and you know, trying to make their teams better. Cool stuff, right? You want to know the team that I kept seeing over and over and over and over again today? The Cowboys. So to piggyback off your point about them not caring about doing anything about the defense. Guess what they decided to do today? They decided to trade for Logan. Yeah, yeah. They trade for Logan Wilson, the linebacker from Cincinnati. Yeah, you know, the defense that we just talked about that didn't exist on Sunday, yeah. They they traded for him. Okay, then they traded for Quinn and Williams, the D tackle from the Jets. And I'm like, why are y'all making these moves? Like, y'all are 6-2 or something. Like, what is going on? Y'all do know that y'all's season is over, right? Like, there's no coming back from this. Like, this is this is a wrap. Like, what are we doing right now? And so they made the trades today, and I'm like, oh, that's cool. Oh, that's cool. But they're three, six, and one. Right. Yeah, that sees no. What are we doing? And I, as a beloved, and um, I say this with pride, um, beloved Eagles fan, I am purposely wearing the Hertz jersey today because because of y'all, because the way y'all played last night, all right. Y'all have officially broken the curse for us. We no longer have to do a thing anymore. We have now broken what I feel like has been a century-long curse in our division, where the same division winner hasn't happened in back-to-back years. That is officially done and over with. We get to accomplish that because of y'all. Y'all made that happen. Y'all did that by y'all self last night. Now you're probably wondering, well, you got other teams in the division too. Well, Dallas lost last night. You saw Washington, who their season just completely crumbled, and and I'm I'm not saying that figuratively. It literally crumbled because they decided to get slaughtered by Seattle on Sunday night football.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, yeah, they sure did. They sure did. Oh, that was a shalom.
SPEAKER_01:And their season's done. Their season's done. Jaden Daniels, get well soon. That was horrific. That that sees that their season's over. Then you had the Giants on Sunday, who also lost, and they wasn't making a push to to scare us off or anything like that, but they lost to literally the two-string 49ers, who literally have everyone hurt, and someone else on their team who was a rookie this year, got hurt and tore his ACL. They still lost the game 34-14. That's our division. So, with that being said, because of the Alex Cowgirls on full display last night, for the whole world to see, y'all have broken the curse for us. We all we had to do is do what I'm doing right now. We had to sit back, watch, chill, had a little bit of E and J with us, sit back and relax. You know, this is not the Birkin jerk. Yeah, yeah. Just a classic, just a classic green apple E and J. Sit back and watch all the games, watch all the chaos happening on our bi week. And all of y'all lost. Oh my God. So I just wanna I just wanna say I I I feel like Jamie Foxx right now, but um I just want to uh I just want to tell the uh Alice Cowgirls, the uh Washington Commandos, and uh the uh New York uh dumbass giants. I'm I'm channeling my inner uh Jamie Fox right now. Uh I'm I'm making sure I get the channel right. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Thank you.
SPEAKER_03:That's it. I'm a hell of night. I'm a hell a night. And and you wasn't even playing, just a lovely thing. Just a lovely thing.
SPEAKER_01:We had the biggest win of the entire weekend, and we didn't even play. We didn't even play, we didn't even play. Thank y'all, Alice Call Girls, for breaking the curse for us. Thank you. Without y'all, this wouldn't be possible. Thank you.
SPEAKER_03:Thank you. Listen, listen, listen. And and you go from that, and now since JB is here, I uh uh I I gotta go to the Steelers. I where is Tish? Sure. Tish isn't there. Yeah, where's Tish? Tish is not here. Uh okay. All right, you know, she would have came in. But uh before before I get on them, before I get on them, you know, I gotta give them props. They beat the hottest team in the NFL. Gotta give them props. They beat the hottest team in the NFL. So I was down in Kentucky, right? Met these brothers down there. Really cool, really cool. And they Steelers fans from Pittsburgh, right? And we got to talk and we rumbling back and forth about you know Ravens, Steelers, this and that. We having a ball. And I was hoping they would be on here. I sent them a text, but maybe they probably busy. But you know, we was talking down, and I said, Oh man, Coach's gonna slack y'all. I said, Y'all about to get ass whooped. I was wrong because their somewhat of a defense showed up and they slowed down. That Daniel Jones looked like the Daniel Jones from New York versus the Daniel Jones of the Coats that they have over there today. Woody threw the ball 50-something times. That's not a recipe to win a game. That's not a recipe to win a game. We talked about this one. You gotta wear the Steelers down, okay? But what did they do? They let the disruptor get involved. TJ White. And whenever he gets involved, stuff happens to the tune of six turnovers. Six turnovers. I had to give it to him. I had to give it to the Steelers. And even going all the way down, I'm gonna blame the Steelers' defense on this one too. The coach was coming back. And y'all only beat him by seven points. The game took me by surprise. Yeah, it did me too, because I didn't think that y'all was gonna be able to slow them down than y'all did. But on the flip side of that, y'all got a couple key injuries. Derek Slade left the game, took him off field, right? Yeah, I think it was a couple more people that got injured in that game. These injury bugs around this NFL is hurting some teams. And that's gonna hurt. But as we always said, why are these teams, and and I even fought the Ravens for this one too. Why are we sticking around with all these old players? We need young, we need youth in here. Y'all just still keep these old players on the field, pass their time, past their prime, and that's the problem. We really can't stop anybody. They just getting lucky with a hope and a prayer. Oh god, I got through. Thank you, Jesus. Because what you think they're gonna do? Yeah, ship TJ, Miles Garrett, ship them. Something. Slow them guys down so they won't get in here. That way we can get the plays going. But props to Pittsburgh. They won. Y'all beat the hottest team in the NFL. Because the Colts were the hottest team in the NFL. And y'all made them look average. I had to give them to you. Six turnovers. They say defense win games, defense won y'all that game. Come on. Anytime.
SPEAKER_01:Anytime. I don't think I've ever said this sentence so far this year. Anytime you tell somebody that Daniel Jones threw the football fifty times, they're probably not winning that game. No. And I was jokingly saying this, and and a part of me believes this actually happened. I feel like somebody in Indy had a conversation with the offense. And they said, hey, look, Daniel Jones, look, man. Like, they're talking about putting you in an MVP conversation. No one's saying that, by the way. Okay. They're thinking about putting you in an MVP conversation, man. Like, you're playing well. This is unbelievable. We love Jonathan Taylor. Awesome stuff. And you know what? I think this should be your statement game. And their definition of a statement game was having you throw the ball 50 times? Right. 50? Really? Really? Really? Really? I feel like the man's right now. Really? Really? What? You know? So it was like you give props to the Steelers because at the end of the day, six sacks, six different ways of turning the football over, crazy stuff. Okay, can't take that away from them.
SPEAKER_03:Can't.
SPEAKER_01:That game looks a lot different if people aren't throwing the ball 50 times. I'm telling you that right now. Now, granted, you can say that hindsight's 2020 because, hey, who I mean, Jonathan wasn't really getting the ball rolling either. So maybe you could say, okay, you wasn't gonna tilt the rock with him all game long either, because the Steelers don't play that shit. Okay, okay, cool. Got it. Cool. 50 times? Really? That that that that that that wasn't that wasn't gonna work and it didn't. And I don't think we're gonna see that again. I I I just that that I don't I think they're going to watch the film and they're gonna be like, wait, hold up. How many times did he throw the ball? Okay, we're not doing that again. Like most 35. Like not again. That is ridiculous. Not at all. Yeah. I I don't know if that tells more about I don't know if that game was more telling about the Steelers or more so about the Colts. I feel like it told more about like the Colts. If you think that you're going to win, you can't win like that. That's not gonna work. It's not I feel like Pittsburgh, like your defense played great. That was fantastic. Six turnovers, six sacks, great stuff, awesome. Those injuries, man. And we talked about this too yesterday. Like, there's a lot obviously every year, like year to year in the NFL, there's a lot of injuries that happen across the league. Like, that's just like bound to happen. Okay, right. The amount of gruesome injuries that we have had this year has been I don't think I've I've uh and not that I'm looking for it, but I think this has to be the most it has to be an uptick for real. Like this has to be the most I've seen in a long time of people just going down in horrific fashion, where you you you have to turn the camera away, type of injuries. And like like it's like yes, like with Daniels. Okay, I do want to talk about that real quick. Okay. Now, Damon, I'm gonna ask you this. When an injury like that happens, typically, what do the what do the what does the broadcast do? They take a look at it with their own separate replay before they show the whole world, right? And then they tell the commentators, hey, this is very gruesome. We can't replay it. Can't show the replay.
SPEAKER_03:Right, right, right, absolutely. But that didn't happen.
SPEAKER_01:That did not happen. That didn't happen. So what so obviously you give the broadcast grace because you don't control what happens live, right? Can't control that, right? All right, so when it happened live, it's like that doesn't look good. Then it showed the replay in slow motion, and it almost looked like they keyed in on his arm, on Daniel's arm, and it literally pointed the other direction.
SPEAKER_03:Direction.
SPEAKER_02:And I'm like, what?
SPEAKER_01:Y'all, y'all just yeah, just show it. And and doing the slow motion too.
SPEAKER_03:Why? Let's talk about the Washington curse. The Washington curse. That was Sunday night football, right? Joe Tasman got hurt on Sunday night football. Bro, yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah. That did happen. It's a wash, it's a Washington curse. And that's bad. Because the last one that got hurt up in there, who was it? RG3. Yeah, out of pocket. I yup, it definitely is out of pocket. But it's it's for some reason it's this Washington curse. They get hurt on that field.
SPEAKER_01:So now in fairness, okay, and this is the argument I'm going to have too, and a lot of people have said this too, and I'm I'm I'm I'm very on brand with this. The score when that injury happened was 38 to 7 in the third quarter. The third quarter was winding down. I think it was like two minutes left or something like that. The game was over. There's there's no, oh, there's a comeback on the way. There's multiple scores. I think it was like four touchdowns you needed to even come close. And that's including extra points being made. No one, no one, no one should have been on that floor. Should have been on that field. No.
SPEAKER_02:All the stars should have been out.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, pull them. All your backups are in the game.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, pull them. Pull them. It's 38 to 7. I should have saw Mariota out there. Hey, look, we got our ass just handed to. Hey, look, we just didn't show up tonight. Put the backups in. That's the rest of the game. And I'm looking at it, and of course, I watched the game. I watched the highlights. I mean, yeah, I saw the injury on Instagram because of course it was everywhere. But I watched the highlights of the game. I'm watching it. I'm like, what is Daniel still doing out there? 38 to 7?
SPEAKER_03:Really? I'd be like, I would have went to the coach. Hey, coach. I don't think we can win this one. Put Mario in the game. Something. Somebody should have been thinking.
SPEAKER_01:And again, what makes this worse is that Sunday night, he just got back from him being out with a hamstring injury. Yep. So this wasn't an idea of like, oh, we have a chance to change our season around. Let's try to bring, let's try to rush him back and see what we can do. Like, okay. No. He already came off the injury report with something else. Now, the best case scenario for him was that it wasn't his throwing arm. Thank God it wasn't his throwing arm that had that happen. Right. It was his non-throwing arm. Awesome. However, for those of you who watch quarterbacks for a living, y'all know the left arm is just as important as the right. As the right. We just talk about the right because we see them throw the ball with it. As a quarterback, okay? You hold on to the ball with two hands. Well, if you have to get the arm back together, the elbow back together, now you're having to hold the ball different. Which means if the defender is coming around the edge and going after you, if you have the ball low enough because you're not confident to have the ball high up to where it's supposed to be, you're getting strip-sacked over and over and over and over again. Okay. Also, that left arm also helps direct the throw. I saw uh I see uh you see with Josh Allen, you see with Patrick Holmes, every quarterback does it. The left arm helps the placement of the throw. So when that is affected, um, Commanders fans, prepare yourselves now. Because what's one of the things we loved about Daniels last year? Oh my God, he's doing all he's having all these games where he's playing fantastic, and he's accurate as hell. Get ready next year for that accuracy to dwindle tremendously because it's bound to happen. That arm, that elbow impacts a lot of shit. Now, can he bounce back from it? Absolutely. It's it's it's I'm I'm so grateful that it was not his throwing arm, but the fact that it was his left arm is just as serious. So, Commanders fans, prepare now. There's gonna be a lot of times where he's throwing that football, and it's like, damn, he just doesn't look the same. Uh, yeah, that left arm isn't the same because whatever they do in surgery to fix it, it I promise you, you can put him through as many workouts as as much as the recovery process is gonna be. You can do whatever the fuck you feel like it's gonna be necessary. It's not going to be the same, he will not be the same after at all.
SPEAKER_03:No, so and and for the simple fact that again, he should have been taken out of the game, and you know, I was there because I had to work it, right? They called us back out before halftime because the people were leaving. There's all everybody back out before halftime. You could see the people walking up the stands, leaving the stadium. And I I was outside, I was like, oh, that game is over. And two washed their pants and said, Yeah, it is, that's why we're leaving. It was so funny. And just the thing, they still gotta go to Madrid. But yeah, wait a minute. Look who's coming in here on Sunday, Detroit.
SPEAKER_01:Bro, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Nope! Nope. Detroit's coming in here on Sunday. Yeah. And remember who knocked out Detroit in the playoffs? Washington. Washington and Dan Campbell don't forget shit. Nope. He doesn't.
SPEAKER_01:And you caught him on a wrong week too. You caught him on a wrong week too. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03:With that, with that heartbreaking loss to Minnesota? Oh yeah, man.
SPEAKER_01:Yep.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. I uh you want to call that L now or later? Which one?
SPEAKER_01:Well, given the way this you say that, but the way this week was, I ain't putting nothing past nobody. I'm not joking. I yeah. I thought the Bengals were gonna win and they lost. So I ain't putting nothing past nobody. Yeah, right. Right. I gotta see it for myself. That's where I'm at now. That's where I'm at. Jesus Louise. Yeah, yeah. Caught him at a bad time. Absolutely not.
SPEAKER_03:Listen, listen, Washington. I know y'all love y'all team. Y'all do, but um, this is a bad situation for y'all right now. And then y'all y'all injuries are mounting up too. This is just bad. Because you still got to go to Madrid. Then the two December games. They got y'all on the 20th, right? Correct. And the Cowboys on Christmas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a wrapper. On Christmas, I'm gonna love to say this because I know they ain't gonna make the playoffs. That'll be their last game. And it's over for me working. So I'm happy about that. I'm happy about that. Okay. That's gonna be the best Christmas present ever when that game is over. No done. Y'all get stayed over. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, uh, get out. Pack your stuff. I'm happy with that.
SPEAKER_01:Right, right, right, right, right.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Listen, listen, you know, like I said, these these injuries, you know, I was talking about, I was talking to someone earlier, and he made a good point about this. And he said, man, today's NFL, these guys are bigger, stronger, and faster than what they've ever been in the NFL. Right. So when you got 340 pounds chasing you around the corner, and they hit you, you're gonna feel it. Yeah, you're gonna feel it. I never forget Ben Robertsberger said that the hardest hit he ever took was from Bart Scott. He said that dude nailed me. I still feel that today. Yeah, you you remember the person that uh took took brought the wood to you, laid that lumber to you. Another person, Holoni Nada. I wouldn't want that big Samoan hit me. Yeah, that's right. Listen, it's it's just crazy. And um, um let me go to Kansas City here for a second. I told you in the regular season, sure, the Bills has Kansas City number in the regular season. As soon as the playoffs get here, it seems like they seem to forget every damn thing, and Kansas City just beats them. And they almost, like you said, blew that game when they was playing them. Now, Buffalo was taking it to them at first, and next thing you know, here comes Kansas City, here they come coming back. Now, even Mahomes took a shot when he stopped, and that boy laid the wood to him, laid him up out of the bat. I was like, oh, they didn't throw a flag for that one? Did you know how it was now? Mahomes did not throw a flag. But Buffalo has their number during the regular season. It's just when it gets to the playoffs, seems like they get to the playoffs, everybody gets dumb with Kansas City. Oh, oh, oh, um, let me throw the ball this way. Oh, intercept it. Everyone seems to get this intimidation with Kansas City being in the playoffs. I've been adamant that I'm tired of Kansas City. I am. That's New England 9.0. I'm tired of them. Yes. I'm glad y'all gave him a shellack in the Super Bowl. I am. And if it so happened that they get back to the Super Bowl and y'all do too, please weigh them out again. Right, right. Okay. I am tired of Kansas City. I am. But my family, they they they be getting on me. Oh, we still, and I there's nothing I can say to it because they got our number. They seem to have, I don't know what is about it that gets into these teams' head when they play Kansas City. They got players back. Right? And like you said, you said this plenty of times, don't let them start getting momentum. And they've they've gotten some. But you said this one if they beat Buffalo, watch out. Yes, but they didn't. They didn't so it slowed them down a little bit. So, but somebody has got to keep Kansas City out of these playoffs. But looking at their schedule, I don't think it's gonna happen. I don't think it's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_01:And honestly, another thing too is I understand that Buffalo won. I I hate to be the bearer of bad news, y'all. That's about the dangerous five and four team I'm gonna see the rest of this year. I'm not joking. I'm not joking. They played that game, and they were getting beaten the brakes off of them in the first half, yeah. And we were like, oh, this is this looks like this might be a fucking blowout. Okay, and then you see them score, then you see Mahomes march down the field, then it happens again, and you're like, how is this a fucking game again? What is going on? Right, that is what was more telling for me. I honestly I'm glad Buffalo won because that just puts another loss in their loss call in their loss column. But Buffalo to make a statement should have flat out like curb stomped him. Like, I'm talking. Yes, it should have been a statement. Like, yeah, y'all, y'all, look, this year, not it. We got this, and yet again, I don't care that y'all won because y'all gave a team, even in a loss, this feeling, which you can't shake. You you can shake a lot of things in in in in in human beings. You can you can shake the fact that they got a bad past that they that they're trying to shave off of or get rid of. You can you can shake the fact that they got X, Y, and Z that they had to deal with deal with as far as their future is concerned. You can shake all that. The one thing you cannot shake when it comes to a human being, or or it takes it takes a lot of work to do, is shake someone's mentality. When someone's mentality is already set in stone about something, it changes everything. And the mentality you put in Kansas City's roster right now is that oh, okay, so yeah, we lost, but you mean to tell me that we can play a fashion that's just a little bit better than this? And not only could we beat y'all, we can beat a lot of teams that are not as good as y'all. Okay, right. Cool, cool, yeah, absolutely. Let's go. And that's what you just gave Kansas City. So, even in a loss, you gave Kansas City the momentum, the mentality to say, look, we know uh the AFC, y'all the biggest worry. Now, obviously, we got Baltimore who's starting to surge and start winning games. That's cool, that's awesome, whatever. They're still two and five. At the end of the day, I'm sorry, three and five. Three, three, three and five. We earned our three wins, okay? We earned our three wins. Miami gave y'all one on Thursday, okay? So you're not worried about Miami. Denver is the worst seven and two team I've seen in my lifetime, okay? Don't trust them. The Chargers, yes, they're winning games too, but oh my god, they feel like they have a whole roster full of injuries, too. They fucking lost their tackle for the rest of the year because of a high ankle sprain, which by the way, wouldn't let everybody in on a little secret. The reason why he's out for the rest of the year with a high ankle sprain, the doctors told him that if he played on it, it was a torn Achilles bound to happen. I'm not a doctor, I don't have a degree behind me, but I I can tell you right now, that's the conversation that was had. So both your tackles are gone. You already have injuries everywhere else, you don't even have a fucking running back, to be honest with you.
SPEAKER_03:Uh-oh. Uh-oh. See, Stream Yard, see how they mess with us? Stream Yard always messing with us. But yeah, we need to stop Kansas City. Any team in the NFL. It's like if Kansas City's on your schedule, circle it. Ah yeah. Stream yard to mess with us again. Hey, I see you off um Instagram. Yeah, so listen, listen. When Kansas City plays, we gotta figure out ways to stop them. It's like Kansas City seems to just know how to get in your head. Like kind of like New England back in the day. Tom Brady. They knew how to work their magic to say, okay, we're gonna beat you, and we're gonna beat you decisively. And then sometimes they would just lose. One thing I liked about it is when the Patriots would play Miami back in the day, and Miami will seem to always have their number. Miami will always beat the Patriots, it'd just be the funniest thing. Then you get Buffalo, they up and down each week. No team in the NFL right now has the mentality of a dominant, dominant team. Because again, the Coach was the most powerful team in the NFL until they lost to the Steelers, right? Then, like I said, you got that that uh Chicago Bears game. Oh, they ain't talking about that. We ain't gonna talk about Dallas because they're not dominant. You saw what the Seahawks did. I think that's by far the best defense in the league. Who should have been our head coach? And I'm gonna say that. Mike McDonald should have been our head coach, should have got rid of Harbaugh, should have kept him. Our defense probably would have been really, really balling then. Yep, I see you back. I tell you. I see you back. I just said it before I said stream yard messing with you. Uh-oh, uh oh, uh oh. No audio. No audio. No No, not yet. Uh-uh. Not yet. Nothing. That's terrible. They censored you. Can you hear me though? Can you hear me? I just can't we just can't hear you. Not they censored you though. Wait a minute. Let's try now. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. That is terrible. That is terrible that they censored you. This makes no sense. We have fun. We come on here. We share our opinions. And uh this is what happens. That's not even mad at you. You know something? You know something? Just for that, we're gonna cut this off. This is ridiculous. This is ridiculous. You we can't even hear you now. So this is what we're gonna do. I I I tell you what, this this this is what we do. This is what we're gonna do. I'm gonna save the brown bags because the only brown bag I'm giving is for the audio that's in StreamYard. They get the brown bag, they get the brown bag for this one for cutting our show off like this the way they did. Listen, we appreciate each and every last one of you for tuning on. And my man that had drink, I think I'm gonna go get me one too, because they shouldn't have cut him off like that. We thank you all. We see y'all soon.
